cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
whitefolk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From white + folk.
Senses: examples: text: Coordinate term: blackfolk
text: Francine’s stolid, accommodating husband Albert (Damon Gupton) completes the picture, and soon we’re in purgatory, with a passel of well-meaning whitefolk raucously debating the limits of liberty (vis a vis the superseding priority of property value) as the black folks stand quietly by, biting (through) their tongues.
ref: 2012 April 20, Scott Brown, “Theater Review: Clybourne Park Is a Mighty Racial Cage Match”, in Vulture:
text: The movie joins an impressive list of recent films obsessed with Bay Area redevelopment and the high cost of living where you used to live, or want to live, surrounded by pre-approved whitefolk of means.
ref: 2019 June 11, Michael Phillips, “'Last Black Man in San Francisco' review: This old house tells a story”, in Chicago Tribune:
glosses: White people.
Britfolk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Brit- + folk. Compare Britpop, Britrock.
Senses: examples: text: The 1970s also loom large over ‘Historian’, with the unlikely influence of Pink Floyd coming to the fore in the alt-rocking psychedelics of ‘The Shell’, the crunchy yet smooth ‘Timefighter’ featuring some moody guitar soloing and a prog-rock breakdown and ‘Pillar of Truth’ the haunting Britfolk of Sandy Denny.
ref: 2018 March 2, Leonie Cooper, “Lucy Dacus – ‘Historian’ Review”, in NME:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: British contemporary folk music.
Hyblaeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hyblaean
Hybleans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hyblean
hip-hoppy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hip-hoppy
form: most hip-hoppy
form: hip hoppy
form: hiphoppy
Etymology: From hip-hop + -y.
Senses: examples: text: At the time Lin-Manuel Miranda was working on Hamilton, he was also co-writing the hip hoppy score and lyrics to this 2011 Broadway musical based on the 2000 teen flick starring Kirsten Dunst, and even the most objective observer is unlikely to argue over which show got the best of him.
ref: 2021 December 14, Claire Allfree, “Bring It On, review: this Lin-Manuel Miranda musical doesn't dazzle like Hamilton, but the routines are great”, in The Telegraph:
text: “All right, Scarborough, how are you doin’?” she yells, as a raunchy, hip-hoppy Dirrty finds her pairing a silver bustier with trademark PVC chaps.
ref: 2022 August 3, Dave Simpson, “Christina Aguilera review – copper-bottomed crowdpleasers by the seaside”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Relating to or characteristic of the hip-hop culture or hip-hop music.
hip hoppy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hip hoppy
form: most hip hoppy
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hip-hoppy.
pie chest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pie chests
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pie safe.
synonyms: word: pie safe
pie chests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pie chest
ATIP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of absolute time in pregroove (“a CD-R technology by which the 'wobble' of the groove is modulated to carry a signal”).
dorkwear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dork + -wear.
Senses: examples: text: I was expecting her to be in a frilly ball gown for reals cos when we were friends in Year 9 her Mum used to buy her all this total dorkwear. But she looked sort of nice and non-dorky and everything.
ref: 2008, Susanna Mary Day, Susie Day, Serafina67 *urgently Requires Life*, page 8:
text: Whereas naysayers lashed out against Glass as dorkwear, Google played up its role as a must-have item of accoutrement for geek chic.
ref: 2014, Allen Firstenberg, Jason Salas, Designing and Developing for Google Glass, page 39:
glosses: Clothing befitting a dork.
Jungdahl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈjʊŋdɑːl/
/ˈjʌŋdɑːl/
Senses: glosses: A surname.
approxly.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Accessories: […] Centering Projector, magnifying approxly. 10 times.
ref: 1974, Indian Trade Journal (page A-1452)
text: […] two equiv. halves each formed by three regions of approxly. equal size.
ref: 1983, Electron Microscopy Abstracts, volume 11, number 1, page 70:
glosses: Abbreviation of approximately.
VACation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VACations
Etymology: From VAC, initials of the Valve Anti-Cheat software, and vacation.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A user's enforced absence from the Steam video-gaming service and its community, as a result of being banned for cheating.
VACations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VACation
Maudsleyan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Maudsleyan
form: most Maudsleyan
Etymology: From Maudsley + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Henry Maudsley (1835–1918), pioneering English psychiatrist.
pseudotabetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + tabetic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Resembling, but not actually, tabes.
coimperium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coimperiums
form: coimperia
Etymology: From co- + imperium.
Senses: examples: text: New Hebrides was a coimperium of the United Kingdom and France.
text: Furthermore, the criterion for a coimperium being that sovereignty over a territory rests with at least two other States, and for a condominium that at least two other States administer the territory, it is obvious that […]
ref: 1989, Yôrām Dinšṭein, Mala Tabory, International Law at a Time of Perplexity, page 65:
glosses: A political entity that is jointly ruled by two or more external nations.
coimperiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coimperium
coimperia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coimperium
pizza roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pizza rolls
Senses: synonyms: pizza bite
pizza popper
glosses: A frozen food, a bite-sized breaded pizza pocket filled with tomato sauce, cheese, etc.
pizza bite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pizza bites
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pizza roll.
synonyms: word: pizza roll
pizza popper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pizza poppers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pizza roll.
synonyms: word: pizza roll
pizza rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pizza roll
pizza bites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pizza bite
pizza poppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pizza popper
pizza peel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pizza peels
Senses: glosses: Synonym of peel (“tool for removing pizza etc. from an oven”).
synonyms: word: peel
extra: (“tool for removing pizza etc. from an oven”).
pizza peels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pizza peel
misapprehensible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misapprehensible
form: most misapprehensible
Senses: examples: text: This irreducible gap between the being of the object and the aura of meaning which renders it subjectively significant as an object-value renders desire necessarily misapprehensible.
ref: 1989, Paul Perron, Frank Collins, Paris School Semiotics: Theory, page 206:
glosses: Able to be misapprehended.
misallowance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misallowances
Etymology: From mis- + allowance.
Senses: glosses: A bad or wrong allowance; something allotted in error.
misallowances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misallowance
miscoinage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miscoinages
Etymology: From mis- + coinage.
Senses: examples: text: Considering the fact that English is commonly used by non-native speakers the occurrence of such miscoinages is remarkably low.
ref: G. E. Booij, Jaap van Marle, Yearbook of Morphology 1998 (page 273)
text: The wretch 'Grizled with hair' (meaning 'Having grey hair with hair') is a typical Durfey miscoinage. Something is said which sounds meaningful but is not.
ref: 2017, John McVeagh, Thomas Durfey and Restoration Drama:
glosses: A bad or wrong coinage.
miscoinages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miscoinage
misauthorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misauthorizes
form: misauthorizing
form: misauthorized
form: misauthorized
Etymology: From mis- + authorize.
Senses: examples: text: This would not only allow paths sharing nodes with this tag's path to be wrongfully unauthorized, but would eventually misauthorize the repeatedly scanning tag as well.
ref: 2009, Yan Zhang, Laurence T. Yang, Jiming Chen, RFID and Sensor Networks, page 136:
glosses: To authorize erroneously.
misauthorized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misauthorize
misauthorizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misauthorize
misauthorizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misauthorize
lodging house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lodging houses
form: lodging-house
form: lodginghouse
Senses: examples: text: Swindon's Model Lodging House was originally designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The 1847-1849 recession led to delays and plan revisions, including smaller windows in the finished structure, resulting in a more 'institutional' appearance.
ref: 2022 September 7, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Railway towns and a social revolution”, in RAIL, number 965, page 55, photo caption:
glosses: A place where rooms can be rented, other than a hotel.
Synonyms: boarding house
rooming house
misconstructive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misconstructive
form: most misconstructive
Etymology: From mis- + constructive.
Senses: examples: text: Her counsel has complained of the charge of the judge, as unprecedented, an innovation on our rules of practice, misconstructive of the true meaning of the law, and referring to laws not applicable to the sale.
ref: 1854, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana, page 444:
glosses: Being or relating to a misconstruction.
misdemeanist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misdemeanists
Senses: examples: text: Never did a misdemeanist take his “six weeks” with a more complete consciousness of penalty than did Polly sit down to that piano. She well understood it as a sentence, and, let me own, submitted well and gracefully to her fate.
ref: 1895, Charles Lever, The Novels of Charles Lever, page 193:
text: Courts have held in many instances that it is better to allow a misdemeanist to escape rather than take his life.
ref: 1948, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education, Hearings, page 61:
glosses: One who commits a misdemeanor.
misdemeanists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misdemeanist
misdemeanorized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misdemeanorize
seats of learning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seat of learning
miscurvature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miscurvatures
Etymology: From mis- + curvature.
Senses: examples: miscurvature of the spine
glosses: Bad or wrong curvature.
miscurvatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miscurvature
Mishikhwutmetunne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Native American group, the Upper Coquille Indians.
mishegos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mishegoss.
Coquilles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Coquille
miserism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From miser + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Previously I promised not to proselytize miserism, but now I want to renege a little on that promise. If your family income is anywhere near average, you can scrimp and save and cut back for maybe two to four years […]
ref: 2010, Dolly Freed, Possum Living, page 149:
glosses: miserliness
proselytizings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proselytizing
misimpute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misimputes
form: misimputing
form: misimputed
form: misimputed
Etymology: From mis- + impute.
Senses: glosses: To impute erroneously.
misimputes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misimpute
misimputing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misimpute
misimputed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misimpute
mismenstruation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mis- + menstruation.
Senses: examples: text: As with vicarious mismenstruation, the abnormal cessation only requires strict attention to the general health, with such measures to restrain hemorrhage as have already been indicated.
ref: 1875, Russell Thacher Trall, The Mother's Hygienic Hand-book, page 42:
glosses: Abnormal menstruation.
EPSG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of European Petroleum Survey Group, now part of IOGP.
Misima
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A volcanic island in the northwest of the Louisiade Archipelago within the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea.
WGS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We also ensured that the cell lines were derived from participants for whom whole-genome sequencing (WGS) data were available for both parents (for haplotype phasing).
ref: 2023 May 11, Wen-Wei Liao, Mobin Asri, Jana Ebler, et al., “A draft human pangenome reference”, in Nature, volume 617, →DOI, page 313:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of whole genome sequencing.
WGS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of World Geodetic System, a standard for use in cartography, geodesy, and satellite navigation.
Misiman
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Misiman
form: most Misiman
Etymology: From Misima + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the island of Misima.
Misiman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Misimans
Etymology: From Misima + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Misima.
Misimans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Misiman
misnavigate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misnavigates
form: misnavigating
form: misnavigated
form: misnavigated
Etymology: From mis- + navigate.
Senses: glosses: To navigate incorrectly.
misnavigated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misnavigate
misnavigates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misnavigate
misnavigating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misnavigate
Tobac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tobacs
Senses: glosses: A surname.
De Quinceyan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more De Quinceyan
form: most De Quinceyan
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859), English writer and literary critic.
misosophist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misosophists
Senses: glosses: Synonym of misosopher.
synonyms: word: misosopher
misosophists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misosophist
hip-hopster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hip-hopsters
form: hip hopster
form: hiphopster
Etymology: From hip-hop + -ster.
Senses: examples: text: Egomaniacal hip hopster Kanye West has had his hands full - literally, with pregnant fiancé Kim Kardashian and occupationally, spending all of his touring downtime trying to erase evidence of himself wearing a Givenchy leather kilt.
ref: 2013 March 12, Alice Newbold, “Frank Ocean: Fashion Week’s new Kanye West?”, in The Daily Telegraph:
synonyms: hip-hopper
glosses: A member of the hip-hop culture; a hip-hop artist.
hip hopster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hip hopsters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hip-hopster.
IOGP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: FuelsEurope has argued that “no threshold should be put on the amount of fossil fuels used” and IOGP has suggested to EU lawmakers that “any investments in gas related projects should be considered as sustainable”.
ref: 2019 December 2, Jillian Ambrose, “Fossil fuel lobbyists push to dilute EU anti-greenwash plan”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Initialism of International Association of Oil & Gas Producers.
hip hopsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hip hopster
hip-hopsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hip-hopster
pseudoxanthoma elasticum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: PXE
glosses: A genetic disease that causes mineralization of elastic fibers in certain tissues, typically leading to premature atherosclerosis and to problems with the skin and eyes.
PXE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of pseudoxanthoma elasticum.
Derived terms: PXEer
misprovide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misprovides
form: misproviding
form: misprovided
form: misprovided
Etymology: From mis- + provide.
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, the contractor may have deliberately taken no action, or have continued to misunderstand/misprovide the service under examination.
ref: 2016, Lori Keating, Performance Auditing of Public Sector Property Contracts, page 93:
glosses: To provide badly or wrongly.
misprovides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misprovide
misproviding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misprovide
misprovided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misprovide
mispurchase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mispurchases
Etymology: From mis- + purchase.
Senses: glosses: An erroneous purchase; the buying of incorrect goods or services.
mispurchases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mispurchase
transvectants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transvectant
Reynolds operator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Reynolds operators
Etymology: They were introduced into fluid dynamics by Osbourne Reynolds (1895) and named by J. Kampé de Fériet (1934, 1935, 1949).
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A mathematical operator given by averaging something over a group action, satisfying a set of properties called Reynolds rules, and having applications in fluid dynamics and invariant theory.
Reynolds operators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Reynolds operator
Capelli's identity
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Alfredo Capelli (1887).
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An analog of the formula det(AB) = det(A) det(B), for certain matrices with noncommuting entries, related to the representation theory of the Lie algebra glₙ. It can be used to relate an invariant ƒ to the invariant Ωƒ, where Ω is Cayley's Ω process.
power of yet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the power of yet
Etymology: Coined by Carol Dweck.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The ability to apply the growth mindset to a fixed belief about one's own capabilities, by invoking the future of potential learning, especially with the use of the word yet in statements.
wikipedia: Carol Dweck
growth mindset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: growth mindsets
Etymology: Coined by Carol Dweck.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
coordinate_terms: fixed mindset
glosses: The belief that one's own intelligence or psychological capabilities are able to be developed and enhanced through the learning process, rather than being stagnant or unchanging.
wikipedia: Carol Dweck
Related terms: power of yet
growth mindsets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of growth mindset
fixed mindset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fixed mindsets
Etymology: Coined by Carol Dweck.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
coordinate_terms: growth mindset
glosses: The belief that one's own intelligence or psychological capabilities are stagnant or unchanging, as opposed to being able to be developed and enhanced through the learning process.
wikipedia: Carol Dweck
Related terms: limiting belief
fixed mindsets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fixed mindset
pseudotabes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudotabes
Etymology: From pseudo- + tabes.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A syndrome with the characteristics of tabes (especially tabes dorsalis) that is not caused by syphilis.
Related terms: pseudotabetic
Izioum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Izium.
RWHA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Royal Warrant Holders Association.
warrantholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warrantholders
Etymology: From warrant + holder.
Senses: glosses: One to whom a warrant is granted.
warrantholders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warrantholder
zhelestid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zhelestids
Senses: examples: text: The dinosaurs arriving from Asia proved the hardiest immigrants, though zhelestids (primitive insect-eating mammals that resembled elephant shrews) also somehow made it.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 31:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: An extinct eutherian mammal of the family Zhelestidae.
zhelestids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zhelestid
gothwear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From goth + -wear.
Senses: glosses: Clothes suiting the goth subculture.
punkwear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From punk + -wear.
Senses: glosses: Clothes suiting the punk subculture.
grungewear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From grunge + -wear.
Senses: glosses: Clothes suiting the grunge subculture.
fitnesswear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fitness + -wear.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of activewear.
synonyms: word: activewear
exercisewear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From exercise + -wear.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of activewear.
synonyms: word: activewear
Cotney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cotneys
Etymology: Perhaps a variant of Catney or Courtney.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
lodging houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lodging house
alytid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alytids
Senses: examples: text: More venerable, and more distinctly European than any other creatures, the alytids are living fossils that should be considered nature's nobility.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 36:
glosses: A primitive frog of the family Alytidae.
alytids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alytid
youthwear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From youth + -wear.
Senses: glosses: Clothes designed for young people.
Curenton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Curentons
Etymology: Perhaps an altered form of Carrington.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Curentons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Curenton
prisonwear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From prison + -wear.
Senses: examples: text: Convicts in striped prisonwear collect trash by the roadside, watched over by their guards.
ref: 2014, Roger Frankham, “USA”, in Bite Size World: Eating My Way Around the Planet, Cirencester: Mereo, →ISBN, part three (North America), page 181:
glosses: Clothes to be worn by inmates of a prison.
Related terms: jailwear
Cotneys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cotney
Negro Question
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Negro Question
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Black Question.
Black Question
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Black Question
form: Negro Question
Senses: glosses: The question of and debate over the appropriate status and treatment of black people in society, particularly in the Western world.
Hula painted frog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hula painted frogs
Etymology: Named after Lake Hula in the Hula Valley, Israel.
Senses: examples: text: The Hula painted frog is the ultimate Lazarus taxon: thought extinct for a million years, it was discovered clinging to life in a swamp on Europe's periphery.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 42:
glosses: A species of painted frog, Latonia nigriventer.
wikipedia: Hula Valley
DeVoss
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: DeVosses
Etymology: Variant of Dutch de Vos.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
Dendinger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dendingers
Etymology: Variant of German Dentinger.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Dendingers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dendinger
DeVosses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of DeVoss
Pshav
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pshavs
Senses: glosses: A person from Pshavi in Georgia.
Pshavs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pshav
Durell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Durells
Etymology: Variant of Darrell.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Pshavi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small historic region of northern Georgia.
Related terms: Pshav
Pshavian
turdmouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turdmouths
Etymology: From turd + mouth.
Senses: examples: text: "Zip it, turdmouth,” Marden barked. He studied Hitler from as close to the glass as he could get. Stavers and Weinstein joined him. Behind them Wolfson trembled with his rage.
ref: 1990, Martin Caidin, Dark Messiah, →ISBN:
text: “Shuddup, turdmouth,” Olson said.
ref: 1994, William Luvaas, Going Under, Putnam Publishing Group:
glosses: An idiot; a despicable person.
turdmouths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turdmouth
Edgren
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Edgrens
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish Edgren, an ornamental surname composed of the elements ed (“isthmus”) and gren (“branch”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Swedish.
Edgrens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Edgren
Durells
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Durell
Torricella Sicura
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Torricella Sicura, from sicura (feminine of sicuro, "secure"), from a castle said to previously exist in the region.
Senses: glosses: A town and commune in Teramo, Abruzzo, Italy.
Birkbeck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Birkbecks
Etymology: Habitational surname from a minor place in Westmorland, from Old Norse birki (“birch”) + bekkr (“stream”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old Norse.
glosses: An unincorporated community in DeWitt County, Illinois, United States.
Khorramabad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian خرمآباد, from خرم (xorram) + ـآباد (abad).
Senses: glosses: A city in Iran, the seat of Khorramabad County's Central District and the capital of Lorestan Province.
glosses: A county of Iran, around the city.
Ederer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ederers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Ederer.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
psychometrize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: psychometrizes
form: psychometrizing
form: psychometrized
form: psychometrized
Etymology: From psychometry + -ize.
Senses: topics: parapsychology
pseudoscience
glosses: To discover information about an object's past, or past owners, merely by handling it.
psychometrized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of psychometrize
psychometrizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of psychometrize
psychometrizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of psychometrize
Baturyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Baturin
Etymology: From Ukrainian Бату́рин (Batúryn).
Senses: glosses: A city in Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine.
psychopompos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychopompoi
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ψῡχοπομπός (psūkhopompós).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of psychopomp.
Ebey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ebeys
Etymology: Americanized form of Swiss German Äbi.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
psychopompoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychopompos
Ebeys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ebey
psychotherapeutist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychotherapeutists
Senses: glosses: Dated form of psychotherapist.
psychotherapeutists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychotherapeutist
Ederers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ederer
Bilohirsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Belogorsk
Senses: glosses: A city and raion of Crimea, in southern Ukraine.
pterylological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to pterylology.
ptomatropine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A poisonous atropine-like base found in decomposing meat and fish.
Ehrler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ehrlers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Ehrler.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Devs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dev
Bakhmach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ukrainian Ба́хмач (Báxmač).
Senses: glosses: A city in Chernihiv Oblast, in northern Ukraine.
Ehrlers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ehrler
punctograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: punctographs
Senses: glosses: A typewriter that produces braille.
punctographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of punctograph
Cremin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cremins
Etymology: Variant of Crimmins or Kremen.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Cobas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Coba
Cremins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cremin
Birkbecks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Birkbeck
bat houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bat house
bat box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bat boxes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bat house.
synonyms: word: bat house
bat boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bat box
strange-horned toad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strange-horned toads
Etymology: From strange + horned + toad, from their horn, which is uncommon in toad species.
Senses: glosses: Any species of toad in the genus Xenophrys, which have a strange protuberance on their forehead.
Hypernyms: frog
goose frog
Hyponyms: Aural horned toad
big-headed horned frog
convex-vented horned toad
Damrei horned toad
Dzükou Valley horned frog
Garo white-lipped horned frog
giant Himalayan horned frog
glandular horned toad
Great Stream horned toad
Himalayan horned frog
Lekagul's horned toad
Mangshan horned toad
Maoson horned toad
Medog horned toad
mountain horned frog
Naga Hills horned frog
Namdapha horned toadfrog
Perak horned toad
red-legged horned toad
robust horned toad
Serchhip horned toad
Shyllong horned toad
Tak horned toad
Tamenglong horned frog
Truongson horned toad
yellow spotted white-lipped horned frog
Ye's horned toad
Zhang's horned toad
Zhou's horned toad
Zunheboto horned toad
logging camps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of logging camp
medical desert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medical deserts
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: A (usually rural) region whose population has inadequate access to healthcare.
medical deserts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medical desert
chip pans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chip pan
Old Wolverton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: 'New' Wolverton came with the purchase of land by L&BR for 700 employees to the east of the medieval village, which became known as Old Wolverton.
ref: 2022 September 7, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Railway towns and a social revolution”, in RAIL, number 945, page 59:
glosses: A village in Wolverton and Greenleys parish, Milton Keynes borough, Buckinghamshire, England; it was previously the site of a medieval village (OS grid ref SP8041).
publichearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more publichearted
form: most publichearted
Senses: examples: text: One of them said that he was just passing through on his way to Jackson, Michigan, where a gathering of publichearted citizens was going to talk very seriously about the growing threat to our free institutions […]
ref: 2007, Ross Lockridge, Jr., Raintree County, page 83:
glosses: Alternative form of public-hearted.
McGehee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McGehees
Etymology: Variant of McGaughey.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
glosses: A city in Desha County, Arkansas, United States.
McGehees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McGehee
uncompressable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncompressable
form: most uncompressable
Etymology: From un- + compressible.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of incompressible.
incompressable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incompressable
form: most incompressable
Etymology: From in- + compressable.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of incompressible.
Crimmins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Crimminses
form: Cremin
Etymology: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Cruimín (“descendant of Cruimín”), a byname from a diminutive of crom (“bent, crooked”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Crimminses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Crimmins
Howorths
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Howorth
Sealandic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sealandic
form: most Sealandic
Etymology: From Sealand + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Zeelandic (“of or relating to Zeeland”).
glosses: Of or relating to the micronation of Sealand.
Sealandic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sealand + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Zeelandic (“regional Dutch language”).
good-night
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Good-night! my Friends, Heaven guard ye all! good-night!
ref: 1696 [1680], Tho[mas] Otway, The Orphan or, The Unhappy-Marriage. A Tragedy. As It Is Acted at His Royal Highness the Duke’s Theatre., London: […] R. Bentley, […], act III, page 24:
text: “Good-night, cousin,” said Phœbe, strangely affected by Hepzibah’s manner. “If you begin to love me, I am glad!”
ref: 1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Maule’s Well”, in The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 107:
text: They wished her good-night in their several fashions. “Good-night, mother. Well, some people are born with silver spoons!” “Good-night, mother dear. Don’t you think Fordham looks dreadful?” “Oh, no, Armie; much better than when I came up to town.” “Good-night, Mother Carey. If those young folks make all their parties so jolly, it will be the pleasantest house in London! Good-night!”
ref: 1879, Charlotte M[ary] Yonge, “The Traveller’s Joy”, in Magnum Bonum or Mother Carey’s Brood, volume III, London: Macmillan and Co., page 820:
glosses: Archaic form of good night.
good-night
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: good-nights
form: good-nighting
form: good-nighted
form: good-nighted
form: goodnight
Senses: examples: text: And he didn’t say another word until he good-nighted at the gate.
ref: 1920, Interlude, page 40:
text: […]the “Lothario” of the young lady’s temporary choice was good-nighted in her sweetest voice.
ref: 1927, Journal of the Outdoor Life, page 272:
text: We were good-nighted and kissed by the crowd of parents.
ref: 1996, Yann Martel, Self, Alfred A. Knopf Canada, page 36:
glosses: To utter the farewell “good night” to (somebody).
publisheress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: publisheresses
Etymology: From publisher + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female publisher.
publisheresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of publisheress
pubertic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pubertal.
synonyms: word: pubertal
pubotibial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pubo- + tibial.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the pubis and the tibia.
publishership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: publisherships
Etymology: From publisher + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The state or business of a publisher.
publisherships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of publishership
puebloize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puebloizes
form: puebloizing
form: puebloized
form: puebloized
Etymology: From pueblo + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To convert into a pueblo.
puebloization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process or resulting of puebloizing; conversion into a pueblo.
puebloized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of puebloize
puebloizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of puebloize
puebloizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of puebloize
kleptomnesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Dan Gilbert in or before 1999.
Senses: examples: text: Kleptomnesia happens due to a pragmatic, but peculiar, feature of how human memory is wired. When we encode information, we tend to pay more attention to the content than the source. Once we accept a piece of information as true, we no longer need to worry about where we acquired it.
ref: 2015 January 2, Adam Grant, “The Biggest Reason We Steal Other People’s Ideas”, in Time, archived from the original on 20 Mar 2016:
text: Chad Bauman has offered a great model for the “make your own religion” exercise, and I will engage in repeated acts of “kleptomnesia” in appropriating his ideas.
ref: 2016 January 5, CM Bauman, BAR Hege, R Kleckley…, “The “make your own religion” project”, in Teaching Theology & Religion, volume 19, number 1, pages 99–110:
text: It’s fair to say that psychologists haven’t exactly figured out a way around kleptomnesia, and maybe Melania Trump’s speech might instigate research into this fuzzy area.
ref: 2016 July 19, Tanya Basu, “Melania Trump's Speechwriters Apparently Suffer From Kleptomnesia”, in Inverse, archived from the original on 01 Oct 2021:
text: We're all vulnerable to “kleptomnesia”—accidentally remembering the ideas of others as our own.
ref: 2017, Adam Grant, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World, New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 3:
text: Like every other author, I'm vulnerable to 'kleptomnesia' – accidentally remembering the ideas of others as your own.
ref: 2019, Andy Cope, The Little Book of Being Brilliant, Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 169:
text: I worry that I will wake up tomorrow in a cold sweat, having forgotten to thank someone who assuredly deserved it. Everyone is vulnerable to "kleptomnesia," or accidentally remembering the ideas of others as our own.
ref: 2021, Lisa Grossman Liu, The Transparent, Concurrent, and Collaborative Health Record (thesis), New York: Columbia University, →DOI, page xviii:
glosses: The situation where a person comes up with an idea that they believe to be original, but which was in fact created by someone else and previously encountered by the person.
wikipedia: Daniel Gilbert (psychologist)
Related terms: amnesia
klepto-
polycrisis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒliˌkraɪsɪs/
Forms: form: polycrises
Etymology: From poly- + crisis. Attested at least since the 2010s.
Senses: examples: text: South Africa finds itself in a polycrisis in terms of dealing with economic development, to alleviate poverty, within water and energy constraints (see fig. 2).
ref: 2011, Y. Villacampa Esteve, C. A. Brebbia, Andrea Alberto Mammoli, Energy and Sustainability III, WIT Press, →ISBN, page 16:
text: The first implies an ethics of sufficiency and cooperation which undercut the capitalist values of individualism and crass materialism that are of little use when it comes to considering alternatives to the polycrises we now face.
ref: 2012, Mark Swilling, Eve Annecke, Just Transitions: Explorations of Sustainability in an Unfair World, United Nations Univ:
text: If cities are to have a sustainable future, are to respond to the poly-crises and are to provide the necessary opportunities for future populations, the governance roles in responding and adapting to all aspects demand a very different view of governance and leadership within the city.
ref: 2013 March 1, Bruce Frayne, Caroline Moser, Gina Ziervogel, Climate Change, Assets and Food Security in Southern African Cities, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: It should also be said that the economic sphere is increasingly understood to be intricately connected to the ecological – as two sides of the same coin – and in many ways community development, deeply influenced by the broader 'development literature', has been reconstructed by the ecological polycrises upon us […].
ref: 2016 February 17, Peter Westoby, Theorising the Practice of Community Development: A South African Perspective, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: In Palestine, polycrises constitute the everyday rhythm of life; cityscapes are saturated with colonial social relations across all scales; and othering and socio-spatial disconnects have become the channels through which economic exploitation, the furthering of dependencies, and the Israeli colonial project are enabled.
ref: 2021 August 9, Linda Peake, Elsa Koleth, Gokboru Sarp Tanyildiz, Rajyashree N. Reddy, darren patrick/dp, A Feminist Urban Theory for Our Time: Rethinking Social Reproduction and the Urban, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 187:
text: But the exchange feeds into an ever-more-common discourse: that the UK is facing “polycrisis” in almost every facet of life in Britain. From courts to the cost of living, transport to healthcare, environment to the asylum system – everywhere appears to be affected.
ref: 2022 December 30, Pamela Duncan, Carmen Aguilar García, Michael Goodier, “Inflation, waiting lists, strikes, rail chaos, climate emergency: the 2022 polycrisis”, in The Guardian:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A series of crises occurring at the same time.
Related terms: word: critical
word: multicrisis
word: permacrisis
word: state of emergency
unpush
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unpushes
form: unpushing
form: unpushed
form: unpushed
Etymology: From un- + push.
Senses: examples: text: If Nurse pushes her chair too near the table, she says—“Unpush me, Nurse.”
ref: 1881, Ernest Legouvé, “Two Diplomatic Mothers. To Madame Vigo Roussillon.”, in Emily Mills, transl., Our Sons and Daughters: Scenes and Studies from Family Life, volume I, London: Remington and Co., page 3:
text: Thus “unpush me” (thirty-sixth month) was Margaret’s way of indicating her desire that her chair should be pushed back from table.
ref: 1924, Margaret Drummond, The Dawn of Mind: An Introduction to Child Psychology, London: Edward Arnold & Co., page 156:
text: One of my little subjects at 2:11 used “Unpush me,” when she wanted her chair pulled back from the table.
ref: 1942, The Hibbert Journal: A Quarterly Review of Religion, Theology, and Philosophy, page 189:
text: Unable to push her chair back from the table, she said to her mother, “Mommy, will you unpush me?”
ref: 1985, Observing the Language Learner, International Reading Association, →ISBN, page 49:
glosses: To push the chair of (someone) back from a table.
unpushes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unpush
Sproke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sprokes
Etymology: Blend of Sprite + Coke
Senses: examples: text: […]and clever “Twisted Drinks” like Sproke (a surprisingly refreshing blend of Sprite and Coke).
ref: 2007, Richard Koss, editor, Time Out New York Eating and Drinking 2008: The Essential Guide to the City's Best Restaurants and Bar, page 29:
text: By the age of ten, without any help, you discovered that Coke and Sprite can be combined into the delicious lemon-lime cola Sproke.
ref: 2012, Oswald T. Pratt, Scott Dikkers, You Are Old, Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN, page 106:
text: A Sproke was a soft drink Gloria and I had created with Jimbo’s help at the Banana Shack. It was basically fountain Coke mixed with fountain Sprite.
ref: 2018, Chris Grabenstein, Sandapalooza Shake-up, New York: Random House, →ISBN, page 67:
glosses: A soft drink made by mixing Sprite and Coke.
polycrises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polycrisis
pet stains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pet stain
Wolverton and Greenleys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish with a town council in Milton Keynes borough, Buckinghamshire, England.
Republic of Paraguay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Republic of Paraguay
Senses: glosses: Official name of Paraguay: a country in South America.
Milliganesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Milliganesque
form: most Milliganesque
Etymology: From Milligan + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: Is this some kind of reference to Catholic guilt, or merely a snatch of surreal Milliganesque nonsense?
ref: 2008, Chris Gregory, Who Could Ask for More?: Reclaiming The Beatles, page 223:
text: […] John's habit of scribbling nonsense verse and surreal stories supplemented by Milliganesque cartoons and caricatures, a habit that intensified with exposure to the programme.
ref: 2012, Alan Clayson, John Lennon:
glosses: Reminiscent of Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan (1918–2002), Irish actor, comedian, writer, musician, poet, and playwright, known for surreal comedy.
Puelchean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Puelche + -an.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Puelche (“extinct language of Argentina”).
synonyms: word: Puelche
extra: extinct language of Argentina
Cartesian square
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cartesian squares
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: For a set X, the Cartesian product X² = X × X.
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A pullback.
Cartesian squares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cartesian square
pet cemetery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pet cemeteries
Senses: glosses: A cemetery for pets.