cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unpropulsive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + propulsive.
Senses: examples: text: In neither work does Mr. King display much interest in musical impetus; the dancing mostly unfolds to music with long, unpropulsive rhythmic lines.
ref: 2009 May 8, Roslyn Sulcas, “When Somber Sounds Are Heard, Something Spiritual Arises”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not propulsive.
unresigned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unresigned
form: most unresigned
Etymology: From un- + resigned.
Senses: examples: text: And Wallander’s bleak but unresigned despair is reflected in wind-swept, fog-choked Ystad, a Baltic seaside town near Malmo.
ref: 2009 May 8, Alessandra Stanley, “A Disheveled Crime Fighter Who Seems Made for the Scandinavian Gloom”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not resigned.
unresigned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unresign
Hampshirites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hampshirite
clownery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clowneries
Etymology: From clown + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Defensive clownery by the Mets at certain points of the game ultimately cost the 22-year-old Niese his first major league win in eight months.
ref: 2009 May 9, Joshua Robinson, “Five-Run Inning Gives Mets Room for Errors”, in New York Times:
synonyms: clowning
glosses: The behaviour of a clown; clownishness, tomfoolery.
clown doctors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clown doctor
nondegree
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + degree.
Senses: examples: text: But upon returning to civilian life in 2003, Mr. Morgan struggled, hopscotching from town to town and holding dead-end jobs, including one as a technician at a garage door company in Colorado Springs, and spending two semesters in 2007 as a nondegree student at the University of Colorado in Boulder before moving back with his parents.
ref: 2009 May 9, Serge F. Kovaleski, “From Prep School to Murder Suspect at Wesleyan”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to an academic degree.
underexercised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underexercised
form: most underexercised
Etymology: From under- + exercised.
Senses: examples: text: (This might surprise the millions of underexercised, wide-beamed Americans who nonetheless managed to plant two sneakered feet on the crown’s landing in hazy humidity).
ref: 2009 May 9, Michael Powell, “To the Hardy, Lady Liberty’s Crown Beckons Anew”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having inadequate exercise.
confrontative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more confrontative
form: most confrontative
Etymology: From confront + -ative.
Senses: examples: text: ONE reason women choose other women as targets “is probably some idea that they can find a less confrontative person or someone less likely to respond to aggression with aggression,” said Gary Namie, research director for the Workplace Bullying Institute, which ordered the study in 2007.
ref: 2009 May 10, Mickey Meece, “Backlash: Women Bullying Women at Work”, in New York Times:
glosses: confrontational
conglomerateur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conglomerateurs
Senses: examples: text: Jennifer Jones and her second husband, the conglomerateur and art collector Norton Simon, invited him to their birthday party for David Niven, where the host promoted Gehry to Dorothy Chandler, the imperious dowager of Los Angeles philanthropy.
ref: 2009 May 10, Martin Filler, “Essence of the Architect”, in New York Times:
topics: business
glosses: One who forms conglomerates.
conglomerateurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conglomerateur
giantness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From giant + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The campaign for Cheetos Giant does not specifically play on the recession, although it “highlights the giantness of the product,” Lambeth says.
ref: 2009 May 10, Rob Walker, “Big Cheese”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being giant; immensity.
gyil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdʒɪlə/
/ˈdʒiːl/
Forms: form: gyils
Senses: examples: text: “Dust Dances” (1994), the vigorous opening work here, is the fruit of a four-month visit to Ghana, where Mr. Bermel studied the gyil, an African xylophone.
ref: 2009 May 10, The New York Times, “Sounds Both Eclectic and Electric”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A pentatonic instrument of Africa, resembling a xylophone.
gyils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyil
hampshirite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hampshire + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular steatic pseudomorph, found in New Hampshire.
hyperventilations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperventilation
hyperventilator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperventilators
Etymology: From hyperventilate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who hyperventilates.
hyperventilators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperventilator
hypervibration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypervibrations
Etymology: From hyper- + vibration.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A combination of phonon, roton and translon
Synonyms: hyperphonon
Related terms: hypervibronic
likers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liker
loomingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more loomingly
form: most loomingly
Etymology: From looming + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: (It seems to me now, many years later, that I was expressing early on a chronic depressive’s wish to stay home, on the inside, instead of taking on the outside, loomingly hostile world in the form of classmates and teachers.)
ref: 2009 May 10, Daphne Merkin, “A Journey Through Darkness”, in New York Times:
glosses: So as to loom.
nonprocrastinating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + procrastinating.
Senses: examples: text: Is there something about children’s books that attracts the prolific, or at least the nonprocrastinating?
ref: 2009 May 10, Bruce Handy, “Happy to Be Me . . . or Me!”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not procrastinating.
nonroad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + road.
Senses: examples: text: Growth Energy sent the entire report to the E.P.A., but the summary it provided with its formal waiver request — and uses in press materials — said that when using E15 and E20, “there were no significant changes in vehicle tailpipe emissions, vehicle drivability or small nonroad engine emissions as ethanol content increased.”
ref: 2009 May 10, Christopher Jensen, “Critics Find Flaws in the Case Made by Ethanol Advocates”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to roads.
afpers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of afper
Symbionese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Symbionese
form: most Symbionese
Etymology: From symbiosis + -ese.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Symbionese Liberation Army, an American left-wing urban militant group of the 1970s.
symbiogeneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of symbiogenesis
symbiogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From symbiogenesis, modeled after genetic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to symbiogenesis.
Related terms: endosymbiogenetic
uchi-deshi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uchi-deshi
Etymology: From Japanese 内弟子 (“inside student”).
Senses: glosses: In Japanese martial arts, a live-in student or apprentice who trains under and assists a sensei on a full-time basis.
sylvites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sylvite
sylvinites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sylvinite
sylvines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sylvine
outtalks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outtalk
outtalking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outtalk
outtalked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outtalk
overparenting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + parenting.
Senses: examples: text: (You might think this was in an essay on the perils of overparenting; it’s actually one in which she realizes that she can’t foist her own childhood anxieties onto her own socially adroit children.)
ref: 2009 May 10, Susan Dominus, “I Love You More”, in New York Times:
glosses: Excessive parenting, as by being overprotective towards one's child.
overparenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From over- + parenting.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overparent
partogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: partograms
Etymology: From Latin parere (“to give birth”) + -gram.
Senses: glosses: A graphical record of key maternal and fetal data during labour, intended to provide a record of progress and highlight any delay or deviation from normal.
Synonyms: partograph
partograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of partogram
partocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to partocracy.
pseudocastle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudocastles
Etymology: From pseudo- + castle.
Senses: examples: text: A mixture of pricey cottages, expanded Capes and pseudocastles on tiny lots in the town of Hempstead, the 0.23-square-mile Point Lookout occupies the east end of the Nassau County barrier island that is also home to Lido, Long and Atlantic Beaches.
ref: 2009 May 10, Marcelle S. Fischler, “Of Inlets, Channels and Dunes”, in New York Times:
glosses: A building designed to resemble a castle.
pseudocastles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudocastle
reprehensibles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: According to Lucille Cirillo, a spokeswoman for United States Customs and Border Protection, the approach is not list-based but more opportunistic: asked at the border to declare a criminal history or other illicit activity on a visa waiver form, reprehensibles often do so.
ref: 2009 May 10, Graham Bowley, “A World of Least-Wanted Lists”, in New York Times:
glosses: plural of reprehensible
nonopportunistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + opportunistic.
Senses: synonyms: unopportunistic
glosses: Not opportunistic.
restation
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: restations
form: restationing
form: restationed
form: restationed
Etymology: From re- + station.
Senses: examples: text: “She will hopefully be restationed somewhere near Virginia by next year,” Lieutenant McLean said.
ref: 2009 May 10, “Christine Todd, Jeffrey McLean”, in New York Times:
glosses: To assign (military personnel) to a different area.
restationing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of restation
restations
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of restation
restationed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of restation
tanha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Transliteration of Pali taṇhā.
Senses: examples: text: The Buddhist concept of tanha, for example — roughly translated as “blind demandingness” — encapsulates many tenets of R.E.B.T. and points the way toward emotional equanimity: stop asking more of the universe than it can possibly deliver.
ref: 2009 May 10, “Enlightenment Therapy”, in New York Times:
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Cravings; desires.
wikipedia: tanha
Schleswiger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Schleswigers
Etymology: From Schleswig + -er, or directly from the German Schleswiger.
Senses: examples: text: There I met another German, or rather a Schleswiger, by the name of Bondiz, who was also a merchant.
ref: 1979 (reprint), Elise Amalie Tvede Wærenskjold, The Lady with the Pen, page 79
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Schleswig, the northern half of the state of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
telepaper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telepapers
Etymology: From tele- + paper.
Senses: examples: text: But, as the anchorwoman assures us at the end, with a two-hour download time (at $5 an hour), “the new telepaper won’t be much competition for the 20-cent street edition.”
ref: 2009 May 10, Frank Rich, “The American Press on Suicide Watch”, in New York Times:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A newspaper that can be downloaded in an electronic format.
Synonyms: telenewspaper
telepapers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telepaper
underinformed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underinformed
form: most underinformed
Etymology: From under- + informed.
Senses: examples: text: He would have met the real estate agents selling overpriced merchandise to underinformed dreamers and heard the agents’ pitch — “Investors like you, sir, are making a fortune.”
ref: 2009 May 10, “Due Diligence”, in New York Times:
glosses: Given inadequate information.
Schleswigers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Schleswiger
unsilly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsilly
form: most unsilly
Etymology: From Middle English unsely, from Old English unsǣliġ, equivalent to un- + silly. Doublet of Unseelie.
Senses: examples: text: “Cheetos is about being playful, it’s about being silly,” Lambeth replies in a thoroughly unsilly tone.
ref: 2009 May 10, Rob Walker, “Big Cheese”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not silly.
wondrousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wondrous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Charles M. Blow’s column refers to nonreligious thought as “shtick,” and implies that atheists fail to properly celebrate human exceptionalism, wondrousness, compassion, love, companionship and perhaps even singing and picnicking.
ref: 2009 May 10, “A Life With Religion, and Without”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being wondrous.
buddyhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From buddy + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: Anyway, when Foley meets Dawn, Cundo’s assumptions about buddyhood are immediately given the lie.
ref: 2009 May 11, Janet Maslin, “Buddy, That Was No Lady, That Was My Pharaoh”, in New York Times:
glosses: The state of being buddies; friendship, camaraderie.
Palmerstonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Palmerstonian
form: most Palmerstonian
Etymology: From Palmerston + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865), British prime minister.
golfspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From golf + -speak.
Senses: examples: text: Now if you’re a beginner or a casual player, you may find golfspeak to be another intimidating barrier to feeling comfortable on the course — a verbal version of golf’s code of behavioral etiquettes.
ref: 2009 May 11, Bill Pennington, “Golf’s Colorful Language Goes With Any Green”, in New York Times:
glosses: The jargon associated with the sport of golf.
overcuteness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From overcute + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In that finale, as in the “Wunderhorn” songs, Ms. Röschmann sang with beautiful soaring or lilting tone but tended toward overcuteness in her manner.
ref: 2009 May 11, James R. Oestreich, “The Demands of Mahler’s Second, Third and Fourth Symphonies”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being overcute; excessive cuteness.
anticelibacy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticelibacy
form: most anticelibacy
Etymology: From anti- + celibacy.
Senses: examples: text: “I don’t want to be the anticelibacy priest,” he said.
ref: 2009 May 12, Damien Cave, “Celebrity Priest Says He Is Torn Between Church and Girlfriend”, in New York Times:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Opposing celibacy.
cybersleuth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cybersleuths
Etymology: From cyber- + sleuth.
Senses: examples: text: For the cybersleuth, hunting evidence in the data tangle of the Internet, the problem is different.
ref: 2009 May 12, John Markoff, “Tracking Cyberspies Through the Web Wilderness”, in New York Times:
text: When cybersleuths traced the millions of dollars American companies, hospitals and city governments have paid to online extortionists in ransom money, they made a telling discovery: At least some of it passed through one of the most prestigious business addresses in Moscow.
ref: 2021 December 6, Andrew E. Kramer, “Companies Linked to Russian Ransomware Hide in Plain Sight”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A cyberdetective.
cybersleuths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cybersleuth
overcute
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overcute
form: most overcute
Etymology: From over- + cute.
Senses: glosses: Excessively or cloyingly cute; saccharine; cutesy.
Related terms: overcuteness
overdates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overdate
overdamping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overdamp
overdamps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overdamp
hypervisible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypervisible
form: most hypervisible
Etymology: From hyper- + visible.
Senses: examples: text: It’s startling that urban youth remain hypervisible symbols of the “culture of failure” but are never quoted as the ultimate stakeholders in education policy debates.
ref: 2009 May 12, “Learning the Secrets of Education”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extremely visible.
rereport
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: rereports
form: rereporting
form: rereported
form: rereported
Etymology: From re- + report.
Senses: examples: text: Beyond the personal testimonies, there’s little in “The Madoff Affair” that hasn’t already been reported and rereported.
ref: 2009 May 12, Mike Hale, “Lured Down a Rabbit Hole, Hoping for Happy Returns”, in New York Times:
glosses: To report again.
rereports
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rereport
rereporting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rereport
rereported
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rereport
manaclelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more manaclelike
form: most manaclelike
Etymology: From manacle + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Other pieces allude to his mother’s quilts, to his father’s tools, to farm animals and folk amulets, with all of this individual history embedded in a broader one symbolized by manaclelike bracelets and astrological symbols.
ref: 2009 May 13, Holland Cotter, “A Life, From a Southern Farm Town to Watts, in Castoff Objects”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of manacles.
pinakbet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Pork-Off, held May 3, featured the expected ribs and barbecue, along with the Filipino stew pinakbet.
ref: 2009 May 13, Steven Stern, “In New York, the Taste of Victory”, in New York Times:
synonyms: pakbet
glosses: A stew of the Philippines, consisting of mixed vegetables steamed in fish or shrimp sauce.
Ilocanos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ilocano
Ilokanos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ilokano
subfunction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subfunctions
Etymology: From sub- + function.
Senses: examples: text: “Lost” is certainly to be granted its points for its subfunction as a soap opera this season.
ref: 2009 May 13, Ginia Bellafante, “Where It’s 1977 and 2007 All at the Same Time”, in New York Times:
glosses: A secondary or subsidiary function.
subfunctions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subfunction
astrantia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astrantias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: To counter the heft of such big leaves, add dainty flowering plants like Yellow Waxbells (Kirengeshoma palmata) or the underused astrantia in red or maroon.
ref: 2009 May 14, Stephen Orr, “Plants That Like to Get Their Feet Wet”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any of the genus Astrantia of herbaceous plants.
astrantias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astrantia
Schleswig
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈʃlɛsvɪɡ/
/ˈʃlɛswɪɡ/
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schleswig, from the Schlei, a narrow inlet of the Baltic.
Senses: glosses: A geographic area and former Danish duchy in Northern Europe, located on the southern Jutland peninsula between the rivers Eider and Kongeå; now politically divided between Denmark and Germany.
glosses: A town, the administrative seat of Schleswig-Flensburg district, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
glosses: A small city in Crawford County, Iowa.
glosses: A town in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.
Synonyms: word: Sleswick
word: Sleswig
Derived terms: Duchy of Schleswig
Schleswiger
Schleswig-Flensburg
Schleswig-Holstein
bucketsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bucketful
bucketwheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bucketwheel
farmscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farmscapes
Etymology: From farm + -scape.
Senses: examples: text: There are also recent acquisitions and promised gifts to admire: a sulfurous early farmscape by Mondrian; a shimmering Bonnard still life from 1926; a blocky, abstract sculpture in cast plaster by Georges Vantongerloo, also from 1926; and Magritte’s enigmatic “White Race,” from 1937, which dissects a female bather, evoking both Picasso’s monstrous paintings of Olga and his pneumatic treatments of Marie-Thérèse Walter.
ref: 2009 May 14, Roberta Smith, “A Grand and Intimate Modern Art Trove”, in New York Times:
glosses: A landscape dominated by a farm or farmland.
farmscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of farmscape
Magrittean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Magrittean
form: most Magrittean
Etymology: From Magritte + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to René Magritte (1898–1967), Belgian surrealist artist who challenged observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality.
Pollockian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Pollockian
form: most Pollockian
Etymology: From Pollock + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), American abstract expressionist painter.
Mareva injunction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mareva injunctions
Etymology: Named after the legal case Mareva Compania Naviera SA v International Bulkcarriers SA [1975] 2 Lloyd's Rep 509, decided in 1975.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A court order which freezes assets so that a defendant to an action cannot dissipate their assets from beyond the jurisdiction of the court.
Synonyms: freezing injunction
freezing order
semihallucinatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + hallucinatory.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Ray’s sculpture is a big-budget production that may become rare in the years ahead, but looking at it and gradually realizing that none of its delicate, desiccated textures are natural is a semihallucinatory experience.
ref: 2009 May 14, Roberta Smith, “A Grand and Intimate Modern Art Trove”, in New York Times:
glosses: Somewhat hallucinatory.
subbasin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subbasins
Etymology: From sub- + basin.
Senses: examples: text: Since 2006 the surface of the aquifer, in the Kaweah subbasin of the San Joaquin basin, has dropped 50 feet as farmers pumped deeper, Mr. Watte says.
ref: 2009 May 14, Felicity Barringer, “Rising Calls to Regulate California Groundwater”, in New York Times:
topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: A basin within a larger basin.
subbasins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subbasin
unsteadier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of unsteady: more unsteady
unsteadiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of unsteady: most unsteady
unsteadying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: A correspondent suggested that the superior riding qualities of the latter were due to the absence of piston-valve chests above the cylinders, which made it possible to bring the underside of the water-tanks to a lower level than that of the "Rivers", so minimising the unsteadying effect of water surging in the tanks.
ref: 1944 May and June, “Notes and News: Tank Engine Stability”, in Railway Magazine, page 185:
glosses: present participle and gerund of unsteady
unsteadies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unsteady
wanderlusty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wanderlusty
form: most wanderlusty
Etymology: From wanderlust + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Some of these intense, wanderlusty New Yorkers were running through the store with packing lists, loudly asking for moisture-wicking undershirts and sleeping pads.
ref: 2009 May 14, Mike Albo, “Ready for That Rush of Adrenaline”, in New York Times:
glosses: Full of wanderlust; eager to travel.
wanderjahrs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wanderjahr
crateload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crateloads
Etymology: From crate + load.
Senses: examples: text: An art investor in Hallandale, Fla., who died last year at 57, he stored crateloads at his apartment and nearby warehouses.
ref: 2009 May 15, Eve M. Kahn, “A Connoisseur’s Bounty of Pulp and Pin-Ups”, in New York Times:
glosses: A load stored in a crate; a crateful.
crateloads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crateload
earbone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earbones
Etymology: From ear + bone.
Senses: examples: text: This earbone criterion may seem esoteric — until we learn that the evolution of that bone structure is related to the development of a single lower jaw, which in turn, is associated with the fact that mammals, unlike, say, lizards, have differentiated teeth that allow for different kinds of chewing.
ref: 2009 May 15, Edward Rothstein, “Come Meet Your Folks: Warm Blood Is Required”, in New York Times:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any bone in the ear.
earbones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earbone
miserabilism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪzɹəbəlɪz(ə)m/
Forms: form: miserablism
Etymology: From German Miserabilismus, French misérabilisme, corresponding to miserable + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Parlementary ideas invariably evinced that most thoroughgoing national miserabilism which had impressed poor Damiens [...].
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 267:
text: A beautiful-looking slice of British miserabilism, “Fish Tank” traces what happens to a 15-year-old (Katie Jarvis) when her mother’s boyfriend moves into the family’s cramped flat, a story that can be summed up by the lyrics, sung by Nas, that portentously bring the accumulated bleak moments to a close: “Life’s a bitch and then you die.”
ref: 2009 May 15, Manohla Dargis, “A Less Crowded Cannes, and Perhaps a Silver Lining”, in New York Times:
text: Nobody will ever 'fix' the internet, just as nobody will ever fix the world. But this has never justified giving in to miserabilism about life offline.
ref: 2021, Eliot Higgins, We Are Bellingcat, page 147:
text: The term “performative miserabilism” has been coined to explain France’s confusing penchant towards self-cynicism.
ref: 2023 May 1, Alexander Hurst, “Has France really gone to hell? Its catastrophist discourse is at odds with the facts”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Since he arrived there, he’s delivered a lot of words about the direness of the inheritance from the Tories and accompanied this with the warning that things are going to get worse before they get better. Can the Labour conference, which opens on Sunday in Liverpool, expect a further deluge of miserabilism or will he have some more optimistic things to say to his party and to the public?
ref: 2024 September 21, Andrew Rawnsley, Toby Helm, “‘We have done more in 11 weeks than the Tories did in 11 years’: Keir Starmer defends his record”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A tendency to take a miserable or pessimistic view on life; a consistently miserable outlook, negativity.
multibranched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + branched.
Senses: examples: text: So these extreme mammals really are, in a strange way, our relatives, a multibranched, variegated web of life forms, many extinct (as are 99 percent of all species that ever lived) but some of which are still being discovered: the last display shows a reconstruction of a striped rabbit, a new species discovered in 1999 in Laos.
ref: 2009 May 15, Edward Rothstein, “Come Meet Your Folks: Warm Blood Is Required”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having more than one branch.
Synonyms: twiggy
Annamites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Annamite
nonblockbuster
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + blockbuster.
Senses: examples: text: The nonblockbuster business has always been tough; now it’s close to Darwinian.
ref: 2009 May 15, Manohla Dargis, “A Less Crowded Cannes, and Perhaps a Silver Lining”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not being or pertaining to blockbuster films.
overmuscled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overmuscled
form: most overmuscled
Etymology: From over- + muscled.
Senses: examples: text: Rodriguez, like Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire before him, is an overmuscled player with freakishly distorted statistics who abetted the distortion of a sport that, when played on the square, rewards homelier virtues like guile and speed.
ref: 2009 May 15, Nicholas Dawidoff, “Who’s on Third? What’s He Taking?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Excessively muscled.
prerecessionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + recessionary.
Senses: examples: text: There are no hard times on the red carpet at Cannes, where they know how to party like it’s 1788 or at least like the prerecessionary days of 2008.
ref: 2009 May 15, Manohla Dargis, “A Less Crowded Cannes, and Perhaps a Silver Lining”, in New York Times:
glosses: Prior to a recession.
firesuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firesuits
Etymology: From fire + suit.
Senses: examples: text: He was among the hundreds on hand for the unveiling, some arriving as early as 6:30 a.m. to see the new car, the various racecars inside and the Elvis display case that included the orange firesuit worn by Presley as the racecar driver Lucky Jackson in the 1964 film “Viva Las Vegas.”
ref: 2009 May 16, Viv Bernstein, “Without Racing or Earnhardt, a Shop Remains”, in New York Times:
glosses: A fire-retardant suit worn in motor racing.
firesuits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firesuit
flamencolike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flamencolike
form: most flamencolike
Etymology: From flamenco + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Surrounded by a chorus of beautiful women, he jackhammered his way about the stage, rocking his pelvis and occasionally flourishing his hands in a vaguely flamencolike manner.
ref: 2009 May 16, The New York Times, “Dance in Review”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of the flamenco dance.
uneventfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uneventful + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: But maybe the uneventfulness was merely par for the course.
ref: 2009 May 16, Jon Caramanica, “Where’s the Action? It’s in the Words”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being uneventful.
unluxurious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unluxurious
form: most unluxurious
Etymology: From un- + luxurious.
Senses: examples: text: The hunch proved true; they were spotted in the rather unluxurious Pigalle neighborhood of Paris, notorious for its sex shops and red-light district.
ref: 2009 May 16, Doreen Carvajal, “Arrest of 2 ‘Pink Panthers’ May Shed Light on Heists”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not luxurious.
Derived terms: unluxuriously
crocketed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From crocket + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: He leaned back on this support with his face to the tower of the cathedral, now admirably commanded by their standpoint, the high red-brown mass, square and subordinately spired and crocketted, retouched and restored, but charming to his long-sealed eyes, and with the first swallows of the year weaving their flight all round it.
ref: 1903 September 28, Henry James, The Ambassadors, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC:
text: A brief intermission of an Eighteenth Century Barnsdale Forest brought into view the high crocketed tower of Darfield Church on its rugged scarp, beneath whose graveyard gushes out what in the old days was the main water-supply of the village, the Bank Well.
ref: 1949 March and April, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–2”, in Railway Magazine, pages 82–83:
text: For Woolworth, Gilbert designed a house that was similar, but lacier at the roof line, with intricate copper roof cresting and crocketed chimneys, and elaborately decorated dormers.
ref: 2009 May 17, Christopher Gray, “The Dime Store Tycoon’s Kingdom”, in New York Times:
topics: architecture
glosses: Having a crocket.
macrocondition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macroconditions
Etymology: From macro- + condition.
Senses: examples: text: These are macroconditions that you are asking about.
ref: 2009 May 17, “Crash Course”, in New York Times:
glosses: A macroscale condition.
macroconditions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrocondition
minitractor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minitractors
Etymology: From mini- + tractor.
Senses: examples: text: They want $8,000 sewing machines and $2,800 custom closets and $5,000 minitractors, and sometimes they reach out to Suze Orman, the ubiquitous, telegenic personal-finance expert and beg her for permission to indulge.
ref: 2009 May 17, Susan Dominus, “Suze Orman Is Having a Moment”, in New York Times:
glosses: A small, compact tractor.
minitractors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minitractor
nonegocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + egocentric.
Senses: examples: text: But he also displayed a strikingly nonegocentric attitude toward some of his most renowned work.
ref: 2009 May 17, Carol Kino, “Going Softly Into a Parallel Universe”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not egocentric.
overfreighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overfreighted
form: most overfreighted
Etymology: From over- + freighted.
Senses: examples: text: Consider, for example, the symbolically overfreighted names she has chosen for her central characters.
ref: 2009 May 17, Julia Scheeres, “Cowgirl Blues”, in New York Times:
glosses: Laden with too much freight.
semiscripted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + scripted.
Senses: examples: text: Together these halves make up a mini-retrospective, replete with firsts: the first time that “Ice Bag” will function consistently since its completion (or so the conservators hope), and the first time the public will see rare footage of most of Mr. Oldenburg’s legendary Happenings, the anarchic, semiscripted group performances involving sculptural props and sets that prefigured today’s performance art.
ref: 2009 May 17, Carol Kino, “Going Softly Into a Parallel Universe”, in New York Times:
glosses: Relying only partially on a script.
unrevolutionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrevolutionary
form: most unrevolutionary
Etymology: From un- + revolutionary.
Senses: examples: text: Mao and Castro were said to be ascetics in their early guerrilla phases, though the paunches of their later years betray unrevolutionary tastes for the lush life.
ref: 2009 May 17, James Dao, “No Food for Thought: The Way of the Warrior”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not revolutionary.
deconstructionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːkənˈstɹʌkʃənɪzəm/
ipa: /diːkənˈstɹʊkʃənɪzəm/
Forms: form: deconstructionisms
Etymology: From deconstruction + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Once he had decided to major in English, “since it sounded like something I might already know,” he learned to enjoy tossing the vocabulary of deconstructionism back at his teachers.
ref: 2009 May 18, Janet Maslin, “Whiz Kid in College, Hold That Attitude!”, in New York Times:
glosses: The belief in, or application of, deconstruction (theory of textual criticism).
forceless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From force + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without force.
Derived terms: forcelessness
forcemeats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forcemeat
multifigure
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + figure.
Senses: examples: text: Of the now-vanished panels, Mrs. Gordon hazily recalls a giant, languorous woman stretched the length of one wall, and a multifigure composition on the other.
ref: 2009 May 18, William Grimes, “Philip Stein, Muralist Who Adorned Village Vanguard Jazz Club, Dies at 90”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of more than one figure.
shakings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shaking
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The sweepings from a ship's deck, consisting of leftover cordage, canvas, etc.
subrace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subraces
Etymology: From sub- + race.
Senses: examples: text: “The people in the south treat the northeast as a subrace of Brazilians,” said Roberto Quiñiero, who owns a small food market in Pedreiras.
ref: 2009 May 18, Alexei Barrionuevo, “Little Relief Expected for Flood-Ravaged Brazil”, in New York Times:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A secondary or subsidiary race.
Related terms: subracial
subraces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subrace
subquarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subquark
blubberfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blubberfests
Etymology: From blubber + -fest.
Senses: examples: text: There is no crying in space, but Monday was perhaps as close as it gets to a blubberfest in space helmets.
ref: 2009 May 19, Dennis Overbye, “As Tasks at Hubble End, No Tears, but It Was Close”, in New York Times:
glosses: An event characterized by weeping.
dirndled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dirndl + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: That’s not to mention the little Nazi flags with pretzels in lieu of swastikas that were handed out to everybody in the audience (including a troop of dirndled transvestites who waved them around like lost cheerleaders).
ref: 2009 May 19, Michael Kimmelman, “The Führer Returns to Berlin, This Time Saluted Only by Laughs”, in New York Times:
glosses: Wearing a dirndl.
nonmatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonmatches
Etymology: From non- + match.
Senses: examples: text: For example, if blood is found in the general vicinity of a crime scene, a nonmatch would not prove that a defendant was innocent the way a nonmatch of skin from under the fingernails of a stabbing victim might.
ref: 2009 May 19, “The Right to DNA Testing”, in New York Times:
glosses: That which is not a match; a mismatch.
nonmatches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonmatch
preconviction
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + conviction.
Senses: glosses: Prior to conviction.
preconviction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preconvictions
Etymology: From pre- + conviction.
Senses: glosses: A prior conviction.
postrecession
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + recession.
Senses: examples: text: While Home Depot has emerged from the credit crisis strong enough to borrow at attractive rates now, it has chosen not to do so. Mr. Blake has charted a course away from expansion, one that he holds out as a template for running a big company in postrecession America.
ref: 2009 May 19, Louis Uchitelle, “Home Depot Girds for Continued Weakness”, in New York Times:
glosses: Occurring after a recession.
postvote
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + vote.
Senses: examples: text: Much of the postvote analysis has focused on the daunting domestic agenda.
ref: 2009 May 19, “India’s Challenges”, in New York Times:
glosses: After a vote.
dropfile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dropfiles
Etymology: From drop + file.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A file used by a bulletin board system (BBS) to pass information about the BBS itself and the current user to an external door.
dropfiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dropfile
extraverted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extraverted
form: most extraverted
Etymology: From German extravertiert, equivalent to extravert + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: An extraverted individual can hardly understand the necessity that forces the introverted to accomplish his adaptation by first formulating a general conception.
ref: 1915, Carl Jung, “On Psychological Understanding”, in Journal of Abnormal Psychology, number 9, page 397:
glosses: Alternative form of extroverted.
extraverted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From German extravertiert, equivalent to extravert + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of extravert
venomlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more venomlike
form: most venomlike
Etymology: From venom + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Fry did not find any venomlike proteins in the mucus, but later he realized mucus was the wrong place to look.
ref: 2009 May 19, Carl Zimmer, “Chemicals in Dragon’s Glands Stir Venom Debate”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of venom.
venographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to venography.
antihippie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antihippie
form: most antihippie
Etymology: From anti- + hippie.
Senses: glosses: Opposing hippies.
underpopulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + population.
Senses: examples: text: “Panicology” considers the evidence on both sides of a large number of worries that have beset the industrialized world in modern times, including the “population crisis” (now one of underpopulation that threatens the wealth and health of aging populations in countries like Italy and Russia)[…]
ref: 2009 May 19, Jane E. Brody, “The Slippery Slope From Fear to Panic”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2012:
glosses: Insufficient population.
underplots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underplot
underplots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underplot
eyelinered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eyeliner + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Through two hours of rapid-fire songs, the small, rabbitlike, eyelinered Billie Joe Armstrong, the band’s singer and guitarist, kept spreading his arms into their narrow wingspan, and his body language always meant two things: both “What is this world coming to?” and “All together now.”
ref: 2009 May 20, Ben Ratliff, “In Green Day’s Latest Creed, Misery Loves a Party”, in New York Times:
glosses: Wearing eyeliner.
fatwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fatwoods
Etymology: From fat + wood.
Senses: examples: text: He stacked split pieces of well-seasoned, thoroughly dry oak, and started a fire using some newspaper and fatwood, a resinous pinewood that flames easily.
ref: 2009 May 20, Oliver Schwaner-Albright, “Grilling Over Wood as a Sweaty, Smoky Sport”, in New York Times:
glosses: A heartwood of pine trees, impregnated with resin, useful in the manufacture of pitch and pine tar.
Related terms: greasewood
headstamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headstamp
multiangled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + angled.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Hoskyns’s book is a chance for a multiangled reappraisal.
ref: 2009 May 20, Dwight Garner, “Piecing Together That Voice on the Barroom Floor”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of more than one angle.
nondancing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + dancing.
Senses: examples: text: Here the princely hero is a nondancing cavalier amid the many swan-maidens who resemble the one with whom he is falling in love.
ref: 2009 May 20, Alastair Macaulay, “A Season Opener Includes an Obama in the House”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not dancing.
nonboating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + boating.
Senses: examples: text: I had lived a happy nonboating life and had never enjoyed getting bounced around in her father’s much smaller boat.
ref: 2009 May 21, Paul Sullivan, “In Selling a Boat, No Port in a Storm”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to boating.
photocarcinogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photocarcinogens
Etymology: From photo- + carcinogen.
Senses: examples: text: So I brought it to campus for testing and turns out there was a suspected endocrine disrupter and a photocarcinogen — a chemical that, when exposed to sunlight, has a carcinogenic potential to it.
ref: 2009 May 21, Julie Scelfo, “Apply These Product Ratings Generously”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any substance that becomes a carcinogen on exposure to light.
Related terms: photocarcinogenic
photocarcinogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photocarcinogen
photocarcinogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + carcinogenic.
Senses: glosses: Becoming a carcinogen on exposure to light.
pintuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pintucks
Etymology: From pin + tuck.
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: A very narrow tuck.
pintuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pintucks
form: pintucking
form: pintucked
form: pintucked
Etymology: From pin + tuck.
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: To make a very narrow tuck.
pintucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pintuck
flitten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of flite.
forspare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forspares
form: forsparing
form: forspared
form: forspared
Etymology: From for- + spare.
Senses: examples: text: I don't never buy no cheese, miss; I can't forspare the money for it.
ref: 1889, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, The living age: Volume 183:
glosses: To spare; do without.
forridden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more forridden
form: most forridden
Etymology: From for- + ridden. Compare Middle English forriden (“to ride ahead of, intercept”), from Old English forrīdan (“to intercept by riding before”).
Senses: glosses: Worn out or weary from hard or excessive riding.