cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Usakhelauri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Georgian უსახელაური (usaxelauri), from Georgian უსახელო, meaning "unnamed", "nameless", "unnameable". This refers to the exceptional quality of wine, which was said to be so exquisite that no name could do it justice.
Senses: glosses: a semisweet Georgian wine
glosses: a kind of grape used to make that wine
bethrong
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bethrongs
form: bethronging
form: bethronged
form: bethronged
Etymology: From be- + throng. Compare bethring.
Senses: examples: text: [...] And they crowded round the Supplanter As the eagles bethrong their prey, [...]
ref: 1909, Methodist Episcopal Church, The Western Christian advocate:
glosses: To throng about or among; surround.
glosses: To crowd around.
given that
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: synonyms: word: since
word: considering
word: seeing
word: being that
word: inasmuch as
word: as
word: as long as
word: because
word: being
word: being as
word: being that
word: due to the fact that
word: for
word: for that
word: forasmuch as
word: forthy
word: forwhy
word: given that
word: in regard
word: in that
word: inasmuch as
word: now that
word: on account of
word: seeing that
word: since
word: sith
word: sithence
word: when
word: ∵
glosses: In consideration of the fact that.
lot lizards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lot lizard
chazzan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chazzans
form: chazzanim
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hazzan.
go pill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: go pills
Etymology: Referring to its stimulant effects.
Senses: examples: text: In 2003, modafinil was approved by the United States Department of the Air Force as a ‘Go Pill’ for management of fatigue in certain aircrews.
ref: 2013, Barbara Sahakian, Jamie Nicole LaBuzetta, Bad Moves: How decision making goes wrong, and the ethics of smart drugs, OUP Oxford, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: no-go pill
glosses: Any drug used to promote wakefulness, such as amphetamine.
go pills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of go pill
computer scientist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: computer scientists
Senses: glosses: One who studies or practises computer science.
Hypernyms: scientist
keysender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keysenders
Etymology: From key + sender.
Senses: examples: text: Electronic keysenders feeding electronic exchange equipment and electromechanical keysenders feeding electromechanical exchange equipment are well known.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: A device that transmits information about which buttons are pressed.
Related terms: keysending
keysenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keysender
admortization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin admortizatio. Compare amortization.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: In feudal law, the reducing of lands or tenements to mortmain.
gennies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of genny
controvertist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkɒntɹəˈvɜː(ɹ)tɪst/
Forms: form: controvertists
Etymology: From controvert + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: […] here were no Gibers, Cenſurers, Backbiters, Pick-pockets, Highwaymen, Houſebreakers, Attorneys, Bawds, Buffoons, Gameſters, Politicians, Wits, ſplenetick tedious Talkers, Controvertiſts, Raviſhers, Murderers, Robbers, Virtuoſo's; […]
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author’s Oeconomy and Happy Life among the Houyhnhnms. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms), page 301:
text: How unfriendly is the controvertist to the discernment of the critic!
ref: 1789, George Campbell, The Four Gospels, Translated from the Greek:
glosses: One skilled in or given to controversy; a controversialist.
controvertists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of controvertist
checkroll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: checkrolls
Etymology: From check + roll.
Senses: glosses: A list of servants in a household, or slaves on a plantation.
glosses: a list of labourers
Synonyms: chequer roll
Related terms: payroll
checkrolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of checkroll
euphuize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: euphuizes
form: euphuizing
form: euphuized
form: euphuized
Senses: examples: text: It is this artificial character of the style, as much as anything, that has led the critics into a unanimity of scorn, and made them declare (to euphuize the burden of their observations) that they would sooner be content to forego the author's wisdom than constrained to undergo his wit […]
ref: 1894, Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, The English Novel: Being a Short Sketch from the Earliest Times to the Appearance of Waverly:
glosses: To write with euphuism.
Related terms: euphuism
euphuistic
euphuized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of euphuize
euphuizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of euphuize
euphuizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of euphuize
dentiphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dentiphones
Etymology: From Latin dens, dentis (“tooth”) + Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”).
Senses: glosses: An instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve; an audiphone.
dentiphones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dentiphone
embrute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: embrutes
form: embruting
form: embruted
form: embruted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of imbrute.
embruted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of embrute
embruted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more embruted
form: most embruted
Senses: examples: text: [W]oman […] is required to moralize, ſentimentalize herſelf to ſtone, and pine her life away, labouring to reform her embruted mate.
ref: 1798, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, “[Maria: or, The] Wrongs of Woman”, in W[illiam] Godwin, editor, Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. […], volume II, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […]; and G[eorge,] G[eorge] and J[ohn] Robinson, […], →OCLC, chapter X, pages 32–33:
glosses: Brought to the level of a brute; brutalized.
embrutes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of embrute
embruting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of embrute
betassel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: betassels
form: betasseling
form: betasselling
form: betasseled
form: betasseled
form: betasselled
form: betasselled
Etymology: From be- + tassel.
Senses: glosses: To hang round or decorate with, or as with, tassels.
bannerol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bannerols
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of banderole.
bannerols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bannerol
half-brained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From half + brained.
Senses: examples: text: The manager's half-brained plan led to disaster when carried out.
synonyms: word: brainless
word: half-witted
word: hare-brained
word: addlebrained
word: addlepated
word: airheaded
word: bee-brained
word: beef-witted
word: beefheaded
word: beetle-headed
word: birdbrained
word: blockheaded
word: Boeotian
word: boneheaded
word: boofheaded
word: brainless
word: bubbleheaded
word: buffle-headed
word: bullet-headed
word: cerebrally challenged
word: childish
word: chowderheaded
word: chuckleheaded
word: crackbrained
word: cretinous
word: dense
word: dented
word: dim-bulb
word: dim-headed
word: dim-witted
word: dim
word: doltish
word: dopey
word: dozy
word: drowsy
word: dull-headed
word: dull-minded
word: dull-witted
word: dull
word: dumber than a box of rocks
word: dumb
word: dunderheaded
word: empty-headed
word: fatheaded
word: feeble-minded
word: flea-brained
word: foolish
word: fuzzy-headed
word: fuzzy-minded
word: half-brained
word: half-witted
word: hammer-headed
word: idiotic
word: imbecilic
word: inane
word: insipid
word: intellectually challenged
word: knuckleheaded
word: lamebrained
word: lowbrow
word: lumpish
word: lunkheaded
word: mentally challenged
word: mentally retarded
word: mindless
word: monosynaptic
word: moronic
word: muttonheaded
word: nitwitted
word: numbskulled
word: oafish
word: obtuse
word: peabrained
word: pratty
word: pudding-headed
word: puerile
word: purblind
word: quarter-witted
word: retarded
word: rockheaded
word: sharp as a bowling ball
word: sheep-headed
word: simple
word: slow-witted
word: slow
word: smooth-brained
word: stolid
word: stupid
word: thick-skulled
word: thickheaded
word: thickwitted
word: thick
word: unapprehensive
word: unclever
word: unintelligent
word: unsmart
word: vacant
word: vacuous
word: witless
word: wooden-headed
word: wool-headed
word: woolly-headed
word: woolly-minded
word: dumb as a bag of hammers
word: dumb as a box of rocks
word: dumb as a doorknob
word: dumb as an ox
word: dumb as a post
word: dumb as a sack of hammers
word: dumb as dirt
word: dumber than a rock
word: not the sharpest crayon in the box
word: not the sharpest knife in the drawer
word: not the sharpest tool in the shed
word: thick as a brick
word: thick as a plank
word: thick as champ
word: thick as mince
word: thick as two short planks
word: thick as a whale omelette
word: ass-brained
word: fuckwitted
word: shit-for-brains
word: thick as pig shit
antonyms: word: brainy
word: brainless
word: dumb
word: foolish
word: idiotic
word: imbecile
word: insensible
word: lowbrow
word: mindless
word: stupid
word: unintelligent
word: witless
coordinate_terms: half-hearted
half-assed
glosses: Exhibiting low intelligence, as if having only half a brain.
Related terms: half a brain
half a head
betawder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: betawders
form: betawdering
form: betawdered
form: betawdered
Etymology: From be- + tawdr(y). Compare tawdry.
Senses: glosses: To bedizen with tawdry finery.
unrottable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrottable
form: most unrottable
Etymology: From un- + rottable.
Senses: glosses: Not rottable; incapable of rotting.
vaccinostyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaccinostyles
Senses: glosses: A pointed lancet used in vaccination.
Related terms: stylus
'ava
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kava.
tanoa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈnoʊ.ə/
Forms: form: tanoas
Etymology: Borrowed from Samoan tānoa or Fijian tanoa.
Senses: glosses: A bowl for serving kava.
purau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puraus
form: purao
form: purow
Etymology: From Tahitian pūrau.
Senses: examples: text: The trees that came within our knowledge were the manchineal and a species of purow […].
ref: 1790, William Bligh, A Narrative of the Mutiny:
text: In the whole length of the single shoreside street, with […] its grateful shade of palms and green jungle of puraos, no moving figure could be seen.
ref: 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, The Wrecker, Prologue 2:
glosses: A Polynesian shrub or small tree, Hibiscus tiliaceus, having yellow flowers and a fibrous bark.
dichastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek διχάζω (dikházō) compare δίχα (díkha, “apart, asunder”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Capable of subdividing spontaneously.
refringencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of refringency
refringency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refringencies
Senses: examples: text: The velocity with which a luminous ray passes through a given body depends exclusively on the refringency of this body and on the velocity of emission of the ray, on the velocity it had in vacuo
ref: 1843, Richard Taylor, Scientific Memoirs:
glosses: The power of a substance to refract a ray.
ensnarer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ensnarers
Etymology: From ensnare + -er.
Senses: examples: The Spectator
Here is a little country girl that is very cunning, that makes her use of being young and unbred, and outdoes the ensnarers, who are almost twice her age.
glosses: One who ensnares.
ensnarers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ensnarer
weedings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weeding
insnarer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insnarers
Etymology: From insnare + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who insnares.
insnarers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insnarer
sarculation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarculations
Etymology: From Latin sarculatio. See sarcle.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A raking away of weeds.
sarculations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarculation
gun carriages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gun carriage
extrordinary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of extraordinary.
leaves out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of leave out
leaving out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of leave out
prison guard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prison guards
form: prisonguard
Etymology: From prison + guard.
Senses: examples: text: And Tietelbaum has been bought and sold so many times by the dark Republican powers that be, look at the prisonguard beating trial and the Ventura County sewer fiasco.
ref: 1997, Gary Indiana, Resentment: A comedy, New York: Anchor Books, published 1998, →ISBN, →OL, page 170:
text: During his services as a praetorian, Caesium Verus was twice promoted, first to tubicen (trumpeter), then to optio carceris (camp prisonguard): ordinatus tubicem item optio at carcarem factus est.
ref: 1987, Arctos: Acta philologica fennica, volumes 21-23, page 29:
text: The Telfaire Prisonguard towers rise miragelike in the swampy sunlight like giant mushroom caps on grey concrete stalks.
ref: 2011, Marc Ian Barasc, The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, →ISBN:
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: An armed person working to provide order, security, discipline, punishment, and prevent escapes of prisoners in a jail that answers to a warden.
Synonyms: corrections officer
jailer
turnkey
warder
jailor
screw
cop
prison guards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prison guard
subseptuple
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + septuple.
Senses: examples: text: a subseptuple proportion betwixt the weight and power
ref: 1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick:
glosses: Having the ratio of one to seven.
thoroughstitch
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more thoroughstitch
form: most thoroughstitch
Senses: examples: text: Perseverance alone can carry us thorough-stitch.
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of thorough-stitch.
chaffless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chaff + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without chaff.
dissogony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: pedogenesis
o-face
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: o-faces
form: O-face
form: O face
form: o face
Etymology: Compound of O (“orgasm”) + face.
Senses: examples: text: […] right in the middle of it, he said that he loved me, and that I was perfect. And then, his O-face? Christ, man, his O-face was a horror show. Literally, the cry-baby face. I swear I could see tears each time.
ref: 2015, Kevin Maher, Last Night on Earth, Hachette, →ISBN:
glosses: The facial expression made during orgasm.
Related terms: o/O
orgasm
face
ahegao
witsec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WitSec
form: WITSEC
Etymology: Blend of witness + security.
Senses: glosses: The US Marshals witness security program.
glosses: Any witness protection program.
WitSec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of witsec.
WITSEC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of witsec.
witness protection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: criminology
human-sciences
law
sciences
glosses: A government program that provides new identities and protection for witnesses who come forward and testify in court against dangerous targets.
Related terms: witsec
P. I.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of PI.
P.I.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of PI.
nigger nose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nigger noses
Senses: examples: text: The Mister loved to be teased. He frequently asked for it by lying down and fanning the floor with his tail whilst eyeing you invitingly. We used to tease him about his black nose: called him "nigger nose".
ref: 1942, Henry Tetlow, We farm for a hobby and make it pay:
text: We get such nicknames as nigger nose, beetle face, big lips, and this tends in a certain way to help gain the closeness of one to the other, but it also acts as a disruptive force in the room
ref: 1965, Gertrude L. Downing with Queen's College (New York, N.Y.). College Committee, The preparations of teachers for schools in culturally deprived ...:
text: He was teased by his sisters and other children, who called him "nigger nose" and "toe nose."
ref: 1997, Jefferson A. Singer, Message in a bottle: stories of men and addiction:
text: "Nigger — nigger nose!" She laughs. "Fix it? Please?" I don't want to cry. "Sure, nigger nose!"
ref: 1998, Laurie Stone, Close to the Bone: Memoirs of Hurt, Rage, and Desire, page 16:
text: ... of nicknames entered my life just as he was leaving it. "Fish Face." "Scrambled-Egg Lips." "Dick Snout." "Dufus." "Nigger-nose." "Bottom Feeder." "Almost Monster."
ref: 2001, Allan Gurganus, The practical heart: four novellas:
text: ... because he always called me nigger, nigger lips or nigger nose
ref: 2008, Richard Baer, Switching Time: A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman ..., page 287:
text: She called me 'nigger nose' and 'nigger lips' and remarked on my buck teeth and lisp-y, effeminate voice.
ref: 2010, Gabriel Mendez, Ordinary Boy, page 150:
glosses: An insult, a term of contempt for a black person.
dickbait
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dick + -bait (manipulation to elicit a particular response).
Senses: examples: text: You pushed his career for dickbait your usual way.
ref: 2018, Dall Wilson, Once And This, page 40:
glosses: Persuasion or blackmail used to manipulate or attract a man, especially a homosexual.
nigger head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nigger heads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of niggerhead.
vagotonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vagotonia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to vagotonia
fruitloopery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fruitloop (“a crazy person”) + -ery.
Senses: glosses: The use of scientific language inappropriately and without comprehension in order to increase believability of a concept.
paragenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + genetic.
Senses: examples: text: In nature, Ni-Fe alloys are important phases in the paragenetic sequence of minerals that form during hydrothermal alteration of olivine-rich rocks (20 ).
ref: 1999 August 13, Juske Horita, Michael E. Berndt, “Abiogenic Methane Formation and Isotopic Fractionation Under Hydrothermal Conditions”, in Science, volume 285, number 5430, →DOI, pages 1055–1057:
glosses: related to paragenesis
Derived terms: paragenetically
paramedian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + median.
Senses: examples: a left paramedian incision; a paramedian lumbar puncture
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: to one side of the median position
varmeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: varmeters
Etymology: From var + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A reactive voltammeter measuring reactive power in vars
vedutista
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vedutistas
form: vedutisti
form: vedutist
form: vedutiste
Etymology: From Italian vedutista.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A landscape painter.
pedagogism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedagogisms
Senses: examples: text: [H]eal this tetter of pedagogism that bespreads him […]
ref: 1642 April, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC:
text: [W]hen his other more momentous Avocations of Pedantry and Pedagogiſm vvill give him an Interval from VVrath and Contention, he vvill ſet apart a Moment to conſider humane Nature Deviliz'd, and give us a Mathematical Anatomical Deſcription of it; […]
ref: 1726, [Daniel Defoe], “Of Satan’s Agents or Missionaries, and Their Actings upon and in the Minds of Men in His Name”, in The Political History of the Devil, as well Ancient as Modern: […], London: […] T. Warner, […], →OCLC, part II (Of the Modern History of the Devil), page 244:
glosses: The character, manner, occupation, or system of pedagogues.
pedagogisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedagogism
homoglyph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hŏʹmōglĭf
ipa: /ˈhɒməʊɡlɪf/
Forms: form: homoglyphs
Etymology: First attested in 1938; formed as homo- (“same”) + glyph after homograph.
Senses: examples: text: The homoglyphs I (uppercase i) and l (lowercase L) confused many who typed in the URL.
text: The E variant of the moon sign may perhaps be regarded as a homoglyph.
ref: 1938, Sylvanus Griswold Morley, The Inscriptions of Petén, volume IV, page 43:
text: The lower case “L”, Upper case “i”, and Numeral “One” are homoglyphs.
ref: 1990, NIAS Report, page 34:
text: All the other consonant phonemes are transcribed into the homoglyphs of their IPA representations.
ref: 2007, Shinji Ido, Bukharan Tajik, page page 4:
text: The pair shown is the letter f and the guilder currency sign [ƒ]. Homoglyphs can also occur within the same writing system.
ref: 2009, Theodore Rosendorf, The Typographic Desk Reference, page 50:
topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A character identical or nearly identical in appearance to another, but which differs in the meaning it represents; thus, in character encoding terms, a character with an identical or near-identical glyph, or the glyph itself.
Coordinate terms: word: allographs
raw_tags: forms for the same grapheme
Derived terms: homoglyphic
homoglyphically
homoglyphy
Related terms: homograph
homonym
OCR
optical character recognition
scanno
homoglyphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɒməʊɡlɪfs/
Senses: glosses: plural of homoglyph
power looms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of power loom
spike lavender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spike lavenders
Senses: glosses: A strongly aromatic species of lavender, Lavandula latifolia, native to the Mediterranean.
Synonyms: sense: Lavandula latifolia
word: Portuguese lavender
sea lavender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea lavenders
form: sea-lavender
Senses: synonyms: marsh rosemary
sea rosemary
glosses: A plant in the genus Limonium.
Derived terms: rock sea lavender
giraffid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giraffids
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Giraffidae.
Senses: glosses: An animal of the family Giraffidae (such as giraffes (Giraffa spp.) and okapis (Okapia johnstoni)).
giraffids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giraffid
dobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdoʊ.bi/
Forms: form: dobes
Senses: examples: text: Lots of cars got into trouble up there, said the man that soil was dobe, slick as glass; have to trench the road better.
ref: 1927, Upton Sinclair, Oil!, page 11:
text: His wife and baby were with him in the dobe house, a small one that his Indian stepfather had built.
ref: 1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC:
glosses: Clipping of adobe.
crokinole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹoʊ.kəˌnoʊl/
text: Audio (US)
Forms: form: crokinoles
Etymology: From French croquignole (“a flick”).
Senses: glosses: A game, popular in Canada, in which wooden discs are flicked towards the centre of a circular board.
glosses: Any of the discs used in this game.
Derived terms: crokicurl
arracacha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arracachas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish, from Quechua raqacha.
Senses: glosses: A South American plant grown as a root vegetable, Arracacia xanthorrhiza
creephole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creepholes
form: creep-hole
Etymology: From creep + hole.
Senses: examples: text: And soil'd his soft Down: Next him Creep-Hole spear'd
ref: 1814, Edward Hovell-Thurlow, Moonlight, a Poem: with Several Copies of Verses:
glosses: A hole or retreat into which an animal can creep, to escape from view or danger.
examples: text: When every creephole from the hideous Court
Is stopt
ref: 1730, by Robert Browning, King Victor and King Charles:
glosses: A subterfuge; an excuse.
creepholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creephole
shopmaid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shopmaids
Etymology: From shop + maid.
Senses: glosses: A young woman who works in a shop.
Synonyms: shopgirl
shopmaids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shopmaid
impolitical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more impolitical
form: most impolitical
Etymology: From im- + political.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of impolitic.
Derived terms: impoliticalness
blindage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blindages
Etymology: Borrowed from French blindage.
Senses: examples: text: A blindage may also be formed by covering the space between two traverses with beams, hurdles, earth, & c .
ref: 1852, Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Outlines of a Course of Lectures on Fortification, Military Tactics, and Perspective:
text: In order that the reader may appreciate what a ruined blindage looked like and with what horrors its destruction was attended, the following report of Sapper Peter Oleinik, of the Kwantung Sapper Company, is published in full:
ref: 1911, F. E. G. Skey, “The Final Struggle for 203-Meter Hill at Port Arthur”, in The Military Engineer, volume 3, page 107:
text: Blindage covering the tops of saps could simply consist of sandbags, or a layer of fascines laid over the crest of the parapet.
ref: 2013, Ron Field, American Civil War Fortifications:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A cover or protection for an advanced trench or approach, formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework.
examples: text: There literally was left no space to step foot in the whole blindage: it was so choked with soldiers up to the very entrance.
ref: 1855, Leo Tolstoy, Sevastopol Sketches:
text: The key unit of life here is the dugout – what the soldiers call a ‘blindage’ – an underground burrow where half a dozen men share the narrow space between the bunks with weapons, ammunition, biscuits, tea bags, and a jumble of other essentials (there is also usually a cat, not to mention the mice).
ref: 2017 January 14, Roland Oliphant, “Special report: Loose cannons at the frontline of Ukraine's forgotten war”, in The Telegraph:
text: . At first, I thought of staying in a blindage.
ref: 2020, Yevgeniya Podobna, Girls cutting their locks:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A deep dugout, often equipped with bunks and other fittings.
examples: text: Surveyors differ in opinion, some use 10 per cent. of the screenings from the machine as blindage; the writer has tried these, but prefers the road scrapings.
ref: 1907, Robert Phillips, “Discussion on Construction and Maintenance of Rural Roads”, in Report of the 3d-4th Congress of the Sanitary Institute, page 661:
text: Blindage is required to finish off the surface of the metal coating by filling up any interstices which may remain after it is consolidated.
ref: 1920, William Lumisden Strange, Notes on Irrigation, Roads and Buildings and on the Water Supply of Towns, page 731:
text: When prime coat is not entirely absorbed within reasonable length of time, usually 24 hr. it is customary to apply a very light sand blindage to blot up the excess primer.
ref: 2014, S.K. Sharma, Principles, Practice and Design of Highway Engineering:
glosses: A final layer of material such as sand or road scrapings that is spread to fill in any small gaps in the road surface and soak up any wet spots.
blindages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blindage
towardness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: towardnesses
Etymology: From toward + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being toward.
towardnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of towardness
Paraguay tea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: maté
wouled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of woul
wouling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of woul
wouls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of woul
stroud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strouds
Senses: glosses: A kind of coarse wool used in blankets or for garment by Native Americans.
Related terms: strouding
strouds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stroud
inclinatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inclinatory
form: most inclinatory
Senses: examples: text: inclinatory needle
text: inclinatory power
glosses: Having the quality of leaning or inclining.
Related terms: inclinatorily
detruncate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: detruncates
form: detruncating
form: detruncated
form: detruncated
Etymology: First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin dētruncātus, perfect passive participle of dētruncō (“to cut off”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from dē- + truncō (“to maim, shorten, cut off”).
Senses: glosses: To truncate (shorten by cutting, or lop off)
Related terms: detruncation
truncate
trunk
detruncated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of detruncate
detruncates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of detruncate
detruncating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of detruncate
inthrallment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inthrallments
form: inthralment
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of enthrallment.
inthrallments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inthrallment
homotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɒmətaɪp/
/ˈhəʊmətaɪp/
Forms: form: homotypes
Etymology: From homo- + -type.
Senses: examples: text: The right arm is the homotype of the right leg.
text: One arm is the homotype of the other.
text: humerus is the homotype of femur
ref: 1848, Richard Owen, On the Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: That which has the same fundamental type of structure as something else.
Derived terms: homotypal
Related terms: heterotypic
homotypic
counterpart
homograph
homologue
homotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homotype
sensiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: Latin sensifer; sensus (“sense”) + ferre (“to bear”).
Senses: examples: text: Whatever be the apparent diversities among the sensiferous apparatuses , however , they share certain common characters . Each consists of a receptive , a transmissive , and a sensificatory portion
ref: 1894, Thomas Henry Huxley, Hume, with Helps to the Study of Berkeley:
glosses: Exciting or conveying sensation.
lockability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lock + -ability.
Senses: antonyms: unlockability
glosses: The state or quality of being lockable.
savingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From saving + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Her love of a good dinner herself, and her still keener love of the approbation she won by setting it before others, kept up perpetual warfare with her savingness […]
ref: 1885, Helen Hunt Jackson, Zeph: A Posthumous Story:
glosses: The quality of being careful not to waste money; frugality; parsimony.
glosses: Tendency to promote religious salvation.
perceivance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From perceive + -ance?
Senses: examples: text: His particular End in every Man is, by the infliction of pain, damage, and diſgrace, that the Senſes and common perceivance might carry this Meſſage to the Soul within, that it is neither eaſeful, profitable, nor praiſ-worthy in this Life to do evil.
ref: 1642, John Milton, The Reason of Church-Government Urg’d against Prelaty; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 229:
glosses: perception.
disfeature
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disfeatures
form: disfeaturing
form: disfeatured
form: disfeatured
Etymology: From dis- + feature. Compare defeature.
Senses: glosses: To deprive of features; to mar the features of.
disfeatured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disfeature
disfeatures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disfeature
disfeaturing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disfeature
ingustable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ingustable
form: most ingustable
Etymology: From Latin ingustabilis. See gustable.
Senses: glosses: tasteless; insipid
petaliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more petaliform
form: most petaliform
Etymology: From petal + -iform.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the form of a petal.
Synonyms: petaloid
antroverted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antroverted
form: most antroverted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anteroverted.
chymified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chymify
chymifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chymify
chymify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chymifies
form: chymifying
form: chymified
form: chymified
Etymology: From chyme + -ify: compare French chymifier.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: To form into chyme.
chymifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chymify
spherulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spherulate
form: most spherulate
Etymology: From spherule + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Covered, set, or adorned with spherules.
irreptitious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irreptitious
form: most irreptitious
Etymology: From Latin irrēpō (“I creep into”); ir- (“in”) + rēpō (“I creep”).
Senses: examples: text: equal generation in each irreptitious approximation
ref: 1872, Augustus De Morgan, Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan, A Budget of Paradoxes:
glosses: surreptitious; spurious
Derived terms: irreptitiously
Related terms: irreption
locust tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: locust trees
Etymology: Named after the "locusts" said to have been eaten by John the Baptist, based on the theory that they were really carob pods.
Senses: glosses: A carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua).
glosses: Any of a number of similar looking trees in the genera Gleditsia and Robinia.
A honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos), a leguminous tree with pods having a sweet, edible pulp.
glosses: Any of a number of similar looking trees in the genera Gleditsia and Robinia.
A black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia), a leguminous tree with toxic pods, but useful for making honey.
glosses: An African locust bean tree (Parkia biglobosa).
Related terms: tree locust
locust trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of locust tree
deciduity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛsɪˈdʒuːɪti/
Senses: synonyms: deciduousness
glosses: The quality of being deciduous.
redisseize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: redisseizes
form: redisseizing
form: redisseized
form: redisseized
form: redisseise
Etymology: From re- + disseize.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: To disseize back, or a second time.
redisseized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of redisseize
redisseizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of redisseize
redisseizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redisseize
redisposes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of redispose
redisposed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of redispose
redisposing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redispose
sex ratio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sex ratios
Senses: topics: biology
human-sciences
natural-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The ratio of males to females in any given population.
parseltongue
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Coined as Parseltongue by J. K. Rowling in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998). J. K. Rowling stated that she based the term on an "old word for someone who has a problem with the mouth, like a hare lip".
Senses: examples: text: Now I can't get this out of my head - them hissing and whispering at one another like they're speaking in parseltongue.
ref: 2005 December 1, Aisling Willow Grey, “Re: AMC -- Kendall (and Ryan too)”, in rec.arts.tv.soaps.abc (Usenet), message-ID <0001HW.BFB4D67000210837F0284550@news.verizon.net>:
text: Slither around Santa Fe's Rattlesnake Museum while practicing your parseltongue.
ref: 2007 April 3, Let's Go Inc., Let's Go Roadtripping USA: The Complete Coast-to-Coast Guide to America, 2nd edition, Macmillan, page 496:
text: “Parseltongue, that's what I need,” I murmured out loud as I brushed my teeth. A language for communicating with snakes.
ref: 2009 September 22, Sara Paretsky, Hardball: A V.I. Warshawski Novel, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, →OL:
glosses: A fictional language of snakes in the Harry Potter universe.
wikipedia: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
J. K. Rowling
Saint John's bread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: St John's bread
Senses: glosses: Carob.
glosses: Ergot of rye.
St John's bread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Saint John's bread.
prisonguard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prisonguards
Etymology: From prison + guard.
Senses: examples: text: During his services as a praetorian, Caesium Verus was twice promoted, first to tubicen (trumpeter), then to optio carceris (camp prisonguard): ordinatus tubicem item optio at carcarem factus est.
ref: 1987, Arctos, Volumnes 21-23, page 29
text: And Tietelbaum has been bought and sold so many times by the dark Republican powers that be, look at the prisonguard beating trial and the Ventura County sewer fiasco.
ref: 1997, Gary Indiana, Resentment: a comedy, page 170:
text: The Telfaire prisonguard towers rise miragelike in the swampy sunlight like giant mushroom caps on grey concrete stalks.
ref: 2009, Marc Ian Barasc, The Compassionate Life, link:
glosses: Alternative form of prison guard.
prisonguards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prisonguard
blackwater fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A complication of malaria in which red blood cells burst in the bloodstream, consequently coloring the urine dark red or black.
divvy vans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of divvy van
taste bud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taste buds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tastebud.
taste buds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taste bud
carbohydrase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbohydrases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of polysaccharides into simple sugars
preantepenult
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹiː.antɪpɪˈnʌlt/
ipa: /ˌpɹiː.antɪpɛˈnʌlt/
ipa: /ˌpɹi.antiˈpiˌnʌlt/
ipa: /ˌpɹi.antɪˈpiˌnʌlt/
ipa: /ˌpɹi.antɪpɛˈnʌlt/
rhymes: -ʌlt
rhymes: -iːnʌlt
Forms: form: preantepenults
Etymology: From pre- + antepenult.
Senses: glosses: The last syllable but three (of a word or other utterance); the fourth-to-last syllable.
Coordinate terms: sense: names of syllables
word: ultima
sense: names of syllables
english: last
translation: last
word: ult
sense: names of syllables
word: penultima
sense: names of syllables
word: penultimate
sense: names of syllables
english: last but one
translation: last but one
word: penult
sense: names of syllables
word: antepenultima
sense: names of syllables
word: antepenultime
sense: names of syllables
word: antepenultimate
sense: names of syllables
english: last but two
translation: last but two
word: antepenult
sense: names of syllables
alt: præantepenultima
word: preantepenultima
sense: names of syllables
word: preantepenultimate
sense: names of syllables
word: propreantepenultimate
sense: names of syllables
english: last but four
translation: last but four
word: propreantepenult
verdello
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verdelli
form: verdellos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian verdello.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: a light green variety of summer lemon made from Sicily, similar to a lime
mouldboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mouldboards
form: moldboard
Etymology: From mould + board.
Senses: glosses: A curved blade on a plough that serves to turn over the furrow.
qualifier: founding
glosses: A follow board.
Derived terms: mouldboard plough
verticalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verticalisms
Etymology: From vertical + -ism.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: The building of tall, vertical buildings, especially exceptionally tall skyscrapers
vedutisti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vedutista
vedutiste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vedutistes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vedutista (“landscape painter”).
verdelli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verdello
moonrunes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From moon + runes. Apparently coined based from moonspeak, an anime reference (of which see there), ultimately associating East Asian languages with celestial levels of foreignness.
Senses: examples: text: Can anyone here read moonrunes?
text: I'm still learning moonrunes.
text: This imported box of Pocky is covered in moonrunes; I can barely read it.
glosses: An incomprehensible writing script, or the language associated with it, usually referring to Japanese, but may also refer to Chinese, Korean and other East Asian writing scripts.
Related terms: moonspeak
moon language
moon rune
moonrune
coitarche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkəʊɪˈtɑː(ɹ)ki/
Etymology: From Latin coitus (“sexual intercourse”) + -arche.
Senses: examples: text: When taking note of the patient's sexual history, the age of first intercourse (coitarche) and the number of sexual partners must be established.
ref: 2008, T.F. Kruger, M.H. Botha, Clinical Gynaecology (Gynecology), Juta and Company Ltd., →ISBN, page 15:
glosses: The first sexual intercourse.
Derived terms: coitarchal
Related terms: menarche
semenarche
lardarse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lardarses
Etymology: From lard + arse.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lardass.
lardarses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lardarse
nongeothermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + geothermal.
Senses: glosses: Not geothermal.
lerret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lerrets
Senses: examples: text: But just within the summit of the bank, whither it had apparently been hauled to be out of the way of the waves, was one of the local boats called lerrets, bottom upwards.
ref: 1892, Thomas Hardy, The Well-Beloved (part 1, chapter IV)
glosses: A traditional fishing boat of southwest England.
lerrets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lerret
Negrense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /n̪ɛɡˈɾɛn̪.sɛ/
Forms: form: Negrenses
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish negrense.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the Philippine island of Negros
Negrenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Negrense
redisposal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redisposals
Etymology: From redispose + -al.
Senses: examples: the redisposal of exhumed landfill
glosses: The act of disposing of something again.
redisposals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redisposal