cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
livetweet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: livetweets
form: livetweeting
form: livetweeted
form: livetweeted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of live-tweet.
live tweet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: live tweets
form: live tweeting
form: live tweeted
form: live tweeted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of live-tweet.
mouth-wateringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mouth-watering + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a mouth-watering manner
dismissingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From dismissing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dismissing manner; dismissively
shakingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From shaking + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a shaking manner; shakily
Related terms: bone-shakingly
bone-shakingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bone-shaking + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a bone-shaking manner
nerve-rackingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nerve-racking + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a nerve-racking manner
brainers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brainer
thousand-year egg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thousand-year eggs
Senses: glosses: A century egg (Chinese egg dish).
thousand-year-old egg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thousand-year-old eggs
Senses: glosses: A century egg (Chinese egg dish).
nerdboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nerdboys
Etymology: From nerd + boy.
Senses: examples: text: Nervy nerdboys gone dot.com rich who buy expensive sports cars to race them into rear bumpers instead of finally learning how to drive.
ref: 2007, Burto Deluchi, The Rebuy, →ISBN, page 14:
text: “You behave,” she said, “or I'm going to let your mama and pop know just what they're trying to turn loose on the poor unsuspecting nerdboys of CalTech.”
ref: 2010, Diane Duane, A Wizard of Mars, Harcourt, →ISBN, page 52:
text: Some guys can be a bit flirtation-blind—especially the nerdboys I've always gone for.
ref: 2014, Amy Alkon, Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN:
glosses: A nerdy or socially inept boy or man.
nerdboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nerdboy
like a boss
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Usage peaked in 2008 after the release of the song "Like a Boss" by the comedy hip hop group The Lonely Island.
Senses: glosses: Skillfully, confidently.
wikipedia: Like a Boss
The Lonely Island
FIF
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: FIFs
form: FIFing
form: FIFed
form: FIFed
Senses: examples: text: Matt is slipping off work early today and has used the term FIF on the whiteboard to advise others and make his boss think he is still working.
glosses: Initialism of finish in field.
Pistis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Πίστις (Pístis) from Ancient Greek πίστις (pístis, “faith, trust”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A goddess personifying trust, faith and trustworthiness, corresponding to Roman Fides.
Mohegan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /moʊˈhi.ɡən/
Forms: form: Mohegans
form: Mohegan
Senses: glosses: A member of an indigenous people of New England who, at the time of European contact, formed a unit with the Pequot, but later became separate.
Mohegan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /moʊˈhi.ɡən/
Senses: synonyms: Mohegan-Pequot
glosses: The language of this people.
Related terms: Mahican
Mohican
Kitchawan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kitchawonk
form: Kitchewan
form: Kitchewank
form: Kitchawong
form: Kitchewan
form: Kitchawong
form: Kightawanck
Etymology: Perhaps from Munsee kíhtsiipoong (kíhtsi·po·ng), from kíhtsiipuw (kíhtsi·pəw, “big river”) + -ung (-əng, locative suffix), from kíhch- (“big, very”), from Proto-Algonquian *keʔči-, + síipuw (sí·pəw, “river”), from Proto-Algonquian *si·pi·wi. The river was later renamed after the group's chief, Croton.
Senses: glosses: Former name of Croton (river in New York).
glosses: The group which lived along this river, a subdivision of the Mohican tribe.
Kitchawan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kitchawan
form: Kitchawonk
form: Kitchewan
form: Kitchewank
form: Kitchawong
form: Kitchewan
form: Kitchawong
form: Kightawanck
Etymology: Perhaps from Munsee kíhtsiipoong (kíhtsi·po·ng), from kíhtsiipuw (kíhtsi·pəw, “big river”) + -ung (-əng, locative suffix), from kíhch- (“big, very”), from Proto-Algonquian *keʔči-, + síipuw (sí·pəw, “river”), from Proto-Algonquian *si·pi·wi. The river was later renamed after the group's chief, Croton.
Senses: glosses: A member of this group.
over medium
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Of an egg prepared as food, fried on both sides so as the whites are cooked, and the yolks are soft, but not runny.
Coordinate terms: sunny side up
over easy
over hard
Kitchawonk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kitchawan.
Kitchewan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kitchawan.
Kitchewank
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kitchawan.
Kitchawong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kitchawan.
Kightawanck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kitchawan.
kevil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kevils
Senses: examples: 1821 [1802], Walter Scott (transcriber), Fause Foodrage, W. Scott (editor) Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 3, 5th edition, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, page 4,
And they cast kevils them amang, / And kevils them between; / And they cast kevils them amang, / Wha suld gae kill the king.
1887, Transactions of the Buchan Field Club, Volumes 1-2, Buchan Field Club, page 176,
"Casting the kevils" was and still is a common mode of deciding a thing.
glosses: A lot (object used to determine a question by chance or independently of human choice).
examples: text: The following new ones will have to be supplied: Two pairs of sheave chocks similar to those now in use on board, and twelve large kevils at least four feet long and of heavy pattern.
ref: 1898, Annual Reports of the War Department, U.S. War Department, page 3184
text: The halliard is belayed on the kevil with figure-of-eight turns (not hitched), and the coil is carried up to the pin-rail, where the 1-inch rope is passed round it, the eye at the end of this rope being finally passed over the pin.
ref: 1935, Walter Henry Johnston, Building a Little Ship:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A sturdy belaying pin for the heavier cables of a ship.
topper-offer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: topper-offers
Etymology: From top off + -er.
Senses: glosses: A final portion of a beverage drink, often with coffee drinks or alcoholic mixes, that will fill a cup to the top.
glosses: A topping on a food or beverage, such as whipped cream on a dessert, or toppings on pizza.
Related terms: top off
topping
debt of honor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: debts of honor
form: debt of honour
Senses: examples: text: [T]his whole sum, and its amount doubled, was lost at the gaming-table. In his desire to repair his first losses, my father risked double stakes, and thus incurred a debt of honour he was wholly unable to pay.
ref: 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter I, in The Last Man. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
text: "I owe this money to Sheridan; it is a debt of honor; if an accident should happen to me, he has nothing to show."
ref: 1844, Ralph Waldo Emerson, chapter 4, in Essays: Second Series:
text: They had commenced playing cards for amusement—at least, that was Congreve's pretext—but it had led to playing for a stake. . . .
"This is a debt of honor. Gentlemen always pay their debts of honor. It takes precedence of all other claims."
ref: c. 1890, Horatio Alger, chapter 30, in The Tin Box:
text: Lady Frederick: Is it a gambling debt?
Gerald: Yes.
Lady Frederick [ironically]: What they call a debt of honour?
Gerald: I must pay it the day after to-morrow without fail.
ref: 1912, William Somerset Maugham, Lady Frederick, act I:
text: [H]e is opposed to the suggestion that Brazil declare a moratorium on its international debts repayments. Said he: "We must pay what we owe. It is a debt of honor for the nation."
ref: 2001 June 24, Anastasia Toufexis, “Brazil Victory for the "Great Conciliator"”, in Time, retrieved 27 Aug 2014:
text: Brought up in Quebec, Glassco latterly was able to repay to French-speaking Canada a debt of honour by creating in 1999 in Montreal a company of young actors drawn from both the English- and French-speaking communities.
ref: 2004 November 27, “Obituaries: Bill Glassco, champion of new writers in the Canadian theatre”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 27 Aug 2014:
text: The country is paying a €22bn debt of honour to the region of Groningen, where decades of extracting gas worth billions damaged about 85,000 buildings.
ref: 2023 October 10, Senay Boztas, “Frans Timmermans urges European left to unite against right’s climate backlash”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
qualifier: set phrase
glosses: An obligation, especially a gambling debt based on a verbal promise, which is not legally enforceable but which is considered to be secured by the debtor's moral integrity.
debt of honour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: debts of honour
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of debt of honor.
BTBA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of British Tenpin Bowling Association.
ETBF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of European Tenpin Bowling Federation.
sidegaze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪz
Forms: form: sidegazes
form: side-gaze
form: side gaze
Etymology: From side + gaze.
Senses: examples: text: "His light wentout very promptly, didn't it?" She flashed me a sidegaze. Were we acting convincingly?
ref: 1930, Ray Cummings, “Section 4, Ch. 28, "The Ascent of Archimedes"”, in "Brigands of the Moon: Part Three of a Four-part Novel" in Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May and June 1930:
text: Gaze is almost never straight ahead but varies between downgaze, sidegaze, and upgaze. Correct fixation of an object does not take place.
ref: 1984, Joseph Lang, Strabismus, →ISBN, page 127:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The act of looking sideways, to the left or right, by moving only one's eyes.
Related terms: downgaze
end-gaze
upgaze
pull cord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pull cords
Senses: glosses: a cord used to operate a ceiling-mounted or wall-mounted electrical device, such as a light switch.
glosses: a cord used to start a petrol-engined lawnmower, chainsaw or the like, where it is not feasible to have a starter motor.
side-gaze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sidegaze.
pull cords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pull cord
side gaze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: side gazes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sidegaze.
side gazes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of side gaze
sidegazes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sidegaze
fifth cousin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fifth cousins
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of people who have a common great-great-great-great-grandparent.
whip hand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whip hands
form: whip-hand
Senses: glosses: The hand in which a horse rider holds the whip.
examples: text: Of course I was a fool. My father has the whip hand of me, because he has money and I have none, and it was simply kicking against the pricks to speak as I did.
ref: 1876, Anthony Trollope, The Prime Minister, page 271:
text: Even the purest of all the Lamaist sects—the Ge-lug-pa—are thorough-paced devil-worshippers, and value Buddhism chiefly because it gives them the whip-hand over the devils.
ref: 1895, L. A. Waddell, The Buddhism of Tibet, page 152:
text: Mrs. Cavendish, however, was a lady who liked to make her own plans, and expected other people to fall in with them, and in this case she certainly had the whip hand, namely: the purse strings.
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 6:
text: Few workers are unionised, and in the UK's increasingly flexible labour market, where it is almost impossible to quit a job and claim unemployment benefits, where zero hour contracts are still a feature and where self-employment is on the rise, employers have the whip hand.
ref: 2014, Phillip Inman, As UK economy recovers, employers remain reluctant to increase wages, The Guardian
glosses: An advantage over another; the dominant position.
filaree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filarees
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the species Erodium.
Synonyms: sense: Erodium
word: heron's bill
sense: Erodium
word: storksbill
Derived terms: redstem filaree
redstem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From red + stem.
Senses: glosses: Ammannia, in family Lythraceae
glosses: Having a red stem.
Synonyms: sense: having a red stem
word: redtwig
Derived terms: redstem filaree
redtwig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redtwigs
Etymology: From red + twig.
Senses: glosses: A plant of the species Cornus sericea, native throughout northern and western North America from Alaska east to Newfoundland, south to Durango and Nuevo León in the west, and Illinois and Virginia in the east.
Synonyms: sense: Cornus sericea
word: red osier dogwood
sense: Cornus sericea
word: red willow
sense: Cornus sericea
word: redstem dogwood
sense: Cornus sericea
word: redtwig dogwood
sense: Cornus sericea
word: red-rood
sense: Cornus sericea
word: American dogwood
sense: Cornus sericea
word: creek dogwood
sense: Cornus sericea
word: western dogwood
Italian honeysuckle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Italian honeysuckles
Senses: glosses: Italian woodbine (Lonicera caprifolium).
Synonyms: sense: Lonicera caprifolium
word: goat-leaf honeysuckle
sense: Lonicera caprifolium
word: perfoliate woodbine
clacky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clacky
form: most clacky
Etymology: From clack + -y.
Senses: examples: clacky heels
the clacky sound of a typewriter
glosses: Being or making a clack sound.
shariatize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shariatizes
form: shariatizing
form: shariatized
form: shariatized
form: shariatise
form: Shariatize
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Fazlur Rahman thus in one stroke disposes of both rational-humanist philosophers and those present-day modernist avant-garde Muslim intellectuals who try to, so to say, de-Shariatize Islam through various innovative moves.
ref: 1995, Absar Ahmad, Knowledge-morality Nexus: Challenging the Dominant Paradigm, page 27:
text: Three years later this agreement would be completely fulfilled at the summer 2002 ChRI Shura, which fully “shariatized” the ChRI constitution and set plans in motion to spread the jihad across Russia.
ref: 2014, Gordon M. Hahn, The Caucasus Emirate Mujahedin:
text: Their major concern is completely different from that expressed in Turkey: while Turkish critics accuse the movement of being tools in the hands of Christians, Jews, and many other imperialist powers, critics in the West believe that the movement is trying to Islamize/shariatize the West.
ref: 2015, Salih Yücel, The Art of Coexistence:
glosses: To implement or enforce sharia law.
shariatizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shariatize
shariatizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shariatize
shariatized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shariatize
shariatise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shariatises
form: shariatising
form: shariatised
form: shariatised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shariatize.
shariatises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shariatise
shariatising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shariatise
shariatised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shariatise
shariatization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shariatisation
form: shariatisation
form: Shari'atisation
form: shari'atisation
form: Shariatization
Etymology: From shariatize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Although the ulamas and mullahs are potentially fundamentalist, they are never the ones who take power to implement a policy of "shariatization," with the exception of Iran in 1979.
ref: 1994, Olivier Roy, translated by Carol Volk, The Failure of Political Islam, Harvard, published 1994, page 30:
text: The short-lived Nizam-e-Adl Regulation, coupled with Taliban's “capture” of cities “very close to Islamabad” sent shock waves globally, with a media frenzy focusing on the possible “Shariatisation” of Pakistan.
ref: 2010, Usama Butt, Pakistan's Quagmire, Continuum International, page 10:
text: Tibi may be correct in warning his readers about the totalitarian aspirations of modern Islamism, with its vision of a restored transnational Ummah and what he calls the Shari’atisation (ie Islamisation) of law and social practices, which would entail the suppression of women and minorities and general assaults on freedoms of speech and political organisation.
ref: 2012, Malise Ruthven, ‘Reason & Religion’, Literary Review, number 399:
glosses: The adoption of, or conversion to, Sharia law.
Shari'atisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shariatization.
shariatisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shariatization.
Shariatisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shariatization.
Brugg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality in Aargau canton, Switzerland.
shari'atisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shariatization.
halalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halalisation
Etymology: From halal + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: At the technical level, with its 'halalization' of capital and investments, Islamic aid is seen as a guarantor of the morality of financial practices.
ref: 2003, Jonathan Benthall, Charitable Crescent: Politics of Aid in the Muslim World, page 43:
text: There was an expression of halalization as the support of Malays vis-à-vis the Chinese through consumption.
ref: 2011, J. Fischer, The Halal Frontier: Muslim Consumers in a Globalized Market, page 58:
text: Halalization in Malaysia has simultaneously been subjected to state and business governmentality in the form of extensive market research and political bureaucratization of consumption, including the setting up o fthe Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs in 1990.
ref: 2013, John P. Hoffmann, Understanding Religious Ritual: Theoretical approaches and innovations:
glosses: The act or process of making something halal.
dollar-a-year man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dollar-a-year men
form: one-dollar man
Senses: glosses: Any number of American executives who mobilized the United States for the World Wars in exchange for a salary of $1.
glosses: A man who is able to work as an executive for a below-market fee due to stock options or personal wealth.
Related terms: one-dollar contract
one-dollar man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one-dollar men
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dollar-a-year man.
dollar-a-year men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dollar-a-year man
liernes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lierne
Muhammadanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Muhammadanizes
form: Muhammadanizing
form: Muhammadanized
form: Muhammadanized
form: Mahometanize
form: Mohammedanize
form: Mohammedanise
form: Mohammadanize
form: Mohammadanise
Etymology: From Muhammadan + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To convert to Islam; to Islamize.
Muhammadanizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Muhammadanize
Muhammadanizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Muhammadanize
Muhammadanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Muhammadanize
conspiracy-theoretic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˌspɪɹəsi θɪəˈɹɛtɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Forms: form: more conspiracy-theoretic
form: most conspiracy-theoretic
Etymology: From conspiracy + theoretic, after conspiracy theory. Compare conspiracy-theoretical.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover (contra conspiracy-theoretic paranoia), the financial or political knowledge of even those with the most questionable motives and the greatest power is finite.
ref: 2000, Gary Brent Madison, Is There a Canadian Philosophy?, page 155:
text: To fill in the details of the case, suppose that you have more or less all the same evidence most of us have about Obama, plus a small smattering of evidence from conspiracy-theoretic films about the matter.
ref: 2014, Dennis Whitcomb, in Matheson & Vitz (Eds.), The Ethics of Belief, Oxford 2014, p. 96
glosses: Pertaining to or characteristic of a conspiracy theory.
black eyed susan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black eyed susans
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of black-eyed Susan.
facekini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪsˈkiː.ni/
rhymes: -iːni
Forms: form: facekinis
Etymology: Blend of face + bikini, calque of Chinese 臉基尼 /脸基尼 (liǎnjīní), equivalent to face + -kini.
Senses: examples: text: In the summer, look out for the armies of brides and bridegrooms using the beaches for their wedding photos, and look out for another more recent phenomena: the facekini.
ref: 2015, Fodor's China, unnumbered page:
text: A desire to protect the whiteness of the skin when no parasol is at hand has given rise to the “facekini.”
ref: 2018, Sophia Camille Erickson, The China Option: A Guide for Millennials: How to Work, Play, and Find Success in China, unnumbered page:
text: Europeans are depicted enjoying the beach environment in Rhodes, Greece, and Chinese citizens using floatation devices and covering up with the facekini and bodysuits are portrayed in Hainan island, China.
ref: 2019, Tingzhen (Jane) Chen & Philip L. Pearce, "Chinese Tourists and the Sun: Implications for Design Experiences", in Delivering Tourism Intelligence: From Analysis to Action (eds. Philip L. Pearce & Hera Oktadiana), pages 183-184
text: In scorching Beijing, “facekinis” are the hottest new fashion as surging temperatures shatter records.
ref: 2023 July 21, Reuters, “‘Facekinis’ become popular in China as temperatures soar”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A balaclava-like swimwear face mask which completely covers the face except for holes for the eyes, nose, and mouth, worn as protection from sun and irritants.
saffroning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of saffron
Dies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin dies (“Day”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: One of the Protogenoi, the Protogenos personification of day. She is the daughter of fellow Protogenoi, Nox/Nyx (Night) and Erebus (Darkness), and sister-wife of Aether. She is the Roman counterpart of Hemera.
glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Wohl-Ziegler reactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wohl-Ziegler reaction
pollenise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pollenises
form: pollenising
form: pollenised
form: pollenised
Etymology: From pollen + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pollenize.
walkmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of walkman
pollenises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pollenise
pollenised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pollenise
pollenising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pollenise
Latin squares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Latin square
yoga pants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: hypernyms: legging
glosses: Flexible form-fitting pants (trousers) designed to be worn for physical activity.
cheese dream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheese dreams
Senses: glosses: An open-faced grilled cheese sandwich.
cheese dreams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheese dream
grilled cheeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grilled cheese
Plummer-Vinson syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the American physician Henry Stanley Plummer and the American surgeon Porter Paisley Vinson.
Senses: glosses: A rare disease characterized by difficulty in swallowing, iron-deficiency anemia, and esophageal webs.
Synonyms: Paterson-Brown-Kelly syndrome
sideropenic dysphagia
Paterson-Brown-Kelly syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Derek Brown-Kelly and Donald Ross Paterson.
Senses: glosses: Plummer-Vinson syndrome
clavaric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A triterpene produced by the mushroom Hypholoma lateritium.
murungas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of murunga
L cuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of L cut
Typhonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /taɪˈfəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /taɪˈfoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Typhonian
form: most Typhonian
Etymology: From Typhon + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: This colour, he remarks, was rare among the Egyptians, though very common among foreigners, and these Typhonian men were sacrificed by the ancient kings at the tomb of Osiris.
ref: 1850, John Kenrick, Ancient Egypt under the Pharaohs, volume 1, page 440:
text: The gods were time-keepers; the first time observed and registered was Sut-Typhonian, and the writer maintains that the Typhonian religion and types are the oldest extant, whether in Egypt or out of it.
ref: 1881, George St. Clair, review in The Modern Review, volume 2, page 424–425
text: Set is represented as having the features of a fantastic beast with a thin, curved snout, straight, square-cut ears and a stiff forked tail. This creature cannot with certainty be identified and is commonly called the ‘Typhonian animal’.
ref: 1972, New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology, page 20:
text: [Typhon continues to address Zeus.] […] May the Typhonian bear spread wide the great gape of its shaggy jaws and harry the Olympian Bear.
ref: 2013, Daniel Ogden, Dragons, Serpents, and Slayers in the Classical and Early Christian Worlds: A Sourcebook, page 30:
glosses: Of or relating to Typhon or, by interpretatio graeca, his Egyptian equivalent Set.
Synonyms: Typhonic
Setian
Sethian
Derived terms: Typhonian animal
ignoratio elenchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɪɡ.nəˈɹeɪ.ʃiˌoʊ ɪˈlɛŋ.kaɪ/
/ˌɪɡ.nəˈɹɑ.tiˌoʊ/
/ɪˈlɛŋ.ki/
Etymology: From Latin ignōrātiō elenchī (“ignorance of the refutation”).
Senses: synonyms: word: heterozetesis
word: irrelevant conclusion
word: missing the point
glosses: The fallacy of presenting an argument that may or may not be logically valid, but fails to address the issue in question.
ungrief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- (“lack or absence of”) + grief.
Senses: examples: text: Shrinking from the conflict, the conflict of the mind between the dread of grief and the shameful guilt of ungrief at the prospect of a new life opening for herself and Mark.
ref: 1979, Shelley Smith, A Grave Affair:
text: What is promised us, we who were born bloody: ungrief after the dwindled time, […]
ref: 2012, Ernst Meister, In Time's Rift:
glosses: The absence of grief; grieflessness.
soshes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sosh
skilllessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From skillless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition or state of being skillless; unskill.
lippies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lippie
glosses: plural of lippy
lippies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lip + -ie + -s.
Senses: examples: text: However, to ſerve you as much at^([sic]) I can / (For nothing’s more dear to my life than a man) / Tho’ all my acquantances^([sic]) call me coquette, / And ſwear ſuch extravagant freedoms they hate, / And hanging their lippies, put on their grimace, / And call me immodeſt for ſhewing my face; […]
ref: 1773 April 11, Celinda, “Solution of the query propoſed by Mankind,—attempted by a Lady”, in The Perth Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, page 80:
text: Those sweet little lippies, like rosebuds at e’en, / Encircle a pipe-stem, impure and unclean?
ref: 1873, James Ogg, “Little Willie”, in Willie Waly; and Other Poems, Aberdeen: […] the Free Press Office, page 182:
text: “Make me immortal with a smack on the lippies,” Amos whispered, bending slightly forward, making an enormous kissing sound.
ref: 1967, William Goldman, The Thing of It Is..., New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., page 73:
text: She grabbed my ciggy from out between my lippies and lit hers with my heater, handing me the manhandled ciggy back, bent and smoldering.
ref: 2008, Kevin Pecore, My Iron Lung, KMDS Publishing Co., →ISBN, page 54:
text: I’ve been watching some “Honeys” sizing you up! / Yeah, right! / I’m not kidding you—right over there, sitting at the bar. Two of them! / Wow, you say two of them? Heaven awaits Marko at the bar! / So are you sure, Marko? A big one on the lippies? / Yepper! It’ll just signal to them that I’m a player!
ref: 2010, Matt Allman, To Bind Fast, Xlibris, →ISBN:
text: All bacteria infested, / They have cold sores on their lippies, / That’s the story / Of these roaming gypsies.
ref: 2019, Tommy Rhys Andrews, “Gypsies”, in Crossroads: Tommy’s Book of Poetry III, Xlibris, →ISBN:
text: His beautiful cheeks are like a bed of spices or balsam, such a rich, beautiful smell of the chief spices, and like banks of sweet herbs yielding the fragrances of princely freshliness. His gorgeous lippies are like blood red anemones, a beautiful little flower like a daughter, or even lilies distilling liquid sweet-scented myrrh, the chief of the chiefs!
ref: 2019, Ashley DD Hajny, From Golden Eagle to White Eagle: A Special Invitation to Become Like Christ, Xlibris, →ISBN:
text: Then Marjorie, who’d been sipping her wine all day, giddily said to me and everyone in the room, “Matthew, Meredith’s about to leave, why don’t you give her a kiss goodbye . . . on the lippies!”
ref: 2020, Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights, New York, N.Y.: Crown, →ISBN, page 75:
glosses: Lips.
Novoazovsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in eastern Ukraine, in Donetsk oblast.
fixed cost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fixed costs
Senses: examples: text: Rent is a fixed cost.
text: Our fixed costs are too high.
text: "Railways have to bear the very high fixed costs associated with the provision and maintenance of a specialised route system for their own exclusive use. [...]"
ref: 1962 December, “Dr. Beeching previews the plan for British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 376:
topics: accounting
business
finance
coordinate_terms: variable cost
glosses: A cost of business which does not vary with output or sales; an overhead.
workfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From workful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality, condition, or state of being workful; employment.
rapproachment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of rapprochement.
Yardley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yardleys
form: Yeardley
Etymology: From Old English ġerd (“stick, rod”) + lēah (“woodland, clearing”). Equivalent to yard + -ley (“lea”).
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP124538).
glosses: A borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: South Yardley
Yardley Gobion
Yardley Hastings
Yardley Wood
saw palmetto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saw palmettos
Etymology: The edges of the leaflets of this palm have strong spines, like a saw.
Senses: glosses: A sprawling-stemmed spiny-leaved dwarf palm (Serenoa repens) forming large colonies, especially by sprouting, native to Florida and the coastal plains of other southeastern states of the United States.
glosses: A similar plant (Chamaerops humilis), native to Europe and north Africa
Derived terms: taxonomic: Acoelorraphe wrightii
word: silver saw palmetto
Virginia bluebells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Virginia bluebell
generaless
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: generalesses
Etymology: From general + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: I tried to shield my nakedness with hands and leaves, but Tatu the amazon generaless, pulled away my fingers and put one of those many-thonged whips into them.
ref: 1959, Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King, Viking:
text: Bamie—Bamie “the Major Generaless,” as Ellie called her—was sent on in advance to Cambridge that summer to find suitable quarters off campus.
ref: 1982, David McCullough, Mornings on Horseback, Simon and Schuster, page 161:
text: If it had pleased her Majesty's Ministers to appoint a lady as next successor to Lord Dufferin, for instance, they could scarcely have given her the rank of Governess General—or Governor Generaless of India.
ref: 2005, Amelia Blandford Edwards, lecture, 1889–90, first published as "The Social and Political Position of Woman in Ancient Egypt", PMLA (120) No. 3 (May, 2005), pp. 843-857 p. 851
text: Back then, Annibale spoke of the tenants with deference. He said "Signor Commendatore Pirco." He said "Her Excellency the generaless Puti di Valmescia" (the tenant of the third floor).
ref: 2014, Alberto Savinio, "A Head Goes Flying", in Signor Dido: Stories, Richard Pevear (tr.) (Counterpoint Press), p. 26
glosses: A female general.
examples: text: 1886, Yves Guyot, English and French morality, from a Frenchman's point of view (The Modern Press) pp. 36–37, ditto
The Generaless Catherine Booth read a letter which she addressed to the Queen, summoning her in the name of her religion and of her sex to dry up the stream of impurity.
text: If the Duke of Marlborough becomes Governor-General of Canada the Duchess would be Governor-Generaless, and as she is one of the Vanderbilts, the New York 400 would move over to Ottawa for the winter season, and there would be high jinks in that town.
ref: 1903, The Toronto Star, quoted in The Week's Progress: A Select Review of World News & Views, volume 22 p. 191
text: General and Generaless, six daughters and two sons with four sons-in-law constitute the family of the most terrible atheists and the most flapdoodlish or the most kind Spiritualists.
ref: 1975, Helena Blavatsky, letter quoted in Howard Murphet, When Daylight Comes: A Biography of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (Quest Books) p. 142
glosses: The wife of a general.
vesiculous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vesiculous
form: most vesiculous
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vesiculose.
vesiculopustular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vesiculo- + pustular.
Senses: glosses: Consisting of vesicles and pustules.
postconceptual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more postconceptual
form: most postconceptual
Etymology: From post- + conceptual.
Senses: glosses: Relating to postconceptualism.
postconceptualist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postconceptualists
Etymology: From post- + conceptualist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies or produces works in postconceptualism.
postconceptualists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postconceptualist
postconceptualism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From post- + conceptualism.
Senses: glosses: An art theory that builds upon the legacy of conceptual art.
sperged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sperg
sperging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sperg
euergetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to euergetism.
evergetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of euergetic.
evergetism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evergetisms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of euergetism.
evergetist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evergetists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of euergetist.
evergetists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of evergetist
Maritainian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Maritainian
form: most Maritainian
Etymology: From Maritain + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Jacques Maritain (1882–1973), French Catholic philosopher.
Boethian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Boethian
form: most Boethian
Etymology: From Boethius + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius, c. 480–524 or 525 AD), philosopher of the early 6th century.
flagmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From flag + making.
Senses: glosses: The manufacture of flags.
flagmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flagmakers
Etymology: From flag + maker.
Senses: glosses: One who manufactures flags.
flagmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flagmaker
cybisterone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Cybister + -one.
Senses: glosses: A steroid obtained from the beetle Cybister lateralimarginalis.
neurocirculatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + circulatory.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the nervous system and circulation.
tigroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: In a pattern resembling tiger stripes.
Derived terms: tigroid body
tigroid granules
tigroid substance
tetraphenylcyclopentadienone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: tetracyclone
glosses: A dark purple to black crystalline solid having four phenyl rings that are rotated out of the plane compared to the central ring because of steric repulsion.
hastilude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hastiludes
Etymology: From Latin hastiludum, from hasta (“spear”) and ludus (“sport, game”).
Senses: examples: text: For I take you all to witness what marvelous feats he did in that great tournament and hastilude which our brother the High King made for him […]
ref: 1954, C. S. Lewis, chapter 4, in The Horse and His Boy, Collins, published 1998:
glosses: A medieval martial game.
trichonodosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition involving knots in the hair.
trioxymethylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + oxy- + methylene.
Senses: glosses: 1,3,5-trioxane, a stable cyclic trimer of formaldehyde.
passage of arms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passages of arms
form: passage at arms
Etymology: From French.
Senses: glosses: A chivalric feat of arms involving the forcing of a passage protected by a knight or a group of knights.
glosses: Any feat of arms, especially when used to display the prowess of the participants.
examples: text: [S]he is the high standard of comparison among the neighbouring wives […], who in any domestic passages of arms habitually call upon their husbands to look at the difference between their position and Mrs. Snagsby’s[…].
ref: 1852, Charles Dickens, chapter 10, in Bleak House:
text: The lieutenant in charge of the traffic is a rude little bully, and Antonio has a passage at arms with him.
ref: 1944, Iris Origo, War in Val d'Orcia, Pushkin Press, published 2017, page 259:
glosses: A fight; (figuratively), an argument or verbal altercation.
Coordinate terms: hastilude
ice-cream bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice-cream beans
Senses: glosses: Inga edulis, a sweet South American fruit used in making caxiri.
culturability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: culturabilities
Etymology: From culture + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: At near optimal growth temperatures (25–37°C) a direct relationship between culturability and organic matter concentration was observed.
ref: 1997, Diane G. Newell, Campylobacters, Helicobacters, and Related Organisms, page 170:
glosses: The quality or degree of being culturable.
culturabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of culturability
hymenophyllaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Hymenophyllaceae + -ous
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Belonging or relating to the family Hymenophyllaceae.
trinitrobenzenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trinitrobenzene
triazidotrinitrobenzene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The explosive trinitrotriazidobenzene.
hairshaft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hairshafts
Etymology: From hair + shaft.
Senses: glosses: The hard filamentous part of a hair, extending above the skin surface.
hairshafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hairshaft
trichorrhexis invaginata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A hairshaft abnormality in which there is keratinization of the hairshaft in the keratogenous zone, allowing for intussusception of the fully keratinized and hard distal shaft into the incompletely keratinized and soft proximal portion of the shaft.
Synonyms: bamboo hair
Related terms: Netherton syndrome
bamboo hair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: trichorrhexis invaginata
hypothyreosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: hypothyroidism
Menkes disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Originally described by John Hans Menkes (1928–2008) et al. in 1962.
Senses: glosses: An X-linked recessive disorder that affects copper levels in the body and produces distinctive colourless, breakable hair.
Synonyms: copper transport disease
kinky hair disease
Menkes kinky hair syndrome
Menkes syndrome
steely hair disease
occipital horn syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An X-linked recessive connective tissue disorder caused by a deficiency in the transport of copper, and leading to the formation of projections on the back of the skull.
trichorrhexis nodosa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A hairshaft defect characterized by thickening or weak points (nodes) that cause the hair to break off easily.
Netherton syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Earl W. Netherton (1910–1985), American dermatologist who discovered it in 1958.
Senses: glosses: A severe form of ichthyosis.
vanillylmandelic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical intermediate in the synthesis of artificial vanilla flavorings, and an end-stage metabolite of the catecholamines, epinephrine, and norepinephrine.
efficiency apartment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: efficiency apartments
Senses: synonyms: efficiency
glosses: bachelor apartment
fruitious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fruitious
form: most fruitious
Etymology: (See fruition) From fruit + -ious.
Senses: examples: text: […] so likewise do all Earths abound in some degree with a fruitious Salt, as may be proved from the great Quantities of Salt-petre that have been extracted from covered Grounds by the help of Water […]
ref: 1735, William Ellis, The Practice of Farming and Husbandry in All Sorts of Soils:
glosses: fruitful
argininosuccinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Senses: examples: text: The patient was diagnosed with argininosuccinic aciduria.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to argininosuccinic acid.
Derived terms: argininosuccinate
IBIDS syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Initialism, from the list of symptoms.
Senses: glosses: A form of trichothiodystrophy characterised by ichthyosis, brittle hair and nails, intellectual impairment, and short stature.
great blue lobelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great blue lobelias
Senses: glosses: Lobelia siphilitica, native to almost all of eastern and central North America.
Coordinate terms: sense: Lobelia siphilitica
taxonomic: Lobelia anatina
word: southwestern blue lobelia
Tyndallizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tyndallization
Tyndallize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Tyndallizes
form: Tyndallizing
form: Tyndallized
form: Tyndallized
Etymology: From Tyndall + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To subject to Tyndallization.
Tyndallizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Tyndallize
Tyndallizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Tyndallize
Tyndallized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Tyndallize
tailcord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tailcords
Etymology: From tail + cord.
Senses: topics: arts
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
lutherie
glosses: Synonym of tailgut.
synonyms: word: tailgut
tailcords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tailcord
handloom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handlooms
form: hand-loom
Etymology: From hand + loom.
Senses: glosses: A simple machine used for weaving by hand.
Derived terms: handloomed
handlooming
handlooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handloom
teleradiography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tele- + radiography.
Senses: glosses: The use of telecommunications to transmit the results of radiography.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Radiography with the tube held at a distance of about six feet from the body.
Related terms: teleradiogram
teleradiographic
teleradiographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tele- + radiographic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to teleradiography.
white trillium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white trilliums
Senses: glosses: Trillium grandiflorum, native to much of eastern North America.
Synonyms: sense: Trillium grandiflorum
word: large-flowered trillium
sense: Trillium grandiflorum
word: great white trillium
sense: Trillium grandiflorum
word: white wake-robin
sense: Trillium grandiflorum
word: bathflower
sense: Trillium grandiflorum
word: bathwort
yellow trillium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow trilliums
Senses: glosses: Trillium luteum, native to the woodlands of the Great Smoky Mountains of the southeastern United States and adjoining areas.
Synonyms: sense: Trillium luteum
word: yellow wakerobin
not know one is born
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: "The trouble with workers to-day," he said, "is that they don't know they're born."
ref: 1949, Punch, volume 217:
text: "One bad night and you think you're starving! You don't know you're born!"
ref: 2013, Lisa Tuttle, Panther in Argyll:
glosses: To be spoiled; to have an easy life without appreciating it.