{ "kip":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a unit of weight equal to 1000 pounds (454 kilograms) used to express deadweight load":[], ": bed":[ "ready for the kip after this screwball day", "\u2014 K. M. Dodson" ], ": sleep":[ "\u2014 sometimes used with down kip down on a spare bed \u2014 Alice Glenday" ], ": sleep , nap":[ "roused the \u2026 family from their kip", "\u2014 Sylvia Margolis" ], "the basic monetary unit of Laos \u2014 see Money Table":[] }, "examples":[ "Verb", "Can I kip here tonight", "after a rigorous walk over the Devon moors, I needed to kip down a bit on the daybed" ], "first_known_use":{ "1879, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun", "1914, in the meaning defined above":"Noun", "1955, in the meaning defined above":"Noun", "circa 1525, in the meaning defined above":"Noun", "circa 1889, in the meaning defined above":"Verb" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "Lao k\u00ec:p , literally, ingot":"Noun", "ki lo- + p ound":"Noun", "obsolete Dutch; akin to Middle Low German kip bundle of hides":"Noun", "perhaps from Danish kippe cheap tavern":"Noun" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8gip", "\u02c8kip" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "catnap", "doze", "drowse", "nap", "slumber", "snooze" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-093655", "type":[ "noun", "verb" ] }, "Kipling":{ "type":[ "adjective", "biographical name" ], "definitions":{ "1865\u20131936 English author":[ "(Joseph) Rud*yard \\ \u02c8r\u0259d-\u200by\u0259rd , \u02c8r\u0259-\u200bj\u0259rd \\" ] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8ki-pli\u014b" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-174903" }, "Kiplingese":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": the literary style of Rudyard Kipling":[ "write a chanty in Kiplingese", "\u2014 The Dial" ] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02cckipli\u014b\u02c8\u0113z", "-\u0113s" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "Rudyard Kipling \u20201936 English poet and novelist + English -ese":"" }, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-220536" }, "kippage":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": an excited or irritated state : commotion , confusion":[ "dinna pit yoursell into a kippage", "\u2014 Sir Walter Scott" ] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8kipij" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "modification of French \u00e9quipage (as in \u00eatre en piteux \u00e9quipage to be in a sorry plight)":"" }, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-002051" }, "kippah":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": yarmulke":[ "Goldberg attends a Conservative synagogue and one of her three children wears a kippah .", "\u2014 Molly Boigon" ] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8k\u0113-p\u0259" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "borrowed from Mishnaic Hebrew kipp\u0101h \"arch, dome, yarmulke\"":"" }, "first_known_use":{ "1960, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-054303" }, "kipfel":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a crescent-shaped cookie or roll":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8kipf\u0259l" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "German, diminutive of kipf wagon post, kipfel, from Old High German kipfa, chipf wagon post, from Latin cippus post":"" }, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-235421" }, "kippeen":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a short thin stick : switch":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "ki\u02c8p\u0113n" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "Irish Gaelic cip\u012bn":"" }, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-052555" }, "kipe":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a large basket used usually for a measure":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8k\u012bp" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English, from Old English c\u0233pa, c\u0233pe ; akin to Middle Low German k\u012bpe basket, Norwegian dialect kaup wooden vessel, Old English cot (hut)":"" }, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-054820" }, "Kipchak":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": one of the ancient Turkic peoples of the Golden Horde related to the Uighurs and Kyrgyz":[], ": a member of the Kipchak people":[], ": the Turkic language of the Kipchak people":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "kip\u02c8ch\u00e4k" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "Russian, from Jagatai":"" }, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-181823" } }