cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
phrenologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phrenologists
Etymology: From phrenology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The phrenologist, who regulates heart and mind by undulations of the skull, has another system.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 112:
text: One significance weakness of phrenology in the eyes of most anatomists, as Anne Harrington has shown, was that the brain comprised two structurally identical cerebral hemispheres, separated by a longitudinal fissure, whereas phrenologists held that the material sub-stratum of various mental faculties was located in only one hemisphere, and not its twin.
ref: 2020 October 5, Paul Turnbull, “Thinking About Craniometry- The Racial Turn”, in Paul Turnbull:
text: During a skull reading, a phrenologist would measure and carefully feel a person’s head.
ref: 2023 November 17, Kendra Cherry, “How a Phrenology Head Was Traditionally Used”, in Verywell Mind:
glosses: An adherent or practitioner of phrenology.
Synonyms: cranioscopist
phrenologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phrenologist
physiologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From physiological + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The third, and most grievous of all the wrongthinks, is suggesting that men and women are, in general, physiologically and psychologically different from each other, and thus they tend to excel at different things.
ref: 2017 August 8, Ben Domenech, “Could This Man Work At Google?”, in The Federalist:
glosses: In accordance with the science of physiology.
glosses: In a manner pertaining to an organism's physiology.
Derived terms: biophysiologically
morphophysiologically
nonphysiologically
photophysiologically
supraphysiologically
physiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: physiologists
Senses: glosses: A person who studies or specializes in physiology.
Derived terms: ecophysiologist
electrophysiologist
neurophysiologist
psychophysiologist
zoophysiologist
physiologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of physiologist
solar eclipses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solar eclipse
naming convention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naming conventions
Senses: glosses: A collection of rules followed by a set of names which allow users to deduce useful information, based on the names' character sequence and knowledge of the rules followed; such as Manhattan's East-West streets being called "Streets" and its North-South streets being called "Avenues".
Related terms: nomenclature
naming conventions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naming convention
Bluebeard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of French Barbe-Bleue (literally “blue beard”).
Senses: glosses: A famous fairy tale written by Charles Perrault in 1697 about a violent nobleman who has the habit of murdering his wives and the attempts of his current wife to avoid the same fate.
glosses: The nobleman who is the title character of the story.
Bluebeard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bluebeards
Etymology: Calque of French Barbe-Bleue (literally “blue beard”).
Senses: examples: text: Henry never lived down his reputation as a Bluebeard, and only a few years before his death sporting gentlemen in Antwerp were laying bets that the English Lothario would divorce and marry once again.
ref: 2012, Lacey Baldwin-Smith, Henry VIII, page c:
glosses: A man who marries and then murders one wife after another.
Derived terms: Bluebeardesque
athetosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: athetoses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄθετος (áthetos, “not fixed”), itself from τίθημι (títhēmi), + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A series of involuntary writhing movements of the limbs, typically bilateral and symmetric and predominantly affecting the distal parts of the limbs.
Derived terms: athetoid
athetosic
choreoathetosis
athetoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: athetoid cerebral palsy
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: characterised by athetosis
escutcheon pin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: escutcheon pins
Senses: glosses: A decorative nail with a round, domed head, usually made of, or plated with, brass or copper, and used for fastening escutcheons, label-card holders, or other decorative surface hardware to wood surfaces.
phoniness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phoninesses
form: phonyness
Etymology: From phony + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The phoniness of his plea could not be concealed.
glosses: The condition or quality of being phony or fake.
Related terms: phoney
physiography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: physiographies
Etymology: From physio- + -graphy.
Senses: examples: text: Questions that bewilder the globe student of seasons are easily answered by pupils who have been taught seasons by the globeless method, as the writer knows from experience with three classes, two in astronomy and one in physiography.
ref: 1914, School Science and Mathematics, volume 14, page 119:
topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: The subfield of geography that studies physical patterns and processes of the Earth. It aims to understand the forces that produce and change rocks, oceans, weather, and global flora and fauna patterns.
examples: text: mineral physiography
glosses: The descriptive part of a natural science as distinguished from the explanatory or theoretical part.
Synonyms: geosystems
physical geography
Derived terms: biophysiography
ecophysiography
physiographer
physiographically
physiographic
physiographical
physiographist
physical geography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: The subfield of geography that studies physical patterns and processes of the Earth. It aims to understand the forces that produce and change rocks, oceans, weather, and global flora and fauna patterns.
Synonyms: geosystems
physiography
phonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From phonic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In accordance with the principles of phonics.
glosses: Phonetically; in a manner related to the sound of a word rather than its spelling.
pharmaceutics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pharmaceutic + -s; see -ics.
Senses: glosses: The art and science of dispensing medical drugs.
examples: text: ‘One day, I expect pharmaceutics will offer a cure for even the severest mental illnesses.’
ref: 2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 631:
glosses: medicines, drugs, or other pharmaceutical compounds.
Derived terms: biopharmaceutics
personalty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: personalties
Etymology: From personal + -ty.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Any property that is movable; that is, not real estate.
topics: law
glosses: The property that goes to the executor or administrator of the deceased, as distinguished from the realty, which goes to the heirs.
glosses: The state of being a person; personality.
Synonyms: movable
movable property
personal property
Hypernyms: property
Hyponyms: intangible personal property
tangible personal property
personalties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of personalty
pertly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pertly
form: most pertly
Etymology: From pert + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "Dearie, you aren't going to go and get peevish, are you?" She spoke pertly. He wanted to spank her.
ref: 1922, Sinclair Lewis, “24”, in Babbitt:
text: TA pretty girl passed him on her way to work and he greeted her indulgently. She winked pertly back at him, proving for all time that she was not a watcher.
ref: 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
glosses: In a manner that is lively or high-spirited
pervasively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pervasive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This demand, the reddendum, pervasively bepowers all human cognition.
ref: 1996, Martin Heidegger, The Principle of Reason:
glosses: In a pervasive manner, such that a thing is present in all parts.
Related terms: pervade
pervading
pervasive
pervasiveness
pervasiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pervasive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: “The Global Africa Project” at the Museum of Arts & Design tries to survey this pervasiveness, in terms of contemporary visual endeavors of all kinds: jewelry, fashion, architecture, basketry, ceramics, painting, utilitarian design.
ref: 2010 February 12, Roberta Smith, “Visual Culture Out of Africa”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The state or quality of being present in all parts of a particular thing or place.
Synonyms: omnipresence
ubiquity
Related terms: pervade
pervading
pervasive
pervasively
petaled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: petalled
Etymology: From petal + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The petaled rim of the sunflower glowed in the morning sunlight.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having or with petals.
Derived terms: multipetaled
unpetaled
petaled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: petalled
Etymology: From petal + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of petal
petalled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: petaled
Etymology: From petal + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The petalled rim of the sunflower glowed in the morning sunlight.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having petals.
Derived terms: unpetalled
Related terms: petal
peelings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːlɪŋz/
rhymes: -iːlɪŋz
homophone: pealings
Senses: glosses: plural of peeling
petulantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more petulantly
form: most petulantly
Etymology: From petulant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: `She loves the man, and he has been pleased to accept her love: where, then, is her sin?' `Truly, oh Holly, thou art foolish,' she answered, almost petulantly.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: A wayward hen, too proud to roost with the other hens on the village church, had come to our coconut palm and was cluck-clucking petulantly, for halfway up the tree she had spied us occupying her roost.
ref: 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 193:
text: Her tone was resentful, rejecting a burst of generous emotion on her behalf. She stood twisting and untwisting her bag, making the money jink petulantly, while her dark eyes and vermilion pout repudiated the painted replicas of herself tacked to the wall.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 233:
glosses: In a petulant manner.
Synonyms: grudgingly
grudgingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more grudgingly
form: most grudgingly
Etymology: From grudging + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "This is just a cover story," Clay says to O5-8, not taking his eyes off Marion. "It's a good one, but she's had it worked out in advance."
"Clay, lose the piece," says the O5.
Grudgingly, Clay does so.
ref: 2008–2021, qntm, “We Need To Talk About Fifty-Five”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 9:
text: I was left to play my part, grudgingly, in the eternal jugalbandi of tourist life: ‘Boat, sir?’ ‘No, thank you.’ ‘Rickshaw, sir?’ ‘No, thank you.’
ref: 2009, Geoff Dyer, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, Canongate, published 2015, page 226:
text: Online and over Shabbat dinners, arguments about the election have grown bitter. Those grudgingly planning to vote for Labour have been called traitors to the community and self-hating Jews. Anti-Corbyn die-hards, on the other hand, have been branded the handmaidens of a hard Brexit.
ref: 2019 November 21, Benjamin Mueller, “At Odds With Labour, Britain's Jews Are Feeling Politically Homeless”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Nov 2023:
glosses: In a manner expressing resentment or lack of desire.
Synonyms: petulantly
unwillingly
persecutor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: persecutors
form: persecutour
form: persecuter
Etymology: From Middle English persecutour, from Old French persecutor and Latin persecūtor. Displaced native Old English ēhtere.
Senses: examples: text: Live a persecutor, likely die a persecutor.
glosses: A person or thing that persecutes or harasses.
Derived terms: persecutress
persecutors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of persecutor
perplexedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more perplexedly
form: most perplexedly
Etymology: From perplexed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She looked perplexedly at the raw meat her waiter had set in front of her.
text: I glanced sideways at him. He was frowning perplexedly, and I drew a deep breath of relief, for the terrible thought that had flashed across my mind was this: that Dr. Bauerstein might have had an accomplice.
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 129:
glosses: In a confused or puzzled manner.
Synonyms: word: confusedly
word: perplexly
persuadable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more persuadable
form: most persuadable
Etymology: From persuade + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: amenable; movable; reachable
text: ‘Once Lady Anna is here, the bridegroom will be mellow, persuadable, and you will press your advantage.’
ref: 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 696:
synonyms: persuasible
convinceable
antonyms: impersuadable
impersuasible
unpersuadable
;
unconvinceable
;
immovable
unmovable
unyielding
glosses: Able to be persuaded (convinced).
persuadable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: persuadables
Etymology: From persuade + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The survey vindicated the politician's assertion that there were few persuadables among his constituents.
text: So when you're thinking about how does this affect the persuadables, which may be a small percentage of people out there, I think the most effective elements that we saw in this first hour for the persuadables were: William Barr and Ivanka Trump and that video of what really did happen in that attack on the Capitol, the viciousness of it, the violence of it, the planning of it, the relentlessness of it, and that, that is what Donald Trump refused to stop.
ref: 2022 June 9, Lawrence O'Donnell, 0:57 from the start, in 'He Didn't Make A Single Phone Call': Evidence Paints Picture Of Trump Inaction On Jan. 6, MSNBC:
glosses: Someone or something that can be persuaded.
Related terms: persuadability
persuadably
persuadableness
unpersuadable
persuasively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more persuasively
form: most persuasively
Etymology: From persuasive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The eloquent speaker persuasively stated her argument.
glosses: In a manner intended to convince or persuade.
persuasiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɜ(ɹ)ˈsweɪ.sɪv.nəs/
Etymology: * persuasive + -ness
Senses: examples: text: By using the utmost tact and persuasiveness, he was inducing his uncle to cough up very grudgingly a small quarterly allowance.
ref: 1919, P. G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves:
glosses: The capability of a person or argument to convince or persuade someone to accept a desired way of thinking.
Synonyms: cogency
convincingness
Related terms: persuade
persuasive
persuasively
phonemics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈniː.mɪks/
ipa: /fəʊˈniː.mɪks/
ipa: /fəˈni.mɪks/
ipa: /foʊˈni.mɪks/
Etymology: From phoneme + -ics.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: phonetics
phonics
glosses: The study of phonemes and their written representations.
Derived terms: morphophonemics
Related terms: phonemic
phonology
phonetics
perihelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːliə
Senses: glosses: plural of perihelion
glosses: plural of perihelium
pericardia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pericardium
fimetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪˈmɛtɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Forms: form: more fimetic
form: most fimetic
Etymology: From Latin fimētum (“dunghill”) + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to dung
Related terms: fime
fimetarious
fimicolous
peritonea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peritoneum
Synonyms: peritoneums
peritoneums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peritoneum
Synonyms: peritonea
pertinaciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɜː.təˈneɪ.ʃəs.li/
ipa: /ˌpɝːtənˈeɪʃəsli/
Forms: form: more pertinaciously
form: most pertinaciously
Etymology: From pertinacious + -ly, from Latin pertināx, from per- (“very”) + tenāx (“tenacious”), from teneō (“I hold”).
Senses: examples: text: Saint Augustine makes this difference betweene an heretike, and him that beleeves an heretike. The first begets or followes an errour pertinaciously.
ref: 1601, William Barlow, A defence of the articles of the Protestants religion, Article 3, Answer, page 72:
text: They shall therefore suffer punishment who reject this heavenly Light, and continue pertinaciously fix'd in those deadly principles which extinguish all knowledge of Virtue.
ref: 1701, John LeClerc, edited by Samuel Buckley, The Harmony of the Evangelists, London, page 62:
text: No astronomical fallacy is more untenable, and none has been more pertinaciously adhered to, than that of the absolute illimitation of the Universe of Stars.
ref: 1848 March, Edgar A[llan] Poe, Eureka: A Prose Poem, New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] P[almer] Putnam, of late firm of “Wiley & Putnam,” […], →OCLC, page 100:
text: I work with might and main against his Immigration Bill—as pertinaciously and as vindictively, indeed, as he works against our University.
ref: 1873, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], Charles Dudley Warner, chapter XLII, in The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, published 1874, →OCLC:
text: If the great comedian [Charlie Chaplin] wishes to stay here in the country whose citizenship he has so pertinaciously retained, he will be less harassed and very welcome.
ref: 1952 September 29, “Names Make News: Charlie Chaplin”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Nov 2010:
text: In Greater Poland (Wielkopolska) the middle class and part of the local gentry clung pertinaciously to Lutheranism.
ref: September 2001, Waldemar Kowalski, “Converts to Catholicism and Reformed Franciscans in Early Modern Poland”, in Church History, volume 70, number 3, page 495:
synonyms: doggedly
obstinately
persistently
resolutely
stubbornly
unyieldingly
glosses: In a stubbornly resolute manner; tenaciously holding one's course of action or opinion.
Related terms: impertinence
pertinacious
pertinaciousness
pertinacity
pertinence
heartsick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heartsick
form: most heartsick
Etymology: From heart + sick.
Senses: examples: text: I stood close to heartsick mourners and worried that I would not sustain the enormousness of their spiritual weight.
ref: 2024 September 17, Lauren DePino, “I Sang at Hundreds of Funerals. This Is What I Learned About Grief.”, in The New York Times Magazine:
synonyms: word: miserable
word: unhappy
word: atrabiliary
word: atrabilious
word: blitheless
word: dispirited
word: blue
word: bummed out
word: chapfallen
word: cheerless
word: chopfallen
word: crestfallen
word: cut up
word: damp
word: dejected
word: depressed
word: despondent
word: disgruntled
word: disconsolate
word: disheartened
word: dismal
word: doleful
word: dolesome
word: down
word: down in the dumps
word: down in the mouth
word: downcast
word: downhearted
word: downsome
word: dull
word: elegiac
word: elegious
word: forlorn
word: gloomy
word: glum
word: grief-stricken
word: grieving
word: heavy-hearted
word: heartsore
word: heartsick
word: inconsolable
word: infelicitous
word: jawfallen
word: joyless
word: lachrymose
word: lamentful
word: low
word: low-spirited
word: lugubrious
word: lumpish
word: melancholic
word: melancholy
word: miserable
word: moody
word: mopey
word: morose
word: mournful
word: passionate
word: plaintive
word: querulous
word: sad
word: saddened
word: saturnine
word: shattered
word: solemn
word: sombre
word: sorrowful
word: sorrow-ridden
word: sorrowsome
word: spiritless
word: sullen
word: threnetic
word: threnetical
word: triste
word: tristful
word: uncheerful
word: uncheery
word: unconsolable
word: unhappy
word: unlively
word: wistful
word: woe
word: woebegone
word: woeful
word: wretched
glosses: Very despondent or sorrowful; heartsore.
Derived terms: heartsickness
perpetuation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pə(ɹ)ˌpɛtjuˈeɪʃən/
Forms: form: perpetuations
Senses: glosses: The act of prolonging existence, of keeping something alive or active.
Synonyms: continuance
preservation
Derived terms: autoperpetuation
self-perpetuation
Related terms: perpetual
perpetuate
perpetuity
percussionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: percussionists
Etymology: From percussion + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Since the 1960s, the keyboardist, vibraphonist and percussionist Mulatu Astatke has been a prime mover in Ethio-jazz: unmistakably Ethiopian music that also draws on American jazz, Afro-Caribbean music and more.
ref: 2025 August 15, Jon Pareles, “10 New Songs You Need to Hear: Khalid, Jay Som, Steve Lacy and More”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2025:
glosses: A trained musician who plays percussion instruments, as opposed to a drummer who lacks formal training.
percussionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of percussionist
fata morgana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɑːtə mɔːˈɡɑːnə/
ipa: /ˌfɑtə mɔɹˈɡɑnə/
rhymes: -ɑːnə
Forms: form: fata morganas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian fata Morgana (“Morgan le Fay”), from fata (“fairy”) + Morgana (“Morgan”).
Senses: examples: text: On the other side of the electric fence, the fata morgana shimmers.
ref: 2007, Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, 4th Estate, published 2010, page 290:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Fata Morgana.
shakey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shakey
form: most shakey
Senses: examples: text: Erma thought for awhile^([sic]) and then with a shakey voice confronted Lisa and exclaimed, "I didn't think this would happen, but I will do this if it will help you.
ref: 2009, Kitty Puchalla, A Double Life:
glosses: Alternative spelling of shaky.
welwitindolinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid extracted from certain blue-green algae that may be active against drug resistance; it has a structure similar to that of hapalindole with a cyclobutane ring
spirocyclopropane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spirocyclopropanes
Etymology: From spiro- + cyclopropane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A divalent radical in which a cyclopropane ring is fused to another ring at a single carbon atom, the two rings being more-or-less at right angles to one another
Synonyms: spirocyclopropyl
spirocyclobutane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spirocyclobutanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A divalent radical in which a cyclobutane ring is fused to another ring at a single carbon atom, the two rings being more-or-less at right angles to one another
spirocyclopentane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spirocyclopentanes
Etymology: From spiro- + cyclopentane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A divalent radical in which a cyclopentane ring is fused to another ring at a single carbon atom, the two rings being more-or-less at right angles to one another
fair play
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The result, eventually, was the conviction of Mr. Hiss on charges of perjury. But the feature that especially appealed to me was the reputation that Congressman Nixon had achieved for fairness in the investigating process. Not once had he overstepped the limits prescribed by the American sense of fair play or American rules applying to such investigations. He did not persecute or defame.
ref: 1963, Dwight Eisenhower, Mandate for Change 1953-1956, Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 46:
text: Financial fair play – talked about as if it is somehow nothing to do with the way the club is run, an imposition upon their work rather than a consequence of the way they work – meant that they could not spend what they do not generate.
ref: 2017 January 18, Sid Lowe, “Chaos at Mestalla: Valencia's journey from Champions League to utter disarray”, in the Guardian:
glosses: Good behavior; conduct (in sports or another endeavor) that is respectful of the rules, the spirit of the activity, and the adversary.
Related terms: play fair
turnabout is fair play
fair play
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: [S]he consolidated her position by purchasing the kennels, doing them up regardless of expense and buying two new horses, and, fair play to her, fair play, as they say in Wales, ...
ref: 1964, Charles Norman De Courcy-Parry, Here lies my story, page 248:
text: "Fair play to Jean, he has made it work for him."
ref: 1990 July 1, Joe Saward, quoting Martin Donnelly, “Interview: Martin Donnelly”, in The Business of Motorsport Newsletter, archived from the original on 16 Oct 2017:
text: The Gaelic Athletic Association, fair play to them, want absolutely nothing to do whatsoever with that thingumajig football tournament in America.
ref: 1994 June 21, Liam Hayes, “GAA's holding its own now, but could lose in the end”, in Irish Voice, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2016:
text: I wasn't expecting much of Ms Dynamite at the start of the night, but fair play to her, she's got a great voice on her.
ref: 2002 October 30, "Acquiesce", “Re: noel and chris at fair play gig”, in alt.music.oasis (Usenet):
text: Liam Watson: "Fair play to Southport, they were the best team on paper because they got the most points. We just want to prove we are as good as them".
ref: 2010 May 7, “Clayton sure buoyant Reds are up to the task of seeing off Fleetwood”, in Derby Evening Telegraph:
glosses: used to acknowledge or congratulate for something.
Related terms: good for you
good on you
tip one's hat
spirocyclohexane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spirocyclohexanes
Etymology: From spiro- + cyclohexane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A divalent radical in which a cyclohexane ring is fused to another ring at a single carbon atom, the two rings being more or less at right angles to one another
spirocycloheptane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spirocycloheptanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A divalent radical in which a cycloheptane ring is fused to another ring at a single carbon atom, the two rings being more or less at right angles to one another.
spirocyclooctane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spirocyclooctanes
Etymology: From spiro- + cyclooctane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A divalent radical in which a cyclooctane ring is fused to another ring at a single carbon atom, the two rings being more or less at right angles to one another.
spirocyclononane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spirocyclononanes
Etymology: From spiro- + cyclononane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A divalent radical in which a cyclononane ring is fused to another ring at a single carbon atom, the two rings being more or less at right angles to one another.
cyclooctane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyclo- + octane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alicyclic hydrocarbon, C₈H₁₆, consisting of a ring of eight carbon atoms
Derived terms: bicyclooctane
cyclooctannulated
cyclooctannulation
spirocyclooctane
cyclononane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyclo- + nonane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alicyclic hydrocarbon, C₉H₁₈, consisting of a ring of nine carbon atoms
Derived terms: spirocyclononane
ambiguine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ambiguines
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a range of fungicidal alkaloids, having a structure similar to hapalindole, isolated from blue-green algae of the family Stigonemataceae
British Summer Time
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A form of daylight-saving time, one hour ahead of UTC, used in the United Kingdom. Abbreviation: BST
Related terms: Greenwich Mean Time
marriage counsellor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marriage counsellors
Senses: glosses: A counsellor who gives advice to married couples regarding their relationship or family life.
married couple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: married couples
Senses: glosses: Two people who are married to each other.
Derived terms: argue like a married couple
argue like an old married couple
bicker like a married couple
bicker like an old married couple
fight like a married couple
fight like an old married couple
Manxman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Manxmen
Etymology: From Manx + -man.
Senses: examples: text: "Potatoes and herrings, Mr. Christian; just a Manxman’s supper.”
ref: 1894, Hall Caine, The Manxman:
text: The Manxman is never wise until the day after the fair. (Traditional Manx saying).
ref: 2005, John Ayto, Ian Crofton, Brewer's Britain and Ireland, page 587:
glosses: A man from the Isle of Man
Related terms: Manx
Manxwoman
Manxie
Manxwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Manxwomen
Etymology: From Manx + -woman.
Senses: examples: text: ...the rising inflexion in her voice which made the talk of the true Manxwoman the sweetest thing in the world to listen to.
ref: 1894, Hall Caine, The Manxman:
glosses: A woman from the Isle of Man.
Related terms: Manx
Manxman
Maputo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈpuːtəʊ/
Etymology: From Portuguese Maputo.
Senses: examples: text: Then came a rough exultant voice, ‘This is the Voice of Zimbabwe broadcasting from Maputo!’
ref: 2006, Tsitsi Dangarembga, The Book of Not, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 114:
glosses: The capital city of Mozambique.
glosses: A river in southeastern Africa.
Synonyms: roman: pre-independence
word: Lourenço Marques
word: City of Acacias
english: nicknames
translation: nicknames
word: Pearl of the Indian Ocean
sea water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seawater.
evaporating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of evaporate
mistranslate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mistranslates
form: mistranslating
form: mistranslated
form: mistranslated
Etymology: From mis- + translate.
Senses: glosses: To translate incorrectly.
T.O.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: TO
Senses: glosses: The city of Toronto.
Synonyms: sense: slang term for Toronto
word: T-Dot
seres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sere
SSHRC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: shûk
ipa: /ʃɜːk/
enpr: shûrk
ipa: /ʃɝk/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k
homophone: shirk
ipa: /ɛs ɛs eɪt͡ʃ ɑː(ɹ)ˈsiː/
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, an arm's-length agency of the government of Canada which disburses academic grants and scholarships.
bhangra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑːŋ.ɡɹə/
Forms: form: bhangras
Etymology: From Punjabi ਭੰਗੜਾ (bhaṅgṛā) / بَھن٘گْڑا (bhaṉgṛā), from ਭੰਗ / بَھن٘گ (bhaṉg, “hemp”) + ـڑا (-ṛā).
Senses: glosses: A lively style of music originating from India.
glosses: A traditional Punjabi folk dance, originally a celebration of the harvest.
glosses: Any of various modern Punjabi dance styles of the 1950s and 1990s.
glosses: Any style of electronic dance music (EDM) influenced by the musics of the Indian subcontinent.
glosses: The plant Eclipta prostrata.
Derived terms: bhangramuffin
naturogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more naturogenic
form: most naturogenic
Etymology: From nature + -o- + -genic.
Senses: examples: text: 1975 ICSSR Journal of Abstracts and Reviews
Functional regions, specializing in particular types or stages of human activity, are subdivided into (a) naturogenic regions, determined on the basis of differences in physical conditions . . .
text: Two subtypes of primal nature need to be distinguished: naturogenic and anthropogenic.
ref: 2006, Aaron Matthew McCright, Terry Nichols Clark, Community and Ecology:
glosses: Having a natural cause; used especially of global warming as an antonym to anthropogenic.
materialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈtiːɹɪəlɪst/
Forms: form: materialists
Etymology: From material + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Ironically, today's generation has become the little materialists and "fame whores" (New York Magazine's term) their boomer parents so reviled.
ref: 2007 March 2, Christopher Orlet, “The Look-at-Me Generation”, in The American Spectator:
glosses: Someone who is materialistic, concerned only with material possessions.
examples: text: It is weary work enough to argue with an ordinary materialist, who hurls statistics and whole strata of geological facts at your head, whilst you can only buffet him with deductions and instincts and the snowflakes of faith, that are, alas! so apt to melt in the hot embers of our troubles.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: A follower or proponent of philosophical materialism.
materialist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈtiːɹɪəlɪst/
Forms: form: more materialist
form: most materialist
Etymology: From material + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Having features typical of philosophical materialism.
Derived terms: antimaterialist
nonmaterialist
postmaterialist
unmaterialist
khoums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: khoums
form: khoum
Etymology: From Arabic خُمْس (ḵums, “fifth”).
Senses: glosses: A subdivision of the Mauritanian ouguiya. 5 khoums equal one ouguiya.
gonorrhoea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gonorrhoeas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gonorrhea.
Derived terms: gonophobia
gonorrhoeal
gonorrhoeic
grumpiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grumpinesses
Etymology: From grumpy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: To my partner, thank you for putting up with my grumpiness, my impecuniousness and my constant need for validation while researching this dark topic.
ref: 2020, Angus Charles Lindsay, "Swallowing the Black Pill: A Qualitative Exploration of Incel Antifeminism within Digital Society", thesis submitted to Victoria University of Wellington, https://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10063/8915/thesis_access.pdf?sequence=1
glosses: The state, or act, of being grumpy.
unspent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛnt
Etymology: From un- + spent.
Senses: examples: text: Almost two-thirds of American consumers have at least one unspent gift card tucked away in a drawer, pocket, wallet or purse.
ref: 2023 February 23, Parija Kavilanz, “Americans have a collective $21 billion in unspent gift cards”, in CNN:
glosses: Not spent.
capital account
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capital accounts
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: An account in the net worth section of the balance sheet of an entity such as sole proprietorships and partnerships. In this context, the "capital account" (or, in cases of more than one owner, the "sum of all individual capital accounts") is the residual difference between total assets minus total liabilities, or the "net worth" of the entity. The term should not be confused with similar terms such as "working capital," "capital asset," "capital expenditure," and "capital lease."
glosses: In corporations "capital stock accounts" are roughly equivalent to capital accounts except corporations may include other capital accounts such as "retained earnings" which are not individually owned by the shareholders.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: An account that records all transactions between domestic and foreign residents that involve a change of ownership of an asset. It is the net result of public and private international investment flowing in and out of a country.
unasked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unaskt
Etymology: From Middle English un asked, unaskyd, uneasket; equivalent to un- + asked.
Senses: examples: text: an unasked question
glosses: Not having been asked; unspoken, as a question.
examples: text: an unasked guest
glosses: Not asked or invited to an event.
examples: text: Love comes out of heaven unasked and unsought.
ref: 1946, Pearl Buck, Pavilion of Women:
glosses: Not asked for; unrequested.
alala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alalas
Etymology: From Hawaiian ʻalalā (ʻalalā).
Senses: glosses: A crow native to Hawaii, of species Corvus hawaiiensis.
cuddling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cuddle
cuddling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuddlings
Senses: examples: text: Una envied all children their mothers. She had been only six when her mother died, but she had some very precious memories, treasured in her soul like jewels, of twilight cuddlings and morning frolics […]
ref: 1919, Lucy Montgomery, Rainbow Valley, page 28:
glosses: The act of giving a cuddle.
smooching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of smooch
making out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of make out
igniting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ignite
canoodling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of canoodle
canoodling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canoodlings
Senses: examples: text: Admittedly one is spared the nauseating canoodlings of lovers whose lungs are manifestly greater than their love, which are so common in Wagner evenings[…]
ref: 1956, George Henry Hubert Lascelles Harewood (Earl of), Opera, volume 7, page 15:
text: Sure enough, with dark wood walls, thatched overhangs and a formidable totem at the front desk, the Tonga Room has also been the site of more than a few clandestine canoodlings, some of which were immortalized by Herb Caen, the famed San Francisco Chronicle columnist, who trumpeted the room’s happy hour and its famously strong mai tai.
ref: 2009 April 5, Jesse Mckinley, “Order a Mai Tai and Save Paradise”, in New York Times:
glosses: Amorous pettings or caresses.
shagging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: “Ha! Shagging a chair is quite odd.” “Its legs were very sexy. And I know how you are, so I expected a challenge. What did you turn into anyway?” “Oh, the dowdiest mortal woman. You should have seen it.” “Oh, I would have been all over that.” “I know!”
ref: 2025 May 11, Monica Padrick, “Don Tyxote” (15:59 from the start), in Krapopolis, season 2, episode 21, spoken by Deliria (Hannah Waddingham):
glosses: present participle and gerund of shag
shagging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shaggings
Senses: examples: text: Well, you'll do what you want,
but I'll tell you this:
one of the best shaggings I ever had
was with an overweight housepainter
who bought me a beer and a hamburger and,
the next week, painted my kitchen for free.
ref: 2007, Martina Reisz Newberry, Hunger (page 28): Insomnia (poem)
glosses: An act (or acts) of sexual intercourse.
Derived terms: shagging wagon
shagging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I'm sick of this shagging job.
glosses: Used to express dislike of or annoyance towards the thing mentioned.
frolicking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From frolic + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of frolic
frolicking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frolickings
Etymology: From frolic + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: He resolutely set his beard against their boyish frolickings, and often held forth like an oracle concerning the vanity thereof.
ref: 1850, Herman Melville, chapter 84, in White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, publishers; London: Richard Bentley, published 1855, →OCLC:
text: “So, so beautiful. I'm gonna do one last roly-poly before we go. [snorting, squealing] At least I had one moment of joy in a life of drudgery. Where will the truffle hunt take us next?” “Nowhere. You're free, Jambone. I'm releasing you from nose jail.” “Really? I can stay here in this paradise and prance and frolic?” “Just stick to frolicking.” “[emotional] Thank you, Mr. Bender. You're the kindest person I've ever met.” “Really? [crying] That's horrible.”
ref: 2025 September 15, David A. Goodman, “The Trouble with Truffles” (18:04 from the start), in Futurama, season 10, episode 9, spoken by Bender (John DiMaggio):
glosses: The act of one who frolics.
Related terms: frolickingly
jacking off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jack off
cumming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌmɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌmɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cum
gobbling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gobblings
Senses: examples: text: Likewise, when Nell's grandfather badgers Nell to say publicly that she knows he loves her, Kit grotesquely announces his affirmation of their filial bond of affection in between gluttonous gobblings […]
ref: 1994, Gail Turley Houston, Consuming Fictions:
glosses: The act of eating greedily and noisily.
examples: text: The imitations of the gobblings and other sounds of wild turkeys, often brought this keen-eyed and ever watchful tenant of the forest within reach of the rifle.
ref: 1837, The Western Messenger:
glosses: The sound of a turkey.
gobbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gobble
licking out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lick out
lick out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: licks out
form: licking out
form: licked out
form: licked out
Senses: glosses: To perform cunnilingus on.
Related terms: eat out
bonking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bonk
bonking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bonkings
Senses: examples: text: Couples still have plenty of sex when conception is out of the question either because of the time of the woman's cycle, or because she is already pregnant or breastfeeding. But now the mystery of these fruitless bonkings might be solved.
ref: 2002, New Scientist, volume 173, numbers 2324-2331, page 32:
glosses: A session of sexual intercourse.
having sex
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of have sex
rump steak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rump steaks
Senses: glosses: Beef from the backside of a cow.
paternal grandfathers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paternal grandfather
ornithologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ornithologist
originators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of originator
nursery rhymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nursery rhyme
oarsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oarsman
notations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of notation
neutron stars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neutron star
olive branches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of olive branch
olive branches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of olive branch
operettas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of operetta
outpatients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outpatient
governorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: governorships
form: governourship
Etymology: From governor + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The office, or the term of a governor.
materialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of materialist
zhun
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [t͡s˭wən˨˩]
note: approximating Hokkien
ipa: [t͡s˭un˦˨]
ipa: [-˨˩]
Forms: form: more zhun
form: most zhun
Etymology: From Hokkien 準 /准 (chún) or Mandarin 準 /准 (zhǔn).
Senses: glosses: Exact, precise, spot-on.
lun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: luns
Senses: examples: text: He had no alternative to the slim chance of safety offered by the ‘lun’ of Cat Harbour, Northern Island.
ref: 1958, Michael Harrington, Sea Stories from Newfoundland:
glosses: Alternative form of lown.
xun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃuːn/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: xuns
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 塤 /埙 (xūn).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A globular vessel flute made of clay or ceramic originating from China.
dao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: daos
Etymology: From Chinese 刀 (dāo, literally “single-edged blade”). Possibly a doublet of dah.
Senses: glosses: Any of various traditional Chinese swords with a curved, single-edged blade, primarily used for slashing and chopping.
dao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Etymology: From the pinyin romanization of Chinese 道 (Dào, literally “the Way”) or (dào, "circuit").
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of Tao: the way of nature and/or the ideal way to live one's life.
dao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: daos
Etymology: From the pinyin romanization of Chinese 道 (Dào, literally “the Way”) or (dào, "circuit").
Senses: glosses: Synonym of circuit: various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China.
synonyms: word: circuit
extra: various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China
dao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: daos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dah (“Burmese knife or sword”).
dao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: daos
Etymology: Likely related to one of the preceding words ("Chinese sword", "Burmese knife") or from Indo-Aryan. Compare Bengali দাও (daō).
Senses: glosses: A sword and construction tool of the Naga people of India, which has a wooden hilt and grows wider from the narrow hilt to the wide, flat tip.
dao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: daos
Etymology: From Tagalog or Cebuano dao.
Senses: glosses: Dracontomelon dao; a large tree of the family Anacardiaceae; the argus pheasant tree.
glosses: The hard strong wood of the dao used for veneers and cabinetwork.