cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
rod for one's back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rod for one's own back
form: rod for one's own breech
Senses: examples: text: "Silcote, you are making a rod for your back in your treatment of that child. She'll live to break your heart for you."
ref: 1866 Sept, Henry Kingsley, “Silcote of Silcotes”, in MacMillan's Magazine, volume 14, page 324:
text: Nobody is more wary of Tony Blair's record ratings and the illusion of the Prime Minister's omnipotence than Tony Blair himself. "He thinks his approval ratings are a rod for his back," says one adviser.
ref: 1997 October 4, John Williams, “Blair Maps Out Party's Long March”, in The Mirror, UK:
text: I can't get over how you parents let your children run riot over you. There must be some discipline in this surely, otherwise you will make a rod for your back when they get older.
ref: 2009 February 2, Dita De Boni, “Keeping Mum: Sparing the Rod?”, in New Zealand Herald:
glosses: The means of one's own punishment or downfall.
Related terms: hoist by one's own petard
rod for one's own back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: a rod for one's own back
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rod for one's back.
Zamboanga Chavacano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish chabacano (“poor taste”) and Zamboanga.
Senses: glosses: A Spanish-based creole language spoken in the Philippines.
Related terms: Zamboangueño Chavacano
Chavacano de Zamboanga
Chavacano
Wiktionary’s coverage of Chavacano terms
rod for one's own breech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: a rod for one's own breech
Senses: examples: text: [He] would have cheated him; but it prov'd he only made a rod for his own breech, and what he intended to him, was fallen upon himself.
ref: 1674, Francis Kirkman, The English Rogue, printed by Anne Johnson (London), p. 224
glosses: Alternative form of rod for one's back.
rod for one's breech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: a rod for one's breech
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rod for one's back.
videogramme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: videogrammes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of videogram.
videogrammes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of videogramme
jobbernowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jobbernowls
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], compare French jobard (“gullible, crazy”) and English noll (“head”).
Senses: examples: text: [She...] bathed his jobbernowl thrice in the fountain; then threw a handful of meal on his phiz …
ref: a''' 1693, Thomas Urquhart and Peter Anthony Motteux, translators, of François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel, original published 1532, volume 2 (p. 685 of 2009 BiblioBazaar publication)
text: His toggery was that of a member of the prize ring – what we now call a “belcher” bound his throat – a spotted fogle bandaged his jobbernowl, and shaded his right peeper, while a white beaver crowned the occiput of the Magus.
ref: 1834, William Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood: a romance, volume 2, Carey, Lea & Blanchard, page 111:
text: He stood on the backs of his brace of hacks, in equitation foul; / And either donkey wore what seemed a human jobbernowl.
ref: 1868, William Conant Church, “The Ballad of Sir Ball,”, in The Galaxy,, volume 5, page 329:
text: Trenholme groaned softly in the background, eliciting a sharp command from his brother to “shut his jobbernowl.”
ref: 2006, Pamela Aidan, Duty and Desire: A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman, Simon and Schuster, page 266:
glosses: A person's head, particularly if misshapen or blocky.
examples: text: “And a noodle and a jolt-head; you’re a jobbernowl and a doodle, a maundering mooncalf and a block-headed numps, a gaby and a loon; you’re a Hatter!” I shrieked the last epithet.
ref: 1902, John Kendrick Bangs, Olympian Nights, Harper & brothers publishers, page 185:
text: That he pays not the least regard to the requirements of convention marks him out as either a superior soul or a rightdown jobbernowl.
ref: 1906, Natsume Sōseki, I Am a Cat (p. 189 of 2001 publication by Tuttle Publishing)
text: STELLA: [...] You’re a – a jobbernowl! / JOHN (arrested): A what? / STELLA (reluctantly): Jobbernowl.
ref: 1953, Roger MacDougall, Escapade: a play in three acts,, Heinemann, page 24:
text: When I discovered I could grow it here — I like to say any jobbernowl can — I was as pleased as a dog with two tails.
ref: 1999, Henry Mitchell, Allen Lacy, Henry Mitchell on Gardening, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 79:
glosses: A stupid person; a blockhead
jobbernowls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jobbernowl
orthogamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more orthogamous
form: most orthogamous
Etymology: From ortho- + -gamous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to orthogamy
tidy whities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: 9. I like walking down the hall in my tidy whities, or less, and it is a coed dorm
ref: 1994 March 19, Thunder Dan, “Re: Help Me Kill My Roomates^([sic])”, in soc.college (Usenet):
text: To toughen yourself up for a face-off with a stuffed shirt, make like Marcia Brady: Picture him in his tidy whities
ref: 1999, Glamour, volume 97, numbers 1-4, Condé Nast Publications, page 186:
text: She tried her mother again when her father started coming into her room dressed only in his tidy whities. She got slapped for telling lies.
ref: 2004, MaryJanice Davidson, Undead and Unwed, Berkley Sensation, →ISBN, page 67:
text: For instance, I like to wear men's underwear. Yes the tidy whities with the little pocket thing in front. I throw on some of those and wife beater and lounge in my house watching TV.
ref: 2006, Brandelyn Castine, “Call Me Crazy: A thought”, in Spoken Silence: Life in 4 Parts, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 47:
text: Eighteen-year-old guys, doing their laundry for the first time had no idea about sorting colors before putting clothes in the washing machine. You just crammed everything you could in the washer, put in some soap and turned it on. Unfortunately, most of us bought new college sweatshirts to wear and when they were put in the wash with the tidy whiteys, the tidy whiteys were no longer white. Instead, they were a faded color of the new sweatshirt that you also washed.
ref: 2020, Lil Pop, Hampton 3:
glosses: Eggcorn of tighty whities.
tighty-whities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: [W]hat do you females (lurkers included :-) think of boxers as opposed to the traditional Fruit-O-The-Loom/Hanes "tighty-whities"?
ref: 1990 March 11, Chris Cleeland, “Large breasts”, in alt.sex (Usenet):
text: I brushed and flossed my teeth, and got in bed with only my tighty-whities on.
ref: 2008, Justin Pinnick, Another Funny Memory, page 62:
text: Someone tried to rip the tighty-whities right off of Times Square’s Naked Cowboy over the weekend.
ref: 2020 November 12, Tina Moore, “Someone tried to pants Times Square's Naked Cowboy”, in New York Post:
glosses: Alternative form of tighty whities.
tighty whities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tighty-whitey
form: tighty-whities
form: tighty-whiteys
form: tightie-whities
form: tightie whities
form: tighty whiteys
form: tightie whiteys
form: tight whites
form: whitey tighties
Etymology: From tight + -y and white + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Forbes, in his tighty whities and black socks, seems an incongruous apparition against the sense of home the kitchen implies.
ref: 1999, Noah Hawley, A Conspiracy of Tall Men, page 345:
text: It would indeed be great if my red socks and my tighty whities declared themselves to my washer.
ref: 2000, Edward Lerner, Creative Destruction, page 29:
text: Temple was laid out with a cold. Ada hoped she hadn't brought baby Jarius's bug out to him. As soon a Ada had gotten the toilets cleaned and the soup on the stove she rubbed her daddy down with a lemon cut in half, then lowered him (wearing purple tighty whities) into a hot bath she had spiked with red pepper flakes and Tabasco. When Temple was up to his shoulders in the water, Ada gave him a shot of whisky.
ref: 2012, Alice Randall, Ada’s Rules: A Sexy Skinny Novel, page 97:
glosses: Men's or boys' traditionally white briefs.
Synonyms: underwear
man panties
punk panties
nut huggers
butt-huggers
Derived terms: tighties
Related terms: banana hammock
budgie smugglers
dick togs
sluggos
granny panties
orthogamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ortho- + -gamy.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: fertilization of the ovules of a plant by pollen from the same plant
adstratum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adstrata
Etymology: From ad- + stratum.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: adstrate
glosses: Any language having elements that are responsible for change in neighbouring languages
Derived terms: adstratal
Related terms: substratum
superstratum
autarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autarchs
Senses: glosses: A despotic ruler
Related terms: autarchy
cambozola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Cambozola.
claypan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: claypans
Etymology: From clay + pan.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A compact stratum of partially permeable material rich in clay.
daggerboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daggerboards
form: dagger-board
form: dagger board
Etymology: From dagger + board, from its shape.
Senses: examples: text: Route the bitter end of the cunningham through the hole in the daggerboard and secure it with a figure 8 knot. This keeps the daggerboard in the hull in case of a capsize.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “Laser Rigging Instructions”, in California State University, Sacramento, page 2:
text: Push the boat the rest of the way into the water and insert the daggerboard.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “Pico Rigging Instructions”, in California State University, Sacramento, page 1:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A retractable centreboard that slides out to act as a keel.
examples: text: It will also have examples of its composite canopy daggerboards, which use CNC technology to produce replicas of historic designs - and which have been deployed as modern alternatives to traditional daggerboards in sensitive surroundings such as at Bath Spa.
ref: 2024 May 29, Tony Streeter, “Network News: Railway Children charity partners with Rail Live 2024”, in RAIL, number 1010, page 19:
topics: architecture
glosses: One of many decorative boards that form a valance for a canopy, particularly on older railway stations.
Related terms: dagger
board
domanial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more domanial
form: most domanial
Etymology: From French domanial, from Medieval Latin domanialis, from Latin dominium + -alis.
Senses: examples: text: These shifting arrangements, while they were certainly an important feature of domanial administration, will actually have little direct bearing on our inquiry.
ref: 2012, Albert N. Hamscher, The Royal Financial Administration and the Prosecution of Crime in France, 1670-1789:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a domain.
Derived terms: domaniality
domical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more domical
form: most domical
Etymology: From dome + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, resembling or having a dome
Derived terms: semidomical
emplane
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: emplanes
form: emplaning
form: emplaned
form: emplaned
Etymology: From em- + plane.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of enplane.
holophrasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holophrases
Etymology: From English holo- and Latin phrasis or Greek φράσις (phrásis).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The use of a single word to convey a complex idea.
Related terms: holophrase
holophytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From holophyte + -ic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: That can obtain nutrition without the ingestion of food
Related terms: holophyte
holos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holo
holothurian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more holothurian
form: most holothurian
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὁλοθούριον (holothoúrion, “holothurium”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to sea cucumbers.
holothurian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holothurians
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὁλοθούριον (holothoúrion, “holothurium”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sea cucumber.
synonyms: word: sea cucumber
inculturation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inculturations
Senses: glosses: The adaptation of Christian teachings in a non-Christian culture.
indigested
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌɪndɪˈd͡ʒɛstɪd/
Forms: form: more indigested
form: most indigested
Etymology: From in- + digested.
Senses: examples: text: This, like an indigested meteor, appeared and disappeared almost at the same time.
ref: 1665, Robert South, Sermon preached at St. Mary's, Oxon, before the University, on Christmas-Day, 1665:
text: See, from afar, yon Rock that mates the Sky, / About whoſe Feet ſuch Heaps of Rubbiſh lye: / Such indigeſted Ruin; bleak and bare, / How deſart now it ſtands, expos'd in Air!
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Eighth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 441, lines 252–255:
text: [A] Writers Stomach, Appetite, and Victuals, may be judg'd from his Method, Stile, and Subject, as certainly as if you were his Meſs-fellow, and ſat at Table with him. Hence we call a Subject dry, a Writer inſipid, Notions crude, and indigeſted, a Pamphlet empty or hungry, a Stile jejune, and many ſuch like Expreſſions, plainly alluding to the Diet of an Author, and I make no manner of doubt but Tully [i.e., Cicero] grounded that ſaying of Helluo Librorum upon the ſame Obſervation.
ref: 1720, [attributed to Jonathan Swift], The Right of Precedence between Phisicians and Civilians Enquir’d into, Dublin: […] [J. Gowan] for John Hyde […], and Robert Owen […], →OCLC, page 16:
text: [T]hey were obliged to dispatch their Pictures as fast they could in order to receive the cash so that their first Pictures which were exposed and by which their reputation was to stand or fall were slight indigested and incorrect things[.]
ref: 1753, Joshua Reynolds, edited by John Ingamells and John Edgcumbe, The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Yale, published 2000, page 14:
text: In hot reformations […] the whole is generally so crude, so harsh, and so indigested.
ref: 1780, Edmund Burke, Speech on Œconomical Reform:
glosses: Not resolved; not regularly disposed and arranged; unmethodical, crude.
examples: text: Indigested food.
ref: 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Third Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
glosses: Not digested in the stomach; undigested.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of wounds: not in a state suitable for healing; (specifically) of an abscess or its contents: not ripened or suppurated.
Derived terms: indigestedness
interoceptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Atypical interoception has been observed in EDs (Khalsa & Lapidus, 2016), although findings are inconsistent. Several studies have found that reduced interoceptive attention is related to disordered eating (e.g., Fassino et al., 2004), although dietary restraint may be associated with non-acceptance of internal states, rather than lack of clarity (Merwin et al., 2010). Others have shown no difference in cardiac interoceptive accuracy (e.g., Eshkevari et al., 2014). Self-reported interoceptive accuracy has been measured extensively in EDs using the Eating Disorder Inventory (EDI; Garner et al., 1983), with a meta-analysis reporting substantial interoceptive deficits across multiple EDs (Jenkinson et al., 2018).
ref: 2025 February 14, Heather Westwood, Will Mandy, Rebecca Brewer, “The Relationship Between Interoception, Alexithymia, Autistic Traits and Eating Pathology in Autistic Adults”, in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, →DOI:
glosses: Of or pertaining to interoception or an interoceptor.
Derived terms: interoceptively
issuant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: issant
Senses: examples: text: It is the place that whatever goodness a damned human being has is amplified. Thus, hell is issuant from God's love. God is maximally good even to those beings that by their acquired nature must be eternally separated from heaven.
ref: 2018 October 19, James M. Matarazzo Jr, The Judgment of Love: An Investigation of Salvific Judgment in Christian Eschatology, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN:
glosses: Issuing, emerging.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Issuing or emerging from something, especially from the bottom (or a division) of the field or chief, or from an ordinary.
examples: text: The lion is issuant from a heraldic crown of gold on which are arranged the rose (for England), the thistle (for Scotland), the leek (for Wales), and the oak-leaf (for Great Britisn as a whole).
ref: 1956 August, “New Emblem for British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 549:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Having only the upper half depicted, especially if because it is issuing from something (such as a division of the field). (Compare naissant.)
raw_tags: of an animal
jumpstation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jumpstations
Etymology: From jump + station, from the name of an early search engine, JumpStation.
Senses: examples: text: Future Fantasy offers a searchable online book catalog and notifies readers of current events at the store and in the field in general. It also provides a jumpstation of hyperlinks to other stores, publishers, online magazines, original fiction, […]
ref: 1997, Gary Gach, Writers.net: Every Writer's Essential Guide to Online Resources and Opportunities:
text: If you right-click on a website listed on a jumpstation, you will be given various options including 'open in new window'.
ref: 2001, Richard Templar, Finding Facts:
glosses: A web site that acts as a portal, offering links to many other sites on a particular topic.
wikipedia: JumpStation
Juneberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Juneberries
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of juneberry.
juneteenth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: juneteenths
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Juneteenth.
jurying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jury
lodicule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lodicules
form: lodicula
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: glumelle
glosses: A small scale at the base of the ovary of a flower of a grass.
lovesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: lŭv'səm
ipa: /ˈlʌvsəm/
rhymes: -ʌvsəm
Forms: form: more lovesome
form: most lovesome
form: loosome
form: lossom
Etymology: From Middle English lufsom, lufsum, from Old English lufsum (“loving, lovable, pleasant”), equivalent to love + -some.
Senses: glosses: Worthy of love; having qualities that inspire love; lovable.
glosses: Affectionate; friendly.
examples: text: A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!
text: Through all the living Regions dost thou move,
And scatter'st, where thou goest, the kindly Seeds of Love:
Since then the race of every living thing,
Obeys thy pow'r; since nothing new can spring
Without thy Warmth, without thy Influence bear,
Or beautiful or lovesome can appear,
Be thou my Aid: my tuneful Song inspire,
And kindle with thy own productive Fire;
ref: 1700, John Dryden, “The Beginning of the First Book of Lucretius,”, in Lucretius His Six Books of Epicurean Philosophy:and Manlius His Five Books. Containing a System of the ncient Astronomy and Astrology:
ref: 1893, Thomas Edward Brown, My Garden:
glosses: Lovable on account of beauty; lovely, beautiful.
examples: text: [T]he Lady seems Lovesome, & I fancy lends him Money from Time to Time.
ref: 1790 March 18, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana:
glosses: Amorous; showing or feeling love.
Synonyms: affectionate
Derived terms: lovesomehead
lovesomeness
lovesomely
lovey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌvi/
rhymes: -ʌvi
homophone: luvvy
homophone: lovie
homophone: luvvie
Forms: form: loveys
Etymology: From love + -y.
Senses: examples: text: “Now, my lovey, eat it up like a good girl,” said nurse, setting her lips in a way that Bertha knew, and that meant she had come into the nursery at another wrong moment.
ref: 1918 August, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Bliss”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 118:
text: The number one I hope to reap / Depends upon the tears you weep / So cry, lovey, cry
ref: 1989, Paul Heaton, Dave Rotheray, “Song for Whoever”, performed by The Beautiful South:
glosses: An informal mode of address (associated most often with actors and the like).
examples: text: Young children need to have certain love objects or “loveys” such as teddy bears around all the time.
ref: 1987, Kathryn Castle, The Infant & Toddler Handbook: Invitations for Optimum Early Development:
text: If loveys can help children grow up, he says, "it seems obvious to me that we should treasure them. […] If a child has formed an attachment to a lovey, it's important that his need be respected by his caregivers
ref: 1987 June 24, Working Mother, volume 10, number 6, page 96:
text: A lovey can be a comfort to your child and ease the pain of separation.
ref: 2010, Elizabeth Pantley, The No-Cry Separation Anxiety Solution:
glosses: A baby's toy, blanket, or other object of affection.
Related terms: lovey-dovey
lovey-doveyness
puppy-lovey
transitional object
lucite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Lucite.
maintopmast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maintopmasts
Etymology: From main + topmast.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The topmast of the mainmast.
Related terms: maintopman
misfield
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪsˈfiːld/
ipa: /ˌmɪsˈfild/
rhymes: -iːld
Forms: form: misfields
form: misfielding
form: misfielded
form: misfielded
Etymology: The verb is derived from mis- (prefix meaning ‘badly; wrongly’) + field (verb). The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
hypernyms: misplay
coordinate_terms: mishit
glosses: To field (“catch or intercept and play”) (a ball) clumsily or ineptly; in cricket this can result in the batsman scoring another run.
topics: ball-games
baseball
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: To field a ball clumsily or ineptly.
Derived terms: word: misfielded
word: misfielding
misfield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪsfiːld/
ipa: /ˈmɪsˌfild/
Forms: form: misfields
Etymology: The verb is derived from mis- (prefix meaning ‘badly; wrongly’) + field (verb). The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: A failure to field (“catch or intercept and play”) a ball properly.
mistakably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mistakably
form: most mistakably
Etymology: From mistakable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a mistakable manner
mistletoebird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mistletoebirds
Etymology: From mistletoe + bird.
Senses: glosses: An Australian flowerpecker, Dicaeum hirundinaceum, that commonly eats and thereby serves to spread mistletoe.
motivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motivities
Etymology: From motive + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The soul is what moves the body and perceives sensible objects; it is characterized by self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and motivity (413b); but the mind has the higher function of thinking, which has no relation to the body or to the senses.
ref: 1945, Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy:
glosses: The power or ability to move
Synonyms: locomotion
Related terms: motile
motive
mutagenize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mutagenizes
form: mutagenizing
form: mutagenized
form: mutagenized
Etymology: From mutagen + -ize.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: To cause mutation.
Related terms: mutagen
mutagenic
mutagenization
objectivize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: objectivizes
form: objectivizing
form: objectivized
form: objectivized
Etymology: From objective + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Our emphasis at this point is on the use of abusive sex in sexual relations as a selling technique. Of course we're not interested in seeing women objectivized in [non-violent] sexual ways for purposes of selling anything, but the immediate protest is to get rid of the violence...The images [on album covers] are part of an environment that trivializes brutality against women.
ref: 1976 December 25, Julia London, quotee, “Boycotting Records”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 26, page 2:
glosses: To objectify.
Derived terms: objectivizer
reobjectivize
Related terms: objectivization
outcurve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outcurves
Etymology: From out- + curve.
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: outdrop
glosses: A ball, thrown by the pitcher, that curves away from the batter.
papalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more papalist
form: most papalist
Etymology: From papal + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The Summa de potestate ecclesiastica of Augustinus was reprinted in 1582 and again during each of the next three years, and it became a standard repository of papalist arguments. The pope, Augustinus had argued, has immediate power of jurisdiction over temporal as well as spiritual things […]
ref: 1968, William J. Bouwsma, Venice and the Defense of Republican Liberty: Renaissance Values in the Age of Counter Reformation, page 312:
glosses: Supporting papal authority; supporting papalism or hierocracy.
papalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: papalists
Etymology: From papal + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of papal authority; (Middle Ages) a hierocrat.
glosses: A papist (Roman Catholic).
papaveraceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From translingual Papaveraceae + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the poppy family Papaveraceae.
do you believe in God
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Used to ask whether the interlocutor believes in God.
paperbark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paperbarks
Etymology: From paper + bark.
Senses: glosses: Any of several Australian trees and shrubs, of the genus Melaleuca, that have flaky bark.
Synonyms: melaleuca
Derived terms: paperbark flycatcher
paperchase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paperchases
Etymology: From paper + chase.
Senses: glosses: A cross-country race in which a trail of shredded paper marks the route.
glosses: An administration process involving cross-references between many documents; the following of a paper trail.
pentobarbitone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentobarbitones
Senses: glosses: pentobarbital (sodium salt)
kinkster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinksters
Etymology: From kink + -ster.
Senses: synonyms: kink
antonyms: word: vanilla
word: normophile
glosses: One who enjoys kinky erotic activities.
Derived terms: kinkstress
non-kinkster
kinksters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kinkster
vacuumings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vacuuming
metaphyta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metaphyton
role playing games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of role playing game
role-playing game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: role-playing games
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of roleplaying game.
roleplaying games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roleplaying game
deleatur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deleaturs
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin deleatur (“may it be deleted; may it be destroyed”).
Senses: examples: text: […] having been ironically reprimanded for inventing ingenuous errors, [he] will have to allow the errors of others to pass, when what he is tempted to do, and rightly so, is to fill the margins of the page with a flurry of indignant deleaturs […]
ref: 2011, José Saramago, History of the Siege Of Lisbon, page 32:
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: dele (“mark signifying deletion”)
delens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: delenses
form: delensing
form: delensed
form: delensed
Etymology: From de- + lens.
Senses: glosses: To remove lensing effects from CMB maps
Related terms: punctum delens
AME
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AMEs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of apparent mineralocorticoid excess.
glosses: Initialism of alternate mission equipment.
glosses: Initialism of aviation medical examiner.
glosses: Initialism of amplitude modulation equivalent.
delenda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛndə
Etymology: From Latin dēlenda.
Senses: examples: text: He marked in red several delenda throughout the text.
glosses: Things to be deleted or removed.
Related terms: addenda
eigh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: "Eigh?" said Kemp, with his mouth open. "Keep your nerve," said the Voice. "I'm an Invisible Man."
ref: 1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC, page 55:
text: "Eigh, eigh! he's killed me!" Mr. Utley shrieked. But none of the students made a move out of their seats.
ref: 1935, Paul Green, This Body the Earth:
glosses: Alternative form of eh.
score off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scores off
form: scoring off
form: scored off
form: scored off
Etymology: score + off
Senses: examples: text: The old hag never missed out on any opportunity to score off on her daughter-in-law.
text: Whether it was politics, trade, competition in industry, snobbery, boasting, self-advertisement, or gossip, the object was to score off one's adversary and put him down.
text: Aunt Laura wore an air of overpowering satisfaction. Evidently she had already triumphed, and she smiled so cheerfully at Edwin that he felt convinced that she had scored him off in some way.
text: You'd be worked up if you had just been scored off by Aubrey Upjohn, with that loathsome self-satisfied look on his face as if he'd been rebuking a pimply pupil at his beastly school for shuffling his feet in church.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
qualifier: inseparable
glosses: To defeat (especially in an argument), get the better of, achieve a success over, gain an advantage or win points over, make a point to the detriment or at the expense of, make appear foolish. Sometimes with particle on (someone).
examples: text: You can score off my name, I quit.
text: You can score my name off, I quit.
text: He will keep the roll and score off the name of any Boy absent twice.
text: On the certificate of birth of Francis E. Dec, the name “Frank” has been scored off and “Francis” inserted above.
text: More people were simply scored off the list of unemployed than found employment through employment bureaux.
glosses: To delete or remove (especially from a list); to score out, strike out or strike off, cross out or cross off; to draw a line through.
glosses: To defeat (someone) verbally; to win a confrontation with words; to tell (someone) off.
examples: text: A field goal or point after touchdown may be scored off a drop kick.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see score, off. To score from.
Derived terms: score-off
scores off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of score off
scoring off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of score off
scored off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of score off
score-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: score-offs
Etymology: Deverbal from score off.
Senses: examples: text: There were a thousand and one gems of café-chatter, of tit-for-tattle – of score-offs and well-rubbed-ins.
ref: 1930, Wyndham Lewis, The Apes of God, page 354:
text: […] the Minister should come in here and use the occasion of the making of his statement on such an important matter as the Estimate for his Department as a political score-off on his opponents.
ref: 1955, Oireachtas [Irish Parliament], Díosbóireachtaí párlaiminte: tuairisc oifigiúil [Parliamentary debates: official report], volume 150, p. 294:
glosses: The action or result of scoring off someone (a rebuttal, a point won).
score-offs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There were a thousand and one gems of café-chatter, of tit-for-tattle – of score-offs and well-rubbed-ins.
ref: 1930, Wyndham Lewis, The Apes of God, page 354:
glosses: plural of score-off
step-cousins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of step-cousin
primrose paths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of primrose path
Makedonka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Macedonian Македонка (Makedonka, “Macedonian girl”).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Macedonian female given name Македонка (Makedonka)
blood corpuscles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blood corpuscle
Buster
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌstɚ/
ipa: /ˈbʌstə/
Etymology: From Austrian German Buste (“pockmark, boil”), from Latin apostema (“boil”), + -er.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Buster
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌstɚ/
ipa: /ˈbʌstə/
Etymology: From buster.
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
glosses: A male nickname.
examples: text: Beginning with a curt “Listen, Buster,” she proceeded to sketch out with admirable clearness the salient points in the situation as she envisaged it [...] “I thought she was splendidly firm.” “Yes, sir.” “It's the red hair that does it, I imagine.” “Yes, sir.” “If anyone had told me that I should live to hear Aubrey Upjohn addressed as ‘Buster’ ...”
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
text: Set this straight, Buster. I'm not here to say "please." I'm here to tell you want to do. And if self-preservation is an instinct you possess, you better fuckin' do it and do it quick.
ref: 1994, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary, Pulp Fiction, spoken by The Wolf (Harvey Keitel):
qualifier: variously expressing familiarity; admiration; or hostility; variously expressing familiarity; admiration; or hostility
glosses: Synonym of guy, term of address for a man or person.
synonyms: word: guy
word: term of address for a man or person
immortal rind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “Oh?” she said. “So you have decided to revise my guest list for me? You have the nerve, the – the –” I saw she needed helping out. “Audacity,” I said, throwing her the line. “The audacity to dictate to me who I shall have in my house.” It should have been “whom”, but I let it go. “You have the –” “Crust.” “– the immortal rind,” she amended, and I had to admit it was stronger, “to tell me whom” – she got it right that time – “I may entertain at Brinkley Court and who” – wrong again – “I may not.”
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
glosses: See under rind (“gall”).
aminolevulinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: From amino- + levulinic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to aminolevulinic acid or its derivatives
Derived terms: aminolevulinate
aminolevulinic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aminolevulinic acids
Etymology: From amino + levulinic acid.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any amino derivative of levulinic acid, but especially 5-aminolevulinic acid which is an intermediate in the biosynthesis of porphyrin
wikipedia: aminolevulinic acid
biooncology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + oncology.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The use of biological drugs in oncology
biovisualization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + visualization.
Senses: glosses: visualization of biological systems
colonography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: colonographies
Etymology: From colon + -o- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: A virtual, non-invasive form of colonoscopy that uses computed tomography
Derived terms: pneumocolonography
hermithood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hermit + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being a hermit.
intrathoracically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intrathoracic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an intrathoracic manner
micropoop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + poop.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: excretion of waste by microorganisms
microzooplankton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microzooplanktons
Etymology: From micro- + zooplankton.
Senses: glosses: Any of the smallest forms of zooplankton
Derived terms: microzooplanktonic
nephrological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nephro- + -logical.
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to nephrology
Derived terms: nonnephrological
nonproteolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + proteolytic.
Senses: glosses: Not proteolytic
radiochemotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiochemotherapies
Etymology: From radio- + chemotherapy.
Senses: glosses: chemoradiotherapy
Related terms: radiochemotherapeutic
subnephrotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + nephrotic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Describing a level of proteinuria that is too low to indicate nephrosis
kanos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kano
peralkaline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more peralkaline
form: most peralkaline
Etymology: From per- + alkaline.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing igneous rocks that have a higher ratio of sodium and potassium to aluminium than is needed to produce feldspar
Related terms: peraluminous
peraluminous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more peraluminous
form: most peraluminous
Etymology: From per- + aluminous.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing igneous rocks that have a higher molar proportion of aluminium to sodium, potassium and calcium
Related terms: peralkaline
percenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈsɛn.tə/
ipa: /pɚˈsɛn.tɚ/
ipa: /pəˈsen.tə/
Forms: form: percenters
Etymology: From percent + -er (measurement suffix) or -er (informal entertainment suffix); the sense of "agent" relates to a percentage of profits being charged as a fee.
Senses: qualifier: preceded by a number
glosses: A member of a group that forms a specified percentage of a population.
examples: text: If you are an agent, and you have been or are being approached by the American Guild of Variety Artists to help form a percenter organization in your city, you could do worse than use the Artists Representatives' Association for your model.
ref: 1944, Billboard, volume 56, number 9:
topics: entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An agent.
Related terms: 13%
13 percenter
5 percenter
one-percenter
ten-percenter
two percenter
two-percenter
pereiopod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pereiopods
Etymology: From pereion + -pod.
Senses: glosses: Any of the thoracic appendages of a decapod that are used for walking (and for gathering food)
profilist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: profilists
Etymology: From profile + -ist.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: An artist who draws or paints profiles
Related terms: profiler
prommer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prommers
Etymology: From prom + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person in the standing area of a promenade concert.
Synonyms: promenader
purificatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more purificatory
form: most purificatory
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin pūrificātōrius.
Senses: glosses: That purifies; purificative
qualificatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more qualificatory
form: most qualificatory
Senses: glosses: That serves as qualification
reefpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reefpoints
Etymology: From reef + point.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Any of a series of short ropes attached to a sail that are used to secure it when reefed.
releasor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: releasors
form: releaser
form: relessor
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A person who releases (surrenders) a claim on an estate.
rellie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛli
Forms: form: rellies
Etymology: From rel + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Similary, corresponding with genealogists in Australia soon introduced me to "rellie." It took me some time to realize that this was not an abbreviation for pickle relish. It means relatives, as in "I just came back from visiting my rellies."
ref: 2002 November 24, Ancestry magazine, page 56:
glosses: relative (someone in the same family)
reservable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From reserve + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Its place will be taken this summer by an ordinary restaurant car express, with reservable seats, on Saturdays only, between Waterloo and Ilfracombe.
ref: 1955 May, “The "Devon Belle" Discontinued”, in Railway Magazine, page 295:
glosses: That may be reserved.
reserver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reservers
Etymology: From reserve + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who reserves something
globocrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: globocrats
Etymology: From globe + -crat.
Senses: examples: text: He attacked "transnational economic elites" and "globocrats" for their seeming indifference to national borders.
ref: 2006, Michele Wucker, Lockout: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting it Right, PublicAffairs, →ISBN, page 33:
text: At the World Bank, for example, the lavishly paid globocrats seem incapable of stopping payment to Third World kleptoptocracies.
ref: 2007 April 26, Ken Adelman, “Troubles from Thailand”, in The Washington Times:
text: These 'globocrats' in the private sectors are rapidly forming a new world order and the growing influence of these educated elites, especially in a future with enhanced intelligence may also have significant social consequences.
ref: 2011, Robert H. Schram, Illusafact: The Inevitable Advance of Our Technologies and Us, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 275:
glosses: A globalist; a person who advocates globalism and globalist policies.
escalefter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: escalefters
Etymology: Blend of escalator + left, spelled with -er. Coined by the Washington DC metro.
Senses: glosses: One who stands still on the left of an escalator impeding those wanting to move more quickly (often the right of the escalator is for standing and the left is for walking).
boggard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boggards
form: boggart
form: buggard
form: baggard
Etymology: Uncertain, but likely from Lancashire, Yorkshire etc dialectal variants of bug (“goblin; terrifying thing; etc.”), equivalent to bog + -ard.
Senses: examples: text: A Boggarde, spectrum.
ref: 1570, P. Levens, Manipulus Vocabulorum:
text: He thinks every bush a boggard, i.e. a bugbear or phantasm.
ref: 1768, John Ray, A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs, published 1818, page 123:
text: Boggle, Boggart, a fearful object, a hobgoblin.
ref: 1855, F.K. Robinson, Glossary of Yorkshire Words, page 17:
glosses: A bogey: a ghost, goblin, or other hostile supernatural creature, especially a small local spirit haunting gloomy places or the scenes of violence.
examples: text: Nor be such buggarddes to the poor, yff they may not beare the bagge alone.
ref: 1575, W. Whittingham, Brieff Discours of the Troubles Begonne at Franckford in Germany A.D. 1554:
text: Hell is but a boggarde to scarre children.
ref: a. 1599, in 1616, Robert Rollock, Lectures upon the History of the Passion, Resurrection, and Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Ch. xiv, page 132
glosses: A bugbear: any terrifying thing.
glosses: Any real or imagined thing which prompts a horse to boggle (take fright).
Synonyms: sense: hostile supernatural creature
word: goblin
Derived terms: english: scarecrow
translation: scarecrow
word: frayboggard
boggard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boggards
form: bogard
form: boggards
Etymology: From bog (“latrine; outhouse”) + -ard.
Senses: examples: text: Siege, jacques, bogard, or draught, latrina.
ref: 1552, Richard Huloet, Abcedarium Anglico Latinum:
text: He [Satan] thought it wisdome to keep the land [of Ireland] for a Boggards for his unclean spirits.
ref: 1647, Nathaniel Ward, The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America, page 76:
glosses: An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
Synonyms: outhouse