cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
burnlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more burnlike
form: most burnlike
Etymology: From burn + -like.
Senses: examples: text: What is happening to cause these burnlike skin lesions?
ref: 2008 January 22, C. Claiborne Ray, “Skin as a Battlefield”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a burn.
drippingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more drippingly
form: most drippingly
Etymology: From dripping + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: a basket of drippingly ripe peaches
text: Still confounding critics more than 40 years after its making, “Le Bonheur” could qualify as either the most drippingly sentimental film ever made or the most dryly ironic.
ref: 2008 January 22, Dave Kehr, “New DVDs”, in New York Times:
glosses: So as to drip.
infrasonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From infrasonic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Among elephants, it is the females who are the born politicians, cultivating robust and lifelong social ties with at least 100 other elephants, a task made easier by their power to communicate infrasonically across miles of savanna floor.
ref: 2008 January 22, Natalie Angier, “Political Animals (Yes, Animals)”, in New York Times:
glosses: By means of infrasound.
mistranscribe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mistranscribes
form: mistranscribing
form: mistranscribed
form: mistranscribed
Etymology: From mis- + transcribe.
Senses: examples: text: Now a recently published compendium of his personal notebooks is coming under attack from two critics who say that the editor of the volume, Robert Faggen, mistranscribed hundreds, if not thousands, of Frost’s words.
ref: 2008 January 22, Motoko Rich, “Editing of Frost Notebooks in Dispute”, in New York Times:
glosses: To transcribe incorrectly.
Related terms: mistranscription
mistranscribed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mistranscribe
mistranscribing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mistranscribe
mistranscribes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mistranscribe
mistranscription
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mistranscriptions
Etymology: From mis- + transcription.
Senses: examples: text: The first edition of the book included the mistranscription "jolly days" for "July days".
glosses: Incorrect transcription.
Related terms: mistranscribe
mistranscriptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mistranscription
preparty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preparties
Etymology: From pre- + party.
Senses: examples: text: In true Sundance fashion, there was a preparty for the film, an intimate little dinner that was blown out to include hundreds, followed by the movie itself, and then an afterparty featuring a set by the Honey Brothers, a band that includes both Mr. Grenier and Mr. Gold.
ref: 2008 January 22, David Carr, “Shopping for Films but Settling for Some Fun”, in New York Times:
glosses: A party held before the start of an event, usually a public event.
Related terms: afterparty
preparties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preparty
semiaccidentally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From semiaccidental + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: As ominous thwacking sounds are heard — she asks some dancers to demonstrate a few moves — Ms. Streb tells of the time she set herself on fire, semiaccidentally.
ref: 2008 January 22, Charles Isherwood, “The Body of Her Work: Hearing Questions of Life and Death”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a manner that is partly accidental.
understructure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: understructures
Etymology: From under- + structure.
Senses: examples: text: Holonym: infrastructure (facilities sense)
text: Near-synonyms: infrastructure (foundations sense), underpinnings
text: Four small suspension bridges, complete with towers and cables like those on the span across the East River, are now encased inside the Capitol’s subbasement understructure.
ref: 2008 January 22, Kirk Johnson, “Strength Renewed, a Grand Old Building Is Back”, in New York Times:
antonyms: superstructure#Noun
glosses: The supporting structure underneath something, such as a vehicle or bridge.
understructures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of understructure
distortionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distortionists
Etymology: From distortion + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The Japenese^([sic]) show this trait also in their daily life; it is their greatest pleasure to attend the exhibitions of professional face distortionists, who to the delight of the public make the oddest faces.
ref: 1899, St. Michael's almanac: Volumes 1-8:
text: When Hillary tried once more to take Obama’s remarks about Ronald Reagan out of context, making it seem as though Obama had praised Reagan’s policies, he turned sarcastic about getting two distortionists for the price of one.
ref: 2008 January 23, Maureen Dowd, “Two Against One”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who distorts.
distortionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of distortionist
mahonias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mahonia
metasequoia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛtəsəˈkwɔɪə/
rhymes: -ɔɪ.ə
Forms: form: metasequoias
Etymology: From meta- + sequoia.
Senses: examples: text: Instead of fantasy landscapes forced into bloom, a trade show has the energy of an international marketplace, where growers discuss the fine points of their new favorites — plants like Citronelle, a lime-green heuchera that can stand up to heat and humidity; or new hibiscuses like Plum Crazy and Copper King, which tolerate dry soil and are hardy to 30 below zero; or the rarest of plants, like a bonsai metasequoia, also known as dawn redwood, which grows only three inches a year, making it perfect for a pot on your patio.
ref: 2008 January 24, Anne Raver, “What the Nurseries Like for Spring”, in New York Times:
glosses: Metasequoia, the dawn redwood, a fast-growing deciduous conifer native to China.
metasequoias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metasequoia
noncommitment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noncommitments
Etymology: From non- + commitment.
Senses: examples: text: “At age 52, I learned that according to the Executive Board I had allegations of noncommitment to Islam, lack of belief in the system of the Islamic Republic and lack of following the Constitution of the Islamic Republic,” Mr. Alami said
ref: 2008 January 24, Michael Slackman, “Most Reformists Appear Purged From Iran Ballot”, in New York Times:
glosses: Lack of commitment.
taranabant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Just this month, the results of a trial of Merck’s obesity drug, taranabant, were published showing similar psychiatric problems.
ref: 2008 January 24, Gardiner Harris, “F.D.A. Requiring Suicide Studies in Drug Trials”, in New York Times:
glosses: A drug, a cannabinoid receptor type 1 inverse agonist investigated for the treatment of obesity but later dropped because of side effects including depression and anxiety.
cofavorite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cofavorites
Etymology: From co- + favorite.
Senses: examples: text: Phil Mickelson, who was the pretournament cofavorite with Woods, struggled to a two-under-par 70 on the North.
ref: 2008 January 25, Larry Dorman, “Matteson Gets His Bearings and Grabs the Lead”, in New York Times:
glosses: A joint favorite to win a sporting event.
cofavorites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cofavorite
hokeyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hokey + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The hokeyness is also all too familiar: smoke and mirrors (literally), overwrought music and well-scrubbed, overly rehearsed contestants who cry and laugh on cue.
ref: 2008 January 25, Alessandra Stanley, “Fishing for True Confessions by Dangling a Pot of Gold”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of hokiness.
semiwhisper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiwhispers
Etymology: From semi- + whisper.
Senses: examples: text: Her friend April turned to her and asked in a semiwhisper, “Is it worth $100,000 to learn that?”
ref: 2008 January 25, Alessandra Stanley, “Fishing for True Confessions by Dangling a Pot of Gold”, in New York Times:
glosses: A low voice close to a whisper.
underconfidence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + confidence.
Senses: examples: text: The cycle of overconfidence becomes a cycle of underconfidence because nobody knows who is holding worthless paper.
ref: 2008 January 25, David Brooks, “Two Cheers for Wall St.”, in New York Times:
glosses: Insufficient confidence.
methylnaltrexone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From methyl + naltrexone.
Senses: examples: text: Since Jan. 1, 2007, the Food and Drug Administration has postponed clearance of Wyeth’s bifeprunox for schizophrenia, Pristiq for depression and menopausal hot flashes, Viviant for bone loss and methylnaltrexone for constipation.
ref: 2008 January 26, Bloomberg News, “Wyeth Says It May Cut 10% of Jobs”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A peripherally-acting μ-opioid antagonist that acts to reverse some of the side effects of opioid drugs such as constipation without affecting analgesia or precipitating withdrawals.
bobrun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bobruns
Etymology: From bob + run.
Senses: examples: text: The passengers get ready to ride down the Mt. Van Hoevenberg bobrun.
ref: 2008 January 26, Harry Hurt Iii, “A Light at the End of the Half-Pipe, Through Closed Eyes”, in New York Times:
glosses: A track for a bobsleigh.
bobruns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bobrun
bullyable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bullyable
form: most bullyable
form: bulliable
Etymology: From bully + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The Judiciary bill died this week, with the help of other bullyable Democratic senators like Mr. Rockefeller, Claire McCaskill, Mary Landrieu and Ben Nelson.
ref: 2008 January 26, “The FISA Follies, Redux”, in New York Times:
glosses: Susceptible to being bullied.
bully boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bully boy
antitrain
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + train.
Senses: examples: text: The citizens like Ms. Yang who marched on People’s Square are wary of calling their event and the antitrain movement a protest.
ref: 2008 January 27, Howard W. French, “Plan to Extend Shanghai Rail Line Stirs Middle Class to Protest”, in New York Times:
glosses: Opposing trains.
Santorum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Italian. For most bearers, the surname is from Latin sanctorum (“of the saints”). For some individuals of Italian or Maltese ancestry, the name is related to the Italian Santorino (“from the island of Santorini”).
Senses: examples: text: On April 7, 2003, Senator Rick Santorum signaled his opposition to same-sex marriage in no uncertain terms.
ref: 2008, Paul Ryan Brewer, chapter 4, in Value War, Rowan & Littlefield, Inc., →ISBN, page 67:
glosses: A surname from Italian.
Derived terms: santorum
blogospheric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From blogosphere + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: By the time he’s done quoting, in blogospheric fashion, the wisdom of his earlier works (he cites “A Republic, Not an Empire,” “State of Emergency” and “Where the Right Went Wrong” in the first 33 pages alone), including articles in political journals like The American Conservative and The National Interest, “Day of Reckoning” has begun to feel like a cross between a greatest-hits anthology and “The Patrick J. Buchanan Reader.”
ref: 2008 January 27, Chris Suellentrop, “The Isolationist”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the blogosphere.
castful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cast + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: In a recent interview Mr. Stewart spoke happily, even sentimentally, about his Enterprise-commanding days, which left him with a castful of close friends and an unexpected appreciation for the importance of “Star Trek” in American culture.
ref: 2008 January 27, Sarah Lyall, “To Boldly Go Where Shakespeare Calls”, in New York Times:
glosses: A group of people making up a theatrical cast.
climactically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more climactically
form: most climactically
Etymology: From climactic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: When Ike thinks about why he loves New York, he muses on its “sense of possibility” and the ducks in Central Park and all that, but, climactically, he thinks of being another face in the crowd: “He loves the liberating feeling that this city doesn’t seem to give a damn about him and never did.”
ref: 2008 January 27, Troy Patterson, “Your Place or Mine”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a climactic fashion; like, or as, a climax.
counterslogan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterslogans
Etymology: From counter- + slogan.
Senses: examples: text: His rallying cry inspired the partisan crowd, but Truman supporters reminded voters of Lincoln’s admonition when running for re-election in 1864 — not to “swap horses while crossing the river” — which could not be overcome by the Republican counterslogan “Change horses or drown!”
ref: 2008 January 27, William Safire, “Change Machine”, in New York Times:
glosses: A slogan created to oppose another slogan.
counterslogans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterslogan
flushings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flushing
highish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more highish
form: most highish
Etymology: From high + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Reading Barron, though, I realized that part of the reason his stories leave me cold is that they assume, as too much genre fiction does, a highish level of reader credulity, and I resent it.
ref: 2008 January 27, Terrence Rafferty, “Doesn’t Scare Easily”, in New York Times:
glosses: Somewhat high.
hyperactivism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + activism.
Senses: examples: text: His approach is also personal, reflecting his hyperactivism, his passions and his determination to promote French business around the world.
ref: 2008 January 27, Elaine Sciolino, “A New France in the New Middle East: Forget Glory”, in New York Times:
glosses: A high level of involvement in activism.
medievality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From medieval + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: His late wife ran a Victorian inn in upstate New York; his son grew up mimicking his father’s medievality and, shunning his contemporaries, devoted himself to early music; his mother-in-law is an ethnic Lemko from the Carpathians, intent on recreating the way of life her people lived before their slaughter and forced deportations in the 1940s.
ref: 2008 January 27, Ken Kalfus, “Middle-Age Man”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being medieval.
multifamilies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multifamily
nonsuperstar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonsuperstars
Etymology: From non- + superstar.
Senses: examples: text: Employees on the nonsuperstar rungs of many industries can ask a less personal kind of intermediary for career-management help: employment Web sites like freeagent.com, guru.com and monster.com.
ref: 2000 July 16, Elaine S. Silver, “PERSONAL BUSINESS; Agents? Call Them Career Customizers”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 19 Jan 2024:
text: In a way it is comforting, perhaps even life affirming, for the majority of human beings, nonsuperstars, to think they have chosen the other course.
ref: 2008 January 27, Jenny Lyn Bader, “When Icons Die Young”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 Jan 2018:
glosses: One who is not a superstar.
nonsuperstars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonsuperstar
preinsulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + insulated.
Senses: examples: text: The foundation was delivered separately in preinsulated concrete slabs, and builders are finishing the interior and exterior details on site.
ref: 2008 January 27, Valerie Cotsalas, “Solar and Relatively Affordable?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Insulated in advance, as at the time of manufacture.
rescreen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rescreens
form: rescreening
form: rescreened
form: rescreened
Etymology: From re- + screen.
Senses: examples: text: The insufferable lines and the need to be rescreened at security even though you have never left a secured area is unexplained.
ref: 2008 January 27, “Letters: Bad (and Good) Airports”, in New York Times:
glosses: To screen again.
rescreening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rescreen
rescreening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rescreenings
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent screening.
rescreens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rescreen
rescreened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rescreen
surprisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surpriser
underarticulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underarticulated
form: most underarticulated
Etymology: From under- + articulated.
Senses: examples: text: Although Wodicka turns up a provocative thought here and there, this musing, typical of Burt’s grief-laden vaporousness, serves also to illustrate the artless, wordy and underarticulated writing that makes “All Shall Be Well” such a Black Death of a chore to read.
ref: 2008 January 27, Ken Kalfus, “Middle-Age Man”, in New York Times:
glosses: Inadequately articulated.
unquenchably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unquenchably
form: most unquenchably
Etymology: From unquenchable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Kazin, by contrast, was God-haunted (“I want my God back” is the next-to-last sentence of his 1978 memoir, “New York Jew”); unquenchably fascinated by American literature and American history; and politically radical, but in a fashion that owed less to Marx than to Whitman — Kazin’s radicalism was democratic, generous, angry and thoroughly in the American grain.
ref: 2008 January 27, Brian Morton, “In the American Grain”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a manner that cannot be quenched.
penurity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penurities
Senses: glosses: penury
penurities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penurity
boop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /buːp/
rhymes: -uːp
Forms: form: boops
Etymology: Imitative; compare beep.
Senses: examples: text: When something important happened, a polite sort of boop went off, and up in the right-hand corner of your screen, above the copy, a word or two appeared: Urgent, Bulletin, Late Stocks, whatever.
ref: 1989, Keith Peterson, The Trapdoor:
text: Originally, computers' attempts at making music were recognizable by their beeps and boops and weird swoops. And to suggest that the rhythms laid down by a^([sic]) electronic drummer were anything close to swingin' was humorous.
ref: 2008, Russell Dean Vines, Composing Digital Music For Dummies, page 281:
text: Guitars riffle precise chords and lilt through arpeggios, keyboards go boop, and every flick of a drumbeat is in place.
ref: 2008 January 28, Jon Pareles, Nate Chinen, Kelefa Sanneh, Ben Ratliff, Ben Allison, “New CDs”, in New York Times:
text: Santogold, from Brooklyn, may be mocking scene pretensions, defending the creative impulse or both in her single, “L.E.S. Artistes,” with its drumstick-clicking beat, electro boops and dance-rock chorus.
ref: 2008 April 20, Jon Pareles, “Rasps, Boops, Snark and Sartre”, in New York Times:
glosses: A low-pitched beeping sound.
examples: text: “Boop, on the nose! Boop, on the nose! Boop, on the nose!” “He's bypassing our shields. We can't take many more boops.” “Thanks to Father giving me full access to Starfleet data systems, I know all possible shield frequencies. Boop!”
ref: 2023 October 12, Edgar Momplaisir, “A Few Badgeys More” (9:19 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 4, episode 7, spoken by Badgey (Jack McBrayer):
glosses: A gentle or playful tap or strike, especially on the nose.
boop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /buːp/
rhymes: -uːp
Forms: form: boops
form: booping
form: booped
form: booped
Etymology: Imitative; compare beep.
Senses: examples: text: The music on “LP” is almost entirely unnatural, booping and puffing, buzzing and ticking in tones no acoustic instrument would make.
ref: 2009 July 20, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times:
glosses: To produce a low-pitched beeping sound.
examples: text: He spun around and booped me on the nose.
ref: 2013, Kate Danley, Maggie on the Bounty:
glosses: To strike gently or playfully; to bop (especially on the nose).
cyberwizard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberwizards
Etymology: From cyber- + wizard.
Senses: examples: text: Fifth place went to the newcomer “Untraceable” (Sony), the horror thriller starring Diane Lane as an F.B.I. cyberwizard.
ref: 2008 January 28, The New York Times, “Spartans Victorious Over Rambo”, in New York Times:
text: The cyberwizard again worked his keyboard. First a map of the world appeared in greens and blues on the screen, overlaid with lines of latitude and longitude. Then the perspective of the screen shifted smoothly.
ref: 2009, Don Pendleton, Interception, page 69:
glosses: A computer expert.
cyberwizards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberwizard
elusions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elusion
interlegislative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + legislative.
Senses: examples: text: In addition to politics, the bill might have been put in jeopardy by other factors, including its timing — a big-money plan pitched during a budget crisis — as well as a kind of interlegislative rivalry between the Assembly and the Senate.
ref: 2008 January 28, Jesse Mckinley, “California Governor’s Plan for Health Care in Trouble”, in New York Times:
glosses: Between legislative bodies.
marimbalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more marimbalike
form: most marimbalike
Etymology: From marimba + -like.
Senses: examples: text: A crucial element was the percussionist Erik Charlston, whose vibraphone often doubled Mr. Fisher’s piano to produce a marimbalike effect.
ref: 2008 January 28, Stephen Holden, “Bernstein’s New York: West Side and Beyond”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a marimba.
roadman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roadmen
Etymology: From road + -man.
Senses: examples: text: Ernest Tipping had known the road for over 35 years and seen the roadman repairing it.
ref: 1913, Worcestershire County Council, Minutes of the Proceedings, page 207:
text: Any reader turning to the original novel would hardly recognize it in the shadow of Hitchcock’s film, so preoccupied is it with describing the glens and heathery mountains of the Scottish highlands, inhabited with an unlikely cavalcade of native eccentrics: an innkeeper with literary aspirations, a Liberal candidate with pacifist sympathies, a lower-class roadman laid up by drink, a bald archaeologist who isn’t quite what he seems.
ref: 2008 January 28, Edward Rothstein, “Novel to Screen to Stage: Evolving, Step by Step”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A man who builds or repairs roads.
examples: text: And officers’ definition of ‘roadman’ could prove to be controversial. They described the term as a ‘teenager who involves themselves in smoking weed, no education, puffa jacket and man bag, acts hard on a bike’.
ref: 2018 September 10, Harley Tamplin, “Police hope this embarrassing ‘slang dictionary’ will help them engage with young people”, in Metro:
text: The roadman look is very working-class (although it can be made to appear high-end), and features key pieces like matching tracksuits, technical jackets (like Nike wind runners or lightweight Stone Island shells) running caps, ‘trainers’ (like any Nike Air Max or a Reebok Classic), bum/shoulder bags, and maybe even a scarf on colder days.
ref: 2020 January 30, Ross Dwyer, “What's A Roadman? A Brief Background Of The UK's Most Popular Style”, in Piff Minneapolis, archived from the original on 24 Nov 2020:
glosses: A member of a subculture characterised by their clothing (notably puffer jackets and sportswear) as street fashion and the music they listen to, notably drill music.
roadmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roadman
songkok
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: songkoks
Etymology: From Malay songkok.
Senses: examples: text: He saw himself, in a smart suit and a songkok, bowed into the opulent suites of Ritzes and Waldorfs and baring, under dark glasses, a hairy chest to a milder sun by a snakeless sea.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 302:
text: Short and thick set, he almost invariably dressed in a Western business suit or a safari jacket once he gave up his military uniform, and a black songkok, the flat traditional Indonesian cap.
ref: 2008 January 28, Marilyn Berger, “Suharto Dies at 86; Indonesian Dictator Brought Order and Bloodshed”, in New York Times:
glosses: An Asian cap resembling a fez, worn mostly by male Muslims.
songkoks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of songkok
unresonant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unresonant
form: most unresonant
Etymology: From un- + resonant.
Senses: examples: text: For the most part the group’s performance was elegant and polished, but the sound that sailed into this unresonant high school auditorium was oddly tepid, given the energy these players seemed to be putting into it.
ref: 2008 January 28, Bernard Holland, “Music in Review”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not resonant.
vaudevilles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vaudeville
resecure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resecures
form: resecuring
form: resecured
form: resecured
Etymology: From re- + secure.
Senses: examples: text: Egypt has slowly tried to resecure the border, refusing to allow the resupply of goods to the border towns of El Arish and Egyptian Rafah and taking steps to narrow the breaches.
ref: 2008 January 29, Steven Erlanger, “Egypt Presses for Abbas to Control Border”, in New York Times:
glosses: To secure again.
resecuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resecure
resecured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resecure
resecures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resecure
unexportable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + exportable.
Senses: examples: text: In “The Red and the Blacklist: The Intimate Memoir of a Hollywood Expatriate,” Norma Barzman, Ben Barzman’s widow, writes that Mr. Bronston had been able to finance his Spanish operations thanks to an arrangement with the DuPont family, who wanted to sell oil to Spain under Franco but did not want to be paid in unexportable Spanish pesetas.
ref: 2008 January 29, Dave Kehr, “New DVDs”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not exportable.
vulvodynia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vulvo- + -odynia.
Senses: examples: text: Anodynia (anorectal pain) most frequently occurs together with other pain syndromes, like vulvodynia or phallodynia, but sometimes it may be isolated.
ref: 2013, Tomasz F. Mroczkowski, Larry E. Millikan, Lawrence Charles Parish, Genital and Perianal Diseases: A Color Handbook, page 260:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pain in the vulva unexplained by vulvar or vaginal infection or skin disease.
Related terms: dyspareunia
vulvitides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vulvitis
nonpelvic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + pelvic.
Senses: glosses: Not pelvic.
vestibulodynia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A form of vulvodynia (vulvar pain) localized in the vestibular region (the entry point into the vagina).
hotbloodedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hotblooded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: So enthralled is the composer with Italian hotbloodedness that no opportunity is allowed to pass.
ref: 2008 January 30, Bernard Holland, “Italian Style Is Refracted Through a Chinese Lens”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being hotblooded; passionate rashness.
lupinelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lupinelike
form: most lupinelike
Etymology: From lupine + -like.
Senses: examples: text: A. Ah, B. australis: so beautiful with its lush foliage, spires of lupinelike flowers and decorative seedpods; so easy to grow in poor, dry soil; so frustrating.
ref: 2008 January 31, Leslie Land, “Garden Q.&A.”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of the lupine plant.
overemotive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overemotive
form: most overemotive
Etymology: From over- + emotive.
Senses: examples: text: Yet for all his stylistic authenticity, his singing was overemotive, sometimes sloppy and vocally blatant.
ref: 2008 January 31, Anthony Tommasini, “Star Soprano Coaxes a Puccini Role From the Vault”, in New York Times:
glosses: Excessively emotive.
ultradiscreet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultradiscreet
form: most ultradiscreet
Etymology: From ultra- + discreet.
Senses: examples: text: Even Mr. Margiela’s ultradiscreet trademark, four little white pick stitches on sweaters, shirts and bags, is instantly discernible to the style cognoscenti while invisible to others, like a whistle only dogs can hear.
ref: 2008 January 31, David Colman, “Well-Dressed Travels Well”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very discreet.
noninevitability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + inevitability.
Senses: examples: text: CHARLOTTE GIBBONS AND CLARINDA MAC LOW (Friday and Saturday) Ms. Gibbons will present “disappearing never-ending return,” which she describes as a dance of lightness, possibilities and noninevitability. Ms. MacLow will present “Rui(nation),” an exploration of the seductive nature of power and authority that is loosely based on Shakespeare ’s “Macbeth.”
ref: 2008 February 1, The New York Times, “Dance Listings”, in New York Times:
glosses: The property of not being inevitable, of perhaps being avoidable.
outnice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outnices
form: outnicing
form: outniced
form: outniced
Etymology: From out- + nice.
Senses: examples: text: Still, it was almost as if the battle was to see which of them could outnice the other.
ref: 2008 February 1, Jeff Zeleny, “One on One in Debate, Democrats Set Aim at G.O.P.”, in New York Times:
glosses: To surpass in apparently nice behaviour; to make oneself seem nicer than.
postplaying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + playing.
Senses: examples: text: Might the sport revealed and recognized as a destroyer of postplaying lives become more of a turnoff?
ref: 2008 February 1, Harvey Araton, “For Retired N.F.L. Greats, Checks Are Out of Balance”, in New York Times:
glosses: After retirement from playing a sport.
snowdrifted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From snowdrift + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The last 12 miles across snowdrifted sagebrush flats, up into Jeffrey pines and curl-leaf mountain mahogany, to the warmth of the well-appointed hut would have to be covered by snowmobile, with gear, food and a guest dragged in on a sled with steel runners.
ref: 2008 February 1, David Page, “Bond of Brothers in a California Wilderness”, in New York Times:
glosses: Covered in snowdrifts.
leadsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lēdzʹmən
ipa: /ˈliːdz.mən/
Forms: form: leadsmen
form: ledës-man
Etymology: From Middle English ledes-man (“a military commander”, “a general”); equivalent to leads (the genitive form of lead: “a leading”, “a directing”, “a guiding”) + man.
Senses: glosses: lodesman (a leader or guide)
leadsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lēdzʹmən
ipa: /ˈliːdz.mən/
enpr: lĕdzʹmən
ipa: /ˈlɛdzmən/
enpr: lēdzʹmən
ipa: /ˈliːdz.mən/
Forms: form: leadsmen
Etymology: From (genitive form of) lead (“heavy metal; Pb”) + man.
Senses: examples: text: In the same moment the leadsman hove the lead, and, finding it directly take the ground, he, in his fright, called out, ‘There's only three fathom.’
ref: 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 205
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A sailor who takes soundings with a lead, measuring the depth of water.
Related terms: swing the lead
throw the lead
Ngai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /naɪ/
/(ə)ŋaɪ/
Etymology: The Cantonese romanization of any of three different surnames: 魏 (ngai6), 倪 (ngai4), and 危 (ngai4).
Senses: glosses: Any of three Chinese surnames of Cantonese origin, used primarily in Hong Kong.
Derived terms: Ngai camphor
Ngai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /naɪ/
/(ə)ŋaɪ/
Senses: glosses: The monolithic creator god of the Kikuyu and related groups of Kenya, and the Maasai of Kenya and Tanzania.
ye're
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: qualifier: chiefly archaic outside Ireland
glosses: Contraction of ye are.
leadsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leadsman
ABG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ABGs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of arterial blood gas.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Initialism of acoustic bass guitar.
examples: text: All my ABGs get cute for me
ref: 2023, “3D (song)”, performed by Jungkook ft. Jack Harlow:
glosses: Initialism of Asian baby girl.
large skipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: large skippers
Senses: examples: text: Other common farmland butterflies to have suffered steep declines include the small tortoiseshell (64%), the wall brown (37%) and the large skipper' (35%).
ref: 2015 November 24, Patrick Barkham, “Pesticide may be reason butterfly numbers are falling in UK, says study”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A small, brown butterfly, Ochlodes sylvanus, of the family Hesperiidae.
large skippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of large skipper
large tortoiseshells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of large tortoiseshell
Roman hands and Russian fingers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Jocular modification of roaming hands and rushing fingers.
Senses: examples: text: He might turn in test papers that were utterly blank—or blank except for a large, decorative question-mark—and Mrs. Douglas had discovered it was best to keep him away from the girls because of his Roman hands and Russian fingers, but he was quiet, so quiet that there were times when he might have been taken for a big lump of clay that had been crudely fashioned to look like a boy.
ref: 1986, Stephen King, It:
text: "Let's just say he had Roman hands and Russian fingers," she said. "I made him take me back home."
ref: 2002, Lon Leatherland, A Town Called Woodbridge, page 51:
text: I described them as foreigners — with Roman hands and Russian fingers. If that's all they wanted, they could just hit the dusty trail. I double-dated some, but decided I wasn't going out by myself with a boy again.
ref: 2005, Cleo Hicks Williams, Gratitude for Shoes: Growing Up Poor in the Smokies, page 366:
glosses: A tendency towards unwanted sexual touching.
councilmember
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: councilmembers
Etymology: From council + member.
Senses: glosses: A councilman or councilwoman; member of a council.
Synonyms: councillor
Hyponyms: councilman
councilwoman
phy ed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of physical education.
gymp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gymps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of guimpe.
gymp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gymps
form: gymping
form: gymped
form: gymped
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: Alternative form of gimp.
EHEC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The news media regale us with horror stories about dangerous flu viruses, multidrug-resistant superbugs, and EHEC-contaminated food.
ref: 2015, Giulia Enders, translated by David Shaw, Gut, Scribe, published 2016, page 211:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of enterohemorrhagic E. coli.
economicalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From economical + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being economical.
silver mine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silver mines
form: silvermine
Senses: hypernyms: mine#Noun
coordinate_terms: gold mine
glosses: A mine for silver ore.
BES
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: N,N-bis(2-hydroxyethyl)-2-aminoethanesulfonic acid
BES
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: I use data from several recent academic national surveys: the 2013 Austrian Election Study (AES), British Election Study Panel Survey (BES) conducted in January 2014 (from which I include respondents living in England), and the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES) wave conducted in May 2013. […] These questions measuring RWA (or what I would term “authoritarian values”) are available in the BES data.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Erik R. Tillman, “Authoritarianism and Support for Populist Radical Right Parties”, in DePaul University, pages 8-9:
glosses: Initialism of British Election Study.
Related terms: BES Islands
enstrew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enstrews
form: enstrewing
form: enstrewed
form: enstrewed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of instrew.
haematoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haematomas
form: haematomata
form: haematomae
Etymology: From haemato- + -oma.
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of hematoma.
small tortoiseshells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of small tortoiseshell
large white
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: large whites
Senses: glosses: The big, white and black butterfly Pieris brassicae, of the family Pieridae.
Synonyms: sense: Pieris brassicae
word: cabbage white
sense: Pieris brassicae
word: cabbage butterfly
Pokémon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊkəmɒn/
note: official
ipa: /ˈpoʊ.keɪˌmɑn/
note: used officially
ipa: /ˈpoʊ.kə.mɑn/
ipa: /ˈpoʊkiˌmɑn/
ipa: /ˈpəʉkəmɔn/
ipa: /ˈpɐʉkəmɒn/
ipa: /ˈpʰoʊkʰimɔn/
ipa: [ˈpʰoʊ̯kɪmɒn]
ipa: [-kə-]
ipa: /poˈkemon/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈpoːkɪmɔn/
note: Indic
ipa: [-kə-]
ipa: /ˈpœʊkɨmɒn/
ipa: /ˈpokemon/
Forms: form: Pokemon
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese ポケモン (Pokemon), a contraction of ポケットモンスター (Poketto Monsutā), itself from English pocket monster. The acute accent was added to signify the pronunciation.
Senses: examples: text: The organization has also named three newly discovered, rare beetles after characters from Pokémon – the Japanese anime series that spawned an entire franchise of video games, toys and trading cards.
ref: 2021 September 15, Hannah Ryan, “RuPaul has a new namesake – and it’s a fabulous, rainbow-colored fly”, in CNN:
glosses: A Japanese media franchise featuring fictional creatures that are captured by humans and trained to battle each other.
Pokémon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊkəmɒn/
note: official
ipa: /ˈpoʊ.keɪˌmɑn/
note: used officially
ipa: /ˈpoʊ.kə.mɑn/
ipa: /ˈpoʊkiˌmɑn/
ipa: /ˈpəʉkəmɔn/
ipa: /ˈpɐʉkəmɒn/
ipa: /ˈpʰoʊkʰimɔn/
ipa: [ˈpʰoʊ̯kɪmɒn]
ipa: [-kə-]
ipa: /poˈkemon/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈpoːkɪmɔn/
note: Indic
ipa: [-kə-]
ipa: /ˈpœʊkɨmɒn/
ipa: /ˈpokemon/
Forms: form: Pokémon
form: Pokémons
form: Pokemon
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese ポケモン (Pokemon), a contraction of ポケットモンスター (Poketto Monsutā), itself from English pocket monster. The acute accent was added to signify the pronunciation.
Senses: examples: text: Pokémons are the latest and adamantly conformist craze among middle-childhood boys. The theme of the video games that started the craze is, as usual, the triumph of good over evil. The hero is a child, twelve-year-old Ash. His goal is to capture all 150-plus nonhuman creatures called Pokémons, train them to be good, and use them to capture the remaining wicked Pokémons that so far have escaped. In the games, Ash is not your ally: he is you. Each of the Pokémons has its own sort of power which, after conversion, accrues to Ash’s (your) favor.
ref: 2001, Sara Stein, “Games They Play”, in Noah’s Children: Restoring the Ecology of Childhood, New York, N.Y.: North Point Press, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 248:
text: Game strategy (and tactics) are full of such learning about real life, like the rules, the strategy in games needs to be lifelike for the games to make sense, even if the characters, such as Pokémons, are purely imaginary.
ref: 2005, Marc Prensky, “Computer Games and Learning: Digital Game-Based Learning”, in Joost Raessens, Jeffrey Goldstein, editors, Handbook of Computer Game Studies, Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, →ISBN, part II (Design), page 106, column 2:
text: He had been delighted when his mother said, Just leave everything as it is. Not even his bed was made. He could see that little kid’s mess, his clothes, his Pokémons, his old Winnie Dubdoub, his Spiderman^([sic]) poster; and the truck, alone in the empty house for days now, nearly two weeks.
ref: 2005, Eva Sallis, The Marsh Birds, Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, page 15:
text: Professor Oak, the world's leading Pokémon expert, is at once a genius and a bumbling, absent-minded professor
ref: 2009, Mark I. West, The Japanification of children's popular culture: from godzilla to miyazaki, page 59:
text: The beetles are named Binburrum articuno, Binburrum moltres and Binburrum zapdos after three rare Pokémon: Articuno, Moltres and Zapdos.
ref: 2021 September 15, Hannah Ryan, “RuPaul has a new namesake – and it’s a fabulous, rainbow-colored fly”, in CNN:
glosses: A pocket monster; a fictional creature from the universe of the Pokémon franchise.
Derived terms: Basic Pokémon
Fakémon
legendary Pokémon
PG
PLA
PMD
PoGo
Poké-
Pokédex
Pokédollar
Pokéfan
Pokégirl
Pokémania
Pokémaniac
Pokémon-esque
Pokémon Goer
Poképhile
PokéTuber
Pokeyman
Pokeymen
large whites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of large white
cabbage white
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cabbage whites
Etymology: The name refers to the fact that many butterflies of this genus favor cabbages (among other plants) as host plants for their eggs.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of various largely white butterflies with dark markings in the family Pieridae, especially the species Pieris brassicae, Pieris canidia, and Pieris rapae.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Pieris canidia
word: Asian cabbage white
taxonomic: Pieris canidia
word: Indian cabbage white
taxonomic: Pieris brassicae
word: large cabbage white
taxonomic: Pieris rapae
word: small cabbage white
Related terms: word: cabbagehead
word: cabbage moth
word: cabbage worm
english: larval stage
translation: larval stage
word: imported cabbage worm
cabbage whites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cabbage white
Lulworth skipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lulworth skippers
Etymology: The first specimens in Great Britain were collected in 1832 at Lulworth Cove in Dorset.
Senses: glosses: The dull brown butterfly Thymelicus acteon, of the family Hesperiidae.
Lulworth skippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lulworth skipper
normie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔː.mi/
ipa: /ˈnɔɹ.mi/
Forms: form: normies
Etymology: From norm + -ie, or a clipping of normal + -ie. Compare normalfag.
Senses: examples: text: This place is a sure cure for a gimp's feeling out of place and a sure cure for a normie feeling awkward around a wheelchair.
ref: 1980, Barry Corbet, Options: spinal cord injury and the future:
text: You'll start eating like a normie. In fact, a small amount of food will one day look like a lot.
ref: 2006, Anne Katherine, How to make almost any diet work, page 200:
text: It is a career disaster now to signal your left-behind cluelessness as a basic bitch, normie or a member of the corrupt media mainstream in any way.
ref: 2017, Angela Nagle, Kill All Normies, Zero Books, →ISBN, Introduction:
synonyms: word: basic bitch
word: bourgeois
word: L7
word: mainstreamer
word: mainstreamist
word: muggle
word: mundane
word: normal
word: normalfag
word: normaloid
word: normie
word: square
word: straight
glosses: A normal person; one with commonly held, normative beliefs, neurology, tastes or interests.
glosses: A person who is not a member of an ingroup, such as a fandom or other (online) community; an outsider.
examples: text: Be jovial but not a comedian. We have a sense of humor that the normies don't have.
ref: 2011, Bucky Sinister, Still Standing: Addicts Talk About Living Sober, page 97:
qualifier: Alcoholics Anonymous
glosses: A nonalcoholic.
Derived terms: normgroid
normiedom
normiesphere
normie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔː.mi/
ipa: /ˈnɔɹ.mi/
Forms: form: more normie
form: normier
form: most normie
form: normiest
Etymology: From norm + -ie, or a clipping of normal + -ie. Compare normalfag.
Senses: examples: text: 2017, "The Grandfather Of Alt-Science" by Daniel Engber, fivethirtyeight.com
The split from Pauling, and the death of Laurelee, sent Robinson hurtling further out into the fringe, where he found a small but ardent caucus of contrarians: scientists, like him, who had abandoned — or been ejected from — the normie, left-leaning research community and who made common cause in puncturing prevailing views on smoking, DDT, radiation, depletion of the ozone hole and changes to the climate.
text: On the normier part of the spectrum are liberal influencers like Dean Withers and Harry Sisson, who have transferred the “debate me, bro” spirit of early YouTube to TikTok Live.
ref: 2025 March 17, Andrew Marantz, “The Battle for the Bros”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN, archived from the original on 17 Mar 2025:
glosses: Like a normal person.
normies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of normie
superchilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + chilled.
Senses: glosses: Chilled to a very low temperature.
alphamosaics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From alphabetical and mosaic, perhaps modelled on alphanumerics or similar.
Senses: glosses: A display made up of text characters combined with simple block graphics, as used in certain videotex systems.
Related terms: alphamosaic
Lincolnian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lincolnian
form: most Lincolnian
Etymology: From Lincoln + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), 16th president of the United States.
marbled white
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marbled whites
Senses: glosses: The large black-and-white chequered butterfly Melanargia galathea, of the family Nymphalidae.
Synonyms: word: marmoress
marbled whites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marbled white