cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
argle-bargle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: argle-bargles
Etymology: First documented in English in 1822, from Scots (where first recorded in 1808), from earlier argle (“argue obstinately, wrangle”) used in English since 16th century, presumably from argue + -le (frequentative suffix), though possibly from Old Norse (Suio-Gothic) ierga – possibly influenced by haggle – plus rhyming reduplication, possibly from bargain, found in early variant aurgle-bargain (1720).
Senses: examples: text: Wendell and I have had our share of argle-bargles about the morality of hunting.
ref: 1992, Rebecca Ward, Grand Deception, page 43:
text: As I have said, the real rationale of today’s opinion, whatever disappearing trail of its legalistic argle-bargle one chooses to follow, is that DOMA is motivated by '"bare . . . desire to harm"' couples in same-sex marriages.
ref: 2013, United States v. Windsor, 544 U.S. 744, 799 (2013) (Scalia, J., dissenting)
glosses: A verbal argument.
argle-bargle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: argle-bargles
form: argle-bargling
form: argle-bargled
form: argle-bargled
Etymology: First documented in English in 1822, from Scots (where first recorded in 1808), from earlier argle (“argue obstinately, wrangle”) used in English since 16th century, presumably from argue + -le (frequentative suffix), though possibly from Old Norse (Suio-Gothic) ierga – possibly influenced by haggle – plus rhyming reduplication, possibly from bargain, found in early variant aurgle-bargain (1720).
Senses: examples: text: Last night ye haggled and argle-bargled like an apple-wife; and then passed me your word, and gave me your hand to back it; and ye ken very well what was the upshot. Be damned to your word!
ref: 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Captain Knuckles Under”, in Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC, page 97:
glosses: To argue.
Synonyms: wringle-wrangle
Derived terms: argle-bargle morble whoosh
Related terms: argie-bargie
argy-bargy
argol-bargol
glutinously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more glutinously
form: most glutinously
Etymology: From glutinous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a glutinous manner.
gluttonously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gluttonously
form: most gluttonously
Etymology: From Middle English glotenously, gloutonnously; equivalent to gluttonous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He opened his lips against her inner, upper leg and her entire body smiled. Smiled in satisfaction. Smiled gluttonously. Smiled and decided, I will take this.
ref: 2024, Roz Dineen, Briefly Very Beautiful, Bloomsbury, page 260:
synonyms: gluttonishly
gluttonly
glosses: In a gluttonous manner.
gloppy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɒpi/
rhymes: -ɒpi
Forms: form: gloppier
form: gloppiest
Etymology: From glop + -y.
Senses: examples: text: In 2012 biophysicist Michael Rosen of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and his coworkers showed that various proteins and RNA molecules could phase-separate from a solution into dense liquid droplets, which then congealed into viscoelastic substances. They seem to span the range from gloppy liquids such as mucus to almost solidlike gels such as Jell-O. […] One common stressor is heat, which can cause folded proteins to “denature,” or unravel. Many cells make heat-shock proteins when they get uncomfortably warm, which can act as molecular chaperones that guide denatured proteins back to their folded state. That’s important not just so the proteins work properly but so unfolded proteins do not stick together in a gloppy mess.
ref: 2025, Philip Ball, “Mysterious Blobs Found inside Cells Are Rewriting the Story of How Life Works. Tiny specks called biomolecular condensates are leading to a new understanding of the cell”, in Jen Schwartz, editor, Scientific American, volume 332, number 2 (February):
synonyms: gloopy
glosses: gooey and viscous.
Derived terms: gloppily
gloppiness
apple-wife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apple-wives
Senses: examples: text: Last night ye haggled and argle-bargled like an apple-wife; and then passed me your word, and gave me your hand to back it; and ye ken very well what was the upshot. Be damned to your word!
ref: 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Captain Knuckles Under”, in Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC, page 97:
glosses: A female apple-seller.
Related terms: costermonger
platypi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: * The -i plural comes from the belief that platypus is a Latin second declension noun, which it is not. In fact, it belongs to the Greek third declension. The usual plural is platypuses; platypodes is the Greek plural, which is also correct.
Senses: glosses: plural of platypus
platypuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: ref: 2008 March 2, “Victoria's Healesville Sanctuary is celebrating the births of two baby platypuses, in a major milestone.”, in ABC News:
glosses: plural of platypus
argle-bargled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of argle-bargle
avocados
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of avocado
scenari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian scenari.
Senses: examples: text: There exist one printed and eight manuscript collections of scenari, or soggetti, compiled between 1611 and 1734, and from these and a few separate extant examples we have more than six hundred of the play-plots that were used for improvisation in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Though we can often trace the sources of the scenari, we rarely come upon the names of the authors, and many were the result of collaboration. As stage documents the scenari are circumstantial and businesslike, they make no pretensions towards literary style.
ref: 1934, K[athleen] M[arguerite] Lea, “Introduction, Description of a Typical Performance”, in Italian Popular Comedy: A Study in the Commedia dell’arte, 1560–1620, with Special Reference to the English Stage, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Russell & Russell, published 1962, →ISBN, part I (The Nature of the Commedia dell’arte), pages 3–4:
text: […] magic enters into the stories as a directing force, generally in the service of a magician; animals are much referred to, or much in evidence; the gods of Olympus themselves in some cases intervene in the doings and love-affairs of the mortals; satyrs, nymphs, and spirits abound; and the scenari have happy endings in the union of the lovers. […] The scenari are not without cause termed pastorals and associated with Arcadia. Their makers borrowed extensively from the great body of Arcadian stories widespread in Europe.
ref: 1946, John Munro, “Shakespeare’s ‘Tempest’”, in The New English Review, volume 12, page 63:
text: Different scenari can be built up in this case. For example: / - The slab penetrates the lower mantle, and the residual wedge is mixed with the upper mantle (Fig. 3b). This scenario will accommodate Creager and Jordan's interpretation of seismic paths at subduction zones (9), as well as isotopic constraints on MORB genesis. […] Figure 6: Two scenari for injection: a) pure reinjection of oceanic crust.
ref: 1989, Claude J[ean] Allegre, “Mantle cycling: Process and time scales”, in Stanley R[obert] Hart, Levent Gülen, editors, Crust/Mantle Recycling at Convergence Zones (NATO Advanced Science Institutes Series; C: Mathematical and Physical Sciences; 258), Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, pages 3 and 11:
glosses: plural of scenario
half-wit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-wits
Senses: glosses: A stupid or inept person.
half-wits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But this would mean exposing children to contact with monomaniacs, half-wits, defectives?
ref: 1926, Henry Louis Mencken, Selected Prejudices, page 175:
glosses: plural of half-wit
complect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: complects
form: complecting
form: complected
form: complected
Etymology: From Latin complectī (“to entwine, encircle, compass, infold”), from com- (“together”) and plectere (“to weave, braid”). See complex.
Senses: glosses: To join by weaving.
glosses: To embrace.
Synonyms: sense: archaic: to join by weaving
word: interweave
word: entwine
word: interconnect
word: interlink
Derived terms: english: woven together, interwoven
translation: woven together, interwoven
word: complected
Related terms: intercommunicate
join
tangle
calxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calx
calcanei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calcaneus
calcanea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calcaneus
sourball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsaʊɚbɑːl/
Forms: form: sourballs
Etymology: From sour + ball.
Senses: glosses: A hard candy with a sour flavor.
mega-church
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mega-churches
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of megachurch.
cuffee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌfi/
rhymes: -ʌfi
Forms: form: cuffees
form: cuffy
Etymology: A personal name formerly common among black Americans.
Senses: examples: text: The war had turned very bitter, and the days of young blacks, or cuffees as they were known, joining up just to escape the ghetto were over.
ref: 2004, Martin Torgoff, “Next Stop is Vietnam”, in Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945–2000, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 189:
glosses: A black person.
bo tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbəʊ tɹiː/
Forms: form: bo trees
Etymology: From Sinhalese බෝ (bō) + tree. The first component is from Sanskrit बोधि (bodhi, “perfect knowledge; tree of wisdom”), and thus a doublet of bid in the "offer price" sense.
Senses: examples: text: In 1806, the king of Ava gave careful orders for the planting of saplings of the Bo tree [ficus religiosa] brought by monks from Sri Lanka.
ref: 2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 221:
glosses: The peepul tree, Ficus religiosa, regarded as sacred by Hindus and Buddhists.
Synonyms: Ficus religiosa
pipal
sacred fig
Hypernyms: tree
Related terms: Ficus
coronal suture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coronal sutures
Senses: glosses: The line of junction between the frontal bone and the two parietal bones of the skull.
Synonyms: sutura coronalis
call box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: call boxes
Senses: glosses: A box containing a telephone for use in emergency, usually mounted on a post in an area where normal access to telephones is inconvenient (such as on an interstate highway or a very long highway bridge)
glosses: The wall-mounted box allowing a person to speak into an intercom
glosses: Synonym of telephone box (enclosure)
synonyms: word: telephone box
extra: enclosure
Hypernyms: box
Randstad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Randstad.
Senses: glosses: A region, a roughly crescent-shaped conurbation in the Netherlands which includes the four largest cities (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, and The Hague) and surrounds the Groene Hart.
provisioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of provision
provisioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of provision
provisioning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: provisionings
Senses: glosses: An act of supplying with provisions.
examples: text: Feeding wildlife is a very popular tourist activity, largely because it facilitates the close observation of animals in their natural habitat. Such provisioning may benefit animals by improving their survival and reproductive success, especially during periods of natural food shortage. However, provisioning by tourists may also have negative impacts on the health of the animals involved; to date such impacts are poorly understood.
ref: 2016, Laëtitia Maréchal, Stuart Semple, Bonaventura Majolo, Ann MacLarnon, “Assessing the Effects of Tourist Provisioning on the Health of Wild Barbary Macaques in Morocco”, in PLoS ONE:
glosses: The feeding of wild animals.
examples: text: The problem of installing software on a booted system is known as provisioning, and is often the job of shell scripts, configuration management systems, or manual command-line entry.
ref: 2015, Michael Peacock, Creating Development Environments with Vagrant, Second edition, Packt, →ISBN, page 37:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The installation of software on a system, especially when automated.
immortalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of immortalize
hobbits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hobbit
gypped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gyp
guerillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guerilla
growers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grower
greasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of grease
greasing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greasings
Senses: examples: text: A section of their contract with customers calls for P.M. inspections, for washings and greasings, and for other maintenance work at specified mileages.
ref: 1953, Power Wagon, volumes 90-93, page 18:
glosses: An application of grease.
Netherlandish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Netherland(s) + -ish. Compare Netherlandic, which is used mainly in linguistics.
Senses: examples: text: It has been said that Old English is Dutch, and to no other nation is the study of the Netherlandish more interesting than to the English.
ref: 1897, Chamber's encyclopœdia
text: Low Dutch means both Low Frankish (or Netherlandish) and Low Saxon (or “Low German”).
ref: 1991, Sarah Grey Thomason, Terrence Kaufman, Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford: University of California Press, page 321:
topics: art
arts
history
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The Dutch language.
Netherlandish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Netherland(s) + -ish. Compare Netherlandic, which is used mainly in linguistics.
Senses: examples: text: Even more strikingly assumptive of a Low Countries context is Article 12's prescription that any guild brother who maimed another 'shall compownde with' and 'recompense and satisfy' the person whom he hurt. Composition or settlement of interpersonal wrongs by money compensation, rather than state prosecution, was common in much of Europe, including in Netherlandish cities.
ref: 2023, Shannon McSheffrey, Ad Putter, “The Formation of the Hatmakers' Fraternity”, in The Dutch Hatmakers of Late Medieval and Tudor London: with an edition of their bilinguial Guild Ordinances, Boydell & Brewer, →JSTOR, page 48:
topics: art
arts
history
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Netherlands.
Related terms: Flemish
glaciers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glacier
grower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹoʊɚ/
Forms: form: growers
Etymology: From grow + -er.
Senses: examples: text: He was an orange grower from Florida.
glosses: A farmer; one who grows things.
examples: text: These flowers are fast growers
text: 'The Bride' [a snowdrop variety], found in the early Seventies at Foxcote Farm near Cheltenham, was his first discovery. It's a poculiform (cup-shaped) G. elwesii with six pure white petals of the same length. Like many poculiforms […] it's not a strong grower.
ref: 2015 February 7, Val Bourne, “The quiet man of the world of snowdrops”, in The Daily Telegraph (London), page G8:
glosses: Something that grows.
examples: text: I didn't like the song at first, but it is a real grower.
text: Sanctury^([sic]) - the least obvious single but what a grower. When I first heard this track I thought it was rather average. After playing the album several times, this was the one that kept coming into my head throughout the day.
ref: 1994, Mr. S.R. Winterton, “Bedtime Stories - The Singles”, in alt.fan.madonna (Usenet):
text: […]assimilating some vaguely psych, folk-rock, and other influences into their own twang without losing sense of style and taste: a grower, not a shower (that's show-er, not shower).
ref: 2001, Maximum Rock 'n' Roll, Issue 223:
glosses: Someone or something, especially music, that becomes more likeable over time.
examples: text: As a man who can best be described as a "grower not a shower", I helped Brent realize that many people in the gay community are concerned in a very adolescent way with their dick size, including me.
ref: 1993, Barry Burns, “Muffin on Parade”, in soc.motss (Usenet):
text: "Growers" are guys whose penises tend to contract a lot lengthwise when flaccid, while "show-ers" are guys whose penises could be said to merely "deflate" without contracting much in length.
ref: 1994, jenster, “Penis Size and other Eternal Questions”, in seattle.general (Usenet):
text: His dick, if I remember correctly, is more of a shower than a grower[…]
ref: 2003, Austin Foxxe, Three the Hard Way: Tales of Three-way Sex Between Men:
antonyms: shower
glosses: A man whose penis increases in size significantly when erect.
Derived terms: applegrower
coffeegrower
fruitgrower
melongrower
microgrower
olivegrower
ricegrower
silkgrower
stockgrower
vine-grower
wheatgrower
winegrower
wine grower
woolgrower
garages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garage
garages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of garage
gauging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gauge
gauging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaugings
Senses: examples: periodic gaugings of the water level
glosses: Measurement or estimation, with or as if with a gauge.
glosses: The addition of various materials to lime mortar.
topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: A shirring.
garaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of garage
garaged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a two-garaged house
glosses: Having a specified kind or number of garages.
Derived terms: ungaraged
gimmicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪm.ɪks/
Senses: glosses: plural of gimmick
gimmicks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪm.ɪks/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gimmick
garters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garter
fueling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: (Canadian spelling, common) present participle and gerund of fuel
fueling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuelings
Senses: examples: text: Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
glosses: The act or process by which something is fueled.
Derived terms: fueling station
fudging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fudge
fudging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fudgings
Senses: examples: text: And what of the falsifications, the fudgings and fabrications of observations? Hartner has found evidence that fudging was common enough, in a time when there was as yet no theory of error, no rules for the consistent use of significant figures, […]
ref: 1984, Journal for the History of Astronomy, volume 15, numbers 6-7, page 46:
glosses: The act of something being fudged, altered so as to hide a flaw or uncertainty.
fudging
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: That film was fudging cool!
text: It's too fudging cold outside.
glosses: An intensifier similar to fucking.
Related terms: fudge
friendliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of friendly: most friendly
freeloading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From freeload + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of freeload
freeloading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From freeload + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act of one who freeloads.
Derived terms: contrafreeloading
freelancing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of freelance
freelancing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
qualifier: fire service
glosses: The act of performing one's duties outside of the chain of command and SOPs.
fluffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flʌft/
rhymes: -ʌft
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fluff
fornicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fornicate
fornicating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: “You lousy, fornicating pimp!” he said, his voice shaking with fury.
ref: 1958, A.G. Yates, The Cold Dark Hours, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 202:
glosses: A euphemism of "fucking" as an intensifier.
formulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of formulate
forgeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forgery
fiercest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
ref: 2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 11:
glosses: superlative form of fierce: most fierce.
exhausts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzɔːsts/
ipa: /ɪɡˈzɔsts/
ipa: /ɪɡˈzɑsts/
Senses: glosses: plural of exhaust
exhausts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzɔːsts/
ipa: /ɪɡˈzɔsts/
ipa: /ɪɡˈzɑsts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of exhaust
fibbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fib
fibbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fibbings
Senses: examples: text: Of the fibbings, conventional falsehoods, and white lies disfiguring and vitiating social intercourse and common commercial transactions, it is enough to say that they are in jarring discord with […]
ref: 1893, Methodist Review, volume 75, page 957:
glosses: The telling of a lie.
examples: text: And so did Nick, whom sometimes there would come on / A sort of fear his spouse might knock his head off, / Demolish half his teeth, or drive a rib in, / She shone so much in 'facers' and in 'fibbing.'
ref: 1837, Barham, The Ghost:
text: 15th round. Chancery. Fibbing. Biggs makes dreadful work with his left. Break away. Rally. Biggs down. Betting still six to four on the gown-boy.
ref: 1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, “The Fight at Slaughter House”, in Men's Wives, page 17:
topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: Repeatedly striking an opponent's head while holding them in a headlock; a pummelling; a drubbing; a beating.
feathering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of feather
feathering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: featherings
Senses: glosses: Plumage.
examples: text: The whole flower is very small; the tube is faintly marked with lilac lines; the petals are concave, the three outer white, marked with three lines, the middle one narrow, without featherings, the outer ones broader, and neatly feathered […]
ref: 1834, Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants:
glosses: A feathered texture.
glosses: The fitting of feathers to arrows.
topics: architecture
glosses: An arrangement of small arcs or foils separated by projecting cusps, frequently forming the feather-like ornament on the inner mouldings of arches.
glosses: Visible offshoots of the trails of ink written on overly absorbent paper.
Derived terms: feathering strip
extorted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of extort
exterminating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of exterminate
exterminates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of exterminate
exterminated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exterminate
excels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of excel
evoked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of evoke
evasions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of evasion
erratically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈɹæt.ɪk.li/
Forms: form: more erratically
form: most erratically
Etymology: From erratic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: When I saw the other driver weaving erratically across the road, I decided to keep my distance.
text: The four-and-one-half-day trial was centered on acts that neither she nor prosecutors dispute: On July 13, 2012, she drove her Lexus S.U.V. erratically after swallowing Zolpidem, a generic form of the sleep medication Ambien.
ref: 2014 February 28, Joseph Berger, “Fast Acquittal for Kennedy, Whose Name Put Prosecutors in Bind”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2022:
glosses: In an erratic manner; unsteadily or randomly, unpredictably.
eroding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of erode
bidding price
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bidding prices
Senses: topics: business
finance
synonyms: bid price
antonyms: asking price
ask price
glosses: A price offered by a buyer/bidder when he or she buys a good.
wikipedia: bid price
aligning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of align
aligning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alignings
Senses: glosses: An alignment.
agitators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agitator
achingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more achingly
form: most achingly
Etymology: From aching + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: achingly beautiful
glosses: So as to cause aching, especially heartache.
glosses: In an aching manner; sorely.
Related terms: ache
ear-achingly
heartachingly
headachingly
activators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of activator
imbedded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of imbed
entrenched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: intrenched
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of entrench
embeds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of embed
embeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embed
documentaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of documentary
discriminated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of discriminate
Derived terms: undiscriminated
disrupts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disrupt
disassembled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disassemble
detonates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of detonate
detests
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of detest
deputized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deputize
disabling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disabling
form: most disabling
Senses: examples: text: Rationing decisions that accept people's 'needs' for physical care and limited domestic help, while rejecting demands to support integrated social activities as 'wants', legitimise some of our most disabling cultural values.
ref: 2004, John Swain, Sally French, Colin Barnes, Disabling Barriers, Enabling Environments, page 262:
text: Among physical conditions, neurological disorders are the most disabling conditions across all dimensions of disability consistently across the two higher country income levels.
ref: 2013, Jordi Alonso, Somnath Chatterji, Yanling He, The Burdens of Mental Disorders, page 193:
text: Schizophrenia spectrum disorders are some of the more disabling types of mental illnesses.
ref: 2022, Chyllia D Fosbre, Varcarolis Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, page 258:
glosses: That disables; crippling.
Derived terms: disablingly
nondisabling
disabling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disable
diabetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diabetic
deviants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deviant
scaring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɛː.ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈskɛɹ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛɹɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scare
supportive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈpɔɹtɪv/
ipa: /səˈpɔːtɪv/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /səˈpo(ː)ɹtɪv/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /səˈpoətɪv/
Forms: form: more supportive
form: most supportive
Etymology: From support + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: I had a very supportive coach who helped me.
text: But the most seismic change is the shift to being supportive of open access. In practice, most of the industry has collectively opposed this for the past 25 years. The Department for Transport has been particularly hostile, seeing it as little more than cherry-picking.
ref: 2023 February 22, Sir Michael Holden, “Comment: A farewell to micro-management”, in RAIL, number 977, page 3:
antonyms: unsupportive
glosses: Providing support.
Synonyms: supportful
Derived terms: unsupportive
corky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ki
Forms: form: corkier
form: corkiest
Etymology: From cork (“stopper”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: This wine smells a bit corky; get me another bottle.
glosses: Of wine, contaminated by a faulty or tainted cork.
examples: text: Bind fast his corky arms.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vii]:
glosses: Consisting of, or like, cork; dry; shrivelled.
Synonyms: sense: like cork
word: suberose
sense: like cork
english: in botany
translation: in botany
word: suberous
Derived terms: corkiness
Related terms: corked
corky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ki
Forms: form: corkies
form: corkie
Etymology: From cork (“injure by a blow”) + -y.
Senses: glosses: A deep bruise, usually on the leg or buttock, caused by a blow; a haematoma.
Synonyms: sense: bruise
word: ecchymosis
sense: bruise
word: contusion
devastated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more devastated
form: most devastated
Senses: examples: the devastated city
glosses: Ruined, ravaged.
examples: text: Mary Ann was devastated when she found out her son was bullying a girl at school.
glosses: Extremely upset and shocked.
Derived terms: devo
undevastated
devastated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of devastate
towels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of towel
towels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of towel
faking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪkɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪkɪŋ
Forms: form: fakings
Senses: glosses: The act of something being faked.
Derived terms: clyfaking
peacefaking
faking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪkɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪkɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fake
starters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of starter
Related terms: for starters
bugging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌɡɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌɡɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bug
bugging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌɡɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌɡɪŋ
Forms: form: buggings
Senses: examples: text: The buggings executed by the FBI not only revealed a great deal about the Cosa Nostra's activities, they also revealed a great deal about how the Cosa Nostra felt about the Kennedys.
ref: 1993, John H. Davis, The Kennedys: Dynasty and Disaster, page 486:
glosses: Electronic surveillance.
Derived terms: antibugging
bluebugging
river bugging
teenagers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teenager
realizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of realize
reporters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reporter
bumped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌmpt/
rhymes: -ʌmpt
Forms: form: more bumped
form: most bumped
Senses: glosses: Containing bumps.
Derived terms: unbumped
bumped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌmpt/
rhymes: -ʌmpt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bump
risking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of risk
risking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riskings
Senses: examples: text: Those acts of others will, from the primary actor's perspective, be unjustified; thus, were they undertaken by the primary actor himself, they would be culpable riskings of harm.
ref: 2018, Larry Alexander, Kimberly Kessler Ferzan, Reflections on Crime and Culpability: Problems and Puzzles, page 18:
glosses: The act by which something is risked.
earrings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earring
agnominate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: agnominates
form: agnominating
form: agnominated
form: agnominated
Senses: glosses: To name.
Related terms: agnomination
moustachio'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mustachio + -'d.
Senses: examples: text: The black-moustachio’d face gazed down from every commanding corner.
ref: 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, page 6:
glosses: Alternative form of moustachioed.
Related terms: moustache
moustachio
mustache
mustachio
mustachio'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of moustachio'd.
moustachioed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: mustachioed
form: moustachio'd
Etymology: From moustachio + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Nor all passengers either - one moustachioed, behatted gent interviewed by the BBC lamented the loss of elegance that the trains represented, as he stood in the plastic Mk 3 buffet that today looks somehow chic and inviting. Time changes everything.
ref: 2021 October 6, Greg Morse, “A need for speed and the drive for 125”, in RAIL, number 941, page 52:
glosses: Possessing a moustache or moustachio.
raw_tags: of a man or his face
moustachioed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mustachioed
form: moustachio'd
Etymology: From moustachio + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of moustachio
moustachio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moustachios
Senses: examples: text: What with his moustachios, his long beard, his richly embroidered crimson dress, and his Maltese cross and sword, he would be invaluable.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 215:
glosses: Alternative spelling of mustachio.
moustachio
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: moustachios
form: moustachioing
form: moustachioed
form: moustachioed
Senses: examples: text: The family had picnicked there, near rocks moustachioed by moss, and the valley spreead beneath them like the falls' accomplishment.
ref: 1975, Nicholas Delbanco, Small rain, page 87:
text: The cakes were summed up by my mother, her upper lip moustachioed with cream.
ref: 2006, Martin Booth, Golden Boy: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood, →ISBN:
text: I hope his moustachioing her so close to my exit from the psych ward did not doom Britney, by ink, to the same fate.
ref: 2012, Emma Forrest, Your Voice in My Head, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of mustachio.
moustachios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moustachio
moustachios
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of moustachio
big D
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big Ds
Etymology: From the first letter of damn.
Senses: examples: text: Though "Bother it" I may
Occasionally say,
I never use a big, big D!
ref: 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, “act i”, in H.M.S. Pinafore; […], San Francisco: Bacon & Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: An instance of the word "damn" or "damnation", regarded as profane.
Big D
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The city of Dallas, Texas, USA.
Windy City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Windy City
Senses: synonyms: Second City
glosses: Nickname for Chicago: a city in Illinois, United States.
glosses: Nickname for Wellington: the capital city of New Zealand.
jiggles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jiggle
jiggling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɪɡ.(ə.)lɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jiggle
jiggling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɪɡ.(ə.)lɪŋ/
Forms: form: jigglings
Senses: glosses: A motion that jiggles.
Derived terms: mouse jiggling
jiggled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jiggle
doglegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dogleg
doglegs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dogleg
doglegging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dogleg
doglegged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dogleg
gollies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of golly
gall dang
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: goddamn
God damn
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: "Jesus Christ! Was my folks refined. My mam she wouldn't think-a lettin' us young'uns call a pee pot a pee pot. A chamber's what she called it... And by God! Us young'uns had ter call the pee pot a chamber or git our God damn necks wrang."
ref: 1946, Elizabeth Metzger Howard, Before the Sun Goes Down, page 31:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of goddamn.
watusi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watusis
Senses: examples: text: Baby, baby, that's the way it goes
 Nothing happens when you Mash Potatoes
 I just gotta fall in love with you
Watusi is the dance to do
 Wah-a, wah, wah-a Watusi
 C'mon and take a chance and get-a with this dance.
ref: 1962, “The Wah-Watusi”, Kal Mann and Dave Appell (lyrics), performed by The Orlons:
text: Twist it in the alley
 With long tall Sally
 Twistin' with Lucy
 Doin' the watusi.
ref: 1962, “Land of a Thousand Dances”, Chris Kenner (lyrics), performed by Chris Kenner:
glosses: A popular African-inspired dance of the 1960s, fueled by the success of the song The Wah-Watusi by The Orlons in 1962.
glosses: A Christmas firework popular in the Philippines, made with yellow phosphorus, potassium chlorate, potassium nitrate, and trinitrotoluene.
watusi
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: watusis
form: watusiing
form: watusied
form: watusied
Senses: examples: text: […] but in the middle of it all will be some preposterous, highly charged, not to mention boob-driven image of some chick watusiing away atop an oil rig.
ref: 2005, Jimmy McDonough, Big bosoms and square jaws: the biography of Russ Meyer, king of the sex film:
glosses: To dance the watusi.
watusis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of watusi
watusis
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of watusi
watusiing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of watusi
watusied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of watusi
big sleep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Apparently coined by novelist by Raymond Chandler, author of The Big Sleep (1939).
Senses: examples: text: What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that.
ref: 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 250:
text: Before I sink into the big sleep / I want to hear / The scream of the butterfly
ref: 1967, “When the Music’s Over”, in Strange Days, performed by The Doors:
synonyms: word: dirt nap
word: sleep of the just
word: death
word: celestial transfer
word: decease
word: decomposition
word: defunction
word: dematerialization
word: demise
word: dirt nap
word: doom
word: exit
word: expiration
word: fatality
word: liquidation
word: mortality
word: quietus
word: repose
word: sleep of the just
word: sunset
word: the big sleep
word: crash
word: downfall
word: fall
word: (the) bane
word: (the) end
qualifier: almost always preceded by the
glosses: Death.
wikipedia: The Big Sleep
carbon credit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbon credits
Senses: glosses: A certified carbon dioxide emission displacement credit, supposed to be equal to one tonne of carbon dioxide removed from the environment.
carbon credits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carbon credit
spazmo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spazmos
Senses: examples: text: RICK: Oh, come off it, Neil, you little swotty-pants. Just look at you, swotting away for teacher like a total spazmo. You're just an utter creep, really, aren't you?
ref: 1982, Rik Mayall, The Young Ones:
glosses: A stupid, incompetent or physically uncoordinated person
Related terms: spaz
spazmos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spazmo
Molotov cocktails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Molotov cocktail
Molotov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒlətɒv/
ipa: /ˈmɒlɒtɒv/
rhymes: -ɒv
Forms: form: Molotoff
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Мо́лотов (Mólotov).
Senses: examples: text: Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov was a Soviet politician and diplomat.
synonyms: Mollie
glosses: A transliteration of the Russian surname Молотов (Molotov)
Derived terms: Molotov breadbasket
Molotov cocktail
Molotov
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒlətɒv/
ipa: /ˈmɒlɒtɒv/
rhymes: -ɒv
Forms: form: Molotovs
form: Molotoff
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Мо́лотов (Mólotov).
Senses: glosses: A Molotov cocktail
Molotov
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒlətɒv/
ipa: /ˈmɒlɒtɒv/
rhymes: -ɒv
Forms: form: Molotovs
form: Molotoving
form: Molotoved
form: Molotoved
form: Molotoff
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Мо́лотов (Mólotov).
Senses: glosses: To throw a Molotov cocktail at someone or something.
Related terms: roman: mólot
english: hammer
translation: hammer
word: мо́лот
headaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headache
weekends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weekend
weekends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of weekend
weekends
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: At weekends.
suing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sue
suing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suings
Etymology: Compare French suer (“to sweat”).
Senses: examples: text: […] her husband's increased and more frequent storms of passion, unfollowed by any halcyon and honeymoon suings for forgiveness […]
ref: 1834, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Pilgrims of the Rhine:
glosses: The act of one who sues for something.
examples: text: In this instance, there is, upon the by, to be noted, the percolation or suing of the verjuice through the wood; for verjuice of itself would never have passed through the wood: so as, it seemeth, it must be first in a kind of vapour, before it pass.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: The process of soaking through anything.
planeteer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planeteers
Etymology: Blend of planet + volunteer or planet + -eer.
Senses: glosses: Someone who helps protect the environment.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
synonyms: spacer
glosses: Someone who makes interplanetary journeys.
raad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raden
Etymology: From Dutch raad (“counsel”), cognate with Middle English ræd (“counsel”).
Senses: glosses: An assembly in one of the Boer republics of South Africa.
raad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic رَعْد (raʕd, “thunder”).
Senses: examples: text: "It might reasonably be expected," says Sir J. Gardner Wilkinson, "that the raad, or electric fish of the Nile, would be one of the most sacred, and forbidden for food; and it seems not to be represented among those caught in the ancient fishing scenes." He adds regarding the raad:—"It is a small fish, and the one I saw measured little more than a foot long by four inches in depth, but it had the power of giving a very strong shock. It is the Melapterurus electricus, and may have been the ancient Latus."
ref: 1858, George Wilson, “On the electric fishes as the earliest electric machines employed by mankind”, in The Canadian Journal of Industry, Science and Art, volume 3:
glosses: The electric catfish.
boyfriends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boyfriend