cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Bowen technique
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Godfrey Bowen.
Senses: glosses: An efficient technique for shearing sheep.
Bowenwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Bowen + work.
Senses: glosses: Bowen technique (bodywork technique)
metamorphics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metamorphic
hidden city
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hidden cities
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A connecting city between the origin and destination of a passenger flight, where a passenger can save money on the airfare by disembarking rather than continuing to the destination.
Related terms: back to back ticket
skiplagging
hidden cities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hidden city
Buteyko method
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Ukrainian doctor Konstantin Pavlovich Buteyko, who formulated its principles in the 1950s.
Senses: glosses: An alternative therapy involving the use of breathing exercises as a treatment for asthma and other conditions.
grammy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æmi
Forms: form: grammies
form: grammie
Etymology: From gramma + -y.
Senses: glosses: grandmother
grammies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grammy /grammie
PCCI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of postchemotherapy cognitive impairment.
pogono-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek πώγων (pṓgōn).
Senses: glosses: beard
Derived terms: pogonophile
pogonophobia
pogonophoran
pogonophore
pogonotrophy
Eutony
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A form of energy medicine devised by Gerda Alexander (1908–1994).
Vivation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Trade name, perhaps from Latin vīvā (“living”) + -ation.
Senses: glosses: A form of breathwork that claims to improve wellbeing through the use of circular breathing.
Bach flower therapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bach flower therapies
Senses: glosses: The use of Bach flower remedies.
Bach flower remedy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bach flower remedies
Etymology: Developed by Edward Bach in the 1930s.
Senses: glosses: A homeopathic solution of brandy and water, with extremely diluted trace amounts of flower material, supposed to treat emotional and spiritual conditions.
Bach flower remedies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bach flower remedy
e-commercial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From e- + commercial.
Senses: glosses: Relating to e-commerce.
warmongerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From warmonger + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Warlike policies and practices.
Synonyms: bellicism
warmongering
Scottish Baronial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Scots Baronial
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Of a style of architecture with its origins in the 16th century, drawing on the features of medieval castles, tower houses and the châteaux of the French Renaissance.
nanosyntax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nano- + syntax.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An approach to syntax in which the terminal nodes of syntactic parse trees may be reduced to units smaller than a morpheme.
Related terms: nanosyntactic
nanosyntactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nano- + syntactic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to nanosyntax.
user-unfriendly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more user-unfriendly
form: most user-unfriendly
Senses: examples: text: Does the [rail] industry really want customers? If so, why does it make the whole ticketing experience so user-unfriendly?
ref: 2022 September 21, Barry Doe, “Errors continue as journey break rules aren't explained”, in RAIL, number 966, page 63:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Not helpful to users; difficult for an untrained person to use.
ID/LP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of immediate dominance/linear precedence: applied to a form of grammar that maintains separate rule sets in these two areas which (unlike in a traditional phrase structure grammar) need not be processed simultaneously.
greenhouse warming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: warming caused by the greenhouse effect
ineffectualize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ineffectualizes
form: ineffectualizing
form: ineffectualized
form: ineffectualized
Etymology: From ineffectual + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make ineffectual.
ineffectualized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ineffectualize
ineffectualizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ineffectualize
ineffectualizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ineffectualize
tommy ruff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tommy ruffs
form: tommy rough
form: tommy ruffe
Senses: glosses: Arripis georgianus, an Australasian fish; the Australian herring.
Synonyms: ruff
Rotty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rotties
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Rottie.
brain buckets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brain bucket
stunt casting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The hiring of a well-known star to play a small role, so as to generate media or studio attention.
autothrottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔ.toʊˌθɹɔ.təl/
ipa: [ˈɔ.ɾoʊˌθɹɔ.ɾəl]
rhymes: -ɒtəl
Forms: form: autothrottles
Etymology: From auto- + throttle.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An automatic throttle, allowing a pilot to control the power setting of an aircraft's engines by specifying a desired flight characteristic, rather than manually controlling fuel flow.
autothrottles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autothrottle
cryobank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryobanks
Etymology: From cryo- + bank.
Senses: examples: text: In the early 1970s, the first cryobanks, largely run by men, opened in the United States, offering frozen sperm from anonymous donors (often college students), mostly to infertile couples.
ref: 2019 June 26, Susan Dominus, “Sperm Donors Can’t Stay Secret Anymore. Here’s What That Means.”, in New York Times:
hypernyms: biobank
glosses: A biobank where cryogenically preserved material is stored.
cryobank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cryobanks
form: cryobanking
form: cryobanked
form: cryobanked
Etymology: From cryo- + bank.
Senses: glosses: To store in such a biobank.
cryobanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryobank
greenschist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greenschists
form: green schist
Etymology: From green + schist.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrology
glosses: A metamorphic rock formed at low temperature and pressure, often with an abundance of green minerals such as chlorite, serpentine, and epidote.
Derived terms: greenschistic
greenschistose
greenschists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greenschist
baby's tears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbeɪbiz ˈtɪəz/
ipa: /ˌbeɪbiz ˈtɪəɹz/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)z
Forms: form: babies' tears
Etymology: From baby + -’s + tears.
Senses: synonyms: mind-your-own-business
mother of thousands
glosses: Any of various plants having parts (such as leaves or spots on leaves, petals, etc.) resembling teardrops; specifically, angel's tears (Soleirolia soleirolii), a plant in the nettle family grown as a green, mossy ground cover.
Related terms: baby's breath
chlorastrolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chlorastrolites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós, “green”) + ἄστρον (ástron, “star”) (in allusion to its appearance) + λίθος (líthos, “stone”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A green or bluish variety of pumpellyite.
chlorastrolites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chlorastrolite
autolith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoliths
Etymology: From auto- + -lith.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A rock fragment that has become enveloped in a larger rock of a similar type, during the latter's development and hardening.
Related terms: autolithic
xenolith
autoliths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autolith
autotrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autotrains
Etymology: From auto- + train.
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A type of push-pull train incorporating a tank engine and passenger coaches fitted with a driver's cab.
autotrains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autotrain
railmotor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: railmotors
form: rail-motor
form: rail motor
Etymology: From rail + motor.
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A lightweight railcar.
railmotors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of railmotor
uigite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Uig + -ite, after the village on Skye.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of chlorastrolite found on the island of Skye.
zonochlorite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: chlorastrolite found in rounded masses within or weathered out of amygdaloidal cavities
cryptodire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryptodires
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the Cryptodira, the taxonomic suborder of Testudines that includes most living tortoises and turtles.
cryptodires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryptodire
septuplex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin septem (“seven”) + plico (“fold together”).
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:septuplex.
glosses: Sevenfold; made up of seven parts.
Related terms: multiplex
duplex
septuple
cryptodiran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryptodirans
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the Cryptodira, the taxonomic suborder of Testudines that includes most living tortoises and turtles.
cryptodirans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryptodiran
greyschist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greyschists
Etymology: From grey + schist.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of grayschist.
greyschists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greyschist
grayschists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grayschist
gynecophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Within classical CAH, commonly two major subtypes are distinguished, the more severe salt-wasting (SW) variant and the simple virilizing (SV) variant, and several studies have shown that bisexuality and homosexuality are increased more in the SW than the SV variant […] or in CAH women with higher Prader stages of genital masculinization at birth, which are also (moderately) correlated with CAH severity (Gastaud et al., 2007); the earlier finding by our team that CAH-SW women with gender dysphoria are gynecophilic fits in with the other data (Meyer-Bahlburg et al., 1996).
ref: 2007 December 22, Heino F. L. Meyer-Bahlburg, Curtis Dolezal, Susan W. Baker, Maria I. New, “Sexual Orientation in Women with Classical or Non-classical Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia as a Function of Degree of Prenatal”, in Archives of Sexual Behavior, volume 37, number 1, →DOI:
glosses: Sexually attracted to women.
Related terms: androphilic
gynecophilia
androphilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From andro- + -philic.
Senses: glosses: Sexually attracted to men.
Derived terms: autoandrophilic
nonandrophilic
Related terms: androphilia
gynecophilic
scorelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scoreless + -ness.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The property of being scoreless; lack of any points scored.
synucleopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synucleopathy
autolanding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autolandings
Etymology: From auto- + landing.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: autoland
glosses: A landing made automatically by a system on the aircraft, with the flight crew only supervising the process.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The process and procedure of autolanding, the action of to autoland.
autolanding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From autoland + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of autoland
Related terms: autoland
autopilot
autothrottle
DME
glidepath
glideslope
GPS
ILS
meatball
MLS
NDB
TACAN
VLAN
VOR
VORTAC
autoland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autolands
Etymology: From auto- + land.
Senses: examples: text: Autolands are useful in bad weather conditions.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An instance of autolanding.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: autolander
coordinate_terms: ILS
MLS
VOR
VORTAC
DME
autopilot
glidepath
centreline
glosses: A system which automatically lands a plane under autopilot
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: autolander
coordinate_terms: ILS
MLS
VOR
VORTAC
DME
autopilot
glidepath
centreline
airframe parachute
ejection seat
stickshaker
TCAS
GPWS
glosses: A system which automatically lands a plane under autopilot
An emergency landing system which automatically lands a plane under autopilot, while issuing automated radio notices of its operating mode.
autoland
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autolands
form: autolanding
form: autolanded
form: autolanded
Etymology: From auto- + land.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To perform an autolanding.
autolandings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autolanding
autolands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autoland
autolands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present of autoland
Scotch plough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Scotch ploughs
form: Scots plough
Etymology: Invented in the 19th century by a Scotsman, James Anderson of Hermiston.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A wood and iron animal-drawn plough.
Scotch ploughs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Scotch plough
havey-cavey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /heɪ.vi.keɪ.vi/
rhymes: -eɪvi
Etymology: Unknown
Senses: glosses: Dubious, shady.
phototelegraphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + telegraphic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to phototelegraphy.
phototelegraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phototelegraphs
Etymology: From photo- + telegraph.
Senses: glosses: An image transmitted by phototelegraphy.
phototelegraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phototelegraph
kinetoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The technology of the kinetoscope.
kinetoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From kinetoscope + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the kinetoscope.
kinetographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kinetograph
fittish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fittishes
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of fetish.
flameful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flameful
form: most flameful
Etymology: From flame + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Full of flame; fiery.
flasklet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flasklets
Etymology: From flask + -let.
Senses: glosses: A small flask; a phial.
flasklets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flasklet
flatteress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flatteresses
Etymology: From flatter + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female flatterer
flatteresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flatteress
unmarkedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unmarked + -ness.
Senses: examples: the unmarkedness of a form of language
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The quality of being unmarked (not standing out as unusual).
foulish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foulish
form: most foulish
Etymology: From foul + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: His nose was suddenly assaulted by a foulish odor.
ref: 2008, Kevin Wright Carney, A Cold Night in the Atlantic, page 144:
glosses: Somewhat foul.
foulish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foulish
form: most foulish
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of foolish.
Edisonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛdɪˈsəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌɛdɪˈsoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Edisonian
form: most Edisonian
Etymology: From Edison + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The Edisonian approach to innovation is characterized by trial-and-error discovery rather than a systematic theoretical approach.
glosses: Of or relating to the American inventor Thomas Edison.
forbiddable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From forbid + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being forbidden.
fordage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fordages
Etymology: From ford + -age.
Senses: glosses: The act of fording a river, etc.
glosses: A point at which fording a river, etc. is possible.
aforespecified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From afore- + specified.
Senses: glosses: Specified before, i.e. earlier in the same document.
forespecified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fore- + specified.
Senses: glosses: Specified before, i.e. earlier in the same document.
forewarner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forewarners
Etymology: From Middle English forwarner, equivalent to forewarn + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who forewarns.
forewarners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forewarner
fraternality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fraternal + -ity.
Senses: glosses: brotherliness
fromage frais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fromages frais
Etymology: From French.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fromage blanc.
synonyms: word: fromage blanc
froghood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From frog + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state or period of being a frog.
frondiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more frondiform
form: most frondiform
Etymology: From frond + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Shaped like a frond.
frontierman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frontiermen
Etymology: From frontier + -man.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of frontiersman.
frontiermen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frontierman
frontierwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frontierwomen
Etymology: From frontier + woman.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of frontierswoman.
frontierwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frontierwoman
frowstiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of frowsty: most frowsty
frowstier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of frowsty: more frowsty
frowstiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From frowsty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being frowsty.
flareless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From flare + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a flare.
fraternalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fraternalisms
Etymology: From fraternal + -ism.
Senses: glosses: fraternal policies or practices; brotherliness
Related terms: fraternalistic
floodless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From flood + -less.
Senses: examples: text: the floodless season
glosses: Without floods.
Derived terms: floodlessness
floatless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From float + -less.
Senses: examples: a floatless ballcock
glosses: Without a float.
flinchless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flinchless
form: most flinchless
Etymology: From flinch + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The pale, inscrutable determinateness, and flinchless intrepidity of Pierre, now began to domineer upon them; for any social unusualness or greatness is sometimes most impressive in the retrospect.
ref: 1852 July, Herman Melville, “Book XXIV. Lucy at the Apostles’.”, in Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, section IV, page 445:
glosses: Unflinching; boldly resolute.
peow
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Imitative; compare pow.
Senses: examples: text: As I fire, I think, I am so glad these aliens aren't experienced fighters, because they're all lined up ready to fire at me, but at four hundred lasers per second, I'd like to see them dodge it. “Peow, peow, peow!” Six seconds and they're all dead […]
ref: 2012, Rohan Draper, Sunny and Mayo:
glosses: Sound of a gun or similar weapon firing.
raw_tags: in children's games
fossildom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fossil + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: I witnessed the slow burial of dead shells and bones, whose long journey toward fossildom was just beginning.
ref: 1998, Peter D. Ward, Time Machines: Scientific Explorations in Deep Time, page 9:
glosses: The realm or sphere of fossils.
fossiled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fossil + -ed.
Senses: glosses: fossilized; converted into a fossil
tilemap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tilemaps
Etymology: From tile + map.
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A two-dimensional grid made up of rectangular tiles of equal size, each of which can display an image.
Related terms: tileset
tilemaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tilemap
fleshlihood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fleshly + -hood.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being fleshly; carnality.
fodderless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fodder + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without fodder.
footballist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footballists
Etymology: From football + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: But that jolly crowd, composed mostly of athletes and footballists, had little mind for the serious affairs of life, and nothing was done.
ref: 1903, The Kappa Alpha Journal, volume 21, page 588:
text: 9 Lisbon street is headquarters for the footballists for both field and street attire.
ref: 1905, Board of Trade Journal, volume 18, page 436:
text: Anyhow, hunters are a brave lot of men to face such large chances of death, as brave as beefy footballists.
ref: 1913, American Medicine, volume 19, page 773:
glosses: A football player.
footballists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of footballist
foulmouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foulmouths
Etymology: From foul + mouth.
Senses: glosses: A foul-mouthed person; one who uses obscene language.
foulmouths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foulmouth
forestish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more forestish
form: most forestish
Etymology: From forest + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The country near this place begins to look forestish. Cottages, as usual, neat, and overgrown with roses and honeysuckle, though ever so poor; a bit of lawn and gravel-walk to the door, in imitation of gentlemen's cottages.
ref: 1815, Louis Simond, Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain:
glosses: Characteristic of a forest.
forestful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forestfuls
form: forestsful
Etymology: From forest + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Enough to fill a forest.
forestfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forestful
forestsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forestful
foulsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfaʊlsəm/
Forms: form: more foulsome
form: most foulsome
Etymology: A variant of fulsome, from Middle English fulsome (“arousing disgust, loathsome”), remodelled after foul. Equivalent to foul + -some. Cognate with Scots foulsome, fowsum.
Senses: examples: text: “Hah. And a good thing it is that you have. It's almost time for us to leave this foulsome planet, and we'll be needing all the help we can muster.” “It's not a foulsome planet!” Rita snapped.
ref: 1983, Ben Bova, Gremlins Go Home:
text: Manure thus becomes a symbol of the alchemy effected by divine grace, which is capable of transforming something odious and foulsome into something beautiful and glorious, thus making us meritorious of heavenly reward: [...]
ref: 1998, A. Jesuraja, Glimpses of the Divine:
text: This made for an even more “foulsome, suffocating abode.” Men lay in swaying canvas hammocks, or packed side by side on the floor, scratching at omnipresent lice and breathing fetid air reeking of unwashed bodies and rank breath.
ref: 2009, Diana Preston, A Pirate of Exquisite Mind:
text: In particular, speakers most elaborately characterized the interjection chix, which indexes foulsome things, the interjection uyaluy, which indexes dangerous things, and the interjection ay, when it indexes painful events.
ref: 2010, Paul Kockelman, Language, Culture, and Mind:
text: The lead seals confining the liquefying body of the former king were not secure and foulsome black ooze seeped from one edge.
ref: 2011, Elizabeth Chadwick, Lady of the English:
glosses: Characterised or marked by foulness or filth; filthy; (by extension) wretched.
foundable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From found + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being founded or based (on or upon something).
fountainous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaʊntɪnəs/
Forms: form: more fountainous
form: most fountainous
Etymology: From fountain + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a fountain.
Derived terms: fountainously
foxless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fox + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without foxes.
floodlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floodlets
Etymology: From flood + -let.
Senses: examples: text: This flood, or rather floodlet, was a veritable godsend, because it cleaned the river bed of the accumulated dirt of months and washed away great quantities of insect life which make the trout decline the angler's lure.
ref: 1937, Alexander Wanless, Rods on Fast Rivers: An Angling Survey, page 83:
glosses: A small flood.
floodlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floodlet
flaxenish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flaxenish
form: most flaxenish
Etymology: From flaxen + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat flaxen.
fleshlily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fleshlily
form: most fleshlily
Etymology: From fleshly + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a fleshly or carnal manner.
flavindin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A pale yellow substance, isomeric with indin and indigo blue, produced by the action of potash on indin.
semichoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + choral.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a semichorus.
floorwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From floor + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: While our feet struck glories / Outward, smooth and fair, / Which we stood on floorwise, / Platformed in mid air.
ref: 1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “A Drama of Exile”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 32:
glosses: Like a floor.
floorwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From floor + -wise.
Senses: examples: floorwise building plans; floorwise area calculations
glosses: Based on, or in terms of, the floor.
flexuosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flexuosities
Senses: glosses: Quality of being flexuous.
glosses: A flexuous point; a sinuous curve.
flexuosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flexuosity
common starling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common starlings
Etymology: Calque of translingual Sturnus vulgaris, via common + starling.
Senses: glosses: A bird of the species Sturnus vulgaris.
Synonyms: sense: Sturnus vulgaris
word: European starling
sense: Sturnus vulgaris
word: starling
European starling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: European starlings
Senses: glosses: A bird of the species Sturnus vulgaris
Synonyms: sense: Sturnus vulgaris
word: common starling
sense: Sturnus vulgaris
word: starling
friarship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: friarships
Etymology: From friar + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: What was my astonishment, when I began to examine my new domicile, to find that my amusing acquaintance conjoined to his friarship the respectable trades of itinerant carpenter and chandler.
ref: 1826, Frederick Reynolds, The Life and Times of Frederick Reynolds:
glosses: The state, personality, or character of a friar.
examples: his friarship
glosses: A compellation for a friar.
friarships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of friarship
flocculency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flocculencies
Senses: glosses: The quality of being flocculent.
glosses: A flocculent mass.
flavanthrone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flavanthrones
Senses: glosses: A certain yellow dye, Vat Yellow 1.
vat dyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vat dye
flavorer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flavorers
Etymology: From flavor + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which flavors.
flavorers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flavorer
flavourer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flavourers
Etymology: From flavour + -er.
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of flavorer.
flavourers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flavourer
freshish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more freshish
form: most freshish
Etymology: From fresh + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat fresh.
friarhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: friarhoods
Etymology: From friar + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state or period of being a friar.
flexdollar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flexdollars
Etymology: Short for flexible dollar.
Senses: examples: text: The difference in value between the pre-flexible benefit plan and the core plan was returned to each participating employee as an individually determined flexdollar allowance.
ref: 1982, Pension World, volume 18, page 89:
text: This option allows employees to put flexible credits — the company calls them flexdollars — into the account, to be used for medical expenses not already covered. Flexdollars can be kept in the account from year to year, until needed.
ref: 1982 May, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, volume 36, number 5, page 51:
text: Employees will get profit-sharing amounts in the form of "flexdollars." Those who deposit the flexdollars in the company profit-sharing plan will have the amount matched dollar—for-dollar by the company.
ref: 1985, Human Resource Management News, page 202:
topics: business
finance
glosses: An amount of money, paid by an employer to an employee, that can be spent on any of various benefits.
flexdollars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flexdollar
flareback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flarebacks
Etymology: From flare + back.
Senses: glosses: A burst of flame emitted from a cannon, furnace, etc. in an abnormal direction.
flarebacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flareback
fracturable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fracture + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being fractured
Related terms: fracturability
flectionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From flection + -less.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of flexionless.
flexionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: flectionless
Etymology: From flexion + -less.
Senses: examples: text: [S]ome scholars have inclined to the view that the mixing of Scandinavian dialects and those of the Anglo-Saxons produced a kind of creolized (flexionless) English as the two sets of people sought to understand each other by ignoring inflexions[.]
ref: 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 2:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: inflectionless
flatterous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flatterous
form: most flatterous
Etymology: From flatter + -ous.
Senses: glosses: flattering
icicle plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: icicle plants
Senses: examples: text: Deck out your view with a winter motif using small-in-stature Alberta spruce (which will maintain its chartreuse green color all winter) and icicle plant (which may fail to overwinter in some climates but holds its icy white form).
ref: 2006, Miracle-Gro, Instant Gardens: High-Impact Makeovers That Look Great Right Now, page 54:
glosses: A plant in the daisy family, Asteraceae, with long, powdery-white leaves (Helichrysum thianschanicum).
examples: text: As an example, I looked up alternatives to icicle plant (mesembryanthemum) for the Southern California area and found eight different species, including several local native ground covers that could be substituted for the ubiquitous succulent along our freeways.
ref: 2007, California Garden, page 33:
text: So-called icicle plants, their leaves thick and waxen, crept across the drifting dunes, adorning them with their own beautiful blooms.
ref: 1970, Weldon Philip Keller, Under desert skies, page 231:
text: So, I watched from behind an icicle plant bank getting angrier and angrier by the minute.
ref: 2008, Jahnets, The Rad of Jahnets:
text: Mesembryanthemum criniflorum or Dorotheanthus bellidiformis Also known as ice plant, icicle plant, pebble plant, and fig marigold.
ref: 2002, Sybille Engels, Basic Gardening: Everything You Need to Make Your Garden Grow:
glosses: Alternative form of ice plant.
flopperoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flopperoos
form: floperoo
Etymology: From flop + -eroo.
Senses: glosses: A flop; an utter failure.
flopperoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flopperoo
icicle plants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of icicle plant
freehearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more freehearted
form: most freehearted
form: free-hearted
Etymology: From Middle English free hertid; equivalent to free + hearted.
Senses: glosses: liberal; unrestrained
Derived terms: freeheartedly
freeheartedness
forewall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forewalls
Etymology: From Old English foreweall, fore- + wall.
Senses: glosses: The foremost outer wall of a fortification; rampart, bulwark.
forewalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forewall
vassal state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vassal states
Senses: examples: text: At a recent conference in Slovakia, President Emmanuel Macron of France called Belarus a “vassal state,” but said Europe bore some of the blame.
ref: 2023 June 22, Valerie Hopkins, quoting Emmanuel Macron, “Belarus Is Fast Becoming a ‘Vassal State’ of Russia”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
coordinate_terms: satellite state
glosses: A state that is subordinate to another; government chiefly directed by the interests of an overlord or patron state.
wikipedia: Emperor Taizong of Tang
Gar Tongtsen Yulsung
vassal states
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vassal state
joss house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: joss houses
Senses: glosses: A Chinese or Japanese temple.
wikipedia: Weaverville Joss House
misbreathe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misbreathes
form: misbreathing
form: misbreathed
form: misbreathed
Etymology: From mis- + breathe.
Senses: glosses: To breathe wrongly, to breathe irregularly
life insurances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of life insurance
forespread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forespreads
form: forespreading
form: forespread
form: forespread
Etymology: From fore- + spread.
Senses: examples: text: Perchance their course might be in well measured bounds forespread for good.
ref: 1910, John. H. Brownell, Arthur Maurice Smith, Joseph E. Morcombe, The American Tyler-keystone:
text: This is Bridgewallace Avenue and I don't see any time for such waddle, forespreading backspraddlers, human agent culls. The one responsible for all this is making late. He's already here but we don't see him. He's under the water stool.
ref: 2000, Clark Coolidge, Alien Tatters:
glosses: To spread before; spread in front of; spread in advance of.
Derived terms: forespreading
forespread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fore- + spread.
Senses: examples: text: There is the problem with the blandishments of a succulent forespread: Will we stay on for fish, meat, or fowl, or shall we make a do-it-yourself meal from tidbits, and let the gustatory harbingers take the hindmost?
ref: 1968, John Baillie, Lucius Hatfield Bugbee, Charles Kendall Gilbert, Religion in Life:
glosses: That which is spread or laid out before.
car glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: car glasses
Senses: glosses: windscreen, side or rear window or glass panel roof on a vehicle.
foreteam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreteams
Etymology: From fore- + team.
Senses: glosses: The front shaft or pole of a wheeled vehicle.
forfaint
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more forfaint
form: most forfaint
form: forefaint
Etymology: From for- + faint.
Senses: glosses: Very faint; languishing; pitiful; arm.
forfairn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more forfairn
form: most forfairn
form: forefairn
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English forfaren, past participle of forfaren (“to forfare”). By surface analysis, forfare + -n.
Senses: synonyms: word: exhausted
word: weary
word: bleareyed
word: bleary
word: bleary-eyed
word: bone-tired
word: bushed
word: tired out
word: spent
word: drained
word: dog-tired
word: dog-weary
word: exhausted
word: fatigued
word: forfairn
word: forlagen
word: forworn
word: heavyeyed
word: jaded
word: languid
word: enervated
word: out of gas
word: played out
word: run-down
word: shattered
word: shot
word: sleepy
word: stuffed
word: tired
word: washed out
word: weariful
word: weary
word: whacked
word: whipped
word: worn
word: worn out
word: banjaxed
word: beat
word: buggered
word: busted
word: dead tired
word: cream crackered
word: done
word: done in
word: done up
word: fagged out
word: fried
word: fucked
word: gassed
word: jiggered
word: Kerry Packered
word: knacked
word: knackered
word: nadgered
word: pooped
word: pooped out
word: pumped
word: shagged
word: shagged out
word: tuckered
word: tuckered out
word: wappened
word: zonked
glosses: Forlorn; destitute; worn out; jaded.
Legion of Honour
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Legion of Honor.
rabadi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi राबड़ी (rābṛī).
Senses: examples: text: His wife, happy coincidence, had prepared my favourite sweet, rabadi.
ref: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 3:
text: You can serve rabadi plain or with chopped fruits and nuts.
ref: 2007, Jyoti Pathak, Taste of Nepal, page 350:
text: Rabadi is traditionally used in desserts such as a pudding with nuts (Cream Pudding).
ref: 2011, Vasantha Prasad, Indian Vegetarian Cooking from an American Kitchen:
glosses: A creamy dessert made from sweetened yoghurt.
Synonyms: rabri
nautch girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nautch girls
Senses: examples: text: Great was the praise bestowed on the wise parrot, but the incensed nautch-girl said: “Be assured I will get you in my power; and when I do, I will bite off your head.”
ref: 1869 February, “Hindoo Fairy Legends”, in The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, page 144:
text: ‘I came about the nautch girl in your harem. Are you man enough to keep her under control?’
ref: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, page 9:
text: ...one expected Wrangleresses on the legendary order of Phillippa Fawcett... but certainly not this nautch-girl extravagence of looks and self-possession that Yashmeen presented.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, page 549:
text: ‘Best kind of native—kept himself busy with his shrub and his nautch-girls and his tumashers.’
ref: 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, page 47:
glosses: A dancing girl who performs the nautch.
johar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒəʊhɑː/
Forms: form: jauhar
form: juhar
Senses: examples: text: Probably the most famous immolation of women was the johar, or mass suicide, at Fort Chittor in the thirteenth century, when the Rajput women in the fort were burned to avoid being captured by a licentious Mogul invader.
ref: 1993, Leigh Minturn, Sita's Daughters, page 230:
text: No flames here, though; the last ones were quenched over two hundred years ago when Rani Padmini and her women jumped into the johar fires the day Alauddin Khilji captured Chittor.
ref: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 10:
text: Soon, light from three large fires illuminated the darkness. This was johar: the Rajputs were collectively burning their families rather than have them captured and tortured.
ref: 2003, Paul K Davis, Besieged, page 112:
glosses: The Rajput practice whereby women are sacrificed in a fire to avoid their being captured by an enemy.
tawaif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tawaifs
form: tawaif
Etymology: From Urdu طَوائِف (tavāif) / Hindi तवायफ़ (tavāyaf).
Senses: examples: text: ‘The tawaif has graduated from mere singing to dancing.’
ref: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 11:
text: Characterized by its soft eroticism, mujra was performed by courtesans called tawaif who were an integral part of life in the Mughal court.
ref: 2008, Susan Dewey, Hollow Bodies, page 147:
text: And since the British period, the reputation of a common prostitute has dogged the heels of the tawaif.
ref: 2008, Gayatri Chatterjee, in Sahni, Shankar, Apte (Eds.), Prostitution and Beyond, p. 290
glosses: A professional courtesan serving the nobility, especially under the Mughal Empire; (derogatory)
imperialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From imperial + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of imperializing.
Derived terms: deimperialization
mojari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mojaris
form: mojari
form: mojri
Etymology: From Sindhi [script needed] (mojari), from Arabic [script needed] (muzaj), from Persian [script needed] (muza).
Senses: examples: text: She placed my foot on her knee to remove my mojari.
ref: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 11:
text: He walked behind a curtained doorway and returned first with a beautiful turban and a Bollywood-style Indo-Western suit with a matching pair of mojari shoes.
ref: 2011, Pat Love, Jon Carlson, Never Be Lonely Again, page 52:
glosses: A type of handmade leather shoe or slipper traditionally worn in northern India and Pakistan.
bandhani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hindi बांधानी (bāndhānī).
Senses: glosses: A style of tie-dyeing practised in parts of India.
ghagra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡaɡɹə/
Forms: form: ghagras
form: ghaghra
Etymology: From Hindi घाघरा (ghāghrā), from Sanskrit [Term?].
Senses: examples: text: She's wearing a screeching yellow silk ghagra with a pink chunni.
ref: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 15:
glosses: A long ornamented skirt or petticoat, tightened with a drawstring and often hung with bells, worn in Rajasthan and other parts of India.
angarkha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angarkhas
Etymology: Etymology tree
Prakrit 𑀅𑀁𑀕 (aṃga)
Prakrit 𑀭𑀓𑁆𑀔 (rakkha)
Prakrit 𑀅𑀁𑀕𑀭𑀓𑁆𑀔 (aṃgarakkha)
Hindi अँगरखा (aṅgarkhā)bor.
English angarkha
Borrowed from Hindi अँगरखा (aṅgarkhā), from Prakrit 𑀅𑀁𑀕𑀭𑀓𑁆𑀔 (aṃgarakkha), from 𑀅𑀁𑀕 (aṃga) + 𑀭𑀓𑁆𑀔 (rakkha).
Senses: examples: text: I didn't need her to take my shoes off and then my turban and the angarkha.
ref: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 37:
text: And the thin muslin that made up his angarkha came all the way from Dacca in Bengal, which was the most famous centre of muslin weaving in the eighteenth-century world.
ref: 2012, Frank Trentmann (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption, page 148:
text: He wore a pagdi embroidered with gold and silver thread on his head, a tight-fitting intricately patterned angarkha, and tight pajamas buttoned at the ankles.
ref: 2015, Tridip Suhrud, translating Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi, Sarasvatichandra I, Orient BlackSwan 2015, p. 45
glosses: A traditional outer upper garment worn by men, tied using strings in place of buttons.
Muslimest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Muslim + -est
Senses: examples: text: They must be met in non-Islamic ways even by the Muslimest of Muslims. And could the purity of an Islamic homeland be respected, even if achieved?
ref: 1945, Anugraha Nārāyaṇa Siṃha, To Phillip sober: a guide to the communal problem in India, page 39
text: “And you and God the Father on either side of them?” “Like bookends.” “You are aware that Muhammad Ali is a Muslim?” “Yea, the Muslimest.” “Well, how about Frank Sinatra? Did he get left out?”
ref: 2011, John Richards, Jesus is Alive and Appearing Everywhere But Camden, page 185
text: 2014, Thomas Becker, Huddud Law. You can rape the top UMNO politician's daughter. Make sure you do not have four ... Group: soc.culture.malaysia
Just say it. Why should we get caught up by people who want to fight to be the Muslimest-Muslim they can possibly be but can't even wrap their heads around what it means to be a Muslim or even just decent people in the first place?
glosses: superlative form of Muslim: most Muslim