cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Berlitz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Created in 1897 by Maximilian Berlitz.
Senses: examples: text: "Clotilde is taking a Berlitz course in American slang. I think her instructors are a little confused about it too.
ref: 1957, John Steinbeck, The Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication, page 103:
text: "I told him you would learn the Berlitz French so you could dine with him whenever you flew into Paris.
ref: 1997, Robert Ludlum, The Aquitaine Progression, page 85:
text: It was as if she'd learned it from a Berlitz book.
ref: 2004, Joseph Finder, Paranoia, page 49:
text: He spoke some Arabic with a West Texas drawl, like a Berlitz tape on dying batteries.
ref: 2004, Christopher Whitcomb, Black: A Novel, page 213:
text: Soon then these guys would have regressed, be blabbering away in the language of their home village, and these Berlitz monkeys at the agency would have no idea what was being said, [....]
ref: 2006, Robert Ludlum, The Ambler Warning, page 166:
text: "It's like Berlitz. When you get to Hollywood, you're going to need to learn the language."
ref: 2006, Gigi Levangie Grazer, The Starter Wife, page 95:
glosses: A brand of language skills learning. During the teaching of the language all instruction is done in the target language.
wikipedia: Maximilian Berlitz
market economy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: market economies
Senses: glosses: An economy in which goods and services are exchanged in a market, as opposed to a state-controlled economy.
copy sort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copy sorts
Senses: examples: text: The copy sort revealed that few people noticed the company name at the end of the commercial.
topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: An advertising research technique that assesses individual phrases and verbal ideas in a commercial by the audience's levels of attention or recall, relevance, and feelings.
entry points for the eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entry point for the eye
copy sorts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copy sort
cockbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockbirds
Etymology: From cock + bird.
Senses: glosses: The male of a game bird, especially of a pheasant.
examples: text: Then the old cock bird - he can be distinguished by his brighter plumage - hops out into full view.
ref: 1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary on the Plains, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 33:
glosses: The male of any bird.
high-frequency gravitational wave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high-frequency gravitational waves
form: HFGW
form: high frequency gravitational wave
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: gravitational radiation, in the megahertz to gigahertz region, which is proposed to have been produced by the Big Bang or by the collision of massive astronomical objects or artificially in the laboratory. Gravitational waves having frequencies higher than 100 kHz.
high-frequency
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Very frequent.
examples: text: a high-frequency sound
text: high-frequency radiation
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see high, frequency.
high-frequency gravitational waves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of high-frequency gravitational wave
undertakes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undertake
smoked salmon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoked salmons
Senses: glosses: edible raw salmon that is cut into strips and cured by smoking.
examples: text: Smoked Salmon and Leek Frittata:[…]4 ounces smoked salmon, cut into large flakes.
ref: 2020, Rebecca Fett, It Starts with the Egg Fertility Cookbook:100 Mediterranean-Inspired Recipes:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see smoked, salmon.
Hyponyms: lox
Nova
Derived terms: cold-smoked salmon
smoked salmon socialist
handjob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handjobs
Senses: examples: text: ‘How about a quick handjob?’ he begged.
ref: 2019, Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie, Trapeze, page 168:
glosses: Alternative spelling of hand job.
California rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of California roll
motorhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈməʊtə(ɹ)ˌhɛd/
ipa: /ˈmoʊtɚˌhɛd/
Forms: form: motorheads
Etymology: From motor + -head.
Senses: examples: text: The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude.
ref: 1986, John Hughes, Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Motion Picture), spoken by Grace Wheelberg (Edie McClurg):
text: Amelia may soon return to her roots in TV production as she completes an exciting pilot about car culture, a nice integration of vocation and avocation for this particular motorhead.
ref: 2023 December 13, “SoCal Car Guru Motorhead Mama Shares Sage Advice for Potential EV Buyers”, in Golden State:
glosses: A car, truck, or motorcycle enthusiast.
glosses: A heavy user of amphetamines.
Synonyms: sense: car enthusiast
english: American English
translation: American English
word: gearhead
sense: car enthusiast
word: petrolhead
sense: car enthusiast
word: revhead
sense: amphetamine addict
word: speed freak
Related terms: motordom
motormania
abidingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbaɪ.dɪŋ.nəs/
Etymology: From abiding + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality abiding.
Synonyms: durativeness
protractedness
lastingness
absorbedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈsɔɹb.ɪd.nəs/
ipa: /æbˈzɔɹb.ɪd.nəs/
ipa: /əbˈsɔɹb.ɪd.nəs/
ipa: /əbˈzɔɹb.ɪd.nəs/
Etymology: From absorbed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being absorbed.
accommodativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɒm.əˌdeɪt.ɪv.nəs/
Etymology: From accommodative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being accommodative.
dead man's hand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The aces and eights sense is from a legend that Wild Bill Hickok was holding such cards at the time he was killed in 1876.
Senses: examples: text: "A dead man's hand or queens on the roof at least," suggested Southack.
"They say two aces and two eights can never be beat."
ref: 1907, Davida French with Esther Stevens and Laura Wells, “The Rulers of the Realm”, in Not Included in a Sheepskin: Stanford Stories, Stanford: The Stanford Book Store, page 172:
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A pair of aces and a pair of eights (especially, the black aces and eights), in a player's hand.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: An ace and an eight as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em
examples: text: When playing poker, should you hold a jack full on red sevens, it means death, and is called "a dead man's hand".
ref: 1903, Cora Linn Morrison Daniels, Charles McClellan Stevens, editors, Encyclopædia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult Sciences of the World, volume 3, J. H. Yewdale, page 1478:
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Other various hands, among them a full house of three jacks and two tens.
Synonyms: sense: (poker) pair of aces and pair of eights
word: aces and eights
sense: (poker) pair of aces and pair of eights
word: eights and aces
word: kelter
Related terms: dead man's fingers
accommodative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɒm.əˌdeɪt.ɪv/
Forms: form: more accommodative
form: most accommodative
Etymology: From accommodate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: This fact points in a similar direction as the high MPC fact: macro stimulus can raise output substantially in circumstances when monetary policy is accommodative (e.g., at the ZLB).
ref: 2021, Jón Steinsson, Online Panel: A New Macroeconomics?, efip Research Brief, July 2021
glosses: Supplying with or obliging; accommodating.
Derived terms: accommodatively
accommodativeness
hypoaccommodative
nonaccommodative
overaccommodative
unaccommodative
underaccommodative
accumulativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From accumulative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or qualities of being accumulative.
actualness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From actual + -ness. Compare Middle English actualnesse (“effective power”).
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being actual.
addleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From addle + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The "addleness" of these eggs was consequently merely apparent. Their failure to hatch did not result from lack of inherent power of development […]
ref: 1872, American Bee Journal, volumes 7-8, page 146:
glosses: The state or quality of being addle.
muddling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of muddle
muddling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muddlings
Senses: examples: text: Janzen's critiques of most of my present chapters, with his soaring imagination, unencumbered passion for theologizing, and relentless wrestling, often revealed and challenged my flat-footed muddlings[…]
ref: 2002, Joe R. Jones, A Grammar of Christian Faith, page xiv:
glosses: The act of one who muddles; confusion; disorderly progress.
muddled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more muddled
form: most muddled
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: muddle-headed
text: Richardson took over, and Mitchell proceeded to the refreshment room in his turn, but when he came back some ten minutes later, it was evident that he had been indulging in something more potent than coffee, and he was in a very muddled state.
ref: 1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 53:
text: The selection of James Milner ahead of Young was the product of muddled thinking and the absence of Peter Crouch - with 22 goals in 42 England appearances - from even the substitutes' bench was also a surprise.
ref: 2011 June 4, Phil McNulty, “England 2 - 2 Switzerland”, in BBC:
glosses: Confused, disorganised, in disarray.
Derived terms: muddledness
Related terms: clear as mud
muddied
muddle
muddleheadedness
muddled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of muddle
entomophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more entomophagous
form: most entomophagous
Etymology: From entomo- + -phagous.
Senses: examples: text: Humans are generalist feeds derived from a long lineage of entomophagous primates.
ref: 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: feeding on insects; insectivorous
addressedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From addressed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being addressed.
adiposeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adipose + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being adipose.
admirableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From admirable + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: admirability
glosses: The state or quality of being admirable.
admissibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From admissible + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: admissibility
glosses: The state or quality of being admissible.
adulterateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adulterate + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being adulterate.
nature strip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nature strips
Senses: examples: text: Just look at these people, camping out there on her nature strip. All on social welfare, no jobs, nothing better to do with their time than come here and harass her. No wonder the stock market was crashing and Arthur was looking worried ...
ref: 1994, Southerly: A Review of Australian Literature:
text: Between the service road and the highway was a densely foliaged nature strip. There was a path across the nature strip that was frequently used by pedestrians to cross the service road.
ref: 2004, Australian High Court, The Australian Law Journal Reports, volume 78, page 572:
text: In their lime-green flat she had no garden, which was why she had taken over the nature strip.[…]Neighbours mowed their green-jube nature strips bordering Agatha′s garden and did not report her to the local council.
ref: 2005, Maurilia Meehan, The Bad Seed, unnumbered page:
text: 2009, Mary Horsfall, Creating Your Eco-Friendly Garden, CSIRO Publishing, page 107,
This is a town with a culture of nature strip gardens. Along our road there are no footpaths, but there are wide nature strips on which many residents have planted gardens of one sort or another.
text: Mrs Harridene accuses the said three schoolchildren of throwing bunches of seedpods onto her corrugated iron roof, having stolen the bunches of seedpods from the jacaranda tree located on her nature strip.
ref: 2015, Rosalie Ham, The Dressmaker: A Novel, Penguin, →ISBN, page 42:
glosses: An area of grass beside a roadway, possibly with a few trees or shrubs, lying between the roadway proper and the footpath, if there is one; a tree lawn.
adultness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adult + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being an adult.
adustness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adust + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being adust.
adust
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdʌst/
rhymes: -ʌst
Etymology: From Middle French aduste, and its source, Latin adustus (“burnt, scorched”), past participle of adūrere.
Senses: examples: text: From melancholy aduſt ariſes one kind [of humour]; from Choler another, which is moſt brutiſh: another from Flegme, which is dull; and the laſt from Blood, which is beſt.
ref: 1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Of the Matter of Melancholy”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 1, section 1, member 3, subsection [3], page 34:
text: [S]o in fevers and hot diſtempers from choler aduſt is cauſed a blackneſſe in our tongues, teeth and excretions: […]
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, “A Digression Concerning Blacknesse”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 6th book, page 283:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abnormally dark or over-concentrated (associated with various states of discomfort or illness, specifically being too hot or dry).
raw_tags: of a bodily humour
examples: text: He was tired and adust with long riding; but he did not go home.
ref: 1862 July – 1863 August, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “At the Barber’s Shop”, in Romola. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1863, →OCLC, book III, page 307:
glosses: Hot and dry; thirsty or parched.
glosses: Burnt or having a scorched colour.
Derived terms: adustible
adustness
advantageousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From advantageous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being advantageous.
adventuresomeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adventuresome + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: But toughness was not their quality—adventuresomeness was—and a mean determination to explore everything that interested them.
ref: 1973, Toni Morrison, Sula, Chatto & Windus (1993), page 55:
glosses: The state or quality of being adventuresome.
advisableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From advisable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of advisability.
synonyms: word: advisability
advisedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From advised + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being advised—of being done or used advisedly.
glosses: Deliberate consideration: prudent procedure.
Related terms: english: considered plesionymic by some users
translation: considered plesionymic by some users
word: advisability
english: considered plesionymic by some users
translation: considered plesionymic by some users
word: advisableness
affableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From affable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being affable.
affectedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: affectednesses
Etymology: From affected + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being affected.
affectionateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From affectionate + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being affectionate.
affectlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaˌfɛktləsnəs/
Etymology: From affectless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: That is, she has an amoral affectlessness, a serene indifference to the suffering of others, which she invites and dispassionately observes as tests of her power.
ref: 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
glosses: Emotional detachment; a lack of feeling.
affectless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more affectless
form: most affectless
Etymology: From affect + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking or not showing emotion.
Derived terms: affectlessly
affectlessness
affixedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From affixed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being affixed.
afflictedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From afflicted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being afflicted.
affluentness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From affluent + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being affluent.
affrontedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From affronted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being affronted.
affronts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of affront
affronts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of affront
affronting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: We hope that he is, and that our misgivings arise solely from the Minister's characteristically affronting approach to a railway matter.
ref: 1961 May, “Editorial: Mr. M. presents Dr. B. - for a limited season only”, in Trains Illustrated, page 258:
glosses: present participle and gerund of affront
affronting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: affrontings
Senses: examples: text: the affrontings of his majesty
ref: a. 1631, John Donne, Sermon preached upon the penitential psalms:
glosses: The offering of an affront.
affronting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more affronting
form: most affronting
Senses: examples: text: How much more affronting must it be to the Majefty of Heaven, the Great KING, to be thus treated?
ref: 1718, Samuel Keimer, A Brand pluck'd from the Burning, page 108:
text: There was afterwards one despatch from the Russian Minister to Earl Russell which in former times must have led to instant war, because it was of a very affronting character to the great nation which the noble Earl represented.
ref: 1866 June 11, Great Britain. Parliament, The Parliamentary Debates, page 165:
text: The ladies tell me that there is no Adonis, which is very affronting —only old men (alias old women) , and boys like Thomas Thumb, with the legs of a starved spider.
ref: 1888, Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Alexander Allardyce, Letters from and to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe - Volume 2, page 361:
glosses: Offensive, causing an affront.
Derived terms: affrontingly
affrontingness
affronted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more affronted
form: most affronted
Senses: examples: text: I feel very, very affronted by this process which did not include us, at least in the interview stage so we could have the benefit of an exchange with these individuals.
ref: 1998, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Workplace Competitiveness Issues, page 50:
text: […] a majority (59 per cent) would be affronted by the Church taking a stand on parliamentary legislation; and Poles would be even more affronted (81 per cent) by priests telling people how to vote.
ref: 2008, Martin Myant, Terry Cox, Reinventing Poland, page 122:
text: Simon was affronted at being recalled and even more affronted at being asked to account for his actions – this did not bode well.
ref: 2024, John Marshall, Peter of Savoy: The Little Charlemagne, page 88:
glosses: Offended; having taken umbrage.
examples: text: PROVENANCE The arms on f.25 are argent a lion rampant affronted azure, with claws and tongue gules; these are perhaps the arms of Acciajaoli, of Florence (cf. the sale in these rooms, 7 December 1992, lot 74), or Nini, of Siena[…]
ref: 1994 06, Sotheby's (Firm), Western Manuscripts and Miniatures:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Synonym of affronté.
synonyms: word: affronté
Derived terms: affrontedly
affrontedness
unaffronted
affronted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: They simply cannot deliver what they promised. Nor will an affronted, alienated Brussels help them do so.
ref: 2017 March 27, “The Observer view on triggering article 50”, in The Observer:
glosses: simple past and past participle of affront
affrontingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From affronting + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of affronting.
affrontiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From affrontive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being affrontive.
furiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From furious + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: furiosity
fury
glosses: The state or quality of being furious or outraged; enragement; inflamedness.
fulsomeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfʊlsəmnəs/
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English fulsomnesse; equivalent to fulsome + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: oleaginousness
unctuousness
unctuosity
glosses: The state or quality of being fulsome or showing overdone and insincere flattery.
aforeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From afore + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being before or afore.
afraidness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From afraid + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being afraid.
Africanness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Africannesses
Etymology: From African + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: She wrestled with her own Africanness. I could see her pain and confusion but there was nothing I could do.
ref: 2019, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, “Manchester Happened”, in Manchester Happened, Oneworld Publications (2020), page 73:
glosses: The state or quality of being African.
afterness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From after + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being or coming after.
againstness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From against + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being against.
agedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English agednes, agidnes, equivalent to aged + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: 1641, John Milton, Of Reformation in England and the Causes that Hitherto Have Hindered It, Volume I, in Charles Symmons (ed.), The Prose Works of John Milton, London: J. Johnson (etc.), 1806, Volume I, pp. 21-22 (citing the 74th epistle of Cyprian),
Neither ought custom to hinder that truth should not prevail; for custom without truth is but agedness of errour.
text: I cannot tell the half of the strange pleasures and thoughts that come about me at the sight of that old tower; for, in some sort, it is the epitome of all that makes the Continent of Europe interesting, as opposed to new countries; and, above all, it completely expresses that agedness in the midst of active life which binds the old and the new into harmony.
ref: 1856, John Ruskin, chapter 1, in Modern Painters […], volume IV, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, part V (Of Mountain Beauty), page 3:
text: Keda's oldness was the work of fate, alchemy. An occult agedness. A transparent darkness. A broken and mysterious grove. A tragedy, a glory, a decay.
ref: 1946, Mervyn Peake, “Assemblage”, in Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode:
glosses: The state or quality of being aged.
Synonyms: elderliness
oldness
senectitude
Derived terms: middle-agedness
aggregateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aggregate + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being aggregate.
aggregating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aggregate
aggregated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of aggregate
aggrievedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aggrieved + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being aggrieved.
aghastness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aghast + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Sugar cocks her head, in a mute gesture of aghastness.
ref: 2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 295:
glosses: The state or quality of being aghast.
agileness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From agile + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being agile; agility.
agreeingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From agreeing + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: pure agreeingness* that was scarily poetic.
ref: 1998 December 18, northern lad, “Re: ARGH”, in alt.kids-talk (Usenet):
text: (snip lots of lovely fluffy agreeingness)
ref: 1999 October 5, Joxer, “Re: Important message to prospective DR WHO producers”, in rec.arts.drwho (Usenet):
text: Such harmony and agreeingness!
ref: 2005 January 16, DC, “Re: It's only words...”, in talk.religion.buddhism (Usenet):
glosses: The state or quality of agreeing.
aguishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aguish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being aguish.
aimworthiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aimworthy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of having good aim (with a weapon).
alacriousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From alacrious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being alacrious.
alacrious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlæk.ɹi.əs/
Forms: form: more alacrious
form: most alacrious
Etymology: From Latin alacer.
Senses: glosses: Lively and joyfully involved.
Derived terms: alacriously
alacriousness
Related terms: alacrity
alamodeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From alamode + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being a la mode.
albuminousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From albuminous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being albuminous.
parisyllabic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pari- + syllabic.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
antonyms: imparisyllabic
glosses: Having the same number of syllables in all its inflections.
inflections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inflection
chip on one's shoulder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chips on one's shoulder
Etymology: The saying originated during the 19th century in the United States, where people wanting a physical fight would carry a chip of wood on their shoulder, daring others to knock it off.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Oh! if I only could get him to knock a chip off my shoulder, and so get round the law, I would give him one of the soundest thrashings he ever had.’
ref: 1830, The Onondaga Standard, Syracuse NY, 8 December
text: Leland, in his last issue, struts out with a chip on his shoulder, and dares Bush to knock it off.
ref: 1855, The Weekly Oregonian:
glosses: A form of challenge, in the same spirit as a medieval knight throwing down his gauntlet.
examples: text: The city of Herculaneum […] held its neighbors in hearty contempt, like the youth who has suddenly found his man's strength, and parades round with a chip on his shoulder.
ref: 1906, Harold MacGrath, chapter 4, in Half A Rogue:
text: People are staying home / When they got chips on their shoulder
ref: 2019 [1972], Willie Hutch, Kathy Wakefield, “Try It, You’ll Like it”, in You're the Man, performed by Marvin Gaye:
text: The young John McCain was a constant breaker of rules, a brawler and a slob, an undersize punk with an oversize chip on his shoulder.
ref: 2008 August 28, James Carney, Michael Grunwald, “Understanding John McCain”, in Time:
text: [O]ne minute this "Jihadi John" was struggling to get by, and get accepted, in drizzly England, unemployed with a mortgage to pay and a chip on his shoulder, and the next he stands in brilliant Levantine sunlight, where everything is clear and etched, at the vanguard of some Sunni Risorgimento intent on subjecting the world to its murderous brand of Wahhabi Islam.
ref: 2014 November 17, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version: International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 9]”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A habitually combative attitude, usually because of a harbored grievance, a sense of inferiority, or a desire to prove something.
glosses: A tendency to take offence quickly.
Related terms: word: chippy
word: thorn in someone's side
word: chip off the old block
english: from Matthew 7:3
translation: from Matthew 7:3
word: mote
gastrorrhagia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γαστήρ (gastḗr, “belly”) and ῥήγνυμι (rhḗgnumi, “to burst forth”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A hemorrhage from the stomach, also known as a gastric hemorrhage.
Malam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From India or Hindi, Maal-amm means "One who has knowledge of directions". It is believed to have started to be used after people from Rajasthan came to Veraval city of Gujarat for fishing around 200 years ago.
Senses: glosses: A surname from India from West India.
imparisyllabic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪmˌpæɹɪsɪˈlæbɪk/
Etymology: From Latin impar (“unequal”) + syllabic.
Senses: glosses: Not having the same number of syllables in all its inflections (especially of Greek or Latin nouns); for example, the Latin word pars, which has the genitive form partis.
imparisyllabic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪmˌpæɹɪsɪˈlæbɪk/
Forms: form: imparisyllabics
Etymology: From Latin impar (“unequal”) + syllabic.
Senses: examples: text: An adjectival type corresponding phonetically to the masculine third declension imparisyllabics is represented by some O.F. survivals of Latin comparative forms
ref: 1974 (revised 1989), Peter Rickard, A History of the French Language, Routledge 2002, pp. 50-1
glosses: An imparisyllabic noun.
alimentiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: 1828, George Combe, from a German [Term?] term coined by Johann Spurzheim.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being alimentive.
topics: human-sciences
medicine
phrenology
psychology
sciences
glosses: The instinct or faculty of appetite for food.
Coordinate terms: bibativeness
hev
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hes
form: heving
form: hed
form: hed
Senses: examples: text: Ah, if I thought they war huntin’ the big bonanza, I’d hev asserted my right to the whole claim.
ref: 1882, James Jackson, Tom Terror, the Outlaw:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of have, representing dialectal English.
tenpura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenpuras
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tempura.
phthalidomide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thalidomide.
omphalo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: omphal-
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, from a New Latin combining form, from Ancient Greek ὀμφαλός (omphalós, “navel”); compare also the synonymous prefix at umbilico- § Etymology; as explained at ὀμφαλός § Etymology, all of these words are cognates ultimately from the same Proto-Indo-European root.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the navel.
wikipedia: classical compound
international scientific vocabulary
Synonyms: alt: umbilico-
word: umbilic-
Derived terms: omphalic
omphalinoid
omphaloskepsis
omphaloskeptic
chitter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɪtə/
note: ga
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪtɚ/
rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: chitters
form: chittering
form: chittered
form: chittered
Etymology: From Middle English chiteren, chitren, cheteren. Ultimately onomatopoeic; compare didder and teeter as well as German zittern.
Senses: examples: text: It was a beautifully sunny day and beetles could be heard chittering loudly in the rose garden by the side of the path made out of antique bricks.
glosses: To make a series of high-pitched sounds; to twitter, chirp or chatter.
examples: text: Whare wilt thou cower thy chittering wing, / An' close thy e'e?
ref: 1786, Robert Burns, A Winter Night:
glosses: To shiver or chatter with cold.
Derived terms: chitter-chatter
chitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɪtə/
note: ga
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪtɚ/
rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: chitters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chitterling.
pseudepigrapha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌs(j)uː.dəˈpɪ.ɡɹə.fə/
ipa: /ˌsuː.dəˈpɪ.ɡɹə.fə/
Forms: form: pseudepigraphon
form: pseudepigraph
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ψευδής (pseudḗs, “false”) + ἐπιγραφή (epigraphḗ, “inscription”), literally “false title”.
Senses: examples: text: The Jewish pseudepigrapha bear the names of Old Testament patriarchs, kings, or prophets.
ref: 1906, Henry Barclay Swete, “Authorship”, in The Apocalypse of St. John: the Greek text with introd., notes and indices, Macmillan, page clxx:
text: Now, the myth theory, as it happens, is neither made nor marred by any decision as to the spuriousness of the Pauline letters. The crucial point is that, whether early or late—and the dating of them as pseudepigrapha is a difficult matter—the cardinal epistles have been interpolated.
ref: 1916, J. M. Robertson, “The Pauline Problem”, in The Historical Jesus: A Survey of Positions:
text: The difference between a pseudepigraph and a peroration is that the peroration is composed by the author of the main message. A pseudepigraph is composed by a different author, trying to leave the impression that it was the same. Heb 13 is clearly a pseudepigraph.
ref: 2006, George Wesley Buchanan, The Book of Hebrews: Its Challenge from Zion, Wipf and Stock, page 415:
text: The title of her^([Clare K. Rothschild]) monograph Hebrews as Pseudepigraphon¹³ reflects one of her main claims: "Hebrews should be classified as a Pauline [my italics] pseudepigraphon," because "although Paul's name does not occur in the text, the postscript makes a claim to Paul's authorship, particularly through appropriation of autobiographical details of Paul's life as the author's own."
ref: 2021, Gabriella Gelardini, Deciphering the Worlds of Hebrews: Collected Essays, BRILL, page 16:
glosses: Writings falsely ascribed to famous persons (historical or mythical) to lend them greater legitimacy, typically composed many centuries after the ostensible author's death.
Related terms: epigraphy
pseudepigraphal
pseudepigraphic
pseudepigraphum
pseudepigraphy
succentor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: succentors
Etymology: From Latin succinĕre, from sub (“under”) and canĕre (“to sing”).
Senses: glosses: A person who sings the responses to a precentor in a cathedral.
botryoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɒt.ɹiˈɔɪ.dəl/
ipa: /ˌbɑt.ɹiˈɔɪ.dəl/
rhymes: -ɔɪdəl
Forms: form: more botryoidal
form: most botryoidal
Senses: examples: text: The oxyde of cobalt, […] is found either ſuperficial, interſperſed, or in lumps; ſometimes botryoidal or reniform or bearing particular impreſſions.
ref: 1799, William Babington, “[Class III. Metals. Order II. Fragile. Genus IV. Cobalt.] Species II. Native Oxyde of Cobalt.”, in A New System of Mineralogy, in the Form of a Catalogue, after the Manner of Baron Born’s Systematic Catalogue of the Collection of Fossils of Mlle. Élénore de Raab, London: […] T[homas] Bensley, […]; and sold by W. Phillips, […]; G. G. and J. Robinsons, […]; and T. Cox, […], →OCLC, page 232:
topics: biology
botany
chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having the form of a bunch of grapes.
Derived terms: botryoidally
gugglets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gugglet
gugglet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gugglets
Senses: examples: text: Then he went out and presently returned with a gugglet of sherbet flavoured with rose-water[.]
ref: 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXIII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 241:
glosses: Alternative form of goglet.
undersecretary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undersecretaries
Etymology: From under- + secretary.
Senses: glosses: An administrator immediately subordinate to a head of a government department or to a member of a cabinet
glosses: An assistant or deputy secretary of a government department
antiemetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌænti.əˈmɛtɪk/
Forms: form: more antiemetic
form: most antiemetic
form: antemetic
form: anti-emetic
Etymology: From anti- + emetic.
Senses: glosses: That combats nausea and vomiting
antiemetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌænti.əˈmɛtɪk/
Forms: form: antiemetics
form: antemetic
form: anti-emetic
Etymology: From anti- + emetic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A drug that combats nausea and vomiting
hypertrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌɪpəˈtɹɒfɪk/
Forms: form: more hypertrophic
form: most hypertrophic
Etymology: From hypertroph(y) + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Yet these increasingly hypertrophic forms of masculinity existed in tension with ideals of obedience, courtesy, cultural refinement and charity that were still viewed as markers of the ‘gentleman’.
ref: 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 360:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting hypertrophy.
examples: Coordinate term: atrophic
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting hypertrophy.
Raised but not to the extent of a keloid. Hypertrophic scars stay within the original area of a wound, while keloids extend beyond.
raw_tags: of a scar
Derived terms: antihypertrophic
hypertrophical
hypertrophically
hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
hypertrophic gastritis
hypertrophic obesity
hypertrophic osteoarthropathy
hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy
nonhypertrophic
prehypertrophic
prohypertrophic
pseudohypertrophic
sodium hypochlorite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: antiformin
glosses: The unstable sodium salt of hypochlorous acid, NaOCl, used as a bleach and a fungicide.
bell the cat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bells the cat
form: belling the cat
form: belled the cat
form: belled the cat
Etymology: From a medieval fable in which mice agree that a bell should be put round a cat's neck so they will always be warned of its arrival, but cannot agree who should undertake the dangerous task.
Senses: glosses: To undertake a dangerous action in the service of a group.
Related terms: take one for the team
step into the breach
fall on a grenade
subvariety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subvarieties
Etymology: From sub- + variety.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A secondary or subsidiary variety.
A subset of a variety which is itself a variety.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A secondary or subsidiary variety.
A subordinate language variety.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A rank below that of variety.
Synonyms: subvar.
Derived terms: algebraic subvariety
sunning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: I passed from the jaundiced lighting of the parking garage to the halogen glare of the walkway. Passed two porters, slumped on plastic chairs. Both glanced at my carry-on luggage, then blinked me away, as disinterested as sunning lizards.
ref: 2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.3, at p.62-63
glosses: present participle and gerund of sun
fus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fu
fusses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌsɪz/
rhymes: -ʌsɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of fuss
fusses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌsɪz/
rhymes: -ʌsɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fuss
Swedes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Swede
minimise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: minimises
form: minimising
form: minimised
form: minimised
Senses: examples: text: A correspondent suggested that the superior riding qualities of the latter were due to the absence of piston-valve chests above the cylinders, which made it possible to bring the underside of the water-tanks to a lower level than that of the "Rivers", so minimising the unsteadying effect of water surging in the tanks.
ref: 1944 May and June, “Notes and News: Tank Engine Stability”, in Railway Magazine, page 185:
text: Other requirements in similar vein are to minimise and mitigate the effects of airport expansion on existing surface access and to take all reasonable steps to minimise such effects during construction and operation.
ref: 2019 October, John Glover, “Heathrow rail expansion”, in Modern Railways, page 71:
text: The project was attractive because of the ability to maximise the use of existing and decommissioned railways, minimise land take, and decrease the amount of disruption during the project. With London land prices rocketing, there was also a significant financial incentive.
ref: 2020 May 20, Paul Bigland, “East London Line's renaissance”, in Rail, pages 48–49:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of minimize.
disseminated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disseminate
disseminated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disseminated
form: most disseminated
Senses: glosses: spread around; widespread
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: spread over a wide area of the body or of an organ
Derived terms: disseminated intravascular coagulation
disseminated sclerosis
nondisseminated
undisseminated
portobello
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛləʊ
Forms: form: portobellos
form: portabella
form: portabello
Etymology: In use by 1985. Uncertain origin. Possibly a marketing name; possibly from dialectal Italian pratarolo (“meadow mushroom”), ultimately from Latin pratum (“meadow”). It has also said to be named after Portobello Road in London, which originally led to the Porto Bello House.
Senses: glosses: The large, mature form of the crimini mushroom (Agaricus bisporus)
wikipedia: Portobello Road
crimini
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: criminy
crimini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: criminis
form: cremini
Etymology: Marketing name.
Senses: glosses: A dark brown edible mushroom, Agaricus bisporus, that has a rounded cap; called a portobello when mature
cremini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creminis
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crimini.
in specie
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin in + specie, ablative singular form of species (“kind, form; type”).
Senses: examples: Although the power of a king is lesser in degree than an emperor, it is the similar in specie.
glosses: In respect to kind
topics: business
finance
law
glosses: In the actual form, especially in the context of a distribution of assets or a loan repayment.
examples: text: "The estate of £500 a-year I have given to you, Mr Jones: and as I know the inconvenience which attends the want of ready money, I have added £1000 in specie."
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter VII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book V:
topics: business
finance
law
glosses: In coin or monetary metal, in contrast to fiat currency or other paper.
Related terms: word: in kind
sheepdogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheepdog
wiindigoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wiindigoos
form: wiindigoog
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wendigo.
work experience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The applicant had impressive grades, but no relevant work experience.
synonyms: occupational experience
glosses: Professional experience.
synonyms: internship
glosses: A short unpaid period of time at a workplace, to gain experience of a working environment.
maximum wage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maximum wages
Senses: antonyms: minimum wage
coordinate_terms: living wage
slave wage
glosses: A legal limit on how much a person can earn; an institutional limit on how much a job role can earn (as for example military ranks or occupational specialties).
young lady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: young ladies
Senses: examples: text: You should try to act like a young lady, not a gang banger.
ref: 2002, Loretta J. Brunious, Constructing social reality: self-portraits of Black children, page 125:
text: “And you need to act like a young lady.” “Why, so you can marry me off and get rid of me?” She jumped to her feet.
ref: 2003, Debra Mullins, A Necessary Bride, page 16:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see young, lady.
examples: text: Don't you "grateful" me, young lady. Get yourself ready to go with Paris to Saint Peter's church next Thursday, or I'll drag you there myself.
ref: 1986, John and Leela Hort, The Inessential Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet: A shortened and simplified version in modern English, Act 3, Scene 5, page 34
text: “Come back here, young lady! Get back here, now!”
ref: 2010, Odessa Cleveland, In the Zone of Changes, page 29:
glosses: A term of endearment or admonishment by adults for a young girl.
Derived terms: young-ladyish
young-ladyism
Related terms: young man
speedboating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The recreational act of travelling in a speedboat.
speedboating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of speedboat
powerboating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From powerboat + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act of travelling in a powerboat.
motorboating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The act of travelling in a motorboat.
glosses: The act of placing one's head between a woman's breasts and making the sound of a motorboat with one's lips whilst moving the head from side to side.
motorboating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: (He is referring to her boobs.) Phil: Nice. Dog #1: They are suh-weet! Can you imagine climbing behind that caboose and hanging on to those milk-bags? Dog #2: I'd be motorboating them for hours.
ref: 2010, Phil Torcivia, Nice Meeting You, page 183:
text: "Mmmm," he mumbled, his face between her boobs, motorboating.
ref: 2011, Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, A Shore Thing, page 120:
text: PROBLEM: You accidentally touched your platonic galpal on the boob. SOLUTION: Apologize quickly, making it clear that it was just a slip of the hand. DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE: Try to “break the tension” by motorboating your friend's breasts.
ref: 2012, Alex Langley, The Geek Handbook: Practical Skills and Advice for the Likeable Modern Geek, page 56:
glosses: present participle and gerund of motorboat
sailboating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sailboat + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act of travelling in a sailboat.
sailboating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From sailboat + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sailboat
iceboating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ice + boat + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act of travelling in a iceboat.