cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
preapprove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preapproves
form: preapproving
form: preapproved
form: preapproved
Etymology: From pre- + approve.
Senses: examples: text: Since election boards aren't actually willing to preapprove these forms for software companies, Dean, as a presidential candidate, submits his own forms.
ref: 1996 July 19, Scott Barancik, “Moral Combat”, in Chicago Reader:
text: While you'll probably have her sympathies if your condominium association wants to preapprove your storm door, you'll need to work harder for her support if your boss at the music megastore demands you grow a goatee to help lend the place some indie cred.
ref: 2004 September 10, Edward Tverdek, “When Libertarians Go Shopping”, in Chicago Reader:
text: But that is changing; in the coming months, Mr. Gollinger said, his company will hold an auction in a suburban New York community where lenders will help preapprove bidders for mortgages.
ref: 2008 September 14, Bob Tedeschi, “It’s Helpful to Know Your Limits”, in New York Times:
text: Some states do not preapprove rates, as New York does, but can take action later if they find an increase was inappropriate.
ref: 2008 August 23, Mary Williams Walsh, “Driving Is Down, but Auto Insurance Rates Are Rising”, in New York Times:
glosses: To approve beforehand, before execution or implementation.
Synonyms: foreapprove
Derived terms: preapproval
preapproves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preapprove
preapproving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preapprove
affixoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of affixoid
cold sleep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I hesitated, then added, "I'm going to take the Long Sleep. The cold sleep—you know what I mean."
ref: 1957, Robert A. Heinlein, The Door Into Summer, →ISBN:
text: Half a thousand colonists had left Sol system in cold sleep, with twenty crew.
ref: 1998 May 15, Larry Niven, Destiny's Road, →ISBN:
text: Anyone who worked on cold sleep for humans would have to know about what the Lizards did so they could fly between the stars without getting old on the way.
ref: 2004, Harry Turtledove, Homeward Bound, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of coldsleep.
Synonyms: suspended animation
TINLC
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of There is no lumber cartel.
eptagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eptagons
Senses: glosses: A heptagon.
eptagons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eptagon
corresponsive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more corresponsive
form: most corresponsive
Etymology: Formed as: correspons- (perfect passive participial stem of the Medieval Latin correspondeō) + -ive; compare responsive.
Senses: glosses: jointly or mutually responsive: exchanging
glosses: responsive to stimulus: responding, answering
examples: text: Now on Dardan plains / The fresh and yet unbruised Greeks do pitch / Their brave pavilions: Priam's six-gated city, / Dardan, and Tymbria, Helias, Chetas, Troien, / And Antenorides, with massy staples / And corresponsive and fulfilling bolts, / Sperr up the sons of Troy.
ref: 1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, prologue:
glosses: equivalent or similar in character: corresponding
Derived terms: corresponsive conjunction
Related terms: corresponsively
eisegeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eisegesis
onycha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin onycha.
Senses: examples: text: And our Lord ſaid to Moyſes: Take vnto thee ſpices, ſtactee, and onycha, galbanum of ſwete ſauour, and the cleareſt frankincenſe, al shal be of equal weight:
ref: 1609, The Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Lavrence Kellam, […], →OCLC, Exodvs 30:34, page 241:
glosses: the operculum of kinds of strombus or muricid, smoked as an ingredient in the Mosaic incense and pre-modern medicine
glosses: The precious stone onyx.
onychinus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin onychinus, from Ancient Greek ὀνῠ́χῐνος (onŭ́khĭnos).
Senses: examples: text: […] a certain vessel finely and subtilly made of the precious stone onychinus […]
ref: 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:
glosses: onyx
opilio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opilios
Senses: glosses: The snow crab Chionoecetes opilio.
cat's cradles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cat's cradle
epistaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epistaxis
sakazuki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sakazuki
Etymology: From Japanese さかずき.
Senses: glosses: A Japanese cup for drinking saké.
Alvina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A feminine form of Alvin.
Senses: examples: text: Consequently Alvina, or Vina as she was called, understood only the explicit mode of good-humoured straightforwardness.
ref: 1920, D. H. Lawrence, The Lost Girl, Echo Library, published 2008, →ISBN, page 19:
glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages.
oppressure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oppressures
Senses: glosses: oppression
ornature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin ornatura.
Senses: examples: text: if you haue regard to their ornature , how manie mines of sundrie kinds of course & fine marble are there to be had in England ?
ref: 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:
glosses: decoration; ornamentation
ostiolum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ostiola
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ostiole.
ostiola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ostiolum
papulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of papula
papulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of papula
Frankland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Franklands
form: Frank-land
Etymology: From Middle English Fronc-lond, from Old English Francland (“Land of the Franks, France”). Cognate with Icelandic Frakkland (“France”). Frank + land.
Senses: examples: text: It fell above all on Northern Frankland, and soon the Scheldt, the Meuse, and the Rhine were full of pirate squadrons.
ref: 1884, John Richard Green, The conquest of England:
glosses: The land or realm of the Franks.
glosses: France.
glosses: A surname from Middle English.
Frank-land
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Frankland.
pastophorium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pastophoria
Etymology: From Latin pastophorium.
Senses: glosses: A small chapel in a temple containing an image of a god.
pastophoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pastophorium
cataphor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkatəfə/
ipa: /-ˌfɔː/
ipa: /ˈkætəfɚ/
ipa: /-ˌfɔɹ/
Forms: form: cataphors
form: cataphora
Etymology: From Latin cataphora (“a coma”), from Ancient Greek καταφορά (kataphorá, “a bringing down, a lethargic attack”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Semicoma.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Somnolence marked by periods of partial consciousness.
examples: text: Yet, all psycholinguistic studies, syntax processing, logic based grammars, poetry parsing and even formal parser construction, indicate that resolving anaphor is much easier than cataphor; we therefore collect an additional code point for any cataphor.
ref: 1990, Golumbic, Martin Charles, Advances in artificial intelligence : natural language and knowledge-based systems:
text: It was hypothesized that the cataphor this would signal that a concept is likely to be mentioned again in the following story and that therefore the this-cataphor results in a higher activation.
ref: 2001, Text representation : linguistic and psycholinguistic aspects:
text: Here, the cataphor she refers to Susan. It is quite common to use the term “antecedent” also for an expression to which a cataphor refers.
ref: 2015, Anaphora Resolution and Text Retrieval - A Linguistic Analysis of Hypertexts:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The use of a pronoun or other linguistic unit to refer ahead to another word in a sentence.
semicoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semicomas
Etymology: From semi- + coma.
Senses: glosses: A mild coma.
Derived terms: semicomatose
misbid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈbɪd/
ipa: /ˈmɪsbɪd/
rhymes: -ɪd
Forms: form: misbids
form: misbidding
form: misbid
form: misbad
form: misbade
form: misbidden
Etymology: From the fusion of Middle English misbidden (to mistreat; equivalent to mis- + bid) and Middle English misbeden (“to mistreat; abuse; outrage; offend; insult”), from Old English misbēodan (“to ill-use, injure, do wrong to, announce wrongly”), equivalent to mis- + bid (“to offer, declare”).
Senses: glosses: To injure; mistreat.
glosses: To insult; offend.
examples: text: I did my bids for that month and I misbid, and I bid all weekends.
ref: 1988, Madeleine M. Leininger, Care, discovery and uses in clinical and community nursing:
glosses: To make an incorrect offer or bid.
examples: text: After apologizing profusely for his errors on the first two hands, he misbid the last hand and they ended up in fifth place.
ref: 2004, Jim Priebe, Takeout Double: A Bridge Mystery:
topics: card-games
games
glosses: To bid incorrectly; bid higher or lower than actual.
Derived terms: misbidding
misbid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈbɪd/
ipa: /ˈmɪsbɪd/
rhymes: -ɪd
Forms: form: misbids
Etymology: From the fusion of Middle English misbidden (to mistreat; equivalent to mis- + bid) and Middle English misbeden (“to mistreat; abuse; outrage; offend; insult”), from Old English misbēodan (“to ill-use, injure, do wrong to, announce wrongly”), equivalent to mis- + bid (“to offer, declare”).
Senses: glosses: An incorrect bid or offer.
autoreferential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + referential.
Senses: glosses: Self-referential.
Derived terms: autoreferentially
Related terms: autoreference
dithiolate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dithiolates
Etymology: From di- + thiolate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or derivative of a dithiol
Derived terms: trisdithiolate
epizoodic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɛpɪˈzuːdɪk/
Forms: form: epizoodics
Etymology: Influenced by variant pronunciation. Compare epizudic.
Senses: examples: text: "Say, Charlie, what did you give your horse when he had the epizoodic?" "Tablespoonful aconite," was the laconic response.
ref: 1913 November, American Journal of Veterinary Medicine, volume VIII, number 11, page 621:
glosses: Alternative spelling of epizootic, in the sense a particular disease (as opposed to an outbreak of disease).
anangeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈnænd͡ʒiən/
Forms: form: anangea
form: anangeons
Etymology: From New Latin anangeon, from Ancient Greek ἀναγκαῖον (anankaîon), neuter of ἀναγκαῖος (anankaîos, “necessary”).
The spelling of this word with -ng- is unexpected. The Latin word first appears in Jodocus Badius' annotations of Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria, printed in 1516, in which ἀναγκαῖον is glossed as Anagkeon in the text and Anangeon in the index. The latter spelling is likely an error that was introduced by the compiler of the index and copied by later authors.
Senses: glosses: A justification of an action by necessity.
wikipedia: Institutio Oratoria
Jodocus Badius
Quintilian
magnetoresponsive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more magnetoresponsive
form: most magnetoresponsive
Etymology: From magneto- + responsive.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Displaying a response that is dependent upon the strength of an applied magnetic field
metaplectic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛktɪk
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Describing a specific form of symplectic group.
orthochronous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ortho- + -chronous.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Describing any Lorentz transformation or Galilean transformation which preserves the direction of time
brending
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English brenning, brinninge, equivalent to bren (“to set on fire”) + -ing. Probably influenced in form by the past participle brend, brent (“burnt”), or from brand.
Senses: examples: text: From the building to the brending.
ref: 1595, William Shakespeare, Locrine:
glosses: The act of burning; burning.
schoolboy errors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schoolboy error
toll lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toll line
turkey slaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turkey slap
peculium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peculia
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin peculium. See peculiar.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The savings of a son or a slave, with the father's or master's consent; a little property or stock of one's own.
examples: text: Still, however, he gained something, and it was the glory of his heart to carry it to Mr MacMorlan weekly, a slight peculium only subtracted, to supply his snuff-box and tobacco-pouch.
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: A special fund for private and personal uses.
peculia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peculium
teething ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teething rings
Senses: glosses: An object designed for a baby or toddler to chew during the teething stage
Synonyms: teether
teething rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teething ring
staging area
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staging areas
Senses: examples: text: The outpost near the border was used as a staging area for the army's invasion.
text: Burn the contents of the staging area onto a writable CD-ROM, carry it over to the Web server, and mount it.
ref: 1998, Lincoln D. Stein, Web Security: A Step-by-step Reference Guide, page 377:
glosses: A place to gather in preparation.
antanagoge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ænˌtænəˈɡəʊd͡ʒi/
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀνταναγωγή (antanagōgḗ, “a leading or bringing up”).
Senses: glosses: Answering the charge of an adversary by a countercharge.
glosses: Offsetting a proposition with an opposing proposition in one's own speech or writing.
antirrhesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /æntɪˈɹiːsɪs/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀντίρρησις (antírrhēsis, “altercation”)
Senses: glosses: A discrediting or rejection of an authority.
apodixis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /æpə(ʊ)ˈdɪksɪs/
/æpə(ʊ)ˈdaɪksɪs/
Forms: form: apodeixis
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀπόδειξις (apódeixis). Doublet of policy.
Senses: examples: text: ... this [bold assertion of defiance] might taste of a desperate will, if he had not afterwards given an apodixis in the battle ...
ref: 1647, George Buck, History of Richard III:
text: Pythagoras, engaged in showing that the square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides, is committed to apodeixis; Mark Anthony, arguing that the demonstrable generosity and benevolence of Caesar towards the people of Rome showed him to be a most unlikely candidate for the character of an ambitious tyrant, resorts to pistis, argument on the grounds of probability.
ref: 1989, Walter Nash, Rhetoric: The Wit of Persuasion:
glosses: Full demonstration or showing; absolute and incontrovertible proof.
basisterna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basisternum
batcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæt͡ʃɚ/
ipa: /ˈbæt͡ʃə/
rhymes: -ætʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: batchers
Etymology: From batch + -er.
Senses: glosses: A machine for preparing batches, especially of concrete, of a fixed size or volume.
batchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of batcher
Bakhtinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bakhtinian
form: most Bakhtinian
Etymology: From Bakhtin + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Russian philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin.
peribolus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: periboli
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of peribolos.
periboli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peribolus
peribolos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: periboloi
Etymology: From Ancient Greek περίβολος (períbolos).
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: An enclosed court, especially one surrounding a temple.
retainment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪnmənt
Forms: form: retainments
Etymology: From retain + -ment.
Senses: glosses: retention
Related terms: retain
epizoötic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɛpɪ.zəˈwɒtɪk/
/ɛpɪ.zoʊˈɒtɪk/
Forms: form: epizoötics
Etymology: From epi- + zoötic.
Senses: examples: text: Y. pestis is able to live in the dark, moist environment of rodent burrows even after the rodents have been killed by an epizoötic, or epidemic.
ref: 1983, Robert S. Gottfried, The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe, paperback edition, Free Press, published 1985, →ISBN, page 7, →ISBN:
glosses: Dated spelling of epizootic.
epizoötic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɛpɪ.zəˈwɒtɪk/
/ɛpɪ.zoʊˈɒtɪk/
Etymology: From epi- + zoötic.
Senses: examples: text: A fourth group, however, was very common — diseases transferred to humans from animal hosts, with animals acting either as intermediaries, as with malaria or typhus, or as primary or secondary epizoötic victims, as with bubonic plague.
ref: 1983, Robert S. Gottfried, The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe, paperback edition, Free Press, published 1985, →ISBN, page 3, →ISBN:
glosses: Dated spelling of epizootic.
regest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛst/
Forms: form: regests
Etymology: From Latin regesta, plural: compare Old French regestes, plural. See register.
Senses: examples: text: But who was cheif among the Britans in this exploit, had bin worth remembring, whether it were Maglocune of whose prowess hath bin spok’n, or Teudric King of Glamorgan, whom the regest of Landaff recounts to have bin alwaies victorious in fight; […]
ref: 1670, John Milton, “The Third Book”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC, page 134:
glosses: A register.
regest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛst/
Forms: form: regests
form: regesting
form: regested
form: regested
Senses: glosses: To throw back.
pertingent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pertingent
form: most pertingent
Etymology: Ultimately from Latin pertingent.
Senses: examples: text: The -C column applies to suffixes that consist of a lone consonant such as pertingent -t and locative -xʼ, but plural -xʼ is excluded due to morphosemantic cooccurrence constraints.
ref: 2024 January 22, James A. Crippen, Tlingitology Seminar Notes: Background and Morphology, University of British Columbia:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Touching; having direct contact with.
Synonyms: topics: biology
natural-sciences
word: juxtacrine
konbini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: konbini
form: konbinis
form: conbini
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese コンビニ (konbini), from English convenience.
Senses: examples: text: Just as it is almost impossible to walk through a Japanese town or city without encountering a vending machine, konbini are a fixture of the urban landscape, their brightly lit frontages holding out promise of round-the-clock sustenance and polite, if functional, customer service.
ref: 2024 November 8, Justin McCurry, “Coffee, sandwiches, underwear, beer: a day in the life of Japan’s beloved konbini stores”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: One-stop shops for everything, from clothes to make-up to household items, konbinis are open round the clock as “life infrastructure” (an official classification by the Japanese government), offering services that are vital to daily life.
ref: 2025 April 12, Ajesh Patalay, “Call of the konbini”, in HTSI, page 115:
glosses: A convenience store in Japan.
apodioxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌæpə(ʊ)daɪˈɒksɪs/
Etymology: From Latin, from ἀποδίωξις (apodíōxis), from Ancient Greek ἀποδιώκειν (apodiṓkein, “to drive away”).
Senses: glosses: Emphatic rejection or dismissal of an opponent or an opposing proposition.
dern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɜː(ɹ)n/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: derns
form: dearn
form: darn
form: dearn
form: darn
Etymology: From Middle English dern, derne, from Old English dyrne, dierne (“secret”), from Proto-West Germanic *darnī (“hidden, secret”).
Senses: glosses: A secret; secrecy.
glosses: A secret place; hiding.
glosses: An obscure language.
glosses: Darkness; obscurity.
Derived terms: dernful
in dern
dern
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɜː(ɹ)n/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: more dern
form: most dern
form: dearn
form: darn
form: dearn
form: darn
Etymology: From Middle English dern, derne, from Old English dyrne, dierne (“hidden, secret, retired, obscure, remote, eluding detection, concealed, deceitful, evil, magical”), from Proto-West Germanic *darnī (“hidden, secret”). Doublet of terne.
Senses: examples: text: Now with their backs to the den's mouth they sit, / Yet shoulder not all light from the dern pit.
ref: 1659, Dr. H. More, Immortal, of the Soul:
text: Through dreary beds of tangled fern, / Through groves of nightshade dark and dern.
ref: 1819, J. R. Drake, The Culprit Fay:
glosses: Hidden; secret; private.
Derived terms: dernly
dern
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɜː(ɹ)n/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: derns
form: derning
form: derned
form: derned
form: dearn
form: darn
form: dearn
form: darn
Etymology: From Middle English dernen, dærnen, from Old English dyrnan, diernan (“to keep secret, conceal, hide, restrain, repress, hide oneself”), from Proto-West Germanic *darnijan (“to conceal”), from *darnī (“hidden, secret”). Cognate with Old Saxon dernian (“to conceal”), German tarnen (“to camougflage, disguise”). See also darn, tarnish.
Senses: examples: text: He at length escaped them by derning himself in a fox-earth.
ref: 1865, Hugh Miller, My schools and schoolmasters:
glosses: To hide; secrete, as in a hole.
examples: text: But look how soon they heard of Holoferne / Their courage quail'd, and they began to derne.
ref: 1584, Thomas Hudson, Judith:
glosses: To hide oneself; skulk.
Related terms: darn
tarnish
dern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɜː(ɹ)n/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: derns
form: dearn
form: darn
form: dearn
form: darn
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: examples: 1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!, Ch. XIV, How Salvation Yeo Slew the King of the Gubbings
So I just put my eye between the wall and the dern of the gate, and I saw him come up to the back door […]
glosses: A gatepost or doorpost.
dearn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dearns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dern.
dearn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dearn
form: most dearn
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dern.
dearn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dearns
form: dearning
form: dearned
form: dearned
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dern.
in dern
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more in dern
form: most in dern
Senses: examples: text: Where lies in dern auld Rhymer's race.
ref: 1899, Thomas Finlayson Henderson, A Little Book of Scottish Verse:
glosses: In secret; in secrecy.
glosses: In private.
Related terms: dern
enargia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪˈnɑː(ɹ)d͡ʒiə/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐνάργεια (enárgeia, “sensory vividness”).
Senses: glosses: Vivid, lively description.
Hyponyms: word: anemographia
word: astrothesia
word: characterismus
word: chorographia
word: chronographia
word: dendrographia
word: effictio
word: ethopoeia
word: geographia
word: hydrographia
word: peristasis
word: pragmatographia
word: prosopographia
word: topographia
word: topothesia
syntheton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪnθətɒn/
Forms: form: syntheta
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σύνθετον (súntheton), from συντίθημι (suntíthēmi, “to put together”).
Senses: glosses: A set phrase linking two or more non-synonymous words by conjunction.
Related terms: synonymia
nonpooled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + pooled.
Senses: examples: text: This method opens a new, nonpooled connection to the database. ASP.NET checks the queue for notifications using this connection.
ref: 2010, Matthew MacDonald, Adam Freeman, Mario Szpuszta, Pro ASP.Net 4 in C# 2010, page 509:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: not grouped together, not put together
raw_tags: of computer resources
eponymize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eponymizes
form: eponymizing
form: eponymized
form: eponymized
Etymology: From eponym + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: His name was eponymized in the Kelly pad for obstetrical and surgical tables, the Kelly cystoscope for visualization of the female bladder (he was the first to use air to inflate the bladder for examination and for catheterization of the ureters) […]
ref: 1999, John Arthur Garraty, Mark Christopher Carnes, American Council of Learned Societies, American National Biography (volume 12, page 522)
glosses: To name (something or someone) after oneself or another entity; to give an eponym as a name.
just so
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd͡ʒʌst ˈsəʊ/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒʌst ˈsoʊ/
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: even so (archaic)
text: If you don’t turn the knob just so, the door won’t open.
text: Each towel was folded just so. If it wasn't perfect, they did it again.
ref: 2024 March 16, Antonia Cundy, “The Opus Dei diaries”, in FT Weekend, page 17:
glosses: In the precise manner indicated.
examples: text: Your dog is just so friendly.
text: I like any flower, just so as it’s real.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see just, so
Related terms: just-so story
just so
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd͡ʒʌst ˈsəʊ/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒʌst ˈsoʊ/
Senses: examples: text: “Everything has to be just so,” he [Lonnie Rose] said. “Being in a concrete box for a long time makes you even more O.C.D.”
ref: 2015 August 3, Erica Goode, “Solitary Confinement: Punished for Life”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2015:
text: “Your outfit has to be just so.” “We tend to have outfits that match.” “You’ve got to come, and you better come correct. I tell all the chicks, every now and then, ‘Look, if it wasn’t for me, you wouldn’t be walking around with that little bikini on.’ So we were flag girls, and we wore full uniforms.[…]”
ref: 2020 October 7, Shane O’Neill, “‘Baptized in Blackness’: Why Homecoming Is Vital to the Black College Experience”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Oct 2025:
text: They didn’t even have time to speculate about what Grail wanted before Vivienne walked in seconds later. Even at midnight her appearance was just so. Smooth hair, tight rippy jeans, one of those no-shoulder gypsy shirts.
ref: 2021, Tracey Lange, “Jackie”, in We Are the Brennans, London: Pan Books, published 2022, →ISBN:
glosses: Arranged very neatly and tidily.
aedoe-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: ædœ-
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek αἰδοῖα (aidoîa, “privy parts, pudenda”).
Senses: examples: text: The primitive penis — not to be confused with the aedoeagus — […]
ref: 1984, Prolegs, legs and wings of insects: Entomonograph, volume 5, page 83:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to genitalia.
Derived terms: aedoea
aedoeagra
aedoeagraphy
aedoeaologist
aedoeaology
aedoeatomist
aedoeatomy
aedoeauxe
aedoeci
aedoegargarismus
aedoeitis
aedoeoblennorrhoea
aedoeodynia
aedoeogargalismus
aedoeography
aedoeoïtis
aedoeologist
aedoeology
aedoeomania
aedoeomaniac
aedoeomaniacs
aedoeomycoderma
aedoeomycodermis
aedoeomycodermitis
aedoeon
aedoeopalmus
aedoeopsia
aedoeopsophesis
aedoeopsophia
aedoeopsy
aedoeoptosis
aedoeorraphe
aedoeorraphia
aedoeoscopy
aedoeotitis
aedoeotome
aedoeotomia
aedoeotomy
aedoetomist
social contract
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: social contracts
Senses: examples: text: In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. […]
ref: 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19:
text: When scammers large and small live better than those creating value in the real economy, the Social Contract has ceased to exist.
ref: 2023 April 24, Charles Hugh Smith, America's Social Contract Is Broken:
topics: government
human-sciences
philosophy
politics
sciences
synonyms: social compact
glosses: An implicit agreement or contract among members of a society governing such matters as submission of individuals to the rule of law and acceptable conduct.
turn one's nose up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns one's nose up
form: turning one's nose up
form: turned one's nose up
form: turned one's nose up
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of turn up one's nose.
raw_tags: with "at"
cœmetery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cœmeteries
Senses: examples: text: However, if any thane, or great lord, had a church, within his own demeſnes, diſtinct from the mother church, in the nature of a private chapel ; then, provided ſuch church had a cœmetery or conſecrated place of burial belonging to it, he might allot one third of his tithes for the maintenance of the officiating miniſter : but, if it had no cœmetery, the thane muſt himſelf have maintained his chaplain by ſome other means ; for in ſuch caſe all his tithes were ordained to be paid to the primariæ eccleſiæ or mother church *.
ref: 1794, Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries on the laws of England, § IV, pages 113-114:
glosses: Archaic spelling of cemetery.
silentious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more silentious
form: most silentious
Senses: examples: text: Yet Will had very good qualities too: gentle, tractable, and, above all, grateful; silentious, even to a fault: he spoke, at any time, very little, but made it up emphatically with action;
ref: 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill, Letter the First:
text: Can Bruce be other than Scotch? They are far more entertaining, I think, as well as informing, taken in the common run, than we silentious English; who, taken en masse, are tolerably dull.
ref: 1832, Frances Burney, Memoirs of Doctor Burney, volume 2, London: Edward Moxon, pages 50–51:
text: It [the love of learning] is there [in Oxford] so fitly housed […] that it might almost dream itself a type of what should always and everywhere be an emanation of the literature to which it shall return after its earthly avatar, and rest, a blessed ghost, between the leaves of some fortunate book on an unvisited shelf of a vast silentious and oblivious library.
ref: 1906, William Dean Howells, “Oxford”, in Certain Delightful English Towns, New York: Harper, page 205:
text: “[…] As I’m fond of informing some of my less educated but wealthy clients, ‘silence is often the answer’. Let’s say ten thousand pounds or guineas: could that buy a silentious disposition, sir?”
ref: 2013, M. P. Wright, chapter 39, in Heartman,, Edinburgh: Black & White Publishing, page 341:
glosses: Habitually taciturn; prone to silence.
Related terms: silentiously
silentiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more silentiously
form: most silentiously
Etymology: From silentious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner marked by silence or laconism
Related terms: silentious
apnœa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apnœas
Senses: examples: text: Besides, there was extreme congestion of part of the lungs, and obstruction of the bronchi. In connexion with these changes stand the vomiting and purging, and, with the last of them, death by apnœa.
ref: 1847, The Lancet, page 166:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of apnea.
Aeaea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːˈ(j)iː.ə/
rhymes: -iːə
Forms: form: Ææa
form: Aiaia
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Αἰαία (Aiaía).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The mythical island said to be the home of Circe.
Derived terms: Aeaean
Œdipus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: 1821, Sophocles, J. Savill Faucit, Œdipus, a musical drama, in three acts.
glosses: Obsolete spelling of Oedipus.
pœnalty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pœnalties
Senses: examples: text: It is ordered by the Townsmen that all ſwine that go at liberty with in the Lim̄itts of this Towne ſhalbe by yᵉ owners thereof : conſtantly & sufficiently ring vpon pœnalty of paying all dam̄ages done by such ſwine, wth 3ᵈ a Swine to Such person as shall find such swine dam̄age ſaisant, either to the Com̄on or his owne prticular.
ref: 17th century, The records of the town of Cambridge Massachusets, § 2, page #102
glosses: Archaic spelling of penalty.
pervulgate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pervulgates
form: pervulgating
form: pervulgated
form: pervulgated
Etymology: From Latin pervulgo.
Senses: examples: text: I did pervulgate the ſame treatiſe vnto ſome of my familiers and acquaintance
ref: 1586, Sir John Ferne, The Blazon of Gentrie:
glosses: To publish.
phylarchus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phylarchi
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phylarch.
phylarchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phylarchus
petrolæum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The foreign bituminous waters are, the Lacus Aſphaltites in Judea, a ſpring of petrolæum in the palatinate of Cracow in Poland, a ſpring of petrolæum in Tranſylvania, ſome hot ſprings of petrolæum in the kingdom of Naples, ſeveral ſprings of petrolæum in the duchy of Modena, the deſcription of which is chiefly from Rammazini.
ref: 1758, John Rutty, “A Methodical Synopsis of Mineral Waters, comprehending the most celebrated Medicinal Waters, both cold and hot, of Great Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, and Italy, and several other parts of the world. […]”, in The Critical Review: or, Annals of Literature, volume the fourth, London: […] R[ichard] Baldwin [Junior], […], page 251:
glosses: Archaic spelling of petroleum.
bijugate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + jugate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a compound leaf, having two pairs of leaflets
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of leaf arrangement, having pairs of (opposite) leaves, spirally arranged, producing a double spiral
Related terms: jugate
pinnate
throughgang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throughgangs
form: through-gang
form: through-gaun
Etymology: From Middle English *thurgh-gang, from Old English *þurhgang (“a going through, permeation”), equivalent to through- + gang. Compare Old English þurhgangan (“to go through, go over”), Old High German durhgangan, Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌷𐌲𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌰𐌽 (þairhgaggan).
Senses: glosses: a thoroughfare; an entry; passage; passageway
nothing ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nothing balls
Senses: examples: text: If he cannot throw a fast ball, he may be able to get by on a nothing ball (a term coined for Wes Ferrell's looping delivery, which, though it doesn't curve, is hard to hit).
ref: 1941 Franklin P. Huddle "Baseball Jargon" (April 1943) American Speech Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 103-111
text: two of the leading pitchers in the major leagues use the "nothing ball", a term used derisively by batters to describe change of pace deliveries.
ref: 1951 August, Paul Horowitz, “They've Got Plenty of Nothing”, in Baseball Digest, pages 21–22:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: a pitch which has neither much speed nor much spin
examples: 2010 Harry Redknapp, quoted in "Relegated Burnley produce comeback" (9 May 2010) ESPNsoccernet
I was very disappointed (with the first goal) because it was a nothing ball over the top, Brian Jensen was way out of position and should have been sweeping that up.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: a ball which presents little attacking threat
throughgoing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throughgoings
form: through-going
Etymology: From through- + going. Compare thoroughgo, Scots throuchganging, Old English þurhgān, þurhgangan (“to go through, penetrate”). More at through, go.
Senses: glosses: A scolding; a severe reprimand or reproof.
Synonyms: throughganging
throughgoing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more throughgoing
form: most throughgoing
form: through-going
Etymology: From through- + going. Compare thoroughgo, Scots throuchganging, Old English þurhgān, þurhgangan (“to go through, penetrate”). More at through, go.
Senses: glosses: Active; energetic.
thoroughgo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thoroughgoes
form: thoroughgoing
form: thoroughwent
form: thoroughgone
form: thorough-go
Etymology: From Middle English thurhgon, from Old English þurhgān (“to go through, go over, pass through, pierce, penetrate, permeate, pervade”), equivalent to thorough- + go. Cognate with Dutch doorgaan (“to go on, continue, go through, proceed”), German durchgehen (“to go through, pass through”).
Senses: glosses: To go through.
Derived terms: thoroughgoing
chew off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chews off
form: chewing off
form: chewed off
form: chewed off
Senses: examples: text: I'd sooner chew off my hand than go out with you.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see chew, off.
glosses: To reprimand, to scold
Synonyms: chew out
chink up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chinks up
form: chinking up
form: chinked up
form: chinked up
Senses: glosses: To fill cracks in something, for example a wall.
chip away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chips away
form: chipping away
form: chipped away
form: chipped away
Senses: examples: text: Iraneus contrasts the unity and integrity of these writings with the distorted, contextless citations of the Gnostics. He describes the code of textual harassment that allows these heretics to chip away at the Scriptures, […]
ref: 1991, Jan Gorak, The Making of the Modern Canon: Genesis and Crisis of a Literary Idea, page 24:
text: Matthew Towers, senior industry analyst at Frost & Sullivan, thinks the PowerPC will gradually build market share over the next several years. “They'll ‘chip’ away at Intel, but slowly,” he says.
ref: 1995 June 15, John Edwards, quoting Matthew Towers, “How the Chips Fall”, in CIO, volume 8, number 17, CXO Media, Inc., →ISSN, page 76:
text: Antismoking groups continue their efforts to chip away at the public support for smoking as well as at the favorable treatment of tobacco products.
ref: 1997, Robert L. Heath, Strategic Issues Management: Organizations and Public Policy Challenges, SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 77:
text: Darcy Lever: Bolton Council has rejected a plan to build 112 homes across the trackbed of the former Bury line. It is concerned that it would prevent any future extension of Manchester Metrolink, and chip away at green space land.
ref: 2023 July 26, Howard Johnston, “Regional News: North West”, in RAIL, number 988, page 28:
glosses: To reduce or weaken bit by bit; often used with at.
Synonyms: plug away
beaver away
Related terms: salami tactics
chip up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chips up
form: chipping up
form: chipped up
form: chipped up
Senses: examples: text: It were when my father were employed as mason under 'brick and mortar Benson,' as they called him, for repairs of a wall, and they were short of stones, and they chipped up the figure I be telling you of.
ref: 1959, Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing, A flat iron for a farthing, page 81:
glosses: To cause something to have chips, cracks or dents.
chirk up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chirks up
form: chirking up
form: chirked up
form: chirked up
Senses: examples: text: "Well, I think," said Mis' Jane Moran, "that we've hit on the only way we could have hit on to chirk each other up over a hard time."
ref: 1912, Zona Gale, Christmas:
text: My idea was to chirk him up at the start.
ref: 1917, Sewell Ford, Wilt Thou Torchy:
glosses: To make more cheerful; to cause to perk up.
examples: text: "Go ahead," he says, and I see Jim chirk up to listen.
ref: 1894, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Tom Sawyer Abroad:
text: Now you jest wipe your eyes and chirk up.
ref: 1908, Grace Livingston Hill Lutz, Marcia Schuyler:
text: She was terrified but in control. n. How, on the trip around the country my parents took the year after my birth, their mood sank so low that even my brother sensed it. "Chirk up, guys," he said. "Chirk up." They laughed at that.
ref: 2006, Anna Cypra Oliver, Assembling My Father: A Daughter's Detective Story, page 10:
glosses: To become more cheerful; to perk up or become animated or enthusiastic.
choke off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chokes off
form: choking off
form: choked off
form: choked off
Senses: glosses: To get rid of; to cause to come to an end.
examples: text: to choke off a speaker by uproar
text: "It was a discreditable business. There were one or two folk who were inclined to take him seriously, but he soon choked them off." "How?" "Well, by his insufferable rudeness and impossible behavior."
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: To stop (someone or something) in the execution of a purpose or task; to stop (someone) from doing something.
glosses: To choke up; to choke on words.
glosses: To cause (someone) to lose interest or drift off from a conversation.
choke up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chokes up
form: choking up
form: choked up
form: choked up
Senses: examples: text: Hearing that song always makes me choke up.
text: The point overlooking the sea has beautiful scenery. It's over that away. Such a beautiful place gets me all choked up.
ref: 1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System:
glosses: To (temporarily) lose one's power of speech, because of strong emotion.
examples: text: It chokes me up to think about how he died.
glosses: To cause (a person) temporarily to lose the power of speech, because of strong emotion.
glosses: To cease talking.
examples: text: The bodies choked up the entrance, barring the egress of those behind.
ref: 1904, “Chicago's Awful Theater Horror”, in Memorial Publishing Co., page 42:
glosses: To block up; to cause something to be blocked.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To hold the bat higher (farther from the knob) than is normal.
choose up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: choosing up
form: chooses up
form: chose up
form: chosen up
Senses: glosses: To form (sides or teams), usually for a game, by having two individual players choose their teammates.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To choose (not necessarily fully consensually) to work as a prostitute for a particular pimp.
examples: text: She prostituted for a couple of pimps before meeting MacD in Oakland. When Dakota got into his car, MacD said, "Bitch, my name is MacDaddy,” and added: "You've just gotten in a pimp's car, and you've chosen up.
ref: 2010, Vanessa Place, The Guilt Project: Rape, Morality, and Law, page 153:
text: A couple bitches tried to play me
They tried to have my babies
I’m like “bitches, you crazy?”
I’m tryna git my loot up
[…]
Money or a broke bitch
It ain’t hard for me to choose up
ref: 2013, Tutty Apg, STUNTIN mixx, 0:39–0:48:
text: They would chose up and leave me with the choice to decide. That was giving me power from the beginning. Submission! I didn't have to be first to make a move. It's always better to be chosen.
ref: 2019, Maurice Holland, Street Poisoned: The Game Chose Me, page 166:
glosses: To select; pick, especially, to make a final decision on a selection or option.
Related terms: choose sides
chop down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chops down
form: chopping down
form: chopped down
form: chopped down
Senses: examples: text: chop down a tree
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see chop, down.
examples: text: In the final edit, the film was chopped down to two hours.
glosses: To curtail, shorten
glosses: To attack (someone) with a knife; to kill (someone), especially by shooting with an automatic weapon.
highresolution
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of high-resolution.
every king needs a queen
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Every man needs a woman as a romantic partner with whom to spend his life.
boud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /baʊd/
rhymes: -aʊd
homophone: bowed
Forms: form: bouds
Etymology: From Middle English boude, bude, budde, from Old English budda (“beetle”).
Senses: examples: text: bowd-eaten malt
ref: 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:
glosses: A weevil; a worm that breeds in malt, biscuit, etc.