cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fly low
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flies low
form: flying low
form: flew low
form: flown low
Senses: glosses: To have one's fly (zipper) undone.
glosses: To fly under the radar; to act in a discreet or sneaky fashion.
Related terms: fly without a licence
triplicative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From triplicate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Tending to triplicate.
hung like a donkey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Having a large penis.
raw_tags: of a man
Synonyms: macrophallic
inspirable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inspire + -able.
Senses: examples: text: No creature being can excel in order a soul so configured to God as to be inspirable by him […]
ref: 1870, Wellman's Miscellany, page 121:
glosses: Able to be inspired.
examples: text: Oxygen is an inspirable gas.
glosses: Able to be inhaled; breathable.
uninspirable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + inspirable.
Senses: glosses: Unable to be inspired.
revealable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From reveal + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be revealed; capable of revealing.
cystotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cystotomy
unrevealable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + revealable.
Senses: glosses: Unable to be revealed.
multi-infarct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multi-infarcts
form: multiinfarct
form: multi infarct
Etymology: From multi- + infarct.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Describing the condition of having or having had two or more infarcts.
multiinfarct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiinfarcts
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of multi-infarct.
multi infarct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multi infarcts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of multi-infarct.
cystotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cystotomies
Etymology: From cysto- + -tomy.
Senses: glosses: A surgical operation which consists of making an incision into the urinary bladder.
Derived terms: cholecystotomy
colpocystotomy
dacryocystotomy
Related terms: cystotome
sended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of send; synonym of sent.
maked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Long were to tell the amorous aſſayes, / And gentle pangues, with which he maked meeke / The mightie Mars, to learne his wanton playes:
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 572:
glosses: simple past and past participle of make
beated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beat
nidorosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nidorosities
Etymology: From nidorous + -ity.
Senses: glosses: belching with the taste of undigested meat
arised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈɹaɪzd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of arise
rised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rise
becomed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of become
bidded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bid
breaked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of break
bited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bite
breeded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of breed
buyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The soldiers laughed but the old black woman answered indignantly, “I buyed it.”
ref: 1966, Margaret Walker, Jubilee:
glosses: simple past and past participle of buy
bringed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bring
fighted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: synonyms: word: fought
alt: standard
glosses: simple past and past participle of fight
eated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From English eat + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: I eated the purple berries.
ref: 1998 February 15, David X. Cohen, “Das Bus”, in The Simpsons, season 9, episode 14, spoken by Ralph:
qualifier: also non-native speakers
glosses: simple past and past participle of eat
lalochezia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λάλος (lálos), λαλέω (laléō), λαλιά (laliá) + χέζω (khézō), equivalent to lalo- + -chezia.
Senses: examples: text: Morton's heavyhanded humour when he denies imagined accusations of coprophemia, aischrolatreia and lalochezia by saying that "you - dear reader - can decide for yourself after perusing the remaining two hundred pages" is made heavier still by the fact that nobody at Atlantic noticed that this estimate is 100 pages out.
ref: 2005 July 30, Michel Faber, “L is for lalochezia”, in The Guardian:
text: The word lalochezia itself has an interesting etymology. It’s got Greek roots and the first part, ‘lalo-’, means ‘speech’. The second part means ‘to defecate’.
ref: 2020 December 21, Emma Wilkin, “lalochezia”, in Emma Wilkin:
glosses: The use of vulgar or foul language to relieve stress or pain.
Related terms: dyschezia
bursted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of burst
choosed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: qualifier: nonstandard and non-native speakers' English
glosses: simple past and past participle of choose
clinged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cling (“to adhere”)
clinged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cling (“to ring”)
cutted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cut
dealed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deal
gargalesthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γαργαλίζω (gargalízō, “tickle”) + -esthesia.
Senses: glosses: The sensation commonly associated with tickling.
drived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drive
falled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fall
feeded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Eva straightened out her dress as she sat down, and Mickey ran over to her. She bent down, straightened his cap, and arranged his clothing. She kissed him. "Mommy, I feeded the pigeons," he said.
ref: 1946, James T. Farrell, Bernard Clare:
glosses: simple past and past participle of feed
feeled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: field
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of feel
fleed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fliːd/
rhymes: -iːd
Senses: examples: text: Every Tenterden market day he used to sell fleed cakes from a basket to the carts that went by.
ref: 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not… (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 134:
glosses: The internal fat of a pig before it is melted into lard.
fleed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fliːd/
rhymes: -iːd
Etymology: Inflected forms.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flee
forgetted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forget
forgived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forgive
gargalesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γαργαλίζω (gargalízō, “tickle”) + -esis.
Senses: examples: text: Pending a better nomenclature we suggest for the former the term knismesis and for the latter the term gargalesis, with the adjectives knismic and gargalic, hyperknismesis and hyper-gargalesis for excess, etc.
ref: 1897, G. Stanley Hall, Arthur Alliń, “The Psychology of Tickling, Laughing, and the Comic”, in The American Journal of Psychology, 9(1) (Oct., 1897), pp. 1-41:
text: Gargalesis, the heavy tickle associated with play and laughter and seemingly with pleasure, may be limited to the primates, but not solely to human beings.
ref: 1999 Christine R. Harris, "The Mystery of Ticklish Laughter," American Scientist, 87(4) (July-August 1999), p344
text: The second type of tickle called gargalesis is evoked by a heavier touch to particular areas of the body such as armpits or ribs. Such kind of stimuli usually results in laugher and squirming.
ref: 2009 August 18-21, Alena Neviarouskaya, Dzmitry Tsetserukou, Helmut Prendinger, Naoki Kawakami, Susumu Tachi & Mitsuru Ishizuka, "Emerging System for Affectively Charged Interpersonal Communication," ICROS-SICE International Joint Conference 2009, p3380
text: 2017, Etymologist Susie Dent, appearing on "Would I Lie To You" Series 11, Episode 4, broadcast on 11 December 2017. "My dad once broke my leg during a particularly vigorous bout of gargalesis... or the light kind which is called knismesis."
glosses: Heavy tickling often leading to laughter.
Coordinate terms: knismesis
knismesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κνησμός (knēsmós, “itching”) + -esis.
Senses: examples: text: Pending a better nomenclature we suggest for the former the term knismesis and for the latter the term gargalesis, with the adjectives knismic and gargalic, hyperknismesis and hyper-gargalesis for excess, etc.
ref: 1897, G. Stanley Hall, Arthur Alliń, “The Psychology of Tickling, Laughing, and the Comic”, in The American Journal of Psychology, 9(1) (Oct., 1897), pp. 1-41:
text: One can readily elicit knismesis in oneself (this is easily demonstrated by dragging a fingernail lightly over one’s skin). However, one cannot produce gargalesis in oneself; the present investigation focuses on this peculiar fact.
ref: 1999, Christine R. Harris, Nicholas Christenfeld, “Can a machine tickle?”, in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 6(3) pp. 504-510:
text: 2017, Etymologist Susie Dent, appearing on "Would I Lie To You" Series 11, Episode 4, broadcast on 11 December 2017. "My dad once broke my leg during a particularly vigorous bout of gargalesis... or the light kind which is called knismesis."
glosses: Light tickling often accompanied by an itching sensation.
Coordinate terms: gargalesis
hided
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English hided, equivalent to hide + -ed.
Senses: examples: a tough-hided opponent
glosses: Having hide (skin) of a specified kind.
hided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: simple past of hide (make something/someone out of sight)
hided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hide (beat with a whip)
holded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hold
lended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lend
meeted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of meet
misdealed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misdeal
rided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ride
selled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: It was the day of warlocks and apparitions, now happily driven out by the zeal of the General Assembly. Witches pursued their wanchancy calling, bairns were spirited away, young lassies selled their souls to the Evil One, and the Accuser of the Brethren, in the shape of a black tyke, was seen about cottage doors in the gloaming.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: simple past and past participle of sell
sinked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: We pretty near biled ourselves and Miss Euly done got her bes' pink apron stained, an' I dropped Sis Suky's big kitchen spoon in de hogshead of sand an' it sinked 'way down teh de middle, wif us a turnin' de sand up so.
ref: 1912, Stella George Stern Perry, Melindy, page 130:
glosses: simple past and past participle of sink
speaked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of speak
sweared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of swear (“take an oath”)
glosses: simple past and past participle of swear (“British dialects: be lazy”)
swimmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of swim
Aeolist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aeolists
form: Æolist
Senses: glosses: A pompous person, pretending to have inspiration or spiritual insight.
fatface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fatfaces
Etymology: From fat + face.
Senses: glosses: Someone with a fat face.
examples: text: SEVENTY years ago fat-face types were in fashion. It was believed that the legibility of a new style could be largely augmented by giving to it greater blackness of face. With this end in view, the designer of the fat-face made the body of each character from one-fourth to one-half wider than that of the ordinary text-letter.
ref: 1901, De Vinne, et al., The Practice of Typography […] :
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: A very bold typeface.
bletcherous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bletcherous
form: most bletcherous
form: blecherous
Etymology: From blech + -ous, presumably under the influence of similar-sounding words such as treacherous and lecherous.
Senses: examples: text: […] my immaculate person, once a wanton playground for every manner of sexual ecstasy, is now a sickening melange of bletcherous flab, fugitive follicles, degenerative cellulite […]
ref: 2009 April, James Mitchell, Good Gay Poems, 1967-2007, San Francisco: Ithuriel's Spear, page 26:
glosses: Having an unaesthetic design or functionality; ugly.
farthead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fartheads
Etymology: From fart + -head.
Senses: glosses: an imbecile
wankface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wankfaces
Etymology: From wank + face.
Senses: glosses: An objectionable person.
wankhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wankheads
Etymology: From wank + head.
Senses: glosses: An objectionable person.
sluthead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slutheads
Etymology: From slut + head.
Senses: glosses: A contemptible person.
fuckshit
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌkˌʃɪt/
Etymology: From fuck + shit. Dysphemistically modelled after bullshit, horseshit, etc.
Senses: glosses: An expression of anger.
fuckshit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌkˌʃɪt/
Forms: form: fuckshits
Etymology: From fuck + shit. Dysphemistically modelled after bullshit, horseshit, etc.
Senses: glosses: An obnoxious person.
examples: text: My landlord is back on his fuckshit.
synonyms: bullshit
glosses: Contemptible behavior, particularly that which inspires frustration.
cockshit
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From cock + shit.
Senses: glosses: an expression of anger
cockshit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockshits
Etymology: From cock + shit.
Senses: glosses: an objectionable person
immitance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of immittance.
Derived terms: immitanciometer
immitanciometry
dickfuck
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From dick + fuck.
Senses: glosses: An expression of anger.
dickfuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dickfucks
Etymology: From dick + fuck.
Senses: examples: text: What a jack ass, when you see him tell him I called him a dickfuck, and no Mia I haven't moved on to anyone else, as for this Clarissa chick I don't know anyone by that name.
ref: 2009, Karen Smith, Desert Rose, page 312:
text: Have you been smoking pot, you dickfuck?
ref: 2009, Sarah Rainone, Love Will Tear Us Apart, page 415:
text: I considered masturbating on the captain's desk, but instead I called him a faggot addict cumsucker bitchmaster dickskinner dickfuck fuckforbrains nopecker lilywhitebitch.
ref: 2005, Anthony Swofford, Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles, page 46:
text: Listen to this, dickfuck.
ref: 1998, Luke Davies, Candy:
glosses: An imbecile or otherwise undesirable person.
kiss me
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: I informally request that you kiss me—that you touch my lips with your lips or press the lips against, as an expression of love or affection.
dickster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dicksters
Etymology: From dick + -ster.
Senses: glosses: Term of abuse.
cockster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocksters
Etymology: From cock + -ster.
Senses: examples: text: Whatsa matter — that stuff about you bein' such a great cockster — just a lotta bull?
ref: 1961, Michael Shurtleff, Call Me by My Rightful Name: A Play, page 43:
text: I wasn't an experienced cockster by any means, but I did need to learn a lot more than I knew right now.
ref: 2001, Steven E. Sanders, Memoirs of a Lost Soul: A Literary History, page 48:
text: I replied with the cockster's smile. “Fuckin' lucky guess.”
ref: 2001, Tim McGhee, Wise Fools, page 279:
glosses: A cocky man.
obscæne
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more obscæne
form: most obscæne
Senses: examples: text: Neither do wee pleaſe them with their owne crimes, or obſcæne ſpectacles: whereas they celebrate both the guilt that there gods incurred who were men, and the fayned pleaſures of ſuch of them as were flat deuills.
ref: 1610, S[ain]t Augustine, “Of the Honor that Christians Giue to the Martires”, in J[ohn] H[ealey], transl., St. Augustine, of the Citie of God: […], [London]: […] George Eld, →OCLC, page 336:
text: Playes are the nurseries of vice, the bawd, / That thorow the senses steales our hearts abroad, / Tainting our eares with obscæne bawdery, / Lascivious words, and wanton ribaulry.
ref: 1629, Fra[ncis] Lenton, “Section XIV. The Young Gallant’s Whirlgig.”, in James Orchard Halliwell, editor, The Marriage of Wit and Wisdom, an Ancient Interlude. […], London: […] Shakespeare Society, published 1846, →OCLC, page 129:
text: Shall I recount his intemperance, voluptuouſneſs, and obſcæne manner of living? or his impious, doubtful or wicked end? no, let them be buried with his aſhes.
ref: 1654, Jo[hn] Webster, “Of Scholastick Philosophy”, in Academiarum Examen, or The Examination of Academies. […], London: […] Giles Calvert, […], →OCLC, paragraph 3, page 54:
glosses: Archaic spelling of obscene.
working end
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: working ends
Senses: qualifier: rope
glosses: The end of a rope that is used to make a knot.
Synonyms: live end
running end
Related terms: standing part
beard the lion in his den
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beards the lion in his den
form: bearding the lion in his den
form: bearded the lion in his den
form: bearded the lion in his den
form: beard the lion
Etymology: From sense beard (“to confront”).
Senses: examples: text: And dar'st thou then / To beard the lion in his den, / The Douglas in his hall?
ref: 1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Canto Sixth. The Battle.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC, stanza XIV, page 338:
text: George and John Rennie, and James Ekron, a servant of my father’s, announced their determination to march in and beard the lion in his den, provided three of the Mulattoes, who were superior marksmen, would support them.
ref: 1840, Thomas Pringle, Josiah Conder, Narrative of a residence in South Africa, page 45:
text: Duty called me to beard the lion in his den; and though no Daniel, I took on the job without fear and trembling…
ref: 1936, The Bankers magazine, volume 132, page 307:
glosses: To confront an adversary in his or her own environment.
Related terms: take the bull by the horns
beard the lion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beards the lion
form: bearding the lion
form: bearded the lion
form: bearded the lion
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beard the lion in his den.
fuel cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfjuː(ə)l sɛls/
Senses: glosses: plural of fuel cell
gold-finder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gold-finders
Senses: glosses: A prospector for gold.
examples: text: Divers Gentlemen walking the ſtreets ſomewhat late where the Goldfinders were at worke, fie fellowes ſay they, what a beaſtly ſtinke doe yee make? To whom one of the moſt ancient amongſt them replyed; If gentlemen, you or ſuch as you would keepe your tailes ſtopped, you ſhould not now need to ſtop your noſes.
ref: 1633, A Banqvet of Jests: or, Change of Cheare. Being a collection, of Moderne Ieſts. Witty Ieeres. Pleaſant Taunts. Merry Tales. The Second Part newly publiſhed, page 29:
text: But though in this particular, and perhaps in their success, the truth-finder and the gold-finder may very properly be compared together;
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume VI, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book I:
glosses: A person who cleans the latrines.
gold-finders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gold-finder
destruction permit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: destruction permits
Etymology: destruction + permit
Senses: examples: text: 2001 February 28, Iain Evans (Minister for Environment and Heritage), Letter to the editor, The Courier,
I refer to your reports and letters to the editor regarding the decision to replace the requirement for a written destruction permit to shoot common native parrots causing damage to commercial orchards with a proclamation advertised generally in the media.
text: The questionnaire, already undertaken by 72 landowners within the Murraylands region of South Australia has provided incredible information such as the ratio of how many people apply for destruction permits, methods utilised to destroy wombats and their burrow systems, why the wombats are being persecuted and just how small populations of wombats cause such distress to these landowners.
ref: 2010, Brigitte M. Stevens, Wombat Mitigation Program: National Wildlife Rehabilitation Conference 2010:
glosses: A government license to kill or remove fauna that would otherwise be protected.
anti-copyright
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anti-copyright
form: most anti-copyright
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anticopyright.
emvowel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈvaʊ.əl/
rhymes: -aʊəl
Forms: form: emvowels
form: emvoweling
form: emvowelling
form: emvoweled
form: emvoweled
form: emvowelled
form: emvowelled
form: envowel
Etymology: Coined by Henry Fielding (1707-1754) as a jocular alteration of embowel (“disembowel”).
Senses: examples: text: And as for all the words I embowel, or rather emvowel, I will never ſo mangle them, but they ſhall be all as well known as if they retained every vowel in them.
ref: 1747 December 24, Henry Fielding, The Gentleman's Magazine, London, page 579, column 2:
text: Finally, to judge whether ſhe is abſolutely cried up as a BEAUTY, we muſt conſult the wooden regiſters, the benches in the public walks, and the window-panes in coffee-houſes and taverns; where you'll be ſure to ſee her name in acroſticks, or either emvowel'd, or written in full length, accompanied with the moſt emphatical endearing expreſſions.
ref: 1751, The Student: Or, The Oxford and Cambridge Monthly Miscellany, Oxford, page 257:
text: I ſhall not encroach on the Old Baily Patriot in his priviledge of emvowelling, daſhing, aſterizing, and italicizing.
ref: 1752 January 16, Bonnell Thornton, Have At You All: or, The Drury-Lane Journal, London, page 13:
text: I reprobate the bold practice of licentiouly printing names at full length, without as much as modeſtly embowelling, or rather emvowelling them, or pleaſantly holding their owners in greater deriſion by a contemptuous alteration of them[.]
ref: 1762 November 24, The London Magazine: or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer, London, page 590, column 2:
text: Yes—it ſtands forth to public view,
Within, without, on white, on blue,
In proper, tall, gigantic Letters,
Not daſh'd—emvowell'd—like my betters.
ref: 1763 February 24, Robert Lloyd, The St. James's Magazine, London: W. Flexney, page 374:
text: But this barbarous custom of emvowelling words, is now quite exploded, in prose at least, by the best authors.
ref: 1775, Richard Wynne, “Appendix”, in An Universal Grammar, London, page 122:
text: Fielding is let off lightly with a running comment on his misspellings and other peculiarities of style—deliberate punning and emvoweling.
ref: 1915, Gerard Edward Jensen, “Introduction”, in The Covent Garden Journal, volume I, New Haven: Yale University Press, page 69:
glosses: To replace a portion of a person's name with a dash in printing, in order to avoid libel.
emvowelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of emvowel
Hanoverians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hanoverian
spinechilling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of spine-chilling.
spine chilling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of spine-chilling.
spine-chiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spine-chillers
Senses: glosses: A work of fiction that induces fear or nervousness.
spine-chillers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spine-chiller
d/l
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: d/ls
form: DL
form: dl
form: D/L
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of download.
d/l
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: d/ls
form: d/ling
form: d/led
form: d/led
form: DL
form: dl
form: D/L
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of download.
intercepter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intercepters
Senses: examples: text: thy intercepter, full of despite, bloody as the hunter, attends thee at the orchard end
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
glosses: Alternative form of interceptor.
terawatt-hours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terawatt-hour
fourgon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fourgons
Etymology: Borrowed from French fourgon.
Senses: examples: text: The usual composition of the L.C.D.R. train was three saloon cars of Wagons-Lits stock, with a Wagons-Lits fourgon or van at one end, while the S.E.R. train, as shown, had two saloons and the fourgon, with a 6-wheel S.E.R. brake at the other end.
ref: 1942 February, “Notes and News: The London-Paris Club Trains”, in Railway Magazine, page 53:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A French baggage wagon.
glosses: An ammunition wagon.
fourgon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fourgons
Etymology: From four + -gon.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polygon with four sides; a quadrilateral.
Synonyms: quadrilateral
fourgons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fourgon
fesses up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fess up
fessing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fess up
fessed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fess up
dysexecutive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dys- + executive.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to problems with the executive system in the brain.
Cape Breton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A cape in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.
glosses: Ellipsis of Cape Breton Island.
glosses: A regional municipality of Cape Breton island, Nova Scotia, Canada; in full, Cape Breton Regional Municipality.
glosses: A former colony of Cape Breton, British North America.
Derived terms: word: CB
word: C.B.
word: C. B.
word: Cape Breton Colony
word: Cape Breton Island
word: Cape Breton Regional Municipality
word: Colony of Cape Breton
word: Island of Cape Breton
word: Regional Municipality of Cape Breton
nonfluted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + fluted.
Senses: glosses: Not fluted.
Himalayans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Himalayan
Antonius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænˈtəʊni.əs/
ipa: /ænˈtoʊni.əs/
Etymology: From Latin Antōnius.
Senses: examples: text: Marcus Antonius
glosses: a Roman nomen gentilicium
hashhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaʃhaʊs/
Forms: form: hashhouses
Etymology: From hash + house.
Senses: examples: text: ‘We went out about three-thirty or so to get something to eat at the hashhouse around the corner,’ Hench said.
ref: 1943, Raymond Chandler, The High Window, Penguin, published 2005, page 86:
text: In the big town, no job, has to deal 'em off the arm in hashhouse again, sad.
ref: 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Tea Don’t Do You that Way”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 2 (1923–1928: Chicago, Chicago), page 88:
glosses: A cheap diner or eating-house.
hashhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hashhouse
astrocladistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From astro- + cladistics.
Senses: topics: astronomy
cosmology
natural-sciences
glosses: The phylogenetic analysis of galaxy evolution.
bistochastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + stochastic.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: doubly stochastic
checkpointing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of checkpoint
formalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of formalization
interdigital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + digital.
Senses: examples: text: In a review of over 1000 interdigital clavuses, 65% were found in the fourth interspace […]
ref: 1988, Shepard R. Hurwitz, Foot and ankle pain, page 331:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Between the fingers or toes.
Derived terms: interdigitally
Related terms: interdigitated
metalicities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metalicity
beef trust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beef trusts
Etymology: Originally the name of a conglomerate of beef producers; later adopted ironically by US carnival showman WB ‘Billy’ Watson, who used it as the name for his sideshow of overweight women.
Senses: examples: text: The beef trust was out in full force – these landladies were all shaped up like barrels, wherever there wasn't a crease in their meat there was a dimple.
ref: 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Tea Don’t Do You that Way”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 2 (1923–1928: Chicago, Chicago), page 91:
glosses: A group of overweight or obese people.
multistability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multistabilities
Etymology: From multi- + stability.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being multistable
standard lamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of standard lamp
nanopatterned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nano- + patterned.
Senses: glosses: Having a nanopattern
nanopattern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanopatterns
Etymology: From nano- + pattern.
Senses: glosses: A nanoscale pattern, especially one etched on a microchip
nanowaveguides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanowaveguide
fluty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: flutier
form: flutiest
Etymology: From flute + -y.
Senses: examples: a high, fluty voice
glosses: Resembling the sound of a flute.
Derived terms: flutily
flutiness
flutier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of fluty: more fluty
flutiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of fluty: most fluty
nanowaveguide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanowaveguides
Etymology: From nano- + waveguide.
Senses: glosses: A nanoscale waveguide
nanowalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanowall
hyperlight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + light.
Senses: glosses: Faster than light speed.
Synonyms: superlight
superluminal
superlumic
nonrenormalizability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + renormalizability.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: the condition of being nonrenormalizable
Radcliffean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Radcliffean
form: most Radcliffean
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Radcliffian.
nonspacelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + spacelike.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Not spacelike
Radcliffian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Radcliffian
form: most Radcliffian
form: Radcliffean
Etymology: From Radcliffe + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: And yet the cause, necessarily to be assumed as the sole one assignable, is in its very realism as much charged with that prime element of Radcliffian romance, the mysterious, as any that the ingenuity of the author of the Mysteries of Udolpho could devise.
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 10, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823), English pioneer of the Gothic novel.
hypester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypesters
Etymology: From hype + -ster.
Senses: examples: text: They didn't need to be first in sales; they didn't have to compete with the hypesters. Louis junior could honestly say that the wines he made were sound.
ref: 1990, James Conaway, Napa:
text: Up pops a hypester, intruding on their dinner, to announce that the brew is an "instant" brand.
ref: 1990, Dan D. Nimmo, James E. Combs, Mediated political realities:
glosses: One who uses hype to promote or advertise.
hypesters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypester
perimembranous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmbɹənəs
Etymology: From peri- + membranous.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Forming a surrounding membrane
solitonized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From soliton + -ize + -ed.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Composed of solitons.
supplementarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From supplementary + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being a supplement.
fieldless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From field + -less.
Senses: examples: text: There is no grass in the fieldless, parkless city for their feet, no trees for climbing […]
ref: 1855, Henry Ward Beecher, Star Papers:
text: In the EPROM and ROM erase, a fieldless array is implemented to get the full scaling benefit.
ref: 1999, Paulo Cappelletti, Flash memories:
text: New technology is making possible fieldless fieldwork that would eliminate the possibility of combining radio telemetry and observational ecology.
ref: 2004, Michael L. Lewis, Inventing global ecology: tracking the biodiversity ideal in India, 1947-1997:
glosses: Without a field (in various senses).
transmon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transmons
Etymology: Abbreviation of transmission line shunted plasma oscillation qubit.
Senses: examples: text: Two additional transmon circuits can be positioned at the resonator edges, where the resonator voltage is maximum.
ref: 2019, Thi Ha Kyaw, Towards a Scalable Quantum Computing Platform in the Ultrastrong Coupling Regime, Springer, →ISBN, page 93:
text: Those bits are then converted into pulses of microwaves and sent down through wires and pipes to a series of 50 small superconducting devices called “transmons” — the qubits — dangling at the bottom.
ref: 2019 October 21, Dennis Overbye, “Quantum Computing Is Coming, Bit by Qubit”, in New York Times:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A particular form of superconducting qubit.
unicasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unicastings
Senses: glosses: The transmission of a unicast message
unpolarised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + polarised.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unpolarized.
allografting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From allo- + grafting.
Senses: glosses: The transplanting of an allograft
amylin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæm.əl.ɪn/
Etymology: From amyl- + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The dextrin of starch.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A pancreatic polypeptide hormone that is secreted with insulin by the beta cells of the islets of Langerhans, that is a major component of the amyloid deposits found outside beta cells in those affected with type 2 diabetes, and that inhibits the glucose synthesis stimulated by insulin in skeletal muscles.
Derived terms: amylinomimetic
pramlintide
ununderstanding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + understanding.
Senses: examples: text: But how and why are hard to say or even see. There are cases of ununderstanding mediated by the use of special words but this is not apt to be one of them.
ref: 1972, Paul Ziff, Understanding understanding:
text: Despite tiresome explications ununderstanding may be rife and rampant.
ref: 1973, Glenn Pearce, Patrick Maynard, Conceptual change:
text: Since the main problem in the default condition of ununderstanding is how to continue, PARRY employs heuristics such as changing the level of the dialogue and asking about the interviewer's intention...
ref: 1975, Kenneth Mark Colby, Artificial paranoia; a computer simulation of paranoid processes:
glosses: Failure to understand; incomprehension.
ununderstanding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ununderstanding
form: most ununderstanding
Etymology: From un- + understanding.
Senses: examples: text: ...more sympathy with art than the ununderstanding, conceited and vulgar Archbishop of Salzburg...
ref: 1933, Richard Specht, Beethoven as he lived:
text: With an ununderstanding wife and a physically handicapped daughter, he got on philosophically.
ref: 1991, P. Rajeswar Rao, The Great Indian patriots, Volume 2:
glosses: Not understanding.
seemer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsiːməɹ/
Forms: form: seemers
Etymology: From seem + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The Seemers. Things are not always what they seem […]
ref: 1991, Marion D. Hanks, Bread Upon the Waters, page 51:
glosses: A person who, or a thing which, seems.
untirable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + tirable.
Senses: examples: text: A most incomparable man, breathed, as it were,
To an untirable and continuate goodness […]
ref: c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: The Germans […] plod on from day to day, and year to year—the most patient, untirable, and persevering of animals.
ref: 1848, John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy, London: John W. Parker, Volume I, Book II, Chapter 6, §4, pp. 313-314:
text: 1965, Thom Gunn, “Misanthropos” IX (retitled as “Memoirs of the World” in Poems 1950-1966: A Selection, London: Faber & Faber, 1969, p. 41,
[…] I laboured
to become a god of charm,
an untirable giver.
glosses: Incapable of being tired; never tiring.
Synonyms: tireless
antineutrophil
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antineutrophil
form: most antineutrophil
form: anti-neutrophil
Etymology: From anti- + neutrophil.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: That has staining characteristics that are opposite of neutrophils
seemers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seemer
Frankenword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Frankenwords
Senses: examples: text: "Frankenfood" carries connotations of mad scientists dabbling in Things Man Was Not Meant To Know and releasing their products into the environment to wreak havoc. In the same vein, might "Frankenfood" be a dangerous "Frankenword"?
ref: 1994, Analog Science Fiction & Fact, volume 114, number 11, page 5:
text: To oldfashioned scholars talkathon and walkathon were doubly offensive Frankenwords
ref: 2010 April 25, “Frankenwords”, in The Boston Globe:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of frankenword.
autoadjuvants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autoadjuvant
autoadjuvant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoadjuvants
Etymology: From auto- + adjuvant.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A substance that enhances the immune response to an antigen produced by the same organism
Related terms: autoantigen
autoinflammation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoinflammations
Etymology: From auto- + inflammation.
Senses: glosses: inflammation as a result of an autoimmune disease
havable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈhævəbl̩/
Etymology: From have + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be had, possessed.
chemorepellant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemorepellants
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chemorepellent.
chlorosulphonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chlorosulfonic.
electroelution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electroelutions
Etymology: From electro- + elution.
Senses: glosses: The extraction of a sample from an electrophoresis gel by application of an electric current
Related terms: electroblotting
slip roads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slip road
playmat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playmats
form: play mat
Etymology: From play + mat.
Senses: glosses: A mat (flat piece of material) designed for a young child to play upon.
glosses: A mat for an individual player's cards, dice, etc. in tabletop games.
endourology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From endo- + urology.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: urology by use of the endoscope and similar techniques
playmats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of playmat
strawbana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of strawberry + banana
Senses: examples: a strawbana smoothie
topics: business
marketing
glosses: A mixture of strawberry and banana.
fibrogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fibro- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The abnormal accumulation of fibrous tissue
glosses: The formation of fibrin from fibrinogen in blood coagulation
Derived terms: neofibrogenesis
profibrogenesis
Related terms: fibrogenetic
fibrosis
myofibrogenesis
fumehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fumehoods
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fume hood.
geoecology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geo- + ecology.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: The interdisciplinary study of geography and ecology
Related terms: geoecological
geoecosystem
hemidesmosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemidesmosomes
Etymology: From hemi- + desmosome.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A structure (half of a desmosome) on the basal surface of some cells.
immunobullous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + bullous.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Describing any blistering disease of the immune system
bullous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bullous
form: most bullous
Etymology: From bulla + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to or characterized by bullae
Derived terms: bullous acrokeratotic poikiloderma of Kindler and Weary
immunobullous
mechanobullous
nonbullous
vesicobullous
vesiculobullous
immunoconjugate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunoconjugates
Etymology: From immuno- + conjugate.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: An antibody that has a second material as a conjugate
Derived terms: radioimmunoconjugate
Related terms: immunoconjugation
immunopharmacology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + pharmacology.
Senses: glosses: The branch of pharmacology that deals with the immune system
Derived terms: immunopharmacological
neuroimmunopharmacology
intraductal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + ductal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Within a duct
Derived terms: intraductally
majoritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more majoritic
form: most majoritic
Etymology: From majorite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of, of containing, majorite.
mesangial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the mesangium
Derived terms: paramesangial
mesangium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesangia
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A thin layer of the glomerulus, within the basement membrane surrounding the glomerular capillaries.
metalloblock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metalloblocks
Etymology: From metallo- + block.
Senses: glosses: A form of block polymer containing organometallic entities
methoxyamination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From methoxyamine + -ation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: reaction with methoxyamine
methoxyamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The simple organic compound CH₃-O-NH₂
Derived terms: methoxyamination
microendoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Etymology: From micro- + endoscopic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to microendoscopy
glosses: By use of a microendoscope
micropulse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micropulses
Etymology: From micro- + pulse.
Senses: glosses: A very small, or very short pulse
myofibroblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myofibroblast
myofibroblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myofibroblasts
Etymology: From myo- + fibroblast.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A cell that is intermediate between a fibroblast and smooth muscle
Derived terms: cardiomyofibroblast
myofibroblastic
protomyofibroblast
Related terms: myofibroblastoid
myofibroblastoma
nanobeads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanobead
nanobead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanobeads
Etymology: From nano- + bead.
Senses: glosses: A nanosized bead.
nanoconjugate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanoconjugates
Etymology: From nano- + conjugate.
Senses: glosses: A nanosized conjugate