cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
scooched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scooch
scootch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scootches
form: scootching
form: scootched
form: scootched
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of scooch.
scootch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scootches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scooch.
scootches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scootch
scootching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scootch
scootched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scootch
Sunday schools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sunday school
unscorched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + scorched.
Senses: examples: text: To the firemen, this fire in the house was as unaccountable as, to the coroner, was the burned body in the unscorched clothes.
ref: 1970, Malcolm Lowry, October Ferry to Gabriola:
glosses: Not scorched.
bibliotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bibliotherapies
Etymology: From biblio- + therapy.
Senses: glosses: A nonpharmacological therapy using reading materials to meet people’s therapeutic or developmental needs.
Derived terms: ethnobibliotherapy
Related terms: bibliotherapeutic
bibliotherapist
bibliotherapies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bibliotherapy
dishful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dishfuls
form: dishesful
Etymology: From Middle English dishful, dischefull, dyschefol, equivalent to dish + -ful.
Senses: glosses: As much as a dish will hold.
platesful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plateful
dishfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dishful
jarsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jarful
eyesful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eyeful
glassesful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glassful
wineglassful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wineglassfuls
form: wineglassesful
Etymology: From wineglass + -ful.
Senses: glosses: As much as a wineglass will hold.
wineglassfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wineglassful
wineglassesful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wineglassful
urnful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urnfuls
form: urnsful
Etymology: From urn + -ful.
Senses: glosses: As much as an urn will hold.
urnfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urnful
urnsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urnful
potsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potful
unruled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + ruled.
Senses: qualifier: paper
glosses: Plain, not ruled with lines.
glosses: Not ruled; not governed; not controlled or influenced.
capsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capful
bottleful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottlefuls
form: bottlesful
Etymology: From bottle + -ful.
Senses: glosses: as much as a bottle will hold
Related terms: wine-bottleful
mugsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mugful
bottlefuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bottleful
bottlesful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bottleful
panful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panfuls
form: pansful
Etymology: From Middle English panne vol; equivalent to pan + -ful.
Senses: glosses: As much as a pan will hold.
panfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panful
pansful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panful
cosseted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cosseted
form: most cosseted
form: cossetted
Senses: examples: text: a cosseted childhood
text: When the Parisian-born George Steiner went to Chicago University after the second world war, he found himself sharing a room with an ex-paratrooper, who stared in disbelief at "a creature so obviously cosseted, sheltered, formally decked out, book-laden, as I was", Steiner recalled.
ref: 2001 March 17, Maya Jaggi, “George and his dragons”, in The Guardian:
text: Independent schools churn out teenagers who are cosseted, snobbish and unable to open a can of beans, Michael Gove’s wife has suggested.
ref: 2014 March 6, Nicola Woolcock, “Private pupils are cosseted, says Gove wife.”, in The Times:
text: Jean-Luc Mélenchon […]is sitting sagely in a restaurant that resembles a mountain chalet yet is located in the cosseted 7th arrondissement of Paris.
ref: 2025 May 3, Leila Abboud, “Lunch with the FT: Jean-Luc Mélenchon”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:
synonyms: spoiled
coddled
glosses: Pampered.
Derived terms: overcosseted
uncosseted
Related terms: cosseting
cosseted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cossetted
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cosset
ahhs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ahh
unsurfaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + surfaced.
Senses: examples: text: The master plan for the site includes 3.3km of new surfaced and unsurfaced walking routes, more than 1km of new bridleways and cantering routes, and retention of the 2.3km Old Shire Lane bridleway.
ref: 2024 March 20, Chris Howe, “High speed underneath the Chilterns...”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 33:
topics: road
transport
glosses: Not having a tar macadam (asphalt) or other paved surface.
qualifier: paper
glosses: Rough, absorbent, without a glaze or finish.
qualifier: submarines
glosses: Below the surface.
examples: text: an unsurfaced recording of a concert
text: an unsurfaced memory
glosses: Not having surfaced or appeared.
pigs out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pig out
pigging out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pig out
pigged out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pig out
Utopianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Utopianisms
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of utopianism.
anchorless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anchor + -less.
Senses: examples: text: "Without God, this society would be anchorless."
ref: 2009 January 4, Ian Urbina, “Lawmaker in Kentucky Mixes Piety and Politics”, in New York Times:
glosses: Lacking an anchor; adrift
Derived terms: anchorlessness
counterdemonstration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterdemonstrations
form: counter-demonstration
Etymology: From counter- + demonstration.
Senses: glosses: A demonstration in opposition to another demonstration
Related terms: counterdemonstrator
cosseting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cosset
cosseting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cossetings
Senses: examples: text: It was decided that she should go for a week or two to Rose Lodge to regain her strength, and submit to the welcome cossetings of her mother and grandmother.
ref: 1966, Miss Read, The Market Square:
text: As Guy de Jonquières has noted, Singapore’s success owes more to the fact that it is a “meticulously planned economy” with “handholding and cosseting” of overseas investors by “powerful, eager to please bureaucrats”.
ref: 2019 December 17, Howard Davies, “Will the UK really turn into 'Singapore-on-Thames' after Brexit?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The act by which somebody is cosseted or pampered.
counterdemonstrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterdemonstration
kaolinizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kaolinize
kaolinizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kaolinize
kaolinized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kaolinize
kaolinise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kaolinises
form: kaolinising
form: kaolinised
form: kaolinised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kaolinize.
kaolinises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kaolinise
kaolinising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kaolinise
kaolinised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kaolinise
ciranda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cirandas
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese ciranda, which is from Spanish zaranda (“sieve”), from Andalusian Arabic سرند (sarand), from Persian سرند (sarand, “sieve”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A traditional Brazilian children's dance.
agogo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agogos
Etymology: From Portuguese agogô, from Yoruba agogo (“bell”).
Senses: glosses: An agogo bell, a bell used in Yoruba and Brazilian music and typically played in pairs
agogo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of à gogo.
agogos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agogo
empath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛm.pæθ/
Forms: form: empaths
Etymology: From empathy.
Senses: glosses: One who has the ability to sense emotions; someone who is empathic or practises empathy.
examples: text: She was the empath who would betray empaths if she got the chance. So they'd tried to fix things so that she didn't get the chance.
ref: 1957, Hans Stefan Santesson, editor, Fantastic Universe:
text: How did a complete stranger know he was an empath? He rarely if ever talked about it, even to his closest friends. It made people uneasy.
ref: 2005, Catherine Asaro, Schism:
text: The aura may, in fact, linger around objects or places and that "lingering energy" is what an empath senses and intuits.
ref: 2007, Ellen Dugan, Natural Witchery:
topics: literature
media
parapsychology
pseudoscience
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A person with extrasensory empathic ability, capable of sensing the emotions of others around them in a way unexplained by conventional science and psychology.
Derived terms: dark empath
telempath
Related terms: telepath
empaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of empath
utopiate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːˈtəʊ.pi.ət/
ipa: /juˈtoʊ.pi.ət/
Forms: form: utopiates
Etymology: Blend of utopia + opiate. The noun usage was coined by Richard H. Blum of Stanford University in 1964.
Senses: qualifier: pharmacy
glosses: A drug providing escape from the problems of reality, and giving dreams of utopia.
rack off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: racks off
form: racking off
form: racked off
form: racked off
Senses: examples: text: The gorgeous mad Argentinian who came flying in like a whirlwind before racking off until the next day told me that my face is Argentinian. I hope that′s good.
ref: 2002, Lydia Laube, Llama for Lunch, published 2010, unnumbered page:
text: He came back at me with more trash talk and I said, ‘Rack off, mate. If you can′t talk sensibly to me, then scram.’
ref: 2005, Dan Crowley, Undercover Prop, page 164:
text: Like many who travel abroad, I′m constantly consumed by hatred of Australians. Loud drunken bogans whose nasal accents cut through the humid Phuket air like a chainsaw: “Jesus Chroist, Aaron, just rack off, I’ve had a gutful.”
ref: 2008, Catherine Deveny, Say When, page 83:
synonyms: get stuffed
piss off
nick off
glosses: To go away; to sod off.
examples: text: They do not, however, make use of their cider-spirit till they have racked off their cider, about the first of January.
ref: 1824, Thomas Greene Fessenden, The New England Farmer, volume 2, page 89:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rack, off.
Derived terms: rack off, hairy legs
utopiates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of utopiate
unversed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unversed
form: most unversed
Etymology: From un- + versed.
Senses: examples: text: Or what is conveyed to those unversed in railway matters by reports following a shed visit that "the frame of Claud Hamilton lay in the boneyard and had many endearing messages of farewell chalked on it"?
ref: 1951 April, R. S. McNaught, “Railway Enthusiasts”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 269:
glosses: Inexperienced, untrained.
glosses: Not expressed in verse, unversified.
unversified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + versified.
Senses: glosses: Not expressed in verse; in prose.
hyperspherical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperspherical
form: most hyperspherical
Etymology: From hyper- + spherical.
Senses: glosses: Shaped like a hypersphere.
examples: text: Using hyperspherical coordinates#92;begin#123;align#125;xamp;#61;R#92;cos#123;#92;theta#95;1#125;amp;amp;#92;theta#95;1#92;text#123;from#125;0#92;text#123;to#125;#92;pi,#92;#92;yamp;#61;R#92;sin#123;#92;theta#95;1#125;#92;cos#123;#92;theta#95;2#125;amp;amp;#92;theta#95;2#92;text#123;from#125;0#92;text#123;to#125;#92;pi,#92;#92;zamp;#61;R#92;sin#123;#92;theta#95;1#125;#92;sin#123;#92;theta#95;2#125;#92;cos#123;#92;phi#125;amp;amp;#92;phi#92;text#123;from#125;0#92;text#123;to#125;2#92;pi,#92;#92;#92;xiamp;#61;R#92;sin#123;#92;theta#95;1#125;#92;sin#123;#92;theta#95;2#125;#92;sin#123;#92;phi#125;,#92;end#123;align#125;the "area" of the small hypersurface over which #92;psi is constant #92;psi#61;#92;psi#95;p is#92;int#95;#123;0#125;#123;#92;pi#125;#92;int#95;0#123;#92;pi#125;#92;int#95;0#123;2#92;pi#125;a³#92;sin²#123;#92;theta#95;1#125;#92;sin#123;#92;theta#95;2#125;#92;mathrm#123;d#125;#92;theta#95;1#92;mathrm#123;d#125;#92;theta#95;2#92;mathrm#123;d#125;#92;phi#61;2#123;#92;pi#125;²a³.
ref: 1976, S. Cornbleet, Microwave Optics: The Optics of Microwave Antenna Design, London: Academic Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 388:
glosses: Pertaining to hyperspheres.
hypergeometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypergeometries
Etymology: From hyper- + geometry.
Senses: glosses: A geometry in more than three dimensions.
hypergeometries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypergeometry
herstories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herstory
micrographics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + graphics.
Senses: examples: text: The most obvious advantage of micrographics is the space savings that result.
ref: 1980, Zane K Quible, Margaret H Johnson, Introduction to Word Processing:
text: With the emergence of new technologies, such as optical media, micrographics often appear as the Cinderella of information storage technology.
ref: 1990, David Haynes, Information Sources in Information Technology:
glosses: A group of technologies using very small visual representations of text and graphics that are magnified for viewing.
foom
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Imitative. Compare boom.
Senses: examples: text: And FOOM-FOOM! the two engines burst together into life...
ref: 1983, Richard Bach, Biplane:
text: Those flat-trajectory shells would skim straight in, making a roaring sound in the dark: Foom! Foom! Foom!
ref: 2000, James Bradley, Ron Powers, Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima:
text: A soft, distant foom. The lights blinked, then faded. Foom-foom-foom! Explosions, one after another, rocked the tunnel.
ref: 2007, Warren Murphy, James Mullaney, The New Destroyer: Guardian Angel:
glosses: The sound of a muffled explosion.
foom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fooms
Etymology: Imitative. Compare boom.
Senses: examples: text: There are some scenarios in which private AI research wouldn't be nationalized: •An unexpected AI foom before anyone realizes what was coming.
ref: 2013, Brian Tomasik, International Cooperation vs. AI Arms Race, page 2:
text: Some advocates of this foom scenario say that there is an as-yet-undiscovered but very powerful set of related architectural innovations for AI system design, a set that one team could find first and then keep secret from others for long enough.
ref: 2016, Robin Hanson, The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth, →ISBN:
text: Though the programs will surely get better, there are no signs of foom.
ref: 2018, Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, →ISBN:
glosses: A sudden increase in artificial intelligence such that an AI system becomes extremely powerful.
foom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fooms
form: fooming
form: foomed
form: foomed
Etymology: Imitative. Compare boom.
Senses: examples: text: The reason an AI can foom so much faster than its society is that an AI can change its basic mental architecture,and humans can’t.
ref: 2013, Robin Hanson, Eliezer Yudkowsky, The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate, page 216:
glosses: To exhibit an AI foom.
squelchingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more squelchingly
form: most squelchingly
Etymology: From squelching + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a squelching manner.
squidging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of squidge
squidged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of squidge
splodgy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: splodgier
form: splodgiest
Etymology: From splodge + -y.
Senses: examples: June 21, 2015, Richard Clayton in Financial Times, The Strokes, Hyde Park, London — review
Possibly in a Fat Elvis-gone-to-art-school phase — hanks of hair dyed splodgy red and stainy yellow — he bawled his lyrics in his characteristic drawl.
glosses: Having the form of a splodge; marked with splotches, thick collections or marks of liquid.
splodgier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of splodgy: more splodgy
splodgiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of splodgy: most splodgy
cowfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cowfishes
form: cowfish
Etymology: From cow + fish.
Senses: glosses: Any of genera Acanthostracion and Lactoria, of the boxfish family Ostraciidae.
glosses: A grampus (Grampus griseus), Risso's dolphin.
glosses: A common bottlenose dolphin of California, Tursiops truncatus gillii.
glosses: A marine plectognath fish, Acanthostracion quadricornis and allied species, having two projections, like horns, in front.
glosses: A common galaxias (Galaxias maculatus)
Synonyms: sense: Acanthostracion quadricornis
word: cuckold
sense: Acanthostracion quadricornis
word: coffer fish
sense: Acanthostracion quadricornis
word: scrawled cowfish
sense: Acanthostracion quadricornis
word: trunkfish
sense: Acanthostracion quadricornis
word: Ostracion quadricornis
sense: Acanthostracion quadricornis
word: Ostracion tricornis
Derived terms: word: striped cowfish
taxonomic: Acanthostracion quadricornis
word: scrawled cowfish
cowfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cowfish
TV trays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TV tray
unblinkingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈblɪŋkɪŋli/
Etymology: From unblinking + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Unblinkingly the girl kept her first vigil.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 207:
text: She stood this inspection unblinkingly, incapable of the little insincerities of self-consciousness, but when it was over, and Bradly had resumed his normal face, she gave a relieved wriggle, as if satisfied by an ordeal which obviously satisfied Bradly, for he said with approval, "Comes well, that hat; paint you in that hat; picks up reflected lights a treat, that hat."
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 105:
text: To restore investor confidence, Lula installed an unblinkingly orthodox economic team at the Central Bank and Ministry of Finance, which hiked interest rates yet further and cut public investment, to achieve a primary fiscal surplus higher even than the figure the IMF had demanded.
ref: 2011, Perry Anderson, “Lula's Brazil”, in London Review of Books, 33.VII:
text: In the sprawling Reddit community r/collapse, people instead try to stare unblinkingly at the unravelling of civilization.
ref: 2025 June 26, Sam Wolfson, “On r/collapse, people are ‘kept abreast of the latest doom’. Its moderators say it’s not for everyone”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Without blinking; firmly.
unadopted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The new proposal remained unadopted by most states.
glosses: Not adopted.
Derived terms: unadopted road
unadopted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unadopt
gravy boats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gravy boat
whupping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of whup
whupping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whuppings
Senses: examples: text: What you gonna do ... give me a whupping? You can't whup me no more. You're too old.
ref: 1986, August Wilson, Fences:
glosses: A beating.
examples: text: We laid a whupping on that team.
glosses: A brutal defeat.
softographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of softography
warbly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more warbly
form: most warbly
Etymology: From warble + -y.
Senses: examples: text: She has a thin, warbly voice.
glosses: Having a warbling quality; tending to warble
Derived terms: warbliness
unprettied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + prettied.
Senses: glosses: Not having been prettied up; thus, unadorned
unmetaphoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + metaphoric.
Senses: examples: text: He wrote simple, unmetaphoric sentences.
glosses: Not metaphoric; not endowed with the quality of a metaphor
Synonyms: unmetaphorical
Related terms: unmetaphorically
metaphoric
unliterary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + literary.
Senses: examples: text: His writing was simple and unliterary.
text: A high school kid in a decidedly unliterary North Dakota town is nicknamed after a beast from "Beowulf"?
ref: 2009 January 4, Peter Meehan, “Oh So ’80s”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not associated with literature; especially, not associated with artistic literature
whuppings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whupping
snowscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowscapes
Etymology: From snow + -scape.
Senses: examples: text: One day this old gentleman took me for a tour of the incomparable snowscapes in Chung Nan Hai Park.* Arrayed along the eastern shore of Chung Nan Lake stood a row of linked pavilions that seemed to be floating on the surface of the water. That day, strands of snowflakes sparkled like gems where they had collected between the humps of the enameled roof tiles. The breathtaking beauty of this vista made my soul turn somersaults.
ref: 2008 [1990], John Blofeld, “The Place I Love Most of All—Peking”, in Daniel Reid, transl., My Journey in Mystic China: Old Pu's Travel Diary, Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 65–66:
glosses: A landscape dominated by snow.
snowscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snowscape
hoofers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoofer
über-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of uber-.
hoofer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoofers
Etymology: From hoof (“dance”, verb) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Once a good friend of mine, a fine hoofer who was having trouble getting bookings, ran up to that tree, gave it a big smack, and yelled “Lawd please make me a pimp, any kind of a pimp, long as I’m pimpin’. I’m tired of scufflin’ and my feet are too long outa work.”
ref: 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Tell a Green Man Something”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 3 (1928–1935: The Big Apple), page 208:
glosses: A professional dancer, particularly one who has paid his or her dues.
typomaniacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of typomaniac
shadowlands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shadowland
shadowland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shadowlands
Etymology: From shadow + land.
Senses: examples: text: You can find a fair number of stage bootlegs if you know your way around the shadowlands of file sharing, but not nearly enough of it is available via normal commercial channels.
ref: 2009 January 4, Ben Ratliff, “One Young Band Among Some Older Sounds”, in New York Times:
glosses: A shadowy or borderline area, where normal rules and boundaries do not apply.
Synonyms: twilight zone
sherbety
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sherbety
form: most sherbety
Etymology: From sherbet + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Bright patterned shirts, worn untucked, slip-on loafers in sherbety colors.
ref: 2009 January 4, Laura Lippman, “The Girl in the Green Raincoat”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having characteristics of sherbet
skyscraping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more skyscraping
form: most skyscraping
form: sky-scraping
Etymology: From sky + scraping.
Senses: examples: text: They built a skyscraping antenna so that they could reach a wider area.
glosses: Extremely tall; as tall as a skyscraper.
Related terms: skyscraper
skyscraping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sky-scraping
Etymology: From sky + scraping.
Senses: glosses: The construction of skyscrapers.
leaf blower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf blowers
form: leaf-blower
form: leafblower
Senses: examples: text: […] the leaf blower? Like the Davy Crockett, it is something that should have never been invented. To subjectively paraphrase Shakespeare, a noisy, consumer-grade leaf blower is a device used “by an idiot, full of sound and fury, and that does almost nothing.”
ref: 2016, William Gurstelle, Ready the Cannons!: Build Wiffle Ball Launchers, Beverage Bottle Bazookas, Hydro Swivel Guns, and Other Artisanal Artillery, Chicago Review Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A motorized garden tool that propels air out of a nozzle to move leaves and other debris.
leaf blowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leaf blower
typomaniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: typomaniacs
Etymology: From typo- + maniac.
Senses: examples: text: In 1973 he moved to London, where he worked with design companies, taught at the London College of Printing and became a popular figure amongst the city's typomaniacs.
ref: 2006, Neil Macmillan, An A-Z of Type Designers, →ISBN, page 166:
glosses: A person who is obsessed with typography, or more generally with the business of printing and publishing
Related terms: typomania
bibliomaniac
superclubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superclub
candyman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candymen
Etymology: From candy + -man.
Senses: examples: text: Near the entrance is a candyman who makes butterflies, birds and fish from melted sugar.
ref: 1989, Laurie Fullerton, Tony Wheeler, North-East Asia on a Shoestring:
glosses: A male confectioner.
examples: text: He was on the payroll as Marvin Movie Star's candyman, his drug connection.
ref: 1987, Marc Olden, Gaijin:
text: This bloke looked just like a candyman with his expensive togs and the glitter of a gold watch in the lights from the car park.
ref: 2002, Elizabeth George, A Traitor to Memory:
glosses: A male drug dealer.
candymen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of candyman
superclub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superclubs
Etymology: From super- + club.
Senses: examples: text: At his worst, a DJ in a superclub is just working to build a brand.
ref: 2000, Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton, Last night a DJ saved my life:
text: ...the Head of Communications at Cream claimed their resource-strong status as a superclub which took control of their DJ artists...
ref: 2004, David Bell, Mark Jayne, City of quarters: urban villages in the contemporary city:
text: New to the scene is Crobar, a superclub with the space to hold just about every subculture in the New York pantheon. The music is as varied as the patrons...
ref: 2006, Ethan Wolff, Karen Quarles, Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Manhattan:
glosses: A very large or high-profile nightclub
burgomeister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burgomeisters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of burgomaster.
burgomeisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burgomeister
boot disks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boot disk
underexplain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underexplains
form: underexplaining
form: underexplained
form: underexplained
Etymology: From under- + explain.
Senses: examples: text: Then again, overexplaining is better than underexplaining.
ref: 2009 January 4, Peter Keepnews, “A Love Supreme”, in New York Times:
glosses: To provide an insufficient explanation
seedings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seeding
reassumed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reassume
reassumes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reassume
reassuming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reassume
salivatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more salivatory
form: most salivatory
Etymology: From saliva + -atory.
Senses: examples: text: Sleep-overs took on the kind of salivatory anticipation that most children reserve for Halloween .
ref: 2009 January 4, Joshua Yaffa, “Forbidden Nonfruit”, in New York Times:
glosses: Associated with or accompanied by salivation
predigital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + digital.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Chasanoff, who stopped collecting in the 1990s, sees such images as relics of an age that has passed, the predigital age.
ref: 2009 January 4, Randy Kennedy, “Photographs Worth a Double Take”, in New York Times:
glosses: Preceding the advent of digital technology
Pinas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Claveria, Cagayan, Philippines.
underexplains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underexplain
underexplaining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underexplain
underexplained
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underexplain
wibbly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪbəli
Forms: form: wibblier
form: wibbliest
Etymology: From wibble + -y.
Senses: examples: text: 'We'll find some long branches and pull them out,' said Grace-Ella, trying her best to stay calm and confident even though she felt like a great big wibbly jelly.
ref: 2019, Sharon Marie Jones, Grace Ella: Witch Camp:
glosses: Wobbly.
Derived terms: wibbly-wobbly
marplots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marplot
cathedral closes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cathedral close
stuntwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stuntwoman
stuntmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stuntman
mit-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mito-, used before a vowel.
stunt doubles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stunt double
body doubles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of body double
body doubles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of body double
stuntedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stuntedly
form: most stuntedly
Etymology: From stunted + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a stunted fashion.
bodymaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodymasters
Etymology: From body + master.
Senses: examples: text: "Say, McMurdo," said he, "I remembered your address, so I made bold to call. I'm surprised that you've not reported to the bodymaster...
ref: 1915, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear:
text: At any rate, after a long (and quite drunken) meeting on July 15, Frank McAndrew was elected bodymaster.
ref: 1965, Wayne G Broehl, The Molly Maguires:
glosses: The president of a local chapter of freemasons.
bodymasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bodymaster
energy drinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of energy drink
cheese rolling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This is where the famous cheese rolling takes place.
ref: 1998, Roy Woodcock, A Year of Walks in the Cotswolds:
text: Each year thousands of spectators gather to watch the ancient sport of cheese rolling at Cooper's Hill...
ref: 2003, Colin Michael Hall, et al: Food Tourism Around the World:
glosses: An ancient British sport in which competitors race downhill after a rolling round of cheese.
knottiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knottinesses
Etymology: From Middle English knottynesse, equivalent to knotty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being knotty.
knottinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knottiness
pycnotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pycnotic
form: most pycnotic
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pyknotic.
Derived terms: heteropycnotic
isopycnotic
drink the Kool-Aid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drinks the Kool-Aid
form: drinking the Kool-Aid
form: drank the Kool-Aid
form: drunk the Kool-Aid
form: drink the Kool Aid
Etymology: Referring to the Peoples Temple cult movement, whose members committed mass suicide in 1978 by drinking a powdered drink mix (popularly, but erroneously, believed to be Kool-Aid) laced with cyanide.
Senses: examples: text: Outside the Convention Center, meanwhile, protesters on either side of police barricades waved signs, chanted, sang songs and heckled people walking inside to attend the fundraiser. Signs included "Limp Wrists Make Strong Fists," "I'd Rather Be Dead Than Born Again" and "Abort the Moral Majority." One of the more original chants was "Don't drink the Kool-Aid!"
ref: 1982 April 24, Claude Peck, “Demo Greets Falwell During Visit to Minneapolis”, in Gay Community News, page 3:
text: Netscape, while willing to drink the open source Kool Aid, realized there were other important issues in the commercial sector.
ref: 1999, Robert Young, Wendy Goldman Rohm, Under the Radar: How Red Hat Changed the Software Business:
text: […] essentially three options to choose from when you're confronted with the liberal hooey. The options are: 1. You can drink the campus Kool Aid […]
ref: 2007, Doug Giles, A Time to Clash: Papers from a Provocative Pastor:
text: They "drink the Kool-Aid", as Lampley terms it, meaning that they buy into the Olympic experience.
ref: 2008, Andrew C Billings, Olympic Media: Inside the Biggest Show on Television:
text: "Then we better not drink the Kool-Aid. Have you been drinking the Kool-Aid, Robert?"
ref: 2008, James Howard Kunstler, World Made by Hand:
glosses: To come under the influence of a leader, organization, or movement to the point of believing uncritically in an espoused idea or ideology.
Related terms: brainwash
take the red pill
arclight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arclights
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of arc light.
arclights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arclight
gappier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of gappy: more gappy
gappiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of gappy: most gappy
SNRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SNR
loftlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more loftlike
form: most loftlike
Etymology: From loft + -like.
Senses: examples: text: But they are still trying to sell their loftlike two-bedroom apartment just down the street at 144 West 18th Street.
ref: 2009 January 4, Josh Barbanel, “Someone Still Has Money”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a loft
precaffeinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + caffeinated.
Senses: examples: text: This production, which takes all the focus I can muster in my precaffeinated haze, results in about two ounces of good, strong coffee.
ref: 2009 January 4, Pete Wells, “Orange Genius”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not having yet ingested caffeine; in particular, not having yet had one's first cup of coffee in the morning
noncelibate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + celibate.
Senses: examples: text: Many religions accept noncelibate priests.
glosses: Not celibate; thus, engaging in sexual activity.
noncelibate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noncelibates
Etymology: From non- + celibate.
Senses: glosses: A person who is noncelibate; one who engages in sexual intercourse.
noncognitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + cognitive.
Senses: examples: text: We assessed cognitive and noncognitive skills.
glosses: Not cognitive; not directly related to cognition
skankier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of skanky: more skanky
uprightnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uprightness
nonallergenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-allergenic
Etymology: From non- + allergenic.
Senses: examples: text: It is nontoxic and nonallergenic.
ref: 2009 January 4, Kate Zernike, “Gluten-Free Child's Play”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not allergenic; not causing allergies
midblock
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + block.
Senses: examples: a midblock crossing
glosses: Located in the middle of a city block
drivability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: driveability
Etymology: c. 1870 drivable + -ity
Senses: examples: text: Challenges included the engine's high internal temperatures, its thirstiness in low-speed operation and the need to improve drivability for operators accustomed to V-8 power.
ref: 2009 January 4, Rex Roy, “Coal in Your Stocking? Fuel Up the Cadillac!”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being drivable, of being easy or pleasant to drive
Related terms: drivable
drivably
walkable
driveability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of drivability.
firmwide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From firm + -wide.
Senses: examples: firmwide risk
glosses: Extending throughout a company, or firm
counterprotest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterprotests
Etymology: From counter- + protest.
Senses: synonyms: counterdemonstration
glosses: A protest held in opposition to another protest.
counterprotest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: counterprotests
form: counterprotesting
form: counterprotested
form: counterprotested
Etymology: From counter- + protest.
Senses: examples: text: In April, for example, she attacked a group of health care workers in Colorado who had counterprotested against people calling for an end to stay-at-home orders, suggesting they were “actors playing parts.”
ref: 2020 August 26, Elaina Plott, “G.O.P. Women in Arizona Could Decide an Unexpected 2020 Battle”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To protest in opposition to another protest.
cigar cutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cigar cutters
Senses: glosses: A tool used to cut the end off of a cigar so that it may be smoked.
Related terms: cigar punch
cigar cutters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cigar cutter
peppermint shrimp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peppermint shrimp
form: peppermint shrimps
Etymology: peppermint + shrimp. The alternating red and white markings resemble the traditional colors of peppermint candies.
Senses: glosses: Lysmata wurdemanni, a species of shrimp found in the Atlantic Ocean, distinctive for the bright red stripes on its otherwise translucent body.
Zen Buddhism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: Ch'anism
glosses: The Zen denomination of Buddhism.
skyfarming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sky + farming.
Senses: glosses: The use of skyscrapers to grow crops.
Related terms: vertical farming
decarbazine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of dacarbazine.
counterprotests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterprotest
graystone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graystones
form: greystone
Etymology: From gray + stone.
Senses: glosses: A type of gray volcanic rock, typically containing feldspar and iron.
examples: text: I certainly was not prepared for the cosy nestling valleys that snuggled against the shoulders of the hills; a land where the graystone cottages and farmsteads still prevailed, but where they had taken on something of the softness of their kind in Gloucester and the Cotswolds, and seemed almost like growths of the soil; […].
ref: 1949 January and February, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–1”, in Railway Magazine, page 12:
text: Founded almost 50 years ago, it's an imposing graystone structure (formerly a park district office).
ref: 2009 January 4, “Letters: Mr. Obama’s Neighborhood”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any type of gray stone, such as limestone, used in building.
examples: text: Because graystones were more expensive to build than frame buildings and had a more substantial look and feel, they were the choice of the middle and upper classes.
ref: 2017, Terry Moor, Reinventing an Urban Vernacular:
glosses: A building of this kind.
Related terms: brownstone
groaners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of groaner
hofs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hof
groaner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹəʊnə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: groaners
Etymology: From Middle English groner, gronar, equivalent to groan + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I don’t need to hear from groaners like you.
glosses: One who groans or complains
examples: text: That movie was a real groaner.
text: Some groaners are converted into running gags, as when Joel and his brother (Max Greenfield) get in a duel of parting, one-last-thing-before-you-go affirmations.
ref: 2014 June 26, A. A. Dowd, “Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler Spoof Rom-com Clichés in They Came Together”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 07 Dec 2017:
glosses: A work of extremely low quality, so bad as to inspire groaning
examples: text: From the cleverest repartee to the worst groaner, people use and respond to puns, but sometimes find them hard to define.
ref: 1993, Peggy O'Brien, Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 127:
text: In the '40s, I remember ludicrous puns thought to be funny and repeated by teenagers, sometimes to a chorus of laughter. Here is a groaner example: "Mother, get off the rafters. That is no way to get on the beam." Naturally, to understand the joke, it was necessary to know the idiom of the day. "Get on the beam" meant "get with it" or understand the situation.
ref: 2005, Donald W. McCaffrey, The Road to Comedy: The Films of Bob Hope, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 2:
text: "Ever heard a Terry sermon?" Delaine wanted to know. "He usually starts with a joke, almost always a groaner. I love his puns! Besides, he's not afraid to tackle any issue, and he makes fun of just about everything in sight."
ref: 2010, Deborah Kinnard, Aloha, My Love, Desert Breeze Publishing In, →ISBN:
glosses: A particularly egregious joke, especially a pun.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A whistling buoy.
Related terms: groanworthy
graystones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of graystone
hyperintense
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + intense.
Senses: glosses: More than usually intense
raw_tags: of an image
inconsonant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inconsonant
form: most inconsonant
Etymology: From in- + consonant.
Senses: examples: text: There are a number of inconsonant statements here.
glosses: Not consonant; disagreeing or clashing.
Synonyms: discordant
Derived terms: inconsonantly
Related terms: inconsonance
bidonvilles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bidonville
counterprogramming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From counter- + programming.
Senses: synonyms: deprogramming
glosses: Psychological programming carried out to combat the effects of earlier programming.
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: The deliberate scheduling of shows of a different kind from rival channels at the same time.
Tocquevillian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Tocquevillian
form: most Tocquevillian
Etymology: From Tocqueville + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Alexis de Tocqueville, or characteristic of his democratic ideals.
Related terms: Tocqueville effect
full verb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: full verbs
Senses: examples: In "They have it", have is a full verb, but in "They have done it", it's an auxiliary verb.
glosses: A verb with its own meaning: a verb that is not an auxiliary verb.
Synonyms: sense: verb with its own meaning
word: lexical verb
sense: verb with its own meaning
word: main verb
Hyponyms: linking verb
unshortened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + shortened.
Senses: glosses: Not shortened.
camerawork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæmɹəwɜːk/
ipa: /ˈkæməɹəwɜːk/
ipa: /ˈkæmɹəˌwɝk/
ipa: /ˈkæməɹəˌwɝk/
Forms: form: cameraworks
Etymology: From camera + -work (suffix denoting a craft involving a particular material or tool).
Senses: examples: text: Thanks to the camerawork, costuming, and production design, every shot is a carefully composed portrait, every inch of the frame occupied by an object, fabric, or shadow that informs the characters or narrative.
ref: 2018 November 27, April Wolfe, “Anna And The Apocalypse is a Holiday-horror Cocktail of Singing, Maiming, and Clichés”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2019:
glosses: Skill or technique involving the use of a camera, especially a video camera.
formers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of former
fretters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fretter
fretter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fretters
Etymology: From Middle English fretere (“that which frets, devours, or corrodes”), equivalent to fret + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which frets.
Derived terms: vine-fretter
frugalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From frugal + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The practice of being frugal.