cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
FTE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FTEs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: network
glosses: Initialism of fault-tolerant Ethernet.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of full-time equivalent.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of full-time employee.
full-time equivalent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: full-time equivalents
Senses: examples: text: We estimate our work-from-home employees to be 30% of our total full-time equivalents.
glosses: The result of a calculation to estimate the effective size of a workforce that may include part-time workers.
Synonyms: FTE
antecursor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antecursors
Etymology: From Latin antecursor, from ante (“before, in front”) + cursor (“runner”).
Senses: glosses: A forerunner; a precursor.
retinohypothalamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From retino- + hypothalamic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the retina and the hypothalamus; used especially of the retinohypothalamic tract, a photic input pathway involved in the circadian rhythms of mammals.
plus size
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plus sizes
form: plus-size
Senses: coordinate_terms: big and tall
glosses: A size of clothing designed specifically for overweight people.
glosses: An overweight person.
Derived terms: word: plus-sized
plus sizes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plus size
party in one's mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parties in one's mouth
Senses: examples: text: We couldn't help ourselves here; every component in this salad comes together to create a party in your mouth and therefore deserves a mention.
ref: 2007, Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Terry Hope Romero, Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook:
text: There are plans to expand the sushi menu at the bar; for now the offerings are limited to specialty items such as the party-in-your-mouth creation called the B1020 Roll […]
ref: 2004 September, Cincinnati Magazine, volume 37, number 12, page 251:
text: The distinct flavours—sharp, sweet, spicy, and everything in between—began a party in my mouth.
ref: 2010, Anthony Bidulka, Date with a Sheesha, page 20:
glosses: An exciting combination of flavors.
marriage guidance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Advice or support about marriage, especially in the form of professional counselling, and typically given to couples looking to overcome problems in a relationship.
Synonyms: marriage counseling
marriage counselling
rule of the road
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The general rule of the road for steamers is precisely the same as the general rule of the pavement for foot passengers in London […]
ref: 1869, Thornton Alexander Jenkins, The Rule of the road at sea and in inland waters, page 214:
text: Hence in Japan the influential samurai warriors habitually kept to the left while walking or riding. Their example influenced other travellers and resulted in the modern rule of the road in Japan: keep left.
ref: 1986, Peter Kincaid, The rule of the road: an international guide to history and practice:
text: The Liverpool and Manchester railway, the first steam-operated passenger railway, which opened in 1830, adopted the British rule of the road, with trains passing each other on the left.
ref: 1986, New Scientist (volume 112, numbers 1540-1541, December 1986-January 1987)
glosses: The regulation requiring all traffic (travelling on a road or otherwise) to keep either to the left or the right.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A regulation concerning safe handling of vessels on seaways.
Related terms: rules of the road
antiroad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiroad
form: most antiroad
Etymology: From anti- + road.
Senses: examples: text: I mentioned Britain's antiroad protesters, and they were tickled pink at the idea of people living in treehouses to stop a road.
ref: 2006, Jay Griffiths, Wild: an elemental journey, page 18:
glosses: Opposing the construction of a road.
Old Georgian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language of the South Caucasian family, spoken between the 5ᵗʰ Century BC and the 17ᵗʰ Century AD when it evolved into the modern Georgian language.
omo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Clipping of omorashi.
pseudodementias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudodementia
pick-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pick-ups
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pickup.
pseudocyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudocysts
Etymology: From pseudo- + cyst.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A pathological collection of fluid, differing from a cyst in lacking a clearly-defined epithelial cell layer.
Derived terms: pancreatic pseudocyst
pseudocysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudocyst
anticarbon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + carbon.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The hypothetical antimatter equivalent of carbon.
tearingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tearingly
form: most tearingly
Etymology: From tearing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The beast sat on its haunches and tearingly ate the hind quarters of a still-squealing little pig.
ref: 1933, John Steinbeck, To a God Unknown:
text: The Zimbabwean telephone exchange is temperamental (make that hair-tearingly frustrating)...
ref: 2005, Pippa de Bruyn, Frommer's South Africa, page 376:
glosses: With a tearing or ripping motion.
feldspathoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feldspathoid
collegewide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From college + -wide.
Senses: glosses: throughout a college.
networkwide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From network + -wide.
Senses: glosses: throughout a network.
businesswide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From business + -wide.
Senses: glosses: throughout a business.
businesswide
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From business + -wide.
Senses: glosses: throughout a business.
enterprisewide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From enterprise + -wide.
Senses: glosses: throughout a business enterprise.
enterprisewide
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From enterprise + -wide.
Senses: glosses: throughout a business enterprise.
universitywide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From university + -wide.
Senses: glosses: throughout a university.
nonperverted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + perverted.
Senses: glosses: Not perverted.
unperverted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unperverted
form: most unperverted
Etymology: From un- + perverted.
Senses: glosses: Not perverted.
unpersuasiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unpersuasive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unpersuasive; lack of persuasiveness.
agathism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀγαθός (agathós, “good”) + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The doctrine that the ultimate end of all things is good, although the intermediate means may be evil.
great circles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of great circle
Gershom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew גֵּרְשֹׁם (gershóm, “Gershom”), found in Exodus.
Senses: examples: text: And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter. And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 2:21-22:
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
toshake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: toshakes
form: toshaking
form: toshook
form: toshaken
Etymology: From Middle English toshaken, from Old English *tōsceacan, *tōscacan, equivalent to to- + shake.
Senses: glosses: To shake violently; shake to pieces.
toshear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: toshears
form: toshearing
form: toshore
form: toshorn
Etymology: From Middle English tosheren, from Old English tōsceran (“to cut apart”), equivalent to to- + shear.
Senses: glosses: To cut in two.
toshend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: toshends
form: toshending
form: toshent
form: toshent
Etymology: From Middle English toshenden, from Old English tōsċendan (“to destroy”), equivalent to to- + shend.
Senses: glosses: To ruin completely; destroy.
paystub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paystubs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pay stub.
paystubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paystub
forever stamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forever stamps
Senses: glosses: A postage stamp with no indicated monetary value and indefinitely valid for a given service, e.g. a domestic first-class letter under 20 grams.
Synonyms: word: non-value indicator
word: no value indicator stamp
word: NVI stamp
word: permanent stamp
tetrarchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetrarchy
of a sudden
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Then of a sudden the rope was still—the stone had caught at the very edge. Gingerly the ape-man clambered up the frail rope.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 208:
text: Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
ref: 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter III (Accessory After the Fact), page 382, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of all of a sudden.
occipital bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of occipital bone
targeted killing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: targeted killings
Senses: examples: text: The moral legitimacy of targeted killing becomes even clearer when compared to the alternative means of fighting terror – that is, the massive invasion of the community that shelters and supports the terrorists in an attempt to catch or kill the terrorists and destory their infrastructure.
ref: 2005, Timothy Shanahan, Philosophy 9/11: Thinking About the War on Terrorism, Open Court Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 191:
text: Even if the targeted killing is deemed to fall within the laws of armed conflict, the rules relating thereto protect non-combatants. While civilians cannot be targeted, if they are killed or injured during an attack on a military target, then as long as the means employed were discriminate and proportionate, there is no violation of the laws of armed conflict.
ref: 2006, Geoff Gilbert, Responding to International Crime, BRILL, →ISBN, page 307:
text: In wartime, however, the prohibition against targeted killing is more elusive because the law stipulates that combatants, regardless of their rank or official role, are potential targets. Since war is a contest between states, not persons, the killing in war is not murder.
ref: 2008, Mark R. Amstutz, International Ethics: Concepts, Theories, and Cases in Global Politics, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, →ISBN, page 147:
text: The real issue – one emphasized in informal conversations – seems to be that unless the target is a duly designated "combatant," the targeted killing would become an "assassination."
ref: 2009, Benjamin Wittes, Legislating the War on Terror: An Agenda for Reform, Brookings Institution Press, →ISBN, page 366:
text: There is no announced U.S. policy directive regarding targeted killing. Assassination is addressed in Executive Order 12333, which does not prohibit killing absolutely, but only without presidential approval. Assassination and targeted killing are very different acts, however.
ref: 2010, Gary D. Solis, The Law of Armed Conflict: International Humanitarian Law in War, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 542:
text: In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.
ref: 2013 June 7, Ed Pilkington, “‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 6:
qualifier: warfare
glosses: The intentional killing by a government or its agents of a civilian or "unlawful combatant" who is not in that government's custody, and who is taking part in an armed conflict or terrorism, whether by bearing arms or otherwise, and is thus regarded by the government as having lost the immunity from being targeted that he or she would otherwise have under the Geneva Conventions.
Related terms: assassination
cartilaginously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From cartilaginous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a manner involving cartilage.
unrebutted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + rebutted.
Senses: glosses: Not having been rebutted.
periodic law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The principle that chemical properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic numbers
Related terms: periodic table
phono cartridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phono cartridges
Senses: synonyms: pickup
glosses: The component attached to the end of the tone arm of a phonograph turntable that holds the stylus.
come stà
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From Italian come sta (literally “as it stands”). The accent mark is not present in standard Italian orthography.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An instruction to play without improvised ornamentation or rhythmic alteration.
wrick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wricks
form: wricking
form: wricked
form: wricked
Etymology: From Middle English wricken, probably from Middle Dutch wricken (Modern Dutch wrikken (“to wriggle”)) or Middle Low German wricken (“to move jerkily; sprain”), from Proto-Germanic *wrigōną (“to wriggle”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreyḱ- (“to turn, wrap, tie”), from *wer- (“to turn, bend”).
See also Low German wriggen, German Low German wricken (“to row; scull; move back and forth”)). Compare also Danish vrikke (“to move; turn; wriggle”), Swedish vricka (“to sprain; twist; scull”).
Senses: glosses: To twist; turn
glosses: To wrench; strain
wrick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wricks
Etymology: From Middle English wricken, probably from Middle Dutch wricken (Modern Dutch wrikken (“to wriggle”)) or Middle Low German wricken (“to move jerkily; sprain”), from Proto-Germanic *wrigōną (“to wriggle”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreyḱ- (“to turn, wrap, tie”), from *wer- (“to turn, bend”).
See also Low German wriggen, German Low German wricken (“to row; scull; move back and forth”)). Compare also Danish vrikke (“to move; turn; wriggle”), Swedish vricka (“to sprain; twist; scull”).
Senses: glosses: A painful muscular spasm in the neck or back
Synonyms: crick
clasht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of clash
uMMA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of urinary methylmalonic acid: a test for vitamin B12 deficiency.
double-checks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of double-check
double-checking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of double-check
double-checked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of double-check
allotons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alloton
alloton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allotons
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A particle that carries an imaginary electric charge; posited to account for dark matter
graphoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graphoids
Etymology: From graph + -oid. 1985, United States.
Senses: topics: combinatorics
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A matroid that has two collections of nonempty subsets called circuits and cocircuits such that the intersection of any circuit and cocircuit is not only the identity matroid, no circuit properly contains another circuit, no cocircuit properly contains another cocircuit, and for any painting of M that colors exactly one element green and the rest either red or blue there exists either a circuit containing the green element and no red elements or a cocircuit containing the green element and no blue elements.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A set of statements of the form, "X is irrelevant to Y given that we know Z" where X, Y and Z are sets of variables, which can be manipulated by a set of axioms concerning informational irrelevance and its graphical representation.
Derived terms: digraphoid
intrabinary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + binary.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Within a binary star system
intrahost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + host.
Senses: glosses: Within a host organism
preliminatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: preliminary
pseudoknotted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudoknotted
form: most pseudoknotted
Etymology: From pseudo- + knotted.
Senses: glosses: Having one or more pseudoknots
subclonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + clonal.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a subclone
tumorogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tumorogenic
form: most tumorogenic
Etymology: From tumor + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tumorigenic.
caract
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caracts
Etymology: Ultimately from Latin character.
Senses: glosses: A mark or sign.
glosses: A magical symbol.
speed traps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speed trap
shopping lists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shopping list
shoulder bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoulder bag
have got someone's back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has got someone's back
form: having got someone's back
form: had got someone's back
form: had got someone's back
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of have someone's back.
have someone's back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hæv ˌsʌmwʌnz ˈbæk/
Forms: form: has someone's back
form: having someone's back
form: had someone's back
form: had someone's back
form: cover someone's back
form: have got someone's back
form: get someone's back
Senses: examples: text: If you ever need help, just ask. You know I have your back.
text: Liz Truss has promised Britons she has “got your back” and set out a plan for “growth, growth and growth” in a conference speech disrupted by protesters asking who voted for her plan.
ref: 2022 October 5, Rowena Mason, quoting Liz Truss, “Liz Truss promises ‘growth, growth and growth’ in protest-hit speech”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To be prepared and willing to support or defend someone.
Synonyms: topics: law-enforcement
government
military
war
politics
word: have got someone's six
Related terms: english: nearly antonymous
translation: nearly antonymous
word: have someone's head
X-country
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: cross-country
glosses: cross-country skiing
X-country
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: They took a red-eye flight X-country.
glosses: Across the country.
klondyke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: klondykes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of klondike.
klondyke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: klondykes
form: klondyking
form: klondyked
form: klondyked
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of klondike.
klondyker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: klondykers
form: klondiker
Senses: glosses: A ship involved in klondyking.
klondykers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of klondyker
xfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xfers
Etymology: From x- + (trans)fer.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of transfer.
xfer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: xfers
form: xferring
form: xferred
form: xferred
Etymology: From x- + (trans)fer.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of transfer.
moto-x
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of moto-cross.
moto-cross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motocross
Etymology: Blend of motorcycle + cross-country
Senses: glosses: A sport involving the off-road racing of motorcycles.
Synonyms: moto-x
Ieper
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Ypres.
synonyms: word: Ypres
whale tails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whale tail
grammar nazi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grammar nazis
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of grammar Nazi.
mannies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manny
glosses: plural of mannie
mobcap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mobcaps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mob cap.
mob caps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mob cap
diplontic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From diplont + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a diplont.
Derived terms: haplodiplontic
diplont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diplonts
Etymology: From diplo- + -ont.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: An organism having a diploid number of chromosomes in its cells
Related terms: diplontic
Massa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Massas
Etymology: The surname is from Italian Massa. Also found in southern France (see Massey).
Senses: glosses: A town in Tuscany, Italy.
glosses: A surname.
Massa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Masa
Senses: glosses: A Chadic ethnic group in Cameroon and Chad.
Massa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Masa
Senses: glosses: A Chadic language spoken by the Massa people.
Massa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Massas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of massa (“pronunciation spelling of "master" in African American Vernacular English”).
Related terms: Masa
ice cream cones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ice cream cone
-rel
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /ɹəl/
Forms: form: -erel
Etymology: From Middle English -rel, -erel, from Old French -erel, -erelle.
Senses: examples: text: waste + -rel → wastrel
glosses: pejorative suffix
examples: text: cock + -rel → cockerel
glosses: diminutive suffix
awesometastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɔsm̩ˈtæstɪk/
Forms: form: more awesometastic
form: most awesometastic
Etymology: From awesome + -tastic.
Senses: examples: text: "Watching a cooking show on PBS."
"How is it?"
"Awesometastic," she replied, echoing her mother's sassy spunk.
ref: 2010, Blake Crouch, Snowbound, page 18:
glosses: superbly wonderful; fantastic, great
sodomitess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sodomitesses
Etymology: Translation for the Hebrew word "kedeshah" in Deuteronomy 23:17.
Senses: glosses: A female sodomite.
glosses: A female temple prostitute.
wise apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wise apples
form: wiseapple
form: wise-apple
Senses: examples: text: Private Wise Guy Bly is the type of guy who in civilian life was known as a "wise apple".
ref: 1943 February 26, Staff Sgt. Dick Jones, “Air-Lines”, in The Independent, US, retrieved 22 Oct 2010, page 11:
text: "The Americans did not win at Bunker Hill," this wise apple said.
ref: 1980 February 25, Edwin Pope, “Yanks Pull It Off”, in St. Petersburg Independent, US, retrieved 22 Oct 2010, page C1:
text: As some wise apple said, comparisons are odious, and never more so than with a job not yet done.
ref: 2001 November 25, “This Team Continues its March toward Being Best in Canes History”, in Miami Herald, page 1C:
glosses: A smart aleck.
examples: text: She gave me a wise-apple smirk and asked, "And how are things at YOUR house?"
ref: 1966 July 13, “Ann Landers Answers Your Problems”, in Times-News, US, retrieved 22 Oct 2010, page 6:
qualifier: usually hyphenated
glosses: Having the manner of a smart aleck.
Synonyms: wise guy
wise-ass
wiseapple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wiseapples
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wise apple.
wise-apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wise-apples
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wise apple.
fakey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪki
Forms: form: more fakey
form: most fakey
form: faky
Etymology: From fake + -y.
Senses: examples: text: We do many before and afters at Cosmo with models (who don't look all that great before the makeup, incidentally) and civilians, and none of them ever continues to do the “after” makeup on a regular basis. Too much work, too fakey and, if you’ve pulled all the stops out every day, where would be the joy and drama when you need to look really fabulous?
ref: 1993, Helen Gurley Brown, The Late Show: A Semiwild but Practical Survival Plan for Women over 50, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 103:
text: It is easy to dislike many of the later videos: even as early as the late ’80s, the kind of drama he puts onto screen often looks fakey, and isn’t always rescued by his skill as a performer.
ref: 2009 June 27, Alastair Macaulay, “His Moves Expressed as Much as His Music”, in New York Times:
glosses: Fake.
Derived terms: fakiness
fakey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪki
Forms: form: fakeys
form: faky
Etymology: From fake + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fakie (“biking or boarding move”).
karyolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From karyo- + -lysis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The dissolution of the nucleus of a cell by the action of deoxyribonuclease
Derived terms: karyolytic
mannie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mannies
Etymology: From man + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A man
glosses: An undersized or insignificant man
Related terms: manny
Mannie
Manny
Mannie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Manny
Etymology: Aphetic diminutive with -ie.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Emmanuel.
Related terms: manny
mannie
scramasax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scramasaxes
form: scramaseax
Senses: glosses: A type of dagger or sword used by the Anglo-Saxons, the Franks and the Vikings.
Related terms: sax
seax
vigoro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: a team sport with elements of cricket, played mainly by women in Australia
beller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bellers
Senses: examples: text: With a beller of wrath, I jerked my arm away from him and hung a clout on his proboscis that knocked him headfirst through the ropes.
ref: 1934 August, Robert E. Howard, “Sluggers of the Beach”, in Jack Dempsey’s Fight Magazine:
glosses: Alternative form of bellow.
beller
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bellers
form: bellering
form: bellered
form: bellered
Senses: examples: text: "Don't you start bellering now..."
ref: 1929, William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury:
text: ‘Girl, stop that bellering. What you talking about?’
ref: 1953, James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain, New York, N.Y.: Knopf, →OCLC, part 2 (The Prayers of the Saints):
glosses: Alternative form of bellow.
Buxtehude
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Buxtehude.
Senses: glosses: A city in Germany, in northern Lower Saxony.
Achaemenes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɛməniːz/
Forms: form: Achæmenes
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Achaemenes, from Ancient Greek Ἀχαιμένης (Akhaiménēs), from Old Persian 𐏃𐎧𐎠𐎶𐎴𐎡𐏁 (Haxāmaniš). Doublet of Hakhamanish and Hakhamanesh.
Senses: synonyms: Hakhamanish
Hakhamanesh
glosses: The founder of the Achaemenid dynasty.
Derived terms: Achaemenean
Achaemenian
Related terms: Achaemenid
Hakhamanishi
Hakhamaneshi
Navaho
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Navajo.
Navaho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Navahos
form: Navahoes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Navajo.
compellent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more compellent
form: most compellent
Senses: examples: text: Acquiescence to a compellent threat invites another demand […]
ref: 1985, Thomas C. Schelling, Choice and Consequence, page 321:
glosses: That compels.
mast seeding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mast seedings
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: An intermittently-occurring, synchronous production of large amounts of seed by a population of plants.
mentos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mento
militations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of militation
semiaridity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From semi- + aridity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being semiarid.
smoker's coughs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smoker's cough
wieldier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of wieldy: more wieldy
wieldiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of wieldy: most wieldy
sea beds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea bed
Chöd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Tibetan གཅོད (gcod, “to sever”), short for གཅོད་སྒྲུབ་ཐབས (gcod sgrub thabs), equivalent to Sanskrit छेद साधना (cheda sādhanā); both literally "cutting practice".
Senses: glosses: A spiritual practice primarily found in Tibetan Buddhism.
Chod
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Chöd.
telefaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telefax
telefaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of telefax
RPer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RPers
Etymology: From RP + -er.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of role-player.
Synonyms: mun
RPers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RPer
role-player
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: role-players
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of roleplayer.
unmeticulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmeticulous
form: most unmeticulous
Etymology: From un- + meticulous.
Senses: glosses: Not meticulous.
unsqueamish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsqueamish
form: most unsqueamish
Etymology: From un- + squeamish.
Senses: glosses: Not squeamish.
unrewardingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unrewardingly
form: most unrewardingly
Etymology: From unrewarding + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unrewarding manner.
nonfragmentary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + fragmentary.
Senses: glosses: Not fragmentary.
shit test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shit tests
form: shittest
form: shit-test
Senses: examples: text: Coleman left and Passow texted him an apology, the Intercept reported. In reply, Coleman said that he was only warming up the car, and added, "I'm sorry baby I failed your shit test."
ref: 2020 August 26, Carter Sherman, “Teen Democratic Candidate Aaron Coleman Accused of Choking His Girlfriend”, in VICE, archived from the original on 27 May 2023:
topics: lifestyle
seduction-community
sexuality
glosses: A conscious or unconscious challenge posed by a woman to a man to determine his suitability as a romantic or sexual partner consisting of acting in a cold, unfriendly, provocative or otherwise defiant manner and seeing how the man reacts and whether he is able to stay unfazed.
shit test
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shit tests
form: shit testing
form: shit tested
form: shit tested
form: shittest
form: shit-test
Senses: examples: text: This all started because the American accused me of "shit testing" him. I had no idea what he meant so I Googled it, and spent an afternoon in silent wonder.
ref: 2014 December 13, Stella Grey, “Online dating: wandering into the manosphere”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Jun 2021:
topics: lifestyle
seduction-community
sexuality
glosses: To target with a shit test.
Derived terms: shit tester
witch hunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: witch hunts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of witch-hunt.
discretionaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the adjective discretionary.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Goods and services that are not essential, bought by a customer using discretionary income.
witch hunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of witch hunt
McCarthyisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of McCarthyism
Verlainesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Verlainesque
form: most Verlainesque
Etymology: From Verlaine + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Reminiscent of the works of French poet Paul Verlaine (1844-1896).
Related terms: Verlainian
pugnosed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pugnosed
form: most pugnosed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pug-nosed.
verjuices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verjuice
verjuices
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of verjuice
verlanised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of verlanise
FAQs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of FAQ
Murcians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Murcian
casualising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of casualise
casualises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of casualise
cat meat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catmeat
Senses: synonyms: cat
catflesh
gutter rabbit
roof rabbit
glosses: Cat eaten as meat.
examples: 2008, Too Much Sunlight, by Pat Gerber. Page 23. *By this time Suzanna was no longer cooking offal for the cats, but always had a tin of cat meat at home so gave the kitten a portion.
hypernyms: cat food
glosses: Meat prepared to be given as food for a cat.
examples: text: Anyone who attacks this fort will be turned to cat meat.
text: In 1976, country singer Hank Snow has turned the killers of children to cat meat by lashing them with his belt.
glosses: Someone who has been badly beaten.
Related terms: cat's meat
dog meat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogmeat
Senses: examples: text: We visited South Korea this time around, where we ate dog meat for the first time.
glosses: Meat from a dog eaten as food.
examples: text: That's a tin of dog meat, as well, really, er, served in the traditional manner, chopped up into a big bowl that says "DOG" on the side.
ref: 2004, John O'Farrell, This Is Your Life, page 293:
glosses: Meat prepared to be given to a dog as food.
examples: text: Did you just step on my blue suede shoes? You're dog meat now!
glosses: Synonym of dead meat (“someone in danger of being killed or severely punished”).
synonyms: word: dead meat
extra: someone in danger of being killed or severely punished
Synonyms: sense: meat from a dog
word: dog
sense: meat from a dog
word: dogflesh
sense: meat from a dog
word: fragrant meat
sense: person in danger
word: dog food
sense: person in danger
word: worm food
Hypernyms: sense: meat for a dog
word: dog food
sagacities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sagacity
bobbings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bobbing
Modern Japanese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The modern stage of the Japanese language, usually dated from around 1600.
Related terms: Old Japanese
Early Middle Japanese
Late Middle Japanese
buttless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From butt + -less.
Senses: examples: text: With the exception of the trigger mechanism and spring, the pistol was made entirely out of flat black plastic and looked very much like a small buttless sawed-off shotgun.
ref: 1991, Christopher Hyde, Hard Target, page 294:
glosses: Without a butt, not having a butt.
examples: buttless pants
glosses: Of a piece of clothing, showing the bare buttocks of a person.
quadrangularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadrangularities
Etymology: From quadrangular + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being quadrangular.
degree mill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: degree mills
Senses: glosses: a disreputable university, churning out degrees to unqualified students.
Synonyms: diploma mill
gossipmongering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The behaviour of a gossipmonger; the spreading of salacious rumours.
hatemongering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hatemonger + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: I think it is right and proper that a hatemongering anti-Islam, anti-women, anti-feminism, anti-puppies (probably) commentator should not be given regular airtime in the national media, but getting fired to be replaced with another one, while the original runs amok underground, is not a victory.
ref: 2017 November 28, Jack Monroe, “I took Katie Hopkins to court – but I won’t celebrate her leaving Mail Online”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The behaviour of a hatemonger; the spreading of hatred.
poisonmonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poisonmongers
Etymology: From poison + monger.
Senses: glosses: One who peddles poison (literally or figuratively).
Synonyms: poisoner
poisonmongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poisonmonger
overcharger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overchargers
Etymology: From overcharge + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who overcharges.
overchargers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overcharger
nondomain
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + domain.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Not of or pertaining to a domain.
scrollworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrollwork
Juba dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Juba dances
Senses: glosses: A dance with stomping and slapping motions, the hambone.
jubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jube
antitechnologism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + technology + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: His conclusion […] in its contention that Gays and Lesbians should not cooperate with scientific research about us without conducting a searching inquiry into the motives of the researchers, reflects the same Luddism, antiscientism and anti-technologism that has infected most of the left since counter culture of the 1960s.
ref: 1985 December 28, Robert Halfhill, “Research Is Okay Unless Proven Otherwise”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 24, page 4:
glosses: A belief or attitude that opposes technology.
antitechnologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antitechnologists
Etymology: From anti- + technologist.
Senses: glosses: One who opposes technology.
antitechnologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antitechnologist
antitampering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + tampering.
Senses: glosses: Preventing or opposing tampering.
yashmaked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From yashmak + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing a yashmak.
yashmacked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yashmaked.
multitaskable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multitaskable
form: most multitaskable
Etymology: From multitask + -able.
Senses: examples: text: By granularity we mean the length of time to execute a multitaskable segment of the original program on a single CPU. Granularity is measured in time units, rather than floating point operations, […]
ref: 2012, Geerd-R. Hoffmann, David F. Snelling, Multiprocessing in Meteorological Models, page 57:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Capable of being solved or executed using multitasking.
banana pepper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banana peppers
Senses: glosses: A kind of yellow chili pepper, Capsicum annuum.
banana peppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banana pepper
farmette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farmettes
Etymology: From farm + -ette.
Senses: glosses: A small farm.
farmettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of farmette
textus receptus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: textus recepti
Etymology: From Latin textus receptus (“received text”).
Senses: glosses: The succession of printed Greek texts of the New Testament which constituted the translation base for various early versions of the Bible in Western and Central Europe.
glosses: A text of a work that is generally accepted as being genuine or original.
Laccadive Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈlækəˌdiːv/
/ˈlækəˌdaɪv/
/ˈlækədɪv/
Etymology: From Prakrit 𑀮𑀓𑁆𑀔𑀤𑀻𑀯 (lakkhadīva), from Sanskrit लक्षद्वीप (lakṣadvīpa, “hundred thousand islands”) (compare Lakshadweep).
Senses: glosses: Lakshadweep
restopper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: restoppers
form: restoppering
form: restoppered
form: restoppered
Etymology: From re- + stopper.
Senses: glosses: To seal again by reinserting a stopper.
restoppered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of restopper
restoppering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of restopper
desperations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desperation
nonlyrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + lyrical.
Senses: glosses: Not lyrical.
freeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From free + -able.
Senses: examples: text: What place does the generous Condorcet provide in court for the freeable slave, where the Code noir slams the door in his face?
ref: 2006, Louis Sala-Molins, Dark Side of the Light: Slavery and the French Enlightenment, page 36:
text: If it returns 0, this implies that the number of freeable memory objects cannot be determined now, […]
ref: 2021, Kaiwan N. Billimoria, Linux Kernel Programming, page 454:
glosses: Able to be freed.
Derived terms: unfreeable
cold dark matter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dark matter traveling at classical, nonrelativistic speeds.
Related terms: hot dark matter
warm dark matter
hot dark matter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dark matter traveling at ultrarelativistic speeds.
Related terms: cold dark matter
warm dark matter
warm dark matter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dark matter traveling at relativistic, but not ultrarelativistic, speeds.
Related terms: cold dark matter
hot dark matter
designative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more designative
form: most designative
Etymology: From designate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Serving to designate.
Synonyms: designatory
Derived terms: designatively
nondesignative
designatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more designatory
form: most designatory
Etymology: From designate + -ory.
Senses: glosses: Serving to designate.
Synonyms: designative
Rkatsiteli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɹəˌkɑː.tsɪˈtɛ.li/
Etymology: Borrowed from Georgian რქაწითელი (rkac̣iteli, literally “red stem”).
Senses: glosses: A kind of grape used to produce white wine.
sodomitesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sodomitess
OSAP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈoʊ.sæp/
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Ontario Student Assistance Program.
swingingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more swingingly
form: most swingingly
Etymology: From swinging + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a swinging motion.
examples: text: The party was slow to start, but by the end of the night it was going swingingly.
glosses: Very well or with great success; splendidly.
nonbioturbated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + bioturbated.
Senses: glosses: Not bioturbated.
conservationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒn(t)səˈveɪʃənəli/
ipa: /kɒn(t)səˈveɪʃnəli/
ipa: /kɒn(t)səˈveɪʃənli/
ipa: /kɑn(t)sɚˈveɪʃənəli/
ipa: /kɑn(t)sɚˈveɪʃnəli/
ipa: /kɑn(t)sɚˈveɪʃənli/
rhymes: -eɪʃənəli
Etymology: From conservational + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Despite the darkened walls and conservationally correct dim lights, nearly all of these works are attention grabbers that first look naïve and awkward and then start to unfold, revealing a sustaining intuitive intelligence.
ref: 2007 June 8, Roberta Smith, “When Home Was Where the Art Was”, in New York Times:
glosses: In the context of conservation.
mythologization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mythologizations
Etymology: From mythologize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: But that doesn’t mean that the series is bad, just peculiar, a solemn mythologization — and mystification — of surfing as unearthly pleasure and life-sapping addiction.
ref: 2007 June 8, Alessandra Stanley, “Something’s Up, and It’s Not the Surf”, in New York Times:
glosses: The act or process of mythologizing.
Derived terms: demythologization
mythologizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mythologization
pavilionlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pavilionlike
form: most pavilionlike
Etymology: From pavilion + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Franz West and Rudolf Stingel, for example, collaborated on a pavilionlike structure whose roof serves as a support for a large sculpture by Mr. West and whose interior houses a silver-paneled room and a chandelier by Mr. Stingel.
ref: 2007 June 8, Carol Vogel, “A Venetian Customs House for Contemporary Art”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a pavilion.
prebook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prebooks
form: prebooking
form: prebooked
form: prebooked
Etymology: From pre- + book.
Senses: examples: text: It has previously given tours to select Olympia visitors, but this year it will try to accommodate anyone who prebooks the service (by calling 011-44-77-98-88-1383).
ref: 2007 June 8, Wendy Moonan, “At a London Fair, a Helping Hand, a Discerning Eye”, in New York Times:
glosses: To book in advance.
prebooks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prebook
prebooking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prebook