cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
slack-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slackhanded
Etymology: From slack + handed.
Senses: examples: text: But what saith the wise man of the sluggards and slack-handed, in so favourable an opportunity ?
ref: 1849, William Evans, Thomas Evans, The Friends' Library, page 74:
text: But you see, sir," turning to me, " I'm not one as has been brought up among the slack-handed of these days.
ref: 1857, Anne Marsh-Caldwell, The Rose of Ashurst - Volume 1:
text: And also there were nights when one stair in a creaking flight, where darkies strained on hawsers or slack-handed loped between the sheds
ref: 2000, Lee Ann Sandweiss, Seeking St. Louis: Voices from a River City, 1670-2000, →ISBN, page v:
glosses: A collection of slack-handed people.
slackhanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slackhanded
form: most slackhanded
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of slack-handed.
slack-handedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slackhandedness
Etymology: From slack-handed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being slack-handed.
slackhandedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From slackhanded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of slack-handedness.
slack-water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slack-waters
Senses: glosses: A time, at the turn of the tide, when the water is calm.
glosses: A stretch of seawater in which there are no currents, or of a river impeded by a lock or dam.
blimpy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪmpi
Forms: form: blimpier
form: blimpiest
Etymology: From blimp + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The blimpy costume, roughly humanoid, covered her from the neck to the wrists to the ankles with a plain white muslin fabric (why do we always think of fat people as pale?) stuffed with something airy, perhaps shredded toilet paper.
ref: 1988 May 27, Laura Molzahn, “Bodily Fears”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Resembling a blimp; bloated
coltlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coltlike
form: most coltlike
Etymology: From colt + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Imagine that cow […] suddenly breaking into a coltlike canter.
ref: 1988 May 27, Ted Cox, “The Sports Section”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: In the manner of a colt
twitticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twitticisms
Etymology: Blend of twit + witticism
Senses: examples: text: Jim Zulevic plays Viv's conformist brother ("The bohemian life is dicey" and "Life is thin," among his twitticisms).
ref: 1988 May 27, Lawrence Bommer, “Tom and Viv”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2021:
glosses: A stupid saying, characteristic of a twit
twitticisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twitticism
unconsummatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + consummate + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Their final embrace makes it painfully obvious that because their torsos are forever oriented in opposite directions, their relationship is unconsummatable.
ref: 1988 May 27, Laura Molzahn, “Bodily Fears”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Impossible to consummate
unbohemian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + bohemian.
Senses: examples: text: Eliot found Viv's escapades embarrassing at best; his influential Bloomsbury friends attacked Viv as unbohemian.
ref: 1988 May 27, Lawrence Bommer, “Tom and Viv”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2021:
glosses: Not bohemian, or insufficiently bohemian
restreet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: restreets
form: restreeting
form: restreeted
form: restreeted
Etymology: From re- + street.
Senses: examples: text: […] Irsay, who not only owns the team but property on the mall and favors restreeting.
ref: 1988 May 27, Ben Joravsky, “Will Oak Park destroy its mall in order to save it?”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: To convert a pedestrian mall back for use by automobiles.
restreets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of restreet
restreeting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of restreet
restreeted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of restreet
cocktailer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocktailers
Etymology: From cocktail + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Generational directors Ivan and Jason Reitman were guests of honour at a Board of Trade cocktailer yesterday […].
ref: 2009 September 12, Rob & Rita, “The party report”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: A cocktail party
porkypine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porkypines
Senses: examples: text: He's got more dough than a porkypine has quills.
ref: 1988 December 23, Lawrence Bommer, “Joads' Night Out”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of porcupine.
HCG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HCGs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Hickson compact group.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of HLA complex group (human leukocyte antigen complex group).
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of hCG (“human chorionic gonadotropin”).
coscript
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coscripts
form: coscripting
form: coscripted
form: coscripted
Etymology: From co- + script.
Senses: examples: text: But Reitman, who also coscripted the film (with Sheldon Turner) from a novel by Walter Kirn, isn't interested in merely satirizing the existence of guys like Bingham.
ref: 2009 September 12, Peter Howell, “Clooney at his funny best finds first-class isn't tops”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: To write (a script) together with someone
coscripting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coscript
coscripted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coscript
HCGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HCG
coscripts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coscript
HLA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HLAs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of human leukocyte antigen.
Derived terms: sense: human leukocyte antigen
english: HLA complex group
translation: HLA complex group
word: HCG
geogrid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geogrids
Etymology: From geo- + grid.
Senses: examples: text: It's so effective at holding soil together that I've even seen geogrid used alone to hold 20-foot high sheer faces of bare soil stable[…].
ref: 2009 September 12, Toronto Star:
glosses: A grid of geosynthetic material used to reinforce soil and other materials.
incomed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From income + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: In the intervening months, the world has still not fully come to grips with a crisis that exposed the frail underpinnings of massive financial enterprises, of which Lehman was just one; that unspooled the skein of deal-making that forged the unlikeliest of connections between, say, modestly incomed minibond investors in Hong Kong and a Dutch bank now owned by a Scottish bank now being sued by investors in Singapore; and that tutored homeowners already deeply plunged in the sub-prime mortgage crisis on such esoterica as CDOs, ABSs and CLOs.
ref: 2009 September 12, Jennifer Wells, “Revisiting recession's ground zero 1 year later”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Having an income of the type described
pansification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pansy + -ification.
Senses: examples: text: We know the trouble Mike Milbury got himself into last season for voicing concerns […] about the "pansification" of the NHL.
ref: 2009 September 12, Damien Cox, “Were last year's Leafs as soft as Burke says?”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: The process of becoming weak, timid, or effeminate.
slapstickier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of slapsticky: more slapsticky
slapstickiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of slapsticky: most slapsticky
streetway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: streetways
Etymology: From street + way.
Senses: examples: text: He often thought a lot of money could be made if Tiger Woods and John Daly had a long-drive contest down the streetway.
ref: 2009 September 12, Jennifer Wells, “Revisiting recession's ground zero 1 year later”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: The portion of a street used by traffic
Related terms: pathway
roadway
streetways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of streetway
clonelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clonelike
form: most clonelike
Etymology: From clone + -like.
Senses: examples: text: As in the film Invasion of the Body Snatchers, with its spiritually dead, clonelike "pod people," M.'s reaction to his real or imagined encounter with extraterrestrials comes to symbolize the dehumanization and de-emotionalization of contemporary life--the willful denial of connection to other humans and the avoidance of introspection.
ref: 1988 October 21, Albert Williams, “Follies; 1000 Airplanes on the Roof”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Resembling clones; identical to one another
downcoast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: further downcoast
form: farther downcoast
form: furthest downcoast
form: farthest downcoast
Etymology: From down + coast.
Senses: examples: text: Trapping of littoral drift sediment, preventing it from reaching downcoast beaches.
ref: 1988 October 21, Kathie Newhouse, “Deep Appreciation”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Downstream in the direction of coastal currents
multideity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + deity.
Senses: examples: text: In their sculpture the Yoruba celebrate their multideity universe[…].
ref: 1988 October 21, Achy Obejas, “Calendar”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Having many deities; polytheistic
postadmission
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + admission.
Senses: examples: text: Congress evidently saw the wisdom of this and dealt with the matter in the Hawaii Omnibus Act of 1960, which took care of various postadmission loose ends.
ref: 1988 October 21, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Occurring after admission
tonette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tonettes
Etymology: From the brand name Tonette.
Senses: examples: text: During the credits, we get a three-step history of Parker's musical progress--from a Kansas City tot with a tonette […] to a full-blown jazzman at the height of his powers […
ref: 1988 October 21, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Bird Watching”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A small plastic flute often played by children
veddy
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: In Noises Off we're hurled through the first act--in three different incarnations--from an imaginary very silly, veddy British sex farce, Nothing On, that's deservedly playing the provinces.
ref: 1988 October 21, Lawrence Bommer, “Magnum Farce”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Pret a Manger, the veddy British chain, has gained a foothold in our McWorld of burgers and fries, where you can fun-size this, combo that and, let’s face it, sort of expect sullen service.
ref: 2011 August 6, Stephanie Clifford, “Would You Like a Smile With That?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of very.
egotripping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ego trip + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Now the play's an actors' nightmare as the disgruntled cast, mired in alcohol, jealousies, and rampant egotripping, fiendishly enact an unintentional farce within a farce, a complex mime show superimposed on the play itself.
ref: 1988 October 21, Lawrence Bommer, “Magnum Farce”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: The activity of going on an ego trip
nunlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nunlets
Etymology: From nun + -let.
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of puffbirds in the genus Nonnula.
Hyponyms: brown nunlet
chestnut-headed nunlet
fulvous-chinned nunlet
grey-cheeked nunlet
rufous-capped nunlet
rusty-breasted nunlet
oncornavirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oncornaviruses
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of RNA viruses, of the subfamily Oncornvirinae in the family Retroviridae, that cause tumors in various animals and in humans.
Derived terms: oncornaviral
oomycote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oomycotes
Etymology: From oo- + -mycote.
Senses: examples: text: Marine oomycotes are eukaryotic mycelial decomposers that have swimming, biflagellate propagules and lie in the Kingdom Chromista (or Protoctista), phylum Oomycota.
ref: 2007, M.P. Weinstein, Concepts and Controversies in Tidal Marsh Ecology, page 163:
synonyms: water mould
water mold
glosses: Any of a group of filamentous protists variously classified as the phylum Oomycota or the class Oomycetes in a more broadly circumscribed phylum.
ootaxon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ootaxa
Etymology: From oo- + taxon.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: Any taxonomic classification of egg fossils
Related terms: oofamily
oogenus
oospecies
oospecies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oospecies
Etymology: From oo- + species.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: An ootaxon, equivalent to a species, used to classify fossilised dinosaur eggs
Related terms: oofamily
oogenus
ovoglycoprotein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ovoglycoproteins
Etymology: From ovo- + glycoprotein.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A glycoprotein found in hen's egg white
ovoinhibitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ovoinhibitors
Etymology: From ovo- + inhibitor.
Senses: glosses: Any of a class trypsin inhibitors found in hen's eggs
Related terms: ovomucin
ovomucoid
ovomacroglobulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ovomacroglobulins
Etymology: From ovo- + macroglobulin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of macroglobulins found in hen's eggs
Related terms: ovostatin
ovostatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ovostatins
Etymology: From ovo- + statin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of proteinase inhibitors found in hens' eggs.
tweenaged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of the age of a tweenager.
tweenhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tween + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: 2002, Megayjay738, Zap2It - The Rugrats Are All Grown Up. Group: alt.tv.nickelodeon
Flashbacks in some episodes will reveal events from the years between toddler- and tweenhood.
text: And just as you taught her the inappropriateness of pitching a fit when she was a preschooler (how many times did you lock yourself in the bathroom during that process?), you can help her work through the stuff of tweenhood too.
ref: 2010, Nancy Rue, Moms' Ultimate Guide to the Tween Girl World:
text: Lee took the moment to assert his sense of knowing, of his emerging tweenhood, of his 'pretend' authority, and continued to make himself look even more ridiculously mature.
ref: 2013, Genie Craff, Hold My Hand: Remedy For My Destiny - Page 5
glosses: tweendom
gloryhole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gloryholes
form: gloryholing
form: gloryholed
form: gloryholed
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, gloryholing was extremely hazardous because of having to work on loose slopes and upon some ground which was on fire or through which gas and smoke were issuing. For these reasons gloryholing was abandoned.
ref: 1930, The Mining Congress Journal, volume 16, page 339:
topics: business
mining
glosses: To mine using a glory hole.
glosses: To have sex through a glory hole.
gloryhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gloryholes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of glory hole.
gloryholes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gloryhole
gloryholing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gloryhole
gloryholed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gloryhole
nidates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nidate
nidating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nidate
nidated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nidate
survival bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: survival bags
Senses: glosses: a bag in which a survival kit is carried
survival kit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: survival kits
Senses: coordinate_terms: bug-out bag
go bag
;
first aid kit
glosses: A collection of items that can be used in order to survive in an emergency.
table dancing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A type of erotic dancing performed on a table
Related terms: table dance
table dancer
table knife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: table knives
Senses: glosses: A type of knife used to cut cooked and prepared food, with a single moderately sharp edge.
tail slide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tail slides
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tailslide.
talk out of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: talks out of
form: talking out of
form: talked out of
form: talked out of
Senses: examples: text: My brother wanted a pet squirrel, but I talked him out of it.
text: She talked the officer out of giving her a ticket.
text: The con artist talked his victims out of their life savings.
antonyms: talk into
glosses: To talk to someone in order to dissuade them from doing something.
Related terms: talk one's way out of
talk out
Tatra Mountains
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Tatra
Tatras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Tatra (mountain range)
Taunus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Taunus
Senses: glosses: A mountain range in Hesse, Germany.
Derived terms: Königstein im Taunus
language assistant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: language assistants
Senses: glosses: An assistant teacher of a foreign language, usually a native speaker in a foreign country
death tolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of death toll
Apatovian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Apatow + -ian, with 'w' hardened to 'v'; compare Shavian.
Senses: examples: text: Segel, who may not have a third or fourth gear, plays Peter Bretter, a recognizable Apatovian hero: he thinks obsessively about sex, and at the same time he's an instinctively moral man.
ref: 2008, David Denby, “Overripe, Undernourished”, in The New Yorker:
text: Go for a comedy, and you end up with Apatovian beta males whose emotions are largely tied up in the diminishing value of their comic-book collections.
ref: 2011, David Fear, “You've Got Male”, in Spin:
text: Yet without the Apatovian arc of its predecessor, it also feels a bit like a regression—especially given its typical sequel strategy of undoing the hard work of the previous film.
ref: 2015, A.A. Dowd, The AV Club, Ted 2 gets filthier but less charming:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: In the style of filmmaker Judd Apatow.
reslanted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reslant
reslants
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reslant
reslanting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reslant
resalted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resalt
resalts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resalt
resalting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resalt
tonettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tonette
geogrids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geogrid
geosynthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geosynthetics
Etymology: From geo- + synthetic.
Senses: examples: text: The research is the work of the University of Cambridge's Centre for Smart Infrastructure & Construction (CSIC) and geosynthetics manufacturer Huesker.
ref: 2021 September 22, “Network News: HS2 trials pioneering anti-landslip monitoring technology”, in RAIL, number 940, page 18:
glosses: Any synthetic, typically polymeric product used to stabilize terrain.
Hyponyms: geocell
geocomposite
geofoam
geogrid
geomembrane
geonet
geospacer
geotextile
geosynthetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geosynthetic
geospacers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geospacer
geonets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geonet
geocells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geocell
bollock dagger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bollock daggers
Senses: glosses: A dagger with a distinctively shaped shaft having two oval swellings at the guard resembling the male testes.
Synonyms: kidney dagger
bollock daggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bollock dagger
baselards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baselard
basilard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basilards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of baselard.
basilards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basilard
thaumaturgistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thaumaturgistic
form: most thaumaturgistic
Senses: glosses: thaumaturgic
royal disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the royal disease
Etymology: Historically associated with European royalty.
Senses: glosses: haemophilia
crabhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crabholes
Etymology: From crab + hole.
Senses: glosses: a small burrow dug by a crab
crabholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crabhole
kidney dagger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kidney daggers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bollock dagger.
synonyms: word: bollock dagger
kidney daggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kidney dagger
Scargillian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Scargillian
form: most Scargillian
Etymology: From Scargill + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Arthur Scargill (born 1938), British politician and trade unionist.
supercrip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercrips
Etymology: From super- + crip.
Senses: examples: text: Roosevelt was the quintessential American "supercrip," to use a term coined by disability activists.
ref: 2001, Ellen L. Barton, “Textual Practices of Erasure: Representations of Disability and the Founding of the United Way”, in Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson, James C. Wilson, editors, Embodied Rhetorics: Disability in Language and Culture, page 185:
text: The athletes also believe that the supercrip model is good for the able-bodied public because it shows disabled individuals in a "positive" light.
ref: 2008, Marie Hardin, Brent Hardin, “Elite Wheelchair Athletes Relate To Sport Media”, in Keith Gilbert, Otto J. Schantz, editors, The Paralympic Games: Empowerment Or Side Show?, page 29:
text: In other words, there is the remarkably healthy inspirational and independent supercrip that I became at the height of my Paralympic career, and then there is the sickly, dependent, revolting gimp that I became as I transitioned to using tools like oxygen, a backrest, and attendant care.
ref: 2015, Danielle Peers, “From Inhalation to Inspiration: A Genealogical Auto-ethnography of a Supercrip”, in Shelley Tremain, editor, Foucault and the Government of Disability, page 341:
glosses: A disabled person, particularly an athlete, who achieves exceptional success or accomplishments in spite of the challenges they face, serving as an inspiration to others.
examples: text: Yet because of the history and proliferation of the supercrip in films in television shows – not only with autism but supercrips with other disabilities as well – viewers are primed for the supercrip autistic and are therefore not expecting (in some ways) a view of autism that comes across to many in the autism community as more realistic or honest.
ref: 2016, Katherine Lashley, “Displaying Autism: The Thinking Images of Temple Grandin (2010)”, in Benjamin Fraser, editor, Cultures of Representation: Disability in World Cinema Contexts, page 130:
text: Another potential siting of disability masquerade connecting the superhero and 'supercrip' is M. Night Shyamalan's Unbreakable (2000), which establishes a kind of disability continuum between the villain Elijah Price/Mr Glass, who lives with osteogenesis imperfecta, and the hero David Dunn, who is seemingly impervious to physical harm.
ref: 2016, Todd R. Ramlow, “Queering, Cripping”, in Michael O'Rourke, Noreen Giffney, editors, The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory, unnumbered page:
text: As I have argued throughout this book, the supercrip model represented by a sword-fighting blind masseur or a shoot-from-the-hip, deaf gangster is very entertaining but does little to advocate the critical needs of this particular minority group.
ref: 2020, Yoshiko Okuyama, Reframing Disability in Manga, page 152:
glosses: A disabled fictional character with extraordinary abilities or superpowers.
Related terms: inspiration porn
supercrips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supercrip
bougienage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bougienages
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The use of a bougie.
bougienages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bougienage
Priestleyan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Priestleyan
form: most Priestleyan
Etymology: From Priestley + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Joseph Priestley (1733–1804), English theologian and scientist.
nomenclaturist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nomenclaturists
Etymology: From nomenclature + -ist.
Senses: coordinate_terms: onomastician
onomasiologist
onomast
onomatologist
;
namer
glosses: One who studies or contributes to a system of nomenclature.
Related terms: nomenclaturism
nomenclaturalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nomenclaturalists
Etymology: From nomenclatural + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nomenclaturist.
synonyms: word: nomenclaturist
nomenclaturalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nomenclaturalist
nomenclaturists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nomenclaturist
nosewise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nose + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: What are these diseases which are spread nosewise and throat-wise? Here they are, chiefly: tuberculosis, diphtheria, measles, scarlet fever, whooping cough, pneumonia, cerebral fever, influenza and infectious colds […]
ref: 1916, Chicago's Health, page 216:
text: If you turn to face west again, you should be able to spot a much bigger, dimmer version of the Plough plunging nosewise towards the horizon. Just to confuse the modern stargazer utterly, this is not one constellation, but two.
ref: 1981, New Scientist (volume 92, numbers 1285-1286, page 894)
glosses: By means of the nose.
nucleogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nucleo- + genetic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to nucleogenesis.
nonreduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + reduction.
Senses: glosses: Absence of reduction; failure to reduce something.
nonracialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + racialism.
Senses: glosses: Absence of racialism.
macroaggregates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macroaggregate
macrocodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrocode
macrocodes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of macrocode
maculations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maculation
oxathiin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxathiins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A six-membered, unsaturated heterocycle containing four carbon atoms, one sulfur and one oxygen atom and two double bonds, but especially 1,4-oxathiin
oxazocine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxazocines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An eight-membered, unsaturated heterocycle containing six carbon atoms, one oxygen and one nitrogen atom, and three double bonds, but especially 1,3-oxazocine and 1,4-oxazocine
oxosteroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxosteroids
Etymology: From oxo- + steroid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of ketosteroid.
synonyms: word: ketosteroid
oxybarbiturate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒksɪbɑːˈbɪtjʊəɹət/
ipa: /ɒksɪbɑːˈbɪtjʊəɹeɪt/
ipa: /ɒksɪbɑːbɪˈtjʊəɹət/
ipa: /ˌɑksibɑɹˈbɪt͡ʃəɹət/
Forms: form: oxybarbiturates
Etymology: From oxy- + barbiturate.
Senses: glosses: A normal barbiturate (that has an oxygen atom at position-2).
Related terms: oxybarbituric
oxycorticoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxycorticoids
Etymology: From oxy- + corticoid.
Senses: glosses: Any corticoid that has a carbonyl or hydroxy group
oxymercuration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxymercurations
Etymology: From oxy- + mercury + -ation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An addition reaction in which the elements of water are added across an alkene's double bond to form an alcohol; the reaction proceeds via the addition of mercuric acetate, the mercuric group being removed by reduction
Sinte Romani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The German-influenced Romani language spoken by about 300,000 Sinti and Roma in Germany, Austria, France and neighboring areas.
Synonyms: word: Sinti Romani
word: Sinti-Manouche
word: Sinti
word: Sintitikes
callouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of callous
gabbarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gabbart
gabbard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gabbards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gabbart.
gabbards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gabbard
gadolinites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gadolinite
gadzookeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gadzookery
gagmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gagman
gaillardias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gaillardia
gaingivings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gaingiving
gainsayings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gainsaying
galactorrheas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galactorrhea
galavanted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of galavant
galavants
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of galavant
galavanting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of galavant
galbanums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galbanum
galenicals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galenical
XXY
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From two X chromosomes + Y chromosome.
Senses: glosses: Having an aneuploidy in the configuration of chromosomes by having an extra Y chromosome.
galenites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galenite
galipots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galipot
galivant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: galivants
form: galivanting
form: galivanted
form: galivanted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gallivant.
galivanted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of galivant
galivants
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of galivant
galivanting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of galivant
gallantest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of gallant: most gallant
galleins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gallein
galliasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galliass
galliwasps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galliwasp
gallonages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gallonage
gambados
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gambado
gambadoed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gambado
gambadoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gambado
gambusias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gambusia
gamesmanships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gamesmanship
gametically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From gametic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of gametes.
ganevs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ganev
ganglands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gangland
gangrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gangrel
ganjah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ganja.
gannetries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gannetry
ganoin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ganoine.
garagings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garaging
garcinias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garcinia
garbless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From garb + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without clothing.
Derived terms: garblessness
abodeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From abode + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without an abode.
Derived terms: abodelessness
gargarising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gargarise
gargarised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gargarise
garigues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garigue
garrigues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garrigue
garishnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garishness
garlickier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of garlicky: more garlicky
garlickiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of garlicky: most garlicky
garrottings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garrotting
garrulities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garrulity
foremakes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of foremake
gaseities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gaseity
gashouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gashouse
gaspereaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gaspereau
gastroscopist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastroscopists
Etymology: From gastroscopy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who carries out gastroscopy.
gastroscopists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gastroscopist
gastroenterites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gastroenteritis
gaudinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gaudiness
gauntrees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gauntree
gauntnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gauntness
gauping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gaup
gauped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gaup
gavelkinds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gavelkind
gavotting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gavotte
gavotted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gavotte
gawkishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gawkish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being gawkish.
gawkinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gawkiness
gawkishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gawkishly
form: most gawkishly
Etymology: From gawkish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a gawkish manner.
gazaboes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gazabo
gazars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gazar
geals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of geal
gealed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of geal
gealing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of geal
gealous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gealous
form: most gealous
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of jealous.
gealousy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gealousies
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of jealousy.
gealousies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gealousy
gegenscheins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gegenschein
gelandesprungs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gelandesprung
gelatinously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gelatinously
form: most gelatinously
Etymology: From gelatinous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a gelatinous manner.
gelatinousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gelatinous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being gelatinous.
gelignites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gelignite
gemeinschafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gemeinschaft
gemmating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gemmate
gemmates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gemmate
gemmologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gemmologists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gemologist.
gemmologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gemmologist
gemotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gemote
Viacom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvaɪəkɒm/
Etymology: Short for Video and Audio Communications.
Senses: glosses: A mass media company.
genizahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genizas
Senses: glosses: plural of genizah.
genteelnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of genteelness
gentilise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gentilises
form: gentilising
form: gentilised
form: gentilised
Etymology: From gentile + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gentilize.
gentilised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gentilise
gentilises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gentilise
gentilising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gentilise
gentilisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gentilism
genuinenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of genuineness
geobotanist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geobotanists
Etymology: From geo- + botanist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies geobotany.
geobotanical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geo- + botanical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to geobotany.
Derived terms: geobotanically
geobotanists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geobotanist
geochemistries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geochemistry
geologise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: geologises
form: geologising
form: geologised
form: geologised
Senses: examples: text: I shall herbarise, geologise, or zoologise at their head if the opportunity occurs, and, with my bags filled, I will return upon the same horse as if the devil was at my heels; for it will then be twelve o'clock, and I shall have eaten nothing, after having been nearly fifteen hours on horseback, on foot, and in the mud and rain.
ref: 1834, Victor Jacquemont, Letters from India:
text: We were incompetent to map the country we passed through, to chart the waters, to geologise, botanise, zoologise, astronomise, or to any other ise.
ref: 1906, James Barr, Laughing through a wilderness, page 261:
glosses: Alternative form of geologize.
geologised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of geologise
geologises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of geologise
geologising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of geologise
geometrise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: geometrises
form: geometrising
form: geometrised
form: geometrised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of geometrize.
geometrised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of geometrise
geometrises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of geometrise
geometrising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of geometrise
geotectonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From geotectonic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of geotectonics.
geotropisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geotropism
palaeotectonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From palaeo- + tectonic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleotectonic.
getable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more getable
form: most getable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gettable.
getterings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gettering
ghastfull
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ghastfull
form: most ghastfull
Etymology: From ghast + -full.
Senses: examples: text: ghastfull noise
ref: a. 1587, 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
glosses: Obsolete form of ghastful.
ghazies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghazi
ghettoizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghettoization
giantisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giantism
gibbosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gibbosity
gibbsites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gibbsite
gibuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gibus
giddinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giddiness
giddup
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of giddyup.
giftshop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giftshops
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gift shop.
giftednesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giftedness
giftshops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giftshop
gift shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gift shop
gigahertzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gigahertz
megahertzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megahertz
gigmanities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gigmanity
gillaroo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gillaroos
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish giolla rua (literally “red fellow”), because of its distinctive colouring. See also McElroy.
Senses: glosses: Salmo stomachicus, a trout found in Ireland.
gillaroos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gillaroo
gillflirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gillflirts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jillflirt.
gillflirts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gillflirt
gilravaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gilravage
gilravaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gilravage
gilravages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gilravage
gimcrackeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gimcrackery
gingerade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gingerades
Etymology: From ginger + -ade.
Senses: glosses: A refreshing carbonated drink made with ginger.
gingerades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gingerade
nonstimulative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + stimulative.
Senses: glosses: Not stimulative.
gingerbreads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gingerbread
gingerbreads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gingerbread
ginneries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ginnery
gipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gip
gipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gip
girdlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of girdler
girlishnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of girlishness
givennesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of givenness
gladioluses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gladiolus
gladnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gladness
gladsomenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gladsomeness
glamorizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glamorization
glamorousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glamorous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being glamorous.