cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Delian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Delian
form: most Delian
Etymology: From Delos + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Trembling in every limb I raise my loud im­portunate cry,
And in a sacred terror wait the Delian god’s reply.
ref: 1928, W[illiam] B[utler] Yeats, Sophocles’ King Oedipus: A Version of the Modern Stage, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: Of or relating to the Greek island of Delos.
Derived terms: Delian League
Delian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Delians
Etymology: From Delos + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Delos.
tangentialities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tangentiality
tankbusting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tank + busting.
Senses: glosses: The destruction of tanks by military aircraft.
tankbusting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tank + busting.
Senses: glosses: Of a military aircraft: designed for the destruction of tanks.
Related terms: tankbuster
superlay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of superlie
superlain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of superlie
vociferosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: vociferousness
vaccinatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to vaccination.
voluptuosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English voluptuosite, voluptuositee, voluptuostee, voluptuosyte, voluptuouste, from Middle French voluptuosité; compare Medieval Latin voluptuōsitas. By surface analysis, voluptuous + -osity.
Senses: glosses: voluptuousness
voetsak
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of voetsek.
voudon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See voodoo.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of voodoo.
voudon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voudons
Etymology: Blend of voudou + quaternion. Named after the 256 Ifá divination signs in West African voodoo.
Senses: examples: text: Following the convention adopted by Tony Smith, who has called the 2⁸-ions Voudons after the 256 deities of the Ifa pantheon of Voodoo or Voudon
ref: 2002, Robert P. C. de Marrais, “Flying Higher Than a Box-Kite: Kite-Chain Middens, Sand Mandalas, and Zero-Divisor Patterns in the 2ⁿ-ions Beyond the Sedenions”, in arXiv, →DOI, page 7:
text: According to the logic of doubling the dimensions on which Cayley–Dickson algebra is built, after quaternions the so-called 8D octonions (#92;mathbbO—Octonions) can be obtained, followed by 16D sedenions, 32D pathions, 64D chingons, 128D routons, and 256D voudons.
ref: 2022, Zlatka Valkova-Jarvis, Vladimir Poulkov, Viktor Stoynov, Dimitriya Mihaylova, Georgi Iliev, “A Method for the Design of Bicomplex Orthogonal DSP Algorithms for Applications in Intelligent Radio Access Networks”, in Symmetry, volume 14, number 3, MDPI AG, →DOI, →ISSN:
text: There is no theoretical limit to multispace dimensional numbering as there are definitions for octonion (8D), sedenion (16D), pathion (32D), chingon (64D), routon (128D), and voudon (256D) numbered space.
ref: 2023, Melanie Swan, Renato P. dos Santos, “Quantum Intelligence: Responsible Human-AI Entities”, in AAAI 2023 Spring Symposia, Socially Responsible AI for Wellbeing, March 27–29, 2023, USA, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, →DOI:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A 256-dimensional hypercomplex number.
Related terms: topics: mathematics
sciences
word: octonion
topics: mathematics
sciences
word: sedenion
topics: mathematics
sciences
word: trigintaduonion
topics: mathematics
sciences
word: pathion
topics: mathematics
sciences
word: chingon
topics: mathematics
sciences
word: routon
voudoun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of voodoo.
ventriloqual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In Chapter One, I discussed the ventriloqual figure with particular reference to Rabelais and his myriad belly speakers. Here I shall focus primarily on the ventriloqual figure in the Hebrew tradition and its implications for the Cock Lane incident.
ref: 2002, Laura Ellen McGrane, Hollowed Voices : Representations of the Classical Oracle in Eighteenth-century Print Culture:
glosses: Relating to ventriloquism.
science-y
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more science-y
form: most science-y
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sciencey.
hobag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hobags
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hoebag.
hobags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hobag
salesbot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salesbots
Etymology: From sales + -bot.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A robot designed to sell goods or services.
salesbots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salesbot
matadorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more matadorial
form: most matadorial
Etymology: From matador + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: He even got a few of his male companions to join him in the ring where, along with other amateurs, they tested their matadorial skills and courage against a heifer or young steer.
ref: 2011, Lyle Larsen, Stein and Hemingway: The Story of a Turbulent Friendship, page 47:
glosses: Of or relating to matadors.
lakehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lakeheads
Etymology: From lake + head.
Senses: glosses: The part of a lake most distant from its outlet.
lakeheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lakehead
semi-bounded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of semibounded.
chaste trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaste tree
primary healthcare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of primary care.
synonyms: word: primary care
quaternary healthcare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of quaternary care.
synonyms: word: quaternary care
secondary healthcare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of secondary care.
synonyms: word: secondary care
tertiary healthcare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tertiary care.
synonyms: word: tertiary care
quaternary care
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Highly specialized healthcare treatments, such as experimental medicine and uncommon surgical procedures.
secondary care
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The healthcare services provided by medical specialists who generally do not have first contact with patients, e.g. cardiologists, urologists, or endodontists. It includes short-term care for acute conditions such as injury and childbirth.
uptitrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uptitration
PPF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of Public Provident Fund.
qualifier: pensions
glosses: Initialism of Pension Protection Fund.
PPF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PPFs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of paint protection film.
topics: economics
sciences
synonyms: PPC
PPB
glosses: Initialism of production–possibility frontier.
nonaccumulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + accumulation.
Senses: glosses: Failure to accumulate.
Mabinogion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmæbəˈnoʊɡi.ən/
ipa: /mabiˈnɔɡ.jɔn/
Forms: form: the Mabinogion
Etymology: From Welsh Mabinogi (“instruction for young bards”), coined by the Welsh grammarian William Owen Pughe in 1795. The name originated from mabynnogyon, which occurs at the end of one of the four branches, and is now considered to have been a scribal error, mistaken as the plural for Welsh mabinogi, which is already plural, derived in an unclear manner from mab (“son, boy”).
Senses: glosses: The earliest prose literature of Britain, compiled in the 12th–13th centuries from earlier oral traditions by medieval Welsh authors.
macaberesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more macaberesque
form: most macaberesque
Senses: examples: text: He has seizures of erotic and macaberesque madness. He is a sort of necrophile. He has kept a journal in which he sets forth his disease with the utmost clearness.
ref: 1903, Guy de Maupassant, translated by M. Walter Dunne, A Tress of Hair:
text: Those plots which he prided himself on inventing are, for the most part, very weak; his people go forth one after the other, a macaberesque procession, fitter to excite melancholy than mirth […]
ref: 1909, Jean Jules Jusserand, A Literary History of the English People:
glosses: macabre
macaberesque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macaberesques
Senses: examples: text: If we can visualise this pattern of pursuit as a sort of figure-of-eight macaberesque—executed by two partners moving with the virtuosity of skilled ice-skaters—we may see how the pattern takes shape in a movement of advance and retreat.
ref: 1951, Muriel Spark, Mary Shelley:
text: It is a rather striking piece of fantastic macaberesque, composed in paragraphs somewhat too short, after the French manner, and with an obvious straining at unusual rhythms.
ref: 1928, Ferris Greenslet, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, page 60:
text: Like children, most of the macaberesques of film and literature content themselves with the kind of play that engenders indulgence rather than repression, limiting their activities to simplistic declamations that are easily dismissed […]
ref: 2011, Kim Newman, Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen Since the 1960s, page 8:
glosses: The danse macabre, or some similar performance or imagery.
macaberesques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macaberesque
Seria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Belait District, Brunei Darussalam.
seismogrammes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seismogramme
semiboundedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From semibounded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being semibounded.
Schenkerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Schenkerian
form: most Schenkerian
Etymology: From Schenker + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the musician Heinrich Schenker (1868–1935) or his theories of musical analysis, based on interpreting the underlying structure of a tonal work.
Schenkerian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Schenkerians
Etymology: From Schenker + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of Heinrich Schenker's musical theory.
pseudoskill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoskills
Etymology: From pseudo- + skill.
Senses: examples: text: Curriculum and materials are too often stupid as well as dull, aimed to produce attitudes and allegedly practical pseudoskills rather than understanding and capability.
ref: 1964, Daniel Schreiber, The School Dropout, page 210:
text: The result of Hofsten (1983) rules out the possibility that the catching observed in infants is a kind of pseudoskill governed by some simplified strategy.
ref: 2016, Herbert Heuer, Andries Sanders, Perspectives on Perception and Action, page 40:
glosses: A fake or ingenuine skill; something approximating a skill.
pseudoskills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoskill
tussigenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tussigenic
form: most tussigenic
Etymology: From tussis + -genic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Causing coughing.
tyrannish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tyrannish
form: most tyrannish
Senses: glosses: Tyrannical.
anazoturia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From an- + azoturia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A decrease in the amount of nitrogenous material (such as urea) in the urine.
Callie Cat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Probably from calico cat
Senses: glosses: A nickname for girls named Callie.
forthdrawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forthdraw
forthdrawing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: "What I would do is this," continued Lee, and he felt ideas coming into his head even as he spoke to her: she was so forthdrawing, "I shall try and get at the very souls of the best men who have yet appeared in any country or in any sphere of life, and who, therefore, best reveal the nature and purpose of God.
ref: 1926, Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, But in Our Lives:
glosses: Drawing or extending forth
forthdrawing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "[...] For the aferschots, the riders of the horses keeping their weights they had before their forthdrawing and not otherwise."
ref: 1880, William Hector, Vanduara:
glosses: A going forth or forward
forthdrew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of forthdraw
forthdrawn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of forthdraw
forthdrawn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: On the tying of the threads the forthdrawn parts of the ligaments make turns, which can eventually be further fixed to the fundus with one or two Sutures.
ref: 1922, Acta gynecologica Scandinavica - Volume 1
glosses: Drawn forth; extended forward
angel mom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angel moms
Etymology: From the sentiment that a mother's child has gone to heaven and is now an angel.
In 2000 the organization "Angel Moms" was founded, a group of mothers whose children had died, not limited to a specific cause. In the second sense the term was introduced by Donald Trump on 31 August 2016 at the end of a speech about illegal immigration. He had mothers whose child was killed by an illegal immigrant come on stage and tell their story.
Senses: glosses: A mother whose child has died.
qualifier: right-wing politics
glosses: A mother whose child was killed by an illegal immigrant.
examples: text: After we talked about it, we decided to call her Angel Mom. She became Angel Mom to us, and she really was like an angel.
ref: 2009, Reva Jean Rohe, Adventures of Tomtom the Duck, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 10:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see angel, mom.
kissing gouramis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kissing gourami
undocility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + docility.
Senses: glosses: The quality of not being docile.
Equatoguinea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Equatorial Guinea.
Related terms: Equatoguinean
hyperpepsia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + Ancient Greek πέψις (pépsis, “digestion”) + -ia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Dyspepsia characterized by an excess of chlorides in the gastric juice, without an excess of free hydrochloric acid.
hyperpeptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperpeptic
form: most hyperpeptic
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or having, hyperpepsia.
hyperpeptic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperpeptics
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A person who has hyperpepsia.
hypopeptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypopeptic
form: most hypopeptic
Etymology: From hypo- + peptic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or having, hypopepsia.
hypopeptic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypopeptics
Etymology: From hypo- + peptic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A person who has hypopepsia.
hypopeptics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypopeptic
hyperpeptics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperpeptic
hypoalgesias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypoalgesia
ASLC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Association for Library Service to Children.
takes out an onion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take out an onion
taking out an onion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take out an onion
fingerbanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fingerbangers
Etymology: From fingerbang + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who uses one or more fingers to stimulate another person's vulva, vagina, or anus for sexual stimulation; one who fingerbangs.
fingerbangers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fingerbanger
hackeem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hackeems
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of hakim.
hackeems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hackeem
hoosgows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoosgow
horrendousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From horrendous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being horrendous.
hosannahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hosannah
jet injectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jet injector
digital detox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: digital detoxes
Senses: examples: text: So while I have nothing but respect for Carr, Crawford and the sage wisdom of the ancient Chinese, I am stuck trying to find a way to address the age of annoyance while still earning a living working with technology. A digital detox, while a luxury like a vacation or spa day, is a nice idea and equally clever marketing trick; but, unfortunately, it is not a long-term solution to a growing issue.
ref: 2011, Gavin Jocius, The Age of Annoyance: Managing our Frustrations with Information Overload, page 109:
text: Meanwhile an explosion of gen Z running clubs, reading groups, in-person singles parties for people exhausted by dating apps, and “digital detox” events where phones are left outside the door, reflect a palpable and touching new hunger for old-fashioned face-to-face connection.
ref: 2025 March 7, Gaby Hinsliff, “It’s the age of regret: gen Z grew up glued to their screens, and missed the joy of being human”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: The Nobel committee has been unable to reach a winner of this year’s prize for medicine who is “living his best life” on an “off the grid” hiking foray. […] But the laureate’s digital detox means the Nobel committee has been unable to reach him and break the news.
ref: 2025 October 6, “Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid”, in The Guardian, sourced from Agence France-Presse, →ISSN:
glosses: A voluntary break from the use of computer technology, electronic devices and the Internet, intended to benefit people who spend an excessive amount of time using such technology.
hillocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hillocked
form: most hillocked
Etymology: From hillock + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having hillocks.
digital detoxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of digital detox
occupative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: When we come to occupative names, we are again confronted by crowds of diminutives.
ref: 1916, Ernest Weekley, Surnames, page 287:
glosses: occupational; relating to one's occupation or employment
Bartowski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Bartowski.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
fadelessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fadelessly
form: most fadelessly
Etymology: From fadeless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without fading; lastingly or eternally.
factionalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: factionalists
Etymology: From factional + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of a faction.
factionalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of factionalist
fitchée
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fitchy.
foreignly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more foreignly
form: most foreignly
Etymology: From foreign + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a foreign manner.
Europeanising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Europeanise
Europeanises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Europeanise
Europeanised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Europeanise
kaffiyah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaffiyahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of keffiyeh.
kaffiyahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kaffiyah
vulcanisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vulcaniser
interscholastically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From interscholastic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The University of Virginia belongs to the Atlantic Coast Conference and competes interscholastically in basketball, baseball, crew, cross country, fencing, football, golf, indoor track, lacrosse, polo, soccer, swimming, tennis, track, and wrestling.
ref: 1973, University of Virginia Undergraduate Record:
glosses: Between schools.
Nabokovesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Nabokovesque
form: most Nabokovesque
Etymology: From Nabokov + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Reminiscent of the works of Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), characterised by a lush descriptive style and intricate wordplay.
Related terms: Nabokovian
weatherproofness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From weatherproof + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or degree of being weatherproof.
lacklustres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lacklustre
lakatoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lakatois
form: lakatoi
form: lagatoi
Senses: glosses: A double-hulled sailing watercraft of Papua New Guinea.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: any of the series of postage stamps issued in British New Guinea and Papua featuring a design of a lakatoi.
lagatoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lagatois
form: lagatoi
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lakatoi.
lakatois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lakatoi
lagatois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lagatoi
landgravate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landgravates
Etymology: From landgrave + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, the concrete charge of it).
Senses: glosses: The rank or territory of a landgrave.
landgravates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of landgravate
lobscourse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lobscouse.
luds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lud
ballistocardiographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ballistocardiography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to ballistocardiography
Related terms: cardioballistic
ballistocardiographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballistocardiograph
ballistocardiograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballistocardiogram
bawties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bawty
glosses: plural of bawtie
bawtie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bawties
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bawty.
Binghis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Binghi
diatrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diatron
droobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of droob
palaeozoologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palaeozoologist
paraffles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paraffle
pelletisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pelletiser
percines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of percine
plumbisolvent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plumbisolvent
form: most plumbisolvent
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of plumbosolvent.
plumbisolvency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of plumbosolvency.
pluviometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pluviometry + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Related to pluviometry.
Derived terms: pluviometrically
pluviometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pluviometric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of, or in terms of, pluviometry.
polycot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polycots
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A polycotyledon.
Coordinate terms: monocot
polycots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polycot
polyprotodonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyprotodont
ponchoed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poncho + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing a poncho.
preinductions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preinduction
protopods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protopod
punaluan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From punalua + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a punalua.
pumpernickels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pumpernickel
autoimmunizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autoimmunization
Union of the Comoros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Official name of the Comoros: an island country in the Indian Ocean off the coast of East Africa.
chikors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chikor
chikhors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chikhor
chrismons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chrismon
chrisma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chrismon
chuckies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chucky
glosses: plural of chuckie
chuckies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The game of jacks or jackstones; chucks.
cormidia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cormidium
rhyparographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhyparographer
forthdraws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forthdraw
scaldic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scaldic
form: most scaldic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of skaldic.
snottie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snotties
Etymology: From snot + -ie.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of snotty (“type of jellyfish”).
glosses: Alternative form of snotty (“midshipman”).
spectrofluorimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spectrofluorimeter
speldrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speldrins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of speldring.
speldrins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speldrin
starra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of starr
not up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: Of the ball, having bounced twice. Usually called by the umpire in situations where it is unclear if the ball has bounced a second time to indicate to the players and spectators that the point is over.
barley-bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barley-birds
Senses: glosses: Any of several birds distinguished by their appearance in England at the time of barley-sowing.
The yellow wagtail. (Motacilla spp.)
glosses: Any of several birds distinguished by their appearance in England at the time of barley-sowing.
The wryneck. (Jynx spp.)
glosses: Any of several birds distinguished by their appearance in England at the time of barley-sowing.
The Eurasian siskin.
nonseminomatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + seminomatous.
Senses: glosses: Not seminomatous.
Chinese zodiac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A classification scheme that assigns an animal to each year in a repeating twelve-year cycle.
Nied
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nieds
Etymology: Borrowed from German Nied, a common element in placenames, possibly related to nieder (“low”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Rabbit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The fourth of the twelve-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
Horse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The seventh of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
Goat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The eighth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
Monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The ninth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
Rooster
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The tenth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
Pig
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The twelfth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
purple martin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purple martins
Senses: examples: text: This practice of harbouring and protecting the purple martin does not appear to be of European origin, as the aboriginal Americans had adopted a similar practice from time immemorial.
ref: 1831, James Rennie, The Architecture of Birds, page 343:
text: The American purple martin (Progne purpurea) is a visitor to North America, where it arrives in February at New Orleans, and Boston towards the end of April.
ref: 1871, Samuel Orchart Beeton, Beeton's Dictionary of natural history, page 193:
text: Female and young purple martins are gray and black with some blue on the back.
ref: 2013, Bill Thompson, Southern Birds: Backyard Guide:
glosses: The largest North American swallow, Progne subis.
better angels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: better angels of one's nature
Senses: examples: text: So do the shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.
ref: 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 29.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:
text: The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
ref: 1861 March 4, Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address:
text: A Christmas without children would be like a sleigh ride without snow. What gives this day its special grace is the glimpse it yields of a child's belief in the better angels of a grown-up world. Selfishness recedes, good will and gentleness for a blessed moment prevail.
ref: 1982 December 25, “Opinion: Children at the Window”, in New York Times, retrieved 03 Sep 2016:
text: Call me wrong, call me right / But I bring my better angels to every fight
ref: 2007, Chris Wallin, Craig Wiseman, “Love me if you can”, performed by Toby Keith:
text: Of his fellow tech CEOs – the ones competing to rush out their rival chatbots – he said: “I think the better angels are going to win out.” Better angels? At Google?
ref: 2023 May 8, Naomi Klein, “AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Morally upright or otherwise positive attributes of human character.
better angels of one's nature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of better angels.
better angels of someone's nature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of better angels.
sunrisy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sunrisy
form: most sunrisy
form: sunrisey
Etymology: From sunrise + -y.
Senses: examples: text: June 6 is a good day for a birthday — I remember in my youth how sunrisy it used to feel, with the roses just breaking, and gooseberry fool available for dinner! It is just that dayspring that makes Paradise — there's no other joy comparable to it, […]
ref: 1942, Sir Henry John Newbolt, Lady Margaret Edina Duckworth Newbolt, The Later Life and Letters of Sir Henry Newbolt
text: Out at the old schoolhouse-church, bright and sunrisy the following morning, the sparks began to fly.
ref: 1962, Clay Fisher, The Oldest Maiden Lady in New Mexico:
text: And she can use them correctly, even if creatively, for example, "The sky is all sunrisey," or "Let's swarm the money into the bag."
ref: 2002, Renewal: A Journal for Waldorf Education
glosses: Relating to, resembling, or characteristic of a sunrise.
delightly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more delightly
form: most delightly
Etymology: From delight + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: “Oh, the reporter. Welcome to Wise,” she said delightly, betraying any hint of a problem with business in town. [...]”
ref: 2000, Robert Arnold, Noel:
text: Miss Agnew, obviously having received further inspiration, went on delightly: “Since you're a woman of the cloth!”
ref: 2010, Kate Braestrup, Marriage and Other Acts of Charity:
text: After Xmas they will have a new baby and instead of guessing whether it's going to be a girls or boy they feel my tummy and grin delightly saying, “I bet it comes out with a tan like ours.”
ref: 2015, David Alfie Languedoc, Incorrigible:
text: [...] he said delightly. "I had to make a sprint for it, though, and I shall be glad of a rest. [...]"
ref: 2016, Thomas W. Hanshew, Mary E. Hanshew, Detective Hamilton Cleek Mysteries:
glosses: delightedly; with delight
contract system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contract systems
Senses: glosses: A system for managing contracts.
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: The system of selling the labor of convicts to a contractor, who provides the necessary materials and supervises the work in the premises of the prison.
unthriftier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of unthrifty: more unthrifty
timarau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timaraus
form: timarau
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tamaraw.
timaraus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timarau
tolarjev
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tolar
trudgeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trudgeons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of trudgen.
examples: text: The teargas and trudgeons were there for all.
ref: 1986, Robin Moyer, Bayan Ko!, page 20:
text: Best sequence showing helmer's skill as an action director is the long, anguishing Irani prison revolt (a real event), which climaxes in masked guards beating the defeated rioters with trudgeons and iron bars.
ref: 1987, Variety Film Reviews - Volume 20:
text: My master was then squeezed between two groups of men armed with trudgeons and sticks, spears and lances, rakes and sickles.
ref: 1996, United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, Human Rights in Vietnam:
glosses: Alternative form of truncheon.
examples: text: I should like to pay Rockaway a visit this week, but I have allowed the little Major to take holiday and go to the country with his wife and little trudgeons, and must play merchant for a few days.
ref: 1862, Pierre Munroe Irving, The Life and Letters of Washington Irving - Volume 1, page 308:
glosses: A toddler.
trudgeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trudgeon
purple martins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purple martin
sunrisey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sunrisey
form: most sunrisey
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sunrisy.
minor miracles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minor miracle
megafarads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megafarad
Berawan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An Austronesian language of Sarawak.
wheelwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheelwomen
Etymology: From wheel + -woman.
Senses: examples: text: Many wheelmen and wheelwomen, riding safeties, tandems and tricycles, stopped there during the evening and we had good opportunity for comparing American and English bicycles […]
ref: 1897, American Architect and Architecture, volumes 57-58, page 51:
coordinate_terms: wheelman
glosses: A female cyclist.
wheelwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheelwoman
ganjapreneur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɡænd͡ʒəpɹəˈnɜː(ɹ)/
/ˌɡɑnd͡ʒəpɹəˈnɜː(ɹ)/
/ˌɡɑnd͡ʒəpɹəˈnʊə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: ganjapreneurs
Etymology: Blend of ganja + entrepreneur.
Senses: examples: text: Announcer: “A true Ganjapreneur, you combined the lost art of door-to-door sales with a stupid idea you had while you were stoned.”
ref: 2010, Nick J. Druga, II, NickSilly's Book About Nothing, page 122:
text: In soothing his remaining neighbors, Tomas's goal was both to ensure that no one placed a jittery call to the snitch line that the county still maintained, and, more generally, to be a legal ganjapreneur diplomat.
ref: 2012, Doug Fine, Too High to Fail: Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution:
text: […] She's a real ganjapreneur! Look what she bought me for a wedding present!” He pulled up his sleeve and there on his scrawny arm hung a Rolex the size of Big Ben.
ref: 2015, Dorothea Benton Frank, Carolina Girls:
text: Some free advice for all you ganjapreneurs – get your books in order, keep good records, and remember that the IRS is years behind in audits.
ref: 2016, Jasper Stohner, 101 Money Making Methods in the Marijuana Madness Movement of 2016:
glosses: An entrepreneur in the business of selling marijuana in regions where it has been legalized.
ganjapreneurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ganjapreneur
Rolexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rolex
zoom blur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoom blurs
Senses: glosses: A visual effect in cinematography or computer graphics that gives the illusion of rapid motion by zooming in or out of a scene and applying blur.
zoom blurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoom blur
voxelscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voxelscapes
Etymology: From voxel + -scape.
Senses: examples: text: Plus, if one of your missiles hits the ground, it can leave a crater by actually modifying the surface voxelscape […]
ref: 1997, Sean Puckett, “TumbleBugs Review”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action (Usenet):
text: I'm trying to write a voxelscape that has free movement i.e. you can rotate the view to any angle […]
ref: 1997, Chris Hubball, “voxelscapes”, in comp.graphics.algorithms (Usenet):
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A three-dimensional landscape constructed from voxels.
voxelscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voxelscape
surfelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of surfel
cinder toffee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of honeycomb toffee.
synonyms: word: honeycomb toffee
sponge toffee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of honeycomb toffee.
synonyms: word: honeycomb toffee
honeycomb toffee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: cinder toffee
seafoam candy
sponge toffee
glosses: A sugary toffee with a light, rigid, spongy texture, made with baking soda so that carbon dioxide is trapped in the viscous mixture.
Tetra Paks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tetra Pak
grindy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹaɪndi/
Forms: form: more grindy
form: grindier
form: most grindy
form: grindiest
Etymology: From grind + -y.
Senses: examples: text: a grindy noise
text: And “Old P” had stuck, for the whole of the year that Tony had had her, as her grinding day by day got grindier and her spluttering splutterier.
ref: 1986, H[enry] R[eymond] F[itzwalter] Keating, “Old P”, in Ellery Queen’s Prime Crimes, Secaucus, N.J.: Castle, published 1988, →ISBN, page 352:
text: The songwriting is a bit more grindy than I recall on their other releases, but I’m into that anyway.
ref: 2004 fall–winter, Brian, “Solid Decline / Strong Intention – split EP”, in Profane Existence: Making Punk a Threat Again!, number 46, Minneapolis, Minn.: Profane Existence, →ISSN, page 81, column 1:
text: I head for the door, but instantly the bumping, gurgling diesel sound gets louder, grindier, it becomes more frantic, and I do too.
ref: 2008, Chris Lynch, “Game On”, in The Big Game of Everything, New York, N.Y.: HarperTeen, →ISBN, page 264:
text: [T]he gun had stopped firing and started making a horrible grinding noise and burping out thick, stinky smoke. […] The grinding got grindier.
ref: 2016, Alan Brough, “The Explosion”, in Charlie and the War Against the Grannies, Sydney, N.S.W.: Pan, →ISBN, page 262:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of grinding.
examples: text: HGM’s writers have spent time in the grindiest of grindy Korean and Japanese free-to-plays, but Free Realms is something new and different and better.
ref: 2009 June, Lynxara [pseudonym; Alicia Ashby], Vivek Varadarajan, “Free Realms”, in Hardcore Gamer Magazine, volume 5, number 1, [Redmond, Wash.]: DoubleJump Publishing, →ISSN, page 12:
text: Greed will get players to do interesting things. They will grind their way through the grindiest MMOs to get that stronger sword, that unique hat, gain that next level.
ref: 2010, Scott Rogers, “More Wealth Than You Can Imagine!”, in Level Up! The Guide to Great Video Game Design, Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley, →ISBN, Level 13 (Now You’re Playing with Power), page 365:
text: [T]he student may have sufficient time to spend hours on even the ‘grindiest’ of games or, elsewhere, the mundanities of working life intervene.
ref: 2011, Dave Randall, “All in the Game: Families, Peer Groups and Game Playing in the Home”, in Richard Harper, editor, The Connected Home: The Future of Domestic Life, London: Springer, →ISBN, Part II (Experiencing the Connected Home), page 129:
text: Beware, as these achievements can feel “grindy” unless there is a worthwhile reward attached.
ref: 2012, Scott Rogers, Swipe This!: The Guide to Great Touchscreen Game Design:
text: Some players seem to think that grindy content has been put in on purpose to pad out play […]
ref: 2015, Richard A. Bartle, MMOs from the Inside Out:
topics: video-games
glosses: Involving a lot of repetition in order to progress.
metacube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metacubes
Etymology: From meta- + cube.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A kind of computer architecture derived from the hypercube and intended for use with large-scale parallel systems.
metacubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metacube
Chinese magic mirror
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinese magic mirrors
Senses: glosses: A kind of ancient mirror made from polished bronze and capable of projecting a pattern onto a surface when struck by bright light.
Chinese magic mirrors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chinese magic mirror
artivistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more artivistic
form: most artivistic
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to artivism.
NUT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Union of Teachers.
nepenth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪˈpɛnθ/
ipa: /nəˈpɛnθ/
Forms: form: nepenths
Etymology: From French népenthe, népenthès (“nepenthes”), népente (“a plant from which a drug supposedly bringing relief from grief may be obtained”), or Latin nēpenthes: see further at nepenthes. Compare Italian nepente.
Senses: examples: text: NEPENTHA′CEÆ, Nepenths, a natural order of Exogenous Plants inhabiting the damper and warmer parts of Asia, and having, in the place of leaves, large hollow bodies furnished with a lid, and containing water secreted from a peculiar glandular apparatus with which they are lined. […] [T]he adherent ovary of Birthworts, their highly developed calyx, axile placentation, and hermaphrodite flowers, are serious difficulties in the way of a close contact between them and Nepenths, unless the peculiar structure of the wood, the consideration of which I for the present abandon, should lead to the final establishment of the class of Homogens, in which case Nepenths and Birthworts will be brought into contact or at least a near neighbourhood.
ref: 1867, “NEPENTHA′CEÆ”, in Charles Knight, editor, Natural History or Second Division of “The English Cyclopædia”, volume III, London: Bradbury, Evans, & Co., 11, Bouverie St., Fleet St., E.C.; New York, N.Y.: Scribner, Welford, & Co., 654, Broadway, →OCLC, column 1080:
text: Homer of Moly and Nepenthe singes: / Moly, the gods most soveraigne hearbe divine. / Nepenth Hellen's drink, which gladnes brings,— / Hart's greife repells, and doth yᵉ witts refine.
ref: 1876, John Davies, “[Tobacco.]”, in Alexander B[alloch] Grosart, editor, The Complete Poems of Sir John Davies. Edited, with Memorial-Introduction and Notes, by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart. In Two Volumes (Early English Poets), volume II, London: Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly, →OCLC, page 226:
text: The nepenth of nostalgia is replaced by an amphetamine of anticipation.
ref: 2013, Ogden W[illis] Rogers, “The Tipping Point (or, ‘There She Goes Again …’)”, in Beginnings, Middles, & Ends: Sideways Stories on the Art & Soul of Social Work, Harrisburg, Pa.: White Hat Communications, →ISBN, page 229:
glosses: Alternative form of nepenthes.
nepenths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nepenth.
Synonyms: nepenthes
niff-naff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: niff-naffs
Senses: examples: text: When it came to Mr. Turnbull, he held it up between him and the light, "Keatie, whaten a niff-naff of a glass is this? let us see a feasible ane."
ref: 1869, Thomas Thomson, Tales and sketches, page 322:
text: "They appear, friend," I reply, unhelpfully and without irony, as if any niff-naff who owns a megayacht with a decent liquor cabinet would know such a thing, "rather like the color of absinthe."
ref: 2006, Ski, volume 71, number 3, page 175:
glosses: Something or someone insignificant; a trifle.
Derived terms: niff-naffy
niff-naffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of niff-naff
neuroleptanaesthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neuroleptanesthetic.
neuroleptanaesthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of neuroleptanesthesia.
neuroleptanesthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuroleptanesthesia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to neuroleptanesthesia.
neuroleptanesthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuroleptanaesthesia
form: neuroleptanæsthesia
Etymology: Blend of neuroleptic + anesthesia
Senses: glosses: Anesthesia induced by the use of neuroleptics.
Derived terms: neuroleptanesthetic