cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
manganimetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: redox assay by means of titration with potassium permanganate solution
look-alikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of look-alike
just shoot me
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shoot me.
tracking shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tracking shots
Senses: examples: text: A long, late-night tracking shot from one end of the Neon Boot bar to another actually tracks along the surface of the bar itself—and when there is a drunk passed out on the bar, the camera simply lifts up and flies over him, then continues on its route.
ref: 1984 October 12, Janet Maslin, “Blood Simple, A black-comic romp”, in New York Times, retrieved 09 Jul 2012:
text: In a long tracking shot at the start of the film, a feral cat prowls this wasteland until it is felled by a slow-motion arrow.
ref: 2010 January 25, Richard Corliss, “American Savior: Denzel Washington in Book of Eli”, in Time:
text: The lead-up to the battle was wonderfully done, starting with the long tracking shot that followed Sam and then Tyrion as they nervously took up their places for the fight.
ref: 2019 April 28, Alex McLevy, “Game Of Thrones Suffers the Fog of War in the Battle against the Dead (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 31 May 2021:
topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
glosses: A continuously recorded segment containing no edits, in which the camera is moved (often mounted on a dolly rolling on tracks) so as to sweep through an extensive area or to follow the physical movement of characters or events.
Synonyms: trucking shot
badinages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of badinage
badinaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of badinage
badinaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of badinage
red dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red dogs
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A blitz.
examples: text: This fraction of grain offal contains a number of over-lapping sub-fractions, which are known in the trade as red-dog, shorts, middlings, and bran. A portion of the red-dog is contained in the lowest grade of straight flour.
ref: 1918, Alonzo Englebert Taylor, War Bread, New York: Macmillan, page 75:
glosses: The lowest grade of flour in milling, secured largely from the germ or embryo and adjacent parts, and mainly useful as animal feed.
glosses: Coal slag.
glosses: Prickly heat; miliaria.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, dog.
red dog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: red dogs
form: red dogging
form: red dogged
form: red dogged
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To blitz.
red dog
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A card game in which players bet on the next card to appear.
red dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red dog
red dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of red dog
trucking shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trucking shots
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tracking shot.
synonyms: word: tracking shot
belitter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: belitters
form: belittering
form: belittered
form: belittered
Etymology: From be- + litter (“droppings, refuse”).
Senses: glosses: To strew with litter (for the floor).
glosses: To bestrew with rubbish or things in disorder.
septæmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of septaemia.
homœomorphous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more homœomorphous
form: most homœomorphous
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of homoeomorphous.
mixling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mixlings
Etymology: From mix + -ling. Compare German Mischling (“hybrid, mongrel, half-breed”), French mélange (“mixture”), German Low German Mischling (“half-breed, hybrid, mongrel”).
Senses: examples: text: Wagner unflinchingly believed that not the least objective of the Nuremberg clauses was "to make the mixed race, which is politically and biologically unwanted, disappear as soon as possible, for a mixling can never be a patriot."
ref: 2000, Michael H. Kater, Doctors Under Hitler:
text: Yet there have been incidences where it was thought that a mixling's duplicate had been so strong that, although duplication took place during equinox, it had remained the dominant figure during the whole of the mixling's life.
ref: 2010, Marlies Bugmann, Wafters, Frazzlers & Black Unicorns:
text: While there are some who think it odd that a mixling Melph soldier should be able to read, let them rest assured that there are more who can than are known.
ref: 2012, Janis Susan May, Inheritance of Shadows:
glosses: One who is of mixed ethnic or racial background; a hybrid; a cross-breed.
mixel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mixels
form: mixle
Etymology: From blend of mixed + pixel.
Senses: qualifier: geographical sciences
glosses: In field-based conceptualisation, a raster cell which indicates elements of mixed or multiple land cover categories.
topics: art
arts
glosses: In pixel art, a pixel of incoherent or inconsistent size when compared to the rest of the artwork as a whole.
generatrixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of generatrix
generatrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of generatrix
not to say
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: examples: text: At first Marc was somewhat shocked, then he burst out laughing and finally came to the conclusion that actually it was all rather sad, not to say stupid.
ref: c. 1962, Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff, “Wake of the Waves”, in Deborah A. Starr, Sasson Somekh, editors, Mongrels Or Marvels, Stanford University Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 145:
glosses: Even; perhaps; almost.
not to say
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: “Without an engaged audience, there’s no route to stardom.” ¶ That’s not to say that Sophie thinks the internet celebrity is dead. They may just have to work a little harder for it.
ref: 2024 June 26, Stephanie McNeal, “Influencers Aren’t Getting Famous Like They Used To”, in Glamour:
glosses: Used to clarify a statement: not intended to mean.
Related terms: not that
that is to say
Abrahamman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.bɹəˌhæmˌmæn/
ipa: /ˈeɪ.bɹə.həmˌæn/
ipa: /ˈeɪ.bɹəˌmæn/
Forms: form: Abrahammen
Senses: examples: text: Even as I deeply come and see the dogs lick and dip the tip in this great gulf fixed, I throw a tit to Abrahamman feigning Lou to gather alms.
ref: 2014, Neil Baker, Occultus Liber, page 105:
glosses: Alternative form of Abraham man
Abrahammen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Abrahamman
Abramman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.bɹəmˌmæn/
Forms: form: Abrammen
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Abraham man
Abrammen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Abramman
DLE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: areology
astronomy
geography
geology
natural-sciences
planetology
glosses: Initialism of double-layer ejecta.
abranchialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌeɪˈbɹæŋ.ki.l̩.ɪz.m̩/
Forms: form: abranchialisms
Etymology: From abranchial + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being without gills.
abranchialisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abranchialism
systemic lupus erythematosus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SLE
Senses: examples: text: Iberdomide, a cereblon modulator promoting degradation of the transcription factors Ikaros and Aiolos, which affect leukocyte development and autoimmunity, is being evaluated for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).
ref: 2022 March 17, Joan T. Merrill, Victoria P. Werth, Richard Furie et al., “Phase 2 Trial of Iberdomide in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus”, in The New England Journal of Medicine, volume 386, number 11, →DOI, page 1034:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A systemic autoimmune disease (or autoimmune connective tissue disease), where the immune system attacks the body's cells and tissue and causes inflammation and tissue damage.
Synonyms: lupus
mergesorts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mergesort
merge sort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merge sorts
Etymology: From merge + sort.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of mergesort.
synonyms: word: mergesort
merge sorts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merge sort
introspective sort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: introspective sorts
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A sorting algorithm that begins with quicksort and switches to heapsort when the recursion depth exceeds a level based on (the logarithm of) the number of elements being sorted.
Synonyms: introsort
sequencings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sequencing
replanter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: replanters
Etymology: From replant + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who replants.
resocialise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resocialises
form: resocialising
form: resocialised
form: resocialised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of resocialize.
resocialises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resocialise
retardataire
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from French retardataire.
Senses: examples: text: Ditto with "community." [He says that] the notion that there's such a thing (or should be such a thing!) as a gay "community" is a product of those messy gay lib days. It comes in for a similarly superficial and retardataire drubbing, with however the extra good laugh that he can't refrain from referring to that nonexistent community himself a couple times.
ref: 1980 August 30, Tim Walton, “Queer Rights Strategy Argued in Quirky Dictionary”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 14:
glosses: anachronistic, dated, especially in artistic style.
squirrel around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: squirrels around
form: squirreling around
form: squirrelling around
form: squirreled around
form: squirreled around
form: squirrelled around
form: squirrelled around
Senses: examples: text: My mother warned me not to squirrel around in my dad's workshop.
glosses: To move or search erratically, especially as if hurried or confused.
lubrifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lubrification
restrictives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of restrictive
bar bike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bar bikes
Etymology: From bar + bike, in reference to the design being imitative of a small bar, and the alcoholic drinks frequently drunk while using them.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of party bike.
synonyms: word: party bike
nice guys finish last
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: First appears in the US c. 1946, and condensed from a comment by the baseball manager Leo Durocher. The original quote was The nice guys are all over there, in seventh place. (1946 July 6), about the 1946 New York Giants — seventh place was next-to-last place in the National League. This was shortly afterwards rendered as ‘Nice Guys’ Wind Up in Last Place, Scoffs Lippy, hence giving the present form.
Senses: examples: text: The size of his victory . . . contradicted the maxim of latter-day fellow Californian Leo Durocher, who once said positively: "Nice guys finish last."
ref: 1956 November 19, “National Affairs: Nice Guy Finishes First”, in Time:
text: "He can be as moderate as he likes. Nobody else will be. In Washington these days, nice guys finish last."
ref: 1998 March 23, Seth Schiesel, “All Too Soon, New F.C.C. Chief Finds Warm Welcome Is Cooling”, in New York Times, retrieved 10 Jul 2012:
text: Nonetheless, a team of business experts claims to have proved the pessimistic notion that "nice guys finish last" – at least where money is concerned.
ref: 2011 December 5, Richard Hall, “I didn't get where I am today by being nice... Study reveals agreeable men earn £4,500 less than their ruthless colleagues”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 10 Jul 2012:
glosses: People who are decent, friendly, and agreeable tend to be unsuccessful because they are outmaneuvered or overwhelmed by others who are not so decent, friendly, or agreeable.
wikipedia: 1946 New York Giants (MLB) season
Leo Durocher
Related terms: the good die young
war makes thieves, and peace hangs them
Winkler bottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Winkler bottles
Etymology: From Lajos Winkler, inventor of the Winkler test for dissolved oxygen.
Senses: glosses: A glass laboratory apparatus for measuring the amount of dissolved oxygen in water.
wikipedia: Lajos Winkler
Winkler test for dissolved oxygen
wanderstar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wanderstars
Etymology: From wander + star, probably a calque of German Wandelstern (“planet”). Compare the historic term wandering star, like the German term ultimately a calque from Ancient Greek.
Senses: examples: text: He had thumbed about in Chants of a Wander-Star last night in bed and wondered about the career of that marginal versifier — born out of his proper time and now remembered by Ackley in an era even less proper.
ref: 1994, Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror:
text: A thin scythe of moon was rising, near the white wanderstar of dawn or dusk.
ref: 2003, Poul Anderson, Mother of Kings:
text: He passed gulls, terns, cormorants as if they were standing still. Now and then a wander-star crossed the heavens: one of the metal eyes the ancients hung over Alifros to spy on their enemies.
ref: 2009, Robert V. S. Redick, The Red Wolf Conspiracy:
topics: fantasy
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A wandering star or other similar heavenly body; a comet; meteor; planet.
abrasers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abraser
abrasin oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.bɹə.zən/
Forms: form: abrasin oils
Etymology: Partial translation from French huile d'abrasin
Senses: glosses: An oil from the tung tree that is used in paints and varnishes; tung oil.
abrasin oils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abrasin oil
abrasiometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌbɹeɪ.ziˈɑm.ə.tɚ/
Forms: form: abrasiometers
Etymology: From abrasion + meter.
Senses: glosses: A device which measures the resistance of surfaces to abrasion.
abrasiometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abrasiometer
abrasion platforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abrasion platform
Abrasax stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Abrasax stones
Senses: glosses: A gem engraved with the word Abrasax or Abraxas.
Abrasax stones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Abrasax stone
archaio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of archaeo-.
baso-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of basi-.
abreactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæb.ɹiˈæk.tɪv/
Forms: form: more abreactive
form: most abreactive
Etymology: From abreact + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Capable of producing abreaction.
Derived terms: abreactively
imaginary units
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imaginary unit
Abri Audit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɹi/
ipa: /ɑˈbɹi oʊˈdi/
ipa: /æˈbɹi oʊˈdi/
ipa: /aˈbɹi oʊˈdi/
Etymology: Borrowed from French Abri Audit (literally “Audit shelter”).
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or belonging to the prehistoric culture between the late Mousterian and Aurignacian.
glacettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glacette
market gardens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of market garden
wandering star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wandering stars
Etymology: Calque of Ancient Greek ἀστὴρ πλανήτης (astḕr planḗtēs) as distinguished from the fixed stars.
Senses: examples: text: Might it not be possible, that this wandering star would pass by the sun and reappear in the east?
ref: 1877, Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel, The planetary and stellar worlds:
text: [...] Or warring with the spirits who may dare Dispute with him Who made all empire, empire; or recalling Some wandering star, which shoots through the abyss Whose tenants dying, while their world is falling Share the dim destiny of clay in this.
ref: 1988, Alan Richardson, A Mental Theater:
text: The word planet is an old Greek word meaning "wandering star" (planets wander, Fixed Stars do not) — so either term is correct, although modern popular usage is planet. I like star. Especially "wandering star." ]
ref: [ 2000, Linda Goodman, Linda Goodman's Star Signs
text: In ancient times, a fixed star was so named to distinguish it from a wandering star or planet.
ref: 2005, Constance Stellas, Advanced Astrology for Life:
text: Now he turned his flight, a prayer short of light-speed, towards the wandering star. Jedden had long ago abolished fear. Yet he experienced a strange psychosomatic sensation in that part of the splinter ship that corresponded to his testicles.
ref: 2009, Gardner Dozois, The Year's Best Science Fiction:
glosses: A star which seems to move in the sky; a planet.
Synonyms: wanderstar
wandering stars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wandering star
bridgetender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bridgetenders
Etymology: From bridge + tender.
Senses: glosses: someone who maintains and/or operates a bridge
onomatopeias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of onomatopeia
budg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: budges
form: budging
form: budged
form: budged
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of budge.
bridg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bridges
Senses: examples: text: I have read of a man , who being drunk, rode over a narrow bridg ( the firſt and laſt that ever paſt that way , as which in all likelihood lead him to imminent death ) and next morning viewing how he had eſcaped , fell into a ſwound with acting over again the danger of his adventure , in his own apprehenſions.
ref: 1667, William Crompton, A Pastors Farwel to a Beloved Flock, page 173:
glosses: Obsolete form of bridge.
racisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of racism
Gulf War
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Gulf War
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: One of several wars fought at the Persian Gulf in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, principally the one from 1990 to 1991.
dipping needle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dipping needles
Senses: synonyms: inclinatorium
glosses: A magnetic needle suspended at its center of gravity, and moving freely in a vertical plane, so as to indicate on a graduated circle the magnetic dip or inclination.
devachan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devachans
Senses: glosses: The dwelling-place of the gods, according to theosophy.
Related terms: devachanic
cardiogrammes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cardiogramme
phonogrammes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phonogramme
tuckus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tuckuses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tuchus.
neverwozzer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neverwozzers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of never-wozzer.
kitchen dresser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kitchen dressers
Senses: examples: text: And in a trice he has clambered onto the kitchen dresser and is reaching for the top shelf.
ref: 2013, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 22, in The Childhood of Jesus, Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company, page 220:
glosses: A kitchen cabinet.
nineteen to the dozen
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: He was talking nineteen to the dozen; it was almost impossible to follow what he was saying.
glosses: very quickly; rapidly
Synonyms: ten to the dozen
thirteen to the dozen
ten to the dozen
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nineteen to the dozen.
synonyms: word: nineteen to the dozen
yeri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Tamil ஏரி (ēri).
Senses: qualifier: Tamil areas of India
glosses: lake
Tannese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Tannese
form: most Tannese
Etymology: From Tanna + -ese.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or pertaining to the island of Tanna or its people.
Tannese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Tanna + -ese.
Senses: glosses: The natives and inhabitants of the island of Tanna.
Related terms: Tannan
æquipoises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of æquipoise
caleidoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caleidoscopes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kaleidoscope.
Argot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Argots
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant or resident of Argos.
pyorrhœic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pyorrhœa + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pyorrheic.
pyorrhoeic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pyorrhoea + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pyorrheic.
pyorrheic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pyorrhoeic
form: pyorrhœic
Etymology: From pyorrhea + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to pyorrheas; characteristic of pyorrhoea.
onomatopeic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From onomatopeia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of onomatopoeic.
beyearn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /bɪˈjɜː(ɹ)n/
Forms: form: beyearns
form: beyearning
form: beyearned
form: beyearned
Etymology: From be- + yearn.
Senses: examples: text: To thee I came as her kind heart beyearned: [...]
ref: 1948, Dante Alighieri, Patrick Cummins, Dante, theologian: the Divine comedy:
text: [...] and beyearned the crumb of gold he did possess.
ref: 1964, Rainer Maria Rilke, James Blair Leishman, New poems:
glosses: To yearn over or about; yearn for; long for; desire.
pledg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pledges
form: pledgs
Senses: examples: text: At his return, I was afraid (Reverend Father ſaid I) by any queſtion to interrupt you at the firſt ſo ſerious, and at the laſt ſo ſweet diſcourſe, but that your pauſe and heavenly rapture gave me an opportunity to take you up as you were falling or retiring to the pledg (your body) left behind, and to acquaint you that your wholeſome and ſweet Doctrine, together with the harmony of your Diſcipline, has begot an ardent affection in my ſoul towards your ſo happy and concording Church, ſo aſſimilating and ſympohonizing with the Divine Angelical Chorus.
ref: 1681, Theophilus Do-Well, A Conference Between a Bensalian Bishop and an English Doctor, Concerning Church‐Government, page 15:
text: They desired therfore to knowe what assurance we would give for the performance therof parte, and first what pledgs of Noblemen of our Realme would we cause to be entred in England, […]
ref: 1727, James Anderson, Collections Relating to the History of Mary, Queen of Scotland:
glosses: Obsolete form of pledge.
pledg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pledges
form: pledging
form: pledged
form: pledged
Senses: examples: text: If Meekneſs, and Patience, Chaſity and Temperance, the Fear of God and true Religion be uncivil and ungenteel, we will be yet more uncivil and ungenteel ; and I ſhould as ſoon think it rude and clowniſh not to pledg one who drank to me in rank Poiſon, as that it is any want of good Breeding and genteel Carriage, to be wiſer and more ſober than the reſt of the World.
ref: 1726, Benjamin Calamy, Sermons Preached Upon Several Occaſions, page 60:
glosses: Obsolete form of pledge.
forteach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /fɔː(ɹ)ˈtiːt͡ʃ/
/fə(ɹ)ˈtiːt͡ʃ/
Forms: form: forteaches
form: forteaching
form: fortaught
form: fortaught
form: foreteach
Etymology: From for- + teach.
Senses: examples: text: The sacred thinges, and holy heasts foretaught.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 18:
glosses: To unteach; contradict; misteach.
for-than
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of forthan.
freightwagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freightwagons
form: freight wagon
form: freight waggon
form: freight-waggon
form: freightwaggon
Etymology: From freight + wagon. Compare West Frisian frachtwein (“truck, lorry”), Dutch vrachtwagen (“truck, lorry”), German Frachtwagen, Swedish fraktvagn (“cargo truck”).
Senses: examples: text: “Come on, we'd better find out what this ruckus is about,” Jessie said, and they joined the crowd converging on the sheriff's office. In front of the office door was parked a freightwagon, belonging, according to the scrollwork on its high sides, [...]
ref: 1985, Wesley Ellis, Lone Star and the Moon Trail Feud:
text: The freightwagon had already arrived when Lorelei, Angelina and Raul got to the ranch, and it was stuck up to its axels in mud. Raul drew the buckboard up alongside and leaped down. “I put the load inside that old house there!
ref: 2006, Linda Lael Miller, McKettrick's Choice:
text: Saxton rode to where Marcus lay unconscious on a canvas litter stretched across the breadth of a lumbering freightwagon.
ref: 2009, S a Carter, The Dark Side of the Mountain:
text: Old Man Drake brought Charlie's new saddle out on the freightwagon, along with the next load of feed and supplies.
ref: 2011, Lois Lenski, Texas Tomboy:
glosses: Any vehicle, such as a cart, wagon, lorry, truck, or boxcar, used for carrying or transporting goods; a cargo truck.
freightwagons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freightwagon
pseudo-city code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudo-city codes
Etymology: From pseudo- + city code.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: a short alpha-numeric code used by global distribution systems to differentiate between different travel agency offices.
ROH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Ring of Honor: a US media and entertainment company known for professional wrestling.
topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: Initialism of run of house.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of runs of homozygosity.
run of house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: A hotel rate where the hotel agrees to accommodate the guest but does not specify the standard of room until the guest arrives.
Related terms: accommodation on arrival
have the run of
rack rate
czarocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒkɹəsi
Forms: form: czarocracies
Etymology: From czar + -o- + -cracy.
Senses: glosses: A government headed by a czar or a similar autocrat.
glosses: Government consisting of, or characterized by the appointment of officials with substantial autonomy, especially those commonly referred to as "czars" or "tsars".
Derived terms: czarocratic
czarocrat
czarocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more czarocratic
form: most czarocratic
Etymology: From czar + -o- + -cratic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to czarocracy.
glosses: Autocratic.
Derived terms: czarocracy
czarocrat
czarocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of czarocracy
czarocrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: czarocrats
form: tsarocrat
Etymology: From czar + -o- + -crat.
Senses: glosses: A participant in czarocracy or a czarocratic regime.
glosses: A supporter of czarocracy or a czarocratic government.
glosses: An official or bureaucrat with substantial autonomy, especially one referred to as a "czar" or "tsar".
Derived terms: czarocracy
czarocratic
czarocrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of czarocrat
accommodation on arrival
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: Hotel accommodation provided as part of the price of a package holiday, with the passenger not being advised of the hotel's name or location until arrival at the resort.
Related terms: run of house
that's wassup
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: that's whassup
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of that's what's up (“that's true”).
examples: text: (A hostage taker speaking to a child) -- Is it good? -- No doubt. -- It's gonna be okay. -- Cool. -- You'll be home soon. -- That's wassup.
ref: 2006, Inside Man, 00:54:10:
text: "A'ight", Zaire said nonchalantly. "Cool, that's wassup. So I tell you what, I'ma go grab me a burger".
ref: 2011, Ni-Ni Simone, Upgrade U, page 224:
text: “That's wassup, Todd! Nice too meet you mayn'e”. Antonio had no need to elevate his voice. The deep baritone carried itself over the bass line in the back ground.
ref: 2010, Rafael Solece, Street Sinuata, page 109:
glosses: This is excellent; this is cool. Used to express approval
Synonyms: that's what's up
silicon carbides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silicon carbide
Federer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛdəɹɚ/
Senses: glosses: A surname.
crunchings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹʌnt͡ʃɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of crunching
impenetrables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impenetrable
low-bred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more low-bred
form: most low-bred
Senses: examples: text: a lowbred fellow
text: a lowbred remark
glosses: ill-mannered and vulgar; impolite.
Related terms: lowborn
low-born
csar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: csars
Senses: examples: text: In order to testify to the conqueror of Siberia his sense of the importance of the services he had rendered his country, the Csar took off his own pelisse, and placed it upon him, in presence of the whole court.
ref: 1827, The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies, page 330:
glosses: Alternative spelling of tsar.
newsplan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: newsplans
Etymology: From a former trademark, “The Newsplan Discounts for Continuity”, owned by Newspaper Advertising Bureau, Inc. From news + plan.
Senses: topics: journalism
media
newspapers
glosses: A methodology used by newspapers to determine the discounted cost of ad copy.
subpatellar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + patellar.
Senses: examples: subpatellar ligament
glosses: Underneath the patella.
lefull
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lefull
form: most lefull
Etymology: From Middle English lefull (“permissible, allowable”), from lēve (“permission, privilege”), equivalent to leave + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: That thynge is not lefull to be seen / yt is not lefull to be desyred.
ref: c1500, Thomas Betson, A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2005 from 1905 reprint:
text: :Quid saluum esse poterit si licet furari, what can be safe, if thefte bee lefull or tolerated.
ref: 1563, Richard Rainolde, A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike, HTML edition, published 2008:
text: Another book well known to bibliomaniacs ("Dives and Pauper," ed. W. de Worde; 1496) says: "For to represente in playnge at Crystmasse herodes and the thre kynges and other processes of the gospelles both then and at Ester and other tymes also it is lefull and cōmendable."
ref: 1902, William F. Dawson, Christmas: Its Origin and Associations, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2007, page 92:
glosses: permissible, permitted; allowable, allowed
worshipworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more worshipworthy
form: most worshipworthy
Etymology: From worship + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: The wives will be the most worshipworthy personalities for those slaves of lust.
ref: 1995, Chandan Lal Dhody, The Adhyātma Rāmāyaṇa:
text: A worshipworthy being would, in particular, be goodness encapsulated on a grand scale.
ref: 2012, Robert McKim, On Religious Diversity:
glosses: Worthy of worship; worthy or fit to be worshipped; worshipable.
rump and stump
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: stump and rump
Senses: glosses: completely, entire
t'was
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of 'twas.
gouvernour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gouvernours
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of governor.
Threeness
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Middle English *Threnesse, Thrumnesse, Thrimnesse, from Old English þrynnes, þrinness, variants of Old English þrȳnes, þrīnes (“Trinity”), equivalent to three + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: [...] and I might not look at the brightness of His face save through a sheen mirror between me and Him that shields my eyes. So I have often seen the Holy Threeness, Father and Son and Holy Ghost, three in one, and but a little while might I bear the light.
ref: 1949, Margaret Anne Williams, Glee-wood:
text: I'm not sure why God needs three forms — Father, Son, Holy Spirit. I don't know why we just can't say God. ... Jon went on for a while talking about the Trinity, the "Threeness and Oneness." It didn't sound as if he was convinced, though.
ref: 2001, Brian Payton, Hail Mary Corner, Dundurn:
text: Therefore concern yourselves, you philosophers: how God has created this world in six days. For the work of each day is a creation of a spirit in the Holy Threeness, and the seventh day is the rest of the Sabbath of God, in the seventh [...]
ref: 2010, Jeff Bachl, translated by Michael L. Birkel, Genius of the Transcendent: Mystical Writings of Jakob Boehme, Shambhala, translation of original by Jakob Boehme:
topics: Christianity
glosses: In Christian belief, the three persons (personae) of the Godhead: Father, Son and Holy Spirit; Trinity.
Related terms: triune
creatours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creatour
guvnah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guvnahs
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of governor.
guvnuh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guvnuhs
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of governor.
shuddap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of shut up.
dominatour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dominatours
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of dominator.
undertowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undertow
dominatours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dominatour
souldiour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: souldiours
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of soldier.
souldiours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of souldiour
beersicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beersicles
Etymology: From beer + -sicle.
Senses: examples: text: I called it Erb's Beersicle. My results were disappointing but might be improved through research processing.
ref: 1968, Russell C. Erb, The common scents of smell:
text: "[…] The only time I get cold beer is when I leave the shit in the snow, and then it freezes and I end up with a beersicle, and I have to wait until it thaws out before I can drink it."
ref: 2006, Walter B. Palmer, Jr., Native Soil:
glosses: Frozen beer.
dog soldier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog soldiers
Senses: glosses: Any of the members of a Cheyenne Indian military society in the mid 19th century.
Related terms: dog rope
examin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: examins
form: examining
form: examined
form: examined
Senses: examples: text: It is lawful to examin what is the eſſential nature of God. It is lawful to look into what God wil do, that we may ſee his attributes ſhining forth in them : But to examin the truth of what he hath promiſed, by that which is eſſential and natural unto God, is for a man to go out of the way that is ſaving.
ref: 1658, Sidrach Simpson, Two Books of Mr Syndrach Simpson, page 202:
glosses: Obsolete form of examine.
examins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of examin
alledg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: alledges
form: alledging
form: alledged
form: alledged
Senses: examples: text: He ſpoke theſe words with such an action, that ſuch a tone, as made all that were preſent know, they came from the bottom of his heart; and having taken a little reſt, at the entreaty of his friends, he ſuffered himſelf to be ſpoken to, and gave them leave to alledg all thoſe reaſons that could bring him any conſolation.
ref: 1667, Charles Cotternell, Cassandra, page 104:
glosses: Obsolete form of allege.
adjudg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: adjudges
form: adjudging
form: adjudged
form: adjudged
Senses: examples: text: Gods deſign in giving us the Scripture was to make us as happy as our nature is capable of being ; and the Scripture is excellently adapted to this end : for as to our eternal felicity , all that believe there is any ſuch ſtate , muſt acknowledg the Scripture chalks us out the ready way to it : not only becauſe ’tis dictated by God who infallibly knows it , but alſo by its preſcribing thoſe things which are in themſelves beſt ; and which a ſober Heathen would adjudg fitteſt to be rewarded.
ref: 1677, Richard Allestree, The Art of Contentment, page 120:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of adjudge.
tonneau cover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tonneau covers
form: tonneau
Senses: examples: text: A hard, locking tonneau cover, which fits over the bed, is an option.
ref: 2000 May 7, Dan Lienert, “Behind the Wheel: Ford Explorer Sport Trac”, in New York Times, retrieved 12 Jul 2012:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
synonyms: bedcover
glosses: A protective covering which may be secured over the exposed portion of a motor vehicle, such as the seating area of an open sports car or the back of a pickup truck.
misspeller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misspellers
Etymology: From misspell + -er.
Senses: examples: text: We treat a misspelled word like a crime and penalize the misspeller severely; many teachers talk of making children develop a “spelling conscience,” and fail otherwise excellent papers because of a few spelling mistakes.
ref: 2005, John Holt, The Underachieving School, page 63:
text: One of the reasons that dialect verse was automatically taken as humorous was the success of the great misspellers.
ref: 2014, Eric L. Haralson, Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, page 364:
glosses: One who spells incorrectly.
misspellers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misspeller
top-hole
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more top-hole
form: most top-hole
form: top hole
Senses: examples: text: "I say, this is a top-hole omelette," said Ronnie.
ref: 1914, H. H. Munro, chapter 5, in When William Came:
text: "But Carol's different—she's square, she is; she's just top-hole—if you know what I mean—she's the finest ever," finished Miss Sartoris.
ref: 1916, Kathleen Norris, chapter 1, in The Heart of Rachael:
text: "My word, old chap, that is top-hole tennis," said the Englishman, warmly congratulating him.
ref: 1921, Ralph Connor, chapter 1, in To Him That Hath:
text: He was top-hole in his line, he would soon put it right.
ref: 1927, chapter 6, in Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter, transl., The Magic Mountain, translation of Der Zauberberg by Thomas Mann, page 528:
text: ‘Out at Randolph Park, near the outstanding El Con Marriott,’ C.T. inserts, ‘a venue the whole contingent’s been vocal about finding absolutely top-hole thus far, which —’
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 4:
glosses: Of very high quality, tip-top.
Synonyms: first rate
superb
top drawer
top-notch
topping
top hole
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more top hole
form: most top hole
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of top-hole.
'ullo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌ.ləʊ/
Senses: examples: text: At that moment Freddie Jones rolled up with two overloaded plates of Pavlova. ‘’ullo my darlings; brought you some sweet.’
ref: 1988, Jilly Cooper, chapter 11, in Rivals, London: Bantam Press, →ISBN, page 106:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of hullo.
respeller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: respellers
Etymology: From respell + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who spells something again or differently.
respellers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of respeller
collour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collours
Senses: examples: text: Aman may ſee without light or collour, hear without ear or ſound, as poſibly as beleeeve without the Word of God.
ref: 1657, John Ball, A Treatise of Faith, page 13:
glosses: Obsolete form of color.
collour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: collours
form: collouring
form: colloured
form: colloured
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of color.
concolourous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of concolorous.
bicolourous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of bicolorous.
chastushka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chastushkas
form: chastushki
form: chastushky
Etymology: From Russian часту́шка (častúška).
Senses: glosses: A type of traditional Russian satirical or ironic folk poetry in quatrains.
discolourous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more discolourous
form: most discolourous
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of discolorous.
chastushkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chastushka
albuminates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of albuminate
angström
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angströms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of angstrom.
groop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: groops
form: grupe
form: groap
form: grube
Etymology: From Middle English grope, grupe, groupe, from Old English grōp (“ditch”), from Proto-West Germanic *grōpu, from Proto-Germanic *grōpō (“furrow, ditch, trench”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreb-, *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, furrow, scratch”). Cognate with Scots gruip (“gutter, drain, ditch, trench”), North Frisian groop (“pit”), Dutch groep (“a trench, moat”), Swedish grop (“a pit, ditch, hole, hollow”), Old English grēp, grēpe (“land-drain, ditch; furrow; burrow; privy”). More at grip, groove.
Senses: glosses: A trench or small ditch.
examples: text: The groop is one foot six inches wide, six and one-half inches deep at one end … to carry off the urine into a reservoir under the Cowhouse, …
ref: 1816, James Cleland, Annals of Glasgow, Digitized edition, published 2007, page 373:
text: Cleaning the byre involved barrowing out the contents of the groop, sluicing it down and rebedding it with clean straw.
ref: 2008, Dennis O'Driscoll, Seamus Heaney, Stepping stones:
glosses: A trench or drain; particularly, a trench or hollow behind the stalls of cows or horses for receiving their dung and urine.
glosses: A pen for cattle; a byre.
groop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: groops
form: grooping
form: grooped
form: grooped
form: grupe
form: groap
form: grube
Etymology: From Middle English grope, grupe, groupe, from Old English grōp (“ditch”), from Proto-West Germanic *grōpu, from Proto-Germanic *grōpō (“furrow, ditch, trench”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreb-, *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, furrow, scratch”). Cognate with Scots gruip (“gutter, drain, ditch, trench”), North Frisian groop (“pit”), Dutch groep (“a trench, moat”), Swedish grop (“a pit, ditch, hole, hollow”), Old English grēp, grēpe (“land-drain, ditch; furrow; burrow; privy”). More at grip, groove.
Senses: glosses: To make a channel or groove; to form grooves.
groop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: groops
Etymology: Alteration of group. More at group.
Senses: examples: text: Revival of Fine Literature — Swiss groop of Poets ...
ref: 1828, William Taylor, Historic Survey of German Poetry, Digitized edition (Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel Jun. and Richter), published 2007, page 179:
text: … and laid his Hickory and hat down afore him, and all our folks began to nock noses in little groops here and there;
ref: 1834, Charles Augustus Davis, Letters of J. Downing, Major, Harper & Brothers, page 158:
text: Delete one point x and consider as new groops the point sets B\{x} where B is any block of D containing x.
ref: 1985, Thomas Beth, Dieter Jungnickel, Hanfried Lenz, Design Theory, Digitized edition (Mathematics), Bibliographisches Institut, published 2010, →ISBN, page 560:
text: A groop divisible design on v points with groop size g and block size k is called a t-GD[k,g,;v] if every subset of t distinct points that contains no two points from the same groop is contained in exactly one block.
ref: 2004, Dept. of Combinatorics and Optimization, Ars Combinatoria, Volumes 72-73 (Mathematics), University of Waterloo, page 90:
glosses: Obsolete form of group.
groop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: groops
form: grooping
form: grooped
form: grooped
Etymology: Alteration of group. More at group.
Senses: examples: text: Grooped around the fires on which they were preparing their provisions, …
ref: 1829, The Battle of Navarino: Or the Renegade, Digitized edition, published 2010, page 40:
glosses: Obsolete form of group.