cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
semipartitioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + partitioned.
Senses: examples: text: The offices in back, honeycombed with semipartitioned cubicles of wood and glass, are a paragon of Collyer brothers’ pack-rattery.
ref: 2008 June 29, Caroline H. Dworin, “Ladders of Memory”, in New York Times:
glosses: Partly divided into partitions.
slackerish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slackerish
form: most slackerish
Etymology: From slacker + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Our family was in this latter, slackerish category.
ref: 2008 June 29, Karen Karbo, “Hair-Raiser”, in New York Times:
glosses: Like a slacker; lazy, idle.
technocritic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technocritics
Etymology: From techno- + critic.
Senses: examples: text: This Option seems to appear everywhere for technophiles and is becoming inevitable for the technophobic and dedicated technocritic.
ref: 2007, Nancy Raquel Mirabal, Agustín Laó-Montes, Technofuturos: critical interventions in Latina/o studies, page 338:
text: In the mid-1990s, technocritics worried that using the Internet would be like “drinking from a firehose,” as Cliff Stoll put it.
ref: 2008 June 29, Virginia Heffernan, “The Oracle Collective”, in New York Times:
glosses: A critic who studies the effects of technology.
technocritics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technocritic
aberrationless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aberration + -less.
Senses: glosses: Free from (optical) aberrations
antidamping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antidamping
form: most antidamping
Etymology: From anti- + damping.
Senses: glosses: That counters damping effects
autoencoder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoencoders
form: auto-encoder
Etymology: From auto- + encoder.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: a form of neural network designed to learn codings
autoencoders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autoencoder
ryūha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ryūha
Senses: examples: text: But the fighting arts they had shaped and reshaped during their millennium-long existence continued to develop. Many traditional ryūha—the Kashima-Shinryū among them—carried on much as they had during the Tokugawa period.
ref: 1997, Karl F. Friday with Seki Humitake, “Introduction”, in Legacies of the Sword: The Kashima-Shinryū and Samurai Martial Culture, Honolulu, Haw.: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, page 5:
text: Ideally, ryūha were based upon the long-standing principle that social relationships are bound by fictive kinship rules. Relationships between the ryūha head and his students tended to follow authority-intensive patron-client relationships.
ref: 1998, G. Cameron Hurst III, “The Martial and Other Japanese Arts”, in Armed Martial Arts of Japan: Swordsmanship and Archery, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, →ISBN, part III (Armed Martial Arts Today), page 177:
text: One problem that arises when seeking the origins of weapons and trying to assign an inventor to them is that after the passage of so much time there is often no way of being absolutely certain, and accepted accounts of certain weapons, while fascinating, are not necessarily reliable. Moreover, anecdotes told in any ryūha that uses a particular weapon, although perhaps true to a certain extent, present a biased view.
ref: 2003, Serge Mol, “Tracing the history of weapons”, in Classical Weaponry of Japan: Special Weapons and Tactics of the Martial Arts, Tokyo; New York, N.Y.; London: Kodansha International, →ISBN, Introduction, page 12:
text: Some acquired a hereditary position with particular daimyō, while others maintained their own independent ryūha, and enjoyed the spectacle of swordsmen who were skilled in their own right begging to be allowed to be taken on as pupils.
ref: 2008, Stephen Turnbull, “Sensei and Students”, in The Samurai Swordsman: Master of War, North Clarendon, Vt.: Tuttle Publishing, →ISBN, chapter 5 (Sword and Sensei), page 88, column 2:
glosses: Alternative form of ryuha.
biochromatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + chromatic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to colour produced by processes in living organisms.
chromatisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chromatism
electrocouplings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrocoupling
hamiltonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hamiltonian
multispacecraft
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: multi-spacecraft
Etymology: From multi- + spacecraft.
Senses: glosses: Involving multiple spacecraft
aeronaval
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aero- + naval.
Senses: glosses: relating to both the navy and the air force
glosses: that moves both on sea and in the air
limitedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more limitedly
form: most limitedly
Etymology: From limited + -ly.
Senses: glosses: with limits; not unlimitedly
fair dos
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /ˌfɛə(ɹ)ˈduːz/
Forms: form: fair do's
form: fair doos
Senses: examples: text: "[…] Lansley said he was disappointed I had gone public without telling him. Which is fair dos except he could have found out if he had bothered to see me […]"
ref: 2011 July 26, Jeremy Laurance quoting Sir Roger Boyle, “Sir Roger Boyle: 'It is horrific that the NHS's future is threatened'”, in Independent:
glosses: fair enough
fatten up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fattens up
form: fattened up
form: fattening up
form: fattening up
Senses: examples: text: My cat looks underweight, so I'll fatten him up with higher-calorie cat food.
text: I visited my mother for a month, and she managed to fatten me up 20 pounds.
glosses: To cause to gain weight by means of feeding.
examples: text: ‘And isn’t Declan looking very thin?’ Madge said. ‘He’ll never get a wife if he doesn’t fatten up a bit.’
ref: 1999, Colm Tóibín, chapter 8, in The Blackwater Lightship, New York: Scribner, page 246:
glosses: To become fat or fatter by gaining weight.
examples: text: We must not fatten up our payroll with people performing nonessential activities.
ref: 1954, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations, Department of the Army Appropriations for 1955: Hearings, page 161:
glosses: To make bigger; to expand.
fawn over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fawns over
form: fawning over
form: fawned over
form: fawned over
Senses: glosses: To praise excessively in order to get a favor.
feed off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: feeds off
form: feeding off
form: fed off
form: fed off
Senses: glosses: To consume as part of a diet.
raw_tags: of an animal
examples: text: It seems like her boss feeds off her unhappiness.
glosses: To get stimulus from (an external object).
ferret out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ferrets out
form: ferreting out
form: ferreted out
form: ferreted out
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: dig out, sniff out
glosses: To discover something after searching.
faff around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: faffs around
form: faffing around
form: faffed around
form: faffed around
Senses: glosses: Synonym of faff about.
synonyms: word: faff about
faff about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: faffs about
form: faffing about
form: faffed about
form: faffed about
Senses: examples: text: She faffed about so much, she never got to eat her breakfast.
text: I decided to stop faffing about and get some work done.
text: It's a shame; not only are nuts quite ridiculously nutritious but, as anyone who's ever shelled out (sorry) for a tiny glass of pistachios in a pub will know, they're a guaranteed crowd-pleaser. But although I happen to have a soft spot for nut roast – an option often preferable to the meat that emerged from the school kitchen – it seems I'm in a cranky minority. A request for recipe recommendations was met with a polite silence on Twitter: vegetarianism, apparently, has moved on a bit. You don't see Yotam Ottolenghi faffing about with nut roasts, do you? But I'm determined to revive the fortunes of this much-maligned classic. After all, Christmas isn't Christmas without a luxury nut selection.
ref: 2011 December 15, Felicity Cloake, “How to cook the perfect nut roast”, in Guardian:
synonyms: word: faff around
word: ;
word: fuck about
word: fuck around
word: dick around
word: mess about
word: mess around
word: arse about
word: arse around
word: bludge
word: bum around
word: cabbage
word: clown around
word: dally
word: dawdle
word: dick about
word: dick around
word: diddle
word: dilly-dally
word: dretch
word: drumble
word: faff
word: faff about
word: faff around
word: fanny about
word: fanny around
word: fart about
word: fart around
word: fiddle about
word: fiddle around
word: fool about
word: fool around
word: footle
word: forslow
word: goof around
word: goof off
word: hang about
word: hang around
word: hang out
word: horse around
word: idle
word: jerk off
word: lallygag
word: lamp
word: laze
word: laze about
word: laze around
word: linger
word: loaf
word: loaf about
word: loaf around
word: loiter
word: lollop
word: lollygag
word: mess around
word: mill about
word: mill around
word: muck about
word: muck around
word: piddle
word: pingle
word: stand by
word: tarry
word: tool around
word: waste time
word: while
glosses: To waste time; to spend time idly.
fiddle about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fiddles about
form: fiddling about
form: fiddled about
form: fiddled about
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fiddle around.
synonyms: word: fiddle around
fiddle around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fiddles around
form: fiddling around
form: fiddled around
form: fiddled around
Senses: examples: text: Stop fiddling around with those matches before you set the place on fire.
glosses: To toy or play (with something) in an idle, fidgety, aimless or unstructured way; to mess around (with); to muck around (with).
raw_tags: with "with"
examples: text: I've been fiddling around all morning, trying to get this old lawnmower to work.
glosses: To tinker (with): to make small adjustments or improvements (to something), especially in an experimental or unskilled manner.
raw_tags: with "with"
fiddle away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fiddles away
form: fiddling away
form: fiddled away
form: fiddled away
Senses: glosses: To play the fiddle idly.
examples: text: There's nothing I like more than fiddling away Saturday night playing dominoes with myself.
glosses: To waste (time)
flake out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flakes out
form: flaking out
form: flaked out
form: flaked out
Senses: glosses: To fall asleep from exhaustion or intoxication; to lie down.
examples: text: John said he could drive me to the airport, but then he flaked out on me, and I had to call a cab at the last minute.
glosses: To flake or be flaky: to prove unreliable; to abandon or desert someone.
glosses: To crack up or break down; to have a mental episode; to behave eccentrically.
Derived terms: flakers
flame up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flames up
form: flaming up
form: flamed up
form: flamed up
Senses: glosses: To flare; to become inflamed.
glosses: To suddenly become extremely angry.
glosses: To light up; to light a joint, blunt, pipe, etc.; to smoke crack cocaine.
Synonyms: flare up
flick over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flicks over
form: flicking over
form: flicked over
form: flicked over
Senses: glosses: To change channels on a television.
examples: text: The numbers on the odometer flicked over from 999 to 1000.
glosses: To change from one state to another by flicking.
flick through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flicks through
form: flicking through
form: flicked through
form: flicked through
Senses: examples: text: I was flicking through the newspaper when I glimpsed a funny headline.
text: I flicked through the TV channels, but nothing good was on.
text: Pacing among them is the parliamentary candidate, Rukchanok "Ice" Srinork, a 28-year-old woman brimming with energy, who constantly flicks through her social media pages.
ref: 2023 May 8, Jonathan Head, “Thailand election: The young radicals shaking up politics”, in BBC News (World):
glosses: To browse rapidly.
flight plan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flight plans
form: flightplan
Senses: glosses: A document filed by a pilot prior to departure, containing essential information about the flight.
Derived terms: flightplanning
you know what I mean
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: I think there's a value to having a reverence for something bigger than yourself, you know: "There's something out there." Sure, you know what I mean?
ref: 2011, Phil Zuckerman, “Mother Was An Exorcist” (chapter 1), in Faith No More, page 31:
text: Like when you've sung along with a song a thousand times but you know it so well that the words don't even mean anything anymore. They're just bits of air coming out of your mouth. You know what I mean?
ref: 2001, Susan Perabo, The Broken Places, page 141:
text: I'm trying not to stare down there / While she talks about her tough time / Girl of your dreams / You know what I mean
ref: 2020, The 1975, “If You're Too Shy (Let Me Know)”, in Notes on a Conditional Form, track 16:
text: I mean, Psalm 95 was a huge help, but you know what I mean 🙂
ref: 2023 November 16, @cliffduren, Twitter:
glosses: You are familiar with the situation I am describing; used to establish common ground with the interlocutor
Related terms: if you know what I mean
you know
you know what
floor hockey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of various hockey sports played indoors.
Related terms: floorball
ice hockey
ball hockey
cosom hockey
roller hockey
field hockey
street hockey
fluff out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fluffs out
form: fluffing out
form: fluffed out
form: fluffed out
Senses: glosses: To plump up
examples: text: Her thick hair, cut short, fluffed out all around her head in a bushy wave that seemed to be of brilliant spun gold
ref: 1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 8”, in Emily of New Moon:
glosses: to be fluffy
phasematching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phase + matching.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: That synchronizes the phase of two or more waves
quantumlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quantumlike
form: most quantumlike
Etymology: From quantum + -like.
Senses: glosses: Having the characteristics of a quantum system
quasiboson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quasibosons
Etymology: From quasi- + boson.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A particle that behaves as if it were a boson
quasibosons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quasiboson
quasirelativistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quasi- + relativistic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing a system that behaves as if it were relativistic
superclimbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + climbing.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The movement of an edge dislocation in a supersolid
upconverted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more upconverted
form: most upconverted
Etymology: From up- + converted.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Modified using upconversion.
filagree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filagrees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of filigree.
filagree
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: filagrees
form: filagreeing
form: filagreed
form: filagreed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of filigree.
smutted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of smut
outlett
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outletts
Senses: examples: text: Nature expends all she takes and keeps open all the salutary outletts.
ref: 1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, J. Roberts, page 104:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of outlet.
clatfart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clat-fart
Senses: examples: text: The Guild was called by some hostile husbands, who found their wives getting too independent, the "clat-fart" shop—that is, the gossip-shop.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 2”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
text: Folks should do their own fuckin', then they wouldn't want to listen to a lot of clatfart about another man's.
ref: 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC:
glosses: Gossip.
lost in the shuffle
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: We have allowed ourselves to be "lost in the shuffle" of American priorities in the '70s, but we should never lose sight of ourselves and our goals as our priorities.
ref: 1975 July, Gil Scott-Heron, “Lost in the Shuffle”, in Ebony, volume 30, number 9, Johnson Publishing Company, page 28:
text: We get lost in the shuffle, and in the end we don't even know that we have needs - much less know what these needs might be.
ref: 1987, Robert Subby, Lost in the shuffle: the co-dependent reality, HCI, page 39:
text: That's the way things happen in AIDS Action. The Board makes a very clear mandate and then whatever the executive director and senior staff feel should happen is what actually happens...and the Board action gets lost in the shuffle.
ref: 1988 December 4, Judy Haris, Laurie Livingston, “Going Public”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 21, page 9:
text: In the occasional highly publicized case, then, the best interests of the child may be lost in the shuffle.
ref: 1992, Michael G. Kalogerakis, Handbook of psychiatric practice in the juvenile court: the Workgroup on Psychiatric Practice in the Juvenile Court of the American Psychiatric Association, American Psychiatric Pub, page 24:
glosses: Failing to stand out or receive attention as a result of a larger-scale change or transformation.
judder bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: judder bars
Senses: glosses: speed bump
falls short
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fall short
falling short
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fall short
fell short
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of fall short
fallen short
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of fall short
forlive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /fə(ɹ)ˈlɪv/
/fɔː(ɹ)ˈlɪv/
Forms: form: forlives
form: forliving
form: forlived
form: forlived
Etymology: From Middle English forlyven, equivalent to for- + live. Cognate with German verleben (“to spend, spend time”).
Senses: glosses: To live pervertedly.
examples: text: For if ye look your beginning, and God your father, author, and your maker, then is there none forlived wight or ungentle, but if he nourish his courage unto vices, and forelet his proper birth.
ref: 1810, Joseph Ames, Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Typographical antiquities:
glosses: To outlive one's strength; become decrepit; degenerate in race or nature; become wretched.
Derived terms: forlived
pervertedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pervertedly
form: most pervertedly
Etymology: From perverted + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a perverted, twisted, or corrupt manner.
forlighten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forlightens
form: forlightening
form: forlightened
form: forlightened
Etymology: From for- + lighten, but also continuing (in altered form) earlier forlyten (“to diminish”), from for- + lite + -en.
Senses: examples: text: For to forlighten with his sheen / Those sitting sad, in darkest blindness, / In death's cold shade.
ref: 1892, William Shepard Walsh, Handy-book of literary curiosities:
glosses: To decrease; reduce; diminish; lighten; lighten up.
Related terms: forlyten
underkind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underkinds
Etymology: From under- + kind.
Senses: glosses: A subordinate or inferior kind or class.
eiderdowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eiderdown
befold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: befolds
form: befolding
form: befolded
form: befeld
form: befolded
form: befeld
form: befolden
Etymology: From Middle English bifealden, bevealden, from Old English befealdan (“to fold, roll up, envelop, clasp, surround, involve, cover, attach”), equivalent to be- (“around, about”) + fold. Cognate with Old High German bifaltan (“to envelop”).
Senses: examples: text: And when I rant and rave and raise hell about the power structure and about slaverytood, and nigratood, and nigraism, and everything else that befolds me being a black woman every day, I still love people.
ref: 1974, Harrisene Jackson, There's nothing I own that I want:
text: So, brothers and sisters that is God's law and God's punishment that befolds a person who during their life does not acknowledge or feels the greatness of God and God's reality.
ref: 2002, Simon Monbaron, How to Develop Peace in the World:
text: Abo sits befolded up Shadeside of a namma hole [...]
ref: 2008, George D. Shorten, The Low Bed of a Faller:
glosses: To fold up; fold around; wrap up; envelop.
kamancha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kamanchas
Senses: examples: text: They always carry with them their saz or tar or kamancha, Oriental instruments, on which they accompany their songs. […] There is something else that is a part of his life, namely, his kamancha. He threatens to cut the strings […]
ref: 1919, The New Armenia, volumes 11-12, page 160:
text: Most mugams consist of a singer, a kamancha player, and a tar player. […] The kamancha has a round opening and […]
ref: 2005, David C. King, Azerbaijan, page 95:
text: His favourite instrument was the kamancha and one of his most famous songs is dedicated to this instrument […]
ref: 2006, Simon Broughton, Mark Ellingham, Jon Lusk, The Rough Guide to World Music: Africa & Middle East:
glosses: Alternative spelling of kamancheh.
kyamancha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kyamanchas
Senses: examples: text: He recalled the heated discussions at the monastery and the monk who had insisted that the kyamancha and tar were native Armenian musical instruments, that modulation was typical of Armenian songs which were always soulful and mournful.
ref: 1972, Ве оф тхе мунтайнс: Армениан шорт сториес:
text: The kyamancha was invented in the eleventh century and at first had only three strings. A musician named Alexander Organyan invented a kyamancha with four strings, and his daughter, Sophia Sardaryan, played one of these instruments [...]
ref: 1985, Соня Ричмонд, А мусикал журней тхругх тхе Совыет Юнион:
text: [...] combines in his works stylistically differing material such as ancient monodic forms, with free dodecaphony and sonoristic structures, and employs in his orchestra traditional instruments — the duduk, the zurna and the kyamancha.
ref: 1986, Music in the USSR:
glosses: Alternative spelling of kamancheh.
befang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: [bəˈfæŋ]
Forms: form: befangs
form: befanging
form: befanged
form: befanged
form: befong
Etymology: From Middle English befon (past participle befangen), from Old English befōn (“to surround, clasp, include, envelop, encase, clothe, comprehend, seize, attack (at law), lay hold of, catch, ensnare, contain, receive, conceive, explain”), equivalent to be- + fang. Cognate with Dutch bevangen (“to seize”), Middle High German bevāhen (“to comprehend”).
Senses: examples: text: Come here an' I'll befang thee!
glosses: To lay hold on; seize; grasp; catch; clutch.
glosses: To take hold on; begin or commence upon.
glosses: To encompass; enclose; contain; comprehend.
begeck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: begecks
form: begecking
form: begecked
form: begecked
Etymology: From Middle Dutch begecken or Middle Low German begecken (“to deride”), equivalent to be- + geck. More at geek.
Senses: glosses: To deceive; disappoint; jilt.
Related terms: begunk
begeck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: begecks
Etymology: From Middle Dutch begecken or Middle Low German begecken (“to deride”), equivalent to be- + geck. More at geek.
Senses: glosses: A disappointment; trick.
prytanis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prytaneis
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πρύτανις (prútanis).
Senses: glosses: official in ancient Athens
prytaneis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prytanis
darken someone's door
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: darkens someone's door
form: darkening someone's door
form: darkened someone's door
form: darkened someone's door
form: darken someone's doorstep
form: darken someone's doorway
Etymology: Probably from the observation that one's shadow falling upon a door whilst standing at it causes it to appear darkened. Alternatively, possibly derived from an old sense of darken meaning "to lie in wait, loiter, lurk".
Senses: examples: text: "I'll tell you, Peter," said I, "were I my lord, and a friend or kinsman of mine should leave the town while the court was sitting, that kinsman, or be he what he liked, should never darken my door again."
ref: 1824, Sir Walter Scott, Redgauntlet, Letter 13:
text: He promised the poor His heaven,
He loved and lived with the poor;
He said that the rich man's shadow
Should never darken His door.
ref: 1885, Edith Nesbit, “The Stolen God—Lazarus to Dives”, in Many Voices:
text: [T]he squire ain't sociable an' the neighbors never darken his door.
ref: 1917, Irving Bacheller, chapter 17, in The Light in the Clearing:
text: Luckily, I'd scored some good-paying clients in the past two months along with the usual losers who darken my door and waste my time.
ref: 2008, Valerie Wilson Wesley, Of Blood and Sorrow, →ISBN, page 3:
glosses: To arrive at someone's residence or location, especially as an unexpected visitor.
darken someone's doorway
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: darkens someone's doorway
form: darkening someone's doorway
form: darkened someone's doorway
form: darkened someone's doorway
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of darken someone's door.
worshipable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more worshipable
form: most worshipable
Etymology: From Middle English worschipable, worschypabull, worshepable, worshipable; equivalent to worship + -able.
Senses: examples: text: So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God; the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth.
ref: 1840 May 5, Thomas Carlyle, “Lecture I. The Hero as Divinity. Odin. Paganism: Scandinavian Mythology.”, in On Heroes, Hero-Worship and The Heroic in History, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1840, →OCLC, page 14:
text: The rampant vigor with which Japanese Buddhism began to absorb everything in heaven, earth and sea, which it could make a worshipable object or cause to stand as a Kami or deity to the mind, will be seen as we proceed.
ref: 1895, William Elliot Griffis, The Religions of Japan, published 2006, →ISBN, page 139:
text: In addition, Kali, spouse of Shiva, is presented as an object of devotion […] who is "the Image and Embodiment of all the […] Devas." She is multiform, worshipable in each, "Mother of all."
ref: 1919, George W. Gilmore, “Tantrism: The Newest Hinduism”, in The American Journal of Theology, volume 23, number 4, page 450:
glosses: Capable of being worshipped; worthy of veneration.
Related terms: worshipability
mamillated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mamillated
form: most mamillated
form: mammillated
Senses: glosses: Having nipples
mammo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mammos
Senses: examples: text: One woman in ten is at risk — yet one-third of all women over 50 have never had a mammo! By making Pap tests routine, OBs and GYNs have saved many lives.
ref: 1989, Contemporary Obstetrics-gynecology, volume 33, page 200:
glosses: Clipping of mammogram.
stay over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stays over
form: staying over
form: stayed over
form: stayed over
Senses: glosses: Stay overnight in a place away from one's home, sleep over.
Synonyms: lodge
stop
half glove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half gloves
Senses: glosses: A form of glove that covers the fingers and most of the hand but not the thumb, or one that leaves the ends of the fingers exposed.
mandelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From German Mandel (“almond”).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to mandelic acid
Derived terms: mandelate
manism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɑːnɪzəm/
Etymology: From manes (“spirit of the ancestors”) + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of atheism; a sort of religious denial of God. It professes to believe in a man, rather than in God. It is a compound, made up chiefly of manism, with but a little deism, and is as near to atheism as twilight is to darkness.
ref: 1794, Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason:
text: It is not he that refused to subscribe, but he that constrains subscription to some manism, or humanism, or opinion, or tradition not taught in the scriptures.
ref: 1837 May 24, “Reformers not schismatics”, in The Millennial Harbinger, volume 1, number 5, page 195:
text: Now, one of the worst features of Roman Catholicism is its popery, or manism. The Pope is the soul of the whole system. Remove him, therefore, and nothing remains but a headless and soulless body, which, like the tail of the snake, may writhe awhile after its head is severed. So with respect to parts of Protestantism. Remove the manism from them, and Christians are at once together and one in Christ. Manism, therefore, is the great obstacle to Christian purity, unanimity, and success.
ref: 1885, R. B. Godfrey, The World's Spiritual Conquest Or Its Conversion to Christ:
text: Among these beings are many of the spirits of animism and manism which are frequently, but not always, considered to be subordinate to a Supreme Being of a theistic or monotheistist type, but which are nevertheless often systematically made the subject of a popular worship, awe and veneration which are clearly orientated, spiritually and ethically (or unethically) in another direction.
ref: 1975, Ugo Bianchi, The History of Religions, page 36:
text: The variety of images in which the sacred reality is apprehended is very rich; for some scholars this serves as a basis for distinguishing the different types of religion (animism, fetishism, manism, totemism, polytheism, henotheism, monotheism […]
ref: 1991, Zofia Józefa Zdybicka, Person and Religion: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion, page 156:
text: The term manism is derived from the Latin manes, meaning "departed spirits, ghosts, souls of the deceased.
ref: 1997, Thomas A. Green, Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Beliefs, Customs, Tales, Music, and Art:
glosses: ancestor-worship
Related terms: manist
manistic
manist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manists
Etymology: From manes (“spirit of the ancestors”) + -ist.
Senses: glosses: ancestor-worshipper
Related terms: manism
Manueline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese manuelino, after King Manuel I of Portugal.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Describing a Portuguese form of Gothic style
wikipedia: King Manuel I
Tower of Belém
Derived terms: Neo-Manueline
marsh fritillary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marsh fritillaries
Senses: glosses: A medium size, orange, brown and cream chequered butterfly (Euphydryas aurinia), of the family Nymphalidae.
marsh fritillaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marsh fritillary
meadow brown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meadow browns
Senses: glosses: A common, orange and brown butterfly (Maniola jurtina), of the family Nymphalidae.
meadow browns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meadow brown
mountain ringlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mountain ringlets
Senses: glosses: A dark brown butterfly with a row of small orange eyespots, Erebia epiphron, of the family Nymphalidae.
mountain ringlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mountain ringlet
befind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: befinds
form: befinding
form: befound
form: befound
Etymology: From Middle English befinden, bifinden, equivalent to be- + find. Cognate with Saterland Frisian befiende (“to be located, befind”), Dutch bevinden (“to find”), German befinden (“to be, be located”), Swedish befinna (“to find, be”).
Senses: examples: text: It is well that the thinker should give his thoughts to the world, though it must be admitted that wisdom befinds itself sometimes in the reverse of the sage's pronouncement.
ref: 1898, Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom and Destiny, page 4:
text: Farther in the height befinds itself […]
ref: 1966, Johann Melchior Dinglinger, Joachim Menzhausen, At the court of the Great Mogul, page 52:
text: Until after a full celestial epoch, the fairest place was befound and it was bequest them.
ref: 2009, A. J. Marshall, The Bastion Prosecutor: Episode 3:
glosses: To find; discover.
glosses: To invent; contrive.
qualifier: passive voice
glosses: To be found; be.
feets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From feet + -s.
Senses: examples: text: Feets, don't fail me now!
text: Last Sunday she said to Mr. Baker: "Ach, Gott, Mr. Baker, my feets is killing me. I must go me by a feets doctor."
ref: 1894, Al Thayer, Ah there: Pickings from Lobby chatter in the Cincinnati Enquirer, page 71:
text: "I kin remember when she weared worsted boots an' her two feets was no bigger dan yer tumb an' she weared worsted boots, Miss Smith," she cried, raising her streaming eyes.
ref: 1896, Stephen Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets:
text: Good morning Miss Brown / Mamma how do you do? / I said good morning Miss Brown / Mamma how do you do? / She say I'm feelin' fine and lookin' good / Maaan what about you? / I say I got the misery and the back ache baby / And my feets hurtin' me when I walk / You know I got the misery and the back ache baby / And my feets hurtin' me when I walk / And you know too much conversation hurt my tongue to talk
ref: 1968, “Good Morning Miss Brown”, in Taj Mahal (music), The Natch'l Blues:
glosses: plural of foot
ileuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ileus
unboarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unboard
unboarded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + boarded.
Senses: examples: text: Those who sit on the unboarded and unpaved floor beside the wall, and who look on so wistfully, have nothing to cook — nothing to eat; they paid the last penny or twopence they possessed to be allowed to sleep on the floor of that cellar until morning.
ref: 1852, Thomas Miller, Picturesque sketches of London: past and present, page 235:
topics: architecture
glosses: Not boarded.
barkeeping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bar + keeping.
Senses: glosses: The trade of a barkeeper; selling drinks from a bar.
tavernkeeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tavernkeepers
Etymology: From tavern + keeper.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Hautekiet, 41, a large, friendly man with a seemingly endless supply of facts about the town, said that all attempts to locate former residents of Goverthing had been fruitless, though one — the tavernkeeper — had been found in a retirement home in Brooklyn, where he has refused for decades to speak of the town, its uneasy relationship with the Army or its demise.
ref: 2009 September 19, Randy Kennedy, “Uncovering a Small Town (and Some Tall Tales)”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who keeps a tavern.
Synonyms: taverner
tavernkeepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tavernkeeper
tavernkeeping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tavern + keeping.
Senses: glosses: The trade of a tavernkeeper; hostelry.
Biloxian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Biloxians
Etymology: From Biloxi + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Biloxi, Mississippi, USA.
Biloxians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Biloxian
mess jacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mess jackets
Senses: examples: text: “I often wonder,” he said, “whether I oughtn’t to dress for dinner—when I’m alone ’ere.” ¶ Coote protruded his lips and reflected. “Not full dress,” he adjudicated; “that would be a little excessive. But you should change, you know. Put on a mess jacket and that sort of thing—easy dress […].”
ref: 1905, H. G. Wells, Kipps, New York: Scribner, published 1906, Chapter 5, §3, pp. 273-274:
glosses: A double-breasted jacket, part of mess kit.
Derived terms: mess-jacketed
mess jackets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mess jacket
ruminatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ruminatingly
form: most ruminatingly
Etymology: From ruminating + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "And it always seems to me," he went on ruminatingly, "that, after all we are nothing better than interlopers on the earth, disfiguring and staining wherever we go. I know it's shocking blasphemy to say so, but then it's different here, you see. We are further away."
ref: 1923, Walter de la Mare, Seaton's Aunt:
glosses: While ruminating; with thought or meditation.
Nijinskian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Nijinskian
form: most Nijinskian
Etymology: From Nijinsky + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950), Russian ballet dancer and choreographer.
batonless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From baton + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Taking his seat facing the Orchestra of the 18th Century, the man, Frans Bruggen, began conducting Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony, batonless, his right hand karate-chopping the air.
ref: 2008 June 30, Daniel J. Wakin, “In Italy, ‘Eroica’ Energizes a Frail Fixture of Period Music”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without a baton.
overcompensations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overcompensation
reattract
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reattracts
form: reattracting
form: reattracted
form: reattracted
Etymology: From re- + attract.
Senses: examples: text: Yes, Tom can have doubts and can be reattracted to Laura.
ref: 2008 June 30, Janet Maslin, “Friends Reunited at a Wedding on Maine’s Rocky Coast, Dashed Hopes All Around”, in New York Times:
glosses: To attract again or anew.
reattracting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reattract
reattracts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reattract
reattracted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reattract
reattraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + attraction.
Senses: glosses: Attraction again or anew.
unbudging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbudging
form: most unbudging
Etymology: From un- + budging.
Senses: examples: text: Syria may be as unbudging as it has been in past negotiations.
ref: 2008 June 30, “Israel’s Diplomatic Offensive”, in New York Times:
glosses: Refusing to budge.
doodly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more doodly
form: most doodly
Etymology: From doodle + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I chose a glazed pottery egg, partly because I liked the weight of it — heavy for its size — and because it sat so neatly in my hand, but mainly because I liked the strange doodly pattern drawn on it in greys and washed-out blues[…]
ref: 2007, Aidan Chambers, This Is All, page 257:
related: word: doodley
glosses: Like a doodle; scribbly.
doodly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From doodle + -y.
Senses: examples: text: "Personally, I don't think these general referendum questions will do doodly to increase voter turnout," said Chicago Board of Election Commissioners spokesman Tom Leach.
ref: 1988 March 11, John Holden, “Democracy with a small d: a plethora of referenda”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2016:
glosses: Diddly; nothing
Derived terms: doodly-squat
epiphanylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more epiphanylike
form: most epiphanylike
Etymology: From epiphany + -like.
Senses: glosses: Like an epiphany.
genopolitics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geno- + politics.
Senses: glosses: The study of the genetic basis of political behaviour and attitudes.
Related terms: neuropolitics
husbandries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of husbandry
inexorableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inexorable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being inexorable.
jubilated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jubilate
jubilating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jubilate
jubilates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jubilate
lubriciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lubriciously
form: most lubriciously
Etymology: From lubricious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a lubricious manner.
megaselling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more megaselling
form: most megaselling
Etymology: From mega- + selling.
Senses: examples: text: The megaselling author was on the cover of every magazine.
glosses: Selling millions of units.
midtirade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + tirade.
Senses: examples: text: Reverend Baldwin broke off in midtirade, clearly annoyed to have his moment in the spotlight cut short. He recovered quickly, though, and moved to turn the situation to his advantage.
ref: 1997, Tami Hoag, Cry Wolf:
glosses: A point in time during a tirade.
minirevolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minirevolts
Etymology: From mini- + revolt.
Senses: glosses: A small or minor revolt.
minirevolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minirevolt
new sheqalim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of new sheqel
opinionmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opinionmakers
form: opinion maker
form: opinion-maker
Etymology: From opinion + maker.
Senses: synonyms: opinion former
pundit
glosses: One who influences the public in their opinions.
Related terms: opinionmaking
influencer
opinionmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opinionmaker
opinionlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From opinionless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of opinions.
overadored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overadored
form: most overadored
Etymology: From over- + adored.
Senses: examples: text: His childhood is spent — the old housekeeper tells me this — in the shadow of an overadored elder sister, who later dies suddenly of meningitis.
ref: 1959, Shane Martin, The third statue: a Professor Challis adventure:
glosses: Given too much adoration.
overperked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overperked
form: most overperked
Etymology: From over- + perked.
Senses: examples: text: A faint whiff of marijuana blends with the fumes of diesel trucks, the smell of boiling cabbage, overperked coffee, and the kitchen exhaust from a nearby Oriental restaurant.
ref: 1986, Beth Sulzer-Azaroff, G. Roy Mayer, Achieving educational excellence: using behavioral strategies:
glosses: Excessively percolated.
overperforms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overperform
overperforming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overperform
overperforming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overperforming
form: most overperforming
Senses: glosses: That performs better than required
Hypernyms: performing
overperformed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overperform
overpersuading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overpersuade
overpersuades
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overpersuade
overpersuaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overpersuade
paned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /peɪnd/
rhymes: -eɪnd
homophone: pained
Etymology: From pane + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: a large-paned window
text: paned slops: an old form of clothing with fabric strips or panels
glosses: Having panes.
Derived terms: multipaned
unpaned
pigeoneer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pigeoneers
Etymology: From pigeon + -eer.
Senses: glosses: One who trains pigeons.
pigeoneers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pigeoneer
poffertjes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poffertje
premarked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + marked.
Senses: glosses: Having been marked in advance.
roadability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From road + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: Sea-Land is trying new and innovative ideas to increase its productivity through ideas like creating disincentives for truck operators to "mispark" containers in the terminal yard, preinspecting chassis so that truck operators can avoid the lines through the roadability check station, and other non-technical smart ideas.
ref: 1995, Richard B. Easley, C. Michael Walton, Applicability of the Technologies of Intelligent Transportation Systems in Commercial Vehicle Operations at the Port of Houston's Intermodal Marine Container Terminal with Case Studies of Existing Systems, page 74:
glosses: The quality or degree of being roadable.
sheafs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheaf
teleoperate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: teleoperates
form: teleoperating
form: teleoperated
form: teleoperated
Etymology: From tele- + operate.
Senses: glosses: To operate (a device) remotely.
Related terms: teleoperation
teleoperator
teleoperating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of teleoperate
teleoperates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of teleoperate
teleoperated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of teleoperate
undraped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + draped.
Senses: glosses: Not draped.
nonspender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonspenders
Etymology: From non- + spender.
Senses: glosses: One who does not spend money.
nonspenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonspender
nonspending
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + spending.
Senses: glosses: Not spending money.
hillclimber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hillclimbers
Etymology: From hill + climber.
Senses: glosses: One who takes part in hillclimbing.
hillclimbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hillclimber