cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sphexish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsfɛksɪʃ/
Forms: form: more sphexish
form: most sphexish
Etymology: From sphex (“sand wasp of Sphex or an allied genus”) + -ish (suffix meaning ‘being like, similar to, typical of’), coined by the American scientist and scholar of comparative literature Douglas Hofstadter (born 1945) in a September 1982 “Metamagical Themas” column in Scientific American, after a study of the behaviour of sphexide wasps. Sphex is derived from Ancient Greek σφήξ (sphḗx, “wasp”), either from Proto-Indo-European *bʰey- (“bee”) or a Pre-Greek word.
Senses: examples: text: Is this the top of the pinnacle then? Or is it just the top of our pinnacle, the point at which we reveal our sphexish streak and flounder about foolishly in the face of higher thought?
ref: 1984, Daniel C[lement] Dennett, “Making Reason Practical”, in Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting (A Bradford Book), Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, published 1997, →ISBN, page 46:
text: [A] sphexish creature in unusual circumstances may seem to be under the control of a malevolent puppet-master. A reliable sign that behaviour is sphexish is that the creature persists with it in circumstances that render it futile, rather as my first electronic typewriter would go on furiously hammering away with its daisy-wheel after the paper supply had run out.
ref: 1999, John [William Nevill] Watkins, “Genes, Brains, and Creativity”, in Human Freedom after Darwin: A Critical Rationalist View, Chicago; LaSalle, Ill.: Open Court Publishing Company, →ISBN, part 1 (Naturalism), § 5.1 (Genes and Behaviour), page 120:
text: Dual-process models of cognition […] all propose, in one way or another, that in fact we all are a little bit sphexish. In fact, many of these theories, in emphasizing the pervasiveness of TASS [The Autonomous Set of Systems] and the rarity and difficulty of analytic processing, are in effect proposing that our default mode of processing is sphexish.
ref: 2004, Keith E. Stanovich, “A Brain at War with Itself”, in The Robot’s Rebellion: Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwin, Chicago, Ill.; London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 75:
text: What makes you any different from the digger wasp? Aren't you the least bit sphexish? You might argue (and probably will!) that we're far more complex than poor Sphex, and don't engage in the same repetitive actions that she does. […] Yet human beings are infinitely variable in their behavior, we don't all do the same thing in the same circumstances. Maybe it is hard to say exactly why we're not sphexish, but surely we're not. Regrettably, this rejection of sphexishness is not that great an argument.
ref: 2013, Stephen D. Hales, “Freedom”, in This is Philosophy: An Introduction, Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, paragraph 4.23, page 125:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
antonyms: antisphexish
glosses: Of animal behaviour: deterministic, preprogrammed.
wikipedia: Metamagical Themas
Scientific American
Derived terms: antisphexish
antisphexishness
sphexishness
Related terms: sphex
Sphex
sphexide
quarreler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɔɹəlɜɹ/
ipa: /ˈkwɒɹəlɜɹ/
Forms: form: quarrelers
Etymology: From quarrel + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who quarrels or is disposed to do so. An arguer or disputer.
quarrelers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quarreler
finderlist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finderlists
Etymology: From finder + list.
Senses: glosses: A list of words in one language together with, for each word, a list of words (or glosses) in the second language that have the same or related meanings.
raw_tags: in a dual-language dictionary
prodigal son
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prodigal sons
Etymology: With reference to Luke 15:11–32.
Senses: examples: text: Here I am, the prodigal son
The self proclaimed deprived
Spending hours of fighting the peace
When I should lay it on the line
ref: 2010, “Enter Dog of Pavlov”, performed by Soilwork:
text: Don’t look back in anger—Oasis, the prodigal sons of Brit-pop, is returning. After years of public feuding and subtweets and alleged battery with a cricket bat, the Gallagher brothers—Liam and Noel, obvs—are working it out on the remix, with a rash of 2025 summer dates announced on their website.
ref: 2024 August 28, Raven Smith, “Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher, and the Art of the Public Feud”, in Vogue:
glosses: Someone who returns home from travelling or exile or who is welcomed back after disgrace, especially having repented of former extravagant or immoral behavior.
glosses: A marine fish, the cobia (Rachycentron canadum).
Related terms: kill the fatted calf
impennous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɛnəs/
Etymology: Latin prefix im- (“not”) and penna (“wing, feather”).
Senses: examples: an impennous insect
glosses: Lacking wings.
Synonyms: apterous
scoriac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: She sank beneath the surface, the scoriac waters not splashing, not leaping up, but opening to take her.
ref: 1989, Nick Cave, And the Ass Saw the Angel:
glosses: Of or pertaining to scoria.
Synonyms: scoriaceous
corpsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔː(ɹ)mən/
ipa: /ˈkɔː(ɹ)zmən/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mən
Forms: form: corpsmen
Etymology: From corps + -man.
Senses: examples: text: The corpsman prescribed Motrin to the sick marine for his symptoms.
text: “I love talking on the phone!” said Kate, a college student and corpsman in the Navy Reserve. “If someone’s like, ‘Do you want to text?’ ‘No! Call me. I want to hear your voice.’”
ref: 2025 September 6, Catherine Pearson, “She Started the Debate About Kids and Phones. Now She Wants to End It.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: A hospital corpsman.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An enlisted person in the U.S. Army who works as a field medic.
topics: government
medicine
military
politics
sciences
war
glosses: A military medic.
Related terms: corpswoman
aidman
conceptus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conceptuses
form: concepti
form: conceptūs
Etymology: From Latin cōncipiō (“to take hold of, to receive”), from Latin capiō (“to capture”).
Senses: glosses: The fetus or embryo, including all the surrounding tissues protecting and nourishing it during pregnancy.
ascot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ascots
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of ascot tie.
ascot tie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ascot ties
form: Ascot tie
Etymology: Traditionally worn at the Ascot races in Ascot, England.
Senses: examples: text: Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. […] A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
synonyms: ascot
glosses: A type of cravat or necktie with a narrow neckband and wide wings laid one across the other.
wikipedia: Ascot Racecourse
Related terms: Ascot cap
Ascot scarf
mumchance
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌm.tʃɑːns/
ipa: /ˈmʌm.t͡ʃæns/
Forms: form: more mumchance
form: most mumchance
Etymology: From Middle English mommen (“mutter, be silent”) and Middle High German mummenschantze (“game of chance as part of a masquerade, mime performance, revel”), from Old French momen (“mask”) and chance (“game of chance”).
Senses: examples: text: There is something exceedingly unpleasant in being obliged to answer "No," to a traveller's "Pray, Sir, were you ever abroad?" and to sit mum-chance all the time that he is running over the "grimoire" of outlandish technicalities. For my own part, I am convinced that man is, par excellence, a travelling animal; [...]
ref: 1821, “M.” [pseudonym], “The Traveller”, in The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, volume II (Original Papers), number XII, London: Henry Colburn and Co. […], →OCLC, page 544:
text: I wrote Miss Crane off as mediocre because although she chatted quite pleasantly and intelligently over coffee she was mostly mumpchance at the dinner table. Oh, not mumpchance tout court.
ref: 1966, Paul Scott, The Jewel in the Crown, page 69:
text: The two little children stood mumchance, but with a kindly air.
ref: 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 446:
text: 2001, Paula Marshall, Lord Hadleigh's Rebellion, Harlequin (Mills & Boon), 2008, page 124,
If he did, he would remain mumchance about that, too.
glosses: Mute, or not speaking; silent.
Related terms: mummer
mummery
mumchance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌm.tʃɑːns/
ipa: /ˈmʌm.t͡ʃæns/
Forms: form: mumchances
Etymology: From Middle English mommen (“mutter, be silent”) and Middle High German mummenschantze (“game of chance as part of a masquerade, mime performance, revel”), from Old French momen (“mask”) and chance (“game of chance”).
Senses: examples: text: The Taker oꝛ the Verſer is the man muſt play with him, the Cardes are fetch, Mumchance oꝛ Decoy is the game: the firſt wager is Wine, the ſecond two pence in money, from two pence they riſe to a ſhilling, from that to a pound, […]
ref: 1608, [Thomas Dekker], “Of Barnards Law”, in The Belman of London. […], London: […] [Edward Allde and Nicholas Okes] for Nathaniel Butter, →OCLC, signature F2, recto:
text: Bear and wolf, look to your prisoner—prance, hobby—hiss, dragon, and halloo, boys—we grow older every moment we stand idle, and life is too short to be spent in playing mumchance.
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 319:
glosses: An old game of chance played with cards in silence.
examples: text: I'm not such a mumchance, to be sure, but I've as good a fortune
ref: 1830, Mary Leman Grimstone, Louisa Egerton:
glosses: A silent, stupid person.
silly straw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silly straws
Senses: examples: 2003 March, Jeff Westbrook, "Teenage Mutant Leela Hurdles", episode 63, Futurama
Turanga Morris: Now, let's all have some tequila to celebrate!
Leela: Dad! I'm underage!
Turanga Morris: Ah, right. Here's a silly straw.
glosses: A drinking straw with a fixed, amusing shape that includes loops.
gushy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: gushier
form: gushiest
Etymology: From gush + -y.
Senses: glosses: Gushing; effusive and often emotional.
examples: text: Spouting water: Early Hawaiians named this l l/2-mile strip of coast Waikiki, or “spouting water,” its inland part a swamp nurtured by descending mountain streams and gushy spring waters. As early as the 1400s, Hawaiians utilized this water ...
ref: 1994, Houghton Mifflin Company, Insight, Insight Guides, Insight Guide Hawaii, Insight Guides
text: Off with my beige bikini set, then he parted my legs and went straight for the gushy pussy and gushy it was. I was seeping like a loose faucet.
ref: 2007, Rechella, Players Got Played, Kensington Books, page 112
text: Just as underground water wells up in a gushy spring, when a bore is sunk down to that depth, […]
ref: 2015, Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 1, Sri Sathya Sai Sadhana Trust, Publications Division, →ISBN:
text: “I can't believe it's gonna rain for our entire spring break.” “Oh, don't worry, Vi, we're gonna let it get real gushy, then we are going mudding!” “Yes! I mean, whatever. Mudding's dumb.”
ref: 2021 May 9, Tim McAuliffe, “When You Lose, You Win” (0:06 from the start), in Bless the Harts, season 2, episode 21, spoken by Wayne Edwards (Ike Barinholtz):
glosses: Tending to gush, to produce a large flow of liquid.
Related terms: word: gushiness
word: gushily
white tie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The most formal kind of eveningwear for men, consisting of an evening tailcoat, trousers with strips of braid down the side seams, white stiff-fronted shirt, white bow tie and waistcoat with or without sash.
examples: text: You are cordially invited to dinner with His Excellency the President. Dress: White Tie.
glosses: A dress code specifying white tie for men and ball gown or evening dress for women, or, alternatively, full military dress or national costume.
Synonyms: sense: dress code
word: full dress
sense: dress code
word: evening dress
sense: dress code
word: full evening dress
Related terms: black tie
morning dress
national costume
tails
black tie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black ties
Senses: glosses: A black bow tie worn with a dinner jacket.
examples: text: You are cordially invited to the Social Club's tenth Anniversary Celebration of its Brick-and-Mortar Building. Dress: Black Tie and White Tie are encouraged, but optional.
glosses: Evening dress; a standard of dress which is less formal than white tie, consisting of black dinner jacket or tuxedo jacket, and matching trousers, white shirt and black bow tie or, possibly, military dress or national costume.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, tie.
Coordinate terms: sense: standard of dress
word: business casual
sense: standard of dress
word: casual
sense: standard of dress
word: dress casual
sense: standard of dress
word: formal
sense: standard of dress
word: informal
sense: standard of dress
word: morning dress
sense: standard of dress
word: morning suit
sense: standard of dress
word: national costume
sense: standard of dress
word: white tie
Meronyms: sense: evening dress
word: dinner jacket
sense: evening dress
word: tux
sense: evening dress
word: tuxedo
Related terms: bowtie
tailcoat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪlkoʊt/
Forms: form: tailcoats
form: tail coat
Etymology: From tail + coat.
Senses: glosses: A formal evening jacket with an extended back panel; a dress coat.
glosses: Any coat with similar tails.
Derived terms: tails
tokenizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tokenizers
Etymology: From tokenize + -er.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A system that parses an input stream into its component tokens.
morning dress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morning dresses
Senses: glosses: A woman's dress designed for informal day wear.
examples: text: Morning dress can be worn up to 5:00 pm.
glosses: Clothing to be worn in the morning or daytime, as opposed to the evening; now (specifically), a man's formal suit consisting of a (usually) dark grey morning coat, waistcoat and striped trousers accompanied with a top hat, white shirt and tie or cravat.
Coordinate terms: black tie
business attire
morning suit
casual dress
informal
white tie
Derived terms: morning-dressed
canonicalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: canonicalizes
form: canonicalizing
form: canonicalized
form: canonicalized
form: canonicalise
Etymology: From canonical + -ize.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To convert (data) into canonical form.
Hypernyms: normalize
Derived terms: canonicalization
serialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪɹiəlaɪz/
ipa: /ˈsɪəɹiəlaɪz/
Forms: form: serializes
form: serializing
form: serialized
form: serialized
form: serialise
Etymology: From serial + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To write a television program, novel, or other form of entertainment as a sequence of shorter works with a common story.
glosses: To publish (a book, play, etc.) in regular instalments, e.g. in a magazine.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To convert an object into a sequence of bytes that can later be converted back into an object with equivalent properties.
Synonyms: marshal
Related terms: serial
serialization
bugger off
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Derived from bugger (idiomatic, obsolete, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) “sodomite”, (idiomatic, vulgar, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) “man”, especially in the colloquialism (idiomatic, dismissal, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) old bugger for “an old man”.
Senses: qualifier: dismissal
glosses: Go away.
examples: text: Bugger off! You're joking, aren't you?
glosses: An expression of disagreement or disbelief.
Synonyms: sense: go away
word: get lost
word: fuck off
word: screw off
word: buzz off
word: piss off
word: go away
sense: disbelief
word: bollocks
word: pull the other one
word: bullshit
bugger off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: buggers off
form: buggering off
form: buggered off
form: buggered off
Etymology: Derived from bugger (idiomatic, obsolete, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) “sodomite”, (idiomatic, vulgar, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) “man”, especially in the colloquialism (idiomatic, dismissal, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) old bugger for “an old man”.
Senses: examples: text: We tried to catch him, but he had already buggered off.
glosses: To leave, go away, disappear.
Synonyms: depart
set out
sling one's hook
leave
Raghda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Arabic رَغْدَة (raḡda, “pleasant, happy life”). The name is more common in North African countries.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Arabic.
datary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪtəɹi/
Forms: form: dataries
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: an officer in the Roman Catholic Church who dispensed benefices
fast asleep
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Sleeping, in a deep sleep.
Synonyms: sound asleep
down for the count
Related terms: wide awake
can opener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: can openers
form: can-opener
Senses: synonyms: word: tin opener
hypernyms: opener
coordinate_terms: bottle opener
glosses: A device used to open tin cans, usually by slicing the lid off.
qualifier: roller derby
glosses: A shoulder hit to the chest, usually accomplished while moving from a crouched to a standing position.
examples: text: Even the work of opening a safe with nitroglycerine or with a can opener places the criminal in a state of nervous tension.
ref: 1933, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Investigation of So-Called "Rackets": Hearings, page 697:
text: “I wonder why they didn't use 'soup' (nitroglycerine) snuffing the drum (blowing safe) instead of a 'can-opener,” (3 ft. steel rod, pointed one end to punch starting hole in bottom of safe, other end shaped like a can opener to peal^([sic]) the bottom of safe open.) commented McLaughlin? ^([sic])
ref: 2003, Edward Anthony Gibbons, Crime, Passion & Conscience, page 69:
glosses: A tool for safe-cracking.
topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: A ramming maneuver, that opens up the target ship like a tin can.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An anti-tank munition or attack vehicle, that opens up armour like a tin can.
Bamako
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑməkoʊ/
ipa: /bəˈmɑkoʊ/
Etymology: From Bambara Bamakɔ.
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Mali.
Abuja
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbuːd͡ʒə/
rhymes: -uːdʒə
Senses: examples: text: Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, rises out of the Sahel like a modernist apparition. The avenues are clean and broad, and the government buildings are imposing, with that soulless and vaguely fascistic air common to capital cities from Washington, D.C., to Brasília.
ref: 2007, Teju Cole, Every Day is for the Thief, Faber & Faber (2015), page 139:
text: Gunshots rang out in the capital Abuja and also in the neighboring Niger state as police lobbed tear gas to disperse defiant protesters. In Niger, at least six people are now feared dead, local media reported.
ref: 2024 August 1, Nimi Princewill and Stephanie Busari, “Violence erupts as Nigerians protest hunger across the nation”, in CNN:
glosses: The capital city of Nigeria; lying in the Federal Capital Territory in the North Central geopolitical zone.
Apia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Samoan Apia.
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Samoa.
Basseterre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæsˈtɛə(ɹ)/
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Saint Kitts and Nevis.
Castries
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæstɹiːz/
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Saint Lucia.
Dakar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæˈkɑː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈdækɑː(ɹ)/
ipa: /dɑˈkɑɚ/
Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly from Wolof daqaar (“tamarind”).
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Senegal.
Doha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdəʊ.hɑː/
ipa: /ˈdoʊ.hɑː/
ipa: /ˈdoʊ.ə/
rhymes: -əʊhɑː
Etymology: From Arabic الدَّوْحَة (ad-dawḥa).
Senses: glosses: The capital and largest city of Qatar.
Fagatogo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The capital of American Samoa, United States.
Freetown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From free + town, as being formerly settled by freed slaves.
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Sierra Leone.
Kingstown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From king's + town, in reference to monarchs of the British Empire. Doublet of Kingston, Kingstone, Conington, and Cunnington. Cf. also Coniston, Coniston Cold, Conisbrough, Kingsville, Kingsburg, Queenstown, Queenston, Princetown, Princes Town, and Princeton.
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
glosses: A rural village in Uralla Shire, New England region, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A townland in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
glosses: The former name of Dún Laoghaire, a suburban coastal town in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, Ireland, after it was renamed from Dunleary.
glosses: A census-designated place in Queen Anne's County, Maryland, United States.
glosses: A town in Cleveland County, North Carolina, United States.
Derived terms: North Kingstown
South Kingstown
Koror
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔːɹə/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹɚ/
homophone: corer
Etymology: Ultimately from an earlier form of Palauan Oreor (“Koror”), which started with /q/ or /x/ in earlier Palauan (cf. the form Goreor recorded by the 1908-10 Hamburg South Sea Expedition).
Senses: glosses: the former capital and largest city of Palau
wikipedia: de:Hamburger Südsee-Expedition 1908–1910
Related terms: Melekeok
Ngerulmud
Lilongwe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪˈlɒŋw(e)ɪ/
ipa: /ləˈlɑŋwi/
ipa: /lɪˈlɔŋweɪ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Chichewa Lilongwe.
Senses: glosses: A city, the capital city of Malawi.
Lomé
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /loʊˈmeɪ/
Etymology: From French Lomé, from Ewe alotimé (“in the middle of the alo plants”).
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Togo.
Majuro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæd͡ʒəɹoʊ/
ipa: /məˈd͡ʒʊɹoʊ/
ipa: /ˈmæd͡ʒəɹəʊ/
ipa: /məˈd͡ʒʊəɹəʊ/
Etymology: From Marshallese Mājro.
Senses: glosses: An atoll, the capital city of the Marshall Islands.
Managua
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Managua.
Senses: glosses: The capital and largest city of Nicaragua.
glosses: A department of Nicaragua.
tentatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛntətɪvli/
Forms: form: more tentatively
form: most tentatively
Etymology: From tentative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This last activity was studied in the second paper of this series and it was suggested tentatively that the peculiarly adaptive discoördination in this and other reactions might be due to the pull of part upon part, acting through the substrate.
ref: 1922, Hamilton, “Coördination in the Starfish”, in Knight Dunlap, Robert M. Yerkes, editors, The Journal of Comparative Psychology, volume II, Baltimore, page 90:
glosses: In a tentative manner.
buttoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of button
buttoning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buttonings
Senses: examples: text: He threw himself as he spoke upon a chair, and indolently, but gracefully, received the kind offices of Albert, who undid the coarse buttonings of the leathern gamashes which defended his legs[…]
ref: 1826, Sir Walter Scott, Woodstock:
glosses: A fastening with buttons.
Platte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Plattes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Platte.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: North Platte
Platteville
Plattsmouth
chinchillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chinchilla
TADA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act.
amorally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪˈmɔɹəli/
ipa: /æˈmɔɹəli/
Forms: form: more amorally
form: most amorally
Etymology: From amoral + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an amoral manner; without morals.
anomalously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈnɑmələsli/
Forms: form: more anomalously
form: most anomalously
Etymology: From anomalous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an anomalous manner.
angelically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænˈd͡ʒɛlɪkli/
Forms: form: more angelically
form: most angelically
Etymology: From angelic + -ally or angelical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an angelic manner.
animatedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈænɪˌmeɪtɪdli/
Forms: form: more animatedly
form: most animatedly
Etymology: From animated + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an animated manner; with animation.
annoyingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌˈnɔɪjɪŋli/
Forms: form: more annoyingly
form: most annoyingly
Etymology: From annoying + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Flies buzzed annoyingly around my head.
glosses: In an annoying manner.
antisocially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæntaɪˈsoʊʃəli/
Forms: form: more antisocially
form: most antisocially
Etymology: From antisocial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an antisocial manner.
appreciatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ʌˈpɹiʃəˌtɪvli/
Forms: form: more appreciatively
form: most appreciatively
Etymology: From appreciative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: ESTRAGON: I've forgotten. (Chews.) That's what annoys me. (He looks at the carrot appreciatively, dangles it between finger and thumb.) I'll never forget this carrot. (He sucks the end of it meditatively.) Ah yes, now I remember.
ref: 1954 [1948], Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot […] , New York: Grove Press, translation of En attendant Godot, page 12:
glosses: In an appreciative manner.
appetizingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈæpəˌtaɪzɪŋli/
Forms: form: more appetizingly
form: most appetizingly
form: appetisingly
Etymology: From appetizing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an appetizing manner.
Derived terms: unappetizingly
appallingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌˈpɑlɪŋli/
Forms: form: more appallingly
form: most appallingly
Etymology: From appalling + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She performed appallingly on standard neurological tests, which are, as Sacks perceptively notes, specifically designed to deconstruct the whole person into a stack of 'abilities'.
ref: 1997, Guy Claxton, Hare brain, tortoise mind: why intelligence increases when you think less:
glosses: In an appalling manner.
Kishinyov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kishinev
Etymology: From Russian Кишинёв (Kišinjóv).
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Chișinău (“capital city of Moldova”).
World War 1
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of World War I.
Great War
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Great War
Senses: examples: text: Then came the Great War, the Irish troubles, and the diversion of most of the American traffic to Southampton; the new construction was promptly dropped, and only grass-grown earthworks and cuttings now remain.
ref: 1939 September, T. R. Perkins, “The G.W.R. in West Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 200:
glosses: Epithet for World War I.
Synonyms: war to end all wars
winnows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of winnow
winnows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of winnow
winnowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of winnow
winnower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winnowers
Etymology: From winnow + -er.
Senses: glosses: a person who winnows
glosses: a form of fan or basket used for winnowing
blogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blog
blogs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blog
winnowing basket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winnowing baskets
Senses: synonyms: winnowing fan
glosses: A basket used to winnow rice or grain from the chaff.
Related terms: winnowing fan
winnowing fan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winnowing fans
Senses: examples: text: The wind is the natural winnower, but man can help the wind by exposing the mixed chaff and grain. This he throws up on the winnowing fan against the wind, the wind blows away the chaff and the heavier grain falls to the ground. The best instrument with which to do this is naturally an oar-like pole, broadened at the end to serve as a shovel. Such an instrument was the πτύον (ptúon) or winnowing fan.
ref: 1908, Jane Ellen Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, page 529:
glosses: A specially shaped winnowing basket, in which grain is shaken in the process of winnowing, with the shape of the basket allowing the chaff to spill out more readily.
glosses: Any fan device, including those electrically powered, used in winnowing.
Related terms: winnowing basket
winnowing shovel
winnowing fork
winnowing machine
winnower
winnowing machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winnowing machines
Senses: examples: text: Thus, then, have the St. Edmundsbury Monks, without express ballot-box or other good winnowing-machine, contrived to accomplish the most important social feat a body of men can do, to winnow out the man that is to govern them […] Ballot-boxes, Reform Bills, winnowing-machines: all these are good, or are not so good; — alas, brethren, how can these, I say, be other than inadequate, be other than failures, melancholy to behold?
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. VIII, The Election”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):
glosses: A machine which winnows grain.
winnow sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winnow sheets
Senses: glosses: A sheet set up under the winnowing basket or machine to catch any seed which falls.
drive off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drives off
form: driving off
form: drove off
form: driven off
Senses: glosses: To force to leave or go away.
examples: text: We started the car and drove off.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drive, off.
drive off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drive offs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of drive-off.
empurple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: empurples
form: empurpling
form: empurpled
form: empurpled
Etymology: From em- + purple.
Senses: examples: text: Some [wines] deep empurpled as the Hyacine,
Some as the rubine, laughing sweetly red,
Şome like fair emerauds, not yet well ripened
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To make purple.
glosses: To enrage or anger, referring to making the face purple or red with blood.
glosses: Of writing, to make overly flowery or showy; to embellish unduly.
Related terms: purple prose
tin opener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tin openers
form: tin-opener
form: tinopener
Senses: examples: text: But I recall that those tin openers ran hot opening tin after tin of rubberised peach quarters and pulverised fruit salad to fill the "hollow legs" of an expanding population.
ref: 1987, Kerry Cue, Hang On To Your Horses Doovers, page 6:
glosses: a can opener.
phlebogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phlebograms
Etymology: From phlebo- + -gram.
Senses: glosses: a venogram
venogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: venograms
Etymology: From veno- + -gram.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An X-ray of a vein that has been injected with an opaque material
Synonyms: phlebogram
Related terms: venographic
venography
masturbators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of masturbator
blood serum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood serums
form: blood sera
form: bloodserum
Senses: examples: Holonyms: plasma, blood plasma < blood
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
synonyms: serum
related: word: blood cell
word: red blood cell
word: white blood cell
word: platelet
word: ;
word: clotting factor
glosses: The portion of whole blood that is not blood cells and not clotting factors; it can be separated as a clear yellowish liquid after the blood has been allowed to clot.
yem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːəm/
ipa: /ˈiəm/
rhymes: -iːəm
Forms: form: yems
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese yếm, from Proto-Vietic *ʔiɛmʔ (“breastplate”), from Old Chinese 裺 (/*qromʔ/, /*qoms/, “bib worn by infants”).
Senses: topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
hypernyms: bib
bodice
haltertop
synonyms: dudou
tu-tou
ao yem
glosses: A Vietnamese bodice with a halterneck and a V-shaped bottom worn by women on the torso, originally as an underbodice and now also as an outer garment.
yem
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːəm/
ipa: /ˈiəm/
rhymes: -iːəm
ipa: /jɛm/
rhymes: -ɛm
ipa: /ˈiːəm/
ipa: /ˈiəm/
rhymes: -iːəm
Etymology: See hyem.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hyem (“home”).
phlebograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phlebogram
venograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of venogram
X-rayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of X-ray
orgue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orgues
Etymology: From French orgue, from Latin organum (“organ, instrument, tool”), from Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon, “organ, instrument, tool”). Doublet of organ, organon, and organum.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Any of a number of long, thick pieces of timber, pointed and shod with iron, and suspended, each by a separate rope, over a gateway, to be let down in case of attack.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A piece of ordnance, consisting of a number of musket barrels arranged so that a match or train may connect with all their touchholes, and a discharge be secured almost or quite simultaneously.
orgues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orgue
diaclasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diaclases
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: diaclasia
glosses: Osteoclasis.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A network of cracks in limestone rock allowing the infiltration of water and causing sinkholes.
blood cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blood cell
osteoclasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteoclases
Etymology: From osteo- + -clasis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The surgical fracture of a bone in order to correct a deformity
Synonyms: diaclasis
leukocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leukocyte
Demoncrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdiːmənkɹæt/
Forms: form: Demoncrats
Etymology: Blend of demon + Democrat.
Senses: examples: text: American Blacks have made huge strides over the years, but the Demoncrats invent class warfare and inequality issues.
ref: 2003 May 26, mange [username], “Re: Abe Lincoln: The Republican Party”, in alt.politics.republicans (Usenet):
text: The Demoncrats, truly the party of anti-Xtians and actually the embodiment of everything that is the traditional evil […]
ref: 2004 November 28, John S. Dyson, “Re: Zogby OHIO-FINAL: Bush up 48% to 44% (It's Over for Kerry)”, in alt.politics.republicans (Usenet):
text: The fact is Demoncrats are more intolerant of those differing from them than are Republicans.
ref: 2006 October 3, alamonation1 [username], “Re: Did Democrats Page Mark Foley?”, in alt.politics.republicans (Usenet):
topics: government
politics
synonyms: commiecrat
Democrap
Democreep
Democunt
Demotard
dumbocrat
Nazicrat
antonyms: Repooplican
Republicant
Republicunt
Retardican
Rethuglican
glosses: A member or supporter of the Democratic Party (with an implication that its members are demonic).
osteoclases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of osteoclasis
geopolitical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more geopolitical
form: most geopolitical
Etymology: From geo- (“geographical”) + political.
Senses: examples: text: Weinersmith, who is best known for his webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, describes the polystate as a geopolitical entity in which multiple overlapping states exist — but each “state” consists of citizens who have agreed to the laws of a single non-geographic state; typical geographically-bound nations, or traditional “geostates”, would be replaced by “polystates”, which are collections of “anthrostates”.
ref: 2014 June 12, George Dvorsky, “12 Futuristic Forms of Government That Could One Day Rule the World”, in Gizmodo:
text: Call it boasting or benevolence, however, the response to the tragedy illustrates the era of “disaster diplomacy,” or the use of foreign aid for influence in a geopolitical competition.
ref: 2025 April 1, Editorial Board, “Why the seismic giving to Myanmar?”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
text: In a blog post, the company [Google] said there was “a global competition taking place for A.I. leadership within an increasingly complex geopolitical landscape. We believe democracies should lead in A.I. development.”
ref: 2025 August 4, Sheera Frenkel, “The Militarization of Silicon Valley”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: Of or relating to geopolitics.
Derived terms: geopolitical entity
geopolitically
geopolitical zone
socio-geopolitical
Related terms: geopolitics
geopolitician
Eureka step
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eureka steps
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A flash of insight that cracks a problem and paves the way to a solution.
counterstep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countersteps
Etymology: From counter- + step.
Senses: glosses: A measure taken to correct an action or situation; movement in the opposite direction.
glosses: The movement of dancers around a central point.
counterstep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: countersteps
form: counterstepping
form: counterstepped
form: counterstepped
Etymology: From counter- + step.
Senses: glosses: To take an opposing step, as in dancing.
foot job
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foot jobs
form: fj
form: FJ
form: footjob
Etymology: By analogy with hand job.
Senses: examples: text: A long list of girls' names was followed by initials ranging from “D.H.T.I.C.” which stood for “Dry Humped Till I Came,” to “H.J.” — “Handjob,” “A.O.” — “Ate Out,” “B.J.” — “Blowjob,” and “F.J.” — “Foot Job.”
ref: 1999, Richard Price, The Wanderers, Houghton Mifflin Books, →ISBN, page 101:
text: His bare foot grazed my crotch...he rocked his foot some more...a foot job.
ref: 2004, M. Christian, Greg Wharton, Love Under Foot: An Erotic Celebration of Feet, Haworth Press, →ISBN, page 44:
text: The man moved in close to her and spoke directly into her ear, “I'll give you 50 for a foot job up in the bleachers.”
ref: 2004, Valerie F. de Daulles, Foot Art Is Good Art, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 24:
text: Rick continued small talk about motorcycles with Louise. Louise appeared thoroughly engrossed in Rick's discussion of the new Harley Davidson series, while Viv gave her husband a tender foot job under the table. Rick's lids dropped slowly once as he spoke, indicating his pleasure to Viv, but Louise either didn't notice or paid it no mind.
ref: 2005, S.F. Powell, Like Sweet Buttermilk, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 206:
glosses: A sexual act where the genitalia are stimulated by someone's feet.
Hyponyms: toe job
Related terms: blowjob
hand job
tit fuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tit fucks
form: tit-fuck
form: titfuck
form: tittyfuck
Senses: topics: lifestyle
sex
sexuality
synonyms: boob job
titjob
titwank
paizuri
glosses: A sex position or sex act where the penis is stimulated in between the partner's breasts.
tit fuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tit fucks
form: tit fucking
form: tit fucked
form: tit fucked
form: tit-fuck
form: titfuck
form: tittyfuck
Senses: topics: lifestyle
sex
sexuality
glosses: To stimulate the penis between the breasts of (a person).
Derived terms: tit fucker
gear stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gear sticks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gearstick.
hubcap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌbˌkæp/
Forms: form: hubcaps
form: hub cap
Etymology: From hub + cap.
Senses: glosses: A decorative and protective disk that covers the hub of a motor car wheel.
Synonyms: wheel cover
wheel trim
Derived terms: hubcapped
Jehovah's Witness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jehovah's Witnesses
form: Jehovah witness
form: Jehovah Witness
form: Jehovah’s Witness
form: Jehovah’s witness
form: Jehovah's witness
Senses: synonyms: word: JW
word: one of Jehovah's Witnesses
word: Witness
word: Jehovah
word: Jehovian
word: Jehovist
word: Jehovie
word: Bible Students
word: International Bible Students
glosses: A member of a monotheistic and nontrinitarian Restoration Christian denomination founded by Charles Taze Russell in 1879 as a small Bible study group.
Related terms: anti-Witness
non-Witness
pro-Witness
wites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wite
wites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wite
wited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wite
Jericho
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛɹɪkəʊ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛɹɪˌkoʊ/
Etymology: From Middle English Iericho, from Old English Iericho, from Latin Ierīchō, from Ancient Greek Ἰερῑχώ (Ierīkhṓ), from Biblical Hebrew יְרִיחוֹ (yərīḥō), recorded early as Ugaritic 𐎊𐎗𐎃 (yrḫ). Regarding the "place of concealment" sense, see 2 Samuel 10:5.
Senses: glosses: A city in the West Bank, Palestine.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A male given name.
glosses: A historic suburb of the English city of Oxford.
Derived terms: Jerichoan
Jerichoite
Jericho rose
rose of Jericho
Jericho walk
Jericho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛɹɪkəʊ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛɹɪˌkoʊ/
Forms: form: Jerichos
Etymology: From Middle English Iericho, from Old English Iericho, from Latin Ierīchō, from Ancient Greek Ἰερῑχώ (Ierīkhṓ), from Biblical Hebrew יְרִיחוֹ (yərīḥō), recorded early as Ugaritic 𐎊𐎗𐎃 (yrḫ). Regarding the "place of concealment" sense, see 2 Samuel 10:5.
Senses: glosses: A place of retirement or concealment.
Juda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Judah.
Ammon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæm.ən/
ipa: [ˈɛə̯mɪ̈n]
rhymes: -æmən
Etymology: From Hebrew עַמּוֹן (ammon), from the root ע־מ־ם.
Senses: glosses: An ancient nation occupying the east of the Jordan River, between the torrent valleys of Arnon and Jabbok, in present-day Jordan.
glosses: A community in Moncton Parish, New Brunswick, Canada.
glosses: A city in Bonneville County, Idaho.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Bladen County, North Carolina.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Amelia County, Virginia.
Derived terms: Ammonite
Ammon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæm.ən/
ipa: [ˈɛə̯mɪ̈n]
rhymes: -æmən
Etymology: From Latin Ammōn, from Ancient Greek Ἄμμων (Ámmōn), itself from Egyptian i-mn:n-A40 (jmn).
Senses: examples: text: Here, over five hundred years before, had come the founder of Alexandria, Alexander the Great, to visit the oracle of Ammon, the god figured to be like a man having the head and horns of a ram.
ref: 1898, Mary E. Bamford, Out of the Triangle:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of Amun.
Derived terms: Ammon's horn
Ammon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæm.ən/
ipa: [ˈɛə̯mɪ̈n]
rhymes: -æmən
Senses: glosses: A river in Scotland now called Almond.
Chaldeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chaldean
hearkened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hearken
holocausts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holocaust
holocausts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of holocaust
Josue
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɒsjuˌiː/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Iōsuē.
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
qualifier: Douay Version
glosses: Obsolete form of Joshua.
Josue
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɒsjuˌiː/
/hoʊˈsweɪ/
/ˈd͡ʒɒsjuˌiː/
Forms: form: Josues
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Josué.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
kindreds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kindred
libations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of libation
Manasses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /məˈnæsɪz/
Senses: glosses: Any of several figures mentioned in the Bible. (See Manasses.)
lordotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Of, relating to or afflicted with lordosis; having an abnormal backwards curvature of the spine.
Derived terms: hyperlordotic
lordotically
lordosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lordoses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λορδός (lordós, “bent backward”) + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An excessive backwards curvature of the spine, causing a hollow in the back.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A body posture of some female mammals, indicating receptivity to copulation. It involves lowering of the forelimbs but with the rear limbs extended and hips raised, ventral arching of the spine and a raising, or sideward displacement, of the tail.
Synonyms: hollow back
saddle back
Derived terms: hyperlordosis
kypholordosis
lordotic
Related terms: kyphosis
swayback
first fruits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first-fruits
form: firstfruits
Etymology: From Middle English firste fruytes, fyrste frutes, furste frutes (“first fruits”), equivalent to first + fruits.
Senses: glosses: The first part of a harvest; sometimes made into an offering
glosses: The first profits from an undertaking