cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
washless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From wash + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Seventy soapless, washless days.
ref: 1918, Donald Baxter MacMillan, Four Years in the White North, page 260:
glosses: Without a wash, or an act of washing.
examples: text: Beautiful women never use soap and water on their faces, since they find they can secure and retain complexions of sparkling beauty by the new washless method — the method that cleans out the clogged pores and keeps them clean.
ref: 1912, Theatre Magazine, volume 16, page 23:
glosses: That does not involve washing.
examples: text: There are now washless dishes, painless razors, painless shoes, painless corsets, prepared soups, painless photographs (it used to give you a stiff neck for three days to have your picture taken)[…]
ref: 1924, Don Herold, So Human, page 40:
glosses: That does not need to be washed.
Yukagir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Yukaghir.
Yukagir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Yukaghir.
ENAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ENA
ifisashi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Zambian stew made from vegetables and ground peanuts.
Otterham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Probably derived from the River Ottery. Recorded as Otrham in 1086 (DB).
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in north Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX1690).
Kamieńsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Kamieńsk.
Senses: glosses: A town in Lodz Voivodeship, Poland.
blitzable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blitzable
form: most blitzable
Etymology: From blitz + -able.
Senses: examples: text: We were heading for England, which had undergone a terrific blitz and, as far as we knew, was still blitzable. North Africa was also vulnerable.
ref: 1944, Bob Hope, I Never Left Home, page 16:
text: Seventhly, they are lasting, almost indestructible, certainly far less "blitzable" than paper.
ref: 1944, The Bankers' Magazine, volume 157, page 169:
glosses: Able to be struck or destroyed by a blitz attack.
chikanda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Zambian dish made from the boiled root tubers of terrestrial orchids.
trapdoored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trapdoor
trapdooring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trapdoor
Solomonoff induction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Introduced by Ray Solomonoff.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A form of induction, involving Bayes' theorem, that derives the posterior probability of any computable theory, given a sequence of observed data.
wikipedia: Ray Solomonoff
Eberhard effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eberhard effects
Etymology: Named after Gustav Eberhard.
Senses: topics: arts
broadcasting
film
hobbies
lifestyle
media
photography
television
glosses: The situation where narrow areas of high and low density cause two Mackie lines to meet, resulting in increased density in a small area.
wikipedia: Gustav Eberhard
Eberhard effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eberhard effect
five hundreds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of five hundred
Hatrene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæt.ɹiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
rhymes: -æ.tɹiːn
Forms: form: more Hatrene
form: most Hatrene
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hatran.
Hatrene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæt.ɹiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
rhymes: -æ.tɹiːn
Forms: form: Hatrenes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hatran.
Hatrene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæt.ɹiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
rhymes: -æ.tɹiːn
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hatran.
Hatrenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hatrene
Schoodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Scoudiac
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Schoodic Peninsula in Maine, United States.
Derived terms: Schoodic salmon
Scoudiac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Schoodic.
Riedones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Redones.
Rhedones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Redones.
superferry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superferries
Etymology: From super- + ferry.
Senses: examples: text: The company also runs a fast craft (2 hrs) and a superferry (3 hrs) between Belfast and Stranraer, Scotland, as well as a fast craft (2 hrs) between Rosslare and Fishguard, Wales.
ref: 2011, Fodor's Western Ireland: With Dublin:
glosses: A particularly large or luxurious ferry (passenger ship).
superferries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superferry
Colles' fracture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Colles' fractures
form: Colles fracture
Etymology: Named after Irish surgeon Abraham Colles (1773–1843), who first described it in 1814.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A distal fracture of the radius causing a dorsal displacement of the distal fragment, typically occurring as a result of a fall on an outstretched hand.
wikipedia: Abraham Colles
buck the tide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bucks the tide
form: bucking the tide
form: bucked the tide
form: bucked the tide
Senses: examples: text: But it appears Spain bucked the tide, pointed out Jordi Évole, one of Spain’s best-known television personalities on the left.
ref: 2023 July 24, Ashifa Kassam, “Vox party’s hardline attitudes appear to have turned off Spanish voters”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Synonym of buck the trend.
synonyms: word: buck the trend
Petersson inner product
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Petersson inner products
Etymology: It was introduced by the German mathematician Hans Petersson.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An inner product defined on the space of entire modular forms.
Petersson inner products
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Petersson inner product
1/4 final
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 1/4 finals
Senses: coordinate_terms: 1/8 final
1/2 final
glosses: Abbreviation of quarterfinal.
1/8 final
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 1/8 finals
Senses: coordinate_terms: 1/4 final
1/2 final
glosses: Abbreviation of eighth final.
1/2 final
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 1/2 finals
Senses: coordinate_terms: 1/8 final
1/4 final
glosses: Abbreviation of semifinal.
harpax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑɹpæks/
ipa: /ˈhɑːpæks/
Forms: form: harpaxes
form: harpaces
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἅρπαξ (hárpax, “rapacious”).
Senses: synonyms: harpago
glosses: An Ancient Roman catapult-shot grapnel.
harness race
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harness races
Senses: glosses: An individual race in harness racing.
harness races
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harness race
hassenpfeffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hasenpfeffer.
hashslinger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hashslingers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hash slinger.
hashslingers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hashslinger
harricane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harricanes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of hurricane.
harricanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harricane
Harrison red
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A brilliant vermilion aniline pigment.
Anglojap yew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Anglojap yews
Etymology: From Anglo- and Japanese.
Senses: glosses: Taxus × media, a conifer that is a hybrid of the English yew (Taxus baccata) and Japanese yew (Taxus cuspidata).
Anglojap yews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Anglojap yew
hat palm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hat palms
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Panama hat palm.
synonyms: word: Panama hat palm
hat palms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hat palm
haunchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more haunchy
form: most haunchy
Etymology: From haunch + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Like many shortish men he lifted his heels when he walked; he had a haunchy, oily swagger, and Scarsdale watched him go.
ref: 1932, Warwick Deeping, Old Wine and New:
text: Butterfield, a recessed soloist no more, leads them powerfully with his own singing and playing and with his physical presence, swaying before the drummer, doing a haunchy strut during a rhythmic solo […]
ref: 1968, New York Magazine, volume 1, number 32, page 50:
text: She walked out of the room with a haunchy slouch, […]
ref: 1999, Annie Proulx, Close Range: Wyoming Stories, page 218:
glosses: With a pronounced motion of the haunch.
Little Petherick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in St Issey parish, south of Padstow, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW9172).
Derived terms: Little Petherick Creek
hat dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hat dances
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Mexican hat dance.
synonyms: word: Mexican hat dance
hat dances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hat dance
Mexican hat dances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mexican hat dance
hauberget
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haubergets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of haberject.
haubergets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hauberget
takes to one's heels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take to one's heels
taking to one's heels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take to one's heels
took to one's heels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take to one's heels
taken to one's heels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take to one's heels
have other ideas
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has other ideas
form: having other ideas
form: had other ideas
form: had other ideas
Senses: examples: text: He wanted to get home and warm up, but his dog had other ideas. 'Jasper, you daft dog. Come here.' The dog continued to bark, and Harry knew he would have to go and retrieve the dog himself.
ref: 2022, Kat Green, Frozen Pact, page 1:
glosses: To do something different from what is proposed or expected.
per chief
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Party per chief, gules and or, are the Arms of Camoyse.
ref: 1845, Edward Smedley, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose, Encyclopaedia Metropolitana: Mixed sciences, page 602:
text: [...] which Anne bore parted per chief azure and vert, three martlets or, in the first a crescent az. for difference, but by her he had no issue.
ref: 1882, William Wheater, The history of the parishes of Sherburn and Cawood, page 175:
text: Per chief gules and sable, a lion rampant ermine (argent billetty sable). GOLDWELL,
ref: 1897, William Kirkpatrick Riland Bedford, The Blazon of Episcopacy: Being the Arms Borne by Or Attributed to the Archbishops and Bishops of England and Wales with an Ordinary of the Coats Described and of Other Episcopal Arms, page 173:
text: Cromwell of Tattershall : party per chief, gules and argent, a bend azure; which might also be blazoned as gules, a chief argent, and a bend azure (fig. 16). Heraldic writers give the fillet as a diminutive of the chief.
ref: 1903, Day Otis Kellogg, Thomas Spencer Baynes, The Encyclopædia Britannica: A-ZYM, page 694:
text: Shield—Quarterly first and fourth, quarterly Gules and Argent, in the first quarter a mullet Argent (De Vere); second, Gules, a bend between six cross crosslets fitchée Argent (Howard); third, per chief Gules and Argent[…]
ref: 1920, Grosvenor Thomas, Maurice Drake, The Costessey Collection of Stained Glass: Formerly in the Possession of George William Jerningham, 8th Baron Stafford of Costessey in the County of Norfolk, page 19:
text: Per chief gules and azure, over all a lion rampant or Hastang Robert G. 162 QI . 123 .... L. 69 J. 133 E. 153 Per chief or and azure, over all a lion rampant gules Hastang Sutton Robert John FW. 176 HE . 162 L. 228 Per chief gules[…]
ref: 1984, Cecil R. Humphery-Smith, Anglo-Norman Armory Two: An Ordinary of Thirteenth-century Armorials:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Partitioned into two parts by a horizontal line one-third of the way down the shield. A shield of this form is now normally viewed as one colour charged with a chief instead, although this may cause it to break the rule of tincture.
St Issey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Saint Yse or Ida (Wikipedia)
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish south-east of Padstow, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW9271).
havlagah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hebrew ההבלגה (literally “restraint”).
Senses: glosses: The Haganah policy of abstaining from revenge on Arab groups who attacked Jewish settlements during the British Mandate.
haworthias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haworthia
hay fevers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hay fever
hay feverite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hay feverites
Etymology: From hay fever + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: Hay feverites will be interested to know that Sydney Smith was also a sneezer.
ref: 1884, Journal of Materia Medica, volume 23, page 58:
glosses: A person who has hay fever.
hay feverites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hay feverite
times of their lives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time of one's life
hay knife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hay knives
Senses: glosses: An agricultural hand tool, a long-bladed, sometimes serrated knife for cutting sections from a pile of hay or silage.
hay knives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hay knife
struck measure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: struck measures
Senses: synonyms: strike measure
glosses: The practice of supplying goods (such as rice or coal) by filling a container and then removing any material that protrudes above the top, leaving it level rather than heaped.
Related terms: strickle
struck measures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of struck measure
heart-stopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heart-stoppers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of heartstopper.
rule of tincture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A design philosophy, or rule of thumb, found in some heraldic traditions, that "metal should not be put on metal, nor colour on colour".
wikipedia: Gilbert Denys
heart-stoppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heart-stopper
heart-to-hearts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heart-to-heart
wedding bells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Church bells rung to announce and celebrate a wedding.
examples: text: You know, he's all right, but I don't hear wedding bells or anything.
ref: 2005, Diann Hunt, Hot Flashes and Cold Cream, page 113:
text: Wedding bells are in the air. Both Nancy (my secretary) and Jenny (civil field engineer) are planning their weddings.
ref: 2009, Dan Shipman, Chinatized, page 179:
glosses: An implication that people might soon be married.
Taedong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: tǎʹdôngʹ
Forms: form: Daedong
form: Taidong
form: Taedonggang
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 대동강(大同江) (Daedonggang).
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Oh, who now lives in Seoul, knows that his parents have died — they would have been over 100 by now — but he found out only this month that his two sisters were alive in North Korea. And his kid brother, the little rascal he taught to swim in the Taedong River in Pyongyang, is also alive.
ref: 2010 October 29, Mark McDonald, “After 6 Decades of Separation in Korea, a Meeting”, in The New York Times, sourced from SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2023, Asia Pacific:
text: One project that has recently been completed is the Munsu Water Park (purportedly shown above in a picture from the KCNA news agency), which was described as a "monumental edifice for the people," on the banks of the Taedong River in Pyongyang.
ref: 2013 November 1, Julian Ryall, “Splashy Kim”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 25 May 2021, Asia:
text: A section of the Koryo Hotel, one of the oldest and best known hotels in Pyongyang, caught fire on Thursday, sources who witnessed the fire in the North Korean capital told Reuters.
Images obtained by Reuters showed plumes of black smoke billowing from the bridge connecting the two 43-storey towers of the 143-metre (469-feet) structure, which lies a short distance from Pyongyang's bustling train station and the Taedong river that cuts through the city.
ref: 2015 June 12, James Pearson, “Popular Pyongyang tourist spot the Koryo Hotel catches fire”, in Andrew Hay, Paul Tait, editors, Reuters, sourced from SEOUL (Reuters), archived from the original on 29 Jul 2024, World:
text: The "petrol clams" are fleshy and flavourful -- the secret to avoiding a hydrocarbon taste is not to inhale while slipping them into the mouth -- and a speciality of the West Sea Barrage beach at Nampho, southwest of Pyongyang.
The sandy beach lies at the far end of the eight-kilometre barrier across the Taedong river mouth -- ostensibly built for flood control, but which also blocks access to Pyongyang, a few dozen kilometres upriver, for any invading navy.
ref: 2017 August 3, “Shellfish, fire and Party praise: beach breaks, North Korea style”, in France 24, sourced from Nampho (North Korea) (AFP), archived from the original on 11 Nov 2020, Live news:
text: Rainstorms also pounded North Korea, where authorities issued heavy rain warnings for the southern and western parts of the country. North Korea’s official Rodong Sinmun newspaper described the rain as potentially disastrous and called for measures to protect farmland and prevent flooding on the Taedong River, which flows through the capital, Pyongyang.
ref: 2022 August 9, Kim Tong-hyung, “South Korean rain turns roads into rivers, leaves 9 dead”, in AP News, sourced from SEOUL, South Korea (AP), archived from the original on 09 Aug 2022:
glosses: The river that flows through Pyongyang in North Korea.
Synonyms: sense: from Japanese
word: Daido
sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Datong
word: Tatung
hebdomader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hebdomaders
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of hebdomadary.
hebdomaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hebdomader
hellabaloo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hellabaloos
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of hullabaloo.
hellaballoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hellaballoos
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of hullabaloo.
hellaballoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hellaballoo
hellabaloos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hellabaloo
hallaballoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hallaballoos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hullabaloo.
hallaballoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hallaballoo
hemlock parsley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemlock parsleys
Senses: glosses: Any of various flowering plants of the genus Conioselinum.
Trevorrick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in St Issey parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW9273).
coral bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coral beans
Senses: glosses: A flowering plant of species Erythrina herbacea
coral-bells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coral bells.
hemidystrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hemi- + dystrophy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Dystrophy of one side of the body.
hemidome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemidomes
Etymology: From hemi- + dome.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of semidome.
synonyms: word: semidome
hemipyramid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemipyramids
Etymology: From hemi- + pyramid.
Senses: glosses: A half-pyramid.
hemipyramids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemipyramid
hemidomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemidome
coral fungus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coral fungi
Senses: synonyms: clavarioid fungus
glosses: Any of a group of species within the division Basidiomycota, typically having erect, simple or branched basidiocarps (fruiting bodies) that are formed on the ground, on decaying vegetation, or on dead wood.
Coral Gables
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: You’re heading anywhere in Miami, including Coral Gables, Coconut Grove and from Miami Beach up to Bal Harbour.
ref: 2020 January 7, Rebecca Wallwork, “Which South Florida airport should I fly into?”, in CNN:
glosses: A city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States.
hemlock leather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemlock leathers
Senses: examples: text: The color of slaughter hemlock-leather is better than that from dry hides and it is more pliable than that made from dry or salted hides.
ref: 1877, United States. War Department, Annual Reports of the War Department, volume 1, page 256:
glosses: Leather that has been tanned with hemlock.
hemlock leathers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemlock leather
riot shield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riot shields
Senses: glosses: a lightweight handheld protection device, generally used in riot control.
heptasyllables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heptasyllable
heptarchal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a heptarchy.
subherbaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + herbaceous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Somewhat or almost herbaceous.
herba impia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin [Term?].
Senses: glosses: The plant Logfia filaginoides.
hereniging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hereeniging
Etymology: From Afrikaans [Term?]. Compare Dutch herenigen (“to reunite”).
Senses: glosses: Political reunion.
hereeniging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hereniging.
Tremayne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Tremaine.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Cornish.
punkin chunkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pumpkin chunkin'.
malestreams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malestream
herva maté
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yerba mate.
heterodactylism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: heterodactyly
glosses: The property of being heterodactylous.
heterodactyly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of heterodactylism.
synonyms: word: heterodactylism
heterogonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of heterogony.
synonyms: word: heterogony
heteropodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of heteropodous.
heteroousia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The quality of being heteroousian.
heterousia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of heteroousia.
hheth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hheths
Senses: examples: text: In farther eviction of what has been advanced, relative to the initial letters in the exergues of certain Sidonian coins; it may not be improper to observe, that a medal in my small collection exhibits the letter Hheth, immediately after the numerical inscription in the exergue.
ref: 1765, Philosophical Transactions, page 138:
glosses: Alternative form of heth (“Semitic letter”).
hheths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hheth
hexastylar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hexastyle.
synonyms: word: hexastyle
hexastylos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexastyloi
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hexastyle.
synonyms: word: hexastyle
hexastyloi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexastylos
hexaplaric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a hexapla.
hexaxon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexaxons
Senses: glosses: A spicule, of a sponge, having six axes.
hexaxons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexaxon
hic jacet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hic jacets
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin hīc jacet (“here lies”).
Senses: examples: text: What, in the precincts of the chapel-yard, / Among the knightly brasses of the graves, / And by the cold Hic Jacets of the dead!
ref: 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Vivien”, in Idylls of the King, page 133:
text: Level with the floor of the middle aisle are brasses of a male and a female figure with a hic jacet inscription denoting that Thomas Rowley, merchant and sheriff, died 33 Jan. 1478 and Margaret his wife, died 1470.
ref: 1872, John Taylor, A Book about Bristol: Historical, Ecclesiastical, and Biographical, from Original Research, page 132:
text: Presently, as I observed the wretched beings about me more closely, I perceived that they were all quite dead. Their bodies were so many living sepulchres. On each brutal brow was plainly written the hic jacet of a soul dead within.
ref: 1888, Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward: 2000–1887, page 458:
glosses: An epitaph (gravestone inscription).
hic jacets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hic jacet
high comedy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high comedies
Etymology: Coined in England in 1877 by George Meredith for his Essay on Comedy.
Senses: glosses: A type of comedy characterized by witty dialogue and satire, as opposed to lowbrow farce.
high comedies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of high comedy
empire-waisted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more empire-waisted
form: most empire-waisted
Senses: examples: text: Mom gave me money to buy these paisley, empire-waisted, one-piece satin lounge pajamas I'd seen at Lerner's Department Store.
ref: 2021, Rickie Lee Jones, Last Chance Texaco, Grove Press, published 2022, page 116:
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: Having an empire waist.
high-daddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high-daddies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of highboy (“type of furniture”).
synonyms: word: highboy
extra: type of furniture
high-daddies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of high-daddy
vidcam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vidcams
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A video camera.
vidcams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vidcam
vidcasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vidcast
higher institution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: higher institutions
Senses: glosses: An institute of higher education.
higher institutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of higher institution
high-priestly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more high-priestly
form: most high-priestly
Etymology: From high priest + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Of or befitting a high priest.
hikuli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hikuri (“peyote”).
hindering impediment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hindering impediments
Senses: topics: Christianity
law
glosses: An impediment to marriage that is impedient, i.e. serves to make the marriage illicit but valid.
hindering impediments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hindering impediment
munched out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more munched out
form: most munched out
Senses: examples: text: I left Smoove standing on the porch and walked up to the avenue and ordered me some chicken fried rice and a Pepsi from the take-out Chinese joint. That chronic had me munched out, and I ate that shit right there standing up in the store.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 105:
text: Jerry was getting a little embarrassed by Angel's gustatory display, but the food was so good and he was so munched out that he really wasn't all that far behind her in the leftover demolition.
ref: 2006, John Jos[eph] Miller, edited by George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, Death Draws Five (Wild Cards), New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, published 2021, →ISBN, page 142:
text: Finally they got a table by the window. They ordered coffee and pancakes and then, on second thought, two large servings of french fries. The waitress gave them a strange look, but they didn't care; they were munched out.
ref: 2010, Leora Freedman, Parachuting: A Novel, Toronto, O.N.: Sumach Press, →ISBN, page 16:
glosses: Extremely hungry.
Related terms: munchies
hingeback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hingebacks
form: hinge-back
Etymology: From hinge + back.
Senses: synonyms: hinge-back tortoise
hinged-back tortoise
hinged tortoise
glosses: Any turtle of the genus Kinixys.
hingebacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hingeback
hinged tortoise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hinged tortoises
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hingeback.
synonyms: word: hingeback
hinged tortoises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hinged tortoise
hinged-back tortoise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hinged-back tortoises
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hingeback.
synonyms: word: hingeback
hinge-back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hinge-backs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hingeback.
Okey Cokey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hokey Cokey.
hinkumbooby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Hokey Cokey (“dance”).
synonyms: word: Hokey Cokey
extra: dance
hingedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hinged + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: a frame hingedly connected with the base
glosses: By means of a hinge.
forefatherly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more forefatherly
form: most forefatherly
Etymology: From forefather + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of a forefather.
wars of independence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of war of independence
foreintend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foreintends
form: foreintending
form: foreintended
form: foreintended
Etymology: From fore- + intend.
Senses: glosses: To intend; to mean to.
means to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mean to
meaning to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mean to
foreintended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of foreintend
foreintends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of foreintend
foreintending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of foreintend
forehead thermometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forehead thermometers
Senses: glosses: A device that uses an infrared sensor to measure the temperature of a person's forehead, without direct contact.
forehead thermometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forehead thermometer
forest school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forest schools
Senses: glosses: A hands-on style of education in which students are taught in natural outdoor spaces.
glosses: An institution that teaches in this way.
forest schools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forest school
fork-tender
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fork-tender
form: most fork-tender
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Cooked until soft enough to be easily pierced by the prongs of a fork.
for lack of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Synonym of for want of.
synonyms: word: for want of
formal sociology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A scientific approach to sociology based on the form, rather than the content, of interactions.
form-critical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to form criticism.
half slip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half slips
form: half-slip
Senses: examples: text: Miss Lady musta heard the shot, cause she'd run down the stairs in just a bra and a half-slip.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 111:
synonyms: waist slip
glosses: A slip or undergarment held held to the body around the waist with an elastic waistband.
half slips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half slip
form criticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: form criticisms
Senses: glosses: A method of biblical criticism that classifies units of scripture by literary pattern and then attempts to trace each type to its period of oral transmission.
form criticisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of form criticism
formicology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of myrmecology (“study of ants”).
synonyms: word: myrmecology
extra: study of ants
formicologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: formicologists
Senses: glosses: Synonym of myrmecologist (“one who studies ants”).
synonyms: word: myrmecologist
extra: one who studies ants
formicologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of formicologist
for the world
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of for worlds.
synonyms: word: for worlds
forthgoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forthgoers
Senses: coordinate_terms: forthcomer
glosses: One who goes forth.
forthgoers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forthgoer
forty-second cousin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forty-second cousins
Senses: examples: text: And also my step-sister, my niece, my fourth cousin, my thirty-third cousin, my forty-second cousin, my great-aunt, my grandmother, my widowed sister-in-law-and next week she will be my wife.
ref: 1879, Mark Twain, The Great Revolution in Pitcairn:
text: "Is he a relation of ours, too, Cousin Jimmy?"
"Forty-second cousin. Way back he had a cousin of Mary Shipley's for a great-something. […]
ref: 1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 7”, in Emily of New Moon:
text: So Jessie's my second cousin once removed or forty-second cousin or something. Anyway, we're kind-of related.
ref: 2019, Sue Lawrence, Down to the Sea:
glosses: Any very distant relative.
forty-second cousins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forty-second cousin
smoove
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: smoover
form: smoovest
Senses: examples: text: Take Blow, my room dawg and fraternity brother from back in the college days. He's a real smoove nig, curly haired handsome, and got mad chick appeal.
ref: 2009, Mary B. Morrison, Maneater, Detroit, M.I. […]: Thorndike Press, →ISBN, page 252:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of smooth, representing African-American Vernacular English.
smoover
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of smoove: more smoove
smoovest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of smoove: most smoove
Obolo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Obolo
form: Obolos
Senses: glosses: A member of an ethnic group or tribe living mainly in the Niger Delta region of southern Nigeria. Obolo people can be found mainly in Rivers State and Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria.
glosses: The language spoken by the Obolo people.
glosses: The native homeland of the Obolo people.
ungunk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ungunks
form: ungunking
form: ungunked
form: ungunked
Etymology: From un- + gunk.
Senses: examples: text: Carmiesha just rubbed the baby's head. His little cornrows was so ashy and caked up with dust it was a shame. She was willing to take his braids out and re-do them, but she'd probably comb out all his hair trying to ungunk it.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 127:
synonyms: degunk
glosses: To remove gunk from.
Related terms: ungunked
ungunks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ungunk
ungunking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ungunk
ungunked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungunked
form: most ungunked
Senses: examples: text: Squeaking just under the price threshold, but worth it, this conditioning mask for colour-treated hair somehow manages the extremely rare feat of adding plenty of moisture without flattening like a swimcap. Keeps colour vibrant and roots wholly ungunked.
ref: 2022 November 18, Sali Hughes, “Budget beauty – Sali Hughes's 50 top picks under £20”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2023:
glosses: Without gunk.
ungunked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ungunk
shimmyings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shimmying
shimless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From shim + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a shim.
unprofanely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unprofanely
form: most unprofanely
Etymology: From unprofane + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unprofane manner.
gladdener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gladdeners
Etymology: From gladden + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which gladdens.
gladdeners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gladdener
ass out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: asses out
form: assing out
form: assed out
form: assed out
Etymology: From the metonymic slang ass (“a person; the self”).
Senses: examples: text: The Fourth Stooge assed out like a motherfucker.
ref: 2000, Paul Beatty, Tuff, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 151:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To hurry away.
asses out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ass out
assing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ass out
assed out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ass out
youth group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: youth groups
Senses: glosses: Synonym of youth club (“organized group of young people”).
synonyms: word: youth club
extra: organized group of young people
youth groups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of youth group
supersperm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + sperm.
Senses: examples: text: “The Knicks got a big game tomorrow, right? You ain’t pumping out none of that supersperm tonight though, are you?”
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 13:
text: "I'm 35," Tess said faintly, wondering if she should add: It was an accident! My boyfriend has supersperm! It defeated a diaphragm and spermicide. This is a zygote of destiny.
ref: 2008 November 30, Laura Lippman, “The Girl in the Green Raincoat”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022:
text: We're in the small percentage of cases in which condoms are ineffective. Looks as if you have some sort of supersperm. You must be very proud.
ref: 2015, Beth Burgoon, About That Night, Don Mills, O.N.: Harlequin Superromance, →ISBN, page 123:
text: A year after The Post revealed that CUNY math professor Ari Nagel had fathered 23 kids — some conceived the old-fashioned way, others involving sperm handoffs at public spots such as the Atlantic Center Target in downtown Brooklyn — he's back. Nagel, 41, has donated his supersperm to even more women, resulting in four kids born since last Father's Day. And eight other ladies, from Florida to Maryland to the Bronx, are currently pregnant because of him.
ref: 2017 June 17, Doree Lewak, “'Sperminator' has 26 kids, many fathered in Target bathrooms”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2023:
glosses: Sperm that is extremely effective at getting a woman pregnant.
yuloh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yulohs
Senses: glosses: A large, heavy sculling oar with a socket on the underside of its shaft to fits over a stern-mounted pin, creating a pivot that allows the oar to swivel and rock from side to side.
yulohs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yuloh
thugsta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thugstas
Etymology: Blend of thug + gangsta.
Senses: examples: text: This here ain't no romance / It's an urban erotic tale / Hood life, gats, stacked papers / Set a thugsta up to fail
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
text: In an industry dominated by men and images of "thugsta" rappers in the late 1990s and early 2000s with gold grills, tattoos, platinum chains, and dark clothing, bubblegum-chewing [Missy] Elliott popularized a hip-hop wardrobe for urban women that included contemporaneously fashionable unisex athletic gear and oversize clothing in soft, "girlie" colors, as well as de rigueur enormous monogrammed hoop earrings and perfectly manicured fingernails.
ref: 2013, Jonathan C. Friedman, editor, The Routledge History of Social Protest in Popular Music, New York, N.Y.; London: Routledge, →ISBN, pages 177–178:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Someone who is both a thug and a gangsta.
thugstas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thugsta
allergical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more allergical
form: most allergical
Senses: glosses: Dated form of allergic.
double-barrel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: At last the first glimpse from a bridge of an open-top red bus, and a noticeable darkening of the atmosphere from the smoke of London: then the increasingly dingy stations with double-barrel names, set amid what has always been to me the outstanding feature of the "Premier Line" approach to London—the positively marvellous display of crazy chimney-pots on the grey inner suburban houses. As many as twenty, all of varying style, standing together like ranks of jagged teeth, and providing a Dickensian back-cloth which no other route can boast.
ref: 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 704:
glosses: Alternative form of double-barrelled.
double-barrel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: double-barrels
form: double-barreling
form: double-barrelling
form: double-barreled
form: double-barreled
form: double-barrelled
form: double-barrelled
Senses: examples: text: You be the judge: my husband refuses to double-barrel our surnames. Should I take his last name? [title]
ref: 2024 November 29, Georgina Lawton, “You be the judge: my husband refuses to double-barrel our surnames. Should I take his last name?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To join with a hyphen or space.
raw_tags: of names
double-barrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double-barrels
Senses: examples: text: Five minutes before one — brought down a moth / With my new double-barrel — stew'd the thighs, / And made a very tolerable broth […]
ref: 1819 (date written), John Keats, “The Cap and Bells; or, The Jealousies”, in [Horace Elisha Scudder], editor, The Complete Poetical Works and Letters of John Keats, Cambridge edition, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], published 1899, →OCLC, page 229:
text: Killer started drinking that Friday night and the more he drank, the meaner he got. He sat on the couch smelling like liquor and piss. Mumbling and cursing with his double-barrel slung across his lap.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, pages 46–47:
text: The three of us huddled for a long time, stoned and shivering, before Billy and Tommy finally both aimed their double-barrels at something other than the trees and soda cans they had been popping before.
ref: 2018, Tony Mangia, Fascination, Horseater Press, →ISBN, page 48:
glosses: A double-barrelled gun, now especially a double-barrelled shotgun.
double-barrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double-barrel
gharrial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gharrials
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gavial.
gharrials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gharrial
yen-hok
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yen-hoks
form: yen-hock
Etymology: .
Senses: glosses: A hook-like tool used to pierce or stretch opium.
yen-hoks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yen-hok
earnt one's wings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of earn one's wings
earns one's wings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of earn one's wings
yen-hock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yen-hocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yen-hok.
earning one's wings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of earn one's wings
yen-hocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yen-hock
earned one's wings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of earn one's wings
Yad Vashem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew יָד וַשֵׁם, "monument and name."
Senses: glosses: The official Israeli memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, established in 1953.
boomercide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From boomer + -cide.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:boomercide.
glosses: A hypothetical mass killing of baby boomers.
yangge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yangko
Senses: glosses: A Chinese folk dance performed in a circle, often in colorful costume with a red silk ribbon around the waist.
yangko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yangge (“Chinese folk dance”).