cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bigged up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: big upped
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of big up
big upped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bigged up
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of big up
breaks down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of break down
breaking down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of break down
broke down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of break down
Related terms: broken down
brokedown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: broke-down
Senses: examples: text: But it's got a brokedown drive. It can only hobble along. They can't try to get but so far! What's the nearest sol-type star?
ref: 2012, Murray Leinster, A Matter of Importance, page 25:
glosses: Broken; not working properly.
brush offs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: I got a lot of brush offs. It was a part of the job.
glosses: plural of brush off
dishes out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dish out
dishing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dish out
dished out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dish out
does up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of do up
doing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of do up
did up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of do up
done up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of do up
done up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more done up
form: most done up
Senses: examples: text: "You'd better lie down for a bit. I expect you're about done up." -- "There's nowhere for me to lie down, sir," he answered, and there was in his voice a humbleness which was very distressing. -- "Don't you know anyone in the house who'll give you a shakedown? -- "No, sir."
ref: 1915, W.S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage:
text: "By ginger, I'm glad you came along, Mudgy; I give you my word I couldn't have walked another half-mile. I'm done up, absolutely."
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 65:
synonyms: word: tired
word: used up
word: consumed
word: depleted
word: done up
word: effete
word: exhausted
word: expended
word: gone
word: finished
word: forworn
word: low
word: spent
word: used up
word: bleareyed
word: bleary
word: bleary-eyed
word: bone-tired
word: bushed
word: tired out
word: spent
word: drained
word: dog-tired
word: dog-weary
word: exhausted
word: fatigued
word: forfairn
word: forlagen
word: forworn
word: heavyeyed
word: jaded
word: languid
word: enervated
word: out of gas
word: played out
word: run-down
word: shattered
word: shot
word: sleepy
word: stuffed
word: tired
word: washed out
word: weariful
word: weary
word: whacked
word: whipped
word: worn
word: worn out
word: banjaxed
word: beat
word: buggered
word: busted
word: dead tired
word: cream crackered
word: done
word: done in
word: done up
word: fagged out
word: fried
word: fucked
word: gassed
word: jiggered
word: Kerry Packered
word: knacked
word: knackered
word: nadgered
word: pooped
word: pooped out
word: pumped
word: shagged
word: shagged out
word: tuckered
word: tuckered out
word: wappened
word: zonked
glosses: Worn-out, exhausted.
examples: Near-synonyms: effete, dissipated
glosses: Ruined by excess, especially gambling.
does in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of do in
doing in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of do in
did in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of do in
done in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of do in
dishes up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dish up
dishing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dish up
dished up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dish up
asks for the moon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ask for the moon
asking for the moon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ask for the moon
asked for the moon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ask for the moon
bill of material
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bills of material
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bill of materials.
herile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more herile
form: most herile
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin erīlis, herīlis.
Senses: examples: text: We know the slave by his servile character and the master by his herile character.
glosses: Of or pertaining to a master.
Related terms: herility
poop decks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poop deck
midriffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midriff
baggalas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baggala
boatswain's pipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boatswain's pipe
boatswain's chairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boatswain's chair
bower anchors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bower anchor
boatswain-birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boatswain-bird
broadseams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of broadseam
bilge pumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bilge pump
digresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of digress
digressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of digress
boxes the compass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of box the compass
boxing the compass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of box the compass
boxed the compass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of box the compass
in on
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: She was in on the surprise from the beginning.
text: We had to let him in on it after he overheard some of us talking.
text: (A foolproof method of producing an amusingly annoyed response from the distinguished experts? Just mention the word “ghosts.”) Whether they’re in on the joke or not doesn’t matter all that much.
ref: 2025 January 3, Christina Izzo, “Cunk On Life is brilliantly funny (and depressingly timely)”, in AV Club:
glosses: Part of or privy to; involved in (something private, especially a plan or plot).
pandiculate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pænˈdɪk.jə.leɪt/
Forms: form: pandiculates
form: pandiculating
form: pandiculated
form: pandiculated
Etymology: From Latin pandiculātus, perfect active participle of pandiculor (“stretch oneself”).
Senses: glosses: To fully stretch the torso and upper limbs, typically accompanied by yawning.
Derived terms: pandiculation
fuckity
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: fuckety
form: fuckety fuck
form: fuckity fuck
form: fuckity-fuck
Etymology: From fuck + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Look for fuck's sake. Jesus Christ all fuckity, is that no a sight?
ref: 1997, Duncan McLean, Ahead Of Its Time: A Clocktower Press Anthology, page 236:
text: How could this be happening? How could I have been so wrong? Fuckity-fuck, I think to myself. Fuckity- fuckity-fuck.
ref: 2007, Chris Jones, Falling Hard: A Rookie's Year in Boxing, page 73:
glosses: Nonce variation of the word fuck.
fuckity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: fuckety
form: fuckety fuck
form: fuckity fuck
form: fuckity-fuck
Etymology: From fuck + -ity.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fucking..
synonyms: word: fucking
Derived terms: fuckity bye
fuckity fuck
dynamic scale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dynamic scales
Senses: glosses: A device, often part of a conveyor belt system, that weighs a product while it is in motion.
Synonyms: check weigher
in-motion scale
gold plated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gold-plated.
gold plated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gold plate
check weigher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: check weighers
form: checkweigher
Senses: glosses: A form of dynamic scale that weighs products as they come off a production line
topics: business
mining
glosses: A person employed by the miners to check the weight of the mined material and thus ensure the proper wages were paid.
Synonyms: sense: mine worker
word: checkweighman
silver rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silver rules
Senses: examples: text: Confucius (551-479 BC) squarely faces the issue and gives us the first specific statement of the rule in its negative form, sometimes referred to as the "Silver Rule."
ref: 1934, J. O. Hertzler, “On Golden Rules”, in International Journal of Ethics, volume 44, number 4, page 421:
topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The principle that one should not treat other people in the manner in which one would not want to be treated by them.
Related terms: golden rule
moral minimum
thalloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thallo- + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a thallus.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a plant, alga, or fungus lacking complex organization, especially lacking distinct stems, roots, or leaves.
Related terms: thallus
thalli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thallus
co-founder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-founders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cofounder.
monochasium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monochasia
Etymology: From New Latin monochasium, from Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos, “alone, only, sole, single”) + χάσις (khásis, “chasm, separation”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A type of cyme on which each single axis bears one flower.
Derived terms: monochasial
Related terms: dichasium
pleiochasium
cyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sīm
ipa: /saɪm/
rhymes: -aɪm
Forms: form: cymes
form: cime
Etymology: ]
Borrowed from French cime, cyme (“top, summit”), from Vulgar Latin *cima, from Latin cȳma (“young sprout of a cabbage”, “spring shoots of cabbage”), from Ancient Greek κῦμα (kûma, “anything swollen, such as a wave or billow”; “fetus”, “embryo”, “sprout of a plant”), from κύω (kúō, “I conceive”, “I become pregnant”; in the aorist “I impregnate”). For considerably more information, see cyma, which is an etymological doublet. Compare also Frankish *kīmō (“sprout”), from Proto-Germanic *kīmô, whence German Keim (“sprout”).
Senses: glosses: A “head” (of unexpanded leaves, etc.); an opening bud.
examples: text: The inflorescence is some form of cyme, and the flowers are usually regular.
ref: 1906, “Gentianaceæ”, in Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby, editors, The New International Encyclopædia:
text: The plant bears small groups of two or three yellowish coloured flowers on an axillary cyme.
ref: 2003, S. M. Reddy, S. J. Chary, University Botany 2: Gymnosperms, Plant Anatomy, Genetics, Ecology, page 190:
text: The flower cluster is a cyme (terminal flower is the most advanced), is terminal within the bud and may contain up to six individual flowers.
ref: 2003, David Curtis Ferree, Ian J. Warrington, Apples: Botany, Production and Uses, page 157:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: raceme
glosses: A flattish or convex flower cluster, of the centrifugal or determinate type, on which each axis terminates with a flower which blooms before the flowers below it.
topics: architecture
glosses: A cyma.
Derived terms: cymelet
cymiferous
cymoid
Related terms: cyma
cyma inversa
cymaise
cyma recta
cyma reversa
cymatic
cymatics
cymatile
cymatium
cymatograph
cymatolite
cymobotryose
cymograph
cymoid
cymatoid
cymophane
cymophanous
cymoscope
cymatoscope
cymose
cymosely
cymotrichous
cymatotrichous
cymotrichy
cymous
cymule
cymulose
cyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sīm
ipa: /saɪm/
rhymes: -aɪm
Etymology: An error for cynne, probably resulting from the overlapping of the two ens in handwriting.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of senna.
mistreater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mistreaters
Etymology: From mistreat + -er.
Senses: examples: text: She's a mean mistreater, and she don't mean me no good.
ref: 1957, Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield), "Mean Mistreater" (lyrics to blues song)
glosses: A person who mistreats.
radula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæd͡ʒ.ʊ.lə/
Forms: form: radulae
Etymology: From Latin rādula (“scraper”).
Senses: examples: text: The radula end containing the first 5–10 rows of teeth showed evidence of wear from rasping over rock surfaces during feeding and was removed using dissection.
ref: 2015 February 18, Asa H. Barber, Dun Lu, Nicola M. Pugno, “Extreme strength observed in limpet teeth”, in Journal of the Royal Society Interface:
text: What Kruta found in the ammonoid fossils was an unfoldable radula covered with delicate, comblike teeth.
ref: 2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 98:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The rasping tongue of snails and all other mollusks except bivalves.
Giganto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: they are attempting to flesh out this conjectural confrontation between Homo erectus and Giganto, as the creature is affectionately known
ref: 1989, (author and title information kept confidential by Google Books and the University of Michigan), Discover, January–June, volume 10
text: describe their search for fossils in Vietnam and their belief that Giganto (as they call it) cohabited with early man.
ref: 1995, Robert Michael Pyle, Where Bigfoot Walks, Crossing the Dark Divide, Houghton Mifflin Books and →ISBN, page 185
text: When the Giganto dragged him off the tree, he lay on the ground looking up at the monstrous ape as it roared.
ref: 2000, Lee Murphy and Mariana Malkoskie, Where Legends Roam, Defining Moments and →ISBN, page 160
text: You're going to kill this innocent Giganto?
ref: 2003 July 13, Ron Weiner, “Spanish Fry”, in Futurama, season 4, episode 17, spoken by Lrrr, via FOX Television Network:
glosses: A giant monster, such as a hypothetical late descendant of Gigantopithecus.
forumite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forumites
Etymology: From forum + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: In 2002, the 138 registered members were from a variety of geographical locations, age groups, and backgrounds. There were forumites from the USA, Canada, the UK, Italy, Turkey, Austria, Germany, and Australia. The ages ranged from late teens and college students to pensioners in their sixties.
ref: 2005, Marijke de Valck, Malte Hagener, Cinephilia: Movies, Love and Memory, page 115:
text: In such a competitive environment, attracting forumites (contributors) and maintaining their numbers are essential for the existence and survival of a forum.
ref: 2008, Manouchehr Moshtagh Khorasani, The Development of Controversies, page 34:
glosses: One who frequents an Internet forum.
Synonyms: forumer
labiaplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labiaplasties
Etymology: From labia + -plasty.
Senses: examples: text: Many doctors performing labiaplasties were never taught vulvar anatomy—leaving some patients scarred and unable to feel sexual pleasure.
ref: 2019, Suzannah Weiss, The Establishment, The Insidious Reasons Doctors Are Botching Labiaplasties:
text: Labiaplasty—surgery for reshaping or resizing the inner labia—is the fastest growing type of plastic surgery in the world: in 2016, 45 per cent more labiaplasty procedures were carried out than in 2015, […]
ref: 2019, Lynn Enright, Vagina: A Re-Education, Atlantic Books, →ISBN:
text: When performed poorly, a labiaplasty — a procedure to reduce the size of the labia minora, and one of the fastest-growing cosmetic surgeries worldwide — can also damage nerves, leading to genital pain and loss of sexual sensation.
ref: 2022 October 17, Rachel E. Gross, “Half the World Has a Clitoris. Why Don’t Doctors Study It?”, in The New York Times:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The moulding or shaping of the labia minora and/or labia majora.
Hypernyms: bottom surgery
coolhunter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coolhunters
Etymology: From cool + hunter.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cool hunter.
giganto
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more giganto
form: most giganto
Senses: examples: text: it’s hard to order a small chicken salad at a fast-food restaurant if everyone else is getting the Giganto Cheeseburger Deal with a bushel of fries and a gallon of soda.
ref: 2004, Gretchen Becker, Prediabetes, What You Need to Know to Keep Diabetes Away, Marlowe & Company and →ISBN, page 112
text: It was a huge giganto embarrassment.
ref: 2006, Susan “Sue” Dunlap, A Single Eye, Carroll & Graf Publishers and →ISBN, page 94
text: Also, even with her giganto implants, Dani could get through a smaller opening than I.
ref: 2007, Susan Isaacs, Past Perfect, A Novel, Simon and Schuster and →ISBN, page 299
text: For some random reason, I think of the doctor at the Eye Guy holding those giganto clicky circles over my eyes when I needed new glasses.
ref: 2007, Susan R. S. K. Carlton, Lobsterland, Macmillan and →ISBN, page 76
glosses: giant; gigantic.
staminode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staminodes
Etymology: From New Latin stāminōdium, from Latin stāmen (“warp, thread”) + Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos, “form, likeness”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: An abortive stamen, or any organ modified from an abortive stamen; a staminodium
Related terms: staminodial
interproject
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + project.
Senses: glosses: Between projects; of or relating to an intersection of multiple projects.
consequentialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consequentialists
Etymology: From consequential + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who adheres to the philosophy of consequentialism.
consequentialist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more consequentialist
form: most consequentialist
Etymology: From consequential + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to consequentialism or its adherents.
Derived terms: nonconsequentialist
consequentialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consequentialist
constitutionalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒnstɪˈtjuːʃənəˌlɪzəm/
ipa: /ˌkɑnstɪˈtuʃənəˌlɪzəm/
Forms: form: constitutionalisms
Etymology: From constitutional + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A constitutional system of governance.
glosses: Adherence to constitutional principles.
glosses: Philosophical belief in government under a written constitution.
Derived terms: constitutionalist
constitutionalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: constitutionalists
Etymology: From constitutional + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: It was now getting late, and Mr. Morland summoned them to depart; for he was a constitutionalist in the best sense of the word. It was his own constitution to which he attended.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 248:
glosses: A person who adheres to the philosophy of constitutionalism.
glosses: A person who is expert in constitutional law.
Derived terms: anticonstitutionalist
Related terms: constitutionalism
constitutionality
constitutionalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more constitutionalist
form: most constitutionalist
Etymology: From constitutional + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to constitutionalism or its adherents.
constitutionalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of constitutionalist
Rus'
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Rus.
Rus'
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rus
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Rus.
provenances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of provenance
provenances
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of provenance
Beijinger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /beɪˈdʒɪŋə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪŋə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Beijingers
Etymology: From Beijing + -er.
Senses: synonyms: Peipinger
Pekinger
Pekinese
Pekingese
Pekingnese
Beijingese
Beijingnese
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Beijing, capital of China.
googlable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more googlable
form: most googlable
Etymology: From Google + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of googleable.
Derived terms: googlability
ungooglable
memorat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: memorats
Etymology: From Latin memorātus, past participle of memorāre (“to bring to remembrance, mention, recount”), from memor (“remembering”); see memory.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of memorate.
monstres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monstre
add-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: add-ins
form: addin
Etymology: From add + in.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A plug-in.
Synonyms: plug-in
add-on
email bankruptcy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: email bankruptcies
Senses: glosses: A decision to close an e-mail account, wipe it clean, or ignore all the incoming messages, possibly sending automatic replies to the senders that a bankruptcy has been declared, due to an overwhelming receipt of messages.
shakycam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shaky + cam.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:shakycam.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A style of filming using a handheld camera, giving an on-screen effect of shakiness.
compaginate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /kəmˈpæd͡ʒɪneɪt/
Forms: form: compaginates
form: compaginating
form: compaginated
form: compaginated
Etymology: First attested in 1648; borrowed from Late Latin compaginātus, perfect passive participle of compaginō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: [O]ur fraternall charities ſeeme to be the ſide-pieces vvhich combine and compaginate the vvhole frame; ſo that theſe three concurrencies do compleat the meanes of our ſoules re-aſcent to her Creator: […]
ref: 1648, Walter Montagu, “The Fourteenth Treatise. The Test and Ballance of Filial and Mercenary Love. §. V. Advises in Order to the Preserving this Sort of Love and Fraternall Dilection, Represented as a Gracious Rule whereby to Judge of Our Rectitude in Filiall Love.”, in Miscellanea Spiritualia: Or, Devout Essaies, London: […] W[illiam] Lee, D[aniel] Pakeman, and G[abriel] Bedell, […], →OCLC, page 198:
glosses: To unite or hold together.
Related terms: compagination
nasse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nasses
Etymology: Probably borrowed from Latin nassa, or back-formed from New Latin Nassula
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cyrtos.
synonyms: word: cyrtos
bill of exchange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bills of exchange
Senses: topics: banking
business
hypernyms: draft
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glosses: A document demanding payment from another party, especially used in international trade.
Related terms: bill of goods
bill of lading
bill of materials
bill of quantities
bill of sale
promissory note
barnstar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barnstars
form: barn star
form: barn-star
Etymology: From barn + star. In the wiki sense a reference to the communal practice of barnraising, introduced on the MeatballWiki in the early 2000s and adopted by Wikipedia in 2003.
Senses: glosses: A decorative painted object or image, often in the shape of a five-pointed star but occasionally in a circular wagon-wheel style, used to adorn a barn.
examples: text: There are many different Wikipedia barnstars that connote different things.
ref: 2008, Jonathan Zittrain, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It, →ISBN, Notes: Chapter 6, page 290:
text: Other Wikipedia editors responded to Mr. [Richard] Knipel’s courageous act by awarding him several “Barnstars,” the site’s official tokens of appreciation. “You’ve got some guts man!” wrote a user who awarded him a Barnstar of Diligence. Mr. Knipel did not respond to a request for comment.
ref: 2025 October 17, Andy Newman, “Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
taxonomic: Wikimedia jargon
glosses: An image posted on a wiki user's personal page by another user, as an informal award or form of recognition.
barn star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barn stars
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of barnstar.
coelution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coelutions
Etymology: From co- + elution.
Senses: qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: Chromatographic coelution occurs when two or more compounds cannot be chromatographically separated because their retention times are less different than the method resolution.
coelute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coelutes
form: coeluting
form: coeluted
form: coeluted
Etymology: From co- + elute.
Senses: qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: Of two or more chemical compounds: to elute from a chromatographic column together.
Golden Horseshoe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Reportedly coined by Westinghouse President Herbert H. Rogge, in a speech to the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce on 12 Jan. 1954.
Senses: examples: text: The big success story in Canada this year is the tale of the 120-mile rim of rolling land that hugs the western shore of Lake Ontario from Oshawa to Niagara Falls. One out of every seven Canadians now lives there. . . . They proudly call the area "the Golden Horseshoe."
ref: 1960 February 22, “‘An Ongoing Process’”, in Time:
text: Half of those new immigrants came to Ontario. . . . Once here, most of them settled in the Golden Horseshoe area, now home to 8.1 million people, or one-quarter of all Canadians.
ref: 2007 May 18, “Editorial: Immigration targets go beyond numbers”, in Toronto Star, retrieved 08 Sep 2008:
glosses: The U-shaped area of the Canadian province of Ontario which extends along the northwestern, western, and southwestern shoreline of Lake Ontario from metropolitan Toronto to the Niagara River, comprising one of Canada's most populated and economically productive regions.
ghost ship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost ships
form: ghostship
form: ghost-ship
Etymology: ghost + ship
Senses: examples: text: When Hayes turned to Jephson's contribution, he found that it commenced with a description of the famous ghost ship, the Marie Celeste, being towed into Gibraltar harbor.
ref: 2014, Valerie Martin, The Ghost of the Mary Celeste, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An abandoned ship, or (science fiction, by extension) spaceship, that is haunted and possibly adrift.
wikipedia: ghost ship
Hyponyms: Mary Celeste
Flying Dutchman
ghost ships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghost ship
maelström
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maelströms
Senses: glosses: Dated form of maelstrom.
contristate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: contristates
form: contristating
form: contristated
form: contristated
Etymology: First attested in 1616; borrowed from Latin contrīstātus, perfect passive participle of contrīstō (“to sadden”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of contrist.
Senses: examples: text: Somewhat they [Harmonical sounds and Discordant Sounds] do contristate , but very little
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “IX. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
text: They are contristated to repentance.
ref: 1637, William Chillingworth, The Religion of Protestants:
text: For the insufferable sadness of a heart smitten almost prostrate grieves, contristates, and affects me.
ref: 1861, H. E. Dennehy, The Church of the First Three Centuries:
synonyms: word: attrist
word: contrist
word: tristitiate
word: aggrieve
word: attrist
word: begloom
word: begrieve
word: besorrow
word: grieve
word: bring down
word: contristate
word: dash
word: deject
word: depress
word: desolate
word: dispirit
word: engrieve
word: forset
word: get down
word: grieven
word: moan
word: oppress
word: rue
word: sadden
word: sadden up
word: tristitiate
word: ungladden
word: unhappy
word: upset
glosses: To make sorrowful; to sadden or grieve.
Related terms: contristation
Cathi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A 20th century spelling variant of Cathy, diminutive of the female given name Catherine.
Cathie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A spelling variant of Cathy, diminutive of the female given name Catherine.
speculatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more speculatory
form: most speculatory
Etymology: From Latin speculātōrius (“of or pertaining to spies or scouts”).
Senses: examples: text: speculatory mount
text: speculatory out-posts to the Akeman-street
ref: 1815, Thomas Warton, The History and Antiquities of Kiddington:
glosses: Intended or adapted for viewing or looking out.
examples: text: speculatory divination
text: speculatory narrantive
text: My privileges are an ubiquitary, circumambulatory, speculatory, interrogatory, redargutory and immunity over all the privy lodgings
ref: 1633, Thomas Carew, Coelum Britanicum:
glosses: Exercising speculation or guesswork; speculative.
examples: text: speculatory buying
text: speculatory transactions
topics: business
finance
glosses: speculative (involving risk)
costellate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more costellate
form: most costellate
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin costellātus, from costella (“small rib”) + -ātus, from costa (“rib”) + -ella (forms diminutives), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Finely ribbed or costate.
consternate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒn.stəɹ.neɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɑn-/
ipa: /-stə-/
Forms: form: consternates
head_nr: 1
form: consternating
head_nr: 1
form: consternated
head_nr: 1
form: consternated
head_nr: 1
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: To cause consternation in; to dismay.
cold steel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Give them the cold steel, boys!
ref: 1863 (attributed) Armistead, Bri. Gen. Lewis A. (commander of the only Confederate brigade that breached the Union line during Pickett's Charge, Battle of Gettysburg, July 3, 1863)
text: In your native homeland a stranger you will be by the law of the rifle and the law of cold steel
ref: 1995, David Palumbo-Liu, The ethnic canon: histories, institutions, and interventions:
text: Yet the caracole had struggled against cold steel throughout the 16th century and had come off the victor.
ref: 2003, William P. Guthrie, The later Thirty Years War:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A sword, bayonet or similar weapon made of steel.
Related terms: bayonet
bright lights and cold steel
cold weapon
Pickett's charge
sabre
Amey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant spelling of Amy, from Old French or Latin.
Senses: examples: text: By their dresses, their names, and the airs of quality they give themselves, I am rendered ridiculous among all my acquaintance. My wife, who is a very plain good woman, and whose name is Amey, has been new-christened, and is called Amelia; and my little daughter, a child of a year old, is no longer Polly, but Maria.
ref: 1776 Adam Fitz-Adam: The World of Adam Fitz-Adam. Edinburgh, Apollo Press 1776: Numb. 187. Thursday, July 29, 1756
glosses: A female given name from Latin, an old spelling variant of Amy, no longer current.
Related terms: Amy
Cathryn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek, of rare usage, variant of Catherine.
Catheryn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek, a rare nonstandard spelling variant of Catherine.
Katheryn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek, a rare nonstandard spelling variant of Catherine.
Amory
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Medieval personal name from Proto-Germanic *amal- (“vigor, bravery”) + *rīks (“ruler”). For the first element, compare *ammōną (“to bother, irritate”).
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
examples: text: Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while.
ref: 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, chapter I, in This Side of Paradise:
glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages, today often transferred back from the surname.
Related terms: Amelia
Emery
Emory
Amalric
protected sex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Safe sex.
dibstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A child's game, similar to jacks.
dibstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dibstone
dibstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dibstones
Senses: glosses: A pebble used in a child's game called dibstones.
cépage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cépages
Etymology: Borrowed from French cépage.
Senses: examples: text: There is a fascinating Californian grape, the zinfandel, said to have come from Hungary, but apparently a cépage now unknown there.
ref: 1972, H. W. Yoxall, The enjoyment of wine, Drake Publishers Inc., New York, →ISBN:
glosses: A variety of grape.
acknowelege
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: acknoweleges
form: acknoweleging
form: acknoweleged
form: acknoweleged
Senses: examples: text: […]that beste hathe cause to acknowelege thankfulnes[…]
ref: 1590, “XXXIV. Elizabeth to James, 1590”, in Letters of Queen Elizabeth and King James VI. of Scotland:
text: Howeuer that shall happen, J doe acknowelege my self much bound to you[…]
ref: 1633, “Letter XLII (July 19, 1633)”, in Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, with Communications Made to the Society, volume 3, page 83:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of acknowledge.
librarial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /laɪˈbɹɛəɹi.əl/
ipa: /laɪˈbɹɛɹi.əl/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəl
Forms: form: more librarial
form: most librarial
Etymology: From library + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Those wire-framed glasses made Babel look like a librarian, but his silence is not librarial.
ref: 1986, Michael Gregory Stephens, The Dramaturgy of Style: Voice in Short Fiction, page 25:
text: a nonprofit association or corporation, whose aims and objectives are religious, educational, librarial, or community service in nature
ref: 2004, McGillivary, Glenn, et al., Wage and Hour Laws: A State-by-state Survey, page 649:
synonyms: bibliothecal
bibliothecarial
bibliothecarian
bibliothecary
bibliothetic
bibliothetical
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a library, librarianship or librarians.
crepitus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin crepitus.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Grating, crackling or popping sounds and sensations experienced under the skin and joints.
Synonyms: crepitation
Related terms: crepitous
et. al
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of et al..
church keys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of church key
churchkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of churchkey
churchkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: churchkeys
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of church key.
Hellenists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hellenist
butterflyfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butterflyfishes
form: butterflyfish
Etymology: From butterfly + fish, from their bright colours.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of conspicuous tropical marine fish of the family Chaetodontidae; the bannerfish and coralfish are also included in this group. Butterflyfish are fairly small, mostly from 12 to 22 cm (c.7-9 in) in length.
discus fish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discus fish
form: discus fishes
Senses: glosses: Any of three cichlid fish species from the genus Symphysodon, popular as aquarium fishes.
warranting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of warrant
warranting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warrantings
Senses: examples: text: A tradesman disdains to lie, abhors to oppress; yet hath uttered so many commodities by dissimulations, concealments, false warrantings, cunning frauds, as make up an oppression equal to Jeconiah's.
ref: a. 1652, Thomas Adams, The Bad Leaven:
glosses: A guarantee.
occured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Seven people have died and seven were injured on Thursday after a car drove into a crowd in Central China, local media reported.[…]
The incident occured^([sic – meaning occurred]) in Zaoyang City in Hubei Province.
ref: 2019 March 22, “China: Car drives into crowd killing multiple people”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 22 Mar 2019, News:
glosses: Misspelling of occurred.
warriorlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more warriorlike
form: most warriorlike
Etymology: From warrior + -like.
Senses: glosses: like a warrior
undernet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undernets
Etymology: From under- + net, perhaps modelled on underworld.
Senses: glosses: The criminal underworld in cyberspace.
Usonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /juːˈsoʊni.ən/
Forms: form: usonian
form: USonian
form: Usonan
Etymology: Sense 1, Usona + -ian, or Usonia + -an.
: Senses 2–4, Usonia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: This much was already evident in the opinions expressed by Usonian politicians and ideologues following the end of the War of 1898.
text: It is hoped that every reader will have a sufficient share of the general sense of humor to enjoy, and not to take offense at, such bits of Usonian and Canadian lingo.
ref: 1956, W. L. McAtee, “Facetious Monickers for American Birds”, in American Speech, volume 31, number 3, page 180:
text: Right below Juan Ponce is the Palace of the Fortaleza de Santa Catalina drawn in such a way so as to highlight the Puerto Rican and the Usonian flags waving above.
ref: 2003, Toshiko Mori, Materials, Fabrication + Performance: The Journal of the School of Architecture and Planning, page 121:
glosses: Of or relating to the United States of America.
examples: text: The great Usonian Life, the universal life of our own true democracy.
text: only in freedom can we build the Usonian city. His [Wright's] plans are coming to life.
ref: 1936 (2000), John Dos Passos, The Big Money, page 346:
glosses: Of Frank Lloyd Wright's vision for a utopian United States.
examples: text: Their residential design is strongly influenced by Prairie and Usonian architecture.
text: His ability to design buildings to fit their locations was one of his great talents, and his Usonian houses, despite the highly systematized construction methods used, were always attuned to the particulars of each building location. The composition of the exterior walls and the structural system was repeated from house to house […] yet each Usonian was distinct.
ref: 2002, Paul Adamson, Marty Arbunich, Ernie Braun, Eichler, page 94:
glosses: Of or relating to a style of construction introduced by Frank Lloyd Wright.
examples: text: Okemos, Michigan, was to be the site of Wright's first Usonian community.
text: As the median age of Usonian children grew, […]
ref: 2001, Roland Reisley, Frank Lloyd Wright, John Timpane, Usonia, New York:
glosses: Pertaining to Usonia, New York, or similar Wrightian communities.
Synonyms: sense: of the United States of America
word: United Statian
sense: of the United States of America
word: US American
sense: of the United States of America
word: United Statesian
sense: of the United States of America
word: American
sense: of the United States of America
word: US-ian
sense: of the United States of America
word: Usanian
sense: Wrightian architecture
word: Prairie
sense: Wrightian architecture
word: Prairie-style
Usonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /juːˈsoʊni.ən/
Forms: form: Usonians
form: usonian
form: USonian
form: Usonan
Etymology: Sense 1, Usona + -ian, or Usonia + -an.
: Senses 2–4, Usonia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: As a Usonian of Celtic-Franco/Gallego Mexican-Quaker-Catholic-German-Blackfoot-Rock&Roll descent, I feel at home.
ref: 2004, Juan Bruce-Novoa, “Twenty years of transatlantic Usonianism”, in Walter Grünzweig, editor, The United States in Global Contexts: American Studies After 9/11 and Iraq, page 23:
glosses: An inhabitant or citizen of the United States of America.
examples: text: "Those were the best of the arguments," one Usonian remembered.
ref: 2001, Roland Reisley, Frank Lloyd Wright, John Timpane, Usonia, New York, page 13:
glosses: An inhabitant of the Wrightian community of Usonia, New York.
examples: text: Rosenbaum does an admirable job of characterizing the philosophy behind the Usonian and its particular place in time.
ref: 1994, Edward Russo, Illinois historical journal, Illinois State Historical Society, page 333:
text: His ability to design buildings to fit their locations was one of his great talents, and his Usonian houses, despite the highly systematized construction methods used, were always attuned to the particulars of each building location. The composition of the exterior walls and the structural system was repeated from house to house […] yet each Usonian was distinct.
ref: 2002, Paul Adamson, Marty Arbunich, Ernie Braun, Eichler, page 94:
glosses: A house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in his Usonian style.
Synonyms: sense: inhabitant or citizen of the United States of America
word: American
word: US American
word: United Statesian
word: US-ian
word: Usanian
word: American
Derived terms: Usonianism
whiteflies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whitefly
wrapped up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wrapped up
form: most wrapped up
Senses: examples: text: I found my new master more wrapped up than ever in Seraphina; his Seraphina equally wrapped up in my master, and Don Cæsar just as much wrapped up as either in the contemplation of the happy couple.
ref: 1833, Alain René Le Sage, Thomas Roscoe, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane - Volume 2, page 2:
text: Maybe during football season I'm more wrapped up with what Erik's doing.
ref: 2001, Edward Bloor, Tangerine, page 92:
text: I think if he had had other relations, he would cope better, but he had no aunts or uncles or even grandparents to talk to, and as his dad got on with living with his girlfriend and his sister became more and more wrapped up in her boyfriend, he was sadly on his own.
ref: 2013, Carol Williamson, Can't You See Me?, page 128:
text: She gives us all a lot of meaningless busy work, and she herself is so wrapped up in busy work that she doesn't know the difference between productive work and the appearance of working.
ref: 2014, Donald Capps, Laughter Ever After: Ministry of Good Humor, page 83:
glosses: Involved with; distracted by.
examples: text: In our secular society, the use and understanding of the mask, outside of entertainment, has become wrapped up in superstition, which one could argue is what happens to a society when it ditches its religious beliefs, beliefs central to that society.
ref: 2006, 2006, The Mask Handbook: A Practical Guide, page 13:
glosses: Entangled in.
wrapped up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wrap up
Wyandots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wyandot
weaverbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weaverbird
Kellogg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kellough
Etymology: Originally a nickname for a butcher, from "kill hog".
Senses: glosses: An English surname transferred from the nickname.
Derived terms: Kellogg oak
Kellogg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kellough
Etymology: Anglicized from Irish Ó Ceallaigh. Doublet of Kelly and Callahan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Kellogg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kellough
Senses: glosses: A city in Idaho.
glosses: A city and town in Iowa.
glosses: A city and town in Minnesota.
qualifier: Oxford University
glosses: Ellipsis of Kellogg College, Oxford.
kitesurfs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kitesurf
kitesurfed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kitesurf
knocking down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of knock down
knocks down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of knock down
knocked down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of knock down
backstopping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backstop
backstopped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of backstop
black box warning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black box warnings
Senses: glosses: A warning, surrounded by a black border, affixed to a prescription drug to indicate that it may cause serious or life-threatening effects.
gave in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of give in
ley lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ley line
groundworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of groundwork
scorpioid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scorpioid
form: most scorpioid
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σκορπιοειδής (skorpioeidḗs, “scorpionlike”), from σκορπίος (skorpíos, “scorpion”) + εἶδος (eîdos, “form, likeness”).
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or appearing like a scorpion.
examples: text: a scorpioid cyme
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: scorpioidal
glosses: Resembling a scorpion's tail; circinate.
scorpioid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scorpioids
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σκορπιοειδής (skorpioeidḗs, “scorpionlike”), from σκορπίος (skorpíos, “scorpion”) + εἶδος (eîdos, “form, likeness”).
Senses: examples: text: M. Corda justly considers these two fossil scorpioids of Bohemia (the only two of which any account has been yet published) to be among the most remarkable discoveries of modern times.
ref: 1842, Proceedings of the Geological Society of London, volume 3, page 504:
text: Inflorescence a raceme of dichasial or scorpioid cymes, at times condensed into a dichasium of scorpioids or a simple scorpioid cyme.
ref: 1938, Heber Wilkinson Youngken, A College Textbook of Pharmaceutical Botany, page 592:
glosses: A scorpion-like creature.