cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Rojas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rojases
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Rojas.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Castillo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Castillos
form: Castel
form: Castello
form: Castilla
Senses: examples: text: Standing in her entrance, two men in white silk suits and butterfly-looking lace bow ties, black instrument cases by their side and black-brimmed white hats in their hands–my father, Nestor Castillo, thin and broad-shouldered, and Uncle Cesar, thickset and immense.
ref: 1989, Oscar Hijuelos, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 4:
glosses: A habitational surname from Spanish, from Spanish castillo (“castle”).
glosses: A surname from French, a rare variant of Castillon.
Reyes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish Reyes.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Derived terms: Point Reyes
by-report
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: by-reports
Etymology: From by- + report.
Senses: glosses: A side report or statement.
by-purpose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: by-purposes
Etymology: From by- + purpose.
Senses: glosses: An indirect or concealed purpose or design.
by-plot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: by-plots
Etymology: From by- + plot.
Senses: glosses: A subsidiary plot in a play or novel.
by-play
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: by-plays
form: byplay
Etymology: From by- + play.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: Action carried on aside, commonly in dumb show, while the main action proceeds; action not intended to be observed by some of the persons present.
glutar-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From glutaric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: glutaric; pertaining to glutaric acid and related chemicals
by-peep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: by-peeps
form: by-peeping
form: by-peeped
form: by-peeped
Etymology: From by- + peep.
Senses: glosses: To look or glance aside.
by-place
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: by-places
form: bye-place
form: byplace
Etymology: From by- + place.
Senses: examples: text: Would but your mother permit you to send her chariot, or chaise, to the bye-place where Mr Lovelace proposes Lord M.'s shall come […].
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LXXX”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: A retired place, spot, or situation; somewhere out-of-the-way.
by-past
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more by-past
form: most by-past
Etymology: Equivalent to by- + past.
Senses: examples: by-past perils
glosses: Past; gone by.
by-room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: by-rooms
Etymology: From by- + room.
Senses: glosses: An adjoining room or apartment; a side room.
by-hour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: by-hours
Etymology: From by- + hour.
Senses: glosses: A leisure hour.
allœopathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From allœopathy + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Under allœopathic treatment, with blisters and cathartics, they generally lasted several months at a time.
ref: 1865, Charles J. Hempel, A New and Comprehensive System of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, second edition, Volume I, Lecture XIX, page 305:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of allopathic.
Garza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Derived terms: Garza County
Aguilar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aguilars
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Aguilar. This surname is mostly found in Mexico.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
glosses: A town in Las Animas County, Colorado, United States.
Ávila
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɑvilə/
Etymology: From Spanish Ávila.
Senses: glosses: A province in Castile and León, Spain. Capital: Ávila.
glosses: A city in Ávila province, Castile and León.
Derived terms: Ciego de Ávila
Bustamante
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bustamantes
Etymology: Habitational surname borrowed from Spanish Bustamante. This surname is mostly found in Mexico.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Derived terms: Bustamante backbone
Related terms: Bustamente
Flores
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Portuguese Flores, from flores (“flowers”).
Senses: glosses: An island of the Azores autonomous region, Portugal, in the North Atlantic.
holonyms: Lesser Sunda Islands
glosses: An island of East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, located east of Java.
Related terms: Floresville
Flores minivet
Flores
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish Flores, from flores (“flowers”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
glosses: A province of Uruguay.
Ortega
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Ortega.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Rivera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish Rivera.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
glosses: A small town and former municipality in Lugano district, Ticino canton, Switzerland.
Related terms: Pico Rivera
Riviera
Villalobos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Villaloboses
form: Villalovos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Villalobos.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Zapata
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A peninsula in southern Matanzas, Cuba.
glosses: A census-designated place, the county seat of Zapata County, Texas, United States.
glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Derived terms: Zapata County
Zapata rail
Zapata sparrow
Zapata wren
Iglesias
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish iglesias.
Senses: glosses: A commune of South Sardinia, Sardinia, Italy.
glosses: A surname from Spanish
Villanueva
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Villanuevas
Etymology: From Spanish Villanueva. Common surname in the Philippines and Mexico.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Derived terms: San José Villanueva
Márquez
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /mɑɹkɛz/
Etymology: From Spanish Márquez.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish
Alvarado
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish Alvarado.
Senses: glosses: A place in the United States:
A former settlement in and former county seat of Alameda County, California, now part of Union City. Named after Juan Bautista Alvarado.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Richland Township, Steuben County, Indiana.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A minor city in Marshall County, Minnesota.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A city in Johnson County, Texas, named after Alvarado, Veracruz, Mexico.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Washington County, Virginia.
glosses: Places elsewhere:
A city and municipality in Tolima department, Colombia.
glosses: Places elsewhere:
A canton in Cartago province, Costa Rica.
glosses: Places elsewhere:
A city and municipality in the state of Veracruz, Mexico.
glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Blanco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Monterey County, California, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Tulare County, California.
glosses: A census-designated place in San Juan County, New Mexico, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Mahoning County, Ohio, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, United States.
glosses: A small city in Blanco County, Texas, United States.
Derived terms: Blanco County
Espinosa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Calubian, Leyte, Philippines.
Fonseca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fonsecas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese Fonseca.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A gulf bordering El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua.
glosses: A phantom island said to lie in the Atlantic Ocean at 12° 27' N and 54° 48' W, east of Barbados and Tobago.
Fuentes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fuenteses
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Fuentes.
Senses: examples: text: It’s a battle that’s both personality-driven and ideological, between supporters of Spencer and the “alt-right” more generally and supporters of the “dissident right” or the so-called “America First” movement, led in part by 22-year-old Nick Fuentes, a former conservative radio host and Unite the Right attendee who is growing in popularity with the white nationalist movement.
ref: 2017, “Archived copy”, in Vox, archived from the original on 25 Nov 2021:
text: The idea that minority Republicans would want to support a white nationalist makes little sense until one realizes that Fuentes is fond of using coded language to hide messages intended only for racists, a practice frequently referred to within the alt-right as "hiding your power level."
ref: 2019 November 22, Matthew Sheffield, “The Conservative Establishment's Nightmare Is Only Just Beginning”, in Washington Monthly:
glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Fuentes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fuente
Related terms: Fuente
Fuentez
Galindo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Galindos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Galindo.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Gallegos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gallegoses
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Gallegos.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Hinojosa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hinojosas
form: Hinojoza
Etymology: Habitational surname borrowed from Spanish Hinojosa.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Linares
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /lɪˈnɑːɹɛs/
Forms: form: Linareses
form: Linarez
Etymology: From Spanish Linares, from linares (“flax fields”). For places outside Spain, derived from Spanish cities or from Spanish nobles bearing the name in their primary titles. As a surname mostly found in Venezuela, variously derived from all these sources.
Senses: glosses: A city in Spain.
glosses: A city in Chile.
glosses: A province of Chile around the city.
glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Montoya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Montoyas
Etymology: From Spanish Montoya, from Basque Montoia.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque].
Ochoa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊˈt͡ʃoʊə/
Forms: form: Ochoas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Ochoa, from Basque otsoa, otxoa (“wolf”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Ochoa syndrome
kill screens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kill screen
by-cause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: by-causes
Etymology: From by- + cause.
Senses: glosses: A secondary cause.
by-book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: by-books
Etymology: From by- + book.
Senses: glosses: A notebook or memorandum book.
glosses: A subordinate book containing notes or jottings to be afterward extended in due form.
by-business
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: by-businesses
Etymology: From by- + business.
Senses: glosses: Business aside from the main business.
glosses: Something secondary or subordinate.
amœnity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amœnities
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of amenity.
amœnities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amœnity
blue cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue card
bydweller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bydwellers
form: by-dweller
Etymology: From by- + dweller.
Senses: glosses: One who dwells near; a neighbour.
peep pixels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: peeps pixels
form: peeping pixels
form: peeped pixels
form: peeped pixels
form: pixel peep
Senses: examples: text: I'll wager if you peep pixels you'll find plenty of artifacts and other image degradation in images from your P & S.
ref: 2006 March 23, Jeff Varszegi, "You forgot sharpness. :)," Digital Photography Review (www.dpreview.com) (retrieved 23 June 2011)
text: I have then peeped pixels (I admit being guilty by doing so), looked at the sharpness, resolution, barrelling, pincushion, vignetting, you name it.
ref: 2006 October 29, Cem Usakligil, “Sigma 12-24 vs EF 10-22”, in www.openphotographyforums.com, retrieved 23 Jun 2011:
text: You can peep pixels all day long and you won't find any evidence of Photoshopping.
ref: 2008 Jan. 29, patrickvr6, "Dope Trucks2," forums.triplezoom.com (retrieved 23 June 2011)
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: To scrutinize a magnified digital photograph carefully in order to make a technical assessment of resolution and image quality.
Related terms: pixel peeper
pixel peep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pixel peeps
form: pixel peeping
form: pixel peeped
form: pixel peeped
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of peep pixels.
pixel peeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pixel peepers
form: pixel-peeper
Senses: examples: text: Those whom I have called pixel peepers are satisfied with nothing less than an intimate dissection of a camera/lens' abilities (always at 100% pixel magnification), without regard for whether or not perceived optical defects are even actually visible in real world prints.
ref: 2004 March 27, Michael Reichmann, "The Case of the Nit Picking Pixel Peepers", The Luminous Landscape (luminous-landscape.com) (retrieved 23 April 2012)
text: Overall unless you are a merciless pixel peeper I can't imagine someone being unhappy with the sharpness of this lens.
ref: 2006 July 17, Aravind Krishnaswamy, "Canon 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM review," Aravind's Reviews (www.aravind.ca) (retrieved 23 June 2011)
text: There is detectable noise at the lower ISOs if you are a pixel peeper.
ref: 2007 April 8, “Owners Opinion: Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ3”, in www.dpreview.com, retrieved 23 Jun 2011:
text: Detailed tests of image sensors are raw meat for performance-obsessed pixel-peepers.
ref: 2008 November 24, Stephen Shankland, “DxO sheds light on camera sensor performance”, in CNET.com, retrieved 23 Jun 2011:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A person who carefully scrutinizes a magnified digital photograph in order to evaluate resolution and image quality.
Related terms: peep pixels
pixel-peeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pixel-peepers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pixel peeper.
peeping pixels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of peep pixels
pixel peeping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pixel peep
recycling symbol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recycling symbols
Senses: glosses: A symbol universally associated with recyclable materials. It is composed of three crooked arrows arranged as a triangular clockwise Möbius strip.
recycling symbols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recycling symbol
dollar bill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dollar bills
Senses: glosses: A note of currency worth one dollar.
Derived terms: phony as a three-dollar bill
single as a dollar bill
backarapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backarappers
form: backrapper
form: back-rapper
Etymology: Properly, backrapper, from back + rapper. From the dialect of Warwickshire in the Midlands of England. Compare backrackets.
Senses: examples: text: But there was also a generous distribution of squibs, crackers, backarappers, sparklers, torches, dwarf-candles, elf-fountains, goblin-barkers and thunder-claps.
ref: 1954, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2012, page 27:
text: He would sink like an express lift and leap like a deer: at times he was almost flat on his back and when the hammer cracked he often appeared to be standing on his nose: like a backarapper he fizzed up and down and […]
ref: 1956, John Petty, Five fags a day: the last year of a scrap-picker, Secker & Warburg, page 60:
text: It would have been so easy to remove these capricious intrusions of manner clashing with theme; so easy to afford quiet relief, as in the first half of the last chapter, instead of throwing in raillery like backarappers.
ref: 1966, Oswald Harcourt Davis, The master: a study of Arnold Bennett, page 162:
glosses: A firework made from multiple firecrackers folded together so that they will explode one after the other.
wikipedia: Warwickshire
the Midlands
anti-Americanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + American + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: As Salman Rushdie says, you don't have to travel far to find anti-Americanism (Op-Ed, Feb. 4). Teaching at a Canadian university, I have been astounded by some students who say the Al Qaeda attacks, inside or outside the United States, were justified because only Americans were targeted. Remaking Osama bin Laden in their own anti-American image, they insist he has no quarrel with Canada or others, just the United States.
These apologists may yet discover that this movement is profoundly anti-Western as well as anti-American.
ref: 2002 February 4, Inger Weibust, “How Should U.S. Answer Hate?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 31 Oct 2023:
glosses: The fear or dislike of the people, policies, culture or government of the United States.
thrustest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: thrust + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of thrust
unorphaned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + orphaned.
Senses: examples: text: 34 per cent of all unorphaned children are classified as very poor, compared with 41 per cent of orphaned children.
ref: 2008, Sheila Aikman, Elaine Unterhalter, Tania Boler, Gender Equality, HIV, and AIDS, page 92:
glosses: Not orphaned.
exergame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exergames
Etymology: Blend of exercise + game
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A video game that also provides the player with physical exercise.
Related terms: exergaming
exergames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exergame
keytarist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keytarists
Etymology: From keytar + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who plays a keytar.
keytarists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keytarist
multiinstrumentalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiinstrumentalists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of multi-instrumentalist.
multiinstrumentalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multiinstrumentalist
darkwaver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: darkwavers
Etymology: From darkwave + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Well, yes, 'normal' people _do_ recoil from me, although not because of my views on guns. They avoid me because I'm a goth...a pale-faced, long-black-haired, facial jewellry-wearing, fishnet shirt-clad leftist darkwaver in black lipstick and boots.
ref: 1998, apriori, “1000000 Washington Wacko Lunatics voted down 676”, in talk.politics.guns (Usenet):
text: When they first started, they wanted to trick all the goths, mansonites, ebmers, darkwavers etc etc into coming to their shows, therefore chose the name to confuse them, so they could unleash their "RAWK" assault of insanely high falsetto vocals, kickass guitar solos and mind bogglingly catchy songs about girls, love and sex.
ref: 2004, DJ Brian UK, “The Darkness”, in alt.rock-n-roll.metal.oldschool (Usenet):
text: It was a Friday night and IdentiTea was jam-packed, as usual, with rockers, dark-wavers, and hipsters.
ref: 2012, Tonya Hurley, Ghostgirl: Lovesick, Hachette, →ISBN:
glosses: A fan of darkwave music.
darkwavers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of darkwaver
manstealers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manstealer
Manson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmænsən/
rhymes: -ænsən
Forms: form: Mansons
Etymology: An Anglicised version of the North Germanic (Scandinavian) name Magnuson "son of Magnus" (Swedish Magnusson, Danish Magnussen, Norwegian Magnusen, Icelandic Magnússon), using + -son.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
glosses: A placename
A community in the Rural Municipality of Ellice-Archie, Manitoba, Canada.
glosses: A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Perry Township, Clinton County, Indiana.
glosses: A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Calhoun County, Iowa.
glosses: A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Chelan County, Washington.
glosses: A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Woodboro, Oneida County, Wisconsin.
Derived terms: Mansonite
summarizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: summarizers
Etymology: From summarize + -er. Equivalent to summary + -izer.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, summarizes.
Hypernyms: shortener
Hyponyms: english: shortener of written works
translation: shortener of written works
word: abridger
word: epitomist
word: epitomizer
english: writer of epitomes
translation: writer of epitomes
word: epitomator
summarizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of summarizer
wrapup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wrapups
Etymology: Deverbal from wrap up.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wrap-up.
wrapups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wrapup
indolenines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indolenine
glutaredoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glutaredoxin
unpickable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pickable.
Senses: examples: an unpickable lock
glosses: That cannot be picked.
Jominian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Jominian
form: most Jominian
Etymology: From Jomini + -an.
Senses: examples: text: The Jominian and Clausewitzian conceptions, with their checkerboard and geometrical analogies, were plausible enough when applied to the medium sized armies operating in the French-German-Italian theatre of the Napoleonic period.
ref: 1916 January, Arthur L. Conger, “Moltke's Plans of Campaign”, in Military Historian and Economist, volume 1, page 297:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Antoine-Henri Jomini (1779–1869), military general and celebrated writer on the Napoleonic art of war.
nonxerophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + xerophilic.
Senses: glosses: Not xerophilic.
extremotolerant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extremotolerant
form: most extremotolerant
Etymology: From extreme + -o- + tolerant.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Capable of tolerating extreme environmental conditions.
Derived terms: polyextremotolerant
syngamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From syngamy + -ous or syn- + -gamous.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or pertaining to syngamy.
triable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From try + -able.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Capable of being tried.
untriable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + triable.
Senses: glosses: Not triable.
unpickle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unpickles
form: unpickling
form: unpickled
form: unpickled
Etymology: From un- + pickle.
Senses: examples: text: To reconstruct the message, the receiver must strip the length header, read the entire message, unpickle the contents, and call logging.makeLogRecord().
ref: 2009, David M. Beazley, Python essential reference, page 362:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To deserialize.
raw_tags: in the Python programming language
unpickling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unpickle
unpickles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unpickle
deconstructor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːkənˈstɹʌktə(ɹ)/
ipa: /diːkənˈstɹʊktə/
Forms: form: deconstructors
Etymology: From deconstruct + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, deconstructs.
deconstructors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deconstructor
Talleyrandian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Talleyrandian
form: most Talleyrandian
Etymology: From Talleyrand + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838), French diplomat in the era of the French Revolution.
Zamoran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Zamoran
form: most Zamoran
Etymology: From Zamora + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Good hearty Zamoran and Castilian fare at reasonable prices, with a pleasant terrace outside.
ref: 2004, Mary-Ann Gallagher, Andy Symington, Footprint Spain, page 181:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the city of Zamora, Spain.
Zamoran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zamorans
Etymology: From Zamora + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Zamora.
Zamorans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zamoran
oversheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oversheets
Etymology: From over- + sheet.
Senses: examples: text: The usual procedure in such areas is to construct, on an oversheet of transparent paper, the entire land net of the area to be mapped.
ref: 1951, American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, Surveying and mapping: Volume 11:
glosses: A sheet placed over the top of something.
oversheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oversheet
Gmailers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gmailer
criticproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more criticproof
form: most criticproof
Etymology: From critic + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: No one disputes Lloyd Webber's talent for promotion. He always opens in London and wins over British audiences before heading to the vastly more expensive Broadway stage. The result is a criticproof show.
ref: 1988, U.S. news & world report: Volume 104, Issues 1-8:
text: The fourth Naked Brothers movie, which will be shown on Nickelodeon Friday night, is clumsy but criticproof.
ref: 2008 June 6, Susan Stewart, “One Bus, Many Plot Twists”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resistant to negative responses from critics.
Related terms: audience-proof
protomodern
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more protomodern
form: most protomodern
Etymology: From proto- + modern.
Senses: examples: text: Robert Mallet's protomodern seismology in the mid-19th century CE
text: Fenton, for example, veers from Victorian to protomodern.
ref: 2008 June 6, Roberta Smith, “Aristocracy of Talent for an Egalitarian Art”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of an earlier style approaching what is now modern.
Related terms: protomodernism
protomodernity
shipbrokers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shipbroker
shipbroking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ship + broking.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The work of a shipbroker, negotiating between shipowners and people wanting to charter shipping.
superterrorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superterrorists
Etymology: From super- + terrorist.
Senses: examples: text: But it was also the first public appearance by Mr. Mohammed, who has long cast himself in the role of superterrorist, claiming responsibility in the past not only for the 2001 plot, but for some 30 others, including the murder of Daniel Pearl, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal.
ref: 2008 June 6, William Glaberson, “Arraigned, 9/11 Defendants Talk of Martyrdom”, in New York Times:
glosses: A powerful, influential terrorist.
superterrorists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superterrorist
brocadelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brocadelike
form: most brocadelike
Etymology: From brocade + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, a Tang mortuary tablet seals the impression of unity and refinement in its copious brocadelike relief.
ref: 2008 June 7, Roberta Smith, “Chinese Buddhist Treasures, Written in Stone”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of brocade.
bujo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He recalled the one where Gypsies ran a bujo scam, promising to cleanse supposedly cursed money and filching it instead.
ref: 2008 June 7, Jon Pareles, “He Still Loves New Orleans, and Now He’s Mad”, in New York Times:
glosses: A confidence trick in which the victim is falsely diagnosed with a curse or other ailment that can supposedly only be cured by the trickster.
bujo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bujos
Etymology: Clipping of Bullet Journal, a registered trademark, so named from the frequent use of bullet points to organize information in them.
Senses: examples: text: My bujo is full of doodles, pencil-colored drawings, washi tape and post it notes.
ref: 2017 September, Jackie Loudin, “Bullet Journaling: It's Just My Style”, in Around Canton, page 38:
text: On a rather ordinary Thursday morning I settled into my office in O'Connor House — pushing aside towering book stacks and reaching for my bujo (bullet journal) — when I heard a shrieking yowl down the hall.
ref: 2019 April 18, Krista Dalton, “Moxie may be 'banned' from O'Conner, but only out of love”, in The Kenyon Collegian, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, page 10:
text: […] in my opinion, this free desktop app is an apt substitute for even the most bujo-crazed stationery fanatics.
ref: 2020 December 17, Angelina Zahajko, “I Reviewed the Internet's Best Study Apps, So You Don't Have to”, in The Innis Herald, Innis College, Toronto, ON, page 5:
glosses: A bullet journal, a type of structured, aesthetically-oriented journal or planner.
corduroylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more corduroylike
form: most corduroylike
Etymology: From corduroy + -like.
Senses: examples: text: One of the oldest works, a rather primitive tomb door from the Eastern Han (25 to 220), shows a dragon chasing a bird above a wonderfully crude crowned mask; their smooth silhouettes are defined by a roughly chiseled corduroylike background whose parallel lines also bring to mind Jasper Johns’s crosshatch patterns.
ref: 2008 June 7, Roberta Smith, “Chinese Buddhist Treasures, Written in Stone”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of corduroy.
postcampaign
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + campaign.
Senses: examples: text: So with Mrs. Clinton ready to endorse Mr. Obama in a speech on Saturday, the vanquished candidate faces her first postcampaign test.
ref: 2008 June 7, Jodi Kantor, “Clinton Bloc Becomes the Prize for Election Day”, in New York Times:
glosses: After a political campaign.
supermajors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supermajor
hyperauthentic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperauthentic
form: most hyperauthentic
Etymology: From hyper- + authentic.
Senses: examples: text: To overcome that lingering legacy, the younger Bush was all but compelled to become almost hyperauthentic in his Texan identity, and it was a role he took to with much gusto.
ref: 2004, John Karaagac, The fate of the father: the Bush policy paradox, page 23:
text: Isn’t this hyperauthentic narrative of Vietnamese victimhood just the sort of thing calculated to tug at the heartstrings — and wallets — of liberal American readers?
ref: 2008 June 8, Hari Kunzru, “Outside Ethnicity”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very highly authentic.
microculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microcultures
form: micro-culture
Etymology: From micro- + culture.
Senses: examples: text: (This is not to be confused with the microculture of bands like the NESKimos and the Advantage, who perform live versions of Nintendo game songs.)
ref: 2008 June 8, Ben Ratliff, “Folk in Death-Metal, Nintendo in Techno”, in New York Times:
text: But brands will always need someone to explain TikTok microcultures to old losers.
ref: 2022 February 16, Allison P. Davis, “A Vibe Shift Is Coming – Will any of us survive it?”, in New York, →ISSN:
glosses: A very small (niche) culture.
Derived terms: microcultural
microculturally
Related terms: subculture
macroculture
microcultures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microculture
prefinished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prefinish
prefinished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A listing of renovation tips with an article last Sunday about brokers who advise owners to keep resale in mind when renovating their apartments referred incompletely to the life span of prefinished floors.
ref: 2008 June 8, Teri Karush Rogers, “Renovation Tips”, in New York Times:
glosses: Given a finish at the time of manufacture.
nonconcession
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + concession.
Senses: examples: text: Yet even as the two establishment candidates huffed and puffed to assert their authority, they seemed terrified by Mr. Obama’s insurgency, as if it were the plague in Edgar Allan Poe’s “Masque of the Red Death.” Mrs. Clinton held her nonconcession speech in a Manhattan bunker, banishing cellphone reception and television monitors carrying the news of Mr. Obama’s clinching of the nomination. Mr. McCain, laboring under the misapprehension that he was wittily skewering his opponent, compulsively invoked the Obama-patented mantra of “change” 33 times in his speech.
ref: 2008 June 8, Frank Rich, “One Historic Night, Two Americas”, in New York Times:
glosses: Absence of concession; failure or refusal to concede.
rehone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rehones
form: rehoning
form: rehoned
form: rehoned
Etymology: From re- + hone.
Senses: examples: text: Usually more maddening, […] acidic foods literally gnaw away at the surface of marble countertops, which require rehoning to restore.
ref: 2008 June 8, Teri Karush Rogers, “Renovation Tips”, in New York Times:
glosses: To hone again or anew.
rehones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rehone
rehoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rehone
rehoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rehone
supersleek
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supersleek
form: most supersleek
Etymology: From super- + sleek.
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, while the big boys were designing their supersleek megabuildings, it was Tolla and Lignano’s container fetish that got them not one job but two.
ref: 2008 June 8, Pilar Viladas, “A Lot-Ek Solution”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very sleek.
underdrawings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underdrawing
detainments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of detainment
exaflop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exaflops
Etymology: From exa- + FLOP.
Senses: examples: text: The next thousandfold goal is the exaflop, which is a quintillion calculations per second, followed by the zettaflop, the yottaflop and the xeraflop.
ref: 2008 June 9, John Markoff, “Military Supercomputer Sets Record”, in New York Times:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: 10¹⁸ floating-point operations per second.
exaflops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exaflop
heterodoxies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterodoxy
cackly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cackly
form: most cackly
Etymology: From cackle + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: His voice rises and falls in a sly, scratchy singsong — no wonder he calls himself Weezy — that can sound like a cackly old man or a wisecracking kid.
ref: 2008 June 10, Jon Pareles, “Rapper’s Road to Pop”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characterised by cackling.
nanofibril
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanofibrils
Etymology: From nano- + fibril.
Senses: examples: text: A cross-section of a cellulose nanofibril film.
ref: 2008 June 10, Henry Fountain, “New Type of Paper Won’t Let You Just Rip It Apart”, in New York Times:
glosses: A nanoscale fibril.
nanofibrils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanofibril
planetward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more planetward
form: most planetward
Etymology: From planet + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: Astronomers have known that F’s appearance is in large part due to Prometheus, a small “shepherd” moon on its planetward side that comes close to the ring regularly because of orbital vagaries.
ref: 2008 June 10, Henry Fountain, “Activity in Saturn Ring May Provide Clues to Birth of Solar System”, in New York Times:
glosses: Towards a planet.
planetward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more planetward
form: most planetward
Etymology: From planet + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Towards a planet.
postverdict
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + verdict.
Senses: examples: text: Instead, they will hear Philip Morris’s appeal only on the second question, which applies to this convoluted case, now in its ninth postverdict year, and to no other.
ref: 2008 June 10, Linda Greenhouse, “Justices to See Philip Morris Case a Third Time”, in New York Times:
glosses: After a verdict.
spermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)mɪk
Etymology: From sperm + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: But whenever the female lays a clutch of eggs, the male is well positioned to fertilize them by releasing a spermic plume.
ref: 2008 June 10, Natalie Angier, “Tallying the Toll on an Elder of the Sea”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to sperm.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to seeds.
Derived terms: heterospermic
homospermic
thornapple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thornapples
Senses: examples: text: Plants’ social life may have remained mysterious for so long because, as researchers have seen in studies of species like sagebrush, strawberries and thornapples, the ways plants sense can be quite different from the ways in which animals do.
ref: 2008 June 10, Carol Kaesuk Yoon, “Loyal to Its Roots”, in The New York Times:
text: Hussain, who has been editing Wikipedia articles for a decade, dutifully edited pages relating to the coronavirus' spread in India during the early days of the pandemic, but the thornapple story forced a rethink.
ref: 2021 June 27, Jackson Ryan, “Wikipedia is at war over the coronavirus lab leak theory”, in CNET:
glosses: Alternative form of thorn apple.
thornapples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thornapple
ungirdled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ungirdle
ungirdled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + girdled.
Senses: examples: text: In a single traveling shot, held an outrageously long time, De Sica simply records the astounding sight of an ungirdled Ms. Loren, playing a Neapolitan pizza-maker, as she walks the length of a crowded street, moving in ways that definitely do not bring marble to mind.
ref: 2008 June 10, Dave Kehr, “New DVDs: Deneuve and Loren Still Haunt the Screen”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without a girdle.
girderless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From girder + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without girders.
minibiography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: minibiographies
Etymology: From mini- + biography.
Senses: examples: text: “Back Nine“ is really three minibiographies.
ref: 2008 June 11, Richard Sandomir, “When Golf’s Past, Present and Future Met in Denver”, in New York Times:
glosses: A short biography.
minibiographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minibiography
minibeasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minibeast
pestos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pesto
precool
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: precools
form: precooling
form: precooled
form: precooled
Etymology: From pre- + cool.
Senses: examples: text: In some places, the air conditioning was turned up earlier in the day to precool buildings, and then turned down during peak hours.
ref: 2008 June 11, Ken Belson, “Records Tumble and Sweaty New Yorkers Grumble as Heat Persists”, in New York Times:
glosses: To cool in advance.
vocoderlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vocoderlike
form: most vocoderlike
Etymology: From vocoder + -like.
Senses: examples: text: On “Figured Me Out,” he ran his vocals through a vocoderlike filter that rendered them robotic, like the voice of Zapp’s singer Roger Troutman or a more recent cyborg aspirant, T-Pain.
ref: 2008 June 11, Jon Caramanica, “A Soulful Sojourn Backtracks to Voltage”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a vocoder.
precools
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of precool
precooling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of precool
precooled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of precool
dethatch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dethatches
form: dethatching
form: dethatched
form: dethatched
Etymology: From de- + thatch.
Senses: examples: text: The services available vary widely, from basic tasks like mowing and edging walkways and flower beds to more involved work like trimming shrubs and bushes, applying fertilizer and pesticides, and dethatching, which removes layers of dead grass.
ref: 2008 June 12, Jay Romano, “Grass, Simplified: Hire Someone”, in New York Times:
glosses: To abrade the surface of a lawn or turf in order to remove dead grass.
Derived terms: dethatcher
dethatches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dethatch
dethatching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dethatch
dethatched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dethatch
dethatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dethatchers
Etymology: From dethatch + -er.
Senses: examples: text: You can also rent a power dethatcher from a tool rental company. Have them teach you how to start and run the dethatcher; most are operated much like a lawn mower.
ref: 1987, Lawn & garden, page 87:
text: The dethatcher has blades that cut perpendicular to the lawn, thereby removing the dead debris called thatch, which can easily build up in a lawn.
ref: 1988, Stefan Buczacki, Conran's basic book of home gardening:
text: While you can remove thatch from small areas with a metal garden rake or hand cultivator, you ought to rent a dethatcher for working over large areas of grass.
ref: 1998, Landscape Projects, →ISBN:
glosses: A device for dethatching, similar to a lawnmower but with vertical rotating blades.
dethatchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dethatcher
hyperprivileged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperprivileged
form: most hyperprivileged
Etymology: From hyper- + privileged.
Senses: examples: text: Now, Mrs. Burch seems to be on a mission to offset her hyperprivileged image as the personification of her thriving lifestyle-brand with a “common touch.”
ref: 2008 June 12, Cintra Wilson, “Be Old Money or Just Look Like It”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very highly privileged.
ikats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ikat
postprimary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + primary.
Senses: glosses: After primary school.
examples: text: Barack Obama is having the first postprimary crisis, a moment in which the only conceivable response is: what was he thinking?
ref: 2008 June 12, Gail Collins, “Barack’s Bad Day”, in New York Times:
topics: government
politics
glosses: After a primary election.
rulemakings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rulemaking
vendibles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vendible
O mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: O marks
Senses: glosses: A circle that serves as a check mark in Japanese: ◯.
O marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of O mark
X mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: X marks
Senses: glosses: A symbol composed of two perpendicular lines (✗), especially when representing negation or lack of verification.
X marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of X mark
maniverter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maniverters
Etymology: Blend of manifold + converter
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A component that integrates the functions of exhaust manifold and catalytic converter.
photographist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photographists
Etymology: From photograph + -ist or photography + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: No photographist can picture them, no words can describe them, no fancy can sketch them.
ref: 1922, Thomas De Witt Talmage quoted in The Wisdom and Wit of T. De Witt Talmage, George H. Doran Company; page #112
synonyms: photographer
glosses: One who produces photographs.
photographists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photographist
bearly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bearly
form: most bearly
Etymology: From bear + -ly. Compare bearlike.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of bears; ursine.
examples: text: He was going to be a bearly bear. With a bearly mate.
ref: 1930, Hearst's international combined with Cosmopolitan, volume 89:
text: Past two years old Keg was now, a big and very bearly bear, and with the first tocsin of fall in the air he'd wandered off toward Sugar-loaf, answering the call of his kind.
ref: 1955, Agnes L. McCarthy, James Kenner Agnew, Prose and poetry for appreciation:
glosses: Misspelling of barely.
examples: text: All acting like nothing even happened at all. (Then, a half hour later) Boom! BOOOM!! (There's a poundin down at the door) As Jeanie goes ta answer it, as im in the kitchen getting cereal. As another Big bearly Man Comes barging in.
ref: 2010, Clydal Vania, On the Flight to Nowhere:
glosses: Misspelling of burly.
fustianed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fustian + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: His clothes were of fustian, and his boots hobnailed, yet in his progress he showed not the mud-accustomed bearing of hobnailed and fustained peasantry.
ref: 1883 March, Thomas Hardy, “The Three Strangers”, in Wessex Tales: Strange, Lively, and Commonplace […], volume I, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1888, →OCLC, pages 12–13:
glosses: Wearing fustian.
nonrooted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + rooted.
Senses: examples: text: Agile and silly and charming, he was a good entertainer, and he enjoyed the nonrooted, free-spirited life of a street performer.
ref: 2009 August 23, Deborah Sontag, “Send In the Skinny, German, Juggling, Lederhosen-Wearing Clown”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without a root or roots.
grog-blossom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grog-blossoms
Senses: glosses: The network of burst blood vessels on the face and particularly the nose of a heavy drinker.
biohazard symbols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biohazard symbol