cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
emailer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emailers
form: e-mailer
Etymology: From email + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Pakistani police said on Tuesday that they have launched a hunt for an emailer whose threatening message to New Zealand cricketers nearly jeopardised their tour to Pakistan.
ref: 18 November 2003, Independent Online - Manhunt for emailer who threatened cricketershttps://web.archive.org/web/20100414115105/http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=4
text: 16 April 2007, Manchester Evening News - Golden rules of e-mailinghttp://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/technology/s/1004/1004551_golden_rules_of_emailing.html
Other lessons on so-called `netiquette' the book dishes out are of a more moral tone - for instance, it says that an emailer should never mention anyone in an email who they would not be happy to show the content to.
text: I also asked whether there had been any complaints (having been made aware by an emailer that he had put in a formal complaint to the website).
ref: 2009 October 1, “Roy Greenslade: BBC's 'soft' interview with ignorant BNP members”, in Guardian:
glosses: One who, or that which, sends an email.
Related terms: emailee
emailers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emailer
emailee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emailees
Etymology: From email + -ee.
Senses: glosses: The person to whom an email is sent.
Related terms: emailer
winged monkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Metaphorical reference to the literal winged monkeys that appear as the minions of the Wicked Witch of the West in the 1900 children’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: winged + monkeys.
Senses: glosses: Ominous pawns of evil forces.
wikipedia: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Wicked Witch of the West
Synonyms: word: flying monkeys
miserablism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Also screening during this first festival week is Andrea Arnold’s “Red Road,” a well-acted slice of British miserablism about a woman out for revenge by any preposterous means necessary.
ref: 2007 March 21, Manohla Dargis, “Those New Directors Keep on Emerging...”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of miserabilism.
emailees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emailee
sparry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sparry
form: most sparry
Etymology: From spar + -y.
Senses: glosses: abundant in spar (the mineral)
examples: text: A thousand shapes they wore, those islet stones, […]
Some rich with yellow lichen’s gold,
Or ruddier tinged, or grey, or silver-white,
Or sparkling sparry radiance to the sun.
ref: 1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC:
glosses: resembling spar (the mineral)
Derived terms: sparry iron
sparry limestone
sparkless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spark + -less.
Senses: examples: text: From the contagion of the world's slow stain 5 He is secure; and now can never mourn A heart grown cold, a head grown grey in vain-- Nor, when the spirit's self has ceased to burn, With sparkless ashes load an unlamented urn. 41.
ref: 1891, Shelley, Adonais:
text: But when we come to a fine thing in our own language--to a stanza from Shelley's "Adonais" for instance: He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again; From the contagion of the world's slow stain He is secure, and now can never mourn A heart grown cold, a head grown gray in vain; Nor, when the spirit's self has ceased to burn, With sparkless ashes load an unlamented urn. what can you do with that?
ref: 1939, Arthur Quiller-Couch, On The Art of Reading:
text: The worn-out brushes in a dead starter or a short circuit in a sparkless ignition distributor would eventually be revealed to a mechanic who carefully dug through the clues.
ref: 2007 January 28, Scott Sturgis, “A Mechanic’s Laptop Makes Manuals All but Obsolete”, in New York Times:
glosses: without a spark
examples: text: Live, though, this youthful Minnesota-based band performed a somewhat sparkless set that seemed to bury the conceptual strengths, the stark voicings, and the crisp rhythms that on the album helped shape the arrangements and link the horns.
ref: 1996 January 26, Neil Tesser, “Motion Poets”, in Chicago Reader:
text: It's a small triumph that LiveWire's sparkless production manages to preserve the plot.
ref: 2004 July 23, Lawrence Bommer, “Much Ado About Nothing”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: lacking in creativity or energy
soyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soyles
Senses: examples: text: And in your planting the consideration of the clymate and of the soyle be matters that are to be respected.
ref: 1598, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I.:
text: As the good seedes sowen in fruitfull soyle, Bring foorth foyson when barren doeth them spoile: So doeth it fare when much good learning hits, Vpon shrewde willes and ill disposed wits.
ref: 1589, George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie:
text: II Now are we come unto my native soyle, 10 And to the place where all our perils dwell; Here haunts that feend, and does his dayly spoyle; Therefore henceforth be at your keeping well,[*] And ever ready for your foeman fell.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, published 1921:
text: Keplar thinkes that our earth receives that light whereby it shines from the Sunne, but this (saith he) is not such an intended cleare brightnesse as the Moone is capable of, and therefore hee guesses, that the earth there is of a more chokie soyle like the Ile of Creete, and so is better able to reflect a stronger light, whereas our earth must supply this intention with the quantity of its body, but this I conceive to be a needlesse conjecture, since our earth if all things were well considered, will be found able enough to reflect as great a light.
ref: 1638, John Wilkins, The Discovery of a World in the Moone:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of soil.
soyle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: soyles
form: soyling
form: soyled
form: soyled
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of soil.
soyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare soil (“to feed”).
Senses: examples: text: And cruell battell twixt themselves doe make , Whiles neither lets the other touch the soyle
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: prey
soyles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soyle
sowre
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: When I was a bed I began to call to minde all the sorrowes and griefes that I was in the day before, until such time as my love Fotis, having brought her mistresse to sleepe, came into the chamber, not as shee was wont to do, for she seemed nothing pleasant neither in countenance nor talke, but with sowre face and frowning looke, gan speak in this sort, Verily I confesse that I have been the occasion of all thy trouble this day, and therewith shee pulled out a whippe from under her apron, and delivered it unto mee saying, Revenge thyself upon mee mischievous harlot, or rather slay me.
ref: 1566, William Adlington, The Golden Asse:
text: My rimes I know unsavory and sowre, To taste the streames, that, like a golden showre, Flow from thy fruitfull head, of thy Loves praise; Fitter perhaps to thunder martiall stowre, When so thee list thy loftie Muse to raise: Yet, till that thou thy poeme wilt make knowne, Let thy faire Cinthias praises be thus rudely showne.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, published 1921:
text: Sir, There are many men that are by others taken to be serious grave men, which we contemn and pitie; men of sowre complexions; mony-getting-men, that spend all their time first in getting, and next in anxious care to keep it: men that are condemn'd to be rich, and alwayes discontented, or busie.
ref: 1676, Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler:
text: […] for no Beast will eat sowre grass […]
ref: 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of sour.
spede
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Those capitaines whiche come to faight a field, cannot stand behind a wal, or behind bankes, nor where thei maie not be reached: therfore it is mete for them, seyng thei cannot finde a waie to defende them, to finde some mean, by the whiche thei maie be least hurte: nor thei cannot finde any other waie, then to prevente it quickly: the waie to prevent it, is to go to finde it out of hande, and hastely, not at leasure and in a heape: for that through spede, the blowe is not suffered to bee redoubled, and by the thinnesse, lesse nomber of menne maie be hurt.
ref: 1560, Peter Whitehorne, Machiavelli, Volume I:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of speed.
speronara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speronaras
Etymology: From Italian speronara, Sicilian spirunara.
Senses: examples: text: 'Whilst my boat was preparing (a Maltese speronara, with a crew of twelve men, selected for their knowledge of the coast,) I wrote two letters, one to Malta, and the other to Lisbon, stating the loss of the ship.
ref: 1850, William O. S. Gilly, Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849:
text: We had the ponente, or west-wind, all night, but the speronara moved sluggishly, and in the morning it changed to the greco-levante, or north-east.
ref: 1863, Bayard Taylor, The Lands of the Saracen:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A small, usually single-masted, sailing boat, used especially for transport between Sicily and Malta, remaining in use along the coast of Sicily until the mid-20th century.
spherulitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spherulitic
form: most spherulitic
Etymology: From spherulite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: of or relating to spherulite
glosses: containing spherulite
spicula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪkjʊlə
Senses: glosses: plural of spiculum
spicula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪkjʊlə
Forms: form: spiculas
form: spiculae
Senses: examples: text: He concludes this Diſſertation, by endeavouring to explain the Manner of its [olive oil's] operating, which he attributes to its fat inviſcating Nature, whereby it ſheathes the Spicula of the Poiſon.
ref: 1738 December, C. Mortimer, “VI. An Abstract by C. Mortimer, M.D. Secr[etary of the] R[oyal] S[ociety] of an Inaugural Dissertation Published at Wittemberg 1736. by Dr. Abraham Vater, F.R.S. Concerning the Cure of the Bite of a Viper, Cured by Sallad-oil.”, in Philosophical Transactions. Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours, of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World, volume XXXIX, number 451, London: Printed for T. Woodward, […] ; and C. Davis […] ; printers to the Royal Society, →OCLC, page 443:
text: And yet Thoreau camps down by Walden Pond and shows us that absolutely nothing in Nature has ever yet been described,--not a bird nor a berry of the woods, nor a drop of water, nor a spicula of ice, nor summer, nor winter, nor sun, nor star.
ref: 1861, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, No. 47, September, 1861:
text: Introducing the alum-cell, and placing the coating of hoar-frost at the intensely luminous focus of the electric lamp, not a spicula of the dazzling frost is melted.
ref: 1906, John Tyndall, Six Lectures on Light:
glosses: A little spike; a spikelet or spiculum.
examples: text: Nature 'publishes itself in creatures, reaching from particles and spicula, through transformation on transformation to the highest symmetries.
ref: 1904, John Morley, Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5, Emerson:
glosses: A pointed fleshy appendage.
spight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spights
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of speight.
spight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Her doubtfull words made that redoubted knight Suspect her truth: yet since no' untruth he knew, Her fawning love with foule disdainefull spight 475 He would not shend; but said, Deare dame I rew, That for my sake unknowne such griefe unto you grew.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, published 1921:
text: […] when ſpight of comorand deuouring Time, / Th' endeuour of this preſent breath may buy: / That honour which ſhall bate his ſcythes keene edge, / And make vs heyres of all eternitie.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 122, column 1:
text: When I found Cuckolds to Encrease apace, I Marry'd one with such an Ugly Face That one wou'd thought the Devil wou'd but grotch So foul a Figure as my Wife to touch; Yet being at a Friendly Club one Night, A Raskal came and Cuckol'd me for spight.
ref: 1706, Various, The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony= Responses from Men:
text: --Nothing did I enjoy on the road;--in spight of my endeavours, tears stream'd from my eyes incessantly;--even the fine prospects that courted attention, pass'd unnotic'd.
ref: 1768, Susannah Minific Gunning, Barford Abbey:
text: There was music; and the door being left at jar, as we call it, I watched the wretched servant who staid in the antichamber, and found that he was listening in spight of sorrow and starving.
ref: 1789, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of spite.
spight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spights
form: spighting
form: spighted
form: spighted
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of spite.
spink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pĭngk
ipa: /spɪŋk/
ipa: /spɪŋk/
ipa: [spʰɪŋk]
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: spinks
Senses: glosses: The chaffinch.
glosses: The primrose.
glosses: The lady's smock or cuckooflower.
spink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pĭngk
ipa: /spɪŋk/
ipa: /spɪŋk/
ipa: [spʰɪŋk]
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: spinks
form: spinking
form: spinked
form: spinked
Senses: examples: text: The Chaffinches ‘‘spinked” as though its presence was not required, but it seemed to be feeding on insects only.
ref: 1907 September 24, O. V. Aplin, “Notes on the Ornithology of Oxfordshire, 1905–1906”, in The Zoologist, volume XI, number 795, page 323:
text: The Linnet called “ Chivvey ” can tweet and spink and song-sing, and is full of clicks and jars, like the other.
ref: 1909 June 19, “Linnet Singing at Leeds. Unvarnished Reports versus Bluff and Bounce”, in Cage Birds and Bird World, volume XV, number 388, page 587:
text: Woodpig was rootling for worms up the brook when he was surprised to see Chaffinch, "spinking" at him from a hazel twig.
ref: 1949, Denys Watkins-Pitchford, “The Animal Banquet”, in The Little Grey Men, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 144:
text: And his voice sounded good, too, and loud and clear, and he put two of his fingers into his mouth and whistled, a piercing, high-pitched scream of a whistle, and there was a sudden silence as though the noise had penetrated the brain of all things and stunned movement; but in a second the spinking blackbird began again his yittering, and all were at song again.
ref: 1954, Jack Badcock, chapter 3, in Waybent, London: Hutchingson & Co., page 77:
text: The cry of this species, which consists of a number of rapidly ‘‘spinking” notes, reminds me of that of the Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) in the United States.
ref: 1966 January 7 [1964 July 30], Paul Slud, The Birds of Costa Rica, page 65:
text: 6 DECEMBER The winter sun is a flat blade of white on the horizon. Blackbirds are spinking, a charmless sound, done by rote.
ref: 2016, John Lewis-Stempel, “The Turn of the Earth” (chapter VI), in The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland, Doubleday, page 277:
text: Somewhere in the five gardens, a blackbird spinked, petulantly.
ref: 2017, Karen Lloyd, “The Land Remade” (chapter 13), in The Blackbird Diaries: A Year with Wildlife, Saraband, page 146:
qualifier: especially chaffinchs and blackbirds
glosses: To call or vocalize.
raw_tags: of certain birds
spinnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spinnets
Senses: examples: text: An open spinnet was in one corner, and in the other an embroidery-frame, whose half-finished flowers spoke of recent employment.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 298–299:
glosses: Alternative spelling of spinet.
spinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spink
spinks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spink
spinnets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spinnet
spinsterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spinsterly
form: most spinsterly
Etymology: From spinster + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: We had seen Tish's apartment change from a sedate and spinsterly retreat to a riot of lace covers on the mantel, on the backs of chairs, on the stands, on the pillows--everywhere.
ref: 1916, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Tish, The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions:
text: By now most theater audiences can sing along with the post-Vietnam GI blues, but Steve Metcalfe's 1982 tale of a veteran and his sister and the war comrade who rescues them has lost none of its compassion, either for the men unwilling to confront choices they made in the heat of battle or for the tarnished knight and spinsterly lady who find themselves drawn to each other.
ref: 1998 February 20, Mary Shen Barnidge, “Strange Snow”, in Chicago Reader:
text: On the day the book begins, Che’s sheltered life of doormen, museum visits, country house retreats and spinsterly games of ludo comes to an end.
ref: 2008 February 10, Liesl Schillinger, “Child of the Revolution”, in New York Times:
glosses: of or relating to a spinster or spinsterhood
bumpage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bump + -age.
Senses: examples: text: BURNS: She has the sloping brow and cranial bumpage of the career criminal.
SMITHERS: Uh, sir, phrenology was dismissed as quackery 160 years ago.
ref: 1995, "Mother Simpson" (episode), The Simpsons (TV series)
text: Four full days of bumpage — no sign of being caught. Blousy tops thanks to a shipment of maternity gear from Addison's shoots help hide my faux belly from the rest of the staff, who sadly, must think I've just put on the pounds.
ref: 2016, Meghann Foye, Meternity, page 60:
glosses: A bump or bumps.
cuntiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cunty + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: This one was a ball-cutter; give her an opening and she'd plunge the knife of her cuntiness into the heart of your sensitivity faster than Superman changes costumes.
ref: 1969, Myles Eric Ludwig, Golem: A Hero for Our Time, page 192:
text: In my message, I spewed out all of the anger I had built up over the years – years of her bitchy, instigating and deliberate acts of cuntiness.
ref: 2006, Pat Mulligan, The Life and Times of a Hollywood Bad Boy, page 337:
text: Gen and I began a tradition of slapping each other, based on our own private Fujita scale of cuntiness. If either of us was...an F-5 Bitch Storm, the other would slap her as hard as humanly possible.
ref: 2014, Babe Walker, Psychos: A White Girl Problems Book, page 208:
qualifier: now especially LGBTQ
glosses: The state or quality of being cunty.
vomity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vomity
form: most vomity
Etymology: From vomit + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I always get those vomity kind of cabs if I go anywhere late at night.
ref: 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 106:
glosses: Resembling vomit in colour, texture, etc.
glosses: Inclined to vomit; sick.
barfy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more barfy
form: most barfy
Etymology: From barf + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling vomit in colour, texture, etc.
glosses: Inclined to vomit; sick.
glosses: Vile; contemptible.
glosses: Disgusting.
condicions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of condicion
pinch one off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pinches one off
form: pinching one off
form: pinched one off
form: pinched one off
Senses: examples: text: You got a whole school here Clyde! M'kay?, you got over 300 people that need to use the boys room!, and you decide you're gonna be a comedian M'kay?, and pinch one off in the urinal! and leave it laying there for everyone to look at!
ref: 2006, Mystery of the Urinal Deuce:
glosses: To defecate.
ISV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ISVs
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of international scientific vocabulary.
topics: business
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of independent software vendor (organization specializing in making and selling software; a software publisher)
topics: government
military
politics
war
coordinate_terms: word: IMV
alt: armored wheeled
word: APC
alt: armored tracked
word: IFV
alt: armored, heavily armed
glosses: Initialism of infantry squad vehicle An unarmored wheeled troop transport land vehicle
ISV
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Initialism of International Standard Version.
fudge dragon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fudge dragons
Senses: examples: text: Let me assure you, there is nothing funny... about going up to a nice, clean, unsuspectin' urinal, 'kay, droppin' your pants then... turnin' around... squattin' over that urinal, 'kay, maybe... maybe pullin' your buttcheeks apart with your hands, m'kay, and then layin' out a big fudge dragon for all the world to see.
ref: 2006, Mystery of the Urinal Deuce (episode of South Park animated television series)
text: When that wasn't enough, she dropped a fudge dragon on the kitchen floor.
ref: 2017, John Hinson, Where the Weird Things Are, page 168:
glosses: a piece of feces
librocubicularist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /laɪ.bɹəʊˌkju.bɪˈkju.lə.ɹɪst/
ipa: /laɪ.bɹoʊˌkju.bɪˈkju.lə.ɹɪst/
Forms: form: librocubicularists
Etymology: Coined by American writer Christopher Morley in 1919, from libro- + cubicular + -ist (see quotation below).
Senses: examples: text: “Miss Chapman, you take the book up with you and read it in bed if you want to. Are you a librocubicularist?”
Titania looked a little scandalized.
“It’s all right, my dear,” said Helen. “He only means are you fond of reading in bed. I’ve been waiting to hear him work that word into the conversation. He made it up, and he’s immensely proud if it.”
ref: 1919, Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, →OCLC, page 190:
glosses: A person who reads in bed.
accostment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accostments
Etymology: From accost + -ment.
Senses: glosses: an action of accosting
chocolate hot dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chocolate hot dogs
Senses: examples: text: Apparently, Clyde could not have been the one who crapped in the urinal, because Clyde had a colostomy at age 5. 'Kay? Now, whoever did this unspeakable act is still at large. The boys' bathroom is closed until further notice, 'cause one of you thought it would be a good idea... to pull down your pants... m'kay, over your buttcheeks over the urinal... and squeeze out a chocolate hot dog... m'kay?
ref: 2006, Mystery of the Urinal Deuce:
glosses: a piece of faeces
accostments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accostment
mud monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mud monkeys
form: mud-monkey
Senses: examples: He's a mud monkey digging all-day, gathering clay for his sculpture.
glosses: Refers to a person or a builder using earth, mud, or clay as its main material.
examples: text: When you dook in the urinal, it's bad, m'kay! How would you feel... if somebody came into your home, m'kay, pulled down their pants and laid a big mud monkey right on your mom's face? *laughing* Oh you think that's funny, huh?! Yeah, that's real funny!
ref: 2006, Mystery of the Urinal Deuce:
text: “[…] In my peripheral vision I saw a huge mud-monkey sliming out of her butt like a Play-Doh fun factory.”
ref: 2016, Dave Weasel, Woman arrested for defecating on boss’ desk after winning the lottery:
glosses: A turd (piece of feces).
accountment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From account + -ment.
Senses: glosses: Responsibility.
bedare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bedares
form: bedaring
form: bedared
form: bedared
form: bedurst
form: bedurst
Etymology: From be- + dare.
Senses: examples: text: Lets fall the fowl, and is emboldened / With eyes intentive to bedare the sun, […]
ref: 1829, George Peele, Alexander Dyce, The Works of George Peele:
glosses: To defy.
foreslow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔː(ɹ)ˈsləʊ/
ipa: /fə(ɹ)ˈsləʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: foreslows
form: foreslowing
form: foreslowed
form: foreslowed
form: forslow
Etymology: Alteration of earlier forslow (spelling presumably influenced by fore-), from Middle English forslowen. More at forslow.
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore all that are carried with circular motion, seem to foreslow, and to move with more than one motion.
ref: 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)
glosses: To be slow or tardy; to slow down.
examples: text: No stream, no wood, no mountain could foreslow / Their hasty pace.
ref: 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC:
text: Then rise, ye blessed flocks! and home apace,
Lest night with stealing steps do you foreslow
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Iune. Ægloga Sexta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To slow, hinder, delay, impede.
my thinks
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of methinks.
pantolactone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich
Rhodium(II) octanoate catalyzed decomposition of (R)-pantolactone derivative 13a in the presence of alkenes resulted in cyclopropanation with up to 97% de.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The lactone of 2,4-dihidroxy 3,3-dimethyl butanoic acid that is related to pantothenic acid
Synonyms: pantoyllactone
Cham
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃæm/
rhymes: -æm
Etymology: Borrowed from Eastern Cham ꨌꩌ
Senses: glosses: An ethnic group living in Cambodia and Vietnam.
Cham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃæm/
rhymes: -æm
Etymology: Borrowed from Eastern Cham ꨌꩌ
Senses: glosses: The Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by these people.
glosses: An abugida used to write this language.
Cham
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃæm/
rhymes: -æm
Etymology: Borrowed from Eastern Cham ꨌꩌ
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the Cham people or their language.
Cham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃæm/
rhymes: -æm
Etymology: Borrowed from German Cham.
Senses: glosses: A town in Bavaria, Germany.
Cham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃæm/
rhymes: -æm
Etymology: Borrowed from Switzerland German Cham.
Senses: glosses: A town in Zug canton, Switzerland.
Cham
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃæm/
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: Chams
Etymology: Borrowed from Albanian Çam m.
Senses: glosses: an ethnic Albanian from Çamëri, originally resided in the western part of the region of Epirus in northwestern Greece, an area known among Albanians as Çamëri (engl.: Chameria).
Synonyms: word: Tsam
word: Tsams
word: Albanocham
word: Albanophone
word: Turco-Cham
word: Turco-Albanian
Related terms: Chameria
Albanian
Cham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃæm/
rhymes: -æm
Etymology: From Hokkien 詹 (Chiam).
Senses: glosses: A Chinese surname from Hokkien.
accusably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more accusably
form: most accusably
Etymology: From accusable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in an accusable manner, in a manner chargeable with crime or fault
Synonyms: blamably
blamably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more blamably
form: most blamably
form: blameably
Etymology: From blamable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a blamable manner; in a manner deserving blame
Synonyms: accusably
blameably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more blameably
form: most blameably
Etymology: From blameable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of blamably.
deflagrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛfləˌɡɹeɪtə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: deflagrators
Etymology: From deflagrate + -or.
Senses: glosses: Something which deflagrates.
glosses: An electrical device for producing rapid combustion.
deflagrators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deflagrator
spongocoel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spongocoels
Etymology: From spongo- + -coel.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The large central cavity of a sponge.
Synonyms: paragaster
fudge dragons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fudge dragon
splitted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of split.
pimp up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pimps up
form: pimping up
form: pimped up
form: pimped up
Senses: examples: text: I need to pimp up a little before going out.
synonyms: dress up
glosses: To get dressed up in showy clothing or jewellery.
synonyms: pimp out
glosses: To decorate or prettify in a showy manner.
rip on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rips on
form: ripping on
form: ripped on
form: ripped on
Senses: glosses: To mock; to ridicule.
snizz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snizzes
Etymology: Unknown, perhaps from snatch. Popularized by and often attributed to the US animated series South Park (the 2007 episode "The Snuke").
Senses: examples: text: Whatever, man, I work for the sewage department. I'm up to my waist in hot snizz.
ref: 2010, Amy Poehler, Telethon (Parks and Recreation), season 2, episode 22, spoken by Sewage Joe (Kirk Fox), via NBC:
glosses: A vagina, or vaginas collectively.
wikipedia: South Park
cocking of a snook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocking of snooks
Senses: glosses: A disrespectful gesture; a snook.
raw_tags: as a gesture
Synonyms: thumb one's nose
five-fingered salute
Related terms: cock a snook
chest tightness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An unpleasant sensation of tightness, heaviness or pressure in the chest.
autoinjector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoinjectors
form: auto-injector
Etymology: From auto- + injector.
Senses: glosses: A medical device designed to deliver a single dose of a particular, typically life-saving, drug.
Hyponyms: epipen
auto-injector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auto-injectors
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of autoinjector.
ASA character
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ASA characters
Etymology: From the initialism for the American Standards Association.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A standard carriage control character added to the start of each line of text to be printed on a line printer
line printer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: line printers
Senses: topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
printing
publishing
sciences
glosses: A high-speed impact printer, most often used by older mainframes, that prints an entire line in a single operation.
carriage control character
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carriage control characters
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A character, added to the beginning of each line of text to be printed on a line printer, that controls the movement of paper through the printer before each new line is printed
read-eval-print loop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: read–eval–print loop
form: read-eval-print loops
Senses: examples: text: It is easier to experiment in languages that provide a read-eval-print loop.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
synonyms: REPL
top-level
glosses: An interactive programming language interpreter.
read-eval-print loops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of read-eval-print loop
chappellane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chappellanes
Senses: examples: text: The second was an holy Nunne to chose, / Which would not let me be her Chappellane, / Because she knew, she said, I would disclose / Her counsell, if he should her trust in me repose.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of chaplain.
imploration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: implorations
Etymology: From French imploration, from Latin implorationem.
Senses: examples: text: Dulled by the burlap, Josiah’s incoherent implorations were a soft, wet mumble.
ref: 2017, Hernan Diaz, In the Distance, Daunt Books (2018), page 230:
glosses: The action of imploring; begging, beseeching.
counterfeisance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French contrefaisance.
Senses: examples: text: For he in counterfeisance did excell, / And all the wyles of wemens wits knew passing well.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: [I]t is but bare, simple, plain, honest, homely truth, without welt, without guard. It will abide none but native colours. It scorneth to woo favour with farding and licking and counterfeisance. It hates either bought or borrowed beauty; and therefore, like some native face among the painted, looks coarse and rusty.
ref: 1623 September 21, Joseph Hall, “Sermon X. The Best Bargain: A Sermon Preached to the Court at Theobald’s on Sunday, September 21, 1623”, in Philip Wynter, editor, The Works of the Right Reverend Joseph Hall, D.D., new revised and corrected edition, volume V, Oxford: At the University Press, published 1863, →OCLC, page 179:
glosses: Deception, dissimulation.
landing page
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landing pages
Etymology: 1996, from landing + page.
Senses: examples: text: A good international landing page should have languages in some type of graphic that all browsers can read, followed by a selection of other languages that the user can shoot to quickly.
ref: 1996, Robert F. Breedlove, Web Programming Unleashed, Indianapolis: Sams.net, page 910:
text: When the user arrives at that landing page the content is not generic (as the home page will be) but specific
ref: 2007, Richard Gay with Alan Charlesworth and Rita Esen, Online marketing: a customer-led approach, page 294:
text: Your most important information on the landing page should be above the fold.
ref: 2008, Susan Sweeney, 101 Ways to Promote Your Tourism Business Web Site, page 104:
text: If they see their user-generated scent of information (keywords) on a website's landing page, they believe the page will help ... Searchers become confident that the landing page is giving them what they need.
ref: 2009, Shari Thurow with Nick Musica, When Search Meets Web Usability, page 71:
text: Is your landing page clearly about that keyword, and is the keyword used repeatedly on the landing page?
ref: 2010, Perry S. Marshall with Bryan Todd, Ultimate Guide to Google Ad Words, page 110:
topics: business
computing
engineering
marketing
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
web-design
synonyms: lander
glosses: A web page at which a user first arrives at a website, now especially one optimized for a marketing campaign or for lead generation.
Related terms: entry page
exit page
home page
page view
start page
web page
landing pages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of landing page
creatress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creatresses
Etymology: From creator + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: Him long she so with shadowes entertained, / As her Creatresse had in charge to her ordained.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A female creator.
creatresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creatress
stalworth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɔːl.wəθ/
ipa: /ˈstɒl-/
ipa: /ˈstɔl.wɚθ/
ipa: /ˈstɑl-/
Forms: form: more stalworth
form: most stalworth
Etymology: From Middle English stalworth, stal-worth (“physically strong, hardy, robust; brave, courageous”), from Old English stǣlwierþe (“able to stand in good stead, serviceable”), probably from staþol (“establishment; foundation”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”)) or stǣl (“place; condition, stead”) + -wierþe (suffix meaning “able to, capable of”) (probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to rotate, turn”)). Displaced by stalwart, which forms a doublet. Compare staddle and worth.
Senses: examples: text: Our blooming friend, the handsome and stalworth Magnolia, having got a confidential hint from agitated Mrs. Mack, trudged up to the mills, in a fine frenzy, vowing vengeance on Mary Matchwell, for she liked poor Sally Nutter well.
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
glosses: Stalwart.
Derived terms: stalworthly
stalworthness
stalworth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɔːl.wəθ/
ipa: /ˈstɒl-/
ipa: /ˈstɔl.wɚθ/
ipa: /ˈstɑl-/
Forms: form: stalworths
Etymology: From Middle English stalworth, stal-worth (“physically strong, hardy, robust; brave, courageous”), from Old English stǣlwierþe (“able to stand in good stead, serviceable”), probably from staþol (“establishment; foundation”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”)) or stǣl (“place; condition, stead”) + -wierþe (suffix meaning “able to, capable of”) (probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to rotate, turn”)). Displaced by stalwart, which forms a doublet. Compare staddle and worth.
Senses: glosses: Stalwart.
mountenance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mountenances
Etymology: Alteration of mountance, after maintenance.
Senses: examples: text: This said, they both a furlongs mountenance / Retyrd their steeds, to ronne in euen race […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A given amount, value, or extent of time or distance.
Nunatukavut
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: NunatuKavut
Etymology: Borrowed from Inuktitut [Term?], literally meaning 'our ancient land'.
Senses: glosses: An unrecognized Inuit territory in Labrador, inhabited by the Inuit-Metis or Labrador Metis, which encompasses Southern Labrador from the Grand River south to Lodge Bay and west to the extent of the official border between Quebec and Labrador.
retransliterated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retransliterate
retransliterating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retransliterate
retransliterates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retransliterate
retransliteration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retransliterations
Etymology: From re- + transliteration.
Senses: glosses: The act, process or result of transliterating.
retransmitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retransmitter
frory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɔːɹi/
Forms: form: more frory
form: most frory
Etymology: From frore + -y. Compare Old English frēoriġ (“freezing, frozen, cold, chilly; blanched with fear, sad, mournful”).
Senses: examples: text: An aged sire with head all frory hore,
 And sprinckled frost vpon his deawy beard […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Frosty; frozen.
glosses: Covered with a froth resembling hoar frost.
cosmochronometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cosmochronometer
Freudianisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Freudianism
shritch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɹɪt͡ʃ/
Forms: form: shritches
form: shritching
form: shritched
form: shritched
form: shright
form: shright
Etymology: Variant form of scritch.
Senses: examples: text: For shame, but more for feare of his grim sight,
 Downe in her lap she hid her face, and loudly shright.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To screech, scream.
Derived terms: shritch-owl
kephir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kephirs
Senses: examples: text: In addition to such cases as the kephir and ginger-beer plants (figs. 19, 20), where anaerobic bacteria are associated with yeasts, several interesting examples of symbiosis among bacteria are now known.
ref: 1910-1911, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th edition, volume 3, part 1:
glosses: Alternative spelling of kefir.
keratinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more keratinous
form: most keratinous
Etymology: * from keratin + -ous
Senses: examples: text: Prum implies that, whatever their morphology, Longisquama’s appendages were not keratinous, whereas in fact, all amniote epidermal appendages consist of keratin ( 2 ).
ref: 2001 March 9, Richard O. Prum et al., “Longisquama Fossil and Feather Morphology”, in Science, volume 291, number 5510, →DOI, pages 1899–1902:
synonyms: keratinaceous
glosses: Consisting of, or made from keratin.
Derived terms: nonkeratinous
perfumeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From perfume + -less.
Senses: examples: a perfumeless flower
glosses: Without perfume.
nongrassy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + grassy.
Senses: glosses: Not grassy.
foolometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foolometer
polite fiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polite fictions
Senses: examples: text: Susan is only able to deal with the fact that her husband has sex with the man down the street through a polite fiction. She knows what her husband is really doing when he says he is going "to buy cigarettes".
glosses: A social scenario in which all participants are aware of a truth, but pretend to believe in some alternative version of events to avoid conflict or embarrassment.
Related terms: denial
elephant in the room
kilowatt-hours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kilowatt-hour
innless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more innless
form: most innless
Etymology: From Middle English inles, equivalent to inn + -less.
Senses: glosses: without an inn
fabbest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of fab: most fab
fadest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of fade: most fade
shashliks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shashlik
shashlicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shashlick
lopsidednesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lopsidedness
sharwals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sharwal
shastasaurids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shastasaurid
shahtooshes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shahtoosh
nonmasticating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + masticating.
Senses: glosses: Not masticating.
nonmasturbating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + masturbating.
Senses: examples: text: More nonmasturbating women are married than single...
ref: 1977, Karen Shanor, The fantasy files: a study of the sexual fantasies of contemporary women:
glosses: Not masturbating.
voguishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more voguishly
form: most voguishly
Etymology: From voguish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a voguish manner.
voguishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From voguish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being voguish.
selfassured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more selfassured
form: most selfassured
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of self-assured.
Derived terms: selfassuredly
selfassuredness
palacelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more palacelike
form: most palacelike
Etymology: From palace + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a palace.
Synonyms: palatial
nondeictic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + deictic.
Senses: glosses: Not deictic.
noniterated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + iterated.
Senses: glosses: Not iterated.
nonintramolecular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + intramolecular.
Senses: glosses: Not intramolecular.
noninterpretable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + interpretable.
Senses: glosses: Not interpretable.
noninterpreted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + interpreted.
Senses: glosses: Not interpreted.
noninterdisciplinary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + interdisciplinary.
Senses: glosses: Not interdisciplinary.
noncorrelative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + correlative.
Senses: glosses: Not correlative.
noncorrelated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + correlated.
Senses: glosses: Not correlated.
noncorrelating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + correlating.
Senses: glosses: Not correlating.
uncountermandable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + countermandable.
Senses: glosses: Not countermandable.
countermandable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more countermandable
form: most countermandable
Etymology: From countermand + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being countermanded.
Derived terms: uncountermandable
nonconfirmatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + confirmatory.
Senses: glosses: Not confirmatory.
noncomplementary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + complementary.
Senses: glosses: Not complementary.
noncomplimentary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + complimentary.
Senses: glosses: Not complimentary.