cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
gitarrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gitarrists
Etymology: From German Gitarrist.
Senses: examples: text: what the fuck do i care about some heavy metal poser jackass hardrock gitarrist?
ref: 1996 April 2, Johann Jacoby, “Abo Joke and Nigger Joke”, in alt.skinheads (Usenet), retrieved 12 May 2022:
text: GUITAR SPEAK ('No Speak' Label, Cat No EIRSA 1025)
An instrumental sampler only with gitarrists. Tony Iommi appears with one track called 'Miranha' which means 'Goddess Of Death'.
ref: 1998 May 11, jourg...@hotmail.com, “The Black Sabbath FAQ v1.00 [large] pt 4”, in alt.music.black-sabbath (Usenet), retrieved 12 May 2022:
text: Hallo Gitarrists.
ref: 1998 December 31, Jerry Manley, “Guitar-Pro”, in alt.guitar.tab (Usenet), retrieved 12 May 2022:
text: Anybody will tell you that Mr. Green has influnced^([sic]) many many great current gitarrists including Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck ,Mick taylor Steve Morse and the late great Mike Bloomfield , ammong^([sic]) others .
ref: 1999 July 4, victor m mora, “Fleetwood Mac,”, in alt.music.deep-purple (Usenet), retrieved 12 May 2022:
text: do country gitarrists use wah-wah pedals. I saw just a few weeks ago Rock-gitarrists using all the same wah-wah pedal 'cry baby'. Is it the best? And what's about pedal-steel, is it done with the volume pedal.
ref: 2000 May 3, Roland Mueller VS/ESH3 #49458, “Do country gitarrists use wah-wah”, in alt.guitar.effects (Usenet), retrieved 12 May 2022:
text: Yes, the solo shows what a fine rock-gitarrist Ritchie could be :-(
ref: 2001 August 14, Karl-Heinz Baier, “Fires at Midnight solo”, in alt.music.deep-purple (Usenet), retrieved 12 May 2022:
text: Would you post the lyrics to that song? I also wrote a song about unicycling... well there are two at the moment. Punk-Songs (Hmm, Unipunk :D). So, when we make it into a studio I will post them here, too. First I guess we have some accoustic^([sic]) version ready. I recently finished with the second song and our gitarrist is on the rythm^([sic]) (I'm the drummer, chaos and that haha *g*).
ref: 2006 October 2, gossi, “A Unicycle Song..LISTEN TO IT!!!”, in rec.sport.unicycling (Usenet), retrieved 12 May 2022:
qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: Misspelling of guitarist.
sallad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sallads
Senses: examples: text: It is besides used as a food, either as a sallad, raw, or boiled as greens.
ref: 1776, Thomas Pennant, A Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides, 1772:
glosses: Obsolete form of salad.
raying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ray
Derived terms: raying room
fish garth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish garths
Senses: glosses: A dam or weir in a river for raising fish.
synecdochically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more synecdochically
form: most synecdochically
Etymology: From synecdochical + -ly.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: metonymically
synonyms: synecdochally
antonyms: literally
coordinate_terms: as it were
figuratively
in a manner of speaking
metaphorically
so to speak
glosses: In a synecdochical manner.
rayless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ray + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking rays.
examples: text: Trudging onward at the last lights of evening, when a rayless night of unabating rain is creeping on.
ref: 1880, Sabine Baring-Gould, Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, page 1:
glosses: Lightless, gloomy.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Lacking florets.
fazenda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fazendas
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese fazenda (“farm”). Doublet of hacienda and faena.
Senses: examples: text: In his hospitable fazenda we spent our time until the day when we were empowered to open the letter of instructions given to us by Professor Challenger.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: A Brazilian plantation, often associated with slavery during the colonial period.
tanooki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tanooki
form: tanookis
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tanuki.
recompress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recompresses
form: recompressing
form: recompressed
form: recompressed
Etymology: From re- + compress.
Senses: glosses: To compress again.
recompress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recompresses
Etymology: From re- + compress.
Senses: examples: text: The image may need a recompress if you have edited it.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An act of recompression.
recompresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recompress
recompresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recompress
recompressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recompress
recompressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recompress
reconcilement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛkənsʌɪlmənt/
Forms: form: reconcilements
Etymology: From reconcile + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Thus reconcilement was betweene them knitt, Through goodly temperaunce and affection chaste [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: The fact of being restored to cordial relations with each other; settling differences, making peace; reconciliation.
reconfiguration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reconfigurations
Etymology: From re- + configuration.
Senses: examples: text: This reconfiguration is much faster than the old setting.
glosses: A reconfigured state.
examples: text: Reconfiguration will require a while, but then the new form will make the computer much faster.
text: This involves the reconfiguration of the current track layout at the site, plus the extension of the North Shed and installation of overhead line equipment so that the new fleet can be easily tested.
ref: 2022 March 23, Paul Stephen, “Network News: EMR begins work on £35m Etches Park improvements”, in RAIL, number 953, page 19:
glosses: The act of reconfiguring.
reconfigurations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reconfiguration
ébauche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪˈbəʊʃ/
ipa: /eɪˈbɔːʃ/
Forms: form: ébauches
form: ebauche
Etymology: Borrowed from French ébauche, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“wood, thicket”).
Senses: glosses: A sketch.
glosses: A maquette.
glosses: The plates and bridges of an unfinished watch.
ébauches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ébauche
counteractingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From counteracting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way that counteracts.
counteractively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more counteractively
form: most counteractively
Etymology: From counteractive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a counteractive manner.
counteracter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkaʊntɚˈæktɚ/
ipa: /ˌkaʊntəɹˈæktə/
rhymes: -æktə(ɹ)
Forms: form: counteracters
form: counteractor
Etymology: From counteract + -er.
Senses: glosses: Something that counteracts.
counteractor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkaʊntɚˈæktɚ/
ipa: /ˌkaʊntəɹˈæktə/
rhymes: -æktə(ɹ)
Forms: form: counteractors
form: counteracter
Senses: glosses: Something that counteracts.
counteractors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counteractor
counteracters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counteracter
cretinize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cretinizes
form: cretinizing
form: cretinized
form: cretinized
form: cretinise
Etymology: From cretin + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To cause to be or act like a cretin.
cretinizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cretinize
cretinizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cretinize
cretinized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cretinize
cretinise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cretinises
form: cretinising
form: cretinised
form: cretinised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cretinize.
cretinises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cretinise
cretinising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cretinise
cretinised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cretinise
clearsightedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more clearsightedly
form: most clearsightedly
Etymology: From clearsighted + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a clearsighted manner, with awareness or good vision.
clearsightedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From clearsighted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of clear-sightedness.
creamed corn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A food consisting of cooked, partially pureed, sweet corn.
Synonyms: cream corn
sweet corn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweet corns
form: sweetcorn
form: sweet-corn
Senses: synonyms: pole corn
sugar corn
glosses: Any of many varieties of corn (specifically maize) most suitable for eating by humans, as distinguished from corn raised as animal feed; usually with higher sugar content than field corn.
Derived terms: sweetcorn bread
sweetcorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweetcorns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sweet corn.
sweet corns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweet corn
sweetcorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweetcorn
crowbarring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crowbar
crowbarred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crowbar
crowbarred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
antonyms: uncrowbarred
glosses: Equipped with a crowbar circuit.
dilutive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dilutive
form: most dilutive
Etymology: From dilute + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: The shareholders objected to the stock offering as dilutive, leaving them with little or no leverage.
glosses: Causing dilution.
Derived terms: nondilutive
vicious cycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vicious cycles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vicious circle.
factorable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From factor + -able.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Capable of being factored. For integers synonyms are composite, non-prime.
Derived terms: unfactorable
prived
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From deprived, by shortening.
Senses: examples: text: Wherfore he that is thus minded is prived of all honours,
ref: 1516, Thomas More, Utopia:
text: "It enabled me to observe culturally deprived children at first hand." / "Kulchur prived chirren? What's dat Yo Exellency?"
ref: 1999, Ishmael Reed, The Free-Lance Pallbearers, page 20:
text: She done say her folks 'prived demselfs of food an' drink, sah, to save dese eggs fur your excellency,
ref: 2007, Harriet Theresa Comstock, Then Marched the Brave, page 51:
glosses: Deprived
private detective
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: private detectives
Senses: examples: text: So you're a private detective? I didn't know they existed, except in books, or else they were greasy little men snooping around hotel corridors.
ref: 1946, The Big Sleep (motion picture), spoken by Vivian (Lauren Bacall):
glosses: Person who is not a government official who is hired to provide information about a person or group that is not widely available
Synonyms: dick
gumshoe
PI
private dick
private eye
private investigator
Sam Spade
shamus
snoop
lambkins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lambkin
landmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of landman
languishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: languishments
Etymology: From languish + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The state of languishing.
glosses: Tenderness of look or mien; amorous pensiveness.
leese
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːz/
rhymes: -iːz
homophone: lees
homophone: leas
Forms: form: leeses
form: leesing
form: lore
form: leesed
form: lorn
form: leesed
Etymology: From Middle English lesen, from Old English *lēosan (only attested in compounds: belēosan, forlēosan, etc.), from Proto-Germanic *leusaną (“to lose”), from Proto-Indo-European *lews- (“to cut; sever; separate; loosen; lose”).
Senses: examples: text: But flowers distill'd though they with winter meet,
Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 5”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
text: They would rather leese their friend than their jest.
ref: a. 1598, William Cecil, Advice to his son:
text: Yet better leave off with a little losse,
Then by much wrestling to leese the grosse
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “September. Ægloga Nona.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:
text: Take heed you leeſe it not Signior, ere you come there: preſerue it.
ref: 1599 (first performance), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for William Holme, […], published 1600, →OCLC, Act V, scene i, signature O iij, recto:
glosses: To lose.
Related terms: forlese
leese
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːz/
rhymes: -iːz
homophone: lees
homophone: leas
Forms: form: leeses
form: leesing
form: leesed
form: leesed
Etymology: From Middle English lesen, from Old English lȳsan, līesan (“to let loose; release”), from Proto-Germanic *lausijaną. Cognate with Dutch lozen, German lösen, Swedish lösa.
Senses: glosses: To release, set free.
glosses: To loosen, unfasten.
leese
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːz/
rhymes: -iːz
homophone: lees
homophone: leas
Etymology: Compare French léser, Latin laesus.
Senses: glosses: To hurt.
lewdster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lewdsters
Etymology: From lewd + -ster.
Senses: examples: text: By giving the priesthood an opportunity of poisoning the moral principle, corrupting the mind, and working on the passion of women, it has enabled them to indulge in sensuality, to play the lewdster with their female confitents, and to seduce many a girl and woman who came to confess and be absolved.
ref: 1843, John Rogers, Anti-popery: Or Popery Unreasonable, Unscriptural and Novel:
text: This does not suggest that the Garter Hotel, Windsor, was the Grand Babylon of its day, but merely that Sir John had been behaving as a nasty old man: in short, as Mistress Page observed, he was 'a lewdster'.
ref: 1946, Charles Lee, His reader:
text: He was a weakling, a lewdster: with him the line of kings started from IkshWaku became extinct.
ref: 1981, Sakhyānandasvāmikaḷ, Glimpses of Our Glorious Past:
text: Jackson said, “What a lewdster.” “This is totally bizarre,” Sheila said. “Let's show this tape to Ruth.”
ref: 2000, Rik Isensee, The God Squad: (A Spoof on the Ex-gay Movement):
text: You are such a lusty lewdster, Giles. I sometimes think men think of little else but the ungirding of their loins.
ref: 2006, Cat Sparks, Agog! Ripping Reads:
text: He has spent the last twenty years among coal miners, that's why he's such a lewdster.'
ref: 2013, Gavin Wood, Tales of the Jacobite Grenadiers:
glosses: A lewd person; a lecher.
Synonyms: lewdsby
lewdsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lewdster
loathness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English lothnesse, laithnes, lathnes, lathnesse, equivalent to loath + -ness.
Senses: glosses: unwillingness; reluctance
longly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more longly
form: most longly
Etymology: From long + -ly.
Senses: glosses: For a long time; wearisomely.
examples: text: Master, you looked so longly on the maid,
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: With longing desire.
lustihood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lusty + -hood, alteration of earlier lustihead, from Middle English lustyhede, lustiheed. Cognate with Dutch lustigheid, Middle Low German lusticheit, German Lustigkeit, Danish lustighed, Swedish lustighet.
Senses: glosses: The state of being lusty.
examples: text: I'll prove it on his body, if he dare,
Despite his nice fence and his active practice,
His May of youth and bloom of lustihood.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: A vigor of body.
maidenhoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maidenhood.
majestical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈdʒɛstɪkl̩/
Forms: form: more majestical
form: most majestical
Etymology: From majesty + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Majestic.
Derived terms: majesticalness
manifoldly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more manifoldly
form: most manifoldly
Etymology: From manifold + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: For example, in the year 1900, ... known student organizations numbered 611—and [this] total ... increased manifoldly by 1990.
ref: 1998, David F. Burg, “Preface”, in Encyclopedia of Student and Youth Movements, page xi:
glosses: In a manifold manner.
markman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: markmen
Etymology: From mark + -man.
Senses: glosses: A marksman.
glosses: A freeman who cultivated the land under the mark system.
topics: Freemasonry
freemasonry
lifestyle
glosses: A member of the Order of Mark Master Masons.
markmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of markman
masterdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːstədəm/
ipa: /ˈmæstɚdəm/
Etymology: From master + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: With cruell chaufe their courages they whet, / The maysterdome of each by force to gaine […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Dominion; rule, supremacy.
meeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meeters
Etymology: From meet + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] being five minutes earlier than his judgement of when whoever he was meeting would arrive, which could have become confusing for the meeter if the meetee had twigged to the tactic and adjusted his timepiece by another five minutes.
ref: 2018, Ian Burns, Messing With Your Mind, page 283:
glosses: One who meets.
meeter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meet + -er.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of meet: more meet
meeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meeter
meetly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more meetly
form: most meetly
Etymology: From meet + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: You can do better yet: but this is meetly.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], page 343:
glosses: fitly; suitably; properly
meetness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meetnesses
Etymology: From meet + -ness.
Senses: glosses: fitness; suitability; propriety
meteyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meteyards
Etymology: From mete + yard.
Senses: glosses: A yard, staff, or rod used as a measuring device.
meteyards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meteyard
cage match
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cage matches
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: An event in which wrestlers battle in an enclosed location, escaping over the top to win.
Related terms: deathmatch
micher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: michers
form: mitcher
Etymology: From Middle English mycher, müchere, müchare, equivalent to mich + -er. More at mitch.
Senses: glosses: One who goes sneaking about for dishonest or improper purposes; one who skulks, or keeps out of sight; a pander or go-between.
glosses: A thief; especially a secret or petty thief.
glosses: One who feigns poverty.
examples: text: Shall the blessed sun of heaven prove a micher and eat blackberries?
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
glosses: A truant; one who is absent without permission.
Derived terms: mitchery
micher
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: michers
form: michering
form: michered
form: michered
form: mitcher
Etymology: From Middle English mycher, müchere, müchare, equivalent to mich + -er. More at mitch.
Senses: glosses: To sneak.
Derived terms: mitchering
michers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micher
mightful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mightful
form: most mightful
Etymology: From Middle English myghtfull; equivalent to might + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Here myȝtow see ensamples · in hym-selue one / That he was miȝtful & meke · and mercy gan graunte.
ref: c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section I:
synonyms: mainful
antonyms: mightless
glosses: Mighty, powerful.
milksops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milksop
millioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From million + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Multiplied by millions; innumerable.
examples: text: Its supporters are the Southern gentry, — fine fellows, no doubt, but not republicans exactly, as we understand the term, — a few Northern millionnaires more or less thoroughly millioned, who do not represent the real people
ref: 1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, volume 1, page 35:
text: The other was a modestly millioned rich man who was then only beginning to amass the moneys afterward heaped so high, and was still in the condition to be flattered by the condescension of a yet greater millionaire.
ref: 1910, William Dean Howells, My Mark Twain, →ISBN, page 75:
text: So go with me on a short timed, multi-millioned mile journey with the earth as it spins neatly on its axis and revolves lazily in its elliptical sweep about the Sun.
ref: 1976 March 1, “Leap Year: When Today Becomes Tomorrow”, in The Dispatch (Lexington, NC):
glosses: Having millions, as of dollars or people.
misbecome
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misbecomes
form: misbecoming
form: misbecame
form: misbecome
Etymology: From mis- + become.
Senses: examples: text: It misbecame him to appear in the character of a mediator of peace, in a quarrel, the futility of which he had presumed to judge and hastily condemn.
ref: 1802, John Duncan, An appendix to seasonable hints to the younger part of the Clergy of the Church of England:
glosses: To be unsuitable for; not to befit.
Derived terms: misbecoming
misbecomingly
misbecomingness
Related terms: unbecome
disbecome
misbelieve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misbelieves
form: misbelieving
form: misbelieved
form: misbelieved
Etymology: From Middle English misbelieven, misbileven, equivalent to mis- + believe. Compare earlier misbelief.
Senses: glosses: To believe incorrectly; hold to a false belief.
examples: text: Verily, those who misbelieve and obstruct the way of God, have erred a wide error.
ref: 1960, Daud Rahbar, God of Justice, page 356:
glosses: To disbelieve; doubt.
Derived terms: misbeliever
misbelievingly
Related terms: misbelief
buckshee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buckshees
Etymology: Related to baksheesh.
Senses: examples: text: Being a literary gent certainly has its advantages, such as not needing to shave before starting work in the mornings and all the literary luncheons sitting at the top table, which has the flowers and the buckshee booze.
ref: 2008, Richard Gordon, Doctor on Toast, →ISBN, page 11:
glosses: A gift or bribe.
glosses: An extra portion, ration etc.
examples: text: Clearly the preferred wound, it ranked in seriousness between a 'buckshee' or 'baksheesh', a slight wound that merely took a man out of the line for a short time, and a 'N.Z. smack', which meant being invalided back to New Zealand, usually disabled for life.
ref: 2009, Gavin McLean, Penguin Book Of New Zealanders At War, →ISBN:
text: Ted Mostyn, for example; he's only eighteen, and he's back with two buckshees (wounds) already.
ref: 2013, Percy F. Westerman, A Lively Bit of the Front, →ISBN:
text: As they went down the sap, 'Frank led the way...explaining to all and sundry "Old Kips got a buckshee".
ref: 2018, Anna Rogers, With Them Through Hell, →ISBN, page 345:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A minor wound that necessitates the evacuation of a soldier from the combat zone for medical treatment.
glosses: Alternative spelling of bukshi (“paymaster”).
buckshee
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Related to baksheesh.
Senses: examples: text: However, you come along about nine o'clock. There's some buckshee rum.
ref: 1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 35:
glosses: Extra, spare.
misdoubt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈdaʊt/
Forms: form: misdoubts
form: misdoubting
form: misdoubted
form: misdoubted
Etymology: From mis- + doubt.
Senses: examples: text: And though all the windes of doctrin were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licencing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength.
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC:
text: ‘Ay!’ he said. ‘I don't misdoubt it. —But twenty guineas for a bit of a paintin' as he knocked off in an hour or two—!’
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: To doubt the existence or reality of.
examples: text: I do not misdoubt my wife, but I would be loath to turn them together
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: "I misdoubt me much that he is a spy!" whispered one of the elder cavaliers.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 28:
glosses: To have suspicions about.
misdoubt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈdaʊt/
Etymology: From mis- + doubt.
Senses: glosses: suspicion; hesitation
Derived terms: misdoubtful
misleader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misleaders
Etymology: From Middle English misledere, equivalent to mislead + -er. Compare Dutch misleider (“misleader, deceiver”), Swedish missledare.
Senses: glosses: One who leads into error.
misleaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misleader
centaure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centaures
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of centaur.
mislike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ˌ)mɪsˈlaɪk/
ipa: /ˌmɪsˈlaɪk/
rhymes: -aɪk
Forms: form: more mislike
form: most mislike
Etymology: From mis- (prefix meaning ‘bad; badly; wrong; wrongly’) + like (“similar”, adjective).
Senses: glosses: Not like or similar; different, unlike.
misproud
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misproud
form: most misproud
Etymology: From Middle English misproud, equivalent to mis- + proud.
Senses: examples: text: It is grete scorne to se a mysproude knave / With a clerke that connynge is to prate: / Lete theym go lowse theym, in the devylles date.
ref: 1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte:
text: [...] dismount two hundred of our best dragooners, and, under Fight-the-good-fight Egerton, let them file down that gully to our left, and fire constantly on the advance of these misproud malignants.
ref: 1838, Knickerbocker, or, New-York monthly magazine, volume 11, page 124:
text: See, in the distance advancing, Richmond's misproud array, Fighting for Henry the traitor.
ref: 1904, The Lutheran observer - Volume 72 - Page 441
text: Yet was the song acclaimed of these aloud Whose praise had made mute bumbleness misproud, [...]
ref: 2002, Algernon Charles Swinburne, L. M. Findlay, Selected Poems:
text: "[...] He hath, I know not how, wrung forth a noble haunch of venison and store of Bourdeaux wine from some misproud malignant here at Naseby!"
ref: 2004, Henry William Herbert, Cromwell An Historical Novel:
glosses: Unduly or unwarrantably proud or vain; wrongly proud; arrogant; haughty.
mistful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mistful
form: most mistful
Etymology: From mist + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Clouded with, or as with, mist.
throw down one's tools
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: throws down one's tools
form: throwing down one's tools
form: threw down one's tools
form: thrown down one's tools
Senses: qualifier: figuratively or symbolically
glosses: To go on strike.
Eblaite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ebla + -ite.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or from the ancient kingdom of Ebla.
Eblaite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eblaites
Etymology: From Ebla + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A person from the ancient kingdom of Ebla.
Eblaite
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ebla + -ite.
Senses: glosses: An extinct Semitic language spoken in the 3rd millennium BCE, primarily in the ancient city of Ebla, which is located in modern Syria. It was written in cuneiform script and is considered to be the oldest written Semitic language.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Eblaite terms
hoquet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoquets
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hocket.
ouvrierism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French ouvrierisme.
Senses: topics: communism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: The glorification of manual laborers, often in opposition to the leadership of labor or socialist movements.
Coordinate terms: massism
populism
ouvrierist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ouvrier + -ist.
Senses: topics: communism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or supporting ouvrierism, the glorification of manual laborers.
ouvrierist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ouvrierists
Etymology: From ouvrier + -ist.
Senses: topics: communism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: A supporter of ouvrierism.
let the good times roll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lets the good times roll
form: letting the good times roll
form: let the good times roll
form: let the good times roll
Senses: examples: text: Let the good times roll, everyone!
glosses: To have fun or live fully; may imply letting things that are going well proceed; if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
lord protector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lords protector
form: Lord Protector
Senses: glosses: The regent for the kingdom of England and/or Scotland.
glosses: The head of state of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
glosses: A vidame.
glosses: A temporary regent, acting for the absent monarchic head of state.
borracha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: borrachas
Senses: glosses: A wineskin.
cy pres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /siː.pɹeɪ/
Forms: form: cy-pres
form: cy près
form: cy-près
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman cy pres (“as close”) (i.e. as close as possible), equivalent to Modern French si près or aussi près.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: In the law governing charitable trusts, the doctrine that a court may direct the funds of the trust to a best alternative, to be chosen when the original beneficiary or direction is no longer possible or practicable, e.g. because it has ceased to exist or was ambiguously named.
topics: law
glosses: In the law governing class action lawsuits, the doctrine that a court may direct the residue of the monetary award to a recipient such as a charity, if funds remain once payments to the identifiable class members have been completed and other expenses paid.
EH
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: Initialism of Eastern Hemisphere (travel within or between IATA areas 2 and 3).
EH
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of emotionally handicapped.
EH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of epididymal hypertension.
magnetic flux density
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetic flux densities
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The measurable component of the response of a medium to the presence of a magnetic field.
Related terms: english: the SI unit of measurement of magnetic flux density
translation: the SI unit of measurement of magnetic flux density
word: tesla
magnetic flux densities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magnetic flux density
sobremesa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sobremesas
Etymology: From Spanish sobremesa.
Senses: examples: text: A lackadaisical attitude to time explains the sobremesa—the time after lunch when everyone has finished eating but no-one wants to get up and leave. Sitting around the table chatting and drinking coffee or brandy or patxarán^([sic]) (a sloe liqueur from the Basque country) is the solution.
ref: 2010, Drew Launay, The Xenophobe's Guide to the Spanish, Oval Projects, →ISBN:
text: The figure presiding continues in this function during the sobremesa, that is, the time spent lingering and chatting after the meal. It's perhaps significant that in English there is no specific word for sobremesa.
ref: 2013, Frederick L. Aldama, Ilan Stavans, ¡Muy Pop!: Conversations on Latino Popular Culture, University of Michigan Press, page 106:
text: And then I’d realize I was still missing everything about what once made me love food: the people who create it and the “sobremesa” — the limitless chat after desserts, the reluctance to leave the table, the delight in shared experience.
ref: 2020 December 31, Diego Salazar, “The Year of Not Eating Out”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Time spent at the table after eating; the habit of relaxing at the table after a heavy meal.
knuckle-walking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of locomotion of some primates in which they move on all fours with pressure being taken by the knuckles.
in a jiffy
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: See jiffy.
Senses: examples: text: Call her if you have any problems and she'll get it fixed in a jiffy.
glosses: Very quickly; without delay.
merced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of merce
duett
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duetts
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of duet (“musical performance by two people”).
penetration test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penetration tests
form: pen test
Etymology: From penetration + test.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Either a static or dynamic test of the relative density of sand, silt, etc. using a penetrometer.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A test of a computer system's access control, in which a user attempts to gain access to the system without the prescribed credentials.
Sager
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Sagerton
diesel engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diesel engines
Etymology: Named after Rudolf Diesel. More in Wikipedia at diesel engine § History.
Senses: topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: diesel motor#Noun
glosses: An internal combustion engine of piston engine type that operates using the Diesel cycle, with diesel fuel being sprayed into the hot, high-pressure air in the combustion chamber at the end of the compression stroke.
topics: automotive
engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
transport
vehicles
synonyms: diesel motor#Noun
glosses: An internal combustion engine of piston engine type that operates using the Diesel cycle, with diesel fuel being sprayed into the hot, high-pressure air in the combustion chamber at the end of the compression stroke.
Such an engine that burns diesel (diesel fuel).
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
hypernyms: engine#Noun
locomotive#Noun
<
machine#Noun
glosses: a diesel locomotive.
Related terms: petrol engine
garden centre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garden centres
Senses: examples: text: "People have asked us for practical advice about how to grow a certain plant, what to feed them with, what compost to buy, as if we're a garden centre!
ref: 2024 January 10, Nick Brodrick, “Community spirit grows in station garden”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 75:
glosses: A retail outlet selling plants, gardening requisites, furniture and other items intended for outdoor use.
gainsaying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gainsayings
Etymology: From Middle English gaynesayenge, ȝeinseiing, ȝeinsegging, equivalent to gainsay + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: This gainsaying may take numberless forms: [...]
ref: 1903, American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, Baptist missionary magazine: Volume 83:
text: Wee'le part the time betweene's then: and in that Ile no gaine-saying. […]
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: Opposition, especially in speech.
examples: text: So that it is best to take this meaning here, and understand, that an oath puts an end to all gainsaying by confirming the matter one way, in which all parties consent [...]
ref: 1859, Henry Alford, The Greek Testament::
glosses: Refusal to accept or believe something.
examples: text: There is no gainsaying this logic.
ref: 1969, Robert Lisle Lindsey, A Hebrew translation of the Gospel of Mark:
glosses: Contradiction.
examples: text: But there was no gainsaying the wisdom of the advice which he had given me as to concealing the treasure.
ref: 1887, The Rose of Paradise
glosses: Denial; denying.
examples: text: Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jude 11::
glosses: Rebellious opposition; rebellion.
Related terms: gainsaw
gainsaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From gainsay.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gainsay
gasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gas
gasses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gas
baptismal font
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /bæpˈtɪzməl ˈfɑnt/
Forms: form: baptismal fonts
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A large basin used for baptism in or near a church.
Synonyms: baptismal
lavacre
lavatory
Derived terms: baptismal
gasper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaspers
Etymology: From gasp + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person or animal that gasps.
examples: text: Viserys unsheathes his dagger and says he’ll have his tongue for this, but his brother is quicker. In a classic Game Of Thrones gasper of a moment, Daemon whips out his sword and slices the top half of Vaemond’s head off like a watermelon. “He can keep his tongue,” the prince remarks, in a savage mic drop.
ref: 2022 October 10, Jenna Scherer, “House Of The Dragon drops its best episode yet”, in AV Club:
glosses: Something that causes one to gasp in shock, suspense, or awe.
examples: text: Standing on the corner like a just-got-in-town jasper / I'm on a street corner with a gasper
ref: 1975, “Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)”, in Nighthawks at the Diner, performed by Tom Waits:
text: The engineer shivers in the bright chill and lights a gasper of his own and tells Madame Psychosis through the intercom that the whole range of levels is fine.
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 183:
text: He blows out the smoke from his gasper full of green shit.
ref: 2023 October 13, “Something to Hide” (track 4), in The Darker The Shadow The Brighter The Light, performed by The Streets:
glosses: A cigarette.
examples: ref: 1999, floodin...@webtv.net, “gay male gaspers/breath control and choking roleplay.”, in alt.sex.necrophilia (Usenet):
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: One who is aroused by autoasphyxiation.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An adjustable air outlet over a passenger seat in aircraft.
Global Positioning System
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
synonyms: GPS
glosses: A system which enables a mobile receiver to determine its precise location based on signals received from a constellation of US military satellites.
global positioning system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: global positioning systems
Etymology: From the proper noun Global Positioning System.
Senses: glosses: Any system which enables a mobile receiver to determine its precise location based on signals received from satellites such as those of the US military, the Russian GLONASS system, or the proposed Galileo European alternative system.
Synonyms: GPS
global navigation satellite system
Hyponyms: english: the U.S. government satellite navigation system
translation: the U.S. government satellite navigation system
word: NavStar
english: the U.S. government satellite navigation system
translation: the U.S. government satellite navigation system
word: Navstar
english: the U.S. government satellite navigation system
translation: the U.S. government satellite navigation system
word: GPS
english: the U.S. government satellite navigation system
translation: the U.S. government satellite navigation system
word: Global Positioning System
english: the Chinese government satellite navigation system
translation: the Chinese government satellite navigation system
word: Beidou
english: the Chinese government satellite navigation system
translation: the Chinese government satellite navigation system
word: BeiDou
english: the European Union satellite navigation system
translation: the European Union satellite navigation system
word: Galileo
english: the Russian government satellite navigation system
translation: the Russian government satellite navigation system
word: GLONASS
cabane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cabanes
Etymology: From French cabane. Doublet of cabana and cabin.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The tripod, pylon, or struts usually at the centre-section of a biplane or high-winged monoplane.
seigniorage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪnjəɹɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: seigniorages
form: seignorage
form: seigneurage
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French seigneurage, from seigneur + -age.
Senses: examples: text: I will tell you. First, he comes regularly to take his rights of seigniorage, his rents, his taxes, his fourths of all the produce of his vineyards and arable lands on our Côte d'Or.
ref: 1895, John Bloundelle-Burton, In the Day of Adversity:
glosses: All the revenue obtained by a feudal lord from his vassals.
examples: text: If Government, however, throws the expense of coinage, as is reasonable, upon the holder, by making a charge to cover the expense (which is done by giving back rather less in coin than has been received in bullion, and is called levying a seigniorage), the coin will rise, to the extent of the seigniorage, above the value of the bullion.
ref: 1848, John Stuart Mill, chapter VI, in Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy. […], volume II, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], →OCLC, book III (Exchange), page 25:
text: The old kingly prerogative of altering the coinage was taken away, the unit of the currency was declared definite and unchangeable, and the seigniorage on minting was abolished.
ref: 1896, William Arthur Shaw, History of Currency, 1252 to 1896:
text: As a result of the lower than expected production, the mint has halved the amount it provides to government coffers through seigniorage, which is the difference between the face value of a coin sold to the banks and its cost of production.
ref: 2019 November 4, Sarah Martin, “Rise of cashless society sees coin sales plummet for Royal Australian Mint”, in The Guardian:
topics: business
finance
money
glosses: The revenue obtained directly by minting coin (difference between face value and cost of metal).
topics: business
finance
glosses: The revenue obtained by the difference between interest earned on securities acquired in exchange for bank notes and the costs of producing and distributing those notes.
ginger snap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ginger snaps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gingersnap.
route planner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: route planners
Senses: glosses: A tool for finding optimal routes from one place to another, usually for traveling by car.
Pascaline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pascalines
Senses: glosses: Any of the early calculating machines devised by Blaise Pascal
Remi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin Rēmī.
Senses: glosses: A Belgic tribe dwelling in the Aisne, Vesle and Suippe river valleys during the Iron Age and the Roman period.
Remi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Rem (“Egyptian fish god”).
Rene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French René.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from French.
glosses: A female given name from French.