cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
interclosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of interclose
superconception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + conception.
Senses: examples: text: those superconceptions, where one child was like the father, the other like the adulterer
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: superfetation
bowtel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bowtels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of boultel.
bowtels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowtel
spicer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spicers
Etymology: From Middle English spicer, spycer, spycere, from Old French espicier (> French épicier), from Latin speciarius (“dealer in spices”), equivalent to spice + -er.
Senses: examples: text: And finally, at end of a banquet when candied spices were served, the First Chamberlain handed the dragée box to the Spicer for an assay, and then passed it to the senior person of the Duke's Houshold present; this person presented the box to the Prince, and then returned it to the First Chamberlain, who in turn replaced it into the hands of the Spicer - always assuming this last person to have survived the earlier assay of his product!
ref: 1995, Terence Scully, The Art of Cookery in the Middle Ages, →ISBN, page 252:
text: […] they [professional cooks] had as many as 25 helpers, such as saucerers, larders, roasters, pottagers, bakers, spicers, and fruiterers, not to mention spit turners and scullions.
ref: 2011, Ruth A. Johnston, All Things Medieval: An Encyclopedia of the Medieval World:
text: In Britain in the Middle Ages every Royal palace and great household had a Spicer or Pepperer.
ref: 2012, G. G. Birch, K. J. Parker, Food and Health: Science and Technology, →ISBN, page 428:
glosses: One who seasons with spice.
examples: text: There are only 13 plots […] and a limited number of story spicers — deception, mistaken identity, unnatural affection […]
ref: 1998, Judy Anderson, Plagiarism, Copyright Violation, and Other Thefts of Intellectual Property:
text: In Europe cloves from the Indonesian archipelago were prized as a medicine, especially for toothache, as well as a spicer of food and drink.
ref: 2003, Geoffrey Blainey, A Short History of the World, page 265:
text: The purpose of the book is to encourage readers to know that 'variety is the spice of life', and that Jesus is the "Spicer", who brings that variety to our lives!
ref: 2008, D. S. Mullis, The "Spicer" of Life, →ISBN:
glosses: That which adds spice or (figurative) excitement.
examples: text: The pepperers, spicers, &c. afterwards went to Bucklersbury, where they sold their commodities in the open air.
ref: 1814, Thomas Pennant, London: Being a Complete Guide to the British Capital:
text: In the same place, under the same date, occurs the other of the extinct company of spicers […]
ref: 1885, Richard Welford, editor, History of Newcastle and Gateshead, page 52:
text: When even the author of the Menagier de Paris advises his wife that dragees are bought at the spicer's at a cost of ten sous a pound, we may consider ourselves dispensed from the obligation of making our own.
ref: 2002, D. Eleanor Scully, Terence Scully, Early French Cookery:
text: Because 'several questions and debates have since arisen between the members of one estate and the other', the new statutes of 1514 attempted to clarify the situations: 'simple spicers... are of a distinct and separate state and merchandise from apothecary spicers, because those who are spicers are not apothecaries, but those who are apothecaries are spicers'.
ref: 2004, Susan Broomhall, Women's Medical Work in Early Modern France:
glosses: A spice dealer.
spicers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spicer
mucific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mucific
form: most mucific
Etymology: From mucus + Latin -ficare (“to make”) (in comparative). See -fy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Inducing or stimulating the secretion of mucus; blennogenous.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: muciferous
glosses: Secreting mucus.
foo yung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foo yong
form: foo young
form: fooyoung
form: fooyung
Etymology: From Cantonese 芙蓉 (fu4 jung4).
Senses: examples: text: To someone who had spent part of their youth visiting a grandmother in Singapore, a lot of the food they served didn’t seem particularly Chinese to me: the flavour of chop suey with its chicken or pork or prawns, or chow mein, or the omeletty foo yung, never seemed quite right.
ref: 2011, Clarissa Dickson Wright, A History of English Food, London: Random House Books, →ISBN, page 455:
glosses: A Chinese omelette dish usually made with meat and vegetables.
Related terms: egg foo young
foo young
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of foo yung.
paraventure
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Middle English paraventure, peraventure. Equivalent to par + aventure.
Senses: glosses: peradventure; perchance
Pasteurism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Pasteur + -ism.
Senses: glosses: pasteurisation
estreat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: estreats
Etymology: Old French estrete (“an extract”).
Senses: examples: text: the estreat of each ranſome severally and apart ſent to the Sheriffe
ref: 1647, Nathaniel Bacon, An Historicall Discourse of the Uniformity of the Government:
topics: law
glosses: A true copy, duplicate, or extract of an original writing or record, especially of amercements or penalties set down in the rolls of court to be levied by the bailiff, or other officer.
estreat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: estreats
form: estreating
form: estreated
form: estreated
Etymology: Old French estrete (“an extract”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: To extract or take out from the records of a court, and send up to the court of exchequer to be enforced; said of a forfeited recognizance.
glosses: To bring in to the exchequer, as a fine.
estreated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of estreat
estreating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of estreat
estreats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of estreat
estreats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of estreat
subaid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subaids
form: subaiding
form: subaided
form: subaided
Etymology: From sub- + aid.
Senses: examples: text: […]they ſub-ayded the Gaules againſt him[…]
ref: 1612, Samuel Danyel [i.e., Daniel], “The First Booke of the Historie of England. Containing, a briefe relation of the State of this land, from the first knowledge we haue thereof, to ,the comming of William the Norman.”, in The First Part of the Historie of England, London: […] Nicholas Okes, […], →OCLC, page 4:
glosses: To aid secretly; to assist in a private manner, or indirectly.
subaided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of subaid
subaiding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subaid
subaids
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subaid
cerograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cerographs
Etymology: From cero- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: A writing on wax.
cerographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cerograph
spumeous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spumeous
form: most spumeous
Senses: examples: text: The Delinition alſo of the Infant's Ears and Noſtrils with the Spittle of the Prieſt may ſometimes ſtrike harſhly upon the ſpirits of the more delicate; but it makes much for the opinion of his Sanctity, vvhoſe ſpumeous excrement is of ſo ſacred a virtue, and vvill gain alſo the prayers of all the vvomen in the Tovvn, that he may ever be an hail and ſound man.
ref: 1664, H[enry] More, chapter XVIII, in A Modest Enquiry into the Mystery of Iniquity, […], London: […] J[ames] Flesher for W[illiam] Morden […], →OCLC, book I, pages 68–69:
glosses: Obsolete form of spumous.
subfuscous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin subfuscus, suffuscus, equivalent to sub- + fuscous.
Senses: glosses: Duskish; moderately dark; tawny.
Related terms: subfusc
colonical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more colonical
form: most colonical
Etymology: Latin colonus (“husbandman”).
Senses: examples: text: colonical lease
text: colonical tenant
text: colonical tenure
glosses: Of or relating to farmers or farming; agricultural.
insuavity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insuavities
Etymology: From Latin insuavitas. Compare French insuavité. See in- (“not”) + suavity.
Senses: examples: text: All fears, griefs, suspicions, discontents, įmbonities, insuavities, are swallowed up and drowned in this Euripus, this Irish sea, this ocean of misery
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
text: It was not till this moment that Clym recollected her to be the person who had behaved so barbarously to Eustacia. It partly explained the insuavity with which the woman greeted him.
ref: 1878 January–December, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], published 1878, →OCLC:
text: He was bearded, blunt, thickset, and he wore gold-rimmed spectacles. In his bourrue-bienfaisance, in his honesty, and in his brusque insuavity towards such as would compel his sympathy without justification, he was the very type of the dogmatic family doctor—of the gruffly practical allopathist of the old school.
ref: 1898, Bernard Capes, A True Princess:
glosses: Lack of suavity; unpleasantness.
pugh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: "Pugh!" says Sophia. "There! no, no: what should he do there? He is gone before this time, to be sure. Besides, why—what—why should you go to see? besides, I want you for something else. Go, fetch me my hat and gloves. I shall walk with my aunt in the grove before dinner."
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
glosses: Alternative form of pooh: an expression of contempt, disgust, etc.
Synonyms: sense: expressing contempt
word: feh
word: pht
word: pish
word: poh
word: pshaw
word: bah
sense: expressing disgust
word: bleah
word: eww
word: ick
word: uck
word: yuck
scantlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scantlets
Etymology: From Old French eschantelet (“corner”).
Senses: examples: text: [T]he beſt of mankind vvould ſoon find that that vvhich was truly good, in the whole courſe of his life, vvere a pitiful, ſlender ſcantlet, and vvould be infinitely out-vveighed by his ſins, omiſſions, and defects; […]
ref: 1676, [Matthew Hale], “Of Humility, Its Opposite Vices, Benefits, & Means to Acquire It”, in Contemplations Moral and Divine. […], London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbury […], and John Leigh […], →OCLC, page 309:
glosses: A small pattern or quantity.
scantlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scantlet
cheese-eating surrender monkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheese-eating surrender monkey
sculp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sculps
form: sculping
form: sculped
form: sculped
Etymology: See sculptor.
Senses: examples: text: the tenor of my just complaint / Were sculpt with steel on rocks of adamant !
ref: 1636, G[eorge] S[andys], “(please specify the page)”, in A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David. And upon the Hymnes Dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments, London: [Andrew Hebb […]], →OCLC:
glosses: To sculpture; to carve or engrave.
glosses: To flay.
sculped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sculp
sculping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sculp
sculps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sculp
dethronize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dethronizes
form: dethronizing
form: dethronized
form: dethronized
form: dethronise
Etymology: From dethrone + -ize; compare Latin dethronizare.
Senses: examples: text: [T]hey conſult on this important buſineſs, how they may dethronize Baretana, and inthronize Albemare in the chair and choice of Clara’s affection: […]
ref: 1679, John Reynolds, The Triumphs of Gods Revenge against the Crying and Execrable Sin of Murther: Expressed in Thirty Several Tragical Histories. Written by John Reynolds. The Sixth Edition, very Carefully Corrected. To which is Added, Gods Revenge against the Abominable Sin of Adultery. Containing Ten Several Histories, Never Printed before, Illustrated with New Sculptures, 6th corrected edition, London: Printed by J. Bennet, for Thomas Lee, at the Turks head in Fleetstreet, over against Fetter-Lane-End, →OCLC, page 157:
glosses: To dethrone; to remove from the throne.
Synonyms: dethrone
disenthrone
disthrone
disthronize
Related terms: dethronization
dethronized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dethronize
dethronizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dethronize
dethronizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dethronize
schindyleses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schindylesis
schindylesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schindyleses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σχινδύλησις (skhindúlēsis, “a splitting into fragments”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A form of articulation in which one bone is received into a groove or slit in another.
Derived terms: schindyletic
incicurable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incicurable
form: most incicurable
Etymology: From Latin incicur (“not tame”), from in- (“not”) + cicur (“tame”), + -able.
Senses: glosses: Impossible to tame.
tozy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tozy
form: most tozy
form: tosie
form: tosy
Etymology: Unclear. Various dictionaries mention an old dialectal word tozy, tosy meaning "cosy, cozy", which may be from toze, tose + -y, but it is not clear if this is related to the "intoxicated" sense.
Senses: examples: text: The Magistrates there came into prison, and said, This day you are all to die, and if any of you will undertake to be executioner to the rest, he shall have his life […] The Magistrates gave him Drink and kept him tozy until the murder was over.
ref: 1727, P. Walker, R. Cameron in Biogr. Presbyt. (1827) I, 278
text: What puir man, whan he's tozy, But spends as he ware bein and cozy?
ref: 1794, Poems Eng., Sc., & Lat., 95
text: The truth, however, was, that the worthy elder had been rendered somewhat tozy by the minister's toddy, […]
ref: 1821, "The Ayrshire Legatees", in Blackwood's Magazine (February 1821), volume 8, page 506
glosses: Slightly intoxicated; tipsy.
Related terms: tozy-mozy
send her down Hughie
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: send her down Hughie !
form: send it down Hughie
Etymology: Hughie (“diminutive of Hugh, a male given name”) is a god of rain, addressed as an ordinary person.
Senses: examples: text: All night it poured down but Dinny grinned and applauded.
‘Send her down, Hughie!’ he cried, as the diggers used to on Coolgardie and Hannans.
ref: 1948, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Golden Miles, page 425:
text: The wind was bucking round to the west and heavy rain had started again.
“Send her down, Hughie!” he said under his breath, thinking with satisfaction of the soil being gouged out of Sunderland′s paddock and carried off into the rising river.
ref: 1970, Colin Thiele, Labourers in the Vineyard, page 229:
text: ‘Ah, that′s it, send her down, Hughie!’ he yelled at the sky.
‘Hughie?’
‘The rain, my darlin'. Hughie sends down the rain.’
‘You mean God?’ she asked, shocked. Aunt Ann was firm about not taking the Lord′s name in vain.
‘Nah. Hughie′s just ... Hughie.[…]’
ref: 2010, Jackie French, A Waltz for Matilda:
glosses: An appeal for continued rain, invoked when it comes after a long drought.
conusable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conusable
form: most conusable
Senses: examples: a. 1603, Thomas Barlow, letter to Sir P. P.
He is a judge of one of those courts, where matrimonial causes are conusable.
glosses: cognizable; liable to be tried or judged.
poulder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poulders
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of powder.
poulder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: poulders
form: pouldering
form: pouldered
form: pouldered
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of powder.
poulders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poulder
Shakerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shakerisms
Etymology: From Shaker + -ism.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The doctrines of the Shakers.
Shakerisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shakerism
Eleatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌɛliˈætɪk/
Forms: form: more Eleatic
form: most Eleatic
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Eleāticus, from Ancient Greek ’Ελεατικός (’Eleatikós), from Ἐλέα (Eléa, “Elea, Velia”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a certain school in Elea of Ancient Greek philosophers who taught that reality is stable and unchanging and that real knowledge comes from reason rather than senses.
Related terms: Elea
Velia
Eleaticism
Eleatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɛliˈætɪk/
Forms: form: Eleatics
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Eleāticus, from Ancient Greek ’Ελεατικός (’Eleatikós), from Ἐλέα (Eléa, “Elea, Velia”).
Senses: glosses: A philosopher of the Eleatic school.
Eleatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eleatic
apical ectodermal ridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apical ectodermal ridges
Senses: topics: embryology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A formation of ectodermal cells that occurs at the distal end of each limb bud and functions as the primary signaling point to secure the proper development of a limb.
platinochloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: platinochlorides
Etymology: From platino- + chloride.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A double chloride of platinum and some other metal or radical; a salt of platinochloric acid.
Related terms: platinichloride
platinochlorides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of platinochloride
sepiment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sepiments
Etymology: From Latin sepimentum, saepimentum, from sepire, saepire (“to hedge in”).
Senses: examples: text: The Partition or Sepiment which divides the great Cavity of the Nose, the Crista Galli, and the Ethmoidal bone is not bony in the Foetus.
ref: 1699, La Vauguion (de.), A Compleat Body of Chirurgical Operations:
glosses: Something that separates; a hedge; a fence.
sepiments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sepiment
merrymakings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merrymaking
peckerwood sawmill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peckerwood sawmills
Etymology: Apparently coined as a pejorative by the organized lumber-products industry.
Senses: examples: text: The thousands of gasoline-powered "peckerwood" sawmills that scatter wood waste across the landscape, and the big lumber, veneer, and pulp mills that stand in distant isolation from one another
ref: 1949, Egon Glesinger, The coming age of wood:
glosses: A small-scale sawmill, often with older equipment not capable of producing wood of uniform dimension.
glosses: Any small-scale production operation.
California blanket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: California blankets
Senses: glosses: A heavy blanket, especially one made of wool.
glosses: Newspaper used as bedding.
chuck a dummy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chucks a dummy
form: chucking a dummy
form: chucked a dummy
form: chucked a dummy
Senses: glosses: To feign an epileptic attack.
nickel note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nickel notes
Senses: glosses: A five-dollar bill.
koha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊhə/
ipa: /ˈkoʊhə/
Forms: form: kohas
Etymology: Borrowed from Sinhalese කොහා (kohā, “cuckoo”), probably from Sinhalese කෝ + හඩ (kō + haḍa, “cuckoo”) or ultimately as the abbreviation of the word tells, the imitation of the chirping and trilling sound.
Senses: examples: text: Our species, the Koel or Koha also belongs to this sub-family of Cuculinae. The male cuckoo is dark in colour, while its female is speckled (called the Gomara Koha).
ref: 1997, Gamini de S. G. Punchihewa, Vignettes of Far Off Things: Introducing the History, Tank Civilization, Jungle Lore, Fauna, & Flora and Adventure of the Walawe Basin, Nugegoda, Colombo, Sri Lanka: State Printing Corporation, →ISBN, page 199:
text: The sound of the koha is associated with the advent of the Sinhala and Tamil new year; the bird is often called the Avurudu koha—the New Year Cuckoo. The koha is an early bird, and its call is strident, plaintive, and easy to imitate. The legend has it that the koha never makes a nest of its own. It takes a free ride by laying its eggs in the crow's nest.
ref: 2006, Swarna Wickremeratne, “Festival of New Beginnings: The New Year”, in Buddha in Sri Lanka: Remembered Yesterdays, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, pages 31–32:
text: The adult male koels (or kohas as they are locally known) start calling in March, and are in full voice come April. Most Sri Lankans associate the call—a shrieking 'koo-Ooo' or 'ko-Haa' more penetrating than the mellifluous European cuckoo—with the start of a new year, as both the Sinhalese and the Tamils celebrate this in the middle of that month.
ref: 2010, M. G. Ratnayake, “The Koel in the Nest”, in That Blue Thing: An Engineer’s Travel, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 21:
text: The Koha or Asian Koel (Eudynamys scolopaceus) is considered the harbinger of Sinhala and Tamil New Year for its beautiful song aimed at attracting a mate.
ref: 2017 April 9, Malaka Rodrigo, “Koha’s call overseas comes from another species”, in The Sunday Times, Colombo, Sri Lanka, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2018:
glosses: The koel (Eudynamys), a genus of cuckoos from Asia, Australia, and the Pacific with a distinctive loud call; specifically, the Asian koel (Eudynamys scolopaceus).
Related terms: malkoha
hot nickel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Interstate highway 5.
nickel nurser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A miser.
unreusable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + reusable.
Senses: glosses: Not reusable.
nickel-in-the-slot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Operated by a nickel, especially of an early jukebox or slot machine.
Hypernyms: coin-op
gaming machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaming machines
Senses: glosses: A device such as a slot machine designed to play solitary gambling games.
glosses: A slot machine for the purpose of playing video games.
featherwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of featherwood
nickel bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nickel bags
Senses: glosses: A five-dollar baggie of narcotics, especially marijuana.
glosses: A bagged portion of half a gram of narcotics.
spear biscuits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spears biscuits
form: spearing biscuits
form: speared biscuits
form: speared biscuits
Senses: examples: text: They're great campers and know how to spear biscuits and how to avoid the pussy footers and use a number ten gunboat can and chuck a dummy and hunt a wampus, you know, cool things like that.
ref: 2014, David W. Goodwin, The Six-Year-Old Hobo, →ISBN:
text: “Anything to keep from 'spearing biscuits' ... that's a last resort.” “Uh,” Terry began, before finally just giving up and asking, “What's that mean?” “Spearing biscuits? That's the polite way of saying digging through garbage looking for food.
ref: 2014, Matthew Del Papa, Green Eyes Through Capreol, →ISBN, page 28:
text: If the hall-and-parlor house represents education in the main, then we critical educators are as rare as hen's teeth, shunted to the rear of the house, squatters huddled under a slanted roof, wearing fingerless gloves, clutching our tin cups of broth, spearing biscuits and dreaming of the day when we will become an official part of the architecture of democracy.
ref: 2016, Peter McLaren, “Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy: Staking a Claim Against the Macrostructural Unconscious”, in Critical Education, volume 7, number 8:
qualifier: homeless slang
glosses: To search garbage for food.
examples: text: Most of the cowboys were either eating or standing in line at their spread's chuck wagon, taking plate, cup, and eating tools, then spearing biscuits and a steak from a row of Dutch ovens ...
ref: 1989, Carla J. Mills, Three Rivers, →ISBN, page 65:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see spear, biscuits.
possum belly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: possum bellies
Senses: glosses: A makeshift compartment underneath a wagon.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A toolbox under the caboose.
synonyms: distribution box
flowline trap
qualifier: oil industry
glosses: A metal container at the head of the shale shaker that receives drilling fluid at the end of the flowline.
babool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babools
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of babul.
parodiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more parodiable
form: most parodiable
Etymology: From parody + -able.
Senses: glosses: Suitable for parody.
unsatirizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsatirizable
form: most unsatirizable
Etymology: From un- + satirizable.
Senses: glosses: Not satirizable.
distractors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of distractor
cockshy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockshies
Etymology: From cock + shy; so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in shying or throwing cudgels at live cocks.
Senses: glosses: A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players.
examples: text: He had seen Tom Ricketts, of the fourth form, who used to wear a jacket and trousers so ludicrously tight, that the elder boys could not forbear using him in the quality of a butt or ‘cockshy’ […]
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
ref: 1870 April–September, Charles Dickens, “’What are you doing to the man?’ demands Jasper, stepping out into the moonlight from the shade.
’Making a ’’’cock-shy’’’ of him,’ replies the hideous small boy.”, in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1870, →OCLC:
glosses: An object at which stones are flung; (by extension) a person who is abused or vilified.
cockshy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cockshies
form: cockshying
form: cockshied
form: cockshied
Etymology: From cock + shy; so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in shying or throwing cudgels at live cocks.
Senses: glosses: To pelt; to throw things at.
omber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ombre.
coendoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coendoos
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of coendou.
coendou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coendous
form: coendoo
Etymology: From New Latin, from Old Tupi kûandu.
Senses: glosses: A prehensile-tailed tree-dwelling porcupine, of genus Coendou, found in Central and South America.
Synonyms: prehensile-tailed porcupine
Brazilian porcupine
progressless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more progressless
form: most progressless
Etymology: From progress + -less.
Senses: glosses: devoid of progress
pentecosties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pentecosty
pentecosty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentecosties
form: pentecostys
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πεντηκοστύς (pentēkostús), from πεντήκοντα (pentḗkonta, “fifty”).
Senses: examples: text: There were seven companies in the field without counting the Sciritae, who numbered six hundred men: in each company there were four Pentecostyes, and in the Pentecosty four Enomoties.
ref: 1874, Thucydides, translated by Richard Crawley, History of the Peloponnesian War, Book 5:
topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: A troop of fifty soldiers in the Spartan army.
Related terms: enomoty
galactin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galactins
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γάλα, γᾰ́λᾰκτ- (gála, gắlăkt-, “milk”) + -in. Compare lactin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An amorphous, gelatinous substance containing nitrogen, found in milk and other animal fluids. It resembles peptone, and is variously regarded as a coagulating or emulsifying agent.
glosses: A white waxy substance found in the sap of the South American cow tree (Galactodendron).
glosses: An amorphous, gummy carbohydrate resembling gelose, found in the seeds of leguminous plants, and yielding on decomposition several sugars, including galactose.
Derived terms: polygalactin
paraphosphoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + phosphoric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: pyrophosphoric
Related terms: paraphosphate
fecundified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fecundify
fecundifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fecundify
fecundify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fecundifies
form: fecundifying
form: fecundified
form: fecundified
Etymology: From fecund + -ify.
Senses: glosses: To make fruitful; to fecundate.
fecundifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fecundify
eggily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more eggily
form: most eggily
Etymology: From eggy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an eggy manner; like an egg or eggs.
clodpated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clodpated
form: most clodpated
Etymology: From clod + pated.
Senses: glosses: stupid; idiotic: foolish
Related terms: clodpate
Dutch uncle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dutch uncles
Etymology: From 1838. See also Dutch uncle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Senses: examples: text: Gruff but kindly, with dark-rimmed glasses prone to slip down his prominent ruddy nose and an unlit cigar habitually clenched in his teeth, he was everyone's Dutch uncle and let even strangers call him “Maggie” to his face.
ref: 1996, Richard Kluger, Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris, Random House (Alfred A. Knopf), page 287:
text: I talked like a Dutch uncle to convince them they would be in the way if they came out too.
ref: 2003, Harlan Wygant, The Samurai Conspiracy, iUniverse, page 59:
text: The accountant was an older guy named Barney who always played the role of Dutch uncle to Michael's high flying ways, but on this occasion he read him the riot act.
ref: 2007, Peter Michael Briscoe, The Best Read Man in France: A Cautionary Tale, Wildside Press (The Borgo Press), page 41:
glosses: One who reproves in a blunt, stern manner intended for the benefit of the recipient.
Dutch uncles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dutch uncle
pessimized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pessimize
pessimizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pessimize
pessimizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pessimize
lithofellic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From litho- + Latin fel, fellis (“gall”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid, resembling cholic acid, found in the biliary intestinal concretions (bezoar stones) common in certain species of antelope.
Dutch gold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dutch metal.
nonverifying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + verifying.
Senses: glosses: Not verifying.
self-view
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-views
Etymology: From self- + view.
Senses: examples: text: Modesty, then denotes a moderate self-view—seeing oneself as intermediate, rather than as very positive or very negative, on key personal attributes such as personality traits, abilities and skills, physical appearance, and social behavior. A moderate self-view may be entertained privately or expressed publicly.
ref: 2011, Constantine Sedikides, Steven J. Spencer, The Self, page 164:
text: From this vantage point, it was the personality flaw, rather than the negative self-view, that caused people with negative self-views to embrace negative evaluations and evaluators.
ref: 2013, Joanne V. Wood, Abraham Tesser, John G. Holmes, The Self and Social Relationships, page 57:
text: That is, if people are highly certain of their self-view when they reach Phase 2, they will be inclined to compare the feedback with their own self-conceptualization if the necessary cognitive resources are available.
ref: 2013, Robert M. Arkin, Kathryn C. Oleson, Patrick J. Carroll, Handbook of the Uncertain Self:
text: Once an individual establishes a well-articulated self-schema in a particular domain, he generally acts to preserve that self-view.
ref: 2018, Johnmarshall Reeve, Understanding Motivation and Emotion, page 261:
glosses: One's conceptualization of oneself; sense of identity; self-image.
examples: text: But mark the punishment which did ensue Upon those ill-misleading villanies; They blinded were themselves with their self view, and fell into their own-made miseries;
ref: 1597, Thomas Middleton, The Wisdom of Solomon Paraphrased:
text: nor can I say thet either of them loved without some Self-view. Amelia plainly saw into the Falseness of their Tempers, look'd upon it as a Misfortune to be married into such a Family, and only made this Use of it, to avoid the Crime in herself .
ref: 1751, Elizabeth Justice, Amelia, Or, the Distress'd Wife, page 34:
text: God who knows the Heart, sees that I have no Self-view in these matters.
ref: 1760 July 1, Dr. William Smith, Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury:
text: But they who turn to themselves and to the world, are capable of receiving no instreaming from the Lord or from heaven, thus, not of being in any state of being enlightened and in a perception of what is true; for the world, from a self-view, glides in, and quite quenches, or drives back, or perverts whatever comes from heaven.
ref: 1860, Emanuel Swedenborg, A New Translation of Some Part of Swedenborg's Theological Works, page 605:
text: Every one has his pet egoistic illusion always under the spotlight of self-view; to him, his own importance is a veritable obsession.
ref: 1915, Hudson Maxim, Defenseless America, page xiv:
glosses: Carefulness or regard for one's own interests.
judgementally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more judgementally
form: most judgementally
Etymology: From judgemental + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of judgmentally.
Derived terms: non-judgementally
nonjudgementally
Dutch wives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dutch wife
nonverification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + verification.
Senses: glosses: absence of verification; failure to verify
bamboo wife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bamboo wives
Etymology: Calque from Chinese 竹夫人 (zhúfūrén).
Senses: glosses: In East Asia and Southeast Asia, a hollow bamboo bolster roughly the size of a human body, embraced by a person while sleeping during hot weather because its open structure exposes the body to cooling air flow.
Synonyms: Dutch wife
bamboo wives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bamboo wife
restorator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: restorators
Senses: glosses: A restaurateur; a restaurant owner.
glosses: A restorer; one who restores.
restorators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of restorator
stringhalt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stringhalts
Senses: glosses: A kind of lameness in horses, causing the animal to twitch its leg up suddenly.
jogging bra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jogging bras
Senses: glosses: A sports bra
retund
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retunds
form: retunding
form: retunded
form: retunded
Etymology: From Latin retundere, retusum, from re- (“re-”) + tundere (“to beat”).
Senses: examples: text: Covered with skin and hair keeps it warm, being naturally a very cold part, and also to quench and dissipate the force of any stroke that shall be dealt it, and retund the edge of any weapon.
ref: 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To blunt; to make less sharp.
examples: text: to retund someone's confidence
glosses: To cause to be obtuse, weak or dull.
retunded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retund
retunding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retund
retunds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retund
ingemination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪnˌd͡ʒɛmɪˈneɪʃən/
Forms: form: ingeminations
Senses: examples: text: Even Chriſt himſelfe who is Amen, the faithfull witneſſe, and in whom all the promiſes of God are Yea and Amen, often coroborateth his divine Eſſayes and heavenly promiſes with that ſacred ingemination Amen, Amen; […]
ref: 1647, Daniel Featley, The dippers dipt. Or, The Anabaptiſts Duck’d and Plung’d over Head and Ears, at a Diſputation in Southwark […], 5th edition, London: […] N.B. and Richard Royſton […], page 134:
text: Happiness with an echo or ingemination
ref: 1869, Charles Spurgeon, The Treasury of David:
text: A song—an air—a tune, that is a short succession of notes revolving rapidly upon itself, how could that by possibility offer a field of compass sufficient for the development of great musical effects? The preparation pregnant with the future, the remote correspondence, the questions, as it were, which to a deep musical sense are asked in one passage, and answered in another; the iteration and ingemination of a given effect, moving through subtle variations that sometimes disguise the theme, sometimes fitfully reveal it, sometimes throw it out tumultuously into the daylight,—these and ten thousand forms of self-conflicting musical passion—what room could they find, what opening for utterance in so limited a field as an air or song?
ref: 1840 July, De Quincey, “Style”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 68, number 297, page 2:
glosses: Repetition; reduplication; reiteration.
Related terms: Gemini
chalaziferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more chalaziferous
form: most chalaziferous
Etymology: From chalaza + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: chalaziferous layer
text: chalaziferous region
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having or bearing chalazas.
phakoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phakoscopes
Etymology: From phako- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of phacoscope.
phakoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phakoscope
jogging bras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jogging bra
poinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poinders
Etymology: From poind + -er.
Senses: examples: text: So Caius Gracchus defends the treasury from others' violence, whiles himself robbed it; so the poinder chafes and swears to see beasts in the corn, yet will pull up a stake, or cut a tether, to find supply for his pin-fold
ref: 1629, Thomas Adams, Sermons:
glosses: The keeper of a cattle pound; a pinder.
examples: text: The poinder no doubt is preferable at common law, because the assignment not being completed by intimation, the debtor continues still proprietor
ref: 1767, Lord Henry Home Kames, Principles of Equity:
glosses: One who distrains property.
poinders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poinder
contradictious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more contradictious
form: most contradictious
Senses: examples: text: The police prosecutor hammered at him and the bench had a go at him, and they commanded from him such a madhouse particularity between the distinctions of looking and seeing that Bradly was reduced to imbecility, and so contradictious were his mutterings that he was openly suspected of trying to shield that wretched tramp, whom Bradly would have gladly seen sunk in the bottomless pit reserved for snoopers.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 89:
glosses: Filled with contradictions; contradicting; inconsistent.
examples: text: If he had taken a contradictious tone on purpose to draw Mrs. Luna out, he could not have elicited more of the information he desired.
ref: 1885–1886, Henry James, The Bostonians […], London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 16 February 1886, →OCLC:
glosses: Inclined to contradict or cavil.
Derived terms: contradictiously
contradictiousness
uncontradictious
submarshal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: submarshals
Etymology: From sub- + marshal.
Senses: glosses: An under or deputy marshal.
submarshals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of submarshal
cestoidean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cestoideans
Etymology: Cestoidea + -an
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the Cestoidea.
cestoideans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cestoidean
ownerlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ownerless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being ownerless.
crotchetily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more crotchetily
form: most crotchetily
Etymology: From crotchety + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a crotchety manner.
cypseliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cypseliform
form: most cypseliform
Etymology: Latin cypselus (“a kind of swallow”), from Ancient Greek.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Like or belonging to the swifts (Cypselidae, now known as the Apodidae.)
Dover's powder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dover's powders
Etymology: Named after English physician Thomas Dover (1660–1742).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A powder of ipecac and opium, formerly used to treat colds and fevers.
Dover's powders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dover's powder
vodouist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vodouists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of voodooist.
vodouists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vodouist
thunnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thunny
thunny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thunnies
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of tunny (a kind of fish).
voudou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of voodoo (religion)
voudou
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: voudous
form: voudouing
form: voudoued
form: voudoued
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of voodoo.
Derived terms: voudon
luskish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more luskish
form: most luskish
Etymology: From lusk + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: that lousie came / To luskish Athens
ref: 1599, W. Kinsayder or Theriomastix [pseudonyms; John Marston], The Scourge of Villanie. […], London: […] I[ames] R[oberts], →OCLC; republished as G[eorge] B[agshawe] Harrison, editor, The Scourge of Villanie (The Bodley Head Quartos; 13), London: John Lane, The Bodley Head […]; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Company, 1925, →OCLC:
glosses: lazy
Related terms: luskishly
luskishness
vodun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of voodoo.
Protestantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Protestantly
form: most Protestantly
Etymology: From Protestant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: To Protestants, therefore, whose common rule and touchstone is the Scripture, nothing can with more conscience, more equity, nothing more Protestantly can be permitted, than a free and lawful debate at all times by writing, conference, or disputation of what opinion soever, disputable by Scripture ; concluding that no man in religion is properly a heretic at this day, but he who maintains traditions or opinions not probable by Scripture, who for aught I know is the Papist only ; he the only heretic who counts all heretics but himself.
ref: 1659, John Milton, Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes:
glosses: Like a Protestant; in conformity with Protestantism.
equipendency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From equi- + pendency.
Senses: examples: text: Wherefore, doubtless the will of man in the state of innocence had an entire freedom, a perfect equipendency and indifference to either part of the contradiction, to stand, or not to stand; to accept, or not accept the temptation.
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
text: Notwithstanding this, the feet fell, heel and sole together, flat upon the ground, and left it, for the air's uncharted ways, with manifest repugnancy. The arms were content to dangle, in perfect equipendency.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: The act or condition of hanging in equipoise; not being inclined or determined either way.
stoloniferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more stoloniferous
form: most stoloniferous
Etymology: From stolon + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: stoloniferous plant
glosses: Producing stolons or suckers.
Derived terms: word: Minuartia stolonifera
crucigerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪdʒəɹəs
Etymology: From Latin crux, crucis (“cross”) + -gerous.
Senses: examples: text: But not to look so high as Heaven or the single Quincunx of the Hyades upon the head of Taurus, the Triangle, and remarkable Crusero about the foot of the Centaur; observable rudiments there are hereof in subterraneous concretions, and bodies in the Earth; in the Gypsum or Talcum Rhomboides, in the Favaginites or honey-comb-stone, in the Asteria and Astroites, and in the crucigerous stone of S.Iago of Gallicia.
ref: 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus:
glosses: Bearing a cross; marked with the figure of a cross.
prosopolepsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prosopolepsy