cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nightcapped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nightcap + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: We knocked on the door, and a nightcapped head appeared at the window.
glosses: Wearing a nightcap.
examples: text: Sgt. White asks the judge to authorize a nightcapped warrant because there is a considerable risk to the officers executing the search warrant.
topics: law
glosses: (of a warrant) that can be executed any time, as opposed to non-nightcapped, that can only be executed during the daytime on business days
nightcapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From nightcap + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nightcap
paperclipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of paperclip
paperclipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of paperclip
croakily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more croakily
form: most croakily
Etymology: From croaky + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a croaky manner.
croakingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more croakingly
form: most croakingly
Etymology: From croaking + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a croaking sound.
windchime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwɪnd.t͡ʃaɪm/
Forms: form: windchimes
Etymology: From wind + chime.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wind chimes.
Derived terms: Alabama wind chime
Mississippi wind chime
windchimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of windchime
resaddles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resaddle
resaddling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resaddle
resaddled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resaddle
exackly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more exackly
form: most exackly
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of exactly.
martyrizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of martyrize
martyrizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of martyrize
martyrized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of martyrize
pintsized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pintsized
form: most pintsized
Senses: examples: text: The rest of us are confronted with marauding gangs of pintsized extortionists, disguised in cute costumes, who roam the neighborhood demanding payment in the form of sugar-based, high-caloric foodstuffs or threatening unpleasant "tricks" […]
ref: 2012, Wolfgang Niesielski, The Alien in My E-Mail and Other Stories, page 9:
glosses: Alternative form of pint-sized.
concernments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concernment
vividest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of vivid: most vivid
rhythmed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rhythmed
form: most rhythmed
Etymology: From rhythm + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a (specified kind of) rhythm.
rhythmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From rhythm + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rhythm
frightenedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more frightenedly
form: most frightenedly
Etymology: From frightened + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a frightened manner.
frockcoats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frockcoat
frightenedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From frightened + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being frightened.
candy-striped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having alternate stripes of white and color, like a candy cane.
Related terms: candy stripe
candy striper
sideslipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sideslip
sideslipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sideslip
runged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rung + -ed.
Senses: examples: a ten-runged ladder
glosses: Having rungs.
verandaed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: verandahed
Etymology: From veranda + -ed.
Senses: examples: a verandaed bungalow
glosses: Having a veranda.
verandahed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From verandah + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of verandaed.
unlifted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + lifted.
Senses: glosses: Not lifted.
nostriled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nostril + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nostrilled.
ethnicistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ethnicistic
form: most ethnicistic
Etymology: From ethnic + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to or exhibiting ethnicism.
winter wheat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winter wheats
Senses: glosses: A type of wheat that is planted in the autumn to germinate and develop into young plants that remain in the vegetative phase during the winter and resume growth in early spring.
Related terms: spring wheat
spring wheat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spring wheats
Senses: glosses: A type of wheat that does not require vernalization and may thus be sown in spring for harvest in autumn or, if the climate allows, in the autumn for spring harvest.
Related terms: winter wheat
nuclear fissions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nuclear fission
in-boxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of in-box
in-boxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of in-box
turnip moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turnip moths
Senses: glosses: A moth of the family Noctuidae, Agrotis segetum, whose larvae called cutworms cause damage to a wide variety of crops.
pluviophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pluviophiles
Etymology: From pluvio- + -phile.
Senses: glosses: One who loves rain; one who finds joy and peace of mind during rainy days
topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: ombrophile
glosses: An organism that thrives in a rainy environment
Related terms: pluviophilous
prepatent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + patent.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Before symptoms (especially of infection) become manifest.
topics: law
glosses: Prior to the existence of a legal patent.
Synonyms: sense: before symptoms
word: presymptomatic
psychosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychospheres
Etymology: From psycho- + -sphere.
Senses: glosses: The realm of consciousness.
resevoir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of reservoir.
semiactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of semi-active.
semi-active
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + active.
Senses: glosses: Partially active
supravital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + vital.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Capable of staining living cells after their removal from a host
raw_tags: of a stain
sympatico
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A sympatico friend came by twice a day to help her open cat food cans.
ref: 1976 April 17, A. Nolder Gay, “The View from the Closet”, in Gay Community News, page 13:
glosses: Misspelling of simpatico.
vasodepressor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vasodepressors
Etymology: From vaso- + depressor.
Senses: synonyms: vasodepressant
antonyms: vasopressor
vasoconstrictor
hypernyms: antihypertensive#Noun
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substance#Noun
glosses: Any substance that produces vasodepression and thus lowers blood pressure.
Related terms: vasoactive § Related terms
brontobyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɒntəbaɪt/
Forms: form: brontobytes
Etymology: From bronto- + byte, in reference to the brontosaurus, a very large dinosaur.
Senses: examples: text: We believe this is the first time a company has ever talked about a machine that can crunch through “brontobytes” of data. (The word reminds us of brontosaurus, the largest dinosaur.) And just how big is that? It's 1,000 Yottabytes, of course.
ref: 2014 June 11, Julie Bort, “There's A New Word Being Used In The Computer Industry: ‘Brontobytes’”, in Business Insider:
text: In a world awash in brontobytes of data, cutting your data requirements in half can dramatically reduce the demands that data management is placing upon your business.
ref: 2014, Christopher Surdak, Data Crush […] , AMACOM, →ISBN, page 174:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: ronnabyte
glosses: 10²⁷ or 2⁹⁰ bytes.
Coordinate terms: sense: Previous
word: yottabyte
sense: Next
word: quettabyte
sense: Next
word: geopbyte
Related terms: sense: other proposed prefixes for 1027
word: hella-
sense: other proposed prefixes for 1027
word: xenna-
sense: official prefix for 1027
word: ronna-
cokebottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cokebottles
Etymology: From Coke + bottle, possibly from a nickname for the ! character, thought to resemble an upturned bottle.
Senses: examples: text: MINCE has a million commands; Control-meta-CokeBottle probably means something.
ref: 1983, Byte, Volume 8, page 312
text: ...the task at hand with few, if any, religious debates over the virtues of modelessness or the sins of meta-cokebottle-shift.
ref: 1985, Peter S. Langston, "The Influence of the UNIX Operating System on the Development of Two Video Games", EUUGN, Vol. 5, No. 6, page 34 (reprinted in AUUGN Jul 1985, Vol. 6, No. 2, page 54) https://books.google.com/books?id=5xyk_PXaloAC&pg=PA54
text: 1990-11-28, Jamie Zawinski, "Re: Do people still use Explorers?", comp.sys.ti.explorer,
If input was event-based instead of character based, then under X you could easily have seperate keybindings for left-shift-cokebottle and right-shift-cokebottle...
text: Nowadays many younger hackers can touch-type, so space-cadet-style quadruple-bucky-meta-cokebottle commands are less popular than formerly; […]
ref: 1996, Debra Cameron, Bill Rosenblatt, Eric S. Raymond, Learning GNU Emacs, O'Reilly Media,, →ISBN, page 408:
text: Now type x-underscore-asterisk-coke bottle!
ref: 2015, Alex Feinman, We Were Gods (Omnibus Edition), →ISBN, page 235:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An unusual character, or one that is difficult to type.
Condela
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Short for connection definition language.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A procedural, parallel language for defining neural networks.
Knoll
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from German
copywronged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Play on words, from copyrighted and wrong.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having copy protection that is broken or inoperable.
diadic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dyadic.
endif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endifs
form: end-if
form: end if
Etymology: From end + if.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A directive, in several programming languages, that marks the end of an if statement, especially one containing multiple if ... then ... else statements.
Synonyms: fi
faq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faqs
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of FAQ.
faqs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faq
Roll
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Roland.
glosses: A surname.
foaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of FOAF.
supercompilation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + compilation.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A technique, involving multiple metacompilations, that seeks to optimize a program.
zetabyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In short, it has been said that the total amount of data created worldwide in 2011 was about one zetabyte (or 1,000,000 petabytes) and that this figure will increase by 50%–60% in each subsequent year.
ref: 2017, Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Higher Education under Late Capitalism, Springer, →ISBN, page 82:
glosses: Misspelling of zettabyte.
Justice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Justices
form: Jestice
form: Justiss
Senses: glosses: The title of a justice of court.
Related terms: Injustice
Justice
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jestice
form: Justiss
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as an occupation.
examples: text: Justice, the elder, was his only son and heir to the Great Place, and Nomafu was the regent's daughter.
ref: 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus, published 1995, →ISBN, page 21:
glosses: A male or female given name from English from the abstract noun justice.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A village in Cook County, Illinois.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Franklin County, North Carolina.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A census-designated place in Rogers County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A census-designated place in Mingo County, West Virginia.
Derived terms: Justiceburg
Marston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːstən/
ipa: /ˈmɑɹstən/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)stən
Forms: form: Maston
Etymology: From Old English mersc (“marsh”) + tūn (“enclosure, settlement”).
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of places in England:
A village and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ6775).
glosses: Any of a number of places in England:
A hamlet in Pembridge parish, north Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO3657).
glosses: Any of a number of places in England:
A village and civil parish in South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire (OS grid ref SK8943).
glosses: Any of a number of places in England:
A village in Old Marston parish, City of Oxford district, Oxfordshire (OS grid ref SP5208).
glosses: Any of a number of places in England:
A small village and civil parish in Stafford district, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ9227).
glosses: Any of a number of places in England:
A small village in Church Eaton parish, Stafford district, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ8314).
glosses: Any of a number of places in England:
A village in Lea Marston parish, North Warwickshire district, Warwickshire (OS grid ref SP2094).
glosses: Any of a number of places in England:
A hamlet in Wolston parish, Rugby borough, Warwickshire (OS grid ref SP4176).
glosses: Any of a number of places in England:
A village and civil parish south-west of Devizes, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST9656).
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Duncan Township, Mercer County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in New Madrid County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Carroll County, Maryland.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Richmond County, North Carolina.
glosses: A township municipality in Le Granit regional county municipality, Quebec, Canada, named after Long Marston, North Yorkshire.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Fleet Marston
Lea Marston
Long Marston
Marston Green
Marstonian
Marston Magna
Marston Moreteyne
Marston Moretaine
Old Marston
South Marston
Jansen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒænsən/
Etymology: Through immigration from Dutch Jansen. Doublet of Johnson.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Colorado.
glosses: A village in Nebraska.
glosses: A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Derived terms: Jansen disease
Jansenism
Jansenist
Jansen metaphyseal dysostosis
Jansen's metaphyseal chondrodysplasia
JMC
Murk Jansen-type metaphyseal chondrodysplasia
Lopez
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈloʊ.pɛz/
Etymology: Anglicization of Spanish López.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Quezon, Philippines.
examples: text: She called Ottinger a "tool" of the business community and Lopez a "box checker,” apparently meaning that he was only nominally Latino and that he had acted in a way that was detrimental to the interests of Latinos.
ref: 2013, Richard Lee Colvin, Tilting at Windmills:
glosses: A patrilineal surname from Spanish of English speakers.
glosses: Misspelling of López.
golas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gola
Osseo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Jefferson Township, Hillsdale County, Michigan.
glosses: A small city in Hennepin County, Minnesota.
glosses: A small city in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin.
Bengalese finch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bengalese finches
Senses: examples: text: Some female zebra finches reared with Bengalese finches for 40 days responded to male zebra finches. Others responded to male Bengalese finches which had been reared by zebra finches and hence courted them, whilst others would mate with neither. In multiple-choice tests these zebra finch females spent most of their time in front of male Bengalese finches.
ref: 1981, D. M. Broom, Biology of Behaviour: Mechanisms, Functions and Applications, page 214:
text: Quantitative evidence comes, among others, from three studies of adolescent male zebra finches misimprinted on Bengalese finches. In the first study, zebra finches were raised by another species of estrildid finch, the Bengalese finch.
ref: 1981, Klaus Immelmann, Stephen J. Suomi, “14: Sensitive phases in Development”, in Klaus Immelmann, George W. Barlow, Lewis Petrinovich, Mary Main, editors, Behavioral Development: The Bielefeld Interdisciplinary Project, page 410:
text: Using this method, we calculated average similarities between the songs of tutor and pupil in the four cross-fostered groups (Bengalese finches tutored by Bengalese finches, white-rumped munias tutored by white-rumped munias, Bengalese finches tutored by white-rumped munias, and white-rumped munias tutored by Bengalese finches).
ref: 2013, Kazuo Okanoya, “25: Birdsong as a Model for Studying Factors and Mechanisms Affecting Signal Evolution”, in Johan J. Bolhuis, Martin Everaert, editors, Birdsong, Speech, and Language: Exploring the Evolution of Mind and Brain, page 513:
glosses: A domesticated estrildid finch, Lonchura striata domestica or Lonchura domestica, thought to have been bred from the white-rumped munia (Lonchura striata).
Synonyms: sense: Society finch (US)
word: Lonchura striata domestica
sense: Society finch (US)
word: Lonchura domestica
Bengalese finches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bengalese finch
core switch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: core switches
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A high-capacity switch usually at the core or backbone of a computer network, aggregating network traffic to the Internet or a WAN.
suckfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suckfest
Buhl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Alabama.
glosses: One of two communes in France
glosses: A city in Idaho.
glosses: A city in Minnesota.
datalog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: datalogs
Etymology: From data + log.
Senses: glosses: A set of data collected from a single source.
delators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delator
downstreet
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: further downstreet
form: farther downstreet
form: furthest downstreet
form: farthest downstreet
Etymology: From down + street.
Senses: glosses: Toward the lower part of a street.
gnostics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gnostic
manhour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manhours
Etymology: From man + hour.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of man-hour.
manhours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manhour
exploringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more exploringly
form: most exploringly
Etymology: From exploring + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: You plunge your hand exploringly into the drawer, and bring up a long roll wound thickly with twine of all kinds and colors.
ref: 1853, Anne Wales Abbot, Autumn Leaves, page 64:
glosses: So as to explore.
wristbone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wristbones
Etymology: From wrist + bone.
Senses: examples: text: […] I will […] shew you onely such eminences which by shadow must be necessarily expressed: after you have done the neck, you are to expresse the wing or upper part of the shoulder by shadowing it underneath, the brawne of the arme must appeare full, shadowed on one side, then shew the wrist bone thereof, & the meeting of the veines in that place […]
ref: 1634, Henry Peacham, The Gentlemans Exercise. Or, An exquisite practise, as well for drawing all manner of Beasts in their true Portraitures: as also the making of all kinds of colours, London: I. Marriott, Book I, p. 28:
text: 1741, Uncredited translator, A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary by Jean-Baptiste du Halde, London: Edward Cave, “The Art of Medicine among the Chinese,” p. 191,
He who is to feel the Pulse, takes the left Hand of the Patient if a Man, the right Hand of a Woman. […] He begins by placing the middle Finger exactly where the Wrist-Bone locks with the Cubitus, then claps the next Fingers, one on each side.
text: Their bodies were found frequently—all skeletons, like unto the others—and in some cases ’twas strange to see how they strived to preserve what they most esteemed of value. Thus, round one, a female, as again the hair close by denoted, which was red, slightly fleck’t with grisel, there was on the bony neck a great rope of diamonds, each as big as a nut, that all sparkled and glistened in the water, and round each wristbone there was the same in bracelets.
ref: 1895, John Bloundelle-Burton, chapter 16, in The Hispaniola Plate, New York: Cassell:
text: In the next bed, I remember (there were at least a dozen beds crammed into a ward that should have held six), there was an old man so meagre, so cadaverous that his wristbones and the beak of his nose seemed to want to break through his skin.
ref: 2009, J. M. Coetzee, “Adriana”, in Summertime: Scenes from Provincial Life, London: Harvill Secker:
glosses: A bone in the wrist; carpal.
wristbones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wristbone
unsmudged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + smudged.
Senses: glosses: Not smudged.
inconsequentialities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inconsequentiality
rebolt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rebolts
form: rebolting
form: rebolted
form: rebolted
Etymology: From re- + bolt.
Senses: examples: to rebolt a door
glosses: To bolt again.
Derived terms: rebolter
rebolts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rebolt
aspirings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aspiring
hummocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hummocked
form: most hummocked
Etymology: From hummock + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The heavy floes and hummocked blocks, so beautiful and peaceful—looking only a few days before, now assumed a totally different aspect. The sea was gradually rising, a swell perceptible, and the ship bumping with increasing thuds against these rolling spur-projecting dangers.
ref: 1916, Captain Gerald S. Doorly, The Voyages of the Morning:
glosses: Having hummocks.
Synonyms: hummocky
saturnalian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more saturnalian
form: most saturnalian
form: Saturnalian
Etymology: From saturnalia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Riotously merry; dissolute.
saturnalian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saturnalians
form: Saturnalian
Etymology: From saturnalia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: There were always certain delicious cakes and other sweets as well, curious conventual dainties, of which master and pupil partook with an equal and sympathetic appetite. If, by any evil chance, M. le Directeur came near them at that moment, the sight of his rigid scornful young face brought much confusion upon these innocent saturnalians, but for the most part they were undisturbed.
ref: 1885, George Fleming [pseudonym; Julia Constance Fletcher], “Family Affairs”, in Andromeda. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley and Son, […], →OCLC, page 105:
text: There soon remained only ono day before that carnival of all sporting saturnalians, the Epsom Derby day, and Bindabun formed the prudent resolution to avoid any delays or crushings by putting Milky Way into a railway box, and despatching her to Epsom on the previous afternoon, under the chaperonago of Cadwallader Perkin, who was to engage suitable lodgings for her in the vicinity of the course.
ref: 1900 November 14, Baboo Hurry Bungsho Jabberjee [pseudonym; Thomas Anstey Guthrie], “A Bayard from Bengal. […] Chapter X. Trust Her Not! She Is Fooling Thee!”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume CXIX, London: […] Brabury, Agnew, & Co. […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 346, column 2:
text: Sophisticated saturnalians do not drive drunk. That is why chauffeurs were invented.
ref: 1997 August, Beverly West, Kim Doi, “A Chauffeur, Cab Fare, or a Designated Driver”, in Cocktail Nation: Cosmic Cocktails, Space-Age Shots, and Other Rituals of Release for the Jaded and Refined, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, →ISBN, chapter 1 (The Well-Stocked Bar), page 4:
glosses: A merrymaker, a partygoer.
Related terms: Saturnalian
manhoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manhood
oneliner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oneliners
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of one-liner.
oneliners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oneliner
disconcertment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disconcertments
Etymology: From disconcert + -ment.
Senses: glosses: disconcertedness
leavetakings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leavetaking
frillies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The older girls rode in a long habit. Helen's legs and mine were too young to be considered improper by Mrs. Crane. So our frillies flapped joyously.
ref: 1942, Emily Carr, “Mrs. Crane”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
glosses: frilly clothing
meadowed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more meadowed
form: most meadowed
Etymology: From meadow + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Splitting from the Northern Loop Trail (5,650 ft) at Grand Park, the route skirts the northwest fringe of this broad, meadowed plateau, then gradually descends through woods[…]
ref: 2002, Marge Mueller, Ted Mueller, Exploring Washington's Wild Areas, page 254:
glosses: Having meadows.
meadowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From meadow + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of meadow
goosefleshed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more goosefleshed
form: most goosefleshed
Etymology: From gooseflesh + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having gooseflesh.
rebolting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rebolt
rebolted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rebolt
sugarbowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugarbowls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sugar bowl.
sugarbowls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sugarbowl
illogicalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of illogicality
handywork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handyworks
Senses: glosses: Dated form of handiwork.
handyworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handywork
coffeed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coffee
coffeeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coffee
undercurve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undercurves
Etymology: From under- + curve.
Senses: glosses: The curve formed by the underside of something.
undercurves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undercurve
whuffle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ʌfəl
Forms: form: whuffles
form: whuffling
form: whuffled
form: whuffled
Senses: examples: text: Poquita whuffled and jerked at her lead, trying to swing right around. “No, no, we can't go home yet. Not for a silly snake. We just scared him is all.”
ref: 2010, Peggy Nicholson, Serpent in Turquoise, page 72:
glosses: To make a low snuffling or blowing sound.
whuffles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of whuffle
whuffled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of whuffle
whuffling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: But Radar would have barked and she was deeply asleep, whuffling her way through some unknowable dream of hope.
ref: 2022, Stephen King, chapter 11, in Fairy Tale, page 181:
glosses: present participle and gerund of whuffle
fingerbone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fingerbones
Etymology: From finger + bone.
Senses: examples: text: She hadn’t found the finger-bone she wanted
Among the buttons poured out in her lap.
I verified the name next morning: Toffile.
The rural letter box said Toffile Lajway.
ref: 1923 October, Robert Frost, “[Notes.] Two Witches.”, in New Hampshire […], New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 61:
glosses: A bone in the finger.
fingerbones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fingerbone
unaristocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unaristocratic
form: most unaristocratic
Etymology: From un- + aristocratic.
Senses: examples: text: Most of them were the children of rich parents, but on the whole they were the un-aristocratic rich, the sort of people who live in huge shrubberied houses in Bournemouth or Richmond, and who have cars and butlers but not country estates.
ref: c. 1948, George Orwell, Such, Such Were the Joys:
glosses: Not aristocratic.
overstrong
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overstrong
form: most overstrong
Etymology: From over- + strong.
Senses: glosses: Excessively strong.
moonwashed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more moonwashed
form: most moonwashed
Etymology: From moon + washed.
Senses: examples: text: She just sat there very straight, gazing across the moon-washed garden.
ref: 1936, F.J. Thwaites, The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards Publishing, published 1940, page 64:
glosses: bathed in moonlight
matchlight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From match + light.
Senses: glosses: The light produced by a burning match.
unavowable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unavowable
form: most unavowable
Etymology: From un- + avowable.
Senses: glosses: Not avowable.
bondages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bondage
overendowed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overendowed
form: most overendowed
Etymology: From over- + endowed.
Senses: glosses: Excessively endowed.
swordmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sɔɹdˈmæs.tɚ/
Forms: form: swordmasters
form: swordsmaster
Etymology: From sword + master.
Senses: examples: text: With ten sword instructors at West Point under the swordmaster the lessons to cadets would all be individual and special.
ref: 1882, United States War Department, Annual Reports of the Secretary of War, Volume 1, page 160:
text: Mr. Roux’s pupils form the majority of the swordmasters at the twenty German Universities and the Polytechnic schools, and Mr. Roux is regarded as the first who taught a manner of broadsword practice which may be best called the ‘‘fencing with broadswords, in which every blow is also guard.” This practice is methodically based on the properties of the lever, the pendulum, and the wedge, and one of its funda- mental principles is to choose the shortest way of assault and the quickest ‘‘recovery.”
ref: 1888, Outing, Volume 12, Open Court Publishing Company, page 87:
text: So far as it appeared to the eye, they were singularly well matched. Of the same height, with the same reach of arm; broad of chest and narrowing at the hips; with well turned limbs and supple in wrist and ankle, an experienced swordmaster would have pronounced them admirable antagonists.
ref: 1891, Luman Allen, Helene Sainte Maur: Secrets of a Boudoir, Donohue, Henneberry, page 46:
text: He has given the sport a lifelong devotion, and to his unfailing interest and enthusiasm are due the success of our teams. We also owe much to the other swordmasters for their patient work with us in our preliminary training. To these, for the Academy, we wish to extend our thanks and appreciation.
ref: 1908, First Class, United States Naval Academy, Lucky Bag, First Class, United States Naval Academy, page 210:
text: We recommended increasing the pay of one swordmaster to $1,800; and of assistants, one at $1,600 instead of $1,500, and one at $1,400 instead of $1,300, and so on.
ref: 1919, United States Congress, House Committee on Naval Affairs, Estimates Submitted by the Secretary of the Navy, 1919, U.S. Government Printing Office, →ISBN, page 225:
text: The swordmasters of Europe sing the praises of this weapon from the beginning of the sixteenth century to its close, by which time its use had almost entirely disappeared. In Scotland, however, it appears to have continued in use for almost another half century, and it has been said that it made an appearance at the battle of Kilhecrankie in 1689.
ref: 1964, John Telfer Dunbar, History of Highland Dress: A Definitive Study of the History of Scottish Costume and Tartan, Both Civil and Military, Including Weapons, Dufour Editions, page 194:
glosses: An expert or consummate swordfighter.
Coordinate terms: swordmistress
swordmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swordmaster
cicatrized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cicatrize
cicatrizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cicatrize
swordstick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swordsticks
Etymology: From sword + stick.
Senses: examples: text: In Gormenghast Swelter's kitchen boy Steerpike also ends his murderous life, pierced by a knife, in the temporary waters of the flooded castle. Steerpike can be understood as an imitator of his former kitchen master Swelter, his slim swordstick a thin copy of Swelter's cleaver.
ref: 2005, Alice Mills, Stuckness in the Fiction of Mervyn Peake, page 82:
glosses: A cane incorporating a concealed blade.
swordsticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swordstick
untouching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + touching.
Senses: examples: text: Space is a series of untouching atoms and time a succession of untouching moments.
ref: 1988, Stephen N Hay, William Theodore De Bary, Sources of Indian Tradition, page 390:
glosses: Not touching; not making physical contact.
untouching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + touching.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of untouch
rainspout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪnˌspaʊt/
Forms: form: rainspouts
Etymology: From rain + spout.
Senses: examples: text: We savor the flash of tangerine butterflies or the changing afternoon shadows on the courtyard's yellow ocher walls, made all the more intriguing by protruding stone rainspouts.
ref: 2007, Karen Witynski, Joe P. Carr, Hacienda Courtyards, page 26:
glosses: A spout through which rainwater can drain from the roof of a building, etc.
rainspouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rainspout
walkaround
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: walkarounds
Etymology: From walk + around.
Senses: glosses: A competitive dance in blackface minstrel shows of the 19th century.
glosses: The music for such a dance.
topics: business
glosses: A walk taken around an office, hospital, etc. in order to communicate with staff members and gauge progress.
glosses: A costumed character who mingles with visitors at a theme park etc.
walkarounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of walkaround
hardpack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hardpacks
Etymology: From hard + pack.
Senses: examples: text: The muzzle was filled for some inches with hardpack snow, after he had dug that out with his knife, he found the lock frozen up and snow all over the nipple.
ref: 1918, The Industrial Enterprise, volume 25, number 4, page 1:
text: Field reports indicate that the new cutting edge here pictured performs exceptionally well in rock, shale, limestone, hardpack clay, sandstone and other tight formations.
ref: 1958, Roads and Streets, volume 101, page 131:
text: Unlike powder, hardpack permits great speed (no spiny arms on those balls of ice to drag on your ski bottom). Where powder is sluggish, crudely transmitting your body movements to the snow, hardpack is the snow of precision.
ref: 1995 February 24, Ski, page 36:
glosses: A material (such as dirt, gravel, or snow) compressed into a hard, smooth surface for roads etc.
examples: text: That's where she met Vic--tall, hawkfaced, blackhaired, wearing tight Levis and a black T-shirt with the pocket over his heart stretched around a hardpack box of Parliaments.
ref: 1978, Russell Banks, The New World: Tales, page 25:
text: Anderson came over to me and I noticed his ammo bandoliers were full of Marlboro hardpacks.
ref: 2005, Shane A. Bernskoetter, Surviving Twilight:
text: Outside, Billy broke the cellophane on a hardpack of Marlboro Reds, tore out the foil, and extracted a cigarette.
ref: 2008, George P. Pelecanos, The Turnaround:
glosses: A hard package, especially of cigarettes.
hardpacked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hard + packed.
Senses: examples: hardpacked earth; hardpacked snow
glosses: compressed to form a hard, smooth surface
Related terms: hardpack
epochmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more epochmaking
form: most epochmaking
Etymology: From epoch + making.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of epoch-making.
forehatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forehatches
Etymology: From fore + hatch.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A hatch in a fore position, typically near the foremast.
forehatches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forehatch
malignants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malignant
undergardener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undergardeners
Etymology: From under- + gardener.
Senses: glosses: An assistant gardener.
undergardeners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undergardener
watermeadow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watermeadows
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of water meadow.
watermeadows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of watermeadow
goosebumped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more goosebumped
form: most goosebumped
Etymology: From goosebump + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having goosebumps.
galvanically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more galvanically
form: most galvanically
Etymology: From galvanic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a galvanic manner.
oversolicitous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvəsəˈlɪsɪtəs/
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚsəˈlɪsɪtəs/
Forms: form: more oversolicitous
form: most oversolicitous
Etymology: From over- + solicitous.
Senses: examples: text: He that is overſolicitous to return a Benefit, thinks the other ſo likewiſe to receive it.
ref: 1693, Seneca the Younger, chapter XVI, in Roger L'Estrange, transl., Morals, translation of original in Classical Latin, page 88:
text: The son of a United States senator (Case 91) was 30 years of age when seen. His condition had been very serious for a long time. He was cured in less than two years by a gradual education which freed him from extreme dependence upon oversolicitous parents.
ref: 1917, Maximilian P. E. Groszmann, “Malady of Scrupulosity”, in The Exceptional Child, page 673:
text: Our waiter could have been performing as the model for what a waiter should be. Several of his tables were filled and he was busy, but kept his eye on us (never hovering, never oversolicitous) and took care of things with a degree of style that I suspect was inborn rather than cultivated.
ref: 1974 February 8, John Canaday, “An Armenian Restaurant With a Nonstrolling Musician”, in The New York Times, page 37:
glosses: Excessively solicitous.
Derived terms: oversolicitously
mankiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mankillers
Etymology: From Middle English man-killer, equivalent to man + killer.
Senses: examples: text: Hence we may account not only for the grasshopper war of the Indians, but for the grasshopper duels among our midshipmen, military officers, members of Congress, and others who have been educated for mankillers.
ref: 1827, Noah Worcester, The Friend of Peace, volume 4, page 364:
glosses: One who kills a human being.
mankillers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mankiller
foregrip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foregrips
Etymology: From fore- + grip.
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A pistol grip-type forestock on the front of a firearm that improves handling characteristics, counters the effects of recoil, and is cooler to the touch than a standard forestock.
foregrips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foregrip
forestock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forestocks
Etymology: From fore- + stock.
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: forearm; handguard
forestocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forestock
forechain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forechains
Etymology: From fore- + chain.
Senses: examples: text: "Slip into the lee forechains, Billy; there is something in the wind. […]"
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 12, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A chain securing the lower shrouds of the foremast.
mainchain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mainchains
Etymology: From main + chain.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A chain securing the lower shrouds of the mainmast.
examples: text: One user start^([sic]) to withdraw assets from sidechain to mainchain by sending transaction.
ref: 2020, Sheng Wen, Albert Zomaya, Laurence T. Yang, Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 557:
topics: business
cryptocurrencies
cryptocurrency
finance
glosses: A blockchain with one or more sidechains attached to it.
forechains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forechain
mainchains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mainchain
recomb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -əʊm
Forms: form: recombs
form: recombing
form: recombed
form: recombed
Etymology: From re- + comb.
Senses: glosses: To comb again.
recombs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recomb
recombing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recomb
recombing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recombings
Senses: glosses: The act of combing something again.
recombed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recomb
carapaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From carapace + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a carapace.
bootboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bootboys
Etymology: From boot + boy.
Senses: glosses: A skinhead who wears boots.
bootboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bootboy
fifing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fife
fifed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fife
leisures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leisure
doorward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From door + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Toward a door.
doorwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From door + -wards.
Senses: glosses: Towards a door.
unclamp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unclamps
form: unclamping
form: unclamped
form: unclamped
Etymology: From un- + clamp.
Senses: glosses: To remove a clamp from.
unclamps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unclamp
unclamping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unclamp
semiotically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more semiotically
form: most semiotically
Etymology: From semiotic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a semiotic manner or context.
loyalest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of loyal: most loyal
counterfire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterfires
Etymology: From counter- + fire.
Senses: examples: text: The Nationalist Defense Ministry claimed Communist guns on the mainland coast were silenced by effective counterfire. By Nationalist count, the Reds fired 444 shells, of which 162 hit Matsu Island, 112 Peikantang Island and 170 landed in the sea.
ref: 1959 May 18, “Red Chinese Open Firing on Matsus”, in The Washington Post and Times Herald, volume 82, number 164, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 5:
text: The second attack vehicle had difficulty navigating around the debris from the first attack, and was met with defensive counterfire by security personnel assigned to the hotel.
ref: 2007, John W. Ellis, Police Analysis and Planning for Homicide Bombings, page 171:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The firing of weapons in response.
topics: firefighting
government
glosses: A smaller fire lit at some distance from a wildfire, in order to develop a firebreak.
counterfire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: counterfires
form: counterfiring
form: counterfired
form: counterfired
Etymology: From counter- + fire.
Senses: topics: firefighting
government
glosses: To light a smaller fire at some distance from a wildfire, in order to develop a firebreak.
Related terms: fight fire with fire
landbased
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From land + based.
Senses: examples: text: The number of vessels participating in the landbased fishery has declined since the 1970's.
ref: 1991, Simon P. Northridge, Driftnet Fisheries and Their Impacts on Non-Target Species:
glosses: Based or situated on land.