cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
grittily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more grittily
form: most grittily
Etymology: From gritty + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a gritty way.
transliterators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transliterator
saccharometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From saccharo- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: The measurement of the amount of sugar in a liquid using a saccharometer.
Related terms: saccharimetry
saccharimeter
saccharometer
indexable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From index + -able.
Senses: examples: text: It's important to make Web pages indexable if you want people to find them through search engines.
text: Hand tools with indexable bits or blades allow for wide-ranging capabilities in a compact package.
antonyms: unindexable
glosses: That can be indexed.
Related terms: insertable
uninsertable
unindexable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + indexable.
Senses: glosses: Not indexable; that cannot be indexed.
egglike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more egglike
form: most egglike
Etymology: From egg + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an egg; ovate.
Synonyms: eggy
atypicals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atypical
handfastings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handfasting
roadlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more roadlike
form: most roadlike
Etymology: From road + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a road.
Synonyms: streetlike
ruffianlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ruffianlike
form: most ruffianlike
Etymology: From ruffian + -like.
Senses: glosses: Like a ruffian
Synonyms: ruffianly
antennalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antennalike
form: most antennalike
Etymology: From antenna + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling an antenna or antennae, or some aspect of them.
plaguey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪɡi/
rhymes: -eɪɡi
Forms: form: plaguier
form: plaguiest
form: plaguy
Etymology: From plague + -y.
Senses: examples: text: “If you hadn’t all been in such a plaguey fuss when we were starting, I’d have brought some pillows,” said Mrs. Beaver.
ref: 1950, C. S. Lewis, chapter 10, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Collins, published 1998:
synonyms: annoying
irritating
troublesome
glosses: Causing annoyance or bother; irritating.
Derived terms: plaguily
plaguiness
plaguier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of plaguey: more plaguey
glosses: comparative form of plaguy: more plaguy
plaguiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of plaguey: most plaguey
glosses: superlative form of plaguy: most plaguy
plaguily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more plaguily
form: most plaguily
Etymology: From plaguey + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] most wicked woman (that hast so plaguily a corrupted minde, as thou canst not keepe thy sickenesse to thy selfe, but must most wickedly infect others) […]
ref: c. 1580 (date written), Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
text: I was plaguily nettled, and disappointed too.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XLVI”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume V, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 318:
text: Little wonder that the artist’s glance frequently wandered across the great shining table towards a girl who, if they had not been so plaguily intent on honouring his fame, might have now been replacing the Mayoress at his side.
ref: 1907, Israel Zangwill, “The Jewish Trinity”, in Ghetto Comedies, London: Heinemann, page 89:
glosses: In a plaguey way.
plaguelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plaguelike
form: most plaguelike
Etymology: From plague + -like.
Senses: glosses: Like a plague.
thrashcore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thrash + -core.
Senses: glosses: A subgenre of fast hardcore punk music that emerged in the early 1980s.
Synonyms: fastcore
ephemeralities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ephemerality
zark
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Coined by British science fiction writer and humorist Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978).
Senses: glosses: Fuck.
Derived terms: zarking
zark off
RAD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RADs
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Initialism of role activity diagram.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of rapid application development.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of reactive attachment disorder.
RAD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: NASA
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Initialism of Radiation Assessment Detector, a scientific instrument of the Mars Science Laboratory onboard the Curiosity rover at Mars.
copperware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From copper + -ware.
Senses: glosses: Articles made from copper.
yellowware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellowwares
Etymology: From yellow + -ware.
Senses: glosses: A type of earthenware made from yellow clay.
baked bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baked beans
Senses: glosses: A single bean in a portion of baked beans.
examples: text: 'Nah, listen to me, me old china,' he said, wrapping a kindly paw around my shoulder. 'I don't know the old baked bean. […] Yep, I don't know the baked bean, but I do know someone who's friends with her corgis and they're right little lords and ladies, so I don't reckon they'd knock around with an old fella like me.'
ref: 2015, John Tovey, A Puppy Called Dez:
text: The Baked Bean
Although I am patriotic, I don't consider myself a Royalist per se, but I challenge even the most hardened anti-monarchist to meet the Queen and not be slightly awed.
ref: 2019, Cat Williams, From Prison to Palace:
glosses: The queen.
cauldronlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cauldronlike
form: most cauldronlike
form: caldronlike
Etymology: From cauldron + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a cauldron.
holy kamoley
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: holy kamoly
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of holy moley.
Synonyms: wow
holy kamoly
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of holy kamoley.
Synonyms: wow
meatware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meat + -ware.
Senses: glosses: Human beings or their brains, when regarded as a form of computer hardware or software.
Synonyms: wetware
Related terms: meatspace
liveware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌɪvwɛː/
Etymology: From live + -ware (after software, hardware).
Senses: glosses: People who work with computers, as opposed to the software or hardware they use; loosely, human beings, as opposed to technology.
Related terms: meatware
wetware
revertable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From revert + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of revertible (which is the more common form)
bugfree
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bug + -free.
Senses: glosses: Free of bugs; bugless.
couchlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more couchlike
form: most couchlike
Etymology: From couch + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a couch.
magnetohydrodynamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From magneto- + hydro- + dynamic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to magnetohydrodynamics.
Synonyms: word: MHD
Derived terms: word: electromagnetohydrodynamic
word: magnetohydrodynamically
word: MHD
Related terms: hydrodynamic
magnetodynamic
magnetoplasmadynamic
magnetohydrodynamically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From magnetohydrodynamic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a magnetohydrodynamic way.
collisionlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From collisionless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a collisionless way.
Mandaic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mænˈdeɪ.ɪk/
rhymes: -eɪɪk
Forms: form: more Mandaic
form: most Mandaic
Etymology: From Latin Mandaicus. By surface analysis, Mandaic ࡌࡀࡍࡃࡀ (manda, “knowledge”) + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Mandaean.
synonyms: word: Mandaean
Mandaic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mænˈdeɪ.ɪk/
rhymes: -eɪɪk
Etymology: From Latin Mandaicus. By surface analysis, Mandaic ࡌࡀࡍࡃࡀ (manda, “knowledge”) + -ic.
Senses: glosses: The language of the Mandaeans, descending from Aramaic with strong Persian influences.
Derived terms: Classical Mandaic
Neo-Mandaic
Mandaeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mandaean
Mandaeism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmændeɪ.ɪzəm/
ipa: /mænˈdeɪ.ɪzəm/
rhymes: -eɪɪzəm
Forms: form: Mandaism
form: Mandeism
form: Mandæism
Etymology: From Aramaic 𐡌𐡍𐡃𐡏 (manda, “knowledge”) + -ism (from Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)).
Although Mandaeism is the most widespread spelling in English, it is a hypercorrection. The expected derivation through Greek Μανδαϊσμός (Mandaïsmós) and Latin Mandaismus is Mandaism (compare with Judaism, from Ancient Greek Ἰουδαισμός (Ioudaismós), or with archaism, from Ancient Greek ἀρχαϊσμός (arkhaïsmós)).
Senses: glosses: A monotheistic religion of the Iraq region with a strongly dualistic and gnostic worldview, whose adherents (the Mandaeans) revere Adam and other Biblical figures, especially John the Baptist.
Synonyms: Mandaeanism
Related terms: Mandaean
Mandaic
marron glacé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmaɹɒ̃ ˈɡlaseɪ/
ipa: /məˌɹɑn ɡləˈseɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: marrons glacés
form: marron glace
Etymology: Borrowed from French marron glacé (literally “iced chestnut”).
Senses: examples: text: MARRON SANDWICH: Cut the bread in rounds with a biscuit cutter; put a marron glace in the center and around it whipped cream that has sweetened and flavored. Nice for afternoon luncheon.
ref: 1909, Eva Greene Fuller, The Up-To-Date Sandwich Book: 400 Ways to Make a Sandwich, page 156:
glosses: A chestnut preserved in sugar or syrup and flavoured with vanilla.
examples: text: Eyeshadow in Marron Glacé; Eye Liner in Dusky Brown.
ref: 1994 May, Mademoiselle, volume 100, page 162:
text: The leather was a dark chestnut, gleaming like oiled wood; her leg, in its filmy Hanes pantyhose, was two shades paler, and her cashmere dress was marron glacé.
ref: 2011, Helen DeWitt, Lightning Rods, And Other Stories 2013, p. 188
glosses: The colour of such a chestnut; a light brown.
reduplicants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reduplicant
wheelbarrow races
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheelbarrow race
picadors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picador
call someone's bluff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calls someone's bluff
form: calling someone's bluff
form: called someone's bluff
form: called someone's bluff
Senses: examples: text: She was tempted to call his bluff, hardly believing that he would carry out his threat.
text: Eventually the NUR overplayed its hands with an all-out strike. And when Peter Parker, the then-chairman of BR, who was well regarded among his staff, called their bluff by threatening to close down the entire network, they caved in.
ref: 2022 December 14, Christian Wolmar, “Productivity should play no part in pay negotiations”, in RAIL, number 972, page 46:
glosses: To take action on the basis that another person is bluffing.
LAOS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: the Popular Orthodox Rally, a Greek political party (Λαϊκός Ορθόδοξος Συναγερμός).
off-hand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more off-hand
form: most off-hand
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of offhand.
EDES
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Ethnikos Dimokratikos Ellinikos Syndesmos, ΕΔΕΣ, Εθνικός Δημοκρατικός Ελληνικός Σύνδεσμος (the National Republican Greek League), one of the two major resistance groups in Greece during the Axis Occupation of Greece during World War II.
EON
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Greek ΕΟΝ (EON), short for Εθνική Οργάνωση Νεολαίας.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The Greek National Organisation of Youth, similar to the Hitler Youth. It was formed before WWII and disbanded in 1941.
aneurismatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of aneurysmatic.
aneurismal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aneurism + -al.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of aneurysmal.
protostoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protostomata
Etymology: From proto- + Ancient Greek στόμα (stóma, “mouth”).
Senses: examples: text: It is frequently stated by critics of the protostoma hypothesis that it involves a reversal of dorsal and ventral sides during the evolution of Vertebrates from their invertebrate ancestors but it will be gathered from what has been said that this criticism rests on a misunderstanding.
ref: 1919, Ernest William MacBride, Text-book of Embryology:
text: The opening of this, the protostoma, becomes elongated, taking on an elliptical shape, and then it narrows in the middle, its outline becoming that of a dumb-bell.
ref: 1921, John Graham Kerr, Zoology for Medical Students, page 150:
topics: embryology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of blastopore.
synonyms: word: blastopore
examples: text: The protostoma with its wall—the protorhabdion—is the major part of the stoma.
ref: 1968, Konstantin Ivanovich Skirabin, Key to Parasitic Nematodes, volume 1:
text: Conventionally, the stoma is divided into three parts: the anterior chamber or cheilostoma, the middle or protostoma, and the posterior or telostoma.
ref: 1977, Ivan Antonovich Rubtsov, Aquatic Mermithidae of the Fauna of the USSR:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: In nematodes, a particular division of the stoma (mouthlike opening).
Derived terms: protostomal
Related terms: protostome
shamba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃambə/
Forms: form: shambas
Etymology: From Swahili shamba.
Senses: examples: text: To reach his new strip of shamba which lay the other side of Thabai, Mugo had to walk through the dusty village streets.
ref: 1967, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, A Grain of Wheat, EAEP, published 2008, page 4:
glosses: An area of cultivated ground; a plot of land, a small subsistence farm for growing crops and fruit-bearing trees, often including the dwelling of the farmer.
Derived terms: shamba boy
nyatiti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /njɑːˈtiːti/
Forms: form: nyatitis
Etymology: From Luo nyatiti.
Senses: examples: text: The premier Luo musical instrument is the nyatiti, a lyre of eight strings converging inside a hide resonator, all housed in a trapezoid wooden frame.
ref: 2001, Okumba Miruka, Oral Literature of the Luo, EAEP, published 2001, page 14:
text: Recently, some nyatiti performers have collaborated with guitarists in beautiful combined productions.
ref: 2000, Radano/Bohlman, Music and the Racial Imagination, page 373:
text: A quiet, largely acoustic CD with beautiful melodies and captivating rhythms that starts with nyatiti, praise songs and local rhythms.
ref: 1999, Simon Broughton et al., Rough Guide to World Music, page 522:
glosses: A traditional type of lyre with eight strings, used by the Luo people of Kenya.
zama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zamas
Senses: examples: text: There are “food syndicates” that only exist to supply food to zamas at mines in the West Wits and Free State.
ref: 2017 June 29, Warren Thompson, “Sibanye could be losing R756m to illegal miners”, in The Citizen:
glosses: Synonym of zama-zama.
synonyms: word: zama-zama
zambra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zambras
Etymology: From Spanish zambra.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Can you be at a loss in wanton Seville, where black-eyed damsels dance the zambra under every orange grove?’
ref: 1852, Washington Irving, Tales from the Alhambra:
glosses: A dance associated with Andalusia.
potchkying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of potchky
esthesioneuroblastoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: esthesioneuroblastomas
form: aesthesioneuroblastoma
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αἴσθησις (aísthēsis, “sensation”) + neuro- + blastoma.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A rare form of cancer, involving the nasal cavity and believed to arise from the olfactory epithelium, that can cause loss of vision.
esthesioneuroblastomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of esthesioneuroblastoma
aesthesioneuroblastoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aesthesioneuroblastomas
Etymology: From aesthesio- + neuroblastoma.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of esthesioneuroblastoma.
aesthesioneuroblastomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aesthesioneuroblastoma
streamertail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: streamertails
Etymology: From streamer + tail.
Senses: glosses: Any of various hummingbirds of the genus Trochilus, endemic to Jamaica, with greatly elongated rectrices in the males.
streamertails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of streamertail
bluetail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbluːteɪl/
ipa: /ˈbluˌteɪl/
Forms: form: bluetails
Etymology: From blue + tail.
Senses: glosses: Either of two species of passerine bird in the genus Tarsiger.
glosses: Any of several species of damselfly in the genus Ischnura.
glosses: An organism with a blue tail.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Ischnura aurora
word: aurora bluetail
taxonomic: Symbrenthia niphanda
word: bluetail jester
taxonomic: Plestiodon egregius
word: bluetail mole skink
taxonomic: Valamugil buchanani
word: bluetail mullet
word: colorful bluetail
word: colourful bluetail
taxonomic: Ischnura heterosticta
word: common bluetail
taxonomic: Tarsiger rufilatus
word: Himalayan bluetail
taxonomic: Tarsiger cyanurus
word: red-flanked bluetail
hyperosmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperosmic
form: most hyperosmic
Etymology: From hyperosmia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or affected by hyperosmia.
hatchet jobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hatchet job
oolitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oolitic
form: most oolitic
Etymology: From oolite + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Masses of white, finely oolitic rock are attached to the outside of some of these coated pebbles.
ref: 1844, Charles Darwin, Volcanic Islands:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Made up of, or containing oolites
examples: text: These mines occur in the same ridge in which, about 120 miles to the northward, and subsequently in their more immediate neighborhood, we discovered the fossils belonging to the oolitic period
ref: 1852, J.C. Fremont, The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California:
glosses: Of a prehistoric era; Jurassic.
Derived terms: nonoolitic
oolitic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oolitics
Etymology: From oolite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: An oolite.
glosses: A prehistoric era; the Jurassic.
saccharomycete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saccharomycetes
Etymology: From saccharo- + -mycete.
Senses: glosses: A yeast fungus
glosses: A yeast of the genus Saccharomycetes
Related terms: saccharomycetous
saccharomycetes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saccharomycete
saccolabium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saccolabiums
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the genus Saccolabium.
sacculated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sacculated
form: most sacculated
form: sacculate
Senses: glosses: Furnished with or formed of a sac or sacs.
sacculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sacculate
form: most sacculate
Senses: glosses: sacculated.
sacculation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sacculations
Etymology: From sacculus (“small bag”) + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being sacculated.
glosses: The process of becoming sacculated.
glosses: One or several sacs or saclike structures.
Derived terms: pseudosacculation
sacculations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sacculation
violents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of violent
coronach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kɒɹənək/
/kɒɹənəx/
Forms: form: coronachs
form: coranach
form: coranich
form: corrinoch
form: corronach
form: cronach
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic corranach and Irish corānach.
Senses: examples: text: The village maids and matrons round / The dismal coronach resound.
ref: 1810, The Lady of the Lake, Walter Scott, 3.XV:
text: [A] hired mourner, the Irish "Keener" at the conclamatio or coronach, where the Hullabaloo, Hulululu or Ululoo showed the survivors' sorrow.
ref: 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXX, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 311 footnote:
glosses: A dirge or lamentation.
Synonyms: ullaloo
Stendhalian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɒ̃ˈdɑːlɪən/
ipa: /stɛ̃ˈdɑli.ən/
ipa: /stɛnˈdɑli.ən/
rhymes: -ɑːliən
Forms: form: more Stendhalian
form: most Stendhalian
Etymology: From Stendhal + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or in the style of French novelist Marie-Henri Beyle (1783–1842), known as Stendhal.
wikipedia: Stendhal
Coordinate terms: Beylism
Astghik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Astlik
form: Astłik
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian Աստղիկ (Astġik).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Ancient Armenian goddess of sensual love, beauty, and water. Lover of Vahagn. Often identified with Aphrodite and the planet Venus.
glosses: A transliteration of the Armenian female given name Աստղիկ (Astġik).
Astlik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old Armenian Աստղիկ (Astłik).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Astghik.
Astłik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old Armenian Աստղիկ (Astłik).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Astghik.
Gugark
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Armenian Գուգարք (Gugarkʻ).
Senses: glosses: One of 15 provinces of Greater Armenia located on its north, also called Gogarene, and now divided between northern Armenia, southern Georgia and northeastern Turkey.
Synonyms: Gogarene
Related terms: Greater Armenia
Gogarene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -iːni
Senses: glosses: The Greek and Roman name of Gugark, a historical province of the ancient kingdom of Armenia, in modern northern Armenia, northeast Turkey and southwest Georgia.
Moxoene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -iːni
Senses: glosses: A historical province of the Kingdom of Greater Armenia, one of 15, in the modern Van Province, Turkey.
by the Grace of God
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Calque of Latin Deī grātiā. Doublet of Dei gratia.
Senses: topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
glosses: By divine will and benevolence.
Related terms: but for the grace of God
by the Grace of Allah
there but for the grace of God go I
Mandate of Heaven
thank God
nival
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪvəl
Forms: form: more nival
form: most nival
Etymology: From Latin nivalis, from nix, nivis (“snow”).
Senses: examples: text: The observed climate warming during the twentieth century has affected alpine vegetation by increasing vascular plant species richness on nival mountain tops […]
ref: 2003, Laszlo Nagy, Georg Grabherr, Christian Körner, Desmond B.A. Thompson, Alpine Biodiversity in Europe, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 406:
text: It includes the nival mountain top, the moorlands above the timberline, a belt of tropical rainforest, the semihumid footzone of the tertiary volcano, the semiarid high Laikipia Plateau, the escarpment, and the semiarid to arid Samburu Plains.
ref: 2002, Mountain Research and Development:
text: In this way, the subnival mountain range on the southern facet with its strong solifluction influence (level slope formation) approaches in height the nival mountain range on the northern facet, which is distinguished by its well developed glacial forms.
ref: 1971, Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts, volume 22, issues 1-6, page 447
glosses: Abounding with snow; snowy; snow-covered (now especially in reference to plant habitats).
examples: text: In 1884 O. Heer published a comprehensive account of the nival flora of Switzerland, in which he listed 338 species of flowering plants found above 2600 m.; of these, 6 were found above 3900 m.
ref: 1914, The Journal of Ecology, page 60:
text: As can be seen from the present chapter, main problems of adaptation, ecophysiology, ecology and evolutionary biology of the nival fauna were hardly investigated at all.” The early history of explorations of the nival zone in the Alps has been summarized[…]
ref: 2013, Rosa Margesin, Franz Schinner, Cold-Adapted Organisms: Ecology, Physiology, Enzymology and Molecular Biology, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 165:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Found or thriving in snowy conditions.
zonations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zonation
yestereen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yestereens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yestreen.
kittenhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kitten + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state or time of being a kitten.
doghood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dog + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state or characteristic of being a dog.
glosses: The period of time of being a dog.
Synonyms: sense: state or characteristic of being a dog
word: dogitude
sense: state or characteristic of being a dog
word: dogness
Hyponyms: puppyhood
cathood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cat + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state or time of being a cat.
Hyponyms: kittenhood
tramplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tramplike
form: most tramplike
Etymology: From tramp + -like.
Senses: synonyms: vagrantlike
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a tramp (vagrant).
dragonhide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dragonhides
Etymology: From dragon + hide.
Senses: examples: text: She was also almost naked, except for a couple of mere scraps of the lightest chain mail and riding boots of iridescent dragonhide.
ref: 1983, Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic:
glosses: The hide of a dragon.
tuyère
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tuyères
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tuyere.
homeopathist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homeopathists
form: homoeopathist
form: homœopathist
Etymology: From homeopathy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A homeopath, one who practises homeopathy
Related terms: naturopathist
homeopathists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homeopathist
jook-sings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jook-sing
exanthem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exanthems
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin exanthema, from Ancient Greek ἐξάνθημα (exánthēma), from ἐξανθέω (exanthéō), from ἐξ (ex) + ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”).
Senses: glosses: A widespread rash usually occurring in children.
crannog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹænəɡ/
Forms: form: crannogs
form: crannóg
form: crannoge
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish crannóg, from Middle Irish crannóc.
Senses: glosses: An artificial island, used in prehistoric and medieval times in Scotland and Ireland for dwelling.
exanthems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exanthem
exanthema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːmə
Forms: form: exanthemas
form: exanthemata
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of exanthem.
saccule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæk.juːl/
rhymes: -ækjuːl
Forms: form: saccules
form: sacculus
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin sacculus (“a little sack or bag”), diminutive of saccus (“a bag, sack”). Doublet of sacculus.
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A small sac, pouch, or cyst.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The smaller of the two fluid-filled sacs forming part of the labyrinth of the inner ear (the other being the utricle). It contains a region of hair cells and otoliths which send signals to the brain concerning the orientation of the head.
Derived terms: word: saccular
word: sacculo-
Related terms: sac
utricle
sacculina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sacculinas
form: sacculinae
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: A parasite of the genus Sacculina.
sacerdocy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sacerdocies
Etymology: From Latin sacerdotium (“the priesthood”), from sacerdos (“a priest”), from sacer (“sacred, holy”).
Senses: glosses: the priesthood
glosses: a priestly office or character
Related terms: sacerdotal
sacerdotalism
sacerdotical
anticolour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anticolours
form: anticolor
Etymology: From anti- + colour.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The property of antiquarks equivalent to that of colour in quarks.
Related terms: antiblue
antigreen
antired
anticolours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anticolour
anticolor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anticolors
Etymology: From anti- + color.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of anticolour.
Derived terms: anticolored
anticolors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anticolor
sacerdocies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sacerdocy
isomorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isomorphs
Etymology: From iso- + -morph.
Senses: glosses: Anything that exhibits isomorphism
oolitics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oolitic
Western blot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: ELISA
qualifier: molecular biology
glosses: An analytical technique using targeted antibodies to detect specific proteins in a given sample of tissue homogenate or extract.
Related terms: western blot analysis
control group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: control groups
Senses: glosses: The group of test subjects left untreated or unexposed to some procedure and then compared with treated subjects in order to validate the results of the test.
raw_tags: in an experiment
Synonyms: control
laminarly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more laminarly
form: most laminarly
Etymology: From laminar + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He found the flame propagation velocity measured at the outer cone to equal that of an identical gaseous mixture flowing laminarly.
ref: 1949, The Texas Journal of Science, volumes 1-2, page 137:
glosses: In a laminar fashion.
Derived terms: translaminarly
regretfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From regretful + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Mervyn thought that he could detect a certain regretfulness in his companion's voice.
ref: 1874, Frank Usher, A strange love:
glosses: The state or condition of being regretful.
Synonyms: regret
ruefulness
koppas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of koppa
qoppa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qoppas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of koppa.
qoppas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qoppa
tectiforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tectiform
proprietarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more proprietarily
form: most proprietarily
Etymology: From proprietary + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In positioning black bodies as fundamentally incapable as they don the material mantles of, and carry out activities associated with, whiteness, the white viewer is inoculated against the shock of seeing African Americans engaging freely with a world that was once proprietarily their own. In other words, despite the law, African Americans are imposters.
ref: 2015, Heidi Nast, “Pit Bulls, Slavery, and Whiteness in the Mid- to Late-Nineteenth-Century U.S.”, in Rosemary-Claire Collard, Kathryn Gillespie, editors, Critical Animal Geographies, page 138:
glosses: In a proprietary way; with an air of ownership.
cybersabotage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + sabotage.
Senses: glosses: Sabotage of computer systems; destructive hacking.
ontogeneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ŏn′tō-jĕn′ĭ-sēz′
Senses: glosses: plural of ontogenesis
microgeneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microgenesis
sacerdotalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sacerdotalists
Etymology: From sacerdotal + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who practices sacerdotalism.
sacerdotalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sacerdotalizes
form: sacerdotalizing
form: sacerdotalized
form: sacerdotalized
Etymology: From sacerdotal + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make sacerdotal.
glosses: To subject to sacerdotalism.
sachaline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sacaline.
sacerdotalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sacerdotalist
sacher torte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sacher tortes
form: sacher torten
Senses: examples: text: We knew exactly what we wanted to order, two cappuccinos, a slice of sacher torte for Denis and some Black Forest gâteau for me.
ref: 1992, Sarah La Touche, Dennis La Touche, “Thursday, July 13”, in Europe on a Plate: Eating, Drinking and Travelling Around Europe, Auckland: Benton-Guy, →ISBN, chapter 20 (Austria), page 199:
text: I’ve had you under observation since the day you arrived here from Austria with your little…bags of sacher torten.
ref: 2008, Ken Ludwig, The Three Musketeers, New York, N.Y.: Samuel French, →ISBN, act 1, scene 6, page 43:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Sacher torte.
shneid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shneids
Etymology: From Yiddish
Senses: examples: text: Danny Kaye was an avid baseball fan, passionately devoted to his beloved Brooklyn Dodgers who broke the shneid by beating the Yankees in the previous World Series.
ref: 2001, Ilana Abramovitch with Seán Galvin, Jews of Brooklyn, page 315:
text: Ok. The dolphins got off the shneid by finally beating the Jets in the first go round.
ref: 2002 November 10, “Jets Vs. Dolphins”, in alt.sports.football.pro.miami-dolphins (Usenet):
text: Cal is 3-0 all-time against the Boilermakers and is in a good position to keep Purdue on the shneid.
ref: 2003 March 21, “Cal Tennis Welcomes Purdue”, in dailycal.org:
text: [Eric Osmundson] has to get off the shneid, David [Whitehurst] has to help us, and even Ibby's better than 2-for-7. Hopefully, it'll start to come.
ref: 2005 December 3, “Jaaber, Penn turn back Navy”, in Philadelphia Daily News:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A losing streak, especially a hitless period in baseball.
Sacher torte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sacher tortes
form: Sacher torten
Senses: examples: text: The older girls had swarmed into the kitchen, turning hoarded sugar and flour into kugel, Sacher torten, and an only modenately successful apfelstrudel.
ref: 2002, Mona Golabek, Lee Cohen, chapter 25, in The Children of Willesden Lane: Beyond the Kindertransport: A Memoir of Music, Love, and Survival, New York, N.Y.: Warner Books, published November 2003, →ISBN, page 253:
text: My mouth watered. Only a few of the kipfels—some sort of sugar-crusted crescent cookie—and a few slices of Sacher torte and something called, improbably, marmorgugelhupf remained.
ref: 2016, Maia Chance, chapter 17, in Teetotaled (Discreet Retrieval Agency Mysteries; 2), New York, N.Y.: Minotaur Books, →ISBN, page 128:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Sachertorte.
sackage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsækɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ækɪd͡ʒ
Forms: form: sackages
Etymology: From sack + -age.
Senses: glosses: An act or instance of sacking, pillaging or looting.
sackage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsækɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ækɪd͡ʒ
Forms: form: sackages
form: sackaging
form: sackaged
form: sackaged
Etymology: From sack + -age.
Senses: glosses: To sack or pillage.
sacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sackets
Senses: glosses: A small sack or wallet.
glosses: A small, especially rascally or stupid, person.
dwt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: d.w.t.
form: d. w. t.
form: D.W.T.
form: D. W. T.
form: DWT
Etymology: From Latin denarius, penny.
Senses: glosses: Deadweight ton; deadweight tonnage.
glosses: pennyweight
sacrad
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sacrad
form: most sacrad
Etymology: From sacro- + -ad.
Senses: glosses: in the direction of the sacrum.
sacramentalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sacramentalists
Etymology: From sacramental + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who practices sacramentalism.
sacramentality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sacramentalities
Etymology: From sacramental + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: When indeed a Popish monarch may fill our throne, and the successor of St. Peter shall be the spiritual head of our Church; then shall your “esoterics,” alias “Church principles,” be in the ascendant in our Universities, and Who shall say that we may not have a Thorp lecturer in each of our Colleges, Neale and Webb scholarships, Regii professores supplying the places of those who shall now be superannuated, all teaching, and empowered to confer degrees in the, symbolism of mystical divinity:—the professor of music, not dealing as he now must, with crotchets and quavers, but in the far higher branches of the sacramentality of sounds, with their correspondent colours, instruments, bearing, &c. &c., and so of others?
ref: 1845, Clergymen of the Church of England, editors, The Christian’s Monthly Magazine and Church of England Review, volume IV, London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., pages 364–365:
glosses: Sacramental nature, character or quality.
sacramentally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sacramentally
form: most sacramentally
Etymology: From sacramental + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] in the supper, or in the bread and wine (which two retaine their propre substaunces) they are Sacramentally or spiritually present, not substancially or bodily.
ref: 1572, John Coxe, transl., Questions of Religion Cast Abroad in Helvetia by the Adversaries of the Same, and Aunswered by M. H. Bullinger of Zurick, London: George Byshop, page 92b:
text: “But I have made up my mind that I am not your wife! I belong to him—I sacramentally joined myself to him for life. Nothing can alter it!”
ref: 1895, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, Part 6, Chapter 3:
text: He saw himself giving a little book to Sir Bussy almost sacramentally. “Here,” he would say, “is a book to set you thinking […].”
ref: 1930, H. G. Wells, The Autocracy of Mr. Parham, London: Heinemann, Book 1, Chapter 4:
text: The Christian rites for the coronation of kings make it very clear that the temporal monarch is in some sense being ordained, for he is sacramentally anointed and has the hands of the bishop laid upon him in the same manner as at the ordination of a priest.
ref: 1954, Alan W. Watts, chapter 6, in Myth and Ritual in Christianity, New York: Grove Press, published 1960, page 191:
glosses: In a sacramental manner.
cosmotron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒz.məˌtɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈkɑz.məˌtɹɑn/
Forms: form: cosmotrons
Etymology: From cosmo- + -tron.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A proton synchrotron
Suffolky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Suffolky
form: most Suffolky
Etymology: From Suffolk + -y.
Senses: glosses: From, or like that which is from, Suffolk.
sacramentalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sacramental + -ness.
Senses: glosses: sacramentality
koftas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kofta
sacramentalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sacramentalist
unwicked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English unwykkyd, equivalent to un- + wicked.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, sinners drink a tea that lets them forget their sins (and hopefully their dismemberment) to ready them for another attempt at an unwicked life.
ref: 2010, Chuck Crisafulli, Kyra Thompson, Go to Hell: A Heated History of the Underworld, page 282:
glosses: Not wicked (evil or mischievous); innocuous.
Derived terms: unwickedness
unwicked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + wicked.
Senses: examples: text: Pour the wax into the unwicked molds and allow to cool for 6 hours or overnight.
ref: 1998, Jane Blake, Emily Paulsen, Keith Scott Morton, Handmade candles: recipes for crafting candles at home, page 86:
glosses: Not wicked (fitted with a wick); wickless.
wickless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From wick + -less.
Senses: glosses: That does not have a wick.
Synonyms: unwicked
sacramentarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsækɹəmənˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌsækɹəmənˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: sacramentarians
Etymology: From sacrament + -arian.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: Someone who holds that the presence of Christ in the sacrament of the Eucharist is purely metaphorical rather than physical or literal.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: One who holds a high or extreme view of the efficacy of the sacraments.
sacramentarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsækɹəmənˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌsækɹəmənˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: more sacramentarian
form: most sacramentarian
Etymology: From sacrament + -arian.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or holding, such views.
twin town
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twin towns
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: twin city, sister city
glosses: A town paired with another through town twinning.
sacramentize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sacramentizes
form: sacramentizing
form: sacramentized
form: sacramentized
Etymology: From sacrament + -ize.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: To administer the sacraments.
unquantifiableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unquantifiable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Unquantifiability.
unquantifiability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unquantifiable + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being unquantifiable.
Synonyms: unquantifiableness
unquantifiables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unquantifiable
quantifiables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quantifiable
quaffability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quaffable + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being quaffable.
Synonyms: drinkability
quahogging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quahog
quahogged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quahog
Quakeresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Quakeress
Quakerisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Quakerism
quaking aspens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quaking aspen
quantifiabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quantifiability
quantifiableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quantifiable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quantifiability.
quaquaversally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more quaquaversally
form: most quaquaversally
Etymology: From quaquaversal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The upthrust tilted the strata quaquaversally from the rising central mass.
ref: 1893, Andrew Cowper Lawson, “Post-Pliocene Diastrophism”, in Collected Papers, volume 2, Berkeley: University of California, page 150:
text: The quaquaversally dipping folation of the gneiss near the contact the contact is probably related to the shearing in the zone along the contact.
ref: 1952, James Wood Clarke, “The Geology and Mineral Resources of the Thomaston Quadrangle, Georgia”, in Garland Payton, editor, Short Contributions to the Geology, Geography and Archaeology of Georgia, number 60, Atlanta, Georgia: Georgia State Division of Conservation Department of Mines, Mining and Geology, page 9:
glosses: In a quaquaversal way.
quoinings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quoining
Khamtanga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Xamtanga.
never you mind
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Do not concern yourself with it; it is none of your business.
Synonyms: mind your own business
Related terms: never mind
parameterise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: parameterises
form: parameterising
form: parameterised
form: parameterised
form: parameterize
form: parametrize
form: parametrise
Etymology: From parameter + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of parametrise.
Derived terms: reparameterise
unparameterised
parameterised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of parameterise
unaliased
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + aliased.
Senses: glosses: Not aliased.
catloaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæt.loʊf/
ipa: /ˈkæt.ləʊf/
Forms: form: catloaves
Etymology: From cat + loaf.
Senses: examples: text: And Gary never got to see him do the full catloaf, where he curled up face-down so that all that stuck out were the tips of his ears. I never got a picture of that, either.
ref: 1999 December 3, Ailsa N Murphy, “Re: RIP, Silver-The-Cat”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), archived from the original on 12 Jul 2024:
text: One must often attend to the tail and ensure it remains tucked and not become flippant, so as to maintain a catloaf of presentable form.
ref: 2004 January 9, Franz Bestuchev, “Re: catloaf”, in alt.support.depression (Usenet), archived from the original on 12 Jul 2024:
text: "Catloaf" position with paws and tail tucked under the body: "Please do not disturb!"
ref: 2009, Brigitte Eilert-Overbeck, Cats, →ISBN, page 47:
text: I love the ‘catloaf’ expression, so one evening I just had to see if I could bake it for real. Thus catloaf [a loaf shaped like a catloaf] was born, simple as that.
ref: 2015 July 15, Lou Lou P., quotee, “Behold the Catloaf, Your Adorable Edible Friend”, in ABC News, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2023:
glosses: The loaflike form of a domestic cat sitting with its paws and tail tucked underneath its body.
Derived terms: catloafed