cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
glutæi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This hollowing probably depends on the action of the iliacus internus, which is greater than that of the glutæi.
ref: 1832, Coulson, London Medical Gazette, volume IX, page 417:
glosses: plural of glutæus
beblur
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beblurs
form: beblurring
form: beblurred
form: beblurred
Etymology: From be- + blur.
Senses: glosses: To blur all over.
beblot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beblots
form: beblotting
form: beblotted
form: beblotted
Etymology: From Middle English beblotten, biblotten, equivalent to be- + blot.
Senses: glosses: To blot all over; stain.
glutæus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glutæi
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of gluteus.
beblubber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beblubbers
form: beblubbering
form: beblubbered
form: beblubbered
Etymology: From be- + blubber.
Senses: glosses: To make swollen, disfigured, bleared, or sullied by weeping.
Derived terms: beblubbered
æt.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: ætat.
form: aet.
Etymology: Abbreviation of Latin aetātis (“of age”).
Senses: examples: text: John Leeson, æt. 48, was admitted under my care November 20th, 1831.
ref: 1832, Coulson, London Medical Gazette, volume IX, page 416:
glosses: Of the age; aged.
Ollila
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ollilas
Etymology: Borrowed from Finnish Ollila.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Finnish.
hoaching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hotching.
hotching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hotch
hotch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɒtʃ/
rhymes: -ɒtʃ
Forms: form: hotches
form: hotching
form: hotched
form: hotched
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman hocher, Middle French hocher, from a Germanic source (compare Dutch hutsen, hossen, German hotzen).
Senses: glosses: To move irregularly up and down.
examples: text: What if I went up? Imagine nobody had done it before. It would be hotching with balls and stuff, hundreds of things.
ref: 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, page 314:
glosses: To swarm (with).
Derived terms: hotchpot
hodgepodge
umbelliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more umbelliform
form: most umbelliform
Etymology: From umbel + -iform.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the shape of an umbel.
umbrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: umbrines
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Umbrina, coined by French zoologist Georges Cuvier in 1817 on page 174 of Volume I of Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation as a Latinization of French Ombrines (“shadowy ones”) from ombre + -ines, Old French onbre, ombre, from Latin umbra, probably from Old Latin *omra, possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *h₂mr-u-, *h₂mrup-.
Senses: glosses: Any of several food fishes of the genus Umbrina of drums.
estivations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of estivation
zigaboo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zigaboos
Senses: examples: text: “That zigaboo is a singing fool,” remarked Jake.
ref: 1928, Claude McKay, Home to Harlem, Northeastern University Press, published 1987, →ISBN, page 322:
text: Wait till I light up my coal-pot and I’ll tell you about this Zigaboo called Jelly.
ref: 1942, Zora Neale Hurston, “Story in Harlem Slang”, in The American Mercury, Volume 45 (July 1942), reprinted in Alan Dundes (editor), Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel, University Press of Mississippi (1973), page 222
text: “Mommie,” the little girl announced in a confidential stage whisper: “Mommie, there is a ‘zigaboo’ behind you!” The mother turned and looked squarely into my eyes. Did she see a “zigaboo?” I wondered. She gave no hint.
ref: a. 1996, C. Eric Lincoln, Coming through the Fire: Surviving Race and Place in America, Duke University Press, published 1996, →ISBN, page 3:
glosses: Alternative form of ziggaboo.
zerothly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From zeroth + -ly, on the model of firstly, secondly, and so on.
Senses: glosses: In the zeroth place; before even the first thing.
zootype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zootypes
Etymology: From zoo- + type. In the biological sense, by analogy with phylotype.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A proposed archetype of the form of all animals, based not on a shared body plan but on conserved molecular homologies.
glosses: An animal totem; an animal (or animal figure) that is taken as symbolic of a deeper abstraction.
waistbelt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waistbelts
Etymology: From waist + belt.
Senses: glosses: A belt (a band or strap) worn around the waist, especially when part of a larger article, such as a backpack.
xenoreactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more xenoreactive
form: most xenoreactive
Etymology: From xeno- + reactive.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: That generates a reaction to material from another species
Related terms: xenoantigen
xenoreactivity
young Turk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: young Turks
form: Young Turk
Etymology: Calque of French Jeune-Turc, from which also Turkish Jön Türk has been borrowed.
Senses: glosses: From the late-19th to the early-20th century, a member of a movement that campaigned for reform of the Ottoman Empire.
examples: text: "What! Roscoe?" inquired the principal.
"Yes."
"Is he in any mischief?"
"Mischief? I should say so! Why, he's a regular young Turk."
"A young Turk? I don't think I understand you, James."
"I mean, he's a young ruffian."
ref: 1885, Horatio Alger, chapter 14, in Hector's Inheritance:
text: He arrives at a time when jazz's discontented Young Turks have disdainfully turned away from their audiences and gone off to explore the way-out.
ref: 1966 September 30, “Jazz: Man with a Brain”, in Time:
glosses: A young person who agitates for political or other reform; a young person with a rebellious disposition.
watchpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watchpoints
Etymology: From watch + point, on the model of breakpoint.
Senses: examples: text: AdaRAID supports multiple CPUs running concurrently, Ada data types, features include break points, watchpoints, timing, tracing, stepping, walkbacks, and histories of last n executions.
ref: 1990, NASA Tech Briefs, page 98:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A debugging mechanism whereby execution is suspended every time a specified memory location is modified; or, any of various similar such mechanisms.
young money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The disposable income of young people
Related terms: new money
ondine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ondines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of undine (“water-sprite”).
secretary general
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secretaries general
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Secretary General.
DTL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: An example of a sensor network based on P2P content distribution and Delay-tolerant Networking (DTL) is ZebraNet. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5694
glosses: Initialism of delay-tolerant networking.
glosses: Initialism of diode-transistor logic.
Surgeon General
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Surgeons General
form: Surgeon-General
Senses: synonyms: word: chief medical officer
word: chief medical advisor
glosses: The leading public health official in a country, state, or military division.
hyperbolæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperbola
necessarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From necessarian + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Scholars working on Joseph Priestley have begun to take a proper measure of his philosophical position, known as “necessarianism,” a psychological determinism based on the teachings of the midcentury physician and theologian David Hartley—with, in Priestley′s own case, the addition of materialism. To its enemies, necessarianism seemed rank fatalism, but its adherents found that it both explained the evils about them and offered a sovereign remedy (generally through one or another variety of education) to resolve them and bring mankind to perfection.
ref: 1995, Denis G. Paz, Nineteenth-Century English Religious Traditions: Retrospect and Prospect, page 106:
text: While not acceptable to all Unitarians, the philosophical determinism known as Necessarianism, identified with Hartley and Priestley, also proved persuasive to many, both ministers and laymen.
ref: 2000, R. K. Webb, “6: Miracles in English Unitarian Thought”, in Mark S. Micale, Robert L. Dietle, editors, Enlightenment, Passion, Modernity: Historical Essays in European Thought and Culture, page 114:
text: To cut a long story short, this led to the emergence of a new form of necessarianism. People are conditioned to behave as they do, so freedom is an illusion. This form of necessarianism may be called ‘behaviourist necessarianism’.
ref: 2001, Alexander Crombie, An Essay on Philosophical Necessity, page number not shown:
topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
philosophy
religion
sciences
theology
qualifier: metaphysics
glosses: An extreme form of determinism that holds that all phenomena, including the will, are subject to immutable rules of cause and effect; necessitarianism.
necessitarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: necessitarianisms
Etymology: From necessitarian + -ism.
Senses: qualifier: metaphysics
glosses: necessarianism
dark-lanthorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dark-lanthorns
Senses: examples: text: 'Tis a dark-lanthorn of the spirit
ref: 1859, Samuel Butler, “Canto 1, Line 605”, in Henry George Bohn, editor, Hudibras, page 24:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of dark lantern.
arson dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arson dogs
Senses: examples: text: Identifying 1/1000th of a drop of 50 percent evaporated gasoline is an easy task for a well-trained arson dog.
ref: 2006, Jenni Bidner, Dog Heroes: Saving Lives and Protecting America, page 98:
glosses: A dog trained to use its sense of smell to locate traces of accelerant at sites of a suspected arson.
Hypernyms: police dog
detection dog
prescription bottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prescription bottles
head_nr: 1
Senses: examples: text: Where did I leave my prescription bottle?
text: In 1908 Obear-Nester conducted a contest to name a new style of prescription bottle that would be on the market 1 January 1909.
ref: 1999, George B. Griffenhagen, George Griffen Hagen, Mary Bogard, History of Drug Containers and their Labels, page 45:
head_nr: 1
glosses: A container for prescription medications, usually a small plastic cylinder with a screw cap.
prescription bottles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prescription bottle
considre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: considres
form: considring
form: considred
form: considred
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of consider.
masala chai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈsɑːlə ˈtʃaɪ/
Forms: form: masala chais
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi मसाला चाय (masālā cāy) / Urdu مصالہ چای (masālā cāy, literally “spiced/seasoned tea”).
Senses: glosses: A South Asian beverage of black tea brewed in milk and water and then sweetened with sugar, with the addition of aromatic herbs and spices.
Synonyms: chai
chai tea
cha
tea
Kalo Finnish Romani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The first part is derived from Kalo Finnish Romani kaalengo tšimb, the language's endonym.
Senses: glosses: A variant of Romani language spoken by the Finnish Roma.
tetraptych
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈtɹæp.tɪk/
ipa: /tɛˈ-/
rhymes: -æptɪk
Forms: form: tetraptychs
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: a polyptych having four sections
ænigmatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ænigmatical
form: most ænigmatical
Senses: examples: text: My Lords, among other charges it has been ſaid, that I have, in bringing forward the ſubject of Parliamentary Reform, reſorted to intrigue and management, and that I have formed a myſterious and ænigmatical connection with the Correſponding Society—a ſociety who, we are told, are friends to the French, and traitors to their country.
ref: 1799, The Parliamentary Register, page 764:
glosses: Obsolete form of enigmatical.
dialogist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dialogists
Etymology: From dialog + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A writer of dialogs.
glosses: A speaker within a dialogue.
meet market
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meet markets
Etymology: From meat market (“place to meet romantic or sexual partners”), influenced by pun on meet (“encounter new person”), and to emphasize social interactions rather than physical (looking for sex).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of meat market (place to find a sexual partner)
field house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: field houses
form: fieldhouse
Etymology: From Middle English *feldhous, from Old English feldhūs (“a tent”), equivalent to field + house. Modern sense is from 1895, originally, a side building by an outdoor sports field, later used for large buildings for indoor sports.
Senses: glosses: A tent.
examples: text: There were herds of leather sofas and enough computers to ensure that no prospective matriculant or visiting parent could enter a room and not see at least one available keyboard, not even in the dining hall or field house.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: A large building for indoor sports, particularly at colleges.
glosses: A building for equipment storage and changing rooms (locker rooms) by an outdoor sports field.
fieldhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fieldhouses
Etymology: From Middle English *feldhous, from Old English feldhūs (“a tent”), equivalent to field + house.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of field house.
oratorian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oratorians
Senses: glosses: A member of a Roman Catholic oratory.
oratorian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oratorian
form: most oratorian
Senses: examples: text: oratorian Priests
ref: 1700, Thomas Wentworth, The Tryal of Thomas Earl of Strafford:
glosses: oratorical
orch.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of orchestra.
ordalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ordalium
ordinariate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ordinariates
Senses: glosses: The office of a Roman Catholic ordinary, especially a bishop.
Derived terms: Ordinariate
personal ordinariate
Ambala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and district of the state of Haryana, India.
bumpity
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From bump + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: "There he goes!" cried his delighted master, throwing down the poker and snapping his fingers in an ecstasy — "Bumpity bump! bumpity bump! Hope he won't stop at the landing-place — no — off again! All stone steps!
ref: 1833, Horace Smith, Gale Middleton: A Story of the Present Day, page 229:
text: Daria closed her eyes, exhaling slow smoke through her nostrils, listening to the bumpity sound of wheels on the polished cobblestone unevenness of the street.
ref: 1998, R. Kiernan, chapter 1, in Silk:
text: The rhythmic bumpity, bumpity, bumpity bump of a pissed academic with arthritic knees falling down the stairs, ricocheting between wall and banister as he went.
ref: 2002, Marian Keyes, Under the Duvet, page 193:
text: Bang, bang, bumpity bump, I hear as spruce cones fall on the metal roofing of my woodshed.
ref: 2011, Amy Seidl, Finding Higher Ground: Adaptation in the Age of Warming:
text: "I've always wanted romance, and I realized I'd had it with her. It made my heart go all bumpity-bump. Then she called me her light, and that was that."
ref: 2019 August 14, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Wednesday, Aug 14, 2019:
glosses: Nonce variation of the word bump, usually indicating the sound of someone or something tumbling down an uneven surface, or traveling on a rough road.
Orvieto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːˈvjeɪtəʊ/
ipa: /ˌɔːvɪˈeɪtəʊ/
enpr: ôr-vyāʹtō
enpr: ôr'vē-āʹtō
ipa: /ɔɹˈvjeɪtoʊ/
ipa: /ɔɹˈvjɛtoʊ/
enpr: ôr-vyāʹtō
enpr: ôr-vyĕtʹō
rhymes: -eɪtəʊ
rhymes: -ɛtəʊ
Etymology: From Italian Orvieto, from Latin Urbs Vetus (literally “old city”).
Senses: glosses: A town in the province of Terni, Umbria, Italy.
Derived terms: Orvieto ware
Related terms: orvietan
Orvieto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːˈvjeɪtəʊ/
ipa: /ˌɔːvɪˈeɪtəʊ/
enpr: ôr-vyāʹtō
enpr: ôr'vē-āʹtō
ipa: /ɔɹˈvjeɪtoʊ/
ipa: /ɔɹˈvjɛtoʊ/
enpr: ôr-vyāʹtō
enpr: ôr-vyĕtʹō
rhymes: -eɪtəʊ
rhymes: -ɛtəʊ
Forms: form: Orvietos
Etymology: From Italian Orvieto, from Latin Urbs Vetus (literally “old city”).
Senses: glosses: A white wine from that town.
Saz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /sæz/
Senses: glosses: A nickname of the given name Sarah or Sally.
be born
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: be born
form: am born
form: 'm born
form: was born
form: are born
form: 're born
form: were born
form: is born
form: 's born
form: was born
form: are born
form: 're born
form: were born
form: be born
form: were born
form: be born
form: -
form: being born
form: been born
Senses: glosses: To come into existence through birth.
Derived terms: a sucker is born every minute
be born last week
be born yesterday
I was born in ...
naked as the day one was born
no one is born a master
not know one is born
one's father was born before one
Related terms: beget
give birth
drug dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drug dogs
Senses: glosses: A detection dog trained to use its sense of smell to locate illicit substances, such as drugs, which may be carried on a person in their effects.
Hypernyms: police dog
detection dog
E.C.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of earth closet.
detection dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: detection dogs
Senses: glosses: A specialized form of police dog; trained to use its sense of smell to detect and locate evidence of illicit substances, from illegal drugs to explosives materials, which may be carried on a person in their effects.
Synonyms: sniffer dog
Hypernyms: police dog
arson dog
drug dog
cadaver dog
æquatorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more æquatorial
form: most æquatorial
Senses: examples: text: The seeds are referable to many hundreds of species, some related to the date, areca, acacia, pepper plant, cocoa, anona, cardamom, nipa,‡ cucumber, &c., &c., clearly demonstrating to us that the temperature of that period, and its flora also, was that of an æquatorial region.
ref: 1857, Robert Etheridge, Lectures Delivered at the Bristol Mining School, page 264:
glosses: Archaic form of equatorial.
zootypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zootype
zigaboos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zigaboo
watchpoints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of watchpoint
waistbelts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waistbelt
wetroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wetrooms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wet room.
wetrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wetroom
whirlblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whirlblasts
Etymology: From whirl + blast.
Senses: examples: text: The breakers rave; the whirlblasts roar; / The mingled rage of seas and skies / Bursts on the low and lonely shore[…]
ref: 1829, Thomas Love Peacock, The Misfortunes of Elphin:
text: But now, how easily might these, dashing out on Lafayette, snatch off the Hereditary Representative; and roll away with him, after the manner of a whirl-blast, whither they listed!
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter I, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book IV (Varennes), pages 151–152:
glosses: A whirlwind.
whirlblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whirlblast
shoulderbelt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoulderbelts
Etymology: From shoulder + belt.
Senses: glosses: A band or strap worn over the shoulder.
shoulderbelts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoulderbelt
satchelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsæt͡ʃəld/
Etymology: From satchel + -ed.
Senses: examples: July 29, 1839, Sylvester Judd, journal
Then the expanded meadows, the corn and grass, the same dusty road, the same tree too, under which, a weary, satchelled school-boy, I had rested.
glosses: Wearing a satchel.
unextraneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + extraneous.
Senses: glosses: Not extraneous.
incompassionate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incompassionate
form: most incompassionate
Etymology: From in- + compassionate.
Senses: glosses: Not compassionate; without pity or compassion.
Derived terms: incompassionately
incompassionateness
he've
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: "He's not at home, and won't be this side of eleven o'clock. He've been forced to go over to Yalbury since shutting out work. I shall do quite as well."
ref: 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd:
glosses: he have.
she've
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: 'That wife o' thine. She's an entertainen woman, not to speak disrespectful.'
'She is: and a winnen one. Look at the husbands she've had—God bless her!'
ref: 1871, Thomas Hardy, Desperate Remedies:
glosses: Contraction of she have.
dialogists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dialogist
resanitizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resanitize
resanitized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resanitize
Ukrainianized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Ukrainianize
Ukrainianizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Ukrainianize
Ukrainization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ukrainizations
form: Ukrainisation
Etymology: From Ukraine + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process or result of Ukrainizing.
Ukrainianization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ukrainianizations
Etymology: From Ukrainian + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process or result of Ukrainianizing.
originless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From origin + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without an origin.
Derived terms: originlessness
destinationless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: text: Audio (US)
Etymology: From destination + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a destination.
Derived terms: destinationlessness
undershepherd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undershepherds
Etymology: From under- + shepherd.
Senses: glosses: A lower-ranking shepherd who works under another shepherd.
undershepherds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undershepherd
thesmothete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thesmothetes
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek θεσμοθέτης (thesmothétēs).
Senses: qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: A junior archon in Ancient Greece.
thesmothetes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thesmothete
gloomless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gloomless
form: most gloomless
Etymology: From gloom + -less.
Senses: glosses: Free from gloom; bright, radiant.
adheringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From adhering + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to adhere.
glidingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more glidingly
form: most glidingly
Etymology: From gliding + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She moved gracefully and glidingly among the other dancers.
glosses: With a motion that glides.
mapreading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From map + reading.
Senses: examples: text: Mapreading is important if you are going to go orienteering.
glosses: The skill of reading a map.
cornmarket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cornmarkets
Etymology: From corn + market.
Senses: glosses: A market where corn is traded.
cornmarkets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cornmarket
Zenobia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /zəˈnəʊ.bi.ə/
ipa: /zəˈnoʊ.bi.ə/
rhymes: -əʊbiə
Etymology: From Latin Zenobia, from Ancient Greek Ζηνοβία (Zēnobía), name of a third century Queen of Palmyra. Ostensibly from Ζήνων (Zḗnōn), an ancient derivative of Ζεύς (Zeús), but also suggested to be a rendering of the Arabic زَيْنَب (zaynab, “Zaynab”). First recorded as an English given name in Cornwall in 1586.
Senses: examples: text: "I shall always think," said Zenobia, "that Lord Liverpool went much too far, though I never said so in his time; for I always uphold my friends."
ref: 1880, Benjamin Disraeli, Endymion:
text: This Zenobia ("Nobby") Hopwood was old Worplesdon's ward, as I believe it is called. A pal of his, just before he stopped ticking over some years previously, had left him in charge of his daughter.
ref: 1946, P. G. Wodehouse, Joy in the Morning, Overlook Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 12:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Related terms: Nobby
tarpot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tarpots
Etymology: From tar + pot.
Senses: examples: text: “Oh, that’s it,” said Oak, jumping up, and dismissing for the present his thoughts on poor Fanny. “You are a good boy to run and tell me, Cain, and you shall smell a large plum pudding some day as a treat. But, before we go, Cainy, bring the tarpot, and we’ll mark this lot and have done with ’em.”
ref: 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd:
text: Tarpots bubbled over driftwood fires where men calked the seams of smacks and shallops and patched their dugout canoes.
ref: 1964, Robert Carse, The seafarers: a history of maritime America, 1620-1820:
glosses: A pot used for carrying tar.
tarpots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tarpot
Temperance
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From temperance. A virtue name first used by Puritans in the 16th century.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from English.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
tarot
glosses: The fourteenth trump or major arcana card in most traditional Tarot decks.
Bet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female name Elizabeth.
Related terms: Bets
Betsy
Betty
bouncing Bet
light verbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of light verb
woundedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more woundedly
form: most woundedly
Etymology: From wounded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Overhearing the insult, he stalked woundedly out of the room.
glosses: In a wounded manner.
mailcart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mailcarts
Etymology: From mail + cart.
Senses: glosses: A two-wheeled cart formerly used by postmen to deliver mail.
mailcarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mailcart
chimbley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɪmbli/
Forms: form: chimbleys
form: chimley
form: chimbly
Etymology: By dissimilation of mn to ml, followed by epenthesis of b
Senses: examples: text: Golden lad and chimbley sweep / Die; and so their song shall keep.
ref: 1936, Dorothy Parker, “Lines on Reading Too Many Poets”, in The collected poetry of Dorothy Parker, page 180:
glosses: Alternative form of chimney.
chimbleys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chimbley
almswoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: almswomen
Etymology: From alms + woman.
Senses: glosses: A woman who depends on the receipt of alms; a female beggar.
expostulatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more expostulatingly
form: most expostulatingly
Etymology: From expostulating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With expostulations.
almswomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of almswoman
floodmark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floodmarks
Etymology: From flood + mark.
Senses: glosses: A mark indicating the height reached by the waters in a previous flood.
floodmarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floodmark
inanitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inanition
GLAMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of GLAM
linseys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linsey
regrater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regraters
Etymology: From regrate + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who regrates.
regraters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regrater
regrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: regrates
form: regrating
form: regrated
form: regrated
Etymology: French regratter (“to scrape again”).
Senses: examples: text: The Parmesan cheese needs to be regrated into smaller bits.
glosses: to grate again
glosses: To purchase goods from a market in order to resell them at the same (or nearby) market at an inflated price.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
glosses: To remove the outer surface of, as of an old hewn stone, so as to give it a fresh appearance.
examples: text: whose clothing may regrate the eye
ref: 1713, W[illiam] Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To offend; to shock.
Derived terms: regrater
regrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of regrate
regrating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regratings
Senses: glosses: The act of one who regrates.
regrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of regrate
regrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of regrate
untemperamental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untemperamental
form: most untemperamental
Etymology: From un- + temperamental.
Senses: glosses: Not temperamental.
Bets
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of Elizabeth.
Related terms: Bet
Betsey
Betsi
Betsie
Betsy
Betty
laserless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From laser + -less.
Senses: examples: text: But most supermarkets purchasing point-of-sale computers have chosen laserless terminals which can be upgraded to scanning; about 30000 laserless units have been installed or ordered.
ref: 1978, Laser focus, volume 14, numbers 1-6:
glosses: Without a laser.
unbounteous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbounteous
form: most unbounteous
Etymology: From un- + bounteous.
Senses: glosses: Not bounteous.
unbountiful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbountiful
form: most unbountiful
Etymology: From un- + bountiful.
Senses: glosses: Not bountiful.
unlazy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unlazy
form: most unlazy
Etymology: From un- + lazy.
Senses: examples: text: This is to certify that I have been in the service of the enclosed Dorothy Quick for five days and have found her sober, honest, willing, and unlazy.
ref: 1961, Dorothy Quick, Enchantment: a little girl's friendship with Mark Twain:
glosses: Not lazy.
unplausibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unplausibly
form: most unplausibly
Etymology: From unplausible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unplausible manner.
Synonyms: implausibly
unapproachability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + approachability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unapproachable.
unapproachably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unapproachably
form: most unapproachably
Etymology: From unapproachable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She seemed unapproachably cold and aloof.
text: [T]he wench was afflicted with religion and unapproachably austere.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 41:
text: […] and with the two promised Sheffielders, Driver Elliott and Fireman Lewis, we were soon on our way over the most unapproachably dreary region of the whole run, scarcely to be paralleled in the Black Country itself.
ref: 1949 March and April, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–2”, in Railway Magazine, page 82:
glosses: In an unapproachable manner.
spinstership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spinster + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The state of being a spinster.
spinsterdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spinster + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The state of being a spinster.
glosses: The world or sphere of spinsters.
unblazed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + blazed.
Senses: examples: an unblazed trail
glosses: Not blazed.
unemblazoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + emblazoned.
Senses: glosses: Not emblazoned.
unblazoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + blazoned.
Senses: glosses: Not blazoned.
pharisaically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pharisaically
form: most pharisaically
Etymology: From pharisaical + -ly.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: In a pharisaical manner.
Related terms: pharisaic
pharisaical
pharisaicalness
pharisaism
unpharisaical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpharisaical
form: most unpharisaical
Etymology: From un- + pharisaical.
Senses: glosses: Not pharisaical.
unbreeched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + breeched.
Senses: glosses: Not wearing breeches.
brandise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brandises
Senses: examples: text: a great black crock upon the brandise
ref: 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd:
synonyms: branding iron
brand-iron
glosses: A three-legged stand for a pot or pan over a fire.
brandises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brandise
feederism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfiː.də.ɹɪ.zəm/
ipa: /ˈfi.də.ɹɪ.zəm/
rhymes: -iːdəɹɪzəm
Etymology: From feeder + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Note, though, that disgust for feederism (an erotic practice involving feeders, who are aroused by observing eating and weight gain, and feedees, who are aroused by eating, being fed, and gaining weight) is overwhelming[…]
ref: 2004, Kathleen LeBesco, Revolting bodies?: the struggle to redefine fat identity, page 138:
text: The growth of feederism paralleled the development of feeder pornography, with the increase of Internet websites not unlike those devoted to the celebration of the skeletal beauty of anorexic bodies.
ref: 2007, Fedwa Malti-Douglas, Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: A-C:
text: Sometimes feederism is practiced within relationships and sometimes it is practiced alone. Respondents emphasize the importance that fantasy plays within feederism.
ref: 2008, Alyshia D. Bestard, Feederism: an exploratory study into the stigma of erotic weight gain:
synonyms: feedism
glosses: A paraphilia in which arousal is obtained from overfeeding or overeating.
Related terms: feedee
feeder
gainer
feedee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feedees
Etymology: From feed + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: Note, though, that disgust for feederism (an erotic practice involving feeders, who are aroused by observing eating and weight gain, and feedees, who are aroused by eating, being fed, and gaining weight) is overwhelming[…]
ref: 2004, Kathleen LeBesco, Revolting bodies?: the struggle to redefine fat identity, page 138:
glosses: The participant in feederism who is overfed.
feedees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feedee
sideload
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sideloads
form: sideloading
form: sideloaded
form: sideloaded
Etymology: From side + load, modelled on upload and download.
Senses: examples: text: I'm going to sideload my computer's address book onto my mobile phone.
text: When you sideload content onto your nook, you'll find the items in My Documents.
ref: 2010, Jim Cheshire, Using Nook:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To transfer data between two local devices, rather than to or from a remote device.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: jailbreak
glosses: To install an app on a mobile device by using unofficial channels, such as avoiding the use of an app store by obtaining it directly from the developer or downloading from a software repository.
sideloading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sideload
sideloads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sideload
sideloaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sideload
nonnodular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + nodular.
Senses: glosses: Not nodular.
Gigeresque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɡiɡəɹɛsk/
Forms: form: more Gigeresque
form: most Gigeresque
Etymology: From Giger + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: Quatermass also mediated Wellsian influence on the tone and preoccupations of the new hybrid SF–horror-film genre, with its monstrous Gigeresque fusions of machine and organism[…]
ref: 2007, Keith Williams, H.G. Wells, modernity and the movies, page 164:
glosses: Reminiscent of H. R. Giger (born 1940), Swiss surrealist painter best known for nightmarish biomechanical imagery.
fanart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfænˌɑːt/
ipa: /ˈfænˌɑɹt/
ipa: /ænɑː(ɹ)t/
Forms: form: fanarts
form: fan art
Etymology: From fan + art.
Senses: examples: text: The same genres have inspired fanart as well.
ref: 2008, Kristin Thompson, The Frodo Franchise: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood, page 179:
text: Aarinfantasy's Web site offers several areas for fans to give back—whether this is sharing fanart in the Member's Gallery or offering support, discussion or interaction in the general forums.
ref: 2010, Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, Dru Pagliassotti, Boys' Love Manga, page 16:
topics: lifestyle
hypernyms: fanwork
glosses: Artwork created unofficially by fans of a media work and based on that work.
Coordinate terms: fangame
fanvid
fanzine
fanslator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fanslators
Etymology: Blend of fan + translator
Senses: examples: text: It is to all the speedrunners, sequence breakers, cosplayers, modders, walkthrough authors, fanfic writers, artists, musicians, fanslators, remixers, hackers and above all, gamers, that this book is dedicated.
ref: 2008, James Newman, Playing with videogames, page x:
glosses: A person or online group that carries out fanslation.
fanslators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fanslator
sequence breaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: The performing of actions or obtaining of items out of the linear order intended by the game's designers, either as a challenge or in order to skip certain sections of the game.
sequence breaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sequence break
turtlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turtler
turtlenecked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: turtle-necked
Etymology: From turtleneck + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: a turtlenecked sweater
glosses: Having a turtleneck.
examples: text: a turtlenecked boyfriend
glosses: Wearing a turtleneck.
glosses: Not circumcised; uncircumcised.
Synonyms: beturtlenecked
thumbsuckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thumbsucker
modarabas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of modaraba
bookware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From book + -ware.
Senses: examples: text: This was especially true of BASIC program anthologies, a particularly important area of bookware for TI owners.
ref: 1984, Michael Nicita, Ronald Petrusha, The reader's guide to microcomputer books:
text: The problem with bookware is that it quickly gets out of date.
ref: 1995, Craig Hunt, Networking personal computers with TCP/IP:
text: The suite of bookware applications on the companion CD-ROM for this book illustrates a group of applications that use a common collection of DLLs.
ref: 1996, Steve Rimmer, Windows and OS/2 bitmapped graphics:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Software that is published in, or distributed with, a book.
prelisten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prelistens
form: prelistening
form: prelistened
form: prelistened
Etymology: From pre- + listen.
Senses: glosses: To listen in advance.
prelistening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prelisten
prelistened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prelisten
phpht
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: fft
ipa: /fft/
Senses: examples: text: […] uplift bra . . . odourless hair removing cream . . . phpht! Twenty-four hour deodorant . . . slimming pills . . . contraceptive pills […]
ref: 1991, Franca Rame, Dario Fo, Stuart Clink Hood, A woman alone & other plays:
text: > But... some of us do have to work for a living. As a result our dog(s)
>must be left for 8 hrs per day by themselves. :-(
Yeah, phpht. Working...phpht.
ref: 1993, Cindy Tittle Moore, “Dogs or Humans as Canine Companions”, in rec.pets.dogs (Usenet):
text: "Phpht! Eat your noodle soup, and don't pay no attention to that there foolishness."
ref: 1995, Richard Hoffman, Half the house: a memoir:
text: “Phpht!” Bravegart spit out. “Okay, Stonah, a trade it is. You give them one of your feathers. A feather for an arrow. […]
ref: 2003, Mark Fidler, Blaze of the Great Cliff, page 39:
glosses: Alternative form of pht.
thermochemically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From thermochemical + -ly.
Senses: examples: thermochemically activated oxidation
glosses: By thermochemical means.
akiraho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori [Term?].
Senses: glosses: Olearia paniculata, a flowering plant.
pihoihoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pihoihoi
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori pīhoihoi.
Senses: examples: text: The pihoihoi live in the island's interior, and the torea on its rocky shore.
ref: 2003, Margaret Rose Orbell, Carolyn Lagahetau, Birds of Aotearoa: a natural and cultural history:
glosses: Anthus novaeseelandiae, the Australasian pipit.
cavernulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cavernulous
form: most cavernulous
Etymology: Latin cavernula
Senses: examples: cavernulous metal
glosses: Full of small cavities.
epoxyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The second window which provides the vacuum seal is epoxyed in place and is separated from the shock tube by a thin walled (0.25 mm) stainless steel tube to minimize heat transfer[…]
ref: 1982, Charles E. Treanor, J. Gordon Hall, Shock tubes and waves, page 606:
text: Finally, I epoxyed one to the coffee table.
ref: 1996, Tom Dodge, Oedipus road: searching for a father in a mother's fading memory, page 102:
glosses: simple past and past participle of epoxy
cropbound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cropbound
form: most cropbound
Etymology: From crop + bound.
Senses: examples: text: Chickens cannot digest coarse or dry grass, and it is likely to cause them to become cropbound.
ref: 1977, J. H. Florea, ABC of poultry raising: a complete guide for the beginner or expert, page 57:
glosses: Having the crop (pouch-like part of the alimentary tract) clogged up, as by overfeeding.
ceruleous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ceruleous
form: most ceruleous
Senses: glosses: cerulean; of a deep rich blue colour
gownmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gownman
gownman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gownmen
Etymology: From gown + man.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of gownsman.
microgametes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microgamete
pentaglot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From penta- + -glot.
Senses: glosses: In five languages.
hexaglot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hexa- + -glot.
Senses: examples: a hexaglot dictionary
a hexaglot Bible
glosses: In six languages.
forthcomes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forthcome
forthcame
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of forthcome
gownsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gownsmen
form: gownman
Etymology: From gown + -s- + man.
Senses: examples: text: The two gownsmen lowered the rigid body. It lay straight as a board, supported by no more than its head on the chair-back, and its heels on the ground.
ref: 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:
hyponyms: gownie
glosses: One whose professional habit is a gown, such as a divine, a lawyer, or a member of certain English universities.
glosses: A civilian, in distinction from a soldier.
Derived terms: stuff gownsman
grudgeful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹʌd͡ʒfəl/
Forms: form: more grudgeful
form: most grudgeful
Etymology: From grudge + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he Hag did ſcold / And rayle at them vvith grudgefull diſcontent, / For lodging there vvithout her ovvne conſent: […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IIII, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 28, page 116:
glosses: Full of grudge.
Derived terms: grudgefully
intifadeh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intifadehs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of intifadah.
intifadehs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intifadeh
offpeak
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of off-peak.
mossgrown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mossgrown
form: most mossgrown
Etymology: From moss + grown.
Senses: examples: text: Immediately beyond the bridge, on the right-hand side of the road, a rusty iron gate, between solid but mouldy stone pillars, surmounted with mossgrown stone balls, imparted an air of yet lingering importance to what had once been a well-kept walled garden, [...]
ref: 1895, Sophie F[rancis] F[ane] Veitch, “A Lost Hat”, in A Modern Crusader, London: Adam & Charles Black, →OCLC, page 72:
glosses: Alternative form of moss-grown.
pardonless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pardonless
form: most pardonless
Etymology: From pardon + -less.
Senses: examples: a pardonless sin
glosses: unpardonable
piopio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piopios
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori piopio.
Senses: glosses: A bird of either of two extinct passerine songbird species of New Zealand, comprising the genus Turnagra: North Island piopio (†Turnagra tanagra) and South Island piopio (†Turnagra capensis).
piopios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piopio