cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
blowy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: blowier
form: blowiest
Etymology: From blow + -y (adjectival suffix).
Senses: examples: text: 1789, John O’Keeffe, Modern Antiques; or, The Merry Mourners, Act II, Scene 3, in The Dramatic Works of John O’Keeffe, London, 1798, Volume I, p. 351,
All my doors open! this blowy night! reminds me of the Lisbon earthquake; but my storm-cap has protected me.
text: […] one blowy July afternoon, as they were going up for a potato-roast, they saw somebody moving among the trees.
ref: 1910, Rudyard Kipling, “Gloriana”, in Rewards and Fairies:
text: … This ship is nice, with our heels hitting the deck together. This is the blowy corner and each time we turn it I slant forward against the wind and pull my coat together without losing step with Dick.
ref: 1934, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night: A Romance, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC; republished as chapter I, in Malcolm Cowley, editor, Tender is the Night: A Romance … With the Author’s Final Revisions, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1951, →OCLC, book II (Rosemary’s Angle: 1919–1925), page 55:
text: Why can’t you stay in when the weather is muddy and blowy?
ref: 1946, Mervyn Peake, “Flay Brings a Message”, in Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode:
text: Someone tell me one thing that's good about sand. It gets so hot sometimes you can't even walk on it, it gets into your eyes when it's blowy, it gets stuck to the hairs on my back, it gets up your nose, in your ears and of course, worst of all, it gets up your clacker.
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 95:
text: 2014, Guy Nowell, “RMSIR 2014 — Penang to Langkawi. An espresso race,” sail-world.com, 21 November, 2014,
Equally almost traditional is that this is the blowiest leg of the regatta.
glosses: Windy or breezy.
examples: text: […] I remember now. You had the sun behind you, filtering through your amazing blowy hair, red hair […]
ref: 2012, Dawn French, chapter 16, in Oh Dear Silvia, Penguin:
text: A panoramic view of all the lives ruined by the financial markets, from the midlevel banker just trying to meet her monthly quota to the overly loyal gangster who doesn’t realize that loud, blowy Hawaiian shirts are the opposite of subtle.
ref: 2013 October 17, Hua Hsu, “King of Hong Kong: Johnnie To and the violent, inventive evolution of H.K. cinema”, in Grantland:
glosses: Billowy, blowing or waving in the wind. (of fabric, hair, etc.)
examples: 1929, U.S. Department of Agriculture Radio Service, Office of Information, Farm Science Snapshots, 19 October, 1929,
And fall plowing except on blowy soils also will be good for the spring sown crops.
1938, Angus Henry McDonald, Erosion and its Control in Oklahoma Territory, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Miscellaneous Publication No. 301, p. 17,
Some farmers, however, quit raising cowpeas on blowy land, because they claimed it aggravated drifting.
glosses: Susceptible to drifting. (of soil)
blowy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blowies
Etymology: From blow + -y (diminutive suffix).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of blowie.
blowzy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: blowzier
form: blowziest
Senses: examples: text: Large, red-poll’d, blowzy hard two-handed jades
ref: 1787, John Wolcot, “Advice to Future Laureat”, in The Poetical Works of Peter Pindar, Esq., volume I, published 1789, page 476:
text: She feels a sudden desire possessing her to make Hermine look as ugly as possible, and she knows she can do it with very little effort : she has only to bring down those heavy masses of hair further on to that alrady low forehead, and instead of Kriemhilde, Hermine will like a common-place blowzy dairymaid.
ref: 1880 February, William Blackwood, “Reata; or, What's in a Name.—Part XI”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine, volume CXXVII, number DCCLXXII, chapter XXXVIII.—Millinery, page 221:
text: Blowzy night-frumps vex'd Jack Q.
ref: 1995 November 12, David Moews, “Alphabet Question”, in rec.puzzles.crosswords (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative spelling of blowsy.
blue-blood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue-bloods
Senses: examples: text: For several years the Nopalito had been making experiments with an English breed of cattle that looked down with aristocratic contempt upon the Texas long-horns. The experiments were found satisfactory; and a pasture had been set aside for the blue-bloods.
ref: 1907, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hearts and Crosses”, in Heart of the West, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Co., →OCLC, page 15:
glosses: Alternative spelling of blue blood.
blue-blooded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blue-blooded
form: most blue-blooded
form: blueblooded
Etymology: blue blood + -ed
Senses: examples: text: Fario was a withered little man, as ugly as though he were a blue-blooded grandee.
ref: 1887, Katherine Prescott Wormeley, transl., The Two Brothers, translation of La Rabouilleuse by Honoré de Balzac:
text: But, as I was saying, we listened and heard The Dowd drawl worse than ever. She drops her final g’s like a barmaid or a blue-blooded Aide-de-Camp.
ref: [1889 January], Rudyard Kipling, “A Second-rate Woman”, in Under the Deodars (A. H. Wheeler & Co.’s Indian Railway Library; no. 4), Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh: A[rthur] H[enry] Wheeler & Co.; London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 73:
text: The Major was the very type of a blue-blooded old aristocrat; he was all noblesse oblige to those within the magic circle of his intimacy—but alas for those outside it!
ref: 1908, Upton Sinclair, chapter XII, in The Metropolis:
text: When I was thirty-five / It was a very good year / It was a very good year for blue-blooded girls / Of independent means / We'd ride in limousines
ref: 1965, Ervin Drake, “It Was a Very Good Year”, performed by Frank Sinatra:
glosses: Aristocratic or patrician.
Derived terms: blue-bloodedness
Related terms: blue blood
red-blooded
blue-chip
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: She is a leading figure in the stable at Gagosian, the bluest of blue-chip galleries, […].
ref: 2025 May 31, Jan Dalley, “Lunch with the FT: Jenny Saville”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:
glosses: Alternative form of bluechip (“high-value”).
bluechip
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: blue-chip
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a blue chip investment; high-value.
wet t-shirt competition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wet t-shirt competitions
Senses: glosses: A contest in which women wear t-shirts that are wet to make them clingy and slightly translucent, and others judge the women on appearance.
Synonyms: wet t-shirt contest
blue chip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue chips
Etymology: Finance and figurative senses from poker.
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
antonyms: white chip
glosses: A high-value poker chip.
examples: text: Every so often, the practice reappears in the trading of “penny stocks”—cheap, rarely traded, shares. Years ago when volume was thinner, it was said to be common in blue chips too.
ref: 2000 August 10, “The price is wrong”, in The Economist, →ISSN:
topics: business
finance
coordinate_terms: red chip
glosses: A stock or other investment that has a high price because of its perceived reliability.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Synonym of blue-chipper.
synonyms: word: blue-chipper
Derived terms: bluechip
blue chip swap
red chip
bluejeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of blue jeans.
bluepoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bluepoints
form: blue point
Etymology: Named after Blue Point, New York
Senses: glosses: A small oyster, of species Crassostrea virginica, from the eastern United States seaboard.
bluepoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bluepoints
form: blue point
Etymology: From blue + point.
Senses: glosses: A colourpoint cat with blue markings.
bluesy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbluːzi/
rhymes: -uːzi
Forms: form: bluesier
form: bluesiest
Etymology: From blues + -y.
Senses: examples: text: When he entered the kitchen, Vida was folding clothes and singing along to some bluesy country music on the radio.
ref: 2003, Toni Morrison, Love, Vintage (2016), page 46:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Characteristic of, or similar to, blues music.
Derived terms: bluesily
bluesiness
bluffly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bluffly
form: most bluffly
Etymology: From bluff + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "Sarch away, squire," said Shackle bluffly, as he placed the mugs on the floor and turned the wooden spigots.
ref: 2016, George Manville Fenn ·, Cutlass and Cudgel, page 78:
glosses: In a bluff manner
bluffness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bluff + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being bluff
bluing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bluings
form: blueing
Etymology: From blue + -ing.
Senses: synonyms: blue
laundry blue
dolly blue
washing blue
glosses: A substance used in laundry to whiten clothes.
coordinate_terms: blackening
black oxide
browning
phosphating
passivation
plating
coating
glosses: Any of several processes to protect steel against rust.
bluing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blueing
Etymology: From blue + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blue
Related terms: bluish
blusterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blusterers
Etymology: From bluster + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The Syrian force was pulled back quickly and with reportedly heavy losses, but it stayed around long enough to remind the world that the Syrians are still the biggest blusterers and brinkmen in the Middle East.
ref: 1970, Time, volume 96:
text: If entertaining TV blusterer John McLaughlin felt any contrition after ponying up a six-figure sum to settle a sexual-harassment suit in 1989, he is evidently over it.
ref: 1992 July/August, “Naked City”, in Spy, page 18:
glosses: A person who blusters.
morris dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morris dances
form: Morris dance
Etymology: Thought to be from Moorish + dance. The German Moriskentanz is a cognate.
Senses: synonyms: word: morris
word: Morisco
glosses: A traditional English folk dance performed by a team of costumed dancers, often men but also men and women together or women only, who often wield sticks or handkerchiefs.
morris dance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: morris dances
form: morris dancing
form: morris danced
form: morris danced
form: Morris dance
Etymology: Thought to be from Moorish + dance. The German Moriskentanz is a cognate.
Senses: glosses: To perform in such a dance.
steady-state
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of a steady state
steady state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steady states
Senses: examples: A perfect sphere rotating around its own axis at constant angular velocity is not static, but it is in a steady state.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any state that does not change over time, or is in a dynamic equilibrium.
Related terms: steady-state
steady state theory
the die is cast
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ðə ˌdaɪ ɪz ˈkɑːst/
ipa: /ðə ˌdaɪ ɪz ˈkast/
ipa: /ðə ˌdaɪ ɪz ˈkæst/
rhymes: -ɑːst
rhymes: -æst
Etymology: Calque of Latin iacta ālea est, which is grammatically, and thereby semantically, an incorrect translation by the Roman historian Suetonius (c. 69 – p. 122 C.E.) in his work Vīta Dīvī Iūlī (On the Life of the Caesars, 121 C.E.) of the Ancient Greek ἀνερρίφθω κύβος (anerrhíphthō kúbos), which was said to have been spoken by Julius Caesar (100 – 44 B.C.E.) when he crossed the Rubicon to irreversibly begin a civil war in the Roman Republic (see cross the Rubicon).
Caesar was quoting from the comedy Ἀρρηφόρῳ (Arrhēphórōi, The Bearer of Ritual Objects) by the dramatist Menander (c. 342 or 341 – c. 290 B.C.E.). The Greek phrase is more accurately translated as “let the die be cast” (meaning “let the game be played” and implying “let us proceed irreversibly”), and refers a game of chance in which the outcome is determined by the throwing of dice or a single die.
Senses: examples: text: Is the die caſt, muſt / At this one throvv all thou haſt gaind be loſt? / The VVorlds a Lott'ry; He that dravves may vvin: / VVho nothing ventur's, looks for nothing;[…]
ref: [1634, H. H., “[Dedication by H. H.]”, in T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC:
text: The die is cast. I cannot go back. I must get ready. Will you see me to the station?
ref: 1879, George Meredith, “At the Railway Station”, in The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative. […], volume II, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], →OCLC, page 188:
synonyms: genie is out of the bottle
les jeux sont faits
you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube
you can't unring a bell
glosses: A conclusive action has been taken, so events will proceed in an irreversible manner; the point of no return has been passed; the future is determined; there are no more options.
wikipedia: Athenaeus
Bernadotte Perrin
Harvard University Press
Julius Caesar
Loeb Classical Library
Menander
On the Life of the Caesars
Suetonius
Coordinate terms: cross the Rubicon
Related terms: fait accompli
let bygones be bygones
let nature take its course
let the chips
dice fall where they may
the damage is done
there's no point crying over spilt milk
what's done is done
yesterday is gone
schoolfriend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schoolfriends
Etymology: From school + friend.
Senses: examples: text: I well remember one occasion when a school-friend and I travelled to Brighton on a cheap train, and rather staggered our parents on our return, when we informed them that we had spent the entire day sitting on a convenient fence on the high cliff west of the station, watching the trains.
ref: 1957 July 24, M. D. Greville, “A Diamond Jubilee of Railway Memories”, in Railway Magazine, page 458:
glosses: A friend from one's school.
Related terms: schoolmate
confidente
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confidentes
Senses: glosses: A particular kind of 18th-century sofa.
glosses: Misspelling of confidante.
liminary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more liminary
form: most liminary
Etymology: From French liminaire (“introductory”) from Latin līmināris, from līmen (“doorstep, threshold; doorway, entrance; beginning, commencement”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship from nouns). Līmen is possibly derived from līmus (“askew; sideways”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃l- (“to bend, bow; elbow”)) + -men (suffix forming neuter nouns of the third declension) (from Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ (suffix forming action nouns or result nouns from verbs)).
Senses: glosses: introductory or preparatory
blowups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blowup
boombox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bumˈbɑks/
ipa: /buːmˈbɒks/
Forms: form: boomboxes
Senses: examples: text: Bluebeat and ska from a boombox on the pavement. A suedehead dancing a delirious, inebriated moonstomp with a girl who looked like a solicitor's apprentice.
ref: 2013, Joseph O'Connor, Where Have You Been?, page 271:
glosses: Alternative spelling of boom box.
boomboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bumˈbɑksɪz/
ipa: /buːmˈbɒksɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of boombox
boom boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boom box
batlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more batlike
form: most batlike
Etymology: From bat + -like.
Senses: examples: text: […] they cling, like creepers or women, to the nearest support, to fly from that corroding ennui and listlessness, those tumults of the mind, which flit batlike amid the golden-groined ceilings, and cannot be dispelled by the lictor guard.
ref: 1838, William Gifford et al., The Quarterly Review, page 113:
text: He had told himself bitterly as he walked through the streets that she was a figure of the womanhood of her country, a batlike soul waking to the consciousness of itself in darkness and secrecy and loneliness.
ref: 1916 December 29, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC:
text: There was a trap somewhere, I felt sure; and though I didn't know the term "hush-money," its meaning flittered, bat-like, about my mind.
ref: 1953, L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between:
text: The most famous of these Los Caprichos is “The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters” (plate 43), which has a sky full of batlike creatures.
ref: 1981, James B. Twitchell, The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature, page 29:
glosses: Having characteristics similar to those of a bat, usually used with reference to the flying mammal.
examples: text: His sketches show the details of batlike wings which were to spread out on the downward stroke and fold up with the upward stroke.
ref: 1912, Charles B. Hayward, Dirigible Balloons, page 1:
text: What was it? They could not tell themselves. They only knew that the black shadows at the top of the staircase had thickened, had coalesced, had taken a definite, batlike shape.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
text: The Oilbird is one of the few bird species to use batlike echolocation to help navigate the night and cave darkness.
ref: 2006, Les Beletsky, Birds of the World, page 180:
glosses: Similar to that of a bat.
Synonyms: battish
Cybil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek. A 20th century spelling variant of Sybil.
Cybill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A 20th-century variant of Sybil or Sibyl.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Sybil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sybils
Senses: examples: text: Alternative form: sybil
text: The Library looked tranquil enough as I entered it, and the Sybil—if Sybil she were, was seated snugly enough in an easy chair at the chimney-corner.
ref: 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter IV, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 90:
glosses: Prophetess; hag.
qualifier: computer security
glosses: Ellipsis of Sybil attack.
Sybil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: "I beg your pardon," said Egremont blushing; "I was reading your name. I thought I was reading it to myself. Sybil Gerard! What a beautiful name is Sybil!" "My mother's name," said Gerard; "and my grandame's name, and a name I believe that has been about our hearth as long as our race; and that's a very long time indeed," he added smiling, "for we were tall men in King John's reign, as I have heard say."
ref: 1845, Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, Book 3, Chapter 5:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek, the most popular spelling variant of Sibyl since the 19th century.
Derived terms: Sybil attack
boneheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more boneheaded
form: most boneheaded
Etymology: From bone + headed.
Senses: synonyms: word: thickheaded
word: addlebrained
word: addlepated
word: airheaded
word: bee-brained
word: beef-witted
word: beefheaded
word: beetle-headed
word: birdbrained
word: blockheaded
word: Boeotian
word: boneheaded
word: boofheaded
word: brainless
word: bubbleheaded
word: buffle-headed
word: bullet-headed
word: cerebrally challenged
word: childish
word: chowderheaded
word: chuckleheaded
word: crackbrained
word: cretinous
word: dense
word: dented
word: dim-bulb
word: dim-headed
word: dim-witted
word: dim
word: doltish
word: dopey
word: dozy
word: drowsy
word: dull-headed
word: dull-minded
word: dull-witted
word: dull
word: dumber than a box of rocks
word: dumb
word: dunderheaded
word: empty-headed
word: fatheaded
word: feeble-minded
word: flea-brained
word: foolish
word: fuzzy-headed
word: fuzzy-minded
word: half-brained
word: half-witted
word: hammer-headed
word: idiotic
word: imbecilic
word: inane
word: insipid
word: intellectually challenged
word: knuckleheaded
word: lamebrained
word: lowbrow
word: lumpish
word: lunkheaded
word: mentally challenged
word: mentally retarded
word: mindless
word: monosynaptic
word: moronic
word: muttonheaded
word: nitwitted
word: numbskulled
word: oafish
word: obtuse
word: peabrained
word: pratty
word: pudding-headed
word: puerile
word: purblind
word: quarter-witted
word: retarded
word: rockheaded
word: sharp as a bowling ball
word: sheep-headed
word: simple
word: slow-witted
word: slow
word: smooth-brained
word: stolid
word: stupid
word: thick-skulled
word: thickheaded
word: thickwitted
word: thick
word: unapprehensive
word: unclever
word: unintelligent
word: unsmart
word: vacant
word: vacuous
word: witless
word: wooden-headed
word: wool-headed
word: woolly-headed
word: woolly-minded
word: dumb as a bag of hammers
word: dumb as a box of rocks
word: dumb as a doorknob
word: dumb as an ox
word: dumb as a post
word: dumb as a sack of hammers
word: dumb as dirt
word: dumber than a rock
word: not the sharpest crayon in the box
word: not the sharpest knife in the drawer
word: not the sharpest tool in the shed
word: thick as a brick
word: thick as a plank
word: thick as champ
word: thick as mince
word: thick as two short planks
word: thick as a whale omelette
word: ass-brained
word: fuckwitted
word: shit-for-brains
word: thick as pig shit
word: asinine
word: balmy
word: barmy
word: bedaft
word: loony
word: daft
word: derpy
word: dim-headed
word: dim-witted
word: dopey
word: dull-headed
word: dull-witted
word: dumb
word: duncical
word: fatuous
word: fuzzy-headed
word: fuzzy-minded
word: gauvison
word: goofy
word: idiotic
word: idle
word: insipient
word: mookish
word: naive
word: silly
word: simple
word: slight
word: slow-witted
word: softheaded
word: soft in the head
word: sottish
word: stupid
word: thick
raw_tags: not of action
word: unsage
word: unwise
word: wool-headed
word: woolly-headed
word: woolly-minded
word: crackpot
word: dense
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a bonehead.
Derived terms: boneheadedness
boneheadedly
Related terms: hardheaded
Blairism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Blair + -ism.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The political ideology attributed to the governments of British Prime Minister Tony Blair
Related terms: Blairite
Brownism
Brownite
Majorite
New Labour
Old Labour
Thatcherite
Tony's Cronies
shipwrights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shipwright
cash out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cashes out
form: cashing out
form: cashed out
form: cashed out
Senses: glosses: To reconcile at the end of a shift; to compare receipts of items sold to records of credit card, check and cash placed into the drawer, verifying that correct change was given out by the clerk.
topics: gambling
games
glosses: To retire; to exchange gambling chips for money when finished gambling.
examples: text: The real benefits accrued not to the public whose streets were flooded with unregulated taxis or workers whose livelihoods evaporated, but to Uber’s early investors who were still able to cash out when the company went public.
ref: 2022 July 11, Paris Marx, “The Uber Leak Exposes the Global War on Workers”, in Tribune:
glosses: To exchange possession of any commodity or idea for cash.
examples: text: Hume cashed out the concept of causation into such experiential terms as spatiotemporal contiguity, temporal succession, and constant conjunction.
qualifier: often in analytic philosophy
glosses: To explain what is entailed by an idea or proposition.
examples: text: If you can't even succeed with him, you might as well cash out.
glosses: To give up on something.
Synonyms: sense: reconcile at end of shift
word: cash in
sense: reconcile at end of shift
word: cash up
psychotherapists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychotherapist
jug ears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 2007, "The Next Crusade", John Cassidy, The New Yorker, September 4 http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/04/09/070409fa_fact_cassidy.
Wolfowitz, who is sixty-three, has jug ears, hazel eyes, a furrowed brow, and thinning gray hair that he combs to the right. -
glosses: Ears whose plane is markedly not parallel to the plane of the head.
Related terms: jug-eared
jug-eared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having ears that stick out from the sides of the head.
Related terms: jug ears
Nevis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈniː.vɪs/
rhymes: -iːvɪs
Etymology: From Spanish nieves (“snows”), in Nuestra Señora de las Nieves (“Our Lady of the Snows”), a Spanish name for the island.
Senses: glosses: An island of Saint Kitts and Nevis.
Derived terms: word: Nevisian
word: Petit Nevis
Related terms: Ben Nevis
the highest mountain in the United Kingdom
Nevisian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Nevis + -ian.
Senses: glosses: From, or pertaining to, the Caribbean island of Nevis.
Nevisian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nevisians
Etymology: From Nevis + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Somebody from the Caribbean island of Nevis
enrolment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enrolments
Etymology: From enrol + -ment.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of enrollment.
Derived terms: nonenrolment
preenrolment
reenrolment
unenrolment
let off steam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -iːm
Forms: form: lets off steam
form: letting off steam
form: let off steam
form: let off steam
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blow off steam.
Brownism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Brown + -ism.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The political ideology of former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The doctrines of the Brunonian system of medicine.
Related terms: Brownite
Blairism
Blairite
Majorite
New Labour
Old Labour
Thatcherite
Brownism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Browne + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The beliefs of the Brownists, or followers of Robert Browne.
fortysomething
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Forms: form: forty-something
Etymology: From forty + -something.
Senses: coordinate_terms: twentysomething
thirtysomething
fiftysomething
sixtysomething
seventysomething
eightysomething
ninetysomething
hundredsomething
glosses: An indeterminate value between 40 (inclusive) and 50 (exclusive).
fortysomething
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fortysomethings
form: forty-something
Etymology: From forty + -something.
Senses: examples: text: She was a sprightly fortysomething.
text: Some people console themselves with the thought that, basically, worse things happen at sea: in middle-class Britain today, particularly familied fortysomethings, it’s Chicken-Licken time.
ref: 2015 September 13, Euan Ferguson, “The week in TV: Doctor Foster; Beck; Ballers; Hunted; The Queen’s Longest Reign: Elizabeth and Victoria”, in The Observer:
glosses: A person between 40 and 49 years old.
Synonyms: quadragenarian
Coordinate terms: teen (13–19)
vicenarian (20–29)
twentysomething (20–29)
tricenarian (30–39)
thirtysomething (30–39)
quinquagenarian (50–59)
semicentenarian (50–59)
fiftysomething (50–59)
sexagenarian (60–69)
sixtysomething (60–69)
septuagenarian (70–79)
seventysomething (70–79)
octogenarian (80–89)
eightysomething (80–89)
nonagenarian (90–99)
ninetysomething (90–99)
centenarian (100–199)
semisupercentenarian (105–109)
supercentenarian (110+)
enrollment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ənˈɹəʊl.mənt/
ipa: /ɪnˈɹəʊl.mənt/
ipa: /ənˈɹol.mənt/
ipa: /ɪnˈɹol.mənt/
Forms: form: enrollments
form: enrolment
form: inrolment
form: inrollment
Etymology: From Middle French enrollement. See enroll + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of enrolling or the state of being enrolled.
glosses: The people enrolled, considered as a group.
glosses: The number of people enrolled.
glosses: The record of such enrolling; registration.
Derived terms: autoenrollment
co-enrollment
disenrollment
open enrollment
preenrollment
reenrollment
unenrollment
self-raising flour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-raising flours
form: self-rising flour
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A type of flour that contains an agent, such as baking powder, which makes baked goods expand and rise when cooked.
Brownite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brownites
form: Broonite
Etymology: From Brown + -ite, from the surname of Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister 2007-2010.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A supporter of Gordon Brown, or his economic or political policies
Brownite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Broonite
Etymology: From Brown + -ite, from the surname of Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister 2007-2010.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Of, or relating to Brownites, or Gordon Brown's government and policies.
Related terms: Blairism
Blairite
Brownism
raser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rasers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of razer (“one who razes”).
glosses: Obsolete form of razor.
best friend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: best friends
Etymology: From Middle English best frend, best freond, equivalent to best + friend. Compare West Frisian bêste freon (“best friend”), Dutch beste vriend (“best friend”), German bester Freund (“best friend”).
Senses: examples: text: I know you and Virginia are on best-friend terms.
ref: 1994, Penny Vincenzi, Wicked Pleasures, →ISBN, page 46:
text: A best friend is always there for you, even when no one else is.
ref: 2001, Lauren, “To me a best friend is everything”, in Marilyn Kielbasa, Janet Claussen, editors, Listen for a Whisper: Prayers, Poems, and Reflections by Girls, →ISBN:
text: Being best friends means giving up control and allowing ourselves to become vulnerable.
ref: 2004, Kenneth D. George, Keeping Mr. Right, →ISBN:
glosses: An especially close and trusted friend.
examples: text: You might even say, the bigger the problem, the greater your creative potential. The problem you're facing is your best friend because it will help to bring out the best in you.
ref: 2005, Jeff Davidson, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Things Done, Penguin, →ISBN, page 212:
text: As an entrepreneur, a conservative financial outlook is your best friend. Live to fight another day. Running a business also involves a host of legal issues. Talk to some people you respect and trust, get some recommendations, and hire a good lawyer and accountant.
ref: 2006, Christopher Duncan, The Career Programmer: Guerilla^([sic]) Tactics for an Imperfect World, Apress, →ISBN:
text: An instructor informed us that in battle, your rifle is your best friend.
ref: 2010, Art Seamans, I See, Said the Blind Man, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 48:
glosses: An object or concept considered very useful or helpful to someone.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see best, friend.
Synonyms: boon companion
BFF
bestie
bosom friend
Derived terms: best friend forever
Related terms: best girl
best man
undercharge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undercharges
form: undercharging
form: undercharged
form: undercharged
Etymology: From under- + charge.
Senses: examples: to undercharge for goods or services
to undercharge a customer
glosses: To charge less than the correct amount.
examples: to undercharge a gun
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: To put too small a charge into.
undercharge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undercharges
Etymology: From under- + charge.
Senses: glosses: A monetary charge that is less than the correct amount.
overcharge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overcharges
form: overcharging
form: overcharged
form: overcharged
Etymology: From Middle English overchargen, equivalent to over- + charge.
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile, the tolls dispute had gone to the courts, and the E.L.R. was completely successful when, in 1856, the House of Lords awarded it the sum of £30,000 against the L.Y.R. for tolls overcharged.
ref: 1957 October 24, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “Railway Development in Manchester—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 726:
glosses: To charge (somebody) more money than the correct amount or to surpass a certain limit while charging a bill.
glosses: To continue to charge (an electrical device) beyond its capacity.
examples: text: The police, fully aware of the reality of plea bargaining, often overcharge (if they don't, then the prosecutor does). The police also may overcharge in order to develop informants.
ref: 2015, Randall G. Shelden, William B. Brown, Karen S. Miller, Randal B. Fritzler, Crime and Criminal Justice in American Society: Second Edition, Waveland Press, →ISBN, page 184:
text: Shadow vigilantism can also be seen in the conduct of officials within the system who feel morally justified in subverting the system because they see it as regularly and indifferently producing failures of justice.[…] It’s also apparent in police “testilying” to subvert search and seizure technicalities (and judicial toleration of it) and in prosecutorial overcharging to compensate for past perceived justice failures.
ref: 2018, Paul H. Robinson, Sarah Robinson, Shadow Vigilantes: How Distrust in the Justice System Breeds a New Kind of Lawlessness: Section III. The Subversions and Perversions of Shadow Vigilantism:
text: "It's about decades of an office that overcharges and oversentences but keeps getting worse results," Conklin says.
ref: 2022 July 21, Daniel Walters, “Spokane County Prosecutor Larry Haskell finds himself under attack from three fronts”, in The Inlander:
glosses: To charge (someone) with an inflated number or degree of legal charges (for example, charging them with a more serious crime than was committed); to upcharge.
examples: text: it serves to no better use but only to labour and overcharge the ships' sides in any grown seas and foul weather.
ref: c. 1611, Walter Raleigh, Observations on the Navy and Sea Service:
glosses: To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress.
examples: text: October 22, 1706, Alexander Pope, letter to Mr. Walsh
Our language is naturally overcharged with consonants.
text: The result is that the veins become overcharged with blood, and we are taught by physiology that wherever there is overcharge of the venous circulation there results supernutrition, and primarily from that there develops new connective tissue.
ref: 1889, Paul F. Munde/, The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children; volume 22 issue 1, page 516:
glosses: To fill too full; to crowd.
examples: text: to overcharge a description
glosses: To exaggerate.
Derived terms: overcharger
overcharge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overcharges
Etymology: From Middle English overchargen, equivalent to over- + charge.
Senses: glosses: An excessive load or burden.
glosses: An excessive charge in an account.
examples: text: I just left out a couple of things. Rust-proofing, transport charge, storage surcharge, additional overcharge, finder's fee, […] floor mats, keys […]
ref: 1998 January 8, The Dealership (Seinfeld), season 9, episode 11, spoken by Puddy:
glosses: Any amount erroneously charged to a customer above the correct price for a product or service.
unneeded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unneeded
form: most unneeded
Etymology: From un- + needed.
Senses: examples: text: The Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research in San Antonio, Texas is one of only a handful of sites around the world that conduct medical research on great apes. Scientists say their research is conducted humanely, but many animal rights groups say testing on chimps is unneeded and unethical.
ref: 2011 June 2, “The Science And Ethics Of Research On Chimps”, in NPR, retrieved 12 Nov 2022:
glosses: Not needed.
unmerited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌʌnˈmɛɹɪtɪd/
Forms: form: more unmerited
form: most unmerited
Etymology: From un- + merited.
Senses: examples: text: She was tempted to leave him with his illusions. Something in her nature, however, caviled at this unmerited encomium.
ref: 1990, Elizabeth Thornton, The Worldly Widow, New York: Zebra, published 2005, →ISBN:
text: Since then the bibliography on the central question it addressed—the relationship between nature and the absolutely unmerited destination of us to the face-to-face vision of God—has diminished considerably in volume.
ref: 1990 December 24, Joseph A. Komonchak, “Theology and Culture at Mid-Century: The Example of Henri de Lubac”, in Theological Studies, volume 51, number 4, →ISSN, pages 580–1:
text: Insurance company actuaries view the discounts as unmerited and unfair to other policyholders. Criminologists say there are better and quieter ways to protect cars. Economists argue that the alarms' benefits, if any, are far outweighed by their social costs. Vigilantes have made their point by attacking noisy cars with eggs and baseball bats.
ref: 1991 February 19, John Tierney, “Laws Encourage Car Alarms, But Din May Not Be Worth It”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Not merited.
unmentioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + mentioned.
Senses: examples: text: The present manner of dress and behaviour of a certain element of B.R. station staff is too appalling to pass unmentioned.
ref: 1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, page 255:
glosses: Not mentioned.
unmentioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From unmention + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unmention
primal scene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primal scenes
Etymology: Calque of German Urszene. Coined by Sigmund Freud in 1914.
Senses: examples: text: 1983, William J. Kerrigan, The Sacred Complex: On the Psychogenesis of Paradise Lost, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 164,
The primal scene is the site at which the issues of ego differentiation become translated into the issues of the oedipus complex.
text: 1989, Andrew Samuels, The Plural Psyche:: Personality, Morality, and the Father, Routledge, →ISBN, page 123,
The father's presence and image, together with those of the mother, form the raw material of the primal scene.
text: 1995, Joel Whitebook, Perversion and Utopia: a study in psychoanalysis and critical theory, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 51,
She argues that perverse sexual activity constitutes an attempt to restage the primal scene in such a way as to eliminate its traumatic aspects.
text: Jeffrey Beaumont’s interslat voyeurism may be a sick parody of the Primal Scene, but neither he (a “college boy”) nor anybody else in the movie ever shows any inclination to say anything like “Gee, this is sort of like a sick parody of the good old Primal Scene” or even betrays any awareness that a lot of what’s going on is—both symbolically and psychoanalytically—heavy as hell.
ref: 1997, David Foster Wallace, “David Lynch keeps his head”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
glosses: In Freudian theory, the first time a child witnesses (and understands) his or her parents copulating.
wikipedia: Sigmund Freud
unmeasured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmeasured
form: most unmeasured
Etymology: From un- + measured.
Senses: examples: text: Recall the gradual dark the snow’s unmeasured fall
 The naked fields the cloud’s immaculate folds
ref: 1941, Theodore Roethke, “To My Sister”, in Open House, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, London: Faber and Faber […], 1968, →OCLC, page 5:
glosses: Not having been measured.
examples: text: the unmeasured expanse of the ocean
text: She [Diana] hath ſent (to plague vs) a huge ſauadge Boare,
 Of an vn-meaſured height and magnitude.
 […]
 His briſtles poynted like a range of pikes
 Ranck't on his backe: his foame ſnowes where he feeds
 His tuskes are like the Indian Oliphants.
ref: 1613, Thomas Heywood, The Brazen Age, […], London: […] Nicholas Okes, […], →OCLC, Act II, signature [C4], verso:
glosses: Beyond measure; vast; measureless.
examples: text: the hasty, unmeasured speech of the defendant
glosses: Unrestrained; without moderation or deliberation.
unmarred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmarred
form: most unmarred
Etymology: From un- + marred.
Senses: glosses: Undamaged; not marred.
unmitigated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmitigated
form: most unmitigated
Etymology: From un- + mitigated.
Senses: glosses: Not mitigated.
examples: text: Their handling of the recent diplomatic crisis was an unmitigated disaster.
text: Prichard, while keeping school, had the unmitigated gall to teach Greek, although he had never studied the subject.
ref: 1891, Exercises of class day of the senior class, Tuesday, June 23, 1891, page 33:
text: In July 1938, that was sufficient to call down contempt and hatred on us, and brand us as men of unmitigated gall.
ref: 1944, Teheran: Our Path in War and Peace, page 55:
text: It requires the cunning of a chess master, the planning of a field marshal, the adroitness and polish of a premier of France, or, failing these, the sheer, unmitigated gall of your door-to-door salesman.
ref: 1962, How to live with a calculating cat, page 47:
text: "You don't care if people think you an utter blackguard? You don't care if she and your children have to beg their bread?"
"Not a damn."
I was silent for a moment in order to give greater force to my next remark. I spoke as deliberately as I could.
"You are a most unmitigated cad."
"Now that you've got that off your chest, let's go and have dinner."
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “ch. 12”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
text: "The '720' has been out. We were really happy - it tested with no faults. There was a pleasant surprise it was an unmitigated success."
ref: 2020 April 22, Richard Clinnick, “We are feeling positive"”, in Rail, page 63:
glosses: Total, complete, utter.
unmediated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmediated
form: most unmediated
Etymology: From un- + mediated.
Senses: examples: text: In choosing to try to give an unmediated presentation of data, and to give equal influences to all voices, Krieger certainly must be congratulated.
ref: 1983 August 13, Maida Tilchen, “Meeting All These Lesbians”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 5, page 15:
glosses: Not mediated
unmentionable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmentionable
form: most unmentionable
Etymology: From un- + mentionable.
Senses: antonyms: mentionable
glosses: Too embarrassing or shocking to be discussed.
Derived terms: unmentionables
unmentionably
unmentionable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unmentionables
Etymology: From un- + mentionable.
Senses: examples: text: I'm a lesbian female, 20 years old and my most outstanding features are my pierced unmentionable and my eyes.
ref: 1983 December 10, Mary F. Miller, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 21, page 19:
text: He was taught from childhood that the world does not condone homosexuality and that it is an unmentionable of decent people.
ref: 1995, Virginia Schroeder Burnham, William H. Hampton, Since Time Began, page 43:
text: Here, after all, was the circle round which Forster passed the manuscript of his novel Maurice which conveyed so much about being 'an unmentionable of the Oscar Wilde sort'.
ref: 2014, Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma, page 100:
glosses: Something not to be discussed in polite society.
unmeant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmeant
form: most unmeant
Etymology: From un- + meant.
Senses: glosses: Not meant
unmarketable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmarketable
form: most unmarketable
Etymology: From un- + marketable.
Senses: examples: text: "Good Lord! oh, Lord! Why, my dear sir, what duty do you owe to the public? The only duty you owe is to me, your publisher! It is your duty to write what will sell, and I tell you reasons are unmarketable commodities."
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Publishing”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 14:
glosses: Not marketable.
unmodified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmodified
form: most unmodified
Etymology: From un- + modified.
Senses: examples: text: What happens to a protocol after it is prereviewed? Opin. After a protocol is prereviewed, the investigator submits a modified or unmodified protocol that must be processed for formal review by the IACUC.
ref: 2014, Jerald Silverman, Mark A. Suckow, Sreekant Murthy, The IACUC Handbook, Third Edition, page 143:
glosses: Not modified.
unmolested
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmolested
form: most unmolested
Etymology: From un- + molested.
Senses: examples: text: Again she felt a return of that utter despondency which had fallen upon her after Guido's death: but then she could indulge in it unmolested, and that was something of relief: now she was forced into exertion...
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 246:
text: The expected stand was not made by the Americans at Mr. Harrison's, for the British passed through his place unmolested and unmolesting. The destruction of the ship was, probably, the main object of the expedition.
ref: 1905, Elihu Samuel Riley, A History of Anne Arundel County in Maryland, page 82:
glosses: Not bothered, disturbed, or attacked.
unmoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒɹəl
Forms: form: more unmoral
form: most unmoral
Etymology: From un- + moral.
Senses: glosses: Not applicable for moral consideration.
glosses: Not moral.
Related terms: amoral
immoral
unnoticeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unnoticeable
form: most unnoticeable
Etymology: From un- + noticeable.
Senses: glosses: Not noticeable.
Synonyms: insensible
unobservant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unobservant
form: most unobservant
Etymology: From un- + observant.
Senses: glosses: Not observant.
Synonyms: inobservant
nonobservant
unobserving
Derived terms: unobservantly
unoffensive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unoffensive
form: most unoffensive
Etymology: From un- + offensive.
Senses: glosses: inoffensive
unpainted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English unpeinted, on-poyntid, equivalent to un- + painted.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: paintless
text: Perhaps the surface of the red brick, long unpainted, had scaled off a little more here and there.
ref: 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:
text: The new cars incorporate many features first introduced in the 1938 tube stock, but major changes include the use of rubber for the bogie bolster and axlebox suspension, fluorescent lighting, and the panelling of the cars in unpainted aluminium alloy.
ref: 1960 February, “The first of London's new Piccadilly Line trains is delivered”, in Trains Illustrated, page 93:
text: A few unreliable-looking boats were beached there, unpainted boats built largely of gray driftwood, or so it seemed to me.
ref: 1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter LI, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 309:
coordinate_terms: uncoated#Adjective
unvarnished#Adjective
unplated#Adjective
unfinished#Adjective
glosses: Not painted.