cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
oose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /uːs/
ipa: /uːz/
ipa: /uz/
ipa: /us/
Senses: examples: text: A favorite substitute for soap was the root of the "oose," or yucca, sometimes called "soap root." This root looked about like a sugarbeet. Cut up and left in water it soon made a fluffy suds. Colored clothes came out fresh and bright because the cleanser did not harm the dyes. White clothes however were turned slightly yellow by it and therefore were not generally washed with oose. I remember how soft, fluffy, and sweet-smelling my hair always felt after a shampoo with oose suds. For mopping the wooden floors the oose root served not only as soap but as scrubbing brush as well. And how white and beautiful those floors would look.
ref: 1860, Mary Ann Hafen, Recollections of a Handcart Pioneer of 1860: With Some Account of Frontier Life in Utah and Nevada, Denver, Colo.: Privately printed for her [the author's] descendants, published 1938, →OCLC, page 41:
text: She climbed the Red Hill one cold day and dug oose root with which to bring a new luster to her long black hair.
ref: 1941, Maurine Whipple, The Giant Joshua, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →OCLC:
text: When I was older I went out on the hillsides and dug the roots of oose, or Amole as the Mexicans call it, which were excellent to use in place of soap.
ref: 2009, Barbara Marriott, quoting Nancy Cedenia Bagley Willis (interviewed by Roberta Flake Clayton), “Life on the Frontier”, in In Our Own Words: The Lives of Arizona Pioneer Women, Tucson, Ariz.: Fireship Press, →ISBN, page 248:
glosses: Synonym of yucca.
synonyms: word: yucca
oose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /uːs/
ipa: /uːz/
ipa: /uz/
ipa: /us/
Forms: form: ooses
form: oosing
form: oosed
form: oosed
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of ooze.
Related terms: oosy
thissun
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Contraction of this 'un (“this one”).
fankled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From fankle + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fankle
fankled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fankled
form: most fankled
Etymology: From fankle + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: I did not like the bushes where I was sitting. Ye could not see in. It was just leaves and leaves and all thick branches all fankled, all stuff poking out, fuzzy stuff and poison too, so ye could not go in [...].
ref: 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 110:
glosses: Tangled.
highwire walker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: highwire walkers
form: high-wire walker
form: high-wire-walker
form: highwire-walker
Senses: examples: text: A renowned Canadian highwire walker who has been trying unsuccessfully for decades to walk over Niagara Falls said Nik Wallenda's proposal to cross the Horseshoe Falls next year will have to be cleared by an "onslaught" of government officials.
ref: 2011 June 24, Brett Clarkson, “Canadian highwire walker still hopes to conquer falls”, in Niagara Falls Review, retrieved 13 Aug 2011:
glosses: An acrobat who performs tightrope walking on a wire which is at an especially high elevation above the ground, usually with the aid of a pole for balance.
Synonyms: aerialist
tightrope walker
Related terms: highwire walking
Mentone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The places in the United States and Australia from the Italian name for Menton, a town in the French Riviera on the Franco-Italian border.
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Melbourne in the City of Kingston, Victoria, Australia.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town in DeKalb County, Alabama.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A census-designated place in San Bernardino County, California.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town in Harrison Township and Franklin Township, Kosciusko County, Indiana.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A census-designated place, the county seat of Loving County, Texas.
high-wire walker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high-wire walkers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of highwire walker.
sergeants-major
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sergeant-major
evangelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /iːvænˈd͡ʒɛlɪk/
Etymology: From Old French evangelique (French évangélique).
Senses: glosses: evangelical
Derived terms: evangelicism
evangelicity
unevangelic
evangelic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /iːvænˈd͡ʒɛlɪk/
Forms: form: evangelics
Etymology: From Old French evangelique (French évangélique).
Senses: glosses: evangelical
Georgism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From George + -ism; from the writings of American economist Henry George (1839–1897).
Senses: glosses: An economic philosophy stating that things found in nature, most importantly land, belong equally to all. It is usually associated with the idea of a single tax on the value of land.
Synonyms: Geoism
Related terms: Georgist
change of tack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: changes of tack
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The act of tacking, turning into the wind so the sail moves to the opposite side.
glosses: A reversal of an opinion.
rone pipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rone pipe
wickmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪkmeɪkə/
Forms: form: wickmakers
Etymology: From wick + maker.
Senses: examples: text: Piggot Samuel, watchmaker 215½ Hudson
Piggott Augusta wickmaker 159 Grand
ref: 1837, New-York Register and City Directory for the sixty-second year of American independence, page 494:
text: […] apparently assumes that the Talmud does not totally reject that there was a wickmaker’s office.
ref: 1986, Nosson Scherman, Meir Zlotowitz, The Mishnah, volume 2, part 2, page 90:
text: She was renowned throughout the city as […] Sarah the wickmaker.
ref: 1995, Annals of Iraqi Jewry (Ḳehilot Yiśraʼel, ʻIraḳ), page 115
glosses: Someone who makes wicks.
ant mill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ant mills
Senses: synonyms: death spiral
glosses: A phenomenon where a group of army ants, separated from the main foraging party, lose the pheromone track and begin to follow one another, forming a continuously rotating circle and eventually dying of exhaustion.
wickmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wickmaker
insensates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insensate
psychophants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychophant
untrussing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of untruss
untrusses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of untruss
line-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪn.ʌp/
Forms: form: line-ups
Etymology: Deverbal from line up.
Senses: examples: text: The result in Greece meant Tottenham could not progress, no matter how many goals they scored against Rovers but, after making nine changes to his starting line-up, Harry Redknapp will be pleased with the performance of his fringe players.
ref: 2011 December 15, Marc Higginson, “Shamrock Rovers 0 - 4 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport:
text: The railway faces a line-up of strong-willed metro mayors with four-year terms and a new big-majority government covering the same period.
ref: 2024 November 13, Peter Plisner, “Rail's role in Labour's "devolution revolution"”, in RAIL, number 1022, page 61:
glosses: Alternative spelling of lineup.
line-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of line-up
short stuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shortstuff
Senses: examples: text: Snarks cut in. "I know all about that sort of thing! And I can tell a demon from a phantom as well as the next magical creature!"
"Yes," the Brownie replied. "But did you?"
"Listen, short stuff!" Snarks was shouting now.
ref: 1986, Craig Shaw Gardner, A Multitude of Monsters:
text: "Okay, short stuff," he said upon reaching the kitchen table where they'd started. "Time for bed. You too, Grace."
ref: 2002, Sandra Steffen, Day by Day:
glosses: Term of address for a child or small person.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Deliveries that bounce relatively far from the batsman or batswoman.
whanghee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whanghees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whangee.
whanghees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whanghee
astrolaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From astro- + law.
Senses: examples: text: At present astrolaw is only an aspect or a subdivision of general space law.
ref: 1986, National Legal Center for the Public Interest, American enterprise, the law, and the commercial use of space:
text: Astrolaw contemplates the practice of law in outer space, the direct subjects being national and legal persons.
ref: 1987, J. Henry Glazer, International law perspective, volume 9:
text: The concept is astrolaw, a developing theory of law and lawyering for the 21st century. Astrolaw wants to apply the rule of law to people in space, beginning with onboard justice implemented by lawyers in space.
ref: 1990, American Bar Association, Barrister, volume 14:
glosses: The practice of law in outer space.
astrointerferometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astrointerferometer
basilicon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basilicons
form: basilicum
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek βασιλικόν (basilikón) (also in the form basilicum, via the Latin basilicum), the neuter form of βασιλικός (basilikós, “royal”) (basilicus in Latin), understood as in the phrase βασιλικόν φάρμακον (basilikón phármakon, “royal drug”). Doublet of basil and basilicum.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of various ointments believed to have “sovereign” virtues.
basilicons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basilicon
nondialect
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + dialect.
Senses: glosses: Not in or pertaining to dialect.
nonbasilectal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + basilectal.
Senses: glosses: Not basilectal.
enframement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enframements
Etymology: From enframe + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: The last house in the row, No. 648, is much more elaborate than the others, with a composite-order door enframement and something like a Palladian window on the second floor, richly modeled and topped with a broken pediment.
ref: 2009 April 19, Christopher Gray, “In Audubon Park, a Few Surviving Oriels”, in New York Times:
glosses: That which enframes; a frame.
enframements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enframement
nontalent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nontalents
Etymology: From non- + talent.
Senses: examples: text: The downside, though no one seems terribly worried about it, is that with new programs springing up every year, a lot of costly nurturing of nontalent takes place as well.
ref: 2009 April 19, Charles Mcgrath, “The Ponzi Workshop”, in New York Times:
glosses: Absence of talent.
glosses: An area in which one is not talented.
nontalents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nontalent
preground
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + ground.
Senses: examples: text: Nor does she cotton to combination grind-and-brew makers or anything dependent on pod packets of preground coffee.
ref: 2009 August 19, S.S. Fair, “Singing the Brews”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having been ground in advance.
wh-movement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdʌbəlju ˈeɪtʃ ˌmuvmənt/
Forms: form: wh-movements
Etymology: Most English interrogative words start with wh-, for example, who, whom, whose, what, which, when, where, why, etc. (though how is an exception).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
syntax
glosses: a syntactic phenomenon found in many languages around the world, in which interrogative words (sometimes called wh-words) or phrases show a special word order. Unlike ordinary phrases, such wh-words appear at the beginning of an interrogative clause.
Synonyms: wh-extraction
wh-fronting
Hypernyms: A-bar movement
Related terms: wh-in-situ
wh-island
wh-word
parasitic gap
prehadronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From prehadron + -ic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of or pertaining to prehadrons.
pixelating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pixelate
pixelates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pixelate
pixellate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pixellates
form: pixellating
form: pixellated
form: pixellated
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pixelate.
pixellates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pixellate
pixellating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pixellate
reappropriation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reappropriations
Etymology: From re- + appropriation.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of reappropriating.
reappropriations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reappropriation
wiredrawn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of wiredraw
wiredraws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wiredraw
wiredrawing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wiredrawings
Etymology: From wiredraw + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Out of all that rubbish of Arab idolatries, argumentative theologies, traditions, subtleties, rumours and hypotheses of Greeks and Jews, with their idle wiredrawings, this wild man of the Desert [Muhammad], with his wild sincere heart, earnest as death and life, with his great flashing natural eyesight, had seen into the kernel of the matter.
ref: 1840 May 8, Thomas Carlyle, “Lecture II. The Hero as Prophet. Mahomet: Islam.”, in On Heroes, Hero-Worship and The Heroic in History, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1840, →OCLC, page 58:
glosses: gerund of wiredraw: the stretching of words, etc. to suit one's own purposes.
wiredrawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From wiredraw + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wiredraw
microcelebrity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microcelebrities
form: micro-celebrity
Etymology: From micro- + celebrity. Coined by Theresa Senft in 2008.
Senses: examples: text: It was in this culture of microcelebrity that Anderson, an intellectual drifter who had been a hacker in his teens, saw an opportunity for MySpace.
ref: 2009 April 19, Michael Agger, “Dude, Murdoch Friended Us!”, in New York Times:
text: Microcelebrity involves ways of relating to audiences that developed with earlier forms of participatory technology and have shifted with the introduction of new platforms. Senft (2008) first described microcelebrity in her study of camgirls, women using webcams in the late 1990s to share about their lives.
ref: 2018, Zizi Papacharissi, A Networked Self and Platforms, Stories, Connections, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: Celebrity on a small scale or in a specific area.
examples: text: Gary's personal brand skyrocketed as he became a micro-celebrity, and speaking engagements started pouring in. It wasn't long before he started to affect the culture around him.
ref: 2010, Juliette Powell, Social Media as Your New Business Platform, FT Press, →ISBN:
text: Once a stopover for starving artists and gin-blossomed locals, Fanelli Cafe in Manhattan has become the choice meeting place for micro-celebrities brandishing hot dogs and Miista-heeled shoppers craving mid-spree martinis.
ref: 2025 July 1, Annie Armstrong, “LooksMapping Rates Restaurants on How Hot the Customers Are”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A celebrity whose fame is on a small scale or in a specific area.
microcelebrities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micro-celebrities
Senses: glosses: plural of microcelebrity
sectionwide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From section + -wide.
Senses: examples: text: […]a sectionwide cheer went up for the Yankee hitter Jorge Posada[…]
ref: 2009 April 19, Bruce Weber, “Seasoned Fan Satisfies Appetite at New Yankee Stadium”, in New York Times:
glosses: Throughout a section.
shes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of she
nonsiphonate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + siphonate.
Senses: glosses: Not siphonate.
slicken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪkən
Forms: form: slickens
form: slickening
form: slickened
form: slickened
Etymology: From slick + -en.
Senses: examples: text: Sweat dewed her skin, slickening it.
ref: 2001, Nora Roberts, Hidden Star:
glosses: To make slick.
Derived terms: rain-slickened
water-slickened
slicken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪkən
Forms: form: more slicken
form: most slicken
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:slicken.
topics: business
mining
glosses: Sleek; smooth.
Related terms: slickens
slickened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slicken
slickening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slicken
slickens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of slicken
slickens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ultimately a reference to the slimy, slick nature of the material. Compare slicken (“smooth”, adjective), slick (noun).
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:slickens.
glosses: Fine, harmful, and (when wet) slimy pulverized rock, a waste product (pollution) produced by hydraulic mining and quartz milling, which can silt up rivers and accumulate on soil downstream of such activities.
slickensides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slickenside
shloka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shlokas
form: sloka
form: sloke
form: śloka
Etymology: From Sanskrit श्लोक (śloka).
Senses: examples: text: But it's not to be yet. There's a series of slokas to be recited.
ref: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 268:
text: They had heard Swamiji on their radio sets describe yoga asanas and quote shlokas from ancient Sanskrit texts.
ref: 2004, Khushwant Singh, Burial at Sea, Penguin, published 2014, page 3:
glosses: A distich of Sanskrit verse, in which each line contains sixteen syllables.
Derived terms: sloka meter
shlokas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shloka
slokas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sloka
slurrily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more slurrily
form: most slurrily
Etymology: From slurry + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: “I want to see how people who come here hold themselves and their drinks,” he explained slurrily, guzzling his own.
ref: 2009 April 19, Leanne Shear, “O.K., So It’s Not That European”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a slurry manner.
specularization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: specularizations
Etymology: From specular + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: Here is a sentence (or what I took to be one because it ended with a period) from the contribution by the Frenchman Jacques Derrida, the volume’s most prestigious name: “He speaks his mother tongue as the language of the other and deprives himself of all reappropriation, all specularization in it.”
ref: 2009 April 19, Walter Kirn, “Deconstructing Princeton”, in New York Times:
glosses: The act or process of specularizing.
specularizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of specularization
unspectacled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + spectacled.
Senses: glosses: Not wearing spectacles.
Synonyms: unbespectacled
unbespectacled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + bespectacled.
Senses: glosses: Not wearing spectacles.
Synonyms: unspectacled
specularities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of specularity
taxonomizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taxonomizers
Etymology: From taxonomize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Children are irrepressible taxonomizers, placing the world of distinct individuals into categories based on their appearance, their patterns of movement and their presumed deeper natures, and some psychologists have argued that the hard-wired capacity to organize and structure the world is specially adapted to nature: we are natural-born zoologists and botanists.
ref: 2009 April 19, Paul Bloom, “Natural Happiness”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who, or that which, taxonomizes.
taxonomizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taxonomizer
quippiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: We were the cutest, quippiest girls there were. We weren't sarcastic, and we weren't selling our bodies for humor or anything like that. We actually got laughs by acting like ladies.
ref: 1996, Mae Clarke, James Curtis, Featured player: an oral autobiography of Mae Clarke:
glosses: superlative form of quippy: most quippy
untoothsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untoothsome
form: most untoothsome
Etymology: From un- + toothsome.
Senses: examples: text: But the deer, perhaps in solidarity with the native trees, ate my magnolias, camellias and even several obviously untoothsome holly trees.
ref: 2009 April 19, Wells Tower, “Felled Wood”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not toothsome.
chairwomanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chairwomanships
Etymology: From chairwoman + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: One of the officials said he was familiar with the transcript of “at least one phone call” in which Ms. Harman discussed weighing in with the department on the investigation of the Aipac officials and her possible chairwomanship of the Intelligence Committee.
ref: 2009 April 21, Neil A. Lewis, “Lawmaker Is Said to Have Agreed to Aid Lobbyists”, in New York Times:
glosses: The office or term of chairwoman.
chairwomanships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chairwomanship
electroejaculation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electroejaculations
Etymology: From electro- + ejaculation.
Senses: examples: text: Before treatment, boys who have gone through puberty can provide semen samples through masturbation, electroejaculation or surgical sperm extraction.
ref: 2009 April 21, Jane E. Brody, “Family Planning When Cancer Intrudes”, in New York Times:
glosses: A procedure for obtaining semen samples by stimulating nerves in the rectum, resulting in contraction of the pelvic muscles and ejaculation.
Related terms: electroejaculate
electroejaculator
immunocontraceptive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunocontraceptives
Etymology: From immuno- + contraceptive.
Senses: examples: text: The real answer, according to Jay F. Kirkpatrick, director of the nonprofit science and conservation center at ZooMontana in Billings, is an immunocontraceptive called P.Z.P.
ref: 2009 April 21, Jim Robbins, “As Wild Horses Breed, a Voice for Contraception”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any drug that causes immunocontraception.
immunocontraceptives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunocontraceptive
PZP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of porcine zona pellucida.
houseled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of housel
houseling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: houselings
Etymology: From Middle English houselyng, housling, from Old English hūslung (“administration of the sacrament”), from Old English hūslian (“to administer the sacrament”), equivalent to housel + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act of administering the eucharist.
houseling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English houselyng, housling, from Old English hūslung (“administration of the sacrament”), from Old English hūslian (“to administer the sacrament”), equivalent to housel + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the eucharist.
glosses: Pertaining to any of the sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church, such as marriage.
Derived terms: houseling people
houseling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English houselyng, housling, from Old English hūslung (“administration of the sacrament”), from Old English hūslian (“to administer the sacrament”), equivalent to housel + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of housel
houseling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: houselings
Etymology: From house + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: There was a copula up there, one of those small, windowed houselings whose pointed roof inevitably supported the weathervane, as it did here.
ref: 2011, John Knauf, The Ropewalk:
glosses: A small or miniature house.
examples: text: It meant that pallid houselings sat in the sunshine and got well.
ref: 1889, The Homiletic review, volume 17, page 188:
glosses: One who frequently remains indoors or at home.
glosses: A tame animal, or one reared by hand.
Synonyms: sense: small house
word: houselet
houselling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of housel
houselled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of housel
Haietlik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A mythical sea serpent from Nootka mythology.
insurability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insurabilities
Etymology: From insure + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: Doing so could be crucial to his future insurability because federal law allows insurers to deny coverage for pre-existing conditions when there has been a gap in coverage of at least 63 days.
ref: 2009 April 21, Kevin Sack, “With Son in Remission, Family Looks for Coverage”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being insurable.
Derived terms: uninsurability
noncoverage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noncoverages
Etymology: From non- + coverage.
Senses: glosses: Absence of coverage; the state of not being covered.
neurophysical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + physical.
Senses: examples: text: For example, in a 2004 study in The Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, the researchers noted the difficulty of devising such a study but settled on one in which 86 healthy participants, 15 to 90 years old, were asked to perform tests in which they estimated the amount of time needed to draw a clock and the duration of a neurophysical evaluation they underwent.
ref: 2009 April 21, C. Claiborne Ray, “Time’s Winged Arrow”, in New York Times:
glosses: Pertaining to the nervous system and the physical body.
Derived terms: neurophysically
neurophenomenological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neurophenomenological
form: most neurophenomenological
Etymology: From neuro- + phenomenological.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to neurophenomenology.
prophetlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prophetlike
form: most prophetlike
Etymology: From prophet + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Park, an unemployed 31-year-old who wrote about economic matters, gained an almost prophetlike status among many South Koreans after he correctly predicted the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the crash of the South Korean currency and the effects of the American subprime mortgage crisis on South Korea.
ref: 2009 April 21, Choe Sang-Hun, “South Korea Frees Blogger Who Angered Government”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a prophet.
Nootka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nootkas
form: Nootka
Etymology: From Nootka nuutkaa (“go around”), a direction given to European explorers reaching Nootka Sound, subsequently misapplied to the location and group.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Nuu-chah-nulth people, an indigenous people from Vancouver Island, Canada
Nootka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Nootka nuutkaa (“go around”), a direction given to European explorers reaching Nootka Sound, subsequently misapplied to the location and group.
Senses: glosses: The Nuu-chah-nulth language.
Related terms: Nootka cypress
Nootka Sound
Nootka Island
Nootka Fault
repressurizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repressurize
repressurizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repressurize
repressurized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repressurize
semireclined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + reclined.
Senses: examples: text: Women who lay down — lying flat, in a semireclined position or on their sides — were no more likely than those who sat upright or stood to have unexpected needs like a Caesarean section.
ref: 2009 April 21, Nicholas Bakalar, “Having a Baby: Activity May Decrease Length of Labor”, in New York Times:
glosses: Somewhat reclined.
tearily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tearily
form: most tearily
Etymology: From teary + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: When Danna Walker left the second-floor conference room and returned tearily to her desk — where someone had already deposited a packing box for her belongings — her first thought was not of the 14 years she had worked for DHL or the loss of her $37,000-a-year salary.
ref: 2009 April 21, Kevin Sack, “With Son in Remission, Family Looks for Coverage”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a teary manner.
nonabdominal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + abdominal.
Senses: glosses: Not abdominal.
counterkilling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterkillings
Etymology: From counter- + killing.
Senses: examples: text: The mob pummeled the men suspected of being thugs, and this normally tranquil spot exploded into a melee of killings and counterkillings that left nearly 30 people dead.
ref: 2009 April 22, Jeffrey Gettleman, “Kenyan Town Strikes Back Against Its Tormenters”, in New York Times:
glosses: A killing carried out in response to another killing.
counterkillings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterkilling
mezcals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mezcal
nonwind
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + wind.
Senses: examples: text: The supply charge for electricity from nonwind sources ranges from approximately 10 to 15 cents per kilowatt hour — not simply “13 or 14 cents,” which is the average.
ref: 2009 April 22, Jane L. Levere, “Some of the Bright Lights of New York’s Businesses Are Powered by Wind”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to wind.
schlockier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of schlocky: more schlocky
schlockbuster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schlockbusters
Etymology: Blend of schlock + blockbuster
Senses: examples: text: If the stalker thriller “Obsessed,” which opens on Friday, tops the box office, Clinton R. Culpepper will cement his reputation as Hollywood’s king of the schlockbuster.
ref: 2009 April 22, Michael Cieply, “He’s Behind the Guffaws and the Gore”, in New York Times:
glosses: A schlocky blockbuster; a film that is tasteless and inferior but still very successful.
schlockbusters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schlockbuster
spokescreature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spokescreatures
Etymology: Blend of spokesperson + creature.
Senses: examples: text: The duck is the spokescreature for Aflac, formally the American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus.
ref: 2009 April 22, Stuart Elliott, “Not Daffy or Donald, but Still Aflac’s Rising Star”, in New York Times:
text: The bee, acting in his capacity as spokescreature for the swarming things, adds his buzzing voice to the proceedings[…]
ref: 2011, Dominic Pettman, Human Error: Species-Being and Media Machines, page 70:
glosses: A creature used as a spokesperson.
spokescreatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spokescreature
syllabically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From syllabic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Entries on her personal Twitter stream are all written as senryu, a syllabically constrained poetic form like haiku.
ref: 2009 April 22, Lawrence Downes, “Take 1 Recipe, Mince, Reduce, Serve”, in New York Times:
glosses: In terms of syllables.
unfollow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unfollows
form: unfollowing
form: unfollowed
form: unfollowed
Etymology: From un- + follow.
Senses: examples: text: With Twitter, it’s as easy to unfollow as it is to follow.
ref: 2009 April 22, Maureen Dowd, “To Tweet or Not to Tweet”, in New York Times:
text: The calls came from Iranian intelligence as soon as the protests began. Agents threatened the family and friends of a DW editor, telling them to cut off contact with him and to unfollow him on Instagram. The journalist was said to be a "muharebbe" (Engl. warrior against God) – which is punishable by death in Iran.
ref: 2022 December 8, “Farsi editorial team: Mixed feelings on 60th anniversary”, in DW News, archived from the original on 09 Dec 2022, Press:
qualifier: social media
glosses: To cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity).
Derived terms: unfollower
Related terms: unfriend
unsubscribe
unfollowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unfollow
unfollows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unfollow
unfoldomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unfoldome
untrustful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untrustful
form: most untrustful
Etymology: From un- + trustful.
Senses: examples: text: “They’re untrustful today, for a lot of reasons,” he added.
ref: 2009 April 22, Stuart Elliott, “Not Daffy or Donald, but Still Aflac’s Rising Star”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not trustful.
batfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of batfish
Batesian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪt.si.ən/
Forms: form: more Batesian
form: most Batesian
Etymology: From Bates + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Henry Walter Bates (1825–1892), English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals.
glosses: Of or relating to H. E. Bates (1905–1974), English writer.
Derived terms: Batesian mimicry
Bates
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /beɪts/
homophone: baits
homophone: bates
Etymology: A patronymic surname that is derived from Batte, a medieval form of the male given name Bartholomew + -s (denoting "son of") hence meaning "son of Bartholomew".
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Scott County, Arkansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in New Berlin Township, Sangamon County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Acme Township, Grand Traverse County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Iron County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A hamlet in the town of Ellington, Chautauqua County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Grant County, Oregon.
Derived terms: Bates County
Batesian
Bates method
Bates number
Bates numbering
Batesville
nonmover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonmovers
Etymology: From non- + mover.
Senses: examples: text: Over all, movers were more likely than nonmovers to be unemployed, renters, poor and black.
ref: 2009 April 23, Sam Roberts, “As Housing Market Dips, More in U.S. Are Staying Put”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who does not move house.
nonmovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonmover
waterboardings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waterboarding
dividedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dividednesses
Etymology: From divided + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: “The intensely personal energy of this dividedness, the deep-down tension in Mitchell, Selznick and Leigh between vulgarity and refinement,” she concludes, “is what gives the archetypes in ‘Gone With the Wind’ their extraordinary human resonance,” and thanks to the way the three of them threw themselves into the project, “that historical ‘costume’ story” never feels remotely past.
ref: 2009 April 24, Michiko Kakutani, “Lots of Contradictions in Birthin’ That Movie”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being divided.
Related terms: divisiveness
flapperesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flapperesque
form: most flapperesque
Etymology: From flapper + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: Ms. Haskell also goes over the autobiographical correspondences between Margaret Mitchell and her two creations, Scarlett and Melanie, contrasting the author’s tomboy childhood and flapperesque youth with the ladylike gentility she assumed later in life; her fierce determination to become a writer and her fear of the social backlash the publication of her novel might set off.
ref: 2009 April 24, Michiko Kakutani, “Lots of Contradictions in Birthin’ That Movie”, in New York Times:
glosses: Reminiscent of a flapper (unconventional young woman of the 1920s).
nodelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nodelike
form: most nodelike
Etymology: From node + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Its ability to absorb new ideas and collaborate with other mediums is evident in installations like Kelley Walker’s digital layering of bright cabochon shapes and news images of disasters, which form a kind of wallpaper for further works, or Jim Lambie’s relatively low-tech wall piece, where appropriated images of eyes held in place by black tape form networks of alien, nodelike clusters that challenge and deflect our gaze with the horrors of mascara gone mad.
ref: 2009 April 24, Roberta Smith, “MoMA Pushes the Envelope in Works on Paper”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a node.
unrepenting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrepenting
form: most unrepenting
Etymology: From un- + repenting.
Senses: glosses: Not repenting.
unrepentance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + repentance.
Senses: glosses: Lack of repentance; failure to repent.
rainscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rainscapes
Etymology: From rain + -scape.
Senses: glosses: A landscape dominated by rain.
rainscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rainscape
rainbowish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rainbowish
form: most rainbowish
Etymology: From rainbow + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a rainbow.
ekiden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 駅伝.
Senses: examples: text: Kenyan runners were highly sought after to anchor teams that competed in the Japanese distance relay, known as ekiden, in which 10 runners often combine to cover more than 200 kilometers.
ref: 2009 April 25, Joshua Robinson, “Olympic Champion Leads New Wave of Marathoners”, in New York Times:
glosses: A Japanese long-distance relay race, typically on roads.
jaipong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The governor of West Java, a member of the Prosperous Justice Party, tried to ban a dance called jaipong, deeming it too erotic, but many people view it as part of their cultural heritage.
ref: 2009 April 25, Norimitsu Onishi, “Indonesia’s Voters Retreat From Radical Islam”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of jaipongan.
jaipongan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jaipong
Etymology: Borrowed from Sundanese ᮏᮄᮕᮧᮍᮔ᮪ (jaipongan).
Senses: glosses: A traditional dance of the Sundanese people of Indonesia.
postsale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + sale.
Senses: examples: text: So-called postsale revenue, which includes the sale of ink and other supplies to companies that already own or lease Xerox machines, fell 14 percent, to $2.78 billion.
ref: 2009 April 25, The Associated Press, “Xerox Earnings Meet Revised Outlook”, in New York Times:
glosses: After a sale.
tulku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tulkus
Etymology: Borrowed from Tibetan སྤྲུལ་སྐུ (sprul sku, “tulku”).
Senses: examples: text: The abbot is considered a tulku by Tibetans and called a living Buddha in Chinese — an especially revered figure who is believed to be the essence of a prominent religious leader.
ref: 2009 April 25, Edward Wong, “Senior Tibetan Cleric Faces Prison in China”, in New York Times:
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: hutukhtu
glosses: A high-ranking lama who can choose the manner of his or her rebirth.
tulkus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tulku
antiblast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + blast.
Senses: examples: text: Hescos — antiblast protection consisting of big wire containers of rubble — defy all attempts at decoration.
ref: 2009 April 26, Rod Nordland, “Iraq’s False Spring”, in New York Times:
glosses: Countering a blast.
antiemotional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiemotional
form: most antiemotional
Etymology: From anti- + emotional.
Senses: examples: text: For two decades he lectured on the emergence of Western lay Zen, arguing against what he saw as the antiemotional bias of monastic Asian Zen in favor of an approach that integrated psychological experience into meditation practice.
ref: 2009 April 26, Chip Brown, “Enlightenment Therapy”, in New York Times:
glosses: Opposing emotion.
Diogenean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˌɒdʒəˈnɪən/
Forms: form: more Diogenean
form: most Diogenean
Etymology: From Diogenes + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Diogenes.
antiartistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiartistic
form: most antiartistic
Etymology: From anti- + artistic.
Senses: glosses: Opposing art.
birthmarked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From birthmark + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Flory was standing against the veranda rail, half facing the girl, but keeping his birthmarked cheek hidden.
ref: 1934, George Orwell, chapter 6, in Burmese Days:
text: In death, Reuben, with his birthmarked red face, is finally more ferociously alive to his father than he ever was as a boy struggling to fit in.
ref: 2009 April 26, Victoria Redel, “Dangerously Close”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having a birthmark.
extraliterary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extraliterary
form: most extraliterary
Etymology: From extra- + literary.
Senses: examples: text: For all the obvious extraliterary reasons, “This Is Water” is often an extremely painful reading experience, and in this opinion I cannot imagine I will be alone.
ref: 2009 April 26, Tom Bissell, “Great and Terrible Truths”, in New York Times:
glosses: Outside literature.
herbologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herbologists
Etymology: From herbology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: His mother retired as a concert pianist; she is a herbologist and acupuncturist in private practice in New City.
ref: 2009 April 26, “Angie Kim and Daniel Keh”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who studies herbology.
herbologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herbologist
monographing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of monograph
monographed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of monograph
photofinisher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photofinishers
Etymology: From photo + finisher.
Senses: examples: text: The older man, who had rented space on Mr. Silverman’s floor in Ovington Studios, a seven-story building of artist studios near Cadman Plaza on the edge of Brooklyn Heights, introduced himself as Emil Goldfus, a retired photofinisher and an amateur painter.
ref: 2009 April 26, Nathan Ward, “The Spy of Cadman Plaza”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who develops customers' films into photographic prints.
photofinishers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photofinisher
postflood
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + flood.
Senses: examples: text: Like many postflood sights, the specter of Neck Wound dragged on and on.
ref: 2009 April 26, Cheryl Wagner, “Wound, Tooth, Time”, in New York Times:
glosses: After a flood.
preflood
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + flood.
Senses: glosses: Before a flood.
Synonyms: antediluvian
Eburones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Belgic people of Germanic or Celtic descent who lived in the upper north of Gaul in ancient times.
semiproductive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + productive.
Senses: examples: text: And trust me, it may take decades, but this woman will get over you eventually, and even go on to live a semiproductive life.
ref: 2009 April 26, Philip Galanes, “Make Mine a Double”, in New York Times:
glosses: Somewhat or partly productive.
semisub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semisubs
form: semi-sub
Etymology: Clipping of semisubmersible. Analyzable as semi- + sub.
Senses: glosses: A semisubmersible
semisubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semisub
diseconomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diseconomy
multiflavored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multiflavored
form: most multiflavored
form: multiflavoured
Etymology: From multi- + flavored.
Senses: examples: text: Did it really need a lengthy exploration of the ice cream business, replete with the smell of Belgian waffle cones and culminating in horror-film visions of deliquescent, multiflavored goo?
ref: 2009 April 27, Janet Maslin, “Black Teenage Memories, Under the Hamptons Sun”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having more than one flavor.
clofazimine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kloʊˈfæz.ɪˌmin/
Etymology: From chlo(ro)- + ph(en)az(ine) + imine.
Senses: examples: text: Another drug, clofazimine, used more than a century ago to treat leprosy, may be effective against autoimmune disorders like multiple sclerosis and psoriasis.
ref: 2009 April 28, Kate Murphy, “With Aid of Drug Library, New Remedies From Old”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A reddish brown fat-soluble powdered dye C₂₇H₂₂Cl₂N₄ that is a derivative of riminophenazine used especially to treat lepromatous leprosy.
clodronates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clodronate
riminophenazines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riminophenazine
fiendishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiendishnesses
Etymology: From fiendish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: He added, “I didn’t give enough credit to the fiendishness of the C.I.A.”
ref: 2009 April 28, Brian Stelter, “How ’07 ABC Interview Tilted a Torture Debate”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being fiendish.
noncomminuted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + comminuted.
Senses: glosses: not comminuted