cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hope springs eternal
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Ellipsis of hope springs eternal in the human breast, a quotation from An Essay on Man (1734) by Alexander Pope.
Senses: examples: text: Hope''' ſprings eternal in the human breaſt; / Man never is, but always to be bleſt.
ref: 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], epistle I, London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC, page 7, lines 91–92:
text: Night after night his disappointment is acute, but hope springs eternal in the scholastic breast, and he follows me again to-morrow.
ref: 1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, “Scouts Out”, in Our Mutual Friend. […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC, book the third (A Long Lane), page 95:
text: But, as hope springs eternal in the human breast, he still goes from doctor to doctor for fresh advice.
ref: 1915, Elinor Glyn, “The Gospel of Common Sense”, in Three Things:
text: But hope springs eternal in diehard Tiger fans, and Peter is convinced that someday, somehow, he and his son will see Detroit clinch a championship.
ref: 2003 April 23, Leon Jaroff, “Hold that Tiger”, in Time, archived from the original on 02 May 2013:
synonyms: while there's life, there's hope
glosses: The feeling of hopefulness endlessly renews itself.
wikipedia: Alexander Pope
An Essay on Man
Coordinate terms: never say die
tomorrow is another day
Related terms: nil desperandum
hope springs eternal in the human breast
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hope springs eternal.
Los Vegas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Las Vegas.
faunæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fauna
Synonyms: word: faunae
word: faunas
roins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of roin
roins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roin
roining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of roin
roined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of roin
set alight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sets alight
form: setting alight
form: set alight
form: set alight
Senses: synonyms: word: ignite
word: kindle
word: alight
word: conflagrate
word: fire
word: fire up
word: ignite
word: inflame
word: kindle
word: light
word: light up
word: set ablaze
word: set afire
word: set aflame
word: set alight
word: set fire
word: set on fire
word: torch
glosses: To cause (something) to begin to burn.
examples: text: Each chapel had its saintly shrine, hung around with offerings; its picture above the altar, although closely veiled, if by any painter of renown; and its hallowed tapers, burning continually, to set alight the devotion of the worshippers.
ref: 1860, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Burial Chant”, in The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni. […], volume I, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 227:
synonyms: word: ignite
word: inflame
word: kindle
word: rouse
word: animate
word: awaken
word: electrify
word: enflame
word: enkindle
word: enthrill
word: exagitate
word: excite
word: exhilarate
word: exsuscitate
word: fillip
word: fire
word: fire the blood
word: galvanize
word: gin up
word: ignite
word: inflame
word: intoxicate
word: kindle
word: quicken
word: rouse
word: send
word: set fire to
word: set on fire
word: sharpen
word: stir the blood
word: suscitate
word: thrill
word: vitalise
word: wake
word: warm the blood
word: whet
word: wind up
word: work up
word: yerk
glosses: To arouse passion in (someone); to excite.
uropygia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uropygium
clegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cleg
encephalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: encephalizes
form: encephalizing
form: encephalized
form: encephalized
Etymology: From encephal- + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To migrate brain function from the subcortical centres to the cortex.
glosses: To evolve a large head or brain.
raw_tags: of a species
glosses: To place under control of the brain.
Derived terms: encephalization
encephalization quotient
store brands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of store brand
read along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reads along
form: reading along
form: read along
form: read along
Senses: glosses: To read together with another person, or with another presentation (TV etc)
Related terms: sing along
linguatulosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Linguatula + -osis.
Senses: glosses: A condition caused by the parasitic crustacean Linguatula serrata.
pentastomiasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Pentastomida + -iasis
Senses: glosses: disease caused by Pentastomida parasites
haemocoels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haemocoel
tokenistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tokenistic
form: most tokenistic
Etymology: From token + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: The government has taken nothing more than tokenistic actions on behalf of people with disabilities.
text: The company’s use of ads depicting gay couples appears to be merely tokenistic, particularly in view of the support it has given to anti-LGBT politicians.
text: But what is not needed is a tokenistic gesture to place a woman, any woman, in the role, irrespective of her politics.
ref: 2014 April 14, Lola Okolosie, “We need a women's minister with clout, not another tokenistic exercise”, in The Guardian:
text: ‘You can't say “coloured”. And it's not the word “black” either,’ says Sarah's partner, Ross. ‘It's that it's tokenistic to say “invite your black friends”.’
ref: 2017, Jamie Bartlett, chapter 6, in Radicals, William Heinemann, →ISBN:
text: More than 300 academics and students have criticised universities for their “tokenistic and superficial” support for the Black Lives Matter movement given their poor record on tackling institutional racism.
ref: 2020 July 6, David Batty, “Universities criticised for ‘tokenistic’ support for Black Lives Matter”, in The Guardian:
text: As Jonathan Bartley said in The Independent on January 20, it makes Johnson's £12bn ten-point plan look "tokenistic by comparison".
ref: 2021 January 27, Stefanie Foster, quoting Jonathan Bartley, “Comment: Rail crucial to green success”, in RAIL, issue 923, page 3:
glosses: Serving as a token of support, compliance, etc., but lacking substance; exhibiting or relating to tokenism.
examples: 1908, T. W. Pearce, “The Ancient Faiths of the Chinese” in Arnold Wright (ed.), Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong, Shanghai, and other Treaty Ports of China, London: Lloyd’s Greater Britain Publishing Company, p. 340,
Animals are tokens. Among tokenistic animals the dragon holds the first place. The dragon of the sky is indissolubly linked in the minds of the masses with the emperor who sits on the dragon throne, and who, after death, ascends upon the dragon “to be a guest on high.”
synonyms: symbolic
glosses: Constituting a token or symbol.
Derived terms: tokenistically
Related terms: tokenism
cosmetic
superficial
window dressing
tokenisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tokenism
stercorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin stercus (“feces”).
Senses: glosses: fecal; manurelike
drinking horn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drinking horns
Senses: examples: text: It was longer than any drinking horn that Thor had ever seen, but he was not concerned. He was Thor, after all, and there was no drinking horn he could not drain.
ref: 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 149:
glosses: A drinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn.
about pages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of about page
desmoplasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From desmoplasia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to desmoplasia.
desmoplakins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desmoplakin
desmoplasias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desmoplasia
drinking horns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drinking horn
loop antenna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loop antennas
form: loop antennae
Senses: glosses: A radio antenna consisting of a loop (or loops) of wire, tubing, or other electrical conductor with its ends connected to a balanced transmission line.
loop antennas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loop antenna
loop antennae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loop antenna
thraldoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thraldom.
commonnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commonness
braxies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of braxy
dorses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dorse
imbruting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: embruting
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of imbrute
imbruting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more imbruting
form: most imbruting
form: embruting
Senses: examples: text: I shall not, however, dwell on the vices, though they be of the most contemptible and embruting cast, to which a sudden access of fortune gives birth […].
ref: 1796, Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Oxford, published 2009, page 19:
glosses: Brutalizing, degrading.
imbrutes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of imbrute
monogamish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of monogamous + -ish. Coined by American sex advice columnist and gay rights campaigner Dan Savage in 2011, although earlier coinages seem to have existed and not become popularized.
Senses: examples: text: So I've got a new word to describe relationships like yours, mine, and your mom's, IIC: "monogamish." We're mostly monogamous, not swingers, not actively looking. Monogamish.
ref: 2011 July 20, Dan Savage, “Savage Love: Monogamish”, in The Stranger, retrieved 05 May 2013:
text: In their own marriage, Savage and Miller practice being what he calls “monogamish,” allowing occasional infidelities, which they are honest about. Miller was initially opposed to the idea.
ref: 2011 June 30, Dan Savage, “Married, With Infidelities”, in The New York Times, retrieved 05 May 2013:
text: In 2008, Dr. Sarit A. Golub, a member of our research group, coined the term “monogamish” to describe situations such as this, in which the relationship is neither monogamous nor open, but closer to monogamy than not, and our recent research has confirmed this unique relationship arrangement and suggests gay men in monogamish relationships report low levels of sexual risk and high levels or relationship satisfaction (Parsons et al, in press).
ref: 2012, Charlotte J. Patterson, Ph.D.; Anthony R. D'Augelli, Ph.D., Handbook of Psychology and Sexual Orientation, →ISBN, page 25:
text: Assuming he denies this story, use it as a jumping-off point to discuss the difference between monogamy and monogamish.
ref: 2013 April 24, Two Senses, “Two Sense: Is My Fiancé Lying?”, in 7x7SF, retrieved 05 May 2013:
glosses: Mostly monogamous, but allowing for occasional infidelities.
tawdry laces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tawdry lace
commonplace-book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commonplace-books
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of commonplace book.
quadrefoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadrefoils
Senses: examples: text: Note the subtle details associated with Gothic Revival architectural styles which include trefoil and quadrefoil designs.
ref: 2008, Walter Hildebrandt, Views from Fort Battleford, page 16:
glosses: Alternative spelling of quatrefoil.
quadrefoils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadrefoil (alternative spelling of quatrefoils).
Saoirse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪə(ɹ).ʃə/
ipa: /ˈsɜː(ɹ).ʃə/
ipa: /ˈsɪɚ.ʃə/
ipa: /ˈsɝ.ʃə/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)ʃə
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʃə
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish Saoirse, from saoirse (“freedom”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Irish.
ergodic theories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ergodic theory
this've
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /ˈðɪsəv/
Etymology: this + -'ve
Senses: examples: text: Like I say, properties like this've been two a dollar for years and the fires have just about killed sales at any price.
ref: 2010, John Eugene Sullivan, Firebug, page 64:
glosses: Contraction of this have.
Extropian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of extropian.
Extropian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Extropians
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of extropian.
magisteriums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magisterium
staycate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: staycates
form: staycating
form: staycated
form: staycated
Etymology: Back-formation from staycation.
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, when staycation arrived in the 2000s, for a 'stay-at home vacation', one concerned travel firm immediately introduced the slogan: Why staycate when you can vacate? Not all back-formations are immediately accepted.
ref: 2011, David Crystal, The Story of English in 100 Words:
text: I certainly won't make any kind of believer out of you if you are filling out auto insurance while you're trying to staycate.
ref: 2011, Dena Riegel, Official Maine Staycation Manual:
text: This was an exceptionally long journey beginning with the illustrious Thomas Cook (1840) and ending with the daring of Dennis Tito's fast flight on Soyuz (2001). I am fatigued, I must 'slow down' – relax or staycate for another trip.
ref: 2012, Tejvir Singh, Critical Debates in Tourism:
glosses: To vacation close to home; staycation.
subnivium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subnivia
Etymology: From sub- (“under”) + Latin nix (“snow”) + -ium.
Senses: examples: text: Voles and shrews thriving in networks of tunnels in the subnivium would experience a loss of their snowy refuge and face greater metabolic demands to cope with more-frequent and harsher exposure to the elements.
ref: 2019, Colin Rees, Nature's Calendar, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 231:
text: Scientists have long studied the subnivium, a stratum of life that exists within and below the snowpack. The subnivium enjoys a microclimate created by heat and moisture escaping the ground.
ref: 2021, Porter Fox, The Last Winter, Hachette Book Group, unnumbered page:
text: Without a snow cover, the duration of frozen soil will increase, causing winter cooling for subnivium-dependent organisms (Zhu et al., 2019).
ref: 2022, Jeffrey L. Walck, Siti N. Hidayati, “10: Plant regeneration from seeds in a the temperate deciduous forest zone under a changing climate”, in Carol C. Baskin, Jerry M. Baskin, editors, Plant Regeneration from Seeds, Elsevier (Academic Press), page 131:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The seasonal microenvironment beneath the snow.
Related terms: subnival
subniveal
subnivean
subnivian
subnivian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to or characteristic of a subnivium; subniveal.
Related terms: subnival
subniveal
subnivean
subnivium
thanky
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθæŋki/
Senses: examples: text: “Thanky, George,” replied the sea-cook.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
text: “How do you do, Mr. Huxter,” the Prince of Fairoaks said in his most princely manner—“I hope you are very well.”
“Pretty bobbish, thanky.”
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 47, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: “Thanky Ma’am. Ah hates dat woman lak poison. Keep her from round dis house. Her look lak uh white woman!
ref: 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Harper Perennial, published 2000, page 143:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of thank you.
ground loop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground loops
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A (usually unwanted) current that flows between two points that are meant to be at the same potential, but are not.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A sudden, potentially damaging turn made by an aircraft while on the ground, owing to user error or adverse weather conditions.
ground loop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ground loops
form: ground looping
form: ground looped
form: ground looped
Senses: examples: text: I slewed into the deep grass, throttled up again to regain runway speed, tried to abort the take-off and ground-looped through the perimeter fence.
ref: 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 41:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To suffer a ground loop manoeuvre.
ground loops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ground loop
ground loops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ground loop
ground looped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ground loop
crime passionel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crimes passionels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crime passionnel.
ichthyphagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪkˈθɪfəɡəs/
Forms: form: more ichthyphagous
form: most ichthyphagous
Etymology: Ancient Greek ἰχθυφάγος (ikhthuphágos) (ikhthuphagos: alternative spelling of ἰχθυοφάγος (ikhthuophágos), ikhthuophagos; whence ichthyophage) + English -ous
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Leyden entertained an opinion that the Battas of Sumatra were the Ichthyophagi of Herodotus; but I agree with Mr. Anderson in thinking this supposition fallacious, as the Battas do not inhabit the coasts, but are always found in the interior; rarely venturing down to the shore, and indulge, as we have seen, an appetite of a very different kind from any that could be designated simply ichthyphagous.
ref: 1839, Lt. Thomas John Newbold, Political and Statistical Account of the British Settlements in the Straits of Malacca, viz. Pinang, Malacca, and Singapore, London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, volume II, chapter xv: “On the Wild Tribes of the Malay Peninsula”, page 414
text: If, on its coasts, the sea washes nothing but almost inaccessible rocks, let it remain barbarous and ichthyphagous: it will have a quieter, perhaps a better, and certainly a happier life.
ref: 1950, George Douglas Howard Cole (translator), Jean-Jacques Rousseau (author), The Social Contract and Discourses, Dutton, page 51
text: With the creation of the large reserves in the Danube Delta, protective measures have taken on a more intensive character and have eliminated in part the causes of dwindling wildfowl stocks. They include campaigns to combat ichthyphagous birds, reed-burning, poaching, the catching of birds and nestlings, the collection and destruction of eggs, etc.
ref: 1966, Second European Meeting on Wildfowl Conservation: Proceedings, page 109:
text: All species may be considered as more or less specialized entomophagous or ichthyphagous predators.
ref: 2003, Didier Paugy, Christian Lévêque, and Guy G. Teugels (editors), The Fresh and Brackish Water Fishes of West Africa, Institut de recherche pour le développement, volume I (10) (13), unknown page
glosses: Alternative spelling of ichthyophagous.
electroerosion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + erosion.
Senses: glosses: A fabrication process that uses electrical discharge machining
butt dials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butt dial
butt dials
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of butt dial
butt dialing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I love this phone because it has GPS on it as well as the flip covers the keypad..so no more purse or butt dialing! LOL
ref: 2002 July 8, Aclavern33, “Re: Is there a great deal on any SPCS phone now for existing customer?”, in alt.cellular.sprintpcs (Usenet), retrieved 06 Oct 2018, message-ID <20020707220838.13072.00004393@mb-mu.aol.com>:
text: [I'm curious why they would include such a feature in the first place.] Butt dialing. Especially since some phones call 911 if you hold down one key on the phone for several seconds, it's easy to accidentally dial 911. On certain Nextel phones you hold down "9" for a couple of seconds and it dials 911.
ref: 2007 November 24, Gordon Burditt, “Re: Design flaw in Verizon cell phones let criminals know you are dialing 911 via audible tone.”, in alt.politics (Usenet), retrieved 06 Oct 2018, message-ID <13kh1sbqrvo335f@corp.supernews.com>:
text: The Moto-G is the only one without a fingerprint sensor, which probably means it's more vulnerable to butt-dialing, unless they have new techniques I'm not familiar with.
ref: 2016 July 8, crankypuss, “unlocked phones: Moto-G vs OnePlus 3 vs iPhone SE?”, in comp.mobile.android (Usenet), retrieved 06 Oct 2018, message-ID <nlnv5h$nn9$1@gioia.aioe.org>:
glosses: The action of making a call from a cellphone in one's back pocket where its buttons are being inadvertently pressed
butt dialing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of butt dial
butt dialed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of butt dial
ominosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɒmɪˈnɒsɪti/
Forms: form: ominosities
Etymology: From omino(u)s + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being ominous.
conductrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kɒnˈdʌktɹɪks/
Forms: form: conductrices
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin conductrīx. By surface analysis, conduct + -trix.
Senses: examples: text: Oberlin recruited teachers — whom he called “conductrices” — to sit among small groups of children and encourage language interaction through storytelling and start-up points for art and small construction projects, while the conductrices completed their knitting.
ref: 1999, Harry Morgan, The Imagination of Early Childhood Education, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 21:
glosses: A female conductor; a woman who conducts.
Synonyms: conductress
assplant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assplants
Etymology: From ass + plant.
Senses: glosses: An unintentional landing on one's buttocks.
assplant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: assplants
form: assplanting
form: assplanted
form: assplanted
Etymology: From ass + plant.
Senses: examples: text: I assplanted in the parking lot.
glosses: To land on one's buttocks (unintentionally).
nine bows
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nine Bows.
soixante-huitard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soixante-huitards
Etymology: Borrowed from French soixante-huitard (literally “sixty-eighter”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘Those clochards in Cannes, mostly old soixante-huitards. They see a tribute to modern industrial genius and can't resist giving it a swift kick.’
ref: 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 92:
glosses: Someone who took part in, or otherwise supported, the civil unrest in France in May 1968, characterised by student protests and widespread strikes.
examples: text: As far as he is concerned, the institutions that once made Britain great – from parliament to the ancient seats of learning, from monarchy and the common law to the Church of England – have all been hollowed out and subverted by cynical soixante-huitards.
ref: 2012 October 26, Jonathan Rée, “The War We Never Fought by Peter Hitchens – review”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A fierce social activist or protester.
nitrogenases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nitrogenase
free-sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free-sheets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of freesheet.
woad-waxens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woad-waxen
Nedward
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛdwəd/
ipa: /ˈnɛdwɚd/
Etymology: Either a rebracketing of mine Edward or a blend of Ned + Edward.
Senses: examples: text: The time was, when every musical young gentleman breathed forth his wishes in dulcet strains to "be carried back to Old Virginia's shore," or related to the history and most wonderful exploits of that good old colored individual, "Uncle Nedward;" but we suppose this superannuated colored person has been superseded by the still more popular "Uncle Tom," of Mrs. Stowe celebrity.
ref: 1853, William Wallace Warden, Pen and Pencil, volume I, S.I, page 761:
glosses: A male given name.
labour market
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labour markets
Senses: examples: text: She gets jobs that last only a few months, in the flexible labour market beloved of politicians, but which leaves her struggling to pay the bills.
ref: 2023 August 17, Aditya Chakrabortty, “Can’t pay and they really do take it away: what happens when the bailiffs come knocking”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of labor market.
ziggaboo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ziggaboos
form: zigaboo
Senses: examples: text: Right now she got money enough in de bank tuh buy up dese ziggaboos and give ’em away.”
ref: 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Harper Perennial, published 2000, page 148:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: A nigger, negro; synonym of jigaboo.
mollitious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mollitious
form: most mollitious
Etymology: From Latin mollities (“mollitiēs”) + English -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Whenas the dainty and mollitious aire Had bid the Lady of the Palace, share In her refined pleasures, […]
ref: 1629, Francis Quarles, “Argalus and Parthenia”, in Alexander B. Grosart, editor, The Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Francis Quarles: Verse: Elegiacal poems. Emblems and hieroglyphikes. The shepheards oracles. Argalus and Parthenia. The virgin widow. Notes and illustrations. Glossarial index, etc., volume 3, Lancashire: Printed for private circulation, published 1881, page 245:
text: Can lusty diet, and mollicious rest, bring forth no other fruits but faint desires, rigid thoughts, and phlegmatic conceits?
ref: c1644, Francis Quarles, “The Lascivious Man. His Heaven.”, in Judgment and Mercy for Afflicted Souls: Or, Meditations, Soliloquies, and Prayers. New Ed., with a Biographical and Critical Introduction by Reginalde Wolfe, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, published 1807, page 111:
text: And here in snowy birdskin robes they are, Sordello, here, mollitious alcoves gilt Superb as Byzant-domes that devils built — Ah, Byzant, there again !
ref: 1840, Robert Browning, “Book The Third”, in Sordello, London: Edward Moxon, page 92:
glosses: sensuous or luxurious.
topping out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of top out
topping out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: ‘We met at official functions, topping-out ceremonies. He was lonely and didn't realize it.’
ref: 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 114:
glosses: The finishing of a building's roof, often accompanied by a special ceremony.
left-handed cigarette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: left-handed cigarettes
Senses: glosses: marijuana cigarette
drinamyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɪnəmɪl/
Etymology: Brand name.
Senses: examples: text: There I found a selection of slimming pills, and without thinking I swallowed several of the drinamyl tablets.
ref: 2000, J. G. Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 125:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
synonyms: dexamyl
purple heart
glosses: A stimulant made from dextroamphetamine and amobarbital.
annual rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of annual ring
Oprahfication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Oprahification
Etymology: From Oprah + -fication.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The perceived increase in people’s desire to discuss their emotions, ascribed to the influence of television talk shows such as The Oprah Winfrey Show.
arctophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arctophile
lazy eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lazy eye
UR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: URs
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of underlying representation.
deformulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deformulates
form: deformulating
form: deformulated
form: deformulated
Etymology: From de- + formulate.
Senses: glosses: To separate and identify individual components of a formulated chemical substance.
Related terms: deformulation
reverse-engineer
allergics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allergic
lipcoat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪpkəʊt/
Etymology: From lip + coat.
Senses: examples: text: Noskote and lipcoat were smeared on his face, but it didn't matter. He was as gorgeous as ever.
ref: 1987, Ann M Martin, Boy-Crazy Stacey:
text: With her rouged cheeks, silver lipcoat and mascara she might have been any girl after an hour at her mother's dressing table.
ref: 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 157:
glosses: A cosmetic coating on the lips, lipgloss; also, a coat of sunscreen for the lips.
muffiny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more muffiny
form: most muffiny
Etymology: From muffin + -y.
Senses: examples: text: When she came back she was carrying a tray of coffee and a muffiny thing.
ref: 2001, Simon Gray, Enter a Fox, Granta Books, published 2005, →ISBN, page 118:
text: Irish faces tend to be either like hers, all lines and angles, or round and muffiny, circle upon circle.
ref: 2007, Madeleine Blais, Uphill Walkers: Memoir of a Family, Grove Press, →ISBN, pages 85–86:
text: Of course, it could, and was—a sweet muffiny smell, the smell you would get if you opened a bag of muffins and stuck your nose in.
ref: 2010, Daniel Pinkwater, Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, →ISBN, page 104:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a muffin.
tar baby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tar babies
Etymology: Referring to a doll made of tar and turpentine to entrap Br'er Rabbit in one of Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus stories, published in 1881, from earlier African American folklore, from earlier African (e.g. Kongo) folklore, influenced in America by similar stories from various unrelated Native American tribes, such as the Cherokee, Alabama, Koasati, and Apache. (Similar stories are found throughout the world, e.g. among the Mixtec and Zapotec.)
Senses: examples: text: 2006, Mitt Romney, quoted in "Romney apologizes for calling Big Dig 'tar baby'", July 31, 2006, WISTV.com
Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is apologizing for referring to the troubled Big Dig construction project as a "tar baby." / Romney made the comment during a speech at a fund-raiser with Iowa Republicans on Saturday. Romney told the crowd "The best thing politically would be to stay as far away from that tar baby as I can."
text: If Dees had indicated any willingness to personally pursue the case, Ed would've immediately had him appointed as a special prosecutor and turned this tar baby of a case over to him on the spot.
ref: 2001, Bobby Delaughter, Never Too Late: A Prosecutor's Story of Justice in the Medgar Evars Case, page 75:
glosses: A difficult, abstract problem that worsens as one attempts to handle it; a sticky situation, especially one where attempts to make it better only make it worse.
glosses: A black person.
Related terms: word: tarpit
english: another term related to tar and to trapping or bogging down
translation: another term related to tar and to trapping or bogging down
word: tar pit
word: black hole
word: hot potato
word: hydra
word: sticky wicket
word: quagmire
word: quicksand
pod shaver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pod shavers
Senses: glosses: A craftsman skilled at carving cricket bats in a traditional manner.
valeyable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more valeyable
form: most valeyable
Senses: examples: text: Yes, I consider religion a valeyable thing in a nigger, when it's the genuine article, and no mistake.
ref: 1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, →OCLC:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of valuable.
in the hole
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Further testimony to his commercial incompetence lay in the fact that, at fifty cents a copy, a complete sellout would have left him worse than $300 in the hole—proof enough, if proof was needed, that it wasn't primarily money he was after; it was fame.
ref: 1993, Shelby Foote, introduction to Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, The Modern Library (1993), unnumbered pages
text: Finance Director Robert Law added that even if Camden laid off all of its civilian employees, it would still be millions in the hole.
ref: 1999 June 18, Dwight Ott, “A Share Of Bridge Tolls For Camden?”, in Philadelphia Inquirer:
text: Instead it was a critical and commercial bomb that put his production company millions in the hole, necessitating two Pusher sequels (in 2004 and 2005) to get him in the black.
ref: 2011 September 15, Matt Prigge, “How 'Drive' Director Nicolas Winding Refn was influenced by 'Pretty Woman'”, in Philadelphia Weekly:
glosses: Having suffered net losses; in debt.
qualifier: stud poker
glosses: Of a card ("the hole card") which is dealt face down and thus unknown to all but its holder; hence (idiomatic) in reserve; in particular ace in the hole.
Synonyms: in the red
bitheistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + theistic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to bitheism
fones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fone
lasque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lasques
Senses: glosses: A diamond having a flat shape.
lasques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lasque
cloutie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clouties
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of clootie.
clouties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cloutie
dysacusis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dysacuses
Etymology: From dys- + -acusis.
Senses: glosses: A hearing impairment characterized by difficulty in processing details of sound due to distortion in frequency or intensity, but not primarily a loss of the ability to perceive sound.
Related terms: acoustic
dysacuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dysacusis
fill one's boots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fills one's boots
form: filling one's boots
form: filled one's boots
form: filled one's boots
Senses: examples: text: Famine might come back, so fill your boots.
ref: 2012, Aubrey Malone, The Mammoth Book of Irish Humour:
glosses: To eat heartily.
examples: text: Rashford added insult to injury as he drilled through the legs of Ward, with England firmly in the mood to fill their boots against a ragged Wales.
ref: 2022 November 29, Ian Mitchelmore, “Wales put out of World Cup misery by England as sobering tournament must signal changing of the guard”, in WalesOnline:
glosses: To perform at a high level in one's official role.
Related terms: fill someone's boots
feast one's eyes
cookline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cooklines
Etymology: From cook + line.
Senses: examples: text: To accommodate, the cookline is embellished with raw product (whole fish, oysters, prawns) and dried goods (cheeses, breads, rolls) displays.
ref: 1987, Restaurants & Institutions, volume 97, numbers 1-4, page 141:
text: The exhibition-style cookline, wood-burning oven, attached market, and bakery put patrons in the center of the action.
ref: 1998, Christy Casamassima, Restaurant 2000: dining design III:
glosses: A row of appliances for the preparation of hot food in a restaurant kitchen.
Related terms: cookstove
cooktop
line cook
makeline
production line
cooklines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cookline
zoomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zoo- + -mancy.
Senses: examples: text: Yet why should so many generations have believed in divination by birds, and even in zoomancy, said by Suidas to have been imparted by Orpheus, who taught how to perceive in the yoke and white of the egg, under certain conditions, that which the bird born from it would have seen around it during its short life.
ref: 1888, H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy, The Theosophical Publishing Company, Limited (1888), pages 362-363
text: The speech takes the form of a zoomancy, with no act of zoomancy in evidence.
ref: 1994, Michael David Cooperson, The Heirs of the Prophets in Classical Arabic Biography, page 207:
text: […] these are mainly writings of a technical nature: scribes' registers on ritual divination by turtle and milfoil, calendars, manuals of hemerology, astrology, meteoromancy and Yijing divination, treatises on medicine, macrobiotics, and zoomancy.
ref: 2004, Marc Kalinowski, “Technical Traditions in Ancient China and Shushu Culture in Chinese Religion”, in John Lagerwey, editor, Religion and Chinese Society, Chinese University Press, published 2006, →ISBN, page 224:
glosses: divination by means of animals
totalley
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of totally.
clitar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of clit + guitar or blend of clit + sitar.
Senses: glosses: The clitoris.
Derived terms: Clitar Hero
play the clitar
play the clitar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays the clitar
form: playing the clitar
form: played the clitar
form: played the clitar
Etymology: See clitar.
Senses: synonyms: word: bash one out
word: bate
word: beat it
word: beat off
word: crank one out
word: fap
word: frig
word: jack off
word: jack it
word: jerk it
word: jerk off
word: jork it
word: knock one out
word: masturbate
word: mastuprate
word: play pocket pool
word: play with oneself
word: pleasure oneself
word: rub one out
word: self-abuse
word: self-pollute
word: service oneself
word: skeet
word: toss
word: toss off
word: touch oneself
word: wank
word: wank off
word: whack off
glosses: To masturbate by stimulating one's clitoris.
knitalong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knitalongs
Etymology: From knit + along.
Senses: examples: text: Knitalongs often have their own blogs, where members share any difficulties they're having with the project, post photos of their progress, and generally join in and help each other despite being scattered across the globe!
ref: 2009, Denise Sutherland, Word Searches For Dummies, page 70:
text: We define a knitalong as any organized event where people knit together for a common purpose or goal.
ref: 2011, Larissa Brown, Martin John Brown, Knitalong: Celebrating the Tradition of Knitting Together:
text: You can even stage a knitalong with friends, and swap colors for more fun!
ref: 2012, Mary Scott Huff, Teach Yourself VISUALLY Color Knitting, page 199:
glosses: An event where people knit together, often all working from the same pattern.
knitalongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knitalong
vomeral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vomer + -al.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the vomer.
vestibulospinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪnəl
Etymology: From vestibulo- + spinal.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the vestibular and spinal nerves.
vegetoanimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vegeto- + animal.
Senses: examples: text: There is the past of vegetarianism, and the past of a vegetoanimal diet […]
ref: 1852, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, The Living Age, volume 34, page 138:
glosses: Both vegetal and animal.
vegetizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vegetize
vegetizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vegetize
vincaleucoblastin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: vinblastine
vincaleucoblastine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: vinblastine
vibrotherapeutics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vibro- + therapeutics.
Senses: glosses: vibrotherapy
vibrotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vibro- + therapy.
Senses: glosses: therapy by vibrating parts of the body
videokeratoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The use of a videokeratoscope
Related terms: videokeratoscopic
photokeratoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The use of a photokeratoscope.
myosalpingitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From myosalpinx + -itis.
Senses: glosses: inflammation of the myosalpinx
pyosalpingitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pyosalpinx + -itis.
Senses: glosses: inflammation of the pyosalpinx
HPP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: HPP can be applied to a large number of food products (juices, milk, meat, and other solid foods) using batch or continuous treatment units.
ref: 2007, Da-Wen Sun, Computational Fluid Dynamics in Food Processing, page 538:
glosses: Initialism of high pressure processing.
glosses: Initialism of hypophosphatasia.
topics: automotive
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
transport
vehicles
glosses: Initialism of high performance powertrain
Synonyms: sense: high pressure processing
word: pascalization
categise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: categises
form: categising
form: categised
form: categised
form: categize
Etymology: First attested around the turn of the sixteenth century. The origin is uncertain; derivation is perhaps from the Ancient Greek καταιγίζω (kataigízō, “I rush down like a storm”), from καταιγίς (kataigís, “a storm descending from above”, figuratively “battle”).
Senses: examples: text: Conceale your qualitie till we be private; if your parts be worthie of me, I will countenance you, if not, categize you.
ref: 1580–1615, an unknown source, quoted in: Henk Gras, All Semblative a Woman’s Part? (1991), page 241
text: Thus he categised the churches of his day as “The mills of Satan”, where men “in his synagogues worship Satan under the unalterable name”.
ref: 1962, The Philosopher, XIII, page 49:
glosses: Thrash (verbally or physically).
categise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See catechism.
Senses: examples: text: “Oh, sir, I’ll answer ten thousand, gin ye like till ask them, as carefully and pointedly as if I wir saying my categise.”
ref: 1821, D.P. Campbell, Harley Radington, I, ch. xxii, p. 225:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of catechism.
-pterous
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Forms: form: -pteran
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πτερ(όν) (pter(ón), “wing”) + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Having wings (of a specified size, type or number)
Derived terms: hymenopterous
neuropterous
Related terms: english: and its derivatives
translation: and its derivatives
word: ptero-
brachypteran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From brachy- + -pteran.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of brachypterous.
micropteran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + -pteran.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of micropterous.
macropteran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + -pteran.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of macropterous.
-pteran
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πτερόν (pterón, “wing”) + -an.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of -pterous.
Derived terms: hymenopteran
whept
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: This morning one of Capt. Pharinton’s men was Whept 30 Lashes for Stealing A cheese.
ref: 1776 April 2, Diary of David How: A Private in Colonel Paul Dudley Sargent’s Regiment of the Massachusetts Line, in the Army of the American Revolution, page 12:
text: Doctor Faustus was a good man // He whept his scholars now and then // And when he whept ‛em made ‛em dance // Out of Scotland into France
ref: 1994, Canadian Folk Music Journal, Canadian Society for Musical Traditions (Société Canadienne pour les Traditions Musicales), volume XXII, page 42
glosses: simple past and past participle of whip: whipped, whipt
tegmina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tegmen
ventersome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ventersome
form: most ventersome
Senses: examples: text: Even as courage whetted on and enraged, makes a Man ventersome beyond the due bounds of prudence, or safety.
ref: 1677, Richard Gilpin, Dæmonologia Sacra; or, A Treatise of Satan’s Temptations, part I, chapter xviii, page 155:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of venturesome.
bipterous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bipterous
form: most bipterous
Etymology: From bi- + -pterous.
Senses: glosses: Dipterous (having two wings).
awook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈwʊk/
Senses: examples: text: Anon as he owt of his thowht awook.
ref: c.''' 1410, Henry Lovelich (translator), Robert de Boron (author), History of the Holy Grail (1449), branch xxiii, line 179
glosses: simple past of awake: awoke.
tripterous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tripterous
form: most tripterous
Etymology: From tri- + -pterous.
Senses: hypernyms: winged
coordinate_terms: apterous
wingless
;
subapterous
brachypterous
;
dipterous
glosses: Having three wings or wing-like structures.
Synonyms: trialate
tetrapteran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tetra- + -pteran.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tetrapterous.
tetragonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tetragonous
form: most tetragonous
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: tetragonal
Ss.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of S. Saints
Donatello
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Italian Donatello.
Senses: glosses: An Italian Renaissance painter.