cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dap
dapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dap
outrightly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From outright + -ly.
Senses: glosses: outright
snailed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of snail
snailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of snail
immoveably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more immoveably
form: most immoveably
Etymology: From immoveable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Having keenly felt the degradation of his race, and possibly experienced some outrageous act of injustice, or an unbrookable and unforgivable insult, his flashing eyes are immoveably directed toward the King […]
ref: 1844, The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine:
glosses: Alternative spelling of immovably.
walkie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: walkies
Etymology: From walk + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A walkie-talkie.
glosses: A pallet truck, beside which the operator must walk.
examples: text: It snuffles with its nose on Sylvia’s lap in the manner peculiar to a dog. And Sylvia addresses it in the following peculiar manner: “ ... And is-ums also looking forward to lovely walkie home with Mother and God-Uncle, then?”
ref: 1933, Rupert Latimer, The Unenchanted Circle, Appleton-Century, page 35:
text: So if you hear a woman ask in a sing-song voice, “Do ya wanna go for a walkie?” you can probably safely infer that she is talking to her dog; there is a small chance that she is talking to a very young child, but virtually no chance that she is talking to her husband or an adult friend.
ref: 2012, Stanley Coren, Why We Love The Dogs We Do: How To Find The Dog That Matches Your Personality, →ISBN:
text: Most dog walkers have a routine of sorts, so they take their dog for a walkie at a particular time of day.
ref: 2013, Michele Hanson, Absolutely Barking, Simon and Schuster, page ?
text: She shared a particularly adorable video captioned, “all the kisses. happy fall.”, that shows Myron wriggling around on the couch during an after-walkie snuggling session.
ref: 2018 September 24, Samantha Wilson, “Ariana Grande Posts Adorable Video With Mac Miller’s Dog Myron - Taking Care Of Him After Ex’s Death?”, in HollywoodLife.com:
glosses: An outing for a dog; the taking of a dog for a walk.
Related terms: walkie-lookie
sociables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sociable
1860s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Actually, this ethnic situation—a “macédoine” of peoples—was complicated even more from the 1860s on when some of the Slavs in Macedonia who had always called themselves Bulgarians (and were considered so by most foreign experts) began developing a Macedonian national consciousness.
ref: 2014, Raymond Detrez, Historical Dictionary of Bulgaria, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 305:
text: In the mid-1860s, Russia also experienced an outbreak of Germanophobia.
ref: 2017, Juliet Johnson, Marietta Stepaniants, Benjamin Forest, Religion and Identity in Modern Russia:
text: The topic of glottogony has long been a taboo in linguistics, for the very good reason that it attracts boundless speculation: when Darwinism was freshly en vogue in the 1860s, linguistic debate was inundated with such proposals to the point where, in 1866, the Linguistic Society of Paris banned the entire topic as a hopeless exercise […]
ref: 2020, Philipp Roelli, editor, Handbook of Stemmatology […] , Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN:
glosses: The decade from 1860 to 1869.
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1850s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Many years elapsed before the success of Kemp Town as a residential district was assured; the foundations of the estate were laid in 1823, but some houses remained untenanted until the 1850s.
ref: 1952 December 24, R. C. Riley, “By Rail to Kemp Town”, in Railway Magazine, page 832:
text: Born as a French satiric form with the bouffes of Jacques Offenbach in the 1850s, it moved on, like most Parisian fashions, to Vienna[…].
ref: 2007 January 9, Anne Midgette, “Retrofitting Operetta for a 21st-Century Crowd”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2021:
text: Before the 1850s, when women figured most prominently in textile employment, the reasons that caused women to seek paid labor—a ne'er-do-well husband, economic distress of the natal family, or a belief that factory work was a road to self-betterment—often precluded their considering an away-from-home cure.
ref: 2010, Susan Cayleff, Wash and Be Healed: The Water-Cure Movement and Women's Health, Temple University Press, page 88:
text: But for Stefanie Brechbuehler and Robert Highsmith, the husband-and-wife co-founders of the Brooklyn-based design firm Workstead, the recent revamp of an 1850s residence in upstate New York not only presented them with a thrilling challenge, it also marked a celebratory homecoming after a few years spent living in the South.
ref: 2019 June 10, Mimi Vu, “How a 19th-Century Workman’s Cottage Became a Family Home”, in The New York Times Style Magazine, archived from the original on 03 Jul 2019:
glosses: The decade from 1850 to 1859.
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1840s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: During the 1830s and 1840s, ready-made standardized shoes and clothing increasingly challenged the custom-made products of small handicraft workshops.
ref: 1993, Ronald Aminzade, Ballots and Barricades: Class Formation and Republican Politics in France, 1830-1871, page 68:
text: Lisztomania swept across Europe. Despite their obvious sensationalism, Liszt's concerts in the 1840s established the format of our modern-day piano recital. He was the first to play entire programs from memory (not reading from music).
ref: 1996, Craig M. Wright, Listening to Music, →ISBN:
text: The Lumper, as they call this particular variety of pots, is a symbol of this Irish dilemma, for this is the infamous potato that failed in the 1840s and caused the great famine. The Lumper is therefore one of the most historic of all the heirloom potato varieties now preserved under the careful eye of historic museums and potato enthusiasts alike, myself included.
ref: 2013, William Woys Weaver, 100 Vegetables and Where They Came From, →ISBN, page 146:
glosses: The decade from 1840 to 1849.
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1830s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: During the 1830s and 1840s, ready-made standardized shoes and clothing increasingly challenged the custom-made products of small handicraft workshops.
ref: 1993, Ronald Aminzade, Ballots and Barricades: Class Formation and Republican Politics in France, 1830-1871, page 68:
text: He made his fortune during the presteel era of Pittsburgh's development — the period before Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick — beginning in the 1820s and 1830s with a start in pharmaceuticals and white lead.
ref: 2001, William Alan Blair, William Pencak, Making and Remaking Pennsylvania's Civil War, page 107:
text: A modern glass edifice nearby houses the headquarters of the illustrious Rothschild banking family. It was the Rothschilds who in the 1830s arranged that recently paid-off £20 million loan to the British government to reimburse slaveowners after the trade ended – said to be equivalent to some £300 billion in today’s money.
ref: 2020 October 2, Maureen O'Hare, “‘Price of blood’: Financial London’s grim history revealed in new tour”, in CNN:
text: Private companies have, traditionally, dominated Britain's railway history. The first railways were built by private individuals and groups, and by the late 1830s building a railway was considered the ideal 'get rich quick' scheme.
ref: 2024 July 24, Richard Foster, “Rail reform has never been easy”, in RAIL, number 1014, page 28:
glosses: The decade from 1830 to 1839.
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1820s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He made his fortune during the presteel era of Pittsburgh's development — the period before Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick — beginning in the 1820s and 1830s with a start in pharmaceuticals and white lead.
ref: 2001, William Alan Blair, William Pencak, Making and Remaking Pennsylvania's Civil War, page 107:
text: Other winterings followed in 1795 and on four occasions in the 1820s, but one in 1834–1835 ended with the death of all members of a seven-man party.
ref: 2003, William J. Mills, Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia:
text: The decisions of the 1820s–50s deprived the Adygeic princes who had accepted Russian citizenship of almost all their former privileges, above all the right to convoke troops, declare war, make raids.
ref: 2018, I. S. Karabulatova et al., “Mythologization of the Abrek's Image in the Modern Caucasian Linguistic Consciousness”, in Astra Salvensis, volume 6, number 12, →ISSN, page 740:
glosses: The decade from 1820 to 1829.
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1810s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] British potters in Liverpool treasonously inscribed pro-American slogans on 1810s pitchers for the lucrative export trade ($2,000 to $6,000 at William R. and Teresa F. Kurau).
ref: 2009 January 23, Eve M. Kahn, “Conversation-Piece Buys, Maybe. Intriguing Histories, Definitely.”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2020:
text: From the 1810s to the 2000s, the frequency of “achievement” in written American English grew elevenfold, according to a search of the Corpus of Historical American English, a database of 107,000 newspapers, magazines, novels, plays and film scripts.
ref: 2010 October 29, Anand Giridharadas, “America and the ‘Fun’ Generation”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 May 2021:
text: In 2003, at Neal Auction Company in New Orleans, an 1810s mahogany armoire inlaid with ribbons and vines brought $140,000 (the presale estimate was $30,000 to $50,000).
ref: 2010 December 9, Eve M. Kahn, “Exploring the Art of Louisiana Furniture”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 Jun 2020:
glosses: The decade from 1810 to 1819.
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1800s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
snowboarding
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glosses: plural of 1800
1800s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The converted code will be able to handle dates that span centuries (1800s, 1900s, and 2000s at least).
ref: 1996, Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Software Engineering, page 476:
text: The largest owner of tea lands on the island in the late 1800s (and Taiwan’s single wealthiest family) were the Lins of Pan-ch’iao. Along with other great familial and corporate landowners, the Pan-ch’iao Lins drew income from renting their properties under a flexible, sophisticated contractual system of land tenure.
ref: 1999, Murray A. Rubinstein, editor, Taiwan: A New History, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 175:
text: In the early 1800s, Charles Fourier, a Frenchman, proposed, in a series of jargon-filled writings, a self-sufficient community model called a “phalanx.” […] By the mid-1800s, more than 15,000 Americans had experimented with Fourieristic living, many drawn to its promise during a severe economic downturn.
ref: 2009 April 16, Jon Mooallem, “The End Is Near! (Yay!)”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 28 Apr 2023:
glosses: The period from 1800 to 1899, almost the same period as the nineteenth century (which, however, was from year 1801 to 1900).
glosses: The period from 1800 to 1809, almost the same period as the 1st decade of the 19th century (which, however was the years 1801 to 1810).
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1790s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The decade from 1790 to 1799.
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1780s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The decade from 1780 to 1789.
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1770s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The decade from 1770 to 1779.
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1760s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The decade from 1760 to 1769.
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1750s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The decade from 1750 to 1759.
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1740s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The decade from 1740 to 1749.
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1730s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The decade from 1730 to 1739.
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1000s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The decade from 1000 to 1009.
glosses: The century from 1000 to 1099.
examples: text: What Roman numeral might you find in the cornerstone of a building built in the year 2000? MM – the mark of the new millennium, a move from the 1000s to the 2000s.
ref: 1999, Larry Dane Brimner, The Official M&M’s Book of the Millennium, Charlesbridge, →ISBN:
text: The current four-phase American cycle started in the days immediately following World War II with the First Turning of the Millennial Cycle, so named because it would bridge America from one millennium (the 1000s) to the next (the 2000s).
ref: 2009, Tom Osenton, “Repeating Cycles in American History”, in Boomer Density: Leading the U.S. through the Worst Crisis Since the Great Depression, Westport, Conn.; London: Praeger Publishers, →ISBN, “The Current American Cycle—the Millennial Cycle”, page 32:
text: Only instead of cobwebs, my distraction was thoughts about the coming new millennium—the 2000s.[…]Supported by the reappearance of the decade-number 1, during that decade, the decade just finished, we saw the waning masculine-energy of the 1000s doing all it could to hang on to its power and dominance.
ref: 2020 November, Kashonia Carnegie, “From Me2We: The Unrecognized Key to the Rise in the Status of Women and why it’s Essential that Men Know About this Too”, in Maryam Morrison, editor, The Eden Magazine, pages 19–20:
glosses: The millennium from 1000 to 1999.
Related terms: 1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s
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mmk
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of m'kay.
wealy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈwiːli/
Forms: form: more wealy
form: most wealy
Etymology: From Middle English wely, from Old English weliġ, weoliġ, weleġ, from Proto-West Germanic *welag (“wealthy”), equivalent to weal + -y. Cognate with Dutch welig (“luxurious, lavish”), Low German welig (“happy, fortunate”).
Senses: examples: text: So that for their wealy riches they be geuen vnto al luſtes / and folowe the deſyers off their owne hertis.
ref: 1534, George Ioye [i.e., George Joye], “Psal. 73: The ſonge of Aſaph”, in Dauids Pſalter, Diligently and Faithfully Trãſlated by George Ioye, with Breif Arguments before Euery Pſalme, Declaringe the Effecte Therof, Antwerp: Maryne Emperowr, page 109a:
text: A nimble, active, or wealy man; Forte, gagliardo, robuſto; Forte, robuſte; Fuerte, rezio.
ref: 1660, James Hovvell [i.e., James Howell], “Section xxj. The Degrees or differences of Age and Perſons”, in Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English–French–Italian–Spanish Dictionary: […], Printed by J[ohn] G[rismond] for Samuel Thomson […], →OCLC, page 322:
text: To look at him, some might take Mr. Gardner to be a banker, but he is only a barber; and Nini might be taken for a wealy dude, but he is another — .
ref: 1914 May 24, C. C. Apple, “Correspondences”, in The Journeyman Barber, volume 10, number 4, Indianapolis, page 180:
glosses: Wealthy, strong, vigorous; displaying power or strength.
Fulbe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Fula Fulɓe (“Fulas”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Fula.
synonyms: word: Fula
radiculous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From radicle + -ous.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:radiculous.
topics: biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a radicle (nerve root, or rudimentary shoot of a plant from which a root is developed downward).
Related terms: radicular
radical
radiculous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more radiculous
form: most radiculous
Etymology: Variation of ridiculous.
Senses: examples: text: […] somebody was laughing at us, and that somebody [was] a very nice young lady, whom we had just parted from in what a Kentuckian would have styled "a most extraordinary and radiculous manner."
ref: 1856, George Douglas Brewerton, The war in Kansas: A rough trip to the border, page 252:
text: The rabbits, the squirrels and the crickets held court, And resolved to pravint all radiculous spourt; […]
ref: 1888(?), Robert Creighton Wright, Echoes from the Blarney Stone and Other Rhymes, page 45
glosses: Obsolete spelling of ridiculous.
lierne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /liˈɜː(ɹ)n/
Forms: form: liernes
Etymology: Borrowed from French lierne.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A cross-shaped rib of an ogival vault.
Derived terms: lierne rib
shoestore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoestores
Etymology: From shoe + store.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shoe store (“shoe shop”).
shoestores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoestore
oblivions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: That was the cowardice, probably—to dodge them, to beg the question, not to deal with it in the hard outer light; but his own oblivions were too brief, too vain, to hurt anyone but himself, and he had a vague and fanciful kindness for certain persons whom he met, figures of mystery and anxiety, and whom, with observation for his pastime, he ranked as those who were fleeing from justice.
ref: 1903 September 28, Henry James, The Ambassadors, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: plural of oblivion
blarsted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blarsted
form: most blarsted
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of blasted.
loikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of likes.
mountie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mounties
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Mountie.
mounties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mountie
suedes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suede
resined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resin
resining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resin
goyishe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more goyishe
form: most goyishe
Senses: examples: text: Do you have any recommendations for what a well-meaning goyishe boyfriend can bring to the family Rosh Hashana gathering?
ref: 2008 September 26, “Sephardic Traditions, Goyishe Gifts”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of goyish.
doppler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dopplers
Etymology: By ellipsis and appellativization.
Senses: examples: text: Hypomotility was visible on doppler.
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: DUS
hypernyms: ultrasonography
US
ultrasound
<
imaging#Noun
qualifier: by ellipsis
glosses: Ellipsis of Doppler ultrasonography: Any of various types of ultrasonography that use the Doppler effect; especially, medical versions thereof.
examples: text: An incipient storm cell was visible on doppler.
topics: climatology
government
meteorology
military
natural-sciences
politics
war
hypernyms: radar
<
imaging#Noun
qualifier: by ellipsis
glosses: Ellipsis of Doppler radar.
examples: text: A school of herring was visible on doppler.
topics: fishing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
military
politics
war
hypernyms: sonar
<
imaging#Noun
qualifier: by ellipsis
glosses: Ellipsis of Doppler sonar.
doppler
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dopplers
form: dopplering
form: dopplered
form: dopplered
Etymology: By ellipsis and appellativization.
Senses: examples: text: The race car dopplered past.
glosses: To travel while emitting a sound that changes pitch due to the Doppler effect.
dopplers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doppler
pitchpine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitchpines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pitch pine.
pitchpines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pitchpine
biteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: bite + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bite
winneth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: win + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of win
weeniest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of weeny: most weeny
weenier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of weeny: more weeny
unceiled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + ceiled.
Senses: examples: text: The cell was such a one as a convict would now disdain to inhabit. A low lean-to roof; the slates and rafters unceiled; the stone walls and floor unplastered.
ref: 1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 3, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 86:
glosses: Not ceiled.
megatherium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megatheriums
form: megatheria
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: A ground sloth of the extinct genus Megatherium
Related terms: megatherial
megatherian
megatherioid
piggie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piggies
Etymology: From pig + -ie.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of piggy.
arigato
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑːɹiˈɡɑːtoʊ/
ipa: /æ-/
ipa: /-ɹɪ-/
ipa: /-ɡæ-/
ipa: /ˌɑːɹiˈɡɑːtəʊ/
ipa: /æ-/
ipa: /-ɹɪ-/
ipa: /-ɡæ-/
rhymes: -ɑːtəʊ
rhymes: -ætəʊ
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese ありがとう (arigatō, “thank you”).
Senses: examples: text: And though those arigato smiles/Stay in your memory for a while/There still seems more to come
ref: 1974, Neville "Noddy" Holder, Jim Lea, “Far Far Away”, in Slade in Flame (UK 7" vinyl single, 11 Oct 1974; UK LP as either 12" vinyl or cassette tape, 29 Nov 1974; US 12" vinyl LP, 1975 ?June), performed by Slade, Polydor (London, UK) 2058 522, 2442 146, 3170 209; Warner Bros (Los Angeles, USA) BS 2865; no US 7" release; no US LP release till 1975:
glosses: Thank you (used in the context of, or to evoke, Japanese culture).
invalidish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From invalid + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: 1806, John Jebb, letter dated 4 October, 1806, in Charles Foster (ed.), The Life of John Jebb […] with a Selection from his Letters, London: James Duncan, 1837, 2nd edition, p. 415,
I had it in my power to accommodate an invalidish lady with a seat in my carriage, for the last two stages of the journey, there being a great run on the road.
text: Mrs. Willowes made a poor recovery after Laura’s birth; as time went on, she became more and more invalidish, though always pleasantly so.
ref: 1926, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes, London: Chatto & Windus, published 1964, Part 1, p. 16:
text: After the stroke, Constance once again sat in an invalidish room that smelled of flannel sheets and dog.
ref: 2015, Bee Wilson, “Throw it out the window”, in London Review of Books, volume 37, number 14:
glosses: Characteristic of an invalid.
moosehide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moosehides
Etymology: From moose + hide.
Senses: glosses: The hide of a moose
moosehides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moosehide
banistered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of banister
banistering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of banister
lazied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lazy
lazies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lazy
lazies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lazy
examples: text: Just so your idle vagrant, he would work for his living, but no body will hire him; he would work, but he wants clothes; clothes you give him, but then he wants tooles; you supply him with tooles, but the truth is, he hath an infirmity, he is lame in his limbs and sickly; nay, the truth is, he is lame in his will and sick of the lazies: were the will right, these excuses needed not.
ref: 1654, Robert Harris, “The Way to True Blessedness in XXIV Sermons on the Beatitudes”, in The Works of Robert Harris, London: John Bartlet, page 99:
text: A picker beside him wiped his neck. “I sure wish I was in one of them trailers, laying back and letting the lazies git me.”
ref: 1957, Vinnie Williams, The Fruit Tramp, London: Hutchinson, page 93:
text: It’s the biggest and most important muscle you have, but your glutes can get a case of the lazies, forgetting to “activate” or “turn on” sufficiently during everyday tasks or workouts […]
ref: 2016 April, Marissa Gainsburg, “Bringing Up the Rear”, in Women’s Health South Africa, page 50:
glosses: Laziness; the mood or feeling of being lazy.
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lazying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lazy
gudeman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gudemen
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of goodman.
gudemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gudeman
athrob
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈθɹɒb/
rhymes: -ɒb
Etymology: From a- + throb.
Senses: examples: text: Thou wondrous harper, that hast thrilled my heart, […]
And made me all athrob with ecstasy,—
ref: 1858, Martin Farquhar Tupper, Alfred, Westminster, act V, page 50:
text: The great test was on, whether such a nation could live, and Boston was athrob with love of country and eagerness to sacrifice.
ref: 1911, James Oppenheim, chapter 4, in The Nine-Tenths, New York: Harper, pages 57–58:
text: […] all the earth was blurred in darkness and the sky a-throb with starlight, for it was yet an hour until the rising of the moon.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, chapter 24, in The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC:
text: I have my sore wound, all my length of arm
a-throb with lancing pain;
ref: 1974, Robert Fitzgerald, transl., The Iliad, Garden City, New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday, Book 16, p. 393:
glosses: Throbbing.
performe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of perform.
pronging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prong
whispy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more whispy
form: most whispy
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wispy
donged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dong
donging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dong
eschatologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eschatologists
Etymology: From eschatology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Few anticommunist accusations are more trite than that Marxism is a religion, the Manifesto a religious tract and Marx himself, in the words of one right-wing libertarian critic, Murray Rothbard, a ‘religious eschatologist’.
ref: 2022, China Miéville, quoting Murray Rothbard, chapter 6, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:
glosses: One who practises eschatology.
Derived terms: geo-eschatologist
wbu
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of what about you?.
live-tweet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: live-tweets
form: live-tweeting
form: live-tweeted
form: live-tweeted
form: live tweet
form: livetweet
Etymology: From live + tweet.
Senses: examples: text: Or maybe, like Stern, you can live-tweet comments about a television show as it is broadcast.
ref: 2011, David Meerman Scott, The New Rules of Marketing & PR: How to Use Social Media, Online Video, Mobile Applications, Blogs, News Releases, and Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
text: Realizing the need he had discovered—no record of the General Assembly's proceedings had to that point existed on Twitter—he returned the next night to live-tweet the whole event.
ref: 2011, Writers for the 99%, Occupying Wall Street: The Inside Story of an Action that Changed America, OR Books, →ISBN, page 84:
text: We weren't planning to live-tweet the birth, but we felt in that moment that we needed the power of prayer.
ref: 2013, Kelsey Williams, “Rooney's Birth Story”, in Parenting, Uncensored: Straight Talk from Real Moms on Giving Birth, →ISBN:
text: He dreams of Mars as he bestrides Earth, square-jawed and indomitable. Lately, Elon Musk also likes to live-tweet his poops.
ref: December 13 2021, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger, Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time Magazine, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2021:
glosses: To provide real-time updates or commentary on an event in progress through Twitter posts.
pigsticker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pigstickers
Etymology: From pig + sticker.
Senses: glosses: A large knife, used as a weapon.
glosses: A spike bayonet
glosses: A sled with a pointed front.
glosses: A hunter of wild boar.
glosses: A horse well-suited to hunt wild boar.
glosses: A pork butcher.
Related terms: pigsticking
like a stuck pig
pigstickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pigsticker
blowdry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blowdries
form: blowdrying
form: blowdried
form: blowdried
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blow-dry.
blowdry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blowdries
form: blowdrys
Senses: examples: text: Lucie, for one, avoided the pool for the havoc it wrought on her blowdry.
ref: 2012, Louise Candlish, chapter 21, in The Day You Saved My Life, London: Sphere, →ISBN, page 299:
text: You’ll come here, across the road from the Bluebird, because the blowdries are spot on: shiny, swingy, just the right amount of oomph (there’s a brand-new product line about to launch, so you can keep up the good work at home).
ref: 2015 December, “Salon directory: And the award goes to…”, in Francesca White, editor, Tatler, London: Tatler Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, “Tatler Hair Guide 2016” supplement, page 18, column 2:
text: Learn how to do killer blowdrys, make beautiful braids, create amazing updos for special occasions, and a host of other looks.
ref: 2016, Style Your Hair (Try It!), London: DK, →ISBN, back cover:
glosses: Alternative form of blow-dry.
blowdried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blowdry
blowdries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blowdry
blowdries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blowdry
blowdrying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blowdry
wingbacked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From wingback + -ed.
Senses: examples: a wingbacked chair
glosses: Having wingbacks.
embrasured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From embrasure + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having embrasures.
undervoice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌndə(ɹ)ˌvɔɪs/
ipa: /ˌʌndə(ɹ)ˈvɔɪs/
Forms: form: undervoices
Etymology: From under- + voice.
Senses: examples: text: Her sensations were indefinable, and so were they a few minutes afterwards upon hearing Henry Crawford, who had a chair between herself and Tom, ask the latter in an under voice whether there were any plan for resuming the play after the present happy interruption […]
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter II, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 40:
text: Brayder introduced them to one or two of the men, hastily and in rather an undervoice, as a thing to get over.
ref: 1859, George Meredith, chapter XXXVI, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC:
text: A thousand soft undervoices that jumped my jangled senses from his last, weakly syllabled wind to a mosaic of voices within voices, each one immanent in the other, none his but all strangely his […]
ref: 1990, Charles R. Johnson, Middle Passage, Simon & Schuster, published 2012, page 171:
text: Through the battered century of world wars and massive violence by other means, there had always been an undervoice that spoke through the cannon fire and ack-ack and that sometimes grew strong enough to merge with the battle sounds. It was the struggle between the state and secret groups of insurgents, state-born, wild-eyed—the anarchists, terrorists, assassins and revolutionaries who tried to bring about apocalyptic change.
ref: 1997, Don DeLillo, part 5, chapter 4, in Underworld, part 5, New York: Scribner
text: […] Your mother
Played Prospero, flying her magic in
To stage the Masque, and bless the marriage,
Eavesdropping on the undervoices
Of the honeymooners in Paris […]
ref: 1998, Ted Hughes, “Setebos”, in Birthday Letters, Faber & Faber:
glosses: A low or quiet voice.
undervoice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌndə(ɹ)ˌvɔɪs/
ipa: /ˌʌndə(ɹ)ˈvɔɪs/
Forms: form: undervoices
form: undervoicing
form: undervoiced
form: undervoiced
Etymology: From under- + voice.
Senses: examples: text: Consequently, the danger for Dutch learners of English is undervoicing the English lenis fricatives rather than the reverse.
ref: 1984, Beverley Collins, Inger Margrethe Mees, The Sounds of English and Dutch, page 51:
glosses: To voice too weakly.
examples: text: Undervoicing the flame, there was the popping of hollow weed stalks, the tinkle of woody stems crisping and falling in coals.
ref: 1902, Martha McCulloch-Williams, Next to the Ground: Chronicles of a Countryside, page 74:
glosses: To make a quieter or background sound beneath.
undervoices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undervoice
undervoices
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undervoice
tweeded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tweed + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing tweed
blonded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blond
glosses: simple past and past participle of blonde
blonding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blond
glosses: present participle and gerund of blonde
chagrinned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chagrin
chagrinned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chagrinned
form: most chagrinned
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chagrined.