cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
goety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡoʊɪti/
Etymology: From Latin goetia, from Ancient Greek γοητεία (goēteía, “witchcraft”), from γόης (góēs, “sorceror”).
Senses: examples: text: The confused and high-piled litter of manuscripts, volumes, notebooks on his writing-table had seemingly lain untouched by anything but his own hand; and his bookshelves, with their bizarre and terrifical array of authorities on diabolism, necromancy, goety, on all the ridiculed or outlawed sciences, were undisturbed and intact.
ref: August 1935, Clark Ashton Smith, Weird Tales, "The Treader of the Dust"
glosses: witchcraft, demonic magic, necromancy
Derived terms: goetic
Padishah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɑːdɪʃɑː/
Forms: form: Padishahs
form: Badshah
form: badshah
form: padishah
form: Padshaw
form: padshaw
form: Potshaw
form: potshaw
form: Padishar
form: padishar
Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پادشاه (padişah), from Classical Persian پادِشاه (pādišāh) / پادْشاه (pādšāh).
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A ruler of a Muslim country or state.
loanshark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loansharks
Etymology: From loan + shark.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of loan shark.
loanshark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: loansharks
form: loansharking
form: loansharked
form: loansharked
Etymology: From loan + shark.
Senses: glosses: To commit usury (to loan money at an excessive rate of interest), especially if collecting under threat of violence.
Crawford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Crawfords
form: Craufurd
Etymology: From Old English crāwe (“crow”) + ford (“ford”).
Senses: examples: text: […] Brad Schimel wants to make sure women don’t have the right to make their own health care decisions. If he wins, that right is gone,” Crawford says in the ad.
ref: 2025 March 29, David Wright and Alex Leeds Matthews, “Musk flexes influence as Wisconsin Supreme Court race smashes spending records”, in CNN:
glosses: An English and Scottish habitational surname from Old English derived from several different place names.
glosses: An earldom in the peerage of Scotland.
glosses: A placename:
A village in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9520).
glosses: A placename:
A settlement in Up Holland parish, West Lancashire district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4902).
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A place in Alabama:
An unincorporated community in Mobile County, Alabama.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A place in Alabama:
An unincorporated community in Russell County, Alabama.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Delta County, Colorado.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Nassau County, Florida.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Oglethorpe County, Georgia.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Washington County, Maine.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Lowndes County, Mississippi.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Scotland County, Missouri.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Dawes County, Nebraska.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Orange County, New York.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Wyandot County, Ohio.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Roger Mills County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in McLennan County, Texas.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A number of townships, listed under Crawford Township.
glosses: A placename:
Ellipsis of Crawford County.
Derived terms: Crawford County
Crawford Notch
Crawfordsville
Crawfordville
loansharking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of loanshark
loansharking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loan sharking
Senses: examples: text: During an 18-month investigation involving a talk force of city, state and Federal authorities, the indicted people were also allgedly involved in counterfeiting and loansharking.
ref: 1979 February 10, “Taking Over Bars”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 28, page 2:
glosses: The lending of money at an excessive interest rate.
erl-king
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erl-kings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of erlking.
erlking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɜːlkɪŋ/
Forms: form: erlkings
form: Erlking
form: erl-king
Etymology: Partial calque of German Erlkönig (literally “alder-king”), a mistranslation of Danish ellerkonge (“king of the elves”).
Senses: examples: text: This line, and indeed the whole passage (lines 653-664), allude to the well-known poem by Goethe about the erlking, hoary enchanter of the elf-haunted alderwood, who falls in love with the delicate little boy of a belated traveler.
ref: 1962, Charles Kinbote [pseudonym; Vladimir Nabokov], Pale Fire, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, published November 1985, →ISBN:
text: So easy for one young son to be swallowed up in a world teeming with Erlkings, real and imagined.
ref: 2010, Rachel Billington, The Missing Boy, Hachette, →ISBN:
text: He was in the forest looking to see the trees / But none were there / He found a girl / She found the erlking
ref: 2012, ミラクルミュージカル, “Murders”, in Hawaii: Part II:
text: By now, he seems less a cartoon character than some contemporary Erlking, the malicious spirit made famous by Goethe (and Schubert) but found originally in a Danish ballad.
ref: 2018 October 22, Carol Rumens, “Poem of the week: Three Poetesses by Kristín Ómarsdóttir”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
glosses: In German literature and modern folklore, a malicious elf or spirit who preys on children.
infiniteness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infinitenesses
Etymology: From infinite + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being infinite.
glosses: The quality of being immeasurably large or boundless, limitlessness.
Synonyms: sense: quality of being infinite
word: infinitude
word: infinity
sense: quality of being immeasurably large
word: boundlessness
word: immeasurability
word: immeasurableness
word: incalculability
word: incalculableness
word: inestimability
word: inestimableness
word: limitlessness
word: unmeasurability
word: unmeasurableness
word: endlessness
immeasurably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From immeasurable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The sky seems immeasurably large at night.
text: Yet Mrs Allen found much favour with the décor of the new vehicles. She also agreed that the levels of comfort were "immeasurably higher" than she had previously found.
ref: 2024 March 20, Greg Morse, “XP64: the train the ^([sic]) [that] launched a new style”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 47:
glosses: In a manner that is not measurable, in a way that cannot be measured.
boundlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boundlessnesses
Etymology: From boundless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The boundlessness of the night sky mocks our sense of scale.
glosses: The property of being boundless, of being without limits or ends.
latterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more latterly
form: most latterly
Etymology: From latter + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a latter manner
examples: text: He was formerly a master in Mr. Snowden's academy, at Hull. He latterly suffered much both from disease and poverty, and terminated his life by cutting his throat at the Royal Institution.
ref: 1836 June 24, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 159, page 672:
text: She had latterly been in great doubt as to what the legal effects of her marriage would be upon her position; but no notice had been taken as yet of her change of name […]
ref: 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd, reprinting of 1912 Wessex edition, Barnes & Noble Classics, published 2005, page 337:
text: […] the youngest son of an excellent family slightly known to him, who had latterly been studying sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design […]
ref: 1928 February, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual, volume 11, number 2, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular Fiction Pub. Co., →OCLC, pages 159–178 and 287:
text: Latterly the station was reduced to halt status, and tickets were issued by the guard of the train.
ref: 1952 December, R. C. Riley, “By Rail to Kemp Town”, in Railway Magazine, page 835:
glosses: lately, (more) recently
lawfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lawfulnesses
Etymology: From Middle English laufulnes, lahfulnesse, equivalent to lawful + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: His extreme lawfulness made him righteous, but did it make him merciful?
antonyms: unlawfulness
lawlessness
unlaw
glosses: Property of being lawful, of obeying the law.
examples: text: The process of psychotherapy […] is a unique and dynamic experience, different for each individual, yet exhibiting a lawfulness and order which is astonishing in its generality.
ref: 1961, Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy:
glosses: Property of operating in a manner organized by certain laws, such as laws of nature.
Related terms: lawgiver
rule of law
leaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛdɪd/
ipa: /ˈledəd/
rhymes: -ɛdɪd
Forms: form: more leaded
form: most leaded
Etymology: From lead + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Held in place by strips of lead.
glosses: Containing or treated with the element lead.
examples: text: Leaded gasoline is hard to find in some areas now.
glosses: Containing tetraethyllead.
glosses: caffeinated.
Derived terms: leaded light
leaded type
nonleaded
unleaded
leaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛdɪd/
ipa: /ˈledəd/
rhymes: -ɛdɪd
Etymology: From lead + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lead (to add lead to)
leaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛdɪd/
ipa: /ˈledəd/
rhymes: -ɛdɪd
ipa: /ˈlɛdɪd/
ipa: /ˈledəd/
rhymes: -ɛdɪd
Etymology: lead + -ed
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lead (to guide, plus similar meanings)
leaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛdɪd/
ipa: /ˈledəd/
rhymes: -ɛdɪd
ipa: /ˈlɛdɪd/
ipa: /ˈledəd/
rhymes: -ɛdɪd
Etymology: lead + -ed
Senses: glosses: Having a lead, or leads
leaderless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leaderless
form: most leaderless
Etymology: From leader + -less.
Senses: examples: text: But doing nothing is not an option. Our railway has been drifting, leaderless, for a couple of years. Sunak should also ponder as he panders.
ref: 2023 May 31, Nigel Harris, “GBR now! We have no Plan B”, in RAIL, number 984, page 3:
glosses: Without a person providing direction.
glosses: Without a thing serving as leader.
Derived terms: leaderlessly
leaderlessness
perlustrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /pəˈlʌstɹeɪt/
Forms: form: perlustrates
form: perlustrating
form: perlustrated
form: perlustrated
Etymology: Latin perlustratus, the perfect participle of perlustro, from per- + lustro (“wander through”), from lustrum.
Senses: glosses: To travel through an area in examination or survey.
Derived terms: perlustration
perlustrator
perlustration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɜːlʌˈstɹeɪʃən/
Forms: form: perlustrations
Etymology: From perlustrate.
Senses: glosses: the action or fact of perlustrating
examples: text: Yes, after a thorough perlustration of the loot that Andron and Niagarushka had obtained from the Queen's rosewood writing desk (mostly bills, and treasured snapshots, and those silly medals) a letter from the King did turn up.
ref: 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire:
glosses: thorough examination of a document or of correspondence
ancillula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ænˈsɪljʊlə/
Forms: form: ancillulas
Etymology: From Latin ancillula, diminutive of ancilla (“handmaid”), a feminine diminutive of anculus (“servant”).
Senses: examples: text: I at once telephoned. The Shades were out, said the cheeky ancillula, an obnoxious little fan who came to cook for them on Sundays and no doubt dreamt of getting the old poet to cuddle her some wifeless day.
ref: 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire:
glosses: A slave girl; a servant-girl.
shoo-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoo-ins
form: shoo in
form: shoe-in
form: shoe in
Etymology: From a sense of the verb shoo, where racehorses would fall back and allow a chosen rider to win a fixed race. See 1910 quotation.
Senses: examples: text: Little Pete was a member of the delegation that were in on the "shoo" in the third race. He had several commissioners placing his coin on Model. If the race was to have been a "shoo-in" for Model, there must have been one or two owners that were not in on the deal.
ref: 1895, “Pointers from the Paddock”, in The San Francisco Call:
text: Most of the "regulars" are deeply suspicious of all steeplechase races of late years, and, whenever the favorite falls at one of the obstacles and a long priced leaper wins the race, they loudly call the race a "shoo-in" (a fixed affair, that is, in which the steeplechase racers have arranged to drop to the rear of the "meant" jumper and "shoo" him to the wire, they previously, of course, having got their money down on the horse thus generously treated).
ref: 1910, “Vernacular of the Race Track”, in New-York Tribune:
text: [it was] wondered whether Chris Chenery's Virginia flyer would be a shoo-in for the Belmont Stakes […]
ref: 1950, Baltimore Sun:
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: The winner of a fixed race, a fixed race.
examples: text: She's very popular and good with numbers, so I expect she'll be a shoo-in for treasurer.
text: Participation in primaries was often more important than in the general election because the Democratic Party nominee was a shoo-in for success in the general election.
ref: 2007, Governors Speak, by Jack D. Fleer, page 47
text: Despite this heady mix, Milei is broadly considered the undisputed shoo-in president appealing particularly to young underprivileged men.
ref: 2023 August 27, Uki Goñi, “The ‘false prophet’ v the pope: Argentina faces clash of ideologies in election”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
glosses: A candidate or contestant generally agreed upon as the presumptive winner; a favorite, somebody who is well-liked or widely agreed upon.
Related terms: landslide
underdog
schadenfreude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɑː.dən.fɹɔɪ.də/
ipa: /ˈʃɑː.dən.fɹɔɪd/
enpr: shäʹdənfroidə
enpr: shäʹdənfroid
rhymes: -ɔɪdə
Forms: form: schadenfreudes
Etymology: An unadapted borrowing from German Schadenfreude (“joy in the misfortune of others”), from Schaden (“damage, misfortune”) + Freude (“joy”). The word gained popularity in English in the late 20th c. and likely entered mainstream usage through an episode of The Simpsons (more in citations).
Senses: examples: text: But it is Schadenfreude, a mischievous delight in the misfortunes of others, which remains the worst trait in human nature.
ref: 1897, “Human Nature”, in Thomas Bailey Saunders, transl., The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer, translation of original by Arthur Schopenhauer:
synonyms: epicaricacy
lulz
antonyms: confelicity
freudenfreude
naches, firgun
glosses: Malicious enjoyment derived from observing someone else's misfortune.
wikipedia: The Simpsons
Derived terms: schadenfreuder
schadenfreudian
Related terms: burn, baby, burn
dance on someone's grave
gloating
glee
sleep in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: slēp′ ĭn′
ipa: /ˈsliːp ˌɪn/
ipa: /ˈslip ˌɪn/
ipa: /ˈsliːp ˌən/
Forms: form: sleeps in
form: sleeping in
form: slept in
form: slept in
Senses: examples: text: On a rainy Saturday, after a busy week at work, he closed the curtains and decided to sleep in.
synonyms: lie in
glosses: To sleep late; to go on sleeping past one's customary or planned hour.
examples: text: She didn't come home last night — her bed hasn't been slept in.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sleep, in.
Related terms: sleep-in
coprophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From copro- + -phagous.
Senses: examples: text: In both civilized society as well as primitive communities coprophagous aphrodisiacs were in common use, urine, faeces of human beings and animals, fluids, intestinal organs.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 186:
text: Hail the coprophagous and cannibalistic
Long for the flesh, compelled to eat shit
ref: 2024, “A Visceral Retch”performed by Whitechapel:
glosses: Feeding on excrement.
Synonyms: scatophagous
scatophagian
Derived terms: autocoprophagous
copronecrophagous
coprophagous grin
Related terms: coprophage
coprophagia
coprophagy
tip the can
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: games
glosses: A children's game similar to hide and seek, with the addition of a target such as a flag.
Gladys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlædɪs/
rhymes: -ædɪs
Forms: form: Gwladys
Etymology: Anglicized from Welsh Gwladus, of uncertain origin, perhaps connected with gwlad (“country”).
Senses: examples: text: Gladys was the eldest daughter of the house, and when her parents had chosen her name – a name which they considered emblematic of happiness, in spite of certain questionings that had arisen among the name fanciers on the subject – it would seem that some unseen fairy godmother had really bestowed that best of all gifts on their child, for Gladys was the happiest, most contented, sunshiny little person imaginable.
ref: 1882, Edna Lyall, Donovan:
text: Anthony continued the prophecy:
"Of course Gladys and Eleanor, having graced the last generation of heroines and being at present in their social prime, will be passed on to the next generation of shopgirls -"
ref: 1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, (please specify |book=1, 2, or 3):
text: R. Jeeves: In my experience, ladies who spell Gladys with a W are seldom noted for their reliability, sir. It gives them romantic notions.
B.W. Wooster: With a W, Jeeves? No, no, no, no. You spell it with a G.
R. Jeeves: If I might draw your attention to the signature on the portrait, sir.
B.W. Wooster: Good Lord! G-W?
R. Jeeves: I blame Alfred Lord Tennyson and his Idylls of the King. It also accounts for Kathryn, Ysabel, and Ethyl, all spelt with a Y, but Gwladys is a particularly virulent form, sir.
ref: 1993 May 16, “Return to New York”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 3, Episode 6:
glosses: A female given name from Welsh.
Gascoyne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An English surname from Old French, variant of Gascoigne.
glosses: A city and village in North Dakota.
glosses: One of nine administrative regions in Western Australia.
out and about
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He carried a cellular phone so that friends could reach him when he was out and about.
text: She had been in hospital, but now she is out and about again.
glosses: Traveling; out; moving; engaged in day-to-day activities requiring travel.
Related terms: up and about
on the go
Gascoigne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡæskɔɪn/
Forms: form: Gascoyne
Etymology: From Old French Gascoigne, the regional name of Gascony.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Gascon.
Gascoigne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡæskɔɪn/
Forms: form: Gascoignes
form: Gascoyne
Etymology: From Old French Gascoigne, the regional name of Gascony.
Senses: glosses: A habitational surname from Old French.
Related terms: Gascon
on the go
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: A good suitcase is essential for someone who is on the go as much as he is.
text: Camila is “extremely dedicated” and “pushes hard” Willis said, noting that they’ve tailored their workouts to her on-the-go lifestyle. “A lot of our workouts include minimal equipment that focus on strength, HIIT, and balance, including complex movements that target the whole body,” Willis said.
ref: 2023 May 10, Korin Miller, “Camila Cabello Rocked An Itty-Bitty String Bikini At Coachella, And Her 🔥 Abs Are Toned AF”, in Women's Health:
glosses: Actively traveling; busy; moving often.
examples: text: The new initiative is now on the go.
glosses: In progress; having started.
Derived terms: on-the-go-ness
Related terms: go-go
on the fly
on the move
out and about
to go
homoblastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æstɪk
Etymology: From homo- + -blastic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Developing from a single type of tissue.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having leaves whose shape changes very little with the plant's or shoot's age.
Related terms: heteroblastic
heteroblastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æstɪk
Etymology: From hetero- + -blastic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Developing from more than a single type of tissue.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Growing several forms or type of leaves along a shoot depending on age or shoot length.
Related terms: homoblastic
heterogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛnɪk
Etymology: From hetero- + -genic.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the genes of different species.
examples: text: 1983, S. M. Al-Sabah, Development Planning in an Oil Economy and the Role of the Woman: The Case of Kuwait, London : Eastlords Pub.
There is no question that the mail survey is "the most practical method for obtaining reasonably compatible data across a large geographic base, a large heterogenic group, and also a large sample size".
text: Furthermore, being a woman composer is internally a heterogenic, multifaceted, and even conflicted process.
ref: 2000, Pirkko Moisala, "Finland: The Woman Composer as Nomadic Subject", in Pirkko Moisala, Beverley Diamond, Music and Gender, University of Illinois Press, page 166
text: Since the case study areas in the SECOA project are very heterogenic and are subjected to heterogenic drivers it was recommended by work package leader for this task (Tran 2011 a, b) to focus the DPSIR study on the […] coastal wetlands.
ref: 2014, Tran Dinh Lan, E. Gunilla Almered Olsson, Serin Alpokay, Environmental Stresses and Resource Use in Coastal Urban and Peri-Urban Regions: DPSIR Approach to SECOA's 17 Case Studies, Sapienza Università Editrice, →ISBN, page 25:
glosses: Relating to or involving (people, animals, things, etc, of) different kinds (genera), for example different sexes.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:heterogenic.
glosses: Characteristic of a different sex (especially of hypertrichosis or facial hair typical of a man but found on a woman).
Derived terms: heterogenicity
hemorrhagic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌhɛməˈrædʒɪk/
Forms: form: haemorrhagic
form: hæmorrhagic
Etymology: From hemorrhage + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or producing hemorrhage.
Derived terms: antihemorrhagic
Ebola hemorrhagic fever
enterohemorrhagic
epizootic hemorrhagic disease
fibrinohemorrhagic
hemorrhagically
hemorrhagic fever
hemorrhagic stroke
hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia
icterohemorrhagic
Marburg hemorrhagic fever
microhemorrhagic
mucohemorrhagic
necrohemorrhagic
perihemorrhagic
posthemorrhagic
prehemorrhagic
thrombohemorrhagic
West African hemorrhagic fever
homoplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æstɪk
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or showing, homoplasy.
glosses: Relating to the transplantation of tissue between individuals of the same species.
Derived terms: homoplastically
nonhomoplastic
holoblastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æstɪk
Forms: form: more holoblastic
form: most holoblastic
Etymology: From holoblast + -ic or holo- + -blastic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Cleaving, and separating into separate blastomeres.
raw_tags: of an egg
Related terms: meroblastic
dubiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dubiousnesses
Etymology: From dubious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The dubiousness of the old rope bridge deterred me from trying to cross.
glosses: The state of being dubious or suspicious.
examples: text: All his occasional pangs of dubiousness as to the grand governing thing of all—the reality of the physical relationship—only recoiled back upon him with added tribute of both certainty and insolubleness.
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
glosses: Doubt; uncertainty.
hippocephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hippo- + cephalic.
Senses: examples: text: The slant-eyed man was small, but the great hippocephalic bird was there to see he was obeyed.
ref: 1927, H. P. Lovecraft, The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath:
glosses: Having a head shaped like that of a horse.
legislatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From legislative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The base was legislatively closed: basically they passed a law saying to do it.
glosses: By legislation, by the method of enacting laws.
legitimatize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: legitimatizes
form: legitimatizing
form: legitimatized
form: legitimatized
Etymology: From legitimate + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make legitimate.
glosses: To legalize.
Derived terms: delegitimatize
handicapped-accessible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Able to be accessed by people having physical handicaps.
Related terms: accessibility
hydrodynamically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˌhaɪdɹoʊdaɪˈnæmɪkli/
Etymology: From hydrodynamic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: using hydrodynamics
Toblerone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtoʊbləɹoʊn/
Forms: form: Toblerones
Etymology: Brand name, from a blend of Tobler (“surname of one of the creators”) + Italian torrone (“form of nougat”).
Senses: examples: text: The H and N components, which Professor Oxford says are shaped like "Toblerones and mushrooms", are the ones that mutate and cause problems for the human immune system.
ref: 2000 January 9, “The killer shaped like a Toblerone”, in The Independent:
text: Below us the white granite and quartz of the most sacred of Inca sites sparkled, its Toblerone-shaped walls and deserted craters stretching over seventy acres.
ref: 2002, Richard Bangs, Ed Viesturs, Richard Bangs, adventure without end:
text: Hen number four was another bantam, living with three or four similar birds in one of the breeding arks. An ark is a Toblerone-shaped portable chicken enclosure, with a bedding/nest area at one end and a wire-mesh run at the other.
ref: 2005, Martin Gurdon, Hen and the Art of Chicken Maintenance, page 26:
text: You don't have to climb every mountain, just choose one: Kilimanjaro. The volcano stands out from the Tanzanian plains like a Toblerone triangle with a bite out of the top. But the mountain is far from sweet. It is high and, after the gentle slopes lull you, hard to climb. Climbing it takes from five to eight days, but if you reach the top you'll feel as strong as a lion.
ref: 2005 April 9, “The battered face of the Sphinx”, in Sydney Morning Herald:
text: The graph jags like a Toblerone, stabbing the heights in times of prosperity and the new-broom sweep of incoming governments.
ref: 2007, Lynsey Hanley, Estates: an intimate history, page 99:
glosses: A Swiss chocolate bar with honey, nougat and almonds, shaped like a triangular prism with triangular wedge-shaped pieces.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A length of soft sponge shaped like a triangular prism, usually printed with advertising, that can be placed over the boundary rope.
Derived terms: Toblerone tunnel
hydroelastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æstɪk
Etymology: From hydro- + elastic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: undergoing elastic deformation as the result of the flow of a fluid, especially that of water
historicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɪstəˈɹɪsɪti/
rhymes: -ɪsɪti
Forms: form: historicities
Etymology: Probably from French historicité, or from Latin historicus + -ity. Equivalent to historic + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The historicity of minor political figures of this period is often hard to establish due to a dearth of sources.
glosses: Historical quality or authenticity based on fact.
examples: text: This particular school places great emphasis on the historicity of ideas, practices, or institutions.
text: A superficial impression of Asia may be of disorder, whereas this condition is in fact the immediate historicity that speaks for an undertheorised heteroglossia.
ref: 2017, Francis Chia-Hui Lin, Architectural Theorisations and Phenomena in Asia, page 194:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The characteristic of having appeared or developed in history, as opposed to being natural or universal.
Related terms: historicality
Shoah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃəʊ.ə/
ipa: /ˈʃoʊ.ə/
rhymes: -əʊə
Forms: form: the Shoah
Etymology: From Hebrew שׁוֹאָה (šōʾā, “catastrophe”).
Senses: examples: text: I never knew him, or any of my other relatives who died in the Shoah. But I would gladly dump every ounce of that gold into the ocean, just to give them a decent burial.
ref: 1999, Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon:
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The systematic mass murder of six million Jews perpetrated by Nazi Germany shortly before and during World War II.
Derived terms: Shoah business
Shoaism
Yom HaShoah
Related terms: final solution
Porajmos
Meds Yeghern
legitimization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legitimizations
form: legitimisation
Etymology: From legitimize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The process of legitimizing, of making legitimate and/or legal.
Synonyms: legitimation
Derived terms: delegitimization
relegitimization
Lempira
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A department of Honduras.
lempira
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lempiras
Etymology: Spanish, from the name of an Indian chief.
Senses: glosses: The currency of Honduras, divided into 100 centavos.
Vauxhall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɒks.ɔːl/
Etymology: Generally thought to have originated in the late 13th century, from the name of Falkes de Breauté, the head of King John's mercenaries, who owned a large house in the area, known as Faulke's Hall, later Foxhall, and eventually Vauxhall.
Senses: glosses: An inner city area of London in the borough of Lambeth, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ3077).
glosses: An inner city area of Liverpool, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ3492).
glosses: A neighbourhood and holiday park in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG5108).
glosses: An inner city area of Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP0988).
glosses: An unincorporated community in Union County, New Jersey, United States.
glosses: A town in southern Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A suburb of Auckland, New Zealand, on the North Shore.
glosses: A suburb of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.
Derived terms: Vauxhall Gardens
Vauxhall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɒks.ɔːl/
Forms: form: Vauxhalls
Etymology: Generally thought to have originated in the late 13th century, from the name of Falkes de Breauté, the head of King John's mercenaries, who owned a large house in the area, known as Faulke's Hall, later Foxhall, and eventually Vauxhall.
Senses: glosses: A make of British motor car, first manufactured in Vauxhall in London.
beshrew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beshrews
form: beshrewing
form: beshrewed
form: beshrewed
Etymology: From Middle English beschrewen (“to curse, pervert”). By surface analysis, be- + shrew.
Senses: examples: text: Beshrew me, but you have a quick wit.
ref: c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: I had expected to freeze her young – or, rather, middle-aged – blood and have her perm stand on end like quills upon the fretful porpentine, and she hadn't moved a muscle. “Beshrew me,” I said, “you take it pretty calmly.”
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
glosses: To invoke or wish evil upon; to curse.
examples: text: Beshrew your heart, fair daughter!
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
text: R[oderico] D[’Avolos]. Beſhrevv my heart, but that’s not ſo good. / Duke [Phillippo Caraffa, Duke of Pavy]. Ha, vvhat’s that thou miſlik’ſt D'auolos?
ref: 1633, Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], Loues Sacrifice. A Tragedie […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Hugh Beeston, […], →OCLC, Act III:
text: "Now, beshrew his heart," quoth jolly Robin, "that would deny a butcher. And, moreover, I will go dine with you all, my sweet lads, and that as fast as I can hie." Whereupon, having sold all his meat, he closed his stall and went with them to the great Guild Hall.
ref: 1883, Howard Pyle, chapter V, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC:
glosses: An imperative uttered as a mildly imprecatory or merely expletive introductory exclamation.
calcite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkælˌsaɪt/
Forms: form: calcites
Etymology: From Latin calx + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A very widely distributed crystalline form of calcium carbonate, CaCO₃, found as limestone, chalk and marble.
Coordinate terms: cave pearl
flowstone
rimstone
stalactite
stalagmite
Derived terms: barytocalcite
calcitic
chlorocalcite
ferrocalcite
ferro-calcite
hydrocalcite
manganocalcite
nitrocalcite
pentahydrocalcite
plumbocalcite
silico-borocalcite
nide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /naɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
homophone: gnide
Forms: form: nides
form: nid
Etymology: Uncertain; possibly from Middle French nid (modern French nid (“nest”)), or its etymon Latin nīdus (“nest”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nisdós (“nest”)).
Senses: examples: text: [A] nide of pheasants are sometimes collected in a very small space, and in the middle of the day conceal themselves very close.
ref: 1809, William Nicholson, “SPORTING”, in The British Encyclopedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; […], volume VI (S … Z), London: Printed by C[harles] Whittingham, […]; for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], →OCLC, column 2:
text: [W]e were highly entertained with the antics of two stoats, who had left their hiding places to commence nocturnal depredations; [...] in the course of a few minutes the whirring of a nide of pheasants convinced us these little vermin had marked them as prey.
ref: 1818, J[ohn] Hassell, “Brentwood”, in Picturesque Rides and Walks, with Excursions by Water, Thirty Miles Round the British Metropolis; Illustrated in a Series of Engravings, Coloured after Nature; […], volume II, London: Printed [by W. Flint] for J. Hassell, […], →OCLC, pages 169–170:
text: [I]f a hen pheasant takes to new ground, at such a late period of the season, she may be likely to stay and build her nest there, and thus a nide may be lost in the following October.
ref: 1833 January, N. O., “Shooting in January”, in The New Sporting Magazine, volume IV, number XXI, London: Published by Baldwin & Cradock, […], →OCLC, page 173, column 1:
text: Reynard [i.e., a fox], in his thieving rambles, one night the summer before last visited the pleasure-gardens in Cornbury Park, and there he found and carried off a hen pheasant while sitting on her nest. The same evening a barn-door hen, with a nide of pheasants also disappeared.
ref: 1852 May, “Latitat” [pseudonym], “Anecdotes of Foxes”, in The Sportsman, London: Rogerson & Tuxford, →OCLC, page 347:
text: The breeding season of the present year has been favourable to young pheasants. The most glowing accounts are from Devon, Cornwall, some of the Midland counties, and from Yorkshire, where the wild nides are strong and healthy, and keepers have been very successful with the hand-reared stock.
ref: 1876 October 7, “The First of October”, in The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News: A High-class Weekly Journal of Sport, Art, Literature, Music, and the Drama, volume VI, number 138, London: Published by George Maddick, Junr., […], published 1877, →OCLC, page 29, column 1:
synonyms: nid
nye
glosses: A nest of pheasants.
Related terms: word: nyas
word: nye
sense: and see
word: nidifugous
Nide
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a Polynesian language spoken in Vanuatu.
Synonyms: Labo
Mewun
Meoun
Meaun
mixtape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mixtapes
form: mixed tape
Etymology: From mix + tape; originally mix tape.
Senses: examples: text: I wasn't performing with Pimp and Smoove that much no more, but I had a solo deal with Ruthless Rap and a brand new mixtape that was creating a big buzz.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 103:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: party tape
glosses: A compilation of songs on a tape, usually encompassing many different artists and assembled by fans, without legal permission.
Related terms: hip hop
mixtapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: plural of mixtape
sesquiannual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sesqui- + annual.
Senses: examples: text: 1979, R. E. Meyer, Sesquiannual Report – April 1977-September 1978, Fossil Energy Division/DOE (DOE/W-7405-eng–26-1; cited in Surface Phenomena in Enhanced Oil Recovery (2013, →ISBN, page 718)
text: 1990, Sesquiannual Meeting of the American Society for Rickettsiology and Rickettsial Diseases; 8 (the society holds meetings roughly every 1.5 years, e.g. September 1989, May 1991, and September 1992)
text: NTCIR (NII Testbeds and Community for Information access Research) is a sesquiannual series of international evaluation workshops hosted by National Institute of Informatics (NII).
[The 12th NTCIR conference was held 7-10 June 2016 and covered the period January 2015 - June 2016; the 11th conference was held one and a half years earlier 9-12 December 2014 and covered the period September 2013 - December 2014.]
ref: 2012, Information Retrieval Technology: 8th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, edited by Yuexian Hou, Jian-Yun Nie, Le Sun, Bo Wang, and Peng Zhang, →ISBN, page 29:
glosses: Occurring once every one and a half years (i.e. once every 18 months).
Related terms: sesquiennial
court costs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Expenses other than attorney's fees associated with the prosecution or defense of a lawsuit for which, in some jurisdictions, the prevailing party may demand repayment.
dob
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɑb/
ipa: /dɒb/
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: dobs
form: dobbing
form: dobbed
form: dobbed
Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly from Middle English dobben.
Senses: examples: text: I’ll dob on you if you break in.
text: You dobbed me in! — I never did!
text: Students often claimed that an act of informing was just ‘dobbing as a joke’ and therefore ‘not really dobbing’.
ref: 1983, James Macpherson, The Feral Classroom, page 107:
text: 1998, Supreme Court of Victoria, Council of Law Reporting in Victoria, Victorian Reports, Volume 4, page 372,
The deceased “dobbed” him in about drugs to police on two occasions. This resulted in police seizing some of his drugs. She “dobbed” him in because he would not give her amphetamines. He may have told people that she “dobbed” him in.
text: Alex was concerned that if others thought he had dobbed, things would get even worse for him. Dobbing was the worst thing a student could do.
ref: 2006, Ian Findley, Shared Responsibility: Beating Bullying in Australian Schools, page 67:
glosses: To report (a person) to someone in authority for a wrongdoing.
examples: text: We all dobbed in for a gift when he retired.
text: He′d never take payment in cash for tracking, but when they dobbed in for presentations such as the fridge he accepted them shyly, abashedly,[…].
ref: 1968, Louise Elizabeth Rorabacher, Aliens in Their Land: The Aborigine in the Australian Short Story, page 80:
text: The miners had all dobbed in to buy a few bottles of beer which they left in the creek overnight to cool.
ref: 1976, Margaret Paice, Colour in the Creek, page 53:
glosses: To do one's share; to contribute.
examples: text: I arrived just after the meeting had started and found myself dobbed in to take the minutes.
text: 1977, University of British Columbia, Canadian Literature, Issues 74-77, page 108,
Writing reviews reminds me of the time I got dobbed in to be the judge at the Poochera sheep dog trials. It′s easy they said, sinking beers in the shade of the lean-to, just watch the dog.
text: Those who moved into organisational roles sometimes did it unwittingly, even unwillingly, as they were ‘dobbed’ in for tasks, succeeded and so it went on.
ref: 2001, Kerreen M. Reiger, Sheila Kitzinger, Our Bodies, Our Babies: The Forgotten Women's Movement, page 153:
glosses: To nominate a person, often in their absence, for an unpleasant task.
examples: text: Parents were taken to court 189 times in the Western region over the past five years because their children were ‘dobbing’ school.¶ The Education Minister John O’Dowd revealed the number of parents taken to court due to children being absent from school […]
ref: 2015 October 11, Kevin Mullan, “189 parents in dock for ‘dobbing’”, in Londonderry Sentinel:
glosses: To play truant
Derived terms: dob in
dobber
dob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɑb/
ipa: /dɒb/
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: dobs
Etymology: Probably variation of dab.
Senses: examples: text: Put a dob of butter on the potato, please.
text: 1903, Rudyard Kipling, The Tabu Tale, in Just So Stories (in the U.S. Scribner edition, but omitted from most British editions),
‘Consequence will be, O Tegumai,’ said the Head Chief, ‘that we will make them understand it with sticks and stinging-nettles and dobs of mud; and if that doesn't teach them, we'll draw fine, freehand Tribal patterns on their backs with the cutty edges of mussel-shells. […] ’
glosses: A small amount of something, especially paste.
Related terms: dab
dob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɑb/
ipa: /dɒb/
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: DOB
Etymology: Initialism.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of date of birth.
dob
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɑb/
ipa: /dɒb/
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: dobs
form: dobbing
form: dobbed
form: dobbed
Etymology: Short for do our best. dyb (or dib) and dob were used as abbreviated forms of do your best and do our best in certain Scout chants.
Senses: examples: text: I used to get through the dibbing and dobbing all right but during the howling I usually rolled over backwards.
ref: 2009, Clive James, Unreliable Memoirs, page 54:
text: Why were there 212 fatalities at the first boy scout camp? There wasn't much dybbing and dobbing at Robert Baden-Powell's first scout camp as the camp in question was in Mafeking and took place during a particularly nasty siege[…]
ref: 2009, Justin Pollard, The Interesting Bits:
glosses: In the scouting movement, to chant dob to indicate that one will do one's best to follow the scouting laws.
penge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The ‘PENGE’ flaw which is caused by a white defect on letter ‘C’ of PENCE giving the effect of a ‘G’. This is at # 116 on Plate I.
ref: 2017, Alan Griffiths, The 1879 First Sideface Issue of Queensland, page 21:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: (typically penge flaw or penge error) a printing flaw on early Australian stamps where the c in pence appeared like the letter g.
shalwar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʃʌlwɑɹ/
Forms: form: shalwars
form: salwar
form: salvar
form: shalvar
form: shulwar
form: shulwaur
Etymology: From Hindi शलवार (śalvār)/सलवार (salvār) or Urdu شلوار (śalvār)/سلوار (salvār), from Classical Persian شلوار (šalwār).
Senses: examples: text: How I longed to have him (my gardener, not my landlord) wear a great big turban, and shalwars, and an ankle bracelet.
ref: 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire:
synonyms: galligaskins
sherryvallies
glosses: Loose trousers worn in some South Asian or Islamic countries, especially by women but also by men, especially with a kamees.
Derived terms: shalwar kameez
shalwar-kameez
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shalwar kameez.
kamees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmiːz/
rhymes: -iːz
Forms: form: kamees
form: kameeses
form: kameez
form: kameeze
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *hamô
Proto-West Germanic *hamō
Proto-West Germanic *-iþi
Proto-West Germanic *hamiþibor.
Latin camisiabor.?
Arabic قَمِيص (qamīṣ)bor.
English kamees
Borrowed from Arabic قَمِيص (qamīṣ). Doublet of chemise.
Senses: examples: text: Komal caresses the edge of her kameez with her fingers.
ref: 2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 125:
glosses: A long, loose shirt or blouse worn in some South Asian and Islamic countries.
Derived terms: salwar-kamees
enslave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈsleɪv/
rhymes: -eɪv
Forms: form: enslaves
form: enslaving
form: enslaved
form: enslaved
form: inslave
Etymology: From en- + slave.
Senses: examples: text: The migrants will be enslaved once they're no longer useful to the oligarchs; make no mistake about that.
text: He and his polite friends would dress themselves out with as much care in order to go and dine at each other’s rooms, as other folks would who were going to enslave a mistress.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 19, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: Selling them whiskey and taking their gold.
Enslaving the young and destroying the old.
ref: 1982, Iron Maiden, “Run to the Hills”:
text: The Vice-Premier described the Republic of China as not only an obstacle to Communist aggression, but an alternative to communism. He went on to say that if the Chinese Communists were permitted to enslave the Chinese people on the mainland in perpetuity, there could be no peace or security in Asia—or, for that matter, in the rest of the world—for a long, long time.
ref: 1983, James C. H. Shen, “Signs of Change”, in Robert Myers, editor, The U.S. & Free China: How the U.S. Sold Out Its Ally, Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books Ltd., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 52–53:
glosses: To make subservient; to strip one of freedom; enthrall.
Synonyms: beslave
bethrall
enslaven
enthrall
Derived terms: disenslave
enslavable
enslaveable
enslavedness
enslavement
enslaver
reenslave
unenslave
unenslaved
Related terms: slave
slavened
slavery
peng
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛŋ/
rhymes: -ɛŋ
Forms: form: pengs
Etymology: From romanizations of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 鵬 /鹏 (péng).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: roc
glosses: A legendary enormous bird.