cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
zeriba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zeribas
form: zareba
form: seriba
form: sariba
form: zerybeh
form: zereba
form: zareeba
form: zerriba
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic زَرِيبَة (zarība, “pen, cattle pen”).
Senses: examples: text: On the left shore two neat farmyards shew themselves in a shining seriba of reeds, the stalks of which are connected very regularly with each other, but perhaps only afford resistance to tame animals.
ref: 1849, Ferdinand Werne, chapter 5, in Charles William O’Reilly, transl., Expedition to Discover the Sources of the White Nile, volume II, London: Richard Bentley, page 112:
text: 1895, A. H. Keane, Africa, Volume I, North Africa, (Stanford’s Compendium of Geography and Travel), London: Edward Stanford, Chapter 5, p. 245, footnote 1,
In Arabic zeriba means any kind of rough and ready fenced enclosure; hence the expression “zeriba country” applied by some geographers to the northern slope of the Nile-Congo divide, where the Arab traders and slave-hunters had founded numerous palisaded stations long before the establishment of the Egyptian administration in that region.
glosses: A fence of the type once commonly improvised in northeastern Africa from thornbushes.
examples: text: The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) advanced this morning to Baker Pasha’s zariba.
ref: 1884 March 11, The Times, page 5:
text: I clutched at a gun - my pockets were full of cartridges - and, parting the thorn bushes at the gate of our zareba, quickly slipped out.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: An improvised stockade, particularly those similarly located and constructed.
examples: text: […] forming a zariba, or square, to resist cavalry.
ref: 1887 April 9, The Times, page 5:
glosses: A camp of troops employing such an enclosure.
examples: text: Once you had passed the initial zareba of fruit stands, souvenir stands, ice-cream stands, and the lair of the enthusiast whose aim in life it was to sell you picture postal-cards, and had won through to the long walk where the seats were, you were practically alone with Nature.
ref: 1910 May 28, P. G. Wodehouse, “Deep Waters”, in Collier’s, volume 45, page 18:
text: […] a small withered soldier sat by the prison door with a gun between his knees and the shadows of the palms pointed at him like a zareba of sabres.
ref: 1940, Graham Greene, chapter 2, in The Power and the Glory, London: Vintage, published 2001:
text: The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
ref: 1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick, London: Collins:
text: Owing to his obiter dicta having to be filtered through a zareba of white hair, it was not always easy to catch exactly what Mr. Cornelius said.
ref: 1961, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 7, in Ice in the Bedroom, New York: Simon & Schuster, page 52:
glosses: Any wild and barbed barrier, evocative of a briar or thorn patch.
zeriba
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: zeribas
form: zeribaing
form: zeribaed
form: zeribaed
form: zareba
form: seriba
form: sariba
form: zerybeh
form: zereba
form: zareeba
form: zerriba
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic زَرِيبَة (zarība, “pen, cattle pen”).
Senses: examples: text: […] the Brigadier ordered the force to zereba on the best position that was near.
ref: 1885 July, R. F. T. Gascoigne, “To Within a Mile of Khartoum”, in The Nineteenth Century, number 101, page 89:
text: On the 2nd of June a small force, zeribaed under Captain Malcolm McNeill, was attacked by the mullah’s followers but repulsed after desperate fighting.
ref: 1911, Somaliland, 11th edition, volume 25, Encyclopædia Britannica, page 382:
glosses: To erect or take refuge within a zeriba.
zeribas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zeriba
zizzing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of zizz
zizzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of zizz
zonures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zonure
zoographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoographers
form: zoögrapher
Etymology: Modelled on zoography, corresponding to zoo- + -grapher.
Senses: glosses: one who carries out zoography; a describer of animals
zoographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoographer
zoographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoography
zonetime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zonetimes
Etymology: From zone + time.
Senses: examples: text: For all our weather and radio reports, we use UTC or Greenwich, and for everything else we use zonetime. This is quite easy to find by taking your longitude and dividing it by fifteen. Subtract this number from UTC time and you have zonetime.
ref: 2011, Lawrence Rick, Life is a Cruise: The Log of Done Dreamin', page 83:
glosses: The time in a particular time zone, based on a meridian, as opposed to standard time.
zonetimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zonetime
set phrases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of set phrase
zonulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zonula
zonulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zonula
zoopathology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: zō'əpəthŏʹləji
ipa: /ˌzəʊəpəˈθɒlədʒi/
Forms: form: zoöpathology
Etymology: From zoo- + pathology.
Senses: glosses: Animal pathology; veterinary pathology.
zoophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoophobes
Etymology: From zoo- + -phobe.
Senses: glosses: A zoophobic person.
zoophobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoophobe
zoophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more zoophobic
form: most zoophobic
Etymology: From zoo- + -phobic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to or afflicted with zoophobia, the fear of animals.
zootechnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zootechny
zoosporangial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zoosporangia + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to zoosporangia.
zugzwangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zugzwang
zootomist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zootomists
Etymology: From zootomy + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The structure of almost every class of animals has been the subject of separate and minute examination among the zootomists of France.
ref: 1834, Robert Edmond Grant, Lectures on Comparative Anatomy:
glosses: One who carries out zootomies.
zootomists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zootomist
zoris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zori
zorbonauts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zorbonaut
zygosphenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zygosphene
zwischenzugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zwischenzug
zymogenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zymogene
zygantra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zygantrum
zootheistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more zootheistic
form: most zootheistic
Etymology: From zoo- + theistic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to zootheism.
zombiism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zombieism
form: zombyism
Etymology: From zombie + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being a zombie.
zomboruks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zomboruk
zingiber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zingibers
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old Tamil 𑀇𑀜𑁆𑀘𑀺 (iñci)
Proto-Dravidian *wēr
Old Tamil 𑀯𑁂𑀭𑁆 (vēr)
Old Tamil 𑀇𑀜𑁆𑀘𑀺𑀯𑁂𑀭𑁆 (iñcivēr)bor.
Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀲𑀺𑀁𑀕𑀺𑀯𑁂𑀭 (siṃgivera)der.
Ancient Greek ζιγγίβερις (zingíberis)bor.
Latin zingiberīder.
Translingual Zingiber
English zingiber
From Translingual Zingiber.
 Doublet of ginger.
Senses: glosses: Any member of the genus Zingiber of gingers.
Related terms: Zingiber
zingibers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zingiber
nonsoftware
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + software.
Senses: glosses: That is not, or does not relate to, software.
rapelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rapelike
form: most rapelike
Etymology: From rape + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling rape (the plant).
glosses: Resembling rape (the violent act).
niggerese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nigger + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: "He speaks Spanish, but it could be niggerese." John waited until the voices fell.
ref: 1981, Maya Angelou, The heart of a woman:
text: His drawl lengthened into pure Plantation Niggerese, and he winced with the pain of trying not to speak that way. He knew better, he told himself.
ref: 1992, Clay Reynolds, Franklin's crossing:
text: These bitches would fuck a beer bottle if it was black and it could talk some niggerese.
ref: 2004, Stanley Crouch, Don't the Moon Look Lonesome:
glosses: Any dialect spoken by black people.
saladlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more saladlike
form: most saladlike
Etymology: From salad + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling salad or some aspect of it.
temptationless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From temptation + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without temptation.
desynchronizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of desynchronize
zinebs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zineb
zincographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zincographers
Etymology: Modelled on zincography, with the suffix -grapher.
Senses: glosses: a practitioner of zincography
zincographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zincographer
zayins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zayin
zambomba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zambombas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish zambomba.
Senses: glosses: A Spanish friction drum, consisting of a ceramic pot with a skin and a pole in the middle. To play it, the stick is rubbed to make a deep sound
zambombas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zambomba
zaffers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zaffer
tzaddiq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tzaddiqs
form: tzaddiqim
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tzaddik.
tsaddiq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tsaddiqs
form: tsaddiqim
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tsaddik.
tzaddiqs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tzaddiq
tsaddiqs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tsaddiq
unflowering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + flowering.
Senses: glosses: Not flowering; that does not produce flowers.
zanana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zananas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zenana.
zananas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zanana
zaffres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zaffre
zanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zander
zakouska
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zakouskas
form: zakouski
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zakuska.
zakouskas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zakouska
zakouski
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zakouska
zakuskas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zakuska
zebrines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zebrine
zeatins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zeatin
zarnec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zarnich
Etymology: Ultimately from Middle Iranian [Term?] (“gold-coloured”); compare Persian زرنیخ (zarnix, “orpiment”), زرنی (zarni, “arsenic”). Doublet of arsenic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A native sulfide of arsenic, including sandarac and orpiment.
quartersaw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quartersaws
form: quartersawing
form: quartersawed
form: quartersawn
form: quarter saw
form: quarter-saw
Etymology: From quarter + saw.
Senses: topics: arts
business
carpentry
construction
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
woodworking
glosses: Cut radially (towards the heart of the log), at right angles to the growth rings, for stability or the production of decorative patterns.
Related terms: flatsawn
plainsawn
riftsawn
quartersawn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of quartersaw
quartersawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quartersaw
quartersawed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of quartersaw
nonkillings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonkilling
sacatons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sacaton
zacaton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zacatons
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sacaton.
zacatons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zacaton
dirth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of dearth.
zareeba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zareebas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zeriba.
zareebas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zareeba
zechin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zechins
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zecchin.
zechins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zechin
zanies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zany
zanies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of zany
oblique circles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oblique circle
bump cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bump caps
Senses: glosses: A hard hat.
glosses: A form of baseball cap.
Synonyms: construction helmet
hard hat
mansionlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mansionlike
form: most mansionlike
form: mansion-like
Etymology: From mansion + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a mansion.
melligo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin melligo.
Senses: glosses: honeydew (sweet sticky substance found on plants)
unsoilable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + soilable.
Senses: glosses: Not soilable; that cannot be soiled.
soilable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From soil + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be soiled; defilable.
unsoiling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + soil + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of stripping the surface of dirt or soil from the top of a quarry, claybed, etc.
unsoiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unsoil
schoolbus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schoolbuses
form: schoolbusses
Senses: examples: text: But it would be hard to fill a schoolbus with New Yorkers who know Robert Livingston, one of the lesser founding fathers, and George Clinton, not the guy with Parliament Funkadelic, but the other one who was Thomas Jefferson’s vice president.
ref: 2009 June 6, Lawrence Downes, “And the Bronze Goes to ...”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of school bus.
zoöid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoöids
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zooid.
Oxford spelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Oxford spellings
Senses: examples: text: He was entered at Queen's College, Oxford; but he had not been many months there, when some of his Latin verses fell by accident into the hands of Dr. Lancaster, Dean of Magdalene College.*
[note] Pronounced “Maudlin” The Oxford spelling is Magdalen.
ref: 1897, Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, James Greenleaf Croswell, Essays on Milton and Addison, Longmans, Green, page 97:
text: But the repudiation at Oxford of the Oxford spelling of thirty years ago removes the last prop from the tumbling hyphen, and now there is no reason why any one who writes about bookplates should not follow established literary usage.
ref: 1917, Bookplate Quarterly, v 1, n 1, American Bookplate Society, p 31
text: [I] rode out with Saiyed Hashem to visit the site of ‘a very ancient city’ not far from the qasr, which must have been a village of mud huts built fifty years ago—I know too well the Arab's sense of time and space (in fact there was not a stone to be seen and what m companion described as the ancient city wall is a semi-circular ridge not more than five hundred feet long); but I started to say that the boy who walked behind my thelul, or according to the standard Oxford spelling zelul¹ (my literary friends in America, who have accused me of eccentricity in the transliteration of Arabic words of which I know the pronunciation and, therefore, how they should be written, will not blame me, I hope, for following deferentially the learned Arabists of Oxford)—but what about the boy that was walking behind my zelul?
ref: 1928, Ameen Fares Rihani, Ibn Sa’oud of Arabia: His People and His Land, Houghton Mifflin, page 29:
text: . . . my Oxford spelling to Webster spelling.
ref: 1929, Frances Newman, Hansell Baugh, Frances Newman's Letters, Liveright, page 212:
text: The net effect of such attitudes was to require American publishers to have some of their books typeset in a style of British orthography known as "modified Oxford spelling.”
ref: 1992, James L. W. West III, The Chace Act and Anglo-American Literary Relations, in Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, v 45, University of Virginia Bibliographical Society, p 308
text: “. . . At that time I was a very good typist, knew Oxford spelling, and could do verbatim dictation.”
ref: 1998, Ben Young, Dixionia: A Bio-Discography of Bill Dixon, Greenwood Publishing Group, pages 12–13:
text: It was decided to adopt the “Oxford” spelling conventions preferred in most British English academic publications, conventions which are most comfortable for an international readership.
ref: 2007, Éric Brian, Marie Jaisson, Karen George transl., The Descent of Human Sex Ratio at Birth: A Dialogue Between Mathematics, Biology and Sociology, Springer, pp xi–xii
glosses: English spelling as used in Oxford publications, this being mostly the usual British spelling but with the letter z used in the suffixes -ize and -ization.
Related terms: Oxford comma
zoöids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoöid
zoömorphisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoömorphism
zoöns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzəʊ.ɒnz/
Senses: examples: text: There are plenty of examples in which such variations occur on the same stock, and we think they prove that the accepted ideas of what constitutes an individual or person among the sponges with a thick mesoderm and branching gastrovascular canals are entirely erroneous and founded on the deceptive resemblances of the branches of a sponge to those of other compound forms, which really arise from true buds and are true zoöns.
Haeckel and others have regarded all the vase-shaped sponges as single individuals or zoöns, but this seems untenable, except in the group of Ascones.
ref: 1888, John Sterling Kingsley, The Riverside Natural History, volume 3, Kegan Paul, Trench, page 57:
glosses: plural of zoön
sicula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siculae
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The hard, triangular apex of a graptolite from which it grows.
Synonyms: word: virgula
Derived terms: prosicula
gaida
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaidas
form: gajda
Etymology: Compare Turkish gayda. Compare also Portuguese gaita.
Senses: glosses: An ancient Thracian bagpipe, variations of which are still played in the Balkans.
gaidas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gaida
Oxford spellings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Oxford spelling
cellopentaose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An oligosaccharide, consisting of five glucose residues, formed by hydrolysis of cellulose.
goodness gracious me
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of goodness gracious.
Synonyms: wow
Related terms: goodness gracious
sodding hell
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: qualifier: mildly blasphemous
glosses: expression of contempt, frustration, etc.
if my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: "We would have won the match if we'd had a decent goalkeeper."
"And if my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle!"
glosses: It is fruitless to speculate about counterfactual situations.
Synonyms: word: if I had wheels, I'd be a wagon
word: if my grandmother had balls, she'd be my granddad
word: if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a bike
word: if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a streetcar
word: if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a wagon
word: if my sister had balls, she'd be my brother
word: if my uncle had a fanny, he'd be my aunt
word: if my uncle had tits, he'd be my aunt
word: if pigs had wings they would fly
Related terms: if wishes were horses, beggars would ride
if we had ham we could have ham and eggs, if we had eggs
good golly
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: expression of surprise, etc.; golly
Synonyms: wow
indexings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indexing
zoomelanin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoömelanin
Etymology: From zoo- + melanin.
Senses: qualifier: physiological chemistry
glosses: A pigment giving the black color to the feathers of many birds.
relativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From relative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being relative; relativity.
blooming hell
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: qualifier: blasphemous
glosses: Synonym of bloody hell.
synonyms: word: bloody hell
blooming heck
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: blooming hell.
hell and Tommy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If you refuse, there will be hell and Tommy.
ref: 1900, Eyre Hussey, On Account of Sarah, page 219:
text: But Gurney gets beyond a joke, my boy, with his drinking and what not. We must have the blighter shifted out of this district for good, or it will be hell and Tommy for all of us.
ref: 1932, John Brandane, Straw-feet, page 233:
glosses: Utter ruin or destruction.
crimenetly
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: I am not, in any way at all, trying to prevent or say she can't discuss what she wants. Sheesh, and crimenetly! It's an opinion!!
ref: 1995 May 9, Donald M. Gooch, “Re: [some] LEFT WINGERS [aren't fond of] THE POPE!”, in bit.listserv.politics (Usenet):
text: My dad could hit his thumb with a hammer and yelp "Crimenetly!" but it didn't count.
ref: 2006 October 24, “Close to Home”, in Indianapolis Monthly, page 70:
glosses: Alternative spelling of criminently.
zoölogists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoölogist
plasticians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plastician
sabre-toothed cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sabre-toothed cats
form: saber-toothed cat
Senses: glosses: The sabre-toothed tiger.
zoöloger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoölogers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zoologer.
zoölogers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoöloger
zoologers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoologer
Sloanie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsləʊni/
ipa: /ˈsloʊni/
rhymes: -əʊni
Forms: form: Sloanies
Etymology: From Sloane + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A Sloane Ranger.
Sloanie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsləʊni/
ipa: /ˈsloʊni/
rhymes: -əʊni
Forms: form: Sloanies
Etymology: From Sloan + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A student or alumnus of the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Sloanies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sloanie
yoofs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yoof
zoonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zoon + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a zoon.
otorrhea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: otorrheas
form: otorrhoea
form: otorrhœa
Etymology: From oto- + -rrhea.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Discharge of fluid from an external ear.
unfingered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + fingered.
Senses: examples: text: The chic and intellectually impressive ones remain pristine, betraying that they have remained unfingered since purchase.
ref: 1975 September, New York Magazine, volume 8, number 39:
text: There are some days the happy ocean lies / Like an unfingered harp, below the land.
ref: a. 1945, Stephen Spender, Seascape:
glosses: Not fingered.
Queenie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwiːni/
rhymes: -iːni
Etymology: From queen + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: George sat down. Queenie got up. 'Could I have some money to buy a birthday present for somebody?' she asked.
ref: 1940, Enid Blyton, The Naughtiest Girl In The School:
glosses: A female given name from English.
stroppiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stroppy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being stroppy.
stroppily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stroppily
form: most stroppily
Etymology: From stroppy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a stroppy way.
backwardsness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From backwards + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Backwardness; the state of being backwards.
mincingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mincingly
form: most mincingly
Etymology: From mincing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He walked somewhat mincingly, thin, in soiled whites, his brief-case under his arm.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 444:
synonyms: word: gingerly
glosses: In a mincing way; affectedly, with excessive delicacy.
hairbrained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hairbrained
form: most hairbrained
Etymology: From hair + brained.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of harebrained.
Related terms: hairbrain
zarking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Coined by Douglas Adams as a derivative of zark in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978). See -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Nonsense. Why should those of us outside the U.S. give a zarking photon what the U.S. State Department thinks?
ref: 1997, Scott McClare, “ARSCC - An open letter”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):
text: The only time I was "approached" by a so called mugger was on the Gravigny Balizy stop THEN I had to spend 4 zarking hours in a zarking police station. I am glad they have cleaned it up since I was there in the late 80's and you had a good time there.
ref: 2002, major kong, “apartments in wicker park etc..”, in chi.general (Usenet):
text: 2008, Andria Markut, The Chronicles of the Knights of the Code: Volume 1 the Search
"You zarking, smeging , harebrained fools!" Keindorm cursed the pair, picking his hat up off the ground […]
glosses: Fucking (as an intensifier).
wikipedia: Douglas Adams
spadelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spadelike
form: most spadelike
Etymology: From spade + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a spade.
knotlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more knotlike
form: most knotlike
Etymology: From knot + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a knot.
priestlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more priestlike
form: most priestlike
Etymology: From priest + -like.
Senses: examples: text: a priestlike habit of crimson and purple
ref: 1608, Ben Jonson, The Masque of Beauty:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a priest.
gluelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gluelike
form: most gluelike
Etymology: From glue + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling glue or some aspect of it.
Synonyms: gluey
gatelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gatelike
form: most gatelike
Etymology: From gate + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a gate.
fuselike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fuselike
form: most fuselike
Etymology: From fuse + -like.
Senses: examples: text: While it allays the patient's pain and the physician's anxiety, the fuselike appendix smoulders.
ref: 1885, Alfred Lebbeus Loomis, A system of practical medicine, volume 3, page 311:
text: Simplest of all is a small fuselike tube containing but two internal electrodes and having a third element in the form of a narrow clip or band that is placed around the middle of the glass container.
ref: 1933, The Popular Science Monthly, volume 122, page 63:
text: Five years later Faraday (Ref. 2), experimenting with exploding fuselike metal wires in an inert atmosphere, evaporated thin films.
ref: 2001, Milton Ohring, Materials Science of Thin Films, page 95:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a fuse.
forklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more forklike
form: most forklike
Etymology: From fork + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a fork.
gunlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gunlike
form: most gunlike
Etymology: From gun + -like.
Senses: examples: text: A mile in, he’s usually got one in each hand but is still on the lookout for an upgrade: anything smoother or more gunlike.
ref: 2017 July 10, Lily Raff Mccaulou, “Confessions of a Sensible Gun Owner”, in The New York Times:
text: When sensors record a gunlike noise in, say, Cape Town or Chicago, software analyzes it for the sonic signatures of gunfire, and within seconds Beisner and his team listen to those audio files and look at those recorded waveforms at their office in Newark, Calif.
ref: 2019 June 8, Malia Wollan, “How to Tell Gunfire From Fireworks”, in The New York Times Magazine:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a gun.
air plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air plants
Senses: examples: text: [My] air plants are happy and have grown three times their size because I supplement them with adequate shots of water from a plant mister. / WATER. There are several tricks to watering air plants. Tillandsia do need water; they do not live[…]
ref: 2019 March 19, Maria Colletti, Living Decor: Plants, Potting and DIY Projects, Cool Springs Press, →ISBN, page 47:
text: Air plants are free and thrive in many environments because they are epiphytes, and make their home in soaring tree lines in the wild. They require little care because they pull moisture from the air for nourishment.
ref: 2020 April 14, Tanya Lichtenstein, Cosmic Botany: A Guide to Crystal and Plant Soul Mates for Peace, Happiness, and Abundance, Penguin, →ISBN, page 7:
glosses: Synonym of epiphyte.
synonyms: word: epiphyte
glosses: Any plant of species Kalanchoe pinnata (cathedral bells, life plant, miracle leaf, Goethe plant, mother of thousands, never dead, parvu, wonder-of-the-world (Trinidad)).
kabloonas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kabloona
kersplat
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From ker- + splat; compare kerpow, kerplunk.
Senses: glosses: The sound of something splattering messily.
Anahit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian Անահիտ (Anahit).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of Anahita.
glosses: A female given name.
jellia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jellium
jelliums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jellium
jenevers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jenever
jetsetter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jetsetters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jet-setter.
jetsetters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jetsetter
Mayberry Machiavellis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mayberry Machiavelli
kidulthood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kidult + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: And if there's any doubt what that might entail, an unmissable mascot for kidulthood was on hand at the Newbury Comedy Festival last week to show us.
ref: 2006, Ian Herbert, editor, Theatre Record, volume 26, numbers 14-26, page 884:
text: In keeping with the station's policy of freshness and kidulthood, the boardroom's walls were giant photomurals of Star Wars collectibles.
ref: 2007, Ian McDonald, Brasyl, page 16:
text: Looking after babies was tough, no doubt, but kidulthood, now there was a challenge.
ref: 2008, Carrie Adams., The Godmother, page 171:
glosses: The state or condition of being a kidult.
Africanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Africanizes
form: Africanizing
form: Africanized
form: Africanized
form: Africanise
Etymology: From African + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make African.
Derived terms: Africanization
Africanizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Africanize
Africanizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Africanize
Africanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Africanize
kape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kapes
form: kaping
form: kapt
form: kapt
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of keep.
civil servants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of civil servant
expede
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -iːd
Forms: form: expedes
form: expeding
form: expeded
form: expeded
Senses: glosses: To hasten or expedite
Related terms: expedite
impede
kinomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kin + -omics.
Senses: examples: text: Chemogenomics attempts to combine genomic data, structural biological data, classical dendrograms, and selectivity data to explore, define, and classify the medicinally relevant kinase space. Exploitation of this information in the discovery of kinase inhibitors defines practical kinase chemogenomics (kinomics).
ref: 2004 March 11, Vieth M, “Kinomics-structural biology and chemogenomics of kinase inhibitors and targets.”, in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, volume 1697, numbers 1-2, abstract, page 243:
text: In this new field of kinomics, approaches like this which combine a simple methodology with high predictive power are very welcome to digest the steadily growing amount of selectivity data.
ref: 2006, Chemical Modelling: Applications and Theory, volume 4, Royal Society of Chemistry, page 16:
text: Kinomics can be used to understand both the mechanism of action and the specificity of potential drugs.
ref: 2009, John M. Walker, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, page 316:
glosses: The study of the kinome.
threefin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: threefins
Etymology: From three + fin.
Senses: glosses: A triplefin.
threefins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of threefin
blennioid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blennioids
Senses: glosses: Any member of the true blennies of the suborder Blennioidei.
blennioids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blennioid
triplefin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triplefins
Etymology: From triple + fin.
Senses: glosses: Any of approximately 150 blennioid species of the family Tripterygiidae, found in tropical and temperate waters, whose dorsal fin is separated into three parts, two of them spinous.
Synonyms: threefin
Derived terms: oblique-swimming triplefin
triplefins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triplefin
Hayk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Haig
form: Haik
Etymology: From Armenian Հայկ (Hayk).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The legendary patriarch and founder of the Armenian nation.
glosses: A transliteration of the Armenian male given name Հայկ (Hayk).
oirans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oiran
one of these days
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: One of these days, he won't be so lucky.
text: We'll be seeing you one of these days, I expect.
glosses: One day, some day (especially in warning of a negative consequence).
Synonyms: someday
one day
Related terms: one of those days
Kura
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Kura
form: Kur
Etymology: From Russian Кура́ (Kurá), ultimately from Ancient Greek Κῦρος (Kûros).
Senses: synonyms: word: Mtkvari
word: Cyrus
english: classical sources
translation: classical sources
glosses: A river in Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan, flowing into the Caspian Sea.
arcweld
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: arcwelds
form: arcwelding
form: arcwelded
form: arcwelded
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of arc weld.
murder in the dark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A party game, played in a darkened room, in which a designated "murderer" eliminates other players, who must try to identify which player is the murderer.
bell-collar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bell-collars
Senses: glosses: A strip of leather, plastic, etc. with a bell attached, put around the neck of animals.
Related terms: cowbell
onyxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of onyx
osumilites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of osumilite
hydrogenless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hydrogen + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without hydrogen.
Mazaca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈmæzəkə/
Forms: form: Caesarea Mazaca
form: Mazaka
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin Māzaca, from Ancient Greek Μάζακα (Mázaka), from the name of the tribe of Mushki. Compare Old Armenian Մաժաք (Mažakʻ).
Senses: synonyms: Eusebia
Caesarea
Kaisariyah
glosses: The ancient capital of the Kingdom of Cappadocia in Asia Minor, in modern Turkey; modern Kayseri.
zawiyas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zawiya
unfalsifiability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unfalsifiable + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Or why spiritual writers, invoking the unfalsifiability theorem, say that God always answers our prayers, but sometimes God just says no.
ref: 2006, John D Caputo, The weakness of God: a theology of the event:
glosses: The state or condition of being unfalsifiable.
Nisibis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈnɪs.ɪ.bɪs/
/ˈnɪs.ə.bɪs/
Etymology: From Latin Nisibis, from Ancient Greek Νίσιβις (Nísibis), from Aramaic ܢܨܝܼܒܝܼܢ (Nəṣīḇīn).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Nusaybin, a city in southeastern Turkey.
synonyms: word: Nusaybin
extra: a city in southeastern Turkey
Synonyms: Antioch
Antioch on the Mygdonius
Antioch Mygdonia
Related terms: Nisibene
vernacularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more vernacularly
form: most vernacularly
Etymology: From vernacular + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a vernacular way.
F2P
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Although discs-in-boxes games didn't care if their apples made you barf, F2P has necessitated a way of dealing with the problem by using sessioning.
ref: 2013, Will Luton, Free-to-Play: Making Money From Games You Give Away, New Riders, →ISBN, page 40:
topics: video-games
glosses: Abbreviation of free-to-play.
Derived terms: F2Pable
F2Per
Related terms: P2W
unaccountableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unaccountable + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: unaccountability
glosses: The state or condition of being unaccountable.
nine-point circles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nine-point circle
nine-point circle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nine-point circles
form: nine points circle
Etymology: So called because the circle passes through nine points of interest: the feet of the three altitudes, the centers of the three sides, and the midpoints of the segments which join the triangle's vertices with its orthocenter.
Senses: glosses: That circle which passes through the feet of the altitudes of a given triangle.
nine points circle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nine points circles
Etymology: See nine-point circle.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nine-point circle.
nine points circles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nine points circle
positionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From position + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a position (social rank); being an outcast.
glosses: Without a position (decided viewpoint on an issue).
Derived terms: positionlessness
kitchenlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kitchenlike
form: most kitchenlike
Etymology: From kitchen + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a kitchen.
uncased
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + cased.
Senses: glosses: Not cased; without a casing.
sententially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From sentential + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: If the desire is satisfied by an event or state of affairs expressed sententially, the object of the desire itself should be expressed sententially.
ref: 1972, Martin Harvey Weiner, A Theory of Desires, page 19:
glosses: In a sentential way.
Derived terms: extrasententially
genitively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From genitive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a genitive way.
moustacheless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: mustacheless
Etymology: From moustache + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a moustache.
Synonyms: unmoustached
unmustached
mustacheless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of moustacheless.
unmustached
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unmoustached.
unmoustached
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unmustached
Etymology: From un- + moustached.
Senses: synonyms: moustacheless
mustacheless
glosses: Without a moustache.
nonmodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + modal.
Senses: glosses: Not modal.
Derived terms: nonmodally
nonpersonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + personal.
Senses: synonyms: word: disinterested
word: indifferent
word: candid
word: cold
word: clinical
word: detached
word: egal
word: equal
word: equitable
word: evenhanded
word: fairhanded
word: fair-minded
word: disinterested
word: dispassionate
word: impartial
word: imprejudicate
word: indifferent
word: indistinguishing
word: neuter
word: neutral
word: nonaligned
word: nonpartial
word: nonpartisan
word: nonpersonal
word: objective
word: unbiased
word: unbigoted
word: uninterested
word: unpartial
word: unpartisan
word: unprejudiced
word: unprepossessed
glosses: Not personal; impartial.
caseless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From case + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a casing; uncased.
glosses: Without grammatical case.
Derived terms: caselessly
caselessness
whoremongering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From whoremonger + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The behaviour of a whoremonger; lewd licentiousness; pimping.
squopping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of squop
squopped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of squop
sysopping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sysop
sysopped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sysop
noeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noesis
telecottages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telecottage
telebureau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telebureaus
form: telebureaux
Etymology: From tele- + bureau.
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, there are also projects which have meanwhile stopped their operation, such as the Nykvarn neighbourhood office - one of the most prominent experimental cases, or the 'telebureau' in Goms, a very remote Swiss mountain village.
ref: 1998, Paul J. Jackson, Teleworking: International Perspectives:
text: Many use agency staff extensively, while the agencies themselves have moved into providing and managing complete telebureaux.
ref: 2003, Ola Bergström, Contingent Employment in Europe and the United States, page 58:
text: Finally, the emergence of telebureaus providing resale of voice telephony and other value-added service is a significant downstream effect of sector liberalization.
ref: 2004, Private Solutions for Infrastructure in Lesotho, page 53:
glosses: A telecentre.
telebureaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telebureau
radical axes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radical axis
radical lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radical line
postmodifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postmodifiers
Etymology: From post- + modifier.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A modifier placed after the head of the phrase.
Related terms: postmodification
premodifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: premodifiers
Etymology: From pre- + modifier.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A modifier placed before the head of the phrase.
Related terms: premodification
postmodifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postmodifier
premodifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of premodifier
Zenlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Zenlike
form: most Zenlike
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Zen-like.
sport fish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sport fishes
form: sport fish
Senses: glosses: fish providing sport for an angler
Zennish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Zennish
form: most Zennish
Etymology: From Zen + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Zen-like.
game fish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: game fishes
form: game fish
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sport fish.
synonyms: word: sport fish
rough fish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rough fish
form: rough fishes
Senses: glosses: Any fish not considered valuable as sport fish nor used as bait or for food.
Synonyms: garbage fish
junk fish
trash fish
bony fish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bony fishes
form: bony fish
Senses: glosses: A fish of the taxonomic superclass Osteichthyes.
glosses: A fish belonging to either the Actinopterygii taxonomic class or the Sarcopterygii taxonomic class; a finfish.
Related terms: bonefish
bony bream
bonytail
fishbone
Yushchenko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ukrainian Ю́щенко (Júščenko).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Ю́щенко (Júščenko).