cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
prefork
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preforks
form: preforking
form: preforked
form: preforked
Etymology: From pre- + fork.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To fork (a process) in advance, so that additional similar processes are immediately available if required later.
preforks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prefork
preforking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prefork
preforked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prefork
green hairstreak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green hairstreaks
Senses: glosses: A small, green butterfly, Callophrys rubi, of the family Lycaenidae.
green hairstreaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green hairstreak
green-veined white
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green-veined whites
Senses: glosses: A white butterfly with prominent green veins, Pieris napi, of the family Pieridae
green-veined whites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green-veined white
grizzled skipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grizzled skippers
Senses: glosses: Any butterfly of the genus Pyrgus, of the family Hesperiidae.
glosses: A small, brown and white chequered butterfly of species Pyrgus malvae.
Derived terms: large grizzled skipper
grizzled skippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grizzled skipper
PTW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PTWs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of powered two-wheeler, a motorbike or similar vehicle.
topics: video-games
glosses: Initialism of pay to win.
cœloma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sēlōʹmə
ipa: /siːˈləʊmə/
Forms: form: cœlomata
Senses: examples: text: To avoid confusion, we will in future call this cavity the cœloma.
ref: 1879, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel [aut.; translator unknown], The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human Ontogeny and Phylogeny, volume 1 (1897, D. Appleton and company), chapter 9, page 260
glosses: Dated form of coelom.
denotatum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: denotata
Etymology: From Latin denotatum.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Something that is denoted; a referent.
fair-haired boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fair-haired boys
Senses: glosses: Someone's favorite, especially a young one; a blue-eyed boy (British), (Australian)
Synonyms: blue-eyed boy
teacher's pet
Related terms: golden boy
repyne
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repynes
form: repyning
form: repyned
form: repyned
Senses: examples: text: [VV]e are able with playne demonſtration to proue, and vvith reaſon to perſvvade that in tymes paſt our fayth vvas alike, that then vve preached thinges correſpondent vnto the forme of faith already published of vs, ſo that none in this behalfe can repyne or gaynesay vs.
ref: 1577, Socrates Scholasticus [i.e., Socrates of Constantinople], “Constantinus the Emperour Summoneth the Nicene Councell, it was Held at Nicæa a Citie of Bythnia for the Debatinge of the Controuersie about the Feast of Easter, and the Rootinge out of the Heresie of Arius”, in Eusebius Pamphilus, Socrates Scholasticus, Evagrius Scholasticus, Dorotheus, translated by Meredith Hanmer, The Avncient Ecclesiasticall Histories of the First Six Hundred Yeares after Christ, Wrytten in the Greeke Tongue by Three Learned Historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Euagrius. …, book I (The First Booke of the Ecclesiasticall Historye of Socrates Scholasticvs), imprinted at London: By Thomas Vautroullier dwelling in the Blackefriers by Ludgate, →OCLC, page 225:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of repine.
Huya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: the Wayuu rain god
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: 38628 Huya
glosses: a mid-sized Kuiper belt object and plutino
beknow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -əʊ
Forms: form: beknows
form: beknowing
form: beknew
form: beknown
Etymology: From Middle English beknowen, biknowen, from Old English becnāwan (“to know, know about”), equivalent to be- + know. Cognate with Old High German bichnāan (“to recognise, see”).
Senses: examples: text: At length Alkimedon, his friend and comrade, right beknew it; [...]
ref: 1856, Homer, Francis William Newman, The Iliad of Homer:
text: Do not think my reverend father that I am beknowing to all the affairs of the savages, there is a great deal wanting: they come to us about the affairs of their conscience, but as to the rest they consult us but little.
ref: 1859, United States Congress, Congressional edition - Page 354:
text: [...] when I went bolt into his dressing-room, not beknowing he was in it — why it is not likely, sir, that he comes again.
ref: 1888, The Argosy, volume 46:
text: Know I as soon as dark's dreams begin Snared is my heart in a nightmare's gin; Never from terror I out may win; So dawn and dusk I pine, peak, thin, Scarcely beknowing t'other from which—My great grandam—She was a Witch.
ref: 1922, Walter De la Mare, Down-adown-derry: a book of fairy poems:
glosses: To know about; have knowledge of; recognise; understand; be aware (of); be knowledgeable about.
examples: text: For vnto the no nombre can be layd
for to preſcrybe remiſſions off offence
In hertes retornd, as thow thy ſellff haſt ſayd.
And I, beknow my Fawt my neclegence [...]
ref: c. 1527–1542, Thomas Wyatt, “Penitential Psalms”, in Egerton MS 2711, page 93r:
glosses: To acknowledge; own; confess.
Derived terms: beknowing
beknown
beknit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beknits
form: beknitting
form: beknit
form: beknit
form: beknitted
form: beknitted
Etymology: From the Middle English *beknitten, from the Old English becnyttan (“to knit around; tie up; tie around; bind; surround”), equivalent to be- + knit.
Senses: glosses: To knit.
glosses: To girdle or encircle.
beknotted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒtɪd
Forms: form: more beknotted
form: most beknotted
Etymology: From be- + knotted.
Senses: glosses: Knotted again and again; covered with knots.
Derived terms: beknottedness
beknave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beknaves
form: beknaving
form: beknaved
form: beknaved
Etymology: From be- + knave.
Senses: glosses: To treat as a knave.
glosses: To call (someone) a knave.
beknight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈnaɪt/
ipa: /bɪˈnaɪt/
ipa: /bə-/
homophone: benight
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: beknights
form: beknighting
form: beknighted
form: beknighted
Etymology: From be- + knight.
Senses: synonyms: knight
glosses: To make a knight of.
wolfpacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wolfpack
bejumble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bejumbles
form: bejumbling
form: bejumbled
form: bejumbled
Etymology: From be- + jumble.
Senses: glosses: To throw into confusion; jumble.
beladle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beladles
form: beladling
form: beladled
form: beladled
Etymology: From be- + ladle.
Senses: glosses: To pour out with a ladle; ladle out.
belead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beleads
form: beleading
form: beled
form: beled
Etymology: From Middle English beleden, from Old English belǣdan (“to lead astray”), from Proto-West Germanic *bilaidijan, equivalent to be- + lead. Cognate with Dutch beleiden, German beleiten.
Senses: glosses: To lead away.
glosses: To lead; conduct.
twichild
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more twichild
form: most twichild
form: twychild
Etymology: From twi- + child.
Senses: glosses: Being in second childhood.
twiblade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twiblades
form: twyblade
Etymology: From twi- + blade.
Senses: glosses: Twayblade.
considerin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: considerin in her mind ... iffen the pleasure o gatherin some pokeberries an drawin dark purple picthures on a flat rock wi em would be worth the trouble...
ref: 2014, Lewis Carroll, Byron W. Sewell, Victoria J. Sewell, Alice's Adventures in an Appalachian Wonderland, Evertype,, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: present participle of consider
popular vote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: popular votes
Senses: examples: text: The president was elected even though he received only 40% of the popular vote.
hypernyms: vote#Noun
coordinate_terms: electoral vote
glosses: The total number of votes among a populace as an electorate.
twi-gated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From twi- + gated.
Senses: glosses: Having two gates; double-gated.
NAIOP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Association of Industrial and Office Properties.
useably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more useably
form: most useably
Etymology: From useable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of usably.
short change
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: short changes
form: short changing
form: short changed
form: short changed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shortchange.
short changes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of short change
short changing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of short change
short changed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of short change
short-change
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: short-changes
form: short-changing
form: short-changed
form: short-changed
Senses: examples: text: If you feel I have short-changed Brunel by not detailing all his accomplishments, it's only because he's so well known to us rail aficionados.
ref: 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chester (1848)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 57:
glosses: Alternative form of shortchange.
short-changes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of short-change
short-changing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of short-change
short-changed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of short-change
whitewater rafting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white-water rafting
form: white water rafting
Senses: examples: text: Scheduled, too, during the tour . . . is a visit to Big Bend Country, where jagged canyons cutting among towering limestone cliffs offer whitewater rafting on the Rio Grande.
ref: 1987 February 1, Lawrence Van Gelder, “Travel Advisory”, in New York Times, retrieved 09 May 2011:
text: Karleigh had been on a six-week African adventure holiday when she went whitewater rafting on the treacherous Zambesi River rapids.
ref: 2007, Sam Riches, "Family, friends mourn woman killed in rafting accident," adelaidenow.com (Australia), 15 Oct. (retrieved 9 May 2011)
text: Apart from ice hockey and football, Lavrov is said to be happiest going white water rafting and fishing with friends in Siberia.
ref: 2022 November 15, Patrick Wintour, “Sergei Lavrov, a fixture of Russian diplomacy facing his toughest test in Ukraine”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Traveling by raft through a section of a river which is churning with rapids, as for sport or adventurism.
white-water rafting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whitewater rafting.
white water rafting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whitewater rafting.
wiggle room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There was no wiggle room here, no leeway, no margin for error.
ref: 1999, Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins, Apollyon: The Destroyer is Unleashed, →ISBN, page 145:
text: "Nothing I know right now interests me in running," she said last week. But that leaves her some wiggle room, should things change.
ref: 2003 August 4, Terry McCarthy, Karen Tumulty, “Davis vs. Davis”, in Time:
glosses: The opportunity to make alternative decisions or to pursue other courses of action, especially any involving only minor changes to one's present situation or course.
Synonyms: flexibility
latitude
leeway
elbow room
maneuvering room
room for maneuver
wobble room
wriggle room
Related terms: running room
gets laid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get laid
getting laid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get laid
got laid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of get laid
gotten laid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of get laid
twissel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more twissel
form: most twissel
form: twistle
form: twissell
Etymology: From Middle English twisel, twisil, from Old English *twisel (“forked, double”), from Old English twisla (“confluence, junction”), from Proto-Germanic *twisilą (“fork, bifurcation”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwis- (“twice, in two”). Cognate with German Zwiesel (“fork”).
Senses: glosses: Double; twofold.
Synonyms: duplicate
twosome
twofold
twissel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twissels
form: twistle
form: twissell
Etymology: From Middle English twisel, twisil, from Old English *twisel (“forked, double”), from Old English twisla (“confluence, junction”), from Proto-Germanic *twisilą (“fork, bifurcation”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwis- (“twice, in two”). Cognate with German Zwiesel (“fork”).
Senses: examples: 16thC, George Turberville, The Louer, in 1810, Samuel Johnson (series editor & biographies), Alexander Chalmers (additional biographies), The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume II, page 599,
As from a tree we sundrie times espie / A twissell grow by Nature's subtile might / And beeing two, for cause they grow so nie / For one are tane, and so appeare in sight;
glosses: A double fruit or a pair of like things growing on a tree.
glosses: That part of a tree where the branches separate from the trunk or bole; a fork.
œcologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This masterly summary of the Californian Neogene Tertiary deals with both the systematic and œcologic aspects of the fossil faunas. The Œcologic Chart, enclosed in the pocket of the book, is of particular interest, as picturing the bathymetric ranges of the foraminiferal genera, and they appear to be carefully sorted and arranged according to all available data.
ref: 1939, Journal of Microscopy, volumes 59-60, Blackwell Scientific, page 266:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of ecologic.
cyclotriveratrylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclotriveratrylenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A macrocycle used in host-guest chemistry as a molecular host.
cyclotriveratrylenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclotriveratrylene
tutour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tutours
Senses: examples: text: I was entred there when the first great difficulties arose betwixt the old King and Parliament, and as much care was taken as was usual in the choice of a tutour ; but, as I came to understand, there was a certain Master of Arts who was to be the next tutour of course, and so the next gentleman who entred was to be recommended to him in his turn ; it happened I was the man, who came with tolerable parts and learning at the rate of a gentleman.
ref: 1688 C.E., Stephen Penton, quoted in Reminiscences of Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1892; page #39
glosses: Archaic spelling of tutor.
pædeutics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of paideutics.
wikipedia: William Dwight Whitney
exhausture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exhaustures
Etymology: From exhaust + -ure.
Senses: examples: text: Burke […] deploring the State of financial Exhausture into which we were plunged; concluded by making an ingenious and fanciful Exposition of our national Condition […]
ref: 1815, Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall, Historical Memoirs of My Own Time:
text: […] as under such physical and moral exhausture, […]
ref: 1816, The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year ..., page 85:
text: She paused from mere exhausture : a tempest was brewing in her bosom; and her faculties seemed almost to desert her.
ref: 1821, sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.), The hall of Hellingsley 3 vols, page 69:
glosses: Exhaustion.
indubitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈd(j)uːbɪteɪt/
ipa: /ɪnˈd(j)uːbɪtət/
Forms: form: indubitates
form: indubitating
form: indubitated
form: indubitated
Etymology: From Latin indubitatus, past participle of indubitare; prefix in- (“in”) + dubitare (“to doubt”).
Senses: examples: text: to conceal, or indubitate, his existency
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To bring into doubt; to cause to be doubted.
indubitate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈd(j)uːbɪteɪt/
ipa: /ɪnˈd(j)uːbɪtət/
Forms: form: more indubitate
form: most indubitate
Etymology: From Latin indubitatus, past participle of indubitare; prefix in- (“in”) + dubitare (“to doubt”).
Senses: examples: text: On the other side, if he stood upon his own title of the house of Lancaster, inherent in his person, he knew it was a title condemned by parliament, and generally prejudged in the common opinion of the realm, and that it tended directly to the disinherison of the line of York, held then the indubitate heirs of the crown.
ref: 1622, Francis Bacon, History of the Reign of King Henry VII:
glosses: Not questioned or doubtful; evident; certain.
middlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪdlɪŋz/
ipa: /ˈmɪdl̩ɪŋz/
ipa: /ˈmɪd(ə)lɪŋz/
Etymology: From middling + -s.
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Commodities that are of intermediate price, quality, or size.
examples: text: The product described in the earlier contract is:
'All the zinc sulphide crude ore, zinc sulphide concentrates and zinc sulphide middlings, shipped from Midvale, Utah, Kennett, Cal., or any other point by or under the control of the seller during the period of this agreement.'
ref: 1924, Supreme Court of the United States, Miller v. Robertson/Opinion of the Court:
text: The bitumen floats to the top of the separation cell and is largely recovered in this top-layer froth[…], while sand is discarded at the bottom and the middlings of intermediate density are partly returned to the separator for recycling and partly forwarded to a scavenger separation cell […] for separate treatment in a froth settler[…].
ref: 1982, S. S. Penner et al., “Assessment of Research Needs for Oil Recovery from Heavy-oil Sources and Tar Sands”, in New Sources of Oil & Gas: Gases from Coal; Liquid Fuels from Coal, Shale Tar Sands, and Heavy Oil Sources, Oxford: Pergamon Press, →ISBN, page 75:
topics: business
glosses: Partially refined ore or petroleum.
examples: text: Buckwheat middlings is a fairly good feed for dairy cows, being far superior to buckwheat bran.
ref: 1917, Carl William Larson, Fred Silver Putney, Dairy cattle feeding and management, page 95:
text: More or lesser amounts of middlings are always formed, and must be reprocessed to salvage the good seed it contains. The middlings fraction can be re-separated over the gravity separator to salvage the good seed. […] To salvage its good seed, middlings are re-separated over the gravity. This spreads the middlings out further over the deck, and produces a closer separation of good seed from the undesirable material.
ref: 2009, Bill (B. R.) Greg, Gary L. Billups, “Gravity Separator”, in Seed Conditioning, volume 2 (Technology Part-A; Advanced-level Information for Managers, Technical Specialists, Professionals), Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press; Enfield, N.H.: Science Publishers, →ISBN, page 518:
qualifier: milling
glosses: Low-grade or coarse flour; coarse wheat mixed with bran.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: The part of a pig between the shoulder and the ham.
middlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪdlɪŋz/
ipa: /ˈmɪdl̩ɪŋz/
ipa: /ˈmɪd(ə)lɪŋz/
Etymology: From middling + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of middling
beliefful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beliefful
form: most beliefful
Etymology: From Middle English bilefful, from Old English ġelēafful (“faithful”), equivalent to belief + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Having belief or faith; faithful.
Derived terms: belieffulness
belieffulness
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more belieffulness
form: most belieffulness
Etymology: From Middle English *bileffulnesse, from Old English ġelēaffulnes (“faith, trust, faithfulness”), equivalent to beliefful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being beliefful; faithfulness.
belight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: belights
form: belighting
form: belighted
form: belighted
form: belit
form: belit
Etymology: From Middle English bilihten (“to illuminate”); equivalent to be- + light. Compare Dutch belichten.
Senses: glosses: To light up; illuminate.
glosses: To become lit up; shine up; dawn.
belikely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more belikely
form: most belikely
Etymology: From belike + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Probably.
belime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: belimes
form: beliming
form: belimed
form: belimed
Etymology: From be- + lime.
Senses: glosses: To besmear or entangle with or as with bird-lime.
belinkedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From be- + linked + -ness.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The number of times one branch of a link must be passed through the other in order to undo it.
matheses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mathesis
Beard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Originally a nickname for someone with a beard.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the nickname.
glosses: A place name:
An unincorporated community in Warren Township, Clinton County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: A place name:
An unincorporated community in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States, named after Josiah Beard.
glosses: A place name:
A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, named after ex-convict Timothy Beard.
elke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elkes
form: elk
Senses: glosses: The European wild, whistling, or common swan (Cygnus cygnus, syn. Cygnus ferus).
elke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elkes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of elk.
proin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɔɪn/
Forms: form: proins
form: proining
form: proined
form: proined
Senses: examples: text: The sprigs that did about it grow
 He proined from the leafy arms.
ref: [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, 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 (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of prune.
quina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In the frequent naval expeditions, on the coast of Africa, quina is in general use as a prophylactic, yet fevers, often of great severity, constantly occur.
ref: 1871, Charles Frederick Oldham, What is Malaria?, page 66:
glosses: quinine
insulin shock therapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insulin shock therapies
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: An outdated type of shock therapy effected by means of injecting an overdose of insulin.
Coordinate terms: electroconvulsive therapy
electroshock therapy
insulin shock therapies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insulin shock therapy
shock therapies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shock therapy
another county heard from
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: another country heard from
Etymology: US, from finding out the results of the very close 1876 US presidential election one county at a time.
Senses: glosses: Used to note the addition of a new voice to an existing discussion.
wikipedia: 1876 United States presidential election
behowl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: behowls
form: behowling
form: behowled
form: behowled
Etymology: From be- (“on, at, upon”) + howl.
Senses: examples: text: Now the hungry lion roars, And the wolf behowls the moon; […]
ref: 1590, William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream:
glosses: To howl at.
behung
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more behung
form: most behung
Etymology: Past participle of behang (“to hang around or about, drape, adorn”), equivalent to be- + hung.
Senses: examples: a horse behung with trappings
glosses: Draped; ornamented with something hanging.
behung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Past participle of behang (“to hang around or about, drape, adorn”), equivalent to be- + hung.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of behang
behorn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: behorns
form: behorning
form: behorned
form: behorned
Etymology: From be- + horn.
Senses: glosses: To put horns on; cuckold.
behoney
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: behoneys
form: behoneying
form: behoneyed
form: behoneyed
Etymology: From be- + honey.
Senses: glosses: To cover or smear with honey.
glosses: To sweeten with honey, or with honeyed words.
choric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒɹɪk/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹɪk/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹɪk/
rhymes: -ɒɹɪk
Etymology: From Latin choricus.
Senses: glosses: Including or involving a Greek chorus
examples: text: Other occasions there were of far different character, but equally demanding the services of the choric poet.
ref: 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 2, page 13:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Greek choral poetic forms: odes, paeans, dithyrambs, etc.
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: Intended to be sung by a choir or chorus (e.g. a hymn)
Derived terms: polychoric
semichoric
fill one's hand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fills one's hand
form: filling one's hand
form: filled one's hand
form: filled one's hand
Senses: examples: text: "Now everybody fill his hand!" shouted Mr. Hickok, pulling his 8-inch six-shooters.
ref: 1905, Alfred Henry Lewis, The Sunset Trail, published 2005, →ISBN, page 377:
text: "He just looks at me and says: ‘Fill your hand stranger’ and hauls out an old rusty six shooter and I take off across Lincoln Park, bullets cutting all around me."
ref: 1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 3:
text: "Fill your hand, you sonuvabitch," the old lawman cries, clamping the reins of his horse between his teeth and filling his own hands with six-gun and repeater.
ref: 1979 June 25, Richard Schickel, “Show Business: Duke: Images from a Lifetime”, in Time:
glosses: To draw one's handgun, especially for an armed confrontation.
Synonyms: slap leather
behooveful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more behooveful
form: most behooveful
form: behoofful
form: behoveful
Etymology: From Middle English behoveful, equivalent to behoove + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Needful; useful; fit; profitable; advantageous.
Synonyms: noteful
Derived terms: behoovefully
behoovefulness
smolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smolt
bespread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bespreads
form: bespreading
form: bespread
form: bespread
Etymology: From Middle English bispreden, equivalent to be- + spread. Cognate with Dutch bespreiden, Middle Low German bespreden, bespreiden, German bespreiten.
Senses: examples: text: Hither, hither, sweet — / ’Tis a cowslip bed — / Hither, hither, sweet! / 'Tis with dew bespread!
ref: c. 1817, John Keats, Hither, Hither, Love:
synonyms: overspread
glosses: To spread over; to cover with.
bespot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bespots
form: bespotting
form: bespotted
form: bespotted
Etymology: From Middle English bespotten, equivalent to be- + spot.
Senses: glosses: To make spots on; mark with spots; cover with or as with blots or blemishes.
besmooth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: besmooths
form: besmoothing
form: besmoothed
form: besmoothed
Etymology: From be- + smooth.
Senses: glosses: To make smooth.
sound waves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sound wave
besmoke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: besmokes
form: besmoking
form: besmoked
form: besmoked
Etymology: From Middle English besmoken, equivalent to be- + smoke. Cognate with Dutch besmoken, Middle Low German besmoken.
Senses: glosses: To fill with smoke; act on with smoke; fumigate.
examples: text: On one side hung a very large oil-painting so thoroughly besmoked, and every way defaced, that in the unequal cross-lights by which you viewed it, it was only by diligent study and a series of systematic visits to it, and careful inquiry of the neighbors, that you could any way arrive at an understanding of its purpose.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 3, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 11:
glosses: To befoul with smoke.
glosses: To harden or dry in smoke.
besit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪt
Forms: form: besits
form: besitting
form: besat
form: besat
form: besitten
Etymology: From Middle English besitten, from Old English besittan (“to sit round, surround, beset, besiege, hold, council, occupy, possess”), from Proto-West Germanic *bisittjan, from Proto-Germanic *bisitjaną (“to sit near, sit among or around”), equivalent to be- + sit. Cognate with Dutch bezitten, German besitzen, Norwegian Bokmål besitte, Danish besidde, Swedish besitta, Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐍃𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (bisitan).
Senses: examples: text: When not deep in thought, his blue eyes dance. I feel sometimes that behind his thoughtful gaze besits a hint of strain.
ref: 2003, Lawrence Murray, The Kassandra Complex, page 473:
glosses: To sit around; sit about; besiege.
examples: text: In such contexts, the ישבים are those who “besit” large estates and seats of judgment and power. The ישב par excellence is the king who “besits” the throne.
ref: 2006, Philip Francis Esler, Ancient Israel: The Old Testament in Its Social Context, page 157:
glosses: To sit upon; occupy.
glosses: To sit properly upon, as clothes; to suit; become.
Related terms: beset
beshine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beshines
form: beshining
form: beshone
form: beshone
Etymology: From Middle English beshinen, beschinen, from Old English besċīnan (“to shine upon, light up, illuminate”), from Proto-Germanic *biskīnaną (“to shine upon”), equivalent to be- + shine. Cognate with Dutch beschijnen (“to shine upon”), German bescheinen (“to shine upon”).
Senses: glosses: To shine around or upon.
glosses: To give light to.
snare drums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snare drum
beshut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beshuts
form: beshutting
form: beshut
form: beshut
Etymology: From Middle English beshutten, bishetten, equivalent to be- + shut.
Senses: glosses: To shut in or inclose; shut up or confine.
sargable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of search + argument + -able
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Able to use indexes to speed up execution.
raw_tags: of a query
Derived terms: sargability
beshroud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beshrouds
form: beshrouding
form: beshrouded
form: beshrouded
Etymology: From be- + shroud. Compare Old English bescrȳdan (“to clothe, cover with a shroud”).
Senses: glosses: To cover with or as with a shroud.
glosses: To hide in darkness, as with a cloak.
cuntbuckets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuntbucket.
Silent Sam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsaɪlənt ˈsæm/
Forms: form: Silent Sams
form: silent Sam
Etymology: From silent (“speechless, mute”) + Sam (“diminutive of male given name Samuel”). From ante 1920.
Senses: examples: text: But because Pierce has usually avoided the news media and gone about his work in the quiet behind-the-scenes way that brought him eminence as a top New York City litigator, the press has derisively tagged him "Silent Sam."
ref: 1983 Mar, “Sam Pierce Hangs Tough”, in Black Enterprise, volume 13, number 8, page 43:
text: Now he threw the Silent Sam treatment on me.
ref: 2002, Jack Womack, Going, Going, Gone, →ISBN, page 47:
text: It's hard to get input from the Silent Sam even with a direct question—this person just doesn't have anything to say.
ref: 2008, Sara Pope, Team Leader Workbook, →ISBN, pages 4–31:
text: With Silent Sam clients it is important for group leaders to make active and continuous efforts to get them involved in the group.
ref: 2011, Linda Carter Sobell, Mark B. Sobell, Group Therapy for Substance Use Disorders, →ISBN, page 205:
glosses: A person who seldom or never speaks; a taciturn or unresponsive individual.
examples: text: "I've named my new noiseless aeroplane—Army Air Scout—I've named that Silent Sam. Wait until you hear it, or rather, don't hear it, and I think you'll agree with me. Silent Sam for Uncle Sam!"
ref: 1919, Victor Appleton, chapter 17, in Tom Swift and His Air Scout:
text: Or if you're a coward, there's Silent Sam ($1950), an automated early-warning safety robot flagman.
ref: 1977 July, Richard West, “Reporter: Law and Order”, in Texas Monthly, volume 5, number 7, page 64:
glosses: A machine, device, etc. which operates without making noticeable sound.
examples: text: Ingredients: 13 oz vodka, 1 liter cola, (pepsi, coca cola...), 6-10 scoops iced tea. . . . Add all ingredients to a punch bowl.
ref: 2010, “Silent Sam Mix Cocktail Recipe”, in www.1001cocktails.com, retrieved 20 Apr 2011:
glosses: A mixed alcoholic beverage, usually containing vodka, a cola soft drink, and other ingredients.
Related terms: Alibi Ike
Dapper Dan
dismal Dora
doubting Thomas
dreamy Daniel
fancy Dan
Gentleman Jim
gloomy Gus
good-time Charlie
lazy Lawrence
nervous Nellie
nervous Purvis
plain Jane
sneaky Pete
dicknuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dicknut.
dicknut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dicknuts
Etymology: From dick + nut.
Senses: examples: text: Alone, she sank into one of the chairs in front of her desk and tried to calm her nerves. But no matter how much she told herself to forget the dicknut and his accusations, her hands wouldn't stop shaking.
ref: 2007, Melissa Schroeder, A Little Harmless Sex:
glosses: An asshole; a stupid, annoying or otherwise undesirable person, especially a man.
beslaver
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beslavers
form: beslavering
form: beslavered
form: beslavered
Etymology: From be- + slaver. Compare beslabber.
Senses: glosses: To cover with slaver, or anything suggesting slaver.
glosses: To cover with fulsome flattery.
dookie holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dookie hole
beslave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beslaves
form: beslaving
form: beslaved
form: beslaved
Etymology: From be- + slave.
Senses: glosses: To make a slave of; enslave.
glosses: To address as a slave; call (someone) "slave".
glosses: To fill with slaves; pollute with slavery or slavedom.
dookie hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dookie holes
Senses: examples: text: “Might even have hair on her dookie-hole.”
ref: 2004, Steven Sherrill, Visits from the drowned girl: a novel:
text: "Your truck got me pregnant, boy," she said watching the door slowly come down with a soft click, "and man, my dookie hole sore." "What? Ain't even get my head in...stankin' ass," Menage laughed, changing his CDs.
ref: 2004, Victor L. Martin, A Hood Legend:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: The anus.
beslabber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beslabbers
form: beslabbering
form: beslabbered
form: beslabbered
Etymology: From Middle English beslaberen, besloberen, equivalent to be- + slabber. Cognate with Low German beslabbern (“to beslabber”).
Senses: glosses: To beslaver; beslobber.
asstards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asstard
wedge issue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wedge issues
Senses: examples: text: "It's sick," he gripes. "Everybody is tired of someone getting a job because of color." Republicans are exploiting such frustration. . . .. Says Kathy Spillar, national coordinator for the Feminist Majority: "The GOP wants to use it as a racial wedge issue."
ref: 1996 March 25, Catherine Yang, “Worried white men may be the GOP's ace in the hole”, in businessweek.com, retrieved 11 May 2011:
text: The speech . . . gave Democrats that rare gift: a wedge issue that split Republicans and united Democrats.
ref: 2006 July 30, Nancy Gibbs, “Stem Cells: The Hope And The Hype”, in Time:
topics: government
human-sciences
politics
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A discussion point or a difference in points of view which is particularly likely to be controversial and a source of discord between discussants or other involved parties; a difference in viewpoints which causes disharmony within a political or social group.
Related terms: wedge politics
WHIM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of warm-hot intergalactic medium.
Related terms: WHIM syndrome
slabber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslæbə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: slabbers
form: slabbering
form: slabbered
form: slabbered
form: slobber
form: slubber
Etymology: From Middle English slaberen, from Middle Dutch slabberen (“to lap, sup, slaver, slabber”), from Old Dutch *slabron, from Proto-West Germanic *slabrōn, from Proto-Germanic *slabrōną (“to scrawl, make a mess”), ultimately imitative. Cognate with Low German slabbern (“to slabber”), German schlabbern (“to slabber”), Icelandic slafra (“to slaver”). More at slaver.
Senses: glosses: To let saliva or other liquid fall from the mouth carelessly; drivel; slaver.
glosses: To eat hastily or in a slovenly manner, as liquid food.
examples: text: At the ſame time he clap'd me on the Back, and ſlabber'd me all over from Cheek to Cheek, vvith his great Tongue.
ref: 1712, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], “Of Some Quarrels that Happen’d after Peg was Taken into the Family”, in John Bull Still in His Senses: Being the Third Part of Law is a Bottomless-Pit. […], London: […] John Morphew, […], →OCLC, page 23:
glosses: To wet and befoul by liquids falling carelessly from the mouth; slaver; slobber.
examples: text: The milk pan and cream pot so slabbered and tost / That butter is wanting and cheese is half lost.
ref: 1878, Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie. […], London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Trübner & Co., […], →OCLC; republished as W[illiam] Payne, Sidney J[ohn Hervon] Herrtage, editors, Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie. […], London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Trübner & Co., […], 1878, →OCLC:
glosses: To cover, as with a liquid spill; soil; befoul.
slabber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslæbə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: slabbers
form: slobber
form: slubber
Etymology: From Middle English slaberen, from Middle Dutch slabberen (“to lap, sup, slaver, slabber”), from Old Dutch *slabron, from Proto-West Germanic *slabrōn, from Proto-Germanic *slabrōną (“to scrawl, make a mess”), ultimately imitative. Cognate with Low German slabbern (“to slabber”), German schlabbern (“to slabber”), Icelandic slafra (“to slaver”). More at slaver.
Senses: glosses: Moisture falling from the mouth; slaver.
slabber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslæbə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: slabbers
Etymology: From slab + -er.
Senses: glosses: A saw for cutting slabs from logs.
glosses: A slabbing machine.
Disneys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Disney
warm-hot intergalactic medium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warm–hot intergalactic medium
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A sparse, warm-to-hot (10⁵ to 10⁷ K) plasma that cosmologists believe to exist in the spaces between galaxies and to contain 40–50% of the baryons in the universe at the current epoch.
Synonyms: word: WHIM
Related terms: english: IGM
translation: IGM
word: inter-galactic medium
alt: ICM
word: intra-cluster medium
alt: ISM
word: inter-stellar medium
alt: IPM
word: inter-planetary medium
turdlicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turdlickers
Etymology: From turd + licker.
Senses: examples: text: "You selfish, shit-smeared turdlicker. I should have cut your tongue out when I had the chance."
ref: 2015, Ian Tregillis, The Mechanical, page 416:
glosses: A mean, rude, stupid or annoying person.
glosses: An obsequious person; an ass-kisser.
wear out one's welcome
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wears out one's welcome
form: wearing out one's welcome
form: wore out one's welcome
form: worn out one's welcome
Senses: examples: text: No: he feared to "wear out his welcome," he said: they had "seen enough of him for one while": […]
ref: 1889, Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], Sylvie and Bruno, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 224:
text: "Well, I don't aim to have no truck with you at all," blustered the fat man. "You've just naturally wore out yore welcome with me before ever you set down. I'll ask you to go right now."
ref: 1921, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 30, in Tangled Trails:
text: The pet, appropriately named Tiger, wore out his welcome very quickly. "Evidently Tiger was a real 'Conan the Destroyer' beastie," reports Harding.
ref: 2005 November 3, “Presidential Cat Tales”, in Time:
synonyms: outstay one's welcome
overstay one's welcome
antonyms: understay one's welcome
glosses: To behave in an offensive, burdensome, or tiresome manner, with the result that one's continued presence is unwanted within a residence, commercial establishment, or social group.
Related terms: fish and company stink after three days
LAB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Abbreviation of Labour Party.
LAB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LABs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: LαB
LaB
glosses: Initialism of Lyman-alpha blob;.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of lactic acid bacterium.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
hypernyms: AB
glosses: Abbreviation of linear alkylbenzene.
Related terms: sense: Lyman-alpha blob
word: LAE
sense: Lyman-alpha blob
word: Lα
LαB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LαBs
form: LAB
form: LaB
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Lyman-alpha blob
Related terms: Lα
Lα
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Ly-α
Senses: topics: astronomy
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Lyman alpha or Lyman-alpha
Derived terms: LαE
LαB
Ly-α
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: astronomy
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Alternative form of Lα (Lyman-alpha, Lyman alpha)
pharmacoenvironmentology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pharmaco- + environment + -ology.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: a branch of pharmacology and pharmacovigilance that deals entry of chemicals or drugs into the environment after elimination from humans and animals as post-therapy. It deals specifically with those pharmacological agents that have impact on the environment via elimination through living organisms subsequent to pharmacotherapy.
glosses: The environmental impact of a specific drug.
Derived terms: pharmacologic
pharmacological
pharmacologically
pharmacologist
environment
3Ps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 3P
shadow gazer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shadow gazers
Senses: qualifier: medical slang
glosses: A radiologist.
shadow gazers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shadow gazer
oakleaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oakleaf
proofs by example
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proof by example
toties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toty
reductio ad Hitlerum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reductio ad Hitlerums
Etymology: Pseudo-Latinism. Coined by Leo Strauss in 1951, by analogy with reductio ad absurdum.
Senses: examples: text: Just on Twitter alone, there were too many arguments, too many reductio ad Hitlerums for me to handle alone.
ref: 2018, Carl Miller, chapter 7, in The Death of the Gods […] , William Heinemann, →ISBN:
glosses: An attempt to invalidate someone else's argument on the basis that the same idea was promoted or practiced by Adolf Hitler or the Nazi Party.
Related terms: Godwin's law
play the Nazi card
CHAOS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of congenital high airway obstruction syndrome.
glosses: Initialism of can't have anyone over syndrome.
varminter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: varminters
Etymology: From varmint + -er.
Senses: glosses: A rifle designed or modified to increase accuracy so that it can be used for varmint shooting.
examples: text: Accuracy folks (benchresters, varminters, etc.) lean decidedly towards the Remington. Its tubular design allows it to be chucked in a lathe and "hot-rodded" very easily.
ref: 1997 December 23, Marcus [username], “Re: New Pre '64 or 700 action?”, in rec.guns (Usenet):
glosses: One who takes part in varmint shooting.
peising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of peise
peised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of peise
bescreen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bescreens
form: bescreening
form: bescreened
form: bescreened
Etymology: From be- + screen.
Senses: glosses: To cover with a screen, or as with a screen.
glosses: To shelter; conceal.
pist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of pissed; simple past and past participle of piss.
Browncoat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Browncoats
Etymology: From brown + coat, after a kind of soldier in the TV series that wore brown coats as uniforms.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fan of the TV series Firefly.
Synonyms: flan
Hypernyms: Whedonian
Whedonite
Browncoats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Browncoat
nessary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈnɛsəɹi/
Forms: form: more nessary
form: most nessary
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of necessary.
milkable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From milk + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of, or suitable for, being milked.
Derived terms: unmilkable