cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
scotophasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From scotophase + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the scotophase.
photophasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photophase + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the photophase.
topsy-turvey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more topsy-turvey
form: most topsy-turvey
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of topsy-turvy.
topsy-turvey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: topsy-turveys
form: topsy-turveying
form: topsy-turveyed
form: topsy-turveyed
Senses: examples: text: [...] Mrs. Sykes said, ‘her man was the wust she ever knowed when he got topsy-turveyed.’ And as now, he began to get topsy-turveyed pretty regularly before he had finished his daily business with the retiring host of the Holly Bush, there was not much peace at home.
ref: [1854], G[eorge] E[liel] Sargent, “How the Legacy Went. In Two Chapters.”, in Moralities for Home, London: Groombridge and Sons. […], →OCLC, chapter II (How It Departed), page 148:
text: [M]y literary life was rather topsy-turveyed by a couple of untoward accidents last year, and a prostrating attack of influenza, and bronchitis subsequently, for the cure of which I am indebted to the climate of Portugal, [...]
ref: 1892, M[aurice] O’Connor Morris, “Introduction”, in Memini: Or Reminiscences of Irish Life, London: Harrison & Sons, […], →OCLC, page ix:
glosses: Alternative form of topsy-turvy.
*band
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: *bands
form: band
Etymology: From * (“wildcard”) + band, after the roguelike Angband, after the fictional fortress of Angband in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Silmarillion.
Senses: glosses: A subgenre of roguelikes, characterized by non-rushed gameplay, levels not being saved upon being left, large numbers of items and a steep power curve.
glosses: A game of this genre.
Coordinate terms: hacklike
rupturable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rupture + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being ruptured.
disruptable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From disrupt + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being disrupted.
Derived terms: disruptably
nondisruptable
Related terms: disruptability
undisruptable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + disruptable.
Senses: glosses: Incapable of being disrupted.
disruptability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disrupt + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being disruptable.
Mughals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mughal
Mughlai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: moglai
form: moghlai
Senses: glosses: A style of cuisine developed in the Indian subcontinent by the imperial kitchens of the Mughal Empire, strongly influenced by the Persian cuisine of Iran.
unavaricious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unavaricious
form: most unavaricious
Etymology: From un- + avaricious.
Senses: glosses: Not avaricious.
ungluttonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungluttonous
form: most ungluttonous
Etymology: From un- + gluttonous.
Senses: glosses: Not gluttonous.
unslothful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unslothful
form: most unslothful
Etymology: From un- + slothful.
Senses: glosses: Not slothful.
indisciplined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indisciplined
form: most indisciplined
Etymology: From in- + disciplined.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of undisciplined.
undiscipline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + discipline.
Senses: examples: text: The Indian military system is full of unmilitary anomalies, all productive of irresponsibility and undiscipline.
ref: 1860, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons, page 72:
glosses: Alternative form of indiscipline.
smutless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From smut + -less.
Senses: examples: smutless coal
glosses: Without smut.
examples: smutless wheat
glosses: Without the plant disease smut.
unsmutty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsmutty
form: most unsmutty
Etymology: From un- + smutty.
Senses: glosses: Not smutty.
undevious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undevious
form: most undevious
Etymology: From un- + devious.
Senses: glosses: Not devious.
slickhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slickheads
Etymology: From slick + head.
Senses: glosses: Any of the family Alepocephalidae of marine smelts, lacking scales on the head.
slickheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slickhead
musking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of musk
musked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of musk
grape hyacinths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grape hyacinth
unbalconied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + balconied.
Senses: glosses: Without a balcony.
refugeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From refuge + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a refuge.
antirefugee
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antirefugee
form: most antirefugee
Etymology: From anti- + refugee.
Senses: glosses: Opposing refugees.
archvillainess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archvillainesses
Etymology: From archvillain + -ess or arch- + villainess.
Senses: glosses: A female archvillain.
archvillainesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archvillainess
Bub
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bubs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Bub.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
underprioritize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underprioritizes
form: underprioritizing
form: underprioritized
form: underprioritized
Etymology: From under- + prioritize.
Senses: glosses: To assign too low a priority to.
underprioritizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underprioritize
underprioritizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underprioritize
underprioritized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underprioritize
overprioritize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overprioritizes
form: overprioritizing
form: overprioritized
form: overprioritized
Etymology: From over- + prioritize.
Senses: examples: text: Denfeld's claim that the feminist movement has overprioritized lesbians […] suggests the limits of her inclusive and egalitarian impulses.
ref: 2001, Helene Meyers, City Comp: Identities, Spaces, Practices, page 6:
glosses: To assign too high a priority to.
overprioritizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overprioritize
overprioritizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overprioritize
overprioritized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overprioritize
Jerichoan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Jericho + -an.
Senses: examples: Jerichoan walls; a Jerichoan fall
glosses: From or pertaining to Jericho.
Jerichoan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jerichoans
Etymology: From Jericho + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Jericho.
Synonyms: Jerichoite
Jerichoans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jerichoan
Jerichoite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jerichoites
Etymology: From Jericho + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A Jerichoan: a native or inhabitant of Jericho.
susters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suster
Soweto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Clipping of South-western townships.
Senses: glosses: An urban area on the edge of Johannesburg, South Africa, known for a violent uprising that occurred there in the 1970s.
Derived terms: Sowetan
gooding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of good
sloyds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sloyd
baiteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: bait + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bait
lureth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: lure + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lure
patcheth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: patch + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of patch
saweth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: saw + -eth
Senses: qualifier: pseudo-archaic
glosses: alternative third-person singular past of see
mendeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: mend + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mend
oblike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oblike
form: most oblike
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of oblique.
oxymyoglobin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxymyoglobins
Etymology: From oxy- + myoglobin.
Senses: glosses: The substance resulting from exposure of myoglobin to oxygen, responsible for the red colour of meat.
oxymyoglobins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxymyoglobin
deoxyhaemoglobins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deoxyhaemoglobin
oxyhaemoglobins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxyhaemoglobin
oxyhemoglobins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxyhemoglobin
photographability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photograph + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being photographable.
Agricolan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Agricolan
form: most Agricolan
Etymology: From Agricola + -n.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Ancient Roman statesman Agricola.
ferials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ferial
repealeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: repeal + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repeal
waneth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: wane + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wane
nabber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nabbers
Etymology: From nab + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who grabs or snatches.
nabbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nabber
memic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmi.mɪk/
rhymes: -iːmɪk
Etymology: From meme + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to memes.
semic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsi.mɪk/
rhymes: -iːmɪk
Etymology: From seme + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a seme; constituting a seme.
unapprenticed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + apprenticed.
Senses: glosses: Not apprenticed.
laudingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more laudingly
form: most laudingly
Etymology: From lauding + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to laud or praise.
century eggs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of century egg
unconsented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + consented.
Senses: antonyms: consented
glosses: To which consent has not been given; not agreed to.
sunroofed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sunroof + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Fitted with a sunroof.
hallooings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hallooing
hallooes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of halloo
unstudded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + studded.
Senses: glosses: Not studded.
studless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stud + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without studs.
subrectangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subrectangles
Etymology: From sub- + rectangle.
Senses: glosses: A rectangle making up part of another rectangle.
subrectangles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subrectangle
subrectangular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + rectangular.
Senses: glosses: Imperfectly rectangular; approaching a rectangle in shape.
on-again-off-again
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of on-again, off-again.
overforwardness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From overforward + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being overforward.
deathwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From death + -wards.
Senses: glosses: Towards death.
wooes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The south wind wooes the barbarous north; on many a distant shore the gentler west wind persuades the arid east.
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of woo
battels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of battel
examples: text: Every boy had a shilling a week pocket-money, which we called battels, and which was advanced to us out of the pocket of the second master. On one awful day the second master announced to me that my battels would be stopped.
ref: 1880, Anthony Trollope, “My Education”, in An Autobiography, volume 1, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1883, page 13:
qualifier: school slang
glosses: A small sum of money given to pupils.
Synonyms: sense: small sum of money
word: allowance
sense: small sum of money
word: battlings
sense: small sum of money
word: pocket money
reappeareth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: reappear + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reappear
disappeareth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: disappear + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disappear
paddleth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: paddle + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of paddle
miscolor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: miscolors
form: miscoloring
form: miscolored
form: miscolored
Etymology: From Middle English miscolouren. By surface analysis, mis- + color.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of miscolour.
miscoloring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of miscolor
miscoloring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miscolorings
Senses: glosses: miscoloration
miscolors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of miscolor
subtribal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + tribal.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a subtribe.
macaranga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macarangas
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of the large genus Macaranga of Old World tropical euphorbiaceous trees.
Derived terms: blush macaranga
macarangaflavanone
macarangas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macaranga
hassagay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hassagays
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of assegai.
hassagays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hassagay
zagaye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zagayes
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of assegai.
zagayes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zagaye
zagaie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zagaies
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of assegai.
zagaies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zagaie
assagay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assagays
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of assegai.
assagay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: assagays
form: assagaying
form: assagayed
form: assagayed
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of assegai.
assagays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assagay
hassaguay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hassaguays
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of assegai.
hassaguays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hassaguay
assegay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assegays
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of assegai.
assegays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assegay
assagaie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assagaies
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of assegai.
assagaies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assagaie
miscolorations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miscoloration
noncommemorative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + commemorative.
Senses: glosses: Not commemorative.
unenthusiasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + enthusiasm.
Senses: glosses: Lack of enthusiasm.
kindlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kindling
unemblematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unemblematic
form: most unemblematic
Etymology: From un- + emblematic.
Senses: glosses: Not emblematic.
Laplandic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Laplandic
form: most Laplandic
Etymology: From Lapland + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Lapland.
duodji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Northern Sami duodji.
Senses: glosses: The traditional Sami handicraft of making functional items such as knives and cups.
Norwegianization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Norwegianizations
form: Norwegianisation
Etymology: From Norwegian + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: The joik, and Sami culture generally, for a long time had been endangered under the fornorsking, or Norwegianization, policy.
ref: 2024 May 16, Avedis Hadjian, “The Sami people bring on spring - with reindeer and sleighs”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: The former Norwegian government policy of assimilating the Sami and Kven peoples into an ethnically and culturally uniform Norwegian population.
examples: text: "Snøbrett" is a Norwegianization of "snowboard".
glosses: The changing of foreign words into a Norwegian form.
Related terms: Norwegianize
ethnicize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ethnicizes
form: ethnicizing
form: ethnicized
form: ethnicized
Etymology: From ethnic + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make ethnic.
Derived terms: unethnicized
Related terms: ethnicization
ethnization
ethnize
sieidi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sieidis
Etymology: Borrowed from Northern Sami sieidi.
Senses: glosses: Among the Sami people, a special site where thanks and offerings are given to the spirits.
ethnicized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ethnicize
ethnicizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ethnicize
ethnicizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ethnicize
sieidis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sieidi
balketh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: balk + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of balk
blacketh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: black + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of black
in the main
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: for the main
Senses: examples: text: […] I entirely agree with you in the main as to the propriety of doing everything one could by way of providing for a child one had in a manner taken into one's own hands; […]
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 8:
text: Mr. Fechter has been in the main more accustomed to speak French than to speak English.
ref: 1869 August, Charles Dickens, “On Mr. Fechter's Acting”, in The Atlantic Monthly:
text: A new generation is growing up in our midst, […] and its enthusiasm, even when it is misdirected, is, I believe, in the main sincere.
ref: 1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “The Dead”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 252:
text: Bill Clinton's philandering was regarded as a moral failing or a joke — but not, in the main, as an illness.
ref: 2011 February 28, John Cloud, “Sex Addiction: A Disease or a Convenient Excuse?”, in Time, retrieved 13 Aug 2013:
text: Now, I hold no candle for the train operators, and I think that in the main they have been far too craven about any government proposals. But in this instance, they have been badly traduced, led up the hill, and then chucked back down it.
ref: 2023 November 15, Christian Wolmar, “Ministers should carry the can for ticket office fiasco”, in RAIL, number 996, page 47:
glosses: Principally; on the whole; for the most part.
Synonyms: all in all
mainly
mostly
usually
for the main
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of in the main.
ice cream social
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice cream socials
Senses: glosses: A party focused around eating ice cream.
hse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of house.
hse
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Etymology: Blend of he + she?
Senses: glosses: A gender-neutral pronoun.
antirepeater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antirepeaters
Etymology: From anti- + repeater.
Senses: glosses: Any of several electrical or mechanical devices that limit an operation to a single cycle.
march-past
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: march-pasts
form: marchpast
form: march past
Senses: glosses: A military parade past a high-ranking officer or head-of-state
Related terms: take the salute
take the salute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes the salute
form: taking the salute
form: took the salute
form: taken the salute
Senses: qualifier: head of state
glosses: To formally acknowledge the salute given by the members of a march-past.
raw_tags: of a senior officer
sabar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sabars
Senses: glosses: A traditional drum from Senegal, generally played with one hand and one stick.
countermander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countermanders
Etymology: From countermand + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who countermands.
countermandment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countermandments
Etymology: From countermand + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of countermanding.
countermanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countermander
countermandments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countermandment
nomen instrumenti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nomina instrumenti
Etymology: Derived from Latin nōmen īnstrūmentī.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A noun denoting an instrument or tool.
Peckinpahesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Peckinpahesque
form: most Peckinpahesque
Etymology: From Peckinpah + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: Smith's execution of the gangster who busted his car is the closest to some of the violence of Hill's early films, including a Peckinpahesque use of intercut slow-motion to track the gangster's harness-aided trip down the stairs to the dusty street.
ref: 2022, Brian Brems, The Films of Walter Hill: Another Time, Another Place, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 217:
glosses: Reminiscent of the work of Sam Peckinpah (1925–1984), American film director and screenwriter known for his innovative and explicit depiction of action and violence, as well as his revisionist approach to the Western genre.
weared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: "I kin remember when her two feet was no bigger dan yer tumb, and she weared worsted boots," moaned she.
ref: 1896, Stephen Crane, Maggie, a Girl of the Streets, New York: D. Appleton, page 154:
glosses: simple past and past participle of wear (see usage notes)
shuffleable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: shufflable
Etymology: From shuffle + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being shuffled.
Derived terms: shuffleability
shufflable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shuffleable.
cat door
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat doors
Senses: glosses: A cat flap.
furburger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furburgers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fur burger.
buffalopox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From buffalo + pox.
Senses: glosses: A zoonosis that produces pox-like infections in buffaloes, cows and humans
Ottery
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Presumably from Old English oter + ēa (“otter river”)
Senses: glosses: The local name of Ottery St Mary.
glosses: A river in Cornwall, England, which joins the River Tamar; in full, the River Ottery.
Ottery St Mary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council, on the River Otter in East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SY1095).
ottery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ottery
form: most ottery
Etymology: From otter + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Anyone who has watched, for example, a litter of otter cubs rolling about in an ottery tangle can hardly doubt that they're really having fun.
ref: 1991, BBC Wildlife, page 236:
text: […] this guy she's seen before with the . . . ferret? or mongoose? ... an ottery thing, whatever, on a clothesline leash. . . .
ref: 1996, Albert Goldbarth, Adventures in Ancient Egypt: Poems, Ohio State University Press, published 1996, →ISBN, page 23:
text: Spraints consist mostly of food remains, such as fish bones, to which are added the fairly inconspicuous secretions of two anal glands, situated along the gut close to the anus; they produce the 'ottery' smell.
ref: 2006, Hans Kruuk, Otters: Ecology, Behaviour, and Conservation, Oxford University Press, published 2006, →ISBN, page 79:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an otter.
Synonyms: lutrine
otterish
otterlike
Bongo Bongo Land
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɒŋɡəʊ ˈbɒŋɡəʊ lænd/
ipa: /ˌbɑŋɡoʊ ˈbɑŋɡoʊ lænd/
Senses: glosses: The Third World countries, especially those in Africa.
mpg
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: examples: text: For example, in the U.K., where a gallon of gasoline currently costs around $5.60, hypermiling could save the average driver doing 8,000 miles in a 33 mpg car around $500 a year, according to Gerdes.
ref: 2016 July 21, Jacopo Prisco, “How ‘hypermiling’ can save you a lot of fuel (and the planet)”, in CNN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of MPG.
otterish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more otterish
form: most otterish
Etymology: From otter + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Forcing her clawed forepaws to be still, she tried to concentrate on the room, hampered by her otterish vision, with its different field of view and lack of color.
ref: 2001, Garth Nix, Lirael, Harper Trophy, published 2002, →ISBN, page 288:
text: His jovial, otterish, undergraduate, joshing decency was real, I decided, very country town, very West Australian.
ref: 2002, Bob Ellis, Goodbye Babylon: Further Journeys in Time and Politics, Viking, published 2002, →ISBN, page 475:
text: That didn't change the silence of early evenings when I lay in bed and listened to the smaller branches of my favorite oak tree scrape gently against the house outside my window while a whippoorwill, which I always imagined for some reason as a small otterish animal, hooted softly against the approaching dark.
ref: 2009, C. Stephen Baldwin, Shadows Over Sundials: Dark and Light: Life in a Large Outside World, iUniverse, published 2009, →ISBN, page 2:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an otter.
Synonyms: lutrine
otterlike
ottery
straw-clutchingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more straw-clutchingly
form: most straw-clutchingly
Etymology: From straw-clutching + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In other words, any Scottish supporter who had straw-clutchingly hoped for a fitness crisis in the All Blacks game has been disappointed.
ref: 1999 October 22, Bryn Palmer, “Same again for men in black”, in The Scotsman:
text: However, in those heightened milliseconds of being able to circumnavigate the entire scene of her imminent destruction, Petra knows that her straw-clutchingly pathetic notion is far from the truth.
ref: 2007, Freya North, Pillow Talk, Sourcebooks Landmark, published 2011, →ISBN, page 105:
text: The half-hour show will be hosted by Zoe Ball and fans are already speculating that this could be a hint that we’re about to see the first female Doctor in the show’s 50-year history.
That might be a straw-clutchingly tenuous theory but the time is certainly right.
ref: 2013 August 2, Michael Hogan, “The time is right for a female Doctor Who”, in The Telegraph, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2013:
glosses: In a manner which involves clutching at straws.
picnicware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picnicwares
Etymology: From picnic + -ware.
Senses: glosses: disposable plates, cups, etc. intended for use on picnics
partyware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: partywares
Etymology: From party + -ware.
Senses: glosses: disposable plates, cups, etc. intended for children's parties
picnicwares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picnicware
partywares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of partyware
macassared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macassar + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Treated with macassar oil.
raw_tags: of hair
unmassacred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + massacred.
Senses: glosses: Not massacred.
ESPGHAN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition.
Related terms: NASPGHAN
skirty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ti
ipa: /skɜː(ɹ)ti/
Etymology: From skirt + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The sides flare out to give it a skirty look.
text: the skirty national dress of India
glosses: Like a skirt; featuring a skirt or skirts.
examples: chased a skirty maid
glosses: Wearing a skirt.
examples: text: I'm just not a skirty person.
text: Mrs. Calovatto was looking brand new in her semitropical Ionojet slacks suit — very daring, Elaine thought, for a skirty woman.
ref: 1977, John Hersey, The Walnut Door:
glosses: Fond of wearing skirts; tending to wear skirts.
deperch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deperches
form: deperching
form: deperched
form: deperched
Etymology: From de- + perch.
Senses: examples: text: Let's deperch.
glosses: To leave a perch.
reperch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reperches
form: reperching
form: reperched
form: reperched
Etymology: From re- + perch.
Senses: glosses: To perch again.
deperched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deperch
reperching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reperch
reperched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reperch
revolutionarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From revolutionary + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Revolutionarity can exist only in the feelings of an individual man or in the periodical outbursts of the masses.
ref: 1887 October, D. Mackenzie Wallace, “Secret Societies in Russia”, in Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, volume XXVI, number 4, page 398:
text: There is, likewise, no philosophy nor any major theoretical venture in history which, irrespective of its revolutionarity, is totally free of the authority of tradition.
ref: 1965, Praxis, volume 1, page 54:
text: If you do whatever the masses don't do or the minority does, you're just as mindless a conformist follower as they are. How revolutionary?! CRASS, M.D.C., and the Yippies are probably just suggesting a better lifestyle to be considered, not step-by-step instructions to revolutionarity.
ref: 1984, Maximum Rocknroll, Issue 19, unknown page
glosses: The state or quality of being revolutionary.
Synonyms: revolutionariness
revolutionariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From revolutionary + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: His environment and mode of life may have aligned him with the old order politically; but none can deny the revolutionariness of his method, of his criticism, the boldness of his rejections.
ref: 1958, Christopher Hill, Puritanism & Revolution: Studies in Interpretation of the English Revolution of the 17th Century, Pimlico, published 2001, →ISBN:
text: It also demonstrates the innovativeness and revolutionariness of Mallarme's approach which is here being put to work by Derrida.
ref: 2010, Jones Irwin, Derrida and the Writing of the Body, Ashgate, →ISBN, page 55:
text: The revolutionariness of St. Francis's individualistic approach is especially evident in the historical context within which it developed.
ref: 2012, Ivana Zagorac, “St. Francis of Assisi: Bioethics in European Middle Ages”, in Amir Muzur, Hans-Martin Sass, editors, Fritz Jahr and the Foundations of Global Bioethics: The Future of Integrative Bioethics, Lit, →ISBN, page 74:
glosses: The state or quality of being revolutionary.
Synonyms: revolutionarity
Whitetrashistan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From white trash + -i- + -stan.
Senses: glosses: A region, or a notional country, inhabited by white trash.
Castrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Castro + -ism.
Senses: topics: government
politics
synonyms: Fidelism
glosses: Castrist beliefs and policies generally.
on the flip side
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: on the flip-side
form: on the flipside
Senses: examples: text: They were behind twice, first to James Morrison's 11th-minute strike and then Kenny Miller's effort early in the second half. England responded with goals of their own from Theo Walcott and Daniel Welbeck and, on the balance of play, probably deserved the victory. On the flip-side, they could conceivably have lost because of their various shortcomings in defence. They also have a goalkeeper, Joe Hart, who is a danger to his own team on nights like these.
ref: 14 August 2013, Daniel Taylor, “Rickie Lambert's debut goal gives England victory over Scotland”, in The Guardian:
glosses: On the other hand; conversely.
earn one's crust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: earns one's crust
form: earning one's crust
form: earned one's crust
form: earned one's crust
form: earnt one's crust
form: earnt one's crust
form: earn a crust
Senses: examples: text: Their substitutes featured two players from League One clubs and Miller, who earns his crust these days with Vancouver Whitecaps.
ref: 2013 August 14, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian:
synonyms: word: bring home the bacon
word: carry one's weight
word: earn a living
word: earn one's corn
word: earn one's crust
word: earn one's keep
word: keep the home fires burning
word: put bread on the table
word: put food on the table
glosses: To earn money, to do something as a job.
chlorarachniophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chlorarachniophytes
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of mixotrophic algae found in tropical oceans.
fur burgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fur burger
photobooth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photobooths
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of photo booth.
photobooths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photobooth
drug addiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drug addictions
Senses: glosses: A dependency on drugs, especially which are illegal or improperly procured.
Synonyms: narcomania
substance dependence
substance abuse
Related terms: drug addict
substance abuse
repellors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repellor
neuropsychophysiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + psycho- + physiology.
Senses: glosses: A scientific discipline which integrates neurology, psychology, and physiology.
Related terms: neuropsychophysiological
neuropsychophysiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + psycho- + physiological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to neuropsychophysiology.
neurobehaviour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurobehaviours
Etymology: From neuro- + behaviour.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neurobehavior.
neurobehaviors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurobehavior
Dunwoody
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌnwʊdi/
Forms: form: Dunwoodys
Etymology: Variant of Dinwiddie.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States.
maoli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maolis
form: maoli
Senses: examples: text: I believe that the maoli wahines, with their passion for personal adornment, would not have forgotten the flower seeds, and it was their forethought that enabled them in their adopted home to have the leis of ilima and kou they had been accustomed to wear in Samoa and Tahiti.
ref: 1896, All about Hawaii: The Recognized Book of Authentic Information on Hawaii:
text: Genocide. Flooding the valleys and stripping the limu clean from the rocks Sweeping away the 'opae from the streams the ulu from the land and the maoli from the earth.
ref: 1986, Eric Edward Chock, Rodney Morales, Darrell H. Y. Lum, The Best of Bamboo Ridge, the Hawaii Writers' Quarterly, →ISBN, page 51:
text: This is an important cultural difference of interpretation between London as a haole writer and Sheldon as a maoli writer.
ref: 2000, Cynthia G. Franklin, Ruth Hsu, Suzanne Kosanke, Navigating Islands and Continents, →ISBN:
text: As a woman hoping to “make sense” and potentially revision this most sticky issue from the awareness of a woman, though not necessarily a maoli (native), I would hope that the points that I am bringing up in passing will ...
ref: 2008, Wennifer Lin, Birth Art and the Art of Birthing, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of Maoli (native Hawaiian)
examples: text: Kaneiakama's spirit companion instructed him what to do, how to place the sacrificial pig, coconuts, red fish, bananas of the maoli variety and other offerings at the foot of a tree that was entered by one of the male gods.
ref: 1971, Catherine C. Summers, Molokai: A Site Survey, page 201:
text: [He could choose] light-colored varieties of bananas such as the ha'a, iholena, loha, and lele; or dark-colored varieties such as the maoli, kahtki, puhi, koa'e, malei'ula, 'eke'ula, kaualau, popo'ulu, aulena, and others.
ref: 1976, Samuel Manaiakalani Kamakau, The works of the people of old, page 38:
text: This banana resembles the "maoli" in general appearance. Its fruit is shorter and quite large in size.
ref: 2003, D. M. Kaaiakamanu, J. K. Akina, Hawaiian Herbs of Medicinal Value, →ISBN, page 67:
glosses: A species of very tall, dark green-stemmed banana native to Polynesia, having large bunches of long, round fruits with dark-colored flesh.
Gramma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Thirza opened the kitchen door and glanced out at Gramma's favorite timekeeper.
ref: 1947, Herbert Best, Whistle, Daughter, Whistle, page 68:
text: Gramma should be in here by now.
ref: 1979, Patti Stren, There's a Rainbow in My Closet, page 93:
text: I figured I should do something constructive, so I decided to call up Gramma and hope that she'd offer to send me some money.
ref: 1997, Stephan Jaramillo, Going Postal, page 47:
glosses: A nickname for a grandmother.
NASPGHAN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition.
Related terms: ESPGHAN
olinguito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊlɪŋˈɡitoʊ/
ipa: /əʊlɪŋˈɡiːtəʊ/
Forms: form: olinguitos
Etymology: From Spanish olinguito, diminutive of olingo.
Senses: examples: text: “The discovery of the olinguito shows us that the world is not yet completely explored, its most basic secrets not yet revealed.”
ref: 2013 August 15, “Smithsonian scientists discover new carnivore: the olinguito”, in Smithsonian Science:
text: A fuzzy fog-dweller with a face like a teddy bear, the olinguito (pictured) is the first carnivore discovered in the Western Hemisphere in more than three decades, a new study says.
ref: 2013, Christine Dell'Amore, “New Carnivore Revealed: Photos of the Olinguito and its Kin”, in National Geographic:
text: In the year since the announcement, the olinguito has gone from literal unknown to being surprisingly well-documented through photos and videos shot by amateur naturalists, bird watchers, and others, a kind of crowd-sourced science.
ref: 2014 August 19, Jeffrey Brown, “'Crowd-sourced' Science Sheds New Light on New Mammal Olinguito”, in PBS Newshour:
text: First, a brand new species of mammal, considered the holy grail of the discipline, was found hiding in plain sight: the olinguito, smallest member of the raccoon family, has been around for decades, but was mistaken for its more substantial cousin, the olingo.
ref: 2014 September 1, Andrew Theitic, The Witches' Almanac, number 34, Spring 2015-Spring 2016:
text: The olinguito, one of science's recently discovered species, is part of the same family as raccoons, coatis, and kinkajous.
ref: 2015, Josh Hestermann, Bethanie Hestermann, Zoology for Kids: Understanding and Working with Animals, with 21 Activities, page 96:
text: The olinguito was found in the Andes Mountains by Smithsonian scientists in 2013.
ref: 2018, Tamra B. Orr, Animal Discoveries, page 12:
glosses: A raccoon-like procyonid, of species Bassaricyon neblina, native to the Andean forests of Colombia and Ecuador.
olinguitos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of olinguito
tangeite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Tange + -ite after discovery locality in the Tange Gorge, Ferghana Valley, Alai Mountains, Kyrgyzstan.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A calcium, copper vanadate mineral, CaCu(VO₄)(OH)
Synonyms: calciovolborthite
last call
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: last calls
Senses: examples: text: Late in the evening, Mick left with a parishioner who asked for counseling, and I sat at the bar until last call.
ref: 2010, John Reimringer, Vestments:
text: Boston isn’t the only city eyeing later last calls—and later business hours in general—as a means to juice local business and give downtowns a more youthful edge and vibrant, cosmopolitan feel.
ref: 2014 March 7, Brad Tuttle, “Drink Up! Later Last Call Coming to a City Near You?”, in Time:
text: I'm wedged in between a couple of squealing woo girls who are guzzling margs like it's last call […]
ref: 2022, Jennifer Bonds, Catching Quinn:
glosses: In a bar, the announcement that the establishment will soon be closing and that this is the final opportunity to buy drinks.
Synonyms: last orders
Related terms: closing time
last-born
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: last-borns
Senses: examples: text: One study found second-borns to be lower in self-esteem than firstborns or last-borns, particularly if the age difference between them and the other siblings was approximately 2 years
ref: 2004, Duane P. Schultz, Sydney Ellen Schultz, Theories of Personality:
glosses: Alternative form of lastborn.
last thing
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Denis Daviss agrees that practice session timing had a lot to do with it; this was a particular issue at Monaco due to the fact that the circuit was on public roads, so sessions were held first thing in the morning and last thing at night
ref: 2010, Michael Oliver, Tales from the Toolbox:
glosses: late in the day
Related terms: first thing
if it's the last thing I do
last out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lasts out
form: lasting out
form: lasted out
form: lasted out
Senses: examples: text: I'm afraid your grandfather isn't going to last out for very long.
text: Among the most modern of all the Pacific stock in Great Britain is the stud of "Merchant Navy" and "West Country" Pacifics on the Southern Region, and the rebuilding which is now being carried out, preserving all the best features of the Bulleid designs—such as the free-steaming boiler—and jettisoning the features that have given trouble, in particular the chain-driven valve-motion, should give the Southern a supply of highly-competent machines able to last out the remaining life of steam on the S.R.
ref: 1957 July 24, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 496:
text: I suppose only an incurable optimist would have gambled on its lasting out its full five-year term in office, for there was little to hold its super-stars together except the desire for office.
ref: 1987, Vijayaraje Scindia, Manohar Malgonkar, The Last Maharani of Gwalior: An Autobiography:
glosses: To survive or endure.
Latakia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌlætəˈkiːə/
Senses: glosses: A city in Syria, on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
glosses: A strong dark tobacco originally produced in Syria.
Derived terms: Latakian
Related terms: Laodicea
Latakian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latakia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Latakia
Latakian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Latakians
Etymology: From Latakia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Someone from Latakia.
laticifer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laticifers
Etymology: From Latin latex (stem latic-) + -fer.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: a type of elongated secretory cell found in the leaves and/or stems of plants that produce latex and rubber as secondary metabolites.
leg-pull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leg-pulls
Etymology: From the term pull someone's leg.
Senses: glosses: A joke, fib or tease.
lending library
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lending libraries
Senses: examples: text: The use of three or four rooms under the old shareholders' room at Derby Station was granted, and a lending library was inaugurated.
ref: 1944 May and June, Arthur B. Longbottom, “The Derby Railway Institute”, in Railway Magazine, page 149:
glosses: A library from which books are lent out.