cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Keene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
homophone: keen
homophone: Keane
Senses: glosses: An English surname from Old English, a variant of Keen.
glosses: A surname from Irish, a variant of Keane.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Cheshire County, New Hampshire; named for British diplomat Benjamin Keene.
glosses: A city in Texas.
glosses: A town in New York; named for the city in New Hampshire.
glosses: A census-designated place in Kern County, California; named for financier James P. Keene.
glosses: A city in Kentucky; named for the city in New Hampshire.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Kansas.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Nebraska.
glosses: An unincorporated community in North Dakota.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Ohio; named for the city in New Hampshire.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Virginia.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Wisconsin; named for early settlers Valentine and Kate Keene.
keeneth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: keen + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of keen
springtail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: springtails
Etymology: From spring + tail.
Senses: examples: text: Among the wonders of the natural world that few people have ever noticed: a semiaquatic springtail in motion.
ref: 2022 November 7, Oliver Whang, “Why Fly or Swim When You Can Jump? Ask the Springtail.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Springtails, or collembolans, are strictly not insects because of technicalities to do with the position of their mouthparts, but they are the closest cousins of insects.
ref: 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 214:
glosses: Any of various wingless hexapods, of the subclass Collembola, with spring-like legs.
tramp data
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Functions should use matching variable names for tramp data to improve readability.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Data which is passed via one function to another, and not otherwise used by the first.
Connell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑnəl/
ipa: /ˈkɒnəl/
rhymes: -ɒnəl
Etymology: From Irish Ó Conaill (literally “descendant of Conall”), from Proto-Celtic *Kunowalos (literally “dog chief”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish and Scottish, variant of Connel.
glosses: A city in Franklin County, Washington, United States, originally Palouse Junction and renamed after Jacob Cornelius Connell.
Derived terms: Connellsville
Related terms: Connel
Connelly
McConnell
O'Connell
Rowley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: variously
ipa: /ˈɹaʊli/
ipa: /ˈɹəʊli/
ipa: /ˈɹæuli/
Etymology: From Old English components ruh (rough, overgrown) + leah (wood, clearing)
Senses: glosses: A habitational surname from Old English from the English place name.
glosses: A hamlet in Starland County, Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A hamlet in Healeyfield parish, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ0847).
glosses: A small village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE9732).
glosses: A hamlet in Worthen with Shelve parish, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ3006).
glosses: A tiny city in Buchanan County, Iowa.
glosses: A town and census-designated place in Essex County, Massachusetts.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Tooele County, Utah.
Derived terms: Rowleian
Rowleyan
Rowley Regis
giant panda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giant pandas
Senses: glosses: A rare, black and white mammal, Ailuropoda melanoleuca, in the ursid (bear) family.
Synonyms: sense: mammal
word: panda
sense: mammal
word: panda bear
sense: mammal
word: particoloured bear
sense: mammal
word: mottled bear
Coordinate terms: sense: mammal
word: red panda
sense: mammal
word: lesser panda
sense: mammal
word: Ailurus fulgens
Derived terms: pygmy giant panda
Ullmann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ullmanns
Etymology: From German, meaning "man from Ulm".
Senses: glosses: A surname from German of Germanic origin.
Derived terms: ullmannite
Ullmann condensation
Ullmann coupling
Ullmann ether synthesis
Ullmann reaction
Bombay cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bombay cats
Senses: synonyms: Bombay
glosses: A domestic cat of a medium-sized shorthair breed, having a glossy black color and bright copper-golden eyes, developed in Kentucky during the 1950s.
affrayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: affrayers
Etymology: From Middle English *affrayere, affrayour, equivalent to affray + -er.
Senses: glosses: One involved in an affray.
adhesional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From adhesion + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to adhesion.
Derived terms: adhesionally
alimonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alimony
Snellen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Snellen chart
Snellen test
Snellen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Snellens
Senses: glosses: A Snellen chart.
playright
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪɹaɪt/
homophone: playwright
Forms: form: playrights
form: play-right
Etymology: From play + right.
Senses: examples: text: Copyright in the specific sense is, however, of less importance to the dramatic author than playright or performing right[…]
ref: 1912, Richard Rogers Bowker, Copyright, Its History and Its Uses, page 162:
topics: law
glosses: The exclusive right to perform a dramatic work
playright
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪɹaɪt/
homophone: playwright
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of playwright.
stupent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stupent
form: most stupent
Senses: examples: text: He stood there flabbergasted, stupent, as she walked out the door.
text: Again and again, what shall we say of the Idle Aristocracy, the Owners of the Soil of England […] We will say mournfully, in the presence of Heaven and Earth, — that we stand speechless, stupent, and know not what to say!
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. VIII, Unworking Aristocracy”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):
synonyms: dumbfounded
aghast
glosses: Struck with stupor; stunned;
pornographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pornographer
common redstart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common redstarts
Senses: glosses: A small passerine bird (Phoenicurus phoenicurus).
administrational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From administration + -al.
Senses: examples: text: All the administrational costs are covered by the sign-up fee.
synonyms: administration
administrative
glosses: Relating to administration.
amasser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amassers
Etymology: From amass + -er.
Senses: examples: text: [He] was a man of prodigious pride and vain-glory, which led him […] into no small errours, being a great Amasser of strange and incredible stories, led to relate them by his meer ambition of hunting after fame and the reputation of an universal Scholar.
ref: 1677, John Webster, chapter 4, in The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft, London, page 59:
text: 1821, William Hazlitt, Table-Talk, London: John Warren, Essay 11, “On Thought and Action,” p. 260,
The amassers of fortunes seem divided into two opposite classes, lean, penurious-looking mortals, or jolly fellows who are determined to get possession of, because they want to enjoy the good things of the world.
text: 1941, Cole Porter, “Pets,” lyrics written for the Broadway musical Let’s Face It! cited in Robert Kimball (ed.), The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter, New York: Da Capo, 1992, p. 309,
Some folks collect paintings,
Some folks collect stamps,
Some are amassers
Of antimacassars
And other Victorian camps.
text: 1944, George Weller, Bases Overseas, excerpt published in Anthony Weller (ed.), Weller’s War, New York: Crown, 2009, p. 488,
The first act of the Japanese army on arriving at a new island is to go fishing and start a garden. The first act of the Americans is to buy something from the natives. The American is an amasser.
text: Marketers […] are among the most voracious amassers of information about what people do and say online.
ref: 2014, Judith Donath, chapter 11, in The Social Machine: Designs for Living Online,, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, page 280:
glosses: One who amasses.
Synonyms: accumulator
collector
amassers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amasser
vato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vatos
Etymology: From Spanish vato, ultimately from chivato. Term is mostly used by people from northwest Mexico (Sinaloa, Sonora, Chihuahua, Baja California).
Senses: examples: text: Say sergeant, my primo from Osten is over there. A real crazy vato, man.
ref: 1976, Christopher Press (publisher), Caracol, Volumes 3-4:
text: Its 20-page portfolio of stills from the music-video director Mark Romanek functions as a virtual swipe book of contemporary style idioms: cowboys, aliens, vatos, Janet Jackson and Madonna.
ref: 1998 February 22, Guy Trebay, “Uprising the Indie”, in The New York Times Magazine:
text: Two of the pursuers broke cover, a zoot-suited vato armed with a sacred Thompson gun and a thugee in dirty robes with a nineteenth century Martini carbine.
ref: 1999, Mick Farren, Jim Morrison's Adventures in the Afterlife, A Novel:
glosses: A Hispanic youth; a guy; a dude.
wetnurse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wetnurses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wet nurse.
wetnurse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wetnurses
form: wetnursing
form: wetnursed
form: wetnursed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wet nurse.
hooped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /huːpt/
rhymes: -uːpt
Forms: form: more hooped
form: most hooped
Senses: glosses: Containing hoops
examples: text: Wayne Zandarco says he doesn't have a Plan B for a possible shutdown of bus service. "I'm hooped," he said.
ref: 2014 September 19, CBC News, Saskatoon bus riders rattled by possible lockout:
glosses: beset with unfortunate circumstances that seem difficult or impossible to overcome; screwed.
Synonyms: sense: beset
word: screwed
word: fucked
word: in trouble
Derived terms: unhooped
hooped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /huːpt/
rhymes: -uːpt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hoop
staunchest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of staunch: most staunch
stauncher
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From staunch + -er.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of staunch: more staunch
stauncher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staunchers
Etymology: From staunch + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which staunches.
sunned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ʌnd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sun
slurred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slur
avowals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of avowal
disseminating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disseminate
disseminates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disseminate
economizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of economize
economizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of economization
astrograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astrographs
Etymology: From astro- + -graph.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A telescope designed and used for astronomical photography.
Related terms: astrophotography
bogged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Past participle of bog.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bog
bogged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bogged
form: most bogged
Etymology: Past participle of bog.
Senses: glosses: Stuck; unable to progress; having been bogged down.
bogged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bogged
form: most bogged
Etymology: From an abbreviation of Bogdanoff + -ed, in reference to Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff.
Senses: examples: text: I plan to become a bogged old lady chasing the illusion of eternal youth, like Joan Rivers.
ref: 2023 November 5, anonymous author, 4chan, /lgbt/:
glosses: Having the appearance of having had excessive plastic surgery.
morepork
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔːpɔːk/
ipa: /ˈmɔɹˌpɔ(ə)ɹk/
ipa: /ˈmoːpoːk/
Forms: form: morepoke
Etymology: The word is imitative of the bird's call.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he morepork, a species of caprimulgus, or goatsucker,^([sic]) keeps up all night the exact repetition of its own name, "Morepork! morepork!" It is a sound to me most expressive of a dreary loneliness and twilight distance that I ever heard.
ref: 1852 December 1, William Howitt, “Letter VII”, in Land, Labour, and Gold; or, Two Years in Victoria: With Visits to Sydney and Van Diemen’s Land. … In Two Volumes, volume I, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, published 1855, →OCLC, pages 115–116:
text: As soon as the shades of evening close in over the Australian forest, the ear is startled by the cry of "morepoke," clearly and loudly repeated, and a bird as large as an owl flits by on noiseless wing, like the goat-sucker at home. This is the Morepoke, a species of large night-jar,^([sic]) all head and mouth, about the size of an owl.
ref: 1861, [Horace William Wheelwright], “A Chapter on the Ornithology of Port Phillip”, in Bush Wanderings of a Naturalist; or, Notes on the Field Sports and Fauna of Australia Felix. By an Old Bushman, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, […], →OCLC, page 126:
text: As soon as night begins to spread its darkening shadows over our brief twilight, this active creature sets out on its hunting excursions, roaming over field and gully with soft, noiseless flight, one of the advantages it owes to its flocculent plumage; its cry of "morepork, morepork," is repeated at frequent intervals, sometimes with the utmost rapidity of utterance; [...]
ref: 1871 May, T[homas] H[enry] Potts, “Art. XI.—On the Birds of New Zealand. … (Part II.)”, in James Hector, editor, Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, 1870, volume III, Wellington: James Hughes, printer, […]; London: Trübner 7 Co., […], →OCLC, pages 61–62:
text: ‘I assure you. I do rather a good morepork.’ Bernard sat up, straightened his shoulders. ‘More pork. More pork.’
ref: 1992, Barbara Anderson, chapter 8, in Portrait of the Artist’s Wife, Wellington: Victoria University Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 141:
text: I know where a morepork lives, in the roof of our dunny, and I hear it hoot ‘morepork, morepork’ every night. And I hoot ‘morepork’ back to it, and it hoots ‘morepork’ back to me.
ref: 2005, Jack Lasenby, “The Morepork’s Revenge, Mr Bryce’s Verandah Post, Why Freddy Jones Bit His Tongue, and the Way Fern Uncurls at the Top”, in Mr Bluenose, Dunedin: Longacre Press, →ISBN:
glosses: The call of a morepork.
grimaced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grimace
grimaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more grimaced
form: most grimaced
Senses: glosses: Having a grimace
glosses: distorted; crabby
raw_tags: said of the face
look back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looks back
form: looking back
form: looked back
form: looked back
Senses: examples: text: Don't look back in anger, I heard you say
ref: 1996, Oasis, “Don't Look Back in Anger”, in (What's the Story) Morning Glory?:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look, back.
examples: text: When I look back at my summer holidays as a child, I smile.
text: I can't tell you what you're feelin' inside / And I can't sell you what you don't want to buy / Something's missing, you got to look back on your life / You know something here just ain't right
ref: 1985, Brian Allen, Sheron Alton, Jim Vallance, “What About Love”, in Heart, performed by Heart:
text: United were made to pay for letting an eight-point lead as little as five weeks ago slip and, despite their final-day efforts, they will look back on a season where, when they needed to step up, they fell flat.
ref: 2012 May 13, Alistair Magowan, “Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:
text: For Crossrail 2, people on this project a few years ago hoped they would move directly on to that. "Obviously, politics and money haven't come together in the same way as they did for Crossrail 1, but I've said to the team that if you look back at everything from HS1 and the Channel Tunnel, these things always happen... but the question is timing. […] "The Jubilee Line is another one. It seems very unlikely, with these transformational things, that people will look back in a few decades' time and think we shouldn't have built it.
ref: 2023 February 8, Paul Stephen with Howard Smith, “Elizabeth Line: "It's not job done yet"”, in RAIL, number 976, page 35:
glosses: To think of (past events) in retrospect.
examples: text: You do what you have to do, and don't look back.
glosses: To reconsider or regret.
Synonyms: wax nostalgic
recall
remember
hark back
review
think back
recollect
look back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: look backs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of look-back.
Related terms: look-back
mixed grill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mixed grills
Senses: glosses: A meal consisting of a number of grilled meats.
Derived terms: Jerusalem mixed grill
charcuterie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɑːɹˌk(j)uːtəˈɹiː/
ipa: /ʃɑːɹˈk(j)uːtəɹi/
ipa: /ʃɑɹˈkutəɹi/
ipa: [ʃɑɹˈkuɾəɹi]
Forms: form: charcuteries
Etymology: Borrowed from French charcuterie.
Senses: glosses: The practice of cooking and preparing ready-to-eat meat products, especially pork.
glosses: Cured meat that is ready to be eaten, especially pork.
examples: text: It was not until after the waiter came with the bill that Scott decided that we have the hotel make us a picnic lunch. I tried to argue him out of this as I was sure we could get a bottle of Mâcon in Mâcon and we could buy something to make sandwiches in a charcuterie.
ref: 1964, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 153:
hypernyms: delicatessen
glosses: A shop or part of a shop specialising in cured meat.
Derived terms: seacuterie
baked potato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baked potatoes
Senses: synonyms: jacket potato
potato in its jacket
glosses: A potato that has been baked for eating.
Derived terms: you later, baked potato
dolly mixture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dolly mixtures
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: glosses: confectionery in the form of a variety of multicoloured soft candies and jelly sweets sold together as a mixture.
Related terms: Yorkshire mixture
gobstopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒbˌstɒp.ə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: gobstoppers
form: gob stopper
form: gob-stopper
Etymology: Compound of gob (“mouth”) + stopper.
Senses: examples: text: “Everlasting Gobstoppers!”’ cried Mr. Wonka proudly. “They're completely new! I am inventing them for children who are given very little pocket money. You can put an Everlasting Gobstopper in your mouth and you can suck it and suck it and suck it and suck it and suck it and it will never get any smaller!”
ref: 1964, Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, New York: A. A. Knopf, page 95:
text: Hence, gobstopper—something that stops the mouth. If you want to stop someone from prattling on, simply stuff a gobstopper in his or her mouth. The Everlasting Gobstopper, a jawbreaker that changes colors and flavors, was the brainchild of Roald Dahl in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in 1964.
ref: 2014, Richard W. Hartel, AnnaKate Hartel, Candy Bites: The Science of Sweets, Springer, →ISBN, page 183:
synonyms: jawbreaker
glosses: A type of hard long-lasting candy, usually spherical in shape.
Derived terms: gobstopper tree
rat arsed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rat arsed
form: most rat arsed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rat-arsed.
wine tosser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wine tossers
Senses: glosses: A person who talks a great deal about wine but actually knows very little.
glosses: A person who buys wine, but does not drink it.
bánh mì
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bánh mìs
Etymology: From Vietnamese bánh mì.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of banh mi.
US Americans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of US American
brancher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: branchers
Etymology: From branch (verb) + -er.
Senses: glosses: That which shoots forth branches; one who shows growth in various directions.
examples: text: None of the brancher instructions have any effect whatsoever on any flags; instead, they are the instructions which look at the flags.
ref: 1983, Richard Mansfield, Machine Language for Beginners, page 69:
text: This is pretty typical for a C-written brancher.
ref: 1999, Mickey Kawick, Real-time Strategy Game Programming Using DirectX 6.0, page 37:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: That which branches, or jumps to another instruction location within a program.
brancher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: branchers
Etymology: From branch (noun) + -er. So called because of the bird still clinging to the branches while practising flying movements with the wings.
Senses: examples: text: “What, ho! sir knave,” exclaimed Roland, “is it thus you feed the eyasse with unwashed meat, as if you were gorging the foul brancher of a worthless hoodie-crow, by the mass?[…]”
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 83:
topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: A young owl or other raptor that is just too young to fly.
Related terms: root-and-brancher
welfarism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From welfare + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: More precisely, Kaplow and Shavell (2001) have shown that the Pareto principle does not hold when the planner departs from welfarism, i.e., when the [social welfare function] does not only include the agents’ utility.
ref: 2025, François Le Grand, Xavier Ragot, Diego Rodrigues, “The Welfare of Nations: Social Preferences and the Macroeconomy”, in CEPR Discussion Papers, number 19847, page 13:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An axiology or ethical theory in which value is determined by the well-being (e.g., happiness) of people or other sentient beings.
glosses: The belief in or support for a welfare state.
Derived terms: welfarist
welfarist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛlfɛːɹɪst/
Forms: form: welfarists
Etymology: From welfare + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who supports welfare, especially of animals.
glosses: A supporter of the politics or principles of the welfare state.
Derived terms: animal welfarist
welfarist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛlfɛːɹɪst/
Forms: form: more welfarist
form: most welfarist
Etymology: From welfare + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The welfarist discourse of power which the absolute monarchy increasingly deployed [...] set popular expectations high.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 363:
glosses: Pertaining to support for the politics or principles of the welfare state.
welfarists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of welfarist
aerobicizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of aerobicize
aerobicizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aerobicize
estheticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: estheticisms
form: aestheticism
form: æstheticism
Etymology: From esthetic + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of aestheticism.
Related terms: esthete
esthetics
estheticisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of estheticism
aestheticisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aestheticism
autosuggestion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autosuggestions
form: auto-suggestion
Etymology: From auto- + suggestion.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The practice of suggesting thoughts to oneself, as in autohypnosis.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: An instance of suggesting a thought to oneself.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An autosuggest feature.
Synonyms: topics: psychology
human-sciences
sciences
word: self-suggestion
Derived terms: autosuggestionist
Related terms: autosuggest
autosuggestibility
autosuggestive
heterosuggestion
autosuggestions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autosuggestion
auto-suggestion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auto-suggestions
form: autosuggestion
Etymology: From auto- + suggestion.
Senses: glosses: The practice of suggesting thoughts to oneself.
glosses: An instance of suggesting a thought to oneself.
Synonyms: self-suggestion
Related terms: suggest
suggestible
auto-suggestions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of auto-suggestion
cokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coke
cokes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coke
cokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cokeses
Etymology: Compare coax.
Senses: examples: text: Because he is an ass, and may be akin to the Cokeses?
ref: 1614 November 10 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Beniamin Iohnson [i.e., Ben Jonson], Bartholmew Fayre: A Comedie, […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot, […], published 1631, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: A simpleton; a dupe
elective share
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elective shares
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A proportion of a decedent's estate which the surviving spouse may claim, as a substitute for what they were left in the decedent's will.
Synonyms: widow's share
statutory share
forced share
chickened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chicken
elective shares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elective share
campers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camper
pencilneck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pencilnecks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pencil-neck.
pencil-neck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pencil-necks
form: pencilneck
form: pencil neck
Etymology: From pencil + neck, popularized by wrestler Freddie Blassie.
Senses: glosses: A person with a very thin neck.
examples: text: That pencil-neck from systems isn't going to tell me what I can't do.
text: Mom said, “Sell it to the circus, what the heck.” / Dad said, “Nope, this one's a pencil neck / And if there's one thing lower than a side show freak / It's a grit eatin', scum suckin', pencil neck geek.”
ref: 1977, Pete Cicero, Martin Margulies, “Pencil Neck Geek”, performed by Freddie Blassie & The Geekettes:
text: On Thursday, March 28, Trump took the stage in Grand Rapids, Michigan, for a campaign rally, where he unleashed a new schoolyard nickname: “little pencil-neck Adam Schiff.”
ref: 2020, Kevin Sullivan, Mary Jordan, quoting Donald Trump, Trump on Trial, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 217:
glosses: An insubstantial person; a weakling.
Derived terms: pencil-necked
pencil-necks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pencil-neck
pencilnecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pencilneck
pencil-necked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pencil-necked
form: most pencil-necked
Senses: glosses: Having a very thin neck.
examples: text: That pencil-necked geek isn't going to stop me.
text: Science fiction is more than inelegant prose for pencil-necked teenagers.
ref: 1997 July 7, Zina Moukheiber, “The geeks have inherited the earth”, in Forbes, →ISSN, page 348:
glosses: Insubstantial; weak.
Related terms: pencil-neck
screen out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: screens out
form: screening out
form: screened out
form: screened out
Senses: glosses: To use a screen, grate, sieve or similar means to separate large from small (objects or particles).
glosses: To exclude selectively.
screwing off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: ...where the keys of all the felons rooms, as well as the instruments for screwing off and on the irons of the prisoners, are kept.
ref: 1786, The Scots magazine, volume 48, page 152:
glosses: present participle and gerund of screw off
screw off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: screws off
form: screwing off
form: screwed off
form: screwed off
Senses: examples: text: Hold it in two hands and screw off the lid. Set the lid down. Inside are pickled onions.
ref: 2004, Cathy Myata, Speaking rules!: Games and activities for creating effective speakers, presenters and storytellers, page 52:
glosses: To remove the lid of a jar or other container by unscrewing it.
examples: text: When the boss wasn't around on the weekend they would sometimes screw off.
text: On account of the high rate of wages at Sydney, stevedores will not "screw off" now so willingly as they did formerly.
ref: 1878, Robert White Stevens, On the stowage of ships and their cargoes: with information regarding freights, charter parties, &c., &c., page 798:
glosses: To fail to do one's work; to goof off.
examples: text: I finished the work early so I screwed off.
glosses: To leave; to bugger off.
screw off
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: "We just won a new car!" "Screw off! You're joking, right?"
glosses: An expression of surprise or disbelief.
Related terms: screw-off
Scythians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Scythian
inny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: innies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of innie.
Scythian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪði.ən/
/ˈsɪθi.ən/
Forms: form: more Scythian
form: most Scythian
Etymology: From Scythia + -an.
Senses: synonyms: Scythic
glosses: Of or relating to Scythia (a region of Central Eurasia in the classical era) or its inhabitants.
Derived terms: Proto-Scythian
Scythianization
Scythianize
Scythian lamb
Scythian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪði.ən/
/ˈsɪθi.ən/
Forms: form: Scythians
Etymology: From Scythia + -an.
Senses: examples: 1685, John Norris, (translator), The Institution and Life of Cyrus the Great [Cyropaedia] by Xenophon Book I
How far he surpassed them all may be felt if we remember that no Scythian, although the Scythians are reckoned by their myriads, has ever succeeded in dominating a foreign nation […]
synonyms: Scyth
glosses: An inhabitant of Scythia.
Derived terms: Royal Scythians
Scythian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪði.ən/
/ˈsɪθi.ən/
Etymology: From Scythia + -an.
Senses: synonyms: Scythic
glosses: The Eastern Iranian language of Scythians.
examples: text: Scythian was therefore not the same as modern Dutch, but the ancestral language of the Dutch as well as other neighbouring languages.
ref: 1999, Cornelis Dekker, The Origins of Old Germanic Studies in the Low Countries, BRILL, page 210:
text: Though Boxhorn was working over a century before Sir William Jones, his ‘Scythian’ is not conceptually far off the later notion of Indo-European, and his choice of term ‘Scythian’ shows that Boxhorn was envisaging a cultural connection between the (northern) languages of the Near East and their Western European brethren, a perspicacious hypothesis that assumend some kind of ethnic drift between the two continents.
ref: 2010, William Poole, The World Makers: Scientists of the Restoration and the Search for the Origins of the Earth, Peter Lang, page 81:
text: From 1647 onwards, in several of his writings, Boxhorn elaborated the idea that Scythian was the original mother language of Persian, Greek, Latin, the Germanic languages, Turkish, Welsh, Lithuanian, Russian and Latvian (cf. Boxhorn 1647).
ref: 2011, Gerda Haßler, Gesina Volkmann, History of Linguistics 2008: Selected Papers from the Eleventh International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XI), 28 August -2 September 2008, Potsdam, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 159:
glosses: The Proto-Indo-European language.
raw_tags: in the works of Markus van Boxhorn
secularized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of secularize
solastalgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌsɒləsˈtæld͡ʒə/
Etymology: Coined by Australian philosopher and researcher Glenn Albrecht in 2005 from Latin sōlācium (“solace, comfort”) + -algia (“pain”).
Senses: examples: text: There are many people writing and talking about extinction now, and about solastalgia, the psychic or existential distress caused by environmental change. Artists, musicians, dancers, and screenwriters are wringing profound solastalgia from the recesses of our collective subconscious and spinning its trajectory out into the light where we can get a better sense of it.
ref: 2010, Albert Bates, The Biochar Solution: Carbon Farming and Climate Change, New Society Publishers, →ISBN:
text: Part of what I feel in this city is solastalgia, not so much for buildings as for the routines I established around those buildings: the walk to visit friends in the CBD, the stroll to the cinema.
ref: 2015, Fiona Farrell, The Villa at the Edge of the Empire, →ISBN, page 342:
glosses: A form of homesickness experienced when one has not moved, but one's environment has changed.
Related terms: nostalgia
sexualities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sexuality
sexualized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sexualize
predal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹiːdəl/
Forms: form: more predal
form: most predal
form: praedal
form: prædal
Etymology: From Latin praeda (“prey”).
Senses: examples: text: Prœdal Commanders
ref: 1748, Samuel Boyse, An impartial history of the late rebellion in 1745:
glosses: Of or relating to prey; plundering; predatory.
sexualize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛk.ʃu.əl.aɪz/
Forms: form: sexualizes
form: sexualizing
form: sexualized
form: sexualized
form: sexualise
Etymology: From sexual + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Children’s beauty pageants sexualize childhood.
text: Your advertising doesn't need to sexualize goods and services to sell them to me, and in fact I might make a point of not buying your product if you pester me with sexualization.
text: I have charted a change from a Victorian culture that spiritualized love to modern efforts to sexualize love. The latter contributed, more-over, to the development of a culture of eroticism.
ref: 1991, Steven Seidman, Romantic Longings, page 121:
text: […] the adoption of the veil by Muslim women in West European countries is often justified as a mark of their autonomy, a breakaway from the sexualizing influences of Western culture.
ref: 2011, Jeffrey Weeks, The Languages of Sexuality, Routledge, page 158:
text: […] “Coomers malding PepeLaugh,” […] The second comment, written by HarleyJ, insinuates that “coomers” (a term used to refer to an individual that overly sexualizes things) are angered by her actions, […]
ref: 2021 August 10, Dylan Maroney, quoting a comment by HarleyJ, Livestreaming Vico: Imagination and the Ecology of Literacy in Online Gaming, Georgia State University, page 36:
text: “Asian women on-screen, especially in America and Hollywood, have been so sexualized and fetishized for the benefit of other people’s stories or jokes,” Ashley says. “And we’re like, ‘We’re gonna go balls to the wall, further than anyone’s gone with Asian women.’”
ref: 2023 June 15, Kat Moon, “Ashley Park’s Main Character Energy From ‘Joy Ride’ Is Here To Stay: ‘I’m Treating Myself Like A Lead Now’”, in Women's Health:
antonyms: desexualize
glosses: To render sexual, or apply sex appeal to (a person, thing, or concept).
topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: sex#Verb
glosses: To distinguish as belonging to separate sexes.
Derived terms: asexualize
bisexualize
desexualize
heterosexualize
homosexualize
hypersexualize
intersexualize
metrosexualize
oversexualize
pansexualize
resexualize
sexualization
transsexualize
unisexualize
Related terms: objectify
shadow-boxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shadow-box
shadow-box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shadow-boxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shadowbox.
shadow-box
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shadow-boxes
form: shadow-boxing
form: shadow-boxed
form: shadow-boxed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shadowbox.
sexed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sex up
shadings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shading
ker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kers
Senses: glosses: A chief of the Luo people.
Chukchi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃukt͡ʃiː/
Etymology: From Russian чу́кчи (čúkči), plural of чу́кча (čúkča), derived from Chukchi [script needed] (chauchu), meaning "rich in reindeer".
Senses: glosses: Relating to or coming from Chukotka.
Chukchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃukt͡ʃiː/
Forms: form: Chukchis
form: Chukchi
Etymology: From Russian чу́кчи (čúkči), plural of чу́кча (čúkča), derived from Chukchi [script needed] (chauchu), meaning "rich in reindeer".
Senses: glosses: A person belonging to the Chukchi nation native to the Chukotka peninsula.
Chukchi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃukt͡ʃiː/
Etymology: From Russian чу́кчи (čúkči), plural of чу́кча (čúkča), derived from Chukchi [script needed] (chauchu), meaning "rich in reindeer".
Senses: glosses: A Paleosiberian language spoken by Chukchi people in the easternmost extremity of Siberia, mainly in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.
Synonyms: Luoravetlan
Chukot
Chukcha
Derived terms: Chukchi-Koryak
Related terms: Chukotka
Chukchi Sea
eccyclema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eccyclemas
form: eccyclemata
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐκκύκλημα (ekkúklēma).
Senses: glosses: A wheeled device, used in ancient Greek plays, that could be rolled out to allow a tableau to be viewed.
Munro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Munroes
form: Munros
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic
* (mountains): Named after Scottish mountaineer Sir Hugh Thomas Munro.
Senses: glosses: A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic, variant of Monroe
Munro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Munros
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic
* (mountains): Named after Scottish mountaineer Sir Hugh Thomas Munro.
Senses: glosses: Any Scottish mountain having a height of more than 3,000 feet; named after Sir Hugh Thomas Munro, Scottish mountaineer
Derived terms: Munro bagger
Munroist
Related terms: one-thousander
three-thousander
cineaste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cineastes
Senses: examples: text: The TiVo-Amazon service offers cineastes thousands of movies to rent, compared with the scant mainstream-only offerings of cable’s pay-per-view services.
ref: 2007 July 26, John R. Quain, “Cable Without a Cable Box, and TV Shows Without a TV”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of cineast.
squoyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squoyles
Senses: glosses: A stick, loaded at one end with an iron weight, used by poachers
Colosseum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Colosseum
Etymology: From Late Latin, from Latin colosseus (“colossal”); a mediaeval term for the classical Latin Amphitheatrum Flavium; see also coliseum.
Senses: examples: text: The Colosseum (known at the time as the Flavian Amphitheater) in Rome was the empire's greatest amphitheater. A marvel of Roman engineering, the Colosseum could hold up to 70,000 spectators.
ref: 2002, Tracey Ann Schofield, Rome, page 39:
text: The Colosseum’s elliptical shape is 617 feet long, 512 feet across, and 159 feet high.
ref: 2007, Luciano Mangiafico, Italy's Most Wanted™: The Top 10 Book of Roman Ruins, Wonderful Wines, and Renaissance Rarities, page 36:
text: Perhaps no classical Roman ruin evokes the excesses of the late Empire like the Colosseum.
ref: 2009, Holly Hughes, Frommer's 500 Places to Take Your Kids Before They Grow Up, unnumbered page:
glosses: The largest stadium in the Roman empire, located near the center of Rome.
Related terms: colossal
colosseum
colossus
coliseum
haircutting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haircuttings
Etymology: From hair + cutting.
Senses: glosses: The act or service of cutting hair.
Chantilly/Tiffany
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chantilly/Tiffanies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Chantilly (cat breed)
synonyms: word: Chantilly
extra: cat breed
contrafield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contrafields
Etymology: From contra- + field.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An electric field that produces an effect of deceleration on charges that pass through it
reverse shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reverse shots
Senses: topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
glosses: A shot in which one character is shown looking back at another, unseen character.
backlit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbækˌlɪt/
Etymology: From back + lit.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of backlight
backlit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbækˌlɪt/
Forms: form: more backlit
form: most backlit
Etymology: From back + lit.
Senses: examples: a backlit computer keyboard
antonyms: frontlit
glosses: Lit or illuminated from behind.
Derived terms: nonbacklit
witchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪt͡ʃi/
rhymes: -ɪtʃi
Forms: form: witchier
form: witchiest
Etymology: From witch + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The children are scared to go near the witchy old woman's house at night.
text: Bernadette was a small wiry girl with a lot of long witchy black hair, and on the first day of school she wore only one sock.
ref: 1967, Beverly Cleary, Mitch and Amy, New York: Dell, published 1980, →ISBN, →OL, page 92:
text: Sabrina and the three sisters in Charmed have a myriad of witchy powers.
ref: 2006 August 8, Sharon Lamb with Lyn Mikel Brown, Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes, New York: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 96:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of witches; witchlike.
witchier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of witchy: more witchy
coproduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coproductions
form: co-production
Etymology: From co- + production.
Senses: glosses: A production in which two or more people, groups or companies work together.
Related terms: coproduce
coproducer
witchiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of witchy: most witchy
coproducer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coproducers
Etymology: From co- + producer.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of producers who work together on a coproduction
dialoguist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dialoguists
Etymology: From dialogue + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who writes dialogue.
glosses: A scriptwriter skilled at writing dialogue.
walkon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: walkons
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of walk-on.
nektonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nekton + -ic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Swimming independently of currents.
Derived terms: micronektonic
Related terms: benthic
oceanic
pelagic
planktonic
photogenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photogenic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state of being photogenic
New Age travellers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of New Age traveller
new age traveller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: new age travellers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of New Age traveller.
moving average
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moving averages
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
synonyms: rolling average
glosses: A weighted average that is determined for a given data point based on its value and the past values.
Related terms: time series
halaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halau
hole punch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hole punches
form: holepunch
form: hole-punch
Senses: glosses: A tool that is used to make holes in stationery for ease of filing.
Synonyms: paper punch
perforator
Derived terms: hole punch cloud
three-hole punch
hole punch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hole punches
form: hole punching
form: hole punched
form: hole punched
form: holepunch
form: hole-punch
Senses: glosses: To punch holes using a hole punch.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To create a NAT, WAN-to-LAN port forwarding on the router.
santims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of santim
performative utterance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: performative utterances
Etymology: Coined by British philosopher J. L. Austin (1911–1960).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A sentence or other linguistic expression which, when expressed in an appropriate context, actually does or accomplishes something.
shoulder pad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoulder pads
Senses: glosses: a type of padding sometimes used in clothing to give the wearer the illusion of less sloping shoulders.
glosses: a piece of protective equipment used in American and Canadian football.
niggerballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of niggerball
diatryma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diatrymas
Etymology: From translingual †Diatryma, a former name for the genus, from Ancient Greek διατρήμα (diatrḗma, “canoe”).
Senses: glosses: A big-beaked prehistoric bird in the genus Gastornis, larger than the ostrich, believed to have become extinct 15- to 25-million years ago due to a vast climate change.
DIYs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of DIY