cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
gulfy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌlfi/
Forms: form: more gulfy
form: most gulfy
Etymology: From gulf + -y.
Senses: glosses: Characterized by or full of gulfs or whirlpools.
Related terms: gulflike
intentively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtɛntɪvli/
Forms: form: more intentively
form: most intentively
Etymology: From intentive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With an intentive attitude or manner.
intentive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɛntɪv/
rhymes: -ɛntɪv
Forms: form: more intentive
form: most intentive
form: ententive
Etymology: From Middle English ententif, borrowed from Old French ententif, from Late Latin intentīvus (“intensive”), from Latin intendō (“I intend, I attend”).
Senses: examples: text: the object is fine and accurate , it conduceth much to have the sense intentive and erect
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “III. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: Paying attention; attentive, heedful.
examples: text: To which whilest she lent her intentive mind, / He suddenly his net upon her threw […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Intent (of the mind, thoughts etc.).
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Expressing intent.
Derived terms: intentively
intentiveness
Related terms: intensive
mna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mnas
form: mnae
form: mnai
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin mna or Ancient Greek μνᾶ (mnâ).
Senses: examples: text: Four thousand Athenian cleruchs were settled on lands taken from the wealthiest Chalcidians, the prisoners taken from both Chalcidians and Boeotians were later ransomed at two mnai per person, and their fetters dedicated on the Athenian acropolis (5. 77. 1–2).
ref: 1969, Martin Ostwald, Nomos and the Beginnings of the Athenian Democracy, Oxford, Oxon: At the Clarendon Press, page 146:
text: On hearing of an athlete’s consumption of two mnai worth of figs and six pints of wine at one sitting he exclaims, “Apollo, Horus, Sabazius!”
ref: 1986, Timothy Long, Barbarians in Greek Comedy, Carbondale, Ill.; Edwardsville, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, page 10:
text: The amounts of the contributions which each member of a mess had to make each month are said by Plutarch to have been 1 medimnos of barley-meal, 8 khoes of wine, 5 mnai of cheese, 2½ mnai of figs, and ‘a very small amount of money’ for buying additional items of food (Lyk. 12.3).
ref: 1986, Douglas M[aurice] MacDowell, Spartan Law (Scottish Classical Studies; 1), Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, →ISBN, page 112:
text: If once again the restorations in IG I³ 7 are right, the text says that the Praxiergidai are to dress the statue with a chiton costing two mnai or pay a fine of one mna.
ref: a. 2008, Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood, edited by Robert Parker, Athenian Myths and Festivals: Aglauros, Erechtheus, Plynteria, Panathenaia, Dionysia, Oxford, Oxon: Oxford University Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 149:
glosses: Alternative form of mina (“weight unit”).
mnae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mna
mnas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mna
burnfire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burnfires
Etymology: An alteration (due to its association with burn) of Early Modern English boonfire, bondfire, bounfire (“bonfire”). More at bonfire.
Senses: examples: text: It may ha' been wicked, but there 'twas, an' the thought kep' arter me, till all I could think of was the chist; an' byme-by I says to Mary Ellen, one mornin', ' Le's open it to-day an' make a burnfire !'
ref: 1896, Harper's new monthly magazine, volume 93:
text: […] the town of Owegea was made a burnfire of to Grace our Meating our General Course from Tiago to Choconant […]
ref: 1887, New York (State). Secretary's Office, Frederick Cook, Journals of the military expedition of Major General John Sullivan
glosses: A bonfire.
holiday-makers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holiday-maker
entomophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entomophobias
Etymology: From entomo- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Spiders are a common cause of entomophobia (specifically called arachnophobia).
ref: 2024 May 24, Vincent H. Resh, “Entomophobia”, in Chit Chat Club, page 4:
synonyms: insectophobia
glosses: Abnormal fear of insects or similar arthropods.
Related terms: entomophobe
entomophobic
biological control
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biological controls
Senses: glosses: Control of pests using natural predators, parasites, pathogens, or other organisms that harm the pest species.
exuberances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exuberance
snek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /snɛk/
Forms: form: sneks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of snake.
open circulatory system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: open circulatory systems
Senses: glosses: A system of circulation which is achieved primarily from the heart beating and muscle-induced locomotion of the organism, circulation without veins.
closed circulatory system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: closed circulatory systems
Senses: glosses: blood circulation via the pumping of the heart pushing blood through closed vessels
maxillary palp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maxillary palps
Etymology: Calque of New Latin palpus maxillaris.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: A small, antenna-like sensory appendage in certain invertebrates emerging from the maxilla.
bullate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bullate
form: most bullate
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin bullātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Resembling a bulla or blister; inflated; blistered; bulliform.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of bacterial cultures, having a growth which is blistered; rising in convex prominences.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having arched leaf tissue between each lateral vein, so that the veins appear depressed in the leaf surface.
bullate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bullates
Senses: examples: text: They [the Tartar] […] preferre brasse and steele before other mettals specially bullate, which they use for swords, knives, and other necessaries.
ref: 1591, Giles Fletcher, Of the Russe common wealth:
glosses: A kind of metal, bullet-iron.
JPA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
qualifier: Java programming language
glosses: Initialism of Jakarta/Java Persistence API.
phonetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phonetic + -al.
Senses: glosses: of, or pertaining to phonetics.
ORM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
related: word: O/RM
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: Initialism of object–relational mapping.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of object–role modeling.
qualifier: public relations
glosses: Initialism of online reputation management.
ORMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ORM
ex-ante
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ex ante.
ex-post
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ex post.
pedoclimate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedoclimates
Etymology: From pedo- (“soil”) + climate.
Senses: glosses: A microclimate within soil that integrates the combined effects of its temperature, water content and aeration.
Related terms: pedobiome
pedoclimatic
pedology
artful pleading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artful pleadings
Senses: examples: text: Suing his employer for negligence rather than for violation of the Federal Employers Liability Act was an artful pleading, and the defendant properly removed the proceedings to federal district court.
topics: law
glosses: The filing under state law of a claim naturally arising under federal law.
artful pleadings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artful pleading
Wikinomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wikinomics.
thalidomide baby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thalidomide babies
Senses: glosses: A baby born with phocomelia after its mother had been administered thalidomide while pregnant, this having teratogenic effects on the developing foetus.
opprobria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɹəʊ.bɹɪ.ə/
ipa: /əˈpɹoʊ.bɹi.ə/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin opprobria.
Senses: glosses: plural of opprobrium
radio drama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪdiˌəʊ dɹɑːmə/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪdiˌoʊ dɹɑmə/
Forms: form: radio dramas
Senses: examples: text: STREAMING AUDIO & VIDEO: Including our live "Seeing Ear Theatre" radio drama staring Walter Koenig, classic SF & horror movies, Orson Welles' WAR OF THE WORLDS broadcast, episodes of MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000, Alien Voices, readings by Greg Bear, Sam Delany, Bruce Sterling & K.W. Jeter, cartoons, classic trailers & more!
ref: 1992 October 28, The Dominion Feedback <feedback@www.scifi.com>, “Third Annual Online SF Con - Oct. 30 thru Nov. 1”, in rec.arts.sf.announce (Usenet), message-ID <Pine.GSO.4.05.9810271903200.2195-100000@icarus.usanetworks.com>:
text: Before the advent of television, radio drama had a huge popular audience and dominated much of the broadcast schedule.
ref: 2002, L. A. Heberlein, The Rough Guide to Internet Radio, →ISBN, page 299:
text: Radio dramas in America are online.
ref: 2005 January 25, Ken from Chicago <kwicker1b_nospam@comcast.net>, “Re: For THIS they cancelled Angel?”, in alt.tv.angel (Usenet), message-ID <P5WdnedA5a7GomvcRVn-rw@comcast.com>:
text: Whether you want to create a simple one-person podcast or a multi segment radio drama, you'll find all the user-friendly tips, tools and tricks you need to get the perfect sound and reach your audience.
ref: 2005, Jack D. Herrington, Podcasting hacks, →ISBN, page Back Cover:
text: In a radio drama version, she and Rhys this week reprise their roles for LA Theatre Works.
ref: 2010 December 8, Steve Julian, “LA Theatre Works reprises 'The Graduate' as radio drama, with Kathleen Turner”, in KPCC:
glosses: Dramatized, purely acoustic performance, broadcast on radio or published on audio media, such as tape or CD.
Synonyms: audio play
audio theater
dramatized audiobook
radio play
radio theater
chiral centre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chiral centres
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A stereocentre
chiral center
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chiral centers
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A stereocentre.
esclavages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of esclavage
outcrying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outcry
outcrying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outcryings
Senses: examples: text: The engine of the ill-fated mail was Stephenson, one of Whale's 4-6-0 "Experiment" class, which fact led to sensational outcryings in the daily papers about the scandal of "experimental machines" being used on fast trains!
ref: 1952 March, R. S. McNaught, “Joint Line Memories”, in Railway Magazine, page 196:
glosses: A crying out.
outcried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outcry
spamminess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spammy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: When a new message comes in, the same statistical analysis is performed to determine its likely spamminess.
ref: 2005, Simon Cozens, Advanced Perl programming:
glosses: The degree or quality of being spammy.
chateau migraine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chateau migraines
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Chateau Migraine.
loddes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lodde
lod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lods
form: LOD
Senses: examples: text: Some computer programs furnish p-values rather than maximum lod scores.
ref: 1999, Jurg Ott, Analysis of Human Genetic Linkage, →ISBN, page 66:
text: Markers were analysed in decreasing order of informativeness; a marker was only added to the map when it could be localized to a unique interval with a lod score of >= 3.0.
ref: 2001, Anatoly Ruvinsky, J. Sampson, The Genetics of the Dog, →ISBN, page 336:
text: Note that only recombinantion fractions between 0 and 0.5 are meaningful, and that all lod scores are zero at (theta)=0.5 (because they are then measuring the ratio of two identical probabilities, and log₁₀(1)=0).
ref: 2004, T. Strachan, Andrew P. Read, Human Molecular Genetics 3, →ISBN, page 406:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Initialism of logarithm of odds, a measure of likelihood calculated by taking the log of the ratio of the probability of a hypothesis being true given the observed data over the probability that the hypothesis is false.
laughster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laughsters
Etymology: From laugh + -ster.
Senses: glosses: Someone who laughs, or is laughing.
glosses: A comedian.
laughsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laughster
SCJP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SCJPs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Sun Certified Java Programmer.
SCJPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SCJP
in the dumps
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: 1677, Edward Ravenscroft, King Edgar and Alfreda, London: M. Turner, Act IV, Scene 1, p. 49,
Hill[aria]. What, in the dumps, Captain?
Osw[old]. He’s in a contemplation of Love.
text: 1699, B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, London: W. Hawes et al.,
In the dumps, troubled, chagrin, melancholic.
text: When you’re feeling in the dumps
Don’t be silly chumps
Just purse your lips and whistle - that’s the thing.
ref: 1979, Monty Python, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life:
glosses: Alternative form of down in the dumps.
pannum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panem
form: panum
form: pannam
form: pennam
Etymology: Possibly from Italian pane (“bread”) or directly from Latin pānem, the accusative of pānis (“bread, loaf”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to feed, to graze”).
Senses: examples: text: Here's Pannum and Lap, and good Poplars of Yarrum, / To fill up the Crib, and to comfort the Quarron.
ref: 1641–42, Richard Brome, A Joviall Crew, or, The Merry Beggars, published 1652, act 2:
text: As far as injun, pannum, and cheese, and a drop of heavy goes, you are perfectly welcome.
ref: 1844, Charles Selby, London by Night, act 1, scene 2:
text: I have a rorty gal, also a knowing pal, / And merrily together we jog on, / I doesn't care a flatch, as long as I've a tach, / Some pannum for my chest, and a tog on.
ref: c. 1864, Alfred Peck Stevens, “The Chickaleary Cove”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris, published 1896, page 161:
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: Bread; food.
Derived terms: english: said of a pauper or prisoner when his food is stopped
translation: said of a pauper or prisoner when his food is stopped
word: pannum-bound
english: street pastry cook
translation: street pastry cook
word: pannum-fence
english: starving
translation: starving
word: pannum-struck
pernoctate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜː.nɒk.teɪt/
ipa: /pɚˈnɑkˌteɪt/
Forms: form: pernoctates
form: pernoctating
form: pernoctated
form: pernoctated
Etymology: From the Latin pernoctō (to spend the night).
Senses: glosses: To stay up all night; to pass the night (especially in prayer).
glosses: To stay all night.
Related terms: pernoctation
nonexamination
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + examination.
Senses: examples: text: The college is open to visitors on nonexamination days.
glosses: Not of or pertaining to an examination.
nontest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + test.
Senses: examples: nontest documentation
glosses: Not being or pertaining to a test or example.
lævulose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of levulose.
CLOS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of common Lisp object system.
fontanels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fontanel
levoglucose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From levo- + glucose (left-rotating sugar) (left sugar).
Senses: glosses: levulose (D-fructose), the left-rotating form of fructose
Related terms: english: right sugar
translation: right sugar
alt: dextrose, D-glucose form of glucose
word: dextroglucose
colorpuncture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌl.əˌpʌŋk.t͡ʃɜ/
ipa: /ˈkʌl.ɚˌpʌŋk.t͡ʃɝ/
Etymology: Blend of color + acupuncture
Senses: topics: alternative-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: A form of alternative medicine in which coloured light is shone on acupoints.
Hypernyms: chromotherapy
colourphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From colour + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of colorphobia.
Related terms: coulrophobia
dextroglucose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dextroglucoses
Etymology: From dextro- + glucose (“right sugar”).
Senses: glosses: dextrose (D-glucose) form of glucose
Related terms: english: left sugar
translation: left sugar
alt: levulose, D-fructose form of fructose
word: levoglucose
subpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subpoints
Etymology: From sub- + point.
Senses: examples: text: Each subpoint has a direct, specific relation to its major point, which you can make clear by the organizational method you choose for your subpoints.
ref: 2003, Courtland L. Bovée, Contemporary Public Speaking:
glosses: A point (proposition in a debate etc.) that forms part of a larger point.
subpoints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subpoint
megafund
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megafunds
Etymology: From mega- + fund.
Senses: glosses: A major money-management operation dealing with large amounts of money.
megafunds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megafund
antivideo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antivideos
Etymology: From anti- + video.
Senses: examples: text: The disco sequence itself is a kind of hallucinatory antivideo played to dance music that seems to arise out of machine-gun fire.
ref: 2004, Steven Dillon, Derek Jarman and lyric film: the mirror and the sea, page 176:
text: Adam Bernstein's early work for They Might Be Giants seems to be a more contemporary way to pursue the antivideo...
ref: 2007, Roger Beebe, Jason Middleton, Medium cool: music videos from soundies to cellphones, page 93:
glosses: An audiovisual work presented in video format that deliberately defies the conventions of genre and format.
antivideos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antivideo
SMLs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SML
foins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of foin
foining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of foin
foined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of foin
calefies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of calefy
bedwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bed + work.
Senses: glosses: An irrigation system based on a series of beds and ridges.
Coordinate terms: catchwork
catchwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From catch + work.
Senses: glosses: A simple irrigation system, used on sloping land, in which water from a stream or spring is fed in at the top and allowed to trickle down over a number of artificial terraces.
Coordinate terms: bedwork
deschool
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deschools
form: deschooling
form: deschooled
form: deschooled
Etymology: From de- + school.
Senses: examples: text: In Illich's deschooled society, schools would continue to exist but on non-compulsory basis.
ref: 2007, Michael Kuhn, New society models for a new millennium, page 305:
glosses: To remove the schools from; to divest (a society) of its formal education system.
Related terms: deschooling
deschooled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deschool
suprasternal notches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suprasternal notch
heiligenschein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪlɪɡənˌʃaɪn/
Etymology: Borrowed from German Heiligenschein.
Senses: glosses: An optical phenomenon which creates a bright spot around the shadow of the viewer's head, when the surface on which the shadow falls has special optical characteristics (as with dewy grass).
unsappy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsappy
form: most unsappy
Etymology: From un- + sappy. Compare Old English unsæpiġ (“sapless, dry, withered”).
Senses: glosses: Not sappy; without excessive, cloying sentimentality.
ointmentlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ointmentlike
form: most ointmentlike
Etymology: From ointment + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of ointment.
lozengelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lozengelike
form: most lozengelike
Etymology: From lozenge + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a lozenge (diamond shape).
multischematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + schematic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one schema.
Related terms: multischema
octennially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From octennial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Every eight years.
octaeteris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑktaɪˈtɪɹɪs/
ipa: /ˌɒktaɪˈtɪəɹɪs/
Forms: form: octaeterides
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀκταετηρίς (oktaetērís, “8-year [period]”).
Senses: examples: text: The octaëteris, or lunæsolar cycle of eight years, is a form of the lunar reckoning of annual time totally distinct from and independent of the reckoning of solar in the primitive equable calendar.
ref: 1852, Edward Greswell, “On the Lunar in Contradistinction to the Solar Modifications of the Primitive Calendar”, in Fasti Temporis Catholici and Origines Kalendariæ. … In Four Volumes, volume I, Oxford: At the Oxford University Press, →OCLC, section V (The Octaëteris), page 564:
glosses: Synonym of octennium: An 8-year period, particularly (historical) in Greek calendrical and astronomical calculations.
synonyms: word: octennium
extra: An 8-year period, particularly (historical) in Greek calendrical and astronomical calculations
Related terms: word: octaeteric
word: octennial
sense: 4-year lunar cycle
word: tetraeteris
sense: 4-year lunar cycle
word: tetraeterid
sense: 19-year lunar cycle
word: Metonic cycle
sense: 19-year lunar cycle
word: enneadecaeteris
sense: eight things
word: octad
octaeterides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of octaeteris
wheel away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wheels away
form: wheeling away
form: wheeled away
form: wheeled away
Senses: examples: text: 2007, Alan Smith, The Daily Telegraph online edition, Goal proves Owen is back in the big timehttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/england/2314782/Goal-proves-Owen-is-back-in-the-big-time.html
Following an hour of graft that did not include too many glimpses of goal he casually wheeled away having finished David Beckham's inviting cross in the manner of a man totally at home in those kind of positions.
text: Athletic captain Gurpegi charged in at the near post to glance in David Lopez's left-wing corner before wheeling away in delight, ripping off his shirt and celebrating with his team-mates and the ecstatic home fans.
ref: 2010 November 28, ESPN, Valencia win, Mallorca beat Malaga:
text: David Luiz and Terry challenged for headers and when the loose ball fell to Mata, his shot was blocked on the line by a bundle of bodies that included King, Assou-Ekotto and Terry. Referee Atkinson was swift to award the goal as Mata wheeled away in celebration - much to the disgust of the Spurs players.
ref: 2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in BBC:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To run around in celebration
stabbingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stabbingly
form: most stabbingly
Etymology: From stabbing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: After hours spent in the mine, the sunlight was stabbingly bright.
glosses: With a stabbing motion or action.
queryingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more queryingly
form: most queryingly
Etymology: From querying + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With, or as, a question or query.
Synonyms: questioningly
whizzingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more whizzingly
form: most whizzingly
Etymology: From whizzing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a whizzing sound or motion.
perplext
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more perplext
form: most perplext
Senses: examples: text: By spleen, religion, all we know; That should enlighten here below, Is veiled in darkness, and perplext With anxious doubts, with endless scruples vext And some restraint imply'd from each perverted text; Whilst touch not, taste not what is freely given, Is but thy niggard voice disgracing bounteous Heaven.
ref: 1753, Theophilus Cibber, The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753):
text: Twas but in a sort I blam'd thee; None e'er prosper'd who defam'd thee; Irony all, and feign'd abuse, Such as perplext lovers use
ref: 1805, Charles Lamb, Farewell to Tobacco:
text: What might she mean by that? his large black eyes, Yet larger through his leanness, dwelt upon her, Till all her heart's sad secret blazed itself In the heart's colours on her simple face; And Lancelot looked and was perplext in mind, And being weak in body said no more; But did not love the colour; woman's love, Save one, he not regarded, and so turned Sighing, and feigned a sleep until he slept.
ref: 1874, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of perplexed.
Derived terms: unperplext
payroller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: payrollers
Etymology: From payroll + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Seven pages later in the same paper: "Marie A. D'Amico covered her face and sobbed Thursday as she was sentenced to a year in prison for being a ghost payroller in three local government jobs.
ref: 1995 January 27, Michael Miner, “ABA Journal: Witness for the Defense/News Bites”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Typically the person challenging the petitions is a city payroller who owes his job to the incumbent.
ref: 2006 December 15, Ben Joravsky, “Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Machines; One Way to Trip Up an Incumbent? Untie His Shoelace”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Someone on a payroll; someone who earns a salary.
garnitures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garniture
gintleman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gintlemen
Senses: examples: text: One look from that Quaker gintleman is worth all the praching and praying that be in you."
ref: 1853, L. Maria Child, Isaac T. Hopper:
text: Sure enough it was a millstone, and a very neat one; and the saint, having raised a bit of a laugh, went on like a cheap-jack: "Av there's any gintleman prisunt wid an eye for millstones, I'll throuble him to turn ut here.
ref: 1906, Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, The Delectable Duchy:
text: There is no finer man on earth than your "thrue Irish gintleman," and Henry Clay had not only all the highest and most excellent traits of the "gintleman," but a few also of his worst.
ref: 1916, Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 3 (of 14):
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of gentleman.
jedge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jedges
Senses: examples: text: But he a'n't no singin'-master—not of I'm any jedge of turnips.
ref: 1872, Edward Eggleston, The End Of The World:
text: "I ain't no great of a jedge about anything but nat'ralness of books, and it really does seem as if some of your men and women was dreadful uncomfortable creaters.
ref: 1882, Louisa May Alcott, Kitty's Class Day And Other Stories:
text: "De ole jedge has be'n a little onreg'lar sence de wah, suh[…]"
ref: 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:
text: "Heap of it, sir," replied the overseer, taking off his cap. "It was that fine yaller lady there that made most of it. She's the one that's a-fomintin' trouble right along. She's a quiet lookin' gal, but she ain't. It's all right what the jedge says to me, but I'm goin' to have a little settlement with this fine lady myself, this time."
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter VII, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of judge.
glosses: A gauge or standard.
jedge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jedges
form: jedging
form: jedged
form: jedged
Senses: examples: text: There ain't nobody reported missin' in this county as we know of, either; so I jedge a verdict of a^([sic]) unknown person dead from unknown causes would be about the correct thing.
ref: 1913, Irvin S. Cobb, The Escape of Mr. Trimm:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of judge.
tellest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: tell + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of tell
telled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Maybe, Miss Mary has been telled so; but if she has, she's been telled wrong.
ref: 1870, Edward Peacock, Ralf Skirlaugh, the Lincolnshire Squire, volume 2, page 267:
glosses: simple past and past participle of tell
raw_tags: in Northern England and Scotland
minnit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minnits
Senses: examples: text: I see they was goin, so I said:-- "My week-minded and misgided femails, hold your hosses a minnit, until an old statesman, who has served his country for 4 yeer as Gustise of the Peece, says a few remarks to you."
ref: 1870, Various, Punchinello, Vol. II., No. 34, November 19, 1870:
text: "I jest stood like a dumb critter the minnit I got in," said Marty.
ref: 1876, Helen Hunt Jackson, Mercy Philbrick's Choice:
text: I'll go in 'ere for 'arf a minnit and sit down.
ref: 1909, W.W. Jacobs, Sailor's Knots (Entire Collection):
text: Wait a minnit!
ref: 1918, Edna Ferber, Cheerful--By Request:
text: Wait a minnit, I didn't show you my pitcher what was in de paper, did I?
ref: 1936-1938, Work Projects Administration, Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States:
glosses: minute
nebber
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: You no trudge so--you nebber get tere.
ref: 1851, Unknown, Whig Against Tory:
text: "Yer see, Missis," said Tom, with a sly look, "dey tinks de niggers don't none ob 'em wants dare freedom, so dey nebber totes 'em whar it be."
ref: 1867, Lydia Maria Francis Child, A Romance of the Republic:
text: I 'spec's ter haf ter suppo't 'im w'en I fin' 'im, fer he nebber would work 'less'n he had ter.
ref: 1899, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and:
text: Sho, now! come to t'ink o' Sambo, he didn't nebber like Mockers, a'ter one time he 'spicioned a Mocker tole tales on him.
ref: 1897, Mabel Osgood Wright, Elliott Coues, Citizen Bird:
text: An' she 'low ain' nebber wore no ring.
ref: 1902, Robert W. Chambers, The Maid-At-Arms:
text: Dey calls it 'Who'd 'a' Thought It,' 'ca'se you nebber would 'a' thought of puttin' a house dere.
ref: 1905, Alice Hegan Rice, Sandy:
text: I done worked on lizards in de laigs, but I nebber had no 'casion to treat a cricket in de laig.
ref: 1918, Alice Hegan Rice, Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories:
text: Cindy done paid out de last quarter fer dis bottle of physic, and it nebber come to no use."
ref: 1919, O. Henry, Rolling Stones:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of never, imitating an African-American accent.
nooning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noonings
Etymology: From noon + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: When the girls went in to dinner the men had finished theirs, and were lounging in the shady yard enjoying their nooning.
ref: 1896, Various, McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896:
text: An hour or two passed, and we saw a house in the distance to which we drove,--a humble house, sod-built, like that we had made our nooning in.
ref: 1899, George Edward Woodberry, Heart of Man:
text: It was the nooning hour, and the men at their limited leisure lay in the sun on the piles of lumber, like lizards.
ref: 1912, Charles Egbert Craddock, The Ordeal:
glosses: A nap or rest in the middle of the day.
examples: text: Then on to Big Bitter Cottonwood, where we had our nooning among the trees on the wide sandy bed of the stream, which had sunk under ground for many miles, as is the custom of rivers here.
ref: 1875, Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 15,:
text: A German gentleman and his two young-lady daughters had been taking their nooning at the inn, and when they left, just ahead of us, it was plain that their driver was as drunk as ours, and as happy and good-natured, too, which was saying a good deal.
ref: 1878, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), A Tramp Abroad:
text: In proper California fashion we made our nooning by the roadside, pulling up under the shade of a hospitable sycamore and turning Sorreltop out to graze.
ref: 1909, Various, The California Birthday Book:
glosses: lunch; a meal in the middle of the day
Synonyms: sense: midday rest
word: siesta
nooning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From noon + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of noon
objurgations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of objurgation
overflowings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overflowing
owld
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: owlder
form: owldest
Senses: examples: text: A sore penny it has cost me, first and last, and by all tales, not worth an owld tobacco pipe."
ref: 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, “Irons in the Fire. Opes Strepitumque.”, in The Wrecker, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, […], →OCLC, page 115:
text: I was standin' by owld Foley's gate, whin I heard the cry of the hounds coming across the tail of the bog, an' there they wor, my dear, spread out like the tail of a paycock, an' the finest dog fox ye ever seen a sailin' ahead of thim up the boreen, and right across the churchyard.
ref: 1909, Leland Powers, Practice Book:
text: Woy, owld Lind sends me in to Conly to cam in to him into the board-room. […] You should 'a seen the owld josser's feaches wnoy towld im.
ref: 1880, [George] Bernard Shaw, chapter X, in The Irrational Knot … Being the Second Novel of His Nonage, London: Archibald Constable & Co., published 1905, →OCLC, page 185:
text: Shure the Dog and the Cat both av thim was scairt, and the owld white-faced cow come a-runnin' an' jumped the bars to get aff av the road."
ref: 1917, Ernest Thompson Seton, Two Little Savages:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of old.
palisaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Fortified or surrounded with a palisade.
Derived terms: unpalisaded
palisaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of palisade
shrinkingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more shrinkingly
form: most shrinkingly
Etymology: From shrinking + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: That shy-looking fellow standing against the curtain at your right, with the brown mustache and broad forehead, is the New England sculptor whose forcible creations are known everywhere, yet he is almost shrinkingly modest, and he never, it seems, even in thought, has broken the injunction of "Let another praise thee, not thine own lips."
ref: 1903, Mabel Osgood Wright, People of the Whirlpool:
text: Nor, if we turn to the present, is the evidence much stronger which is offered by the gens de couleur whom you may see in the quadroon quarter this afternoon, with "Ichabod" legible on their murky foreheads through a vain smearing of toilet powder, dragging their chairs down to the narrow gateway of their close-fenced gardens, and staring shrinkingly at you as you pass, like a nest of yellow kittens.
ref: 1907, George Washington Cable, Old Creole Days:
text: For half a century that faithful servant of Jehovah suffered, often shrinkingly, yet voluntarily, a constant martyrdom.
ref: 1911, Charles Foster Kent, The Makers and Teachers of Judaism:
text: Instead, a red-eyed girl in one of Mrs. Warren's own nightgowns came to the door and said shrinkingly: "Lem slept in the barn last night.
ref: 1915, Dorothy Canfield, Hillsboro People:
text: The tiny thing accepted the kiss somewhat shrinkingly, and looked about her, awed by the grandeur of the hall, the large fireplace and blazing logs, the men in armor, or the suits of armor standing up and pretending to be men.
ref: 1929, Various, Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol. 5:
glosses: In a shrinking manner; as if shrinking away
seemest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: seem'st
Etymology: seem + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of seem
proprietory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pɹəˈpɹaɪətɔːɹi/
Forms: form: more proprietory
form: most proprietory
Etymology: Influence of -ory.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of proprietary.
ampless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From amp + -less.
Senses: examples: text: My own story begins when I was sixteen and ampless, with a cheap new electric guitar and an adaptor that let me plug directly into my stereo system.
ref: 2007, Adam Gussow, Journeyman's road, page 36:
glosses: Without an amplifier.
overflowingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more overflowingly
form: most overflowingly
Etymology: From overflowing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to overflow; very excessively or generously.
plagae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plaga
telly tennis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tele-tennis
form: teletennis
Etymology: From telly + tennis, the game having a superficial resemblance to tennis.
Senses: examples: text: The monitored heart-rate on a small screen, like a hesitant green version of the telly tennis he'd played in pubs or railway stations.
ref: 1976, Elaine Feinstein, The ecstasy of Dr Miriam Garner, page 101:
text: Hooked on telly tennis, or football? We've been carrying out some in-depth testing of (playing with) a TV games unit for you to build.
ref: 1979 October 4, New Scientist, volume 84, number 1175, page 48:
text: He finds them sitting at a small table holding a horizontal video tube and stands watching them play telly tennis.
ref: 1992, Mudrooroo (Colin Johnson), Long live Sandawara, page 61:
topics: video-games
glosses: The game of Pong, or any TV game closely based on it.
eliminativists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eliminativist
eliminativistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eliminativistic
form: most eliminativistic
Etymology: From eliminative + -istic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to eliminativism.
headfuckery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From headfuck + -ery or head + fuckery.
Senses: examples: text: ...postmodern weirdness into the minds of impressionable little tykes — and the few savvy adults who quickly seized on the show's embedded headfuckery.
ref: 2009, Chuck Klosterman, Inventory: 10 Great Songs Nearly Ruined by Saxophone, and 100 More Obsessively Specific Pop-Culture Lists:
glosses: Material that destabilizes or confuses the mind.
Synonyms: mindfuckery
Related terms: headfuck
mindfuck
gestions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gestion
bare one's breast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bares one's breast
form: baring one's breast
form: bared one's breast
form: bared one's breast
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: wear one's heart on one's sleeve
text: […] he bared his breast to whizzing javelins, to hissing arrows, to any and every weapon that promised death and forgetfulness, and rest.
ref: 1869, Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad:
text: I'm going to be angry with you. Pitch into old Frank Henchman—hit away, my young one.' And Frank put himself into an attitude as of one prepared to receive a pugilistic assault. He bared his breast, as it were, and showed his scars, and said, "Strike!"'
ref: 1854-55, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, Chapter 59
synonyms: bare one's soul
pour one's heart out
glosses: To make oneself vulnerable.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bare, breast.
Related terms: beat one's breast
++
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /plʌsˈplʌs/
rhymes: -ʌs
Senses: examples: text: C++
text: Notepad++
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Indicates a product with additional features or functionality.
pugillaris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pugillares
Etymology: Latin pugillaris (“fist”), since they were hand-sized.
Senses: glosses: A kind of notebook or tablet used in Ancient Rome.
poy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poys
Etymology: From Old French poi (“small hill”), from Latin podium.
Senses: glosses: A support structure.
glosses: A balancing pole used by tightrope walkers.
glosses: A long pole, normally with a hook, used to push barges upstream.
Related terms: teapoy
also known as
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Forms: form: aka
form: a.k.a.
form: a/k/a
form: AKA
Etymology: From also + known + as.
Senses: glosses: Used to introduce an alternative name.
Synonyms: sense: used to introduce an alternative name
word: or
topics: law
sense: used to introduce an alternative name
word: alias
Related terms: better known as
formerly known as
redempture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: redemption
reinvites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reinvite
not by any means
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Though unusual in the Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head...
ref: Episode 16
glosses: Not at all, not in the slightest
Synonyms: by no means
go-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: go-offs
Senses: examples: text: At last, he emerged with his hat very much dented and crushed down over his eyes, and began creaking and limping about the room, as if, not being much accustomed to boots, his pair of damp, wrinkled cowhide ones— probably not made to order either—rather pinched and tormented him at the first go off of a bitter cold morning.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 4”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: Corley at the first go-off was inclined to suspect it was something to do with Stephen being fired out of his digs for bringing in a bloody tart off the street.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 16:
glosses: start; beginning; commencement
Synonyms: get-go
the get-go
billsticker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: billstickers
Etymology: From bill + sticker.
Senses: examples: text: Who's that with you? I saw him a few times in the Bleeding Horse in Camden street with Boylan the billsticker. You might put in a good word for us to get me taken on there. I'd carry a sandwichboard only the girl in the office told me they're full up for the next three weeks, man.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16: Eumaeus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 574:
glosses: Someone who sticks up advertisements on billboards, walls, and similar surfaces.
sandwichboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandwichboards
Senses: examples: text: Who's that with you? I saw him a few times in the Bleeding Horse in Camden street with Boylan the billsticker. You might put in a good word for us to get me taken on there. I'd carry a sandwichboard only the girl in the office told me they're full up for the next three weeks, man.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16: Eumaeus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 574:
glosses: Alternative form of sandwich board.
give a shite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives a shite
form: giving a shite
form: gave a shite
form: given a shite
Senses: examples: text: I'd carry a sandwichboard only the girl in the office told me they're full up for the next three weeks, man. God, you've to book ahead, man, you'd think it was for the Carl Rosa. I don't give a shite anyway so long as I get a job, even as a crossing sweeper.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16: Eumaeus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 574:
qualifier: very uncommon
glosses: To care; mind; consider important.
throw an eye
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: throws an eye
form: throwing an eye
form: threw an eye
form: thrown an eye
Senses: examples: text: He threw an odd eye at the same time now and then at Stephen's anything but immaculately attired interlocutor as if he had seen that nobleman somewhere or other though where he was not in a position to truthfully state nor had he the remotest idea when.
ref: Episode 16
glosses: To glance; peep.
part company
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: parts company
form: parting company
form: parted company
form: parted company
Senses: info_templates: extra_data: words: with
expansion: [with with]
glosses: To end a relationship.
examples: text: The vines parted company with the wall as I attempted the climb, and I crashed to the ground.
text: The pair parted company and Stephen rejoined Mr Bloom who, with his practised eye, was not without perceiving that he had succumbed to the blandiloquence of the other parasite. Alluding to the encounter he said, laughingly, Stephen, that is:
ref: Episode 16
info_templates: extra_data: words: with
expansion: [with with]
glosses: To separate; to go one's own way (of two or more people or things).
Related terms: part ways