stillitcomes to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoIf you look up the definition of 'bully', Duckduckgo gives you results from a 19th century dictionaryi.imgur.comimagemessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up1281arrow-down18
arrow-up1273arrow-down1imageIf you look up the definition of 'bully', Duckduckgo gives you results from a 19th century dictionaryi.imgur.comstillitcomes to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square27fedilink
minus-squareKelly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·edit-210 months agoIt looks like DDG is using wordnik as their source for definitions. For this word they have four definitions each with a different license: Formally all rights reserved but now out of copyright and in the public domain GPL-2 (but based on an out of copyright proprietary dictionary) CC BY-SA 4.0 Alll rights reserved https://www.wordnik.com/words/bully Of these licenses the first is the easiest to work with. It comes with the fewest restrictions and transfers the fewest responsibilities to downstream consumers. The OP definition is available in context here: https://archive.org/details/centurydictipt300whituoft/page/718/mode/2up
It looks like DDG is using wordnik as their source for definitions.
For this word they have four definitions each with a different license:
https://www.wordnik.com/words/bully
Of these licenses the first is the easiest to work with. It comes with the fewest restrictions and transfers the fewest responsibilities to downstream consumers.
The OP definition is available in context here:
https://archive.org/details/centurydictipt300whituoft/page/718/mode/2up