cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
in any case
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Who knows how many more inches of snow will fall tonight, but in any case, we can expect to be doing a lot of shoveling tomorrow.
text: Later Martin said, "If we ever have another baby girl, I'm going to give her a simple name like Mary Jane." When we did have another daughter, we called her Bernice Albertine, after her two grandmothers. Not quite Mary Jane, but at least named for members of the family. In any case, she is known as Bunny,
ref: 1969, Coretta Scott King, My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, page 107:
text: The Information Department is outhoused but there are operational reasons for this and it would, in any case, be physically impossible to house the staff of the Department in the main building.
ref: 1975, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Sessional Papers, volume 28, page 38:
text: Because of the juristic difficulties associated with the Donation of Constantine, the question of whether the papacy had in any case prescribed its jurisdiction in the patrimony had become a common topic amongst jurists […]
ref: 1987, Joseph Canning, The Political Thought of Baldus de Ubaldis, page 53:
synonyms: whatever the case may be
anyhow
anyway
at any rate
in any event
come what may
regardless
glosses: Whatever be the case.
examples: text: Their most popular product, an assortment of ales, is packaged such that there are always at least two bottles of India pale ale in any case.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, any, case.
in any event
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: nonetheless, nevertheless, come what may
text: The product is duly prohibited by law, but in any event, it is still available on the black market.
synonyms: at all events
in any case
anyway
regardless
glosses: At any rate, anyhow.
examples: text: Kinetics might be described as a series of events, and in any event, there is some instant at which some change begins.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, any, event.
burrata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʊˈɹɑːtə/
ipa: /bəˈɹɑtə/
rhymes: -ɑːtə
Forms: form: burratas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian burrata, from burro (“butter”).
Senses: examples: text: So the greens in the salad at the start of our meal came with […] creamy, dreamy burrata.
ref: 2008 March 19, Frank Bruni, “2. Ubuntu”, in New York Times:
glosses: A fresh southern Italian cheese similar to creamy mozzarella.
mumblings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mumbling
action verbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of action verb
multileveled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌltɪˈlɛvəld/
Forms: form: multilevelled
form: multi-levelled
Etymology: From multi- + leveled.
Senses: examples: text: His successful embracing of the Calas cause highlighted how multi-levelled and complex politics had become by the 1760s.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 270:
text: The Puerto Rican duo Calle 13 the rapper Residente and the producer Visitante cackles its way across the Americas in multileveled songs about culture, assimilation, immigration and sex.
ref: 2007 December 23, Jon Pareles, “Of Radiohead and Rehab, 1234 and Calle 13”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having multiple (literal or figurative) levels.
multipanel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + panel.
Senses: examples: text: In Ms. Murray’s mature work, eccentrically shaped or multipanel canvases fused Cubism’s shattered forms and Surrealism’s suggestive biomorphism with the scale and some of the angst of Abstract Expressionism and more than a touch of Disneyesque humor and motion.
ref: 2007 August 13, Roberta Smith, “Elizabeth Murray, 66, Artist of Vivid Forms, Dies”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having multiple panels
multiculturalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multiculturalist
multiculturalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multicultural + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to or advocating multiculturalism
multiculturalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiculturalists
Etymology: From multicultural + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: He takes dead aim at racial opportunists, opponents of affirmative action, multiculturalists and the myriad rights organizations trying to hitch a ride on the successes of the black civil rights movement.
ref: 2008 February 6, William Grimes, “Colorblind Conclusions on Racism”, in New York Times:
glosses: An advocate of multiculturalism
Related terms: multiculturalism
monitorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monitorships
Etymology: From monitor + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: John E. McArdle, a spokesman for Mr. Bruno, said […] that Mr. Getnick’s monitorship had not been discussed.
ref: 2007 September 30, Nicholas Confessore, “Ex-Monitor of Horse Racing Interviewed in Bruno Inquiry”, in New York Times:
text: A costly part of corporate settlements, monitorship agreements force companies to hire external counsel for years to ensure executives don’t repeat their misconduct.
ref: 2014 October 15, Joel Schectman, “SEC Official:Company Reforms Can Make Monitorships Unneccesary^([sic])”, in Wall Street Journal:
glosses: The status of serving as a monitor.
moated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From moat + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: His goal is to imbue his waterfront enclave with enough complexity to provide a distilled version of the great metropolis within this moated sanctuary.
ref: 2008 March 3, Nicolai Ouroussoff, “City on the Gulf: Koolhaas Lays Out a Grand Urban Experiment in Dubai”, in New York Times:
glosses: Surrounded with a moat
Derived terms: unmoated
minimart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minimarts
form: mini-mart
Etymology: From mini- + mart.
Senses: examples: text: The joke is that these two men are sitting in front of a gas station that has been transformed into a minimart capable of supplying anything—even the kosher pickled herring requested by an Orthodox Jew.
ref: 1988 July 15, Tom Valeo, “Happy Happy Good Show”, in Chicago Reader:
text: I went to the minimart…It’s about a fifteen minute walk both ways. But I didn’t wanna drive cause I was really wasted.
ref: 2016, Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea, spoken by Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck):
glosses: A convenience store.
midquarter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + quarter.
Senses: examples: text: Technology shares also received a boost ahead of a midquarter update from Texas Instruments, which tightened its financial targets after the closing bell.
ref: 2007 March 13, The Associated Press, “Wall St. Recovery Continues, Albeit Slowly”, in New York Times:
glosses: Occurring in the middle of a quarter
midpack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + pack.
Senses: examples: text: A son of Street Cry, Street Sense will break from the No. 7 post and, in theory, lope along in midpack before finding a spot near the rail to unleash a late run.
ref: 2007 May 3, Joe Drape, “Curlin, the Early Derby Favorite, Draws a Difficult Post”, in New York Times:
glosses: The middle of a pack, especially in a race
examples: text: that nigga Putin off that midpack
ref: 2022 February 23, @AccelerateNRx, Twitter:
text: I only fuck wit midpack my nigga STRICTLY MID!!!
ref: 2016 May 16, @UGLY_FRANK, Twitter:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Synonym of mid.
synonyms: word: mid
minimarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minimart
midmonth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈmɪdmʌnθ/
Etymology: From mid- + month.
Senses: examples: text: But by the time the Iraqis return to Parliament in September, it is highly unlikely that they could meet the midmonth deadline in the United States.
ref: 2007 July 23, Alissa J. Rubin, “Oil Law Stalls in Iraq as Bomb Aims at Sheiks”, in New York Times:
glosses: Occurring in the middle of a month, neither at the beginning nor the end
Derived terms: midmonthly
midmonth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɪdmʌnθ/
Forms: form: midmonths
Etymology: From mid- + month.
Senses: glosses: A point in the middle of a month.
midmeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + meal.
Senses: glosses: Occurring in the middle of a meal
midmeal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + meal.
Senses: examples: text: And, bien sûr, the dinner guest must not leave the table in midmeal to use the powder room, and should she have to go, never, ever use the word “toilette” when asking a host for directions.
ref: 2007 January 11, Elaine Sciolino, “France Polishes Its Politesse”, in New York Times:
glosses: The middle of a meal
midconcert
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + concert.
Senses: glosses: Occurring in the middle of a concert, neither at the beginning nor the end
midconcert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + concert.
Senses: examples: text: Even with some filibustering in midconcert and near the end, Foo Fighters didn’t fulfill Mr. Grohl’s promise to play for more than two hours.
ref: 2008 February 21, Jon Pareles, “Letting the Inner Angst Out, Loudly”, in New York Times:
glosses: The middle part of a concert
midcap
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + cap.
Senses: examples: text: “You could’ve gone down to midcap stocks,” said Bruce T. Herring, group chief investment officer overseeing Fidelity Blue Chip Growth, the largest fund on the list.
ref: 2007 April 8, Tim Gray, “Yes, It’s a 7-Year Streak, but No, They’re Not Bragging”, in New York Times:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Having medium market capitalization, often defined as between 2 and 10 billion US dollars
midcap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midcaps
Etymology: From mid- + cap.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A stock with medium market capitalization.
microenterprise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microenterprises
Etymology: From micro- + enterprise.
Senses: examples: text: While the Inter-American bank concentrated most of its efforts during that time on lending to build Latin American infrastructure projects and heavy industries, Mr. Ortiz Mena also set up the bank’s first financing operations for microenterprise.
ref: 2007 March 16, Elisabeth Malkin, “Antonio Ortiz Mena, 99, Mexican Finance Minister in 1960s, Dies”, in New York Times:
topics: business
glosses: A very small business with five or fewer employees, or the business sector comprising these businesses.
Related terms: microentrepreneur
microentrepreneurship
methamidophos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Possibly from meth(yl)- + amido- + phos(phate).
Senses: examples: text: The Health Ministry said the dumplings contained a pesticide, methamidophos, which is used in China but is not common in Japan.
ref: 2008 February 2, Martin Fackler, “Insecticide-Tainted Dumplings From China Sicken 175 in Japan”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 Jan 2018:
text: These are the last disulfoton and methamidophos products registered for use in the United States.
ref: 2009 September 23, “Notices”, in Federal Register, volume 74, number 183, archived from the original on 18 Feb 2017, page 48551:
text: Five of these chemicals – naled, methamidophos, trichlorfon, chlorpyrifos and phorate – showed up in at least 10% of the cord blood samples.
ref: 2017 June 9, Susan Scutti, “Study links mosquito spray to delayed motor skills in babies”, in CNN, archived from the original on 06 Oct 2022:
glosses: A specific organophosphate insecticide, having the chemical formula C₂H₈NO₂PS
memorialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: memorializations
form: memorialisation
Etymology: From memorialize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: “This is an important milestone in the whole memorialization process,” said Howard Dodson, one of the early leaders in the development of the memorial and the chief of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library .
ref: 2007 October 2, Elias E. Lopez, “Nameless Are Memorialized at Old African Burial Site”, in New York Times:
glosses: The act or process of memorializing or creating a memorial.
megaresorts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megaresort
megaresort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megaresorts
Etymology: From mega- + resort.
Senses: examples: text: At the same time, analysts say he is certain to face pressure from Mexico’s powerful tourism industry, which generates billions of dollars in revenue for the country but has also caused once-scenic coastlines to become clotted with megaresorts.
ref: 2007 May 20, Ron Stodghill, “Who Controls Paradise?”, in New York Times:
glosses: A very large-scale resort
megacomplex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megacomplexes
Etymology: From mega- + complex.
Senses: examples: text: […] he has remade the city’s skyline with half a dozen high-rises, including a $4 billion megacomplex over 27 acres, Roppongi Hills.
ref: 2008 March 27, Martin Fackler, “The Builder Who Pushes Tokyo Into the Clouds”, in New York Times:
glosses: A very large complex of buildings
megacomplex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more megacomplex
form: most megacomplex
Etymology: From mega- + complex.
Senses: glosses: Very complex
megacomplexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megacomplex
mbalax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Wolof [Term?], meaning "rhythm".
Senses: examples: text: Another local style — the Senegalese funk called mbalax — arrived with the singer Fallou Dieng, a protégé of the Senegalese superstar Youssou N’Dour.
ref: 2008 January 15, Jon Pareles, “To See (and Hear) the World in Five Hours: Unique Sounds Ripe for Import”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of popular dance music chiefly performed in Senegal and The Gambia
marchlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more marchlike
form: most marchlike
Etymology: From march + -like.
Senses: examples: text: His work, “La Devinette d’Arlequin,” seemed less the riddle of its title than a busy, marchlike exercise in calculated harshness […].
ref: 2007 April 24, Bernard Holland, “Composers Near and Far, Speaking a Language of Now”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Resembling a march
maraviroc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -viroc (“chemokine CC motif receptor 5 antagonist”).
Senses: examples: text: In two Phase 3 studies […] more than 40 percent of patients who received maraviroc had undetectable levels of virus after 24 weeks of a 48-week study.
ref: 2007 February 28, Lawrence K. Altman, “2 New Drugs Offer Options in H.I.V. Fight”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A specific drug used in the treatment of HIV to inhibit viral entry into cells.
lusterware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lusterwares
form: lustreware
Etymology: From luster + -ware.
Senses: examples: text: Besides these hearty fellows, these salesmen of prosperity, there were the aristocrats, that is, the men who were richer or had been rich for more generations: the presidents of banks and of factories, the land-owners, the corporation lawyers, the fashionable doctors, and the few young-old men who worked not at all but, reluctantly remaining in Zenith, collected luster-ware and first editions as though they were back in Paris.
ref: 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXXIV, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC:
text: The golden gates of Meshed have a rosy sheen, like lustre ware […]
ref: 1961, Freya Stark, chapter 9, in Dust in the Lion's Paw: Autobiography 1939-1946, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, page 172:
text: In Nantucket, they sold most of their stock: […] English lusterware, an oak wall cupboard and a decorated leather sea trunk made in China.
ref: 2007 August 10, Wendy Moonan, “Newport Antiques (and Nantucket’s) in Summer Fair”, in New York Times:
glosses: A type of pottery having an iridescent metallic glaze
loutishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loutishnesses
Etymology: From loutish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: 1932-34, Samuel Beckett, "Gnome", Dublin Magazine
Spend the years of learning squandering / Courage for the years of wandering / Through a world politely turning / From the loutishness of learning.
text: True, this is hardly the drink to inspire “Girls Gone Wild” loutishness.
ref: 2007 February 11, Jonathan Miles, “Saints and Sinners Unite”, in New York Times:
glosses: The state or quality of being loutish, of behaving like a lout.
lunkheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lunk + headed.
Senses: examples: text: That was a lunkheaded trick,’ Denham told him.
ref: 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 83:
text: […] Andrew W. K.’s absurdly high-energy party metal (“Party Til You Puke”) comes across as either self-aware performance art or simply the most lunkheaded anthems to debauchery ever recorded.
ref: 2008 January 18, The New York Times, “Rock & Pop Listings”, in New York Times:
synonyms: 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
glosses: obtuse; foolish; idiotic.
locater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: locaters
Etymology: From locate + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A perusal of recent transcripts reveals that Hillary Clinton likes “I am thrilled to see all of you” and “I am so pleased to be with all of you,” with an occasional locater: “I am so happy to be back here in [wherever].”
ref: 2008 March 16, William Safire, “Salutations”, in New York Times:
glosses: Something which serves to locate
Related terms: locator
lightless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: lītʹlĕs
ipa: /ˈlaɪtlɛs/
Etymology: From Middle English lightles, from Old English lēohtlēas, from Proto-West Germanic *leuhtalaus; equivalent to light (noun) + -less (“lacking, without”). Cognate with West Frisian ljochtleas, Dutch lichtloos, German lichtlos.
Senses: examples: text: From the besieged Ardea all in post,
Borne by the trustless wings of false desire,
Lust-breathed Tarquin leaves the Roman host,
And to Collatium bears the lightless fire
Which, in pale embers hid, lurks to aspire
And girdle with embracing flames the waist
Of Collatine’s fair love, Lucrece the chaste.
ref: 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC:
text: "I can’t stand much of this," said Hurstwood, whose legs ached him painfully, as he sat down upon the miserable bunk in the small, lightless chamber allotted to him.
ref: 1900, Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie:
text: Touch with thy flame the lightless lamp of my sorrow.
ref: 1918, Rabindranath Tagore, “Lover’s Gift and Crossing”, in Crossing, New York: Macmillan, 7, p. 85:
text: Knocked about on the wooden seat of the rackety rickety dim-lit bus, going past silent fields and past houses which were lightless and dead or bright and private, Mr Biswas no longer thought of the afternoon’s mission, but of the night ahead.
ref: 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part One, Chapter 5:
glosses: Lacking light; unilluminated; dark.
Derived terms: word: lightlessly
word: lightlessness
locaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of locater
lasered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of laser
ladleful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ladlefuls
form: ladlesful
Etymology: From Middle English ladelful, ladel-ful; equivalent to ladle + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Add wine and a ladleful of hot stock and cook, stirring often, until liquid is absorbed.
ref: 2007 March 21, “Recipe: Risotto al Barolo”, in New York Times:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
coordinate_terms: bowlful
spoonful
glosses: A sufficient quantity to fill a ladle.
ladlefuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ladleful
liftgate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liftgates
Etymology: From lift + gate.
Senses: examples: text: If the liftgate is for a dry van body, the body’s width — for example 96 or 102 inches — impacts the liftgate’s overall width and available platform sizes.
ref: 2013 July 1, Sean Lyden, “Need a Lift? Remember to Spec the Right Liftgate”, in Work Truck Magazine, archived from the original on 25 May 2015:
qualifier: truck equipment
glosses: A hydraulic or electric platform that installs onto the rear of a vehicle and which may be raised or lowered in the loading and unloading of heavy cargo.
examples: text: But Ford loaded that car up with options, including […] a power liftgate and heated second-row seats ($825).
ref: 2007 September 30, Christopher Jensen, “The Rerunning of the Bulls”, in New York Times:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A closure at the rear of a vehicle, or rear door, that can be raised to access the back of a vehicle.
kulfi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kulfis
Etymology: From Hindi क़ुल्फ़ी (qulfī)/Urdu قلفی (qulfī), from Classical Persian قفلی (quflī) from قفل (qufl), from Arabic قُفْل (qufl, “lock, bolt”).
Senses: examples: text: Vada pav sandwiches and mango kulfi were sold at the concession stand.
ref: 2007 January 3, Kareem Fahim, “For Some Moviegoers, It’s ‘Hooray for Bollywood’”, in New York Times:
glosses: A flavoured frozen dessert of South Asia, made from milk and resembling ice cream.
liftgates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liftgate
kufi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kufis
Etymology: Probably from Arabic كُوفِيَّة (kūfiyya, “keffiyeh”), perhaps via Swahili kofia (“hat”), though some sources suggest a connection to Yoruba fìlà (“cap”).
Senses: examples: text: Whenever Brown shows up, wearing his African kufi and confronting issues, I find myself nodding vigorously, for old-time’s sake.
ref: 2008 March 2, George Vecsey, “The Primary Season Is Embracing Sports Images”, in New York Times:
glosses: A type of brimless, rounded cap associated with various African nations or ethnicities.
examples: text: However, do not assume because the person appears to be conservative (e.g., a woman wearing a head scarf or a man wearing a skull cap or kufi) that the person does not shake hands.
ref: 2009, Nawar Shora, The Arab-American Handbook: A Guide to the Arab, Arab-American & Muslim Worlds, page 82:
glosses: A type of close-fitting cap worn by some Muslims.
intoxicatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more intoxicatingly
form: most intoxicatingly
Etymology: From intoxicating + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Set to the jazz piano music of Willie Smith, known as the Lion, this work sets its dancers intoxicatingly crossing and recrossing the floor[…].
ref: 2007 June 30, Alastair Macaulay, “It’s Summer, and These Moves Are Hot”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a way that is intoxicating
scratch team
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scratch teams
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A team, often brought together on a one-off basis, composed of players who normally play for different sides.
Kanaan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kanaans
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic كَنْعَان (kanʕān). This surname is mostly found in Lebanon.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Arabic.
suturate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: suturates
form: suturating
form: suturated
form: suturated
Senses: glosses: To sew up; to suture.
bladeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From blade + -less.
Senses: glosses: Having no blade
Derived terms: bladelessness
machineguns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of machinegun
machinegun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: machineguns
Etymology: From machine + gun.
Senses: examples: text: The raids by machinegun toting police people on Gay bars in Montreal
ref: 1978 April 22, “Book Shipment from New York Seized by Customs”, in Gay Community News, page 3:
glosses: Alternative spelling of machine gun.
machinegun
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: machineguns
form: machinegunning
form: machinegunned
form: machinegunned
Etymology: From machine + gun.
Senses: examples: text: However, one group of Americans at the Embassy doesn’t creep around quivering in anxiety about being RPGed or machinegunned.
ref: 1981 November 24, B.P., “U.S. Embassy”, in Soldier of Fortune, volume 6, number 11, page 53:
text: Jon & Kate Plus 8. Not the name of a horrific-sounding midget-porn movie. It’s the reality show that everyone is talking about.
Alright, not everyone. We haven’t been talking about Jon & Kate Plus 8. But that’s because we’ve only figured out what it is. It’s a show about a couple plagued by the fact that the woman keeps machinegunning babies out of her vagina and one of them hit the milkman in the eye. Or something.
ref: 2009 May 22, Stuart Heritage, “Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About”, in Hecklerspray, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2024:
glosses: Alternative spelling of machine-gun.
tenorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenorists
Etymology: From tenor + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: This letter is noteworthy because it specifies the voice ranges, sopranos and tenorists.
ref: 1999, Paul Merkley, Lora L. Matthews Merkley, Music and Patronage in the Sforza Court, page 77:
synonyms: tenor
glosses: A tenor singer.
glosses: Someone who plays a tenor saxophone.
tenorists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenorist
arrest warrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arrest warrants
form: warrant of arrest
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An official document that authorizes law-enforcement officials to arrest a named person and to bring that individual before a court of law or other authority.
Synonyms: word: capias
word: fiddle
relative clauses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relative clause
powers-that-be
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: On the surface, the film is a globe-trotting gross-out caper in which Nobby, who's from a hellish version of the titular Lincolnshire town ("twinned with Chernobyl"), is reunited with his long-lost brother Sebastian (Mark Strong), who has become a spy for the British secret services. That makes him a servant of the powers-that-be that have no time for Nobby and his scrounging ilk.
ref: 2016 February 23, Robbie Collin, “Grimsby review: ' Sacha Baron Cohen's vital, venomous action movie'”, in The Daily Telegraph (London):
glosses: Alternative spelling of powers that be.
fribbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fribble
fribbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fribble
pivotally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pivotally
form: most pivotally
Etymology: From pivotal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a pivotal way.
vilayets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vilayet
systems science
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: systems sciences
Senses: glosses: An interdisciplinary field of science that studies the nature of complex systems in nature, society, and science, aiming at developing interdisciplinary foundations that are applicable in a variety of areas including engineering, biology, medicine and social sciences.
Related terms: systems theory
cybernetics
final whistles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of final whistle
chessically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From chessic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Chessically these two champions are very much alike in style. In profundity, caution-cum-boldness, power of absorption in the game...
ref: 1894, George Alcock MacDonnell, The Knights and Kings of Chess:
text: In fact, before the age of six, talented girls and boys are chessically indistinguishable. But something happens at six...
ref: 1992, Bruce Pandolfini, Pandolfini's Chess Complete:
text: He was a lovely man — literary, compassionate, funny — as human beings we connected but chessically we didn't gel.
ref: 2007, Josh Waitzkin, The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence:
glosses: In a chessic way; pertaining to chess.
maleolent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more maleolent
form: most maleolent
Senses: glosses: malodorous, foul-smelling.
Related terms: graveolent
resistivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resistivity
episialin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: episialins
Etymology: By surface analysis, epithel(ium) + sial(omuc)in or By surface analysis, epi- + sial- + -in; the first most likely reflects the historical origin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An epithelial sialomucin.
malestream
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more malestream
form: most malestream
Etymology: Blend of male + mainstream
Senses: topics: feminism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: Mainstream and usual, from the point of view of the man, though actually biased towards men.
malestream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malestreams
Etymology: Blend of male + mainstream
Senses: topics: feminism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: A male-dominated mainstream.
episialins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of episialin
recombinants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recombinant
whoppingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more whoppingly
form: most whoppingly
Etymology: From whopping + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a whopping way; hugely, enormously.
tetraspanin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetraspanins
Senses: glosses: A tetraspan.
malevolous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more malevolous
form: most malevolous
Senses: glosses: malicious, malevolent
tetraspanins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetraspanin
teraelectron volt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teraelectron volts
form: TeV
Etymology: From tera- + electron volt.
Senses: glosses: 10¹² electron volts, as a unit of energy (TeV).
uncultivability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + cultivability.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being uncultivable.
teraelectron volts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teraelectron volt
squishinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squishiness
malfortune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mælˈfɔː(ɹ)tjuːn/
/mælˈfɔː(ɹ)t͡ʃuːn/
Senses: glosses: misfortune
squashiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squashinesses
Etymology: From squashy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being squashy.
squasher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squashers
Etymology: From squash + -er.
Senses: examples: text: It is in this sense that television, the great reducer, the great squasher of high hearts and innocence, is a depressing cultural voice.
ref: 1996, T William Boxx, Gary M Quinlivan, Culture in crisis and the renewal of civil life:
text: Whatever their feelings about the state's heavy-handed blows on idealist scientific writings, they appear to have remained committed to their roles as squashers of superstition.
ref: 2009, Sigrid Schmalzer, The People's Peking Man, page 81:
glosses: One who, or that which, squashes.
Derived terms: beetle-squasher
squashinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squashiness
squashers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squasher
uninfectable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uninfectable
form: most uninfectable
Etymology: From un- + infectable.
Senses: glosses: Not infectable.
unaveraged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + averaged.
Senses: glosses: Not averaged.
squashily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more squashily
form: most squashily
Etymology: From squashy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a squashy way.
unquarantined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + quarantined.
Senses: glosses: Not quarantined.
showgoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: showgoers
Etymology: From show + goer.
Senses: examples: text: For the average Vegas spender or showgoer, a bore. His musical sound with a combo of three is uncouth, matching to a great extent the lyric content of his nonsensical songs.
ref: 2012, Thomas Hauser, Elvis and Ali, →ISBN:
text: The first-time showgoer stands ringside during group judging and sees, in the hound group, for instance, a bloodhound, an afghan, a dachshund, a beagle, a borzoi, and a Norwegian elkhound along with all of the other hound breeds.
ref: 1982, Roger A. Caras, A celebration of dogs, page 186:
text: The showgoer also saw and heard a talking microwave oven that sounded as if it had a speech impediment.
ref: 1982 February 8, John C. Dvorak, “An analysis of the Vegas Consumer Electronics Show”, in InfoWorld, volume 4, number 5, page 7:
glosses: One who attends a show.
reliquaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reliquary
showgoers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of showgoer
malibu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malibus
form: Malibu
Etymology: Named for the town of Malibu, where the boards were first made.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: A type of lightweight longboard known for its stability.
Synonyms: mal
Related terms: mini-mal
malibu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malibus
form: Malibu
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Malibu bay breeze
uncharismatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncharismatic
form: most uncharismatic
Etymology: From un- + charismatic.
Senses: glosses: Not charismatic; lacking charisma.
Synonyms: dull
stodgy
malibus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malibu
uncharismatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uncharismatically
form: most uncharismatically
Etymology: From uncharismatic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an uncharismatic way; without charisma.
demises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demise
demises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of demise
mini-mals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mini-mal
fishless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fish + -less.
Senses: examples: text: This chapter describes the present-day colonisation by trout of a previously fishless headwater stream...
ref: 2006, Graeme Harris, Nigel Milner, Sea Trout: Biology, Conservation and Management:
glosses: Without fish.
Derived terms: fishlessness
nevirapine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪˈvʌɪ.ɹə.piːn/
ipa: /nəˈvɪɹ.əˌpin/
ipa: /nəˈvaɪ.ɹəˌpin/
Etymology: From [Term?] + -vir- (“antiviral”) + -apine (“alteration of diazepine”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antiretroviral drug C₁₅H₁₄N₄O structurally related to the benzodiazepines that inhibits reverse transcriptase and is administered orally in combination with at least one other antiretroviral to treat HIV-1 infection.
lovability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lovabilities
form: loveability
Etymology: From love + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: In the effort to make Charles a widely acceptable king, lovability would be a necessary ingredient.
ref: 2017 December 27, “The Guardian view on Prince Harry: the monarchy’s best insurance policy”, in the Guardian:
synonyms: lovableness
glosses: The state or condition of being lovable.
lovabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lovability
quasioptical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: quasi-optical
Etymology: From quasi- + optical.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having some characteristics of an optical system or device
univocally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From univocal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a univocal manner.
Synonyms: expressly
unambiguously
explicitly
arrest warrants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arrest warrant
pyroglutamic acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyroglutamic acid
swaggeringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more swaggeringly
form: most swaggeringly
Etymology: From swaggering + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a swaggering way.
pupillometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pupillometer
pseudosubstrates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudosubstrate
pseudokinases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudokinase
proventriculi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proventriculus
proteotoxicities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proteotoxicity
propylammoniums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of propylammonium
reinhabits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reinhabit
reinhabited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reinhabit
reinhabiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reinhabit
maliceful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more maliceful
form: most maliceful
Etymology: From malice + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Showing malice, malicious.
Derived terms: malicefully
quasiparallel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: quasi-parallel
Etymology: From quasi- + parallel.
Senses: glosses: Almost parallel.
glosses: Having some characteristics of a parallel system or device.
little gulls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of little gull
stilettoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stiletto
stilettoing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stilettoings
Senses: glosses: A stabbing with a stiletto (dagger).
stilettoed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stiletto
stilettoed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A stilettoed foot stepped out of the taxi cab.
glosses: Wearing stiletto heels.
uninstantiated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + instantiated.
Senses: coordinate_terms: unrealized
glosses: Not instantiated.
uninstantiated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uninstantiate
unredeemable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + redeemable.
Senses: glosses: Not redeemable; irredeemable.
quasiplanar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: quasi-planar
Etymology: From quasi- + planar.
Senses: glosses: Having some characteristics of a planar system or device
glosses: Almost planar
unrecovered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + recovered.
Senses: glosses: Not recovered.
unilluminating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + illuminating.
Senses: examples: text: But largely as a result of the unilluminating statements of the Board in exaggerating bushelage and ignoring quality, March corn fell from the high of August 10, $ 1.21½, on the Chicago Board of Trade, to .35⅞ on December 30.
ref: 1928, Farm Life and Agricultural Epitomist - Volume 47, Issue 7, page 11:
glosses: Not illuminating; unenlightening.
undanceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undanceable
form: most undanceable
Etymology: From un- + danceable.
Senses: glosses: Not danceable.
quasipublic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: quasi-public
Etymology: From quasi- + public.
Senses: glosses: Having some characteristics of a public system or organization.
psychopharmacologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychopharmacologists
Etymology: From psychopharmacology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The psychopharmacologist (I like to call his office the Fifth Avenue Crack House, because all he really does is write prescriptions and hand out pills) told me I shouldn't.
ref: 1994, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, page 4:
text: Even medical schools seem to have submitted to psychophobia by training psychiatrists almost exclusively as psychopharmacologists instead of as psychotherapists.
ref: 2000 May 28, Peter Wolson, “A World of Psychophobia”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 10 May 2025:
text: But a psychopharmacologist felt his physical symptoms were so extreme that unless he tamped those down, he couldn’t benefit from other coping techniques, according to Stossel.
ref: 2014 January 28, Kat Kinsman, “10 things we learned about surviving anxiety”, in CNN:
glosses: A person involved in psychopharmacology.
quasitubular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: quasi-tubular
Etymology: From quasi- + tubular.
Senses: glosses: Having some characteristics of a tubular system or device.
psychopharmacologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychopharmacologist
torture stakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torture stake
rachillae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rachilla
pathbreaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pathbreakers
Etymology: From path + breaker.
Senses: glosses: A person who carries out pathbreaking work.
Synonyms: pioneer
researcher
trailblazer
maliferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more maliferous
form: most maliferous
Etymology: From mal- + -iferous.
Senses: glosses: unhealthy
examples: text: that gallant, fine-hearted soldier, who […] fell a victim to the maliferous climate of China
ref: 1859, William Howard Russell, My Diary in India, in the Year 1858-9:
glosses: unsafe, perilous
untraversed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + traversed.
Senses: examples: text: 1798, George Vancouver, A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, London: G.G. and J. Robinson, Volume I, Chapter II, p. 44, entry for 21 October, 1791,
I was therefore compelled to relinquish, with great reluctance, the favorite project of further examining the coast of this unknown though interesting country; and, directing our route over an hitherto untraversed part of these seas, we proceeded without further delay towards the pacific ocean.
text: In front of us the untraversed plain shone white as a new-laid tablecloth and dazzling even through a pair of smelter’s glasses.
ref: 1933, Robert Byron, First Russia, Then Tibet, Part II, Chapter 8:
glosses: That has not been traversed; unexplored.
pathbreakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pathbreaker
maligner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: maligners
Etymology: From malign + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who maligns
maligners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maligner
rachilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪlə
Forms: form: rachillas
form: rachillae
form: rhachilla
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The part of a spikelet, in grasses and sedges, that bears the florets
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A rachis of secondary or higher order in leaves and ferns that are compound more than once.
incorporator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incorporators
Etymology: From incorporate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: In 1853, the incorporators of the Mount Carroll Seminary convinced 83 people to sign up for shares totaling $2,000, a goodly sum for that time and place--but only six paid in full, and the board wound up with less than $14,000 for land and buildings.
ref: 1988 June 17, Harold Henderson, “Big Ideas”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: One who, or that which, incorporates.
incorporators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incorporator
uninstantiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + instantiable.
Senses: glosses: Not instantiable; that cannot be instantiated.
malihini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malihinis
Etymology: From Hawaiian malihini.
Senses: glosses: newcomer, tourist
malihinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malihini
instantiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That can be instantiated.
Synonyms: creatable
incarnatable
instantiatable
Derived terms: noninstantiable
reinstantiable
uninstantiable
Related terms: instantial
instantiate
instantiation
reinstantiation
recharger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rechargers
Etymology: From recharge + -er.
Senses: glosses: That which recharges, especially a device for recharging an electrical item.
panoramically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more panoramically
form: most panoramically
Etymology: From panoramic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a panoramic way.
rhapsodically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rhapsodically
form: most rhapsodically
Etymology: From rhapsodic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a rhapsodic way.
rechargers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recharger