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6000 | word:
heard
word_type:
verb
expansion:
heard
forms:
wikipedia:
heard
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senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of hear
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6001 | word:
heard
word_type:
adj
expansion:
heard (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
heard
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
[T]he following are some examples of the types of heard information that can be used to distinguish some of the languages in Singapore, namely Malay and Singapore English.
ref:
2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 10
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That has been heard or listened to; that has been aurally detected.
senses_topics:
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6002 | word:
heard
word_type:
intj
expansion:
heard
forms:
wikipedia:
heard
etymology_text:
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senses_glosses:
I understand; gotcha
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6003 | word:
unit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
unit (plural units)
forms:
form:
units
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Unit
etymology_text:
Formerly unite, a later form of unity; see unity.
senses_examples:
text:
Number, we define, to be, a certayne Mathematicall Sũme, of Vnits. [Note the worde, Vnit, to expresse the Greke Monas, & not Vnitie: as we haue all, commonly, till now, vsed.]
ref:
1570, John Dee, in H. Billingsley (trans.) Euclid, Elements of Geometry, Preface
text:
The centimetre is a unit of length.
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example
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This pill provides 500 units of Vitamin E.
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example
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He was a member of a special police unit.
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example
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The fifth tank brigade moved in with 20 units. (i.e., 20 tanks)
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example
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We shipped nearly twice as many units this month as last month.
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example
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This air-conditioner is the most efficient unit we sell.
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example
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The new apartment complex will have 50 units.
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example
text:
An element 𝑒 of 𝑆 such that 𝑒𝑥 = 𝑥 = 𝑥𝑒 for all 𝑥 ∈ 𝑆 is called a unit element. (When the law of composition is written additively, the unit element is denoted by 0, and is called a zero element.)
ref:
2005, Serge Lang, Algebra, 3rd edition, Springer, page 3
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quotation
text:
Let 𝐴 be an arbitrary integral domain. We say that an element 𝑎 ∈ 𝐴 is invertible or is a unit of 𝐴 if it has an inverse in 𝐴; in ℤ the units are ±1, […]
ref:
1990, A. I. Kostrikin, I. R. Shafarevich, editors, Algebra I, Springer, page 22
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quotation
text:
For example, the Moenkopi Formation was named for the small settlement of Moenkopi, Arizona where the formation was first defined as being a separate unit from the rocks above and beneath it.
ref:
2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition
type:
quotation
text:
Luca's father, Americo Campanaro, said: "I feel like my heart has been ripped out."
Mr Campanaro added: "He was a big lad, a big unit, that's why he was a goalkeeper, with a big heart to match. A gentle giant."
ref:
2018 December 11, “Aylesbury goalkeeper, 14, dies after match injury”, in BBC News
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Oneness, singularity, seen as a component of a whole number; a magnitude of one.
A standard measure of a quantity.
The number one.
Ellipsis of international unit.
An organized group comprising people and/or equipment.
A member of a military organization.
An item which may be sold singly.
Any piece of equipment, such as an appliance, power tool, stereo system, computer, tractor, or machinery.
A structure used to display goods for sale (usually containing shelves, pegs or hooks)
a measure of housing equivalent to the living quarters of one household; an apartment where a group of apartments is contained in one or more multi-storied buildings or a group of dwellings is in one or more single storey buildings, usually arranged around a driveway.
A quantity of approximately 517 milliliters (1.1 U.S. pints) of blood.
Any military element whose structure is prescribed by competent authority, such as a table of organization and equipment; specifically, part of an organization.
An organization title of a subdivision of a group in a task force.
A standard or basic quantity into which an item of supply is divided, issued, or detailed. In this meaning, also called unit of issue.
With regard to Reserve Components of the Armed Forces, denotes a Selected Reserve unit organized, equipped, and trained for mobilization to serve on active duty as a unit or to augment or be augmented by another unit. Headquarters and support functions without wartime missions are not considered units.
The identity element, neutral element.
An element having an inverse, an invertible element; an associate of the unity.
In an adjunction, a natural transformation from the identity functor of the domain of the left adjoint functor to the composition of the right adjoint functor with the left adjoint functor.
A volume of rock or ice of identifiable origin and age range that is defined by the distinctive and dominant, easily mapped and recognizable petrographic, lithologic or paleontologic features (facies) that characterize it.
A unit of alcohol.
One kilowatt-hour (as recorded on an electricity meter).
A gold coin of the reign of James I, worth twenty shillings.
A work unit.
A physically large person.
A penis, especially a large one.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
sciences
government
military
politics
war
business
commerce
business
commerce
retail
medicine
sciences
government
military
politics
war
government
military
politics
war
government
military
politics
war
government
military
politics
war
algebra
mathematics
sciences
algebra
mathematics
sciences
category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
geography
geology
natural-sciences
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
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6004 | word:
unit
word_type:
adj
expansion:
unit (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Unit
etymology_text:
Formerly unite, a later form of unity; see unity.
senses_examples:
text:
We have to keep our unit costs down if we want to make a profit.
text:
Consider the following time sequence
Z_t=A sin (ωt+θ),
where A is a random variable with a zero mean and a unit variance and θ is a random variable with a uniform distribution on the interval [-π,π] independent of A.
ref:
1990, William W. S. Wei, Time Series Analysis, page 9
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
For each unit.
Having a size or magnitude of one.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences |
6005 | word:
snail
word_type:
noun
expansion:
snail (plural snails)
forms:
form:
snails
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
snail
etymology_text:
From the Middle English snaile, snayle, from the Old English sneġel, from Proto-Germanic *snagilaz. Cognate with Low German Snagel,
Snâel, Snâl (“snail”), German Schnegel (“slug”). Compare also Old Norse snigill, from Proto-Germanic *snigilaz.
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senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.
A slow person; a sluggard.
A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock.
A tortoise or testudo; a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers.
The pod of the snail clover.
A locomotive with a prime mover but no traction motors, used to provide extra electrical power to another locomotive.
senses_topics:
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
government
military
politics
war
rail-transport
railways
transport |
6006 | word:
snail
word_type:
verb
expansion:
snail (third-person singular simple present snails, present participle snailing, simple past and past participle snailed)
forms:
form:
snails
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
snailing
tags:
participle
present
form:
snailed
tags:
participle
past
form:
snailed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
snail
etymology_text:
From the Middle English snaile, snayle, from the Old English sneġel, from Proto-Germanic *snagilaz. Cognate with Low German Snagel,
Snâel, Snâl (“snail”), German Schnegel (“slug”). Compare also Old Norse snigill, from Proto-Germanic *snigilaz.
senses_examples:
text:
The cars were snailing along the motorway during the rush hour.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To move or travel very slowly.
senses_topics:
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6007 | word:
learnt
word_type:
verb
expansion:
learnt
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lernd, lernde, equivalent to learn + -t.
senses_examples:
text:
I learnt so many things in this school.
type:
example
text:
She has learnt to adapt to the changes quickly.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of learn
past participle of learn
senses_topics:
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6008 | word:
horseshit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
horseshit (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From horse + shit.
senses_examples:
text:
That scumbag dumped a whole carload of horseshit over his associates.
type:
example
text:
He thinks vinegar is alkaline? Don't you realize that's horseshit?
type:
example
text:
He claims that he wasn't at that meeting? Don't you realize that's horseshit?
type:
example
text:
A huge one. It was my job to mix the horseshit in with the soil. Great big wheelbarrows full of horseshit. We used to drive around to farms that had horses and ask them if we could shovel up their horseshit.
ref:
2001, Gil Roscoe, Company of Thieves, page 54
type:
quotation
text:
The aroma was a mix of cedar, hay and horseshit but somehow, Betty found it pleasantly intoxicating.
ref:
2012, Laurel Dewey, Betty's (Little Basement) Garden, page 253
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of bullshit (figurative senses).
Serious harassment or abuse.
Synonym of bullshit (figurative senses).
Blatant nonsense, more likely stemming from ignorance than any intent to deceive.
Synonym of bullshit (figurative senses).
Deliberate falsehoods (lies); manipulations or cons (fraud).
Horse feces / manure.
senses_topics:
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6009 | word:
horseshit
word_type:
intj
expansion:
horseshit
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From horse + shit.
senses_examples:
text:
He says he'll pay up next week.
Horseshit!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of bullshit
senses_topics:
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6010 | word:
foretell
word_type:
verb
expansion:
foretell (third-person singular simple present foretells, present participle foretelling, simple past and past participle foretold)
forms:
form:
foretells
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
foretelling
tags:
participle
present
form:
foretold
tags:
participle
past
form:
foretold
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
c. 1300, from Middle English foretellen, equivalent to fore- + tell.
senses_examples:
text:
Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and lustre of his character.
ref:
1741, Conyers Middleton, The Life of Cicero
type:
quotation
text:
[…] there came to him a Person named Saul, whom Samuel had never before seen; but God made him know it was the same he had foretold him of.
ref:
1739, Edward Button, Rudiments of Ancient History
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To predict; to tell (the future) before it occurs; to prophesy.
To tell (a person) of the future.
senses_topics:
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6011 | word:
horse hockey
word_type:
noun
expansion:
horse hockey (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Horse excrement.
False or deceitful statements; lies; exaggerations; nonsense; horse pucky. (a euphemism for horseshit).
Polo.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
6012 | word:
horse hockey
word_type:
intj
expansion:
horse hockey
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An expression of disbelief or disgust.
senses_topics:
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6013 | word:
Hong Kong
word_type:
name
expansion:
Hong Kong
forms:
wikipedia:
Columbia University Press
Hong Kong
Saul B. Cohen
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Cantonese 香港 (hoeng¹ gong²)bor.
English Hong Kong
From Cantonese 香港 (hoeng¹ gong², “fragrant harbor”), the former name of a settlement in what is now Aberdeen on the southwest side of Hong Kong Island.
senses_examples:
text:
CHINA.
A rebellion of more than ordinary importance is in progress in this country. At the departure of the last mail from Hong Kong numerous bands of robbers were plundering and burning throughout the provinces of Kangsi and Canton, and, having captured the city of Kintschan, had advanced to within 120 English miles of Canton.
ref:
1850 December, “Foreign News”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, volume XXXIV, London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son, page 645
type:
quotation
text:
In 1962 a special law had to be passed to permit the immigration of several thousand Chinese refugees who had escaped from Communist China to Hong Kong.
ref:
1964, John F. Kennedy, A Nation of Immigrants, Revised and Enlarged edition, Harper & Row, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 78–79
type:
quotation
text:
The Chinese had promised to let Hong Kong keep its much more democratic political system, but I had the clear impression that the details of their reunion were still being worked out, and that neither side was fully satisfied with the present state of affairs.
ref:
2005, Bill Clinton, My Life, volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →OCLC, page 437
type:
quotation
text:
A 90-year-old Roman Catholic cardinal, a singer and at least two others have been arrested in Hong Kong on suspicion of colluding with foreign forces to endanger China’s national security, in an action widely condemned as a further sign of Beijing’s erosion of rights in the city.
ref:
2022 May 11, “Reports: Hong Kong arrests Roman Catholic cardinal, 3 others”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-05-12
type:
quotation
text:
Sampans and punts crowded the tight harbors of places like Shau Kei Wan on Hong Kong Island, and these fisherfolk cooked up the day’s catch for their customers on the most minimal of stoves.
ref:
2016, Carolyn Phillips, “The Coastal Southeast”, in All Under Heaven: Recipes from the 35 Cuisines of China, Ten Speed Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 189
type:
quotation
text:
This two-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom apartment is in the western section of Mid-Levels, an affluent residential area built into the northern slope of Victoria Peak on Hong Kong Island, in Hong Kong.
ref:
2019 April 17, Marcelle Sussman Fischler, “House Hunting in … Hong Kong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-04-17, Real Estate
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city in southeastern China, located on an island east of the Pearl River delta in the South China Sea; formerly owned by the United Kingdom.
An island in southeastern China, Hong Kong Island, the site of the city of the same name, lying off Guangdong (Canton) province.
A special administrative region of China, which includes the city and island of the same name as well as nearby islands and the Kowloon Peninsula.
A colony of the United Kingdom, which previously administered the area of the present-day Chinese special administrative region.
senses_topics:
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6014 | word:
gave
word_type:
verb
expansion:
gave
forms:
wikipedia:
gave
etymology_text:
From Middle English gaf, yaf, ȝaf, from Old English ġæf, ġeaf.
senses_examples:
text:
With the Oxford canal at the bottom of his garden, regular canoeing excursions gave him enormous pleasure.
ref:
2011 July 31, Bob Woffinden, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Well I suppose you will wonder what has happened to change my mind and if somebody has gave me a birthday present of $600.00 or something.
ref:
c. 1916, Ring W. Lardner, The Courtship of T. Dorgan; republished in George W. Hilton, The Annotated Baseball Stories of Ring W. Lardner, 1914-1919, Stanford University Press, 1995, page 297
type:
quotation
text:
Mr. Green. No; not to my recollection, Senator. I may have gave Frank Prince some for his wife, or something like that.
ref:
1951, “Influence in Government Procurement”, in Hearing before the Investigations Subcommittee of the Committee of Expenditures in the Executive Departments […], U.S. Government Printing Office, page 678
type:
quotation
text:
I'm talking about redundancies, he said, that's what I'm talking about. And yous better get bloody used to the idea. One of the men shrugged: Ach well, we knew it was coming. That's as maybe but they should've gave us notice. Formal.
ref:
2012 August 10, James Kelman, A Chancer, Birlinn, page 6
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of give
past participle of give
senses_topics:
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6015 | word:
interweave
word_type:
verb
expansion:
interweave (third-person singular simple present interweaves, present participle interweaving, simple past interwove or (nonstandard) interweaved, past participle interwoven or (nonstandard) interweaved)
forms:
form:
interweaves
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
interweaving
tags:
participle
present
form:
interwove
tags:
past
form:
interweaved
tags:
nonstandard
past
form:
interwoven
tags:
participle
past
form:
interweaved
tags:
nonstandard
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From inter- + weave.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To combine (things) through weaving.
To intermingle.
senses_topics:
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6016 | word:
eyelash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
eyelash (plural eyelashes)
forms:
form:
eyelashes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From eye + lash.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the hairs which grows along the edge of eyelids.
senses_topics:
anatomy
dermatology
medicine
sciences |
6017 | word:
knitted
word_type:
adj
expansion:
knitted (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Made by knitting.
senses_topics:
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6018 | word:
knitted
word_type:
verb
expansion:
knitted
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of knit
senses_topics:
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6019 | word:
elbow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
elbow (plural elbows)
forms:
form:
elbows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
elbow
etymology_text:
From Middle English elbowe, from Old English elboga, elnboga (“elbow”), from Proto-Germanic *alinabugô (“elbow”), equivalent to ell + bow. Cognate with Scots elbuck (“elbow”), Saterland Frisian Älbooge (“elbow”), Dutch elleboog (“elbow”), Low German Ellebage (“elbow”), German Ellbogen, Ellenbogen (“elbow”), Danish albue (“elbow”), Icelandic olbogi, olnbogi (“elbow”).
senses_examples:
text:
Up to the elbowes naked were there Armes.
ref:
1627, Michael Drayton, “The Moone-Calfe”, in English Poetry 1579-1830: Spenser and the Tradition, archived from the original on 2016-07-19
type:
quotation
text:
Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
ref:
1907, Robert W. Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set
type:
quotation
text:
the sides of windows, where the jamb makes an elbow with the window back
type:
example
text:
The water runs down with a strong, sharp stickle, and then has a sudden elbow in it, where the small brook trickles in; and on that side the bank is steep, four or it may be five feet high, overhanging loamily; […]
ref:
1869, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor
type:
quotation
text:
"An elbow, huh?" putting all the contempt he could in his voice; and somehow any synonym for detective seems able to hold a lot of contempt.
ref:
1924, Dashiell Hammett, Zigzags of Treachery
type:
quotation
text:
England ran Tunisia ragged in that spell but were punished for missing a host of chances when Ferjani Sassi equalised from the penalty spot against the run of play after Kyle Walker was penalised for an elbow on Fakhreddine Ben Youssef.
ref:
2018 June 18, Phil McNulty, “Tunisia 1 – 2 England”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2019-04-21
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The joint between the upper arm and the forearm.
Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, coastline, etc.; an angular or jointed part of any structure, such as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent.
A detective.
Part of a basketball court located at the intersection of the free-throw line and the free-throw lane.
A hit with the elbow.
Two nearby crossings of a rope.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
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6020 | word:
elbow
word_type:
verb
expansion:
elbow (third-person singular simple present elbows, present participle elbowing, simple past and past participle elbowed)
forms:
form:
elbows
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
elbowing
tags:
participle
present
form:
elbowed
tags:
participle
past
form:
elbowed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
elbow
etymology_text:
From Middle English elbowe, from Old English elboga, elnboga (“elbow”), from Proto-Germanic *alinabugô (“elbow”), equivalent to ell + bow. Cognate with Scots elbuck (“elbow”), Saterland Frisian Älbooge (“elbow”), Dutch elleboog (“elbow”), Low German Ellebage (“elbow”), German Ellbogen, Ellenbogen (“elbow”), Danish albue (“elbow”), Icelandic olbogi, olnbogi (“elbow”).
senses_examples:
text:
He elbowed his way through the crowd.
type:
example
text:
On the DLR, or on the driverless Line 14 on the Paris Metro, I always try to sit at the front. (It's usually just a matter of elbowing aside some ten-year-old boys; I can then get on with pretending to drive the train.)
ref:
2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, page 277
type:
quotation
text:
Trumper elbowed me in the ribs and made a sign with his head. He seemed irritated now by our delay.
ref:
1953, George Lamming, In the Castle of My Skin, McGraw Hill Books Company, Inc., published 1954, page 166
type:
quotation
text:
She looked round for Vera, but could not see her, and in the process of wriggling through the heaving crowd was elbowed in the eye. The blow acted like a spur, putting one thought in her head … to escape.
ref:
1975, Marjorie Darke, A Question of Courage, Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Kestrel Books, page 108
type:
quotation
text:
Suddenly and with all her heart Kate longed to be home, back at the homestead, to participate in the rambunctious toss and jostle as breakup elbowed its way into the Park.
ref:
1993, Dana Stabenow, A Fatal Thaw, page 105
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To push with the elbow or elbows; to forge ahead using the elbows to assist.
To strike with the elbow.
To nudge, jostle or push.
To force (someone) to quit or lose their job so that someone else can be hired.
senses_topics:
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6021 | word:
galaxy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
galaxy (plural galaxies)
forms:
form:
galaxies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English galaxye, galaxie, from Old French galaxie, from Latin galaxias, from Ancient Greek γαλαξίας (galaxías, “Milky Way”), shortening of γαλαξίας κύκλος (galaxías kúklos, “milky circle”), from γάλα (gála, “milk”).
senses_examples:
text:
So may thy cheekes red outweare scarlet dye, / And their white, whitenesse of the Galaxie [...].
ref:
1633, John Donne, Sapho to Philænis
type:
quotation
text:
Grecian imagination ascribed to the galaxy or milky way an origin in the teeming breast of the queen of heaven[.]
ref:
1833, Thomas Keightley, Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
[a] galaxy of science fiction stars.
ref:
1936 December 24, Thrilling Wonder Stories, page 127, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
Her walls and ceiling were covered with galaxy wallpaper; it was like stepping into space.
ref:
2016, Reyna Young, Hanover Falls, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
Her nerdy glasses sat perched on her face, and she wore a May the Force Be With You T-shirt with a black lace skirt, galaxy leggings, and a pair of white Star Wars Vans.
ref:
2017, Rebekah L. Purdy, Incriminating Dating
type:
quotation
text:
She hurriedly said that she found an faded galaxy blanket. She loved galaxy patterned things.
ref:
2018, Isabel Scheck, Survival, page 15
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Milky Way; the apparent band of concentrated stars which appears in the night sky over earth.
Any of the collections of many millions or billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc. existing as independent and coherent systems, of which there are billions in the known universe.
An assemblage of things or people seen as luminous or brilliant.
Any print or pattern reminiscent of a galaxy, generally consisting of blending, semiopaque patches of vibrant color on a dark background.
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences
arts
design
fashion
lifestyle |
6022 | word:
galaxy
word_type:
verb
expansion:
galaxy (third-person singular simple present galaxies, present participle galaxying, simple past and past participle galaxied)
forms:
form:
galaxies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
galaxying
tags:
participle
present
form:
galaxied
tags:
participle
past
form:
galaxied
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English galaxye, galaxie, from Old French galaxie, from Latin galaxias, from Ancient Greek γαλαξίας (galaxías, “Milky Way”), shortening of γαλαξίας κύκλος (galaxías kúklos, “milky circle”), from γάλα (gála, “milk”).
senses_examples:
text:
[…] how he struggled at one time like a desperate man fiercly grappling with his mortal foe, and at another like a sanguine lover and noble minded youth, as the cliffy rocks impeded his progress, or dimmed the view he had caught of an aperture, through which the galaxied firmament was seen in its purity and holiness glowing with diamonds and saphires; […]
ref:
1836, anonymous author, “The Victim Bride: A Tale of Monadnock”, in The Philadelphia Visiter, volume 1, number 14, page 53
type:
quotation
text:
In dazzling light expands the mighty Dome: / Mirror of Heaven,—but Heaven when she doth wear / All galaxied with Stars her flashing hair!
ref:
1838, John Edmund Reade, Italy: a poem, in six parts, page 138
type:
quotation
text:
To be dwarfed in a galaxied sky, / doming, arcing, and revolving over / The little space I briefly occupy.
ref:
2018, Adrian G. R. Scott, “A Canticle to Creatureliness”, in A Night Sea Journey
type:
quotation
text:
The brilliancies on one page of Lalla Roohk would have sufficed to establish that very reputation which has been in a great measure self-dimned by the galaxied lustre of the entire book.
ref:
1841, Edgar Allan Poe, “Review of New Books”, in Graham’s Magazine, volume 18, number 5, page 249
type:
quotation
text:
How dazzling must their brightness be when they are galaxied in a single bosom!
ref:
1844, Horace Smith, Arthur Arundel: A Tale of the English Revolution, volume 1, page 172
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To furnish with galaxies.
To gather together into a luminous whole.
senses_topics:
|
6023 | word:
lighted
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lighted
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of light
senses_topics:
|
6024 | word:
lighted
word_type:
adj
expansion:
lighted (comparative more lighted, superlative most lighted)
forms:
form:
more lighted
tags:
comparative
form:
most lighted
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Filled with light; illuminated.
senses_topics:
|
6025 | word:
poop
word_type:
verb
expansion:
poop (third-person singular simple present poops, present participle pooping, simple past and past participle pooped)
forms:
form:
poops
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pooping
tags:
participle
present
form:
pooped
tags:
participle
past
form:
pooped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Uncertain, possibly from Middle English poupen (“to make a gulping sound while drinking, blow on a horn, toot”). Compare Dutch poepen (“to defecate”), German Low German pupen (“to fart; break wind”). Also representing poo pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end.
senses_examples:
text:
You might want a spare change of underwear in case you poop your pants.
type:
example
text:
You'll poop yourself if you have to walk all five miles home without stopping.
type:
example
text:
His horse pooped right in the middle of the parade.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make a short blast on a horn.
To break wind.
To defecate.
To defecate in or on something.
To defecate.
To defecate on one's person.
To defecate.
senses_topics:
|
6026 | word:
poop
word_type:
noun
expansion:
poop (countable and uncountable, plural poops)
forms:
form:
poops
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Uncertain, possibly from Middle English poupen (“to make a gulping sound while drinking, blow on a horn, toot”). Compare Dutch poepen (“to defecate”), German Low German pupen (“to fart; break wind”). Also representing poo pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end.
senses_examples:
text:
The dog poop is on the grass.
type:
example
text:
Two minutes passed - five - seven - ten. "Poop! Poop!" Everyone knew that whistle, and a mighty cheer went up as the Queen's train glided into the station.
ref:
2001, Rev. W. Awdry, Thomas the tank engine collection : a unique collection of stories from the railway series - p. 157 - Egmont Books, Limited, Aug 15, 2001
type:
quotation
text:
Alternative form: Poop
text:
The resulting video (called a “poop”) subverts its original content by slicing and dicing the video and audio, adding visual effects, and mashing several videos into one.
ref:
2012 November 3, Brad Evan Rosen, “YouTube Poop: Meme as Art, Community – by “William A – YLT2012””, in Yale Law Tech
type:
quotation
text:
And nobody really set out to design YTP to work this way—only a fraction of YTPs ever succeed in releasing enough neurochemicals, and those are the videos that get elevated and then remixed into a new round of poops.
ref:
2020 March 3, Zack O'Malley Greenburg, “YouTube Poop And The ‘Sanic’ Boom: Digesting The Strangest Slice Of Google’s $15B Video Business”, in Forbes
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Fecal matter; feces.
The sound of a steam engine's whistle, typically low-pitched.
Clipping of YouTube poop (“video mashup”).
senses_topics:
|
6027 | word:
poop
word_type:
intj
expansion:
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Uncertain, possibly from Middle English poupen (“to make a gulping sound while drinking, blow on a horn, toot”). Compare Dutch poepen (“to defecate”), German Low German pupen (“to fart; break wind”). Also representing poo pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end.
senses_examples:
text:
Poop. The copier's broken again.
type:
example
text:
I don't need him for a friend. I can have fun by myself! ... Poop.
ref:
1986 July 29, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Expressing annoyed disappointment.
senses_topics:
|
6028 | word:
poop
word_type:
noun
expansion:
poop (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Recorded in World War II (1941) Army slang poop sheet (“up-to-date information”), itself of uncertain origin, perhaps toilet paper (referring to etymology 1).
senses_examples:
text:
Here’s the info paper with the poop on that carburetor.
type:
example
text:
If Exxon has already made a find, and someone knows about it, they'd be the most likely to be directing the show. We just need to discover who has ties to the D.O.F and is close enough to Exxon to have the inside poop.
ref:
2002, J. Sander, Runoff, page 236
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A set of data or general information, written or spoken, usually concerning machinery or a process.
senses_topics:
|
6029 | word:
poop
word_type:
verb
expansion:
poop (third-person singular simple present poops, present participle pooping, simple past and past participle pooped)
forms:
form:
poops
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pooping
tags:
participle
present
form:
pooped
tags:
participle
past
form:
pooped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Uncertain, perhaps sound imitation.
senses_examples:
text:
I'm pooped from working so hard.
type:
example
text:
He pooped out a few strides from the finish line.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To tire, exhaust.
(with out) To become tired and exhausted.
senses_topics:
|
6030 | word:
poop
word_type:
noun
expansion:
poop (countable and uncountable, plural poops)
forms:
form:
poops
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English poupe, pope, from Old French pope, poupe, pouppe, from Italian poppa, from Vulgar Latin *puppa, from Latin puppis, all meaning “stern of a ship”.
senses_examples:
text:
For quotations using this term, see Citations:poop.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The stern of a ship.
The poop deck.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
nautical
transport |
6031 | word:
poop
word_type:
verb
expansion:
poop (third-person singular simple present poops, present participle pooping, simple past and past participle pooped)
forms:
form:
poops
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pooping
tags:
participle
present
form:
pooped
tags:
participle
past
form:
pooped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English poupe, pope, from Old French pope, poupe, pouppe, from Italian poppa, from Vulgar Latin *puppa, from Latin puppis, all meaning “stern of a ship”.
senses_examples:
text:
We were pooped within hailing of the quay and were nearly sunk.
type:
example
text:
Another night, as we were scudding before a heavy gale of wind, and a tremendous sea rolling after us, we had the misfortune to be pooped, as the phrase is, by a wave or sea striking our stern, which stove in the cabin-windows, and rushing impetuously through the cabin, and along the main-deck, bore down all before it.
ref:
1819, James Hardy Vaux, chapter 18, in Memoirs of James Hardy Vaux, volume 1, page 207
type:
quotation
text:
Pooping is a hazard of another nature, and is also peculiar to the process of scudding. It merely means the ship's being overtaken by waters while running from them, when the crest of a sea, broken by the resistance, is thrown inboard over the taffrail or quarter.
ref:
1838, Robert Walsh, The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art: Volume 33, page 376
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To break seawater with the poop (stern) of a vessel, especially the poop deck.
To break over the stern of (a vessel).
senses_topics:
|
6032 | word:
poop
word_type:
noun
expansion:
poop (plural poops)
forms:
form:
poops
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Uncertain, perhaps a shortening of nincompoop.
senses_examples:
text:
Aside from battles, the history of nations seemed to consist of nothing but powerless old poops like myself, heavily medicated and vaguely beloved in the long ago, coming to kiss the boots of young psychopaths.
ref:
1976, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 48, in Slapstick, Delacorte Press, page 224
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A stupid or ineffectual person.
senses_topics:
|
6033 | word:
poop
word_type:
noun
expansion:
poop (plural poops)
forms:
form:
poops
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Likely from French poupe; see poppyhead.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A poppyhead finial seen on church pews and occasionally on other types of seating benches.
senses_topics:
|
6034 | word:
bred
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bred
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of breed
senses_topics:
|
6035 | word:
bred
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bred (plural breds)
forms:
form:
breds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bred, from Old English bred (“board, plank, tablet, table”). More at braid.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of braid (“board, shelf, plank”)
senses_topics:
|
6036 | word:
liberal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
liberal (comparative more liberal, superlative most liberal)
forms:
form:
more liberal
tags:
comparative
form:
most liberal
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The adjective is from Old French liberal, from Latin līberālis (“befitting a freeman”), from līber (“free”); it is attested since the 14th century. The noun is first attested in the 1800s.
senses_examples:
text:
He had a full education studying the liberal arts.
type:
example
text:
1983, David Leslie Wagner, The Seven liberal arts in the Middle Ages:
type:
quotation
text:
Americans remain enamored with Europe's ability to produce the consequential thought for America. It was the same in nearly every liberal field. Education sought its roots in such Europeans as Froebel, Frobenius, and Rousseau. Political science tried to connect to Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Nietzsche, Machiavelli, and Otto von Bismarck, for instance. Economics copied the thought of Adam Smith, […]
ref:
1997, Gordon D. Morgan, Toward an American Sociology: Questioning the European Construct, page 45
type:
quotation
text:
2008, Donal G. Mulcahy, The Educated Person: Toward a New Paradigm for Liberal Education, →ISBN:
type:
quotation
text:
He was liberal with his compliments.
type:
example
text:
Indeed, the Government has been very liberal in the expenditure of public money
ref:
1899, J. M. Baltimore, “Pacific Coast Light Service”, in Overland Monthly, volume 33
type:
quotation
text:
When he shows improvement she is liberal with her praise and then moves on to the next set of skills to be learnt.
ref:
2005, John Gardner, Assessment and Learning, page 50
type:
quotation
text:
Queen Isabella was already being called Santa Isabella by many of her subjects because she was liberal with her alms.
ref:
2007, Helena Page Schrader, The English Templar, page 309
type:
quotation
text:
Was it because the believers were so liberal with their possessions that God was so liberal with his grace?
ref:
2010, Simon Guillebaud, More Than Conquerors: A Call to Radical Discipleship, page 142
type:
quotation
text:
Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
ref:
2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
Add a liberal sprinkling of salt.
type:
example
text:
For this reason a liberal amount of piping should be used. If a liberal supply of piping is provided at first, the first cost will of course be greater, but the extra expenditure is called for but once.
ref:
1896, Ice and refrigeration, volume 11, page 93
type:
quotation
text:
The result was usually that such helpers got a liberal sprinkling of mud over their clothing.
ref:
2009, R. Furman Kenney, Chesterville: The Village at the End of the Road, page 102
type:
quotation
text:
Rose put a steaming cup of mint tea in front of me and spooned a liberal helping of honey into it.
ref:
2011, Marlene Perez, Dead Is Not an Option, page 37
type:
quotation
text:
Her parents had liberal ideas about child-rearing.
type:
example
text:
Endorsing the liberal anti-interventionist credo that the marketplace should act as the "site of verification," the advocates of white lead opposed government intervention for the sake of open economic competition, which they claimed revealed its true value and thus should be the sole determinant: "When the railways were built, the stage coaches disppeared; they died a timely death. If zinc white is truly superior to white lead, it will kill us in the marketplace, but the government should not intervene." These were the words of Expert-Bezançon, in his February 1903 deposition to the parliamentary committee examining the bill for banning lead-based pigments in paint.
ref:
2021, Judith Rainhorn, The Colour of Controversy..., p. 10
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to those arts and sciences the study of which is considered to provide general knowledge, as opposed to vocational/occupational, technical or mechanical training.
Generous; permitting liberty; willing to give unsparingly.
Ample, abundant; generous in quantity.
Unrestrained, licentious.
Widely open to new ideas, willing to depart from established opinions or conventions; permissive.
Open to political or social changes and reforms associated with either classical or modern liberalism.
senses_topics:
government
politics |
6037 | word:
liberal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
liberal (plural liberals)
forms:
form:
liberals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The adjective is from Old French liberal, from Latin līberālis (“befitting a freeman”), from līber (“free”); it is attested since the 14th century. The noun is first attested in the 1800s.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One with liberal views, supporting individual liberty (see Wikipedia's article on Liberalism).
Someone with progressive or left-wing views; one with a left-wing ideology.
A supporter of any of several liberal parties.
One who favors individual voting rights, human and civil rights, and laissez-faire markets (also called "classical liberal"; compare libertarian).
A conservative, especially a liberal conservative.
senses_topics:
government
politics
government
politics
government
politics
government
politics |
6038 | word:
implied
word_type:
adj
expansion:
implied (comparative more implied, superlative most implied)
forms:
form:
more implied
tags:
comparative
form:
most implied
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
her implied disapproval of the plan
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Suggested without being stated directly; implicated or hinted at.
senses_topics:
|
6039 | word:
implied
word_type:
verb
expansion:
implied
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of imply
senses_topics:
|
6040 | word:
hid
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hid
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
To dark is still used in Swaledale (Yorkshire) in the sense of to lie hid, as, 'Te rattens [rats] mun ha bin darkin whel nu [till now]; we hannot heerd tem tis last fortnith'.
ref:
1873, Richard Morris, Walter William Skeat, “Glossarial Index”, in Specimens of Early English, volumes II: From Robert of Gloucester to Gower, A.D. 1298—A.D. 1393, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 490
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of hide
past participle of hide
senses_topics:
|
6041 | word:
past participle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
past participle (plural past participles)
forms:
form:
past participles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A participle indicating a completed action or state.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
6042 | word:
copyright
word_type:
noun
expansion:
copyright (usually uncountable, plural copyrights)
forms:
form:
copyrights
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
copyright
etymology_text:
From copy + right.
senses_examples:
text:
Copyright is a separate legal area from trademarks.
type:
example
text:
The artist lost the copyrights to her songs when she signed the contract.
type:
example
text:
The images are still copyright of the original artist.
type:
example
text:
no copyright intended
type:
example
text:
Anyone accused of copyright would have sixty days to opt-out of the Copyright Claims Board process, in which case the plaintiff would have to seek legal action in court.
ref:
2019 October 23, Christine Fisher, “House passes controversial copyright bill that could be abused by trolls”, in Engadget
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The right by law to be the entity which determines who may publish, copy and distribute a piece of writing, music, picture or other work of authorship.
Such an exclusive right as it pertains to one or more specific works.
A violation of copyright law; copyright infringement.
senses_topics:
|
6043 | word:
copyright
word_type:
verb
expansion:
copyright (third-person singular simple present copyrights, present participle copyrighting, simple past and past participle copyrighted)
forms:
form:
copyrights
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
copyrighting
tags:
participle
present
form:
copyrighted
tags:
participle
past
form:
copyrighted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
copyright
etymology_text:
From copy + right.
senses_examples:
text:
Every book will be copyrighted that the publisher believes will have such a market as will justify him in going to the expense of copyrighting to prevent competition from other publishers.
ref:
1907, United States Congress House. Committee on Appropriations, District of Columbia Appropriations, page 253
type:
quotation
text:
Further, Mr. Mullins writes FOR YOU-THE-PEOPLE, copyrighting to protect listings and to make a statement—but willingly shares his work for, after all, if it is not read then of what worth is a book?
ref:
1993, Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn, The Beast at Work, page 161
type:
quotation
text:
The sealed contents inside postmarked by the United States Post office will be proof enough of exactly when your work was completed. The disadvantage to this form of copyrighting is that your work is not traceable for anyone who is interested in acquiring information regarding copyright ownership.
ref:
1997, Marc Davison, All Area Access: Personal Management for Unsigned Musicians, page 171
type:
quotation
text:
J. J. Jameson: The Green Goblin. You like that? Made it up myself. These weirdos all gotta have a name now. Hoffman! Call the patent office, copyright the name "Green Goblin". I want a quarter every time somebody says it.
ref:
2002, Spider-Man (film)
text:
When your script is completed you need to copyright it with the Library of Congress in Washington DC (you can get the forms from: Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress, Washington DC, 20559. Request form PA, or you can download them from www.loc.gov/copyright).
ref:
2006, Josh Becker, Bruce Campbell, The Complete Guide to Low-Budget Feature Filmmaking, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
Everything else that is written or created is automatically copyrighted.
ref:
2008, Ann Gaines, Don't Steal Copyrighted Stuff!
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To obtain or secure a copyright for some literary or other artistic work.
senses_topics:
|
6044 | word:
south pole
word_type:
noun
expansion:
south pole (plural south poles)
forms:
form:
south poles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The southernmost point on celestial bodies other than Earth.
The negative pole of a magnetic dipole that seeks geographic south.
Alternative form of South Pole
senses_topics:
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
|
6045 | word:
meant
word_type:
verb
expansion:
meant
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of mean
senses_topics:
|
6046 | word:
transgender
word_type:
adj
expansion:
transgender (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Erie Gay News
Paisley Currah
etymology_text:
The adjective is derived from trans- (prefix meaning ‘extending across, through, or over’) + gender, modelled after transsexual (adjective) and probably modified from transgenderism which was coined by the American psychiatrist John F. Oliven (1915–1975) in 1965; the terms transgender, transgenderal, transgendered, transgenderist, and similar terms arose in the decades after this. By the 1990s, the word transgender had acquired its current senses, and had also largely displaced the earlier term transsexual: see the usage notes.
The noun and verb are derived from the adjective. Regarding noun sense 2 (“synonym of transgenderism”), compare transsex (noun).
senses_examples:
text:
We have taken to the local radio station, to talk about transgender problems. Carol Fremont is working in this area, and by General Conference we should have some interesting insights and understandings to share regarding transgender persons.
ref:
1978 December – 1979 January, J. J., “The Fellowship Family: News and Notes of MCC People and Events around the World”, in F. Jay Deacon, editor, The Gay Christian: A Journal of Theological Reflection from Metropolitan Community Church, Santa Monica, Calif.: Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches, →OCLC, page 23, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Christine Jorgensen, the world's first highly publicized transsexual – or "trans-gender" patient – never planned to be famous because of her surgery.
ref:
1979 May 3, Pierre Bowman, “Back in showbiz Christine Jorgensen”, in George Chaplin, editor, The Honolulu Advertiser (People Report Section), Honolulu, Hi.: Thurston Twigg-Smith, →ISSN, →OCLC, page B-1, column 3
type:
quotation
text:
When Kim Petras teamed up with English singer Sam Smith on "Unholy," a song about male infidelity and betrayal of the ideal of marriage, she may not have expected to make history. But now, the German pop singer Petras is the first transgender woman to win a coveted Grammy in the Best Pop Duo/Group Performance category. At the Grammy Awards on February 5, 2023, Petras thanked "transgender legends before me who kicked these doors open for me so that I could be here tonight." […] Back in October 2022, the duo Petras and Smith had already become the first publicly transgender and nonbinary solo artists, respectively, to have reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 charts with their single.
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2023 February 6, Stefan Dege, Louisa Schaefer, “Kim Petras: How the trans artist made history”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 2023-03-30
type:
quotation
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Gender identity is whether or not a person perceives him/herself to be a man or woman (see ‘man’ and ‘woman’). The problem arises when a male perceives himself to be a woman, and vise versa. Notice I said man or woman, and not male or female. The difference is important. Male and female are biological terms, while man and woman as they are used here are modes of being, ways to be, which are based on psychology and sociology rather than biology. (see ‘gender dysphoria’) Sexual identity is a ‘transsexual’ issue and may involve sexual re-assignment surgery, but may not involve cross-dressing. Gender identity is a ‘transgender’ issue and does not involve surgery, but almost always involves cross-dressing.
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1988, Merissa Sherrill Lynn, “Definitions of Terms Commonly Used in the Transvestite–Transsexual Community”, in Diane Dixon, Jan Dixon, Veronica Brown, editors, The TV–TS Tapestry: The Journal for Persons Interested in Crossdressing & Transsexualism, number 51, Wayland, Mass.: International Foundation for Gender Education, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
What is happening in the world at the time, restrictions or freedom in sex-role choices, or in access to clothing fabrics and styles—none of these have much influence on the transgender person’s desire to be the opposite sex.
ref:
1990, Louis Sullivan, “Epilogue”, in From Female to Male: The Life of Jack Bee Garland, Boston, Mass.: Alyson Publications, page 174
type:
quotation
text:
Biology has a strong effect on whether people identify as female, male, or transgender. A transgender person was born as one biological sex but feels that her true gender identity is that of the other sex. One theory of why gender and biological sex differ for those who are transgender has to do with timing of hormonal events during pregnancy.
ref:
2018, Michael S. Gazzaniga, “Human Development”, in Psychological Science, 6th edition, New York, N.Y: W[illiam] W[arder] Norton & Company, page 367
type:
quotation
text:
Transgender people, who identify as the opposite gender to the one they were born with, should no longer be considered mentally ill, according to a new UN categorisation. The World Health Organization issued a new catalogue Monday covering 55,000 diseases, injuries and causes of death, in which it discreetly recategorised transgenderism. […] Several countries have already taken steps to reclassify transgenderism and take it off the list of mental disorders, including France and Denmark. Say said she thought the text, which is the result of years of discussion among experts, would easily win approval, despite widespread lack of acceptance of transgender people in many parts of the world.
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2018 June 19, “Transgenderism no longer a mental illness: WHO”, in France 24, archived from the original on 2018-06-19
type:
quotation
text:
Transgender people report discomfort with their birth sex and a strong identification with the opposite sex. The current study was designed to shed further light on the question of whether the brains of transgender people resemble their birth sex or their gender identity. For this purpose, we analyzed a sample of 24 cisgender men, 24 cisgender women, and 24 transgender women before gender-affirming hormone therapy. We employed a recently developed multivariate classifier that yields a continuous probabilistic (rather than a binary) estimate for brains to be male or female. The brains of transgender women ranged between cisgender men and cisgender women (albeit still closer to cisgender men), and the differences to both cisgender men and to cisgender women were significant (p#x3D;0.016 and p#x3C;0.001, respectively). These findings add support to the notion that the underlying brain anatomy in transgender people is shifted away from their biological sex towards their gender identity.
ref:
2022 March, Florian Kurth, Christian Gaser, Francisco J. Sánchez, Eileen Luders, “Brain Sex in Transgender Women Is Shifted towards Gender Identity”, in Journal of Clinical Medicine, volume 11, number 6, Basel, Basel-Stadt: MPDI, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, →PMID, abstract
type:
quotation
text:
I think the new punk rockers are going to be more androgynous, more bisexual, more transgender, more ethnically diverse and less willing to take shit than before, as well as less homophobic, racist, and sexist, not because it's politically correct, man, but because all of those things stink of a parent's world of authoritarian bullshit that want to deprive people of their individuality.
ref:
1992 June, Howlin’ Mad Johann [pseudonym], “[Letter]”, in Maximum Rocknroll, number 109, San Francisco, Calif.: Maximum Rock’n’Roll, →ISSN, →OCLC, page [10], column 2
type:
quotation
text:
We have taken to the local radio station, to talk about transgender problems.
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1978 December – 1979 January, J. J., “The Fellowship Family: News and Notes of MCC People and Events around the World”, in F. Jay Deacon, editor, The Gay Christian: A Journal of Theological Reflection from Metropolitan Community Church, Santa Monica, Calif.: Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches, →OCLC, page 23, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
After having lived much of our lives according to a socially accepted prescription, many of us come to realize that we have not been true to ourselves. As full-time or part-time transgenderists, we feel the need to improve the quality of life for ourselves by creating an environment around us which is compatible with the kind of life style we wish to achieve. […] While looking for a change of apartments, I walked into the rental office of a large complex, looked at the models and then proceeded to tell the manager about myself … my work, my hobbies, and, yes, even my transgender lifestyle … but all in a very matter-of-fact and self-confident manner. The result was total acceptance. In fact, they invited me to return as Nancy to the Halloween party they were holding that same evening … and I did!
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1979, Nancy [pseudonym], “Feather Your Own Nest”, in Virginia Prince, editor, Transvestia, volume XVII, number 98, Los Angeles, Calif.: Chevalier Publications, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-19, pages 36–37
type:
quotation
text:
Despite the significant HIV/AIDS risks faced by transgenders, we could locate targeted prevention programs in only a handful of locations throughout the country. […] In Boston, no AIDS prevention messages are posted at the primary drag queen and transgender bar.
ref:
2001, Walter O. Bockting, Sheila Kirk, “Transgender Health and Social Service Needs in the Context of HIV Risk”, in Transgender and HIV: Risks, Prevention, and Care, New York, N.Y.: The Haworth Press, page 46
type:
quotation
text:
The Las Vegas Lounge is the city's only transgender bar.
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2003, Connie Emerson, “Gay and Lesbian Visitors”, in Top 10 Las Vegas (DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guides), 1st US edition, London; New York, N.Y.: Dorling Kindersley, page 128, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Trance […] A thriving transgender bar on the main Itaewon drag, […]
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2011 June, Martin Zatko, “Listings [Drinking and Nightlife]”, in Róisin Cameron, editor, The Rough Guide to Seoul, London: Rough Guides, page 130
type:
quotation
text:
Belgium-based Filipino dancer Joshua Serafin’s performance later this week at the Taipei Arts Festival explores transgender beauty pageants from the Philippines and the politics, culture and hidden colonial past behind the industry, the artist said Tuesday.
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2022 August 30, William Yen, “Culture: Filipino Dancer Decodes Beauty Pageants and Their Colonial Roots”, in Focus Taiwan: CNA English News, archived from the original on 2022-09-03
type:
quotation
text:
Group wants transgender bathrooms for UMASS [title]
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2002 October 2, Benjamin Gedan, “Group wants transgender bathrooms for UMASS”, in The Boston Globe, Boston, Mass.: The Globe Newspaper Co., →ISSN, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
Why the sudden outcry for transgender bathrooms? The answer is easy, the activists behind this movement are using a petty issue like bathrooms as a medium to throw their lifestyles in the face of every-day students.
ref:
2002 November 26, Olaf Aprans, “Transgenderism”, in The Minuteman, Amherst, Mass.: The Minuteman, undergraduate students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, →OCLC; quoted in Olga Gershenson, “The Restroom Revolution: Unisex Toilets and Campus Politics”, in Harvey Molotch, Laura Norén, editors, Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing (NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis), New York, N.Y.; London: New York University Press, 2010, part III (Building in the Future), page 199
type:
quotation
text:
In contrast, in a democratic conversation or dialogue, the speaker would begin by identifying the larger public issues that connect to the availability of transgender bathrooms: equality, civil rights, […]
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2013, William Keith, Christian O. Lundberg, Public Speaking: Choice and Responsibility, Belmont, Calif.: Andover
type:
quotation
text:
Of course some unhappiness is simply a transgender phenomenon. Realists learn to expect a day in which perhaps 40 to 80 per cent is made up of repetition of what was done the day before and the day before that. Any set of normal days with over 20 per cent of excitement in them would be extraordinary. Consequently, the mere fact of being human, whether male or female, requires endurance, tolerance, a sense of moderate wholesome expectations.
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1967 March, John P. Leary, “Woman in American Society Today”, in Thought: A Review of Culture and Idea, volume XLII, number 164, Bronx, New York, N.Y.: Fordham University Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 116
type:
quotation
text:
Those are the winning entries in the Chicago Association of Business Communicators' contest to find pronouns to replace she and he [ey], him and her [em], his and hers [eir]. […] [C]ontest winner Christine M. Elverson of Skokie says her words are "transgender pronouns." She formed them by dropping "the" from the familiar plural pronouns, they, them, and their. For example, a speaker might use these new transgender pronouns when ey addresses an audience of both men and women.
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1975 August 23, Judie Black, “Ey has a word for it”, in Clayton Kirkpatrick, editor, Chicago Tribune (Tempo (1C) section), number 235, Chicago, Ill.: Tribune Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, columns 1–2
type:
quotation
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Unless we have identified "male" and "female" aspects of thought, however, the claim of gender bias is an empty one. I do not doubt that disciplines are also shaped by transgender interests, values, and concepts, which women, whether or not they engage in maternal practices, may fully share.
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1982, Sara Ruddick, “Maternal Thinking”, in Barrie Thorne, Marilyn Yalom, editors, Rethinking the Family: Some Feminist Questions, White Plains, N.Y.: Longman, page 91
type:
quotation
text:
Unlike capitalism, under socialist transformation there is a normative basis for maintaining the principle of collective (transgender) responsibility in the activity of reproduction and childrearing, as in everything else.
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1984, Rosalind Pollack Petchesky, “Conclusion: The Feminist Movement and the Conditions of Reproductive Freedom”, in Abortion and Woman’s Choice: The State, Sexuality, and Reproductive Freedom (Longman Series in Feminist Theory), New York, N.Y.: Longman, page 391
type:
quotation
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Not only do men share in the responsibility for children—but also, toxic chemicals that affect women’s reproductive health do not bypass the male reproductive system. In Bhopal, for example, impotence and loss of libido were reported among a large proportion of exposed males. Reproductive effects are a transgender issue that men as well as women should address.
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1988, Tara Jones, “Against Toxic Capital”, in Corporate Killing: Bhopals Will Happen, London: Free Association Books, part 2 (More Bhopals), page 273
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a person: having a gender (identity) which is different from one's assigned sex; that is, the identity of a trans man, trans woman, or someone non-binary, for example, agender, bigender, or third-gender.
Of a person: having a gender (identity) which is different from one's assigned sex; that is, the identity of a trans man, trans woman, or someone non-binary, for example, agender, bigender, or third-gender.
Of a person: having a gender (identity) which is opposite from the sex one was assigned at birth: being assigned male but having a female gender, or vice versa (that is, not including a non-binary identity).
Of a person: transgressing or not identifying with culturally conventional gender roles and categories of male or female.
Of or pertaining to transgender people (sense 1), or their experiences or identity.
Of a space: intended primarily for transgender people.
Of a space: available for use by transgender people, rather than only non-transgender people.
Synonym of crossgender (“across multiple genders”)
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6047 | word:
transgender
word_type:
noun
expansion:
transgender (usually uncountable, plural transgenders)
forms:
form:
transgenders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Erie Gay News
Paisley Currah
etymology_text:
The adjective is derived from trans- (prefix meaning ‘extending across, through, or over’) + gender, modelled after transsexual (adjective) and probably modified from transgenderism which was coined by the American psychiatrist John F. Oliven (1915–1975) in 1965; the terms transgender, transgenderal, transgendered, transgenderist, and similar terms arose in the decades after this. By the 1990s, the word transgender had acquired its current senses, and had also largely displaced the earlier term transsexual: see the usage notes.
The noun and verb are derived from the adjective. Regarding noun sense 2 (“synonym of transgenderism”), compare transsex (noun).
senses_examples:
text:
"If you understand trans-genders," she [Christine Jorgensen] says, choosing the word she prefers to transsexuals, "then you understand that gender is different than sexual preference. It doesn't have to do with bed partners, it has to do with identity." Jorgensen says she knows of some male-to-female trans-genders who have settled into lesbian relationships. She herself is heterosexual.
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1979 September 23, Jerry Parker, “A woman with no regrets”, in Stanley Green, editor, LI: Newsday’s Magazine for Long Island, Suffolk edition, Melville, N.Y.: Newsday Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18, columns 3–4
type:
quotation
text:
transgender—an individual who lives as a person of a gender different from the one society defines for that person's sex (e.g., male "transvestites" who wear women's clothing, hair styles and other body accoutrements, use "feminine" speech and body language, and identify with the gender category woman). Also sometimes referred to as "cross-gendered people" (Blackwood 1984).]
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[1989, Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Christine Roberts, “Sex, Sexuality, Gender, and Gender Variance”, in Sandra Morgen, editor, Gender and Anthropology: Critical Reviews for Research and Teaching, Washington, D.C.: American Anthropological Association, page 455
type:
quotation
text:
In a patriarchal society in which machismo rules, MTF [male-to-female] transgenders represent a challenge to traditional masculinity due to their renouncing of the male position of social power.
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2005, Walter Bockting, Eric Avery, Transgender Health and HIV Prevention: : Needs Assessment Studies from Transgender Communities across the United States (International Journal of Transgenderism; volume 8, issues 2–3), New York, N.Y.: Haworth Medical Press, page 116
type:
quotation
text:
There were divisions for [netball] teams of men, women, mixed and transgenders. Individual transgenders could compete in any division; however, transgender teams could not play against biological women's teams.
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2006, Caroline Symons, Dennis Hemphill, “Transgendering Sex and Sport in the Gay Games”, in Jayne Caudwell, editor, Sport, Sexualities and Queer/Theory (Routledge Critical Studies in Sport), Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, page 122
type:
quotation
text:
This public presentation of the mutilation of the penis is not obviously very different from the forms of disassembly of the penis engaged in by male body modifiers—particularly nullos and transgenders—on the Body Modification Ezine website.
ref:
2014, Sheila Jeffreys, Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism, Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, page 70
type:
quotation
text:
Nat spent years being victimised as a male to female transgender but was too scared to report it.
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2015, Helen Davies, “Transgender woman forced to move house after death threats and knife in her front door”, in Liverpool Echo, Liverpool, Merseyside: Trinity Mirror Merseyside, →ISSN, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
In spite of not "rootin' and tootin'" as a trans-gender case, in recent years [Christine] Jorgensen has been a staple on the college lecture circuit, speaking – of course – about trans-gender and herself.
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1979 May 3, Pierre Bowman, “Back in showbiz Christine Jorgensen”, in George Chaplin, editor, The Honolulu Advertiser (People Report Section), Honolulu, Hi.: Thurston Twigg-Smith, →ISSN, →OCLC, page B-1, column 6
type:
quotation
text:
The Scientific Humanitarian Committee published a yearbook that reported on movement activities. It also documented literary, cross-cultural, cross-historical and scientific studies on same-sex love and transgender.
ref:
2004 June 10, Leslie Feinberg, “The love that dared to speak its name”, in Workers World, New York, N.Y.: WW Publishers, →ISSN, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
Before we can answer this question, we need to consider two other phenomena – transsex and transgender – which also expose the muddle within conventional categories of sex.
ref:
2007, Alison Stone, “Sex”, in An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire; Malden, Mass.: Polity Press, page 41
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A transgender person; also (preceded by the), transgender people collectively.
Synonym of transgenderism (“the state of being transgender”)
senses_topics:
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6048 | word:
transgender
word_type:
verb
expansion:
transgender (third-person singular simple present transgenders, present participle transgendering, simple past and past participle transgendered)
forms:
form:
transgenders
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
transgendering
tags:
participle
present
form:
transgendered
tags:
participle
past
form:
transgendered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Erie Gay News
Paisley Currah
etymology_text:
The adjective is derived from trans- (prefix meaning ‘extending across, through, or over’) + gender, modelled after transsexual (adjective) and probably modified from transgenderism which was coined by the American psychiatrist John F. Oliven (1915–1975) in 1965; the terms transgender, transgenderal, transgendered, transgenderist, and similar terms arose in the decades after this. By the 1990s, the word transgender had acquired its current senses, and had also largely displaced the earlier term transsexual: see the usage notes.
The noun and verb are derived from the adjective. Regarding noun sense 2 (“synonym of transgenderism”), compare transsex (noun).
senses_examples:
text:
[…] and one that is still dominated by male nominees, women nominees might be seen as either contributing to the regendering, or the transgendering, of the Cabinet.
[…]
This chapter examines women secretaries-designate in terms of their contributions to regendering or transgendering a cabinet office, to a gender desegregation or integration of the cabinet.
ref:
2005, Sue Tolleson-Rinehart, Jyl J. Josephson, Gender and American Politics, pages 15 and 205
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To change the gender of (someone).
To change the sex of (someone).
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6049 | word:
codswallop
word_type:
noun
expansion:
codswallop (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Codd-neck bottle
Galton and Simpson
Hancock's Half Hour
Hiram Codd
etymology_text:
Unknown. Attested from a 1959 episode of the UK TV series Hancock's Half Hour. The writers (Galton and Simpson) state that the phrase was in general use when the show was broadcast. A national TV appeal in the UK in 2006 failed to find earlier references, though a humorous newspaper column from 1947 does use the fictional name "Sir Aubrey Codswallop". Originally written (1963) codswallop; the spelling cod's wallop is later.
Various etymologies are proposed from some sense of cod, such as from cod (“joke, imitation”) + -s- + wallop (“beer”) (slang), hence “imitation beer” (with interconsonantal -s- to ease pronunciation of -dw-), or from cod (“scrotum, as in codpiece”) + -s- + wallop (“to hit”), hence “to hit (with) the testicle bag,” or from cod (“fish”), hence perhaps some part of the fish, as used in the fishing industry.
A frequently given etymology, although widely rejected as a folk etymology, derives it from Hiram Codd, British soft drink maker of the 1870s, known for the eponymous Codd-neck bottle, with the suggestion that codswallop is a derisive term for soft drinks by beer drinkers, from Codd’s + wallop (“beer”), thus sarcastically “Codd’s beer”. There is no evidence that early uses had this sense; the slang term wallop (“beer”) appeared after Codd’s lifetime, initial spellings (in print from 1963) do not reflect such a derivation (*Codd’s wallop and *coddswallop with -dd- are not found), and there is an 80-year gap between the proposed coinage and attestation.
This is also the name given to the wooden device placed over the neck of a codd bottle and given a push (wallop) to dislodge the marble in the neck of the bottle. The word has also been used to describe the process of opening a codd bottle.
senses_examples:
text:
Tony: I was not.
Sidney: Don’t give me that old codswallop. You were counting your money.
ref:
1959, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, Hancock’s Half Hour
type:
quotation
text:
Just branding a programme as ‘rubbish’, ‘tripe’, or—there are a lot of these—‘codswallop’, gives little indication of what moved the viewer to write.
ref:
1963 October 17, Radio Times, 52/2
type:
quotation
text:
An interviewer from a Warsaw radio station stopped a citizen in the street. Was the recent demonstration necessary? “History will tell.” But what did he think? “I am not a historian.” Likewise Lumsden′s and Wilson′s book. If it is not a load of codswallop, it will turn out to be very important. If it is not a load of codswallop. Faites vos jeux!
ref:
1981 October 1, John Turner, “Review: Autumn Books: Prometheus bounded?”, in New Scientist, page 41
type:
quotation
text:
1993, J. Neville Turner, The One-Day Game – Cricket or Codswallop?, in 2001, David John Headon, The Best Ever Australian Sports Writing: A 200 Year Collection.
text:
“I′ve told you all I know,” Rosa Armaz told Boarski and Yermin, “I don′t know what my husband has been doing. He′d mentioned going to Mars with the children but I thought it was a load of codswallop.”
ref:
2010, Grahame Howard, The Wishing Book 3 – Extermination, page 66
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Senseless talk or writing; nonsense; rubbish.
senses_topics:
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6050 | word:
codswallop
word_type:
intj
expansion:
codswallop
forms:
wikipedia:
Codd-neck bottle
Galton and Simpson
Hancock's Half Hour
Hiram Codd
etymology_text:
Unknown. Attested from a 1959 episode of the UK TV series Hancock's Half Hour. The writers (Galton and Simpson) state that the phrase was in general use when the show was broadcast. A national TV appeal in the UK in 2006 failed to find earlier references, though a humorous newspaper column from 1947 does use the fictional name "Sir Aubrey Codswallop". Originally written (1963) codswallop; the spelling cod's wallop is later.
Various etymologies are proposed from some sense of cod, such as from cod (“joke, imitation”) + -s- + wallop (“beer”) (slang), hence “imitation beer” (with interconsonantal -s- to ease pronunciation of -dw-), or from cod (“scrotum, as in codpiece”) + -s- + wallop (“to hit”), hence “to hit (with) the testicle bag,” or from cod (“fish”), hence perhaps some part of the fish, as used in the fishing industry.
A frequently given etymology, although widely rejected as a folk etymology, derives it from Hiram Codd, British soft drink maker of the 1870s, known for the eponymous Codd-neck bottle, with the suggestion that codswallop is a derisive term for soft drinks by beer drinkers, from Codd’s + wallop (“beer”), thus sarcastically “Codd’s beer”. There is no evidence that early uses had this sense; the slang term wallop (“beer”) appeared after Codd’s lifetime, initial spellings (in print from 1963) do not reflect such a derivation (*Codd’s wallop and *coddswallop with -dd- are not found), and there is an 80-year gap between the proposed coinage and attestation.
This is also the name given to the wooden device placed over the neck of a codd bottle and given a push (wallop) to dislodge the marble in the neck of the bottle. The word has also been used to describe the process of opening a codd bottle.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to express disbelief: nonsense!; rubbish!
senses_topics:
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6051 | word:
entertaining
word_type:
adj
expansion:
entertaining (comparative more entertaining, superlative most entertaining)
forms:
form:
more entertaining
tags:
comparative
form:
most entertaining
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From entertain + -ing.
senses_examples:
text:
The smiths themselves were a grand lot of fellows, full of a robust, and sometimes Rabelaisian sense of humour, and between "heats," they could be most entertaining.
ref:
1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
Sunderland came back from two goals down to earn a point from an entertaining encounter with West Brom.
ref:
2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes, “Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Very amusing; that entertains.
senses_topics:
|
6052 | word:
entertaining
word_type:
verb
expansion:
entertaining
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From entertain + -ing.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of entertain
senses_topics:
|
6053 | word:
entertaining
word_type:
noun
expansion:
entertaining (plural entertainings)
forms:
form:
entertainings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From entertain + -ing.
senses_examples:
text:
As soon as the festival was over, and the usual routine of summer entertainings and meetings had been got through, the Bishop and Mrs. Selwyn, accompanied by their large family party and some friends, started for a quiet holiday […]
ref:
1889, George Herbert Curteis, Bishop Selwyn of New Zealand, and of Lichfield
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Entertainment.
senses_topics:
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6054 | word:
alas
word_type:
intj
expansion:
alas
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English alas, from Old French a las (French hélas), from a (“ah”) + las, from Latin lassus (“weary”). Compare Dutch helaas, North Frisian ielas, West Frisian eilaas.
senses_examples:
text:
I wanted to catch the last bus home, but alas, I was ten minutes late and had to take a taxi instead.
type:
example
text:
Helas I lamente the dull abuſyd brayne
The enfatuate fantaſies the wytles wylfulnes
ref:
c. 1521, John Skelton, Speke Parott
type:
quotation
roman:
Of on and hothyr at me that haue dyſdayne
text:
The thorough and shameless commercialism of Sex has alas! been reserved for what is called "Christian civilization," and with it (perhaps as a necessary consequence) Prostitution and Syphilis have grown into appalling evils, accompanied by a gigantic degradation of social standards, and upgrowth of petty Philistinism and niaiserie.
ref:
1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 188
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to express sorrow, regret, compassion, grief, resignation, or disappointment.
senses_topics:
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6055 | word:
alas
word_type:
noun
expansion:
alas (plural alases or alasses)
forms:
form:
alases
tags:
plural
form:
alasses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Alas (geography)
etymology_text:
From Yakut алаас (alaas).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of geological depression which occurs in Yakutia, formed by the subsidence of permafrost.
senses_topics:
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6056 | word:
misheard
word_type:
verb
expansion:
misheard
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of mishear
senses_topics:
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6057 | word:
inset
word_type:
verb
expansion:
inset (third-person singular simple present insets, present participle insetting, simple past and past participle inset or insetted)
forms:
form:
insets
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
insetting
tags:
participle
present
form:
inset
tags:
participle
past
form:
inset
tags:
past
form:
insetted
tags:
participle
past
form:
insetted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English insetten, from Old English insettan (“to set in, institute, appoint”), equivalent to in- + set. Cognate with Dutch inzetten (“to insert, set in”), Low German insetten (“to set in”), German einsetzen (“to insert, employ”), Danish indsætte (“to insert”), Swedish insätta (“to inset, induct, institute”), Icelandic innsetja (“to install”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To set in; infix or implant.
To insert something.
To add an inset to something.
senses_topics:
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6058 | word:
inset
word_type:
noun
expansion:
inset (plural insets)
forms:
form:
insets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English insetten, from Old English insettan (“to set in, institute, appoint”), equivalent to in- + set. Cognate with Dutch inzetten (“to insert, set in”), Low German insetten (“to set in”), German einsetzen (“to insert, employ”), Danish indsætte (“to insert”), Swedish insätta (“to inset, induct, institute”), Icelandic innsetja (“to install”).
senses_examples:
text:
The inset of figure 1 shows the geometry of the samples.
ref:
1990, M. E. Cage, D. Y. Yu, G. Marullo Reedtz, “Observation and an Explanation of Breakdown of the Quantum Hall Effect”, in Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, volume 95, number 1
type:
quotation
text:
Microphone insets can deteriorate and older examples may produce a permanent frying noise.
ref:
1998, Andrew Emmerson, Electronic Classics: Collecting, Restoring and Repair, page 99
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A smaller thing set into a larger thing, such as a small picture inside a larger one.
Anything inserted.
A small piece of material used to strengthen a garment.
A modular microphone that can be removed from a telephone handset without disassembly.
senses_topics:
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications |
6059 | word:
inset
word_type:
adj
expansion:
inset (comparative further inset, superlative furthest inset)
forms:
form:
further inset
tags:
comparative
form:
furthest inset
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English insetten, from Old English insettan (“to set in, institute, appoint”), equivalent to in- + set. Cognate with Dutch inzetten (“to insert, set in”), Low German insetten (“to set in”), German einsetzen (“to insert, employ”), Danish indsætte (“to insert”), Swedish insätta (“to inset, induct, institute”), Icelandic innsetja (“to install”).
senses_examples:
text:
the inset diamonds
type:
example
text:
the inset liners
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having been inset.
senses_topics:
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6060 | word:
egg
word_type:
noun
expansion:
egg (countable and uncountable, plural eggs)
forms:
form:
eggs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from Middle English eg, egg, egge (“egg of a domestic or wild fowl; egg of a snake”) [and other forms] (originally Northern England and Northeast Midlands), from Old Norse egg (“egg”), from Proto-Germanic *ajją (“egg”) (by Holtzmann’s law), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”), probably from *h₂éwis (“bird”), from *h₂ew- (“to clothe oneself, dress; to be dressed”) (in the sense of an animal clothed in feathers). Doublet of huevo, oeuf, and ovum.
The native English ey [and other forms] (plural eyren) (obsolete), from Old English ǣġ, is also derived from Proto-Germanic *ajją. It survived into the 16th century before being fully displaced by egg.
The verb is derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
We made a big omelette with three eggs. (countable)
type:
example
text:
I should determine the minimal amount of egg required to make good mayonnaise. (uncountable)
type:
example
text:
The farmer offered me some fresh eggs, but I told him I was allergic to egg. (countable, uncountable)
type:
example
text:
There after the images and reliques were orderly disposed, the great Priest compassed about with divers pictures according to the fashion of the Ægyptians, did dedicate and consecrate with certaine prayers a fair ship made very cunningly, and purified the same with a torch, an egge, and sulphur; […]
ref:
1566, Apuleius, “The Eleventh Booke”, in William Adlington, transl., The Golden Ass of Apuleius Translated out of Latin […], London: David Nutt […], published 1893, →OCLC, page 239
type:
quotation
text:
I was 5 moneth in France before I saw a boyled or roasted egge.
ref:
1665–1667, John Lauder; Lord Fountainhall, “Journal in France 1665–1667”, in Donald Crawford, editor, Journals of Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall, with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665–1676 […] (Publications of the Scottish History Society; XXXVI), Edinburgh: […] University Press by T[homas] and A[rchibald] Constable for the Scottish History Society, published May 1900, →OCLC, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
The egg is, as we have said, a kind of exposed uterus, and place in which the embryo is fashioned: for it performs the office of the uterus and enfolds the chick until the due time of its exclusion arrive, when the creature is born perfect.
A translation of a passage from Harvey’s Exercitationes de generatione animalium (1651).
ref:
1847, William Harvey, “Anatomical Exercises on the Generation of Animals; to which are Added, Essays on Parturition; on the Membranes, and Fluids of the Uterus; and on Conception. [On Animal Generation. Exercise the Twenty-third: Of the Exclusion of the Chick, or the Birth from the Egg.]”, in Robert Willis, transl., The Works of William Harvey, M.D., London: […] Sydenham Society, →OCLC, page 264
type:
quotation
text:
In the Fall into the division of labor, [Claude] Lévi-Strauss sees the great hunters trading women to create the exogamous bonds of one hunting band with another. The egg is, but the sperm does. The tiny sperm may be furious in its activity, but its highway to the egg is paved by the alkaline trail set down by the Great Mother.
ref:
1981, William Irwin Thompson, “Hominization”, in The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture (A Lindisfarne Series Book), New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, part 2 (The Transformations of Prehistory), page 80
type:
quotation
text:
Although they serve the same function across the plant, animal and fungal kingdoms, sperm and eggs vary wildly in their structure and biochemistry, even among closely related species. […] Many genes that determine sperm and egg structure and biochemistry are rapidly evolving, constantly changing the chemical environment necessary for the sperm to bind to the egg.
ref:
2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, New Haven, Conn.: Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2013-04-22, abstract, page 210
type:
quotation
text:
a bad egg a good egg a tough egg Cheerio, old egg!
type:
example
text:
Some big, hard-boiled egg meets up with a pretty face, and bingo! He cracks up and melts.
ref:
1932, Edgar Wallace, Merian C[aldwell] Cooper, novelization by Delos W[heeler] Lovelace, chapter 4, in King Kong, trade softcover edition, Nevada City, Calif.: Underwood Books, published 2005, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
Up close he looked like a pretty tough egg. His hair was bristling up in the back in spite of what smelled like a whole bottle of Wildroot Creme Oil and he had the flat, oddly shiny eyes that some deep-sea fish have.
ref:
1980, Stephen King, “The Wedding Gig”, in Skeleton Crew (A Signet Book), New York, N.Y.: New American Library, published June 1986, page 259
type:
quotation
text:
to crack someone’s egg (to cause someone to realize that they are transgender)
type:
example
text:
That fits, though, she thought. Wear the same outfit day after day, your brain gets numb to how it looks or feels—Wendy shut the album. No. […] She hated analyzing the whys of [not-out] trans girls. She had always hated it, and she hated how easy it had become; the bottomless hole of egg mode.
ref:
2018, Casey Plett, edited by Susan Safyan, Little Fish, Vancouver, B.C.: Arsenal Pulp Press, page 24
type:
quotation
text:
So I remember being told, in the very early part of my transition, that I had been, until now, an egg, and—as powerfully rooted in a belief in latency as I found myself[.]
ref:
2020, Grace Lavery, “Egg Theory's Early Style”, in Transgender Studies Quarterly, page 384
type:
quotation
text:
Shut up, you egg!
type:
example
text:
[S]oe Power of Warre / From the firſt Egge of Libertie, out-Creepes / A fatall Serpent; […]
ref:
a. 1658 (date written), George Daniel, “Trinarchodia. The Raigne of Henry the Fourth.”, in Alexander B[alloch] Grosart, editor, The Poems of George Daniel, Esq. of Beswick, Yorkshire. (1616–1657) from the Original MSS. in the British Museum: Hitherto Unprinted. […], volume IV, Boston, Lincolnshire: […] [Robert Roberts] for private circulation only, published 1878, →OCLC, stanza 348, page 88
type:
quotation
text:
In ſhort, the Rebellion had been Cruſh'd in the Egg; and One Seaſonable Act of Rigour, had Sav'd the King, the Monarchy, the Church, and the Three Kingdoms.
ref:
1683 June 5 (Gregorian calendar), Roger L’Estrange, “The State of the City of London, in the Late Rebellion. […]”, in The Observator, in Dialogue, volume I, number 345, London: […] J. Bennet, for William Abington, […], →OCLC, page [1], column 1
type:
quotation
text:
This approach would be altered for an optimal omelette based exploit. One would spray the heap with the omelette code solely, then load a single copy of the additional shellcode eggs into memory outside the target region for the spray.
ref:
2015, Charles Smutz, Angelos Stavrou, “Preventing Exploits in Microsoft Office Documents through Content Randomization”, in Herbert Bos, Fabian Monrose, Gregory Blanc, editors, Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses: 18th International Symposium, RAID 2015, Kyoto, Japan, November 2–4, 2015: Proceedings (LNCS; 9404; Sublibrary SL4 (Security and Cryptology)), Cham, Switzerland, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemburg: Springer International Publishing, →DOI, →ISSN, page 241
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, housing the embryo within a membrane or shell during its development.
The edible egg (sense 1.1) of a domestic fowl such as a duck, goose, or, especially, a chicken; (uncountable) the contents of such an egg or eggs used as food.
An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, housing the embryo within a membrane or shell during its development.
A food item shaped to resemble an egg (sense 1.1.1), such as a chocolate egg.
An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, housing the embryo within a membrane or shell during its development.
Synonym of ovum (“the female gamete of an animal”); an egg cell.
A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).
A swelling on one's head, usually large or noticeable, resulting from an injury.
A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).
Chiefly in egg and dart: an ornamental oval moulding alternating in a row with dart or triangular shapes.
A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).
A score of zero; specifically (cricket), a batter's failure to score; a duck egg or duck's egg.
A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).
A bomb or mine.
Senses relating to people.
A person; a fellow.
Senses relating to people.
A white person considered to be overly infatuated with East Asia.
Senses relating to people.
A user of the microblogging service Twitter identified by the default avatar (historically an image of an egg (sense 1.1.1)) rather than a custom image; hence, a newbie or noob.
Senses relating to people.
A person regarded as having not yet realized they are transgender, who has not yet come out as transgender, or who is in the early stages of transitioning; also, one's lack of awareness that one is transgender.
Senses relating to people.
A foolish or obnoxious person.
Senses relating to people.
A young person.
Something regarded as containing a (usually bad) thing at an early stage.
One of the blocks of data injected into a program's address space for use by certain forms of shellcode, such as "omelettes".
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
architecture
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
government
military
politics
war
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
6061 | word:
egg
word_type:
verb
expansion:
egg (third-person singular simple present eggs, present participle egging, simple past and past participle egged)
forms:
form:
eggs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
egging
tags:
participle
present
form:
egged
tags:
participle
past
form:
egged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from Middle English eg, egg, egge (“egg of a domestic or wild fowl; egg of a snake”) [and other forms] (originally Northern England and Northeast Midlands), from Old Norse egg (“egg”), from Proto-Germanic *ajją (“egg”) (by Holtzmann’s law), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”), probably from *h₂éwis (“bird”), from *h₂ew- (“to clothe oneself, dress; to be dressed”) (in the sense of an animal clothed in feathers). Doublet of huevo, oeuf, and ovum.
The native English ey [and other forms] (plural eyren) (obsolete), from Old English ǣġ, is also derived from Proto-Germanic *ajją. It survived into the 16th century before being fully displaced by egg.
The verb is derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
The angry demonstrators egged the riot police.
type:
example
text:
The students were caught egging the principal’s car as a prank.
type:
example
text:
Like I said before in that chapter, after that ultimate egging, Gay-D didn't mention anything about eggs again, but he meekly ask for us to stop egging Xander's door so that he wouldn't get blamed.
ref:
2013 February, M. Golding, “Framing”, in How to Piss Off a Crappy Roommate: From A to Z, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu, page 89
type:
quotation
text:
After I cut the tubing, I found that I had slightly egged it in the vise.
type:
example
text:
Then mask another large piece with currant jelly, cover it as before, and after egging the edges, roll them over some coarse sugar, and put them immediately in the oven. Join the remaining pieces in the same manner, two and two, and after egging the edges as before, roll them alternately on pistachios and coarse sugar.
ref:
1834, M[arie-]A[ntoine] Carême, edited by John Porter, The Royal Parisian Pastrycook and Confectioner: […], London: F. J. Mason, […], →OCLC, page 163
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To throw (especially rotten) eggs (noun sense 1.1.1) at (someone or something).
To inadvertently or intentionally distort (the circular cross-section of something, such as tube) to an elliptical or oval shape.
To coat (a food ingredient) with or dip (a food ingredient) in beaten egg (noun sense 1.1.1) during the process of preparing a dish.
To collect the eggs (noun sense 1.1) of wild birds.
senses_topics:
cooking
food
lifestyle
|
6062 | word:
egg
word_type:
verb
expansion:
egg (third-person singular simple present eggs, present participle egging, simple past and past participle egged)
forms:
form:
eggs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
egging
tags:
participle
present
form:
egged
tags:
participle
past
form:
egged
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
egg
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English eggen (“to urge on; to entice, incite, lure, tempt; to encourage, exhort, stimulate; (reflexive) to bestir (oneself); to challenge, taunt; to enrage, irritate”), from Old Norse eggja (“to incite, egg on”), from egg (“an edge”), from Proto-Germanic *agjō (“a corner; an edge”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”).
cognates
* Danish ægge, egge (“to incite, egg on; to excite, rouse”)
* Faroese eggja (“to incite, egg on; to sharpen”)
* Icelandic eggja (“to incite, egg on”)
senses_examples:
text:
Hope like a ſpurre pricketh forvvard, feare like a bridle reſtraineth, hope eggeth onvvard vnto vertue, feare pulleth backe from vice, hope incites vs to obſerue the lavv, feare makes vs feare to trãſgreſſe the lavve.
ref:
1603, Matthew Kellison, “The First Chapter Sheweth How the Reformers Take Away Hope of Heauen and Feare of Hell, and Consequently Open the Gapp to All Vice”, in A Survey of the New Religion, Detecting Manie Grosse Absurdities which it Implieth. […], Douai: […] Lawrence Kellam, […], →OCLC, 7th book (Conteineth a Suruey of the New Doctrine Concerning Manners, […]), page 510
type:
quotation
text:
And of them they make tvvo ſorts, the good Angels, and the bad: becauſe the good pricketh a man forvvard, to grace, goodneſſe, vertue, and honeſty: the other eggeth him to levvdneſſe, miſchiefe, ſhame, villany, and all kinde of looſe diſhoneſty.
ref:
1633, Levine Lemnie [i.e., Levinus Lemnius], “Of the Spirit Universall Generally Inspired into the Whole World, and All the Parts thereof. […]”, in T[homas] N[ewton], transl., The Touchstone of Complexions. […], London: […] E[lizabeth] A[llde] for Michael Sparke, […], →OCLC, pages 34–35
type:
quotation
text:
O harpy Love-rule, murd'rous Hag; / Whither doſt thou blind Mortals drag! / 'Tis thou to Battle eggeſt Kings / As well as Louts to Wreſtling-rings; […]
ref:
1758, Maphaeus [i.e., Maffeo Vegio], translated by [John Ellis], The Canto Added by Maphæus to Virgil’s Twelve Books of Æneas, from the Original Bombastic, Done into English Hudibrastic; With Notes beneath, and Latin Text in Ev’ry Other Page Annext, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], →OCLC, page 35, lines 227–230
type:
quotation
text:
Who is egging thee, king, to go back from the oath thou hast sworn? A worthy king of men should be true to his word. It can never beseem thee, my lord, to break thine oath. Who is egging thee, prince, to slaughter the cattle of thy thanes? It is tyranny for a king to do such deed in his own land.
ref:
1883, “Bersaoglis Vísor, c. 1039. (From the Lives of Kings, especially Kringla, Hulda, Flatey-bok iii. 267–269.)”, in Gudbrand Vigfusson, F[rederick] York Powell, editors, Corpvs Poeticvm Boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue: From the Earliest Times to the Thirteenth Century […], volume II (Court Poetry), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, book VIII (Christian Court Poetry), § 2 (St. Olaf and Cnut), page 147
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To encourage, incite, or urge (someone).
senses_topics:
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6063 | word:
irregular verb
word_type:
noun
expansion:
irregular verb (plural irregular verbs)
forms:
form:
irregular verbs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A verb that does not follow the normal rules for its conjugation.
senses_topics:
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6064 | word:
honey
word_type:
noun
expansion:
honey (usually uncountable, plural honeys or (archaic) honies)
forms:
form:
honeys
tags:
plural
form:
honies
tags:
archaic
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English hony, honi, from Old English huniġ, from Proto-West Germanic *hunag, from Proto-Germanic *hunagą (compare West Frisian hunich, German Honig), from earlier *hunangą (compare Swedish honung), from Proto-Indo-European *kn̥h₂onk-o-s, from *kn̥h₂ónks.
Cognate with Middle Welsh canecon (“gold”), Latin canicae pl (“bran”), Tocharian B kronkśe (“bee”), Albanian qengjë (“beehive”), Ancient Greek κνῆκος (knêkos, “safflower”), Northern Kurdish şan (“beehive”), Northern Luri گونج (gonj, “bee”), Finnish hunaja.
senses_examples:
text:
The honey in the pot should last for years.
type:
example
text:
The physical properties of the different honeys, color, granulation, aroma, flavor, etc., are indicated in the table only in a very general way.
ref:
1908, United States. Bureau of Chemistry, Bulletin, numbers 110-114
type:
quotation
text:
If two of the California honeys, western hyssop and fleabane, having a positive polarization at 200 C. are disregarded, then the remaining...
ref:
1949, Roy A. Grout, editor, The Hive and the Honey Bee
type:
quotation
text:
Eucalyptus honeys could be characterized based on seven volatile compounds, whereas lavender honeys had only five...
ref:
2011, Stephen Taylor, Advances in Food and Nutrition Research, volume 62
type:
quotation
text:
Honey, would you take out the trash?
type:
example
text:
Honey, I'm home.
type:
example
text:
"So far, so good... are you doing okay?" "Flying... is awesome!" "Focus, honey."
ref:
2013 July 30, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Tuesday, Jul 30, 2013
type:
quotation
text:
Man, there are some fine honeys here tonight!
type:
example
text:
honey:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A viscous, gold-coloured sweet fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans.
A variety of this substance.
Nectar.
Something sweet or desirable.
A term of affection.
A woman, especially an attractive one.
A spectrum of pale yellow to brownish-yellow colour, like that of most types of (the sweet substance) honey.
senses_topics:
|
6065 | word:
honey
word_type:
adj
expansion:
honey (comparative honeyer or honier, superlative honeyest or honiest)
forms:
form:
honeyer
tags:
comparative
form:
honier
tags:
comparative
form:
honeyest
tags:
superlative
form:
honiest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English hony, honi, from Old English huniġ, from Proto-West Germanic *hunag, from Proto-Germanic *hunagą (compare West Frisian hunich, German Honig), from earlier *hunangą (compare Swedish honung), from Proto-Indo-European *kn̥h₂onk-o-s, from *kn̥h₂ónks.
Cognate with Middle Welsh canecon (“gold”), Latin canicae pl (“bran”), Tocharian B kronkśe (“bee”), Albanian qengjë (“beehive”), Ancient Greek κνῆκος (knêkos, “safflower”), Northern Kurdish şan (“beehive”), Northern Luri گونج (gonj, “bee”), Finnish hunaja.
senses_examples:
text:
Dim as the forming of / Dew in the warming of / Moonlight, they light on the petals; / All is revealed to them; / All!—from the sunniest / Tips to the honiest / Heart, whence they yield to them / Spice, through the darkness that settles.
ref:
1907, Madison Cawein, “One Day and Another: A Lyrical Eclogue”, in The Poems of Madison Cawein, volumes II (New World Idylls and Poems of Love), Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
“I say,” it said, “don’t gran’ma make the hunkiest frosted cookies, though?” / “My, yes, an’ gran’pa’s bees the honiest honey?” flashed back from Station Mary.
ref:
1911 January 3, “[The Children’s Corner] Wireless Telegraphy”, in The Inglenook, volume XIII, number 1, Elgin, Ill.: Brethren Publishing House, page 19, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
moll / Even to the least detail of love and duty / To win the dalliance of her majesty. / king hamlet / Dalliance? / moll / ’T is the honiest word that sticks / On my lord Osric’s tongue, like a dayfly’s wing / On a toad’s tongue-tip.
ref:
1950, Percy MacKaye, The Mystery Of Hamlet, King of Denmark, or What We Will: A Tetralogy by Percy MacKaye, in Prologue to The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke, by William Shakespeare, London: The Bodley Head, published 1952, page 397
type:
quotation
text:
Its perfume is variously described as ‘divine’ and reminiscent of nuts. Of grapes it is the grapiest; of honey the honiest.
ref:
1962, Harper’s Bazaar, volume 95, page 204
type:
quotation
text:
The Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad speaks of the ātman as the honey (madhu) and as the “honiest” of all the honeys.
ref:
1985, P.T. Raju, Structural Depths of Indian Thought, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, pages 407–408
type:
quotation
text:
Have you tried Fuller's(?) organic honey beer? It's much, much nicer than Waggledance. Honeyer. Mmmm.
ref:
2004 March 13, Janet McKnight, “Beer”, in uk.misc (Usenet), archived from the original on 2024-02-21
type:
quotation
text:
Then I looked close at the scalp he stroked, which was of the silkiest blonde. For a moment I was sure it come from Olga’s dear head, and reckoned also he had little Gus’s fine skull-cover someplace among his filthy effects, the stinking old savage, living out his life of murder, rapine, and squalor, and I almost knifed him before I collected myself and realized the hair was honeyer than my Swedish wife’s.
ref:
1964, Thomas Berger, “My Indian Wife”, in Little Big Man, New York, N.Y.: The Dial Press, →LCCN, page 214
type:
quotation
text:
But he answered the question with the honiest—Bohemian honey—of smiles: […]
ref:
1876, Stephen J[oseph] Mac Kenna, Handfast to Strangers: A Novel, volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], page 137
type:
quotation
text:
But he suddenly changed his mind and came back. “Just listen, Lantier,” he said, in the honeyest of tones, “I want a lobster painted.[…]”
[original: Mais il se ravisa et revint dire, de son air bonhomme : « Écoutez donc Lantier, j’ai besoin d’un homard…[…] »]
ref:
1886, Émile Zola, unknown translator, chapter II, in His Masterpiece? (L’Œuvre.) Or, Claude Lantier’s Struggle for Fame. A Realistic Novel., London: Vizetelly & Co., […], page 54
type:
quotation
text:
No man has any business to say that his boy is honier than he was,—or is.
ref:
1908 January 25, Rose Melville, “Sis Hopkins’ Sayings”, in The Sandusky Star-Journal, Sandusky, Oh., page twelve
type:
quotation
text:
“Oh, my dears, I must tell you this. At dinner the other evening I made a really truly growly belted earl squirm. I had told him how much I liked a little speech he had made, when he turned on me in his most growly belted early manner. / “‘Do you say that, Lady Polly,’ he snorted, ‘because it is the truth or because it is the correct thing to say?’ / “‘Not being an earl,’ I replied in my honeyest voice, ‘I don’t recognise any difference between the two.’
ref:
1927 November 9, Punch, or The London Charivari, London: […] [T]he Office, […], page 512, columns 2–3
type:
quotation
text:
“We’ve placed your arms in that position, Miss Day,” I said in my honeyest voice, “because it’s the safest just in case you have a fracture.[…]”
ref:
1957, William J[ulius] Lederer, Ensign O’Toole and Me, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 177
type:
quotation
text:
Then this guy stalled at my desk, fishing for his wallet, giving me the honeyest smile.
ref:
1970, Cal, volumes 33–35, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
Then upside down by her tail she swings / And sings in the honeyest voice I’ve heard: / “One day I will grow a pair of wings / And become a furry Hummingbird.”
ref:
2001, Adrian Mitchell, Zoo of Dreams, London: Orchard Books, page 37
type:
quotation
text:
It was Neezer who had found Sally for us at his church, where, he testified, the woman sang “with the honeyest voice you ever heard. If her singing don’t make the Lord happy, nothing does.”
ref:
2005, Lee Siegel, Who Wrote the Book of Love?, Chicago, Ill., London: The University of Chicago Press, page 17
type:
quotation
text:
After hundreds of listens, Odessey and Oracle still sounds like a paragon of poignant psychedelic pop, rendered in orchestral splendor and adorned with indelible melodies that are to cry for, sung in the honeyest of tones by the angelically melancholy [Colin] Blunstone.
ref:
2017 April 19, Dave Segal, “The Zombies: Odessey and Oracle 50th Anniversary”, in The Stranger, volume 26, number 34, Seattle, Wash., page 37, column 3
type:
quotation
text:
Sweet is the honey, and sweet is the rain, the sweeter though (honeyer than honey) is my mother.
[original: MEETHAN MADHU NE MEETHA MEHULA RE LOL, ETHI MEETHEE TE MORI MAT RE, JANANEE NI JOD SAKHI !]
ref:
2018 March–April, J. K. Khuman, “Gender, Class, and Caste Consciousness with Special Reference to Indian Literature”, in Scholarly Research Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies, volume 5, number 44, →ISSN, page 9756
type:
quotation
text:
“Thanks honey, I love you.” / Kaya, “I like it when you say, honey.” / “I like it too, but you are honeyer than honey.”
ref:
2023, David Samir Yaghnam, “But how can I, look at me”, in Adam and Eve, This Age!, [Lighthouse Point, Fla.: Visionary Book Writers], page 710
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Involving or resembling honey.
Of a pale yellow to brownish-yellow colour, like most types of honey.
Honey-sweet.
senses_topics:
|
6066 | word:
honey
word_type:
verb
expansion:
honey (third-person singular simple present honeys, present participle honeying, simple past and past participle honeyed)
forms:
form:
honeys
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
honeying
tags:
participle
present
form:
honeyed
tags:
participle
past
form:
honeyed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English hony, honi, from Old English huniġ, from Proto-West Germanic *hunag, from Proto-Germanic *hunagą (compare West Frisian hunich, German Honig), from earlier *hunangą (compare Swedish honung), from Proto-Indo-European *kn̥h₂onk-o-s, from *kn̥h₂ónks.
Cognate with Middle Welsh canecon (“gold”), Latin canicae pl (“bran”), Tocharian B kronkśe (“bee”), Albanian qengjë (“beehive”), Ancient Greek κνῆκος (knêkos, “safflower”), Northern Kurdish şan (“beehive”), Northern Luri گونج (gonj, “bee”), Finnish hunaja.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To sweeten; to make agreeable.
To add honey to.
To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments.
To be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to fawn.
senses_topics:
|
6067 | word:
misspelt
word_type:
verb
expansion:
misspelt
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
mis- + spelt
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of misspell
senses_topics:
|
6068 | word:
north pole
word_type:
noun
expansion:
north pole (plural north poles)
forms:
form:
north poles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The northernmost point on celestial bodies other than Earth.
The positive pole of a magnetic dipole that seeks geographic north.
senses_topics:
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
6069 | word:
bent
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bent
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bent-, preterite stem (as in bente, benten, etc.), and Middle English bent, ibent, ybent, past participle forms of Middle English benden (“to bend”). Equivalent to bend + -t.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of bend
senses_topics:
|
6070 | word:
bent
word_type:
adj
expansion:
bent (comparative benter or more bent, superlative bentest or most bent)
forms:
form:
benter
tags:
comparative
form:
more bent
tags:
comparative
form:
bentest
tags:
superlative
form:
most bent
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bent-, preterite stem (as in bente, benten, etc.), and Middle English bent, ibent, ybent, past participle forms of Middle English benden (“to bend”). Equivalent to bend + -t.
senses_examples:
text:
Asked bluntly by Julie Webb of the NME whether he was “bent” in December 1974, Freddie answered evasively: “You're a crafty cow. […]”
ref:
2019 January 22, Joe Sommerlad, “The reasons why Bohemian Rhapsody faced such a massive backlash”, in The Independent
type:
quotation
text:
He was bent on going to Texas, but not even he could say why.
type:
example
text:
They were bent on mischief.
type:
example
text:
[…]in the ape posse, bent on vengeance, traversing landscapes clothed in snow and bristling with California red fir and silver pine, spooking human stragglers, and running across fresh graves as they search for the nameless colonel and try to piece together why the humans are killing each other.
ref:
2017 July 7, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “The ambitious War For The Planet Of The Apes ends up surrendering to formula”, in The Onion AV Club
type:
quotation
text:
That shot was so bent it left the pitch.
type:
example
text:
Man, I am so bent right now!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Folded, dented.
Corrupt, dishonest.
Homosexual.
Determined or insistent.
leading a life of crime.
Inaccurately aimed.
Suffering from the bends.
High from both marijuana and alcohol.
senses_topics:
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
|
6071 | word:
bent
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bent (plural bents)
forms:
form:
bents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bent-, preterite stem (as in bente, benten, etc.), and Middle English bent, ibent, ybent, past participle forms of Middle English benden (“to bend”). Equivalent to bend + -t.
senses_examples:
text:
He had a natural bent for painting.
type:
example
text:
His mind was of a technical bent.
type:
example
text:
the bent of a bow
type:
example
text:
the full bent and stress of the soul
ref:
1707, John Norris, Practical Discourses Upon the Beatitudes of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inclination or talent.
A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
A transverse frame of a framed structure; a subunit of framing.
Such a subunit as a component of a barn's framing, joined to other bents by girts and summer beams.
A transverse frame of a framed structure; a subunit of framing.
Such a subunit as a reinforcement to, or integral part of, a bridge's framing.
Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
senses_topics:
business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
|
6072 | word:
bent
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bent (countable and uncountable, plural bents)
forms:
form:
bents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bent, benet, from Old English *beonot (attested only in place-names and personal names), from Proto-West Germanic *binut (“reed, rush”), of uncertain origin.
senses_examples:
text:
His spear a bent, both stiff and strong.
ref:
1627, Michael Drayton, Nymphidia, published 1810, page 124
type:
quotation
text:
Gunga Dass gave me a double handful of dried bents which I thrust down the mouth of the lair to the right of his, and followed myself, feet foremost [...].
ref:
1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes”, in The Phantom ’Rickshaw and Other Tales, Folio Society, published 2005, page 121
type:
quotation
text:
c. 1500, The Ballad of Chevy Chase
Bowmen bickered upon the bent.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
A grassy area, grassland.
The old dried stalks of grasses.
senses_topics:
|
6073 | word:
maiden
word_type:
noun
expansion:
maiden (plural maidens)
forms:
form:
maidens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English mayden, meiden, from Old English mæġden (“girl”), originally a diminutive of mæġeþ (“girl”) via diminutive suffix -en, from Proto-West Germanic *magaþ, from Proto-Germanic *magaþs. Equivalent to maid + -en.
senses_examples:
text:
She's unmarried and still a maiden.
type:
example
text:
It had been customary during the whole civil war, to decapitate state criminals by the instrument called the maiden; but Montrose was condemned to a more ignominious death , by a gibbet thirty feet high
ref:
1832, Robert Chambers, The History of Scotland
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A girl or an unmarried young woman.
A female virgin.
A man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention.
A maidservant.
A clothes maiden.
An unmarried woman, especially an older woman.
A racehorse without any victory, i.e. one having a "virgin record".
A horse race in which all starters are maidens.
A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine.
A maiden over.
A machine for washing linen.
Alternative form of Maiden
senses_topics:
hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Wicca
lifestyle
religion |
6074 | word:
maiden
word_type:
adj
expansion:
maiden (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English mayden, meiden, from Old English mæġden (“girl”), originally a diminutive of mæġeþ (“girl”) via diminutive suffix -en, from Proto-West Germanic *magaþ, from Proto-Germanic *magaþs. Equivalent to maid + -en.
senses_examples:
text:
It was just the middle of October when I moved in with my maiden sister […]
ref:
1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House
type:
quotation
text:
The Titanic sank on its maiden voyage.
type:
example
text:
After Edmund Burke's maiden speech, William Pitt the Elder said Burke had "spoken in such a manner as to stop the mouths of all Europe" and that the Commons should congratulate itself on acquiring such a member.
type:
example
text:
Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado took his maiden victory and Williams's first since 2004 in a strategic battle with Ferrari's Fernando Alonso.
ref:
2012 May 13, Andrew Benson, “Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Victorie forsook him for ever since he ransacked the maiden town of Magdenburg
ref:
1631, J. Taylor, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Virgin.
Without offspring.
Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden.
Being a first occurrence or event.
Being an over in which no runs are scored.
Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
Never having been captured or violated.
Grown from seed and never pruned.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
6075 | word:
dug
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dug
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of dig (replacing earlier digged)
senses_topics:
|
6076 | word:
dug
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dug (plural dugs)
forms:
form:
dugs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From earlier dugge ("pap, teat"; compare also English dialectal ducky, dukky (“the female breast”)), apparently connected to Danish dægge (“to suckle”), Swedish dägga (“to suck”), Old English dēon (“to suckle”). More at doe.
Compare doug
senses_examples:
text:
First Pig.
I suck, but no milk will come from the dug.
ref:
1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A mammary gland on a domestic mammal with more than two breasts.
senses_topics:
|
6077 | word:
creep
word_type:
verb
expansion:
creep (third-person singular simple present creeps, present participle creeping, simple past crept or creeped or (archaic) crope, past participle crept or creeped or (archaic) cropen)
forms:
form:
creeps
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
creeping
tags:
participle
present
form:
crept
tags:
past
form:
creeped
tags:
past
form:
crope
tags:
archaic
past
form:
crept
tags:
participle
past
form:
creeped
tags:
participle
past
form:
cropen
tags:
archaic
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English crepen, from Old English crēopan (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-West Germanic *kreupan, from Proto-Germanic *kreupaną (“to twist, creep”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewbʰ- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with West Frisian krippe, krûpe, West Frisian crjippa (“to creep”), Low German krepen and krupen, Dutch kruipen (“to creep, crawl”), Middle High German kriefen (“to creep”), Danish krybe (“to creep”), Norwegian krype (“to creep”), Swedish krypa (“to creep, crawl”), Icelandic krjúpa (“to stoop”).
The noun is derived from the verb.
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *grewbʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Germanic *kreupaną
Proto-West Germanic *kreupan
Old English crēopan
Middle English crepen
English creep
senses_examples:
text:
Lizards and snakes crept over the ground.
type:
example
text:
One evening, while the Rabbit was lying there alone, watching the ants that ran to and fro between his velvet paws in the grass, he saw two strange beings creep out of the tall bracken near him.
ref:
1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
type:
quotation
text:
Reed tips face the dawn
shivering in the autumn wind
At P'u-k'ou the winter tide
has not yet come
Sunrise on the sandy bank
pocked with narrow caves
Pale frogs and dark crabs
creep without end.
ref:
1994, “On the Huai River”, in A Drifting Boat: An Anthology of Chinese Zen Poetry, Fredonia, NY: White Pine Press, →OCLC, page 138
type:
quotation
text:
He tried to creep past the guard without being seen.
type:
example
text:
Electrification of the Eastern Region main line from Strasbourg, incidentally, is steadily creeping nearer to Paris, and is now complete as far as Château Thierry, 59 miles away; [...].
ref:
1961 November, “More accelerations in the French winter timetables”, in Trains Illustrated, page 670
type:
quotation
text:
She crept up the stairs, keeping well into the side because she knew they were less likely to creak this way.
ref:
1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, page 84
type:
quotation
text:
Prices have been creeping up all year.
type:
example
text:
Old age creeps upon us.
type:
example
text:
[…]guard his understanding from being imposed on by the willful or at least undesigned sophistry which creeps into most of the books of argument.
ref:
1706, John Locke, Of the Conduct of the Understanding, Fallacies
type:
quotation
text:
Paranoia strikes deep / Into your life it will creep / It starts when you're always afraid / Step out of line, the man come and take you away
ref:
1966 December, Stephen Stills, “For What It's Worth”performed by Buffalo Springfield
type:
quotation
text:
The collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying.
type:
example
text:
The quicksilver on a mirror may creep.
type:
example
text:
A creeping sycophant.
type:
example
text:
The sight made my flesh creep.
type:
example
text:
Honey came in and she caught me red-handed / Creeping with the girl next door / Picture this we were both butt naked / Banging on the bathroom floor
ref:
2000, “It Wasn't Me”, performed by Shaggy
type:
quotation
text:
I don't wanna know / If you're playin' me, keep it on the low / 'Cause my heart can't take it anymore / And if you're creepin', please don't let it show
ref:
2003, “I Don't Wanna Know”, performed by Mario Winans
type:
quotation
text:
"Now you want the nigga out 'cause he creeping with his baby momma."
ref:
2016, Sherika Moore, Been Hustlen
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
To grow across a surface rather than upwards.
To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.
To slip, or to become slightly displaced.
To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.
senses_topics:
|
6078 | word:
creep
word_type:
noun
expansion:
creep (countable and uncountable, plural creeps)
forms:
form:
creeps
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
function creep
instruction creep
mission creep
requirement creep
etymology_text:
From Middle English crepen, from Old English crēopan (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-West Germanic *kreupan, from Proto-Germanic *kreupaną (“to twist, creep”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewbʰ- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with West Frisian krippe, krûpe, West Frisian crjippa (“to creep”), Low German krepen and krupen, Dutch kruipen (“to creep, crawl”), Middle High German kriefen (“to creep”), Danish krybe (“to creep”), Norwegian krype (“to creep”), Swedish krypa (“to creep, crawl”), Icelandic krjúpa (“to stoop”).
The noun is derived from the verb.
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *grewbʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Germanic *kreupaną
Proto-West Germanic *kreupan
Old English crēopan
Middle English crepen
English creep
senses_examples:
text:
Christmas creep
type:
example
text:
feature creep
type:
example
text:
instruction creep
type:
example
text:
mission creep
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: weirdo
text:
"You mentioned some others," I said.
"More creeps," she told me. '"That guy was plain looking for trouble. You know, he starts hanging out with some of the shooters Whitey Tass keeps around, angling for an introduction to the big man himself, and he's damn lucky he got picked up by the fuzz before Whitey got sore. He runs too big an operation in the city to be bugged by a pig like Yard. One day Lou Steubal tried to get an inside track with Whitey, levering him on account of what Whitey did to his sister, and they found Lou in the drink. It looked like Lou got gassed up and fell in, but don't try to tell me that. Whitey had him tapped out."
ref:
1968, Mickey Spillane, Delta Factor
type:
quotation
text:
But I'm a creep / I'm a weirdo / What the hell am I doing here? / I don't belong here
ref:
1992, “Creep”, in Pablo Honey, performed by Radiohead
type:
quotation
text:
[…]the catalyst was getting locked in the bathroom of her office with her landlord. "Two hours with that creep," she said. "You can't believe it[…]he got a ladder and came through the bathroom window and almost broke his balls on that pointed tampax box he made us buy. He brought hammers and screws and drills, but we were trapped. It got dark[…]He kept chipping away at the lock, and between the chipping he talked to me about his back and a couple of knee-operations. Finally someone tapped on the door from the outside and it opened, just like that.[…]"
ref:
1992, Thaisa Frank, A Brief History of Camouflage, page 113
type:
quotation
text:
"Why're you working your butt off for that creep? He takes your money, borrows your car, and treats you like shit. Can't you tell he's on drugs?"
ref:
1994, Bapsi Sidhwa, An American Brat, page 168
type:
quotation
text:
"Outrageous!" said Tylan. "You know, without Fingers and baby Trev, we could have won."
"Yeah, Trevor, what a creep — running off home at half-time like that," said Frankie.
ref:
1995, Bob Cattell, Glory in the Cup, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
It was whispered that the priest was a pervert. Was he? The girls said he was a creep. I didn't quite know what it meant to be a creep, but it was obviously not a good thing. It was said that he sometimes fondled the girls, their breasts, and said lousy things to them, that they were beautiful or something like that.[…]Disgusting guys. I thought the guy at Bústaðir was a creep. An old man who liked to dance.
ref:
2016, Jón Gnarr, Hrefna Lind Heimisdóttir, translated by Lytton Smith, The Pirate, page 201
type:
quotation
text:
Saiera shuddered through an exaggerated shiver. "He's a creep. He was a creep in high school, and he's been a creep ever since. Look..." She flipped to the index, found what she was looking for, and fanned the pages until she reached the one she wanted. "Here he is.
A young Andy Gluck, chubby as a penguin, stared out of the page from behind round wire-frame glasses. A camera hung from a strap around his neck. […]
"He doesn't look creepy," I said. "Kind of nerdy, in a harmless way.
"Looks can be deceiving. See that camera? He was always going around with that camera, snapping pictures. Some girls caught him trying to get 'up skirt' shots while they sat at their desks.[…]"
ref:
2022, Scott Bell, Pest Cemetery, page 235
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails).
A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
A slight displacement of an object; the slight movement of something.
The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.
In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.
An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
Someone creepy (annoyingly unpleasant), especially one who is strange or eccentric.
A person who engages in sexually inappropriate behaviour or sexual harassment.
A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.
senses_topics:
media
publishing
geography
geology
natural-sciences
agriculture
business
lifestyle |
6079 | word:
forsake
word_type:
verb
expansion:
forsake (third-person singular simple present forsakes, present participle forsaking, simple past forsook, past participle forsaken)
forms:
form:
forsakes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
forsaking
tags:
participle
present
form:
forsook
tags:
past
form:
forsaken
tags:
participle
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
forsake
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English forsaken (“to abandon, desert, repudiate, withdraw allegiance from; to deny, reject, shun; to betray; to divorce (a spouse); to disown; to be false to (one's nature, vows, etc.; to give up, renounce, surrender; to discard; to omit; to decline, refuse, reject; to avoid, escape; to cease, desist; to evade, neglect; to contradict, refute; to depart, leave; to become detached, separate”) [and other forms], from Old English forsacan (“to oppose; to give up, renounce; to decline, refuse”), from Proto-West Germanic *frasakan (“to forsake, renounce”), from Proto-Germanic *fra- (prefix meaning ‘away, off’) + *sakaną (“to charge; to dispute”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂g- (“to seek out”)). The English word can be analysed as for- + sake, and is cognate with Saterland Frisian ferseeke (“to deny, refuse”), West Frisian fersaakje, Dutch verzaken (“to renounce, forsake”), Middle High German versachen (“to deny”), Danish forsage (“to give up”), Swedish försaka (“to be without, give up”), Norwegian forsake (“to give up, renounce”), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌺𐌰𐌽 (sakan, “to quarrel; to rebuke”), .
senses_examples:
text:
Thou lou'd the Church once, and didſt God adore, / But now forſakest him, thou lou'd before.
ref:
1611, Richard Brathwayte [i.e., Richard Brathwait], “The Third Sonet”, in The Golden Fleece. […], London: […] W[illiam] S[tansby] for Christopher Purfett […], →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
He is forſaken of the world, his kinfolk, friends, and acquaintance; his owne members and ſenſes faile him; yea, hee forſaketh (as it were) himſelfe, in that the very vſe of reaſon forſaketh him.
ref:
1617, John Moore, “Of the Miserable Life, and Wretched State of Man, by the Meanes of Sinne and Death”, in A Mappe of Mans Mortalitie. […], […] T[homas] S[nodham] for George Edvvards, […], →OCLC, 1st book (What Death is in It Selfe), page 44
type:
quotation
text:
After having opened the flood-gates to free trade, he [William Huskisson] discovered his error; but his nerve forsook him, and he could not close the gates.
ref:
1841 May 29, Richard Oastler, The Fleet Papers; Being Letters to Thomas Thornhill, Esq. […]; from Richard Oastler, […], volume I, number 22, London: W. J. Cleaver, […]; and John Pavey, […], →OCLC, page 172
type:
quotation
text:
Do not forsake me, oh my darlin' / You made that promise when we wed / Do not forsake me, oh my darlin' / Although you're grievin', I can't be leavin' / Until I shoot Frank Miller dead
ref:
1952, “The Ballad of High Noon”, Ned Washington (lyrics), Dimitri Tiomkin (music), performed by Tex Ritter
type:
quotation
text:
After the junction at Saincaize the line forsakes the Loire, which it has followed for many miles, for its great tributary the Allier, and runs through St. Germain-des-Fossés, the junction for St. Etienne, and Vichy to Clermont Ferrand.
ref:
1961 November, H. G. Ellison, P. G. Barlow, “Journey through France: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 665
type:
quotation
text:
Stan: You've got to fight, Jesus. / Jesus: Why, what's the point? No one believes in me. Everyone put their money on Satan. My father forsaked me, the town forsaked me. I'm completely forsook.
ref:
1998 February 4, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Dave Polsky, “Damien”, in South Park, season 1, episode 10
type:
quotation
text:
But whence comes this strange feeling of duty, which goads exceptional individuals to antagonize their neighbors, forsake peace of mind and bodily comfort, jeopardize their fortunes and their lives—to risk, in short, all those advantages which the careful observance of conventional duties would place more securely in their grasp, by strengthening their position in the social order?
ref:
2007, Alexander F[rank] Skutch, “Duty”, in Moral Foundations: An Introduction to Ethics, Mount Jackson, Va.: Axios Press, page 447
type:
quotation
text:
Saying he wanted to "speak directly to the people of Haiti," Mr. [Barack] Obama gave a brief address from the White House that was one of the sharpest displays of emotion of his presidency. "You will not be forsaken. You will not be forgotten," he said, and stopped to compose himself. "In this, your hour of greatest need, America stands with you."
ref:
2010 January 14, Helene Cooper, “Obama pledges aid to Haiti”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-12-16
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something).
To decline or refuse (something offered).
To avoid or shun (someone or something).
To cause disappointment to; to be insufficient for (someone or something).
senses_topics:
|
6080 | word:
infer
word_type:
verb
expansion:
infer (third-person singular simple present infers, present participle inferring, simple past and past participle inferred)
forms:
form:
infers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
inferring
tags:
participle
present
form:
inferred
tags:
participle
past
form:
inferred
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin inferō, from Latin in- (“in, at, on; into”) + Latin ferō (“bear, carry; suffer”) (cognate to Old English beran, whence English bear), from Proto-Italic *ferō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti (“to bear, carry”), from the root *bʰer-. Literally “carry forward”, equivalent to “bear in”, as in concluding from a premise. Doublet of inbear.
senses_examples:
text:
It is dangerous to infer too much from martial bluster in British politics: at the first hint of trouble, channelling Churchill is a default tactic for beleaguered leaders of all sorts.
ref:
2010 October 7, “Keep calm, but don't carry on”, in The Economist
type:
quotation
text:
a. 1535, Thomas More, letter to Fryth
the fyrste parte is not the proofe of the second. but rather contrarywyse the seconde inferreth well yͤ fyrst.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To introduce (something) as a reasoned conclusion; to conclude by reasoning or deduction, as from premises or evidence.
To lead to (something) as a consequence; to imply.
To cause, inflict (something) upon or to someone.
To introduce (a subject) in speaking, writing etc.; to bring in, to adduce.
senses_topics:
|
6081 | word:
mistook
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mistook
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of mistake
past participle of mistake
senses_topics:
|
6082 | word:
hooey
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hooey (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Possibly related to phooey, possibly a euphemism for horseshit, or possibly from Ukrainian or Russian хуй (xuj). Compare hooie (interjection) and German hui.
senses_examples:
text:
I heard his speech. It sounded like a whole lot of hooey to me.
type:
example
text:
For many doctors, meditation resides in the realm of New Age hooey—okay for Indian yogis and students of Eastern religion, but not suitable for scientific study.
ref:
2006, Ronald H. Hoffman (with Sidney Stevens), How to Talk with Your Doctor: The Guide for Patients and Their Physicians Who Want to Reconcile and Use the Best of Conventional and Alternative Medicine, ReadHowYouWant.com, pages 216–217
type:
quotation
text:
Sheldon Cooper: I did, but I think I've kind of outgrown Star Trek. You know, stock characters, ludicrous plots, beam me up. What a load of hooey.
ref:
2011 October 13, Chuck Lorre, Eric Kaplan, Maria Ferrari, “The Russian Rocket Reaction (5-5)” (00:16:47–00:17:00 from the start), in The Big Bang Theory
type:
quotation
text:
Dingo: Haha! Sounds like you're scared of ghosts. You know there's no such thing, right?! / Yonny: Well, actually, science has yet to DISprove the existence of ghosts. / Dingo: What? Yon, you're into all this ghost hooey? Really?!
ref:
2023 July 21, Nintendo EPD, Pikmin 4, Nintendo, level/area: Rescue Command Post
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Silly talk or writing; nonsense, silliness, or fake assertion(s).
senses_topics:
|
6083 | word:
hooey
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hooey (plural hooeys)
forms:
form:
hooeys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hog-tie performed in a rodeo show.
senses_topics:
|
6084 | word:
handkercher
word_type:
noun
expansion:
handkercher (plural handkerchers)
forms:
form:
handkerchers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of handkerchief.
senses_topics:
|
6085 | word:
misspell
word_type:
verb
expansion:
misspell (third-person singular simple present misspells, present participle misspelling, simple past and past participle misspelt or misspelled)
forms:
form:
misspells
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
misspelling
tags:
participle
present
form:
misspelt
tags:
participle
past
form:
misspelt
tags:
past
form:
misspelled
tags:
participle
past
form:
misspelled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From mis- + spell.
senses_examples:
text:
I think they misspelled "crab" on the menu, because it says "crap soup".
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To spell incorrectly.
senses_topics:
|
6086 | word:
handiness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
handiness (usually uncountable, plural handinesses)
forms:
form:
handinesses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From handy + -ness.
senses_examples:
text:
All of She Came Too Late is delightfully well-written: one of the most commendable things about it is Wings' handiness with metaphor — she writes of a character who's "a good co-worker, but with as much sense of humor as a cardboard box." Or, "The night came back to me, like a bolt shooting into a lock."
ref:
1988 December 11, Georgia Cotrell, “A Lezbeen Sam Spade”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 8
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The quality or state of being handy.
senses_topics:
|
6087 | word:
mislay
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mislay (third-person singular simple present mislays, present participle mislaying, simple past and past participle mislaid)
forms:
form:
mislays
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
mislaying
tags:
participle
present
form:
mislaid
tags:
participle
past
form:
mislaid
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From mis- + lay.
senses_examples:
text:
He cannot see well, mislays his glasses, and frequently mismends the nets.
ref:
1971, Nancy Anne Dyer, Tokugawa to Meiji Japan: a Resource Guide for Teachers, page 140
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To leave or lay something in the wrong place and then forget where one put it.
senses_topics:
|
6088 | word:
dada
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dada (plural dadas)
forms:
form:
dadas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Dada (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Imitative of a child's first syllables; see dad.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Father, dad.
senses_topics:
|
6089 | word:
dada
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dada (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Dada (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
heroin
senses_topics:
|
6090 | word:
dada
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dada (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Dada (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative letter-case form of Dada (“cultural movement”).
senses_topics:
|
6091 | word:
participle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
participle (plural participles)
forms:
form:
participles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English participle, from Old French participle (1388), variant of participe, from Latin participium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A form of a verb that may function as an adjective, noun or adverb. English has two types of participles: the present participle and the past participle. In other languages, there are others, such as future, perfect, and future perfect participles.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
6092 | word:
fling
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fling (plural flings)
forms:
form:
flings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English fling, from the verb (see below). Compare Icelandic flengur (“a fast sprint”).
senses_examples:
text:
the fling of a horse
type:
example
text:
When I was as young as you, I had my fling. I led a life of pleasure.
ref:
1838, Douglas William Jerrold, Men of Character
type:
quotation
text:
I am inclined to go and have a fling with them. Why not all of us — just for a minute or two — it will not detain us long?
ref:
1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 23
type:
quotation
text:
Here again steam is having its last fling, and the "dual link" drivers at Brunswick shed, Liverpool, already are alternating steam and diesel duties.
ref:
1960 February, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 113
type:
quotation
text:
I had a fling with a girl I met on holiday.
type:
example
text:
I, who love to have a fling, / Both at senate house and king.
ref:
c. 1732, Jonathan Swift, Epistle to a Lady
type:
quotation
text:
the Highland fling
type:
example
text:
ante 1800, old proverb
England were but a fling / Save for the crooked stick and the grey goose wing.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act of throwing, often violently.
An act of moving the limbs or body with violent movements, especially in a dance.
An act or period of unrestrained indulgence.
A short romantic, oftentimes sexual, relationship.
An attempt, a try (as in "give it a fling").
A severe or contemptuous remark; an expression of sarcastic scorn; a gibe or taunt.
A lively Scottish country dance.
A trifling matter; an object of contempt.
senses_topics:
|
6093 | word:
fling
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fling (third-person singular simple present flings, present participle flinging, simple past flung or (colloquial or dialectal) flang or (nonstandard) flinged, past participle flung or (nonstandard) flinged)
forms:
form:
flings
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
flinging
tags:
participle
present
form:
flung
tags:
past
form:
flang
tags:
colloquial
dialectal
past
form:
flinged
tags:
nonstandard
past
form:
flung
tags:
participle
past
form:
flinged
tags:
nonstandard
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English flyngen, from Old Norse flengja (“to whip”), from Proto-Germanic *flangijaną (“to beat, whip”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂k- (“to beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂k-, *pleh₂g- (“to beat”). Cognate with Icelandic flengja (“to spank”), Norwegian flengja (“to rip, tear, or fling open”).
senses_examples:
text:
Wilkinson was struggling, sending the re-start straight into touch and flinging a pass the same way, and France then went close to the first try of the contest as Clerc took a long pass out on the left and was just bundled into touch by the corner flag.
ref:
2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France
type:
quotation
text:
Signalman Bridges was killed by the blast, as was fireman Nightall. Amazingly, driver Gimbert came round some 200 yards away, on the grass outside the Station Hotel where he had been flung.
ref:
2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
"We beseech your Majesty—" said Glozelle, but Miraz had flung out of the tent and they could hear him bawling out his acceptance to Edmund.
ref:
1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia
type:
quotation
text:
The horse flung most potently, making his heels fly aloft in the air.
ref:
1836, Helen Crocket, The Ettrick Shepherd's Last Tale
type:
quotation
text:
The scold began to flout and fling.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To throw with violence or quick movement; to hurl.
To move (oneself) abruptly or violently; to rush or dash.
To throw; to wince; to flounce.
To utter abusive language; to sneer.
senses_topics:
|
6094 | word:
done
word_type:
adj
expansion:
done (comparative more done, superlative most done)
forms:
form:
more done
tags:
comparative
form:
most done
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
done
etymology_text:
From Middle English don, idon, ȝedon, gedon, from Old English dōn, ġedōn, from Proto-West Germanic *dān, from Proto-Germanic *dēnaz (past participle of *dōną (“to do”)). Equivalent to do + -en (past participle ending). Cognate with Scots dune, deen, dene, dane (“done”), Saterland Frisian däin (“done”), West Frisian dien (“done”), Dutch gedaan (“done”), German Low German daan (“done”), German getan (“done”). More at do.
senses_examples:
text:
He pushed his empty plate away, sighed and pronounced "I am done."
type:
example
text:
They were done playing and were picking up the toys when he arrived.
type:
example
text:
I'll text you when the movie's done.
type:
example
text:
As soon as the potatoes are done we can sit down and eat.
type:
example
text:
When the water is done we will only be able to go on for a few days.
type:
example
text:
He is done, after three falls there is no chance he will be able to finish.
type:
example
text:
I can't believe he just walked up and spoke to her like that, those kind of things just aren't done!
type:
example
text:
What is the done thing these days? I can't keep up!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having completed or finished an activity.
Completed or finished.
Ready, fully cooked.
Being exhausted or fully spent.
Without hope or prospect of completion or success.
Fashionable, socially acceptable, tasteful.
senses_topics:
|
6095 | word:
done
word_type:
verb
expansion:
done
forms:
wikipedia:
done
etymology_text:
From Middle English don, idon, ȝedon, gedon, from Old English dōn, ġedōn, from Proto-West Germanic *dān, from Proto-Germanic *dēnaz (past participle of *dōną (“to do”)). Equivalent to do + -en (past participle ending). Cognate with Scots dune, deen, dene, dane (“done”), Saterland Frisian däin (“done”), West Frisian dien (“done”), Dutch gedaan (“done”), German Low German daan (“done”), German getan (“done”). More at do.
senses_examples:
text:
I have done my work.
type:
example
text:
I knew I done the right thing and I'd do it all over again.
ref:
1985 December 14, Jack Leck, “Stick Together”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 22, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
Be Still... and Know That I Am God: Devotions for Every Day of the Year
She opened it up to find a quarter and a note scrawled in childish letters that said, "I done it for love."
text:
I woke up and found out she done left.
type:
example
text:
I done made some real bad choices with my life
ref:
2020, Moneybagg Yo (lyrics and music), “Thug Cry”
type:
quotation
text:
On my soul, this for my kids and the cold shit I done did
ref:
2022, Nas (lyrics and music), “Legit”, in King's Disease III
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of do
simple past of do; did.
Used in forming the perfective aspect; have.
senses_topics:
|
6096 | word:
done
word_type:
intj
expansion:
done
forms:
wikipedia:
done
etymology_text:
From Middle English don, idon, ȝedon, gedon, from Old English dōn, ġedōn, from Proto-West Germanic *dān, from Proto-Germanic *dēnaz (past participle of *dōną (“to do”)). Equivalent to do + -en (past participle ending). Cognate with Scots dune, deen, dene, dane (“done”), Saterland Frisian däin (“done”), West Frisian dien (“done”), Dutch gedaan (“done”), German Low German daan (“done”), German getan (“done”). More at do.
senses_examples:
text:
Riker: Would you be interested in selling me the ore you're carrying? / Yog: No. I have a buyer. / Riker: You haven't heard my offer. Half a gram of Anjoran biomimetic gel. / Yog: Done.
ref:
1994, René Echevarria, “Firstborn”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 7, episode 21, Jonathan Frakes and Joel Swetow (actors)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Expresses that a task has been completed.
Expresses agreement to and conclusion of a proposal, a set of terms, a sale, a request, etc.
senses_topics:
|
6097 | word:
done
word_type:
verb
expansion:
done
forms:
wikipedia:
done
etymology_text:
From Middle English don; equivalent to do + -en (plural simple present ending).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural simple present of do
senses_topics:
|
6098 | word:
done
word_type:
noun
expansion:
done (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
done
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
on the done
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of methadone.
senses_topics:
|
6099 | word:
done
word_type:
noun
expansion:
done (plural dones)
forms:
form:
dones
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
done
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of dhoni
senses_topics:
|
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