cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
perfluorotributylamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From per- + fluoro- + tributyl + amine.
Senses: glosses: A liquid whose molecular structure consists of three butyl moieties connected to an amine center, in which the hydrogen atoms have all been replaced with fluorine. It is produced by the electronics industry and is a potent greenhouse gas.
chlorodiphenylphosphine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An organophosphorus compound with the formula (C₆H₅)₂PCl, used as a reagent.
acetylferrocene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From acetyl + ferrocene.
Senses: glosses: A solid orange organoiron compound with the chemical formula (C₅H₅)Fe(C₅H₄COMe).
dimethazone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: clomazone
recrystallizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From recrystallize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being recrystallized.
clofenvinfos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From (di)chlo(ro)phen(yl) + vin(yl) + -fos (“phosphorous derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An organophosphorus compound once widely used as an insecticide.
sulfamethazine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: sulfadimidine
anhalonine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Anhalonium + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid isolated from Lophophora williamsii.
quinalphos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An organothiophosphate chemical chiefly used as a pesticide.
butylphthalide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: One of the chemical constituents in celery oil.
sedanolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: One of the chemical constituents in celery oil.
selinene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selinenes
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of closely related sesquiterpenes with molecular formula C₁₅H₂₄, isolated from various plant sources.
selinenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of selinene
benthiocarb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A thiocarbamate cholinesterase inhibitor used as a herbicide.
isopropylamphetamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iso- + propylamphetamine.
Senses: glosses: An isomer of propylamphetamine. It is a psychostimulant.
propylamphetamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From propyl + amphetamine.
Senses: glosses: A psychostimulant drug and research chemical of the phenethylamine and amphetamine chemical classes.
Derived terms: isopropylamphetamine
psychostimulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more psychostimulatory
form: most psychostimulatory
Etymology: From psycho- + stimulatory.
Senses: glosses: Acting as a psychostimulant.
sigmodal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A barbiturate derivative formerly used in surgical anesthesia.
anhalonidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A bioactive isolate of Lophophora williamsii.
phenthoate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular organothiophosphate insecticide.
dillapiole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An essential oil related to apiole, having a methoxy group positioned differently on the benzene ring.
apiole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A phenylpropene found in the essential oil (apiol) of parsley
dodecanedioic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A dicarboxylic acid used in antiseptics, engineering plastics, paints and coatings, and as a corrosion inhibitor and surfactant.
geosmins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geosmin
tributylamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An organic compound with molecular formula C₁₂H₂₇N, used as an intermediate in the manufacture of other chemical compounds and as a solvent and catalyst in organic synthesis and polymerization.
lauraldehyde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: dodecanal
dodecanal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An organic compound with chemical formula CH₃(CH₂)₁₀CHO, found in citrus oils and used in perfumery.
Synonyms: lauraldehyde
sulphasomidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sulfisomidine.
kyboshes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kybosh
kyboshing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kybosh
kyboshed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kybosh
headstoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From headstone + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Where the frost was graying / The headstoned grass
ref: 1917, Thomas Hardy, The Choirmaster's Burial:
glosses: Marked with, or as if with, a headstone or headstones.
hearthward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hearth + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Toward a hearth.
hearthward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hearth + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Toward a hearth.
hearthwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hearth + -wards.
Senses: glosses: Towards a hearth.
greyhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greyheads
Etymology: From grey + head.
Senses: examples: text: Alas, what greyhead perseveres!
ref: 1904, Thomas Hardy, 'Time’s Laughingstocks: A Summer Romance' in The Fortnightly Review
text: the theatre is predominated by the usual greyheads (average age one hundred)
ref: 2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 42:
glosses: Alternative spelling of grayhead.
greyheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greyhead
heartmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑːt.meɪt/
ipa: /ˈhɑɹt.meɪt/
Forms: form: heartmates
Etymology: From heart + -mate.
Senses: examples: text: But the moon is a sorry one, sad the bird's tune, / For this spot is unknown to that Heartmate of mine.
ref: 1914, Thomas Hardy, The Difference:
text: An independent cartographer and an aspiring actor resist the fact that they are each others' heartmates.
ref: 2012, Kristin Ramsdell, Romance Fiction: A Guide to the Genre, page 327:
glosses: A sweetheart.
heartmates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heartmate
harpsicord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harpsicords
Senses: examples: text: “The tender pat
Of her aery finger-tips
Upon me daily—I rejoiced thereat!”
(Thuswise a harpsicord, as from dampered lips.)
ref: 1922, Thomas Hardy, 'Haunting Fingers: A Phantasy in a Museum of Musical Instruments' in Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses, Macmillan, page 60
glosses: Dated form of harpsichord.
harpsicords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harpsicord
gravemound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gravemounds
Etymology: From grave + mound.
Senses: glosses: A tumulus over a tomb.
gravemounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gravemound
growings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of growing
gossamered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gossamer + -ed.
Senses: examples: M. Cunningham, The Green Age of Asher Witherow
From atop the banks I could see over most of the buildings along Main Street, gossamered with dark smoke.
glosses: Covered with, or as if with, gossamer.
gossamere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of gossamer.
housefellow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: housefellows
Etymology: From house + fellow.
Senses: glosses: A person in charge of an academic hall of residence.
housefellows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of housefellow
hurtlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hurtling
householdry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From household + -ry.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of household arts.
synonyms: word: household arts
houseback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: housebacks
Etymology: From house + back.
Senses: examples: text: Out from a deep-delved way my vision lit / On housebacks pink, green, ochreous […]
ref: 1901, Thomas Hardy, Genoa and The Mediterranean:
text: The light on the policeman's lantern glared over the ghastly scene—along the double row of miserable housebacks, which lined the sides of the open tidal ditch […]
ref: 1850, Charles Kingsley, Alton Locke:
glosses: The rear of a house.
housebacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of houseback
germed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of germ
germing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of germ
hueing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hue + -ing.
Senses: glosses: A colour change in fabric caused by repeated exposure to colorants.
northern hairy-nosed wombat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: northern hairy-nosed wombats
Senses: examples: text: The decline of the northern hairy-nosed wombats has been largely human-related.
ref: 2018 May 10, Christopher Knaus, The Guardian:
glosses: A species of wombat, Lasiorhinus krefftii, now found only in Queensland, Australia.
northern hairy-nosed wombats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of northern hairy-nosed wombat
handpost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handposts
Etymology: From hand + post.
Senses: examples: text: Long Ash Lane cut athwart them, right and left; and they saw that at the junction of the four ways, under the handpost, a grave was dug, into which, as the choir drew nigh, a corpse had just been thrown by the four Sidlinch men employed for the purpose.
ref: 1897, Thomas Hardy, The Grave by the Handpost:
text: Here too were the dainty frontispiece and trim vignette, pointing like handposts on the outskirts of great cities, to the rich stock of incident beyond […]
ref: 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC:
glosses: A kind of signpost indicating what lies in various directions.
handposts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handpost
desync
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: desyncs
form: desyncing
form: desynching
form: desynced
form: desynced
form: desynched
form: desynched
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: Banned members will attack the channel with floods, desyncing, and netsplitting — all are automated with bots.
ref: 2001, Roger Grimes, Malicious Mobile Code: Virus Protection for Windows, page 242:
text: If the channel were simply desynced, the reset of the TS and clearing of modes on all servers would likewise fix that problem, and the automatic CHANFIX process would take over.
ref: 2004, Paul Mutton, IRC Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools, page 42:
glosses: Clipping of desynchronize.
desync
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desyncs
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of desynchronization.
desynced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of desync
desyncing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of desync
desyncs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of desync
desyncs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desync
opless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From op + -less.
Senses: examples: text: There's also #drum - a opless hangout for bofhs with a large LART who aren't afraid to use it.
ref: 1999, Tachyon, “Re: [I] IRC - I'm confused/in need of help”, in alt.fan.pratchett (Usenet):
text: Another thing I suggest is opless channels.
ref: 2001, cLIeNUX user, “Re: [9fans] irc client (maybe server) project looking for contributors”, in comp.os.plan9 (Usenet):
topics: IRC
glosses: Without ops (channel operators).
egregor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egregors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of egregore.
egregore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛɡɹɪɡɔɹ/
Forms: form: egregores
form: egregor
Etymology: From French égrégore (“spirit of a group”), from the Ancient Greek substantive of ἐγρήγορος (egrḗgoros, “wakeful”) meaning watcher, angel in the Book of Enoch.
Senses: examples: text: When men multiplied, says the author, they had daughters of an exquisite beauty, so amiable that the Egregores, or the guardian Angels, conceived a violent passion for them.
ref: 1815, Robert Mayo, A New System of Mythology:
text: […] but I must be fair, and point out that there are those who fancy he is a fallen angel, an Egregore, a guardian angel of somebody else's property, and if he really is an Egregore he may be grandfather to the Nephelim, and great grandfather to the Eliud.
ref: 1884, Benjamin Charles Jones, Allegories, discources, dissertations, disquisitions, episodes, legends, parables, problems, & proverbs on fact and fiction, past and present, and the world:
glosses: An angelic being from the Book of Enoch.
examples: text: In magical esoteric circles an egregore is commonly understood to be a magical psychic entity consciously or unconsciously created by a couple or a group as an encapsulation and merger of their collective aspirations and ideals.
ref: 2013, Anaiya Sophia, Sacred Sexual Union: The Alchemy of Love, Power, and Wisdom:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
occult
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An autonomous psychic entity that is composed of, and influences, the thoughts of a group of people.
halterpath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halterpaths
Etymology: From halter + path.
Senses: glosses: bridleway
halterpaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halterpath
gristlehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gristleheads
Etymology: From gristle + head.
Senses: examples: text: "Most bull riders are what you call gristleheads," says Mike Lee, 23, who has won $2 million in five years of riding. "If you're intelligent, you wouldn't do it."
ref: 2006, Time, volume 168:
glosses: A stupid person.
gristleheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gristlehead
desynch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: desynchs
form: desynching
form: desynched
form: desynched
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of desync.
desynch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desynchs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of desync.
resynch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resynchs
form: resynching
form: resynched
form: resynched
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of resync.
resynch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resynchs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of resync.
resynched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resynch
resynching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resynch
desynching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of desynch
desynched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of desynch
resynchs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resynch
resynchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resynch
desynchs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of desynch
desynchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desynch
inlier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inliers
Etymology: From in + lier.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An area of older rocks surrounded by younger rocks, typically formed by erosion of part of the younger rock.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A value that fits a pattern, rather than being an outlier.
inliers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inlier
reutter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reutters
form: reuttering
form: reuttered
form: reuttered
Etymology: From re- + utter.
Senses: glosses: To utter again.
Related terms: reutterance
reutters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reutter
reuttering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reutter
reuttered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reutter
reutterance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reutterances
Etymology: From re- + utterance.
Senses: glosses: The act of uttering again.
reutterances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reutterance
chalcenterous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chalcenterous
form: most chalcenterous
Etymology: From chalc(o)- + Ancient Greek ἔντερον (énteron, “intestines, innards”) + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Even when facing terrible danger, she was always stolidly chalcenterous.
text: The ghost of Mr. Woodhouse himself may stare and gasp at being told that this awful preparation, this culinary corpse-reviver, apparently suited only to chalcenterous persons or those at the point of death, is a very simple mutton broth with sippets in it.
ref: 1889 November 9, The Saturday Review, London, page 538, column 1:
text: [He] did not scruple to tire less chalcenterous workers.
ref: 1948, R.W. Chapman, Lexicography. James Bryce Memorial Lecture, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 15:
text: Since the latter’s edition is intended ‘for general school and university use’, it may look as if the youth of 1961 should be viewed as considerably less chalcenterous than their predecessors of 1685.
ref: 2012, Stephen Harrison and Christopher Stray, editors, Expurgating the Classics: Editing Out in Greek and Latin, London: Bloomsbury Academic, page 164:
glosses: Having bowels of brass; tough.
Weldonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛlˈdəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /wɛlˈdoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Weldonian
form: most Weldonian
Etymology: From Weldon + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Fay Weldon (1931–2023), English author, essayist and playwright.
drap d'été
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: French, literally "cloth of summer".
Senses: glosses: A thin woollen fabric, twilled like merino.
DLLME
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction.
Danforth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Danforths
Senses: glosses: A surname.
undiagnostic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undiagnostic
form: most undiagnostic
Etymology: From un- + diagnostic.
Senses: glosses: Not diagnostic.
barratrously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more barratrously
form: most barratrously
Etymology: From barratrous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a barratrous manner.
take the cash and let the credit go
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: Some for the Glories of This World; and some / Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come; / Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, / Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!
ref: 1872, Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám:
text: "I will live my life, alone with the few people I find to my liking. I will take the cash and let the credit go."
ref: 1898, Henry Harland, “Merely Players”, in Comedies and Errors, page 52:
text: Why not "take the cash and let the credit go"? Why pursue the elusive theoretical "unification" any further, when what we daily get from our sciences is an increasing wealth of detailed information and of practical guidance?
ref: 1913, Josiah Royce, in Introduction to The Foundations of Science by Henri Poincaré, authorized translation by George Bruce Halsted, (text at Project Gutenberg)
text: [N]o religious teacher was ever more opposed than Buddha in his scheme of salvation to every form of postponement and procrastination. He would have his followers take the cash and let the credit go—though the cash in this case is not the immediate pleasure but the immediate peace.
ref: 1927, Irving Babbit, “Buddha and the Occident”, in On Literature, Cultures, and Religion, published 2006, →ISBN, page 251:
text: William Harding Johnson, $15,000-a-year superintendent of Chicago's school system, has been content to take the cash and let the credit go. He has made good money by co-authoring textbooks for Chicago's schools and from his tutoring school for teachers.
ref: 1946 January 28, “Education: Violator”, in Time, retrieved 03 Aug 2014:
text: "Take the cash and let the credit go," as Villon said in 1460. But that is a mistake if the cash is a penny and the credit a whole lifetime.
ref: 1977, Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly (2011 edition), Author's Note (Google preview)
glosses: Exploit and enjoy the opportunities and pleasures available here and now and do not invest effort pursuing prospective future gratifications.
Synonyms: carpe diem
gather rosebuds
seize the day
Related terms: a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
better an egg today than a hen tomorrow
zoster sine herpete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
virology
glosses: Herpes zoster in the absence of a rash.
scrumpox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scrum + pox, as it may be transmitted through the contact sport of rugby.
Senses: glosses: herpes gladiatorum
herpes gladiatorum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin
Senses: glosses: One of the most infectious of herpes-caused diseases, transmissible by skin-to-skin contact.
Mollaret's meningitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Pierre Mollaret, French neurologist who first described it in 1944.
Senses: glosses: A recurrent inflammation of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord.
rompered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of romper
rompering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of romper
rompering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: romperings
Senses: glosses: The abduction of a victim to a room where they are tortured and murdered.
romperings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rompering
commentator's curse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the commentator's curse
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The supposed propensity of a player to blunder after having their talents pointed out by the commentator.
Loaghtan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Loaghtans
form: Loaghtyn
form: Loghtan
Etymology: Borrowed from Manx lugh dhoan or lugh dhone which means mouse-brown and describes the colour of the sheep.
The first syllable is from luch, from *lukūts (compare Welsh llyg (“shrew”), llygod (“mice”), and Breton logod (“mice”); and the last syllable from donn, from *dusnos (“brown”), from *dʰewh₂- (“smoke”).
Senses: synonyms: Manx longhorn
glosses: A primitive, heritage sheep of a breed native to the Isle of Man, characterised by dark brown wool with usually four, or occasionally six, horns.
Loaghtans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Loaghtan
green ormer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green ormers
Senses: glosses: Haliotis tuberculata, an edible gastropod.
Daneland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Dane + -land.
Senses: glosses: Denmark
on the earie
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Listening or eavesdropping; staying alert for news.
fanqie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɑːnt͡ʃiˈeɪ/
note: Sinicized
ipa: /fɑːnˈt͡ʃjɛ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: fan-ch'ieh
form: fan-chieh
form: fanch'ieh
form: fanchieh
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 反切 (fǎnqiè).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: In traditional Chinese lexicography, a method of indicating the pronunciation of a character by using two other characters, each giving part of the pronunciation.
femmagist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: femmagists
Etymology: From femmage + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An artist who creates femmage.
gladiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Back-formation from gladiator.
Senses: glosses: combat between gladiators
homedebtor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homedebtors
Etymology: From home + debtor.
Senses: glosses: One whose unpaid mortgage on a house exceeds the house's resale value.
Related terms: negative equity
homedebtors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homedebtor
halfalogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halfalogues
Etymology: From half + -alogue.
Senses: glosses: half of a telephone conversation, overheard by a listener at one end
halfalogues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halfalogue
kakotopia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kakotopias
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cacotopia.
cacotopia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cacotopias
form: kakotopia
Etymology: From caco- + -topia, from Ancient Greek κακός (kakós, “bad”) + Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos, “place”), by rebracketing utopia as eu- + -topia, from Ancient Greek εὐ- (eu-, “good”).
Senses: glosses: A dystopia; a worst possible world.
kakotopias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kakotopia
cacotopias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cacotopia
kegler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keglers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Kegler (“bowler, bowling player”), from Kegeln (“bowling”) + -er (“-er”).
Senses: glosses: A ten-pin bowling player or enthusiast.
Related terms: kegling
keglers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kegler
Loamshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From loam + shire.
Senses: glosses: Used as an anonymous placeholder for the name of a British rural county.
lezdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛzˌdɒm/
ipa: /ˈlɛzˌdɑm/
rhymes: -ɛzdɒm
Forms: form: lezdoms
form: lesdom
Etymology: From lez (“lesbian”) + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: Similar scenes exist on the Menstruation Sluts.com website which advertises “60 menstruation lezdom photos” and which exploits this same idea, that the forced smelling and tasting of menstrual blood is something particularly abhorrent […]
ref: 2012, Lauren Rosewarne, Periods in Pop Culture: Menstruation in Film and Television, page 143:
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
hypernyms: femdom
glosses: Lesbian domination; a sexual practice in which a lesbian dominates the other woman or women.
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
synonyms: lezdomme
hypernyms: dominatrix
glosses: A lesbian dominator in sadomasochistic sexual practices.
lesdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lezdom.
labiolingual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪŋɡwəl
Etymology: From labio- + lingual.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the lips and tongue
Derived terms: labiolingually
Related terms: linguolabial
ROFLMGDMFAO
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of rolling on the floor laughing my goddamned motherfucking ass off.
ROFLMMFGDAO
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of roll on the floor laughing my motherfucking goddamned ass off.
ROMFFLMMFAO
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of roll on the motherfucking floor laughing my motherfucking ass off.
ROTFLMGDMFAO
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of rolling on the floor laughing my goddamned motherfucking ass/arse off.
ROTFLMMFGDAO
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of rolling on the floor laughing my motherfucking goddamned ass/arse off.
salicology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See Salix (“willow genus”) + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The study of willow trees.
Southern Gothic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒθɪk
Senses: glosses: A subgenre of Gothic fiction, set in the American South.
softcodes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of softcode
softcoding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of softcode
tempest-tost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tempest-tost
form: most tempest-tost
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of tempest-tossed.
tantrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tantra + -ism.
Senses: glosses: tantric beliefs and practices generally
ivoried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ivory + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Decorated with ivory.
glosses: Furnished with teeth.
interblent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of interblend
inborne
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in + borne.
Senses: glosses: borne inward
immuning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of immune
immuned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of immune
chely
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of chela (“pincer-like claw”).
chelydre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chelydres
Etymology: From Middle English chelidre, chelyder, chelydre, from Old French chelidre, chelydre, from Latin chelȳdrus (“fetid water serpent”), from Ancient Greek χέλυδρος (khéludros, “amphibious serpent”), from χέλυς (khélus, “tortoise”) + ὕδρος (húdros, “water serpent”). Cognate of French chélydre.
Senses: glosses: A fetid water snake.
semifrequent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + frequent.
Senses: glosses: Moderately frequent.
fratire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of frat + satire
Senses: examples: text: It is up to you to prove that guy did not use mathematics in his livelihood. he wrote a comedy/fratire book.....that doesn't require mathematics to do.
ref: 2013, Michael Press, “Re: maybe this is how I should have gotten married....”, in rec.sport.football.college (Usenet):
text: For those who have never encountered Maddox before: This is the website of a man who made himself successful in the early 200X's by writing a kind of vitriolic, shouty, bro-lit/fratire. Particularly famous is his fan mail response where he mocks children's artwork […]
ref: 2013, Alec Zorab, “Re: [scala-functional] Re: Math doesn't suck, you do.”, in scala-functional (Usenet):
glosses: A politically incorrect and overtly masculine style of non-fiction written for and marketed to young men.
ethoxyzolamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ethoxzolamide.
ethoxzolamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A sulfonamide medication that functions as a carbonic anhydrase inhibitor and is used to treat glaucoma and duodenal ulcers and as a diuretic.
erythrocruorin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erythrocruorins
Etymology: From erythro- + cruor + -in.
Senses: glosses: A large oxygen-carrying protein related to chlorocruorin, and found in many annelids.
erythrocruorins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of erythrocruorin
epitympanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epi- + tympanic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Above the middle ear.
eschscholzias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eschscholzia
ethoxybutamoxane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular adrenergic blocking agent.
Derived terms: chlorethoxybutamoxane
endotheliochorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endotheli(um) + -o- + chorial.
Senses: examples: text: Specialized hemophagous regions are a striking characteristic of some of these placentas yet absent in hyraxes, elephant shrews, and golden moles. It is possible that the common ancestor of the Afrotheria had an endotheliochorial placenta.
ref: 2004, “Placentation in species of phylogenetic importance: the Afrotheria”, in Animal Reproduction Science:
glosses: Of or relating to a kind of placentation where the chorionic villi are in contact with the endothelium of maternal blood vessels.
epitheliochorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epithelio- + chorial.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a kind of placentation where the chorionic villi grow into the apertures of uterine glands (epithelium).
hemochorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of haemochorial.
chelydres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chelydre
erythroxyline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Erythroxylon + -ine.
Senses: glosses: The cocaine alkaloid.
ethamivan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of etamivan.
erotogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eroto- + -genesis.
Senses: examples: the erotogenesis of religion
glosses: origination in sexuality
prologetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɒləˈd͡ʒiːtɪk/
ipa: /pɹəʊləˈd͡ʒiːtɪk/
Etymology: Probably either from the Latin prologēticus or formed in English as prologue + -etic, in both cases resembling a hypothetical Ancient Greek etymon of the form *προλογητικός (prologētikós), from πρόλογος (prólogos, “prologue”) + -ητικός (-ētikós, “-etic”), a formation akin to the extant words ἀναλογητικός (analogētikós, “analogetic”) (from ἀνάλογος (análogos), whence analogue), ἀπολογητικός (apologētikós, “apologetic”) (from ἀπόλογος (apólogos), whence apologue), and ὁμολογητικός (homologētikós, “homologetic”) (from ὁμόλογος (homólogos), whence homologue).
Senses: examples: text: PROLOGETIC. Description of Prison of Weltevreden [etc.…] 1
ref: 1855, Walter Murray Gibson, The Prison of Weltevreden, Contents, page ix:
text: The simple matter-of-fact style of the narrative is, from its unobtrusive character, more adapted for spiritual reading than the views and generalisations, and prologetic extenuations of more recent biographers.
ref: 1873, R.F. Calixte, translated by A.V.S. Sligo, The Life of the Venerable Anna Maria Taigi, page 303:
text: To this portal ascent is made by a mystic, indisputably prologetic, flight of steps.
ref: 1928, Heinrich Khunrath, translated by Manly Palmer Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, Conclusion, page 203:
qualifier: also quasi-substantive
glosses: Occurring in or serving as a prologue.
egregors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of egregor
egregores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of egregore
banner year
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banner years
Senses: examples: text: 1965 was a banner year for the company; it produced a million widgets for the first time.
text: The year just closed has been the banner year for New-Hampshire Home Missions. The amount raised for the cause is $505,38 more than ever was raised before in any one year.
ref: 1853, New-Hampshire Missionary Society, “Annual Report of the Trustees of the New Hampshire Missionary Society, Volumes 50-57”, in Annual Report of the Trustees of the New Hampshire Missionary Society, volume 53, Steam power press of McFarland & Jenks, page 16:
glosses: An especially good year; a year of exceptional production.
banner years
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banner year
midwinters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midwinter
short-legged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more short-legged
form: most short-legged
Etymology: From short + legged.
Senses: examples: text: However, small, deep-bodied, shortlegged cattle have been known in Ireland since Celtic times.
ref: 1995, Marleen Felius, Cattle Breeds: An Encyclopedia:
text: The two dogs were beagles, shortlegged and frantic, leaping in and out of the chest-high fall of snow, or plowing their noses through it and furrowing snow up and past their ears, their tails spinning, then looking up with white brows and whiskers, gnomic and hoary-faced as little old men.
ref: 2010, Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper, page 135:
text: A droll man with a quiet voice and a talent for mimicking almost anyone with tart accuracy, he had the mate down to a fault already, that officer's shortlegged strut, his mad glare and, at a much—reduced volume to avoid detection, his bullhorn bellow.
ref: 2011, Derek Lundy, The Way of a Ship: A Square-Rigger Voyage in the Last Days of Sail, page 56:
glosses: Having short legs, particularly in proportion to one's body.
Derived terms: short-leggedness
short-sightedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more short-sightedly
form: most short-sightedly
Etymology: From short-sighted + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: 'She peered short-sightedly at Poirot through her glasses, but was quite calm.'
ref: 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 5, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 107:
text: My next stop is Oxford, which has also grown with the addition of new platforms to accommodate the Chiltern Railways service to London via Bicester - although, short sightedly, the planned electrification from Paddington was canned. Evidence of the volte-face can be seen along the line at places such as Radley, where mast piles are already sunk or lie discarded at the lineside.
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, pages 67–68:
glosses: in a short-sighted manner.
contractarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From contract + -arian.
Senses: glosses: Relating to contractarianism
contractarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contractarians
Etymology: From contract + -arian.
Senses: glosses: An advocate of contractarianism
contractarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From contractarian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The political doctrine that the legitimacy of a government derives from a (normally unstated) contract between the government and the people (normally derived from an election)
short-necked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more short-necked
form: most short-necked
form: short-neck'd
Senses: antonyms: long-necked
glosses: Having a short neck
criticist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From critic + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant
criticist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: criticists
Etymology: From critic + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An advocate of the critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant
Derived terms: neocriticist
Unix time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Unix times
form: UNIX time
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: POSIX time
glosses: A widely used date and time representation that measures time by the number of nonleap seconds that have elapsed since 00:00:00 UTC on January 1, 1970.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An individual timestamp using this system.
UNIX time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: UNIX times
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Unix time.
POSIX time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: POSIX times
Etymology: From POSIX, a set of standards designed to provide portability between Unix variants.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Unix time.
synonyms: word: Unix time
phytosociological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phyto- + sociological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to phytosociology
Derived terms: phytosociologically
graphited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From graphite + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Modified by the addition of graphite
independentism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From independent + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: His emphasis on this aspect, which is a tragic contributory factor to independentism in South Africa, has established a blind spot in his analysis of the causes for the rise of the movement.
ref: 1967, Gerhardus Cornelis Oosthuizen, The Theology of a South African Messiah, page 146:
text: This projection has been the strategic underpinning of independentism since the early 1960s.
ref: 1987, Alfredo López, Dona Licha's Island: Modern Colonialism in Puerto Rico, page 129:
text: ERC’s new independentism put an end to its historic indefinition and ambiguity and was consolidated in 1989.
ref: 2014, Jaime Lluch, Visions of Sovereignty, page 58:
glosses: Advocacy of independence (for example of a non-independent state).
Related terms: independentist
independence
crepitates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crepitate
crepitating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crepitate
crepitated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crepitate
extenuacion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extenuacions
Senses: examples: text: The saide citie is much decaid…not a little to the extenuacion of that part of this realme.
ref: 1542–3, Act 34–5 Hen. VIII, c. 18
glosses: Obsolete spelling of extenuation.
extenuacions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extenuacion
you beauty
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: An exclamation of joy or enthusiasm, often said in response to a player taking a specky or kicking a great goal.
glosses: A general exclamation of happiness and joy.
HIIT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps I would struggle to do a HIIT session.
ref: 2021, Dr Philippa Kaye, Doctors Get Cancer Too, Vie Books, page 151:
text: A HIIT routine can torch more calories than a traditional endurance workout while being performed in a shorter amount of time.
ref: 2022 November 27, Melanie Radzicki McManus, “Try this interval workout to avoid HIIT burnout or injuries”, in CNN, archived from the original on 21 Jan 2023:
text: HIIT’s specific origins are uncertain; some say it dates back to at least the early 1900s and Finnish Olympic runners who would use alternating short bursts of intensity with brief bouts of recovery to bolster their overall speed.
ref: 2023 March 15, Amanda Loudin, “A 19-Minute HIIT Workout for Beginners”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2023:
topics: exercise
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: HIT
antonyms: LISS
hypernyms: HIT
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training#Noun
;
exercise#Noun
glosses: Initialism of high-intensity interval training, a form of exercise based on short bursts of intense effort, such as sprinting.
LISS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: exercise
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
antonyms: HIIT
HIT
hypernyms: training#Noun
;
exercise#Noun
glosses: Initialism of low-intensity steady state: a form of exercise that uses prolonged periods of effort at a steady pace, such as jogging.
lippings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lipping
lothly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lothly
form: most lothly
form: loathly
Etymology: From Middle English *lothli, loothly, from Old English lāþlīċe (“hatefully”); equivalent to loth + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The bodies which the plague had ſlaine were (O moſt wretched caſe) / Not caried forth to buriall now. For why ſuch ſtore there was / That ſcarce the gates were wyde inough for Coffins forth to paſſe. / So eyther lothly on the ground vnburied did they lie, / Or elſe without ſolemnitie were burnt in bonfires hie / No reuerence nor regard was had.
ref: 1567, Ovid, “The Seventh Booke”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC, folio 90, verso:
text: Even the rank poplars bear / Lothly a rival's air.
ref: 1887, Thomas Hardy, In a Wood:
glosses: In a loth manner.
limitings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of limiting
littles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] there was something of the habitude of the wild animal in the unreflecting instinct with which she rambled on — disconnecting herself by littles from her eventful past at every step, obliterating her identity […]
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles:
glosses: plural of little
leopardine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leopardine
form: most leopardine
Etymology: From leopard + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: leopardlike (sometimes synonymous)
text: My leopardine beauties are rarer
ref: 1901, Thomas Hardy, 'The Mother Mourns' in Poems of the Past and the Present, Macmillan (1903), page 73
hypernyms: pantherine#Adjective
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feline#Adjective
coordinate_terms: leonine#Adjective
tigrine#Adjective
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a leopard.
lourings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of louring
Leucadian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Leucadian
form: most Leucadian
Etymology: From Leucadia + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Leucadia, a Greek island in the Ionian Sea.
Leucadian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Leucadians
Etymology: From Leucadia + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Leucadia.
Leucadians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Leucadian
Saudi champagne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the resemblance of the drink to champagne, and in reference to Saudi Arabia, an Islamic country where drinking alcohol is forbidden.
Senses: glosses: A mixture of soda water and apple juice.
Stout
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stouts
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A former town in Larimer County, Colorado, United States.
glosses: A minor city in Grundy County, Iowa, United States.
glosses: Synonym of Rome, Adams County, Ohio.
synonyms: word: Rome
word: Adams County
word: Ohio
Derived terms: Day-Stout-Warren algorithm
sadiki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sadiqi
form: sidiki
form: sidiqi
Etymology: From Arabic صَدِيقِي (ṣadīqī, “my friend”).
Senses: glosses: homebrew alcohol; moonshine
raw_tags: in Arabic countries
sadiqi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sadiki.
sidiki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sadiki.
sidiqi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sadiki.
beaver fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: giardiasis (an infection by Giardia parasites)
undainty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undainty
form: most undainty
Etymology: From un- + dainty.
Senses: glosses: Not dainty.
sabinols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sabinol
mabinlang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Capparis masaikai, a plant that grows in the subtropical region of the Yunnan province of China and whose mature seeds are used in traditional Chinese medicine.
Derived terms: mabinlin