cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
palliardise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paillardize
form: pailliardize
Etymology: From palliard + -ise, after Middle French paillardise.
Senses: examples: text: Nothing […] more weakeneth an Armye than luxuritie and palliardize.
ref: 1591, Lodge, Diogenes, page 46:
text: A man whose Paillardize [translating paillardise] and luxurie, doth uncessantly sway and rule the head, and who judgeth the same abhominable and most hatefull in the sight of God; what saith he unto his all-seeing Majesty, when he openeth his lips, either of mouth or hart, to speake to him of it?
ref: , I.56
text: Hee [Jupiter] gave himself over wholly to palliardize and adultery.
ref: 1614, Walter Raleigh, Hist. World, I, xi:
text: King Kichard was ever held to be frugal, with the preservation of his honour; nor can they tax him with Palliardise, Luxury, Epicurism, nor Gluttony, vices following many Tyrants; […]
ref: 1647, George Buck, The History of the Life and Reigne of Richard the Third, page 136:
text: I beléeue this was the reason that mooued Auicen the Arabian to say, that the exercise of palliardise is more pernicious to the body of man, than if hee had diuers time indured letting of bloud. In briefe Lechery weakeneth the forces […]
ref: 1883(?), Thomas Lodge, The Complete Works of Thomas Lodge 1580-1623? Now First Collected […], page 56
text: ... and their actions only to the Church, the well-beloved spouse of Christ, to this which “castis avay the forsaid spous and with palliardise and al kynd of harlatrie abusis the sacred and halie".
ref: 1901(?), Thomas Graves Law, Catholic Tractates of the Sixteenth Century, 1573-1600
glosses: Fornication, lechery.
auriscalps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of auriscalp
arse-kissers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arse-kisser
through ticketing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of through-ticketing.
prosopopœia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prosopopœias
form: prosopopœiæ
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of prosopopoeia.
enigmatist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɛnɪɡˈmætɪst/
Forms: form: enigmatists
form: ænigmatist
Etymology: From enigmata (“plural of enigma”) + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who indulges in enigmas, especially one who often makes such enigmas.
Related terms: Special:PrefixIndex
enigma whose words in some way relate to the idea of mysteries
enigmatists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enigmatist
æternity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: æternities
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of eternity.
pyorrhœa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 19th Century, Eugene S. Talbot: Interstitial Gingivitis, or so‐called Pyorrhœa Alveolaris.
glosses: Alternative spelling of pyorrhea.
aëro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Dated form of aero-.
wiredraw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wiredraws
form: wiredrawing
form: wiredrew
form: wiredrawn
form: wire-draw
form: wyredraw
Etymology: From wire + draw.
Senses: glosses: To stretch (some physical thing) out, as though drawing wire; to elongate.
examples: text: I am of opinion that the uncontrouled libertie, that all men have to wrest, dissipate, and wyredraw a word so religious and important, to so many severall idiomes, hath much more danger than profit following it.
ref: , I.56
text: The vision was, however, so wiredrawn, it was so evident that the nobleman had not got his own consent to the vague something floating in his "mind's eye," that he left her in the dark as to his wishes and intentions beyond the belief that he was determined to seek, in the matrimonial state, that happiness which had hitherto eluded his pursuit,...
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “(please specify the page)”, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, pages 256–257:
glosses: To stretch (words, a meaning etc.) to suit one's own purpose.
have reason
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has reason
form: having reason
form: had reason
form: had reason
Etymology: From have + reason, partly after Middle French avoir raison.
Senses: examples: text: They would have no man use it as an interjection or exclamation, not to be alleaged as a witnesse or comparison, wherein I find they have reason.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 56, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: To be right.
examples: text: The finance minister had reason to be exasperated. Britain's economic future hinges on Europe, and this is no time for animus.
ref: 2008 December 12, Martin Kettle, The Guardian:
glosses: To have grounds, justification etc. (to do something, or for something).
Derived terms: have reason to believe
grievousest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: We neverthelesse invoke God and call on his aid, even in the complot of our grievousest faults, and desire his assistance in all manner of injustice and iniquitie.
ref: , I.56
glosses: superlative form of grievous: most grievous
band-aid solution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: band-aid solutions
Senses: glosses: A temporary or inadequate solution.
band-aid solutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of band-aid solution
polygons of forces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polygon of forces
parallelograms of forces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parallelogram of forces
objets d'art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of objet d'art
poly-phenylalanine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poly-phenylalanines
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of polyphenylalanine.
basha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæʃə/
Forms: form: bashas
Etymology: Borrowed from Assamese [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A tarpaulin or plastic waterproof sheet.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A makeshift shelter made from the above.
possibles bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: possibles bags
Senses: glosses: A hunter's day-bag of highly varying designs and materials, but usually a kind of a satchel intended for carrying whatever small gear is necessary for the day's hunt.
country seat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: country seats
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: country house
glosses: A second home in a rural area, especially one of a rich, powerful or important person.
Related terms: english: typo potential
translation: typo potential
word: county seat
word: great house
word: manor house
word: squire
at-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Middle English at-, et-, æt-, from Old English æt- (“at, near, toward, beyond, away”). Doublet of ad-. More at at.
Senses: glosses: Prefix meaning at, close to, to, away, off.
Derived terms: at-after
atone
attask
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: attasks
form: attasking
form: attasked
form: attasked
Etymology: From at- + task.
Senses: glosses: To take to task; tax; reprove; blame.
atwite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: atwites
form: atwiting
form: atwited
form: atwited
form: attwite
Etymology: PIE word
 *h₂éd
From Middle English atwiten (“to attribute (something) to someone; to blame (something) on someone; to accuse or charge (someone) with something; to speak ill of; to taunt”), from Old English ætwītan (“to blame, reproach; to censure, upbraid; to taunt”), from æt- (prefix meaning ‘at, near; toward’) + wītan (“to accuse; to blame, reproach”) (from Proto-Germanic *wītaną (“to punish; to torment; to know; to see”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see”)). The English word is analysable as at- + wite.
Senses: glosses: To blame or reproach (someone); to twit.
Related terms: twit
wite
saddle rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saddle ring
frizzens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frizzen
firing pins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firing pin
atren
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: atrens
form: atrenning
form: atran
form: atrun
Etymology: From Middle English atrennen (“to run or flee out”), equivalent to at- + run. Compare German entrennen, English atrin.
Senses: glosses: To run away; escape.
glosses: To outrun.
atrede
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: atredes
form: atreding
form: atred
form: atred
form: atredd
form: atredd
Etymology: From Middle English atreden, equivalent to at- (“beyond, out-”) + rede (“counsel, advice”).
Senses: glosses: To surpass or outdo in counsel.
atgar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atgars
form: ategar
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English ætgār (“a short spear, dart, javelin, a kind of dart or other weapon to cast at the enemy”), from Proto-West Germanic *atgaiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *atgaizaz; equivalent to at- + gar (“spear”). Cognate with Old Frisian etgēr, Old High German azgēr, azigēr, Icelandic atgeir (“spear”).
Senses: qualifier: Anglo-Saxon
glosses: A kind of spear or lance formerly in use.
ill behaved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ill behaved
form: most ill behaved
Etymology: ill + behaved
Senses: examples: text: That boy is ill behaved: he is always naughty.
glosses: badly behaved; exhibiting bad behaviour
undertildes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undertilde
ælurophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ælurophobes
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of ailurophobe.
Xanax
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzæn.æks/
Forms: form: Xanax
form: Xanaxes
Etymology: A trademarked name, coined by Pfizer.
Senses: examples: text: “After taking one or two Xanax every night for eight years, my doctor told me I had to stop,” says a middle-aged Montgomery County homemaker.
ref: 1990, Washingtonian, page 223:
text: My rage is controlled, barely, by a Xanax and an Absolut on the rocks.
ref: 1991, Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho, London: Picador, →ISBN, page 226:
text: A half-dozen black beauties gave him the edge he needed, a couple of purple egg-shaped Xanaxes cooled his nerves.
ref: 1991, John Sandford [pseudonym; John Roswell Camp], chapter 16, in Eyes of Prey:
text: Also in Mr. Ledger’s system were three anti-anxiety medications: diazepam, the generic name for Valium; alprazolam, commonly known as Xanax; and temazepam[…].
ref: 2008 February 7, James Barron, “Medical Examiner Rules Ledger’s Death Accidental”, in The New York Times:
text: “Medication can be part of a psychotropic arsenal,” he said, discussing one therapist who urged him to stop taking Xanax so he could address his anxiety directly and not mask the physical symptoms.
ref: 2014 January 28, Kat Kinsman, “10 things we learned about surviving anxiety”, in CNN:
text: Take a deep, healing breath, and imagine that you're not even on Twitter, or Facebook, or Xanax.
ref: 2020, Paul Rudnick, Coastal Elites, spoken by Clarissa Montgomery (Sarah Paulson):
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
synonyms: word: Xan
word: Xanny
qualifier: trademark
glosses: A brand name for alprazolam.
wikipedia: Pfizer
Derived terms: Xan
Xanaxed
xanbie
Xanned
Xanny
hæretic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hæretics
Senses: examples: text: That turbulent hæretic proclaimed the law of nature, the community of goods, and the community of women ; and the Persian monarch was insane enough to enact that anarchy by law, for which his subjects very properly deposed him and put him in prison.
ref: 1829, Algernon Herbert, Nimrod, page 525:
glosses: Archaic spelling of heretic.
Derived terms: hæretical
archæolatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: China—a world within itself, a world once far ahead probably of all contemporaries—has been effectually stereotyped, or rather petrified, by its own incrustation of pride and archæolatry, while all the rest of the world has outstripped and eclipsed it in every item of national greatness and social advancement.
ref: 1854, “The Revolution In China”, in The eclectic magazine of foreign literature, science, and art, volume II, page 90:
text: It is a curious fact that at the time when this archæolatry, to coin a word, was at its height, the Venus of Milo and the Hermes were still slumbering under the ruins piled over them by barbarian hands, and the works of Phidias were unknown to artists or connoisseurs, and were made targets of by Turkish soldiery.
ref: 1889, J.E. Hodgson, “Old Arts and Moder Thoughts”, in The Magazine of Art, volume 12:
text: Archæolatry, avarice, and political power form a threefold cord which will not be easily broken.
ref: 1891 December, “The Greek Church and Protestant Missions; or, Missions to the Oriental Churches”, in The Magazine of Christian Literature, volume 5, number 3, page 198:
text: On no other ground could the “archæolatry,” which we have found almost universal, be maintained for a moment.
ref: 1949, George Saintsbury, A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts to the Present Day, page 120:
glosses: Alternative form of archaeolatry.
very special episode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: very special episodes
Senses: glosses: An episode of an entertainment TV series that focuses on serious subjects instead.
very special episodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of very special episode
Pontian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The Pontic Greek dialect of the historical Pontus region of Asia Minor.
Related terms: Pontus
Pontic
Pontic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒntɪk/
Etymology: From Latin ponticus, from Ancient Greek Ποντῐκός (Pontĭkós), from Πόντος (Póntos, “Black Sea, Pontus”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic: forming adjectives”). Equivalent to Pontus + -ic. Doublet of bonduc and bundook.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to kingdom of Pontus.
glosses: Of or relating to the region of Pontus in northern Anatolia.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to Pontic Greek, the dialect of Greek that developed in Pontus and is now spoken chiefly in rural northern Greece.
glosses: Of or relating to the Black Sea.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Rhododendron ponticum
word: pontic rhododendron
Pontic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒntɪk/
Etymology: From Latin ponticus, from Ancient Greek Ποντῐκός (Pontĭkós), from Πόντος (Póntos, “Black Sea, Pontus”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic: forming adjectives”). Equivalent to Pontus + -ic. Doublet of bonduc and bundook.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of Pontic Greek, the dialect of Greek developed in Pontus and now chiefly spoken in rural northern Greece.
dawt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dawts
form: dawting
form: dawted
form: dawted
form: daut
Senses: examples: text: To dawt on me, and me sae young, / Wi' his fause heart and flatt'ring tongue, / That is the thing you shall never see, / For an auld man shall never dawt on me.
ref: 1788 [1886], Robert Burns, “To Dawt on Me”, in The Complete Works of Robert Burns, volume 2, Kessinger, published 2004, page 163:
text: Let him kiss her, clap her, and dawt her, / And gie her benevolence due, / And that will a thrifty wife mak her, / And sae I'll bid farewell to you.
ref: c. 18th century, Some Say Kissing's A Sin; republished in Thomas Crawford, editor, Love, Labour, and Liberty: the eighteenth-century Scottish lyric, Carcanet Press, 1976, page 79:
text: He courted her and he brought her hame, / An thought she would prove a thrifty dame. / She could nether spin nor caird, / But sit in her chair and dawt the laird.
ref: c. 1882–1896, Francis James Child, “Number 277: The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin”, in The English and Scottish Popular Ballads:
glosses: To fondle or caress.
Synonyms: faddle
grope
pettle
tiddle
fondle
attery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more attery
form: most attery
form: attry
form: att'ry
form: aitrie
form: aittrie
form: etri
Etymology: From Middle English attery, attry, attri, ætriȝ, from Old English ǣttriġ, ǣtriġ (“poisonous”), from Proto-Germanic *aitrīgaz (“poisonous”). Cognate with Dutch etterig (“purulent”), German eiterig (“purulent, festering”), Swedish ettrig (“poisonous”). By surface analysis, atter (“poison”) + -y.
Senses: glosses: Poisonous; venomous
glosses: Pernicious
glosses: Purulent; containing pus or matter
raw_tags: of a wound or sore
glosses: Bad-tempered; spiteful; quarrelsome; peevish; angry; hot-headed
raw_tags: of mood or disposition
glosses: Cold; bleak; grim
raw_tags: of weather
Synonyms: atterly
attery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attry
form: att'ry
form: aitrie
form: aittrie
form: etri
Etymology: From Middle English attery, attry, attri, ætriȝ, from Old English ǣttriġ, ǣtriġ (“poisonous”), from Proto-Germanic *aitrīgaz (“poisonous”). Cognate with Dutch etterig (“purulent”), German eiterig (“purulent, festering”), Swedish ettrig (“poisonous”). By surface analysis, atter (“poison”) + -y.
Senses: glosses: Cold, bleak weather.
Related terms: atter
attry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more attry
form: most attry
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of attery.
atterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more atterly
form: most atterly
Etymology: From Middle English atterlich, from Old English ātorlīċ (“poisonous”). Compare Dutch etterlijk. By surface analysis, atter + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Poisonous; attery
abitur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abiturs
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Abitur.
coterminal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coterminals
Etymology: From co- + terminal.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: One of a number of terminals or airports which are interchangeable for the purposes of ticketing.
coterminal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + terminal.
Senses: glosses: Coterminous: having the same scope or range, or meeting at the ends.
examples: text: When you try to draw two coterminal angles on a circle, you will find that you only get one line.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Differing only by a whole number of complete circles.
raw_tags: of two angles
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Describing an object in a category, such that there is precisely one morphism that maps that object to every object in the category.
examples: coterminal student
qualifier: university education
glosses: Simultaneously studying towards two or more separate degrees.
raw_tags: of a student
Synonyms: topics: category-theory
mathematics
computing
engineering
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: initial
Derived terms: coterminally
pulvillus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulvilli
Etymology: From Latin pulvillus (“a little cushion”).
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: One of the tiny cushions or pads on the feet of certain insects.
pulvilli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pulvillus
pulville
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pulvillio.
pyram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrams
Senses: glosses: Any of many ectoparasitic sea snails of the family Pyramidellidae
bocha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bochas
form: bochah
form: boçhah
form: bocho
form: boutcha
Etymology: From Hindi बौचा (baucā).
Senses: examples: text: When the compilation by Williamson was first examined in order to correct his vulgar mode of spelling Hindoostanee words, a good while since, the number seemed so formidable, that innovation, even from a wrong system to a right one, was then indefinitely suspended; but... it would be unjust to postpone emendation any farther... incorrect... bochah,... correct... bocha.
ref: 1825, John Borthwick Gilchrist editing Thomas Williamson as The General East India Guide and Vade Mecum..., Appendix No. IV, pp. 652 & 658
text: Sir Salar Jung was proceeding to the palace of the Nizam on his bocha, a sort of state palanquin, in order to be present at the customary Eed durbar... when two shots in rapid succession were fired.
ref: 1868 February 7, "Englishman", "Attempted Assassination of Sir Salar Jung...", Hyderabad Times, Vol. III, p. 41
text: […] the Amir-i-Kabir, seated in a "Bocha" (palanquin), had also arrived at the gate of the Royal Palace […]
ref: 1931, Server Jung Bahadur, translated by Bahadur Yar Jung, My Life, page 139:
text: […] the bocha, the chair-palanquin […]
ref: 1995, The India Magazine of Her People and Culture, volume 16, page 17:
glosses: A two-door sedan chair.
metasystem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metasystems
form: meta-system
Etymology: From meta- + system.
Senses: glosses: Any system considered as a grouping of other, smaller systems
metasystems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metasystem
Hebraists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hebraist
mauther
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mauthers
form: mawther
form: modder
form: mawr
form: mor
Etymology: Uncertain; possibly originally a variant of mother.
Senses: examples: text: KAS. Ay, I know -- Away, [TO HIS SISTER.] you talk like a foolish mauther.
ref: c. 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist, Act 4:
glosses: A girl, especially, a large awkward girl.
examples: text: Cleave to a tight ship, my boy, as long as the wind blaeth, and while she lives upon the waters, she'll aye be a mauther to thee.
ref: 1823, Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Colburn's new monthly magazine, volume 7, page 230:
glosses: A mother.
neutral third
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neutral thirds
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A third that is between a major and a minor third in size; an interval of approximately three and a half semitones.
Magpies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Magpie
steamie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstiːmi/
Forms: form: steamies
Etymology: From steam + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: I took a job in the steamie down on Cauldrum Street
And I fell in love with a laundry girl
Who was working next to me
ref: 1994, Richard Thompson, Beeswing:
text: There were steps up to the swimming baths' door. The next one along was for the steamie. Women went in there to wash all their laundry and clothes.
ref: 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 74:
glosses: A public area for washing clothes.
glosses: A hot dog made of a steamed sausage in a bun, often topped with onion and mustard.
ramuscule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ramuscules
Etymology: From Latin ramusculus.
Senses: glosses: A twig, a small branch.
rapter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rapters
Senses: examples: text: […]chaste Winifrid: who chose
Before her mayden-gem she forcibly would lose,
To have her harmlesse life by the leud Rapter spilt:
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 10 p. 3:
glosses: Obsolete form of raptor.
a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Synonym of a nod is as good as a wink.
synonyms: word: a nod is as good as a wink
reddenda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reddendum
reddendum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reddendums
form: reddenda
Etymology: Neuter of Latin reddendus (“that must be given back or yielded”), gerundive of reddere. See reddition.
Senses: examples: text: […] the cognizance supposing a preceding gift, the cognizor cannot reserve any thing to himself out of lands, of which he has already conveyed away the absolute property, so that the reddendum comes too late when a precedent absolute gift without any such reservation is before acknowledged.
ref: 1783, William Cruise, An Essay on the Nature and Operation of Fines:
topics: law
glosses: A clause in a deed by which some new thing is reserved out of what had been granted before; the clause by which rent is reserved in a lease.
Related terms: reddendo
reddendos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reddendo
sponging-houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sponging-house
patchcoat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patchcoats
Etymology: From patch + coat.
Senses: examples: text: White clowns and patchcoat harlekins lie upon cloth-of-silver, like dead geese on snow; their disguises are stained with wine which turns from black to red as the strength of the moonlight grows.
ref: 1978, Michael Moorcock, chapter 1, in Gloriana; or, The Unfulfill'd Queen:
glosses: patched coat
gamification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gamifications
Etymology: From gam(e) + -ification.
Senses: examples: text: Homelessness could be helped or fixed, she knew, once the gamification of shelter allotment and public housing in general was complete.
ref: 2013, Dave Eggers, The Circle, Vintage Books, page 373:
glosses: The use of gameplay mechanics for non-game applications (as for example making work less onerous; incentivization; or pedagogy).
Related terms: game theory
gamify
gaming
play games
Eloy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Arizona.
Oriol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Oriols
Etymology: Borrowed from Catalan and French Oriol.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
placets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of placet
pilate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pilate
form: most pilate
Senses: examples: pilate pollen
glosses: Resembling hair; minutely clavate.
logorrhœa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From logo- + -rrhœa; see logorrhea.
Senses: examples: text: But, then, these persons have not only a copia verborum as to knowledge, but a volubility sometimes amounting to a logorrhœa in expressing what they know—although that may not be much.
ref: 1874 April, Thomas Laycock, “Article I.—On Certain Organic Disorders and Defects of Memory.”, in Edinburgh Medical Journal, […], volume XIX, part II, number X, Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., →OCLC, pages 869–870:
text: When the patient was admitted to this hospital five years ago, the symptoms of excitement in the wide sense, violence, aggressiveness, destructiveness, logorrhœa, were in the foreground as they had been during the previous attacks.
ref: 1906 April, Clarence B[ynold] Farrar, “Clinical Demonstrations”, in Henry M. Hurd et al., editors, The American Journal of Insanity, volume LXII, number 4, Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 631:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of logorrhea.
Derived terms: logorrhœic
hæmo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of haemo-.
automations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of automation
expeditioners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expeditioner
grossen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grossens
form: grossening
form: grossened
form: grossened
Etymology: From gross + -en.
Senses: examples: text: She could tell he assessed her again then, and saw how she had grossened, and wondered why he'd bothered coming weeks before to her door, asking for her company.
ref: 2011, Thomas Keneally, A Woman of the Inner Sea:
glosses: To make or become gross (all senses).
galactorrhœa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of galactorrhea.
infon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infons
Etymology: From info- + -on.
Senses: glosses: A formalized piece of information in situation theory.
infons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infon
meteorologer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meteorologers
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μετεωρολόγος (meteōrológos) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: What Meteorologer conſentith not to the great alteration and mutation of ayer at the coniunction, oppoſition, or quadrate aſpect of Saturne, wyth eyther two lightes?
ref: 1555, Leonard Dygges, A Prognostication of Right Good Effect, Fructfully Augmented, Contayninge Playne, Briefe, Pleasant, Chosen Rules, to Iudge the Wether for Euer, by the Sunne, Moone, Sterres, Cometes, Raynbowe, Thunder, Cloudes, […], London: […] Thomas Gemini [pseudonym; Thomas Lambrit]:
text: But Ptolemy mentions alſo ſome notable incenſed Meteors next to his [Greek text], as if they accompanyed the Concuſſions of the Earth, which we find to be true: [Greek text], he calls them: ſome notable bulky Inflamations of Exhalation floating in the Air, diſtinguiſhed from the Ordinary [Greek text], the Trajections and ſhooting of the Stars, Balls of Fire, Dragons, Trabes, &c. which we meet with in Hiſtory, or their more proper Records, and of which Meteorologers write.
ref: 1686, J[ohn] Goad, Astro-Meteorologica, or Aphorisms and Large Significant Discourses of the Natures and Influences of the Cœlestial Bodies; […], London: […] O[badiah] B[lagrave] and Sold by John Sprint […], published 1699, page 147:
text: With such incessant variations of the gases, it is therefore almost impossible to attain to any precise rules in meteorology, or to certain prognostics of the weather. The higher or lower situation of a country, bare or wooded mountains, will likewise contribute to cause frequently very different weather in places but a few leagues distant from each other. Hence Mr. Bode thinks that there can be properly no such thing as a science of meteorology as regards the weather, and that the pains taken by some meteorologers to invent a theory, appears wholly fruitless; […]
ref: 1819 August 1, L., “Thoughts on the Weather, by Professor Bode”, in The New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register. […], volume XII, number 67, London: […] Henry Colburn, […], page 14, column 2:
glosses: A meteorologist.
meteorologers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meteorologer
riat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ryot.
riats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riat
inverted exclamation point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inverted exclamation points
Senses: synonyms: inverted exclamation mark
coordinate_terms: inverted question mark
glosses: The punctuation mark "¡", which is placed at the beginning of exclamations in Spanish.
inverted exclamation points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inverted exclamation point
inverted question marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inverted question mark
inverted question mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inverted question marks
Senses: synonyms: rotated question mark
turned question mark
coordinate_terms: inverted exclamation point
glosses: The punctuation mark "¿", which is placed at the beginning of questions in Spanish and, less commonly, Catalan, and in some languages that have cultural ties with Spain.
cut time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A meter of two minims (half notes) per measure.
Synonyms: 2/2
alla breve
𝄵
Coordinate terms: common time
œcumenism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From œcumene + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ecumenism.
aftercrop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aftercrops
form: after-crop
Etymology: From after- + crop.
Senses: examples: text: No question but you grieued inward much,
As doth the Miser, in a backward yeare:
When others reape, to see your harvest such,
And all your hopes, but in their blade appeare:
Ladie, let henceforth nought disease your rest,
For after-crops doe sometime prooue the best.
ref: 1612, Henry Peacham, “Adhuc mea messis in herba”, in Minerva Britanna or A Garden of Heroical Devises, London, page 150:
text: […] a new contrivance for cutting cabbages, in such a manner as would secure the stock against the rotting rain, and enable it to produce a plenteous after-crop of delicious sprouts.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 368, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: […] the entertainment began as soon as might be; Mr. Codlin having the responsibility of deciding on its length and of protracting or expediting the time for the hero’s final triumph over the enemy of mankind, according as he judged that the after-crop of halfpence would be plentiful or scant.
ref: 1840 April – 1841 November, Charles Dickens, “Chapter the Seventeenth”, in The Old Curiosity Shop. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1841, →OCLC, page 110:
text: Her glow and vitality had always put poor Kitty’s skimpiness completely into the shade, and what ailed her now was that wistful longing of the victress to be magnanimous that is the uneasy aftercrop of triumph.
ref: 1913, Oliver Onions, The Debit Account, New York: George H. Doran, Part 1, Chapter 3, pp. 42-43:
text: […] the upgraded water channel has been effective in replacing wheat, the traditional aftercrop of rice, with vegetables, which have an increasing market demand.
ref: 2011, Takumi Kondo, Hong Park, “Sustainable agricultural development in Asia and study partnerships”, in Mitsuru Ōsaki et al., editors, Designing Our Future, Tokyo: United Nations University Press, page 400:
glosses: A second crop in the same year.
Related terms: aftergrass
afteregg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aftereggs
form: after-egg
Etymology: From after- + egg.
Senses: glosses: A meroblastic egg, ovum, or ovule which has acquired its store of foodyolk, or been otherwise modified from its original primitive condition as an egg-cell or protovum
Synonyms: metovum
deutovum
aftereggs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of afteregg.
foodyolk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foodyolks
Etymology: From food + yolk.
Senses: glosses: The yolk of an egg, especially when used as food for the developing embryo.
foodyolks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foodyolk.
againrising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English agenrising, ayenrising. By surface analysis, again- + rising.
Senses: synonyms: gainrising
uprist
glosses: Resurrection.
againsaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English againsawe, againsagh, equivalent to again- + saw (“saying”).
Senses: glosses: Contradiction; gainsaying
againsay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: againsays
form: againsaying
form: againsaid
form: againsaid
Etymology: From Middle English agenseyen, ayenseyen, equivalent to again- + say. See gainsay.
Senses: glosses: To contradict; to gainsay.
again-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Middle English agen-, ayen-, from Old English ongēan- (“towards, opposite, against, back, again, anew”). More at again.
Senses: glosses: Prefix meaning again, against, back, or in return.
againstand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: againstands
form: againstanding
form: againstood
form: againstood
Etymology: From Middle English aȝeinstanden, aȝenstonden, from Old English āġēnstandan, ongēanstandan (“to stand against, press, urge, insist upon”), equivalent to again- + stand.
Senses: glosses: To stand against; to withstand; to oppose.
Synonyms: gainstand
-pœia
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of -poeia.
Derived terms: logopœia
mythopœia
onomatopœia
pathopœia
palæologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palæologists
Etymology: From palæ- + -ologist, from Ancient Greek: παλαιός (palaiós, “old”) in combination with -λογία (-logía, “explanation, oration”).
Senses: examples: text: But to whatever conclusions the palæologist may come on that head, the original scientific and logical veto on that hypothesis of two or more independent evolutions of the human species must for the present hold good.
ref: 1929, John Mackinnon Robertson, “Pagan Christs”, in American Racial Origins, second edition, page 349:
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: One that researches and studies pre‐historic antiquities.
aëroplane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.əɹ.əpleɪn/
Forms: form: aëroplanes
Senses: examples: text: A PRIMER OF AVIATION AND
AËROPLANE MACHINES
ref: 1918, Armand Antoine Agénor de Gramont, translated by Dwight M. Miner, Aviator’s Eementary Handbook, page 3:
glosses: Dated form of aeroplane.
gentilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gentility
aerologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aerology
bemock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bemocks
form: bemocking
form: bemocked
form: bemocked
Etymology: From be- + mock.
Senses: glosses: To ridicule or mock.
glosses: To mock repeatedly; flout.
glosses: To cause to appear as if mock or unreal; excel or surpass, as the genuine surpasses the counterfeit.
examples: text: thought could not divide
The actual world from these entangling evils,
Which so bemocked themselves, that I descried
All shapes like mine own self, hideously multiplied.
ref: 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 215:
glosses: To make up as something else, to make into an imitation or semblance
content farm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: content farms
Senses: examples: text: Just as content farms are engineered to game search engines, an increasing number of sites are designed to game social networks.
ref: 2014, Astra Taylor, The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: content mill
link farm
paper mill
glosses: A website that contains low-quality, search-engine optimized writing, which may be aggregated from elsewhere.
dredge up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dredges up
form: dredging up
form: dredged up
form: dredged up
Senses: examples: text: Where did you dredge up the idea that they didn't know what hospital he was born in?
glosses: To find by diligently searching, especially from unsavory sources.
examples: text: Young, dense seed mussels are dredged up and relaid in more sheltered areas, where they will not be destroyed by storms.
ref: 1970, Maurice Burton, Robert Burton, The international wildlife encyclopedia, volume 1, page 1713:
text: The rush to dredge resulted in engineering problems, with those who had not first ascertained the depth of the wash by boring later dredging up only buckets of water.
ref: 1997, David Malcolm Grant, Bulls, bears, and elephants: a history of the New Zealand Stock Exchange, page 91:
text: The soil dredged up was dumped on the lagoon's shores, which also destroyed large sections of the nearby mangroves and fresh water sources that provide nutrients and oxygen to the local ecosystem
ref: 2002, Anthropologica, volume 44, number 1, page 92:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dredge, up.
dry hump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dry humps
form: dry humping
form: dry humped
form: dry humped
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dry-hump.
dad joke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dad jokes
Etymology: Indicative of the type of bad jokes that might be told by one's father. Possible calque of Japanese おやじギャグ (oyaji gyagu, literally “dad joke”), although it is not clear which came first.
Senses: examples: text: Here is an oldie but a goodie: When does a joke become a dad joke? When it becomes apparent. Wocka wocka.
ref: 2021, Shannon Carpenter, The Ultimate Stay-at-Home Dad […] , Penguin, →ISBN, page 32:
text: Meta has created a vision of life in which, without A.I. aiding his every word, an individual can be left reeling by the simplest of human interactions, unmanned by an ordinary dad joke.
ref: 2025 June 25, Ismail Muhammad, “Why Does Every Commercial for A.I. Think You’re a Moron?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A (usually deliberate) unfunny or corny joke, typically containing a pun and often in question/answer format.
dad joke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dad jokes
form: dad joking
form: dad joked
form: dad joked
Etymology: Indicative of the type of bad jokes that might be told by one's father. Possible calque of Japanese おやじギャグ (oyaji gyagu, literally “dad joke”), although it is not clear which came first.
Senses: examples: text: to get dad-joked
glosses: To tell (someone) a dad joke.
rogue elephant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rogue elephants
Senses: glosses: A solitary, old, male elephant that has become dangerously and unpredictably violent.
glosses: Someone or something that is large, dangerous, and unpredictable.
Related terms: loose cannon
magani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bagani.
sambucae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin sambūcae, plural of sambūca.
Senses: glosses: plural of sambuca
satoris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of satori
ENS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ENSs
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of enteric nervous system.
ENS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The components involved in ENS loosely mimic those of DNS, with the difference that they are implemented as smart contracts within the Ethereum network.
ref: 2019, Santiago Palladino, Ethereum for Web Developers, Apress, →ISBN, page 267:
topics: business
cryptocurrencies
cryptocurrency
finance
coordinate_terms: DNS
glosses: Initialism of Ethereum Name Service.
Ens.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of ensign (a military rank).
scorias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scoria
veneerer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: veneerers
Etymology: From veneer + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who makes and applies veneers.
sandpaperer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandpaperers
Etymology: From sandpaper + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who polishes surfaces with sandpaper.
abread
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: abreed
form: abrede
form: abraid
Etymology: From Middle English abrede or on brede, from a- or on (“on”) + brede (“breadth”).
Senses: glosses: Abroad.
kibo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kibos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kybo (“toilet”).
dance on someone's grave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dances on someone's grave
form: dancing on someone's grave
form: danced on someone's grave
form: danced on someone's grave
Senses: examples: text: This is all aside from my personal disgust at the idea that we should spare any thought for those who would kill us. No one is suggesting dancing on their graves, but neither should we shed even a fraction of a tear for them.
ref: 2006 May 1, Lisa, “Spilling out drops of wine at the Seder”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):
glosses: To celebrate a person's death or downfall triumphantly.
Related terms: piss on someone's grave
schadenfreude
smegmata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /smɛɡˈmɑːtə/
ipa: /ˈsmeɡmətə/
rhymes: -ɑːtə
rhymes: -eɡmətə
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σμῆγμα (smêgma, “lotion”). Nominative plural: σμῆγματα (smêgmata).
Senses: examples: text: In vivo experiments revealed impaired smegma formation by the M. smegmatis Δupk strain in mice. The formation by M. smegmatis and other bacterial species of smegmata is an example of in vivo biofilm development.
ref: 2004 May 5, “Involvement of Mycobacterium smegmatis undecaprenyl phosphokinase in biofilm and smegma formation”, in Microbes and Infection, volume 6, number 11, →ISSN, pages 965-971:
glosses: plural of smegma
gonorrhœal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of gonorrheal.
Jacobitism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jacobitisms
Etymology: From Jacobite + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The political movement dedicated to the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England, Scotland, later the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Kingdom of Ireland.
Suebi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsweɪbi/
Forms: form: Suevi
Etymology: From Latin Suēbī
Senses: glosses: A group of Germanic tribes living mostly near Elbe in what is now central Germany around the first century BCE.
Suevi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin Suēvī, from Proto-Germanic *swēbaz.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Suebi.
changes of heart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of change of heart
French Polynesian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more French Polynesian
form: most French Polynesian
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to French Polynesia.
French Polynesian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: French Polynesians
Senses: glosses: A person from French Polynesia.
Easter Islander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Easter Islanders
Etymology: From Easter Island + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person from Easter Island.
Society Islander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Society Islanders
Senses: glosses: A person from the Society Islands.
Sandwich Islander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sandwich Islanders
Senses: glosses: A person from the Sandwich Islands now known as Hawaii. Replaced by Hawaiian.
gangræna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gangrænæ
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gangrene.
Scilly Islander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪli ˈaɪləndə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: Scilly Islanders
Senses: glosses: A person from the Scilly Islands; a Scillonian.
Midway Islander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Midway Islanders
Senses: glosses: A person from the Midway Islands.
Ascension Islander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ascension Islanders
Etymology: From Ascension Island + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person from Ascension Island.
Aleutian Islander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aleutian Islanders
Senses: glosses: A person from the Aleutian Islands.
Isle of Wighter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Isle of Wighters
Etymology: From Isle of Wight + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person from the Isle of Wight.
South Islander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: South Islanders
Etymology: From South Island + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person from the South Island, New Zealand.
North Islander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: North Islanders
Etymology: From North Island + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person from North Island, New Zealand.
Leeward Islander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Leeward Islanders
Senses: glosses: A person from the Leeward Islands.
Windward Islander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Windward Islanders
Senses: glosses: A person from the Windward Islands.
Lesser Antillean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or relating to, the Lesser Antilles
Lesser Antillean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lesser Antilleans
Senses: glosses: A person from the Lesser Antilles.
Greater Antillean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or relating to, the Greater Antilles
Greater Antillean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Greater Antilleans
Senses: glosses: A person from the Greater Antilles.