cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Chink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: Chinks
form: chink
Etymology: There are several possible origins of the term:
* From the Chinese courtesy ching-ching, a reduplication of Mandarin 請 /请 (qǐng, “please”). Compare chin-chin, Italian cincin, Portuguese tchim-tchim, tim-tim, Spanish chinchín, French tchin-tchin.
* From the alteration of China.
* From the alteration of Qing (also spelled Ch'ing).
See also Hokkien 親家 /亲家 (chhin-ke, “any relative by marriage (to a Chinese family)”).
Senses: examples: text: Then her eyes, always alert for the affairs of her kitchen, fell on some action of the Chinese cook which aroused her violent disapproval. She turned on him with a torrent of abuse. The Chink was not backward to defend himself, and a very lively quarrel ensued.
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 51”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
text: [Ignatz Mouse:] A new Chink in town, and acting mighty queer too – I suspect foul play.
ref: 1920 October 17, George Herriman, Krazy Kat, comic strip:
text: He scratched his head. "Well, damn me," said he. "I never thought I would take orders from a Chink, but he says 'hist!' and by crums you've got to hist and no back talk either."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: A person of perceived Chinese ethnicity or descent.
glosses: A person of perceived East Asian descent.
examples: text: Let's order some Chink. Where's that menu? I think we've got the stuff we usually order circled. I'm starved!
ref: 1995, “Daddy's on the Drink” (track 12), in Shame-Based Man, performed by Bruce McCulloch:
glosses: A meal of Chinese food.
Synonyms: word: Chinaman
word: gook
word: ching chong
sense: Chinese meal
word: chinky
Derived terms: Chinkland
chinkware
chinky
iron chink
Chink
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: more Chink
form: most Chink
form: chink
Etymology: There are several possible origins of the term:
* From the Chinese courtesy ching-ching, a reduplication of Mandarin 請 /请 (qǐng, “please”). Compare chin-chin, Italian cincin, Portuguese tchim-tchim, tim-tim, Spanish chinchín, French tchin-tchin.
* From the alteration of China.
* From the alteration of Qing (also spelled Ch'ing).
See also Hokkien 親家 /亲家 (chhin-ke, “any relative by marriage (to a Chinese family)”).
Senses: glosses: Chinese, or perceived to be Chinese.
glosses: East Asian.
Chinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chink
busted flushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of busted flush
disponent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disponents
Senses: topics: law
glosses: One who dispones, or takes over legal authority.
free enterprise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An economic system of business governed by the laws of supply and demand with minimal government interference, regulation, or subsidy.
Synonyms: capitalism
free market
mansplaining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: măn-splānʹĭng
ipa: /manˈspleɪnɪŋ/
ipa: /mænˈspleɪnɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪnɪŋ
Etymology: Blend of man + explaining, or from mansplain + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Mansplaining isn't just the act of explaining while male, of course; many men manage to explain things every day without in the least insulting their listeners... Mansplaining is when a dude tells you, a woman, how to do something you already know how to do, or how you are wrong about something you are actually right about, or miscellaneous and inaccurate "facts" about something you know a hell of a lot more about than he does.
ref: 2009 May 8, Karen Healey, “A woman's born to weep and fret”, in Karen Healey's Livejournal:
text: It's hard to appreciate the full pathological depths of mansplaining unless you've read late-period Heinlein, an experience comparable to being trapped in an elevator for six hours with a boorish know-it-all offering his theories on economics, politics, sex, aesthetics, military strategy, investing and myriad other topics.
ref: 2014 December 1, Jeet Heer, Sweet Lechery: Reviews, Essays & Profiles, The Porcupine's Quill, →ISBN, page 179:
text: “Cognitive therapy” is the fancy clinical term for what is otherwise known as “mansplaining.”
ref: 2015 December 7, James Taranto, “You're Being Hysterical. Calm Down.”, in The Wall Street Journal:
glosses: The act of condescendingly explaining something, particularly by a man to a woman, in order to appear knowledgeable, or from a mistaken presumption that she has an inferior understanding of the topic.
Related terms: cisplaining
femsplaining
momsplaining
straightsplaining
whitesplaining
womansplaining
mansplaining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: măn-splānʹĭng
ipa: /manˈspleɪnɪŋ/
ipa: /mænˈspleɪnɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪnɪŋ
Etymology: Blend of man + explaining, or from mansplain + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mansplain
Related terms: hepeat
male answer syndrome
dissensus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsɛn.səs/
Forms: form: dissensuses
Etymology: From Latin dissēnsus (“disagreement, quarrel; dissension, conflict”); or a blend of dissent + consensus.
Senses: examples: text: Now it is apparent that neither the consensus of Christianity with other religions, nor its dissensus from them, nor the absolute or relative superiority which we claim for it, can be made evident without a thorough and methodical comparison of all religions.
ref: 1874, Edmund Spiess, “Comparative Study of Religions, in Its Bearing upon Christian Apologetics”, in Philip Schaff, S[amuel] Irenæus Prime, editors, History, Essays, Orations, and Other Documents of the Sixth General Conference of the Evangelical Alliance, Held in New York, October 2–12, 1873, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, publishers, Franklin Square, →OCLC, page 310:
text: Underlying a real and culturally meaningful general consensus about the wrongness of rape, there can indeed be many contextual dissensuses about rape being okay. Only when we allow a reified conception of consensus to drive out the nuanced understanding in the ethnographic literature of the way people talk when they accuse and excuse crime do we see consensus-dissensus as being an "insoluble inconsistency" ([Christopher] Uggen at 496) at the foundation of the theory.
ref: 1998, Gregg Barak, editor, Integrative Criminology (International Library of Criminology, Criminal Justice & Penology), Aldershot, Hampshire; Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, page 569:
text: In this chapter, we explore two forms of dissensus. The first is horizontal dissensus, or that which occurs within a three-judge panel on the courts of appeals. Judges signal this form of dissensus by writing separate opinions that take the form of a dissent or concurrence. The second is vertical dissensus, which occurs when a court of appeals panel disagrees with the lower court over the proper resolution of the case. This form of dissensus is observed when the court of appeals reverses the lower court's decision, either in whole or in part.
ref: 2006, Virginia A. Hettinger, Stefanie A. Lindquist, Wendy L. Martinek, “Horizontal and Vertical Dissensus”, in Judging on a Collegial Court: Influences on Federal Appellate Decision Making (Constitutionalism and Democracy), University of Virginia Press, →ISBN, page 5:
text: Certainly parliamentary politics is indebted to the rhetorical culture of addressing issues from opposite views and debating the alternatives pro et contra. In parliamentary procedure dissensus and debate are institutionalised: no motion is approved without a thorough examination of and confrontation among imaginable alternatives.
ref: 2014, Kari Palonen, José María Rosales, Tapani Turkka, “Introduction: The Parliamentary Politics of Dissensus”, in Kari Palonen, José María Rosales, Tapani Turkka, editors, The Politics of Dissensus: Parliament in Debate (Social Sciences & Humanities; 2), Santander: Cantabria University Press; [Madrid]: McGraw-Hill Interamericana de España, →ISBN, page 3:
glosses: Disagreement, especially when widespread.
handwrits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handwrit.
fyke-net
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fyke-nets
form: fyke net
Senses: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A fyke.
fyke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fykes
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch fuik (“fish trap”), from Middle Dutch vuyke, fuke. Cognate with West Frisian fûke, German Low German Fuuk.
Senses: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
synonyms: fyke net
fyke-net
glosses: A type of fish-trap consisting of tubular nets that are supported by hoops.
fyke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fykes
form: fyking
form: fyked
form: fyked
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch fuik (“fish trap”), from Middle Dutch vuyke, fuke. Cognate with West Frisian fûke, German Low German Fuuk.
Senses: glosses: To fish using a fyke.
Related terms: fike
fyke-nets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fyke-net
Pocahontases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pocahontas
Pleasance
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From an Old French female given name Plaisance, from plaisance (“pleasance”). The surname is partly matronymic, partly habitational from the Italian town of Piacenza.
Senses: examples: text: Similarly, the verse at the close of Through the Looking Glass is an acrostic for Alice Pleasance Liddell.
ref: 2008, Sherry L. Ackerman, Behind the Looking Glass, page 32:
glosses: A female given name from French.
glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
dissipator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dissipators
form: dissipater
Etymology: From dissipate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, dissipates something.
dawdlingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dawdlingly
form: most dawdlingly
Etymology: From dawdling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dawdling manner.
beefaloes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beefalo
assayings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assaying
pigless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pig + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a pig.
snoutless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From snout + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a snout.
Queensland nut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Queensland nuts
Etymology: The tree is native to parts of Queensland, Australia.
Senses: glosses: The macadamia nut.
Queensland nuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Queensland nut
troncmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: troncmasters
Etymology: From tronc + master.
Senses: examples: text: The troncmaster is responsible for operating pay-as-you-earn on all distributions from the tronc and is personally liable for tax which he fails to deduct […]
ref: 2004, Ronald Staples, Taxation, Volume 152, page 528:
text: No NIC is payable on tips paid through a tronc if the above conditions are satisfied, therefore if the troncmaster operates independently of the employer, no NIC is payable […]
ref: 2008, Malcolm James, Taxation of Small Businesses, page 175:
glosses: The person in charge of a tronc (pool of earnings).
douroucoulis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of douroucouli
squidgily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more squidgily
form: most squidgily
Etymology: From squidgy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a squidgy manner.
squidginess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From squidgy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being squidgy.
Russian gauge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Russian gage
Senses: glosses: A railway gauge of 1,520 or 1,524 mm, used primarily in the former USSR.
thuggeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thuggery
transfixt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: [*] L Amongst these mightie men were wemen mixt, Proud wemen, vaine, forgetfull of their yoke: The bold Semiramis,[*] whose sides transfixt With sonnes own blade, her fowle reproches spoke; 445 Faire Sthenoboea,[*] that her selfe did choke With wilfull cord, for wanting of her will; High minded Cleopatra,[*] that with stroke Of Aspes sting her selfe did stoutly kill: And thousands moe the like, that did that dongeon fill; 450 LI Besides the endlesse routs of wretched thralles, Which thither were assembled day by day, From all the world after their wofull falles Through wicked pride, and wasted wealthes decay.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, published 1921:
text: XI "When I from Nicosia thee expected (When thou wast journeying to the plenar court) To cheer me, -- left with fever sore infected, And in the dread of death, -- I heard report That thou wast gone to Syria; and dejected By that ill tiding, suffered in such sort, I, all unable to pursue thy quest, Had nigh with this right hand transfixt my breast.
ref: 1831, William Stewart Rose, Orlando Furioso:
text: Lockhart and another domestic, who had in vain attempted to oppose his passage through the gallery or antechamber, were seen standing on the threshhold transfixt with surprize, which was instantly communicated to the whole party in the stateroom.
ref: 1881, Various, The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of transfixed; simple past and past participle of transfix.
girlzine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: girlzines
Etymology: From girl + zine.
Senses: examples: text: Impatient horniness — the stereotypically male variety — shapes the credo of the on-line girlzine Minx.
ref: 2000, Benjamin DeMott, Killer woman blues:
text: On another floor there was a fanzine workshop, as well as a putting-on-gigs workshop, an extensive girlzine stall and a rape crisis information point.
ref: 2001, Chérie Turner, Everything you need to know about the riot grrrl movement:
text: On the one hand feminist ideas are increasingly taken for granted across a range of media and genres, vibrant girlzines spring up all over the world, and the Web is home to an enormous diversity of feminist ideas[…]
ref: 2007, Rosalind Gill, Gender and the Media, page 2:
glosses: A zine written predominantly by and for girls, specifically the riot grrrl subculture.
girlzines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of girlzine
cyberzine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberzines
Etymology: From cyber- + zine.
Senses: examples: text: Today, comparable cyberzines reach tens of thousands of readers without incurring any printing or distribution costs. The only expenses, in addition to the hard- and software, are modest server and access fees.
ref: 1999, Steven Heller, Design literacy (continued): understanding graphic design, page 34:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A magazine published on the Internet.
Synonyms: e-zine
Hyponyms: webmag
webzine
cyberzines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberzine
directer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: But by this figure [Noema] the obscurity of the sence lieth not in a single word, but in an entier speech, whereof we do not so easily conceiue the meaning, but as it were by coniecture, because it is wittie and subtile or darke, which makes me therefore call him in our vulgar the [Close conceit] as he that said by himselfe and his wife, I thanke God in fortie winters that we haue liued together, neuer any of our neighbours set vs at one, meaning that they neuer fell out in all that space, which had bene the directer speech and more apert, and yet by intendment amounts all to one, being neuerthelesse dissemblable and in effect contrary.
ref: 1589, George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie:
text: I will own that I am rather glad that sort of thing seems to be out of fashion now, and I think the directer and franker methods of modern fiction will forbid its revival.
ref: 1895, William Dean Howells, My Literary Passions:
text: Paul puts the same in directer language; sin reduces men to a position where they are "alienated from the life of God" (Eph. 4:18; Col. 1:21), "without God in the world" (Eph. 2:12), "enemies of God" (Rom. 5:10; Col. 1:21); but he does not say more than Jesus implies.
ref: 1916, T. R. Glover, The Jesus of History:
glosses: comparative form of direct: more direct
directer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: directers
Senses: examples: text: A rule, according to the sense affixed to it by canonists and moralists, is a guide to discipline, and a directer of the conduct.
ref: 1809, The European Magazine, and London Review, volume 55, page 174:
glosses: Archaic form of director.
direcshun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: direcshuns
Senses: examples: text: [W]hen de man had tole me how to go, I went right long till I got out ob sight ob de little house, an' den I got into de woods, an' turned right round de oder way an' made tracks fast as I could in dat direcshun."
ref: 1868, Anna E. Dickinson, What Answer?:
text: The company's post war the nearest, so I jest took down the river in that direcshun.
ref: 1874, Edwin Eastman, Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of direction.
kyles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kyle
propellerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From propeller + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without propellers.
transfigureth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /tɹænzˈfɪɡjʊəɹɛθ/
Senses: examples: text: And herein did they imitate their preceptor, Satan, the angel of darkness, who sometimes transfigureth himself into an angel of light, and unto whom in their arts and in their acts they paid obedience.
ref: 1880, Various, The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick:
text: II O sweet my sometime loved and worshipt one A day thou gavest me That rose full-orbed in starlike happiness And lit our heaven that other stars had none:-- Sole as that westering sphere companionless When twilight is begun And the dead sun transfigureth the sea: A day so bright Methought the very shadow, from its light Thrown, were enough to bless (Albeit with but a shadow's benison) The unborn days its dark posterity.
ref: 1893, William Watson, The Poems of William Watson:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of transfigure
transfigurest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: transfigure + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of transfigure
dazzlingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dazzling + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being dazzling.
undappled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undappled
form: most undappled
Etymology: From un- + dappled.
Senses: examples: text: Stand very still and,
Far off, where shadow
Is undappled, you may hear
The tushed boar grumble in his ivy-slick.
ref: 1969, Robert Penn Warren, Audubon, a Vision:
glosses: Not dappled.
undazzling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undazzling
form: most undazzling
Etymology: From un- + dazzling.
Senses: glosses: Not dazzling.
undazzled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undazzled
form: most undazzled
Etymology: From un- + dazzled.
Senses: glosses: Not dazzled.
conveyorless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From conveyor + -less.
Senses: examples: a conveyorless manufacturing system
glosses: Without conveyors.
xeroradiogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xeroradiograms
Etymology: From xero- + radiogram.
Senses: glosses: An image produced by means of xeroradiography.
xeroradiograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xeroradiogram
pawful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pawfuls
form: pawsful
Etymology: From paw + -ful.
Senses: glosses: As much as a paw can hold.
pawfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pawful
pawsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pawful
pawkier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of pawky: more pawky
pawkiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of pawky: most pawky
pipesmoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pipe + smoke.
Senses: glosses: The smoke from a pipe.
inhabiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈhabitə/
ipa: /ɪnˈhæbɪtəɹ/
Forms: form: inhabiters
Etymology: From inhabit + -er.
Senses: examples: text: And it is knowen vnto all the inhabiters off Ieruſalem.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts j:[19], folio cliiij, verso:
text: They are almost the last words in the volume of inspired truth, and to me, together with those last words, they seem with "the voice of a great multitude, and of many waters, and of mighty thunderings," from the very throne itself of the Most High, to proclaim to every inhabiter of the earth, Fall down before no created being; adore no created being; pray to, invoke, call upon no created being, whether saint or angel: worship {57} and adore God only; pray to God only.
ref: 1847, James Endell Tyler, Primitive Christian Worship:
text: Thus Samuel Lee, in that curious and rare old work, "The Temple of Solomon, pourtrayed by Scripture Light," thus dilates on this symbolism of the temple:-- "The foundation of this temple may be laid in humility and contrition of spirit, wherein the inhabiter of eternity delighteth to dwell; we may refer the porch to the mouth of a saint, wherein every holy Jacob erects the pillars of God's praise, calling upon and blessing his name for received mercies; when songs of deliverance are uttered from the doors of his lips.
ref: 1882, Albert G. Mackey, The Symbolism of Freemasonry:
text: And now shall queenly Libya of broad meadow-lands well-pleased receive for thee within a golden house thy glorious bride, and there make gift to her of a portion in the land, to be an inhabiter thereof with herself, neither shall it be lacking in tribute of plants bearing fruit after all kinds, neither a stranger to the beasts of chase.
ref: 1904, Pindar, The Extant Odes of Pindar:
glosses: One who inhabits; an inhabitant.
landladyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more landladyish
form: most landladyish
Etymology: From landlady + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: […] as if someone had suddenly switched on a searchlight which filled every corner of the odd landladyish room with its aspidistra and baize cloth and the smoke and heat of the game.
ref: 1939, Nicholas Monsarrat, This Is the Schoolroom, page 12:
glosses: Suggesting or befitting a landlady.
propitiative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈpɪʃətɪv/
rhymes: -ɪʃətɪv
Forms: form: more propitiative
form: most propitiative
Etymology: From propitiate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: The missive from Arthur was a short but complete and propitiative acknowledgment of his error and fraility.
ref: 1902, George Washington Cable, Bylow Hill:
text: A friendly word will bring him to my hand; but his behavior is never effusive, as it would be if he had found his rightful owner, but mildly propitiative and with a touch of sadness.
ref: 1908, Nathaniel Southgate Shaler, Domesticated Animals:
text: The old commodore's eyes flashed to retort, but the senator forced a propitiative smile, adding: "However, let that pass just now, here's something else."
ref: 1914, George W. Cable, Gideon's Band:
glosses: Serving to, or intended to, propitiate; propitiatory, reconciliatory
bandless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From band + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a band (in various senses).
Derived terms: bandlessness
thievings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thieving
spleenful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈspliːnfəl/
Forms: form: more spleenful
form: most spleenful
Etymology: From spleen + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: The spleenful Pigeons never could create
A prince more proper to revenge their hate:
Indeed, more proper to revenge, than save;
A king, whom in his wrath the Almighty gave:
For all the grace the landlord had allow'd,
But made the Buzzard and the Pigeons proud;
Gave time to fix their friends, and to seduce the crowd.
ref: 17th C., John Dryden (1631-1700), “The Hind and the Panther”, in The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Vol I:
text: His fluency was as remarkable as ever, and at first as spleenful; by-and-by his outrageous mood gave way, and, in response to some of Rainham's adroit thrusts, he condescended to stand on his defence.
ref: 1893, Ernest Dowson, Arthur Moore, A Comedy of Masks:
text: Miss MARY JERROLD was just the perfect BARRIE mother (of Mary Rose). Mr. ARTHUR WHITBY'S parson, Mr. NORMAN FORBES' squire, Miss JEAN CADELL'S housekeeper, left no chinks in their armour for a critic's spleenful arrow.
ref: 1920, Various, Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, April 28, 1920:
glosses: Full of spleen; spiteful.
spleenful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈspliːnfəl/
Etymology: From spleen + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Wyndham Lewis is equipped for his task with an amazing vocabulary of diatribe and derision, a spleenful of gall, and sense for the absurd — the monstrous, the Gargantuan, the preposterously incongruous— which, when disciplined, makes his best passages uproariously effective.
ref: 1970, New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art - Volume 1, page 2:
text: On a sleepless odyssey through the capital's nightspots, cafes, office blocks and bedroom floors, Johnny (something between a slice of John Lydon, and a dose of Mark E. Smith) vents a spleenful of bile on whomever he encounters.
ref: 2002, Ali Catterall, Simon Wells, Your Face Here: British Cult Movies Since the Sixties, page 209:
glosses: A quantity of invective.
examples: text: But suddenly, inexplicably, I've had a spleenful of it, and I'm going for the kid.
ref: 2002, The Missouri Review - Volume 25, page 163:
glosses: More than one can take.
dispenst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of dispensed, simple past and past participle of dispense.
inflicter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈflɪktəɹ/
rhymes: -ɪktə(ɹ)
Forms: form: inflicters
Etymology: From inflict + -er.
Senses: examples: text: BLACKE PLUTOES GRIESLY DAME, Proserpine, the avenger of men, and inflicter of curses on the dead.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, published 1921:
text: At the core of their own hearts there stands an inflicter of no less agonies.
ref: 1846, Leigh Hunt, Stories from the Italian Poets= With Lives of the Writers, Vol. 2:
text: But there is a further group of cases, and a very important group, on account of the light it throws on the essential nature of these phenomena, and that is the group in which the thought or the spectacle of pain acts as a sexual stimulant, without the subject identifying himself clearly either with the inflicter or the sufferer of the pain.
ref: 1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 (of 6):
glosses: One who inflicts.
xeromammogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xeromammograms
Etymology: From xero- + mammogram.
Senses: glosses: An image produced by means of xeromammography.
xeromammographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From xero- + mammographic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to xeromammography.
xeromammograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xeromammogram
micos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mico
Poitiers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpwɑːtɪ.eɪ/
ipa: /ˈpwʌtɪ.eɪ/
enpr: pwäʹtē-ā
enpr: pwŭtʹē-ā
ipa: /ˈpwɑti.eɪ/
ipa: /ˌpwɑtiˈeɪ/
enpr: pwäʹtē-ā
enpr: pwä'tē-āʹ
rhymes: -eɪ
Etymology: Directly borrowed from French Poitiers, Middle French Poictiers, from Old French Peitiers, from Latin Pictāva, Pictāvium, Pictāvis, after the Pictones, the Gaulish tribe inhabiting the region.
Senses: glosses: A city, the capital of Vienne department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, France.
Related terms: Poitevin
poitevinite
Poitou
Poitiers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpwɑːtɪ.eɪ/
ipa: /ˈpwʌtɪ.eɪ/
enpr: pwäʹtē-ā
enpr: pwŭtʹē-ā
ipa: /ˈpwɑti.eɪ/
ipa: /ˌpwɑtiˈeɪ/
enpr: pwäʹtē-ā
enpr: pwä'tē-āʹ
rhymes: -eɪ
Etymology: From Poitier + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of Poitier
sentence adverbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sentence adverb
fair weather friend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fair weather friends
Senses: examples: text: Ere long a portion of the village spire began to appear among the trees, and the gilded telltale on its top, in which the slippery politician, and the fair weather friend, and the doubting disciple, who is blown about by every wind of doctrine, may behold a happy emblem of life and practice.
ref: 1839, [Lucius M. Sargent], Right Opposite. Founded on Fact (The Temperance Tales; II, number 6), Boston, Mass.: Published by Whipple and Damrell, No. 9 Cornhill; New York, N.Y.: Scofield and Voorhies, No. 118 Nassau Street, →OCLC, page 14:
text: Be not pestered with too many friends. […] There are as many grades of friends as there are plaids in the tartan. There is the friend of "ifs, buts, and ands," who always signifies that he would if he could, but as he can't, how can he? Then comes your fair weather''' friend, who deserts you the very first time you founder in the mud!
ref: 1852, C. Toler Wolfe, “Nothing Like Travel”, in A Book of Odds and Ends, Winchester, Va.: Printed by C. Toler Wolfe, Republican Office, →OCLC, page 34:
text: One respondent to a Gibbs and Humphries's research initiative characterised their senior management as ‘fair weather friends’ – keen to support the partnering initiative on day one and when things are going well, but eager to distance themselves when times got tough.
ref: 2015, Andrew Humphries, Richard Gibbs, “Operational Implications of Culture”, in Enterprise Relationship Management: A Paradigm for Alliance Success, Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, Vt.: Gower Publishing, →ISBN, page 63:
glosses: Alternative form of fair-weather friend.
native soil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: native soils
Senses: examples: text: [T]hey were peculiarly honored by the unexpected presence in their midst "of that famous son of the South, Colonel Starbottle," who had lately returned to his native soil from his adopted home in California.
ref: 1892, Bret Harte, “Colonel Starbottle's Client”, in Colonel Starbottle's Client and Other Stories:
text: "Look back, Peter," he said, "and you can get your last glimpse of your native soil. The black line that just shows under the sky is Sandy Hook."
ref: 1919, Joseph A. Altsheler, chapter 4, in The Sun Of Quebec:
text: Nawaz Sharif, two-time Prime Minister of Pakistan, had planned a triumphant return to his native soil nearly seven years after choosing exile.
ref: 2007 September 10, Aryn Baker, “A Musharraf Foe's Aborted Return”, in Time:
glosses: The country or geographical region where one was born or which one considers to be one's true homeland.
raw_tags: as pertaining to persons
examples: text: [B]ut who else from seeing a plant in an herbarium can imagine its appearance when growing in its native soil?
ref: 1839, Robert FitzRoy, Phillip Parker King, Charles Darwin, chapter XX, in Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years 1826 and 1836, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
text: What a strange idea—what a needless labor—to construct artificial ruins in Rome, the native soil of ruin!
ref: 1860, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 8, in The Marble Faun:
text: An innate passion for all that was thus distinguished and exceptional made her revere Hillbridge as the native soil of those intellectual amenities that were of such difficult growth in the thin air of East Onondaigua.
ref: 1901, Edith Wharton, “The Recovery”, in Crucial Instances:
qualifier: plants; things; ideas; plants; things; ideas
glosses: Source, place of origin, principal location, or natural habitat.
raw_tags: as pertaining to animals
Synonyms: topics: geographical-region
region
location
country
word: birthplace
topics: geographical-region
region
location
country
word: homeland
topics: geographical-region
region
location
country
word: native ground
topics: geographical-region
region
location
country
word: native land
topics: source
sense: place of origin, natural habitat
word: native ground
native ground
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: native grounds
Senses: glosses: Synonym of native soil.
synonyms: word: native soil
native land
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: native lands
Senses: glosses: Synonym of native soil.
synonyms: word: native soil
cobelligerents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cobelligerent
co-belligerents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of co-belligerent
disceptator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disceptators
Etymology: From Latin disceptātor.
Senses: examples: text: the inquisitivediſceptators of this Age
ref: 1675, John Smith, Christian Religion's Appeal from the Groundless Prejudices of the Sceptick to the Bar of Common Reason:
glosses: One who arbitrates or decides; a judge.
pejorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pejorists
form: peiorist
Etymology: From Latin peior (“worse”) + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: pejorationist
glosses: One who believes that the world is getting worse.
pejorate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːdʒəɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈpɛdʒəɹeɪt/
Forms: form: pejorates
form: pejorating
form: pejorated
form: pejorated
Etymology: From Latin peiōrāt-, the participle stem of peiorō (“make worse”), from peior (“worse”).
Senses: examples: text: You do not appear to me to recognize the gravity of your situation, or you would be more careful not to pejorate the same by words which glance upon the purity of justice.
ref: 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Lord Advocate Prestongrange”, in Catriona, London; Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson & Sons, →OCLC, page 49:
glosses: To become or make (something) worse; to deteriorate, to worsen.
Related terms: pejoration
pejorative
pejorist
dotis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doti
digs up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dig up
dug up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dig up
digging up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dig up
antigravitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-gravitation
Etymology: From anti- + gravitation.
Senses: glosses: Antigravity.
Derived terms: antigravitational
clusterability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cluster + -ability.
Senses: glosses: A tendency to form into clusters.
detwinning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of detwin
detwinning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The separation of the components of a twinned crystal.
eigengap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eigengaps
Etymology: From eigen- + gap.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The difference between successive eigenvalues.
electroexcitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + excitation.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The formation of an excited state by the absorption of an electron
exosystems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exosystem
exosystem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exosystems
Etymology: From exo- + system.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A system of exoplanets and associated star.
glosses: A system of interconnections between a social setting in which the individual does not have an active role and the individual's immediate context. For example, a parent's experience at home may be influenced by the other parent's experiences at work.
Derived terms: exosystemic
implementational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From implementation + -al.
Senses: glosses: That implements
glosses: Of or pertaining to implementation
Derived terms: implementationally
indifferentiability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being indifferentiable
of a piece
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: From an obsolete sense of a (“the same”).
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: all one, all the same, cut from the same cloth, of the same stripe, monolithic
text: Strange as this expectation appears to us, it is quite of a piece with early modes of thought.
ref: 1894, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough:
text: Further along, the road passes a low E-shape of red-brick estate buildings, obviously modern, yet all of a piece with this sensible, attractive and businesslike village.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 375, about Terling:
synonyms: of a kind
of a blood
of a feather
glosses: Of the same kind.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see of, a, piece.
Derived terms: of a piece with
Related terms: same difference
indifferentiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌindɪf.ə(ɹ)ˈɛn.ʃə.bəl/
Etymology: From in- + differentiable.
Senses: glosses: Unable to be differentiated
microcantilevers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microcantilever
strombolian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Strombolian.
subacoustic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + acoustic.
Senses: glosses: subsonic
tridiagonalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tridiagonalizations
Etymology: From tridiagonal + -ization.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The formation of a tridiagonal matrix
no speaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: These three were soon caught up by the bitterness of the play and, owing to the unpleasant things they had to say, think and do to each other, proceeded to be on ‘no speaks’ with each other […]
ref: 1938, Winifred Strangman, Robert Loraine:
text: In the last summer of her life she had had bitter rows and had been in a state of prolonged "no speaks" with both her mother and her brother Charles.
ref: 2003, Robert Lacey, Monarch: The Life and Reign of Elizabeth II, page 10:
glosses: The fact of refusing to speak.
no speaks
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He has added that he is distraught that Tana has "fled" to LA, and is no-speaks with both him and her uncomprehending mother, Greta.
ref: 2010 November 4, Marina Hyde, The Guardian:
glosses: Refusing to speak; uncommunicative.
facetime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of face time.
facetime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: facetimes
form: facetiming
form: facetimed
form: facetimed
Senses: examples: text: “I am facetiming him right now, so he heard that.” Taylor said. “Why do you hate me?” Mitch asked through Taylor's iPod and into my phone. “Whatever.” I replied and hung up.
ref: 2015, Ian Schrauth, Vacillating Brown and Black, page 33:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of FaceTime.
Carapicuíba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of São Paulo, Brazil.
Tereno
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Language spoken in the Mato Grosso do Sul region of Brazil, written in the Latin script.
Synonyms: Terêna
Etelena
vinas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vina
plantest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: plant + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of plant
lils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lil
pened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past of pene
tonaba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: tonabas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tonaba.
nims
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nim
proteomicist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proteomicists
Etymology: From proteomic + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A scientist whose speciality is proteomics
emittent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪˈmɪtənt/
Forms: form: more emittent
form: most emittent
Etymology: From Latin emittens, present participle of emittere.
Senses: examples: text: For, not to repeat, that the emittent Body was firm and cold, the Effect produced by the Effluvium that guided the Setting-dog, vvas vvrought upon the Senſory of a living and vvarm Animal; […]
ref: 1673, Robert Boyle, “Of the Determinate Nature of Effluviums. Chapter IV.”, in Essays of the Strange Subtilty, Great Efficacy, Determinate Nature of Effluviums. […], London: […] W[illiam] G[odbid] for M[oses] Pitt, […], →OCLC, pages 31–32:
glosses: Sending forth; emissive.
bid one's time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bids one's time
form: bidding one's time
form: bid one's time
form: bid one's time
Senses: examples: text: It is wonderful with what far-sighted patience one of these wretches will bid his time, in order to effect a favourite acquisition.
ref: 1844, James Fenimore Cooper, Lucy Hardinge, British title of Miles Wallingford edition, A. and W. Galignani, chapter II, page 26:
text: [Election 2008.] As anxious Republican delegates bid their time, President Bush on Monday headed for Texas, a state threatened by Hurricane Gustav.
ref: 2008 September 1, Associated Press, “McCain: Hurricane defense OK, could be better”, in USA Today:
glosses: Misconstruction of bide one's time and bode one's time.
freewheelin'
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more freewheelin'
form: most freewheelin'
Senses: examples: text: Or that Eric Andersen was assaulted by a freewheelin' gang of teen-age girls who stomped him mercilessly with their thirsty Spanish boots.
ref: 1965 December, Phil Ochs, “That Was The Year That Weren't”, in Cavalier:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of freewheeling.
freewheelin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of freewheeling.
equites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eques
break of dawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: When your rooster crows at the break o' dawn
Look out your windo' and I'll be gone
You're the reason I'm a travelin' on
But don't think twice, it's all right.
ref: 1962, Bob Dylan, Don't Think Twice, It's All Right:
glosses: Daybreak.
Synonyms: break of day
crack of dawn
daybreak
dawn
TTR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtiː ˌtiː ˈɑː/
ipa: /ˌti ˌti ˈɑɹ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: TTRs
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of transthyretin.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of type-token ratio.
TTR
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtiː ˌtiː ˈɑː/
ipa: /ˌti ˌti ˈɑɹ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Senses: examples: text: A: Hey, who was the creator of Mega Man?
B: Keiji Inafune. Wikipedia TTR!
glosses: Abbreviation of to the rescue.
to the rescue
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Used to express when someone or something has saved the day, or provided valuable help.
Synonyms: word: TTR
word: ttr
on one hand
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of on the one hand.
amourist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amourists
Etymology: From amour + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of amorist.
hair-curling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hair-curling
form: most hair-curling
form: hair curling
form: haircurling
Senses: examples: text: But, first and foremost, "Retreat with Stilwell" is a rip snorting, spine tingling, hair curling story, and as such it is quite likely to hold you.
ref: 1943 March 14, Arthur Otis, “Belden Pens a Hair-Curling Story of Disaster in Burma”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, retrieved 09 Nov 2010, page F10:
text: Many of Mr. Dahl's stories are hair-curling tales of man's inhumanity to man, particularly woman's to man.
ref: 1960 February 7, Lewis Nichols, “In and Out of Books”, in New York Times, page BR8:
text: [T]he era of good feeling Carter has created in his party . . . could be a prelude to an activist presidency bent on shaking and changing the status quo with hair-curling audacity.
ref: 1976 July 18, Eugene Patterson, “They're not saying ‘Jimmy Who?’”, in St. Petersburg Times, retrieved 09 Nov 2010:
text: If the walls . . . could talk, they would reveal some hair-curling secrets.
ref: 2008 October 7, J. Gibson, E. Tadros, “A touch of nostalgia up for grabs”, in Sydney Morning Herald, Australia, retrieved 09 Nov 2010:
glosses: Exciting, astonishing, frightening, or horrifying.
Synonyms: hair-raising
Related terms: curl someone's hair
hair curling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hair curling
form: most hair curling
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hair-curling.
haircurling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more haircurling
form: most haircurling
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hair-curling.
chancelry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chancelries
Senses: examples: text: By Henri III he was successively appointed governor of the chancelry of Burgundy, councillor of the provincial Parliament, and subsequently president.
ref: 1890, Julia Pardoe, The Life of Marie de Medicis, Vol. 1 (of 3):
text: While he was working at it there arrived one day--it was in November, 1802--a patent of nobility from the chancelry of the Holy Roman Empire.
ref: 1914, Kuno Francke (Editor-in-Chief), The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. III:
text: To this it is to be added that the majority of the little princes are not disposed to spend upon their federal diplomacy the amount that would be required for a regular and organized chancelry and correspondence; and that if Herr von Holzhausen, who after the departure of Baron von Strombeck obtained the place as the lowest asker, should resign from their service, they would hardly be able, with the means at their disposal, to secure so imposing a representative as this prosperous gentleman, who is decorated with sundry grand-crosses and the title of privy councillor, and is a member of the oldest patrician family of Frankfort.
ref: 1929, Various, Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol. 5:
glosses: Alternative form of chancellery.
warmline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warmlines
form: warm line
Etymology: From warm + line, as a play on hotline.
Senses: glosses: A telephone line that provides assistance for people whose need is not urgent.
warm line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warm lines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of warmline.
Cappadocian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæpəˈdəʊʃi.ən/
ipa: /kæpəˈdəʊʃən/
rhymes: -əʊʃən
Forms: form: more Cappadocian
form: most Cappadocian
Etymology: From Cappadocia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Cappadocia.
Cappadocian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæpəˈdəʊʃi.ən/
ipa: /kæpəˈdəʊʃən/
rhymes: -əʊʃən
Forms: form: Cappadocians
Etymology: From Cappadocia + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Cappadocia.