cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bumetanide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: After reports surfaced late last fall that StarCaps contained bumetanide, a potent diuretic that was not included on its ingredients list, the Vitamin Shoppe and GNC pulled StarCaps from their shelves, according to e-mail messages from the companies in reply to a reporter’s questions.
ref: 2009 February 10, Natasha Singer, “F.D.A. Finds ‘Natural’ Diet Pills Laced With Drugs”, in New York Times:
topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A sulfamyl drug used to treat heart failure.
ninety-eighths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ninety-eighth
goathood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From goat + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: Mortimer Matz, a legendary public relations man who has represented more than his fair share of fallen heroes, said most of them enlist him only “after they make the misstep to goathood and then they want to be redeemed.
ref: 2009 February 10, Sam Roberts, “Advice to a Brave Pilot: Use That City Key Wisely”, in New York Times:
glosses: The state or time of being a goat.
retrostyled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more retrostyled
form: most retrostyled
Etymology: From retro- + styled.
Senses: examples: text: At Chrysler in the 1990s, Mr. Lutz championed products like the Dodge Viper muscle car, the brawny Ram pickup, and the PT Cruiser retrostyled wagon.
ref: 2009 February 10, Bill Vlasic, “Retiring From G.M., Lutz Holds Little Back”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having an old-fashioned style.
drospirenone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹoʊˈspɪɹ.əˌnoʊn/
ipa: /dɹoʊˈspaɪ.ɹəˌnoʊn/
Etymology: From (dihy)dro- + spir(or)enone.
Senses: examples: text: But Yaz contains drospirenone, a progestin that can cause excess potassium production in some patients, its side effects include an increased risk of serious heart and other health problems.
ref: 2009 February 11, Natasha Singer, “A Birth Control Pill That Promised Too Much”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A synthetic progestogen C₂₄H₃₀O₃ that is an analog of spironolactone and is used in birth control pills in combination with ethinylestradiol (trademarks Yasmin and Yaz).
encebollado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encebollados
Senses: examples: text: And for Sundays, after a night spent entertaining friends at home, she prepares a briny, squid-infused version of encebollado, a soup popular in Ecuador’s coastal regions.
ref: 2009 February 11, Leslie Kaufman, “For Dinner (and Fast), the Taste of Home”, in New York Times:
glosses: An Ecuadorian dish of yellowfin tuna, cassava, tomatoes, and onions.
encebollados
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encebollado
post-office box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: post-office boxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of post office box and PO box.
guatita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: She craves guatita, a dish of cow tripe in a sauce thickened by peanut butter that she serves over plantains.
ref: 2009 February 11, Leslie Kaufman, “For Dinner (and Fast), the Taste of Home”, in New York Times:
glosses: An Ecuadorian tripe stew.
hedgehoglike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hedgehoglike
form: most hedgehoglike
Etymology: From hedgehog + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Barnett is more foxy than hedgehoglike in other ways too.
ref: 2009 February 11, Dwight Garner, “U.S. as Parent to Countries in Their Teens”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a hedgehog.
hedgehopped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hedgehop
hedgehopping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hedgehop
hedgehopping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The action or pastime of hedgehopping.
unfoxed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + foxed.
Senses: glosses: Not foxed.
unfoundedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unfounded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being unfounded.
pinole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːˈnəʊleɪ/
ipa: /piˈnoʊleɪ/
Forms: form: pinoles
Etymology: From Mexican Spanish pinole, from Classical Nahuatl pinolli (“flour, ground maize or chia”).
Senses: examples: text: But all of them also called for obscure ingredients  whole cacao beans and a toasted corn flour called pinole, for example.
ref: 2009 February 11, Melissa Clark, “Third Time’s the Charm, Valentine”, in New York Times:
glosses: A coarse flour made from ground toasted maize kernels, often mixed with herbs, which may be eaten by itself or incorporated into drinks.
noncharitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + charitable.
Senses: examples: text: “Most transgressions deal with excessive compensation or grants used for a noncharitable purpose.”
ref: 2009 February 12, Lynnley Browning, “For Investing With Madoff, Private Foundations Could Face Tax Fines”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not charitable.
quasiarchaeological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quasiarchaeological
form: most quasiarchaeological
Etymology: From quasi- + archaeological.
Senses: examples: text: A quasiarchaeological site of the future was created in the form of a complete contemporary children's room with a multitude of objects showing dinosaur images[…]
ref: 2005, Cornelius Holtorf, From Stonehenge to Las Vegas: archaeology as popular culture, page 67:
text: There were dozens of quasiarchaeological discoveries during the seven-month renovation of the 80-year-old Beacon Theater in Manhattan.
ref: 2009 February 12, Glenn Collins, “Restored to the Glamour of Its Vaudeville Days”, in New York Times:
glosses: Apparently, but not actually, archaeological.
relighter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relighters
Etymology: From relight + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, relights.
relighters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relighter
rebulb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rebulbs
form: rebulbing
form: rebulbed
form: rebulbed
Etymology: From re- + bulb.
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, multiple levels of ceiling cove lighting were rewired, then the fixtures rebulbed, as restorers say, returning the illumination to a glory not seen for 50 years, Mr. Tarozzi said.
ref: 2009 February 12, Glenn Collins, “Restored to the Glamour of Its Vaudeville Days”, in New York Times:
glosses: To change the bulb in (a light fitting).
rebulbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rebulb
rebulbs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rebulb
rebulbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rebulb
singsongy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more singsongy
form: most singsongy
Senses: examples: text: It has never been revived on Broadway and is probably most often seen in high schools and colleges, where its singsongy charms and simple sentiments can still work their magic on hearts and minds unsullied by cynicism.
ref: 2009 February 12, Charles Isherwood, “A Prince Without Direction, Facing Inner Demons Through Song and Sign”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of sing-songy.
youthward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From youth + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: When a 47-year-old becomes president by trouncing a 72-year-old opponent, there’s every reason to think that the tide is turning youthward.
ref: 2009 February 12, Gail Collins, “The Stump Theory”, in New York Times:
glosses: Towards youth.
Synonyms: youthwards
auteurship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auteur + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Ferrell and Mr. McKay are not involved in the writing of this latest venture — they are executive producers — but the mark of their auteurship is all over it, chiefly in the sweet, quaint life-lesson of an idea that if you go around acting like an entitled idiot, your entitled idiocy is going to rain a plague of misfortune on you, one felt chiefly in downgrades to real estate and audiovisual systems.
ref: 2009 February 13, Ginia Bellafante, “A Pitcher’s Life After the Third Strike”, in New York Times:
glosses: The role or status of auteur.
cobweblike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cobweblike
form: most cobweblike
Etymology: From cobweb + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Now picture them hanging from a ceiling in a bizarre cobweblike environment.
ref: 2009 February 13, Carol Vogel, “Fluxus Art Bolsters MoMA’s Collection”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a cobweb.
nonproduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + production.
Senses: examples: text: Toyota said it expected to schedule another series of nonproduction days at some of its American plants in April.
ref: 2009 February 13, Micheline Maynard, “Toyota’s Cost-Cutting Plan to Include Buyouts for Factory Workers”, in New York Times:
glosses: Absence of production.
nonstrike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-strike
Etymology: From non- + strike.
Senses: examples: text: If Rodriguez slumps and the Yankees stumble, pressure will mount on a manager who failed to guide the team to the playoffs in 2008, the first time the Yankees missed the postseason in a nonstrike year since 1993.
ref: 2009 February 13, Tyler Kepner, “Before Arriving, Rodriguez Rules the Conversation”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to a strike (industrial action).
postal box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postal boxes
Senses: glosses: A post office box.
pillarlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pillarlike
form: most pillarlike
Etymology: From pillar + -like.
Senses: examples: text: At another, now upside down but still pillarlike, he makes a further such display, tapping his foot as if he had time to kill, and all this were mere ennui.
ref: 2009 September 12, Alastair Macaulay, “One Man’s Wordless Battle With Claustrophobia”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a pillar.
palletlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more palletlike
form: most palletlike
Etymology: From pallet + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a pallet.
palettelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more palettelike
form: most palettelike
Etymology: From palette + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a palette.
mortarlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mortarlike
form: most mortarlike
Etymology: From mortar + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of mortar.
groutlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more groutlike
form: most groutlike
Etymology: From grout + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of grout.
bondlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bondlike
form: most bondlike
form: bond-like
Etymology: From bond + -like.
Senses: topics: chemistry
economics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a bond.
bondless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bond + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a bond.
Derived terms: bondlessness
fetishizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fetishizers
Etymology: From fetishize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A Jazz at Lincoln Center concert in their honor is almost something to dread: not necessarily because the records are technically beyond reach, but because such an event can quickly become a knowing lob to the fetishizers.
ref: 2009 February 14, Ben Ratliff, “Daring to Take a Chisel to Two Monuments of Jazz”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who fetishizes.
fetishizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fetishizer
unfaceted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + faceted.
Senses: examples: text: The setting was elaborate, because that was the woman’s style, but the bracelet’s central feature was the row of modest, unfaceted, cabochon-cut moonstones.
ref: 2009 February 14, Clancy Martin, “Valentine’s Day From My Side of the Counter”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not faceted.
unshelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + shelled.
Senses: examples: text: At every table on the baseball field Friday night there were glass vases filled with unshelled peanuts, Cracker Jack and toy baseballs, with miniature bats rising like stems and capped by University of Miami batting helmets.
ref: 2009 February 14, Karen Crouse, “Amid Scandal, ‘Alex Rodriguez Park’ Is Unveiled”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not having had the shell removed.
examples: text: After intelligence indicated that the Germans were using the unshelled route almost exclusively, Uniacke would quickly shift all his guns there, with disastrous effects for the Germans.
ref: 2013, Spencer C. Tucker, The European Powers in the First World War: An Encyclopedia:
glosses: Not bombarded with military shells.
unshelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unshell
corporatewide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From corporate + -wide.
Senses: examples: text: Despite a thriving global computer security industry that is projected to reach $79 billion in revenues next year, and the fact that in 2002 Microsoft itself began an intense corporatewide effort to improve the security of its software, Internet security has continued to deteriorate globally.
ref: 2009 February 15, John Markoff, “Do We Need a New Internet?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Throughout a corporation.
corporationwide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From corporation + -wide.
Senses: examples: text: The first is a gateway to and from IBM network products, including the forthcoming token-ring broadband network, expected to command corporationwide and citywide networks.
ref: 1985, InfoWorld, volume 7, numbers 13-25, page 31:
glosses: Throughout a corporation.
cyberdefenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberdefense
Major Mitchell's cockatoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Major Mitchell's cockatoo
multibillions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multi- + billions.
Senses: examples: text: There may be some taxpayer comfort in the fact that this scandal was rooted in Nigeria, not Iraq, where the Halliburton megacorporation (you know, the one Dick Cheney ran before he became vice president) reaped multibillions as the Bush administration’s most favored no-bid contractor.
ref: 2009 February 15, “More Annals of Global Greed Inc.”, in New York Times:
glosses: More than one billion of something, especially money.
Related terms: multibillion
nonbombastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + bombastic.
Senses: examples: text: The Obama administration seems to have adopted a nonbombastic approach to dealing with Venezuela, even as it was faced with questions over a referendum campaign here which had been marked by attacks by pro-Chávez partisans on institutions viewed as critical of Mr. Chávez, like the Israeli Embassy and the Vatican ’s diplomatic mission, and threats against prominent opponents of the president.
ref: 2009 February 15, Simon Romero, “Chávez Says He’d Talk With Obama ‘Any Day’”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not bombastic.
unbombastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbombastic
form: most unbombastic
Etymology: From un- + bombastic.
Senses: glosses: Not bombastic.
unbombable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + bombable.
Senses: examples: text: How would the field clinic survive if the hospital were not nearby? It was unbombable, but we were not.
ref: 2023, V.V. Ganeshananthan, Brotherless Night, Viking, pages 223-224:
glosses: That cannot be bombed.
orgasmatron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːˈɡæz.məˌtɹɒn/
ipa: /oɹˈɡæz.məˌtɹɑn/
Forms: form: orgasmatrons
Etymology: From orgasm + -tron, introduced in the film Sleeper (1973).
Senses: examples: text: We do not know of any real-life orgasmatrons, even vibrators.
ref: 2002, Steve Bodansky, Vera Bodansky, The Illustrated Guide to Extended Massive Orgasm, page 225:
text: Among the eras have been Louis Quatorze (1967), Space Odyssey Moderne (2001) and perpetual futuristic spins on picture-palace Deco, including last year’s show, hosted by Jon Stewart, in which towering Oscars were encased in see-through capsules, resembling the orgasmatron in Woody Allen’s 1973 film “Sleeper.”
ref: 2009 February 15, Patricia Leigh Brown, “The Little Gold Man in a New Blue World”, in New York Times:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A hypothetical device capable of inducing orgasm.
orgasmatrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orgasmatron
repromote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repromotes
form: repromoting
form: repromoted
form: repromoted
Etymology: From re- + promote.
Senses: examples: text: In the mid-’90s, Time Out magazine held that ‘‘remix albums are generally a pretty tawdry way to repromote old material,” but a decade later, a Bloomberg reviewer of the Beatles’ “Love” had a happier view of the magpie medium: “The Beatles’ ‘new’ CD remixes the group’s masterpieces, with surprisingly enchanting results.”
ref: 2009 February 15, William Safire, “Rifacimento”, in New York Times:
glosses: To promote again or anew.
Related terms: repromotion
repromoting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repromote
repromotes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repromote
repromoted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repromote
zoomastigotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoomastigote
zoomability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zoom + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: A well-designed directory should allow for variable zoomability. The user (questioner) should be able to make z = X — 1 and see in "one glance" (nearly simultaneously) both the entire tree and the bottom nodes […]
ref: 1972, University of Michigan, Mental Health Research Institute Staff Publications (part 1, page 81)
text: Google Earth from street view to satellite overview is the practical paradigmatic example of zoomability.
ref: 2015, Andreas Treske, Video Theory, page 68:
glosses: The quality of being zoomable.
misyield
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈjiːld/
ipa: /ˈmɪsjiːld/
Forms: form: misyields
form: misyielding
form: misyielded
form: misyold
form: misyielded
form: misyold
form: misyolden
form: mis-yield
Etymology: From mis- + yield.
Senses: examples: text: He sternly criticised 'pygmean statesmen' who climbed the dizziest heights of power, inevitably resulting in 'misery for the mass', and he deplored the 'misyielding past' looking to the day when injustices would be turned around.
ref: 1990, Michael Pollak, Sense & censorship:
text: To appreciate how YTM can be “mis-yielding,” (misleading), take a look at Exhibit 8-5, which examines a bond purchased at par with 6 percent YTM under varying reinvestment or interest rate assumptions.
ref: 2006, Ben Finkelstein, The Politics of Public Fund Investing:
text: A lack of ability of can also advance some eyewitnesss to misyield the side effects of panic disorders to be a case of social anxiety or accomplishance anxiety.
ref: 2010, depression
glosses: To yield incorrectly, wrongly, badly, or amiss.
misyield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈjiːld/
ipa: /ˈmɪsjiːld/
Forms: form: mis-yield
Etymology: From mis- + yield.
Senses: examples: text: On poorer medium soils mixed grain still gives a satisfactory yield where each single component, grown by itself, would often result in a misyield.
ref: 1943, Königliche Preussische Landes-Oekonomie-Kollegium, Prussia (Germany). Ministerium für Landwirtschaft, Domänen und Forsten, Germany. Reichsministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft, Landwirtschaftliche Jahrbücher
text: In the aforegoing examples the term "misyield" is employed to indicate that portion of the material treated which is not true sink or float material and is considered as a loss unless recycled.
ref: 1959, H. Schranz, PROCESS OF REDUCING THE CONSISTENCY OF:
glosses: A bad, wrong, or incorrect yield or product.
Bondlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bondlike
form: most Bondlike
Etymology: From Bond + -like.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bond-like.
semihollow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + hollow.
Senses: examples: text: (The two guitars had different sonic personalities: one had a semihollow body, the other a fully hollow body.)
ref: 2009 February 16, Ben Ratliff, “The Mysteries of Sound and Felicities of Feedback”, in New York Times:
glosses: Partly hollow.
noneuro
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + euro.
Senses: examples: text: “This has made it unattractive for euro-area financial institutions to hold noneuro government bonds, thus contributing to their sell-off,” said Zsolt Darvas, a visiting fellow at Breugel, an independent economics research group in Brussels.
ref: 2009 February 18, Judy Dempsey, “Currency Issues Weigh on Eastern Europe”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to the euro currency.
overindebted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overindebted
form: most overindebted
Etymology: From over- + indebted.
Senses: examples: text: The idea that overindebted, chronically undersaving American consumers would somehow be serving their country in its time of need by maxing out yet more of their credit cards is surely an idea whose time has passed.
ref: 2009 February 18, “The Way We Save: There’s No Paradox in Thrift”, in New York Times:
glosses: Too deeply in debt.
Derived terms: overindebtedness
thriftlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more thriftlessly
form: most thriftlessly
Etymology: From thriftless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: At the heart of the alleged “paradox of thrift” is the belief that private citizens behaving unwisely (thriftlessly) can at times produce good societal results.
ref: 2009 February 18, “The Way We Save: There’s No Paradox in Thrift”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a thriftless manner.
backswept
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more backswept
form: most backswept
Etymology: From back + swept.
Senses: examples: text: “I love to be backstage and in the background,” she said as she slicked a dab of pomade into the model’s backswept hair.
ref: 2009 February 19, Ruth La Ferla, “Sculpturing Strands”, in New York Times:
glosses: Swept back.
misfall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈfɔːl/
ipa: /ˈmɪsfɔːl/
Forms: form: misfalls
form: misfalling
form: misfell
form: misfallen
Etymology: From Middle English misfallen, equivalent to mis- + fall. Cognate with Dutch misvallen (“to misfall, miss in falling, displease, miscarry”), German missfallen (“to displease”), Icelandic misfalla (“to misuse”).
Senses: examples: text: Sometime ſhe feared, leaſt ſome hard miſhap / Had him misfalne in his aduenturous queſt; [...]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 4, page 257:
text: [...] let us abide together that, one with the counsel and that other with the deed, then may there nothing misfall to usward.
ref: 1889, Henry Morley, Early prose romances:
text: However, the principal and his students worked hard, and they soon had the buildings in shape for use and the farm doing as well as possible. Then a terrible misfortune misfell one of the neighbors who was most bitter in his tirades.
ref: 2009, Eric B. Hare, Skyscrapers:
glosses: To befall badly or incorrectly; happen unfortunately (to); mishappen; turn out badly.
misfall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈfɔːl/
ipa: /ˈmɪsfɔːl/
Forms: form: misfalls
Etymology: From Middle English misfallen, equivalent to mis- + fall. Cognate with Dutch misvallen (“to misfall, miss in falling, displease, miscarry”), German missfallen (“to displease”), Icelandic misfalla (“to misuse”).
Senses: examples: text: But alas! an unlooked- for misfall has occurred."
ref: 1875, Julian Hawthorne, Saxon studies:
glosses: A mishap; accident; bad luck; misfortune.
nonadvertising
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + advertising.
Senses: examples: text: Its nonadvertising revenue includes fees to carry the pay channel Showtime, the sale of television shows on DVDs and book publishing.
ref: 2009 February 19, Tim Arango, “Profit Falls 52% at CBS as Advertising Revenue Declines”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to advertising.
tillandsia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tillandsias
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Tillandsia.
Senses: examples: text: In the lobby of the Bardessono hotel, which recently opened in Napa Valley, four alcove panels are filled with epiphytic air plants (tillandsias) simply clipped onto metal rods.
ref: 2009 February 19, Stephen Orr, “A Breath of Fresh Greenery”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any of the genus Tillandsia of American epiphytes.
tillandsias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tillandsia
embalmment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embalmments
Etymology: From embalm + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: In doing so, they suggest a way forward for a city in which preservation is all too often a form of embalmment.
ref: 2009 February 20, Nicolai Ouroussoff, “Boxy to Bold: A Concert Hall Busts Out”, in New York Times:
glosses: The process of embalming.
embalmments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embalmment
logomaniacal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more logomaniacal
form: most logomaniacal
Senses: examples: text: Busyness was, of course, Picasso’s default mode, conveyed here in a kind of logomaniacal flow of images intertwined with language.
ref: 2009 February 20, Holland Cotter, “Why University Museums Matter”, in New York Times:
text: Just conceivably even logomaniacal Poe did not always know what his words or phrases meant. But the stronger indication is that he knowingly overstretched that “immemorial year” for the sufficient reason that it sounded just right.
ref: 2010, Rudolph Binion, Traumatic Reliving in History, Literature and Film, page 86:
glosses: Obsessed with words.
palmwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From palm + wood.
Senses: examples: text: As in his living room, a 1910s wooden pillar by Constantin Brancusi ($19 million to $25 million) will be placed not far from a 1910s armchair by Eileen Gray carved with dragons ($2.5 million to $3.8 million), two 1920s red-lacquered palmwood benches by Gustave Miklos ($2.5 million to $3.8 million), an ivory-inlaid 1910s cylindrical table by Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann ($88,000 to $114,000) and a surprisingly staid pair of 18th-century walnut sofas ($38,000 to $63,000).
ref: 2009 February 20, Eve M. Kahn, “Flickery Images of Black Life Back Then”, in New York Times:
glosses: The wood of the coconut palm.
antibonus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antibonus
form: most antibonus
Etymology: From anti- + bonus.
Senses: examples: text: The antibonus amendment applies to any company that has received bailout money (it gets tougher the more money a company has received) — and the only sure way a company can get out from under these new strictures is to give back the taxpayers’ money.
ref: 2009 February 21, Joe Nocera, “First, Let’s Fix the Bonuses”, in New York Times:
glosses: Opposing the payment of a bonus.
antibranding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antibranding
form: most antibranding
Etymology: From anti- + branding.
Senses: glosses: Opposing commercial branding.
antibrachia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antibrachium
antisnobbery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + snobbery.
Senses: glosses: Opposition to snobbery.
bandurria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bandurrias
Etymology: From Spanish bandurria.
Senses: examples: text: (It should be noted that the flamenco-tinged flourishes by Javier Mas, on bandurria and laúd, were more palatable than the ardently cloying solos by Dino Soldo, on saxophones.)
ref: 2009 February 21, Nate Chinen, “Pop Music’s Perpetual Old Man, Now 74, Is Back on the Road”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A plectrum-plucked stringed instrument with a flat-backed pear-shaped body, with twelve strings in six courses in its most common modern form, originating in Spain.
glosses: A bird, the black-faced ibis.
bandurrias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bandurria
maharana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maharanas
Senses: examples: text: She was born into a family of Indian royalty, maharanas who call themselves “custodians” over the region surrounding the city of Udaipur in India and who trace their lineage back 1,500 years through 77 generations.
ref: 2009 February 21, Perry Garfinkel, “Hospitality Begins at Home in the Family Palace”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of maharaja.
maharajadhirajas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maharajadhiraja
maharanas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maharana
blacklistings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blacklisting
bonefishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Nevertheless, I thoroughly enjoyed your article on bonefishing in the Bahamas — perhaps because the fish are tossed back.
ref: 2009 February 22, “Letter: Gone Fishing”, in New York Times:
glosses: Angling for bonefish.
fashionese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fashion + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: […]French for Africa, the second largest continent; fashionese for the single biggest trend on the Continent, as Europe’s influential labels make reference to African motifs refracted through the prism of ’70s YSL-inspired glamour, as in, “I’m j’adoring my Miu Miu Mau Mau muumuu — it’s very chic d’Afrique.”
ref: 2009 February 22, Horacio Silva, “Words on the Street”, in New York Times:
glosses: The language of fashion.
multilabel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + label.
Senses: examples: text: “I was determined to send out a clear message of change,” Armani explains of the store’s multilabel concept, “interpreting the current trend for mixing genres and juxtaposing items in different price brackets.”
ref: 2009 February 22, Alix Browne, “The Big Picture”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one label.
neighborhoody
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neighborhoody
form: most neighborhoody
Etymology: From neighborhood + -y.
Senses: examples: text: “It was so neighborhoody and lovely, but it was impractical” and felt strangely isolated.
ref: 2009 February 22, Joyce Cohen, “Finding Value, Despite a Droopy Market”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having the friendly sense of community expected of a neighborhood.
overinvolved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overinvolved
form: most overinvolved
Etymology: From over- + involved.
Senses: examples: text: A young couple’s marriage is threatened when the husband, a social worker, becomes overinvolved with a disturbed client in this well-written novel, Gaige’s second.
ref: 2009 February 22, Elsa Dixler, “Paperback Row”, in New York Times:
glosses: Excessively involved.
overinvestor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overinvestors
Etymology: From over- + investor.
Senses: glosses: One who invests too much.
overinvestors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overinvestor
overinvestments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overinvestment
overlogging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + logging.
Senses: examples: text: In 1908, a species of Chilean sandalwood vanished from overlogging, and its creamy wood scent vanished with it.
ref: 2009 February 22, Chandler Burr, “Whole Lot of Non-Scents”, in New York Times:
glosses: Excessive logging.
panthenol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panthenols
Senses: examples: text: Sally Field Award: Wet n Wild Beauty Benefits Beyond Nourishing with marine and soy proteins, panthenol and a daytime, no-drama appeal.
ref: 2009 February 22, S.S. Fair, “Curl, Interrupted”, in New York Times:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The alcohol analogue of pantothenic acid, which is quickly oxidized to pantothenate in organisms.
Derived terms: dexpanthenol
ultraglossy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultraglossy
form: most ultraglossy
Etymology: From ultra- + glossy.
Senses: examples: text: A few minutes later, as Grand, nursing an incipient cold, walked me through the contents of the debut issue of Love, it was clear she was taking a less whimsical, more rough-hewn approach to contemporary glamour than she had at the playfully self-deprecating but ultraglossy Pop.
ref: 2009 February 22, Horacio Silva, “Love Child”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extremely glossy.
nondoctrinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + doctrinal.
Senses: glosses: Not doctrinal.
uncinematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncinematic
form: most uncinematic
Etymology: From un- + cinematic.
Senses: examples: text: If people found talking-head films uncinematic, what would they make of a talking-egghead film?
ref: 2009 February 22, Dennis Lim, “Thinkers in Transit, Philosophy in Motion”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not cinematic.
Derived terms: uncinematically
midsequence
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + sequence.
Senses: glosses: During a sequence.
midsequence
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mid- + sequence.
Senses: examples: text: So when Darren Chiacchia, an elite rider who competed for the United States in the 2004 Athens Olympics, missed the first few maneuvers of his dressage test during a low-level competition here, the judge asked him to stop midsequence.
ref: 2009 February 23, Katie Thomas, “Equestrian Rider’s Recovery Serves as Reminder of Sport’s Danger”, in New York Times:
glosses: During a sequence.
midsequence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + sequence.
Senses: examples: text: Often dyslexic pupils will have difficulty in picking up a number in midsequence.
ref: 2008, Gavin Reid, Angela Fawcett, Dyslexia in Context: Research, Policy and Practice, page 291:
glosses: A point within a sequence.
overcoach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overcoaches
form: overcoaching
form: overcoached
form: overcoached
Etymology: From over- + coach.
Senses: examples: text: Terry is like many parents — so eager to give their children the benefit of their experience that they often overcoach.
ref: 2009 February 23, William C. Rhoden, “Terry Robiskie Takes His Son to Work at N.F.L. Combine”, in New York Times:
glosses: To coach too much.
overcoaches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overcoach
overcoaching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overcoach
overcoached
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overcoach
postlockout
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + lockout.
Senses: examples: text: He let Jaromir Jagr, the cornerstone of the Rangers’ postlockout success, leave last summer to sign with a Russian team, and he did not re-sign forwards Sean Avery or Brendan Shanahan.
ref: 2009 February 24, Lynn Zinser, “Rangers Fire Renney and Hire His Opposite (Tortorella)”, in New York Times:
glosses: After a lockout.
prehospital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + hospital.
Senses: examples: text: Now a new study confirms that confusion about interpreting living wills prevails in prehospital settings, as well.
ref: 2009 February 24, Jane E. Brody, “Putting Muscle Behind End-of-Life Wishes”, in New York Times:
glosses: Before a patient is brought to a hospital.
banterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: băn′tûr-ər
ipa: /ˈban.tɜː.ə/
note: conservative Received Pronunciation; General Australian
ipa: /ˈbæn.tɜː.ə/
ipa: /ˈbæn.tɜɹ.əɹ/
ipa: /ˈbɛn.tøː.ə/
ipa: /ˈbɛn.tøː.ɐ/
ipa: /ˈbɛn.tøː.a/
ipa: /ˈban.tɛɹ.əɹ/
ipa: /ˈban.ʈəːʳ.əɹ/
rhymes: -æntɜːə
Forms: form: banterers
Etymology: From banter + -er (agent noun).
Senses: examples: text: “Are you bantering, or are you in earnest?” cries the father, with a most solemn voice. “Indeed, sir,” answered Jones, “I scorn the character of a banterer. I came to you in most serious earnest,[…].”
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones:
text: The Banterer had left Bantry the day before, and the delay was caused by the fog, which necessitated putting into Ventry harbour for the night, instead of going straight on to Dingle.
ref: 1892, Archaeologia Cambrensis, page 153:
text: “He’s a professional extrovert, a banterer, a sports fanatic,” said the Rev. Edwin H. Obermiller, director of vocations for the Congregation of Holy Cross at the University of Notre Dame.
ref: 2009 February 25, Paul Vitello, “A Guy’s Guy: Dolan’s Personality May Help Archdiocese Recruit More Priests”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who banters, one who engages in bantering.
miscome
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈkʌm/
Forms: form: miscomes
form: miscoming
form: miscame
form: miscome
Etymology: From mis- + come.
Senses: examples: text: "Stop your grog, indeed!", said Remarkable, rising with great indignation, and seizing a candle; "you're groggy now, and I'll quit the room before I hear any miscoming words from you."
ref: 1835, James Fenimore Cooper, The pioneers, or the Sources of the Susquehanna:
text: I asked her about my road, And whether I there had far miscome, Miscome unto that abode; And kindly she set me in my way, Ask me not where.
ref: 1962, William Barnes, Poems:
glosses: To come wrongly or amiss; come at the wrong time; be inappropriate.
miscome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈkʌm/
Forms: form: more miscome
form: most miscome
Etymology: From mis- + come.
Senses: glosses: Illegitimate.
raw_tags: of a child
miscome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈkʌm/
Forms: form: miscomes
Etymology: From mis- + come.
Senses: examples: text: Don't worry; Mary's 'miscome' is not going to live."
ref: 1936, Oxford Journals (Firm), IngentaConnect (Online service), Notes and queries
glosses: An illegitimate child.
banterers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banterer
flamethrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From flame + throwing.
Senses: examples: a flamethrowing tank
glosses: Throwing out flames.
Related terms: flamethrower
inconsiderably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inconsiderably
form: most inconsiderably
Etymology: From inconsiderable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Income from audio books helps not inconsiderably to keep authors, and publishers, afloat.
ref: 2009 February 25, Roy Blount Jr., “The Kindle Swindle?”, in New York Times:
glosses: To an inconsiderable degree.
supertired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supertired
form: most supertired
Etymology: From super- + tired.
Senses: examples: text: “Sometimes when I’m supertired, I sit,” Nick said.
ref: 2009 February 25, Susan Saulny, “They Stand When Called Upon, and When Not”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very tired; exhausted.
excoriatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more excoriatingly
form: most excoriatingly
Etymology: From excoriating + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Released in Britain last fall, “The Believers” prompted a reviewer to write in The Guardian that Audrey is “a hilarious, foul-mouthed harridan: part monster, part inspiring law unto herself, her approach so excoriatingly direct that the reader waits in wincing glee for her next spitting and swearing tirade.”
ref: 2009 February 26, Patricia Cohen, “Not Much Sympathy for Zoë Heller’s Characters, but a Little Understanding”, in New York Times:
glosses: So as to excoriate.
minibox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miniboxes
Etymology: From mini- + box.
Senses: examples: text: Today, at iGoogle (google.com/ig), you can dress up all that white space with useful miniboxes containing additional info.
ref: 2009 February 26, David Pogue, “Geniuses at Play, on the Job”, in New York Times:
glosses: A small box.
miniboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minibox
mufflerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From muffler + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Ha thought that the crisp industrial angles of a new Derby jacket were gauche, so before presenting one as a gift, he put it through a rigorous set of tortures, which, I believe, began with dragging it behind his mufflerless (“loud ’n’ proud”) late-model Cadillac.
ref: 2009 February 26, Cintra Wilson, “When Your Clothes Have a Backstory”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without a muffler.
nonylphenol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonylphenols
Etymology: From nonyl + phenol.
Senses: examples: text: Make sure you don’t use detergents with phosphates or nonylphenol ethoxylate surfactants, but that information is rarely available on the labels.
ref: 2009 February 26, Julie Scelfo, “When It Comes to Detergents, What’s the Least Irresponsible Choice?”, in New York Times:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of closely related organic compounds, a subset of the alkylphenols, that are precursors to commercially important detergents.
nonylphenols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonylphenol
schtum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shtum.
tree-hugger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tree-huggers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tree hugger.
planetophysics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From planeto- + physics.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The branch of astrophysics dealing with planets and planetary systems; planetology
Tsuu T'ina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tsuut'ina
Senses: glosses: The Sarcee language.
Tsuut'ina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tsuu T'ina
Etymology: From Tsuut'ina Tsúùt’ínà.
Senses: glosses: The Sarcee language.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Tsuut'ina terms
octavations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of octavation
petræan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more petræan
form: most petræan
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of petrean.
pushing-schools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pushing-school
burrowing parrots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burrowing parrot
metronymy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: kinship and naming that follows the female line
brickfield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪkfɪəld/
Forms: form: brickfields
form: brick field
form: brick-field
Etymology: From brick + field.
Senses: examples: text: Then they passed by lonely brickfields. The fog was lighter here, and he could see the strange bottle-shaped kilns with their orange fan-like tongues of fire.
ref: 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XVI, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 276:
glosses: A place where bricks are made; a brickyard.
dustfree
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: dust-free
Etymology: From dust + -free.
Senses: glosses: Free of dust.
breadhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breadheads
form: bread-head
Etymology: From bread + head.
Senses: examples: text: It's perfect for hippies to listen to with the lights off, plus the words are about, uh, y'know, generals and politicians and breadheads and stuff.
ref: 2008, Richard Wilson, Can't Be Arsed: 101 Things Not to Do Before You Die, page 89:
glosses: One who is attracted to money; a greedy capitalist.
breadheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breadhead
Catilinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Catilinian
form: most Catilinian
Etymology: From Catiline + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Lucius Sergius Catilina (108 BCE–62 BCE; known in English as Catiline), Roman politician who attempted to overthrow the Roman Republic.
Related terms: Catilinarian
data cable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: data cables
Senses: glosses: Any cable allowing baseband transmissions in binary from a transmitter to a receiver.
masturbatoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of masturbatorium
countrymate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countrymates
Etymology: From country + -mate.
Senses: glosses: One who comes from the same country.
countrymates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countrymate
podocarps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of podocarp
podocarpus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌpoʊdəˈkɑɹpəs/
Forms: form: podocarpuses
Etymology: From the genus name. Piecewise doublet of podocarp.
Senses: examples: text: Indoor bonsai — tropical and subtropical plants like ficus, Ming aralia, podocarpus and dwarf jade — are easier to care for and will thrive inside.
ref: 2009 February 26, Stephen Orr, “Not All Trees Are Cut Out to Be Bonsai”, in New York Times:
text: “Fern Pine (Podocarpus Gracilior)”, in Budget Plants - Data Sheet & More Info, (Can we date this quote?)
glosses: Any of the genus Podocarpus of podocarp conifers.
podocarpuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of podocarpus
céntimos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of céntimo
sesquicentenaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sesquicentenary
sesquicentenarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sesquicentenarian
dibosons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diboson
Young's moduli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Young's modulus
rufflers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ruffler
by-laws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of by-law
leaf hoppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leaf hopper
loses the plot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lose the plot
losing the plot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lose the plot
lost the plot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lose the plot
shallow-copy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shallow-copies
form: shallow-copying
form: shallow-copied
form: shallow-copied
Senses: examples: text: The bug came from trying to shallow-copy a mutable structure.
glosses: To make a shallow copy of.
shoestring catches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoestring catch
shooting circles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shooting circle