cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
corkwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corkwoods
Etymology: From cork + wood.
Senses: glosses: Any of numerous plants with bark or wood resembling cork, of diverse orders:
Annona glabra, a plant found in the West Indies.
glosses: Any of numerous plants with bark or wood resembling cork, of diverse orders:
Commiphora angolensis or sand corkwood, a shrub species growing mainly in Angola and Namibia.
glosses: Any of numerous plants with bark or wood resembling cork, of diverse orders:
Duboisia spp., found in Australia.
glosses: Any of numerous plants with bark or wood resembling cork, of diverse orders:
Endiandra sieberi, a corkwood from Australia in the laurel family.
glosses: Any of numerous plants with bark or wood resembling cork, of diverse orders:
Caldcluvia paniculosa, a soft barked corkwood from Australia in the coachwood family.
glosses: Any of numerous plants with bark or wood resembling cork, of diverse orders:
Entelea arborescens, a species found in New Zealand.
glosses: Any of numerous plants with bark or wood resembling cork, of diverse orders:
Erythrina vespertilio (grey corkwood), a species from Australia.
glosses: Any of numerous plants with bark or wood resembling cork, of diverse orders:
Hakea suberea, a species found in Australia.
glosses: Any of numerous plants with bark or wood resembling cork, of diverse orders:
Leitneria floridana, a species found in southeastern North America.
glosses: Any of numerous plants with bark or wood resembling cork, of diverse orders:
Melicope, a genus with species in Australia.
glosses: Any of numerous plants with bark or wood resembling cork, of diverse orders:
Musanga cecropioides or African corkwood, a species found in Africa.
glosses: Any of numerous plants with bark or wood resembling cork, of diverse orders:
Sesbania grandiflora, a species found in southeast Asia and northern Australia, with edible flowers.
synonyms: agati
agust
katurai
vegetable hummingbird
glosses: The wood of Quercus suber (cork oak).
smilier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of smiley: more smiley
smiliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of smiley: most smiley
birdlore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜːd.lɔː/
ipa: /ˈbɝd.lɔɹ/
Forms: form: bird-lore
form: bird lore
Etymology: From bird + lore.
Senses: examples: text: The Birds and Birdlore of Samoa sets out with admirable objectives: [...]
ref: 1983, Pacific islands monthly, volume 55:
text: In her non-technical approach to birdlore, and in her frank delight in every personal discovery of well-known scientific facts, Mrs. Baker writes nature essays much in the manner of John Burroughs, [...]
ref: 2005, Sarah R. Jackson, Texas woman of letters, Karle Wilson Baker:
glosses: The knowledge, science, or study of birds; ornithology.
Related terms: fowl-lore
ornithology
great-pox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greatpox
form: great pox
form: Great Pox
Senses: examples: text: Putting aside passages which might possibly apply to great-pox, smallpox was evidently well known to Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
ref: 1898, Thomas Stevenson, A treatise on hygiene and public health, volume 2, page 890:
glosses: Syphilis.
Related terms: smallpox
great pox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of great-pox.
Great Pox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of great-pox.
sheepflesh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheep-flesh
form: sheep flesh
form: sheep's flesh
Etymology: From sheep + flesh. Compare Dutch schapenvlees (“mutton”), German Schaffleisch (“sheep meat, mutton”).
Senses: examples: text: Everybody wore home-made clothing; and that wool might not become scarce, the use of sheepflesh, for food, was discouraged.
ref: 1860, Benson John Lossing, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Life of Washington:
text: Sheep and goat wines are directed to be prepared in the following' manner: Take ten catties (i catty — i \ lb.) of soaked rice, seven catties of goat or sheep flesh, fourteen onions, one Shan-tung cabbage, and a catty of almond kernels [...]
ref: 1877, Horatio C. Wood, Charles Rice, Frederick Albert Castle, New remedies: Volume 6:
text: SILENUS It's each man by and for himself. There is no govermnent. ODYSSEUS Is Demeter respected here? I mean, do they plant grain? What do they live on? SILENUS Curds and whey and sheepflesh, sir.
ref: 2001, Eurípides, Heather McHugh, David Konstan, Cyclops:
text: The sheep were a solid lump of woolly sheepflesh, swirling, and though Penny tried to separate them, they were like commuters jammed in a subway car, nothing could break them apart.
ref: 2007, Donald McCaig, Nop's Hope:
glosses: The meat or flesh of sheep; mutton.
Synonyms: sheepmeat
Hyponyms: lamb
cowflesh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cow-flesh
form: cow flesh
Etymology: From Middle English cowe flesh (also kowes flesche), equivalent to cow + flesh. Compare German Kuhfleisch (“cow meat”), West Frisian kowefleis, Dutch koeievlees, koeienvlees.
Senses: examples: text: A monstrous fine bit of cowflesh! I'll be sworn she has rendezvoused you. What, you dog? Have you a way with them?
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 386:
text: At first Maud, so afraid for her husband and baby, was unable to eat, but within a few days she tore into burnt cowflesh like any soldadera.
ref: 2005, James Andrew Crutchfield, Paul Andrew Hutton, The way west: true stories of the American frontier:
text: We ferried our stock in U-Haul trailers, and across the months, as we purchased more cowflesh from the Goat Man — meat vanishing into the ether again and again, as if into some quarkish void — we became familiar enough with Sloat and his daughter to learn that her name was Flozelle, and to visit with them about matters other than stock.
ref: 2007, Rick Bass, The Lives of Rocks:
glosses: The meat or flesh of a cow; beef.
Related terms: oxflesh
calfflesh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calf-flesh
form: calf flesh
Etymology: From Middle English calfflesch, equivalent to calf + flesh. Compare Dutch kalfsvlees (“veal”), German Kalbfleisch (“veal”).
Senses: examples: text: The calf should be allowed to suckle or to be fed from the pail for six or eight months. It has then strength to stand weaning, and, if properly cared for, will not be checked in its growth, and it will retain the good calfflesh it has put on.
ref: 1875, William M'Combie, Cattle and cattle-breeders:
text: […] and also very often eat man beefsteaks or calfflesh. [Note: This text is deliberately imitating a non-native speaker of English for comic effect.]
ref: 1899, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch:
text: Calf flesh possesses a distinctive odour. While it is, by some manufacturers, largely substituted for chicken in the manufacture of ham, chicken, and tongue, other substitutions for veal are rarely practised [...]
ref: 1902, Thomas Walley, A practical guide to meat inspection:
glosses: The meat or flesh of a calf; veal.
Synonyms: calfmeat
numerologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of numerology
armbone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armbones
form: arm bone
Etymology: From arm + bone.
Senses: examples: text: Before their wondering eyes they saw him suddenly wrench the ogre's arm backward and snap the armbone from the shoulder.
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 31:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A bone in the arm, specifically, the humerus.
Related terms: legbone
instreaming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: instreamings
Etymology: From in- + streaming.
Senses: glosses: A flowing in; influx.
Related terms: instream
instream
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: instreams
form: instreaming
form: instreamed
form: instreamed
Etymology: From in- + stream.
Senses: examples: text: The amnesiads in my Soapsac were reduced, accordingly, and ascension catalysts instreamed.
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: To flow or stream in; flow or stream into.
Derived terms: instreaming
instream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: instreams
Etymology: From in- + stream.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of streaming or flowing in.
glosses: That which flows in.
siren songs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of siren song
addition polymerisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: addition polymerisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of addition polymerization.
addition polymerization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: addition polymerizations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: chain growth polymerization
glosses: A form of polymerization in which copies of a monomer are repeatedly added to one end of an existing polymer.
napkin ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: napkin rings
Senses: examples: text: The boy set up his napkin ring.
glosses: A ring for holding napkins along with cutlery.
akinesic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more akinesic
form: most akinesic
Etymology: From akinesia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to akinesia.
Related terms: acinesic
akinetic
bozbash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Azerbaijani bozbaş.
Senses: glosses: A mutton or lamb soup, popular among the peoples of the Caucasus.
disallowable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disallowable
form: most disallowable
Etymology: From disallow + -able.
Senses: examples: text: But in the subsequent ages a Levite was not disallowable by years, neither by blemishes, but by voice; when his voice failed by reason of extreme old age, he was disabled from serving in the sanctuary.
ref: 1858, George Bush, Notes, critical and practical, on the book of Numbers, page 125:
text: Much of this legislation is not disallowable and thus falls outside parliamentary scrutiny (Argument 1992: 13).
ref: 1994, Judith Brett, James A. Gillespie, Murray Goot, Developments in Australian politics, page 126:
text: Subscriptions and donations to political parties are usually disallowable but in the case of Morgan v Tate and Lyle Ltd (1954) a political donation to the Conservative Party was allowed because it was made in order to resist the nationalisation of the sugar industry proposed by the Labour Party […]
ref: 2002, Taxation: Policy and Practice, page 13:
text: The Declaration is not disallowable and therefore was not gazetted.
ref: 2005, Peter Sutherland, Social security and family assistance law, page 354:
glosses: Able to be disallowed.
examples: text: Neutrality is always a thing dangerous and disallowable, because it offendeth all parties : he that is strong looketh to be assisted in his greatness, and he that is weak not being defended holdeth himself offended
ref: a''' 1618, Walter Raleigh, The Cabinet-Council, The works of Sir Walter Ralegh edition, published 1829, page 95:
text: Now in all these Cases the Reading of Heathen Authors for such unworthy Ends, was very disallowable, because it was always done with a manifest Neglect and Contempt of the Holy Scriptures, and therefore upon such Grounds deservedly forbidden by the Canons of the Church.
ref: 1710, Joseph Bingham, Origines ecclesiasticæ: or, The antiquities of the Christian ..., volume 2, page 343:
text: Memorable Testimonies against Swearing; / Collected out of the Writings of Gentiles, Jews, and Christians: Some of which were delivered to the World several Ages before Swear not at all was written by Matthew, or spoken by Christ.. Which makes Swearing, among Christians, so much the more disallowable.
ref: a''' 1718, William Penn, “A Treatise of Oaths”, in The Select Works of William Penn, 3rd edition, volume 2, published 1782:
glosses: Not allowable; not to be suffered or permitted; which should not be allowed.
Derived terms: disallowability
deerflesh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deer-flesh
form: deer flesh
Etymology: From deer + flesh.
Senses: examples: text: The dogs, insufficiently fed on walrus, had begun to give out one after the other, and the frozen deerflesh, of which the party had not even full rations, ill supplied the place of pemmican.
ref: 1895, John Douglas Cook, Philip Harwood, Walter Herries Pollock, The Saturday review of politics, literature, science and art: Volume 80:
text: The good cider and deerflesh they had eaten at the Inn at Altdorf that morning spilled from them into the water.
ref: 2001, Mary Buff, Conrad Buff, The Apple and the Arrow:
text: A woman scuttled towards MacDonald, raising a knife in a hand where fragments of deerflesh clung.
ref: 2005, S. M. Stirling, The protector's war:
glosses: The meat or flesh of a deer; venison.
Synonyms: word: venison
word: deermeat
tarhana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tarhanas
Senses: glosses: A dried food based on a fermented mixture of grain and yogurt or fermented milk, usually made into a thick soup with water, stock, or milk.
fishlore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish-lore
form: fish lore
Etymology: From fish + lore.
Senses: examples: text: Another index renders all this fishlore at once accessible to the angler.
ref: 1886, The Academy, volume 29:
text: This is a ritual — a completely bogus ritual — staged mainly to amuse the locals, wherein gullible tourists are forced to recite some fishlore gibberish and drink a kick of rum (the infamous screech) and then kiss a cod, [...]
ref: 2005, Will Ferguson, Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada:
glosses: The knowledge, stories, and traditions associated with angling or fishing.
examples: text: I have already mentioned that these fish seem capable of actually breathing atmospheric air, but what the eggs should want with air, and compressed air at that, I leave others better versed in fishlore to explain.
ref: 1894, Bombay Natural History Society, Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society: Volume 8:
glosses: The knowledge, science, or study of fish; ichthyology.
potrzebie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potrzebies
Etymology: From a case form of Polish potrzeba, adopted as a catchphrase by Mad magazine in the 1950s, and applied to a system of measurement by American computer scientist by Donald Knuth (then a high-schooler).
Senses: glosses: A fictional unit of length defined as the thickness of issue #26 (November 1955) of Mad Magazine, or approximately 2.26 millimetres.
bastirma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pastirma.
basturma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basturmas
Etymology: From Armenian բաստուրմա (basturma). Doublet of pastrama.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pastirma.
remound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭmoundʹ
ipa: /ɹɪˈmaʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Etymology: A strong conjugation preterite formed on the pattern of find → found.
Senses: examples: text: [W]hat should we now think of the grammar which should run thus: 1. pret. I fighted, thou fightedst, &c. 2d pret. I fought, &c. And again, 1st pret. I reminded, &c. 2d pret. I remound?
ref: 1830, Filaret, “On the Tenses of Greek Verbs” in The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, ed. Sylvanus Urban, volume 100, part 2, page 125
text: 1918, The Judge (Judge Publishing Company), volume 75, page unknown
I find — that is to say, I’ve found —
That when one knows “sink, sank and sunken,”
He soon is strenuously remound
He mustn’t say “blink, blank and blunken.”
glosses: simple past and past participle of remind
remound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭmoundʹ
ipa: /ɹɪˈmaʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Forms: form: remounds
form: remounding
form: remounded
form: remounded
Etymology: From re- + mound.
Senses: examples: text: In some soils, mounds made earlier wash down, thus making it necessary to remound in the fall.
ref: 1916, Economic Entomology: Pamphlets, volume 109, page 1,130:
text: [W]omen may continue to remound old gardens for ten years or more.
ref: 1995, L. R. Goldman, chapter 3, in Aletta Biersack, editor, Papuan borderlands: Huli, Duna, and Ipili perspectives on the Papua New Guinea Highlands, page 275:
text: He drove the spade into the earth mounded atop the grave and leaning his weight into the work began to remound the earth in a pile next the grave.
ref: 2006, William Gay, Twilight, MacAdam/Cage Pub., →ISBN, page 7, →ISBN:
glosses: Restore the mound or mounds of (especially, a grave or graves).
examples: text: Remound koji into oval volcano shape, re-cover tray with lid set slightly ajar, and re-cover incubation box with blankets.
ref: 1983, William Shurtleff [aut.] and Akiko Aoyagi [illust.], The Book of Miso: Savory, High-protein Seasoning (2nd ed.; Ten Speed Press; →ISBN, 9780898150971), page 181
text: Roll a rolling pin 1 to 2 times over the mixture to flatten the butter particles, gather into a mound again, then use the pastry blender to cut until powdery with some oatmeal-shaped flakes throughout; remound.
ref: 1991, Fred Bridge, Jean F. Tibbetts, The Well-Tooled Kitchen, Morrow, page 97:
text: As the plant grows, move the tube upward and remound the dirt to cover the base and the blanched leaves.
ref: 1995, Jesse Ziff Cool, Onions: A Country Garden Cookbook, Collins Publishers San Francisco, →ISBN, page 1, →ISBN:
glosses: Reform into a mound.
raw_tags: in food preparation
examples: text: Watch for wrinkling on the canes — the first sign of dehydration. If this occurs, recut the canes below the wrinkling, remound the plant, and water well.
ref: 1999, Thomas Cairns, Ortho’s All About Roses, Meredith Books, →ISBN, page 28, →ISBN:
glosses: Bolster with a restored mound.
as good as it gets
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: The best available under the circumstances.
hocketing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From hocket + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Hocketing was widely used in medieval music, and Professor Sander's article provides a convenient survey of those uses.
ref: 1978 Spring, William Dalglish, “The Origin of the Hocket”, in Journal of the American Musicological Society, volume 31, number 1, University of California Press on behalf of the American Musicological Society, page 3:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The practice of employing hocket in medieval compositions.
glosses: The act of moving through or navigating a hocket.
southern beech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: southern beeches
Senses: glosses: Any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Nothofagus native to South America and Australasia.
appeal to authority
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appeals to authority
Senses: glosses: Deeming an assertion to be true because of the position or the authority of the person asserting it.
Related terms: ex cathedra
genetic fallacy
beggar's-lice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beggars'-lice
form: beggar lice
Senses: examples: text: I had gotten beggar lice and twigs and stuff all over me, inside my clothes and shoes and all, and then I happened to look around and I had my hand right on a bunch of poison oak..
ref: 1929, William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury:
glosses: Any of various plants, including Galium aparine and (US) Hackelia virginiana, which stick to clothing.
instop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: instops
form: instopping
form: instopped
form: instopped
form: enstop
Etymology: From in- + stop.
Senses: glosses: To stop; close; shut; make fast.
instrew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: instrews
form: instrewing
form: instrewed
form: instrewn
form: enstrew
Etymology: From Middle English *instrewen, instrien, equivalent to in- + strew.
Senses: examples: text: Tubercles and granulations with numerous instrewn giant cells of tuberculous appearance together with necrosis 5 In May 1921 glands on the neck were observed which afterwards increased in size, together with a red swelling on the breast, [...]
ref: 1962, Acta radiologica, volume 4:
glosses: To strew about; scatter in or upon; spread.
blunt instrument
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blunt instruments
Senses: examples: text: One deep wound had been inflicted upon the temple, apparently with some blunt instrument, which had penetrated the brain.
ref: 1851, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, The Murdered Cousin:
text: It had been struck by some heavy blunt instrument, but the skull was not broken.
ref: 1913, Sax Rohmer, chapter 8, in The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu:
glosses: An object lacking sharp surfaces, especially as used to cause injury.
examples: text: The analyst is in a sense a blunt instrument, but he can work as somebody who cares, and I think a good analyst makes the patient feel that he has value.
ref: 1987, Iris Murdoch, in John Haffenden, Novelists in Interview, p. 202
text: The law is a woefully blunt instrument when it comes to domestic violence of all kinds.
ref: 2003 May 5, Aisha Labi, “The Runaway Bride”, in Time:
text: [T]he United States will continue to rely on dollar depreciation as a blunt instrument to fight all its economic battles.
ref: 2008 January 12, “Passing The Devalued Buck”, in Newsweek, retrieved 12 Jun 2011:
text: If Mr. Mubarak's Egypt has resorted to the traditional blunt instrument against dissent in a crisis — cutting off communications altogether — other countries have shown greater sophistication.
ref: 2011 January 29, Scott Shane, “Spotlight Again Falls on Web Tools and Change”, in New York Times, retrieved 12 Jun 2011:
text: Operational managers are removing trains from the timetable with the aim of reducing traincrew and rolling stock costs. This is a blunt instrument that without careful assessment removes connecting services and causes the loss of trains required for school or work arrival times.
ref: 2022 January 12, Industry Insider, “Treasury demands cutbacks”, in RAIL, number 948, page 68:
glosses: A thing, person, method, or resource which is not sufficiently precise or not sufficiently effective for its intended role or use.
Related terms: shotgun approach
lead astray
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leads astray
form: leading astray
form: led astray
form: led astray
Senses: glosses: To cause (someone) to believe an untruth.
glosses: To misguide or misdirect.
glosses: To influence (someone) to have bad habits or to behave improperly or illegally
Synonyms: misguide
misdirect
corrupt
lead off
deceive
demoralize
mislead
misinform
Related terms: go astray
store up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stores up
form: storing up
form: stored up
form: stored up
Senses: examples: text: They should store up an untold wealth of heroic sentiment; they should acquire the habit of carrying a literary quality in their conversation; they should carry a heart full of the fresh and delightful associations and memories connected with poetry hours to brighten mature years.
ref: 1904, Mary Elizabeth Burt, Poems That Every Child Should Know, Preface:
coordinate_terms: lay aside
lay away
lay by
lay in
lay up
put aside
put away
put by
save
store
store away
glosses: To build up a supply of (something), usually for use at a particular time in the future, when the time is right.
bank up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: banks up
form: banking up
form: banked up
form: banked up
Senses: glosses: To press a mound of something against something else.
glosses: To make a mound to guard against something.
examples: text: Next, heavy soft clouds, banking up till the sky becomes overcast, are recorded, easily recognised by their lowering appearance, due to the dampness of the air, which also causes them to reflect the glare of large fires or the lights of cities[…]
ref: 1893, Henry Newton Dickson, Meteorology: The Elements of Weather and Climate, page 10:
text: Then turning: "There'll be more rain," he said, "you can see the clouds banking up to the North-West, larger than these."
ref: 1920, Elliot Lovegood Grant Watson, Deliverance, page 143:
text: ... ominous clouds banking up and darkening the sky behind them.
ref: 2022 September 16, Boyd Cable, Front Lines, DigiCat:
glosses: To bank (form a bank; gather in masses).
raw_tags: of clouds
Synonyms: fortify
mother language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mother languages
Etymology: From Middle English modir langage, equivalent to mother + language.
Senses: examples: text: Yet neuertheleſſe, the rudenes of common and mother tonges, is no bar foꝛ wiſe ſpeaking. Foꝛ in the rudeſt contrie, and moſt barbarous mother language, many be found can ſpeake verie wiſelie: but in the Gréeke and latin tong, the two onelie learned tonges, which be kept, not in common taulke, but in pꝛiuate bookes, we finde alwayes, wiſdome and eloquence, good matter and good vtterance, neuer oꝛ ſeldom a ſonder.
ref: a. 1569 (date written), Roger Ascham, “[The Second Booke Teachyng the Ready Way to the Latin Tong]”, in Margaret Ascham, editor, The Scholemaster: Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Vnderstand, Write, and Speake, the Latin Tong, […], London: […] John Daye, […], published 1570, →OCLC, folio 46, recto:
glosses: Synonym of mother tongue.
synonyms: word: mother tongue
plaidoyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pleɪdwaˈjeɪ/
Forms: form: plaidoyers
Etymology: Borrowed from French plaidoyer.
Senses: examples: text: In this plaidoyer for culture, I will argue that cultural differences are reflected in language in profound ways […]
ref: 2010, Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass, Arrow, published 2011, page 7:
topics: law
glosses: An act of pleading; a plea.
plaidoyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plaidoyer
mother languages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mother language
lotted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From lot + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lot
lotted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lotted
form: most lotted
Etymology: From lot + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Apportioned or decided by lot; allotted.
Derived terms: unlotted
street artist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: street artists
Senses: glosses: Someone who produces art in public spaces; someone who engages in street art.
wikipedia: street artist
Related terms: busker
street musician
street performer
pay TV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pay television
form: pay-TV
Senses: synonyms: feevee
glosses: A system whereby viewers pay to subscribe to specific broadcast television channels or programme typically used in cable television services
pay television
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pay TV.
latahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of latah
recompensings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recompensing
ramp ceremony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ramp ceremonies
Senses: glosses: A memorial service for a fallen soldier, held at the airport prior to the departure of the aircraft carrying the deceased person's body, or for the arrival of the same aircraft at the deceased's home base.
rock faces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rock face
speak volumes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: speaks volumes
form: speaking volumes
form: spoke volumes
form: spoken volumes
Senses: examples: text: I can speak volumes about this school.
synonyms: tell volumes
glosses: To talk a great deal.
examples: text: In our day-to-day experiences, it is often such nonverbal emotional information carried by the human voice that “speaks volumes.”
synonyms: say it all
tell volumes
hypernyms: connote
glosses: To convey significant information beyond what is explicit, especially unintentionally.
examples: text: The way you listen speaks volumes.
text: The lighted decorated Christmas tree, a treat for all, speaks volumes of meaning.
text: I waited, anticipating her reply. Her hesitation spoke volumes.
ref: 1990, Roy Hollis, Eve, New York, N.Y.: Vantage Press, →ISBN:
text: Two-nil down, playing the World Cup winners in Berlin, England’s response spoke volumes for the spirit of togetherness Hodgson has been trying to foster and provided a victory that will be remembered with the kind of fondness usually reserved for the 5–1 win in Munich from an entirely different era.
ref: 2016 March 27, Daniel Taylor, “Eric Dier seals England’s stunning comeback against Germany”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 01 Apr 2016:
text: The impact is tangible. In 2023, South Western Railway replaced manual, paper-based systems with real-time Passenger Assistance - and the results speak volumes: […].
ref: 2025 October 15, Emma Partlow, “Comment: Passenger Assistance”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 15:
synonyms: tell volumes
qualifier: situation; or object; situation; or object
glosses: To convey significant information.
raw_tags: of an action
kreeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of krees
glosses: plural of kreese
kreeses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kreese
reenvision
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reenvisions
form: reenvisioning
form: reenvisioned
form: reenvisioned
Etymology: From re- + envision.
Senses: glosses: To envision again or anew.
reenvisions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reenvision
reenvisioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reenvision
reenvisioning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reenvisionings
Senses: glosses: An envisioning anew.
reenvisioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reenvision
isognomonid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isognomonids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the family Isognomonidae (a synonym of the Pteriidae) of marine bivalve mollusks, related to the pearl oysters.
isognomonids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isognomonid
resculpture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resculptures
form: resculpturing
form: resculptured
form: resculptured
Etymology: From re- + sculpture.
Senses: glosses: To sculpture again or into a new form.
resculptures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resculpture
resculpturing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resculpture
resculptured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resculpture
treestand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: treestands
form: tree stand
Etymology: From tree + stand.
Senses: examples: text: "If you're in a treestand, you need to think specifically about what kind of tree you're hunting from, so you can match the camo correctly," said Burch, a 30-year-old iron worker, who grew up hunting the Missouri woods near the town of Montrose, where he now lives.
ref: 2007 December 22, Scott Bowen, “Hunting Expands. So Does Camouflage. Can You See a Pattern Here?”, in New York Times:
glosses: An open or enclosed platform secured to trees to provide a vantage point for hunters.
Related terms: blind
treestands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treestand
tree stand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tree stands
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of treestand.
ABC book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ABC books
Senses: synonyms: ABC
primer
coordinate_terms: hornbook
glosses: A book that teaches the alphabet.
antifundamentalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antifundamentalists
Etymology: From anti- + fundamentalist.
Senses: examples: text: His association with America, where he has spent most of the past 20 years, is becoming a burden: his Muslim opponent, Abubakar Godana Harugura, has not shied away from asserting his Islamic identity, and Lekuton has found himself backing into the political role of a so-called antifundamentalist.
ref: 2007 December 23, Joshua Hammer, “The African Front”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who opposes fundamentalism.
antifundamentalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antifundamentalist
antifundamentalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + fundamentalism.
Senses: glosses: Opposition to fundamentalism.
cyberprivacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + privacy.
Senses: examples: text: The extent to which a sender can ascertain that the recipient(s) have received a message as sent has become increasingly significant in cyberspace and has generated some of the most heated debate and litigation in the realm of cyber-privacy... While interpersonal cyber-privacy is uncertain, so is the private use of some materials and data. Concern over secure transactions over the Internet have surfaced...
ref: 1997 January, Susan Drucker and Gary Gumpert, “The Ambiguity of Privacy Rights: Lost in Electronic Space”, in Free Speech Yearbook, volume 35, →DOI:
text: Berkowitz used the phrase "cyber privacy" to discuss the potential threats posed by cyber surveillance methods to personal privacy.
ref: 2000 July 19, Bruce D. Berkowitz, “Carnivore Won't Devour Cyber-Privacy”, in The Wall Street Journal:
text: Their subject — hostile corporate takeovers — seems far from cyberprivacy, but it is not.
ref: 2007 December 23, Christopher Caldwell, “Intimate Shopping”, in New York Times:
text: ...there is no comprehensive privacy law in the United States that covers all aspects of cyberprivacy...
ref: 2008, Narain Dass Batra, Digital freedom: how much can you handle?, page 101:
glosses: Privacy in cyberspace.
Synonyms: e-privacy
demeaningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more demeaningly
form: most demeaningly
Etymology: From demeaning + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Chase's obsessive control over every aspect of The Sopranos elevated it to what many saw as art, even as he grumbled throughout the show's run about being confined to what he considered a demeaningly commercial medium.
ref: 2007 December 23, Bill Carter, “Tony Wasn't Whacked, but What About HBO?”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a demeaning manner.
destratification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: destratifications
Etymology: From de- + stratification.
Senses: glosses: The removal of stratified layers
Related terms: destratify
destratifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of destratification
foodshed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foodsheds
Etymology: From food + shed, modelled on watershed.
Senses: synonyms: food bowl
breadbasket
granary
glosses: The region that produces the food for a particular population.
foodsheds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foodshed
toothcombing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more toothcombing
form: most toothcombing
Etymology: From toothcomb + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Gladstone's toothcombing analysis of what the poems said and—sometimes even more importantly—what they did not say thus led him to remarkable discoveries about the cultural world of the ancient Greeks.
ref: 2010, Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass, Arrow, published 2011, page 30:
glosses: Of an analysis, a search, etc.: very thorough; detailed.
toothcombing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tooth-combing
Etymology: From toothcomb + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of toothcomb
toothcombing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toothcombings
form: tooth-combing
Etymology: From toothcomb + -ing.
Senses: glosses: gerund of toothcomb: a thorough search.
liftover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liftovers
Etymology: From lift + over.
Senses: examples: text: A poorly finished trunk has an awkwardly high liftover and no useful handhold on its lid.
ref: 2007 December 23, Lawrence Ulrich, “Same Small-Car Stew, Stirred and Reheated”, in New York Times:
glosses: The distance an item must be lifted in order to load it into a vehicle.
liftovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liftover
mallification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mallifications
Etymology: From mall + -ification.
Senses: examples: text: This is the old Fulton Street Mall in twilight, a chaotic throwback to the era before the sanitization and, yes, mallification of New York City's retail districts.
ref: 2007 December 23, Andy Newman, “Brooklyn Mall Is Oasis and Anomaly”, in New York Times:
glosses: Transformation into a shopping mall.
mingei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Japanese 民衆的な工芸, “hand-crafted art of ordinary people”.
Senses: examples: text: He studied industrial ceramics at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, inspired by a visit to the Japan Folk Crafts Museum in 1938, where he encountered mingei philosophy, and its objects, for the first time.
ref: 2007 December 23, William L. Hamilton, “Tatsuzo Shimaoka, 88, Master of Pottery, Is Dead”, in New York Times:
glosses: A Japanese folk art movement focusing on inexpensive hand-made everyday items.
neurogeography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From neuro- + geography.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps it's neurogeography: an attempt to reveal not the collective mind of the nation but its nervous system.
ref: 2007 December 23, The Editors, “Up Front”, in New York Times:
glosses: The mapping of the structure of the nervous system.
overpursue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overpursues
form: overpursuing
form: overpursued
form: overpursued
Etymology: From over- + pursue.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes running to the football, you're going to overpursue, and he may break it all the way out back out the back door.
ref: 2007 December 23, Thayer Evans, “Diminutive Tailback Is a Giant in Scoring”, in New York Times:
glosses: To pursue too far.
Related terms: overpursuit
overpursued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overpursue
overpursues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overpursue
overpursuing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overpursue
mousselike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mousselike
form: most mousselike
Etymology: From mousse + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Attributed to Carême, the well-known 19th-century chef, mousselike charlottes were held together with gelatin and often set in molds lined with ladyfingers.
ref: 2009 June 21, Amanda Hesser, “Strawberry Charlotte, 1947”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of mousse, especially in consistency.
overworn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overworn
form: most overworn
Etymology: From over- + worn.
Senses: examples: text: Analogies can be overworn, but playing Ratchet is actually like playing an animated film, and that's a rare thing.
ref: 2007 December 23, Seth Schiesel, “High Scores for the Games of 2007”, in New York Times:
glosses: worn out
playscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of playscape
restratification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: restratifications
Etymology: From re- + stratification.
Senses: examples: text: This suggests that as much as the premium outlet concept is about destratification, it's also about restratification.
ref: 2007 December 23, Rob Walker, “Outlet for Exclusivity”, in New York Times:
glosses: The formation of new strata or layers.
restratifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of restratification
underfleshed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underfleshed
form: most underfleshed
Etymology: From under- + fleshed.
Senses: examples: text: His lines are jazzy and improvisational, as though he is trying to figure himself out on the page, and the poems themselves are skinny and underfleshed; one in this new collection is called Poem on Toilet Paper, but they all look as though they were written that way.
ref: 2007 December 23, David Kirby, “Needing No Weatherman”, in New York Times:
glosses: Lacking flesh or substance; skinny or scanty.
minisummit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minisummits
Etymology: From mini- + summit.
Senses: examples: text: We walked over to Sharpton and held a brief minisummit on the state of the Knicks.
ref: 2007 December 24, William C. Rhoden, “Fire Isiah? Not Everyone Is in Agreement”, in New York Times:
glosses: A small summit or meeting.
minisummits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minisummit
semilegal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + legal.
Senses: examples: text: "Landlords are buying these buildings knowing that they can use illegal and semilegal means to push out the low-paying tenants," said Mr. Dulchin, whose group supports the bill backed by Ms. Quinn.
ref: 2007 December 24, Manny Fernandez, “Dueling Bills in the Fight Over Housing”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of partial or questionable legality.
sparrow grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sparrowgrass.
sparrow-grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sparrowgrass.
aversives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aversive
blechy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blechy
form: most blechy
Etymology: From blech + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I'm there for action and adventure, with a bit of sexual tension on the side (playful sexual tension. Xena and Gabrielle's sexual tension was *So* not playful at the end there, very forced and just blechy.)
ref: 2002, nacey (formerly tosh), “Was the death of Joxer the cause of Xena's downfall?”, in alt.tv.xena (Usenet):
text: In nature, as the saying has it, it's not whether you win or lose, it's whether you win — and animals will do or ingest the most outrageous, dangerous, blechy things in their quest for victory.
ref: 2007 December 25, Natalie Angier, “Birds, Bugs Named as Steroid Users!”, in New York Times:
glosses: Disgusting.
guapote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guapotes
Etymology: From Spanish guapote.
Senses: examples: text: I had caught wild trout in the mountains, small snook in the surf, even a rainbow-colored guapote in a city park pond in the country's capital, San José.
ref: 2007 December 25, Dave Sherwood, “Fishing and Floating in Costa Rica”, in New York Times:
glosses: Parachromis managuensis, a cichlid fish native to Nicaragua.
guapotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guapote
leukoreduced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: leucoreduced
Etymology: From leuko- + reduced.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Neil Blumberg, a co-author of the study and a professor of laboratory medicine at the University of Rochester, said patients should insist on leukoreduced blood if they needed transfusions.
ref: 2007 December 25, Nicholas Bakalar, “Hazards: More Transfusions Mean More Risk for Women”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having had leukocytes removed.
Derived terms: nonleukoreduced
Related terms: leukoreduction
leukoreduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leucoreduction
Etymology: From leuko- + reduction.
Senses: glosses: The removal of white blood cells (or leukocytes) from the blood.
Related terms: leukoreduced
leukodepletion
nonleukoreduced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + leukoreduced.
Senses: examples: text: Background information in the article said it was well known that transfusion, especially of nonleukoreduced blood, the type in which white blood cells are not removed, alters immune system functioning, increasing the infection risk.
ref: 2007 December 25, Nicholas Bakalar, “Hazards: More Transfusions Mean More Risk for Women”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not leukoreduced.
goody gumdrops
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: goody goody gumdrops
Senses: glosses: A cry of delight on hearing good news.
examples: text: Goody gumdrops, I get to take the trash out!
glosses: Implied disdain or disinterest with something.
scattery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scattery
form: most scattery
Etymology: From scatter + -y.
Senses: examples: text: For one thing, the speakers are writers, their subject literature, and art is proverbially long, and life short and scattery.
ref: 2007 December 25, Richard Eder, “Zap! Make the Interview Part Jig, Part Bullfight”, in New York Times:
glosses: Tending to scatter or be scattered; loose, ragtag.
summational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From summation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to summation.
underhaired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underhaired
form: most underhaired
Etymology: From under- + haired.
Senses: examples: text: Or, to put it another way, Ronald Fergus, middle aged, overweight, underhaired and slightly lacking in the marbles department, was in his kitchen chatting.
ref: 2005, Craig Cornwell, Whoops! There Goes the Neighbourhood, page 93:
text: And I advised the underhaired Tony Kornheiser that as the real star of Monday Night, he had to impose his prolix potency on his partners.
ref: 2007 December 25, Richard Sandomir, “Telling It Like It Is to the N.F.L. and Cable TV”, in New York Times:
glosses: Lacking hair; balding.
wheely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈ(h)wiːli/
ipa: /ˈ(h)wili/
rhymes: -iːli
Forms: form: wheelier
form: more wheely
form: wheeliest
form: most wheely
form: wheelie
Etymology: From wheel + -y.
Senses: glosses: Circular; suitable to rotation.
examples: text: wheely bag  wheely basket  wheely bin  wheely cart  wheely chair
text: He sat in a wheely chair just inside the door, spinning one way and the other, lifting up his knees to spin faster.
ref: 2007, Lucy Eyre, If Minds Had Toes:
text: Thanks to those with their wheely suitcases, navigating around Midtown Manhattan, especially at this time of year, is like playing a game of dodge 'em.
ref: 2007 December 26, “Oops! My Rolling Bag Just Crushed Your Toe”, in The New York Times:
text: "Let's go!" Jane added with a big smile. With one hand she dragged my wheely suitcase. With the other she took Gianna's hand and led us out of the airport.
ref: 2015 March, Cindy Callaghan, Lost in Paris, New York, N.Y.: Aladdin M!X, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division, →ISBN, page 175:
glosses: Having wheels; mounted on wheels; wheeled.
glosses: Having characteristics of a wheel.
wheely
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈ(h)wiːli/
ipa: /ˈ(h)wili/
rhymes: -iːli
Forms: form: wheelies
Etymology: From wheel + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I learned how to let the clutch out slo-ow-ly so my tractor wouldn't pop a wheely and go hauling over backward.
ref: 2004, Muffy Mead-Ferro, “The World Isn’t Childproof”, in Confessions of a Slacker Mom, Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Lifelong, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of wheelie.
Eyre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Eyres
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A former township in the municipality of Dysart et al, Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada.
Derived terms: Eyrean
Eyre Peninsula
antivibration
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + vibration.
Senses: examples: text: The antivibration systems now mean that hand-held close-up photos can be taken at very slow speeds without blurring.
ref: 2007 December 27, Ian Austen, “Macro Photography, Microscopic Details”, in New York Times:
glosses: Countering or preventing vibration.