Word of the day

Tribology (noun)

1. (physics, engineering) The science and technology of friction, lubrication, and wear.

Analemma (noun)

1. An egg-shaped or figure-eight curve that results when the Sun's position in the sky is plotted out over the year.

Wherenot (noun)

1. Other related places, wherever; as in, to San Antonio, Paris, and wherenot.

Spluge (verb)

1. To gush, to flow or move in a rush.
2. To spend (usually money) lavishly or extravagantly.

Unitive (adjective)

1. Causing or characterized by unity or union.

Pabulum (Noun)

1. Food or fodder, particularly that taken in by plants or animals
2. Material that feeds a fire.
3. (Figuratively) Food for thought.
4. (Figuratively) Bland intellectual fare; an undemanding diet of words.

groundly (adj)

1. (archaic, rare) Firmly grounded; solid; of education: complete, thorough, well-grounded
2. In a firmly grounded manner; solidly; also, to the very ground or bottom; deeply, profoundly; completely, thoroughly

thereabouts (adverb)

1. About or near that place
2. About or around that date or time
3. About or near to that condition or quality
4. Approximately that number or quantity

Therabouts (noun)

1. (possibly erroneous) Location; whereabouts

basdırmaq (verb)

Pronunciation: [bɑsdɯrˈmɑχ]
Hyphenation: bas‧dır‧maq

1. to bury
2. to dig down
3. to plant (a tree)
4. to mate, to pair (of two animals)
5. to conceal, to hide
6. (dated) to issue, to publish, to print

Tapas (noun, normally plural)

1. A variety of Spanish small savoury food items or snacks such as croquettes, cured meat, potato salad, and seafood, originally served with sherry and now often with other alcoholic beverages.

outgo (verb)

1. (transitive)
a. (archaic) To go further than (someone or something); to exceed, to go beyond, to surpass.
2. (obsolete)
a. To experience, go through, or undergo (something).
b. To travel faster than (someone or something); to outstrip, to overtake.
3. (intransitive)
a. (archaic except poetic and Britain, regional) To go out, to set forth, to set out.
b. (obsolete) To go too far; to overextend or overreach.

Outgo (noun)

1. (countable, business, archaic except India) A cost, expenditure, or outlay.
2. (uncountable) The act or process of going out; (countable) an instance of this; an outgoing.
3. (archaic or obsolete)
a. (countable) The means by which something flows or goes out; an outlet.
b. (uncountable, rare) A (quantity of a) substance or thing that has flowed out; an outflow.

Sutchkin (noun in Scots)

1. (Shetland) sibling (brother and sister).
2. (Shetland) cousins, near relatives in general.

Mũgogo (noun in Kikuyu)

Pronunciation
IPA(key): /mòɣɔ́(ː)ɣɔ̀(ꜜ)/
According to Clements & Ford (1979:196), the first ɔ is pronounced long.
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 9 with a disyllabic stem, together with gĩcũhĩ, njũi, and so on.

1. Stout log
2. Fallen or felled trunk
3. Log bridge, trunk bridge

Dance card (noun)

1. (dance, dated) A card on which a person (usually a woman) lists those they have agreed to dance with.
2. (figuratively) An appointment schedule.
3. (figuratively) A list of items.

Purpureal (adj.)

1. (literary, poetic) Of a purple color.

Listenership (noun)

1. The audience that listens to a certain form or genre of audio material (specifically (Internet, radio), an audio broadcast such as a radio program or a podcast)
2. (linguistics) The act of paying attention to a conversation or speech; listening

archival (adj.)

1. Of or pertaining to an archive or archiving.
2. Of a material: having a quality suited to the conservational needs of archiving.

Archival (noun)

1. (uncountable) The practice of storing items in an archive; archiving; (countable) an instance of this.

trick or treat! (exclamation)

1. used by children to ask for candy when visiting someone's home in costume on Halloween.

trick or treat! (verb)

1. go from door to door on Halloween asking for candy with the exclamation “trick or treat”.

Aeviternity (noun)

1. Synonym of eternity (“existence without end”)
2. (Scholastic philosophy) Synonym of aevum (“the temporal mode of existence between time and eternity, said to be experienced by angels, saints, and celestial bodies (which medieval astronomy believed to be unchanging)”)

Curiouser and curiouser (phrase)

1. (idiomatic) Used to describe or react to an increasingly mysterious or peculiar situation.

Lupeux (Noun in French)

1. (folklore, regional) a malicious imp, often with demonic and lycanthropic traits
2. (medicine, obsolete) a person suffering from lupus.

Pnyx (Noun proper)


1. (Ancient Greece, historical) A hill in Athens west of the Acropolis with a stone platform and steps set into its side, which was used as the meeting place of the democratic assembly in Ancient Greece.

gleam (verb)

1. (transitive) Chiefly in conjunction with an adverb: to cause (light) to shine.
2. (intransitive)
a. To shine, especially in an indistinct or intermittent manner; to glisten, to glitter.
b. (figuratively) To be strongly but briefly apparent.

Gleam (noun)

1. (countable) An appearance of light, especially one which is indistinct or small, or short-lived.
2. (countable, figuratively):
a. An indistinct sign of something; a glimpse or hint.
b. A bright, but intermittent or short-lived, appearance of something.
c. A look of joy or liveliness on one's face.
3. (obsolete)
a. (countable) Sometimes as hot gleam: a warm ray of sunlight; also, a period of warm weather, for instance, between showers of rain.
b. (uncountable) Brightness or shininess; radiance, splendour.

zamieniać (verb in Polish)

Pronunciation
IPA(key): /zaˈmjɛ.ɲit͡ɕ/

1. (transitive) to replace, to substitute
2. (transitive) to swap, to exchange [+ na (accusative) = for something]
3. (reflexive) to swap (with one another), to switch.
4. (reflexive) to change, to transform, to turn [+ w (accusative) = into something]

come in from the cold (verb intransitive, idiomatic)

1. (espionage) Of a spy: to return home after having gone undercover in enemy territory.
2. (by extension) To gain widespread acceptance in a group or society, especially where there was not any before.

wrangle (verb)

I (transitive)
1. To convince or influence (someone) by arguing or contending.
2. Followed by out of: to elicit (something) from a person by arguing or bargaining.
3. (archaic, rare)
           a. To speak or write (something) in an argumentative or contentious manner.
           b. To spend (time) arguing or quarrelling.
4. (Western US) To herd (horses or other livestock).
           a. (by extension, humorous) To manage or supervise (people).
           b. (figuratively) To gather and organize (data, facts, information, etc.), especially in a way which requires sentience rather than automated methods alone, as in data wrangling.
5. (obsolete)
           a. Followed by out of: to compel or drive (someone or something) away through arguing.
           b. Followed by out: to put forward arguments on (a case, a matter disagreed upon, etc.).
           c. (reflexive) To cause (oneself) grief through arguing or quarrelling.

II (intransitive)
1. (also figuratively) To quarrel angrily and noisily; to bicker.
2. To make harsh noises as if quarrelling.
3. (generally, also figuratively) To argue, to debate; also (dated), to debate or discuss publicly, especially about a thesis at a university