cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
vitki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vitkis
form: vitkar
Etymology: Borrowed from Old Norse vitki.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
paganism
religion
glosses: A sorcerer in Norse Heathen societies.
thuriferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more thuriferous
form: most thuriferous
Senses: glosses: Producing, bearing or yielding frankincense.
Related terms: thurifer
tutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tute
ulto
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Contraction of ultimo (of last month).
bodikin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodikins
form: bodykin
Etymology: From body + -kin.
Senses: examples: text: Odd's bodikin, man, better: use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: A small body; forming part of the exclamatory phrase "ods bodikins".
bodikin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodykin
Etymology: From body + -kin.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bodkin.
bodikins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bodikin
strobe lights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strobe light
umbraculum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: umbracula
Etymology: From Latin umbrāculum.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any umbrella-shaped appendage, such as the cap borne on the seta of Marchantia.
glosses: A place giving shelter; a pavilion, a summerhouse, etc.
umbracula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of umbraculum
uredo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uredos
Etymology: From Latin uredo (“a blast, blight, a burning itch”), from urere (“to burn or scorch”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: urediniospore
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: urticaria; nettle-rash
Related terms: uredineous
uredinous
uredoform
uredopustule
uredosorus
uredospore
uredostage
personal space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: personal spaces
Senses: examples: text: It is customary, moreover, for those sharing a cabin to while away train journeys chatting on the two bottom bunks, which is likely to jar with many Westerners' narrower conceptions of personal space and ownership (especially if they have paid top dollar for the prized bottom bunk).
ref: 2010 February 4, The Economist:
glosses: The physical space closely surrounding a person, which can lead to discomfort, anger or anxiety if encroached on.
examples: text: Like long-term couple Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton, who famously live in separate houses, I believe that personal space is the key to a healthy relationship.
ref: 2008 May 1, Kia Abdullah, The Guardian:
glosses: An area which can be regarded as belonging to a person privately, in which to place belongings etc.
personal spaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of personal space
dyspnœa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dyspnœas
Senses: examples: text: During August the tumor again grew rapidly, causing dyspnœa, constipation and general malaise.
ref: 1888, R[euben] Ludlam, “Lecture LIX. Ovariotomy.”, in Medical and Surgical Lectures on the Diseases of Women, a Clinical and Systematic Treatise. […], 6th edition, Chicago, Ill.: Halsey Brothers, →OCLC, page 962:
glosses: Archaic spelling of dyspnea.
vagient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈveɪd͡ʒiənt/
Forms: form: more vagient
form: most vagient
Etymology: From Latin vagiens, present participle of vagire (“to cry like a young child”).
Senses: examples: text: vagient youngling
ref: 1629, John Gaule, Practiqve Theories, or Votiue Speculations, vpon Iesvs Christs Prediction, Incarnation, Passion, Resurrection, London:
glosses: Crying like a child.
vallicula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: valliculae
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vallecula.
valliculae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vallicula
vegetant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vegetant
form: most vegetant
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of vegetation
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: growing, or causing growth
venerer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: venerers
Senses: glosses: A gamekeeper.
glosses: A hunter.
Related terms: venery
venerator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: venerators
Etymology: From venerate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who venerates.
paranœa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pă'rənēʹə
ipa: /ˌpæɹəˈniːə/
Senses: examples: text: PARANŒA, (παρανοια, from para, and νους, ‘understanding.’) Delirium, Dementia.
ref: 1865, Robley Dunglison, Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science, Henry C. Lea (publisher, 1866), page 710
text: Paranœa may recover, but tends to fixed delusions and dementia.
ref: 1898, William Blair Stewart, A Synopsis of the Practice of Medicine, E.B. Treat and Co., page 409:
text: Does paranœa ever lead to murder, Mr. Nicholson?
ref: 1904–5, Robert Barr, The Speculations of John Steele, Frederick A. Stokes Company (1905), page 269
text: Paranœa
ref: 1907, Nevada Legislature, Appendix to Journals of Senate and Assembly…of the Legislature, volume 23, page 53, table XXII: “Form of mental diseases of those remaining December 31, 1906”
text: Self‐pity is the first symptom of paranœa.
ref: 1912, Elbert Hubbard, Hollyhocks and Goldenglow, The Roycrofters, page 92:
glosses: Dated form of paranoia.
Derived terms: paranœic
vergent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒənt
Senses: glosses: Relating to vergence
gonorrhœa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gonorrhœas
form: gonorrhœæ
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of gonorrhea.
Derived terms: gonorrhœic
vermicule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vermicules
Etymology: From Latin vermiculus, diminutive of vermis (“a worm”). See vermicular. Doublet of vermeil.
Senses: examples: text: hence I apprehend we see many Vermicules towards the Outside of many of the Oak-Apples, which I guess were not what the Primitive Insects laid up in the Gem
ref: 1713, W[illiam] Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A small worm or worm-like organism.
vesicas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vesica
vesicula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪkjʊlə
Forms: form: vesiculae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vēsīcula. Doublet of vesicle.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
hypernyms: blister
coordinate_terms: bulla
glosses: Synonym of vesicle (small blister).
synonyms: word: vesicle
extra: small blister
vesiculae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vesicula
beginnest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: begin + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of begin
victrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈvɪk.tɹɪks/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin victrīx. By surface analysis, victor + -trix.
Senses: examples: text: In his victrix he required all that was here visible — the imprint of high cultivation, the consecration of a careful and authoritative protection, the adjuncts that Fashion decrees, Wealth purchases, and Taste adjusts […]
ref: 1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette:
synonyms: victoress
victrice
glosses: victor (female); victress.
victrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of victrice
victrice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈvɪktɹɪs/
Forms: form: victrices
Etymology: From Middle English victrice, from Latin victrīx.
Senses: examples: text: To have her captiv'd ſpirit freed from fleſh, / And on her Innocence, a garment freſh / And vvhite, as that, put on: and in her hand / VVith boughs of Palme, a crovvned Victrice ſtand.
ref: a. 1638 (date written), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Under-woods. Consisting of Divers Poems. An Elegie on My Muse.”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC, page 260:
synonyms: victoress
victrix
glosses: A female victor; a victress.
violenter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈvaɪələntə(ɹ)/
Senses: glosses: comparative form of violent: more violent
munting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Originates from a September 2004 user-submitted entry on Urban Dictionary; popularised on the video-sharing social media platform TikTok and other social media services in 2024 for its shock value and vulgarity.
Senses: glosses: A notional necrophilia-related activity wherein one places their mouth over one of the bodily orifices of a recently-deceased person while another jumps on the corpse's stomach, causing bodily fluids and partially-decomposed organs to be forcefully expelled throughout the various orifices of the corpse into the other person's mouth, which are then swallowed.
munting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muntings
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Alternative form of muntin.
munting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more munting
form: most munting
Etymology: Apparently from munt(er) + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: how the freak did "that" get pregnant she was totally munting!!!!!
ref: 2009, Volkszone.com, messageboards 15 Apr 2009
text: Other thing is, does anyone here have the mud flaps on their Twingo, or are they completely munting, cause I was considering getting them cause I did have them on my current car, and love the fact that my bumpers don't get all dirty and muddy in the bottom corners
ref: 2009, Twingooc.com, messageboards, 21 Mar 2009
glosses: Ugly.
guaje
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guajes
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish guaje, from Classical Nahuatl huāxin.
Senses: glosses: An edible seed of Leucaena esculenta.
galactometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galactometers
Etymology: From galacto- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A lactometer.
galactometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galactometer
gallacetophenone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gallacetophenones
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A yellowish-brown powder (acetophenone with the phenol replaced by pyrogallol) with parasiticide and antiseptic qualities employed externally in the treatment of psoriasis and other skin diseases.
gangliectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: gangliectomies
Etymology: From ganglio- + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Excision of a ganglion; surgical removal of a mass of tissue.
gangliectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gangliectomy
compensational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From compensation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or serving as, compensation.
Related terms: compensation
cooperons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cooperon
isocausal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + causal.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having a common causal relationship
Related terms: isocausality
vertue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vertues
Senses: examples: text: The use of this figure is great, and often necessarie and needfull to be used, the vertue and power whereof is worthie of high praise and commendation, for when commanding cannot force, nor promises allure, nor commination terrifie, as alone by themselves working in their single strengthes: yet Adhortation having al these conjoyned with it, and also sundry reasons of mightie power, as helping hands to force and move the mind forward, to a willing consent, doth prevaile in his purpose.
ref: 1577, Henry Peacham, The Garden of Eloquence:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of virtue.
isocausality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iso- + causality.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The condition of being isocausal.
materiomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The study of the properties of materials at all scales
photogate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photogates
Etymology: From photo- + gate.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A device that measures the time between events that interrupt an infra-red beam
photogates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photogate
relaxedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From relaxed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being relaxed
normaler
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: normaller
Senses: glosses: comparative form of normal: more normal
pirayas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piraya
no-fly zones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of no-fly zone
vertues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vertue
puppas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puppa.
realers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of realer
recesser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /rɪˈsɛsər/
ipa: /rɪˈsɛsə(r)/
Forms: form: recessers
form: recessor
Etymology: From recess + -er.
Senses: glosses: One that recesses.
recessers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recesser
blue links
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue link
bluelinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bluelink
travel agents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of travel agent
overbattle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overbattle
form: most overbattle
form: over-battle
form: over battle
Etymology: From over- + battle (“fertile, fruitful”). More at over-, battle.
Senses: examples: For in the Church of God sometimes it cometh to pass as in over-battle grounds, the fertile disposition whereof is good. ― Hooker.
glosses: Too fertile; too rich.
Related terms: batten
fæcula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fæculæ
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of fecula.
eupnœa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The respiratory movements then possess a normal frequency and amplitude. At this time the body is in the condition of eupnœa.
ref: 1922, Russell Burton‐Opitz, chapter XIX, in An Elementary Manual of Physiology, page 204:
glosses: Alternative spelling of eupnea.
euchrœa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek: conjunction of εὖ (eu, “well”) and χρῶμα (khrōma, “colour”).
Senses: glosses: Healthy coloration of skin.
magnetic pole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetic poles
Senses: glosses: Either of the two points, near the ends of a magnet, at which the magnetic lines of force converge.
glosses: Either of the two locations on a planet's surface at which the planet's magnetic field lines are vertical.
cicely
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪsəli/
homophone: Sicily
Forms: form: cicelies
form: cecily
Etymology: From Latin seselis, from Ancient Greek σέσελις (séselis).
Senses: glosses: Myrrhis odorata, a plant in the genus Myrrhis, in the family Apiaceae.
glosses: sweetroot, any of several plants in the genus Osmorhiza.
Synonyms: sense: Myrrhis odorata
word: sweet cicely
sense: Myrrhis odorata
word: myrrh
sense: Myrrhis odorata
word: garden myrrh
sense: Myrrhis odorata
word: sweet chervil
-ïng
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: examples: beïng, doïng, goïng
skiïng, tryïng
glosses: Misspelling of -ing.
consopite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒnsəpaɪt/
Forms: form: consopites
form: consopiting
form: consopited
form: consopited
Etymology: From Latin cōnsōpītus.
Senses: examples: text: That spirituall sensation in the Magnet is consopited and layd asleep
ref: 1650, W. Charleton (translator), J. B. van Helmont (original), Ternary of Paradoxes:
text: The operations of the masculine faculties of the soul were, for a while, well slaked and consopited.
ref: 1653, Henry More, Conjectura Cabbalistica:
glosses: To lull to sleep, to quieten, or to dull.
contabescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒntəˈbɛsənt/
rhymes: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more contabescent
form: most contabescent
Etymology: From Latin contabescens.
Senses: examples: text: The contabescent plants of Dianthus and Verbascum, found wild by Wiegmann, grew on a dry and sterile bank
ref: 1868, Charles Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Wasting away gradually.
quisle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quisles
form: quisling
form: quisled
form: quisled
Etymology: Back-formation from quisling.
Senses: examples: text: He is surrounded by a potential American Quisling (Mr. DENNIS ARUNDELL) who grizzles and Quisles noisily, an unhappy secretary (Mr. BRUNO BARNABE), and an even more unhappy wife (Miss MARGARETTA SCOTT).
ref: 1940, Punch, page 181:
glosses: To collaborate with an (occupying) enemy power; be a quisling.
shorthand typist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʃɔːthand tʌɪpɪst/
Forms: form: shorthand typists
Senses: glosses: A person skilled in shorthand and typing.
Synonyms: word: stenographer
Hyponyms: typist
in the throes of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: We won't be able to meet next week as we will be in the throes of moving offices. Perhaps the week after will be better.
text: By 1922, when The Railway Magazine attained its Silver Jubilee, the railways were in the throes of grouping, the Act for which had been passed the previous year, and which came fully into force in 1923.
ref: 1957 July 24, M. D. Greville, “A Diamond Jubilee of Railway Memories”, in Railway Magazine, page 496:
text: The inconveniences that must be endured before the modernisation plan can come into action may be seen at Coventry, where since August the station has been in the throes of rebuilding.
ref: 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Part, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 101:
glosses: Heavily occupied, or busily involved in an important activity.
trick question
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trick questions
Senses: glosses: A question that attempts to elicit an answer in a certain way, usually incorrectly (i.e. that seems to have an obvious answer that is however incorrect), or a question that does not have a correct answer or that hides the real question or some difficulty.
glosses: A complex question, whose wording hinders the ability to answer it correctly.
Related terms: loaded question
wife-beating question
trick questions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trick question
tricky slave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tricky slaves
Senses: glosses: A fictional character who fits into the archetype of being lower-class, being more clever than the other characters, and helping the protagonists.
tricky slaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tricky slave
expunger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expungers
Etymology: From expunge + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who expunges.
expungers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expunger
greenspace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greenspaces
form: green space
Etymology: From green + space.
Senses: examples: text: But in suburbs of New York and elsewhere, mom and pop operators with a sense of humor (the companies have names like Poop Patrol and ScooperDude and slogans like “We’re No. 1 in the No. 2 business”), have found a market: the super-busy, families with children who play in the yard and homeowner associations with common greenspace or dog runs.
ref: 2009 June 7, Mireya Navarro, “Fields of Gold? Yes, in a Way”, in New York Times:
glosses: An area of undeveloped landscape, such as park land left within a city during planning and zoning other areas for development.
greenspaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greenspace
ollieing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ollie
excoriator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excoriators
Etymology: From excoriate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who excoriates, or strongly denounces.
glosses: A machine for stripping the skin from fruits.
overbide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overbides
form: overbiding
form: overbode
form: overbid
form: overbided
form: overbidden
form: overbided
Etymology: From Middle English overbiden, from Old English oferbīdan (“to outlast, outlive”), equivalent to over- + bide.
Senses: glosses: To outlive; survive.
overcark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overcarks
form: overcarking
form: overcarked
form: overcarked
Etymology: From Middle English overcarken, equivalent to over- + cark (“to worry”). More at over-, cark.
Senses: glosses: To overcharge; overburden; harass.
exsiccatus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exsiccati
Senses: glosses: Synonym of exsiccatum.
synonyms: word: exsiccatum
exsiccatum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exsiccata
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin exsiccātum.
Senses: examples: text: The exsiccata quoted are all to be found in the Herbarium of the British Museum.
ref: 1902, H. W. Pugsley, “The British Capreolate Fumitories”, in The Journal of Botany, British and Foreign, volume 40, page 179:
text: On and after January 1, 1953, the distribution of an exsiccatum relative to any new taxon, accompanied by an original diagnosis, even if this is printed, does not constitute effective publication.
ref: 1953, Guy Richard Bisby, An Introduction to the Taxonomy and Nomenclature of Fungi, page 105:
glosses: A dried specimen such as that in a herbarium.
Related terms: exsiccata
exsiccati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exsiccatus
exsufflate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: exsufflates
form: exsufflating
form: exsufflated
form: exsufflated
Etymology: From Latin exsufflare (“to blow at or upon”); ex (“out”) + sufflare. See sufflate.
Senses: glosses: To exorcise or renounce by blowing.
Related terms: exsufflation
fee-fi-fo-fum
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fee-faw-fum.
formans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: formantia
Etymology: Borrowed from German Formans, from Latin elementum fōrmāns (“forming element”), with fōrmāns being the present participle of fōrmō (“to shape; to form; to fashion”). Doublet of formant.
Senses: examples: text: These facts then clearly evidence such elements as enclitical particles which exercise certain morphological and/or syntactical functions, but which have not yet developed into actual suffixes obliged to conform to sound-harmony and the general accentuation pattern. Some elements of this type are the formantia of the cas. compar. in -däg, and the cas. aequat. (prosecut., mensurat., terminat.) in -ča/-čä in the nominal category, and the formans of the negative aspect in -ma-/-mä- in the verbal category.
ref: 1968, Karl H. Menges, The Turkic Languages and Peoples, page 157:
text: In Cowgill’s […] convincing opinion the basic formans of this PIE mediopassive was an -o(-) originally added to endings identical with those of the perfect (minus -e where applicable;[…]), which only had a single set of endings undifferentiated as to active/middle in PIE.
ref: 2006, Kim McCone, The Origins and Development of the Insular Celtic Verbal Complex, page 136:
text: After the selection of an onomasiological base and an onomasiological mark on the semantic level of the word-formation process, the speaker selects a word-formation base and a formans from an inventory of productive word-formation categories, classes, and subtypes on the formal level.
ref: 2011, Joachim Grzega, “Compounding from an Onomasiological Perspective” (chapter 11), in The Oxford Handbook of Compounding, page 221:
topics: human-sciences
linguistic-morphology
linguistics
morphology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of formative (“language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function”).
synonyms: word: formative
extra: language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function
formantia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Such criteria are either sound variations in the words themselves, or the addition of formantia, i.e. suffixes or auxiliaries which define them as being true verbs (as opposed to nouns) or nouns (as opposed to verbs).
ref: 1961, Bernhard Karlgren, “The parts of speech and the Chinese language”, in Language and Society, page 75:
text: These facts then clearly evidence such elements as enclitical particles which exercise certain morphological and/or syntactical functions, but which have not yet developed into actual suffixes obliged to conform to sound-harmony and the general accentuation pattern. Some elements of this type are the formantia of the cas. compar. in -däg, and the cas. aequat. (prosecut., mensurat., terminat.) in -ča/-čä in the nominal category, and the formans of the negative aspect in -ma-/-mä- in the verbal category.
ref: 1968, Karl H. Menges, The Turkic Languages and Peoples, page 157:
text: Superficially based on *temeen ‘camel’, but possibly rather connected to *tebene ‘pack needle’. The suffixes are formantia with unknown function.
ref: 2011, Hans Nugteren, Mongolic Phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu Languages, archived from the original on 24 May 2024, page 60:
glosses: plural of formans
framea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frameas
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin framea.
Senses: glosses: A type of javelin as used by the Germani
turn the frown upside down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns the frown upside down
form: turning the frown upside down
form: turned the frown upside down
form: turned the frown upside down
Senses: examples: text: Tricky Nicky always ran around town / She’s the type of girl who'll turn your frown upside-down / Five fucking minutes in the sack and you’ll return with a / Dozen roses and some weed to burn
ref: 2006, Mike Pinto, “Tricky Nicky”, in Little District:
synonyms: word: cheer up
word: happify
word: beatify
word: begladden
word: blissen
word: bright
word: cheer
word: cheer up
word: content
word: delight
word: elate
word: enbliss
word: exhilarate
word: fain
word: gay
word: gladden
word: gladden someone's heart
word: gratify
word: happify
word: happy
word: hearten
word: jollify
word: laetificate
word: light up
word: make someone's day
word: perk up
word: please
word: raise someone's spirits
word: rejoice
word: turn the frown upside down
word: upcheer
word: warm someone's heart
word: warm the cockles of someone's heart
glosses: To become or make somebody else happy after being sad.
turns the frown upside down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of turn the frown upside down
turning the frown upside down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of turn the frown upside down
turned the frown upside down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of turn the frown upside down
stop, drop and roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A safety technique to be used by a person who is on fire: halting one's movements, dropping to the ground, then rolling.
perelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pearls.
perelles
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of perilous.
parallel park
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: parallel parks
form: parallel parking
form: parallel parked
form: parallel parked
Senses: glosses: To park a vehicle with side parallel to the curb or the side of the road in line with other parked vehicles.
awayward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more awayward
form: most awayward
Etymology: From away + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Turned aside.
examples: text: And therewithall he groned pyteuously and rode a grete walop awaywarde from them untyll he cam undir a woodys evyse.
ref: 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XVIII:
glosses: Away (of motion).
myrtetum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myrteta
Etymology: From Latin myrtētum.
Senses: examples: text: While in today's English gardens the rhododendron is more frequently found than the myrtle, The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew already at the time of the herbalist William Turner (c. 1510-1568) included a myrtetum […]
ref: 1971, Charlotte F. Otten, The Herbal Tradition in the Poetry of John Milton, page 118:
glosses: A myrtle grove.
myrteta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myrtetum
this'll
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /ˈðɪsl̩/
Senses: glosses: Contraction of this will.
nigredo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin nigrēdō (“blackness”).
Senses: topics: alchemy
pseudoscience
synonyms: melanosis
coordinate_terms: albedo
citrinitas
rubedo
glosses: A process of putrefaction or decomposition, one of the four major stages of the alchemical magnum opus.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A term in Jungian psychology referring to mental negativity.
makes it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of make it
making it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of make it
made it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of make it
pignerate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pignorate.
pignerate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pignerates
form: pignerating
form: pignerated
form: pignerated
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pignorate.
plagate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plagate
form: most plagate
Etymology: From Latin plaga + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having irregular elongated spots of colour.
asociality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪˌsəʊʃiˈælɪti/
ipa: /eɪˌsoʊʃiˈælɪti/
ipa: [eɪ̯ˌsoʊ̯ʃiˈælɪɾi]
Etymology: From asocial + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Asociality is a symptom frequently observed in schizophrenia patients.
glosses: The character of being asocial; asocial quality or disposition.
fractal dimensions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fractal dimension
sugar pill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugar pills
Etymology: From sugar + pill.
Senses: glosses: A placebo medication made with sugar.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sugar, pill.
Related terms: sugar the pill
sugar pills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sugar pill
fractal response time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fractal response times
Senses: examples: text: To properly serve the city, ambulance units must be located in a manner that best services all the residents of the city. The location of ambulances is based on the concept of fractal, rather than average response times. Measuring the response time of all sectors of the city derives the fractal response time. Our goal is to have a first responder or BLS on-scene in less than four minutes and an ALS on-scene in less than eight minutes on 90% of all calls.
ref: 2011, City of Houston, HFD Emergency Medical Services:
glosses: A measure of response time which uses the concept of fractal dimension in order to resolve variability of average response time with respect to sample size of time series.
fractal response times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fractal response time
preceptress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preceptresses
form: preceptoress
Etymology: From preceptor + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: ‘I daily became more amiable, and might perhaps by this time have nearly attained perfection, had not my Preceptoress been torn from my arms, e'er I had attained by seventeenth year.’
ref: 1790, Jane Austen, “Jack and Alice”, in Juvenilia:
text: Her preceptress had never found it necessary to repeat an admonition of any kind, since her arrival at years to discriminate between the right and the wrong.
ref: 1852, James Fenimore Cooper, Precaution:
text: She was my sister, my preceptress and friend; but she died--her end was violent, untimely, and criminal!
ref: 1889, Charles Brockden Brown, Arthur Mervyn:
text: She had married late in life, having been previously a preceptress in a young ladies' school.
ref: 1896, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Madelon:
glosses: A female preceptor, or provider of moral instruction; a teacher.
preceptresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preceptress
hyperthermostable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperthermostable
form: most hyperthermostable
Etymology: From hyper- + thermostable.
Senses: examples: text: This hyperthermostable enzyme remains active above 60 degrees centigrade.
glosses: Remaining stable and functional at high temperatures.
techniphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: techniphones
Etymology: From techni- + -phone.
Senses: glosses: A device used to train the hand muscles used in playing the piano, in order to acquire advanced techniques such as legato
punches in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of punch in
punching in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of punch in
punched in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of punch in
VCC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Common Collector Voltage; the positive supply voltage for an integrated circuit containing bipolar junction transistors.
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Initialism of Video Compact Cassette.
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of variable capital company.
Related terms: GND
cælibate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: That although to live a ſingle life is not totally repugnant to Humane Nature, yet it is repugnant to the Nature of moſt Men; Becauſe a ſingle life and cælibate are onely fitted for the moſt excellent Minds, and ſuch as are refined from the droſs of impure concupiſcence.
ref: 1664, The Curtezan Unmasked: Or, The Whoredomes of Jezebel Painted to the Life. With Antidotes against Them; or Heavenly Julips to Cool Men in the Fever of Lust. Prescribed by a Spiritual Physician., London: […] Henry Marsh, […], page 32:
glosses: Archaic spelling of celibate.
bassinettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bassinette
bumfoolery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of bum + tomfoolery.
Senses: examples: text: I'm prepared to bet I was more spaced when I wrote this indexed register bumfoolery than you were when you wrote whatever it was you wrote...
ref: 2000 February 11, Kira Brown, “Re: Surveillance...TV prog.”, in uk.rec.motorcycles (Usenet):
text: He refers to the Pentagon shipping two 19-cent washers from South Carolina to Texas at a cost $1 million and spending $293,451 sending an 89-cent washer from South Carolina to Florida. If this is true, it certainly tops their old well-noted scandals of $90 hammers and $600 toilet seats. (Those numbers may not be the exact — giver or take — but they do illustrate the bumfoolery of the incidents.)
ref: 2008 March 24, “We the public just won’t get excited enough”, in The Moultrie Observer:
text: Forgetting all the odd bumfoolery going on with IE, you need to sniff the NIC and see what is really happening.
ref: 2009 October 21, Spamtastic Spastic, “Re: problem - maybe due to 3Com Wireless DSL router?”, in uk.telecom.broadband (Usenet):
text: Where compassion between men – not bumfoolery mind – but true compassion will prosper.
ref: 2010, Rick Senley, Moustache Man and the Deadly Whiskers, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 298:
glosses: Messing about, often in a homosexual way.
cælibacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Beſides there is an aukward kind of baſhfulneſs inherent in an old collegian, which makes him ſhudder even at the ſight of a petticoat, and often condems him, during life, to an irkſome ſtate of cælibacy.
ref: 1750, “The Female Student”, The Student, or, The Oxford and Cambridge monthly miscellany, page 188:
glosses: Archaic spelling of celibacy.
Chaldæa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: ref: 1829, Robert Mignan, Travels in Chaldæa, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley:
glosses: Archaic spelling of Chaldea.
edit wars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of edit war
edit wars
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of edit war
hadalpelagic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hadal + pelagic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the oceans at depths greater than 6,000 meters in the suboceanic trenches.
Synonyms: hadopelagic
hadopelagic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: hadalpelagic
frown at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: frowns at
form: frowning at
form: frowned at
form: frowned at
Senses: examples: text: This town frowns at scandalous behavior.
glosses: To disapprove of.
Synonyms: frown on
frown upon
sarse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of searce.
sarse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sarses
form: sarsing
form: sarsed
form: sarsed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of searce.
sarse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarses
Senses: examples: text: I wanted cabbage or potaters, or most any sort o' garden sarse … .
ref: 1833, John Neal, The Down-Easters, Volume 1:
text: "I don't want any of your sarse," said the boy, scowling.
ref: 1870, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Story of a Bad Boy:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of sauce.
sarse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sarses
form: sarsing
form: sarsed
form: sarsed
Senses: examples: text: Well, that ‘ud be imposing, too, on Tellson’s. For you cannot sarse the goose and not the gander.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of sauce.
supermoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supermoons
form: super moon
form: super-moon
form: Supermoon
form: SuperMoon
form: Super Moon
form: Super-Moon
Etymology: From super- + moon. Coined by astrologer Richard Nolle in 1979.
Senses: examples: text: And should the moon happen to hit its ever-shifting orbital perigee at the same time that it lies athwart from the sun, we are treated to a so-called supermoon, a full moon that can seem close enough to embrace – as much as 12 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than the average full moon. […] Some astronomers dislike the whole supermoon hoopla. They point out that the term originated with astrology, not astronomy; that perigee full moons are not all that rare, coming an average of every 13 months; and that their apparently swollen dimensions are often as much a matter of optical illusion and wishful blinking as of relative lunar nearness.
ref: 2014 September 7, Natalie Angier, “The Moon comes around again [print version: Revisiting a moon that still has secrets to reveal: Supermoon revives interest in its violent origins and hidden face, International New York Times, 10 September 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times:
topics: astrology
astronomy
human-sciences
mysticism
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: perigee moon
antonyms: micromoon
coordinate_terms: full moon
new moon
glosses: A full moon or new moon, when the Earth–Moon distance is in the lowest tenth of its range.
Related terms: perigee-syzygy
syzygy
super moon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: super moons
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of supermoon.
Supermoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Supermoons
Senses: topics: astrology
astronomy
human-sciences
mysticism
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of supermoon.
SuperMoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SuperMoons
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of supermoon.
Super Moon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Super Moons
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of supermoon.
full well
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Middle English fol wel, fulwel, from Old English ful wel, equivalent to full + well. Compare Old Norse all-vel (“full well”).
Senses: examples: text: He is so fayre, withoutten les, / he semys full well to sytt on des.
ref: 15th c., “[The Creation]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 5, lines 120–121:
english: He is so fair, without any limit; his appearance shows well when he sits on the dais.
translation: He is so fair, without any limit; his appearance shows well when he sits on the dais.
text: Besides, there is always a tendency—indeed an interest—to take on what one knows full well.
ref: 1829, Charles Burroughs, Memoirs and select papers of Horace B. Morse, Miller and Brewster, pages 83–87:
text: 2006. Nadia Yassine. Full Sails Ahead. Justice and Spirituality Publications. page 2.
He knows full well that I don't like that club.
text: It also means that when a right-wing Jewish group such as the ZOA chooses to overlook Bannon’s well-documented links to anti-Semitic white nationalists, it puts itself on a moral par with J.V.P. Bannon is the man who expressly called Breitbart News “the platform for the alt-right,” knowing full-well the toxic range of opinion encompassed by the term.
ref: 2017 November 16, Bret Stephens, “Steve Bannon Is Bad for the Jews”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 Nov 2017:
glosses: Very well
Related terms: for a fact
BED
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BEDs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of B.Ed. (Bachelor of Education).
glosses: Initialism of banana equivalent dose.
glosses: Initialism of binge eating disorder.
Ivanovich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɪˈvɑːnəvɪt͡ʃ/
/ɪˈvænəvɪt͡ʃ/
Forms: form: Ivanovichs
form: Ivanoviches
form: Ivanovitch
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian Ива́нович (Ivánovič).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Russian patronymic Ива́нович (Ivánovič, “son of Ivan”).
Derived terms: Ivan Ivanovich
Ivan Ivanovitch
Related terms: Ivan
Ivanović
Ivanovna
banana equivalent dose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banana equivalent doses
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The radiation dose equivalent of consuming an average banana, equal to 0.01 mrem or 0.1 μSv.
Synonyms: word: BED
Related terms: Roentgen equivalent man
gentlemanish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gentlemanish
form: most gentlemanish
Etymology: From gentleman + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Displaying the qualities of a gentleman.
Ivanovna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɪˈvɑːnəvnə/
/ɪˈvænəvnə/
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian Ива́новна (Ivánovna).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Russian patronymic Ива́новна (Ivánovna, “daughter of Ivan”).
Related terms: Ivanovich
Ivanović
fully well
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of full well.
flabbergastingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more flabbergastingly
form: most flabbergastingly
Etymology: From flabbergasting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It was a good date but the food at the restaurant was so flabbergastingly excellent I could barely think of anything else to talk about.
text: He had said he would clean his room a thousand times before, but this time he actually did it, and flabbergastingly well too.
text: 1922, George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken. The smart set: a magazine of cleverness, Volume 69. Ess Ess Pub. Co. page 49.
(There) must be sympathy in the back parlor if it is to get its message across, and that this flabbergastingly important message... is as follows:...
text: The critical wonderment over the at times curious unevenness of Monckton Hoffe's dramatic writing, over the startlingly good suddenly crossed with the flabbergastingly bad, and vice versa...
ref: 1971, George Jean Nathan, Materia critica, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, page 115:
text: As I write, the flabbergastingly fecund David Crystal has just published another book in the tradition, The Fight for English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and Left.
ref: 2009, Jason McWhorter, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English, Penguin:
glosses: Surprisingly, astonishingly or amazingly
hæmostatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That suspends hemorrhages.
ACARS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.kɑɹs/
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Acronym of aircraft communications addressing and reporting system.
overbearance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From overbear + -ance.
Senses: glosses: Overbearing behaviour; arrogance; imperiousness.