flat out

text: After 10 minutes of running flat out, he was out of breath.

text: I had travelled one morning down to Aylesbury, and had left my train, and was about to cross the footbridge, when I heard the imperious whistle of a "B1." I paused, and round the bend came the "Master Cutler" with its engine working absolutely flat out.

ref: 1955 April, W. J. Alcock, “Unforgettable Moments”, in Railway Magazine, page 271:

text: I was already sliding and too dedicated to change my line and just went flat out completely off the course.

ref: 1966 November, Steve McQueen, “Motorcycles: What I like in a Bike - and why”, in Popular Science, page 80:

text: When antelope are running flat out, they resemble very rapidly departing dots; some say they can hit 60 mph.

ref: 1979 November, Bob Brister, “Apache Antelope”, in Field & Stream, page 128:

text: I was half way down the strip when I heard a speedboat and ran flat out back to the landing spot.

ref: 2007, Chris Viner-Smith, Australia′s Forgotten Frontier: The Unsung Police Who Held Our PNG Front Line, page 49:

text: The company's growth in the rail freight market, with a mix of new-to-rail and contract gains, has led to it working flat out.

ref: 2023 July 12, Pip Dunn, “Class 99s: the "ultimate Electro-Diesel"”, in RAIL, number 987, page 53:

links: speed speed

text: She thought it was best to tell him she didn't love him flat out.

text: He was flat out furious when his car was stolen.

text: Suppose that Professor Turk has won a prestigious grant and wants to impress his hearer with this fact, without saying flat out that he won it.

ref: 1984, Aloysius Martinich, Communication and Reference, page 38:

text: If, on the other hand, you simply deny flat out that you can give a metaphysical account of the concept “woman,” on the grounds that women are not essentially like one another in any respect— a position that, it′s important to notice, entails a commitment to your thinking that the idea of giving such an account is at least coherent— then you leave yourself with a problem about how to justify a politics based on the oppression of women.

ref: 2001, Nancy Bauer, Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy, & Feminism, page 38:

text: “You′re gonna die,” he flat-out told Arfons.

ref: 2003 October, “Fool Speed Ahead”, in Cincinnati Magazine, page 128:

text: Sometimes an eagerly promoted product turns out to be a joke — and sometimes it′s just flat out dangerous to life, limb, or commerce.

ref: 2005 March, Seth Masia, “Almost Hits, Mostly Misses”, in Skiing Heritage: Journal of the International Skiing History Association, page 35:

text:
2006, Tony Rossi, Critique by guest commentator: Dr. Tony Rossi, Stephen Hagan, Australia's Blackest Sporting Moments: The Top 100, page 129,
The media (in all its forms) has been known to stoop to even lower levels by flat out abusing non-whites such as the Bulletin's little description of Patrick Bowman reported above and then the Referee's self-congratulatory note that Evans (the Balmain nigger ped) had found gainful employment (at which he was 'very handy' rather than competent or skilled) and had ceased to waste everybody's time with his running.

text: But I was disappointed and really unhappy with myself because I′d given in to a gut reaction that was flat-out wrong.

ref: 2008 March, Martha Lunken, “Lost in a DC-3 Over Georgia”, in Flying, page 64:

text: The White House took issue with the assessment. Karoline Leavitt, a White House spokeswoman, said its findings were “flat-out wrong.”

ref: 2025 June 24, Julian E. Barnes, Helene Cooper, Eric Schmitt, Ronen Bergman, Maggie Haberman, “Strike Set Back Iran’s Nuclear Program by Only a Few Months, U.S. Report Says”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 28 Jun 2025:

links: bluntly bluntly

links:
no holds barred
no holds barred

links: totally totally

links: outright outright

raw_glosses: (idiomatic) Without hesitation or reservation, bluntly, no holds barred, totally, outright.


flat out

text: His hands were of the same somber hue as the bare feet of the children who clustered near the table, looking toward it whistfully^([sic]) until the eldest mustered sufficient courage to ask his mother for "one of 'em yere flat-outs."

ref: 1881, Mary E. Jackson, The Spy of Osawatomie; Or, The Mysterious Companions of Old John Brown, page 296:

type: quotation

glosses: A baked portion of flatbread; a baked item that is not meant to rise.

links: wrap wrap

links: tortilla tortilla

links: pancake pancake

raw_glosses: (food) A wrap, an item of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake.

text: The would-be daredevils are mercifully prevented from going too fast by strategically placed flat-outs.

ref: 1979 November, Tamsin Venn, “The Pleasures of Keystone”, in Skiing, page 107:

links: skiing skiing#Noun

links: piste piste

raw_glosses: (skiing) A section of piste that is relatively flat, causing or allowing skiers to slow down.

text: The circuit is very well endowed with corners of all sorts from hairpins to flat-outs, has a 1,540-yd. straight and measures 5.2 miles, partly on an airfield, partly through a built-up area.

ref: 1952, Motor, volume 102, number 2654, page 31:

links:
motor racing
motor racing

links:
horse racing
horse racing

links: uncambered uncambered

links: racetrack racetrack

raw_glosses: (motor racing, horse racing) An uncambered corner of racetrack; a racetrack whose corners are uncambered.

pos: noun

en-noun

expansion: flat out (plural flat outs)

forms:
flat outs (plural)
flat-out (alternative)

ipa: /ˌflæt ˈaʊt/

audio: EN-AU ck1 flat out.ogg

audio: En-au-flat out.ogg

ipa: /ˈflæt ˌaʊt/


flat out

text:
1894, Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad, 2015, Tom Sawyer Collection: All Four Books, Enhanced Media, page 413,
I see myself there warn't no sense in the tale, to chop square off that way before it come to anything, but I warn't going to say so, because I could see Tom was souring up pretty fast over the way it flatted out […] .

links: promising promising

links: beginning beginning

links: disappoint disappoint

links: expectation expectation

raw_glosses: (intransitive) To fail after a promising beginning; to disappoint expectations.

links:
flatten out
flatten out#English

raw_glosses: (archaic, transitive) Synonym of flatten out (to make flat)

flatten out

extra: to make flat

pos: verb

en-verb

expansion: flat out (third-person singular simple present flats out, present participle flatting out, simple past and past participle flatted out)

forms:
flats out (present singular third-person)
flatting out (participle present)
flatted out (participle past)
flatted out (past)
flat-out (alternative)


arsorane

links:
inorganic chemistry
inorganic chemistry

links: arsenic arsenic

links: hydride hydride

raw_glosses: (inorganic chemistry) the arsenic hydride AsH₅, λ⁵-arsane

links: pentafluoride pentafluoride

raw_glosses: (inorganic chemistry) arsenic pentafluoride, AsF₅

links:
organic chemistry
organic chemistry

links: hydrocarbyl hydrocarbyl

raw_glosses: (organic chemistry) any hydrocarbyl derivative of this compound

en-noun

expansion: arsorane (plural arsoranes)

forms: arsoranes (plural)


Stoccolma

links: Stockholm Stockholm#English

links:
capital city
capital city

links: Sweden Sweden#English

pos: name

it-proper noun

f

expansion: Stoccolma f

rhymes: -olma


fuddle-duddle

links: depart depart

links: be be

links: off off

en-verb

expansion: fuddle-duddle (third-person singular simple present fuddle-duddles, present participle fuddle-duddling, simple past and past participle fuddle-duddled)

forms:
fuddle-duddles (present singular third-person)
fuddle-duddling (participle present)
fuddle-duddled (participle past)
fuddle-duddled (past)

etymology_text: From fuddle, after fuddy-duddy, but development of meaning unclear. Perhaps from the interjection coined by Pierre Trudeau (see next etymology).


fuddle-duddle

text: What is the nature of your thoughts, gentlemen, when you say “fuddle duddle” or something like that?

ref: 1971, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

links: Fuck fuck

links:
Fuck off
fuck off

raw_glosses: (euphemistic, originally Canada) Fuck! Fuck off!

pos: intj

etymology_text:
There is an example of the phrase's use in the early 1940s, in "Mother Finds a Body", by Gypsy Rose Lee: "...when [he] asks me where I was on the night of so-and-so, I'll tell him to go fuddle his duddle".
However the expression fuddle-duddle is attributed to Pierre Elliott Trudeau, former prime minister of Canada, who according to some sources said it in parliament on 16 February 1971 and repeated it when pressed by television reporters about using profanity in respect to members of Parliament (Canadian House of Commons).


aryne

links: hydrocarbon hydrocarbon

links: transient transient

links: arene arene

links: hydrogen hydrogen

links: carbon carbon

links:
triple bond
triple bond

links: benzyne benzyne

raw_glosses: (organic chemistry) Any hydrocarbon, normally a transient species, derived from an arene by removal of two hydrogen atoms from adjacent carbon atoms, and thus possessing a formal triple bond; the simplest is benzyne

en-noun

expansion: aryne (plural arynes)

forms: arynes (plural)

etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Late Latin arōmaticusder.
Old French aromatique
Middle Frenchbor.
Middle English
English ar(omatic)
English -yne
English aryne
From ar(omatic) + -yne.

ety

en

:af

-yne

expansion:
Etymology tree
Late Latin arōmaticusder.
Old French aromatique
Middle Frenchbor.
Middle English
English ar(omatic)
English -yne
English aryne
[Appendix:Glossary#loanword|Borrowed]] from", "terms" : [ { "lang_name" : "Middle French", "status" : "inline", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "der.", "keyword_label" : "Derived from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Late Latin", "term" : "arōmaticus", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "la-lat" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "lang_name" : "Old French", "term" : "aromatique", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "fro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang" : "frm" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "lang" : "enm" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "aromatic", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }, { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "-yne", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "aryne", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }" data-lang="en" data-title="aryne">
From ar(omatic) + -yne.


fiddle-faddle

text: I can understand why people read horoscopes, but for me it's a bunch of fiddle-faddle.

type: example

text:
These foolish Mistresses do so hang about ye, so whimper, and so hug, I know it Gentlemen, and so intice ye, now ye are i’th’ bud;
and that sweet tilting war, with eyes and kisses, th’ alarms of soft vows, and sighs, and fiddle faddles, spoils all our trade:
you must forget these knick knacks, a woman at some time of year, I grant ye she is necessarie; but make no business of her.

ref: 1679 Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher: Fifty Comedies and Tragedies. The Humourous Lieutenant. p. 190

links: nonsense nonsense

en-noun

expansion: fiddle-faddle (uncountable)

forms: fiddlefaddle (alternative)


fiddle-faddle

text:
The cur foretells the knell of parting day;
The loafing herd winds slowly o'er the lea;
The wise man homeward plods; I only stay
To fiddle-faddle in a minor key.

ref: 1911 Ambrose Bierce, The devil's dictionary. Neale Publishing, 1909-1912 The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce: Volume VII p. 88. ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection. The most famous English example begins somewhat like this

links: trifle trifle

links: dally dally

en-verb

expansion: fiddle-faddle (third-person singular simple present fiddle-faddles, present participle fiddle-faddling, simple past and past participle fiddle-faddled)

forms:
fiddle-faddles (present singular third-person)
fiddle-faddling (participle present)
fiddle-faddled (participle past)
fiddle-faddled (past)
fiddlefaddle (alternative)


fiddle-faddle

text: I think, quoth Corporal Trim, with humble submission to your Honour’s better judgment,——that these ravelins, bastions, curtins, and hornworks, make but a poor, contemptible, fiddle-faddle piece of work of it here upon paper, compared to what your Honour and I could make of it were we in the country by ourselves, and had but a rood, or a rood and a half of ground to do what we pleased with: As summer is coming on, continued Trim, your Honour might sit out of doors, and give me the nography—(Call it ichnography, quoth my uncle,)——of the town or citadel, your Honour was pleased to sit down before,—and I will be shot by your Honour upon the glacis of it, if I did not fortify it to your Honour’s mind.

ref: 1659, Laurence Sterne, chapter XXX, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman:

text: The witnesses made oath that they had heard some of the liverymen frequently railing at their mistress. They said she was a troublesome fiddle-faddle old woman, and so ceremonious that there was no bearing of her. They were so plagued with bowing and cringing as they went in and out of the room that their backs ached.

ref: 1712 John Arbuthnot. The History of John Bull: Oxford University Press 1976 →ISBN p.68

raw_glosses: (intransitive) Trifling; dallying; inclined to fuss about trifles.

pos: adj

en-adj

expansion: fiddle-faddle (comparative more fiddle-faddle, superlative most fiddle-faddle)

forms:
more fiddle-faddle (comparative)
most fiddle-faddle (superlative)
fiddlefaddle (alternative)


wors

links: boerewors boerewors

en-noun

es

expansion: wors (countable and uncountable, plural worses)

forms: worses (plural)

wors

code: af

sense: wors

купаты

code: ru

roman: kupaty

etymology_text: From Afrikaans wors, from Dutch worst (“sausage”). Doublet of wurst.

bor

af

wors

expansion: Afrikaans wors

der

nl

worst

sausage

expansion: Dutch worst (“sausage”)

doublet

wurst

expansion: Doublet of wurst


wors

links: sausage sausage#English

head

af

noun

plural

worse

f2accel-form: p

diminutive

worsie

f5accel-form: diminutive

expansion: wors (plural worse, diminutive worsie)

af-noun

e

worsie

forms:
worse (plural)
worsie (diminutive)

etymology_text: From Dutch worst.

inh

expansion: Dutch worst

ipa: /vɔrs/

audio: LL-Q14196 (afr)-Oesjaar-wors.wav


Knödel

links: cooking cooking#Noun

links: dumpling dumpling

raw_glosses: (cooking, especially Southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland) dumpling

de-noun

m

expansion: Knödel m (strong, genitive Knödels, plural Knödel)

forms:
Knödels (genitive)
Knödel (plural)
Knödel (nominative singular)
Knödel (definite nominative plural)
Knödels (genitive singular)
Knödel (definite genitive plural)
Knödel (dative singular)
Knödeln (dative definite plural)
Knödel (accusative singular)
Knödel (accusative definite plural)

etymology_text: From Upper German dialects, from Middle High German knödel (“dumpling, noodle”), equivalent to Knoten + -el. Cognate to Yiddish קניידל (kneydl), Bavarian Knedl, Dutch knoedel, Middle Low German knudel, knūdel, German Low German Knudel (“lump, mass”).

de

gmh

knödel

t: dumpling, noodle

suf

Knoten

-el

expansion: Knoten + -el

cog

yi

קניידל

expansion: Yiddish קניידל (kneydl)

bar

Knedl

expansion: Bavarian Knedl

nl

knoedel

expansion: Dutch knoedel

gml

knudel

expansion: Middle Low German knudel

nds-de

Knudel

t: lump, mass

expansion: German Low German Knudel (“lump, mass”)

ipa: /ˈknøːdl̩/

ipa: /ˈɡ̥nøːd̥l̩/

parts: Knö del


Knödel

links: bucks bucks

links: dosh dosh

links: dough dough

links: moola moola

raw_glosses: (Austria, colloquial) bucks, dosh, dough, moola (money)

de-noun

expansion: Knödel n (strong, genitive Knödels, no plural)

forms:
Knödels (genitive)
Knödel (nominative singular)
Knödels (genitive singular)
Knödel (dative singular)
Knödel (accusative singular)

inh

expansion: Middle High German knödel (“dumpling, noodle”)

ipa: /ˈɡ̥nøːd̥l̩/


atropisomer

links:
physical chemistry
physical chemistry

links: conformer conformer

links: chemical chemical

links: compound compound

links: restricted restricted

links: rotation rotation

links:
single bond
single bond

links: biaryl biaryl

links: atropoisomer atropoisomer

raw_glosses: (physical chemistry) Any conformer that can be isolated as a separate chemical compound and that arises from restricted rotation about a single bond, as in biaryl atropisomers. Synonym: atropoisomer.

en-noun

expansion: atropisomer (plural atropisomers)

forms: atropisomers (plural)


Göteborg

links: Gothenburg Gothenburg#English

links: city city

links: Sweden Sweden#English

head

fi

proper noun

expansion: Göteborg

fi-decl-risti

n: sg

Göteborg

a

forms:
Göteborg (nominative singular)
Göteborg (accusative nominative singular)
Göteborgin (accusative genitive singular)
Göteborgin (genitive singular)
Göteborgia (partitive singular)
Göteborgissa (inessive singular)
Göteborgista (elative singular)
Göteborgiin (illative singular)
Göteborgilla (adessive singular)
Göteborgilta (ablative singular)
Göteborgille (allative singular)
Göteborgina (essive singular)
Göteborgiksi (singular translative)
Göteborgitta (abessive singular)
Göteborgini (first-person nominative singular singular-possessive)
Göteborgini (accusative first-person nominative singular singular-possessive)
Göteborgini (accusative first-person genitive singular singular-possessive)
Göteborgini (first-person genitive singular singular-possessive)
Göteborgiani (first-person partitive singular singular-possessive)
Göteborgissani (first-person inessive singular singular-possessive)
Göteborgistani (elative first-person singular singular-possessive)
Göteborgiini (first-person illative singular singular-possessive)
Göteborgillani (adessive first-person singular singular-possessive)
Göteborgiltani (ablative first-person singular singular-possessive)
Göteborgilleni (allative first-person singular singular-possessive)
Göteborginani (essive first-person singular singular-possessive)
Göteborgikseni (first-person singular singular-possessive translative)
Göteborgittani (abessive first-person singular singular-possessive)
Göteborgisi (nominative second-person singular singular-possessive)
Göteborgisi (accusative nominative second-person singular singular-possessive)
Göteborgisi (accusative genitive second-person singular singular-possessive)
Göteborgisi (genitive second-person singular singular-possessive)
Göteborgiasi (partitive second-person singular singular-possessive)
Göteborgissasi (inessive second-person singular singular-possessive)
Göteborgistasi (elative second-person singular singular-possessive)
Göteborgiisi (illative second-person singular singular-possessive)
Göteborgillasi (adessive second-person singular singular-possessive)
Göteborgiltasi (ablative second-person singular singular-possessive)
Göteborgillesi (allative second-person singular singular-possessive)
Göteborginasi (essive second-person singular singular-possessive)
Göteborgiksesi (second-person singular singular-possessive translative)
Göteborgittasi (abessive second-person singular singular-possessive)
Göteborgimme (first-person nominative plural plural-possessive)
Göteborgimme (accusative first-person nominative plural plural-possessive)
Göteborgimme (accusative first-person genitive plural plural-possessive)
Göteborgimme (first-person genitive plural plural-possessive)
Göteborgiamme (first-person partitive plural plural-possessive)
Göteborgissamme (first-person inessive plural plural-possessive)
Göteborgistamme (elative first-person plural plural-possessive)
Göteborgiimme (first-person illative plural plural-possessive)
Göteborgillamme (adessive first-person plural plural-possessive)
Göteborgiltamme (ablative first-person plural plural-possessive)
Göteborgillemme (allative first-person plural plural-possessive)
Göteborginamme (essive first-person plural plural-possessive)
Göteborgiksemme (first-person plural plural-possessive translative)
Göteborgittamme (abessive first-person plural plural-possessive)
Göteborginne (nominative plural plural-possessive second-person)
Göteborginne (accusative nominative plural plural-possessive second-person)
Göteborginne (accusative genitive plural plural-possessive second-person)
Göteborginne (genitive plural plural-possessive second-person)
Göteborgianne (partitive plural plural-possessive second-person)
Göteborgissanne (inessive plural plural-possessive second-person)
Göteborgistanne (elative plural plural-possessive second-person)
Göteborgiinne (illative plural plural-possessive second-person)
Göteborgillanne (adessive plural plural-possessive second-person)
Göteborgiltanne (ablative plural plural-possessive second-person)
Göteborgillenne (allative plural plural-possessive second-person)
Göteborginanne (essive plural plural-possessive second-person)
Göteborgiksenne (plural plural-possessive second-person translative)
Göteborgittanne (abessive plural plural-possessive second-person)
Göteborginsa (nominative possessive singular third-person)
Göteborginsa (accusative nominative possessive singular third-person)
Göteborginsa (accusative genitive possessive singular third-person)
Göteborginsa (genitive possessive singular third-person)
Göteborgiaan (partitive possessive singular third-person)
Göteborgiansa (partitive possessive singular third-person)
Göteborgissaan (inessive possessive singular third-person)
Göteborgissansa (inessive possessive singular third-person)
Göteborgistaan (elative possessive singular third-person)
Göteborgistansa (elative possessive singular third-person)
Göteborgiinsa (illative possessive singular third-person)
Göteborgillaan (adessive possessive singular third-person)
Göteborgillansa (adessive possessive singular third-person)
Göteborgiltaan (ablative possessive singular third-person)
Göteborgiltansa (ablative possessive singular third-person)
Göteborgilleen (allative possessive singular third-person)
Göteborgillensa (allative possessive singular third-person)
Göteborginaan (essive possessive singular third-person)
Göteborginansa (essive possessive singular third-person)
Göteborgikseen (possessive singular third-person translative)
Göteborgiksensa (possessive singular third-person translative)
Göteborgittaan (abessive possessive singular third-person)
Göteborgittansa (abessive possessive singular third-person)

etymology_text: Borrowed from Swedish Göteborg.

bor

sv

Göteborg

expansion: Swedish Göteborg

ipa: /ˈjøːtːebori/

ipa: [ˈjø̞ːt̪ːe̞ˌbo̞ri]

ipa: /ˈɡøːtːebori/

ipa: [ˈɡø̞ːt̪ːe̞ˌbo̞ri]

rhymes: -ori


Göteborg

de-proper noun

toponym

expansion: Göteborg n (proper noun, genitive Göteborgs or (optionally with an article) Göteborg)

forms:
Göteborgs (genitive)
Göteborg (genitive with-article)
Göteborg (definite nominative singular)
Göteborgs (definite genitive singular)
Göteborg (definite genitive singular with-article)
Göteborg (dative definite singular)
Göteborg (accusative definite singular)
Gotenburg (alternative archaic)
Gothenburg (alternative archaic)

ipa: /ˈɡøːtəˌbɔrk/


Göteborg

it-proper noun

expansion: Göteborg f

ety

it

:bor

expansion: [Appendix:Glossary#loanword|Borrowed]] from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Swedish", "term" : "Göteborg", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "sv" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "lang_name" : "Italian", "term" : "Göteborg", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "it" }" data-lang="it" data-title="Göteborg">

bor+

expansion: Borrowed from Swedish Göteborg

rhymes: -ebɔrɡ

rhymes: (high-style, less-preferred) -ebɔrj

rhymes: (low-register) -ɔteborɡ


Göteborg

pl-proper noun

m-in

expansion: Göteborg m inan

pl-decl-noun-m-in

tantum: s

forms:
Göteborg (nominative singular)
Göteborgu (genitive singular)
Göteborgowi (dative singular)
Göteborg (accusative singular)
Göteborgiem (instrumental singular)
Göteborgu (locative singular)
Göteborgu (singular vocative)

ety

pl

:ubor

expansion:
[Appendix:Glossary#unadapted_borrowing|Unadapted borrowing]] from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Swedish", "term" : "Göteborg", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "sv" } ], "keyword" : "ubor" } ], "lang_name" : "Polish", "term" : "Göteborg", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "pl" }" data-lang="pl" data-title="Göteborg">
Unadapted borrowing from Swedish Göteborg.

rhymes: -ɛbɔrk


Göteborg

links: Gotemburgo Gotemburgo#Portuguese

pt-proper noun

f


Göteborg

head

sv

g: n

genitive

Göteborgs

expansion: Göteborg n (genitive Göteborgs)

sv-proper noun

n

forms:
Göteborgs (genitive)
Giötheborgh (alternative obsolete)
Götheborg (alternative obsolete)

Lilla London

english: Little London

translation: Little London

Sveriges framsida

english: Sweden's front side

translation: Sweden's front side

etymology_text:
From göt (“Geat”) + borg (“fortified castle or city”).
Possibly influenced by an earlier nearby settlement, Nya Lödöse (1473–1624), which was referred to as Gøthæholm in its charter. Earlier thought to be named after the local river Göta älv. However, since both cities were founded as a government initiative, Göteborg may instead be named after the historical regional tribe the Götar (Geats), from which the names Göta älv and Götaland are also derived. First attested in 1605 as Giötheborgh.

compound

göt

t1: Geat

borg

t2: fortified castle or city

gloss

Geats

expansion: (Geats)

etydate

expansion: First attested in 1605

ref

SvOrtLex

– G, Gadden–Götlunda (2016), by Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore and Uppsala University Department of Scandinavian Languages

ipa: /jœtɛˈbɔrj/


auxochrome

links: chemistry chemistry

links: atom atom

links: group group

links: chromophore chromophore

links: bathochromic bathochromic

links: spectrum spectrum

raw_glosses: (chemistry) any atom or group which, when added to a chromophore, causes a bathochromic shift in its spectrum

en-noun

expansion: auxochrome (plural auxochromes)

forms: auxochromes (plural)

etymology_text: From auxo- + -chrome.

ety

en

:af

auxo-

-chrome

expansion: From auxo- + -chrome.

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-auxochrome.wav


auxochrome

links: auxochrom auxochrom#German

glosses: strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular

glosses:
inflection of auxochrom:
strong nominative/accusative plural

glosses:
inflection of auxochrom:
weak nominative all-gender singular

glosses: weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

head

de

adjective form

expansion: auxochrome


front runner

text: [T]he American League pennant did not shape up as much of a race. There were the Indians and the Yankees, front runners as usual.

ref: 1955 May 9, “Sport: First-Division Tigers”, in Time:

text: Dubai, which would be the first host of a world’s fair in the Middle East, has emerged as the front-runner, offering the most financial and governmental support.

ref: 2013 August 25, Georgi Kantchev, “World Expositions Can Benefit or Haunt Host Cities”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

text: The Conservative leadership frontrunner, Liz Truss, has rejected “handouts” as a way of helping people affected by the cost of living crisis.

ref: 2022 August 6, Geneva Abdul, “Liz Truss rejects ‘handouts’ as way to tackle cost of living crisis”, in The Guardian:

links: likely likely

links: winner winner

links: contest contest

links: election election

raw_glosses: (idiomatic) Any of the most likely winners in a contest, election, etc.

links: finance finance#Noun

links: business business

links:
front running
front running

raw_glosses: (finance, business) One who engages in front running.

en-noun

expansion: front runner (plural front runners)

forms:
front runners (plural)
frontrunner (alternative)
front-runner (alternative)

front run

english: verbal form

translation: verbal form

առաջատար

code: hy

sense: most likely winner in a contest, election, etc.

roman: aṙaǰatar

favorit

code: da

ennakkosuosikki

code: fi

Spitzenreiter

code: de

ли́дер

roman: líder

favorecido

code: es

favorit

code: sv

audio: en-au-front runner.ogg


funny money

links: Counterfeit counterfeit

links: money money

links: devious devious

links: sneaky sneaky

glosses: Money obtained in a devious or sneaky manner.

text: They wanted funny money for it, so I refused.

links: outrageous outrageous

links: price price

links: derogatory derogatory

links: Banknote banknote

links:
foreign currency
foreign currency

raw_glosses: (often derogatory) Banknotes of any foreign currency.

links: highly highly

links: inflated inflated

links: currency currency

raw_glosses: (informal, US) A highly inflated currency.

links:
Play money
play money

expansion: funny money (uncountable)

tlb

slang

expansion: (slang)

audio: en-au-funny money.ogg


chromophore

links: chemistry chemistry

links: molecule molecule

links: dye dye

links: colour colour

raw_glosses: (chemistry) that part of the molecule of a dye responsible for its colour

links: electronic electronic

links: transition transition

links: spectral spectral

links: band band

raw_glosses: (chemistry) (more generally) the group of atoms in a molecule in which the electronic transition responsible for a given spectral band is located

en-noun

expansion: chromophore (plural chromophores)

forms: chromophores (plural)

cromòfor

code: ca

kromofor

code: id

cromoforo

code: it

etymology_text: From chromo- + -phore.

confix

chromo

phore

expansion: chromo- + -phore

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-chromophore.wav


chromophore

links: chromophor chromophor#German

glosses:
inflection of chromophor:
strong nominative/accusative plural

glosses:
inflection of chromophor:
weak nominative all-gender singular

head

expansion: chromophore


brand-new

links:
brand new
brand new#English

en-adj

expansion: brand-new (comparative more brand-new, superlative most brand-new)

forms:
more brand-new (comparative)
most brand-new (superlative)


gee whiz

text: You only got 10% in the test. Gee whiz – you'll get over it.

text: When people would get off they always gasped out: 'Gee whiz, what a horse! Gee whiz, did you ever see anything like that! '

ref: 1905, Lloyd Osbourne, Baby Bullet: The Bubble of Destiny, page 116:

text: Gee whiz, how do people have fun when they're married and have a family?

ref: 1959 April 23, “Beaver's Newspaper”, in Leave It to Beaver, season 2, episode 30 (television production), spoken by Theodore Cleaver (Jerry Mathers):

text: That's the way I feel now; I just wrote the novels and made up the languages, and gee whiz, they make sense!

ref: 1979, Walter Breen, The Darkover Concordance:

links: surprise surprise#English

links: enthusiasm enthusiasm#English

links: annoyance annoyance#English

links: wow wow

links:
so what
so what

raw_glosses: (US, dated) An expression of surprise, enthusiasm, or annoyance: wow or so what?

etymology_text: Alteration of Jesus.

audio: en-uk-gee whiz.ogg

ipa: /dʒiː wɪz/

ipa: /dʒiː ʍɪz/


gee whiz

text: These are some gee-whiz photographs.

links: impressive impressive

expansion: gee whiz


azacarbene

links:
organic chemistry
organic chemistry

links: nitrene nitrene

en-noun

expansion: azacarbene (plural azacarbenes)

forms: azacarbenes (plural)


ur-

text: Some stories reach deeper, into the most primal and profound truths. They mirror, in new and original ways, the Ur-myth, the act of creation itself.

ref: 2003, John Adcox, 'Can Fantasy be Myth? Mythopoeia and The Lord of the Rings', The Newsletter of the Mythic Imagination Institutehttp://www.mythicjourneys.org/passages/septoct2003/newsletterp8.html

text: Lebanon ultimately remains hostage to the regional ur-conflict over Palestine.

ref: 2007, Max Rodenbeck, ‘Lebanon's Agony’, New York Review of Books, volume 54, number 11:

links: proto- proto-

links: primitive primitive

links: original original

glosses: Forming words with the sense of “proto-, primitive, original”.

pos: prefix

en-prefix

expansion: ur-

ur-

sense: forming words with the sense of 'primitive'

oer-

code: nl

pra-

code: eo

frum-

code: fo

ős-

code: hu

pre-

code: io

bu-

code: mt

pra-

code: pl

пра-

roman: pra-

pra-

code: sl

etymology_text: From German ur-, from Middle High German ur-, from Old High German ur- (“out; without”), from Proto-West Germanic *uʀ-, from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”), from Proto-Indo-European *uds- (“up, out”), from Proto-Indo-European *úd (“upwards, away, out, outwards”). Doublet of a- and or-. Cognate also with Dutch oer- and Dutch oor-.

bor

de

ur-

expansion: German ur-

der

expansion: Middle High German ur-

goh

t: out; without

expansion: Old High German ur- (“out; without”)

gmw-pro

*uʀ-

expansion: Proto-West Germanic *uʀ-

gem-pro

*uz-

t: out

expansion: Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”)

ine-pro

*uds-

t: up, out

expansion: Proto-Indo-European *uds- (“up, out”)

*úd

t: upwards, away, out, outwards

doublet

a-

or-

expansion: Doublet of a- and or-

cog

oer-

expansion: Dutch oer-

oor-

expansion: Dutch oor-

ipa: /ʊə/

ipa: /ɜː/

ipa: /ʊɹ/


ur-

text: ur- + Woid (“forest”) → Urwoid (“primeval forest”)

text: ur- + Knoi (“bang”) → Urknoi (“Big Bang”)

links: ur- #English

text: ur- + Opa (“grandfather”) → Uropa (“great-grandfather”)

text: ur- + Großtant (“great-aunt”) → Urgroßtant (“great-great-aunt”)

links: great- great-

links: generation generation#English

glosses: great-; indicates an additional generation of separation between relatives

text: ur- + oid (“old”) → uroid (“ancient”)

text: ur- + teier (“expensive”) → urteier (“very expensive”)

text: ur- + klaa (“small”) → urklaa (“very small, tiny”)

links: very very

raw_glosses: (chiefly East Central Bavarian, Vienna) very; used to intensify adjectives

qualifier: Vienna

head

bar

prefix

etymology_text: From Middle High German ur-, from Old High German ur-, ir- (“thoroughly”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”).

inh

gmh

expansion: Old High German ur-

der

out

ipa: /uɐ̯/

ipa: /uːɐ̯/

homophone: Uhr


ur-

links: ur- ur-#English

head

da

etymology_text: From German ur-.


ur-

text: ur- + Schrei (“scream”) → Urschrei (“primal scream”)

text: ur- + Wald (“forest”) → Urwald (“primeval forest”)

text: ur- + indogermanisch (“Indo-European”) → urindogermanisch (“Proto-Indo-European”, relational)

text: ur- + alt (“old”) → uralt (“ancient”)

text: ur- + gemütlich (“cosy”) → urgemütlich (“very cosy”)

raw_glosses: (especially Austria) very; used to intensify adjectives

etymology_text: From Middle High German ur-, from Old High German ur-, ir- (“thoroughly”), from Proto-West Germanic *uʀ-, from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”). Doublet of er-.

dbt

er-

expansion: Doublet of er-

ipa: [ʔuːɐ̯]

ipa: /ʊʁ/

ipa: [ʔʊɐ̯]

homophone: Uhr (when standard and stressed)


ur-

links: 𐌿𐍂- 𐌿𐍂-#Gothic

pos: romanization

head

got

romanization


ur-

links: before before

links: ante- ante-

links: pro- pro-

qualifier: intensifying

links: for- for-#Irish

glosses: alternative form of for- (“over, superior, super-; outer, external; great, extreme”)

for-

ga

ga-mut

msn

forms:
ur-
n-ur- (eclipsis)
hur-
t-ur-

etymology_text: From Old Irish air-, ur-. Akin to ar.

inh

sga

air-

expansion: Old Irish air-

ipa: /ʊɾˠ/

ipa: /ɞɾˠ/


ur-

links: primeval primeval

links: primordial primordial

links: first first

links: exceedingly exceedingly

links: extremely extremely

glosses: exceedingly, extremely, very (in adjectives)

head

nb


ur-

links: primitive primitive

links: proto- proto-

nn


ur-

links: thoroughly thoroughly

goh

ur-

אור־

roman: ur-

etymology_text: From Proto-West Germanic *uʀ-.


ur-

links: aboriginal aboriginal

links: original original

glosses: aboriginal, primeval, proto-, original (with general connotations of old)

text: Han är urgammal

translation: He's super old

english: He's super old

text: Hon är urfånig

translation: She's super silly

english: She's super silly

links: super- super-

urdjur

english: Protozoa

translation: Protozoa

urinvånare

english: indigenous people

translation: indigenous people

uroxe

english: aurochs

translation: aurochs

urskog

english: primeval forest

translation: primeval forest

urusel

english: godawful

translation: godawful


get down to brass tacks

text: He did not wish to delay action, but was ready to vote instanter.—A reference now would amount to a defeat of the memorial. It was better to come right down to the brass and vote.

ref: [1854 April 1, “Legislative matters. […] Log-rolling of a land grant memorial through the Assembly”, in Milwaukee Daily Sentinel, volume X (New Series), number 2939, Milwaukee, Wis.: Rufus King & Co., →OCLC, page 2, column 2:

text: When you come down to brass tacks—if we may be allowed the expression—everybody is governed by selfishness.

ref: [1863 January 21, Edward Hopkins Cushing, editor, The Tri-weekly Telegraph, Houston, Tex.: Allen & Brockett, →OCLC:

text: It would have been just as well for you to have gotten down to "brass tacks," in some of the statements you have been making about the bill instead of getting "down to brass tacks" now, if you leave it to me.

ref: 1920 February 24, Sydney Anderson, “Statement of Mr. C. W. Swayze, Denver, Colo.”, in Meat-packer Legislation: Hearings before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Sixty-sixth Congress, Second Session on Meat-packer Legislation […] Part 1, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 1366:

text: But I called here with a purpose. I expect you are a busy man and I know that I am, so I'll get down to the brass tacks.

ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Which Describes Some Strange Doings in Hammersmith”, in The Land of Mist, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, published 1926, →OCLC, page 48:

text: [W]hen the conversation gets down to brass tacks it generally stays there, for there is no more to be said. In the region of brass tacks there are no irrelevancies or charming side-issues, and without these, of course, there is no conversation, everyone feels uncomfortable, and the guests who have come from Hampstead begin to murmur that it is time they were going home.

ref: 1927 March 2, “Brass Tacks”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume CLXXII, London: […] [Punch] office, […], →OCLC, page 228, column 2:

text: That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks: Birth, and copulation, and death.

ref: [1932, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “[Unfinished Poems.] Sweeney Agonistes: Fragment of an Agon.”, in Collected Poems 1909–1935, London: Faber & Faber […], published September 1954, →OCLC, page 127:

text: In every phase of life we have been getting down to brass tacks these days; even Christmas is at last reduced to statistics. The cry for facts and realism has brought the electricity-minded to the point of computing Christmas in terms of lamps as used for indoor and outdoor trees, wreaths, candles and other Yuletide decorations over the entire United States.

ref: 1933 December 23, Sarah Comstock, “Ninety Million Lamps for Christmas Trees: Holiday Lighting Grows Apace, with the Tremendous Increase in the Use of Outdoor Trees Adding a New Factor”, in The Literary Digest, volume 116, number 26 (number 2279 overall), New York, N.Y.: Funk & Wagnalls Company, […], →OCLC, page 28, column 1:

text: joe: I'd get another job if I could. There's no work—you know it. / […] / edna: Who's the man in the family, you or me? / joe: That's no answer. Get down to brass tacks. Christ, gimme a break, too! A coffee cake and java all day. I'm hungry, too, Babe. I'd work my fingers to the bone if— […]

ref: 1935, Clifford Odets, “Waiting for Lefty”, in Waiting for Lefty and Till the Day I Die: Two Plays, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →OCLC, episode 1 (Joe and Edna), page 10:

text: We're gonna have all the gas and oil we need! We're gonna stop playing games with these Arabs and get down to brass tacks! Ain't gonna be no old people in New Hampsire turned into Popsicles this coming winter like there was last winter!

ref: 1979, Stephen King, The Dead Zone, London: Futura Publications, published 1987, →ISBN, page 337:

text: You must be Jules, which would make you Vincent. Let's get down to brass tacks, gentlemen. If I was informed correctly, the clock is ticking. Is that right, Jimmie?

ref: 1994 May 21, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary, Pulp Fiction, spoken by Winston Wolfe (Harvey Keitel), Los Angeles, Calif.: Miramax Films, →OCLC:

text: And if the government got a grip, got down to brass tacks and started doing their actual job, all these things could be avoided.

ref: 2023 April 2, Pippa Crerar, Robyn Vinter, quoting Lisa Nandy, “Suella Braverman denies Brexit to blame for Dover queues of 14 hours”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2024:

links: start start#Verb

links: consider consider

links:
deal with
deal with

links: important important

links: details detail#Noun

links: fact fact

raw_glosses: (originally and chiefly US, idiomatic) To (start to) consider or deal with the most important details or facts about something.

en-verb

head: ~get down:~;tack􂀿s:􂁀

expansion: get down to brass tacks (third-person singular simple present gets down to brass tacks, present participle getting down to brass tacks, simple past got down to brass tacks, past participle gotten down to brass tacks or got down to brass tacks)

forms:
gets down to brass tacks (present singular third-person)
getting down to brass tacks (participle present)
got down to brass tacks (past)
gotten down to brass tacks (participle past)
got down to brass tacks (participle past)

ter zake komen

sense: to (start to) consider or deal with the most important details or facts about something

passer aux choses sérieuses

code: fr

kjarni málsins

code: is

english: heart of the matter

translation: heart of the matter

staðreyndirnar

english: facts

translation: facts

þau atriði sem máli skipta

english: relevant issues

translation: relevant issues

ta tyren ved hornene

code: no

переходить к сути дела

code: ru

roman: perexoditʹ k suti dela

перейти до справи

code: uk

roman: perejty do spravy

перейти до суті

roman: perejty do suti

etymology_text:
The origin is uncertain. It is probably a variant of the earlier term down to the brass (see, for example, the 1854 quotation), and the following etymologies have been suggested:
* The term refers to the brass tacks used in upholstery which have to be removed when a piece of furniture is reupholstered, or brass tacks stuck into the counter of a draper’s shop or hardware store to measure items precisely in yards.
* Another possibility is that the brass tacks are nails used to seal coffin lids, or tacks used to decorate or indicate a deceased person’s initials on such lids, and thus the term refers to dealing with matters as serious as death.

uncertain

expansion: uncertain

ipa: /ɡɛt ˈdaʊn tə bɹɑːs ˈtæks/

ipa: /ɡɛt ˈdaʊn tə bɹæs ˈtæks/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-get down to brass tacks.wav

audio: En-au-get down to brass tacks.ogg

rhymes: -æks


get going

text: It is quite late, I'd best get going before sunset.

text:
Then he straightened up and waved a big paw. “Let’s clear out,” he called. “Let’s get going, boys.”
As they had come, in ones and twos the men shuffled back to their ramshackle cars. Doors slammed, engines coughed, and they were gone.

ref: 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:

links: leave leave

links: depart depart

links:
get moving
get moving

raw_glosses: (intransitive) To leave, to depart, to get moving.

text: We'd better get this project going. If we don't get going on it soon, we won't finish in time.

text: We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.

ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

links: begin begin

links: commence commence

raw_glosses: (intransitive or transitive) To begin or commence.

text: She got him going with all these stories, and then she'd leave him, and he'd be up all night trying to figure out the end.

text: He [Johnson] and my father could talk shop for hours and hours, and my father got a lot of stimulation – my father was also tense and bright but more quiet, less adventurous – he needed Edgar and Edgar's strong opinions and mercilessly sharp mind to get him going.

ref: 2014, Werner Breunig, Jürgen Wetzel, Fünf Monate in Berlin: Briefe von Edgar N. Johnson aus dem Jahre 1946, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN, page 63:

links: excite excite

text: During the preliminaries I, as usual, "got her going" by irritation of the clitoris, among other things.

ref: 1948, Journal of Clinical Psychology: Monograph Supplement:

text: "You fascinate me, Rita. In vulgar terms, you've got me going. I would love to make a doting fool of myself over you. Rhapsodize over you in a highfalutin' key of lyrical ardour."

ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 175:

text: Besides, it's always seemed necessary to get him going. Now, tonight, it's more out of habit, because when I get a paw past his pants, he's already rock hard and it's clear that he got himself going without my help.

ref: 2010, Kyell Gold, Out of Position, Kyell Gold, →ISBN, page 46:

text: Later Irv would claim her skin trembled—really fucking vibrated—under his hands as though she were an overcharged electric blanket, as though she could send off sparks and shock him, and how that really got him going.

ref: 2014, Gina Frangello, A Life in Men: A Novel, Algonquin Books, →ISBN, page 278:

links: arouse arouse

text: Once she got going about my wages and everything else she had to pay out. She couldn't keep the wolf from the door, she said.

ref: 1987, Klaus Burghardt, Great Commonwealth Stories, Ernst Klett Sprachen, →ISBN, page 29:

text: Mo was doing most of the talking and even though he's a good guy, once he gets going about Betty you can forget it for the rest of the night.

ref: 2013, Joe Colicchio, As Told By Monk, First Edition Design Pub., →ISBN:

text: “He's always got a story and when he gets going, you aren't going to bring him back for a while.”

ref: 2013, Kempton Mooney, The Committee, FKM Books, page 222:

links: passionately passionately

links: interruption interruption

raw_glosses: (intransitive) To talk passionately without interruption.

text: I got him going about the moon or stars, he would fall into that trap, he forgot about his questions and for hours talked to me about the universe.

ref: 1999, Irena Vrkljan, Sibelan Elizabeth S. Forrester, Celia Hawkesworth, The Silk, the Shears and Marina; Or, About Biography, Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, page 47:

text: Then she'll start in about seeing all these robins we've been having lately, and next thing vou know she's quoting 'ere a sparrow that tails and that gets her going about that king turning into a bird in Daniel.

ref: 2009, Wayne Caldwell, Cataloochee: A Novel, Random House, →ISBN:

text: The visit to La Devinière got her going about her great childhood deprivation

ref: 2014, R J ODonnell, France, the Soul of a Journey, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 110:

raw_glosses: (transitive) To cause someone to talk passionately without interruption.

raw_glosses: (intransitive, of a baby) To cry or bawl loudly.

en-verb

expansion: get going (third-person singular simple present gets going, present participle getting going, simple past got going, past participle (UK) got going or (US) gotten going)

forms:
gets going (present singular third-person)
getting going (participle present)
got going (past)
got going (UK participle past)
gotten going (US participle past)


eleventy

text: Compounds with other numerals: eleventy-one (111), eleventy-six (116), eleventy first (one-hundred and eleventh), etc.

text:
[Bilbo] announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday
[…]
“Today is my one hundred and eleventh birthday: I am eleventy-one today!”

ref: 1955 (1974), JRR Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, pages 43, 54:

text: without having to go back through the thousand and eleventy-three days to alter the plan

ref: 1980, Janet Caudle, State and Interstate Fishery Jurisdiction: Problems and Progress : Proceedings of a Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina, 1979 : October 29-31, 1979, page 149:

text: Eight-Oh-Two-Dot-Eleventy Something [= 802.11a, 802.11b, etc.]

ref: 2007, Doug Lowe, Networking for Dummies, page 174:

text: No grown-up people, no babies, no girls. It was a world of boys, eleventy and a hundred strong.

ref: May 1921, Margaret Wilson, “A Little Boy's Utopia”, in The Atlantic Monthly, page 670:

text: People used to think that the first eleventy letters of the DNA message would comprise Gene 1.

ref: 2005, Robert M Sapolsky, Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals, page 19:

text: According to a study by me, this generates a multibillion facepalm for the UK economy, making everyone who considers it at least eleventy hundred pounds unhappier.

ref: 2012 July 3, Marina Hyde, “A lesson in Olymp-o-nomics”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 19 May 2025:

raw_glosses: (colloquial) An indefinite large number.

pos: num

head

numeral

expansion: eleventy

сто и десет

code: bg

sense: one hundred and ten

roman: sto i deset

一百一十

code: cmn

satakymmenen

code: fi

ᡝᠮᡠ ᡨᠠᠩᡤᡡ ᠵᡠᠸᠠᠨ

code: mnc

roman: emu tanggū juwan

сто де́сять

roman: sto désjatʹ

milanta

sense: indefinite large number

femtioelva

code: sv

wikipedia:
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings

etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ís?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos
Proto-Germanic *ainaz
Proto-Indo-European *leyp-
Proto-Germanic *lībaną
Proto-Germanic *-lif
Proto-Germanic *ainalif
Proto-West Germanic *ainalif
Proto-West Germanic *ainalifun
Old English endleofan
Middle English elleven
English eleven
English -ty
Old English hundendleftiġ
English eleventy
From eleven + -ty, from Old English hundendleftiġ (also spelled hundendleofantiġ, hundendlyftiġ, and hundælleftiġ). See twelfty for more. Popularized in the 20th century by J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

etymon

:af

eleven

:inh

expansion:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ís?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos
Proto-Germanic *ainaz
Proto-Indo-European *leyp-
Proto-Germanic *lībaną
Proto-Germanic *-lif
Proto-Germanic *ainalif
Proto-West Germanic *ainalif
Proto-West Germanic *ainalifun
Old English endleofan
Middle English elleven
English eleven
English -ty
Old English hundendleftiġ
English eleventy
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suffix

eleven

expansion: eleven + -ty

inh

ang

hundendleftiġ

expansion: Old English hundendleftiġ

ipa: /ɪˈlɛvənti/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-eleventy.wav


get it on

text: Where's your coat? Get it on and let's get out of here.

links: get get#English

links: it it#English

links: on on#English

glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, it, on.

text: I can see the sparks between us. Let's get it on, baby!

text: The unfortunate thing about calling the season seven finale “The Dragon And The Wolf” is you can’t even reference it by name without picturing Daenerys Targaryen’s long-awaited hook-up with Jon Snow, her strapping hunk of an ally and also her nephew. It’s a hell of an episode, the dining car on this bullet train, not least because the dragon and the wolf got it on.

ref: 2017 August 27, Brandon Nowalk, “Game Of Thrones slows down for the longest, and best, episode of the season (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:

links:
have sex
have sex

text: You want a piece of me? OK, let's get it on!.

links: fight fight

text: I need to get it on: there's not much time left.

links:
hurry up
hurry up

links:
get a move on
get a move on

raw_glosses: (idiomatic) To hurry up; to get a move on; to start.

en-verb

expansion: get it on (third-person singular simple present gets it on, present participle getting it on, simple past got it on, past participle (UK) got it on or (US) gotten it on)

forms:
gets it on (present singular third-person)
getting it on (participle present)
got it on (past)
got it on (UK participle past)
gotten it on (US participle past)

do it

sense: to have sex

do battle

sense: to engage in a fight

get a wiggle on

sense: to hurry up

audio: en-au-get it on.ogg


þreat

text:
late 9th century, Old English Martyrology
Sē Antonius ġesēah þǣs Paules sāwle swā hwīte swā snāw stīgan tō heofonum betweoh engla þrēatas; ond tweġen lēon ādulfan his byrġenne on þǣs wēstenes sande; þǣr resteð Paules līchoma mid yfellīċe dūste bewrigen, ac on dōmes dæġe hē āriseð on wuldor.

english: Antonius saw Paul's soul, as white as snow, ascend to heaven among throngs of angels; and two lions dug his tomb in the sand of the desert. There lies Paul's body, covered by filthy dust, but on Judgement Day he will arise in glory.

links: crowd crowd

links: swarm swarm

links: throng throng

links: troop troop

links: army army

links: violence violence

links: force force

links: compulsion compulsion

links: oppression oppression

links: punishment punishment

links: retaliation retaliation

links: mistreatment mistreatment

glosses: violence, force, compulsion, oppression, punishment, retaliation, mistreatment

ang-noun

m

head: þrēat

expansion: þrēat m

forms:
þrēat (canonical masculine)
þrēat (nominative singular)
þrēatas (nominative plural)
þrēat (accusative singular)
þrēatas (accusative plural)
þrēates (genitive singular)
þrēata (genitive plural)
þrēate (dative singular)
þrēatum (dative plural)

ang-decl-noun-a-m

þrēat

ang-decl-noun

type: strong a-stem

þrēat

þrēates

þrēate

þrēatas

þrēatas

þrēata

þrēatum

etymology_text: From Proto-Germanic *þrautaz, *þrautą.

inh

ang

*þrautaz

expansion: Proto-Germanic *þrautaz

ipa: /θræ͜ɑːt/

rhymes: -æ͜ɑːt


azimine

links:
organic chemistry
organic chemistry

links: azo azo

links: imide imide

en-noun

expansion: azimine (plural azimines)

forms: azimines (plural)

etymology_text: From azo + imine.

compound

azo

imine

expansion: azo + imine


get over

text: I'm trying to get over my fear of flying.

links: overcome overcome

text: I'm having problems getting over a bad cold.

links: recover recover

raw_glosses: (idiomatic, transitive) To recover (from).

text: She was in love with me for 10 years, and still hasn't got over the fact that the feeling wasn't mutual.

text:
Oh yeah
Can I start over?
Oh yeah
Can I start over?
and get over it

ref: 1996, Jerry Cantrell, “Killer Is Me”, in Unplugged, performed by Alice in Chains:

links: forget forget

links:
move on
move on

links:
calm down
calm down

raw_glosses: (idiomatic, transitive) To forget and move on; to calm down regarding something.

text: We need a plan to get over Mr. Smith.

links:
get around
get around

links: improve improve

raw_glosses: (slang, transitive) To manipulate (someone); to get around (someone); to improve one's own standing at another's expense.

text: In our lectures we need to get over the importance of online safety.

links:
get across
get across

raw_glosses: (idiomatic, transitive) To successfully communicate; to get across.

text: Ireland got their second try not long before half-time with O'Leary, an injury doubt all week with a stiff back, just about getting over for a try which was confirmed by the video referee.

ref: 2011 February 13, Lyle Jackson, “Ireland 22-25 France”, in BBC:

text: But when a side plays for almost 20 of the first 40 minutes with only 14 men, you have to make that advantage count in your favour. Credit must go to the three-time champions for keeping the world champions from getting over for five points.

ref: 2023 October 28, Leighton Koopman, “YES!!! The Springboks beat the All Blacks to win another Rugby World Cup title”, in Independent Online:

links: rugby rugby

links: try try

text: The concert went well, and we really got over with the talent scout.

links: impress impress

raw_glosses: (slang, intransitive) To impress someone; to achieve a goal; to be successful.

links:
professional wrestling
professional wrestling

links: connection connection

links: audience audience

raw_glosses: (professional wrestling slang) To establish a connection with the audience as a character or faction.

text: She needs to get over every day.

text: He can get me over.

raw_glosses: (slang, intransitive, transitive) To use a drug one is addicted to; to provide an addict with a dose.

raw_glosses: (slang, intransitive, African-American Vernacular) To have sex.

qualifier: African-American Vernacular

en-verb

expansion: get over (third-person singular simple present gets over, present participle getting over, simple past got over, past participle (UK) got over or (US) gotten over)

forms:
gets over (present singular third-person)
getting over (participle present)
got over (past)
got over (UK participle past)
gotten over (US participle past)

voittaa

sense: to overcome

დაძლევა

code: ka

roman: daʒleva

გადალახვა

roman: gadalaxva

überwinden

code: de

superare

code: it

극복하다

code: ko

roman: geukbokhada

trece peste

code: ro

преодолева́ть

roman: preodolevátʹ

преодоле́ть

roman: preodolétʹ

superar

code: es

üstesinden gelmek

code: tr

päästä yli

sense: to forget, and move on

შეგუება

roman: šegueba

superar

code: pt

смиря́ться

roman: smirjátʹsja

смири́ться

roman: smirítʹsja


medusetl

ref: c. 1000, Beowulf (Cotton MS Vitellius A XV), page 132r, lines 4–6:

english: Shield Sheafson often deprived the warriors of many armies of their mead-benches.

roman: Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum monegum mægþum meodosetla ofteah.

links: mead-bench mead-bench

raw_glosses: (poetic, hapax legomenon) mead-seat, mead-bench

ang-noun

medusetlu

expansion: medusetl n (nominative plural medusetlu)

forms:
medusetlu (nominative plural)
medusetl (nominative singular)
medusetlu (nominative plural)
medusetl (accusative singular)
medusetlu (accusative plural)
medusetles (genitive singular)
medusetla (genitive plural)
medusetle (dative singular)
medusetlum (dative plural)

ang-decl-noun-a-n

medusetl

ang-decl-noun

medusetl

medusetles

medusetle

medusetlu

medusetla

medusetlum

etymology_text: From medu + setl.

compound

medu

setl

expansion: medu + setl


azine

links:
organic chemistry
organic chemistry

links: organic organic

links: compound compound

links:
general formula
general formula

links: carbonyl carbonyl

links: hydrazine hydrazine

raw_glosses: (organic chemistry) Any of a class of organic compounds, having the general formula R₂C=NN=CR₂, produced by the action of a carbonyl compound with hydrazine.

links: heterocyclic heterocyclic

links: nitrogen nitrogen

links: ring ring

links: aromatic aromatic

links: pyridine pyridine

raw_glosses: (organic chemistry) Any of a class of heterocyclic compounds containing a nitrogen atom as part of the ring structure, particularly those with six-membered aromatic rings (e.g., pyridine) or fused-ring systems.

en-noun

expansion: azine (plural azines)

forms: azines (plural)

吖嗪

sense: Translations

roman: āqín

azine

code: fr

អាស៊ីន

code: km

roman: ʼaasiin

etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Hellenic *ə-
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓- (ă-)
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós
Proto-Indo-European *gʷíh₃weti
Proto-Hellenic *gʷyṓw-ō
Proto-Hellenic *ďṓwō
Ancient Greek ζώω (zṓō)
Ancient Greek ζῶ (zô)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek ζωή (zōḗ)
French azotebor.
English az(ote)
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ine
English azine
From az(ote) + -ine.

etymon

-ine

expansion:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Hellenic *ə-
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓- (ă-)
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós
Proto-Indo-European *gʷíh₃weti
Proto-Hellenic *gʷyṓw-ō
Proto-Hellenic *ďṓwō
Ancient Greek ζώω (zṓō)
Ancient Greek ζῶ (zô)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek ζωή (zōḗ)
French azotebor.
English az(ote)
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ine
English azine
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From az(ote) + -ine.


mead-bench

text: Gold is a constant element, gleaming solidly in underground vaults, on the breasts of queens or the arms and regalia of warriors on the mead-benches.

ref: 1999, Seamus Heaney, “Introduction”, in Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page xvi:

links: bench bench

links:
mead hall
mead hall

en-noun

expansion: mead-bench (plural mead-benches)

forms: mead-benches (plural)

etymology_text: Revived from Old English medusetl or medubenċ.

der

expansion: Old English medusetl

ipa: /ˈmiːd bɛnt͡ʃ/


melodramatics

links: exaggerated exaggerated

links: behavior behavior

glosses: Overemotional, exaggerated behavior calculated for effect.

en-noun

p

expansion: melodramatics pl (plural only)


neon tetra

text: A swarm of thin neon tetra with red bellies and bright blue backs flash by.

ref: 2021, Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth, William Heinemann, page 270:

links: tropical tropical

links: American American

links: fish fish

links: aquarium aquarium

glosses: Paracheirodon innesi (syn. Hyphessobrycon innesi), a small, tropical American fish, popular as an aquarium fish.

expansion: neon tetra (plural neon tetras)

forms: neon tetras (plural)

обикновен неон

sense: Hyphessobrycon innesi

english: obiknoven neon

translation: obiknoven neon

неонова тетра

roman: neonova tetra

neontetra

code: nl

تترای نئون

code: fa

голубо́й нео́н

code: ru

roman: golubój neón

обыкнове́нный нео́н

roman: obyknovénnyj neón

нео́н-те́тра

roman: neón-tɛ́tra


ofteon

links:
take away
take away

links: withdraw withdraw

text: Oft Scyld Scēfing sceaþena þrēatum, monegum mǣġþum meodosetla oftēah,

ref: early 8th century, Beowulf, trans Shippey 2024:

english: Shield-with-the-Sheaf, he often stripped away the mead-benches from many tribes,

links: withhold withhold

links: deprive deprive

ang-verb

oftēon

expansion: oftēon

forms:
oftēon (canonical)
oftēon (infinitive)
oftēonne (infinitive)
oftēo (first-person present singular)
oftēah (first-person past singular)
oftīehst (present second-person singular)
oftuge (past second-person singular)
oftīehþ (present singular third-person)
oftēah (past singular third-person)
oftēoþ (plural present)
oftugon (past plural)
oftēo (present singular)
oftuge (past singular)
oftēon (plural present)
oftugen (past plural)
oftēoh (imperative past present singular)
oftēoþ (imperative past plural present)
oftēonde (imperative present)
oftogen (imperative past)

etymology_text: From Proto-West Germanic *abateuhan, from Proto-Germanic *abateuhaną; cognates include Gothic 𐌰𐍆𐍄𐌹𐌿𐌷𐌰𐌽 (aftiuhan). By surface analysis, of- + tēon.

inh

gmw-pro

*abateuhan

expansion: Proto-West Germanic *abateuhan

gem-pro

*abateuhaną

expansion: Proto-Germanic *abateuhaną

cog

𐌰𐍆𐍄𐌹𐌿𐌷𐌰𐌽

expansion: Gothic 𐌰𐍆𐍄𐌹𐌿𐌷𐌰𐌽 (aftiuhan)

surf

of-

tēon

expansion: By surface analysis, of- + tēon

ipa: /ofˈte͜oːn/


golden rule

text: It is all-important to remember that naturalists have no golden rule by which to distinguish species and varieties; […]

ref: 1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, “On the Imperfection of the Geological Record”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, pages 296–297:

text: There is one golden rule of timetable work, that if a passenger train never runs to time it must be altered or other trains must be altered so that it can shake off its chronic unpunctuality.

ref: 1943 March and April, T. F. Cameron, “The Preparation of Timetables”, in Railway Magazine, page 75:

text: Here's what we call our golden rule / Have faith in you and the things you do

ref: 1979, Bernard Edwards, Nile Rodgers, “We Are Family”, performed by Sister Sledge:

text: A new book called When Nothing Works shows which groups have enjoyed the biggest rise in take-home pay since the turn of the millennium. From Tony Blair to Boris Johnson, the authors discover one golden rule: the richer you are, the more money you’re given.

ref: 2023 August 17, Aditya Chakrabortty, “Can’t pay and they really do take it away: what happens when the bailiffs come knocking”, in The Guardian:

links: fundamental fundamental

links: principle principle

raw_glosses: (idiomatic) A fundamental rule or principle.

text: "Mr. Francis seems to understand the fundamental principle of all moral accounting, the great ethic rule of three. Let A do to B, as he would have B do to him; the product will give the rule of conduct required." My father smiled at this reduction of the golden rule to arithmetical form.

ref: 1818, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 2, in Rob Roy:

links: ethics ethics

links: treat treat

raw_glosses: (ethics) The principle that one should treat other people in the manner in which one would want to be treated by them.

links: law law#English

links: method method

links: statutory statutory

links: interpretation interpretation

links: judge judge

links: deviate deviate

links: literal literal

links: law law

links: circumvent circumvent

links: absurdities absurdities

links: repugnant repugnant

links:
public policy
public policy

raw_glosses: (law, England and Wales, idiomatic) A method of statutory interpretation, whereby a judge will deviate from a literal interpretation of the law to the extent necessary to circumvent obvious absurdities or (sometimes) conclusions repugnant to public policy.

en-noun

expansion: golden rule (plural golden rules)

forms: golden rules (plural)

重要原則 /重要原则

code: cmn

sense: fundamental rule or principle

roman: zhòngyào yuánzé

gylden regel

code: da

ოქროს წესი

roman: okros c̣esi

黄金律

code: ja

alt: おうごんりつ

roman: ōgonritsu

золото́е пра́вило

roman: zolotóje právilo

zlaté pravidlo

code: sk

ginintuang tuntunin

code: tl

恕道

sense: principle that one should treat other people how one wants to be treated

roman: shùdào

златно правило

code: mk

roman: zlatno pravilo

audio: en-au-golden rule.ogg


good grief

links: surprise surprise#English

links: shock shock#English

links: dismay dismay#English

links: disgust disgust#English

wow

sense: surprise or shock

dammit

sense: dismay and disgust

Déu n'hi do

code: ca

sense: expression of surprise or shock

herranjestas

code: fi

ach, du meine Güte

code: de

μη χειρότερα

code: el

roman: mi cheirótera

oddio

code: it

hercle

code: la

kātahi rā hoki

code: mi

kjære vene

code: nb

a Dhia nan gràs

code: gd

bona pena

sense: expression of dismay and disgust

やれやれ

roman: yareyare

yáadilá áwééʼátʼéego lá

code: nv


good riddance

text: I couldn’t be more glad to see the back of them. Good riddance, I say.

text: Goodbye and good riddance!

text: Mrs Inconſiderate, alſo replyed, ſaying, avvay vvith ſuch Fantaſtical Fools from the Tovvn, a good riddance, for my par[t], I ſay, of her. Should ſhe ſtay vvhere ſhe dvvels, and retain this her mind, vvho could live quietly by her? for ſhe vvill either be dumpiſh or unneighbourly, or talk of ſuch matters as no vviſe body can abide: […]

ref: 1684, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress. From This World to That which is to Come: The Second Part. […], London: […] Nathaniel Ponder […], →OCLC, page 17:

text: And the nephew says good riddance, / And the uncle says good riddance, / And the Aunt, she says good riddance, / And the cousins say good riddance, / All the household in a chorus, / Singing in a household chorus, / Bid the boys good bye, and also— / Bid the boys good riddance also, / "No more walking says the uncle— / Walking up and down the school room / Teaching little boys their letters, / Bothering my brains with school boys, / Bothering their brains with letters.["]

ref: 1859 January 1 (date written), James Brown Kendall, “Letter to J. W. B., on His Giving Up His School and Becoming Representative”, in Poems, Framingham, Mass.: J. C. Clark, […], published 1878, →OCLC, pages 48–49:

text: After 50 years of farming, [Maurice] Fisch too has left the ostrich business, and says good riddance. […] Ostriches, says Fisch, are "stupid birds that just had nice feathers."

ref: 2020 August 4, Richard Conniff, “They may Look Goofy, but Ostriches are Nobody’s Fool”, in National Geographic, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, published September 2020, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Feb 2021:

links: Used use#Verb

links: indicate indicate#English

links: departure departure#English

links: loss loss#Noun

links: welcome welcome#Adjective

glosses: Used to indicate that a departure or loss is welcome.

رَحِيل غَيْر مَأْسُوف عَلَيْهِ

code: ar

sense: ''departure or loss is welcome''

roman: raḥīl ḡayr maʔsūf ʕalayhi

رَحِيل غَيْر مَأْسُوف عَلَيْهَا

roman: raḥīl ḡayr maʔsūf ʕalayhā

a Arxel, que ye tierra caliente

code: ast

yaxşı yol

code: az

code: ba

note: дүрт яғы ҡибла (dürt yağı qibla, literally “his/her four directions are qibla”)

note: дүрт яғың ҡибла (dürt yağıñ qibla, literally “your four directions are qibla”)

абру́сам даро́га

code: be

roman: abrúsam daróha

note: ба́ба з калёс — калёсам лягчэ́й (bába z kaljós — kaljósam ljahčéj)

好行夾唔送 /好行夹唔送

code: yue

roman: hou² haang⁴ gaap³ m⁴ sung³

好走不送

roman: hǎozǒu bù sòng

送瘟神

roman: sòng wēnshén

再也不見 /再也不见

roman: zàiyě bùjiàn

終於擺脫了 /终于摆脱了

roman: zhōngyú bǎituō le

liever kwijt dan rijk

code: nl

ĝis neniam

code: eo

head teed tal minna

code: et

bon débarras

code: fr

leaver kwyt as ryk

code: fy

note: but commonly something like gut, dass wir den/das/die los sind

καλά ξεκουμπίδια

roman: kalá xekoumpídia

ברוך שפטרנו

code: he

roman: baruch shepetaranu

jó, hogy megszabadultunk tőle

code: hu

farið hefur fé betra

code: is

bliain mhaith i diaidh

code: ga

note: ба́ба с во́зу — кобы́ле ле́гче (bába s vózu — kobýle léxče, literally “when an old woman leaves the cart, the mare feels easier”)

note: ска́тертью доро́га (skátertʹju doróga, literally “let the road be like a tablecloth”)

word: zbogom i ne vraćaj se! /збогом и не враћај се!

note: ба́ба з во́за — коня́м ле́гше (bába z vóza — konjám léhše)

note: ברוך שפּטרני (borekh shepotrane, literally “blessed be He who has freed me”)

etymology_text: From good + riddance (“act of ridding or removal; relief involving getting rid of something”), possibly influenced by the earlier obsolete terms fair riddance and gentle riddance.

nb...

at the Prince’s Arms in St. Pauls Church-yard.

With the Extreme Cruelty of Shylocke the Iew towards the saide Merchant, in Cutting a Iust Pound of His Flesh. And the Obtaining of Portia, by the Choyce of Three Caskets.

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-good riddance.wav


good riddance

text: The fortification whereof he last advertised has required more time than he expected, "or in good riddance needed."

ref: 1597 August 13 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh, “The Lord Deputy Burgh to Sir Robert Cecil”, in Ernest George Atkinson, editor, Calendar of the State Papers, Relating to Ireland, of the Reign of Elizabeth, 1596, July – 1597, December. […], volume [VI], Nendeln, Eschen, Leichtenstein: Kraus Reprint, Kraus-Thomson Organization, published 1974, →OCLC, paragraph 72, page 364:

text: Ther[sites]. I vvill ſee you hang'd like Clatpoles, ere I come any more to your tents, I vvill keepe vvhere there is vvit ſtirring, and leaue the faction of fooles. Exit. / Patro[clus]. A good riddance.

ref: c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], signature D, recto:

text: There's no Body ſo Happy in his Family and Friends, but that ſome of them vvhen they ſee him going, vvill vviſh for a good Riddance, and almoſt keep a Holy Day for his Death: […]

ref: 1701, Marcus Antoninus [i.e., Marcus Aurelius], “Book X”, in Jeremy Collier, transl., The Emperor Marcus Antoninus His Conversation with Himself. […], London: […] Richard Sare, […], →OCLC, paragraph XXXVI, page 200:

text: [T]o tell you my mind, Lucretia, I think it's a good riddance. I don't want any of your brazen faces here, myself!

ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, “Mr. Dombey and the World”, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 510:

text: Compeyson took it easy as a good riddance for both sides.

ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter III, in Great Expectations […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 50:

text: Lt. Saito and Bucktooth Kasuya left camp on October 12—good riddances. But Saito was back twelve days later and decided the barracks area of my chow section was not clean enough. Shiozawa had me sweep it up.

ref: 2003, Herbert Zincke, with Scott A. Mills, “Never Enough to Eat: January 1, 1944, to October 31, 1944”, in Mitsui Madhouse: Memoir of a U.S. Army Air Corps POW in World War II, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 105:

links: departure departure

en-noun

expansion: good riddance (plural good riddances)

forms: good riddances (plural)

bon vent i barca nova

code: ca

sense: welcome departure or loss

toivottu lähtö

code: fi

buen deshacimiento

code: es

root

en

ine-pro

*gʰedʰ-

*Hrew-

*Hrewdʰ-

lg

obsolete

expansion: obsolete

by Tho. Middleton, Gent.

c.

expansion: c.

ipa: /ˌɡʊd ˈɹɪd(ə)n(t)s/

ipa: /ˌɡʊd ˈɹɪdn̩(t)s/

audio: En-au-good riddance.ogg

parts:
good rid
dance


azinic acid

links:
organic chemistry
organic chemistry

links: organic organic

links: derivative derivative

links: alkylidene alkylidene

links:
nitronic acid
nitronic acid

raw_glosses: (organic chemistry) Any organic derivative of H₂N⁺O⁻OH, especially the alkylidene derivatives R₂C=N⁺O⁻OH - the nitronic acids.

en-noun

expansion: azinic acid (plural azinic acids)

forms: azinic acids (plural)


azlactone

links:
organic compound
organic compound

links: cyclization cyclization

links: heterocycle heterocycle

links: nitrogen nitrogen

links: oxygen oxygen

raw_glosses: (organic chemistry) Any of a class of organic compounds formed by the cyclization of N-acyl-α-amino acids; they are five-membered heterocycles containing both a nitrogen and oxygen atom in the ring, with the oxygen adjacent to a carbonyl.

expansion: azlactone (plural azlactones)

forms: azlactones (plural)

etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Hellenic *ə-
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓- (ă-)
Ancient Greek ζωή (zōḗ)
French azotebor.
English azote
English azo-
Latin lacder.
English lacto-
German Ketonbor.
English ketone
English -one
English lactone
English azlactone
From azo- + lactone.

ety

azo-

lactone

expansion:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Hellenic *ə-
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓- (ă-)
Ancient Greek ζωή (zōḗ)
French azotebor.
English azote
English azo-
Latin lacder.
English lacto-
German Ketonbor.
English ketone
English -one
English lactone
English azlactone
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From azo- + lactone.


joyriding

links: joyride joyride

glosses: An instance of somebody taking a joyride.

en-noun

expansion: joyriding (countable and uncountable, plural joyridings)

forms: joyridings (plural)

rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ


joyriding

links: joyride joyride#English

glosses: present participle and gerund of joyride

head

verb form

expansion: joyriding


zao

links:
language code
language code

raw_glosses: (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Ozolotepec Zapotec.

qualifier: international standards

pos: symbol

mul-symbol/script

Latn

expansion: Latn

mul

symbol

sc: Latn

f1lang: en

or

f2lang: en

or

f3lang: en

or

f4lang: en

expansion: zao

word: Wiktionary’s coverage of Ozolotepec Zapotec terms

etymology_text: Abbreviation of English Zapotec, Ozolotepec or Spanish zapoteco de Ozolotepec.

abbrev

en:Zapotec, Ozolotepec,es:zapoteco de Ozolotepec


zao

text: Time to zao already.

translation: We need to go now.

english: We need to go now.

links: leave leave

links:
take off
take off

raw_glosses: (Singapore, Singlish) To leave hastily, to take off.

head

verb

invariable

expansion: zao (invariable)

etymology_text: From Hokkien 走 (cháu, “to run”), with Pinyin-based spelling.

bor

nan-hbl

走

tr: cháu

t: to run

expansion: Hokkien 走 (cháu, “to run”)

ipa: [t͡saʊ˦˨]


zao

links: zāo zāo#Mandarin

links: záo záo#Mandarin

links: zǎo zǎo#Mandarin

links: zào zào#Mandarin