": highly marbled premium beef from Japanese Wagyu cattle of the Kobe region of southern Honshu that is noted for exceptional tenderness and flavor":[]
": a very large brown bear ( Ursus arctos middendorffi ) of Kodiak and adjacent islands off the southern coast of Alaska that feeds largely on salmon, plants, and berries":[]
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"1899, in the meaning defined above":""
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"Kodiak Island, Alaska":""
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"\u02c8k\u014d-d\u0113-\u02ccak-"
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"noun"
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": kol":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"probably from Kolar , town in southern India + English -ian":""
"a monetary subunit of the naira \u2014 see naira at Money Table":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Fidelity\u2019s shares rose as much as 3.7 percent before paring gains to trade unchanged at 82 kobo by 1:27 p.m. in Lagos. \u2014 Emele Onu, Bloomberg.com , 1 May 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1972, in the meaning defined above":""
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"history_and_etymology":{
"alteration of copper entry 1":""
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8k\u014d-(\u02cc)b\u014d"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-022112",
"type":[
"noun"
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"kobold":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a gnome that in German folklore inhabits underground places":[],
": an often mischievous domestic spirit of German folklore":[]
},
"examples":[
"the metal cobalt gets its name from the medieval Germanic belief that its appearance in silver ore was the handiwork of mischievous, thieving kobolds",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Otherworldly cities modeled on real ones have been a standby of fantasy, from Superman\u2019s Metropolis through China Mi\u00e9ville\u2019s Un Lun Dun to Michael Swanwick\u2019s Babel, with its haints and kobolds , ethnic politics and human ward-heelers. \u2014 Tom Shippey, WSJ , 16 Mar. 2018"
": an African tree (genus Cola , especially C. nitida and C. acuminata of the family Sterculiaceae) cultivated in various tropical areas for its kola nuts":[]
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"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1937, in the meaning defined above":""
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"type":[
"noun"
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a folk dance of southern India accompanied by the striking together of sticks":[]
": one whose ideas or actions are eccentric, fantastic, or insane : screwball":[]
},
"examples":[
"a bunch of kooks dressed up in weird costumes",
"if you insist on painting your house bright orange, everyone will assume you are a kook",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Almedilla\u2019s accident-prone Sarah Jane Moore, who shoots her pooch on her way to infamy, is a standout kook . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 Feb. 2022",
"But being a professional kook was a lonely crusade. \u2014 Zachary D. Carter, The New Republic , 17 June 2021",
"Again and again, Pelosi is dismissed, first as a dilettante housewife, then as a far-left San Francisco kook , finally as an establishment dinosaur \u2014 and throughout, as a woman. \u2014 Michelle Goldberg, New York Times , 5 May 2020",
"The line of attack is the familiar one of using a few isolated idiots or kooks to tar the entire enterprise. \u2014 Rich Lowry, National Review , 22 Apr. 2020",
"This shortcoming might explain why the show takes such pains to portray her as a kook , and possibly even a murderer. \u2014 Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic , 7 Apr. 2020",
"The 2020 Democrats are a party of kooks and retreads and charlatans, now reduced to hoping for a pandemic of the coronavirus to give them any room to attack the incumbent. \u2014 Conrad Black, National Review , 11 Mar. 2020",
"Social media is flooding with kooks claiming the media and the Democrats are responsible for new coronavirus. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com , 16 Mar. 2020",
"Besides partisans and kooks , who could side with an organization that is successful beyond belief, skirts the rules and is led by an all-powerful boss facing serious legal questions? \u2014 Washington Post , 10 May 2019"
": a brownish kingfisher ( Dacelo novaeguineae synonym D. gigas ) of Australia that is about the size of a crow and has a call resembling loud laughter":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Australia\u2019s poppy song was written with AI trained on previous Eurovision hits along with contributions from a neural network fed samples of noises made by koalas, kookaburras and Tasmanian devils. \u2014 Amy Thomson, Bloomberg.com , 24 Apr. 2020",
"But in a fishing village thousands of miles away, where giant goannas scuttled through gumtrees and kookaburras laughed, my siblings were hunting for wild animal scat and leaping into the ocean. \u2014 New York Times , 17 Jan. 2020",
"There are currently at least four species at the zoo whose native habitat is Australia: a bearded dragon lizard named Six, Dundee the kookaburra , a Fly River turtle named Penny and a pair of tawny frogmouth birds called Grover and Timrek. \u2014 Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 20 Feb. 2020",
"Back in our adult clothes, we were sent away with gifts of commemorative stuffed kookaburras . \u2014 Sarah Lyall, New York Times , 13 Nov. 2019",
"And despite their sometimes-aggressive tendencies, the magpie was voted Australia\u2019s \u2018\u2018Bird of the Year\u2019\u2019 in a 2017 poll \u2014 ahead of the Australian white ibis and the laughing kookaburra . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 17 Sep. 2019",
"Two kookaburras in a suburb of Australia were caught making love on a power line Wednesday afternoon until their untimely demise, which resulted in a power outage for around 1,000 homes. \u2014 Joshua Bote, USA TODAY , 16 June 2019",
"Happy Friday, spangled kookaburras , and welcome back to another edition of This Week in Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet. \u2014 Cady Drell, Marie Claire , 14 Sep. 2018",
"There is perhaps no better place to go bird-watching this holiday season - and no easier way to get so close to so many exotic flying creatures, including rhinoceros hornbills, Malayan flying fox fruit bats and laughing kookaburras . \u2014 Susan Glaser, cleveland.com , 20 Dec. 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1834, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Wiradhuri (Australian aboriginal language of central New South Wales) gugubarra":""
"I'm not sure that someone with such kooky ideas on biology should be teaching the subject to high schoolers.",
"if you think that drugs aren't bad for you, you haven't met that guy's kooky friends",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"At first, the company focused on kooky innovations, including records that projected 3-D images when spun. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 9 June 2022",
"Mad as a hatter! Daniel KnightonGetty Images Serve an incredibly kooky look on Halloween as the most infamous Gotham villain. \u2014 Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping , 8 June 2022",
"Of course, Miranda Cosgrove's Carly Shay winds up in kooky situations, partaking in an underground fight club and defending herself in court against Lewbert. \u2014 Rachel Schonberger, EW.com , 3 June 2022",
"With a bevy of kooky fashion moments under her belt\u2014both on the Met steps and on stage\u2014Perry is bound to once again pull out all the stops for this year\u2019s Met gala (which has a white-tie, Gilded Glamour dress code). \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 25 Apr. 2022",
"But there are new kids coming in and finding themselves on dark dancefloors in a warehouse with a bunch of kooky people, and identifying with others and feeling a great bond that is magnified by the frequencies around them. \u2014 Lily Moayeri, Billboard , 1 Apr. 2022",
"The Lost City, centered on a reclusive romance novelist (Bullock) who gets swept up into a kooky jungle adventure after an eccentric billionaire (Radcliffe) kidnaps her to find an ancient city's treasure, featured in her latest novel. \u2014 Jessica Wang, EW.com , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Kate McKinnon in a workplace comedy about a kooky woman married to a mild-mannered man (Kyle MacLachlan, because why not) on a mission to save big cats all across the country. \u2014 Caroline Framke, Variety , 2 Mar. 2022",
"Yes, there were a few Sundance reliables, the eternally cute and kooky white children of Indiewood, but not enough to trigger you about the old days when the festival was clogged with Tarantino clones. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Jan. 2022"
"I'm not sure that someone with such kooky ideas on biology should be teaching the subject to high schoolers.",
"if you think that drugs aren't bad for you, you haven't met that guy's kooky friends",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"At first, the company focused on kooky innovations, including records that projected 3-D images when spun. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 9 June 2022",
"Mad as a hatter! Daniel KnightonGetty Images Serve an incredibly kooky look on Halloween as the most infamous Gotham villain. \u2014 Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping , 8 June 2022",
"Of course, Miranda Cosgrove's Carly Shay winds up in kooky situations, partaking in an underground fight club and defending herself in court against Lewbert. \u2014 Rachel Schonberger, EW.com , 3 June 2022",
"With a bevy of kooky fashion moments under her belt\u2014both on the Met steps and on stage\u2014Perry is bound to once again pull out all the stops for this year\u2019s Met gala (which has a white-tie, Gilded Glamour dress code). \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 25 Apr. 2022",
"But there are new kids coming in and finding themselves on dark dancefloors in a warehouse with a bunch of kooky people, and identifying with others and feeling a great bond that is magnified by the frequencies around them. \u2014 Lily Moayeri, Billboard , 1 Apr. 2022",
"The Lost City, centered on a reclusive romance novelist (Bullock) who gets swept up into a kooky jungle adventure after an eccentric billionaire (Radcliffe) kidnaps her to find an ancient city's treasure, featured in her latest novel. \u2014 Jessica Wang, EW.com , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Kate McKinnon in a workplace comedy about a kooky woman married to a mild-mannered man (Kyle MacLachlan, because why not) on a mission to save big cats all across the country. \u2014 Caroline Framke, Variety , 2 Mar. 2022",
"Yes, there were a few Sundance reliables, the eternally cute and kooky white children of Indiewood, but not enough to trigger you about the old days when the festival was clogged with Tarantino clones. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Jan. 2022"
"you can try kowtowing to the boss, but he'll see right through you",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Trump, unencumbered by the need to kowtow to the Iranians, killed a few hundred Russian mercenaries in Syria. \u2014 David Harsanyi, National Review , 22 Feb. 2022",
"But India remains the world\u2019s second most populous nation and one of the few in Asia unwilling to kowtow to Chinese might. \u2014 Sadanand Dhume, WSJ , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Changing the way waiting ships are counted while continuing to kowtow to organized labor will not ease port congestion. \u2014 Dominic Pino, National Review , 2 Dec. 2021",
"Like Koreans or Vietnamese, Japanese delegations were expected to visit Chinese imperial capitals to kowtow to the emperor. \u2014 Ian Buruma, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022",
"Emulating pre-Communist practices, younger doctors would kowtow three times before their elders to become disciples and learn directly from them. \u2014 Ian Johnson, The New York Review of Books , 20 Oct. 2021",
"And she was indeed defined by a steely independent streak that did not kowtow to outsiders, whether established civil rights figures or the leader of the free world. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 18 July 2021",
"And she was indeed defined by a steely independent streak that did not kowtow to outsiders, whether established civil rights figures or the leader of the free world. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 18 July 2021",
"And she was indeed defined by a steely independent streak that did not kowtow to outsiders, whether established civil rights figures or the leader of the free world. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 18 July 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday said leaders from Sweden and Finland should not expect its support for NATO membership until Western nations kowtow to its demands. \u2014 Caitlin Mcfall, Fox News , 18 May 2022"
": a semisolid fat or liquid oil obtained from the seeds of a small East Indian tree ( Garcinia indica ) and used in India for food":[]
},
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"\u02c8k\u014dk\u0259m-"
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"kokum, cocum , from Marathi kokam, kokamb mangosteen":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-144223"
},
"kosher":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":{
": selling or serving food ritually fit according to Jewish law":[
"a kosher restaurant"
],
": being proper, acceptable, or satisfactory":[
"is the deal kosher ?"
],
": to make kosher":[],
": the observance of kosher practices":[
"keep kosher"
]
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"\u02c8k\u014d-sh\u0259r"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"Something about this deal is just not kosher .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"In a small bowl, combine the kosher salt, pepper, sugar, paprika, and dry mustard. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 14 June 2022",
"The tips are removable and can be fitted with candles, making the menorah kosher . \u2014 Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com , 9 Dec. 2020",
"Community leaders estimate that the number of resident observant Jews in Dubai has doubled, to 500, in the last year, and at least five kosher restaurants have opened in that time. \u2014 Patrick Kingsley, New York Times , 31 May 2022",
"In the Hasidic section of South Williamsburg, the Department of Transportation striped a white corridor down a particularly chaotic section of Bedford Avenue, home to kosher grocery stores and Hasidic apartment buildings. \u2014 Zo\u00eb Beery, The Atlantic , 31 May 2022",
"The founder, Rabbi Dov Behr Manischewitz, built up his little West End matzo bakery into the mass production of kosher Jewish foods. \u2014 Jeff Suess, The Enquirer , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Later that same year, three shoppers were shot dead at a kosher grocery store in New Jersey. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 17 May 2022",
"At her local kosher butcher shop, the prices were rising even higher: more than $200 for a 5-pack of short ribs. \u2014 New York Times , 15 May 2022",
"Jewish patients and their families are able to keep their kosher practices during their stay at Nicklaus Children\u2019s Hospital in Miami with a new lounge that has opened there. \u2014 Sergio Carmona, Sun Sentinel , 12 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"My writing was starting to find its place in the world, and did not need Dylan to kosher it. \u2014 Sam Sussman, Harper's Magazine , 27 Apr. 2021",
"The kitchens at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, where AIPAC has been held for the past few years, have been koshered to serve upward of 18,000 people. \u2014 Nicholas Rowan, Washington Examiner , 3 Mar. 2020",
"Rather than ask Medina to bring in a portable kitchen, as the company normally does, the hotel koshered one of its kitchens with the help of the Rabbinical Council of Greater Washington. \u2014 Nicholas Rowan, Washington Examiner , 3 Mar. 2020",
"One contains clothes, the others kosher steaks and cheese. \u2014 Amie Ferris-rotman, WSJ , 26 Feb. 2017",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Manischewitz, the biggest matzo manufacturer in the country, raised prices on its kosher -for-Passover matzo by 10 percent to 15 percent this year, according to grocers, which means the loss on that loss leader just went up by double digits. \u2014 Noah Sheidlower, NBC News , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Available for a limited time, the hamantashen cookies come from a commercial kosher bakery called Reisman\u2019s in Brooklyn. \u2014 Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic , 15 Mar. 2022",
"In a medium bowl, combine 2 tablespoons of the cilantro, the chilies, onion and 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt. \u2014 Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press , 13 Feb. 2022",
"The rub can be as simple as an equally mixed blend of kosher or sea salt with coarse ground black pepper. \u2014 Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News , 3 Jan. 2022",
"At the same time, Diamond sees a benefit in the very fact that the Pikesville area can support two full-size kosher supermarkets. \u2014 Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com , 26 Nov. 2021",
"Rodents displayed some not-very- kosher behavior last week inside Kosher Cuisine, a Hollywood catering company, leaving behind 181 droppings and a burrowing hole in the kitchen. \u2014 Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com , 11 Oct. 2021",
"Toss on a rimmed baking sheet with 2 tablespoons olive oil, \u00bd teaspoon kosher salt, and a few good cranks of black pepper until well coated. \u2014 Beth Segal, cleveland , 23 Sep. 2021",
"In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder and \u00bd teaspoon kosher salt. \u2014 Jennifer Rude Klett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 14 Sep. 2021"
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"first_known_use":{
"1851, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
"1871, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-152159"
},
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"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"island of southern Alaska in the Gulf of Alaska east of the Alaska Peninsula population 13,592":[]
},
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"\u02c8k\u014d-d\u0113-\u02ccak"
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"type":[
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],
"definitions":{
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