cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
advancingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more advancingly
form: most advancingly
Etymology: From advancing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The graceful and animated figure with a Sword in one hand and a Victor’s Crown in the other, and mounted advancingly on the ramparts, explicitly shew the mode in which the place was taken by storm.
ref: 1820, James Mudie, An Historical and Critical Account of a Grand Series of National Medals,, London: Henry Colburn, page 112:
text: in [old horses] the disease is advancingly destructive
ref: 1906, Frank Townend Barton, chapter 17, in Horses: Their Points and Management in Health and Disease, London: Everett, page 298:
text: I haven’t been privy to the month-by-month deterioration of marriages once robust; I haven’t sniffed the sickly sweet waft of gin off the breath of a formerly industrious realtor at advancingly earlier hours of the afternoon.
ref: 2003, Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin, London: Serpent’s Tail, published 2005, page 66:
synonyms: progressively
glosses: In an advancing manner.
nonmathematically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nonmathematical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a nonmathematical manner.
undulatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more undulatingly
form: most undulatingly
Etymology: From undulating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an undulating manner.
boastingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊstɪŋli/
Forms: form: more boastingly
form: most boastingly
Etymology: From boasting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I doe not thinke that any Spartane Citizen did boastingly glorifie himselfe for his valor, because it was a popular vertue in that Nation […].
ref: , II.7
glosses: Boastfully.
retweet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retweets
form: retweeting
form: retweeted
form: retweeted
form: RT
form: rtwt
Etymology: From re- + tweet.
Senses: examples: text: Because your messages will be relevant to them, they are much more likely to retweet your messages and recommend that other people follow you on Twitter.
ref: 2009, Geert Conard, Friends with Benefits, Networking in a New Economy:
text: And the web—particularly social media—provides countless opportunities for intertextuality, chances to recontextualize, retweet, repost, riposte.
ref: 2023 February 3, Pia Ceres, “Quoting Taylor Swift Lyrics Is an Actual Linguistic Thing”, in Wired, San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 May 2023:
text: On Friday, it urged followers: “Retweet if you believe that Trump & his cronies are lying to the public and treating us like we’re stupid. We won’t be fooled by their games.”
ref: 2025 July 20, Ailia Zehra, “Busted: Fake MAGA bot accounts are now contradicting themselves over Trump and Epstein”, in Raw Story:
qualifier: Twitter
glosses: To repost or forward another user's message on the microblogging social networking website Twitter.
Derived terms: quote retweet
retweet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retweets
form: RT
form: rtwt
Etymology: From re- + tweet.
Senses: examples: text: You know it's an iPhone or iPad app, but those new to you, who came via a retweet or Twitter search, may not know which platform your app supports.
ref: 2011, Dave Wooldridge, Michael Schneider, The Business of iPhone and iPad App Development, page 339:
text: According to Stewart's analysis, current case law makes it unlikely a retweeter would be held liable for a defamatory retweet […]
ref: 2013, Daxton Stewart, Social Media and the Law, page 42:
text: The sheer density of information and misinformation at the End, encapsulated in news articles and message-board theories and clickbait traps that had propagated hysterically through retweets and shares, had effectively rendered us more ignorant, more helpless, more innocent in our stupidity.
ref: 2018, Ling Ma, chapter 2, in Severance, →ISBN:
qualifier: Twitter
glosses: A message reposted or forwarded in this way.
retweeted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retweet
retweeting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retweet
retweeting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retweetings
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent tweet
retweets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retweet
retweets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retweet
edisonades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of edisonade
bullroarer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bullroarers
form: bull roarer
form: bull-roarer
Etymology: From bull + roarer.
Senses: examples: text: So far he was on the track of elementary Science. And so he made "bull-roarers" to imitate the sound of wind and the blessed rain-bringing thunder, or clashed great bronze cymbals together with the same object.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 72:
text: The men and boys practiced not only the technique of twirling the bullroarer, but also the mock attack staged upon the person twirling it.
ref: 1980, Donald F. Tuzin, The Voice of the Tambaran: Truth and Illusion in Ilahita Arapesh Religion, page 61:
text: Frazer's ingenious theorizing is plausible as far as it goes, but it does not really explain why the bullroarer must be kept from women, the feature of the bullroarer complex that most troubled Lowie. Women are allowed to hear the sound of the bullroarer—indeed, the bullroarer is often used to warn women to keep away.
ref: 1980, Alan Dundes, Interpreting Folklore, page 181:
text: Intrinsic to the propulsion of the bullroarer is the string and the hole the string is attached to. The average distance from the base to the center of the hole on the bullroarers under study is 0.9 cm. The placement of the hole is exceedingly important.
ref: 1999, Tom Hackett, “Bullroarers”, in David Wescott, editor, Primitive Technology: A Book of Earth Skills, page 133:
synonyms: rhombus
thunder stick
turndun
whizzing stick
glosses: A ritual musical instrument and means of communicating over extended distances, consisting of a slat of wood tied to the end of a thong or string, with which the slat is whirled so as to cause an intermittent roaring noise.
bullroarers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bullroarer
Republic of Albania
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Republic of Albania
Senses: glosses: Official name of Albania: a country in Southeast Europe.
damosels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of damosel
affirmingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more affirmingly
form: most affirmingly
Etymology: From Middle English affirmandlye, equivalent to affirming + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in an affirming manner
electron carrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electron carriers
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several classes of molecules that act as both an acceptor and donator of electrons and function in an energy-producing system such as photosynthesis.
Nuyoricans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nuyorican
internationalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From international + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being international.
Synonyms: internationality
internationality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: internationalities
Etymology: From international + -ity.
Senses: glosses: internationalness
examples: text: In other words, the future does not belong to an internationality — to people who all speak Esperanto, all live the same life, but the very opposite is true.
glosses: A people sharing a common origin, culture, or language, but not excluded to any nation-state.
limitingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more limitingly
form: most limitingly
Etymology: From limiting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a limiting manner.
lispingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lispingly
form: most lispingly
Etymology: From lisping + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a lisping manner.
limpingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more limpingly
form: most limpingly
Etymology: From limping + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a limping manner; with a limp.
Lispers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lisper
nonadministrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonadministrators
Etymology: From non- + administrator.
Senses: glosses: One who is not an administrator.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A user who is not an administrator and therefore has limited privileges on the system.
Synonyms: sense: computer user who is not an administrator
word: nonadmin
nonadministrators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonadministrator
nonministerial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + ministerial.
Senses: glosses: Not ministerial.
nonserials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonserial
Lisplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lisplike
form: most Lisplike
Etymology: From Lisp + -like.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of the programming language Lisp.
unforgettability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + forgettability.
Senses: glosses: unforgettableness
unforgettableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unforgettable + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: unforgettability
glosses: The state or condition of being unforgettable; outstanding memorableness.
memorableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From memorable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: memorability
nonfractional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + fractional.
Senses: glosses: Not fractional.
nondiffuse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + diffuse.
Senses: glosses: Not diffuse.
nondiffused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + diffused.
Senses: glosses: Not diffused.
nondiffusing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + diffusing.
Senses: glosses: Not diffusing; that does not diffuse.
antonyms: diffusing
glosses: not broken down so that its elements are placed in it in addition to being included in the regular categorization
raw_tags: of a category
nondiffusive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + diffusive.
Senses: glosses: Not diffusive.
nonpictorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + pictorial.
Senses: glosses: Not pictorial.
nonhieroglyphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + hieroglyphic.
Senses: glosses: Not hieroglyphic.
nongraphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + graphic.
Senses: glosses: Not graphic.
nonexplicit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + explicit.
Senses: glosses: Not explicit.
Derived terms: nonexplicitly
inexplicitness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inexplicit + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being inexplicit.
inexplicitly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From inexplicit + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an inexplicit manner.
Synonyms: nonexplicitly
nonexplicitly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nonexplicit + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a nonexplicit manner.
Synonyms: inexplicitly
densenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of denseness
semirare
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + rare.
Senses: examples: text: Tin is a semirare metal.
glosses: Somewhat rare.
monocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monocracies
Etymology: From mono- + -cracy.
Senses: examples: text: The question here arises: Shall it be transferred to one or to many; or shall the state, in regard to the persons who constitute its government, be a monocracy or an aristocracy?
ref: 1869, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, The Science of Rights, page 279:
text: A monocracy, as traditionalists called it, also seemed dangerous.
ref: 1991, William W. Freehling, The Road to Disunion: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854, volume 1:
text: In monocracies, the extent of closure is still greater.
ref: 2015, M. Steven Fish, Democracy Derailed in Russia: The Failure of Open Politics:
glosses: Synonym of autocracy.
synonyms: word: autocracy
Derived terms: monocrat
monocratic
monocratically
monocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monocracy
monocratically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more monocratically
form: most monocratically
Etymology: From monocratic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a monocratic manner.
monocrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monocrats
Etymology: From mono- + -crat.
Senses: glosses: An autocrat.
Derived terms: monocratic
Related terms: monocracy
monocrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monocrat
non-Bayesian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + Bayesian.
Senses: glosses: Not Bayesian.
nonanomalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + anomalous.
Senses: glosses: Not anomalous.
Synonyms: word: cromulent
overwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overwise
form: most overwise
form: over wise
Etymology: From Middle English overe-wyse, over wise, equivalent to over- + wise.
Senses: examples: text: “Perkins? Bless you, Perkins wouldn’t go a-nigh the place. No!” observed the young man, with considerable feeling; “he ain’t overwise, ain’t Perkins, but he ain’t such a fool as that.”
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House:
glosses: Excessively wise; too clever for one's own good.
Derived terms: overwisely
overwiseness
noncitizenship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + citizenship.
Senses: glosses: Lack of citizenship.
nonstatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonstative
nonstateful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + stateful.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Not stateful; stateless.
noncreative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + creative.
Senses: synonyms: uncreative
coordinate_terms: uncreative
glosses: Not creative: unrelated to creativity.
tilebased
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: tile-based
Etymology: From tile + based.
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having a visual representation consisting of a usually rectangular grid of tiles.
unsprightly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + sprightly.
Senses: glosses: Not sprightly.
sapwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sapwood
nonmarketer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonmarketers
Etymology: From non- + marketer.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a marketer.
nonmarketers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonmarketer
cyclopyrrolone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclopyrrolones
Etymology: From cyclo- + pyrrolone.
Senses: glosses: Any of a family of hypnotic and anxiolytic nonbenzodiazepine drugs with similar pharmacological profiles to the benzodiazepine derivatives.
cyclopyrrolones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclopyrrolone
cycloalkynes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cycloalkyne
cyclododecatrienes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclododecatriene
eszopiclone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The active dextrorotatory stereoisomer of zopiclone, used as a sedative to treat insomnia.
zopiclone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A nonbenzodiazepine sedative used to treat insomnia.
Derived terms: eszopiclone
nonevil
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + evil.
Senses: glosses: Not evil.
nonfreezable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + freezable.
Senses: glosses: Not freezable.
nonincubated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + incubated.
Senses: glosses: unincubated
unincubated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + incubated.
Senses: glosses: Not incubated.
Synonyms: nonincubated
chicklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chicklike
form: most chicklike
Etymology: From chick + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a chick (young bird).
nongonorrheal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + gonorrheal.
Senses: glosses: Not gonorrheal.
nonhousewife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonhousewives
Etymology: From non- + housewife.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a housewife.
nonmaternity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + maternity.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to maternity.
nonhousewives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonhousewife
nonpaternity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-paternity
Etymology: From non- + paternity.
Senses: examples: text: nonpaternity aspects of the law
glosses: Not relating to paternity.
glosses: Of or pertaining to a situation in which an individual's presumed father is not the biological father.
pagoclone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪɡəkləʊn/
Senses: glosses: An anxiolytic cyclopyrrolone drug.
suriclone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A sedative and anxiolytic cyclopyrrolone drug.
pazinaclone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pəˈzɪnəkləʊn/
Senses: glosses: A sedative and anxiolytic cyclopyrrolone drug.
suproclone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsuːpɹəkləʊn/
Senses: glosses: A sedative and anxiolytic cyclopyrrolone drug.
nonbad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + bad.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: not bad
text: 29. No bad things are unpleasant. 30. No nonbad things are pleasant.
ref: 1966, John D. Dutton, E. L. Carranza, Logics: An Introduction with Exercises, page 144:
antonyms: bad
superbad
coordinate_terms: good
glosses: Not bad.
Related terms: noninferior
nonlazy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + lazy.
Senses: examples: text: If there were a way to ensure that the nonlazy persons would not misuse this facility, I would be in favor of car parks being reserved for the lazy.
ref: 2000, Kaushik Basu, Prelude to political economy:
glosses: Not lazy.
nonawake
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + awake.
Senses: examples: text: In a nonawake person with an intact reflex arc (vestibular-brainstem-eye muscles) passive head-turning causes the eyes to deviate conjugately in the opposite direction.
ref: 2006, John C M Brust, Current diagnosis and treatment in neurology:
glosses: Not awake.
conjugately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From conjugate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a conjugate manner.
housewifelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more housewifelike
form: most housewifelike
Etymology: From housewife + -like.
Senses: glosses: housewifely
orchardlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more orchardlike
form: most orchardlike
Etymology: From orchard + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an orchard.
orceins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orcein
charcoaly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more charcoaly
form: most charcoaly
Etymology: From charcoal + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling, containing, or characteristic of charcoal.
nonbrewing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + brewing.
Senses: glosses: Not involved in the brewing of alcoholic drinks.
glosses: Not of or pertaining to the brewing of alcoholic drinks.
centauroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centauroid
body piercings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of body piercing
agnathan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ăgʹnə-thən
enpr: ăg-năthʹən
ipa: /ˈæɡ.nə.θən/
ipa: /æɡˈnæθ.ən/
Etymology: From Agnatha, from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “without”) + γνάθος (gnáthos, “jaw”).
Senses: examples: text: Haikouichthys is one of three species of jawless (or agnathan) fish to be found in the Early Cambrian period.
ref: 2005, Tim Haines, Paul Chambers, The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life, BBC Books, page 20:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Belonging or pertaining to the superclass Agnatha, the jawless vertebrates.
agnathan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăgʹnə-thən
enpr: ăg-năthʹən
ipa: /ˈæɡ.nə.θən/
ipa: /æɡˈnæθ.ən/
Forms: form: agnathans
Etymology: From Agnatha, from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “without”) + γνάθος (gnáthos, “jaw”).
Senses: examples: text: Thus should the cranial neural crest in cyclostomes prove to be non-skeletogenous this might be a reflection either of its own primitiveness or of the different evolutionary origins and morphological status of the visceral skeleton in agnathans and gnathostomes.
ref: 1956, D. R. Newth, “On the Neural Crest of the Lamprey Embryo”, in Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology, volume 4, page 358:
text: The hagfish is an agnathan, a modern representative of the earliest evolved group of vertebrates, the ostracoderms or jawless fishes, which arose prior to the ancient placoderms (3).
ref: 1992, Peter J. Hanley et al., “Hagfish Humoral Defense Protein Exhibits Structural and Functional Homology with Mammalian Complement Components”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, volume 89, page 7910:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A member of the superclass Agnatha of jawless vertebrates.
Synonyms: agnath
agnatha
Hypernyms: vertebrate
Hyponyms: cyclostome
ostracoderm
Coordinate terms: gnathostome
agnathans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agnathan
smooth sailing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It's all been smooth sailing; everything has gone exactly according to plan.
text: We had some problems at the very beginning, but it's been smooth sailing since the second week or so.
text: Not that all was smooth sailing for MGM in Nazi Germany.
ref: 2013, Thomas Doherty, Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 315:
synonyms: plain sailing
glosses: Used to describe an activity that is not encountering any problems.
off the ground
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The remodeling project is finally off the ground.
text: We tried to start a company, but we couldn't seem to get it off the ground.
text: Once a business gets off the ground, a different management style may become appropriate.
glosses: Having gotten a good start; having reached a level of stability or self-sufficiency.
Derived terms: get off the ground
crap-shoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crap-shoots
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crapshoot.
no man is an island
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: From the 1623 quotation below.
Senses: examples: text: No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. […] any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, […]
ref: 1623, John Donne, “Meditation XVII”, in Devotions upon Emergent Occasions:
text: The few friends and relatives I once had seem to have forgotten me and I have found out the hard way that no man is an island.
ref: 1981 April 4, Rick Cornely, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 15:
text: Just as no man is an island, no nation lives in isolation. When freedom is denied in one country, it is diminished in all.
ref: 1992, Richard Nixon, “The Renewal of America”, in Seize the Moment, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 301:
text: And yet, no man is an island, and Sokurov's desire to promote himself as an insular, unique figure, both in his thinking and in his work, is contradicted by the many arrangements and obligatory associations that cinematic production entails.
ref: 2014, Jeremi Szaniawski, The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 231:
glosses: All people are connected to and dependent on other people.
blow someone's socks off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blows someone's socks off
form: blowing someone's socks off
form: blew someone's socks off
form: blown someone's socks off
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of knock someone's socks off.
coherencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coherency
paraselene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paraselenes
form: paraselenae
Etymology: From Ancient Greek παρά (pará, “beside”) + σελήνη (selḗnē, “moon”).
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A bright, circular spot, sometimes seen on a lunar halo, caused by refraction through ice crystals.
Synonyms: moon dog
mock moon
Derived terms: paraselenic
pot liquor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pot liquors
form: potlikker
form: pot likker
Senses: synonyms: collard liquor
glosses: The liquid left after boiling greens, such as collard greens, mustard greens, or turnip greens.
wikipedia: New York Times
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pot likker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pot likkers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pot liquor.
potlikker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potlikkers
Etymology: From pot + likker.
Senses: examples: text: Mabel had given the girl her own supper portion and spooned potlikker and roots into her trembling lips until she opened her eyes again.
ref: 2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), pages 21–22:
glosses: Alternative spelling of pot liquor.
foetotoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foetotoxic
form: most foetotoxic
Etymology: From foeto- + toxic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fetotoxic.
jeggings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛɡ.ɪŋz/
Etymology: Blend of jeans + leggings.
Senses: examples: text: I remember first reading about jeggings (jeans+leggings) in 2009. How ridiculous it sounded then, a word that conjured up images of urinary infections and squished buttocks. Four years later, the M&S website devotes an entire section to this fashion hybrid.
ref: 2013 May 10, Rachel Braier, “The trouser is so now in the singular world of fashion”, in The Guardian:
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: Denim leggings, or very skinny jeans.
Related terms: meggings
treggings
superparticular number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superparticular numbers
Senses: examples: 2/1, 3/2, 4/3 and 8/7 are all superparticular numbers.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A number in the form of a ratio where the dividend equals the divisor plus one.
Synonyms: epimoric ratio
superparticular ratio
superparticular numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superparticular number
pieces of shit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piece of shit
piece of crap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pieces of crap
form: POC
Senses: glosses: Synonym of piece of shit.
synonyms: word: piece of shit
pieces of crap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piece of crap
trimmable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trim + -able.
Senses: examples: text: All trimmable fat was removed from the boneless cuts […]
ref: 1944, Guide book of the frozen food locker industry:
glosses: Capable of being trimmed.
overpersuade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvəpəˈsweɪd/
Forms: form: overpersuades
form: overpersuading
form: overpersuaded
form: overpersuaded
Etymology: From over- + persuade.
Senses: examples: text: Opportunitie casting him into the company of foure French Gallants well attended [...]; over-perswaded him to goe with them into France, to the Dutchesse of Mercury, from whom they should not only have meanes, but also Letter of favour to her noble Duke [...].
ref: 1630, John Smith, True Travels, Kupperman, published 1988, page 36:
text: ‘And I let him overpersuade me. He was right, really.’
ref: 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not… (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 62:
glosses: To win someone over through persuasion; to convince (someone) to do something against their own judgement or wishes.
scrub up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scrubs up
form: scrubbing up
form: scrubbed up
form: scrubbed up
Senses: glosses: To clean or wash by scrubbing.
examples: text: He scrubs up well.
synonyms: clean up
dress up
glosses: To become clean, handsome, smart in appearance, e.g. for a special occasion, especially when it is out of character to be seen as such.
Osakan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊˈsɑːkən/
ipa: /oʊˈsɑkən/
rhymes: -ɑːkən
Forms: form: more Osakan
form: most Osakan
Etymology: From Osaka + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, from, or characteristic of Osaka in Japan.
Osakan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊˈsɑːkən/
ipa: /oʊˈsɑkən/
rhymes: -ɑːkən
Forms: form: Osakans
Etymology: From Osaka + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Osakans boast of this passion, noting that they are unlike the people of nearby Kyoto, who discreetly spend their money on luxurious clothes and furnishings.
ref: 1987 June 7, Amanda Mayer Stinchecum, “Shopper's World: Osaka's Flavorful Feast of Noodles”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 May 2017:
text: Indeed, Osakans are some of the most voracious eaters of the fish, which come from local waters.
ref: 2005 October 9, Ken Belson, “Going to Osaka”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 23 Mar 2021:
glosses: An inhabitant or native of Osaka.
pandimensional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pan- + dimensional.
Senses: examples: text: IN THE FIRST PLACE, TIME AS YOU EXPERIENCE IT DOES NOT EXIST IN THE PANDIMENSIONAL UNIVERSE.
ref: 1983, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Messages from Michael, Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 208:
text: “Earthman,” he said, “it is sometimes hard to follow your mode of speech. Remember I have been asleep inside this planet of Magrathea for five million years and know little of these early sixties sitcoms of which you speak. These creatures you call mice, you see, they are not quite as they appear. They are merely the protrusion into our dimension of vastly hyperintelligent pandimensional beings. The whole business with the cheese and the squeaking is just a front.”
ref: 1989, Douglas Adams, The More than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide: Complete & Unabridged, Wings Books, page 109:
text: Michael also stated that we are all parts of a greater whole, living in a ‘pandimensional universe.
ref: 1997, Jim Marrs, Alien Agenda, HarperCollins Publishers, page 361:
glosses: Of or pertaining to all dimensions of reality.
Related terms: pandimensionality
pandimensionally
omnidimensional
six of the best
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Six strokes with a cane, a traditional school punishment.
soundbar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaʊndˌbɑɹ/
Forms: form: soundbars
Etymology: From sound + bar.
Senses: glosses: A bar containing multiple speakers that can be mounted under or alongside a television, etc. instead of having separate speakers positioned around the room.
soundbars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soundbar
soundcard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soundcards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sound card.
soundcards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soundcard
soundclashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soundclash
nonwireless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + wireless.
Senses: examples: a nonwireless Internet connection
glosses: Not wireless; wired.
SPARQL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɑːkəl/
ipa: /ˈspɑɹkəl/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)kəl
homophone: sparkle
Senses: topics: computer-languages
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: SPARQL protocol and RDF query language (a recursive acronym), a semantic Web technology.
spearwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spear + wood; named for the use made of the wood by Australian Aborigines to make spear shafts.
Senses: examples: text: 1966, Western Australian Forests Department, Bulletin, Issues 63-77, page 62,
Peppermint (Agonis flexuosa), attaining heights of up to 30 feet, is the principal understorey species in the south, while Banksia menziesii, Banksia grandis, Banksia attenuata, Casuarina fraseriana, black wattle and spearwood (Kunzea ericifolia) predominate in the north.
text: In these areas it is found usually under Spearwood, Kunzea ericifolia in low-lying situations adjoining winter-wet swamps[…].
ref: 1998, Noel Hoffman, Andrew Brown, Orchids of South-West Australia, page 201:
glosses: The erect woody evergreen shrub Kunzea ericifolia, endemic to Western Australia.
examples: 1976, Society for Growing Australian Plants, Australian Plants, Volume 9, Issue 69 - Volume 10, Issue 84, page 379,
Clinging to the sparse soil beneath the trees are the hardy acacias — Spearwood (Acacia doratoxylon), with its long, narrow leaves (up to 10cm long by 2-5mm wide), a tall shrub with golden-yellow flower spikes to 2cm; […] .
glosses: The shrub Acacia doratoxylon.
glosses: The flowering vine Pandorea doratoxylon.
glosses: The eucalypt Eucalyptus doratoxylon.
Synonyms: sense: Kunzea ericifolia
word: swamp spearwood
sense: Eucalyptus doratoxylon
word: spearwood mallee
spyplane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spyplanes
Etymology: From spy + plane.
Senses: glosses: A military aircraft used for surveillance.
spyplanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spyplane
frushing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of frush
frushes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of frush
frushed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of frush
nonaccelerated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + accelerated.
Senses: glosses: unaccelerated
sumless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sum + -less.
Senses: glosses: innumerable, uncountable
suppositiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From suppositious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being suppositious.
unvindicated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + vindicated.
Senses: glosses: Not vindicated.
unidealized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + idealized.
Senses: glosses: Not idealized.
unidealized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + idealized.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unidealize
Sumerologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sumerologists
Etymology: From Sumerology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: For example, the Sumerologist Jacobsen places the poem in which the young Inanna, still a maiden in puberty, asks a court musician to help her compose a poem to her vulva, in the middle of the cycle, at a point in time when she is recalling the early days when she first chose Dumuzi as her spouse; yet in the poem she is clearly inquiring who will become her lover, and so I place it as part of the beginning: a poem about the virginal Inanna in meditation on the mysteries of her own vulva.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 168:
glosses: A person who studies ancient Sumer and the Sumerians; an expert in Sumerology.
Sumerologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sumerologist
affrontingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more affrontingly
form: most affrontingly
Etymology: From affronting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in an affronting manner
take one for the team
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes one for the team
form: taking one for the team
form: took one for the team
form: taken one for the team
Etymology: By analogy with a player making a sacrifice for the benefit of the sports team.
Senses: glosses: To accept some chore, hardship, or punishment for the sake of one's friends or colleagues.
Related terms: bell the cat
fall on a grenade
step into the breach
take the fall
there's no I in team
animatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more animatingly
form: most animatingly
Etymology: From animating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in an animating manner
appeasingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more appeasingly
form: most appeasingly
Etymology: From appeasing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in an appeasing manner
applaudingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more applaudingly
form: most applaudingly
Etymology: From applauding + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in an applauding manner
aspiringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more aspiringly
form: most aspiringly
Etymology: From aspiring + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: to discern more clearly the Mercy which looks down, and repudiate more utterly the phantom of human merit, which would look aspiringly upward
ref: 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 24, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, pages 315-316:
glosses: In an aspiring manner.
assentingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more assentingly
form: most assentingly
Etymology: From assenting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in an assenting manner
helicopterlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more helicopterlike
form: most helicopterlike
Etymology: From helicopter + -like.
Senses: examples: helicopterlike rotors
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a helicopter.
hydrostatic pressure relief systems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrostatic pressure relief system
Saaniches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Saanich
Sumerology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Sumer + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The study of the ancient Sumerian civilisation.
Derived terms: Sumerological
Sumerologist
Sumerological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Sumerology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Sumerology.
asseveratingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more asseveratingly
form: most asseveratingly
Etymology: From asseverating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in an asseverating manner
whateverist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whateverists
Etymology: From whatever + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of whateverism.
whateverists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whateverist
masters of ceremonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of master of ceremonies
nonlandowning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + landowning.
Senses: glosses: Not landowning.
nonlandlord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonlandlords
Etymology: From non- + landlord.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a landlord.
nonpeasant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonpeasants
Etymology: From non- + peasant.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a peasant.
nonlandlords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌnɑnˈlændlɔɹdz/
Senses: glosses: plural of nonlandlord
nonpeasants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonpeasant
nonserf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonserfs
Etymology: From non- + serf.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a serf.
nonserfs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonserf
peasantlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more peasantlike
form: most peasantlike
Etymology: From peasant + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a peasant.
pheasantlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pheasantlike
form: most pheasantlike
Etymology: From pheasant + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a pheasant or its meat.
anythingism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anything + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Disbelief — active or passive — Deism, Atheism, Pantheism, anythingism […]
ref: 1871, Eneas Sweetland Dallas, Once a week:
text: In these days of laxity, and anythingism in religion, even those of whom we might hope better things do not appear exercised, with the apostle Paul, to have always a conscience void of offence towards God and towards men.
ref: 1880, The Gospel standard, or Feeble Christian's support:
text: The feathers I wore were a borrowed invention I did not truly understand, like Buddhism, Taoism, Tantrism, anythingism […]
ref: 1972, Albert Glover, The mushroom:
glosses: A nonspecific belief in anything, or that anything goes.
urself
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: yourself
scorpionlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scorpionlike
form: most scorpionlike
Etymology: From scorpion + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a scorpion.
inalterableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inalterable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of unalterableness.
synonyms: word: unalterableness
fig wasp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fig wasps
form: fig-wasp
Senses: synonyms: agaonid
glosses: A wasp of the family Agaonidae, some of which pollinate figs.
sand wasp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sand wasps
Senses: glosses: A predatory crabronid wasp that builds burrowlike nests in the ground:
Any of genus Ammophila of narrow-waisted hunting wasps, sometimes placed in Sphecidae.
glosses: A predatory crabronid wasp that builds burrowlike nests in the ground:
Any of tribe Bembicini
Derived terms: red-banded sand wasp
burrowlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more burrowlike
form: most burrowlike
Etymology: From burrow + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a burrow.
crabronid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crabronids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the Crabronidae, a large family of wasps.
crabronids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crabronid
landlordless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From landlord + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The problem is to get the peasants used to living in a landlordless world. If you can't make the farmer productive, leave him alone.
ref: 1969, Robert Shaplen, Time out of hand: revolution and reaction in Southeast Asia:
glosses: Without a landlord.
inalterability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inalterable + -ity.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of unalterableness.
synonyms: word: unalterableness
superglacially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more superglacially
form: most superglacially
Etymology: From superglacial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a superglacial manner; above a glacier or ice.
subglacially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From subglacial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a subglacial manner; beneath a glacier or ice.
subgingivally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more subgingivally
form: most subgingivally
Etymology: From subgingival + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a subgingival manner; beneath the gingival margin.
nonmaterially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nonmaterial + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: All too often, students from nonmaterially privileged backgrounds assume a position of passivity — they behave as victims...
ref: 2003, Antonia Darder, Marta Baltodano, Rodolfo D Torres, The critical pedagogy reader:
glosses: Not materially
subglacial lakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subglacial lake
achelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more achelike
form: most achelike
Etymology: From ache + -like.
Senses: examples: an achelike pain
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an ache.
look down upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looks down upon
form: looking down upon
form: looked down upon
form: looked down upon
Senses: examples: text: The mechanical toys were very superior, and looked down upon every one else; they were full of modern ideas, and pretended they were real.
ref: 1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of look down on.
gaj
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gajes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gadje (“non-Romani person”).
assumingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more assumingly
form: most assumingly
Etymology: From assuming + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an assuming manner.
chirurgeonly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chirurgeonly
form: most chirurgeonly
Etymology: From chirurgeon + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Gon[zalo]. My Lord Sebaſtian, / The truth you ſpeake doth lacke ſome gentleneſſe, / And time to ſpeake it in: you rub the ſore, / When you ſhould bring the plaiſter.
Seb[aſtian]. Very well.
Ant[onio]. And moſt Chirurgeonly.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 7, column 2:
glosses: having the characteristics of a chirurgeon (doctor or surgeon)
atoningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more atoningly
form: most atoningly
Etymology: From atoning + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in an atoning manner