cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Gordian worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gordian worms
Etymology: Because it sometimes ties itself into a knot; see Gordian knot.
Senses: glosses: A horsehair worm (Nematomorpha) that fatally parasitizes insects and crustacea in its larval stage.
Gordian worms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gordian worm
fraising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fraise
supranaturalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supranaturalists
Etymology: From supranatural + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A supernaturalist.
supranaturalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supranaturalist
nine men's morris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Popularly claimed to ultimately be from Latin merellus (“gamepiece (incl. in draughts), token, etc.”); a possible connection has also been linked to French marelle (“hopscotch”).
Senses: examples: text: The nine mens Morris is fild vp with mud, / And the queint Mazes in the wanton greene,
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 149:
glosses: An ancient strategic board game for two players, each having nine pieces, and in which forming a row of three of one's own pieces earns the removal of one of the other player's pieces.
Related terms: twelve men's morris
three men's morris
halapeno
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halapenos
form: halapenoes
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of jalapeño.
rightsholding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rights + holding.
Senses: examples: a rightsholding broadcaster
glosses: Holding the legal rights to something.
radicands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radicand
halapenos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of jalapeños, plural of halapeno.
halapenoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of jalapeños, plural of halapeno.
hospitating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hospitate
hospitated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hospitate
jalapeñoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of jalapeños, plural of jalapeño.
jalapenoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of jalapenos, plural of jalapeno.
loricated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of loricate
Derived terms: illoricated
illoricated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From il- + loricated?
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Not loricated; lacking a hard shell.
intraterrestrial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intraterrestrials
Etymology: From intra- + terrestrial.
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: a microbe which lives deep underground
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
ufology
glosses: any of a race of sapient beings who live inside the Earth and operate UFOs
intraterrestrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + terrestrial.
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: Living deep underground.
illogicalnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of illogicalness
habaneroes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of habaneros, plural of habanero.
habañero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: habañeros
Etymology: Influenced by jalapeño.
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard form of habanero.
habañeros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of habañero Alternative spelling of habaneros.
habañeroes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of habañeros, plural of habañero.
cherry pepper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cherry peppers
Etymology: From its cherry-like color and shape.
Senses: glosses: The pimento pepper.
cherry peppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cherry pepper
pimientoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of pimientos, plural of pimiento.
to be named later
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From the common use of the expression in U.S. newspaper reports of trades of professional sports players between teams, especially in baseball.
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see be, name, later.
glosses: Something of very uncertain value.
glosses: Something of very low value.
Derived terms: english: player to be named later
translation: player to be named later
word: PTBNL
creepmouse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more creepmouse
form: most creepmouse
Etymology: From creep + mouse, from a likening of a person's character and/or behaviour to that of a small, timorous, and often unseen rodent.
Senses: examples: text: Indeed but you must, for we cannot excuse you. It need not frighten you; it is a nothing of a part, a mere nothing, not above half a dozen speeches altogether, and it will not much signify if nobody hears a word you say, so you may be as creepmouse as you like, but we must have you to look at.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 304:
text: Abe had been enjoying himself, without so much as a thought in his head as to how she was getting on; why shouldn't she have her turn? She was sick of being boring and creepmouse. While the cat was away the mice deserved to play — at least they did if that was how the cat was going to behave.
ref: 1985, Jean Ure, After Thursday, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 161:
text: A box of manuscripts, buried with Ash by Ellen, his creepmouse widow, is opened; the lovers' final secrets are revealed. Ellen, we find, had never let Ash consummate their marriage.
ref: 1990 November 18, John McAleer, “Satirizing The Academy”, in Chicago Tribune:
glosses: Timid and unassuming in the extreme.
creepmouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creepmice
Etymology: From creep + mouse, from a likening of a person's character and/or behaviour to that of a small, timorous, and often unseen rodent.
Senses: examples: text: "Pho! pho ! — I do not believe a word of it. Lord Basingstoke is one of those shy young men who are very much attached to any one who will take the trouble of making love to them ; — one of those creepmice who run away with their mother's waiting-maid, or marry an actress for want of courage and patience to encounter the formalities of an honourable courtship. […]
ref: 1831, Catherine Gore, Mothers and Daughters, Volume II, E. L. Carey & A. Hart/Allen & Ticknor (1834), page 62
text: The knocking was repeated, — a very gentle knocking, which seemed to argue that the devil was in a polite and patient mood. I felt a little creepmouse myself as I heard it, but I got up, and leaving the quaking woman in the parlour, I went and opened the door.
ref: 1907, Florence Hayllar, Nepenthes, William Blackwood and Sons, published 1907, page 5:
text: Don't be such a frightened little creepmouse. I take a deep breath, look at the feet again, and giggle.
ref: 2009, Laurie Viera Rigler, Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict, Dutton, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: An extremely timid and unassuming person.
creepmice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creepmouse
eaten bread is soon forgotten
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: Promised increases in productivity following previous pay rises never materialised -- as eaten bread is soon forgotten -- but we'll be paying for the crumbs for a long time to come.
ref: 2008 July 6, Ciara Kelly, “We're paying the price of union power”, in Irish Independent:
text: Eaten bread is soon forgotten, as we do seem to quickly forget the immense funding we did receive from the EEC and then the EU over 30 years, culminating in almost IR£1bn in the late 1990s, under Albert Reynolds's time as Taoiseach.
ref: 2011 August 13, Mary Sullivan, “We must live on less, but can our TDs?”, in Irish Independent:
text: It is obvious that eaten bread is soon forgotten by anyone asking teachers to take another one for the team.
ref: 2012 February 27, Noreen Flynn, “Further pay cuts for teachers”, in The Irish Times:
glosses: Kind deeds or favors are often forgotten by the beneficiary once they have been performed.
Related terms: no good deed goes unpunished
mark-white
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mark-whites
Senses: examples: text: Even at the marke-white of his hart she roved […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Mark's point; bullseye.
adawed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of adaw
adawed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adawed
form: most adawed
Senses: examples: text: Therewith she gan at first to change her mood, / As one adaw'd, and halfe confused stood […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Daunted, overwhelmed.
red rags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red rag
red rags to a bull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red rag to a bull
tyrantess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tyrantesses
form: tyranness
Etymology: From Middle English tiraunessis pl; equivalent to tyrant + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: Not by a Tyrant, his intended foe, / But by a Tyrantesse […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A female tyrant.
khopeshes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of khopesh
khepeshes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of khepesh
arcover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arcovers
Etymology: From arc + over.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The unwanted arcing of electricity from one component to another, caused for example by the presence of contaminants.
arcovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arcover
tileboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tileboards
Etymology: From tile + board.
Senses: glosses: A kind of wallboard that simulates tiles.
tileboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tileboard
gramophonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From gramophonic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: In most cases, comparison of an artist's piano roll with his or her gramophonically recorded performance of the same work leads to a measure of scepticism.
ref: 1998, Jeremy Siepmann, The Piano, page 36:
glosses: By means of a gramophone.
stripless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From strip + -less.
Senses: examples: a stripless system for air traffic control
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Without the use of paper control strips.
topics: cosmetics
lifestyle
glosses: Being a type of wax used in hair removal, contrasted with the softer strip wax.
paradoxist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paradoxists
Etymology: From paradox + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: This was a noble achievement on the part of our paradoxist. At one stroke it established his theory of the weather, and promised to ensure him text-book immortality as one of the observers of Vulcan.
ref: 1896, Richard Anthony Proctor, Myths and Marvels of Astronomy, page 325:
text: But these paradoxists and grumblers were a quite infinitesimal minority. The common sense and sound instinct of Britain and of the Empire realised that here was an issue like scarcely another in history — a clear issue of right and wrong[…]
ref: 1916, William Archer, To neutral peace-lovers: a plea for patience, page 16:
glosses: One who holds incorrect or eccentric beliefs; a bad scientist; a crank.
glosses: A participant in the art movement of paradoxism.
paradoxists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paradoxist
small-worldness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From small-world + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: A paper by Watts and his thesis advisor Steve Strogatz, largely free of mathematics, set ablaze huge interest in the phenomenon of small-worldness with its architectural fingerprints being found in diverse fields as ecosystems, natural language and the World Wide Web.
ref: 2009, Mihaela Ulieru, Peter Palensky, René Doursat, IT Revolution: First International ICST Conference, page 92:
text: Topologically, functional brain networks had reduced clustering and small-worldness, reduced probability of high-degree hubs, and increased robustness in the schizophrenic group.
ref: 2012, Issues in Neuroscience Research and Application: 2011 Edition, page 2353:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The property of being a small-world network.
small-world network
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: small-world networks
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A kind of graph in which most nodes are not neighbors but most can be reached from every other by a small number of steps, i.e. the typical distance between two randomly chosen nodes grows proportionally to the logarithm of the number of nodes in the network.
Related terms: it's a small world
small-worldness
small-world phenomenon
small-world networks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of small-world network
small-world phenomenon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: small-world phenomena
Senses: glosses: The phenomenon that human society resembles a small-world network with short path lengths, i.e. any two human beings tend to be linked through a small chain of friends of friends.
uncompelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncompelled
form: most uncompelled
Etymology: From Middle English uncompellyd, uncompelled; equivalent to un- + compelled.
Senses: glosses: Not compelled; voluntary.
suturable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more suturable
form: most suturable
Etymology: From suture + -able.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Suitable for suture.
reconfess
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reconfesses
form: reconfessing
form: reconfessed
form: reconfessed
Etymology: From re- + confess.
Senses: examples: text: The killer retracted his confession, but later reconfessed.
glosses: To confess again or anew.
Related terms: reconfession
reconfessing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reconfess
reconfessed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reconfess
reconfesses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reconfess
daugh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daughs
Senses: glosses: An obsolete Scots unit equal to 4 ploughgates, notionally comprising 400 Scottish acres.
Synonyms: davoch
davach
arachor
Hyponyms: alt: 1⁄4 daugh
word: ploughgate
alt: 1⁄8 daugh
word: ochdamh
alt: 1⁄32 daugh
word: oxgang
sense: various & for further subdivisions
word: acre
daughs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daugh
markland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marklands
form: merkland
Etymology: From mark + land.
Senses: glosses: An old Scots unit of measure equal to eight ouncelands.
marklands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of markland
ounceland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ouncelands
Etymology: From ounce + land.
Senses: glosses: An old Scots unit of measure equal to 20 pennylands.
ouncelands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ounceland
pennyland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pennylands
Etymology: From penny + land.
Senses: glosses: An old Scots unit of measure of land.
pennylands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pennyland
farthingland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farthinglands
Senses: glosses: An old Scots unit of measure of land.
farthinglands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of farthingland
quarterland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarterlands
Etymology: From quarter + land.
Senses: glosses: An old Scots unit of measure of land.
quarterlands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quarterland
groatland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: groatlands
Senses: glosses: An old Scots unit of measure of land.
on the hop
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Judy: A couple of times I went on the hop.
ref: 1995, G. H. Fagan, Culture, Politics and Irish School Dropouts, page 26:
glosses: Playing truant from school.
examples: text: It is hard to tell whether or not Putin had decided his plan for Ukraine months ago, or whether he has been making plans on the hop, but it was certainly clear that the decision on recognition had been taken well before this strange, stage-managed event.
ref: 2022 February 21, Shaun Walker, “Putin’s absurd, angry spectacle will be a turning point in his long reign”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Spontaneous; unplanned.
examples: text: "Tough," said Peter. "Very tough. I have a chance if I can keep him on the hop till his weight and short wind come against him—in this hot sun too. To tell the truth, I haven't much chance else. […]"
ref: 1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian the Return to Narnia:
text: His sudden arrest caught many on the hop, including Pinochet's old ideological enemy, Cuba's Fidel Castro. "Is it true? Is it confirmed?" the 72-year-old Communist leader asked in Oporto.
ref: 1998 October 18, David Connett, John Hooper, Peter Beaumont, “Pinochet arrested in London”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Unprepared; unready and unable to deal with something.
Related terms: bunk off
caught on the hop
mitch
skive
antihunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + hunt.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Preventing hunting, or fluctuating around a central value without stabilizing.
hexagraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexagraphs
Etymology: From hexa- + -graph.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A specific sequence of six letters, especially one used collectively to represent a single phoneme.
Related terms: digraph
trigraph
tetragraph
pentagraph
heptagraph
octagraph
monophthong
diphthong
triphthong
ligature
testifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more testifiable
form: most testifiable
Etymology: From testify + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, present situations which are described with the FUTURE tense are not directly testifiable at the moment of speaking.
ref: 2010, Bob Morris Jones, Tense and Aspect in Informal Welsh, page 44:
glosses: Capable of being testified; attestable.
captivance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: captivances
Etymology: From captive + -ance.
Senses: examples: text: With that he gan at large to her dilate / The whole discourse of his captivance sad […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Captivity.
digitonides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of digitonide
digitogenin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The aglycone of digitonin.
trebouxioid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trebouxioid
form: most trebouxioid
Etymology: From Trebouxia + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Resembling Trebouxia algae.
cherry plums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cherry plum
nickable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nickable
form: most nickable
Etymology: From nick + -able.
Senses: examples: text: He drove right at, and through, the platform. It began to move, but I'd have nicked it myself, had it been nickable.
ref: 1951, John Wyndham, Pawley's Peepholes:
text: Armpits are soft and tender and highly nickable. And sure, guys have a lot of face to shave, but that acreage doesn't compare to shaving two whole legs.
ref: 2004, Jason Boyett, A Guy's Guide to Life, page 121:
glosses: Capable of being nicked (given a small cut or clip).
examples: text: Meanwhile, the trade will have to make them [laptops] much, much cheaper, without compromising the screen: even at £500 a time they would be too nickable to walk home from school with.
ref: 2007, Libby Purves, A Little Learning, page 65:
glosses: Liable to be stolen.
hairy molly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hairy mollies
Etymology: Possibly from hairy + Irish malaí (literally “eyebrows”)
Senses: glosses: A hairy caterpillar.
glosses: The vulva.
hairy mollies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hairy molly
reflectins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reflectin
homoiousians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homoiousian
nonregistering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + registering.
Senses: examples: text: No one is exactly sure how he did it, but it is believed that either he positioned his feet on a nonregistering part of the scale or his valet stuck his whip under his seat and lifted up.
ref: 2002, Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: The True Story of Three Men and a Racehorse, page 75:
text: their impassive, nonregistering faces whether she spoke of the clean, pure influence of the Shaker movement on American art
ref: 2011, Howard Fast, The Dinner Party:
glosses: Failing to register.
draggling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of draggle
draggling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dragglings
Senses: glosses: The act of something being draggled.
draggles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of draggle
loopings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of looping
gibberbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gibberbird
unreceipted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + receipted.
Senses: glosses: Not receipted.
preventions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prevention
querning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quern
querned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quern
redeemest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: redeem + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of redeem
May game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: May games
Senses: glosses: An entertainment held as part of the spring celebrations in May, especially on May Day.
examples: text: Ah my deare Lord, what ſight is this (quoth ſhe) / What May-game hath misfortune made of you?
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 40, page 279:
qualifier: now chiefly Somerset
glosses: An object of ridicule; a laughingstock.
May games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of May game
soothfastness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English sothfastness, from Old English sōþfæstnes, equivalent to soothfast + -ness.
Senses: glosses: truth; honesty; veracity
soothfastly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more soothfastly
form: most soothfastly
Etymology: From Middle English sothefastly, soþfasstlike, soðfæstlice, from Old English sōþfæstlīċe, equivalent to soothfast + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […]—insomuch that thou or another, for such onehead that feeleth the perfection of this work, may soothfastly by witness of Scripture be called a God—[…]
ref: 2012, Evelyn Underhill, The Cloud of Unknowing:
text: And notwithstanding all this, I saw soothfastly that our Lord was never wroth, nor ever shall be.
ref: 2013, originally written 1410-1420, Julian of Norwich, The Showings of Divine Love:
glosses: Actually; truthfully; honestly.
coholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coholders
Etymology: From co- + holder.
Senses: glosses: A joint holder (of an account, a record, etc.).
coholders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coholder
binload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binloads
Etymology: From bin + load.
Senses: glosses: Enough to fill a bin.
binloads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binload
binful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binfuls
form: binsful
Etymology: From bin + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Enough to fill a bin.
binfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binful
binsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binful
pauls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paul
zazziest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of zazzy: most zazzy
zazzier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of zazzy: more zazzy
sissed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of siss
edgeway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: edgeways
Etymology: From edge + way.
Senses: glosses: A form of railway in which the road is causewayed up to the level of the top of the flanges.
coranach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coranachs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coronach.
coranachs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coranach
astro-boffin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astro-boffins
Etymology: From astro- + boffin.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps while confirming the diminution of Pluto's status, the astro-boffins might like to consider a name change for the U-planet.
ref: 2006 August 19, Jonathan Green, “Know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em”, in The Age:
text: Space travel turns into a journey to hell. 'I created the Event Horizon to reach the stars!' burbles Sam Neill's astro-boffin. 'But she's gone much further than that - to a dimension of pure chaos, pure evil!'
ref: 2007 March 25, Mark Kermode, “2007: a scorching new space odyssey”, in The Observer:
text: 'The birth of new galaxies' - I'll produce unlimited copy, that'll leave the entire astro-boffin community scratching their heads in disbelief as they're forced to re-evaluate the whole time/space continuum...
ref: 2008 April 10, Andy McNab, “Let's make-up”, in 4men:
glosses: An expert in a field relating to the stars, especially astronomy.
astro-boffins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astro-boffin
asceticisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asceticism
sleepaways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sleepaway
laceback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lacebacks
Etymology: From lace + back.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A kind of ligature for the canine teeth, shaped like a figure eight.
lacebacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laceback
laceleaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laceleafs
form: laceleaves
Etymology: From lace + leaf.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lace-leaf.
laceleaf
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lace + leaf.
Senses: examples: text: His prized laceleaf maple stood neglected.
glosses: Having lacy leaves.
Derived terms: word: laceleaf Japanese maple
taxonomic: Acer palmatum vars.
word: laceleaf maple
taxonomic: Senecio millefolium
word: laceleaf ragwort
taxonomic: Ludwigia lanceolata
word: laceleaf seedbox
laceleafs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laceleaf
laceleaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laceleaf
joy buzzers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of joy buzzer
associationisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of associationism
Hartleyan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hartleyan
form: most Hartleyan
form: Hartleian
Etymology: From Hartley + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to David Hartley (1705–1757), English philosopher and founder of the associationist school of psychology.
you'll be late for your own funeral
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Said as a mild admonishment to somebody who is always late for things.
you'd complain if you were hung with a new rope
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Said as a mild admonishment to somebody who is always complaining.
autonoesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔːtəʊ.nəʊˈiːsɪs/
ipa: /ˌɔːtoʊ.noʊˈisɪs/
rhymes: -iːsɪs
Etymology: From auto- + noesis, introduced by Endel Tulving.
Senses: glosses: The neurocognitive ability to experience time as a series of subjective episodes.
wikipedia: Endel Tulving
Related terms: word: autonoetic
miniflag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miniflags
Etymology: From mini- + flag.
Senses: examples: text: Roll the invitations inside miniflags, and mail them in red fireworks tubes.
ref: 1997, Patty Sachs, Lisa Roy Sachs, Pick a Party, page 55:
text: Stick a miniflag into each hot dog and hamburger bun!
ref: 2006, Sandra Magsamen, Living Artfully: Create the Life You Imagine, page 197:
text: A giant “Let's Roll” sign hangs on one house; trucks are covered with Support the Troops magnets and miniflags on the antennas.
ref: 2010, Justine Sharrock, Tortured: When Good Soldiers Do Bad Things, page 78:
glosses: A miniature flag.
miniflags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miniflag
stabilizability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stabilizabilities
Etymology: From stabilize + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: These conditions are discussed under the subjects of controllability, stabilizability, reconstructability, and detectability in the literature on linear optimal control.
ref: 2018, Lars Ljungqvist and Thomas J. Sargent, Recursive macroeconomic theory, 4th edition, MIT Press, page 137:
glosses: The quality or degree of being stabilizable.
stabilizabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stabilizability
stabilizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stabilizable
form: most stabilizable
Etymology: From stabilize + -able.
Senses: examples: text: First, A and B must be such that it is possible to pick a control law u#95;t#61;-Fx#95;t that drives x#95;t to zero eventually, starting from any x#95;0#92;inRⁿ (“the pair (A,B) must be stabilizable”). [emphasis in original]
ref: 2018, Lars Ljungqvist and Thomas J. Sargent, Recursive macroeconomic theory, 4th edition, MIT Press, page 136:
glosses: Capable of being stabilized.
towsack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: towsacks
form: toe sack
Etymology: From tow + sack.
Senses: examples: text: You do not think it until he comes through the door, carrying the empty toe-sack in one hand and the revolver in the other.
ref: 1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug:
text: Baseball was "as natural as breathing," played with towsacks or bushes for bases, splintered bats held together with electric tape, and teams with from two to two dozen players.
ref: 1997, Paxton Davis, Being a Boy, page 262:
glosses: A kind of burlap sack; a gunny sack.
towsacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of towsack
backlinking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backlink
backlinked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of backlink
ease nature
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eases nature
form: easing nature
form: eased nature
form: eased nature
Senses: glosses: To urinate or defecate.
the full shilling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It served her well, as her husband Bill, a small, quiet man, sustained shell-shock in the war and although pleasant, was not the full shilling. Whenever he wandered over to me to start a conversation I would always feel very uncomfortable.
ref: 2006, Chris Sullivan, Broad Soldiers: Tom Grove Goes Naked, page 39:
text: She shook her head, sighing deeply. 'There are times when I wonder is he the full shilling at all?[…]
ref: 2008, Geraldine O'Neill, Tara's Destiny:
glosses: In control of one's mental faculties; sane; all there.
raw_tags: in the negative
Synonyms: the full quid
the full ticket
papillating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of papillate
papillated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of papillate
uncalloused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: uncallused
Etymology: From un- + calloused.
Senses: glosses: Not calloused.
glosses: Unaccustomed to work.
Damascene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈdæməˌsiːn/
Forms: form: more Damascene
form: most Damascene
Etymology: From Latin Damascēnus, from Ancient Greek Δαμασκηνός (Damaskēnós). By surface analysis, Damascus + -ene. The sense “pertaining to a sudden and complete change in one's beliefs” refers to the conversion of St Paul to Christianity on the road to Damascus.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Damascus.
glosses: Pertaining to a sudden and complete change in one's beliefs.
Derived terms: Damascene conversion
Damascene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdæməˌsiːn/
Forms: form: Damascenes
Etymology: From Latin Damascēnus, from Ancient Greek Δαμασκηνός (Damaskēnós). By surface analysis, Damascus + -ene. The sense “pertaining to a sudden and complete change in one's beliefs” refers to the conversion of St Paul to Christianity on the road to Damascus.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Damascus.
Damascene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæməˌsiːn/
rhymes: -iːni
ipa: /ˈdæməˌsiːn/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Δαμασκηνή (Damaskēnḗ).
Senses: examples: text: [...] how Alexander Jannaeus, after a treaty with a king in Petra who controlled the whole area from Elat to Damascene [...]
ref: 2013, The Arabs in Antiquity:
glosses: The region of Damascus.
crispt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: crisp + -t
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crisp
queach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwiːt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -iːtʃ
Forms: form: queaches
Etymology: Compare quick.
Senses: examples: text: Men gan to shroud themselves in house. Their houses were the thickes,
And bushie queaches, hollow caves, or hardels made of stickes.
ref: 1567, Arthur Golding, Ovid's Metamorphoses: the first booke, lines 137–8:
text: They found they lodged a boar of bulk extreme,
In such a queach as never any beam
ref: 1614–1615, Homer, “The Nineteenth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume II, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
glosses: A thick, bushy plot; a thicket.
queaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of queach
Morton's toe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Morton's toes
Etymology: Named after American orthopedic surgeon Dudley Joy Morton (1884–1960).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A type of brachymetatarsia where the first metatarsal is shortened in relation to the second, promoting an anterior position of the second metatarsal-phalangeal joint in relation to the hallux (big toe).
Synonyms: Greek foot
LaMay toe
long toe
Morton's syndrome
Morton's syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Morton's toe
Greek foot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Greek feet
Etymology: Calque of Ancient Greek πούς (poús, “foot”), qualified to distinguish it from other measures of the foot.
Senses: glosses: The ancient Greek, Byzantine, or early modern Greek unit of distance derived from the shod foot and roughly equivalent to the English foot unit.
Synonyms: pous
Greek foot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Greek feet
Etymology: From Greek artists' preference for bare feet exhibiting a second toe longer than the hallux, as opposed to the Egyptian statues which used a longer big toe.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A foot with a second toe longer than the hallux.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Morton's toe
the full quid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of the full shilling.
synonyms: word: the full shilling
constellating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of constellate
constellated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of constellate
constellates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of constellate
solidistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more solidistic
form: most solidistic
Senses: glosses: Relating to the old medical theory of solidism.
muttons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mutton
that dog won't hunt
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ðæt ˈdɒɡ wəʊnt ˈhʌnt/
ipa: /ðət-/
ipa: /ðæt ˈdɔɡ woʊnt ˈhʌnt/
ipa: /ðət-/
Forms: form: that dog don't hunt
Etymology: Apparently originating from the southern United States, the phrase may refer to a hunting dog that refuses to do its job.
Senses: examples: text: ‘If the’ ain’t no fools, the’ ain’t no fun,’ said usually in self-derision; and ‘That old dog won't hunt,’ meaning that an excuse offered will not serve. These and the numerous specimens which follow have simply been grouped by the present writer under the heading of Miscellaneous, explanations being made only when the meaning is not clearly evident.
ref: [1939 December, Paul Brewster, “Folk ‘Sayings’ from Indiana”, in American Speech: A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage, volume XIV, [Tuscaloosa, Ala.]: Published by the University of Alabama Press for the American Dialect Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 266:
text: "Calling her house help Mr. and Mrs. just won't get it! That old dog won't hunt," Oman had confided. / "I know, but let her discover it herself," Steve had said.]
ref: [1965, Jesse Hill Ford, The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, OCLC 291992; republished as The Liberation of L. B. Jones (Signet Novel; Y4209), New York, N.Y.: New American Library, 1967, OCLC 29459320, page 41
text: On the [Arthur] Goldberg proposal to stop all the bombing, [Ellsworth] Bunker "came back strong and said, 'I just can't. That dog won't hunt. We just cannot get that over, it would just blow everything.'[…]"
ref: 1970 February 7, “Rusk advocated halt of bombing: LBJ says in interview”, in Sarasota Herald-Tribune, page 3A, column 1:
text: If, as is more likely, Mr. [Ronald] Reagan's plan is just a ploy to win votes for renewed military aid to the C.I.A.-organized and C.I.A.-controlled contras in Nicaragua, a Congress burned once too often should be able to see right through it. Either way, as Lyndon Johnson used to say of losing propositions, "That dog won't hunt."
ref: 1987 August 6, Tom Wicker, “In the nation: That dog won't hunt”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 24 May 2015:
text: “Oh, what in the Sam Hill are you a-wearing? I thought I was supposed to be Twain.” “I say you are incorrect, sir. I believe we decided I would be Twain.” “Twin Twains? That dog won't hunt.” “Uh, Mr. Clemens?” “Mmhmm. That's me.” “No, I'm Twain. Switch costumes, you ignominious pretender.” “You're more stubborn than a senate mule.” “Grits, grits, grits!” “Tarnation!” “Fancy pants, big-city lawyer.” “I say you are incorrect, sir.”
ref: 2023 September 21, Grace Parra Janney, “Something Borrowed, Something Green” (9:24 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 4, episode 4, spoken by Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid):
glosses: That idea will not work; that is an inadequate explanation or proposition.
Synonyms: that cock won't fight
that old dog won't hunt
that dog don't run
floorcare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From floor + care.
Senses: glosses: The care and maintenance of floors and carpets.
prognosticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prognostick
Betz cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Betz cells
Etymology: Named after Vladimir Alekseyevich Betz, who described them in a work published in 1874.
Senses: glosses: A large pyramidal cell neuron located within the fifth layer of the grey matter in the primary motor cortex.
wikipedia: Vladimir Alekseyevich Betz
Betz cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Betz cell
amisses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amiss
goldening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of golden
goldened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of golden
taijiquan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: tīʹjēʹchüǎnʹ
Forms: form: tai chi chuan
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 太極拳／太极拳 (tàijíquán).
Senses: examples: text: Chinese martial arts have existed for well over 3,000 years. Wrestling and swordsmanship both have a long history, as do Chinese Internal Alchemy and breathing methods. These disparate elements, married by Yin Yang theory, became what we now call Tai Chi Chuan.
ref: [2009, Dan Docherty, Tai Chi Chuan: Decoding the Classics for the Modern Martial Artist, Crowood Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 11:
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: Tai chi.
tahasil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tahasils
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tahsil.
tahasils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tahasil
prologomena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prologomenon
lastings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lasting
claspings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clasping
twiring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of twire
twired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of twire
twires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of twire
twires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twire
AVO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: apprehended violence order, a court order used to protect someone from violence or harassment.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: amplitude variation with offset.
Related terms: DVO
cartomizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cartomizer
DVO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DVOs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of domestic violence order: a court order to prevent another person harassing or threatening another person, especially a current or former partner or spouse.
Related terms: AVO
glaucarubin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An amebicide found in Simarouba glauca.
ficusin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ficus + -in, as it is obtained from fig leaves.
Senses: glosses: psoralen
zygonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Introduced by Adam Ockelford, from Ancient Greek ζυγός (zugós, “yoke”) + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The following account of the first movement of Mozart's Piano Sonata K.333, which focuses largely on the opening bars, is intended to demonstrate zygonic theory in action in a music-analytical context.
ref: 2005, Adam Ockelford, Repetition in music: theoretical and metatheoretical perspectives, page 35:
text: Half arrowheads are indicative of difference and are used in a zygonic context to show approximate imitation.
ref: 2006, Neil Lerner, Joseph Straus, Sounding Off: Theorizing Disability in Music, page 143:
text: This research showed that a zygonic approach could provide an intuitively persuasive metric for the fluctuating patterns of musical influence as they unfolded, event by event.
ref: 2012, Raymond MacDonald, Gunter Kreutz, Laura Mitchell, Music, Health, and Wellbeing, page 290:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Of or relating to the theory that imitation is the ultimate organising force in music.
Related terms: zygon
serialistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more serialistic
form: most serialistic
Etymology: From serial + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to serialism.
Schoenbergian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Schoenbergian
form: most Schoenbergian
Etymology: From Schoenberg + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951), Austrian-American composer.
electrocorticograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrocorticogram
electrodynamometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + dynamometry.
Senses: glosses: measurement by electrodynamometer
superexponentiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + exponentiation.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: tetration
power tower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power towers
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A chain of exponentiations, or raising to powers, of the form a^(aa...); tetration.
power towers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of power tower
dermatographia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A skin disorder in which the skin becomes raised and inflamed when stroked, scratched or rubbed.
Synonyms: dermatographism
dermographia
dermographism
dermatographism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: dermatographia (skin disorder)
dermographia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: dermatographia (skin disorder)
dermographism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dermographisms
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of dermatographia (“skin disorder”).
synonyms: word: dermatographia
extra: skin disorder
grandmaternity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From grand- + maternity.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being a grandmother.