cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
impaling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpeɪlɪŋ/
Forms: form: impalings
Senses: examples: text: In inspecting numerous shrike impalings I find that where abundant impaling situations, such as barbed-wire fences, are at hand, the unfinished meals of shrikes are distributed along such fences at considerable intervals.
ref: 1950, Arthur Cleveland Bent, Life Histories of North American Wagtails, Shrikes, Vireos, and their Allies:
text: I had seen many decapitations and skinnings, impalings and crucifixions […]
ref: 2003, David T. Pudlevitcz, Blood of the Dragon:
glosses: The act of something being impaled.
slipstream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslɪp.stɹiːm/
Forms: form: slipstreams
Etymology: Compound of slip + stream. Fiction sense coined by cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling in 1989.
Senses: examples: text: Monza was the seventh race in a row at which Leclerc had out-qualified Vettel. There were extenuating circumstances this time - Vettel did not have a slipstream on his first lap and the farcical end to qualifying prevented him doing another - but a clear pattern is emerging.
ref: 2019 September 8, Andrew Benson, BBC Sport:
glosses: The low-pressure zone immediately following a rapidly moving object, caused by turbulence.
examples: text: The Republicans, who in fact quintessentially represent what I understand to be private and special interests of a narrow economic kind, have nevertheless managed, flying in the slipstream of Ronald Reagan's rhetoric, to look like the true guardians of the nation's public interest.
ref: 2012, Benjamin Barber, “Liberal Values in the Age of Interdependence”, in Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture:
glosses: A generated advantage which makes forward movement easier.
glosses: The relative wind experienced as a result of movement through air.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: prop wash
glosses: The airflow over a propeller-driven aircraft generated by the motion of its propeller(s).
examples: text: Slipstream is not simply a mixture of fantasy and realism, but something which lies between or even beyond the two.
ref: 2000, Damien Broderick, quoting Justina Robson and Rozanne Rabinowitz, Transrealist Fiction: Writing in the Slipstream of Science, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 88:
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
coordinate_terms: New Weird
glosses: A genre of fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries.
Derived terms: slipstreamer
slipstream
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslɪp.stɹiːm/
Forms: form: slipstreams
form: slipstreaming
form: slipstreamed
form: slipstreamed
Etymology: Compound of slip + stream. Fiction sense coined by cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling in 1989.
Senses: examples: text: Although dangerous, over-the-road truck drivers sometimes slipstream with each other to save fuel.
synonyms: draft
glosses: To take advantage of the suction produced by a slipstream by travelling immediately behind the slipstream generator.
examples: text: You do this by slipstreaming the updates into the distribution folder.
ref: 2003, William Boswell, Inside Windows Server 2003:
text: A better solution is to create a bootable Windows XP installation CD slipstreamed with the current service pack...
ref: 2004, Ed Bott, Carl Siechert, Craig Stinson, Microsoft Windows XP inside out:
text: It is illegal to distribute slipstreamed CDs. In some locales, it may also be illegal to create them.
ref: 2005, Jesper M Johansson, Steve Riley, Protect your Windows network: from perimeter to data:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To incorporate additional software (such as patches) into an existing installer.
slipstreams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slipstream
slipstreams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of slipstream
slipstreaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slipstream
slipstreamed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slipstream
shoggoth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoggoths
form: shaggoth
Senses: glosses: A monstrous gelatinous creature featured in the horror fiction of H. P. Lovecraft.
bowk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /boʊk/
rhymes: -oʊk
Forms: form: bowks
form: bowking
form: bowkin
form: bowked
form: bowked
form: bolk
Etymology: From Middle English bolken, bulken, alteration of earlier balken, from Old English bealcan (“to belch; utter”). Compare Dutch bulken (“to roar”), German bölken. More at bolk.
Senses: examples: text: "That made me bowk," he said; and he bowked again. He took another swig with caution, and gave the bottle to David, and they swigged at it in turn.
ref: 1966, William Mayne, Earthfasts, Peter Smith, published 1989, →ISBN, page 37:
text: If this man did not feed the mill carefully and regularly it bowked with "indigestion" and this slowed everything up.
ref: 1997, Brian P. Martin, Tales of the Old Countrywomen, David & Charles, →ISBN, page 143:
text: He claimed that meat or cheese made you 'bowk' (belch) and get stomach cramps — the last thing you need 'yakking' (using a pick) coal for eight tough hours in a two-foot 'cavil' (job area).
ref: 2008, Sid Waddell, Taak of the Toon: How to Speak Geordie, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 92:
glosses: To belch, to burp.
examples: text: At that point another of my guests, a highly respected Newcastle art gallery owner by the name of Rashida, bowked up all over the floor behind me.
ref: 2004, Chris Donald, Rude Kids: The Unfeasible Story of Viz, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 275:
text: 'Take yourself to bed then. And don't whine to me tomorrow about how you bowked your guts out all night.'
ref: 2009, Blythe Gifford, In the Master's Bed, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 64:
text: Firstly, aged perhaps five or six after polishing off a banana and a slice of bread and butter in the back room at tea time, taking my plate out to the kitchen, I managed to make it only as far as the spin dryer in the hall before bowking richly over the lino.
ref: 2010, Mike Harper, Little Mickey H: A Norbury Lad, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 107:
text: Misima bowked beside him, bent over double. They made twin streams of yellow bile in the heather.
ref: 2011, Erica Bell, The Voyage of the Shuckenoor, Interactive Publications, →ISBN:
glosses: To vomit.
cellotaph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cellotaphs
Etymology: Blend of cellophane + cenotaph. By surface analysis cello- + -taph.
Senses: examples: text: So maybe the phenomenon is not so alien, after all but this view raises some other issues, such as why are cellotaphs everywhere now?
ref: 2009, Mark Earls, Herd: How to Change Mass Behaviour by Harnessing Our True Nature:
glosses: A monument made of flowers in cellophane wrappers laid by the public to honour the death of a famous person they have never met.
forkytail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forkytails
Etymology: forky + tail
Senses: glosses: An earwig (Dermaptera spp.).
Related terms: forktail
resel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resels
Etymology: Blend of resolution + element
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A resolution element describing the actual spatial image resolution in an image (or a volume).
ablutomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ablutomanias
Senses: glosses: Morbid preoccupation with thoughts about cleanliness; obsession with bathing or washing.
Related terms: ablution
outarde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outardes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of outard.
balletomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ballet + -o- + -mania
Senses: glosses: An extraordinary enthusiasm for ballets.
balletomane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæˈlɛt.əˌmeɪn/
ipa: /bəˈlɛt.əˌmeɪn/
Forms: form: balletomanes
Etymology: Borrowed from French balletomane. Equivalent to ballet + -o- + -mane.
Senses: glosses: A ballet enthusiast.
Related terms: balletomania
Phosphorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Phosphorists
Etymology: From phosphor + -ist, after their journal, Phosphoros, named for the morning star.
Senses: glosses: A member of a group of early-19th-century Swedish poetic, idealistic, and romantic writers.
geniture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛnɪt͡ʃə/
Forms: form: genitures
Etymology: From Old French géniture (the same word in modern French), or its source Latin genitura, from the base of gignere (“to beget”).
Senses: examples: text: on Lady-Day, which was on the 25th of the same month in which I date my geniture,—my father set out upon his journey to London with my eldest brother Bobby, to fix him at Westminster school
ref: 1759, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Penguin, published 2003, page 10:
glosses: Birth; begetting.
Derived terms: postgeniture
sweltering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From swelter + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The day was sweltering, so Lauren put on the shortest pair of shorts she could find and went to get ice-cream with her friend Rob.
glosses: hot and humid; oppressively sticky
raw_tags: of weather
Related terms: balmy
sweltering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From swelter + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of swelter
sweltering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swelterings
Etymology: From swelter + -ing.
Senses: examples: March 11 1932, Northrop Frye, notebook
It is truly a long way from Augustine's ultra-violet perspicacity to our swelterings in the intolerably sapping infra-red, but we are constantly plunging into deeper and deeper black and may rest our eyes in peace sometime.
glosses: The situation of being or feeling hot and humid.
doromania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek δῶρον (dôron, “gift”) + -mania.
Senses: glosses: An unusual urge or preoccupation with giving gifts.
eleutheromania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐλευθερία (eleuthería, “freedom”) + -mania.
Senses: antonyms: eleutherophobia
glosses: A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
Related terms: eleutheromaniac
presser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pressers
Etymology: From press (verb) + -er (“agent -er”).
Senses: examples: text: Visiting a traditional vineyard, we watched the grape pressers treading the grapes underfoot.
text: That's the name of the people who make the polystyrene compound used by pressers of records that don't warp.
ref: 1977, Billboard, volume 89, number 46:
glosses: A person, device, or agent that presses or squeezes, as
examples: 2012, Sophia Kingshill, The Estate of Jennifer Westwood, The Fabled Coast
Overnight, North Shields was cordoned off by soldiers while the pressers descended in force, and left with a haul of more than two hundred and fifty men, including sailors, mechanics, and every kind of labourer.
glosses: A person, device, or agent that presses or squeezes, as:
A member of a press-gang, who forces (presses) others into service.
examples: text: He saw the man who did the cleaning and pressing for the hotel, a man whom he had always seen before in the gloom of the pressing shop sweating over a steam presser.
ref: 1950, Carl Jonas, Snowslide, page 142:
glosses: A person, device, or agent that presses or squeezes, as:
A person or device that removes wrinkles, usually from clothing.
synonyms: word: clothes press
english: device
translation: device
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A person, device, or agent that presses or squeezes, as:
Alternative spelling of pressor: synonym of vasopressor.
Derived terms: point presser
presser beam
presser foot
seam presser
Related terms: sense: pressing clothes
word: ironing
presser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pressers
Etymology: From press (“press release/press conference”) + -er (Variety “-er”).
Senses: topics: media
glosses: A press release.
examples: text: At the presser, [Scott] Morrison confirmed that the petrol tax of 22 cents a litre will go back to 44 cents after six months despite prices nudging $2 a litre again; […]
ref: 2022 May 18, Paul Karp, “Australian election briefing: Scott Morrison bulldozes a kid while Anthony Albanese takes the stage”, in The Guardian:
text: A statement will be issued. We'll do a presser this aftern—
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 117:
topics: media
synonyms: newser
pressie
glosses: A press conference or press briefing.
assiette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assiettes
Etymology: Borrowed from French assiette. Doublet of ashet.
Senses: glosses: A plate of food, but typically a small plate containing the same food item prepared in various different ways
glosses: A mixture of bole, bloodstone, and galena once used in bookbinding as a gilding surface
Matignon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in Côtes-d'Armor department, Brittany, France.
gamomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡæmə(ʊ)ˈmeɪnɪə/
Forms: form: gamomanias
Etymology: From gamo- + -mania.
Senses: glosses: An obsessive desire for making bizarre marriage proposals.
dabbles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dabble
dabbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dabble
obliger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈblaɪd͡ʒə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: obligers
Etymology: From oblige + -er.
Senses: examples: text: a. 1639, Henry Wotton, a letter to Edmund Bacon
it is the natural property of the same heart, to be a gentle Interpreter, which is so noble an Obliger
glosses: One who, or that which, obliges.
dabbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dabble
dabbling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dabblings
Senses: examples: text: […] a "home album" filled with lovable McCartneyesque hummings and dabblings about love and romance and the joys of quotidian existence, as far removed in conception and execution from his last recording project (side two of Abbey Road) as you could imagine.
ref: 1989 December 22, Bill Wyman, “Let him be”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: An act in which something is dabbled in
raw_tags: of dabble
hand down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hands down
form: handing down
form: handed down
form: handed down
Senses: examples: text: Fables are handed down from age to age.
text: Yet if the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the ways of the immediate generation before us in a blind or timid adherence to its successes, "tradition" should positively be discouraged.
ref: 1920, T. S. Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent”, in The Sacred Wood:
glosses: To transmit in succession, as from father to son, or from predecessor to successor.
examples: text: The jury handed down a verdict of guilty.
text: Justice James A. Burke, who presided over the trial in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, could have sentenced Mr. Weinstein to as little as five years, but he heeded the arguments of prosecutors who urged him to hand down a long sentence.
ref: 2020 March 11, Jan Ransom, “Harvey Weinstein’s Stunning Downfall: 23 Years in Prison”, in New York Times:
text: UN experts alarmed by sentences handed down to human rights lawyer Arnon Nampa on lèse-majesté charges
ref: 2024 March 25, United Nations, “Thailand: UN experts alarmed by sentences handed down to human rights lawyer Arnon Nampa on lèse-majesté charges”, in United Nations:
topics: law
glosses: To deliver (the decision of a court, etc.)
examples: text: The Clerk of the Court of Appeals handed down its decision.
topics: law
glosses: To forward to the proper officer (the decision of a higher court).
examples: text: When my older brother grows out of his clothes, he hands them down to me.
glosses: To donate (as second hand.)
Derived terms: hand-me-down
dabbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæbələ(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈdæblə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: dabblers
Etymology: From dabble + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Marissa was just a dabbler when it came to writing: she blogged a little, but had never submitted any work to a serious publication.
synonyms: amateur
dilettante
antonyms: lifestyler
professional
glosses: One who dabbles.
glosses: A dabbling duck.
gugyeol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: coordinate_terms: hyangchal
idu
glosses: Alternative spelling of kwukyel.
dabblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dabbler
planetology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From planet + -ology.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The study of planets, planetary systems and the solar system.
Synonyms: planetary astronomy
planetary science
Hypernyms: science
Hyponyms: areology
comparative planetology
geology
Derived terms: planetological
dibbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dibblers
Etymology: From Nyunga djil-yoor.
Senses: glosses: A small mouse-like marsupial, (Parantechinus apicalis), of southwest Western Australia.
dibbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dibblers
Etymology: From dibble + -er.
Senses: glosses: A dibble (device for making holes in which to plant seeds).
glosses: A person who uses a dibble.
dibblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dibbler
parc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parcs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of park (“partially enclosed basin in which oysters are grown”).
finances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪ.næn.sɪz/
ipa: /faɪˈnæn.sɪz/
ipa: /fɪˈnæn.sɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of finance
finances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪ.næn.sɪz/
ipa: /faɪˈnæn.sɪz/
ipa: /fɪˈnæn.sɪz/
Senses: glosses: Funds or other financial resources.
finances
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪ.næn.sɪz/
ipa: /faɪˈnæn.sɪz/
ipa: /fɪˈnæn.sɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of finance
like father, like son
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: Jason is headstrong and impatient—like father, like son.
text: A: "My favorite getaway is Puerto Rico." B: "Like father, like son, I see."
glosses: A son takes after his father.
Related terms: the apple does not fall far from the tree
chip off the old block
like mother, like daughter
father to son
nain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nains
Etymology: Borrowed from Welsh nain (“grandmother”).
Senses: examples: text: Coordinate term: taid
text: Then we threw down a gauntlet to the mams, dads, nains and taids of Wales to see where they go to treat their kids to some really good, tasty food.
ref: 2015 July 15, Lorna Doran, “The best places for kids to eat in Wales - as recommended by YOU”, in WalesOnline, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2018:
synonyms: mamgu
glosses: A grandmother.
Related terms: tadcu
molle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See moll.
Senses: examples: B molle
F molle
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: flat; lowered by a semitone
Related terms: heloma molle
ulcus molle
Kaaba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːbə/
Forms: form: the Kaaba
form: Kabah
form: Kaabah
form: Ka'ba
form: Kaʻba
form: Ka'aba
form: Caaba
form: Cahaba
form: Qabah
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic كَعْبَة (kaʕba, “cube”).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The nearly cubical stone temple in Mecca, the holiest place in Islam and site of the great hajj assembly.
Hypernyms: english: mosque including the Kaaba
translation: mosque including the Kaaba
word: Masjid al-Haram
fists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪsts/
rhymes: -ɪsts
Senses: glosses: plural of fist
fists
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪsts/
rhymes: -ɪsts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fist
explicable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈsplɪkəbəl/
Etymology: From Middle French explicable, from Latin explicabilis, from explicō (“unfold, explain”).
Senses: glosses: Able to be explained.
Synonyms: sense: able to be explained
word: explainable
word: accountable
Derived terms: explicableness
explicably
contente
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more contente
form: most contente
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of content.
balcon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balcons
Etymology: Borrowed from French balcon.
Senses: examples: text: That done, we walked to Cornehill, and there at Mr. Cade’s stood in the balcon and saw all the funeral, which was with the blue-coat boys and old men, all the Aldermen, and Lord Mayor, &c., and the number of the company very great; the greatest I ever did see for a taverne.
ref: 1665 June 1, Samuel Pepys, Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, volume 5, Dodd, Mead & Company, published 1885, pages 33–34:
glosses: Obsolete form of balcony.
charbon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑː(ɹ)bən/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)bən
Forms: form: charbons
Etymology: From French charbon (“coal; anthrax”).
Senses: glosses: A small black spot or mark remaining in the cavity of the corner tooth of a horse after the large spot or mark has become obliterated.
glosses: A very contagious and fatal disease of sheep, horses, and cattle; anthrax.
changement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: changements
Senses: topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A change in the tempo or rhythm of one's actions, to mislead the opponent.
visiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: visiters
Etymology: From Middle English visiter, visitere, equivalent to visit + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Lady Anne had too good taste for that. Still, any one who knew her not, might have thought, from the unusual care and pains bestowed on her appearance, that she herself meditated a conquest of their visiter.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 88:
glosses: Archaic form of visitor.
glosses: Misspelling of visitor.
Philippa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪ.lɪ.pə/
Etymology: A Latinate feminine form of Philip, recorded in medieval England, but originally pronounced like the masculine form.
Senses: examples: text: "You detest every thing insincere, I know, charming Philippa — pardon me, your beautiful name betrays me constantly. Is it not — like your voice — stolen from poetry or music?"
ref: 1854, John Esten Cooke, The Youth of Jefferson, Redfield, published 1854, page 22:
text: They had an expensive, well-cut air which was like a uniform, and their conversation was all about people with names like Terence and Geoffrey, Philippa and Vivien, who lived in London and County Wicklow and who were "terribly amusing".
ref: 1963, Jane McIlvaine, Cammie's Cousin, Bobbs-Merrill, page 58:
text: Jennifer, Alison, Philippa, Sue / Deborah, Annabel, too, I wrote this song for you
ref: 1989, Paul Heaton, Dave Rotheray, “Song for Whoever”, performed by The Beautiful South:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Related terms: sense: pet forms
word: Phil
sense: pet forms
word: Pippa
birch bolete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birch boletes
Senses: glosses: Leccinum scabrum, an edible mushroom.
Vesuvius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈsu.vi.əs/
Forms: form: Vesuvy
Etymology: From Latin Vesuvius, of uncertain origin.
Senses: examples: text: Hecla bellowed until the Icelanders feared a cataclysm. Vesuvius blew its head off.
ref: 1928 February 25 – March 3, Arthur Conan Doyle, “When the World Screamed”, in The Professor Challenger Stories […], London: John Murray, […], published [1952], →OCLC, page 577:
glosses: A volcanic mountain located on the Gulf of Naples in Italy.
Derived terms: Vesuvian
Related terms: vesuvin
Vesuvius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈsu.vi.əs/
Forms: form: Vesuviuses
form: Vesuvy
Etymology: From Latin Vesuvius, of uncertain origin.
Senses: glosses: A kind of firework supposed to resemble a volcano eruption.
vicomte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vicomtes
Etymology: From French vicomte. Doublet of vicecomes and viscount.
Senses: glosses: A French viscount.
Coordinate terms: vicomtesse
Related terms: comte
Schmidt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃmɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: Schmidts
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schmidt (“smith”). Doublet of Smid and Smith.
Senses: examples: text: “The work continues, the data, the products, the science will continue because science is done by people not by buildings,” NASA GISS director Gavin Schmidt told CNN.
ref: 2025 April 24, Andrew Freedman, “Trump administration cancels top NASA climate lab’s lease at Columbia University”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname from German [in turn originating as an occupation].
Derived terms: Kwiatkowski-Phillips-Schmidt-Shin test
Schmidt-Cassegrain
Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope
Schmidt corrector plate
Schmidt telescope
Schmidt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃmɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: Schmidts
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schmidt (“smith”). Doublet of Smid and Smith.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Schmidt telescope.
black chanterelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black chanterelles
Senses: glosses: An edible mushroom.
Craterellus cornucopioides
glosses: An edible mushroom.
Polyozellus multiplex (blue chanterelle)
Hamish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈheɪmɪʃ/
rhymes: -eɪmɪʃ
Etymology: Anglicized spelling of Scottish Gaelic Sheumais, vocative case of Seumas, from English James (see for more). Doublet of James etc.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Scottish Gaelic, of mostly Scottish usage.
Jimbo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪmbəʊ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪmboʊ/
rhymes: -ɪmbəʊ
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name James.
ugly milk-cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ugly milk-caps
Senses: glosses: An edible mushroom, Lactarius necator.
Amanab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A people of Papua New Guinea.
Amanab
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Their language.
glosses: A district of Sandaun, Papua New Guinea.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Amanab terms
sheep polypore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheep polypores
Senses: glosses: An edible mushroom (Albatrellus ovinus).
slippery jack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slippery jacks
Etymology: Most have a slimy cap.
Senses: synonyms: sticky bun
glosses: A mushroom in genus Suillus, family Boletaceae, especially Suillus luteus; boletes, they have no gills, but release spores from tubes ending in open pores.
lawyer's wig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lawyer's wigs
Etymology: From its resemblance to the traditional horsehair wig worn by barristers in Britain.
Senses: examples: text: You find parasols and lawyer's wig more in the fields, and pholiota...
ref: 1966, Robert Pinget, Plays, volume 2, Hill and Wang, page 144:
text: These Lawyer's wig fungi are for me the best tasting mushrooms, even better than cepes and they are wonderful just gently fried in butter.
ref: 1999, Fungigirl, free.uk.nature.mushrooms:
text: In Britain, Coprinus comatus is dubbed the Lawyer's wig.
ref: 2003, Charles L. Fergus, Common Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms of the Northeast, Stackpole Books, page 33:
synonyms: shaggy mane
shaggy inkcap
hypernyms: inkcap
glosses: A certain edible mushroom (Coprinus comatus).
Spackle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of spackle.
chiastolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chiastolites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χιαστός (khiastós, “arranged diagonally”) derived from χι (khi, “Greek letter X khi”) + -lite. So called from the resemblance of the crosscuts of its crystals to the Greek letter chi.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An aluminosilicate mineral having carbon inclusions, a variety of andalusite.
Synonyms: macle
Derived terms: chiastolite slate
chiastolitic
churning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of churn
churning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: churnings
Senses: examples: text: Earth is surrounded by a magnetosphere — an invisible bubble of magnetism generated by the powerful churning of molten metals at Earth’s core.
ref: 2023 December 27, Mindy Weisberger, “Ancient bricks baked when Nebuchadnezzar II was king absorbed a power surge in Earth’s magnetic field”, in CNN:
glosses: The act by which something is churned.
glosses: The quantity of butter prepared (by churning) at one time.
Derived terms: antichurning
equipage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛ.kwɪ.pɪdʒ/
Forms: form: equipages
Etymology: From Middle French equippage, from equipper. The "carriage" sense may be influenced by Latin equus (“horse”).
Senses: examples: text: Araminta, come I'll talk ſeriouſly to you now, could you but ſee vvith my Eyes the buffoonry of one Scene of Addreſs, a Lover, ſet out with all his Equipage and Appurtenances; […]
ref: 1693, Will[iam] Congreve, The Old Batchelour, a Comedy. […], London: […] Peter Buck, […], →OCLC, Act II, scene [ii], page 14:
glosses: Equipment or supplies, especially military ones.
examples: text: At this moment the carriage turned into the Prado; a thousand magnificent equipages, with plumed horses, superb caparisons, and beautiful women bowing to the cavaliers, who stood for a moment on the foot-board, and then bowed their adieus to the “ladies of their love,” passed before our eyes.
ref: 1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 199:
glosses: A type of horse-drawn carriage.
examples: text: For although the Queen had ordered a little Equipage of all things neceſſary while I was in her Service, yet my Ideas were wholly taken up with what I ſaw on every ſide of me, and winked at my own Littleneſs as People do at their own Faults.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The King and Queen Make a Progress to the Frontiers. The Author Attends Them. The Manner in which He Leaves the Country Very Particularly Related. He Returns to England.”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), pages 306–307:
text: Miserable and desponding he returned to his home; while Oriana, in again taking leave of her family, was borne back in her aunt's equipage to the splendours of the Park.
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XXI, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 302:
glosses: The carriage together with attendants; a retinue.
examples: text: Loe-heere a description, much resembling the equipage of a compleat French-man at armes, with all his bards.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 9, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: Military dress; uniform, armour, etc.
Derived terms: breakfast-equipage
equipage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛ.kwɪ.pɪdʒ/
Forms: form: equipages
form: equipaging
form: equipaged
form: equipaged
Etymology: From Middle French equippage, from equipper. The "carriage" sense may be influenced by Latin equus (“horse”).
Senses: glosses: To furnish with an equipage.
repetitively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more repetitively
form: most repetitively
Etymology: From repetitive + -ly.
Senses: antonyms: nonrepetitively
glosses: In a repetitive manner.
unrefined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrefined
form: most unrefined
Etymology: From un- + refined.
Senses: examples: text: Some journal entries maybe raw and unrefined, others inspirational and detailed, but all show the truth and unbridled passion of what it is to put in your time as a true surf-caster, and maybe you can learn something from it.
ref: 2014, Nick Honachefsky, The Jersey Surf Diaries, →ISBN:
glosses: crude, raw or unprocessed
examples: text: Depend upon it, it is the more coarse and unrefined portion of the community who outrage the feelings of churchgoing people by Sabbath desecration.
ref: 1854, Fanny Fern, Fern Leaves from Fanny's Portfolio:
glosses: lacking refinement; uncouth
raw_tags: of a person
unrefined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unrefine
silenced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of silence
silenced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more silenced
form: most silenced
Senses: glosses: made silent
glosses: fitted with a silencer
raw_tags: of a firearm
cramped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹæmpt/
rhymes: -æmpt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cramp
cramped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹæmpt/
rhymes: -æmpt
Forms: form: more cramped
form: most cramped
Senses: examples: text: Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,[…]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: Since then we have had the opportunity to travel in them and were much impressed by the internal styling and comfort of the seating (with the minor exception of the single seats which have been tucked in longitudinally alongside some of the entrance vestibules and which are so cramped that only the slimmest of female figures could be comfortable in them; the space they occupy would have been better utilised to increase standing room).
ref: 1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 715:
text: But the design of the '730s' wasn't just about the seating formation. The Metro-style walkthrough interior was chosen because it is much more spacious than the '323s', where the interconnecting doors between carriages, narrow central aisle, and cramped areas by the passenger doors had been deemed particularly constraining.
ref: 2025 April 16, Pip Dunn, “The future is orange....”, in RAIL, number 1033, page 53:
glosses: Uncomfortably restricted in size or space, or financially.
glosses: Overcrowded or congested.
glosses: Tight because of or like suffering a cramp.
glosses: Illegible.
Derived terms: crampedly
crampedness
uncramped
rivo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /ˈɹaɪvəʊ/
Etymology: Perhaps from Spanish arriba (“up”).
Senses: examples: text: Rivo, says the drunkard. Call in ribs , call in tallow
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
text: Then ther's my chub , my epicure , Quadratus , that rubbes his guttes , clappes his paunch , and cries Rivo , intertayning my eares perpetually with a most strong discourse of the praise of bottle ale and red herrings
ref: 1601 (date written), Iohn Marston [i.e., John Marston], What You Will, London: […] G[eorge] Eld, for Thomas Thorppe, published 1607, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: A drinking cry.
Ophelia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒˈfiː.lɪə/
ipa: /əʊˈfiː.lɪə/
ipa: /əˈfiː.lɪə/
ipa: /oʊˈfi.əl.jə/
ipa: /oʊˈfi.li.ə/
homophone: aphelia (one pronunciation)
rhymes: -iːliə
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Ofelia, coined by the poet Jacopo Sannazaro in his poem Arcadia (1504), probably from the Ancient Greek ὠφέλειᾰ (ōphéleiă, “help, aid, succour”). The name was used by William Shakespeare for the ill-fated love interest of Hamlet.
Senses: examples: text: I lov’d Ophelia: forty thousand brothers // Could not, with all their quantity of love, // Make up my sum.
ref: 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act V, Scene i
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A moon of Uranus, named after the character in Hamlet.
Derived terms: Ophelia complex
Ophelian
Ophelia syndrome
perdue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Here, lying perdue, in a snug corner of the hideous inclosure, he over-hears certain Chiefs, or Princes, of the Devils, in their conferences, relate their several exploits and atchievements ^([sic]) in the seduction of mankind […]
ref: 1772, Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal, volume 47, page 393:
glosses: Alternative spelling of perdu.
perdue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perdues
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of perdu.
quickest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of quick: most quick
quickest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: superlative form of quick: most quick
Mansfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English Mamesfeld, from a Brythonic word mamm, meaning "mother" or "breast" + feld (“field”).
Senses: glosses: A town in Nottinghamshire, England.
glosses: Mansfield District, a local government district in Nottinghamshire with its headquarters in the town.
glosses: A small village north of New Cumnock, East Ayrshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS6214).
glosses: A place in Canada:
A community in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia.
glosses: A place in Canada:
A community in Mulmur township, Dufferin County, Ontario.
glosses: A place in Canada:
A community in Mansfield-et-Pontefract, Pontiac Regional County Municipality, Quebec.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Scott County and Sebastian County, Arkansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Tolland County, Connecticut.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Newton County, Georgia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Piatt County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Jackson Township, Parke County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Finney County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the parish seat of DeSoto Parish, Louisiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Bristol County, Massachusetts.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township and unincorporated community therein, in Freeborn County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Wright County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Burlington County, New Jersey.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Warren County, New Jersey.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Cattaraugus County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Richland County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A borough in Tioga County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Brown County and Spink County, South Dakota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Henry County, Tennessee.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Tarrant County, Ellis County and Johnson County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Douglas County, Washington.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Barbour County, West Virginia.
glosses: A suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A town in eastern Victoria, Australia.
glosses: A local government area in Victoria, Australia, which includes the town; in full, the Shire of Mansfield.
glosses: A surname.
qualifier: Oxford University
glosses: Ellipsis of Mansfield College, Oxford.
Derived terms: Mansfield bar
Mansfield-et-Pontefract
Mansfield Woodhouse
chasseurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chasseur
chasseur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃæˈsɜː/
ipa: /ʃæˈsɝ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Forms: form: chasseurs
Etymology: Borrowed from French chasseur. Doublet of chaser.
Senses: glosses: A soldier equipped for rapid movement; also, any of several light infantry regiments, especially in France.
glosses: A servant or attendant.
examples: text: The chasseur of the Hôtel Récamier (whom he knew far too well) was approaching them at a run.
ref: 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, published 2007, page 30:
glosses: A hotel messenger, especially in France.
glosses: A hunter or huntsman.
examples: text: From France, Greeley checks in with rabbit chausseurs made with red wine, shallots, tomatoes, and rosemary; […]
ref: 1987, Herb Baus, Best restaurants, Orange County, page 71:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
synonyms: cacciatore
glosses: A dish of meat cooked in a sauce containing mushrooms, shallots and white wine.
arrivant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈɹaɪvənt/
Forms: form: arrivants
Etymology: From arrive + -ant or French arrivant.
Senses: examples: text: The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy by Kamau Brathwaite (1973)
text: Altogether the new arrivant had the air of some desperate adventurer […]
ref: 1854, Emma Robinson, chapter 6, in Westminster Abbey; or, The Days of the Reformation, volume 1, London: John Mortimer, page 146:
text: […] the beggars, looking up with the bright faces of arrivants, turned into our compound-front.
ref: 1991, Ben Okri, The Famished Road, London: Jonathan Cape, Section 2, Book 6, Chapter 14:
text: [He] finally gave up any hope that a bellhop would actually help an arrivant or somebody about to leave the hotel with their luggage.
ref: 1998, Howard Norman, The Museum Guard, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 242:
synonyms: arrival
glosses: A person who is arriving or has just arrived.
Sheffield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɛfiːld/
ipa: /ˈʃɛfɪld/
Forms: form: Sheffields
form: Sheff.
Etymology: From the name of the River Sheaf, which is from Old English scēaþ (“boundary”), + Old English feld (“field, open land”).
Senses: glosses: A city and metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.
glosses: A city and metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.
The University of Sheffield.
glosses: A hamlet in Penzance parish, south-west Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW4526).
glosses: A town in Kentish council area, Tasmania, Australia.
glosses: A small village in Selwyn district, Canterbury, New Zealand.
glosses: A common placename in the United States:
A city in Colbert County, Alabama.
glosses: A common placename in the United States:
A village in Bureau County, Illinois.
glosses: A common placename in the United States:
A city in Franklin County, Iowa.
glosses: A common placename in the United States:
A town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts.
glosses: A common placename in the United States:
A neighbourhood of Kansas City, Missouri.
glosses: A common placename in the United States:
A village in Lorain County, Ohio.
glosses: A common placename in the United States:
A census-designated place in Warren County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A common placename in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Pecos County, Texas.
glosses: A common placename in the United States:
A town in Caledonia County, Vermont.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
glosses: knife, switchblade.
Derived terms: Sheffielder
Sheffield Park
Sheffield stand
touchy-feely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more touchy-feely
form: most touchy-feely
Senses: examples: text: My last boyfriend was a lovely guy, but I dumped him because he was too touchy-feely with me in public.
text: Kühnel’s wife, Berta, began by asking everyone to join hands. […] When I asked her later what she made of the exercise, Hellar told me: “First of all, I’m not a good-feelings, touchy-feely kind of person.”
ref: 2009 April 16, Jon Mooallem, quoting Gretchen Hellar, “The End Is Near! (Yay!)”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: This time, the actor was in uncomfortably touchy-feely form. First he sidled up behind Scarlett Johansson as she posed on the red carpet, kissed her, and slid his hand around her waist.
ref: 2015 February 23, “Oscars 2015: 10 things we learned”, in The Guardian (London):
coordinate_terms: huggy
glosses: Having a fondness for physical contact with other people, especially to an excessive degree.
examples: text: He preferred the clarity of science and left the touchy-feely stuff to others.
glosses: Driven by intuition or emotion, with a connotation of de-emphasis of rational thought or logic.
examples: text: I think the movie had too much touchy-feely nonsense and not enough action.
glosses: Appealing to emotion, sympathy, or romance.
Derived terms: touchy-feeler
touchy-feeliness
touchy-feely
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Why is it that, when straight men are touched, it is an affront worthy of outrage and police investigation, yet a woman's being the subject of a bar-wide game of touchy-feely is par for the course?
ref: Kyle Hoffman, letter in Valley Advocate, quoted 1979 February 10 by Allen Young, “Living In The Country”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 28, page 8
text: When I was wrestling, females were just appearing on the scene. I loved my coach's position. "If they want to wrestle with the boys, sure, I will put our wrestlers on the mat for some touchy feely. (Paraphrased, but not by much)
ref: 2025 February 13, @ZekeCares, Twitter:
glosses: Physical contact, typically sexual, and usually inappropriate or unwanted.
mint sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mint sauces
Senses: glosses: A sauce, made with mint and vinegar, that is a popular accompaniment to roast lamb.
examples: text: 'Sure, I do. Joey comes here with me whenever I'm not busy with a flat and he's got the mint-sauce for the entrance fee.'
ref: 1974, H. R. F. Keating, The Underside:
glosses: Money.
main sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: main sheets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mainsheet.
beldam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beldams
Senses: examples: text: Had Pyrrhus not fallen by a beldam's hand in Argos or Julius Caesar not been knifed to death? They are not to be thought away.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 2: Nestor]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 25:
glosses: Alternative spelling of beldame.