cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
danglingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more danglingly
form: most danglingly
Etymology: From dangling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to dangle.
hoicked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hoick
hoicking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hoick
hoicking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The air was all smell – curry-stuff, durian, fish and flesh – and the noise was of hoicking and chaffering.
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 115:
glosses: The process of gathering mucous and phlegm in the mouth and spitting it out.
hoicks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hoick
hoicks
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yoicks (“hunting cry”).
UCL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of University College London.
UCL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: UCLs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of ulnar collateral ligament.
Coordinate terms: Tommy John surgery
Related terms: sense: ulnar collateral ligament
english: anterior cruciate ligament
translation: anterior cruciate ligament
word: ACL
sense: ulnar collateral ligament
english: lateral collateral ligament
translation: lateral collateral ligament
word: LCL
sense: ulnar collateral ligament
english: medial collateral ligament
translation: medial collateral ligament
word: MCL
nonconcessionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + concessionary.
Senses: glosses: Not concessionary.
cheekless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cheek + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Traditionally, duckbill dinosaurs have been portrayed as cheekless, with the mouthline running from chin to ear[…]
ref: 1986, Robert T. Bakker, The dinosaur heresies:
glosses: Without cheeks.
mouthline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mouthlines
Etymology: From mouth + line.
Senses: examples: text: Traditionally, duckbill dinosaurs have been portrayed as cheekless, with the mouthline running from chin to ear[…]
ref: 1986, Robert T. Bakker, The dinosaur heresies:
glosses: The line formed by a creature's closed mouth.
mouthlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mouthline
pass stool
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: passes stool
form: passing stool
form: passed stool
form: passed stool
Senses: glosses: To defecate.
armyless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From army + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The taxless, armyless state of which he long had dreamed was still a long way from reality.
ref: 1991, Bernard Guenée, Between Church and State, page 369:
glosses: Without an army.
navyless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From navy + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a navy.
nonforcibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From non- + forcibly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner that is not forcible.
chavviness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chavvy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The trouble with Stella is the goddam^([sic]) chavviness of it, all the pikeys are drinking it where I am. Don't know how the bastards can afford it.
ref: 2006, Mark, “Xbox 360 new dashboard features in MS knowledge base”, in uk.games.video.xbox (Usenet):
glosses: The quality of being chavvy.
Synonyms: chavvery
uncarried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + carried.
Senses: examples: text: The controversial documentary was uncarried by most TV networks.
text: With the farmer ill, the corn remained uncarried in the fields.
glosses: Not having been carried.
yarrish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more yarrish
form: most yarrish
Etymology: From yar (“sour, brackish”) + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The others are of a dry or yarrish taste and mixd with Whitesour make an incomparable Cider.
ref: 1900, Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, Report and transactions, volume 32:
glosses: Having a rough, dry taste.
Related terms: yar
mixd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of mixed.
xanthosine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xanthosines
Senses: examples: text: Xanthosine, the initial substrate of purine alkaloid synthesis, is supplied by at least four different pathways […]
ref: 2010, Bertil B. Fredholm, Methylxanthines:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A nucleoside derived from xanthine and ribose.
XMP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: XMPs
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of xanthosine monophosphate.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Extensible Metadata Platform.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Extreme Memory Profile.
yampah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈjæmpə/
Forms: form: yampahs
form: yampa
Etymology: From Shoshone yampa.
Senses: examples: text: At this place I became first acquainted with the yampah (anethum graveolens,) which I found our Snake woman engaged in digging in the low timbered bottom of the creek.
ref: 1845, J[ohn] C[harles] Frémont, Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-’44, Washington: Gales and Seaton, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 124:
glosses: Any of the genus Perideridia of plants in the parsley family, native to western North America, with umbels of white flowers, especially Perideridia gairdneri, which has an edible root.
yampahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yampah
yfere
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Old English ge- + fēra 'associate, comrade, fellow-disciple'.
Senses: examples: text: So goodly all agreed they forth yfere did ryde.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Together.
Persianness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Persian + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being Persian.
trappy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æpi
Forms: form: trappier
form: trappiest
Etymology: From trap + -y.
Senses: glosses: traplike, reminiscent of a trap
qualifier: horse riding
glosses: Of a gait, short, rapid and high-stepping.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: Of an opening, having many traps that can be played against opponents unfamiliar with the lines.
glosses: Abundant in traps
trappy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æpi
Forms: form: trappier
form: trappiest
Etymology: From trap (“type of igneous rock”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: This district is not so easy for a stranger to ride his own line over as the Midlands; it is not half so stiff, but it is often cramped and trappy.
ref: 1918, J. Arthur Gibbs, A Cotswold Village:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Like the mineral trap; trappean; trappous.
flappy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æpi
Forms: form: flappier
form: flappiest
Etymology: From flap + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The whole time we walked to the beach, Dorothy kept yanking at the flappy little skirt covering her bottom. I looked away from the poverty of her flesh, from the weave of veins that crossed her skin.
ref: 2008, Anne Spollen, The Shape of Water:
text: Two adorable fashion boys eagerly welcomed us, one in a schoolboy outfit and the other floating around in a flappy white smock-cape.
ref: 2009 July 23, Mike Albo, “A Neighborhood for Aspirations”, in New York Times:
glosses: that flaps
flappier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of flappy: more flappy
flappiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of flappy: most flappy
Transcaucasians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Transcaucasian
Yazidi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Izedi
form: Yezdi
form: Yezidee
form: Yezidi
Etymology: From Arabic يَزِيدِي (yazīdī), from Northern Kurdish êzidî.
Senses: glosses: member of a Kurdish-speaking people of northern Iraq, Armenia and Caucasus, whose religion is Yazidism
Yazidism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yezidism
Etymology: From Yazidi + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The religion of Yazidis, a highly syncretic complex of local beliefs and Islamic doctrine.
Yezidism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Yazidism.
Izedi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Izedis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Yazidi.
Yezidee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yezidees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Yazidi.
Yezidi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Yazidi.
Yezdi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yezdis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Yazidi.
sabadillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sabadilla
systematologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of systematology
systematological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From systematology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to systematology.
slappy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æpi
Forms: form: slappier
form: slappiest
Etymology: From slap + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Where the laughing-gull scoots by the slappy shore and laughs her near-human laugh
ref: 1855, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass:
text: Katy thought about the damp yellow bodies which often landed, with a slappy sound in a burst of moisture and steam rose off them because they were parted from the warmth of their mothers.
ref: 1963, Delphin Rose Adsett, A magpie sings:
text: Thin picks flex too much and make your wrist work overtime, plus they tend to produce a slappy tone. Those heavy picks popular with today's bluegrass mandolinists are really too stiff for playing the rapid triplets in some Irish tunes.
ref: 1998, Dan Gelo, Fiddle Tunes & Irish Music for Mandolin, page 11:
text: Jill had Mark apply sunscreen to her back.
"Bet these river guides get a lot of skin cancer", he said. He had a slappy, unpleasant way of doing it, and she struggled to keep her balance.
ref: 2009, Elisabeth Hyde, In the Heart of the Canyon, page 55:
glosses: Resembling a slap, especially of sound.
slappy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æpi
Forms: form: slappies
Etymology: From slap + -y.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
sports
glosses: A grind on a curb without doing an ollie.
slappies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slappy
syzygial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From syzygy + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a syzygy.
sacerdotalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sacerdotalize
sacerdotalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sacerdotalize
sackclothed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sackcloth + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Dressed in sackcloth.
knappy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æpi
Etymology: From knap + -y.
Senses: glosses: Having knaps; full of protuberances or humps; knobby
Sadhs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sadh
synovitides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synovitis
synonymical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From synonym + -ical.
Senses: glosses: synonymic
sycophantry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sycophant + -ry.
Senses: glosses: Sycophantic behaviour; sycophancy.
swineherder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swineherders
Etymology: From swine + herder.
Senses: glosses: One who herds swine.
Synonyms: pigherd
swineherd
swineherders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swineherder
neckbearded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neckbeard + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Binkley and his blockmates sent an e-mail to Lowell-open over a week ago, challenging all male residents of the House to participate in the competition, a test of endurance, rewarding the last man still neckbearded with the pot of $24 in entrance fees.
ref: 2004 January 26, Robin M. Peguero, “Neckbeards Keep Lowellians Warm”, in The Harvard Crimson:
text: Not surprisingly, you could fill a book with the snide remarks flying around the Net - by Canadians! - about everything from the Olympic opening ceremonies (neckbearded slam poet Shane Koyczan was particularly divisive) to the uncooperative Vancouver weather (c'mon guys, it's not B.C.'s fault. Probably.)
ref: 2010 February 13, Steve Tilley, “Canada taking its cyber lumps”, in London Free Press:
text: Even just a few years ago, the words "online dating" typically conjured up, for most people, an image of a neckbearded guy typing furiously over an IM conversation from his parents' basement.
ref: 2011 June, “5 Online Dating Tips”, in Desire Magazine, page 58:
glosses: Having a neckbeard.
sweethearting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweetheartings
Etymology: From sweetheart + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: She met her sweethearts on the street, at the soda fountain, in that trysting place for juvenile sweetheartings, the far corner of the post-office corridor.
ref: 2022, Irvin S. Cobb, Sundry Accounts:
glosses: Courting; lovemaking.
topics: business
commerce
retail
glosses: Theft by employees at the cash register, for example by giving away merchandise to friends and family.
rush out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rushes out
form: rushing out
form: rushed out
form: rushed out
Senses: examples: text: News agencies reported Lavrov had been sent to hospital for a checkup, only for the Russian foreign ministry to rush out a picture of Lavrov in shorts, sporting an Apple watch and Jean-Michel Basquiat-inspired T-shirt, thumbing his notes for his first address at the summit on Tuesday.
ref: 2022 November 15, Patrick Wintour, “Sergei Lavrov, a fixture of Russian diplomacy facing his toughest test in Ukraine”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To release (a product) quickly.
examples: text: Blood was rushing out of his nose.
text: They all rushed out of the room.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: rush out.
rat out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rats out
form: ratting out
form: ratted out
form: ratted out
Senses: examples: text: Don't you dare rat me out or I'll kill you!
glosses: To inform authorities (about someone); to tell on (somebody).
Synonyms: word: dob
word: finger
word: bewray
word: blow the whistle
word: clepe
word: denounce
word: dime
word: drop a dime
word: drop a dime on someone
word: fink
word: fizgig
word: inform
word: inform on
word: grass on
word: grass up
word: lolly up
word: name names
word: nark
word: peach
word: rat on
word: rat out
word: roll on
word: sing
word: snitch
word: snitch up
word: squeak
word: squeal
word: tattle
word: tell
word: tell all
word: tell on
word: tell tales
word: tip off
word: turn in
Hypernyms: word: accuse
word: betray
word: divulge
word: expose
Related terms: word: cooperate
word: play ball
word: blab
word: gossip
word: talk
word: turn king's evidence
word: turn queen's evidence
word: state's evidence
word: informant
word: confess
sweating sickness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: English sweat
sudor anglicus
glosses: An unidentified, highly virulent disease with aches and sweating, the cause of a series of epidemics in England and Europe between 1485 and 1551.
rat through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rats through
form: ratting through
form: ratted through
form: ratted through
Senses: glosses: To rummage; to pick over.
reach out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reaches out
form: reaching out
form: reached out
form: reached out
Senses: examples: text: He reached out to catch the falling snowflake.
glosses: To extend one's hand(s) forward; to reach for something.
examples: text: His drug overdose was just him reaching out to you.
text: Reach out, touch faith!
ref: 1989, “Personal Jesus”, in Martin L. Gore (lyrics), Personal Jesus, performed by Depeche Mode:
glosses: To ask for help.
examples: text: Volunteering projects can be good ways to reach out.
glosses: To make more friends, to increase one's group of friends or acquaintances.
examples: text: The telecom company's slogan, "reach out and touch someone", played on the figurativeness of both verbs; informal military usage later adopted it jocularly as a euphemism for long-range kinetic activity.
text: The Chronicle reached out to Neely for comment about the emails Saturday afternoon, but did not receive a response in time for publication.
ref: 2018 January 26, Bre Bradham, Nathan Luzum, Xinchen Li and Kenrick Cai, "Grad program director steps down after warning students not to speak Chinese" The Chronicle (Duke University:)
glosses: To attempt to initiate communication with someone; to contact; to raise awareness.
read off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reads off
form: reading off
form: read off
form: read off
Senses: examples: text: When your name has been read off, come to collect your paper.
coordinate_terms: count off#Verb
count out#English:_enumerate
read out#Verb
glosses: To dictate from a list, especially in a way focused on sequential processing.
coordinate_terms: read out#Verb
glosses: To read from a scale or measure.
examples: text: He also knows that he has a tendency towards being overweight and watches his diet carefully, and he can tell you everything there is to know about every man in his platoon. Yet, more than once, I've read him off for being partial to a couple of obvious earbangers, and the simplest problem can make him indecisive.
ref: 1981, The Marine Corps Gazette:
topics: government
military
politics
war
coordinate_terms: chew out#Verb
tell off#Verb
glosses: To scold or reprimand.
bunyavirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bunyaviruses
Etymology: From Bunyamwera, a town in Western Uganda where one of the viruses was first isolated.
Senses: glosses: Any of the Bunyaviridae, a family of negative-stranded RNA viruses, now most typically in genus Orthobunyavirus in family Peribunyaviridae, but also in all families in order Bunyavirales.
wikipedia: Bunyamwera
bunyaviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bunyavirus
reel out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reels out
form: reeling out
form: reeled out
form: reeled out
Senses: glosses: To unreel
surturbrand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Icelandic surtarbrandr (“black firebrand”).
Senses: glosses: A fibrous brown coal or bituminous wood.
reel up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reels up
form: reeling up
form: reeled up
form: reeled up
Senses: glosses: To put onto a reel; to completely reel.
Keiji
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese けいじ (Keiji).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
roll in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rolls in
form: rolling in
form: rolled in
form: rolled in
Senses: examples: text: He rolled in five minutes late, without even saying sorry.
antonyms: head out
roll out
glosses: To arrive casually at a place.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: The money keeps on rolling in.
text: The clouds rolled in and it soon began to rain.
text: The tide rolls in.
glosses: To come in an unstoppable flow.
examples: text: He rolled the red in dead weight, and now he's nicely on the blue.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
glosses: To pot with minimal force.
examples: text: As the 1857 to Manchester Piccadilly rolls in, I scan the windows and realise there are plenty of spare seats, so I hop aboard. The train is a '221'+'220' combo to allow for social distancing - a luxury on an XC train as normally you're playing sardines, so I make the most of it.
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:
glosses: To come in (to a station, yard). (e.g. of a train)
Related terms: rolling in it
surceasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of surcease
surceases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surcease
surceases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of surcease
surceased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of surcease
roll on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rolls on
form: rolling on
form: rolled on
form: rolled on
Senses: glosses: To pass; to go on; to elapse.
raw_tags: of time
examples: text: McCarthy will point to their bad luck but the statistics now show that Wolves have lost four league matches and have claimed one point from a possible 15 - so it may prove to be another difficult season for the Midlands side.
In contrast, the Newcastle juggernaut rolls on.
ref: 2011 October 1, Saj Chowdhury, “Wolverhampton 1 - 2 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport:
text: England roll on to a meeting with Samoa in Northampton next weekend, while the presence of the United States, and Maher, in the knockout stages is likely to depend on them being able to upset Australia in York on 30 August.
ref: 2025 August 22, Mike Henson, “England open World Cup with 11-try win over USA”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To continue to move forwards.
examples: text: He rolled on some deodorant, threw on a shirt, and ran out the door.
text: He rolled on some paint, slapped up a "wet paint" sign, and called it a day.
text: You don't have to lift this equipment onto the truck, because it rolls right on if you align its casters with those little grooves.
antonyms: roll off#Verb
glosses: To load or apply something with a rolling motion.
glosses: To snitch or tattle (on a person or group), to reveal a secret under pressure, usually regarding criminal matters.
Synonyms: sense: to elapse
word: go by
word: elapse
sense: to move forwards
word: keep on
word: proceed
alt: to snitch
word: inform on
word: grass up
word: rat out
roll on
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Roll on summer!
glosses: Used to express anticipation
supravaginally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From supravaginal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Above the vagina.
supernaturalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supernaturalist
rollin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of rolling; present participle of roll.
supernaturalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From supernatural + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being supernatural.
rollup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rollups
form: roll-up
form: roll up
Etymology: Deverbal from roll up.
Senses: examples: text: She ate a chicken rollup and a salad.
text: He considered moving to the dining room, but ordered a fourth vodka martini and sent it down in three gulps to join a half-dozen bacon rollups and two baked cheese appetizers.
ref: 2009, Jonathan Bryan, Questings: A Parable, page 50:
synonyms: roll
glosses: A kind of food made by wrapping ingredients in another food, e.g. fajitas.
glosses: A kind of flat, pectin-based, fruit-flavored snack rolled into a tube.
examples: text: I smoke rollups because they are cheaper than buying cigarettes.
synonyms: rollie
glosses: A self-made cigarette of tobacco and rolling paper.
examples: text: In geographic rollups, it's more important to hold on to key employees — and customers — than to realize efficiencies quickly.
ref: 2013, Annette Risberg, Mergers & Acquisitions: A Critical Reader:
glosses: A business technique where multiple small companies in the same market are acquired and merged.
examples: text: Between issuance of service packs, Microsoft released update rollups for Exchange Server on a regular basis […]
ref: 2014, Michel de Rooij, Jaap Wesselius, Pro Exchange 2013 SP1 PowerShell Administration:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A collection of software updates distributed as a single package.
examples: text: In some cases, you may want to add custom rollups that change the way a measure is calculated on a specific level.
ref: 2013, Simon Lidberg, Getting Started with SQL Server 2012 Cube Development:
glosses: That which is rolled up; a summation; an aggregation; a total.
Derived terms: fruit rollup
rollups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rollup
sunglow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sun + glow.
Senses: glosses: A rosy flush in the sky seen after sunset.
glosses: A gold yellow colour, like that of a sunglow.
sunbows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sunbow
sunbonneted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sun-bonneted
Etymology: From sunbonnet + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: While he is at the front end selling calico to some wearisome old lady, sunbonneted and chaffering, a mischievous boy is very apt to be pocketing lumps of sugar for profit, or starting the faucet of a molasses barrel for fun at the other.
ref: 1866, “Mr. Dod's Six Shots”, in Harper's Magazine, volume 32, page 208:
text: Standing expectantly on this porch were two fashionably dressed little tots of girls — cut very much on the same pattern, like paper dolls — and a sunbonneted, gingham-clad young woman whose rounded arm lightly held a heavy but spick and span baby, a regular prize winner for plumpness and fairness, a baby of such well-poised deportment that every noddle was kingly.
ref: 1913, Marion Hill, The Lure of Crooning Water, page 45:
text: And there was about her, small and ginghamed and sunbonneted as she was, a certain reserve and dignity and fineness that they resented.
ref: 1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 8”, in Emily of New Moon:
text: Among them was the “Madonna of the Prairie”—an angelic, idealistic, sunbonneted Euro-American woman, who went west with her family and aided in the Turnerian process of subduing the wilderness.
ref: 2010, Gordon Morris Bakken, The World of the American West:
glosses: Wearing a sunbonnet.
summitless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From summit + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a summit.
peakons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peakon
room in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rooms in
form: rooming in
form: roomed in
form: roomed in
Senses: examples: text: The concept of rooming-in to facilitate parenting was first championed in the United States in the 1940's by Faith Jackson, a child psychiatrist at the Yale-New Haven Medical Center […]
ref: 1986, Kim Oates, Child abuse: a community concern:
text: Infants may be separated from their parents when hospitalized if the parents cannot room in because of hospital policy or because the parents must work or care for other children.
ref: 2007, Theresa Kyle, Terri Kyle, Essentials of pediatric nursing, page 291:
glosses: Of a mother and her new baby; to stay together in the same room.
Sumatrans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sumatran
nonexclusionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + exclusionary.
Senses: glosses: Not exclusionary.
rope in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ropes in
form: roping in
form: roped in
form: roped in
Senses: examples: text: In March last year, the Supreme Court had set aside its own 2009 judgment and set six convicts free, who were earlier sent to death row. […] The Supreme Court said the six men were falsely implicated and roped in by the police.
ref: 2020 August 30, “Denotified 68 Years Ago, ‘Criminal’ Tribes Still Fight Stigma, Poverty”, in Outlook India:
glosses: To cause (someone) to become involved in something they are reluctant to do; to draw into something.
Related terms: rope into
rope off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ropes off
form: roping off
form: roped off
form: roped off
Senses: glosses: To separate by ropes; to cordon off.
suffusions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suffusion
block off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blocks off
form: blocking off
form: blocked off
form: blocked off
Senses: examples: text: The lorry is blocking off the road, so traffic has come to a standstill.
glosses: To obstruct.
examples: text: I'll need to block off a couple of weeks to refurnish my house.
glosses: To book, set aside (an unbroken period of time to do an activity).
Related terms: knock someone's block off
subserviencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subserviency
subsigning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subsign
subsigned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of subsign
Carthusians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Carthusian
subsalts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subsalt
salmonoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salmonoid
sandfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sandfish
scare off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scares off
form: scaring off
form: scared off
form: scared off
Senses: examples: text: A quick growl scared off the mouse.
text: His chief trouble was stray sheep, and he scared most of them off with the draincocks and whistle.
ref: 1949 November and December, K. Longbottom, “By Goods Train to Gweedore”, in Railway Magazine, page 356:
text: An unusual custom is followed at Llangennith, when shotguns are fired at a wedding - to scare off evil spirits from the newlyweds.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 258:
glosses: To cause (something) to flee by frightening it.
examples: text: The hefty price tag scared off any potential buyers.
glosses: To deter.
Nobuhisa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese のぶひさ (Nobuhisa).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
sargassums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sargassum
fruiteater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fruiteaters
Etymology: From fruit + eater.
Senses: glosses: Any of the Pipreola genus of thickset birds, or Ampelioides tschudii; they live in humid areas of South America.
glosses: Alternative form of fruit-eater (“one who eats fruit”)
fruiteaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fruiteater
shiteater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shiteaters
form: shit-eater
Etymology: From shit + eater.
Senses: glosses: A coprophage: an animal that eats feces.
glosses: An imbecile or otherwise undesirable person.
Related terms: shit-eating grin
orofecal
Saturnicentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Saturn + -centric.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Appearing as if seen from the centre of the planet Saturn; relating or referring to Saturn as a centre.
Hayato
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese はやと (Hayato).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
Haruo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
desilylations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desilylation
plantarflexed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of plantarflex
plantarflexes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of plantarflex
plantarflexing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plantarflex
plantationlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plantationlike
form: most plantationlike
Etymology: From plantation + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a plantation.
plantarflexion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plantarflexions
Etymology: From plantar + flexion.
Senses: glosses: The act of plantarflexing.
Related terms: plantarflex
plantarflexive
plantarflexor
plantarflexions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plantarflexion
quadricostate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quadri- + costate.
Senses: glosses: Having four ribs.
quadridentate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quadri- + dentate.
Senses: examples: a quadridentate leaf
glosses: Having four teeth.
quadrifurcated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quadri- + furcated.
Senses: glosses: Having four forks or branches; quadrifurcate.
quadrifurcated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From quadrifurcate + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quadrifurcate
twizzled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of twizzle
twizzling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of twizzle
twizzles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of twizzle
twizzles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twizzle
quadragesimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Quadragesima + -al.
Senses: glosses: That lasts forty days
glosses: Belonging to Lent; used in Lent; Lenten
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of, related to, or based on the number forty.
quadrisyllable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadrisyllables
Etymology: From quadri- + syllable.
Senses: glosses: A word of four syllables.
Related terms: quadrisyllabic
quadrisyllables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadrisyllable
quadrisyllabic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quadri- + syllabic.
Senses: glosses: Having four syllables.
Synonyms: tetrasyllabic
Related terms: quadrisyllable
quadrisyllabic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadrisyllabics
Etymology: From quadri- + syllabic.
Senses: glosses: A word of four syllables.
Cowperian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Cowperian
form: most Cowperian
Etymology: From Cowper + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to William Cowper (1731–1800), English poet and hymnodist.
unqualifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + qualifiable.
Senses: glosses: Not qualifiable.
quadrivalence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being quadrivalent.
Synonyms: quadrivalency
tetravalence
quamash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɑ.mæʃ/
ipa: /kwəˈmæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: quamashes
Etymology: Borrowed from Chinook Jargon qamaš.
Senses: examples: text: Lavender and purple-shaded blues are offered by the tall, hardy quamashes, Camassias esculenta, Cusickii, and Fraseri, or C. Leichtlini varieties.
ref: 1915, Mary Hampden, Every woman's flower garden: how to make and keep it beautiful:
glosses: Dated form of camas.
quamashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quamash
quantics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quantic
quailies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quaily
aftercomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aftercomers
form: after-comer
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], equivalent to after- + comer. Cognate with Scots eftercumar (“successor”).
Senses: antonyms: forecomer
glosses: One coming after; a successor; (in the plural) posterity.
Related terms: aftercome
aftercomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aftercomer
all-up weight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: all-up weights
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The combined weight of a sportsman and their equipment; especially the weight of a paraglider and its pilot.
quatorzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quatorze
quave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quaves
form: quaving
form: quaved
form: quaved
Etymology: From Middle English quaven, cwavien (“to tremble”). More at quaver.
Senses: examples: 13??, William Langland, Piers Plowman
The wal waggede and cleef, and al the world quaved.
glosses: To quiver or tremble.
quave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quaves
Etymology: From Middle English quaven, cwavien (“to tremble”). More at quaver.
Senses: glosses: A shaking; trembling.
quaved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quave
alpha-d-galactosidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alpha-d-galactosidases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any galactosidase that only hydrolyzes the alpha-d configuration of galactosides; a deficiency of this enzyme can lead to Fabry's disease
Synonyms: melibiase
Woodley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Woodleys
form: Woodlee
Etymology: From Old English wudu (“wood”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to wood + -ley (“lea”).
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in Wokingham borough, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU7673).
glosses: A suburban area of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ938922).
glosses: An eastern suburb of Romsey, Test Valley district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU3722).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
quartzoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quartzoids
Etymology: From quartz + -oid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of crystal resembling quartz, having two six-sided pyramids, base to base.
quartzoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quartzoid
amplectant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amplectant
form: most amplectant
Senses: glosses: clasping or embracing
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: That clasps a support, especially by twining around it
quaverer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quaverers
Etymology: From quaver + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who quavers.
quaverers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quaverer
amplexiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amplexiform
form: most amplexiform
Etymology: From amplexi- + -form
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a clasp
aporic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aporic
form: most aporic
Etymology: From aporia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to aporia
Derived terms: aporically
queenfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: queenfishes
form: queenfish
Etymology: From queen + fish.
Senses: glosses: A queen croaker, of species Seriphus politus, of North America, with elongated body and large mouth.
glosses: Any fish in the genus Scomberoides
glosses: An emperor red snapper (Lutjanus sebae
Derived terms: taxonomic: Scomberoides tala
word: barred queenfish
taxonomic: Scomberoides pelagicus
word: deepbodies queenfish
taxonomic: Scomberoides lysan
word: doublespotted queenfish
taxonomic: Scomberoides tol
word: needle-scaled queenfish
taxonomic: Scomberoides commersonnianus
word: Talang queenfish
queenfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of queenfish
aporically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more aporically
form: most aporically
Etymology: From aporic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an aporic manner; by means of aporia
after-comer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: after-comers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aftercomer.
queenings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of queening
querry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: querries
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of equerry.
querries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of querry
quercitin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkwɜɹsɪtɪn/
Etymology: From Latin quercētum (“oak plantation”) + -in.
Senses: examples: text: Quercitin-β-glucoside is more easily absorbed than the aglycone quercitin. Isorhamnetin-β-glucoside, which is chemically similar to quercitin, differing only by a single methoxyl group, is more readily absorbed.
ref: 2002, D. G. Lindsay, “7: Nutritional enhancement of plant foods”, in Victoriano Valpuesta, editor, Fruit and Vegetable Biotechnology, page 174:
text: Here again the consumption of a bioflavonoid (quercitin) was related to the incidence of CAD mortality. It was found that men who consumed (from the diet) less than 10 mg per day of quercitin had a 200% increase in the CAD death rate, compared to those who consumed more than 30 mg.
ref: 2004, Willem Serfontein, Did Your Doctor Tell You?, page 17:
text: In the case of the flavanol quercitin, the absorption spectrum of quercitin itself was red-shifted and its fluorescence intensity increased, while the fluorescence intensity of albumin was quenched.
ref: 2014, George Aiken, “2: Fluorescence and Dissolved Organic Matter: A Chemist's Perspective”, in Paula Coble, Jamie Lead, Andy Baker, Darren Reynolds, Robert G. M. Spencer, editors, Aquatic Organic Matter Fluorescence, page 48:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A flavonoid found in fruits, vegetables, leaves and grains.
armsayes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of armsaye
armsaye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armsayes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of armscye.
arterioportography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From arterio- + portography.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: arterial portography
nonradiopaque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + radiopaque.
Senses: examples: text: Ultrasonography offers an advantage over plain films for the management of such cases, as it can visualize a number of nonradiopaque materials.
ref: 2007, Christopher King, Fred M. Henretig, Brent R. King, Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Procedures, page 1253:
glosses: Not radiopaque.
ultrasonographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ultrasonographer
artistical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more artistical
form: most artistical
Senses: glosses: artistic
Derived terms: unartistical
overwrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overwraps
Etymology: From over- + wrap.
Senses: examples: text: In recent years, PSI has become a major supplier in the pallet overwrap market.
ref: 2007, Thomas N. Ingram, Raymond W. LaForge, Ramon A. Avila, Professional Selling: A Trust-Based Approach, →ISBN, page 58:
text: In another embodiment of the present invention, a pipe assembly for containing and transporting cryogenic temperature fluids includes: (a) at least one inner pipe wherein the at least one inner pipe is made of material resistant to cryogenic temperatures; (b) a composite overwrap capable of enduring exposure and stress at cryogenic temperatures having a near zero or negative coefficient of thermal expansion, wherein the composite overwrap is bonded to the inner pipe in an axial direction forming a combined composite overwrap and inner pipe, wherein laminate plate theory and optimization software are utilized to reach an overall coefficient of thermal expansion near zero for a combined inner pipe and the composite overwrap; and © an other pipe that is positioned around the combined composite overwrap and inner pipe so as to create an annular space between the exterior surface of the combined composite overwrap and inner pipe and the interior surface of the outer pipe, wherein the annular space between the outer pipe and the combined composite overwrap and the inner pipe is provided with thermal insulation.
ref: 2013, Advances in Steel Research and Application, →ISBN, page 354:
text: Users may grip the packaged solution bag in a manner that physically captures the solution bag between the two sides of the overwrap's tear strip. Consequently, when the participant tore open the overwrap, she also tore open the dialysis solution bag.
ref: 2016, Michael Wiklund, Andrea Dwyer, Erin Davis, Medical Device Use Error: Root Cause Analysis, →ISBN, page 203:
glosses: A secondary wrapper covering an item.
overwrap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overwraps
form: overwrapping
form: overwrapped
form: overwrapped
Etymology: From over- + wrap.
Senses: examples: text: Each unit load can also be overwrapped completely in multibags, without any of the usual back-breaking work of manually transferring and restacking, and fitting slings or nets when the load is inverted.
ref: 1985, Wood Southern Africa, volume 11, page 48:
glosses: To wrap in a secondary wrapper.
examples: text: These flaws can include a reed being overwrapped (wrapped past the end of the staple), underwrapped (not wrapped the full length of the staple), or slipped incorrectly (the blades of cane not meeting properly especially if one blade is completely inside the other blade); the cane being crooked on the staple; the cane leaning to the side; or the blank being the wrong length. Cane is expensive and your time is valuable.
ref: 2013, Jacqueline Leclair, Oboe Secrets, →ISBN:
glosses: To wrap such that the wrapping goes beyond the edge.
examples: text: Personally, we feel that overwrapping is more harmful than underwrapping in measles as well as in many other conditions.
ref: 1935, The Hahnemannian Monthly - Volume 70, page 386:
glosses: To provide with too many wrappings.
Related terms: overwrapper
overwraps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overwrap
atomic forensics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: nuclear forensics
Spenserism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Spenserisms
Etymology: From Spenser + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The infelicity of this shift of subject only becomes apparent, again retrospectively, in line eight, directly after the reader's encounter with yet another inscrutable Spenserism […]
ref: 2007, Andrew Zurcher, Spenser's legal language: law and poetry in early modern England, page 4:
glosses: A word or phrase due to Edmund Spenser (c.1552–1599), English poet.
Spenserisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Spenserism
too little, too late
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: That's just half what was due last week. Too little, too late.
text: Committing half his reserves nearly three hours after the attack was too little, too late.
text: Jones forced a header over the line after Danny Welbeck was denied from close range and fellow substitute Federico Macheda hit the woodwork, but it was too little, too late.
ref: 2011 December 7, David Ornstein, “FC Basel 2 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:
text: The Spanish government’s efforts to tackle the economic turmoil unleashed by the Covid pandemic were “too little, too late and too few”, according to a report that finds thousands of people are still reliant on emergency food aid and facing even greater hardship as prices soar.
ref: 2022 July 14, Sam Jones, “Spanish response to Covid poverty was too little, too late, report says”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Used as a predicate or a pro-sentence to indicate insufficiency.
Coordinate terms: a day late and a dollar short
Related terms: close the stable door after the horse has bolted
it's too late for sorry
woulda, coulda, shoulda
nuclear forensics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The scientific techniques used to investigate nuclear accidents and other incidents