cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
whore bath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whore baths
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whore's bath.
recicle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of recycle.
recites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recite
reclamas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reclama
reclame
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -eɪm
Forms: form: reclames
form: reclaming
form: reclamed
form: reclamed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of reclaim.
reclines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recline
attention whores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attention whore
attention whores
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of attention whore
recrease
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recreases
form: recreasing
form: recreased
form: recreased
Etymology: From re- + crease.
Senses: glosses: To crease again.
recreases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recrease
redefines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪnz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of redefine
saxifragous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more saxifragous
form: most saxifragous
Etymology: Latin saxifragus (“stone-breaking”), from saxum (“stone”) + frangere (“to break”).
Senses: examples: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Enquries into very many received tenets and commonly presumed truths
it came to be ordered that the Goat should be fed with saxifragous herbes, and such as are conceived of power to breake the stone.
1677, William Hughes, The man of sin: or a discourse of popery
I have six or seven Instances more, ... which will make such a Saxifragous Dose, that no scruple can stand before it.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Dissolving bladder stones.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Growing in rocky crevices.
reexamines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reexamine
refines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪnz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of refine
reformado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reformados
form: reformadoes
Etymology: From Spanish reformar, from Latin refōrmāre.
Senses: examples: text: This was one of Celestin the pope's caveats for his new reformadoes
ref: 1631, John Weever, Ancient Funerall Monuments:
glosses: A monk of a reformed order.
examples: text: Turn all the Reformado's out of the Line: Withdraw all their Guards from the Houses
ref: 1648, Clement Walker, The History of Independency:
glosses: A disgraced officer who is deprived of command, but retains rank and sometimes pay.
refugia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of refugium
regale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈɡeɪl/
ipa: /ɹəˈɡeɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: regales
Etymology: From French régaler (“to entertain, feast”), from Old French regale, rigale, from gale (“merriment”), probably of Germanic origin (see Old French galer). Influenced by Old French se rigoler (“amuse oneself, rejoice”), of unknown origin. Compare Middle High German begalen (“to charm; enchant”), English gale (“to sing; charm”). Compare also English gala.
Senses: examples: text: And now a maiden […] ſupplied them, next, / With a reſplendent table, which the chaſte / Directreſs of the ſtores furniſh'd with bread / And dainties, remnants of the laſt regale.
ref: 1791, Homer, “[The Odyssey.] Book I.”, in W[illiam] Cowper, transl., The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume II, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 9, lines 172 and 174–177:
text: The noise from the servants' hall was rendered more acutely painful by her headach; for her aunt, partly with a view of annoying her niece, whom she disliked—as we always dislike those we have used ill—had left orders for a general regale.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 136:
glosses: A feast, a meal.
glosses: a choice article of food or drink.
glosses: refreshment.
regale
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈɡeɪl/
ipa: /ɹəˈɡeɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: regales
form: regaling
form: regaled
form: regaled
Etymology: From French régaler (“to entertain, feast”), from Old French regale, rigale, from gale (“merriment”), probably of Germanic origin (see Old French galer). Influenced by Old French se rigoler (“amuse oneself, rejoice”), of unknown origin. Compare Middle High German begalen (“to charm; enchant”), English gale (“to sing; charm”). Compare also English gala.
Senses: examples: text: You’ve Got Mail is certainly the basic model for the plot, which finds corporate candy shill Joel ([Paul] Rudd) and indie-sweetshop owner Molly ([Amy] Poehler) regaling their dinner companions with the very long, digressive story of how they met and fell in love.
ref: 2014 June 26, A. A. Dowd, “Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler Spoof Rom-com Clichés in They Came Together”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 07 Dec 2017:
glosses: To please or entertain (someone).
glosses: To provide hospitality for (someone); to supply with abundant food and drink.
examples: text: she hardly lets a Week pass without making the Lady Abbess and her Nuns a Visit, to regale with a Cup of burnt Brandy.
ref: 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, section V:
glosses: To feast (on, with something).
examples: to regale the taste, the eye, or the ear
glosses: To entertain with something that delights; to gratify; to refresh.
regales
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of regale
registre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: registres
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of register.
registre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: registres
form: registring
form: registred
form: registred
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of register.
registres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of registre
registres
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of registre
monkshood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monkshoods
form: monk's hood
Etymology: From monk + -s- + hood.
Senses: examples: text: In the shady retreat under the hill grew clusters of luxuriant ferns; the wild French willow stood proudly with its lofty crest of red and gorgeous flowers between the pebbles, but the sedate monk's hood lifted its head still higher and looked gloomily and wickedly down on it, while it nodded and kept time to the cuckoo's song, as if it were counting how many days it had to live.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 280:
glosses: Any of various poisonous plants, of the genus Aconitum, with blue or white flowers in the shape of a hood.
glosses: The dried leaves or flowers of these plants formerly used as a source of medicinal alkaloids.
Synonyms: sense: Aconitum
word: aconite
sense: Aconitum
word: wolfsbane
Related terms: monkshood vine
Aconitum
regula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regulae
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin rēgula (“rule”). Doublet of rail, regal, rigol, and rule.
Senses: glosses: A book of rules for a religious establishment.
topics: architecture
glosses: One of the bands under a Doric triglyph or between the canals of the triglyphs.
relata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relatum
relevé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relevés
Etymology: From the French relevé (“lifted”).
Senses: qualifier: ballet
glosses: A position in which the dancer rises to the ball of the feet from demi plié to balance on one or both feet. Can be done on demi-pointe, or full pointe
échappés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of échappé
remate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: remates
form: remating
form: remated
form: remated
Etymology: From re- + mate.
Senses: glosses: To mate again, usually with another partner
remates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of remate
remede
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remedes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of remeid.
remede
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: remedes
form: remeding
form: remeded
form: remeded
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of remeid.
remedes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remede
remedes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of remede
rente
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rentes
Etymology: From French rente.
Senses: glosses: In France, interest payable by government on indebtedness; the bonds, shares, stocks, etc. that represent government indebtedness.
glosses: Obsolete spelling of rent.
rentes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rente
reportee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reportees
Etymology: From report + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, is reported
reportees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reportee
reposado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reposados
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish reposado.
Senses: glosses: A tequila that has been aged in oak barrels for between two months and one year.
reposes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repose
mucoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmjuːkɔɪd/
Etymology: By surface analysis, muc(o)- + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: The virgin is released from the mucoid swamp by a water-nymph from under “the glassy cool, translucent wave,” an Apollonian realm of purity, clarity, and vision.
ref: 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
synonyms: myxoid
coordinate_terms: mucous
mucal
glosses: Having the qualities of mucus; resembling mucus.
synonyms: myxoid
mucous
mucal
glosses: Pertaining to, containing, or being mucus.
Derived terms: chondromucoid
hypermucoid
mucoid plaque
nonmucoid
ovomucoid
Related terms: english: not to be confused
translation: not to be confused
word: mucosal
mucoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmjuːkɔɪd/
Forms: form: mucoids
Etymology: From muco- + -oid, after German Mucoïd.
Senses: glosses: Any of a class of mucin-like substances yielding on decomposition a reducing carbohydrate together with some form of proteinaceous matter.
reprimes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reprime
reprime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reprimes
form: repriming
form: reprimed
form: reprimed
Etymology: From re- + prime.
Senses: glosses: To prime again.
mucoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔɪdəl
Etymology: From mucus + -oid + -al.
Senses: glosses: mucoid (of or pertaining to mucus)
saprogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more saprogenic
form: most saprogenic
Etymology: From sapro- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Causing or resulting from putrefaction.
Derived terms: saprogenicity
pepino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛˈpiːnəʊ/
Forms: form: pepinos
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pepino melon.
synonyms: word: pepino melon
gluteal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: glutæal
Etymology: From gluteus + -al.
Senses: examples: text: These [boys being groomed as prostitutes] are sold by their parents (sometimes stolen from them), about the age of 4, and educated, while they are also subjected to a special physical training, which includes massage of the gluteal regions to favor development, dilatation of the anus, and epilation (which is not, however, practised by Chinese women).
ref: 1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6):
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the buttocks.
Derived terms: dorsogluteal
gluteal cleft
gluteal sulcus
gluteofemoral
intergluteal
intragluteal
ischiogluteal
subgluteal
transgluteal
ventrogluteal
gluteal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gluteals
form: glutæal
Etymology: From gluteus + -al.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of the muscles of the buttocks, gluteus maximus, gluteus medius and gluteus minimus
prenominate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prenominates
form: prenominating
form: prenominated
form: prenominated
Etymology: From pre- + nominate.
Senses: glosses: to name or mention ahead of time
prenominate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin praenominatus, past participle of praenominare (“to give the prenomen to, to prenominate”).
Senses: examples: text: Having ever seen in the prenominate crimes
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], line 42:
glosses: aforementioned
audio tour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: audio tours
Senses: glosses: A tour where the information is given to the visitor through a collection of prerecorded speeches on a device that they carry around with them.
Synonyms: audio guide
baccate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin baccātus (“set or adorned with berries or pearls”), from bacca (“berry; pearl”) + -ātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: 1848, Samuel Frederick Gray, Gray's Supplement to the Pharmacopoeia
[…] pericarp drupaceous, or baccate, 1—4 nuts (pyrena), which are sometimes enclosed in an utricular membrane […]
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Pulpy throughout, like a berry; said of fruits.
glosses: Looking like a berry.
glosses: Producing berries.
bliss ninny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bliss ninnies
Senses: glosses: A person who is unrealistically optimistic, or a Pollyanna, and who might seem to prefer to retreat from difficult situations by professing seemingly irrelevant platitudes, rather than engaging meaningfully with the difficulty at hand.
examples: text: If you don't extend the circuitry, chances are you are going to be blown out, or even become a "bliss ninny." It's very easy to fall into bliss; we are only a fraction of a psychic centimeter away from it all the time.
ref: 1987, New Realities, volumes 8-9, page 44:
qualifier: spirituality
glosses: A student who may seem to be intoxicated with spiritual teachings, but is ungrounded or untrained.
bum steer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bum steers
Senses: examples: text: He never, so far as I knew, gave me a bum steer.
ref: 1977, Kingsley Amis, Harold's years: impressions from the New Statesman and the Spectator:
glosses: Bad advice or information, regardless of intention.
chew the scenery
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chews the scenery
form: chewing the scenery
form: chewed the scenery
form: chewed the scenery
form: chew on the scenery
form: chew up the scenery
Etymology: Its earliest reference is listed in the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang as being used by Mary Hallock Foote in Coeur D'Alene in 1894.http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=20001024
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: camp it up
text: The way the six stars chew the scenery is nothing compared to their abuse of one another.
ref: 1989 November 27, David Denby, “A Farewell to Arms [review of Steel Magnolias]”, in New York Magazine:
text: Starring as a Great White Hope police commissioner sent to clean up Washington, D.C., Nelson displays a set of pipes barely hinted at in his years on "Coach," spending the long pilot hour barking, bloviating, singing(!) and generally chewing the scenery.
ref: 2006 October 11, James Poniewozik, “Fall TV Preview”, in Time:
synonyms: ham it up#Verb
melodramatize#Verb
overact#Verb
tear a cat#Verb
qualifier: performing arts
glosses: To display excessive emotion or to act in an exaggerated manner while performing; to be melodramatic; to be flamboyant.
Derived terms: scenery-chewer
scenery-chewing
close of business
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: COB
Senses: examples: text: We need it settled by close of business in London tomorrow.
glosses: The end of a business day.
Synonyms: end of day
EOD
quitting time
combination product
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: combination products
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A product composed of two or more regulated components, i.e., drug/device, biologic/device, drug/biologic, or drug/device/biologic, that are physically, chemically, or otherwise combined as a single entity.
qualifier: pharmacy
glosses: A drug, device, or biological product packaged separately that is intended for use only with another approved individually specified drug, where both are required to achieve the intended use, indication, or effect.
topics: business
glosses: Two or more separate products packaged together in a single package or as a unit.
damnum absque injuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Loss without injury: the situation, in tort law, when one person causes damage or loss to another for which the latter has no remedy. (For example, opening a burger stand near someone else's may cause them to lose customers, but they will have no legal recourse.)
diddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪdəl/
ipa: [ˈdɪdɫ̩]
rhymes: -ɪdəl
Forms: form: diddles
Etymology: From dialectal duddle (“to trick”) (16th century), and diddle, duddle (“to totter”) (17th century), perhaps dissimilated from dialectal didder, dither (“to shake, tremble”), from Middle English dideren (“to shake, quiver, tremble”) and Middle English bididren (“to seduce, deceive”), from Old English bedidrian, bedyderian (“to trick, deceive”). Compare also Saterland Frisian diedelje (“to play or sing without a melody”), Dutch bedodden, bedotten (“to trick, fool, diddle”), German Low German Diedeldentjes (“pranks, pranking”). Possibly influenced or reinforced by the name (which itself was probably chosen as an allusion to duddle) of the swindling character Jeremy Diddler in Kenney's Raising the Wind (1803).
Meanings "to have sex with" and "to molest" are from the 19th century, the latter reinforced by the name of rapper P. Diddy; "to masturbate" is from the 1950s. Compare dildo.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: In percussion, two consecutive notes played by the same hand (either RR or LL), similar to the drag, except that by convention diddles are played the same speed as the context in which they are placed.
examples: text: Paul was the first one to unzip his pants, take out his diddle, and make himself ready to pee on the wire.
ref: 2011, L. R. Baker, Wingnut: Operation Payback, page 104:
glosses: The penis.
examples: text: […] a long, wooden porch good for listening to coyotes and owls, with a glass of diddle at hand.
ref: 2008, William Least Heat-Moon, Roads to Quoz: An American Mosey:
glosses: Gin (the drink).
diddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪdəl/
ipa: [ˈdɪdɫ̩]
rhymes: -ɪdəl
Forms: form: diddles
form: diddling
form: diddled
form: diddled
Etymology: From dialectal duddle (“to trick”) (16th century), and diddle, duddle (“to totter”) (17th century), perhaps dissimilated from dialectal didder, dither (“to shake, tremble”), from Middle English dideren (“to shake, quiver, tremble”) and Middle English bididren (“to seduce, deceive”), from Old English bedidrian, bedyderian (“to trick, deceive”). Compare also Saterland Frisian diedelje (“to play or sing without a melody”), Dutch bedodden, bedotten (“to trick, fool, diddle”), German Low German Diedeldentjes (“pranks, pranking”). Possibly influenced or reinforced by the name (which itself was probably chosen as an allusion to duddle) of the swindling character Jeremy Diddler in Kenney's Raising the Wind (1803).
Meanings "to have sex with" and "to molest" are from the 19th century, the latter reinforced by the name of rapper P. Diddy; "to masturbate" is from the 1950s. Compare dildo.
Senses: examples: text: 'No one ever got rich being honest,' the father said. 'Customers are there to be diddled.'
ref: 1988, Roald Dahl, Matilda:
glosses: To cheat; to swindle.
glosses: To molest.
glosses: To masturbate.
glosses: To waste time.
examples: text: And, when his forward strength began to bloom, / To see him diddle up and down the Room!
ref: 1632, Frances Quarles, Divine Fancies:
glosses: To totter, like a child learning to walk; to daddle.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: twiddle
glosses: To manipulate a value at the level of individual bits (binary digits).
Synonyms: sense: cheat, swindle
word: defraud
word: take for a ride
word: deceive
sense: have sex with
word: go to bed with
word: sleep with
word: copulate with
sense: masturbate
word: beat off
word: play with oneself
word: masturbate
sense: waste time
word: dick around
word: lollygag
word: loiter
word: reel
word: stagger
word: sway
Derived terms: diddler
diddle
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪdəl/
ipa: [ˈdɪdɫ̩]
rhymes: -ɪdəl
Etymology: From dialectal duddle (“to trick”) (16th century), and diddle, duddle (“to totter”) (17th century), perhaps dissimilated from dialectal didder, dither (“to shake, tremble”), from Middle English dideren (“to shake, quiver, tremble”) and Middle English bididren (“to seduce, deceive”), from Old English bedidrian, bedyderian (“to trick, deceive”). Compare also Saterland Frisian diedelje (“to play or sing without a melody”), Dutch bedodden, bedotten (“to trick, fool, diddle”), German Low German Diedeldentjes (“pranks, pranking”). Possibly influenced or reinforced by the name (which itself was probably chosen as an allusion to duddle) of the swindling character Jeremy Diddler in Kenney's Raising the Wind (1803).
Meanings "to have sex with" and "to molest" are from the 19th century, the latter reinforced by the name of rapper P. Diddy; "to masturbate" is from the 1950s. Compare dildo.
Senses: examples: text: What's that tune that goes "diddle di-dum, diddle di-dum, diddle di-dum-dum"?
glosses: A meaningless word used when singing a tune or indicating a rhythm.
Derived terms: diddle-daddle
diddle for middle
gee haw whammy diddle
gee haw whimmy diddle
hey-diddle-diddle
hey diddle diddle
how are you diddling
middle for diddle
paradiddle-diddle
whimmy diddle
disection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of dissection.
dreckley
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dreckley
form: most dreckley
form: dreckly
Etymology: From the West Country pronunciation of directly.
Senses: glosses: later
glosses: directly; now; shortly.
Synonyms: sense: shortly
word: soon
reputes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repute
reputes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repute
ecolect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecolects
Etymology: From Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos, “house”) + English -lect (“[language] variety”).
Senses: synonyms: familect
familiolect
glosses: A language variety unique to a household.
Meronyms: idiolect
Derived terms: ecolectic
Related terms: dialect
regiolect
ethnolect
sociolect
exoterrene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exo- + terrene.
Senses: glosses: Outside Earth.
glosses: Pertaining to a terrestrial planet with a living biosphere, other than Earth.
glosses: Anything beyond Earth.
FBSM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of full-body sensual massage.
first city
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first cities
Senses: glosses: A country's most important city, usually the capital.
first loser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first losers
Etymology: The quotation “second place is the first loser” is believed to have been introduced by Enzo Ferrari, popularized by American stock car driver Dale Earnhardt, and repeated frequently by many other drivers since.
Senses: glosses: Second place.
wikipedia: Dale Earnhardt
Related terms: second best
Guffmanesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Guffmanesque
form: most Guffmanesque
Etymology: From the name of the producer in the 1995 mockumentary Waiting for Guffman, + -esque.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: amateurish or mawkish, but believed worthy of critical praise by its participants
raw_tags: of a production
wikipedia: Waiting for Guffman
gut factor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gut factors
Senses: glosses: The emotional dimension of decision-making. A person's subjective (often almost visceral) feelings about what is right or wrong, good or bad.
infantophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From infant + -o- + -philia.
Senses: glosses: The primary sexual attraction of adults to infants and toddlers (defined by various studies as 0–4 years old).
Synonyms: nepiophilia
Related terms: infantophile
infantilism
pedophilia
toddlercon
intralesional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + lesional.
Senses: examples: text: An injection which is administered directly into a cancerous area is an intralesional injection.
glosses: Having to do with the area inside a lesion.
Derived terms: intralesionally
keypal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keypals
Etymology: From key + pal, in reference to the computer keyboard.
Senses: examples: text: The most common type of person-to-person contact is through keypal exchanges. (The modern version of penpals.) Many organizations exist to help teachers to find suitable keypal connections for their students.
ref: 1999, James E. Schwartz, Robert J. Beichner, Essentials of Educational Technology, Allyn and Bacon, →ISBN, page 53:
glosses: The email equivalent of a penpal; someone with whom to exchange email for the simple joy of communicating.
lylas
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: "I've got to go, but I'll talk to you later!" / "Ok! Lylas!"
glosses: Acronym of love you like a sister.
Related terms: english: love you like a brother
translation: love you like a brother
word: lylab
meism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meisms
form: me-ism
Etymology: From me + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: They teach that everyone is a separate entity, and you should look out for number one, creating a selfish meism society.
ref: 2011, Konrad McKane, Alkaya: The Legend of Empyro, page 14:
text: The new hippies, most of them, were just people who didn't buy into the rampant meism we were fed as children and teenagers.
ref: 2005, Christopher McEnroe, It's Only the Enemy Screaming, page 119:
text: The need to be a good team member and the propensiry toward individualism make the corporation an excellent opportunity for ronin to wrestle with the shadows of meism, opportunism, and glibness.
ref: 2001, Beverly Potter, Jeffrey Mishlove, Matt Gouig, The Way of the Ronin: Riding the Waves of Change, page 174:
glosses: Egotism; a focus on, or obsession with, oneself.
mental masturbation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Engaging in intellectually stimulating conversation with little or no practical purpose.
glosses: Thought processes that only serve to satisfy oneself.
merismus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /məˈɹɪzməs/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μερισμός (merismós, “a dividing”), derived from the Ancient Greek verb μερίζω (merízō, “to divide into parts”).
Senses: glosses: A metonymic term to describe a type of synecdoche in which two parts of a thing, perhaps contrasting or complementary parts, are made to stand for the whole.
NSFM
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more NSFM
form: most NSFM
Etymology: A variation of NSFW (not suitable for work).
Senses: glosses: Initialism of not suitable for minors.
periclinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + -clinal.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Parallel to the surface of an organ.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a type of cell division in a layer of cells that occurs parallel to an adjacent layer of cells.
Derived terms: periclinally
prettification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prettifications
Etymology: From pretty + -ification.
Senses: glosses: The act of making someone or something pretty.
Prueher
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
look through rose-tinted glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looks through rose-tinted glasses
form: looking through rose-tinted glasses
form: looked through rose-tinted glasses
form: looked through rose-tinted glasses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wear rose-colored glasses.
SASAE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SASAEs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of stamped and self-addressed envelope.
segment
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛɡˈmɛnt/
enpr: sĕgʹmĕnt
enpr: sĕg-mĕntʹ
ipa: /ˈsɛɡmɛnt/
ipa: /sɛɡˈmɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: segments
form: segmenting
form: segmented
form: segmented
Etymology: From Latin segmentum (“a piece cut off, a strip, segment of the earth, a strip of tinsel”), from secāre (“to cut”).
Senses: examples: text: Segment the essay by topic.
glosses: To divide into segments or sections.
Hyponyms: supreme
Derived terms: self-segment
static site
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: static sites
form: static website
Senses: examples: text: Typical examples of static sites include small-business web sites that serve as online brochures.
glosses: A website that does not make use of server-side scripting or coding to display information, and thus has no interactivity beyond the user's choice of hyperlink to follow.
furcate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɜː.keɪt/
ipa: /ˈfɜː.kət/
ipa: /ˈfɝ.keɪt/
ipa: /ˈfɝ.kɪt/
ipa: /ˈfɝ.kət/
Etymology: From Medieval Latin furcātus (“forked, branched”), from Latin furca (“fork”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Compare French fourchu.
The verb was formed by metanalysis or as if from Latin furcō (“to fork”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: synonyms: cloven
forked
glosses: Forked, branched; divided at one end into parts.
Derived terms: multifurcate
quadrifurcate
unfurcate
furcate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɜː.keɪt/
ipa: /fɜːˈkeɪt/
ipa: /ˈfɝ.keɪt/
Forms: form: furcates
form: furcating
form: furcated
form: furcated
Etymology: From Medieval Latin furcātus (“forked, branched”), from Latin furca (“fork”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Compare French fourchu.
The verb was formed by metanalysis or as if from Latin furcō (“to fork”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: But that which I believe yields a great deal of our turpentine, is the fir-tree or deal, which is a coniferous tree, evergreen, whose cones are of the lesser sort, having long leaves, either that whose leaves encompass and cover the branches, bearing long cones hanging downwards as she male fir-tree or pitch-tree; or that whose leaves grow from each side of the stalk, being more flat than those of yew, green on the upper side, and whitish underneath, furcated at the end, bearing cones shorter and thicker, growing erect, as the female fir-tree.
ref: 1700 May 17, John Houghton, Husbandry and trade improv'd, number 408:
text: These ridges are prominent, about the thickness of a coarse thread, very numerous, irregular, and run into one another, but towards the bottom, always furcate or divide.
ref: 1778, Emanuel Mendes Da Costa, Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniaeor, or The British conchology, page 173:
text: In Dyticus it even furcates, and with both prongs of the fork it encloses the intestine, and lower down the nervous cord
ref: 1836, Hermann Burmeister, A Manual of entomology, page 239:
text: Descending keel of the pronotum, which divides into two furcating lamella
ref: 1836, Hermann Burmeister, A Manual of entomology, page 641:
glosses: To fork or branch out.
Derived terms: furcately
furcation
Related terms: bifurcate
furcated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: forked or branched
Derived terms: bifurcated
quadfurcated
quadrifurcated
trifurcated
sudoriparous gland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sudoriparous glands
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sweat gland.
synonyms: word: sweat gland
Takagi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Takagis
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 高木 (Takagi).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Derived terms: Takagi curve
Tanduay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish Tanduay as in "Isla de Tanduay", from Tagalog Tangway, from tangway (“peninsula”).
Senses: glosses: the isle of Tanduay in San Miguel and Quiapo (formerly towns and now districts of Manila)
tributary load
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tributary loads
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The accumulation of loads that are directed toward a particular structural member.
unhindered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhindered
form: most unhindered
Etymology: From un- + hindered.
Senses: examples: text: Travel is enlivened not only by the mixed company of French, Berbers, Arabs, and descendants of the Mediterranean-Corsairs who sit together indiscriminately, but also by itinerant vendors of macaroons, sweetmeats and the like, who, as long as they have a travel ticket, ply their wares unhindered by the [ticket] collectors.
ref: 1950 May, “A Tunisian Electric Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 335:
text: The timing of the incident raised the question, almost certainly destined to remain unanswered, of whether, having allowed the escapers to pass by unhindered, the culprit had waited specifically for the yellow jersey group before sowing his mischief.
ref: 2012 July 15, Richard Williams, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track, Guardian Unlimited:
text: Huddersfield: The station will be closed from August 30-September 29 to enable major Transpennine Route Upgrade work to proceed unhindered.
ref: 2025 May 14, Howard Johnston, “Regional News: Eastern”, in RAIL, number 1035, page 20:
glosses: Not hindered, slowed, blocked or hampered.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to a molecule where the reactive center is not blocked from chemical attack due to the surrounding uncreative substituents not preventing reactive agents accessing the reactive site.
viral media
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Attributed to by Douglas Rushkoff.
Senses: examples: text: The ecology of networked media call for juxtapositions that suggest the rhizomatic connections between, for instance, intellectual property (IP) rights and viral media, or neo-liberalism and social network sites (SNS).
ref: 2008, Martin Lister, Jon Dovey, Seth Giddings, Iain Grant, Kieran Kelly, New Media: A Critical Introduction, Routledge, →ISBN, page 164:
glosses: Media that is passed from person to person.
WYCIWYG
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Modelled on WYSIWYG.
Senses: glosses: What you cache is what you get: A URI scheme specific to the Mozilla family of web browsers which indicates that a link should be preferentially fetched from cache instead of from the web server.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: What you choose is what you get.
Related terms: WYSIWYG
wiper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪpɚ/
rhymes: -aɪpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: wipers
Etymology: From wipe + -er.
Senses: examples: text: So, Willy, let you and me be wipers / Of scores out with all men — especially pipers!
ref: 1842, Robert Browning, “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”, in Dramatic Lyrics:
glosses: Someone who wipes.
glosses: Something, such as a towel, that is used for wiping.
examples: text: Using her hands like windshield wipers, she tried to flick snow away from her mouth. When she clawed at her chest and neck, the crumbs maddeningly slid back onto her face. She grew claustrophobic.
ref: 2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Something, such as a windscreen wiper, that is designed for wiping.
glosses: A movable electric contact in some devices.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A program or process that erases data.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A junior role in the engine room of a ship, someone who wipes down machinery and generally keeps it clean.
examples: text: I ask you now, ain't honesty a-written on my feechurs? / I say the wiper should be scorched who'd rob his feller-creatures.
ref: 1876, George Staunton Brodie, Vagrant Verses: And a Play, page 163:
glosses: An impertinent young man.
Derived terms: pen wiper
windshield wiper
wiper wheel
wiper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪpɚ/
rhymes: -aɪpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: wipers
Etymology: From white (bass) and striper.
Senses: examples: text: As is the customary method for catching wipers at Keith Sebelius Reservoir, the trio was trolling with crank baits.
ref: 1983, Kansas Fish, Game Commission, “Fishing”, in Kansas Wildlife, page 16:
text: M. saxatilis X M. chrysops hybrids (wipers) are difficult to distinguish, showing intermediacy from parental types in basihyal tooth formation
ref: 2013 January 23, Texas State University San Marcos Department of Biology, “Morone saxatilis”, in Texas Freshwater Fishes:
text: With good reason, wipers are among the most stocked hybrid gamefish in the United States. They won’t rival actual stripers for overall size, but wiper find a happy medium between the revered striper and the much smaller, pesky white bass.
ref: 2021 April 23, Stephen Klobucar, “The history and mystery of hybrid fishes”, in Meat Eater:
glosses: A hybrid fish variety artificially bred from eggs of striped bass (Morone saxatilis) fertilized with white bass (Morone chrysops) sperm, or the opposite combination.
witches' knickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Plastic bags snagged in trees and bushes.
respires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of respire
restructures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of restructure
resumes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resume
resumes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resume
public access television
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A segment of the PEG (short for public, educational, and government access) television model of local cable television production. It provides training and access to media production technology and distribution methods so that community producers and viewers may participate.
Related terms: public access
retan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retans
form: retanning
form: retanned
form: retanned
Etymology: From re- + tan.
Senses: glosses: To tan again.
retaste
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retastes
form: retasting
form: retasted
form: retasted
Etymology: From re- + taste.
Senses: glosses: To taste again.
retes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rete
retardo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retardos
Senses: glosses: retard
retornado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retornados
Etymology: From Portuguese retornado.
Senses: glosses: ethnic Portuguese living in Africa who moved to Portugal during the decolonization process
polishable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polishable
form: most polishable
Etymology: From polish + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be polished.
Derived terms: polishability
unpolishable
Related terms: polish
polished
polisher
polishing
retrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retrates
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of retreat.
retrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retrates
form: retrating
form: retrated
form: retrated
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of retreat.
retrates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retrate
retrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retrate
retroceded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retrocede
retrocedes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retrocede
retrocede
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retrocedes
form: retroceding
form: retroceded
form: retroceded
Etymology: Ultimately from Latin retrōcēdere, from retrō- (“back, backward”) + cēdere (“to go, go back, give, return, etc.”). Equivalent to retro- + cede.
Senses: examples: text: to retrocede a territory to a former proprietor
glosses: To grant back.
examples: text: Hospitals retrenched in the '30s while the general practitioners retroceded into a bygone era.
ref: 1994, David F Drake, Reforming the health care market: an interpretive economic history:
glosses: To go back.
polisher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polishers
Etymology: From polish + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who makes something smooth or shiny.
glosses: A tool that makes something smooth or shiny.
examples: text: Where do you keep the floor-polisher?
synonyms: polishing machine
glosses: A machine that makes something smooth or shiny.
examples: text: a polisher of stories
text: When he had repoſed four years and four months in the boſom of care, rocked in the cradle of proſperity, he was brought forth, according to the cuſtom of true believers, and committed to the charge of moralifts of high fame, poliſhers of noble manners, and ſearchers of true knowledge, that they might cultivate his heaven-born genius, and teach him with dignity to rule that world which he was born to command[.]
ref: 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page 4:
glosses: A person who refines something.
Derived terms: apple-polisher
French polisher
knob polisher
nail-polisher
shoe-polisher
depolish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: depolishes
form: depolishing
form: depolished
form: depolished
Etymology: From de- + polish.
Senses: glosses: To remove the polish from.
French polish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: French polishes
Senses: glosses: A type of varnish, consisting of shellac dissolved in methylated spirits, used to polish wood.
glosses: The glossy surface produced by the application of this varnish.
Derived terms: French polisher
French polishing
French polish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: French polishes
form: French polishing
form: French polished
form: French polished
Senses: related: word: French-polish
word: french-polish
glosses: To apply French polish to something.
salas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sala
salara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Shop that sells a variety of cakes―sweet buns, tennis rolls, heavy bread, salara, butter flap, etc. as well as, cheese, sweets and aerated (soft) drinks
ref: 2003, Rudy A. S. Gafur, Stories from Guyana: a collection of jumbee tales:
text: It turned out that Margaret had spent some hard-earned cash to the extent of about one shilling to purchase two pounds of flour. The flour was going to be used by Master Bird to make Salara, most of which would be sold in the village by Toomkin, for a jill each.
ref: 2009, Hanif Gulmahamad, Stories & Poems by a Guyanese Village Boy, page 57:
text: The edges and ends of things like macaroni pie, salara, bread pudding, fried (sautéed) potatoes stuck at the bottom of the fry pan or karahi... they all provide pleasurable bottoms, corners, edges and ends.
ref: 2013 February 23, Cyntia Nelson, “Bottoms, corners, edges and ends”, in Stabroek News:
text: Salara is a coconut "jelly roll" that is found in every Guyanese bakery or take-out restaurant. The coconut center is most often dyed red using food coloring, which I do not do, but you certainly may.
ref: 2016, Ramin Ganeshram, Cooking with Coconut: 133 Recipes for Healthy Eating:
glosses: A type of coconut jelly roll.
salivas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saliva
revives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of revive
saltee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saltees
Etymology: From Italian soldo.
Senses: examples: text: One day he would gather more than I in three; another, to hear his tale, it had rained kicks all day in lieu of “saltees,” and that is pennies.
ref: 1862, Charles Reade, The Cloister and the Hearth: A Tale of the Middle Ages, page 242:
glosses: A penny.
Related terms: dacha-saltee
saltees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saltee
salves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sæ(l)vz/
rhymes: -ævz
rhymes: -ælvz
Senses: glosses: plural of salve
robo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹəʊbəʊ/
ipa: /ˈɹoʊboʊ/
rhymes: -əʊbəʊ
Forms: form: robos
Senses: examples: text: I am not a robo.
glosses: A robot.
sanad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sanads
Etymology: From Hindi सनद (sanad), from Arabic سَنَد (sanad).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sunnud.
sancocho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sancochos
Etymology: From Spanish sancocho.
Senses: examples: text: Sancocho is the name of a hearty Caribbean stew. This meatless version features potatoes, carrots, and West Indian pumpkin, a huge gourd with a vibrant orange flesh and sweet flavor.
ref: 1998, Jay Solomon, 150 Vegan Favorites: Fresh, Easy, and Incredibly Delicious Recipes You Can Enjoy Every Day, "West Indian Pumpkin Sancocho"
text: Is it bouillabaisse, bourride, burrida, cacciucco, solianka, matelote, sancochos, opera de pescado, or zuppa di pesce?
ref: 2004, John Manikowski, Fish Grilled & Smoked: 150 Recipes for Cooking Rich, Flavorful Fish on the Backyard Grill, Streamside, Or in a Home Smoker, page 134
text: And Orlando is sipping beer and eating sancocho at his favorite café.
ref: 2005, Rick Eid, "Boys Will Be Boys", Law & Order: Trial By Jury, 0:38:04
glosses: A soup cooked with meat and starchy plants (such as roots or plantains), usually eaten for lunch.
sancoche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sancoches
Etymology: Spanish
Senses: glosses: A savoury stew of Trinidad and Tobago.
sancoches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sancoche
rotas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rota
rotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rote
rotulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rotula
secreta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The products of secretion.
secretase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secretases
Etymology: From secrete + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme that "snips" pieces off a longer protein that is embedded in the cell membrane.
secretases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secretase