cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
vacillating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vacillating
form: most vacillating
Senses: synonyms: vacillatory
indecisive
irresolute
wavering
wishy-washy
antonyms: resolute
unwavering
steadfast
firm#Adjective
glosses: Liable to vacillate.
vacillating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vacillatings
Senses: examples: text: It was vacillatings, misgivings, and deliberate calculations of this kind that paved the way […]
ref: 1949, The Modern Quarterly, volume 5, page 52:
glosses: Vacillation.
travel system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: travel systems
Senses: glosses: A pushchair with detachable carrycot or car seat.
car seat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: car seats
form: carseat
form: car-seat
Senses: glosses: A seat in a motor car.
examples: text: DUBNER: Now, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, some officials there, after we published these findings in the New York Times, wrote a letter to the editor, and it said, "Our research consistently shows that child safety seats and booster seats significantly lower the risk of serious injury compared to seatbelts alone." They go on to say that your recommendations to rethink car-seat laws are "irresponsible and dangerous"...
 LEVITT: I think what's irresponsible and dangerous is accepting mediocrity, accepting our existing solutions as if they are the best solution. What I take away from the research is we've put in all of these laws about child car seats and we've built these contraptions but then when you look at the data, they're really not doing better, certainly not much better, than this other invention, which never had kids in mind and shouldn't work at all.
ref: 2021 January 13, Stephen Joseph Dubner, “How Much Do We Really Care about Children?”, in Freakonomics Radio, Episode 447:
glosses: Synonym of child safety seat.
synonyms: word: child safety seat
Derived terms: child car seat
preclusive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pɹɛˈklu.sɪv/
Forms: form: more preclusive
form: most preclusive
Senses: glosses: Serving to preclude.
Derived terms: preclusively
thoracoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thoracoplasties
Etymology: From thoraco- + -plasty.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Surgery of the chest, usually involving removal of ribs.
tuboplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtjuːbəˌplæstɪ/
Forms: form: tuboplasties
Etymology: From tube + -o- + -plasty.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Surgery to repair one or both of the Fallopian tubes.
Synonyms: salpingoplasty
preclusively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /pɹɛˈklu.sɪvˌli/
Forms: form: more preclusively
form: most preclusively
Etymology: From preclusive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a preclusive manner; preventively.
fallopian tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fallopian tubes
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Fallopian tube.
valvuloplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: valvuloplasties
Etymology: From valvulo- + -plasty.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Plastic surgery to repair a valve, such as a heart valve or venous valve.
Synonyms: valvoplasty
valvule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: valvules
form: valvulae
Etymology: From Latin valvula (“valve, little valve”) either directly or via French valvule, from Latin valva (“double door, valve”) + -ula (“-ule, -ling: forming diminutives”). Doublet of valvula.
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A small valve.
topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A structure similar to a small valve.
Synonyms: valvula
Derived terms: valvuloplasty
rhumbline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhumblines
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rhumb line.
vulvectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vulvectomy
allantois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈlæntəʊ.ɪs/
Forms: form: allantoises
form: allantoides
Etymology: Ancient Greek ἀλλαντοειδής (allantoeidḗs, “sausage-shaped”). Compare Greek αλλαντικό (allantikó).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A sac, having a number of functions, that develops in the alimentary canal of the embryos of mammals, birds and reptiles.
Synonyms: allantoic sac
allantoid
Derived terms: allanto-
allantoic
rhumb line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhumb lines
Senses: examples: text: On portolan maps rhumb lines were all the go long before Mercator's time. […] It's a different matter putting a straight rhumb line on a map made for a round world. And on a map made for the whole world.
ref: 1964, David Greenhood, Mapping, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 128:
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: rhumb
loxodrome
coordinate_terms: orthodrome
glosses: A line that cuts all meridians at the same angle, the path of a vessel that maintains a constant compass direction.
wikipedia: rhumb line
syndromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syndrome
amblygonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amblygonites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀμβλύς (amblús, “blunt, dull”) + γωνία (gōnía, “angle, corner”) + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral, a mixed fluoride and aluminophosphate of sodium and lithium that is an important ore of lithium.
aluminophosphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aluminophosphates
Etymology: From alumino- + phosphate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a large number of inorganic compounds whose structure is a combination of aluminate and phosphate often in complex three-dimensional forms; many of them are used as molecular sieves.
Derived terms: silicoaluminophosphate
amblypygid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amblypygids
Senses: glosses: Any arachnid of order Amblypygi.
Synonyms: sense: arachnid of order Amblypigi
word: tailless whip scorpion
sense: arachnid of order Amblypigi
word: whip spider
glomped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: He just got glomped by a crazy fangirl.
glosses: simple past and past participle of glomp
turtling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From turtle + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The hunting of turtles (the reptiles).
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Turning turtle.
glosses: Any slow progression or build-up.
topics: card-games
computer-games
games
glosses: A defensive strategy of avoiding conflict, by maintaining strong defense and little to no offense, while remaining in a fixed position.
turtling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From turtle + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of turtle
turtling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turtlings
Etymology: From turtle + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Drowsy with dawn, barely asail, Buzzes the blue-bottle over the shale, Scared from the pool by the leaping trout; And the brood of turtlings clamber out On the log by their oozy house.
ref: 1912, William Vaughn Moody, The poems and plays of William Vaughn Moody:
text: The turtle-lings, kept in safety until they are three months old, are then released into the wild.
ref: 1997, Sportdiving, volumes 59-64, page 94:
text: Fifty days later, more or less, the little turtlings hatch, dig their way up through the sand, and make a mad scramble to the sea.
ref: 2012, Alexandra de Vries, Shawn Blore, Frommer's Brazil:
synonyms: turtlet
glosses: A baby turtle.
amblypygids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amblypygid
aluminophosphates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aluminophosphate
rhumb lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhumb line
allantoises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allantois
allantoides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allantois
rhumblines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhumbline
valvules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of valvule
valvulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of valvula
glosses: plural of valvule
valvuloplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of valvuloplasty
cajolement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cajolements
Etymology: From cajole + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of cajoling or the state of being cajoled.
cajoler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈdʒəʊlə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -əʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: cajolers
Etymology: From cajole + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who cajoles; a flatterer.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A speech act intended to persuade or convince, such as the utterance "you know".
cajolery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈd͡ʒoʊ.lə.ɹi/
Forms: form: cajoleries
Etymology: From French cajolerie.
Senses: glosses: cajolement
tuboplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tuboplasty
car seats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of car seat
calamitously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more calamitously
form: most calamitously
Etymology: From calamitous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a calamitous manner.
travel systems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of travel system
calculatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more calculatingly
form: most calculatingly
Etymology: From calculating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a calculating manner.
gunk-holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gunk-hole
capably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more capably
form: most capably
Etymology: From capable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a capable manner.
siege weapons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of siege weapon
capitally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more capitally
form: most capitally
Etymology: From capital + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Chiefly; principally.
examples: text: We enjoyed ourselves capitally.
glosses: Excellent.
glosses: By capital punishment.
bombards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bombard
glosses: Padded breeches.
bombards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bombard
cattily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cattily
form: most cattily
Etymology: From catty + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a catty manner.
gasmasks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gasmask
changelessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more changelessly
form: most changelessly
Etymology: From changeless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a changeless manner.
spacesuits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spacesuit
laserbeams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laserbeam
cajolers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cajoler
charily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more charily
form: most charily
Etymology: From chary + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a chary manner.
charitably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more charitably
form: most charitably
Etymology: From charitable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a charitable manner.
charmingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more charmingly
form: most charmingly
Etymology: From charming + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: How charmingly sweet you sing.
ref: 1871, Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat:
text: This does not take into account the tens of thousands of New Yorkers who are harmlessly and charmingly insane in a peculiarly Manhattanite manner.
ref: 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 52:
text: Now, Vimeo user Alejandro Prullansky has compiled a super cut of Anderson's slo-mo shots from across the director's filmography, charmingly – and maybe a tad cheekily – set to The Shins' "New Slang."
ref: 2014 January 9, Jon Blistein, “Watch a Supercut of Wes Anderson's Slow-Motion Scenes”, in Rolling Stone, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2014:
glosses: In a charming manner.
muggles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of muggle (“marijuana”).
synonyms: word: muggle
extra: marijuana
muggles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muggle
chattily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more chattily
form: most chattily
Etymology: From chatty + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a chatty manner.
chauvinistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more chauvinistically
form: most chauvinistically
Etymology: From chauvinistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a chauvinistic manner; with excessive patriotism or unwarranted bias.
chauvinistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chauvinistic
form: most chauvinistic
Etymology: From chauvinist + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: It would be smallmindedly chauvinistic to pretend that Scotland was other than a strong participant in the furthering of British Imperial ambitions.
ref: 1993, Robert Crawford, Identifying Poets: self and territory in twentieth-century poetry, page 161:
glosses: Of or pertaining to chauvinism or chauvinists.
Derived terms: chauvinistically
nonchauvinistic
unchauvinistic
cheekily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cheekily
form: most cheekily
Etymology: From cheeky + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The time passed. The two mice, careering wildly, scampered cheekily over his slippers. He had not moved a muscle.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 15”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
text: Now, Vimeo user Alejandro Prullansky has compiled a super cut of Anderson's slo-mo shots from across the director's filmography, charmingly – and maybe a tad cheekily – set to The Shins' "New Slang."
ref: 2014 January 9, Jon Blistein, “Watch a Supercut of Wes Anderson's Slow-Motion Scenes”, in Rolling Stone, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2014:
glosses: In a cheeky or impudent manner.
cheerlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cheerlessly
form: most cheerlessly
Etymology: From cheerless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a cheerless manner.
chidingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more chidingly
form: most chidingly
Etymology: From chiding + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "You shouldn't have stayed up so long," she said chidingly.
glosses: In a chiding manner.
chiding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃaɪdɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chide
chiding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃaɪdɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ
Forms: form: chidings
Senses: examples: text: The cause I never knew; one would have thought the knowledge of the guilt and misery which followed his former career, and above all the chidings of a wife whom he loved would have deterred him; […]
ref: 1832, The Rural Repository Devoted to Polite Literature, volume 9, page 2:
glosses: A scolding.
chiding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃaɪdɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ
Forms: form: more chiding
form: most chiding
Senses: examples: text: it is better to dwell in a desert Desolate country, than in a house with a chiding and an angry wife.
ref: 1592, Joannes Ludovicus, A very fruteful and pleasant boke called the Instruction of a christen woman, page 254:
text: And the said Mr. Hale did not say this in a chiding, quarrelsome, or brawling manner.
ref: 1849, Charles Thomas Longley, The Bishop of Ripon Versus the Vicar of Harewood, page 49:
text: How expressive this little parenthesis: "Sakuntalâ makes a chiding gesture with her finger"!
ref: 1903, Karl Mantzius, A History of Theatrical Art in Ancient and Modern Times, page 86:
glosses: Reproachful; critical.
Derived terms: chidingly
unchiding
childishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From childish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I knew, of course, it was but an innocent game on her part, a bit of backfisch foolery in imitation of some simulacrum of fake romance, and since (as the psychotherapist, as well as the rapist, will tell you) the limits and rules of such girlish games are fluid, or at least too childishly subtle for the senior partner to grasp—I was dreadfully afraid I might go too far and cause her to start back in revulsion and terror.
ref: 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, part 1, page 115:
glosses: In a childish manner.
chivalrously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more chivalrously
form: most chivalrously
Etymology: From chivalrous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a chivalrous manner.
choppily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more choppily
form: most choppily
Etymology: From choppy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a choppy manner.
chorally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more chorally
form: most chorally
Etymology: From choral + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a choral manner; as a choir.
chromatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more chromatically
form: most chromatically
Etymology: From chromatic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: "Let's focus on the ones you can see, if your delicate sensibilities will allow it." Lillihammer leaned on the wall, next to a pair of figures frozen mid-gyration who bore, even in their chromatically-reduced state, a striking resemblance to Chelsea Smits and the late, unlamented Sergey Vanchev.
ref: 2022 October 7, HarryBlank, “A Clean Break”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 25 May 2024:
glosses: In a chromatic manner.
Derived terms: heterochromatically
quadchromatically
churlishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more churlishly
form: most churlishly
Etymology: From churlish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: How churlishlyI chid Lucreatia hence, / When willingly I would have had her here.
ref: 1598?, Two Gentlemen of Verona Act I, scene II, line 57-8
glosses: In a churlish manner.
clammily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more clammily
form: most clammily
Etymology: From clammy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: These are swept aside and rise clammily through the air.
ref: 1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary on the Plains, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 169:
glosses: In a clammy manner.
clangorously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more clangorously
form: most clangorously
Etymology: From clangorous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a clangorous manner; ringingly.
clangorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clangorous
form: most clangorous
form: clangerous
form: clangourous
Etymology: From clangor + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Who would have thought that the clangorous Noise of a Smith’s Hammers should have given the first rise to Musick?
ref: 1712 March 24, Joseph Addison, The Spectator, volume V, number 334:
text: No sooner had these syllables passed my lips, than—as if a shield of brass had indeed, at the moment, fallen heavily upon a floor of silver—I became aware of a distinct, hollow, metallic, and clangorous, yet apparently muffled, reverberation.
ref: 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher:
text: The air was full of sound, a deafening and confusing conflict of noises—the clangorous din of the Martians, the crash of falling houses, the thud of trees, fences, sheds flashing into flame, and the crackling and roaring of fire.
ref: 1898, H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, Book One, Chapter Twelve:
text: Music lovers have long discerned a splendid aural feast in the sounds of the gamelan. Emanating perpetually from communities all over the island of Bali, its sonorities sail over the ricefields on clear nights, showering the air with brilliant cascades of metallic sound, lonely whispering melodies, grandiose and clangorous marches, virtuosic rhythms, and breathtaking crescendos.
ref: 1998, Michael Tenzer, chapter 1, in Balinese Music, Berkeley: Periplus Editions, page 11:
glosses: Making a clangor.
Derived terms: clangorously
clangorousness
classically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more classically
form: most classically
Etymology: From classical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In the derivation of novel no-signaling monogamies, we uncover a new feature, namely that two-party Bell expressions that are trivially classically saturated can become non-trivial upon the addition of an expression involving a third party with a single measurement input.
ref: 2016, Debashis Saha, Ravishankar Ramanathan, “A unified graph-theoretic approach to monogamy relations between nonlocality and contextuality”, in arXiv:
glosses: In a classical manner; according to the manner of classical authors.
glosses: In the manner of classes; according to a regular order of classes or sets.
Derived terms: nonclassically
clemently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more clemently
form: most clemently
Etymology: From clement + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a clement manner.
clerically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more clerically
form: most clerically
Etymology: From clerical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This reverend man, with countenance so demurely benign, with robes so glossy and so clerically flowing, with wig so minutely powdered, so rigid and so vast,—-could this be he who, of late, with sour visage, and in snuffy habiliments, administered, ferule in hand, the Draconian laws of the academy?
ref: 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, William Wilson:
text: Among the black and breaking groups in that distance was one especially black which did not break—a group of two figures clerically clad.
ref: 1911, G. K. Chesterton, “The Blue Cross”, in The Innocence of Father Brown:
text: His plump hands were transparent against the clerically black vest.
ref: 1942, Emily Carr, “The Bishop and the Canary”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
glosses: In a clerical manner; as a cleric.
ringingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ringingly
form: most ringingly
Etymology: From ringing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a ringing manner.
climatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /klaɪˈmæ.tɪ.kli/
ipa: /klaɪˈmæ.dɪ.k(ə).li/
Etymology: From climatic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The summer has been a good one climatically, even if it has been a disastrous one in some other ways. The Falklands had more than their usual share of sun, and the last six weeks or so has been remarkably warm and dry.
ref: 1982 January 18, Graham Bound, “The Fierce Falklands Climate”, in The Penguin News, Stanley, Falkland Islands: Graham Bound, page 5; republished by the Jane Cameron National Archives, 2020 August 23:
glosses: In a climatic manner; regarding the climate.
Derived terms: bioclimatically
hydroclimatically
mesoclimatically
climatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /klaɪˈmæ.tɪ.kli/
ipa: /klaɪˈmæ.dɪ.k(ə).li/
Etymology: Variant of climactically.
Senses: glosses: in a climactic manner; leading to or in the way of a climax
Derived terms: anticlimatically
for the record
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I will ask you, for the record, to state your name and address.
text: Now, just for the record, you have served time for drug dealing, haven't you?
text: During brief courtroom appearances, Pattan restricted his comments for the record to “Guilty, sir” for each of the two counts of the indictment.
ref: 2004, John N. Maclean, Fire and Ashes: On the Front Lines Battling Wildfires, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, page 13:
glosses: For the purpose of being recorded, especially when already known.
examples: text: The court almost certainly knows your answer to this already, but, for the record, do you plea guilty or not guilty?
text: I can definitely send you those documents, but you'll need to send the request in writing just for the record.
glosses: For the purpose of following correct procedure, especially when otherwise redundant and repetitive.
examples: text: For the record, I think these policies are weird and unnecessary.
glosses: Used to emphasize a point in an attempt to make it known or noticed.
preëmptioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹiːˈɛmp.ʃənˌə/
ipa: /pɹiːˈɛmp.ʃənˌəɹ/
Forms: form: preëmptioners
form: pre-emptioner
form: preemptioner
Etymology: Preëmption + -er (suffix denoting an agent)
Senses: examples: text: …the modern preëmptioner looks with jealousy at the stranger, and imagines that the corners of sections, quarter sections, and forty acre tracts, exite his curiosity, or awaken the avarice of the speculating land hunter…
ref: 1877, William Wallace Beach, The Indian Miscellany: containing papers on the history, antiquities, arts, languages, religions…, page 118:
text: “If a qualified preëmptioner enter upon a portion of the public domain, with the intention to preëmpt the same, and performs all the acts necessary to perfect his preëmptive right, except the payment of the purchase price, the government may, nevertheless, at any time before the price is actually paid, or tendered, devote the land to another purpose, and thereby wholly defeat the right of preëmption.” — California Reports, July, 1871, Vol. 41, pp. 658-9.
ref: 1888, James M. Hutchings, In the Heart of the Sierras: Chapter XII: Congressional and State Enactments Concerning Yosemite, Rulings of the Supreme Courts:
text: Green himself was reactionary, a preëmptioner who wanted strengthening of these laws alone.
ref: 1917, Gertrude S. Mathews, James T. DuBois, Galusha A. Grow, Father of the Homestead Law, page 210:
glosses: One who possesses the right of preëmption over certain land; compare: preëmptor.
Related terms: preëmpt
preëmptible
preëmption
preëmptive
preëmptively
preëmptor
preëmptory
cliquishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkliːk.ɪʃ.li/
Forms: form: more cliquishly
form: most cliquishly
Etymology: From cliquish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a cliquish manner.
coaxingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more coaxingly
form: most coaxingly
Etymology: From coaxing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She drew her arm coaxingly through the old man’s, and whispered something in his ear; and do what he would, old Lobbs couldn’t help breaking out into a smile, while a tear stole down his cheek at the same time.
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “Chapter 17”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
text: Now Barbie took her arm, and said coaxingly, 'You could at least tell me how much of what they say is true.'
ref: 1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 10:
text: Badger puffed coaxingly for a second or two, and then let out a roguish cloud of smoke.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 5, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
glosses: In a coaxing manner.
preëmptioners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preëmptioner
churro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃʊɹ.oʊ/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɜɹ.oʊ/
ipa: /ˈtʃʊɹ.əʊ/
rhymes: -ʊɹəʊ
Forms: form: churros
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish churro.
Senses: glosses: A fried pastry from Spain, typically eaten as a dessert and with chocolate beverage.
churros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of churro
coaxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊksɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkoʊksɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coax
coaxing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊksɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkoʊksɪŋ/
Forms: form: coaxings
Senses: examples: text: After innumerable coaxings and threats, he agreed to do it.
text: Her mother was ever at her side, seeking with coaxings and evil advice to drive her to the irrevocable step.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: The act of one who coaxes.
coaxing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊksɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkoʊksɪŋ/
Forms: form: more coaxing
form: most coaxing
Senses: examples: text: “Poor little thing!” said Alice, in a coaxing tone, and she tried hard to whistle to it;
ref: 1865, Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland:
glosses: That coaxes.
Derived terms: coaxingly
uncoaxing
cockily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cockily
form: most cockily
Etymology: From cocky + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a cocky manner.
coequally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From coequal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a coequal manner.
coequal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /kəʊˈiːkwəl/
Forms: form: coæqual
form: coëqual
form: co-equal
Etymology: From Middle English coequalle, from Latin coaequālis; equivalent to co- + equal.
Senses: examples: text: ſince they meaſure our deſerts so meane,
That in conceit beare Empires on our ſpeares,
Affecting thoughts coequall with the cloudes,
They ſhalbe kept our forced followers,
Til with their eies they view vs Emperours.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
text: Mr. Blinken stressed that point on Monday. “The speaker will make her own decisions about whether or not to visit Taiwan,” he said. “Congress is an independent, coequal branch of government. The decision is entirely the speaker’s.
ref: 2022 August 1, Peter Baker, quoting Antony Blinken, “U.S. Warns China Not to Turn Pelosi’s Expected Trip to Taiwan Into a ‘Crisis’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Equal to each other in size, rank or position.
Derived terms: coequally
coequalness
coequal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəʊˈiːkwəl/
Forms: form: coequals
form: coæqual
form: coëqual
form: co-equal
Etymology: From Middle English coequalle, from Latin coaequālis; equivalent to co- + equal.
Senses: glosses: An equal person or thing.
coevally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From coeval + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a coeval manner.
cogently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊ.dʒn̩t.li/
Forms: form: more cogently
form: most cogently
Etymology: From cogent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a cogent manner.
coherently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more coherently
form: most coherently
Etymology: From coherent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The pragmatic and the subjectivist interpretation of what may count as communicationally or epistemically relevant semantic information coherently converge on the same conclusion, even if they come from different perspectives: had a known that i was actually a piece of misinformation she would not have asked q in order to obtain i in the first place.
ref: 2007 November 27, Luciano Floridi, “Understanding Epistemic Relevance”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 1, →DOI, pages 69–92:
glosses: In a coherent manner.
coincidentally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more coincidentally
form: most coincidentally
form: coïncidentally
Etymology: From coincidental + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Perfect for The Railway Children, which coincidentally was first serialised in 1905 in The London Magazine, being subsequently published in book form (1906).
ref: 2021 August 11, Stephen Roberts, “Beeching to Brief Encounter... in a heartbeat”, in RAIL, number 937, page 52:
glosses: In a coincidental manner.
Related terms: incidentally
tangentially
cold-bloodedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cold-bloodedly
form: most cold-bloodedly
Etymology: From cold-blooded + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a cold-blooded manner.
cold-heartedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cold-heartedly
form: most cold-heartedly
Etymology: From cold-hearted + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a cold-hearted manner.
cold-hearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cold-hearted
form: colder-hearted
form: most cold-hearted
form: coldest-hearted
form: coldhearted
Senses: examples: text: The songs were sung by every one who possessed so much as an echo of a voice: they were quoted—copied—got by heart—in fact, we cannot imagine how the world of singers went on in the days when ‘Tara’s Hall,’ and ‘The young May Moon,’ and ‘The Meeting of the Waters,’ were strains unborn. And now, after so many changes and casualties have passed over it, when the work is at last brought to a conclusion, when the last tones of the harp have died away, those must be colder-hearted than ourselves who can avoid remembering how many who welcomed the first with eager gladness, are now deaf to the sweet cunning of music for ever!
ref: 1834 July 12, “A Selection of Irish Melodies. With Symphonies and Accompaniments by Henry R. Bishop; and characteristic Words by Thomas Moore, Esq. No. 10. Supplement to the same to conclude the Work. London: Power.”, in The Athenæum: Journal of Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts, number 350, London: […] James Holmes, […] J. Francis. […], page 514, column 2:
text: Philip was not a spoiled child, I admit. But his parents did their duty by him, as they have done by us all! Our interests have been, through life, their first object; and they have sought no other than domestic pleasures. But even were it otherwise, is a child to calculate its filial duty as though the mere repayment of a debt?—Dearest Mrs. Saville,—Philip is colder-hearted than a stone!
ref: 1845, [Catherine Gore], chapter IX, in Self. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 232:
text: “Oh, Ellen, can’t you stop sneezing!” / “Colder-hearted than a Toad, that boy is!” observed Ellen to her handkerchief. “As if I did it for choice! A-tishoo!”
ref: 1943, P[amela] L[yndon] Travers, “High Tide”, in Mary Poppins Opens the Door, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, pages 150–151:
text: She walked to the front office and saw the body of Harry Knapp. / Mrs. Streeter gazed down upon the corpse for several seconds. “Miserable scum. Good riddance, I say. Look how he’s making a bloody mess of the floor. Like I didn’t have anything better to do than clean up this place.” / Eden returned to Brad and whispered, “That’s the coldest-hearted woman I’ve ever met. It’s a wonder the sheriff doesn’t freeze to death living with her.”
ref: 2002, Michelle Black, Solomon Spring, New York, N.Y.: Forge, Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, →ISBN, page 266:
glosses: Without sympathy, feeling or compassion; callous or heartless.
Synonyms: alexithymic
Derived terms: cold-heartedly
cold-heartedness
collaterally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more collaterally
form: most collaterally
Etymology: From collateral + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In collateral relation; not lineally.
examples: text: These pulleys […] placed collaterally.
ref: 1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick:
glosses: Side by side; by the side.
examples: text: The will hath force upon the conscience collaterally and indirectly.
ref: 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] James Flesher, for Richard Royston […], →OCLC:
glosses: In an indirect or subordinate manner; indirectly.
collectedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈlɛk.təd.li/
Forms: form: more collectedly
form: most collectedly
Etymology: From collected + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a collected manner; calmly.
colonially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more colonially
form: most colonially
Etymology: From colonial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a colonial manner.
colorfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more colorfully
form: most colorfully
form: colourfully
Etymology: From colorful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Put slightly more colorfully, if a player left a strategy with his or her lawyer before the game began, the lawyer could play the game for the player without ever needing further instructions as to how to play.
ref: 1992, Robert Gibbons, A Primer in Game Theory, Prentice-Hall, page 92:
glosses: In a colorful manner.
colorlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more colorlessly
form: most colorlessly
form: colourlessly
Etymology: From colorless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a colorless manner.
plagues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pleɪɡz/
rhymes: -eɪɡz
Senses: glosses: plural of plague
plagues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pleɪɡz/
rhymes: -eɪɡz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of plague
plaguing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plague
plaguing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plaguings
Senses: examples: text: Every man, Mexican and child on the ranch was the devoted courtier of Miss Jean, for she was a lovable woman; and in spite of her isolated life and the constant plaguings of her brother on being a spinster, she fitted neatly into our pastoral life.
ref: 2017, Andy Adams, The Log of the Cowboy and Other Trail Tales:
glosses: annoyance; harassment
trypanosomiases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trypanosomiasis
plagued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of plague
plagued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plagued
form: most plagued
Senses: glosses: Constantly afflicted or relentlessly attacked (by someone or something).
Derived terms: scandal-plagued
unplagued
alcoves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alcove
recessing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recess
recessed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: further recessed
form: farther recessed
form: furthest recessed
form: farthest recessed
Senses: examples: text: General lighting of both cars is obtained from large electric light fittings arranged along the centre of the ceiling, while auxiliary lighting over the seats is provided by small semi-recessed electric light fittings situated along the underside of the side luggage racks.
ref: 1952 September, “Modernised Pull-and-Push Trains”, in Railway Magazine, page 617:
text: Sun blinds (recessed in a pelmet) were provided for all windows, except in the corridors.
ref: 1979 August, Graham Burtenshaw, Michael S. Welch, “O.V.S. Bulleid's SR loco-hauled coaches - 1”, in Railway World, page 398:
coordinate_terms: inset#Adjective
glosses: Set back; located in a hole, space, or opening.
examples: 1809-1812, Maria Edgeworth, "Manoeuvring", in Tales of Fashionable Life
comfortably recessed from curious impertinents
glosses: withdrawn; secluded
glosses: having a recess or nook
recessed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recess
suntanned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a suntan.
suntanned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of suntan
suntan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌnˌtæn/
rhymes: -ʌntæn
Forms: form: suntans
Etymology: From sun + tan.
Senses: glosses: A darkening of the skin resulting from exposure to sunlight or similar light sources.
Derived terms: suntan cream
suntan lotion
suntan oil
suntan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌnˌtæn/
rhymes: -ʌntæn
Forms: form: suntans
form: suntanning
form: suntanned
form: suntanned
Etymology: From sun + tan.
Senses: glosses: To obtain a suntan by exposure to ultraviolet light.
glosses: To attempt to obtain a suntan.
sunbonnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunbonnets
form: sun bonnet
Etymology: From sun + bonnet.
Senses: examples: text: “Put on your sunbonnet,” she ordered.
“Oh, please, Aunt Elizabeth, don’t make me wear that horrid thing.”
Aunt Elizabeth, wasting no further words, picked up the bonnet and tied it on Emily’s head. Emily had to yield. But from the depths of the sunbonnet issued a voice, defiant though tremulous.
ref: 1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 8”, in Emily of New Moon:
text: She saw a square picture framed in the window, two whitewashed cottages each with a little winding path, a bed of red and yellow cockscomb, a sloping field, a row of gum-trees, a child in a blue sunbonnet carrying a basket.
ref: 1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House Is Built, Chapter VII, Section xi:
glosses: A hat (bonnet) worn for protection from bright sunlight.
glosses: A plant of the genera Leibnitzia or Chaptalia, native to Asia and the Americas.
Derived terms: sunbonneted
sun-bonneted
sunbonnets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sunbonnet
subsidization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subsidizations
form: subsidisation
Etymology: From subsidize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of subsidizing.
subsidizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subsidize
subsidizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subsidize
subserviently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more subserviently
form: most subserviently
Etymology: From subservient + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a subservient manner.
subhuman
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [sʌbˈhjuːmən]
Forms: form: more subhuman
form: most subhuman
Etymology: From sub- + human.
Senses: examples: text: A secret to Nazi power was that anyone from the ingroup could be turned upon and labeled as subhuman scum when some alleged Jewish ancestry was suddenly "discovered".
qualifier: inherently emic
glosses: Lacking characteristics of a human in a way judged to be less than human by some value judgment, opinion, or belief system (as for example an anthropocentric view of nonhuman primates or a Nazi view of various human outgroups).
As tendentiously asserted of humans.
synonyms: infrahuman
antonyms: superhuman
suprahuman
ultrahuman
coordinate_terms: transhuman
examples: text: We say dolphin intelligence is subhuman; I suspect dolphins say our intelligence is subdolphin.
text: In the belief system of his day, chimpanzees were described as subhuman and asserted to be incapable of feeling pain.
qualifier: inherently emic
glosses: Lacking characteristics of a human in a way judged to be less than human by some value judgment, opinion, or belief system (as for example an anthropocentric view of nonhuman primates or a Nazi view of various human outgroups).
As anthropocentrically asserted of nonhuman animals, especially in centuries past.
synonyms: infrahuman
subhuman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [sʌbˈhjuːmən]
Forms: form: subhumans
Etymology: From sub- + human.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: nonperson
synonyms: Untermensch
antonyms: superhuman
übermensch
hypernyms: humanoid#Noun
qualifier: inherently emic
glosses: Any sentient creature, especially a humanoid one, which is less than human by some value judgment, opinion, or belief system (as for example an anthropocentric view of nonhuman primates or a Nazi view of various human outgroups).
Related terms: neanderthal
prehuman
troglodyte
buddies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌdiz/
rhymes: -ʌdiz
Senses: glosses: plural of buddy
buddies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌdiz/
rhymes: -ʌdiz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of buddy
wealthier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of wealthy: more wealthy
skeiling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skeilings
Senses: examples: text: Skeilings are found across southern England, in regions like Sussex, Cornwall, and the Isle of Wight and Channel Islands.
topics: architecture
glosses: A straight sloped part of a ceiling, such as on the underside of a pitched roof.
hobbies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hobby
greediest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of greedy: most greedy
greedier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of greedy: more greedy
CATI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of computer-assisted telephone interviewing.
ammine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ammines
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of coordination compounds in which ammonia acts as a ligand.
Related terms: amine
suntans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suntan
suntans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of suntan
suntanning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of suntan
foofaraw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfu.fəˌɹɔ/
Forms: form: foofaraws
form: foofarah
form: foofooraw
form: fooforaw
form: fofarraw
Etymology: First attested in the 1930s, of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to French fanfaron (“boasting”).
Senses: examples: text: The thumping bands, the badges, the pretty girls and all the time-honored foofaraw failed to charge up the Republican batteries to the sparking point. The great engine just would not turn over — at the start.
ref: 1944, Time, volume 44, page 15:
text: Yes, there’s a romance at the center of the episode, though it’s just as much of a red herring as the layers of futuristic foofaraw.
ref: 2013 October 13, Erik Adams, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Lisa’s Wedding” (season six, episode 19; originally aired 3/19/1995)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: Overly excessive or flashy ornamentation or decoration.
examples: text: In the whole foofaraw around Napster, what mostly got lost was the artists. They are the Belgians of this controversy, trampled by armies heading someplace else.
ref: 2001 February 23, Paulina Borsook, “Art's Cold Welcome on the Web”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Lillian was therefore determined to keep dancing for as long as humanly possible. When Ngo fell into step beside her, she turned a corner hard enough to cut the lockstep short. When Ngo re-emerged to the fore, Lillian swung back aft. Once, she opened a door in the psychiatrist's face. Twice she walked directly into a crowd — into them, not among them, momentarily losing her pursuer in the resultant foofarah.
ref: 2022 September 22, HarryBlank, “Mind Over Matter”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 23 May 2024:
synonyms: word: ado
word: argy-bargy
word: bangarang
word: bobbery
word: brouhaha
word: bunfight
word: bustle
word: bust-up
word: chaos
word: clamour
word: clatter
word: commotion
word: disruption
word: disturbance
word: flap
word: foofaraw
word: fracas
word: furor
word: fuss
word: hobbleshaw
word: hoo-ha
word: hoo-hah
word: hubbub
word: hullabaloo
word: hurly-burly
word: kerfuffle
word: mayhem
word: merry hell
word: outcry
word: palaver
word: pandemonium
word: pother
word: quarrel
word: riot
word: rowdydow
word: ruckus
word: rumpus
word: shemozzle
word: shindy
word: splatterdash
word: stir
word: stooshie
word: three-ring circus
word: to-do
word: tomfoolery
word: trouble
word: tumult
word: turmoil
word: unrest
word: uproar
word: upstir
glosses: Fuss over something of little importance.
foofaraws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foofaraw
ammines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ammine
camouflages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camouflage
camouflages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of camouflage
doctorer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doctorers
Etymology: From doctor + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who doctors.
moveables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moveable