cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
interconfessional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + confessional.
Senses: examples: text: The goal of this interconfessional endeavour is to bring harmony and understanding between these disparate churches.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Taking place between religious organisations that have different systems of formulated theology (confessions of faith)
abbeylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more abbeylike
form: most abbeylike
Etymology: From abbey + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Fort Tryon Park, just north of the George Washington Bridge, is the site of the Cloisters, an imposing abbeylike structure housing the Metropolitan Museum's medieval collections.
ref: 1981, William Scheller, Train trips: exploring America by rail, page 67:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an abbey.
multischema
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + schema.
Senses: examples: text: Use caution when granting public synonyms, especially in a multischema environment.
ref: 2009, Ryan K. Stephens, Ronald R. Plew, Arie Jones, Sams Teach Yourself SQL in One Hour a Day, page 567:
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one (database) schema.
multirow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + row.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one row.
multicolumnar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + columnar.
Senses: examples: a multicolumnar report
a multicolumnar notochord
glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one column.
multischeme
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + scheme.
Senses: examples: a multischeme health insurance system
glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one scheme.
prefixhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From prefix + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, in OT, the prefixhood of in- is achieved through a constraint on output well-formedness, rather than being specified lexically.
ref: 2007, Paul V. De Lacy, The Cambridge handbook of phonology, page 459:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The state, condition, or qualification of being a prefix.
suffixhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From suffix + -hood.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The state, condition, or qualification of being a suffix.
Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named for neurologists William G. Lennox (Boston, USA) and Henri Gastaut (Marseille, France).
Senses: glosses: A difficult-to-treat form of childhood-onset epilepsy, characterized by frequent seizures of different types and often accompanied by mental retardation and psychological and behavioural problems.
Synonyms: LGS
Lennox syndrome
networkability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From network + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being networkable; suitability for, or capability of, networking.
forgrow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forgrows
form: forgrowing
form: forgrew
form: forgrown
Etymology: From Middle English forgrowen, from Old English forgrōwan (“to grow up, grow into, increase, overgrow”), equivalent to for- + grow.
Senses: examples: text: A terror to the new made folke, which neuer erst had knowne
So foule a Dragon in their life, so monstrously foregrowne,
So great a ground thy poyson paunch did vnderneath thée hide.
ref: 1567, Arthur Golding, transl., The XV Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, entytuled Metamorphosis, Book 1:
glosses: To grow to excess or out of shape; grow unduly.
examples: text: And after the floode was passed & Noy and his housholde come out of the arke, the worlde beyng deuided among his thre sonnes, Sem, Cham, and Iaphethe, and that the people began eftsones to multiplye and increase, the worlde was so forgrowen in wickednes, that there was none found, that truely worshipped god […]
ref: 1561, John Gough, “To the Christian Reader”, in A Godly Boke Wherein is Contayned Certayne Fruitefull, Godlye, and Necessarye Rules, London: William Seres:
text: Plutarch saith that mens minds do rust and forgrow through idlenes […]
ref: 1595, Jacques Hurault, translated by Arthur Golding, Politicke, Moral and Martial Discourses, London: Adam Islip, Book 2, Chapter 9, p. 298:
glosses: To become grown over; overgrow; become covered with growth (usually one that is excessive or unsightly).
zeroable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zero + -able.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Capable of being zeroed.
forhale
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forhales
form: forhaling
form: forhaled
form: forhaled
Etymology: From earlier forhail, equivalent to for- + hale. Compare Norwegian and Danish forhale (“to delay”), Swedish förhala (“to protract, prolong, retard”).
Senses: glosses: To overhaul; overtake.
forhele
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forheles
form: forheling
form: forhole
form: forholen
Etymology: From Middle English forhelen, from Old English forhelan (“to cover up, conceal”), from Proto-Germanic *frahelaną (“to conceal, hide”), equivalent to for- + hele. Cognate with Dutch verhelen (“to conceal”), German verhehlen (“to hide, conceal”).
Senses: glosses: To conceal; hide.
seaspace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sea + space.
Senses: glosses: A designated portion of the sea for naval use.
Related terms: airspace
seasprays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seaspray
Pantagruelism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pantagruelism
Etymology: Eponym from French character in the novel Gargantua and Pantagruel, + -ism.
Senses: glosses: burlesque comedy that has an underlying serious purpose; a form of satire
wikipedia: Gargantua and Pantagruel
preroll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prerolls
form: pre-roll
Etymology: From pre- + roll.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A period of time during which the camera rolls but before the action begins.
examples: text: Are ads that play before video clips, known as prerolls, more effective when paired with banner ads?
ref: 2009 July 27, Brooks Barnes, “Lab Watches Web Surfers to See Which Ads Work”, in New York Times:
topics: advertising
business
marketing
synonyms: intromercial
glosses: An advertisement that plays before the main content.
examples: text: I bought prerolls for almost a decade until I got good at rolling my own joints.
text: Offer a Buy-One-Get-One, a Build-Your-Own-Preroll-Pack, assemble grab bags full of goodies (such as a preroll, a gram, an edible, and some stickers) available for a set price
ref: 2016 April 11, Rebecca Kelley, “6 Marketing Tips to Help Your Dispensary Succeed on 4/20”, in Leafly, archived from the original on 31 Oct 2018:
text: Cannabis is sold in several manifestations, including loose varieties, vapes, preroll, oils, capsules, tinctures, cosmetics and other derma products, snacks, and beverages.
ref: 2018, Bob Sehlinger, Unofficial Guide to Las Vegas 2019, Unofficial Guides, →ISBN, Recreational and medical marijuana:
text: There are many methods that you can use to smoke CBD-rich flower including rolling a joint or blunt, lighting up a preroll, using a glass piece (such as a pipe, bubbler, or bong), or by using a dry flower vaporizer.
ref: 2020, Jamie Evans, The Ultimate Guide to CBD: Explore The World of Cannabidiol, Fair Winds Press, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: A joint which has been preprepared by a cannabis vendor or dispensary.
preroll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prerolls
form: prerolling
form: prerolled
form: prerolled
form: pre-roll
Etymology: From pre- + roll.
Senses: glosses: To roll something in advance.
glosses: To make or show a preroll.
palays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palay
palays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palayses
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of palace.
continental breakfasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of continental breakfast
continental divides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of continental divide
continental quilts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of continental quilt
continental slopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of continental slope
continental shifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of continental shift
calmatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calmative
baptisms by fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baptism by fire
winly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more winly
form: most winly
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English winly, wynnelych, wunliche, from Old English wynlīċ (“joyous”), from Proto-West Germanic *wunnjulīk (“joyous”), from *wunjō (“joy, delight, desire”), equivalent to winne + -ly. More at winne, winsome.
Senses: glosses: Joyous; winsome; pleasant; gracious; goodly.
winly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more winly
form: most winly
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English winly, wynnelych, wunliche, from Old English wynlīċ (“joyous”), from Proto-West Germanic *wunnjulīk (“joyous”), from *wunjō (“joy, delight, desire”), equivalent to winne + -ly. More at winne, winsome.
Senses: glosses: Delightfully; pleasantly.
glosses: Quietly.
Related terms: winne
winsome
deligent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deligent
form: most deligent
Senses: examples: text: The deligent use of all outward means[…]
ref: 1784, Thomas Vincent, An Explicatory Catechism: Or, an Explanation of the Assembly's Shorter Catechism Wherein All the Answers of the Assembly's Catechism are Taken Abroad in Under Questions and Answers; ..., page 201:
glosses: Archaic spelling of diligent.
deligate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deligates
form: deligating
form: deligated
form: deligated
Etymology: First attested in 1530; borrowed from Latin dēligātus, perfect passive participle of dēligō (“to bind up”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Every one is aware of the uncertainty as well as great danger of the different cutting and deligating operations for the removal of this distressing infirmity.
ref: 1851, The Medical examiner, and record of medical science: Volume 7, page 322:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: To bind up; to bandage.
Related terms: deligation
delectus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delectuses
Etymology: From Latin delectus (“selection”), from deligo (“to select”).
Senses: examples: text: If she spoke with any keenness of interest to Mr. Casaubon, he heard her with an air of patience as if she had given a quotation from the Delectus familiar to him from his tender years, and sometimes mentioned curtly what ancient sects or personages had held similar ideas, as if there were too much of that sort in stock already; at other times he would inform her that she was mistaken, and reassert what her remark had questioned.
ref: 1871-2, George Eliot, Middlemarch, volume I, book IV, chapter 37
text: I am convinced that for [t]his purpose the best way would be to disregard classical Latin entirely, to use neither Cornelius Nepos, nor Eutropius, nor Cæsar, nor any delectus from them, but to use the Latin Bible, the Vulgate.
ref: 1872, Matthew Arnold, “General Report for the Year 1872”, in Sir Francis Sanford, editor, Reports on Elementary Schools 1852-1882:
glosses: An elementary reader (collection of passages) for learners of a language
Lobamba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The traditional and legislative capital of Eswatini.
Coordinate terms: Mbabane
tommy-rot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tommyrot.
perpetia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: These different ways make two sorts of Action or Fable: The One Simple, the Other Complex. The Simple Actions are such as End without a Discovery and a Peripetia; The Complex have either a Discovery, or a Perpetia, or Both.
ref: 1695, W. J., transl., Monsieur Bossu's Treatise of the Epick Poem..., page 80:
text: The first symphonic essay by Beethoven in the minor mode allowed him to stretch the perpetia of the drama from darkness to light not just within a single movement, as in Symphony No. 4/1, but over a longer span, with only a few hints of light until the Finale blazes forth with C-major brilliance.
ref: 2001, A. Peter Brown, The Symphonic Repertoire, Volume II: The First Golden Age of the Viennese Symphony: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert, page 485:
glosses: Misspelling of peripetia.
castellers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of casteller
perquire
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more perquire
form: most perquire
Etymology: From Latin perquiro.
Senses: examples: text: I perceive you have gotten a paper from some of these rebellious ministers, and has gotten your answers perquire
ref: 1821, William Sutherland, The Genuine Declaration of William Sutherland, Hangman at Irvine:
glosses: Exactly.
glosses: Separate as to place.
perquire
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more perquire
form: most perquire
Etymology: From Latin perquiro.
Senses: glosses: Accurate.
Málaga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Spanish Málaga, q.v.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Malaga:
A port city, the capital of the province of Malaga, Andalusia, Spain.
glosses: Alternative spelling of Malaga:
A province of Andalusia, Spain, around the city.
Derived terms: Malagan
Malagan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Málagan
Etymology: From Málaga + -an.
Senses: examples: text: […] in his handling of this affair; a Malagan ambassador praised his foresight and wisdom, which resulted in peace and tranquility in Malaga.
ref: 1974, Andrew Handler, The Zīrids of Granada:
glosses: Of, from or relating to the city of Málaga, Andalusia, Spain.
Malagan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Malagans
form: Málagan
Etymology: From Málaga + -an.
Senses: examples: 1937, New York Time, February 14 1937, MALAGANS ACCLAIM AMERICAN 'SAVIORS'; Many Rightists Say They Owe Their Lives to the Edward Nortons of Memphis
Acclaimed by the Insurgent conquerors of Malaga as "saviors of hundreds of lives," Mr. and Mrs. Edward Norton of Memphis, Tenn., held open house today for grateful Malagans. The Nortons, who live in Villa los Pinos, overlooking the Mediterranean, admitted they had sheltered "lots of friends and friends of friends" during Leftist control of the city.
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Málaga, Andalusia, Spain.
Malagans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Malagan
Bilbaoan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Bilbao + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Arana, the son of a major Bilbaoan shipbuilder, set out to revitalize a flagging Basque consciousness. One of his major concerns was the restoration of the Basque language, Euskera, which had fallen to the status of a local patois
ref: 1984, Dorothy Legarreta, The Guernica generation: Basque refugee children of the Spanish Civil War:
text: Antonio's good grammar and mathematical skills landed him a job in the store of an old Bilbaoan friend of his uncle two blocks from the latter's residence.
ref: 1998, José C. Moya, Cousins and strangers: Spanish immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930
glosses: Of, from or relating to the city of Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain.
Bilbaoan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bilbaoans
Etymology: From Bilbao + -an.
Senses: examples: text: During the French occupation, Bilbaoans were likely to have been exposed to some French culture and influence.
ref: 1989, Barbara Rosen, Arriaga the Forgotten Genius: The Short Life of a Basque Composer:
text: Only about 10 percent of Bilbaoans speak Euskara, as compared with 35 to 40 percent of the inhabitants of Donostia. Such a contradiction is at the very core of both the difficulties and the dynamism of the Basque Country.
ref: 2007, William A. Douglass, Joseba Zulaika, Basque culture: anthropological perspectives:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain.
Bilbaoans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bilbaoan
Badajoz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌbɑːdəˈhoʊs/
Forms: form: Badajos
Etymology: From Spanish Badajoz, of uncertain origin but possibly from Arabic forms of Latin Pax Augusta.
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality, the capital of the province of Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain.
glosses: A province of Extremadura, Spain, around the city.
perseverer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perseverers
Etymology: From persevere + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who perseveres.
perseverator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perseverators
Etymology: From perseverate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who perseverates.
perstat
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: (The condition under discussion) persists.
glosses: Alternative spelling of the military acronym PERSTAT
Navarran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Navarran
form: most Navarran
Etymology: From Navarre + -an.
Senses: synonyms: Navarrese
glosses: Of, from or relating to Navarre, Spain.
Navarran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Navarrans
Etymology: From Navarre + -an.
Senses: synonyms: Navarrese
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Navarre, Spain.
Smithfield stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmɪθfiːld stoʊn/
ipa: /ˈsmɪθfiːld stəʊn/
Forms: form: Smithfield stones
form: Smithfield stone
Etymology: Smithfield (a London meat market) + stone. Calculated on the basis that for every 14lb (1 standard stone) of livestock purchased, 8lb (1 Smithfield stone) of saleable meat are produced.
Senses: glosses: A British unit of weight used in the meat trade, equal to eight pounds (avoirdupois).
scent out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scents out
form: scenting out
form: scented out
form: scented out
Senses: examples: text: To be plain, I much question whether the politician, who hath generally a good nose, hath not scented out somewhat of the utility of this practice.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter I, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book IV:
text: 'Be careful what you do,' rejoined another man's voice that I did not know, 'lest someone see you digging, and scent us out.'
ref: [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
glosses: To locate by following a scent.
Synonyms: sniff out
come over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes over
form: coming over
form: came over
form: come over
Senses: examples: text: I apologise for my behaviour last night. I don't know what came over me.
text: It was then that a great pity came over me for this thin shadow of man; thinking rather what a fine, tall gentleman Colonel Mohune had once been, and a good soldier no doubt besides, than that he had wasted a noble estate and played traitor to the king.
ref: [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
synonyms: overtake
glosses: To affect in a sudden, unprecedented or surprising manner; to overwhelm a person's ordinarily contrary impulse.
examples: text: That's why he's come over strange.
synonyms: come across
come off
glosses: To seem; to come to express a feeling or state.
examples: text: come over for coffee and cake
text: You'll soon come over to my way of thinking: welcome to the dark side.
text: He'll come over if we guarantee him a seat on the board.
text: "I think, Emmaline," he concluded, "I will ask Ántonia to come over and help you in the kitchen. She will be glad to earn something, and it will be a good time to end misunderstandings. I may as well ride over this morning and make arrangements. Do you want to go with me, Jim?" His tone told me that he had already decided for me.
ref: 1918, Willa Sibert Cather, My Ántonia:
synonyms: come by
;
drop by
stop by
come across
glosses: To change one's position or location, especially to someone else's home or to an opposing side in competition or conflict.
examples: text: Some fine day we may have the country raised, and the gendarmes down upon us from Strasburg, and all owing to your pretty doll, with her cunning ways of coming over you.
ref: 1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman:
glosses: To deceive or get the better of; overreach.
Derived terms: word: comeover
come to oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes to oneself
form: coming to oneself
form: came to oneself
form: come to oneself
Senses: examples: text: When I came to myself I was lying, not in the outer blackness of the Mohune vault, not on a floor of sand; but in a bed of sweet clean linen, and in a little whitewashed room, through the window of which the spring sunlight streamed.
ref: [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
text: The patient invariably falls down in a swoon and is carried like dead to his hammock, where he is tightly lashed with cords. As they come to themselves, they writhe in agony, so that their hammocks rock violently to and fro.
ref: 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 10, page 63:
glosses: To gain consciousness or self-control.
Derived terms: alt: via clipping
word: come to
on't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: “Speak no more on’t,” she said; “and now let us part, our conversation may attract more notice than is convenient for either of us.”
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter I, in The Abbot. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 29:
text: 'For', says she, 'he is run off I know not where, but as he makes his bed, must he lie on't; and if he run away for his pleasure, may stay away for mine.
ref: [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
glosses: Contraction of on it.
keep house
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps house
form: keeping house
form: kept house
form: kept house
Senses: examples: text: So I went to keep house with him at the Why Not? and my aunt sent down my bag of clothes, and would have made over to Elzevir the pittance that my father left for my keep, but he said it was not needful, and he would have none of it.
ref: [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
glosses: To take care of domestic chores; work as a housekeeper.
glosses: To seclude oneself in one's house in order to evade the demands of creditors.
Synonyms: knead
Related terms: housekeeper
housekeeping
phantasies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phantasy
phantasies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of phantasy
melt away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: melts away
form: melting away
form: melted away
form: melted away
Senses: examples: 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter VI
It came at last. The sky lightened, the mist melted away, and then a long, low, far-off streak of pale yellow light floated on the eastern horizon.
glosses: To fade or wane
broad awake
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter VII
The felon Rufus Dawes had stretched himself in his bunk and tried to sleep. But though he was tired and sore, and his head felt like lead, he could not but keep broad awake.
glosses: wide awake
in league
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter VII
Sarah Purfoy was in league with the convicts--was herself the wife or mistress of one of them. She had come on board armed with a plot for his release, and this plot was about to be put in execution.
text: I'm in league with Satan / I was raised in hell / I walk the streets of Salem / Amongst the living dead
ref: 1981, “In League with Satan”, in Welcome to Hell, performed by Venom:
glosses: collaborating (with)
beaverlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈbiːvɚˌlaɪk/
Forms: form: more beaverlike
form: most beaverlike
Etymology: From beaver + -like.
Senses: glosses: Having physical or temperamental characteristics like those of a beaver.
Red Square
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Russian Кра́сная пло́щадь (Krásnaja plóščadʹ), originally literally "beautiful square".
Senses: glosses: A large historical square in central Moscow.
mahusive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Picture this: we had a fat tourist: wandering along in a mahusive pair of budgie smugglers (Speedo's), and wearing this ridiculous flower hat; pawing over a local girl.
ref: 2007 February 26, John P. Wood, Woody’s World Turns Left … into South East Asia, Bloomington, Ind.; Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 247:
text: Rachel McAdams showed off a mahusive baby bump while out and about in Notting Hill, London late yesterday afternoon. Which could just about be the most exciting thing to ever happen, today.
ref: 2012 July 6 (updated 2012 September 25), Gilly Ferguson, “Is Rachel McAdams pregnant!? Let’s examine the evidence (the bump)”, in Daily Mirror, London: Reach plc, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2020:
text: Bass-thrum and glass-shard music swelled slowly in volume. Despite the sound's sweetness, its painful clarity, something in Ecko shivered – it jagged at his nerves like the old fingernails-down-a-blackboard trick. It was pure power, some ma-hu-sive engine that was just turning over, warming the fuck up.
ref: 2015 November, Danie Ware, “Muster”, in Ecko Endgame, London: Titan Books, Titan Publishing Group, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of mahoosive.
Hellenises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Hellenise
labour unions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of labour union
tail draggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tail dragger
draggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dragger
golden boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of golden boy
plutei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pluteus
porrectus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɔˈɹɛktəs/
ipa: /pəˈɹɛktəs/
Forms: form: porrecti
Etymology: From Latin porrectus, from porrigō (“I stretch”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A neume denoting a set of three tones which first fall from the original tone, then rise.
Related terms: torculus
porrecti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porrectus
Decan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Deccan.
supersecretive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsuːpərˈsiːkrɪtɪv/
Forms: form: more supersecretive
form: most supersecretive
Etymology: From super- + secretive.
Senses: examples: text: Ms. Black’s cause has been further hampered by the supersecretive way she was selected, which led to a vacuum in the days after the announcement that was easily filled by the mounting opposition.
ref: 2010 November 25, Elissa Gootman, “Frustrations With Mayor Are Backdrop to Nominee Uproar”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of super-secretive.
do off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does off
form: doing off
form: did off
form: done off
form: do of
form: doff
Senses: examples: text: Than seyde Sir Trystram, ‘I requyre you, do of your helmys, that I may se you.’
ref: 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book X:
text: So she laughed, and did off her other raiment, and slid swiftly into the water, that embraced her body in all its fresh kindness […]
ref: 1897, William Morris, The Water of the Wondrous Isles:
glosses: To take off (clothing).
glosses: To kill, to bump off
armoured combat vehicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of armoured combat vehicle
armoured personnel carriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of armoured personnel carrier
yard-sale
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: yard-sales
form: yard-saling
form: yard-saled
form: yard-saled
Etymology: From yard + sale.
Senses: glosses: To sell, or buy, things at a yard sale.
yard-sale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more yard-sale
form: most yard-sale
Etymology: From yard + sale.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
skiing
snowboarding
sports
glosses: Pertaining to a yardsale (bad crash).
yard-sale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yard-sales
Etymology: From yard + sale.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yard sale.
glosses: Alternative form of yardsale.
V-sync
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of vertical synchronization.
with knobs on
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: And although starting to talk about problem drug takers and demedicalization, when it came to talking about services, it fell back on the old medically dominated system, what Roger Lewis described as 'clinics with knobs on'.
ref: 1984, Anne Jamieson, Alan Glanz, Susanne MacGregor, Dealing with drug misuse: crisis intervention in the city:
glosses: Embellished.
examples: text: And the same to you with knobs on!
text: The door opened a foot. Parker squinted out, looking like death on a Popsicle stick. With knobs on.
ref: 2005, Brad Whittington, Living With Fred:
glosses: (manner) Extremely; in a similar way, but taken to an extreme.
Related terms: and then some
powder blues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of powder blue
win up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wins up
form: winning up
form: won up
form: won up
Senses: examples: text: And so they ran togydirs so myghtyly that ayther smote other downe, horse and all, to the erth; and than they wan up lyghtly, and drewe swerdys and dressed their shyldis […]
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book X:
glosses: To get back on one's feet.
have had it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has had it
form: having had it
form: had had it
form: had had it
Senses: examples: text: I've had it with your shenanigans!
glosses: To have endured all that one can.
examples: text: My old car has just about had it.
glosses: To be broken or worn out beyond repair.
examples: text: The dog got hit by a car, and I'm afraid he's had it.
text: When the brakes didn’t work, we thought we’d had it.
glosses: To be dead or close to death.
Derived terms: have had it up to here
Related terms: have it
have it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has it
form: having it
form: had it
form: had it
Senses: examples: text: Conventional wisdom has it that heat rises, but in fact heat diffuses: hot air rises.
text: He'll have it that I am maliciously misleading him.
text: Yet he was kidnapped and "taken for a ride" in the fashion which Al Capone did so much to popularize in Chicago; and one story has it that he was shot only because the rope with which he was to have been hanged did not arrive in time.
ref: 1936, The Elevator Constructor, volume 33, page 38:
synonyms: hold
glosses: To state or hold as true; to insist.
examples: text: Twenty quid, you say? Yes, we'll have it, thank you.
text: (Well, for only twenty quid, we're having it all day long, aren't we?)
glosses: To buy: to purchase.
examples: text: He tried to make excuses but she wouldn't have it / was not having it / was having none of it.
text: Like her growing mid section, the stone was bulging in the middle. She had seen it as she walked out of Ngozi's palace. Ngozi had grilled her about who the father of her baby was, since she was known to be unmarried. Uzo'ma had insisted on keeping the identity of the father secret and Ngozi was not having it.
ref: 2010, Nduka Onwuegbute, Masters of the Confluence, page 19:
synonyms: buy it
glosses: To accept (an excuse, a behavior, etc); to believe.
raw_tags: in the negative
examples: text: Near-synonym: get it
text: "Well, I expect you are going to let us have it," he laughed. "We are used to it Mr. Malone. We don't mind. But you will see the turn some day. These articles may rise up in judgement." "I will treat it fairly, I assure you." "Well, we ask no more."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: To be the object of ridicule, rebuke, critique, etc.
examples: text: I was nervous about her performing on stage, but after all these years, she still has it.
text: I was nervous about her performing on stage, but after all these years, she’s still got it. [alloform]
glosses: To possess some desirable quality or ability; to be all that.
Related terms: as fate would have it
as luck would have it
have had it
let's have it
has had it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of have had it
Related terms: have it
having had it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of have had it
Related terms: have it
had had it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of have had it
Related terms: have it
had it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Conventional wisdom once had it that bloodletting cures many diseases.
glosses: simple past and past participle of have it
had it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: I had it with your antics!
glosses: misconstruction of have had it
having it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of have it
having it
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Enjoying the moment.
raw_tags: in the negative
has it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of have it
gluepot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gluepots
form: glue-pot
Etymology: From glue + pot.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: pastepot
hypernyms: pot#Noun
coordinate_terms: inkpot
paintpot
tarpot
glosses: A pot for holding glue.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Synonym of sticky wicket.
synonyms: word: sticky wicket
examples: text: Frequent showers from the dark clouds that swept in and out over the Sydney Football Stadium turned the surface into something of a gluepot.
ref: 1996, The Bulletin:
text: "We want to bring back the glue-pot. We're going to bog up the wings, bog up the goal squares, have big pools of water on the 50-metre arcs, and the centre square is going to be one of those really squeaky, sticky glue-pots that is a little bit on the nose.
ref: 2005 June 25, Cameron Noakes, “New PM Julia 'Bulldog' Gillard vows to bring back the glue-pot”, in The Age:
text: Bradman countered a ‘gluepot’ pitch by opening with his tailenders and went to the wicket at 2.50pm the following day when Australia were 97 for 5.
ref: 2010, Bill Frindall, Australia v England 1936-37 (3rd Test): The Wisden Book of Test Cricket, 1877-1977, page 259:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A muddy playing field.
Related terms: glue gun
glue stick
glue-pot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glue-pots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gluepot.
Toms
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tom
Toms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tom
Toms
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic, derived from Tom.
Edgars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Edgar
praetoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of praetorium
Edmunds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the given name Edmund.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Derived terms: Edmunds County
Edmundston
Edmunds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the given name Edmund.
Senses: glosses: plural of Edmund
profluvia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of profluvium
Alberts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Alberts
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name derived from the given name Albert.
Alberts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Albert
glosses: plural of Alberts
Alberts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Albert
Andis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Andises
Etymology: Variant of German Anthes.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
propendent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more propendent
form: most propendent
Etymology: From Latin propendens.
Senses: examples: a. 1716, Robert South, a sermon of Ecclesiastes vii. 10.
In respect of the nature of the thing itself ; which we have seen is equally propendent to both parts , and not discernable which way the balance inclines
glosses: Inclining, hanging, or projecting forward or toward
Derived terms: propendency
woodpushers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woodpusher
raciology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raciologies
Etymology: From racio- + -logy, apparently as a calque of German Rassenkunde. Related to French raciologie. First attested in 1924.
Senses: glosses: The scientific study of human race.
glosses: The racial makeup of a person or place.
down to a T
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: coordinate_terms: down cold
down pat
down to a fine art
down to a science
glosses: Alternative form of to a T.
fiendly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fiendly
form: most fiendly
Etymology: From Middle English fendly, feendly (“hostile, devilish”), from Old English fēondliċ (“hostile”), corresponding to fiend + -ly. Cognate with Dutch vijandelijk (“hostile”), German feindlich (“hostile”), Danish fjendtlig (“hostile”), Swedish fiendtlig, fientlig (“hostile”).
Senses: glosses: Hostile.
glosses: Like a fiend; devilish.
Derived terms: fiendliness
duck out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ducks out
form: ducking out
form: ducked out
form: ducked out
Etymology: Possibly an allusion to the abrupt manner in which a swimming duck can dive and disappear beneath the surface of the water.
Senses: examples: text: Wile they was still talking along these lines, the orchestra begin to drool a Perfect Day, so I ducked out on the porch for air.
ref: 1921, Ring Lardner, Sr., chapter 4, in The Big Town:
text: Fearful of missing a roll-call, Representative Charles E. Bennett has ducked out of funerals, bolted from hospital beds and defied snowstorms to get to the House chamber.
ref: 1991 June 8, Richard Berke, “Sizzling 40-Year Streak Of Never Missing a Vote”, in New York Times, retrieved 26 Nov 2010:
text: Cathy Song needed to duck out from work at 3pm to ferry her child from pre-school to a neighbour's.
ref: 2002 August 29, Leonie Lamont, “Working mothers triumph in two rulings”, in Sydney Morning Herald, Australia, retrieved 26 Nov 2010:
glosses: To depart quickly or exit abruptly, especially in a manner which does not attract notice and before a meeting, event, etc. has concluded.
examples: text: The four-term Democrat, known to critics as "King Kevin" and "Mayor De Luxe," has been threatened with recall petitions and recently ducked out the back door of a restaurant to avoid picketers.
ref: 1981 June 15, “Copious Coping: How Other Mayors Fare”, in Time:
glosses: To depart quickly or exit abruptly by way of, especially in a manner which does not attract notice and before a meeting, event, etc. has concluded.
examples: text: In the one moment he saw his opponent ducking out of his field of vision and the background of white, watching faces; in the next moment he again saw his opponent and the background of faces.
ref: 1911, Jack London, “A Piece of Steak”, in When God Laughs and Other Stories:
text: Congress even now is considering enlarging that deficit by cutting those taxes. . . . It means ducking out of the basic Social Security problem.
ref: 1978, "Another free lunch" (editorial), St. Petersburg Times (USA), 20 March, p. 10A (retrieved 26 Nov 2010)
text: [A]ny project for renewal is subject to a wide variety of destabilizing forces, not least when elites seek to duck out from the commitments they themselves have made.
ref: 2002 April 1, Ian Taylor, “Obstacles to Change in Africa”, in Foreign Policy in Focus, retrieved 26 Nov 2010:
glosses: To move or act so as to achieve avoidance, escape, or evasion.
raw_tags: followed by of or from
glosses: To avoid a debt; to skip out on a bill.
Coordinate terms: take a French leave
praesidia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of praesidium
off vocal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: off vocals
Etymology: From Japanese オフボーカル (ofubōkaru), from English off + vocal.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The instrumentals.
undern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underne
form: undirn
Etymology: From Middle English undern, ondern, from Old English undern (“third hour of the day; nine o'clock; morning”), from Proto-Germanic *undurniz (“interval”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥ter, *h₁enter (“between”). Cognate with dialectal Dutch onder, dialectal German Untern, dialectal Swedish undarn.
Senses: examples: text: ...wete yow wel that sir launcelot was glad and soo was that lady Elayne
that she had geten sir launcelot in her armes...
and soo they lay to gyders vntyl vndorne on the morn
and alle the wyndowes and holes of that chamber were stopped that no manere of day myghte be sene
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “ij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XI:
glosses: Synonym of terce: the third hour of daylight (about 9 am).
synonyms: word: terce
extra: the third hour of daylight (about 9 am)
glosses: Synonym of noon: the sixth hour of daylight (12 pm).
synonyms: word: noon
extra: the sixth hour of daylight (12 pm)
glosses: Synonym of afternoon.
synonyms: word: afternoon
glosses: Synonym of evening.
synonyms: word: evening
glosses: A light meal, particularly in the afternoon.
Synonyms: sense: noon
word: meridian
word: sext
word: midday
sense: afternoon
word: arvo
word: afternoon
sense: evening
word: eventide
word: evening
sense: light meal
word: snack
Derived terms: andersmeat
half undern
high undern
undermeal
undern-bell
undern-song
underntide
undertide
whole undern
unshut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈʃʌt/
Forms: form: unshuts
form: unshutting
form: unshut
form: unshut
Etymology: From un- + shut.
Senses: examples: text: ANd anone as he had vnshet the wyndowe the enchaūtement was gone / thēne he knewe hym self that he had done amys / Allas he sayd that I haue lyued so long now I am shamed / Soo thenne he gat his swerd in his hand and said thow traitresse what arte thow that I haue layn by alle this nyghte / thow shalt dye ryghte here of my handes
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “iij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XI:
glosses: To open (a door, window etc.).
unshuts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unshut
unshutting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unshut
Sangrail
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sangraal
form: Sangreal
Etymology: From Middle English Seint Graal, from Old French saint graal, saint greal (“Holy Grail”).
Senses: examples: text: Ryght so there cam by the holy vessell, the Sankegreall, wyth all maner of swetnesse and savoure – but they cowde nat se redyly who bare the vessell.
ref: 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XI:
text: A sinful man, and unconfessed, / He took the Sangreal’s holy quest, […]
ref: 1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Introduction to Canto First: To William Stewart Rose, Esq.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC, page 17:
glosses: The Holy Grail.
Related terms: grail
saint
Basilika
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Basilika
Senses: glosses: A collection of laws completed c. 892 AD in Constantinople by order of the Byzantine emperor Leo VI the Wise during the Macedonian dynasty.
escript
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: escripts
Etymology: From Old French.
Senses: examples: text: the true copies of all other deeds, evidences, charters, writings, escripts, and muniments which do touch and concern the said premises before bargained and sold
ref: 1602, [unknown author], Conveyance of one hundred and seven acres from William and John Combe to Shakespeare, May 1, 1602.:
text: and also excepted out of this pardon all offences of bribery, perjury and the subornation of perjury or witnesses, and offences of forging or counterfeiting any deeds, debentures, bills of publick faith, escripts, wills or other writings whatsoever, or of any examinations or testimonies of any witness or witnesses, tending to bring any person or persons in danger of his life, liberty or estate, and the giving the same in evidence, and the counselling or procuring of any such counterfeiting or forging to be had or made
ref: 1660, An act of free and general pardon, indemnity and oblivion (English statue):
glosses: A writing.