cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
candidalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more candidalike
form: most candidalike
Senses: examples: text: Morphologically it was a candidalike yeast type of ...
ref: 1967, Chauncey Depew Leake, Biological actions of dimethylsulfoxide:
text: And researchers at the National Institutes of Health report finding candidalike fungus infections in the blood of AIDS victims.
ref: 1988 January 22, Robert McClory, “The Yeast of Our Problems”, in Chicago Reader:
text: The result for many is bloating, hypoglycemic reactions, fatigue, and an aggravation of candidalike symptoms.
ref: 1998, Michael Tierra, The Way of Herbs:
glosses: Alternative spelling of candida-like.
chucklings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chuckling
allergylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more allergylike
form: most allergylike
Etymology: From allergy + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Over a period of months, it became apparent that she had developed allergylike responses to scores of pervasive substances[…].
ref: 1988 January 22, Robert McClory, “The Yeast of Our Problems”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Resembling an allergy
Related terms: allergic
anticandida
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + candida.
Senses: examples: text: With nothing to lose at this stage, Truss gave the patient a known anticandida medication, and almost miraculously the symptoms disappeared and the man quickly recovered.
ref: 1988 January 22, Robert McClory, “The Yeast of Our Problems”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Acting to combat or prevent an infection with the yeast Candida albicans
arthritislike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more arthritislike
form: most arthritislike
Etymology: From arthritis + -like.
Senses: examples: text: She developed severe arthritislike pains in her knees, shoulders, and back, and she couldn't stop sneezing in the halls and classrooms.
ref: 1988 January 22, Robert McClory, “The Yeast of Our Problems”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of arthritis
Related terms: arthritic
antilife
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antilife
form: most antilife
form: anti-life
Etymology: From anti- + life.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: pro-choice
examples: text: A Roman Catholic says there is a trend nowadays to downgrade the family, making parents who are not limiting their families feel guilty.
Rev. John C. Knight, speaking Monday night at the 28th National Catholic Family Life convention, said "there is an antilife campaign abroad in the land."
ref: 1962 June 26, “Roman Catholic Sees Trend To Downgrade Large Family”, in Lawrence Journal-World:
text: While praising positive developments in family life, the Pope, who has taken a firm, conservative line on many social issues, said he "could not fail to draw attention to the negative phenomena."
In particular, he cited "a corruption of the idea and experience of freedom, with consequent self-centeredness in human relations; serious misconceptions regarding the relationship between parents and children; the growing number of divorces; the scourge of abortion; the spread of a contraceptive and antilife mentality."
ref: 1982 June 1, “Pope Speaks on the Sanctity of Marriage”, in The New York Times:
glosses: antinatalist; supporting the use of contraception to space or limit births
glosses: Supporting the death penalty in a particular case or in general.
examples: text: Somewhat too neatly, Johnson divides his characters into pro- and antilife factions[…].
ref: 1988 January 22, Lawrence Bommer, “Cries From the Mammal House”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Opposing the preservation of life in a particular situation
Derived terms: antilifer
buffooning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of buffoon
buffooned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of buffoon
continuants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of continuant
yeastlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more yeastlike
form: most yeastlike
Etymology: From yeast + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Under certain conditions, it seems, candida can change from its yeastlike, noninvasive state into a parasitic fungus that spreads like wildfire through the gut.
ref: 1988 January 22, Robert McClory, “The Yeast of Our Problems”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Resembling or having characteristics of yeast
waistcoated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From waistcoat + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Its mate, a waistcoated frog with a pipe, served as model for Strange Games at the Lagoon.
ref: 1988 January 22, Holly Greenhagen, “Art Facts: Ellen Lanyon's magic art”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Wearing a waistcoat.
Synonyms: bewaistcoated
postslavery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + slavery.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps it's no coincidence that, just as there's a rap gap, the gap between the black middle class and the one-third of the black community classified as poor is larger now than ever before in African-Americans' postslavery history.
ref: 1988 January 22, Salim Muwakkil, “Pop: I'm Bad, Therfore I Am”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Since the end of a period of slavery.
pseudoprofession
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoprofessions
Etymology: From pseudo- + profession.
Senses: examples: text: Patrick: But it's a pseudoprofession, anyway.
ref: 1988 January 22, Elizabeth Blanchard, “Three Teachers Talking”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A job that is not considered a true profession, but has many characteristics of a profession
Related terms: pseudoprofessional
semiprofession
semiprofessional
virilely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈvɪɹ.ə(l).li/
/ˈvɪɹˌaɪl.li/
Forms: form: more virilely
form: most virilely
Etymology: From virile + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Joe Guzaldo is, as always, a pleasure to watch and hear, with his superbly focused physical energy and virilely mellifluous voice; but his strength belies Tom's own weakness, which Williams revealed even while trying to conceal it.
ref: 1988 January 22, Albert Williams, “The Glass Menagerie”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: In a way or to an extent that is virile.
Related terms: virility
semiabstract
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + abstract.
Senses: examples: text: In the second, only the tracks are visible, glowing luminously at night, and this semiabstract image is held on the screen for an extended length of time.
ref: 1988 January 22, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Huckleberry Fem”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: art
arts
glosses: Not entirely abstract; between abstract and concrete
spacier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: And I was getting spacier all the time.
ref: 1988 January 22, Robert McClory, “The Yeast of Our Problems”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: comparative form of spacy: more spacy
spaciest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of spacy: most spacy
pseudoprofessions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoprofession
riffwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From riff + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: My, they all were right up there with the Ted Nugents and Grand Funks riffwise, weren't they?
ref: 2000 February 8, George Smith, “Swede Surrender”, in Village Voice:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: In terms of riffs
popcraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pop + craft.
Senses: examples: text: They've mastered one of the finer points of popcraft, the ability to create a texture you want to touch.
ref: 1988 January 22, Renaldo Migaldi, “Trip Shakespeare”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The art of composing or performing pop music
perplexingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From perplexing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It was a long time before he could steady his nerves to answer my questions, and then he answered perplexingly and brokenly.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 83:
text: These perplexingly dissimilar objects found their way into her work at different stages in her artistic development.
ref: 1988 January 22, Holly Greenhagen, “Art Facts: Ellen Lanyon's magic art”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: In a way or to an extent that is perplexing.
nonroyal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-royal
Etymology: From non- + royal.
Senses: examples: text: To some degree this business about titles supplanting last names also applies to nonroyal peers, such as your run-of-the-mill dukes.
ref: 1988 January 22, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Not of royal rank or family
nonroyal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonroyals
form: non-royal
Etymology: From non- + royal.
Senses: examples: text: The controversy mirrors a broader debate about the relevance of monarchy in Europe, as members of the younger generation marry nonroyals with checkered pasts and taxpayers question the expense of maintaining their monarchs’ lifestyles.
ref: 2007 October 14, Victoria Burnett, “Rumblings in Spain Over Royal Family”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who is not a royal.
nonorganic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-organic
Etymology: From non- + organic.
Senses: examples: text: Banned are newspapers and books, noncotton clothing, after-shave lotions and deodorants, all nonorganic or processed foods[…].
ref: 1988 January 22, Robert McClory, “The Yeast of Our Problems”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Shepard: What else do you know about the geth?
Ashley Williams: Just what I remember from history class back in school. They're synthetics. Non-organic life-forms with limited AI programming created by the quarians a few centuries ago.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Eden Prime:
glosses: Not organic
raw_tags: of food
Related terms: inorganic
nonorganic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonorganics
form: non-organic
Etymology: From non- + organic.
Senses: glosses: An item, material, etc. that is not organic.
nonnurturing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + nurturing.
Senses: examples: text: After birth, the damage will be compounded by nonnurturing environments and poor education.
ref: 1988 January 22, Salim Muwakkil, “Pop: I'm Bad, Therfore I Am”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Not nurturing
nonegotistical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + egotistical.
Senses: examples: text: It is the kind of nonegotistical performance, moreover, that allows her to fit in a period context without any hint of anachronism--a virtue she already displayed as Goldie Hawn's next-door neighbor in Swing Shift, and which Keaton conspicuously lacked as Louise Bryant in Reds.
ref: 1988 January 22, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Huckleberry Fem”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Not egotistical
noncotton
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + cotton.
Senses: examples: text: Banned are newspapers and books, noncotton clothing, […].
ref: 1988 January 22, Robert McClory, “The Yeast of Our Problems”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Not cotton; specifically, not made of cotton fabric
nonconcert
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + concert.
Senses: examples: text: (Richard Pryor's nonconcert films, for example, can be read largely as emotional autobiographies, yet virtually all of them are artistic failures.)
ref: 1988 January 22, Henry Sheehan, “Little Boy Blue”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Not a concert, or unrelated to a concert
noncompliant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more noncompliant
form: most noncompliant
form: non-compliant
Etymology: From non- + compliant.
Senses: examples: text: It was directed toward a program, "Tuesday's Child," which endorses systematic, unquestioning rejection by parents of the program-created noncompliant behaviors in their eighteen-month- to five-year-old children.
ref: 1988 January 22, Laya Frischer, “Further Adventures in Tot Control”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Not cooperating; rebellious.
examples: text: We just need to finish up a couple of things on the project, to make sure nothing's left noncompliant.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical
glosses: Not complying with certain rules or regulations.
noncompliant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noncompliants
form: non-compliant
Etymology: From non- + compliant.
Senses: glosses: One who fails to comply, for example with a law.
mudheap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mudheaps
Etymology: From mud + heap.
Senses: examples: text: Pamela Lillard's bluesy urban folk-rock lands her in a ballpark with Vega, Armatrading, Cockburn, and a few others who've rescued forgotten kernels of coolness from the mudheap of outdated singer-songwriter cliches[…
ref: 1988 January 22, Renaldo Migaldi, “Pamela Lillard & the Rubba Band”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A heap of mud; by extension, any pile of metaphorical detritus
Related terms: dustheap
junkheap
mudheaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mudheap
miniversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miniversions
Etymology: From mini- + version.
Senses: examples: text: Just let the "girls" […] sing the hell out of these songs, and don't even try to create miniversions of the musicals they come from.
ref: 1988 January 22, Tom Valeo, “Jerry's Girls”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A miniature version
monumentalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: monumentalizes
form: monumentalizing
form: monumentalized
form: monumentalized
form: monumentalise
Etymology: From monumental + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: The film follows three days in her regulated life, and Akerman's intense concentration on her daily activities, monumentalized by Babette Mangolte's superb cinematography and mainly frontal camera setups[…].
ref: 1988 January 22, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: To make something become or appear monumental
Derived terms: monumentalization
miniversions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miniversion
midtale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + tale.
Senses: examples: text: "Where's the picture of my mother-in-law?" he barks in midtale, and a bartender hustles off to look for it.
ref: 1988 January 22, Jack Hayes, “Pizza Man”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: The middle of a story
monumentalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of monumentalize
monumentalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of monumentalize
monumentalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of monumentalize
laypersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: She is also concerned about the dangers of laypersons sharing their theories, pet cures, and even their medications with one another too freely.
ref: 1988 January 22, Robert McClory, “The Yeast of Our Problems”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: plural of layperson
headachy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more headachy
form: most headachy
form: headachey
Etymology: From headache + -y.
Senses: examples: text: After an hour at school she was soaked with sweat, dizzy, and headachy.
ref: 1988 January 22, Robert McClory, “The Yeast of Our Problems”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Suffering from a headache
examples: a headachy pain
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a headache.
Related terms: headachingly
highpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: highpoints
Senses: examples: text: This posing is the film's comic highpoint.
ref: 1988 January 22, Henry Sheehan, “Little Boy Blue”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Alternative form of high point.
imagist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imagists
form: Imagist
Etymology: From image + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Most critics group Lanyon with the Chicago imagists, artists who use ordinary objects and meticulous detail to explore fantasy.
ref: 1988 January 22, Holly Greenhagen, “Art Facts: Ellen Lanyon's magic art”, in Chicago Reader:
text: D. H. Lawrence would have been a poet of distinction without an imagist movement, but he became a modern poet, and a major one, by becoming an imagist, and in time he attained greater distinction than any of the other English poets who helped found the imagist movement.
ref: 1996, William Pratt, Singing the Chaos: Madness and Wisdom in Modern Poetry, page 162:
topics: art
arts
glosses: A follower of any of the various artistic schools known as imagism
imagist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more imagist
form: most imagist
form: Imagist
Etymology: From image + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: D. H. Lawrence would have been a poet of distinction without an imagist movement, but he became a modern poet, and a major one, by becoming an imagist, and in time he attained greater distinction than any of the other English poets who helped found the imagist movement.
ref: 1996, William Pratt, Singing the Chaos: Madness and Wisdom in Modern Poetry, page 162:
text: Their advertisements rely wholly on memory, which is why they can be (indeed must be) less detailed, more imagist, more distinctive—more memorable.
ref: 2008, Winston Fletcher, Powers of Persuasion:
text: Altieri argues that 'Williams still locates affect in the rendering of a scene', which seems true of Williams's shorter, more imagist poems.
ref: 2016, Mark Sandy, Romantic Presences in the Twentieth Century, page 48:
glosses: Characteristic of or pertaining to imagism.
Derived terms: Amygist
imagistic
homee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: My kids wanted to know who it was, and if it was their homee [a close friend] they were going to get involved.
ref: 1988 January 22, Elizabeth Blanchard, “Three Teachers Talking”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Misspelling of homey.
imagists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imagist
underclasser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underclassers
Etymology: From underclass + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The national symbol for this new attitude is Bernhard Goetz, who was acquitted of attempted murder by a jury after admitting he shot four underclassers because he thought they meant him harm.
ref: 1988 January 22, Salim Muwakkil, “Pop: I'm Bad, Therfore I Am”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A member of an underclass
high point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high points
form: highpoint
Senses: examples: text: This has been the high point of my life.
synonyms: word: culmination
word: pinnacle
word: acme
word: apex
word: zenith
word: apogee
word: apotheosis
word: ascendance
word: capstone
word: climax
word: coronation
word: crown
word: culmination
word: Everest
word: extreme
word: fastigium
word: high note
word: high point
word: high tide
word: high-water mark
word: midday
word: outblossom
word: paroxysm
word: perihelion
word: pinnacle
word: summa
word: summit
antonyms: low point
glosses: A climax; the best time in a given period.
examples: text: Blanca Peak is one of just three ultra-prominence peaks, or “ultras,” in the state and the highpoint of the Sierra Blanca Range, a massif that includes ranked 14ers Ellingwood Point, Little Bear Peak, and Mount Lindsey.
ref: 2008, Susan Joy Paul, Climbing Colorado's Mountains, Guilford, CT: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 141:
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The point of the highest elevation in a given area.
Derived terms: highpointer
highpointing
underclassers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underclasser
shearwall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shearwalls
Etymology: From shear + wall.
Senses: examples: text: Lake Point Tower, world's tallest apartment building, concrete shearwall.
ref: 1988 January 22, Robert B. Johnson, “Great Moments in Structural Engineering”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: architecture
glosses: An element of a wall that resists lateral shear on a building
optimizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: optimizers
Etymology: From optimize + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person in a large business whose task is to maximize profits and make the business more efficient.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A program that uses linear programming to optimize a process.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A compiler or assembler that produces optimized code.
Derived terms: superoptimizer
em dashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of em dash
shearwalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shearwall
high points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of high point
brins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brin
hachures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hachure
usures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of usure
Sahul
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈhuːl/
enpr: səho͞ol'
Etymology: From the name “Sahull” and “Sahoel” of a submerged sandbank between Australia and Timor on Dutch maps of the 17th century. From this the continental shelf was given the name “Sahul Shelf”, and the continent including the dry shelf was called Sahul.
Senses: glosses: The continent that contains the islands of Australia, New Guinea, and Tasmania, especially during the ice ages of the Pleistocene when these were connected by solid land.
Synonyms: english: continent
translation: continent
word: Australia
word: Australia–New Guinea
word: Australinea
word: Meganesia
Derived terms: Sahul brush cuckoo
Sahulian
gravures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In that period the Crommelyncks produced more than 700 gravures for Picasso, often working through the night and proofing successive stages of each print so that Picasso could carry it further the following morning.
ref: 2009 January 31, Michael McNay, “Aldo Crommelynck”, in The Guardian:
glosses: plural of gravure
financers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of financer
patness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patnesses
Etymology: From pat + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The setup's almost laughably pat, and nothing that follows mitigates that patness.
ref: 1988 January 29, Anthony Adler, “K-2/The Indian Wants the Bronx”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: The state or quality of being pat.
unbagged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From unbag + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unbag
unbagged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + bagged.
Senses: examples: text: There were unbagged groceries all over the counter.
glosses: Not bagged
unbag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unbags
form: unbagging
form: unbagged
form: unbagged
Etymology: From un- + bag.
Senses: examples: text: Since the cat is unbagged in the first act, most of the play concerns James's maneuvering between bouts of reconciliation and backsliding.
ref: 1988 January 29, Tom Boeker, “Thrill Seekers”, in Chicago Reader:
text: They unbagged the groceries, working side by side, mostly silently. Each item removed from its bag was like a brick removed from the wall between them.
ref: 2013, Carole Howard, About Face:
glosses: To remove from a bag.
unbags
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unbag
unbagging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unbag
prematureness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From premature + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being premature.
Synonyms: prematurity
earliness
polyptota
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyptoton
concretum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concreta
Etymology: From concrete + -um.
Senses: examples: text: There are quite familiar and truly outstanding liabilities—ontological, epistemological, and phenomenological—associated with saying that merely intentional objects are abstracta, or mental concreta, or non-existent non-mental concreta.
ref: 2008 August 5, Uriah Kriegel, “The dispensability of (merely) intentional objects”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 1, →DOI:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Something that is concrete, rather than abstract.
Coordinate terms: abstractum
Related terms: nomen concretum
bureaux de change
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bureau de change
bureaucraties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bureaucratie
mafoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːfuː/
Forms: form: mafoos
Etymology: From Mandarin 馬伕 /马伕 (mǎfū), from 馬 /马 (mǎ, “horse”) + 伕 (fū, “servant, labourer”).
Senses: examples: text: The mafoos held their charges miserably, as if sick with nerves.
ref: 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 144:
glosses: In China, someone who looks after horses in a stable; a groom.
mafoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mafoo
mafufunyana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amafufunyana
Etymology: Borrowed from Zulu [Term?].
Senses: glosses: In Zulu and Xhosa culture, a mental disorder in which the sufferer is believed to have been possessed by evil spirits, causing hysteria.
glosses: The evil spirit who causes such a disorder.
mag wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mag wheel
magainin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magainins
Senses: glosses: Any of the antimicrobial peptides isolated from the skin of the African clawed frog.
bâtons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bâton
African clawed frog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: African clawed frogs
Senses: examples: text: Heaven knows what led him to do it, but Hogben found that if you injected an African clawed frog with the urine of a pregnant woman, within hours it would lay eggs.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 283:
glosses: A clawed frog found in southern Africa, Xenopus laevis, that has some properties very useful for genetics.
Synonyms: sense: Xenopus laevis
word: xenopus
sense: Xenopus laevis
word: African clawed toad
sense: Xenopus laevis
word: platanna
sense: Xenopus laevis
word: common platanna
pseudovirgin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + virgin.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A female of certain species that has mated but has not received sperm.
pseudovirgin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudovirgins
Etymology: From pseudo- + virgin.
Senses: examples: text: Back-stabbing, gossiping pseudovirgins, getting together only for group vomits.
ref: 1988 January 29, S.L. Wisenberg, “Sorority Rush”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A person who appears or pretends to be a virgin but is not.
rehabber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rehabbers
Etymology: From rehab + -er.
Senses: examples: text: At the time, he was a 30-year-old home rehabber and realtor who had worked on several successful projects but had not quite hit the Lincoln Park boom in a really big way.
ref: 1988 January 29, Ben Joravsky, “Can Ron Gan extend the boundaries of Lincoln Park? To West Town?”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A person who rehabilitates buildings.
glosses: One who is in rehab for drug abuse etc.
pseudovirgins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudovirgin
rushee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rushees
Etymology: From rush + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: Another rushee answered, "One that does a lot.
ref: 1988 January 29, S.L. Wisenberg, “Sorority Rush”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A student who is rushed by a fraternity or sorority
magalogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magalogues
form: magalog
Etymology: Blend of magazine + catalogue, coined in 1986
Senses: glosses: A type of catalogue with a magazine-like style.
Related terms: catazine
rehabbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rehabber
magalogues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magalogue
studenthood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From student + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: On the way to my office I imagined Cynthia as a chrysalis, my imposed burden of studenthood, falling off me, drifting into the night.
ref: 1988 January 29, S.L. Wisenberg, “Sorority Rush”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: The state or quality of being a student
surefootedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more surefootedly
form: most surefootedly
Etymology: From surefooted + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […
ref: 1988 January 29, Renaldo Migaldi, “Phil Alvin”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: In a surefooted manner
rushees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rushee
testicularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From testicular + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Plainly, James is a dickhead who lacks testicularity.
ref: 1988 January 29, Tom Boeker, “Thrill Seekers”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: The possession of testicles; thus, masculinity
tubelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tubelike
form: most tubelike
Etymology: From tube + -like.
Senses: examples: text: At risk are the corpora cavernosa, the two tubelike masses of tissue that run through the center of the penis.
ref: 1988 January 29, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Resembling a tube, especially in shape.
Magar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Magars
Etymology: From Nepali मगर (magar), from the name in Eastern Magar.
Senses: glosses: A member of a particular ethnic group from Nepal and northern India.
Magar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Nepali मगर (magar), from the name in Eastern Magar.
Senses: glosses: The Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Magar people.
Magars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Magar
adultlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adultlike
form: most adultlike
Etymology: From adult + -like.
Senses: examples: text: I wanted to do something adultlike.
ref: 1988 January 29, S.L. Wisenberg, “Sorority Rush”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an adult
Synonyms: word: adult
word: adultlike
word: adulty
word: grown up
Hypernyms: word: anthropic
Hyponyms: word: full-grown
word: mature
word: elderly
word: manly
word: mannish
word: masculine
word: mennish
word: feminine
word: womanly
word: womannish
Related terms: word: unchildlike
word: nonchildlike
word: for adults
arrhythmically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more arrhythmically
form: most arrhythmically
Etymology: From arrhythmic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: These gestures, performed with the nonchalance of a daily chore, appeared and disappeared arrhythmically, weaving an intricate texture.
ref: 1988 January 29, Justin Hayford, “Discovery in De Kalb”, in Chicago Reader:
text: I lean in for a closer inspection as one little froggie flops arrhythmically down in front of me.
ref: 2007, Emily Gould, Zareen Jaffery, chapter 12, in Hex Education, New York, N.Y.: Razorbill, →ISBN, page 104:
glosses: In an arrhythmic manner; without a fixed rhythm
artsiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From artsy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: More likely, Nichols sensed his dramatic gimmick wasn't panning out, and so took refuge in the inscrutability of artsiness.
ref: 1988 January 29, Tom Boeker, “Thrill Seekers”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: The state or quality of being artsy
bullnecked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bullnecked
form: most bullnecked
Etymology: From bull + necked.
Senses: examples: text: Tyson is bullnecked and broad-shouldered.
ref: 1988 January 29, Ted Cox, “The Sports Section”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Having a thick, muscular neck
chattery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chattery
form: most chattery
Etymology: From chatter + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Some of the women were sincere. Some were nervous. Some were fake and glib and chattery. Some stumbled. At least one was manic.
ref: 1988 January 29, S.L. Wisenberg, “Sorority Rush”, in Chicago Reader, Chicago, I.L.: Chicago Reader, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Dec 2023:
glosses: Tending or inclined to chatter.
chattery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chatter + -y.
Senses: examples: text: His press secretary, Jen Psaki, under a burden greater than that of any press secretary of recent times, is shortly to abandon the post, wandering off to the vastly greater paid and vastly less demanding pastures of cable television chattery.
ref: 2022 April 20, Rex Murphy, “Rex Murphy: The United States is adrift and Joe Biden is no captain”, in National Post, Toronto, Ont.: Postmedia Network Canada Corp., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Nov 2024:
glosses: Chatter, idle talk.
coulotte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As I write this, I wonder why I didn't wear my sleeveless blue-and-green sweater and coordinated coulotte skirt instead.
ref: 1988 January 29, S.L. Wisenberg, “Sorority Rush”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Misspelling of culotte.
coulotte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coulottes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of picanha (a cut of steak).
synonyms: word: picanha
extra: a cut of steak
Sino-Tibetan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsaɪnəʊtɪˈbɛtən/
ipa: /ˌsɪnəʊtɪˈbɛtən/
Etymology: From Sino- + Tibetan.
Senses: examples: text: Sino-Tibetan relations are more complicated than the media portrays.
glosses: Of or relating to both China and Tibet.
examples: text: Mandarin, Burmese, and Tibetan all belong to the Sino-Tibetan language family.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: Trans-Himalayan
glosses: Of the Sino-Tibetan languages, one of the major language families.
Derived terms: Proto-Sino-Tibetan
counterterrorist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From counter- + terrorist.
Senses: examples: text: Henry Kissinger was there; so was Robert Komer, the CIA officer who ran the counterterrorist "pacification" program in 1967 and '68[…].
ref: 1988 January 29, Michael Miner, “Art of Our Arrogance/Rethinking Vietnam”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Intended to combat terrorism
counterterrorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterterrorists
Etymology: From counter- + terrorist.
Senses: examples: text: Every new season of this Fox thriller is another twist of a kaleidoscope: the same pieces — terrorists; counterterrorists (and, almost inevitably, a mole); an innocent suburban family; and the president, his aides and his family — are tumbled together to form new patterns around the central figure of the special agent Jack Bauer.
ref: 2007 January 12, Alessandra Stanley, “Bombers Strike, and America Is in Turmoil. It’s Just Another Day for Jack Bauer.”, in New York Times:
glosses: A person involved in counter-terrorism, who works against terrorists.
ovenlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ovenlike
form: most ovenlike
form: oven-like
Etymology: From oven + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The massive bricks and low arches of this hall make it dungeonlike, even ovenlike.
ref: 1988 January 29, Kitry Krause, “Casting Out the Nazis”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Resembling an oven, especially in shape
glosses: Resembling the temperature inside a hot oven.
numerological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From numerology + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: If you can't make up your mind whether to choose astrological, numerological, or some other type of spiritual guidance, don't worry.
ref: 1988 January 29, Achy Obejas, “Calendar”, in Chicago Reader:
text: [Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes.
ref: 2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or based on numerology.
Derived terms: numerologically
discharger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dischargers
Etymology: From discharge + -er.
Senses: examples: text: "Over 90% of the dischargers examined were in violation of permit limits.
ref: 1988 January 29, Harold Henderson, “City File”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Someone or something that discharges something, such as pollution or a firearm
Derived terms: cup discharger
lightning discharger
self-discharger
dissatisfies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dissatisfy
dissatisfying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dissatisfy
Derived terms: dissatisfyingly
dissatisfyingness
dischargers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discharger
dungeonlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dungeonlike
form: most dungeonlike
form: dungeon-like
Etymology: From dungeon + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The massive bricks and low arches of this hall make it dungeonlike, even ovenlike.
ref: 1988 January 29, Kitry Krause, “Casting Out the Nazis”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a dungeon.
feistily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more feistily
form: most feistily
Etymology: From feisty + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She pictured the runty Marine general--a veteran of the Nicaraguan campaigns--standing feistily between opposing texts.
ref: 1988 January 29, Michael Miner, “Art of Our Arrogance/Rethinking Vietnam”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: In a feisty manner
magatama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magatamas
form: magatama
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 勾玉 (magatama).
Senses: glosses: A curved bead from the Jōmon period in Japan, made from a variety of different gemstones.
magatamas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magatama
intradistrict
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + district.
Senses: examples: text: […] the Wisconsin legislature passed a law providing incentives for transfers of schoolchildren in the metropolitan area, both intradistrict and interdistrict.
ref: 1988 January 29, Steve Bogira, “Interdistrict Transfer”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Within a single district
interdistrict
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + district.
Senses: examples: text: […] the Wisconsin legislature passed a law providing incentives for transfers of schoolchildren in the metropolitan area, both intradistrict and interdistrict.
ref: 1988 January 29, Steve Bogira, “Interdistrict Transfer”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Between two or more districts.
magaziner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magaziners
Etymology: From magazine + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who writes for a magazine.
magaziners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magaziner
overmilitarize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overmilitarizes
form: overmilitarizing
form: overmilitarized
form: overmilitarized
form: overmilitarise
Etymology: From over- + militarize.
Senses: examples: text: "We overmilitarized," he said.
ref: 1988 January 29, Michael Miner, “Art of Our Arrogance/Rethinking Vietnam”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: To militarize excessively, or to overemphasize military solutions and approaches
Derived terms: overmilitarization
overmilitarizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overmilitarize
overmilitarizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overmilitarize
overmilitarized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overmilitarize
imagistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more imagistic
form: most imagistic
form: Imagistic
Etymology: From imagist + -ic or image + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: So much 'performance art' tends to be a kind of closed, aloof, imagistic, private vision.
ref: 1988 January 29, Justin Hayford, “Stage Business: a young director mixes it up at the Goodman”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: art
arts
glosses: Of or pertaining to imagism
Derived terms: imagistically
doomster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doomsters
Etymology: From doom + -ster.
Senses: examples: text: Breathe not, hid Heart: cease silently, / And though thy birth-hour beckons thee, / Sleep the long sleep: / The Doomsters heap / Travails and teens around us here, / And Time-wraiths turn our songsingings to fear.
ref: 1901, Thomas Hardy, “To an Unborn Pauper Child”, in Poems of the Past and the Present, Edinburgh & London: Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., page 126:
text: Chase and Pleasant may have been innocents, but they were smarter than the doomsters who predicted that Chase would lose her fortune, for their New York company, the Ballet Theatre (later the American Ballet Theatre), got off to a phenomenally successful start.
ref: 1988 January 29, Dorothy Samachson, “Dance Notes: remembering Antony Tudor, conscience of the ABT”, in Chicago Reader:
text: The Tory leadership candidate Rishi Sunak has rejected accusations from his successor as chancellor of being a “doomster” on the economy, as he pushed his plan to cut income tax by 20% by the end of the decade.
ref: 2022 August 1, Geneva Abdul, “Rishi Sunak rejects claim he has ‘doomster’ attitude to economy”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: "We have to demonstrate to the doomsters at the Treasury that we can manage this properly," Steer warns.
ref: 2023 November 1, Paul Clifton, “One account for the UK railway”, in RAIL, number 995, page 43:
synonyms: doomsayer
doomer
pessimist
glosses: Someone who predicts doom.
examples: text: You are of opinion that the justice of an execution consists, not in the extent of the sufferer's crime, or in his having merited punishment, or in the wholesome and salutary effect which that example is likely to produce upon other evil-doers, but hold that it rests solely in the robe of the judge, the height of the bench, and the voice of the doomster?
ref: 1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter XXI, in Tales of My Landlord, […], volume III (Old Mortality), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, […]; London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 168:
glosses: A judge; a deemster.
doomsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doomster
introitus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭntrōʹĭtəs
ipa: /ɪnˈtɹəʊ.ɪtəs/
enpr: ĭntrōʹĭto͞os
ipa: /ɪnˈtɹəʊ.ɪtuːs/
Forms: form: introituses
Etymology: From Latin introitus.
Senses: examples: text: During NA therapy, 49 of the 54 women cleared their introitus of all Enterobacteriaceae.
ref: 1980, Thomas Alexander Stamey, Pathogenesis and Treatment of Urinary Tract Infections, Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, page 144, →ISBN:
text: Now, far be it from me to add insult to injury, but how could you be so klutzy that you "missed the introitus"?
ref: 1988 January 29, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader:
text: There is nothing feminine about these male pseudohermaphrodites except their introitus, and they seem to be normally male otherwise.
ref: 1993: Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, Melanesian journal: expedition to New Hebrides, Solomon Islands, Manus, New Britain, and New Guinea, 23 January 1965 to 7 April 1965, page 90 (Study of Child Growth and Development and Disease Patterns in Primitive Cultures, Laboratory of Central Nervous System Studies, National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke, National Institutes of Health)
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The entrance to a hollow organ or canal; often specifically the entrance to the vagina.
examples: text: Five have an introitus (introduction) that stands outside the isorhythmic scheme;¹⁰⁸ some of these introitus are instrumental rather than vocal […]
ref: 1954, Gustave Reese, Music in the Renaissance, W.W. Norton, page 22:
text: As summarized in Example 3.14, nearly all of these introitus […]
ref: 1992, Jon Michael Allsen, Style and intertextuality in the isorhythmic motet 1400-1440, volume 1, University of Wisconsin-Madison, page 118:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A piece of music played before a mass; a musical introduction of any sort.
Synonyms: sense: entrance to the vagina
word: introitus vaginæ
Derived terms: introitus vaginae
vaginal introitus
neocolonial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊniəl
Forms: form: more neocolonial
form: most neocolonial
Etymology: From neo- + colonial.
Senses: examples: text: One of the things that was a sin of ours, and the neocolonial arrangement we tried to produce, was that we had all the answers and they had none.
ref: 1988 January 29, Michael Miner, “Art of Our Arrogance/Rethinking Vietnam”, in Chicago Reader:
text: This is a racist, neocolonial construct.
ref: 2009 January 18, Haroon Siddiqui, “Obama cannot walk on water but he can disperse dark clouds”, in Toronto Star:
topics: geopolitics
government
politics
glosses: Of or pertaining to, or based on, neocolonialism
Derived terms: neocolonialistic
neocolonialize
liberationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liberationists
Etymology: From liberation + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Mozambican Lina Magaia is a leading thinker in the struggle for black independence in southern Africa. She is a fighter, an agronomist, an author, an administrator, a liberationist, and a mother.
ref: 1988 January 29, Achy Obejas, “Calendar”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A person who works or advocates for liberation.
glosses: A person in favour of church disestablishment.
Derived terms: animal liberationist
liberationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liberationist
Magdeburgian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: măg'də-bûrʹgē-ən
ipa: /ˌmaɡdəˈbɜːɡɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˌmæɡdəˈbɝɡi.ən/
Forms: form: more Magdeburgian
form: most Magdeburgian
Etymology: From Magdeburg + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to the city of Magdeburg, the capital of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
Magdeburgian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: măg'də-bûrʹgē-ən
ipa: /ˌmaɡdəˈbɜːɡɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˌmæɡdəˈbɝɡi.ən/
Forms: form: Magdeburgians
Etymology: From Magdeburg + -ian.
Senses: synonyms: Magdeburger
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Magdeburg, the capital of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
noncondemning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + condemning.
Senses: examples: text: I was fair and civil and noncondemning.
ref: 1988 January 29, S.L. Wisenberg, “Sorority Rush”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Not condemning
Synonyms: nonjudgmental
Magdeburgians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Magdeburgian
Magellanic Clouds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Magellanic Clouds
Etymology: From having a cloud-like appearance, and having been discovered on Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe, a voyage of discovery during the Age of Exploration. Named after Portugeuese explorer Ferdinand Magellan.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Collectively, the pair of galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud; also sometimes includes the Magellanic Bridge and Magellanic Stream.
Meronyms: Large Magellanic Cloud
Magellanic Bridge
Magellanic Stream
Mini Magellanic Cloud
Small Magellanic Cloud