cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
shog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɒɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
Forms: form: shogs
form: shogging
form: shogged
form: shogged
Etymology: From Middle English schoggen (“to shake up and down, jog”), possibly from Middle Dutch schocken (“to jolt, bounce”) or Middle Low German schoggen, schucken (“to shog”); all from Proto-Germanic *skukkōną (“to move, shake, tremble”). Doublet of shock.
Senses: examples: text: Let them make ſhews of reforming while they will, ſo long as the Church is mounted upon the Prelatical Cart, and not as it ought, between the hands of the Miniſters, it will but ſhake and totter; and he that ſets to his hand, though with a good intent to hinder the ſhogging of it, in this unlawful Waggonry wherein it rides, let him beware it be not fatal to him as it was to Uzza.
ref: 1642, John Milton, The Reason of Church-Government Urg’d against Prelaty; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 203:
glosses: to jolt or shake
examples: text: Shall we shog? The king will be gone from Southampton.
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
text: On the flat behind the mill, dawn-rising Chinamen shogged with nimble bare feet under their yoke-linked watering-cans. These busy brethren, meeting sometimes on the same narrow track, would pause, ant-like, seemingly to dumbly regard one another and their burdens, then, still ant-like, pass silently to their work.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 147:
text: Porius's mind was divided between his excited interest in the emperor's famous counsellor and his fear lest in the growing darkness his foster-brother might shog off altogether.
ref: 2007, John Cowper Powys, Porius:
qualifier: frequently followed by off
glosses: to depart; to go.
shofars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shofar
skywalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skywalks
Etymology: From sky + walk.
Senses: examples: text: Those who prefer to embrace the elements can investigate the open-air skywalk 1,000 feet above the street.
ref: 1997 December 19, Cara Jepsen, “Days of the Week”, in Chicago Reader:
text: The proposed 120,000-square-foot project in downtown Houston has an elevated skywalk, which will connect the new building with the Wortham Theater Center, where the ballet presents six programs and “The Nutcracker” each year.
ref: 2008 August 8, “Houston Ballet Plans New Home”, in New York Times:
glosses: Synonym of skyway.
synonyms: word: skyway
glosses: A type of observation deck.
Derived terms: skywalker
slidden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪdən
Senses: examples: text: These are ponderous flat stones with long ropes at each end, by which the stones are slidden about, to and fro, over the wet and sanded decks; a most wearisome, dog-like, galley-slave employment.
ref: 1892, Herman Melville, White Jacket:
text: In a minute more the spell of silence broke, and a roar, louder than before, told that the little one had touched earth without injury, save hands all raw from friction with the rope along which she had slidden.
ref: 1898, Marshall Mather, Lancashire Idylls (1898):
glosses: past participle of slide
smashable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more smashable
form: most smashable
Etymology: From smash + -able.
Senses: examples: text: "Then 'twas through one bedroom after another, and each one more crowded with noisy, smashable things than that previous.
ref: 1910, Joseph C. Lincoln, The Depot Master:
text: There was no end to the surprises of this search: things brayed to pieces as if with a pestle and mortar, things easily smashable untouched.
ref: 1910, H. de Vere Stacpoole, The Pools of Silence:
glosses: Able to be smashed.
sojer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sojers
Senses: examples: text: Depositing his burden upon a little stand within easy reach of the sofa, Billy turned to leave, but paused as his eye wandered down the opening vista of the avenue, and after gazing for a moment in silence he suddenly exclaimed, "Dere's two sojer gemplemans comin' t'rough de big gate."
ref: 1876, Various, Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. XVII, No. 99, March, 1876:
text: [T]he plan was that as soon as they were married they would make out a holiday by driving straight off to Port Bredy, to see the ships and the sea and the sojers, […]
ref: 1894, Thomas Hardy, “[A Few Crusted Characters.] Andrey Satchell and the Parson and Clerk”, in Life’s Little Ironies […], London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, page 256:
text: As he passed, a young Fr-rinch sojer was with diff'culty resthrained fr'm sthrikin' him an' embracin' him with tears in his eyes.
ref: 1899, Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley In the Hearts of His Countrymen:
text: “One marble hall, with staircase complete, one butler and three flunkeys to receive a retired sojer who dares to ring the bell. D'you know, old boy, I gave my bowler to the butler, whangee to one flunkey, gloves to another, and there was the fourth poor blighter looking like an orphan at a Mothers' Meeting. …"
ref: 1929, Baldwyn Dyke Acland, chapter 2, in Filibuster:
glosses: Alternative form of soger.
sophisticatedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sophisticatedly
form: most sophisticatedly
Etymology: From sophisticated + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He could sing you into tears, and dance you into love, and talk you into wonder; when he drew, you begged for his portrait by himself, and when he wrote, you solicited his autograph. Mr. Philip Withers had taken his moustache to foreign parts, and done the Continent sophisticatedly.
ref: 1858, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 12, October, 1858:
text: There stood old Mandy McGovern, her long brown rifle half raised, her finger lying sophisticatedly along the trigger guard, that she might not touch the hair trigger.
ref: 1907, Emerson Hough, The Way of a Man:
text: On their third album, Amorica (American), they stretch nicely beyond their Faces evocations, resulting in a pleasantly soulful, groovy, and sophisticatedly accurate recollection of a previous decade.
ref: 1995 March 10, Peter Margasak, “Spot Check”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: in a sophisticated manner.
downflows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downflow
downflow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downflows
Etymology: From down- + flow.
Senses: glosses: A downward flow.
electromagnetohydrodynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + magnetohydrodynamics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The study of the interaction of electric and magnetic fields with electrically conducting or magnetic fluids.
ergoregion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ergoregions
Etymology: From ergo- + region.
Senses: glosses: ergosphere
extrapolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + polar.
Senses: glosses: From outside of a polar region
extremals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extremal
younghood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From young + -hood.
Senses: synonyms: teenhood
teendom
younghead
youth
glosses: Youth, the state of being young.
glosses: Adolescence, teenhood.
discriminative stimulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discriminative stimuli
Senses: qualifier: behavioral psychology
glosses: A stimulus, associated with reinforcement or punishment, that exerts control over a particular form of behavior; the subject discriminates between closely related stimuli and elicits a specific behavior more frequently or less frequently only in the presence of that stimulus.
Synonyms: Sd
Coordinate terms: stimulus delta
Hervey Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈhɑː(ɹ)vi ˈbeɪ/
Etymology: Named by James Cook after the naval officer Augustus John Hervey (1724–1779).
Senses: glosses: A city in Queensland, Australia.
balls-out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Usually said to be from the maximum-speed state of a ball governor, whose balls are swung out to the near-horizontal position. Neither balls-out nor balls to the wall is connected with the vulgar sense of balls (“testicles”) except connotationally via folk etymology. (In that vein of apparent vulgar innuendo, see also rock out with one's cock out.)
Senses: examples: text: He's making a balls-out run for Motor City by nightfall.
ref: 1976, CBer's Handy Atlas/Dictionary, page 9, column 2:
text: When you're popping babies via multiple partners, the “harem drama” is intense. As one strand of the pronatalist orthodoxy, [Elon] Musk's is very much a balls-out approach.
ref: 2025 April 26, Jo Ellison, “Make America Pregnant Again”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 20:
glosses: Extreme; extremely great.
balls-out
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Usually said to be from the maximum-speed state of a ball governor, whose balls are swung out to the near-horizontal position. Neither balls-out nor balls to the wall is connected with the vulgar sense of balls (“testicles”) except connotationally via folk etymology. (In that vein of apparent vulgar innuendo, see also rock out with one's cock out.)
Senses: glosses: Descriptive of the use of a centrifugal governor at maximum speed, corresponding to full throttle.
glosses: With great abandon.
glosses: At the fastest possible speed.
Related terms: balls to the wall
a synonymous term whose proposed etymologic connection to this one has been challenged
freakin'
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more freakin'
form: most freakin'
form: freakin
Etymology: Clipped form of freaking, itself a euphemised version of fucking.
Senses: examples: freakin' awesome!
glosses: extremely
ragers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rager
chulents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chulent
keg party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keg parties
Senses: examples: Meronym: keg stand
synonyms: kegger
coordinate_terms: beer bash
;
tea party
glosses: A party at which beer is served from a keg.
Related terms: english: often coinstantial
translation: often coinstantial
word: bush party
word: beer pong
word: DUI
keg parties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keg party
younghead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: younghede
Etymology: From Middle English yonghede, ȝonghede, equivalent to young + -head.
Senses: glosses: Younghood, youth.
younghead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: youngheads
form: young head
Etymology: From young + -head.
Senses: examples: text: I know I'm too much of a younghead to have seen all the famous shows, but jeez...
ref: 1991 September 30, Derek LeLash, “Dead in NH”, in rec.music.gdead (Usenet):
text: For the youngheads out there, the HipHopHeads, the ones still reppin' they block no matter what, the ones rejecting stereotypes of the hood as pure pathology, the ones not marketing the hood for white-rebellious-fantasies-of-bein'-down, the ones still street-conscious even when you ain't in the streets: beware, don't let the literati get you caught up.
ref: 2008, Todd Craig, Tor'cha, page iv:
text: So their latest antic was to grab a couple of their younghead, throw them in a car, drive them to the Philly airport, and drop them off there, forcing them to walk about three hours from the airport back to Myers playground.
ref: 2012, Kevin Purcell, Philly War Zone: Growing up in a Racial Battleground, page 23:
glosses: A young person; a teenager.
deflowerment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈflaʊ(w)ə(ɹ)mənt/
Forms: form: deflowerments
Etymology: From deflower + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The loss of a girl or woman's virginity.
Synonyms: cherry-popping
depucelage
defloration
devirgination
deflowerments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deflowerment
youngheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of younghead
devirgination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devirginations
Etymology: From de- + virgin + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The loss of a girl or woman's virginity.
Synonyms: cherry-popping
depucelage
defloration
deflowerment
devirginations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of devirgination
depucelage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: depucelages
Etymology: Borrowed from French dépucelage.
Senses: glosses: The loss of a girl or woman's virginity.
Synonyms: cherry-popping
deflowerment
defloration
devirgination
depucelages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of depucelage
cherry-popping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: the loss of a girl or woman's virginity.
Synonyms: depucelage
defloration
devirgination
deflowerment
Related terms: cherry-popper
pop someone's cherry
cherry-popper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cherry-poppers
Senses: glosses: Someone who takes another's virginity.
Related terms: cherry-pop
cherry-popping
pop someone's cherry
diddly squat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of diddly-squat.
knock knock joke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knock knock jokes
Etymology: knock knock + joke
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of knock-knock joke.
AltGr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of Alt Gr.
Alt Gr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AltGr
Etymology: Abbreviation of alternate graphic, as originally used to produce box-drawing graphic characters.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A keyboard key that can be pressed simultaneously with other keys to result in additional characters such as accented letters and currency symbols.
Action democratique
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Action démocratique
Senses: glosses: Action démocratique du Québec
to be continued
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: broadcasting
communications
journalism
literature
media
publishing
television
writing
glosses: Used at the end of an episode of a serial publication or program to indicate that the story continues in the next episode.
examples: text: EMH: Computer, freeze programme.
PARIS: Doc, this is the final chapter. Satan's Robot Conquers the World. We can't stop now.
EMH: Does the phrase to be continued mean anything to you?
PARIS: Your opera can wait.
ref: 1998, Star Trek: Voyager (TV series), "Night" (episode)
roman: EMH: This programme is a waste of photonic energy.
glosses: Used to indicate that a story under discussion has not concluded, either in narration or in reality.
if I were you
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: if I was you
Senses: glosses: A phrase said to introduce advice, i.e. to express what one would do in the interlocutor's situation.
bad guys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bad guy
knock knock jokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knock knock joke
software architects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of software architect
hexaquarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexaquark
hexaquark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexaquarks
Etymology: From hexa- + quark.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: sexaquark
glosses: Any exotic particle composed of six quarks
leptophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leptophilic
form: most leptophilic
Etymology: From lepto- + -philic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing a proposed form of dark matter that only interacts with leptons
magnetoacoustic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From magneto- + acoustic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of or pertaining to magnetoacoustics
Synonyms: magnetosonic
magnetoacoustics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From magneto- + acoustics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The study of acoustic-type magnetic waves
magnetophonon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetophonons
Etymology: From magneto- + phonon.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The magnetoacoustic equivalent of a phonon
nanosize
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nano- + size.
Senses: glosses: Having a size measured in nanometers; nanoscale
Related terms: nanosizer
nanoswitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanoswitch
nanoswitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanoswitches
Etymology: From nano- + switch.
Senses: glosses: A nanoscale switch
nonconcave
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nonconcave
form: most nonconcave
Etymology: From non- + concave.
Senses: glosses: Not concave.
Coordinate terms: convex
flat
straight
Related terms: nonhollow
nonuniformly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nonuniformly
form: most nonuniformly
Etymology: From non- + uniformly.
Senses: glosses: In a nonuniform manner
panspermial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more panspermial
form: most panspermial
Etymology: From panspermia + -ial.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to panspermia.
Related terms: panspermic
perhydrosqualene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From per- + hydro- + squalene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The fully saturated triterpene derived from squalene
Synonyms: squalane
photowritten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of photowrite
photowritten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing an optical grating (or similar structure) generated using light
radioastronomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of radio astronomy.
Related terms: radioastronomer
rebrightenings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rebrightening
semielliptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + elliptic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of semielliptical.
synonyms: word: semielliptical
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: In the theory of partial differential equations, designating a partial differential operator satisfying a positivity condition slightly weaker than that of being an elliptic operator. This produces a curved line progressively slightly straighter than an ellipse, such as that of an automotive leaf spring.
sparsifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sparsify
sparsifying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sparsifying
form: most sparsifying
Senses: glosses: That causes sparsification
plastic beauty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plastic beauties
Etymology: In reference to plastic surgery.
Senses: glosses: Beauty achieved by cosmetic surgery.
glosses: A person whose beauty is achieved by cosmetic surgery.
sparsification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sparsifications
Etymology: From sparse + -ification.
Senses: glosses: The act of making something more sparse, especially a graph.
glosses: The concentration of flora density nearest the tarmac (blacktop) versus the proportional absence of flora in the wider terrain (the grouping of trees near the road).
streamflows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of streamflow
structurization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: structurizations
Etymology: From structure + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: For example, when a red spot on a sheet of paper strongly stimulates me, the whiteness of the paper as well as the red spot are pregiven and both of them undergo the structurization of “figure-ground.”
ref: 2012, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Soul and Body in Husserlian Phenomenology: Man and Nature, page 81:
glosses: The act of structurizing
Derived terms: restructurization
structurize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: structurizes
form: structurizing
form: structurized
form: structurized
Etymology: From structure + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To impose a structure upon something
subfilter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subfilters
Etymology: From sub- + filter.
Senses: glosses: A subsidiary filter.
subfilter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + filter.
Senses: glosses: Lying below the range of a filter.
subfilter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subfilters
form: subfiltering
form: subfiltered
form: subfiltered
Etymology: From sub- + filter.
Senses: glosses: To filter further (something already filtered).
succedent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The 2nd, 5th, 8th and 11th houses in Astrology are the succedent houses, so called because they follow the angular houses.
text: SHCHETININ A : Quarterly : 1) Or, two birds volant succedent in bend sinister sable; 2 ) azure[…]
ref: 1992, Donald R. Mandich, Joseph Anthony Placek, Russian Heraldry and Nobility, Dramco:
glosses: That succeeds; succeeding, following
succedent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: succedents
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The formulas on the right-hand side of a sequent.
subfilters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subfilter
superfilter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + filter.
Senses: glosses: Lying above the range of a filter.
superintegrability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superintegrabilities
Etymology: From super- + integrability.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The condition of being superintegrable.
superintegrabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superintegrability
superinvariants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superinvariant
superinvariant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + invariant.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: invariant under supersymmetry
superinvariant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superinvariants
Etymology: From super- + invariant.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Such an invariant quantity, function etc.
symmorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Describing a space group in which all symmetry operations (apart from translation) leave one common point in a fixed location
triphenylethylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triphenylethylenes
Etymology: From triphenyl + ethylene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The triphenyl derivative of ethylene; any derivative of this compound, many of which act as nonsteroidal antiestrogens
twopartite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From two + -partite.
Senses: glosses: bipartite
unitarization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unitarizations
Etymology: From unitarize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act of unitarizing or of being unitarized
unprobed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unprobed
form: most unprobed
Etymology: From un- + probed.
Senses: glosses: Not probed; uninvestigated
persienne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɜːsiˈɛn/
ipa: /ˌpɝziˈɛn/
ipa: /ˈpɝsiɛn/
rhymes: -ɛn
Forms: form: persiennes
Etymology: Borrowed from French persienne (noun), from Middle French persienne f (adjective).
Senses: glosses: Printed calico or similar material.
glosses: A window blind with movable slats, similar to a Venetian blind.
persiennes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of persienne
saturations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saturation
paltok
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of paltock.
paltock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaltɒk/
Forms: form: paltocks
form: paltok
Etymology: Middle English paltok, of uncertain origin; perhaps a contraction of earlier *paletok, from pal (“pall”) + -et + -ok. Compare paletot.
Senses: examples: 1905-06, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel
The old tunic, overtunic and cyclas were too sad and simple for the new fashions, so now strange and brilliant cotehardies, pourpoints, courtepies, paltocks, hanselines and many other wondrous garments, particoloured or diapered, with looped, embroidered or escalloped edges, flamed and glittered round the King.
glosses: A type of short doublet or tunic with sleeves, sometimes worn beneath armour.
paltocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paltock
Havanans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Havanan
anticrossings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anticrossing
antikick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anti-kick
Etymology: From anti- + kick.
Senses: glosses: That reduces kicking or recoil.
decompactify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːkəmˈpæktɪfaɪ/
Forms: form: decompactifies
form: decompactifying
form: decompactified
form: decompactified
Etymology: From de- + compactify.
Senses: glosses: To make, or to become less compact
flavons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flavon
flavon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flavons
Etymology: From flavour + -on.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A particle with a specific flavour
histogrammed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From histogram + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Represented in the form of a histogram.
librational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From libration + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to libration
bokkom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bokkoms
Etymology: From Afrikaans bokkom.
Senses: glosses: Salted dried fish (normally mullet), a traditional delicacy of the West Coast of South Africa.
looptop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: looptops
Etymology: From loop + top.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The top of a loop.
midgap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midgaps
form: mid-gap
Etymology: From mid- + gap.
Senses: glosses: The middle of a gap.
multihole
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: multi-hole
Etymology: From multi- + hole.
Senses: glosses: Having, or producing, multiple holes
nanoneedles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanoneedle
nanoneedle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanoneedles
Etymology: From nano- + needle.
Senses: glosses: A nanoscale needle
nonintegrable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + integrable.
Senses: glosses: Not integrable
nonspinning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + spinning.
Senses: glosses: Not spinning
photoheated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more photoheated
form: most photoheated
Etymology: From photo- + heated.
Senses: glosses: heated by photoheating
quantionic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quantion + -ic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of or pertaining to quantions
quantion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quantions
Senses: topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: A form of quaternion used to explain the electroweak theory on curved spacetime.
scenaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scenario
subproduct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subproducts
Etymology: From sub- + product.
Senses: glosses: byproduct
supersaturations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supersaturation
symmetrizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more symmetrizable
form: most symmetrizable
Etymology: From symmetrize + -able.
Senses: glosses: That may be symmetrized
tricoherence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + coherence.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The condition of four waves having the same wavelength and phase
Related terms: tricoherent
Arpetan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Arpitan (“Franco-Provençal”).
rehydrogenation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rehydrogenations
Etymology: From re- + hydrogenation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Hydrogenation subsequent to dehydrogenation.
Related terms: rehydrogenate
virialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: virializes
form: virializing
form: virialized
form: virialized
Etymology: From virial + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To cause virialization.
glosses: To undergo virialization.
choledochitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From choledoch- + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: inflammation of the common bile duct
Related terms: choledochal
washing machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of washing machine
mercerisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mercerisations
Etymology: See mercerize.
Senses: glosses: A process of treating cotton with sodium hydroxide in order to make it more lustrous.
Related terms: mercerize
couch surf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: couch surfs
form: couch surfing
form: couch surfed
form: couch surfed
form: couch-surf
form: couchsurf
Senses: examples: text: Move into your house, I'm a couch surfer, Can I crash at your place again? Just one more night? I'm surfing, couch surfing
ref: 1997, James Di Salvio, E. P. Bergen, “Couch Surfer”, in Glee, performed by Bran Van 3000:
text: I couch-surfed in my Portland friends' guest rooms (I had a key ring that looked like it belonged to a janitor) while I tried to reinvent myself.
ref: 2004, Elizabeth Peavey, Maine & me: ten years of Down East adventures, page 13:
text: The term homeless youth can include shelter-based or street-based youth, as well as young people couch-surfing (doubled-up with friends or lovers).
ref: 2008, Robert Hartmann McNamara, Homelessness in America, volume 1, page 158:
text: "Couch-surfing allows musicians who couldn't tour before to get out and get their music heard," Fenton says. It also beats sleeping in a van.
ref: 2009 January, SPIN, volume 25, number 1, page 26:
synonyms: bed surf
sofa surf
coordinate_terms: sexsurfing
glosses: To use temporary overnight accommodations in one or more private residences, especially without cash payment.
Derived terms: couch surfer
couch surfing
couch surfing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: couch-surfing
form: couchsurfing
Etymology: From couch surf + -ing.
Senses: synonyms: sofa surfing
coordinate_terms: bed surfing
sexsurfing
glosses: The act or practice of a person who couch surfs.
Related terms: couch surfer
couch surf
couch surfing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: couch-surfing
form: couchsurfing
Etymology: From couch surf + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of couch surf
couch surfed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of couch surf
couch surfs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of couch surf
couch-surf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: couch-surfs
form: couch-surfing
form: couch-surfed
form: couch-surfed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of couch surf.
scientocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scientocracies
Etymology: From sciento- + -cracy; first known use in 1887.
Senses: examples: text: His lesson in Hamburg had taught him that a novus homo must not be arrogant when he enters the society of the scientocracy, and that he must not run himself rashly against vested interests.
ref: 1887, Florence Caddy, Through the fields with Linnaeus: a chapter in Swedish history, volume 1, page 294:
text: It could only appear through some dictatorial coup d'etat by a future scientocracy.
ref: 1968, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Center occasional papers, volume 3, number 3, page 75:
text: the roots of which lie in the curious marriage of the prohibitionist spirit and the new scientocracies that govern our lives.
ref: 2000, Charles Edgley with Dennis Brissett, A Nation of Meddlers, page 43:
glosses: An elite community of scientists.
examples: text: When I talk about Scientocracy, then, I'm not talking about a world ruled by behavioral scientists, or any other kind of scientists. Instead, I am imagining a government of the people, but informed by scientists.
ref: 2009, Peter Ubel, Scientocracy: Policy making that reflects human nature.:
glosses: The practice of basing public policies on science.
Related terms: scientocrat
scientocratic
technocracy
technocrat
make one's way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes one's way
form: making one's way
form: made one's way
form: made one's way
Senses: examples: text: ... to tread upon enemies, and make our way over them, notes the compleatest victory and highest triumph ...
ref: 1658, Joseph Caryl, An Exposition with Practical Observations continued upon the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, and twenty-one Chapters of the Book of Job..., page 226:
text: Coastal routes always provide difficult engineering problems, where a coast is rocky and cliff-bound, owing to the necessity for crossing all valleys and ravines making their way to the sea.
ref: 1946 March and April, “The Why and The Wherefore: L.M.S.R. Wick Main Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 130:
text: I'm telling you, I will not rest till I lay down my head, hey / In the house of stone and light / I'll make my way, O gonna be such a beautiful day / In the house of stone and light / In the house of stone and light
ref: 1994 July 26, Martin Page, “In the House of Stone and Light”, in In the House of Stone and Light:
text: It is imperative that we make our way to space and do so as quickly and as safely as possible. As tempting as it is to accelerate the process of developing ...
ref: 2003, United States Senate, NASA: human space flight : hearing before the Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, April 2, 2003, Volumes 73-77, published 2006, page 1:
text: Thousands gathered at São Paulo’s main cathedral and made their way to the mayor’s office, where a small group smashed windows and tried to break in, forcing guards to withdraw.
ref: 2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 Jun 2013:
text: On arrival at Birmingham New Street, I make my way upstairs to the mezzanine to get shots of an almost deserted concourse, polka-dotted with social distancing circles like some strange board-game.
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:
glosses: To move forward, usually toward a destination or goal, physically or conceptually.
Synonyms: insinuate
worm one's way
scientocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scientocracy
-ocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From -o- (interconsonantal interfix) + -cracy.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of -cracy, most often used following a consonant..
keep the home fires burning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps the home fires burning
form: keeping the home fires burning
form: kept the home fires burning
form: kept the home fires burning
Etymology: A reference to keeping campfires, lights, etc. at one's home village burning, often while part of the population travels elsewhere to hunt, etc.
Senses: examples: text: We got our water from a pump in the backyard and there is no domestic fatigue indoors or out-of-doors that I have not done continuously, not for fun but to keep the home fires burning.
ref: 1881, Andrew Jackson Davis, The genesis and ethics of conjugal love, page 115:
text: While the military has moved to gender-neutral language in all its official descriptions of the "spouses" who keep the home fires burning during deployments […]
ref: 2005, Karen Houppert, Home fires burning: married to the military, for better or worse, →ISBN, page xix:
glosses: To maintain daily routine and provide the necessities of life in a home or community.
Related terms: keep the lights on
keep the wolf from the door
have one's fingers in many pies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has one's fingers in many pies
form: having one's fingers in many pies
form: had one's fingers in many pies
form: had one's fingers in many pies
Senses: glosses: To be involved in many, or too many, different things.
Related terms: spread oneself thin
wear too many hats
bromosugar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bromosugars
Etymology: From bromo- + sugar.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound in which one or more hydroxyl groups of a sugar have been replaced by atoms of bromine
Related terms: chlorosugar
fluorosugar
halosugar
iodosugar
chlorosugar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chlorosugars
Etymology: From chloro- + sugar.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound in which one or more hydroxyl groups of a sugar have been replaced by atoms of chlorine
Related terms: bromosugar
fluorosugar
halosugar
iodosugar
fluorosugar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluorosugars
Etymology: From fluoro- + sugar.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound in which one or more hydroxyl groups of a sugar have been replaced by atoms of fluorine
Related terms: bromosugar
chlorosugar
halosugar
iodosugar
iodosugar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iodosugars
Etymology: From iodo- + sugar.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound in which one or more hydroxyl groups of a sugar have been replaced by atoms of iodine
Related terms: bromosugar
chlorosugar
fluorosugar
halosugar
halosugar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halosugars
Etymology: From halo- + sugar.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound in which one or more hydroxyl groups of a sugar have been replaced by atoms of halide
Related terms: bromosugar
chlorosugar
fluorosugar
iodosugar
butanolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butanolides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The cyclic lactone derived from 4-hydroxybutanoic acid; any of its derivatives
Derived terms: secobutanolide
Related terms: butenolide
pen names
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pen name
butenoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From butene + -oic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to butenoic acid or its derivatives
Derived terms: butenoate
Related terms: crotonic
butenol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butenols
Etymology: From butene + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several isomeric alcohols derived from a butene, but especially crotyl alcohol
butenylidene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butenylidenes
Senses: examples: CH₃-CH₂-CH=C<
CH₃-CH=CH-CH<
CH₂=CH-CH₂-CH<
CH₂=CH-C(CH₃)<
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of four isomeric divalent radicals derived from a butene
bemuddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bemuddles
form: bemuddling
form: bemuddled
form: bemuddled
Etymology: From be- + muddle.
Senses: examples: text: He is swallowed up, body and soul, in law; he eats, drinks, plays (at the card table) Law, nothing but Law. He acts Ignoramus in the play so thoroughly, that you w'd swear that in the inmost marrow of his head (is not this the proper anatomical term?) there have housed themselves not devils but pettifoggers, to bemuddle with their noisy chatter his own and his friends' wits.
ref: 1822, Charles and Mary Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Vol. 6):
text: Its educational value is far higher than that of the newspaper, which, in spite of its many merits as a diffuser of information, is very apt to do its best to bemuddle and sophisticate plain facts.
ref: 1890, John Fiske, Civil Government in the United States Considered with:
text: But some modern sources of information have served at first to bemuddle, and then when more carefully sifted, to clear up the story.
ref: 1897, John Fiske, The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2):
glosses: to confuse, distort
Derived terms: bemuddlement
beringed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beringed
form: most beringed
Etymology: From be- + ring + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: He bowed low with the foreign courtesy which used to be so offensive to his contemporaries, and offered a delicate, beringed hand to lead the young lady to the little table, where grilled fowl and rolls, both showing the cookery of Hans, were prepared for her.
ref: 1889, Charlotte M. Yonge, A Reputed Changeling:
text: Calvert had opportunity to note these subtle changes which time had wrought in the original of the miniature while Mr. Jefferson bent low over the withered, beringed hand of the old Duchess, and he waited his turn to be presented to the ladies.
ref: 1903, Carter Goodloe, Calvert of Strathore:
text: Von Rosen laughed at the girl holding up her hand and staring at the beringed finger.
ref: 1912, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, The Butterfly House:
glosses: Wearing a ring or rings.
beringed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From be- + ring + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bering
berobed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- (“intensifier (adorned with)”) + robed.
Senses: examples: text: Notorious for their strip club Norteno and their garage classic "Wooly Bully," Sam and his berobed cohorts flourished in that brief window of opportunity when the most primitively conceived, recorded, and executed music ever was denting the airwaves, music that makes anything popular today sound slick, no matter how hard it tries not to.
ref: 1994 August 12, Tracy Santa, “Scam the Sham”, in Chicago Reader:
text: "See, people were at first scared of Jim--bearded, berobed, Moses-like patriarchal figure that he was.
ref: 1989 November 3, Grant Pick, “The Rag Man of Lincoln Park”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Wearing a robe.
betime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈtaɪm/
rhymes: -aɪm
Forms: form: betimes
form: betiming
form: betimed
form: betimed
Etymology: From Middle English bitimen (“to happen”); equivalent to be- + time (verb). Compare betide.
Senses: examples: text: Away, away, no time ſhalbe omitted, / That will be time and may by vs be fitted.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC; republished as Shakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles; no. 5), London: W[illiam] Griggs, […], [1880], →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
glosses: To occur; betide.
Synonyms: come to pass
transpire
betime
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈtaɪm/
rhymes: -aɪm
Etymology: From Middle English by-tyme (“by time”); equivalent to by + time.
Senses: examples: text: Send succours (lords), and stop the rage betime, Before the wound do grow uncurable; For being green, there is great hope of help."
ref: 1868, Mary Frances Cusack, An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800:
text: Her feature all as fresh aboue, As is the grasse that grows by Doue, as lyth as lasse of Kent: Her skin as soft as Lemster wooll, As white as snow on peakish hull, or Swanne that swims in Trent. 30 This mayden in a morne betime, Went forth when May was in her prime, to get sweet Cetywall, The hony-suckle, the Harlocke, The Lilly and the Lady-smocke, to decke her summer hall.
ref: 1907, Michael Drayton, Minor Poems of Michael Drayton:
glosses: Betimes.
Derived terms: betimely
betimes
bigge
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Sebastian Cabot himselfe named those lands Baccalaos, because that in the Seas thereabout hee found so great multitudes of certaine bigge fishes much like vnto Tunies, (which the inhabitants called Baccalaos) that they sometimes stayed his shippes.
ref: 1598, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I.:
text: The King of the Paschattowayes had drawen together 1500 bowe-men, which wee ourselves saw, the woods were fired in manner of beacons the night after; and for that our vessel was the greatest that euer those Indians saw, the scowtes reported wee came in a Canoe, as bigge as an Island, and had as many men as there bee trees in the woods.
ref: 1733, Various, Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II:
text: Wherefore takinge vp a bigge stone, he began againe with greater blowes to beate at the doore.
ref: 1890, William Painter, The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of big.
Eucharists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eucharist
indiscriminatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more indiscriminatingly
form: most indiscriminatingly
Etymology: From indiscriminating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an indiscriminating manner.
blackcock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblæk.kɔk/
Forms: form: blackcocks
form: black cock
Etymology: From black + cock.
Senses: synonyms: heath cock
coordinate_terms: grey hen
heath hen
glosses: The male black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix).
blackcocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blackcock
blottesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsk
Etymology: From blot + -esque.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: Characterized by blots or heavy touches; coarsely depicted; lacking delineation.
blottesque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛsk
Forms: form: blottesques
Etymology: From blot + -esque.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: An artwork characterized by blots or heavy touches.
blunderhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blunderheads
Etymology: From blunder + -head.
Senses: examples: text: "What do you suppose I cared whether I waked you or not, you blunderhead.
ref: 1871, Oliver Optic, Desk and Debit:
text: At the rate of this thick-skulled blunderhead, every plow-jobber shall take upon him to read upon divinity."
ref: 1851, Goold Brown, The Grammar of English Grammars:
glosses: Someone who habitually makes mistakes or blunders.
Synonyms: fool
blunderheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blunderhead