cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unrufflable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrufflable
form: most unrufflable
Etymology: From un- + ruffle + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Even for a wind book, there’s too much about Romney’s unrufflable hair.
ref: 2007 June 17, Robert Sullivan, “Air Power”, in New York Times:
glosses: Incapable of being ruffled.
waspy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: waspier
form: waspiest
Etymology: From wasp + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I'm blond and blue-eyed and twenty-five, and my legs are strong and my bosom is substantial, and I have a waspy waistline.
ref: 2001, Charlaine Harris, Dead Until Dark:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a wasp; wasplike.
examples: a waspy apple
glosses: Infested with wasps.
glosses: Waspish; irascible.
waspy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: waspier
form: waspiest
form: WASPy
Senses: examples: text: “I wasn’t asking the traditional waspy preppy types.
ref: 2007 June 17, Allen Salkin, “Manny and the Socialites: Let’s Roll”, in New York Times:
text: At a glance, Thor Steinar resembles waspy American pseudo-collegiate brands like Abercrombie and Fitch, Hollister, and Aeropostale, while displaying a distinctly Nordic aesthetics.
ref: 2017, Geneviève Zubrzycki, National Matters: Materiality, Culture, and Nationalism:
glosses: Like a wasp (white Anglo-Saxon Protestant), a member of the dominant American upper-class culture.
Related terms: waspie
counternatural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more counternatural
form: most counternatural
Etymology: From counter- + natural.
Senses: examples: text: In this respect the tribe was not countercultural but counternatural.
ref: 2007 June 18, Edward Rothstein, “Postmodern Thoughts, Illuminated by the Practices of a Premodern Tribe”, in New York Times:
glosses: Against nature; unnatural.
Derived terms: counternaturally
deglamorization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˌɡlæməɹaɪˈzeɪʃən/
Forms: form: deglamorisation
form: deglamourisation
form: deglamourization
Etymology: From de- + glamorization.
Senses: examples: text: The deglamorization that doctors have suffered with the rise of H.M.O.’s in American life has had its corrective on television, where medical dramas seem to labor ever more aggressively to establish the physician’s genius.
ref: 2007 June 18, Ginia Bellafante, “Doctor, Give Me the News, and Sew Me Up Pretty”, in New York Times:
glosses: The process of deglamorizing.
endovaginal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪnəl
-ædʒɪnəl
Etymology: From endo- + vaginal.
Senses: examples: text: Pending future research, the only available and practical screening method today is the endovaginal ultrasound.
ref: 2007 June 18, “Early Diagnosis of Ovarian Cancer (6 Letters)”, in New York Times:
glosses: Within the vagina.
Derived terms: endovaginally
extravaginal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪnəl
-ædʒɪnəl
Etymology: From extra- + vaginal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
antonyms: intravaginal
coordinate_terms: paravaginal
perivaginal
glosses: Outside the vagina.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Beyond or outside of a sheath; applied to branches springing from buds, which break through the sheath of the subtending leaf, chiefly in grasses.
Derived terms: word: extravaginally
junkman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: junkmen
Etymology: From junk + man.
Senses: examples: text: He was leaving behind his few ruined sticks of furniture—a junkman had wanted to be paid to take them—and two sets of cracked dishes, also unsaleable, that Shmuel could do with whatever he wanted—use, ax, or fire—they were worth nothing.
ref: 1966, Bernard Malamud, chapter 2, in The Fixer:
text: It’s the call of the junkman from his horse-drawn cart, a vestige of British culture in the pre-electronic days.
ref: 2007 June 18, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times:
synonyms: junkdealer
glosses: A seller of junk (miscellaneous articles of low value).
Related terms: scrap dealer
junkmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of junkman
plinky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplɪŋki/
rhymes: -ɪŋki
Forms: form: plinkier
form: plinkiest
Etymology: From plink + -y.
Senses: examples: text: On Saturday the band members laid down a series of playful indie-rock grooves: plinky keyboards and spidery guitar lines, rattling drums and nudging bass.
ref: 2007 June 18, Kelefa Sanneh, “Preppie Afro-Pop and Other Odd Blends”, in New York Times:
glosses: Characterized by plink sounds.
Derived terms: plinky-plonky
Camp
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Campbell.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A village on the Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Pike County, Ohio, United States.
Derived terms: Camp County
preliberal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + liberal.
Senses: examples: text: They were, then, preliberal, premodern.
ref: 2007 June 18, Edward Rothstein, “Postmodern Thoughts, Illuminated by the Practices of a Premodern Tribe”, in New York Times:
text: But if we hope to create a humane postliberal future, we cannot pretend that the age of liberalism did not happen or that its basic contours can simply be jettisoned in some sort of restoration of an idyllic preliberal age.
ref: 2018, Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed, New Haven: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 184:
antonyms: postliberal
glosses: Before the liberal period of society, i.e. in feudal or authoritarian times.
subdetection
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + detection.
Senses: examples: text: “These pests can be there at subdetection levels for years if not decades,” said Mr. Carey, who worked on the medfly infestation.
ref: 2007 June 18, Jesse Mckinley, “Tiny but Hungry, Moth May Peril California Crops”, in New York Times:
glosses: Below the threshold of what can be detected.
Chet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: Chets
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Chester.
glosses: A river in Norfolk, England, tributary to the Yare.
decktop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decktops
Etymology: From deck + top.
Senses: examples: text: The city leased the decktop to the co-op for $1 a year.
ref: 2007 June 19, Charles V. Bagli, “A Co-op on Sutton Place Sues to Keep Its Backyard”, in New York Times:
glosses: The top of a deck (on a ship etc.).
decktops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decktop
multislice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multislices
Etymology: From multi- + slice.
Senses: examples: text: A CT scan exposes patients to far more radiation than a standard X-ray, and multislice CT scanners deliver higher doses of radiation than single-slice scanners.
ref: 2007 June 19, Roni Caryn Rabin, “With Rise in Radiation Exposure, Experts Urge Caution on Tests”, in New York Times:
glosses: A method for simulating the interaction of an electron beam with matter, used in high-resolution transmission electron microscopy images.
nonrespiratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪɹətəɹi
-ɛspəɹətɔːɹi
-aɪɹətəɹi
-ɛspəɹətəɹi
-aɪɹətɔːɹi
Etymology: From non- + respiratory.
Senses: examples: text: But this study, of 13,116 Canadian children, found that the risk of asthma increased even in children treated with antibiotics for nonrespiratory illnesses in the first year of life.
ref: 2007 June 19, Nicholas Bakalar, “Antibiotic Use in First Year May Increase Asthma Risk”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not respiratory.
fibrodysplasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fibrodysplasias
Etymology: From fibro- + dysplasia.
Senses: glosses: Abnormal development of fibrous tissue.
Derived terms: fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva
reheal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reheals
form: rehealing
form: rehealed
form: rehealed
Etymology: From re- + heal.
Senses: examples: text: “So if a crack were to occur in the same location, you couldn’t reheal it,” she said.
ref: 2007 June 19, Henry Fountain, “Cockroaches Conditioned to Salivate at a Scent, Not Pavlov’s Dinner Bell”, in New York Times:
glosses: To heal again.
reheals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reheal
rehealing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reheal
rehealed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reheal
correctively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more correctively
form: most correctively
Etymology: From corrective + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I would throw in radishes, too, which would add a correctively spicy bite to keep things from getting too cloying.
ref: 2007 June 20, Melissa Clark, “A Dish Whose Heart Longs for Spring”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a corrective manner; so as to correct something.
overreacher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overreachers
Etymology: From overreach + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Becker, a classic overreacher, came to grief in an almost comical way.
ref: 2007 June 20, William Grimes, “For a Corrupt New York, a Lawman Who Fit In”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who overreaches.
overreachers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overreacher
Dima
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian Ди́ма (Díma), a diminutive of the male given name Дми́трий (Dmítrij, “Demetrius”).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Russian male given name diminutive Ди́ма (Díma).
glosses: A transliteration of the Ukrainian male given name diminutive Діма (Dima).
barnaclelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more barnaclelike
form: most barnaclelike
Etymology: From barnacle + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Prince Albert, together with his sisters, selected hundreds of items from among his mother’s possessions for public display beginning July 12 at the Grimaldi Forum, Monaco’s modern barnaclelike conference center by the sea.
ref: 2007 June 21, Craig S. Smith, “Recalling the Princess They Called Mother”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a barnacle, especially in clinging tightly to a surface.
bunkroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bunkrooms
Etymology: From bunk + room.
Senses: examples: text: In the bunkrooms, adorned with family photos and a needlepoint extolling the virtues of firefighters — respected, proud, dependable — Mr. Drayton’s locker was marked “Big Earl.”
ref: 2007 June 21, Shaila Dewan, “City Mourns Firefighters and 9 Lost on the Job: Fathers, Mentors, Friends”, in New York Times:
glosses: A room with bunks for sleeping.
bunkrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bunkroom
flockmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flockmates
Etymology: From flock + -mate.
Senses: examples: text: “No, the lord is a shepherd,” a flockmate contradicts.
ref: 2007 June 21, Amy Virshup, “Newly Released”, in New York Times:
glosses: A member of the same flock.
flockmates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flockmate
mouthward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mouth + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: It lacks the little boom microphone jutting mouthward that many Bluetooth headsets have, and it more easily hides under hair.
ref: 2007 June 21, Marty Katz, “Another Step Toward Invisibility for the Cellphone Headset”, in New York Times:
glosses: Towards the mouth.
Synonyms: mouthwards
mouthwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mouth + -wards.
Senses: glosses: Towards the mouth.
Synonyms: mouthward
nonislander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonislanders
Etymology: From non- + islander.
Senses: examples: text: The revision may have little effect among nonislanders, however.
ref: 2007 June 21, The Associated Press, “Japan: Battle of Iwo What?”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who is not an islander.
nonislanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonislander
superserious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superserious
form: most superserious
Etymology: From super- + serious.
Senses: examples: text: The moviegoing I.Q. shouldn’t rise in fall either, which might explain why Picturehouse and Lionsgate have both moved broad comedies, “Run, Fat Boy, Run” and “Good Luck Chuck,” from summer to the superserious month of September.
ref: 2007 June 21, David M. Halbfinger, “Grown-Up Films Vie for Viewers in Summer”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very serious.
dairyland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dairylands
Etymology: From dairy + land.
Senses: examples: text: So, even in its agricultural aspects, it was more than a dairyland. And it was more than a food-and-beverage state. It was a leader in the science of nutrition.
ref: 2001, Richard Nelson Current, Wisconsin: a history, page 67:
text: WASHINGTON, June 19 — Ron Kind, a Democratic representative from Wisconsin dairyland, is making a name for himself as a crusader for big changes in farm policy.
ref: 2007 June 22, Andrew Martin, “Making Waves in Dairyland”, in New York Times:
glosses: An agricultural region where dairy farming takes place.
dairylands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dairyland
honkings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The band opens the shoestring yet adventurous East River Music Project series with S-S-S-Spectres, whose dissonant honkings and lurching beats evoke No Wave heroes like James Chance.
ref: 2007 June 22, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times:
glosses: plural of honking
hyperassertive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperassertive
form: most hyperassertive
Etymology: From hyper- + assertive.
Senses: examples: text: The set was at times hyperaggressive, hyperassertive; here and there you wanted to tell it to back off.
ref: 2007 June 22, Ben Ratliff, “Stop-Time and Symmetry, Punch Lines and Pathos”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extremely assertive.
neocapitalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neocapitalists
Etymology: From neo- + capitalist.
Senses: glosses: An adherent of neocapitalism.
neocapitalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neocapitalist
precrash
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + crash.
Senses: examples: text: “As a result, I must conclude that Trooper II Rasinski’s precrash driving conduct was culpably inefficient and in violation of the division’s rules and regulations,” he continued.
ref: 2007 June 22, David W. Chen, “Officials Find Lapses by Trooper Who Drove Corzine in Parkway Accident”, in New York Times:
glosses: Before a collision involving a vehicle.
examples: text: The “greed is good,” precrash 1980s brought another real estate boom to New York, though one with a limited impact on the physical appearance of the city.
ref: 2009 March 15, Jonathan Mahler, “After the Bubble”, in New York Times:
glosses: Before a financial crash.
thirdborn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From third + born.
Senses: examples: Mary, the thirdborn Bennett child in the novel Pride and Prejudice, receives the least attention.
glosses: Born as the third child to parent or family.
examples: text: Prince Arthur was Queen Victoria's thirdborn son and her seventh child overall.
glosses: Third of a particular type to be born to a parent or family.
thirdborn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thirdborns
Etymology: From third + born.
Senses: examples: text: After correcting for factors that may affect scores, including parents’ education level, maternal age at birth and family size, the researchers found that eldest children scored an average of 103.2, about 3 percent higher than second children (100.3) and 4 percent higher than thirdborns (99.0).
ref: 2007 June 22, Benedict Carey, “Research Finds Firstborns Gain the Higher I.Q.”, in New York Times:
glosses: The third child born to a parent or family.
thirdborns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thirdborn
unmonumental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmonumental
form: most unmonumental
Etymology: From un- + monumental.
Senses: examples: text: The show is every bit as socially engaged as its video-heavy 2002 predecessor, but packages its politics in a different way, in unmonumental objects and installations by undersung, not to say unknown, artists.
ref: 2007 June 22, Holland Cotter, “Asking Serious Questions in a Very Quiet Voice”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not monumental.
unwist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌʌnˈwɪst/
Forms: form: more unwist
form: most unwist
Etymology: From Middle English un- + wist, past participle of wit (“to know”).
Senses: glosses: unknown, unrecognized
Dore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)
Etymology: * As an English surname, from the noun dore (“kind of bumblebee”).
* Also as an English surname, from the placename Dorr in Derbyshire or Herefordshire; see Dorr. Sometimes influenced or directly from the noun door.
* As an Irish surname, from Ó Doghair (“descendant of Doghar”), a byname meaning "sadness" (compare dubhghràdh, from dubh + gràdh).
* As a French surname, from Old French doré (“golden”). Compare Dorais.
* As a Hungarian surname, from the adjective dőre (“stupid, useless”).
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Isidore.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK3181).
glosses: A river in Herefordshire, England, which joins the River Monnow near Monmouth Cap; in full, the River Dore.
Derived terms: Abbey Dore
Related terms: Monts Dore
Dunky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ʌŋki
Etymology: From Duncan + -y.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Duncan.
chapleted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃæp.lətəd/
/ˈt͡ʃæp.lɪdɨd/
Etymology: From chaplet + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: I should delight in watching first to last / His progress as you watch it, not a whit / More in the secret than yourselves who sit / Fresh-chapleted to listen. But it seems[…]
ref: 1840, Robert Browning, Sordello, book I:
glosses: Adorned with or having a chaplet.
Derived terms: unchapleted
Ebbie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Diminutives with -ie.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given names Ebenezer and Eben.
Elbie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Elbert.
Ged
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Gerard.
Gil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɪl/
homophone: gill
rhymes: -ɪl
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Gilbert.
Related terms: Gill
Gordie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Gordon + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Gordon.
Gordy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Gordon + -y.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Gordon.
construction site
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: construction sites
Senses: examples: text: The architect behind a controversial Calgary pedestrian bridge said his firm is committed to ensuring the project's beauty, but the construction delays have little to do with him.[…] His officials recently inspected the construction site, and expressed artistic concerns about the surface appearance of two of the bridge's many steel pieces.
ref: 2010 November 19, Jason Markusoff, “The Montreal Gazette”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 06 Dec 2010:
synonyms: building site
glosses: A place where a building or other physical structure is under construction. (This entry is a translation hub.)
AFE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Acronym of Armed Forces Entertainment.
vaguery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈveɪɡəɹi/
homophone: vagary
Forms: form: vagueries
Etymology: From vague + -ery, perhaps influenced by vagary. Attested since at least the 1800s.
Senses: examples: text: […] this badge of rivalry and intrusion, and of the vaguery and vacillation which restrain them through dread of danger.
ref: 1859, New Exegesis of Shakespeare, pages 245–246:
text: As a matter of fact, the particular breadth and vaguery of residual all-British consciousness decays more readily into racialism than into a defined, territorially restricted nationalism.
ref: 1977 (first publication; republication in 2003), Tom Nairn, The Break-Up of Britain: crisis and neo-nationalism - Page 68
text: The wording of diplomatic agreements and protocols is often deliberately designed either to soothe ruffled feathers — while pursuing an otherwise ruthless course — or to give assurance in sufficiently vague form that the vaguery might afterwards be exploited to diminish the effect of the assurances.
ref: 1985, Stephen Chan, The Commonwealth Observer Group in Zimbabwe: a personal memoir, page 11:
text: There is a sharp and effective contrast between the incisiveness and energy of his speech and the vaguery and haziness he is attacking.
ref: 1988, Kenneth Pickering, How to Study Modern Drama:
text: Incumbent on the quest for vaguery are frustration and unrequited desire; complete accessibility is inherently denied as part of its most basic definition.
ref: 2003, Annette Fierro, The Glass State: the technology of the spectacle, Paris, 1981-1998, page 103:
glosses: Vagueness, the condition of being vague.
glosses: A vagueness, a thing which is vague, an example of vagueness.
examples: text: Some were indeed powerful men belonging to powerful families, exercising authority and influence, but the vagueries of colonial economic conditions made their holdings precarious.
ref: 1980, Nicholas P. Cushner, Lords of the Land: sugar, wine, and Jesuit estates of coastal Peru, 1600-1767, page 14:
text: Yet whatever their faith in the importance of a politicized citizenry, the framers of the Indian Constitution left little to the vagueries of mass political participation.
ref: 1983, Marvin Davis, Rank and Rivalry: the politics of inequality in rural West Bengal, page 191:
glosses: Misspelling of vagary.
Related terms: vagary
every silver lining has a cloud
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: From every cloud has a silver lining.
Senses: examples: text: A great partnership isn't a self-maintaining entity. Perseverance and persistence make it thrive. For every silver lining has a cloud. Ignorance of this reality is not an option.
ref: 2007, Diab A. Shetayh, Actuality : The Reality Requiem:
glosses: Every good situation has the potential to turn bad.
publishing house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: publishing houses
Senses: hypernyms: publisher
;
house
glosses: A company that produces books, magazines, brochures and other texts in print or electronic form.
rabbitless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rabbit + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without rabbits.
not invented here
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: word: NIH
glosses: Invented outside one's own organization (referring to the knee-jerk dismissal of products, technologies, etc. that come from third parties).
maildrop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maildrops
Etymology: From mail + drop.
Senses: glosses: A place where postal mail is received and then forwarded to another address, used for anonymity or as a fixed address for somebody who is travelling.
maildrops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maildrop
prediscussion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + discussion.
Senses: glosses: Before a discussion.
horselaughter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From horse + laughter.
Senses: glosses: horselaugh
nonformalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + formalism.
Senses: glosses: Absence of, or a belief system that is the opposite of, formalism.
potted shrimp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potted shrimps
Senses: qualifier: Lancashire
glosses: A traditional Lancastrian dish of brown shrimp in mace-flavored butter, set in a small pot.
bundle of laughs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bundles of laughs
Senses: examples: text: When she was alone with you, she could be a bundle of laughs. But if we were going to a large party, Sunny would break out in welts from nerves.
ref: 1982 January 11, New York Magazine:
text: Grim and gloomy Protestantism has never been exactly a bundle of laughs but lately humour in the church, particularly the evangelical wing, seems to be undergoing a revival.
ref: 1991, Third Way Dec 1991 - Jan 1992 - Page 20
text: Eddie Murphy once said he's worked on films where it has been a bundle of laughs, and other times it has been absolute hell, and you can not tell whether the film will be any good, or terrible based on the experience.
ref: 2006, Chris Jones, Genevieve Jolliffe, The guerilla^([sic]) film makers handbook:
glosses: Something or someone very funny or fun.
Synonyms: barrel of laughs
short tandem repeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short tandem repeats
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A pattern in DNA where two or more nucleotides are repeated and the repeated sequences are directly adjacent to each other, used in determining genetic profiles to identify an individual.
Synonyms: STR
short tandem repeats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of short tandem repeat
gunfires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gunfire
epaulement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /eɪ.poʊlˈmɑnt/
Forms: form: epaulements
form: epaulment
Etymology: French épaulement, from épaule + -ment
Senses: glosses: A barricade of heaped earth for protection from gunfire.
qualifier: ballet
glosses: A position in which one shoulder is thrust forward and the other back, and the torso turned at a right angle to the supporting leg.
outlaugh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outlaughs
form: outlaughing
form: outlaughed
form: outlaughed
Etymology: From out- + laugh. Compare Saterland Frisian uutlachje, West Frisian útlaitsje, Dutch uitlachen (“to ridicule”), German Low German utlachen, German auslachen (“to laugh at”), Danish udle.
Senses: examples: His apprehensions of being outlaughed will force him to continue in a restless obscurity. - Franklin
glosses: To ridicule or laugh someone out of a purpose, principle, etc.; laugh down; discourage or put out of countenance by laughing.
examples: text: At his father's quick guffaw he jumped back, trying to outlaugh him. "Mamma, did you hear what I said, Mamma?" Boardman felt his side. "My boy, that's a good one."
ref: 1995, Myra Page, Moscow Yankee:
glosses: To laugh louder than, surpass in laughing.
epaulements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epaulement
outlaughing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outlaugh
outlaughs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outlaugh
outlaughed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outlaugh
pseudocelebrity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudocelebrities
Etymology: From pseudo- + celebrity.
Senses: glosses: One who has a certain degree of celebrity status without being actually famous or noteworthy.
pseudocelebrities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudocelebrity
he who laughs last laughs best
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhiː huː ˈlɑːfs ˈlɑːst ˈlɑːfs ˈbɛst/
ipa: /ˈhi hu ˈlæfs ˈlæst ˈlæfs ˈbɛst/
Forms: form: he laughs best that laughs last
form: he who laughs last laughs hardest
Senses: glosses: Success is enjoyed more after having previously endured ridicule.
Related terms: have the last laugh
revenge is a dish best served cold
revenge is sweet
he who laughs last laughs hardest
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of he who laughs last laughs best.
constness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From const (“a keyword for constant in the C programming language and its derivatives”) + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: If you want to change a class member inside a const member function, the traditional approach is to cast away constness by saying (X*)this.
ref: 1995, Embedded Systems Programming, volume 8, page 180:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
synonyms: immutability
glosses: The declaration of variables or objects as immutable.
Related terms: const correctness
alts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alt
antilove
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antilove
form: most antilove
Etymology: From anti- + love.
Senses: examples: text: Mowrer, Truxal and Merrill, and Groves all take what are essentially antilove positions.
ref: 1974, J. Richard Udry, The social context of marriage, page 149:
text: These two antagonists are not simply unloved; they are actively antilove, since they must destroy the love between Tristran and Isolt before they can hope to become loved.
ref: 1984, Memphis State University. Dept. of English, Interpretations, Volume 15, page 35:
text: Like her religious verse, the antilove poems cannot be categorized as autobiographical.
ref: 1996, Amy K. Kaminsky, Water lilies, page 371:
glosses: Opposing love.
doggily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more doggily
form: most doggily
Etymology: From doggy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a doggy manner; like a dog.
superquick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superquick
form: most superquick
Etymology: From super- + quick.
Senses: glosses: Extremely quick.
superquiet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superquiet
form: most superquiet
Etymology: From super- + quiet.
Senses: glosses: Extremely quiet.
kingmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kingmakings
Etymology: From king + making.
Senses: glosses: The ceremony of crowning a king, or any similar ceremony of endowing a person with high office.
examples: text: I think that V:TES is a multiplayer game, and multiplayer games have the kingmaking problem no matter much you try to tweak the rules.
ref: 2008 February 5, ben...@gmail.com, “New final ranking system is crap”, in rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad (Usenet):
glosses: In games, a strategy or design where one player (often the losing one) essentially gets to pick who wins.
kingmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From king + making.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kingmake
Related terms: kingmaker
miniserial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miniserials
Etymology: From mini- + serial.
Senses: glosses: A short serial (story or work in several parts).
miniserials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miniserial
returnless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɹəˈtɜɹnləs/
Etymology: From return + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Seventeen years had rolled on their returnless flight since that night of withering sorrow.
ref: 1845, Mrs. F. Beavan, Sketches And Tales Illustrative Of Life In The Backwoods Of New Brunswick:
text: They would do an immensity of labor on their returnless journey to the ocean.
ref: 1857, S. H. Hammond, Wild Northern Scenes:
text: You must hear the judge's decision, remorselessly giving up the woman with her children born and unborn, into the hands of their claimants--by them to be carried to the slave prison, and thence to be sold to a returnless distance from the remaining but scattered fragments of her once happy family.
ref: 1872, William Still, The Underground Railroad:
glosses: from (or due to) which one will not, or cannot, return (of a journey, destination, situation, distance, etc.)
examples: text: —but now false Memory loosed
Her time-worn cable from the wilder'd mind,
Blotting the chart whereon it loved to gaze
Mid the dim ocean of returnless years.—
ref: 1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, Visit to the venerable Charles Thompson, pages 94–95:
text: Pass on, returnless year!
ref: 1895, Mary Baker Eddy, Pulpit and Press:
glosses: which will not return
raw_tags: of something that is gone
schoolwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From school + -wise.
Senses: glosses: By or in terms of school.
schoolwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From school + -wise.
Senses: glosses: By or in terms of school.
reincarnationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From reincarnation + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The belief that beings are reincarnated in a new form after death.
Related terms: reincarnationist
reincarnationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reincarnationists
Etymology: From reincarnation + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who believes that beings are reincarnated in a new form after death.
Related terms: reincarnationism
reincarnationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reincarnationist
reincarnatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From reincarnate + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being reincarnated.
unpursued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈʌn.pəɹˌsjuːd/
Etymology: From un- + pursued.
Senses: examples: text: All night the dreadless Angel, unpursu’d,
Through Heav’ns wide Champain held his way; till Morn,
Wak’t by the circling Hours, with rosie hand
Unbarr’d the gates of Light.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 1-4:
text: 1740, Samuel Johnson, “Debate on incorporating the new-raised men into the standing regiments” in The Works of Samuel Johnson, London: John Stockdale, 1787, Vol. 12, Debates in Parliament, p. 62,
At Guastalla, Sir, they attacked the French in their trenches, even with forces inferiour in number, so far were they from any diffidence in the form of their establishment; and after a fight of seven hours, in which their loss was, under all their disadvantages, not greater than that of their enemies, they retreated to their former camp unmolested and unpursued.
text: With doubtful patriotism he left the Danes for a while unpursued, attacked Meath, overran and wasted Connaught, and returning suddenly burnt the royal stronghold of Tara.
ref: 1888, Emily Lawless, chapter 8, in The Story Of Ireland, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, page 63:
glosses: Not pursued, not followed, not hounded.
examples: text: […] And thus the soul,
By that sweet taste of pleasure unpursu’d
Doth find itself insensibly dispos’d
To virtue and true goodness.
ref: 1800, William Wordsworth, “The Old Cumberland Beggar”, in Lyrical Ballads, 2nd edition, volume 2, London: Longman & Rees, pages 156–157:
text: Our pleasures unpursued age past recall.
ref: 1917, Rudyard Kipling, “The Fabulists”, in A Diversity of Creatures, London: Macmillan, page 380:
glosses: Not pursued, not sought, not engaged in.
laugh machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laugh machines
Senses: glosses: A machine or program or track that inserts canned laughter into a television show.
repivot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repivots
form: repivoting
form: repivoted
form: repivoted
Etymology: From re- + pivot.
Senses: glosses: To pivot again or anew.
repivots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repivot
repivoting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repivot
repivoted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repivot
nonscripturally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nonscriptural + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a nonscriptural manner.
kissathon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kissathons
Etymology: From kiss + -athon.
Senses: glosses: A prolonged period of kissing.
kissathons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kissathon
unpeaceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpeaceable
form: most unpeaceable
Etymology: From un- + peaceable.
Senses: glosses: Not peaceable.
unpeacefully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unpeacefully
form: most unpeacefully
Etymology: From unpeaceful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unpeaceful manner.
unpeaceably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unpeaceably
form: most unpeaceably
Etymology: From unpeaceable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unpeaceable manner.
frozenly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more frozenly
form: most frozenly
Etymology: From frozen + -ly.
Senses: glosses: While, or as if, frozen; in a manner that is cold, unfeeling, unmoving, etc.
shopkeeperly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shopkeeperly
form: most shopkeeperly
Etymology: From shopkeeper + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of a shopkeeper.
dolces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dolce
shellless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From shell + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a shell.
protothread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protothreads
Etymology: From proto- + thread.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A lightweight stackless thread used in concurrent programming.
protothreads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protothread
protosyntactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From proto- + syntactic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to protosyntax.
stackless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stack + -less.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
antonyms: stackful
glosses: Without the use of a stack (last-in-first-out data structure).
broilerhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broilerhouses
Etymology: From broiler + house.
Senses: glosses: A building or similar structure where chickens are raised to be slaughtered and sold as meat.
arterial street
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arterial streets
Senses: glosses: An arterial road.
flarer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛəɹə(ɹ)
Forms: form: flarers
Etymology: From flare + -er.
Senses: examples: text: We recognize the same pattern as in the left panel, with dM stars being much less frequent flarers than dMe stars of similar luminosity.
ref: 2012, O. Havnes, B. R. Pettersen, J. H. M. M. Schmitt, Activity in Cool Star Envelopes: Proceedings, page 56:
glosses: That which flares.
responsible trading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Financial asset management which is undertaken along conservative lines.
glosses: A movement within financial trading that stresses service providers’ obligations to shield financial traders from the risk factors in trading.
autozygome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autozygomes
Etymology: From autozygous + -ome.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The complete set of genomic regions that are identical by descent in an individual.
fulgor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fulgors
form: fulgour
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fulgor.
Senses: examples: text: She held on straight for the Red Sea under a serene sky, under a sky scorching and unclouded, enveloped in a fulgor of sunshine that killed all thought, oppressed the heart, withered all impulses of strength and energy.
ref: 1900, Joseph Conrad, chapter 2, in Lord Jim:
glosses: Splendor, splendour; dazzling brightness.
Sassenach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sassenachs
Senses: examples: text: Shinty, once a battle royal between villages, is still a far tougher game than hockey, its nearest Sassenach equivalent.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 278:
glosses: Alternative form of sassenach.
satellite dish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: satellite dishes
Senses: glosses: A parabolic antenna designed to receive microwaves from communications satellites, which transmit data transmissions or broadcasts, such as satellite television.
Hyponyms: big ugly dish
minidish
pizza dish
corbeilles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corbeille
orchideous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From orchid + -eous.
Senses: glosses: orchidaceous
corvées
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corvée
Callistan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Callisto + -an.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Of, or pertaining to Callisto, the second largest moon of Jupiter.
Synonyms: Callistoan
Callistan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Callistans
Etymology: From Callisto + -an.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: An inhabitant of Callisto.
Synonyms: Callistoan
Tripolitanian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Tripolitania + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Two of the locomotives remaining in Italy were sent across the Mediterranean to Tripoli, at the time a base for Rommel's armies in North Africa, although they could not run on the 3 ft. 1½ in.-gauge Tripolitanian railways.
ref: 1955 December, P. M. Kalla-Bishop, “Letters to the Editor: Italian-Built Garratts in Africa”, in Railway Magazine, page 873:
glosses: Of, or relating to, Tripolitania.
Tripolitanian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tripolitanians
Etymology: From Tripolitania + -an.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant or native of Tripolitania.
pressed for time
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: But as our urban lives have grown more pressed for time, we have diced our opportunity costs finer and finer; from budgeting days or slabs of hours, we have come to rationing minutes.
ref: 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:
text: So as neither of them were particularly pressed for time, as it happened, and the temperature refreshing since it cleared up after the recent visitation of Jupiter Pluvius, they dandered along past by where the empty vehicle was waiting without a fare or a jarvey
ref: Episode 16
glosses: in a hurry, without spare time.
geison
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geisons
form: geisa
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γεῖσον (geîson, “cornice”).
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: The part of the entablature that projects outward from the top of the frieze, frieze course, or architrave.
cryovolcanoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryovolcano
mutule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mutules
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin mutulus.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Any of the rectangular blocks under the soffit of the cornice of the Greek Doric temple, which are studded with guttae.
mutules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mutule
cymatium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cymatiums
form: cymatia
Etymology: From Latin cȳmatium (“ogee”), from the Ancient Greek κῡμάτιον (kūmátion), the diminutive form of κῦμα (kûma, “wave”), whence cyma.
Senses: examples: text: The cornice only is carried around the room at the ceiling, and in the staircase hall only the cymatium and corona of the cornice; but over the archway, supported by a colonnade of four fluted round columns, a complete entablature with nicely worked classic detail is employed and given added emphasis by several inches' projection into the reception hall.
ref: 1920, Frank Cousins, Phil M. Riley, The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company:
topics: architecture
glosses: A molding on the cornice, above the corona, often having a wavelike form (cyma).
Related terms: cyma
under seal
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The letter was delivered under seal.
glosses: Bearing a seal.
examples: text: The terms of the settlement will remain under seal indefinitely.
text: Other members of the LAPD who were involved in the disaster have also remained anonymous, their discipline under seal.
ref: 2023 July 14, Brittney Mejia, Libor Jany, Richard Winton, “LAPD refused to ID officers behind a huge fireworks explosion. Now we have their names”, in Los Angeles Times:
topics: law
glosses: Legally bound not to be disclosed.
dead heats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dead heat
desk jockeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desk jockey
drill downs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drill down
Huffie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Humphrey.
languescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Etymology: From Latin; see languescō.
Senses: examples: text: [S]carcely have the languescent mercenary Fifteen Thousand laid down their tools […]
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
text: It had long been languescent and its revival in 1791 was due to the energy of Home Tooke; its membership was chiefly middle-class.
ref: 1939, British common people, 1746-1938, page 139:
text: She arrived at the cabin at that late hour of the evening when the languescent river darkened to green-black satin, […]
ref: 2002, Frances Myers, Swan: A Novel, →ISBN, page 217:
glosses: Becoming fatigued or languid.
locule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: locules
Etymology: Compare French locule. See loculus.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A little hollow; a loculus.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the cells of a compound ovary of a plant; a loculus.
Derived terms: loculed
jaw muscle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jaw muscles
Senses: glosses: Synonym of masseter.
synonyms: word: masseter
augle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: augles
form: augling
form: augled
form: augled
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ogle.
sitting rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sitting room
sitting-rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sitting-room
Julianne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A 19th/20th century variant of Juliana. Can also be interpreted as a combination of Julia + Anne.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin.
devision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devisions
Senses: examples: text: One Michael Caſſio, a Florentine, / (A Fellow almoſt damn’d in a faire Wife) / That neuer ſet a Squadron in the Field, / Nor the deuiſion of a Battaile knowes
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 310, column 1:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of division.
devisions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of devision: obsolete spelling of divisions.