hottentot(n = noun.communication) khoikhoi, khoikhoin - any of the Khoisan languages spoken by the pastoral people of Namibia and South Africa;
is a kind of khoisan, khoisan language
1. One of a degraded<-- "pastoral", in MW10 --> and savage race of South Africa, with yellowish brown complexion, high cheek bones, and wooly hair growing in tufts. [1913 Webster]
2. The language of the Hottentots, which is remarkable for its clicking sounds; the
hottentot, n. & adj.
--n.
1 a member of a stocky Negroid people of SW Africa.
2 their language.
--adj. of this people.
Etymology:
Afrik., perh. = stammerer, with ref. to their mode of pronunc.
N commonality, commonalty, democracy, obscurity, low condition, low life, low society, low company, bourgeoisie, mass of the people, mass of society, Brown Jones and Robinson, lower classes, humbler classes, humbler orders, vulgar herd, common herd, rank and file, hoc genus omne, the many, the general, the crowd, the people, the populace, the multitude, the million, the masses, the mobility, the peasantry, king Mob, proletariat, fruges consumere nati, demos, hoi polloi, great unwashed, man in the street, mob, rabble, rabble rout, chaff, rout, horde, canaille, scum of the people, residuum of the people, dregs of the people, dregs of society, swinish multitude, foex populi, trash, profanum vulgus, ignobile vulgus, vermin, riffraff, ragtag and bobtail, small fry, commoner, one of the people, democrat, plebeian, republican, proletary, proletaire, roturier, Mr, Snooks, bourgeois, epicier, Philistine, cockney, grisette, demimonde, peasant, countryman, boor, carle, churl, villain, villein, terrae filius, son of the land, serf, kern, tyke, tike, chuff, ryot, fellah, longshoreman, swain, clown, hind, clod, clodhopper, hobnail, yokel, bog-trotter, bumpkin, plowman, plowboy, rustic, hayseed, lunkhead, chaw-bacon, tiller of the soil, hewers of wood and drawers of water, groundling, gaffer, loon, put, cub, Tony Lumpkin, looby, rube, lout, underling, gamin, rough, pot- wallopper, slubberdegullion, vulgar fellow, low fellow, cad, curmudgeon, upstart, parvenu, skipjack, nobody, nobody one knows, hesterni quirites, pessoribus orti, bourgeois gentilhomme, novus homo, snob, gent, mushroom, no one knows who, adventurer, man of straw, beggar, gaberlunzie, muckworm, mudlark, sans culotte, raff, tatterdemalion, caitiff, ragamuffin, Pariah, outcast of society, tramp, vagabond, bezonian, panhandler, sundowner, chiffonnier, Cinderella, cinderwench, scrub, jade, gossoon, Goth, Vandal, Hottentot, Zulu, savage, barbarian, Yahoo, unlicked cub, rough diamond, barbarousness, barbarism, boeotia, ignoble, common, mean, low, base, vile, sorry, scrubby, beggarly, below par, no great shakes, homely, homespun, vulgar, low-minded, snobbish, plebeian, proletarian, of low parentage, of low origin, of low extraction, of mean parentage, of mean origin, of mean extraction, lowborn, baseborn, earthborn, mushroom, dunghill, risen from the ranks, unknown to fame, obscure, untitled, rustic, uncivilized, loutish, boorish, clownish, churlish, brutish, raffish, rude, unlicked, barbarous, barbarian, barbaric, barbaresque, cockney, born within sound of Bow bells, underling, menial, subaltern, below the salt, dummodo sit dives barbarus ipse placet.
hottentot bread, hottentot bread vine, hottentot fig
1. bread(n = noun.food) breadstuff, staff of life - food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked;
is a kind of starches, baked goods
is a part of sandwich
has particulars: anadama bread, bap, barmbrack, bread-stick, breadstick, boston brown bread, brown bread, bun, roll, caraway seed bread, challah, hallah, cinnamon bread, cracked-wheat bread, cracker, crouton, brown bread, dark bread, whole meal bread, whole wheat bread, english muffin, flatbread, garlic bread, gluten bread, host, loaf, loaf of bread, matzah, matzo, matzoh, unleavened bread, naan, nan, onion bread, raisin bread, quick bread, rye bread, salt-rising bread, simnel, sour bread, sourdough bread, toast, wafer, light bread, white bread
Derived form verb bread1
2. bread(n = noun.possession) boodle, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum - informal terms for money;
is a kind of money
bread(v = verb.contact) - cover with bread crumbs; "bread the pork chops before frying them"
is one way to cover
Derived form noun bread1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
To spread. Ray. [1913 Webster]
1. An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking. [1913 Webster]
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2. Food; sustenance; support of life, in general. [1913 Webster]
"Give us this day our daily bread." [1913 Webster]
To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking; as, breaded cutlets. [1913 Webster]
bread, n. & v.
--n.
1 baked dough made of flour usu. leavened with yeast and moistened, eaten as a staple food.
2 a necessary food. b (also daily bread) one's livelihood.
3 sl. money.
--v.tr. coat with breadcrumbs for cooking.
Idiom:
bread and butter 1 bread spread with butter.
2 a one's livelihood. b routine work to ensure an income. bread-and-butter letter a letter of thanks for hospitality. bread and circuses the public provision of subsistence and entertainment. bread and wine the Eucharist.
bread basket
1 a basket for bread or rolls.
2 sl. the stomach. bread bin a container for keeping bread in. bread sauce a white sauce thickened with breadcrumbs. cast one's bread upon the waters do good without expecting gratitude or reward. know which side one's bread is buttered know where one's advantage lies. take the bread out of a person's mouth take away a person's living, esp. by competition etc.
Etymology:
OE bread f. Gmc
N food, eating, deglutition, gulp, epulation, mastication, manducation, rumination, gluttony, hippophagy, ichthyophagy, (appetite), mouth, jaws, mandible, mazard, gob, chops, drinking, potation, draught, libation, carousal, drunkenness, food, pabulum, aliment, nourishment, nutriment, sustenance, sustentation, sustention, nurture, subsistence, provender, corn, feed, fodder, provision, ration, keep, commons, board, commissariat, prey, forage, pasture, pasturage, fare, cheer, diet, dietary, regimen, belly timber, staff of life, bread, bread and cheese, comestibles, eatables, victuals, edibles, ingesta, grub, grubstake, prog, meat, bread, bread stuffs, cerealia, cereals, viands, cates, delicacy, dainty, creature comforts, contents of the larder, fleshpots, festal board, ambrosia, good cheer, good living, beef, bisquit, bun, cornstarch, cookie, cooky, cracker, doughnut, fatling, hardtack, hoecake, hominy, mutton, pilot bread, pork, roti, rusk, ship biscuit, veal, joint, piece de resistance, roast and boiled, remove, entremet, releve, hash, rechauffe, stew, ragout, fricassee, mince, pottage, potage, broth, soup, consomme, puree, spoonmeat, pie, pasty, volauvent, pudding, omelet, pastry, sweets, kickshaws, condiment, appetizer, hors d'oeuvre, main course, entree, alligator pear, apple, apple slump, artichoke, ashcake, griddlecake, pancake, flapjack, atole, avocado, banana, beche de mer, barbecue, beefsteak, beet root, blackberry, blancmange, bloater, bouilli, bouillon, breadfruit, chop suey, chowder, chupatty, clam, compote, damper, fish, frumenty, grapes, hasty pudding, ice cream, lettuce, mango, mangosteen, mince pie, oatmeal, oyster, pineapple, porridge, porterhouse steak, salmis, sauerkraut, sea slug, sturgeon ("Albany beef"), succotash, supawn, trepang, vanilla, waffle, walnut, table, cuisine, bill of fare, menu, table d'hote, ordinary, entree, meal, repast, feed, spread, mess, dish, plate, course, regale, regalement, refreshment, entertainment, refection, collation, picnic, feast, banquet, junket, breakfast, lunch, luncheon, dejeuner, bever, tiffin, dinner, supper, snack, junk food, fast food, whet, bait, dessert, potluck, table d'hote, dejeuner a la fourchette, hearty meal, square meal, substantial meal, full meal, blowout, light refreshment, bara, chotahazri, bara khana, mouthful, bolus, gobbet, morsel, sop, sippet, drink, beverage, liquor, broth, soup, potion, dram, draught, drench, swill, nip, sip, sup, gulp, wine, spirits, liqueur, beer, ale, malt liquor, Sir John Barleycorn, stingo, heavy wet, grog, toddy, flip, purl, punch, negus, cup, bishop, wassail, gin, coffee, chocolate, cocoa, tea, the cup that cheers but not inebriates, bock beer, lager beer, Pilsener beer, schenck beer, Brazil tea, cider, claret, ice water, mate, mint julep, near beer, 2 beer, non- alcoholic beverage, eating house, diner, hippophage, glutton, eatable, edible, esculent, comestible, alimentary, cereal, cibarious, dietetic, culinary, nutritive, nutritious, gastric, succulent, potable, potulent, bibulous, omnivorous, carnivorous, herbivorous, granivorous, graminivorous, phytivorous, ichthyivorous, omophagic, omophagous, pantophagous, phytophagous, xylophagous, across the walnuts and the wine, blessed hour of our dinners!, now good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!, who can cloy the hungry edge of appetite?, food, eating, deglutition, gulp, epulation, mastication, manducation, rumination, gluttony, hippophagy, ichthyophagy, (appetite), mouth, jaws, mandible, mazard, gob, chops, drinking, potation, draught, libation, carousal, drunkenness, food, pabulum, aliment, nourishment, nutriment, sustenance, sustentation, sustention, nurture, subsistence, provender, corn, feed, fodder, provision, ration, keep, commons, board, commissariat, prey, forage, pasture, pasturage, fare, cheer, diet, dietary, regimen, belly timber, staff of life, bread, bread and cheese, comestibles, eatables, victuals, edibles, ingesta, grub, grubstake, prog, meat, bread, bread stuffs, cerealia, cereals, viands, cates, delicacy, dainty, creature comforts, contents of the larder, fleshpots, festal board, ambrosia, good cheer, good living, beef, bisquit, bun, cornstarch, cookie, cooky, cracker, doughnut, fatling, hardtack, hoecake, hominy, mutton, pilot bread, pork, roti, rusk, ship biscuit, veal, joint, piece de resistance, roast and boiled, remove, entremet, releve, hash, rechauffe, stew, ragout, fricassee, mince, pottage, potage, broth, soup, consomme, puree, spoonmeat, pie, pasty, volauvent, pudding, omelet, pastry, sweets, kickshaws, condiment, appetizer, hors d'oeuvre, main course, entree, alligator pear, apple, apple slump, artichoke, ashcake, griddlecake, pancake, flapjack, atole, avocado, banana, beche de mer, barbecue, beefsteak, beet root, blackberry, blancmange, bloater, bouilli, bouillon, breadfruit, chop suey, chowder, chupatty, clam, compote, damper, fish, frumenty, grapes, hasty pudding, ice cream, lettuce, mango, mangosteen, mince pie, oatmeal, oyster, pineapple, porridge, porterhouse steak, salmis, sauerkraut, sea slug, sturgeon ("Albany beef"), succotash, supawn, trepang, vanilla, waffle, walnut, table, cuisine, bill of fare, menu, table d'hote, ordinary, entree, meal, repast, feed, spread, mess, dish, plate, course, regale, regalement, refreshment, entertainment, refection, collation, picnic, feast, banquet, junket, breakfast, lunch, luncheon, dejeuner, bever, tiffin, dinner, supper, snack, junk food, fast food, whet, bait, dessert, potluck, table d'hote, dejeuner a la fourchette, hearty meal, square meal, substantial meal, full meal, blowout, light refreshment, bara, chotahazri, bara khana, mouthful, bolus, gobbet, morsel, sop, sippet, drink, beverage, liquor, broth, soup, potion, dram, draught, drench, swill, nip, sip, sup, gulp, wine, spirits, liqueur, beer, ale, malt liquor, Sir John Barleycorn, stingo, heavy wet, grog, toddy, flip, purl, punch, negus, cup, bishop, wassail, gin, coffee, chocolate, cocoa, tea, the cup that cheers but not inebriates, bock beer, lager beer, Pilsener beer, schenck beer, Brazil tea, cider, claret, ice water, mate, mint julep, near beer, 2 beer, non- alcoholic beverage, eating house, diner, hippophage, glutton, eatable, edible, esculent, comestible, alimentary, cereal, cibarious, dietetic, culinary, nutritive, nutritious, gastric, succulent, potable, potulent, bibulous, omnivorous, carnivorous, herbivorous, granivorous, graminivorous, phytivorous, ichthyivorous, omophagic, omophagous, pantophagous, phytophagous, xylophagous, across the walnuts and the wine, blessed hour of our dinners!, now good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!, who can cloy the hungry edge of appetite?.
anadama bread, banana bread, batter bread, black bread, boston brown bread, bread and butter, bread and butter pickle, bread board, bread dough, bread knife, bread line, bread maker, bread mold, bread sauce, break bread, brown bread, caraway seed bread, cinnamon bread, corn bread, cracked-wheat bread, cuckoo bread, daily bread, dark bread, date bread, date-nut bread, dika bread, feast of the unleavened bread, french bread, fry bread, garlic bread, gluten bread, graham bread, hottentot bread, hottentot bread vine, hottentot's bread, hottentot's bread vine, irish soda bread, italian bread, jewish rye bread, kaffir bread, light bread, loaf of bread, monkey bread, nut bread, onion bread, pilot bread, pocket bread, quick bread, raisin bread, rye bread, salt-rising bread, seminole bread, skillet bread, skillet corn bread, soda bread, sour bread, sourdough bread, spoon bread, swedish rye bread, tea bread, twice-baked bread, unleavened bread, white bread, whole meal bread, whole wheat bread
vine(n = noun.plant) - a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface;
is a kind of tracheophyte, vascular plant
has particulars: semi-climber, moonseed, clematis, allamanda, beaumontia grandiflora, easter lily vine, nepal trumpet flower, confederate jasmine, star jasmine, trachelospermum jasminoides, common ivy, english ivy, hedera helix, ivy, aristolochia clematitis, birthwort, bougainvillea, barbados-gooseberry vine, barbados gooseberry, pereskia aculeata, climbing corydalis, corydalis claviculata, fumaria claviculata, adlumia fungosa, allegheny vine, climbing fumitory, fumaria fungosa, delairea odorata, german ivy, senecio milkanioides, climbing boneset, climbing hemp-vine, climbing hempweed, mikania scandens, wild climbing hempweed, yam, yam plant, dioscorea elephantipes, elephant's-foot, hottentot's bread vine, hottentot bread vine, tortoise plant, dioscorea paniculata, wild yam, black bindweed, black bryony, tamus communis, gourd, gourd vine, squash, squash vine, briony, bryony, dishcloth gourd, luffa, rag gourd, sponge gourd, strainer vine, actinidia arguta, bower actinidia, tara vine, actinidia chinensis, actinidia deliciosa, chinese gooseberry, kiwi, kiwi vine, actinidia polygama, silver vine, silvervine, passionflower, passionflower vine, hop, hops, bomarea edulis, salsilla, bomarea salsilla, salsilla, asparagus asparagoides, smilax, sarsaparilla, briar, brier, bullbrier, catbrier, greenbrier, horse-brier, horse brier, smilax rotundifolia, carolina jasmine, evening trumpet flower, gelsemium sempervirens, yellow jasmine, yellow jessamine, calabar-bean vine, physostigma venenosum, amphicarpa bracteata, amphicarpaea bracteata, hog peanut, wild peanut, apios americana, apios tuberosa, groundnut, groundnut vine, indian potato, potato bean, wild bean, canavalia ensiformis, giant stock bean, jack bean, wonder bean, canavalia gladiata, sword bean, butterfly pea, centrosema virginianum, butterfly pea, clitoria mariana, blue pea, butterfly pea, clitoria turnatea, derris elliptica, derris root, tuba root, australian pea, dipogon lignosus, dolichos lignosus, hardenbergia comnptoniana, western australia coral pea, coral pea, bonavist, dolichos lablab, egyptian bean, hyacinth bean, indian bean, lablab purpureus, vetchling, everlasting pea, lathyrus odoratus, sweet pea, sweetpea, earth-nut pea, earthnut pea, heath pea, lathyrus tuberosus, tuberous vetch, pachyrhizus erosus, yam bean, pachyrhizus tuberosus, potato bean, yam bean, goa bean, goa bean vine, manila bean, psophocarpus tetragonolobus, winged bean, winged pea, kudzu, kudzu vine, pueraria lobata, wistaria, wisteria, china fleece vine, polygonum aubertii, russian vine, silver lace vine, boxberry, mitchella repens, partridgeberry, twinberry, soapberry vine, american bittersweet, bittersweet, celastrus scandens, climbing bittersweet, false bittersweet, shrubby bittersweet, staff vine, waxwork, celastric articulatus, celastrus orbiculatus, japan bittersweet, japanese bittersweet, oriental bittersweet, euonymus fortunei radicans, euonymus radicans vegetus, evergreen bittersweet, black-eyed susan, black-eyed susan vine, thunbergia alata, bignonia capreolata, cross vine, quarter-vine, quartervine, trumpet flower, convolvulus, bindweed, silverweed, dodder, dichondra, dichondra micrantha, morning glory, alehoof, field balm, gill-over-the-ground, glechoma hederaceae, ground ivy, nepeta hederaceae, runaway robin, potato tree, solanum crispum, solanum commersonii, uruguay potato, uruguay potato vine, solanum jamesii, wild potato, potato vine, solanum jasmoides, potato, solanum tuberosum, white potato, white potato vine, giant potato creeper, potato vine, solanum wendlandii, cock's eggs, salpichroa organifolia, salpichroa rhomboidea, climber, liana, grape, grape vine, grapevine, boston ivy, japanese ivy, parthenocissus tricuspidata, american ivy, parthenocissus quinquefolia, virginia creeper, woodbine, pepper vine, true pepper, araujia sericofera, cruel plant, hoya, periploca graeca, silk vine, haoma, sarcostemma acidum, soma, negro vine, vincetoxicum hirsutum, vincetoxicum negrum
Any woody climbing plant which bears grapes. [1913 Webster]
"There shall be no grapes on the vine." [1913 Webster]
"And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds." [1913 Webster]
vine, n.
1 any climbing or trailing woody-stemmed plant, esp. of the genus Vitis, bearing grapes.
2 a slender trailing or climbing stem.
Idiom:
vine-dresser a person who prunes, trains, and cultivates vines.
Derivative:
viny adj.
Etymology:
ME f. OF vi(g)ne f. L vinea vineyard f. vinum wine
allegheny vine, arbor vine, balloon vine, barbados-gooseberry vine, black-eyed susan vine, calabar-bean vine, canarybird vine, cantaloup vine, cantaloupe vine, chalice vine, china fleece vine, cinnamon vine, common grape vine, common matrimony vine, coral vine, cross vine, cubeb vine, cucumber vine, cypress vine, easter lily vine, goa bean vine, gourd vine, groundnut vine, guinea gold vine, hottentot bread vine, hottentot's bread vine, jade vine, kiwi vine, kudzu vine, lace-flower vine, love vine, madeira vine, matrimony vine, melon vine, negro vine, passionflower vine, peanut vine, pepper vine, pipe vine, potato vine, prairie gourd vine, pumpkin vine, railroad vine, russian vine, silk vine, silver lace vine, silver vine, soapberry vine, squash vine, squaw vine, staff vine, strainer vine, summer squash vine, sweet melon vine, sweet potato vine, tara vine, trumpet vine, uruguay potato vine, vase vine, vine cactus, vine maple, vine snake, water vine, watermelon vine, white potato vine, wild potato vine, wild sweet potato vine, winter melon vine