cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
organizabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of organizability
orielled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oriel + -ed.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Furnished with an oriel.
lordhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lordhoods
form: Lordhood
Etymology: From lord + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: Philip Herbert may expect knighthoods, lordhoods, court-promotions: neither did his heroic mother ' tear her hair,' I think, to any great extent,——except in the imaginations of Osborne, Pinchbeck and such like.
ref: 1857, Thomas Carlyle, Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished:
text: The old Norman lordhood quality here, too, cross' d with that Saxon fiber from which twain the best current stock of England springs — poetry that revels above all things in traditions of knights and chivalry, and deeds of derring-do.
ref: 1883, Walt Whitman, Specimen days & collect - Page 290:
glosses: The state, quality, or condition of a lord
Synonyms: lordship
Related terms: lorddom
orthoepically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From orthoepical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: While if they attempt the impossible feat of placing before our eyes the every-day life of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, they make them speak with the accent of the educated nineteenth-century Londoner; instead of showing us, orthoepically, that their speech was akin to that of the modern Irish provincialist, and akin also to that of the existing provincialist in the district delineated —whether Warwickshire or Middlesex.
ref: 1884, David MacRitchie, Ancient and Modern Britons: A Retrospect - Volume 2, page 383:
glosses: In an orthoepical manner: pronounced correctly or in accordance with standard usage.
orthogonalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of orthogonalise
lordhoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lordhood
orthogonalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthogonalization
orthographists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthographist
orthogonalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of orthogonalise
oscillographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From oscillographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of oscillography.
osmiates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of osmiate
osteophytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From osteophyte + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to osteophytes.
otosclerotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oto- + sclerotic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to otosclerosis.
oulachon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oulachons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eulachon.
oulakan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oulakans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eulachon.
oulakans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oulakan
oulachons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oulachon
outmeasured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outmeasure
outmeasures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outmeasure
outmeasuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outmeasure
outspeeded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outspeed
overanxiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more overanxiously
form: most overanxiously
Etymology: From overanxious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With excessive anxiety.
overboldly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more overboldly
form: most overboldly
Etymology: From overbold + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an excessively bold manner.
overbetted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overbet
overcentralise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overcentralises
form: overcentralising
form: overcentralised
form: overcentralised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of overcentralize.
overcentralises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overcentralise
overcentralising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overcentralise
overcredulity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + credulity.
Senses: glosses: excessive credulity
overfar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overfar
form: most overfar
Etymology: From over- + far.
Senses: glosses: Excessively far.
overfar
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From over- + far.
Senses: glosses: Excessively far.
overfacile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overfacile
form: most overfacile
Etymology: From over- + facile.
Senses: examples: text: Vernant, Detienne, and Vidal-Naquet all comment upon the exclusion of women as a founding principle of Athens. Loraux's contribution is to explore the psychological bases for the exclusions. She contends that misogyny is an "over-facile notion." The suffering of women in the birth of children was simply outside male experience.
ref: 2015, Roland A. Champagne, The Methods of the Gernet Classicists (RLE Myth): The Structuralists on Myth:
glosses: Excessively facile.
overindulgently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more overindulgently
form: most overindulgently
Etymology: From overindulgent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an excessively indulgent manner.
oversophisticated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oversophisticated
form: most oversophisticated
Etymology: From over- + sophisticated.
Senses: glosses: Excessively sophisticated.
Related terms: oversophistication
overstimulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overstimulation
overspeculations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overspeculation
overutilisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + utilisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of overutilization.
rush job
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rush jobs
form: rush-job
Senses: examples: text: "Rush job?"
"Yes, sir. You'll have to excuse me. I've got to get started."
ref: 1909, L. Frank Baum, chapter 8, in Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work:
text: "[W]hen they called me for a rush job, there wasn't enough time to sign an agreement, nor did I think it necessary."
ref: 1993 July 4, Penny Singer, “Photographers Find Strength in Unity”, in New York Times, retrieved 07 Jan 2016:
text: [T]he production values are excellent and there are no obvious signs of it having been a rush job.
ref: 2008 October 17, John Hiscock, “Film Review: W”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 07 Jan 2016:
glosses: A task done under pressure or with urgency.
moral imperative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moral imperatives
Senses: examples: text: This 60-second commercial, titled The Deficit Trials: 2017 A.D., . . . "expresses a view that budget cuts are a moral imperative."
ref: 2001 June 24, “American Notes: Advertising”, in Time, retrieved 07 Jan 2016:
text: To research a possible link between US bombardment and rates of birth defects and pediatric cancer in Iraq is a moral imperative.
ref: 2012 October 25, Ross Caputi, “The victims of Fallujah's health crisis are stifled by western silence”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 07 Jan 2016:
text: Marc Andreessen, the venture capitalist, wrote on Twitter about the accident, with his usual bravado, “Self-driving cars and trucks are a moral imperative.”
ref: 2014 June 10, Claire Cain Miller, “If Robots Drove, How Much Safer Would Roads Be?”, in New York Times, retrieved 07 Jan 2016:
topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A practice, policy, or state of affairs which is required and justified by the fact that it is morally right.
examples: text: . . . the Confucian custom of filial piety. This moral imperative requires sons to obey their parents and take care of them during old age.
ref: 1996, Robert Strom et al., "Intergenerational Relationships in Taiwanese Families" in Changing Family Roles and Feminism, Man Singh Das (ed.), p. 48 (Google preview)
text: There are no laws about queueing, but there is a powerful moral imperative not to cheat.
ref: 2004 September 18, Adam Nicolson, “Not even the full force of the law is enough to make something legitimate”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 07 Jan 2016:
text: It is not murderous venom that courses in black veins but loving tolerance for the stranger, which is the central moral imperative of the Gospel.
ref: 2015 June 20, Michael Eric Dyson, “Love and Terror in the Black Church”, in New York Times, retrieved 07 Jan 2016:
topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An ethical principle or rule which requires and justifies a practice, policy, or state of affairs.
Related terms: categorical imperative
duty
rush-job
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rush-jobs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rush job.
Trav
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹæv/
ipa: /tɹæv/
rhymes: -æv
Etymology: Clipping of Travis.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Travis.
suzeraine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suzeraines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of suzerain.
suzeraines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suzeraine
magnificient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Influenced by efficient and other words ending in -cient.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of magnificent.
chomp down on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chomps down on
form: chomping down on
form: chomped down on
form: chomped down on
Senses: glosses: To eat (something); to bite (something).
glosses: To defeat.
play to the whistle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays to the whistle
form: playing to the whistle
form: played to the whistle
form: played to the whistle
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To continue playing until the referee has blown his whistle to stop play
turned the page
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of turn the page
fore-answer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fore-answers
form: fore-answering
form: fore-answered
form: fore-answered
Etymology: From fore- + answer.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of foreanswer.
lordness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lordness
Etymology: From lord + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Olivier luxuriated in his lordness.
ref: 2004, Mel Gussow, Michael Gambon: A Life in Acting - Page 90:
text: You left your lordness, your person doer of justice, maker of order. In your hands, in your feet, then you embrace them carefully like a baby, [...]
ref: 2015, Linda O'Brien-Rothe, Songs that Make the Road Dance:
text: Yes, she would be devoted to the spirit, to him, praising his lordness and his magnificence.
ref: 2015, Marlon James, John Crow's Devil:
glosses: The state or condition of a lord
examples: text: “Oh yes, your lordness. We soon see.”
ref: 2013, Eric Allan Smith, Goblin City - Page 36:
text: “Your Lordness, we would humbly exchange these fine gifts if you would allow us to borrow your Four Horses of the Apocalypse for our journeys.”
ref: 2014, R. J. Amado, Everland Volume I: Opal's Book of Winter:
glosses: lordship
raw_tags: used as a title
Melo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Portuguese melro (“blackbird”), similar to Spanish mirlo.
Senses: glosses: A city in Uruguay, capital of the department of Cerro Largo
to bits
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: 2015 December 30, RT, "Belgium’s nuclear power plants ‘falling to bits’ – German officials"
ref: 2016 January 3, David Lloyd, “Ben Stokes is a mongrel, he’ll tear you to bits… but he’s also England’s jewel”, in Daily Mail:
glosses: Into small pieces; indicating total destruction.
examples: 2016 January 6, Neil Cameron, Evening Times 'Donald Findlay would be "thrilled to bits" if Cowdenbeath beat Rangers'
2016 January 6, Lara Martin, Reveal 'CBB's Stephanie Davis on boyfriend Sam Reece: "I love him to bits. He's my rock."'
glosses: very much (typically describing positive emotions)
Synonyms: sense: into small pieces
word: to pieces
sense: into small pieces
word: to smithereens
sense: into small pieces
word: to atom
sense: very much
word: to pieces
sense: very much
word: to death
pedagogize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pedagogizes
form: pedagogizing
form: pedagogized
form: pedagogized
Senses: examples: text: "In the wake of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century middle-class campaign to pedagogize child play, to transform it into an innately instructional activity, an expression of self development, […]"
ref: 2011, Matthew Kaiser, The World in Play: Portraits of a Victorian Concept:
glosses: to make suitable for the learning process
pedagogizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pedagogize
pedagogizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pedagogize
pedagogized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pedagogize
moss animals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: By the superficial observer moss animals or bryozoans (Bryozoa) are easily confused with the sponges, although bryozoans differ remarkably from the latter creatures of a far more complex organisation.
ref: 2013, Freshwater Invertebrates in Central Europe: A Field Guide, Springer Science & Business Media, translation of original by György Kriska, →ISBN, page 374:
glosses: plural of moss animal
yakkiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of yakky: most yakky
camp mothers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camp mother
Camp Mother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Camp Mothers
Senses: examples: text: It is no joke to be a "Camp Mother". When I think of it now, all the headaches she must have had. Here are some of the things she had to handle: — One girl was afraid of feathers; another girl afraid of cows;
ref: 1975, St. David's Presbyterian Church (St. John's, N.L.), The Dissenting church of Christ at St. John's, 1775-1975, page 203:
text: All campers swam, hiked, and attended campfires, but at many camps the youngest children had their own play spaces, a higher counselor-camper ratio, and the attention of a “Camp Mother” (often the wife or mother of the camp director), while the oldest children enjoyed special privileges such as later bedtimes or intercamp dances.
ref: 2010, Leslie Paris, Children's Nature: The Rise of the American Summer Camp, →ISBN, page 109:
text: These nicknames ritualized relationships and ways of thinking about community and kinship outside traditional bounds; at many camps, counselors became “Aunt” or “Uncle,” while the youngest children were under the care of a “Camp Mother.”
ref: 2011, Miriam Forman-Brunell, Leslie Paris, The Girls' History and Culture Reader, →ISBN, page 95:
glosses: A woman employed to look after the youngest children at a summer camp.
examples: text: At the bottom of the steep boat-house steps she paused a moment to gather strength, laboriously climbed them, passed under the mosquito-netting portiere, and, strolling leisurely toward the kitchen corner where Camp Mother was busily frying bacon and eggs on the blue-flame burner camp-fire.
ref: 1909, The Unitarian Register - Volume 88, page 1168:
text: Mrs. Reimann is a true "Camp Mother" to every boy in camp, caring for their intimate needs, helping them tide over lonesome times, sewing on buttons, and doing everything a mother is called on to do at home.
ref: 1929, Camp Charlevoix: A Character Camp for Boys:
text: Some years at Camp Winsoki, our mother worked as the camp nurse, but more often she was something called Camp Mother, the woman who tended to the needs of several hundred Jewish children: their allergies, homesickness, bedwetting, ...
ref: 1997, Jay Neugeboren, Imagining Robert: My Brother, Madness, and Survival:
text: The monstrous thought of going to the Camp Mother occurred to her ("Did you hear about Betsy? Went tearing off to old Auntie Jane to say her roommate was missing, and here all the time the poor girl was...") and she spoke to several other people, wondering and curious, phrasing it each time as a sort of casual question;
ref: 2014, Shirley Jackson, Just an Ordinary Day, →ISBN:
glosses: A woman in charge of housekeeping and the supervision of campers at a summer camp.
Camp Mothers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Camp Mother
lordish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lordish
form: most lordish
Etymology: From lord + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Schultz didn't want to be lordish about it, he showed great tact that way.
ref: 2010, E.L. Doctorow, Billy Bathgate: A Novel - Page 131:
text: “If you don't recognize the worth in this jewel, then you're nothing but ignorant street scum and there's nothing lordish about you.”
ref: 2012, Melina Marchetta, Froi of the Exiles: The Lumatere Chronicles - Page 286:
synonyms: lordlike
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a lord.
Derived terms: lordishly
lordishness
lordishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lordishly
form: most lordishly
Etymology: From lordish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Bark peeled from them, brittle as cicada shell; in their branches stood tawny frogmouths, their beaks lordishly raised.
ref: 2011, Sonya Hartnett, The Ghost's Child - Page 19:
glosses: In a lordish manner.
soil fertility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soil fertilities
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: The ability of a soil to sustain plant growth.
bleeding-edge
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bleeding-edge
form: most bleeding-edge
Senses: examples: text: As you'd expect from a bleeding-edge tablet, it has plenty of other high-end features as well.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
glosses: Of or pertaining to something, such as technology, which is too new and untested to be reliable or to have any assurance of safety; (in a weakened sense) that represents the latest developments in something.
bleeding-edge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bleeding edge.
hetro
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛtɹoʊ/
ipa: /ˈhɛtɹəʊ/
Forms: form: more hetro
form: most hetro
Etymology: From hetero, representing a pronunciation with elision of /ə/.
Senses: glosses: Heterosexual: of, pertaining to, or being a heterosexual person.
Synonyms: het
hetero
heterosexual
straight
hetro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛtɹoʊ/
ipa: /ˈhɛtɹəʊ/
Forms: form: hetros
Etymology: From hetero, representing a pronunciation with elision of /ə/.
Senses: glosses: A heterosexual person.
Synonyms: het
hetero
heterosexual
concursion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concursions
Etymology: From French concours, from Latin concursus, from concurrere (“to run together”). See concur.
Senses: examples: text: For the Epicureans were forced to imagine so many and such various concursions of individual corpuscules in the immensity of space, so great a multitude of pre-existing orders of things before the present, and other similar delusions here enumerated […]
ref: 1845, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe:
glosses: A sudden solidification.
fianceé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of fiancée.
Lieutenant Colonel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lieutenant Colonels
form: Lieutenant-Colonel
Senses: examples: text: Lieutenant Colonels Smith and Gildea were awarded the Order of the Fatherland, Second Class.
ref: 1955, Carl R[aymond] Gray, Jr., “Operations in Iran, 1942-1945”, in Railroading in Eighteen Countries: The Story of American Railroad Men serving in the Military Railway Service, 1862 to 1953, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 268:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An army officer title for the rank of lieutenant colonel, found in many countries.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A military officer title used in English for ranks that are treated as the equivalent to the rank of lieutenant colonel, in which the equivalent ranks are found in most countries.
lieutenant colonels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lieutenant colonel
lieutenants colonel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lieutenant colonel
Captain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Captains
Senses: examples: text: These islands were discovered by Captain Cook.
text: […] the governor, convinced of the need of a thorough exploration of the south coast, now ordered Grant to return and carefully survey the bay between Cape Otway and Cape Schank, besides the land which had been seen by Captains Black and Buyers, then to sail to King George’s Sound and, in returning, to explore the whole south coast to Wilson’s Promontory, going to the head of every bay or inlet as far as possible.
ref: 1906, Ida Lee, The Coming of the British to Australia, 1788 to 1829, Longmans, Green, and Co., page 100:
glosses: The honorific of a captain, especially a ship's captain or a person with the military rank of captain.
examples: text: Captain America; Captain Marvel; Captain Hindsight
glosses: Forms a title for a superhero seen as embodying or possessing in high degree the qualities associated with the ensuing phrase
raw_tags: before a descriptive word or phrase
examples: text: Abbott has this alter ego, Captain Creepy. I mean, if he's not chatting away to the nation about his daughters' virginity, he's using anti-rape slogans to belittle the female Prime Minister.
ref: 2010 November 8, Paul Howes, Confessions Of A Faceless Man: Inside Campaign 2010, Melbourne University Press, →ISBN, page 120:
text: Dean asks, 'How'm I s'posed to empty my bloody pockets with my hands tied, Captain Genius?'
ref: 2020 July 14, David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
text: “Count me in,” he said to Brooks as Logan headed out. “And let's just hope Logan doesn't turn into another Captain Boring like Vince,” he added.
ref: 2022, Elizabeth Davis, The Player Next Door, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: Forms a title or nickname for a person; typically a nonce coinage
raw_tags: from the superhero sense
Synonyms: sense: superhero name
word: -man
sense: superhero name
word: -woman
sense: jocular nickname
word: Mister
sense: jocular nickname
word: Mc-
Derived terms: Captain Ersatz
Captain Obvious
Brigadier General
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A military officer title.
Cabochien
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French cabochien.
Senses: glosses: Relating to Simon Caboche or to the revolt of 1413 in which he was a leader.
tone meeting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tone meetings
Senses: examples: text: The final aspect to completing your preparation [as a director] is the tone meeting with the showrunner. (...) Generally, the two of you go through the script, scene by scene (...).
ref: 2013, Bethany Rooney, Mary Lou Belli, Directors Tell the Story: Master the Craft of Television and Film Directing, →ISBN, page 73:
text: These particular meetings are called tone meetings and require the showrunner meet with every new director hired. The idea is to go over what the episode will look like and how it will fit in with the rest of the season.
ref: 2016 January 5, Julia Alexander, “Former Walking Dead showrunner slams AMC in new testimony”, in Polygon:
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: A meeting between the showrunner of a television series and the director to discuss an episode that is to be produced.
tone meetings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tone meeting
writers' room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: writers' rooms
Senses: examples: text: The showrunner ist the ringmaster for the writers' room—the final authority. There is some form of a whiteboard on the walls of the room, where the plots for future episodes are outlined.
ref: 2013, Bethany Rooney, Mary Lou Belli, Directors Tell the Story: Master the Craft of Television and Film Directing, →ISBN, page 66:
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: The room in which the showrunner and the writers of a television series collaborate on the plot and develop the script.
writers' rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of writers' room
pattern budget
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pattern budgets
Senses: examples: text: The main order of business will be to discuss how to meet the requirements of the script that are beyond the pattern budget, which is the cost of a typical episode. The pattern will dictate what the usual demands are […]
ref: 2013, Bethany Rooney, Mary Lou Belli, Directors Tell the Story: Master the Craft of Television and Film Directing, →ISBN, page 68:
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: The cost of producing a typical episode of a television series.
pattern budgets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pattern budget
toe kicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toe kick
nonelongating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + elongating.
Senses: glosses: Not elongating.
noncytoplasmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + cytoplasmic.
Senses: glosses: Not cytoplasmic.
mainsleaze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of mainstream + sleaze
Senses: glosses: spam posted by or on behalf of a mainstream organization
splork
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: glosses: Expressing amusement, as though one had spat out one's drink while reading something amusing.
Synonyms: sporfle
splork
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: splorks
form: splorking
form: splorked
form: splorked
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: glosses: To spit out one's drink as the result of reading something amusing.
Related terms: C|N>K
splorks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of splork
splorking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of splork
splorked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of splork
softwarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From software + -ily.
Senses: examples: text: Anyone who buys a computer lacking a standard operating system may find himself in the isolation unit, softwarily speaking.
ref: 1984, James E. Balmer, The Portable Computer Book, page 57:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: In terms of software.
Related terms: hardwarily
electrohydraulics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + hydraulics.
Senses: glosses: electrohydraulic systems generally
Army General
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A title used in many countries to denote the rank of general nominally commanding an army in the field.
lemon-lime
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: lemonlime
Senses: glosses: that contains a mixture of lemons and limes
lemon-lime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lemon-limes
form: lemonlime
Senses: examples: text: The Lemon Lime, or Sweet Lemon, is larger than the preceding, of an oblong roundish shape, with protuberances at the point, which is in some cases also puckered.
ref: 1858, Robert Hogg, The Vegetable Kingdom and Its Products, page 140:
text: Perhaps this is the place to recall the rise and fall of the so-called Perrine lemon, the hybrid lemon-lime which was introduced by the U. S. Department of Agriculture about 1931 in the hope that it might enable Florida to compete directly with California for the lemon trade.
ref: 1950, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Florida State Horticultural Society:
text: "There are many varieties of citrus including sweet and sour oranges, lemons, limes, lemon-limes, calomondin and pomelo."
ref: 1989, Robert Earle Johannes, Traditional Ecological Knowledge: A Collection of Essays:
glosses: a variety of citrus fruit
glosses: any lemon-lime drink
lemonlime
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Those who prefer lemonlime soft drinks would love this soda!
glosses: Alternative spelling of lemon-lime.
tail-ender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tail-enders
Etymology: From tail-end + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tailender.
chartres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chartre
Governor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Governors
Senses: examples: text: The Auschwitz Memorial Museum slammed Kyle Langford, Republican candidate for Governor of California, after his antisemitic remarks, calling out his actions as a “profound moral failure.”
ref: 2025 July 27, “California governor candidate calls Auschwitz 'solution for homelessness,' sparks critisism”, in The Jerusalem Post:
glosses: The title for someone who holds the post of governor.
damasquin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: damasquins
form: damasquining
form: damasquined
form: damasquined
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of damascene.
open carry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In most places, open carry is relatively uncommon compared to lawful concealed carry. Open carry has long been a norm in Arizona, and open carry advocates in many other states today are seeking to renormalize the practice.
ref: 2018, Nicholas J. Johnson, David B. Kopel, George A. Mocsary, Michael P. O'Shea, Firearms Law and the Second Amendment: Regulation, Rights, and Policy, 2nd edition, Wolters Kluwer, →ISBN, page 736:
text: Open-carry laws, it’s often noted, wouldn’t allow Black people to wander through the supermarket with huge guns slung over them and the confidence they could impose on others this way; […]
ref: 2022 May 30, Rebecca Solnit, “US mass shootings will continue until the majority can overrule the minority”, in The Guardian:
coordinate_terms: concealed carry
glosses: The practice of openly carrying a firearm in public.
Scotch-Irish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: Ulster Scots
glosses: The descendants of Scottish settlers in the Irish province of Ulster.
Nukualofa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Nuku'alofa.
Porto Novo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality on the island of Santo Antão, Cape Verde.
glosses: A city, the capital of the municipality of Porto Novo, on the island of Santo Antão, Cape Verde.
glosses: Former name of Parangipettai: a town in Tamil Nadu, India.
enterorrhexis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From entero- + -rrhexis.
Senses: examples: text: This paper reports 67 cases of enterorrhexis caused by closed abdominal injury, in which 11 cases are of duodenal rupture (16.42%), 48 of jejuno-ileuc rupture (71. 64%) and 8 of colonic rupture (11.94%).
ref: 1997 February, Li Li, Chen Shaoli, “Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Enterorrhexis Caused by Closed Abdominal Injury”, in Clinical Medicine of China:
text: Prenatal exposure of the neonate to cocaine can be associated with severe defects of gastro-intestinal tract, such as necrotizing enterocolitis (43-45) and enterorrhexis (46), which are due to vasoconstriction, because of the general hypoxia and ischaemia of the fetus.
ref: 2001 October 5, Anna Deltsidou, “Cocaine abuse in pregnancy”, in Epitheorese Klinikes Farmakologias Kai Farmakokinetikes, International Edition, volume 16:
text: To prevent colitis and enterorrhexis, it is important that we consider HSCR in patients with XLH and ACS for their early treatment such as in our 2 cases.
ref: 2008 May, Shigeru Nakakimura, Fumiaki Sasaki, Tadao Okada, Atsushiro Arisue, Kazutoshi Cho, Masami Yoshino, Yonehiro Kanemura, Mami Yamaski, Satoru Todo, “Hirschsprung's disease, acrocallosal syndrome, and congenital hydrocephalus: report of 2 patients and literature review”, in Journal of pediatric surgery, volume 43, number 5:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Rupture of the intestine.
exopinacocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exopinacocytes
Etymology: From exo- + pinacocyte.
Senses: examples: text: The surface part of an exopinacocyte is polygonal in shape and covered with a mucous layer of self-secreted glycocalyx.
ref: 2010, Alexander V. Ereskovsky, The Comparative Embryology of Sponges, →ISBN, page xxi:
glosses: A type of cell that forms the external epithelium lining the canals of poriferans
exopinacocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exopinacocyte
Johannic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to John the Baptist
feal and divot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fail and divot
Senses: examples: text: No doubt, the want of access by a good road, together with the circumstance of the lands and barony of Torrie, of which this property forms a part, being held in runrigg between the Master of Mortifications of Aberdeen and Mr Menzies of Pit-foddels, and a servitude of feal and divot, which existed over nearly one-third of the muir ground, in favour of the adjoining property of South Loirston, contributed in a great degree to retard the improvement of the land in this locality, notwithstanding its near vicinage to Aberdeen.
ref: 1841, Prize-essays and Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland:
qualifier: Scots law
glosses: A predial servitude (a legal interest by a non-owner connected with a piece of land) that grants the dominant tenant the right to cut out portions of turf for the construction or repair of sod structures such as houses, fences, or roofs.
glosses: The construction technique for building sod structures by building walls out of feal and covering them with divot.
examples: text: Feuars and tenants, likewise, had right to cut and carry off sod, called feal and divot, from the moors and commons, for building and roofing their cottages and hovels, and other purposes;
ref: 1825, James Mitchell, The Scotsman's Library; Being a Collection of Anecdotes and Facts, page 473:
glosses: Sod that is used for construction.
fail and divot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Until within these last twenty years, the tenants on other two estates were entitled to carry fail and divot from this moor, for repairing their houses.
ref: 1808, The Repertory of Arts, Manufactures, and Agriculture:
text: At Tarves in 1684 the tradesmen valuators referred to mason work, dry-stone work, mud work, cassie work (cobbling), fail and divot work.
ref: 1970, Ulster Folklife - Volumes 15-16, page 28:
text: Turf 'Fail and divot' masked the wooden components of the shieling buildings.
ref: 1990, Albert Bil, The Shieling, 1600-1840, page 244:
glosses: Alternative form of feal and divot.
secondable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From second + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The second motion, to adjourn, is secondable and requires a majority vote, but is not debatable or amendable, and cannot be reconsidered (no D, A or R shown).
ref: 1953, George Demeter, Manual of parliamentary law and procedure, page 98:
text: The key propositions, to be achieved by 2010, were: improvement of the quality of trained personnel deployed; enhancing the availability of secondable civilian personnel;
ref: 2014, Jolyon Howorth, Security and Defence Policy in the European Union, →ISBN, page 103:
glosses: Capable of being seconded.
secondable
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From second + -able.
Senses: examples: text: … two main reasons. Firstly, as the wealth increases the complexity of its administration increments as well, making compulsory the support of a professional; secondable, since the cost structure is usually linked with the assets under management, they …
ref: 1993, Luca Reddavide, The Evolution of Wealth Management: Transformation and Innovation of Robo Advisory, thesis submitted to Università Ca' Foscari Venezia:
text: Secondable (see the firstable hyperlink), Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says there isn't much headroom for his company's social networking site.
ref: 2014 December 23, Quinten Plummer, “Teens Show Thumbs Up to Instagram but Thumbs Down to Facebook”, in Tech Times:
text: Firstable, workers who work in a close connection with pesticides like formulators, sprayers, mixers, loaders and agricultural farm workers have a big risk to expose themselves to the pesticides that harm their health. Secondable, people can expose to a number of pesticides through food
ref: 2015, Heidi Rosala, Consumer selection of vegetarian food in restaurants, thesis submitted to University of Jyväskylä:
text: Firstable, they simulated the considered plant in its original site (Granada, Spain), secondable, the simulation was performed in another location (Ma’an, Jordan).
ref: 2020, T. E. Boukelia, A. Bouraoui, A. Laouafi, S. Djimli, Y. Kabar, “3E (Energy-Exergy-Economic) comparative study of integrating wet and dry cooling systems in solar tower power plants”, in Energy, →DOI:
glosses: Eggcorn of second of all.
firstable
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Eggcorn of first of all.
Senses: examples: text: The point of view we bring in these notes has a double interest; firstable it tends to unify the language of functional inequalitites of type Poincaré to the field of processes continuously depending on their past;
ref: 2002, Alejandro Maass, Servet Martínez, Jaime San Martín, Dynamics and Randomness, →ISBN, page 230:
text: Firstable you won't believe all the responsibility I have over my shoulders.
ref: 2014, Gregory A. Smith, Public Schools That Work: Creating Community, →ISBN, page 194:
text: Firstable the Italian was disrupting the timing of the “bulls”, it was getting late for the next bull to be ejected.
ref: 2014, Victor H. Acuna, An Ecuadorian Festivity: Close to Heaven, →ISBN:
text: Firstable (the latest word for first of all, for those not too cool for school), the decline in teen users can be largely attributed to rival messaging apps and the public distrust of Facebook.
ref: 2014 December 23, Quinten Plummer, “Teens Show Thumbs Up to Instagram but Thumbs Down to Facebook”, in Tech Times:
qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: First of all; firstly
well-stacked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more well-stacked
form: most well-stacked
Senses: synonyms: word: bathykolpian
word: big
word: big-breasted
word: breasty
word: boobilicious
word: bosomy
word: busty
word: buxom
word: chesty
word: curvy
word: full-bosomed
word: full-throated
word: macromastic
word: racktacular
word: racktastic
word: stacked
word: top-heavy
word: well-endowed
word: well-stacked
glosses: Busty, having large breasts.
bacon butty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bacon butties
Senses: glosses: A sandwich filled with bacon
curb crawler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curb crawlers
Senses: glosses: A prostitute's client, especially one who travels in a car to search for a prostitute.
Synonyms: prostitute's client
'er indoors
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: A person's wife.
Synonyms: wife
skin cream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skin creams
Senses: glosses: A cosmetic cream to moisturise the skin
Related terms: face cream
monster mash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monster mashes
form: Monster Mash
Senses: examples: text: I was working in the lab late one night
When my eyes beheld an eerie sight
For my monster, from his slab, began to rise
And suddenly, to my surprise
He did the Mash
He did the Monster Mash.
ref: 1962, “Monster Mash”, Bobby "Boris" Pickett and Lenny Capizzi (lyrics), performed by Bobby (Boris) Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers:
qualifier: preceded by definite article
glosses: A particular dance performed to the novelty song Monster Mash (1962).
coachhorse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coachhorses
Etymology: From coach + horse.
Senses: glosses: A horse used to pull coaches
safe deposit box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safe deposit boxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of safe-deposit box.
sandwich spread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandwich spreads
Senses: glosses: A spread designed for use in sandwiches, typically based on mayonnaise.
birthday party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birthday parties
Senses: glosses: A party held to celebrate a person's birthday.
Related terms: birthday cake
lawn party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lawn parties
Senses: glosses: garden party
concert party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concert parties
Senses: glosses: A group of entertainers, or Pierrots, popular in Britain during the first half of the 20th century
glosses: a group of people acting in concert in a takeover bid
chipseal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chipseals
form: chip and seal
form: chip seal
Etymology: From chip + seal.
Senses: glosses: A pavement surface treatment that combines one or more layers of asphalt with one or more layers of fine aggregate.
Synonyms: tarseal
chipseal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chipseals
form: chipsealing
form: chipsealed
form: chipsealed
form: chip and seal
form: chip seal
Etymology: From chip + seal.
Senses: glosses: To apply this surface treatment to.
dirt track
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dirt tracks
Senses: hypernyms: racecourse
racetrack
glosses: A type of unpaved racetrack used for dirt track racing of cars, or similar track racing of dirtbikes.
hypernyms: road
glosses: Synonym of dirt road.
synonyms: word: dirt road
dirt road
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dirt roads
Senses: synonyms: dirt track
glosses: An unpaved road consisting solely of subgrade material.
Related terms: gravel road
unmade road
unimproved
on yer bike
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: on yer bike !
Senses: glosses: go away! scram!
Synonyms: go away
no more
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English no more, nomore, from Old English nā māre, nāmāre.
Senses: examples: text: There's no more wine.
glosses: Not any more; no further.
examples: text: She held him until he was no more.
text: The USSR is no more.
text: This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies!
ref: 1969 December 7, Monty Python, “Full Frontal Nudity, Dead Parrot sketch”, in Monty Python's Flying Circus, spoken by Mr Praline (John Cleese):
glosses: Dead.
no more
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Middle English no more, nomore, from Old English nā māre, nāmāre.
Senses: examples: text: I will pay no more today.
text: He will bother you no more.
text: If thou wilt not, befall what may befall,
I'll speak no more,—but vengeance rot you all!
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
ref: 1817, Lord Byron, So, we'll go no more a roving:
text: Farewell to Lochaber, farewell to the glen,
No more will he wander Lochaber again.
ref: 1917, Neil Munro, Lochaber No More:
text: [There are] No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks.
ref: 1972, “School's Out”, performed by Alice Cooper:
text: I think of so many people who are no more, and I pity them. Yet they are not so much to be pitied, for they have solved every problem, beginning with the problem of death.
ref: 1973, Emil Cioran, translated by Richard Howard, The Trouble With Being Born:
glosses: No longer; not any more.
examples: text: - I can't swim.
- No more can I.
text: You could no more climb that fence than fly!
glosses: Equally not; not either.
Derived terms: no more Mr. Nice Guy
Related terms: word: any more
english: overlaps semantically with sense 1
translation: overlaps semantically with sense 1
word: no longer
word: no less
no more
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From Middle English no more, nomore, from Old English nā māre, nāmāre.
Senses: examples: text: The police officer started with another round of questions. “Please, no more. I can't do this anymore.” Janette lay her head down on the kitchen table and cried.
ref: 2009, C. Leslie Bradley, In Her Dreams:
glosses: Stop it! Don't continue!
no more
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: no mores
Etymology: From Middle English no more, nomore, from Old English nā māre, nāmāre.
Senses: examples: text: So even becoming a doctor created a no more for him — no more guitar playing!
ref: 2013, Charles K. Stanley, What No Eye Has Seen:
text: We didn't like to find the areas where we did not see eye-to-eye because they generated their own list of no mores and made us uncomfortable with each other.
ref: 2014, Buddy Rogers, The Pain from the Death of a Spouse:
glosses: Something that is from a certain point onwards forbidden, or non-existent.
child-in-law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: children-in-law
Etymology: From child + -in-law.
Senses: glosses: A spouse of one's child; a son-in-law or daughter-in-law
ever after
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛvəɹ‿ˈɑːftə/
ipa: /-ˈæf-/
ipa: /ˌɛvəɹ‿ˈæftəɹ/
rhymes: -ɑːftə(ɹ)
rhymes: -æftə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Middle English ever afftir, evere aftir.
Senses: examples: text: I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.
ref: 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights:
text: 1992, Basic Instinct, written by Joe Eszterhas, Catherine and Nick played by (respectively) Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas
Catherine: What do we do now, Nick?
Nick: Fuck like minks, raise rug rats, live happily ever after.
Catherine: I hate rug rats.
Nick: Fuck like minks, forget the rug rats, and live happily ever after.
glosses: forever, for eternity
Synonyms: forever
Derived terms: happily ever after
happy ever after
cream-crackered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cream-crackered
form: most cream-crackered
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cream crackered.
royal antelope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: royal antelopes
Senses: examples: text: The third member of the section is the royal antelope (N. pygmæus) of the Guinea coast, which is the smallest of all the Ruminants, standing only 12 inches at the shoulder.
ref: 1894, Richard Lydekker, The Royal Natural History: Mammals:
glosses: Any of species Neotragus pygmaeus of antelopes of west Africa, that are the smallest known.
Planet Earth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Earth; the third planet in the Solar System
Related terms: world
zero article
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zero articles
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The non-appearance of an article before a noun.
lemon-limes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lemon-lime
lemonlimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lemonlime
calomondin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calomondins
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of calamondin.