cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
endosymbiotically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From endosymbiotic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By endosymbiosis.
pebble toad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pebble toads
Senses: glosses: Oreophrynella nigra, a South American toad that can fold up its limbs and roll down a slope when threatened.
pebble toads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pebble toad
radio-controlled cars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radio-controlled car
ungenuine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungenuine
form: most ungenuine
Etymology: From un- + genuine.
Senses: glosses: false, not genuine or authentic.
Synonyms: ingenuine
false
fake
transferentially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From transferential + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of, or by means of, transference.
takanakuy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Quechua takanakuy (“to hit each other”).
Senses: glosses: A traditional annual fighting event held on 25 December by the inhabitants of Chumbivilcas Province near Cuzco in Peru.
Up Helly Aa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Up-Helly-Aa
form: Uphelya
Etymology: From the Shetlandic form of Scots up-haly-aw.
Senses: glosses: Any of a variety of fire festivals held in Shetland, in Scotland, to mark the end of the Yule season.
clavie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clavies
Senses: glosses: A cask split in two and ceremonially burned as part of an ancient Scottish custom still observed at Burghead, a fishing village on the Moray Firth.
Suebian knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Suebian knots
Senses: glosses: A historical male hairstyle ascribed to the tribe of the Germanic Suebi.
Suebian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Suebian
form: most Suebian
Etymology: From Suebi + -an.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the tribe of the Germanic Suebi.
Derived terms: Suebian knot
Suebian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Suebians
Etymology: From Suebi + -an.
Senses: glosses: A member of the tribe of the Germanic Suebi.
sky burial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sky burials
Senses: examples: text: “A sky burial? What’s that?”
“Just what it says. You bury them in the sky. They do it in Tibet and places. You bring the dead body to a mountain and leave it so they can be out in the open until they're not.”
ref: 2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 423:
synonyms: wind burial
hypernyms: excarnation
glosses: A funeral practice in which a human corpse is placed atop a mountain or other outdoor structure to decompose or be eaten by scavenging animals.
Related terms: aranga
sky burials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sky burial
pamonha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pamonhas
Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese pamonha. From Old Tupi pa'muña (“sticky”).
Senses: glosses: A traditional Brazilian food, a dumpling made from sweetcorn and milk boiled wrapped in the husk, sometimes with a sweet or savoury filling; associated with festa junina winter celebrations.
Spingo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Said to mean "strong beer" in Old English. Compare stingo (“strong beer”), bingo (“brandy”).
Senses: glosses: Any of a range of beers brewed in Cornwall, England.
fingernail clam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æm
Forms: form: fingernail clams
Senses: glosses: A member of the family Sphaeriidae family of small to minute freshwater bivalve molluscs.
leopard slug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leopard slugs
Senses: glosses: Limax maximus, a large slug whose coloration resembles that of a leopard's fur.
Synonyms: great grey slug
leopard slugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leopard slug
Piltdown Man
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The Piltdown man of Sussex, England. Antiquity variously estimated at 100,000 to 300,000 years. The ape-like structure of the jaw does not prevent the expression of a considerable degree of intelligence in the face.
ref: 1914, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Men of the Old Stone Age: Their Environment, Life and Art:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A supposed early human theorized from bone fragments said to have been found in a gravel pit in Piltdown, England, in 1912, but later identified as a forgery.
Synonyms: Eoanthropus dawsoni
Derived terms: Piltdown man
Piltdown men
mirror test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mirror tests
Senses: glosses: A test to determine whether a non-human animal possesses the ability of self-recognition, carried out by introducing the animal to a mirror, painting a mark on the animal, and observing whether it touches the mark on its own body after seeing it in the mirror image.
Elvis taxon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Elvis taxa
Etymology: Coined in a 1993 paper by D. H. Erwin and M. L. Droser, with reference to the prevalence of impersonators of the singer Elvis Presley.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A taxon that has been misidentified as having re-emerged in the fossil record after a period of presumed extinction, but is not actually a descendant of the original taxon, instead having developed a similar morphology through convergent evolution.
Coordinate terms: Lazarus taxon
zombie taxon
Related terms: Aldabra rail
toothache tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toothache trees
Senses: glosses: The tree Aralia spinosa.
glosses: The tree Zanthoxylum clava-herculis.
Related terms: toothache bark
La Plata dolphin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: La Plata dolphins
Senses: glosses: Pontoporia blainvillei, a dolphin found in the coastal Atlantic waters of southeastern South America.
Synonyms: franciscana
blynx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɪŋks/
rhymes: -ɪŋks
homophone: blinks
Forms: form: blynxes
Etymology: Blend of bobcat + lynx.
Senses: glosses: The hybrid offspring of a bobcat and a Canada lynx.
blynxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blynx
flying dragon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flying dragons
Senses: glosses: Draco volans, a gliding lizard endemic to Southeast Asia.
glosses: Any lizard in the genus Draco.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see flying, dragon.
Synonyms: flying lizard
winged dragon
gliding lizard
unhurtful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhurtful
form: most unhurtful
Etymology: From un- + hurtful.
Senses: glosses: Not hurtful.
Danish axe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Danish axes
Senses: glosses: Dane axe
Dane axe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dane axes
form: Dane ax
Senses: glosses: An early battle axe, primarily used during the transition between the European Viking Age and early Middle Ages.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Representation of the weapon, used as a heraldic charge.
earthquake storm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earthquake storms
Etymology: Coined by Stanford Professor of Geophysics Amos Nur in 2000.
Senses: glosses: The theorized situation where one earthquake triggers a series of other large earthquakes, along the same plate boundary, as the stress transfers along the fault system.
Arebica
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A Bosniak variant of the Perso-Arabic script, once used to write the Bosnian dialect of Serbo-Croatian.
Related terms: aljamiado
raison d'état
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹeɪˌzɒ̃ deɪˈtɑː/
ipa: /ɹeɪˌzɒn deɪˈtɑː/
ipa: /ɹeɪˌzɑn deɪˈtɑː/
Forms: form: raison d'etat
Etymology: From French raison d'État (literally “reason of state”).
Senses: examples: text: The law as created by the Supreme Court has been nay-saying in fact and in effect, stating in specific instances a series of "thou shalt nots." Not entirely, to be sure, as the cases illustrating raison d'état in American constitutional law tend to indicate, but enough to make the generalization valid.
ref: 1975, Philip B. Kurland, editor, The Supreme Court and the Judicial Function:
text: ‘The western alliance is part of Germany's raison d'état,’ he declared. ‘We've got to take responsibility.[…]’
ref: 1999 April 3, Ian Traynor, quoting Gerhard Schröder, “Schröder struggles against mounting pacifist anguish”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Nor did the end of the Cold War put an end to the bipartisan tendency toward placing raison d'etat above the standards of international law and morality that America officially aims to uphold.
ref: 2008 December 18, Ross Douthat, “What Would Gore Have Done?”, in The Atlantic:
text: These epochal shifts contributed to lend specificity to the substantive rationality of the state — raison d'etat.
ref: 2012, Yale H. Ferguson, R. J. Barry Jones, Political Space: Frontiers of Change and Governance in a Globalizing World, page 173:
glosses: A state interest, especially when invoked as politically superior to moral or even legal considerations.
raison d'etat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of raison d'état.
kerby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɝbi/
ipa: /kɜːbi/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bi
homophone: curby
homophone: kirby
Forms: form: kerbsy
Etymology: From kerb + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It's dusk and there are a lot of kids out playing kerby and tag and football. For a December night, the weather isn't bad.
ref: 2011, Adrian McKinty, Dead I Well May Be, page 133:
text: I'd play kerby in the street for hours looking up at contrails stretching across grey slate skies, wishing I was on a plane too, jetting away to somewhere else.
ref: 2014, Simon Danczuk, Matt Baker, Smile for the Camera: The Double Life of Cyril Smith:
text: The heat from the tarmac refracted the light and disturbed the vision of the children as they persisted in their game of kerby.
ref: 2014, Samantha Nash, All Muck and Mullets, page 43:
glosses: A children's ball game played in the street, the aim being to throw the ball against the opposite kerb and catch it on the rebound.
skerping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Faroese skerping (“sharpening”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: In the Faroese language, the phenomenon where back vowels are fronted before [kv], and certain diphthongs are monophthongized before [tʃː].
kite flying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If implemented, Labour's embryonic proposal is unlikely to do anything to resolve that debate, as judges will do what they are entitled to do – ignore the guidance and apply the Human Rights Act. But if Labour's proposal is, as I suspect it is, an exercise in political kite flying, then it may signal something more significant.
ref: 2014 June 5, Adam Wagner, “Human rights reform ... Labour reveals its hand”, in UK Human Rights Blog:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The tactic whereby a politician, usually through the media and often by way of an intentional leak, raises an idea to gauge the public reaction to it.
sanctionably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sanctionably
form: most sanctionably
Etymology: From sanctionable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner or to a degree that is sanctionable.
sanctionability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sanction + -ability.
Senses: antonyms: unsanctionability
glosses: The state or quality of being sanctionable.
hurtability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hurt + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being hurtable; susceptibility to hurt.
induceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: inducable
Etymology: From induce + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being induced.
inducable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of induceable.
pipable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pipeable.
unicorn plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unicorn plants
Senses: glosses: Any of certain species of the flowering plant genus Proboscidea.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Proboscidea louisianica
word: common unicorn plant
taxonomic: Proboscidea althaeifolia
word: desert unicorn plant
taxonomic: Proboscidea sabulosa
word: dune unicorn plant
taxonomic: Proboscidea spicata
word: New Mexico unicorn plant
taxonomic: Proboscidea fragrans
alt: syn. Martynia fragrans
word: sweet unicorn plant
taxonomic: Ibicella lutea
alt: syn. Proboscidea lutea
word: yellow unicorn plant
preparser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preparsers
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A software component that performs parsing in advance.
preparsers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preparser
transomless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From transom + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a transom.
Spanish fury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Spanish furies
Senses: examples: text: The most famous Spanish fury was the sack of Antwerp in 1576.
glosses: A vindictive or rampant bloody pillage of cities in the Low Countries by Spanish regular or mutinous troops between the years 1572–1579, during the Dutch Revolt.
Spanish furies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Spanish fury
burhs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burh
boardrider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boardriders
Etymology: From board + rider, referring to the surfboard.
Senses: glosses: surfer
boardriders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boardrider
Cornish hurling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An outdoor team game of Celtic origin played in Cornwall, England, with a small silver ball.
timber lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timber line
parev
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pareve.
Derived terms: parevine
trophoplast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɑfoʊplæst/
Forms: form: trophoplasts
Etymology: From tropho- + -plast. Coined by Arthur Meyer in 1883.
Senses: examples: text: In a paper on the same subject, A. Meyer proposes a somewhat different terminology. […] And since anaplasts, chromoplasts, and autoplasts are all nearly related in structure and origin, he includes them in the common term Trophoplasts.
ref: 1883, Journal of Microscopy, page 239:
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of various organelles found in plant and algae cells, such as a chloroplast, chromoplast, leucoplast, or gerontoplast; a plastid.
wikipedia: Arthur Meyer (botanist)
screen protector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screen protectors
Senses: glosses: An additional sheet of material, commonly polyurethane or glass, that can be attached to the screen of an electronic device to protect it against physical damage.
screen protectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of screen protector
femidoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of femidom
gs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of g
Tamika
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.
Us
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of U
Vs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of V
Vs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Stall speed.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Stall speed.
Stall speed in the clean configuration, with all flaps, slats, and droops retracted.
Hyponyms: Vs0
Coordinate terms: V1
V2
VD
VMO
VNE
VR
Vxse
Vx
Vyse
Vy
Ws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of W
Ns
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Nimbostratus.
Ns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of N
Ls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of L
Ls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Abbreviation of license.
Senses: examples: text: I can't pick you up. I ain't got my Ls.
glosses: driver's license
ws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of w
xs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of x
happy Hanukkah
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: happy Hanukkah !
form: happy Chanukah
form: happy Hanukah
Senses: glosses: Used to express good wishes on or before Hanukkah.
unfood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unfoods
Etymology: From un- + food.
Senses: examples: text: All around him people were eating their unfood with, if not actual evidence of enjoyment, then with no more actual disgust than was to be found in burger chains all over the planet.
ref: 1990, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Good Omens, published 2011, →ISBN, page 162:
text: There is no way to eat and drink all the unfood and beverages and still come out healthy and strong.
ref: 2007, Diana Mourer, Go Lite on White and Be Discreet with Sweets:
text: Sugar is added to the majority of processed foods, but refined sugar is actually an unfood. An unfood robs you of nutrition.
ref: 2010, Raymond Francis, Michele King, Never Be Fat Again:
glosses: Foodstuff that is not fit for consumption; unhealthy or unnutritious food.
Synonyms: junk food
unnutritional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unnutritional
form: most unnutritional
Etymology: From un- + nutritional.
Senses: glosses: Providing little or no nutrition; having little to no nutritional value; not nutritional; non-nourishing; unhealthy.
lap steel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lap steels
Senses: glosses: a type of acoustic guitar and steel guitar played on the musician's lap
Synonyms: lap steel guitar
Hypernyms: steel guitar
slide guitar
acoustic guitar
guitar
Related terms: pedal steel
table steel
steel guitar
lap steels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lap steel
pedal steel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedal steels
Senses: examples: text: It expanded from bleary delay rippling with looped phrases to embrace molten metalloid raunch and blues grit, acoustic guitars and pedal steels.
ref: 2004, Gene Santoro, Highway 61 Revisited:
glosses: Synonym of pedal steel guitar.
synonyms: word: pedal steel guitar
pedal steels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedal steel
table steel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: table steels
Senses: glosses: Synonym of table steel guitar.
synonyms: word: table steel guitar
table steels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of table steel
pedal steel guitars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedal steel guitar
EITs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of EIT
electrical impedance tomography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A medical imaging technique which uses surface electrodes to infer the electrical conductivity and electrical permittivity of a two-dimensional slice of the body.
Synonyms: word: EIT
tutorly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tutorly
form: most tutorly
Etymology: From tutor + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Consequent upon this, the students also, in many respects, are able to take on a tutorly role as they work together in a group.
ref: 2012, Stephen Rowland, The Enquiring Tutor:
glosses: Of, befitting, or belonging to a tutor; pedagogic.
enhanced interrogation technique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enhanced interrogation techniques
Etymology: Coined by the George W. Bush administration (administration of the 43rd president of the United States of America), with the antecedent German verschärfte Vernehmung (“enhanced interrogation”).
Senses: glosses: Torture.
Synonyms: word: EIT
Hypernyms: torture
Derived terms: word: EIT
enhanced interrogation techniques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enhanced interrogation technique
managerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more managerly
form: most managerly
Etymology: From manager + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Again came the racking labor pains. Projector Mansfield commuted between his managerly duties in Billerica and his brewing prospects in Maine.
ref: 1959, Linwood W. Moody, The Maine Two-footers: The Story of the Two-foot Gauge Railroads of Maine:
text: Is Alex still such a Tartar, or has he settled down to doing proper station managerly things like courting potential donors?
ref: 1997, Janice Steinberg, The Dead Man and the Sea:
text: Her boss just wanted something that he could tear up so he could feel important and managerly.
ref: 2006, Theresa Alan, Spur of the Moment:
glosses: Of, befitting, or belonging to a manager; managerial.
bossly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bossly
form: most bossly
Etymology: From boss + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Randall could only do so much. And his role as her boss—no matter how much he felt for her—only allowed him to go so far toward commiseration, without his offering bossly, fatherly, advice.
ref: 2013, Darrell James, Purgatory Key:
glosses: Of, belonging to, or befitting a boss.
stemma codicum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɛməˈkəʊdɪkəm/
Forms: form: stemmata codicum
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin stemma cōdicum, from stemma (“family tree”) + cōdicum (“book”, genitive plural).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
textual-criticism
glosses: A schema, resulting from the stemmatological process of recension, in which all surviving manuscripts of a given text are represented with their derivation, via intermediary hyparchetypes, from a single archetype.
stemmata codicum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɛmətəˈkəʊdɪkəm/
Etymology: Latin: stemmata (nominative plural form of stemma) + cōdicum (genitive plural form of cōdex) = “pedigrees of codices”, “family trees of manuscripts”
Senses: glosses: plural of stemma codicum
tamborims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tamborim
grudgeholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grudgeholders
Etymology: From grudge + holder.
Senses: examples: text: Me, I ain't no grudgeholder — if I had caught the dude early on, I'd a put a hurtin' on him, but later on — what the hell?
ref: 1993, Edwin Torres, Carlito's Way, page 70:
text: This was so not gonna fly with Raquel, a card-carrying member of the grudgeholder's guild.
ref: 2010, Michele Serros, Honey Blonde Chica, page 93:
glosses: One who bears a grudge.
grudgeholders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grudgeholder
spokesbabe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spokesbabes
Etymology: Blend of spokesman + babe
Senses: glosses: A physically attractive spokeswoman.
spokesbabes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spokesbabe
spokeslady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spokesladies
Senses: examples: text: Unfortunately I took the rejection personally and replied in my own fear of rejection. Angrily I ask the spokeslady if she could tell me what the sermon was about. She ignored me and went on with her tirade against the youth.
ref: 2010, George Pontius, Grace over the Long Run:
glosses: spokeswoman
spokesladies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spokeslady
oxybiodegradable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oxy- + biodegradable.
Senses: examples: text: As well as work to develop the inline NIR detection system, the SuperCleanQ project, also carried out work to determine the influence that PLA and oxybiodegradable additives had on the properties of rPET.
ref: 2019, Martin J. Forrest, Recycling of Polyethylene Terephthalate:
glosses: Biodegradable in the presence of oxygen.
shahidka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shahidkas
Etymology: Russian шахидка (šaxidka); from Arabic شَهِيد (šahīd) + -ка (-ka, “feminine ending”)
Senses: glosses: A female shaheed.
shahidkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shahidka
Cornish hedge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛdʒ
Forms: form: Cornish hedges
Senses: glosses: A kind of hedge built of stone and earth, found in Cornwall, England.
springer antelope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: springer antelopes
Senses: glosses: springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis)
spring salmon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spring salmons
form: spring salmon
Senses: glosses: A chinook salmon; especially an average-sized one (less than 13.5 kg).
democraties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of democraty
springing cow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: springing cows
Senses: glosses: A cow or heifer which is close to calving.
Synonyms: springer
springer cow
blazeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From blaze + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a blaze.
bullionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bullion + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without bullion.
burdenless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From burden + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a burden.
Derived terms: burdenlessness
businessless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From business + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without business.
Derived terms: businesslessness
smart band
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smart bands
Senses: examples: text: So, if we are to recognize the entire city to be a living entity, just like a smart human being, a smart city would also require constant monitoring of its health. Just like a human being using a smart band or a smart watch to sense his/her vital parameters such as temperature, blood pressure, glucose, heart rate, lipid profile, Vitamins^([sic]) etc. the smart city may also require several thousand sensors installed in its arteries and touch points to sense its vital organs.
ref: 2019, T.M. Vinod Kumar, Smart Environment for Smart Cities, Springer, →ISBN, page 437:
hypernyms: wearable
coordinate_terms: smartwatch
glosses: A mobile device worn on the wrist, often with a display that can be used to control a smartphone or to keep track of information such as fitness levels.
coinmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coinmakers
Etymology: From coin + maker.
Senses: examples: text: He discussed silversmiths and silver and gold beating, coinmakers, musical instrument makers, and the tools of these craftsmen, their technical vocabulary, what raw materials they used, and finally he returned to the salt cellar.
ref: 1997, Pamela H. Smith, The Business of Alchemy, page 88:
glosses: One who makes coins.
coinmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coinmaker
Cornish hedges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cornish hedge
funtivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: funtivities
Etymology: Blend of fun + activity
Senses: examples: text: The culminating funtivity is a cash grab on a Twister-like mat between two people, in which they stuff as much money into their various pockets, shirt fronts, and orifices as humanly possible.
ref: 2010, Matt Labash, Fly Fishing with Darth Vader: And Other Adventures with Evangelical Wrestlers, Political Hitmen, and Jewish Cowboys, →ISBN, page 275:
glosses: A fun activity.
funtivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of funtivity
psychoticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychoticisms
Etymology: From psychotic + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Eysenck has suggested the three dimensions of neuroticism, psychoticism and introversion-extraversion.
ref: 1964, John Michael Argyle, Psychology & Social Problems, page 75:
glosses: A personality pattern typified by aggressiveness and interpersonal hostility.
psychoticisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychoticism
shipping and handling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
synonyms: S&H
postage and packaging
postage and packing
p&p
P&H
coordinate_terms: handling charge
handling fee
;
service charge
service fee
glosses: The process of transporting goods from their point of origin to a customer, especially a consumer as end user; (ellipsis) a charge supposed to cover the direct and indirect costs of doing so.
shadowbanned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shadowban
shadowbanning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shadowban
shadowbans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shadowban
shadowbans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shadowban
fuckbucket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuckbuckets
Etymology: Shitgibbon compound of fuck + bucket.
Senses: examples: text: Frank, the utter fuckbucket, dumped me in an interview room ('We'll have someone with you in a minute, Miss Madison') and left me there for two hours.
ref: 2008, Tana French, The Likeness, unnumbered page:
text: "Behave yourself, fuckbucket," he told him, "or I'll poke your weenie down the coffee grinder."
ref: 2012, Roger F. Kennedy, City of Light, page 111:
text: “Some fuckbucket must've gotten the address wrong.”
ref: 2022, Diana Urban, These Deadly Games, unnumbered page:
glosses: A worthless or objectionable person or thing.
fuckbuckets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuckbucket
coinmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From coin + making.
Senses: glosses: The manufacture of coins.
reintegratively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more reintegratively
form: most reintegratively
Etymology: From reintegrative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a reintegrative manner.
blood eagles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blood eagle
dubloon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of doubloon.
ispravnik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ispravniks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ispravnic.
endman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endmen
Etymology: From end + -man.
Senses: glosses: A man at one end of a row or line.
glosses: One who takes the most advanced or extreme view of anything; an extremist.
examples: text: I don't like the Minstrel folks, and I doesn't care for the endmen's jokes;
I has no use for the musical mokes, and I don't like a circus clown […]
ref: 1904, William Jerome, When Mr. Shakespeare comes to town:
synonyms: cornerman
glosses: A type of stock character common in American minstrel shows, occurring in pairs, flanking a character in the middle, and distinguished by exchanging jokes in between skits and songs.
beady-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beady-eyed
form: most beady-eyed
Senses: glosses: Having small, bright eyes.
examples: text: “Okay, we go east. To the lair of Tamatoa. If anyone has my hook, it's that beady-eyed bottom-feeder.”
ref: 2016 November 23, Jared Bush, 51:20 from the start, in Moana, spoken by Maui (Dwayne Johnson):
text: “Look, I'm President of the United States. I can't get involved in every petty little protest against a Third World country.” “Third World country?! How dare you! Canada is Second World at least! Now, you listen here, Mr. Buddy! Either you stop the embargo on The Terrance and Phillip Show, or we'll bring our own troops to stop it ourselves!” “Are you threatening us, you beady-eyed Canuck?” “I'm simply telling you that Canada will do what it must to protect itself!” “Then I guess both our countries better be prepared.”
ref: 2017 November 29, Trey Parker, “Super Hard PCness” (18:20 from the start), in South Park, season 21, episode 9, spoken by Mr. Garrison (Trey Parker):
glosses: Giving a suspicious and alert look.
Related terms: beady eye
ghughu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ghu.
Tucker telephone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tucker telephones
Etymology: Named after the Tucker State Prison Farm, where its inventor Dr. A. E. Rollins worked.
Senses: examples: text: The inmate doctor wired him up on the "Tucker Telephone" with one wire to his penis and another to his big toe.
ref: 1992, British Medical Association, quoting Case report: Tucker State Prison Farm, Tucker, Arkansas (1966), Medicine Betrayed: The Participation of Doctors in Human Rights Abuses, Zed Books, page 33:
text: Although they enjoined the use of the Tucker telephone and similar instruments of torture, they noted that the Department of Corrections had dismissed a number of officials implicated in past violations and had instituted new rules to govern corporal punishment.
ref: 2000 March 18, Malcolm M. Feeley with Edward L. Rubin, Judicial Policy Making and the Modern State: How the Courts Reformed America's Prisons, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 57:
glosses: A torture device for giving electric shocks, designed using parts from an old-fashioned crank telephone.
gleem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of gleam.
Turki
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Turki
form: most Turki
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Turkic languages, especially those of Central Asia, or the peoples speaking them.
Suis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sui
XFEL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: XFELs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of X-ray free-electron laser.
XFELs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of XFEL
MCRE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Monte Carlo rate equation.
glosses: Initialism of Monte Carlo replica exchange.
glosses: Initialism of Markov chain in random environment.
glosses: Initialism of mean chromaticity error.
Foo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -uː
Forms: form: FooFoo
form: foofoo
form: foo
Etymology: See foo. Used in this context by Jack Speer, originally for the fannish ghod of mimeography in the 1930s.
Senses: examples: text: Robert Bloch has blown his top. Backwards or forwards (or sideways) Foo ((ugh)) and Ghu ((!)) cannot be united! Does one eat chocolate cake with catsup on it? If you do and enjoy it then go off and be a fooghuist in your own little corner. You may as well worship Roscoe. Or Alpaugh. Foo fans are happy fans. Ghu isn't really helping Hoffman put out a fine mag you know. The fans who read Q are probably -- for the most part -- Foofooists.
ref: 1951 November, Pike Pickens, “Sez You”, in Quandry, number 15, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2011:
text: I imagine it must be pretty discouraging to send out a whole issue of a fanzine and get nothing back but a couple of poctsarcds.^([sic]) I wouldn't know, thank Foo.
ref: 1955 January, Dean Grennell, “Filler #523”, in Abstract, number 9:
text: You’ll never guess what Wollheim’s men have found!¶ A forest full of perfect echo-ﬂowers.¶ Honest to Foo! He says ”Salad!” to them,¶ And they obediently answer back, “Salad!”
ref: 2004 September, Jack Speer, “Last and First Fen”, in Noreascon 4 Souvenir Book, page 57:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A mock deity of early science fiction fandom; a fannish ghod.
Hypernyms: ghod
Coordinate terms: Ghu
Alegranza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island of the Canary Islands.
Derived terms: alegranzaensis
blindsnake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blindsnakes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blind snake.
blindsnakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blindsnake
blind snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blind snakes
Senses: glosses: Any snake of the infraorder Scolecophidia
Hyponyms: sense: snake of Scolecophidia
word: Jamaican blind snake
sense: snake of Scolecophidia
word: thread snake
ceratopsoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ceratopsoids
Senses: glosses: Any marginocephalian dinosaur of the superfamily Ceratopsoidea
ceratopsoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ceratopsoid
SJD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: S.J.D.
Senses: glosses: Scientiae Juridicae Doctor; Doctor of Judicial Science.
S.J.D.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of SJD.
circumnarial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɜː.kəmˈnɛəɹi.əl/
ipa: /ˌsɝ.kəmˈnɛɹi.əl/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəl
Etymology: From circum- + narial.
Senses: glosses: Surrounding the nostrils
Synonyms: perinasal
coestimated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + estimated.
Senses: glosses: estimated together
raw_tags: of two or more values
coronosaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coronosaurs
Senses: glosses: Any centrosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur of the genus Coronosaurus.
coronosaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coronosaur
depaurate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of depauperate.
foveally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From foveal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Towards the fovea
Derived terms: extrafoveally
subfoveally
hadrosauroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hadrosauroid
interfrontal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʌntəl
Etymology: From inter- + frontal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Between the frontal bones
laterotemporal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmpəɹəl
Etymology: From latero- + temporal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the lateral part of the temporal region of the skull
macroplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macroplastics
Etymology: From macro- + plastic.
Senses: glosses: Relatively large particles of plastic found especially in the marine environment (typically more than about 5 mm)
Coordinate terms: megaplastic
mesoplastic
microplastic
nanoplastic
mesoplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesoplastics
Etymology: From meso- + plastic.
Senses: glosses: particles of plastic found especially in the marine environment (typically about 10 mm)
Coordinate terms: macroplastic
megaplastic
microplastic
nanoplastic
mesoplastics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesoplastic
macroplastics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macroplastic
methanone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methanones
Etymology: From methane + -one.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: formaldehyde considered as the simplest ketone - R₂C=O
miasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of myiasis.
morphotyped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of morphotype
plastisphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈplæstɪˌsfɪəɹ/
Forms: form: plastispheres
Etymology: From plastic + -sphere, analogous to biosphere. Coined by American biologist Linda Amaral-Zettler.
Senses: examples: text: ut those interested in smaller critters have been given a whole, new sphere—the plastisphere—to study.
ref: 2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2020:
text: (The Plastisphere is one of the many industrial-natural ecosystems that characterize the Anthropocene.) Cleaning ocean plastics, even if it were technologically possible on a scale that would make a difference, would disrupt and destroy the life we would be trying to save in the first place.
ref: 2014, Marina Zurkow, The Petroleum Manga, punctum books, →DOI, →ISBN, page 24:
text: Freshwater and marine habitats share a number of features, but there are also differences between them that may affect the development and activities of plastisphere consortia.
ref: 2017, Martin Wagner, Scott Lambert, Freshwater Microplastics: Emerging Environmental Contaminants?, Springer, →ISBN, page 183:
text: Plastic in the ocean is constantly being degraded; even something as big and buoyant as a milk jug will eventually shed and splinter into microplastics. These plastics develop biofilms of distinct microbial communities — the “plastisphere,” said Linda Amaral-Zettler, a scientist at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, who coined the term. […] A sample of South Atlantic water containing plankton and microplastics. Ocean plastics commonly develop a filmy “plastisphere” of distinct microbial communities.
ref: 2022 April 3, Sabrina Imbler, “In the Ocean, It’s Snowing Microplastics”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2022:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The ecosystem on the surface of a piece of plastic (especially in a marine environment).
sandplain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandplains
Etymology: From sand + plain.
Senses: examples: text: I'll think of how the kids come alive walking around sandplains / reading tracks, looking for goannas, digging up witchetty grubs / collecting berries, branches of bush medicines.
ref: 2022, Meg Mooney, Northern Territory Literary Awards, page 33:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An area whose surface consists of sand deposited from elsewhere by the wind or sea.
Derived terms: sandplain poison
sandplains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sandplain
shamosaurine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shamosaurines
Senses: glosses: Any ankylosaur of the genus Shamosaurus.
shamosaurines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shamosaurine
spirocycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spirocycles
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any spirocyclic compound
spirocycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spirocycle
subdigital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + digital.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: On the underside of a digit
symmetrodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: symmetrodonts
Etymology: Clipping of translingual Symmetrodonta
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any Mesozoic mammal of the order Symmetrodonta
Hypernyms: trechnotherian
Hyponyms: spalacotheriid
oldhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oldheads
Etymology: From old + -head.
Senses: examples: text: I played, talked about, and watched basketball, watched Denise swing, joke with her friends, then leave the playground, watched some of the oldheads pass around and swig from bottles of Colt 45, and stared through the fence […]
ref: 1999, Michael Awkward, Scenes of Instruction: A Memoir, page 30:
text: He had been from one of our old rival enemy gangs. My oldheads had told me the history of all the oldheads who got killed on the battlefield, which wasn't many.
ref: 2011, Warren Henderson, City of Nightmares: Part Two, page 24:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: An older person, especially one who acts as a leader or mentor.
synonyms: oldbie
glosses: A longtime hobbyist, fan or user; a veteran.
oldheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oldhead
symmetrodonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of symmetrodont
Mullen test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mullen tests
Etymology: Devised by J. W. Mullen.
Senses: glosses: A test of the bursting strength of corrugated board under pressure.
triacetoxyborohydride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triacetoxyborohydrides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The anion formally derived from borohydride by replacing three hydrogen atoms with acetoxy groups; any salt containing this anion
throw salt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: throws salt
form: throwing salt
form: threw salt
form: thrown salt
Senses: examples: text: I bet if I told him that the same niggas he be gambling wit', be calling me and throwing salt on his ass, he'd have a damn fit!
ref: 2008, Kiki Swinson, Wifey, page 24:
text: So dis mutha fucka started throwing salt on me and Roc's game. I saw the move.
ref: 2013, Rob Walker, Black City II, page 14:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To disparage or belittle.
triacetoxyborohydrides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triacetoxyborohydride
anthropologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthropology
agroclimatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From agro- (“agriculture”) + climatic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the connection between agriculture and climate
Related terms: agroclimate
adhisthana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adhisthanas
form: adhisthana
Etymology: From Sanskrit अधिष्ठान (adhiṣṭhāna).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: An initiation or blessing in Vajrayana schools such as Tibetan Buddhism and Shingon Buddhism.
apertural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aperture + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Pollen grains with 30 lacunae occur in the majority of the species examined, and show three apertural, six abapertural, twelve parapertural, six interapertural and three equatorial lacunae.
ref: 2012, Issues in Life Sciences: Botany and Plant Biology Research, →ISBN:
glosses: Relating to an aperture.
Derived terms: abapertural
apparell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apparells
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of apparel.
apparells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apparell
arsphenamin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of arsphenamine.
assertible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of assertable.
Derived terms: unassertible
assertible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assertibles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of assertable.
antisociable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antisociable
form: most antisociable
Etymology: From anti- + sociable.
Senses: examples: text: […] as in the French, Spanish, and almost all the other revolutions, that began by an equal division of power, whilst both knowledge and property were very unequally divided, where all returned to their antisociable habits.
ref: 1831, William Maclure, Opinions on Various Subjects: Dedicated to the Industrious Producers:
text: He comically extols the antisociable virtues of garlic and the lachrymatory effects of peeling onions, useful for elegiac poets.
ref: 1972, Manchester Studies in the History of Art, number 1, page 249:
text: The benefits of being sociable are that people often overlook the importance of being around people. If an individual is antisociable, it is often viewed as being “that is just the way they are.”
ref: 2014, Virginia King, Seek and Ye Shall Find It's a Testimony:
glosses: antisocial
allyless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ally + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without an ally.
smitten kitten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smitten kittens
Senses: glosses: A person who is smitten with somebody.
smitten kittens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smitten kitten