wormwood
nounEtymology
From Middle English wormwode, a folk etymology (as if worm + wood) of wermode (“wormwood”), from Old English wermōd (“wormwood, absinthe”), from Proto-West Germanic *warjamōdā (“wormwood”). Cognate with Middle Low German wermode, wermede (“wormwood”), German Wermut (“wormwood”). Doublet of vermouth.
- derived from *warjamōdā✻
- derived from wermōd
- inherited from wormwode
Definitions
An intensely bitter herb (Artemisia absinthium and similar plants in genus Artemisia)…
An intensely bitter herb (Artemisia absinthium and similar plants in genus Artemisia) used in medicine, in the production of absinthe and vermouth, and as a tonic.
- But as I said, / When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple / Of my dug and felt it bitter, pretty fool, / To see it tetchy and fall out with the dug!
- Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
- Blue skippers in sunny hours ope and shut Where wormwood and grunsel flowers by the cart ruts […]
Something that causes bitterness or affliction
Something that causes bitterness or affliction; a cause of mortification or vexation.
- The irony of this reply was wormwood to Zeluco; he fell into a gloomy fit of musing, and made no farther inquiry […].
- Yet I think the Archdeacon, a "new man," to whom the aristocratic Canon's popularity was wormwood, did dislike him.
A star or angel that appears in the Book of Revelation, turning waters bitter and…
A star or angel that appears in the Book of Revelation, turning waters bitter and poisonous.
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A surname.
- Having got the address from the school records, Miss Honey set out to walk from her own home to the Wormwoods’ house shortly after nine.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for wormwood. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA