cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
neo-Templarism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neo-Templarisms
form: Templarism
Etymology: From neo-Templar + -ism or neo- + Templarism. Borrowed from the French néo-templarisme.
Senses: glosses: The beliefs or grouping of Knights Templar revival movements, either claiming to be direct successors of the original order or to have revived them.
Related terms: new religious movement
neo-Templarisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neo-Templarism
hyperoodontine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperoodontines
Senses: glosses: Any of the beaked whales of the subfamily Hyperoodontinae, including the bottlenose whales, mesoplodont whales, and several extinct genera.
hyperoodontine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Hyperoodontinae.
ziphiine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ziphiines
Senses: glosses: Any of the beaked whales of the subfamily Ziphiinae, including the extant Shepherd's beaked whale (Tasmacetus shepherdi), Cuvier's beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris), and other extinct species.
ziphiine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Ziphiinae.
cap-flap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cap-flaps
Senses: examples: text: Also, it occurred to her that the coat-collar and the cap-flaps hid more of him than ever.
ref: 1903 May 11, The Wellington Times, NSW, page 4, column 3:
text: Hamre's ears, muffled by the cap-flaps and ear-phones, soon got used to the noise. He leaned his face over the fuselage[.]
ref: 1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 101:
glosses: One of the earflaps of a cap.
cap-flaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cap-flap
negatrip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: negatrips
Etymology: Blend of negative + trip, equivalent to nega- + trip. Compare negawatt.
Senses: examples: text: By creating markets in negamiles and negatrips, society could discover what it's worth to pay people to stay off the roads[…]
ref: 1999, Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism: The Next Industrial Revolution, page 281:
glosses: A car trip not taken.
negatrips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of negatrip
Kannauj
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kanauj
form: Kannoj
form: Cannodge
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ken-der.
Sanskrit कन्य (kanya)
Sanskrit कुब्ज (kubja)
Sanskrit कन्यकुब्ज (kanyakubja)
Prakrit 𑀓𑀡𑁆𑀡𑀉𑀚𑁆𑀚 (kaṇṇaüjja)
Hindi कन्नौज (kannauj)bor.
English Kannauj
Borrowed from Hindi कन्नौज (kannauj).
Senses: glosses: A city and district of Kanpur division, Uttar Pradesh, India.
glosses: A historical region of Uttar Pradesh, India.
shadow-throwing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Several tribesmen gave and exhibition of shadow-throwing - imitating an emu hunt, the stalking of a kangaroo, then the quick action of a savage fight[.]
ref: 1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 2191:
text: During the evening a lengthy programme of orchestral items, songs, recitations, "shadow throwing," and feats of magic were performed by a talented company of artists[.]
ref: 1938 September 17, The Border Watch, Mount Gambier, page 3, column 4:
glosses: The art or practice of creating images with the body on a wall or other surface using the shadows cast from a fire or other source of light.
non-auriferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + auriferous.
Senses: examples: text: The geologists to the expedition, however, so far as I am aware, report the country as being distinctly unpromising and definitely non-auriferous.
ref: 1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 231:
glosses: Not gold-bearing.
Boketu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: bôʹkǔʹto͞oʹ
Forms: form: Pokotu
form: Pok'ot'u
Etymology: From Mandarin 博克圖 /博克图.
Senses: glosses: A town in Yakeshi, Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.
kenasai
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: head_nr: 2
glosses: Alternative form of kena sai.
Mickleover
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Middle English Mycheloure, from Old English miċel (“great”) + ōfer (“ridge”). Recorded as Ufram Majorem in 1087 from Old English ōfer + Latin maior (“great”), and as Magna Oura in 1223 from Latin magnus (“large”) + Old English ōfer.
Senses: glosses: A large suburban village and ward on the west side of the City of Derby, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3034).
Related terms: Littleover
spit-roaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spit-roasters
form: spit roaster
form: spitroaster
Etymology: From spit-roast + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Most modern spit-roasters have attachments for kebab skewers, and this is the best way of cooking these delicious foods.
ref: 1972, Bee Nilson, “Spit-Roasting”, in Fondue, Flambé and Side Table Cooking, New York, N.Y.: Hippocrene Books, Inc, →ISBN, page 144:
text: The spit rods for some spit-roasters have holes drilled into them every 6 inches or so. […] Some spit-roasters have skewers that mount onto the spit from the pointed end of the rod only. If that’s the case with your spit-roaster, slide the rear skewer onto the rod before you push the rod through the lamb.
ref: 2007, Andrew Schloss, David Joachim, “Mastering the Big Kahuna and Other Incredible Grill Projects”, in Mastering the Grill: The Owner’s Manual for Outdoor Cooking, San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, →ISBN, part II (The Grillmaster’s Recipes), page 244, column 1:
text: On the other side of the courtyard, big arches opened into the kitchens. There were two kitchens: One, with ovens and spit-roasters visible, was given over primarily to meat.
ref: 2010, Barbara D’Amato, chapter 56, in Other Eyes, New York, N.Y.: Forge, published January 2011, →ISBN, page 348:
glosses: An appliance for spit-roasting.
examples: text: The nobles’ servants were allowed to choose their birds first, then the bourgeois, and at 10 or 11 o’clock, according to the season, a bell was rung and the spit-roasters could buy their supplies.
ref: 1966, Ninette Lyon, translated by Peggie Benton, “Generalities”, in Chicken and Game, London: Faber and Faber for The Cookery Book Club, page 18:
text: There was an air of festivity everywhere, and it was obvious that nothing else in their lives could give the ordinary citizens of Glevum so much delight as […] eating and drinking the appetizing wares of the stall holders—pie-makers, bakers, spit-roasters and brewers—who appeared to be selling food everywhere and were being paid in the small Roman-minted copper coins called ases, […]
ref: 2000, Jack Whyte, Uther (A Dream of Eagles; 7), Toronto, Ont.: Penguin Canada, published 2006, →ISBN, pages 238–239:
text: Some spit-roasters like to leave the legs dangling, but the spit needs to be quite high off the heat to do this successfully.
ref: 2012 April, Benjamin Bartlett, “Preparing the pig”, in “Going the whole hog”, in BBQ Owners’ Grilling Manual: The Whole Hog (All Techniques, Equipment and Recipes): A Guide to Cooking with Grills, Chimeneas, Brick Ovens and Spits (Haynes Manual), Sparkford, Somerset: Haynes Publishing, →ISBN, page 99, column 2:
glosses: One who spit-roasts.
spit-roasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spit-roaster
spit roaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spit roasters
Senses: examples: text: Stretch the front feet out in front of the pig and use the leg braces that came with your spit roaster or wire them to the spit so that they are pulled out in front of the carcass and not hanging down.
ref: 2013, Tom Rea, “How to Spit Roast a Pig”, in “Roasting a Whole Hog”, in How to Roast a Pig: From Oven-Roasted Tenderloin to Slow-Roasted Pulled Pork Shoulder to the Spit-Roasted Whole Hog, Beverly, Mass.: Quarry Books, →ISBN, page 126, column 2:
text: From the kitchen window, the kitten crouching at her side, Madge watched as spit roasters assembled, trestles trundled and box upon box of glasses were stacked behind the bar.
ref: 2014, Marion Steed, chapter 4, in Rough Places, →ISBN, page 57:
text: Spit roasters come in two styles, horizontal or vertical. They can be either gas or solid fuel.
ref: 2016, Jeremy Schmid, “Cooking Equipment and Techniques”, in Outdoors: Simple Delicious Food for Barbecues, Spits and Open Fires, Auckland: New Holland Publishers, →ISBN, page 11, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of spit-roaster.
spit roasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spit roaster
spitroaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spitroasters
Senses: examples: text: 95/00150 in class 11: Hair dryers; electric space heaters; room fans; electric apparatus for cooking foods; ovens, rotisseries, spitroasters, meat broilers, toasters, waffle bakers, deep fat fryers, cooking stoves, plate warmers, baby bottle warmers, electric pans, electric saucepans, egg cookers, electric coffee makers, electric kettles and jugs; electric water heaters; parts and fittings for all the aforesaid goods; all being electrical; and all included in this class; in the name of MOULINEX SWAN HOLDINGS LIMITED, […]
ref: 1997 May, Patent Journal, Including Trade Marks, Designs, and Copyright in Cinematograph Films, volume 30, South Africa Patent Designs, Trade Marks, and Copyright Office, page 93, column 1:
text: COQUILLE À RÔTIR An old cooking utensil resembling a round box, made of cast iron or thick terracotta. This was filled with charcoal and used to roast meat and chicken on the spit, making it the ancestor of the modern spitroaster.
ref: 2001, with the assistance of the Gastronomic Committee, President Joël Robuchon, Larousse Gastronomique: The World’s Greatest Culinary Encyclopedia, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Clarkson Potter, →ISBN, page 340, column 1:
text: However, he was not fired, merely sent to work in the kitchen, to a place of work which also had something to do with fire, but was decidedly less perilous to other people if it should come to an anticipated mishap. He was appointed to be ‘spitroaster’, assigned to turn the skewer of meats over the open fire, always in view of the many chefs and kitchen assistants, to ensure that disaster was avoided.
ref: 2012, Martina Winkelhofer, translated by Jeffrey McCabe, “Life and Work at Court”, in The Everyday Life of the Emperor: Francis Joseph and his Imperial Court, Innsbruck, Tyrol: Haymon Verlag, →ISBN:
text: Send Franklin to the “P?” in the parking lot ① of the Spitroasters Meathouse restaurant on Eclipse Boulevard.
ref: 2014, Tim Bogenn, Rick Barba, “Beverly”, in “Strangers and Freaks”, in Grand Theft Auto V Signature Series Guide, Indianapolis, Ind.: DK/BradyGames, →ISBN, page 243:
glosses: Alternative form of spit-roaster.
spitroasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spitroaster
coal town
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coal towns
Senses: glosses: A company town built by a mining company to house workers at a coal mine. These are usually unincorporated communities.
coal towns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coal town
spit-roast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spit-roasts
form: spit-roasting
form: spit-roasted
form: spit-roasted
form: spit roast
form: spitroast
Senses: examples: text: Even the men participated when we spit-roasted a whole lamb for Greek Easter in the American-Greek couple’s backyard.
ref: 1999, Betty Fussell, “Hot Grills”, in My Kitchen Wars, New York, N.Y.: North Point Press, →ISBN, page 127:
text: Last summer we spit-roasted a baby lamb (slaughtered the day before) over a birch fire at our camp in the Rangeley Lake region of Maine.
ref: 2010, Mariana de Saint Phalle, “Letter #5: Late Summer, 1984”, in Mimi Allen, editor, Mariana’s Letters: Writings & Recipes, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 53:
text: That first night we spit-roasted a goat over wood we burned to embers.
ref: 2015 May, Chris Fischer with Catherine Young, “High Summer”, in The Beetlebung Farm Cookbook: A Year of Cooking on Martha’s Vineyard, New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, pages 225–226:
glosses: To roast (meat) on a spit (“metal or wooden rod”).
topics: lifestyle
sex
sexuality
glosses: To engage in the sexual practice wherein two people penetrate a single sexual partner at the same time, one orally and the other vaginally or anally.
Derived terms: spit-roaster
spit-roasting
Related terms: word: spit roast
spit-roasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spit-roast
spit-roasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spit-roastings
Senses: topics: lifestyle
sex
sexuality
glosses: The sexual practice in which two people penetrate a single sexual partner at the same time, one orally and the other vaginally or anally.
spit-roasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spit-roast
spit-roasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spit-roast
Ghiljis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ghilji
Hotak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hotaks
form: Hotak
Etymology: From Pashto هوتک.
Senses: synonyms: Hotaki
glosses: A member of a subtribe of the Ghiljis.
Hotak
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hotak
form: most Hotak
Etymology: From Pashto هوتک.
Senses: synonyms: Hotaki
glosses: Of or relating to the Hotaks.
Hotaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hotak
Hotaki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hotakis
form: Hotaki
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Hotak.
synonyms: word: Hotak
Hotaki
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hotaki
form: most Hotaki
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Hotak.
synonyms: word: Hotak
Hotakis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hotaki
Marnham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A civil parish (served by Normanton on Trent and Marnham Parish Council) in Bassetlaw district, Nottinghamshire, England.
Derived terms: High Marnham
Low Marnham
Andermas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Andrewmas.
northish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more northish
form: most northish
Etymology: From north + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Approximately to the north.
northish
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more northish
form: most northish
Etymology: From north + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Approximately to the north.
southish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more southish
form: most southish
Etymology: From south + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Approximately to the south.
southish
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more southish
form: most southish
Etymology: From south + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Approximately to the south.
westish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more westish
form: most westish
Etymology: From west + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Approximately to the west.
westish
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more westish
form: most westish
Etymology: From west + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Approximately to the west.
eastish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eastish
form: most eastish
Etymology: From east + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Approximately to the east.
eastish
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more eastish
form: most eastish
Etymology: From east + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Approximately to the east.
nonrealizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + realizable.
Senses: glosses: Not realizable.
examples: text: The term repetition, as applied tp an event of nature, is clearly ideal and nonrealizable in any concrete case, like the term equality and the term circle. No two concrete objects in nature ever ideally equal in every respect.
ref: 1883, Science, volume 120, American Association for the Advancement of Science:
text: This method appears promissing for on-line identification, and it appears to be emminently satisfactory for off-line use, where physically nonrealizable filter characteristics can be simulated to permit identification rates which approach the maximum.
ref: 1971 June 26, James L Melsa, System Identification, Academic Press, page 31:
text: It should be clear that the parallel structure makes the function nonrealizable, since it is not possible to pass a plane through an n-cube which will dichotomize the function.
ref: 2013 October 22, Julius T. Tou, Applied Automata Theory, Academic Press, page 297:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: That cannot be constructed or represented within a specific mathematical framework or system.
has butterflies in one's stomach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of have butterflies in one's stomach
having butterflies in one's stomach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of have butterflies in one's stomach
had butterflies in one's stomach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of have butterflies in one's stomach
HUR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Ukrainian ГУР (HUR).
Senses: examples: text: As a result of an operation by the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense, known as HUR, in Kursk Oblast of Russia, a truck with Russian drones was destroyed, a source familiar with the matter told Ukrinform.
ref: 2024 November 29th, Olena Mukhina, “HUR operation destroys Russian truck with drones in Kursk Oblast”, in Euromaidan Press:
synonyms: HUR MOU
GUR
GUR MOU
glosses: The Main Directorate of Intelligence [of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine].
soppings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sopping
dental ape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dental apes
Senses: glosses: A dryopithecine (†Dryopithecus).
dental apes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dental ape
djeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of djed
horizontal gene transfers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horizontal gene transfer
laminapophyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laminapophysis
Indonesian speckled carpetshark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Indonesian speckled carpetsharks
Etymology: From Indonesian + speckled + carpetshark.
Senses: glosses: A species of bamboo shark; Hemiscyllium freycineti.
gingerbread nut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gingerbread nuts
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gingersnap.
synonyms: word: gingersnap
gingerbread nuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gingerbread nut
pararthra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pararthrum
pleurocentral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the pleurocentrum.
gingerbread trap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gingerbread traps
Senses: glosses: A selection of gingerbread cakes or biscuits laid out to attract customers.
wood spurge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named for its natural habitat, the undergrowth of woods and forests.
Senses: examples: text: The English wood Spurge, hath diverse tough woody brownish red branches, two foote high or more, bare or naked of leaves, for a space next to the roote, and afterwards set up to the toppes, with many narrow and long leaves, yet broader than those of the Sea Spurge, and nothing so large as the next, somewhat smooth in handling, and without any dentes about the edges, turning reddish in the spring, and more in the sommer time: […]
ref: 1640, John Parkinson, Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants : Or, An Herball of Large Extent: Containing Therein a More Ample and Exact History and Declaration of the Physicall Herbs and Plants ... Distributed Into Sundry Classes Or Tribes, for the More Easie Knowledge of the Many Herbes of One Nature and Property ..., page 186:
text: The Wood Spurge, seen so frequently during our country rambles, suggests by its spreading aspect a clever juggler balancing on his upturned chin a widely-branched series of delicate green saucers on fragile stems, which ramify below from a single rod.
ref: 1897, William Thomas Fernie, Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure, page 532:
text: We filmed our wild wood spurge, Euphorbia amygdaloides, on a big grassy verge alongside the road by the River Mole.
ref: 2013 February 28, Carol Klein, Wild Flowers: Nature's own to garden grown, Random House, →ISBN, page 40:
glosses: An erect, perennial spurge, native to Europe and the Caucasus, of species Euphorbia amygdaloides.
Hypernyms: spurge
euphorbia
malvid
fabid
rosid
eudicot
angiosperm
tracheophyte
plant
gingerbread traps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gingerbread trap
Plio-Pleistocene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Plio-Pleistocene
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An informally defined period that combines the time ranges of the Pliocene and Pleistocene.
woodspurge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wood spurge.
quadrumanual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: quadrumane
quadrumanual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadrumanuals
Senses: glosses: quadrumane
quadrumanuals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadrumanual
gingerbread work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The carved or gilded decorations on a ship.
topics: architecture
glosses: The elaborate details on a building.
forfid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forfeda
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of additional letters of the Ogham alphabet, beyond the basic inventory of twenty signs.
forfeda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forfid
dancing mania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dancing manias
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tarantism.
synonyms: word: tarantism
poor man's manure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Snow (seen as a means of delivering airborne nitrogen to the soil).
ombrology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Hints for an Essay on Anemology and Ombrology, founded partly on admitted Principles, and partly on Observations and Discoveries, recently made, on the Influence of the Planet Jupiter and its Satellites on our Atmosphere; with a Weather Almanack for 1841. By Peter Leigh, Esq., A.M., Author of "The Music of the Eye."
ref: 1841, The Gardener's Magazine, and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement, page 87:
text: Combined and digested, these observations give us a very intelligible view of the fall of rain that occurs over the island. Yet further multiplied and continued for a series of years, they would reduce our knowledge of the ombrology of the country to the state of definite scientific information.
ref: 1881, The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, volume 153, page 446:
text: "[…] We're so huge a field we even contain a branch of knowledge called 'ombrology' that studies rain." […] "Ombrology?" Josh asked, stressing the syllable 'om.' "Shouldn't the field be called umbrellogy?"
ref: 2013, Dennis Ford, Things Don't Add Up: A Novel of Kennedy Assassination Research, page 100:
glosses: The study of rainfall.
Swinbank
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
brookable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brookable
form: most brookable
Etymology: From brook + -able.
Senses: examples: text: He saw every feature, and every line of the face, distinctly, as it gazed on him with an intensity that was hardly brookable.
ref: 1824, [James Hogg], “The Editor’s Narrative”, in The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: […], London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, […], page 62:
text: I am maimed. I am dumfoundered ever sin I engaged mysel to Keatie M,Cheyne. Had I been married—downrightly married it had been brookable; but here I am like a dog tied to a kirn that maunna taste the cream for days an’ months an’ years.
ref: 1826, James Hogg, “A Pastoral Love Scene”, in Thomas C[harles] Richardson, editor, Contributions to Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (The Collected Works of James Hogg; 23), volume 1 (1817–1828), Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, published 2008, →ISBN, January–December 1826 (Volumes 19–20); scene 2, page 196:
text: Burns was naturally flattered by this attention, as appears both from his very clever dedication and letters; for though he was jealous of the great to an extent that was scarcely brookable, and shunned pecuniary obligations to any of them as much as he would have shunned adders in his path, yet, from the whole of his correspondence, it appears that the countenance of the great was highly agreeable to him.
ref: [1832], [James Hogg], “Period of His Residence at Mossgiel”, in “Memoir of Burns”, in the Ettrick Shepherd [pseudonym; James Hogg], William Motherwell, editors, The Works of Robert Burns, volume V, Glasgow: Archibald Fullarton, and Co. […], published 1836, page 64:
text: But, if ye winna misbelieve me, I can tell ye, that if ye hadna come to Trystingtown the night, some o’ us wad hae been at Greensheiling the morn, if the day had been brookable.
ref: 1835, James Telfer, chapter XI, in Barbara Gray, or The Widow’s Daughter: A Narrative of Humble Life, Newcastle upon Tyne: […] J[ohn] Blackwell & Co. and sold by E[merson] Charnley, […], page 171:
text: Half a year of this had so far exhausted her wonderful patience that she had determined to forego all the other advantages of this otherwise easy service, and rather again endure the severe daily labour of a farmer’s kitchen. But on a hint of this the idea was not brookable to the old people. They consulted their heir-apparent, as well as some other friends, who proposed the settlement of some annuity in her favour if she would at once condescend on living with them for life.
ref: 1881, John Younger, chapter XXII, in Autobiography of John Younger, Shoemaker, St. Boswells, […], Kelso, Scottish Borders: J[ohn] & J[ames] H[ogarth] Rutherfurd, […]; Edinburgh; Glasgow: John Menzies & Co., pages 264–265:
glosses: That may be brooked; bearable, endurable, tolerable.
Related terms: unbrookable
tinmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tinmakers
Etymology: From tin + maker.
Senses: glosses: A tin manufacturer.
tinmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tinmaker
gossiphood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gossip + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: XV. Where Challenge may be for affinity to the party or to bis kinſman , or alley of the party, and how it may be pleaded, and ſor Goſſiphood.
ref: 1657, William Hughes, “Challenge”, in Nomotomia, in two parts, London: […] T. R. for H. Twyford; T. Dring; J. Place, page 225:
text: The gossiphood is the only guarantee of any connexion with the later märchen.
ref: 1883, Jacob Grimm, “Death” (chapter XXVII), in James Steven Stallybrass, transl., Teutonic Mythology, volume II, London: George Bell & Sons, page 854:
text: […] whereat the Bergomask fell into a mad fit of jealousy and forbade Zanina to call the soldier gossip or to speak with him ; insomuch that he would have had her break her sacred bond of gossiphood.
ref: 1890, Matteo Bandello, “The One-and-Thirtieth Story. […]”, in John Payne, transl., The novels of Matteo Bandello Bishop of Agen, volume 2, London: […] Villon Society, page 164:
text: These are that once fellow-feeling is recognized, its scope will tend to expand as more and more affinities are discovered, here for example those of neighborhood, gossiphood, etc.;
ref: 1986, Jonathan Crewe, “Sympathy” (chapter 2), in Hidden Designs: The critical profession and Renaissance literature, Methuen, page 59:
glosses: Relationship by baptismal rites; spiritual affinity or parentage; sponsorship.
examples: text: […] while my Lord Storford had already approved himself too staunch a knight, too honourable a gentleman, and too graceful a courtier, for much surprise to await the Lady Mildred's second choice, either in the prattling gossiphood of the shire of Gloucester, or the more solemn discussions of the antechambers of Westminster.
ref: 1838, Catherine Gore, “The Champion”, in Mary Raymond, and Other Tales, volume II, London: Henry Colburn, page 282:
text: […] for Dr. May had such a great inclination to scramble up the ladder after them, that she, thinking it a dangerous experiment for so helpless an arm, was obliged to assure him that it would create a sensation among the gossiphood of Stoneborough, if their physician were seen disporting himself on the top of the house.
ref: 1856, Charlotte Mary Yonge, chapter XI, in The Daisy Chain; or, Aspirations, London: John W. Parker and Son, pages 459-460:
text: She could not help what she inherited, of name or nature, and evidently she was a " born gossip ; " and of perfect gossiphood malice is undoubtedly a large element; but notwithstanding the undeniable entail of Mallis proper in her family, she seemed in her heredity to have received but this other complement of the gossip character, the newsiness and relish for small knowledge, particularly the first sharp guess at anything, with also a certain shrewdness and brightness that can make the guess supply unfinished links, and put the whole with cleverness, and which cannot resist a keen venture or a capital joke.
ref: 1886, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, “They Say” (chapter XXVI), in Bonnyborough, Boston; New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, page 248:
glosses: Gossip; idle talk.
Synonyms: gossipred
recurreth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recur
Pinta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island in Ecuador, one of the Galapagos Islands.
categorisability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being categorisable
burunduk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burunduks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Siberian chipmunk.
synonyms: word: Siberian chipmunk
Related terms: Burunduki
burunduks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burunduk
decompartmentalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decompartmentalisations
Etymology: From de- + compartmentalisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of decompartmentalization.
decompartmentalisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decompartmentalisation
debaptise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: debaptises
form: debaptising
form: debaptised
form: debaptised
Etymology: From de- + baptise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of debaptize.
kadiluk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kadiluks
Senses: glosses: The jurisdiction of a qadi.
debaptises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of debaptise
kadiluks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kadiluk
debaptising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of debaptise
Karabaghs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Karabagh
debaptised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of debaptise
waterglasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waterglass
kalderimi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kalderimis
Senses: glosses: In the former Ottoman countries, a cobblestone road built for hoofed animals.
kalderimis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kalderimi
keleks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kelek
agaluk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agaluks
Senses: glosses: A feudal unit of the Ottoman Empire governed by an agha.
agaluks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agaluk
devshirmeh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of devshirme.
chelengk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chelengks
Senses: glosses: A military decoration of the Ottoman Empire, a jewelled aigrette consisting of a central flower with leaves and buds, and upward-facing rays.
chelengks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chelengk
Annazid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Annazids
Senses: glosses: A member of a Kurdish Sunni Muslim dynasty that once ruled parts of the present-day frontier between Iran and Iraq.
Annazids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Annazid
self-ascribed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + ascribed.
Senses: examples: text: As LGBTQ and ally-identified students matriculate to the workforce, many will come with an understanding of the importance of honoring personal pronouns and allowing for gender-inclusive pronouns such as "they, them, theirs." Some may even have an expectation that the company has adopted a pronoun policy or other protocol for disclosing one's self-ascribed pronoun.
ref: 2024 November 30 (last accessed), “Talking About Pronouns in the Workplace”, in HRC Foundation, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2024:
glosses: Attributed or assigned to oneself.
raw_tags: of a descriptor or characteristic
dendeng
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Thinly sliced dried meat in Indonesian cuisine, preserved with a mixture of sugar and spices.
carpetshark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carpetsharks
Etymology: From carpet + shark.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of carpet shark.
drunken chicken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Any of various Asian dishes of chicken cooked with alcoholic beverages.
Dumpling Festival
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the tradition of consuming zongzi during the holiday.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Dragon Boat Festival.
synonyms: word: Dragon Boat Festival
carpetsharks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carpetshark
Indonesian speckled carpetsharks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Indonesian speckled carpetshark
fa cai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fat choy.
Hainanese pork chop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hainanese pork chops
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A Singaporean dish consisting of a fried breaded pork chop in a tomato-based sauce.
Chinese helicopters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chinese helicopter
protestards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protestard
hoisin sauces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoisin sauce
hoi sin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hoisin.
hoi sin sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoi sin sauces
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hoisin sauce.
shahe fen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hor fun.
synonyms: word: hor fun
ice ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice balls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of iceball.
kurbans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kurban
loh kai yik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A traditional Chinese dish of braised meats in a sauce.
coalescencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coalescency
char kuey teow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of char kway teow.
lup cheong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lap cheong.
mee siam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: An Asian dish of thin rice vermicelli with hot, sweet and sour flavours, originating in Penang.
change parade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: change parades
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A form of punishment in which recruits are tasked with performing physical exercises, changing clothes, etc. under strict time limits.
change parades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of change parade
stagese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stage + -ese. First attested in 1882.
Senses: glosses: The style of language used in the dialogue of dramatic performances or plays.
mediagraphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mediagraphies
Etymology: From media + -graphy.
Senses: coordinate_terms: discography
softography
videography
glosses: A list of media productions.
mediagraphies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mediagraphy
televisionese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From television + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: This is illustrated in the new televisionese term “info-tainment,” which refers to superimposing an entertainment framework on traditional information or news media.
ref: 2019, David Altheide, Media Worlds in the Postjournalism Era:
glosses: The jargon associated with the television industry.
provulge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: provulges
form: provulging
form: provulged
form: provulged
Etymology: From Latin prōvulgō. Doublet of promulgate and promulge.
Senses: examples: text: Obſeruaunce of ſwearing is a Juſtice to conſtraine anie noyſible tranſgreſſion of lawe oꝛ cuſtomes pꝛovulged to the people.
ref: 1595 [1503], The Shepheards Kalender, pages 116-117 (unnumbered):
glosses: To promulge; to promulgate.
bookswap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bookswaps
Etymology: From book + swap.
Senses: glosses: A scheme allowing readers who have finished with books to exchange them with other readers.
bookswaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bookswap
shepheardess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shepheardesses
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of shepherdess.
shepheardesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shepheardess
cheemology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chiminology.
Chuppie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chuppies
Etymology: Blend of Chinese + yuppie
Senses: examples: text: A full 71 percent of our respondents have traveled outside of China, and another 14 percent have been to Hong Kong or Macau. Unlike many older Chinese, Chuppies are also more interested in traveling alone than being a part of a large tour group.
ref: 2008, Robert Hsu, China Fireworks, page 169:
glosses: A yuppie of Chinese background.
Chuppies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chuppie
chenchalok
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cincalok.
yu sheng
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yusheng.
yee sang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yusheng.
triultimate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + ultimate, apparently on account of the fact that it is the third in sequence after ultimate and penultimate.
Senses: examples: text: Penultimate and triultimate rachis 3 x 4 cm wide respectively, with hairs on their surface
ref: 1996, Yang Guanxiu, Wang Hongshan, Sheng Axing, “Morphological and microscopical study on Scolecopteris from China”, in Palaeobotanist, volume 45, pages 238–246:
text: However, constraints on the penultimate event for the Rainbow Mountain and triultimate event for the Fourmile Flat fault do overlap slightly, allowing the possibility that they may have ruptured close in time as in 1954.
ref: 2004 August 24, S. John Caskey, John W. Bell, Alan R. Ramelli, Steven G. Wesnousky, “Historic Surface Faulting and Paleoseismicity in the Area of the 1954 Rainbow Mountain–Stillwater Earthquake Sequence, Central Nevada”, in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, volume 94, number 4, pages 1255–1275:
text: In the final long finish, […] internal stanzaic chimes extend to a sound distribution in which the first and the final, the second and the penultimate, the third and the triultimate octave chime with each other in continuous introversion.
ref: 2020, Ruben Moi, “Moy Sand and Gravel”, in Paul Muldoon and the Language of Poetry, Leiden; Boston: Brill Rodopi, page 272:
glosses: Synonym of antepenultimate.
synonyms: word: antepenultimate
proairesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of prohairesis.
chamferless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chamfer + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a chamfer.
chamberless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chamber + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a chamber.
carefreest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of carefree: most carefree
carefreer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of carefree: more carefree
velvetworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of velvetworm
supratympanal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supratympanal
form: most supratympanal
Etymology: From supra- + tympanal.
Senses: examples: text: Upper parts brownish olive; a triangular dark spot on the crown of the head; a brown spot below the eye, and a brown band along and below the supratympanal fold.
ref: 1864, Albert C.L.G. Günther, The Reptiles Of British India, London: R.Y. Society, page 415:
text: In grasshoppers the auditory nerve, after entering the tibia, divides into two branches, one forming the supratympanal ganglion, the other descending into the tympanum and forming a ganglion known as Siebold’s organ.
ref: 1899, Jame Weir, Jr., The Dawn of Reason of Mental Traits in the Lower Animals, New York: The Macmillan Company, page 21:
text: The outer chamber contains the supratympanal organ together with leucocytes and adipose cells.
ref: 1977, O. W. Richards, R. G. Davies, Imms' General Textbook of Entomology, 10 edition, Volume I: Structure, Physiology and Development, London: Chapman and Hall, page 133:
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: Situated over or above the tympanum, or tympanic cavity, of the ear.
First Dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of First Dog
apron sink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apron sinks
Senses: qualifier: interior design
glosses: A style of sink, usually made of ceramic, designed to protrude slightly from the edge of the counter.
Margulis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hebrew.
Derived terms: Kazhdan-Margulis theorem
Margulis lemma
farmhouse sink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farmhouse sinks
Senses: qualifier: interior design
glosses: an apron sink
little known
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: less known
form: lesser known
form: littler known
form: least known
form: littlest known
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of little-known.
13th-grader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 13th-graders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thirteenth grader.
thirteenth-grader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thirteenth-graders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thirteenth grader.
13th-graders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 13th-grader
thirteenth-graders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thirteenth-grader
grade thirteener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grade thirteeners
Senses: glosses: Synonym of thirteenth grader.
synonyms: word: thirteenth grader
spaie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spaies
form: spaying
form: spaied
form: spaied
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of spay.
spaye
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spayes
form: spayeing
form: spayed
form: spayed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of spay.
tyrocinium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tirocinium.
iomeprol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A medication used as a radiocontrast agent in X-ray imaging.
acoramidis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A transthyretin stabilizer used to treat cardiomyopathy.
disciplinary inquiry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disciplinary inquiries
Senses: qualifier: labour law
glosses: A formal process where an employer investigates allegations of misconduct against an employee.
qualifier: labour law
glosses: A form of domestic enquiry regarding government servants.
Related terms: domestic inquiry
disciplinary inquiries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disciplinary inquiry
centory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centories
Senses: examples: text: Neither dare I hold with the moderne errour of many, that hold the roote of this great Centory to be the Rhaponticum of Dioſcorides, Galen, and others[…]
ref: 1640, John Parkinson, “Centaurium majus. The greater Centory”, in Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants. Or, An Herball of a Large Extent: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, →OCLC, page 465:
glosses: Alternative form of centaury.
neutral grain spirit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neutral grain spirits
Senses: synonyms: word: grain spirit
word: grain neutral spirit
word: NGS
glosses: A high-proof, distilled alcohol that is flavorless, odorless, and colorless.
high-proof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: higher-proof
form: highest-proof
Senses: antonyms: low-proof
glosses: Containing a high percentage of alcohol.
neutral grape spirit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neutral grape spirits
Senses: synonyms: word: NGS
word: grape neutral spirit
word: vinous alcohol
glosses: A neutral spirit made from grapes, the byproducts of wine production, or both.
vinous alcohol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vinous alcohols
Senses: glosses: Synonym of neutral grape spirit.
synonyms: word: neutral grape spirit
grape neutral spirit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grape neutral spirits
Senses: glosses: Synonym of neutral grape spirit.
synonyms: word: neutral grape spirit
grain neutral spirit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grain neutral spirits
Senses: glosses: Synonym of neutral grain spirit.
synonyms: word: neutral grain spirit
neutral alcohol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neutral alcohols
Senses: glosses: Rectified spirit or other form of distilled alcohol with very little flavor or aroma.
grain spirit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grain spirits
Senses: glosses: Synonym of neutral grain spirit.
synonyms: word: neutral grain spirit
grain spirits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grain spirit
neutral grain spirits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neutral grain spirit
grain neutral spirits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grain neutral spirit
neutral alcohols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neutral alcohol
grape neutral spirits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grape neutral spirit
neutral grape spirits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neutral grape spirit
vinous alcohols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vinous alcohol
higher-proof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of high-proof: more high-proof
highest-proof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of high-proof: most high-proof