cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
H1N1
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The strain classified as containing hemagglutinin type 1, and neuraminidase type 1.
Senses: examples: text: The current H1N1 virus (swine flu) is a mixture of avian flus that passed through pigs to humans.
ref: 2010, Malcolm Knox, The Monthly, April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 44
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A strain of influenza, the most common cause of flu in humans; also the strain responsible for swine flu.
Related terms: H5N1
Mexican flu
Mexican influenza
Mexican Flu
Spanish flu
Spanish Flu
DIAND
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: coordinate_terms: DIA
DINA
INAC
IAND
glosses: Acronym of Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.
Dutch comfort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dutch comforts
Senses: synonyms: Dutch consolation
glosses: Comfort derived from a situation not being any worse than it is.
MEQ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MÉQ
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Abbreviation of Ministry of Education of Quebec.
topics: health
medicine
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of mindful eating questionnaire.
plain clothes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plain-clothes
Senses: glosses: Civilian clothes worn by someone in an occupation or organization for which a uniform might be expected, as the police or clergy.
unaxed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + axed.
Senses: glosses: Not axed or felled.
unbaffled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbaffled
form: most unbaffled
Etymology: From un- + baffled.
Senses: glosses: Not baffled.
unbaffled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unbaffle
torbernite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torbernites
Etymology: From Torben + -ite. From Torbern Bergman (1735-1784), Swedish chemist.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A radioactive green phosphate mineral, isostructural with autunite, found in granites and other uranium-bearing deposits as a secondary mineral.
Synonyms: copper uranite
cuprouranite
torbernites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torbernite
cuprouranite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cupro- + uranite.
Senses: glosses: The mineral copper uranite or torbernite.
unbewailed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbewailed
form: most unbewailed
Etymology: From un- + bewailed.
Senses: glosses: Not bewailed.
uneyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uneyed
form: most uneyed
Etymology: From un- + eyed.
Senses: synonyms: eyeless
glosses: Not having eyes; not eyed.
unfumed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + fumed.
Senses: examples: text: She tempers dulcet creams, nor theſe to hold / Wants her fit veſſels pure, then ſtrews the ground / With Roſe and Odours from the ſhrub unfum'd.
ref: 1674, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], 2nd edition, London: […] S[amuel] Simmons […], →OCLC, page 117:
glosses: Not exposed to fumes; not fumigated.
glosses: Undistilled.
ungazing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungazing
form: most ungazing
Etymology: From un- + gazing.
Senses: glosses: Not gazing.
spokesmodel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spokesmodels
Etymology: Blend of spokesperson + model.
Senses: glosses: A spokesperson hired based on appearance or celebrity rather than credibility.
spokesmodels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spokesmodel
unheppen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unheppen
form: most unheppen
Etymology: From un- + heppen.
Senses: glosses: Not dexterous; clumsy.
unhewn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -uːn
Forms: form: more unhewn
form: most unhewn
Etymology: From un- + hewn.
Senses: examples: text: The altars used for magical purposes were of carved wood or, if made of stone, had to be a natural slab, unhewn and untouched by hammer or chisel.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 155:
glosses: Not hewn.
lay the smack down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lays the smack down
form: laying the smack down
form: laid the smack down
form: laid the smack down
Etymology: A catchphrase of wrestler "The Rock" (Dwayne Johnson); see also smackdown.
Senses: glosses: To start a fight (sometimes with on).
Related terms: smack down
clackety
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clackety
form: most clackety
form: clackity
Etymology: Imitative, from clack.
Senses: glosses: That is characterized by clacketing.
clackety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clackity
Etymology: Imitative, from clack.
Senses: glosses: A clacking sound suggesting mechanical motion, as of a railway train.
Derived terms: rackety-clackety
Related terms: clacket
clickety
clickity
weakhearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more weakhearted
form: most weakhearted
form: weak-hearted
Etymology: From weak + hearted.
Senses: glosses: fainthearted
Derived terms: weakheartedly
weakheartedness
weakheartedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more weakheartedly
form: most weakheartedly
Etymology: From weakhearted + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a weakhearted manner.
weakheartedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From weakhearted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being weakhearted.
photographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more photographical
form: most photographical
Etymology: From photographic + -al.
Senses: glosses: Photographic.
cinephilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cinephilic
form: most cinephilic
Etymology: From cine- + -philic.
Senses: glosses: Having a love of films or the cinema.
Related terms: cinephile
cinephilia
likemindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From likeminded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of like-mindedness.
cefepime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛf.ə.piːm/
Etymology: From cef- (“cefalosporanic acid derivative”) + [Term?] + (ox)ime.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A cephalosporin antibiotic.
cefquinome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cef- (“cefalosporanic acid derivative”) + quin(oline) + o(xi)me.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A cephalosporin with pharmacological and antibacterial properties valuable in the treatment of coliform mastitis and other infections in humans and animals.
chromolithograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromolithographs
Etymology: From chromo- + lithograph.
Senses: glosses: A print made by chromolithography.
chromolithograph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chromolithographs
form: chromolithographing
form: chromolithographed
form: chromolithographed
Etymology: From chromo- + lithograph.
Senses: glosses: To create a print using chromolithography.
chromolithographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chromolithograph
photoconvert
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: photoconverts
form: photoconverting
form: photoconverted
form: photoconverted
Etymology: From photo- + convert.
Senses: glosses: To convert by light, usually an intense flash.
Related terms: photoconversion
photoconverter
crispbreads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crispbread
crispbread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crispbreads
Etymology: From crisp + bread.
Senses: examples: text: She describes how Irina, left at home during one of Lawrence’s extended business trips, feels herself turning “into one of those dry Scandinavian crispbreads that never have enough salt.”
ref: 2007 March 9, Michiko Kakutani, “Ladies’ Choice: Snooker or Security?”, in New York Times:
glosses: A type of flat, dry bread or cracker, usually baked of rye flour, popular in the Nordic countries.
photoconverts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of photoconvert
photoconverting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of photoconvert
counterquestion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterquestions
Etymology: From counter- + question.
Senses: examples: text: This leads to a counterquestion — why can’t M.L.B. be happy to initiate its channel with a combined guaranteed 30 million subscribers?
ref: 2007 March 9, Richard Sandomir, “Baseball Bends on TV Plan, but Doubts Linger”, in New York Times:
glosses: A question that serves as a reply to, or distraction from, another.
counterquestions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterquestion
distortive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more distortive
form: most distortive
Etymology: From distort + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: She added, “No amount of distortive rhetoric or advertising will cause the governor to back down from the core reforms and necessary reality check embodied in this budget.”
ref: 2007 March 9, Danny Hakim, “Rangel Tells State’s Delegation That Spitzer Is Too Combative”, in New York Times:
glosses: Causing distortion.
Derived terms: antiferrodistortive
distortively
distortiveness
ferrodistortive
nondistortive
distortively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more distortively
form: most distortively
Etymology: From distortive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a distortive way.
philologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more philologically
form: most philologically
Etymology: From philological + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Gerhard Joseph as a textuist is philologically sound.
ref: 2002, Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux, Neil Fraistat, Reimagining Textuality: Textual Studies in the Late Age of Print:
glosses: In a philological manner.
plain-clothes
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of plain clothes when used attributively.
glosses: Alternative form of plainclothes (adjective)
sheepmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheepmasters
Etymology: From sheep + master.
Senses: examples: text: Mesha, King of Moab was a sheepmaster [translating Hirt], as one can read in the second book of Kings […].
ref: 1999, Jakob Grimmelshausen, translated by Mike Mitchell, Simplicissimus, Dedalus, published 2016, page 21:
glosses: Shepherd.
weighmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weighmasters
Etymology: From weigh + master.
Senses: glosses: Somebody who professionally weighs goods, a weigher.
sheepmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheepmaster
lockmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lockmasters
Etymology: From lock + master.
Senses: examples: text: Lock operations required both the lockmaster and lockman, often supplemented by deckhands on a towboat.
ref: 2021, William E. Ellis, The Kentucky River:
glosses: Someone who is in charge of a canal lock.
dockmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dockmasters
Etymology: From dock + master.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: wharfmaster, wharfinger
coordinate_terms: dockworker
docker
wharfie
stevedore
longshoreman
;
wharf rat
glosses: Someone in charge of a dock, or of docking.
dockmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dockmaster
convos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of convo
beemaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beemasters
form: bee-master
form: bee master
Etymology: From bee + master.
Senses: glosses: A beekeeper.
climaxless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From climax + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Thus a "tragedy" such as Tania's feeds comedies such as Celine's: a comedy here is the continuous, endless, climaxless performance of tragedies.
ref: 2000, John Limon, Stand-up comedy in theory, or, Abjection in America:
glosses: Without a climax.
beemasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beemaster
cliffhangs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cliffhang
cliffhung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cliffhang
bunodont
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βουνός (bounós, “hill”) + ὀδούς (odoús, “tooth”).
Senses: glosses: Whose cusps are rounded, not sharp peaks.
raw_tags: of molars
bunodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bunodonts
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βουνός (bounós, “hill”) + ὀδούς (odoús, “tooth”).
Senses: glosses: A creature with teeth of this kind.
bunodonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bunodont
masterable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From master + -able.
Senses: glosses: Possible to master; able to be mastered.
Derived terms: unmasterable
deskbound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From desk + bound, from the past participle of bind.
Senses: examples: text: The deskbound police officer had no opportunity to deal with street crime.
glosses: Whose work confines him or her to a desk.
raw_tags: of an employee
unmasterable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmasterable
form: most unmasterable
Etymology: From un- + masterable.
Senses: glosses: Not masterable; that cannot be mastered.
oxytetracycline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒk.sɪ.tɛ.tɹəˈsʌɪ.kliːn/
ipa: /ˌɑk.sɪˌtɛ.tɹəˈsaɪˌklin/
Forms: form: oxytetracyclines
Etymology: From oxy- + tetracycline.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A yellow crystalline broad-spectrum tetracycline antibiotic C₂₂H₂₄N₂O₉ that is produced by a soil actinomycete (Streptomyces rimosus) and works by interfering with bacteria's ability to produce essential proteins.
Derived terms: doxycycline
metacycline
oxytetracyclines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxytetracycline
sixtyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪkstiɪʃ/
Etymology: From sixty + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The role of Alma Millet, a sour sixty-ish sexless widow, offers Carol a chance to shed the bright-eyed and brainless image that served her so well in the past.
ref: 1976 December 11, Don Shewey, “Bed, Fox and Fiddler: Stars in the Night”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 24, page 15:
glosses: Of about sixty years of age.
strengthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: strengthier
form: more strengthy
form: strengthiest
form: most strengthy
Etymology: From Middle English strengthy, strengthi, equivalent to strength + -y.
Senses: examples: text: "No — no, work it up and give us the horrible particulars," said Jim Webb. ' 'Well, I presume I shall receive all the more sympathy if I illustrate the affair. As I said before, I have a mother-in-law. She is healthy. She is strengthy. She loves me not. She objects to my being out nights; to my being even a member of the Bald-headed Club."
ref: 1881, Bricktop, The Bald-headed Club:
text: It might, however, grate somewhat harshly upon the not very sensitive ears of the people of the present day, if they were told that a person had had a lengthy ride upon a strengthy horse, or that another had had a lengthy struggle with a strengthy opponent.
ref: 1890, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art:
text: And as he heard and as he learned, Yao-tchall grew doubtful of his cause and fearful for his land, and as he grew less strengthy in his manner so grew the Catayans more strengthy in theirs, and as he grew less suresome so grew they more […]
ref: 1969, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, volume 38:
text: She was a nonconfidante, and he was her surly, silent, strengthy beanpole of a waiter.
ref: 2007, Bruce Howard Hamilton, Essays of Multiple Sorts:
text: His face was completely hidden in the dark and nothing was clear to me except his overbearing policemanship, his massive rearing of wide strengthy flesh, his domination and his unimpeachable reality.
ref: 2007, Flann O'Brien, Keith Donohue, The Complete Novels:
text: Then suka told vibheeshana was given by Rama / the lanka kingdom in advance / And he become Rama's best friend / And they explain Rama's army / Were vast in number / Their commanders were 1800 / at number and each bear was strengthy.
ref: 2015, Sai Krishna Yedavalli, Prince of Ikshvaku:
glosses: Possessing strength; strong; mighty.
strengthier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of strengthy: more strengthy
strengthiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of strengthy: most strengthy
strengthful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more strengthful
form: most strengthful
Etymology: From Middle English strengthful, strenkyþfull, equivalent to strength + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: I couldn't bring myself to say 'No, Ethelinda, I can not be yours because my heart is set on a strengthful damsel with raven locks and eyes of coal, with lips a shade less cherry than thine, and a cheek more like the apple than the peach, [...]'
ref: 1909, Marshall Pinckney Wilder, The ten books of the merrymakers:
text: But they were both fervent and sincere and breathed of a hopeful, a strengthful, and a trustful spirit.
ref: 1913, Philo Adams Otis, The First Presbyterian church, 1833-1913:
text: The longer that sin is indulged, the mightier, the more strengthful, the more binding does it become in a human life.
ref: 1917, George Washington Truett, James Britton Cranfill, A Quest for Souls:
glosses: Full of strength; strong; having strength; powerful.
Derived terms: strengthfully
strengthfulness
oxytocics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxytocic
twentyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From twenty + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Of about twenty years of age.
pezizoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pezizoid
form: most pezizoid
Etymology: Peziza + -oid
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Resembling a fungus of the polyphyletic genus Peziza, having a cuplike form.
cuplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cuplike
form: most cuplike
Etymology: From cup + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a cup.
thirtyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thirty + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Approximately thirty
glosses: Of about thirty years of age.
seventyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From seventy + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Of about seventy years of age.
eightyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eighty + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Approximately eighty
glosses: Of about eighty years of age.
overenrolled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overenrolled
form: most overenrolled
Etymology: From over- + enrolled.
Senses: glosses: For which too many people have enrolled.
Synonyms: oversubscribed
ninetyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ninety + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Approximately ninety
glosses: Of about ninety years of age.
overteach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overteaches
form: overteaching
form: overtaught
form: overtaught
Etymology: From over- + teach.
Senses: examples: text: Geography is overtaught in my son's primary school.
text: By overteaching children, we prevent them from focusing on the topics that are important.
glosses: To teach too much.
overteaches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overteach
overteaching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overteach
overtaught
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overteach
overrude
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overrude
form: most overrude
Etymology: From over- + rude.
Senses: examples: text: His effect upon them all was very much that of a boisterous, not overrude, autumn wind, sweeping out cobwebs, and, for the time, freshening the morbid air...
ref: 1874, Emily Jolly, Colonel Dacre:
glosses: Too rude; more rude than necessary or desirable.
idiocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of idiocracy
orisa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orisas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of orisha.
orixa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orixas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of orisha.
orixas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orixa
orisas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orisa
orisha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒɹɪʃɑː/
Forms: form: orishas
form: orisa
form: orixa
Etymology: Borrowed from Yoruba òrìṣà.
Senses: examples: text: I guess that is a good way to remember you. To rememeber you as a metaphor, but not to forget the text, to embrace all the humanity of your life... like an orisha — a flesh-and-blood hero. That sounds like a good African way to remember you.
ref: 1989 February 5, Colin Robinson, “You Dared Us To Dream That We Are Worth Wanting Each Other”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 29, page 10:
text: Under the command of Olorun were also orishas, intermediaries in the Yorubic religion said to be connected between man and the supernatural.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 713:
glosses: A divine entity in Yoruba religion that possesses the supernatural capability of reflecting some of the manifestations of Olódùmarè
orishas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orisha
parleyvoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɑː.liˈvuː/
ipa: /ˌpɑɹ.liˈvu/
Forms: form: parleyvoos
Etymology: From French parlez-vous.
Senses: examples: text: Lynch. Let him alone. He's back from Paris […] Zoe. O go on! Give us some parleyvoo.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The French language, especially as understood by an English person.
examples: text: [O]ne of these d—d Parlivoos will go farther with some women in a day, than an Englishman in a month—all owing to their impudence; for a common man has as much impudence in France as a man-midwife has in England.
ref: 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 276:
text: We were hardy British tars who had pity on a poor Parley-voo
ref: 1887, Gilbert and Sullivan, “Ruddigore”, in Delphi Complete Works of Gilbert and Sullivan (Illustrated), published 2017, →ISBN:
glosses: A French person.
parleyvoo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɑː.liˈvuː/
ipa: /ˌpɑɹ.liˈvu/
Forms: form: parleyvoos
form: parleyvooing
form: parleyvooed
form: parleyvooed
Etymology: From French parlez-vous.
Senses: glosses: To speak a foreign language, especially French.
parleyvooing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of parleyvoo
parleyvooed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of parleyvoo
parleyvoos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of parleyvoo
phoenixlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phoenixlike
form: most phoenixlike
Etymology: From phoenix + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Hotel Corones, which has risen phoenix-like on the site of the old Norman Hotel, has a frontage of 210 feet[.]
ref: 1973, John Larkins, Australian Pubs, page 173:
text: Weaving from tree to tree in an obstacle-course marathon that she could only lose, in a dream-strange showdown amont the phoenixes from which she could not rise phoenixlike if she were killed, Jane felt a tugging at her right sleeve.
ref: 2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 46:
glosses: Resembling a phoenix, especially in being (figuratively) reborn after destruction.
abstract nouns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abstract noun
sand-blind
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sand-blind
form: most sand-blind
Senses: examples: text: [T]hree of the boys, of whom Mr. Hector was sometimes one, used to come in the morning as his humble attendants, and carry him [Johnson] to school. […] The purfly, sand-blind lubber and blubber, with his open mouth, and face of bruised honeycomb; yet already dominant, imperial, irresistible!
ref: 1832 May, Thomas Carlyle, “[James] Boswell’s Life of [Samuel] Johnson”, in R[alph] W[aldo] E[merson], editor, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: […], volume III, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, published 1839, →OCLC, page 147:
glosses: Alternative form of sandblind.
savvily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more savvily
form: most savvily
Etymology: From savvy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a savvy manner.
shooted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈʃuːtɪd/
Senses: examples: text: Cultivation-worthy species are confined to Equisetum, the sole genus, which has two subgenera: subgenus Equisetum — the deciduous-shooted species.
ref: 2004, Neil Armstrong et al., Gardening on the Edge: Drawing on the Cornwall Experience, page 203:
glosses: Having a specified form of shoot.
shooted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈʃuːtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shoot
jejuneness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From jejune + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I do not suffer any more from brain fag. If I feel symptoms of a return of mental vacuity, I take of the hypophosphites and the intellectual jejuneness is immediately suppressed. My only objection to it is, that it creates in me an inordinate, and unseemly rambunctiousness. For a three scorer, who is now little more than a parchmental reminiscence, this is unbefitting.
ref: 1896, C., “The Hypophosphites”, in The Medical Gleaner, volume VII, Cincinnati, Oh.: Sullivan Printing Works, pages 61–62:
glosses: The state or condition of being jejune.
Synonyms: jejunity
jejunosity
salsaing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of salsa
salsaed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of salsa
schnappses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schnapps
synizesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪnɪˈziːsɪs/
ipa: /sɪnəˈziːsɪs/
rhymes: -iːsɪs
Forms: form: synizeses
form: synezesis
Etymology: From Ancient Greek συνίζησις (sunízēsis, “a sitting together”), from σύν (sún, “with”) (English syn-) + ἱζάνω (hizánō, “to sit”).
Senses: topics: communications
human-sciences
journalism
linguistics
literature
media
phonetics
phonology
poetry
prosody
publishing
sciences
writing
glosses: The fusion of two syllables into one without the formation of a recognized diphthong, especially to fit a certain poetic meter.
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A dense clumping of chromosomes on one side of the nucleus of a cell, sometimes occurring prior to cell division.
topics: medicine
ophthalmology
pathology
sciences
glosses: Occlusion of the pupil of the eye, resulting in loss of vision.
Derived terms: synizetic
synizeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synizesis
uncuckolded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + cuckolded.
Senses: examples: text: As it is a heartbreaking to see a handsome man loose-wived, so it is a deadly sorrow to behold a foul knave uncuckolded.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: Not cuckolded.
uncuckolded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncuckold
uncoquettish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncoquettish
form: most uncoquettish
Etymology: From un- + coquettish.
Senses: glosses: Not coquettish.
jejunity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jejunities
Etymology: From jejune + -ity.
Senses: glosses: Jejuneness.
jejunities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jejunity
by a whisker
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I'm lucky to be alive. The bus missed me by a whisker.
text: Her communitarian platform Barcelona en Comú won by a whisker, and there was an initial period of transition from Colau the activist who fought the police to Colau the mayor who was responsible for them.
ref: 2023 May 27, Stephen Burgen, “‘They say I should clean floors’: Barcelona’s working-class, leftwing mayor Ada Colau fights for third term”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
glosses: By a very small distance.
Synonyms: by a nose
by a nose length
const correctness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From const (a keyword for constant in the C programming language and its derivatives) and correctness.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: The proper declaration of objects as immutable in contexts where they are not expected to be modified.
Related terms: const-correct
huevos rancheros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈweɪvɒs ɹɑːnˌt͡ʃɛəɹɒs/
/ˈweɪvəʊz ɹɑːnˌt͡ʃɛəɹəʊz/
Etymology: From Spanish, meaning "rancher's eggs".
Senses: glosses: A Mexican breakfast dish of fried eggs served on fried corn tortillas topped with a tomato-chili sauce.
phons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phon
fractalated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Composed of fractal-based patterns.
nudities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nudity
orange blister beetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orange blister beetle
urostomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urostomy
uncomplicates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uncomplicate
uncomplicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncomplicate
uncouther
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of uncouth: more uncouth
uncouthest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of uncouth: most uncouth
twinchargers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twincharger
superturbocharger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superturbochargers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of turbosupercharger.
A turbocharger.
glosses: Alternative form of turbosupercharger.
A twincharger.
superturbochargers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superturbocharger
turbosuperchargers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turbosupercharger
twaddling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: "All which details, I have no doubt, Jones, who reads this book at his Club, will pronounce to be excessively foolish, trivial, twaddling, and ultra-sentimental."
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 16, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: present participle and gerund of twaddle
twaddling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twaddlings
Senses: examples: text: It delighted her to draw out his worldlinesses, and to make the old habitue of clubs and drawing-rooms tell his twaddling tales about great folks, and expound his views of morals.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 55, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
glosses: nonsense; claptrap
twaddled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of twaddle
pygmy chimpanzee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pygmy chimpanzees
Etymology: From pygmy + chimpanzee.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bonobo.
synonyms: word: bonobo
Synonyms: dwarf chimpanzee
pygmy chimpanzees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pygmy chimpanzee
transistorizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of transistorize
transistorizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of transistorize
treenail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtriːˌneɪ(ə)l/
Forms: form: treenails
form: trannel
form: trenail
form: trennel
form: trunnel
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English trenayl; equivalent to tree + nail.
Senses: examples: text: Long treenails were quite difficult to drive, often being damaged in the process, with ends becoming "broomed", or worse, split, necessitating the head being trimmed, or far worse, the removal of the treenail.
ref: 2005 Michael McCarthy: Ships' Fastenings: From Sewn Boat to Steamship. ISBN:1-58544-451-0
glosses: A wooden peg or pin used as a fastener.
trunnel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trunnels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of treenail.
glosses: Alternative form of trundle.
trunnels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trunnel
trenail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trenails
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of treenail.
trenails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trenail
thermographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thermograph
ultrafamiliar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultrafamiliar
form: most ultrafamiliar
Etymology: From ultra- + familiar.
Senses: glosses: extremely familiar; particularly familiar
unabjured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unabjured
form: most unabjured
Etymology: From un- + abjured.
Senses: glosses: Not abjured.
urinaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urinarium
cyclohexadienedione
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclohexadienediones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: benzoquinone
boneheadedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From boneheaded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being boneheaded.
uncasually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uncasually
form: most uncasually
Etymology: From uncasual + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Not in a causal manner.
uncausal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncausal
form: most uncausal
Etymology: From un- + causal.
Senses: glosses: Not causal.
Derived terms: uncausally
uncausally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uncausally
form: most uncausally
Etymology: From un- + causally.
Senses: glosses: In an uncausal manner.
uncasual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncasual
form: most uncasual
Etymology: From un- + casual.
Senses: glosses: Not casual.
Derived terms: uncasually
inspirationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inspirationally
form: most inspirationally
Etymology: From inspirational + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an inspirational manner.
pentobarbital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɛn.təˈbɑɹ.bəˌtɔl/
Forms: form: pentobarbitals
form: pentobarbitone
Etymology: From pent(yl) + -o- + barbital.
Senses: examples: text: And lest anyone think traipsing through the gray and bleach-smelly execution chamber where triple homicide offenders are injected with pentobarbital isn't depressing enough, later they will stage a press conference in front of the gates of Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery, the parched plot of land where executed prisoners whose bodies family members prefer not to claim are buried.
ref: 2016, Christopher Kelly, The Pink Bus, Mapple Shade, New Jersey: Lethe Press, page 146:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A narcotic and sedative barbiturate drug (trademark Nembutal) formerly used to relieve insomnia.
Synonyms: equitensin
euthesate
Derived terms: secobarbital
sodium pentobarbital
thiopental
saddlemaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saddlemakers
Etymology: From saddle + maker.
Senses: glosses: Person who makes saddles. saddler
Synonyms: saddler
saddlemakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saddlemaker
carbinoxamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A H1 class antihistamine.
trimethobenzamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trimethobenzamides
Senses: glosses: A medication frequently used as an antiemetic to prevent nausea and vomiting.
trimethobenzamides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trimethobenzamide
violinmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: violinmakers
Etymology: From violin + maker.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of violin maker.
violinmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of violinmaker
crosslegged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cross-legged.
dragonish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dragonish
form: most dragonish
Etymology: From dragon + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes we see a cloud that's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, / A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, / A forked mountain, or blue promontory / With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, / And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these signs; / They are black vesper's pageants.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene xiv]:
text: […] a black-dressed matron—maybe, maid— / Mature, and dragonish of aspect, […]
ref: 1873, Robert Browning, Red Cotton Night-Cap Country, or Turf and Towers:
text: Only the beak-leaved boughs dragonish ˈ damask the tool-smooth bleak light; black.
ref: c. 1881, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Spelt from Sibyl’s Leaves”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, page 52:
text: That's Hooktail! Max HP is 20, Attack is 5, and Defense is 1. She'll stomp and munch on you, and she has a more dragonish attack—stinky, fiery breath!
ref: 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Hooktail Castle:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a dragon.
Related terms: draconian
draconic
nonqualified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-qualified
Etymology: From non- + qualified.
Senses: glosses: Not qualified.
fooders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fooder
pretravel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + travel.
Senses: glosses: Before travelling.
pretravel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + travel.
Senses: glosses: The actuation distance of a switch on a keyboard.
Related terms: overtravel
redolently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more redolently
form: most redolently
Etymology: From redolent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a redolent manner.
typologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more typologically
form: most typologically
Etymology: From typological + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: typologically different languages
text: typologically rare phonological contrast
glosses: In regards to typology.
unfunky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfunky
form: most unfunky
Etymology: From un- + funky.
Senses: glosses: Not funky.
unserved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + served.
Senses: examples: text: St. Paul's Parks and Recreation Plan identifies the Upper Afton-Burns area as being unserved by existing neighborhood recreation centers.
ref: 1978, The Saint Paul Plan, volume 2:
text: According to City Harvest Director Helen Palit, her group receives donations from restaurants, over 30 wholesalers and one anonymous local hospital that supplies unopened milk, fruit and unserved or unplated meals.
ref: 1984, Food Management, volume 19, page 37:
glosses: Not served.
topics: law
glosses: yet to be served (prison sentence)
overcriticize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overcriticizes
form: overcriticizing
form: overcriticized
form: overcriticized
Etymology: From over- + criticize.
Senses: glosses: To criticize too much.
overcriticizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overcriticize
overcriticizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overcriticize
overcriticized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overcriticize
pacificism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pacificisms
Etymology: From pacific + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A moderate form of political pacifism which allows the use of violence against those seeking to commit greater violence.
glosses: General ethical opposition to war or violence; pacifism broadly stated.
Related terms: pacifism
pacifist
stressfree
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stressfree
form: most stressfree
form: stress-free
Etymology: From stress + -free.
Senses: glosses: Without stress.
nonpasteurized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + pasteurized.
Senses: glosses: Not pasteurized.
perphenazine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perphenazines
Senses: glosses: A potent anti-psychotic drug.
Hypernyms: phenothiazine
piperazine
pneumocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pneumocytes
Etymology: From pneumo- + -cyte.
Senses: glosses: A cell that is responsible for gas exchange in the alveoli in the lungs
Related terms: pneumocytic
pneumocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pneumocyte
lenograstim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A synthetic hormone used to stimulate the immune system.
Hypernyms: immunomodulator
immunostimulant
cefotaxime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sɛf.əˈtæk.siːm/
Forms: form: cefotaximes
Etymology: From cef- (“cefalosporanic acid derivative”) + -o- + [Term?] + (o)xime.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A broad-spectrum antibiotic with efficacy against most bacteria.
Hypernyms: cephalosporin
cephem
thiazole
Derived terms: cefotaximase
glimepiride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlaɪˈmɛp.ɪˌɹaɪd/
ipa: /ɡlɪˈmɛp.ɪˌɹaɪd/
Etymology: From gli- (“antihyperglycemic”) + me(thyl) + pyr(role) + -ide.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A sulfonylurea antidiabetic drug.
glyclopyramide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gly- (“antihyperglycemic”) + chlo(ro)- + pyr(rolidine) + (sulfon)amide.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A sulfonylurea antidiabetic drug.
acetohexamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A sulfonylurea antidiabetic drug.
glipizide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɪp.ɪˌzaɪd/
Etymology: From gli- (“antihyperglycemic”) + py(ra)z(ine) + -ide.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A sulfonylurea antidiabetic drug C₂₁H₂₇N₅O₄S (trademark Glucotrol) that lowers blood glucose levels and is used in the control of hyperglycemia associated with type 2 diabetes.
gliquidone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gli- (“antihyperglycemic”) + (iso)qui(noline) + d(i)one.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A sulfonylurea antidiabetic drug.
gliclazide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɪk.ləˌzaɪd/
Etymology: From gli- (“antihyperglycemic”) + (cy)cl- + (hydr)azide.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A sulfonylurea antidiabetic drug.
tolazamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /təˈlæzəmaɪd/
Senses: glosses: A sulfonylurea antidiabetic drug.
chlorpropamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chlorpropamides
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A sulfonylurea antidiabetic drug
Synonyms: glucamide
cowperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cowpersons
form: cowpeople
Etymology: From cow + person.
Senses: examples: text: The pineappled ham thing was just being removed from the bridge-table buffet as I entered, and I am overwhelmed by the sight of a roomful of unusually attired, middle-aged cowpersons swaying to the strains of "Oh Lonesome Me."
ref: 1991, “EMPTY”, in SPIN:
text: At the same time they turn loose a cowboy/girl/person from an adjacent pen. […] the cowperson jumps off the horse in mid-stride […]
ref: 1996, Coke Newell, Cow Chips Aren't for Dippin': A Guide to Life in the New Wild West, Gibbs Smith, →ISBN, page 80:
synonyms: cowpoke
glosses: A cowhand.
Related terms: cowman
cowpersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cowperson
cowpeople
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cowperson
word of God
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying, "Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the Lord, 'Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in.'"
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Chronicles 17:3-4:
glosses: A message from God, or a manifestation of his will
examples: text: Just as it would be utterly vain to lay natural reasons of comfort to him who hath no wit, so would it undoubtedly be frustrate to lay spiritual causes of comfort to him who hath no faith. For unless a man first believe that holy scripture is the word of God, and that the word of God is true, how can he take any comfort in that which the scripture telleth him?
ref: 1535, Sir Thomas More, Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation, Book I, ch. 2:
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: the Scriptures, especially when interpreted as the work of God rather than man
misteach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misteaches
form: misteaching
form: mistaught
form: mistaught
Etymology: From Middle English mistechen, from Old English mistǣċan (“to teach amiss, teach falsely”), equivalent to mis- + teach.
Senses: examples: text: Men are mistaught many things: that violence and control of others are acceptable, that they are strong and therefore entitled to be violent. Similarly they are taught that they are not victims; that they can and should take care of themselves. For gay men, this heritage can lead to violence in their relationships and denial about their victimization.
ref: 1989 April 22, Jay Reed, “Naming and Confronting Gay Male Battering”, in Gay Community News, page 9:
glosses: To teach incorrectly.
Derived terms: mistaught
misteaching
misteaches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misteach
misteaching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From misteach + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misteach
misteaching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misteachings
Etymology: From misteach + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Still, the qualification for admission to the Reformatory will be the commission of some crime; there is nothing to protect children from the misteaching of parents.
ref: 1850, George Moody, The English journal of education:
text: A second attempt was made by presenting to the Bishops specific charges of misteaching supported by citations from Mitchell's book, "The World Before Abraham."
ref: 1905, New outlook, volume 81, page 933:
glosses: Wrong, false, or incorrect teaching.