cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
echinologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of echinologist
echinological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to echinology.
ectromelus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A person who has ectromelia.
Pokrent
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Pokrent, from a West Slavic language. Compare Polish pokręt, pokrętny.
Senses: glosses: A village in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany.
idfk
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of IDFK.
AIIMS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Abbreviation of All India Institutes of Medical Sciences.
xbreds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xbred
Elaphebolion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The ninth month of the ancient Attic calendar.
dogfly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogflies
Etymology: From Middle English dogflye, dogge flie, equivalent to dog + fly, chiefly after post-classical Latin cynomyia and its etymon Ancient Greek κυνάμυια (kunámuia) (in Hellenistic Greek κυνόμυια (kunómuia)). Compare Old English hundes lūs.
Senses: examples: text: And behoulding a great multitude of the enemies, he wiſhed them no other harme, but only that ſwarmes of gnats and dogflies might be ſent among them, that feeling the ſtinges of thoſe ſmall creatures, they might acknowledg the power of him that aided the Romanes. When this petition was made vnto God, preſently whole cloudes of gnats and dogflies couered the Perſiã army,[…].
ref: 1612, The Ecclesiasticall History of Theodoret Bishop of Cyrus, page 196:
text: Discussed with Chairman of the Legislative Committee of the Florida Anti-Mosquito Association support of the group for additional funds for the mosquito control program of the State Board of Health and another research laboratory on dogflies.
ref: 1961, Annual Report, State Board of Health, State of Florida, 1961, page 3:
text: Dogflies were pestering the Pensacola beach trade, and beach crews were mobilized to disinfect the clumps of washed-up seaweed in which the dogflies lived.
ref: 1969, Wesley Marx, The Frail Ocean, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, pages 63–64:
glosses: A bloodsucking fly, Stomoxys calcitrans; stablefly.
dogflies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dogfly
elator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elators
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of elater.
elators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elator
Mriganko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Mriganka.
electrokinematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to electrokinematics.
electronervous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electro- + nervous.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the electrical signals in the nerves of the body.
IGTG
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: igtg
Senses: synonyms: GTG
G2G
glosses: Initialism of I've got to go.
igtg
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of IGTG.
Ellice
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Probably a variant spelling of Alice or Elise.
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Ellice
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ellices
Etymology: Variant spelling of Ellis.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A former rural municipality in Manitoba, Canada, now part of Ellice-Archie.
Derived terms: Ellice-Archie
Gilbert and Ellice Islands
Satyajit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Bengali সত্যজিৎ (śôttôjit), etc.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit.
Latin lovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Latin lover
AEM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AEMs
Senses: coordinate_terms: anion
exchange
membrane
IEM
CEM
PEM
glosses: Initialism of anion exchange membrane.
CEM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CEMs
Senses: coordinate_terms: cation
exchange
membrane
IEM
AEM
PEM
glosses: Initialism of cation exchange membrane.
IEM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IEMs
Senses: coordinate_terms: ion
exchange
membrane
AEM
CEM
PEM
glosses: Initialism of ion exchange membrane.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of inborn error of metabolism.
glosses: Initialism of in-ear monitor.
euchromatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a euchromatic manner
swarm plot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swarm plots
Senses: glosses: A form of scatter plot
swarmplot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swarmplots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of swarm plot.
swarmplots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swarmplot
apicalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: apicalizes
form: apicalizing
form: apicalized
form: apicalized
Senses: glosses: To make apical or to move to an apical position
apicalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of apicalize
apicalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: made apical
postthaw
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + thaw.
Senses: glosses: Following a thaw
tetratrifluoroacetate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetratrifluoroacetates
Etymology: From tetra- + trifluoroacetate.
Senses: glosses: Any salt or ester containing four trifluoroacetate groups
nicotinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nicotine + -al.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nicotinic: Of or relating to nicotine.
synonyms: word: nicotinic
extra: Of or relating to nicotine
abuseless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From abuse + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Nearly all miscalled criminals are those who unwittingly enact a protest against misuse, and would as earnestly and bravely conform to and promote constructive or abuseless treatment—which is clearly proven in the chapter on criminality and insanity.
ref: 1919, Nelson Dwight Sickels, The Universal Panacea in Nick of Time, page 221:
text: I would ask OMB to take another look at yearend spending and see if it is as abuseless as they currently think.
ref: 1979, House Post Office and Civil Service Committee, Contracting Out: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, Ninety-Sixth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 4717, page 140:
text: I don't think you really could rewrite the rules any better. There about the most hole-free, abuseless rules GW has ever come up with.
ref: 1995 June 16, Jason Ustica, “2nd Edition Rules + Space Hulk”, in rec.games.miniatures.warhammer (Usenet), retrieved 21 May 2022:
text: Still, congratulations on an abuseless ascension!
ref: 1996 March 29, Paul Brinkley, “YAbloody annoying totally piss-takingD”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet), retrieved 21 May 2022:
text: Finally! My first (abuseless) ascension. I've been playing for quite a few years now, and am glad to have gotten one real ascension under my belt.
ref: 1999 December 11, Eric Olson, “YAFAP -- Olga -V (long)”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet), retrieved 21 May 2022:
antonyms: abuseful
abusive
glosses: Devoid of abuse.
notetake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: notetakes
form: notetaking
form: notetook
form: notetaken
form: note-take
Etymology: Back-formation from notetaker or notetaking. Equivalent to note + take.
Senses: examples: text: I've always wondered why my teachers told me things, or had me notetake, when the information was right in front of me, clear and concise.
ref: 1999 December 28, P. Tierney, “Students of toay”, in k12.chat.teacher (Usenet), retrieved 21 May 2022:
text: Whether general or specific, subtopics become the outline of the entire research project, the "dry bones" that are "fleshed out" with knowing what to read and notetake and what information to skip.
ref: 2001, Deborah B. Stanley, Practical Steps to the Research Process for Middle School, page 73:
text: I can notetake just fine, I don't need (what one person on a gaming site Q&A I occasionally read calls) "dummy text".
ref: 2001 June 27, Lumina Dragon, “Vote for best game...”, in rec.games.computer.ultima-dragons (Usenet), retrieved 21 May 2022:
text: To note-take or not to note-take?
ref: 2016, Julie Starr, The Coaching Manual:
glosses: To take notes.
note-take
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: note-takes
form: note-taking
form: note-took
form: note-taken
Etymology: Back-formation from note-taker or note-taking.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of notetake.
doctrixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doctrix
Ellices
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ellice
notetakes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of notetake
note-takes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of note-take
notetook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of notetake
note-took
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of note-take
Bobigny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and commune, the prefecture of Seine-Saint-Denis department, Île-de-France, France.
Sedrakyan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sedrakyans
form: Sedrakian
form: Setrakian
form: Setrakyan
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian Սեդրակյան (Sedrakyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Derived terms: Sedrakyan's inequality
Sedrakian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sedrakians
Etymology: Variant of Sedrakyan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Sedrakians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sedrakian
Sedrakyans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sedrakyan
Digby County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪɡ.bi ˈkaʊn.ti/
rhymes: -aʊnti
Etymology: The county is named after the Township of Digby, which is named in turn after naval officer Robert Digby (1732 - 1815).
Senses: glosses: A county in Nova Scotia, Canada.
wikipedia: Robert Digby
boune
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more boune
form: most boune
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of bound.
testosterone undecanoate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The testosterone ester of undecanoic acid that is an androgen and anabolic steroid medication - C₃₀H₄₈O₃.
white henbane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English white henbane, a calque of Latin iusquamus albus.
Senses: examples: text: The thirde whiche hath white flowers, is called Hyoſcyamus albus, that is to ſay, White Henbane. / The Choiſe. / The white Henbane is beſt to be vſed in medicine.[…]The ſeede of the white Henbane, and the leaues are cold in the third degree.
ref: 1578, Rembert Dodoens, translated by Henry Lyte, A Nievve Herball, or Historie of Plantes: Wherin is Contayned the VVhole Discourse and Perfect Description of All Sortes of Herbes and Plantes: Their Diuers ⁊ Sundry Kindes: […], London: Gerard Dewes, page 450:
text: The Henbanes, notably Black Henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) and White Henbane (H. albus), have long been utilised as magic, medicinal and hallucinogenic herbs in Europe and the Far East.
ref: 2013, Cheryll J. Williams, “Ancient Drugs in a Modern World”, in Medicinal Plants in Australia, volume 4 (An Antipodean Apothecary), Rosenberg, →ISBN, section “The Black Henbane (Hyoscyamus niger)”, page 348:
text: In his book, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants, German author Christian ratsch claims that white henbane (Hyoscyamus albus), whose flowers do not have the purple veining of black henbane, was the plant used in ancient southern Europe for prophecy.[…]if you want to try growing it, white henbane tends to be on the short side, about two feet tall.
ref: 2017, Harold Roth, “Henbane”, in The Witching Herbs: 13 Essential Plants and Herbs for Your Magical Garden, Weiser Books, pages 208 and 214:
glosses: The plant Hyoscyamus albus.
Sweta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Swetas
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Garges
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Garge
kitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kitters
Etymology: From kit (“collection of parts”) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I am looking for kitters that do twins like the C47 DC3 B25 etc///
ref: 1996 September 24, Melanie A. Sisneros, “Looking for kitters that do twins!!”, in rec.models.rc.air (Usenet), retrieved 21 May 2022:
text: Am still sitting on enough stuff to make a lot of other stuff for this NG if the interest ever surfaces. But....I *really* need those of you who got my original kits to please fly them and post the results here. Any small kit maker NEEDS word of mouth in a niche market such as this....just ask Rob or Doug! Even negative responces^([sic]) are helpful as they enable the kitter to see what hes^([sic]) doing wrong and correct it.
ref: 1999 September 7, Mike Lee Kochel, “Whatever happened to Novus?”, in rec.models.rockets (Usenet), retrieved 21 May 2022:
text: I don't do kits very often, but do have a couple in my stash that really appealed. I have never run out of thread though. Funnily enough I think I am doing my first kit in absolute ages and I think it may very well be by the kitter you are talking about.
ref: 2001 October 9, Debbie Wright, “enough thread in kits?”, in rec.crafts.textiles.needlework (Usenet), retrieved 21 May 2022:
text: Except that every other f-16 kitter--including garage outfits like Hasegawa--manage to mold it in one piece, no line.
ref: 2007 May 12, tomcervo, “Tamiya F-16: wth?”, in rec.models.scale (Usenet), retrieved 21 May 2022:
glosses: A person or company that manufactures kits.
kitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kitters
Etymology: From kit (“kitten”) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: AAARRRGGGGHHHH!!!! My cat decided to use my Elfquest Graffikk Novels as the appropriate place to mark his territory!!!! Fortunately I only had to wipe kitter piddle off the spines, but still, they're soft-cover and now quite scented... and to think, here I am forcing my sig other to read the things (think I can addict him?), so I hand him these four beat-up relics from my pre-teenhood covered in kitter piss.
ref: 1995 January 12, Melanie A. Sisneros, “To skin a cat...”, in alt.comics.elfquest (Usenet), retrieved 21 May 2022:
text: Hello...my daughter has recently gotten a new pet bunny and would like it and our three kitters who we live with to become FRIENDS. Two of our kitter buddies are the same color as the bunbun and have all three think the bunnie is just fascinating while in his crate. I have let the bunnie run around the house when the kitters retire for siesta time but they seem to think it's not very nice to close the door on any room, especially since they KNOW that the bunbun is running free. Anyone have any ideas of introduction, reassurances that the kitters won't eat the little bunnie?
ref: 1996 September 13, rlaatsch, “Kitters and Bunnie??”, in rec.pets.cats (Usenet), retrieved 21 May 2022:
text: BWHAHAHAHA!
That was 2 years ago?
Times have changed.
You couldn't change kitter litter.
ref: 1997 October 29, Gilbert Sullivan, “LIAR!”, in alt.butt.harp (Usenet), retrieved 21 May 2022:
glosses: A cat.
kitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kitter
condescention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: condescentions
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of condescension.
condescentions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of condescention
black-a-moor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black-a-moors
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of blackamoor.
black-a-moors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black-a-moor
Rossella
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rossellas
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Italian.
Boshers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bosherses
Etymology: Variant of Bosher or Boshears.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Boshers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bosher
Bosherses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Boshers
Bevils
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bevil
adviceless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From advice + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Does anyone know of a 'good' third party publication on SQA TeamTest. The documentation that accompanies the product is pretty adviceless.
ref: 1997 April 16, Russ Neimy, “Reference Material On SQA TeamTest”, in comp.software.testing (Usenet), retrieved 21 May 2022:
text: Just wanted to ask if you could give me some tips how to talk with this woman.
I feel really adviceless....till this time,i only got girlsfriends that were "bitches". I mean only those where i never was really in love. It was more natural to have one and fun was more important to me then being really lucky or feeling love.
ref: 2001 October 21, Michael, “Please help me !First real love in my life....”, in alt.romance (Usenet), retrieved 21 May 2022:
text: I'm nervous as hell. The only advice I could think of was to tell her to tell her folks to show up brandishing an open cellphone, making clear that someone else was on the speakerphone on the other end, so that anything said or done would be heard. Beyond that, I'm pretty freaked but adviceless.
ref: 2009 January 14, Jim Beaver, “A safe departure (and how to have one)”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet), retrieved 21 May 2022:
antonyms: adviceful
glosses: Lacking advice.
metachromatic leukodystrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metachromatic leukodystrophies
Senses: examples: text: Metachromatic leukodystrophy is an autosomal recessive disorder that is usually caused by mutations in the arylsulfatase A (ARSA) gene on chromosome 22q13.31.[…]Several molecular forms of arylsulfatase A exist and may account for the different phenotypes of metachromatic leukodystrophy.
ref: 2010, Michael C. Brodsky, Pediatric Neuro-Ophthalmology, Springer, page 478:
text: The leukodystrophies are lysosomal storage disorders (lipidoses) affecting myelin. The metachromatic leukodystrophies (MLD) are a heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by demyelination in the central and peripheral nervous system and accumulation of galactosyl sulfatide (cerebroside sulfate) in glia, Schwann cells, and macrophages.
ref: 2013, Perry K. Richardson, Scott T. Demarest, “27: Inherited Metabolic Neuropathies”, in Bashar Katirji, Henry J. Kaminski, Robert L. Ruff, editors, Neuromuscular Disorders in Clinical Practice, Springer, page 558:
text: The metachromatic leukodystrophies (MLD) are caused by defective activity of the arylsulfatase enzyme system, with a consequent accumulation of sulfatides. The most common variant (Phenotype MIM#250100) is caused by a defect in the arylsulfatase A gene (ARSA, protein product cerebroside sulfatase).
ref: 2014, Juan M Bilbao, Robert E Schmidt, Biopsy Diagnosis of Peripheral Neuropathy, Springer, page 429:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of a range of genetic metabolic disorders caused by defective genes for arylsulfatase enzymes,
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of a range of genetic metabolic disorders caused by defective genes for arylsulfatase enzymes,
especially, a deficiency in the enzyme ARSA (arylsulfatase A).
especially, a deficiency in the enzyme ARSA (arylsulfatase A).
Synonyms: sense: genetic metabolic disorder
word: MLD
sense: genetic metabolic disorder
word: ARSA deficiency
sense: genetic metabolic disorder
word: arylsulfatase A deficiency
metachromatic leukodystrophies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metachromatic leukodystrophy
Bogdanski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bogdanskis
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Bogdański.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Blancett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Blancetts
Etymology: Variant of Blanchet.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Blancetts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Blancett
Bogdanskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bogdanski
Athenses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Athens
Adamczaks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Adamczak
Zauner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zauners
Etymology: Borrowed from Austrian German Zauner.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Zauners
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Zauner
Antoninos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Antonino
Zaids
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Zaid
Sea of Sodom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Sea of Sodom
Etymology: From the biblical account of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah near its shores.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Dead Sea.
synonyms: word: Dead Sea
wikipedia: Sodom and Gomorrah
Allegras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Allegra
Andises
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Andis
Antheses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Anthes
Salt Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Salt Sea
Etymology: Calque of Hebrew ים המלח (Yam HaMelakh), principally from its appearance in the Bible.
Senses: examples: text: Archaeologists suggest that the Plain of Sodom is now submerged under the southern tongue of the Salt Sea.
ref: 1983 August 20, Charley Shively, “Sodom, Nagasaki and the Final Conflagration”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 6, page 7:
glosses: Synonym of Dead Sea.
synonyms: word: Dead Sea
McNall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McNalls
Etymology: Probably a shortened form of McNally.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Lake Asphaltites
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Latin Lacus Asphaltites, from Ancient Greek Ἀσφαλτίτης Λίμνη (Asphaltítēs Límnē), from the importance of the lake's free-floating bitumen blocks in ancient trade.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Dead Sea.
synonyms: word: Dead Sea
Avants
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Avantses
Etymology: Perhaps a variant of Avent.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Avantses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Avants
McNalls
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McNall
Avents
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Avent
Alessandros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Alessandro
flamboyantness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From flamboyant + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I beg that grave note be taken of this just condemnation of the essential character—“the flamboyant”ness—of the architecture which up to this time I had chiefly, and most affectionately, studied.
ref: 1880, John Ruskin, “The Lamp of Truth”, in The Seven Lamps of Architecture, new edition, Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent: George Allen, page 63:
text: OUR stock is CLEAN; all late BUY and well kept. This is the store of the BETTER CLASS with no FLAMBOYANTNESS in EVIDENCE.
ref: 1922 January 11, J. M. McKee and Company, “Hold Your Money and Wait for This Sale”, in The Statesville Sentinel, volume XIX, number 5, Statesville, N.C.:
text: The flamboyantness of a professional writer does creep in now and then[…].
ref: 1966, Field Notes: Newsletter of the Arkansas Archeological Society, page 4:
text: It seemed for a moment as if the effervescent flamboyant[-]ness of Miss Corelli faded before the six-foot tall command of the statuesque Clara Butt.
ref: 1966, Ursula Bloom, Rosemary for Stratford-on-Avon, London: Robert Hale, page 84:
text: Science prides itself on being proper and precise, and any type of flamboyantness is looked upon with distrust.
ref: 1971, “Cultural Definitions of the Female Professional”, in Athena Theodore, editor, The Professional Woman, Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman Publishing Company, Inc., page 139:
text: But the ease and un-flamboyantness of these similes owes to their yoking of near neighbors in the natural world.
ref: 1973, The Mississippi Quarterly, page 641:
text: “I like him [Paul Tsongas]. He’s a nice man but I don’t think he would have the flamboyantness that we would need to get things going as a president,” said [Everett] Doerge.
ref: 1992 February 24, C.J. Fogel, “Calm before the storm in Louisiana”, in The Times, page 6A:
text: “With the exception of some of the flamboyant-ness, it’s going to look like any other festival you might go to.” And by flamboyant, [Mike] Morgan is referring to the drag queens.
ref: 2011 October 13, Wendi C. Thomas, “Step out and parade pride in fair choice”, in The Commercial Appeal, page DSA2:
text: The more naked men and women he sees walking in the house the more conscious he gets about himself and about his relationship with Jasmine. Her flamboyantness and openness sometimes scared Aamil and he becomes reluctant to a lot of things, especially if it has something to do with just two of them.
ref: 2013, Z. Adil, God of No Religion: A Boy’s Journey in Writing His Masterpiece and Discovering What He Calls Mr. God, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 41:
text: “This movie is about a kind-of nice couple, kind-of square to be perfectly honest, and they want to have like a weekend retreat to show each other love and then Salinger, my character, comes in and ruins that with his big, you know, flamboyantness, and ends up getting killed because he’s an idiot.”
ref: 2013 October, “Spotlight Canada: Dead Funny”, in Cineplex Magazine, volume 14, number 10, Cineplex Entertainment, →ISSN, page 16:
glosses: The quality of being flamboyant.
Synonyms: flamboyance
flamboyancy
unflamboyance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Both nations respect clarity of line, both styles favor a certain unflamboyance, and both derive from a mixture of the Russian and Italian schools—although the Italian influence is greater in England.
ref: 1971 October 17, Clive Barnes, “London Critics Pan U.S. Ballet”, in The Sunday Sun, volume 71, number 42, Baltimore, Md., section D, page 6:
text: But as she dances, it is obvious that it is her security of technique that allows her to do so many things so elegantly, the so-correct placement, the fine balance, the certain unflamboyance that makes her delicate line a memorable and delightful thing to view.
ref: 1973 November 8, Donald Davies, “For 3rd Season, Best in Ballet”, in Wisconsin State Journal, volume 218, number 83, Madison, Wis., section 4, page 1:
text: I was enormously impressed by the great studio and the quiet strength and unflamboyance of Epstein himself.
ref: 1991, The Wood-Engravings of Blair Hughes-Stanton, page 34:
text: When [Pete] Seeger won his spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996, he stood out at the gala induction ceremony with a characteristically flamboyant act of unflamboyance, leaving the stage without uttering a word.
ref: 2000, Benjamin Filene, “Coda”, in Romancing the Folk: Public Memory & American Roots Music, Chapel Hill, N.C.; London: the University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 234:
text: Now, nearly 20 years later, while other cellars are often seen outperforming the Hamilton Russell wines, those who seek unflamboyance and restraint still regard them as industry classics.
ref: 2000, “South Africa”, in The Global Encyclopedia of Wine, Global Book Publishing, →ISBN, section “Other South African Regions”, page 481:
text: Behn had always associated the bourgeois with age, impotence, miserliness and dreary unflamboyance.
ref: 2001, Derek Hughes, “Dearth and Famine”, in The Theatre of Aphra Behn, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 160:
glosses: The quality of being unflamboyant.
be-bearded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bebearded
Etymology: From be- + bearded.
Senses: examples: text: Two most important events give character and interest to the present age—the introduction of the press among the benighted offuscated be-whiskered and be-bearded Ottomans, and the importation of whiskers among our smooth visaged and lanthorn jawed republicans.
ref: 1833 April 3, Henry Coventry & Co., “Whiskers”, in The Long-Island Star, volume XXIV, number 43, Brooklyn, N.Y.: Alden Spooner:
text: The tug of war is between Old France and Young France, or rather the France of the Empire—still a courteous, polished, but fierce and fiery France—and the be-whiskered and be-bearded Chateau Rouge and Mogadore loving France of the present day;
ref: 1847 November 21, “Theatricals, Etc.”, in Lloyd’s Weekly London Newspaper, number 261, London, page 8:
text: It’s four white dudes: three be-bearded craft beer brewing bros and a VP from Bangor Savings who, I’m extrapolating from his college graduation years on his LinkedIn profile, isn’t a millennial, but who will be talking about what millennials are seeking from their work.
ref: 2019 March 10, Victoria Hugo-Vidal, “Maine’s future can be younger”, in Maine Sunday Telegram, volume 131, number 38, page D1:
glosses: Having a beard.
Synonyms: bearded
beardy
bebearded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Enter TOBIAS⸺in Petticoats. Tob. O dear, dear me, what a pickle am I in—bepetticoated—bewigged—bebearded—and belaughed at by the whole houſe⸺I ſhall die with the ſweating ſickneſs—in four and twenty hours I ſhall be dry as a ſqueezed ſpunge—And all this do I endure for the ſake of that dear hard-hearted creature—ſhe’ll break my heart (wiping his eyes)—if I could drive her out of my thoughts, this moment would I quit this unnatural houſe—Oh, hoh (blubbering).
ref: 1791, William Roberts, The Fugitives: A Comedy, Warrington: […] W. Eyres, for John Stockdale, act II, page 40:
text: Then came the soldiery, bepainted, bebearded, bewhiskered, bewigged, and bedizened in all forms of antiquated habiliments, and all fashions and tastes of materials;
ref: 1833 May 23, “Fantasticals”, in Phenix Gazette, volumes XXXIII (new series—IX), number 3330, Alexandria, Va.:
text: Eight years ago or so, the alternative paper I was working for sent me out to review a couple of folk-noise-psych-indie-beardie-weirdie bands. I had a dreadful night. The bands were bad enough — “fumbling,” I scratched in my notebook, “infantile” — but what really did me in was the audience. Instead of baying for the blood of these lightweights, as in the Darwinian days of old, the gathered young people — behatted, bebearded, besmiling — obliged them with patters of validating applause.
ref: 2014 July 22, James Parker, “The Twee Revolution: From Wes Anderson to Zooey Deschanel to Brooklynites, a terrifying aesthetic is overtaking America”, in Chicago Tribune, 166th year, number 203, section 1A, page 19:
glosses: Alternative form of be-bearded.
retrospectroscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retrospectroscopes
form: retrospectoscope
Etymology: Jocular blend of retrospect + spectroscope; compare the etymology of retrospectoscope.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of retrospectoscope.
synonyms: word: retrospectoscope
retrospectroscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retrospectroscope
West Watford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Watford, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TQ1096).
creaturess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creaturesses
Etymology: From creature + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: By squeezing your waist into an unnaturally small circumference, you compress your lives into the small compass of a few short years—you don’t give the bellowses^([sic]) in your bosoms a chance to blow and keep bright the flames of existence—the warm glow of health soon leaves your cheek, or flashes by fits and starts, like the half choked gas-burner—your eyes in a short time cease to sparkle with joy and love—your roses of beauty quickly fade and fall—you look as dull and worn out as sunlight strained through the windows of a Catholic cathedral. Now, my interesting young creaturesses, what do you gain by all your self-squeezing?
ref: 1845 February 15, Dow Jr. [pseudonym; Elbridge Gerry Paige], “Dow Jr. on Tight Lacing”, in Clarksville Jeffersonian, volume 1, number 39, Clarksville, Tenn.:
text: These two absurd notions, that it is not pretty to be robust and rose, and that it is pretty to try to superinduce beauty or genius by making owls of ourselves in turning night into day, or by rat-like inhabiting unventilated and unwholesome quarters, seem, in stating, too ridiculous and foolish to require a rebuff or refutation; and yet there are multitudes of our fellow-creatures and creaturesses acting upon them daily.
ref: 1860, Elizabeth C[lendenon] Wright, “The Nature Cure.—For the Body.”, in Lichen Tufts, from the Alleghanies, New York, N.Y.: M[ichael] Doolady, page 68:
text: The men treat women with great diference^([sic]) here and when they can’t talk with the pretty girls that come they just kinder drop their eyes and finish it off with a sigh. Once in a while some of the creaturesses come into our “Y” and then just forget themselves and when we learn that at home they are just as lonesome for these men then our Puritan censorious eyes peeping from behind the counter turn from regidity^([sic]) to a twinkle and we say like the old soldier said: “Never too late to yearn.”
ref: 1918 September 21, S G. Ruegg, “Life in a Western Military Cantonment: Rev. S G. Ruegg Sends His Greetings to Home Folks and Tells of the Daily Experiences Encountered “Out There””, in The Menasha Record, Menasha, Wis.; Neenah, Wis., page three:
glosses: Female equivalent of creature.
creaturesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creaturess
gocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɑks/
Senses: glosses: plural of gock
Rockhill Furnace
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Rockhill, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania.
synonyms: word: Rockhill
word: Huntingdon County
word: Pennsylvania
untermenschen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of untermensch
Papantla Totonac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A Native American language spoken in central Mexico, in the state of Veracruz around the city of Papantla.
Papantla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality located in the north of the state of Veracruz, Mexico.
heart-balm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heart-balms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of heart balm.
heart-balms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heart-balm
Monroe Doctrine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after US president James Monroe (1758–1831), who issued the doctrine in 1823.
Senses: examples: text: The US was concerned that European powers might try to recolonise Latin America, and the Monroe Doctrine stated that any such attempt would be regarded as aggression against the United States itself.
ref: 2017, Jason Hickel, “Fallout in the Sacrifice Zone”, in The Divide […] , London: William Heinemann, →ISBN:
synonyms: Monroeism
glosses: A policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas while asserting US dominance, empire, and hegemony in the hemisphere.
Shottle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Shottle and Postern parish, Amber Valley district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3149).
Shottle and Postern
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Amber Valley district, Derbyshire, England.
mutatis mandis
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mutatis mutandis.
mutatis mundi
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mutatis mutandis.
mutis mundis
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mutatis mutandis.
mutis mutandis
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mutatis mutandis.
plays to the cheap seats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of play to the cheap seats
playing to the cheap seats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of play to the cheap seats
played to the cheap seats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of play to the cheap seats
printeresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of printeress
printress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: printresses
Senses: examples: text: It will interest some to know that the whole of the printing of the preceding pages (except the working off, which is a distinct trade) was executed by women.[…]The real difficulties were rather, how to make what had hitherto been a man’s employment not fatiguing to women; or a sedentary employment healthy to the young, or interesting; how to combine instruction in household work, or, again, religious instruction with learning a trade; how to train the young women at once as printresses and yet as future wives and mothers; out of what class of respectable young women or girls to select those who were to be thus taught, and at what age they would best begin.
ref: 1869, E[dward] B[ouverie] Pusey, “Advertisement”, in The Minor Prophets with a Commentary Explanatory and Practical and Introductions to the Several Books, Oxford: J. Parker & Co.; Cambridge: Deighton, Bell & Co.; London; Oxford; Cambridge: Rivingtons:
text: The daughters of Moses ben Abraham, Ella and Gela, were industrious printresses. Gela, when yet in her teens, printed a whole prayer-book by herself,[…].
ref: 1895, Nahida Remy, “Practical Culture Work”, in Louise [Herschman] Mannheimer, transl., The Jewish Woman, Cincinnati, Ohio: C. J. Krehbiel & Company, page 121:
text: Little Miss Dora McDonald, R. S. McDonald’s oldest daughter, who is now “running the ranch” kindly remembered the editor this week with a sack of cabbage of her own raising. Each head was fine, large and solid and was certainly appreciated by the little printers and printresses where we live.
ref: 1906 July 19, The Tupelo Times, volume 2, number 15, Tupelo, Indian Territory:
text: “Isn’t it awful, Mabel?” “The horrid, mean things!” “Just like a man!” And similar exclamations of wrath and indignation were heaped on the heads of the government printing officials by a hundred petite little printresses in the corridor of the Government Printing building in Washington the other day.
ref: 1907 May 15, “These Girls Can’t Primp”, in The Spokane Press, fifth year, number 161, Spokane, Wash., page 2:
text: Despite the fact that their fun had been spoiled, the printers and printresses (copyrighted) made the most of their opportunities and really had a large time.
ref: 1910 September 6, “Printers Lemonade and Eat at Fairview Park”, in The Decatur Herald, twenty-ninth year, number 337, Decatur, Ill., page 10:
text: Versatility Is Just a Middle Name for OUR PRINTRESSES
ref: 1938, Printing, page 34:
glosses: Alternative form of printeress.
printresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of printress
anguishless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anguish + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The correct inclination of the brow
on the arm—and it is not to corrupt,
but to gauge non-being and return to meaning—
that nothing may move you, that you may avoid pity,
anguishless vagabond poisoning wells
of private dialects; but it is not…
ref: 1974, Roberto Sanesi, New Directions in Prose and Poetry 28, page 74:
text: Son! in this discourse, I shall tell you further
About the greatness of the anguishless, undivided
Supreme Bliss of Brahman,
As explained by the Lord of all the universe, the Supreme Lord
(Isvara).
ref: 2000, Dr. H. Ramamoorthy, Nome, The Song of Ribhu, page 378:
text: Speaking of which, todays anguishless country music is quite a comedown from the peak it reached some years ago when Ringo Starr (of all people) came out with his country album called: "Boucoups of Blues".
ref: 2000 October 14, ~~~AllisonWonderland~~~, “Question for Stephen”, in alt.consciousness.4th-way (Usenet), retrieved 21 May 2022:
text: If only I could manage to substitute some anguish irrelevant to all this so as to distract myself from its overwhelming resonance in a world otherwise anguishless.
ref: 2008, Jenine Gordon Bockman, Jeffrey Michael Bockman, Literal Lattt: Highlights from Fifteen Years of a Unique Mind Stimulating Literary Magazine, page 28:
antonyms: anguishful
glosses: Without anguish.
ICMR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: IRFA
glosses: Abbreviation of Indian Council of Medical Research.
crown-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The scientists who in 1968 came up with the term coronavirus thought that, under a microscope, the virus they were looking at resembled a solar corona: the bright crown-like ring of gasses surrounding the sun that is visible during a solar eclipse.
ref: 2020 March 9, Katy Steinmetz, “Coronavirus: A Glossary of Terms to Help You Understand the Unfolding Crisis”, in time.com:
glosses: Alternative spelling of crownlike.
oxydize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oxydizes
form: oxydizing
form: oxydized
form: oxydized
Etymology: Spelling influenced by the 'y' of oxygen.
Senses: examples: text: 5208 jāraṇa- n. 'causing decay, condiment, oxydizing' W. [√JR̥̄]
Or. jāraṇa 'digesting, oxydizing'; G. jāraṇ m. 'incantations to produce disease or death'
ref: 1966, Sir Ralph Turner, A comparative dictionary of Indo-Aryan languages, Oxford University Press, archived from the original on 19 May 2021, page 287:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of oxidize.
stacies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stacy
NORDEFCO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Nordic military cooperation, formalized as the Nordic Defense Cooperation (NORDEFCO) from 2009, got a boost after the Russian annexation of the Crimea in 2014. The cooperation includes Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland.
ref: 2022 April 6, Astri Edvardsen, “Norway’s Defense Chief on Nordic Cooperation: “We are Closer than Ever Before””, in High North News:
glosses: Acronym of Nordic Defence Cooperation, a Nordic military cooperation.
bookkeeperess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bookkeeperesses
Etymology: From bookkeeper + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: Bookkeeperesses and cashieresses are progressing. They are developing the same extravagant tastes which bring the men into trouble. In San Francisco the bookkeeper of a commission house, a young woman, became so fascinated with the sport of automobiling that she appropriated hundreds, perhaps thousands of dollars of her employers’ money—just like a man bookkeeper might have done. The “chug wagon” costs money for stabling and repairs. Female bookkeepers and cashiers should be bonded as well as their brothers.
ref: 1904, The Coast Review, page 629:
text: “Miss Simpkins, please make the gentleman out a receipt for seventy-five dollars’ deposit on camera,” said the dealer in a matter-of-fact tone. “Yes, sir,” said the bookkeeperess.
ref: 1912 September, Francis John Dyer, “John Henry Essays Photography”, in Camera Craft, volume XIX, number 9, San Francisco, Calif., page 414:
text: A piercing scream broke in upon the stillness of the editorial sanctum yesterday afternoon. Investigation disclosed the fact that a pencil had rolled off the desk in the bookkeeper’s office and struck the bookkeeperess on the knee just at the moment she spied a mouse scurrying across the floor. The mouse escaped and the lady is expected to recover.
ref: 1922 March 24, “Now—The Point Was This—”, in The Chadron Journal, volume XXXVIII, number 26, Chadron, Neb.:
text: The “Böser-Buben-Ball” is the orgy of our somewhat violently smart younger generation, of the high-spirited bookkeeperesses, other-esses, and bank boys.
ref: 1929, Ludwig Hirschfeld, translated by T[homas] W. MacCallum, The Vienna That’s Not in the Baedeker, Robert M. McBride & Company, page 143:
text: Helen Seevers, editor of the Kingsway Page, a house bulletin at that west side inn, has an interesting column headed, “Heard at the Front Desk” . . . . Where Bookkeeperess Agnes Lyons hears all that is to be heard. . . .
ref: 1936 March 6, “’Round the Town with Regan”, in St. Louis Star-Times, volume 50, number 134, St. Louis, Mo., page thirty-one:
text: Margaret Perrat, attractive bookkeeperess over at Triangle Liquor Co., puts in ample time and exhibits great patience to keep the company figures, states Harry Hyer, company salesmanager.
ref: 1942 February 11, “’Round the Town with Regan”, in St. Louis Star-Times, volume 56, number 113, page nineteen:
glosses: A female bookkeeper.
bookkeeperesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bookkeeperess
chef's kisses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chef's kiss
Zelenska
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zelenskas
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Зеле́нська (Zelénsʹka), feminine of Зеле́нський (Zelénsʹkyj)
glosses: A surname from Ukrainian, masculine equivalent Zelenskyy.
nonfunny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nonfunny
form: most nonfunny
Etymology: From non- + funny.
Senses: examples: text: She laughed. A bitter, nonfunny laugh.
ref: 1985, Gaeddert, LouAnn Bigge; Schwark, Mary Beth, Your former friend, Matthew, Toronto; New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 49:
text: Nope - my interpretation of your comments is accurate - every post of yours that I read leaves me wondering why you are here (and why don't you ever get moderated) - you always come off as ill tempered, nitpicky, snide, sarcastic in a nonfunny way, and incredibly argumentative.
ref: 2002 November 15, Sorchas Lassair, “PCOS”, in soc.support.fat-acceptance.moderated (Usenet):
text: That is, on the setup/punch-line model, the entire joke, from beginning to end, can be described as funny, once the punch line has occurred, but equally, for asymmetrical reasons outlined above, as nonfunny.
ref: 2015 October 28, Brook Ziporyn, Being and Ambiguity: Philosophical Experiments with Tiantai Buddhism, Open Court, →ISBN, page 198:
synonyms: word: unamusing
word: unfunny
word: funny as a dose of the clap
word: jokeless
word: humorless
word: irrisible
word: laughless
word: mirthless
word: nonhumorous
word: unhilarious
word: unhumorous
word: unhysterical
word: unjocose
word: unjocular
word: unlaughable
word: unmirthful
glosses: Not funny.
Iche
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ich.
Ye'kuana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ye'kwana.
Yekuana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ye'kwana.
Yecuana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ye'kwana.
Yekuhana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ye'kwana.
Yequana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ye'kwana.
de-communize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: de-communizes
form: de-communizing
form: de-communized
form: de-communized
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of decommunize.
farts in windstorms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fart in a windstorm
farts in a windstorm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fart in a windstorm
Maiongong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Ye'kwana.
synonyms: word: Ye'kwana
Makiritare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Makiritares
form: Makiritare
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Maquiritari.
Makiritare
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Maquiritari.