cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
shirr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɜː/
ipa: /ʃɜɹ/
ipa: /ʃɪr/
ipa: /ʃøː/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ʃeː/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ʃɛː/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ʃɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
homophone: share (fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: shirrs
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: A shirring.
made out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of make out
shirtfront
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shirtfronts
Etymology: From shirt + front.
Senses: examples: text: In the Victorian Era, exposing your shirtfront in public was considered improper, as shirts were viewed as undergarments. Waistcoats concealed this and helped [to] tame oversized, billowy shirts.
ref: 2025 September 12, Jack Collins, “Why Did Men Stop Wearing Three-Piece Suits?”, in Gentleman's Gazette:
glosses: The front part of a shirt.
examples: text: I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: A detachable insert that simulates the front of a shirt.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A pitch that is easy to bat on.
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: A head-on charge aimed at bumping an opponent to the ground.
examples: text: It is explained that a "shirt front" building is one of which only the street elevation is given a finished architectural treatment, the sides and back being of cheaper material, with no attempt at unification with the front.
ref: 1927, The Bricklayer, Mason and Plasterer, volumes 30-32, page 100:
text: False fronts, frequently called "shirt fronts," are futile attempts to make a small, cheap house pass for something larger and more valuable.
ref: 1967, The Appraisal of Real Estate, page 132:
topics: business
real-estate
glosses: An attractive facade applied only to the front of a house.
shirtfront
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shirtfronts
form: shirtfronting
form: shirtfronted
form: shirtfronted
Etymology: From shirt + front.
Senses: examples: text: This was a case of a deputy shirtfronting her leader with an ultimatum and forcing a decision that would come close to wrecking the government's environmental credibility.
ref: 2014, Philip Chubb, Power Failure:
text: Pravda has described Tony Abbott as “a disturbed mind crying out for therapy”: after his threat to “shirtfront” the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, in Brisbane.
ref: 2014 October 14, “Pravda lashes Tony Abbott as 'disturbed' over threat to shirtfront Vladimir Putin”, in The Guardian:
topics: government
politics
glosses: To confront in a threatening manner.
shirting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shirtings
Etymology: From shirt + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Any fabric used to make shirts.
glosses: Shirts collectively.
Related terms: sweatshirting
genophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Apparently coined by Sir Francis Galton, from geno- + -philia.
Senses: examples: text: Although cultural Marxists have tried to extirpate it from Western man's memory, there remains the ancient, conservative notion of a nation, one rooted in ancestry, kith and kin, and genophilia.
ref: 2007 September 11, MFOgilvie, “Genocide Against Westerners”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):
text: Some critics have maintained that (unlike modern nationalism, which is a creation of the 19th century nation state) authentic nationalism (as the Latin 'natio' would suggest) must be based in some form of genophilia and the sharing of ancestors in which sense The Vatican does not qualify as a nation-state since membership of Catholicism are scattered all over the world with no possible ties of ancestry pedigree.
ref: 2013, James Ohwofasa Akpeninor, Merger Politics of Nigeria and Surge of Sectarian Violence, →ISBN, page 317:
text: Neocons celebrate this Marxist notion of a 'propositional nation,' because it removes the historic prerequisites of nationhood: borders, a common language, history and genealogy, blood and soil, kith and kin, and genophilia (instinctive attachment to family and tribe)
ref: 2013 May, Moisés Damián Perales Escudero, “Teaching intercultural awareness in the English as a foreign language classroom: a case study using critical reading”, in Intercultural Education:
text: There are certain ethnic groups who choose to form relatively exclusive communities based on their race. Most Australians are even OK with this. However, there are some who do not extend the freedom to express genophilia to white Australians.
ref: 2016 January 25, “Open Drum: Blood on the Southern Cross”, in ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) News:
glosses: Love of one's own relations, tribe, kind or race.
examples: text: The tragedy was that the narrator, lacking genophilia, or love of children, should have got his wife with child.
ref: 1950, The Manchester Guardian Weekly - Volume 63, page 171:
text: There is a suggestion that the relationship between the fertility of the women and of their parents is closer in the group practising contraception (where perhaps genetic and nurtural factors for genophilia come into play).
ref: 1953, “The Inheritance of Fertility”, in Eugenics Review, page 75:
text: Analyzing the scale "genophilia-genophobia", it should be mentioned that the vast majority of women surveyed had imagination of genophilia type (35 women - 97.2%).
ref: 2016, EA Andriyanova, IY Aranovich, AV Katkova, EV Chernyshkova, “Targets for psychocorrectional work with pregnant women with a confirmed diagnosis of miscarriage”, in International Annual Edition of Applied Psychology: Theory, Research, and Practice:
glosses: Love of children, or a desire to have children.
Hailey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈheɪli/
rhymes: -eɪli
Forms: form: Haileys
form: Hayley
form: Haley
form: Hailie
form: Halie
form: Haylie
form: Haileigh
form: Hayleigh
form: Haylee
form: Hailee
Etymology: From Old English hīeġ (“hay”) + lēah (“clearing”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English, a spelling variant of Hayley.
glosses: A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A placename
Synonym of Haileybury; A village in Hertfordshire, East of England, England, United Kingdom.
synonyms: word: Haileybury
extra: A village in Hertfordshire, East of England, England, United Kingdom
glosses: A placename
A city, the county seat of Blaine County, Idaho, United States.
Derived terms: Haileybury
Haley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Haleys
Etymology: Variant of Hayley, from Old English. Literally, “hay field”
Senses: examples: text: Former United Nations ambassador and current GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley slammed fellow Republicans former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Monday in a campaign letter highlighting Haley’s first quarter accomplishments.
ref: 2023 April 11 [2023 April 10], Sarah Elbeshbishi, “Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley slams Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis in campaign letter”, in USA Today, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2023:
glosses: A surname from Old English, variant of Hayley, a common spelling variant of Hayley.
examples: text: “Their fauxmance?” I asked. “What are you talking about?"
“Fake romance,” Lee said. “Haley and Kevin are both Monica's clients. She had them fake-date for publicity. And it worked, their pictures are everywhere.”
[…]
My head was whirling. I'd been set up to take that picture. Haley and Kevin were only fake-dating and I'd broken their fauxmance on Princess of Gossip. And it hit me. Princess of Gossip was based on a lie.
ref: 2008, Sabrina Bryan, Julia DeVillers, Princess of Gossip, page 307:
glosses: A unisex given name transferred from the surname, variant of Hayley.
A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Hayley, popular in the US in the 1990s and the 2000s.
glosses: A unisex given name transferred from the surname, variant of Hayley.
A male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Hayley.
glosses: A placename; Any of several places in the U.S. and Canada named after persons with the surname.
A number of places in Canada.
glosses: A placename; Any of several places in the U.S. and Canada named after persons with the surname.
A number of places in the United States.
Hattie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæti/
rhymes: -æti
Senses: examples: text: But Harriet Fuller sounds like a school-teacher, doesn't it? And Hattie Fuller makes me think, somehow, of a burlesque actress. You know. 'Hattie Fuller and Her Bouncing Belles'.
ref: 1922, Edna Ferber, Gigolo, Plain Label Books, page 103:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Harriet.
Derived terms: Hattiesburg
pugmark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pugmarks
Etymology: From pug (“pawprint or footprint of an animal”) + mark.
Senses: glosses: The print or track of an animal.
Related terms: spoor
Ida
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪdə/
rhymes: -aɪdə
Etymology: Short form of obsolete names beginning with Germanic īd "work", used for both sexes in medieval England. It was revived in the 19th century, partly mistaken for a Greek name, for the Mount Ida of classical mythology.
Senses: examples: text: "Ida!!!"
"It is not a common, but an ancient name in Greece", said the diako,"and was borne by the wife of Lycastus and the mother of the Cretan Minos."
Osmyn blushed to have been over-heard, and suffered his heart alone to repeat again the sweet and simple name of "Ida".
ref: 1809, Sydney Owenson, Woman, or, Ida of Athens, page 127:
text: That's what they called me," she said. "My real name's Ida." The old and vulgarised Grecian name recovered a little dignity
ref: 1938, Graham Greene, Brighton Rock, Compact Books, published 1993, →ISBN, page 16:
text: "Ida" - the name was magical to me. In whispers, in the dark. Beneath bedcovers. Forehead pressed to a windowpane coated with frost. "Ida". What a strange, beautiful name: I could not say it often enough: it was easy to confuse "Ida" with "I" - - -
ref: 2002, Joyce Carol Oates, I'l Take You There, Fourth Estate, published 2003, →ISBN, page 18:
glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Related terms: Ide
Ida
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪdə/
rhymes: -aɪdə
Forms: form: Idas
Etymology: Two possible origins:
* Borrowed from Japanese 井田 (Ida, “rice paddy by the well”).
* Matronymic surname from the female given name Ida.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Ida
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪdə/
rhymes: -aɪdə
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἴδη (Ídē).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Name of two sacred mountains situated in present-day Turkey and Crete, also called Mount Ida.
Derived terms: Ida County
Ida Grove
Idean
Mount Ida
Ida
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪdə/
rhymes: -aɪdə
Etymology: Borrowed from Slovak Ida.
Senses: glosses: A river in eastern Slovakia.
Ida
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪdə/
rhymes: -aɪdə
Etymology: From Sanskrit इडा (iḍā).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Janice
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒænɪs/
rhymes: -ænɪs
Forms: form: Jan
form: Janis
form: Janyce
Etymology: Variant of Jane under apparent influence from Alice, Bernice, Eunice, etc., from French Jeanne, from Middle French Jehanne, from Medieval Latin Johanna, variant of Latin Ioanna under influence from Latin Iōhannēs, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννα (Iōánna), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָה (Yôḥānāh, literally “God is gracious”), the feminized form of יְהוֹחָנָן (Yəhōḥānān) which produced John and its many doublets. As a placeholder name, cf. similar use of John and Jack and earlier use of Joan in the same role.
Doublet of Ivana, Jana, Janis, Jean, Jeanne, Jen, Joan, Joanna, Joanne, Johanna, Juana, Shavonne, Sian, Siobhan, Shane, Shaun, Shauna, and Sheena.
Senses: examples: text: "Yes, Mommy," answered Janice. Then she turned to her friend and asked, "Shall I wear my light chintz and kenton kerchief, or my purple and white striped Persian?"
"Sufficiently smart for a country lass, Jan," cried her friend.
ref: 1899, Paul Leicester Ford, chapter I, in Janice Meredith:
text: "Now class," she said, "my name is Mrs. Chubbie. I know how most of you would like to pronounce it, but the correct pronunciation is Mrs. Shew-bay."
"It's Jan-eece," the goth-girl says.
"Pardon me?" Mrs Shew-bay asks very properly.
"My name is pronounced Jan-eece. Not Janice." The whole class tries to stop from laughing out loud at this. "I've changed since last year. Janice is the name of some average, boring student. Do I look average to you?"
ref: 1999, Peter McPhee, Runner, →ISBN, pages 37–8:
glosses: A female given name.
Janice
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒænɪs/
rhymes: -ænɪs
Forms: form: Janices
Etymology: Possibly an altered spelling of Jannis; see Janes.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
smarten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmɑːt(ə)n/
Forms: form: smartens
form: smartening
form: smartened
form: smartened
Etymology: From smart + -en.
Senses: examples: text: The Sorting Ceremony will take place in a few minutes in front of the rest of the school. I suggest you all smarten yourselves up as much as you can while you are waiting.
ref: 1997 June 26, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter; 1), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: To make smarter in appearance; to refurbish or spruce up.
examples: text: I braced myself and smartened my pace, shouldering my way through the crowd.
ref: 2001, Vernon Robinson, If I Should Die Before I Wake, page 264:
glosses: To increase the speed of (one's travel on foot, etc.).
examples: text: How do we achieve this smartening of the grid? The CALM approach in the future will be to use reinforcement learning (RL) controllers as a basis for optimizing the synergy between operators and automation.
ref: 2008, Roger Neeson Anderson, Albert Boulanger, John A. Johnson, Computer-aided Lean Management for the Energy Industry, page 335:
synonyms: computerize
glosses: To augment with computer technology.
Derived terms: smarten up
smarty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmɑː(ɹ)ti/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ti
Forms: form: smarties
form: smartie
Etymology: From smart + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Don't be stupid, be a smarty come and join the Nazi Party!
ref: 1967, Mel Brooks, The Producers:
synonyms: word: smart aleck
word: Buddha
word: clever clogs
word: clever dick
word: know-all
word: know-it-all
word: smart aleck
word: smart ass
word: smarty
word: smarty pants
word: wiseacre
word: wiseass
word: wise-ass
word: wisenheimer
glosses: An obnoxiously clever or quick-witted person.
Related terms: smarty boots
smarty pants
smartypants
smartypants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smartypants
Etymology: From smarty + -pants.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of smarty pants.
smasher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /smæʃɚ/
Forms: form: smashers
Etymology: From smash + -er.
Senses: glosses: Something that, or someone who, smashes.
topics: business
mining
glosses: Something that, or someone who, smashes.
A person employed to break up waste rock.
examples: text: You got engaged on the day that I moved out. It's OK / She's a smasher, perfectly suited to the role
ref: 2019, “Magic of Meghan”, in Sweet Princess EP, performed by Dry Cleaning:
glosses: An attractive person (see also smashing).
glosses: Anything very large or extraordinary; a whopper.
examples: text: The price of a case (five shillings piece bad) from the smasher is about one shilling; an alderman (two and sixpence) about sixpence; a peg (shilling) about threepence; a downer or sprat (sixpence) about twopence.
ref: 1859, Snowden's magistrates assistant, page 90:
glosses: One who passes counterfeit money.
glosses: The counterfeit money itself.
Derived terms: atom smasher
baggage-smasher
smashup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smashups
Etymology: Deverbal from smash up.
Senses: glosses: An abrupt, damaging breakdown or failure.
synonyms: crash
glosses: A violent collision involving one or more vehicles.
examples: text: I discovered that a lot of imported drainage-pipes for the settlement had been tumbled in there. There wasn’t one that was not broken. It was a wanton smash-up.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 206:
glosses: An instance or the result of smashing; that which has been smashed into pieces.
Coordinate terms: mashup
smeary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmɪəɹi/
note: General American, mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈsmɪɹi/
note: without the mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈsmɪɚi/
note: without the mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈsmiɹi/
ipa: /ˈsmiɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈsmiɹe/
ipa: /ˈsmiəɹi/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈsmɛːɹi/
rhymes: -ɪəɹi
Forms: form: smearier
form: smeariest
Etymology: From Middle English *smery, *smeri, from Old English smeoruwiġ (“fatty, greasy, unctious, smeary”), from Proto-West Germanic *smerwig, equivalent to smear + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Pretending to read a smeary newspaper long out of date, which had nothing half so legible in its local news, as the foreign matter of coffee, pickles, fish sauces, gravy, melted butter, and wine, with which it was sprinkled all over, as if it had taken the measles in a highly irregular form, I sat at my table […]
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter IV, in Great Expectations […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 62:
text: I voice the weary, smeary ones of earth,
The helots of the sea and of the soil.
ref: 1909, Robert W. Service, “The Song of the Mouth-Organ”, in Ballads of a Cheechako, Toronto: William Briggs, page 103:
text: They had Rembrandt on the calendar that year, a rather smeary self-portrait due to imperfectly registered colour plates.
ref: 1940, Raymond Chandler, chapter 7, in Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 41:
text: The letters were executed clumsily, with a smeary black kindergarten exuberance.
ref: 1959, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 5, in The Sirens of Titan, New York: Random House, published 2009, page 132:
synonyms: smeared
smudged
soiled
glosses: Having or showing smears.
examples: text: […] stamped again and again in smeary red ink that looked like blood, was one word: CANCEL.
ref: 1986, Stephen King, It, New York: Signet, published 1987, Part 3, Chapter 11, p. 523:
glosses: Tending to smear or soil.
examples: text: And are there not diuerse skauingers of draftye poëtrye in this oure age, that bast theyre papers wyth smearie larde sauoring al too geather of thee frying pan?
ref: 1582, Richard Stanyhurst, transl., Thee First Foure Bookes of Virgil his Aeneis, Leiden: John Pates, dedicatory epistle:
text: 1896, W. S. Gilbert, The Grand Duke, Act I, in The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan, New York: The Modern Library, 1936, p. 675,
When your lips are all smeary—like tallow,
And your tongue is decidedly yallow,
With a pint of warm oil in your swallow,
And a pound of tin-tacks in your chest
synonyms: adhesive
greasy
sticky
viscous
glosses: Having a consistency like grease; covered with such a substance.
Derived terms: smearily
smeariness
Morlock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Morlocks
Etymology: Coined by British science fiction author H. G. Wells in 1895; possibly influenced by Morlach or Moloch.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
coordinate_terms: Eloi
glosses: A member of a troglodyte cannibalistic race described in H. G. Wells' novel The Time Machine (1895).
examples: text: Thus civilian morale became a key issue in war preparations, which were undertaken in a spirit so fretfully suspicious that centralised mass shelters were not constructed for fear of encouraging a deep shelter mentality that would turn London's population into a race of modern Morlocks.
ref: 2004, Laura Marcus, Peter Nicholls, The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature, page 437:
text: We need a modern White version of that. They go into niggerhoods that border Human areas and patrol. Protect the Human encampments from the invading Morlocks. Do it legally, and call the police to actually grab the criminal n*gs, but be out there in force watching & filming these things.
ref: Quoted in: 2020, Martina Althoff, Bernd Dollinger, Holger Schmidt, Conflicting Narratives of Crime and Punishment (page 155)
glosses: A brutish troglodyte.
Morlocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Morlock
Mother Superior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mothers Superior
form: Mother Superiors
Senses: glosses: The head of a convent; an abbess.
Mother Superiors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mother Superior
Lazarist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lazarists
Etymology: From French lazariste, from Lazare + -iste (“-ist”), from the order's first large headquarters, the Enclos Saint-Lazare (“St Lazarus Enclosure”) in Paris, derived from its former use as a Hospitaller leprosarium.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Congregation of the Priests of the Mission founded by St Vincent de Paul.
Lazarist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French lazariste, from Lazare + -iste (“-ist”), from the order's first large headquarters, the Enclos Saint-Lazare (“St Lazarus Enclosure”) in Paris, derived from its former use as a Hospitaller leprosarium.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to this order.
Sturmabteilung
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈʃtʊɹm.æbˌtaɪ.lʊŋ/
Forms: form: SA
Etymology: Borrowed from German Sturmabteilung.
Senses: coordinate_terms: Waffen-SS
Wehrmacht
Schutzstaffel
glosses: A paramilitary division under the German Nazi Party, operating from 1921 until being disbanded in 1934.
all cats are grey at night
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: No matter how capable and cultivated the mind, how subtle and sensitive the spirit, the individual Negro is still not free. "All cats are grey at night," and it is still long hours to go before dawn, over much of America. They order these things better in France. Double the honor, then, when a Negro succeeds, for half the strength of his genius must be spent in raising himself to the level of his inferiors, in overcoming the handicap of color.
ref: 1937, Arnold Gingrich, “Another Salute to the Living”, in Esquire, volume 8, number 3, page 5:
glosses: Alternative form of all cats are grey in the dark.
all cats are gray at night
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of all cats are grey in the dark.
all cats are gray in the dark
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Standard spelling of all cats are grey in the dark.
cingulotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cingulotomy
Shambala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Shambhala (“mythical realm”).
Shambala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kishambala
Senses: glosses: A Bantu language of Tanzania.
FLC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FLCs
Senses: qualifier: maritime industry
glosses: Initialism of full load container.
qualifier: waste management
glosses: Initialism of Front Load Container.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of fighting load carrier.
dreamily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dreamily
form: most dreamily
Etymology: From dreamy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "There are no women like the Arab women," said Haji Zainal Abidin dreamily, lyrically.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 236:
glosses: In a dreamy manner.
dreadfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dreadfulnesses
Etymology: From Middle English dredfulnesse, dredefulnesse, equivalent to dreadful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being dreadful.
drawn-out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more drawn-out
form: most drawn-out
Senses: glosses: Protracted, made to take a longer period of time than necessary.
Derived terms: long-drawn-out
druidism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: druidisms
form: Druidism
Etymology: From druid + -ism.
Senses: synonyms: Druidry
Druidism
glosses: The religion, philosophical beliefs, and attendant ritual practices of the druids.
Derived terms: neo-druidism
coenurosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coenuroses
Etymology: From New Latin coenurus + -osis.
Senses: glosses: A parasitic infestation of Taenia tapeworm larvae; most common in ungulates and canids
glosses: The disease caused by such an infestation
Related terms: coenurus
gid
sturdy
turnsick
coenurus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈn(j)ʊɹ.əs/
ipa: /siːˈn(j)ʊɹ.əs/
Forms: form: coenuri
Etymology: From New Latin, from Ancient Greek κοινός (koinós, “common”) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”) + -ος (-os, nominal suffix).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A complex tapeworm larva growing interstitially in vertebrate tissues and consisting of a large fluid-filled sac from the inner wall of which numerous scolices develop.
Derived terms: coenurosis
coesite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coesites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A high-pressure polymorph of silica found in extreme conditions such as the impact craters of meteorites, with the chemical composition of silicon dioxide, SiO₂.
cogeneration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cogenerations
Etymology: From co- + generation.
Senses: glosses: The production of heat and/or power from the waste energy of an industrial process.
glosses: The simultaneous or serial production of heat and electricity from the same source.
examples: text: The book project is part of a larger effort by Future Earth to build mechanisms for cogeneration of knowledge […]
ref: 2018, Thomas Elmqvist, The Urban Planet: Knowledge Towards Sustainable Cities, page xxix:
glosses: Joint generation; cocreation.
Synonyms: sense: combined heat and power
word: CHP
Related terms: generation
trigeneration
colemanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colemanites
Etymology: From Coleman + -ite, named after William Tell Coleman (1824-1893) in 1884.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A white, grey or colorless mineral form of calcium borate; a principal source of boron.
wikipedia: William Tell Coleman
ball of the thumb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balls of the thumb
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The fleshy portion, opposite the nail, of the first segment (first phalange) of the human thumb.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The most fleshy portion of the palm of the human hand, located adjacent to the second joint of the thumb: the thenar eminence.
sciaena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sciaenas
Etymology: From Latin sciaena, from Ancient Greek σκίαινα (skíaina, “a sea-fish”, perhaps “a kind of grayling” or “ombre”), from σκιά (skiá, “shadow, shade”) and -ινα (-ina, suffix forming related feminine nouns).
Senses: glosses: Any of several nocturnal fish, of the genus Sciaena, from the Eastern Atlantic, Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea; a croaker.
give someone the boot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives someone the boot
form: giving someone the boot
form: gave someone the boot
form: given someone the boot
Senses: examples: text: I am sorry for your husband and children, but I have to give you the boot.
text: They said I couldn't do the job and gave me the boot. So, now I'm looking for work again.
info_templates: extra_data: words: to
expansion: [with to]
glosses: To fire, sack, or eject someone.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see give, the, boot.
hustle and bustle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hustle-bustle
Senses: examples: text: He moved to his parents' farm to have a break from the hustle and bustle of the big city.
glosses: A large amount of activity and work, usually in a noisy surrounding.
Derived terms: hustly-bustly
break away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breaks away
form: breaking away
form: broke away
form: broken away
Senses: examples: text: She was brought up in a very religious household, but broke away from the church in her teens.
glosses: To leave suddenly.
examples: text: A chunk of rock broke away from the cliff edge.
glosses: To become separated, literally or figuratively.
Derived terms: word: breakaway
Related terms: break down
break in
break out
break up
hot mess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɑt ˈmɛs/
Forms: form: hot messes
Etymology: hot (“warm”) + mess (“meal; soldiers who eat together”).
Senses: examples: text: "Smallbones," said the lieutenant, after trying the hot mess before him, and finding that he was still in danger of burning his mouth, "bring me the red-herring."
ref: 1836 April 29, Frederick Marryat, “Snarleyyow, or the Dog Fiend”, in Arkansas Advocate, volume vii, number 4, Little Rock, AR, page 1:
text: 1 lb. pemican; ¼ lb. pork; ¾ lb. biscuit; ¼ lb flour or bread dust, to mix with pemican into a hot mess;
ref: 1852 January 1, F. L. McClintock, “Lieutenant McClintock to Mr. Fegn, Secretary of the Arctic Committee”, in Morning Post, number 24355, London, page 3:
text: I heard several of the enlisted men make the statement that Company C had provided hot mess for fully a thousand men of other units during the second day of the recent drive in and around Cheppy and Charpentry.
ref: 1919, James Thayer Addison, The Story of the First Gas Regiment, page 150:
text: He provided for a hot mess and he got the men up off the floor with improvised bunks.
ref: 1974, Langdon Sully, No Tears for the General: The Life of Alfred Sully, 1821-1879, page 119:
text: The men there would have settled for a Coleman stove and a hot-mess line, but the greatest contribution to their spirits, plus or minus, was mail call.
ref: 1980, William Manchester, Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War, page 260:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A warm meal, usually cooked in a large pot, often similar to a stew or porridge; service of such a heated meal to soldiers.
hot mess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɑt ˈmɛs/
Forms: form: hot messes
Etymology: hot (“uncomfortable”) or hot (“attractive”) + mess (“disarray”).
Senses: examples: text: The politician's in a hot mess since the women got the vote -- his wife threatened not to vote for his candidate unless he wipes the dishes.
ref: 1919 November 13, “The Periscope”, in Camden Post-Telegram, number 8134, Camden, NJ, page 5:
text: We’re a hot mess, this bad-tempered country of ours. More than 40 percent of Republicans are slouching toward full-blown autocracy, favorably disposed, in one poll, toward a presidency unfettered by constitutional checks and balances.
ref: 2019 December 6, Timothy Egan, “America the Hot Mess”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: train wreck
car crash
dumpster fire
shit show
glosses: A situation or object in a state of extreme disarray.
examples: text: My hair had two months of roots exposed. My brows were overgrown. I was a hot mess. And I was fat.
ref: 2003, Karyn Bosnak, Save Karyn: One Shopaholic's Journey to Debt and Back, page 271:
text: "Girl, you're a hot mess, but we're cool," she assured her, but her next words were a warning. "But you really need to stop blurting out the first thing that comes to your mind..."
ref: 2005, Desiree Day, Crazy Love, page 72:
text: Well, you're a hot mess and I'm falling for you, and I'm like hot damn, let me make you my boo, […] You're a hot mess, I'm loving it, hell yes!
ref: 2009, Cobra Starship, Hot Mess (song on the album Hot Mess)
glosses: A disheveled or unbalanced person, particularly one who is nevertheless, or therefore, attractive.
examples: text: I'm in a hot mess.
glosses: Trouble.
see mui
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Cantonese 西梅 (sai1 mui4-2, “prune”), via Hawaii.
Senses: glosses: crack seed
Related terms: li hing mui
li hing mui
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Cantonese, perhaps 旅行梅 (leoi5 hang4 mui4-2, literally “travelling plum”), via Hawaii.
Senses: glosses: crack seed
Related terms: mui
salarymen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salaryman
sex act
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sex acts
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, the act which is instinctive at one time or in a certain stage of development may not be instinctive at another time or in another stage. The sex act, although instinctive in animals and in primitive human races, is not instinctive in civilized man.
ref: 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 4:
glosses: Synonym of sexual act.
synonyms: word: sexual act
neophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /niːəˈfəʊbɪə/
Forms: form: neophobias
Etymology: From neo- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he murdering of Mormons and the massacring of Armenians, express much rather that aboriginal human neophobia, […] than they express the positive piety of the various perpetrators.
ref: 1902, William James, “Lectures XIV and XV: The Value of Saintliness”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 338:
text: In response to the other July/August request, for a word to describe a "fear of inadvertently throwing something valuable out with the garbage," many, many phobias arrived. Evidently the readers who sent them in suffer from neither doxophobia (fear of expressing opinions) nor neophobia (fear of anything new or novel), and some would even seem to be remarkably free of catagelophobia (fear of being ridiculed).
ref: 2001 December 24, Barbara Wallraff, “Word Fugitives”, in Michael Kelly, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 May 2013:
text: Between 6 and 12 months, babies are more open to new foods — and new experiences — than they will be later on as toddlers, when a certain amount of “neophobia” or “new means no” is developmentally normal, Ms. Lipner said. “Normal kids transition through a normal pickiness phase,” around 18 months, she said, when “they’re also learning autonomy and control.”
ref: 2018 June 4, Perri Klass, M.D., “When New Means No: Picky Eating as a Normal Toddler Phase”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 21 Aug 2018:
synonyms: cainophobia
cainotophobia
misoneism
traditionalism
antonyms: neophilia
glosses: The fear or hatred of novelty, new things, innovation, or unfamiliar places or situations.
Related terms: neophobe
neophobiac
neophobic
conservatism
Akhaury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Akhauri
form: Akhoury
form: Akhouri
Senses: glosses: A surname from Northern India.
Akhoury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Akhaury: a surname from Northern India.
devacuumization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + vacuum + -ization.
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: The process of which a vacuum loses its integrity and allows atmosphere to flow into it. For example, a broken cathode ray tube (CRT) will devacuumize and allow air to flow into it.
Euronesian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Euronesian
form: most Euronesian
Etymology: Blend of European + Polynesian (from 1938 proposal on Pacific Monthly)
Senses: glosses: Of mixed European and Pacific Islander ancestry, regardless of the continent of origin.
Euronesian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Euronesians
Etymology: Blend of European + Polynesian (from 1938 proposal on Pacific Monthly)
Senses: glosses: An individual of mixed European and Pacific Islander ancestry, regardless of continent of origin.
Evangeline
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɪvænd͡ʒəˈliːn/
Etymology: Invented by the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow when he began research on his epic poem Evangeline about Acadian lovers deported from French-Canada. From Ancient Greek εὐαγγέλιον (euangélion, “good news”).
Senses: examples: text: Half-way down the shore Evangeline waited in silence,
Not overcome with grief, but strong in the hour of affliction.
ref: 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II):
text: "What's the little missy's name?" said Tom, at last, when he thought matters were ripe to push such an inquiry.
"Evangeline St. Clare," said the little one, "though papa and everybody else call me Eva."
ref: 1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter 14, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, →OCLC:
glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage.
wikipedia: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Derived terms: Evangeline Parish
grupetto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grupettos
form: gruppetto
form: groupetto
Etymology: From Italian.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A group of notes played together that are added to the melody, also known as the "turn" or grace notes.
glosses: A small group.
qualifier: professional road cycling
glosses: The trailing group of riders in a stage race that tries to finish the race stage in which it was formed at a time just under the cut-off time for when they would otherwise be disqualified from continuing on to the next stage of the race.
hibernaculum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪ.bəˈnak.juː.ləm/
ipa: /ˌhaɪ.bəɹˈnæk.jə.ləm/
Forms: form: hibernacula
Etymology: From Latin hībernāculum (“winter quarters”).
Senses: examples: text: Aeolus Cave, which is set into a wooded hillside in Dorset, Vermont, is believed to be the largest bat hibernaculum in New England; it is estimated that before white-nose hit, nearly three hundred thousand bats—some from as far away as Ontario and Rhode Island—came there to spend the winter.
ref: 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 10, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company:
text: In winter, NLEBs use caves and mines as hibernacula.⁹⁴ Suitable habitat for the NLEB is present within the Proposed Route.
ref: 2024 August 19, “LAKETOWN 115-kV TRANSMISSION LINE PROJECT IN CARVER COUNTY, MN”, in Great River Energy, page 98:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The place where a hibernating animal shelters for the winter.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A bud, case, or protective covering that a plant uses to survive the challenging environmental conditions during a dormancy period.
Related terms: hibernacle
turion
nightcap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnaɪtˌkæp/
Forms: form: nightcaps
form: night cap
form: night-cap
Etymology: From night + cap.
Senses: examples: text: Winston wore a nightcap to stave off the cold.
topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A warm cloth cap worn while sleeping, often with pajamas, being common attire in northern Europe before effective home heating became widespread.
examples: text: I'll make myself a nightcap of whisky and lemon before heading to bed.
text: You know the other night, when I had dinner with Afro-Dite? When Jo was in San Francisco? Well we dropped into the Sinners, right, just for a nightcap.
ref: 1980 August 2, Andrea F. Loewenstein, “Random Lust”, in Gay Community News, page 14:
text: This week I took up the relatively simple challenge of buying breakfast, lunch and dinner—and a nightcap—exclusively from konbini, as well as completing a couple of admin tasks.
ref: 2024 November 8, Justin McCurry, “Coffee, sandwiches, underwear, beer: a day in the life of Japan’s beloved konbini stores”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A beverage drunk before bed that is usually alcoholic.
examples: text: "[…] and as a nightcap I happened to pick the copy of Plato […]"
ref: 1920, Granville Stanley Hall, Recreations of a Psychologist:
glosses: Something that a person reads or listens to before bed.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The final match of a sporting contest, especially the second game of a baseball doubleheader.
glosses: A cap drawn over the face of the condemned person before they are hanged.
Derived terms: nightcapped
nightcap oak
nightcap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnaɪtˌkæp/
Forms: form: nightcaps
form: nightcapping
form: nightcapped
form: nightcapped
form: night cap
form: night-cap
Etymology: From night + cap.
Senses: examples: text: Even better than breakfast, though, is nightcapping at the Waffle House . Nightcapping happens after the bars close, but before the southern sunrise: the hours when their jukeboxes play “Freebird” on a continual loop, […]
ref: 2010, Mark Decarlo, Fork on the Road: 400 Cities/One Stomach, page 229:
text: We nightcapped at the Four Seasons Hotel George V, on the most extravagant cocktails I'd ever purchased in life.
ref: 2020, Mitchell Jackson, Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family, page 143:
glosses: To drink an alcoholic beverage shortly before retiring to bed.
palpebral fissure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palpebral fissures
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The separation between the upper and lower eyelids.
polished rice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polished rices
Senses: glosses: rice with the husk or outer brown layers removed; white rice
tiniest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of tiny: most tiny
scariest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This is one of the scariest books I have ever read!
glosses: superlative form of scary: most scary
pachycaul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpækɪkɔl/
ipa: /ˈpækɪkɔːl/
Forms: form: pachycauls
Etymology: From pachy- (“thick”) + Ancient Greek καυλός (kaulós, “stem”).
Senses: antonyms: leptocaul
glosses: Any of several primitive tropical trees that have a thick stem and few or no branches.
Derived terms: pachycaulous
pachycauly
pachycaul
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpækɪkɔl/
ipa: /ˈpækɪkɔːl/
Etymology: From pachy- (“thick”) + Ancient Greek καυλός (kaulós, “stem”).
Senses: antonyms: leptocaul
glosses: Of or relating to such plants; pachycaulous.
Yankee land
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yankeeland
form: Yankee-land
Senses: examples: text: A mad world this, my friends, a world in its lunes[…] ever since when this rampant androgynous Bloomerism first came over from Yankee land.
ref: 1851 July–December, Thomas Snarlyle, “Bloomerism: A Latter-Day Fragment”, in Punch, volume XXI, page 217:
glosses: The United States.
glosses: The northern states region of the United States.
glosses: New England.
ffrench
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A variant of French: in some blackletter typefaces, capital F looked like (and was later taken to be) two lowercase fs. Compare fforde, ffoulkes.
Senses: glosses: An Irish barony, originally from Castle ffrench in Galway.
glosses: A surname: an English and Irish surname from the same source.
no sweat
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Without problems or difficulties.
Related terms: no problem
no problemo
no worries
art movie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: art movies
Senses: glosses: Any cinema movie intended to be an artistic work rather than a commercial movie of mass appeal
Synonyms: art film
art film
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: art films
Senses: glosses: A cinematic film intended to be an artistic work rather than a commercial film having mass appeal.
Synonyms: art movie
Related terms: art house
asthenozoospermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more asthenozoospermic
form: most asthenozoospermic
Etymology: From asthenozoospermia + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to asthenozoospermia.
hypospermatogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + spermato- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The condition of having decreased sperm production.
normozoospermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From normo- + zoospermic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Having a normal sperm production
oligozoospermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oligozoospermic
form: most oligozoospermic
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to oligozoospermia.
pygostyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpaɪɡəstaɪl/
Forms: form: pygostyles
Etymology: From English pygo- + Ancient Greek στῦλος (stûlos, “column”).
Senses: examples: text: Aderyn the Bird Queen sat down; her pygostyle engaged a hard wooden bottom.
ref: 1971, Anthony Burgess, M/F, Penguin, published 2004, page 158:
synonyms: parson's nose
ploughshare bone
pope's nose
sultan's nose
glosses: The plate supporting the tail-feathers in birds, formed from fused vertebrae.
Derived terms: propygostylar
ternary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɜː.nə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈtɝ.nə.ɹi/
homophone: ternery
Etymology: From Late Latin ternārius (“consisting of three things”), from ternī (“three each”).
Senses: synonyms: word: treble
word: triadic
word: triple
word: triplex
word: tern
word: trinary
word: trine
word: tern
word: ternary
word: threefold
word: treble
word: triadic
word: trinary
word: trine
word: triple
glosses: Made up of three things.
glosses: Arranged in groups of three.
examples: text: Perhaps the prettiest number system of all is the balanced ternary notation
ref: 1999, Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, 3rd edition, volume 2, →ISBN, page 207:
topics: arithmetic
synonyms: trinary
glosses: To the base three.
topics: arithmetic
glosses: Having three variables.
examples: text: Sodic hydroxide, NaOH, is a ternary compound.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing, or consisting of, three different parts, as elements, atoms, groups, or radicals, which are regarded as having different functions or relations in the molecule.
examples: text: An "if…then…else" construction is called a ternary operator when it is combined in one line of a program.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Of an operator taking three operands.
Derived terms: biternary
ternary alloy
ternary code
ternary complex
ternary compound
ternary computer
ternary diagram
ternary expansion
ternary form
ternary Golay code
ternary Golay conjecture
ternary incremental representation
ternary logarithm
ternary logic
ternary name
ternary notation
ternary numeral system
ternary operation
ternary operator
ternary plot
ternary pulse code modulation
ternary quantic
ternary search
ternary search tree
ternary signal
ternary system
ternary tree
Related terms: unary
binary
tetranary