cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
eigenfingers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eigenfinger
eigenpalms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eigenpalm
eigenstresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eigenstress
pewdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pew + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: […] that the people who we say have been driven away, and kept away, from the church by pewdom, do go and build Dissenting meeting-houses. The supporters of these are not the very poor, nor the working classes, […]
ref: 1879, Authorised Report of the Church Congress, page 113:
text: […] and it was from the middle class that this system of pewdom took its rise.
ref: 1886, The Parliamentary Debates, page 939:
topics: Christianity
glosses: The system according to which certain people or certain social classes were allocated particular pews in the local church.
eigenvoices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eigenvoice
Einstein crosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Einstein cross
eizels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eizel
elasmobranchians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elasmobranchian
pharmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to pharmacy, especially as a subject of study.
pharmic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pharmics
Senses: glosses: A student studying pharmacy.
pharmics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pharmic
alcoholy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alcoholy
form: most alcoholy
form: alcoholly
Etymology: From alcohol + -y.
Senses: examples: text: This distilled dry gin is smooth and potent, without excess flavoring or alcoholy taste.
ref: 1936 June 18, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 88, number 287, St. Louis, Mo., page 5B:
text: But if you like a whisky that is full-bodied, mature, rich in character, and entirely free from what I call an “alcoholy” taste, you will prefer American bonded whisky, as do I.
ref: 1958, David A[ugustus] Embury, The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks, 3rd American edition, Garden City, N.Y.: Dolphin Books, published 1961, →ISBN, page 49:
text: It’s either more concentrated and will be more strong or will have an alcoholy smell that won’t last.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Harper’s Bazaar, numbers 3578–3580, page 90:
text: I opened my eyes to bright strip lights and that alcoholy smell which spells infirmary.
ref: 1995, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, page 241, column 1:
text: Like many summer cocktails, the alcohol here is almost indiscernible. According to [Rob] Winkler, that’s the point: “These drinks are so soothing and taste so good, but there isn’t that strong alcohol-y taste.”
ref: 1997 July 17, Diane Toroian, “The Chill Seekers”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, page 26:
text: “You smell like my father,” she said, waving her hand in front of her nose. Still, she smiled. / “What’s that supposed to mean?” / “The alcohol,” she answered. “That sweet alcoholy smell in the afternoon.[…]”
ref: 2010, Joseph Mackin, Pretend All Your Life, Sag Harbor, N.Y.: The Permanent Press, →ISBN, page 49:
text: At last he focuses on the dark face over his. A black woman, in the blue dim. A strange alcoholy smell about her.
ref: 2020, David Poyer, Violent Peace: The War with China — Aftermath of Armageddon, St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of alcohol.
emuwrens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emuwren
F. B. O.s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of F. B. O.
F.B.O.s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of F.B.O.
F50s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of F50
faceholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of facehole
phlogogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phlogogenous.
face flannels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of face flannel
phloridzine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phlorizin.
phlorizine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phlorizin.
phlorizinize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: phlorizinizes
form: phlorizinizing
form: phlorizinized
form: phlorizinized
Etymology: From phlorizin + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: For the study of glucose excretion fish were phlorizinized by injecting 300 to 400 mg. […]
ref: 1935, Journal of Cellular and Comparative Physiology, volume 5, page 304:
text: He concluded from the high D/N ratios and from the decreased nitrogen elimination on phlorizinizing that excreted sugar could not be derived entirely from protein , and that fat must therefore also be considered a source.
ref: 1951, Edward Herman Strisower, The Conversion in Vivo of Fat to Carbohydrate and Tracer Equations Characterizing Linked Metabolic Systems, page 1:
text: Homer Smith points out that 100 mg of phlorizin per kilo of body weight injected intravenously is insufficient to completely phlorizinize a man.
ref: 1964, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, page 3249:
glosses: To treat with phlorizin.
phlorizinizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of phlorizinize
phlorizinizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of phlorizinize
phlorizinized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of phlorizinize
phlorizinization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of phlorizinizing.
phocomelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to phocomelia.
phokomelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phocomelic.
phokomelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phocomelia.
phoneticization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phoneticizations
Senses: glosses: The process or result of phoneticizing.
phoneticizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phoneticization
phonetic names
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phonetic name
phongyi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phongyis
form: phongyi
form: phongee
form: phonghee
form: phonghi
form: phongi
form: phoongy
form: ponghee
form: poongee
Etymology: From Burmese ဘုန်းကြီး (bhun:kri:).
Senses: examples: text: The death of a Ponghee or president of a kyoung is regarded as a great event, and the funeral is conducted with pomp and ceremony. The body, being emboweled, and its juices pressed out, is filled with honey.
ref: 1839, Howard Malcom, Travels in South-Eastern Asia, embracing Hindustan, Malaya, Siam and China […] :
glosses: A Buddhist monk.
pie plates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pie plate
melofarce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melofarces
Etymology: Blend of melodrama + farce
Senses: glosses: A work or genre combining elements of melodrama and farce.
melofarces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melofarce
ranger panties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: silkies
glosses: Short shorts for men, made of a thin stretchable fabric, and with an inside lining to hold a key while jogging.
Bochnia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Polish Bochnia.
Senses: glosses: A town in Bochnia, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
glosses: A county of Lesser Poland Voivodeship.
Samtskhe-Saatabago
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Georgian სამცხე-საათაბაგო (samcxe-saatabago).
Senses: glosses: a Georgian feudal principality in Zemo Kartli (Upper Kartli).
Synonyms: Samtskhe Atabegate
Principality of Samtskhe
Coordinate terms: Kingdom of Georgia
Kingdom of Imereti
Kingdom of Kartli
Kingdom of Kakheti
Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti
Related terms: Javakheti
Meskheti
Samtskhe
Samtskhe-Javakheti
Tao-Klarjeti
Zemo Kartli
Samtskhe Atabegate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Georgian სამცხე-საათაბაგო (samcxe-saatabago).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Samtskhe-Saatabago.
Synonyms: Principality of Samtskhe
Zemo Kartli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Georgian ზემო ქართლი (zemo kartli), meaning Upper Kartli.
Senses: glosses: a historical region in southwestern Georgia, now divided between Georgia and Turkey
Synonyms: Upper Kartli
Upper Iberia
Related terms: Shida Kartli
Kvemo Kartli
Upper Kartli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Georgian ზემო ქართლი (zemo kartli)
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Zemo Kartli.
Synonyms: Zemo Kartli
Upper Iberia
Related terms: Inner Kartli
Lower Kartli
Upper Iberia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Zemo Kartli.
Synonyms: Zemo Kartli
Upper Kartli
Javakheti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Georgian ჯავახეთი (ǯavaxeti).
Senses: glosses: a mountainous area in southern Georgia, bordering Turkey and Armenia, part of the Samtskhe-Javakheti region.
Related terms: Samtskhe
Samtskhe-Javakheti
picker-upperers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picker-upperer
Trumpcuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Trumpcucks
Etymology: From Trump + cuck.
Senses: topics: government
politics
synonyms: Trumper
Trumpist
Trumpista
Trumpite
Trumpster
glosses: A supporter of U.S. president Donald Trump.
Tao-Klarjeti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Georgian ტაო-კლარჯეთი (ṭao-ḳlarǯeti).
Senses: glosses: a Georgian historical and cultural region in northeastern Turkey and partially southwestern Georgia.
Related terms: Javakheti
Kingdom of Tao-Klarjeti
Kingdom of the Iberians
Klarjeti
Meskheti
Samtskhe
Samtskhe-Javakheti
Samtskhe-Saatabago
Samtskhe Atabegate
Tao
Zemo Kartli
Upper Kartli
Klarjeti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Georgian კლარჯეთი (ḳlarǯeti)
Senses: glosses: a historical region of Georgia (country)
Related terms: Tao
Tao-Klarjeti
aeluro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ailuro-.
Principality of Samtskhe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Samtskhe-Saatabago.
synonyms: word: Samtskhe-Saatabago
Synonyms: Samtskhe Atabegate
Kingdom of Imereti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Kingdom of Imereti
Etymology: From Georgian იმერეთის სამეფო (imeretis samepo).
Senses: glosses: a Georgian monarchy established after dissolution of the Kingdom of Georgia.
Coordinate terms: Kingdom of Georgia
Samtskhe-Saatabago
Kingdom of Kartli
Kingdom of Kakheti
Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti
Related terms: Imereti
Principality of Guria
Principality of Svaneti
Principality of Mingrelia
Principality of Odishi
Principality of Abkhazia
Kingdom of Kartli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Kingdom of Kartli
Etymology: From Georgian ქართლის სამეფო (kartlis samepo).
Senses: glosses: a Georgian monarchy established after dissolution of the Kingdom of Georgia.
Coordinate terms: Kingdom of Kakheti
Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti
Samtskhe-Saatabago
Kingdom of Imereti
Kingdom of Georgia
Related terms: Kartli
Kartli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Georgian ქართლი (kartli).
Senses: glosses: a Georgian historical and cultural region that gives name to two regions of the modern day Georgia.
Related terms: Inner Kartli
Kingdom of Kartli
Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti
Kvemo Kartli
Lower Kartli
Shida Kartli
Upper Kartli
Zemo Kartli
Kingdom of Georgia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Kingdom of Georgia
Etymology: From Georgian საქართველოს სამეფო (sakartvelos samepo).
Senses: glosses: a Georgian medieval kingdom or empire existing in the years 1008–1490 and a successor state of the Kingdom of the Iberians (c. 888–1008).
Kingdom of Kakheti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Kingdom of Kakheti
Etymology: From Georgian კახეთის სამეფო (ḳaxetis samepo).
Senses: glosses: a Georgian monarchy established after dissolution of the Kingdom of Georgia.
Coordinate terms: Kingdom of Kartli
Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti
Samtskhe-Saatabago
Kingdom of Imereti
Kingdom of Georgia
Related terms: Kakheti
Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti
Etymology: From Georgian ქართლ-კახეთის სამეფო (kartl-ḳaxetis samepo).
Senses: glosses: an eastern Georgian monarchy established after the unification of the Kingdoms of Kartli and Kakheti.
Coordinate terms: Kingdom of Kartli
Kingdom of Kakheti
Kingdom of Imereti
Samtskhe-Saatabago
Kingdom of Georgia
Related terms: Kakheti
Kartli
Principality of Guria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Georgian გურიის სამთავრო (guriis samtavro).
Senses: glosses: a Georgian principality nominally or factually under the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Imereti.
Coordinate terms: Kingdom of Imereti
Principality of Svaneti
Principality of Mingrelia
Principality of Odishi
Principality of Abkhazia
Related terms: Guria
Principality of Svaneti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Georgian სვანეთის სამთავრო (svanetis samtavro).
Senses: glosses: a Georgian principality nominally or factually under the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Imereti.
Coordinate terms: Kingdom of Imereti
Principality of Guria
Principality of Mingrelia
Principality of Odishi
Principality of Abkhazia
Related terms: Svaneti
Principality of Mingrelia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Georgian სამეგრელოს სამთავრო (samegrelos samtavro).
Senses: glosses: a Georgian principality nominally or factually under the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Imereti.
Synonyms: Principality of Odishi
Coordinate terms: Kingdom of Imereti
Principality of Abkhazia
Principality of Svaneti
Principality of Guria
Related terms: Samegrelo
Mingrelia
Megrelia
Odishi
Egrisi
Principality of Abkhazia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Georgian აფხაზეთის სამთავრო (apxazetis samtavro).
Senses: glosses: a Georgian principality nominally or factually under the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Imereti.
Coordinate terms: Kingdom of Imereti
Principality of Svaneti
Principality of Guria
Principality of Mingrelia
Related terms: Abkhazia
Principality of Odishi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Principality of Mingrelia.
synonyms: word: Principality of Mingrelia
Related terms: Odishi
Mingrelia
Megrelia
Samegrelo
Boguchwała
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Boguchwała.
Senses: glosses: A town in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland.
steinie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steinies
Etymology: From stein + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A 330 ml bottle in which beer is packaged for sale.
steinies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steinie
outhype
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outhypes
form: outhyping
form: outhyped
form: outhyped
Etymology: From out- + hype.
Senses: glosses: To exceed in hype.
outhypes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outhype
outhyping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outhype
outhyped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outhype
Tom Thumbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tom Thumb
West Gippsland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A region of Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.
Related terms: East Gippsland
Rasanen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rasanens
Etymology: Borrowed from Finnish Rasanen or Räsänen.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Finnish.
Bromilow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bromilows
Etymology: Variant of Bromlow.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
butch up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: butches up
form: butching up
form: butched up
form: butched up
Senses: glosses: To become more butch (masculine).
examples: 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
If I had hormones to lower my voice & butch up my face with a few whiskers, I don't believe I would suffer the anxiety of passing.
glosses: To make more butch (masculine).
TSism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Another concern I had when previously considering TSism was that I felt I couldn't "live a lie," i.e., trying to hide my past as a female.
glosses: transsexualism
ride St. George
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rides St. George
form: riding St. George
form: rode St. George
form: ridden St. George
form: ride St George
form: ride Saint George
Etymology: See etymology at St. George.
Senses: synonyms: mount St. George
ride rantipole
glosses: To have sex in the St. George position (with the woman on top of the man).
riding St. George
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The St. George sex position.
riding St. George
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ride St. George
blitherer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blitherers
Senses: glosses: One who blithers
Lower Kartli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Georgian ქვემო ქართლი (kvemo kartli)
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kvemo Kartli.
Related terms: Inner Kartli
Upper Kartli
Inner Kartli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Georgian შიდა ქართლი (šida kartli)
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Shida Kartli.
Related terms: Lower Kartli
Upper Kartli
ungrandmotherly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungrandmotherly
form: most ungrandmotherly
Etymology: From un- + grandmotherly.
Senses: examples: text: Left without a mother in his infancy—perhaps that was what prevented him from achieving the highest fame as an author—his father placed him with a grandmother, who, in a singularly ungrandmotherly way, cheated him out of the appropriations for his education.
ref: 1870 June 14, “W. Gilmore Simms”, in The Galveston Daily News, number 238, Galveston, Tex., page [2], column 2:
text: Here, therefore, we have Mrs Wimbush, a comely widow, with a daughter somewhat prematurely developed, on the one hand, and with a mother persistently juvenile and evergreen, on the other: Mrs Wimbush and her daughter Carry living together in Whittington Lodge, Highgate; Mrs Marrables, the youthful and the ungrandmotherly, dwelling by herself at Taunton, and devoting her time to collecting subscriptions for different charitable objects, not forgetting her own rents.
ref: 1870 November 5, “Mrs Wimbush’s Revenge”, in William Chambers, Robert Chambers, editors, Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fourth series, volume VII, number 358, chapter II, page 709, column 2:
text: She stood with her back to the fireplace, looking very ungrandmotherly in her tailored slacks and silk sweater.
ref: 2007, Linda Lael Miller, The McKettrick Way, Silhouette Books, →ISBN, page 241:
text: She had never known her grandmother, on either side, and when she was little she was a bit resentful that Theresa was such a drastically ungrandmotherly type.
ref: 2017, E[mily] K[ate] Johnston, That Inevitable Victorian Thing, Dutton Books, →ISBN, page 35:
glosses: Not grandmotherly.
Eastern Georgia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Georgian აღმოსავლეთი საქართველო (aɣmosavleti sakartvelo).
Senses: glosses: A region, the eastern half of the country of Georgia, separated by the Likhi Range.
Related terms: Western Georgia
Georgia
Western Georgia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Georgian დასავლეთი საქართველო (dasavleti sakartvelo).
Senses: glosses: The western region of the country of Georgia, separated by the Likhi Range.
Related terms: Eastern Georgia
Georgia
ungrandfatherly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungrandfatherly
form: most ungrandfatherly
Etymology: From un- + grandfatherly.
Senses: examples: text: She took the little ones to the home of her husband’s father, and he, with somewhat ungrandfatherly promptitude, transplanted them to the infirmary.
ref: 1896 June 28, “[Yesterday’s Police Cases.] Bumbledom.”, in Reynolds’s Newspaper, number 2,394, London, page 8, column 2:
text: “A very good letter, isn’t it?” asked Sacheverel, as Burke handed it back to him. “Very. Rather ungrandfatherly, eh?” “Can you imagine any one being the conventional grandfather to Pam? I am hard put to it, very often, to be simply paternal.”
ref: 1905, Bettina [Riddle] von Hutten, chapter V, in Pam, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, page 121:
text: But when she took Roy’s return call (collect), she was shocked by the ungrandfatherly voice on the other end.
ref: 2011, Neil Lanctot, Campy: The Two Lives of Roy Campanella, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 417:
text: Anne watched as he put an arm around one of the bridesmaids and gave her a decidedly ungrandfatherly squeeze while attempting to look down her dress, then proceeded to hit on the mother of the groom.
ref: 2015, Sheila Roberts, A Wedding on Primrose Street, MIRA, →ISBN, page 181:
glosses: Not grandfatherly.
Blackness
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Dundee, City of Dundee council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO3830).
glosses: A small coastal village in Falkirk council area, Scotland; a nearby headland is named Black Ness (OS grid ref NT0580).
glosses: A hamlet in Westham parish, Wealden district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ6104).
glosses: A suburb of Crowborough, Wealden district, East Sussex (OS grid ref TQ5230).
megacharacter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megacharacters
Etymology: From mega- + character.
Senses: examples: text: The eighth column presents the capacity of one entire storage unit, in megabytes (or megacharacters); sometimes the unit is the same as the module, as in the case of the IBM 2311 disk pack, and sometimes it is an aggregate of modules, as in the case of the IBM 2314, or the RCA mass storage.
ref: 1969, David Lefkowitz, File Structures for Online Systems, New York, N.Y.; Washington, D.C., page 203:
text: 400 megabytes, probably has 200 to 300 megacharacters. At .003 megacharacters per page ( 3000 characters per page) this is 66,000 to 100,000 pages to print out before the end of the year, or 133 to 200 reams of paper to print by the end of the year.
ref: 1999 January 22, Material Fellow, “The Y2k Survival CD!”, in oc.forsale (Usenet):
text: There's raw speed and then there's raw speed. Do you want to display, say, a megacharacter/second?
ref: 2005 June 8, Andrew Dalke, “Fast text display?”, in comp.lang.python (Usenet):
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: One million characters of text.
examples: text: At the instigation of Edward and Loel Schoonover, I finally managed to produce another major T&T solitaire in 1982. It is called Agent Of Death, and it has a couple of important firsts in it. It is the first real adventure designed especially for megacharacters (if you're not a megacharacter for part 3 of the adventure, forget it!).
ref: 1984 March/April, Ken St. Andre, “From Khazan to Melnibone... and Back Again”, in Different Worlds, number 33, page 26:
text: M&M, although my overall favorite RPG series, has a tendency to get absolutely ludicrous by the end (piloting megacharacters in an otherwise sword and sorcery game into spaceships and underground Lord Xeen factories).
ref: 1998 April 20, George, “Fallout is not that good.”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg (Usenet):
text: Happily joining, I soon found myself flying off and breaking all the level restrictions I had to to^([sic]) labor through for weeks, due to the strengths of a megacharacter who is leading this power leveling expedition.
ref: 1999 February 5, Fandral, “Level 50 guy question...”, in alt.games.everquest (Usenet):
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: A character who has reached a high level and become extremely powerful.
megacharacters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megacharacter
unsmall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsmall
form: most unsmall
Etymology: From un- + small.
Senses: examples: text: Bill parked at a drive-in beside a big Buick. Its lone occupant, an unsmall woman, looked over and down at the sardined Simea, and grinned broadly.
ref: 1959 September 21, “Stories of the Week”, in Air Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration News, volume 88, number 3, Detroit, M.I.: Business News Publishing Co., page 1:
text: Jeremy Kagan, twenty-six, is proud owner of a Harvard degree (Phi Beta Kappa), a beard (brown and bushy), and an unsmall ego (amply justified).
ref: 1973 January 30, Scott Kaufer, “A Mini-Versailles for Film Makers”, in World, volume 2, number 3, New York, N.Y.: World Magazine, Inc., page 87, column 2:
text: Another option is to save receipts and obtain a refund at the airport, although the commission charged is unsmall.
ref: 1993, Jonathan Taylor, editor, Let's Go: The Budget Guide to London, 1993, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 198:
text: The voltage may be only a few hundred mV, but a thermocouple can deliver lots of current. Your preconceived notion that unsmall voltage is required to drive electromagnetic devices is wrong. In fact, solenoid coils can be configured for a wide range of voltages by changing the wire guage and turns count.
ref: 2000 March 21, Larry Brasfield, “Magnified Sunlight”, in alt.energy.homepower (Usenet):
text: Procol Harum, who never got their royalties for 'A Whiter Shade Of Pale' — they were swizzed out of an unsmall fortune — might be forgiven for wanting to cash in on the pop memory boom.
ref: 2012, Henry Scott-Irvine, Procol Harum: The Ghosts of a Whiter Shade of Pale, London […]: Omnibus Press, →ISBN, page 205:
glosses: Not small; large.
Inchgarvie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Inch Garvie
Senses: examples: text: As we descended the long wooden stairway that leads from the central tower to the Island of Inchgarvie, the straight and simple outlines of the internal viaduct stood out in sharp contrast to the long sweep of the massive tubular arms of the cantilevers, and the complicated network of the lattice cross girders.
ref: 1950 March, H. A. Vallance, “On Foot Across the Forth Bridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 150:
glosses: A small island in the Firth of Forth, within Edinburgh council area, Scotland. One pier for the Forth Bridge is built on it (OS grid ref NT1379).
sand asp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sand asps
Senses: examples: text: a ruin’d well, / Where the shy sand-asps bask and swell
ref: 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Love’s Apparition and Evanishment”, in The Poetical Words of S. T. Coleridge, London: William Pickering, page 132:
text: the Saint began / Upon his flute to breathe his magic tune, / Such as the serpent-charmers use to charm / The sand-asps forth,
ref: 1876, Walter Thornbury, “The Legend of St. Vitus”, in Historical and Legendary Ballads and Songs, London: Chatto and Windus, page 44:
text: For several days they roll around in style, and then the inevitable snafu strikes like a sand asp: it turns out the new Humvees are registered on the books of one of the other 425th teams, and even though the other guys aren’t using them they want them back:
ref: 2005, Rob Schultheis, chapter 14, in Waging Peace: A Special Operations Team’s Battle to Rebuild Iraq, New York: Gotham Books, page 167:
glosses: The horned viper or sand viper (Vipera ammodytes).
slam back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slams back
form: slamming back
form: slammed back
form: slammed back
Senses: examples: text: No matter how many times we've woken up hungover, or how many times we've mumbled I will never do that again to ourselves and each other, John and I tend to slam back drinks until we can't see straight the next time we go out.
ref: 2014 December 23, Tammara Webber, Between the Lines: The Complete Series, Tammara Webber, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of throw back (“drink quickly”).
slams back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of slam back
slamming back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slam back
elixir proprietatis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A particular cure-all believed to exist by various authors throughout the Middle Ages and early modern era, described with varying alchemistic formulas.
slammed back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slam back
Meiteilogy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Meitei + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The study of the history, culture, and language of the Meiteis.
Synonyms: Meeteilogy
Meitei studies
Manipur studies
Manipurology
Related terms: Meeteilogist
Manipurologist
Meeteilogy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Meiteilogy.
Meitei studies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Meiteilogy.
Manipurology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Manipur + -o- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The study of the history, culture, and language of the Manipur.
Synonyms: Meiteilogy
Meitei studies
Manipur studies
Related terms: Meeteilogist
Manipurologist
Manipur studies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Manipur + studies.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Manipurology.
synonyms: word: Manipurology
Meeteilogist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Meeteilogists
Etymology: From Meeteilogy + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Birachandra is a Meeteilogist and a researcher in the ancient history.
ref: 1988, Naorem Sanajaoba, Manipur, Past and Present: The Heritage and Ordeals of a Civilization, Volume 4, Mittal Publications, page 35:
text: Some Meeteilogists try to divide our religion into two, namely Sanamahi and Pakhangpa Laining Leechat. […]
ref: 2011 November 25, Puyam Nongdrei Khuman, Reclaiming the Meetei Scriptural Knowledge for a Harmonious World:
text: S. Manikchand Singh is an Indian Manipuri Meeteilogist writer, scholar and cultural activist.
ref: 2021 September 14, S. Manikchand Singh:
synonyms: Manipurologist
glosses: A person who is skilled in or professes or practises Meiteilogy.
Manipurologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Manipurologists
Etymology: From Manipurology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Meeteilogist.
synonyms: word: Meeteilogist
Manipurologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Manipurologist
Meeteilogists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Meeteilogist
elastographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elastograph
eldercides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eldercide
election campaigns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of election campaign
elective affinities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elective affinity
electrocompressions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrocompression
electrocortigrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrocortigram
electrodecanters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrodecanter
electrodecrements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrodecrement
electrodensities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrodensity
electroejaculators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electroejaculator
electroeluates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electroeluate
electroeluates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of electroeluate
electroeluters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electroeluter
electroenzymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electroenzyme
electrogustometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrogustometer
electrolaryngograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrolaryngogram
electromotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electromote
Electromotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Electromote
electroneuromyographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electroneuromyograph
electronizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electronization
electrophenotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrophenotype
electropaints
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of electropaint
electropaints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electropaint
electronographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electronograph
electrophoregrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrophoregram
electropolymerisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electropolymerisation
electrospinners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrospinner
elementary substances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elementary substance
elementisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elementism
elexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elex
elfbeins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elfbein
eloteras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elotera
elseworlds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elseworld
elutrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elutration
elvins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elvin
emayles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emayle
embryofetopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embryofetopathy
Emesans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Emesan
Emisenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Emisene
employment histories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of employment history
Tombi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯇꯣꯝꯕꯤ (tombi). Transliteration of Manipuri ꯇꯣꯝꯕꯤ (tombi); this name is of Meitei ethnic origin.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Meitei; A transliteration of the Manipuri female given name ꯇꯣꯝꯕꯤ (tombi).
Related terms: Tomba
Chaoba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯆꯥꯎꯕ (cāʼuba). Transliteration of Manipuri ꯆꯥꯎꯕ (cāʼuba); this name is of Meitei ethnic origin.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Meitei; A transliteration of the Manipuri male given name ꯆꯥꯎꯕ (cāʼuba).
Related terms: Chaobi
Chaobi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯆꯥꯎꯕꯤ (cāʼubi). Transliteration of Manipuri ꯆꯥꯎꯕꯤ (cāʼubi); this name is of Meitei ethnic origin.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Meitei; A transliteration of the Manipuri female given name ꯆꯥꯎꯕꯤ (cāʼubi).
Related terms: Chaoba
Thoiba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯊꯣꯏꯕ (thoʼiba). Transliteration of Manipuri ꯊꯣꯏꯕ (thoʼiba); this name is of Meitei ethnic origin.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Meitei; A transliteration of the Manipuri male given name ꯊꯣꯏꯕ (thoʼiba).
Related terms: Thoibi
Thoibi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯊꯣꯏꯕꯤ (thoʼibi). Transliteration of Manipuri ꯊꯣꯏꯕꯤ (thoʼibi); this name is of Meitei ethnic origin.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Meitei; A transliteration of the Manipuri female given name ꯊꯣꯏꯕꯤ (thoʼibi).
glosses: A princess of Moirang kingdom; daughter of Crown Prince Chingkhu Akhuba, the younger brother of King Chingkhu Telheiba (1083-1138 CE). She was the heroine and the female protagonist of the Khamba-Thoibi epic.
Related terms: Thoiba
Panthoibi
Khamba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Meitei; A transliteration of the Manipuri male given name ꯈꯝꯕ (khamba).
glosses: A descendant of Khuman royal family and a lover of princess Thoibi of Moirang kingdom.
childhood memories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of childhood memory
ashvattha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ashvatthas
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit अश्वत्थ (aśvattha).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sacred fig.
synonyms: word: sacred fig
sand cookie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sand cookies
Etymology: Perhaps a calque of French sablé (“shortbread”) from sable (“sand”), because of the texture of the crumbs; cf. also Norwegian sandkake.
Senses: examples: text: 1945, Adrian Wilson, letter dated 31 March, 1945, in Joyce Lancaster Wilson (ed.), Two Against the Tide: A Conscientious Objector in World War II: Selected Letters, Austin, TX: W. Thomas Taylor, p. 132,
Some of the wives poured and served up civilized cookies such as I haven’t had for months. ([Your] sand cookies are out of this world, therefore excluded.)
text: her breath sugary from fingerfuls of molasses or sand-cookie crumbs
ref: 1987, Toni Morrison, Beloved, New York: Knopf, page 121:
glosses: Name given to various types of shortbread.
synonyms: sand dollar
glosses: Any echinoderm of the order Clypeasteroida.
examples: text: A boy and a girl were playing in a large sandbox near my window. The little girl, who was singing, was very busy making sand cookies.
ref: 1959, Frances R. Horwich, chapter 11, in The Magic of Bringing Up Your Child, New York: McGraw-Hill, page 250:
text: Make sand cookies at the beach. All you need is a set of plastic cookie cutters and presses. These can provide hours of amusement at the beach for toddlers […]
ref: 2000, Barbara Rowley, chapter 6, in Baby Days, New York: Hyperion, page 197:
glosses: A mass of sand shaped to resemble a cookie by a child playing, similar to a mud pie.
pissoffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pissoff
waybeam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waybeams
Etymology: From way + beam.
Senses: examples: text: Oak waybeams, 28 ft. long × 14 in. wide × 9½ in. deep, resting in the troughs, support the track, which is laid with flat-bottom bridge rails, 56 ft. long, and weighing 126 lb. per yd.
ref: 1950 March, H. A. Vallance, “On Foot Across the Forth Bridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 149:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A longitudinal timber supporting railway track, especially on a bridge.
wet gas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Natural gas containing sizable amounts of liquid alkanes such as ethane, propane, and butane.
waybeams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waybeam.
throw blanket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throw blankets
Senses: glosses: A blanket smaller than an adult bed blanket, usually placed on a sofa or chair.
tide range
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tide ranges
Senses: examples: text: The tide range is 18 ft., and at high water there is a clear headway of 150 ft. for a distance of 500 ft.
ref: 1950 March, H. A. Vallance, “On foot Across the Forth Bridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 149:
glosses: Synonym of tidal range.
synonyms: word: tidal range
tide ranges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tide range
underworldling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underworldlings
Etymology: From underworld + -ling.
Senses: glosses: A member of an underworld.
mummiya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A type of bitumen used in mummification.
rat in a granary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rats in a granary
form: rats in granaries
Senses: examples: text: happy as a rat in a granary
text: healthy as a rat in a granary
glosses: One in a place or situation of abundance.
raw_tags: in similes
misspool
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misspools
form: misspooling
form: misspooled
form: misspooled
Etymology: From mis- + spool.
Senses: examples: text: As discussed earlier, large fleet angles can lead to misspooling of the cable on the storage drum and cable wear due to rubbing on adjacent wraps on the drum or on sheave flanges.
ref: 1982, Alan H. Driscoll, Handbook of Oceanographic Winch, Wire and Cable Technology, pages 4-18:
text: They could have miswired the dynamite in the dark. They could have misplaced it on the tank, misspooled the connecting wire.
ref: 1989, Gaylord Dold, Muscle and Blood, page 59:
text: SOTs done with wire rope misspooled like this will destroy the spanwire in 125 cycles.
ref: 1992, Naval Surface Warfare Center (U.S.). Port Hueneme Division., Underway Replenishment of Naval Ships, page 509:
glosses: To spool incorrectly.
misspools
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misspool
misspooling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misspool
misspooled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misspool
misspray
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: missprays
form: misspraying
form: missprayed
form: missprayed
Etymology: From mis- + spray.
Senses: examples: text: Directionality in an aerosol overcap is a matter of degree. All of these units can be missprayed if one tries hard enough.
ref: 1976, American Society for Testing and Materials, Child-resistant Packaging, page 27:
text: To avoid misspraying, a pilot will check wind direction from the smoke of burning tires.
ref: 1982, Geo - Volume 4, Issue 1, page 92:
text: An impurity passed into your gun could cause it to misspray or clog, creating a lot of extra work fixing the paint surface and your spray gun.
ref: 2003, Dennis W. Parks, How to Paint Your Car, page 111:
glosses: To spray incorrectly.
misspray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: missprays
Etymology: From mis- + spray.
Senses: examples: text: This is your last chance to prevent any impurities or clumps from entering spray gun passages and causing a clog or misspray.
ref: 2009, Tharran E. Gaines, How to Paint Your Tractor, page 103:
text: They worked in silence for about half an hour before removing the masking tape and scraping at the missprays.
ref: 2010, Henry Porter, Brandenburg:
text: This allowed operators to quickly discover if their tanks were leaking or if a misspray occurred.
ref: 2012, Kansas History - Volume 35, page 123:
glosses: An instance of misspraying.
missprays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misspray
missprays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misspray
misspraying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misspray
missprayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misspray
misspread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misspreads
form: misspreading
form: misspread
form: misspread
Etymology: From mis- + spread.
Senses: examples: text: Never shall Obloquy your mansion seek, Or Anguish blight the roses on your cheek; Nor vagrant Zephyr insolent misspread The hazel-curling tresses of thy envied head!
ref: 1790, Anthony Pasquin (psudonym of John Williams), A Postscript to the New Bath Guide. A poem, page 82:
text: Misspread material is fed back to the forming station.
ref: 1987, Ligna Technologies Ltd, Alberta. Canadian Forestry Service, Report on Cement Bonded Particleboard, Its Applications and a Preliminary Assessment of a Plant to be Located in Alberta, page 7:
text: Back brooming to redistribute and realign any misspread aggregate was also carried out.
ref: 1992, National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board, Foundation Engineering, page 39:
text: Once widely misspread, the belief that ketamine causes ICP elevation has been disproven, leading to its resurgence in the field of medicine.
ref: 2022 July 28, Luis Rueda Carillo, Klepper Alfrdo Garcia, Nilufer Yalcin, Manan Shah, “Ketamine and its emergence in the field of neurology”, in Cureus:
glosses: To spread incorrectly or inappropriately.
misspread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misspreads
Etymology: From mis- + spread.
Senses: examples: text: The weight is controlled in order to reject misspreads.
ref: 1987, Ligna Technologies Ltd, Alberta. Canadian Forestry Service, Report on Cement Bonded Particleboard, Its Applications and a Preliminary Assessment of a Plant to be Located in Alberta, page 7:
glosses: An instance of misspreading.
misspreads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misspread
misspreads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misspread
misspreading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misspread
ego lifting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ego + lifting.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
glosses: The act of lifting more than one can fully handle, often in an attempt to show off.
Related terms: ego lifter
focks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fock
focks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fock
focking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of fock
focked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fock
mythbuster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mythbusters
Etymology: From myth + buster.
Senses: glosses: A person who debunks misconceptions.
Related terms: mythbust
mythbusters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mythbuster
bossfight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bossfights
Etymology: From boss + fight.
Senses: examples: text: Fireb0rn takes it a step further, spamming special attacks to dominate bossfights even if they get hit from time to time.
ref: 2017 October 2, Heather Alexandra, “Cuphead Player Beats Bosses Without Taking A Single Hit”, in Kotaku, archived from the original on 18 Feb 2018:
text: Out already, free via Itch, The One Who Struggles is a game consisting entirely of one multi-phase bossfight.
ref: 2021 November 26, John Walker, “14 Fascinating Unknown Indie Games To Play Straight Away”, in Kotaku, archived from the original on 22 Feb 2022:
topics: video-games
glosses: A fight against a boss.
bossfights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bossfight