cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hussey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: husseys
Senses: examples: text: And to be sure, as your ladyship says, the girl hath always appeared like a good, honest, plain girl, and not vain of her face, forsooth, as some wanton husseys in the neighbourhood are.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
glosses: Obsolete form of hussy.
husseys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hussey
hemiloops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemiloop
Heliogabalan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Heliogabalan
form: most Heliogabalan
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Heliogabalian.
ragooing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ragoo
ragooed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ragoo
croppy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: croppies
Etymology: From crop + -y, alluding to the practice of having the hair cut short.
Senses: glosses: An Irish republican rebel.
croppies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of croppy
glosses: plural of croppie
prophaner
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of prophane: more prophane
prophanest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of prophane: most prophane
ungolden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungolden
form: most ungolden
Etymology: From un- + golden.
Senses: examples: text: Being at a banker's a few days since, and seeing on the counter a number of [sovereigns] of a very dusky ungolden hue, I asked what was the matter with them?
ref: 1871, Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, page 137:
text: Zelda belonged to the ungolden world—her element was the golden age which was not of gold.
ref: 1874, The Cornhill Magazine, volume 29, page 127:
glosses: Not golden.
unhintable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhintable
form: most unhintable
Etymology: From un- + hintable.
Senses: examples: text: With the word 'baby' unmentionable and unhintable, we all had to go on pretending that my mother was in bed for some slight cold, or other indisposition.
ref: 1955, John Wyndham, The Chrysalids:
text: The whole visit was tense with Soppy's unhintable doings.
ref: 2015, Peter Dickinson, Skeleton-in-Waiting:
glosses: That must not be hinted at; unmentionable.
hintable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hint + -able.
Senses: examples: text: And as for boils, as for boils, well, as for boils —
Well, my pen recoils,
Because people's invariable humorous remarks about other people's boils are invariably unprintable,
And most of them are not even hintable.
ref: 1936, The New Yorker, volume 12, page 19:
glosses: That can be hinted at, or alluded to.
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Having support for hinting.
outplead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outpleads
form: outpleading
form: outpleaded
form: outpleaded
Etymology: From out- + plead.
Senses: examples: text: There were some strokes in this speech which perhaps would have offended Mr Allworthy, had he strictly attended to it; but he had now got one of his fingers into the infant's hand, which, by its gentle pressure, seeming to implore his assistance, had certainly out-pleaded the eloquence of Mrs Deborah, had it been ten times greater than it was.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
glosses: To surpass in pleading; to plead more successfully than.
outpleaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outplead
outpleads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outplead
outpleading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outplead
pebly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pebly
form: most pebly
Senses: examples: text: In the midst of the grove was a fine lawn, sloping down towards the house, near the summit of which rose a plentiful spring, […] tumbling in a natural fall over the broken and mossy stones till it came to the bottom of the rock, then running off in a pebly channel […]
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
glosses: Obsolete form of pebbly.
foilsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foilsmen
Etymology: From foil + -s- + -man.
Senses: glosses: A person who fights with a foil, or thin sword.
foilsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foilsman
enrolleth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: enroll + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enroll
Italian of the East
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Italian of the East
Etymology: From the supposed similarities in pronunciation.
Senses: glosses: The Telugu language.
examples: text: Or in soft whispers may he be address'd, By girls who lisp th' Italian of the East?
ref: 1801, John Collegins, “Literary Characteristics of The Most Distinguished Members of the Asiatic Society”, in The Asiatic Annual Register, page 114:
text: Our first native servant, a boy called "Omah," came from Timor in the Gulnare, and I then heard spoken for the first time what is now as familiar to me as my mother tongue, the melodious Malayan language, the "Italian of the East," as some writers term it.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 128:
glosses: The Malay language.
explainee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: explainees
Etymology: From explain + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: To be a skilled explainer, one has also to take account of the explainees, and their social and cultural backgrounds, motivations, linguistic ability, and previous knowledge – and plan accordingly before embarking upon the explanation.
ref: 2006, Owen Hargie, The Handbook of Communication Skills, page 200:
glosses: Someone who receives an explanation.
explainees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of explainee
Bologna sausage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bologna sausages
Senses: examples: text: In reality, true Nature is as difficult to be met with in Authors, as the Bayonne Ham or Bologna''' Sauſage is to be found in the Shops.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, “The Introduction to the Work, or Bill of Fare to the Feast”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume I, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book I, page 4:
glosses: Synonym of bologna.
synonyms: word: bologna
Bologna sausages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bologna sausage
unabrasiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unabrasive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of not being abrasive.
counterriposte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterripostes
Etymology: From counter- + riposte.
Senses: topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A thrust delivered in response to the opponent's riposte.
counterripostes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterriposte
mimologics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French mimologiques, title of a 1976 book on the subject by Gérard Genette.
Senses: glosses: phonetic symbolism
Related terms: mimological
mimology
Osmanian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Osmanian
form: most Osmanian
Etymology: From Osman + -ian, after Osman I, founder of the Ottoman Empire.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Ottoman.
synonyms: word: Ottoman
Derived terms: Osmanian Empire
Osmanian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Osman + -ian, after Osman Yusuf Kenadid, who invented it in the 1920s.
Senses: glosses: The Osmanya script.
interrelationality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interrelationalities
Etymology: From interrelational + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being interrelational.
interrelationalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interrelationality
cash basis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
coordinate_terms: accrual basis
glosses: A method of accounting that tracks income and expenditure when they actually occur, rather than when they become due.
red-headed stepchild
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red-headed stepchildren
Senses: synonyms: poor relation
glosses: A person or thing that is unfairly disliked and maltreated.
Related terms: black sheep
red-headed stepchildren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red-headed stepchild
unaugust
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unaugust
form: most unaugust
Etymology: From un- + august.
Senses: glosses: Not august.
semimuffle furnaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semimuffle furnace
Elizabeths
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Elizabeth
matamatam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matamatams
Senses: glosses: A Tolai ceremony in memory of dead ancestors.
matamatams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matamatam
taraiu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taraiu
Senses: glosses: Among the Tolai, a sacred grove associated with male rituals.
deceaseds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Equal shares in dividing the estate were only applied in the case of individual deceaseds.
ref: 2014, John Eekelaar, Rob George, Routledge Handbook of Family Law and Policy, page 368:
glosses: plural of deceased
tubuan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tubuans
Senses: glosses: A female figure associated with the Duk-Duk secret society.
antineutralino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antineutralinos
Etymology: From anti- + neutralino.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The antiparticle of a neutralino.
antineutralinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antineutralino
planckon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planckons
Etymology: From Planck + -on.
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, quantum mechanical arguments have been put forth which suggest that the ultimate remnant of an evaporating black hole is a degenerate gas (fluid) of Planck mass black holes called planckons […]
ref: 1989, Larry L. Smalley, Ideal Black Hole Fluid:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A Planck particle.
planckons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planckon
ileocecal valve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ileocecal valves
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A sphincter muscle valve that separates the small intestine and the large intestine. Its critical function is to limit the reflux of colonic contents into the ileum.
Synonyms: ileal papilla
ileocaecal valve
Tulp's valve
Tulpius valve
Bauhin's valve
ileocecal eminence
valve of Varolius
colic valve
ileocecal valves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ileocecal valve
antitriton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antitritons
Etymology: From anti- + triton.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The antiparticle of a triton.
antitritons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antitriton
physicky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more physicky
form: most physicky
Etymology: From physic + -y.
Senses: examples: text: 'May I ask,' said the Major, 'what wine this is, which has — if I may so express myself — a very physicky flavour?'
ref: 1870, Annals of an Eventful Life, volume 3, page 149:
glosses: Resembling medicine.
ileal papilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ileal papillae
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: ileocecal valve
ileocaecal valve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ileocaecal valves
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: ileocecal valve
Tulp's valve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tulp's valves
Etymology: Described by the Dutch physician Nicolaes Tulp (1593–1674).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: ileocecal valve
Tulpius valve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tulpius valves
Etymology: Described by the Dutch physician Nicolaes Tulp (1593–1674); Tulpius is a Latin rendering of his name.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The ileocecal valve.
Bauhin's valve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bauhin's valves
Etymology: Described in 1588 by Gaspard Bauhin.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The ileocecal valve.
ileocecal eminence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ileocecal eminences
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: ileocecal valve
valve of Varolius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: valves of Varolius
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: ileocecal valve
colic valve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colic valves
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: ileocecal valve
antisneutrino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antisneutrinos
Etymology: From anti- + sneutrino.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The antiparticle of a sneutrino.
antisneutrinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antisneutrino
antigravitino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antigravitinos
Etymology: From anti- + gravitino.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The fermionic superpartner of an antigraviton.
antigravitinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antigravitino
trusteed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trustee
trusteeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trustee
spositron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spositrons
Etymology: From s- + positron.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The supersymmetric partner of a positron.
spositrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spositron
sakaton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sakatons
Etymology: From Sakata + -on.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of the elementary particles (the proton, neutron, and lambda baryon) that make up other hadrons in the Sakata model, a precursor to the quark model.
sakatons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sakaton
reggeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reggeons
Etymology: From Regge + -on. From the name of Tullio Regge, Italian theoretical physicist.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A virtual particle involved in the scattering described by Regge theory.
wikipedia: Tullio Regge
reggeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reggeon
pressuron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pressurons
Etymology: From pressure + -on, so called because it decouples from matter in pressureless regimes.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A hypothetical scalar particle that couples to both gravity and matter.
antipreon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antipreons
Etymology: From anti- + preon.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The antiparticle of a preon.
antipreons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antipreon
Higgson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Higgsons
Etymology: From Higgs + -on.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
related: word: higgson
glosses: The Higgs boson.
Higgsons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Higgson
antislepton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antisleptons
Etymology: From anti- + slepton.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The antiparticle of a slepton.
antisleptons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antislepton
Varolian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Varolio + -an.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or discovered by, Costanzo Varolio (Latinized as Constantius Varolius; 1543–1575), Italian anatomist and physician.
Derived terms: Varolian bend
Varolian bridge
unfatuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfatuous
form: most unfatuous
Etymology: From un- + fatuous.
Senses: glosses: Not fatuous.
antisfermion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antisfermions
Etymology: From anti- + sfermion.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The antiparticle of a sfermion.
antisfermions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antisfermion
sleptonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From slepton + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to sleptons.
banyaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banyak
baniaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baniak
bunyaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bunyak
buniaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buniak
antisakaton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antisakatons
Etymology: From anti- + sakaton.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The antiparticle of a sakaton.
antisakatons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antisakaton
open core
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We deliver a fully functional product with our community edition. You can download it under a GPL v3 license. But, additionally, we provide enterprise features only if you pay for them. It's open core.
ref: 2012, Simon Phipps, Open Source Strategies for the Enterprise, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN:
text: In part because the upsell features are often not clearly partitioned off from the core project, many open core products require their contributors to sign a contributor license agreement (CLA), which assigns rights to the commercial owner of the product.
ref: 2018, Gordon Haff, How Open Source Ate Software […] , Apress, →ISBN, page 109:
glosses: A business model for software whereby the core is open-source and free, while closed-source add-ons are available for purchase.
Related terms: open source
freemium
antiparton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antipartons
Etymology: From anti- + parton.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The antiparticle of a parton.
antipartons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiparton
antigluon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antigluons
Etymology: From anti- + gluon.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The antiparticle of a gluon.
antigluons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antigluon
Erdős
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hungarian Erdős.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Erdős number
Copeland-Erdős constant
de Bruijn-Erdős theorem
stamfort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stamforts
Etymology: Perhaps from the English town of Stamford.
Senses: glosses: haberject
stamforts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stamfort
twintail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twintails
Etymology: From twin + tail. Sense 2 is a calque of Japanese ツインテール (tsuintēru).
Senses: glosses: A variety of goldfish with the tail divided into two parts.
topics: anime
broadcasting
comics
film
lifestyle
literature
manga
media
publishing
television
glosses: Either of a pair of unbraided tails worn on the sides of the head; an unbraided pigtail.
topics: anime
broadcasting
comics
film
lifestyle
literature
manga
media
publishing
television
glosses: Either of a pair of unbraided tails worn on the sides of the head; an unbraided pigtail.
A hairstyle with a pair of twintails; unbraided pigtails.
twintails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twintail
hotelish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hotelish
form: most hotelish
Etymology: From hotel + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: What a bare, hotelish room it was! He tossed off his coat and sat for ten minutes looking blankly at the sputtering gas jet. Then his whole life, desolate as a desert, loomed up before him with appalling distinctness.
ref: 1913, E. Pauline Johnson, A Red Girl's Reasoning:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a hotel.
autophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + -phagous.
Senses: glosses: Self-eating; exhibiting autophagy.
Related terms: autophagy
pluriparas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pluripara
pluriparae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pluripara
polypodous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polypodous
form: most polypodous
Etymology: From poly- + -podous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having numerous legs.
Goodhart's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after British economist Charles Goodhart (1936–), who originated it.
Senses: glosses: The idea that, when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure; originally, "as soon as the government attempts to regulate any particular set of financial assets, these become unreliable as indicators of economic trends".
Related terms: cobra effect
Swedish model
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Swedish model
Senses: synonyms: Nordic model
glosses: The combating of prostitution by criminalizing the buyer, rather than the seller, of sexual services.
polymelous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to polymelia.
scouch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scouches
form: scouching
form: scouched
form: scouched
Etymology: Compare crouch.
Senses: examples: text: You'll hit your head agen the beam, if you don't scouch.
text: Of course, Little Bun did cry some when he couldn't find his Ma and Pa. He scouched down in the grass and the tears trickled down his cocious nose in a little stream that fell on Mr. Grasshopper, who was dozing among the leaves […]
ref: 1916, Stanton Davis Kirkham, Half-True Stories, page 87:
qualifier: Northampton
glosses: To stoop.
Related terms: scooch
scouching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scouch
scouched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scouch
autem gogler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autem goglers
form: autem-gogler
form: autem-goggler
form: autem goggler
Senses: examples: text: Autem-Gogglers, a Crew of Religious Canters, pretending to be persecuted Camisars, or French Prophets, distorting their Faces with ridiculous Grimaces, &c. and laying Claim to Inspiration, in order to gather People about them, with intent to rob, plunder, or pick Pockets.
ref: 1725, A New Canting Dictionary:
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: A religious- or spiritual-based con artist or scam operator.
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: Hence, a conjuror or fortuneteller.
autem-gogler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autem-goglers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of autem gogler.
autem-goglers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autem-gogler
bippies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bippy
autem goglers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autem gogler
blister beetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blister beetle
simulation hypothesis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The hypothesis that seeming reality is in fact a simulation (such as a computer program) of which humans, the simulants, are unaware.
Related terms: simulationism
Sweet Lolita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 甘ロリ (amarori), a blend of 甘い (amai, “sweet, sugary”) + ロリータ (lolita), from English lolita.
Senses: glosses: A Japanese fashion movement whose adherents dress in pastel colours and styles resembling clothing for young girls.
Related terms: Gothic Lolita
Tibetanist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tibetanists
Etymology: From Tibetan + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Tibetologist.
synonyms: word: Tibetologist
Tibetanists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tibetanist
obeliscoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more obeliscoid
form: most obeliscoid
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of obeliskoid.
obeliskoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: obeliscoid
Etymology: From obelisk + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Resembling an obelisk.
overassert
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overasserts
form: overasserting
form: overasserted
form: overasserted
Etymology: From over- + assert.
Senses: glosses: To assert too forcefully.
Related terms: overassertion
overassertive
overasserted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overassert
overasserts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overassert
overasserting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overassert
overforceful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overforceful
form: most overforceful
Etymology: From over- + forceful.
Senses: glosses: With excessive force.
Derived terms: overforcefully
overforcefully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more overforcefully
form: most overforcefully
Etymology: From overforceful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With excessive force.
overdeck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overdecks
form: overdecking
form: overdecked
form: overdecked
Etymology: From over- + deck.
Senses: examples: text: […] but one great hindrance in this my design, is, that our clerk, who was once a gardener, has this Christmas so overdecked the church with greens, that he has quite spoiled my prospect […]
ref: 1819, The Spectator:
text: She was neither overdressed nor overdecked in jewels, nor over made-up as some of her peers were; nor was she overboisterous.
ref: 2015, Muneeza Shamsie, And the World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women:
glosses: To overdecorate.
overdecks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overdeck
overdecking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overdeck
overdecked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overdeck
overboisterous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overboisterous
form: most overboisterous
Etymology: From over- + boisterous.
Senses: examples: text: She was neither overdressed nor overdecked in jewels, nor over made-up as some of her peers were; nor was she overboisterous.
ref: 2015, Muneeza Shamsie, And the World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women:
glosses: Excessively boisterous.
Derived terms: overboisterously
autem jet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autem jets
Etymology: From autem (“church”) + jet (“black”), referencing the colour of a priest's vestments.
Senses: qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: A parson.
Related terms: autem bawler
overgovern
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overgoverns
form: overgoverning
form: overgoverned
form: overgoverned
Etymology: From over- + govern.
Senses: examples: text: In Europe, he says, we over-govern. The subjects of European governments would seem, according to his notion, to be brought into this world only to be licked and taxed.
ref: 1833, Arthur Brooke Faulkner, Visit to Germany and the Low Countries in the Years 1829, 30, and 31:
text: He should not overgovern his neighbors and they should not overgovern him with countless laws calling for more clerks, more police and more rules and regulations and orders which few persons will obey.
ref: 1924, Game Breeder and Sportsman, volumes 25-28, page 224:
glosses: To govern with too much rigidity or precision.
Related terms: micromanage
overgoverned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overgovern
overgoverns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overgovern
overgoverning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overgovern
overhomogenize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overhomogenizes
form: overhomogenizing
form: overhomogenized
form: overhomogenized
Etymology: From over- + homogenize.
Senses: glosses: To homogenize to excess.
Related terms: overhomogenization
overhomogenized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overhomogenize
overhomogenizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overhomogenize
overhomogenizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overhomogenize
overink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overinks
form: overinking
form: overinked
form: overinked
Etymology: From over- + ink.
Senses: examples: text: Do not press the stamp hard into the pad, as this overinks the stamp and shortens the life of the pad by squeezing out the ink.
ref: 2005, Marie Browning, Creative Craft Lettering Made Easy, page 14:
glosses: To apply too much ink to.
overinked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overink
overinks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overink
overinking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overink
overlabor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overlabors
form: overlaboring
form: overlabored
form: overlabored
Etymology: From over- + labor.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of overlabour.
overlabored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overlabor
overlabors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overlabor
overlaboring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overlabor
overplan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overplans
form: overplanning
form: overplanned
form: overplanned
Etymology: From over- + plan.
Senses: antonyms: underplan
glosses: To plan in too much detail.
overplans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overplan
overtrim
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overtrims
form: overtrimming
form: overtrimmed
form: overtrimmed
Etymology: From over- + trim.
Senses: glosses: To trim too much.
overtrims
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overtrim
overtrimming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overtrim
overtrimmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overtrim
permakill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: permakills
form: permakilling
form: permakilled
form: permakilled
Etymology: From perma- + kill.
Senses: examples: text: Azathoth will no longer instantly permakill anyone who offends it. Instead 60% of max hitpoints are lost until amends are made.
ref: 2012, getter77, “Triangle Wizard R 13.02 released”, in rec.games.roguelike.announce (Usenet):
text: At least the movies hadn't lied about how to permakill zombies. Shoot 'em in the head. Destroy the brain.
ref: 2014, Dana Fredsti, Plague World:
glosses: To kill permanently, so as to prevent resurrection.
permakilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of permakill
permakills
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of permakill
permakilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of permakill
overarrange
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overarranges
form: overarranging
form: overarranged
form: overarranged
Etymology: From over- + arrange.
Senses: glosses: To arrange excessively or too precisely.
overarranged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overarrange
overarranges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overarrange
overarranging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overarrange
mosquito fern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mosquito ferns
Etymology: From the belief that no mosquito can penetrate the coating to lay its eggs in the water.
Senses: glosses: Any in the genus Azolla of aquatic ferns.
Synonyms: azolla
duckweed fern
fairy moss
water fern
overadjust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overadjusts
form: overadjusting
form: overadjusted
form: overadjusted
Etymology: From over- + adjust.
Senses: glosses: To adjust excessively or too precisely.
Related terms: overadjustment
overadjusting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overadjust
overadjusts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overadjust
overconstruct
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overconstructs
form: overconstructing
form: overconstructed
form: overconstructed
Etymology: From over- + construct.
Senses: examples: text: The first is a caveat against the tendency to overconstruct a link between patterns of urban dwelling and cultural practices in South Africa.
ref: 1996, Veit Erlmann, Nightsong: Performance, Power, and Practice in South Africa, page 119:
text: Very often theorists are prone to overconstruct facts, that is to endow them with greater meaning than is warranted by the observations.
ref: 2012, Fritz Zwicky, Morphological Astronomy, page 26:
glosses: To place too great a construction upon; to exaggerate.
Related terms: overconstruction
overconstructs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overconstruct
overconstructing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overconstruct
overgirt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overgird
mosquito ferns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mosquito fern
overnear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overnear
form: most overnear
Etymology: From over- + near.
Senses: examples: text: Yet not overnear
Let him approach.
ref: 1868, Edwin Atherstone, The Fall of Nineveh, volume 2, page 74:
glosses: Too near; too close.
overmerry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overmerry
form: most overmerry
Etymology: From over- + merry.
Senses: examples: text: I'll in to counsel them; haply my presence
May well abate the over-merry spleen,
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act INDUCTION, scene i]:
text: It would never do to turn up overmerry, plus the fact that he was expected to make a speech on this ghastly occasion.
ref: 2014, Elizabeth Dumpleton, On Looking Back, page 125:
glosses: Excessively merry.
overorganize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overorganizes
form: overorganizing
form: overorganized
form: overorganized
Etymology: From over- + organize.
Senses: glosses: To organize in too much detail.
examples: text: As the decade wore on, the sexy/anarchist "attitude" wore down […] and the mail became dominated by gay press releases from organizations and gay businesses. Maybe we over-organized, and stifled the poetry.
ref: 1989 December 24, “Queers For Years”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 24, page 10:
glosses: To become too politically or socially cohesive and stuctured.
overorganizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overorganize
overorganizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overorganize
overorganized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overorganize
land agents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of land agent
zootaxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The scientific classification of animals.
jurants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jurant
knubby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʌbi
Forms: form: more knubby
form: most knubby
Senses: glosses: lumpy; knobbly
lienable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lien + -able.
Senses: glosses: Subject to a lien, or legal claim.
Derived terms: nonlienable
unlienable
nonlienable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + lienable.
Senses: glosses: Not lienable.
unlienable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + lienable.
Senses: glosses: Not lienable.
sea ruffe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsiːɹʌf/
Forms: form: sea ruffe
form: sea ruffes
form: searuffe
form: sea-ruff
Etymology: From sea + ruffe.
Senses: glosses: Any of various species of saltwater fish in various families, or a specimen thereof, some species in the genus Sebastiscus.
lichanos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lichanoi
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin lichanos, from Ancient Greek λιχανός (likhanós, “the forefinger”).
Senses: qualifier: musical pitch
glosses: In Ancient Greek musical theory, the higher-pitched of the two movable notes in the nearer tetrachord on a lyre, pitched lower than the mese and higher than the parhypate.
lichanoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lichanos
parhypate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parhypates
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin parhypatē, from Ancient Greek παρυπάτη (parupátē, literally “next to the hypate, next-highest”). The hypate was the "highest" in the sense of being the string on a lyre nearest the player and physically above the other strings (compare a modern guitar, where the low E string is nearest the player), but actually the lowest in pitch.
Senses: qualifier: musical pitch
glosses: In Ancient Greek musical theory, the lower-pitched of the two movable notes in the nearer tetrachord on a lyre, pitched lower than the lichanos and higher than the hypate.
parhypates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parhypate
ligative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ligate + -ive.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Serving to connect separate elements.
Related terms: ligature
exopassives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exopassive
endopassives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endopassive
as you were
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Disregard the previous partial command or order and return to the most recent formal command or order.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Stop standing at attention or don't stand at attention (used when, for instance, an officer enters a barracks room).
limelit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of limelight
sea ruffes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea ruffe
lingcod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lingcods
form: lingcod
Etymology: From ling + cod, from its superficial resemblance to those two fish.
Senses: synonyms: buffalo cod
cultus cod
glosses: Ophiodon elongatus, a fish of the greenlings, of the family Hexagrammidae, native to the west coast of North America.
lingcods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lingcod
searuffe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: searuffes
form: searuffe
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sea ruffe, used especially in compound terms.
searuffes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of searuffe
lippie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lippies
Etymology: From lip + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Like some kind of masonic handshake, Collie passed Vanya a tube of black lippie. She smeared it carelessly across her wide mouth and handed it to me. My parents would have a hissy fit if they knew I put on lipstick but they weren't around.
ref: 2007, D. M. Ross, chapter 12, in The Holy Bad, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Vanguard Press, →ISBN, page 52:
text: I'm worried I'm turning into a 1950s housewife: the other day I found myself tidying up the sitting room and putting on some lippie before Tony got home from work!
ref: 2008, Lynn Bertram, “The World of Motherhood”, in Supporting Postnatal Women Into Motherhood: A Guide to Therapeutic Groupwork for Health Professionals, Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Radcliffe Publishing, →ISBN, page 11:
glosses: Alternative spelling of lippy (“lipstick”).
lippie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lippies
Etymology: From leap (“trap or snare for fish made from twigs; (obsolete) basket”) + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: A miniſter's ſtipend is paid by the heritors as follows: James Speers pays 3 bolls 3 firlots 1 peck 3 lippies oats, 2 bolls barley, and L. 3 : 15 : 4; [...]
ref: 1798, Robert Hamilton, “Subtraction”, in An Introduction to Merchandise. […], 2nd corrected and revised edition, Edinburgh: Printed for Charles Elliot, […]; and for C. Elliot, T. Kay, and Co. […], →OCLC, §19, paragraph XIII, page 19:
text: A Scotch barley boll contains 5 bushels, 3 pecks, 2 lippies, and a little more, according to the Winchester gallon. A Scotch barley boll, according to the legal measure, contains 6 bushels, wanting a little more than ½ lippie.
ref: 1852, “BRUCE, Robert”, in Robert Chambers, editor, A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen, new edition, division II (Brown–Dalrymple), Glasgow; Edinburgh: Blackie and Son, →OCLC, page 365:
text: It was sowens she had in her hand for our supper, when a little old woman walked in and begged a lippie of meal of her.
ref: 1860, Thomas Pattieson, “The Smith and the Fairies”, in J[ohn] F[rancis] Campbell, transl., Popular Tales of the West Highlands: Orally Collected: With a Translation, volume II, Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, →OCLC, page 61:
text: Now there are perhaps 24 hogsheads sown yearly, every tenant and crofter having from one to four lippies. The increase is about one stone from the lippie.
ref: 1871 March, “Three-quarters of a Century Ago. Fortingal.”, in The Poor Law Magazine and Journal of Public Health, volume IV, number IV (New Series), Glasgow: Published for the promoters by N. Adshead, […], →OCLC, page 290:
glosses: Alternative spelling of lippy (“dry measure”).
kumascope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kumascopes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cymoscope.
synonyms: word: cymoscope
lobstick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lobsticks
Senses: glosses: A traditional marker found in the Boreal Forests of Canada, created by removing the middle or lower branches of a coniferous tree.
lobsticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lobstick
kumascopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kumascope
cymatoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cymatoscope
autem jets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autem jet
locoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loco
loculed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From locule + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having (a specified kind or number of) locules.
loggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒɡi
Forms: form: more loggy
form: most loggy
Etymology: From log + -y.
Senses: examples: text: […] a level area characterized by many large fallen logs, but without boulders suitable for basking by lizards. Arctostaphylos, Ceanothus, and Quercus shrubs are dispersed in this loggy area.
ref: 1974, Habitat and Prey Selection of Sceloporus Occidentalis and S. Graciosus:
glosses: Full of logs.
autem divers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autem diver
lopstick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lopsticks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lobstick.
lopsticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lopstick
lopgrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The grass Bromus hordeaceus.
Synonyms: sense: Bromus hordeaceus
word: soft brome
sense: Bromus hordeaceus
word: soft chess
canegrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canegrasses
Etymology: From cane + grass.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of love grass.
synonyms: word: love grass
canegrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canegrass
looey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: looeys
form: louie
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: lieutenant
looeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of looey
louie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: louies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of looey.
louies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of louie
lowlifer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lowlifers
Etymology: From lowlife + -er.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lowlife.
synonyms: word: lowlife
lowlifers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lowlifer
lozell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lozells
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of losel.
lozells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lozell
lucigen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lucigens
Etymology: Obsolete trade name, from Latin lūx (“light”) + -gen.
Senses: glosses: A kind of oil lamp using compressed air.
lucigens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lucigen
lumbang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lumbangs
Etymology: From Tagalog lumbang.
Senses: glosses: The kukui tree.
lumbangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lumbang
lunies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of luny
luxmeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: luxmeters
Etymology: From lux + -meter.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A light meter
luxmeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of luxmeter
lytically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From lytic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of, or in terms of, lysis.
Derived terms: autolytically
lychnises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lychnis
macrologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrology
macrames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrame
myoinositols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myoinositol
myosotises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myosotis