cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
agamid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agamids
Senses: examples: text: Bright male colors are exhibited primarily during sexual and aggressive displays in iguanids, agamids, chamaeleonids, gekkonids, lacertids, and teiids.
ref: 1992, William E. Dooper, Neil Greenberg, “Reptilian Coloration and Behavior”, in Carl Gans, David Crews, editors, Hormones, Brain, and Behavior, page 398:
text: Agamids and chamaeleonids are sister-groups, presumably with the chameleons diverging early from an agamid stock. Agamids and chameleons uniquely share an acrodont dentition on the dentary and posterior maxillary.
ref: 1993, George R. Zug, Herpetology: An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles, page 439:
text: Whereas Chamaeleonidae and Iguanidae now appear to be monophyletic, Agamidae is not (Macey et al. 1997) because chameleons evolved from agamids, though they have traditionally been excluded (a problem easily resolved by recognizing a clade called Acrodonta, which includes both agamids and chameleons).
ref: 2006, Eric R. Pianka, Laurie J. Vitt, Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity, page 144:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the family Agamidae of lizards, including many dragons.
agamids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agamid
ihlang-ihlang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of ylang ylang.
ignitrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ignitron
ilixanthin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ilex and xanthin.
Senses: glosses: A yellow dye obtained from holly leaves.
weaksauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwiːksɔːs/
ipa: /ˈwikˌsɔs/
ipa: /-ˌsɑs/
Forms: form: weaksauces
form: weak sauce
Etymology: PIE word
 *séh₂ls
From weak (adjective) + sauce (noun), referring to a sauce that lacks flavour. By surface analysis, weak + -sauce (suffix used to add emphasis to adjectives).
Senses: examples: text: Had a run-in on the bus with some weak sauces.
ref: 2015, Samantha Marks, “The Birthday”, in A Fatal Family Secret (Morphosis.me Files; 1), [S.l.]: Samantha Marks, →ISBN, page 26:
synonyms: lacklustre
glosses: Someone or something that is lacking in interest or substance.
examples: text: […] New England Asters. Not the pale domesticates of the perennial border, the weak sauce of lavender or sky blue, but full-on royal purple that would make a violet shrink.
ref: 2013, Robin Wall Kimmerer, “Planting Sweetgrass”, in Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, Minneapolis, Minn.: Milkweed Editions, →ISBN, page 40:
glosses: The quality or state of lacking in interest or substance; boringness, disappointment.
examples: text: But when I turned pro, I knew I needed a really badass name, 'cuz it intimidates n00bs, who will disconnect just when they see me show up. And I'm like, "Bye—take that weaksauce home."
ref: 2006 September, Jeff Green, quoting D3thf4art [pseudonym; Stanley Lipschitz], “Interview with a Pro Gamer”, in Jeff Green, editor, Computer Gaming World, number 266, Boulder, Colo.: Ziff Davis Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 112, column 1:
glosses: Synonym of weak tea (“weak or feeble arguments, efforts, or proposals”).
synonyms: word: weak tea
extra: weak or feeble arguments, efforts, or proposals
Related terms: weak point
foisons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foison
quadrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadrels
Senses: glosses: A square brick or tile; a quarrel.
glosses: A square piece of turf.
Tōhoku
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A region of the island of Honshu, Japan.
quadrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadrel
quadrantal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadrantals
Etymology: From Latin quadrantal.
Senses: glosses: An ancient Roman unit of measure for liquids.
glosses: cube
quadrantal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin quadrantālis (“quarter, containing the fourth part of a measure”).
Senses: examples: quadrantal space; quadrantal triangle; quadrantal versor
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a quadrant, or included in the fourth part of a circle.
Derived terms: quadrantally
triquadrantal
quadrantals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadrantal
quadrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadrins
Senses: glosses: An old copper coin of small value.
quadrins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadrin
quære
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quæres
form: quæreing
form: quæred
form: quæred
Senses: examples: text: Quære, might not hair dressers friz and turn, though not shave, classically, according to the dignifying principles of the sculptor?
ref: 1797, J[ohn] Penn, Critical and Poetical Works, London: […] Elmsly, […], pages 123–124:
glosses: Obsolete form of quaere.
quære
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quæres
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of quaere.
quæres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quære
Quashee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Quashees
form: quashee
form: Quashie
Senses: examples: text: It is clear, therefore, that he has no particular dread of making a Quashee of his Makololo, and that the idea of improving, civilising, and elevating this race, is no Utopian thought to the individual who knows them best.
ref: 1858, Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine, volume 83, page 400:
text: Those, for example, who imagine that our West Indies are in a state of ruin, inhabited by a horde of half-savage Quashees, "up to the ears in pumpkin," as Mr. Carlyle was pleased to describe them, will be surprised to learn that, in the four years ending with 1857, the exports and imports of these small islands were valued at £37,000,000...
ref: 1861, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, The Living Age, volume 71, page 281:
glosses: A black inhabitant of the West Indies.
Related terms: quassia
Quashees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Quashee
quasher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quashers
Etymology: From quash + -er.
Senses: examples: text: These men were not likely to be the quashers of protest, of new ideas, of rebellion against outdated orthodoxies.
ref: 1996, Juliet Dusinberre, Shakespeare and the nature of women, page 13:
glosses: One who quashes.
quashers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quasher
catapulters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catapulter
o'clockish
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From o'clock + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: We'll have dinner at seven o'clockish, depending on how soon Keith arrives.
glosses: After a numeral, denotes a time of around the start of that hour.
obcompressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more obcompressed
form: most obcompressed
Etymology: From ob- + compressed.
Senses: glosses: Compressed or flattened anteroposteriorly, or in a way opposite to the usual one.
make noises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes noises
form: making noises
form: made noises
form: made noises
Senses: examples: text: My mother-in-law has been making noises about coming to stay for the summer.
glosses: To talk or drop hints on a topic.
oblatenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oblateness
copygraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copygraphs
Etymology: From copy + -graph.
Senses: glosses: An early means of producing multiple copies of a document by means of pressing it against a slab of gelatin softened with glycerin and making further copies from the resulting reversed image.
copygraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copygraph
copyholds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copyhold
coquimbite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Coquimbo + -ite, after the province of Chile where it was found.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The nonahydrate of iron(III) sulfate.
Derived terms: aluminocoquimbite
paracoquimbite
corecursive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of co-recursive.
squashable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more squashable
form: most squashable
Etymology: From squash + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Seatbelts, airbags, collapsible steering columns, dentable windscreens, squashable fascias and squashable front and rear ends have all added to safety, but how? To answer that you will need to recall some GCSE physics and learn more formal ways of expressing it — using equations and graphs.
ref: 1996, Chris Butlin, Maureen Maybank, Physics on the move, page 31:
glosses: Capable of being squashed.
Capable of being compressed or squeezed.
examples: text: Katherine always tries to squash me, but, you know, I'm not the squashable sort, really." With all my naughtiness; temper, wilfulness, independence, extreme frankness and being whimsical, I listened to reason and was, in the end, submissive.
ref: 1940, Madelene Victoria MacAdam, Fortune in My Own Hands, page 36:
glosses: Capable of being squashed.
Capable of being forced into submission.
examples: text: All other ergodic invariant Radon measures are squashable, and there are infinitely many such measures.
ref: 2006, American Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Discrete and continuous dynamical systems: Volume 16:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Capable of being squashed.
Permitting a grouping of 2-cells in oppositely oriented identifiable pairs.
Related terms: squashability
Radon measure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Radon measures
Etymology: After Johann Radon.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A measure on the σ-algebra of Borel sets of a Hausdorff space that is locally finite and inner regular.
wikipedia: Johann Radon
Radon measures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Radon measure
obscurers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obscurer
unobservantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unobservantly
form: most unobservantly
Etymology: From unobservant + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unobservant manner; with careless inattention.
glosses: In a manner that is not observed; unnoticeably.
Synonyms: inobservantly
observingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more observingly
form: most observingly
Etymology: From observing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: There is ſome ſoule of goodneſſe in things euill, / VVould men obſeruingly diſtill it out.
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 83, column 2:
text: As Goethe had observingly read, a Frankfurt police ordinance of the fifteenth-century forbade fallen women to wear jewelry, silk, satin, or damask, and denied them the use of a pew in church.
ref: 1989, Philip G. Hill, Our Dramatic Heritage: Volume 4, page 149:
glosses: Attentively, observantly.
obtainest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: obtain + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of obtain
buyers' markets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buyer's market
sellers' markets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seller's market
occipitoaxial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From occipito- + axial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the occipital bone and second vertebra, or axis.
oceanographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From oceanographic + -ally.
Senses: examples: oceanographically important discoveries
glosses: In terms of oceanography.
Related terms: oceanographic
oceanographical
oceanographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oceanography + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to oceanography, the science of oceans.
Synonyms: oceanographic
Derived terms: oceanographically
oceanologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oceanologists
Etymology: From oceanology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies oceanology.
oceanological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oceanology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to oceanology.
Derived terms: oceanologically
oceanologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From oceanological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of oceanology.
oceanologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oceanologist
ochlocratical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ochlocratical
form: most ochlocratical
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to ochlocracy.
octachord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octachords
form: octochord
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: glosses: A musical instrument with eight strings.
glosses: A musical system of eight tones.
octachords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of octachord
octochord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octochords
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of octachord.
octochords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of octochord
wambulance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwæm.bjə.ləns/
Forms: form: wambulances
form: waaambulance
form: waambulance
form: wahmbulance
form: whambulance
Etymology: Blend of wah + ambulance. The earliest known usage appears in the Disney film Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).
Senses: examples: text: Russ Duritz (Bruce Willis): Waaaaaah. Waaaaaaah. Somebody call the wambulance.
ref: 2000, Disney's The Kid:
text: Someone call the Wambulance. Dudley I am so sick of hearing you bitch about how everybody is not suffering enough.
ref: 2001, jim, “Outrageous!!!”, in rec.aviation.piloting (Usenet):
text: Funny how we didn't see a single post in this NG from "Ron" or Holder during the game. Not surprising, but funny anyway. I'm sure they'll surface sometime. As a precaution, I've already called the wambulance for them.
ref: 2007, Rodney Parker, “What a game!”, in alt.sports.football.pro.dallas-cowboys (Usenet):
glosses: A notional ambulance called to the scene when somebody is upset; used in dismissive responses to complaining perceived as being oversensitive.
wikipedia: Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Related terms: amberlamps
world's smallest violin
gastrointestinally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From gastrointestinal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of, or by means of, the gastrointestinal system.
boomburbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boomburb
pageview
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pageviews
Etymology: From page + view.
Senses: examples: text: Similarly, Trueman, Wong, and Zhang found that the nonfinancial measures of unique visitors and pageviews provide additional explanatory power for stock prices, especially for e-tailers like Amazon.com.
ref: 2001, Robert G. Eccles, The ValueReporting revolution: moving beyond the earnings game, page 62:
text: And you—you clueless, literate shmuck—are but a pawn in this game. So just let go. Just accept the fact that you are reading this column right now simply because we can count you as a number on a spreadsheet. You are a pageview, my friend. You are a "monthly unique visitor." One of millions. Nothing more, nothing less.
ref: 2012 November 28, “Please Click On Our Website's Banner Ads”, in The Onion:
glosses: An individual viewing of a web page by a user, often counted when measuring a web site's popularity.
pageviews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pageview
paggling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of paggle
paggled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of paggle
Bartholin's cyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bartholin's cysts
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A fluid-filled cyst near the vagina, caused by the blockage of a Bartholin's gland.
Bartholin's cysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bartholin's cyst
macrobiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + biological.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to macrobiology.
macrobiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrobiologists
Etymology: From macro- + biologist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies macrobiology.
macrobiologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrobiologist
pelike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pelikes
form: pelikai
form: pelikae
Etymology: Ancient Greek πελίκη (pelíkē)
Senses: examples: text: The high twisted handles of Pl. XII, 60. 41, and the same sort of shape (but with boldly moulded lip), has been found at Kertch in the same grave as two red figure pelikae and lekythoi, some with r.f. palmettes, others with a check pattern filled in with white dots.
ref: 1913, Percy N[eville] Ure, Black Glaze Pottery from Rhitsona in Boeotia (University College, Reading: Studies in History and Archaeology), London: Humphrey [Sumner] Milford, Oxford University Press, page 31:
text: Polychromy now carried all before it, even the outworn defences of Red-figure; and in the fourth century we find not only white and gold, but other colours—pink, blue, and green—not infrequently used on a group of vases, chiefly hydriae, pelikae, and elaborate toilet-boxes, found at Kertch in the Crimea, in the Cyrenaica and elsewhere, and evidently imported there from Athens Athens (Fig. 17).
ref: 1919, Mary Antonie Beatrice Herford, A Handbook of Greek Vase Painting, Manchester University Press, page 103:
text: The scenes were probably intended as abbreviated representations of combat between griffins and barbarians, since there are many pelikai that carry scenes of Amazons on horseback in combat with griffins.
ref: 2002, Faraj Mohmoud Elrashedy, Imports of Post-Archaic Greek Pottery into Cyrenaica: From the End of the Archaic to the Beginning of the Hellenistic Period, Archaeopress, →ISBN, page 58, column 1:
text: There are also many pelikai (18%) above all in the Attic red figure production as witness the sets from the tombs of the necropolis of S.Venera.
ref: 2003, Stefania Visco, “Poseidonia”, in Rosalba Panvini, Filippo Giudice, editors, Ta Attika: Attic Figured Vases from Gela, «L’Erma» di Bretschneider, →ISBN, page 48, column 1:
text: The black- and red-figure vases that were found are mainly small in size (lekythoi, kylikes, aryballoi, alabastra, kotylae, skyphoi, exaleiptra, and kantharoi), although there are also larger pots (oinochoae, pelikae, hydriae, kraters, and amphoras).
ref: 2011, G. Karamitrou-Mentessidi, “Aiani—Historical and Geographical Context”, in Robin J[ames] Lane Fox, editor, Brill’s Companion to Ancient Macedon: Studies in the Archaeology and History of Macedon, 650 bc–300 ad, Brill, →ISBN, page 106:
text: In plain and banded wares, pelikai typically have rotund bodies and squat necks, with a pair of ring handles mounted to the shoulder and arching around to attach anywhere from the rim to the lower neck (e.g., PZ PBW 145).
ref: 2018, Joseph Coleman Carter, Keith Swift, The Chora of Metaponto 7: The Greek Sanctuary at Pantanello, volume I, Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 807, column 2:
glosses: A ceramic container of Ancient Greece, similar to an amphora.
wikipedia: British Museum
pelikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pelike
bulbospongiosi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bulbospongiosus
bulbourethral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bulbo- + urethral.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the urethra and the bulb of the penis.
Related terms: bulbourethral gland
print-through
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A weak imprint of magnetic information transferred to adjacent layers of audiotape, resulting in an unwanted echo.
Synonyms: bleed-through
marsupialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marsupializations
Etymology: From marsupial + -ization.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical technique of cutting a slit into a cyst and suturing its edges to form a continuous surface from the exterior to the interior of the cyst, allowing it to drain freely.
Related terms: marsupialize
marsupializations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marsupialization
ischiocavernosal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ischiocavernosus + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the ischiocavernosus.
ischiocavernosus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ischiocavernosi
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A muscle just below the surface of the perineum, used to flex the anus, stabilize the erect penis (in males), and tense the vagina (in females).
Derived terms: ischiocavernosal
ischiocavernosi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ischiocavernosus
radiantness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From radiant + -ness.
Senses: glosses: radiance
manukas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manuka
psychoneurotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌɪkəʊnjʊˈɹɒtɪk/
Forms: form: more psychoneurotic
form: most psychoneurotic
Etymology: From psycho- + neurotic, after psychoneurosis.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to or suffering from a psychoneurosis.
psychoneurotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌɪkəʊnjʊˈɹɒtɪk/
Forms: form: psychoneurotics
Etymology: From psycho- + neurotic, after psychoneurosis.
Senses: examples: text: As I have mentioned, when I undertake the analysis of a psychoneurotic [translating Psychoneurotiker] his dreams are regularly the subject of our discussions.
ref: 1999, Sigmund Freud, translated by Joyce Crick, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford, published 2008, page 114:
glosses: Someone suffering from a psychoneurosis.
psychoneurotics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychoneurotic
multigovernmental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + governmental.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one government.
toheroa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toheroas
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori toheroa (literally “long tongue”).
Senses: glosses: Paphies ventricosa, a large edible bivalve mollusc endemic to New Zealand.
toheroas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toheroa
Togolander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Togolanders
Etymology: From Togoland + -er.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Togoland.
Togolanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Togolander
Slave Coast
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The coastal areas of present-day Togo, Benin, and western Nigeria, once an important export centre for the Atlantic slave trade.
uninseminated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + inseminated.
Senses: glosses: Not inseminated.
hetæra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hetæræ
Senses: examples: text: The hetæra must be distinguished from the common prostitute though both were under similar conditions as to police surveillance. The hetæra, too, was a slave, usually stolen as a child, or bought by an older hetæra.
ref: 1918, Julius Rosenbaum, The American Journal of Urology and Sexology, volume XIV, The Urologic Publishing Association, page 475:
glosses: Archaic form of hetaera.
hetæræ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Those that were less esteemed put themselves under the protection of the more famous hetæræ, or carried on the profession on their own account.
ref: 1918, Julius Rosenbaum, The American Journal of Urology and Sexology, volume XIV, The Urologic Publishing Association, page 475:
glosses: plural of hetæra
unnecessity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unnecessities
Etymology: From un- + necessity.
Senses: glosses: needlessness
glosses: something that is unnecessary
crapgame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crapgames
Etymology: From crap + game.
Senses: examples: text: Claims are made about irreplaceable sagacity supposedly offered by players in Washington’s floating Brahmin crapgame.
ref: 2008 June 13, “Are Washington Insiders Necessary?”, in New York Times:
glosses: A game of craps.
crapgames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crapgame
limewood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limewoods
Etymology: From lime² (ultimately from Old English lind) + wood.
Senses: examples: text: But he would not publicly confirm his purchase of “Hercules and Achelous,” or another rarity that experts say he bought this year: a limewood figure of St. Catherine by the German Medieval sculptor Tilman Riemenschneider that went for $6.3 million at Sotheby’s in January.
ref: 2008 June 13, Carol Vogel, “Darkness Was Muse for a Master of Light”, in New York Times:
synonyms: basswood
linden wood
glosses: The wood from the lime tree or linden tree.
limewoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of limewood
palpigrades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palpigrade
postminimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + minimal.
Senses: examples: text: These works deserve a place in any survey of postminimal sculpture.
ref: 2008 June 13, Karen Rosenberg, “This Land Is Her Land (and Her Artwork, Too)”, in New York Times:
glosses: After the art movement of minimalism.
recamier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recamiers
form: récamier
Etymology: Borrowed from French récamier, named after the 19th century French socialite Juliette Récamier.
Senses: examples: text: When it read five thirty and no one had come into the room, I got off the recamier and quietly started to work.
ref: 2008, Linda L. Richards, Death Was the Other Woman: A Mystery, →ISBN:
glosses: An old-fashioned couch with headrest and footrest.
recamiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recamier
refunnel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: refunnels
form: refunneling
form: refunnelling
form: refunneled
form: refunneled
form: refunnelled
form: refunnelled
Etymology: From re- + funnel.
Senses: examples: text: But the slush stopped on Ms. Almodovar’s desk; fees paid by the developers are now refunneled into agency projects.
ref: 2008 June 13, Robin Finn, “How to Curb Big Builders’ Big Appetites”, in New York Times:
glosses: To redirect (money or resources) to another department or project.
refunnelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of refunnel
refunnelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of refunnel
refunneled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of refunnel
refunneling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of refunnel
rejoindering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rejoinder
rejoindered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rejoinder
semilegitimate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + legitimate.
Senses: glosses: Partly legitimate.
semilegitimacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From semi- + legitimacy.
Senses: glosses: Partial legitimacy.
antiearthquake
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anti-earthquake
Etymology: From anti- + earthquake.
Senses: examples: text: The earthquake sent tremors down to Tokyo, 190 miles south, where high-rise buildings with the most advanced antiearthquake technology swayed for a couple of minutes.
ref: 2008 June 14, Norimitsu Onishi, “Northern Japan Quake Kills 2 and Injures Dozens”, in New York Times:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Preventing damage from earthquakes.
antiquake
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + quake.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Preventing damage from earthquakes.
counteroffering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of counteroffer
counteroffered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of counteroffer
disqualifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disqualifier
leukoplakia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leukoplakias
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Patches of keratosis on the mucous membranes of the oral cavity and in other areas, associated with smoking.
Derived terms: hairy leukoplakia
leukoplakic
leukoplakias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leukoplakia
punched out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of punch out
punched out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more punched out
form: most punched out
Senses: examples: text: A diagnostic workup with endoscopy found punched-out lesions in the stomach.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Being rounded, sharply circumscribed, and often multiple in number.
glosses: Knocked out, beat up.
punched-out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having been punched out.
lesionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lesion + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without lesions.
nonsmoked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + smoked.
Senses: examples: text: Of these women, admissions for nonsmoked cocaine have doubled; admissions for crack cocaine have tripled; admissions for opiates other than heroin have nearly quadrupled; and admissions for methamphetamines have increased sevenfold.
ref: 2008 June 14, Charles M. Blow, “Why Is Mom in Rehab?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not smoked (of meat, cigarettes, etc.).
overrestoration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + restoration.
Senses: glosses: The process of overrestoring.
overrestore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overrestores
form: overrestoring
form: overrestored
form: overrestored
Etymology: From over- + restore.
Senses: examples: text: “We didn’t want to overrestore it,” Mr. Allen said.
ref: 2008 June 14, David W. Dunlap, “A Father’s Tribute to Three Dead Daughters Is Restored”, in New York Times:
glosses: To impair (an old artwork, building, etc.) by restoring it too enthusiastically.
Related terms: overrestoration
overrestoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overrestore
overrestored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overrestore
prehatch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + hatch.
Senses: examples: text: The controversy stems from the company’s use of antibiotics for prehatch vaccinations two to three days before its chicks are hatched.
ref: 2008 June 14, Reuters, “Tyson Foods Sues U.S.D.A. Over Antibiotic Rules”, in New York Times:
glosses: Before the hatching of an egg
Related terms: prehatched
prehatch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prehatches
form: prehatching
form: prehatched
form: prehatched
Etymology: From pre- + hatch.
Senses: examples: text: Failure of these eggs to prehatch within 30 days at 7 C is not surprising since it took longer for prehatching to occur in nature under substantially lower temperatures than 7 C.
ref: 1963, Edmund Stanislaw Broch, Ecology and Physiology of the Embryonated Egg of the Fairy Shrimp Chirocephalopsis Bundyi Forbes: With Reference to Factors Synchronizing the Life Cycle to the Temporary Pond, Page 132:
glosses: To undergo changes that lead to hatching, such as the rupture of internal membranes as the embryo begins to emerge from the blastoderm cuticle.
prehatching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + hatching.
Senses: glosses: Before the hatching of an egg.
hatchmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hatchman
gerra
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: Go an' gerra few more cans.
qualifier: representing northern pronunciation
glosses: Get a.
furfan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furfans
form: furfen
Etymology: From fur + fan.
Senses: glosses: A member of the furry fandom subculture.
Synonyms: word: furfag
word: furry
furfans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of furfan
furfen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of furfan
Related terms: furfans
wolfhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wolf + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state or time of being a wolf.
wolffishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wolffish
poodle skirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poodle skirts
Senses: examples: text: Some of the most political dykes in town had already converted, tossing out their Levi's and Birkenstocks in favor of poodle skirts and heels.
ref: 1986 [1984], Armistead Maupin, Babycakes (Tales of the City), page 64:
glosses: A wide felt knee-length skirt of a solid bold colour displaying a design appliquéd or transferred to the fabric, originally of a coiffed French poodle; popular in the United States in the 1950s.
Derived terms: poodle-skirted
circle skirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circle skirts
Etymology: Because the garment is manufactured by cutting a central circle out of a larger, circular piece of fabric.
Senses: glosses: A skirt cut in sections to make one or more circles with a hole for the waist, so the skirt is very full but hangs smoothly from the waist without darts, pleats, or gathers.
circle skirts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circle skirt
poodle skirts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poodle skirt
prelanding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + landing.
Senses: examples: text: The object appeared after a series of routine prelanding procedures in which the crew tested the steering jets, a test that often shakes loose objects from the spacecraft.
ref: 2008 June 14, John Schwartz, “No Problems Seen for Shuttle Landing”, in New York Times:
glosses: Before the landing of a vehicle.
reinsulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reinsulates
form: reinsulating
form: reinsulated
form: reinsulated
Etymology: From re- + insulate.
Senses: examples: text: Still, we are wondering whether now is the time to replace some windows or invest in the bigger job of reinsulating the older parts of our 1914 house.
ref: 2008 June 14, M. P. Dunleavey, “Winter Worries Come Early”, in New York Times:
glosses: To insulate again or anew.
Related terms: reinsulation
reinsulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reinsulate
reinsulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reinsulate
reinsulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reinsulate
immeasurables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immeasurable
techland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tech + -land.
Senses: examples: text: It explains the proliferation of PCs, iPods, smartphones, Tivos, GPS maps, digital cameras, and every other gadget on the constantly declining cost treadmill in techland.
ref: 2005, John Mauldin, Just one thing, page 11:
text: When it turned out that nobody in techland was much interested in playing that role — and your big shareholders were furious — you were forced to negotiate with Mr. Ballmer.
ref: 2008 June 14, Joe Nocera, “Oh Jerry, It’s No Longer Your Baby”, in New York Times:
glosses: The realm of modern technology, especially computing.
microslicers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microslicer
platform boot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: platform boots
Senses: glosses: A fashionable boot with very thick soles and heels to make the wearer appear taller.
Related terms: platform shoe
platform boots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of platform boot
antidraft
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antidraft
form: most antidraft
Etymology: From anti- + draft.
Senses: examples: text: He had earlier been the author of the Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion in a 1919 case upholding the conviction of radicals who had published an antidraft pamphlet during World War I.
ref: 2008 June 15, Jonathan Mahler, “Why This Court Keeps Rebuking This President”, in New York Times:
glosses: Opposing the draft (military conscription).
autodegradation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + degradation.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Degradation of an organ or substance caused by itself.
Synonyms: autolysis
bayonetings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bayoneting
bayonettings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bayonetting
bristlingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bristlingly
form: most bristlingly
Etymology: From bristling + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: His disdain for Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schröder, and theirs for him, was bristlingly clear.
ref: 2008 June 15, Maureen Dowd, “W. Regrets Almost Nothing”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a bristling manner.
bristliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bristly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being bristly.
prefixt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: prefix + -t
Senses: examples: text: And as he who comes after is sure to make a point of going beyond those who went before him, Manning in his Grammar prefixt to Lye's Dictionary declares them to be a mere mass of confusion […]
ref: 1833, Julius Charles Hare, The philological museum: Volume 2, page 213:
glosses: simple past and past participle of prefix
capitalizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capitalizers
Etymology: From capitalize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Meg Cabot, chronic capitalizer and reigning grande dame of teenage chick lit, has too many best-selling series to keep track of — there’s the reluctant princess in the “Princess Diaries” books, the reluctant communicator with the dead in “The Mediator,” the reluctant national hero in “All-American Girl,” and so on (at last count Cabot, at age 41, has 54 books out, a handful of them geared for grown-up girls).
ref: 2008 June 15, Lauren Mechling, “Allie Finkle, Age 9”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who capitalizes.
capitalizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capitalizer
disembowelings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disemboweling
disembowellings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disembowelling
disembroils
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disembroil
disembroiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disembroil
disembroiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disembroil
præfixt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Whether or not is the abcedarium præfixt to the church’s catechiſm more eligible than that inſerted in Mr Dyche’s ſyllabicating code?
ref: 1753, Sylvanus Urban, editor, The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Hiſtorical Chronicle, volume 23, page 276:
glosses: Obsolete form of prefixed.
hyperindividualism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + individualism.
Senses: examples: text: As quickly as bottled water became a symbol of healthy hyperindividualism — sort of an iPod for your kidneys — a backlash turned it into the devil’s drink.
ref: 2008 June 15, Lisa Margonelli, “Tapped Out”, in New York Times:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A tendency for people to act in a highly individual way, without regard to society.
pinchable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pinchable
form: most pinchable
Etymology: From pinch + -able.
Senses: examples: text: It’s a move that might suggest a status grab, but on a crisp May afternoon Mr. James strolled through the neighborhood in rumpled tan corduroys and work boots, with pinchable baby fat visible through his shirt.
ref: 2008 June 15, Ben Sisario, “Out of the Comfort Zone, Into the Wild Rock Yonder”, in New York Times:
glosses: Suitable for being pinched.
dentable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dentable
form: most dentable
Etymology: From dent + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Seatbelts, airbags, collapsible steering columns, dentable windscreens, squashable fascias and squashable front and rear ends have all added to safety, but how? To answer that you will need to recall some GCSE physics and learn more formal ways of expressing it — using equations and graphs.
ref: 1996, Chris Butlin, Maureen Maybank, Physics on the move, page 31:
glosses: Capable of being dented.
examples: text: It will be useful to observe that a nonempty bounded set C is dentable if its closed convex hull is dentable...
ref: 1992, Gerald A. Edgar, Louis Sucheston, Stopping times and directed processes, page 225:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Admitting slices of arbitrarily small diameter, where a slice of C is a subset of the form S(λ,α) = y∈C;|;λ(y)≥||λ||_(∞,C)-α for some λ∈Y^* and some α>0.
raw_tags: of a closed convex subset C of a Banach space Y
Derived terms: undentable
Related terms: dentability
smashings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smashing
supertalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supertall
namewords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nameword
4ktro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 4ktros
Etymology: Blend of 4k and intro. See k (“kilobyte”).
Senses: examples: text: Win a price^([sic]) in the 4ktro compo! Win a price in the grafix compo! Win a price in the music compo! Join the Autumn Event in South Germany!
ref: 1996, Hagen Deike, “InterCon LAST CHANCE”, in fido.ger.ibm (Usenet):
text: I thought about writing a 4ktro for the TI-83 once, but really the only effects you could do would be rotozoomers, wire vectors, and scrollers.
ref: 1997, h75h70, “ZShell anyone?”, in rec.games.programmer (Usenet):
topics: computing
demoscene
engineering
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An intro that can be stored in four kilobytes of memory (intended to challenge the programmer, who must write compact and efficient code to achieve this).
Related terms: sizecode
BITNET
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Abbreviation of Because It's There Network.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An early North American academic computer network founded in 1981, supporting e-mail and listservs but pre-dating the World Wide Web.
Related terms: Usenet
bitonally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bitonal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a bitonal manner.
hypercerebral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛɹɪbɹəl
-iːbɹəl
Forms: form: more hypercerebral
form: most hypercerebral
Etymology: From hyper- + cerebral.
Senses: examples: text: Donald Fagen and Walter Becker seem like the kind of late-1960s hypercerebral born-cynical East Coast hipsters who are often found valorizing authenticity in aesthetic expression.
ref: 2008 June 16, Ben Ratliff, “Pop Veterans Still Pumping Anti-Charisma”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very highly cerebral.
nonhit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonhits
Etymology: From non- + hit.
Senses: examples: text: There was a difference in the decibel level of the crowd roar when the band started up a hit — “Hey Nineteen,” “Peg,” “Black Friday” — as opposed to a nonhit, like “Show Biz Kids” or “Babylon Sisters.”
ref: 2008 June 16, Ben Ratliff, “Pop Veterans Still Pumping Anti-Charisma”, in New York Times:
glosses: A song, etc. that fails to become a hit.
examples: text: Nonhits occur when there is no definite element, such as Library of Congress or ISBN number, in the brief record...
ref: 1992, Beverly K. Duval, Linda Main, Automated library systems:
topics: computing
engineering
information-technology
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Failure to match any record in an information retrieval system.
nonhits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonhit
autocab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autocabs
Etymology: From auto- (“self-propelled”) + cab.
Senses: glosses: A motor vehicle operating as a cab, as opposed to earlier horse-drawn cabs.
autocabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autocab
turdballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turdball
furrydom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From furry + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: It's been in the fur-code since it's first release in 1996. Doom, Quake, and similar games included in the fur-code... i guess it never it's popularity amonst furrydom. So, who's excited about the upcoming movie? It comes out October 21st.
ref: 2005 October 2, Grygon, “Doom”, in alt.lifestyle.furry (Usenet):
text: Hmm... I have to admit that my experience has been different. I've seen many furries holding long, irrational grudges and playing all-too-human social politics. There's a whole lot of "furry drama" out there. I can't say that my experiences represent all of furrydom, though.
ref: 2007 August 23, Warren Forest, “What have you learned from being furry?”, in alt.lifestyle.furry (Usenet):
glosses: The realm or sphere of furries.
furdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɜː.dəm/
ipa: /ˈfɜɹ.dəm/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dəm
Etymology: From fur + -dom.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: The realm or sphere of furries.
motelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more motelike
form: most motelike
Etymology: From mote + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a mote (speck of dust).
jaw harps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jaw harp
Skeffington's daughter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Skeffington's daughters
form: scavenger's daughter
form: Skevington's daughter
Etymology: Named after Leonard Skeffington.
Senses: glosses: An old instrument of torture, a metal A-frame that compressed the body so as to force blood from the nose and ears.
Related terms: Duke of Exeter's daughter
Zazas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zaza
Skeffington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Skeffingtons
form: Skeavington
Etymology: From the Old English personal name *Sċeaft, a byname from sċeaft (“shaft”), + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish of Harborough district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK739025).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Skeffington's daughter
marsupians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marsupian
aard-wolf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aard-wolves
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of aardwolf.
refulgently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more refulgently
form: most refulgently
Etymology: From refulgent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a refulgent manner.