cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
get one's hands on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets one's hands on
form: getting one's hands on
form: got one's hands on
form: got one's hands on
form: gotten one's hands on
Senses: examples: text: If you can get your hands on the right ingredients, it's an easy recipe.
text: I'd have smoked Silk Cuts if I could get my hands on them more often, but they're imports and cost even more than domestics, which were outrageously priced even four years minus one day ago, and even from the discount cigarette store, where I was already spending a dollar less per deck than I would have if I'd bought cigarettes from the gas stations or convenience stores.
ref: 2006, Sondra Harris, Getting My Think on, page 133:
text: With my CD and pager in the pocket of my new Inspector Gadget coat, I wandered the shop floor, picking up and sampling the tester pots of pretty much every product I could get my hands on.
ref: 2011, Mikey Walsh, Gypsy Boy on the Run:
text: Decisively, there was the prospect of getting my hands on a slice of that petroleum fund.
ref: 2013, Tim Moore, Frost on my Moustache:
glosses: To get; to obtain; to secure.
examples: text: Now Lloyd wanted badly to get his hands on him.
ref: 2011, D. Talbott, Prizm:
text: That's why he wants to get his hands on Noie Barnum.
ref: 2011, James Lee Burke, Feast Day of Fools:
text: He couldn't wait to get his hands on the people who did this.
ref: 2014, Irene Kueh, Carol Cajigas, Silent Voices:
glosses: To catch.
Related terms: get one's claws into
steel-toe boot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steel-toe boots
form: steel-toed boot
Senses: glosses: A type of boot with a steel-reinforced toe area that protects the foot from falling objects.
Synonyms: word: safety boot
word: safety shoe
word: steelies
word: steel toecap boot
word: steel toe cap boot
word: steel-toe shoe
depulse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dɪˈpʌls/
Forms: form: depulses
form: depulsing
form: depulsed
form: depulsed
Etymology: From Latin depulsus, past participle of depellere (“to drive out”).
Senses: examples: text: Animals of different species being depulsed and kept apart
ref: 1670, Epicurus's Morals:
glosses: To drive away.
Related terms: depulsion
fulla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fullas
Etymology: Corruption of fellow, 1970s.
Senses: examples: text: While we was wanderin round the stalls tryin, in vain it turns out, ta find a food stall that sold tucker with meat in it, we came across a stall sellin didjeridoos, or yidakis as the fulla sellin em liked to call em.
ref: 2012, Gayle Kennedy, Me, Antman and Fleabag, →ISBN:
text: Pick me up later young fulla, ten past five.
ref: 2013, Patricia Grace, The Dream Sleepers, →ISBN:
text: 'Too many of our own fullas like that as well,' Brayling said darkly.
ref: 2018, Ngaio Marsh, Stella Duffy, Money in the Morgue, →ISBN, page 242:
synonyms: fellow
glosses: Man, especially one of indigenous descent.
Derived terms: blackfulla
whitefulla
fulla
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: Both parts, fulla shit.”
ref: 2011, Donald E Westlake, Why Me?, →ISBN:
text: He's fulla . . . fulla crap.
ref: 2012, C.G. Gardiner, Melting Pot Blues, →ISBN, page 45:
text: Ted's always fulla good stories.
ref: 2014, Ray Garton, Trailer Park Noir, →ISBN:
glosses: Full of.
ascending colon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ascending colons
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A part of the colon between the cecum and the transverse colon.
transverse colon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transverse colons
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A part of colon joining ascending colon and descending colon.
descending colon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: descending colons
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A part of the colon adjacent to the sigmoid colon.
reassuringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more reassuringly
form: most reassuringly
Etymology: From reassuring + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In the very heart of the herd the din was terrific. It was almost dizzying in its effect. I paused and smiled reassuringly at Maud, for I had recovered my equanimity sooner than she.
ref: 1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
text: She made several gulps and controlled her breath. She released her grip on Podson and stared at him without recognition. Podson went on patting her reassuringly, relieved from administering first aid to an attack of the vapours.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 188:
glosses: In a reassuring manner.
rebukingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rebukingly
form: most rebukingly
Etymology: From rebuking + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a rebuking manner.
receptively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more receptively
form: most receptively
Etymology: From receptive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a receptive manner.
recurrently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more recurrently
form: most recurrently
Etymology: From recurrent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a recurrent manner.
reliably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more reliably
form: most reliably
Etymology: From reliable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Genuine cowards follow the wicked and cannot reliably sustain any virtue.
text: Above all, rail needs to be boring. By that, I mean that it must run its timetable reliably, day-in and day-out. Punctuality and reliability remain the bedrock of a successful railway.
ref: 2023 April 5, Philip Haigh, “Comment: Pay deal a positive result”, in RAIL, number 980, page 3:
glosses: In a reliable manner.
remedially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more remedially
form: most remedially
Etymology: From remedial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a remedial manner.
reminiscently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more reminiscently
form: most reminiscently
Etymology: From reminiscent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a reminiscent manner.
remissly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more remissly
form: most remissly
Etymology: From remiss + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a remiss manner.
repentantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more repentantly
form: most repentantly
Etymology: From repentant + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a repentant manner.
repetitiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more repetitiously
form: most repetitiously
Etymology: From repetitious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a repetitious manner.
repulsively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more repulsively
form: most repulsively
Etymology: From repulsive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I was walking up and down, putting her to sleep one evening, when I found myself treading on something most repulsively soft; and as I did so, the reptile uncoiled itself and quietly glided off the verandah.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 174:
glosses: In a repulsive manner.
defang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈfæŋ(ɡ)/
Forms: form: defangs
form: defanging
form: defanged
form: defanged
Etymology: From de- + fang.
Senses: examples: text: The snake was defanged.
glosses: To remove the fangs from (something).
examples: text: The Government's new security supremo, Admiral Sir Alan West, said the danger from home-grown and foreign terrorists was at its greatest level ever, and warned that it could take up to 15 years to defang Islamic radicalism.
ref: 2007 July 14, “The Roots of Terror”, in The Week, 622, 4:
glosses: To render harmless.
Synonyms: sense: render harmless
word: declaw
sense: render harmless
word: detooth
coreligionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coreligionist
overawed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overawe
overawed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overawed
form: most overawed
Derived terms: unoverawed
weirdsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈwɪədsəm/
Forms: form: more weirdsome
form: most weirdsome
Etymology: From weird + -some.
Senses: examples: text: And all its light loomed green / As a witch-flame's weirdsome sheen
ref: 18??, Thomas Hardy, Once at Swanage
text: Mein Gott, what a weirdsome sight.
ref: 2011, Michael Stephens, Madness is Catching:
text: And endless with nothing but rocky specks and suns, / In everlasting chaos set in motion by someone Who has forgotten why it was set up this weirdsome way, / And ponders on the depth of it as eternal comets play, [...]
ref: 2014, Mr Thomas McManus, Brief Moment:
text: “Mooom,” he shouted, as he got up from his yogic wheelbarrow pose, his weirdsome mouth jetting through the air as he jumped up into an exclamation of delight [...]
ref: 2016, Carrie Chang, Fork and Spoon:
glosses: Marked by weirdness; strange; mysterious.
Anschluss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈan.ʃlʊs/
Etymology: From German Anschluss (“annexation”) (formerly Anschluß), from anschließen (“to join, unite”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘Some of us students protested against the Anschluss.’
ref: 1941, W Somerset Maugham, Up at the Villa, Vintage, published 2004, page 44:
text: Riane Eisler was born in Vienna in 1931. After the German Anschluss of Austria she fled with her family, first to Cuba and then to the U.S.
ref: 1988 December 11, John Kyper, “The 'Truth' Of Male-Dominated Social Science”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 8:
text: Anton Kuh […] was one of the Viennese coffee-house wits whose mastery of the brief critical essay reached its apotheosis in the last nervous years before the Anschluss.
ref: 2001, Clive James, Even As We Speak:
text: Not far from where we are sitting is Heldenplatz, where in March 1938 Adolf Hitler addressed a cheering crowd to proclaim the Anschluss—the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany, in defiance of the post-first world war treaties of Versailles and Saint-Germain.
ref: 2025 October 25, Mercedes Ruehl, “Lunch with the FT: Sebastian Kurz”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:
glosses: Political annexation, specifically that of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938.
cerule
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪəɹjuːl/
Forms: form: more cerule
form: most cerule
Etymology: From Latin caerulus.
Senses: examples: 18??, Thomas Hardy, Four in the Morning
Earth is a cerule mystery, / As if not far from Paradise.
glosses: Cerulean.
bile duct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bile ducts
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: cholangio-
glosses: Any of a number of long tube-like structures that carry bile.
Derived terms: common bile duct
vanishing bile duct syndrome
thrid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɹɪd/
rhymes: -ɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past of thread
thrid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɹɪd/
rhymes: -ɪd
Forms: form: thrids
form: thridding
form: thridded
form: thridded
Senses: examples: text: Some thrid the mazy ringlets of her hair.
ref: 1712 May, [Alexander Pope], “The Rape of the Locke. An Heroi-comical Poem.”, in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, canto II:
text: And now he thrids the bramble bush.
ref: 1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay:
text: I began / To thrid the musky-circled mazes.
ref: 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part IV”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To pass through in the manner of a thread or a needle; to make or find a course through; to thread.
examples: text: to thrid one's way through a wood
glosses: To make or effect (a way or course) through something.
thrid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɹɪd/
rhymes: -ɪd
Forms: form: thrids
Senses: examples: text: Sad Clotho held the rocke, the whiles the thrid
By griefly Lachesis was spun with paine
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A thread.
barer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barers
Etymology: From bare + -er.
Senses: examples: text: What on earth do they think they are doing, this legion of barers of poets' souls: apart, of course, from making a few bob for, and enhancing the reputations of, their publishers and themselves?
ref: 2008, Eddie Wainwright, Poetry in Our Time: The Poet, Publisher, Reader, and Reviewer:
glosses: One who bares or exposes something.
barer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bare + -er.
Senses: examples: text: All three parallel valleys of the Llynvi, Garw and Ogmore are much the same in physical character: the lower reaches are wooded and not unattractive, but as the railway climbs on ever-steepening grades, the hills on either hand grow barer and closer together, while in all respects the scene becomes more sombre, with the terraced, slate-roofed colliery towns and the road, railway and river all struggling for space in the narrowing defiles.
ref: 1955 July, D. S. Barrie, “Railways of the Bridgend District”, in Railway Magazine, page 449:
glosses: comparative form of bare: more bare
Foucauldian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Foucauldian
form: most Foucauldian
form: Foucauldean
form: Foucaldian
form: Foucaultian
Etymology: From Foucault + -ian, perhaps by contamination with the French surname Foucauld as borne by Charles de Foucauld.
Senses: examples: text: The best guide to this change is a New York University lecturer named Geoff Shullenberger, who has written a pair of essays exploring the political valence of Foucauldian ideas.
ref: 2021 May 25, Ross Douthat, “How Michel Foucault Lost the Left and Won the Right”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the philosophy of Michel Foucault.
Foucauldian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Foucauldians
form: Foucauldean
form: Foucaldian
form: Foucaultian
Etymology: From Foucault + -ian, perhaps by contamination with the French surname Foucauld as borne by Charles de Foucauld.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of the philosophy of Michel Foucault.
messing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mess
scoopwheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scoopwheels
form: scoop wheel
Etymology: From scoop + wheel.
Senses: glosses: A wheel, driven by wind or steam, having a series of scoops that are used to raise water.
wikipedia: Dogdyke Engine
Hypernyms: wheel
smallholding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smallholdings
form: small holding
Etymology: From small + holding.
Senses: glosses: A small farm.
glosses: The owning of such a farm.
examples: text: […] the larger plantations implemented different crop choices, surveillance strategies, and labor management practices than did smallholdings.
ref: 2003, Wilma P. Dunaway, Slavery in the American Mountain South, page 8:
glosses: A small plantation or land with a small number of slaves (generally 19 or less).
Hypernyms: landholding
Related terms: landholder
smallholder
smallholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smallholders
Senses: hypernyms: farmer
farm holder
landholder
landowner
glosses: A person who owns or runs a smallholding (small farm): a minor independent farmer.
examples: text: […] planters and smallholders alike controlled far more than their equitable share of the political power and economic resources in their communities. Because small slaveholders aspired to be planters, they did not often align themselves with the political and economic interests of nonslaveholders.
ref: 2003, Wilma P. Dunaway, Slavery in the American Mountain South, page 9:
hypernyms: slaveholder
slaveowner
glosses: A small slaveholder: a person who owns a smallholding (small plantation with slavery).
Related terms: landholding
Shrovetide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shrovetides
Etymology: From shrove + -tide.
Senses: glosses: The three days immediately preceding Lent; Shrove Sunday, Shrove Monday, and Shrove Tuesday, preceding Ash Wednesday.
Synonyms: fastens
fasterns-een
fastgang-tide
Derived terms: Royal Shrovetide football
verderer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verderers
form: verderor
Etymology: From French verdier, from Late Latin viridarius, from Latin viridis (“green”).
Senses: glosses: An official in charge of a royal forest; in modern times, still extant in the New Forest and the Forest of Dean
Derived terms: verderership
wynd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /waɪnd/
rhymes: -aɪnd
homophone: wind stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: wynds
Etymology: From Middle English wynde, probably from wynden (“to wind, proceed, go”). Compare also Old English ġewind; Old Norse venda.
Senses: examples: text: Fortune favoured us, and we got home without meeting a soul. Once we saw a man, who seemed not quite sober, passing along a street in front of us; but we hid in a door till he had disappeared up an opening such as there are here, steep little closes, or wynds, as they call them in Scotland.
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:
text: He flew through the moonlight streets, clattering over cobbles, darting down narrow alleys and up twisty wynds, racing to his love.
ref: 1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 637:
text: Stirling's called an Edinburgh mini-me: the same winding wynds, the same historic core, castle, looming romantic hills. Only a lot cheaper.
ref: 2010 July 10, Tom Dyckhoff, The Guardian:
synonyms: word: alley
word: alleyway
word: backs
word: bunnyrun
word: chare
word: chore
word: close
word: ennog
word: entry
word: fold
word: gangway
word: gant
word: gennel
word: ginnel
word: gunnel
word: gitty
word: gully
word: gullyway
word: hocket
word: jennel
word: jigger
word: jitty
word: lane
word: laneway
word: loke
word: passage
word: pend
word: rabbit run
word: shut
word: snickelway
word: snicket
word: tenfoot
word: twitchel
word: twitten
word: wynd
word: vennel
glosses: A narrow lane, alley or path, especially one between houses.
examples: text: This was then used as the base for the cocks of hay, or wyndes as we called them. […] A piece of hay with its ends firmly embedded in the base of the wynde was wound around the hay twine and knotted with it. The ball of twine was then thrown across the wynde and tied at the other side in the same way, and this process was repeated crossways.
ref: 1988, Alice Taylor, To School Through the Fields: An Irish Country Childhood, Brandon Ltd, →ISBN, pages 80–81:
synonyms: hayrick
haystack
glosses: A stack of hay.
sleepier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of sleepy: more sleepy
waterier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of watery: more watery
wateriest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of watery: most watery
strong declension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strong declensions
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A class of words in many Germanic languages including English, which decline irregularly rather than by suffixation (for example goose, whose plural is geese).
sleepiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of sleepy: most sleepy
cow pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cow pies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cowpie.
cow pies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cow pie (alternative spelling of cowpies).
grounds officer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grounds officers
Senses: glosses: A person who looks after a large Scottish estate for a Lord, preventing illegal hunting and fishing, and liaises with tenant farmers.
disoblige
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disobliges
form: disobliging
form: disobliged
form: disobliged
Etymology: From Middle French desobliger. By surface analysis, dis- + oblige.
Senses: examples: text: Sorry to disoblige everybody; I know you were depending on me to bring a good weather forecast for our fête, but it is going to rain.
text: But Miss Frances married, in the common phrase, to disoblige her family, and by fixing on a Lieutenant of Marines, without education, fortune, or connexions, did it very thoroughly.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 2:
glosses: to be unwilling to oblige; to disappoint, to inconvenience, not to cooperate.
glosses: To offend by an act of unkindness or incivility.
Derived terms: disobliger
evocate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: evocates
form: evocating
form: evocated
form: evocated
Etymology: From Latin ēvocāre.
Senses: glosses: To evoke
glosses: To call up
abecediary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: abecedarian
abecediary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abecediaries
Senses: glosses: An abecedarium
antiburgher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiburghers
Etymology: From anti- + burgher.
Senses: glosses: A member of a faction of the Scottish Presbyterian Church that refused to take the burgess oath in 1747; since reunited.
oil of vitriol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: So called from its oily consistency and from its forming the "vitriols" or sulfates. This term was coined by the 8th-century alchemist Jabir ibn Hayyan, the chemical's probable discoverer.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Sulfuric acid.
Synonyms: vitriol
astricted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of astrict
astricted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more astricted
form: most astricted
Senses: glosses: Restricted or confined.
qualifier: Scots law
glosses: From which corn must be sent to a particular mill, paying multure or thirlage on it.
raw_tags: of land
argie-bargie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: argie-bargies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of argy-bargy.
blank cheque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blank cheques
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blank check.
blank cheques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blank cheque
wordier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of wordy: more wordy
wordiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of wordy: most wordy
green vitriol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: copperas
ferrous sulfate
green copperas
iron vitriol
glosses: Iron(II) sulfate.(FeSO₄)
iron(II) sulfate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The green, crystalline salt of divalent iron and sulfuric acid, FeSO₄, used as a pigment, and in water treatment.
Synonyms: word: ferrous sulfate
word: ferrous sulphate
Hyponyms: sense: copperas, iron vitriol, green vitriol
word: FeSO4
ferrous sulphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ferrous sulfate.
voice actors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voice actor
surface area
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surface areas
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The total area on the surface of an object.
examples: text: Disabling network access to unused ports reduces surface area.
synonyms: attack surface
qualifier: computer security
glosses: The total resources of a system that are accessible from the outside world and thus might be attacked.
tangibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tangible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being tangible.
tastefulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tasteful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being tasteful.
temperateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From temperate + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being temperate.
tempestuousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tempestuous + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: tempestuosity
glosses: The characteristic of being tempestuous.
tastelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tastelessnesses
Etymology: From tasteless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality, state, or characteristic of being tasteless.
Crudeness; crassness; gaucheness.
antonyms: tastefulness
discernment
discrimination
glosses: The quality, state, or characteristic of being tasteless.
The state of being untasteable.
synonyms: flavorlessness
antonyms: savoriness
coordinate_terms: scentlessness
Related terms: nontaster
tendentiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tendentiousnesses
Etymology: From tendentious + -ness.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: partisanship, bias, biasedness, slant, partiality, prejudice
antonyms: objectivity
impartiality
unbiasedness
;
fairness
balance#Noun
glosses: The characteristic of being tendentious.
tenseness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tensenesses
Etymology: From tense + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being tense.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A particular vowel or consonant quality that is phonemically contrastive in many languages, including English.
terribleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terriblenesses
Etymology: From terrible + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: terribility
glosses: The characteristic of being terrible.
terseness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tersenesses
Etymology: From terse + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being terse.
Synonyms: sense: conciseness
word: conciseness
word: laconicism
word: succinctness
tenderheartedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenderheartednesses
Etymology: From tenderhearted + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: word: commiseration
word: fellow feeling
word: bowels
word: commiseration
word: compassion
word: empathy
word: fellow feeling
word: mercy
word: pity
word: remorse
word: rue
word: ruth
word: sympathy
word: tenderheartedness
word: loving-kindness
glosses: The characteristic of being tenderhearted.
glosses: A tenderhearted deed or attitude.
temporariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: temporarinesses
Etymology: From temporary + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being temporary.
Synonyms: ephemerality
impermanence
transience
vitriol of Mars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: iron(III) sulfate
Synonyms: word: ferric sulfate
word: ferric sulphate
nominalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒmɪnəlaɪz/
ipa: /ˈnɑmənəlaɪz/
Forms: form: nominalizes
form: nominalizing
form: nominalized
form: nominalized
form: nominalise
Etymology: From nominal + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: To nominalize an adjective that refers to a known noun, the articles el, la, los, and las are used (Unit 11 §59); to nominalize an adjective that does not refer to a known noun, the neuter article lo is used.
ref: 1960, Modern Language Association of America, Dwight le Merton Bollinger, Modern Spanish: A Project of The Modern Language Association, Harcourt, Brace, page 226
text: But, Dretske asks, what happens when we nominalize a propositional allomorph?
ref: 1983, Peter Achinstein, The Nature of Explanation, Oxford University Press US, page 199:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To use as or change into a noun, often by affixing a morpheme.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: To make nominalistic.
Derived terms: nominalizable
Related terms: english: a nominalized adjective
translation: a nominalized adjective
word: adnoun
word: nominalizer
word: nominaliser
word: nominalist
word: nominalization
word: nominalisation
word: substantive
word: substantivisation
word: substantivization
iron(III) sulfate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The crystalline salt of trivalent iron and sulfuric acid, Fe₂(SO₄)₃.
Synonyms: word: ferric sulfate
word: ferric sulphate
ferric sulfate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferric sulphate
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: iron(III) sulfate
ferric sulphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferric sulfate
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: iron(III) sulfate
logothete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlɒɡəθiːt/
Forms: form: logothetes
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Byzantine Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰédʰeh₁ti
Byzantine Greek τίθημι (títhēmi)
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Byzantine Greek -της (-tēs)
Byzantine Greek θέτης (thétēs)
Byzantine Greek λογοθέτης (logothétēs)bor.
Medieval Latin logothetalbor.
English logothete
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin logotheta, borrowed from Byzantine Greek λογοθέτης (logothétēs), from λόγος (lógos) + θέτης (thétēs).
Senses: examples: text: Bardas rode to the imperial pavilion, where he seated himself next to his nephew and listened with every show of attention while one of the Logothetes read out the morning report.
ref: 1997, John Julius Norwich, A Short History of Byzantium, Penguin, published 1998, page 149:
glosses: Any of various state officials or functionaries in the Byzantine Empire.
installable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From install + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being installed.
Derived terms: uninstallable
red vitriol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: cobalt(II) sulfate
gramineous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gramineous
form: most gramineous
Etymology: From Latin gramineus.
Senses: examples: text: Wild oats and greenfoxtail are among the most troublesome weeds for farmers growing gramineous crops, such as wheat, barley, rye, triticale and other cereal crops.
ref: 1990 September 4, Ronald S. Pidskalny, Paul G. Kneeshaw (inventors), Herbicidal composition and method for safening gramineous crops against heterocyclic phenyl ethers, US Patent 4954161A:
glosses: Of or pertaining to plants in the grass family (Gramineae, Poaceae).
Synonyms: sense: belonging to Poaceae
word: poaceous
sense: belonging to Poaceae
word: graminaceous
sense: belonging to Poaceae
word: graminous
cobalt(II) sulfate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt of divalent cobalt and the sulfate radical, CoSO₄.
Synonyms: red vitriol
birds of paradise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bird of paradise
politicise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: politicises
form: politicising
form: politicised
form: politicised
Senses: examples: text: The future of the structure and ownership of the railways is uncertain, and the topic has become highly politicised in an unstable political landscape.
ref: 2023 May 31, Tammy Samuel, Fergus McLaverty, “The political picture: what lies ahead for Britain's railways?”, in RAIL, number 984, page 31:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of politicize.
Derived terms: politicisation
portlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portlets
Etymology: From portal + -let.
Senses: glosses: A pluggable user interface component making up part of a portal, such as a fragment displaying weather or news headlines.
box rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of box room
bow shocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bow shock
pondweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pondweeds
Etymology: From pond + weed.
Senses: glosses: Any of several plants that grow in ponds or similar aquatic conditions:
Potamogeton, a diverse and worldwide genus
qualifier: most commonly
glosses: Any of several plants that grow in ponds or similar aquatic conditions:
Elodea, found in North America
examples: text: If you have ever had a pond you will know Azolla, a.k.a. pondweed, duckweed fern or fairy moss.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 76:
glosses: Any of several plants that grow in ponds or similar aquatic conditions:
Azolla, of cosmopolitan distribution
glosses: Any of several plants that grow in ponds or similar aquatic conditions:
Aponogeton, in Africa, Asia and Australasia
glosses: Any of several plants that grow in ponds or similar aquatic conditions:
opposite-leaved pondweed, Groenlandia densa, only plant of its genus, found chiefly in the Mediterranean region.
glosses: Charales, an order of green algae
Derived terms: word: American pondweed
taxonomic: Potamogeton natans
word: broad-leaved pondweed
taxonomic: Elodea canadensis
word: Canadian pondweed
taxonomic: Aponogeton distachyos
word: Cape pondweed
taxonomic: Elodea canadensis
word: choke pondweed
taxonomic: Potamogeton crispus
word: curled pondweed
taxonomic: Potamogeton crispus
word: curly-leaf pondweed
taxonomic: Potamogeton crispus
word: curly pondweed
taxonomic: Stuckenia pectinata
word: fennel pondweed
taxonomic: Zannichellia palustris
word: horned pondweed
taxonomic: Potamogeton nodosus
word: loddon pondweed
taxonomic: Potamogeton praelongus
word: long-stalked pondweed
taxonomic: Potamogeton perfoliatus
word: perfoliate pondweed
word: ribbonleaf pondweed
taxonomic: Stuckenia pectinata
word: sago pondweed
taxonomic: Potamogeton praelongus
word: white-stem pondweed
bundles of joy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bundle of joy
bull's eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bull's eye
flushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈflʌʃɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of flush
flushes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈflʌʃɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flush
busman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌsmən/
Forms: form: busmen
Etymology: From bus + -man.
Senses: synonyms: word: bus driver
word: omnibusman
glosses: A person employed to drive a bus.
Derived terms: busman's holiday
busmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of busman
body lice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of body louse
blown saves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blown save
call drinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of call drink
well drinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of well drink
call dates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of call date
canned responses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canned response
barbican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑːbɪkən/
ipa: /ˈbɑɹbɪkən/
Forms: form: barbicans
form: barbacan
Etymology: From Old French barbacane, of uncertain origin: compare Arabic بَرْبَخ (barbaḵ, “aqueduct, sewer”), and Persian بابخانه (bâb-xâne, “gatehouse”).
Senses: examples: text: The stone part of the drawbridge with its barbican and the bartizans of the gatehouse are in good repair. […] There was a large hidden trapdoor in the floor of the barbican, which would let them into the moat after all.
ref: 1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter V, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone):
glosses: A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town.
glosses: A fortress at the end of a bridge.
examples: text: Two shafts of soft daylight fell across the flagged floor from the high barbacans.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 11]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: An opening in the wall of a fortress through which the guns are levelled; a narrow loophole through which arrows and other missiles may be shot.
glosses: A temporary wooden tower built for defensive purposes.
Synonyms: sense: see guardhouse
word: entryway fortification
Derived terms: barbicanage
barbicaned
Related terms: bartisan
bastle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bastles
Senses: glosses: A medieval fortified house, in northern England and the Scottish borders
Synonyms: bastle house
contributorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more contributorily
form: most contributorily
Etymology: From contributory + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a contributory manner.
bedlem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bedlam.
deadlocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deadlock
weepie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwiːpi/
rhymes: -iːpi
homophone: weepy
Forms: form: weepies
form: weepy
Etymology: From weep + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: John is white, Della is Black, and any interracial relationship isn’t just a legal dead end, but a threat to their very lives from the disapproving world that surrounds them. It all sounds like a Hallmark weepie, but in Robinson’s hands, it becomes transcendent.
ref: 2020 September 28, Alex McLevy, “Marilynne Robinson finds transcendence in the stunning, soul-searching Jack”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 01 Oct 2020:
glosses: A sad or sentimental film, often portraying troubled romance, designed to elicit a tearfully emotional response from its audience.
bedstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛd.stoʊn/
ipa: /ˈbɛd.stəʊn/
rhymes: -ɛdstəʊn
Forms: form: bedstones
Etymology: From bed + stone.
Senses: examples: text: After demolition the girders for half the new structure were erected on bedstones already built on the abutments behind the springings of the old arch.
ref: 1941 February, “Bridge demolition by lifting”, in Railway Magazine, pages 74–75:
glosses: A large, heavy, flat stone used to support a column or similar member, or as the lower stone of an oil mill.
loquitur
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin loquitur (literally “[he/she] speaks”), from loquor.
Senses: examples: text: R.D. loquitur: Clarice has omitted to tell you that she looked exceedingly pretty at dinner, and made a conquest by which she has bound herself to learn the Greek alphabet.
ref: 1915, Virginia Woolf, chapter III, in The Voyage Out, London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC, page 54:
qualifier: stage direction
glosses: Speaks.
Related terms: res ipsa loquitur
oil mill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oil mills
Senses: glosses: A factory in which vegetable oil is extracted from seeds or beans by milling
blackhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackhouses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of black-house.
black-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black-houses
form: blackhouse
form: black house
Senses: glosses: A traditional house, in some parts of Scotland, having drystone walls and a turf roof.
tealight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtiˌlaɪt/
Forms: form: tealights
form: tea light
form: tea-light
form: tealite
Etymology: From tea + light, since they are sometimes used to keep a teapot warm.
Senses: examples: 2004, Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service https://web.archive.org/web/20071027212506/http://www.staffordshirefire.gov.uk/ccm/content/press-releases/2004/april-2004/tea-lights-pose-potential-danger.en
Candles and tealights can be hazardous and must be used in accordance with any instructions.
synonyms: tea candle
glosses: A small, typically circular candle encased in a thin metal cup, so that it liquefies completely when lit and burns as a wick immersed in molten wax.
tea light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea lights
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tealight.
legerdemainist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legerdemainists
Etymology: From legerdemain + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who practices or performs sleight of hand.
miracle worker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miracle workers
Senses: examples: text: Eddie was the right choice to rescue their season because he knows about the Premier League, what it is like to be at the bottom end, and what it takes to survive.
But he is not a miracle worker, and he has taken charge of a squad that is seriously lacking.
ref: 2021 November 29, Alan Shearer, “Why Newcastle have to win their next two games to give them hope of staying in the Premier League - Alan Shearer analysis”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: A person who claims or is alleged to perform miracles.
glosses: Someone who accomplishes a difficult task.
theurgist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theurgists
Etymology: From theurgy + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: theurge
glosses: One who claims or is alleged to perform magic with the aid of beneficent spirits.
Related terms: theurgy
wonderworker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wonderworkers
Etymology: From wonder + worker.
Senses: glosses: One who performs wonders, marvels, or miracles.
escapologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛs.kəˌpɒl.ə.dʒɪst/
ipa: /ˈɛs.kəˌpɑl.ə.dʒɪst/
Forms: form: escapologists
Etymology: From escapology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An entertainer skilled in the art of escapology.
wikipedia: Harry Houdini
Synonyms: sense: entertainer skilled in escapology
word: escape artist
Related terms: Houdini
tarabish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A trick-taking card game spread throughout the British Empire by Scottish soldiers, and still played in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia; Lebanon; and Afghanistan.
amb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ambs
Etymology: From ambit, from Latin.
Senses: examples: text: This genus is distinguished from Duplopollis Krutzsch, 1959a, and Cupanieidites Cookson and Pike, 1954, by being syncolpate rather than syncolporate and by the islands at the angles of the amb.
ref: 1970, Robert Max Kosanke, editor, Symposium on Palynology of the Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary:
topics: biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
palynology
physical-sciences
glosses: The outline of a spore or pollen grain, as seen in a polar view.
ecclesiarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecclesiarchies
Etymology: From ecclesio- + -archy.
Senses: topics: government
lifestyle
politics
religion
glosses: A government ruled by or in conjunction with a religion; a church-state.
glosses: Union of church and state.
gynarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡaɪˌnɑːki/
ipa: /ˈdʒaɪ-/
ipa: /ˈɡaɪˌnɑɹki/
Forms: form: gynarchies
Etymology: From gyn- + -archy.
Senses: examples: text: But I have always ſome hopes of a change under a Gunarchy ; where whim and humour commonly prevail, reaſon very ſeldom, and then only by a lucky miſtake.
ref: 1759 February 2, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His Son, Philip Stanhope, Esq.; Late Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of Dresden, volume II, Dublin: Eugenia Stanhope, published 1774, page 447:
text: Though no ways anti-matrimonial, this faithful servitor was not particularly desirous of serving under a gynarchy, while on the other hand he was not destitute of feelings of gratitude for services rendered him by Miss Bud, which he endeavored to maintain consistently with fidelity to his master.
ref: 1839, MGM, “The Bachelor Beset”, in Southern Literary Messenger, volume V, Richmond: Thos. W. White, page 753:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A government ruled by a woman or women.
examples: text: They did not band themselves together for or against anarchy or gynarchy, monarchy or hierarchy, or any form of civil or religious government, but simply against slavery.
ref: 1836, Seventh Annual Report of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, Boston: Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, published 1840, page 26:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Government by a woman or women.
Synonyms: matriarchy
gynecocracy
Derived terms: gynarchic
coachbuilder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coachbuilders
Etymology: From coach + builder.
Senses: coordinate_terms: wagonwright
waggonwright
wainwright
wagonbuilder
wagonmaker
;
cartwright
cartmaker
synonyms: coachwright
coachmaker
glosses: A builder of horse-drawn coaches.
examples: The bus has been stripped down and coachbuilders, mechanics and upholsterers have been rebuilding the chassis, fittings and engine. "Home straight for bus restoration", BBC News
glosses: A person or company who makes and fits the bodywork of vehicles such as cars, buses, and railway carriages.
glosses: A person or company who makes and fits the bodywork of vehicles such as cars, buses, and railway carriages.
A car customizer, such as limousine conversion companies.
Related terms: coachbuilding
coach-built
coachbuilt
coacher
coachman
coachmaster
groundsheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: groundsheets
Etymology: From ground + sheet.
Senses: glosses: A sheet of waterproof material that is spread on the ground, often beneath a tent, and upon which a person may sit or sleep.
afterworld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: afterworlds
form: after-world
Etymology: From after + world.
Senses: examples: text: […] your bookes shall be out worne in your age I warrant you. Onelie if some surviue by the mercy of a friends Library, the after-world shall rather pittie your lost time, then commende your diligence.
ref: 1596, John Harington, Ulysses upon Ajax, London: Thomas Gubbins:
text: […] a person […] to whom, be who he may, I return my thanks in this public manner; hoping he will meet with a reward in some future day, or after world if he does not in this.
ref: 1773, James Swan, A Dissuasion to Great-Britain and the Colonies, from the Slave-Trade to Africa, Boston: J. Greenleaf, Revised and abridged edition, Preface, page viii-ix:
text: I’m finished now, but the last word on my life rests with you. If you turn out well, I can still claim some kind of success in the afterworld, if there is one.
ref: 1951, Herman Wouk, chapter 6, in The Caine Mutiny, Boston: Little, Brown, published 2013:
text: 1995, Kai Hansen, "Afterlife", Gamma Ray, Land of the Free.
Do you believe in the afterworld / Or the afterlife?
glosses: A supposed world that is entered after death; the realm of the afterlife.
chinwag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪnˌwæɡ/
Forms: form: chinwags
form: chin wag
form: chin-wag
Etymology: From chin + wag.
Senses: examples: text: Reg liked a chat about old times and we used to go and have a chinwag in the pub.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: Every major network has at least one prime-time newsmagazine, which features extended coverage of gruesome crimes or amazing trials, intimate chinwags with the stars, and exposés of the horrors lurking in your own home, […]
ref: 2005, Laura Penny, Your Call Is Important to Us: The Truth about Bullshit, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland & Stewart, →ISBN, page 222:
text: Hundreds of Reading folk got together for coffee, cake and a good old fashioned chinwag during a national cancer charity's coffee morning fundraiser.
ref: 2008 September 29, “Raising a cup for Macmillan Cancer”, in Reading Evening Post, Reading, Berkshire: Surrey & Berkshire Media, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Oct 2008:
text: "I have a bone to pick with you and I can't possibly nap until we've had a jolly good chin-wag about it." / "Chin-wag?" / "A powwow. A council of war."
ref: 2014, [C.] Alan Bradley, The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches: A Flavia de Luce Novel, New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →ISBN:
glosses: An informal conversation, usually about everyday matters; a chat, a gossip.