cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dishonourest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dishonorest
Etymology: dishonour + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of dishonour
discoverest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: discover + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of discover
burnfires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burnfire
consumest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: consume + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of consume
revealest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: reveal + -est
Senses: examples: text: Infinite Love,
Whose latence is the plenitude of all,
Thou with retracted beams, and self-eclipse
Veiling, revealest thine eternal Sun.
ref: 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Destiny of Nations:
glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of reveal
forgettingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more forgettingly
form: most forgettingly
Etymology: From forgetting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to forget.
outlawries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outlawry
Iscariot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἰσκαριώτης (Iskariṓtēs)/ Ἰσκαριώθ (Iskariṓth); the original Hebrew or Aramaic term is unknown and the subject of much debate. For more information, see the name and background section of Wikipedia's article on Judas Iscariot.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Epithet of Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve disciples of Jesus in the New Testament, who betrayed Jesus into the hands of the chief priests for 30 pieces of silver, and of his father Simon Iscariot.
Derived terms: Judas the Iscariot
Iscariot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Iscariots
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἰσκαριώτης (Iskariṓtēs)/ Ἰσκαριώθ (Iskariṓth); the original Hebrew or Aramaic term is unknown and the subject of much debate. For more information, see the name and background section of Wikipedia's article on Judas Iscariot.
Senses: glosses: A traitor.
Iscariots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Iscariot
Indian apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Indian apples
Senses: glosses: Punica granatum (pomegranate).
glosses: Podophyllum peltatum (mayapple), a toxic, herbaceous perennial plant with edible fruit.
glosses: Datura inoxia (angel's trumpet), a hallucinogenic plant.
noyeau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noyeaus
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of noyau (French liqueur).
noyances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noyance
wood apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wood apples
Senses: glosses: Bael (Aegle marmelos), a tree native to India.
glosses: Limonia acidissima, a tree of Southeast Asia.
Synonyms: sense: both
word: elephant apple
dependest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: depend + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of depend
purchasest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: purchase + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of purchase
climbest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: climb + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of climb
countest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: count + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of count
counteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: count + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of count
catchest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: catch + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of catch
numberest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: number + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of number
intendest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: intend + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of intend
availest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: avail + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of avail
weakenest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: weaken + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of weaken
weakeneth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: weaken + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of weaken
conveyest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: convey + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of convey
conveyeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: convey + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of convey
summonest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: summon + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of summon
summoneth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: summon + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of summon
corruptest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: corrupt + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of corrupt
corruptest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: corrupt + -est
Senses: glosses: superlative form of corrupt: most corrupt
corruptedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From corrupted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being corrupted.
webphones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of webphone
webographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of webography
biddest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈbɪ.dɪst/
Etymology: bid + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of bid
hardwareless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hardware + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without hardware.
softwareless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From software + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without software.
clothesless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From clothes + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without clothes.
Derived terms: clotheslessness
software houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of software house
broodstock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broodstocks
Etymology: From brood + stock.
Senses: examples: text: So the spermatogonia of an endangered species could be kept preserved and used to produce male and female broodstock to help rebuild populations.
ref: 2007 September 18, Henry Fountain, “A New Hope for Endangered Fish: Surrogate Breeding”, in New York Times:
glosses: A group of sexually mature individuals of a cultured species that is kept separate for breeding purposes.
broodstocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of broodstock
cocalero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocaleros
Etymology: From Spanish cocalero.
Senses: examples: text: With a cocalero in power, cocalero activists no longer shut down the main highway from Santa Cruz, enabling the province’s exports to reach important markets.
ref: 2007 September 18, Simon Romero, “A Radical Gives Bolivia Some Stability”, in New York Times:
text: The cocaleros carried the leaves from the valleys where they are grown to high Andean villages of the sort we'd just passed, and the trail had been used for this purpose since the days of the conquistadors.
ref: 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 8, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company:
text: The agency buys coca from registered cocaleros and then resells it at traditional coca markets or […]
ref: 2014 September 25, Ursula Durand Ochoa, The Political Empowerment of the Cocaleros of Bolivia and Peru, Springer, →ISBN:
glosses: A grower of coca leaves in Peru or Bolivia.
cocaleros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cocalero
herdwide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From herd + -wide.
Senses: examples: text: The first solution — the least likely to be acceptable in the hog industry — is to ban the wholesale, herdwide use of antibiotics.
ref: 2007 September 18, “Antibiotic Runoff”, in New York Times:
glosses: Throughout a herd.
joropo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: joropos
Etymology: From Spanish joropo.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Romero went beyond established genres as he composed a fusion of styles like bossa nova and Venezuelan joropo, and recorded with the American jazz guitarist Charlie Byrd.
ref: 2007 September 18, The Associated Press, “Aldemaro Romero, Composer, Dies at 79”, in New York Times:
glosses: A musical style resembling the waltz, performed in Venezuela and Colombia.
glosses: A Venezuelan dance associated with this music.
joropos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of joropo
snippily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnɪpəli/
rhymes: -ɪpəli
Forms: form: more snippily
form: most snippily
Etymology: From snippy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In spring training of 1934, Bill Terry, the manager of the New York Giants, was asked about the rival Brooklyn Dodgers. “Are they still in the league?” Terry asked snippily.
ref: 2007 September 18, Murray Chass, “To Potential Victors, Here Come the Spoilers”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a snippy manner.
snippiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From snippy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Emma's snippiness did not endear her to her co-workers.
synonyms: snippetiness#Noun
glosses: The quality of being snippy.
transequatorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + equatorial.
Senses: examples: text: The birds were all down in the dumps poking and swishing for prey of their own — insects, worms, crustaceans, anything to help replenish their fat stores for the next leg of their long, possibly transequatorial flight.
ref: 2007 September 18, Natalie Angier, “Songs and Sojourns of the Season”, in New York Times:
glosses: Across the equator.
transequatorially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From transequatorial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Across the equator.
soutaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soutache
sousings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sousing
puttest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: put + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of put
glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of put
ministerest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: minister + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of minister
contemnest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: contemn + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of contemn
damnest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: damn + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of damn
confoundest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: confound + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of confound
broccolini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɒ.kəˈliːni/
ipa: /bɹɑ.kəˈliːni/
rhymes: -iːni
Forms: form: broccolini
form: broccolinis
Etymology: From a trademark, presumably intended as a diminutive of broccoli.
Senses: examples: text: 10 P.M. (Bravo) TOP CHEF C. J. is gone after he served what Tom Colicchio called the worst dish in the three seasons of the show, an admittedly gross-looking broccolini.
ref: 2007 September 19, Stephanie Russell, “What’s on Tonight”, in New York Times:
text: She did not look up but just kept pulling grocery items from her bag. Broccolinis and fresh eggs.
ref: 2009, Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 231:
text: Once the broccolini are cool, you have to get them very dry, so let them drain in a colander, spin them in a salad spinner, dab them with paper towels, or even drive around the block a few times holding them out the window…just get them superdry.
ref: 2013, Brian L. Patton, The Sexy Vegan’s Happy Hour at Home: Small Plates, Big Flavors, and Potent Cocktails, New World Library, →ISBN, page 111:
text: The tightly closed flowerheads of goldenrod are perfect for pinching off under the inflorescence and steaming or boiling like little broccolinis.
ref: 2016, Briana Wiles, Mountain States Foraging: 115 Wild and Flavorful Edibles from Alpine Sorrel to Wild Hops, Timber Press, →ISBN:
text: I love this dish because the creamy element of the cashew sauce goes so well with the crunchy broccolinis and the nutty and creamy flavor of the urad dal.
ref: 2019, Rakhee Yadav, Heavenly Vegan Dals & Curries: Exciting New Dishes From an Indian Girl’s Kitchen Abroad, Page Street Publishing, →ISBN:
text: To increase the umami taste, splash 1 Tbsp of soy or tamari sauce on the broccolini once they’re cooked, and swap the fine salt out for an umami-infused salt. […] The broccolini are spread out between two baking sheets to prevent overcrowding.
ref: 2020, Nik Sharma, The Flavor Equation: The Science of Great Cooking Explained + More than 100 Essential Recipes, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 214:
text: A farmer taught me that broccolini are sweeter during the cooler months, when they produce more sugar to protect themselves from frost.
ref: 2022, Odette Williams, Simple Pasta: Pasta Made Easy. Life Made Better., Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, page 210:
glosses: A green vegetable similar to broccoli but with smaller florets and long thin stalks; a cross between broccoli and kai-lan (Chinese broccoli).
Synonyms: sense: hybrid of broccoli
word: asparation
sense: hybrid of broccoli
word: baby broccoli
sense: hybrid of broccoli
word: broccolette
sense: hybrid of broccoli
word: broccoletti
sense: hybrid of broccoli
word: tenderstem
Derived terms: caulini
componentization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: componentizations
Etymology: From component + -ization or componentize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: “It is what we are calling the componentization of the Web. The Web is sort of breaking apart into smaller pieces.”
ref: 2007 September 19, Louise Story, “Google Program Enlists Mini-Sites as Selling Tool for Advertisers”, in New York Times:
glosses: The process of breaking into separate components.
preliberation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + liberation.
Senses: examples: text: The photos provide a stunning counterpoint to what up until now has been the only major source of preliberation Auschwitz photos, the so-called Auschwitz Album, a compilation of pictures taken by SS photographers in the spring of 1944 and discovered by a survivor in another camp.
ref: 2007 September 19, Neil A. Lewis, “In the Shadow of Horror, SS Guardians Frolic”, in New York Times:
glosses: Prior to liberation.
railside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rail + -side.
Senses: examples: text: The Auschwitz Album, owned by Yad Vashem, the Israeli Holocaust museum, depicts the railside selection process at Birkenau, the area where trains arrived at the camp, as SS men herded new prisoners into lines.
ref: 2007 September 19, Neil A. Lewis, “In the Shadow of Horror, SS Guardians Frolic”, in New York Times:
glosses: Beside a railway.
weatherwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weatherwomen
Etymology: From weather + woman.
Senses: examples: text: There’s Montana (Ayda Field), the sexy, slutty weatherwoman, and Marsh (Fred Willard ), the aging, politically incorrect sports commentator in loud plaid jackets.
ref: 2007 September 19, Alessandra Stanley, “Stay Tuned: Killer Bees, Hair Gel and Clashing Egos”, in New York Times:
glosses: A female weather broadcaster.
Synonyms: weathergirl
weatherwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weatherwoman
yellowwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellowwoods
Etymology: From yellow + wood.
Senses: glosses: Any of the tree genus Cladrastis.
glosses: Flindersia xanthoxyla, a tall rainforest tree of Australia.
glosses: The Osage orange tree.
glosses: Any of the conifer genus Podocarpus.
glosses: Sarcomelicope simplicifolia, a small rainforest tree of Australia.
glosses: Zanthoxylum brachyacanthum, thorny yellowwood, of Australia
Derived terms: Cape yellowwood
yellowwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yellowwood
minimuseum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minimuseums
Etymology: From mini- + museum.
Senses: examples: text: Nassau County Museum of Art “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” an indoor and outdoor fantasy land at the minimuseum.
ref: 2009 May 31, “Events on Long Island”, in New York Times:
glosses: A small museum.
minimuseums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minimuseum
mixblood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mixbloods
Etymology: From mix + blood.
Senses: examples: text: It was at this time that the once nearly pure blooded Qualla Cherokees were recognized as having a contingency of black and white mixbloods as well as Cherokee / Catawba mixbloods living among them.
ref: 1998, Laurence French, The Qualla Cherokee Surviving in Two Worlds, page 71:
antonyms: fullblood
glosses: A person of mixed racial heritage.
mixbloods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mixblood
mixability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mixabilities
Etymology: From mix + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being mixable.
panelized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It includes everything from modulars that arrive in just a few sections — complete with attached walls, flooring and even finishes — to what are called panelized homes, which are delivered in smaller pieces.
ref: 2007 September 21, Amy Gunderson, “Before Buying a Prefab”, in New York Times:
glosses: Split into a group of panels for convenient assembly.
panellized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of panelized.
safelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more safelike
form: most safelike
Etymology: From safe + -like.
Senses: examples: text: It is on loan for four months from its Swedish owners and on display in a specially designed safelike room in central Prague where visitors are limited to 10 at a time and permitted only a few minutes of viewing time.
ref: 2007 September 21, “Arts, Briefly”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a safe.
surimono
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surimonos
form: surimono
Etymology: Japanese 摺物, literally "printed thing".
Senses: examples: text: She has also been the curator of several museum exhibitions on Japanese art, including one in 1995 at the Phoenix Art Museum showing Frank Lloyd Wright ’s collection of surimono, privately published woodblock prints.
ref: 2007 September 21, Wendy Moonan, “Optimistic Dealer Decides to Gamble on Japanese Art”, in New York Times:
glosses: A kind of Japanese woodblock print, privately commissioned for special occasions such as the New Year.
surimonos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surimono
bleatings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bleating
polkalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polkalike
form: most polkalike
Etymology: From polka + -like.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of polka-like.
rewriteman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rewritemen
form: rewrite man
Etymology: From rewrite + -man.
Senses: examples: text: This was my abrupt introduction to the system by which most of the live news is handled for the New York evening newspapers [...] Its continued use has bred up two distinct and separate types of news-specialists—the leg man, who gets the story, but rarely writes it; and the rewrite man, who writes the story but rarely gets it.
ref: 1913, Irvin S[hrewsbury] Cobb, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 185, Philadelphia, Pa.; London: Curtis Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 23; republished in “The Third Stick”, in Stickfuls: (Myself—To Date) (The Works of Irvin S. Cobb), New York, N.Y.: The Review of Reviews Corporation publishers; published by arrangement with George H[enry] Doran Company, 1923, →OCLC, part 1 (Getting Set in New York: In Three Takes), page 136:
text: Many of the changes which have taken place in the newspaper field within the last fifty years have been in the direction of specialization. At the turn of the century, for example, a reporter got his stories, wrote them, and sometimes even made up his own headlines. Legmen and rewrite men were practically unknown.
ref: 1954, Edmond D[avid] Coblentz, “Introduction: The Drift toward Specialization”, in Edmond D. Coblentz, editor, Newsmen Speak: Journalists on Their Craft, Berkeley; Los Angeles, Calif.; London: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 125:
text: LEG MEN cover local events and phone the information to a rewrite man.
ref: 1973, “Newspaper and Wire Service Operations”, in Journalist 3 & 2: Naval Training Command Rate Training Manual (NAVTRA 10294-C), Washington, D.C.: Published by Naval Training Command; United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 153, column 2:
text: After working as a copy boy and then a reporter at The New York Journal-American, he joined The New York Herald Tribune as a night rewriteman.
ref: 2007 September 22, Robert D. Mcfadden, “James F. Clarity dies at 75; reported on crime, politics and war”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.:
text: [Allen] Raymond was the son of a Methodist lay preacher who traded his Ivy League, New England pedigree for a hardboiled journalistic persona cultivated over decades as a "legman," rewrite man, copyeditor, and reporter for a dozen urban newspapers, mostly in metropolitan New York.
ref: 2009, James T. Fisher, “Epilogue: Souls of the (Port) Apostolate”, in On the Irish Waterfront: The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York (Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-century America), Ithaca, N.Y.; London: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 299:
topics: journalism
media
glosses: A newspaper reporter who crafts stories from information reported by others, such as legmen.
rewritemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rewriteman
trollishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more trollishly
form: most trollishly
Etymology: From trollish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a trollish manner.
trollishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trollish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being trollish.
unsecret
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsecret
form: most unsecret
Etymology: From un- + secret.
Senses: examples: text: They call it B. B. King Blues Club & Grill, and on Thursday night this unsecret hideout was invaded by trolls.
ref: 2007 September 22, Kelefa Sanneh, “Finnish Folk-Metal, in Swedish, Plus Trolls”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not secret.
examples: text: who ſhall be true to vs / When we are ſo vnſecret to our ſelues?
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
glosses: Not close; not trusty.
unsecret
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unsecrets
form: unsecreting
form: unsecreted
form: unsecreted
Etymology: From un- + secret.
Senses: examples: text: But let Princes beware, that the vnſecreting of their Affaires, comes not from Themſelues.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Counsel”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland […], published 1632, →OCLC, page 118:
glosses: To disclose; to divulge.
bizspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From biz + -speak.
Senses: examples: text: Calls to nominate the worst mission statement appear periodically on the Web. And the “mission statement generator” at www.dilbert.com strings together clumps of bizspeak to create fictitious mission statements.
ref: 2007 September 23, Kelley Holland, “In Mission Statements, Bizspeak and Bromides”, in New York Times:
glosses: The jargon used in business.
counterculturally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more counterculturally
form: most counterculturally
Etymology: From countercultural + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a countercultural manner.
counterculturalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterculturalisms
Etymology: From countercultural + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: It was an outgrowth of Jobs's embrace of 60's counterculturalism -- he was a longtime, and rather irritating, vegetarian and lived in a commune.
ref: 2000 August 10, James Poniewozik, “Operating System”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The counterculture movement or lifestyle.
heartwrenching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heartwrenching
form: most heartwrenching
Etymology: From heart + wrenching.
Senses: examples: text: The interview with Sarah Mohess was both heartwrenching and inspiring.
ref: 2007 September 23, “In a Tough City, Almost an Adult; An Active Approach to Psychic Change (4 Letters)”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having a painful emotional impact; causing grief or distress.
Derived terms: heartwrenchingly
indiscussible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + discussible.
Senses: examples: text: It’s true, for instance, that the lobby has made America’s longstanding $3 billion annual aid program to Israel untouchable and indiscussible.
ref: 2007 September 23, Leslie H. Gelb, “Dual Loyalties”, in New York Times:
glosses: Impossible to discuss.
kaffiya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaffiyas
Senses: examples: text: Chelica, who for years fought depression, especially sought to befriend people with troubles of their own, among them a man whose attire has varied from women’s wear to a kaffiya and Roman sandals and who often carries a boom box while engaging in violent monologues that sometimes disintegrate into curses at pedestrians.
ref: 2007 September 23, Luke Jerod Kummer, “The Bench of Broken Dreams”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of keffiyeh.
kaffiyas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kaffiya
literalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: literalizations
Etymology: From literal + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: One suspects, however, that it was accidental here, or unconscious, just as it’s likely that Hinton’s echo of the testimonial frame Salinger used in “The Catcher in the Rye” (“If you really want to hear about it”) wasn’t consciously intended, nor was Hinton’s literalization of Holden’s “If a body catch a body coming through the rye” into the rescue of a group of children from a burning church.
ref: 2007 September 23, Dale Peck, “‘The Outsiders’: 40 Years Later”, in New York Times:
glosses: The act or process of literalizing.
literalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of literalization
minisuite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minisuites
Etymology: From mini- + suite.
Senses: examples: text: Jet Airways’ minisuites are especially swish.
ref: 2007 September 23, “The New New List”, in New York Times:
glosses: A small suite (set of connected rooms).
minisuites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minisuite
minisupercomputers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minisupercomputer
nanophysics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nano- + physics.
Senses: examples: text: The lab is the first nanotech center in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, according to Dr. Sowwan, a Palestinian who has a doctorate in solid-state nanophysics.
ref: 2007 September 23, Jason Pontin, “In Tiny Particles, a Big Link in Jerusalem”, in New York Times:
glosses: nanoscale physics
overstrenuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overstrenuous
form: most overstrenuous
Etymology: From over- + strenuous.
Senses: examples: text: Among the story’s other overstrenuous tips for masking the flavor of eggs were poached eggs topped with a hops-scented béchamel, President Taft’s campfire omelet (fried trout, salt and pepper) and the Colony Club’s “Eggs Suffragette,” a twist on deviled eggs that incorporated anchovies (the dish, however, didn’t hasten women’s suffrage).
ref: 2007 September 23, Amanda Hesser, “1909: Eggs Eli”, in New York Times:
glosses: Excessively strenuous.
Derived terms: overstrenuously
overstrenuousness
rollbar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rollbars
form: roll bar
form: roll-bar
Etymology: From roll + bar.
Senses: examples: text: For instance, the suspension structure consists of the total suspension force, the damper force, spring force, jounce bumper force, rollbar force and linear damping force for each corner of the vehicle.
ref: 1999, KM Connair, MO Bodie, P Chaumette, A Catalan, Development of a common vehicle model for chassis control design, sae.org:
text: A car that feels limp and soggy usually has a suspension defect that requires attention. Most problems stem from issues associated with the numerous bushes fitted to suspension arms and rollbar assemblies.
ref: 2013, Robert Foskett, Alfa Romeo 916 GTV and Spider: The Complete Story:
text: Such a system also allows the additional incorporation of rollbars and a steering system to investigate the cross coupling of left and right suspension systems through rollbar compliance
ref: 2014, Michael Blundell, Damian Harty, The Multibody Systems Approach to Vehicle Dynamics, page 216:
text: Thanks to the remarkably springy rollbar suspension system of the Citroen 2CV, when Flash did hit the ground, it merely bounced up again.
ref: 2016, Darren Bane, The Furgle and the Frimp:
glosses: Alternative form of roll bar (“an anti-roll bar”).
examples: text: The Sir Vival also had a raised driver’s cabin with seat belts, a padded interior and built-in rollbars.
ref: 2007 September 23, Jerry Garrett, “Making the World Safe for Velocity”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of roll bar (“U-shaped bar for vehicle safety”).
Related terms: rollcage
rollbars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rollbar
sarcophaguslike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sarcophaguslike
form: most sarcophaguslike
Etymology: From sarcophagus + -like.
Senses: examples: text: From the mail-order car hoods that he first started painting and hanging in the late 1980s to evoke Ad Reinhardt or Mark Rothko (“They were really minimal, and I don’t think anybody got them,” he said), Mr. Prince progressed to appropriating heftier chunks of automotive anatomy, making sarcophaguslike sculptures crowned with air scoops, usually left with the appearance of being only partly primed and spackled with body-shop Bondo compound.
ref: 2007 September 23, Randy Kennedy, “The Duchamp of the Muscle Car”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a sarcophagus.
shardlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shardlike
form: most shardlike
Etymology: From shard + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The design, by Lab Architecture Studio and Bates Smart, has shardlike clusters of buildings with fractal triangular designs on the facade in glass, zinc and sandstone.
ref: 2007 September 23, Carrie Hutchinson, “Design Within Reach”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a shard.
skateless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From skate + -less.
Senses: examples: text: On a Wednesday night after a typical performance, featuring a flying Pegasus and a romance with a hunky mortal, Ms. Butler stood skateless (and leg-warmer-less) in a black strapless cocktail dress and black sandals that added two inches to her slight 5-foot-2 frame.
ref: 2007 September 23, Winter Miller, “Last Actress Standing”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without skates.
torchings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torching
trafficky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trafficky
form: most trafficky
Etymology: From traffic + -y.
Senses: examples: text: In addition to the charming incongruity of lush grass and lounge chairs amid the trafficky chaos of New York’s streetscape, the event, which is sponsored by the Trust for Public Land, provoked animated discussions about land use.
ref: 2007 September 23, Elizabeth Giddens, “Parks on a Lark”, in New York Times:
text: The road home was trafficky with cars heading to and from Wequonnoc Moon. I drove past its purple and green glow. Took the left onto Ice House Road, and then the right onto Bride Lake.
ref: 2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.3, at p.79
glosses: Characterised by traffic; having the noise and commotion of motor vehicles.
folkiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From folky + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: “Wolves (Song of the Shepherd’s Dog)” trades folkiness for something like funk, hinting at War and Talking Heads.
ref: 2007 September 24, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times:
coordinate_terms: jazziness
rockiness
classicality
glosses: The quality of being folky.
raw_tags: of music
Related terms: folksiness
microstamping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + stamping.
Senses: examples: text: The measure would make California the first state to require that all new semiautomatic weapons be equipped with technology known as microstamping, which imprints microscopic markings as a gun fires.
ref: 2007 September 24, “An Opportunity for Mr. Schwarzenegger”, in New York Times:
glosses: The use of laser technology to engrave a microscopic marking onto the tip of the firing pin and onto the breech face of a firearm, so that spent cartridges give information about the firearm.
postveto
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + veto.
Senses: examples: text: But neither side has a postveto strategy.
ref: 2007 September 24, Robert Pear, “Familiar Disagreements as Fiscal Deadline Nears”, in New York Times:
glosses: After a political veto.
uncancelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: uncanceled
Senses: glosses: Not having been cancelled.
uncancelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncanceled
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncancel
uncanceled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: uncancelled
Senses: glosses: Not having been canceled.
uncanceled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncancelled
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncancel
unimplicated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + implicated.
Senses: examples: text: Detached from the more faintly registered backgrounds, unimplicated in the receding perspectives of Pabst’s compositions, these are simply actors standing in front of a set.
ref: 2007 September 25, Dave Kehr, “New DVDs”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not implicated.
antitesting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + testing.
Senses: examples: text: Fair Test, an antitesting group, made a similar comment.
ref: 2007 September 26, Sam Dillon, “Math Scores Rise, but Reading Is Mixed”, in New York Times:
glosses: Opposing testing (in any sense, but especially the testing of chemical products on animals).
nepitella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian nepitella.
Senses: examples: text: And though he has not started shaving white truffles over his food as yet because the season is just beginning, Mr. Trabocchi is indulging in more than a few high-end ingredients, including sea urchin, Kobe beef and nepitella, a wild Italian mintlike herb that he uses in savories and a dessert.
ref: 2007 September 26, Florence Fabricant, “A Chef to Watch Finds a New York Niche”, in New York Times:
glosses: A herb, Clinopodium nepeta, lesser calamint.
stonefruit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stonefruits
form: stonefruit
Senses: examples: text: Not far away is the Hood River Valley, with its myriad fruit growers who supply glistening, fragile berries and stonefruits of every stripe and color.
ref: 2007 September 26, Eric Asimov, “In Portland, a Golden Age of Dining and Drinking”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of stone fruit.
stonefruits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stonefruit
ukuleleist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ukuleleists
Senses: examples: text: (And also, depending on the song, a trumpeter or a ukuleleist.)
ref: 2007 September 26, Kelefa Sanneh, “Before Erasing Borders You First Traverse Them”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of ukulelist.
ukuleleists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ukuleleist
adventuresomely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more adventuresomely
form: most adventuresomely
Etymology: From adventuresome + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: We’re living a little more adventuresomely, and that’s how we hope to continue.”
ref: 2007 September 27, Roslyn Sulcas, “To Attract New Fans, a Program Uses New Dances”, in New York Times:
text: When we are confident of our ability to heal, we stride forward in our live adventuresomely, knowing that if we get burned or bruised along the way, we will heal from those injuries.
ref: 2013, E. A. Grace, The Root of Heaven and Earth, page 787:
glosses: In an adventuresome manner.
canoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːə(ɹ)
Forms: form: canoers
Etymology: From canoe + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Plain as it may be, the walkway does give kayakers and canoers, who have long clamored for access to the creek, a safe, legal launching area for the first time.
ref: 2007 September 27, Andy Newman, “Fouled Creek’s Improvement Inspires a Site for Respite”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who travels by canoe.
Synonyms: canoeist
canoers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canoer
countercase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countercases
Etymology: From counter- + case.
Senses: examples: text: The European Union and the United States filed countercases in September 2004 over aid to Airbus and Boeing, the only two makers of large commercial aircraft in a $150 billion market.
ref: 2007 September 27, Bloomberg News, “W.T.O. Hears European Complaint of U.S. Aid to Boeing”, in New York Times:
glosses: A legal case filed in response to another case.
countercases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countercase
hunkish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hunkish
form: most hunkish
Etymology: From hunk + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Then take the following ingredients for the latest youth-appeal recipe from “Revolution” at the Joyce Theater: a great deal of standard rock ’n’ roll (any kind will do); a fair helping of Irish step dancing (as in “Riverdance”); a sprinkling of American tap dancing; six hunkish, ready-for-action-looking guys of various degrees of dance skill and physical attractiveness (remember “Tap Dogs”?); and a seasoning of Jumpin’ Jack Flash concert behavior.
ref: 2007 September 27, Alastair Macaulay, “Striking the Pose: Rock Show as Movement”, in New York Times:
glosses: Exhibiting strong, masculine beauty.
Synonyms: hunky
sopranolike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sopranolike
form: most sopranolike
Etymology: From soprano + -like.
Senses: examples: text: And making her company debut with remarkable aplomb as Stéphano was Isabel Leonard, a young Juilliard graduate who sang with the assurance of one who feels completely at home on the stage, wielding an easy mezzo that went up from an amber-colored lower register to an impressive, sopranolike top.
ref: 2007 September 27, Anne Midgette, “The Lovers of Verona, Swaggering and Soaring”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a soprano.
unideologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unideological + -ly or un- + ideologically.
Senses: examples: text: We must analyze everything open-mindedly, soberly, unideologically and unobsessively, and project our knowledge into practical policies.
ref: 2007 September 27, Vaclav Havel, “Our Moral Footprint”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without regard to ideology.
unobsessively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unobsessively
form: most unobsessively
Etymology: From unobsessive + -ly or un- + obsessively.
Senses: examples: text: We must analyze everything open-mindedly, soberly, unideologically and unobsessively, and project our knowledge into practical policies.
ref: 2007 September 27, Vaclav Havel, “Our Moral Footprint”, in New York Times:
glosses: In an unobsessive manner; without obsession.
crumping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crump
crumped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crump
floodproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more floodproof
form: most floodproof
Etymology: From flood + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: He lists seven: people (this means internal morale and union rapport), institutional reform (Mr. Sander says the authority operates as seven separate fiefs and needs a common umbrella), customer service (more to the point, a lack thereof), projects and planning (the Second Avenue subway; links to Jets and Giants games; floodproof stations), security (he meets weekly with the Police Department), and last but not least, sustainability. Mr. Sander is a sustainability wonk, too.
ref: 2007 September 28, Robin Finn, “In Pursuit of a Better, if Costlier, Subway Ride”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resistant to flooding.
floodproof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: floodproofs
form: floodproofing
form: floodproofed
form: floodproofed
Etymology: From flood + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: The minor league ballpark has been floodproofed.
ref: 2008 June 25, “As the Levees Fail, Time for Tough Questions”, in New York Times:
glosses: To make resistant to flooding.
flooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floom
nongang
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + gang.
Senses: examples: text: Mark Fury, Mr. Negrete’s lawyer, said much of the problem of witness intimidation involves nongang members who are afraid to step forward because they fear the gang enforcers who remain on the street.
ref: 2007 September 28, David Kocieniewski, “Not Scared, or Scalded, Into Silence, Ex-Gang Leader Takes Stand in Trenton Murder”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to a gang.
tightenings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tightening
undermedicated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undermedicated
form: most undermedicated
Etymology: From under- + medicated.
Senses: examples: text: “I believe he has been undermedicated for the schizophrenia,” said Mr. Colleluori, who was joined at the news conference by Mr. Hiraman’s parents, Pat and Vejai Hiraman.
ref: 2007 September 28, Thomas J. Lueck, “Campus Suspect Showed No Warnings of Violence”, in New York Times:
glosses: Given insufficient medication.
weavings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weaving
antiracketeering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + racketeering.
Senses: examples: text: Judge Brown’s ruling dismisses claims brought under federal antiracketeering law.
ref: 2007 September 29, Bloomberg News, “Insurance Broker Wins Dismissal of a Customer Lawsuit”, in New York Times:
glosses: Countering racketeering.
disaffectedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disaffected + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The dancers Rebecca Jefferson, Gino Grenek, Matthew Prescott and Ms. Miller pushed and pulled against one another and the music, with strangely postured disaffectedness, positioning Seth Tillett’s sculptured cardboard chairs like chess players jockeying for position.
ref: 2007 September 29, Claudia La Rocco, “When Ballet and Music Are Awkward Partners”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being disaffected.
ghasard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Folk remedies for upset stomach, including azarcon and greta among Hispanics, ba-baw-san among Chinese or ghasard among Indians, may contain large amounts of lead.
ref: 2007 September 29, Donald G. Mcneil Jr., “In a Contaminated World, Play Isn’t the Only Hazard”, in New York Times:
glosses: A South Asian folk medicine, a brown powder given to relieve constipation in babies.
multisymptom
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + symptom.
Senses: examples: text: WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 — Safety experts for the Food and Drug Administration urged the agency on Friday to consider an outright ban on over-the-counter, multisymptom cough and cold medicines for children under 6.
ref: 2007 September 29, Gardiner Harris, “Ban Sought on Cold Medicine for Very Young”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having more than one symptom.
preforeclosures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preforeclosure
videojournalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: videojournalists
Senses: examples: text: Reuters reported that Japan would send an envoy to Myanmar to investigate the death of a videojournalist, Kenji Nagai.
ref: 2007 September 29, Seth Mydans, “The Monks Are Cut Off, and Burmese Clashes Ebb”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of video journalist.
videojournalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of video journalism.
videojournalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of videojournalist
anthropophagic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anthropophagic
form: most anthropophagic
Etymology: From anthropo- + -phagic.
Senses: examples: text: They embody the anthropophagic attitude of tropicalismo: constantly changing and taking from the cosmos, yet always remaining rooted in themselves.
ref: 2007 September 30, Devendra Banhart, “From Uruguay’s Dylan to R. Kelly’s ‘Sex Planet’”, in New York Times:
text: Consumed, with its narrative cat’s cradle tightly woven around putatively anthropophagic husband-and-wife French philosophers, wouldn’t be easy to pitch to Hollywood execs.
ref: 2015, Will Self, ‘Man-Eating Philosophers’, London Review of Books, volume 37, number 12:
glosses: Cannibalistic; man-eating.
beachward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From beach + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: There are also a few corrugating Roton Avenue, as it winds its way beachward.
ref: 2007 September 30, C. J. Hughes, “Where Water Turned Land Into Gold”, in New York Times:
glosses: Towards a beach.
beachwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From beach + -wards.
Senses: glosses: Towards a beach.
hypersegregation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + segregation.
Senses: examples: text: The circumstances that far too many African-Americans face — the lack of paternal support and discipline; the requirement that single mothers work regardless of the effect on their children’s care; the hypocritical refusal of conservative politicians to put their money where their mouths are on family values; the recourse by male youths to gangs as parental substitutes; the ghetto-fabulous culture of the streets; the lack of skills among black men for the jobs and pay they want; the hypersegregation of blacks into impoverished inner-city neighborhoods — all interact perversely with the prison system that simply makes hardened criminals of nonviolent drug offenders and spits out angry men who are unemployable, unreformable and unmarriageable, closing the vicious circle.
ref: 2007 September 30, Orlando Patterson, “Jena, O. J. and the Jailing of Black America”, in New York Times:
glosses: A form of racial segregation that consists of the geographical grouping of racial groups.
Related terms: hypersegregated