cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
blushedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more blushedly
form: most blushedly
Etymology: From blushed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: If i've caused any inconvenience to other TGers, I apologize and will be more attentive in the future. But I was so frustrated with my performance that I simply had to ask while the fire was still hot, so to speak. Blushedly, and with much chagrin, HenrySun
ref: 1996 December 23, don...@mont.mindspring.com, “2 TG hands from last night”, in rec.games.bridge.okbridge (Usenet), archived from the original on 08 Jul 2025:
text: >Uh, ahem. $5 for 10 hours translates to $0.50 per hour, doesn't it? Aram. >
... "Dobac Math" ... :-D (blushedly ducks and sneaks out of the room)
ref: 2002 August 20, Coin Saver, “Buying power equivalent of 1935 U.S. Dollar”, in rec.collecting.paper-money (Usenet), archived from the original on 08 Jul 2025:
text: No, Dave Martin, my editor, misread something I wrote and said that the channel spacing was 40 kHz.. What I said was that there are 40 channels per Megahertz, which works out to a channel spacing of 25 kHz.. (1E6 ÷ 40 = 25E3) Dave, a pretty fair electroniker in his own right (amateur extra and all) has blushedly apologized to me and to everybody who wrote in. My blushings to you on his behalf.
ref: 2002 December 11, Jim Weir, “Channel spacing”, in rec.aviation.owning (Usenet), archived from the original on 08 Jul 2025:
text: So careless, light and tender now. Imagine: how quiet the snowy peaks of the Urals may be. If a pallid countenance lost in a dusk brings sorrow upon us, we know that in its place a stream blushedly flows! A love, a morning in unfamiliar lands around our souls tightly bends, with endless peace of blue seas, in which crimson coral beads glow like cherries in the homeland.
ref: 2006, Miloš Crnjanski (translated), “Sumatra”, in Serbian Literary Magazine, number 1, Belgrade: Serbian Writers Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, “New Classics in New Translations” section, page 9:
synonyms: blushingly
flushedly
flushingly
glosses: In a blushed manner; with a blush.
blushingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blushing + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: WHEN a young lady is first introduced into society, the concomitant observations on her coming out, invariably turn on the ease of her address, the toss of her head, or the pink of her shoe; and there are many, either actuated by the qualms of envy, or afraid of losing the reputation of quiz, which had been hitherto awarded them, who are very willing to be before hand with the multitude, and discern her address to be childish blushingness, that she has a vulgar swing in her gait, or that the colour of her shoe is nothing but a dirty white.
ref: 1818 October 26, “The Cosmopolite. No. 1.”, in The Weekly Entertainer; or, Agreeable and Instructive Repository. […], volume LVIII, Sherborne, Dorset: […] J[ames] Langdon and Son, →OCLC, page 841:
text: While he [Henry VIII] was still a youth in youth’s rosiness, blushingness, and grace, he was also a man in stature and in strength; […]
ref: 1864, “Catharine Queen”, in [William Montagu, 7th] Duke of Manchester, editor, Court and Society from Elizabeth to Anne. […], volume I, London: Hurst and Blackett, […], →OCLC, page 102:
text: It wasn’t a rape, it was sodomy. He became impotent. And the police asked me with some blushingness whether I, since I was twenty-five and living in New York by myself—they presumed that I was not, er, a virgin, and I said with great casualness “Oh, no.”
ref: 1974, Fred McMorrow, quoting Miss C, “The Women Speak”, in Midolescence: The Dangerous Years (A Strawberry Hill Book), New York, N.Y.: Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co., →ISBN, page 279:
synonyms: blushiness
flushedness
flushiness
glosses: The quality of being blushing.
blushier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of blushy: more blushy
blushiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of blushy: most blushy
flushedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more flushedly
form: most flushedly
Etymology: From flushed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: There is a small group of seniors who broadcast their plans for ensuing week-ends with voices intended to reflect great credit to their financial and social prowess. There was the special r. r. car to the Penn State game; the special train, boat, and bus to the Harvard game. Every Saturday night, however, we see them flushedly drinking beer at one of the local dispensaries.
ref: 1933 November, “Walter Windshield - Again”, in C. Brooks Peters, editor, The Lehigh Burr, volume LI, number 2, Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh University, →OCLC, page 14, column 1:
text: For a fraught, tense moment their gazes locked. The girl, her red-gold hair a flaming riot, her face set and hard and flushedly beautiful, her little white teeth just showing behind scarlet lips that were moist, drawn back a trifle.
ref: 1942 March, John Starr [house pseudonym used by Roger Dee Aycock, Nelson Slade Bond, Hugh Barnett Cave, Dan Cushman, and Lewis Patrick Greene], “Gunsmoke Gal of Nighthawk Range”, in Malcolm Reiss, editor, Lariat Story Magazine, volume XII, number 12, New York, N.Y.: Real Adventures Publishing Co., →OCLC, section III, page 52, column 2:
text: Rosalie was now standing directly over Rose B. in a glaring light that gave a lachrymal quality to the eyelash shadows spilling over flushedly exquisite cheekbones.
ref: 1987 October, Michael Brodsky, Xman, New York, N.Y.: Four Walls Eight Windows, published March 1988 (2nd printing), →ISBN, page 130:
synonyms: blushedly
blushingly
flushingly
glosses: In a flushed manner; with a flush.
flushedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From flushed + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Outside the hotel it was still raining its drizzle of snow, but it was beginning to slack off a little. He stood under the marquee a few moments, breathing the cold wet air. It felt good on the flushedness of his face.
ref: 1957, James Jones, chapter 2, in Some Came Running, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →LCCN, →OCLC, book 1 (The Investment), page 19:
text: “I want to call you Bobby.” / Softly felt his brain racing toward some chemical event of a highly suspect nature. He sipped his tea. Pulse rate. Blink rate. Degree of nausea. Sweatiness of palms. Flushedness of face.
ref: 1976, Don DeLillo, “I Make an Entrance”, in Ratner’s Star, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, “Reflections: Logicon Project Minus-One” section, page 414:
text: Finally, I’d remark that I certainly would find her jumping unpredictable, that I truly doubted that she had tried it in years, and that I’d like very much to see her be her dog and jump up and down until she was out of breath. […] If I could convince her, I think she might jump up and down till she was breathless, till her face was flushed and her body was loose and unarmored. I think she might like the breathlessness, the flushedness, the looseness.
ref: 1978, Rainette Eden Fantz, “Gestalt Approach”, in James L. Fosshage, Clemens A. Loew, editors, Dream Interpretation: A Comparative Study, New York, N.Y.: SP Medical & Scientific Books, published March 1979 (2nd printing), →ISBN, page 232:
synonyms: blushiness
blushingness
flushiness
glosses: The quality of being flushed.
flushiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From flushy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: On soft cushion maternal He pillows the head / Of the babe, to sleep hush’d, in its flushiness glowing, / Tints the snows of its cheek with blush-rose diap’rèd: […]
ref: 1859, an Octogenarian [pseudonym; Hans Busk], “Lyric cxlvii.”, in Hebrew Lyrics, London: Saunders, Otley, and Co., […]; Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 470:
text: Terebinthina. Towards end of second week bright-red tongue, smooth and glossy, as if deprived of its papillæ; vertigo, fulness, and flushiness of face; […]
ref: 1878, S[amuel] Lilienthal, “Typhus and Typhoid Fevers”, in Homœopathic Therapeutics, New York, N.Y.; Philadelphia, Pa.: Boericke & Tafel, →OCLC, page 646:
text: The cold is both contagious and infectious. It is a germ that attacks the mucous membranes of nasal passages or throat. Often it is preceded by the feeling of flushiness or cold sensations, and by spasmodic reactions in the mucous membranes of the nasal passages.
ref: 1941 February 17, Edgar Cayce, “Common Cold”, in Gladys Davis Turner, Mae Gimbert St. Clair, compilers, Individual Reference File of Extracts from the Edgar Cayce Readings, Virginia Beach, Va.: Association for Research and Enlightenment, published 1976, →ISBN, page 61:
synonyms: blushiness
blushingness
flushedness
glosses: The quality of being flushy.
ATLAS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: NASA
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Initialism of Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (a robotic astronomical survey and early warning system optimized for detecting smaller near-Earth objects)
Derived terms: Tsuchinshan-ATLAS
Glenfarne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in County Leitrim, Ireland (Irish grid ref H 0037).
TANU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
qualifier: Tanzania
glosses: Acronym of Tanganyika African National Union
Kilmakerrill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The highest point on the line is at milepost 21¾, 367 ft. above sea level. Here there is a halt named Kilmakerrill, after which the line descends to Manorhamilton (24¾ miles).
ref: 1956 May, D. B. McNeill, “The Sligo, Leitrim & Northern Counties Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 332:
glosses: A townland in County Leitrim, Ireland (Irish grid ref G 9438).
TMF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Abbreviation of TM Forum.
Derived terms: TMF-compliant
TMF-defined
egushi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egusi
Senses: glosses: Melon seeds that are ground to make soup in West Africa.
Lisgorman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: There is a halt at Lisgorman (29½ miles); the platform was removed in 1917 and the halt is now used only by the rail cars.
ref: 1956 May, D. B. McNeill, “The Sligo, Leitrim & Northern Counties Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 332:
glosses: A townland in County Leitrim, Ireland (Irish grid ref G 8533).
quality over quantity
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: An idiom emphasizing the preference for high-quality items or experiences rather than a large number of them. It suggests that focusing on excellence and value is more desirable than simply accumulating more, regardless of its worth. This principle can be applied to various aspects of life, from material possessions to personal relationships and work.
D2D
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He works as a D2D salesman.
glosses: Abbreviation of door-to-door.
bruteman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brutemen
Etymology: From brute + man.
Senses: examples: text: The evil-smelling larrikin, beer-imbued —
 The evil-loving brute-man homeward goes,
 He kicks his dirty children with his boot,
 Cursing their hunger, — and his poor worn wife
 With cold flat-irons and handled broom awaits
 His coming, to revile his drinking hard.
ref: 1881 December 3, Sydney Punch, page 8, column 2:
text: At last she saw the stranger close one mighty hand upon the throat of his antagonist, and as he forced the bruteman’s head far back rain blow after blow upon the upturned face.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 171:
text: True, we have people of the fifth column, and, unfortunately, the sixth column, with us; they have them in every country; but so far in this war the British diplomatic and secret service has not been so successful as that clever, astute brute-man Hitler and his agents.
ref: 1940 September 20, The Advertiser, Adelaide, page 24, column 4:
glosses: A man of brutish behaviour or appearance.
brutemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bruteman
sixth column
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sixth columns
Etymology: Extension of fifth column.
Senses: examples: text: If the Government is talking about suppressing a Fifth Column, why raise a Sixth Column?
ref: 1940 June 3, The Sun News-Pictorial, Melbourne, page 3, column 3:
text: True, we have people of the fifth column, and, unfortunately, the sixth column, with us; they have them in every country; but so far in this war the British diplomatic and secret service has not been so successful as that clever, astute brute-man Hitler and his agents.
ref: 1940 September 20, The Advertiser, Adelaide, page 24, column 4:
glosses: An additional group, beyond an identified fifth column, of people which clandestinely undermines a larger group, such as a nation, to which it is expected to be loyal.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sixth, column.
sixth columns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sixth column
peeping Thomasina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peeping Thomasinas
Etymology: By replacing tom with the feminine form of Thomas.
Senses: examples: text: “I don’t stare at her,” Steve insisted quickly. “It’s just that every once in a while she is looking at me when I look out the window.” / “A peeping Thomasina.” / “Now, Harry.” / “Well, it’s her name. Elizabeth Thomas.”
ref: 1949, Isabella Taves, “That Unpredictable Look”, in The American Magazine, volume CXLVII, Springfield, Oh.: The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 38:
text: The two females, at least, see a great deal through their window, and whether he was aware of it or not, Barrie presents them as an intolerable couple of gossips and peeping Thomasinas.
ref: 1951, George Blake, chapter V, in Barrie and the Kailyard School (The English Novelists), London: Arthur Barker Ltd., →OCLC, page 72:
text: When the matchstick bamboo blind is raised this morning to reveal the interiors of the rooms—they are situated on the store’s main floor—a lot of peeping Thomasinas are likely to find their eyes popping with envy.
ref: 1958 January 29, “Decorating Small Apartment Is a Big Problem; Solution Is Tied to Coloring, Furniture Scale and Texture”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Jul 2025:
text: So she’s your friend’s daughter. At first I thought she was another of those peeping Thomasinas from the forest reserve.
ref: 2002 April 9, Suzanne North, chapter 8, in Bones to Pick (A Phoebe Fairfax Mystery; 3), Toronto, Ont.: McClelland & Stewart, →ISBN, page 120:
glosses: A female peeping tom.
peeping Thomasinas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peeping Thomasina
Thomasinas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Thomasina
Alligator Auschwitz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alligator Alcatraz
flightmap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flightmaps
Etymology: From flight + map.
Senses: examples: text: “Just rawdogged it, 15 hr flight to Melbourne. No movie, no music, just flightmap (I counted to one million twice),” Torren Foot, an Australian music producer, wrote in the caption of a video posted on TikTok last month.
ref: 2024 July 17, Jessica Roy, “A Wildly Obscene Term’s Path to Mainstream Usage”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Jul 2024:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A tracker for a flight that includes nearby flights and airspace borders.
flightmaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flightmap
either-ors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of either-or
either/ors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of either/or
Hogard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Toyota spokesman Paul Hogard said the automaker wants speedometers to be easy to read, so there’s value in placing the typical operating speed of American cars, 45 mph to 70 mph, he said, at the top of the speedometer, which is the easiest place on the speedometer for the driver to read.
ref: 2022 September 10, Matt McFarland, “Why your car’s speedometer goes up to 160 mph (even when your car can’t)”, in CNN Business:
glosses: A surname.
flame lilies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flame lily
Zawiyah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: When he got to Zawiyah, the coastal town west of Tripoli that has become the main hub for the people-smuggling industry, he was kidnapped a second time and held in a tiny cell for six months.
ref: 2020 February 13, Roland Oliphant, “'I have lost four years of my life': the desperate migrants stuck in squalid Libyan camps”, in The Telegraph, archived from the original on 08 Jul 2025:
glosses: The capital city of Zawiya district, Libya.
Tacony
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Unami tèkhane (literally “cold river”).
Senses: synonyms: Tacony Creek
glosses: A small creek in northern Philadelphia, in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States. It feeds into Frankford Creek.
Derived terms: Taconic
Tacony Creek Park
Corolla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Corolla asked Miller if the two were friends following filming.
ref: 2022 October 10, Marianne Garvey, “T.J. Miller says he wasn’t asked to return for ‘Deadpool 3’”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname.
Corolla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Corollas
Senses: examples: text: Over the decades – the Corolla model has been in production since 1966 – there have been some fun, high-performance versions of the compact car, though.
ref: 2022 March 31, Peter Valdes-Dapena, “The Toyota GR Corolla is a mean-looking high-performance hatchback”, in CNN Business:
text: So vehicles, like some Toyota Corollas, have a 160-mph speedometer despite coming nowhere close to reaching such speeds.
ref: 2022 September 10, Matt McFarland, “Why your car’s speedometer goes up to 160 mph (even when your car can’t)”, in CNN Business:
glosses: Ellipsis of Toyota Corolla.
hate-filled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hate-filled
form: most hate-filled
Senses: examples: text: He got fired after his hate-filled rant went viral.
text: He protests the war in Vietnam, but looks with contempt on the hate-filled pseudoradicals who preach the politics of violence.
ref: 2007 September 9, Karen Durbin, “Breaking Through”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2021:
glosses: Containing or believing in a large amount of hateful rhetoric.
Corollas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Corolla
LOOCV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Initialism of leave-one-out cross-validation
green lights to Malibu
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From have a perfect quick trip to the Pacific coast at Malibu from the inland SpaceX headquarters in the Greater Los Angeles area, if all the traffic lights turn green.
Senses: glosses: Concerning a highly ambitious schedule. An expression referring to the perfect timeline, if there are no delays, everything goes as planned, and everyone works overtime all the time.
Coordinate terms: Elon time
pie in the sky
reality distortion field
Tesla time
I hardly know 'er
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of I hardly know her.
overagent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overagents
Etymology: over- + agent
Senses: examples: text: In multi-AI‑agent networks, the overagent maintains global awareness and assigns roles dynamically to optimize performance.
qualifier: artificial intelligence
glosses: A coordinating agent that supervises, manages, or orchestrates the actions of multiple subordinate agents within a complex system.
Related terms: multi-agent system
orchestrator
superagent
Ballintogher
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in County Sligo, Ireland (Irish grid ref G 7628).
Yantra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Bulgarian Янтра (Jantra).
Senses: glosses: A river in Bulgaria
webgraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: webgraphs
Etymology: Web + graph
Senses: glosses: A directed graph representing the hyperlinks between web pages.
webgraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of webgraph
Owenmore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Ireland:
A river in County Cavan, that joins the Shannon.
glosses: A river in Ireland:
A short river in Connemara, County Galway, that flows into Bertraghboy Bay.
glosses: A river in Ireland:
A river in County Mayo, that flows into the Atlantic.
glosses: A river in Ireland:
A river in County Sligo, that forms the Ballisodare River near Collooney.
Carricknagat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A townland north of Collooney, County Sligo, Ireland (Irish grid ref G 6727).
foxglove tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foxglove trees
Senses: glosses: Synonym of princess tree (Paulownia tomentosa).
synonyms: word: princess tree
extra: Paulownia tomentosa
foxglove trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foxglove tree
unrivalledly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of unrivaledly.
unrivaledly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: unrivalledly
Etymology: From unrivaled + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: peerlessly
glosses: In an unrivaled manner; beyond compare; having no equal.
unsecurity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] but among the unshorn chins and fustian jackets, among those who were working twelve, fourteen, and at times sixteen hours a day, housed in crowded tenements or insanitary cottages, living their lives in permanent unsecurity, the voice of O'Connor was the voice of the prophet bringing the tablets down from the mountain.
ref: 1990, John Saville, 1848: The British State and the Chartist Movement (page 213)
glosses: Alternative form of insecurity
untrip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: untrips
form: untripping
form: untripped
form: untripped
Etymology: From un- + trip.
Senses: examples: text: to untrip a switch or a circuit
glosses: To deactivate (something previously tripped).
untrips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of untrip
untripping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of untrip
brown cow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brown cows
Senses: glosses: A root beer float.
brown cows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brown cow
smished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of smish
yappuccinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yappuccino
whimble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whimbles
Senses: examples: text: […] in the same manner as bits are fitted into whimbles.
ref: 1825, Thomas Williamson, The Complete Angler's Vade-mecum, page 47:
glosses: Alternative form of wimble (“hand tool for boring holes”)
whimbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whimble
roach out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: roaches out
form: roaching out
form: roached out
form: roached out
Etymology: In reference to the behavior of cockroaches scattering when exposed.
Senses: examples: text: PirateSoftware's behavior is being labeled as "roaching out" online, that is, partaking in a conservative and passive playstyle that focuses on self-survival rather than taking an assertive and engaged role.
ref: 2025 January 13, Atharv Kapoor, “What does "roach out" mean in World of Warcraft? Controversy explored as Sodapoppin weighs in on Pirate Software's actions”, in Sportskeeda:
text: Raid lead says to stay in and finish the boss, Yamdef roaches out instead.
ref: 2025 February 7, Bravado, Blizzard Forums:
text: If Yamato didnt roach out, boss easily dies before the last aoe kills T1.
ref: 2025 February 7, Bravado, Blizzard Forums:
text: like 33 of the 40 people roached out
ref: 2025 February 7, Battlecruisr, Blizzard Forums:
topics: video-games
glosses: To run away from a battle when it becomes difficult.
glosses: To quickly leave a situation when it becomes uncomfortable.
roaches out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of roach out
roaching out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of roach out
roached out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of roach out
whorage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whorages
Etymology: From whore + -age.
Senses: examples: text: I wouldn't have so let myself down as to come with such a whorage as this is!
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles:
text: The next day in a sound-stage at Sunset-Gower I was awaiting some action in the girls' apartment — we would be demonstrating the private life of an L.A. whorage — the home-life of our girls.
ref: 2000, Edward Loomis, Romeo and Juliet in L.A., page 188:
glosses: A place full of whores.
windplayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windplayers
Etymology: wind + player
Senses: glosses: A musician who plays a wind instrument.
windplayers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of windplayer
Wongara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Wangara
wormship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wormships
Etymology: From worm + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Worms frequently cause diseases in trees by domiciliating themselves between the bark and the wood. […] Immediate recourse must be had to the knife, or pointed wire, and his wormship must be ejected, and the wound filled with clay.
ref: 1853, Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, page 421:
text: I am satisfied it is tape worm. […] Will some of the Brief readers help me to get rid of his wormship? The woman has been to several physicians and is impatient to be cured.
ref: 1893, The Medical Brief, page 1354:
glosses: A term of address for a worm.
whorages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whorage
wormships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wormship
Blacklion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: In recent years, the company has operated a local road service for passengers and goods between Blacklion (a village a few hundred yards from Belcoo, but on the Republic side of the border) and Sligo via Manorhamilton and via Dowra, a village on Lough Allen.
ref: 1956 May, D. B. McNeill, “The Sligo, Leitrim & Northern Counties Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 336:
glosses: A village in County Cavan, Ireland, just across the border from Belcoo, County Fermanagh (Irish grid ref H 0838).
womanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From woman + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: So costly were they; carpets every stitch / Of womanship so rare, they made you wish / You could glide o'er them like a golden fish.
ref: 1833, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Don Juan: In Sixteen Cantos; with Notes, page 129:
text: Can you, Miss Martin, for once lay aside the silly forms of womanship, and answer me a plain question upon which the happiness of my life depends?
ref: 1851, Joanna Baillie, The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie, page 442:
coordinate_terms: manship
glosses: The characteristic of being a woman or womanly.
wayhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wayhouses
Etymology: * way + house
Senses: examples: text: If he and the coach left the hotel at the same time, the coach would arrive at the wayhouse at the time he had walked four miles.
ref: 1960, Sam Loyd, Mathematical Puzzles, volume 2, page 46:
text: The Harefoot Dig is large as wayhouses go, with stables and carriage sheds, a carvery as well as a common room, a reading room, […]
ref: 2008, David M. Cornish, Foundling, page 412:
topics: fantasy
glosses: An inn for travellers.
Related terms: way station
wayhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wayhouse
waup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waups
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whaup (“curlew”)
waups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waup
Wankly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: This folding toothbrush has recently been invented by Mr. H. A. Wankly.
ref: 1895, Journal of the British Dental Association, volume 16, page 39:
glosses: A surname.
wankly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wankly
form: most wankly
Senses: examples: text: A wankly thing it is an' all, lapped up wi' binder band.
ref: 1958, Yorkshire Dialect Society, Summer Bulletin (issues 5-22, page 2)
glosses: Weak; feeble; sickly.
Wallwork
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Quain
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Quain Professor
whampee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whampees
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wampee.
whampees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whampee
Dowra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in County Cavan and County Leitrim, Ireland, divided by the River Shannon (Irish grid ref G 9926)
Timok
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian Тимок (Timok).
Senses: glosses: A river in Serbia and Bulgaria
Osam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Bulgarian Осъм (Osǎm).
Senses: glosses: A river in Bulgaria
gashy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæʃi/
rhymes: -æʃi
Forms: form: more gashy
form: most gashy
Etymology: From gash + -y.
Senses: examples: text: […] her physical body deflates Sal's high-blown fantasies and brings him back down to earth. This earth, scarred and gashy.
ref: 2020, Robert Leigh Davis, Playful Wisdom, page 118:
glosses: Marked by gashes.
image board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: image boards
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of imageboard
AfDB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of African Development Bank
Geneura
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: Arthurian legend
glosses: Alternative form of Guinevere
geratologous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to geratology.
Gideonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gideonites
Etymology: From Gideon + -ite.
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A member of the ancient tribe of Gideon.
Gideonites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gideonite
globeholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: globeholders
Etymology: globe + holder
Senses: glosses: A light fixture designed to accept a spherical bulb.
globeholders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of globeholder
fluorocarbonyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: fluoro- + carbonyl
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical functional group containing fluorine and oxygen atoms bonded to one carbon atom. (FOC-)
chlorocarbonyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: chloro- + carbonyl
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical functional group containing chlorine and oxygen atoms bonded to one carbon atom. (ClOC-)
Daesius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The eighth month of the ancient Macedonian calendar, falling approximately in modern May.
Anthesterion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The eighth month of the Attic calendar, falling in modern February and March.
Thargelion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The eleventh month of the Attic calendar, corresponding to the lunar term around May and June.
reapprehension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɹiːˌæpɹɪˈhɛnʃən/
Etymology: re- + apprehension
Senses: examples: text: The Duke of Lancaster, though excepted in the same, yet in the behalfe of his friends, was not a little offended with the Bishops doings for justifying these leude persons, and making the Church a sanctuary for Rebells and Traytors, and his excommunications, a scourge to punish the Kings Officers for doing their duties in reapprehending these fugitives;
ref: 1641, William Prynne, ANTIPATHIE OF THE ENGLISH LORDLY PRELACIE, BOTH TO REGALL MONARCHY, AND CIVILL UNITY, pages 236-237:
text: An arrest on a Sunday is absolutely void (w). If, however, Arrest on a a defendant arrested on a Saturday escapes he may be retaken on a Sunday, for that is not in execution of the process, but a continuance of the former imprisonment (x); and it is said that a person may be arrested on a Sunday on the Lord Chancellor’s warrant, or an order of commitment for contempt, for he is considered as in custody from the time of making the order, and the warrant is directed to the gaoler as in the nature of an escape warrant (y), (which is a warrant authorized under the 1 Ann. stat. 2, c. 6, s. 1, and 5 Ann. c. 9, s. 3, by which the judge of any Court out of which process has issued, by virtue of which a party has been committed to prison and escapes from such prison, may issue a warrant for his reapprehension), under which it has been held that a defendant may be retaken on the Lord's-day (z).
ref: 1837, EDMUND ROBERT DANIELL, F. R. S., A TREATISE ON THE PRACTICE OF THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY, WITH SOME PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS ON The Pleadings in that Court., volume 1, LAW BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS, page 585:
text: if reapprehension is almost certain, then any small amount of bail is enough to induce court appearance, and this is true even when conviction is almost certain.
ref: 1998, Alfred Choi, Anthony Chin, editors, Law, Social Sciences, and Public Policy: Towards a Unified Framework, Singapore University Press, National University of Singapore, page 114:
glosses: The act of apprehending again; a second or renewed apprehension.
examples: text: It will wear the cloak of humility; it will speak so plausibly, that it oftener meets with approbation than with that reapprehension which is its due.
ref: 1871, The Mothers' Treasury: containing Various Pieces of Permanent Interest., volume VIII, THE BOOK SOCIETY, page 182:
text: Two related aspects of postmodern mythopoetic writing are seen in these three poets: the concentration on the immanent moment unites them, but while Levertov rests in the reapprehension of archetypal, cyclic patterns, both Rukeyser and Rich have passed to historical critique of mythopoesis, replacing archetype by prototype.
ref: 1979, Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar, editors, Shakespeare's Sisters: Feminist Essays on Women Poets, Indiana University Press, page 299:
glosses: A reconsideration or new understanding of something previously known or misunderstood.
octanamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: octane + amide
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The acid amide of octanoic acid, CH₃CH₂CH₂CH₂CH₂CH₂CH₂CONH₂
dial towards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dial towardses
form: dial towardsses
form: dial towardsing
form: dial towardssing
form: dial towardsed
form: dial towardsed
form: dial towardssed
form: dial towardssed
Senses: glosses: To be oriented towards, to be figuratively moving in the direction of or aiming at a conclusion.
M/s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: M/s structured relationships differ in many ways from vanilla relationships. One important difference is that you have the opportunity to discuss and negotiate a number of key issues up-front. These issues become the basis of our contract.
ref: 2014, Robert J. Rubel, Ph.D., M. Jen Fairfield, Master/slave Mastery—Updated handbook of concepts, approaches, and practices:
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: Initialism of Master/slave.
Related terms: D/s
trigermane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trigermanes
Etymology: tri- + germane
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The hydride of germanium, Ge₃H₈, analogous to propane
selfshipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selfshippers
Etymology: From selfship + -er.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: A person who selfships (“ships themself with a fictional character”).
Related terms: selfship
impact play
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From impact + play.
Senses: examples: text: Impact play, whether spanking, caning, flogging, or any combination of these, can enhance your sex or just be fulfilling by itself.
ref: 2012, Tristan Taormino, The Ultimate Guide to Kink:
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
hypernyms: sadomasochism
glosses: The practice of striking another person, either with the hand(s) or with an instrument, for the (usually sexual) pleasure of one or both parties.
trifluoromethylthio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + fluoro- + methyl + thio-.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical CF₃S-
Coordinate terms: trifluoromethoxy
trifluoromethylseleno
trifluoromethylseleno
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + fluoro- + methyl + seleno.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical CF₃Se-
Coordinate terms: trifluoromethoxy
trifluoromethylthio
jumpscaring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jumpscare
jumpscared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jumpscare
exorsexism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɛksɔɹˈsɛksɪzm̩/
/ˌɛɡzɔɹˈsɛksɪzm̩/
Etymology: From XOR + sexism, patterned on cissexism, homosexism, intersexism, etc.
Senses: examples: text: Enforcing an XOR of gender (that is to say, “exorsexism” or “exornormativity” as I am currently calling it) basically states that the only allowable genders are wholly, exclusively male and wholly, exclusively female. To be neither or both (that is to say, to be nonbinary) is not considered valid.
ref: 2016, @vergess, “XOR Gender Chart”, in Tumblr, archived from the original on 05 May 2016:
text: Diversity management according to him has a broad range of effects by helping in eliminating or reducing discrimination or unfairness against minorities or targeted groups, including topics like sexism against women and exorsexism against transgender people, racism and xenophobia against other ethnicities and migrants, age discrimination against older employees, religious discrimination against other religions, heterosexism and homophobia against employees with different sexual identities and orientations, and discrimination against disabled people.
ref: 2023, Moutas Zafer, Discrimination Against Employees With a Migration Background in the German Museum Sector Related to Hiring and Promotion, PhD thesis, TU Dresden:
text: The research suggests that companies should promote gender diversity training and reconsider diversity management in the workplace. The review points to the need for more studies investigating how exorsexism manifests in the corporate environment and the legal implications of the omission of gender discrimination.
ref: 2025 May 6, Akira Aikyo Galvão, Silvia Pereira De Castro Casa Nova, Juh Círico, “Non-Binary People in the Labor Market: An Integrative Literature Review”, in Revista Catarinense da Ciência Contábil, →DOI, →ISSN:
text: First, we introduce a comprehensive taxonomy of sentiment toward trans and nonbinary communities, grounded in sociological and gender studies frameworks. This taxonomy addresses critical gaps in prior frameworks by including underexamined subcategories such as transmisogyny, anti-transmasculinity, and exorsexism, enabling a detailed and intersectional understanding of trans-related sentiment.
ref: 2025 May 25, Maxyn Rose Leitner, Rebecca Dorn, Fred Morstatter, Kristina Lerman, “Characterizing Network Structure of Anti-Trans Actors on TikTok”, in Proceedings of the 17th ACM Web Science Conference 2025 (Websci '25), New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery, →DOI, pages 472–483:
synonyms: enbyphobia
glosses: The rejection or dismissal of nonbinary gender identities; fear, dislike, or hatred of non-binary people based on such beliefs.
-itious
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Latin -ītius or -īcius.
Senses: glosses: Forms adjectives denoting "pertaining to, characterized by, having the nature of, resembling, tending to."
Derived terms: cementitious
factitious
papyritious
superstitious
exorsexist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exorsexist
form: most exorsexist
Etymology: From XOR + sexist.
Senses: examples: text: i only disclose my pronouns when i'm absolutely sure no one will spew exorsexist, "they is only for multiple people", garbage at me
ref: 2019 June 24, Ree Melanen, I wish I radiated some kind of grammatical warping field: wounding performatives and doing nonbinary gender through language, Master's thesis, Tampere University:
text: got my first exorsexist "its a guy" comment about a nonbinary character! im finally moving up in the world!
ref: 2019 September 17, nonbinary character of the day! (@nbcharoftheday), Twitter, archived from the original on 09 Jul 2025:
text: However, there can be added tension due to rules of conduct that exist in medical settings that could make the atmosphere palpably uncomfortable. In such situations, there are obligations of the individual being treated as to how they need to behave (i.e., that they must not get mad or otherwise “lose control” if the doctor is being exorsexist) and expectations of how the doctor or nurse (practitioner) should treat them which may not be met in the appointment
ref: 2021, Imriel Bissnette, "People exist outside of the binary and what you expect": a qualitative analysis of non-binary individuals' experiences in the medical system of Nova Scotia, →OCLC, Master's thesis, Acadia University:
text: This squares with the ways in which obscuring how transmasculine people are specifically targeted is incentivized in our society [64] and how LLM’s can struggle to recognize the transmisogyny often implied by anti-transmasculine or exorsexist content, or the transmisogyny inherent to racist degendering of cis women of color [38, 53, 64]
ref: 2025 May 25, Maxyn Rose Leitner, Rebecca Dorn, Fred Morstatter, Kristina Lerman, “Characterizing Network Structure of Anti-Trans Actors on TikTok”, in Proceedings of the 17th ACM Web Science Conference 2025 (Websci '25), New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery, →DOI, pages 472–483:
glosses: Showing exorsexism or pertaining to it.
square Kufic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compound of square + Kufic.
Senses: topics: art
arts
calligraphy
communications
journalism
literature
media
publishing
writing
glosses: A style of Arabic calligraphy characterized by angular, geometric letterforms usually arranged in a grid pattern.
wikipedia: Bou Inania Madrasa (Meknes)
Synonyms: banna'i
nephophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nephophiles
Etymology: From nepho- + -phile.
Senses: glosses: Someone who loves clouds.
Related terms: nephophilia
nephophobe
nephophobia
Lavaloon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lavaloons
Senses: examples: text: I always play Lavaloon because it is such a good offensive deck.
qualifier: Clash Royale slang
glosses: A player deck containing the cards Lavahound and Balloon.
examples: text: I just placed Lavaloon.
text: I have Lavaloon on my tower!
qualifier: Clash Royale slang
glosses: The card combination of Lavahound and Balloon; both Lavahound and Balloon together.
disposable nappy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disposable nappies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of disposable diaper.
synonyms: word: disposable diaper
disposable diapers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disposable diaper
disposable nappies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disposable nappy
Lavaloons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lavaloon
hellevator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hellevators
Etymology: Blend of hell + elevator.
Senses: glosses: A scary elevator; an elevator that takes one to a frightening location.
glosses: An elevator that is poorly-maintained, dangerous or claustrophobic.
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Hellevator (“a notional elevator that leads to Hell”).
topics: video-games
glosses: In Terraria, a continuous hole (shaft) built by the player that allows them to drop all the way from the surface to the underworld, an area of the game located at the bottom of the world.
Hellevator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hellevators
form: hellevator
Etymology: Blend of Hell + elevator.
Senses: examples: text: STEWARDESS: If you look to your right you will see fourteen Damned Souls about to descend to the underworld in the Hellevator...
JIMMY: It's all puns up here, isn't it?
LOGICAL MAN: (fiddling with the strap on his goggles) Ay?
STEWARDESS: We respectfully ask that all Angels refrain from gloating at the Damned and let them descend in dignity.
Jimmy sees the man with the huge and fascinating life from earlier walking to the Hellevator looking glum.
JIMMY: Poor bastard.
ref: 2012, Henry Harding, The Bells Of St. Mary's, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 25:
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A notional elevator that leads to Hell; an elevator that directs damned souls to Hell.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of hellevator.
hellevators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hellevator
Hellevators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hellevator
apeirophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apeirophobes
Etymology: From apeiro- + -phobe.
Senses: examples: text: On these sites, Apeirophobes share experiences and swap advice.
ref: 2016 September 1, Bobby Azarian, “Apeirophobia: The Fear of Eternity”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 18 Oct 2017:
glosses: One who suffers from apeirophobia.
apeirophobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apeirophobe
zerogonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /zɪəˈɹɒɡənəl/
ipa: /zɪˈɹɑɡənəl/
ipa: /ziˈɹɑɡənəl/
rhymes: -ɒɡənəl
Etymology: From zerogon + -al.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a zerogon.
zerohedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌzɪəɹəʊˈhiːdɹən/
ipa: /ˌzɪəɹəˈhiːdɹən/
ipa: /ˌzɪɹoʊˈhidɹən/
ipa: /ˌziɹoʊˈhidɹən/
rhymes: -iːdɹən
Forms: form: zerohedra
form: zerohedrons
Etymology: From zero + -hedron.
Senses: examples: Coordinate term: apeirohedron
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A hypothetical polyhedron with no faces.
zerohedrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zerohedron
Pârâul Negru
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Various rivers in Romania.
faltu
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɑːl.tuː/
rhymes: -ɑːltuː
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: more faltu
form: most faltu
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi फालतू (phāltū, “useless, unnecessary”).
Senses: examples: text: Stop wasting time on these faltu arguments.
glosses: Useless; unnecessary; of no value or purpose.
monohedra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monohedron
zerohedra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zerohedron