Wiktionary:Word of the day/Archive/2016/June

1. (informal) To explain (something) condescendingly (to a female listener), especially to explain something the listener already knows, presuming that she has an inferior understanding of it because she is a woman.

1. To lie down; to recline (upon a couch or other place of repose).
2. (archaic) To lie down for concealment; to conceal, to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly or secretly.
3. To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.
4. (transitive) To lay something upon a bed or other resting place.
5. (transitive) To arrange or dispose as if in a bed.
6. (transitive) To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
7. (transitive) To lower (a spear or lance) to the position of attack.
8. (ophthalmology, transitive) In the treatment of a cataract in the eye, to displace the opaque lens with a sharp object such as a needle. The technique is regarded as largely obsolete.
9. (paper-making, transitive) To transfer (for example, sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire mould to a felt blanket for further drying.
10. (sewing, transitive) To attach a thread onto fabric with small stitches in order to add texture.
11. To phrase in a particular style; to use specific wording for.

1. (transitive) To seize something and hold it firmly.
2. (transitive, figuratively) Normally used with with: to ponder and intensely evaluate a problem.
3. (transitive) To fasten, as with a grapple; to fix; to join indissolubly.
4. (intransitive) To use a grapple.
5. (intransitive) To wrestle or tussle.

1. The art of preparing and eating good food.
2. The study of the relationship between food and culture.

1. The destruction of the earth, its ecosystems, or some part thereof, due to human activity.

Today is World Environment Day.

1. A thick creamy soup made from fish, shellfish, meat or vegetables.
2. A pale pinkish brown colour.
3. (ceramics) A form of unglazed earthenware; biscuit.
4. (sports) An extra turn, free point or some other advantage allowed.

1. A swampy, soggy area of ground.
2. (figuratively) A perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle; a predicament.

1. A mode of talk by politicians and officials using ambiguous words to deceive the listener.

George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four was published in London on this day in 1949.

1. (linguistics) An idiosyncratic but semantically motivated substitution of a word or phrase for a word or words that sound identical, or nearly so, at least in the dialect the speaker uses.

1. (uncommon) A body.
2. (linguistics) A collection of writings, often on a specific topic, of a specific genre, from a specific demographic or a particular author, etc.

1. Strength of mind; great courage or fearlessness; fortitude.

On this day in 1969, the film True Grit was released.

1. (slang) A histrionic person.

The annual Tony Awards, which recognize achievement in Broadway productions, are being held today in 2016.

1. Any adversity; a trying period or event.

1. (idiomatic) Someone who possesses talents or favorable characteristics that are not known or expected by others.
2. (idiomatic, politics) A candidate for an election who is nominated unexpectedly, without previously having been discussed or considered as a likely choice.

The Royal Ascot begins on this day in 2016.

1. A type of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae noted for rolling dung into balls for use as food or as brooding chambers.

1. Unusual and bizarre in a funny, comical way; outlandish; clownish.
2. Ludicrously or incongruously comical.

1. (television) A set of graphics or words at the bottom of a television screen, sometimes unrelated to the current viewing content.

1. A loose outer garment resembling a cassock or coat, often sleeveless, worn by soldiers over armour or by menservants as a type of overcoat.

Milan Fashion Week for menswear begins today in 2016.

1. The making of embarrassing flamboyant dance moves to pop music by middle-aged men.

In many countries, Father's Day is celebrated today in 2016 (the third Sunday in June).

1. (idiomatic, euphemistic) Not telling the whole truth, especially in order to present a false image of a situation; untruthful; lying. Often used with sarcasm or satire.

1. (chiefly Christianity and law) Disobedience, resistance to authority.

Edward Snowden, an American former government contractor who leaked classified information from the U.S. National Security Agency, was born on this day in 1983.

1. (Australia, New Zealand) One who drives excessively quickly, loudly or irresponsibly; a street drag racer often driving heavily customized cars.

On this day in 2001, The Fast and the Furious, the first film in the Fast and the Furious franchise, went on general release in the USA.

1. That which is characterized or distinguished by sex.
2. Sexual orientation.
3. Sexual identity, gender.

American sexologist Alfred Kinsey was born on this day in 1894.

1. Like a tree; having a structure or appearance similar to that of a tree; branching.
2. (philosophy) Marked by insistence on totalizing principles, binarism and dualism (as opposed to the rhizome theory).

1. (British, politics) The withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union.

On 23 June 2016 at the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, British voters opted to take their nation out of the European Union.

1. (humorous) One who has been or is likely to be attacked by a shark.
2. (humorous, by extension) One who is in a precarious or vulnerable position; a dead duck.
3. (Australia, colloquial) A lone swimmer or surfer far from shore, a shark baiter.

Shark Week, a annual series of TV programmes about sharks on the Discovery Channel, starts today in 2016.

1. (idiomatic) From one place (or person, or task) to another; hither and thither.

Today marks the start of The Championships at Wimbledon, UK, in 2016.

1. An animal, especially an insect such as a mosquito, that bites during the night.

1. (woodworking, countable and uncountable) Also attributive. Lengths of wood that have been made pliable by heating with steam and then bent into the appropriate shape (to make furniture, ships' hulls, etc.).
2. (countable) An object, especially a piece of furniture, made from bentwood.

1. A basket, pen or enclosure for birds.
2. A wickerwork basket (kipe) or other enclosure for catching fish.
3. (figuratively, slang) A narrow place of confinement, a cage; a jail, a prison.

The animated comedy film Chicken Run was released in the UK on this day in 2000.