cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fun sponge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fun sponges
Etymology: Suggesting that such a person, etc. would suck up the fun as a sponge sucks up water.
Senses: glosses: Someone who or something that takes the fun out of life; a killjoy.
Synonyms: buzzkill
killjoy
spoilsport
lawyerese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lawyer + -ese.
Senses: synonyms: lawyerish
lawyerspeak
legalese
legalspeak
glosses: The jargon used by lawyers.
marketingese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From marketing + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: When Ford launched the Taurus, the design was characterized as "customer driven," marketingese for determining exactly what the customer wants and then bolting it into the concept.
ref: 1991 September, Popular Mechanics, volume 168, number 9, page 45:
glosses: The jargon used in marketing.
businessese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From business + -ese.
Senses: glosses: The jargon used in business.
uraniid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uraniids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the family Uraniidae, swallowtail moths.
uraniids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uraniid
Cinque Ports
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪŋk pɔːts/
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman.
Senses: glosses: A series of five historic coastal towns in Kent and Sussex; namely, Hastings, New Romney, Hythe, Dover and Sandwich.
hobo bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hobo bags
Etymology: Because its shape resembles the bindle on a stick supposed to be carried by hobos.
Senses: glosses: A handbag or purse characterized by a crescent shape, a slouchy posture, and a long shoulder strap.
hobo bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hobo bag
pegm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin pegma (“a movable stage”), Ancient Greek [Term?], originally, a framework.
Senses: examples: text: In the Centre, or midst of the Pegm, there was an Aback, or Square, wherein this Elogy was written.
ref: 1604, Ben Jonson, “Part of the King's Entertainment in Passing to His Coronation”, in The Works of Ben Jonson, London: Printed by Thomas Hodgkin, published 1692, page 306:
glosses: A sort of moving machine employed in the old pageants.
phrenosin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See phrenic and -in.
Senses: examples: text: In both methods the crude galctosides were separated into the phrenosin and kerasin fraction by fractional crystallization at various temperatures.
ref: 1913, Otto Rosenheim, The Galactosides of the Brain and Their Constitution:
text: On decomposition of phrenosin, the crebronic acid breaks off first and there remains a compound of sphingosin and galactose of a basic nature named psychosin, C₂₃H₄₅NO₇.
ref: 1915, Albert Prescott Mathews, Physiological chemistry, page 577:
text: On the basis of these observations the following constitutional formula for phrenosin (C₄₈H₉₅O₉N) has been suggested [Rosenheim 1916]
ref: 1918, Hugh Maclean, Lecithin and Allied Substances, the Lipins, page 101:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A nitrogenous body that contains no phosphorus, related to cerebrin, supposed to exist in the brain.
Synonyms: cerebron
Pindarics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pindaric
Pindarical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Pindarical
form: most Pindarical
Etymology: From Pindar + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: You may wonder, Sir, (for this seems a little too extravagant and Pindarical for Prose) what I mean by all this Preface […]
ref: a. 1667, Abraham Cowley, The Garden: To J. Evelyn Esquire:
glosses: Synonym of Pindaric.
synonyms: word: Pindaric
scintillous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scintillous
form: most scintillous
Senses: glosses: scintillating; sparkling
exaration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exarations
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin exarātiō.
Senses: glosses: The act of writing.
glosses: A piece of writing.
exarations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exaration
periecian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: periecians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Perioecian.
periecians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of periecian
rutaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin rutaceus, from ruta (“rue”). See rue (“the plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to plants of the family Rutaceae.
puddle ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puddle balls
Senses: topics: arts
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A vaguely spherical lump of gloopy wrought iron taken from the puddling furnace, which gets hammered or rolled into shapes, such as a puddle bar.
puddle balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puddle ball
wolfly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: wolflier
form: more wolfly
form: wolfliest
form: most wolfly
Etymology: From wolf + -ly. Cognate with Middle Dutch wolflijc (“wolflike”), Middle High German wolflich (“wolflike”).
Senses: examples: text: It was too long a shot for real hope of hitting a wolf, but Gwen's luck was in and she grazed one wolf and frightened the bejesus out of both wolves. The wolfly focus shifted to putting as much real estate as possible between themselves and mutton dinners.
ref: 2005, Brooks Horsley, Through a Glass Darkly, page 134:
text: The modern cottager studies the animals too, through such vehicles as the nighttime wolf howl, in which guides take unsuspecting cottagers into the night, then lead them in howls that might elicit a wolfly response.
ref: 2011, Charles Gordon, Still at the Cottage:
text: "Look at you! You obviously got caught by these man-beasts and now used for some un-wolfly purpose."
ref: 2017, Dolph C. Volker, DIRE ENCOUNTERS: The Wolf I Knew, page 56:
text: It might be tempting to read the observations, descriptions and analyses of wolf social ecology as accounts of wolves living truly wolfly lives when and where they are free of, or uninterrupted by, intruding humans.
ref: 2020, Sam George, Bill Hughes, In the company of wolves:
text: "You're an embarrassment to your wolfly ancestors," muttered the earl, though the corners of his mouth twitched up-ward.
ref: 2021, Andrea Penrose, Murder at Queen's Landing:
glosses: Pertaining to wolves; lupine.
examples: text: Her golden eyes were intent, and her tongue lolled out in a wolfly smile.
ref: 2005, David Eddings, The Malloreon Volume Two, page 380:
text: Back out in the reception room, Benjy found JT leaning against the counter with a wolfly air, both relaxed and alert.
ref: 2019, Tanya Chris, Omega Released:
text: Har bar, I know that is just your wolfly way to say well done, ... Also you mean to say congrat-arroooshuns for solving lots of tricky cases all at wunce by trying hard, plus normal wolfly sense and brute instinct.
ref: 2001, Ian Whybrow, Tony Ross, Little Wolf, Forest Detective:
glosses: Like or characteristic of a wolf; wolflike.
Derived terms: unwolfly
dogling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doglings
Etymology: From dog + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: The day she came home to find that our dogling had gone to live permanently with the man who spaded up our back yard it seemed for a time that there was no balm in Gilead.
ref: 1903, Harper's magazine:
glosses: A little or young dog; a puppy.
Synonyms: doglet
hypercortisolism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypercortisolisms
Etymology: From hyper- + cortisol + -ism.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Excessive production of cortisol in the body.
Synonyms: english: usually viewed as synonymous
translation: usually viewed as synonymous
word: Cushing's syndrome
Related terms: topics: cause
word: hypercortisolemia
hypercortisolisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypercortisolism
sulfydrates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sulfydrate
sulphydrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphydrates
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sulfydrate.
sulphydrates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sulphydrate
propyla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of propylon
propylon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: propylons
form: propyla
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin propylon, from Ancient Greek πρόπῠλον (própŭlon).
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Alternative spelling of propylaeum.
nonlabialized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + labialized.
Senses: glosses: Not labialized.
labialized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of labialize
labializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of labialize
rainbowfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rainbowfishes
form: rainbowfish
Etymology: From rainbow + fish.
Senses: glosses: Any of the small colourful freshwater fish in the family Melanotaeniidae, native to northern and eastern Australia, New Guinea and Indonesia.
Derived terms: ornate rainbowfish
spotted rainbowfish
rainbowfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rainbowfish
unimportantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unimportantly
form: most unimportantly
Etymology: From unimportant + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way that is not important; insignificantly.
unhairing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + hair + -ing.
Senses: glosses: removal of hair; depilation
uncooperatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uncooperatively
form: most uncooperatively
Etymology: From uncooperative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an uncooperative manner.
unpractically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unpractically
form: most unpractically
Etymology: From unpractical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way that is not practical.
undistractable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undistractable
form: most undistractable
Etymology: From un- + distractable.
Senses: glosses: Incapable of being distracted.
distractable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more distractable
form: most distractable
Etymology: From distract + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of distractible.
Derived terms: undistractable
undistractible
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more undistractible
form: most undistractible
Etymology: From un- + distractible.
Senses: glosses: Incapable of being distracted.
unstressful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unstressful
form: most unstressful
Etymology: From un- + stressful.
Senses: glosses: Not stressful.
Synonyms: nonstressful
unsarcastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsarcastic
form: most unsarcastic
Etymology: From un- + sarcastic.
Senses: glosses: Not sarcastic.
unusability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + usability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unusable.
unrepairable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrepairable
form: most unrepairable
Etymology: From un- + repairable.
Senses: synonyms: irreparable
glosses: Impossible to repair.
underworldly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underworldly
form: most underworldly
Etymology: From underworld + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Befitting the underworld.
unadvisedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unadvised + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being inadvisable.
unerected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + erected.
Senses: glosses: Not erected.
unflanged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + flanged.
Senses: glosses: Not flanged.
uncupped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + cupped.
Senses: glosses: Not cupped.
journalistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From journalist + -ics.
Senses: glosses: journalism; the work or techniques of journalists
dumben
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ʌmən
Forms: form: dumbens
form: dumbening
form: dumbened
form: dumbened
Etymology: From dumb + -en. Compare Gothic 𐌰𐍆𐌳𐌿𐌼𐌱𐌽𐌰𐌽 (afdumbnan, “to be silent”).
Senses: examples: text: Please hush-now this heart to dumben this breath. Please muffle the whimpers, the drippings of sweat.
ref: 2004, Welsh Arts Council, Poetry Wales:
glosses: To make dumb.
unroadworthiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unroadworthy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unroadworthy.
understrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: understraps
Etymology: From under- + strap.
Senses: examples: text: In the chassis of the barbette carriage, the middle transom, instead of being held by bolts passing through it, is connected with the rails by understraps, which are fastened to the rails by one or two bolts on each side of the transom[…]
ref: 1860, United States, Congressional serial set, Government Printing Office, page 127:
text: The penis is inserted through a plate which is securely held to the pubis by a waistband and leg understraps (Figure 2.3).
ref: 2002, Robin J. Harman, Patient care in community practice, page 40:
glosses: A strap running underneath something.
understraps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of understrap
medicalizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more medicalizable
form: most medicalizable
Etymology: From medicalize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being medicalized.
unveracious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnvəˈɹeɪʃəs/
Forms: form: more unveracious
form: most unveracious
Etymology: From un- + veracious.
Senses: glosses: Not veracious; untruthful; false.
examples: text: We did not speak, and she began to flush and wriggle on her seat, and stooped forward to fumble under the legs of her chair for her umbrella. The sight of its green seams and unveracious tortoiseshell handle disgusted Kitty into speech.
ref: 1918 March, Rebecca West [pseudonym; Cicily Isabel Fairfield], chapter I, in The Return of the Soldier, 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 23:
glosses: Fake, imitation.
ventilatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ventilate + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being ventilated.
unventilatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + ventilatable.
Senses: glosses: Not ventilatable.
unvengefulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unvengeful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unvengeful.
underskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underskins
Etymology: From under- + skin.
Senses: glosses: The layer of skin under the dermis, the subcutis or hypodermis.
underskins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underskin
unpulverized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pulverized.
Senses: examples: text: Graham flour is coarsely granulated wheat meal. No sieves or bolting cloths are employed in its manufacture, and many coarse, unpulverized particles are present in the product.
ref: 1908, Harry Snyder, Human Foods and their Nutritive Value, New York: Macmillan, section 157, pp. 145-146:
glosses: Not pulverized.
unresolvedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unresolvedly
form: most unresolvedly
Etymology: From unresolved + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without resolution; in an unresolved manner.
forrarder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɒɹədə/
Etymology: Dialectal form of forwarder.
Senses: examples: text: Bright back-chat cheers the patient, but gets us no forrarder.
ref: 1930, Dorothy L Sayers, Strong Poison:
text: Good morning, Inspector. Any forrarder? Yes, sir. I think we are a little forrarder.
ref: 1931, Agatha Christie, The Sittaford Mystery:
text: They had him back to the Greffe; and there he was, after years of studying and going to college, no forrarder than when he left school.
ref: 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 190:
text: ‘I mean we've heard all the things it isn't for, and we've heard it's not being spent. But we're no forrarder, are we, bless us? We don't seem to know anything.’
ref: 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 168:
text: I was ordered to take in six months' stores yesterday and I have been hurrying to and fro among these slow sly circumspect creatures ever since, without getting any forrarder at all [...].
ref: 1984, Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World:
glosses: Further forward; more advanced.
unergonomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unergonomic
form: most unergonomic
Etymology: From un- + ergonomic.
Senses: glosses: Not ergonomic.
unround
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unrounds
form: unrounding
form: unrounded
form: unrounded
Etymology: From un- + round.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To change (a vowel) so that it is no longer round.
unround
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unround
form: most unround
Etymology: From un- + round.
Senses: glosses: Not round.
unrounds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unround
unrounding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unround
glass noodle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glass noodles
Senses: glosses: cellophane noodle
glasscutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glasscutters
Etymology: From glass + cutter.
Senses: glosses: One who cuts glass to make objects from it.
glosses: A device for cutting through glass.
Related terms: glasscutting
glasscutters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glasscutter
electrofulguration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + fulguration.
Senses: glosses: cauterization with electricity; fulguration
caneworking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cane + working.
Senses: glosses: A glassblowing technique that uses rods of coloured glass to add intricate patterns and stripes to blown glass objects.
glasscutting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glass + cutting.
Senses: glosses: The cutting of glass to make objects from it.
parvolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of parvoline.
strobile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strobiles
form: strobil
Etymology: From Latin strobilus (“a pine cone”) and Latin strobila, from Ancient Greek στρόβιλος (stróbilos).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, such as the hop or pine; a cone.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An individual asexually producing sexual individuals differing from itself also in other respects, such as the tapeworm; one of the forms that occur in metagenesis.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A strobila or jointed segment.
strobiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strobile
multifruit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + fruit.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to more than one kind of fruit.
strobilations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strobilation
supraaxillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: supra-axillary
Etymology: From supra- + axillary.
Senses: examples: text: supraaxillary branches
text: supraaxillary fascicles
text: supraaxillary peduncle
text: supraaxillary ramification
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Growing above, or inserted above the axil; inserted above the axil.
Mammonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mammonists
Etymology: From Mammon + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A Mammonite.
Mammonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mammonist
parturiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: parturiates
form: parturiating
form: parturiated
form: parturiated
Etymology: See parturient.
Senses: examples: text: —Himself his own father, Sonmulligan told himself. Wait. I am big with child. I have an unborn child in my brain. Pallas Athena! A play! The play’s the thing! Let me parturiate!
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[9]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To bring forth young; to give birth.
parturiated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of parturiate
parturiates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of parturiate
parturiating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of parturiate
pappous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæpəs/
homophone: Pappus
Forms: form: more pappous
form: most pappous
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: pappose
moolley
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of muley (“without horns”).
tricarbimide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tricarbimides
Etymology: From tri- + carbimide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: cyanuric acid in a solid state.
tricarbimides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tricarbimide
rank and yank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Stack ranking had come into fashion after GE CEO Jack Welch used a similar system, called rank-and-yank, to turn around that company in the 1980s and 1990s.
ref: 2015 January 2, Nicholas Carlson, “The Day Marissa Mayer's Honeymoon At Yahoo Ended”, in Business Insider, archived from the original on 24 Sep 2022:
topics: business
glosses: A model of employee productivity in which workers are ranked into the top 20 percent, the adequate 70 percent, and the bottom 10 percent, and those in the bottom group are fired.
Related terms: up or out
antly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: antlier
form: more antly
form: antliest
form: most antly
Etymology: From ant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Statues, of heroic size, would be erected to the great ant heroes — warriors, builders, or what not — inscribed with phrases like, "He was the antliest ant of all time." . . . And of course there would be an anthropomorphic god.
ref: 1964, Conrad Aiken, Richard P. Blackmur, The collected novels of Conrad Aiken:
text: Beside the pool, the little workers were diligently going about their antly business, unnoticed by everybody except Milton.
ref: 2005, Tim Walsh, Timeless toys:
text: Such a plan just wouldn't be reasonable, given typical antly survival requirements. Cooperation is surely the best policy. It would be much wiser for each ant to align its behaviour with that of its fellows, provided those other ants do [...]
ref: 2007, Robert Malcolm Murray, Jan Narveson, Liberty, Games and Contracts:
text: You must accept a proffered Pique Ant ambassador, as you are pique ants too. By antly protocol you are obliged to grant me the hospitality of the hill for a day and night.” “This is highly irregular.” “Nevertheless legitimate.
ref: 2007, Piers Anthony, Stork Naked:
glosses: Of, resembling, characteristic of, or pertaining to ants; formic.
BSN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
fishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fishly
form: most fishly
Etymology: From fish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] which fowles "would strike at our men as they were aloft: "some of them wee killed and eat: they seemed-" to us very good, only tasted somewhat fishly.
ref: 1699, Cowley, Cooke's Voyage:
text: Twice the cork bobbed prophecies of a fishly investigation. Twice the angler raised the squirming bait; but each time minus the scaly victim.
ref: 1916, Everybody's magazine:
text: At this the Fish did titter a fishly Titter, and Bit!
ref: 1916, University of Michigan. College of Engineering, The Michigan technic:
text: It is a personality of a fishly sort.
ref: 1920, John Arthur Thomson, Biology of the Seasons:
text: The perch, for example, regards the danger as exaggerated: all one needed was to exercise moderation, "as a fishly virtue"; "it had bitten off many a bait without suffering any damage to its body."
ref: 1989, Einar Ingvald Haugen, Norwegian-American Historical Association, Immigrant idealist:
text: In due course they reached the far side of the Element of Water, gourd annex. The path lead through a translucent vertical wall, and there seemed to be no special challenge to passing through it, except for their fishly status.
ref: 2000, Piers Anthony, Vale of the Vole:
text: "In sooth, the fellow talks as if in earnest," remarked the king, after a moment's reflection, "and though the request is, perhaps, the strangest to which I have ever listened, I really see no reason why I should not turn a fishly ear."
ref: 2009, Jean Elizabeth Ward, Chinese Wonder Book:
glosses: Of, relating to, characteristic of, or pertaining to fishes; piscine.
Synonyms: fishlike
fishy
ichthyic
piscine
shotted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒtɪd
Etymology: From shot + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: shotted guns
text: a single-shotted guns
text: shotted musket
text: a shotted cannon
text: a shotted salute
text: […] the peculiar commotion in the water resulting from the heavy sloped dive of the shotted hammock into the sea […]
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 23, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
glosses: loaded with, or made of, shot
examples: text: a shotted suture
text: a double-shotted patient
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Having a shot attached or administered.
Related terms: mug-shotted
shotted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɒtɪd
Etymology: From shot + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shot
glosses: simple past and past participle of shoot
picketee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picketees
Etymology: From picket + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: The picketee is given no choice , and neither is anyone who wishes to visit the picketee's premises or who has business there to attend to, or who would like to go there to work or deliver materials.
ref: 1941, Labor Relations Reference Manual - Volume 7, page 707:
text: Then, the date is scheduled, the press is notified (both the electronic and paper press), signs are prepared, scheduling and logistics are arranged, the press is notified again on the day of picketing, everybody shows up, and a good time is ordinarily had by all, except, usually, the picketee, who can become variously infuriated or outraged.
ref: 1983, Leonard Kerpelman, Divorce, a Guide for Men, page 57:
text: There is no doubt that picketing, for example, is a vital prerogative of the freedom of expression; however, mass picketing; picketing that applies physical force to those who might wish to exercise their equal rights of freedom of expression by disregarding the picket line; certain kinds of picketing violative of a picketee's property rights or picketing utterly unrelated to a picketee's "operations"; or picketing in derogation of secondary boycott statutes is not.
ref: 2003, Henry Julian Abraham, Barbara Ann Perry, Freedom and the Court, page 191:
glosses: One who is being picketed.
picketee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picketees
Etymology: See picotee.
Senses: examples: text: The Gardeners divide it into Five Claſſes, which they diſtinguiſh by the Name of Picketees, Painted Ladies, Beazarts, Flakes, and Flames: The Flowers of the Picketees are always of a white Ground, ſpotted or pounced (as they call it) with Red or Purple […]
ref: 1718, Richard Bradley, “Part II. Chapter V: Of Middle-ſiz’d Per-annual Flowers. Sect IX. Of the Carnation or July-Flower […] ”, in New Improvements of Planting and Gardening, Both Philoſophical and Practical […] , 2nd edition, London: W. Mears, page 82:
text: Sic flow’rs o’ sorts ane seldom sees, / Flecks, flames, bussards an’ picketees, / Wi’ strong carnations, like young trees, / To face the entry; […]
ref: 1812, Peter Forbes, “On going to see a nobleman’s gardener in the neighbourhood”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Edinburgh: R. Menzies, page 89:
text: It appeared that the prisoner was cutting or plucking some picketees and carnations in Mr. Iner’s garden; some were cut and some were broken.
ref: 1837, William Moody, “Rex v. Moses Fraser”, in Crown Cases Reserved for Consideration; and Decided by the Judges of England. From the Year 1824, to the Year 1837, volume 1, London: Saunders and Benning, page 421:
glosses: Obsolete form of picotee.
picketees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picketee
phenicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek purple red: compare French phénicine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A purple powder precipitated when a sulphuric solution of indigo is diluted with water.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A colouring matter produced by the action of a mixture of strong nitric acid and sulphuric acid on phenylic alcohol.
peascod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peascods
form: peasecod
form: peacod
Etymology: From Middle English pesecod; equivalent to pease + cod.
Senses: glosses: The legume or pericarp, or the pod, of the pea.
examples: text: [A] Tudor figure, whose clothing contains enough accurate details – from the peascod style doublet with its row of tiny buttons to the voluptuous panes of the trunk hose – to clearly date it to the 1570s or 1580s.
ref: 2015, Matthew Champion, Medieval Graffiti: The Lost Voices of England’s Churches, London: Ebury Press, →ISBN, page 19:
glosses: A padded doublet fashionable in 16th century Europe.
Related terms: peascod breastplate
peapod
peascods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peascod
rheumides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Certain types of herpetic diathesis.
fishling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fishlings
Etymology: From fish + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: […] said an older woman, bending over her, "hush, little fishling! Ichuk, my son, is dead, but we will get thee another man."
ref: 1898, The Yale literary magazine:
text: My fingers moved subtly, and now Fiacha was a tiny raven no bigger than a bee, a little speck of darkness that spun out of the fixing charm as easily as a fishling escapes the herring net, […]
ref: 2008, Juliet Marillier, Child of the Prophecy:
glosses: A small or young fish; fry.
poenology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of penology.
fishlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fishling
thimbleeye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thimbleeyes
Etymology: From thimble + eye.
Senses: examples: text: July 25, 1887, the schooner Peter Cooper caught 6000 thimbleeye mackerel off Manasquan N. J.
ref: 1904, Tarleton H. Bean, “Fishes of New York”, in New York State Museum 56th Annual Report, volume 2, page 383:
text: A schooling fish of temperate waters, chub mackerel or thimbleeye migrates in much greater numbers to New Jersey than into New York waters .
ref: 1978, John Laurence McHugh, Jay J. C. Ginter, Fisheries, page 68:
glosses: An Atlantic chub mackerel (Scomber colias).
examples: text: Each end of the runner has a thimble-eye splice , with a strong hook at the end of the standing part.
ref: 1878, Dixon Kemp, A Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailing, page 105:
text: Thimbleeye nuts are installed on through bolt, and pole is protected with curved washers.
ref: 2006, Thomas M. Shoemaker, Thomas Shoemaker, James E. Mack, Lineman and Cableman's Handbook, page 12-29:
text: AT least three clips should be used when making any prepared loop or thimble-eye termination for wire rope, especially for hoisting.
ref: 2020, NLTAPA Tailgate Talks:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A loop at the end of a rope that is protected from chafing by a thimble (metal ring).
thimbleeyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thimbleeye
musimon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musimons
form: musmon
Etymology: From Latin musimo (“wild sheep”), related to Late Latin mufrō (“wild sheep”), both probably of pre-Latin origin. Compare mouflon; see also musmon.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of mouflon (“wild sheep”).
synonyms: word: mouflon
extra: wild sheep
musimons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musimon
endosmosmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Dated form of endosmotic.
dartrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French dartreux. See dartars.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or suffering from, tetter (any of various pustular skin conditions); herpetic.
hematosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haematosis
Senses: glosses: sanguification; the conversion of chyle into blood
glosses: The arterialization of the blood in the lungs; the formation of blood in general; haematogenesis
Related terms: gas exchange
papulopustular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From papulo- + pustular.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Characterized by papules and pustules.
panflute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panflutes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pan flute.
panflutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panflute (alternative spelling of pan flutes).
pan flutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pan flute
hare's-tail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A kind of sedge, hare's-tail cottongrass (Eriophorum vaginatum).
solidungulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: solipedous
Related terms: ungulate
fishhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fish + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: Petrovitch had taken and passed the astronavigation exam the exact same time Rimmer had made his claims to fishhood.
ref: 1989, Grant Naylor, Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers:
glosses: The state or condition of being a fish.
lepas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lepases
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: 60. The tiger tower, a mitres, a lithophagus, a purple rayed solen, a lepas, and 9 other shells.
ref: 1801, Charles Alexandre de Calonne, A Catalogue of the Whole Contents of the Celebrated Museum formed by M. De Calonne, page 58:
text: The peduncles of the lepases are flexible; and Dr. Weatherill has ascribed to the species which he has noticed in V. 339–342., the power of availing itself of this flexibility in "extending, shrinking, and writhing itself at pleasure."
ref: 1835, W. B. Clarke, “Remarks on some Barnacles of the Species Lepas antifera found floating off St. Adhelm's Head, on the Coast of Dorset”, in The Magazine of natural history, volume 8, page 116:
text: It was probably either a large mytilus, a meleagrina, or a pinna, and was certainly not a lepas.
ref: 1847, Joseph Beete Jukes, Narrative of the Surveying Voyage of H. M. S. Fly, page 141:
glosses: Any of the genus Lepas of pedunculated barnacles found attached to floating timber, bottoms of ships, etc.; a goose barnacle.
lepases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lepas
lamel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lamels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lamella.
lamels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lamel
trichophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trichophores
Etymology: From tricho- + -phore.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The special cell in red algae which produces or bears a trichogyne.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the sac-like organs from which the setae of annelids arise.
Related terms: trichophoric
trichophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trichophore
bellpush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bellpushes
form: bell push
Etymology: From bell + push.
Senses: glosses: A button that rings a bell (such as a doorbell) when pressed.
bellpushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bellpush
brickshaped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brickshaped
form: most brickshaped
form: brick-shaped
Etymology: From brick + shaped.
Senses: glosses: shaped like a brick
clovepink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clovepinks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of clove pink.
clovepinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clovepink
colliculi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colliculus
cornettino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cornettinos
form: cornettini
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The descant instrument of the cornetto family.
fishpool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fishpools
Etymology: From Middle English fischpol, from Old English fisċpōl (“fishpond”), equivalent to fish + pool.
Senses: glosses: A pool of water containing fish; fishpond.
cornettini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cornettino
cornettinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cornettino
deerhorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deerhorns
Etymology: From deer + horn.
Senses: examples: text: Pick made of deerhorn, used by flint miners in the New Stone Age.
ref: 1930, Carl Whiting Bishop, Charles Greeley Abbot, Aleš Hrdlička, Man from the farthest past:
glosses: horn from a deer
Jockney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jockneys
Etymology: Blend of jock + cockney
Senses: examples: text: 'It's a Jockney pub,' he explains, making me wonder whether my thoughts were on air too. Sure enough, I ended up in the Globe. It was like a visit to the old Barras. It was like a little Glasgow.
ref: 2002, T. C. Campbell, Reg McKay, The wilderness years, page 189:
glosses: A Scot who lives in London.
matryoshki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matryoshka
molerat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molerats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mole rat.
molerats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of molerat
pocketphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pocketphones
Etymology: From pocket + phone.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A telephone that fits in one's pocket; a mobile phone.
pocketphones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pocketphone
statespersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of statesperson
statespeople
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of statesperson
tabletopped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From table + topped.
Senses: examples: a tabletopped plateau
glosses: Having a flat top.
raw_tags: of natural terrain
triquetrae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triquetra
wantings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wanting
xeraphin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xeraphins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of xeraphim.
xeraphins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xeraphin
chimaeroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chimaeroids
Etymology: From chimaera + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any fish of the suborder Chimaeroidei
in petto
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian in petto (“in the chest”).
Senses: examples: text: […] it was not unfrequent for a good bargain to be struck with him by one or more of the public functionaries, the difference between the sum proposed and accepted being settled against the interests of Mynheer Krause, by the party putting him in possession of some government movement which hitherto been kept in petto.
ref: 1837, Capt. Marryat, “Snarleyyow; or, the Dog Fiend”, in The Metropolitan magazine, volume 18, page 18:
text: […] in its nine members, stand prominently personified indolence and ignorance consummate, solemn pedantry and petulance in petto, upstart self-conceit and high-born arrogance all-blustering, self-sufficiency all smirking, and solid acres in all their stolidity, the remnant of vigour on crutches, and of saintly talent ever dozing—all this is indeed prophetic of wo to the land.
ref: 1838, “War in Disguise”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine, volume 44, number 278, page 718:
text: The City of the Sun was a model in petto for the whole earth.
ref: 1979, Frank Edward Manuel, Fritzie Prigohzy Manuel, Utopian Thought in the Western World, →ISBN, page 271:
glosses: Secret, private.
examples: text: In future you will have the right to dress in red — indeed, you are already cardinal in petto, and you will be proclaimed at the next conclave.
ref: 1845, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, “Metternich”, in The Living Age:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: Designated as a cardinal but not yet announced.
Synonyms: topics: Roman-Catholicism
Catholicism
Christianity
word: in pectore
in petto
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian in petto (“in the chest”).
Senses: examples: text: And yet, thou brave Teufelsdröckh, who could tell what lurked in thee? […] The secrets of man’s Life were laid open to thee; thou sawest into the mystery of the Universe, farther than another; thou hadst in petto thy remarkable Volume on Clothes.
ref: 1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Reminiscences”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 10:
text: Ministers and their Majority had a rejoinder in petto, as we have explained above; but it was one which they could not for shame avow, though they voted on the strength of it.
ref: 1834 June 7, “News of the Week”, in The Spectator, number 310:
text: In the same department as the suspect allographic prefaces we will naturally put many a “Notice from the Publisher [or Editor],” […] which we will meet again and which we have every reason to attribute in petto (but only in petto) to the author.
ref: 1997, Gérard Genette, Paratext: Thresholds of Interpretation, →ISBN, page 190:
glosses: Privately, in secret.
Synonyms: sense: in secret
word: behind closed doors
physograde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: physogrades
Etymology: From physo- + -grade.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any siphonophore which has an air sac for a float.
physogrades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of physograde
synchondrotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek union by cartilage + to cut.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Synonym of symphysiotomy.
synonyms: word: symphysiotomy
deuteroscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deutero- + -scopy.
Senses: examples: text: For not attaining the deuteroscopy, and second intention of the words, they are fain to omit their superconsequencies, coherencies, figures, or tropologies; and are not sometime perswaded by fire beyond their literalities.
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650, Book I, Chapter 3, p. 7:
glosses: That which is seen at a second view; a meaning beyond the literal sense, ulterior signification.
examples: text: I felt by anticipation the horrors of the Highland seers, whom their gift of deuteroscopy compels to witness things unmeet for mortal eye […]
ref: 1822, The Fortunes of Nigel, Walter Scott, Introductory Epistle:
glosses: Second sight.
catsfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cat's + foot. For its obsolete figurative sense, see cat's-paw.
Senses: examples: text: ...like the Monkey, that took the Cat's Foot to pull the Chesnut out of the Fire...
ref: c. 1661, Argyle's Last Will in The Harleian Miscellany, Vol. VIII, p. 30
glosses: Synonym of cat's-paw: a foot of a cat; (figurative, obsolete) a person used unwittingly or through trickery by another.
synonyms: word: cat's-paw
extra: a foot of a cat; (figurative, obsolete) a person used unwittingly or through trickery by another
examples: text: It is commonly called […] in English ground Iuie, Alehoofe, Gill creepe by ground, Tunehoofe, and Cats foote.
ref: 1597, John Gerarde [i.e., John Gerard], “Of Ground Iuie, or Alefoot”, in The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. […], London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton, →OCLC, book II, page 705:
glosses: Synonym of ground ivy (Glechoma hederacea).
synonyms: word: ground ivy
extra: Glechoma hederacea
examples: text: ...an Infusion made with the Heads of White Poppies, Cat's-foot, Colt's-foot, and Maiden-hair.
ref: 1739, Henri François Le Dran, translated by John Sparrow, Observations in Surgery, page 119:
glosses: Synonym of mountain cudweed (Antennaria dioica).
synonyms: word: mountain cudweed
extra: Antennaria dioica
boothaling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: boot (from booty) + haling
Senses: glosses: foraging for booty; plundering
kerplops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kerplop
kerwham
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From ker- + wham.
Senses: glosses: A wham; a sound of a powerful collision.
kersplosh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From ker- + splosh.
Senses: coordinate_terms: kerchunk
kerplunk
thud
glosses: splosh: sound of something heavy falling into liquid
sploshes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of splosh
peroqua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peroquas
Senses: examples: text: The peroqua rapidly approached, and was soon close to the beach; the sail was lowered, and she was backed in through the surf.
ref: 1839, Frederick Marryat, The Phantom Ship: Or, The Flying Dutchman:
glosses: A kind of boat.
peroquas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peroqua
foalfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foalfoots
Etymology: From foal + foot.
Senses: glosses: coltsfoot
foalfoots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foalfoot
spinebill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spinebills
form: spine-bill
Etymology: From spine + bill, possibly as a calque of translingual Acanthorhynchus, which was coined at around the same time.
Senses: glosses: Either of the Australian birds of the genus Acanthorhynchus, types of honeyeaters.
Hyponyms: eastern spinebill
western spinebill
spinebills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spinebill
genocider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genociders
Etymology: From genocide + -er.
Senses: synonyms: genocidaire
glosses: One who commits genocide.
genociders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of genocider
genocidally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more genocidally
form: most genocidally
Etymology: From genocidal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] the Muslim Turks who genocidally slaughtered the Christian Armenians; the Bosnian Christian Serbs who genocidally slaughtered Albanian and Croatian Muslims […]
ref: 2006, Martin Tolchin, Susan J. Tolchin, A world ignited:
glosses: In a genocidal manner.
examples: a genocidally inclined country
glosses: With regard to genocide.
homiciders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homicider