cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
situ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Only used in in situ.
glosses: Only used in ex situ.
examples: text: “Shit.” Jayavickrama pinched the bridge of his nose, squeezing his eyes shut. “What’s the situ there?”
ref: 2005, David Blacker, A Cause Untrue, Perera-Hussein Publishing House, page 400
glosses: Clipping of situation.
Salm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Any of several historical countships and principalities in present-day Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France.
Salm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The star Tau Pegasi in the constellation of Pegasus.
LDR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LDRs
Senses: synonyms: photocell
glosses: Initialism of light-dependent resistor.
glosses: Initialism of long-distance relationship.
military tribunal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: military tribunals
Senses: glosses: A military court designed to try members of enemy forces during times of war.
sandr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandrs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sandur.
quakka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quakkas
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of quagga, Equus quagga.
quagha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quaghas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quagga.
fouler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaʊl.ə/
ipa: /ˈfaʊl.ɚ/
homophone: fowler
Forms: form: foulers
Etymology: From foul + -er.
Senses: examples: text: For example, several species of hydroids and bryozoans are important foulers of salmon cages in Australia (Hodson et al., 2000) and Norway (Guenther et al., 2010).
ref: 2015, Saleem Mustafa, Rossita Shapawi, Aquaculture Ecosystems: Adaptability and Sustainability, page 119:
glosses: One who fouls.
Derived terms: biofouler
macrofouler
microfouler
motherfouler
fouler
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaʊl.ə/
ipa: /ˈfaʊl.ɚ/
homophone: fowler
Etymology: From foul + -er.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of foul: more foul
Savoy cabbage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Savoy cabbages
Senses: glosses: Brassica oleracea var. sabauda, a hardy cabbage with dense, crinkled leaves
zucchine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zucchina
scear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scears
Senses: examples: F, the scear, on the projecting branch of which the trigger acts
Encylopedia Britannica, 1856
glosses: Obsolete spelling of sear.
waterbuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterbucks
form: waterbuck
Etymology: From Afrikaans waterbok, after the animal's habit of escaping to waterways.
Senses: glosses: A species of antelope endemic to Africa, Kobus ellipsiprymnus.
heaviness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛvɪnəs/
Forms: form: heavinesses
Etymology: From Middle English hevynesse, from Old English hefiġnes (“heaviness”). Equivalent to heavy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: This figure, immobile and static in his heaviness, was assumed to be deeply asleep and therefore to introduce a note of humorous anecdotality to what should have been a tragic scene.
ref: 2014, Lewis Johnson, Mobility and Fantasy in Visual Culture:
glosses: The state of being heavy; weight, weightiness, force of impact or gravity.
examples: text: Firſt got vvith guile, and then preſeru'd vvith dread, / And after ſpent with pride and lauiſhneſſe, / Leauing behind them griefe and heauineſſe.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: By ſo much the more ſhall I to-morrovv be at the height of heart-heavineſs.
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
text: [W]hen man ſigheth, (as the Apoſtle ſaith) as burthened vvith inviſcerate intereſts, longing to put on this pure ſpirituall veſture of Filiall love, this kind of heavineſſe of ſpirit, may be ſaid to make his love vveight in heaven; […]
ref: 1648, Walter Montagu, “The Fourteenth Treatise. The Test and Ballance of Filial and Mercenary Love. §. III. Filiall Love Described, and Some Strong Incentives Presented to Kindle It in Us.”, in Miscellanea Spiritualia: Or, Devout Essaies, London: […] W[illiam] Lee, D[aniel] Pakeman, and G[abriel] Bedell, […], →OCLC, page 190:
glosses: Oppression; dejectedness, sadness; low spirits.
examples: text: The ſtrangeneſs of your ſtory put / Heavineſs in me.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: Drowsiness.
orgasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orgasm
orgasms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of orgasm
Dunkel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌn.kəl/
Forms: form: Dunkels
Etymology: Borrowed from German Dunkel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Related terms: Dunkle
stockjobber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stockjobbers
form: stock-jobber
Etymology: From stock + jobber.
Senses: topics: business
finance
trading
glosses: A stock exchange worker who deals only with brokers.
examples: text: In this stock-jobbers’ heaven let us leave our dear countrymen for a little while, while I say a few words about the affairs of the people on the continent of Europe.
ref: 1888, William Morris, Signs of Change […] , London: Reeves and Turner, page 105:
topics: business
finance
trading
glosses: An unscrupulous stockbroker.
Related terms: stockjob
net operating income
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: net operating incomes
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: Income after deducting operating expenses but before deducting for income taxes, interest, and depreciation and amortization.
Synonyms: NOI
EBITDA
tha
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ða/
other: /ðaː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Etymology: In parts of Yorkshire and Lancashire where [aʊ] became [aː] and then shortened in an unstressed thou.
Senses: examples: text: "[…] Stay thee where tha bist, sit down on thi property; what's the sense of wanderen over the barren sea and maybe happenen an accident?"
ref: 1937, Homer, The Odyssey:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of thou.
tha
Language: English
Part of speech: article
Pronunciation: ipa: /ða/
other: /ðaː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Senses: synonyms: da
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of the.
shootout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃuːtaʊt/
Forms: form: shootouts
form: shoot-out
Etymology: Deverbal from shoot out.
Senses: glosses: A decisive battle, especially a gunfight.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A penalty shootout.
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: A series of penalty shots during which a tied game is resolved.
examples: 64 players entered the shooutout tournament, and were divided into eight tables of eight players each. The winner in each table went on to the final table, also consisting of eight players.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A multitable poker tournament in which only the last player on a table goes on to the next.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A match in which both teams score highly.
Derived terms: topics: sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: SO
purger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: perjure
Forms: form: purgers
Etymology: From purge + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, purges or cleanses.
examples: text: The Aix-la-Chapelle Waters are drunk at this Day, more as Purgers, and Preparatives for the Spaw, […]
ref: 1728, Of Bathing in the Hot-baths, at Bathe:
glosses: One who, or that which, purges or cleanses.
A cathartic medicine.
Synonyms: purgative
Rajiv
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rajeev
Etymology: From Sanskrit राजीव (rājīva), via various Indian languages. The name means 'lotus flower' in Hindi. In Sanskrit, the word means 'Sri Krishna'.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit of Indian usage.
Derived terms: Raj
underprint
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underprint
form: most underprint
Etymology: From under- + print.
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: The addition of colour under black areas to produce a deeper black and prevent oversaturation of the paper.
underprint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underprints
Etymology: From under- + print.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: Printing underneath the main design of a stamp, intended to prevent forgery or removal of the postmark.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
qualifier: considered incorrect usage
glosses: a logo or advertising printed on the underside of a stamp; backprint.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A fossilised print in the rock bed that is at a deeper level than the track the creature leaving it was actually travelling on; caused by the pressure of a heavy animal or penetration of the sediment by a pointed appendage.
Related terms: overprint
perfin
paquebot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paquebots
Etymology: Borrowed from French paquebot (“mailboat”). First used in Great Britain in 1894, the term was adopted for general use by the Universal Postal Union in 1897.
Senses: glosses: a mailboat
qualifier: postal history
glosses: a postal marking or cancellation stamped on mail posted at sea or in a harbour for processing by the postal authorities at the next port of call. Mail so marked in one country will often carry the stamps of another country.
paquebot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from French paquebot (“mailboat”). First used in Great Britain in 1894, the term was adopted for general use by the Universal Postal Union in 1897.
Senses: examples: a paquebot letter
a paquebot duplex
glosses: Relating to mail posted at sea.
remote access
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: A communication with a data processing facility from a remote location or facility through a data link.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: A PABX service feature that allows a user at a remote location to access by telephone PABX features, such as access to Wide Area Telephone Service (WATS) lines.
biogeography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: biogeographies
Etymology: From bio- + geography.
Senses: topics: biology
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: The study of the geographical distribution of living things.
examples: text: First, any international traveler knows that many pathogenic microbes, both viral and bacterial, have distinct biogeographies.
ref: 2004, Brian P. Hedlund, James T. Staley, “Microbial Endemism and Biogeography”, in Alan T. Bull, editor, Microbial Diversity and Bioprospecting, →ISBN, page 225:
topics: biology
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: The geographical distribution of a particular living thing.
Derived terms: biogeographical
paleobiogeography
panbiogeography
phylobiogeography
Related terms: biogeographic
cytogeography
rubber chicken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubber chickens
Etymology: The name derives from the fact that the quality of the food often served at such events is secondary to the purpose of the events and seldom good.
Senses: examples: text: The hack comic produced a rubber chicken, to the groans and boos of the audience.
text: Men who have squeaked the rubber chicken on Broadway, or wooed humanity with a fringe of swaying, porpoise-hide shoe-laces, were swallowed up in the gray shadows of the storm.
ref: 1888 March 17, Bill Nye, “Bill Nye and the Blizzard”, in The World, page 5:
text: The rubber chicken is probably the best example of a prop used for schtick.
ref: 1988, Mark Stolzenberg, How to Be Really Funny, page 63:
qualifier: literal
glosses: A hollow, bright yellow toy or prop depicting a plucked chicken that emits a squeak when squeezed.
examples: text: The bill of fare consisted of an india-rubber chicken and boiled eggs.
ref: 1883 November 9, “Odds and Ends”, in Gloucester Citizen, page 4:
text: It was the hoedowns and the caucuses and the rubber chicken dinners and the big DFL blowouts at the Minneapolis Auditorium.
ref: 1997, Jim Klobuchar, Minstrel: My Adventure in Newspapering, page 88:
text: She had felt the same way about attending political gatherings—the rubber-chicken luncheons and living room campaign coffee hours— back when Brandon had been a candidate for public office.
ref: 2009, J. A. Jance, Kiss of the Bees, page 33:
text: This is an annual shindig where politicians and members of the media sit down together, have a few beers and eat some rubber chicken, and political leaders of the day make a few silly speeches at their own expense.
ref: 2009, Rick Mercer, Rick Mercer Report: The Paperback Book, page 291:
text: What the hell have you devoted all these years to politics for if all you want to do is to work the rubber chicken circuit and hang out with elderly activists!'
ref: 2020, John Bercow, Unspeakable: The Sunday Times Bestselling Autobiography:
text: I found both the rubber chicken and the political offering equally unappetising.
ref: 2021, Elizabeth Farrelly, Killing Sydney: The Fight for a City's Soul:
glosses: The mediocre food served at social events, especially political fundraisers.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rubber, chicken.
barracks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæɹəks/
ipa: /ˈbæɹəks/
ipa: /ˈbɛ-/
Senses: glosses: plural of barrack.
barracks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæɹəks/
ipa: /ˈbæɹəks/
ipa: /ˈbɛ-/
Forms: form: barracks
Senses: examples: text: There is a large barracks in this town and two other barracks are nearby.
text: Resendiz was last seen on May 29 in her barracks in Miller Hall at Naval Station Norfolk, according to a missing person’s alert issued by Virginia State Police on June 3.
ref: 2025 June 13, Rosa Flores, “Missing Navy sailor found dead in Virginia, another sailor in custody”, in CNN:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A group of buildings used by military personnel as housing.
Derived terms: barracks bag
barracks bunny
barracks communism
barracks emperor
barracks lawyer
barracks rat
Related terms: dormitory
barracks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæɹəks/
ipa: /ˈbæɹəks/
ipa: /ˈbɛ-/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of barrack
Petersburg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Peter + -s- or Peters (surname) + -burg. Doublet of Peterborough.
Senses: glosses: An independent city in Virginia, United States.
glosses: Various other towns and cities, including:
A census-designated place, the borough seat of Petersburg Borough, Alaska.
glosses: Various other towns and cities, including:
A city, the county seat of Menard County, Illinois.
glosses: Various other towns and cities, including:
A city, the county seat of Pike County, Indiana.
glosses: Various other towns and cities, including:
A small city in Monroe County, Michigan.
glosses: Various other towns and cities, including:
A small city in Nelson County, North Dakota.
glosses: Various other towns and cities, including:
A borough in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: Various other towns and cities, including:
A town in Lincoln County and Marshall County, Tennessee.
glosses: Various other towns and cities, including:
A small city in Hale County, Texas.
glosses: Various other towns and cities, including:
A city, the county seat of Grant County, West Virginia.
glosses: A campaign in the American Civil War.
glosses: Alternative form of Saint Petersburg: A federal city of Russia, known between 1914 and 1924 as Petrograd and between 1924 and 1991 as Leningrad; the former capital of Russia, from 1713–1728 and 1732–1918.
Derived terms: Petersburg Borough
Petersburgian
Related terms: Peterburg
Petersburgh
Saint Petersburg
St. Petersburg
cran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crans
form: cran
form: crane
Etymology: Evidently from, or at least influenced by Goidelic; compare Scottish Gaelic crann (“lot, measure of herring, tree, etc.”).
Senses: examples: text: Very flattering indeed has been the success of the fishermen; and many boats have come in loaded, averaging thirty or forty crans each (every cran estimated at 1,000 herrings), and disposed of their cargoes at nine shillings per cran; but the price has been since raised to fifteen shillings.
ref: 1800 Dec, Sir Richard Phillips, The Monthly magazine, volume 10, number 66, page 486:
text: His brother caught three hundred cran when the seas were lavish, / Threw the bleeders back in the sea and went upon the parish.
ref: 1938, Louis MacNeice, Bagpipe Music:
text: […] And fish the knolls on the North Sea Holes
And try your luck at the North Shields Gut
With a catch of a hundred cran.
ref: 1960, Ewan MacColl, BBC radio ballad, Singing the Fishing:
text: But I've fished a lifetime, boy and man,
And the final trawl scarcely makes a cran.
ref: 1970s, Archie Fisher, The Final Trawl:
glosses: A measure of herrings, either imprecise or sometimes legally specified. It has oftentimes been about 37½ imperial gallons, or ~750 herrings on average (up to 1200 or even ~2500).
glosses: A barrel made to hold such a measure.
cran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crans
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An embellishment played on the lowest note of a chanter of a bagpipe, consisting of a series of grace notes produced by rapid sequential lifting of the fingers of the lower hand.
cran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of qiran.
Related terms: vodka cran
lithophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From litho- + -phagy.
Senses: glosses: The practice of ingesting stones to aid in digestion, occurring in some birds (Aves) and crocodylians (Crocodylia).
the sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Possibly derived from 1800s Chinook Jargon stick (“tree, forest”), from English stick.
Senses: examples: text: She grew up in the sticks and later moved to the city.
text: Most of the farming at present is done in the "sticks," that is, in the large, dead, and often blackened trunks of trees standing in most of the cultivated fields around. There are but few new towns in the Delta where the "sticks" are not to be seen, and much damage is sometimes done when these old "deadenings," as they are called, are set on fire.
ref: 1904 The American Missionary, "A Town of Colored People in Mississippi" by Rev. B.F. Ousley, vol. 58, no. 9 (November, 1904), p. 295
text: Next day after school, I drove over to the town hall and found out where Hay was building their dinky little shoebox of a house. It was out in the sticks, out past the old gristmill. I drove out there around dusk. The place was framed; the chimney was up. Overhead was a pockmarked moon.
ref: 2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.1, at p.11
synonyms: word: backwoods
word: boonies
word: boondocks
word: hinterland
word: middle of nowhere
word: Isolated town
word: bump in the road
word: jerkwater
word: jerk-water
word: jerkwater town
word: one-horse town
word: wide spot in the road
word: Isolated place
word: arse end of nowhere
word: back of beyond
word: back forty
word: backcountry
word: backwater
word: backwoods
word: beyond the black stump
word: boondock
word: boondocks
word: boonies
word: bumfuck middle of nowhere
word: bumfuck nowhere
word: dullsville
word: edge of the earth
word: edge of the world
word: ends of the earth
word: ends of the world
word: hinterland
word: middle of nowhere
word: north forty
word: off the beaten track
word: out of the way
word: sticks
word: the sticks
word: Actual places
word: back o' Bourke
word: Outer Mongolia
word: Timbuktu
word: Tuktoyaktuk
word: Fictional places
word: Anytown
word: BFE
word: Bumblefuck
word: Bumfuck
word: Egypt
word: Idaho
word: Iowa
word: Kansas
word: Minnesota
word: Nowhere
word: Ohio
word: Buttfuck
word: East Bumfuck
word: East Jesus
word: Hicksville
word: Nowheresville
word: Podunk
word: Squedunk
word: Whateverville
word: wop-wops
word: Woop Woop
glosses: A remote, rural area; a place that is removed from civilization such as the boondocks.
examples: text: They gained just enough on that play to move the sticks and continue the drive.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: the chains
the yardsticks
glosses: The set of yardage markers used by a chain crew to indicate the ten yards between the line of scrimmage from the previous first down and the line to gain, which the offense must reach in their series of four downs in order to retain possession of the ball.
weather the storm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: weathers the storm
form: weathering the storm
form: weathered the storm
form: weathered the storm
Senses: examples: text: Bob lost his job, but somehow his family weathered the storm.
text: Do you think you can weather the storm, or will you just sell your house now?
glosses: To reach the end of a very difficult situation without too much harm or damage.
yobo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yobos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yobbo (“person engaging in antisocial behaviour or drunkenness”).
yobo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yobos
Etymology: From Korean 여보 (yeobo, “darling, sweetheart”).
Senses: examples: text: Grandpa doesn't want Grandma and their kids and grandkids to know that he had to get penicillin shots all the time, or that he smoked boo (marijuana) on a daily basis, or that he dealt in the black market, or that he had yobos (purchased live-in sex slaves).
ref: 2019, Ron Cook, On Guard in the General's Chorus, page 2:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A soldier's female Korean lover or hired prostitute.
glosses: A Korean person.
pantomimical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pantomimical
form: most pantomimical
Etymology: From pantomime + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: The old man, during this pantomimical conversation, in some degree recovered his spirits […].
ref: 1768, Samuel Wallis, An Account of Captain Wallis's Voyage in 1766, 7, and 8, in his Majesty's ship the Dolphin, section V:
glosses: Expressed or carried out using mime or mimicry.
examples: text: By this pantomimical contrivance, and change of scene and character, the parts help each other out in matters which neither of them singly would assume to act.
ref: 1791, Thomas Paine, Rights of Man:
glosses: Like or pertaining to a pantomime.
pandects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pandect
raincoater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raincoaters
Etymology: From raincoat + -er, from a stereotype of sleazy men in dirty raincoats.
Senses: glosses: A fan of pornography who prefers movies with as much sex and as little plot or character development as possible.
glosses: A fan of pornography who prefers material featuring sex that is rough, degrading, or violent toward women.
vamoose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈmuːs/
rhymes: -uːs
Forms: form: vamooses
form: vamoosing
form: vamoosed
form: vamoosed
form: vamos
form: vamoosh
form: vamose
form: vamous
form: vamouse
Etymology: Alteration of Spanish vamos (“we go”) or vámonos (“let's go”). Doublet of namous.
Senses: examples: text: Speaking of the room in which I locked McIndoe — I will preface by saying that Mac "vamoosed that ranch" that very day and left me alone.
ref: 1905, Wisconsin Alumni Magazine, volume 7, page 218:
text: World 6-3: Vamoose the Lava Sluice!
ref: 2015, Good-Feel, Yoshi's Woolly World, Wii U, Nintendo, level name
glosses: To run away (from); to flee.
examples: text: Some members of civil rights organizations present said they have heard that Negroes seeking housing in the [sundown] towns had been intimidated and that 'vamoose' warnings have been in vogue for the past year.
ref: 1958 December 24, “'Sundown' Policy Is Alleged”, in The World, Coos Bay, Oregon, sourced from United Press, via Newspapers.com, page 2:
text: He's got a wife who'll never give him a divorce. She knows about me, but it's still understood that when she decides to go to the ranch for a week or a weekend, I've got to vamoose.
ref: 1966, Lita Grey Chaplin, Morton Cooper, My Life with Chaplin, New York: B. Geis Associates, →ISBN, page 190:
text: "Vamoose, you little varmint."
ref: 1992, Robert Hewitt Wolfe, “A Fistful of Datas”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 6, episode 8:
glosses: To hurry.
Synonyms: sense: to run away
word: flee
sense: to hurry
word: rush
puggree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpʌɡɹiː/
Forms: form: puggrees
Senses: examples: text: The head was supported by a neck, long, pinched, and weazeny, and was surmounted by a somewhat worn and ragged puggree, from the sides of which a few straggling grey hairs escaped
ref: 1867, J. T. Newell, Hog Hunting in the East: And Other Sports:
text: Hand-wrapped puggaree hat-band. Ideal for gardening, hiking or exploring forgotten tombs. -- commercial site with illustration
ref: 1888: I recognised the eldest Miss Copleigh, because she had a puggree round her helmet, and the younger had not. — Rudyard Kipling, ‘False Dawn’, Plain Tales from the Hills (Folio Society 2007, p. 36)
glosses: Alternative form of puggry.
necrotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more necrotic
form: most necrotic
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to necrosis, particularly of tissue.
Derived terms: antinecrotic
aponecrotic
autonecrotic
cryonecrotic
cytonecrotic
dermonecrotic
diphtheronecrotic
fibrinonecrotic
fibronecrotic
micronecrotic
myonecrotic
necrotically
nonnecrotic
osteonecrotic
perinecrotic
postnecrotic
prenecrotic
pronecrotic
pyronecrotic
radionecrotic
subnecrotic
tubulonecrotic
nectarine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛk.tə.ɹiːn/
Forms: form: more nectarine
form: most nectarine
Etymology: From nectar + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: […] to their supper-fruits they fell,
Nectarine fruits which the compliant boughs
Yielded them, side-long as they sat recline
On the soft downy bank damasked with flowers […]
ref: 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_(1674)/Book_IV), Book 4, lines 329-332:
glosses: Nectarous; like nectar.
neonatal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: neo-natal
Etymology: From neo- + natal.
Senses: examples: text: The baby was placed in the neonatal intensive care unit.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the period of time immediately following birth, or to the newborn.
Derived terms: neonatal abstinence syndrome
neonatally
neonatal milk
nonneonatal
postneonatal
pseudoneonatal
Related terms: antenatal
natal
perinatal
postnatal
prenatal
neurosurgeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurosurgeons
Etymology: From neuro- + surgeon.
Senses: glosses: A surgeon specializing in brain surgery.
Related terms: neurosurgery
neurosurgical
neuroses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: n(y)o͝o-rō′sēz
ipa: /n(j)ʊˈɹəʊ̯.siːz/
ipa: /n(j)ʊˈɹəʊ̯.siːz/
ipa: /n(j)ʊˈɹəʉ̯.siːz/
ipa: /n(j)ʊˈɹɐʉ̯.siːz/
ipa: /n(j)ʉˈɹo.siz/
ipa: /n(j)ʊˈɾoː.siːz/
rhymes: -əʊsiz
Senses: glosses: plural of neurosis
glosses: plural of neurose
nevus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈniːvəs/
Forms: form: nevi
form: naevus
form: nævus
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin naevus.
Senses: examples: text: Most birthmarks and moles fall into the category of nevi.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
hyponyms: birthmark
mole
glosses: Any of a number of different, usually benign, pigmented, raised or otherwise abnormal lesions of the skin.
Derived terms: blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome
Jadassohn's nevus phakomatosis
nevoid
nevus flammeus
nevus flammeus nuchae
nevus lipomatosus superficialis
sebaceous nevus syndrome
Spitz nevus
Related terms: angioma
hemangioma
Mongolian spot
nightclothes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnaɪt.kləʊ(ð)z/
ipa: /ˈnaɪt.kloʊ(ð)z/
Etymology: From night + clothes.
Senses: examples: text: The disturbance brought out many of the neighbors in their nightclothes.
synonyms: word: bedwear
word: nightclothes
word: nightgear
word: nightwear
word: sleepingwear
word: sleepwear
glosses: Clothing worn while sleeping in bed, such as pyjamas or a nightgown, and, when worn over nightclothes, a robe.
nightgown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnaɪtˌɡaʊn/
Forms: form: nightgowns
form: night-gown
Etymology: From Middle English nyght gowne. By surface analysis, night + gown.
Senses: synonyms: nightdress
nightie
glosses: A long loose robe worn mainly by women for sleeping in.
glosses: A dressing gown.
Derived terms: nightgowned
Related terms: négligée
nightstick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnaɪtˌstɪk/
Forms: form: nightsticks
form: night stick
Etymology: From night + stick.
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: A long, narrow, polelike club carried by police and security personnel, for use in self-defense.
glosses: The penis.
glosses: A person who spends much time in bars and nightclubs, and generally indulges themsleves during the night.
Synonyms: word: attitude-adjuster
word: baton
word: nigger knocker
word: truncheon
Derived terms: nightstick fracture
nuncio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnʌnʃiˌoʊ/
ipa: /-siˌoʊ/
Forms: form: nuncios
Etymology: From Spanish nuncio,
from Latin nūntius (“envoy”).
Senses: examples: text: He was anxious to make an immediate and lasting peace with Spain; refused to receive a special embassy from the Hollanders; his ambassador at Paris was known to be on terms of intimacy with the Pope's Nuncio; […].
ref: a. 1868, Thomas D'Arcy McGee, A Popular History of Ireland […] :
text: His ecclesiastical appointments showed how rapidly he had made his way, how supple was his mind: first of all secretary to the nunciature at Lisbon; then created titular Bishop of Thebes, and entrusted with a delicate mission in Brazil; on his return appointed nuncio first at Brussels and next at Vienna; […].
ref: 1896, Ernest A. Vizetelly, transl., Rome (The Three Cities), translation of Rome by Émile Zola:
text: Seeing as the meeting happened at the nunciature in Washington, it could only have happened with the approval and participation of the nuncio, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano.
ref: 2015 October 2, Emma Green, quoting Michael Sean Winters, “The Vatican Is Waging a PR War Over Kim Davis and the Pope”, in The Atlantic:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
synonyms: nuntius
glosses: The ecclesiastic title of a permanent diplomatic representative of the Roman Catholic Church to a sovereign state or international organization, who is accorded a rank equivalent to an accredited ambassador, and may also be given additional privileges including recognition as Dean in a country's diplomatic corps.
examples: text: [O]thers, held very good men, are at a dead ſtand, not knovving vvhat to doe or ſay; and are therefore called Seekers, looking for nevv Nuntio’s from Chriſt, to aſſoil theſe benighted queſtions, and to give nevv Orders for nevv Churches.
ref: 1647, Theodore de la Guard [pseudonym; Nathaniel Ward], The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America. […], London: […] J[ohn] D[ever] & R[obert] I[bbitson] for Stephen Bowtell, […], →OCLC, page 18:
text: Altho at this distance you had no early Account or Particular of his Death; yet your Affection may cease to wonder that you had not some secret Sense or Intimation thereof by Dreams, thoughtful Whisperings, Mercurisms, Airy Nuncio’s, or sympathetical Insinuations, which many seem to have had at the Death of their dearest Friends.
ref: 1672, Thomas Browne, A Letter to a Friend, § 2:
glosses: One who bears a message; a messenger.
glosses: Any member of any Sejm of the Kingdom of Poland, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Galicia (of the Austrian Partition), Duchy of Warsaw, Congress Poland, or Grand Duchy of Posen.
Derived terms: nuncioship
nunciotist
Related terms: word: announce
word: internuncio
word: nunciature
word: Pro-nuncio
raw_tags: since 1991
oleander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊliˈændə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˌoʊliˈændɚ/
ipa: /ˈoʊliændɚ/
rhymes: -ændə(ɹ)
Forms: form: oleanders
Etymology: From French oléandre, from Medieval Latin oleandru, from Late Latin lorandrum, perhaps an alteration of rhododendron.
Senses: glosses: Nerium oleander, a notoriously poisonous shrub in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae, but nonetheless widely grown as an ornamental, having leathery lance-shaped leaves and deep rose-colored or white flowers.
Derived terms: oleander moth
oleandrin
oleandrine
sweet oleander
yellow oleander
air mass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛː mas/
ipa: /ɛəɹ mæs/
ipa: /ɛːɹ mæs/
Forms: form: air masses
form: airmass
Etymology: Perhaps a calque of German Luftmasse.
Senses: examples: text: After a 227-day drought ending with December temperatures above 90, a polar air mass collided with a wave of damp tropical air, condensed it in seven days of cloudburst.
ref: 1939 January 2, “Cloudburst”, in Time:
text: The mercury has been soaring in the state since the weekend because of an air mass hovering over Queensland.
ref: 2013 December 31, Bridie Jabour, The Guardian:
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A particular volume of air, especially one having a roughly uniform temperature, pressure and water vapour content.
wikipedia: air mass
oozy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈuːzi/
homophone: uzi
rhymes: -uːzi
Forms: form: oozier
form: ooziest
Etymology: From ooze + -y.
Senses: examples: text: A daughter?
Oh heauens, that they were liuing both in Nalpes
The King and Queene there, that they were, I wish
My selfe were mudded in that oo-zie bed
Where my sonne lies: when did you lose your daughter?
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: [The rain] fell with an oozy, slushy sound among the grass; and made a muddy kennel of every furrow in the ploughed fields.
ref: 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, “Chapter 13”, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC:
text: 1912, James Stephens, Mary, Mary (published in the UK as The Charwoman's Daughter), New York: Boni & Liveright, Chapter XXIV, p. 175, https://archive.org/details/marymary00stepiala
Her vocabulary could not furnish her with the qualifying word, or rather, epithet for his bigness. Horrible was suggested and retained, but her instinct clamored that there was a fat, oozy word somewhere which would have brought comfort to her brains and her hands and feet.
text: Each country is casting its net of espionage into the slimy bottom of the others, fishing for their secrets, the treacherous secrets which brew in the oozy depths of diplomacy.
ref: 1918, Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism, London: Macmillan & Co., page 38:
text: […] he gulped down a chill and glutinous slice of the ice-cream brick, and cocoanut cake as oozy as shaving-cream.
ref: 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter IX, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, page 123:
text: On birthdays and saints' days, Jewish musicians from the local community were invited to perform festive music and played "an extraordinary variety of music: potpourris of famous operas, military marches, Viennese waltzes, and the ooziest gypsy songs and Jewish dances, rampant with glissandos, tremolos, and tearful vibratos."
ref: 2015, Vincent Giroud, chapter 1, in Nicolas Nabokov: A Life in Freedom and Music, Oxford University Press:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the quality of something that oozes.
Synonyms: weeping
Derived terms: oozily
ooziness
CONUS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Acronym of The continental United States, but is further defined to be the 48 states between Canada and Mexico, including the District of Columbia.
ophthalmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒfˈθal.mɪk/
ipa: /ɒpˈθal.mɪk/
ipa: /ɑfˈθæl.mɪk/
ipa: /ɑpˈθæl.mɪk/
rhymes: -ælmɪk
Forms: form: ophthalmick
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ophthalmicus, from Ancient Greek ὀφθᾰλμῐκός (ophthălmĭkós, “of or for the eyes”), from ὀφθᾰλμός (ophthălmós, “eye”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, “-ic”, adjectival suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Eyedrops are an ophthalmic solution.
text: The ophthalmic surgeon attends Tuesdays and Saturdays, at half-past one.
ref: 1853 September 17, “Metropolitan Hospitals & Medical Schools”, in The Lancet, volume 62, number 1568, →DOI, page 268:
text: In a clinic, a camera's lens probes the sensitive landscape of a human eye. McNally used a special ophthalmic camera to reveal the view a doctor would have during an eye exam.
ref: 2008, Leah Bendavid-Val, National Geographic: The Photographs, page 15:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the eyes.
examples: text: Yet I do not call to mind that I was ever in my earlier youth the subject of remark in our social family circle, but some large-handed person took some such ophthalmic steps to patronise me.
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter X, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 161:
text: If Jack Yeats has made this ophthalmic adjustment, and if W.B. never really was so foolish as to look things between the eyes (until the Revolution grimaced at him), have the realistic novelists of our time been wise in their insistence on ruthless close-ups?
ref: 2000, David Pierce, Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader, →ISBN, page 516:
text: To Dechen Wangmo, and all the fiercely dedicated ophthalmic staff of Bhutan, my gratitude for your hospitality and patience with a foreigner's curiosity about your customs.
ref: 2013, David Oliver Relin, Second Suns: Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives, →ISBN:
glosses: Visionary, looking to the future.
Derived terms: anophthalmic
exophthalmic
hygrophthalmic
interophthalmic
intraophthalmic
monophthalmic
nonophthalmic
ophthalmic acid
ophthalmically
ophthalmic artery
ophthalmic nerve
ophthalmics
paraophthalmic
preophthalmic
Related terms: ophthalmo-
ophthalm-
ophthalmology
ophthalmologist
ophthalmoscope
orotundity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒɹəˈtʌndɪti/
ipa: /ɔɹəˈtʌndɪti/
Forms: form: orotundities
Etymology: From orotund + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: There is no braking midline caesura, nor is there Pope's massy orotundity.
ref: 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
glosses: The quality of being orotund.
glosses: An orotund statement or utterance.
overblown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: more overblown
form: most overblown
Senses: examples: text: They went all that way just to be in some overblown conference?
glosses: Of exaggerated importance; too heavily emphasized, hyped, etc.
Synonyms: inflated
Derived terms: overblownness
overblown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊn
Senses: glosses: past participle of overblow
wahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wah
wala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wallah.
oxymora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxymoron
wanga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wangas
form: wanga
form: ouanga
Senses: examples: text: All magic is performed under his patronage, whether it be the medicinal, protective paquet, or the less benevolent wanga.
ref: 1953, Maya Daren, The Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company, published 2004, page 117:
text: Not all wanga contain the enslaved spirits of the dead, but they work best if they do.
ref: 2008, Stephan Palmié, Africas of the Americas, page 364:
text: Love charms are the most common type of wanga.
ref: 2011, Mark Juergensmeyer, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Global Religions, page 549:
qualifier: voodoo
glosses: A magic spell or charm.
Related terms: wangateur
ebberman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ebbermen
Senses: glosses: One who fishes under bridges.
pachysandra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pachysandras
Etymology: From the New Latin genus name, equivalent to English pachy-, from Ancient Greek παχύς (pakhús) [Term?].
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A genus, Pachysandra, of four or five species of evergreen shrubs or subshrubs, belonging to the boxwood family, Buxaceae, used ornamentally as groundcover.
packinghouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: packinghouses
form: packing house
Etymology: From packing + house.
Senses: examples: text: The packinghouse usually delivers shrimp to a few regular customers, such as breaders, freezers, canners, or wholesalers of fresh shrimp.
ref: 1976, USITC Publication - Issue 773, page A-33:
glosses: A facility where harvested food is processed into a salable condition.
glosses: A slaughterhouse wherein animals are slaughtered, and the meat is then processed into smaller cuts.
packsaddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: packsaddles
form: pack-saddle
form: pack saddle
Etymology: From pack + saddle. Compare Dutch pakzadel, German Packsattel.
Senses: glosses: A saddle designed to secure and carry goods on the back of an animal.
Synonyms: word: bat
Related terms: saddlepack
papyri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pəˈpaɪˌɹaɪ/
/pəˈpaɪˌɹi/
/ˈpæpɚaɪ/
/ˈpæpɚi/
Senses: glosses: plural of papyrus
peeress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peeresses
Etymology: peer + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: But there were more than a score of peers there beside, with their peeresses in tall feathers, diamonds, and monstrous hoops.
ref: 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Being a Chapter of Hoops, Feathers, and Brilliants, and Bucks and Fiddlers”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume II, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 208:
glosses: A noblewoman married to a peer.
examples: text: [I]t is obvious that the Californian heiress is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a British peeress.
ref: 1892 [April], A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. X.—The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor.”, in Geo[rge] Newnes, editor, The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume III (January to June), number [16], London: George Newnes, Limited, […], page 388, column 1:
glosses: A woman holding a noble title in her own right.
pellagra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪˈlaɡɹə/
ipa: /pɛˈlaɡɹə/
Forms: form: pellagras
Etymology: From Italian pellagra, from Latin pellis (“skin”) + Ancient Greek ἄγρα (ágra, “seizure, attack, catching”).
Senses: examples: text: In 1755 the French physician Gaspar Casal (1680–1759) published an account of pellagra, then a new disease in Spain.
ref: 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 531:
text: Mixing the alkali into the recipe in the right way chemically releases the otherwise unavailable niacin in the corn, which stops pellagra in its tracks, and allowed corn-based agricultural populations to grow and spread.
ref: 2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 7, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A disease characterised by skin lesions and mental confusion, primarily caused by a niacin deficiency.
Derived terms: antipellagra
pellagragenic
pellagroid
Related terms: pellagric
pellagrous
abscopal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈskoʊ.pl̩/
Etymology: From Latin ab (“away from”) and Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós, “target, aim”). Term first described by Dr. R. J. Mole in 1953 in the British Journal of Radiology, "Whole body irradiation- radiobiology or medicine?" . Br. J. Radiol., 26: 234-241, 1953.
Senses: examples: text: The regression of a liver tumor after irradiation of bone that the tumor metastasized to is an example of the abscopal effect.
glosses: Denoting the effect that irradiation of a tissue has on remote nonirradiated tissue.
periwig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛɹɪwɪɡ/
Forms: form: periwigs
Etymology: Alteration of Middle French perruque. Doublet of peruke.
Senses: examples: text: O, it
offends me to the soul to hear a robustious
periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to
very rags, to split the ears of the groundling […]
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: Methinks she makes almost as fair a sign / As some old gentlewoman in a periwig.
ref: 1607, Cyril Tourneur, The Revenger’s Tragedy:
text: [T]he sun
Grown stale, is to so low a value run,
That his dishevel'd beams and scattered fires
Serve but for ladies' periwigs and tyres
In lovers' sonnets […]
ref: 1633, John Donne, To the Countess of Salisbury, ll 4-7:
text: The floods in icie fetters bound.
Crusted earth. Every honey-headed twig
Wears his snowie Periwig,
And every bough his snowy beard.
ref: 1657, Josua Poole, The English Parnassus, vide "Frost"
text: From her own Head, Megwra takes
A Perriwig of twisted Snakes;
Which in the nicest Fashion curl'd,
Like Toupets of this upper World […]
ref: 1730, Jonathan Swift, “Death And Daphne,”, in Some Verse Pieces:
text: [O]ur impetuous youth hearing himself reviled with the appellation of scoundrel, pulled off his antagonist's periwig, and flung it in his face.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: A wig, especially any kind of stylised wig as formerly worn by men and women.
Derived terms: tie periwig
wig
periwig
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛɹɪwɪɡ/
Forms: form: periwigs
form: periwigging
form: periwigged
form: periwigged
Etymology: Alteration of Middle French perruque. Doublet of peruke.
Senses: examples: text: Discord periwigg'd with snakes
ref: 1736, Jonathan Swift, The Legion Club:
glosses: To dress with a periwig, or with false hair; to bewig.
pewit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pewits
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of peewit.
phalanges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪlænd͡ʒɪz/
ipa: /fəˈlænd͡ʒɪz/
ipa: /ˈfælænd͡ʒɪz/
ipa: /fəˈlænd͡ʒɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of phalange
phalanges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪlænd͡ʒɪz/
ipa: /fəˈlænd͡ʒɪz/
ipa: /ˈfælænd͡ʒɪz/
ipa: /fəˈlænd͡ʒɪz/
ipa: /fəˈlæn.d͡ʒiz/
ipa: /feɪˈlæn.d͡ʒiz/
ipa: /fəˈlæn.d͡ʒiːz/
ipa: /fæˈlæn.d͡ʒiːz/
rhymes: -ændʒiːz
ipa: /ˈfeɪlænd͡ʒɪz/
ipa: /fəˈlænd͡ʒɪz/
ipa: /ˈfælænd͡ʒɪz/
ipa: /fəˈlænd͡ʒɪz/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φάλαγγες (phálanges), plural of φάλαγξ (phálanx).
Senses: glosses: plural of phalanx
pharynges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fæˈɹɪn.d͡ʒiːz/
ipa: /fəˈɹɪnˌd͡ʒiz/
Forms: form: pharynxes
Senses: glosses: plural of pharynx