cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
beancake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beancakes
form: bean cake
form: bean-cake
Etymology: From bean + cake.
Senses: examples: text: Chinese white cheese... Foo yue. (a) Cut bean cake, made of Chinese white beans, into half-inch squares ¼ inch thick. (b) Put into a jar provided with an airtight cover, the size of the jar depending upon the amount to be made. (c) Fill the jar ¼ full of Fun Wine. (d) Salt to taste. (e) Cover air tight and put away for not less than two weeks.
ref: 1917, Chan Shiu Wong, The Chinese Cook Book, page 15:
text: ...the market for soya bean and its products (bean-cake and bean oil)...
ref: 1931, Henry Thurburn Montague Bell, The China Year Book, page 93:
glosses: Various forms of tofu, made from soybeans.
glosses: Akara, a west-African fritter made from black-eyed peas.
bedgown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedgowns
form: bed-gown
Etymology: From bed + gown.
Senses: examples: text: And there sat by the empty fireplace, which was filled with a pot of sweet herbs, the nicest old woman that ever was seen, in her red petticoat, and short dimity bedgown, and clean white cap, with a black silk handkerchief over it, tied under her chin.
ref: 1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby:
glosses: An article of women's clothing for the upper body, usually worn in bed, thigh-length and wrapping or tying in front; a bedjacket.
glosses: A nightgown.
Derived terms: bedgowned
bedstead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedsteads
Etymology: From Middle English bedsted, bedstede, bedestede, from Old English bedstede (“bedstead”), equivalent to bed + stead. Cognate with Dutch bedstede, bedstee (“closet-bed”).
Senses: glosses: The framework that supports a bed; the rigid structural components of a bed, excluding the mattress, box spring, etc; bedframe.
Derived terms: sofa-bedstead
byplay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: byplays
form: by-play
Etymology: From by- + play.
Senses: examples: text: [...] there had been some amusing byplay with the enginemen as to what might be expected to happen if the engines failed to behave themselves properly.
ref: 1959 October, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 477:
text: The father-son byplay is occasionally overdone and tedious, but there is a genuine warmth in both the Oland-Luke and the Toler-Sen Yung teamings.
ref: 1983, Frank Northen Magill, Magill's American film guide, volume 1, page 647:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: Any action, carried out onstage during a performance, apart from the main action.
glosses: Any action, by supporting actor.
onstage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: on-stage
form: on stage
Etymology: From on + stage.
Senses: glosses: On the part of a stage that is visible to the audience.
onstage
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: on-stage
form: on stage
Etymology: From on + stage.
Senses: examples: text: The first is a special—a single lighting instrument that lights a particular spot on the stage. Specials generally have no color, or a more saturated color, allowing them to stand out through other lighting onstage.
ref: 2009, Jennifer Bringle, Lighting, page 23:
text: Mr. Kirk sat onstage with his wife Friday night and drove home the weekend’s message.
ref: 2025 June 23, Emma Goldberg, Jake Dockins, “‘Less Burnout, More Babies’: How Conservatives Are Winning Young Women”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 23 Jun 2025:
glosses: Taking place on the part of a stage that is visible to the audience.
Dylanesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Dylanesque
form: most Dylanesque
Etymology: From Dylan + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: "No Tears For Johnny," a Dylanesque protest song against the Vietnam War.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 169:
glosses: In the style of, or reminiscent of the music or lyrics of Bob Dylan (born 1941).
Related terms: Dylanologist
Dylanology
dooryard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dooryards
Etymology: From door + yard.
Senses: examples: text: In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash’d palings, / Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green, […]
ref: 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:
text: "You're soft, Jane," said Miranda once; "you allers was soft, and you allers will be. If 't wa'n't for me keeping you stiffened up, I b'lieve you 'd leak out o' the house into the dooryard."
ref: 1903, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm:
qualifier: Vermont
glosses: the yard near the front or back door of a house
Related terms: backyard
front yard
barnyard
farmyard
ambit
curtilage
dotard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdəʊ.təd/
ipa: /ˈdəʊ.tɑːd/
ipa: /ˈdoʊ.tɚd/
ipa: /ˈdoʊ.tɑɹd/
Forms: form: dotards
Etymology: From Middle English dotard; equivalent to dote + -ard.
Senses: examples: text: Dotard, (ſaide he) let be thy deepe aduiſe;
Seemes that through many yeares thy wits thee faile,
And that weake eld hath left thee nothing wiſe,
Els neuer ſhould thy iudgement be ſo frayle,
To meaſure manhood by the ſword or mayle.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 223:
text: I ſpeake not like a dotard, nor a foole,
As vnder priuiledge of age to bragge,
What I haue done being yong, or what would doe,
Were I not old, […]
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, Much Adoe about Nothing. […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], signature H, verso:
text: The man who had ſome virtue whilſt he was ſtruggling for a crown, often becomes a voluptuous tyrant when it graces his brow; and, when the lover is not loſt in the huſband, the dotard, a prey to childiſh caprices, and fond jealouſies, neglects the ſerious duties of life, and the careſſes which ſhould excite confidence in his children are laviſhed on the overgrown child, his wife.
ref: 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, “The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed”, in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC, page 58:
text: Lawns, houses, chattels, groves, and fields,
All that the fertile valley shields;
Wages of folly--baits of crime,
Of life's uneasy game the stake,
Playthings that keep the eyes awake
Of drowsy, dotard Time;—
ref: 1835, William Wordsworth, “The Pass of Kirkstone”, in A Guide through the District of the Lakes:
text: He early determined to marry and wive,
 For better or worse
 With his elderly nurse,
Which the poor little boy didn't live to contrive:
 His health didn't thrive—
 No longer alive,
He died an enfeebled old dotard at five!
ref: 1867, W. S. Gilbert, “The Precocious Baby”, in The 'Bab' Ballads, Philadelphia: David MacKay:
text: Whatever [Donald] Trump might have expected, he will face results beyond his expectation. I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged U. S. dotard with fire.
ref: 2017 September 22, Kim Jong Un, quotee, “Statement of Chairman of State Affairs Commission of DPRK”, in KCNA Watch:
synonyms: mimmerkin
glosses: An old person with impaired intellect; a senile person; one in their dotage.
glosses: One who dotes on another, showing excessive fondness; a doter.
Synonyms: word: dobby
word: dodipole
word: dotard
word: dote
word: dotel
word: doter
word: dottle
word: mimmerkin
Hypernyms: word: mentally deficient person
word: old person
Derived terms: anecdotard
dotardism
dotardly
dotardness
dotardy
Related terms: word: doddard
word: dullard
word: dotage
word: second childhood
word: senility
drowsing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹaʊzɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊzɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of drowse
drowsing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹaʊzɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊzɪŋ
Forms: form: drowsings
Senses: examples: text: His drowsings were delicious, and he dreamed sweet dreams.
ref: 1854, Frederick Greenwood, The Loves of an Apothecary:
glosses: The act of one who drowses.
tombolo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɒmˈbəʊləʊ/
Forms: form: tombolos
Etymology: From Italian tombolo (“pillow”), from Latin tumulus (“mound”), from tumeō (“I swell”). Doublet of tumulus.
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: A spit of sand linking an island to the mainland (or to another island), formed by longshore drift.
nidana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nidanas
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The standard introduction to a sutra, stating the location and occasion of a particular teaching of the Buddha.
glosses: A first cause.
grao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graos
Etymology: From Portuguese grão (“grain”), from Old Galician-Portuguese grão, from Latin grānum. Doublet of corn, grain, gram, and granum.
Senses: glosses: A traditional short Portuguese unit of length, equivalent to about 4.6 mm.
glosses: A traditional short Portuguese unit of mass, equivalent to about 50 mg.
Synonyms: word: Portuguese grain
english: Portuguese contexts
translation: Portuguese contexts
word: grain
Coordinate terms: sense: unit of length
word: ponto (1⁄24 grao)
sense: unit of length
word: linha (1⁄2 grao)
sense: unit of length
word: dedo (4 graos)
sense: unit of length
word: polegada (6 graos)
sense: unit of mass
word: vintem (2+1⁄4 graos)
sense: unit of mass
word: quilate (4 graos)
sense: unit of mass
word: escropulo (24 graos)
sense: unit of mass
word: oitava (72 graos)
sense: unit of mass
word: onça (576 graos)
fico
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfaɪkəʊ/
Forms: form: ficoes
Etymology: From Italian fico (“a fig”), from Latin fīcus. Doublet of fig.
Senses: examples: text: a fico for the phrase.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: a fig; an insignificant trifle
examples: text: As for these chicken-hearted tremblers,' he continued, squinting askance at our companions, 'a fico for them!
ref: 1894, Stanley John Weyman, “XXI. Among the Wounded”, in My Lady Rotha:
glosses: a sign of contempt made with the fingers
mele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪleɪ/
rhymes: -eɪleɪ
Forms: form: mele
form: meles
Etymology: From Hawaiian mele.
Senses: examples: text: Lili‘u set to work assisting Fornander by translating mele and legends for him.
ref: 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 49:
glosses: A chant in Polynesia, especially Hawaii, typically in praise of a leader or to commemorate some significant event.
mele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪleɪ/
rhymes: -eɪleɪ
Forms: form: meles
Etymology: Variant forms.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mell.
mele
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪleɪ/
rhymes: -eɪleɪ
Forms: form: meles
form: meling
form: meled
form: meled
Etymology: Variant forms.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mell.
peachfuzz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From peach + fuzz.
Senses: glosses: The soft, scanty beard of an adolescent male.
glosses: The fuzz found on the skin of a peach.
reassurance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reassurances
form: re-assurance
Etymology: Morphologically reassure + -ance.
Senses: glosses: The feeling of being reassured, of having confidence restored, of having apprehensions dispelled.
examples: text: "The PM’s private reassurances are worthless given her track record of u-turns [...]."
ref: 2017 June 11, “DUP leader hails 'good progress' with Theresa May”, in The Scotsman:
glosses: The act of confirming someone's opinion or impression.
topics: business
insurance
law
glosses: Reinsurance.
tumb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ʌm
Forms: form: tumbs
form: tumbing
form: tumbed
form: tumbed
Etymology: From Middle English tumben, tomben, from Old English tumbian (“to tumble, leap, dance”), from Proto-Germanic *tūmōną (“to turn round”). Cognate with Middle High German tumen (“to turn round”), Icelandic tumba (“to tumble”). See tumble.
Senses: glosses: To tumble; jump; dance.
Related terms: tumble
dese
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːz/
rhymes: -iːz
Etymology: Representing a colloquial pronunciation of these.
Senses: glosses: these
dese
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːz/
rhymes: -iːz
Etymology: Representing a colloquial pronunciation of these.
Senses: glosses: these
tensing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tense
tensing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tensings
Senses: examples: tensings of the muscles
glosses: The act of making something tense.
Derived terms: æ-tensing
krump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Early 21st century, probably an alteration of crunk.
Senses: examples: text: Martin Douglas has several projects on the go, including a Monday evening basketball game with students and other teens in the community, as well as a weekly "krumping out crime" where students gather after school in the cafeteria to do homework, and then learn krump, the urban dance style.
ref: 2009 February 18, Kristin Rushowy, “Schools seek more police as crime drops”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Krumping: an energetic style of hip-hop dance
perruque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perruques
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of peruke.
courthouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔɹt.haʊs/
Forms: form: courthouses
Etymology: From court + house.
Senses: glosses: A public building housing courts of law.
glosses: The public building where most American counties have their county offices.
Derived terms: Amelia Courthouse
Charlotte Court House
Gloucester Courthouse
King and Queen Court House
Spotsylvania Courthouse
Washington Court House
badlands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbæd.lændz/
Forms: form: badlands
form: badland
form: Bad Lands
Etymology: From earlier Bad Lands, calque of Canadian French mauvaises terres à traverser (“bad lands to cross”), itself a calque of Lakota Makhóšiča from makhó (“land”) and šiča (“bad”).
Senses: examples: text: Not only do the Bad Lands present a most attractive field to the student of erosion and of the origin of earth forms, but their deathlike solitudes have been made to yield the most wonderful procession of strange extinct animals yet unearthed by geologists.
ref: 1904, Israel C. Russell, North America, New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 111:
text: No one has ever described better the shaggy badlands and cabbage-patches round the edges of a city, where the debris of civilization piles up ramshackle suburbs in which starve and scheme all manner of human detritus.
ref: 1922, John Dos Passos, “A Novelist of Revolution”, in Rosinante to the Road Again, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC, page 85:
topics: geography
geology
geomorphology
natural-sciences
synonyms: malpais
glosses: An arid terrain characterized by severe erosion of sedimentary rocks.
Related terms: desert
moonscape
badman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: badmen
Etymology: From bad + man.
Senses: examples: text: Billy the Kid was a badman.
glosses: A violence-prone man who has had run-ins with the law; especially one from the Old West days of U.S. history.
Related terms: bad guy
gunslinger
baptistery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baptisteries
Senses: examples: text: For today, my father made arrangements with another minister – a friend of his who still had a real church building with a real baptistery.
ref: 1993, Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower, HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019), page 8:
glosses: Alternative spelling of baptistry.
deliberate smoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Smoke operations which are planned with much detail for implementation over large areas or relatively long time periods.
baptistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baptistries
form: baptistery
Etymology: From Middle English baptistery, baptisterie, from Ecclesiastical Latin baptistērium, from Ancient Greek βαπτιστήριον (baptistḗrion); equivalent to baptism + -ry.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A designated space within a church, or a separate room or building associated with a church, where a baptismal font is located, and consequently, where the sacrament of Christian baptism (via aspersion or affusion) is performed.
glosses: An indoor pool used for baptism by immersion.
Related terms: baptism
baptist
baptize
dry bulb temperature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dry bulb temperatures
form: dry-bulb temperature
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
synonyms: DBT
coordinate_terms: wet bulb temperature
glosses: Temperature of the free air as measured with a dry thermometer on a sling psychrometer over a grassy surface at a height of approximately 6 feet (1.8 meters).
red currant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛdˌkʌɹənt/
ipa: /ˈɹɛdˌkɜɹənt/
ipa: /ˈɹɛdˌkʌɹənt/
Forms: form: red currants
form: redcurrant
form: red-currant
Senses: examples: text: And a hint of still waters, a stream, a brook, a rivulet, meandering with flashes of brilliance through the lush dense greenery, among shadowy plants that might have been blackberries or redcurrants, although what redcurrants and blackberries might be Yoel had not the faintest notion, and even the names themselves he only knew from books.
ref: 1989, Amos Oz, To Know A Woman, page 109:
text: Cultivated redcurrants are most closely related to Ribes rubrum, which like blackcurrants grow in northern Europe and northern Asia, although several other species have had a hand in the development of particular varieties; whitecurrants, for their part, are simply redcurrants with albino genes. Despite their similarities, the histories of blackcurrants and redcurrants in Britain are surprisingly distinct.
ref: 2009, Christopher Stocks, Forgotten Fruits: The stories behind Britain's traditional fruit and vegetables, page 93:
text: Blackcurrants and redcurrants, gooseberries, raspberries and rhubarb grow amongst viburnums, hollyhocks, sweet williams, forsythia, and a medlar.
ref: 1989, Mirabel Osler, A Gentle Plea for Chaos, published 2011, page 173:
glosses: A deciduous shrub, Ribes rubrum, native to western Europe; any of certain cultivars of the shrub.
examples: text: 1995, Elizabeth Howard, Casting Off, Cazalet Chronicles, Book 4, 2006, unnumbered page,
Her mouth was pale red and translucent, like the skin of a redcurrant.
text: She did not seem too happy to see us at first, but relaxed after she had shown us round their garden and we had tasted redcurrants and gooseberries.
ref: 2007, Michael Riisager, Letters to Kaia: Adventures of a Danish Boy in England During World War II and After, page 224:
text: Eddy became quite good at picking strawberries, raspberries, black- and redcurrants, loganberries, apples, pears, plums, and vegetables.
ref: 2010, John Welshman, Churchill's Children: The Evacuee Experience in Wartime Britain, unnumbered page:
glosses: The bright red translucent edible berry of this plant.
Synonyms: sense: berry
word: garnetberry
sense: berry
word: wineberry
Derived terms: redcurrant jelly
Related terms: currant
blackcurrant
white currant
cannoli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kaˈnəʊlɪ/
ipa: /kəˈnəʊlɪ/
ipa: /kəˈnoʊli/
ipa: /k̬ɐˈnɔːlɪ̆/
rhymes: -əʊli
Forms: form: cannolis
form: cannoli
form: cannolo
form: cannolu
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian cannoli (plural of cannolo) or Sicilian cannoli (plural of cannolu); see there for more.
Senses: examples: text: Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
ref: 1972, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather, spoken by Peter Clemenza (Richard S. Castellano):
glosses: A tube of fried pastry, typical of Sicily, filled with ricotta or similar cream cheese, and flavorings, eaten as a dessert.
Derived terms: cannolilike
holy cannoli
pizzoli
cannoli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kaˈnəʊlɪ/
ipa: /kəˈnəʊlɪ/
ipa: /kəˈnoʊli/
ipa: /k̬ɐˈnɔːlɪ̆/
rhymes: -əʊli
Forms: form: cannolo
form: cannolu
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian cannoli (plural of cannolo) or Sicilian cannoli (plural of cannolu); see there for more.
Senses: glosses: plural of cannolo
cannolo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cannoli
Etymology: From Italian cannolo.
Senses: glosses: A tube of fried pastry filled with ricotta.
decology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of decalogy.
huckle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌkəl/
rhymes: -ʌkəl
Forms: form: huckles
Etymology: From huck (from Middle English hoke (“hook”), hokebone, probably so called because of its round shape) + -le. See also hook.
Senses: examples: text: […] which approves a quick gathering up of his legs withoute pain, his huckle bones round and hidden, […]
ref: 1676, A Way to Get Wealth, Book I, page 5:
text: At what time Don Quixote, who had very much bruis'd his Huckle-bone, with a Hipshot grace approaching the Lady fell upon his Knees […]
ref: 1687, The History of the Most Renowned Don Quixote of Mancha and His Trusty Squire (translated by JP), Book II, page 433
text: Next, the hand may be laid upon his huckle-bones, and if the parts there likewise feel firm, round, and plump, it may be safely concluded that he is well fed both externally and internally, — that is, both in flesh and tallow.
ref: 1837, John French Burke, British husbandry: exhibiting the farming practice, page 392:
glosses: The hip, the haunch.
glosses: A bunch or part projecting like the hip.
examples: text: When moving into our present dwelling some 6 months ago..the puchase^([sic]) of a new bed was of primary importance.The puchase^([sic]) was completed by a right huckle who didn`t realise the importance of the "squeek"^([sic]) factor in the purchase of such an item.
ref: 2001 March 29, denislindridge [username], “Promotion”, in uk.sport.horseracing (Usenet):
text: He’s not! He can’t be! There's never been a huckle in the Osbourne family, and we can trace our lineage all the way back to the Second World War.
ref: 2002, “Bridge Over Troubled Waters”, in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet:
text: Sorry !
 Only into birds.
Why not get yourself along to the SOL. Plenty of huckles there.
ref: 2003 December 12, Finchy [username], “Re: Gay bars / Meatloaf - Re: SAFC - Hartlepool”, in alt.sports.soccer.sunderland (Usenet):
glosses: A homosexual man.
Derived terms: huckle bone
huckle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌkəl/
rhymes: -ʌkəl
Forms: form: huckles
form: huckling
form: huckled
form: huckled
Etymology: From huck (from Middle English hoke (“hook”), hokebone, probably so called because of its round shape) + -le. See also hook.
Senses: examples: text: He was awakened by a couple of burly police officers and huckled out to a waiting van.
ref: 2013, Michael Munro, The Crack: The Best of Glasgow Humour:
text: Then one day when I was at school, police with motorbike helmets came to the door with a big red battering ram and dragged Dad out of his bed while he was sleeping off a massive booze binge and huckled him downtown to read him his rights, throw the damn book at him and charge him for 'aggravated armed robbery'.
ref: 2014, Brian Conaghan, When Mr Dog Bites:
text: I could huckle your right now for what you've got in that top drawer.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 282:
glosses: To apprehend or arrest.
mero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meros
Etymology: From Spanish mero.
Senses: glosses: Any of several large groupers of warm seas.
Related terms: mero de lo alto
mero cabrolla
mero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meros
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Meropenem.
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: mero motu
vin santo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Vin Santo.
Sunis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Suni
cassata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈsɑːtə/
ipa: /kəˈsɑtə/
rhymes: -ɑːtə
Forms: form: cassatas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian cassata (“cassata siciliana”), from Sicilian cassata, probably from Vulgar Latin *cāseāta, from cāseus (“cheese”). Compare Maltese qassata (“savoury pastry with ricotta filling”), confirming that the use of ricotta cheese is what unites all of the relevant dishes (and hence probably the original meaning).
Senses: glosses: A type of tutti-frutti or Neapolitan ice cream with nuts and candied fruits.
glosses: Synonym of cassata siciliana.
synonyms: word: cassata siciliana
Pastafarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpæs.təˈfɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /-ˈfɑːɹi.-/
ipa: /ˌpɑstəˈfɛɹi.ən/
ipa: /-ˈfɑːɹi.-/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: more Pastafarian
form: most Pastafarian
Etymology: Blend of pasta + Rastafarian.
Senses: examples: text: Something flashed by Theo and he spun to see Gabe Fenton running hell-bent-for-leather at the window, holding before him a long stainless-steel pan full of lasagna, evidently intent upon diving through the window in a pastafarian act of self-sacrifice.
ref: 2005, Christopher Moore, The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror, →ISBN, page 217:
glosses: Of or relating to Pastafarianism.
Pastafarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpæs.təˈfɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /-ˈfɑːɹi.-/
ipa: /ˌpɑstəˈfɛɹi.ən/
ipa: /-ˈfɑːɹi.-/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: Pastafarians
Etymology: Blend of pasta + Rastafarian.
Senses: examples: text: "Pastafarians" — as followers call themselves — can also download computer screen-savers and wallpaper (one says: "WWFSMD?") and can sample photographs that show "visions" of the divinity himself.
ref: 2007 November 16, Justin Pope, “Pasta theology: Scholars mull Spaghetti Monster”, in USA Today, archived from the original on 25 Jul 2015:
text: Pirates are revered as the original Pastafarians, and Pastafarians facetiously assert that a steady decline in the number of pirates has resulted in a significant rise in global temperature.
ref: 2010 May 31, Intelligent Design Parodies: Flying Spaghetti Monster, Books LLC, →ISBN:
glosses: A claimed follower of Pastafarianism.
Related terms: Pastafarianism
trustafarian
bonza
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈbɒnzə/
Senses: examples: text: Any team wishing to secure a bonza bull-voiced supporter may secure him on application this afternoon at the Kalgoorlie Reserve.
ref: 1906 July 22, The Sunday Times, Perth, page 3S, column 2:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bonzer.
bonza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɒnzə/
Forms: form: bonzas
Senses: examples: text: The discoverers, who, though working in pairs, were dividing mates, have applied for a claim which all hope will prove a ‘bonza’.
ref: 1906 February 15, The Greymouth Evening Star, page 3:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bonzer.
glosses: A reddish apple originating in Australia.
bonser
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bonzer.
discreetly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dᵻˈskritli/
homophone: discretely
Forms: form: more discreetly
form: most discreetly
Etymology: From discreet + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Mao was animated and following every nuance of the conversation, but I could see that he was also becoming very tired. Chou had been discreetly glancing at his watch with increasing frequency, so I decided that I should try to bring the session to a close.
ref: 1978, Richard Nixon, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, page 563:
synonyms: prudently
circumspectly
tactfully
cautiously
delicately
antonyms: indiscreetly
bluntly
openly
tactlessly
glosses: Acting in a discreet manner; acting in a way that respects privacy or secrecy; quietly
examples: text: And, placed discreetly among these commonplaces, a few pieces of genuine quality, bizarrely distinguished by craftsmanship from the vulgar products of the machine.
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 150:
text: A Forest Trail and wild life hides lie 2 miles to the north-east. Blue hares, deer, wild geese, herons and duck can be discreetly observed from the hides.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 382, about Tighnabruaich:
glosses: inconspicuously
discretely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈkɹiːt.li/
homophone: discreetly
Forms: form: more discretely
form: most discretely
Etymology: From discrete + -ly.
Senses: glosses: As a separate independent unit.
Derived terms: indiscretely
Related terms: discreet
discrete
discreteness
discreetly
retaining
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈteɪnɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪnɪŋ
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to something that retains something else, as with a retaining wall.
Derived terms: retaining valve
retaining wall
retaining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈteɪnɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪnɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retain
retaining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈteɪnɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪnɪŋ
Forms: form: retainings
Senses: examples: text: All retainings by indenture before that date were declared null and void 'other than to be the household servant or officer or of his [the lord's] council for lawful service done or to be done'.
ref: 1989, John Malcolm William Bean, From Lord to Patron: Lordship in Late Medieval England, page 212:
glosses: The act by which something or someone is retained; a retention.
cassata siciliana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈsɑːtə sɪt͡ʃɪliˈɑːnə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian cassata siciliana (literally “Sicilian cassata”).
Senses: glosses: A rich cake, typical of Sicily, containing liqueur layered with ricotta, candied fruit and chocolate.
Synonyms: cassata
fog oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fog oils
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Petroleum based oil specially blended to produce a dense, efficient, screening smoke when vaporized and recondensed at atmospheric temperatures. Officially, fog oil is standard grade fuel number 2 (SGF2).
Carlyle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪl
homophone: Carlisle
Senses: glosses: An English and Scottish habitational surname, a variant of Carlisle.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A town in Saskatchewan, Canada; named for a niece of Thomas Carlyle who lived in the area.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
A city, the county seat of Clinton County, Illinois; named for the founder Charles W. Slade's grandmother.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Allen County, Kansas.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
A ghost town in Montana.
Derived terms: Carlylean
Carlyle circle
Carlyleism
Carlylese
granita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹəˈniːtə/
Forms: form: granitas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian granita, from granire (“to granulate”). Compare granite.
Senses: examples: text: For summer, add a new one: granita (pronounced gra-KNEE-ta), a cold coffee concoction.
ref: 1995 July 19, Suzanne Hamlin, “Coffee Drinks That Are Cool and Creamy”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Dec 2022:
text: You're gonna think I'm insane, but that's actually delicious. It's kind of like a savory granita.
ref: 2024, Eitan Bernath, 0:15 from the start, in Shaved frozen cucumber tomato salad might sound absolutely insane, but it turned out to be a delicious savory granita. Don’t knock it till you try it! #shavedice #recipe #tomatoes #frozentreats #summercooking:
glosses: An Italian dessert of fruit purée etc. on crushed ice.
follies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French folies.
Senses: examples: text: It has been a long time since new follies were springing up across the great estates of Britain. But the owners of Doddington Hall, in Lincolnshire, have brought the folly into the 21st century, by building a 30ft pyramid in the grounds of the Elizabethan manor.
ref: 2014 September 7, “Doddington's garden pyramid is a folly good show: The owners of a Lincolnshire stately home have brought the folly into the 21st century, by building a 30ft pyramid [print edition: Great pyramid of Lincolnshire, 6 September 2014, p. G2]”, in The Daily Telegraph, London:
glosses: plural of folly
examples: text: The most famous Broadway theatrical revues of all time were the Ziegfeld Follies.
glosses: A lavishly-produced theatrical revue characterized by major stars, huge casts, and opulent costumes and scenery.
follies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of folly
cold front
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cold fronts
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: The leading edge of an advancing mass of cold air.
Related terms: warm front
weather front
warm front
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warm fronts
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: The trailing edge of a retreating mass of cold air.
Related terms: weather front
panna cotta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpanə ˈkɒtə/
rhymes: -ɒtə
Forms: form: panna cottas
form: pannacotta
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian panna cotta (literally “cooked cream”).
Senses: glosses: A northern Italian dessert consisting of flavoured double cream set with gelatine, often served with fruit sauce or caramel syrup.
Coordinate terms: blancmange
crème caramel
custard
occluded front
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: occluded fronts
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A front that occurs when a cold front overtakes a warm front at the surface and a temperature contrast exists between the advancing and retreating cold air masses.
Related terms: weather front
stationary front
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stationary fronts
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A boundary between air masses that is neither advancing nor retreating
Related terms: weather front
pastiera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛɹə
Forms: form: pastieras
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian, from pasta (“pasta, dough”).
Senses: glosses: A Neapolitan tart made from wheat, eggs, and ricotta, traditionally eaten at Easter.
intussusception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪntəsəˈsɛpʃən/
Forms: form: intussusceptions
Etymology: Borrowed from French intussusception, or directly from Latin intussusceptiō, from intus (“within”) + susceptiō (“susception”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The invagination of one portion of a tubular anatomical structure (especially intestines or blood vessels) within the next.
glosses: Absorption.
bottler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑtəlɚ/
ipa: /ˈbɑtl̩ɚ/
ipa: [ˈbɑɾl̩ɚ]
Forms: form: bottlers
Etymology: From Middle English boteller, botullere, equivalent to bottle + -er. Piecewise doublet of butler.
Senses: examples: text: They shall provide all bottlers with face guards,[…].
ref: 1899, John Calder, The Prevention of Factory Accidents, page 307:
text: 1994 May 30, Shawn Willett, PC tools help Coke add life to flat AS/400 data, InfoWorld, page 63,
Such data is of great value both to the bottlers and to Coca-Cola′s sales and marketing groups.
“When the bottler looks at this information, he might be interested in how a certain supermarket is performing, while we in the company are interested in how much, for example, McDonald’s is buying in the Southeast,” Aviles notes.
text: Note 8, “Noncontrolled Bottling Affiliates” (Appendix A), indicates that PepsiCo owns approximately 40 percent of the common stock of some of its bottlers.
ref: 2010, James M. Wahlen, Clyde P. Stickney, Paul Brown, Stephen P. Baginski, Mark Bradshaw, Financial Reporting, Financial Statement Analysis, and Valuation: A Strategic Perspective, 7th edition, page 278:
text: Maritime Transport runs a train from the bottler of Cola-Cola in Tilbury, six days a week. It started in 2022, and the bottler says it will save four million road miles a year and 15,000 lorry journeys, moving 2.5 million cans and bottles on the train each day.
ref: 2023 April 19, Paul Clifton, “Rail is clearly key to our future”, in RAIL, number 981, page 32:
glosses: A person, company, or thing who bottles, especially in bulk.
glosses: A truck used for transporting bottled goods in crates.
glosses: A person or group that fails to meet expectations, especially one prone to such failure. Frequently used in reference to the Cork senior hurlers.
glosses: A Punchman's assistant who collects money ("bottle") from the audience.
Synonyms: sense: person or group prone to unexpected failure
word: choker
Derived terms: water bottler
Related terms: butler
bottler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑtəlɚ/
ipa: /ˈbɑtl̩ɚ/
ipa: [ˈbɑɾl̩ɚ]
Forms: form: bottlers
Etymology: * Perhaps from the idea of something being of a high quality and worthy of preservation by bottling, probably from the phrase "good enough to bottle"; compare corker.
* Perhaps a modification of battler, Australian slang of similar meaning.
Senses: examples: text: In Kiwi language anyway, the Minister of Industries and Commerce will go down in history as a real bottler in every sense of the word.
ref: 1970, New Zealand House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates, page 455:
text: Mum's a real bottler and you′ll find her very sympathetic.
ref: 2007, Anthony David Parsons, Tony Parsons, Valley of the White Gold:
text: “You′re a real bottler, mate. That sheila has been trying to get into my pants ever since Sydney. Didn't know how I′d get rid of her.”
ref: 2010, Drew Hunt, Colin and Martin′s London Christmas, page 7:
glosses: a person or thing that is excellent or admirable.
raw_tags: with "real"
hygroscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ha͜ɪ.ɡɹəˈscɔp.ɪk/
Forms: form: more hygroscopic
form: most hygroscopic
Etymology: From French hygroscopique.
Senses: examples: text: The tissues of Ralfsia are dense and the cells are extremely hygroscopic. The plants may become almost crisp dry in the sun, yet remain alive and continue growth with the first splash of the incoming tide.
ref: 1966, E. Yale Dawson, Seashore Plants of Southern Califonria, 3rd printing, Berkley: University of California Press, published 1975, →ISBN, →LCCN, pages 23–24:
text: All fertilizers tested are drillable at relative humidities below 50 per cent, but no fertilizer remains drillable when exposed to a humidity above its hygroscopic point.
ref: 1930, Experiment Station Record - Volume 63, page 582:
topics: biology
botany
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
antonyms: anhygroscopic
hydrophobic
glosses: Readily taking up and retaining water, especially from the atmosphere.
Derived terms: nonhygroscopic
Related terms: hygroscopy
hygroscopicity
hygroscope
hygroscopically
screening length
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screening lengths
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Distance from the source of a smoke screen to the point downwind where the background begins to become recognizable.
dengue fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛŋɡeɪ ˈfiːvə/
ipa: /ˈdɛŋɡiː ˈfiːvɚ/
ipa: /ˈdɛŋɡeɪ ˈfiːvɚ/
Etymology: Via Spanish, a corruption of Swahili ki denga pepo, meaning "cramp-like seizure caused by an evil spirit".
Senses: glosses: An acute febrile and sometimes hemorrhagic disease endemic to the tropics, caused by varieties of the species Dengue virus, and primarily transmitted to humans from mosquitoes, though human-to-human transmission is also well documented.
Synonyms: breakbone fever
breakbone fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coinage attributed to Benjamin Rush because of the symptoms of myalgia and arthralgia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: dengue fever.
breechcloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breechcloths
form: breechclout
form: breech-cloth
Etymology: From breech + cloth.
Senses: examples: text: I had been scrubbed clean and painted and was wearing my breechcloth.
ref: 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 79:
glosses: An apron-like garment held on by a belt tied around the waist to cover the loins; a loincloth.
inclosed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inclosed
form: most inclosed
form: enclosed
Senses: glosses: Surrounded.
examples: text: The grass was now long and green upon Guido's grave, and filled with small, pale wild flowers. A heavy cloud rested over the inclosed space, where the black yews waved dismally; while, far away, the sunshine reposed on the distant height.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 130:
text: Then dots of white and black told him there were cattle of other colors in this inclosed valley.
ref: 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 5, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:
glosses: Contained within something.
Derived terms: uninclosed
inclosed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enclosed
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inclose
Related terms: enclose
dukes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duke
dukes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: One's parents.
dukes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of duke
arthralgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːˈθɹæl.d͡ʒi.ə/
ipa: /ɑːˈθɹæl.d͡ʒə/
ipa: /ɑɹˈθɹæl.d͡ʒi.ə/
ipa: /ɑɹˈθɹæl.d͡ʒə/
Forms: form: arthralgias
Etymology: From New Latin arthralgia. By surface analysis, arthr- (“joint”) + -algia (“pain”).
Senses: synonyms: arthralgy
hypernyms: pain#Noun
glosses: Joint pain: pain in a joint, especially when not caused by arthritis.
Derived terms: word: arthralgic
word: monoarthralgia
word: oligoarthralgia
word: polyarthralgia
word: osteoarthralgia
Related terms: arthropathy
arthrosis
dysarthrosis
analgesia
analgesic
slaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æps
Senses: glosses: plural of slap
slaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æps
Senses: glosses: A two-player reaction game in which opponents slap each other's hands.
slaps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -æps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of slap
slapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslæpɪŋ/
rhymes: -æpɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slap
slapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslæpɪŋ/
rhymes: -æpɪŋ
Forms: form: slappings
Senses: glosses: The act of giving a slap or slaps
glosses: The slap bass technique
slapping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslæpɪŋ/
rhymes: -æpɪŋ
Forms: form: more slapping
form: most slapping
Senses: examples: text: It remains to be seen whether she will retain her coat after whelping; if she does, then Americans will be able to admire a slapping great collie bitch — a matron of the robust kind yet retaining all those graces of the collie female of quality.
ref: 1921, Dogdom: Monthly: Volume 22:
glosses: Very large; whopping.
brekekekex
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: brek-kek-kex
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek βρεκεκεκέξ (brekekekéx), coined by Aristophanes in the comedy The Frogs.
Senses: examples: text: Brekekekex! co-ax! co-ax! O happy, happy frogs!
How sweet ye sing! would God that I
Upon the sweet bubbling pool might lie,
And sun myself to-day
With you! No curtained bride, I ween,
Nor pillowed babe, nor cushioned queen,
Nor tiny fay on emerald green,
Nor silken lady gray,
Lies on a softer couch. O Heaven!
ref: 1871, John Stuart Blackie, The Musical Frogs:
text: Iris:
He warbled a plaintive rondo —
Of brekekekex koax —
Chorus:
Koax!
Iris:
The other frogs thought it splendid,
Most splendid —
Chorus:
Most splendid!
Iris:
Applauding him when he ended
With brekekekex koax —
Chorus:
ref: 1898, Harry Greenbank, Adrian Ross (lyrics), “A Frog he lived in a Pond”, in A Greek Slave
roman: Koax!
glosses: Nonsense word supposedly imitative of frogs.
brekekekex
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brekekekexes
form: brekekekexing
form: brekekekexed
form: brekekekexed
form: brek-kek-kex
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek βρεκεκεκέξ (brekekekéx), coined by Aristophanes in the comedy The Frogs.
Senses: examples: text: There was not a fisherman on the river, not a peasant in the fields, nothing but those little vole-catchers and skimming wagtails, the waterbirds and the massed larks and the frogs, whose steady diurnal croak, though universal, seemed milder than the full-moon brekekekexing the night before.
ref: 1977, Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time of Gifts, page 306:
glosses: To make a brekekekex sound; to ribbit.
bribee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bribees
Etymology: From bribe + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who takes a bribe.
top-level
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: top + level
Senses: glosses: Highest.
glosses: Best.
glosses: Applied to domains at the highest level, such as .uk covering all sites for the United Kingdom.
Derived terms: top-level domain
top-level
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: top-levels
Etymology: top + level
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: read-eval-print loop
butternut squash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butternut squashes
Senses: synonyms: word: butternut
word: butternut pumpkin
glosses: A vase-shaped orange-fleshed hard winter squash, a cultivar of Cucurbita moschata.
wrinkles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wrinkle
advisory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ədˈvaɪzəɹi/
ipa: /ædˈvaɪz(ə)ɹi/
Forms: form: more advisory
form: most advisory
Etymology: From advise + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: The advisory committee could only offer advice, but since that was almost always accepted they had real power.
glosses: Able to give advice.
examples: text: The consultant's advisory recommendations were selectively adopted.
glosses: Containing advice; advising.
Derived terms: advisorily
advisory letter
advisory opinion
nonadvisory