cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
compensatorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more compensatorily
form: most compensatorily
Etymology: From compensatory + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a compensatory way; so as to compensate.
Derived terms: compensatorily lengthen
Freelanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Freelander
scrappages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrappage
apple dumpling shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apple dumpling shop
Ridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ridges
Etymology: From ridge. Originating from Middle English.
Senses: glosses: A village in Hertsmere district, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom.
glosses: A toponymic surname from Middle English, named after the natural feature.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
aeroclub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aeroclubs
form: aero club
Etymology: From aero- + club.
Senses: examples: text: First six production aircraft sold to Iranian civil aeroclubs for pilot training: manufacture of these was in process in mid-2001.
ref: 2004, Paul Jackson, Jane's All The World's Aircraft, page 289:
glosses: A flying club; an organization for aircraft pilots.
capo tasto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of capotasto.
web conference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: web conferences
Senses: examples: text: The ABC Company will be hosting a web conference on "Remaining Profitable in a Recession Period".
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A meeting, presentation or other communication hosted via the World Wide Web.
Related terms: webinar
ridge-runner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ridge-runners
Etymology: Recorded since 1917; from ridge (reference to the Appalachian mountain chain) + runner.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of the Southern Appalachian region.
glosses: A descendant of the above population.
æqualls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of æquall
æqualls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of æquall
æqualling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of æqual
glosses: present participle and gerund of æquall
æqualled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of æqual
glosses: simple past and past participle of æquall
court card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: court cards
Etymology: Unlike the numbered cards, these represent people of the kind that might be found at a royal court.
Senses: examples: 1999: Simon Blackburn, Think: A compelling introduction to philosophy, chapter 6: Reasoning, section 5: Plausible Reasonings, page 212 (Oxford University Press, paperback, →ISBN
There are fifty-two outcomes possible when we turn up a card, and if we do it from a freshly and fairly shuffled pack, each possibility has an equal chance. Probabilistic reasoning can then go forward: we can solve, for instance, for whether most draws of seven cards involve two court cards, or whatever.
topics: card-games
games
synonyms: face card
paint
hypernyms: playing card
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card#Noun
glosses: A king, queen, jack, or sometimes ace in a standard deck of playing cards.
glosses: A postcard measuring approximately 4·75″ × 3·5″, in use mainly in the United Kingdom circa 1894–1902.
court cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of court card
biocenoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biocenosis
estes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of este
at the expense of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Forms: form: at one's expense
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Paid for by an individual or group.
glosses: At one's responsibility.
examples: text: Bengali, like other Aryan languages of India, has spread, and is still spreading, at the expense of the aboriginal tongues.
ref: 1926, Suniti Kumar Chatterji, The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language, page 3:
glosses: In a way as to harm somebody or something; to the detriment of.
glosses: Of a joke, deriding someone.
Republic of Artsakh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Republic of Artsakh
Senses: examples: text: In 1991, the region of about 150,000 people declared independence and since then it has ruled itself – with Armenian support – as the unrecognised Republic of Artsakh.
ref: 2023 September 19, Pjotr Sauer, “Why is there dispute over control of Nagorno-Karabakh?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Synonym of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
synonyms: word: Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
va-jay-jays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /vəˈdʒeɪdʒeɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of va-jay-jay
clicking knife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clicking knives
Senses: glosses: A small knife, with a thin, flexible blade, used by clickers to cut leather
East End
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: East End
form: the East End
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see east, end.
examples: text: But O Cook, O Thomas Cook & Son,[…]with ease and celerity, could you send me to Darkest Africa or Innermost Thibet, but to the East End of London, barely a stone’s throw distant from Ludgate Circus, you know not the way!
ref: 1903 October, Jack London, chapter I, in The People of the Abyss, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
coordinate_terms: West End
glosses: The east end of London, generally regarded to be east of the medieval walled City of London and north of the River Thames.
glosses: A hamlet in Weedon parish, Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP8118).
glosses: A region of Montreal island, Quebec, Canada.
holonyms: Long Island
Suffolk County
meronyms: Hamptons
South Fork
North Fork
glosses: The eastern tip of Long Island, New York.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
Derived terms: East Ender
Related terms: North-end
North End
Northend
North-End
South-End
South-end
South End
Southend
West-end
West End
West-End
Westend
Swinging Sixties
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Swinging Sixties
Senses: examples: text: [Mary] Quant's happy perpetuation of the mythology is hardly surprising as she was part of the Chelsea Set, a group of creative entrepreneurs consisting mostly of upper-class artists, photographers and writers such as Alexander Plunckett-Green and Nell Dunn, who together with (American) mass media such as Time Magazine (scrutinized in Chapter 4), dreamt up what we now conceive of as the Swinging Sixties.
ref: 2016, Sebastian Groes, British Fictions of the Sixties: The Making of the Swinging Decade, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 3:
glosses: An often nostalgic name for the 1960s.
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1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s
1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s
2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s · 2050s · 2060s · 2070s · 2080s · 2090s
2100s · 2110s · 2120s · 2130s · 2140s · 2150s · 2160s · 2170s · 2180s · 2190s
2200s · 2210s · 2220s · 2230s · 2240s · 2250s · 2260s · 2270s · 2280s · 2290s
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'00s · '10s · '20s · '30s · '40s · '50s · '60s · '70s · '80s · '90s
00's · 10's · 20's · 30's · 40's · 50's · 60's · 70's · 80's · 90's
zeros
zeroes
aughts
noughties
oughts · oneties
tens
teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties
Hungry Forties · Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties
arborcide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From arbor + -cide.
Senses: examples: text: It turned out that a neighbor's ailanthus tree was blocking her view. Ms. Powis's answer was meant to discourage both trespassing and arborcide.
ref: 2007 January 16, Anthony Ramirez, “Where There's a Plant, She's Got an Answer”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of arboricide.
booyakasha
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Of unclear origin, although many spurious theories exist. Possibly of Jamaican origin, as an extended form of boo-ya. Intended as a simulation of a shotgun blast and used in hip-hop, e.g. "Keep Their Heads Ringin’" by Dr Dre (1995) and before that by Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. in the late 1980s. "Booyaka" appears in Shabba Ranks's "Ting a Ling". Use by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen for his character Ali G during the 1990s and early 2000s.
Senses: examples: text: “Boo-yaka-shah.” “OMG!”
ref: 2014 March 4, Nick Kroll, “Mercury Poisoning” (1:23 from the start), in Kroll Show, season 2, episode 8, spoken by Aspen Bruckenheimer (Nick Kroll):
glosses: Used to express triumph, normally if trying to appear "gangsta".
wikipedia: Ali G
Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E.
Dr Dre
Sacha Baron Cohen
Related terms: boo-ya
buíochas
Irish language word for thanks of which booyakasha might be a corruption
grains of paradise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grain of paradise
form: grains of Paradise
form: grains o' paradise
Etymology: From medieval spice traders claiming that the spice grew only in Eden, in order to inflate prices. Cf. French graines de paradis.
Senses: examples: text: ...graynes of paradise, hoote & moyst þey be...
ref: c. 1460, John Russell, The Boke of Nurture, page 126:
text: When I found it [Two-Penny Drink] left a hot Tang behind it, it gave me just Reason to believe they had used Grains of Paradise, or long Pepper, both which will save Malt.
ref: 1743, William Ellis, supplement to The London & Country Brewer, 2nd ed., p. 288
text: Guinea Grains and Grains of Paradise are considered, by the Trade, as one and the same article.
ref: 1812, James Smyth, The Practice of the Customs in the Entry, Examination, and Delivery of Goods and Merchandize, ii, p. 84:
text: "Gærtner has figured the fruit and seeds of a scitamineous plant under the name of Zingiber Melægueta, and which he considered to be identical with the Grains of Paradise."
ref: 1844, Jonathan Pereira, “On Grains of Paradise”, in The American Journal of Pharmacy, page 97:
text: ...beer poisoned wi' grains o' paradise, and cocculus indicus.
ref: 1850, Charles Kingsley, chapter VIII, in Alton Locke, volume I, page 127:
text: "In fact this spice was making a second appearance in Europe: it was Guinea pepper, mentioned by Pliny as 'African pepper', and also known as Malaguetta pepper or grains of Paradise. Grains of Paradise had been very popular in the thirteenth century and again in the sixteenth; its popularity may have been due to the brilliant name thought up for it by some advertising genius born before his time."
ref: 1994, Anthea Bell, A History of Food, Wiley-Blackwell, translation of original by Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat, →ISBN, page 495:
text: "Also called Melegueta or Malagueta pepper, guinea grain, or guinea pepper, grains of paradise were prized as a spice and as a substitute for black pepper in Europe during the Middle Ages."
ref: 2006, Susheela Raghavan, Handbook of Spices, Seasonings, and Flavorings, 2nd edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 119:
glosses: The seeds or seed capsules of Aframomum melegueta, used as a medicine and spice, especially as a substitute for black pepper and in flavoring alcoholic beverages.
glosses: Aframomum melegueta itself, a herbaceous perennial plant native to the swamps of the West African coast.
Synonyms: sense: Aframomum melegueta
word: guinea grains
sense: Aframomum melegueta
word: Guinea pepper
sense: Aframomum melegueta
word: malagueta
sense: Aframomum melegueta
word: melegueta
sense: Aframomum melegueta
word: alligator pepper
sense: Aframomum melegueta
word: malagueta pepper
sense: Aframomum melegueta
english: now improper
translation: now improper
word: cardamom
etymologising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of etymologise
etymologised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of etymologise
etymologises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of etymologise
the devil
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: the Devil
Senses: examples: text: What the devil are you doing here at this time of night?
text: VVhat is he an honeſt man? the deuill he is, he is the Parſon of the Towne,
You thinke ther’s no knauerie hid vnder a black gowne,
Find him in a pulpit but twiſe in the yeare,
And Ile find him fortie times in the ale-houſe taſting ſtrong beare.
ref: 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:
text: “Brother,” said she, “whatever message Mr Blifil thinks proper to send to my niece shall be delivered to her; and I suppose she will want no instructions to make a proper answer. I am convinced she will not refuse to see Mr Blifil at a proper time.”—“The devil she won’t!” answered the squire.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
synonyms: the dickens
glosses: Used to add emphasis to a question or statement.
Derived terms: the devils
the devil you say
the dickens
what the devils
the devil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Devil
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see the, devil.
white boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white boys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whiteboy.
fuck-a-doodle-doo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -uː
Etymology: Blend of fuck + cock-a-doodle-doo.
Senses: glosses: Expression of frustration, contempt or boredom.
examples: text: - I can play 'Don't Look Back in Anger' on guitar.
- Well fuck-a-doodle-doo.
glosses: Conveys sarcastic admiration or happiness; whoop-de-doo.
deselection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deselections
Etymology: From de- + selection.
Senses: glosses: The process or act of deselecting.
lumberjack shirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lumberjack shirts
Senses: glosses: A shirt of flannel or similar material with a plaid pattern, traditionally worn by lumberjacks.
Synonyms: sense: shirt
word: lumberjacket
sense: shirt
word: lumberjack
Derived terms: lumberjack-shirted
grandbabies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grandbaby
unfalsifiably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unfalsifiably
form: most unfalsifiably
Etymology: From unfalsifiable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unfalsifiable way.
ogin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑɡɪn/
ipa: /ˈɒɡɪn/
rhymes: -ɒɡɪn
Forms: form: oggin
Etymology: Unclear. Among various suggestions, it may be a corrupted form of hogwash (“swill”), of noggin (“a small measure of an alcoholic drink”), or of ocean.
Senses: examples: text: Nobody has yet put up a suitable argument for *never* going into the ogin to help someone who can't raise their own head above the surface...
ref: 2004 April 6, DannyBoy, “Man Overboard Statistics....”, in uk.rec.sailing (Usenet):
topics: government
military
nautical
navy
politics
transport
war
glosses: A large body of water including the sea or the ocean.
outdoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outdoers
Etymology: From outdo + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, outdoes.
Synonyms: outperformer
outdoers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outdoer
compass points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compass point
Hackintosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hackintoshes
Etymology: Blend of hack + Macintosh
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer other than a Macintosh that has been configured to run the Macintosh operating system (OS X or macOS).
Derived terms: Hackintosher
fromageries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fromagerie
touch move
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: The rule, in chess, that a piece touched must be moved or captured if possible.
Related terms: clock move
careerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From career + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a career.
Derived terms: careerlessness
mirasol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɪɹəsɒl/
Forms: form: mirasols
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish mirasol (“sunflower”)
Senses: glosses: A variety of chili; when dried, the chilis are called guajillos.
storax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storaxes
Etymology: From Middle English storace, storage, storax, storaxe, storrax, from Latin storax, styrax, from Ancient Greek στύραξ (stúrax). Doublet of styrax.
Senses: synonyms: styrax
glosses: Any member of the genus Styrax of about 130 species of large shrubs or small trees, mostly native to temperate or tropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
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:
text: Aromatics were used, too, especially in necromancy, and an old recipe of that sort comprises Musk, Myrrh, Frankincense, Red Storax, Mastick, Olibanum, Saffron, Benzoin and Labdanum.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 112:
synonyms: rose mallows
hyponyms: benzoin
glosses: The resin of the oriental sweetgum tree (Liquidambar orientalis), formerly used as a stimulating expectorant.
storaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of storax
perfs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perf
oriental sweetgum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oriental sweetgums
Senses: glosses: A deciduous tree native to the eastern Mediterranean region, Liquidambar orientalis.
metastyrol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + styrol.
Senses: glosses: Polystyrene.
Synonyms: styrol oxide
coinlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coinlike
form: most coinlike
Etymology: From coin + -like.
Senses: synonyms: nummular
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a coin.
paperlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paperlike
form: most paperlike
Etymology: From paper + -like.
Senses: glosses: Similar to paper in some way or most ways.
Synonyms: paperish
Hypernyms: papery
familyless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From family + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a family.
Derived terms: familylessness
kinless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From kin + -less.
Senses: examples: text: And old friendships and all connexions forgotten, when you go to seek an office from him! “A kinless loon,” as the Scotch said of Cromwell’s new judges, — intent on mere indifferent fair-play!
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. XI, The Abbot’s Ways”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):
glosses: Without kin; familyless.
Derived terms: kinlessness
imaret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imarets
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish عمارت (ʼimaret), from Arabic عِمَارَة (ʕimāra).
Senses: examples: text: Yıldırım Bayezid had located his imaret in the opposite direction, some two kilometers to the east of the city. Mehmed I chose a site closer to the center, between the imarets of Orhan Gazi and Yıldırım Bayezid.
ref: 1996, Aptulla Kuran, “A Spatial Study of Three Ottoman Capitals: Bursa, Edirne, and Istanbul”, in Gülru Necipoğlu, editor, Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islam World, volume XIII, Harvard University, page 118:
text: It was originally built as a zaviye, or hostel, for members of the Ahi Brotherhood of Virtue; later it became an imaret, serving free food to the poor of Iznik.
ref: 2000, John Freely, The Companion Guide to Istanbul and Around the Marmara, page 383:
text: He lived in an elegant stone house, a part of the Imaret of Haseki Sultan.
ref: 2006, T. Byram Karasu, Of God and Madness, page 217:
topics: architecture
glosses: An Ottoman soup kitchen built between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries, often part of a larger complex or waqf.
imarets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imaret
jetsetting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jet-setting.
jetsetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jetset
expresso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkˈspɹɛsəʊ/
ipa: /ɪkˈspɹɛsoʊ/
ipa: /ɛkˈspɹɛsoʊ/
ipa: /ɪkˈspɹɛsoʊ/
Forms: form: expressos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of espresso.
expressos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expresso
laminator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laminators
Etymology: From laminate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: That first offer turned out to be a job as a laminator at Interior Form Tops, a countertop manufacturing firm […]
ref: 2011, Gary C. King, To Die For: A True Story of Serial Murder and Occult Phenomena:
glosses: A person who laminates.
glosses: A device that laminates.
laminators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laminator
shrinkwraps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shrinkwrap
shrinkwrapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shrinkwrap
shrinkwrapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shrinkwrap
uncleannesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uncleanness
unblessedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unblessed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being unblessed.
culdoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: culdoscopes
Etymology: From culdo- + -scope.
Senses: examples: text: Decker had just introduced his culdoscope and was advocating culdoscopy. I actually saw two peritoneoscopies during training but it had not achieved wide use.
ref: 1951 July, Richard D. Reekie, “Critical Analysis of Recent Advances in Gynecology”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 7, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 508:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A kind of endoscope used in culdoscopy.
culdoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of culdoscope
culdoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: culdoscopies
Etymology: From culdo- + -scopy.
Senses: examples: text: Decker had just introduced his culdoscope and was advocating culdoscopy. I actually saw two peritoneoscopies during training but it had not achieved wide use.
ref: 1951 July, Richard D. Reekie, “Critical Analysis of Recent Advances in Gynecology”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 7, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 508:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Endoscopy of the female pelvic organs by way of the vagina.
Derived terms: culdoscopic
Related terms: culdoscope
culdoscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of culdoscopy
culdoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Etymology: From culdoscopy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to culdoscopy.
Derived terms: culdoscopically
Wemba-Wemba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwembə wembə/
Forms: form: Wamba-Wamba
form: Wamba Wamba
form: Wemba Wemba
form: Wembawemba
Senses: glosses: A group of indigenous Australians, found in north-western Victoria and south-western New South Wales.
Wemba-Wemba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwembə wembə/
Forms: form: Wamba-Wamba
form: Wamba Wamba
form: Wemba Wemba
form: Wembawemba
Senses: glosses: An extinct Pama-Nyungan language formerly spoken by the Wemba-Wemba.
Synonyms: Wamba-Wamba
rectouterine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From recto- + uterine.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Located between the rectum and uterus.
Derived terms: rectouterine pouch
romanceless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From romance + -less.
Senses: glosses: Devoid of romance; loveless, unromantic.
hill station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hill stations
form: hill-station
Senses: examples: text: The message flashed to the Hill stations. — “Cholera — Leave stopped — Officers recalled.”
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “Only A Subaltern”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 144:
text: In 1854, General Barter, C.B., was a subaltern in the 75th Regiment, and was doing duty at the hill station of Murree in the Punjaub.
ref: 1897, Andrew Lang, chapter 4, in The Book of Dreams and Ghosts:
text: At 6.25 a.m. today Mr Nehru, who had gone to sleep last night "fresh and fit" after his short holiday at a hill station, had a stroke.
ref: 1964 May 28, Victor Anant, “Indians' anxious look at the era after Nehru”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 10 Jun 2009:
text: For builder Rakesh Prajapati, the ideal weekend is trekking up the wild path to reach hill station Matheran.
ref: 2006 October 15, Vijay Singh, “From Navi Mumbai, chilling is a drive away”, in Times of India, retrieved 10 Jun 2009:
glosses: In South and Southeast Asia, a small community located at a relatively high elevation which serves as a retreat or vacation location during the hot summers; historically, a village or military post so used by colonial officials.
kinlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kinless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being kinless.
careerlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From careerless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being careerless.
familylessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From familyless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being familyless.
leaderlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From leaderless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being leaderless.
hill-station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hill-stations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hill station.
brotherlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From brotherless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being brotherless.
motherlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From motherless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being motherless (not having a (living) mother).
Hypernyms: parentlessness
Coordinate terms: fatherlessness
carton-pierre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kɑː(ɹ)ˌtɒn piˈɛə(ɹ)/
Etymology: Borrowed from French carton-pierre (literally “stone cardboard”).
Senses: examples: text: There were, indeed, high-backed Dutch chairs of the seventeenth century; there was a sculptured carved buffet of the sixteenth; there was a sideboard robbed out of the carved work of a church in the Low Countries, and a large brass cathedral lamp over the round oak table; there were old family portraits from Wardour Street and tapestry from France, bits of armour, double-handed swords and battle-axes made of carton-pierre, looking-glasses, statuettes of saints, and Dresden china—nothing, in a word, could be chaster.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 38, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: “[…]Your talent is so great that it is in everything you do, in what's less good as well as in what's best. You've some forty volumes to show for it—forty volumes of life, of observation, of magnificent ability.”
“I'm very clever, of course I know that,” St. George replied, quietly. “Lord, what rot they'd all be if I hadn't been! I'm a successful charlatan—I've been able to pass off my system. But do you know what it is? It's carton-pierre.”
ref: 1892, Henry James, The Lesson of the Master:
glosses: Papier-mâché that has been made to resemble wood, stone, or metal, used as decoration.
unanimated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unanimated
form: most unanimated
Etymology: From un- + animated.
Senses: glosses: Inanimate.
glosses: Not animated; lacking vivacity.
cringeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cringelings
Etymology: From cringe + -ling.
Senses: glosses: One who cringes and fawns; a submissive toady.
cringelings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cringeling
mosquelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mosquelike
form: most mosquelike
Etymology: From mosque + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a mosque.
substandardly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more substandardly
form: most substandardly
Etymology: From substandard + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a substandard way.
moustachelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more moustachelike
form: most moustachelike
form: mustachelike
Etymology: From moustache + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a moustache.
beardlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beardlike
form: most beardlike
Etymology: From beard + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a beard.
mustachelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mustachelike
form: most mustachelike
Etymology: From mustache + -like.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of moustachelike.
beardy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪədi/
Forms: form: beardier
form: more beardy
form: beardiest
form: most beardy
Etymology: From beard + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian boartich (“bearded”), Dutch baardig (“bearded”), German bärtig (“bearded”).
Senses: examples: text: The plump John Bull, the sallow Frenchman, the beardy Italian, and still more-beardy Jew, the high-boned Scotchman the merry-faced Irishman, the turbaned Turk — a specimen of the human animal from almost every clime under heaven — are passing and repassing before you in the course of every ten minutes.
ref: 1852, William Kidd, Kidd's Own Journal: For Inter-Communications on Natural History, Popular Science, and Things in General, volume 2, page 31:
text: His beard covered his face and rested upon his still more beardy bosom, but its darkness gave an excellent color to his deep-red face.
ref: 1855, By John Ballou, The Lady of the West: Or, The Gold Seekers, page 391:
text: 1967 May, The Siege of Witch-Hobble Island, Boys' Life, page 44,
But his left foot was caught in that blame noose in the end of the rope, so only his beardy head went underwater and he was dragged along like that for a few wet yards.
text: "Very hairy, beardy, toothy kinds of heads," said Ardan. "I remember them, and they used to get hairier and beardier and toothier every second day.
ref: 1970, James Stephens, Deirdre, page 152:
text: The biggest, oldest, beardiest, reddest-faced of them addressed Professor Bellbuckle.
ref: 2008, Howard Whitehouse, Bill Slavin, The Island of Mad Scientists: Being an Excursion to the Wilds of Scotland, page 42:
glosses: Bearded.
examples: text: The Doge is one of the popular barytone's most weighty performances, and we do not remember to have heard his voice more powerful, his acting more beardy and emphatic.
ref: 1851, The Musical World, volume 29, page 228:
glosses: Manly, masculine.
Derived terms: beardiness
beardy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪədi/
Forms: form: beardies
form: beardie
Etymology: From beard + -y.
Senses: examples: text: His followers were known in Australia as ‘beardies.’
ref: 1900, Alexander Gordon, “Wroe, John”, in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Vol 63:
text: Seven such social groups were present at the two festivals: Beardies; Jammers; Irish Fiddlers; Poets; Dancers; Campers an Vanners.[…]The Beardies are men, mainly heavily bearded; described by David as ‘the traditionalists and fundamentalists of the folk scene’ who are often heads of folk club[s], the older generation and the highly respected (Figure 15.1).
ref: 2011, Chris Gibson, John Connell, Festival Places: Revitalising Rural Australia, page 255:
glosses: A bearded person or animal:
A bearded person; used to identify members of a group or class who can be identified by the wearing of beards.
examples: text: The fascinating "beardie" is not a tit at all, but belongs to an Asian family, the parrotbills.
ref: 1988, Michael Cady, Rob Hume, editors, The Complete Book of British Birds, page 242:
glosses: A bearded person or animal:
A bearded reedling.
examples: text: But she always kept her distance whenever one of my beardies was out of its cage, as if Moose merely acted like a good-natured lap lizard to throw her off[…].
ref: 2005, Reptiles, volume 13:
text: It is impossible to determine the sex of beardies as babies or juveniles, so if you are thinking of breeding them, you may have to buy four or five and raise them in individual enclosures.
ref: 2007, Steve Grenard, Bearded Dragon, page 52:
text: The bearded dragon will reach its adult length by one year. Baby beardies quickly grow into long, strong lizards!
ref: 2008, Suzanne Buckingham, Meet the Bearded Dragon, page 20:
glosses: A bearded person or animal:
A bearded dragon.
examples: text: Beardies grow fast. They grow like a weed and can be as unsightly as one.
ref: 1996, Andrew De Prisco, James Burris Johnson, Choosing a Dog for Life, page 73:
text: Beardies take two to three years to mature, so be prepared for typical puppy activity during this time.
ref: 2005, Don Burke, The Complete Burke's Backyard: The Ultimate Book of Fact Sheets, page 754:
glosses: A bearded person or animal:
A bearded collie.
examples: text: Loaches (or beardies) often also thinned our preserves, and in this they were occasionally helped by small eels. Whenever beardies got within an enclosure containing only creepers and caddis worms, in a very short space of time the beardies alone were left, so rapacious are these small fishes.
ref: 1864, John Younger, River Angling for Salmon and Trout : With a Memoir and List of the Tweed Salmon Casts, page 180:
glosses: A bearded person or animal:
Any of several kinds of fish; a loach.
nonsimulation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + simulation.
Senses: glosses: That is not, or does not pertain to, a simulation.
unsimulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + simulated.
Senses: glosses: Not simulated; real, authentic.
vibratingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more vibratingly
form: most vibratingly
Etymology: From vibrating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a vibrating way; accompanied by vibrations.
examples: text: It is interesting that someone who spends "maybe...ten minutes per month" with men can take to hating them with such zeal […] It must be a very vibratingly intense 10 minutes with some very nasty men.
ref: 1980 April 12, Buz Hargraves, “Alix Dobkin”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
glosses: In a way or to an extent that makes one vibrate.
necessitously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more necessitously
form: most necessitously
Etymology: From necessitous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a necessitous way.
uninvaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + invaded.
Senses: glosses: Not invaded.
unbesieged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + besieged.
Senses: glosses: Not besieged.
on the face of it
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: On the face of it, his case seemed hopeless. But appearances can be deceptive.
glosses: Seemingly; to all appearances; as far as can be seen or determined without deeper investigation or analysis.
Synonyms: at first glance
apparently
prima facie
ostensibly
Related terms: ex facie
prima facie
on the face of
on the face of the earth
take at face value
pocket gopher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pocket gophers
Senses: examples: text: The pocket gophers are New World endemics for which the fossil history commences in the late Miocene (Kurtén and Anderson, 1980).
ref: 1998, B. J. Verts, Leslie N. Carraway, Land Mammals of Oregon, page 223:
text: Produced by pocket gophers, which push soil upward as they burrow along under the surface, soil tubes are most apparent where the soil is rocky.
ref: 2005, Ernest H. Williams Jr., The Nature Handbook : A Guide to Observing the Great Outdoors, page 158:
text: Four species of pocket gophers are currently found within the Great Basin, all of which belong to the genus Thomomys.
ref: 2011, Donald K. Grayson, The Great Basin: A Natural Prehistory, page 196:
glosses: Any of the burrowing rodents of the family Geomyidae, regarded as the "true" gophers, native North and Central America.
Synonyms: sense: any species of Geomyidae
word: geomyid
Derived terms: word: camas pocket gopher
taxonomic: Geomys spp.
word: eastern pocket gopher
taxonomic: Orthogeomys spp.
word: giant pocket gopher
taxonomic: Thomomys spp.
word: smooth-toothed pocket gopher
alt: = smooth-toothed pocket gopher
word: western pocket gopher
quirkyalones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quirkyalone
pocket gophers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pocket gopher
slutlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slutlike
form: most slutlike
Etymology: From slut + -like.
Senses: glosses: Like a slut; slutty, promiscuous.
transderivational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more transderivational
form: most transderivational
Etymology: From transderivation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to transderivation.
Derived terms: transderivationally
Becki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛki/
rhymes: -ɛki
Forms: form: Beckis
Etymology: A fanciful respelling of Becky, diminutive of Rebecca.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Rebecca, variant of Becky.
ostrichlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ostrichlike
form: most ostrichlike
form: ostrich-like
Etymology: From ostrich + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an ostrich; struthian
examples: text: Should our response to these paradoxes of the modern world be to maintain our comfort level with an ostrichlike denial of the evidence, or to hold an alarmist and paranoid discourse?
ref: 2009, Christopher Vasey, The Naturopathic Way, page vii:
glosses: Ignoring an imminent threat or unpleasant reality; head-in-the-sand
charbroiler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charbroilers
Etymology: From charbroil + -er.
Senses: glosses: A device for charbroiling; a chargrill.
charbroilers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charbroiler
peanutlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more peanutlike
form: most peanutlike
Etymology: From peanut + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a peanut.
Synonyms: peanutty
wild boars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wild boar
Gricean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gricean
form: most Gricean
Etymology: From Grice + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Paul Grice (1913-1988), British-educated philosopher of language, who helped to found the linguistic field of pragmatics.
Derived terms: Gricean maxims
neo-Gricean
trustless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trust + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking trust; untrusting.
examples: text: A trustless network can run even if none of its nodes trusts another.
text: In the trustless cryptocurrency world, you can still trust the cryptocurrency community and its mechanisms to ensure that the blockchain contains an accurate and immutable—unchangeable—record of cryptocurrency transactions.
ref: 2019, Peter Kent, Tyler Bain, Cryptocurrency Mining For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 30:
text: This article draws from the extensive academic discussion on the concepts of “trust” and “confidence” to argue that blockchain technology is not a ‘trustless technology’ but rather a ‘confidence machine’.
ref: 2020 August, Primavera De Filippi, Morshed Mannan, Wessel Reijers, “Blockchain as a confidence machine: The problem of trust & challenges of governance”, in Technology in Society, volume 62, →DOI:
text: If it becomes cheaper to use a TTP to verify the transaction than some cryptographic or other automated mechanism, then the benefit of being “trustless” becomes an illusion.
ref: 2021, Shin'ichiro Matsuo, Nat Sakimura, editors, Blockchain Gaps: From Myth to Real Life, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 34:
text: And the system would be “trustless” — that is, it would not rely on a trusted party, such as a bank or government, to arbitrate transactions.
ref: 2022 June 7, Siobhan Roberts, “How ‘Trustless’ Is Bitcoin, Really?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: business
computing
cryptocurrencies
cryptocurrency
engineering
finance
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Which does not need any trust, or a trusted third party.
examples: text: But thinks it not that[…]the voice which the spirit uttereth when he is gone from man[…]is a voice proceeding from the spirit which is in earthly, ignorant, and overclouded man; and therefore a trustles and not to be-believed voice?
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: Untrustworthy; not deserving to be trusted.
unfishlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfishlike
form: most unfishlike
Etymology: From un- + fishlike.
Senses: glosses: Not fishlike; unlike a fish.
gametangium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gametangia
Senses: examples: text: Gymnoascus and its allies; the gametangia are not much differentiated; both, like the mycelial cells, are multinucleate (it is difficult to gauge the significance of this character in Fungi) and the oogonium, or an outgrowth from it becomes septate after fertilization and gives rise to ascogenous hyphae.
ref: 2010, Helen Gwynne-Vaughan, Fungi: Ascomycetes, Ustilaginales, Uredinales, page 54:
topics: biology
botany
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: A gamete-producing organ or cell found in many multicellular protists, algae and fungi, and in the gametophytes of plants.
Derived terms: progametangium
gametangia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gametangium
azhdarchid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azhdarchids
Etymology: From scientific Latin Azhdarchidae (family name), ultimately from Persian اژدر (“mythological serpent”).
Senses: examples: text: There are few creatures that embody the strangeness of the extinct quite like azhdarchids.
ref: 2017 February 8, Elsa Panciroli, The Guardian:
text: Azhdarchid pterosaurs, the largest-ever living flyers, bigger and lighter than Orville and Wilbur Wright's early aeroplanes, glided overhead.
ref: 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 98:
glosses: Any member of the Azhdarchidae, a family of pterosaurs known primarily from the late Cretaceous including some of the largest known flying animals of all time.
azhdarchids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of azhdarchid
Russian dolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Russian doll
beweaponed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beweaponed
form: most beweaponed
Etymology: From be- + weaponed.
Senses: glosses: Armed with weapons.
beweaponed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From beweapon + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beweapon
befeathered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of befeather
befeathered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He bore about the same relation to his tall, good-looking wife, with her balloon sleeves, abundant mantle, and a large befeathered and beribboned bonnet, as a small fishing-smack bears to a brig with all its sails spread.
ref: 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Book I, Chapter 7:
text: It was the zenith of London’s last, maddest “season”; but her pleasure crowd—the dancers in her night-clubs; the befeathered scantily-draped women of her Opera House; the placemen, the panderers and the nincompoops who made pretence of governing her—had departed; were “week-ending” in pseudo-rusticity, twenty, thirty, a hundred miles away.
ref: 1920, Gilbert Frankau, Peter Jameson: A Modern Romance, New York: Knopf, Part Three, § 1:
text: […] here is a conversation between this towering Christian and his absolute antithesis in the imperial hierarchy, a befeathered pagan rain-doctor of the Bakwain tribe in central Africa—the very class of man, one might suppose, for whose enlightenment Victoria’s Empire existed.
ref: 1973, Jan Morris, Heaven’s Command: An Imperial Progress, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1980, Part Two, Chapter 16, p. 321:
text: Biting works well against other attacking ants but not against befeathered birds.
ref: 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 116:
glosses: Feathered; covered or augmented with feathers.
technopagan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technopagans
Etymology: From techno- + pagan.
Senses: glosses: A member of the technopaganism movement.
technopagans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technopagan
ipu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈiːpuː/
Forms: form: ipus
form: ipu
Etymology: From Hawaiian ipu.
Senses: glosses: A percussion instrument made from hollowed gourds, often used to provide a beat for hula dancing.
ipus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ipu
IPU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Invisible Pink Unicorn.
glosses: Initialism of Inter-Parliamentary Union.
microcity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microcities
Etymology: From micro- + city.
Senses: glosses: An unusually small city or citylike environment.
microcities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microcity
citylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more citylike
form: most citylike
Etymology: From city + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a city.
girllike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more girllike
form: most girllike
Etymology: From girl + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a girl.
featherlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From featherless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being featherless; lack of feathers.
furlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From furless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being furless; lack of fur.
unnavigated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + navigated.
Senses: glosses: That has not been navigated; unexplored.
hyenalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyenalike
form: most hyenalike
Etymology: From hyena + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a hyena.
unfilmed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + filmed.
Senses: examples: text: Most of the unfilmed scripts were decidedly mediocre.
glosses: Not having been filmed.
unfilmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unfilm