cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
throbber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɹɒ.bə/
ipa: /ˈθɹɑ.bəɹ/
rhymes: -ɒbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: throbbers
Etymology: From throb + -er.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A widget consisting of a static image that animates during execution of a task.
examples: text: One look at that lifeguard's prong gave me a throbber like a baseball bat — not quite that big, of course, but at least that hard!
ref: 1977, John Ironstone, Orphan, page 102:
text: She could feel his throbber pressing into her womanhood.
ref: 2009, Peter Hodgson, Critical Murder, page 128:
synonyms: word: babymaker
word: boner
word: bone
word: bonk-on
word: bonny
word: chubby
word: erection
word: fatty
word: hard-on
word: lob-on
word: lumber
word: pocket rocket
word: prong
word: rager
word: rod-on
word: schlong
word: shaft
word: stiffy
word: stiffie
word: surgation
word: wood
word: woody
word: throbber
word: zizi
glosses: An erect penis.
examples: text: "A d14? Are you mad? Why not just use a pack of cards Gorman you throbber?"
ref: 2017, Richard Gorman, Horizons:
text: 'Fuck. I didn't know that. I'll throw you a few coins when I see you under the bridge.'
'Cheers Royal, you throbber. That's if I even make it back. The taxi rides between Amman and Baghdad last time were ... entertaining. Not really looking forward to it all again next week. Baghdad had its moments an' all.'
ref: 2019, Jack Leavers, Appetite for Risk:
glosses: A term of abuse.
Ankave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Angave
Senses: glosses: A people of Kerema District, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea.
Ankave
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Angave
Senses: glosses: Their language.
filter lane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filter lanes
Senses: glosses: A lane of traffic reserved for those making a specific turn at the next junction
poney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poneys
form: ponies
Senses: examples: text: “[…] You will have the same walks to frequent, the same library to chuse from, the same people to look at, the same horse to ride.” “Very true. Yes, dear old grey poney.[…]”
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter III, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 52:
text: […] drawn by one or more poney or ponies, mule or mules, to carry 2.
ref: 1826, J. Whittemore, “Bankers.-⁠-⁠-List of Brighton Fares of Hackney Coaches, Flys, Pleasure Boats, and Bathing Machines.-⁠-⁠-[…]”, in Whittemore’s Royal Brighton Guide. Brighton and Its Environs; An Historical and Topographical Guide to the Visitor in Brighton, for 1826. […], Brighton: […] [T]he Author, at the Religious Book and Tract Depository, […], page 129:
text: Poneys were this day provided for our use, with comfortable cloth saddles stuffed with wool […]
ref: 1829, The United Service Magazine, page 684:
glosses: Archaic form of pony (“small horse”).
disproportion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪspɹəˈpɔːʃən/
Forms: form: disproportions
Etymology: From dis- + proportion.
Senses: examples: text: […] a handsome creature, remarkably so, with features so symmetrical […] that a micrometer gauge could scarcely find a disproportion in her smooth and broad mahogany-coloured face.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XIII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 208:
text: Then we, the social outsiders, turn around and dictate how men shall treat women (seldom, if ever, how women shall treat men; power in men's rather than women's hands being the excuse offered for this lop-sided arrangement), and how whites shall treat blacks (the same disproportion exists here too).
ref: 1978 December 9, Nancy Walker, “Sexism and Racism at GCN?”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 20, page 10:
text: the disproportion of the length of a building to its height
glosses: The state of being out of proportion; an abnormal or improper ratio; an imbalance.
examples: the disproportion of strength or means to an object
glosses: Lack of suitableness, adequacy, or due proportion to an end or use; unsuitableness.
Derived terms: cephalopelvic disproportion
disproportionation
disproportion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪspɹəˈpɔːʃən/
Forms: form: disproportions
form: disproportioning
form: disproportioned
form: disproportioned
Etymology: From dis- + proportion.
Senses: examples: text: To shape my legs of an unequal size; / To disproportion me in every part.
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: a degree of strength altogether disproportioned to the extent of its territory
ref: 1838, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: American Stationers’ Company; John B. Russell, →OCLC:
glosses: To make unsuitable in quantity, form, or fitness; to violate symmetry in; to mismatch.
freedmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freedman
true seals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of true seal
grandsire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grandsires
Etymology: From Middle English graunsire; compare grand and sire.
Senses: examples: text: “I am going to a certain tower, one of three that were built in my grandsire’s time to guard Lantern Waste against certain perilous outlaws who dwelled there in his day. […]"
ref: 1956, C. S. Lewis, chapter 5, in The Last Battle, Collins, published 1998:
glosses: Grandfather.
glosses: Any male ancestor.
glosses: Any of a number of methods of change-ringing on bells.
topics: equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
glosses: The sire of a sire, paternal grandfather
unpopularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnˌpɒpjʊˈlæɹɪti/
Forms: form: unpopularities
Etymology: From un- + popularity or unpopular + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: It was built at the Salt River works of the South African Railways in 1926 to the design of Oscar Hulse, and was placed on Cape Town suburban service in 1927, but was soon withdrawn because of its unpopularity.
ref: 1949 May and June, Charles E. Lee, “Double-Deck Railway Carriages”, in Railway Magazine, page 194:
glosses: The property or degree of being unpopular, or the absence or lack of popularity.
true seal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: true seals
Senses: glosses: Any of the seals in the taxonomic family Phocidae; earless seal.
Synonyms: earless seal
phocid
earless seal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earless seals
Senses: glosses: Any of the seals in the taxonomic family Phocidae characterized by lacking external ear flaps; true seals.
Synonyms: true seal
Hypernyms: pinniped
Coordinate terms: eared seal
walrus
grey seal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grey seals
form: gray seal
Senses: glosses: A seal species (Halichoerus grypus).
Synonyms: sense: Halichoerus grypus
word: Atlantic grey seal
sense: Halichoerus grypus
word: Atlantic seal
sense: Halichoerus grypus
word: horsehead seal
cargo cult
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cargo cults
Etymology: From cargo (“Western material goods”) + cult. First used in print by N. M. Bird in a 1945 article.
Senses: glosses: Any of several religious movements among the people of Melanesia that anticipate the arrival of material cargo or cultural restoration, typically through the ritual imitation of the activities of colonial or technological cultures.
examples: text: cargo cult science
text: cargo cult software engineering
text: “People should slow down and understand what they’re trying to optimize for before just following Jack,” Mr. Woo said. “You don’t want to be in a cargo cult type thing.”
ref: 2019 May 2, Nellie Bowles, “Jack Dorsey Is Gwyneth Paltrow for Silicon Valley”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any of several philosophies, practices or pseudosciences that are not rooted in experiment, often characterized by an unreflected and ritualistic approach.
Derived terms: cargo culting
cargo cult science
Related terms: technomagic
Saimaa ringed seal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Saimaa ringed seals
Senses: glosses: A species of seal (Pusa saimensis), living only in Lake Saimaa in Finland, previously considered a subspecies of the ringed seal (Pusa hispida saimensis)
Synonyms: Pusa hispida saimensis
bootup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bootups
Etymology: Deverbal from boot up.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: word: deadstart#Noun
glosses: The process of booting up.
tape off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tapes off
form: taping off
form: taped off
form: taped off
Senses: examples: text: The police taped off the crime scene.
glosses: To cordon; to separate from the surroundings using tape or similar material.
front-end loader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: front-end loaders
Senses: examples: text: We overcame this difficulty by using a powershift front-end loader as the last unit in the train[.]
ref: 2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 21:
synonyms: endloader
payloader
front loader
coordinate_terms: backhoe
trackhoe
glosses: A type of four-wheeled tractor, used in construction, which has a one-man cabin and a large scoop at the front which can be used to dig up dirt or other material.
examples: Holonym: backhoe
coordinate_terms: backhoe
glosses: The subassembly or attachment on such a machine that gives it its name: the bucket, the lifting arms, and the hydraulic circuits that move them.
Related terms: backhoe
bobcat
bulldozer
grader
JCB
stirpes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin stirpēs, a plural and a collateral form of stirps (“rootstock”).
Senses: glosses: plural of stirps
glosses: plural of stirp
stirpes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin stirpēs, a plural and a collateral form of stirps (“rootstock”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: branches, lines of descent, used in the legal expression per stirpes.
PFK
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PFKs
Etymology: Abbreviation
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of phosphofructokinase.
PFK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: PFKs
Etymology: From French PFK. From the name of the Quebec division of KFC (“Kentucky Fried Chicken”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of KFC (geographically restricted to restos in Quebec, when discussing this restaurant)
synonyms: word: KFC
extra: geographically restricted to restos in Quebec, when discussing this restaurant
misdemeanant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misdemeanants
Etymology: From misdemeanor + -ant.
Senses: glosses: One who commits misdemeanors.
Related terms: felon
misdemeanor
misdemeanorize
piratical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /paɪˈɹætɪkɘl/
Forms: form: more piratical
form: most piratical
form: piratic
Etymology: From Latin pīrāticus + -al, from Ancient Greek πειρᾱτικός (peirātikós); equivalent to pirate + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: A nursery-maid is never afraid of what you people call work,
So I made up my mind to go as a kind of piratical maid-of-all-work;
ref: 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, “When Frederic Was a Little Lad”, in The Pirates of Penzance […], Philadelphia: J.M. Stoddart & Co., published 1880, →OCLC, page 5:
text: He looks piratical, with his beard and long hair and single pearl earring, or like a jumble-sale 17th century nobleman.
ref: 2019 September 14, Miranda Sawyer, “Mark Leckey: ‘There has to be a belief that art has this power, this charisma'”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or similar to pirates.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Of a bird, practising kleptoparasitism.
Derived terms: biopiratical
piratically
unpiratical
disunion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disunions
Etymology: From Middle French désunion.
Senses: examples: text: Hunger, cold, and mortification, the disunion of families; the separation of those the most fondly attached; youth bowed by premature toil; age wasting the little strength yet remaining:—these are the familiar objects which surround poverty.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Meeting of Old Friends”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 195:
coordinate_terms: malunion
misunion
glosses: Separation (disintegration) of a union; lack of union where union would be desirable.
Derived terms: disunionism
disunionist
probationer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹoʊˈbeɪʃənɚ/
ipa: /pɹə(ʊ)ˈbeɪʃənə/
Forms: form: probationers
Etymology: From probation + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who is on probation.
glosses: One who is licensed to preach, but not ordained to a pastorate.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A chorister in their training period before full admission to a choir, whether or not that period is probationary.
hatchway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hatchways
Etymology: From hatch + way.
Senses: examples: text: Up through the great hatchways rimmed with racks of heavy shot, the watch below came pouring […]
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 22, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
text: Full-depth, hinged doors are provided on each side of the engine and generator housing, and hatchways are fitted in the roof over the engine.
ref: 1958 January 24, “New Diesel-Electric Locomotives for British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 20:
glosses: A means of passing through a wall or floor, having a hatch (especially on a ship); a doorway with a hatch rather than a door.
workingmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of workingman
demoniac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈməʊnɪak/
ipa: /diməˈnaɪæk/
Forms: form: more demoniac
form: most demoniac
form: daemoniac
form: dæmoniac
Etymology: From Middle English demoniak et al., from Old French demoniaque, from Late Latin daemoniacus.
Senses: glosses: Possessed or controlled by a demon.
examples: text: How dark may be the hiding of God's face,
Or what demoniac forms may seize the helm
Of reason...
ref: 1827, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, Poems, 1827: The Sweetness of Life, page 24:
text: Animal fury and orgiastic licence here whipped themselves to demoniac heights by howls and squawking ecstasies that tore and reverberated through those nighted woods like pestilential tempests from the gulfs of hell.
ref: 1928 February, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual, volume 11, number 2, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular Fiction Pub. Co., →OCLC, pages 159–178 and 287:
text: There was movement everywhere, screaming, demoniac activity; the old man was coming across the tumbling logs.
ref: 1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber & Faber, published 2005, page 216:
glosses: Of or pertaining to demons; demonic.
Derived terms: cacodemoniac
demoniacism
demoniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈməʊnɪak/
ipa: /diməˈnaɪæk/
Forms: form: demoniacs
form: daemoniac
form: dæmoniac
Etymology: From Middle English demoniak et al., from Old French demoniaque, from Late Latin daemoniacus.
Senses: examples: text: The exorcism was dropped from the second Edwardian Prayer Book, because of its implication that unbaptised infants were demoniacs […].
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 53:
glosses: Someone who is possessed by a demon.
repayment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repayments
Etymology: From repay + -ment, also equivalent to re- + payment.
Senses: glosses: The act of repaying.
glosses: The money or other item that is repaid.
glosses: The act of revenge, an act of revenge.
Synonyms: payback
Derived terms: repayment mortgage
discoverable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈkʌvɹəbəɫ/
ipa: /dɪsˈkʊvɹəbəɫ/
Forms: form: more discoverable
form: most discoverable
Etymology: From discover + -able.
Senses: antonyms: undiscoverable
glosses: Able to be discovered.
topics: law
glosses: Subject to legal discovery; able to be requested by an opposing party through a legal process such as a subpoena.
Synonyms: sense: able to be found
word: findable
sense: able to be found
word: discernible
sense: able to be found
word: discernable
sense: able to be found
word: repertible
sense: able to be found
word: reperible
Derived terms: discoverably
indiscoverable
metaphysician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaphysicians
Etymology: From Middle English methafisicien, from methafisik on the model of fisicien or perhaps from rare and late Old French methafisicien.
Senses: examples: text: Thomas Aquinas was a notable metaphysician.
text: Professor Jones is an eminent metaphysician; she has produced more than one hundred refereed publications concerning metaphysics.
text: Now it so happened that Francis was Mrs. Clarke's favourite: whether from having seen the least of him, or from the great difference between them—two common causes of liking—or because she felt some sort of vanity in her near relationship to so very fine a gentleman, are points too curious to be decided by any but a metaphysician.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 65:
text: PROPOSITION IV.
ref: 1854, George Boole, An Investigation Of The Laws Of Thought, On Which Are Founded The Mathematical Theories Of Logic And Probabilities, Watchmaker Publishing, published 2010, →ISBN, §III.15, page 34:
text: In 1928 Heidegger succeeded Husserl to take a chair at Freiburg and in his inaugural lecture made a pronouncement that earned him a reputation as an archetypal metaphysician with his claim that our awareness of people as a whole depends on our experience of dread in the face of nothingness.
ref: 2014 April 12, Michael Inwood, “Martin Heidegger: the philosopher who fell for Hitler [print version: Hitler's philosopher]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), London, page R11:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A philosopher who specializes in the scholarly study of metaphysics.
Synonyms: metaphysicist
Derived terms: metaphysicianism
gray seal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gray seals
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of grey seal.
correctamundo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From correct + -amundo as an intensifier; compare Spanish correctamente. Popularized by the character Fonzie on the sitcom Happy Days.
Senses: examples: text: "I'm assuming today is still Saturday." "Correctamundo."
ref: 1993, William Bernhardt, The Code of Buddyhood, Ballantine, →ISBN, →OL, page 119:
text: "Correctamundo," Ben confirmed.
ref: 1998, Michael Jan Friedman, Fantastic Four: Redemption of the Silver Surfer, →ISBN, →OL, page 182:
glosses: correct
wikipedia: Fonzie
Happy Days
Related terms: exactamundo
perfectamundo
correctomundo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of correctamundo.
chod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chods
Etymology: Short for chodder.
Senses: glosses: A fat person.
chods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chod
bell-ends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bell-end
bellends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bellend
megakaryocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megakaryocyte
munching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: munchings
Etymology: From munch + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Neither fruit nor flower / Enough to gratify a bee's slight munchings.
ref: 1819–1824, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London, (please specify |canto=I to XVII):
glosses: gerund of munch: the action of one who munches.
glosses: The sound of one who munches.
Derived terms: butt-munching
carpet munching
munching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From munch + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of munch
bumping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌmpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌmpɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bump
bumping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌmpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌmpɪŋ
Forms: form: more bumping
form: most bumping
Senses: glosses: Rocking, excellent, great.
bumping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌmpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌmpɪŋ
Forms: form: bumpings
Senses: examples: text: There was nothing to be seen, but he could hear loud thumpings and bumpings which seemed to come from the back of the house.
ref: 1941, Gladys Mitchell, When Last I Died:
glosses: The sound or action of a bump.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The violent boiling when a homogeneous liquid is superheated to the point that the bubbles are formed at pressure greater than atmospheric pressure and be expelled from the container
examples: text: He listened, and with respect too, to Mr. Foker’s accounts of what the men did at the University of which Mr. F. was an ornament, and encountered a long series of stories about boat-racing, bumping, College grass-plats, and milk-punch—and began to wish to go up himself to College to a place where there were such manly pleasures and enjoyments.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 3, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
glosses: Form of racing for coxed fours traditional at Oxford and Cambridge Universities; bumps race
Derived terms: antibumping
anti-bumping granule
bumpingly
bumping off
donut bumping
fist bumping
mast bumping
twittering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of twitter
twittering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twitterings
Senses: examples: text: Once there, he blushingly went through the procedure, having to fold and refold the flag about three times, to the twitterings and gigglings of twelve little girls.
ref: 1959 May, Boys' Life, volume 49, number 5, page 56:
glosses: The act of producing chirping sounds, or twitters.
warbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of warble
warbling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warblings
Senses: examples: text: the warblings of birds in the hedgerows
text: the quaverings and warblings in lutes and pipes
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
text: The Game of Thrones novels were best sellers without fleshed-out Dothraki; the languages in Star Wars, one of the most successful franchises ever, are mostly gibberish, even if Han Solo claims to understand Chewbacca’s bestial warbling.
ref: 2022 December 31, Matteo Wong, “Hollywood’s Love Affair With Fictional Languages”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: A sound that warbles.
Derived terms: warbling vireo
hooted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhuːtɪd/
rhymes: -uːtɪd
Senses: glosses: past participle of hoot
hooted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhuːtɪd/
rhymes: -uːtɪd
Forms: form: more hooted
form: most hooted
Senses: examples: text: “You ladies call me once you're done getting all hooted up,” Jensen said as we stepped out.
“Jen,” his sister said. “Ladies do not get hooted.”
ref: 2022, Delancey Stewart, Only a Fling:
glosses: Drunk.
tempts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tempt
steadying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of steady
steadying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more steadying
form: most steadying
Senses: glosses: That steadies, stabilizes.
Derived terms: steadyingly
steadying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steadyings
Senses: glosses: The process of making something steady; stabilization.
gagged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡæɡd/
rhymes: -æɡd
Senses: glosses: past participle of gag
gagged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡæɡd/
rhymes: -æɡd
Forms: form: more gagged
form: most gagged
Senses: glosses: Astonished; stunned.
authenticated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of authenticate
sheet cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheet cakes
Senses: examples: text: Wearing a kelly green tennis dress with white espadrilles, she was carrying a sheet cake resembling a flag, blueberries and strawberries as the stars and stripes arranged across a layer of whipped cream.
ref: 2022, Ling Ma, “Tomorrow”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:
glosses: A simple, flat, rectangular cake, often vanilla or sometimes chocolate.
Synonyms: word: sheath cake
english: United Kingdom
translation: United Kingdom
word: slab cake
reopened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of reopen
warbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of warble
tingled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of tingle
pouting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaʊtɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊtɪŋ
Etymology: From pout + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pout
pouting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaʊtɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊtɪŋ
Forms: form: poutings
Etymology: From pout + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The muscles about the mouth exhibited puckering movements and occasional pursings and poutings of the lips.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: An expression or motion that pouts; a pout.
pouting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaʊtɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊtɪŋ
Forms: form: poutings
form: pouting
Etymology: See pout (Etymology 2)
Senses: glosses: A fish in the cod family (Gadidae), Trisopterus luscus.
Synonyms: sense: Trisopterus luscus
word: bib
sense: Trisopterus luscus
english: Northeast England
translation: Northeast England
word: bleg
sense: Trisopterus luscus
word: pout whiting
sense: Trisopterus luscus
word: pout
trade fair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trade fairs
Senses: synonyms: trade show
glosses: An exhibition at which members of a specific industry exhibit or demonstrate their products to prospective customers and to each other.
trade show
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trade shows
Senses: glosses: A trade fair.
unsuccessfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnsəkˈsɛsfəli/
Forms: form: more unsuccessfully
form: most unsuccessfully
Etymology: From unsuccessful + -ly or un- + successfully.
Senses: examples: text: He’s like more successful but equally morally abhorrent right-wing undercover operative James O’Keefe’s non-union Mexican equivalent, a dunce whose one move involves incompetently attempting to frame figures of seemingly unimpeachable moral integrity, like Robert Mueller or good old Mayor Pete, as deviant sex criminals like Wohl’s God Donald Trump by unsuccessfully trying to get people to come forward with bogus sexual assault allegations.
ref: 2019 May 1, Nathan Rabin, “My World of Flops Get a Load of This Maroon Case File #121/My Year of Flops # 18 Jacob Wohl”, in Nathan Rabin's Happy Place:
glosses: Not successfully; without success; to no avail.
Synonyms: fruitlessly
Related terms: unsuccessful
successful
roved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of rove
fidgeted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of fidget
exility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkˈsɪlɪti/
Etymology: From Latin exilitatem, from exilis (“small, thin, narrow”).
Senses: examples: text: But from the exility of bones, thinnesse of skulls, smallnesse of teeth, ribbes, and thigh-bones; not improbable that many thereof were persons of minor age, or women.
ref: 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, page 15:
glosses: Thinness, smallness; a shrunken or meagre condition.
follow-through
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: follow-throughs
form: followthrough
Etymology: Deverbal from follow through.
Senses: examples: text: Trump's follow-through on his threat of steep tariffs - which were long speculated to be a negotiation tactic to get concessions on border security - have bewildered Canadians, who have enjoyed close economic, social and security ties to the US for decades.
ref: 2025 February 2, Nadine Yousif, “Canadian fans boo US anthem as tariffs spur 'buy local' pledge”, in BBC News:
glosses: The continuance or completion of a project.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The continued action of a stroke, or of the delivery of a ball, after it has been hit or released.
Related terms: word: follow-up
word: followup
follow-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: follow-ups
form: followup
Etymology: Deverbal from follow up.
Senses: examples: text: A follow-up order placed in 2019 will feature the technology being built into new trams which are due to arrive next year.
ref: 2020 January 2, Richard Clinnick, “Midlands Metro welcomes new catenary-free trams”, in Rail, page 16:
glosses: A subsidiary action taken in response to an event.
glosses: A posted message on a newsgroup, etc. in reply to a previous one.
examples: text: It could have been much worse for City before the break, but goalkeeper Joe Hart saved Jamie Mackie's long-range shot and Helguson's headed follow-up - although the latter was offside - before Bothroyd hit the post with another header.
ref: 2011 November 5, Phil Dawkes, “QPR 2 - 3 Man City”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A shot on goal directly following another that has been saved.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The revisiting of a patient in ambulatory care.
follow-up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: follows-up
form: following-up
form: followed-up
form: followed-up
form: followup
Etymology: Deverbal from follow up.
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard form of follow up.
followup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: followups
Etymology: Deverbal from follow up.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of follow-up.
foot-dragging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʊtˌdɹæɡɪŋ/
Forms: form: foot-draggings
form: footdragging
Etymology: From foot + dragging, from drag one’s feet, referring to the idea of walking while dragging one’s feet along the ground, either from lack of enthusiasm or to intentionally slow down movement.
Senses: examples: text: I am glad to be able to say that common honesty, or some shadowy simulacrum of it, revived presently and sent me back to the hotel, though not without terrible foot-draggings, you may be sure.
ref: 1918 April, Francis Lynde, Branded, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 114:
text: The tactics of pace-setting, foot-dragging, least resistance or fence-sitting could be used either in the making of policy or, later, in its implementation, reflecting types of adaptation[…].
ref: 2005, Clive Archer, “Change, Choice and Conclusions”, in Norway outside the European Union: Norway and European Integration from 1994 to 2004 (Europe and the Nation State), Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 191:
text: Once in the classroom, students also employed foot-dragging strategies to slow the transition from the hall state to the student state.
ref: 2008, Maryann Dickar, “‘You Have to Change Your Whole Attitude toward Everything’: Threshold Struggles and Infrapolitical Resistance”, in Corridor Cultures: Mapping Student Resistance at an Urban School (Qualitative Studies in Psychology), New York, N.Y.; London: New York University Press, →ISBN, page 154:
text: A Beijing diplomat complained China is "fed up with the footdragging" of Burma's strongman, General Than Shwe, and his inner circle, one of the cables, released by WikiLeaks, reported.
ref: 2010 December 9, Ewen MacAskill, “WikiLeaks cables: China ‘fed up’ with Burma's footdragging on reforms”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 May 2023:
text: Given that (English) politicians are noted for foot-dragging on electrification schemes, will they use these new locomotives simply as an excuse to defer more electrification schemes?
ref: 2021 March 24, “Open Access: Waiting for the wires”, in Rail, number 927, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 33:
synonyms: slowball
slow-walking
glosses: The deliberate delaying of, or reluctance to take, obligatory action.
Related terms: delaying tactic
testaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /tɛˈsteɪʃəs/
Forms: form: more testaceous
form: most testaceous
Etymology: From Latin testāceus.
Senses: examples: text: [T]hey were burnt, or only baked in Oven or Sunne: According to the ancient way, in many bricks, tiles, pots, and testaceous works […]
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, “(please specify the page)”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC:
glosses: Pertaining to earthenware or baked clay.
examples: text: It has a very large head, in proportion to its body, all covered with a shell, like other testaceous Animals […]
ref: 1665, R[obert] Hooke, Micrographia: Or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
text: Tyrian garbs, / Neptunian Albion's high teſtaceous food [i.e., oysters], / And flavour'd Chian wines with incenſe fum'd / To ſlake Patrician thirſt: for theſe, their rights / In the vile ſtreets they proſtitute to ſale; / Their ancient rights, their dignities, their laws, / Their native glorious freedom.
ref: 1740, John Dyer, “The Ruins of Rome. A Poem.”, in Poems. … Viz. I. Grongar Hill. II. The Ruins of Rome. III. The Fleece, in Four Books, London: Printed by John Hughs, for Messrs. R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley, […], published 1759, →OCLC, pages 42–43:
text: The Ship-VVorm of Jamaica. This inſect is extremely deſtructive to all the ſhips that anchor for any time in the harbours of Jamaica, or in any other part vvithin the tropics: They cut vvith great facility through the planks, and burrovv a conſiderable vvay in the ſubſtance of them, incruſtating the ſides of all their holes vvith a ſmooth teſtaceous ſubſtance[…].
ref: 1756, Patrick Browne, “Of Insects”, in The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica. […], London: […] T[homas] Osborne, and J. Shipton, […], →OCLC, part II, book III, class I, section II, order IV, page 395:
text: The mollusca, and testaceous animals in particular, have been considered to be of potency in an amatory sense.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 157:
glosses: Having a shell, especially one which is not articulated.
glosses: Of a dull orange or brownish colour, like brick.
tegument
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛɡ.jʊ.mənt/
Forms: form: teguments
Etymology: Also in late Middle English, borrowed from Latin tegumentum (“a cover”), from tegere (“to cover, clothe”, verb) + -mentum (suffix forming nouns). Compare integument.
Senses: examples: 1658: But in the Homericall Urne of Patroclus, whatever was the solid Tegument, we finde the immediate covering to be a purple peece of silk — Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 21)
glosses: Something which covers; a covering or coating.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A natural covering of the body or of a bodily organ; an integument.
Derived terms: tegumental
tegumentary
tegumented
Related terms: integument
quitch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
Forms: form: quitches
form: quitching
form: quitched
form: quitched
form: quich
form: queach
form: queatch
form: quinch
form: quetch
form: queck
Etymology: From Middle English quicchen, quytchen, quecchen, from Old English cweċċan (“to shake, swing, move, vibrate, shake off, give up”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *kwakjaną (“to shake, swing”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷog- (“to shake, swing”). Related to Old English cwacian (“to quake”). More at quake.
Senses: glosses: To shake (something); to stir, move.
examples: text: With a strong yron chaine and coller bound, / That once he could not move, nor quich at all […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To stir; to move.
glosses: To flinch; shrink.
quitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
Forms: form: quich
Etymology: From Middle English quich, a palatalized variant of quike, quyke, from Old English cwice, from Proto-West Germanic *kwikwā, from Proto-Germanic *kwikwǭ. Cognate with Dutch kweek, German Low German Queek, German Quecke.
Senses: examples: text: we found the bones and ashes half mortered unto the sand and sides of the Urne; and some long roots of Quich, or Dogs-grass wreathed about the bones.
ref: 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, page 21:
synonyms: couch grass
quackgrass
glosses: Elymus repens, couch grass (a species of grass, often considered a weed)
Derived terms: sense: plant
word: couch
sense: plant
word: couch-grass
sense: plant
word: quitch grass
quich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quiches
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of quitch.
quich
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quiches
form: quiching
form: quiched
form: quiched
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of quitch.
incrassate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈkɹæseɪt/
Forms: form: incrassates
form: incrassating
form: incrassated
form: incrassated
Etymology: From the participle stem of Latin incrassare, from in- + crassare ‘make thick’, from crassus.
Senses: examples: text: Some finde sepulchrall Vessels containing liquors, which time hath incrassated into gellies.
ref: 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, page 21:
text: For since it is of the Nature of Acids to dissolve or attenuate, and of Alcalies to precipitate or incrassate[…]
ref: 1704, Sir Isaac Newton, Opticks, 4th edition, book 2, part 3, St. Paul's: William Innys, published 1730, page 231:
glosses: To thicken, condense.
Derived terms: incrassative
incrassate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈkɹæseɪt/
Forms: form: more incrassate
form: most incrassate
Etymology: From the participle stem of Latin incrassare, from in- + crassare ‘make thick’, from crassus.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Made thick or thicker; swelled out at some particular part, like the antennae of certain insects, or the leaves of the house-leek.
foot-pound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foot-pounds
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
related: word: ft-lb
glosses: foot⋅pound-force, a unit of work, energy, or torque.
Related terms: foot-pound-second
foot-poundal
lb-ft
ft-lb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ft-lbs
form: ft-lb
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of foot-pound.
foot-poundal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foot-poundals
Senses: examples: text: He […] made abstruse calculations as to the flight of balls off sloped club-faces, as to the foot-poundals of energy exercised by one muscle or the other, and as to theories of spin.
ref: 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not... (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 65:
glosses: A unit of work done when by a force of one poundal moves through a distance of one foot
Related terms: foot-pound
poundal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poundals
Etymology: From pound + -al.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A unit equal to the force needed to accelerate a mass of one pound at a rate of one foot per second per second.
Derived terms: foot-poundal
footrace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footraces
Etymology: From foot + race.
Senses: glosses: A race run on foot.
foppery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fopperies
Etymology: From fop + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: And it is by their fopperies and their frivolities that we know that their sinister philosophy is sincere; in their lights and garlands and ribbons we read their indwelling despair.
ref: 1902, G.K. Chesterton, Twelve Types:
glosses: The dress or actions of a fop.
examples: text: This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, / when we are sick in fortune,–often the surfeit / of our own behavior,–we make guilty of our / disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as / if we were villains by necessity; fools by / heavenly compulsion […]
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], lines 118–122:
text: The energies of his mind led him to despise the fopperies of idolatry; and he found the Christians, in the most unfavourable situation, torn into innumerable parties, by the sectaries of Athanasius, Arius, Eutyches, Nestorius.
ref: 1783, William Godwin, Four Early Pamphlets:
text: Still, still the secret presses;
The nearing clouds draw down;
The crimson morning flames into
The fopperies of the town.
ref: 1867, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poems:
glosses: Stupidity.
Kango
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kangos
Etymology: Originally a trademarked name, now sometimes used for any type of jackhammer regardless of manufacturer.
Senses: glosses: A jackhammer.
Denys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek, an alternative spelling of Denis
Derived terms: Denys-Drash syndrome
St Denys
expilator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expilators
Etymology: From Latin expīlātor, from expīlō.
Senses: examples: text: for which the most barbarous Expilators found the most civill Rhetorick
ref: 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, page 26:
glosses: One who plunders or pillages.
incremable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incremable
form: most incremable
Etymology: From Latin in- + cremare, + -able.
Senses: examples: text: […] incombustible sheets made with a texture of Asbestos, incremable flax, or Salamanders wool, which preserved their bones and ashes incommixed.
ref: 1658, Sir Thoams Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, page 27:
glosses: Incombustible; resistant to being burnt.
ferity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛɹɪti/
rhymes: -ɛɹɪti
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin feritas, from ferus (“wild”).
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: wildness, brutishness
text: To burn the bones of the King of Edom for Lyme, seems no irrationall ferity.
ref: 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, page 29:
text: The wildness of the savage is but a faint symbol of the awful ferity with which good men and lovers meet.
ref: 1862, Henry David Thoreau, Walking:
synonyms: ferality#Noun
feralness#Noun
coordinate_terms: ferociousness#Noun
ferocity#Noun
fierceness#Noun
glosses: The quality or fact of being wild or in a wild state.
Related terms: fierce
in the wild
wild type
copel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copels
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of couple.
glosses: Obsolete spelling of cupel.
cupel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjuːpəl/
rhymes: -uːpəl
Forms: form: cupels
form: copel
form: coppel
Etymology: Borrowed from French coupelle, from Medieval Latin cūpella, from Latin cūpa (“cask”) + -ella (“-elle: forming feminine diminutives”). Equivalent to cup + -el.
Senses: glosses: A small circular receptacle used in assaying gold or silver with lead.
Derived terms: cupelation
cupel-dust
cupellate
cupellation
cupel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjuːpəl/
rhymes: -uːpəl
Forms: form: cupels
form: cupeling
form: cupelling
form: cupeled
form: cupeled
form: cupelled
form: cupelled
form: copel
form: coppel
Etymology: Borrowed from French coupelle, from Medieval Latin cūpella, from Latin cūpa (“cask”) + -ella (“-elle: forming feminine diminutives”). Equivalent to cup + -el.
Senses: glosses: To refine or assay using a cupel.
Synonyms: cupellate
Derived terms: cupeller
hydropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /haɪˈdɹɒpɪk/
Forms: form: more hydropic
form: most hydropic
form: hydroptic
form: hydroptique
Etymology: From Middle English ydropik, ydropyk, from Old French ydropique, from Latin hydropicus, from Ancient Greek ὑδρωπικός (hudrōpikós), from ὕδρωψ (húdrōps).
Senses: examples: text: hydropic diathesis
text: Every lust is a kind of hydropic distemper, and the more we drink the more we shall thirst.
ref: a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Precepts of Christianity not grievous:
text: ‘Of the hydropick tumour there is now very little appearance: the asthma is much less troublesome, and seems to remit something day after day.’
ref: 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 1352:
glosses: Dropsical; pertaining to or suffering from dropsy (edema).
examples: text: The worlds whole sap is sunke: / The generall balme th'hydroptique earth hath drunk […].
ref: a. 1631, John Donne, “A nocturnall upon S. Lucies day”, in Poems, published 1633:
glosses: Insatiably thirsty (like someone with dropsy).
examples: text: Ultrastructure of hydropic swelling of a liver cell.
ref: 2013, Howard Reisner, Essentials of Rubin's Pathology, →ISBN, page 8:
glosses: Swollen with water; characterized by swelling and accumulation of fluid.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a yolk deficiency.
raw_tags: of an egg
Derived terms: anhydropic
antihydropic
hydropical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /haɪˈdɹɒpɪkəl/
Forms: form: more hydropical
form: most hydropical
Etymology: From Latin hydropicus + -al.
Senses: glosses: Dropsical.
glosses: Insatiably thirsty.
examples: text: In an Hydropicall body ten years buried in a Church-yard, we met with a fat concretion, wherein the nitre of the Earth, and the salt and lixivious liquor of the body, had coagulated large lumps of fat, into the consistence of the hardest castle-soap.
ref: 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, page 31:
glosses: Swollen with water.
Derived terms: hydropically