cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
un-understandability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ununderstandability
Senses: examples: text: From the occasion of Balaam’s astonishment, “when the first great critic proffered his opinion” (as the witty Mr. Whistler has put it spitefully), down to these times of flippant oracles of art, the well-intentioned student has been bewildered and swerved from his own opinions, discouraged, in short, by the conflict or un-understandability of warring teachers.
ref: 1893 December, Charles Mason Fairbanks, “How to Study the Fine Arts”, in Theodore L. Flood, editor, The Chautauquan: A Monthly Magazine, volume XVIII; new series, volume IX, number 3, Meadville, Pa.: The T. L. Flood Publishing House, page 275:
text: Their un-understandability, I suggested, was part of their charm?
ref: 1925, Dearborn Independent, page 24:
text: We have heard many Carolinians descant on Gullah, it is African say they, it is Afro-Americano say others, and having heard it several times ourself, it is the last word in gibberish and un-understandability.
ref: 1930 October 4, Harvey Gaul, “Brilliant Inaugural Marks Arrival Of Theatrical October: Barrymore at Alvin in New Play, Nazimova At Nixon in Guild Production; George Sharp Offers Farce at Pitt”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, volume 4, number 56, page 11:
text: Maybe her un-understandability is what makes the Atlantic enthuse.
ref: 1934 March 7, A. J. Martin, “News & Views”, in The Braymer Bee, volume 47, number 35, Braymer, Mo., page one:
text: These actions may become symbolical, lose the traces of their origins, and thus prevent a superficial un-understandability in a manner not dissimilar to the compulsions of some neurotics.
ref: 1935, James Wroten Woodard, Reificationand Supernaturalism as Factors in Social Rigidity and Social Change, Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania, →OCLC, page 59:
glosses: The quality of being ununderstandable.
Synonyms: incomprehensibility
incomprehensibleness
un-understandableness
non-understandability
ununderstandability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Gertrude Stein’s ununderstandability is to be explained, however, in another way;
ref: 1935, Epilogue: A Critical Summary, Deya Majorca: The Seizin Press; Constable & Co. Ltd., page 9:
text: For him Hinduism is a wearying maze of ununderstandability.
ref: 1938, W[illiam] J[ohn] Grant, The Spirit of India, page 33:
text: And if we say it is the mystery of life that is here seized and manifested, this also is somewhat shallow, because the meaning of this verse is not in the mere negative ununderstandability and lack of intellectual knowledge, but in the universality and omnipotence of each thing;
ref: 1952, R[eginald] H[orace] Blyth, Haiku: Summer-Autumn, pages 115–116:
glosses: Alternative form of un-understandability.
Shakaryan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shakaryans
form: Chakarian
form: Shakarian
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian Շաքարյան (Šakʻaryan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Shakarian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shakarians
Etymology: Variant of Shakaryan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Shakarian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Shepard + Vakarian.
Senses: examples: text: There's not enough Shakarian on my dashboard right now. This is my Shepard and her Garrus. Don't judge me.
ref: 2012 August 23, Jamie Summers (@darksakura), Twitter:
text: UGH my whole Tumblr dash now is just Royai and Shakarian and [modified .gif of No Face from the animated film Spirited Away being knocked over by a wave labelled "feels"]
ref: 2015 July 31, Sam Maggs (@SamMaggs), Twitter:
text: Found some new Shakarian fic, you won’t hear from me tonight 😂
ref: 2021 April 29, Kat Vakarian-Rutherford (@ShepardsKat), Twitter:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters Commander Shepard and Garrus Vakarian from the video game series Mass Effect.
Shakarians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Shakarian
Shakaryans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Shakaryan
non-understandability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonunderstandability
Senses: examples: text: In later chapters Jaspers shows considerable awareness that the understandability or non-understandability of psychopathological behavior and experience is a relative matter.
ref: 1964, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, page 384:
text: Adorno claims that very often the non-understandability of the listeners is willfully confirmed by non-understandable performances (1959d:66).
ref: 1965, Current Musicology, page 89:
text: At common law these contracts were enforceable in equity, absent fraud, misrepresentation, and non-understandability of their force and effect.
ref: 1965, Massachusetts Law Quarterly, page 160:
glosses: The quality of being nonunderstandable.
Synonyms: incomprehensibility
incomprehensibleness
un-understandability
un-understandableness
nonunderstandability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: One most interesting point brought out in Miss Stein’s American tour is that the element of “nonunderstandability” is mainly due to the fact that she does not punctuate either in speaking or writing.
ref: 1934, Arts Magazine, page 18:
text: For instance, the definition of delusional perception hinges on the nonunderstandability of the meaning that is attached to the percept.
ref: 1947, American Journal of Psychotherapy, page 389:
text: This is both an admission of nonunderstandability of what is meant and an illustration of unsound theory.
ref: 1955, Gerald Nadler, Motion and Time Study, page 263:
glosses: Alternative form of non-understandability.
St Merryn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish on the coast of north Cornwall, England, west of Padstow (OS grid ref SW8873).
splendidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From splendid + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: A magazine in Chicago is announced as “splendidly gotten up,” and the “splendidity” of which can be described only by such rhapsodical circulars as the publishers of the magazine issue.
ref: 1884 May 20, “The Chromo-Premium Business”, in Sacramento Daily Record-Union, volume LI, number 76 (whole 10,326), Sacramento, Calif.:
text: It would, indeed, be difficult to name anyone to-day who has diffused more innocent enjoyment throughout this murky winter kingdom than Tom Smith, with all his works and pomps and Christmas-crackers, which yearly grow in size, sentiment, skittishness, and what the schoolboy called “splendidity.”
ref: 1900, Algernon Rose, editor, ‘A439’: Being the Autobiography of a Piano, London: Sands & Company, page 365:
text: Thurston county has loomed up splendidity with a display of genuine merit.
ref: 1901 November 5, “Washington Fruit at Buffalo. Exhibits From This State Attract Much Attention.”, in The Tacoma Daily Ledger, volume XIX, number 309, Tacoma, Wash., page 8:
text: And we had to buy an extra silo to take care of the splendidity of ensilage corn this year!
ref: 1934 November 23, “Autumn Sketches in Vermont”, in Rutland Daily Herald, volume 81, number 281, Rutland, Vt., page 8:
text: It thanks the school for its donation of £881.13 and commemorates pupils’ “total and utter red nose splendidity” — the words of madcap charity organizers Griff Rhys-Jones and Lenny Henry.
ref: 1989 July 6, “A splendid effort”, in East Kent Gazette, page 5:
text: The reverence and splendidity, displayed by Bhikshuni Vishakha as the Superintendent of the illustrious rolls of nuns like Amrapali and Supiya26 and the magnitude and excellence, attained by Dhammadima after renunciation of the worldly life, are unparalleled in the history of the world.
ref: 1999, Prajñā-bhāratī, page 50:
text: and if you, lorelei, choose to bestow upon me the gift pan-magnifico of your virginity, i will strive my upmost to be worthy of its heleneskan splendidity.
ref: 2005, Kyle Clinton Foley, Lorelei Pursued, →ISBN, page 99:
text: So we all headed up Scar Lane, past the wool and wooden shop, past the ex car showroom now a Curry House as previously mentioned and past Boa Vista were my Aunt and Uncle used to live in opulent splendidity before the big water drought of ‘86 caused them to sell the Garden Centre they owned next door.
ref: 2011, Mark Christopher Lee, Weird — The Life And Times Of A Pocket God, →ISBN, page 24:
glosses: The quality of being splendid.
Synonyms: word: splendidness
word: splenditude
word: splendor
Shop
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Morwenstow parish, north Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SS2214).
glosses: A neighbourhood of St Merryn, St Merryn parish, north Cornwall (OS grid ref SW8773).
Morwenstow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Atlantic gales constantly buffet Morwenstow, whose seven hamlets together constitute Cornwall's most northerly parish. The village is dotted with trees moulded into weird shapes by the wind, and above the trees rise the vicarage chimneystacks resembling miniature church towers.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 288:
glosses: A civil parish and hamlet in north Cornwall, England, the northernmost civil parish in Cornwall (OS grid ref SS2015).
socially fluent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more socially fluent
form: most socially fluent
Etymology: By the analogy of viewing social skills like a language that one can speak fluently.
Senses: glosses: Socially adept.
waveicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waveicles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wavicle.
waveicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waveicle
Riphagen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Riphagens
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Riphagen.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
primaevality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Minhagim of long standing absorb some of this primaevality, but a memory of their origin lingers on in the soul of the people and the latter are proud of their share in forming and fostering religious life.
ref: 1956, Year Book, page 249:
text: […]will continue to combine a Spartan adherence to a primaevality in the Bhutanese Arcadia.
ref: 1985, Venkata Siddharthacharry, Jambudwipa: A Blueprint for a South Asian Community, Radiant Publishers, →ISBN, page 247:
text: Anna felt closer to Mandelstam than to any other poet, considering him as some miracle of poetic primaevality worthy of rapture.
ref: 1988, Jessie Davies, Anna of All the Russias: The Life of Anna Akhmatova, →ISBN, page 66:
text: In this connection we need to revise the conclusions on primaevality of formed tools of production and fully developed labor activity in the process of anthropogenesis (as anti-historical in its essence) and began to solve the problem of their genesis.
ref: 1997, Археологія, page 65:
text: True, Malinowski writes about ‘niggers’, ‘negroes’, ‘brutes’, ‘boys’, and ‘savages’, but then we read the same in Conrad in his similarly introspective encounters with primaevality in the South Seas.
ref: 1997, Nigel Rapport, Transcendent Individual: Towards a Literary and Liberal Anthropology, published 2003:
text: Świnia Góra reserve is undoubtedly one of the most interesting protected areas in the Świętokrzyskie Mountain Region; owing to its charming primaevality, it has been compared to Białowieża National Park.
ref: 2001, Fragmenta faunistica, page 42:
text: […]painter into a yogi in trance underscores the visionary aspect of artistic creation, and the identification of the artist with the Anantasayi – his hair now turned into the hood of Ananta – stresses the primaevality of all artistic creations.
ref: 2004, A. Ramachandran, Ramachandran: A Retrospective, Vadehra Art Gallery, →ISBN, page 254:
text: In the same token, the novel is also read by totalizing metropolitan hermeneutics as a story of anthropological dimensions detailing the benighted customs and cultures of a “heathenish” and “philistinic” African people who still exist in the eaves of prehistory, greedily suckling the nipples of primaevality.
ref: 2008, Lagos Review of English Studies, page 39:
text: I realized how barbarous urban “civilization” was as against primaevality.
ref: 2013, Brāhmanic Vignettes: Diplomat’s Nostalgia, New Delhi: Partridge, →ISBN, page 45:
glosses: Alternative spelling of primevality.
primævality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Holloway on Primævality and Pre-eminence of the Sacred Hebrew
ref: 1791, Food for Book-Worms. Price One Shilling, (To Be Allowed in Purchase, or on Returning It,) a Catalogue of Books, for 1791, […], page 73:
text: Yet in the genial climates of the sun it is pleasant living: existence has a primævality about it, which during the dreaminess of repose, the dolce far niente, hangs like a mist about the mind;
ref: 1846, “Jaunting in Jamaica—As It Used to Be”, in The Sporting Review, page 330:
text: And sometimes the glamour would be heightened by the apparition on the ramparts of the captive bear, or the imprisoned bison, kept by the officers, poor relics of the primævality so rapidly forsaking America.
ref: 1895, Douglas Sladen, “Quebec: the Capital of New France”, in On the Cars and Off. Being the Journal of a Pilgrimage Along the Queen’s Highway to the East, from Halifax in Nova Scotia to Victoria in Vancouver’s Island., London: Ward, Lock & Bowden, Limited, page 50:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of primevality.
Dockers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: Fremantle Football Club, an Australian rules football club based in Fremantle, a suburb of Perth.
Suns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sun
Suns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: the Gold Coast Suns, an Australian rules football club based on the Gold Coast.
GWS
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of get well soon.
GWS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Greater Western Sydney.
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: Initialism of Greater Western Sydney Giants.
Muralidharas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Muralidhara
Riphagens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Riphagen
false plum anemone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false plum anemones
Senses: glosses: Pseudactinia flagellifera, a species of African sea anemone.
RMT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RMTs
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: Initialism of radio media tour.
topics: games
gaming
glosses: Initialism of real money trading (“the practice of trading in-game goods for real money”).
RMT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers.
Ploss
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Plosses
Etymology: Borrowed from German Ploss.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Portanovas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Portanova
Plosses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ploss
Pucillo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pucillos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Pucillo.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Miske
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Miskes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Miske.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Raysons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rayson
Pucillos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pucillo
Miskes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Miske
Muhl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Muhls
Etymology: Borrowed from German Muhl.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Ninneman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ninnemans
Etymology: Variant of German Ninnemann.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Ninnemans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ninneman
Muhls
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Muhl
Tornquist
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tornquists
Etymology: Variant of Swedish Törnqvist, an ornamental surname from torn (“thorn; tower”) and kvist (“twig”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Swedish.
Tolsmas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tolsma
Tornquists
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tornquist
Tayman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Taymans
Etymology: * As a German surname, possibly altered from Dehmann, Demann, shortened from Deneman, from the personal name Dene, which could be a shortened form of Daniel, + Mann (“man”).
* As an English surname, variant of Tyman.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Thorleys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Thorley
Taymans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tayman
Swiers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Swier
Struckman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Struckmans
Etymology: Variant of German Struckmann.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Stickelses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Stickels
Struckmans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Struckman
McClam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McClams
Etymology: Altered form of McClave; compare McLamb.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Diercks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dierckses
Etymology: Borrowed from German Diercks.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: De Barsy-Moens-Diercks syndrome
Dierckses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Diercks
McClams
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McClam
Lamons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lamonses
Etymology: Variant of Lemons.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Bedbrook
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bedbrooks
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Bedbrooks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bedbrook
Lamonses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lamons
Tibag
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Tarlac City, Tarlac, Philippines.
TCCA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: When TCCA touches a small amount of water and doesn’t dissolve, “it can experience a chemical reaction, generating heat and causing the decomposition of the chemical, which in turn produces toxic chlorine gas and can produce explosive nitrogen trichloride,” a 2023 report by the CSB said.
ref: 2024 November 24, Chris Boyette, “Investigators release update on BioLab chemical plant fire probe”, in CNN:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of trichloroisocyanuric acid.
ship, shipmate, self
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A person's duty in the navy is first to the ship, then to shipmates, and finally to himself/herself.
Khersonite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Kherson + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: Russia's Tass news agency says the first 23 Kherson residents got Russian passports at a ceremony on Saturday. […] The Russian-appointed military governor in Kherson, Volodymyr Saldo, said "all our Khersonite comrades want to receive the passport and [Russian] citizenship as soon as possible".
ref: 2022 June 11, “Russia hands out passports in occupied Ukraine cities”, in BBC News:
synonyms: Khersonian
glosses: Of or relating to the city of Kherson, Ukraine.
Khersonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Khersonites
Etymology: From Kherson + -ite.
Senses: synonyms: Khersonian
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Kherson, Ukraine.
minor children
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minor child
Dismukes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dismukeses
Etymology: Americanized form of French Des Meaux.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Leathorn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Leathorns
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Arkesha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.
dewesternization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process or action of dewesternizing something.
dewesternize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dewesternizes
form: dewesternizing
form: dewesternized
form: dewesternized
Etymology: From de- + westernize.
Senses: antonyms: westernize
glosses: To remove Western influence or render less Western.
Derived terms: dewesternization
dewesternizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dewesternize
dewesternizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dewesternize
dewesternized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dewesternize
control center
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: control centers
form: control centre
Senses: glosses: an area from which activities in other areas are directed
kleptopredator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kleptopredators
Etymology: From klepto- + predator.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: An animal that engages in kleptopredation.
kleptopredators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kleptopredator
kleptoparasited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kleptoparasite
metapoetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more metapoetical
form: most metapoetical
Senses: glosses: Relating to metapoetry.
metapoetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more metapoetic
form: most metapoetic
Senses: glosses: Relating to metapoetry.
metapoetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more metapoetically
form: most metapoetically
Senses: glosses: In a metapoetic manner; in terms of metapoetry.
metapoet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metapoets
Etymology: From meta- + poet.
Senses: glosses: A writer of metapoetry.
metapoets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metapoet
minor penalty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minor penalties
form: minor
Etymology: Distinguished from the longer major penalties when those were established for the 1923–1924 season.
Senses: topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: A penalty sending the offending player to the penalty box for 2 minutes or (after the 1955–1956 season) the next score by the opposing team.
Derived terms: bench minor
double minor
triple minor
minor penalties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minor penalty
minor point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minor points
form: minor
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: A single point awarded for a touch-in-goal and sometimes for touchdowns or dead balls.
Synonyms: rouge
minor points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minor point
South Tyne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Cumbria and Northumberland, England, which meets the North Tyne near Hexham and becomes the River Tyne.
Tarzanian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Tarzanian
form: most Tarzanian
Etymology: From Tarzan + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: “Cocktail Sar” is a breathless tale of midnight gambling, in the white moonlight of tropical nights in Batavia, and “Kadiamar” is a well turned protest against Tarzanian fiction.
ref: 1922 September 23, Country Life, London, page 381, column 2:
text: How was this little girl going to accomplish the theft of the diamonds from the huge, Tarzanian Spaniard?
ref: 1924, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan and the Ant-Men, Chicago: A.C. McClurg, page 130:
text: Dan Schumacher has not indicated an ambition to flex his biceps in action flicks when he hangs up his togs but he, too, is set to complete the extraordinary Tarzanian double of Olympic water polo and gold medals in the pool.
ref: 1999 October 1, “Modern-day Tarzan discovers two paths to Sydney gold”, in Sydney Morning Herald, page 40:
glosses: Of, relating to, or in the style of the fictional character Tarzan; having the physique or abilities of Tarzan.
Tarzanian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tarzanians
Etymology: From Tarzan + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Golfers, I repeat, may not be as physically endowed as the tarzanians of other sports.
ref: 1971, Tommy Bolt with Jimmy Mann, The Hole Truth, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., page 43:
text: Those same Green Berets who so captivated your pen were among the invited, and about twenty of us well-dressed guests were treated to a dozen of those fatuous if strapping young studs jet-popping ten feet above the croquet sward, while others—Tarzanians, I call them—were swinging on ropes from tree to tree.
ref: 1991, Norman Mailer, Harlot's Ghost, New York: Random House, page 1055:
text: Tarzanians grew ever more adventuresome with circular patterns and drops to the ground behind the bushes.
ref: 2005, David C. Meek, The Tarzan Club, West Conshohocken, PA: Infinity Publishing, page 11:
glosses: A person with or exhibiting Tarzanian attributes.
touch-in-goals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of touch-in-goal
touches-in-goal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of touch-in-goal
tentpoling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tentpole
tentpoled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tentpole
deedable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From deed + -able.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Able to be deeded.
Sladesbridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Egloshayle parish, near Wadebridge, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX0171).
gender stars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gender star
maluan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maluans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of malaun.
maluans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maluan
1 Sussex Drive
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: 1 Sussex
Etymology: From 1 + Sussex Drive.
Senses: glosses: The office of the governor general of Canada.
1 Sussex
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of 1 Sussex Drive.
Egloshayle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Cornwall, England, east of the village below.
glosses: A suburban village in Wadebridge parish, Cornwall (OS grid ref SW9972).
ragmuffin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ragmuffins
Senses: glosses: Rare form of ragamuffin.
ragmuffins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ragmuffin
make one's number
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes one's number
form: making one's number
form: made one's number
form: made one's number
Senses: examples: text: Dave Shaw had given me good advice. 'Make your number with the purser,' he had said. 'He's a kind of super marine hotel manager who can wave a magic wand and get you almost anything you ask for.'
ref: 1972, Stephen Seamus Kerry, Ship's Doctor, page 49:
topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: To report one's arrival and begin one's duties.
Truro River
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Cornwall, England, which flows from Truro to the River Fal.
Ibris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Former name of Eyebroughy.
Eyebroughy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: word: Ibris
english: former name
translation: former name
glosses: A small rocky islet in the Firth of Forth, off East Lothian, Scotland.
eye examination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eye examinations
Senses: glosses: An examination of the eyes involving of a series of nonintrusive tests to measure visual acuity and check for the presence of certain vision-impairing illnesses.
eye examinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eye examination
clubbie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clubbies
Etymology: From club + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: "When he died, his baseball cap was given to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. He is the only clubbie to be honored with a display there."
ref: 1977, Maj. Ed Logan, quotee, Airman, page 38:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A clubhouse manager.
examples: text: "[…] But there are some stadiums where the clubhouse guys don't do a very good job, but there are clubbies that do a really outstanding job. […]"
ref: 2019 July 10, John Cangelosi, K.P. Wee, John Cangelosi: The Improbable Baseball Journey of the Undersized Kid from Nowhere to World Series Champion, Riverdale Avenue Books LLC, →ISBN:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A clubhouse attendant.
glosses: A surfing lifeguard.
Related terms: clubby
service economies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of service economy
pedalcycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedalcycles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pedal cycle.
pedalcyclist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedalcyclists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pedal cyclist.
pedalcycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedalcycle
pedalcyclists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedalcyclist
pedal cyclist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedal cyclists
Senses: glosses: One who rides a pedal cycle.
pedal cyclists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedal cyclist
pedal points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedal point
error-proneness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: error-pronenesses
Etymology: From error-prone + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being error-prone.
error-pronenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of error-proneness
2160s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Excalibur was introduced to service quite recently as a replacement for the Avalon class BDNs built in the mid-2160s.
ref: 1998, Jon Tuffley, Fleet Book, volume 1, Ground Zero Games, page 18:
text: In the early 2160s, the Alliance began aggressive colonization of worlds in the Skyllian Verge, much to the dismay of the batarians who had been developing the region for several decades. In 2171, the batarians petitioned the Council to declare the Verge a "zone of batarian interest".
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Batarians Codex entry:
text: Considering Enterprise was the only starship dispatched to locate the Xindi, it is very likely that Edison even served under Archer aboard the NX-01. On top of all this, two shuttlepods reminiscent of those carried aboard Enterprise also appeared in a recording of Edison’s crew from the 2160s.
ref: 2021 May 25, Jay Stobie, “Enterprise’s Legacy, From There to Here”, in Star Trek, archived from the original on 19 Jun 2021:
glosses: The decade from 2160 to 2169.
glosses: plural of 2160
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devil to pay, and no pitch hot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: You will carry my letter to the magistrates, and second it with your own eloquence, and assure them, that if they hurt but one hair of Cleveland's head, there will be the devil to pay, and no pitch hot.
ref: 1821, Walter Scott, The Pirate:
glosses: Synonym of hell to pay.
synonyms: word: hell to pay
Related terms: word: devil to pay
word: the devil to pay and no pitch hot or ready
word: between the devil and the deep blue sea
english: the seam between garboard strake and the keel; a seam on wooden boats
translation: the seam between garboard strake and the keel; a seam on wooden boats
word: devil seam
electric dice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This is a game in which the electric dice are particularly useful to the sharp.
ref: 2019, John Nevil Maskelyne, Sharps and Flats:
topics: gambling
games
glosses: A cheater's dice that contain metal slugs and are influenced by a magnet.
asshood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arsehood
Etymology: From ass + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: All that's just your interpretation of things, bub. SHOUT it as fact and you just make an ass of yourself.
Unless, of course, you were just trolling, in which case you've already achieved asshood anyway.
ref: 1998 December 22, William December Starr, “What ever happend to Ben & Claire?”, in alt.tv.law-and-order (Usenet), retrieved 11 Jun 2022:
text: Could you do me a favor and send me a list of which other movie preferences are irrefutable hallmarks of asshood? (Assness? Assidity?)
ref: 2000 January 23, Ethan Straffin, “So... What about "The Shining" Miniseries?”, in alt.video.dvd (Usenet), retrieved 11 Jun 2022:
text: If you're an ass, may we all aspire to such asshood!
ref: 2001 May 14, Tay-vee, “Beauty Tips of The Gods-W/Dave”, in alt.tv.kids-in-hall (Usenet), retrieved 11 Jun 2022:
text: Someday, I may achieve your state of asshood, oh master of the hindquarters.
ref: 2002 March 11, NEtRENCHERPRIME, “You guys are all fools”, in alt.flame.jesus.christ (Usenet), retrieved 11 Jun 2022:
text: No, but the meltdown is entertaining. And we get to see a new level of asshood performed by Whelan.
ref: 2002 May 14, Jade Lemonade, “Reviews? Who needs em.”, in rec.arts.sf.starwars.misc (Usenet), retrieved 11 Jun 2022:
glosses: The state or quality of being an ass.
Related terms: assholehood
dumbasshood
mind mapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mind mappers
Senses: glosses: A person or a computer program that creates mind maps.
mind mappers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mind mapper
narners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of narner
narnas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of narna
coawareness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From co- + awareness.
Senses: examples: text: As time passed, Reginald began to acknowledge experiences of disruption in the temporal continuity of the game. He also gained a measure of coawareness of “Reggie” and other alter personality states, and began to accept that their behavior was his behavior.
ref: 1997, Frank W. Putnam, Dissociation in Children and Adolescents, page 302:
text: Takakura's certainty of God's eternal affirmation and love is bound to his co-awareness with Paul and Luther of the self's crisis of death accompanied by the Self's actualization.
ref: 2005, J. Nelson Jennings, Theology in Japan: Takakura Tokutaro (1885-1934), page 345:
glosses: Joint awareness; the condition of being aware with, or of, somebody else.
deediest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of deedy: most deedy
deediness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deedy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: These men, to the number of eighteen or twenty, were not only entirely ignorant of the word "geology," but testified their rustic wonderment that I should spend my time in looking on so eagerly as they drove their wedges into the stony layers, and should watch with such “deediness," as they called it, each fracture they made in the ponderous masses around them.
ref: 1870, Science-gossip - Volume 5, page 175:
text: Officer Captain Paul Waggett was preoccupied with the little problems of organization and equipment and correspondence that during the Second World War kept company commanders of the Home Guard in a condition of patriotic deediness […]
ref: 1949, Paul J. Phelan, A Time to Laugh: A Risible Reader by Catholic Writers, page 41:
text: On January 20th, the Chiefs of Staff in London, with the grim and desperate deediness of a man who has suddenly woken up after oversleeping himself, brought to the notice of Malaya Command points of importance that would require attention if the troops on the mainland should be forced to withdraw to the island.
ref: 1951, Compton Mackenzie, Eastern Epic - Volume 1, page 377:
text: Tiresome, noisy and unruly they could most certainly be but delightful in their “deediness” and enthusiasm.
ref: 1975, Cicely B. Hale, A Good Long Time: The Autobiography of an [i.e. A] Nonagenarian, page 98:
text: What seems to have tipped the balance was class, “deediness,” and the clout, not least political, behind the successful.
ref: 2011, John of Ford, The Life of Wulfric of Haselbury, Anchorite, page 65:
glosses: Full of purposeful activity; industriousness.
examples: text: Occasionally her pretty arm would be waved with the rest of the eager crowd, but it was a gay gesture of jingling bracelets free from smugness or deediness .
ref: 1938, Faith Compton Mackenzie, As Much as I Dare: The Autobiography of Faith Compton Mackenzie, page 102:
text: I wished I had a clear, cold mind that could cut through cant and deediness to truth.
ref: 1954, Victor Canning, A Handful of Silver, page 170:
text: the Corgi shares an inimitable "deediness” with the man who believes that everybody else needs scrutiny and advice
ref: 1962, The Illustrated London News - Volume 240, page 501:
text: I had a brilliant idea which I am afraid exposes the dirty cunning — the “deediness” as Mother called it — and flightiness of my priggish character.
ref: 1968, Victor Sawdon Pritchett, A Cab at the Door: A Memoir, page 125:
glosses: Ostentatious busyness; A type of showiness that seeks to seem important.
digestedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From digested + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Appetite and passing of urges, lightness and sense of well being, these are the symptoms of digestedness.
ref: 1981, Caraka-saṃhitā: Chikitsāsthānam to Siddhisthānam, page 531:
text: […] would contribute strongly to a native speaker's subjective sense of the overall "digestedness" of the item.
ref: 1985, Keith Michael McCune, The Internal Structure of Indonesian Roots, volume 1, page 192:
glosses: The quality or degree of being digested.
irreflectiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From irreflective + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being irreflective.
inness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The forces which work in and upon organic life know nothing of outness and inness. They shine through the materials which they build up and mould, as light shines through the clearest glass.
ref: 1888, The Twentieth Century, volume 23, page 156:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The quality of being in, or inside.
inamissibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inamissible + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Let it now be clearly understood, that we build all our hopes of the certain perseverance of all the sanctified, not on the inamissibleness of their sanctification, but upon the nature of the covenant into which they are thereby brought.
ref: 1817, Seth Williston, A Vindication of Some of the Most Essential Doctrines of the Reformation, page 169:
text: On the inamissibleness of grace, see x. 28-30.
ref: 1881, Frédéric Louis Godet, Commentary on the Gospel of St. John, page 234:
glosses: The quality of being inamissible.
palatefulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From palateful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being palateful.
palateful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more palateful
form: most palateful
Etymology: From palate + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: The main requisite is to brew a tasty, palateful and wholesome beer […]
ref: 1904, Letters on Brewing, volume 3, page 127:
glosses: Tasty; flavorsome.
Derived terms: palatefulness
palateful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palatefuls
Etymology: From palate + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: She threw a palateful of metallic noise at me: 'Do your own damn work. You're the sniffing secretary around here.'
ref: 1969, Jerzy Peterkiewicz, Green Flows the Bile, page 41:
text: The Count spat out a palateful of finest Dom, choking. He looked in Johan's eyes for a second, then exploded into raucous laughter.
ref: 2013, Ian Thornton, The Great & Calamitous Tale of Johan Thoms, page 87:
glosses: A mouthful.
unreflectivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: unreflectiveness
pleadingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pleading + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: This love, unknown to themselves, even while for ever felt, was not unmarked by the Duchess; and her looks had already interrogated those of Kara Aziek, with a sort of pleadingness for her son's happiness, […]
ref: 1817, Anna Maria Porter, Don Sebastian, page 266:
glosses: The quality of being pleading.
premadness
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + madness.
Senses: examples: text: Since Heracles is no longer sick, there is no reason he cannot be famous once again. Theseus is trying to restore Heracles to his heroic, premadness state, […]
ref: 2020, Craig Jendza, Paracomedy: Appropriations of Comedy in Greek Tragedy, page 80:
text: For a detailed description of the city's premadness social and political structure, see Mackay/Gresbeck, 22–25.
ref: 2021, William L. Bernstein, The Delusions of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups:
glosses: Before the onset of madness.
productivizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of productivize
productivizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of productivize
productivized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of productivize
prehensiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From prehensive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being prehensive.
Vathekian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Vathekian
form: most Vathekian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Vathek, the protagonist of William Beckford's Gothic novel Vathek (1786): he is a caliph who renounces Islam, seeks supernatural powers, and is ultimately doomed to hell.
robustful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more robustful
form: most robustful
Etymology: From robust + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Robust.
timeservingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time-servingness
Etymology: From time-serving + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Subtlety may indeed effect a victory at the deadening cost of a sin, but timeservingness can only get transitory advantage, while the damage of its untruthfulness leaves its corroding taint behind for ever.
ref: 1855, The Ecclesiastic, page 346:
glosses: The quality of being time-serving.
uncheeriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uncheery + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of not being cheery.
uncleverness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unclever + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of not being clever.
ground station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground stations
Senses: glosses: A terrestrial radio station designed for extraplanetary telecommunication with spacecraft, or reception of radio waves from astronomical radio sources.
glosses: A terrestrial radio station designed for telecommunication with aircraft or spacecraft.
ground stations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ground station
ground stops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ground stop
undeceivableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From undeceivable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being undeceivable.
unpersonableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unpersonable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unpersonable.
in the swim of things
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of in the swim.
unloveableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unloveable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unlovableness.
unlovableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unloveableness
Etymology: From unlovable + -ness.
Senses: antonyms: unlovability
glosses: The quality of being unlovable.
unneatness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unneat + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Every possible care was taken of him, and in a day or two he was able to walk into the study again, where he sat gazing at the sordidness and unneatness of the apartment, the strange festoons and drapery of spiders' webs, […]
ref: 1882, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Doctor Grimshawe's Secret:
text: Although his existential thoughts seem to have been tossed onto the page in helter-skelter fashion, what Gilboa does here is to open his mind and heart to the reader through verbal jaggedness and poetic unneatness.
ref: 1994, Warren Bargad, "To Write the Lips of Sleepers": The Poetry of Amir Gilboa, page 232:
glosses: The quality of not being neat.
unorganizedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unorganized + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unorganized.
unparallelness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unparallel + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unparallel.
unpowerfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unpowerful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unpowerful.
unremovableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unremovable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unremovable.
unrecognizableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unrecognizable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unrecognizable.
unplainness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + plainness or unplain + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of not being plain.
gobshell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gobshells
Etymology: From Irish gob (“mouth”) + seile (“spittle”).
Senses: examples: text: He fetched a phlegm and a gobshell splashed in the bladderwrack.
ref: 2001, Jamie O’Neill, At Swim, Two Boys, London: Scribner, Part 2, Chapter 18, p. 531:
glosses: A glob of saliva and/or phlegm projected out of a person's mouth.
unplain
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unplain
form: most unplain
Etymology: From un- + plain.
Senses: examples: text: He has published the 'plain text' and then shown it to be an unplain text.
ref: 2013, Hilary M. Larkin, The Making of Englishmen: Debates on National Identity 1550-1650, page 147:
glosses: Not plain.
gobshells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gobshell