cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
round table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹaʊn(d).teɪbl̩/
Forms: form: round tables
Etymology: From Middle English rounde table, ronde tabell, equivalent to round + table.
Senses: glosses: A conference at which participants of similar status discuss and exchange views.
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: A television show segment in which pundits or reporters discuss current events.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see round, table.
Hypernyms: table
vesania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin vesania, from vesanus ‘mad’, from ve- ‘not’ + sanus ‘sane’.
Senses: examples: 2003: Overall, Cullen defined insanity (‘vesania’) as a nervous disorder. — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 311)
1894: American Journal of Insanity (Baltimore, MD), Jul. 1894: It is a morbid condition, consisting of exacerbations of pruriginous sensations in the hairy parts of the body, accompanied by a vesania, that leads the subjects to try to get relief by pulling out the hairs...
glosses: Madness, insanity, mental derangement.
round-trip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: round-trips
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of round trip.
round-trip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: round-trips
form: round-tripping
form: round-tripped
form: round-tripped
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of roundtrip.
rowdiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rowdinesses
Etymology: From rowdy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Spectator rowdiness and movement during matches is considered part of the “modern era of tennis” and good for the game, attracting nonfans interested in the spectacle.
ref: 2007 September 16, “Letters to the Editor”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Jan 2021:
glosses: The state of being rowdy.
rowdyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rowdyisms
Etymology: From rowdy + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Ayah stops to one side and I dive into the tangle of limbs yelling for all I’m worth, contributing my mite of rowdyism to the general row.
ref: 1988, Bapsi Sidhwa, Ice-Candy Man, Daunt Books (2016), page 49:
glosses: The state of being rowdy.
helminth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛl.mɪnθ/
rhymes: -ɪnθ
Forms: form: helminths
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἕλμινθος (hélminthos), genitive singular of ἕλμινς (hélmins, “intestinal worm”).
Senses: glosses: A parasitic worm; a fluke, tapeworm, or nematode.
Derived terms: anthelminthic
anthelmintic
antihelminth
antihelminthic
antihelmintic
endohelminth
geohelminth
helminthic
helminthicide
helminthism
helminthite
helminthoid
helminthology
helminthophagous
helminthophagy
helminthophobia
helminthosis
helminthotoxin
helminthous
nemathelminth
Related terms: word: helminthiasis
english: segmented worm
translation: segmented worm
word: Annelida
alt: flatworm
word: Platyhelminthes
alt: nematode
word: Nematoda
english: thorny-headed worm, or spiny-headed worm
translation: thorny-headed worm, or spiny-headed worm
word: Acanthocephala
linear equations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linear equation
linear equation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linear equations
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polynomial equation of the first degree (such as x = 2y - 7)
modi operandi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of modus operandi
suppressant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: suppressants
Etymology: From suppress + -ant.
Senses: glosses: A substance that suppresses.
suppressor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suppressors
Etymology: From suppress + -or.
Senses: glosses: A device which suppresses something, especially an electronic or mechanical device.
examples: text: Silencers, also called suppressors, are tube-shaped devices that, when screwed into the muzzle of a gun, slow the decompression of gases that propel a bullet forward, thus reducing the “pop” sound of gunfire. […] “I don’t think in real life, in practical applications, that there is that great of a tactical advantage to use a suppressor, especially for something like a mass shooting,” Gutowski said.
ref: 2025 March 26, Hannah Rabinowitz, “DOJ considers abandoning the defense of federal restrictions on gun silencers”, in CNN:
glosses: A device which suppresses something, especially an electronic or mechanical device.
A device added to the barrel of a firearm which reduces the noise and flash generated by firing the weapon.
synonyms: silencer
muffler
glosses: A person who suppresses others, a tyrant.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A gene that suppresses the effect of another through epistasis.
Derived terms: flash suppressor
surge suppressor
Related terms: suppressant
surrealistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more surrealistically
form: most surrealistically
Etymology: From surrealistic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The artist painted the flowers surrealistically.
glosses: In a surreal manner.
suppressible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more suppressible
form: most suppressible
Etymology: From suppress + -ible.
Senses: examples: text: The urge to clear my throat was suppressible, but the urge to sneeze wasn't, and so I made a large noise in the middle of the solo.
glosses: Capable of being suppressed.
surliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surlinesses
Etymology: From surly + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: There has been an escalation of police harassment in the gay community: five brutal busts at the Crystal Hotel; the closing of sex clubs without notice; beatings of women outside Amelia's Bar in January and surliness and assaults against lesbians by off duty officers at Peg's Club later.
ref: 1979 August 4, Carl Wittman, “Streets of San Francisco”, in Gay Community News, page 12:
glosses: The property of being surly.
sureness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃʊənəs/
ipa: /ˈʃɔːnəs/
ipa: /ˈʃʊɹnəs/
ipa: /ˈʃoːnəs/
ipa: /ˈʃoːnɘs/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)nəs
Forms: form: surenesses
Etymology: From Middle English surenes; equivalent to sure + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: His sureness was born of having looked it up in a reputable reference book.
glosses: The property of being sure, certainty.
examples: text: The surgeon's sureness was the result of long study in school and long practice in the operating room, never did he hesitate and never was there a mis-move.
glosses: The property of being sure, deft, confident of ability.
glosses: The result or product of being sure.
dandelion clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dandelion clocks
Senses: examples: text: Dandelion clocks! -- Pray what are they? ... by far the best clock is made by blowing the downy seed of the dandelion.
ref: 1841 April 24, “Breakfast Table Science for Young People”, in Parley's Magazine, New York, page 112:
synonyms: blowball
puffball
glosses: A single stem of a dandelion in its post-flowering state with the downy covering of its head intact.
surgically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From surgical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: His cancer was treated surgically instead of with drugs or radiation.
text: When HBO airs “Behind the Candelabra” on May 26, the world will get to see Matt Damon play Liberace’s drug-addled, surgically enhanced lover – a role about as far from Jason Bourne as it gets.
ref: 2013 March 11, Adam Markovitz, “Matt Damon on (maybe) returning to ‘Bourne’ and playing Liberace’s lover”, in CNN:
text: The cause of uroperitoneum often can be determined and the condition corrected surgically.
ref: 2015 July 3, Ueli Braun, Karl Nuss, “Uroperitoneum in cattle: Ultrasonographic findings, diagnosis and treatment”, in Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica, volume 57, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to surgery; by means of surgery.
Derived terms: surgically gowned
surgically induced childhood
drayman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: draymen
form: dray-man
Etymology: From dray + -man.
Senses: glosses: A man who drives drays.
examples: text: I likewiſe delivered up my Watch, which the Emperor was very curious to ſee, and commanded two of his talleſt Yeomen of the Guards to bear it on a Pole upon their Shoulders, as Dray-Men in England do a Barrel of Ale.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Emperor of Lilliput, Attended by Several of the Nobility, Come to See the Author in His Confinement. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), page 45:
glosses: A deliveryman for a brewery.
sublimity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sublimities
Etymology: From Middle English sublimite, sublimitee, from Middle French sublimité and/or Latin sublīmitās. By surface analysis, sublime + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The frantic father struts the stage, / And swells with true sublimity of rage / Against his son, who leads a wanton life, / And scorns the offer of a dowried wife.
ref: 1838, Horace, “Satire IV”, in David Hunter, transl., The Satires and Epistles of Horace, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], →OCLC, book I, pages 20–21, lines 63–66:
synonyms: word: sublime
word: sublimeness
glosses: The quality or state of being sublime.
synonyms: sublime
glosses: Something sublime.
pommeled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pommelled
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pommel
pommeled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pommelled
Senses: examples: text: The early unadorned variety of ring-pommeled swords that dated to the fourth century and before has come to light in Paekche, but archaeologists have usually uncovered that type from Kaya and Silla.
ref: 1998, Sacred Texts and Buried Treasures, page 74:
glosses: Having a pommel.
unpalatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpalatable
form: most unpalatable
Etymology: From un- + palatable.
Senses: examples: text: In one corner of the room there was a huge hearth, over which hung a stock-pot, with a not altogether unpalatable odour of hot soup emanating therefrom.
ref: 1905 January 12, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], The Scarlet Pimpernel, popular edition, London: Greening & Co., published 20 March 1912, →OCLC:
text: She did not mean to pamper herself any longer, to go without food because her surroundings made it unpalatable.
ref: 1905, Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
text: Experimentally, some ink has been shown to be unpalatable to fish (Wood et al. 2010) and observationally, ink can also function as an attractant to predators to give cephalopods a bit more time to escape.
ref: 2017 August 9, Mark Carnall, “Why do cephalopods produce ink? And what's ink made of, anyway?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Unpleasant to the taste.
examples: text: But enough of this. Homely truth is unpalatable.
ref: 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC:
text: "This is very perplexing," said Duke Deodonato, and he knit his brows; for as he gazed upon the beauty of the damsel, it seemed to him a thing unnatural, undesirable, unpalatable, unpleasant, and unendurable, that she should wed Dr. Fusbius.
ref: 1895, Anthony Hope, Frivolous Cupid:
text: A plain, seemingly graceless stylist, his rather unpalatable movies, full of rabid, sloggingly orchestrated physical pain and psychic damage, picture crime as a monstrous, miasmal evil, divesting it of any glamour it ever had.
ref: 2003, Jack Shadoian, Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster Film, page 196:
text: Their capacity for talking so much and saying so little is astonishing. Their verbosity is unpalatable.
ref: 2016 February 8, Marwan Bishara, “Why Obama fails the leadership test in the Middle East”, in Al Jazeera English:
glosses: Unpleasant or disagreeable.
Synonyms: word: distasteful
word: ill-flavored
word: uneatable
word: unpalatable
word: unsavory
word: unstomachable
word: yucky
Hypernyms: word: gustable
word: unpleasant
Hyponyms: word: bitter
word: unsweetened
word: unsweet
word: sour
Related terms: word: inedible
unpalatable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unpalatables
Etymology: From un- + palatable.
Senses: examples: text: In the severer cases of hookworm the patient sometimes has an appetite for soil, paper, hair, clay, chalk, starch, and other unpalatables.
ref: 1934, Your Germs and Mine, page 295:
text: His wife, a small woman who walked always on high heels, borrowed Gerhardie's primus stove several times a day to cook her husband gargantuan meals of cockles, mussels, snails, and other such unpalatables.
ref: 1990, Dido Davies, Andrew Davies, William Gerhardie: A Biography, page 164:
text: Denial and disbelief tend to be the default, not a pragmatic embracing of unthinkables and unpalatables. The way things have been is not the way they are and will soon be.
ref: 2019, Paul Williams, Andreas Krebs, The Illusion of Invincibility:
glosses: Anything distasteful.
chevrotain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɛvɹə(ʊ)teɪn/
ipa: /ˈʃɛvɹəˌteɪn/
Forms: form: chevrotains
Etymology: Borrowed from French chevrotain, chevrotin (“ruminant of the family Tragulidae”), the diminutive of Old French chevrot (“young goat, kid”), itself a diminutive of chievre (“goat”) (modern French chèvre (“she-goat”)) + -ot (diminutive suffix). Chievre is derived from Latin capra (“she-goat”), from caper (“billy goat, he-goat”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kápros (“billy goat, he-goat”)) + -a (suffix forming feminine counterparts of masculine nouns).
Senses: examples: text: To this vve may add the Chevrotin, or little Guinea Deer, vvhich is the leaſt of all cloven-footed quadrupeds, and perhaps the moſt beautiful; its legs, at the ſmalleſt part, are not much thicker than the ſhank of a tobacco-pipe; it is about ſeven inches high, and about tvvelve from the point of the noſe to the inſertion of the tail.
ref: 1791, Oliver Goldsmith, “Of Animals of the Sheep and Goat Kind”, in An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature. […], new edition, volume III, London: […] F[rancis] Wingrave, successor to Mr. [John] Nourse, […], →OCLC, page 76:
glosses: Any of several small hornless ruminants of the family Tragulidae, native to tropical rainforests of South and Southeast Asia, and Central and West Africa.
Synonyms: mouse deer
tragulid
Hyponyms: taxonomic: Tragulus nigricans
word: Balabac chevrotain
taxonomic: Moschiola indica
word: Indian spotted chevrotain
word: larger Malayan chevrotain
word: larger Malay chevrotain
word: lesser Malayan chevrotain
word: lesser Malay chevrotain
taxonomic: Tragulus versicolor
word: silver-backed chevrotain
taxonomic: Moschiola meminna
word: Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain
taxonomic: Hyemoschus aquaticus
word: water chevrotain
taxonomic: Moschiola kathygre
word: yellow-striped chevrotain
rice queen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rice queens
form: rice-queen
form: Rice Queen
Etymology: From rice with the (somewhat derogatory) sense of "Asian man," combined with queen to imply "homosexual attraction to...". Compare bean queen for derivation; one was probably formed by analogy with the other.
Senses: examples: 1984, Herbert Gold, Mister White Eyes: A Novel, Arbor House, →ISBN, page 204,
These were nostalgic gray wolves in this place, or maybe they were the ones who spent the money and brought in the chickens. A rice queen with a Japanese boy (maybe Chinese).
1995, unnamed interview subject, quoted in Laurence Wai-Teng Leong and Gerard Sullivan, Gays and Lesbians in Asia and the Pacific: Social and Human Services, Haworth Press, →ISBN, page 101,
If a man like myself in his 40s goes into a gay bar in Australia, no heads are going to turn. There are a few young Asian men and a lot of rice queens. In Thailand the position is reversed and the Caucasian man can choose.
2005, Regie Cabico, "gameboy", in Emanuel Xavier (Ed.), Bullets & Butterflies: Queer Spoken Word Poetry, Suspect Thoughts Press, →ISBN, page 50,
[…] / i am not a teriyaki toy / / a rice queen's dream a bowl of soy sauce to dip yr meat in / […]
topics: LGBT
glosses: A non-Asian man who is mostly attracted to East Asian men.
Synonyms: Queen of Chinatown
Related terms: bean queen
rice king
gabbiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gabby + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being gabby.
gabled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gable + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having one or more gables.
Derived terms: ungabled
gainful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gainful
form: most gainful
form: gainfull
Etymology: From gain (“against, contrary”) + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Contrary.
glosses: Disposed to taking advantage of.
glosses: Troublesome; fractious; hard to handle.
Synonyms: word: advantageous
word: gainful
word: gainsome
word: lucrative
word: lucriferous
word: lucrific
word: paying
word: profitable
word: remunerative
gainful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gainful
form: most gainful
form: gainfull
Etymology: From gain (“profit, foredeal”) + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: How can we find gainful employment with dignity for the uneducated?
glosses: Providing gain; profitable.
Synonyms: word: advantageous
word: gainful
word: gainsome
word: lucrative
word: lucriferous
word: lucrific
word: paying
word: profitable
word: remunerative
Derived terms: gainfully
gainfulness
ungainful
ungainfully
gainfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gainfully
form: most gainfully
Etymology: From gainful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a gainful manner; profitably.
gainsaid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gainsay
galleria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gallerias
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian galleria. Doublet of gallery.
Senses: glosses: An indoor area, or covered courtyard, containing shops.
anvil cloud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anvil clouds
Senses: glosses: A tall thundercloud (cumulonimbus) whose top has reached the tropopause and become flat, creating a characteristic shape likened to an anvil.
Synonyms: cumulonimbus incus
misconstrued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misconstrue
misconstrued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Interpreted erroneously, understood incorrectly; misunderstood.
surveyor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈveɪə/
rhymes: -eɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: surveyors
form: surveyour
Etymology: From Middle English surveyour, from Anglo-Norman surveour, from Old French sorveor. By surface analysis, survey + -or.
Senses: glosses: A person occupied with surveying: the process of determining positions on the earth's surface.
coordinate_terms: respondent
glosses: One who carries out a survey or poll.
examples: text: Other costs associated with selling a home include surveyor's fees, legal fees, estate agent's commission, stamp duty and the VAT.
glosses: A person charged with inspecting something for the purpose of determining its condition, value, etc.
Derived terms: land surveyor
quantity surveyor
surveyor general
surveyorship
tide surveyor
sultrily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sultrily
form: most sultrily
Etymology: From sultry + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sultry manner.
suds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌdz/
rhymes: -ʌdz
Forms: form: sud
Etymology: From the plural of sud, a variant of sod (“a bubbling or boiling”), equivalent to sud + -s. Related to seethe.
Senses: examples: text: Mrs Durbeyfield, excited by her song, trod the rocker with all the spring that was left in her after a long day's seething in the suds.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 30:
glosses: Lather; foam or froth formed by mixing soap and water.
examples: text: We went out for some pizza and suds.
glosses: Beer.
Derived terms: oversuds
soapsuds
suds up
suds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌdz/
rhymes: -ʌdz
Forms: form: sudses
form: sudsing
form: sudsed
form: sudsed
Etymology: From the plural of sud, a variant of sod (“a bubbling or boiling”), equivalent to sud + -s. Related to seethe.
Senses: examples: text: We sudsed the car before washing it down until it gleamed like new.
glosses: To cover with, or as if with, soapsuds.
sublimely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sublimely
form: most sublimely
Etymology: From sublime + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sublime manner.
submissively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more submissively
form: most submissively
Etymology: From submissive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a submissive manner.
subcontractor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subcontractors
Etymology: From sub- + contractor.
Senses: synonyms: sub
glosses: A contractor hired by another contractor (often a general contractor) and thus employed by that contractor rather than directly hired by the customer.
Related terms: background check
farmed out
farm out
fly-by-night
subbed
subbed out
sub out
underqualified
general contractor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: general contractors
Senses: topics: business
construction
engineering
manufacturing
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A contractor hired to manage a project and to hire subcontractors. (If a customer serves as their own general contractor then this means they undertake the management tasks and the hiring of subcontractors.)
Synonyms: prime contractor
main contractor
jugged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: jugged hare
glosses: Having been cooked by jugging.
examples: a large-jugged babe
glosses: Having a specified kind of breasts.
jugged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jug
commemorative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: First attested in 1612; borrowed from New Latin commemorātīvus, from commemorō. By surface analysis, commemorate + -ive, cognate with French commémoratif.
Senses: examples: text: a commemorative plaque
text: The centenary of Britain's most famous train has called for a commemorative and descriptive work and in this 40-page illustrated booklet the author has tried—with some success, to pour a quart into a pint pot.
ref: 1962 October, “New Reading on Railways: The Flying Scotsman 1862-1962. By C. Hamilton Ellis. Allen & Unwin. 6s.”, in Modern Railways, unnumbered page:
text: The plaza in front of San Francisco's City Hall was the scene Nov. 27 of two separate ceremonies commemorative of the assassinations one year ago of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk.
ref: 1979 December 8, “Services Honor Milk, Moscone”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 20, page 1:
glosses: Serving to commemorate something.
Derived terms: commemoratively
commemorativeness
noncommemorative
commemorative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commemoratives
Etymology: First attested in 1612; borrowed from New Latin commemorātīvus, from commemorō. By surface analysis, commemorate + -ive, cognate with French commémoratif.
Senses: glosses: An object made to commemorate a person, mark an event, etc.
examples: text: beautiful Pictorials, topicals, commemoratives, airmails. Introductory selection 40% discount. Ralph Rice, 15 Longlane, West Hartford 7, Conn.
ref: 1956 December, “Classified Advertisements: Stamp collecting”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 106, number 6, page 57:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: A postage stamp issued to commemorate, usually a person or event; also commonly applied to thematic (topical) stamp issues.
galoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəˈluːt/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: galoots
Etymology: From Quranic Arabic جالُوت (jālūt, pronounced galūt in Egyptian Arabic), proper name equivalent to English Goliath, giant warrior of the ancient Philistine ethnicity; cf. connotations of derogatory uses of English Philistine. Doublet of goliath.
Senses: examples: text: “I talk like a galoot when I get talking to feemale^([sic]) girls and I can’t lay my tongue to anything that sounds right.”
ref: 1901, Frank Norris, The Octopus, published 2008, page 293:
text: “Now there was an ugly galoot whose name isn’t worth mentioning.[…]”
ref: 1901, Winston Churchill, The Crisis, published 2008, page 190:
text: On TV and in movies and magazine ads, the image of fathers over the past generation evolved from the stern, sturdy father who knew best to a helpless Homer Simpson, or some ham-handed galoot confounded by the prospect of changing a diaper.
ref: 1993, Time, volume 141, numbers 18–26, page 53:
text: “So if someone does something I do not agree with, I could call him a galoot and it would be okay?”
“Something like that, if you were friends.”
“Are galoots always men?”
ref: 2012, John C. Gallagher, The Blood-Dimmed Tide Is Loosed, page 113:
synonyms: clodhopper
lout
lummox
oaf
glosses: A clumsy or uncouth person.
galosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəˈlɒʃ/
rhymes: -ɒʃ
Forms: form: galoshes
form: galoche
form: galoshe
Etymology: From Middle English galoche, from Old French galoche (“shoe with a wooden sole”), but further history is uncertain.
further theories
* From Vulgar Latin *galopium or Late Latin calopedia (“a wooden shoe; a shoe with a wooden sole”), from Ancient Greek κᾱλοπόδιον (kālopódion), diminutive of κᾱλόπους (kālópous, “shoemaker's block”), compound of κᾶλον (kâlon, “wood”) and πούς (poús, “foot”). (More at holt and foot.)
* From Late Latin gallicula, diminutive of Latin gallica (solea) (“Gallic (sandal)”).
* From Old French galette (“flat round cake”), from galet (“pebble”).
Senses: glosses: An overshoe or boot worn in wet weather:
A waterproof overshoe used to provide protection from rain or snow.
glosses: An overshoe or boot worn in wet weather:
A waterproof rubber boot, intended to be worn in wet or muddy conditions.
glosses: A gaiter, or legging, covering the upper part of the shoe and part of the leg.
Synonyms: sense: waterproof rubber boot
word: Wellington boot
sense: waterproof rubber boot
word: gumboot
Related terms: rainboot
overshoe
galoshe
galoche
gumshoe
galosh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəˈlɒʃ/
rhymes: -ɒʃ
Forms: form: galoshes
form: galoshing
form: galoshed
form: galoshed
Etymology: From Middle English galoche, from Old French galoche (“shoe with a wooden sole”), but further history is uncertain.
further theories
* From Vulgar Latin *galopium or Late Latin calopedia (“a wooden shoe; a shoe with a wooden sole”), from Ancient Greek κᾱλοπόδιον (kālopódion), diminutive of κᾱλόπους (kālópous, “shoemaker's block”), compound of κᾶλον (kâlon, “wood”) and πούς (poús, “foot”). (More at holt and foot.)
* From Late Latin gallicula, diminutive of Latin gallica (solea) (“Gallic (sandal)”).
* From Old French galette (“flat round cake”), from galet (“pebble”).
Senses: examples: text: My mother, at the age of seventeen, took them on single-handed, galoshing her way through the mud with bundles of tracts, not necessarily religious but always uplifting, and generous supplies of calves' foot jelly.
ref: 1979, Penelope Mortimer, About Time: An Aspect of Autobiography, page 36:
glosses: To walk while wearing, or as if wearing, galoshes; to splash about.
gameness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From game + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I mention gameness last, but it is the most important trait. It means that neither fatigue nor pain nor the psychology of being behind the entire time will cause the dog to lose his enthusiasm for fighting contact.
ref: 1991, Richard Stratton, The Truth about the American Pit Bull Terrier, T.F.H. Publications, Inc. Neptune City, New Jersey, →ISBN, page 193:
glosses: The quality of being game; bravery, courage or pluck
Related terms: dead game
gamester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gamesters
Etymology: Derived from game + -ster.
Senses: examples: text: And now, while they are climbing the pole in another part of the field, […] the old farmer […] announces to all whom it may concern that a half-sovereign in money will be forthcoming to the old gamester who breaks most heads; […]
ref: 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:
glosses: A person who plays games.
examples: text: Gamesters should know that Nintendo is considering a phone link that would allow players to compete via modem in nationwide competitions.
ref: 1990, Popular Mechanics, volume 167, number 3, page 37:
topics: video-games
glosses: One who plays video games.
examples: text: […] here were no Gibers, Cenſurers, Backbiters, Pick-pockets, Highwaymen, Houſebreakers, Attorneys, Bawds, Buffoons, Gameſters, Politicians, Wits, ſplenetick tedious Talkers, Controvertiſts, Raviſhers, Murderers, Robbers, Virtuoſo's; […]
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author’s Oeconomy and Happy Life among the Houyhnhnms. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms), page 301:
topics: gambling
games
glosses: A gambler.
examples: text: She's impudent my Lord, / And was a common gameſter to the Campe.
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii], page 252, column 2, lines 187–188:
glosses: A prostitute; one who is on the game.
Synonyms: sense: one who plays video games
word: gamer
sense: prostitute
word: prostitute
Derived terms: gamestress
UB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Ulaanbaatar.
examples: text: He was still going, and strongly at that, in a tiny apartment much invigilated by the “U.B.” or Polish secret police.
ref: 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 188:
glosses: Initialism of Urząd Bezpieczeństwa, a branch of the secret police in communist Poland.
glosses: Initialism of University of Baguio.
glosses: Initialism of University of Batangas.
UB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: UBs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Initialism of undefined behavior, behavior not defined in the language standard.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of upper bracket.
topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
coordinate_terms: AA
BB
FX
VT
glosses: Abbreviation of uneven bars.
qualifier: among vorarephiles
glosses: Initialism of unbirth.
UB
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Sexual affair ¶ Short or long term. I’m 34, lk. 28, well built, small, 150 lbs, 5’10”, married. UB well kept and care about yourself, married, single, young or old.
ref: 1996 October 4, “Variations”, in The Boston Phoenix, volume 25, number 40, Boston, Mass.: The Phoenix Media/Communications Group, Adult Services, page 3:
glosses: Abbreviation of you be.
raw_tags: in personal ads
Related terms: english: you be too
translation: you be too
word: UB2
gametic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəˈmɛtɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Etymology: From gamete + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to gametes.
Derived terms: digametic
gametically
gametic copulation
homogametic
intergametic
pregametic
gaminess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gamy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being gamy.
gangland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ganglands
Etymology: From gang + land.
Senses: examples: text: Australia's reputation as the happy-go-lucky country was turned on its head in the late 1990s as the usually safe streets of the Victorian capital were transformed into a gangland war zone.
ref: 2009 June 30, Anna Coren, “Australia gang war rages over drugs, money and power”, in CNN:
glosses: The underworld of organized crime.
Derived terms: ganglander
Einsatzgruppen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps the most blatant sign of Germany’s style of warfare in 1941 was the use of special murder squads. German authorities dispatched mobile killing units to follow the regular military into Soviet territory. The main units, known as the Einsatzgruppen, “special action groups,” included between ﬁve hundred and one thousand men each, many of them well educated,—lawyers, theologians, and other professionals.
ref: 2016, Doris L. Bergen, “Expansion and Systematization”, in War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust, page 195:
glosses: plural of Einsatzgruppe
beat someone's brains out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beats someone's brains out
form: beating someone's brains out
form: beat someone's brains out
form: beaten someone's brains out
form: beat someone's brains out
Senses: glosses: To beat someone very severely (especially in the head).
Synonyms: punch someone's lights out
Related terms: beat one's brains out
Einsatzgruppe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈaɪ̯n.zɑːtsˌɡɹʊp.ə/
/-zæts-/
Forms: form: Einsatzgruppen
form: Einsatz group
Etymology: Borrowed from German Einsatzgruppe (literally “deployment group”).
Senses: glosses: Any of four paramilitary units (Einsatzgruppen A, B, C, D) operated by the SS in German-occupied territory in the east (mainly Poland and the Soviet Union) during World War II, notorious for carrying out large numbers of massacres.
fucked in the head
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fucked in the head
form: most fucked in the head
Senses: glosses: Not quite right mentally: perverted, stupid, or mentally ill.
Related terms: soft in the head
Yorktown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈjɔː(ɹ)ktaʊn/
Etymology: From York + town, after its county.
Senses: glosses: A town, the county seat of York County, in southeastern Virginia, United States. It was the site of the final battle of the Revolutionary War.
wilier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of wily: more wily
canon laws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canon law
glosses: Religious rules, regulations and edicts.
States
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the States
Senses: qualifier: chiefly outside of the US
glosses: Ellipsis of United States.
examples: text: The structure will house the United States Army signal corps office which maintains radio and cable communication between Alaska and the States
ref: 1935 November 7, “Ketchikan, Alaska, to Get New Federal Building”, in Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: Those parts of the United States comprising states rather than territories.
examples: text: It wasn't until the Green Shutters was closed down by the States at the beginning of the First World War […] that the whores went into private business in Cornet Street.
ref: 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 43:
text: It has also led credence to the view of the outgoing chief minister that it is a handful of mischief-making existing deputies who are to blame for the perception that this States is already the worst ever.
ref: 2012 April 28, The Guernsey Press:
qualifier: Channel Islands
glosses: The parliament of either of the two Channel Islands countries: the States of Guernsey or the States of Jersey.
States
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of State
Related terms: state
fabricating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fabricate
uneventful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uneventful
form: most uneventful
Etymology: From un- + eventful.
Senses: examples: text: There were not many passengers, and the journey was uneventful until the frontier was reached at Padang Besar, although an armed escort of Malay police accompanied the train from Alor Star.
ref: 1955 April, “Notes and News: A Journey through Thailand”, in Railway Magazine, page 286:
text: Even in Austria, a largely uneventful democracy, the far right Freedom Party has achieved startling electoral success on the strength of its ability to play up people’s suspicions and anger that "everything is rigged" and that the system is weighted to discount the popular will.
ref: 2016 August 31, Rashmee Roshan Lall, “Nationalism is the new normal in global politics”, in The National:
synonyms: noneventful
glosses: monotonous; lacking significant or noteworthy events
normative economics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: economic thought in which one applies moral beliefs, or judgment, claiming that an outcome is "good" or "bad". For example: "this tax on cigarettes will be good because it will reduce smoking."
Coordinate terms: positive economics
WMF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Windows Media Format.
examples: text: “WMF has operated in the past without staffing and with very minimal staffing, so clearly it’s _possible_^([sic]) to host a high traffic website on an absolute shoestring,” acknowledged the Foundation’s then VP of engineering, Erik Möller, in 2013.
ref: 2022 October 12, Andrew Orlowski, “The next time Wikipedia asks for a donation, ignore it”, in UnHerd:
text: After resigning from the WMF as CEO, Katherine Maher became CEO of NPR; it was a sideways move or even a step down.
ref: 2025 September 30, Larry Sanger, “6. Reveal who Wikipedia’s leaders are.”, in larrysanger.org:
taxonomic: Wikimedia jargon
glosses: Initialism of Wikimedia Foundation.
examples: text: Every two years, the WMF adds new spots to its watch list, bringing awareness and helping garner funds for the sites’ ongoing protection.
ref: 2022 March 1, Francesca Street, “The endangered places on the World Monuments Watch list for 2022”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of World Monuments Fund.
WMF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WMFs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Windows Metafile.
marathoner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæ.ɹæ.θən.ə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: marathoners
Etymology: From marathon + -er.
Senses: examples: text: She called on all the marathoners to go to Staten Island to help with the clean-up effort and to bring the clothes they would have shed at the start to shelters or other places where displaced people were in need.
ref: 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, “After Days of Pressure, Marathon Is Off”, in The New York Times, retrieved 02 Nov 2012:
text: “I just go as long as I can before my legs get too heavy and my head gets in a haze,” said Chris Zablocki, the best marathoner most elite marathoners have never heard of.
ref: 2018 March 16, Lindsay Crouse, “Is Chris Zablocki the Best Extreme Marathoner?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Someone who participates in a marathon or other long-distance races.
Derived terms: half-marathoner
marathoners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marathoner
ultramarathons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ultramarathon
ultramarathoner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultramarathoners
Etymology: From ultramarathon + -er.
Senses: topics: athletics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Someone who participates in ultramarathons.
Synonyms: ultrarunner
ultramarathoners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ultramarathoner
nosology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɒˈsɒləd͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˌnoʊˈsɑləd͡ʒi/
Forms: form: nosologies
Etymology: From post-classical Latin nosologia, formed as from Ancient Greek νόσος (nósos, “disease”) + Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía, “discourse, branch of knowledge”).
Senses: glosses: A treatise or written classification of diseases.
glosses: The study of diseases; the systematic investigation or classification of disease.
examples: 2003: Thomas Arnold … constructed a nosology of insanity explicitly on the basis of the Lockean philosophy of mind — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 312)
glosses: The characteristics or scientific understanding of a specific disease.
Derived terms: nosological
nosologist
psychonosology
zoonosology
Related terms: nosocomial
ackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.kəɹz/
Etymology: Probably from Egyptian Arabic قرش (ʔerš, “piastre, Ottoman penny”). See also smackers, smackeroo, smackeroonies.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of money.
synonyms: word: money
ackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.kəɹz/
Senses: glosses: plural of acker
knuckle-dragging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the habit of some primates of walking with the forelimbs dragging along the ground.
Senses: examples: text: The furore over Penguin's wise and brave decision to “reflect the diversity of British society” in its publishing and hiring output seems to have awoken the usual knuckle-dragging, semi-blind suspects with their endlessly repeated terrors and fears.
ref: 2018 June 15, Hanif Kureishi, “Diversity in publishing is under attack. I hear the sound of knuckles dragging”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Holding beliefs or having attitudes that are primitive or uncivilised.
archtop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archtops
Etymology: From arch + top.
Senses: glosses: A style of large steel-stringed guitar having an arched belly, a neck at a slight angle to the body and a fretboard elevated above the soundboard.
Synonyms: archtop guitar
humbucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: humbuckers
Etymology: From hum (“noise”) + buck (“resist, overcome”) + -er.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A pickup, on an electric guitar, that has a pair of coils of reverse polarity connected in series in order to reduce buzzing noise caused by mains frequency.
Synonyms: humbucking pickup
humbucking pickup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: humbucking pickups
Senses: glosses: A humbucker
humbucking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a pair of coils or reverse polarity connected in series.
raw_tags: of the pickup of an electric guitar
Derived terms: humbucking pickup
Related terms: humbucker
punyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From puny + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The punyism of a senseless word like Duke, or Count, or Earl, has ceased to please.
ref: 1791, Thomas Paine, Rights of Man:
glosses: The quality of being puny; puniness.
brachiating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brachiating
form: most brachiating
Senses: glosses: That moves by the use of limbs; especially by swinging through the trees using the arms
Derived terms: brachiating ancestor
brachiating motion
brachiating robot
brachiating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brachiate
Related terms: brachiate
brachiation
keens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kiːnz/
rhymes: -iːnz
Senses: glosses: plural of keen
keens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kiːnz/
rhymes: -iːnz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of keen
ganglionic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ganglion + -ic.
Senses: examples: Episode 12, The Cyclops
The distinguished scientist Herr Professor Luitpold Blumenduft tendered medical evidence to the effect that the instantaneous fracture of the cervical vertebrae and consequent scission of the spinal cord would, according to the best approved tradition of medical science, be calculated to inevitably produce in the human subject a violent ganglionic stimulus of the nerve centres of the genital apparatus...
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or composed of ganglia.
Derived terms: aganglionic
extraganglionic
interganglionic
intraganglionic
monoganglionic
multiganglionic
nonganglionic
normoganglionic
paraganglionic
periganglionic
polyganglionic
postganglionic
preganglionic
supraganglionic
transganglionic
gangplank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gangplanks
form: gang-plank
form: gang plank
Etymology: From gang (“way, path, course of travel”) + plank (“board”).
Senses: examples: text: Every since the age of six Troy Belknap of New York had embarked for Europe every June on the fastest steamer of one of the most expensive lines. With his family he had descended at the dock from a large noiseless motor, had kissed his father good-bye, turned back to shake hands with the chauffeur (a particular friend), and trotted up the gang-plank behind his mother's maid, [...]
ref: 1918, Edith Wharton, chapter I, in The Marne, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 1:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside.
Derived terms: walk the gangplank
Related terms: gangboard
gangway
gantlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gantlets
Etymology: From Middle English gantlett, gantelette, variant of Middle English gauntelett. More at gauntlet.
Senses: examples: text: [John] Winthrop ran the gantlet of daily slights from his neighbors.
ref: 1858, John Gorham Palfrey, chapter XII, in History of New England during the Stuart Dynasty. […], volume I, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, book I, page 481:
glosses: Alternative spelling of gauntlet.
garfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garfishes
form: garfish
form: gar-fish
Etymology: From Middle English garfysche (“garfish”, literally “spear-fish”), from gor (“spear”) + fisch (“fish”). Cognate with Scots gairfish (“garfish”).
Senses: synonyms: needlefish
long-nose
sea needle
common hornbeak
hornbeak
garpike
glosses: Any fish of the needlefish family Belonidae, with a long narrow body and needle-shaped jaws, especially the European species Belone belone.
synonyms: gar
garpike
glosses: Any North or Central American fish of the family Lepisosteidae.
garishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more garishly
form: most garishly
Etymology: From garish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;[…]."
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: In a garish manner.
garishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garishnesses
Etymology: From garish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being garish.