cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
premarket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + market.
Senses: examples: text: Stocks are up in premarket trading this morning.
text: If you are relatively inexperienced, have little training, and are learning how to play a number of potential situations that can arise during the premarket, I advise you to first remain on the sidelines, to let the real trend emerge before attacking.
ref: 2004, John Netto, One Shot One Kill Trading, →ISBN, pages 181–182:
topics: business
finance
glosses: The informal market in stocks and other securities, held before the official markets open
Coordinate terms: after-hours
trading day
Related terms: aftermarket
postgames
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The postgames use of the new stadium has not been decided.
glosses: Following an athletic festival, often specifically the Olympic Games
postgames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postgame
postgame
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpoʊstˌɡeɪm/
Etymology: From post- + game.
Senses: examples: text: Stay tuned for the postgame show.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Following a game, usually specifically a sporting match.
examples: text: postgame credits
topics: video-games
glosses: Occurring after the main storyline of the game.
Coordinate terms: pregame
postgame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpoʊstˌɡeɪm/
Forms: form: postgames
Etymology: From post- + game.
Senses: examples: text: The Sunday job of wraparounds and pregames and postgames and half-time shows is certainly the toughest job I've ever been around.
ref: 1987, Tony Verna, William T. Bode, Live TV, →ISBN, page 63:
topics: media
glosses: A postgame show.
topics: video-games
glosses: The gameplay that unlocks after completing the main storyline.
nonpareils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonpareil
abacost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.bə.kɒst/
ipa: /ˈæ.bə.kɑst/
Forms: form: abacosts
Etymology: From French. A contraction of à bas le costume (“down with the western suit”)
Senses: examples: text: Wearing a collarless jacket called the abacost that reflected the style of chairman Mao, Mobutu outlawed the traditional suits and business dress of the West.
ref: 2005, Jeanne M. Haskin, The tragic state of the Congo: from decolonization to dictatorship, Algora, page 44:
text: The abacost became Mobutu's personal trademark, […]
ref: 2006, Martin Meredith, Africa: from the hopes of freedom to the heart of despair, PublicAffairs, page 296:
text: [T]he new leader [Mobutu Sese Seko] embarked on a campaign of 'Africanisation', with […] suits giving way to the abacost (a Congolese version of the Mao jacket); […]
ref: 2007, Gemma Pitcher et al., Africa, 11th edition, Lonely Planet, page 562:
text: [A]ll western clothing was banned—to be replaced by one-piece tunic called an abacost.
ref: 2007, Michael Powell, 101 People You Won't Meet in Heaven, Globe Pequot, page 206:
glosses: A short- or long-sleeved button-up jacket, worn without a shirt, that was promoted in Zaire under the regime of Mobutu Sese Seko.
morningstar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morningstars
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of morning star.
blizzardous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blizzardous
form: most blizzardous
Etymology: From blizzard + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Marked by overly cold and snowy conditions; blizzardlike.
glosses: Unclear, hazy, difficult to view.
buddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəd.əl/
rhymes: -ʌdəl
Forms: form: buddles
Etymology: Compare German butteln (“to shake”).
Senses: glosses: An apparatus on which crushed ore is washed.
buddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəd.əl/
rhymes: -ʌdəl
Forms: form: buddles
form: buddling
form: buddled
form: buddled
Etymology: Compare German butteln (“to shake”).
Senses: glosses: To wash (ore) in a buddle.
Derived terms: buddler
seneschalship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seneschalships
Etymology: From seneschal + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The office of a seneschal.
glosses: The term of office of a seneschal.
Synonyms: seneschalty
Freudian slips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Freudian slip
for to
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Etymology: for + to, compare Scots for tae, Danish for at, Norwegian for å, Swedish för att.
Senses: examples: text: What went ye out for to see?
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 7:25:
text: Farewell! Farewell! / Farewell, my fairy fay! / Oh, I'm off to Louisiana / For to see my Susy Anna, / Singing, "Polly-wolly-doodle" all the day!
ref: c. 1843, “Polly-Wolly-Doodl[e]”, in Hoyt Parmelee et al., compilers, A Collection of Songs and Ballads as Sung by Alpha Kappa Phi and Germanæ Sodales Societies, of Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan, Hillsdale, Mich.: Leader Steam Print, published 1885, →OCLC, page 11:
text: “Mr. Woilde, we ‘ave come for tew take yew
Where felons and criminals dwell:
We must ask yew tew leave with us quoietly^([sic])
For this is the Cadogan Hotel.”
ref: 1937, John Betjeman, The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel:
text: All that I need for to be satisfied is a woman who's nothing like me
ref: 2004, Jackie Greene, “Honey I Been Thinking About You”, in Sweet Somewhere Bound:
qualifier: obsolete outside dialect or poetic use
glosses: Elaboration of to.
Expressing purpose: in order to.
examples: text: It does me good fur to look at you, Pip.
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter I, in Great Expectations […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 10:
text: In the desert you can remember your name, / 'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain
ref: 1971, Dewey Bunnell, “A Horse with No Name”, performed by America:
qualifier: obsolete outside dialect or poetic use
glosses: Elaboration of to.
As a general infinitive marker.
onomatopœia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: onomatopœias
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of onomatopoeia.
blivits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blivit
passes over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pass over
passed over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pass over
passing over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pass over
saggier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of saggy: more saggy
saggiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of saggy: most saggy
Abends
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Abend
forlorn hopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forlorn hope
fools' errands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fool's errand
anti-cure
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anti-cure
form: most anti-cure
form: anticure
Etymology: From anti- + cure.
Senses: examples: text: This is particularly true in the area of medical technology, where being anti-technology is equated with being anti-health and anti-cure.
ref: 1993, Janine Morgall Traulsen, Technology Assessment: A Feminist Perspective:
text: I think many of the anti-cure people focus too much on the semantics of the word "cure." How about "fix" instead?
ref: 1999, Gary Karp, Life on Wheels: For the Active Wheelchair User:
text: President Bush pitched his tent on the wrong ground when he set limits on embryo research — he sounded anti-science, anti-cure.
ref: 2007, David Frum, Comeback: Conservatism that Can Win Again:
glosses: Opposed to a cure, especially where the condition being cured may be regarded as an acceptable alternative state of being.
Related terms: antirecovery
other-worldly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more other-worldly
form: most other-worldly
Senses: examples: text: He had not seen cricket played since the war began; it seemed almost other-worldly, with the click of the bats, and the shrill young voices, under the distant drone of that sky-hornet threshing along to Hendon.
ref: 1919 October, John Galsworthy, chapter VII, in Saint’s Progress, London: William Heinemann, published December 1919, →OCLC, part III, 1 §, page 285:
text: [Leo] Tolstoy was not a saint, but he tried very hard to make himself into a saint, and the standards he applied to literature were other-worldly ones.
ref: 1947 March, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool”, in Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays, London: Secker and Warburg, published 1950, →OCLC, page 50:
text: In Just My Type: A Book about Fonts (2010) Simon Garfield describes [Edward] Johnston as 'a gaunt fine-boned man with a full moustache', and there's a picture of him at work with a quill pen that makes him look as other-worldly as a medieval sprite.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, “Everywhere in Trains”, in Underground Overground: A Passenger’s History of the Tube, paperback edition, London: Profile Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 160:
glosses: Alternative form of otherworldly.
optometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɑpˈtɑmətəɹ/
Forms: form: optometers
Etymology: From opto- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for measuring the focus of the lens of the eye.
Related terms: optometrist
nonprogrammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonprogrammers
form: non-programmer
Etymology: From non- + programmer.
Senses: examples: text: To nonprogrammers and nonoperators the most important thing about computers is that they are making us think again about the nature of problem solving.
ref: 1968, David G. Crowdis, Brandon W. Wheeler, Introduction to Mathematical Ideas, page 113:
text: […] the value of time-sharing and easy access to computing power for the nonprogrammer.
ref: 1982, Annals of the History of Computing:
text: In the recent past it was cheaper to hire programmers than to buy computers powerful enough to allow nonprogrammer programming.
ref: 1988, Paul Harmon, Rex Maus, William Morrissey, Expert Systems: Tools and Applications:
text: We have seen, in the earlier chapters, various ways in which human-computer interaction can be broadened to include the nonprogrammer.
ref: 1992, Derek Partridge, Khateeb M Hussain, Artificial Intelligence and Business Management:
glosses: A person who is not a computer programmer.
nonprogrammers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonprogrammer
non-programmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-programmers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonprogrammer.
non-programmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-programmer
faggier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of faggy: more faggy
faggiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of faggy: most faggy
eggier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of eggy: more eggy
eggiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of eggy: most eggy
claggier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of claggy: more claggy
claggiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of claggy: most claggy
poppiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of poppy: most poppy
lippier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of lippy: more lippy
lippiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of lippy: most lippy
unhappier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of unhappy: more unhappy
unhappiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of unhappy: most unhappy
knaggier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of knaggy: more knaggy
knaggiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of knaggy: most knaggy
clubbier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of clubby: more clubby
clubbiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of clubby: most clubby
cobwebbier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of cobwebby: more cobwebby
cobwebbiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of cobwebby: most cobwebby
nutmeggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nutmeggy
form: most nutmeggy
Etymology: From nutmeg + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The liver was enlarged, flabby, and nutmeggy. The edge of the right lobe was thick and rounded off.
ref: 1873, John A Lidell, A Treatise on Apoplexy: Cerebral Hemorrhage, Cerebral Embolism, Cerebral Gout, Cerebral Rheumatism, and Epidemic Cerebrospinal Meningitis:
glosses: Resembling a nutmeg seed in taste or appearance.
examples: text: Sometimes that's the best we can manage, but to others we want to feel not like a postmodern, post-feminist, overstretched modern woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous wake.
ref: 2004, Lesley Johnson, Justine Lloyd, Sentenced to Everyday Life: Feminism and the Housewife:
glosses: Flavoured with nutmeg
nobbier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of nobby: more nobby
nobbiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of nobby: most nobby
inclus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inclus
Senses: glosses: An inclusionist
foulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaʊəl.nəs/
ipa: /ˈfaʊl̩.nəs/
Forms: form: foulnesses
Etymology: From Middle English foulnesse, foulnes, from Old English fūlnes (“foulness”), equivalent to foul + -ness. Compare Dutch vuilnis (“rubbish; garbage; trash”).
Senses: glosses: The state of being foul.
shoppy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: shoppier
form: shoppiest
Etymology: From shop + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I don't like shoppy people. I think we are far better off, knowing only cottagers and labourers, and people without pretence.
ref: 1855, Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South:
text: When golfers get together their talk is more unutterably shoppy than even that of hunters, cricketers, or racing men.
ref: 1890, Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon and Cant:
text: A novel of clerical life written by a clergyman is apt to be what is vulgarly called shoppy, to dwell upon details which may interest other clergymen […]
ref: 1900, Macmillan's Magazine:
text: Standish had a mind that "seldom wandered from the shop and things shoppy," […]
ref: 1987, Carol Groneman, Mary Beth Norton, "To Toil the Livelong Day": America's Women at Work, 1780-1980:
glosses: Inclined to talk shop; full of jargon.
examples: text: For instance, he had three eggs for breakfast; two his landlady had supplied, good, but shoppy, and one was a delicious fresh goose-egg, laid, cooked, and served by his extraordinary will.
ref: 1898, H G Wells, The Man Who Could Work Miracles:
glosses: Of the kind or quality expected from a shop.
examples: text: Big omnibuses, with horses three abreast, came leisurely along, crowded outside and in exclusively with males, all on business bent. Right before me was Market-street—a grimy shoppy street […]
ref: 1872, Belgravia, volume 18, page 193:
glosses: Abounding with shops.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from the noun shop
word: shoppy shop
shoppier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of shoppy: more shoppy
shoppiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of shoppy: most shoppy
misfeature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪsˈfiː.tjə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˌmɪsˈfiː.t͡ʃɚ/
Forms: form: misfeatures
Etymology: From mis- + feature.
Senses: examples: text: He hath his Winter too of pale Misfeature, / Or else he would forego his mortal nature.
ref: 1818, John Keats, The Human Seasons:
text: This may not appear to be a critical misfeature, and in fact I have on occasion come to rely upon this unintentional archive of data to recover the data[…]
ref: 2003, John Ray, Maximum Mac OS X Security:
text: Most recent research on modern open source codebases indicate that array covariance is extremely rarely used and is almost certainly a language misfeature.
ref: 2014, Benjamin J. Evans, David Flanagan, Java in a Nutshell, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 149:
glosses: An undesirable or incorrect feature.
misfeatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misfeature
metanarrative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metanarratives
form: meta-narrative
Etymology: From meta- (“transcending; of a level above”) + narrative (“recitation of a story”).
Senses: examples: text: The narratives are important in themselves as significant pieces of the metanarrative of suspicion in which activist politics have been embedded since the McCarthy era (with roots much earlier).
ref: 2004, Sandra Baringer, The Metanarrative of Suspicion in Late Twentieth-Century America, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 18:
text: Even the richest metanarratives of finitude cannot ultimately explain themselves, for they have no way to synoptically do so: a larger metanarrative, one rooted in the metaphysical, is required.
ref: 2009, William E. Marsh, Nothingness, Metanarrative, and Possibility, AuthorHouse, page 199:
text: That is not to say that Snakewalk departs from the metanarrative of blindness completely, or even substantially, but rather that it contains much detail that is evidently informed by experiential knowledge.
ref: 2014, David Bolt, The Metanarrative of Blindness: A Re-reading of Twentieth-Century Anglophone Writing, University of Michigan Press, page 130:
glosses: A narrative which concerns narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge and offers legitimation of such through the anticipated completion of some master idea; a grand story that is self-legitimizing.
Synonyms: sense: narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge
word: grand narrative
Related terms: metafiction
metanarratives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metanarrative
bitch fights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bitch fight
naffest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: “Otherwise keep in close touch,” concluded Andy, “and we’ll play some more soon!!!!” it was signed “A, HRH The Duke of York, KG.” Surely the world’s naffest email signature, even counting the “Founder/Futurist/Father” crowd on LinkedIn.
ref: 2025 October 17, Marina Hyde, “Punish Prince Andrew? This is no meritocracy, I’m afraid – you get the royal family you didn’t vote for”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: superlative form of naff: most naff
naffer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of naff: more naff
cockmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cockmaster
crackwhores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crackwhore
chats shit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chat shit
chatting shit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chat shit
chatted shit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chat shit
chicken-shits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chicken-shit
megalomanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more megalomanic
form: most megalomanic
Etymology: From megalomania + -ic.
Senses: synonyms: megalomaniac
megalomaniacal
glosses: Afflicted by megalomania.
cabrones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cabron
ball-breakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ball-breaker
dumb-asses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dumb-ass
shop-soiled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shop-soiled
form: most shop-soiled
Senses: examples: text: All Tuesday week afternoon she was hunting to match that chenille but at last she found what she wanted at Clery's summer sales, the very it, slightly shopsoiled but you would never notice
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: The only book of poetry in the whole lot was a shop-soiled copy of The Poems of George Herbert in the World Classics series.
ref: 1977, Paul Hasluck, Mucking About: An Autobiography:
text: The most usual examples of this are the sales of second-hand or shop-soiled goods where the vendor clearly states their condition and sells them "as seen".
ref: 2004, Richard Christou, Drafting Commercial Agreements:
glosses: Soiled from display in a shop; shopworn.
shaggy dog stories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shaggy-dog stories
Senses: glosses: plural of shaggy dog story.
skankiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of skanky: most skanky
pissing contests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pissing contest
jerks off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jerk off
jerked off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jerk off
tape safe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tape safes
Senses: examples: text: The first step in providing protection is the placement of a tape safe within the data center tape library.
ref: 1974, Barbara N Weaver, Wiley L Bishop, The Corporate Memory:
text: Ten days elapsed before the demolition crew found the tape safe ... They had, however, saved all the forty tapes in the tape safe.
ref: 1983, Adrian R D Norman, Computer Insecurity:
glosses: A safe for the storage of backups on computer tape.
tape safes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tape safe
data warehouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of data warehouse
data center
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: data centers
Senses: examples: text: U.S. GDP growth in the first half of 2025 was almost entirely driven by investment in data centers and information processing technology, according to Harvard economist Jason Furman.
ref: 2025 October 7, Nick Lichtenberg, “Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says”, in Fortune:
glosses: Alternative spelling of data centre.
data centers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of data center
data centre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: data centres
form: datacentre
form: data center
form: datacenter
Senses: examples: text: In its 2013 sustainability report, Facebook stated its data centers used 986 million kilowatt-hours of electricity—around the same amount consumed by Burkina Faso in 2012.
ref: 2015 December 16, Ingrid Burrington, “The Environmental Toll of a Netflix Binge”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: A facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems.
data centres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of data centre
exode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exodes
Etymology: From Latin exodium, from Ancient Greek ἐξόδιον (exódion).
Senses: examples: text: a. 1751, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, an essay
constant or standing miracles before the exode , at the exode , in the wilderness , in the promised land , under their judges , and under their kings
text: Moreover, the continuation of the Mosaic Dispensation from the Exode, 1586, to the burning of the second temple, A.D. 70 = 1656, is exactly the period before the Flood.
ref: 1868, Lyman Coleman, An Historical Text Book and Atlas of Biblical Geography, page 45:
glosses: departure; exodus, especially the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt
topics: broadcasting
drama
dramaturgy
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: The final chorus; the catastrophe.
glosses: A comic afterpiece, either a farce or a travesty.
unbulleted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + bulleted.
Senses: examples: text: How do I create an unbulleted list in this wordprocessor?
glosses: Not marked with a typographical bullet or bullets.
glosses: blank
raw_tags: of ammunition
Leftpondians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Leftpondian
Rightpondians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rightpondian
scatologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scatology
meritless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈmɛɹɪtlɪs/
Etymology: From merit + -less.
Senses: examples: text: But reformers counter that, the Garcia case aside, judges often are reluctant to exercise their power to throw out meritless lawsuits. In fact, many judges prefer to give people their day in court - and then are hesitant to alter or wipe out a jury decision.
ref: 1999 June 16, Warren Richey, “Billion-dollar verdicts revive fairness debate”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
text: In listening especially carefully to well-known people, or to people at well-known schools, followers are generally behaving rationally, because such people are unusually likely to be interesting or correct, simply as a statistical matter. But there are no guarantees here, and hence arguments can be amplified even if they are meritless.
ref: 2001 March 9, Cass R. Sunstein, “Academic Fads and Fashions (with Special Reference to Law)”, in Michigan Law Review, volume 99, number 6, →SSRN, page 11:
text: The claim is meritless: The president retains the power to repatriate detainees to foreign countries, but Congress determines whether to fund prisoner transfers and who qualifies for entry into the U.S.
ref: 2014 October 15, “The Week”, in National Review:
glosses: Without merit.
Derived terms: meritlessly
meritlessness
meritlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From meritless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a meritless fashion.
rich text
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Text that has been enhanced with formatting, multimedia, etc., such as Microsoft's Rich Text Format or the enriched text format used in electronic mail.
breaking changes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breaking change
ninety-ninths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ninety-ninth
dark sleeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dark sleepers
Senses: examples: text: In these species the eggs are defended most strongly, and feeding territories have also been reported for some of them (the dark sleeper and the common freshwater goby).
ref: 1980, Jiro Kikkawa, Comparative Ecology, translation of original by Yoshiaki Ito, →ISBN, page 218:
glosses: Odontobutis obscura, a freshwater goby found in East Asia
Hypernyms: actinopterygian
perciform
goboid
odontobutid
sleeper
goby
fish
dark sleepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dark sleeper
suicide baiting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The suicide-baiting described by Mann is a relevant example. In certain circumstances, interacting with a group can lead to more extreme opinions […]
ref: 1985, Joseph P Forgas, Interpersonal Behaviour:
text: At other times the crowd below behaves more outrageously: The bystanders engage in "suicide baiting." They jeer and dare away at the wretch.
ref: 1994, Dean Keith Simonton, Greatness:
text: Another extreme example of diffusion of responsibility is suicide-baiting, when an individual in a group yells "jump" while observing a person on the ledge […]
ref: 2006, Micki Krause, Harold F Tipton, Information Security Management Handbook:
glosses: Malicious encouragement of suicide.
Related terms: suibait
trade dress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trade dresses
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: labeling
topics: law
synonyms: branding
hypernyms: dress#Noun
glosses: Those characteristics of the visual appearance of a product or its packaging that may be registered and protected from use by competitors: trademarks, wordmarks, liveries, and so on.
cordotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cordotomy
chordotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chordotomy
corner-stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corner-stones
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cornerstone.
corner-stones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corner-stone
corn-fed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more corn-fed
form: most corn-fed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cornfed.
keyclick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keyclicks
Etymology: From key + click.
Senses: examples: text: The keyclick option is helpful to experienced typists who don't need to look at the keyboard.
ref: 1984, Byte:
text: The c option sets the volume of the keyboard's keyclick.
ref: 1993, Valerie Quercia, Tim O'Reilly, X Window System User's Guide:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The sound produced by a keypress.
keyclicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keyclick
core dump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: core dumps
Etymology: From dumping the contents of the (now obsolete) core memory out to be read.
Senses: examples: text: Certain signals cause a process to create a core dump and terminate (Table 20-1, page 396). A core dump is a file containing a memory image of the process at the time it terminated. (The term core derives from an old memory technology.)
ref: 2010, Michael Kerrisk, The Linux Programming Interface, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 448:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The recorded state of the memory of a computer program at a specific time, generally when the program has terminated abnormally.
Synonyms: memory dump
Related terms: core memory
info-dump
core dumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of core dump
corkless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cork + -less.
Senses: examples: text: It did not see daylight again until it was unpacked, together with its comrades, in the cellar of a wine merchant; and then for the first time it was rinsed out — that was an odd sensation. It then lay empty and corkless, and felt strangely dull, as if it lacked something, though it didn't know what.
ref: 1858, Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck:
glosses: Lacking a cork.
strawcraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From straw + craft.
Senses: glosses: The making of things from straw.
corn dolly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corn dollies
Senses: examples: text: Many of these fetishes and objects of superstition are things which have ended in becoming children's playthings. Dolls of straw such as the "corn dollies" were to promote good harvests, dolls with a tooth atttached were to help with teething.
ref: 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 159:
synonyms: corn mother
corn doll
glosses: A traditional figure made from straw, associated with pre-industrial harvest customs of Europe.
corn dollies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corn dolly
knees-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knees-up
know-alls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of know-all
knuckle dusters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knuckle duster
knuckle-duster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knuckle-dusters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of knuckle duster.
knuckle-dusters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knuckle-duster
ghastlily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ghastlily
form: most ghastlily
Etymology: From ghastly + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: ghastly#Adverb
glosses: In a ghastly manner.
ghettoise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ghettoises
form: ghettoising
form: ghettoised
form: ghettoised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ghettoize.
ghettoises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ghettoise
ghettoising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ghettoise
ghettoised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ghettoise
underconfident
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From under- + confident.
Senses: examples: text: In some ways, all people are underconfident.
ref: 1949, Geraldine Saltberg, Our Teachers Mold Our Nation's Future, page 155:
glosses: Insufficiently confident; lacking confidence
gift-wraps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gift-wrap
gift-wrapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gift-wrap
gift-wrapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gift-wrappings
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gift-wrap.
synonyms: word: gift-wrap
gift-wrapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gift-wrap
underexplored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underexplored
form: most underexplored
Etymology: From under- + explored.
Senses: examples: text: This is an underexplored problem in ethics.
text: The deep ocean floor remains underexplored.
glosses: Not explored (either physically or intellectually) to the usual degree
Related terms: explore
unexplored
giganticide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giganticides
Etymology: From Latin gigāns, gigantis + -cide.
Senses: examples: text: As they scarce make a capital crime of infanticide, / There can't be any harm in a little giganticide.
ref: 1864, William Evans Burton, The Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor:
glosses: The killing of a giant.
examples: text: […] tore through the briers, and plunged through the punk of trees older than history, now rotting where they fell, slain by Time the Giganticide.
ref: 1863, Theodore Winthrop, Life in the Open Air:
text: […] the wonderful tales of the giganticide of old, of the German mythology, and our own rich nursery lore […]
ref: 1887, George Dawson, Georges St Clair, Biographical Lectures:
glosses: One who kills a giant.
Synonyms: sense: one who kills a giant
word: giant-killer
giganticides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giganticide
gigglish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gigglish
form: most gigglish
Etymology: From giggle + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Giggly.
gingerette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛt
Forms: form: gingerettes
Etymology: From ginger + -ette.
Senses: glosses: A cordial made with ginger.
Related terms: gingette
underexpressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underexpressed
form: most underexpressed
Etymology: From under- + expressed.
Senses: examples: text: These genes may be overexpressed and underexpressed with respect to the other genes and with respect to a particular condition.
ref: 2005, Francesca Ruffino et al., “Biological Specifications for a Synthetic Gene Expression Data Generation Model”, in Bloch et al., editors, Fuzzy Logic and Applications, →ISBN, page 281:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Not expressed to the usual or expected degree
Related terms: underexpression
gingerettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gingerette
Gladstone bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gladstone bags
Etymology: Named after British prime minister William E. Gladstone (1809–1898), a frequent traveller.
Senses: examples: text: Cronshaw sat in the place of honour on a Gladstone bag, with his legs curled under him like a Turkish bashaw […].
ref: 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 47, in Of Human Bondage:
text: André produced a gigantic Gladstone bag and from it extracted a meal forever memorable - a "pique-nique" as he called it.
ref: 1961 March, ""Balmore"", “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives”, in Trains Illustrated, page 147:
synonyms: Gladstone
glosses: An early hinged bag, a precursor of the modern briefcase.
Gladstone bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gladstone bag
glans penes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Misconstruction of Latin glandēs pēnium (literally “glanses of the penises”). The plural of glāns is glandēs, and the genitive plural of pēnis is pēnium.
Senses: glosses: Misconstruction of glandes penium.
unfoldase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unfoldases
Etymology: From unfold + -ase.
Senses: examples: text: Hsp70 is also known to have a protein unfoldase activity that is important for translocation of proteins across the membranes of organelles; […]
ref: 1993, Malcolm G. Parker, Steroid Hormone Action, →ISBN, page 71:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme that catalyzes protein unfolding
Related terms: foldase
glass ceilings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glass ceiling
unruptured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + ruptured.
Senses: examples: an unruptured aneurysm
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Not having ruptured yet
glass eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glass eyes
Senses: examples: text: You can play a lot of tricks with a glass eye because you can take it out and pop it back in again any time you like. You can bet your life Mrs. Twit knew all the tricks.
ref: 1980, Roald Dahl, The Twits, page 10:
glosses: An artificial eyeball, not necessarily made from glass, intended to replace a missing or removed eye.
Related terms: word: glassy-eyed
word: glazed
glass eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glass eye
unfoldases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unfoldase
glory-of-the-snow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A plant of species Scilla lucilliae, formerly Chionodoxa luciliae, one of the earliest to flower in the spring, native to Turkey, or its close relatives.
glosses: Any other plant of series Scilla ser. Chionodoxa (formerly genus Chionodoxa).
Derived terms: taxonomic: Scilla cretica
alt: syn. Chionodoxa cretica
word: Cretan glory-of-the-snow
taxonomic: Scilla nana
alt: syn. Chionodoxa nana
word: dwarf glory-of-the-snow
taxonomic: Scilla forbesii
alt: syn. Chionodoxa forbesii
word: Forbes' glory-of-the-snow
taxonomic: Scilla sardensis
alt: syn. Chionodoxa sardensis
word: lesser glory-of-the-snow
taxonomic: Scilla lochiae
alt: syn. Chionodoxa lochiae
word: Loch's glory-of-the-snow
taxonomic: Scilla luciliae
alt: syn. Chionodoxa luciliae
word: Lucile's glory-of-the-snow
taxonomic: Scilla forbesii
alt: syn. Chionodoxa siehei
word: Siehe's glory-of-the-snow
glove boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glove box
glove compartments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glove compartment
glow plugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glow plug
diesel engines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diesel engine
gnatcatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gnatcatchers
Etymology: From gnat + catcher.
Senses: glosses: A member of any of various species of small passerine birds in the family Polioptilidae found in North America and South America, close relatives of the wrens.
gnatcatchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gnatcatcher
gnosticise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gnosticises
form: gnosticising
form: gnosticised
form: gnosticised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gnosticize.
gnosticises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gnosticise
gnosticising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gnosticise
gnosticised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gnosticise
gnotobiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌnəʊtəbaɪˈɒtɪk/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γνωτός (gnōtós, “known”) + -biotic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to gnotobiotics.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: axenic
monocultured
monocultural
;
monoaxenic
glosses: Known with good certainty to be free of contaminating species, and thus offering such qualities as immunological naivete.
raw_tags: of organisms or of specimens containing them
Derived terms: gnotobiotically
Related terms: abiotic
antibiotic
gnotobiont
gnotobiota
gnotobiote
xenobiotic
xenofree
gobbier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of gobby: more gobby
gobbiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of gobby: most gobby
goddess-ships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goddess-ship
goddesshood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From goddess + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state of being a goddess; goddess-ship.
golden parachute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golden parachutes
Senses: topics: business
management
glosses: An agreement between a company and an employee, usually an executive, specifying that the employee will receive certain significant benefits if employment is terminated.
Related terms: golden hello
golden handcuffs
golden handshake
golden parachutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of golden parachute
golf courses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of golf course
gongoozles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gongoozle
gongoozling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gongoozle
gongoozled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gongoozle
goniometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goniometries
Etymology: From gonio- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: measurement of angles
Derived terms: electrogoniometry
radiogoniometry
rheogoniometry
Related terms: goniometric
goniometries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goniometry
maderize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: maderizes
form: maderizing
form: maderized
form: maderized
Etymology: From French madériser, from Madeira, as the wines are oxidized.
Senses: topics: beverages
food
lifestyle
oenology
wine
synonyms: sherrify
glosses: To oxidize.
Related terms: maderization
goody-goodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goody-goody
goose eggs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goose egg
gooseneck barnacles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gooseneck barnacle
goose-stepping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of goose-step
goose-stepped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of goose-step
gopher balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gopher ball
corporate anorexia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Weakness or inefficiency of a commercial organisation resulting from layoffs, resource cuts, etc.
corruptress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corruptresses
Etymology: From corruptor + -ess.
Senses: glosses: a female corrupter
corruptresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corruptress
corruscate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: corruscates
form: corruscating
form: corruscated
form: corruscated
Senses: glosses: Dated form of coruscate.
corruscates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of corruscate
corruscating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of corruscate
corruscated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of corruscate
corsetless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From corset + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a corset.
Derived terms: corsetlessness
small d democrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: small d democrats
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of small-d democrat.
jet skis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jet ski
small "d" democrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: small "d" democrats
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of small-d democrat.
jet setters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jet setter
jet-setters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jet-setter
small "d" democrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of small "d" democrat (alternative spelling of small-d democrats).
anti-clockwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + clock + -wise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of anticlockwise.
anti-clockwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From anti- + clock + -wise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of anticlockwise.
anticyclonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more anticyclonically
form: most anticyclonically
Etymology: From anticyclonic + -ally.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: In an anticyclonic fashion.
small d democrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of small d democrat (alternative spelling of small-d democrats).
antideuteron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antideuterons
Etymology: From anti- + deuteron.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The antiparticle of the nucleus of deuterium, consisting of an antiproton and an antineutron.
antideuterons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antideuteron
anythingarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anythingarian + -ism.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Beliefs and practices of an anythingarian.
small-r republican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: small-r republicans
form: small "r" republican
form: small r republican
Senses: coordinate_terms: small-d democrat
glosses: A republican, that is, a person who favors a republic, who may or may not be a member of their country's "Republican Party".
flavourdynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of flavordynamics.
small-r republicans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of small-r republican
meshugge
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈʃʊ.ɡə/
rhymes: -ʊɡə
Forms: form: more meshugge
form: most meshugge
form: meshuga
form: mishuga
form: meshugah
form: meshugga
form: meshuggah
Etymology: From Yiddish משוגע (meshuge, “crazy”), from Hebrew מְשׁוּגָּע (m'shugá, “crazy”), a form of שׁוּגַּע (shugá, “be driven mad”) and שִׁיגַּע (shigá, “drive mad”). First came into use in English around 1880.
Senses: examples: text: That meshugge boy changed lanes on the highway without even looking!
glosses: crazy, mad, senseless, insane
Related terms: word: mishegoss
word: mashugana
word: meshuga
word: meshugaas
word: meshugas
word: meshuggeneh
word: meshuggener