cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
errorsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more errorsome
form: most errorsome
Etymology: From error + -some.
Senses: examples: text: A STATEMENT in the Electrical World recently, read to the effect that "unorthodox polyphase meter connections can be very errorsome. The British found that 30 per cent. of the grid interconnection metering was garbled."
ref: 1948, The Electrical Journal, volume 141, page 849:
text: However, these processes suffer from the lack of flexibility and adjustability and therefore may cause errorsome results.
ref: 1972, Sant Ram Bhatia, Indian Librarian, volume 26, page 144:
text: [...] not because there is no Transcendental Condition, but because it is errorsome and useless relative to actual Realization to believe or affirm It via the necessarily un-Enlightened structures of mere mind.
ref: 1982, Da Free John, Adi Da Samraj, Nirvanasara: Radical Transcendentalism and the Introduction of Advaitayana Buddhism, page 205:
text: The aim of the D study is to obtain large samples of conditions for errorsome facets.
ref: 1991, Alexandra K. Wigdor, Bert F. Green, Jr., Committee on the Performance of Military Personnel, Performance Assessment for the Workplace, Volume II
glosses: Characterised or marked by error(s).
Related terms: error-prone
winksome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more winksome
form: most winksome
Etymology: From wink + -some.
Senses: examples: text: And Naishadha stood revealed by his shadow, his fading garlands, himself stained with dust and sweat, resting on the ground with winksome eyes.
ref: 1884, Mahābhārata - Page 171
text: But you are mightily encouraged by a winksome expression which you see, or fancy you see, on your side of Tom's face; [...]
ref: 1900, Henry Lawson, On the track:
text: [...] the Muse stirs my reluctant pen / To write a verse or two, / I find my topic in a winksome wren / The Muse insists is Prue; [...]
ref: 1917, A. Walter Utting, A Nom De Guerre:
text: He just wears beautiful suits, and one stoned was a winksome in the stage lights like the glint in the eye of an animated whitetail deer who wandered into the courtyard.
ref: 2008, Darrell Kinsey, Torsino:
text: Whoopla laughter scuttling after him and a gold tooth winksome, bawdy dogstar in the ordurous jaws of fellatio major.
ref: 2010, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree:
glosses: Marked by winking
hungersome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hungersome
form: most hungersome
Etymology: From hunger + -some.
Senses: examples: text: “Well, We no got anything else O' that sort,” he said, “but I did just take the bun from the kitchen, because I knew Pinkie would get hungersome.”
ref: 2013, Amanda Scott, Highland Treasure:
glosses: Characterised or marked by hunger
dreamsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dreamsome
form: most dreamsome
Etymology: From dream + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Lightning leaned forward, falling into the tale as Gypsies did, his attention keenly focused as Traveler went on in dreamsome sort of way.
ref: 2007, Willa Okati, Faire Grounds:
text: Everything was repacked and rebound with triple ropes, and the Sahib was provided with an extra cushion; but he had reached a sort of dreamsome Nirvana, having several times bitten his tongue through, cut his boot against the wheel-edge, and twisted his legs into a true-lovers'-knot.
ref: 2009 (original 1892-1913), Rudyard Kipling, From Sea to Sea / Letters of Marque
glosses: Characterised or marked by dreams
anti-intellectuals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anti-intellectual
not wanted on voyage
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Used on destination tags for some of the passengers' baggage on a ship, for goods that were to be stored in the ship's hold, rather than kept available in the passenger's cabin, or "wanted in stateroom".
big-sisterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more big-sisterly
form: most big-sisterly
Etymology: From big sister + -ly (adjectival suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Some were sweet and big-sisterly, good shoulders to cry on; others eternal cheerleaders, all freckles and bobby sox; still others were serious campus leaders with their blond hair in a severe twist.
ref: 1988, Edmund White, chapter 4, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:
glosses: Of or characteristic of older sisters.
big-sisterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more big-sisterly
form: most big-sisterly
Etymology: From big sister + -ly (adverbial suffix).
Senses: examples: text: By turns she could be goofy and serious, playful and big-sisterly stern.
ref: 2015, Guy Vanderhaeghe, “Koenig & Company”, in Daddy Lenin and Other Stories, McClelland & Stewart:
glosses: In the manner of an older sister.
Brobdingnagian vision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compound of Brobdingnagian + vision; ultimately from Brobdingnag, a fictional land of giants in Gulliver's Travels.
Senses: examples: text: Lilliputian vision (micropsia) denotes an apparent diminution, and Brobdingnagian vision (macropsia) an apparent enlargement, in the size of objects, although the terms may also be used to denote the apparent approach or recession of the visual world
ref: 1985, Oliver Sacks, Migraine: Understanding a Common Disorder, Berkeley: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 84:
glosses: A hallucination or visual disorder in which objects appear larger or nearer than they are; macropsia.
wikipedia: Gulliver's Travels
Lilliputian vision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compound of Lilliputian + vision; ultimately from Lilliput, a fictional land of tiny people in Gulliver's Travels.
Senses: examples: text: Lilliputian vision (micropsia) denotes an apparent diminution, and Brobdingnagian vision (macropsia) an apparent enlargement, in the size of objects, although the terms may also be used to denote the apparent approach or recession of the visual world
ref: 1985, Oliver Sacks, Migraine: Understanding a Common Disorder, Berkeley: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 84:
glosses: A hallucination or visual disorder in which objects appear smaller or more distant than they are; micropsia.
wikipedia: Gulliver's Travels
Lilliput and Blefuscu
pedal cycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedal cycles
Senses: glosses: A vehicle powered by a person by means of pedals, such as a unicycle, bicycle, tricycle or quadricycle.
sun-dry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sun-dries
form: sun-drying
form: sun-dried
form: sun-dried
Senses: glosses: To dry in the sun, especially food.
Related terms: sun-dried
TCCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TCC
EVC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EVCs
Senses: qualifier: railway
glosses: Initialism of European Vital Computer, the main on-board unit on ETCS-controlled trains.
nesting box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nesting boxes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nest box.
synonyms: word: nest box
nesting boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nesting box
Sarayu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit सरयु (sarayu).
Senses: glosses: Name of a river in North India that flows through Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.
Sawako
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Umiko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Hamiko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Ume
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Omiko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Kumi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Kuniyo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Kotoe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
yaaas
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yass.
lumbersome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌmbəsəm/
ipa: /ˈlʌmbɚsəm/
rhymes: -ʌmbə(ɹ)səm
Forms: form: more lumbersome
form: most lumbersome
Etymology: From lumber + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Zacchia's temporal consideration appears lumbersome, yet his point clear: the anatomical evidence will depend on the frequency of stupration.
ref: 2013, Kenneth Borris, George S. Rousseau, The Sciences of Homosexuality in Early Modern Europe:
synonyms: lumberly
glosses: Marked or characterised by lumbering or awkwardness; cumbrous.
Derived terms: lumbersomely
lumbersomeness
ferulary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ferulary
form: most ferulary
Etymology: From ferule + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: Even academic translators of Jonson’s era like Barten Holyday (Persins, 1616) were not literalists. Holyday tells us that he freed himself from “ferulary [‘schoolmasterish’] supersitition to the letter” and took “the ancient libertie of a Translator [to use] a moderate paraphrase, where the obscurities did more require it.”
ref: 1975, T. R. Steiner, quoting Barten Holyday, English translation theory 1650–1800, Van Gorcum, →ISBN, page 12:
glosses: Characteristic of a schoolmaster, schoolmasterish.
Derived terms: subferulary
ferulary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ferule + -ary.
Senses: glosses: Schoolmastership.
subferulary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + ferulary.
Senses: glosses: Subject to discipline by (or as if by) a schoolmaster.
fumblesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fumblesome
form: most fumblesome
Etymology: From fumble + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Religions exist to explain the world, but then, in my fumblesome way, so do I.
ref: 2007, Robert L. Root, Landscapes with Figures:
glosses: Marked or characterised by fumbling; clumsy; awkward
tumblesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tumblesome
form: most tumblesome
Etymology: From tumble + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Well, insofar as arranging for the delivery of pie ingredients could be considered rough and/or tumblesome
ref: 2015, Ben Y. Faroe, Bill Hoard, Hubris Towers Season 1, Episode 4: Ominous Undertones:
glosses: Marked or characterised by tumbling
humblesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more humblesome
form: most humblesome
Etymology: From humble + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Often the difference is attributable to the presence of pride or the absence of humility. So, you're having a conversation and you are trying to be humblesome.
ref: 2012, Norman H. Drummond, True Humility:
glosses: Characterised or marked by humility or humbleness.
grumblesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more grumblesome
form: most grumblesome
Etymology: From grumble + -some.
Senses: examples: text: “That's all lovely,” she said, settling her grumblesome tummy with a firm press of her palm.
ref: 2014, Stephanie Perkins, My True Love Gave to Me:
text: They take over the first two rows of seats in front of the stage, impatient and grumblesome and muttering about having done this too many times before.
ref: 2015, Winona Kent, Cold Play:
glosses: Characterised or marked by grumbling
rumblesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rumblesome
form: most rumblesome
Etymology: From rumble + -some.
Senses: examples: text: She had an ass like a tractor, all boxy and rumblesome.
ref: 2001, Francis DiPietro, Gather the Moon:
text: He lookedat me fora few seconds, with eyes like those of an inquisitive owl or curious herring, then suddenly burst into a peal of rumblesome laughings.
ref: 2012, Mark Evans, Bleak Expectations:
glosses: Characterised or marked by rumbling
bumblesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bumblesome
form: most bumblesome
Etymology: From bumble + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Her first name was Earmalinda, which when connected with the Babcock last name was a bumblesome mouthful that brought smiles to most people who heard it.
ref: 2015, Douglas Atwill, Husband Memory Pickles:
text: By contrast, although the bumblesome act of texting while walking—so often a means of making other pedestrians glumpy— would seem an even better spur for some sort of blended verb, attempts to push walkxting and pedexting have utterly failed; [...]
ref: 2016, Rebecca Gowers, Horrible Words:
glosses: Characterised or marked by bumbling
reich winger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reich wingers
form: reich-winger
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A right-winger, especially an advocate for more extreme or militant views.
arylmetalate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arylmetalates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any aryl metalate
arylmetalates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arylmetalate
bathochromically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bathochromic + -ally.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: In a direction of lower frequency
triptotical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From triptote + -ical.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of Arabic nouns or adjectives, taking a different ending for each of the three grammatical cases.
benzotriazol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of benzotriazole.
bisintercalating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bis- + intercalating.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: That intercalates using two links, or a double bond
Related terms: bisintercalation
bisintercalation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bisintercalations
Etymology: From bis- + intercalation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: intercalation using two links, or a double bond
Related terms: bisintercalating
cycloruthenation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cycloruthenations
Etymology: From cyclo- + ruthenation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A ruthenation reaction that involves cyclization
Related terms: cycloruthenate
cycloruthenated
ruthenation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ruthenations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any reaction in which a carbon-to-ruthenium bond is formed.
Derived terms: cycloruthenation
Related terms: organoruthenium
ruthenations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ruthenation
dichromophoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + chromophoric.
Senses: glosses: Having two chromophores
fluorosulfonyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluorosulfonyls
Etymology: From fluoro- + sulfonyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical F-SO₂-
functionalizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From functionalize + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be functionalized
glymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glyme
interduplex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + duplex.
Senses: glosses: Between duplexes (of nucleic acid)
Related terms: intraduplex
intraduplex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + duplex.
Senses: glosses: Within a duplex (of nucleic acid)
Related terms: interduplex
metaselective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meta- + selective.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: regioselective of the meta- position in a benzene ring
Related terms: orthoselective
paraselective
orthoselective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ortho- + selective.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: regioselective of the ortho- position in a benzene ring
Related terms: metaselective
paraselective
paraselective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + selective.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: regioselective of the para- position in a benzene ring
Related terms: orthoselective
metaselective
superprimate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superprimates
form: super-primate
Etymology: From super + primate.
Senses: examples: text: Without cultural programming, they could never become symbolizing organs. They would become something else, very powerful perceptual-motor systems, like those of a superprimate, perhaps, but not truly symbolic.
ref: 2000, Larry Nucci, Geoffrey B. Saxe, Elliot Turiel, Culture, Thought, and Development, →ISBN:
text: We are not a whole new experiment in the evolutionary process, but a superprimate. A quantitative change in the evolving human brain, however, has produced a qualitative change of extraordinary significance.
ref: 2006, Ann Allart Wilcock, An Occupational Perspective of Health, →ISBN, page 59:
text: Was I still in a close relationship with the biology that spawned me, or was I a “parvenu” kind of animal, a superprimate?
ref: 2010, George Lysloff, Poems, Visions, Reflections, →ISBN:
text: If you are looking about for things to even out the disparity between the brains of ordinary animalsand the great minds of ourselves, the superprimate humans, this apparatus is a good one to reflect on in humility. Compared to the common dog, or any rodent in the field, we are primitive, insensitive creatures, biological failures.
ref: 2014, Robert F.Morneau, A New Heart: Eleven Qualities of Holiness, →ISBN:
glosses: A primate that is markedly superior in some way to other primates.
super-primate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: super-primates
Senses: examples: text: The older brain is very old indeed, and in its super-primate form served hominids well during their long hunting-and-gathering period.
ref: 1979, Howard L. Parsons, Man Today: Problems, Values and Fulfillment, →ISBN, page 143:
text: None of them have real thoughts, none can foresee the future or regret the past, none are self-aware, except the super-primate humans, us.
ref: 1996, Lewis Thomas, Fragile Species, →ISBN, page 102:
text: In deference to William of Ockham, it would seem prudent to view genus Homo as a super-primate up to the point where new models and theories are required to make sense of the more phylogenetically advanced behavioral phenomena.
ref: 2013, K. Bailey, Human Paleopsychology, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of superprimate.
examples: text: I'd read in a book about monkeys that the primate nervous system was slow to be turned on and even slower to switch off. If so, Pia was a super-primate in that she took forever to respond but once aroused could never calm down.
ref: 2012, Edmund White, Jack Holmes and His Friend, →ISBN, page 254:
glosses: An exemplary primate.
super-primates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of super-primate
superprimates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superprimate
teruoth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew תְּרוּעוֹת (t'ru'ót), plural indefinite form of תְּרוּעָה (t'ru'á), whence teruah.
Senses: glosses: plural of teruah
teruah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tɹuˈɑː/
Forms: form: teruahs
form: teruoth
form: teruot
form: teruos
form: terua
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew תְּרוּעָה (t'ru'á).
Senses: glosses: A series of usually nine short notes blown on the shofar as a Jewish ceremonial
Related terms: tekiah
shevarim
remembersome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more remembersome
form: most remembersome
Etymology: From remember + -some.
Senses: examples: text: The remembersome words of a geek: Jump back!
ref: 1988, Berke Breathed, Bloom County:
text: … I prayed that he might be enticed into the most shocking company in Echuca, and be made fightably drunk, and fall in for a remembersome hammering, …
ref: 2016 (original 1944), Tom Collins, Such is Life
text: “I told you she'd remember us.” Trudiode said brightly to Erica. “We're very remembersome.” “We brought pizza.” Erica said to Wanda. “Well I did, for me. You have a bag of O positive.”
ref: 2015, Rachel Redhead, Curse Breaker Origins:
glosses: Marked by remembrance or remembering; easy to remember; unforgettable
glamoursome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more glamoursome
form: most glamoursome
form: glamorsome
Etymology: From glamour + -some.
Senses: examples: text: A swaggering ostinato on trombone suggests his glamoursome adventurousness, but Ray Nance's solo trumpet has a fallible wobble in its nobility (can Othello's tall tales be true?).
ref: 2001, Wilfrid Howard Mellers, Wilfrid Mellers, Singing in the Wilderness:
text: You just proved my point by assuming a Frisco gal who posed for art students had to be all glamoursome.
ref: 2012, Lou Cameron, Stringer:
text: “More like a glamoursome lady of fashion to a kid in pigtails,” Belle said. “My grandfather could be a real pain about female notions, as he called 'em.
ref: 2012, Lou Cameron, Stringer and the Hanging Judge:
text: No plan of mine could stand long against a brainstorming session spearheaded by Ulia Gol at her glamoursome best.
ref: 2015, C.S.E. Cooney, Bone Swans:
glosses: Marked by glamour or glamorousness; glamorous
ficklesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ficklesome
form: most ficklesome
Etymology: From fickle + -some.
Senses: examples: text: "Cut, then stain with blossom juice from Blood-of-Christ bush. Sew pieces together with rose thorn needle. Hammer heel into sole with hawthorn nails. Polish with twelve drops of faery spit." 'Twas a ficklesome job, and she'd already broken two fingernails.
ref: 2001, Mary E. Lyons, Knockabeg:
glosses: Characterised or marked by fickleness
ticklesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ticklesome
form: most ticklesome
Etymology: From tickle + -some.
Senses: examples: text: But I shouldn't like to have him walk on me. He'd be so—so tickelsome.
ref: 1920, Joseph Crosby Lincoln, "Shavings": a novel, New York & London: D. Appleton and company, page 376:
glosses: Tickly, sensitive or susceptible to being tickled.
pricklesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pricklesome
form: most pricklesome
Etymology: From prickle + -some.
Senses: examples: text: “He'd want a reason, Roric. And whatever reason you gave him, no matter how crafty, he'd take offence at it. Aistan's a good man, but pricklesome when it comes to his family.”
ref: 2014, Karen Miller, The Falcon Throne:
glosses: Characterised or marked by prickling
peddlesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more peddlesome
form: most peddlesome
Etymology: From peddle + -some.
Senses: examples: text: [...] You were muddlesome, muck and mopeful / You were meddlesome, mock and mythful / I was peddlesome, pock and pithful / I was so hungry in desperation / You gave me food in conspiration / How can I tell you how much I live you.
ref: 1987, Frank Luger, Herzenblut:
text: Selfaccusation, selfmocking monolith of pickled, pricking peddlesome whirlpool of sequestration.
ref: 2000, Yang-Un Moon Eiman, Multi-Mega-Trans-Metamorphosis:
glosses: Characterised or marked by peddling
licksome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more licksome
form: most licksome
form: licksom
form: lixom
Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly from lick + -some, or perhaps a dialectal variant of likesome, or a merger of both.
Senses: glosses: Pleasant; agreeable; amiable; handsome; neat
lumpsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lumpsome
form: most lumpsome
Etymology: From lump + -some.
Senses: examples: text: The architecture is along the lumpsome lines of Hamadan's Baber Taher tower but the site is peaceful and attractive.
ref: 2008, Andrew Burke, Mark Elliott, Iran. Ediz. Inglese:
text: “Lead on,” Anna said to Robin and, feeling trollish and lumpsome, stumped down the road beside Robin's fairy-stepping form.
ref: 2008, Nevada Barr, Winter Study:
text: O freeze my soul in fitful sleep lest wind-filled sprites bequim the air and take us singly or in threes in mad agog or lumpsome nub, aghast to Milford Haven.
ref: 2009, S. Purcell, Popular Shakespeare:
text: The body style evidently didn't matter, the three older women at the adjoining table commented to each other, since each girl in the group came with her own definition, some slim and sexy, others hip-heavy and lumpsome, some obviously uncomfortable with the mandatory uniform of cargo pants that sagged and bagged in inappropriate places, and were too tight in others, particularly the rear.
ref: 2011, Emily Kemme, In Search Of Sushi Tora:
glosses: Characterised or marked by lumps
examples: text: He was a man who was always dissatisfied, who seemed to worry too much unnecessarily, and always found a sadistic pleasure in belittling her because she hadn't brought a lumpsome dowry.
ref: 2014, Mamata Dey, Love Has Wings Into The Unknown:
glosses: Large; copious; abundant; well-endowed
lumpsome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of lump sum.
franksome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more franksome
form: most franksome
Etymology: From frank + -some.
Senses: examples: text: For still as one by one they grew / To Childhood's franksome years, / They one by one were torn away / To bondage and to tears.
ref: 1836, Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, Essays, Philanthropic and Moral:
text: Pixies of franksome moods / Dreams of delight!
ref: 1845, The New Monthly Belle Assemblée:
text: Ay, ay, a franksome lad — a ne'er-do-well; [...]
ref: 1863, Charles Swain, Art and Fashion:
text: I might have easily attached myself to one of the franksome young gypsies who were about me, and who put forth many a lure, but my heart was unalterably wedded to Francesca; [...]
ref: 1869, Edward Vaughan Kenealy, An Autobiography:
glosses: Marked or characterised by frankness
profitsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more profitsome
form: most profitsome
Etymology: From profit + -some.
Senses: examples: text: [...] to put my soap / in the slimming industry's / profitsome spoke
ref: 1996, James Acheson, Romana Huk, Contemporary British Poetry:
text: “Your sister says she tried to put you through college,” Longarm replied as they headed on down the sandstone sidewalk, deserted like the most of the business district at that hour, save for an island of bright lights every quarter mile or so, where a saloon, a tobacco shop, or chili parlor still found it profitsome to stay open after quitting time.
ref: 2001, Tabor Evans, Longarm and the Lady Bandit:
text: So unless you could wrangle a government beef contract to supply nearby army posts or Indian agencies, and that had been the one true motive for the infamous Lincoln County War, you had to breed and sell stock more profitsome than beef on the hoof.
ref: 2003, Tabor Evans, Longarm and the Deadly Dead Man:
text: Earp nodded, then opined, “You'd have to drill in crops more profitsome than barley to make a go of it with hired water. It just don't pay to irrigate grain and grazing land. [...]”
ref: 2012, Lou Cameron, Stringer and the Deadly Flood:
glosses: Characterised or marked by profit
Synonyms: profitable
grimsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more grimsome
form: most grimsome
Etymology: From grim + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Am I some deep-sea snake-monster that thou, thou grimsome watcher, watch me even when I swallow my spittle?
ref: 2010, Tyler Blanski, Clay Eyes:
text: “[...] Is there something on your mind that you need you want to talk about cause you scaring me with that wide eyed grimsome look”?
ref: 2011, ghetto english rock / Attaway, Bitches Brew:
text: The poor ragged old soul continued to gasp, / Barely puffing out his last grimsome yasp, “You, young plop, are one part Oxygen, / Which fish borrow or steal, / It's here again, gone again. Do you miss it? How do you feel?
ref: 2013, Kevin Alan Richards, Plop the Raindrop:
text: Numb and grimsome. It is a disgrace.
ref: 2013, Jonathan Strahan, Fearsome Journeys:
text: The appellation, melancholia, / Rings grimsome cannotations [sic] to the mind / Of fearful lapses caused by constant thought / Of hardships, accusations and forebodings, / Preying to disorient in space / The will to reason and for what one wrought.
ref: 2014, Rames J. Bucci, Destiny:
glosses: Characterised or marked by grimness; somber
Eryx
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Erice.
arguesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more arguesome
form: most arguesome
Etymology: From argue + -some.
Senses: examples: text: “Woodrow, you're the most arguesome person I've ever met,” Augustus said.
ref: 2000, Larry McMurtry, Comanche Moon:
text: Ladies complained of the men's arguesome natures, stating they were relatively certain that grizzly bears had better dispositions.
ref: 2014, Dewanna Pace, The Will And The Way:
glosses: Characterised or marked by arguing; contentious
Synonyms: quarrelsome
methoxyethoxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meth- + oxy- + ethoxy.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent ether radical CH₃-O-CH₂CH₂-O- found in the ethers of polyglycols
monoglyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + glyme.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dimethoxyethane.
synonyms: word: dimethoxyethane
triglyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + glyme.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The dimethyl ether of triethylene glycol
tetraglyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tetra- + glyme.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The dimethyl ether of tetraethylene glycol
pridesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pridesome
form: most pridesome
form: pride-some
Etymology: From pride + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Chance shoved his mug over in front of his apprentice, who bobbed his head in gratitude. "Well done!" Chance said, and immediately diverted his attention from the pridesome youth.
ref: 2003, Lynn Abbey, Thieves' World:
text: Raw hatred beat down, tearing through the last shreds of her frantic prayers. She was too weak, wretched. A pridesome, wailful sinner playing the harlot with the road.
ref: 2009, John B. Olson, Powers:
text: If there's a solution that's gadgetical, please let us know.I know yore time costs money and we kin pay. We ain't freeloaders after all. The Clodhoppers are a pridesome group, and we pay our own way.
ref: 2010, Roger Lee Scott, Letters from the Hills:
text: 'Or maybe,' he went on, speaking from his boulder as from a pulpit, 'you need to beware of the post-pridesome fall.'
ref: 2014, Alison Leonard, Heavenly Lilies:
glosses: Characterised or marked by pride
multichromophore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + chromophore.
Senses: glosses: Having multiple chromophores
multichromophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multichromophores
Etymology: From multi- + chromophore.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Such a compound
multichromophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multichromophore
nanohoop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanohoops
Etymology: From nano- + hoop.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A nanoscale hoop, typically constructed from linked benzene rings.
Derived terms: azananohoop
nanohoops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanohoop
phenylpyridine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenylpyridines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of three isomeric phenyl derivatives of pyridine 2-, 3- or 4-phenylpyridine
preannealed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + annealed.
Senses: glosses: annealed prior to another process
Related terms: preannealing
prefunctionalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prefunctionalizations
Etymology: From pre- + functionalization.
Senses: glosses: functionalization prior to another process
regiodivergent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From regio- + divergent.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: That produces structurally isomeric forms of the same compound
Related terms: regiodivergence
ooblecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oobleck
Selinunte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Selinunte.
Senses: glosses: An Ancient Greek city on the south-western coast of Sicily.
Related terms: Selinuntine
Tristin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Rare non-standard spelling of Tristan.
Senses: glosses: A male or female given name of modern usage.
know one's shit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knows one's shit
form: knowing one's shit
form: knew one's shit
form: known one's shit
form: know the shit
Senses: examples: text: Joe really knows his shit when it comes to plumbing.
text: "He really knows his shit. He knows more about guerrilla war than I could ever learn in ten lifetimes," Morales said.
ref: 2005, Mike Tucker, Among Warriors in Iraq, →ISBN:
text: “Any magician can ask another magician of equal or lower level to demonstrate the test corresponding to their level or any of the levels below that,” she recited. “To prove they know their shit.”
ref: 2011, Lev Grossman, The Magician King, →ISBN, page 134:
text: She knew her shit. . . . Without as much as a single stutter or misstep, she spoke about decisive point, synergistic execution, momentum shift, kinetic solution, and competent authority.
ref: 2014, Dalton Fury, Full Assault Mode: A Delta Force Novel, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of know one's stuff, to be knowledgeable about a subject or task.
synonyms: word: know one's stuff
word: to be knowledgeable about a subject or task
moonlight requisition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moonlight requisitions
Senses: examples: text: They were clever in finding local material, such as parachutes, for making bedcovers or curtains, and so-called "moonlight requisitions" were sources of supply for material to make furniture.
ref: 1966, Margaret Craighill, “The Women's Army Corps”, in Robert Anderson, Albert Glass, Robert Bernucci, William Mullins, editors, Neuropsychiatry in World War II, volume 1, →OCLC, page 468:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Unauthorized taking of materiel; theft of supplies for use in one's own unit.
examples: text: One problem that became apparent from almost the first acquisition, was that of vandalism and pilfering. It seemed that as soon as a party moved, the area "jungle telegraph" would alert those in the habit of making "moonlight requisitions" to become active.
ref: 1973, John Postlewait, Harry Knudson, “Some experiences in land acquisition for a land disposal system for sewage effluent”, in Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Recycling Municipal Sludges and Effluents on Land: July 9-13, 1973, Champaign, Illinois, Washington: Environmental Protection Agency, →OCLC, pages 33–34:
glosses: Theft or receipt of stolen goods.
Synonyms: theft
moonlight requisition
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: moonlight requisitions
form: moonlight requisitioning
form: moonlight requisitioned
form: moonlight requisitioned
Senses: examples: text: The soldier learns informally in his basic military training experience to "moonlight requisition" or steal that which his unit needs.
ref: 1990, Clifton Bryant, “The social context”, in Deviant Behavior: Readings in the Sociology of Norm Violations, New York: Hemisphere, →ISBN, page 18:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To steal or use materiel without authorization.
Synonyms: steal
doomsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more doomsome
form: most doomsome
Etymology: From doom + -some.
Senses: examples: text: “Well, Murghal neng Nhestravvath came back from the desert with a doomsome demon as an ally. [...]”
ref: 2015, Bard Bloom, World In My Claws:
text: 'Fear not the doomsome words of yon jobbardly Jeremiah, Master Plowman. He maketh merry with us all oft and anon, and 'twill be to his own undoing.
ref: 2011, Arthur D Bardswell, The Poor Preachers:
glosses: Marked by doom
gloomsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gloomsome
form: most gloomsome
Etymology: From gloom + -some.
Senses: examples: text: “[...] It's been that gloomsome, Mistress Alanna.” The knight leaned against a post. “Why don't you tell me what's going on to make things so 'gloomsome.'” Stefan looked around, wary.
ref: 2009, Tamora Pierce, Lioness Rampant:
text: They'll hire a new crew of diggers and make them swear to hold their tongues. And then they'll kill them to keep them quiet, like the last nine. Being sick makes me gloomsome. I'm taking Goodwin's potion and going to bed.
ref: 2012, Tamora Pierce, Beka Cooper:
text: I've written a little pianopiece, une petite kleine Anne-stick, for the occasion, which I should like to play for you myself, but since I'm stuck in gloomsome Vienna (we are still mourning the Emperor—and how!) and you, glorious one, are in the fog of London, I enclose the ditty here. Everyone tells me of London. London, London, London.
ref: 2015, Vivien Shotwell, Vienna Nocturne:
synonyms: word: bleak
word: gloomy
word: cheerless
word: comfortless
word: bleak
word: dark
word: depressing
word: desolate
word: dire
word: disconsolate
word: dismal
word: doleful
word: dolesome
word: drear
word: drearisome
word: dreary
word: dreich
word: forlorn
word: gayless
word: gray
word: gloomsome
word: gloomy
word: grim
word: joyless
word: lack-laughter
word: lugubrious
word: melancholy
word: mirthless
word: miserable
word: no joke
word: saturnine
word: solemn
word: somber
word: sombre
word: spiritless
word: sullen
word: sunless
word: uncheerful
word: uncheery
word: unhappy
word: unmerry
word: wintry
word: woeful
glosses: Characterised or marked by gloom
loonsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more loonsome
form: most loonsome
Etymology: Variant of lonesome.
Senses: examples: text: There they sat, with their "heads bowed down like the loonsome bulrush," as Uncle Billy poetically expressed it, weeping over their sins, as he thought, but the wicked creatures were laughing.
ref: 1859, Hardin E. Taliaferro, Fisher's River (North Carolina): Scenes and Characters, page 160:
text: "Jack he ha' gart ta be about his wark, an' Aggie hare ha' gart har chillern ta see arter, an' sometimes I fare sa loonsome, hare, all alooan . . . wi' Gord."
ref: 1906, James Blyth, The Same Clay, page 191:
text: Oh, most o' Pa's yarnin's was jus' musey duck fartin' an'in his loonsome old age he even b'liefed Meronym the Prescient was his presh b'loved Sonmi, yay, he 'sisted it, he said he knowed it all by birthmarks an' comets'n'all.
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas:
glosses: lonesome
loonsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more loonsome
form: most loonsome
Etymology: From loon + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Hi everyone, Had a lovlerley ubberley weekend-filled with much loonsome dancing and merriment.
ref: 2007, Roast Dinner - Honeybuns:
text: Only one of them is crazy / Loonsome moontide / Drifts me like a paperboat [...]
ref: 2011, Emu Camel Drum, Sanity Inhibits Wisdom:
text: Of course, Chisum didn’t read what he advocated before he advocated it (what would you expect), but his response when he finally read it wasn’t much less loonsome.
ref: 2013, Encyclopedia of American Loons: #569: Warren Chisum^([americanloons.blogspot.com/2013/05/569-warren-chisum.html]):
text: “Failure of a so called musician, who drunkenly has staggered on home to the apartment complex where he dwell, but drunker than a mule on it's^([sic]) ass, and coincidentally, accidently^([sic]) enters the lonely loonsome next door neighbors^([sic]) place. […]”
ref: 2016, Gage Washburn, Sonata Sleepless:
text: However, our loonsome duo stumble across advertising, marketing, Hovis, Argos and the Planet Zestis Omercrom Three (3) in their quest for knowledge.
ref: 2017, Andrew Harland, The DredgeLand Sci-Fi Podcast Spectacular:
glosses: Characteristic of a loon or marked by looniness
afterstory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: afterstories
form: after-story
form: after story
Etymology: From after- + story.
Senses: examples: text: Wilder's cynicism is most evident in his cop-out, boy-gets-girl ending, which seems quite capable of producing an afterstory identical to the film we have just seen.
ref: 2008, Barry Keith Grant, American Cinema of the 1960s:
text: The afterstory might be as telling as the uprising. Even though hundreds of thousands of people joined the protest group, only a small percentage of Facebook members ever changed their privacy settings!
ref: 2010, Joshua Porter, Designing for the Social Web, eBook:
text: The use of an afterstory is rarer, but it oc- curs when a first-person narrator looks at the past from the point of view of the present, stressing the distinction between his or her past and present self: [...]
ref: 2014, Marie-Laure Ryan, Jan-Noël Thon, Storyworlds Across Media:
glosses: A story told after the fact; an account of events which come after a story
Related terms: aftertale
afterword
afterstories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of afterstory
bullysome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bullysome
form: most bullysome
form: bully-some
Etymology: From bully + -some.
Senses: examples: text: I can be a little bit bullysome . . . as long as my friends like me, nothing else matters.
ref: 2003, Osborn, Marilyn, Broadfoot, Patricia, McNess, Elizabeth, A World Of Difference?:
text: Others will be bullysome as if to invoke some right that they are allowed over.
ref: 2012, steven norton, Defence Against The Dark Arts:
text: The story of my youth was about being socially awkward, bumbling, and bully-some.
ref: 2016, Rick Ray, Sustainable Weight:
glosses: Characterised or marked by bullying
bulliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bullyness
Etymology: From bully + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being a bully.
bullyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bully + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bulliness.
artsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more artsome
form: most artsome
Etymology: From art + -some.
Senses: examples: text: [...] it is laughatable ((absurd)) to think that the lower races can judge of artsome howths [qualities] that are too far above them for them to be able to see at all.
ref: 2006, Malcolm Gillies, David Pear, Mark Carroll, Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger:
text: Recondite adventures in the insipid, the artsome, the equine, do not amuse my servant or myself.
ref: 2007, Bonnie Kime Scott, Gender in Modernism:
text: But Life will not yield up her more intimate secrets for eighteenpence an hour; and these earnest young ladies and artsome young men, when they have filled portfolios with such sordid life studies, know less about living humanity than they did before, …
ref: 2015 (original 1900), George Bernard Shaw, When We Dead Awaken
glosses: Characterised by art, the arts, or artistry
wildsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wildsome
form: most wildsome
Etymology: From wild + -some, perhaps continuing Middle English wyld-som, wyld-some.
Senses: examples: text: The wildsome, rich, invigorating sound
ref: 1838, Thomas Eagles, Brendallah, A Poem, Whittaker & Co., section LIX, page 110:
text: So by wildsome ways in strange countries and through many waters and valleys rode Martimor forty days, but adventure met him none, blow the wind never so fierce or fickle.
ref: 2008, Henry Van Dyke, The Blue Flower:
glosses: Characterised or marked by wildness
swingtail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swingtails
Etymology: From swing + tail.
Senses: examples: text: During the flight to California to deliver the first swingtail to Flying Tiger Lines, Coe cruised at 12,000 to 16,000 feet, indicating 278 knots for a true airspeed of 398 mph.
ref: 1961 October, Richard B. Weeghm, “Aviation Fuel”, in Flying Magazine, volume 69, number 4, page 107:
text: As Wheatcroft has pointed out the development of new all-cargo freighters is essential for economic progress, so with the introduction of the swingtail Canadair CL 44 D4 freighter and another all-cargo service by Pan American Airways shipments by air should improve.
ref: 1965, JA Soulsby, “The Shannon free airport scheme: A new approach to industrial development”, in The Scottish Geographical Magazine, volume 81, number 2:
text: Their first flight took the company's CL‐44 swingtail freighter to Hong Kong in September 1970.
ref: 1999, I Lobo, M Zairi, “Competitive benchmarking in the air cargo industry: Part I”, in Benchmarking: An International Journal, volume 6, number 2:
text: Two other interesting configurations also considered were a removable tail and a vertical swingtail.
ref: 2008, K Poechlauer, CA Vyeson, “The 747-400 Dreamlifter-Swing Tail Door Alignment and Latch Mechanism”, in SAE International Journal of Aerospace, volume 1, number 1:
text: It then made a study which eventually convinced the Board that a temporary solution was to lease Canadair CL—44s, a swingtail version of the Britannia freighter which Sir Miles Thomas had tried to order in 1952.
ref: 2013, Robin Higham, Speedbird: The Complete History of BOAC, →ISBN, page 221:
glosses: A hinged tail section on an airplane that can open up, providing access to the interior of the fuselage.
swingtails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swingtail
danksome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more danksome
form: most danksome
form: dank-some
Etymology: From dank + -some.
Senses: examples: text: “[...] Go where there is moving air, we must—even in these dank-some caves there must be such a place, methinks.”
ref: 2006, Tad Williams, Shadowmarch:
text: “Were a night like now,” he eventually mumbled. “But late in the year. The forest nigh had gotten danksome and groolier.
ref: 2013, Robin Jarvis, Dark Waters of Hagwood:
glosses: Characterised or marked by dankness
thanksome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thanksome
form: most thanksome
Etymology: From thank + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Fog turned ev'ry tree stump into a huddled Kona sentry, but still I was thanksome to Sonmi for the camo.
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
text: 'We'll drink to a thanksome outcome o that,' said Lady Magdalen, and they raised their beakers.
ref: 2011, Pat McIntosh, Counterfeit Madam:
glosses: Characterised by thankfulness or gratitude
stinksome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stinksome
form: most stinksome
Etymology: From stink + -some.
Senses: examples: text: She'd avoided him like a stinksome midden after he'd been in her bed and seen her naked . . . The bloody arse!
ref: 2006, Sandra Hill, Rough and Ready:
text: 'At home we lived in our stinksome cave. Things are different here. Grumpa wouldn't like it.'
ref: 2011, Alan MacDonald, Goat Pie:
glosses: Characterised or marked by stinkiness
stenchsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stenchsome
form: most stenchsome
Etymology: From stench + -some.
Senses: examples: text: He found Chicago still partly using its well as a cesspool, and New York split up the front with a stenchsome trench for underground transit, and horse-cars still in evidence.
ref: 1901, The Land of Sunshine, volume 15:
text: At the end of one particularly stenchsome row, Ondine nudged Hamish out in to the fresh air, which just happened to be near a donut van.
ref: 2015, Ebony McKenna, The Spring Revolution:
glosses: Characterised or marked by stench