cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
phlebotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɪˈbɒtəmi/
ipa: /fləˈbɒtəmi/
rhymes: -ɒtəmi
Forms: form: phlebotomies
Etymology: From Old French flebothomie (French phlébotomie), from Late Latin phlebotomia, from Ancient Greek φλεβοτόμος (phlebotómos, “that opens a vein”), from φλέψ (phléps, “vein”). By surface analysis, phlebo- + -tomy.
Senses: examples: text: Now butter with a leafe of Sage is good to Parge the bloud, Fly Venus and Phlebotomy for they are neither good.
ref: 1607 (first performance), [Francis Beaumont], The Knight of the Burning Pestle, London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Walter Burre, […], published 1613, →OCLC, Act IV, signature I3, verso:
text: Phlebotomy is promiscuously used before and after physick, commonly before and upon occasion is often reiterated, if there be any need at least of it.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 5, member 1, subsection ii:
text: He had even taken from his pocket a cupping apparatus, and was about to proceed to phlebotomy, when the object of his anxious solicitude suddenly revived […].
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
text: Of course, members of the family were foremost in spilling loyal blood on Marston Moor, that great field of plebotomy to so may Cavaliers.
ref: 1859, George Meredith, chapter 2, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC:
text: Then she made an impatient gesture with her hand. "Time was, my dear colleague, when a snuff-box was as much part of my equipment as my phlebotomy case."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: The opening of a vein, either to withdraw blood or for letting blood; venesection.
Synonyms: venesection
venipuncture
Derived terms: phlebotomic
phlebotomist
phlebotomize
peptides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peptide
melena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈliːnə/
ipa: /məˈliːnə/
ipa: /məˈliːnə/
ipa: /ˈmɛlɪnə/
Forms: form: melaena
form: melæna
Etymology: From New Latin, based on Ancient Greek μέλαινα (mélaina, “black”).
Senses: glosses: The passage of dark, tarry stools containing blood, a result of upper gastrointestinal bleeding.
Coordinate terms: english: not to be confused; bright red blood in stool
translation: not to be confused; bright red blood in stool
word: hematochezia
english: not to be confused; bright red blood independently of stools
translation: not to be confused; bright red blood independently of stools
word: rectorrhagia
burgeois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burgeois
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bourgeois.
burgeois
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more burgeois
form: most burgeois
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bourgeois.
sauropod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sauropods
Senses: examples: text: His most memorable work is an illustrated compendium of dinosaurian copulatory positions - a sort of reptilian Kama Sutra - that includes a “leg over” manoeuvre by the sauropods, the largest dinosaurs of all - that many consider highly dubious.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 21:
glosses: A member of the Sauropoda suborder of dinosaurs
Hyponyms: gongxianosaur
my arse
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Does this circuitous process of misinformation display the ‘liquid clearness of an Ionian sky’? My arse it does.
ref: 2015, Colin Burrow, “The Empty Bath”, in London Review of Books, volume 37, number 12:
text: Denise: Dad! Your fly hole's all undone.
Jim: Ah, the cage might be open, but the beast is asleep.
Barbara: Beast my arse.
ref: 1999 September 30, Caroline Aherne, Craig Cash, Carmel Morgan, The Royle Family, season 2, episode 1, spoken by Denise Royle, Jim Royle, and Barbara Royle (Caroline Aherne, Ricky Tomlinson, and Sue Johnston):
glosses: Indicates incredulous disapproval, contradiction or disbelief.
Synonyms: fiddlesticks
horsefeathers
my ass
my foot
pull the other one
bullshit
lemurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lemur
Latinization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlæt.ɪ.naɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
Forms: form: Latinizations
form: Latinisation
form: latinization
Etymology: From Latinize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of Latinizing, of making Latin; including translating into Latin.
Related terms: Romanization
latinization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: latinizations
Etymology: From latinize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: [W]e are indebted for the term “merry-Andrew” to a native of the, at present, dullest little cluster of houses in England—this very identical Pevensey itself. It was there, that Andrew Borde, or, according to his own absurd latinization of his name, Andreas Perforatus, first saw the light.
ref: 1837, [Theodore Hook], chapter V, in Jack Brag. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 220:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Latinization.
pomatum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈmɑdəm/
ipa: /pəˈmeɪdəm/
ipa: /pəʊˈmeɪtəm/
ipa: /pəˈmeɪtəm/
Forms: form: pomatums
Etymology: From Medieval Latin pomatum (“cider, ointment”), from Latin pōmum (“fruit, apple”) + -ātum (“-ate: forming nouns”). Doublet of pomate, pomade, and pomace.
Senses: examples: text: There is likewise made an ointment with the pulpe of Apples and Swines grease and Rose water, which is vsed to beautifie the face... called in shops Pomatum, of the Apples whereof it is made.
ref: 1597, John Gerard, The Herball..., volume III, page 1276:
text: Pomatum, which is of much use to soften and supple the roughnesse of the skin.
ref: 1657, William Coles, Adam in Eden..., page 258:
glosses: Synonym of ointment, particularly thick waxy ointments scented with fruit used to beautify the skin or hair.
synonyms: word: ointment
word: particularly thick waxy ointments scented with fruit used to beautify the skin or hair
examples: text: [W]hen we were to assemble in the morning at breakfast, down came my wife and daughters, drest out in all their former splendour: their hair plaistered up with pomatum, their faces patched to taste, their trains bundled up into an heap behind, and rustling at every motion.
ref: 1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], chapter 4, in The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC:
text: On a huge tomb-like table in the middle of the room, lay two pencilled profiles of Mr. Fielding[…]; to these were added a cracked pomatum-pot containing ink, and a scrap of paper, […]
ref: 1829, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter V, in Devereux. A Tale. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Synonym of pomade, a kind of thick waxy hair product used as a styling gel.
synonyms: word: pomade
extra: a kind of thick waxy hair product used as a styling gel
glosses: Synonym of cider, a soft or hard drink made from apples.
synonyms: word: cider
extra: a soft or hard drink made from apples
Derived terms: pomatum mask
pomatum pot
pomatumy
pomatum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈmɑdəm/
ipa: /pəˈmeɪdəm/
ipa: /pəʊˈmeɪtəm/
ipa: /pəˈmeɪtəm/
Forms: form: pomatums
form: pomatuming
form: pomatumed
form: pomatumed
Etymology: From Medieval Latin pomatum (“cider, ointment”), from Latin pōmum (“fruit, apple”) + -ātum (“-ate: forming nouns”). Doublet of pomate, pomade, and pomace.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pomade: to apply pomade.
synonyms: word: pomade
extra: to apply pomade
glosses: Synonym of anoint: to apply ointment.
synonyms: word: anoint
extra: to apply ointment
HH
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Her Highness.
glosses: Initialism of His Highness.
glosses: Initialism of His Holiness.
Related terms: sense: His or Her Highness
word: HM
sense: His or Her Highness
word: HRH
sense: His or Her Highness
word: HIH
HH
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Let's meet in HH tomorrow.
synonyms: HB
glosses: Initialism of Hansestadt Hamburg, the German city of Hamburg; used on licence plates and informally in other contexts.
HH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HHs
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
coordinate_terms: H
LH
glosses: Initialism of heavy helicopter.
glosses: Initialism of household.
HH
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: Initialism of heavily hinged.
Related terms: HH object
monoamine oxidases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monoamine oxidase
aye man
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: yes!
Derived terms: we aye man
wye aye man
amino acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amino acid
Dave
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /deɪv/
ipa: /dəveɪ/
rhymes: -eɪv
Senses: examples: text: David, with its final "d", sounds finished and complete, whereas Dave just kind of hangs there in the air, indefinitely. - - - Worse, if your name is Dave, the only possible nickname is "Davey", which makes you sound like you should be wearing a coonskin cap.
ref: 1994, Caroline Knapp, The Merry Recluse: A Life in Essays, Counterpoint Press, published 2004, →ISBN, pages 169, 170:
text: Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy said he would send two customers to tour a former Nazi concentration camp after they allegedly engaged in antisemitic behavior at a Barstool pub in Philadelphia, then later retracted that offer for at least one of them because he said the person was denying responsibility for what happened.
ref: 2025 May 5, “Barstool Sports founder retracts Auschwitz tour offer to customer in antisemitic sign incident”, in Associated Press:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name David, also used as a formal given name.
glosses: A surname from Gujarati from Gujarati દવે (dave, “(one who has studied) two Vedas”).
glosses: A female given name.
Related terms: Davey
Davie
Dwivedi
catalase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catalases
Etymology: From catalysis + -ase.
Senses: glosses: An enzyme found in the liver that catalyses the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide to water and oxygen.
Derived terms: acatalasaemia
pseudocatalase
catalysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catalyst
catalyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈtæləˌsiːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of catalysis
catalyses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈtæləˌsiːz/
ipa: /ˈkætəlaɪzɪz/
ipa: /kəˈtæləˌsiːz/
Forms: form: catalyzes
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of catalyse
Robertson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒb.ət.sən/
ipa: /ˈɹɑ.bɚt.sən/
ipa: /ˈɹɔb.ət.sən/
Forms: form: Robertsons
Etymology: From Robert + -son.
Senses: glosses: An English surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A placename:
A village in New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A placename:
A suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A placename:
A town in the Western Cape, South Africa.
glosses: A placename:
An unincorporated community in Crosby County, Texas, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A census-designated place in Uinta County, Wyoming, United States.
glosses: A placename:
Ellipsis of Robertson County.
glosses: A placename:
An electoral division in Central Coast, New South Wales, Australia.
Derived terms: before you can say Jack Robertson
Division of Robertson
Poynting-Robertson drag
Poynting-Robertson effect
Robertson County
Robertsonian
Robertson screw
Robertson screwdriver
Related terms: Robert
Roberts
catalyzing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: catalysing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of catalyze
catalysing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: catalyzing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of catalyse
catalyse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: catalyses
form: catalysing
form: catalysed
form: catalysed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of catalyze.
Derived terms: autocatalyse
autocatalysed
biocatalysed
catalysable
catalysation
catalyser
organocatalysed
photocatalysed
uncatalysed
catalysed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: catalyzed
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of catalyse
ominousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ominousnesses
Etymology: From ominous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being ominous.
omnivorously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From omnivorous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of an omnivore.
omnivorousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From omnivorous + -ness.
Senses: coordinate_terms: carnivorousness
frugivorousness
herbivorousness
glosses: The state of being omnivorous.
Related terms: devouring
omnivore
voraciousness
oldish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔldɪʃ/
Forms: form: more oldish
form: most oldish
Etymology: From old + -ish.
Senses: glosses: somewhat old
Derived terms: oldishness
old-line
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more old-line
form: most old-line
Etymology: From old + line (“stated positions of a political or religious group”). Attested from the 19th century, originally in the United States.
Senses: examples: text: I am deliberately convinced that Mr. Filmore has not the least chance of success, and that if it be at all possible to defeat Fremont, the Democratic party, with their candidates Buchanan and Breckinridge, with the aid of the Union-loving Old-line Whigs, is the only party which has the least chance to do so.
ref: 1856, James B. Clay, “Speech of James B. Clay Delivered at the Union Meeting in Mason County, Kentucky”, in Old Line Whigs for Buchanan & Breckinridge, page 15:
glosses: Reactionary or conservative.
examples: text: One of the old line insurance companies said to me recently, that they never made anything out of their underwriting business, but made their profit out of the investments of the reserved fund
ref: 1908, T.D. O'Brien, “Mutual Insurance”, in Farm Implements, page 37:
text: Gay alcoholism in the Boston area has come out of its closet. Here and across the nation increasing numbers of us are working for the time when gay alcoholics will no longer be subjected to the discrimination and indignities that characterized old-line treatment programs until now.
ref: 1979 December 8, Dick Bowring, quoting Robert Connolly, “HATS Helps Gay Alcoholics”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 20, page 12:
text: I also started reading a great deal about Internet transactions and the impact of the Web on more old-line businesses
ref: 2000, George Alexander, quoting Chuck James, “Harvesting an e-commerce solution”, in Black Enterprise, page 118:
glosses: Long-established.
oldness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊldnəs/
Forms: form: oldnesses
Etymology: From Middle English oldnesse, from Old English ealdnes, ealdnyss (“oldness; age”), equivalent to old + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: This policy and reverence of age makes the world bitter to the best of our times; keeps our fortunes from us till our oldness cannot relish them.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 7:6:
text: 1795, Testimony at the trial of Sarah Sims for grand larceny at the Old Bailey, London, 20 May, 1795,
I know it to be the property that the child wore at the time that I missed her, by the oldness of it, and the mending of it. I have not the least doubt about it.
text: […] once away from the familiar implications of home, they were two men together. Ted was young only in his assumption of oldness, and the only realms, apparently, in which Babbitt had a larger and more grown-up knowledge than Ted’s were the details of real estate and the phrases of politics.
ref: 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XIX, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, section III:
glosses: The state of being old; age.
Synonyms: word: agedness
word: elderliness
word: senectitude
word: ancientness
word: age
word: cobwebbiness
word: datedness
word: decrepitness
word: decrepitude
word: hoar
word: hoariness
word: oldhood
word: oldness
word: venerableness
word: venerability
word: vetustity
Hyponyms: word: old age
word: staleness
Related terms: word: creakiness
word: moldiness
word: obsoleteness
word: raggedness
word: rottenness
word: witheredness
word: old
word: oldly
oleomargarine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oleomargarines
Etymology: From oleo- + margarine.
Senses: examples: text: She [...] found that she had no butter, only oleomargarine.
ref: 1973, Toni Morrison, Sula, Chatto & Windus (1993), page 153:
glosses: margarine
oligarchic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Late Latin oligarchicus, from Ancient Greek ὀλιγαρχικός (oligarkhikós). By surface analysis, oligarch + -ic.
Senses: synonyms: oligarchical
oligarchal
glosses: Of or pertaining to oligarchy.
Derived terms: oligarchic accretion
oligarchically
oligarchical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀλιγαρχικός (oligarkhikós) + -al. By surface analysis, oligarch + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: Yes, please tell me how Shillary is the nicest corporate oligarchical servant, and how she will lovingly sell out the people who voted for her to her banker masters, with a twinkle in her fellating eye.
ref: 2016 February 13, Gene Lyons, anonymous quotee, “Understanding the 'Bernie Bros'”, in The Daily Journal, volume 83, number 37, page A11:
glosses: Oligarchic.
once-over
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: once-overs
form: once over
Etymology: From the idea of going over something once.
Senses: examples: text: I gave the room a once-over with the mop.
glosses: A quick clean or polish.
examples: text: My GP gave me the once-over and said it was merely a cold.
text: I'll give it a once-over for free, but a proper look will cost you.
text: The girls sat there while the johns (customers) moped around giving them the once-over.
ref: 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Not too Far Tangent”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 22:
text: The dear old room was just as I'd left it, nothing changed, and my first move, of course, was to procure another chair and give the top of the armoire the once-over. It was a set-back to find that the cow-creamer wasn't there.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter VIII, in Jeeves in the Offing:
text: Giving the wench the once-over as she entered, I found myself well able to understand why Bobbie on observing her entangled with [her fiancé] had exploded with so loud a report.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter XIII, in Jeeves in the Offing:
text: He gave her the once-over, hooked with his foot a swivel chair from the next desk and rolled it over for her.
ref: 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 4, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 61:
glosses: A cursory inspection or survey.
Hypernyms: lookover
Related terms: look-see
spot check
substantivise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: substantivises
form: substantivising
form: substantivised
form: substantivised
form: substantivize
Etymology: From substantive (noun and adjective) + -ise.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: word: nominalise
word: noun#Verb
word: substantive#Verb
glosses: To use as or convert into a substantive (noun).
Derived terms: substantivisation
substantivization
one-of-a-kind
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more one-of-a-kind
form: most one-of-a-kind
form: one of a kind
Senses: glosses: Unique, singular, sui generis.
one-of-a-kind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one-of-a-kinds
form: one of a kind
Senses: examples: text: Today, though, most artists create at least some one-of-a-kind dolls, and many create nothing but one-of-a-kinds.
ref: 2002, Joan Muyskens Pursley, The World's Most Beautiful Dolls: Volume Two:
glosses: A unique example.
Hyponyms: first-of-its-kind
substantivize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: substantivizes
form: substantivizing
form: substantivized
form: substantivized
Etymology: From substantive + -ize.
Senses: glosses: American and Oxford British English standard spelling of substantivise.
one-on-one
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Such one-on-one “swearing contests” are routinely decided in favor of law enforcement officers, but in this case the district court sided with the accused bank robber.
ref: 1999, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice Oversight, The Clinton Justice Department's Refusal to Enforce the Law on Voluntary Confessions: Hearing, page 56:
glosses: Involving direct communication or competition between two people.
examples: text: After several near misses, Van Persie finally reached three figures by turning in Walcott's cross before Jaaskelainen saved from Walcott when one-on-one.
ref: 2011 September 24, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC Sport:
text: Swedish striker Isak was also foiled by Ortega in a one-on-one opportunity shortly before half-time. If converted, that may have put the game beyond City's reach.
ref: 2024 January 13, Callum Matthews, “Newcastle United 2-3 Manchester City”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Involving one attacker and one defender.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: bijective or injective
Synonyms: word: one-to-one
one-on-one
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: He was willing to go one-on-one with the District Attorney himself.
glosses: In a one-on-one manner.
one-on-one
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one-on-ones
Senses: examples: text: Why don't we play a little one-on-one until the others show up.
glosses: A contest involving only one player on each side, especially of an activity often involving teams.
Synonyms: sense: contest between two people
word: triple O
Related terms: face-to-face
man-to-man
onerously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more onerously
form: most onerously
Etymology: From onerous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an onerous manner.
onerousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: onerousnesses
Etymology: From onerous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The Government of Greece strongly urges the onerousness of the duty here imposed upon the currants of that country, amounting to 100 per cent or more of their market value.
ref: 1898, McKinley, Second State of the Union Address:
glosses: The state or characteristic of being onerous.
Synonyms: burdensomeness
onerosity
saki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sakis
Senses: examples: text: We went into the Sushi Garage, a former plumbing supply warehouse, and ordered some sushi rolls and saki.
ref: 2000, Arthur Nersesian, Dogrun:
glosses: Alternative spelling of saké (“rice wine”).
saki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæki/
ipa: /ˈsɑki/
Forms: form: sakis
head_nr: 2
Etymology: Compare French saki and Portuguese saki, ultimately probably from a Tupian name sagui, compare sagoin.
Senses: head_nr: 2
glosses: Any of several species of South American monkeys of the genus Pithecia with large ears and a long hairy tail that is not prehensile.
Derived terms: black bearded saki
Uta Hick's bearded saki
bearded saki
burnished saki
Geoffroy's monk saki
hairy saki
Miller's saki
monk saki
Napo saki
hobgoblin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hobgoblins
Etymology: From hob (“elf”, from Hob, a variant of Rob, short for Robin Goodfellow, an elf in Germanic folklore) + goblin.
Senses: examples: text: A M. Berbiguier lately published an elaborate work, in three huge volumes, in which he demonstrated the existence of hobgoblins, described the proper manner of capturing and securing them, and took credit to himself for his zeal for the benefit of mankind, in allowing no day to pass without imprisoning, with his own hands, at least thirty hobgoblins. A writer of biographical notices of contemporary authors, who believed neither in M. Berbiguier's manner of catching hobgoblins nor in the existence of hobgoblins did not scruple to say that M. Berbiguier was mad, and upon this M. Berbiguier brought his action for libel; but unluckily, together with his action, he brought himself into Court, and established in a very few words the truth of the libel.
ref: 1837, Albany Fonblanque, England Under Seven Administrations, volume 1, page 98:
text: The eyes blinked out and he heard a faint grunt, followed by the sounds of the Hobgoblin scrambling further back into the tunnel, away from the faint sunlight and the Ur'hunglav's domain.
ref: 2005, Scott Harper, Winter's Rite, page 142:
text: The monster goes unrecognized because he looks like a harmless, pudgy nobody rather than like a hobgoblin. But he reveals his hobgoblin nature through music.
ref: 2007, “Introduction: Phonoplay: Recasting Film Music”, in Daniel Goldmark, Lawrence Kramer, Richard D. Leppert, editors, Beyond the Soundtrack: Representing Music in Cinema, page 1:
glosses: A small, ugly goblin that makes trouble for humans.
examples: text: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
ref: 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance”, in Essays: First Series:
text: Under "Fallacies of Danger," then, is listed the subhead of "The Hobgoblin Argument, or, No Innovation, in which the hobgoblin in question is anarchy; which tremendous spectre has for its forerunner the monster innovation." A hot button like this would presumably elicit a visceral response even from Hamilton whose aversion to the hobgoblin of parliamentary reform was apparently his sole unreasoning reflex.
ref: 2004, James Mulvihill, Upstart Talents: Rhetoric and the Career of Reason in English Romantic Disccourse 1790-1820, page 55:
text: However, the public seems to have been able to retain much of its sense of alarm about internal attacks even when the al-Qaeda hobgoblin doesn't actually carry any out.
ref: 2011, John Mueller, Mark G. Stewart, Terror, Security, and Money: Balancing the Risks, Benefits, and Costs of Homeland Security, page 190:
glosses: A source of dread, fear or apprehension; a bugbear.
Synonyms: sense: hostile supernatural creature
word: goblin
Derived terms: a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds
hobgoblinish
hobgoblinism
hobgoblinry
ha'p'orths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I have frequently sat in his shop watching the passers by, thinking of the past and planning for the future, while the worthy little man was dealing out farthing-worths of pepper or ha'p'orths of sugar.
ref: 1853, Mansfield Parkyns, Life in Abyssinia, John Murray, published 1853, page 83:
text: He kept his ink in a single moderate-sized jar, out of which he measured penn'orths and ha'p'orths into the various receptacles brought by customers who came to demand "a sup" or "a drain".
ref: 1980, Jane Barlow, Strangers at Lisconnel.: A Second Series of Irish Idylls:
text: Although the shop was an unpretentious one, and catered mainly for the ha'p'orths of the juvenile patrons of the picture house next door, it was called "The Camden Town Confectionery Emporium".
ref: 2004, John R Watson, The Hampstead Mystery:
glosses: plural of ha'p'orth
cloacal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kləʊˈeɪkəl/
ipa: /kloʊˈeɪkəl/
Etymology: From cloaca + -al.
Senses: examples: text: And it is our cloacal obsession which produces the hysterical hygiene ads […]
ref: 1951, Marshal McLuhan, Mechanical Bride, page 62:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the cloaca
Derived terms: adcloacal
circumcloacal
cloacal bladder
cloacal gland
cloacal kiss
cloacally
cloacal membrane
cloacal plate
extracloacal
intracloacal
paracloacal
pericloacal
postcloacal
precloacal
subcloacal
supracloacal
solemnize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: solemnizes
form: solemnizing
form: solemnized
form: solemnized
form: solemnise
Etymology: From Middle English solempnisen, from Old French solemnisier, from Medieval Latin solemnizare, from Latin solemnis.
Senses: examples: text: The couple chose to solemnize their relationship in a secular ceremony, instead of having a wedding.
text: He now is gone to pꝛooue Coſmography, / And as I gueſſe, wil firſt ariue at Rome, / To ſee the Pope, and manner of his court, / And take ſome part of holy Peters feaſt, / That to this day is highly ſolemnizd.
ref: 1589–1592 (date written), Ch[ristopher] Marl[owe], The Tragicall History of D. Faustus. […], London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Thomas Bushell, published 1604, →OCLC, signature D, recto:
text: Saint Luke declaring how Peter ſtood vp in the midſt of his Diſciples, did thereby deliuer an vnchangeable rule, that whatſoeuer is done in the Church ought to be done in the midſt of the church, and therefore not Baptiſme to be adminiſtred in one place, Mariage ſolemnized in an other, […]
ref: 1597, Richard Hooker, “Of gesture in praying, and of different places chosen to that purpose”, in J[ohn] S[penser], editor, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], 2nd edition, London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, book V, section 30, page 249:
text: […] Upon the heads of all who ſate beneath, / Lords, Ladies, Captains, Councellors, or Prieſts, / Thir choice nobility and flower, not only / Of this but each Philiſtian City round / Met from all parts to ſolemnize this Feaſt.
ref: 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, pages 95–96:
text: The great mysteries solemnised at Eleusis.
ref: 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 138:
glosses: To make solemn, or official, through ceremony or legal act.
examples: text: September 27, 1873, John Campbell Shairp, "Wordsworth's Three Yarrows", in Every Saturday
Wordsworth was solemnized and elevated by this his first look on Yarrow.
text: Every Israelite […] arose, solemnized his face, looked towards Jerusalem […] and prayed.
ref: 1880, Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ:
glosses: To make grave, serious, and reverential.
kennetjie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Afrikaans kennetjie (“little chin”).
Senses: examples: text: The two men are playing a Boer sport called kennetjie, using a length of broomstick as the bat, on which is balanced a small piece of wood that serves as the 'ball'.
ref: 2008, Christopher Hope, My Mother's Lovers, page 186:
text: Instead we played kennetjie in the yard with a small piece of wood, which we flipped with a stick, and struck into the air.
ref: 2010, Rayda Jacobs, Sachs Street, page 135:
glosses: A children’s (boy’s) game where a short stick is flipped into the air by a longer stick, batted and hopefully caught by ‘fielders’.
examples: text: A strong, three feet long stick (the bat or hook) and a shorter piece five or six inches long (the kennetjie) were the requirements. A deep gash six inches in length was scraped in the ground. The kennetjie was laid cross-wise over the gash.
ref: 2006, Louis Mallett, The history of the people of Malay Camp, Kimberley:
glosses: The short stick used in this game.
magique
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of magic.
magique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magiques
Senses: examples: text: That (after the receit of his money) he ſhall neither in his owne perſon, nor any other, either by direct or indirect meanes; as Magique, Witchcraft, or other ſuch Exoticke Artes, attempt, practiſe, or complot any thing, to the prejudice of Mee, my Dogge, or my Cat: […]
ref: 1599 (first performance), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for William Holme, […], published 1600, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iii, signature [L iiij], recto:
text: But by what magique I, that here have ſtood / Four hunderd yeares (thou know’ſt how truly ſpoke), / Can now remove, think’ſt thou?
ref: 1653, William Basse, “The Metamorphosis of the Wallnut-tree of Borestall. In an Eglogue and 3 Cantos, betweene Jasper and Jefferye.”, in J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, The Pastorals and Other Workes of William Basse. […] (Miscellaneous Tracts, Temp. Eliz. & Jac. I), [London: s.n.], published 1870, →OCLC, canto 2, stanza 19, page 122:
glosses: Obsolete form of magic.
magiques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magique
brickfilm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brickfilms
Etymology: From brick + film.
Senses: examples: text: That experience led to the production of Out of Time, a short brickfilm that tells the story of two friends[…]
ref: 2008, Maureen Furniss, The animation bible, page 245:
glosses: An animated film made using plastic building bricks, especially Lego.
brickfilm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brickfilms
form: brickfilming
form: brickfilmed
form: brickfilmed
Etymology: From brick + film.
Senses: glosses: To make a brickfilm.
ticket-of-leave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tickets-of-leave
form: ticket of leave
Senses: examples: text: 1893:The prosecutrix was the wife of a ticket-of-leave man, named Daniel Jackson, and she was also separated from her husband, and lived for some time with a man named Clarke, who died on the day before the alleged robbery was committed. Clarke left a will bequeathing all his property to the prosecutrix, who, immediately on his death, possessed herself of sixty pound in money which was in his box, which she rolled up and placed in her bosom. Prosecutrix shortly after missed the money but could not account how it had parted from her, and the warrant for £30, and bank-note for £20, laid in the indictment, was part of the money so lost. The prosecutrix admitted, that both before, at the time, and some time after she missed the money, she was overcome with grief and brandy, but she could not say which of these acted most strongly. R v Smith. https://web.archive.org/web/20060918213824/http://www.law.mq.edu.au/scnsw/Cases1838-39/html/r_v_smith__no_2___1839.htm
text: And as they sat snuggled up together at the far end of the table, talking to one another in low voices, and staring at me from time to time as if I had been a ticket-of-leave man who had got in by crashing the gate and might be expected, unless carefully watched, to pocket a spoon or two, it was not long before I, too, left.
ref: 1938, P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters:
glosses: A permit once granted to convicts allowing them to leave prison under certain circumstances; used especially of convicts transported to the British colonies
homousious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more homousious
form: most homousious
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὁμοούσιος (homooúsios), from ὁμός (homós) + οὐσία (ousía) + -ος (-os).
Senses: glosses: Of one nature with God.
gigglesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gigglesome
form: most gigglesome
form: giggle-some
Etymology: From giggle + -some.
Senses: examples: text: And I ran across one the other day, "gigglesome." "The children were so gigglesome," which I think is just wonderful.
ref: 1996, Conversations with Kentucky Writers
text: The phone rang constantly and long gigglesome conversations took place on it.
ref: 2000, Christopher Nolan, Under the Eye of the Clock:
text: We are joined by Michael Fathers, Asia editor of The Independent, and his not-very-bright, gigglesome interpreter, I think another Nguyen.
ref: 2006, Justin Wintle, Romancing Vietnam:
text: Everyone was puffed and pink by now, having danced to Papa's friend's gramophone for a good half-hour in a fairly confined space, which meant a certain amount of giggle-some jostling and a good deal of body heat, so that the air was over-warm and unhealthy with the scent of talcum and cheap cologne and the inside panes of the orangery were clouded.
ref: 2013, Siobhán Parkinson, Amelia:
text: But the truth was that she was twice as high-spirited and gigglesome as her companion.
ref: 2015, JJ Marsh, Behind Closed Doors:
glosses: Characterised or marked by giggling.
Synonyms: bubbly
giggly
Dixie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪksi/
rhymes: -ɪksi
Etymology: First attested in 1859. Unknown, but may come from the Mason-Dixon line, the boundary between the northern states and the southern states, or from the slang term dixie for a Louisiana $10 bill (equivalent to English tenner), in turn from French dix (ten).
Senses: synonyms: Dixieland
glosses: The southern United States, especially the former Confederate States; the South.
glosses: The southwestern corner of Utah.
glosses: A female given name transferred from the place name.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A populated place in Maricopa County, Arizona.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Brooks County, Georgia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Newton County, Georgia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Elmore County, Idaho.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Idaho County, Idaho.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Harrison County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Henderson County, Kentucky.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Whitley County, Kentucky.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Caddo Parish, Louisiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Callaway County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Baker County, Oregon.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A historical community in Grant County, Oregon.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A historical community in Washington County, Oregon.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Fluvanna County, Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Mathews County, Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Walla Walla County, Washington.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Harrison County, West Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Fayette County and Nicholas County, West Virginia.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A rural locality in the Shire of Cook, northern Queensland, Australia.
Synonyms: Dixieland
South
Derived terms: Dixie County
Dixiecrat
Dixie Alley
dead link
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: dead links
Senses: glosses: An HTML hypertext link that points to a webpage or website that is permanently unavailable.
rational egoist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rational egoists
Senses: glosses: an advocate of rational egoism
dead leg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead legs
Senses: examples: text: I kneed you, I said, and I gave him a dead leg.
ref: 1994, Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke, ha-ha-ha, page 225:
text: Knowing all this it can still take you by surprise, like a dead leg or a sudden punch to the solar plexus.
ref: 2009, Robert Twigger, Dr Ragab's Universal Language, →ISBN:
text: All at once something rose through the vacancy, the frightening void that was like the dead leg some kids had been adept at giving in the playground.
ref: 2011, Roger Garfitt, Horseman's Word: A Memoir, →ISBN, page 306:
text: I would also not have had the delight of receiving a shockingly painful random dead leg from Ben Coulter who, as I collapsed to my knees in agonizing pain, would laugh so hard, it would bring up a big blue vein that ran down his huge, dome-like forehead.
ref: 2011, Lee Evans, The Life of Lee, →ISBN:
glosses: A blow to the upper thigh, crushing the muscle against the bone and crushing the nerve cluster next to the quadriceps. Also, the resulting injury.
examples: text: However, care has to be taken to prevent oily material congealing on the walls of pipes, tanks, pumps and other equipments where there are points of restrictions as valves, bends or dead legs.
ref: 2003, M.M. Chakrabarty, Chemistry and Technology of Oils & Fats, →ISBN, page 201:
text: Supply and return lines should not contain dead legs.
ref: 2006, Greenhouse Management & Production:
text: The use of “deadended” systems, or systems with long dead legs, is unacceptable and will have a significant effect on both chemical quality and points-of-use bacteria levels
ref: 2016, William V. Collentro, Pharmaceutical Water, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of deadleg (isolated section of pipe with no outflow).
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dead, leg.
fundie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌn.di/
rhymes: -ʌndi
Forms: form: fundies
form: fundy
Etymology: Clipping of fundamentalist + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Some fundies are picketing at the capitol.
glosses: A fundamentalist Christian.
examples: text: He's a Jewish fundie, keeps everything really kosher.
glosses: A religious fundamentalist of any faith.
allelopathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From allelo- + -pathic.
Senses: glosses: relating to an allelopathy
Derived terms: allelopathically
allelopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæləlˈɒpəθi/
rhymes: -ɒpəθi
Etymology: From allelo- + -pathy.
Senses: glosses: The release by a plant of a toxin to suppress growth of nearby competing plants.
Derived terms: allelopath
allelopathic
Related terms: allelochemical
resaca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resacas
Etymology: From Spanish resaca, probably from resacar (“retake”), though possibly from rio seco (“dry river”) instead.
Senses: examples: text: The road lay over dark resacas and running streams, where volcanic rocks rose above each other^([sic]), and every detour might have been made a fortress.
ref: 1848, Fayette Robinson, An Account of the Organization of the Army of the United States; with Biographies of Distinguished Officers of All Grades, volume 2, Philadelphia: E. H. Butler, pages 258–9:
text: Here and there along the river-bottom, or along the sloughs or “resacas” are found, as Mr. Schwarz has elsewhere stated, “isolated stripes of larger or smaller extent, covered with a dense forest having a thick undergrowth of varied shrubbery and a rich vegetation of lower plants, the like of which is not seen in any other place in southwestern Texas.”
ref: 1897 December, H. F. Wickham, “The Coleoptera of the Lower Rio Grande Valley”, in Bulletin From the Laboratories of Natural History of the State University of Iowa, volume 4, number 2, Iowa City, IA, page 97:
text: A resaca is an old river channel that was probably cut off by an overflow scouring out a new and more direct course. Some of them were originally short loops in the river, but others are many miles in extent. Their top width varies from about 150 to 350 feet and their depth from 4 or 5 to 20 feet.
ref: [1911 January 12, L. L. Hidinger, The Drainage Situation in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, Circular 103, Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, page 8, note a:
text: Where resacas (a “resaca” is an old abandoned river channel sometimes many miles in extent) have been used for storage purposes for several years, seepage almost invariably appears within the area of the more pervious soils.
ref: 1911 July, D. W. Stookey, “Land Drainage: Irrigated Lands in the Rio Grande Valley Saved by Drainage”, in The Clay-Worker, volume 56, number 1, Indianapolis, IN: T. A. Randall, page 37:
text: At 10 p. m., two miles west of Brownsville, in a resaca, found these frogs in small bushes, in weedy clumps, and even grassy tangles in overflowed tomato field adjoining the overflowed resaca.
ref: 1933, Anna Allen Wright, Albert Hazen Wright, Handbook of Frogs and Toads: The Frogs and Toads of the United States and Canada (Handbooks of American Natural History; 1), Ithaca, NY: Comstock Publ., page 110:
text: Even the springs at Carrizo are barely flowing; it is said this is a result of the irrigation. The resacas have all gone dry.
ref: 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 264:
glosses: A dry river bed, a former channel of the Rio Grande, found in the southern half of Cameron County, Texas and deep into northeastern portions of the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico.
glosses: A small body of water.
Related terms: meander
oxbow
oxbow lake
unhealthful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhealthful
form: most unhealthful
Etymology: From un- + healthful.
Senses: examples: text: An unhealthful diet and lack of exercise are common causes for heart disease.
glosses: Not promoting health; detrimental to health.
Synonyms: insalubrious
astonishingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more astonishingly
form: most astonishingly
Etymology: From astonishing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Famous hotels, for instance, are astonishingly commonplace.
ref: 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 85:
glosses: In an astonishing manner; so as to surprise or astonish.
examples: text: The advertisements made the place look promising, but the food was astonishingly bad.
text: “Republican frontrunner Donald Trump used a campaign stop in Michigan on Monday to make astonishingly sexist attacks against Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton,” the left-leaning ThinkProgress wrote.
ref: 2015 December 22, Justin Wm. Moyer, “Donald Trump’s ‘schlonged’: A linguistic investigation”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 24 Dec 2015:
glosses: Very; remarkably used as an intensifier.
Synonyms: sense: very (intensifier)
word: amazingly
sense: very (intensifier)
word: staggeringly
sense: very (intensifier)
word: very
sense: very (intensifier)
word: hugely
TNF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of tumor necrosis factor.
selma'o
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /selˈma.ho/
Forms: form: selma'o
Etymology: Borrowed from Lojban selma'o.
Senses: glosses: A set of cmavo (“structure words/particles”) which are grammatically interchangeable; a "part of speech" used in defining Lojban's formal grammar.