cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Kimberly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kimberlys
Etymology: Variant spelling of Kimberley.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
examples: text: What was her name? Kimberly. ( - - - ) Jesus, everybody was named Kimberly, four in her class. Three guys named Sean. Kimberly with her soap opera name tried to fix herself, punched all those holes in her ears trying to look pretty, trying to decorate herself.
ref: 1988, Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs, page 210:
glosses: A unisex given name transferred from the surname, popular in the 1960s and the 1970s.
glosses: Any of several places in the US named for persons with the surname:
A city in Jefferson County, Alabama.
glosses: Any of several places in the US named for persons with the surname:
A sparsely populated incorporated town in Pike County, Arkansas.
glosses: Any of several places in the US named for persons with the surname:
A city in Twin Falls County, Idaho.
glosses: Any of several places in the US named for persons with the surname:
A township and unincorporated community therein, in Aitkin County, Minnesota.
glosses: Any of several places in the US named for persons with the surname:
An unincorporated community in Randolph County, Missouri.
glosses: Any of several places in the US named for persons with the surname:
A ghost town in White Pine County, Nevada.
glosses: Any of several places in the US named for persons with the surname:
An unincorporated community in Grant County, Oregon.
glosses: Any of several places in the US named for persons with the surname:
A ghost town in Piute County, Utah.
glosses: Any of several places in the US named for persons with the surname:
A census-designated place in Fayette County, West Virginia.
glosses: Any of several places in the US named for persons with the surname:
An unincorporated community in Monongalia County, West Virginia.
glosses: Any of several places in the US named for persons with the surname:
A village in Outagamie County, Wisconsin.
Related terms: Kimberley
wantonly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒntənli/
Forms: form: more wantonly
form: most wantonly
Etymology: From Middle English wantounly, wantounliche, equivalent to wanton + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Undoubtedly Madam—and it has always been a sentiment of mine—that to propagate a malicious Truth wantonly—is more despicable than to falsify from Revenge […]
ref: 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, II.ii:
text: I believe that I have no enemy on earth, and none surely would have been so wicked as to destroy me wantonly.
ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter VII, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume I, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, page 166:
glosses: in a wanton manner.
Related terms: wontedly
out of the frying pan, into the fire
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: out of the frying pan into the fire
form: out of the frying pan and into the fire
Senses: glosses: Move or get from an already bad situation to a worse one; end up in a worse situation when trying to escape from a bad or difficult one.
Related terms: fall between two stools
barrel child
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barrel children
Etymology: From the barrels or containers of items supposedly sent by the parents.
Senses: glosses: A child who is abandoned or left behind by their parents who are seeking a better life abroad.
barrel children
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barrel child
policy wonk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: policy wonks
Senses: examples: text: Mondale's passionate attachment to the issue reflects his thralldom to the policy wonks and wise men of the Washington establishment.
ref: 1984 Oct. 29, New Republic, p. 16
text: Kirk O'Donnell, 42, who recently joined the campaign staff, is a unique combination of Boston pol and "policy wonk" who is best known in Washington as Tip O'Neill's former right-hand man, the guy who sold the speaker's program to the congressional troops.
ref: 1988 July 25, Joe Klein, “'President Dukakis': what the First Hundred Days Could be Like”, in New York Magazine, volume 21, number 29, page 27:
text: Clinton and Gore . . . . both are new-ideas moderates with a policy wonk's love of the intricacies of complex issues.
ref: 1992 July 20, Walter Shapiro, “Gore A Hard-Won Sense of Ease”, in Time:
text: But access to ministers is not the only reason right-of-centre policy wonks are excited.
ref: 2010, The Economist, Jul-Aug, p. 25
topics: government
politics
glosses: A person who studies or develops strategies and policies, especially one who has a keen interest in and aptitude for technical details.
Synonyms: theoretician
organogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organogeneses
Etymology: From organo- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: the formation and development of the organs of an organism from embryonic cells
skadaddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of skedaddle.
jamboree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdʒæm.bəˈɹiː/
Forms: form: jamborees
Etymology: Unknown 19th-century American slang. Chosen by Baden-Powell in 1919 for use in the Scout Movement.
Senses: examples: text: George reeling quietly through the heavy revolving doors into this elderly place. To tip toe across the fat carpet and whisper boo at the reception desk.
"Can I help you sir."
Smith looking out at the eyes. Holding the counter with uncertain hands. Mouth opening and closing. Eyes fixed on all the hanging keys. To open doors. Shirl seems to stand somewhere behind this desk. With her unlit heart. However cold you get, remember me. Gripped in solitude. There can't be a jamboree all the time.
ref: 1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), pages 244, 245:
glosses: A boisterous or lavish celebration or party.
examples: text: [']Chuck us down that net on top of the lockers, Stalky.' / 'That's all right. It's a collapsible jamboree, too. Beastly luxurious dogs these fags are. Built like a fishin'-rod.[']
ref: 1898 August, Rudyard Kipling, “‘In Ambush’”, in Stalky & Co., London: Macmillan & Co., published 1899, →OCLC, page 4:
text: 1899m W. A. Fraser, "Raja Singh and Other Elephants" in McClure's Magazinehttps://www.google.com/books/edition/McClure_s_Magazine/8C9NAQAAMAAJ?hl=es&gbpv=1&dq=%22A+Calcutta-made+pony+cart+had+been+standing%22&pg=PA42&printsec=frontcover
A Calcutta-made pony cart had been standing in front of the manager's bungalow when Raja Singh started on his jamboree.
glosses: A frolic or spree.
examples: text: The campfires provide enough plain old regular visible light to show this sorry affair for what it is: a bunch of demented Boy Scouts, a jamboree without merit badges or hygiene.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 243:
text: According to recent revelations, much of the jamboree’s 117.1bn won (£700,000) budget was spent on the operation of the organising committee, which seems to have included many lavish trips abroad, sometimes to countries such as Switzerland and Italy that have never hosted jamborees.
ref: 2023 August 9, Raphael Rashid, “‘Worst nightmare’: South Korea mulls disastrous Scout jamboree”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
qualifier: scouting
glosses: A large rally of Scouts or Guides.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: In euchre: an undefeatable hand containing the five highest cards.
Derived terms: camporee
freezoree
Related terms: jamborette
jamboree
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdʒæm.bəˈɹiː/
Forms: form: jamborees
form: jamboreeing
form: jamboreed
form: jamboreed
Etymology: Unknown 19th-century American slang. Chosen by Baden-Powell in 1919 for use in the Scout Movement.
Senses: glosses: To take part in a jamboree.
arachnids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arachnid
algorithms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæl.ɡə.ɹɪðəmz/
/ˈæl.ɡəɹ.ɹɪ.ðəmz/
/ˈæl.ɡə.ɹɪðmz/
/ˈæl.ɡəɹ.ɹɪðmz/
Senses: glosses: plural of algorithm
cache-sexe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkaʃˌsɛks/
Forms: form: cache-sexes
Etymology: Borrowed from French cache-sexe, from cacher (“to hide”) + sexe (“genital organ(s)”).
Senses: examples: text: […] everyone, man or woman, must put on a little triangle of cloth, a cache-sexe, a G-string, before going inside the village.
ref: 2004, Robert A Heinlein, Glory Road:
text: The mother of such a baby rises before dawn and removes her cache-sexe (a small piece of cloth that every woman wears as an undergarment).
ref: 1990, Peggy Reeves Sanday, Ruth Gallagher Goodenough, Beyond the Second Sex: New Directions in the Anthropology of Gender:
glosses: An article of clothing sufficient to cover the genitalia, primarily as used by an exotic dancer or in certain aboriginal cultures.
Related terms: G-string
yeomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjəʊmən/
ipa: /ˈjəʊmɛn/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -əʊmən
Senses: glosses: plural of yeoman
woefully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more woefully
form: most woefully
Etymology: From Middle English wofully, equivalent to woeful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: to cry woefully
glosses: In a woeful manner
examples: text: woefully inadequate
text: woefully incapable
text: woefully ignorant
text: The attempt at diversity fell woefully short of dispelling straight stereotypes of us.
ref: 1979 December 29, Cindy Stein, “Queers in America's Living Rooms”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 23, page 10:
text: In our broken culture those who have experienced the training of the yogic ashram are often woefully ignorant in the ways of the university, and vice versa.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 219:
text: In a convulsion that has caught many in Brazil and beyond by surprise, waves of protesters denounced their leaders for dedicating so many resources to cultivating Brazil’s global image by building stadiums for international events, when basic services like education and health care remain woefully inadequate.
ref: 2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 Jun 2013:
text: For international services, London's High Speed 1 route to the Channel Tunnel remains woefully underused.
ref: 2025 April 16, Philip Haigh, “Competition hots up on the Channel Tunnel route”, in RAIL, number 1033, page 50:
glosses: To an unfortunately great extent.
ADAR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ADARs
form: ADA
Etymology: Derived from the initial letters of adenosine deaminase acting on RNA.
Senses: glosses: The enzyme adenosine deaminase that affects RNA, important in editing nuclear double stranded RNAs (from A to I) in higher eukaryotes, that work by acting to convert adenosines to insosines via hydrolytic deamination.
donum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: donums
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dunam.
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: regium donum
domina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒmɪnə/
Forms: form: dominas
form: dominae
Etymology: From Latin domina (“mistress”). Doublet of dame and donna.
Senses: examples: text: Each of the nuns was heard in her turn, while the others waited with the domina in the adjoining vestry.
ref: 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, page 29:
glosses: The head of a nunnery.
examples: text: Instead, Social Text "tarts up" the issue of sex work with sexy photos of dominas and cross-dressers, replicating, in a slightly more self-conscious and progressive way, the nineteenth-century exoticization[…]
ref: 1997, Rosemary Hennessy, Chrys Ingraham, Materialist feminism: a reader in class, difference, and women's lives, page 294:
text: Dominas therefore stress the emotional and physical skill, as well as the dangers, involved in commercial S/M[…]
ref: 2004, Pamela Church Gibson, More dirty looks: gender, pornography and power:
glosses: A dominatrix.
examples: text: A precious article is the paint with which the Roman domina was beautified; it was well worthy of the case of ivory and rock-crystal in which it was preserved.
ref: 1863 November 21, “Literary Extracts, &c.”, in The Hull News, number 621, Kingston upon Hull, E.R.Y., page 3, column 4:
text: “Can you translate this invitation? I hate to display my ignorance around your Latin students,” Mrs. Dooley, who was attired in a royal purple gown as a Roman domina, graciously complied, so if you’ve been worrying over the translation to the first paragraph, here ’tis.
ref: 1956 May 23, Jean Yothers, “On the Town”, in Orlando Sentinel, volume 66, number 272, Orlando, Fla., page 20, column 1:
text: Flavius on the other hand holds the career of the gladiator in high esteem, as despite running the unavoidable risk of death at every turn, gladiators are the most renowned and admired of all men and are sought after by the most beautiful and wealthy Roman dominae. […] Though dressed like Roman patrician dominae, their height, features and hair colour show that they are young Briton girls.
ref: 2012, Armando Roggero, The Revenge of the Ninth: Heading to Honor and Glory through Effort and Trial, Lulu, →ISBN, pages 71 and 152:
text: The ancient historian Horace remarked once that respectable women should not draw attention to themselves by using cosmetics, perfume, or hairpieces. However, that didn’t last long with the Roman dominas.
ref: 2012, J. F. Ridgley, Vows of Revenge, →ISBN, page 498:
text: The exotic mistress fulfilled the lust of his body, but her status came far short of entertaining him as he’d grown accustomed with fair Roman dominas, engaging their obscene wittiness and patrician prattle.
ref: 2017, Mary Dove, “Quintus”, in The End of Seven, Dog Ear Publishing, →ISBN, page 346:
glosses: An ancient Roman lady.
Related terms: dominus
ADARs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ADAR
toes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /təʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
ipa: /toʊz/
homophone: tows
Senses: glosses: plural of toe
toes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /təʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
ipa: /toʊz/
homophone: tows
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of toe
cherries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cherry
cherries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A rail-gap indicator.
cherries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cherry
gradus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹeɪdəs/
Forms: form: graduses
Etymology: From Gradus ad Parnassum (Latin, literally, a step to Parnassus), a 17th-century prosody dictionary long used in British schools. Doublet of grade.
Senses: glosses: A handbook used as an aid in a difficult art or practice, specifically, a dictionary of Greek or Latin prosody used as a guide in writing of poetry in Greek or Latin.
wikipedia: Gradus ad Parnassum
ott
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of OTT.
ott
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: otts
Etymology: Clipping of otter
Senses: glosses: An otter.
sundered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sunder
Sten gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sten guns
Etymology: An acronym, derived from the initials of the surnames of the weapon's chief designers, Major Reginald Shepherd and Harold Turpin, and Enfield, the location of the Royal Small Arms Factory (RSAF) in London.
Senses: glosses: A family of British 9 mm submachine guns used extensively by British and Commonwealth forces throughout World War II and numerous other conflicts.
suspension bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suspension bridges
Senses: glosses: A bridge whose deck or roadway is suspended from cables.
wikipedia: Brooklyn Bridge
medius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmiːdi.əs/
Forms: form: medii
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin from Latin medius (“middle”). See medium. Doublet of minge and middle.
Senses: examples: text: An analysis of the determined cases shows that the index was the digit most frequently amputated, next the medius, next the ring finger, next the thumb, and lastly the little finger
ref: 1876, Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion:
text: There is an interesting abnormality in finger length, the medius being especially long[…]
ref: 1945, Charlotte Wolff, A Psychology of Gesture:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The middle finger.
Related terms: gluteus medius
sonus medius
milium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪliəm
Forms: form: milia
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin milium.
Senses: topics: dermatology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A keratin-filled cyst that can appear just under the epidermis or on the roof of the mouth.
Synonyms: milk spot
oilseed
muller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌlə/
ipa: /ˈmʌləɹ/
rhymes: -ʌlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mullers
Etymology: From mull (“to heat and spice, etc.”, verb) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, mulls.
A person who mulls wine or other alcoholic beverages.
glosses: One who, or that which, mulls.
A vessel in which wine, etc., is mulled over a fire.
muller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌlə/
ipa: /ˈmʌləɹ/
rhymes: -ʌlə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʌlə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈmʌlə/
ipa: /ˈmʌləɹ/
rhymes: -ʌlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mullers
Etymology: From mull (“to mix (clay and sand) under a roller to prepare a mould”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns). Mull is possibly derived from mull (“(chiefly Northern England) to grind to powder, crumble, powder, pulverize”), from Middle English mollen, mullen (“to moisten (something); to soften (something) by making wet; to become liquid; to drizzle; to crumble or soften (something) by grinding; to fondle or pet (something)”), from Old French moillier, muillier (“to make wet”) (modern French mouiller), and from its etymon Vulgar Latin *molliāre, *mulliāre (“to make wet”), from Latin molliāre, the present active infinitive of molliō (“to soften”), from Latin mollis (“soft”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“to melt; to soften”) or *melh₂- (“to crush, grind”)) + -iō (suffix forming factitive verbs from adjectives).
Senses: examples: text: The muller can easily plow through any sand mixture that I put in it and has plenty of power left over.
ref: 2008, Stephen Chastain, Build a Muller, →ISBN, page 93:
topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: sand muller
glosses: A machine that mixes clay and sand under a roller for use in preparing a mould for metal casting.
muller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌlə/
ipa: /ˈmʌləɹ/
rhymes: -ʌlə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʌlə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʌlə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈmʌlə/
ipa: /ˈmʌləɹ/
rhymes: -ʌlə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʌlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mullers
Etymology: The noun is derived from Late Middle English molour, moler; further origin uncertain, possibly:
* from mull (“(Northern England) something reduced to fine particles”, noun) or mull (“(chiefly Northern England) to grind to powder, crumble, powder, pulverize”, verb) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns) (see etymology 2); or
* from an unattested Anglo-Norman or Middle French noun, from Old French moldre, moudre (“to grind”) (modern French moudre), from Latin molere, the present active infinitive of molō (“to grind, to mill”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to crush, grind”); or
* a variant of mullet (“(obsolete) stone for grinding”) + -er; mullet is derived from French molette (“pestle”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: The muller provides, in addition, a useful means of comparing the important property of the rate of strength development of pigments.
ref: 1994, John Wilder Tukey, David R. Brillinger, The collected works of John W. Tukey, →ISBN, page 607:
topics: art
arts
qualifier: pharmacy
glosses: A stone with a flat grinding surface, which is held in the hand and rubbed on a slab to grind paint pigments, medicinal powders, etc.
glosses: A device used for crushing or grinding.
muller
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌlə/
ipa: /ˈmʌləɹ/
rhymes: -ʌlə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʌlə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʌlə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈmʌlə/
ipa: /ˈmʌləɹ/
rhymes: -ʌlə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʌlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mullers
form: mullering
form: mullered
form: mullered
Etymology: The noun is derived from Late Middle English molour, moler; further origin uncertain, possibly:
* from mull (“(Northern England) something reduced to fine particles”, noun) or mull (“(chiefly Northern England) to grind to powder, crumble, powder, pulverize”, verb) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns) (see etymology 2); or
* from an unattested Anglo-Norman or Middle French noun, from Old French moldre, moudre (“to grind”) (modern French moudre), from Latin molere, the present active infinitive of molō (“to grind, to mill”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to crush, grind”); or
* a variant of mullet (“(obsolete) stone for grinding”) + -er; mullet is derived from French molette (“pestle”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: The mixing is conducted in a water-bath, and during this process, and as long as the phosphorus is being ground or ‘mullered,’ copious fumes are evolved.
ref: 1848, On Lucifer Matches, in the Pharmaceutical Journal, volume 7 (1847-8), page 523
glosses: To grind up (something) into, or as if into, powder.
muller
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌlə/
ipa: /ˈmʌləɹ/
rhymes: -ʌlə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʌlə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʌlə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈmʊlə/
ipa: /ˈmʌl-/
ipa: /ˈmʊləɹ/
ipa: /ˈmʌl-/
rhymes: -ʊlə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʌlə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈmʌlə/
ipa: /ˈmʌləɹ/
rhymes: -ʌlə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʌlə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʌlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mullers
form: mullering
form: mullered
form: mullered
Etymology: Probably from Angloromani mul-, the preterite stem of mer- (“to die”) (compare mullered, mullo (“dead”, adjective); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to die; to disappear”)) + English -er (suffix forming frequentative verbs).
Senses: glosses: To destroy (something); to ruin, to wreck.
examples: text: We walked down to the golf club to get a beer; they readily agreed as we went, it had been a dreadful game. Macca [Steve McMahon] asked Gazza [Paul Gascoigne], had he heard? – they were getting ‘mullered’ back home. […] Gazza said he wasn’t surprised, it was fair enough – and Macca said the same. He said he didn’t mind getting trashed, when they’d played a lousy game – what he hated was getting trashed for two weeks solid beforehand, when the Cup hadn’t even started.
ref: 1990, Pete Davies, “All Played Out: England–Ireland”, in All Played Out: The Full Story of Italia ’90, London: Mandarin Paperbacks, published 1991, →ISBN, page 235:
text: You needn't make so much fuss. Nobody's going to bother about you. It's me that's going to get mullered.
ref: 2001 June, Rebecca Tope, chapter 4, in Dark Undertakings, 1st St. Martin’s Minotaur (American) edition, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, section VIII, page 137:
text: Sure enough, they've got mullered. They're yesterday's men. The sands of time have washed over them.
ref: 2006, Jez Butterworth, The Winterling, →ISBN, page 39:
text: Then there were these zombie cult people in the beds, wires and stuff shoved into them, and then Yianna had these two minders and they were the ones who mullered us in Cairo, I swear, and one of them grabbed Con […]
ref: 2007, Stephen Cole, Thieves Like Us, page 220:
text: "They mullered him, Jimmy." Spider shook his head. "He was completely destroyed."
ref: 2009, Martina Cole, Close, →ISBN, page 286:
text: The boys couldn't stand idly by while three Wednesdayites got mullered; it was not the done thing.
ref: 2012, Anthony Cronshaw, Wednesday Rucks and Rock 'n' Roll: Tales from the East Bank:
glosses: To beat or thrash (someone).
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: outclass
glosses: To utterly defeat or outplay (a sportsperson, a team, etc.); to destroy, to thrash, to trounce.
Derived terms: english: probably
translation: probably
word: mullered
muller
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌlə/
ipa: /ˈmʌləɹ/
rhymes: -ʌlə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʌlə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʌlə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈmʊlə/
ipa: /ˈmʌl-/
ipa: /ˈmʊləɹ/
ipa: /ˈmʌl-/
rhymes: -ʊlə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʌlə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈmʊ-/
ipa: /ˈm(j)ʊ-/
rhymes: -ʌlə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʊlə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈmʌlə/
ipa: /ˈmʌləɹ/
rhymes: -ʌlə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʌlə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʌlə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈmʊlə/
ipa: /ˈmʌl-/
ipa: /ˈmʊləɹ/
ipa: /ˈmʌl-/
rhymes: -ʊlə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʌlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mullers
form: mullering
form: mullered
form: mullered
Etymology: Borrowed from German Müller, the surname of Franz Müller (1840–1864), a German tailor who was convicted and hanged for the robbery and murder of Thomas Briggs, a British banker, on a train. Müller was found in possession of, among other things, Briggs’ top hat, which he had altered by reducing the height of the crown by half and resewing it to the brim.
Senses: glosses: To cut down or reduce the height of (a top hat).
Related terms: english: top hat with a low or cut-down crown
translation: top hat with a low or cut-down crown
word: Müller
histoplasmosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: histoplasmoses
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A lung disease caused by a fungus, Histoplasma capsulatum, often asymptomatic otherwise with symptoms similar to those of flu.
Synonyms: sense: fungal lung disease
word: cave disease
sense: fungal lung disease
word: Darling's disease
sense: fungal lung disease
word: Ohio Valley disease
Related terms: histoplasmin
histoplasmotic
napus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of napu
pensum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pensums
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin pensum. Doublet of peso.
Senses: examples: text: You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it wept.
ref: 1955, Samuel Beckett, translated by Patrick Bowles, Molloy:
glosses: A task or imposition set as a school punishment.
pullus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulli
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin pullus.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: A chick; a young bird in the downy stage.
talpa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: talpae
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English talpa, from Latin talpa (“mole”). Doublet of taupe.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An encysted tumour on the head; a wen.
Bath chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑːθ t͡ʃɛə/
Forms: form: Bath chairs
form: bathchair
form: bath chair
Etymology: Named from Bath, the home of its inventor, James Heath.
Senses: examples: text: He was an invalid, keeping his bed half the time, and the other half hobbling round the house with a stick or being pushed about the grounds by the gardener in a Bath chair.
ref: 1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez, Norton, published 2005, page 1096:
glosses: An early form of wheelchair with three wheels, used to transport ladies or invalids, common in Victorian England.
clingfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clingfish
form: clingfishes
Etymology: From cling + fish.
Senses: glosses: A small marine fish of the family Gobiesocidae which has a sucking disc on its underside that it uses to cling to rocks and seaweed.
crepe de Chine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crepes de Chine
form: crepe de Chines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crêpe de Chine.
crêpe de Chine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crêpes de Chine
form: crepe de Chine
form: crepe de chine
form: crêpe de chine
Etymology: Borrowed from French crêpe de Chine.
Senses: glosses: A fine, thin fabric, usually of silk, that is used to make dresses or blouses.
crepe de chine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crêpe de Chine.
crêpe de chine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crêpe de chines
form: crêpes de chine
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crêpe de Chine.
OSDL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Open Source Development Labs.
clangour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæŋɚ/
ipa: /ˈklæŋɡɚ/
rhymes: -æŋə(ɹ)
rhymes: -æŋɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: clangours
form: clangor
Etymology: From Latin clangor.
Senses: examples: text: When every least commander’s will, best soldiers had obey’d, / And both the hosts were rang’d for fight, the Trojans would have fray’d / The Greeks with noises; crying out, in coming rudely on / At all parts, like the cranes that fill with harsh confusion / Of brutish clangour all the air; […]
ref: [1611?], Homer, “Book III”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC, page 80:
text: 1920, D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love, Chapter XXIV: Death and Love,
And always, as the dark, inchoate eyes turned to him, there passed through Gerald's bowels a burning stroke of revolt, that seemed to resound through his whole being, threatening to break his mind with its clangour, and making him mad.
text: H. G. Wells' stark short story "The Cone" tells of a man's macabre revenge worked out in the clangour of a great steel works and railway lines and sidings.
ref: 1957 May 24, Neil Caplan, “Railways in English Fiction”, in Railway Magazine, page 349:
glosses: A loud, repeating clanging sound; a loud racket; a din.
Derived terms: clangorous
clangorously
clangour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæŋɚ/
ipa: /ˈklæŋɡɚ/
rhymes: -æŋə(ɹ)
rhymes: -æŋɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: clangours
form: clangouring
form: clangoured
form: clangoured
form: clangor
Etymology: From Latin clangor.
Senses: examples: text: It clangoured through the house like a bell in a tomb.
ref: 1924, Jim Tully, Beggars of Life: A Hobo Autobiography, page 67:
glosses: To make a clanging sound.
clangor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clangors
Senses: glosses: Canada, US standard spelling of clangour.
Derived terms: clangorous
clangor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clangors
form: clangoring
form: clangored
form: clangored
Senses: glosses: Canada, US standard spelling of clangour.
unworried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unworried
form: most unworried
Etymology: From un- + worried.
Senses: examples: text: PSCs [passenger service contracts] will entail GBR [Great British Railways] paying a fee to the operator to run the trains, while fares go to GBR. Taxpayer money can be fed into GBR through grants from the DfT. This will leave operators unworried about the wider state of the economy and its effect on passenger numbers.
ref: 2021 November 3, Philip Haigh, “Change is coming... and "it's going to be ruddy hard"”, in RAIL, number 943, page 53:
synonyms: word: carefree
word: unconcerned
word: airy
word: at ease
word: at peace
word: carefree
word: careless
word: casual
word: chill
word: cool
word: devil-may-care
word: easy-breezy
word: easygoing
word: happy-go-lucky
word: indifferent
word: insouciant
word: laid-back
word: leisurely
word: lighthearted
word: loose
word: mellow
word: nonchalant
word: pococurante
word: relaxed
word: serene
word: solute
word: tranquil
word: unanxious
word: unbothered
word: unconcerned
word: undisturbed
word: unruffled
word: untroubled
word: unworried
word: wanton
glosses: Free of worries.
Derived terms: unworriedly
pianola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pi.əˈnəʊlə/
rhymes: -əʊlə
Forms: form: pianolas
Etymology: From piano + -ola.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: player piano
glosses: A mechanical piano which uses a roll of perforated paper to operate its keys, instead of being played by a pianist.
topics: bridge
games
glosses: A hand that is easy to play, i.e. one that "plays itself".
Derived terms: pianolist
paua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑːwə/
ipa: /ˈpɐːwɘ/
Forms: form: pauas
form: paua
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori pāua.
Senses: examples: text: “Hey, we got paua for tea, Himi!” he calls, and comes to the base of the cliff.
ref: 1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 203:
glosses: Any of several large, edible abalones of New Zealand, especially Haliotis iris, whose shell is used to make jewelry.
glosses: The shell of this mollusc.
glosses: A fish hook made from this shell.
collarbone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collarbones
form: collar-bone
form: collar bone
Etymology: From Middle English colar bane; equivalent to collar + bone.
Senses: glosses: The bone joining the shoulder and the breastbone.
Synonyms: clavicle
Derived terms: collarboned
kaju
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kajus
Senses: glosses: cashew nut
collar-bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collar-bones
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of collarbone.
Franciscan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹænˈsɪsk(ə)n/
rhymes: -ɪskən
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Late Latin Franciscānus (“(noun) friar of the order of Saint Francis; (adjective) of or from the order of Saint Francis”) + English -an (suffix forming agent nouns; and meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Franciscānus is derived from Franciscus (“the given name Francis, the name of Saint Francis of Assisi (c. 1181 – 1226)”) + Latin -ānus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’, denoting relationships of origin, position, or possession); and Franciscus from Francia (“region inhabited or ruled over by the Franka, Frankia”) (apparently a nickname from Francis’s father, an Italian merchant who worked in France) + -iscus (suffix forming adjectives).
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Of or pertaining to Saint Francis of Assisi.
examples: text: Holy Franciſcan Frier, brother, ho.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] Romeo and Iuliet. […] (Second Quarto), London: […] Thomas Creede, for Cuthbert Burby, […], published 1599, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], signature L, recto:
text: In his life time hee [Henry VII of England] founded the goodly Hoſpitall of the Sauoy, built ſixe religious Houſes for Franciſcan Friers, three of them for Obſeruants, and the other three for Conuentuals.
ref: 1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Henrie the Seventh, King of England and France, […]”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book IX ([Englands Monarchs] […]), paragraph 72, page 751, column 1:
text: And they vvho to be ſure of Paradiſe / Dying put on the vveeds of Dominic, / Or in Franciſcan think to paſs diſguis'd; […]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC, signature K2, verso, lines 478–480:
text: So much for the firſt claſs of the Mendicants. The moſt numerous is the Serafic, or Franciſcan order, divided into as many ſpecies as pleaſed the fancies of the founders.
ref: 1797, Robert Southey, “Of the State of Portugal”, in Letters Written during a Short Residence in Spain and Portugal, […], Bristol: […] Bulgin and Rosser, for Joseph Cottle, […], and G[eorge] G[eorge] and J[ohn] Robinson, and Cadell and Davies, […], →OCLC, page 418:
text: There, a Franciscan friar named Andrés Ivars asked that Fr. Císcar hear his confession before the friar was executed be firing squad.
ref: 2017 December 16, “These priests were martyred for refusing to violate the seal of confession”, in Catholic News Agency:
topics: Christianity
synonyms: Minorite
glosses: Of or pertaining to (Roman Catholicism) the Order of the Friars Minor, or (Protestantism, Roman Catholicism) to another religious order based on the rule of Francis of Assisi's original order.
Derived terms: franciscanite
acolytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acolyte
phlebotoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phlebotoxic
form: most phlebotoxic
Etymology: From phlebo- + toxic.
Senses: glosses: Being toxic or causing harm to veins.
aphylactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French aphylactique, probably coined by Nicolas Auguste Tissot in his 1881 book Mémoire sur la réprésentation des surfaces et les projections des cartes géographiques (Treatise on surface representations and map projections).
Ultimately from a- + Ancient Greek φυλακτικός (phulaktikós, “serving to preserve”) (see φύλαξις (phúlaxis)), since an aphylactic projection preserves neither angle nor area.
Senses: topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a map projection: Neither conformal or equal-area.
orthomorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀρθός (orthós, “straight”) + μορφή (morphḗ, “form, shape”).
Senses: topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: conformal
mosaicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mosaicisms
Etymology: From mosaic + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Some but not all of the cells that made up the fetus […] had an extra chromosome on the twentieth pair. A mosaicism, it was called.
ref: 2007, Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, 4th Estate (2010), page 14:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The condition in which more than one genetically distinct population of cells coexist within one individual.
Related terms: mosaic
fames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fame
fames
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fame
zenithal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɛn.ɪθəl/
ipa: /ˈzi.nɪθəl/
Etymology: From zenith + -al.
Senses: examples: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Phase the Fourth, Chapter 25,
[…] since he had last shared in the Vicarage life it had grown even more distinctly foreign to his own than usual. Its transcendental aspirations—still unconsciously based on the geocentric view of things, a zenithal paradise, a nadiral hell—were as foreign to his own as if they had been the dreams of people on another planet.
glosses: Of or pertaining to a zenith.
topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: Azimuthal.
raw_tags: of a projection
Derived terms: zenithal passage
Mössbauer effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mössbauer effects
Etymology: After Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the resonant and recoil-free emission and absorption of gamma rays by atoms in the solid state; the basis of a type of spectroscopy with applications in both physics and chemistry
wikipedia: Rudolf Mössbauer
Synonyms: nuclear gamma resonance fluorescence
gnomonic projection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gnomonic projections
Senses: topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: A mapping projection in which all great circle paths (on a sphere the shortest path between points) are shown as straight lines.
muonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muoniums
Etymology: From muon + -ium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An exotic atom formed when a positively charged muon (an anti-muon) and an electron are bound by their mutual electrical attraction; chemically equivalent to a light, short-lived isotope of hydrogen.
Synonyms: element 0
element zero
hydrogen-0
Mu
Derived terms: word: antimuonium
word: Mu
word: true muonium
Related terms: word: muononium
alt: muons
word: the onium form of mu leptons
word: positronium
exotic atom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exotic atoms
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the equivalent of an atom in which either the nucleus, or an electron, is replaced by some other subatomic particle
Coordinate terms: onium
muskeg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌskɛɡ/
Forms: form: muskegs
Etymology: From Cree ᒪᐢᑫᐠ (maskek).
Senses: examples: text: Here, in a decaying cluster of buildings, the Winnipeg train turns gratefully back to the south and hurries to leave behind it the anonymous tangle of forests and muskegs.
ref: 1952, Farley Mowat, People of the Deer, Key Porter, published 2005, page 2:
glosses: A terrain composed of peat bog with tussocky meadow and woody vegetation including spruce.
Derived terms: muskeggy
talea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taleae
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin talea, of uncertain origin. Possibly connected with Latin tālea (“cutting; scion”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A repeated rhythmic pattern used in isorhythm.
spooge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spuːd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -uːd͡ʒ
Forms: form: spooges
form: spoodge
Etymology: 1980's, probably imitative.
Senses: glosses: Any sealant or lubricant applied during the assembly of electronic equipment.
examples: text: (on the sanitary properties of kitchen knives) They give you the illusion of safety. I mean, look at all this area down in here. You get chicken spooge down in there, the germs check in, and they don't check out.
ref: 2003, Alton Brown, “Fit to Be Tied”, in Good Eats:
glosses: Semi-liquid gunk.
glosses: Semen.
spooge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spuːd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -uːd͡ʒ
Forms: form: spooges
form: spooging
form: spooged
form: spooged
form: spoodge
Etymology: 1980's, probably imitative.
Senses: glosses: To ejaculate.
witenagemot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwɪtənəjəməʊt/
Forms: form: witenagemots
form: wittenagemot
form: witenagemote
form: wittenagemote
form: wittena-gemote
form: wittena-gemot
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English witena ġemōt (literally “assembly of the wise”).
Senses: examples: text: To this study was necessarily added that of the ecclesiastical canons; and the knowledge of each must have given the clergy a great superiority, both as legislators in the witenagemot, and as magistrates in the different courts, at which it was their duty to attend.
ref: 1851, John Lingard, The Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Church, J Murphy, page 102:
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of several assemblies which existed in Anglo-Saxon England from the 7th to the 11th century, initially with regional jurisdiction (there being different ones in Essex, Kent, Mercia, Northumbria, Sussex and Wessex), later with national jurisdiction, made up of important noblemen.
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A specific session of such an assembly.
Related terms: gemote
witan
tornus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torni
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The bottom corner of a wing.
Related terms: tornal
pabular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pabulum + -ar.
Senses: examples: text: We shall however delight to follow our author in those pleasing meditations wherewith, under the ingenious fiction of Hortense, he introduces some of the most important subjects of pabular interest.
ref: 1850, Southern literary messenger, Conservative Cookery:
text: It is a well-known fact in Indian warfare that the sepoy always fights and marches best on a full stomach. Therefore, the advisableness of this pabular preparation was unquestionable.
ref: 1851, Edward Joseph Thackwell, Narrative of the Second Seikh war, in 1848-49, pages 82–83:
text: […] and as that species feeds indiscriminately on such varied trees as hazel, beech, and sallow, an extension of its pabular range is not surprising.
ref: 1866, The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, volume 2, page 86:
text: This pabular vocabulary will be eagerly embraced by all those interested in and engaged in food and its preparation from whatever culture and tradition they may come.
ref: 2000, Rodney Dale, The Wordsworth Dictionary of Culinary & Menu Terms, back cover:
glosses: Edible; of or pertaining to food.
pabulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pābulātiōn-, the stem of the Classical Latin pābulātiō (“action of collecting fodder or food; foraging”), from pābulor (“eat fodder, graze; collect fodder, forage”), from pābulum (“food, fodder”); compare the Middle French pabulation (“action of providing oneself with forage”).
Senses: examples: text: The bell rings, and the herd rush violently down into a steep place in the fore part of the vessel, and the Captain amuses us while the pabulation is going on.
ref: 1848, George Francklin Atkinson, Pictures from the North, in Pen and Pencil: Sketched during a Summer Ramble, John Ollivier, page 205:
text: Satisfied of this, Scobell commenced to fatten his comrade for another medical inspection, […] A week or two was enough for the process of pabulation; […]
ref: 1859, T. W. J. Connolly, The Romance of the Ranks, volume 1, Longman et al., page 142:
text: […] the country squire winces under the nauseous outpourings which are gulped as nectar by his shepherds and ploughmen. Again, the pabulation that would suit the squire, the shepherds and ploughmen would reject as dry and lifeless fetid bones.
ref: 1878, J. Turnbull Thomson, Social Problems: An Inquiry into the Law of Influences, C. Kegan Paul & Co., page 244:
text: What is formed into tissue or structure becomes, in turn, pabulum for others, and so on until all the elements which make up one organism, are finally restored to their original realm through the ceaseless round of pabulation.
ref: 1885 May, Hiram Christopher, “The Place in Creation and the Work in the Economy of Nature of Micro-Organisms”, in The Saint Louis Medical & Surgical Journal, volume 48, number 5, page 365:
text: The cyclostoma, as its name implies, has a circular mouth, and is, moreover, devoid of upper and lower jaws. An organism with such circumscribed capabilities for pabulation must have been limited, regarding its food supply, to stagnant slush that was brought near its stoma by friendly undulations of an emulsifying watery medium.
ref: 1918 June, J. A. Hagemann, “An Evolutional Aspect of the Pharyngeal Lymphatics”, in Medical Review of Reviews, volume 24, number 6, page 246:
glosses: The act of eating or feeding.
Related terms: pabulum
pabulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin pabulosus (“abounding in fodder”), from pabulum (“food or nourishment”).
Senses: glosses: nourishing
anabasius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anabasii
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀνάβασις (anábasis, “going out, mounting”).
Senses: glosses: A kind of courier who travelled on horseback or in a chariot, conveying messages and commands.