cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Erlen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Weinfelden district, Thurgau canton, Switzerland.
Skyros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskiːɹɒs/
ipa: /ˈskiɹɑs/
Forms: form: Skiros
Senses: glosses: An island of Greece, in the Sporades administered by Euboea or Evia.
glosses: A village in Greece in the Sporades administered by Euboea or Evia.
Derived terms: Skyriot
nucleosyntheses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nucleosynthesis
Skiros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Skyros.
unsurpassedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unsurpassedly
form: most unsurpassedly
Etymology: From unsurpassed + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner that is unsurpassed.
Volvi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Greek Βόλβη (Vólvi).
Senses: glosses: A lake east of Thessaloniki in Greece.
nightshirted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nightshirt + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Dressed in a nightshirt.
nonraw
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + raw.
Senses: examples: nonraw oysters
glosses: Not raw.
nonsoviet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + soviet.
Senses: glosses: Not soviet.
mindstate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mindstates
Etymology: From mind + state.
Senses: glosses: A state of mind.
mindstates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mindstate
noncompound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + compound.
Senses: glosses: Not compound.
noncompound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noncompounds
Etymology: From non- + compound.
Senses: glosses: That which is not a compound.
noncompounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noncompound
slenderly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more slenderly
form: most slenderly
Etymology: From slender + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The columns slenderly rose to support a heavy platform and statue.
glosses: Thinly, slightly, delicately.
examples: text: It is no wonder that in an age when this kind of merit is so little in fashion, and so slenderly provided for, persons possessed of it should very eagerly flock to a place where they were sure of being received with great complaisance […]
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
glosses: meagrely; deficiently
nonfermented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + fermented.
Senses: glosses: Not fermented.
strikingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From striking + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being striking.
noninflecting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + inflecting.
Senses: examples: a noninflecting language
glosses: That does not inflect.
pusillanimousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pusillanimous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: pusillanimity
intragluteal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + gluteal.
Senses: examples: an intragluteal injection
glosses: Into the buttocks.
Derived terms: intragluteally
intragluteally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intragluteal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an intragluteal manner.
ranch dressing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ranch dressings
Senses: glosses: A condiment made of buttermilk or sour cream, mayonnaise, minced green onion, garlic powder, and other seasonings mixed into a sauce.
mammy market
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mammy markets
form: mammi market
form: Mammy market
Senses: examples: text: South African partners successfully executed and turned the former Mammy Market at the Ikeja Military cantonment to an international ultra-modern market.
ref: 2009 November 2, Akeem Oguntayo, “Edo Plans Ultramodern Market”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Daily Champion, retrieved 22 Nov 2009:
text: ... you are not expected to look for petroleum products at Mammy market instead of NNPC or else, if you do that, you stand the risk of falling prey to fraudsters.
ref: 2009 June 11, Nwabueze Okonkwo, “To do business in Nigeria, act like wounded lion –Agbalizu, Igab Industrial boss”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Onitsha, Nigeria: The Sun, retrieved 22 Nov 2009:
text: that dwarf: your mother with defeated nipples / she used to placate the lulls / with kolanuts at the 'mammy-market' / now it is tabasco for you
ref: 2005 May 27, Maik Nwosu, “Ballad Of The Peace-Keeper - Poems by Maik Nwosu”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Africanwriter.com, archived from the original on 16 Nov 2009:
glosses: A market attached to a barracks, selling goods to soldiers.
raw_tags: in Nigeria
vegetatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From vegetative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The Jubulaceae have a leaf whose lobule, usually transformed into a water-sac, is normally very narrowly attached to the stem and to the dorsal lobe; indeed some Frullania taxa reproduce vegetatively by dropping the dorsal lobes, but not the lobules, and Neohattoria has caducous lobules but persistent lobes.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 4:
glosses: In a vegetative manner; without sexual reproduction.
examples: text: Vegetatively it is the nearest to H. translucens with its oblong-lanceolate leaves, with the margins and keel beset with pellucid teeth, but it differs and is characterised by the greyish-black quadrantly positioned globose flowers; […]
ref: 1985, Charles L. Scott, The Genus Haworthia (Liliaceae): A Taxonomic Revision, page 80:
glosses: In terms of vegetation.
fauxtographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fauxtograph
incoherency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incoherencies
Etymology: From in- + coherency or incoherent + -cy.
Senses: examples: text: […] Haste and Sickness made me rather venture on your good Nature, for the Pardon of a venial Fault, than put myself to the trouble of altering the Order of these Papers, and substituting new Transitions and Connections, in the room of those, with which I formerly made up the Chasms and Incoherency of the Tract, you now receive.
ref: 1686 (indicated as 168⁵⁄₆), R[obert] B[oyle], “The Conclusion”, in A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Receiv’d Notion of Nature; […], London: […] H. Clark, for John Taylor […], →OCLC, page 409:
text: Pardon, madam, the haste and incoherency of scrawls penned at so trying a moment.
ref: 1785, Sophia Lee, The Recess, volume III, London: T. Cadell, part VI, page 260:
text: "It can make no change. You do not understand my position," returned the doctor, with a certain incoherency of manner.
ref: 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: The quality of being incoherent; lack of coherence.
examples: text: But that vvhich vvould beſt of all juſtifie me, and the ſeeming incoherencies of ſome parts of my Diſcourse, vvould be the noble Authors Piece it ſelf, becauſe of the Antitheſis, and the forms of his Applications.
ref: 1667, J[ohn] Evelyn, “To the Reader”, in Publick Employment and an Active Life, with Its Appanages, such as Fame, Command, Riches, Conversation, &c. Preferred to Solitude: […], London: […] J. M. for H[enry] Herringman […], →OCLC:
text: For besides the unavoidable incoherencies, which must be reconciled and adjusted; one may safely affirm, that all popular theology, especially the scholastic, has a kind of appetite for absurdity and contradiction.
ref: 1757, David Hume, “The Natural History of Religion,” section 11, in Four Dissertations, London: A. Millar, page 70
text: […] he took into his large moist palm the dry little hand of his friend, while they both broke out into the incoherencies of people meeting after a long time.
ref: 1887, William Dean Howells, chapter 1, in April Hopes, New York: Harper, page 3:
glosses: A thing which is incoherent.
Synonyms: incoherence
brachia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪkiə
Senses: glosses: plural of brachium
user agents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of user agent
charge nurses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charge nurse
palinodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palinode
jough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Manx jough (literally “drink, potion”).
Senses: glosses: A traditional herbal beer from the Isle of Man.
absynthes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absynthe
anona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anonas
Senses: examples: text: Other fruits are several species of the anona (Annona diversifolia Safford, Annona reticulata Linnaeus)
ref: 1920, Sylvanus Griswold Morley, The Inscriptions at Copan, page 3:
text: Apparently from xol op, or rotten anona (Annona cherimola)
ref: 1989, Grant D. Jones, Maya Resistance to Spanish Rule: Time and History on a Colonial Frontier:
text: Important trees providing the peasants with fruits include anona (Annona diversifolia)
ref: 2008, Petra Maass, The Cultural Context of Biodiversity Conservation:
glosses: custard apple (Annona)
Synonyms: sense: custard apple
word: annona
Carnival
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: See carnival.
Senses: glosses: The season just before the beginning of the Western Christian season of Lent.
Carnival
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Carnivals
Etymology: See carnival.
Senses: examples: text: To the statement above we may, of course, add that a far greater number have never had the “luck” of seeing a Continental Fair;— the Carnivals of Italy, of France,—a Russian Fair,—or the Carnivals and Jahrmarkts of Germany.
ref: 1873 April, R. H. Horne, The Great Fairs and Markets of Europe, John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell (editors), The Eclectic Magazine, New Series Volume 17: January—June 1873, page 436
glosses: Alternative form of carnival; especially in the sense "any of a number of festivals held just before the beginning of Lent."
Related terms: Mardi Gras
mardi gras
backdoored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of backdoor
backdooring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backdoor
redirectable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From redirect + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The redirectable output was sent to a printer instead of the screen.
glosses: Capable of being redirected.
quipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quippers
Etymology: From quip + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who quips; a jester.
quippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quipper
quippingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more quippingly
form: most quippingly
Etymology: From quipping + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a quipping manner; jokingly, jestingly.
quippy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈkwɪpi/
Forms: form: quippier
form: quippiest
Etymology: From quip + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I usually flinch at the quippy philosophies espoused on car bumper stickers...
ref: 2003, Dorcas S Miller, More Backcountry Cooking: Moveable Feasts from the Experts:
text: One of them told us in a quippy comment: “we are not architects”.
ref: 2008, Pierre Dillenbourg, Times of convergence: technologies across learning contexts:
text: Dyer’s trademark wit and uniqueness, in fact, surround you before you’ve even turned to the first page: the first half of his title, “Jeff in Venice,” at once offers a quippy come-on and announces he’s going to subvert and update the classic novella by Thomas Mann (putting the self, or anti-self, in place of death)[…]
ref: 2009 April 19, Pico Iyer, “Rough Guide to Transformation”, in New York Times:
glosses: Joky; inclined to or characterised by quipping.
squirmingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more squirmingly
form: most squirmingly
Etymology: From squirming + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With squirming motions.
earn a living
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: earns a living
form: earning a living
form: earned a living
form: earned a living
form: earnt a living
form: earnt a living
Senses: examples: text: We could never understand why any man should choose the career of a chainsmith, except, possibly, for the reason that it ran in the family, for a more arduous and unpleasant manner of earning one's living could scarcely be imagined, unless it was the business of moulding permanent-way chairs in an iron foundry.
ref: 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, pages 13–14:
glosses: Alternative form of make a living.
Related terms: earn one's living
enquiringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more enquiringly
form: most enquiringly
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of inquiringly.
noncognates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noncognate
opposite sex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the opposite sex
Senses: glosses: Women in relation to men or men in relation to women.
examples: text: The divorce rate for opposite sex marriages is increasing.
text: He doesn't believe opposite sex friendships are possible.
glosses: Heterosexual, or otherwise relating to a relationship between a woman and a man.
Derived terms: OSA
Bolshevist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒlʃəvɪst/
Forms: form: Bolshevists
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian большевист (bolʹševist).
Senses: glosses: A Bolshevik.
Derived terms: anarcho-Bolshevist
proboscidate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈbɒsɪdeɪt/
ipa: /pɹəˈbɒsɪdət/
Forms: form: more proboscidate
form: most proboscidate
Etymology: From Latin proboscis (proboscid- in compounds) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The visitor [...] returned several times to the pictures of little Armande in her bath, pressing a proboscidate rubber toy to her shiny stomach or standing up, dimple-bottomed, to be lathered.
ref: 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, pages 40–1:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having, or shaped like, a proboscis.
impuberal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpjuːbəɹəl/
Forms: form: more impuberal
form: most impuberal
Etymology: From the stem of Latin impubes, from im- + pubes (“mature age, puberty”).
Senses: examples: text: Another revelation of impuberal softness [...] was afforded by a photo of her in which she sat in the buff on the grass, combing her sun-shot hair and spreading wide, in false perspective, the lovely legs of a giantess.
ref: 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, page 41:
glosses: Immature; not having come to puberty.
caitiffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caitiff
undownable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈdaʊn.ə.bəl/
Etymology: From un- + downable.
Senses: examples: text: If ever there was an example of sheer pluck and undownable determination it is right here[…]
ref: 1923, Interstate Cotton Seed Crushers' Association, Official Monthly Bulletin:
text: There is the undownable legend that[…]
ref: 1930, Charles J. V. Murphy, Parachute:
text: […]the truth which came home with such undownable conviction[…]
ref: 1998, Frank N. Riale, Sinless, Sickless, Deathless Life:
glosses: Undeniably important; which cannot be played down or ignored.
examples: text: The SR-71 is claimed to be undownable by virtue of its altitude and speed.
ref: 1998, Andrew Pavacic, “Why are our ASMs smaller than theirs?”, in sci.military.naval (Usenet):
text: […]this paranoic attempt to discredit the credible, and down the undownable.
ref: 1998, Edmond Wollmann, “A Challenge to Lazzwaldo AKA anonym or whatever it is”, in sci.skeptic (Usenet):
text: I did not go as far as that either. I only went as far as stating that an American warplane is almost undownable and an American warship is unsinkable.
ref: 1999, kinara, “Taiwan is NOT able to defeat any invasion”, in soc.culture.china (Usenet):
glosses: Invincible; which cannot be brought down or overcome.
plays down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of play down
played down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of play down
playing down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of play down
rolly polly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rolly pollys
form: rolly pollies
Senses: examples: text: This is one of the games prohibited by Edward IV.; and received its denomination from being played with one half of a sphere of wood. Half-bowl is practised to this day in Hertfordshire, where it is commonly called rolly-polly; and it is best performed upon the floor of a room, especially if it be smooth and level. There are fifteen small pins of a conical form required for this pastime; […] the bowl, when delivered, must pass above the pins, and round the end-pin, without the circle, before it beats any of them down; if not, the cast is forfeited: […]
ref: 1841, Joseph Strutt, William Hone, chapter VII, in The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England. […], new edition, London: […] Thomas Tegg, […], →OCLC, book III (Pastimes usually Exercised in Towns and Cities, or Places Adjoining to Them), section XII (Half-bowl), page 274:
text: [Romy Tinkle] What is that thing, Quincy?! / [Quincy Tinkle] Um … It's a giant Rolly Polly (Pill Bug). It's been living entirely on my body-building protein powder, apparently!!
ref: 2002 May 26, J[effrey] J. Rowland, Wigu Adventures (webcomic), archived from the original on 13 Dec 2009:
glosses: Alternative spelling of roly-poly.
forward rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forward roll
backwards roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backwards rolls
Senses: topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A movement in which one's body is rolled backwards, by crouching on the ground and lifting one's legs complete over one's head and lifting the head at the end.
Related terms: forward roll
backwards rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backwards roll
forwards roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forwards rolls
Senses: topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Alternative form of forward roll.
forwards rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forwards roll
multiarea
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + area.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one area.
multiwarehouse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + warehouse.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one warehouse.
rodshaped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rodshaped
form: most rodshaped
Etymology: From rod + shaped.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rod-shaped.
X out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Xes out
form: Xs out
form: Xing out
form: Xed out
form: Xed out
Senses: examples: text: On a close to final copy the title The Way We Die Now has Now Xed out and replaced with Today. Then Today is Xed out and Now is returned to its place.
ref: 1997, Don Herron, Willeford, page 415:
glosses: To cross out with a series of the letter X, or with scribbles or lines.
examples: text: When you have selected your desired settings, X out of the window and return to the document.
text: “There Are Giants in the Sky!” blasted from my computer, causing me to jump in my seat. I began fake coughing and scrambling to x out of the window just as Ms. Stark peeked up from her wire nest.
ref: 2016, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Kate Wetherhead, Jack and Louisa - Act 1, page 108:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To close a window (typically by clicking a button marked with an X symbol).
Related terms: X-outing
shippon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪpən/
Forms: form: shippons
form: shippen
Etymology: From Middle English shipne, shepne, schüpene, from Old English sċypen, from Proto-Germanic *skupinī, from Proto-Germanic *skup- (whence shop). Cognate with German Schuppen (“shed”), and Bavarian Schupfn, Schupfa.
Senses: examples: text: He almost reached the timberline – but there the weather changed, a damp fog enveloped him, and he spent a couple of hours shivering all alone in a smelly shippon, waiting for the whirling mists to uncover the sun once more.
ref: 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, page 51:
glosses: A cattleshed.
Xes out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of X out
Xing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of X out
Xed out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of X out
inquiets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inquiet
adipous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From adipose + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Copland Hutchison remarks*, that the cellular texture connecting the adipous membrane, to the fascia or muscles, suppurates and sloughs more readily than the adipous substance itself.
ref: 1828, W. Lawrence, “Observations on the Nature and Treatment of Erysipelas”, in Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, 14 (2): 15:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to adipose, the fatty tissue.
chocolate-box
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chocolate-box
form: most chocolate-box
form: chocolate box
form: chocolate-boxy
form: chocolate boxy
Etymology: From the artwork seen on boxes of chocolates.
Senses: examples: text: He painted a chocolate-box picture for the Salon, entered it, was admitted.
ref: 1961, Lawrence Hanson, Elisabeth M Lawrence, Impressionism: golden decade:
text: The impressionists showed us something about the world, Cezanne something different, a chocolate-box painting nothing.
ref: 1982, Sterling M McMurrin, The Tanner lectures on human values:
text: I find it difficult to pick a personal favourite from the two, but Wylam wins on the chocolate-box front, framed by an in-keeping (also Grade 2) footbridge just down the line from it, [...].
ref: 2021 October 20, Dr Joseph Brennan, “A key part of our diverse railway heritage”, in RAIL, number 942, page 56:
glosses: Having a twee picturesqueness.
loungy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: loungier
form: loungiest
form: loungey
Etymology: From lounge + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The huge space is like an auditorium, with multilevel loungy seating areas looking down onto one of Singapore's best soundstages and dance floors.
ref: 2005, Jennifer Eveland, Frommer's Singapore & Malaysia:
text: Loungy, worn furniture, retro art and chilled music make this a popular hangout with students and a young crowd.
ref: 2007, Sarah Johnstone, Europe on a shoestring:
glosses: characteristic of a lounge; informally comfortable
examples: text: In its lean arrangements, her band conjured both traditions and possibilities: the tambourine and strummed cavaquinho (miniature guitar) of samba for “Na Gangorra,” a loungey acid-jazz pulse and hints of reggae for “Vento No Canavial,” African-tinged funk in the Vinicius de Moraes-Baden Powell song “Consolaçã” and in the French songwriter Camille Dalmais’s “1, 2, 3.”
ref: 2009 March 16, Jon Pareles, “Brazilian Pop: Sambas With a Twist”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of lounge music.
antimarket
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antimarket
form: most antimarket
Etymology: From anti- + market.
Senses: examples: text: They assume that peasants are antimarket, prefer common property to private, and dislike buying and selling.
ref: 1979, Samuel L. Popkin, The rational peasant: the political economy of rural society in Vietnam:
text: We now wish to explore some of the antimarket tendencies in the Talmud.
ref: 2003, Roman A. Ohrenstein, Economic analysis in Talmudic literature:
qualifier: economy
glosses: Opposed to the free market.
Kaur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Seussian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Seussian
form: most Seussian
Etymology: From Seuss + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Part of the costumed-criminal set, it was his Seussian top hat that marked him more than anyone else.
ref: 2000, Greg Rucka, Batman: No Man's Land:
text: The yuccas give the refuge an otherworldly, Seussian air, as though the Lorax might hop out at any moment.
ref: 2006, Scott Weidensaul, Return to Wild America: A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul:
text: First, Seussian Sim characters are obviously abstracted.
ref: 2009, Clark Aldrich, The Complete Guide to Simulations & Serious Games:
synonyms: Seussical
glosses: Of or relating to Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel, 1904–1991), American writer and cartoonist best known for his imaginative children's books, often written in rhyme.
eightlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eightlike
form: most eightlike
Etymology: From eight + -like.
Senses: examples: text: ...with the contemporaneously developing notion about the eightlike shape of the crumpled wheel and the figure eight more generally.
ref: 1965, August Aichhorn, Otto Fleischmann, Paul Kramer, Helen Ross, Delinquency and child guidance: selected papers:
text: For example, some scholars thought that an eightlike figure on the robe of the Virgin signified that the image was the eighth wonder of the world.
ref: 2006, Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Nature, empire, and nation:
glosses: Shaped like a figure eight.
Synonyms: octiform
loungiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of loungy: most loungy
loungier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of loungy: more loungy
New Romantic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: New Romantics
Etymology: * Rhymes: -æntɪk
Senses: examples: text: As a band influenced by the European electronic underground, and not the popular New Romantics like Duran Duran, Moev was out of step with both the corporate rock that dominated the Canadian music industry and Vancouver's thriving punk scene.
ref: 2011, Michael Barclay, Ian A. D. Jack, Jason Schneider, Have Not Been the Same: The CanRock Renaissance 1985-1995:
text: But by the early 1980s the energy had largely drained from the punk movement, giving way to the synthesizers, eyeliner and bouffants of so-called New Romantic bands like Duran Duran and Adam and the Ants.
ref: 2023 November 30, Matt Phillips, “Shane MacGowan, Songwriter Who Fused Punk and Irish Rebellion, Is Dead at 65”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A person involved in the New Romanticism movement.
New Romanticism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Neither punk nor new romanticism were strictly urban affairs. The woodwork squeaked and out came the freaks from all corners of the country.
ref: 2011 October 2, Boy George, “When we were heroes”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A youth fashion movement that peaked in the United Kingdom during the early 1980s, associated with synthpop music and flamboyant and sometimes androgynous attire.
Related terms: New Romantic
neoromanticism
search wand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: search wands
Senses: glosses: A hand-held security device for detecting metal objects, or transmitters, etc. carried by a person.
search wands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of search wand
electrochemiluminescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more electrochemiluminescent
form: most electrochemiluminescent
Etymology: From electro- + chemiluminescent.
Senses: glosses: exhibiting electrochemiluminescence
banana-shaped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more banana-shaped
form: most banana-shaped
Senses: glosses: Having a shape like that of a banana.
hourglass-shaped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hourglass-shaped
form: most hourglass-shaped
Senses: glosses: Having a shape or cross-section like that of an hourglass.
Related terms: hourglass figure
trackmounted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of track-mounted.
trafficability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traffickability
Etymology: From traffic + -ability.
Senses: glosses: A vehicle's ability to traverse a specified terrain.
glosses: A terrain's ability to support the movement of vehicles.
Related terms: trafficable
nonandrogynous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + androgynous.
Senses: glosses: Not androgynous.
noncanned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + canned.
Senses: examples: noncanned food
glosses: Not canned.
nonfaithful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-faithful
Etymology: From non- + faithful.
Senses: glosses: Not faithful.
Synonyms: unfaithful
hundred-year storm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hundred-year storms
form: one-hundred-year storm
Senses: glosses: A storm of such force that it occurs only once every one hundred years approximately.
hundred-year storms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hundred-year storm
one-hundred-year storm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one-hundred-year storms
form: hundred-year storm
Senses: glosses: A storm of such force that it occurs only once every one hundred years approximately.
one-hundred-year storms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of one-hundred-year storm
med mal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Clipping of medical malpractice.
Senses: glosses: Malpractice by a medical practitioner.
medmal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of med mal.
ricefish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ricefishes
form: ricefish
Etymology: From rice + fish.
Senses: glosses: Any of the family Adrianichthyidae of about 27 species of small ray-finned fish, many of which are found in Japanese rice paddies.
glosses: A freshwater fish of the southeastern United States, Chologaster cornuta
ricefishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ricefish
caitive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪtɪv/
Forms: form: caitives
Senses: examples: text: What hard mishap him brought to such distresse,
And made that caitives thrall, the thrall of wretchedness
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: When whelmed in their wicked worke those cursed Caitives lay
 The Earth their mother tooke their bloud yet warme and (as they say)
 Did give it life.
ref: 1567, Ovid, “(please specify the book number or chapter)”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC:
glosses: A captive.
Related terms: caitiff
obesogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obesogens
Etymology: * Back-formation from obesogenic.
Senses: examples: text: An 'obesogenic' environment / An environment containing stimuli that encourage obesity can be dubbed an 'obesogenic' environment. Obesity is communicated from parents to children through many potential Obesogens'^([sic]) - from the choices available at breakfast, the transport to school, the contents of the lunchbox, the weekend activities, the rules on eating sweets or the presence of TV sets in the bedroom.
ref: 2004 January 1, Tim Lobstein, “Child obesity: public health meets the global economy”, in Consumer Policy Review:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A chemical or other factor that disturbs the body's normal processes, causing it to tend toward obesity.
Related terms: obesogenic
obesogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obesogen
Alberta clipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Alberta clippers
Etymology: From Alberta + clipper.
From originating in the Rocky Mountains, around the province of Alberta, and being fast moving (moving at a clip; such as clipper ships moving faster than regular merchantmen).
Senses: glosses: A snowstorm that travels quickly eastward from the Canadian Rockies.
Synonyms: Canadian clipper
clipper system
Coordinate terms: english: a similar storm system that travels across the United States
translation: a similar storm system that travels across the United States
word: Colorado low
Derived terms: Colorado clipper
Alberta clippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Alberta clipper
nonarterial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + arterial.
Senses: glosses: Not arterial.
nonaerial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + aerial.
Senses: glosses: Not aerial.
nonscaly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + scaly.
Senses: examples: nonscaly fish
glosses: Not scaly.
nonconfirmed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + confirmed.
Senses: glosses: unconfirmed
nontwins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nontwin
noncomposited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + composited.
Senses: glosses: Not composited.
nondecomposed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + decomposed.
Senses: glosses: undecomposed
nurserymaid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nurserymaids
form: nursery maid
form: nursery-maid
Etymology: From nursery + maid.
Senses: glosses: nursemaid
nurserymaids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nurserymaid
nonabusive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + abusive.
Senses: examples: text: a nonabusive spouse
glosses: Not abusive.
Derived terms: nonabusively
nonvehicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + vehicular.
Senses: glosses: Not vehicular.
nonbaptismal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + baptismal.
Senses: glosses: Not baptismal.
nonvisiting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + visiting.
Senses: examples: a nonvisiting parent
glosses: Not engaging in visits.
examples: nonvisiting hours
glosses: Not of or pertaining to visiting.
preponement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From prepone + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of preponing; rescheduling for an earlier time.
nonofficiating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + officiating.
Senses: glosses: Not officiating.
nonefficient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪʃənt
Etymology: From non- + efficient.
Senses: glosses: Not efficient.
doughiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From doughy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being doughy.
nonergonomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + ergonomic.
Senses: examples: text: The wife had been a librarian, and the kitchen was a curated archive of faintly antiquated but classic equipment: oblong Pyrex bakers, a spindly, nonergonomic can opener, an electric hand mixer with all its parts laid out in a pullout drawer, against the shelving paper.
ref: 2009 August 5, Jhumpa Lahiri, “Note to Myself: Take the Kitchen”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not ergonomic.
nonangular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + angular.
Senses: glosses: Not angular.
nonangled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + angled.
Senses: glosses: Not angled.
angleless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From angle + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without angles.
nonreferenced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + referenced.
Senses: glosses: Not referenced.
nonsubstantial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + substantial.
Senses: glosses: Not substantial; without substance.
sense strand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sense strands
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A strand of (two-stranded) DNA which is transcribed into mRNA.
Synonyms: coding strand
sense strands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sense strand
nonbulbous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + bulbous.
Senses: glosses: Not bulbous.
nonepidemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmɪk
Etymology: From non- + epidemic.
Senses: glosses: Not epidemic.
nonepidermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + epidermal.
Senses: glosses: Not epidermal.
gsoh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of GSOH.
hairband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hairbands
Etymology: From hair + band.
Senses: glosses: a headband
glosses: a hair tie
brasier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brasiers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of brazier.
brasiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brasier
tradent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tradents
Etymology: From Latin trādō.
Senses: glosses: A person who is responsible for preserving and handing down traditions, especially oral traditions, generally used in the context of the Bible and rabbinic Jewish traditions.
chambré
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɒmbɹeɪ/
Etymology: From French chambré. Doublet of camerate.
Senses: glosses: Of wine: brought to room temperature for the room in which it is to be served.
anticellulite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + cellulite.
Senses: topics: dermatology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Countering cellulite.
Asiaphiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Asiaphile
multibooting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multi- + booting.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The use of a multiboot configuration.
AFIS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Aerodrome Flight Information Service.
glosses: Acronym of Automated Fingerprint Identification System, more specifically, the U.S. Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System.
glosses: Acronym of Automatic Flight Information Service.
AFIS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Airborne Flight Information System, an avionics system proprietary to Honeywell Aerospace.
glosses: Acronym of American Forces Information Service.
fenestron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fenestrons
Etymology: Borrowed from French fenestron (“small window”), ultimately from Latin fenestra (“window”).
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protected tail rotor of a helicopter, operating like a ducted fan.
Qom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ghom
form: Qum
form: Q'um
Etymology: Borrowed from Iranian Persian قم (qom), from Classical Persian قم (qum).
Senses: glosses: A city in Iran, the seat of Qom County's Central District and the capital of Qom Province, a shrine city and center of Shi'ite seminarian learning.
glosses: A county of Iran, around the city.
glosses: A province of Iran.
Qom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Toba (“a people of Argentina”).
synonyms: word: Toba
extra: a people of Argentina
Ghom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Qom.
Q'um
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Qom.
postcoding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of postcode
drag races
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drag race
drag races
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of drag race
drag racer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drag racers
Senses: glosses: Someone who participates in a drag race.
glosses: A vehicle used in a drag race.
drag racers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drag racer
a watched pot never boils
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: a watched pot never boils over
Senses: synonyms: a watched kettle never boils
watched toast never burns
glosses: A process appears to proceed more slowly if one waits for it rather than engaging in other activities.
Related terms: time flies when you're having fun
unexpired cost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unexpired costs
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: The unused part of the economic benefit of an expenditure that remains as an asset for future use
antidata
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antidata
form: most antidata
Etymology: From anti- + data.
Senses: examples: text: “The playbook presents an antiscience, antidata, and antimedicine agenda,” according to a piece last year by Boston University researchers in JAMA.
ref: 2025 February 21, Stephanie Armour, “Trump’s team is using Project 2025 as a blueprint to make changes to federal health programs”, in CNN:
glosses: Opposing data or data collection.
RIMA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of reversible inhibitor of monoamine oxidase type A.
hanafuda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɑːnəˈfuːdə/
rhymes: -uːdə
Forms: form: hanafuda
Etymology: From Japanese 花(はな)札(ふだ) (hanafuda), a compound of 花 (hana, “flower”) + 札 (fuda, “card”).
Senses: examples: text: A pack of "Hana-fuda" consists of 48 cards, there being 12 different denominations or figures, and each such denomination or figure being represented by 4 cards of different face values; the figures on such 4 cards of the same denomination being the same, but having certain marks upon them to indicate the difference in their respective face values.
ref: 1892, Rossetsu Uchiyama, The Game of "Hana-awase": Japanese Cards, page 1:
text: Couldn't we play with hanafuda cards instead? I asked. I had a decent amount of experience with oichokabu or koi koi thanks to playing with my mom's family in the countryside.
ref: 2013, Nagaru Tanigawa, translated by Paul Tuttle Starr, The Surprise of Haruhi Suzumiya, volume 2, Yen Press, →ISBN:
text: Briefly, Sin described the Hanafuda playing cards and how he had adapted them to his own ends.
ref: 2015, Anthony Horowitz, chapter 19, in Trigger Mortis: A James Bond Novel, Orion, →ISBN:
text: On a different occasion, he was playing hanafuda in a mountain hut with several Japanese.
ref: 2016, Ch'en Huo-ch'üan, translated by Lili Selden, Special Issue on Imperial Subject Literature in Taiwan, US-Taiwan Literature Foundation, →ISBN, The Path, page 64:
text: “What’s hanafuda?” Sam asked.
“Plastic cards. Quite small and thick, with flowers and scenes of nature,” Watanabe-san said.
ref: 2022, Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Vintage (2024), →ISBN, page 74:
topics: card-games
games
glosses: Small, rigid Japanese playing cards with colorful drawings of flowers and animals, a single deck consisting of 48 cards divided in 12 suits that each represent a month.
Synonyms: word: hwatu
raw_tags: for Korean-style cards
nons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non
furuncular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /f(j)ʊˈɹʌŋkjʊlə/
Forms: form: more furuncular
form: most furuncular
Etymology: From furuncle + -ar.
Senses: examples: text: He remembered the inspector's pipe studded with Bohemian gems (in harmony with its owner's furuncular nose) and also the habit Armande had of exchanging ribald comments in Swiss-German with the old fellow while he was examining the rubbish under a cracked seat.
ref: 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, page 88:
glosses: Pertaining to furuncles or boils.
tralatitiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹaləˈtɪʃəsli/
Forms: form: more tralatitiously
form: most tralatitiously
Etymology: From tralatitious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Direct interference in a person's life does not enter our scope of activity, nor, on the other, tralatitiously speaking, hand, is his destiny a series of predeterminate links [...].
ref: 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, page 92:
glosses: In a tralatitious manner; metaphorically.
dogman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒɡmən/
ipa: /-mæn/
ipa: /ˈdɔɡmən/
ipa: /ˈdɑɡ-/
ipa: /-ˌmæn/
Forms: form: dogmen
Etymology: From dog (“part of a crane that holds the items to be lifted”) + -man (suffix denoting someone (possibly implied male) who is an expert in an area, who is employed or holds a position in an area, or who takes part in an activity), from the fact that such a person would often ride on the load lifted by the crane when carrying out their duty.
Senses: examples: text: Throughout 1970 there were repeated calls, particularly from Brian Hogan and Owens, for the banning of dogmen riding hooks, a demand firmly resisted by employers unwilling to hire the extra dogmen required. Accordingly, during 1972 the union embarked upon a concerted campaign to enforce the use of two dogmen on each crane.
ref: 1998, Meredith Burgmann, Verity Burgmann, “Civilising the Industry”, in Green Bans, Red Union: Environmental Activism and the New South Wales Builders Labourers’ Federation, Sydney, N.S.W.: University of New South Wales Press, published 2000, →ISBN, part 2 (A New Concept of Unionism), page 108:
text: The usual crane crew required for operation of the site was one crane driver and two dogmen, but the BLF insisted that the builder keep a relief crane driver and a relief dogman permanently on site.
ref: 2005, Henry Pollack, The Accidental Developer: The Fascinating Rise to the Top of Mirvac Founder Henry Pollack, Sydney, N.S.W.: ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, →ISBN, page 243:
text: The only work I had done as a dogman was to use a crane on the back of a truck ‘slinging loads’ and work the crane and truck myself.
ref: 2011, Raymond D. Clements, Aussie Rogue, Bangkok, Thailand: Bangkok Book House, published 2017, →ISBN, page 59:
synonyms: banksman
dogger
signalman
spotter
glosses: An assistant to a crane operator, responsible for securing the crane's load and directing the operator.
dogmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dogman
mirabelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mirabelle
nonmemorized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + memorized.
Senses: glosses: unmemorized
unmemorized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + memorized.
Senses: examples: an unmemorized performance
glosses: Not having been memorized.
Synonyms: nonmemorized
Pickett's Charge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pickett's Charges
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pickett's charge.