cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
coralberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coralberries
Etymology: From coral + berry.
Senses: glosses: A species of bromeliad, Aechmea fulgens, of Brazil, and which is often used as an ornamental plant.
glosses: American winterberry, Ilex verticillata.
glosses: Symphoricarpos orbiculatus, of eastern North America.
glosses: Ardisia crenata of east Asia.
Synonyms: sense: American winterberry
word: black alder
sense: American winterberry
word: black alder winterberry
sense: American winterberry
word: brook alder
sense: American winterberry
word: deciduous holly
sense: American winterberry
word: deciduous winterberry
sense: American winterberry
word: false alder
sense: American winterberry
word: fever bush
sense: American winterberry
word: inkberry
sense: American winterberry
word: Michigan holly
sense: American winterberry
word: possumhaw
sense: American winterberry
word: striped alder
sense: American winterberry
word: swamp holly
sense: American winterberry
word: Virginian winterberry
sense: American winterberry
word: white alder
sense: American winterberry
word: winterberry
sense: American winterberry
word: winterberry holly
sense: Ardisia crenata
word: Christmas berry
sense: Ardisia crenata
word: Australian holly
sense: Ardisia crenata
word: coral ardisia
sense: Ardisia crenata
word: coral bush
sense: Ardisia crenata
word: coralberry tree
sense: Ardisia crenata
word: hen's-eyes
sense: Ardisia crenata
word: spiceberry
sense: buckbrush, Indian currant
word: Symphoricarpus orbiculatus
Derived terms: taxonomic: Symphoricarpos × chenaultii
word: Chenault coralberry
taxonomic: Symphoricarpos sinensis
word: Chinese coralberry
gripless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From grip + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Nothing beats outside basketball with a gripless rubber ball, a chain net, and a bent rim.
ref: 2014, Mike Westveer, Growing Up Gateway, page 105:
glosses: Lacking a grip.
Derived terms: griplessness
coralberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coralberry
bobtailed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bobtail
bobtailed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a bobtail.
buildering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of building + bouldering
Senses: glosses: The practice of climbing buildings as a recreational activity.
Synonyms: rooftopping
Derived terms: word: builderer
english: to climb buildings
translation: to climb buildings
word: builder
multisyllabic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + syllabic.
Senses: examples: text: But it’s a dialect Fetter doesn’t know. It sounds old, rolling and multisyllabic and liquid.
ref: 2023, Vajra Chandrasekera, The Saint of Bright Doors, Solaris (2024), page 305:
synonyms: polysyllabic
antonyms: monosyllabic
glosses: Having more than one syllable.
raw_tags: of a word
Derived terms: multisyllabically
unequalled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unequaled
Etymology: From un- + equalled.
Senses: examples: text: Coastal defences were breached at many places from the Humber right round to the outskirts of London, and the inundation of low-lying lands caused damage on a scale unequalled within living memory.
ref: 1953 May, “British Railways and the January Floods”, in Railway Magazine, page 301:
glosses: Without equal; unmatched.
inquisitors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inquisitor
equalizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equalizer
outgallop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outgallops
form: outgalloping
form: outgalloped
form: outgalloped
Etymology: From out- + gallop.
Senses: examples: 1869, Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude, ch. 14,
He had lately procured himself a large, fine, mettlesome, Donets horse, dun-colored, with light mane and tail, and when he rode it no one could outgallop him.
glosses: To run faster than; to outdistance.
raw_tags: of horses or riders
farkleberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farkleberries
Senses: glosses: A species of Vaccinium (Vaccinium arboreum) native to the southeastern United States, from southern Virginia west to southeastern Missouri, and south to Florida and eastern Texas, and taking the form of a shrub (rarely a small tree) growing to 3-5 m (rarely 9 m) tall.
glosses: A berry from a shrub of this species.
Synonyms: sparkleberry
émigrés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of émigré
mean-spirited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mean-spirited
form: most mean-spirited
form: mean spirited
form: meanspirited
Senses: examples: text: My old acquaintances would sneer at me as a mean-spirited cur, whose best exploit was to get in jail.
ref: 1877, Edward Payson Roe, chapter 15, in A Knight Of The Nineteenth Century:
glosses: Having a base, nasty, petty, or malevolent disposition; tawdry.
Derived terms: meanspiritedly
meanspiritedness
meanspirited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more meanspirited
form: most meanspirited
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mean-spirited.
Derived terms: meanspiritedly
meanspiritedness
mean spirited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mean spirited
form: most mean spirited
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mean-spirited.
zorros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zorro
bread-and-butter note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bread-and-butter notes
Senses: glosses: A short note thanking someone who has recently provided the writer with hospitality.
Synonyms: bread-and-butter letter
scotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scotic
form: most scotic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σκότος (skótos, “darkness”) + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The term scotic (Gr. skotos, darkness) was therefore devised as the most apt term for the condition of virtual darkness.
ref: 1965 Nov, Dale R. Calder, J. Sherman Bleakney, “Microarthropod Ecology of a Porcupine-Inhabited Cave in Nova Scotia”, in Ecology, volume 46, number 6, pages 895–899:
text: Rods are used in low light conditions (scotic vision) hence the black and white appearance of night vision.
ref: 1998, Adrian Secchia, A Perceptual Refinement Oracle for Hierarchical Radiosity (dissertation Univ. of Cape Town), April 1998
text: B. B. Thomas et al. show that the animal is nocturnal with their foraging habits during the scotic phase after the onset of darkness.
ref: 2001, BB Thomas, MM Oommen, “Constant light and blinding effects on reproduction of male South Indian gerbils”, in J Exp Zool:
glosses: After dusk.
mass murders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mass murder
farkleberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of farkleberry
Great Wall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: BOSS Great Wall
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: One of several galaxy filaments, which are the largest cosmic structures, being larger than a supercluster, forming partitions between cosmic voids, and contributing to the structure of the cosmic web.
APAP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: APAPs
Etymology: Abbreviation
* (pharmaceutical drug): Initialism of N-acetyl-para-aminophenol.
* (medical device): Acronym of Automatic Positive Airway Pressure.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: para-acetylaminophenol (acetaminophen / paracetamol / tylenol), a particular kind of painkiller and fever-reducer generally available over the counter.
qualifier: medical device
glosses: a mode of respiratory ventilation, which automatically provides pressure into the airway
qualifier: medical device
glosses: a mode of respiratory ventilation, which automatically provides pressure into the airway
Ellipsis of APAP machine.
Synonyms: word: acetaminophen
word: paracetamol
word: Tylenol
Coordinate terms: word: NSAID
english: aspirin
translation: aspirin
word: ASA
alt: advil
word: ibuprofen
Related terms: PAP
BiPAP
CPAP
aurorae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aurora
resins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resin
spermathecae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spermatheca
go Pete Tong
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes Pete Tong
form: going Pete Tong
form: went Pete Tong
form: gone Pete Tong
Etymology: Named after disc jockey Pete Tong, coined by Paul Oakenfold in late 1987.
Senses: examples: text: But when Bobby got busted, it all went Pete Tong for him.
ref: 2007, Robbie Fithon, Rainy City Players, page 95:
text: It didn't take a brain surgeon to realize that things were obviously in danger of going Pete Tong. It was time to back off.
ref: 2008, Dan Mills, Sniper One: On Scope and Under Siege with a Sniper Team in Iraq:
text: Things started going Pete Tong as the superficially attractive two- or three-year fixed mortgage deals ran out, interest rates went up and the housing bubble inevitably burst.
ref: 2010, Geraint Anderson, Cityboy Beer and Loathing in the Square Mile:
text: On leaving the train at Piccadilly, everything goes 'Pete Tong'. Services are in complete disarray, as a tree has come down onto the line at Gatley.
ref: 2024 October 30, Paul Bigland, “The heat is on... and will the railway fray?”, in RAIL, number 1021, page 46:
glosses: To go wrong.
Related terms: It's All Gone Pete Tong (2004 film)
microflorae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microflora
microfaunae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microfauna
conjunctivae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɑn.d͡ʒʌŋ(k)ˈtaɪˌvi/
ipa: /kənˌd͡ʒʌŋ(k)ˈtaɪˌvi/
Senses: glosses: plural of conjunctiva
Savagnin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A variety of white wine grape with green-skinned berries grown mostly in the Jura region of France, where it makes the famous vin jaune and vin de paille.
Synonyms: Savagnin Blanc
vins jaunes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vin jaune
bee candy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Connected with one corner of the cage is a small tube several inches in length which in caging a queen for introduction, is filled with bee candy.
ref: 1909, Ralph Benton, A Comprehensive System for the Queen Breeder, page 126:
text: This is bee-candy," he explained, "winter food for the hives. We make a lot of it and send it all over the country. But it's ticklish work.
ref: a. 1921 [3rd ed.], Tickner Edwardes, The Bee-Master of Warrilow [Kessinger reprint](2006), page 61
text: The hive was provisioned with bee candy, water, 2 frames of honey, and 1 frame of pollen mixed with dextrose.
ref: 1990, Gordon L. Shaw, James L. McGaugh, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, page 428:
glosses: A manufactured food for bees, used by bee-keepers
belowdecks
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From below + decks.
Senses: examples: text: Lastly, Lundberg went belowdecks to inspect the boat's bulkheads and hull—for what, it was not clear, since he had absolutely no knowledge of steamboat design.
ref: 2003, Edward T. O'Donnell, Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum, page 54:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Below the main deck of a ship.
off-guard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more off-guard
form: most off-guard
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of off guard.
burnouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burnouses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of burnoose.
burnou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burnous
Senses: glosses: A cape with a hood made of wool, of Algerian origin, used as a baby garment, popular with French mothers from the early 20th century through the 1960s.
Related terms: burnoose
virgules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of virgule
emceeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of emcee
emceed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of emcee
geophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geo- + -phagy.
Senses: glosses: The practice of eating earthy substances such as clay and chalk, often during famines or thought to augment a mineral-deficient diet.
Related terms: pica
lower the boom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lowers the boom
form: lowering the boom
form: lowered the boom
form: lowered the boom
Senses: examples: text: Whenever he got his Irish up, Clancy lowered the boom.
ref: 1947, Hy Heath, Johnny Lange, Clancy Lowered the Boom:
glosses: To use one's superior physical strength.
examples: text: When Jack came back late from lunch, the team leader really lowered the boom on him.
glosses: To scold severely.
raw_tags: with "on"
Synonyms: clobber
like water off a duck's back
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: "She combs me down with her tongue sometimes though, but that just slips off me like water off a duck's back."
ref: 1919, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 18, in Rainbow Valley:
text: Scandal after scandal would break, but it would be like water off a duck's back; no heads rolled, and no one seemed particularly perturbed.
ref: 2009 January 2, Jan Espeut, “The honeymoon is over”, in Jamaica Gleaner, retrieved 20 Jan 2009:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Without immediate or lasting effects.
Related terms: word: water off a duck's back
word: like a duck takes to water
word: Teflon
water off a duck's back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the idea that water rolls easily off a duck's back and does not penetrate the duck's feathers.
Senses: examples: text: She's always going on at him about something, but to him it's all water off a duck's back.
glosses: Something potentially harmful or hurtful, such as criticism or insult, that nevertheless has no effect or impact on the target.
diremption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diremptions
Etymology: From Latin dirēmptiō (“a separation”), from dirimō (“to separate”) + -iō (“abstract noun suffix”).
Senses: glosses: A ripping apart; a forceful sundering.
burnouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burnous
environmental refugee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: environmental refugees
Senses: glosses: Somebody who flees a country due to environmental issues, rather than political, religious or economic ones.
Related terms: environmental migrant
unlaces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unlace
neener
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Grizzy shouted. She ran up to some old Grouch ladies. She stuck her tongue out at them. She blew a great big razzberry at them. "Neener, neener, neener!"
ref: 1999, Suzanne Weyn, Happy Grouchy Day:
glosses: A hostile taunt, often repeated in a singsong voice.
biwa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biwas
form: biwa
Etymology: Borrowing from Japanese 琵琶 (biwa). Doublet of bipa and pipa.
Senses: glosses: A plucked lute, originating in the classical and traditional music of Japan, characterized by a pear-shaped body and four or five high frets, giving the instrument a distinctively twangy tone.
will contest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: will contests
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A legal action brought to dispute the validity of a will.
downforce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downforces
Etymology: From down + force.
Senses: glosses: Any force (produced by aerodynamics or gravity etc) that acts downwards
will contests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of will contest
angst bunnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angst bunny
the ends justify the means
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of the end justifies the means.
turnscrew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turnscrews
Etymology: From turn + screw.
Senses: examples: text: Striking the turnscrew through the lead with a swift downward stab, which made me wince, he made a small hole, which was, however, big enough to admit the point of the saw.
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula:
glosses: A screwdriver.
evolutionary psychology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: You’ll have to forgive this exceptionally long post here, but for many critics of (and in) the manosphere of evolutionary psychology the following post articulates things better than I could.
ref: 2015 June 9, Rollo Tomassi, “In Defense of Evo-Psych”, in The Rational Male:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: A theoretical approach to psychology that attempts to explain mental and psychological traits—such as memory, perception, or language—as adaptations, that is, as the functional products of natural selection.
Synonyms: word: evo-psych
religieux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəlɪʒiˈɜː/
ipa: /ɹəˌlɪʒiˈu/
ipa: /ɹəˌliʒiˈu/
Forms: form: religieux
Etymology: Borrowed from French religieux. Doublet of religious.
Senses: glosses: A man bound by monastic vows; a monk.
Related terms: religieuse
Romain
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from French.
glosses: A surname from French.
glosses: A commune in Doubs department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
glosses: A commune in Jura department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
glosses: A commune in Marne department, Grand Est, France.
glosses: A commune in Meurthe-et-Moselle department, Grand Est.
Nicol prism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nicol prisms
Etymology: Invented in 1828 by William Nicol (1770–1851) of Edinburgh.
Senses: examples: text: “You are in mortal danger,” declared their Scientific Officer, Dr. Counterfly, a scholarly sort, bearded and bundled like the rest of them, his eyes concealed by a pair of ingenious goggles, whose lenses proved to be matched pairs of Nicol prisms which could be rotated so as to control precisely the amount of light admitted to each eye.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 155:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An optical device used to generate polarized light.
Bengal light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bengal lights
form: Bengola light
Senses: examples: text: I saw no more of it than this sort of luminous panel, sharply defined against a vague and shadowy background, like the panels which the glow of a Bengal light or a searchlight beam will cut out and illuminate in a building the other parts of which remain plunged in darkness
ref: 1981, Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, trans. CK Scott Moncrieff & Terence Kilmartin, Folio Society 2005, p. 40
text: at last, as if given up on our common sense, they took their leave with a salute of Bengal lights from which irony may not have been entirely absent.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 161:
text: The last streetcar was disappearing in the mirrorlike murk of the street and , along the wire above it, a spark of Bengal light, crackling and quivering , sped into the distance like a blue star.
ref: "Details of a Sunset", Vladimir Nabokov, collected stories Penguin p.90
synonyms: Bengal fire
bengola
blue light
glosses: A bright blue flare prepared from niter, sulphur, and the black sulphide of antimony; formerly used in signalling, but now chiefly as fireworks.
ulsterette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ʌlstəˈɹɛt/
Forms: form: ulsterettes
Etymology: From ulster + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: Alumni of both persuasions were milling everywhere in and out of the lobby, gesturing carelessly with foaming beer steins, sporting hats, spats, and ulsterettes vividly dyed in varying densities of the rival school hues.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 174:
glosses: A small, lightweight ulster.
kieselguhr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiːzəlɡʊə/
Forms: form: kieselguhrs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Kieselguhr, older spelling of Kieselgur, from Kiesel (“pebble, gravel”) + Gur (“guhr”).
Senses: examples: text: It was the only name anybody seemed to know him by, “Kieselguhr” being a kind of fine clay, used to soak up nitroglycerine and stabilize it into dynamite.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Iceland Spar”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 171:
glosses: Diatomaceous earth, a kind of soft rock containing the remains of diatoms; it absorbs nitroglycerine and is used to manufacture dynamite.
plagal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈpleɪɡəl/
Forms: form: more plagal
form: most plagal
Etymology: From Late Latin plagalis, from plaga, from plagius, from Byzantine Ancient Greek πλάγιος (plágios, “plagal”), πλάγιος (plágios, “oblique”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Designating a mode lying a perfect fourth below the authentic form.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Designating a cadence in which the subdominant chord precedes the tonic.
Derived terms: plagal cadence
plagally
megacosm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megacosms
Etymology: From French mégacosme, ultimately from Ancient Greek μεγα- (mega-) + κόσμος (kósmos).
Senses: examples: text: Howsoever, over their cloistering walls and into the map of the megacosm, the two professors continued to launch their cadres of spellbound familiars and enslaved disciples.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 255:
glosses: A macrocosm.
ecstatica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɛkˈstætɪkə/
Forms: form: ecstaticas
Etymology: From New Latin ecstatica, from Ancient Greek ἐκστατικός (ekstatikós).
Senses: examples: text: The ecstaticas sometimes divined thoughts, but Father Surin must know beforehand what the thoughts were; else the thing did not work.
ref: 1891, Julian Ochorowicz, Joseph Fitzgerald, Mental suggestion:
text: She was known to the T.W.I.T. as an “ecstatica,” a classification enjoying apparently somewhat more respect than a common medium.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 256:
glosses: A woman perceived to have a highly sensitive emotional state, or prone to quasi-mystical trances.
auxetophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɔːksətəfəʊn/
Forms: form: auxetophones
Etymology: Formed from Ancient Greek αὐξητός (auxētós, “that can be increased”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”).
Senses: examples: text: It was something that had come out during the séance tonight, none of which Madame Eskimoff had any direct memory of, although like all T.W.I.T.-sanctioned sittings, it had been recorded by means of a Parsons-Short Auxetophone.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 256:
glosses: A pneumatic type of sound-playback device used in the early part of the twentieth century.
milch cows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milch cow
tweeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwiːni/
Forms: form: tweenies
Etymology: From 'tween + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tweenie, 'tweenie or 'tweeny.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: A shot played between the legs; a tweener.
examples: text: ‘You subscribed,’ Valentine said, ‘to purchase his library and presented it to his wife…who had nothing to eat but what my wages as a tweeny maid got for her.’
ref: 1926, Ford Madox Ford, A Man Could Stand Up— (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 540:
text: Madame Eskimoff's tweeny had brought out tea and a gâteau, as well as a twelve-year-old Speyside malt and glasses.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 259:
glosses: A between-maid, or maidservant who helps the cook as well as the housemaid.
tweeny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwiːni/
Forms: form: tweenier
form: more tweeny
form: tweeniest
form: most tweeny
Etymology: From tween + -y.
Senses: examples: text: throw the tweeniest, brattiest tantrum
ref: 2012 November 23, Andrew Hussie, Homestuck, archived from the original on 21 May 2022:
glosses: Characteristic of a typical tween (a child not quite old enough to be a teenager).
pentachromic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From penta- + chromic.
Senses: glosses: Containing five colours.
akousma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: akousmata
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄκουσμα (ákousma, “oral instruction”).
Senses: examples: text: One of the akousmata says that number is the wisest thing, and Pythagoreans may have sworn by Pythagoras as “the one who gave the tetraktys” […], the first four numbers whose total is ten, which was the perfect number for early Pythagoreans.
ref: 1999, AA Long, editor, The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy, Cambridge, page 74:
text: It seemed that each British mystical order claiming Pythagorean descent had its own ideas about those taboos and bits of free advice known as akousmata, and Madame Eskimoff's favorite happened to be number twenty-four as listed by Iamblichus—never look into a mirror when there's a lamp next to you.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 261:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A rule or precept, especially one of the list of rules laid down by Pythagoras.
akousmata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of akousma
for a song
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: for a song and a dance
Senses: examples: text: They remembered then that they could have bought for a song canvases which now were worth large sums.
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter 48, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
text: [T]he contents of aircraft that once commanded prices up to $148m are now being sold off for a song after being torn apart in Gloucestershire's aviation charnel house.
ref: 2009 December 11, “Jet Cemetery: Where Airplanes Go to Die”, in Businessweek:
text: In his senior year, he had run across an old '66 Chevy Super Sport headed for the junkyard, bought it for a song, and overhauled it with his dad's help, turning it into the big red muscle car it was back in its day.
ref: 2011, Kat Martin, A Song for My Mother, Vanguard Press,, →ISBN, page 200:
text: He bought it for a song in 1984 compared with what his fellow financiers were spending on tonier Park and Fifth Avenues.
ref: 2013 August 16, Robin Finn, “A Former Madoff Penthouse Goes Back on the Market”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: For a very low price; very cheaply.
meme pool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meme pools
Etymology: By analogy with gene pool.
Senses: examples: text: Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs, so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation.
ref: 1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The set of all memes present in a given human population.
for nothing
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: I got it for nothing. They are giving them away as publicity.
glosses: For free.
examples: text: I wrote ten pages of information for nothing. He just chucked it in a drawer without reading it!
glosses: For no reason.
In vain, uselessly, wastefully, or pointlessly.
examples: text: A: Then he walked up to me and shoved me. B: What the hell? What for? A: For nothing!
text: A: Then she filed suit against the restaurant. B: What the hell? For what? A: For nothing! Not so much for allegedly being negligent as for having some money that she might shake down!
glosses: For no reason.
Without cause or without due cause.
synonyms: for no good reason
antonyms: not for nothing
with good reason
Related terms: what for
for what
next to nothing
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: I got it for next to nothing in the January sales.
text: He pretends to be knowledgeable, but actually he knows next to nothing.
glosses: Very little.
Derived terms: next-to-nothingness
Related terms: for a song
Derick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Derek.
Deryck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages, a less common spelling of Derek.
Ronny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Shortening of Ronald + -y. A less common spelling of Ronnie.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Ronald.
Renaud
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Renauds
Etymology: Borrowed from French Renaud.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
prosaicness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From prosaic + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being prosaic.
Mickey D
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mickey D's
Senses: examples: text: Clanton and Carolyn made no complaints, but she could tell they would have preferred a Mickey D to her festive efforts. The best thing about the turkey was the skin.
ref: 1996, Francine Rivers, The Scarlet Thread, page 417:
text: Tejada quickly sobered them: "How much a cow weigh after Mickey D be through with him?
ref: 1997, Tony Chiu, Positive Match, page 110:
text: […] the local metropolis, population twelve thousand, a Mickey D, three gas stations, and a Bi-Lo […].
ref: 2003, Robert K. Tanenbaum, Absolute Rage, page 13:
text: Damn thing even promised free Mickey D chicken salad coupons for filling out questionnaires.
ref: 2006, Elizabeth Whitmer, Aloha Rainbow, page 154:
glosses: McDonald's, a chain of fast-food restaurants.
haul someone over the coals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hauls someone over the coals
form: hauling someone over the coals
form: hauled someone over the coals
form: hauled someone over the coals
Etymology: In reference to a punishment once meted out to heretics.
Senses: examples: text: The teacher hauled him over the coals for not doing his homework.
glosses: To express anger with someone in no uncertain terms when they do something wrong.
Synonyms: berate
give someone a dressing down
give someone a telling off
pull someone over the coals
rake over the coals
read someone the riot act
scold
tear a strip off someone
tear someone a new asshole
tear someone a new one
tell off
tell someone off
Rinaldo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rinaldos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Rinaldo.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
curtin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curtins
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of curtain.
Mickey Flynn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mickey Flynns
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Mickey Finn.
tear a strip off someone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tears a strip off someone
form: tearing a strip off someone
form: tore a strip off someone
form: torn a strip off someone
form: tear someone off a strip
form: tear strips off someone
Senses: examples: text: Last night the honourable member for Miramar was going to tear a strip off the Minister of Works;[…].
ref: 1952, New Zealand Parliament, Parliamentary Debates, volume 295, page 116:
text: But before Debra went out the door behind her she proceeded to tear a strip off both Miguel and Anna Maria.
Miguel ended up phoning Liz at home and tearing a strip off her for telling Debra to tell him off.
ref: 2012, Kimberley Rose Dawson, Carousel: The Relapse: Spinning Out of Control, page 260:
text: No doubt Mother tore a strip off him last night. She will never forgive him for turning away a suitor.
ref: 2013, Lorraine Bateman, Paul Cole, Blue Days and Fair, page 211:
glosses: To scold vigorously.
Synonyms: sense: scold vigorously
word: excoriate
sense: scold vigorously
word: give someone a dressing-down
sense: scold vigorously
word: haul someone over the coals
sense: scold vigorously
word: rake over the coals
sense: scold vigorously
word: read someone the riot act
sense: scold vigorously
word: tell someone off
white collar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more white collar
form: most white collar
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of white-collar.
electroplates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of electroplate
electroplates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electroplate
Alina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Alina, or a Latinate form of French Aline, ultimately from diminutives of the same Germanic name Adela, Adele.
Senses: examples: text: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka "committed trespass and ignored multiple warnings" to leave Delaney Hall, a facility being run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to acting US attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba.
ref: 2025 May 9, Max Matza, “New Jersey mayor arrested in protest at migrant centre”, in BBC, archived from the original on 15 May 2025:
glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Hilma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Used in early 19th-century Scandinavian literature, probably as a variant of Wilhelmina.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages in occasional use at the turn of the 20th century.
claiming race
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: claiming races
Senses: examples: text: In a claiming race, each horse is in a sense up for sale. That is, any owner who has raced a horse at the track during the meet in progress may put in a claim to buy any horse racing in a claiming race.
ref: 1968, Marvin B. Scott, The Racing Game, page 15:
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
synonyms: claimer
glosses: A race in which the competing horse can be claimed by anyone at the specified claiming price for the race.
regulable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more regulable
form: most regulable
Senses: examples: text: Many businesses are regulable because of the interstate commerce clause of the United States' Constitution.
glosses: Of or pertaining to being controllable; able to be made subject to regulation.
Related terms: regulate
regulation
headmistresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headmistress
opts out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of opt out
opting out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of opt out
opted out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of opt out
ured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ure
captaincies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of captaincy
boners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boner
compactifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of compactify
compactifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of compactify
compactified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of compactify
cuts one's losses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cut one's losses
cutting one's losses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cut one's losses
data fusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: data fusions
Senses: glosses: The process of integrating knowledge from multiple sources and representing the same real-world object into a consistent, accurate, and useful representation.
Hypernyms: data management
Related terms: data integration
mashup
Papal States
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Papal States
form: Papal State
Etymology: On the model of Italian Stati Pontifici, plural of Stato Pontificio; compare the dated direct calque Pontifical States. The plural is typical in English and reflects the Papal States’ highly regionalised administration, but in various European languages, including contemporary Italian, the singular is more common.
Senses: synonyms: word: States of the Church
word: Pontifical States
word: Ecclesiastical State
glosses: A country in southern Europe that existed until 1870, comprising the territories of Italy (and some enclaves in France) over which the pope was the ruler in a civil as well as a spiritual sense.
Related terms: Vatican City
Holy See
tranquilizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹæŋkwɪˌlaɪzɪŋ/
Forms: form: more tranquilizing
form: most tranquilizing
Etymology: From tranquilize + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Of a drug: having the effect of calming a person or animal, or putting them to sleep; sedating, sedative.
examples: text: In a preceding paper I have spoken of an English Sunday in the country, and its tranquilizing effect upon the landscape; but where is its sacred influence more strikingly apparent than in the very heart of that great Babel, London?
ref: 1848, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “A Sunday in London”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. […] (The Works of Washington Irving; II), author’s revised edition, New York, N.Y.; London: George P[almer] Putnam, […], →OCLC, page 141:
glosses: Having the effect of making someone or something tranquil; calming, soothing.
tranquilizing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹæŋkwɪˌlaɪzɪŋ/
Etymology: From tranquilize + -ing.
Senses: glosses: gerund of tranquilize
The act of calming a person or animal, or putting them to sleep, using a drug.
glosses: gerund of tranquilize
The act of making someone or something tranquil.
tranquilizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹæŋkwɪˌlaɪzɪŋ/
Etymology: From tranquilize + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tranquilize
denib
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: denibs
form: denibbing
form: denibbed
form: denibbed
Etymology: From de- + nib.
Senses: glosses: To remove nibs trapped in a layer of paint or other finish.
denibbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of denib
denibbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of removing nibs trapped in a layer of a surface finish or paint.
Vogul
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Finno-Ugric language spoken in Khantia-Mansia.
Synonyms: Mansi
Vogul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Voguls
Senses: glosses: A member of the Mansi people.
Voro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An Adamawa language of Nigeria.
Voro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Võro.
solanum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solanums
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Solanum.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant in the genus Solanum.
glosses: A traditional green vegetable in the genus Solanum, specifically Solanum nigrum, and sometimes Solanum macrocarpon, Solanum scabrum, and Solanum villosum.
reintegrative shaming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: criminal law
glosses: The bringing together of the offending party and the victim(s) so that the offender can see the harm and suffering they have inflicted on the victim or the victim’s family. The offender has the opportunity to apologise to the victim and make amends.
readableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From readable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being capable of being read, legibility.
glosses: The property of being easy or engaging to read.
Related terms: readable
unreadable
readability
sickle-cell anemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sickle cell anaemia
form: sickle-cell anaemia
Senses: hypernyms: sickle-cell disease
coordinate_terms: sickle cell trait
glosses: The most common form of sickle-cell disease, with anemic effects.
sickle-cell disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: drepanocytosis
hypernyms: hemoglobinopathy
coordinate_terms: sickle cell trait
glosses: A disease characterized by sickle-shaped red blood cells.
sickler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sicklers
Etymology: From sickle + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who uses a sickle; a sickleman; a reaper.
examples: text: I met girls born with sickle cell anemia like my brother […] We called them sicklers. They called themselves sicklers.
ref: 2005, Sefi Atta, Everything Good Will Come, Arris Books, page 44:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A person who has sickle-cell disease.
headscarves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headscarfs
Senses: glosses: plural of headscarf
Chinese cabbage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinese cabbages
Senses: glosses: Any East Asian leafy vegetable related to the Western cabbage, especially subspecies or varieties of Brassica rapa.
Bok choy (Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis).
glosses: Any East Asian leafy vegetable related to the Western cabbage, especially subspecies or varieties of Brassica rapa.
Napa cabbage (Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis).
Synonyms: word: Chinese chard
word: Chinese mustard
word: celery mustard
word: spoon cabbage
sense: napa cabbage
word: nappa cabbage
sense: napa cabbage
word: Korean cabbage
sense: napa cabbage
word: celery cabbage
sense: napa cabbage
word: wombok
grace and favour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In 1986 a fire began in a grace-and-favour apartment above the King's Apartments in the south Wren wing.
ref: 2005, Nigel R. Jones, Architecture of England, Scotland, and Wales, page 127:
text: In the days before she formally stepped down, Truss held farewell parties for her supporters at the prime ministerial grace-and-favour mansion of Chequers.
ref: 2023 September 1, Aubrey Allegretti, “‘She’s totally lost it’: inside story of the unravelling of Liz Truss’s premiership”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Owned by the sovereign or government and granted free of rent to a person as an expression of gratitude or obligation.
raw_tags: as a modifier to a form of accommodation
adventurism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ədˈvɛn(t)ʃəɹɪz(ə)m/
Forms: form: adventurisms
Etymology: From adventure + -ism.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Political strategy focusing on individual actions such as assassinating political enemies.
examples: text: […] she really hadn’t wanted me to think of her as given over wholly to sexual excess and adventurism […]
ref: 1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint, New York: Vintage, published 1994, page 161:
text: In pornographic literature, films, and gadgetry throughout the world […] the SS has become a referent of sexual adventurism.
ref: 1980, Susan Sontag, “Fascinating Fascism”, in Under the Sign of Saturn, New York: Vintage, published 1981, pages 101–102:
glosses: The behavior of an adventurer; risk-taking.
examples: text: 1993, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedom, Nairobi: EAEP, Part I, Chapter 2, p. 22,
Even where they were aware of the devastating effects of imperialism on the subject peoples, as in Conrad’s description of the dying victims of colonial adventurism in Heart of Darkness, they could not free themselves from the Eurocentric basis of their vision.
text: The rejection of foreign adventurism derived partly from an awareness of the dynastic vulnerability of the Bourbon line, partly from the country's economic as well as its military fragility – and partly too from the increasingly evident limitations of France's traditional international allies.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 133:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The taking of excessive risks by a government in their political, economic or foreign affairs.
educashun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of education.
cutty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌti/
rhymes: -ʌti
Forms: form: more cutty
form: most cutty
form: cuttie
Etymology: From cut + -y.
Senses: glosses: Short, shortened, or small; curtailed.
glosses: Having many cuts.
raw_tags: of audio or video
glosses: Sharp, cutting easily.
Derived terms: word: cutty-brown
taxonomic: Austroderia spp.
word: cutty grass
word: cutty-gun
word: cutty-hare
word: cuttymum
word: cutty-pipe
word: cutty-quean
word: cuttystool
word: cutty-stoup
word: fatty cutty
cutty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌti/
rhymes: -ʌti
Forms: form: cutties
form: cuttie
Etymology: From cut + -y.
Senses: glosses: A short spoon.
examples: text: I'm no sae scant of clean pipes as to blaw wi' a brunt cutty.
ref: 1750, Allan Ramsay, A Collection of Scots Proverbs, page 51:
text: "Why, it's a cutty - an Irish cutty!" shouted Cripps.
ref: 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 11:
glosses: A short tobacco pipe; a cutty-pipe.
examples: text: “And me coming a this way out o' my gate to pleasure you, ye ungrateful cutty,”
ref: 1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A wanton or unchaste woman.
glosses: A girl with a short, dumpy figure.
examples: text: A man who reared ten cubs and three cutties.
ref: 1993, Ray Givans, No Surrender, Castlecaulfield, Lapwing Publications, →ISBN, page 14:
text: The point of the example is educational, moral, and the moral qualities of the stories attracted Peter Flanagan who remembered them from childhood and told them to the cutties and cubs when he was, for them, a funny old man.
ref: 2016 September 12, Henry Glassie, The Stars of Ballymenone, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 229:
coordinate_terms: cub
glosses: A girl or young woman.
Related terms: cutty grass
unlooked-for
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unlooked-for
form: most unlooked-for
Senses: examples: text: They were interrupted by the entrance of an unlooked-for visitor, the Chevalier de Joinville.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 174:
glosses: Alternative form of unlooked for.
unloosen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unloosens
form: unloosening
form: unloosened
form: unloosened
Etymology: From un- + loosen, with un- as an intensifier.
Senses: glosses: To unloose; to loosen.
agronomists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agronomist
divertimenti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of divertimento
divo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdiːvoʊ/
Forms: form: divos
Etymology: From Italian divo.
Senses: glosses: A male diva; a man with the traits characteristic of a typical diva.
divi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: divis
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: The dividend paid out by the Co-op
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: divi-divi
emotional intelligence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emotional intelligences
Senses: examples: text: The concepts of emotional intelligence (EI), self-worth, authenticity and employee meditation rooms might conjure up thoughts of new age healing centers.
ref: 2011 November 9, Susanne Gargiulo, “Emotional intelligence in the workplace”, in CNN:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The ability, capacity, or skill to perceive, assess, and manage the emotions of oneself, of others, and of groups.
Synonyms: word: EI