cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
headfit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headfits
Etymology: From head + fit.
Senses: examples: text: I also won't discipline when a child is busy throwing a headfit because anything I say or do will be ignored.
ref: 2011 April 11, TinyChickenLady, “Judge Willaim Adams”, in BackYard Chickens Forums:
text: I started eventing in 1988 and they definitely were not compulsory then. I remember because after I'd been xc a family friend realised I didn't have a 'back protector' on, had a headfit, and frogmarched me to the tradestands at Brigstock to force me to buy one.
ref: 2013 April 26, kerilli, “Anybody know anything about the development of the body protector pre year 2000?”, in Horse and Hound Forums:
qualifier: Bristol
glosses: A sudden fit of temper; a tantrum.
Synonyms: tantrum
headfits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headfit
Ovalgate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Oval + -gate.
Senses: glosses: A 2006 scandal in which the Pakistani cricket team forfeited the Oval Test match against England after allegations of tampering with the ball.
Leaving Certificate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Leaving Certificates
Senses: glosses: The certificate awarded to Irish students who pass the state examinations at the end of secondary school.
Synonyms: Leaving Cert
Related terms: Junior Certificate
Intermediate Certificate
unfilter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unfilters
form: unfiltering
form: unfiltered
form: unfiltered
Etymology: From un- + filter.
Senses: examples: text: Click the OK button on the column's dropdown list or the Custom AutoFilter dialog box to filter your list. To see all the data in the list again — to unfilter the list — click the Clear button on the Data tab.
ref: 2015, Peter Weverka, Office 2016 All-In-One For Dummies:
glosses: To undo the filtering of (data, etc.), or remove a filter from.
unfilter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unfilters
Etymology: From un- + filter.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: data
glosses: The lack or absence of a filter
glosses: A filterless cigarette
unfilters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unfilter
unfiltering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unfilter
spookocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: government by spies
Sodagate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From soda + -gate.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A 2013 controversy around an NBA basketball game between the Brooklyn Nets and Los Angeles Lakers, in which a player deliberately spilled a cup of soda to delay the game.
crapsack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crapsacks
Etymology: From crap + sack.
Senses: glosses: A worthless or despicable person.
crapsacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crapsack
achesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more achesome
form: most achesome
Etymology: From ache + -some.
Senses: examples: text: You took out an achesome tooth a few years back.
ref: 2015, Bill Gallaher, High Rider:
synonyms: word: smarting
word: sore
word: achesome
word: aching
word: achy
word: raw
word: hurt
word: hurty
word: griefful
word: pained
word: painfilled
word: painful
word: smartful
word: smarting
word: sore
word: suffering
word: tender
word: tormented
glosses: Characterised or marked by aching; painful
funksome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more funksome
form: most funksome
Etymology: From funk + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Far from pursuing the out-of-body Platonism of Ambient, George Clinton wants to get you back into your body, in all its funksome fulsomeness: "I'm the product of a Pavlovian experiment/We rub each others' cheeks/We sniff each others' seats/We tug each others' leash when we find each other in heat/We scratch each others' fleas and put each other at ease/When in Dogtown, do as dogs do."
ref: 1995, The Wire, volumes 137-142:
text: David Byrne and Brian Eno record the My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts album. Byrne and Eno then rejoin Talking Heads in Nassau to record the funksome Remain In Light.
ref: 2004, Ian Gittins, Talking Heads: Once in a Lifetime : the Stories Behind Every Song:
text: There's a funksome chunk of vocoder new jack pop from uber-producer Teddy Riley and BLACKSTREET to round things off nicely.
ref: 2008, Martin Charles Strong, Brendon Griffin, Lights, camera, sound tracks:
text: 'I knew there was something funksome about you,' Malaria said, pointing a stubby finger.
ref: 2011, Steven Butler, The Wrong Pong:
text: 'That Margarine is a funksome one.' And, without further ado, the great hulk of a troll swung Neville on to his shoulders and started galumphing off downhill.
ref: 2012, Steven Butler, Wrong Pong: Troll's Treasure:
glosses: Characterised or marked by funk (all senses)
hunksome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hunksome
form: most hunksome
Etymology: From hunk + -some.
Senses: examples: text: “No more being overshadowed by glam-boy elves and hunksome warriors ... Sean Astin's moment to shine is here.”
ref: 2013, Sean Astin, Joe Layden, There and Back Again:
text: A queen from a film about an amazing queen who is massively beautiful, and wise and strong and married to a gnarled old king obsessed with power and money who doesn't see the real her, but then she meets a hunksome knight with humble beginnings who rescues her from a terrifying beast and at the start they, like, argue all the time because he thinks she's dead proud and used to people obeying her every command.
ref: 2016, Beth Moran, The Name I Call Myself:
glosses: Characteristic or typical of a hunk (sexually attractive man); hunky.
Napgate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From nap + -gate.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A 2010 controversy in which Ken Griffey, Jr., of Major League Baseball's Seattle Mariners, was reported to have been asleep in the clubhouse during a game.
Ponytailgate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From ponytail + -gate.
Senses: examples: text: Teflon John's approval rating in the wake of what came to be known as 'Ponytailgate' actually increased.
ref: 2021, Supriya Vani, Carl A. Harte, Jacinda Ardern: Leading with Empathy:
glosses: A 2015 controversy around the alleged pulling of the hair of a young waitress by New Zealand's Prime Minister John Key.
Bibgate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈbɪbˌɡeɪt/
Etymology: From bib + -gate.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A 2009 controversy around American skier Bill Demong's disqualification for not wearing his bib during the ski-jumping part of the team event at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships.
Thulegate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Thule + -gate.
Senses: glosses: A 1995 Danish scandal regarding the storage of nuclear weapons in Greenland, in contravention of Denmark's nuclear-free policy.
thukpas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thukpa
nonsquinter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonsquinters
Etymology: From non- + squinter.
Senses: glosses: A person who does not have a squint.
nonsquinters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonsquinter
nonstacking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + stacking.
Senses: glosses: Not stacking.
deflectometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to deflectometry.
prometheum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A rejected name for the chemical element promethium.
cyclonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A rejected name for the chemical element promethium.
swim-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swim-offs
form: swimoff
form: swim off
Etymology: From swim + -off.
Senses: examples: text: If the disqualifications leave a vacancy for the full complement of finalists, swim-offs shall be continued among the disqualified swimmers until a full complement of finalists is assured.
ref: 1973, Aquatics Guide, with Official Rules and Swimming and Diving Standards:
text: The swim-off would be open to any athlete who hadn't competed in the official 200 free. Since the swim-off would be the last event at the Trials, the upshot allowed Mark to enter it without affecting any of his other races.
ref: 2008, Richard J Foster, Mark Spitz: The Extraordinary Life of an Olympic Champion, →ISBN, page 48:
text: They came up with a compromise where he could compete in a special swim-off two months later.
ref: 2012, Dan Stephenson, The Underwater Window, →ISBN:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
swimming
glosses: A special swimming race in which the winner gets to compete in the next level of trials (typically the finals), where the competitors have not qualified for the next level by the usual elimination races.
synonyms: sprint
qualifier: water polo
glosses: The start of a period, in which the two teams try to reach the ball placed in the centre of the pool.
swim-offs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swim-off
system tray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: system trays
Etymology: From the file SysTray.exe, first appearing in Microsoft Windows 95 in 1995.
Senses: examples: text: The system tray sits on the opposite end of the taskbar from the Start menu. If the taskbar is on the bottom of the screen, the system tray is on the right side of the taskbar.
ref: 2005, Dan Gookin, PCs For Dummies Quick Reference, →ISBN, page 57:
text: The new System Tray API makes it possible for an application to gain access to the desktop's system tray, which presents the system time and icons of applications that interact with the system tray.
ref: 2007, Jeff Friesen, Beginning Java SE 6 Platform: From Novice to Professional, →ISBN, page 103:
text: This DLL will enable us to put an icon in the system tray, control that icon while it's in the system tray, and remove it from the system tray when we're done with it.
ref: 2008, Jonathan Morrison, C++ for VB Programmers, →ISBN, page 183:
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The portion of the taskbar that displays the system time and icons for running processes, which can often launch menus for those processes.
wikipedia: Microsoft Windows 95
system trays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of system tray
cradlesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cradlesome
form: most cradlesome
Etymology: From cradle + -some.
Senses: examples: text: But I had been pushed across the boundary by I didn't know what hands, whether streaked or cradlesome or hooflike, and I could not turn around.
ref: 1947, Crow Field, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: No one, of course, has seen her, and Ned and Beetie are about to experience the hammocking, cradlesome shock that is the beginning of despair.
ref: 1956, The Marble Orchard
text: And Geneva-Honey Crowningburg — she of the cradlesome escutcheon, the electric wool — she looms in a paper-shaded brokeneye and waves "bye- bye" (which is dumb since her man is plainly coming home, not going away).
ref: 1975, North Carolina Quarterly - Volumes 27-28
glosses: Characterised or marked by cradling
itchsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more itchsome
form: most itchsome
Etymology: From itch + -some.
Senses: examples: text: These creatures have their bodies covered with itchsome warts which made it impossible for an Agbufu to stop scratching its body.
ref: 1998, Ephraim Eze Okwor, A Riddle for the Gods:
text: There were a mixture of local people with cold, pinched faces and skint and harassed looking tourists sitting around fondling their itchsome facial hair, their tongues lolling into fizzy yellow pints of lager.
ref: 2000, Tim Bradford, Is Shane MacGowan still alive?:
text: He rubbed the toe of his dancing pump on an itchsome spot on the back of his silk- clad calf.
ref: 2006, Barbara Satow, A Game of Pleasure:
text: Their dresses were wrinkled and sticky and itchsome.
ref: 2011 (original 2001), Geoff Schmidt, Out of Time
glosses: Characterised or marked by itching
examples: text: There's lovely touches all over the record, but with exception of 'Dance On', propelled by the most itchsome drum pattern since B Bumble & The Stingers, and 'Anna Stesia', a ballad of lust which builds inexorably from a simple keyboard figure, there's a feeling of incompleteness about the rest of the songs which is all the more frustrating.
ref: 1998, High Fidelity News, Record, Review:
glosses: Irritating; annoying
fadesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fadesome
form: most fadesome
Etymology: From fade + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Through me, through me only, although ye scoff / And scowl at my doings, can ye throw off / Your fadesome mortality; [...]
ref: 1857, Charles Boner, The New Dance of Death, and Other Poems:
glosses: Characterised or marked by fading; apt to fade
cringesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cringesome
form: most cringesome
Etymology: From cringe + -some.
Senses: examples: text: As 'cringesome' moments go it was right down there with Scotland goalie Stewart Kennedy trying to garrotte himself on his crossbar during England's 5-1 Wembley mauling in 1975.
ref: 2008, Aidan Smith, Union Jock: Sleeping with the Auld Enemy:
text: I was going to spare you the cringesome details of the next ten minutes but you ought to hear them, really, as it gives you some insight into what really goes on in my head.
ref: 2009, Tim Thornton, The Alternative Hero:
glosses: Characterised or marked by cringing; causing one to cringe
windsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪndsəm/
Forms: form: more windsome
form: most windsome
Etymology: From wind (noun) + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Then the winds would gather strength against my hearts commands. Today the story changes, I welcome the windsome breeze, For if she looses all her feathers she cant fly away from me.
ref: 2011, Erick Pasquale Forsythe, The Pure Language Of Love:
text: “And I can hold my hair out like the cape of a maiden in distress who's out on the moor on a dark and windsome day,” said Toonie who quickly stood up and pulled her beautiful long hair out to arms' length on either side of her head so she looked like a bat landing on a cornstalk.
ref: 2012, David Anirman, The Itofit:
glosses: Characterised or marked by (the) wind; windy
windsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪndsəm/
ipa: /ˈwaɪndsəm/
ipa: /ˈwɪndsəm/
Forms: form: more windsome
form: most windsome
Etymology: From wind (verb) + -some.
Senses: examples: text: As I chase the tiny children with my windsome eyes abounding And I lead the fragrant flowers in their tiny gameplay fancy I lead them through the only time when I alone cannot remember Where I touch the nearby nearaway with the glossy touch forever
ref: 1973, Allan Graham, Island Prose and Poetry:
text: They and I stumbled around with staccato gaits, first windsome, then fierce, getting faster and faster until the whole thing resembled some sort of spastic frenzy.
ref: 1984, John Steakley, Armor:
glosses: Characterised or marked by winding
evercookie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evercookies
Etymology: From ever + cookie.
Senses: examples: text: A breed of cookie known as evercookie writes data to multiple locations to make it next to impossible ever to remove it completely (http://samy.pl/evercookie/).
ref: 2014, Emmett Dulaney, Chuck Easttom, CompTIA Security+ Study Guide: SY0-401:
glosses: A special kind of HTTP cookie that is especially resistant to deletion by the user.
Related terms: supercookie
evercookies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of evercookie
garcinoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the Garcinia genus of mangosteen plants.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to garcinoic acid or its derivatives
garcinoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An aromatic carboxylic acid that is analogous to vitamin E
geranylflavonoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geranylflavonoids
Etymology: From geranyl + flavanoid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any flavonoid that has a geranyl side chain
geranylflavonoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geranylflavonoid
holocarboxylase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holocarboxylases
Etymology: From holo- + carboxylase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyses multiple carboxylation or decarboxylation reactions, especially those involving biotin
Derived terms: holocarboxylase synthetase
homoerythromycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homoerythromycins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A derivative of erythromycin that has an extra methylene group; any of many derivatives of this compound
hydroxyacetamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroxyacetamides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any N-hydroxy derivative of acetamide
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The amide of hydroxyacetic acid (glycolamide)
glycolamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The amide of glycolic acid (2-hydroxyacetamide)
Derived terms: ioglycamic acid
hydroxyphosphonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroxyphosphonates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any hydroxy derivative of a phosphonate, especially an α-hydroxyphosphonate such as metrifonate
hydroxyphosphonates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydroxyphosphonate
hyperbrasilol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperbrasilols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of phloroglucinol derivatives, isolated from Hypericum, that inhibit Herpes viruses
isouvarinol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iso- + uvarinol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The flavanone (2S)-5,7-dihydroxy-8-[[2-hydroxy-5-[(2-hydroxyphenyl)methyl]phenyl]methyl]-6-[(2-hydroxyphenyl)methyl]-2-phenyl-2,3-dihydrochromen-4-one
uvarinol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A cytotoxic tribenzylated flavanone isolated from Uvaria
bullshite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bull + shite.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bullshit.
bullshite
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From bull + shite.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bullshit.
economic terrorism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An attempt to coax or force a person or group into doing something by threatening them economically or by the destruction of economic systems.
Synonyms: financial terrorism
undercrossing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undercrossings
Etymology: From under- + crossing.
Senses: glosses: underpass
undercrossings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undercrossing
Standard ML
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: SML
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
hypernyms: ML
glosses: A functional, modular programming language.
Related terms: Successor ML
SML/NJ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Standard ML of New Jersey, a compiler and programming environment for the Standard ML programming language.
Hypernyms: english: structurally
translation: structurally
word: SML
tri-rocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tri-rockers
Senses: glosses: An inline skate with only one wheel in the middle.
Related terms: anti-rocker
desiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From desi + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being desi, or belonging of the South Asian diaspora.
kanzonol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kanzonols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of tyrosols found in licorice
kuraridin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A flavonoid antibiotic found in Sophora flavescens
lankamycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Lanka + -mycin, after Sri Lanka.
Senses: glosses: A macrolide antibiotic produced by Streptomyces violaceusniger (correction of Streptomyces voilaceoniger)
liposidomycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liposidomycins
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of nucleoside antibiotics produced by Escherichia coli.
liposidomycins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liposidomycin
penniforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penniform
mevushal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /mɪvuːˈʃɑːl/
/mɪˈvʊʃəl/
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew מבושל / מְבֻשָּׁל (m'vushál, literally “cooked”).
Senses: glosses: cooked so as to render it unfit for idolatrous purposes, thereby making it permissible even in the event that it is subsequently handled by a gentile
raw_tags: of wine
Mirach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪræk/
enpr: mīʹrăk
enpr: mēʹrăk
Etymology: Perhaps a corruption of Arabic مِئْزَر (miʔzar).
Senses: examples: text: [Mirach was described in the Alfonsine Tables of 1521 as super mirat, from which has been derived its present title, as well as the occasional forms Mirac, Merach, Mirar, Mirath, Mirax, etc.; mirat probably coming from the 1515 Almagest's super mizar, the Arabic mi'zar, a girdle or waist-cloth. Scaliger, the great critical scholar of the 15th century, adopted this Mizar as a title, and Riccioli followed him in its use, thus confounding the star with ζ Ursae Majoris.]
ref: 1899, Richard Hinckley Allen, Star-Names and Their Meanings, New York: G. E. Stechert, page 36:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A red giant, visible as a second-magnitude orange-red star marking the waist or girdle of the chained woman in the northern constellation of Andromeda.
Synonyms: roman: beta
english: primary designation
translation: primary designation
word: β Andromedae
english: abbreviated form
translation: abbreviated form
word: β And
english: Latinized form
translation: Latinized form
word: Beta Andromedae
Nicomedian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Nicomedia.
Nicomedian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nicomedians
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of Nicomedia.
tri-rockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tri-rocker
macarangaflavanone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From macaranga + flavanone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of geranyl flavanones isolated from the flowers of Macaranga pleiostemon
macrolone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrolones
Etymology: From macrol(ide) + -one.
Senses: glosses: Any of a family of macrolide antibiotics derived from azithromycin
macrolones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrolone
mar-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From martensite, patterned after maraging, from blend of martensite + aging.
Senses: qualifier: steel-making
glosses: Relating to the production of martensite grains in steel.
Derived terms: marquench
martemper
mesuol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A phenylcoumarin, isolated from Mesua ferrea, that has antioxidant and immunomodulatory activity
phenylcoumarin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenylcoumarins
Etymology: From phenyl + coumarin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any phenyl derivative of a coumarin
phenylcoumarins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phenylcoumarin
methylbutanoyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methylbutanoyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any methyl derivative of a butanoyl radical
butanoyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butanoyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A univalent radical derived from butanoic acid
Derived terms: butanoylation
Junior Certificate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Junior Certificates
Etymology: junior + certificate
Senses: glosses: The certificate awarded to Irish students who pass the state examinations at the end of the third year of secondary school.
Synonyms: Junior Cert
Related terms: Leaving Certificate
Intermediate Certificate
twitsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more twitsome
form: most twitsome
Etymology: From twit + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Jeffreylee Pierce and a twitsome trio comprise The Gun Club, two of whose albums showed up in the same mail.
ref: 1985, Joel Flegler, Fanfare - Volume 8, Issues 3-4:
text: More greens drooped from a trug on the bench, which explained why Bal had been coming from this direction and why she was in a twitsome mood.
ref: 2003, Sally Odgers, Under the Waterfall:
glosses: Characterised or marked by twitting (reproach), or characteristic of a twit (buffoon)
flitsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flitsome
form: most flitsome
Etymology: From flit + -some.
Senses: examples: text: A target too flitsome for the other birds, it was an immense success with verdin who clung to it masterfully upside down and not a bit uneasy on that gyrating world, taking his fill and all the while full of warnings to potential intruders, giving vent to an intermittent and extremely loud robin-sized chirping.
ref: 1957, Douglas Rigby, Desert happy:
text: Unflagging spider versus flitsome moth [...]
ref: 2011, Norman Hadley, Stinging the Sepia:
glosses: Characterised or marked by flitting
gritsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gritsome
form: most gritsome
Etymology: From grit + -some.
Senses: examples: text: And noumena, transcending Earth, / The gritsome round of rocks [...]
ref: 1961, John Merton Patrick, Buried astronomy:
text: He muflles hometward veiny eyed / With gritsome mudcrumped bag of sleep.
ref: 1973, New York Magazine, volume 6, number 38:
text: She may be gritsome enough to shoot her arch nemesis Tom Chaney, played by a desperately underused Josh Brolin, twice, but she promptly falls down a well and has to be rescued by her two dads.
ref: 2011, Mark Wilshin, Raising Arkansas:
glosses: Characterised or marked by grit (all senses); gritty
feeblesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more feeblesome
form: most feeblesome
Etymology: From feeble + -some.
Senses: examples: text: It ain't no cinch play that this female's deef, neither; which it's allers plain she hears the most feeblesome yelp of that infant, all the way from the dance-hall to the O. K. House, an' that means across the camp complete.
ref: 1897, Alfred Henry Lewis, Wolfville:
text: Your work is off-color, your liver is wrong— You know it – yet when he butts in, With a little sly jolly, somehow you brace up And scare up a feeblesome grin.
ref: 1903, The Anamosa Prison Press, volume 6:
text: And ef it hadn't 'a' been fur me and Doc Lew Lake and Jimmy Bagby and three-four others raisin' a feeblesome imitation of the Rebel Yell ez we went past, there'd 'a' been no tribute atall fur the man who marched away in '61 leadin' this town's fust company of volunteers, and come back in '65, a full brigadier bringin' whut wuz left [...]
ref: 1931, Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan:
glosses: Characterised or marked by feebleness; weak or faint
hugsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hugsome
form: most hugsome
Etymology: From hug + -some.
Senses: examples: text: She was a hugsome lass; quiet enough to start in, but awful jumpy when she got going.
ref: 1933, Malinda Plunkett Jenkins, Jesse Lilienthal, Gambler's wife:
text: Don't you want to save your country, pro patria and ora pro nobis as the old I-talians used to say, and knock the eyes out of all the hugsome hussies with your uniform?
ref: 1948, Henry Castor, The Spanglers:
text: I understand that one of the hugsome wenches down there is of a mind to have you at the grindstone 'ere long.'
ref: 1975, The revenge of Moriarty
glosses: Characterised or marked by hugging
chlorohydrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chlorohydrates
Etymology: From chloro- + hydrate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound having the general formula […] Cl₍₃ₙ₋ₘ₎(OH)ₘ.
chlorohydrates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chlorohydrate
Hormuz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɔːˈmuːz/
Forms: form: Hormoz
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian هرمز (hormoz). Doublet of Ahura Mazda.
Senses: glosses: An island in the strait of the same name, five miles off the Iranian coast.
glosses: The strait that connects the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman.
glosses: A district of Qeshm, Hormozgan Province, Iran.
glosses: A city in Iran; capital of the district of the same name.
glosses: Synonym of Hormozabad.
synonyms: word: Hormozabad
glosses: Alternative spelling of Hormud.
glosses: Alternative spelling of Ormus (“former Persian kingdom”).
Synonyms: sense: city in Iran, capital of Hormuz District
word: Qalʿeh-ye Hormoz
Related terms: Ormus
Hormozgan
Hormizd
Ahura Mazda
Ohrmazd
Hormoz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Hormuz.
anti-rocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-rockers
Senses: glosses: An inline skate with one smaller wheel in the middle that doesn't touch the ground.
Related terms: tri-rocker
anti-rockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anti-rocker
tenue de ville
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French tenue de ville (literally “city dress”).
Senses: examples: text: No one would imagine that a man in an ice cream suit and a blue shirt, a tenue de ville as specified by his hostess, his arms full of liquor bottles, would have a bad conscience because he had failed to notice thunderheads on the horizon — but such was life in Llewellyn Group.
ref: 1999, Ward Just, A Dangerous Friend, Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 171:
text: When it's needed, the priest, in tenue de ville, takes it from his pocket, unfolds it, kisses it, says a prayer, and then places it about his neck.
ref: 2002, Paul Fussell, Uniforms: Why We Are What We Wear, Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 70:
text: We have inherited only the remnants of this period: for example, in the form of uncertainty in dress etiquette that stresses us out when we read 'Tenue de Ville' on an invitation. What on earth am I going to wear, we hear ourselves saying?
ref: 2012, Maureen van Raaijen, The Little Black Dress For you, →ISBN, page 19:
glosses: Clothing suitable for an office or business setting, such as a business suit or skirt suit.
methymycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The macrolide antibiotic (3R,4S,5S,7R,9E,11S,12R)-4-[(2S,3R,4S,6R)-4-(dimethylamino)-3-hydroxy-6-methyloxan-2-yl]oxy-12-ethyl-11-hydroxy-3,5,7,11-tetramethyl-1-oxacyclododec-9-ene-2,8-dione
michellamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of atropisomeric alkaloids that are anti-HIV viral replication inhibitors
atropisomeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to an atropisomer
eyeshape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eyeshapes
Etymology: From eye + shape.
Senses: examples: text: Dionne is a smooth, flattering conventional eyeshape with matching plastic sidepiece with metal Invicta motif.
ref: 1986, Optometry Today, Vol. 26, Issues 9-25, p. 854
glosses: The shape of an eye, or an item made to cover or surround an eye.
eyeshapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eyeshape
E flat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: E flats
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of E-flat.
E flats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of E flat; alternative form of E-flats
albulario
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: albularios
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of albularyo.
albularios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of albulario
joba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jobas
Etymology: From Cantonese 組爸 /组爸 (zou² baa⁴).
Senses: qualifier: university slang
glosses: male group leader in orientation camps
inspirates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inspirate
barksome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more barksome
form: most barksome
Etymology: From bark + -some.
Senses: examples: text: I stepped over to the corner and lifted the sheets of paper, and there she was, tinier than I had remembered, and no longer fierce or barksome, and no longer any super dog, capable of great and daring leaps of escape, but instead a quivering, terrified little pup.
ref: 2001, Rick Bass, Colter:
text: Yet Hamlet thought he heard someone speaking, and not inside the stables, where grooms would be caring for the horses, and not in the kennels, either, where the barksome dogs were being fed and petted.
ref: 2008, Marvin Kaye, The Ghost Quartet:
glosses: Characterised or marked by barking
envysome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more envysome
form: most envysome
form: envisome
Etymology: From envy + -some.
Senses: examples: text: I'm going to show 'em to Molly anyway. Won 't she be envysome?
ref: 1913, Helen Gaylord, Luzetta R. Sanders, Cora A. Sanders, The Pokeyville Rally:
text: If she can also claim, as the Hackensack creature can, that Charles Livingston Bull, the illustrator, did her portrait, she may take an envysome position on the alley fence at midnight or any other time, and her right will be undisputed.
ref: 1929, Nature Magazine, volumes 13-14:
glosses: Characterised or marked by envy; envious
scandalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scandalisms
Etymology: From scandal + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: But in spite of Dow, and all other malicious scandalisms, Fletcher's star was evidently in the ascendant.
ref: 1858, Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine - Volumes 7-8, page 461:
text: This inadequacy would not seem inherent in scandalism of pornography, but rather resulting from a lack of history and field of subjective pornographic criticism.
ref: 2001, Tom Slattery, Immodest Proposals: Through the Pornographic Looking Glass, →ISBN:
text: Its preference for and insistence on personalities, show biz, image, sensationalism and even scandalism, that is on the dramatic dimensions of politics, in the long run affected the nature of the relations among political actors, between political leaders and public opinion, between politicians and news professionals. To a certain extent, politics has become an hostage of the news media.
ref: 2005, Philippe Maarek, Gadi Wolfsfeld, Political Communication in a New Era, →ISBN:
text: Buddha said it, Lao-Tsze and Confucius said it, but in this twentieth century, “ethical rules of conduct” have taken a back seat to the pleasure of gossiping about our neighbors, scandalism, sensationalism, sharp business dealings, and many of the other evils of our day.
ref: 2009, W. O. Owolawi, Fred O. Owolawi, Affirmations for Successful Living, →ISBN:
glosses: The focussing of attention on and publicizing information about scandals.
scandalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scandalism
bigsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bigsome
form: most bigsome
Etymology: From big + -some.
Senses: examples: text: “Mother,” I said at last, my heart pounding in too bigsome a fashion for that tiny porch, “maybe our own garden shall take no hurt from a dark flower . .” “Indeed Jan,” she said very fondly, “and I was never the one to reckon it would.”
ref: 1920, Colour - Volume 13
text: "I don't suppose yer ever felt like sittin' down in the middle of a bigsome prairie an' weepin' yer heart out? Well, I did, I was that dissap'inted. [...]"
ref: 1906, Metropolitan Magazine, volume 24:
text: At each of these discourses he made a deliberate show of dedicating more attention to his pair of half-eaten mutton legs—reclining on a chaise lounge toted by the stewards from deck to parlour to saloon—large white napkin spread diamond-wise over he [sic] bigsome belly.
ref: 2013, Robert Antoni, As Flies to Whatless Boys:
glosses: Characterised or marked by bigness; large
polyatheist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyatheists
Etymology: From poly- + atheist, based on polytheist.
Senses: glosses: A person who does not believe in multiple gods.
polyatheists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyatheist
overstow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overstows
form: overstowing
form: overstowed
form: overstowed
Etymology: From over- + stow.
Senses: examples: text: A preferred stow is to level in lower hold spaces and overstow by other suitable cargoes.
ref: 2006, David House, Cargo Work:
glosses: To stow on top of one another.
raw_tags: of cargo
overstow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overstows
Etymology: From over- + stow.
Senses: examples: text: The type of overstow described above is the most common type of overstow fault.
ref: 1988, Prototype Expert System to Provide Decision Support for Stowage Planning. Technical Report:
text: A two stage approach was developed: in the first stage two objective functions were considered, one to minimize the number of bays packed by containers and the other to minimize the number of overstows.
ref: 2015, João Paulo Almeida, Jose Fernando Oliveira, Alberto Adrego Pinto, Operational Research: IO 2013 - XVI Congress of APDIO, Bragança, Portugal, June 3-5, 2013:
synonyms: overstowage
glosses: The act of stowing cargo on top of other cargo.
overstows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overstow
overstows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overstow
overstowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overstow
overstowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overstow
cantline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cantlines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of contline.
cantlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cantline
soothesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more soothesome
form: most soothesome
Etymology: From soothe + -some.
Senses: examples: text: All flown the flush of manhood's prime, And void of fire the restless glance, But still the years' mnemonic chime Spoke to his heart in soothesome rhyme, Of his home among the hills of France.
ref: 1871, The Manhattan and de la Salle Monthly - Volumes 3-4
text: So thoughts purl and flow, there's no need of strain; for thought can come to the tuneful flow of a quiet heart, and the soothesome sense of ease and comfort.
ref: 1899, Interstate Medical Journal, volume 6:
text: Are tears to thee so dear, And sighs such soothesome melody?
ref: 1905, The Metaphysical Magazine - Volume 16
glosses: Characterised or marked by soothing; comforting
Tanimbar corella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tanimbar corellas
Senses: synonyms: Goffin's cockatoo
Goffin's corella
glosses: Cacatua goffiniana, a near-threatened species of cockatoo endemic to forests of certain islands of the Tanimbar Islands archipelago of Indonesia.
crudesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crudesome
form: most crudesome
Etymology: From crude + -some.
Senses: examples: text: That jungle apes, for ages long, / Roamed through the woods in motley throng, / Whilst struggling for some sort of speech / Better than crudesome howl and screech.
ref: 1917, Sol Sunderland, Jungle Apes Abroad:
text: It is important to remember this distinction for, while he had praised Indian worker in gold for producing 'beautiful design out of nothing but crudesome knots and spirals' in his essay 'A Joy For Ever' (1873), elsewhere he had criticized the abstract patterns in Indian products for not showing an interest in nature.
ref: 1992, Partha Mitter, Much Maligned Monsters:
glosses: Characterised or marked by crudeness.
leansome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leansome
form: most leansome
Etymology: From lean (adjective) + -some.
Senses: examples: text: He started out as a leansome six-foot-seven, 210-pound, high-scoring small forward at Nevada State, drafted early in the second round by the Utah Jazz.
ref: 2013, Charley Rosen, Scout's Honor:
text: One, with long hanging pips, was trying to edge the other, a leansome male, lest there should be the possibility of a gift.
ref: 2015, Raja Rao, Collected Stories:
glosses: Characterised or marked by leanness; thin
thicksome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thicksome
form: most thicksome
Etymology: From thick + -some.
Senses: glosses: Characterised or marked by thickness
hugesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hugesome
form: most hugesome
Etymology: From huge + -some.
Senses: glosses: Characterised or marked by hugeness; immense
grinsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more grinsome
form: most grinsome
Etymology: From grin + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Grinder, winsome grinsome Grinder!
ref: 1872, Charles Stuart Calverley, Fly leaves:
text: [...] are continually on the grin and continually shaking hands either with each other or with equally grinsome French peasant women at cottage doors or with the local mayor who congratulates them on the glorious V.C.'s which, of course, they are continually winning.
ref: 1917, Ward Muir, Observations of an Orderly:
text: The head waiter (who is uncommonly like Theo) will not know at lunch today why I am so dashed affable and grinsome to him. Good boy!
ref: 1990, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Pinney, The Letters of Rudyard Kipling: 1911-19:
glosses: Characterised or marked by grinning.
Eupatrides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The ancient Greek nobility of Attica.
Synonyms: Eupatridae
Related terms: Eupatrid
Goffin's cockatoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Goffin's cockatoos
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Tanimbar corella.
synonyms: word: Tanimbar corella
Goffin's cockatoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Goffin's cockatoo
land lover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: land lovers
form: land-lover
form: landlover
Senses: examples: text: For land lovers, the Pirates World and Treasure Museum features exhibits on the islands’ history and their pirates past.
ref: 1989 December 10, Stanley Carr, “Winter in the Sun: Caribbean Choices, Grand and Budget”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2015:
text: A crowd of Boy Scouts, other children and their parents roamed around the sea base grounds Saturday, checking out everything the waterfront facility has to offer, on and off the water. The land lovers took part in team building games on the grass and spun a wheel for prizes.
ref: 2006 April 23, Lauren Vane, “Pirates sing in boating season”, in Daily Pilot, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Jul 2025:
text: Making sure there are no sharks in the water?: The land lover spent a lot of time kicking water around.
ref: 2014 July 21, Heidi Parker, “What will Justin Bieber think? Selena Gomez looks stunning in white bathing suit as she splashes around with Cara Delevingne on yacht in Saint-Tropez”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jul 2014:
text: They are billed as an ideal place for “messing around in boats”, but the Norfolk Broads have become the focus of an increasingly bitter and divisive battle between boat dwellers and land lovers.
ref: 2016 March 12, David Connett, “Norfolk Broads 'gentrification' row becoming increasingly bitter and divisive”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Jul 2016:
text: I end up stepping on a sea urchin, and it’s stinging like hell. He’s like, “Hey, you know, you’re supposed to piss on your foot.” I’m like, “Haha, funny island boy. You’re not gonna trick the land lover into peeing on my own foot.”
ref: 2021 May 14, Brendan Marks, CJ Moore, quoting Marc Blucas, “The never-before-told tales of Tim Duncan’s Wake Forest career, from ‘footnote’ to Hall of Fame”, in The Athletic, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Dec 2024:
glosses: Eggcorn of landlubber.
examples: text: “Immense pressure and frigid temperatures, while insurmountable obstacles to land lovers like humans, allow some animals to have very slow metabolisms and the ability to reach gargantuan proportions,” the Schmidt Ocean Institute explained in a post on Facebook.
ref: 2025 March 20, Vishwam Sankaran, “Giant deep-sea spider spotted crawling on ocean floor near Antarctica”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Mar 2025:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see land, lover.
seal stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seal stones
Etymology: From seal + stone.
Senses: examples: text: In Athens, Evans bought as many seal-stones and engraved gems as he could find.
ref: 2013, Margalit Fox, The Riddle fo the Labyrinth, Profile, published 2014, page 25:
glosses: A precious stone with an engraving on it, used to create an impression in a soft material, and associated especially with the ancient Minoan civilisation.
seal stones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seal stone
sodabi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A liquor made from wine palm in Benin and Togo.
rock rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rock rats
Senses: glosses: Certain members of the subfamily Murinae in the family Muridae, those in:
Zyzomys, an Australian genus
glosses: Certain members of the subfamily Murinae in the family Muridae, those in:
Aethomys, of Africa
glosses: Petromyscus, a southwestern African genus in the subfamily Petromyscinae of the family Nesomyidae (more frequently referred to as rock mice)
glosses: Aconaemys, a genus in Argentina and Chile, of the family Octodontidae
glosses: Petromus, an African genus often called dassie rats, of the family Petromuridae
glosses: Laonastes, a genus from Laos, of the family Diatomyidae
Synonyms: sense: Aethomys
word: bush rat
sense: Aethomys
word: rock mouse
Derived terms: Laotian rock rat
Namaqua rock rat
rock rats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rock rat