cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cupful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌp̪fl̩/
Forms: form: cupfuls
form: cupsful
Etymology: From Middle English copful, copfull, cupfulle, cuppefulle, equivalent to cup + -ful. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Kopful (“cupful”), West Frisian kopfol (“cupful”).
Senses: examples: text: Add a cupful of milk to the sauce.
text: But as things were it was manageable enough, and we did not ship a cupful of water.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: The amount necessary to fill a cup.
glosses: A half pint, i.e. eight ounces
Related terms: breakfastcupful
coffeecupful
eggcupful
teacupful
truer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of true: more true
marries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of marry
humblest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of humble: most humble
rugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌɡz
Senses: glosses: plural of rug
Pepys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːps/
rhymes: -iːps
homophone: peeps
Senses: glosses: A rare surname.
glosses: A rare surname.
Samuel Pepys, a 17th-century politician and diarist.
Derived terms: Pepysian
Pepys Island
bide one's time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bides one's time
form: biding one's time
form: bode one's time
form: bided one's time
form: bidden one's time
form: bided one's time
Senses: examples: text: Ravenswood, who had assumed the disguise of a sewer upon the occasion, answered, in a stern voice, “I bide my time”; and at the same moment a bull’s head, the ancient symbol of death, was placed upon the table.
ref: 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter III, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume I (The Bride of Lammermoor), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, pages 66–67:
text: I sat on the rug, biding my time / Drinking her wine / We talked until two / And then she said, "it's time for bed"
ref: 1965, Lennon–McCartney, “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)”, in Rubber Soul, performed by The Beatles:
text: “Some say he died. Codswallop, in my opinion. Dunno if he had enough human left in him to die. Some say he’s still out there, bidin’ his time, like, but I don’ believe it.
ref: 1999, J. K. Rowling, “The Keeper of the Keys”, in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Scholastic, Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 57:
text: There are times, Machiavelli concedes, where it might be more advantageous to be cautious and bide one's time in order to ascertain the dispensation of the goddess more clearly.
ref: 2019, Andrew Herman, The “Better Angels” of Capitalism, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: Above the concourse, the underneath of the platforms has been clad with attractive wood panelling, while the columns holding them up are surrounded with seating - for use by passengers biding their time waiting for their trains, or who have used one of the 70-or-so eateries or shops that form part of the retail developments at the station.
ref: 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: London Bridge”, in RAIL, number 948, page 31:
glosses: To wait, especially for a suitable opportunity.
Synonyms: cool one's heels
kick one's heels
Related terms: cool one's heels
mark time
stall for time
wait and see
sayd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /seɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: say'd
Senses: examples: text: 1499, :John Skelton — The Bowge of Corte http://www.luminarium.org/editions/bowge.htm
Remembrest thou what thou sayd yesternyght? Wylt thou abyde by the wordes agayne?
text: What thou hast sayd to me. Ham. I must to England, you knowe that
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: simple past and past participle of say
sayd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /seɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: say'd
Senses: examples: text: The most excellent historie of the Merchant of Venice, with the extreme crueltie of Shylocke, the Jewe, towards the sayd merchant, in cutting a just pound of his flesh, and obtaining of Portia by the choyse of three caskets...
ref: A history of the cries of London, Ancient and modern (1884)
glosses: said, mentioned earlier
ribat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒt
Forms: form: ribats
Etymology: From Arabic رِبَاط (ribāṭ).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A border or frontier guardpost.
glosses: A caravanserai or inn in, converted from, or resembling such a guardpost.
glosses: The duty of some men to serve at such posts.
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The duty of all Muslims to defend and/or retake Islamic lands.
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A Sufi monastery.
glosses: An Islamic convent.
disrespectfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪs.ɹɪˈspɛkt.fəl.i/
Forms: form: more disrespectfully
form: most disrespectfully
Etymology: From disrespectful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “near-aissance.”
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter V, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: She became disrespectfully referred to locally as the "Crab" on account of her extraordinary manoeuvrability.
ref: 1956 February, R. C. Riley, “The Lymington Railway and Isle of Wight Ferry”, in Railway Magazine, page 82:
antonyms: respectfully
glosses: In a disrespectful manner; with a lack of respect.
give someone what-for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives someone what-for
form: giving someone what-for
form: gave someone what-for
form: given someone what-for
Senses: examples: text: He really gave the kid what-for about the baseball through his window.
glosses: To admonish or berate; to speak angrily at somebody.
Related terms: take someone to task
tell off
down in the dumps
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more down in the dumps
form: most down in the dumps
form: in the dumps
Etymology: From dump “a dull, gloomy state of the mind.”
Senses: examples: text: "You've got down in the dumps and can't see what's sensible and to your own advantage."
ref: 1886, Edward Payson Roe, chapter 2, in He Fell In Love With His Wife:
text: "Being out of work sometimes makes you feel down in the dumps and being out here with my buddies helps."
ref: 2009 February 2, Brian McVicar, “Some in Mich. turn to ice fishing as economy dives”, in chicagotribune.com, retrieved 03 Feb 2009:
synonyms: word: crestfallen
word: listless
word: low-spirited
word: atrabiliary
word: atrabilious
word: blitheless
word: dispirited
word: blue
word: bummed out
word: chapfallen
word: cheerless
word: chopfallen
word: crestfallen
word: cut up
word: damp
word: dejected
word: depressed
word: despondent
word: disgruntled
word: disconsolate
word: disheartened
word: dismal
word: doleful
word: dolesome
word: down
word: down in the dumps
word: down in the mouth
word: downcast
word: downhearted
word: downsome
word: dull
word: elegiac
word: elegious
word: forlorn
word: gloomy
word: glum
word: grief-stricken
word: grieving
word: heavy-hearted
word: heartsore
word: heartsick
word: inconsolable
word: infelicitous
word: jawfallen
word: joyless
word: lachrymose
word: lamentful
word: low
word: low-spirited
word: lugubrious
word: lumpish
word: melancholic
word: melancholy
word: miserable
word: moody
word: mopey
word: morose
word: mournful
word: passionate
word: plaintive
word: querulous
word: sad
word: saddened
word: saturnine
word: shattered
word: solemn
word: sombre
word: sorrowful
word: sorrow-ridden
word: sorrowsome
word: spiritless
word: sullen
word: threnetic
word: threnetical
word: triste
word: tristful
word: uncheerful
word: uncheery
word: unconsolable
word: unhappy
word: unlively
word: wistful
word: woe
word: woebegone
word: woeful
word: wretched
glosses: Sad; lacking engagement or enthusiasm.
gwine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡwaɪn/
ipa: /ˈɡaɪn/
note: African-American Vernacular
ipa: /ˈwaɪn/
Forms: form: gine
form: gwyne
Etymology: Phonetic rendition of going; compare Gullah gwine.
This particular form apparently results from the vocalic sequence in going (Early Modern English /ˈɡoː.ɪŋ/, /ˈɡoː.ɪn/) coalescing into a diphthong that was identified with reflexes of Middle English /ui̯/, which developed into /waɪ/ in some dialects; compare English traditional dialect pronunciations of point and toil as /ˈpwaɪnt/, /ˈtwaɪl/ (see twile). In other dialects, Middle English /ui̯/ instead developed into /aɪ/, resulting in the form gine; compare bile (“boil”), heist, rile.
Senses: examples: text: Well, I want spectin nothin; only Sam, he's a gwine to de river with some colts, and he said I could go long with him; so I jes put my things together.
ref: 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter 21, in Uncle Tom's Cabin:
text: “Come on, you Snowflake,” he called, cracking his long whip. “You're gwine to get your sugar, but you-all is gwine to earn it first.”
ref: 1921, Emilie Benson Knipe, Alden Arthur Knipe, Diantha's Quest, New York: The Macmillan company, page 78:
qualifier: especially African-American Vernacular
glosses: present participle of go
vagabonding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From vagabond + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: I've been vagabonding across Africa for six months.
glosses: present participle and gerund of vagabond
vagabonding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vagabonding
form: most vagabonding
Etymology: From vagabond + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Oh God, what bond or dutie is it that we owe not to our Soveragne Creators benignitie, in that he hath beene pleased to cleare and enfranchise our beliefe from those vagabonding and arbitrary devotions, and fixt it upon the eternall base of his holy word?
ref: , II.12
glosses: Wandering, unfixed.
skeezier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of skeezy: more skeezy
skeeziest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of skeezy: most skeezy
phlebology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phlebo- + -logy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The study of veins and their diseases etc
Related terms: phlebologist
phlebo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: /ˈflɛbə-/
/ˈflɛboʊ-/
/fləˈbɒ-/
/ˌflɛbə-/
/ˌflɛboʊ-/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φλέψ (phléps, “vein”).
Senses: glosses: Relating to veins
Derived terms: phlebolite
phlebolith
phlebologist
phlebology
phlebosclerosis
phlebotomist
phlebotomize
Kalibo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɐˈliː.bo/
Senses: glosses: A municipality that serves as the capital of Aklan, Philippines.
Derived terms: New Kalibo
Aklan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʔɐkˈlan/
Senses: glosses: A province of Western Visayas, Visayas, Philippines. Capital: Kalibo.
glosses: Aklan River (a river in Aklan, Western Visayas, Visayas, Philippines)
Derived terms: Aklan Village
inexistant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compare French inexistant. See inexistent.
Senses: examples: text: […]the Secretion of what was before Inexistant
ref: 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
glosses: nonexistent; that does not exist
Synonyms: nonexistent
nonexisting
phlebography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: phlebographies
Etymology: From phlebo- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: An X-ray examination of a system of veins that have been injected with a contrast medium.
Synonyms: venography
Derived terms: phlebographic
marsupium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marsupiums
form: marsupia
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin marsūpium, from Ancient Greek μαρσίππιον (marsíppion), diminutive of μάρσιππος (mársippos, “pouch”), perhaps of Oriental origin.
Senses: glosses: The external pouch in which female marsupials rear and feed the young.
glosses: A brood pouch in some fishes, crustaceans and insects in the family Monophlebidae.
Related terms: marsupial
marsupialization
marsupialize
cono
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conos
Senses: examples: text: There are forty-two conos on offer in the main 1963 catalogue […]
ref: 2002, Steven A. Hammer, Dumpling and His Wife: New Views of the Genus Conophytum, page 344:
glosses: Clipping of conophytum.
skite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: skites
form: skyte
Etymology: From Middle English skyt, skytte, skytt, from Old Norse skítr (“dung, faeces”), from Proto-Germanic *skītaz, *skitiz. Cognate with Old English sċite (“dung”). Doublet of shit and shite.
Senses: glosses: A sudden hit or blow; a glancing blow.
glosses: A trick.
examples: text: When Carey told on Skin-the-Goat / O'Donnell caught him on the boat / He wished he'd never been afloat / The dirty skite.
ref: 1958, George Desmond Hodnett, “Monto (Take Her Up to Monto)”:
related: word: skate
glosses: A contemptible person.
examples: text: I needed alcohol to stop my nerves rattling. This felt like the longest period I'd been without my drug of choice for at least three years. I needed to go on a skite.
ref: 2008, Tony Black, Paying for It, London: Preface, →ISBN, page 214:
glosses: A drinking binge.
examples: text: [T]he Rooster was one of those fine, upstanding, bumptious skites who love to talk all day, in the heartiest manner, to total strangers while their wives do the washing.
ref: 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 74:
glosses: One who skites; a boaster.
examples: text: We're going on a skite to Dublin.
glosses: A whimsical or leisurely trip.
skite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: skites
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of skete.
child carrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: child carriers
Senses: glosses: A device used to carry a child, particularly one holding the child attached to the torso of an adult.
Synonyms: baby carrier
Hyponyms: baby sling
cornuto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cornutos
form: cornutoes
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian cornuto, from Latin cornūtus (“horned”).
Senses: examples: text: No, Master Brook, but the peaking cornuto / her husband, Master Brook, dwelling in a continual / 'larum of jealousy, comes me in the instant of our / encounter, after we had embraced, kissed, protested, / and, as it were, spoke the prologue of our comedy
ref: a. 1597, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 3, scene 5:
glosses: A cuckold.
Bermuda green
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bermuda greens
Senses: glosses: A pale, slightly blue shade of green.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A green whose surface consists of Bermuda grass.
Bermuda green
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bermuda green
form: most Bermuda green
Senses: glosses: Having Bermuda green as its color.
sought after
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sought-after.
reverse psychology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The advocacy of one course of action in such a way as to persuade someone to take an opposite course.
heter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterim
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew הֶתֵּר (hetér, “permission”).
Senses: examples: text: What comes to mind is the famous issue on ZIM SHIPPING - an Israeli company owned by Jews and they tried to get a heter for running their ships on Shabbos.
ref: 1995 February 3, YOSEF KAZEN, “Petitions, Acceptance, and Moshiach”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):
glosses: Special permission from a rabbi to break a commandment.
heta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hetas
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἧτᾰ (hêtă).
Senses: glosses: The Ancient Greek letter eta, or variants of it, when used in their original function of denoting the consonant /h/.
nep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɛp/
rhymes: -ɛp
Forms: form: neps
form: nip
Etymology: From Middle English neppe, nepe, nepte, nept, from Old English nepte, nefte, from Latin nepeta. Compare Dutch neppe, nippe (“catnip”). Doublet of nepeta.
Senses: examples: text: Nep is generally used for women to procure their courses, being taken inwardly or outwardly, either alone or with other convenient herbs in a decoction to bathe them, of sit over the hot fumes thereof.
ref: 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio, published 2007, page 201:
glosses: Catmint, catnip; Nepeta cataria.
nep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɛp/
rhymes: -ɛp
Forms: form: neps
Etymology: Perhaps a variant of nap for knap, from Middle English knep, kneppe, knappe, a conflation of Old English cnep, cnæp, cnæpp (“top, knop, summit”) and Old Norse knappr (“knob”), both from Proto-Germanic *knappaz, *knappô (“knob”), from Proto-Indo-European *gnebʰ- (“to press, tighten”), from Proto-Indo-European *gen- (“to pinch, squeeze, bend, press together, ball”). Compare also Old Norse hnappr (“button”). Related to knob.
Senses: examples: text: The neps appear as small dense areas or spots when compared to the surrounding fibers.
ref: 1987, Paula Simmons, Spinning and weaving with wool, published 1977, →ISBN, page 130:
glosses: A knot in a fibre.
Derived terms: neppy
nep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɛp/
rhymes: -ɛp
Forms: form: neps
form: nepping
form: nepped
form: nepped
Etymology: Perhaps a variant of nap for knap, from Middle English knep, kneppe, knappe, a conflation of Old English cnep, cnæp, cnæpp (“top, knop, summit”) and Old Norse knappr (“knob”), both from Proto-Germanic *knappaz, *knappô (“knob”), from Proto-Indo-European *gnebʰ- (“to press, tighten”), from Proto-Indo-European *gen- (“to pinch, squeeze, bend, press together, ball”). Compare also Old Norse hnappr (“button”). Related to knob.
Senses: glosses: Of cotton: to form knots.
nep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɛp/
rhymes: -ɛp
Forms: form: neps
Etymology: Clipping of nepotist.
Senses: glosses: One who engages in nepotism, usually to the one who benefits from it.
anhidrotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From an- + hidrotic.
Senses: glosses: lacking the ability to sweat
anhidrotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anhidrotics
Etymology: From an- + hidrotic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A substance that prevents sweating
Related terms: anhidrosis
Dysnomia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈnəʊmiə/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Δυσνομία (Dusnomía, literally “lawlessness”), from δύσνομος (dúsnomos, “lawless”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The daemon (minor deity) of lawlessness, listed by Hesiod among the daughters of Eris.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The only known moon of the dwarf planet Eris.
Synonyms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: Eris I Dysnomia
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: Eris I
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: 136199 Eris I Dysnomia
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: 136199 Eris I
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: S
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: 2005 (2003 UB313) 1
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: Gabrielle
biking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Professional biking is plagued with controversies over drug use.
text: Turnip Rock is located in a portion of eastern Michigan dubbed the Thumb, where 140 miles of coastline and waterfront towns offer a variety of outdoor activities, including biking, walking and kayaking.
ref: 2018 July 17, Autumn Spanne, “Check out these crazy rock formations across the United States”, in CNN:
glosses: The sport of riding a bicycle.
glosses: The practice of riding a motorcycle.
Synonyms: topics: cycling
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: the sport of riding a bicycle
Derived terms: biking jacket
biking shorts
e-biking
mountain biking
biking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bike
hugging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌɡɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌɡɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hug
hugging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌɡɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌɡɪŋ
Forms: form: huggings
Senses: examples: text: There began to be some movement preparatory to the resumption of our journey, and, after many huggings and kissings, the family parted, and the wagon drove off[…]
ref: 1844, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Tales and Sketches:
glosses: The act of giving a hug.
Derived terms: tree-hugging
water-hugging
tugging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌɡɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌɡɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tug
tugging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌɡɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌɡɪŋ
Forms: form: tuggings
Senses: examples: text: Yet there began to be insistent tuggings as if from a dream that could not be recalled.
ref: 1951, Raymond F. Jones, Renaissance:
glosses: The action of something that tugs; a pull.
tugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʌɡz/
rhymes: -ʌɡz
Senses: glosses: plural of tug
tugs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʌɡz/
rhymes: -ʌɡz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tug
hugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌɡz/
rhymes: -ʌɡz
Senses: glosses: plural of hug
hugs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌɡz/
rhymes: -ʌɡz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hug
retrodict
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retrodicts
form: retrodicting
form: retrodicted
form: retrodicted
Etymology: From retro- + predict.
Senses: examples: text: Many are impressed by the fact that climate models can "retrodict" climatic change—that is, use past climatic data (say, from the 1860s) to predict climatic data from the less-distant past (say, from the 1920s). They should not be.
ref: 2013, Jamie Whyte, The Wall Street Journal, Jamie Whyte: Science Says So, Suckers!:
glosses: To attempt to estimate the previous state from the present.
Related terms: retrodiction
bowdlerizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bowdlerize
monopotassium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + potassium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: monatomic potassium
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a single atom of potassium in a compound
Derived terms: monopotassium glutamate
monopotassium phosphate
monopotassium sulfate
monopotassium tartrate
potassamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: potassium amide
potassium amide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellowish brown solid, KNH₂, obtained by heating potassium in ammonia gas. It is most commonly used as a base to create a carbanion of an enolate.
potass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of potash.
examples: text: The carbonate and bi-carbonate of potass are both decomposed by lime.
ref: 1825, John Ayrton Paris, The Elements of Medical Chemistry, page 431:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: potassium
siderocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of siderocyte
Inari Sami
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Finno-Ugric, Sami language spoken by 250 people in northern Finland in the region of Inari lake.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Inari Sami terms
Southern Sami
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the Southern Sami people living in east central Norway south of the Arctic Circle and across the border in Sweden, and their language and culture.
Southern Sami
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Finno-Ugric language spoken in parts of Norway.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Southern Sami terms
Lule Sami
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Finno-Ugric language spoken in parts of Norway and Sweden.
shiftier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of shifty: more shifty
shiftiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of shifty: most shifty
pixies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pixie
birdcages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birdcage
conies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cony
glosses: plural of coney
derbies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of derby
trivial name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trivial names
Senses: examples: "Carbolic acid", "isopropyl alcohol", and "nitroglycerine" are trivial names for specific organic compounds that have formal systematic names defined by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. "Saltpetre" and "nitre" are trivial names for the inorganic compounds: sodium nitrate or potassium nitrate. In informal contexts, systematic names sometimes appear as trivial names; eg "alcohol", which is the correct generic term for any organic chemical compound in which a hydroxyl functional group is bound to a saturated carbon atom, is a common trivial name for "ethanol".
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A commonly used, non-systematic name of a chemical compound. Trivial names for many compounds have been in use since long before their exact chemical structures were determined.
examples: Trivial names for types of elements, such as "heavy metals", "noble metals", and "rare-earth elements" are terms of convenience, and either do not occur as such in the periodic table or do not form strict, coherent groups in the table. Element 137 (systematic name: untriseptium) is called by the unofficial trivial name "feynmanium", though it will not have an official trivial name until it is discovered.
glosses: A non-systematic name for a chemical element (see systematic element name).
examples: Trivial names such as "worm", "shrimp", "fish", "toad", "cobra", "vulture", and "mahogany", though convenient and popular, do not refer to any systematically-defined biological groupings of organisms.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A commonly used, non-systematic name for an organism.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A specific epithet.
Related terms: common name
semisystematic name
semitrivial name
systematic name
vernacular name
poetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more poetically
form: most poetically
Etymology: From Middle English poetikly, poetycally, poyetikly; equivalent to poetical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a poetic manner.
punishable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more punishable
form: most punishable
Etymology: From punish + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Littering in this area is punishable by a fine of up to $100.
text: Wearing a face covering also remains a requirement on all Transport for London services, where it has become a Condition of Carriage. This means that while non-compliance is no longer a criminal offence and punishable with a fine, passengers can still be asked to leave or prevented from boarding.
ref: 2022 February 9, “Network News: Regulations on face coverings risk leaving passengers confused”, in RAIL, number 950, page 6:
glosses: Subject to punishment; appropriate for punishment.
Derived terms: dispunishable
nonpunishable
punishability
punishableness
punishably
unpunishable
unpunishableness
buttery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌtəɹi/
ipa: /ˈbʌtɹi/
ipa: /ˈbʌt(ə)ɹi/
Forms: form: butteries
Etymology: From Middle English buttry, equivalent to butter + -y. Piecewise doublet of butyric, butter ultimately being from Latin būtȳrum and -y being a doublet of -ic.
Senses: examples: text: "We used to make 50 tins of butteries just for our Saturday trade, now it's about 20 tins, se we've seen a real shift which we've put down to an increased focus on health."
ref: 2024 May 24, The Press and Journal, Inverness, page 28, column 2:
glosses: A rowie.
buttery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌtəɹi/
ipa: /ˈbʌtɹi/
ipa: /ˈbʌt(ə)ɹi/
Forms: form: butteries
Etymology: From Middle English boterie, from Old French boterie and Medieval Latin buteria, from Late Latin botāria, from a variant form of butta (“cask, bottle”). The form was probably influenced by butter.
Senses: examples: text: ‘This is the storehouse and buttery of my company of the Guard,’
ref: 1955 October 20, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “Minas Tirith”, in The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings […], New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published December 1978, →ISBN, book V, page 39:
text: Pretty Pia from the buttery was a slut who was working her way through every knight in the castle.
ref: 1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 458:
glosses: A room for keeping food or beverages; a storeroom.
glosses: A room in a university where snacks are sold.
Derived terms: buttery bar
buttery hatch
kiss-her-in-the-buttery
Related terms: nothing-buttery
harper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑː(ɹ)pə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)pə(ɹ)
Forms: form: harpers
Etymology: From Middle English harpere, from Old English hearpere (“harpist, harper”), equivalent to harp + -er. Cognate with Middle Low German harpære (“harper”), German Harfer and Harfner (“harper”).
Senses: examples: text: The Harpe. […]
 A harper with his wreſt maye tune the harpe wrong
 Mys tunying of an Inſtrument ſhal hurt a true ſonge
ref: 1568, William Cornishe [i.e., William Cornysh], “In the Fleete Made by Me William Cornishe otherwise Called Nyshwhete Chapelman with the Most Famose and Noble Kyng Henry the VII. His Reygne the XIX. Yere the Moneth of July. A Treatise betwene Trouth, and Information.”, in John Skelton, edited by J[ohn] S[tow], Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate, Imprinted at London: In Fletestreate, neare vnto St Dunstan-in-the-West by Thomas Marshe, →OCLC; republished as Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate to King Henry the VIIIth, London: Printed for C. Davis in Pater-noster Row, 1736, →OCLC, page 290:
glosses: A harpist, especially one who plays a traditional harp without pedals.
examples: text: the harper that was gathered amongst us to pay the piper
ref: 1621 August 13 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Ben Jonson, “The Masque of the Gypsies”, in Q. Horatius Flaccus: His Art of Poetry. […], London: […] J[ohn] Okes, for John Benson […], published 1640, →OCLC:
glosses: An old Irish brass coin bearing the emblem of a harp.
Synonyms: sense: one who plays a harp
word: harp-player
sense: one who plays a harp
word: harpist
Derived terms: Harper
harpress
harpist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑɹpɪst/
Forms: form: harpists
Etymology: From harp + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who plays a harp, especially a pedal harp.
Synonyms: harp-player
harper
Derived terms: electric harpist
glass harpist
jaw harpist
Jew's harpist
mouth harpist
dolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdoʊlts/
rhymes: -oʊlts
Senses: glosses: plural of dolt
alarums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alarum
alarums
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of alarum
Derived terms: alarums and excursions
dowries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dowry
alarums and excursions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a Shakespearean stage direction, indicating that soldiers should march across the stage, blowing bugles and beating drums, etc.
Senses: examples: text: The French armies were not far off, and there were alarums and excursions all along the border.
ref: 1898, Henry Augustin Beers, chapter 11, in 18th Century: A History of English Romanticism:
glosses: All the sounds and activities of preparations for war.
examples: text: He had been well aware ever since his coming to Hathelsborough of an atmosphere of intrigue and mystery; every development that occurred seemed to thicken it. . . . It puzzled him, being still a stranger to the habits and customs of these people, to see that life in Hathelsborough went on, amidst all these alarums and excursions.
ref: 1922, J. S. Fletcher, chapter 19, in In the Mayor's Parlour:
text: The various alarums and excursions in The Rock that early evening did not dent attendance at these meetings very much […]
ref: 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
glosses: Any frantic activity.
nonessential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-essential
Etymology: From non- + essential.
Senses: examples: text: Codex entries provide additional but nonessential information about topics of interest in Mass Effect.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Mission Computer:
glosses: Not required; not essential.
Derived terms: nonessential amino acid
nonessentiality
nonessential
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonessentials
form: non-essential
Etymology: From non- + essential.
Senses: glosses: Something that is not essential.
corpulence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔː(ɹ)pjʊləns/
Forms: form: corpulences
form: corpulency
Etymology: From Old French corpulence, from Latin corpulentia.
Senses: examples: text: Corpulence is a beauty: girls are fattened to a vast bulk by drenches of curds and cream thickened with flour, and are duly disciplined when they refuse.
ref: 1860, Richard F[rancis] Burton, “We Return to Unyanyembe”, in The Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Picture of Exploration […], volume II, London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, →OCLC, page 182:
synonyms: word: corpulentness
word: fatness
word: obesity
word: pudginess
antonyms: slimness
thinness
glosses: The characteristic or state of being corpulent.
Derived terms: corpulence index
bilocation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /baɪləʊˈkeɪʃən/
Forms: form: bilocations
Etymology: From bi- + location.
Senses: examples: text: Throyle explained about the mysterious shamanic power known as bilocation, which enables those with the gift literally to be in two or more places, often widely separated, at the same time.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 159:
qualifier: Parapsychology
glosses: The ability to be, or fact of being, in two places at once.
Derived terms: bilocational
bruited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Doubtless he was having dreadful letters from her; doubtless she threatened them all with a hideous exposure. If the matter should be bruited Godfrey's prospects would collapse on the spot.
ref: 1891, Henry James, The Marriages:
glosses: simple past and past participle of bruit
Jasper
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒaspə/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæspɚ/
Forms: form: Caspar
form: Gaspar
form: Casper
form: Kaspar
form: Kasper
form: Kosper
form: Cosper
form: Gosper
Etymology: A name given to one of the Magi in a medieval European cult, from Biblical Hebrew גִּזְבָּר (gizbar), ultimately from Old Median *ganǰabarah; see it for more.
Senses: examples: text: Her husband is...let me see...oh yes, he's Lord Jasper Jayne. His name sounds like the hero of a servant's novelette, but he doesn't look like that. He looks like a chucker-out in a back-street pub.
ref: 1920, St. John Greer Ervine, Changing Winds, Macmillan, page 225:
glosses: A male given name from Old Persian.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: One of the Magi, also known as Caspar.
glosses: A placename:
A place in Canada:
A town in Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A placename:
A place in Canada:
Ellipsis of Jasper National Park: a national park in Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Walker County, Alabama.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A small city, the county seat of Newton County, Arkansas.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Hamilton County, Florida.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Pickens County, Georgia.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Dubois County, Indiana.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Pipestone County and Rock County, Minnesota.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Jasper County, Missouri.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Steuben County, New York.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Pike County, Ohio.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A town, the county seat of Marion County, Tennessee.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Jasper County, Texas.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Lee County, Virginia.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A number of townships in the United States, listed under Jasper Township.
glosses: A placename:
Ellipsis of Jasper County.
synonyms: County of Jasper
glosses: A placename:
Ellipsis of Jasper Township.
synonyms: Township of Jasper
Derived terms: Jasper County
Jasper Township
bimbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bimble
bimbles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bimble
bimbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bimble
depicting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dɪˈpɪk.tɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of depict
bimbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bimble
fireballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪəˌbɔːlz/
ipa: /ˈfaɪəɹˌbɔlz/
ipa: /-ɑlz/
Senses: glosses: plural of fireball
fireballs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪəˌbɔːlz/
ipa: /ˈfaɪəɹˌbɔlz/
ipa: /-ɑlz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fireball
stereotyping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stereotype
stereotyping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stereotypings
Senses: glosses: The process of making something into a stereotype.
balloons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈluːnz/
rhymes: -uːnz
Senses: glosses: plural of balloon
balloons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈluːnz/
rhymes: -uːnz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of balloon
ambles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæm.bəlz/
Senses: glosses: plural of amble
ambles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæm.bəlz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of amble
ambling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of amble
ambling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amblings
Senses: examples: the amblings of a horse
glosses: The act of one who ambles.
ambled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of amble
unhurried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhurried
form: most unhurried
Etymology: From un- + hurried.
Senses: examples: text: She proceeded at a moderate, unhurried pace.
text: Far less straightforward was what happened at about 0130 on Friday June 2 1944, as a long goods train was chuffing and clanking its unhurried way across the darkened landscape towards Soham, from Ely.
ref: 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 42:
glosses: Not hurried; not rushed.
roams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of roam
roamed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of roam
assignable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əˈsaɪnəbl̩/
Forms: form: more assignable
form: most assignable
Etymology: From assign + -able.
Senses: examples: text: In many programming languages, numeric values are not assignable to string variables.
text: First, we were forced to infer era of service from birthdate, resulting in a relatively small number of respondents assignable to the post-EO era veterans condition.
ref: 1995, George H. Lawrence, Thomas D. Kane, “Military Service and Racial Attitudes of White Veterans”, in Armed Forces & Society, volume 22, number 2, page 252:
glosses: Capable of being assigned (all senses).
examples: text: While, on the one hand, industry is limited by capital, so on the other, every increase of capital gives, or is capable of giving, additional employment to industry ; and this without assignable limit.
ref: 1848, John Stuart Mill, “Fundamental Propositions Respecting Capital”, in Principles of Political Economy, volume I, New York: D. Appleton and Company, published 1893, book I, page 98:
text: Now, certainly, in a general view, the purpose of the Platonic soldier was the same, but with this important difference—that his fighting condition was not needed on one or two days consecutively, but on many days, and not against a day punctually assignable, but against a season or period perhaps of months, quite indeterminate as to its beginning, end, or duration.
ref: 1853, Thomas De Quincey, “Plato’s Republic”, in Historical and Critical Essays, volume I, Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields:
glosses: Capable of being specified or shown.
stroller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹoʊlɚ/
rhymes: -əʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: strollers
Etymology: From stroll + -er.
Senses: glosses: A seat or chair on wheels, pushed by somebody walking behind it, typically used for transporting babies and young children.
glosses: One who strolls.
examples: text: The mayor observed that it was great presumption in Wilson, who was a stroller, to proceed to such extremities with a gentleman of family and fortune; and threatened to commit him on the vagrant act.
ref: 1771, Tobias Smollett, Humphry Clinker, Penguin Classics, published 1985, page 41:
glosses: A vagrant.
glosses: Men's semiformal daytime dress comprising a grey or black single- or double-breasted coat, grey striped or checked formal trousers, a grey or silver necktie, and a grey, black or buff waistcoat.
Synonyms: word: pushchair
word: baby buggy
Derived terms: baby stroller
jogging stroller
running stroller
Related terms: pram
pusher
amendable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amendable
form: most amendable
Etymology: From amend + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being amended.
Derived terms: amendableness
nonamendable
unamendable
strollers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stroller
strolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stroll
strolls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stroll
follicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of follicle
strolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stroll
strolling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strollings
Senses: examples: text: […]to come back late at night to quarrel with their wretched elders, who perhaps envy them their capacity for such wild gaieties and strollings[…]
ref: 1821, John Foster, An essay on the evils of popular ignorance, page 147:
glosses: The taking of a stroll.
philologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of philologist
specializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of specialize
specializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of specialize
Ste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of suite.
glosses: Abbreviation of sainte (in place names).
simplified expression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: simplified expressions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: an expression that has been condensed and shortened, so that all the like terms have been combined
swithers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of swither
swithering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of swither
chromocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromocytes
Etymology: From chromo- + -cyte.
Senses: glosses: Any cell, such as a red blood cell, that contains a pigment
swithered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of swither
eking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ekings
form: eeking
form: ekeing
Etymology: From Middle English *eking, *eching, deverbal of eken (“to increase, add”), equivalent to eke + -ing. More at eke.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of adding.
glosses: That which is added.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A supplementary piece of timber used to lengthen another.
eking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From eke.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of eke
sleeker
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sleek + -er.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of sleek: more sleek
sleeker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleekers
Etymology: From sleek + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The blackwashing is here to be the very last operation, and to be well performed, and when dry must be polished by a large sleeker fitting the circle of the cylinder.
ref: 1852, Frederick Overman, The Moulder's and Founder's Pocket Guide, page 120:
glosses: An instrument for sleeking or making smooth.
sleekest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of sleek: most sleek
fluids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluid
catafalques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catafalque