cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
embaled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of embale
embaling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of embale
triumphers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triumpher
intercluding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of interclude
intercluded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of interclude
thicksets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thickset
archilute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archilutes
Etymology: From Italian archileuto. Compare French archiluth, Italian arciliuto.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of archlute.
archilutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archilute
Kureishian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Kureishian
form: most Kureishian
Etymology: From Kureishi + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: […] it is his thirst for knowledge and narrative propensity that distinguishes him as a typical Kureishian intellectual.
ref: 2006, Esterino Adami, Rushdie, Kureishi, Syal: essays in diaspora:
text: There have been similar complaints about The Body, whose introspective, typically Kureishian first-person narrative is at odds with its superficial air of futuristic speculation.
ref: 2007, Bradley Buchanan, Hanif Kureishi:
glosses: Of or relating to Hanif Kureishi (born 1954), English author and playwright with South Asian ancestry, often dealing with themes of race and sexuality.
Smartian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Smartian
form: most Smartian
Etymology: From Smart + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Christopher Smart (1722–1771), English poet.
Macphersonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Macphersonian
form: most Macphersonian
Etymology: From Macpherson + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to James Macpherson (1736–1796), Scottish poet.
Chattertonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Chattertonian
form: most Chattertonian
Etymology: From Chatterton + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Thomas Chatterton (1752–1770), English poet.
Blakean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Blakean
form: most Blakean
Etymology: From Blake + -an.
Senses: examples: text: I’m not sure what to call [Jimmy] Miles’s austere and evacuated style. Some kind of Blakean radical simplicity?
ref: 2011 July 28, Terry Castle, “Do I like it?”, in London Review of Books, volume 33, number 15, →ISSN:
glosses: Of or relating to William Blake (1757–1827), English poet and painter.
Blakean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Blakeans
Etymology: From Blake + -an.
Senses: glosses: A scholar of William Blake.
aphasy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated form of aphasia.
down-share
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: down-shares
Senses: glosses: A breastplough used in paring off turf on downs.
down-shares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of down-share
enneandrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having nine stamens.
unalumed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + alumed.
Senses: glosses: Not treated with alum.
aluming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of alum
aluming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alumings
Senses: glosses: The treatment of a material with a solution of alum
alumed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of alum
N-ray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: N-rays
Etymology: Compare X-ray. N stands for the University of Nancy in France, where the supposed discovery was made.
Senses: glosses: A discredited hypothetical form of radiation described in 1903.
book deal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: book deals
Senses: examples: text: If an original screenplay is commissioned by a producer, or written on spec by a writer and then purchased by a producer, there may be an effort to make a book deal before a financier-distributor gets involved.
ref: 2004, Jason E. Squire, The Movie Business Book, Third Edition, page 93:
text: Dominick Dunne would arrive on the scene for an exclusive interview in Vanity Fair. Could a book deal be far behind?
ref: 2008, Mickey Sherman, How Can You Defend Those People?, page 148:
glosses: An agreement between a publisher and an author, by which the author agrees to write a certain number of books to be published by the publisher.
examples: text: He is guarded with the details of his upbringing because he thinks that he will be able to turn them into cash at some later date with a book deal.
ref: 1998, Ken Dornstein, Accidentally, on Purpose: The Making of a Personal Injury Underworld in America, page 361:
text: Some even had book deals and movie producers sniffing around to secure rights to their stories.
ref: 2003, Jessica Weiner, A very hungry girl: how I filled up on life--and how you can, too!, page 151:
text: Strangely enough Monica had been having trouble reaching an agreement with an American publisher for a book deal. A lot of publishers felt her story had already been told in The Starr Report. But on November 16, 1998, it was announced that Monica Lewinsky would be telling her story to Andrew Morton, the British author who in 1992 had collaborated with Princess Diana on a best-selling book about her unhappy marriage.
ref: 2008, Barbara Walters, Audition: A Memoir, page 534:
glosses: An agreement between a publisher and one or more individuals to permit the publisher to publish a book, typically written by a different author, about events in the life of the individuals.
plea deal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plea deals
Senses: examples: text: [Jeffrey Epstein] avoided federal charges due to a controversial plea deal that saw him jailed for just under 13 months.
ref: 2025 July 19, David Smith, “‘The ghost of Epstein is haunting Trump’s presidency’: inside the ‘Maga’ revolt”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: law
glosses: A plea bargain.
plea deals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plea deal
lappeted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lappet
lappeted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having one or more lappets.
lappeting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lappet
book deals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of book deal
urbaniser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urbanisers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of urbanizer.
trade deal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trade deals
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: An agreement between two or more countries, often in the form of a treaty, establishing the conditions under which products from each country may be exported to the other.
unpainterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpainterly
form: most unpainterly
Etymology: From un- + painterly.
Senses: examples: text: Long rows of uniform windowpanes are not unpainterly in themselves, the only question is how they are seen. One observer sees only the lines and right angles; for the other, the main thing is the surfaces vibrating with a most stimulating effect […]
ref: 1932, Heinrich Wölfflin, Principles of Art History, page 68:
glosses: Not painterly.
trade deals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trade deal
unstabilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unstabilizes
form: unstabilizing
form: unstabilized
form: unstabilized
Senses: glosses: To make unstable; destabilize.
unstabilizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unstabilize
unstabilizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unstabilize
servantage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From servant + -age.
Senses: examples: text: Through it all has moved a mumbling, bent old man who has been the loving guardian of the household for two generations, one of those rare and ancient servants who, by sheer servility, have lifted themselves out of servantage[…]
ref: 1922, Kenneth Macgowan, Robert Edmond Jones, Continental stagecraft:
glosses: The rank or position of servant.
examples: text: The kitchen staff, man and boy, and the entire servantage in all its forms and both its sexes, were to be ready at half-past eleven to troop down to Gormenghast Lake, where the trees would be in readiness for them.
ref: 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:
glosses: Servants, generally or collectively.
undrainable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undrainable
form: most undrainable
Etymology: From un- + drainable.
Senses: examples: text: an undrainable pond
text: It was as though it [the rain] defied the Castle's inmost faith; taunted it with a dull, ignorant descent of blasphemy, as though the undrainable clouds were muttering: 'What is an Earling to us? It is immaterial.'
ref: 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:
glosses: That cannot be drained.
insertings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inserting
deperdits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Late Latin deperditum, from Latin deperditus, past participle of deperdere.
Senses: examples: text: […] we might have nations of human beings without nails upon their fingers, with more or fewer fingers and toes than ten... No reason can be given why, if these deperdits ever existed, they have now disappeared.
ref: 1802, William Paley, Natural Theology or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, chapter 5, objection #4:
glosses: Things lost or destroyed.
undissuaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + dissuaded.
Senses: glosses: Not dissuaded.
dissuadable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dissuadable
form: most dissuadable
Etymology: From dissuade + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be dissuaded.
Derived terms: indissuadable
undissuadable
undissuadable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undissuadable
form: most undissuadable
Etymology: From un- + dissuadable.
Senses: glosses: That which cannot be dissuaded.
Angevine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Angevine
form: most Angevine
Senses: examples: text: the Angevine dynasty of Naples
glosses: Alternative form of Angevin.
Angevine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Angevines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Angevin.
Angevines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Angevine
semidiapente
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semidiapentes
Etymology: From semi- + diapente.
Senses: examples: text: It will have its true ratio from the tritone and the major semitone, but not from that of the semidiapente and the minor semitone, as the next calculation shows.
ref: 2003, Vincenzo Galilei, Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music (translated from Italian by Claude V. Palisca)
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A diminished fifth.
centuplicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of centuplicate
centuplicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of centuplicate
contendents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contendent
Ogdoad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀγδοάς (ogdoás, “eight, a group of eight”).
Senses: glosses: The group of eight primordial deities worshipped at Hermopolis in Ancient Egyptian times: Naunet and Nu, Amaunet and Amun, Kauket and Kuk, and Hauhet and Huh.
lanuginous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈnjuːd͡ʒɪnəs/
ipa: /ləˈnjuːd͡ʒənəs/
ipa: /ləˈnud͡ʒənəs/
ipa: /ləˈnjud͡ʒənəs/
Forms: form: more lanuginous
form: most lanuginous
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lanuginose.
interlineal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compare Late Latin interlīneāris, French interlinéaire.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of interlinear.
interlinearly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From interlinear + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Between the lines (of a text).
examples: a book or play interlinearly translated
glosses: With annotations between the lines.
transmutational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more transmutational
form: most transmutational
Etymology: From transmutation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to transmutation.
umbilicated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more umbilicated
form: most umbilicated
Etymology: From umbilic- + -ated.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of umbilicate.
proxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prox
PROX
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Acronym of preferential oxidation.
Mangareva
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The central island of the Gambier Islands in French Polynesia.
glosses: The Polynesian language of the Gambier Islands.
Synonyms: topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Mangarevan
kivikivi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Imitative of its notes. From a Polynesian language.
Senses: glosses: Any species of Apteryx, especially Apteryx australis.
pishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pish
sesquipedalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sesquipedal + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: all verbiage and sesquipedalism
ref: 1901, George Jacob Holyoake, Public speaking and debate:
glosses: Alternative form of sesquipedalianism.
duans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duan
Eugubine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Eugubian
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin Eugubīnus.
Senses: examples: text: the Eugubine tablets or inscriptions
text: Bernardino di Mariotto is another genuine Umbrian who shares all the enthusiasm of Gentile da Fabriano and the early Eugubine School for exuberant ornamentation.
ref: 1908, Mrs. Robert Goff, Assisi of Saint Francis, page 278:
synonyms: Iguvine
glosses: Of or relating to Gubbio.
nodulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nodulous
form: most nodulous
Etymology: From nodule + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nodulose.
downfacing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of downface
downfaces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of downface
downfaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downface
downfaced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of downface
waucht
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wauchts
form: waught
Etymology: Compare quaff.
Senses: examples: text: “Bring us a bottle, then.”
“Bring twa,” here interrupted Johnny Yuill, in a loud voice; “for I′m dooms dry, and ′ll sen′ owre a bottle to my ain share at a waucht, and I′m sure ye′ll manage the ither yersel, Provost; and, if ye canna, I′ll help ye wi′ that, too.”
ref: 1851, John Mackay Wilson, The Provost of Starvieston: Tales of the Borders, and of Scotland, volume III, page 144:
text: 1893, Robert Louis Stevenson, David Balfour [aka Catriona], 2009, page 228,
“But ye′ll be for a bite or ye go?” said he.
“Neither bite nor sup,” said I. “I had a good waucht of milk in by Ratho.”
text: He was singin′ and roarin′ wi′ the loudest, and takin′ great wauchts frae the bowl, far mair than was guid for him.
ref: 1898, John Buchan, John Burnet Of Barns, published 2008, page 173:
glosses: A large draught of any liquid.
Derived terms: guid-willie waucht
williewaught
waucht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wauchts
form: wauchting
form: wauchted
form: wauchted
form: waught
Etymology: Compare quaff.
Senses: examples: text: Eftir this the Erles and thair kin passis to the Tolbuith, with the haill ministerie: all ar maid burgessis of this toun; the ministers with the rest. At euin^([even]), nathing bot wauchting.
ref: 1834, Thomas Mollisone, “Letter to R. Paip”, in James Maidment, editor, Analecta Scotica: Collections Illustrative of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of Scotland, page 302:
text: […]while with Huntly, who in April 1599 had been created Marquis, the King now spent much of his time, “wauchting and drinking.”
ref: 1904, Thomas Finlayson Henderson, James I. and VI., page 135:
text: 2000, Association for Scottish Literary Studies, Scottish Literary Journal, Volume 27, Issue 1, page 45,
Scott, on the other hand, says of him that he ‘wauchted [quaffed] the bluid-reid liquor doun’.
glosses: To drink, to quaff.
wauchts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waucht
assentators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assentator
yeswoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yeswomen
Etymology: From yes + -woman.
Senses: glosses: A female yes man.
yeswomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yeswoman
waught
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waughts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of waucht.
waught
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: waughts
form: waughting
form: waughted
form: waughted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of waucht.
Related terms: willie-waught
waughts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waught
Haber process
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After German chemist Fritz Haber (1868–1934), who, along with Carl Bosch (1874–1940), developed the process in the first decade of the 20th century.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: Haber-Bosch process
ammonia process
glosses: The nitrogen-fixation reaction of nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas, over an enriched iron or ruthenium catalyst, used industrially to produce ammonia.
wikipedia: Carl Bosch
Fritz Haber
Septemberish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Septemberish
form: most Septemberish
Etymology: From September + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: September was very Septemberish that year. It was Septemberish in the excitement of the opening days of school.
ref: 1946, Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy in spite of herself:
text: The afternoon was Septemberish as the little family of six loaded up in the olive drab “54” and headed to their new home.
ref: 2009, Cleveland Jones, The Firescalds Road To the Sky, page 145:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of the month of September.
deer's tongue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: L. odoratissima Willd. VANILLA-PLANT. DEER'S-TONGUE.
ref: 1861, Alphonso Wood, A class-book of botany […] :
glosses: A plant native to the southeastern US, Trilisa odoratissima, whose fleshy leaves give out a fragrance resembling vanilla.
glosses: A not closely related plant native to the northwestern US and western Canada, Achlys triphylla, which also has a vanilla-like fragrance.
Modenese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Modenese
form: most Modenese
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to the city or province of Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
Modenese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Modenese
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city or province of Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
glosses: A dialect of Emilian spoken in the province of Modena.
rakehelly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rakehelly
form: most rakehelly
form: rake-helly
Etymology: From rakehell + -y.
Senses: examples: text: “I still have an objection,” said Albert, “to yonder impudent rakehelly fellow, styling himself a cavalier, who rushed himself on our company last night, and gained my father’s heart by a story of the storm of Brentford, which I dare say the rogue never saw.”
ref: 1826, [Walter Scott], chapter XXII, in Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC:
text: Mr. Edwards had an appointment, he said—nothing good, you may be sure—they were a rake-helly set—saving your presence.
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
glosses: Synonym of rakehell.
synonyms: word: rakehell
maxillaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maxillary
oxyopia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxyopy
Senses: glosses: Excessive acuteness of sight.
sloughings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sloughing
oxyopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of oxyopia.
circumducing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of circumduce
circumduced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of circumduce
zoogloeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: zoogleal
Etymology: From zoogloea + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the zoogloea.
zoogleal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zooglea + -al.
Senses: examples: text: As the zoogleal slime reenters the wastewater, excess solids and waste products are stripped off the media as sloughings. These sloughings are transported with the wastewater flow to a settling tank for removal.
ref: 2012, Frank Spellman, Revonna Bieber, Environmental Health and Science Desk Reference, page 831:
glosses: Alternative form of zoogloeal.
koumisses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of koumiss
necrofetishism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From necro- + fetishism.
Senses: glosses: A paraphilia in which sexual gratification is derived from corpses or parts of corpses.
duettoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duetto
metramorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more metramorphic
form: most metramorphic
Senses: glosses: Relating to metramorphosis.
reattune
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -uːn
Forms: form: reattunes
form: reattuning
form: reattuned
form: reattuned
Etymology: From re- + attune.
Senses: glosses: To attune again or anew.
reattunes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reattune
reattuning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reattune
reattuned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reattune
metramorphosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Bracha L. Ettinger. See Late Latin metrium (“womb”) and metamorphosis.
Senses: examples: text: The third element of the matrixial model is metramorphosis: a process of change that is a result of nonphallic ways of contacting the archaic m/Other.
ref: 2011, Pat Paxson, Art and Intuition: Borderlines and Boundaries:
qualifier: matrixial theory
glosses: A creative principle supposed to be responsible for changes in borderlines.
wikipedia: Bracha L. Ettinger
Related terms: metramorphic
atomless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From atom + -less.
Senses: examples: text: atomless Boolean algebras
glosses: Without atoms.
examples: text: More formally, we assume that the density f(#92;varepsilon) is atomless.
ref: 1992, Robert Gibbons, A Primer in Game Theory, Prentice-Hall, page 80:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Not assigning strictly positive probability to any single outcome.
raw_tags: of a probability distribution
Derived terms: atomlessness
hobbet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hobbets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hobbit (old Welsh unit of weight)
hobbets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hobbet
poncelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poncelets
Etymology: Named after Jean-Victor Poncelet.
Senses: glosses: An obsolete French unit of power, equal to the power required to raise a quintal at a velocity of one metre per second.
wikipedia: Jean-Victor Poncelet
poncelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poncelet
epileptically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more epileptically
form: most epileptically
Etymology: From epileptic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: On that Wednesday night, I'd turned up to find a new neon sign installed over the door of Bromley Super Kebab, epileptically blaring the name in flashes of pink light across the High Street.
ref: 2009, James Foreman, Diet Croydon, page 71:
glosses: In an epileptic manner; with, or as if with, epilepsy.
trisyllabical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + syllabical.
Senses: glosses: trisyllabic; of three syllables.
trisyllabically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From trisyllabic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: She replied trisyllabically to my marriage proposal: "I love you."
glosses: In three syllables.
pectous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: pectous modification
text: pectous substances
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or consisting of, pectose.
euphorbin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: euphorbine
Etymology: From euphorbia + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An organic compound derived from various species of Euphorbia.
obstringed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more obstringed
form: most obstringed
Etymology: See obstriction.
Senses: examples: c. 1528, Sir Gregory de Cassalis, Dr. Gardiner, and Dr. Fox […] , letter to Cardinal Wolsey
His holiness shewed unto us, how much he and the see was and is obstringed and bound to your grace.
glosses: constrained; placed under obligation
euphorbine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of euphorbin.
cytode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytodes
Etymology: Ancient Greek κύτος (kútos, “hollow vessel”). Proposed by Ernst Haeckel.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A nonnucleated mass of protoplasm, the supposed simplest form of independent life, differing from the amoeba, in which nuclei are present
wikipedia: Ernst Haeckel
Derived terms: gymnocytode
cytodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cytode
loculose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more loculose
form: most loculose
form: loculous
Etymology: From Latin loculosus. See loculament and locule.
Senses: examples: text: The pith of the pokeweed is loculose.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Divided by locules (internal partitions inside cells).
transiliencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transiliency
Wycliffites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wycliffite
Wyclifite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wyclifites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Wycliffite.
Wyclifites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wyclifite
th-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English th-.
Senses: examples: text: th- + old → thold
text: th- + art → thart
text: th- + other → thother
glosses: The.
Related terms: th'
crown saw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crown saws
Etymology: From crown + saw.
Senses: glosses: A saw in the form of a hollow cylinder with teeth on the end or edge, operated by rotation.
Synonyms: hole saw
crown saws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crown saw
cessavits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cessavit
plonging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plonge
plonged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of plonge
en creux
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Learned borrowing from French en creux.
Senses: topics: arts
crafts
engraving
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: In intaglio; by sinking or hollowing out the design.
adelantados
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adelantado
adelantadoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adelantado
muntu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muntus
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of munt (a black person)
Bina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Bina.
Senses: glosses: A language spoken in New Guinea.
Bina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Binawa.
Senses: glosses: A language spoken in Nigeria, also called Binawa.
brevity is the soul of wit
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Coined by William Shakespeare in 1602 in "Hamlet," act 2, scene 2:
: Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
: And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
: I will be brief: your noble son is mad...
Senses: examples: text: The same complaint must be made against Mr. Matthew's excellent survey of the theory of evolution, as against Dr. Erasmus Darwin's original exposition of the same theory, namely, that it is too short. It may be very true that brevity is the soul of wit, but the leaders of science will generally succeed in burking new-born wit, unless the brevity of its soul is found compatible with a body of some bulk.
ref: 1879, Samuel Butler, chapter 18, in Evolution, Old & New:
text: "[I]f people would only settle their affairs in that way, a good part of the occupation of lawyers would be gone. Brevity is the soul of wit; and the fear of simplicity is the beginning of litigation."
ref: 1912, R. Austin Freeman, chapter 5, in The Mystery of 31 New Inn:
text: Brevity is the Soul of Wit. Talking to your infant is good, but uttering individual words might be better.
ref: 2001 March 5, Daniel S. Levy, “In Brief”, in Time:
text: Y'see, a guy named William Shakesman once said, "Brevity is the soul of wit." This just means don't waste my time.
ref: 2012 April 9, Mike Stoslaka, Star Wars: the Phantom Menace Review:
glosses: Conciseness of expression is an essential characteristic of astute, perceptive, or witty remarks.
chabot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chabots
form: chalbot
Etymology: From French chabot.
Senses: examples: text: Chabots[:] Or three chabots gu.
ref: 1874, John Woody Papworth, An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, page 839:
text: Over all an escutcheon of pretence : 1 and 4 , Gules, nine mascles conjoined or, 3, 3, 3 (Rohan); 2 and 3, Or, three chabots hauriant gules (Chabot).
ref: 1901, Ex Libris Society, The Journal of the Ex Libris Society, page 66:
text: "Or, three chabots gules” is the crest of a French family of the name of Chabot.
ref: 1904, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, The Art of Heraldry: An Encyclopaedia of Armory, London : T.C.; & E.C. Jack, page 186:
text: Arms : Gules three gemels gold on a quarter silver three chabots erect gules.
ref: 1928, New England Historic Genealogical Society. Committee on Heraldry, A Roll of Arms:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A kind of fish, mainly found on the coat of arms of the Chabot family ("or, three chabots gules").
ridic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /rɪˈdɪk/
Forms: form: more ridic
form: most ridic
Etymology: From ridiculous by clipping.
Senses: examples: text: That's so ridic!
text: “I don't know how I would have gotten through this without you.” “Oh, the feeling is mutual. I've always schemed and connived alone. But as a duo, it is, as you might say, "totes ridic!"” “(gasps) I would say that.”
ref: 2023 October 12, Edgar Momplaisir, “A Few Badgeys More” (6:23 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 4, episode 7, spoken by AGIMUS (Jeffrey Combs):
glosses: ridiculous
vareuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vareuses
Etymology: Borrowed from French vareuse.
Senses: glosses: A military tunic.
abat-vents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abat-vent
what has been seen cannot be unseen
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: that which has been seen cannot be unseen
Senses: examples: text: At Dachau he was witness to real rather than abstract suffering; what has been seen cannot be unseen, nor can it be rationalized.
ref: 2010, Brad Prager, “Suffering and Sympathy in Volker Schlöndorff's Der neunte Tag and Dennis Gansel's NaPolA”, in Paul Cooke, Marc Silberman, editors, Screening War: Perspectives on German Suffering, Camden House, →ISBN, page 196:
text: I went into Akira knowing it's considered amongst critics a landmark film for anime and the success of the genre in America, but I was also expecting the type of weirdness that has given anime an infamous reputation in pop culture. Don't know what I'm talking about? Google "hentai." …Actually, no, don't do that. Seriously. Don't fucking do that. What has been seen cannot be unseen.
ref: 2011 December, Jay Wallace, “Akira”, in BandWagon Magazine:
glosses: Repulsive, disturbing, or horrific sights can never be erased from memory once they have been seen.
Related terms: brain bleach
sadet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sadets
form: sadete
Etymology: From French sadète, apparently from Lao.
Senses: examples: text: The sadete who is most feared is the fire sadete, known especially by the savages of the Assamese slope; the water sadete exercises a less perceptible sway over the Laotian slope; the power of the wind sadete seems insignificant.
ref: c. 1919, Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, volume VII:
text: At Cêo-Rêo, not far from Buon Choah, are located the villages of those enigmatic personages, the Sadets, of Fire and Water, whose fearsome reputation is widespread throughout Indo-China.
ref: 1951, Norman Lewis, A Dragon Apparent, Eland, published 2003, page 121:
glosses: A type of spiritual leader or witch doctor among the Jarai people of Southeast Asia.
sadets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sadet
foodporn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From food + porn.
Senses: examples: text: Fortunately, I knew him well enough to realize he meant that no one had posted any foodporn. At least not from any restaurant he had yet to try.
ref: 2008, Nina Harper, Succubus Takes Manhattan, Del Ray Books, published 2008, →ISBN, page 18:
glosses: Enticing food imagery.
Synonyms: gastroporn
Related terms: foodstagram
foodtography
Kakheti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Georgian კახეთი (ḳaxeti).
Senses: glosses: A region in the eastern part of the country of Georgia. Capital: Telavi.
glosses: A medieval kingdom in eastern Georgia.
Derived terms: Kakheti-Hereti
Kingdom of Kakheti
Kingdom of Kakheti-Hereti
Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti
Principality of Kakheti
tossed salad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tossed salads
Senses: glosses: A salad made by tossing greens in a dressing, often including other vegetables like tomato and cucumber.
examples: text: A couple of people said they really liked it: "I had the pleasure of enjoying a tossed salad performed on me. […]
ref: 2003, Nick J. Myers III, Black Hearts: The Development of Black Sexuality in America, Trafford Publishing, published 2003, →ISBN, page 179:
synonyms: rim job
glosses: An act of anilingus.
Related terms: toss someone's salad
tossed salad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of toss salad
tossed salads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tossed salad
veilleuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: veilleuses
Etymology: From French.
Senses: glosses: A shaded night-lamp
Safed
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɑːfɛd/
enpr: sä􂀽'fĕd
Forms: form: Safad
form: Tsfat
form: Tzfat
form: Sfat
form: Tsfas
form: Sfas
form: Zefat
form: Ẕefat
form: Safet
form: Saphet
form: Safat
form: Zephath
Etymology: From Arabic صَفَد (ṣafad), ultimately from Biblical Hebrew צְפַת (ṣəp̄aṯ).
Senses: glosses: A city in the historical region of Upper Galilee, Northern District, Israel.
Related terms: Safed Koh
wacky tobaccy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I stepped inside and the odor of wacky tobaccy lingered in the air.
ref: 2006, K. J. Larsen, Liar, Liar, Poisoned Pen Press, published 2010, →ISBN, page 144:
glosses: Alternative form of wacky baccy.
wacky tabaccy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "You better cut back on that wacky tabaccy," I cautioned.
ref: 2012, Daniel Davidson, The Scammers, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 173:
glosses: Alternative form of wacky baccy.
Classicistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Classicistic
form: most Classicistic
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of classicistic.
whacky tobaccy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: What asks R. B. P. is marihuana? Then rymie-wymies his own answer: Whacky tobaccy
ref: [1939 October 23, Matt Weinstock, “Town Talk”, in Daily News, Los Angeles, page 23:
text: He lit a stick of whacky tobaccy and took a solid hit.
ref: 1989, Daniel G. Baldyga, A Sailor Remembers: His Voyage from Darkness Into Light, Mystic House, →ISBN, page 63:
glosses: Alternative form of wacky baccy.
sex strike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sex strikes
Senses: examples: text: The idea of a sex strike is as old as Aristophanes. Undoubtedly after a tiff with Mrs. Aristophanes, he wrote his “Lysistrata,” a comedy about wives who end the Peloponnesian War by resisting their husbands.
ref: 1998 April 26, Jenny Lyn Bader, “Is Sex Necessary?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: So I created the same women and started with the same story, but then just played it out in a contemporary setting. Also, unlike in “Lysistrata,” the sex strike doesn’t work.
ref: 2024 April 17, Eric Grode, quoting Bekah Brunstetter, “Video Games Are a Playwright’s Muse, Not Her Hobby”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
synonyms: sex boycott
glosses: A strike involving the withholding of sex from one's partner until demands are met.
whacky tabaccy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Rooting about in her parachute bag she hauled out the neck of a Jack Daniel's bottle stuffed with what smelt like some high-grade whacky tabaccy.
ref: 2012, Zinaid Meeran, Tanuki Ichiban, Jacana Media, →ISBN, page 138:
glosses: Alternative form of wacky baccy.
sex boycott
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sex boycotts
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sex strike.
synonyms: word: sex strike
Indo-European studies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The academic study of the Indo-European languages in relation to Proto-Indo-European, and sometimes of related humanities. (This entry is a translation hub.)
Related terms: Indo-Europeanist
Indo-Europeanistics
vareuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vareuse
veilleuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veilleuse
nēnē
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nēnēs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nene.
Hawaiian goose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hawaiian geese
Senses: examples: text: The Hawaiian goose or nene (Branta sandvicensis) is perhaps chiefly celebrated for the great success with which it has been reared in captivity.
ref: 2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 82:
glosses: The nene, Branta sandvicensis.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Hawaiian, goose.
victimation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From victim + -ation. Non-native use derived from French victimation.
Senses: examples: text: You speak of "ethnocide:" there has been no ethnocide of Breton people, that I know of (I'm aware of the Nantes massacres during the Revolution). Let's not hop on the victimation train.
ref: 1999 July 22, Gildas Hamel, “breton music”, in soc.culture.breton (Usenet), retrieved 04 Jun 2022:
text: The victimation of NCPs is occuring^([sic]) today and effects^([sic]) men of all races, colors, etc.
ref: 2002 April 6, Dave, “Non-Custodial Parent Reparations”, in alt.child-support (Usenet), retrieved 04 Jun 2022:
text: THE JEW TRIES TO CONVINCE EVERYONE OF HIS VICTIMATION WHEN HE IS THE ONE WHO HAS DONE THE VICTIMATION OF THE OTHER RACES ESPECIALLY THE WHITE RACE.
ref: 2003 January 6, Willie Martin, “What Does "Supremacy" Really Mean? -1”, in alt.bible.prophecy (Usenet), retrieved 04 Jun 2022:
qualifier: nonstandard and non-native speakers' English
glosses: Victimization.
Abbasids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Abbasid
Abbassids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Abbassid
Abbassides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Abbasside
vinaigrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vinaigriers
Etymology: French vinaigrier
Senses: glosses: A pot or jar in which vinegar is made.
glosses: A cruet for serving vinegar.
virilise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: virilises
form: virilising
form: virilised
form: virilised
Etymology: From virile + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of virilize.
Molokaʻi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Today Molokaʻi is often called the Friendly Isle, possibly due to the fact that the largest population of Native Hawaiians live there. Historically, Molokaʻi has been a place for the spiritual leaders of the Hawaiʻian culture to gather.
ref: 2007, Jake Goldberg, Joyce Hart, “Geography: The Island State”, in Hawaiʻi (Juvenile Literature), Marshall Cavendish, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 19:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Molokai.
Niʻihau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Niihau.
Kauaʻi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: One of the most remarkable structures attributed to the menehune is the Menehune Ditch (sometimes called Ola’s Water Lead) on the island of Kauaʻi, a ditch that brings water from Waimea River to the taro patches on the other side of the mountain, some six miles away.
ref: 2004, Robert D. Craig, “Menehune”, in Handbook of Polynesian Mythology (Handbooks of World Mythology), Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, chapter 3 (Deities, Themes, and Concepts), page 171:
text: Samuel Kamakau, a bit younger than [David] Malo (he was born in 1815), was also a Lahainaluna student and his family traced its descent from the priestly class of Oʻahu and Kauaʻi.
ref: 2010, Patrick Vinton Kirch, “Sources for Reconstructing Contact-Era Hawaiʻi”, in How Chiefs Became Kings: Divine Kingship and the Rise of Archaic States in Ancient Hawaiʻi, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, chapter 2 (Hawaiian Archaic States on the Eve of European Contact), page 31:
text: There is a large difference in timescale between the modern precipitation rates in Figure 10.5 and the paleoprecipitation rates that helped shape Kauaʻi’s topography over the past 5 Myr, as there is in any study that links long-term landscape evolution to modern climate measurements.
ref: 2014, Anne J. Jefferson, Ken L. Ferrier, J. Taylor Perron, Ricardo Ramalho, “Controls on the Hydrological and Topographic Evolution of Shield Volcanoes and Volcanic Ocean Islands”, in Karen S. Harpp, Eric Mittelstaedt, Noémi d’Ozouville, David W. Graham, editors, The Galápagos: A Natural Laboratory for the Earth Sciences (Geophysical Monograph; 204), Washington, D.C.: American Geophysical Union; Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, […], page 193, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of Kauai.
Ijekavic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ijekavic
form: most Ijekavic
Senses: glosses: pertaining to the Ijekavian dialect
ekavic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ekavic
form: most ekavic
Senses: glosses: pertaining to the Ekavian dialect
ikavic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ikavic
form: most ikavic
Etymology: From Ikavian + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The jekavic and ikavic areas of štokavic are not always distinctly separated one from another, some regions having a mixed character.
ref: 1992, Karel Horálek, An Introduction to the Study of the Slavonic Languages, volume 2, page 449:
glosses: Pertaining to the Ikavian dialect of Serbo-Croatian.
Abbethdin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Abbethdins
Senses: examples: text: In Israel's Courts ne'er sat an Abbethdin […] : David, for him his tuneful Harp had strung, […]
ref: 1702, John Dryden (with Nahum Tate?), Absalom and Achitophel, in Miscellany Poems, part 1, third edition, page 34
text: Here the council held daily meetings, at which members sat in the form of a half-moon, with the Nasi in the middle, the Abbethdin on his right hand, and the Hakam on the left.
ref: 1849, John Relly Beard, chapter 3, in A Biblical Reading Book, page 120:
glosses: Alternative form of av beit din.
Abbethdins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Abbethdin
Brazilian Shorthair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brazilian Shorthairs
Senses: glosses: A medium size, shorthaired domestic cat breed, originating in Brazil.
crispheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crisphead
holk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holks
form: howk
form: houk
Etymology: From Middle English holk, from Old English holc, holoc (“hole, cavity”), from Proto-West Germanic *holuk, from Proto-Germanic *hulukaz (“a hollow”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover, hide”). Equivalent to hole + -ock (diminutive ending).
Cognate with Low German holke, hölke (“small hole”), German Holk (“a type of flat-bottomed barge”), Swedish holk (“nest, birdhouse”), dialectal Norwegian holk, hylke (“wooden barrel, cask”), Icelandic hólkur (“hollow cylinder or tube”). Related to hulk.
Senses: glosses: A hollow cavity.
holk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holks
form: holking
form: holked
form: holked
form: howk
form: houk
Etymology: From Middle English holken, from Old English *holcian (attested in āholcian, āhlocian (“to dig out”), from Proto-West Germanic *holukōn, derived from the noun above. Cognate with Middle Low German holken, hȫlken (“to hollow out”), German Low German uthöhlken (“to hollow out”).
Senses: glosses: To dig out; make hollow; hollow out.
glosses: To dig; dig into; pierce; penetrate; investigate; poke.
examples: text: The Sessioune perceiving gryt perell through the burieing of people in the kirkyaird of thair perroche kirk and within the kirk itself by raising of grene graivis and holking under the kirk vall undermynding of the samyne ordanis fra this furth that na persone presume to mak graivis within the precinct thairof or yit to burie any persone within the boundis of the samine.
ref: 1908, Aberdeen University Studies, volume 35, University of Aberdeen, page 96:
glosses: To dig up; excavate.
monocules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monocule
complex conjugates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of complex conjugate
uningenious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uningenious
form: most uningenious
Etymology: From un- + ingenious.
Senses: glosses: Not ingenious.
aftersales
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From after- + sales.
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Alternative form of aftersale.