cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
kinikinic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kinnikinnick.
kinikinik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kinnikinnick.
kinnickinick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kinnikinnick.
kinickinick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kinnikinnick.
kinnikinnik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kinnikinnick.
killikinnick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kinnikinnick.
kilikinick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kinnikinnick.
kinikinnick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kinnikinnick.
kinikinnik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kinnikinnick.
mummachog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mummachogs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mummichog.
mummachogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mummachog
sea-poose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea-pooses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sea puss.
sea purse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea purses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sea-purse.
glosses: Alternative form of sea puss.
turn the screw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns the screw
form: turning the screw
form: turned the screw
form: turned the screw
form: turn the screws
Senses: examples: text: Arsenal's dominance was reflected in a flurry of goals before half-time – three in six minutes: first, Podolski turned the screw with a peach of a free-kick; then Gervinho accelerated on to Mikel Arteta's beautifully crafted pass and beat Davis at his near post with conviction; and finally Southampton's defence unspooled completely when Gervinho broke to release Gibbs, whose return ball cannoned off Nathaniel Clyne for Southampton's second own goal of a sobering afternoon.
ref: 2012 September 15, Amy Lawrence, “Arsenal's Gervinho enjoys the joy of six against lowly Southampton”, in the Guardian:
glosses: To increase the pressure of a situation.
Related terms: turn of the screw
agalaxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agalaxia
Etymology: From New Latin agalaxia, which is either from:
* Ancient Greek ἀγαλαξία (agalaxía) (also ἀγαλακτία (agalaktía)), from ἀγάλακτος (agálaktos), from ᾰ̓- (ă-, “not”) + γᾰ́λᾰ, γᾰ́λᾰκτος (gắlă, gắlăktos, “milk”); or
* Ancient Greek ἀγαλαξ (agalax, “giving no milk”) + New Latin -ia, from ᾰ̓- (ă-, “not”) + -γαλαξ (-galax), from γᾰ́λᾰ, γᾰ́λᾰκτος (gắlă, gắlăktos, “milk”).
Senses: glosses: Dated form of agalactia.
Related terms: galaxy
kooyah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Shoshone kuya (“tobacco root, Valeriana edulis”).
Senses: qualifier: Great Basin and Northwestern dialects
glosses: Valeriana edulis, or the large, internally bright yellow, edible root of this plant, which tastes and smells like tobacco until cooked, when it becomes sweet.
Synonyms: tobaccoroot
edible valerian
pasheco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pashequa
form: pashequaw
form: passheco
Etymology: From one of the indigenous languages of western North America. Said by John Kirk Townsend to be from Shoshone passheco (“camas (bulb)”). The term entered English through the writings of Lewis and Clark, who were introduced to the edible plant by the Nez Perce.
Senses: glosses: A soft, dark cake made of baked camas and rockhair (the lichen Alectoria jubata var. fremontii, now Bryoria fremontii).
glosses: A camas bulb or "root".
pashequaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pasheco.
pashequa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pasheco.
pseudoaddiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoaddictions
Etymology: From pseudo- + addiction.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A purported condition resembling drug addiction but caused by underprescription of drugs to treat pain in the patient, causing them to seek more.
pseudoaddictions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoaddiction
underprescription
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + prescription.
Senses: antonyms: overprescription
glosses: Failure to prescribe a drug as often as appropriate, where the appropriateness is defined by concepts such as standard of care, clinical guideline recommendations, or similar.
glosses: Prescription of an inadequate amount of a drug.
Related terms: word: undermedication
word: underprescribe
word: undertreatment
katsina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: katsinas
form: katsinam
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kachina.
katchina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: katchinas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kachina.
katchinas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of katchina
katsinas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of katsina
webchat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: webchats
form: web chat
Etymology: From web + chat.
Senses: examples: text: Some webchats that deliver a real-time feeling require […] plug-ins, which are mini-software programs that you need to download from the Web onto your computer so your Web browser can launch into chat[…]
ref: 1998, Aliza Sherman, Cybergrrl!: a woman's guide to the World Wide Web:
text: Avon and Somerset Constabulary Interactive webchat (9 February 2007)
ref: 2007, Malcolm Coulthard, Alison Johnson, An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics: Language in Evidence, page 216:
glosses: A conversation that takes place, usually in text, over the World Wide Web.
webchat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: webchats
form: webchatting
form: webchatted
form: webchatted
form: web chat
Etymology: From web + chat.
Senses: examples: text: This was the case with Antonio Rodolfo Junior, Braskem's PVC Products and Services Manager, who spent nearly an hour every evening webchatting with his wife and two children, aged 4 and 6, back in Sao Paulo.
ref: 2005, Odebrecht Informa, numbers 116-121, page 39:
glosses: To take part in such a conversation.
webchats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of webchat
langrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The “Virgen del Pilar” was within five hundred yards of the harbour's mouth, when six sakers, charged now with langrel, chain and cross-bar, swept her decks with murderous effect and some damage to her shrouds.
ref: 1931, Rafael Sabatini, “The Chronicles Of Captain Blood”, in [aka Captain Blood Returns], published 2008, page 80:
text: Langrel shot was also intended to damage the enemy's rigging.
ref: 1987, Brian Lavery, The Arming and Fitting of English Ships of War, 1600-1815, page 137:
text: “And ready the langrel shot,” he yelled to Smithy.
Isabel turned to Cutter, fear sparking within her. “What is langrel?” “A type of cannon shot meant to damage sails and masts. Never fear, milady. He means only to cripple them.”
ref: 2014, MaryLu Tyndall, Legacy of the King's Pirates 3: The Restitution, unnumbered page:
topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: Langrage (scraps of metal used to fire at an enemy).
juicelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From juiceless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being juiceless; dryness.
endocardiac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + cardiac.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of endocardial.
stoatlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stoatlike
form: most stoatlike
Etymology: From stoat + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a stoat.
stotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stote
commos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commo
derailings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of derailing
underanged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underanged
form: most underanged
Etymology: From un- + deranged.
Senses: examples: text: The wings of many male butterflies, hawk-moths, and moths, are distinguished by a remarkable apparatus […] for keeping them steady and underanged in their flight.
ref: 1865, William Kirby, William Spence, An introduction to entomology, page 473:
glosses: Not deranged or disrupted.
arpens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arpen
scalies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scalie
glosses: plural of scaly
myelon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪəlɒn/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μυελός (muelós, “marrow”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The spinal cord.
Derived terms: myelonal
myelonic
creamlaid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cream + laid.
Senses: examples: text: 1 pack of 1 dozen creamlaid envelopes and feintruled ^([sic]) notepaper, watermarked […]
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 17:
glosses: Laid (marked with parallel lines, as if ribbed) and cream in colour.
raw_tags: of paper
Palæeskimo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: pā'lĭĕsʹkĭmō
ipa: /ˌpeɪlɪˈɛskɪməʊ/
Senses: examples: text: Hatt confirms (1916) the stratification in the Eskimo culture but is of the opinion that Steensby’s two strata should be turned over; and what Steensby calls Neoeskimo, the decided coast culture, is the elder, whereas the markedly inland Palæeskimo culture is later.
ref: 1927, Therkel Mathiassen, The Thule Culture and Its Position Within the Eskimo Culture: Archæology of the Central Eskimos II, Gyldendal, page 198:
text: The oldest forms of culture, comprising Independence I, the Sarqaq culture, Independence II, and the Dorset Culture, are included in the term Palæo-eskimo Culture.
ref: 1970, Ib Persson, Anthropological Investigations of the Population of Greenland, volume 180, number 1, C. A. Reitzel, →ISBN, page 11, →ISBN:
text: From this domain the Eskimo culture in its improved and enriched form then extended partly to South Alaska as Subarctic Eskimo culture and partly in a northerly and easterly direction along the coast of the Arctic Ocean along the old Palæeskimo paths of distribution, where it had to emphasize the Arctic sides of the economic culture, whereby it had occasion to improve and enrich the Palæeskimo culture.
ref: 1983, Denmark Kommissionen for ledelsen af de geologiske og geografiske undersøgelser i Grønland, Meddelelser om Grønland, volume 53, page 212 (C. A. Reitzel)
glosses: Alternative form of Paleo-Eskimo.
raw_tags: used by non-native speakers
lecythidaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Lecythidaceae + -ous
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the family Lecythidaceae, that includes the Brazil nuts.
dinothere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dinotheres
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deinothere.
dinotheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dinothere
termination shocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of termination shock
tricorporate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + corporate.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:tricorporate.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
synonyms: tricorporated
glosses: Represented with three bodies conjoined to one head.
examples: text: Kepler, who excelled as an imaginative writer , replied: 'I will not make an old man of Saturn, nor slaves of his attendant globes; but rather let this tricorporate form be Geryon so shall Galileo be Hercules, and the telescope[…]'
ref: 1896, Thomas Nathaniel Orchard, The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost', page 131:
text: Athena wears a belted peplos, a bracelet, a necklace, and a fillet; in her left hand she holds a spear. [...] The tricorporate monster is joined from the hips to the shoulders. One part, on the foremost plane, is dying and turns[…]
ref: 1963, Dietrich Von Bothmer, Attic Black-figured Amphorae:
text: [...] attractive suggestion that the famous threeheaded 'Bluebeard' from the Old Temple of Athena (Heberdey 1919: 52–69) on the Acropolis in Athens represents Geryon. Images of a threeheaded, tricorporate warrior first appear in Cyprus in the [...]
ref: 2015 January 12, A. Bernard Knapp, Peter van Dommelen, The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of tricorporal (“having three bodies (which may be separate, or joined at the waist, etc)”).
synonyms: word: tricorporal
extra: (“having three bodies (which may be separate, or joined at the waist, etc)”)
Related terms: bicorporate
Recollect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Recollects
form: Recollet
form: Récollet
Senses: glosses: A member of a French reform branch of the Order of Friars Minor, commonly known as the Franciscans.
Recollects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Recollect
bonnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bonny
glosses: plural of bonnie
not worth a cress
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: word: for the birds
word: good-for-naught
word: good-for-nothing
word: not worth a damn
word: not worth a dime
word: not worth a plug nickel
word: not worth a brass farthing
word: not worth a cent
word: not worth a cress
word: not worth a curse
word: not worth a Continental
word: not worth a farthing
word: not worth a nickel
word: not worth a penny
word: not worth salt
word: not worth a whistle
word: of no value
word: otiose
word: valueless
word: null
word: worthless
word: worth nothing
word: wutless
glosses: worthless
Derived terms: not worth a curse
not worth a curse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Corrupted from earlier not worth a cress.
Senses: examples: text: “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
ref: 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 41:
synonyms: word: for the birds
word: good-for-naught
word: good-for-nothing
word: not worth a damn
word: not worth a dime
word: not worth a plug nickel
word: not worth a brass farthing
word: not worth a cent
word: not worth a cress
word: not worth a curse
word: not worth a Continental
word: not worth a farthing
word: not worth a nickel
word: not worth a penny
word: not worth salt
word: not worth a whistle
word: of no value
word: otiose
word: valueless
word: null
word: worthless
word: worth nothing
word: wutless
glosses: Worthless.
bluebeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue-beat
form: blue beat
Etymology: From blue + beat, named after Blue Beat Records, a London record label that released Jamaican R&B and ska in the 1960s. The label was named after the blues genre.
Senses: examples: text: Reggae music came to the UK shores as bluebeat and later through names like ska and rocksteady.
ref: 1971 November 13, Billboard, volume 83, number 46, page 34:
text: Chris returned with a trunk full of bluebeat 45s that sold out in days. On his next trip he decided to learn more about the Jamaican music business.
ref: 2010, Joe Boyd, White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s, page 180:
text: There we could all dance, or in my case tap my feet the night away to OUR music: ska, bluebeat and motown.
ref: 2011, Ted Curtis, Robert Dellar, Leslie Esther, Mad Pride, page 38:
text: Bluebeat and ska from a boombox on the pavement. A suedehead dancing a delirious, inebriated moonstomp with a girl who looked like a solicitor's apprentice.
ref: 2013, Joseph O'Connor, Where Have You Been?, page 271:
text: West Indian youngsters, marooned in this cultural maelstrom and kicking their heels in inner-city estates, took refuge in their musical roots: ska, bluebeat and rocksteady.
ref: 2019 February 16, Kim Willsher, “From Soho to Paris, how migrant music brought two capitals to life”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Any of various styles of Jamaican music, popular in the United Kingdom in the 1960s, precursor of reggae.
wikipedia: Blue Beat Records
Florences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Florence
aechmea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aechmeas
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Aechmea.
Senses: examples: text: The aechmea, which is one of the many members of the Bromeliadaceae family, likes sunny to semi-sunny conditions, temperature 60° and a humidity level of around 30 percent […]
ref: 1978, Robert J. Dingwall, The Garden Answers:
text: The aechmeas are remarkable for their long lasting flower and berry complexes, sometimes in large panicles.
ref: 1987, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Plants and Gardens: Volume 43:
glosses: Any member of the genus Aechmea of bromeliaceous plants.
aechmeas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aechmea
semisunny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + sunny.
Senses: examples: text: Give a sunny to semisunny situation, not over 70°F in winter[…]
ref: 1993, Elvin McDonald, The new houseplant: bringing the garden indoors:
text: Rooting at the tips only, it is an ideal subject for covering difficult areas either under trees, in dense shade or in semisunny spots in the woodland garden.
ref: 1995, Bill Sheat, Gerald Schofield, Complete Gardening in Southern Africa, page 251:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Somewhat sunny; having a certain amount of exposure to the sun.
Ægeus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Ægeus became alarmed at his success, especially as he had contracted a friendship with the Pallantidæ, who were his rivals, and he therefore caused Androgeus to be murdered at Œnoë, in Attica, as he was on his way to a sacred festival at Thebes.
ref: 1873, Thomas Henry Dyer, chapter II, in Ancient Athens: its history, topography, and remains, William Clowes and Sons, page 58:
glosses: Obsolete form of Aegeus.
toco toucan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toco toucans
Etymology: From taxonomic name Ramphastos toco + toucan.
Senses: examples: text: Toco Toucan
ref: [1816, James Francis Stephens George Shaw, “Ramphastos”, in General Zoology or Systematic Natural History, volume VIII, part II, London: George Kearsley, page 361:
text: The most extraordinary part of these birds is the enormous beak, which in some species, such as the Toco Toucan, is of gigantic dimensions, seeming big enough to give its owner a perpetual headache[…]
ref: 1885, John George Wood, “Birds”, in Popular Natural History, Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, page 409:
text: The result is a non-existent bird: whereas this bill evidently belongs to a Toco Toucan (such as the one depicted in Belon), the colouring of the bird is not that of a Toco, and the position of the toes (three in front, one in back) is wrong too.
ref: 2007, Paul J. Smith, “On toucans and hornbills: readings in early modern ornithology from Belon to Buffon”, in K. A. E. Enenkel, Paul J. Smith, editors, Early Modern Zoology: The Construction of Animals in Science, Literature and the Visual Arts, Leiden; Boston: Brill, page 87:
synonyms: toco
glosses: Ramphastos toco, a kind of toucan.
toco toucans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toco toucan
paralyzations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paralyzation
Ææa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Hence she is not merely the personification of the rosy morn, but also of twilight, for which reason her palace is placed in the west, on the island Ææa.
ref: 19th century, Unknown, Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, page 67:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Archaic form of Aeaea.
Aeolia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ē.ōʹlĭə
ipa: /iːˈəʊlɪə/
ipa: /iːˈoʊlɪə/
Forms: form: Æolia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Αἰολία (Aiolía).
Senses: glosses: Aeolis.
angatkuq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Inuktitut [Term?] (Inuvialuktun).
Senses: glosses: An Inuit shaman.
Synonyms: english: from Eastern Canadian Inuktitut
translation: from Eastern Canadian Inuktitut
word: angakkuq
english: from Greenlandic
translation: from Greenlandic
word: angakok
word: angekok
raw_tags: of angakok
qulliq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qulliqs
Etymology: From Eastern Canadian Inuktitut ᖁᓪᓕᖅ (qolliq).
Senses: glosses: A kudlik, a lamp used by the Inuit, consisting of a cup of soapstone filled with oil (commonly from blubber) with cottongrass or moss used as a wick.
qulliqs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qulliq
witwanton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: witwantons
form: wit-wanton
Etymology: From wit + wanton.
Senses: examples: text: All epicures, witwantons, atheists.
ref: 1613, Josuah Sylvester, Lachrymae Lachrymarum:
text: And how dangerous it is for wit-wanton men to dance with their nice distinctions, on such mystical precipices, where slips in jest may cause deadly downfalls in earnest, …
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, “4, A.D. 1611--1619”, in The Church History of Britain from the Birth of Jesus Christ until the Year MDCXLVIII, Book 10:
text: Word-warriors and wit-wantons would waste their breath upon one whose book-hunger has won him so rich a meed, ...
ref: 1855, Thomas Carlyle, Fraser's magazine, Volume 52, Digitized edition, published 2005, page 345:
text: The witwanton is always a little off in trying to be always GETTING MENTAL.
ref: 1986, David Grambs, Dimboxes, epopts, and other quidams:
text: WITWANTON: One who tries to be cleverly amusing, but misses the mark.
ref: 2003, Robert M. Jarvis, Amicus Humoriae: An Anthology of Legal Humor, Carolina Academic Press, →ISBN, page 97:
glosses: One who indulges in idle, foolish, and irreverent fancies or speculations; one who tries to be cleverly amusing but falls short.
witwanton
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: witwantons
form: witwantoning
form: witwantoned
form: witwantoned
form: wit-wanton
Etymology: From wit + wanton.
Senses: examples: text: … a citizen in Cheapside was executed as a traitor for saying he would make his son heir to the crown, though he only meant his own house, having a crown for the sign, more dangerous it is to wit-wanton it with the Majesty of God.
ref: 1834, William Chambers, Robert Chambers, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, Digitized edition, W. Orr, published 2007, page 32:
text: Wit-wanton it with lewd barbarity, …
ref: 1839, Rober Southey, The poetical works of Robert Southey, Digitized edition, D. Appleton, published 2008, page 88:
text: And Master Lynch bade him have a care to flout and witwanton as the god self was angered for his hellprate and paganry.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:
text: Nor I will not suffer mine indignation so to witwanton with fair justice as persuade me to put the wite on Witchland.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, chapter 209, in The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC:
glosses: To indulge in vain, sportive, or irreverent wit; speculate idly or irreverently.
Tam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tams
Etymology: Borrowed from Cantonese 譚／谭 (taam4), Cantonese 談／谈 (taam4), etc.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Mount Tam
Tai Tam
omphaloscepsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of omphaloskepsis.
household appliances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of household appliance
quoddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quoddies
Etymology: From the placenames, which are named for the tribe; the tribe's name is an Anglicization of their autonym, and the word is thus ultimately from Malecite-Passamaquoddy.
Senses: examples: text: […] spending his summers along the Penobscot River and the rocky coastline, fussing with boats, hunting for clams, fishing for quoddies.
ref: 2006, Hampton Sides, Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West, page 311:
glosses: Herring, especially if caught and cured (or smoked) near any of the various northeastern American places named Quoddy or Passamquoddy.
ciceronage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cicerone + -age.
Senses: glosses: The activity of a cicerone; local guidance.
Bromose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Genericized trademark.
Senses: examples: text: BROMOSE, an exceedingly palatable food preparation, consists of cereals and nuts, in which the starch is completely digested, the nuts perfectly cooked, and their fat emulsified.
ref: 1896, John Harvey Kellogg, The Stomach:
glosses: A dry non-dairy product made from nuts, invented in 1896 by John Harvey Kellogg as a vegetarian substitute for milk. It took the form of powder or tablets to be dissolved in water.
hilloa
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: "Hilloa, brother," quoth [Friar] Tuck, "let me aid thee." So saying, he took the key from the other's hand and quickly opened the door with a turn of it.
ref: 1883, Howard Pyle, “Robin Hood Compasseth the Marriage of Two True Lovers”, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC, part fourth, page 146:
text: As for Dick, he looked at her admiringly a while, and then said at last: "Well, Clara, I do wish we were there! But, hilloa! we are getting back way."
ref: 1890, William Morris, chapter XXII, in News from Nowhere:
text: 'Ah,' muttered Todd to himself, 'I like boys of a religious turn. They are much easier managed, for the imagination in such cases has been cultivated at the expense of the understanding. Hilloa, who have we here?'
ref: 1847, James Malcolm Rymer, Thomas Peckett Prest, chapter 32, in The String of Pearls:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of hello.
hilloa
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hilloas
form: hilloaing
form: hilloaed
form: hilloaed
Senses: examples: text: I heard old Jenkins, scarcely recovered from the effects of his potations, hilloaing at the top of his voice for Julia
ref: 1836, James White, The adventures of Sir Frizzle Pumpkin, Nights at mess, and other tales:
glosses: To holler, shout loudly
keloidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔɪdəl
Forms: form: cheloidal
Etymology: From keloid + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Across the knuckles there are faint, old, keloidal scars.
ref: 2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 232:
glosses: Of, pertaining to or causing keloids.
hilloaed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hilloa
arillode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arillodes
form: arilode
Senses: examples: text: The mace of the nutmeg is an arillode.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A structure resembling an aril that comes from the ovule as opposed to the stalk.
arillodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arillode
isolead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isoleads
Etymology: From iso- + lead?
Senses: glosses: On a ballistic graph, a curve used to calculate the trajectory needed to hit a moving target.
hilloed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hillo
klootch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: klootches
form: klooch
Etymology: Either a shortening of klootchman, or simply from the Nootka łuuč (“female”); that is, from the first part of that word without the addition of the second part.
Senses: glosses: klootchman: woman, wife (especially if Native American).
klooch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: klooches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of klootch.
hiaqua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Chinook Jargon hywka, hyakwa, from Nootka.
Senses: glosses: Beads or shells, especially as placed on strings and valued as ornaments or a sort of currency.
Synonyms: english: from a different Native American language
translation: from a different Native American language
word: wampum
Related terms: ioqua
khaki green
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: khaki greens
Etymology: From khaki + green.
Senses: examples: text: Rae wore khaki-green. Khaki-green and khaki-brown were his favourite colours, his image.
ref: 2001, *Leila Aboulela, The Translator, →ISBN, page 61:
glosses: A colour between khaki and green; light olive drab.
khaki green
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more khaki green
form: most khaki green
Etymology: From khaki + green.
Senses: examples: text: Roll ⅓ oz (10 g) khaki green fondant into a ball and flatten it to make the cap.
ref: 2003, Carol Deacon, The Complete Step-by-Step Guide to Cake Decorating, →ISBN, page 80:
text: The trim number for the khaki green models was 1-201, and for the bronze green models, 2-201.
ref: 2009, Don Loffler, Still Holden Together, oo, →ISBN, page 2:
text: The young man wore [...] a khaki-green t-shirt and shorts.
ref: 2008, Dave Patterson, Green Island: Book 1, Greenways, →ISBN, page 302:
glosses: Of a khaki green colour.
lesula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lesulas
Senses: glosses: A monkey (Cercopithecus lomamiensis) found in parts of the Congo
antitoxoplasmal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antitoxoplasmal
form: most antitoxoplasmal
Etymology: From anti- + toxoplasmal.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: that counters toxoplasmosis
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: that generates an immune response with toxoplasma
arachidoyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From arachidic + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A univalent radical formally derived from arachidic acid by removal of the hydroxyl group.
true-hearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more true-hearted
form: most true-hearted
Senses: glosses: Having a faithful heart; honest; sincere; not faithless or deceitful.
good-humoured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: better-humoured
form: more good-humoured
form: best-humoured
form: most good-humoured
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of good-humored.
Derived terms: good-humouredly
good-humouredness
snavels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of snavel
snavelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of snavel
snavelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of snavel
bradyzoite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bradyzoites
Etymology: From brady- + -zoite.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A sessile, slow-growing form of many zoonotic microorganisms that can cause toxoplasmosis.
bradyzoites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bradyzoite
brinzolamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A sulfonamide drug that is a carbonic anhydrase inhibitor used to lower intraocular pressure in patients with open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension.
cistronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cistron + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to a cistron
Derived terms: bicistronic
intercistronic
intracistronic
monocistronic
multicistronic
octacistronic
polycistronic
tetracistronic
tricistronic
unicistronic
collembola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collembolas
Etymology: From the subclass name.
Senses: glosses: Any of many minute wingless arthropods of subclass Collembola; a springtail.
Related terms: collembolous
collembolas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collembola
dorzolamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A sulfonamide drug that is a carbonic anhydrase inhibitor used to treat glaucoma
electrophysiologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electro- + physiologic.
Senses: glosses: electrophysiological
emotivist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From emotive + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to emotivism.
emotivist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emotivists
Etymology: From emotive + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of emotivism.
endocycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endocycles
Etymology: From endo- + cycle.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A cycle of cell replication involving endoduplication.
Derived terms: endocyclic
endocycling
endoduplication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From endo- + duplication.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Replication of a nuclear genome in the absence of cell division.
endomorphin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endomorphins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of two endogenous opioid peptides
excitabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of excitability
exosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exosome + -al.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to an exosome
Derived terms: nonexosomal
galactosylated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of galactosylate
galactosylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more galactosylated
form: most galactosylated
Senses: glosses: Modified by galactosylation
Derived terms: agalactosylated
degalactosylated
digalactosylated
hypergalactosylated
hypogalactosylated
monogalactosylated
nongalactosylated
trigalactosylated
glucotoxicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glucotoxicities
Etymology: From gluco- + toxicity.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The toxic effects of excessive levels of glucose in the blood (as in diabetes)
Synonyms: glycotoxicity
glycopeptidolipid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycopeptidolipids
Etymology: From glycopeptide + -o- + lipid.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any glycolipid having a glycopeptide component
glycopeptidolipids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glycopeptidolipid
glycophorin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycophorins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a sialoglycoprotein of the membrane of red blood cells.
Derived terms: antiglycophorin
heparanase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heparanases
Etymology: From heparan + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of heparan sulfate into oligosaccharides
hepatopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hepatopathies
Etymology: From hepato- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any disease of the liver
Related terms: hepatopathic
hepatopathogenic
heptet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heptets
Senses: glosses: septet
heterodisulfide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterodisulfides
Etymology: From hetero- + disulfide.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A disulfide formed from the reaction of two different moieties.
Byzantinology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Byzantine + -ology.
Senses: glosses: Byzantine studies
Byzantinologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Byzantinologists
Etymology: From Byzantinology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies Byzantinology.
Byzantinological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Byzantinological
form: most Byzantinological
Etymology: From Byzantinology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Byzantinology.
Byzantinologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Byzantinologist
heterodisulphide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterodisulphides
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of heterodisulfide.
hyperprolinemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperprolinemias
Etymology: From hyper- + proline + -emia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An excessive amount of proline in the blood
levamisoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of levamisole
matsutakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matsutake
hyperprolinaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperprolinaemias
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hyperprolinemia.
hyperprolinemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperprolinemia
hyperprolinaemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperprolinaemia
hyperprolinaemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperprolinaemic
form: most hyperprolinaemic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hyperprolinemic.
hypoketotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypoketotic
form: most hypoketotic
Etymology: From hypo- + ketotic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to hypoketosis
hyperprolinemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperprolinemic
form: most hyperprolinemic
Senses: glosses: Having, or relating to, hyperprolinemia.
hypoketosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + keto- + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An abnormally low level of ketones in the blood
indigoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indigoid
interconvertability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of interconvertibility.
zeitgeistier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: ... near future corporate wars and 'the realist underground' and was eclipsed by the zeitgeistier The Matrix (1999).
ref: 2011, Kim Newman, Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen Since the 1960s, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 173:
glosses: comparative form of zeitgeisty: more zeitgeisty
interconvertibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interconvertibilities
Etymology: From inter- + convertibility or from interconvertible + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being interconvertible
glosses: The extent to which something is interconvertible
zeitgeistiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Social trendspotters nodded as that zeitgeistiest of journalists, The New Yorker's Malcolm Gladwell, called for …
ref: 2010, Gideon Haigh, The Office: A Hardworking History, The Miegunyah Press, →ISBN, page viii:
glosses: superlative form of zeitgeisty: most zeitgeisty — trendiest, most modern, most contemporary
intraclass
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + class.
Senses: examples: text: A second rater scored a subsample of copies ( n = 36 copies of both hands) and achieved high interrater reliability on the 2D and 4D measurements as well as the 2D:4D ratio with the initial rater (all intraclass r s > .97).
ref: 2007 December 12, Kyle L. Gobrogge, S. Marc Breedlove, Kelly L. Klump, “Genetic and Environmental Influences on 2D:4D Finger Length Ratios: A Study of Monozygotic and Dizygotic Male and Female Twins”, in Archives of Sexual Behavior, volume 37, number 1, →DOI:
glosses: Within a class.
suppurants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suppurant
interclass
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + class.
Senses: glosses: Between classes.
iodobutane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iodobutanes
Etymology: From iodo- + butane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several isomeric compounds formally produced from a butane by replacing a hydrogen atom with one of iodine
Synonyms: alt: for 1-iodobutane
word: butyl iodide
iodopropane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iodopropanes
Etymology: From iodo- + propane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of two isomeric compounds formally produced from propane by replacing a hydrogen atom with one of iodine
Synonyms: alt: for 1-iodopropane
word: propyl iodide
isovaleryl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iso- + valeryl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical (CH₃)₂C-CH₂-CO- derived from isovaleric acid by removal of a hydroxyl group
carinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: carinate; shaped like a keel
Derived terms: subcarinated
uncarinated
unicarinated
isozymic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From isozyme + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to an isozyme
leukosialin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leukosialins
Etymology: From leuko- + sialin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The major sialoglycoprotein of thymocytes and mature T-cells
lymphocytopenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lymphocytopenias
Etymology: From lymphocyte + -o- + -penia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An abnormally low level of lymphocytes in the blood
Derived terms: lymphocytopenic
Related terms: lymphocytosis
mechanome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mechanomes
Etymology: From mechano- + -ome.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: All the biochemical processes involved in a mechanical (motor) system
Related terms: mechanomic
mechanomics
metapleural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the metapleuron or metapleure
Derived terms: mesometapleural
submetapleural
lymphocytopenias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lymphocytopenia
metapleuron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metapleura
Etymology: From meta- + pleuron.
Senses: glosses: An exoskeletal plate on each side of the metathorax of an insect
Derived terms: metapleure
metapleural
lymphocytopenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lymphocytopenic
form: most lymphocytopenic
Etymology: From lymphocytopenia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Having, or relating to, lymphocytopenia.
metapleura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metapleuron
anestrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From an- + estrous.
Senses: glosses: of, or pertaining to, anestrus
glosses: not estrous
androgenize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: androgenizes
form: androgenizing
form: androgenized
form: androgenized
form: androgenise
Etymology: From androgen + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To treat with large doses of male hormones.
Derived terms: androgenization
Related terms: androgynize
Andromache
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ænˈdɹɒməki/
Etymology: From Latin Andromachē, from Ancient Greek Ἀνδρομάχη (Andromákhē).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: the wife of Hector
andromeda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: andromedas
Etymology: From Andromeda.
Senses: glosses: Any shrub of the genus Pieris (family Ericaceae), having leathery leaves and small flowers.
glosses: Bog rosemary.
Derived terms: Japanese andromeda
Related terms: english: Ericaceae
translation: Ericaceae
word: Pieris
Angel Falls
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A waterfall in the Canaima National Park, Venezuela; the highest waterfall in the world.
angrez
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angrez
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Angrez.
animalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: animalises
form: animalising
form: animalised
form: animalised
Etymology: From animal + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: Wireless imagination and the use of free words will lead us to the essence of Matter ... we may animalise, vegetalise, mineralise, electrify, and liquefy style, making it, to a certain extent, live the same life as that of matter.
ref: 1917, Sir Henry John Newbolt, A New Study of English Poetry, page 249:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of animalize.
animal cracker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: animal crackers
Etymology: From animal + cracker. First use appears c. 1878 in the Washington Post.
Senses: examples: text: He asked Jamie to run to the closest store and buy peanut butter, jelly, bread, milk, and animal crackers.
ref: 2008, Savannah Jordan Frierson, Reconstructing Jada Channing, page 158:
glosses: A small, crispy, sweet, baked cake (biscuit or cookie) in the shape of an animal.
wikipedia: Washington Post
animal welfarist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: animal welfarists
Senses: glosses: A supporter of animal welfare
ankle boot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ankle boots
Senses: topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
synonyms: bootie
bootee
glosses: A boot that rises up to the ankle.
ankle sock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ankle socks
Senses: glosses: A short sock that covers the foot and ankle.
anklewarmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anklewarmers
form: ankle warmer
Etymology: From ankle + warmer.
Senses: glosses: A small garment, most commonly made from wool, that covers the ankle and parts of the lower leg.
Elvas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Elvas, from Old Galician-Portuguese Elvas.
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality of Portalegre district, Alentejo region, Portugal.
answerback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: answerbacks
Etymology: Deverbal from answer back.
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: A response to a message, originally in radio but now through other media.
antirocker
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + rocker.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
sports
glosses: A wheel configuration where the inside wheels are smaller than the outside ones.
Antrim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈæntɹɪm/
Etymology: From Irish Aontroim (“lone ridge”).
Senses: synonyms: County Antrim
glosses: A county in northeastern Northern Ireland.
glosses: A town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, that is the county town.
Derived terms: english: Michigan
translation: Michigan
word: Antrim County
anywheres
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: anywhere
anywheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anywhere
Nazca Lines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Running outside the Nazca Lines
You know I see you all in white
Hoping you'll grow the fruitful vines
And the rain to give us life
ref: 2017, “Steambreather”, performed by Mastodon:
glosses: A series of ancient geoglyphs located in the Nazca Desert in southern Peru.
beyt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beyts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beth.
Estremoz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Estremoz.
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality of Évora district, Alentejo region, Portugal.
Évora
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Évora, from Latin Ebora, a feminine noun derived from Proto-Celtic *eburos (“yew”).
Senses: glosses: A district in southern Portugal.
glosses: A city and municipality of Évora district, Portugal.
anyu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anyus
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of añu.