cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
GMs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of GM
GMing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Dungeon Mastering.
synonyms: word: Dungeon Mastering
GMing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of GM
GMed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of GM
game mastering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Dungeon Mastering.
synonyms: word: Dungeon Mastering
Goya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Goyas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Goya, from Basque Goia.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: Francisco Goya, a Spanish painter
Derived terms: Goyaesque
Goyaesquely
dungeon-mastering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Dungeon Mastering.
cumwad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cumwads
Etymology: From cum + -wad.
Senses: examples: text: Another, smaller cum wad shot into my mouth. I sucked the last drop from his handsome cock, and licked his cockhead clean.
ref: 1987, First Hand, Teaneck, N.J.: FirstHand, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 42:
text: Don't forget a mistress, or a massage parlor. You're not going there, are you? Besides, do those temporary fixes ever decrease your true desires? As soon as you've blown your cum wad, some where you shouldn't have, how many seconds could you count, before you're thinking about your wife, sick to your stomach with guilt and remorse, […]
ref: 2010, Stephoonus Galatoboureko, The Creeping Hand Book, Men, Bloomington, Ind.: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 36:
text: He had never tasted cum before, and this was such a surprise that his mouth was half-open, so most of the cumwad went straight onto his tongue.
ref: 2014, Curtis Kingsmith, Brutewood Long-term Confinement: Maximum Security, [s.l.]: Eroticatorium, →ISBN, pages 266–267:
glosses: An amount of semen, especially the amount produced by a man in one ejaculation.
examples: text: "The little cumwad," Zone muttered.
ref: 1998 February, Brian [Charles] Daley, Smoke on the Water: Book One of GammaLAW, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey Books, →ISBN, page 8:
text: RICK Hey cum wad how bout you stop staring at my assistant and get some work done around here. / BJ This is the break room dickhead, i'm taking a break.
ref: 2012, Amara Thompson with Addis Daniel, No News is Bad News, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 10:
text: The cumwad is probably going to die anyway, drowning in his own blood. I decide to push him over onto his side so the blood can drain. Maybe he'll live.
ref: 2015, Linda Nagata, The Trials, New York, N.Y.: Saga Press, →ISBN, page 295:
glosses: A stupid or useless person; dickhead, shithead.
Synonyms: sense: semen
word: semen
sense: idiot
word: fool
word: idiot
cumwads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cumwad
crate shy of a load
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the common saying "one X short of Y", meaning not living up to what is normal or expected. Compare one fry short of a Happy Meal.
Senses: glosses: A gullible simpleton.
STed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ST
STing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Storytelling in the context of a tabletop role-playing game, especially one published by White Wolf.
Synonyms: Dungeon Mastering
DMing
GMing
STing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ST
STs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ST (storytellers)
Synonyms: DMs
GMs
dungeon masters
game masters
STs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ST
atheologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atheologists
Etymology: From atheolog(y) + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The turbulent life and fragmentary writings of a third woman, Colette Peignot (1903-38) are also becoming better known in their own right and not simply for the influence they had on those of her lover during the last years of her life, the self-styled "atheologist" Georges Bataille (1897-1962) who, along with others, was responsible for her posthumous mythologization as "Laure."
ref: 2004, Richard D. E. Burton, Holy Tears, Holy Blood: Women, Catholicism, and the Culture of Suffering in France, 1840-1970, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page x:
text: It would be wrong to use this as a direct proof of God's existence and equally wrong to imagine, along with the atheologists in cosmological physics, that a system of equations can bootstrap its own parameters and constants, also actualizing what is described by those specific equations.
ref: 2006, Loyd L. Fueston, To See a World in a Grain of Sand: Reconciling the Saints to Darwin and Einstein, Divorcing the Saints from Smith and Lincoln, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 114:
text: In his review of the history of atheism, French atheologist Michel Onfray dates its explicit inception to 1729 and a book published posthumously by the Abbe Jean Meslier, the parish priest of Etrépigny in northeastern France.
ref: 2008, Vox Day, The Irrational Atheist: Dissecting the Unholy Trinity of Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens, BenBella Books, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
philosophy
religion
sciences
glosses: A scholar and/or proponent of atheism.
Related terms: atheology
mule bell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mule bells
form: mulebell
Senses: examples: text: The sounds of Moslem life are still; / No mule-bell tinkles down the hill; / Stretched in the broad court of the khan, / The dusty Bornou caravan / Lies heaped in slumber, beast and man […].
ref: 1850, John Greenleaf Whittier, Derne:
text: There is something wildly pleasing in listening to these ditties among the rude and lonely scenes that they illustrate, accompanied, as they are, by the occasional jingle of the mulebell.
ref: 1852, Washington Irving, Tales from the Alhambra:
glosses: A bell hung on a mule.
goatshit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of goat shit.
aminothiol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aminothiols
Etymology: From amino + thiol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any amino derivative of a thiol
bronde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: brŏnd
ipa: /bɹɒnd/
enpr: bränd
ipa: /bɹɑnd/
rhymes: -ɒnd
rhymes: -ɑnd
Forms: form: brondes
Etymology: Blend of brunette + blonde or brown + blonde, popularised from circa 2010.
Senses: examples: text: What happens when beach blonde meets a rich brunette? You get a 'bronde'. A colour that is somewhere between the two extremes, bronde brings in the best of both worlds.
ref: 2017, "Hair Colouring", The Times of Oman 100, Summer 2016, page 33
coordinate_terms: blorange
glosses: A hair colour intermediate between brown and blond.
examples: text: I'm a bronde.
glosses: A person having this hair colour.
Synonyms: dirty blond
dishwater blond
bronde
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: brŏnd
ipa: /bɹɒnd/
enpr: bränd
ipa: /bɹɑnd/
rhymes: -ɒnd
rhymes: -ɑnd
Etymology: Blend of brunette + blonde or brown + blonde, popularised from circa 2010.
Senses: examples: text: Singer Taylor Swift changes up her long lob with an added fringe, in a bronde tone at the Billboard Music Awards on 17 May.
ref: 2015, “Celeb Hair We Love”, in Canberra Weekly Magazine, page 55:
text: Olive skin tones look great with a bronde colour, so mixing a chocolate brown with honey highlights would be a great option.
ref: 2021, Jenna Engel, quoted in Veronica Boodhan, "Finding The Perfect Match", Salon, May 2021, page 35
glosses: Having or relating to a bronde colour.
biometabolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biometabolites
Etymology: From bio- + metabolite.
Senses: glosses: Any metabolite found in a biological situation
Islamness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Islam + -ness.
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The state of being Muslim or Islamic.
codegree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: codegrees
form: co-degree
Etymology: From co- + degree.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The number of edges of a hypergraph that contain all the specified vertices
semeny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more semeny
form: most semeny
Etymology: From semen + -y.
Senses: glosses: Similar to, or reminiscent of, semen.
zambras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zambra
meadowfoam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meadowfoams
Etymology: From meadow + foam.
Senses: glosses: Any of the plants in the genus Limnanthes, flowering annuals native to the western US, especially white meadowfoam (Limnanthes alba), which is grown for the oil in its seeds.
glosses: The industrially useful oil produced by Limnanthes alba.
aristogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aristo- + -genesis, coined by Henry Fairfield Osborn.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A type of orthogenesis that operates by means of a "creative principle".
wikipedia: Henry Fairfield Osborn
Related terms: aristogenetic
aristogene
aristo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈrɪstoʊ/
ipa: /əˈrɪstəʊ/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄριστος (áristos, “best”).
Senses: examples: e.g. aristocide, aristocracy
glosses: upper class, nobility
examples: e.g. aristocratic, aristodemocracy, aristomonarchy
glosses: aristocracy
examples: e.g. aristophagist, aristophrenic, aristotype
glosses: the best, superior, ideal
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from upper class
word: aristocide
sense: terms derived from upper class
word: aristocracy
sense: terms derived from aristocracy
word: aristocrat
sense: terms derived from aristocracy
word: aristocratic
sense: terms derived from aristocracy
word: aristodemocracy
sense: terms derived from aristocracy
word: aristodemocratic
sense: terms derived from aristocracy
word: aristomonarchy
sense: terms derived from best
word: aristogene
sense: terms derived from best
word: aristogenesis
sense: terms derived from best
word: aristogenic
sense: terms derived from best
word: Aristography
sense: terms derived from best
word: aristophagist
sense: terms derived from best
word: aristophrenic
sense: terms derived from best
word: aristotype
aristogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to aristogenesis.
biocharacter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biocharacters
Etymology: From bio- + character.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A defining characteristic of an organism or group of organisms
Synonyms: biocharacteristic
biocharacters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biocharacter
aristogene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aristogenes
Etymology: From aristo- + -gene, coined by Henry Fairfield Osborn.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A developmental unit that can evolve and serve a functional purpose in the hypothesis of aristogenesis.
wikipedia: Henry Fairfield Osborn
Related terms: aristogenesis
aristogenic
aristogenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aristogene
milk-mother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milk-mothers
form: milk mother
Senses: examples: text: Halimah bint Abi Dhuayb was the milk-mother of the Prophet Muhammad.
glosses: Wet nurse (especially in an Islamic context, or the literal translation of the Chinese term 奶媽).
Related terms: milk brother
milk sister
aristogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aristo- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Relating or adapting to producing the very best offspring; eugenic with an aim towards an optimal state.
aristogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aristogene + -ic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to an aristogene.
kinetogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From kineto- + genetic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to kinetogenesis.
orthogeneticist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthogeneticists
Etymology: From orthogenetic + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who supports the idea of orthogenesis.
orthogeneticists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthogeneticist
orthoselection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ortho- + selection, originally coined by Ludwig Plate in 1913.
Senses: qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: The hypothesis that posits that orthogenesis works by means of natural selection.
examples: text: Therefore, there is evidence that orthoselection (sensu White, 1973) takes place in a karyotypic format in some lineages and particular formats in others, and could be associated with specific adaptive values that have obvious evolutionary connotations.
ref: "Chromosomal Changes and Stasis in Marine Fish Groups" in Fish Cytogenetics, Wagner Franco Molina, p. 83
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The acquisition of a common series of rearrangements within a genetic lineage.
orthoevolution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ortho- + evolution.
Senses: qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: orthogenesis
Related terms: orthoevolutionary
orthoevolutionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ortho- + evolutionary.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to orthoevolution.
agorot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agora
agorah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agorot
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of agora.
ohai
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈoʊhaɪ/
homophone: Ojai
Senses: glosses: Deliberate misspelling of oh hi.
peperomia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peperomias
Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin peperomia, from Ancient Greek πέπερι (péperi, “pepper”) + ὅμοιος (hómoios, “similar, like”).
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the genus Peperomia, some of which are popular houseplants.
peperomias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peperomia
antishadowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of antishadow
antishadowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of antishadow
hacktivistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hacktivistic
form: most hacktivistic
Senses: examples: 2014, Bernadette H. Schell Ph.D., Internet Censorship: A Reference Handbook
In 2008, the world heard loudly and clearly about Anonymous, a nebulous collection of hacker cells and splinter groups that seemed to coordinate their hacktivistic efforts with hackers around the globe.
glosses: Of or related to hacktivism.
nucleocomplexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nucleocomplex
milk mother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milk mothers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of milk-mother.
lyra viol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lyra viols
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of bass viol.
Derived terms: lyra violist
chavvie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: chavvier
form: chavviest
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chavvy.
monochordist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monochordists
Etymology: From monochord + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who plays a monochord (one-stringed chordophone).
lyra violist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lyra violists
Senses: glosses: Someone who plays a lyra viol.
water organist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water organists
Etymology: From water organ + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who plays a water organ.
barrel organist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barrel organists
Etymology: From barrel organ + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: organ grinder
glosses: Someone who plays a barrel organ.
pipe organist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pipe organists
Etymology: From pipe organ + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who plays a pipe organ.
church organ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: church organs
Etymology: Compound of church + organ.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A large pipe organ installed in a Christian church.
Hyponyms: pipe organ
Derived terms: church organist
church organist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: church organists
Senses: glosses: Someone who plays a church organ.
eunuch flute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eunuch flutes
Senses: examples: text: Now there was in Shakespeare's time a pipe called the eunuch flute. It was not an instrument that could generate sound but only a contrivance for imparting to the voice a trembling or buzzing sort of tone not unlike that which children produce by means of a piece of paper folded over a comb.
ref: 2011, Christopher Welch, Six Lectures on the Recorder and Other Flutes in Relation to Literature:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A simple musical instrument consisting of a wooden tube with a hole in it, used like a modern kazoo.
Synonyms: mirliton
onion flute
onion flute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: onion flutes
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Synonym of eunuch flute.
synonyms: word: eunuch flute
tablaist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tablaists
Etymology: From tabla + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who plays a tabla.
taborist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taborists
Etymology: From tabor + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: taborer
glosses: Someone who plays a tabor.
talking drummer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: talking drummers
form: talking-drummer
Senses: glosses: Someone who plays a talking drum.
tom-tom drum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tom-tom drums
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A cylindrical drum without snares, used as part of the modern drum kit.
Derived terms: tom-tommer
tom-tom drummer
tom-tom drummer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tom-tom drummers
Etymology: From tom-tom drum + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who plays a tom-tom drum
Synonyms: tom-tommer
tom-tommer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tom-tommers
Etymology: From tom-tom + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who plays a tom-tom drum
Synonyms: tom-tom drummer
bodhranist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodhranists
Etymology: From bodhran + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who plays a bodhran.
bodhranists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bodhranist
yōkan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yōkan
Senses: examples: text: It was a gift box of yōkan candy pressed into the shape of chrysanthemums.
ref: 2019 November 5, Carl F. Haupt, “April 1941”, in Gary Gatlin: Reluctant Hero (World War II Trilogy; 1), Sonoita, Ariz.: Dudley Court Press, →ISBN:
text: I sat in the castle’s courtyard, enjoying a plate of yōkan. […] As I bit into the yōkan, I remembered some trivia from my past life. No one knew when exactly it was first invented, but by the Edo period, it had become quite a popular dessert. Famous yōkan brands had even made a name for themselves. […] Apparently, even important shogunate officials served yōkan at their tables.
ref: 2020 August 2, Hyougetsu, translated by Ningen, chapter 8, in Der Werwolf: The Annals of Veight, volume 8 (Eastward Bound), [San Antonio, Tex.]: J-Novel Club, →ISBN:
text: When I press the fork into it, it bows ever so slightly. “It’s just a hair too soft for this type of yōkan,” I conclude. “However, it looks pretty good, and the flavors are well balanced.” Mom nods in agreement, and we move on to the second jelly. Rather than a pert, bouncy dessert, the yōkan has spread across the plate like Jabba the Hutt.
ref: 2021 February 2, Jennifer Yen, chapter 26, in A Taste for Love, New York, N.Y.: Razorbill, →ISBN, page 305:
text: This sweet bean gelée, called yōkan, is studded with candied chestnuts colored yellow by gardenia petals. […] Arrange the sliced chestnuts, spaced evenly, on top of the layer of yōkan.
ref: 2021 March 23, Hannah Kirshner, “Kuri Yōkan”, in Water, Wood, and Wild Things: Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, “Water” section, chapter 2 (The Tea Path), pages 48–49:
text: Right now, in this bag I’m holding, there are three red bean dorayaki, three cream dorayaki, three red bean yōkan, three mung bean yōkan, three red bean dango, and three red bean mochi. […] Six yōkan is six for sixty sen.
ref: 2024 November 12, Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated by Lin King, “Bah-Sò / Braised Minced Pork”, in Taiwan Travelogue: A Novel, Minneapolis, Minn.: Graywolf Press, →ISBN:
text: He opened it, revealing little wrapped bars of yōkan, sweet red bean–flavored jellies Hana loved having with her tea.
ref: 2025 January 14, Samantha Sotto Yambao, “Tails and Tea Boxes”, in Water Moon: A Novel, large print edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House Large Print in association with Del Rey, →ISBN, page 72:
glosses: Alternative form of yokan.
parasol trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parasol tree
original as sin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Referring to the Christian concept of original sin.
Senses: examples: text: Say what you will, once whispered a friend of mine, there are things in him strong as poison, and original as sin.
ref: 1824, The London Magazine, volume 9, page 529:
text: But I had no guess of it then as I sat writing by the fireside, in what seemed the spring-tides of a somewhat pedestrian inspiration; nor yet day by day, after lunch, as I read aloud my morning's work to the family. It seemed to me original as sin; it seemed to belong to me like my right eye.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very original.
wikipedia: original sin
Related terms: ugly as sin
pipe organists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pipe organist
tom-tommers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tom-tommer
tom-tom drummers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tom-tom drummer
tom-tom drums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tom-tom drum
talking drummers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of talking drummer
talking-drummer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: talking-drummers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of talking drummer.
talking-drummers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of talking-drummer
taborists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taborist
tablaists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tablaist
onion flutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of onion flute
eunuch flutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eunuch flute
church organists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of church organist
church organs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of church organ
water organists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water organist
lyra violists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lyra violist
monochordists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monochordist
lyra viols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lyra viol
pop pop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pop pops
Senses: examples: text: I was wishing my pop pop was here to give these guys some advice.
ref: 2010, Charles Young, Root for the Underdog: Back-up Catcher and other sports stories, page 84:
text: My most memorable moment with my pop pop was when I was younger.
ref: 2011, Dr. Delphinia D. McNeill Burnett, The Love of a Father: From A Daughters View, page 57:
text: My pop pop was a teenager in the 1940s and he worked at a restaurant doing everything from washing dishes to cooking.
ref: 2014, Ramin Ganeshram, FutureChefs: Recipes by Tomorrow's Cooks Across the Nation and the World, page 96:
glosses: Alternative spelling of pop-pop.
Pop Pop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pop Pops
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pop-pop.
Pop-Pop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pop-Pops
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pop-pop.
Rohirric
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sindarin roch (“horse”) + hîr (“lord”) + -ic.
Senses: glosses: The fictional language of the Rohirrim in Tolkien's legendarium.
kabosy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kabosy
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A wooden box-shaped guitar-like musical instrument, most commonly with six strings and characterized by the use of partial frets, originating in traditional Malagasy music.
kacapi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəˈt͡ʃɑ.pi/
Forms: form: kacapis
form: kecapi
Etymology: Borrowed from Sundanese kacapi (“zither”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A box zither with an open bottom, played by plucking, originating in traditional Sundanese music, especially tembang sunda and pantun sunda.
box zither
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: box zithers
Senses: glosses: A zither with a trapezoidal or rectangular shaped sound box.
box zithers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of box zither
kobyz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kobyz
Etymology: Borrowed from Kazakh қобыз (qobyz).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A stringed instrument traditionally made of a single piece of wood, with either two or four strings and played with a bow, of traditional Kazakh origin.
Derived terms: kobyzist
kobyzist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kobyzists
Etymology: From kobyz + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who plays a kobyz.
kobyzists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kobyzist
seedbank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seedbanks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seed bank.
seed bank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seed banks
form: seedbank
Senses: examples: text: "Corn first developed in the northern Mexico area," said James Enote, director of the Zuni Conservation Project, which oversees the seed bank on the reservation.[…]Zuni farmers check out seeds from the seed bank with the agreement that they will return the same number or more, Mr. Enote said.
ref: 1995 September 27, Lesley S. King, “At the Nation's Table: A Seed Bank For Sacred Corn”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, page C3:
text: For years, a hodgepodge network of seed banks has been amassing seed and shoot collections. Labs in Mexico banked corn species. Those in Nigeria banked cassava.
ref: 2008 February 28, Elisabeth Rosenthal, “In Norway, Global Seed Vault guards genetic resources”, in The International Herald Tribune, →ISSN:
glosses: Synonym of seed vault.
synonyms: word: seed vault
spolia opima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin spolia opīma.
Senses: examples: text: The victor having won the Spolia Opima, granted him his life, on condition, that he would on his knees supplicate his pardon […].
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: He demanded his body therefore, and the spolia opima taken with him.
ref: 1832, Tales of the Alhambra, Washington Irving:
text: Within Augustus' new forum, which was dedicated in 2, the spolia opima also played a central role.
ref: 2014, James H. Richardson, Federico Santangelo, The Roman Historical Tradition, page 315:
glosses: The spoils taken by a Roman general from an opponent commander, originally after single combat.
flatette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flatettes
Etymology: From flat + -ette.
Senses: glosses: A bedsit.
flatettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flatette
herdable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more herdable
form: most herdable
Etymology: From herd + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being herded.
Derived terms: unherdable
unherdable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unherdable
form: most unherdable
Etymology: From un- + herdable.
Senses: glosses: Incapable of being herded.
auriferously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more auriferously
form: most auriferously
Etymology: From auriferous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Only one thing sat otherwise than auriferously, and at the same time lightly, on Mr. Dorrit's mind.
ref: 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, “Getting On”, in Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC, book the second (Riches), page 466:
glosses: In an auriferous manner.
Lucetta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
kachumber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kachumbers
form: cachumber
Etymology: Borrowed from Gujarati કચુંબર (kacumbar).
Senses: glosses: An Indian salad of chopped tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, and sometimes chili peppers.
Related terms: kachumbari
Noogler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnuː.ɡlə/
ipa: /ˈnu.ɡlɚ/
Forms: form: Nooglers
Etymology: Blend of new + Googler
Senses: examples: text: TEMs can view the resume and interview scores of a Noogler and place a "bid" on the allocation. In heavy hiring seasons, there are generally multiple candidates to be allocated to multiple projects. Competing bids are the norm […]
ref: 2012, James A. Whittaker, Jason Arbon, Jeff Carollo, How Google Tests Software, page 190:
text: As an experiment, we added a fifteen-minute segment to Noogler orientation for some people that explained the benefits of being proactive, provided five specific actions Nooglers could take to find the things they needed, and reiterated how this behavior fits with Google’s entrepreneurial mindset:[…]
ref: 2015, Laszlo Bock, Work Rules!, Twelve, →ISBN, page 298:
coordinate_terms: Googler
Xoogler
glosses: A new employee of the Google corporation.
Nooglers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Noogler
Xoogler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Xooglers
Etymology: From ex- and Googler.
Senses: examples: text: Older Googlers with families tend to like it less, because "everybody, even young mums, works seven days a week." Another Xoogler, who held a senior position, says that by trying to create a "Utopia" of untrammelled creativity, Google ended up with "dystopia".
ref: 2007, The Economist, volume 384, page 58:
text: As a search marketer, Xoogler (ex-Googler), and now web consultant, I have seen both sides of the “Google fence,” and that has been fascinating.
ref: 2012, Brian Clifton, Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics, page 205:
coordinate_terms: Gaygler
Googler
Noogler
Zoogler
glosses: A former employee of the Google corporation.
Xooglers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Xoogler
pie bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pie birds
Senses: synonyms: pie chimney
pie funnel
pie vent
pie whistle
glosses: A hollow ceramic device shaped like an upstretched bird with open beak, used for supporting or venting a pie.
pie birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pie bird
junk bonds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of junk bond
Revlon mode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After the legal case Revlon, Inc. v. MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings, Inc.
Senses: topics: business
glosses: The position of a company whose sale or breakup is imminent and whose directors' responsibility is consequently narrowed to securing the highest possible price to benefit stockholders.
wikipedia: Revlon, Inc. v. MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings, Inc.
backfire effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backfire effects
Etymology: Coined by Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler.
Senses: glosses: The finding that, faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, people can reject the evidence and believe even more strongly.
Related terms: boomerang effect
backfire effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backfire effect
Revlon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A marketing coinage derived from the founders' surnames, Revson and Lachman.
Senses: glosses: An American cosmetics, skincare, fragrance, and personal care company.
Derived terms: Revlon duty
Revlon mode
dacquoise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dækˈwɑːz/
rhymes: -ɑːz
Forms: form: dacquoises
Etymology: From French dacquoise, feminine of dacquois (“from the French town of Dax”), the origin of the dessert.
Senses: examples: text: Call Natalie at Glorious Foods and tell her no for the 40th time. No! I don't want dacquoise. I want tortes filled with warm rhubarb compote.
ref: 2006, Aline Brosh McKenna, Lauren Weisberger, The Devil Wears Prada, spoken by Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep):
glosses: A dessert cake made with layers of almond and hazelnut meringue and whipped cream or buttercream, typically served chilled with fruit.
dacquoises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dacquoise
sans rival
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sans rivals
Etymology: French, literally "without rival".
Senses: glosses: A Filipino dessert cake made of layers of buttercream, meringue, and chopped cashews.
Related terms: dacquoise
sans rivals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sans rival
stacked modals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stacked modal
muftee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muftees
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of mufti.
muftees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muftee
sindhenan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Or pansori, the South Korean musical storytelling tradition; or sindhenan, the improvisational singing of Javanese gamelan music.
ref: 2015 September 16, Ben Ratliff, “Through Music, Jen Shyu Explores the Unknown, Including Herself”, in New York Times:
glosses: The improvisational singing of Javanese gamelan music.
undilute
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + dilute.
Senses: examples: text: It’s easy to make a cocktail more sweet or sour or dilute; it’s harder to make it unsweet or unsour and undilute.
ref: 2015 September 17, “How to make cocktails: follow these 10 golden rules”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Not dilute.
prefinals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prefinal
prefinals
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […] a trip home, to my family and friends, sounds like just the thing I need to prepare me for the prefinals crunch.
ref: 2012, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Chicken Soup for the College Soul:
text: After they were done, Mr. Deng was dying from brain and bodily injuries, a prefinals weekend retreat had turned into the scene of a murder investigation, and his fellow pledges, big brothers and fraternity leaders were its primary suspects.
ref: 2015 September 15, Rick Rojas, “Defiant Baruch Fraternity Pledge Fought Back in Fatal Hazing, Report Says”, in New York Times:
glosses: Before final examinations.
cyclosophoran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclosophorans
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A disaccharide that is a form of glucopyranosyl-glucopyranose
dystroglycanopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dystroglycanopathies
Etymology: From dystroglycan + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any disease associated with dystroglycan.
eigenlevel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eigenlevels
Etymology: From eigen- + level.
Senses: glosses: Any level whose value is based on an eigenfunction
eigenpotential
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eigenpotentials
Etymology: From eigen- + potential.
Senses: glosses: Any potential whose value is based on an eigenfunction
Atyaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Atyap
eigensheaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eigensheaves
Etymology: From eigen- + sheaf.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any sheaf whose value is based on an eigenfunction
Derived terms: Hecke eigensheaf
eigensystem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eigensystems
Etymology: From eigen- + system.
Senses: glosses: Any system based on eigenfunctions.
Related terms: eigenbasis
eigenbrain
eigendecomposition
eigen decomposition
eigenface
eigenfunction
eigenhead
eigenmode
eigenpair
eigenspace
eigenspinor
eigenstate
eigentheory
eigenvalue
eigenvector
eigentensor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛnsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: eigentensors
Etymology: From eigen- + tensor.
Senses: glosses: Any tensor whose value is based on an eigenfunction
eigentriple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eigentriples
Etymology: From eigen- + triple.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any triple whose values are based on an eigenfunction
eigenwave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eigenwaves
Etymology: From eigen- + wave.
Senses: glosses: Any wave based on an eigenfunction
cyberunit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberunits
Etymology: From cyber- + unit.
Senses: examples: text: We live in a digitalized world that is advancing and changing as you read this sentence, leading to the myth that we are losing our “humanness” and becoming cyberunits in a cyberuniverse.
ref: 1996, Jeff Williams, How to Manage Your Middle School Classroom, page 104:
text: The same cyber-unit also attacked other Albanian sites and the largest Croatian daily English newspapers.
ref: 2006, Athina Karatzogianni, The Politics of Cyberconflict:
text: Once delivered as dangerous payloads, the Chinese PLA cyberunits can exploit these remotely-planted command and control devices, to collect all manner of sensitive governmental, economic or confidential information.
ref: 2012, William Hagestad II, 21st Century Chinese Cyberwarfare, page 48:
glosses: A unit (in various senses) in cyberspace or on the Internet.
cyberunits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberunit
hyperadrenalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperadrenalized
form: most hyperadrenalized
Etymology: From hyper- + adrenalized.
Senses: examples: text: But in these overwrought scenes, Mr. Emmerich has reverted to the hyperadrenalized style of his big-budget disaster films like “The Day After Tomorrow” and “Independence Day.”
ref: 2015 September 24, Stephen Holden, “For ‘Stonewall,’ an Indiana-Born Avatar”, in New York Times:
glosses: Highly adrenalized.
hyperadrenalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From hyper- + adrenalized.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hyperadrenalize
kinnari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinnaris
Senses: examples: text: It’s a small sculpture in the form of a bird with the head of a woman, a type of mythical creature known as a kinnari.
ref: 2015 September 24, Ken Johnson, “Review: ‘Philippine Gold: Treasures of Forgotten Kingdoms’”, in New York Times:
qualifier: Indian mythology
glosses: A female kinnara.
kinnaris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kinnari
kinnara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinnaras
Etymology: Transliteration of Sanskrit किन्नर (kinnara).
Senses: qualifier: Indian mythology
glosses: A celestial lover and musician, half-human and either half-horse or half-bird.
Related terms: word: kinnari
kinnaras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kinnara
unmissably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unmissably
form: most unmissably
Etymology: From unmissable + -ly.
Senses: examples: an unmissably gripping television drama
glosses: In a way that merits not being missed.
nongolfing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + golfing.
Senses: examples: text: the nongolfing areas of a golf course
glosses: Not related to, or not taking part in, the sport of golf.
noncamera
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + camera.
Senses: examples: text: They include photograms, noncamera images made by placing random objects (eyeglasses, hand tools, light bulbs) on light-sensitive paper.
ref: 2015 September 24, Holland Cotter, “Review: In ‘Early Soviet Photography, Early Soviet Film,’ Artists Edit Reality to Fit an Ideal”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not relating to a camera.
multiamorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multiamorous
form: most multiamorous
Etymology: From multi- + amorous.
Senses: examples: text: Clarke undoubtedly hoped her reports would disenchant the multiamorous Fauriel with the multiamorous Madame Douglas.
ref: 1994, Betty T. Bennett, Mary Diana Dods, a gentleman and a scholar, page 225:
text: The multicultural, multiamorous group of competitive young workaholics alternately getting in one another’s faces and pants.
ref: 2015 September 24, James Poniewozik, “Review: ‘Quantico’ Flips Between Jousting F.B.I. Recruits and a Terrorist Attack”, in New York Times:
text: Just as individuals can opt to continue a marriage, or terminate it, at any point in their married life, likewise a society can, apparently, opt for—or against— opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, contract marriage, covenant marriage, polygamous marriage, multiamorous marriage, or any other socially sanctified ordering of intimate affairs, calling any of that "marriage" if they so wish, and not commit social suicide by so doing.
ref: 2015, Robin West, Marriage, Sexuality, and Gender:
glosses: Having many romantic or sexual loves.
examples: text: She describes herself as is a sadomasochist, multiamorous switch, trolloping bootblack, sex machine, kinky chef, and professional pervert.
ref: 2012 October 29, Von Tramel, “Nerine named Ms SF Leather 2012”, in The Leather Journal:
text: Be playful with the terms used in this book and include yourself; if you are a man, allow yourself to replace womb with hara; if you are in a same-sex relationship, interpret it to suit your journey. If you are multiamorous, let that in.
ref: 2017, Azra Bertrand, Seren Bertrand, Womb Awakening: Initiatory Wisdom from the Creatrix of All Life:
text: The 42nd revue at The Second City's "junior" stage waxes sardonic about Trump, improvises a song, cleverly incorporates an audience member and trumpets (perhaps unnecessarily) its multiethnic, multiamorous cast.
ref: 2018 May 9, “Critics' Picks”, in Windy City Times:
glosses: Being able to love in many ways including polyamory, monogamy, etc.
gaggery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gag + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Each of their roles is so loaded with slickery, inconsistency and lowbrow intellectualisms, along with slapstick gaggery on which one can but gag, that the waste of talent is depressing.
ref: 1972, New York Magazine, volume 5, number 23, page 61:
text: She wished she could let her guard down, too, because Mr. Bradby, aside from his unconsidered words upstairs, was both endearing and skilled with gaggery.
ref: 2013, Jo Ann Brown, The Dutiful Daughter, page 47:
glosses: The use of gags or jokes.
multibook
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + book.
Senses: examples: text: Nicknamed “La Mamá Grande” after a story by Mr. García Márquez, Ms. Balcells rewrote the rules of Spanish-language publishing, negotiating better advances and multibook deals and abandoning a system in which writers would sign open-ended contracts with publishers.
ref: 2015 September 21, Rachel Donadio, “Carmen Balcells, Agent to Latin America’s Literary Lions, Dies at 85”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or relating to more than one book.
outtackle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outtackles
form: outtackling
form: outtackled
form: outtackled
Etymology: From out- + tackle.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To surpass in tackling.
outtackled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outtackle
outtackles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outtackle
outtackling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outtackle
blocwide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bloc + -wide.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, this week’s plan to distribute 120,000 asylum seekers — bitterly contested as it was by Eastern European nations, which were overruled — was just the latest faint stab at a unified European Union policy in the face of underfunded and embryonic blocwide agencies to deal with the crisis.
ref: 2015 September 23, Andrew Higgins, “As Europe Wrangles Over Migrant Relocation, Reality Moves Faster”, in New York Times:
glosses: Throughout a bloc.
chorusmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chorusmasters
Etymology: From chorus + master.
Senses: glosses: choirmaster
chorusmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chorusmaster
fairyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fairy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Most obviously, Snug the Joiner, one of the amateur actors, is in this version a two-headed, two-sexed creature embodied, hilariously, by Ms. Williamson and Mr. Bedard. Ms. Parsons speaks the words of Titania, but her winged, incandescent fairyness is evoked by a team of fluttering, humming others standing behind her.
ref: 2015 September 20, Ben Brantley, “Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Tailored for Multitaskers”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being fairy.
ondiola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ondiolas
Etymology: Italian
Senses: examples: text: Much of Scelsi’s output was created in an unusual way: he would improvise on a piano, a guitar, percussion instruments or, later in his career, an ondiola, a three-octave electronic instrument that could capture vibrato and microtonal intervals.
ref: 2015 September 20, Zachary Woolfe, “Review: Argento Chamber Ensemble’s ‘Scelsi Rediscovered’”, in New York Times:
glosses: An electronic musical instrument, an Italian version of the clavioline.
ondiolas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ondiola
necrozoophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From necro- + zoophilia.
Senses: glosses: A paraphilia characterised by sexual attraction toward dead animals.
Related terms: necrobestiality
semihug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semihugs
Etymology: From semi- + hug.
Senses: examples: text: As for policy related to African-American entrepreneurship, Mr. Trump said he wanted to overturn the Dodd-Frank financial law and called one black businessman to the stage, gave him a handshake, leaned in for a semihug and said he wanted the man to be negotiating with the Chinese.
ref: 2015 September 23, Jonathan Martin, “A Day of Empty Seats and Donald Trump in Full Attack”, in New York Times:
glosses: A partial hug.
semihugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semihug