cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
big head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɪɡ ˈhɛd/
ipa: /ˈbɪɡˌhɛd/
Forms: form: big heads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bighead (“person with an inflated opinion of themselves”).
examples: text: He has gotten a little success, and a big head to go with it.
text: Don't let the Mayor's compliments give you a big head.
ref: 1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System:
glosses: An inflated ego, an exaggerated belief in one's own importance.
examples: text: "I wasn't thinking." "Oh, you were thinking, just not with your big head. [...] A sexy skirt catches your eye, and you're blind to what's in front of you."
ref: 2022 April 4, Joe Giordano, Appointment with ISIL, Rogue Phoenix Press, →ISBN:
glosses: The brain, as opposed to the penis, little head; rational thought, as opposed to lust.
examples: text: My friend Mark Wieman noted recently that the Long Tail has gotten so long and so thick that there's not much left in the Big Head.
ref: 2019, Roy Christopher, “The Meme is Dead, Long Live the Meme”, in Alfie Bown, Dan Bristow, editors, Post Memes: Seizing the Memes of Production, punctum books, →ISBN, page 31:
glosses: The short head of a long tail distribution.
ambergreece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We found great ſtore of Ambergreece, which the Indians call Pirapoun Arepoty, here fortune was ſomewhat fauourable vnto me, for I got aboue fiue hundred Crownes in this iourney.
ref: 1625, [Samuel] Purchas, chapter 7, in Purchas His Pilgrimes. […], 4th part, London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, 6th book, § 3, page 1224:
text: […] we were cloſe by the Peninſule Mozambique (part of Quiloa) inhabited by Negroes; abundant in Gold, Silver, and Ambergreece […]
ref: 1638, Sir Thomas Herbert, Some yeares travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of ambergris.
ambergreace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ambergris.
amber greace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ambergris.
ambergrease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of ambergris.
amber-greece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of ambergris.
amber greece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Your onely way to make a good pomander, is this. Take an ownce of the pureſt garden mould, clenſed and ſteeped ſeauen daies in change of motherleſſe roſe water, then take the beſt Labdanum, Benioine, both Storaxes, amber greece, and Ciuet, and muſke, incorporate them together, and work them into what form you pleaſe; this, if your breath bee not to valiant, will make you ſmell as ſweete as my Ladies dogge.
ref: 1607, [attributed to Thomas Tomkis], Lingva: Or The Combat of the Tongue, and the Five Senses for Superiority. A Pleasant Comœdie., London: Printed by G[eorge] Eld, for Simon Waterson, →OCLC, act IV, scene iii:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of ambergris.
ambergreese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of ambergris.
amber-greese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of ambergris.
ambergrise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of ambergris.
fizgigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fizgig.
fizgigs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fizgig (to act as a police informer)
wanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wangers
form: wonger
Etymology: From Middle English wangere, from Old English wangere (“pillow, bolster”), from Proto-West Germanic *wangārī, from Proto-Germanic *wangārijaz, suffixed form of *wangiją (“pillow, cushion”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenǵ- (“neck, cheek”). Cognate with Old High German wangari (“pillow”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌹 (waggari, “pillow”). Related to Old English wange (“cheek”). More at wang.
Senses: glosses: A rest or cushion for the cheek; a pillow.
wanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wangers
form: wonger
Etymology: Related to wang.
Senses: examples: text: Just as he was about to plunge his wanger into Jonny, Jones arrived.
ref: 2008, John Patrick, Country Boys City Boys, page 160:
glosses: The penis.
glosses: A contemptible person, neutral variant of a swear word.
wangers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wanger.
wonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wongers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wanger.
wongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wonger
fishgig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fishgigs
form: fisgig
form: fish gig
form: fizgig
form: fissgig
Etymology: A modification of fizgig, probably influenced by fish.
Senses: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: Alternative spelling of fizgig.
fishgigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fishgig
fisgig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fisgigs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fizgig.
fisgigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fisgig
fish gig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish gigs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fishgig (alternative form of fizgig).
fish gigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fish gig
fissgig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fissgigs
Senses: examples: text: At day break we were cloſe by the Peninſule Mozambique (part of Quiloa) inhabited by Negroes; abundant in Gold, Silver, and Ambergreece; […] [A]n Armado of Dolphins aſſaulted us; and ſuch we ſaulted as we could intice to taſte our hooks or fiſſgiggs: […]
ref: 1638, Tho[mas] Herbert [Sir Thomas Herbert, 1st Baronet], Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique. …, rev. and enl. (2nd) edition, London: Printed by R[ichard] Bi[sho]p for Iacob Blome and Richard Bishop, →OCLC, book I, page 24:
glosses: Obsolete form of fizgig (“a type of harpoon”).
fissgigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fissgig
compital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin compitus (“crossroads”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of the vein of a leaf, intersecting at a wide angle.
examples: text: The compital shrines stood at primary crossroads in the vici and received sacrifices during the annual Compitalia Festival.
ref: 2011, Brenda Longfellow, Roman Imperialism and Civic Patronage:
glosses: Of or pertaining to crossroads.
confelicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin con- (“with”) + fēlīcitās (“happiness”)
Senses: examples: text: "It is the first time, is it not? Well, it is my earnest hope that this repast augurs the foundation of a mutual confelicity between us."
ref: 2002, Edward Cline, Sparrowhawk, Book Two: Hugh Kenick, MacAdam/Cage, →ISBN, page 191:
text: This capacity of demonstrating confelicity which is experiencing joy in seeing the happiness and success of others can be seen as an important characteristic of youth mentoring relationships.
ref: 2020, Òscar Prieto-Flores, Jordi Feu, editors, Mentoring Children and Young People for Social Inclusion, Routledge, →ISBN:
antonyms: schadenfreude
glosses: Pleasure in another person's happiness.
Related terms: freudenfreude
naches
compersion
eruginous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eruginous
form: most eruginous
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aeruginous (“pertaining to (the colour of) copper rust”).
æruginous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more æruginous
form: most æruginous
Senses: examples: text: Æruginous vomiting, ſpitting at the bye-ſtanders, gnaſhing or grinding of the teeth, or ſnatching at the bed-clothes, are the fore-runners of a diſſolution.
ref: 1785, Thomas Marryat, Therapeutics; or, The Art of Healing, 7th edition, Birmingham: […] Pearson and Rollason; and sold by R. Baldwin, […], London, pages 35–36:
glosses: Obsolete form of aeruginous.
post-humous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more post-humous
form: most post-humous
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of posthumous.
boldlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: And he ſpake boldlyer: no / if I ſhulde dey with the / I woll not deny the Lyke wyſe alſo ſayd they all.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Mark xiiij:[31], folio lxvij, recto:
glosses: comparative form of boldly: more boldly
waterish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more waterish
form: most waterish
Etymology: From Middle English watryssh, equivalent to water + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The Pepper-trees live in Italie; the ſhrub of Caſia or the Canell likewiſe in the Northerly regions; the Frankincenſe tree alſo hath been knowne to live in Lydia: but where were the hote gleames of the Sunne to be found in thoſe regions, either to drie up the wateriſh humor of the one, or to concot and thicken the gumme and roſin of the other?
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XVI.] Of Certaine Prodigious Trees, and Presages Observed by Them. By what Meanes Trees Grow of Their Owne Accord. That All Plants Grow Not Every Where: And what Trees They be that are Appropriate to Certaine Regions, and are Not Elsewhere to be Found.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 1st tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 478:
glosses: Watery.
hostry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhəʊstɹi/
Forms: form: hostries
Etymology: From Old French hosterie, from hoste (“host”). Doublet of osteria.
Senses: examples: text: And wrapped hym in ſwadlynge cloothes / and layed hym in a manger / be cauſe there was no roume for them with in / in the hoſtrey.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Luke ij:[7], folio lxxiiij, verso:
text: I ſeeing that, tooke him by the legge, and neuer reſted pulling, till I had pull’d me his legge quite off, and now tis at home in mine hoſtrey.
ref: 1589–1592 (date written), Ch[ristopher] Mar[lowe], The Tragicall Historie of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus. […], London: […] Iohn Wright, […], published 1616 (1631 reprint), →OCLC, page [54]:
glosses: A hostelry.
examples: text: An Hoſtry now for Waggons;
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Third Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 112:
glosses: A stable for horses.
lymphonodi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɪm.fəˈnoʊˌdaɪ/
Senses: glosses: plural of lymphonodus
lasagna code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Modeled after spaghetti code, and based on the layered construction of lasagna; coined by Joe Celko in 1982.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Computer program code characterized by several well-defined and separable layers forming a hierarchy of subsystems.
Related terms: ravioli code
spaghetti code
bandage dress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bandage dresses
Senses: examples: text: Where they carried Chanel bags and wore Alaia bandage dresses, Kate wore jeans and a vest top. Her boots were clumpy and her hair unstyled.
ref: 2009, Laura Collins, Kate Moss: The Complete Picture, page 45:
text: Did she really want to be skin and bone, great in one of those bandage dresses but nothing to look at once she whipped it off? No.
ref: 2010, Coleen Nolan, Envy, page 140:
glosses: An elasticated dress that wraps tightly around the wearer to accentuate the profile of the body.
bandage dresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bandage dress
weaverfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weaverfishes
form: weaverfish
Etymology: Alteration of weeverfish
Senses: glosses: A fish in family Trachinidae, with venomous dorsal spines, the weever.
Synonyms: sense: fish in Trachnidae
word: weeverfish
sense: fish in Trachnidae
word: weever
weaverfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weaverfish
fluidized bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluidized beds
Senses: glosses: An industrial unit process in which a quantity of a solid particulate substance is caused to float in a stream of a fluid (usually air or other gas) in order to create conditions in which many chemical, combustion and drying reactions take place efficiently.
glosses: A reactor vessel or other piece of equipment in which a substance is maintained in the fluidized state. In this context, often used attributively.
trainless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From train + -less.
Senses: examples: text: At the radiant point itself, it was a subject of general remark, the meteors appeared trainless, and shone out for a moment like so many stars...
ref: 1867, The Popular science review, Volume 6, page 82:
text: Mr Ray Buckton, the Aslef boss, is as miserable as most trainless commuters, though most of the public sees him as the villain.
ref: 1982, The Economist, Volume 284, page 43:
text: The silk and satin dresses—all sleeveless, trainless, and above the ankle—spun out a lightness, a feeling of romance and hope.
ref: 2007, Gioia Diliberto, The collection, page 253:
text: There is a bittersweet finality to ending our tour at Burnham-on-Sea, and a distinct end-of-an-era feeling that comes with a visit to the now-trainless and steamer-less, quaint seaside town.
ref: 2020 October 21, Dr Joseph Brennan, “From the main line and over the waves”, in Rail, page 61:
glosses: Without a train (in various senses).
bioliths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biolith
biolithic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From biolith + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to bioliths
Derived terms: endobiolithic
screenwash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screenwashes
Etymology: From screen + wash.
Senses: glosses: A fluid used to clean the windscreen of a motor vehicle; windshield washer fluid.
Synonyms: screen wash
washer fluid
wiper fluid
windscreen washer fluid
windshield washer fluid
windshield wiper fluid
screenwash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: screenwashes
form: screenwashing
form: screenwashed
form: screenwashed
Etymology: From screen + wash.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: To sift sediment through open boxes with screens at the bottom, as a technique for finding microfossils.
coassembling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coassemble
coassembles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coassemble
divable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more divable
form: most divable
Etymology: From dive + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of diveable.
diveable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diveable
form: most diveable
form: divable
Etymology: From dive + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Two of the three shipwrecks are diveable.
text: It feels odd, on reflection, to consider the very little we chose to do as we fell beyond diveable depths and still further.
ref: 2022, Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea, Picador, page 46:
glosses: Suitable for diving.
Derived terms: undiveable
SFPD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of San Francisco Police Department.
SFPD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Secure Flight Passenger Data.
poppling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of popple
poppled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of popple
poppodoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poppodom
spellathon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spellathons
Etymology: From spell + -athon.
Senses: examples: text: A feasibility study has revealed that $8,500 would be needed to bring the camp site up to standard. A mammoth spellathon or a walkathon have been suggested.
ref: 1972, The Educational Magazine, volume 29, page 20:
text: Old standbys like walkathons, spellathons, and candy and light bulb sales are common.
ref: 1978, Lawrence W. Prakken, The Education Digest, volume 44, page 37:
text: 1998, Indian Council for Cultural Relations, The United States and India, 1776-1996: The Bridge Over the River Time, page 284,
The annual Spellathon organised by the Scripps-Howard group of publications is the nation′s premier spelling contest and about 8 million students across the nation participated.
text: 2007, Australian House of Representatives, Parliamentary debates (Hansard): House of Representatives, Volume 289, page 18,
Most of us who are parents know that it takes a lot of pie and lamington drives, spellathons and school fetes to generate the money needed to complete many worthwhile school projects.
text: ‘My words were hard too.’ Katrina sighed. ‘It′s not like the spellathon. They don′t tell anyone if they′re right or wrong.’
ref: 2008, Sherryl Clark, Tracey Binns Is Trouble, University of Queensland Press, page 89:
glosses: A spelling bee held to raise money for charity.
spellathons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spellathon
skiathon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skiathons
Etymology: From ski + -athon.
Senses: glosses: A skiing event held to raise money for charity.
skiathons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skiathon
passengering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of passenger
passengered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of passenger
passengered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a fully passengered boat
glosses: Loaded with passengers.
Myrdal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A locality in Aurland municipality, Vestland county, Norway.
perrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perriers
Etymology: Old French perriere, perrier, French perrière, pierrier. Compare pederero.
Senses: examples: text: FIrst there were sixe great gunnes, cannons perriers of brasse , that shot a stone of three foote and a halfe
ref: 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A short mortar used for throwing stone shot.
stryker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strykers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Stryker (emergency stretcher).
namable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nameable.
Derived terms: namableness
unnamable
herdman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herdmen
Etymology: From Middle English herdeman, from Old English hyrdeman; equivalent to herd + man.
Senses: examples: text: And the heerd toke their courſe / and ran heedlynge into the lake / and wer choked. when the herdmẽ ſawe what had chaunſed / they fleed / and tolde it in the cite and in the villages.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Luke viij:[33–34], folio lxxxviij, recto:
glosses: Someone who herds animals; a herdsman.
appendent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more appendent
form: most appendent
Senses: glosses: Hanging; pendulous.
gifter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gifters
Etymology: From gift + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who gives a gift.
examples: text: At any given time, there are often dozens of people actively posting online ads as “chasers” or “gifters” in San Francisco and elsewhere around the nation .. Though chasers and gifters are active around the world, many see San Francisco as a kind of mecca .. apps like Grindr and Recon, as well as the website Breeding.Zone, where gifters and chasers share advice and stories about their sexual experiences, make it relatively straightforward to meet people who want to be infected with the virus that causes AIDS — or to infect their partners .. All the chasers and gifters I found were gay or bisexual men, and they came from a variety of ethnic backgrounds and ranged in age from 18 to 59.
ref: 2016, An Undercover Look Inside the World of HIV Bug Chasers and Gift Givers:
glosses: One who infects another with a sexually transmitted disease.
Related terms: chaser
giftee
giftgiver
reigles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reigle
Elza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Elza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Elzas
Etymology: Altered form of Elsey.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
brer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of br'er (“brother”).
untrappable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + trappable.
Senses: glosses: Impossible to trap.
beheadals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beheadal
antisepticise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: antisepticises
form: antisepticising
form: antisepticised
form: antisepticised
Etymology: From antiseptic + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of antisepticize.
antisepticises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of antisepticise
antisepticising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of antisepticise
antisepticised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of antisepticise
nonsurvival
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + survival.
Senses: examples: text: We not only kill (harvest) wheat for food but also kill (chop down) trees for nonsurvival needs, such as paper.
ref: 1988, Louis G. Lombardi, Moral analysis: foundations, guides, and applications, page 96:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to survival.
nonsurvival
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + survival.
Senses: examples: text: Once again, therefore, there is no simple relationship between mass-populist versus elite-dominated regimes and survival versus nonsurvival.
ref: 1978, Dennis Austin, Politics in Africa, page 22:
glosses: Failure to survive.
nonsurgically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nonsurgical + -ly or non- + surgically.
Senses: examples: text: The soft tissue diode laser used in the LAPOR protocol, biostimulates the healing response of the periodontium nonsurgically, and biostimulates the tissue regeneration of the periodontium, nonsurgically, and prevents long junctional epithelium from migrating downwards into the sulcus (a biomechanical aspect of tissue healing), thereby preserving the tissue height.
ref: 2013, Stem Cells—Advances in Research and Application: 2013 Edition:
glosses: In a nonsurgical manner; not by means of surgery.
meriter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛɹɪtə/
ipa: /ˈmɛɹɪtɚ/
Forms: form: meriters
Etymology: From merit + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Not that it is not wrought as well by the other persons, beeing a worke without themselues: for the Father reneweth as beeing the foundation and fountaine not of the Deitie alone, but of all diuine actions and good things whatsoeuer: and the Son reneweth as the Mediator and meriter of it.
ref: 1612, Thomas Taylor, A commentarie vpon the Epistle of S. Paul written to Titus, L. Greene, page 650:
text: If receiving Chriſt as a Satisfier and Meriter, be the only faith that gives right to Juſtification, then on the ſame grounds you muſt ſay, It is the only faith that gives right to further Sanctification and to Glorification: For Chriſt Merited one as vvell as the other.
ref: 1654, Richard Baxter, “Rich. Baxter’s Account Given to His Reverend Brother Mr T[homas] Blake of the Reasons of his Dissent from the Doctrine of His Exceptions in His Late Treatise of the Covenants. §. 1. Mr Blake Treat. of Covenants, pag. 79.”, in Rich. Baxter’s Apology against the Modest Exceptions of Mr. T[homas] Blake and the Digression of Mr. G[eorge] Kendall. […], London: […] A. M. for Thomas Underhill, […], and Francis Tyton […], →OCLC, page 6:
text: That Iesus the Lord, became, in the Flesh, a Sacrificer, and Sacri­fice for Sin; A Satisfaction, and Price, to the Iustice, of God; A Me­riter, of Glory, and the Kingdom[…]
ref: 1657, Francis Bacon, A Confession of the Faith, London: F. Leach, pages 120–121:
glosses: Someone or something that merits.
antifederalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antifederalist
antinarrative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antinarratives
Etymology: From anti- + narrative.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
glosses: A narrative, as of a play or novel, that deliberately avoids the typical conventions of the narrative, such as a coherent plot and resolution.
antinarratives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antinarrative
bullar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to a bulla
Derived terms: peribullar
transbullar
icey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: icier
form: iciest
Senses: examples: text: You had a bad fall last winter because you did not notice that the doorstep was icey.
ref: 1921, “American magazine”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 91, page 119:
glosses: Alternative spelling of icy.
antimoniate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimoniates
Etymology: From antimony + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The anion of pentavalent antimony Sb(OH)₄⁻ or any salt containing this anion. It is most commonly encountered as a complex in the drug meglumine antimoniate
slinter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slinters
Etymology: Originally South African slang, borrowed from Afrikaans slenter (“scam”) from Dutch schlenter (“trick”)
Senses: examples: text: Ah, never a mother's love they'll rob, By working a slinter — s'elp me Bob!
ref: 1929, New Zealand Railways Magazine - Volume 4:
text: ...or he might work a slinter if you gave him half a chance .
ref: 1976, Frank Sargeson, Sunset Village, page 30:
text: It may be able to work a slinter on the young people who will now have to carry the burden of this extra taxation.
ref: 1976, New Zealand. Parliament, Parliamentary Debates. House of Representatives:
text: Front-line men like Gray would come to feel that some 'drafted to Stationary and Base Hopitals and Hosp. Ships... work all manner of "slinters" [tricks] to stay there for the duration' and 'should be given a chance to show their prowess at stretcher bearing and whizband doging...There is absolutely no comparison between the 2 kinds of work.'
ref: 2018, Anna Rogers, With Them Through Hell, →ISBN, page 14:
glosses: A scam or deception; fast one.
Beerman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Beerman testified to San Diego's growth and reported that the city has made virtually maximum possible use of local waters available to it.
ref: 1958, Arizona Interstate Stream Commission, Annual report of the Arizona Interstate Stream Commission, page 18:
glosses: A surname.
antimoniates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antimoniate
snatchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: snatchier
form: snatchiest
Etymology: From snatch + -y.
Senses: examples: text: We listen to a snatchy talk on one thing and then another, and abstruse questions that are like the Scotchman's definition of metaphysics.
ref: 1902, Amanda Minnie Douglas, A Sherburne quest, page 332:
text: The long-desired vision came first to Peter in Galilee in the morning twilight, and something of the kind perhaps happened to others; but of all this we have only garbled and snatchy reports.
ref: 1922, G. Stanley Hall, Jesus, the Christ, in the Light of Psychology:
text: In positioning the branches, remember that the foliage should be arranged to give snatchy views of the two trunks all the way to the top.
ref: 1990, Kan Yashiroda, Bonsai: Special Techniques, page 18:
glosses: In snatches or glimpses.
nonmutilated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + mutilated.
Senses: glosses: Not mutilated.
Alexandrina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A feminine form of Alexander.
Senses: examples: text: Alexander of Russia, the patron saint of the Cobourgs, was dead, so Alexandrina of England, named in honour of him, gave way to Victoria the tutelary deity of his (when living) subservient Cobourgs. Both names are alike foreign and unharmonious to British ears,* although of the two, Alexandrina perhaps the most euphonious.
*George IV., who, whatever his faults, had a true British spirit and sentiments, declared both to be anti-British, and expressed himself in no measured terms at the time about giving the royal infant such unEnglish names.
ref: 1838 April, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Court and Cabinet Gossip of a New Reign, pages 512–513:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
glosses: A local government area in the Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island region of South Australia; in full, Alexandrina Council.
artworlds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artworld
artworld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artworlds
form: art world
Etymology: From art + world, popularized by art critic Arthur Danto (1924–2013), see quotations.
Senses: examples: text: Fashion, as it happens, favors certain rows of the style matrix: museums, connoisseurs, and others are makeweights in the Artworld. […] Brillo boxes enter the artworld with that same tonic incongruity the commedia dell'arte characters bring into Ariadne auf Naxos.
ref: 1964 October 15, Arthur Danto, “The Artworld”, in The Journal of Philosophy, volume 61, number 19, page 584:
text: Yet while Gauguin went native, taking teenage mistresses, wearing local costumes and building his own wooden hut, his ultimate purpose was to impress the art world back home.
ref: 2003 October 14, Alan Riding, “The Colors of Paradise As Imagined by Gauguin”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Probably he would maintain that at least some of the regards intended for artworks are common to all the artworlds there are and that it is this feature that unifies these artworlds as of a single type.
ref: 2007, Stephen Davies, Philosophical perspectives on art, page 67:
text: Rather than being in conflict, it is more accurate to suggest that these institutions lack a clear understanding of how they relate to each other under the emergence of an academy artworld.
ref: 2010, Hazel Gardiner, Charlie Gere, Art Practice in a Digital Culture, page 19:
glosses: A group or network of people involved in the production, commission, preservation, promotion, criticism, and sale of art.
wikipedia: Arthur Danto
Alexandrine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Alexandrine
form: most Alexandrine
Etymology: Partly from Middle French alexandrin and partly from Latin Alexandrīnus.
Senses: examples: text: The division of Scholz himself, in the work last named, is into the Alexandrine and Constantinopolitan recension. […] But in amalgamating the Alexandrine and Western Mss. together, he has done not a little violence to both. Moreover, taking the fact as true, which Eusebius has related in respect to his making out fifty copies of the New Testament for the churches at Constantinople, in the time of Constantine; and the fact also that Eusebius is known, by the quotations in his works, to have given a preference to the Alexandrine copies; how can the superiority or even the discrepancy of the Constantinopolitan class of Mss. in respect to the Alexandrine, be so definitely made out?
ref: 1836, [Johann Leonhard] Hug, translated by David Fosdick Jr., edited by M[oses] Stuart, Hug’s Introduction to the New Testament, Andover: […] Gould and Newman, page 686:
text: Dioscorus sent a man there called Eutyches, a monk—monks had been too useful to Alexandrine politics to be abandoned.
ref: 1968, The Eastern Churches Quarterly, volume 4, page 232:
text: In Peking he teamed up with a junior partner in the wool concern, a melancholy multi-lingual Alexandrine Greek who joined him from a trip to India on other business for the firm, for a fortnight’s concentrated talks with various corporation chiefs.
ref: 1984, Roger Milliss, Serpent’s Tooth: An Autobiographical Novel, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 185:
synonyms: Alexandrian
glosses: Of or relating to Alexandria.
Derived terms: Alexandrine rat
Alexandrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Alexandrines
Etymology: Partly from Middle French alexandrin and partly from Latin Alexandrīnus.
Senses: examples: text: The Alexandrines considered themselves Greeks and Macedonians. And, as a matter of fact, it does not seem likely that there was any considerable infusion of native Egyptian blood in the Alexandrines.
ref: 1927, Edwyn Bevan, A History of Egypt under the Ptolemaic Dynasty, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. […], page 98:
text: The Alexandrines, proud of their sophistication, claimed that the Cairenes were provincial, the Cairo girls somewhat dowdy; their petticoats showed below their dresses, and they boasted that the really beautiful Cairo girls all married in Alexandria. To prove their point, Alexandrines invariably mentioned the celebrated Quatour Fleuri, four beautiful young brides, all Cairo born, who had all married Alexandrian men—and were supposed to have acquired that extra chic in Alexandria.
ref: a. 1980, Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff, edited by Deborah A. Starr and Sasson Somekh, Mongrels or Marvels: The Levantine Writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff, Stanford University Press, published 2011, →ISBN:
text: Nestorius retired to his monastery; from there he was banished first to Petra in modern Jordan, and then to the deserts of Upper Egypt where he was persecuted by Egyptian monks and taken prisoner by hostile nomads. The affair was as much political as theological—the Romans and Alexandrines were jealous of his influence as patriarch of Constantinople—but it led to permanent schisms.
ref: 2002, Brian Moynahan, The Faith: A History of Christianity, Image Books, Doubleday, published 2003, →ISBN, page 126:
text: Before that point perhaps only a third of the empire’s inhabitants were Roman citizens.⁴ The remainder were either foreigners (peregrini) or had one or other of a range of statuses that can be thought of as part citizenships, among them Latins, Junian Latins, Alexandrines and the former slaves of Roman citizens.
ref: 2021, Greg Woolf, Miguel John Versluys, “Empire as a field of religious action”, in Jörg Rüpke, Greg Woolf, editors, Religion in the Roman Empire, Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer GmbH, →ISBN, page 25:
synonyms: Alexandrian
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Alexandria.
Alexandrine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Alexandrine
form: most Alexandrine
Etymology: From Alexander + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: When we picture to ourselves his [Napoleon’s] dawning military genius at Toulon—his daring and decided politics in the storms of the Revolution—his Cæsarian ambition in assuming the purple—his rivalry of Hannibal in urging an army, with heavy artillery, over the frozen and apparently impassable summits of the very Alps crossed by the Carthaginian General—[…]—his Alexandrine bravery on many a bloody field, as well as his Alexandrine temerity, in warring against the elements themselves—[…]—when (we say) we picture to our imagination these, and many other scenes of Napoleon’s “strange eventful history,” we are apt to be dazzled with the splendour of his arms and the lustre of his fame!
ref: 1829 March, “Napoleon a Sainte Helene. Opinion d’un Medecin sur la Maladie de l’Empereur Napoleon, et sur la Cause de sa Mort; offerte a son Fils, au Jour de sa Majorite. Par S. Hereau, […]”, in James Johnson, editor, The Medico-Chirurgical Review, and Journal of Practical Medicine, volume X, number XX, London: […] S. Highley, […], page 434:
text: Have you not read somewhere of a Philip of Macedon and an Alexander of Macedonia, whom the Greeks looked down upon because he had not been born farther south, and yet who built up the best army of ancient times? Macedonia, the beginning of the great Alexandrine Empire, and birthplace of the Emperor Constantine, has stood in the midst of the Balkan countries as they have come out of the Stygian darkness of Turkish rule, as Bulgaria and Servia and Roumania and Greece became first little principalities and in our days kingdoms—as they have risen out of their dreadful servitude, Macedonia remained under the Turks.
ref: 1914, Albert Bushnell Hart, “The Balkan War”, in Addresses Delivered Before the Canadian Club of Ottawa, page 97:
text: The more enterprising elements tended to emigrate to overseas centres of Hellenism, and colonies, especially after the Alexandrine conquests, while in Greece itself there were destructive wars and class conflicts.
ref: 1977, Paul Johnson, Enemies of Society, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum, page 15:
text: In a few months, he [Antigonus I Monophthalmus] had leapt from being one satrap among many to a contender for Alexandrine supremacy, and doubtless that, or something like it, was exactly what was on his mind.
ref: 2011, Robin Waterfield, Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great’s Empire, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 72–73:
synonyms: Alexandrian
glosses: Of or relating to Alexander the Great.
Derived terms: Alexandrine parakeet
Alexandrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Alexandrines
Etymology: From Alexander + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: He is hardly distinguishable from an ordinary cock Alexandrine except for his slightly smaller size and rather less massive head and beak—the latter a distinct improvement.
ref: 1950, Edward Boosey, “Breeding Results at the Keston Foreign Bird Farm”, in The Avicultural Magazine, volumes 56–57, page 19:
text: My own experiences of a liberty Alexandrine were of a very different nature. One Christmas Eve, above the pre-dusk cacophony which will be heard in any collection of parrots, I detected an unfamiliar voice. I soon sighted an Alexandrine flying towards the neighbouring garden.
ref: 1980, Rosemary Low, Parrots: Their Care and Breeding, Blandford Press, →ISBN, page 222:
text: The nominate Alexandrine has green plumage and an immense beak. As with many of the ringnecked variety, color mutations are becoming more available, including lutino (yellow) and blue. The Alexandrine has five distinct subspecies, some slightly larger or smaller than the nominate bird.
ref: 2005, Nikki Moustaki, Parrots For Dummies®, Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:
glosses: Ellipsis of Alexandrine parakeet.
Alexandrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Alexandrines
Etymology: From Middle French alexandrin.
Senses: examples: text: Some of these Alexandrines are well marked, in others the last word has such a strong accent on the last syllable but two that both final syllables fall on the ear rather as an addition to the last measure, a mere superfluous syllable, than a distinct measure by themselves.
ref: 1871, Alexander J[ohn] Ellis, On Early English Pronunciation, with Especial Reference to Shakspere and Chaucer, […], part III ([…]), London: […] [F]or the Philological Society by Asher & Co., London and Berlin, and for the Early English Text Society, and the Chaucer Society, by Trübner & Co., […], page 943:
text: In all these matters each man did as he liked—some used prose, some blank, some frequent short lines, some none at all: some weak-endings, some trisyllabic feet, some female endings, some Alexandrines; but none of these things were patent to the public.
ref: 1881, C[lement] M[ansfield] Ingleby, Occasional Papers on Shakespeare: Being the Second Part of Shakespeare the Man and the Book, London: […] Josiah Allen, […] Trübner & Co., […], page 64:
text: In some cases these are composed of trimeter couplets; that is, with the pause after the third foot; in others, they are true Alexandrines, with pauses after the second, seventh, eighth, or tenth syllable.
ref: 1891, James C[hallis] Parsons, English Versification for the Use of Students, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Leach, Shewell, & Sanborn, page 98:
text: A greater challenge to the domination of the Alexandrine was by Verlaine, who wrote lines that looked like Alexandrines according to a completely different (and arbitrary) set of rules: thirteen-syllable lines, eleven-syllable lines, twelve-syllable lines without caesura.
ref: 2010, Joseph A. Dane, The Long and the Short of It: A Practical Guide to European Versification Systems, Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of alexandrine.
Alexandrine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Alexandrine.
Senses: examples: text: Whoever will drink of an unadulterated stream must go to the fountain-head. This, Miss Laura Alexandrine Smith has done, and that she has drunk deeply, is easy to be seen from the spirit and enthusiasm with which she writes.
ref: 1887 June, R. M. Ballantyne, “Introductory Note”, in Laura Alexandrine Smith, The Music of the Waters. […], London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., […], published 1888, page ix:
text: Alexandrine Ave., named for Alexandrine M. Willis, the wife of B. Campau, land owner (1863)
ref: 2008, Kristin Palm, The Straits, Palm Press, →ISBN, page 21:
text: He teamed up with Amin and Iksander, named, Iksander said, for Alexander the Great. / Cool, John said. I read somewhere that the year he died, children all over the world were named for him. Alexander, Alexandrine, Alexandra.
ref: 2010, Pearl Abraham, American Taliban, Random House, →ISBN, page 194:
glosses: A female given name from French.
Related terms: Alexandrina
jogathon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jogathons
Etymology: From jog + -athon.
Senses: glosses: A charity event in which participants jog a long distance.
jogathons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jogathon
chatathon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chatathons
Etymology: From chat + -athon.
Senses: glosses: A long period of chatting.
Related terms: talkathon
chatathons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chatathon
hypomobility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypomobilities
Etymology: From hypo- + mobility.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Decreased ability to move a joint of the body.
hypomobilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypomobility
enthuser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enthusers
Etymology: From enthuse + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who enthuses; a fan, enthusiast.
enthusers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enthuser
hordelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hordelike
form: most hordelike
Etymology: From horde + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a horde.
unherded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + herded.
Senses: examples: text: In all the day's excitement, the goats were left unherded to wander on the mountainside.
glosses: Not herded.
floorplanning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From floor + planning.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The act of designing a floor plan (electronic circuit design).
midlick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + lick.
Senses: examples: text: Pausing in midlick, Lanie shrugged. "I know I dress lousy. I just like this old jacket of mine. It's comfortable."
ref: 1990, Rick North, Ready for Blastoff:
text: “Wayne had to walk around the side of the building,” she said, causing Moishe to look at up her in midlick.
ref: 2008, Joanne Fluke, Laura Levine, Leslie Meier, Candy Cane Murder, page 130:
text: She stopped, midlick. Why had that come to mind?
ref: 2008, Kim Powers, Capote in Kansas: A Ghost Story, page 29:
glosses: The midpoint of the action of licking.
mulligan stews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mulligan stew
placebolike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more placebolike
form: most placebolike
Etymology: From placebo + -like.
Senses: glosses: Having characteristics of a placebo.
plateletphereses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plateletpheresis
such like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of suchlike.
such like
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: Such and such like were the reasonings of Sir Thomas---happy to escape the embarrassing evils of a rupture, the wonder, the reflections, the reproach that must attend it, happy to secure a marriage which would bring him such an addition of respectability and influence, and very happy to think any thing of his daughter’s disposition that was most favourable for the purpose.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter III, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 58:
glosses: Alternative form of suchlike.
nutjob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nutjobs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nut job.
Derived terms: nutjobbery
nut jobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nut job
daymares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daymare
daymares
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of daymare
breadwinning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bread + winning. Compare West Frisian breawinning (“livelihood”), Dutch broodwinning (“profession”).
Senses: examples: text: This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak—the sea entering into the life of most men, and the men knowing something or everything about the sea, in the way of amusement, of travel, or of bread-winning.
ref: 1898 September, Joseph Conrad, “Youth: a Narrative”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXIV, number DCCCCXCV, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publication Co., page 309:
text: And the key issues that both batterers and battered women identify as triggers to battering are men's successes in breadwinning and the bedroom – the two Bs.
ref: 2007, Angela Hattery, Earl Smith, African American families, page 104:
synonyms: breadearning
glosses: The earning of a household's primary income.
Related terms: breadwinner
sardiner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sardiners
Etymology: From sardine + -er.
Senses: glosses: A sardine fisherman.
examples: text: Although primarily a sardiner, it is expected that "City of Naples II" will be employed as well in the tuna trade, and will probably be equipped with mechanical refrigeration […]
ref: 1945, Pacific Fisherman, page 255:
glosses: A fishing boat used for catching sardines.
sardonicisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sardonicism
rinner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rinners
Etymology: From rin + -er.
Senses: glosses: A runner.
noncheater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noncheaters
Etymology: From non- + cheater.
Senses: glosses: One who does not cheat.
Related terms: noncheating
noncheaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noncheater