cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
probationership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: probationerships
Etymology: From probationer + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: I presume, to that state of mediocrity and probationership he has been pleased to place us in here
ref: 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The state of being a probationer; novitiate.
probationerships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of probationership
pleuropneumonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pleuropneumoniae
Etymology: From pleuro- + pneumonia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: inflammation of the pleura and lungs; a combination of pleurisy and pneumonia, especially a kind of contagious and fatal lung disease of cattle and pigs, caused by infection by Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae
Derived terms: pleuropneumonia-like organism
Related terms: pleuropneumonic
trumpetwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trumpet + wood.
Senses: glosses: A tropical American tree (Cecropia peltata) of the nettle family, whose hollow stems can be used for wind instruments.
Synonyms: snakewood
trumpet tree
paraglobulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paraglobulins
Etymology: From para- + globulin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: paraglobin
glosses: An albuminous body in blood serum, belonging to the group of globulins.
Related terms: fibrinoplastin
paraglobulins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paraglobulin
chinaldine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chinaldines
Etymology: From New Latin chininum (“quinine”) + aldehyde.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quinaldine.
chinaldines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chinaldine
venada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: venadas
Etymology: Compare Spanish venado (“a doe, stag”).
Senses: glosses: A species of deer; the pudu.
venadas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of venada
aggeration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aggerations
Etymology: From Latin aggeratio.
Senses: examples: text: aggerations of sand
glosses: A piling up; accumulation.
Related terms: exaggeration
aggerations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aggeration
trading cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trading card
baseball card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baseball cards
Senses: glosses: A type of trading card that features a picture of a baseball player on one side and information about the player on the other side.
baseball cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baseball card
submediants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of submediant
outcut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outcuts
form: outcutting
form: outcut
form: outcut
Etymology: From out- + cut.
Senses: glosses: To cut out.
examples: text: They're guaranteed to outcut and outlast any plier made.
ref: 1922 Nov, Popular Science:
glosses: To surpass or exceed in cutting; cut more than or cut superior to.
outcut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outcuts
Etymology: From out- + cut.
Senses: glosses: That which is cut out.
glosses: A groove; channel.
outcut
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more outcut
form: most outcut
Etymology: From out- + cut.
Senses: glosses: Cut out.
heanlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heanling
lovemate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lovemates
form: love-mate
form: love mate
Etymology: From love + mate.
Senses: glosses: The person with whom one is mated in love; a lover or sweetheart.
loveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From love + -ness. Compare Middle English lovnesse, lufeniss, luvenesse (“lovingness, love”).
Senses: examples: text: People concerned about creating a just society would use loveness as a guide when setting priorities.
ref: 2005, Savita Singh, Bharati Misra, Gandhian Alternative:
glosses: Love.
lovewende
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lovewende
form: most lovewende
Etymology: From Middle English luvewende, from Old English lufwende (“lovable, pleasant”), from lufu (“love”) + -wende.
Senses: glosses: Lovable; beloved; lovely; loving.
Synonyms: beloved
xochinacaztli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Nahuatl xōchinacaztli (“ear-flower”), from xōchitl (“flower”). So called because it somewhat resembles an ear.
Senses: glosses: The earflower, Cymbopetalum penduliflorum, sometimes used by the Aztecs to flavour cocoa.
Related terms: Mexican hand tree
textworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more textworthy
form: most textworthy
Etymology: From text + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: We are all bombarded daily with newsworthy and "textworthy" vignettes telling of new psychological findings.
ref: 1993, Ayala Malakh-Pines, Christina Maslach, Experiencing social psychology: readings and projects:
text: Editors, focused on the apparent inconsistencies in the way Horatio is represented, might seem to suggest that he is also not a textworthy character.
ref: 1994, Hamlet studies
text: If you never give them a topic, they may be limited by their own understanding of what is textworthy.
ref: 2008, Jennifer Berne, The Writing-Rich High School Classroom:
glosses: Worthy of text or being written in text; worthy of being written about, printed, set in text, or texted.
loveship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loveships
Etymology: From love + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Dapper bearded dyke desires intense friendship, loveship with mentally and physically strong adventurous political lesbian lunatic
ref: 1989 February 5, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 29, page 13:
glosses: The act of falling in or making love; courtship.
people pleaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: people pleasers
form: people-pleaser
Senses: synonyms: word: adulator
word: apple polisher
word: arse-kisser
word: arse-licker
word: ass-kisser
word: ass-licker
word: bootlicker
word: buttkisser
word: buttlicker
word: brown noser
word: clawback
word: dickrider
word: doormat
word: flatterer
word: flunkey
word: groveler
word: groveller
word: hanger-on
word: kiss-ass
word: lackey
word: lickspittle
word: lick-platter
word: lickpot
word: minion
word: people pleaser
word: pickthank
word: schmoozer
word: simp
word: suck up
word: sycophant
word: throne sniffer
word: toadeater
word: toady
word: white knight
glosses: An obsequious, subservient person, especially in a workplace.
glosses: Someone who prioritizes serving others over their own desires.
Related terms: people-pleasing
all things to all people
people pleasers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of people pleaser
unteleported
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + teleported.
Senses: examples: text: By examining the coincidence detection rates between the teleported and unteleported pairs after polarization filtering it can be determined if non-local correlations are still present.
ref: 2000, Vitaliĭ Vladimirovich Samart︠s︡ev, IRQO'99: Quantum Optics: 27-29 October 1999, Kazan, Russia:
text: If it hadn't been for the anesthetic, there'd have been no break in A's conscious, unteleported experience and there'd be no doubt who was the original. But then what if we teleport two copies […]
ref: 2005, David Darling, Teleportation: The Impossible Leap, page 247:
glosses: Not having been teleported.
Lion City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the literal English meaning of Singapore's name, which derives from Malay singa ("lion") and pura ("city"), from Sanskrit सिंह (siṃhá, “lion”) and पुर (pura, “city”).
Senses: examples: text: Singapore is a place to be included on any traveller's itinerary, whether for pleasure or business. Its manifold attractions lure over six million visitors to the Lion City every year.
ref: 2008, Helen Oon, Singapore, New Holland, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: Singapore.
Emerald City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Emerald City
Etymology: The Seattle Convention and Visitors Bureau held a contest in 1981 to find a new nickname for Seattle. The winning entry, "Emerald City", came from Sarah Sterling-Franklin of Carmel, California, whose submission described the city as "the jewel of the Northwest, the Queen of the Evergreen State, the many-faced city of space, elegance, magic and beauty." "Emerald City" is also a reference to the fictional capital of the Land of Oz in the book series by L. Frank Baum.
Senses: examples: text: The Emerald City, both famous and notorious for its clouds and rain, has been forced to institute a mandatory water conservation program for the first time "in memorable history."
ref: 1987 August 4, “Seattle curbs watering”, in Deseret News:
glosses: Seattle (a city in Washington, United States).
KED board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: KED boards
Senses: glosses: A Kendrick Extrication Device.
peachen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more peachen
form: most peachen
Etymology: From peach + -en.
Senses: examples: text: They were fine, stalwart-looking men, well limbed, clear of eye, and upright in shape, with that peculiar color of a ripe, rich peachen hue upon the cheek, which only a pure temperate life perfect health can place there.
ref: 1870, Herald of health:
glosses: Of or resembling a peach; peachlike; having a surface like that of a peach; peachy.
Serer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Serers
form: Serer
Senses: glosses: A member of a West African ethnic group found in Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania.
Serer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The language of the Serer people.
Related terms: srr ⁠
Serers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Serer : An ethnoreligious group found in Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania (the Serer people, the Serer religion and Serer history).
black-billed capercaillie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black-billed capercaillies
Senses: glosses: A large black grouse endemic to Siberia, closely related to western capercaillie; Tetrao parvirostris.
meronymies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meronymy
cyclable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cycle + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being cycled (progressed through a cycle, or ridden by bicycle).
Derived terms: cyclability
undisambiguated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + disambiguated.
Senses: examples: text: Such semantical cues serve to identify the proper underlying phrase-marker initially obfuscated by the transformational shifting of form-classes in the lineal generation of the undisambiguated phrase-marker.
ref: 1972, James H. Boren, When in doubt, mumble: a bureaucrat's handbook, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., page 67:
text: And if there turn out to be no unambiguous words by which to explain ambiguous ones such words are going to remain undisambiguated.
ref: 1984, Frank Gloversmith, The theory of reading, Harvester Press, page 14:
text: To prevent illegal code motions past jumps and undisambiguated memory references, new edges are introduced to prevent one node from being evaluated before another.
ref: 1984, John Rolfe Ellis, Bulldog: a compiler for VLIW architectures, MIT Press, page 157:
glosses: Not disambiguated.
prothoracicotropic hormone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prothoracicotropic hormones
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A peptide hormone found in insects, produced in the copora cardiaca or corpus allata, which initiates the release of the ecdysteroid hormone from the prothoracic gland.
prothoracicotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prothoracicotropic
form: most prothoracicotropic
Etymology: From prothoracic + -o- + -tropic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: That modifies the behaviour of the prothoracic gland
Derived terms: prothoracicotropic hormone
prothoracic gland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prothoracic glands
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Either of a pair of glands, in the prothorax of insects, which produce ecdysone
Lotusland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ænd
Forms: form: Lotus Land
form: Lotos-land
Etymology: In reference to Vancouver, coined by Canadian journalist Allan Fotheringham.
Senses: examples: text: We will abide in the golden vale / Of the Lotos-land, till the Lotos fail; / We will not wander more.
ref: 1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “The Lotos-Eaters”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 117:
text: Calypso is by far the most effective impediment Odysseus encounters on his journey home to Ithaca, holding him in a sensuous but tedious captivity for seven years, Lotusland revisited.
ref: 1994, Judith Yarnall, Transformations of Circe: The History of an Enchantress:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The legendary island of the lotus-eaters.
examples: text: "Vancouver, until about two years ago." I could tell that she was going to regale me about the beauty of Lotusland, where it never snows and pot grows between cracks in the sidewalk.
ref: 1999, Jim Munroe, Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask, HarperFlamingo Canada, →ISBN, page 10:
glosses: The city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; (by extension) the province of British Columbia.
daycation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daycations
Etymology: Blend of day + vacation.
Senses: examples: text: You'll want a back-pocket, getaway idea to pull out when you have a free afternoon and the itch to take off for a while. Our "daycations" are just the ticket to satisfy mini wanderlust.
ref: 1986 June, Linda Pender, “Daycations”, in Cincinnati Magazine:
glosses: A single-day excursion or retreat.
Synonyms: day trip
daycations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daycation
democrazy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: democrazies
Etymology: Blend of democracy + crazy.
Senses: examples: text: This is crucial if we recognise that the crux of the democratic stateform is the constitutional right of the people to influence and determine how they are governed; how their representatives are chosen, and how that process can be conducted at intervals without fraudulent interference with the right of the people, without turning democracy into democrazy; into a chaotic and unruly form of government.
ref: 1986, Arthur Nzeribe, Nigeria: The Turning Point, Fourth Dimension, →ISBN, page 12:
glosses: A democratic system or state considered to be inauthentic or inherently flawed; democracy that has descended into corruption, injustice, or absurdity.
likeworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: likeworthier
form: more likeworthy
form: likeworthiest
form: most likeworthy
Etymology: From like (verb) + -worthy. Compare Old English līcwyrþe (“fit to please; well-pleasing; acceptable; agreeable”, literally “like-worthy”).
Senses: examples: text: None of your hatred should have prevented me, for I am a very likeworthy man.
ref: 1906, Ford Madox Ford, The fifth queen: and how she came to court:
text: Quite a few literature studies demonstrate likeworthy results with instrumented fusions as with uninstrumented (Thomsen et al. 1997, Fritzell et al. 2002).
ref: 2005, Michel Guez, Acta orthopaedica: Supplementum:
glosses: Worthy of being liked; likeable.
New Zealand falcon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: New Zealand falcons
Senses: glosses: A species of falcon endemic to New Zealand (Falco novaeseelandiae).
pharyngology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pharyngo- + -logy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The science that studies the pharynx and treatment of its diseases.
Derived terms: pharyngologic
pharyngological
pharyngologically
pharyngologist
signal transduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A series of chemical reactions within a cell which start when a transmembrane protein comes into contact with a chemical signal, resulting in a second messenger being triggered.
epizudic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɛpɪˈzuːdɪk/
Etymology: Variant spelling of epizootic influenced by variant pronunciation of that word. Compare epizoodic.
Senses: examples: text: Hello, schmalz-gesicht." He walked over to his wife and slapped her buttocks. Mollie pushed him away angrily. "Keep your hands to yourself!" He looked at her in surprise. "So what's wrong with you? You got the epizudic or something?"
ref: 1937, Elmer Rice, Imperial city: a novel, page 203:
glosses: Alternative spelling of epizootic, in the sense a particular disease (as opposed to an outbreak of disease).
Jabba the Hut
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: "You know that character, Jabba the Hut? ... Sometimes he'd tell Ali good things and do things on the surface that seemed right, but then he'd mix it with something devious...."
ref: 1992, Thomas Hauser., Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times, pages 377–8:
text: Legislative assistants are terrified of her, and her reputation for yelling at people deemed disobedient has earned her the nickname ‘Jabba the Hut.’
ref: 2004, Ruth Cohen., Alien Invasion: How the Harris Tories Mismanaged Ontario, page 61:
glosses: Misspelling of Jabba the Hutt.
NCLEX-RN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses.
Related terms: NCLEX-PN
NCLEX-PN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Council Licensure Examination for Practical Nurses.
Related terms: NCLEX-RN
critical loads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of critical load
mitochondrial matrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mitochondrial matrix
cleavage furrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cleavage furrow
prothoracicotropic hormones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prothoracicotropic hormone
dartre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dartres
Etymology: From French dartre.
Senses: glosses: Any herpetic or other chronic skin disease.
zero period
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zero periods
Senses: topics: education
glosses: A high school class that is offered early in the morning, before the scheduled start of the school day.
tillow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪləʊ
Forms: form: tillows
Etymology: From Middle English *tilwe, *telwe, *telghe, from Old English telga, telge (“twig, branch, shoot”). More at tiller.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tiller (“type of plant shoot”).
glosses: Branch; twig; shoot.
tillow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪləʊ
Forms: form: tillows
form: tillowing
form: tillowed
form: tillowed
form: telly
Etymology: From Middle English *tilwen, *telwien, *telȝen, from Old English telgian (“to put forth branches”), from Proto-West Germanic *telgōn, *tilgijan (“to branch, sprout, produce”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tiller.
glosses: To spread; branch out; send forth shoots.
network card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: network cards
Senses: glosses: A card that allows a computer to be connected to a network.
sarabandes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarabande
deskfast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛskfəst/
Forms: form: deskfasts
Etymology: Blend of desk + breakfast.
Senses: examples: text: The default deskfast, the cereal bar, arrived in Britain from America in the late 1990s and within five years accounted for about a fifth of the total breakfast cereal market.
ref: 2007, Joe Moran, Queuing for Beginners: The Story of Daily Life from Breakfast to Bedtime, Profile Books, published 2008, →ISBN, page 19:
glosses: Breakfast eaten at work, particularly while sitting at a desk.
Related terms: al desko
deskfasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deskfast
digilante
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪdʒiːˈlænti/
Forms: form: digilantes
Etymology: Blend of digital + vigilante.
Senses: examples: text: Other computer wizards have become cult figures after rushing to defend their idea of Internet purity, for example, when several hacker "digitantes" sabotaged Cyber Promotions, Inc., one of the most hated e-mail advertisers, or "spammers."
ref: 1998, David Brin, The Transparent Society: WIll Technology Force Use to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?, Perseus Books, →ISBN, page 164:
glosses: A person who engages in vigilantism on or through the Internet.
Hypernyms: cyberactivist
fucktape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fucktapes
Etymology: From fuck + tape.
Senses: glosses: A sex tape.
digilantes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of digilante
fucktapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fucktape
follow-on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: follow-ons
Etymology: Deverbal from follow on.
Senses: examples: text: follow-on effects
text: The Internet is the global information system that is logically linked together by a globally unique address space based on the Internet Protocol (IP) or its subsequent extensions /follow-ons[…]
text: The heavily discounted initial engine sales were offset by the follow-on sales of engines and highly profitable spare parts.
text: There were similar concerns for Alstom's Derby plant earlier this year, until government authorised £220 million funding for Transport for London to place a follow-on order for ten nine-car Class 345 electric units for the Elizabeth line.
ref: 2025 January 8, Philip Haigh, “Will all of the UK train assembly lines survive?”, in RAIL, number 1026, page 51:
glosses: Something that follows as a natural or logical consequence, development, or progression.
glosses: Baby formula (breast milk substitute) for slightly older infants.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The act of a captain forcing the other side to bat again immediately after their first innings.
Synonyms: sense: something that follows naturally
word: consequence
sense: something that follows naturally
word: effect
sense: something that follows naturally
word: knock-on
follow-ons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of follow-on
follows on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of follow on
following on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of follow on
followed on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of follow on
dormcest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dorm (“dormitory”) + -cest.
Senses: examples: text: "I remember being shocked that they would sleep in the same bed!" says Eunpi Cho ’05, recalling one notorious incident of dormcest.
ref: 2005 June 9, Michael M. Grynbaum, “An Entryway That Eats Together Stays Together”, in The Harvard Crimson:
synonyms: hallcest
glosses: Romantic and/or sexual involvement between students residing in the same dormitory.
dotings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doting
oct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Short for octal.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of octal.
co-dominant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of codominant.
MHC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MHCs
Senses: examples: text: Wederkind and Füri looked at MHC genes on chromosome 6, which are the genes involved in the definition of self and the recognition of parastic intruders by the immune system.
ref: 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 144:
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of major histocompatibility complex.
dramality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dramalities
Etymology: Blend of drama + reality. Coined by Survivor creator Mark Burnett in 2000.
Senses: examples: text: Minnie had come up with the brilliant idea of spoofing a dramality show of Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, and Lindsay Lohan doing "hard time" in a primadonna version of prison, complete with diamond-studded ankle cuffs.
ref: 2008, Kate Harmon, The Formal, Speak, →ISBN, page 53:
glosses: A genre of television programming that blends reality TV with elements of drama.
examples: text: Yet neither thinks dramalities signal an end to either scripted or traditional reality TV.
ref: 2004 November 17, Anne Becker, “Scenes From a Marriage”, in Broadcasting & Cable:
glosses: A television program of this genre.
dramalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dramality
sicc
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sicc
form: most sicc
Etymology: From sick + -cc.
Senses: examples: text: Being sicc in college is so trash😂 where my momma at😭
ref: 2018 October 31, ☃️Nick Holmes⚡️‼️ (@TheNHolmes0), “☃️Nick Holmes⚡️‼️ on Twitter”, in Twitter, archived from the original on 06 Nov 2018:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of sick (“in poor health; ill”).
sicc
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See sic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sic (“set upon”).
déblai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French déblai.
Senses: glosses: The cavity from which the earth for a fortification's parapets, etc. (remblai), is taken.
décadent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more décadent
form: most décadent
Senses: examples: text: Now this is the tale of A. B. / The grotesque black and white devotee, / The décadent fakir, / The Yellow Bookmaker, / The funny-man over the sea.
ref: 1894 June 1, “The Yellow Bookmaker”, in The Chap-Book: […], volume I, number 2, Chicago, Ill.; Cambridge, Mass.: Stone & Kimball, page 42:
text: “Is it not that we shall all prize classic simplicity, in phrase or form, more than any jewelled splendour of décadent luxury?” said the Lay Figure.
ref: 1895, “The Lay Figure in Paris”, in The Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art, volume five, London, page xvi, column 2:
text: It is not always easy for the uninitiated to discover the inner connections between proper names and their Décadent meaning.
ref: 1900 September, C. H. A. Bjerregaard, “Décadents, Color and Sounds”, in Leander Edmund Whipple, editor, The Ideal Review: […], volume XIII, number 3, New York, N.Y.: The Metaphysical Publishing Co., […]; Paris: Brentano’s, […], page 196:
text: Nowadays—O irony of fate!—Moscow is enthusiastic over the Russian “Empire,” the “décadent style,” and Somov, as she was, yesterday, over Vasnetzov, Old-Russian palaces, cupboards, fairy-tales, and “bylinas” (old hero ballads).
ref: 1916, Alexandre Benois, “The Contemporary State of Russian Painting”, in Abraham Yarmolinsky, transl., The Russian School of Painting, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, page 188:
text: The chalky pallor of his skin remarked upon by the narrator suggests, if not the décadent, at least the intellectual: he does indeed possess highly developed intellectual faculties, main evidence of which are his brilliant chess achievements.
ref: 1980, D. B. Douglas, “The Humanist Gambit: A Study of Stefan Zweig’s Schachnovelle”, in AUMLA: Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association, page 18:
glosses: Alternative spelling of decadent.
décadent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: décadents
Senses: examples: text: The Décadent was speaking to his soul— / Poor useless thing, he said, / Why did God burden me with such as thou? / The body were enough, / The body gives me all.
ref: 1892, Richard Le Gallienne, “The Décadent to His Soul”, in English Poems, London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane at The Bodley Head; New York: The Cassell Publishing Company, […], page 106:
text: It is true, that the senses have by the Décadents been declared the only purveyors, the only intermediaries, between ourselves and Universal Nature. But that charge, which to some would be a most terrible one, loses much of its character when we come to see what the Décadents understand by senses and discover that they mean something quite different from what our pseudo-philosophers ever thought; in fact there is nothing in their dictionaries that approaches what the Décadents mean.
ref: 1900 September, C. H. A. Bjerregaard, “Décadents, Color and Sounds”, in Leander Edmund Whipple, editor, The Ideal Review: […], volume XIII, number 3, New York, N.Y.: The Metaphysical Publishing Co., […]; Paris: Brentano’s, […], page 193:
text: The décadent, as he is now called, decomposes the page into the paragraph, the paragraph into the sentence, the word, the letter.
ref: 1906, James Huneker, “Richard Strauss”, in Philip Hale, editor, Famous Composers and Their Works, volume 5, Boston, Mass.: J. B. Millet Company, section I, page 165, column 1:
text: Somov is a décadent not only in the philosophic import of his art, but also in his very technique and painting.
ref: 1916, Alexandre Benois, “The Contemporary State of Russian Painting”, in Abraham Yarmolinsky, transl., The Russian School of Painting, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, page 183:
glosses: Alternative spelling of decadent.
calamines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of calamine
calamines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calamine
dartres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dartre
décadents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of décadent
escuages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of escuage
twist the knife
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: twists the knife
form: twisting the knife
form: twisted the knife
form: twisted the knife
form: turn the knife
form: twist the knife in the wound
form: turn the knife in the wound
Etymology: Derived from the fact that the act of literally twisting a knife that is still inside someone who has just been stabbed will widen the wound and make it even more painful.
Senses: examples: text: "And I'm not seeing anyone," she added, just to twist the knife — in whom, she wasn't sure.
ref: 2009, Lucy Dillon, Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts, Berkley, published 2011, →ISBN, page 198:
glosses: To deliberately do or say something to worsen a difficult situation or increase a person's distress, irritation, or anger.
Synonyms: kick someone when they are down
rub salt in the wound
Derived terms: knife twister
twist of the knife
international call prefix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: international call prefixes
Senses: glosses: A prefix that must be prepended to a telephone number in order to call a number outside one's own country.
selfsecure
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more selfsecure
form: most selfsecure
form: self-secure
Etymology: From self- + secure, probably a calque of German selbstsicher (“selfsecure, self-assured, self-confident”). Compare also Dutch zelfzeker, zelfverzekerd (“selfsecure, confident”).
Senses: examples: text: Friendliness and gentleness also apply to self. Children who learn to be gentle and tolerant with themselves grow up to be less stressed and more relaxed and selfsecure.
ref: 1993, Linda Eyre, Richard Eyre, Teaching Your Children Values:
glosses: Secure in oneself; self-assured; self-confident.
examples: text: Haynes's formulation all but conflated middle-class status with moral integrity, as he implied that by their nature, the better classes were more selfsecure.
ref: 2008, Touré F. Reed, Not Alms But Opportunity:
glosses: Secure on one's own; self-reliant; self-sustaining.
self-secure
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-secure
form: most self-secure
Etymology: From self- + secure.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of selfsecure.
off-centre
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more off-centre
form: most off-centre
Senses: examples: text: Place the decorations off-centre on the table.
glosses: displaced from the centre
examples: text: Every time I see him, he acts a bit off-centre.
text: While Lahr's book was meticulously researched, the author had such deeply ambivalent feelings about Orton's relationship with Halliwwell (and probably with all gay relationships) that the book felt off-center.
ref: 1987 May 9, Michael Bronski, “Prick Up Your Marriage”, in Gay Community News, page 6:
glosses: eccentric, unbalanced, slightly wrong
sciencey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sciencey
form: most sciencey
form: science-y
form: sciency
Etymology: From science + -y (“characterized by; like”, suffix forming an adjective).
Senses: examples: text: True, most of us concede that quasi-experimental empirical research, today symbolized by multiple-regression equations, is in some sense the most "sciencey" part of political science.
ref: 1998, Thomas Bender, Carl E. Schorske, American Academic Culture in Transformation, →ISBN:
text: AIDS was too sciencey for me. My eighth-grade term paper was on censorship, Tipper Gore's assault on free speech in the music industry, and the Dead Kennedys.
ref: 2001, Kirk Read, How I Learned to Snap: A Small-town Coming-out and Coming-of-age Story:
text: But with the statement above, I honestly can't recall a situation where it wasn't true although I have no sciencey data to back this up.
ref: 2014, Jeff Patton, Peter Economy, User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product, →ISBN:
text: This project will follow the scientific method, which, as far as I can tell, is just sort of looking at things in a sciencey way.
ref: 2014, Alison Hughes, On a Scale from Idiot to Complete Jerk, →ISBN:
text: She puts it down to her being artistic and Melody being more sciencey.'
ref: 2015, Gareth P. Jones, No True Echo, →ISBN:
antonyms: scienceless
unscienced
glosses: Scientific; of or pertaining to science.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: sciencelike; scientistic; pseudoscientific
text: Here was the hidden gender curriculum in full flow - with very clear gendered values and expectations being imparted to the children who walked in: boys are loud and active and like 'sciencey' things such as building and constructing; girls, on the other hand, are quiet and passive, preferring to do 'caring' things and look pretty.
ref: 2010, Kat Banyard, The Equality Illusion: The Truth about Women and Men Today, page 60:
text: It sounds sciencey, it looks sciencey, and it can fool a lot of people into thinking it's scientific but there are clear reasons why it is not.
ref: 2013, Daniel Loxton, Donald R. Prothero, Abominable Science!:
text: Fear not, I have formulated (a sciencey word) this easy to understand list of signs that you may be a scientist:
ref: 2014, David Tieck, Ok, Intriguing: Hell Yeah! Awesomenessous, →ISBN:
text: All those pencils in your pocket. You look sciencey.
ref: 2017, David M. Barnett, Calling Major Tom, →ISBN:
glosses: Apparently, but not necessarily, scientific; having the trappings of science.
Related terms: scientism
renal cortex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: renal cortexes
form: renal cortices
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The outer region of the kidney, between the renal capsule and the renal medulla, consisting of the glomeruli and the proximal and distal convoluted tubules.
selflike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more selflike
form: most selflike
Etymology: From self + -like. Compare selfly.
Senses: glosses: Exactly similar; corresponding.
examples: text: But this is precisely what Shpet does: he projects onto the "word-concept" selflike qualities that are by no means necessarily foreseen in Husserl, suggesting at once that our selves are structured like it and that it is a kind of self [...]
ref: 2005, Thomas Seifrid, The word made self:
text: The specific capacities belong to and are regulated by the organism itself as a whole: it is the organism as a whole that appears to be constituted by this selflike nature.
ref: 2007, William McNeill, The Time of Life: Heidegger and Ethos:
glosses: Of or pertaining to self or one's self; personal; individual; own.
examples: text: Because the selflike (selbstische) universality, the subjective One (Bins) of the individuality, does not separate itself from the real particularization but is only submerged in it, [...]
ref: 2004, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Arnold V. Miller, J. N. Findlay, Hegel's Philosophy of Nature:
text: The selflike being of man, becoming independent, now stands as an obstacle in the way of further development of the building process.
ref: 2007, Jesaiah Ben-Aharon, The New Experience of the Supersensible:
glosses: Selfish; self-centered.
frustules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frustule
hermatypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: marine biology
glosses: Of a coral that is a species that builds coral reefs
ahermatypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + hermatypic.
Senses: qualifier: marine biology
glosses: Of a coral that is a species that does not build coral reefs
renal medulla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: renal medullas
form: renal medullae
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The innermost region of the kidney, arranged into pyramid like structures, consisting of the collecting tubules, Henle's loop, vasa rectae, venulae rectae and the medullary capillary plexus
Related terms: renomedullary
purflings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purfling
otorhinolaryngological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: 1998, Peter M. Lauven, Peter Kulka, 1: Anesthesia for Surgical Procedures on the Neck, Hans Heinz Naumann, Jan Helms (editors), Head and Neck Surgery, Volume 3: Neck, page 1,
The premedication of otorhinolaryngological patients does not differ from that in other surgical disciplines.
text: This has led to considering the phenomenon as of psychogenic origin and can explain why the condition is sometimes missed on a single otorhinolaryngological examination.
ref: 2001, Emilio Fernandez-Alvarez, Jean Aicardi, N. Bathien, Movement Disorders in Children, page 52:
text: There is a need for studies evaluating the effect of early interventions for otorhinolaryngological conditions on social interaction, communication, behaviour and quality of life for people with ID.
ref: 2010, Vishna Radhakrishnan, “Chapter 13: Otorhinolaryngological disorders”, in Jean O'Hara, Jean McCarthy, Nick Bouras, editors, Intellectual Disability and Ill Health: A Review of the Evidence, page 142:
glosses: Of or pertaining to otorhinolaryngology.
Synonyms: otolaryngological
Derived terms: otorhinolaryngologically
electronarcosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + narcosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: the process of rendering one unconscious through the application of an electric current
glosses: the unconsciousness induced as a result of the process
narcose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɑɹˈkoʊs/
ipa: /nɑːˈkəʊs/
Forms: form: narcoses
form: narcosing
form: narcosed
form: narcosed
Senses: examples: text: He then used only 1,250 p. p. m., and although none died, four out of five were depressed and irritated or narcosed.
ref: 1936, Alice Hamilton, Recent Changes in the Painters' Trade, page 52:
text: The extracts of these plants are being used in folklore medicine. Metabolites belonging to different chemical classes have been identified as antifungal agents and in chemical narcosing of fish.
ref: 2016, Neelam Garg, Microbes in Food and Health, page 85:
glosses: To place in a state of narcosis; to narcotize.
narcose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɑɹˈkoʊs/
ipa: /nɑːˈkəʊs/
Forms: form: narcoses
Senses: examples: text: Persons affected with an idiosyncrasy against this particular substance, and neurasthenic sufferers may easily be seized with a vomituritive tendency after the expiration of the narcose […]
ref: 1889, Journal of Materia Medica, volume 27, page 141:
text: If, then, all anæsthetists would insist upon complete anæsthesis before even the simplest operation was proceeded with, we should hear less frequently of the fatal results of “a few whiffs,” when death is not really due to the use of the anaesthetic, but to the shock consequent upon its not being pushed far enough before the narcose.
ref: 1892, William H. Steele, 567 Useful Hints for the Busy Dentist, page 199:
text: Chloroform was administered so as to obtain a relaxation of the muscles without producing a complete narcose.
ref: 1893, Journal of the British Dental Association, volume 14, page 179:
glosses: The state of being under narcosis; unconsciousness.
militaresque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more militaresque
form: most militaresque
Etymology: From military + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the military
testivation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The production of pollen by the stamens
sibilating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sibilate
sibilating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A hissing sound
antidiscriminatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antidiscriminatory
form: most antidiscriminatory
Etymology: From anti- + discriminatory.
Senses: glosses: Opposing or disallowing discrimination.
Synonyms: antidiscrimination
antidiscriminative
placelessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From placeless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: What deadly voids and unbidden infidelities in the lines that seem to gnaw upon all Faith, and refuse resurrections to the beings who have placelessly perished without a grave.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 7:
glosses: Without a place.
observest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: observe + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of observe
reasonest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: reason + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of reason
reasoneth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: reason + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reason
unhealing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + healing.
Senses: examples: text: Those, in whose unhealing hearts the sight of those bleak tablets sympathetically caused the old wounds to bleed afresh.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 7, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: That does not heal.
unhealing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unheal
boneless lean beef trimmings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BLBT
Senses: examples: text: 2003, Dickson et al, Impact of pH enhancement on populations of Salmonella, Listeria monocytogenes, and Escherichia coli Ol57:H7 in boneless lean beef trimmings, in Food Protection Trends, volume 25 (2005), page 21 http://books.google.com/books?id=5UQsAQAAMAAJ&q=%22boneless+lean+beef+trimmings%22&dq=%22boneless+lean+beef+trimmings%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=kSCHT7GuFZGm8QT31OGfCA&ved=0CEAQ6AEwAw
text: Boneless Lean Beef Trimmings are lean and flavorful ingredients that are essential to processing a range of lean, high-quality, and cost- effective products that millions of Americans consume every day.
ref: 2006, Food engineering, volume 78, page 94:
qualifier: meat industry
glosses: Lean finely textured beef.
uncheered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncheered
form: most uncheered
Etymology: From un- + cheered.
Senses: examples: text: And now the time of tide has come; the ship casts off her cables; and from the deserted wharf the uncheered ship for Tarshish, all careening, glides to sea.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 9, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: Uncheered by friends, unhissed by foes, the honorable member blandly continued his speech […]
ref: 1872, Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, The Unkind Word, and Other Stories, page 145:
glosses: Not cheered; left unhappy or desolate.
glosses: Not cheered or applauded.
invokingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more invokingly
form: most invokingly
Etymology: From invoking + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But all in vain; the indignant gale howls louder; then, with one hand raised invokingly to God, with the other they not unreluctantly lay hold of Jonah.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: So as to invoke.
strainings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of straining
gaspings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gasping
unreluctantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unreluctantly
form: most unreluctantly
Etymology: From unreluctant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But all in vain; the indignant gale howls louder; then, with one hand raised invokingly to God, with the other they not unreluctantly lay hold of Jonah.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: Without reluctance; willingly.
tranced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tranced
form: most tranced
Etymology: From trance + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: For an instant, the tranced boat's crew stood still.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 135, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: Held as if in a trance; captivated.
unbewept
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + bewept.
Senses: glosses: Not wept over; unlamented.
engulph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: engulphs
form: engulphing
form: engulphed
form: engulphed
Senses: examples: text: Yet even then beyond the reach of any plummet—'out of the belly of hell'—when the whale grounded upon the ocean's utmost bones, even then, God heard the engulphed, repenting prophet when he cried.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: The uproar of the sea, the yell of the Indians, the rapidity with which the boat at intervals was driven, threatening at every moment to be engulphed, might have infused terror into the most undaunted; […]
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XV, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 219:
text: [Y]ou have to dig the moor and dry the marsh, to bid the morass give forth instead of engulphing, and to wring the honey and oil out of the rock.
ref: 1857, John Ruskin, “Lecture I”, in The Political Economy of Art: Being the Substance (with Additions) of Two Lectures Delivered at Manchester, July 10th and 13th, 1857, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 17:
text: [C]louds of dark sorrow and sadness, Engulphing all pleasure and gladness, Entombing the soul.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 44:
glosses: Archaic form of engulf.
engulphed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of engulph
brimmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brimmer