cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ethnographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ethnographic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: In this review essay, I reflect on the pros and cons of studying events ethnographically.
ref: 2017, Thijs van Dooremalen, “The pros and cons of researching events ethnographically”, in Ethnography, vol 18(3):
glosses: In an ethnographic manner, in a way inspired by, or relating to, ethnography.
examples: text: [274] Hence the Western Islanders of Torres Straits form a transition both geographically and ethnographically between the aborigines of Australia on the one side and the aborigines of New Guinea on the other side.
ref: 1913, Sir James George Frazer, The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3):
text: Straws are just one of the unconventional but commonplace items Dohner uses in addition to traditional materials like ceramic, glass, and wood in his series of witty, ethnographically inspired works now on view at Ten in One Gallery.
ref: 1994 October 28, Jeff Huebner, “Art People: Luke Dohner's reverential rip-offs”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Regarding the ethnography (of a region).
midcharge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + charge.
Senses: examples: text: “Haa mmm,” Mr. Serundori says, emitting a special gruntlike gorilla greeting that miraculously stops Kabirizi in midcharge.
ref: 2009 March 4, Jeffrey Gettleman, “In Congo, With Rebels Now at Bay, Calm Erupts”, in New York Times:
glosses: A point in time during a charge.
nondisturbing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + disturbing.
Senses: glosses: Not disturbing.
faggoty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more faggoty
form: faggotier
form: most faggoty
form: faggotiest
form: faggotty
Etymology: From faggot + -y.
Senses: glosses: Relating to or consisting of faggots of wood.
examples: text: And there is two things in Harlem I don't understan' / It is a bulldyking woman and a faggoty man
ref: 1928, Claude McKay, Home to Harlem, New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC, page 129:
text: american critic ad 1935 / alias faggoty slob with a sob […]
ref: 1935, E. E. Cummings, “american critic ad 1935”, in George J. Firmage, editor, Complete Poems, 1904-1962, Revised, corrected, and expanded edition, New York: Liveright, published 1991, →ISBN, page 901:
text: Our whole literature has become faggoty and Commie and epicene and androgynous. I say it stinks and the hell with it.
ref: 1950, Jack Woodford [pseud. Josiah Pitts Woolfolk], The Loud Literary Lamas of New York, New York: Vantage Press, →OCLC, page 86:
text: My lieutenant was my bitterest opponent. "A queer's a queer," he insisted. "Christ, they’re no damn good, any of ’em. You know that. Why waste sympathy on the faggoty sonuvvabitch?"
ref: 1959 February, Didgeon, “Arrow in the Air”, in Mattachine Review, San Francisco: Mattachine Society, →ISSN, page 6:
text: How come all you college boys wear them faggoty-looking white shoes?
ref: 1961, Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, spoken by Walter Lee Younger (Sidney Poitier):
text: [Letter No.] 3. I see the enemy of all drag queens.... the genuine gay, as those maze-yentas, the up-tight professional, epigoni-homosexual, and their loot-organisations who make a point in all the media to say that they are not swish, faggoty mad screaming, drag queens.... but just mutual cock-suckers.
ref: 1971, “Sincerely Yours..: Letters to Editor”, in Drag: A Magazine About the Transvestite, volume 1, number 1, Queens Publications, →OCLC, page 30:
text: Also good are Johnny Lee Davenport's Strength, Lou Ferguson's God, adolescent Jay Kiecolt-Wahl's Five Wits, and Kyle Hall's Beauty; unfortunately, Alan Wilder's sleazy Goods, Marilyn Dodds Frank's country-hick Kindred, and David Alan Novak's faggoty Cousin rely on cheap-shot stereotypes (does he really have to flip a limp wrist when he says "thither"?)
ref: 1995 December 8, Albert Williams, “Ghost of Christmas Past”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Lacrosse is not a sport; lacrosse is a faggoty college activity. I don't care how rough it is, anytime you're running around a field, waving a stick with a little net on the end of it, you're engaged in a faggoty college activity.
ref: 2001, George Carlin, Napalm and Silly Putty, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, page 107:
text: --is a big, fat, fucking, faggoty yes, NL. You're definitely one or the other.
ref: 2006 November 24, Dan Savage, “Savage Love”, in Chicago Reader:
synonyms: faggotish
faggy
glosses: Characteristic of or appropriate for homosexual men, especially effeminate ones.
nondisturbance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + disturbance.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An agreement not to disturb tenants in a residence.
reconcentration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reconcentrations
Etymology: From re- + concentration.
Senses: examples: text: Wages and income for the average worker have stagnated or declined as tax policies skewed to the rich and unchecked financial speculation have led to a reconcentration of wealth unseen since the 1920s.
ref: 2009 March 4, “Obama’s Budget as Rorschach Test”, in New York Times:
glosses: A second or subsequent concentration.
glosses: The act or policy of concentrating the rural population in or around towns and villages for convenience in political or military administration, as in Cuba during the revolution of 1895-98.
reconcentrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reconcentration
farden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fardens
Senses: examples: text: Sir Pitt did not care, as he said, a brass fardenfor any one of them.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 9, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: The young gent's been and popped all his things for the play and the drink; and I haven't myself so much as a brass farden to get a mouthful o' meat with."
ref: 1872, T.P. Wilson, Frank Oldfield:
text: Nicked the bloomin' lot 'e did--and me with not a farden to take 'ome to my brother and his missus.'
ref: 1904, E. Nesbit, The Phoenix and the Carpet:
text: He was off with the letters and all, and never gave me a farden for what he had or what he l'arnt off o' me.
ref: 1908, James Blyth, Edward FitzGerald and "Posh":
text: 'If tha weant, tha weant,' he sed, soa that settles it, but awd rayther let th' bums tak away nearly ivvery stick aght o'th' haase nor awd take a farden less nor seven shillin'; that's th' lowest aw ivver will tak, an if tha doesn't buy'em at that price tha'll rue, for tha'll niver have sich a chonce ageean.'
ref: 1915, John Hartley, Yorksher Puddin':
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of farthing.
reverberance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reverberances
Senses: examples: text: Surely those produce a touch of reverberance?
ref: 2009 March 4, Allan Kozinn, “The Mainstream Flows Into Alice Tully Hall and Is Hushed”, in New York Times:
glosses: reverberation
reverberances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reverberance
fashionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fashionless
form: most fashionless
Etymology: From fashion + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Later on, she had all the clothes that money could buy, but in none of them was she ever more lovely than in her fashionless wedding dress of tarlatan and tulle, and the plain little frock in which she drove away.
ref: 1922, Emily Post, Etiquette:
glosses: Not fashioned or contrived; natural.
Derived terms: fashionlessness
favourer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: favourers
Etymology: From favour + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of favorer.
subgrantee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subgrantees
Etymology: From subgrant + -ee.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The recipient of a subgrant.
subgrantees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subgrantee
feelingless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From feeling + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Accustomed by the strictest and most rigid training, to obey as familiars, the will of their superiors without question--to be mere mindless and feelingless tools, to whom death itself was awarded, if by word or hint, or even sign, they dared evince themselves to be as other men--he had, at the command of the Grand Inquisitor, deeply drugged Senor Stanley's evening draught, and, while under its potent influence, had purloined his sword; waylaid Don Ferdinand in the Calle Soledad, effectually done the deed, and--aware that it would be many hours ere the English Senor could arouse himself from the stupifying effects of the draught--had intended returning to his chamber still more effectually to throw on him the suspicion of the murder.
ref: 1851, Grace Aguilar, The Vale of Cedars:
text: I will quickly fly from thee for ever, Thou hated land, where everything so proudly Upbraids me for my weakness--for my fetters: Where I, pursu'd by pains of hopeless passion, The live-long nights among deaf rocks do wander-- Whose echoes sport with Balder's lamentations, Each cold, each feelingless, as Nanna's bosom, The fair, unpitying savage!
ref: 1889, George Borrow, The Death of Balder:
text: The air over the white sand is as quiet and feelingless to my skin as complete, comfortable clothing.
ref: 1921, William Beebe, Edge of the Jungle:
glosses: Without feeling, without emotion, unemotional.
Derived terms: feelinglessly
feelinglessness
subgrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subgrants
Etymology: From sub- + grant.
Senses: examples: text: Some funds will be distributed to state arts agencies and regional arts organizations that will subgrant it to various groups; funds will also made available directly to nonprofit arts organizations through a competitive process.
ref: 2009 March 4, Robin Pogrebin, “Guidelines Are Issued for Art Stimulus Funds”, in New York Times:
glosses: A grant made by one organisation using funds previously granted to it by another.
subgrant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subgrants
form: subgranting
form: subgranted
form: subgranted
Etymology: From sub- + grant.
Senses: glosses: To give a grant of this kind.
Derived terms: subgrantee
subgrants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subgrant
subgrants
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subgrant
subgranting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subgrant
subgranted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of subgrant
feele
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Loth was that other, and did faint through feare, To taste th' untryed dint of deadly steele; But yet his Lady did so well him cheare, That hope of new goodhap he gan to feele; 305 So bent his speare, and spurd his horse with yron heele.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, published 1921:
text: And if thou be in distresse, or afflicted with sicknesse of body, and feele no present release or comfort, what then? here is the tryall of thy patience, haue not recourse to superstitious and vnlawfull helpers, although they promise thee present remedy; and when they fore-tell thee of things which doe truely according to the prediction to fall out, beleeue them not, follow the example of Christ, who rebuked the Diuell, though he called him (as he was indeed) the Son of God. For vnder the vaile of truth he shadoweth falshood; euen as if one should sweeten with honey or sugar the brimme of the Cup wherein he bringeth poyson: But some will say, they call vpon the name of the Lord of Sabbaoth.
ref: 1616, Alexander Roberts, A Treatise of Witchcraft:
text: VIII. A REFORMATION I would have, As for our griefes a SOV'RAIGNE salve; That is, a cleansing of each wheele Of state, that yet some rust doth feele.
ref: 1640, Richard Lovelace, Lucasta:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of feel.
favourers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of favourer
feeleth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: feel + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of feel
feelest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: feel + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of feel
firy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more firy
form: most firy
Etymology: Equivalent to fire + -y.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of fiery.
flagitiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fləˈdʒɪʃəsnəs/
Etymology: From flagitious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Anſelm calls a Synod at St. Paul’s, where was this Statute made; We condemn this Sodomitical Flagitiouſneſs in any, and thoſe that aſſiſt them, with a heavy Anathema.
ref: 1718, Isaac Sharpe, An Historical Account Of the Rise and Growth of Heresie in the Christian Church, etc., part 1, page 74:
text: [H]ow can he esteem himself, when conscience will ever upbraid him with the participation in an act, whose flagitiousness is so great, that unless he renounces the character of man, his very share would be sufficient to sink him under the most ignominious contempt […]?
ref: 1790, John ‘Walking’ Stewart, The Moral State of Nations, or Travels Over the Most Interesting Parts of the Globe, etc., the 1837 edition, page 28:
text: [T]he man of sensibility, who thus, perhaps, complains, by his promiscuous amours produces a most destructive barrenness and contagious flagitiousness of manners.
ref: 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC:
text: The papers have lately advanced in boldness and flagitiousness beyond even themselves.
ref: September 6, 1808, Thomas Jefferson, “Letter to William Short”, in Jefferson: Political Writings, Cambridge U Press (3rd edition, 2005), p. 276
glosses: The state or quality of being flagitious; wickedness, infamy.
sublandlord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sublandlords
form: sub-landlord
Etymology: From sub- + landlord.
Senses: examples: text: Ms. Colp-Haber said that companies that sublease space could protect themselves by negotiating the right to stay in the space with the building’s landlord if the sublandlord should default.
ref: 2009 March 4, Alison Gregor, “Commercial Renters Have a New Worry: A Landlord’s Default”, in New York Times:
topics: law
property
synonyms: word: sublessor
word: underlessor
word: underlandlord
word: subletter
word: underletter
word: subleaser
word: underleaser
word: head tenant
english: as tenant
translation: as tenant
word: superior tenant
word: sublessor
glosses: Synonym of sublessor.
sublandlords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sublandlord
flagitiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more flagitiously
form: most flagitiously
Etymology: From flagitious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a flagitious manner.
ungored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + gored.
Senses: examples: text: Although the road to recovery will probably leave no ox ungored, it is essential that we support President Obama as he undertakes the herculean — not Sisyphean — task before him.
ref: 2009 March 4, “Obama’s Budget as Rorschach Test”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not gored.
glosses: Not stained with gore; not bloodied.
kirtan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɪə(ɹ)tən/
Forms: form: kirtans
Etymology: From Sanskrit कीर्तन (kīrtana, “narrating”).
Senses: examples: text: She was not devout or overly religious but she went to temples and kirtans regularly.
ref: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 137:
text: Recently, Mrs. Breighner and Ms. Damon attended a Friday night kirtan at the Integral Yoga Institute.
ref: 2009 March 5, Sara Eckel, “Yoga Enthusiasts Hear the Call of Kirtan”, in New York Times:
glosses: A call-and-response chant performed in India's devotional traditions.
Related terms: kirtankar
kirtans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kirtan
kirtankar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kirtankars
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit [Term?].
Senses: glosses: One who performs a kirtan.
kirtankars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kirtankar
multikey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + key.
Senses: examples: text: The keyboard houses 12 fully programmable G-keys (three macros per key) and has multikey input functionality, which means you can bang on up to five keys simultaneously.
ref: 2009 March 5, Azadeh Ensha, “A Shining New Keyboard for the Chivalrous Gamer”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one key (in various senses).
multikey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multikeys
Etymology: From multi- + key.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A multi-element key into a data structure.
nonforeclosure
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + foreclosure.
Senses: examples: text: Single-family home prices tumbled 18.5 percent in December from the previous year, and real estate agents say that nonforeclosure sales are still stagnant.
ref: 2009 March 5, Jack Healy, “Federal Reserve Beige Book Paints a Broadly Pessimistic Picture”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to foreclosure.
slumpy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈslʌmpi/
Forms: form: slumpier
form: slumpiest
Etymology: From slump + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Adidas presents a new line of sleek forward-looking clothes at midrange prices, invigorating slumpy SoHo in the process.
ref: 2009 March 5, Mike Albo, “If the Apple Store Sold Clothing ...”, in New York Times:
glosses: Characteristic of an economic slump.
examples: text: Someone put together a clean-lined, benignly elegant chair's chair — shaped somewhat like a midcentury desk chair, only slumpier.
ref: 2004, Hank Stuever, Off Ramp: Adventures and Heartache in the American Elsewhere, Picador, published 2004, →ISBN, page 134:
text: Phillip Alale, although his posture was slumpy, kept on loudly protesting his innocence.
ref: 2014, Brian Oliver, quoting Nelson Ottah, The Trial of Biafra's Leaders, 1980, quoted in The Commonwealth Games: Extraordinary Stories Behind the Medals, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 111:
text: Slumpy shoulders went square, back went ramrod straight, and she smiled at the other woman.
ref: 2015, Chloe Cole, Coercion:
glosses: Slumping or sagging, or tending to slump or sag.
examples: text: So away goes lunch, and off goes you and the 'Sir,' a trampousin' and trapsein' over the wet grass agin […] and then back by another path that's slumpier than t'other, and twice as long […]
ref: 1843, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Attaché Or Sam Slick in England, Paris: Baudry's European Library, page 219:
text: […] a large extent of rushy ground, either dry or hard, or slumpy and wet, […]
ref: 1853, George Johnston, The Botany of the Eastern Borders, I., page 250:
text: […] making a rock his easy-chair, and a pair of hunting-boots his slippers; letting his dressing-gown be a woollen shirt or an india-rubber overcoat; finding his dainty, creamy-leaved books in white birch trees, or yeasty, frothy, river-rapids, and for delicate annotations making big tracts through the slumpy alluvion of the forest[…]
ref: 1869, G. M. Hoppin, “The Adirondac Lakes”, in The Broadway, London: George Routledge and Sons, page 263:
text: The softening of the great body of snow renders the roads slumpy and full of "Thank-ye-ma'ams," so that sleighing is not altogether a blissful experience just now.
ref: 1877, John Russell Bartlett, anonymous quotee, Providence Journal, letter from Maine, date unknown, quoted in Dictionary of Americanisms, 4th edition, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, page 611:
glosses: Easily broken through; boggy; marshy.
Synonyms: sense: easily broken through
word: poachy
word: queachy
word: uliginous
word: marshy
traveloguelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more traveloguelike
form: most traveloguelike
Etymology: From travelogue + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Personal reflections are also found in traveloguelike, popularized autobiographical accounts of fieldwork that are clearly separated from the serious and scholarly ethnography.
ref: 2000, Jay Ruby, Picturing culture: explorations of film and anthropology, page 158:
text: The Brooklyn Museum, for example, which has maintained lively blogs since the summer of 2006, provides a detailed stream of traveloguelike pictures and words to keep viewers current on the progress of its archaeological work in Egypt (brooklynmuseum.org).
ref: 2009 March 5, Randy Kennedy, “To Ramp Up Its Web Site, MoMA Loosens Up”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a travelogue.
epigrammatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He could be terrifically epigrammatical.
ref: 2009 March 6, Dwight Garner, “Yours Ever, Sam”, in New York Times:
glosses: Pertaining to, or in the form of, an epigram; concise and witty or pointed.
prepremiere
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + premiere.
Senses: examples: text: The first days are tough because large audiences tune in to see what all the prepremiere fuss was about, boosting ratings and expectations, then quickly turn away if not instantly amused.
ref: 2009 March 6, Alessandra Stanley, “Fallon Faces the Camera, Conscious of the Web”, in New York Times:
glosses: Before a premiere.
sanctuarylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sanctuarylike
form: most sanctuarylike
Etymology: From sanctuary + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Each 16-by-13-inch painting has a wall to itself, creating a sanctuarylike environment.
ref: 2009 March 6, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a sanctuary.
unlaughing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + laughing.
Senses: examples: text: Emblems of past promises for a utopian future and scenes of a present still poisoned by those promises exist on a continuum in these wry but unlaughing, beautifully painted pictures.
ref: 2009 March 6, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not laughing.
unlaughingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unlaughingly
form: most unlaughingly
Etymology: From unlaughing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without laughing; seriously, solemnly.
uncomedic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncomedic
form: most uncomedic
Etymology: From un- + comedic.
Senses: glosses: Not comedic.
untragical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untragical
form: most untragical
Etymology: From un- + tragical.
Senses: glosses: Not tragical.
untragic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untragic
form: most untragic
Etymology: From un- + tragic.
Senses: glosses: Not tragic.
untragically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more untragically
form: most untragically
Etymology: From untragic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an untragic way.
flytraps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flytrap
flypapered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From flypaper + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flypaper
flypapered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From flypaper + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Filled with flypaper.
flypaper theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The idea that the burdens of taxation "stick" to those taxed directly instead of spreading through the economy.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The idea that it is desirable to lure one's enemies into a single country or area where they can be more effectively dealt with.
nongroup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nongroups
Etymology: From non- + group.
Senses: glosses: That which is not a group.
nongroup
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + group.
Senses: examples: text: Federal law mandates that at least one nongroup insurer in your state must provide coverage to everyone, regardless of health issues.
ref: 2009 March 7, Walecia Konrad, “Hanging On to Health Coverage, if the Job Goes Away”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not belonging or pertaining to a group.
nongroups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nongroup
unfuturistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfuturistic
form: most unfuturistic
Etymology: From un- + futuristic.
Senses: glosses: Not futuristic.
nonfuturistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + futuristic.
Senses: glosses: Not futuristic.
aluminumize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: aluminumizes
form: aluminumizing
form: aluminumized
form: aluminumized
Etymology: From aluminum + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: A decade later, the skiwear company Bogner was dressing James Bond for the slopes, but reality soon trumped make-believe with the nylon-coated aluminumized spacesuit worn by John Glenn and the other Mercury astronauts.
ref: 2009 March 8, Robert E. Bryan, “Nylon Run”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of aluminize.
aluminumized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of aluminumize
aluminumizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aluminumize
photovoltaically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From photovoltaic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of photovoltaics.
nonprostatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + prostatic.
Senses: glosses: Not prostatic.
blossomings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blossoming
blossometh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: blossom + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blossom
canyonland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canyonlands
Etymology: From canyon + land.
Senses: examples: text: But I soon realized that whoever described the city as a concrete canyonland had his topography all wrong.
ref: 2009 March 8, Christopher Solomon, “Mountain Man”, in New York Times:
text: The Kotsoteka Comanche lived mostly along the Canadian River, where the Llano ended and the dry plains turned into grassy canyonlands.
ref: 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 94:
glosses: A land full of canyons.
canyonlands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canyonland
cigarmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cigarmakers
Etymology: From cigar + maker.
Senses: examples: text: Often the wife is the original cigarmaker from the old home, the husband having adopted her trade here as a matter of necessity, because, knowing no word of English, he could get no other work.
ref: 1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Bohemians—Tenement-house Cigarmaking”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 138:
text: Charles Goldstein, a cigarmaker, built Webster Hall in 1886 for $75,000, with a design by Charles Rentz Jr., an architect and beer vendor, for “balls, receptions, Hebrew weddings and sociables,” according to a December 1886 article in The New York Times.
ref: 2009 March 8, C.J. Hughes, “Adding Bands to the Beat”, in New York Times:
glosses: A manufacturer of cigars.
cigarmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cigarmaker
cigarmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cigar + making.
Senses: examples: text: The victory rests with him, since the Court of Appeals decided that the law, passed a few years ago, to prohibit cigarmaking in tenements was unconstitutional, and thus put an end to the struggle.
ref: 1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Bohemians—Tenement-house Cigarmaking”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 139:
glosses: The manufacture of cigars.
couchside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From couch + -side.
Senses: examples: text: His approach to his subjects would seem to borrow something from his gentle couchside manner.
ref: 2009 March 8, Howard Kaplan, “Analyze This”, in New York Times:
glosses: The space beside a couch.
excretorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more excretorily
form: most excretorily
Etymology: From excretory + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Still, novelists love those kinky, stinky Nazis — like Norman Mailer ’s excretorily fixated young Adi Hitler in “The Castle in the Forest” and A. N. Wilson ’s full-grown flatulent Führer in “Winnie and Wolf” — with their telltale mania for purity, order and efficiency.
ref: 2009 March 8, David Gates, “The Monster in the Mirror”, in New York Times:
glosses: In an excretory manner.
foretopman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foretopmen
Etymology: From foretop + -man.
Senses: examples: text: It was a warm night for the latitude; and the Foretopman, whose watch at the time was properly below, was dozing on the uppermost deck whither he had ascended from his hot hammock
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 12, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
text: WHEN Jimmy Fallon showed up on NBC ’s “Late Night” last week without a sidekick, it looked like yet another sign that the Ed McMahon era is over; so many talk show hosts work solo that the second-banana position seems almost as obsolete as the foretopman or the Linotype operator.
ref: 2009 March 8, Alessandra Stanley, “The Vanishing Sidekick”, in New York Times:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A sailor who controls the masts in the foretop.
foretopmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foretopman
hypervivid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypervivid
form: most hypervivid
Etymology: From hyper- + vivid.
Senses: examples: text: That consciousness knows nothing of a release from the devil; for, barring Luther and some of the medieval monks of hypervivid imagination, it knows nothing directlly about a devil to whom it can be in bondage.
ref: 1920, Professor William Marcellus Mcpheeters, Bibliotheca Sacra 1920-04: Volume 77, Issue 306, Dallas Theological Seminary, page 168:
text: It would take a person with a hypervivid imagination to guess the connection between the title and the story.
ref: 1921, Moving Picture Exhibitors' Association, The Moving Picture World, The World Photographic Publishing Company, page 756:
text: Melodrama is, just as Frye says, a "dramatic vision," and that vision, in order to be true to itself, demands to be dramatized in 'hypervivid terms.
ref: 1985, Anne Dhu McLucas, John Milton Ward, Music and Context: Essays for John M. Ward, Dept. of Music, Harvard University, page 147:
text: In the exactness of its rendering, we feel a lack of proportion analogous to the physical disproportion of the black birds. Why, we are driven to ask, is this trivial creature presented with such hypervivid literalness?
ref: 1986, Karl Kroeber, British Romantic Art, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 37:
text: Such hypnagogic hallucinations are images that are hypervivid. Psychodynamic possibilities associated with narcolepsy include dependency features of the personality, and separation events are highly implicated in the onset of this disorder.
ref: 1989, Anthony Burry, Henry Kellerman, Psychopathology and Differential Diagnosis: A Primer, Columbia University Press, page 295:
text: It is all just a digital swirl, a series of scripted animations and graphically sculptured landscapes that can seem hypervivid and at the same time totally surreal — just the sort of experimental and phantasmagoric place, you might argue, where an artist is likely to thrive.
ref: 2009 March 8, Sara Corbett, “Portrait of an Artist as an Avatar”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extremely vivid.
narratologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narratologists
Etymology: From narratology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: To win sympathy and kudos, according to at least one bad-beat narratologist, you have only to make clear how focused and intelligent you were, how high the stakes, how slim your odds of losing, how vile your opponent was and how well you command the idiom of your game.
ref: 2009 March 8, Virginia Heffernan, “Flop”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who studies narratology.
narratologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of narratologist
nonbiker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonbikers
Etymology: From non- + biker.
Senses: examples: text: To be clear, cars are more likely to kill nonbikers; we still live in a world ruled by the ruthless car.
ref: 2009 March 8, Robert Sullivan, “The Wild Bunch”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who is not a biker.
nonbikers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonbiker
outdress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outdresses
form: outdressing
form: outdressed
form: outdressed
Etymology: From out- + dress.
Senses: examples: text: Our new Governor’s daughter wore a simple gown of rich white satin. It is consoling to know that the new Governoress and her daughters don’t show symptoms of rushing us into unlimited extravagance in our efforts to keep pace with their millinery, and in this they earn the gratitude of every sensible woman who sees something more in daily life than a mad endeavour to outdress her neighbour.
ref: 1895 November 30, Peggy, “Woman’s Column”, in The Freeman’s Journal, volume XLVI, number 2699, Sydney, N.S.W., page 9, column 2:
text: “Martin dressed in head-to-toe Burberry and made fun of everyone else who tried to outdress him.
ref: 2009 March 8, Maura Egan, “Con Artist”, in New York Times:
glosses: To dress better than.
outdressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outdress
outdresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outdress
outdressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outdress
flitty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɪti/
rhymes: -ɪti
Forms: form: flittier
form: flittiest
Etymology: From flit + -y.
Senses: glosses: unstable, fluttering.
examples: text: The other end of the bar was full of flits. They weren't too flitty-looking—I mean they didn't have their hair too long or anything—but you could tell they were flits anyway.
ref: 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, chapter 18, in The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 185:
text: His once flitty warble has deepened into a quavery David Bowie/Iggy Pop croon, and it perfectly suits the new record's mix of quasi soul and somber guitar pop.
ref: 1995 September 8, Peter Margasak, “Edwyn Collins”, in Chicago Reader:
text: In each scenario, the mother worries whether her flitty son (Garcia) will ever marry."
ref: 1999 December 24, Albert Williams, “Lean and Mean”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Some observers may be taken aback by Brooks's treatment of homosexuality: while the subject was only a side theme in the movie, here it's placed front and center in the character of Roger and his flitty "common-law assistant," Carmen Ghia.
ref: 2001 February 23, Albert Williams, “Springtime for Mel Brooks”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Ostentatiously effeminate.
Derived terms: flittiness
premiumization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From premium + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: “The pace of premiumization has slowed,” he said.
ref: 2009 March 8, Andrew Martin, “Reaching for the Bottom Shelf”, in New York Times:
text: The demise of the de minimis threshold—a regulatory lifeline for global retailers—has quietly reshaped the cost structures of premium brands like Lululemon […] The death of de minimis is more than a regulatory footnote—it is a harbinger of a new era for premium retail. For Lululemon, the challenge is to navigate this landscape without sacrificing the brand equity that has fueled its rise. Yet, as tariffs and supply chain costs persist, the line between premiumization and price sensitivity grows thinner.
ref: 2025 September 10, Theodore Quinn, “The Death of De Minimis and Its Impact on Premium Retail: A Cautionary Tale for Lululemon”, in AInvest:
topics: business
marketing
glosses: The move towards more expensive premium products.
shabeen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shabeens
Senses: examples: text: The shabeens on a Sunday afternoon were filled with families including young children running around, D.J.’s spinning amazing music and down-home people willing to discuss, in English, anything from Obama to Beyoncé.
ref: 2009 March 8, “Letter: The People of Cape Town”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of shebeen.
shabeens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shabeen
underdocumented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underdocumented
form: most underdocumented
Etymology: From under- + documented.
Senses: examples: text: Copeland, like most slaves, is woefully underdocumented; we know that she somehow became literate, migrated to New York in the 1880s and found a job in domestic service.
ref: 2009 March 8, Baz Dreisinger, “A Transracial Man”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having inadequate documentation.
underdoggism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From underdog + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of underdogism.
unleafy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unleafy
form: most unleafy
Etymology: From un- + leafy.
Senses: examples: text: Joe, who lives upstairs from me in a converted warehouse on a notably unleafy block of Park Slope, Brooklyn, is someone a love-struck marketer might regard as both demographically and “psychographically” ripe — endowed, that is, with both the means and the mind-set to wade fearlessly into the waters of certain Next Big Things.
ref: 2009 March 8, Mark Levine, “Share My Ride”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not leafy.
psychographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From psychographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In psychographic terms.
flowerful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flowerful
form: most flowerful
Etymology: From flower + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: So that in the spring the little plot of land was flowerful, and in the autumn fruitful, and we cordially indorsed my mother's preference for it to the London house in Soho Square.
ref: 1880, Frances Ann Kemble, Records of a Girlhood:
text: States and the nation are setting aside big tracts of wilderness where rock and rill, waterfall and canon, mountain and marsh, shell-strewn beach and starry-blossomed brae, flowerful islets and wondrous wooded hills welcome the populace, soothe tired nerves and mend the mind and the morals.
ref: 1907, Frederick John Lazell, Some Winter Days in Iowa:
text: Softer than sleep's are the sea's caresses, Kinder than love's that betrays and blesses, Blither than spring's when her flowerful tresses Shake forth sunlight and shine with rain.
ref: 1917, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Astrophel and Other Poems:
glosses: flowery, abundant in flowers.
fleg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flegs
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of flag, representing Ulster English.
examples: text: Six weeks of mayhem, because the people who love this flag are going "They've taken my fleg! They've taken my identity! I don't know who I am any more!"
ref: 2013, 7:38 from the start, in The Blame Game, season 7, episode 2, Jake O'Kane (actor):
glosses: The Union Flag.
saggingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more saggingly
form: most saggingly
Etymology: From sagging + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It all feels tasteful, companionable and often saggingly dull.
ref: 2009 March 9, The New York Times, “Back to Gale-Force Power”, in New York Times:
glosses: So as to sag.
utilitylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more utilitylike
form: most utilitylike
Etymology: From utility + -like.
Senses: examples: text: What is more, plenty of other utilitylike institutions have been in trouble  Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Northern Rock in Britain, Countrywide, Washington Mutual and Wachovia.
ref: 2009 March 9, Breakingviews.Com, “Separation Rule Is Not the Answer”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a utility.
flubdub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flubdubs
Senses: examples: text: I told Mr. Perkins I wasn't a-going to, an' he— I think he is a flubdub anyway."
ref: 1897, Owen Wister, Lin McLean:
text: Rumpty-tumpty, pimplety-pan— / The flubdub courted a catamaran / But timplety-topplety, timpity-tare— / The flubdub wedded the big blue bear!
ref: 1911, Eugene Field, The Holy Cross and Other Tales:
glosses: A buffoon.
examples: text: I have no mission or message or any flubdub of that kind.
ref: 1912, Samuel G. Blythe, The Fun of Getting Thin:
text: Only they sent the father to the Senate and gave him columns of flubdub and laid him out in state when he died—and they poured kerosene upon the son and burned him alive.
ref: 1915, James Branch Cabell, The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck:
text: Sorrow came to her afterward, disappointment, struggle, but never so heavy and dragging a pain as she knew that Christmas Day. She had been trying in many unsuspected ways to relieve her father's grim misery, — a misery of which his gaunt face told the tale, — and although he had said that he wished for "no flubdub about Christmas," she really could not resist making some recognition of a day which found all other homes happy.
ref: 1914, Elia Wilkinson Peattie, The Precipice:
glosses: Trivial matters; nonsense.
Derived terms: flubdubbery
antioxygen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + oxygen.
Senses: glosses: antioxidant
antioxygen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antioxygens
Etymology: From anti- + oxygen.
Senses: glosses: The antimatter counterpart of oxygen. Made up of positron and antiprotons instead of electrons and protons.
bioreaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioreactions
Etymology: From bio- + reaction.
Senses: examples: text: The eventual goal is to use the technique for bioreactions — infusing fibers with DNA or proteins and testing how other chemicals modify them, on a small scale.
ref: 2009 March 10, Henry Fountain, “With Fibers, Chemical Reactions on a Tiny Scale”, in New York Times:
glosses: A biological reaction.
Related terms: bioreactive
bioreactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioreaction
flubdubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flubdub
flyman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flymen
Etymology: From fly + -man.
Senses: examples: text: When driving round and about Cromer, our flyman pointed out "Poppy Land" to me.
ref: 1891, Francis Burnand, Punch, Volume 101, September 19, 1891:
text: Who does not know the "Copper Horse" at Windsor--that equestrian statue at the end of the Long Walk to which (and back again) the local flyman always offers to drive the tourist?
ref: 1898, George William Erskine Russell, Collections and Recollections:
text: She is as considerate for the flyman waiting for her on a rainy night as she would be for her father's coachman and horses, remembering that the flyman is quite as liable to catch cold as the coachman, and has fewer facilities for curing himself.
ref: 1903, Lucy H. M. Soulsby, Stray Thoughts for Girls:
text: Derrick gave his small portmanteau to the flyman and told him to drive there, and he himself set out walking.
ref: 1913, Charles Garvice, The Woman's Way:
text: The flyman touched his hat, turned the horse, and drove back as directed.
ref: 1920, Thomas Hardy, A Group of Noble Dames:
text: A contemporary picture in The Illustrated London News shows a steam train, and Bradshaw's times are incompatible with horse-traction, but "Medicus" stated in The Times that on February 9 the 12.45 up train was worked to the junction by "an old grey horse, in charge of Evans, the Moulsey flyman," that the trip took 20 min., and that this sort of thing was of daily occurrence.
ref: 1942 January, “Horsepower”, in Railway Magazine, page 5:
glosses: Someone who drives the type of coach called a fly.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: Someone who operates a fly system in a theatre.
Related terms: sense: Wikipedia
english: the carriage
translation: the carriage
word: A fly
sense: Wikipedia
word: The fly system of a theatre
flamekeeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flamekeepers
Etymology: From flame + keeper.
Senses: synonyms: keeper of the flame
glosses: One who tends a fire that must be kept burning (in various pagan practices).
examples: text: As the genre has shifted and evolved around — and in many ways beyond — them, they have remained committed to a role as flamekeeper of a certain strain of hip-hop authenticity.
ref: 2009 March 10, Jon Caramanica, “Stepping to the Fore as a Backup Band”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who keeps some idea alive.
flamekeepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flamekeeper
flymen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flyman
oxyphenisatine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A withdrawn drug once used as a laxative.
nonhealing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + healing.
Senses: examples: text: The list includes decompression sickness (“the bends”), necrotizing fasciitis (flesh-eating disease), carbon monoxide poisoning, gas gangrene, the bone infection osteomyelitis, nonhealing wounds and delayed radiation injury to bone and soft tissue.
ref: 2009 March 10, Jane E. Brody, “Oxygen Therapy Is Valuable, Sometimes”, in New York Times:
glosses: That does not heal.
osteomyelitides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of osteomyelitis
nonmigraine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + migraine.
Senses: examples: text: There was a weaker association with lower barometric pressure, but only for nonmigraine headaches.
ref: 2009 March 10, Nicholas Bakalar, “Patterns: More Headaches in Warmer Weather”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to migraine.
postpolio
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + polio.
Senses: glosses: Occurring after polio.
Related terms: postpolio syndrome
postpoliomyelitis
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + poliomyelitis.
Senses: glosses: Occurring after poliomyelitis.
Synonyms: postpolio
proctitides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proctitis
dihydroxyphenylisatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: The laxative drug oxyphenisatine.
thrillerlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thrillerlike
form: most thrillerlike
Etymology: From thriller + -like.
Senses: examples: text: With its thrillerlike pacing and scenes of sexual coercion and teenage backbiting, the novel appeals to young readers, who say the book also gives them insight into peers who might consider suicide.
ref: 2009 March 10, Motoko Rich, “A Story of a Teenager’s Suicide Quietly Becomes a Best Seller”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a thriller.
antimilitant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antimilitant
form: most antimilitant
Etymology: From anti- + militant.
Senses: examples: text: The Taliban leadership council first approached the government about peace talks last year, a senior security adviser said, after suffering heavy battlefield casualties and seeing the election of a civilian, antimilitant government in Pakistan.
ref: 2009 March 11, Carlotta Gall, “As U.S. Weighs Taliban Negotiations, Afghans Are Already Talking”, in New York Times:
glosses: Opposing militants.