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WIKIBOOKS
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ARTICLES IN THE BOOK

  1. A Dictionary of Americanisms
  2. A Dictionary of the English Language
  3. A Greek-English Lexicon
  4. A Latin Dictionary
  5. American and British English spelling differences
  6. Anagram dictionary
  7. Answers.com
  8. Babel Fish
  9. Babylon Ltd
  10. Bank of English
  11. Basic English
  12. Bilingual dictionary
  13. Black's Law Dictionary
  14. Brewer's Dictionary of Irish Phrase and Fable
  15. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
  16. British National Corpus
  17. Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words
  18. Canadian Oxford Dictionary
  19. Centre for Lexicography
  20. Chambers Dictionary
  21. COBUILD
  22. Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  23. Concise Oxford Dictionary
  24. Corpus linguistics
  25. Defining vocabulary
  26. Definition
  27. Descriptionary
  28. DICT
  29. Dictionary
  30. Dictionary of American English
  31. Dictionary of American Regional English
  32. Dictionary of National Biography
  33. Dictionary of Received Ideas
  34. Dictionary of the Scots Language
  35. Dord
  36. Dorland's Medical Dictionary
  37. Easton's Bible Dictionary
  38. Electronic dictionary
  39. Encyclopedic dictionary
  40. English language
  41. Etymological dictionary
  42. Etymology
  43. FrameNet
  44. Franklin Electronic Publishers
  45. Freedict
  46. Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  47. Free On-line Dictionary of Philosophy
  48. Gazetteer
  49. Gloss
  50. Glossary
  51. Glyph
  52. Gnome-dictionary
  53. Grady Ward
  54. Grammar
  55. HarperCollins
  56. Harvard Dictionary of Music
  57. Headword
  58. Idiom dictionary
  59. Imperial Dictionary
  60. Interglot
  61. James Murray
  62. Jargon File
  63. KMLE Medical Dictionary
  64. Law dictionary
  65. Legal lexicography
  66. Lemma
  67. LEO
  68. Lexeme
  69. Lexicographic error
  70. Lexicographic information cost
  71. Lexicography
  72. Lexicon
  73. Lexicon technicum
  74. Lexigraf
  75. Linguistic Data Consortium
  76. List of online dictionaries
  77. Logos Dictionary
  78. Longman
  79. LSP dictionary
  80. Macquarie Dictionary
  81. Main Page
  82. Maximizing dictionary
  83. Medical dictionary
  84. Merriam-Webster
  85. Merriam-Webster%27s Geographical Dictionary
  86. Minimizing dictionary
  87. Moby Project
  88. Moby Thesaurus
  89. Monolingual learner's dictionary
  90. Multi-field dictionary
  91. New Oxford American Dictionary
  92. New Oxford Dictionary of English
  93. Noah Webster
  94. Official Scrabble Players Dictionary
  95. OmniDictionary
  96. OneLook
  97. Online Etymology Dictionary
  98. Oxford Advanced Learner%27s Dictionary
  99. Oxford Classical Dictionary
  100. Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
  101. Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
  102. Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
  103. Oxford English Corpus
  104. Oxford English Dictionary
  105. Oxford spelling
  106. Oxford University Press
  107. Project Gutenberg
  108. Pronunciation
  109. Pseudodictionary
  110. Quotations
  111. Random House Dictionary of the English Language
  112. Reference.com
  113. Rhyming dictionary
  114. Roger's Profanisaurus
  115. Roget's Thesaurus
  116. Samuel Johnson
  117. Shorter Oxford English Dictionary
  118. Single-field dictionary
  119. Slang dictionary
  120. Specialised lexicography
  121. Specialized dictionary
  122. Spelling
  123. StarDict
  124. Sub-field dictionary
  125. Synonyms
  126. Table Alphabeticall
  127. The Century Dictionary
  128. The Computer Contradictionary
  129. The Devil's Dictionary
  130. The Devil's Dictionary X
  131. TheFreeDictionary.com
  132. The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy
  133. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
  134. Thesaurus
  135. The Surgeon of Crowthorne
  136. Translation dictionary
  137. Urban Dictionary
  138. Vines Expository Dictionary
  139. Webster's Dictionary
  140. Webster's New World Dictionary
  141. Wikipedia
  142. Wiktionary
  143. William Whitaker's Words
  144. WordNet
  145. World Book Dictionary
  146. Xrefer

 


 

 
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ENGLISH DICTIONARIES
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Chambers Dictionary

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

The tenth edition of the Chambers Dictionary of the English language was published in 2006 by Chambers Harrap.

Originally published in 1901 as Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary, the dictionary is widely used by British crossword solvers and setters, and by Scrabble players. It contains many more dialectal variants and archaic words than its rivals, and is noted for its occasional wryly humorous definitions, such as "a cake, long in shape but short in duration", for "éclair". It is assumed these were originally smuggled in by subversive lexicographers—they were at one stage dropped by the publisher (e.g. "a long cake of choux pastry with a cream filling and chocolate or coffee icing"), but later reinstated as something of a tourist attraction. The dictionary is widely known for its large number of more unconventional and often eccentric words.

Humorous definitions

Piquant definitions from Chambers

  • abloom adj in a blooming state
  • Agapemone n a religious community of men and women whose ‘spiritual marriages’ were in some cases not strictly spiritual
  • baby-sitter n one who mounts guard over a baby to relieve the usual attendant
  • bachelor’s wife n an ideal woman with none of the shortcomings of married men’s wives
  • back-seat driver n someone free of responsibility but full of advice
  • bafflegab n the professional logorrhoea of many politicians, officials and salespeople, characterized by prolix abstract circumlocution and/or a profusion of abstruse technical terminology, used as a means of persuasion, pacification or obfuscation
  • brains trust n a number of reputedly well-informed persons chosen to answer questions of general interest in public and without preparation
  • buckwheat n a plant (Polygonum or Fagopyrum), its seed used esp in Europe for feeding horses, cattle and poultry, in America for making into cakes for the breakfast table, etc
  • devil-dodger n someone who attends churches of various kinds, to be on the safe side
  • fish vi to catch or try to catch or obtain fish, or anything that may be likened to a fish (such as seals, sponges, coral, compliments, information or husbands)
  • flag-day n a day on which collectors solicit contributions to a charity in exchange for small flags as badges to secure immunity for the rest of the day
  • Japanese cedar n a very tall Japanese conifer (Cryptomeria japonica) often dwarfed by Japanese gardeners
  • jaywalker n a careless pedestrian whom motorists are expected to avoid running down
  • lead out vt to conduct to execution or a dance
  • middle-aged adj between youth and old age, variously reckoned to suit the reckoner
  • not to mention to say nothing of, a parenthetical rhetorical pretence of refraining from saying all one might say (and is about to say)
  • perpetrate vt to commit or execute (esp an offence, a poem, or a pun)
  • picture restorer n one who cleans and restores and sometimes ruins old pictures
  • Santa Claus n an improbable source of improbable benefits
  • sea serpent n an enormous marine animal of serpent-like form frequently seen and described by credulous sailors, imaginative landsmen and common liars
  • spatangoid n a heart urchin, a member of the Spatangoidea, an order of more or less heart-shaped sea urchins with eccentric anus
  • table-turning n movements of tables (or other objects) attributed by spiritualists to the agency of spirits, and by the sceptical to collective involuntary muscular action
  • waist-line n a line thought of as marking the waist, but not fixed by anatomy in women’s fashions
  • xylophagan n one of the Xylophaga, a genus of boring bivalves
  • yoof n (esp of magazines, TV or radio programmes, etc) relating to, specifically aimed at, pandering to, or dealing with topics (thought to be) of interest to modern youth

Some pleasing words as defined by Chambers

  • batology n the study of brambles
  • beblubbered adj disfigured by weeping
  • callipygous adj having beautiful buttocks
  • deipnosophist n a person who converses learnedly at dinner, a table-philosopher
  • deliquesce vi to melt and become liquid by absorbing moisture
  • discombobulate vt to disconcert, upset
  • flimp vt to rob (someone) while a partner hustles
  • genethliac adj relating to a birthday or to the casting of horoscopes
  • goluptious adj delicious; voluptuous
  • incompossible adj incapable of co-existing
  • kakistocracy n government by the worst
  • leiotrichy n straight-hairedness
  • mulligrubs n pl colic; sulkiness
  • obumbrate vt to overshadow (compare with adumbrate, also, eg., to overshadow)
  • paneity n the state of being bread
  • pilliwinks n pl an instrument of torture for crushing the fingers
  • pinguitude n fatness
  • Ralph n the imp of mischief in a printing house
  • refulgent adj casting a flood of light; radiant; beaming
  • roscid adj dewy
  • rutilant adj shining; glowing ruddily
  • scroddled adj (of pottery) made of clay scraps of different colours
  • spoffish adj fussy, officious (archaic)
  • squabash vt to crush, smash, defeat
  • ultracrepidate vi to criticize beyond the sphere of one’s knowledge

Some words dropped since the 1901 edition

  • dacryoma n a stoppage of the tear duct
  • decacuminated adj having the top cut off
  • derbend n a waysideTurkish guardhouse
  • effodient adj habitually digging (zoology)
  • essorant adj about to soar
  • fiskery n friskiness (Carlyle)
  • flipe vt to fold back, as a sleeve
  • lectual adj confining to the bed
  • neogamist n a person recently married
  • nuciform adj nut-shaped
  • numerotage n the numbering of yarns so as to denote their fineness
  • pantogogue n a medicine once believed capable of purging away all morbid humours
  • parageusia n a perverted sense of taste
  • presultor n the leader of a dance
  • ramollescence n softening, mollifying
  • roytish adj wild, irregular
  • sagesse n wisdom
  • salebrous adj rough, rugged
  • sammy vt to moisten skins with water
  • sarn n a pavement (i.e., a sidewalk)
  • scavilones n men’s drawers worn in the sixteenth century under the hose
  • tarabooka n a drum-like instrument
  • tortulous adj having swellings at regular intervals
  • wappet n a yelping cur
  • whinnock n the smallest pig in a litter a milk-pail (provincial)
  • zythepsary n a brewery (obsolete)

External links

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  • Chambers Reference Online
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