cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
foxies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foxie
foretopmasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foretopmast
foretopsails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foretopsail
foresheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foresheet
foreshanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foreshank
fraidy-cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fraidy-cat
miros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miro
free love
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The deceased, Philip Boyes, was, as you have heard, a writer. He was thirty-six years old, and he had published five novels and a large number of essays and articles. All these literary works were of what is sometimes called an ‘advanced’ type. They preached doctrines which may seem to some of us immoral or seditious, such as atheism, and anarchy, and what is known as free love. His private life appears to have been conducted, for some time at least, in accordance with these doctrines.
ref: 1930, Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison:
text: Joseph’s looks and handsome figure had attracted her attention. Every morning she would beckon: “Come and lie with me, love.” Joseph wanted to resist her til one day she proved too eager. Joseph cried in vain: “Please stop! I don’t believe in free love!”
ref: 1974, “Potiphar”, in Tim Rice (lyrics), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat:
text: Sometimes prudish and sometimes outrageous, Marilyn rationalized her behavior through free love ideas.
ref: 2012, Lois Banner, Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox, page 262:
glosses: The practice of sexual intercourse without the restraints of marriage or commitment.
Related terms: free lover
free sex
flower power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by American poet and writer Allen Ginsberg.
Senses: examples: text: The hippies, meanwhile, seem to be flagging. Just for a moment, during the Flower Power summer of 1967, it looked as though they might matter but ever since they've been gradually losing momentum and last summer's Isle of Wight/Bob Dylan Festival, which should have signaled a revival, fell distinctly flat.
ref: 1970 March 29, Nik Cohn, “England's New Teen Style Is Violence”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Those crazy years, that was the time / Of the flower power
ref: 1980, Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, “Our Last Summer”, in Super Trouper, performed by ABBA:
text: The Beetle's cheap, frugal and functional nature attracted legions of flower-power fans and the little Vee Dubs became symbols, moving protests and even works of art.
ref: 2012, Ivan Berg, Nik Berg, Top Gear: Motor Mania:
text: “Flower Power” by Bernie Boston—one of two iconic images of the 1960s flower power movement taken on the same day during an anti-war protest at the Pentagon in 1967. Here George Harris places carnations into gun barrels.
ref: 2023, Stephen Forbes, A Cultural History of Plants in the Modern Era, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 139:
glosses: A counterculture movement that started in the United States in the 1960s, advocating peace and love over militarism and materialism.
Related terms: flower child
make love, not war
begave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of begive
betreed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + tree + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Covered with trees.
hippie trail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hippie trails
Senses: examples: text: Traveling in a fried-out Kombi / On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
ref: 1980, Colin Hay, Ron Strykert, “Down Under”, performed by Men at Work:
text: The original Hippie Trail grew out of the 1960s the same way just about everything else did at the time: with a search for spiritual enlightenment, or at any rate, drug-induced enlightenment, or at any rate, drugs.
ref: 2003, Doug Lansky, First-time Around the World, Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 84:
text: Following the example of Talitha—“the daring one”—Paul junior [Getty] had started experimenting with increasingly perilous drugs, and together they floated off on the hippie trail around the East.
ref: 2011, Julie Kavanagh, Nureyev, Vintage, →ISBN:
glosses: The journeys taken by hippies and others in the 1960s and 1970s, typically involving cheap travel.
Related terms: overland
make love, not war
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Originally coined by those who opposed the United States's involvement in the Vietnam War.
Senses: examples: text: I want you to make love, not war / I know you've heard it before
ref: 1973, John Lennon, “Mind Games”, in Mind Games:
glosses: A hippie anti-war slogan encouraging love and peace.
Related terms: drop acid, not bombs
if you want peace, prepare for war
space rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Apart from individual songs, there were certain bands that became associated with these sorts of extended sonic journeys, showing many traits of space rock without much or any overt interest in space topicality as such.
ref: 2017, William Echard, Psychedelic Popular Music: A History through Musical Topic Theory, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 201:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
hypernyms: rock
glosses: A subgenre of rock music, characterised by long psychedelic instrumental passages and lyrics dealing with science fiction or outer space.
folk rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A subgenre of rock music combining elements of folk music.
Hypernyms: rock
heers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heer
corrigibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corrigibilities
Etymology: From corrigible + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being corrigible.
Related terms: correctability
chace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chaces
form: chacing
form: chaced
form: chaced
Senses: examples: text: The suddenness with which the solemn quiet had been broken in upon, had chaced from his remembrance the horrid phantom;—it now recurred to it, with two-fold force, and a shudder crept all over him.
ref: 1807, [Miss Guion], chapter VI, in The Three Germans. Mysteries Exemplified in the Life of Holstein of Lutztein. A German Romance. […], volume I, London: […] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, […], →OCLC, page 124:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of chase.
chace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chaces
Senses: examples: text: We hiss'd along the polish'd ice, in games / Confederate, imitative of the chace
ref: 1850, The Prelude, Book I, William Wordsworth, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Obsolete spelling of chase.
foreladies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forelady
foamers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foamer
goatling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goatlings
Etymology: From goat + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: The February kid he should retain, also the full-grown goat; the goatling he should sell, also its kid, unless he prefers using it for the table. Thus he has not only a good supply of milk, but he has an early kid ready for next year, […]
ref: 1907, The Quarterly Review, volume 207, page 119:
glosses: A young goat; a kid.
goatlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goatling
nonbony
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + bony.
Senses: glosses: Not bony.
noncoralline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + coralline.
Senses: glosses: Not coralline.
knackeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knackery
trufflelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trufflelike
form: most trufflelike
Etymology: From truffle + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a truffle.
wideish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wideish
form: most wideish
Etymology: From wide + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of widish.
uncaramelized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + caramelized.
Senses: glosses: Not caramelized.
flower child
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flower children
Senses: examples: text: While the men in the family have made their mark in the world, Mrs. McBride has simply lurked around the house becoming an aging flowerchild and spaced-out heroin addict.
ref: 1977 April 9, Don Shewey, “Guare's Rich and Famous”, in Gay Community News, page 11:
glosses: A hippie involved with the flower power movement.
Related terms: flower girl
free up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: frees up
form: freeing up
form: freed up
form: freed up
Senses: examples: text: Selling those old books freed up most of the spare room.
text: You can free up space on your hard disk by deleting temporary files.
text: If you're coming to visit for the weekend, I'll free up Saturday for you.
text: It is understood that the reason for SWR accepting the 42 trains without them being ready for service was to free up space at the Derby depot and to protect cash flow.
ref: 2023 July 12, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Training starts on heavily delayed SWR Arterios”, in RAIL, number 987, page 22:
glosses: To make (space or time) available.
examples: text: Retiring from work freed me up to write a novel.
glosses: To make (a person or resource) available.
free world
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Free World
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: world, World
text: Meronym: Western Bloc
text: Near-synonym: First World
text: My friends, we are confronted with a serious situation. But it is typical of the security problems of the world today. Powerful and aggressive forces are constantly probing, now here, now there, to see whether the free world is weakened. In the face of this, there are no easy choices available. It is misleading for anyone to imply that there are. However, the present situation, though serious, is by no means desperate or hopeless.
ref: 1958, President Dwight Eisenhower, 3:06 from the start, in President Eisenhower Speaks On The Formosa Situation (1958), British Pathé:
text: [John F. Kennedy] noted the difficult politics of sustaining foreign assistance but called it essential to America’s role as leader of the free world.
ref: 2025 February 9, Ben Rhodes, “This Isn’t the Donald Trump America Elected”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: government
politics
related: word: Eastern Bloc
word: <
word: Soviet Bloc#Proper noun
word: <
word: Second World#Proper noun
glosses: Collectively, all of the countries that have democratic or capitalistic governments, as opposed to dictatorships or Communist states.
examples: text: Young country boy, doing time here in Texas State Prison. Looking for a good friend to write to in the free world.
ref: 1992 May 8, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 14:
glosses: Those who are free (not incarcerated, institutionalized, etc.) collectively.
Derived terms: Right Arm of the Free World
French Guinea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former colony of France, which gained its independence in 1958 as Guinea.
Related terms: sense: not to be confused with
word: French Guiana
French Canada
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: French-speaking parts of Canada.
glosses: French Canadians collectively.
Related terms: English Canada
fleshliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fleshly + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: when strong passion, or weake fleshlinesse / Would from the right way seeke to draw him wide, / He would through temperance and stedfastnesse, / Teach him the weake to strengthen [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: The more recent pictures of the painter Gérôme unite all these attributes in a singular degree; above all, the fleshliness and materialism which make his studies of the nude, in my judgment, altogether inadmissible into the rank of the fine arts.
ref: 1871, John Ruskin, Lectures on Landscape, Lecture 2:
text: […] the remarkable and profoundly significant thing was that though the human being, both male and female, was endowed with sex, and although the localization of the dæmonic in the loins fitted the man better than the woman, yet the whole curse of fleshliness, of slavery to sex, was laid upon the woman.
ref: 1948, Thomas Mann, chapter 13, in Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter, transl., Doctor Faustus, New York: Knopf:
synonyms: carnality
glosses: Indulgence in concerns of the flesh; bodily appetites.
fresh air
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Farmers are generally very healthy people, because they have a healthy diet and get lots of fresh air.
text: After spending all week locked up in his room working on his project, James was pleased to get some fresh air in the park.
glosses: The natural, clean air from outside, as opposed to the relatively stuffy air inside.
Related terms: breath of fresh air
freshen up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: freshens up
form: freshening up
form: freshened up
form: freshened up
Etymology: From freshen + up. Compare Saterland Frisian apfriskje (“to refresh, freshen up”), West Frisian opfrisje (“to refresh, freshen up”), Dutch opfrissen (“to refresh, freshen up”), German auffrischen (“to refresh, freshen up”).
Senses: examples: text: Women spend longer than men at freshening up before going out.
glosses: To wash or groom oneself in order to be more attractive.
examples: text: After beating champions Chelsea 3-1 on Boxing Day, Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger made eight changes to his starting XI in an effort to freshen things up, with games against Birmingham and Manchester City to come in the next seven days.
ref: 2010 December 29, Mark Vesty, “Wigan 2 - 2 Arsenal”, in BBC:
glosses: To freshen, make fresh, revivify, make new.
fresh-faced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fresh-faced
form: most fresh-faced
Senses: glosses: Looking young and healthy.
raw_tags: of people
freshie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freshies
form: freshy
Etymology: From fresh + -ie. In the sense of an immigrant, shortened from fresh off the boat.
Senses: examples: text: You've got a swell chance to make this [baseball] team, you have, not! Third base is my job, Freshie. Why, you tow-head, you couldn't play marbles.
ref: 1911 March, Zane Grey, “Out on the Field”, in The Young Pitcher, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 64:
glosses: A freshman.
glosses: A new immigrant (usually to the UK).
glosses: A freshwater crocodile (Crocodylus johnstoni)
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: Freshly fallen snow.
Synonyms: sense: freshman
word: fresher
sense: freshman
word: frosh
sense: new immigrant
word: comeling
word: FOB
word: greener
word: newling
word: newcomer
Related terms: freshies
freshies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freshie
freshies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “Freshies are being served tonight!”
“Freshies?” Christina asked. By the sound of his voice, freshies must be something fabulous, she thought.
“Fresh vegetables! Carrots, peas and broccoli!” Dr. Orlav answered with gusto.
ref: 2010, Carole Marsh, The Mystery in Icy Antarctica:
qualifier: Antarctica
glosses: Fresh food, such as vegetables and eggs, that cannot be produced in Antarctica and must be imported.
fretman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fretmen
Etymology: From fret + -man.
Senses: glosses: A guitar player, especially one who plays acoustic guitar.
prester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presters
Etymology: From Middle English prestre, from Old French prestre. Doublet of presbyter and priest.
Senses: glosses: A priest or presbyter.
Derived terms: Prester John
prester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presters
form: presteres
Etymology: From New Latin prēstēr, from Ancient Greek πρηστήρ (prēstḗr, “hurricane or waterspout attended with lightning; (in plural) veins of the neck when swollen by anger”).
Senses: glosses: A waterspout.
unbrace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈbɹeɪs/
Forms: form: unbraces
form: unbracing
form: unbraced
form: unbraced
Etymology: From un- + brace.
Senses: examples: text: The knight emboyling in his haughtie hart, / Knit all his forces, and gan soone vnbrace / His grasping hold [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To undo, unfasten; to relax, loosen.
fricandeau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɪkændəʊ/
ipa: /fɹɪkænˈdəʊ/
ipa: /ˈfɹɪkənˌdoʊ/
ipa: /ˈfɹɪkn̩ˌdoʊ/
Forms: form: fricandeaus
form: fricandeaux
Etymology: From French fricandeau.
Senses: examples: text: There was a course of two soups, two dishes of fish, stewed beef, boiled lamb and spinach, roast mutton, fricandeau of veal, petit pâté—in short, substantial and choice.
ref: 1794, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 283
glosses: Thinly sliced meat, especially veal, fried or stewed with a sauce; a fricassee.
friendship bracelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: friendship bracelets
Senses: examples: text: But while VSCO girls summon imagery of nature and friendship bracelets, e-girls more closely resemble the “scene” trend of the 2000s.
ref: 2019 November 25, Chelsea Ritchel, “E-Girl: What Is The Trend And How Do They Dress?”, in Independent:
glosses: A type of handmade macramé bracelet given to friends.
sterve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sterves
form: sterving
form: sterved
form: sterved
Senses: examples: text: Ah (ſaid the Ape as ſighing vvondrous ſad) / Its an hard caſe, vvhen men of good deſeruing / Muſt either driuen be perforce to ſteruing, / Or asked for their pas by euerie ſquib: […]
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale.”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
text: Mildly it [the wind] kiſt our ſailes, and, freſh, and ſvveet, / As, to a ſtomack ſterv'd, vvhoſe inſides meete, / Meate comes, it came; and ſvvole our ſailes, vvhen vvee / So joyd, as Sara' her ſvvelling joy'd to ſee.
ref: a. 1631 (date written), J[ohn] Donne, “The Storme. To Mr. Christopher Brooke.”, in Poems, […] with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, […], published 1633, →OCLC, page 57:
text: Let them not ſtill be obſtinately blind, / Still to divert the Good thou haſt deſign'd, / Or vvith Malignant penury, / To ſterve the Royal Vertues of his Mind.
ref: 1685, John Dryden, Threnodia Augustalis: A Funeral-Pindarique Poem Sacred to the Happy Memory of King Charles II, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC, stanza XVIII, page 24:
glosses: Obsolete form of starve.
outwrest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outwrests
form: outwresting
form: outwrested
form: outwrested
Etymology: From out- + wrest.
Senses: examples: text: my engreeued mind could find no rest, / Till that the truth thereof I did outwrest […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To pull out forcibly; to yank out.
foamless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From foam + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without foam.
Derived terms: foamlessly
nonfoaming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + foaming.
Senses: glosses: Not producing foam.
nonfoamy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + foamy.
Senses: glosses: Not foamy.
behang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: behangs
form: behanging
form: behung
form: behung
Etymology: From Middle English *behangen, behongen, bihangien, bihengen, from Old English behōn (“to hang round”), equivalent to be- + hang. Cognate with Dutch behangen (“to decorate”), German behängen (“to hang, drape, decorate”).
Senses: examples: text: Now seven times had frosty-bearded Winter covered both herbs and flowers with snow, and behung the trees with crystal icicles, since the unfortunate St. George beheld the cheerful light of heaven, but lived obscure in a dismal dungeon, […]
ref: 1824, Richard Johnson, The renowned history of the seven champions of Christendom:
text: And with rich clusters (hid among / The leaves) her temples I behung: […]
ref: 1890, Robert Herrick, William Carew Hazlitt, Hesperides:
text: Moreover, when they have introduced the bride, they spread a fleece under her; and she, having brought in with her a distaff and a spindle, all behangs her husband's door with woollen yarn?
ref: 1874, Plutarch, John Dryden, Arthur Hugh Clough, Plutarch's lives:
glosses: To hang round or about, as ornament or embellishment; suspend; drape.
Derived terms: behung
cobralike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cobralike
form: most cobralike
Etymology: From cobra + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a cobra.
vengeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vengeable
form: most vengeable
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman vengeable.
Senses: synonyms: word: vengesome
word: vindictive
word: avengeful
word: pluckcrow
word: revengeful
word: vengeable
word: vengeful
word: vengesome
word: vindical
word: vindictive
word: wreakful
glosses: Vengeful.
examples: text: I sought / Vpon my selfe that vengeable despight / To punish
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
synonyms: brutal
heartless
glosses: Prompted by or characterised by revenge; severe, cruel.
fructiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more fructiferous
form: most fructiferous
Etymology: From Latin frūctus + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: antonyms: infructiferous
glosses: Synonym of fruit-bearing.
synonyms: word: fruit-bearing
frugiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more frugiferous
form: most frugiferous
Etymology: From Latin frūgifer?
Senses: glosses: bearing fruit
fucus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfjuː.kəs/
Forms: form: fuci
form: fucuses
Etymology: From New Latin Fūcus, from Ancient Greek φῦκος (phûkos).
Senses: examples: text: Sea-weeds, consisting of different species of fuci, algæ, and confervæ, are much used as a manure on the sea-coasts of Britain and Ireland.
ref: a. 1813, Sir Humphry Davy, "Lecture VI" in Elements of Agricultural Chemistry (1840 reprint)
text: One of the feeblest of these inlets, after winding for some time among buried fragments of masonry, and knots of sunburnt weeds whitened with webs of fucus, stays itself in an utterly stagnant pool beside a plot of greener grass covered with ground ivy and violets.
ref: 1853, John Ruskin, “Torcello”, in The Stones of Venice, volume II (The Sea-Stories), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, § I, page 11:
glosses: Any alga of the genus Fucus.
Derived terms: fucusol
full-page
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Taking a full-page advertisement in the New York Times, the New Haven counter-attacked with vigour.
ref: 1959 September, “Talking of Trains: Attack and counter-attack”, in Trains Illustrated, page 405:
text: This past weekend, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach set off a firestorm with his full-page ad in the New York Times accusing National Security Adviser Susan E. Rice of turning a blind eye to the Rwandan genocide when she was on President Bill Clinton’s national security team in the 1990s.
ref: 2015 March 4, Jill Jacobs, “Shmuley Boteach isn’t ‘America’s rabbi’”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 29 Apr 2023:
topics: journalism
media
glosses: covering an entire page.
raw_tags: of a newspaper or magazine article
Fu Manchu mustache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fu Manchu mustaches
form: Fu Manchu moustache
Etymology: Famously worn by Dr. Fu Manchu, a fictional villain in the novels of Sax Rohmer, also featured extensively in film and other media.
Senses: glosses: A full, straight moustache that grows downward past the lips and on either side of the chin and extends down toward the toes.
wikipedia: Fu Manchu
secondees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secondee
fumatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to smoke, smoking, or fumigation.
fumatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fumatories
Senses: glosses: A place for subjecting things to smoke or vapour.
Related terms: fumatorium
funfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: funfests
Etymology: From fun + -fest.
Senses: glosses: A fun event.
physiotherapeutic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more physiotherapeutic
form: most physiotherapeutic
form: physio-therapeutic
form: physiotherapeutical
Etymology: From physio- + therapeutic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to physiotherapy.
Derived terms: physiotherapeutically
Related terms: physiotherapy
physiotherapist
funnelform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From funnel + -form.
Senses: synonyms: funnelshaped
funnel-shaped
infundibuliform
infundibular
glosses: Having the shape of a funnel.
fun park
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fun parks
Senses: glosses: An amusement park.
Synonyms: amusement park
holiday park
Related terms: theme park
furfuraceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin furfur (“bran”) + -aceous.
Senses: glosses: Made of bran.
examples: text: 1828, William Jackson Hooker, Pitcairnia Bracteata: Bracteated Pitcairnia, Samuel Curtis (editor), Curtis's Botanical Magazine: Or, Flower Garden Displayed, Volume 55 [Volume 2 of the New Series], page 207,
Leaves a foot or more long on the lower part of the cylindrical and furfuraceous stem, linear-lanceolate, coriaceous, obscurely striated, very acuminated, the margin entire, except at the sheathing base, where there are some strong brown teeth pointing upwards: […] .
text: This form does not produce crusts, but furfuraceous scales, white, more or less thick, sometimes damp, and adhering to the hair by the help of a viscous and fœtid discharge, and sometimes dry and friable, detaching itself from the head with the greatest facility.
ref: 1834, Baron Alibert, “On the Diseases of the Skin”, in Samuel Plumbe, transl., edited by Michael Ryan, London Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 4, page 207:
text: When she looked at photographs of raging urticaria or furfuraceous rashes, she teetered between repulsion and captivation.
ref: 2000, Dashka Slater, The Wishing Box, page 6:
glosses: Resembling bran; having or characterised by small flakes that resemble bran or dandruff.
Synonyms: sense: made of bran
word: branny
sense: resembling bran
word: branlike
sense: resembling bran
word: branny
sense: characterised by flakes
word: scurfy
Derived terms: topics: medicine
sciences
word: furfuraceous cretinism
topics: medicine
sciences
word: furfuraceous desquamation
Related terms: scurf
furmenty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɜː.mən.ti/
ipa: /ˈfɝ.mən.ti/
homophone: fermenty
Senses: examples: text: Remember thou therefore, though I do it not,
The seed-cake, the pasties, and furmenty pot
ref: 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of frumenty.
further education
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Education beyond compulsory schooling, not including university-based higher education.
Related terms: adult education
continuing education
fuzzy-wuzzy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fuzzy-wuzzy
form: most fuzzy-wuzzy
form: fuzzy wuzzy
Etymology: Adjective: Reduplication of fuzzy. Noun: From the adjective, in reference to their fuzzy hair texture.
Senses: examples: a fuzzy-wuzzy cat
glosses: Fuzzy.
fuzzy-wuzzy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuzzy-wuzzies
Etymology: Adjective: Reduplication of fuzzy. Noun: From the adjective, in reference to their fuzzy hair texture.
Senses: glosses: A Hadendoa warrior of the Mahdi army in the 19th century.
qualifier: World War II
glosses: A Papuan, especially one who assisted the Australian military against the Japanese; a Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel.
Gaelic coffee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gaelic coffees
Senses: glosses: Irish coffee
galactopoietic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From galacto- + -poietic.
Senses: glosses: Milk-producing.
Related terms: galactopoiesis
stote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stotes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of stoat.
ZIF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Zero insertion force.
glosses: Initialism of zero intermediate frequency.
glosses: Initialism of Zeolitic imidazolate frameworks.
Gaelic coffees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gaelic coffee
Mulhousians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mulhousian
Limehousing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Limehouse
chiacked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chiack
chiacks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chiack
fibreboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fibreboard
hardboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hardboard
fundholders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fundholder
fundectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fundectomy
wasten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wastens
form: wastening
form: wastened
form: wastened
Etymology: From waste (“empty, barren, dejected, dismal”, adjective) + -en.
Senses: examples: text: It is our wisdom to master this wastening incredulity: to overcome unbelief, by faith; and so the more easily this present world; making light of its permitted trials, and sitting loose to its possessions.
ref: 1865, John Stock (Vicar of Finchingfield, Essex.), An Exposition of the First Epistle General of St. John.:
text: […] Thomas s. of Chr: Clifton of Clifton & Will'm sonne of Robert Miller of Leedes lost in the snow the 8t of Februarie & not found till then & Clifto's child strangly wastened all saveing a very few bones thothr whole & fresh […]
ref: 1908, original 1613-1614, The Publications of the Yorkshire Parish Register Society, volume 33, page 203:
text: And there are seven wax tapers in the quire" he said "that have never been lighted by any man's hand, and that bum day and night at every hour of prayers and that have never wastened or lessened through these fourscore years."
ref: 1920, Lady Augusta Gregory, A Book of Saints and Wonders:
text: […] do you love me, Mabel?
not a pennysworth, Joe
troves I lost I never looked for: cracked
fountain pens that stained my fingers wastened
by irreconcilable degrees into the dust.
ref: 1962, Evidence, numbers 5-8, page 83:
text: Wolsey wastened no moment in responding. In all diplomatic courtesy, he confirmed Henry's commitment to Francis and his willingness to meet with Charles.
ref: 1980, Nancy Lenz Harvey, Thomas Cardinal Wolsey, page 118:
text: Not a second was to be wastened when your parent sends you on an errand or some chore.
ref: 2015, Oliver Lockewell, Behind The Mirror: Fright Night Flash Fiction:
glosses: To make or become waste (i.e. barren, dejected, dismal, feeble, or sickly) or wasted
Synonyms: sense: to make or become feeble
word: weaken
sense: to make or become feeble
word: wane
gamophyllous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gamo- + phyllous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: symphyllous
coordinate_terms: apophyllous
glosses: Composed of leaves or segments (e.g. perianth) united by their edges.
gamogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gamo- + -genesis.
Senses: glosses: sexual reproduction
Derived terms: gamogenetic
gamogenetically
gametophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gametophores
Etymology: From gameto- + -phore.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: in ferns, the bearer of sex organs
Related terms: gametophoric
gastrology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gastro-, from Ancient Greek γαστήρ (gastḗr, “stomach”) and -logy, from -λογία (-logía, “study of”). Gastro- and gastric (meaning related to the stomach) are both derived from the Greek word.
Senses: glosses: the scientific study of the stomach
Derived terms: gastrologer
gastrologic
gastrologist
NRO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of National Reconnaissance Office.
glosses: Initialism of National Reconciliation Ordinance.
NRO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NROs
Senses: coordinate_terms: NRHO
glosses: Initialism of near-rectilinear orbit / near-rectilineal orbit.
glosses: Initialism of Number Resource Organization.
undestroyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + destroyed.
Senses: glosses: Not destroyed.
undestroyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undestroy
Isy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Isies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Izzy (diminutive of female given names).
pantyhoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pantyhose
nonprovincial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + provincial.
Senses: examples: text: Whatever utility the work may have outside of its stated boundaries will be largely because of such a nonprovincial approach.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page viii:
glosses: Not restricted to a small region; not done in isolation.
little woman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: little women
Senses: examples: text: This impression was so strong that often when we were together and he got up and left a little woman just when she did not expect him to get up and leave her, but quite the contrary, I would explain: “He can't help it, Baby. He has to go back to his ship.”
ref: 1918 February (date written), Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Je ne parle pas français”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 105:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see little, woman.
examples: text: “My little woman,” said her husband dubiously, “are you quite sure you're better? Or are you, Sophia, about to break out in a fresh direction?”
ref: 1848 December 19, Charles Dickens, “The Gift Diffused”, in The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain. A Fancy for Christmas-time, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC, pages 74–75:
glosses: A wife.
glosses: A female person with dwarfism, or short stature resulting from a medical condition.
Synonyms: little lady
little women
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of little woman
no-take
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Here we provide 17 reasons why there is a strong scientific, management, and public interest in using no-take marine reserves to build sustainable fisheries and protect marine ecosystems.
ref: 2004, J Brooke Shipley, Aquatic protected areas as fisheries management tools:
text: There are also other flow-on benefits for many species in areas outside a no-take area - for example, spill-over of adults and juvenile fishes, as well as larval recruitment...
ref: 2006, Michael Lockwood, Graeme Worboys, Ashish Kothari, Managing protected areas: a global guide:
glosses: Under a level of protection where nobody is permitted to remove any fish or other organisms.
raw_tags: of a marine region
bear garlic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bear's garlic
Etymology: Calque from Latin Allium ursinum.
Senses: glosses: A wild plant related to chives; ramsons, Allium ursinum.
wild garlic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wild garlics
Etymology: Compare French ail sauvage, Portuguese alho selvagem.
Senses: glosses: Ramsons (Allium ursinum).
glosses: Allium vineale.
glosses: Allium canadense.
Hypernyms: garlic
Allium
Coordinate terms: wild onion
wood garlic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Ramsons.
microliterature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + literature.
Senses: examples: text: By a systematic scanning of microliterature, a list of these can be made.
ref: 1961, Allen Kent, editor, Information Retrieval and Machine Translation, page 1045:
text: There is now such an immense "microliterature" on hepatics that, beyond a certain point I have given up trying to integrate (and evaluate) every minor paper published—especially narrowly floristic papers.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page viii:
text: Finally, there is a microliterature on transfers (see Cox 1987 and Kotlikoff 1988 for summaries) that appears, on balance, to reject the altruism model.
ref: 2001, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, “Intergenerational Altruism”, in Essays on Saving, Bequests, Altruism, and Life-cycle Planning, page 181:
glosses: A body of short articles and publications, each containing only a little new information.
broad-leaved garlic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Ramsons (Allium ursinum).
notrump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: notrumps
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of no-trump.
notrumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of notrump
doke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dokes
Senses: glosses: A dimple or dint.
Related terms: word: okey-doke
english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: okie-doke
nonwarmed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + warmed.
Senses: glosses: Not warmed.
noncrippled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + crippled.
Senses: glosses: Not crippled.
clutteredness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cluttered + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being cluttered.
superscout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superscouts
Etymology: From super- + scout.
Senses: glosses: An exceptionally talented or successful scout (one who seeks out potential talent for a sports team).
superscouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superscout
noncleared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + cleared.
Senses: glosses: Not having been cleared (in various senses).
noncoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + coral.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to coral.
nonruby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -uːbi
Etymology: From non- + ruby.
Senses: examples: nonruby muscovite
glosses: Not of or pertaining to ruby.
nonbauxite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + bauxite.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to bauxite.
nonfragmented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + fragmented.
Senses: glosses: Not fragmented.
nonaugmented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + augmented.
Senses: glosses: Not augmented.
unaugmented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + augmented.
Senses: glosses: Not augmented.
smoothy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: smoothier
form: more smoothy
form: smoothiest
form: most smoothy
Etymology: From smooth + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It will make your life smoothier and more enjoyable.
ref: 2001, Dr. Linda Andrade Wheeler, The Power of Resiliency, page 32:
text: The one who has the smoothiest hair wins.
ref: 2008, Sara Webb Quest, Aydil Vice and Her Disgustin' Hair Knots, page 58:
text: If you have a circular polarizer or a neutral density (grey) filter, put that in front of the lens too. This will slow down the shutter speed even further to get silkier, smoothier (that's a word!) water motion.
ref: 2017, Gary L. Friedman, The Friedman Archives Guide to the Sony RX-10 IV:
glosses: Characterised by smoothness.
smoothy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoothies
Etymology: From smooth + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of smoothie.
smoothy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoothies
Etymology: From smooth + -y.
Senses: glosses: Someone (usually a male) who undergoes extreme body modification to have his testicles, scrotum, penis and sometimes nipples or otherwise all sexual stimuli removed.
cadaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cadasters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cadastre.
cadasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cadaster
anticentre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anticentres
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of anticenter.
anticenters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anticenter
anticentres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anticentre
roachlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more roachlike
form: most roachlike
Etymology: From roach + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a roach (insect).
roke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Forms: form: rokes
form: roak
form: rook
form: rouk
Etymology: From Middle English roke (“fog, vapour, cloud”), probably from Old Norse roka ("whirlwind, fine spray"; compare Old Norse særoka (“seaspray”)), reinforced later by Middle Dutch roke, rooc (“smoke”), from Old Dutch rouc (“steam, vapour”), from Proto-Germanic *raukiz (“smoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewg- (“to erupt, vomit, burp”), from *rew- (“to roar, growl, grumble”). Cognate with Scots rok, roik, rouk (“mist, fog, cloud”), Dutch rook (“smoke, fog”), German Rauch (“smoke, fume”), Swedish rök (“smoke, fume, steam, reek”), West Frisian reek, riik (“smoke, fume”). More at reek. Compare dialectal rawk, which is related, and rag (“fog”) (see raggy (“foggy”)), which may or may not be.
Senses: glosses: Fog, mist; light rain; smoke, vapour; damp.
Derived terms: rawk
roke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Forms: form: rokes
form: roak
form: rook
form: rouk
Etymology: Unclear; perhaps related to dialect rauk, rawk, a northern English dialectal word for a mark, including e.g. a defect on cloth.
Senses: examples: text: It was found by examination of numerous sections of roky shell that it was not possible to estimate the extent of a roke by its appearance on the surface. The filing of a groove across the roke gives some […] indication as to its depth, […]
ref: 1921, Iron & Coal Trades Review, volume 103, page 337:
glosses: A defect in an ingot of steel: a depression lined with scale.
examples: text: of which custom the aforesaid John Parlby being not in the least ignorant, on the 20th day of Jun, in the second year of the reign of our Lord the present King, at the same pit, received and had a whole roke of coals, value 18d., by the delivery of the said Richard, together with a sign for one whole roke, according to the custom aforesaid;
ref: 1889, “Action for Breach of a Custom observed in delivering Coal at Wollaton Pit, 1549, April 1”, in Records of the Borough of Nottingham: 1547-1625, page 11:
text: In 1450 certain lands at Codnor were exchanged subject to the condition that one of the parites should receive yearly three roke of coal if any 'myne of cole' were got.
ref: 1907, William Page, The Victoria History of the County of Derby - Volume 2, page 351:
text: Account of coal getting, from 13 February to 24 December, 17 Henry VIII., giving the quantity got by each collier week by week, in the following form: “ L. Lambe gatt xiii roke
ref: 1924, The Mining Engineer - Volumes 66-67, page 226:
topics: business
mining
glosses: A measurement of coal ore.
Related terms: roky
schole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scholes
Senses: examples: text: Not long after our sitting doune, I haue strange newes brought me, sayth M. Secretarie, this morning, that diuerse Scholers of Eaton, be runne awaie from the Schole, for feare of beating.
ref: 1570, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster, A Preface to the Reader:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of school.
rooklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rooklike
form: most rooklike
Etymology: From rook + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a rook.
tinker's dam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tinker's damn.
zoop
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /zuːp/
rhymes: -uːp
Etymology: Imitative; compare zap, zip.
Senses: examples: text: "Let me show you how this damn stuff explodes in pure oxygen," Johnson said, and turned on the projector. Markley was "totally aghast" himself. "It just went ZOOP! It was unbelievable. The stuff burned like you couldn't imagine."
ref: 1989, Charles A. Murray, Catherine Bly Cox, Apollo, the race to the moon, page 223:
text: On the day they play the Wild Things for the City Cup, he dons his gear (pulling on his underwear with a "zap" and his socks with a "zoop") and heads for the field.
ref: 1999, School Library Journal, volume 45, numbers 1-6, page 180:
text: And a bit more manly (or womanly) turn of a long tripod screw in a shallow tripod socket and, zoop, through the socket end goes the tripod screw, right into the camera works. And this can also happen with inadequate metal tripod sockets […]
ref: 1999 November, Popular Photography:
text: She'd tell me about one guy she'd kind of strung along without really meaning to, and zoop! Some of the glamour I'd been seeing in her would just vanish. Then she started in on the next one and again—zoop! Smaller still!
ref: 2010, Carolyn Godschild Miller, Soulmates:
glosses: Sound effect suggesting rapid motion.
Arizona room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Arizona rooms
Etymology: From its use in and association with homes in the southwestern desert state of Arizona in the United States. Cf. Florida room.
Senses: examples: text: It has two kitchens and pantries, a firewood room, an Arizona room, screen porches, closets, and no telling what else.
ref: 2005, J. P. S. Brown, The Blooded Stock: The Arizona Saga, Book I:
glosses: A semi-outdoor recreation room, typically an enclosed patio or sunroom used as a sleeping patio before the advent of air conditioning.
Related terms: Florida room
bastardizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bastardizers
form: bastardiser
Etymology: From bastardize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who bastardizes.
bastardizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bastardizer
bastardiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bastardisers
Etymology: From bastardise + -er.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of bastardizer.
bastardisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bastardiser
nonmined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + mined.
Senses: glosses: unmined
pawnable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pawnable
form: most pawnable
Etymology: From pawn + -able.
Senses: glosses: Suitable for being pawned.
Derived terms: unpawnable
pawner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔːnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pawners
Etymology: From pawn + -er.
Senses: coordinate_terms: pawnee
glosses: One who pawns an item.
pawners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pawner