cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Northmoor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English norþ (“north”) + mōr (“moor”).
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Bradworthy parish, Torridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS3016).
glosses: A village and civil parish in West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP4102).
glosses: A minor city in Platte County, Missouri, United States.
Related terms: Northmore
Foleys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Foley
garrison town
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garrison towns
Senses: examples: text: Hun-ch'un is essentially a garrison town, though there are a few dealers in seaweed, toadstools, and medicinal roots, large quantities of which are sent to Ninguta and Kirin, and thence to all parts of China.
ref: 1888, H. E. M. James, “Sansing to Ninguta and Hun-ch'un”, in The Long White Mountain or A Journey in Manchuria, Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 346:
glosses: A town in which the military is stationed.
Fernando de Noronha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /fəɹˈnæn.du di nəˈɹoʊn.hæ/
Senses: glosses: An archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean off the northeastern coast of, and belonging to, Brazil.
glosses: The largest island of the above archipelago.
glosses: A district of Pernambuco, Brazil, encompassing the Fernando de Noronha archipelago as well as the Saint Peter and Saint Paul Rocks further to the north-northeast.
sapour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sapours
Senses: examples: text: Yet ſome fountains are impaired; for paſſing through the bowels of the earth, they require aliene faculties, for they mutuate their odour or ſapour from the places through which they permeate.
ref: 1657, Joannes Renodæus [i.e., Jean de Renou], translated by Richard Tomlinson, “Of Water”, in A Medicinal Dispensatory, Containing the Whole Body of Physick: […], London: […] Jo[hn] Streater and Ja[mes] Cottrel, page 218:
text: Thus Heat and Cold, and other Qualities / Affect the Touch, whil’ſt Colours ſtrike the Eyes, / Odours the Smell, Sapours the Taſt, but none / Invades anothers right, uſurps his Throne, / All live at peace, contented with their own.
ref: 1682, T[itus] Lucretius Carus, translated by Thomas Creech, “The Fourth Book”, in T. Lucretius Carus the Epicurean Philosopher, His Six Books De Natura Rerum […], Oxford, Oxon: […] L[eonard] Lichfield, Printer to the University [f]or Anthony Stephens […], page 117:
text: I now pass on to consider, in the second place, the nature of the various kinds of sapours and odours which we find in our food.
ref: 1860 March 14, Ed[win] Lankester, “South Kensington Museum, […]. On the Flavour of Food, […]. Condiments and Spices.”, in William Crookes, editor, The Chemical News: […], volume I, number 16, London: C[harles] Mitchell and Co., […], published 24 March 1860, page 185, column 1:
glosses: Alternative spelling of sapor.
sapours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sapour
Knott End-on-Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Knott End
glosses: A large coastal village in Preesall parish, Wyre borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD3548).
Edin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Shortened form of Edinburgh taking all the letters of the first syllable and the first consonant of the second syllable.
Senses: glosses: University of Edinburgh, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.
raw_tags: after a qualification
Knott End
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Recorded as Cnote in the 13th century (Middle English knot (“a hillock”)). The spelling Knot-End was used in the 19th century (see quotation).
Senses: examples: text: The Garstang & Knot-End Railway was incorporated by an Act of June 30, 1864, to construct a line from the Lancaster & Preston Junction Railway (afterwards the L.N.W.R.) to Knott End, a distance of 11¾ miles. [...] From Pilling to Knot-End (then spelled thus) there was a grass-grown half-completed railway, and eventually a new company called the Knott End Railway Company was incorporated in 1898 to complete this.
ref: 1942 May-June, “The Why and the Wherefore: The Knott End Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 191:
glosses: Ellipsis of Knott End-on-Sea: a large coastal village in Preesall parish, Wyre borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD3548).
Preesall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cumbric *pres (“bush”) + Old English hǫfuð (“head”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (with a town council) in Wyre borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD3647).
Qormi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and local council of the Southern Region, Malta.
glosses: A dialect of the Maltese language spoken around this city.
Dépor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Galician Dépor (short for Deportivo).
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
synonyms: Deportivo
glosses: Deportivo La Coruña, a football club from A Coruña
stray dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stray dog
superqueeroes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superqueero
tenderqueers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenderqueer
queercrips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of queercrip
cts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ct
Sayantan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Bengali সায়ন্তন (śaẏonton).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit.
Ottleys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ottley
owe it to oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: owes it to oneself
form: owing it to oneself
form: owed it to oneself
form: owed it to oneself
Senses: examples: text: You owe it to yourself to take a break and relax.
glosses: For it to be necessary for one (to do something) in order to advance one's one interests; to deserve.
doctors' offices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doctors’ offices
Senses: glosses: plural of doctor's office
Otleys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Otley
line of business
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lines of business
Senses: glosses: A product or a set of related products that serve a particular customer transaction or business need.
Related terms: line of work
leprosarias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leprosaria
leprosariae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leprosaria
Yudin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yudins
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Юдин (Judin).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Russian.
micro-management
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of micromanagement.
de novo lipogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: de novo lipogenesises
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of lipogenesis.
synonyms: word: lipogenesis
Mussenden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mussendens
Senses: glosses: A surname.
CPIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CPI
macronym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæk.ɹə.nɪm/
rhymes: -ækɹənɪm
Forms: form: macronyms
Etymology: Blend of macro + acronym
Senses: glosses: An acronym having a letter that stands for another acronym.
Related terms: recursive acronym
macronyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macronym
macronutrition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From macro- + nutrition.
Senses: glosses: The science of macronutrients.
unhearingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unhearing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without hearing.
draftproofs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of draftproof
draftproofed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of draftproof
Chevvies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chevvie
glosses: plural of Chevvy
vindalu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated form of vindaloo.
spin-top
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spin-tops
Senses: glosses: Synonym of spinning top.
synonyms: word: spinning top
spin-tops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spin-top
Gaagudju
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Kakadu
glosses: An Australian Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory.
Gaagudju
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the languages spoken by these people.
skiplagging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Airlines do not like skiplagging because it costs them money.
ref: 2023 November 24, “Skiplagging: Why some flyers love it and why airlines hate it”, in CNN:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The practice of disembarking at a "hidden city" rather than continuing to one's ticketed destination, in order to save money on the airfare.
skiplagging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of skiplag
throw-boards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of throw-board
throw boards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of throw board
throwaway ticketing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The purchase of a ticket with the intent to use only a portion of the included travel, in order to save on airfare.
choplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more choplike
form: most choplike
Etymology: From chop + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a chop (cut of meat).
pipey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pipey
form: most pipey
Senses: examples: text: The pipey sound was an embarrassment. She needed one of those klaxons the big-rig drivers were always leaning on when they wanted to blow her and her little RV out of the way.
ref: 2013, Hugh McShane, Christopher Gallegos, Queens Wild:
glosses: Alternative form of pipy.
autoimitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoimitations
Etymology: From auto- + imitation.
Senses: examples: text: Thiemich mentions cases of hysteria in children in which the symptoms of a preceding organic affection are continued by autoimitation long after the original condition has returned to normal.
ref: 1908, Archives of Pediatrics, page 96:
text: The essential process is the copying of one's own action and not the action of some one else. It is thus seen that all imitation is of the reflex type, and fundamentally all imitation is autoimitation.
ref: 1923, Frederick Elmer Bolton, Everyday Psychology for Teachers, page 218:
text: Imitation and autoimitation are certain forms of behaviour, and hence imitationism is a proposal to reduce inner experience (introspection) to external experience (extraspection) via a translation of psychological statements into sentences about corresponding imitations or autoimitations; […]
ref: 2012, Jan Wolenski, Logic and Philosophy in the Lvov—Warsaw School, page 230:
glosses: The imitation of oneself.
imitation laces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imitation lace
imitationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From imitational + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of, or by means of, imitation.
autoimitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autoimitation
Claudine collar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Claudine collars
Etymology: Named after the title character of Colette's 1900 novel Claudine à l'école, who was described as wearing it.
Senses: glosses: A kind of round collar for a blouse.
Claudine collars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Claudine collar
Tiociu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Indonesian Tiociu, from Teochew 潮州 (dio5 ziu1).
Senses: examples: text: It is not easy to decide from which dialect of Chinese some of the loanwords derive, and this may explain why Philip Leo does not list any as coming from Hainanese nor Tiociu.
ref: 1984, NUSA: Linguistic Studies in Indonesian and Languages in Indonesia, volume 19, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 21, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of Teochew.
Zeno machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zeno machines
Etymology: Named in reference to Zeno's paradoxes.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A hypothetical computational model, related to Turing machines, that would be capable of carrying out computations involving a countably infinite number of algorithmic steps.
Zeno machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zeno machine
age regressor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: age regressors
Senses: examples: text: “Little spaces” are safe spaces for age regressors and are usually the spot their little selves to go to when they need to feel protected while regressing.
ref: 2022, Dr. Sumit Goel, I Wanna Grow Up Once Again:
synonyms: re
;
little#Noun
coordinate_terms: caregiver
CG
glosses: One who undergoes age regression.
Related terms: age regress
age regression
Ross-Littlewood paradox
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Ross-Littlewood paradox
Etymology: The problem was originally described by mathematician John E. Littlewood in his 1953 book Littlewood's Miscellany, and later expanded upon by Sheldon Ross in his 1988 book A First Course in Probability.
Senses: glosses: A hypothetical problem dealing with the notion of infinity. Given an empty vase and an infinite supply of balls, an infinite number of steps are performed, such that at each step 10 balls are added to the vase and one ball removed from it. The question is then posed: how many balls are in the vase when the task is finished?
adult survivor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adult survivors
Senses: glosses: A survivor of child sexual abuse who is now an adult.
age regressors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of age regressor
age sets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of age set
Zeno's paradox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zeno's paradoxes
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Any of a set of philosophical problems generally thought to have been devised by the Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea (c. 490–430 BC) to support Parmenides' doctrine that, contrary to the evidence of one's senses, the belief in plurality and change is mistaken, and in particular that motion is nothing but an illusion.
Related terms: Zeno machine
Zeno's paradoxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zeno's paradox
Benardete's paradox
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Formulated by J. A. Benardete.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A philosophical problem whereby a man intends to walk a mile from a particular point, but an infinity of gods separately plan to obstruct him. One of them will raise a barrier to stop his further advance if he reaches the half-mile point, a second if he reaches the quarter-mile point, a third if he goes one-eighth of a mile, and so on ad infinitum. The paradox involves the fact that (i) the man cannot begin walking, because a barrier will stop him even at the shortest distance, but (ii) if he does not begin walking, no barrier will rise.
Related terms: Grim Reaper paradox
howsever
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of howsoever.
Kriat HaTorah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kriot HaTorah
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew קְרִיאַת הַתּוֹרָה.
Senses: examples: text: Seligman Baer also stipulated that the verse is to be said while the cover of the Torah scroll is folded after Keri'at Hatorah.
ref: 1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 223:
glosses: The act or ceremony of reading the Torah.
gelilah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gelila
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew גְּלִילָה (glilá).
Senses: examples: text: It is suggested that the Tallit be worn when saying Kaddish at the prayer desk, when one receives an Aliyah, at Minhah on a fast day, when one removes the Torah scroll from the ark, when one is honored with Hagbahah or Gelilah, or if one serves as an assistant.
ref: 1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 220:
glosses: The act or ceremony of scrolling the Torah back up after reading it.
Related terms: hagbahah
magbiah
Grim Reaper paradox
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Grim Reaper paradox
Senses: glosses: A philosophical problem related to Benardete's paradox, but involving countably many Grim Reapers, each of which will kill the person in question at a certain time (if still alive), taking a certain period of time to do it.
agricultural surpluses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agricultural surplus
tefillah shel yad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tefillin shel yad
Senses: examples: text: If a person is left-handed, however, then the right hand is weaker and the Tefillah shel yad is placed on that hand.
ref: 1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 217:
glosses: A leather strap wrapped around the hand as part of tefillin.
Sefirat Ha'Omer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Transliteration of Hebrew סְפִירַת הָעוֹמֶר
Senses: examples: text: The forty-nine words in the psalm also correspond to the seven days of Sefirat Ha'omer and the seven verses in the psalm correspond to the seven weeks one counts the Omer.
ref: 1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 208:
glosses: The counting of the Omer; the ritual of stating the specific day of the Omer.
Synonyms: counting of the Omer
sefiras haomer
sefirah
sefira
omer
unengage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unengages
form: unengaging
form: unengaged
form: unengaged
Etymology: From un- + engage.
Senses: examples: text: Well, now she had to unengage herself, and she wasn't looking forward to the process.
ref: 2013, Cathy Williams, The Notorious Gabriel Diaz, page 131:
text: How the heck do you unengage the girl you're dating so that one day you can ask her again...probably, maybe? None of these thoughts occurred to me when I fell down on bended knee the first time.
ref: 2018, Piper Rayne, Engaged to the EMT:
glosses: To rid of a marriage engagement.
unengages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unengage
quadratic surd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadratic surds
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An irrational number that is the solution of a quadratic equation of the form ax²+bx+c=0, where a, b, and c are integers and a ≠ 0.
dry weights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dry weight
draftage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From draft + -age, from draft (“quantity”).
Senses: examples: text: Payment for ores and concentrates, etc. — A deduction of 1 per cent. is made from the net dry weight of all fine materials as draftage.
ref: 1949, Australia. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, The Australian Mineral Industry: Economic Notes and Statistics, page 82:
glosses: A fee charged on a small proportion of the dry weight of certain types of goods being shipped.
Bitching Betty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Referring to the female voice used in such recordings.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A voice warning system in an aircraft.
radical vinegar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: acetic acid
Tesnièrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Tesnièrian
form: most Tesnièrian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tesnièrean.
Tesnièrean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Tesnièrean
form: most Tesnièrean
form: Tesnièrian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Lucien Tesnière (1893–1954), influential French linguist.
circumstants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circumstant
angel food cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angel food cakes
form: angel-food cake
form: angel's food cake
form: angel's-food cake
Etymology: From its light and fluffy texture, which is said to be “so light that angels could eat it and still fly without being weighted down”.
Senses: synonyms: angel cake
angel food
glosses: A type of light sponge cake which originated in the United States, made with whipped egg whites (which give it an aerated texture), flour, and sugar, without butter.
Related terms: english: a layer cake of sponge (made with butter) coloured white, pink and yellow, from Britain
translation: a layer cake of sponge (made with butter) coloured white, pink and yellow, from Britain
word: angel cake
word: devil's food cake
carinates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carinate
glaucose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more glaucose
form: most glaucose
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of glaucous.
constabularie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: constabularies
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of constabulary.
constabular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: So with the man who should essay to enact the constable without regular induction into the constabular office, and the lay reader who should essay to enact the priest, without regular induction into the priestly office […]
ref: 1841, The Newchurchman, volume 1, number 2, page 146:
glosses: Obsolete form of constabulary.
Newchurchman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Newchurchmen
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A member of the New Church; a Swedenborgian.
Newchurchmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Newchurchman
angel food
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angel foods
Senses: examples: text: The most gorgeous of angel foods. And yet so simple and sure, anyone can do it. Complete — All ingredients, including eggs, are in the package. No eggs to separate. No yolks left over. The package contains more than a dozen egg whites[…]
ref: 1952 September 15, “LIFE”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 63:
text: (7) Common Angel Food Faults […] (b) Shrinkage After Baking. Shrinkage after baking may be caused by one of the following: 1. Overbaking the angel food or baking in too cool an oven will cause excessive dehydration. 2. Underbaking or too hot an oven will cause excessive moisture to be entrapped in cake and insufficient setting of structure.
ref: 1962, United States Supplies and Accounts Bureau, Baking Handbook, page 6:
text: up Through the years it had taxed her ingenuity to use these yolks, for Antha was always whipping up angel foods. Mama made jars of salad dressing and all varieties of yellow cake and custards, not to mention a supper dish called[…]
ref: 1998, Madeline Babcock Smith, The Lemon Jelly Cake, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 51:
text: Angel Food or “angel cake” is thought to be a takeoff of the cornstarch cake and the sponge cake. There are several theories on who originated [it].
ref: 2003 June 1, Dawn Marie Schrandt, Just Me Cookin Cakes, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 1:
text: Right that afternoon she took me to her kitchen and there my cake career began, when she began telling me many things about angel foods that I should remember. "The first afternoon I did not do a thing but watch."
ref: 2011 March 24, Kari Cornell, Melinda Keefe, The Best of The Farmer's Wife Cookbook: Over 400 Blue-ribbon Recipes!, Voyageur Press (MN), →ISBN, page 216:
text: The technique for making angel food cupcakes and chiffon cupcakes illustrates another type of mixing. Angel food cupcakes have no leavening and depend on well-beaten egg whites for their light texture. For chiffon cupcakes,[…]
ref: 2011 June 24, Elinor Klivans, Cupcakes!, Chronicle Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Angel food cake, a type of sponge cake made with beaten egg whites and without butter.
examples: text: Rugs were laid out covering the grass in Archangel Grace's private garden and all sorts of delicious angel foods were piled high — cloudberry biscuits, honey sandwiches, towers of rainbow jelly and big jugs of star fruit lemonade.
ref: 2013 August 1, Michelle Misra, Angel Wings: Secrets and Sapphires, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see angel, food.
angel foods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angel food
treatied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From treaty + -ed.
Senses: antonyms: untreatied
glosses: Made the subject of a treaty.
angel food cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angel food cake
tootie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tooties
Senses: glosses: A barbiturate.
tooties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tootie
Flexers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Flexer
flexer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɛksə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈflɛksə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: flexers
Etymology: From flex + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Muscle flexers and weight lifters have been given academic approval by a University of California scientist.
ref: 1963, Popular Mechanics, volume 119, number 4, page 80:
glosses: One who flexes something physically.
glosses: One who flaunts or shows off.
qualifier: social media
glosses: Diminutive of influencer.
flexers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flexer
dinosaur-burner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dinosaur-burners
Etymology: Joculary referring to the origins of fossil fuels.
Senses: glosses: An automobile that operates on fossil fuels, as opposed to an electric car.
Synonyms: fossil car
Related terms: dinosaur juice
battle jacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battle jackets
Senses: synonyms: battle vest
patch jacket
patch vest
cut-off
glosses: A sleeveless jacket originating in the US military, now popular in motorcycling, metal and punk subcultures.
Lisowczyk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lisowczyks
form: Lisowczycy
Senses: synonyms: word: elears
glosses: A member of the Polish cavalry assembled by Aleksander Józef Lisowski.
elears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish elearzy, from Hungarian előharcos (literally “leading warrior”), from elő- (“leading”) + harcos (“warrior”); or from előjáró, an alternative form of elöljáró (“superior”).
Senses: glosses: The Lisowczyks (Polish cavalry assembled by Lisowski).
Lisowczyks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lisowczyk
Lisowczycy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lisowczyk
undiked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of undyked.
apocrenate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apocrenates
Etymology: From apo- + crenate.
Senses: examples: text: The contact of the air causes the water to deposit an ochreous, brown precipitate, which contains the basic crenate of the peroxide of iron, together with the apocrenate.
ref: 1835, The American Journal of Science, volume 28, page 122:
text: The apocrenates of iron and manganese are slightly soluble; those of lime, magnesia and alumina are insoluble.
ref: 1875, Journal of the Bath and West of England Society and Southern Counties Association for the Encouragement of Agriculture, Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, volumes 7-8, page 133:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt of apocrenic acid (C₂₁H₁₂O₁₂).
apocrenates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apocrenate
unnumerical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unnumerical
form: most unnumerical
Etymology: From un- + numerical.
Senses: glosses: Not numerical.
unordinarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unordinarily
form: most unordinarily
Etymology: From unordinary + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unordinary manner.
unpacifist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpacifist
form: most unpacifist
Etymology: From un- + pacifist.
Senses: examples: text: By mid-1918 the idea of a work strike, which had seemed so radical and unpacifist the year before, was considered too mild a form of resistance by some prisoners.
ref: 1981, Thomas C. Kennedy, The Hound of Conscience, page 254:
glosses: Not pacifist.
unpacifiably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unpacifiable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Oh dear, is that your baby getting unpacifiably hysterical just as you're ready to create an amazing decoupage masterpiece? Don't be alarmed. Babies are just like us; they have their good days and their bad.
ref: 2008, Abby Pecoriello, Crafty Mama, page 13:
glosses: Such that it cannot be pacified.
Psychean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /saɪˈkiːən/
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the Greek god Psyche.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the asteroid (16) Psyche.
unpalatalizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + palatalizable.
Senses: glosses: Not palatalizable.
palatalizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From palatalize + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be palatalized.
Derived terms: unpalatalizable
labializable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From labialize + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be labialized.
unorthographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unorthographic
form: most unorthographic
Etymology: From un- + orthographic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of unorthographical.
synonyms: word: unorthographical
unorthographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unorthographically
form: most unorthographically
Senses: glosses: In an unorthographical manner.
unlabialized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + labialized.
Senses: glosses: Not labialized.
unperiodical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + periodical.
Senses: glosses: Not periodical.
unpredisposing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpredisposing
form: most unpredisposing
Etymology: From un- + predisposing.
Senses: glosses: That does not predispose.
unquailed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + quailed.
Senses: glosses: Not daunted or frightened.
examples: unquailed fruit
glosses: Not withered.
unspring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unsprings
form: unspringing
form: unsprang
form: unsprung
form: unsprung
Etymology: From un- + spring.
Senses: examples: text: There was a click and the unspringing of a latch.
ref: 2010, Elizabeth Mirabel Sain, Gift with Purchase:
glosses: To release or be released by means of a spring.
examples: text: to unspring a trap
glosses: To undo the springing of (a mechanism).
unsprings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unspring
unsprang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of unspring
unspringing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unspring
unsweetly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unsweetly
form: most unsweetly
Etymology: From unsweet + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unsweet manner.
untemporal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + temporal.
Senses: glosses: Not temporal.
untemporary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + temporary.
Senses: examples: text: That kind of “escapism” seems to them to be dangerously untemporary, even though the reader must still return through the portal that is the book.
ref: 2009, Brian Stableford, The A to Z of Fantasy Literature, page lvii:
glosses: Not temporary.
untaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untaking
form: most untaking
Etymology: From un- + taking.
Senses: examples: text: "Isabella, I am sure you must know what I mean. When persons are tired of taking people—"
"Then they take to untaking ones," exclaimed Anna, laughing.
ref: 1856, Elizabeth Sewell, Ivors:
glosses: Not taking; not alluring or appealing.
untight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untight
form: most untight
Etymology: From un- + tight.
Senses: examples: text: The seams and joints of the machine giving way, and the heat of the smoke making the doors, before well closed, untight, […]
ref: 1818, The London Medical, Surgical, and Pharmaceutical Repository, page 73:
glosses: Not tight or narrow; allowing something to pass or escape through it.
untilt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: untilts
form: untilting
form: untilted
form: untilted
Etymology: From un- + tilt.
Senses: examples: text: This giveaway allows astronomers to "untilt" the orbit and calculate its true dimensions.
ref: 1982, Howard S. Goldberg, Michael D. Scadron, Physics of Stellar Evolution and Cosmology, page 106:
glosses: To restore to its original orientation, from a tilted orientation.
untilts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of untilt
untilting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of untilt
untidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + tidal.
Senses: examples: text: […] held that the rights of riparian proprietors on tidal and untidal rivers were the same, […]
ref: 1876, Charles James Gale, William Henry Willes, David Gibbons, A Treatise on the Law of Easements, page 229:
glosses: Not tidal.
untitular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + titular.
Senses: examples: text: A year later Lipsky himself was voted out of power, and he proceeded to prove his point by remaining, for many years, the untitular leader of American Zionism.
ref: Meyer Wolfe Weisgal, Meyer Weisgal ... So Far: An Autobiography (page 88)
glosses: Not titular.
untransitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + transitive.
Senses: examples: text: The attempt at a fundamental structural relation between transitive and untransitive verbs yields the following structural relations based on mereological features […]
ref: 2010, Patrick Brandt, Marco Garcia García, Transitivity: Form, Meaning, Acquisition, and Processing, page 32:
glosses: Not transitive.
it's easier to ask forgiveness than to get permission
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of it's better to ask forgiveness than permission.
unthoughted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unthoughted
form: most unthoughted
Etymology: From un- + thought + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Not thought out in advance; spontaneous.
stupidicy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stupidicies
Etymology: From stupid + -i- + -cy.
Senses: examples: text: Please everyone out there, this idiot obvisioulsy used to be a Liverpool fan, judging by what he knows about football (ie nothing) so please don't criticise Spurs for his stupidicy...
ref: 1994 March 7, Muttley, “Tottenham Hotspur F.C.”, in rec.sport.soccer (Usenet), retrieved 10 Apr 2022:
text: The swamp gas theory isn't the only info. you're just trying to distort the facts. Swamp gas may be part of the explanation, Venus is another one. Hallucinations, "wishing", stupidicy, misunderstandings. etc can explain quite a few others. Isn't true that some 90% of the UFO sitings can be explained? (I've read this figure, somewhere :-)
ref: 1996 April 17, Marcus Hast, “CIA has shills on usenet/A few posing as "UFO Debunkers!"”, in alt.paranet.science (Usenet), retrieved 10 Apr 2022:
text: ITS THAT TYPE OF STUPIDICY, THAT HAS NO PLACE IN THE REAL WORLD.
ref: 2000 July 30, Jim...@webtv.net, “Alien Agenda”, in alt.alien.research (Usenet), retrieved 10 Apr 2022:
text: The site I'm thinking of only did one Dumbass of the Month that I remember, and that was for G1 Megatron. They went on to explain his legacy of stupidicy and informed us how BW/BM Megatron was the true genius.
ref: 2001 December 26, christopher n denner, “Need help finding another site...”, in alt.toys.transformers (Usenet), retrieved 10 Apr 2022:
text: Pedo, you are truly showing your stupidicy here. 10/3 is just what it say: 3 ten-gage conductors.
ref: 2003 April 20, Oscar_lives, “York Stealth Heat Pump”, in alt.hvac (Usenet), retrieved 10 Apr 2022:
glosses: Stupidity.
examples: text: With regards to the Satmar 'Rav': yes, I've read his 'sefer' (Va'Yohel Moshe), and I have doubts if I should call it a sefer. There are without exaggeration over 100 misquotes and stupidicies mentioned in that book. There are about 5 seferim written specifically to refute the shtoot (shtus) loaded in that book. In other words, don't look to the Satmar Rav for comment on Israel.
ref: 1984 May 13, Eli Posner, “Yom �Ha'atzmaut (Correction)”, in net.religion.jewish (Usenet), retrieved 10 Apr 2022:
text: Why do you say stupidicies Karandash2?
ref: 2007 August 9, Juan R., “Flat Spacetime Theories that are Empirically Indistinguishable from General Relativity”, in sci.math (Usenet), retrieved 10 Apr 2022:
text: Will be Dono stupidicies of last weeks listed in your immortal fumbles page. Or is that too honest for you Dirk :-)?
ref: 2008 March 17, Lady Chacha, “GR THEORY IS NOT EVEN FALSE!”, in sci.physics.relativity (Usenet), retrieved 10 Apr 2022:
glosses: A stupid statement or action.
Samusky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Samuskies
form: Samsky
Etymology: Blend of Samoyed + Husky
Senses: glosses: A mixed breed dog that is a cross between the Samoyed and Siberian Husky.
Related terms: Goberian
Horgi
Labsky
stupidicies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stupidicy
pipe spool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pipe spools
Senses: glosses: A prefabricated portion of pipework and fittings, for ease of installation.
pipe spools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pipe spool
pipe tomahawks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pipe tomahawk
kynology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cynology.
Samuskies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Samusky
untramped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + tramped.
Senses: examples: untramped cotton
glosses: Not tramped; not cleansed by tramping.
tramp art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A style of American woodwork of the late 19th century, typified by simple tools, reuse of wood from other sources, chip or notch carving, and the layering of materials into geometric shapes using glue or nails.
Related terms: crown of thorns
untrice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: untrices
form: untricing
form: untriced
form: untriced
Etymology: From un- + trice.
Senses: examples: text: Then ordering the boy of the mess to untrice his hammock, and staggering towards it, after several attempts he succeeded in springing into it from a chest, […]
ref: 1847, John Ross Dix, Jack Ariel, Or, Life on Board an Indiaman, volume 1, page 83:
text: I walked forward and untriced the bowsprit dolphin-striker, to get ready for sailing.
ref: 1996, Tristan Jones, A Steady Trade: A Boyhood at Sea, page 249:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To release something previously triced, i.e., hoisted and tied up.
untriced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of untrice
untrices
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of untrice
untricing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of untrice
untruther
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: untruthers
Etymology: From untruth + -er.
Senses: examples: text: 'You are an untruther,' I replied, getting roused; […]
ref: 1889, Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat […] :
text: Let us hope that the writer has never visited Siberia; that he is, to use an Americanism, an unconscious "untruther," for there is not a quicksilver mine in the country!
ref: 1892, Harry De Windt, Siberia as it is, page 244:
glosses: An untruthful person; a liar.
untruthers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of untruther
unwearing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + wearing.
Senses: examples: text: There is an unfailing charm about his novels, an unwearing freshness.
ref: 1894, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 89, number 534, page 787:
text: […] he little knew what strength, a great, moral effort, a stern, unbending will, and an unwearing faith, will impart, even to one so young as that heroic girl, […]
ref: 1851, Snow Drop: Juvenile Magazine, volume 1, page 294:
glosses: That does not erode; durable; lasting.
unwavered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + wavered.
Senses: examples: text: How still the air within this forest brown; / So still, you hear the snow fall through the trees, / And on the yellow leaves beneath them strown; / And thick it falls, unwavered by the breeze, […]
ref: 1845, William Wilberforce, Poems, page 129:
glosses: Not made to waver.
Wilberforcean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Wilberforcean
form: most Wilberforcean
Etymology: From Wilberforce + -ean.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to William Wilberforce (1759–1833), British politician, philanthropist and leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade.
salpingoophorectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salpingoophorectomy
unwhip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unwhips
form: unwhipping
form: unwhipped
form: unwhipped
Etymology: From un- + whip.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To unbind the end of a rope that was previously whipped or bound up to prevent its unlaying.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To become unbound in this way.
unwhipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unwhip
unwhips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unwhip
unwoolly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unwoolly
form: most unwoolly
Etymology: From un- + woolly.
Senses: glosses: Not woolly.
unwooly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unwooly
form: most unwooly
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unwoolly.
buckwheatlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more buckwheatlike
form: most buckwheatlike
Etymology: From buckwheat + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The rather small, compounded cymes of usually pinkish flowers appear from June to October, the buckwheatlike fruits maturing and disseminating from September to November.
ref: 1931, William Adams Dayton, Important Western Browse Plants, page 27:
text: Erect knotweed (Polygonum erectum) has a buckwheatlike grain that seems to have undergone selection for size and for reduction of the numbers of thick-walled fruits produced on the same plants as fruits with thin pericarps […]
ref: 2001, Paul E. Minnis, Wayne J. Elisens, Biodiversity and Native America, page 230:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of buckwheat.
filletlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more filletlike
form: most filletlike
Etymology: From fillet + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The lids are represented as filletlike lines and are of equal thickness.
ref: 2020, Faya Causey, Ancient Carved Ambers in the J. Paul Getty Museum, page 162:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a fillet.
flashlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flashlike
form: most flashlike
Etymology: From flash + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a flash.
fossillike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fossillike
form: most fossillike
Etymology: From fossil + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a fossil.
funnellike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more funnellike
form: most funnellike
Etymology: From funnel + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a funnel.
flaillike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flaillike
form: most flaillike
Etymology: From flail + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a flail.
gobylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gobylike
form: most gobylike
Etymology: From goby + -like.
Senses: examples: text: A large, scaleless gobylike fish with a big head and two well-separated dorsal fins, the first with six flexible spines and the second with 9–10 soft rays; […]
ref: 1997, Jack Stein Grove, Robert J. Lavenberg, The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands, page 548:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a goby (fish).
goodlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more goodlike
form: most goodlike
Senses: examples: text: George Whitehead, who knew him, gives the following account of Robert Hayes: 'He was a very innocent loving man, a goodlike person, of a fresh comely countenance, seemed healthy, and in the prime of his strength when first imprisoned. […]
ref: Quoted in 1833, Luke Howard, The Yorkshireman, a religious and literary journal (page 184)
glosses: well-favoured; handsome
centromeral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From centromere + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to centromeres; centromeric.
line drawn in water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lines drawn in water
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of line drawn on water.
lines drawn in water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of line drawn in water
jockeylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jockeylike
form: most jockeylike
Etymology: From jockey + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a jockey (rider of racehorses).
landlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more landlike
form: most landlike
Etymology: From land + -like.
Senses: examples: April 16 1804, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, letter to Robert Southey
This, though occasioned by the impurity of the nigh shore and the disemboguing rivers, forms a home scene; it is warm and landlike.
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of land.
lotuslike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lotuslike
form: most lotuslike
Etymology: From lotus + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a lotus.
naturelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more naturelike
form: most naturelike
Etymology: From nature + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of nature.
puddlelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more puddlelike
form: most puddlelike
Etymology: From puddle + -like.
Senses: examples: text: What's left of it nowadays is a puddlelike remnant a mere 10 percent of its former grandiose self, with a shoreline some six hundred feet lower than it was. We call this the Great Salt Lake.
ref: 1994, Diana Kappel-Smith, Desert Time: A Journey Through the American Southwest, page 207:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a puddle.
shorelined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From shoreline + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: La Croix is a wild lake, rimmed with rolling rock and shorelined with pines.
ref: 1938, The Minnesota Conservationist, volumes 53-69, page 24:
glosses: Having a shoreline.