cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nonhealthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + healthy.
Senses: glosses: Not healthy; unhealthy.
Derived terms: nonhealthiness
nonhealthiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nonhealthy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being nonhealthy.
grandmother-in-law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grandmothers-in-law
Etymology: From grandmother + -in-law.
Senses: glosses: A grandmother of one's spouse.
Related terms: grandfather-in-law
grandparent-in-law
granddaughter-in-law
grandson-in-law
grandfather-in-law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grandfathers-in-law
Etymology: From grandfather + -in-law.
Senses: glosses: A grandfather of one's spouse.
Related terms: grandmother-in-law
grandparent-in-law
granddaughter-in-law
grandson-in-law
unrunnable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + runnable.
Senses: examples: an unrunnable computer program
glosses: Not runnable.
examples: an unrunnable gorge
an unrunnable dam
glosses: That cannot be traversed in a boat.
backscroll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From back + scroll.
Senses: glosses: scrollback
fabulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fabulates
form: fabulating
form: fabulated
form: fabulated
Etymology: From Latin fābulātus, perfect active participle of fābulor (“to tell stories, chat”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from fābula (“fable”).
Senses: examples: text: Human fears, needs, dreams release the latent propensities of the subliminal soul, and to respond to them the fabulating imagination sets to work.
ref: 1990, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Tractatus Brevus, Kluwer, page 38:
text: The objects remain those of male fantasies, but from the start Maxine associates the ability to fantasize or fabulate with women and with Cantonese: […]
ref: 1992, Donald C. Goellnicht, "Tang Ao in America: Male Subject Positions in China Men, Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Amy Ling (editors), Reading the Literatures of Asian America, Temple University Press, page 205
text: It is only this posture that permits him to discharge his function as a chief: to fabulate and to summon up the missing people.
ref: 2006, Jérémie Valentin, “Gille Deleuze’s Political Posture”, chapter 12 of Constantin V. Boundas (editor), Deleuze and Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press, page 196
glosses: To tell invented stories, often those that involve fantasy, such as fables.
examples: text: Anyone who considers it a pleasure to compose short stories or to fabulate a tale, must remain silent and say nothing of her beauty.
ref: 1990, Marianne Kalinke, Bridal-quest Romance in Medieval Iceland, page 74:
glosses: To relate as or in the manner of a fable.
examples: text: The Fort is ſo barricadoed, that it is hard ſcaling it : the refractary Rebell ſo guarded with Euill and Poyſon, ſo warded with unruly and deadly ; as if it were with Gyants in an Inchanted Towre, as they fabulate ; so no man can tame it.
ref: 1630, Thomas Adams, “The Taming of the Tongve”, in The Workes of Tho: Adams, page 143:
glosses: To tell fables, to narrate with fables.
Derived terms: fabulation
fabulator
fabulate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fabulates
Etymology: Coined around 1934 by folklorist Carl von Sydow to contrast with memorate, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: It is a rule, though, that each fabulate, as well as every other narrative that requires credence or pretense or at least the possibility of belief as its ingredient, is based on either a truly existing or an assumed memorate[…] or something similar.
ref: 1974, Linda Dégh, Andrew Vázsonyi, “The memorate and the proto-memorate”, in The Journal of American Folklore, volume 87, →DOI, page 232:
glosses: A folk story that is not entirely believable.
examples: text: To jocular fabulates (Sherzfabulate) I place inter alia some of the “Tales of the Stupid Ogre” in Aarne’s Type Register.
ref: 1948, Carl von Sydow, Selected Papers on Folklore, page 87:
glosses: A folk story that is told for entertainment, and not intended to be taken as true.
Related terms: memorate
autogenerate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autogenerates
form: autogenerating
form: autogenerated
form: autogenerated
Etymology: From auto- + generate.
Senses: examples: text: The autogenerated code should not be edited, since it may be automatically overwritten by the same process.
glosses: To generate automatically.
Related terms: autogeneration
autogenerator
autogenerates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of autogenerate
autogenerating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of autogenerate
autogenerated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of autogenerate
au pairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of au pair
faïence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faïences
Senses: examples: text: It may well be admitted that this love for faïence was only the setting of the drama, and that the hobby for collecting carried to such a degree of enthusiasm deserves to be studied almost as much as the passion for women and gambling, ambition or avarice.
ref: 1895, Champfleury [pen name; Jules François Felix Fleury-Husson], translated by Helen B. Dole, The Faïence Violin, New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.: […] Thomas Y[oung] Crowell & Company […], page vii:
text: At a height of two hundred and twenty-five feet from the ground it is crowned by a cone-shaped spire, in whose side are many rows of ornamental niches in which are hung pieces of faïence.
ref: [1910], The Wonders of the World: A Popular and Authentic Account of the Marvels of Nature and of Man as They Exist To-day, volume I, London: Hutchinson & Co., […], page 91:
text: However, analysis has shown that the composition of the vessel fragments found at Kerma, typical of faïences found in Middle Kingdom Egypt, with particularly close parallels to those found at Lisht by the Metropolitan Museum Expedition, differs on the whole from the large glazed tiles and larger vessels found at the site that do appear to be of Nubian manufacture (Lacovara 1998: 48).
ref: 2021, Elena D’Itria, “Understanding the Kerma Amulets: the Ladder and Baboon Amulet-Beads”, in Rennan Lemos, Samantha Tipper, editors, Current Perspectives in Sudanese and Nubian Archaeology: A Collection of Papers Presented at the 2018 Sudan Studies Research Conference, Cambridge, Archaeopress, →ISBN, pages 36–37:
glosses: Alternative spelling of faience.
fabulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fabulations
Senses: glosses: The act or result of fabulating; a fabrication.
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: A style of modern fiction, similar to magical realism and postmodernism.
nonlimbate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + limbate.
Senses: glosses: Not limbate.
al-Quds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɒl ˈkʊdz/
/æl ˈkʊdz/
Forms: form: Al-Quds
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic الْقُدْس (al-quds, literally “the Holiness”), short for مَدِينَة الْقُدْس (madīna(t) al-quds, “City of the Holiness”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Jerusalem.
synonyms: word: Jerusalem
raw_tags: used by Muslims and Arabs
Synonyms: Quds
Bayt al-Quds
Bayt al-Maqdis
Bayt al-Muqaddas
Quds as-Sarif
Related terms: Israel
Palestine
East al-Quds
gennelman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gennelmen
Senses: glosses: gentleman
gennelmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gennelman
grandmothers-in-law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grandmother-in-law
Zhumulangma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: jo͞oʹmo͞oʹlängʹmäʹ
Forms: form: Chu-mu-lang-ma
form: Chumulangma
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 珠穆朗瑪峰 /珠穆朗玛峰 (Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng), from Tibetan ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ (jo mo glang ma), Chomolungma.
Senses: examples: text: China’s mountains include the world’s highest peak —Zhumulangma (Mount Everest) at 29,028 feet— and the country embraces one of the world’s low points, the Turfan Depression, 426 feet below sea level.
ref: 1975, “China”, in Sunset Travel Guide to the Orient: Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, China, Menlo Park, Cali.: Lane Publishing, published 1977, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 174, column 1:
text: Of course, much higher mean wind speeds can be expected at the tops of the great mountains (e.g., Zhumulangma) although, unfortunately, no observational records are available.
ref: 1992, Jiacheng Zhang, Zhiguang Lin, “Wind Velocity”, in Ding Tan, transl., Climate of China, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 198:
text: It [China] has three terraces from the eastern coast to the Qinghai-Xizang plateau in the west, with the highest altitude of 8,848 meters at the peak of Zhumulangma (Mount Everest), the so-called “roof of the world.”
ref: 1999, Marshall R. Crosby, Moss Flora of China, volume 2, Science Press, page vii:
text: Geomorphologically, the SCS lies to the east of the highest peak on earth, Zhumulangma or Everest in the Himalayas (8,848 m elevation) and to the west of the deepest trench in the ocean, Philippine Trench (10,497 m water depth) (Wang P. 2004).
ref: 2009, Pingxian Wang and Qianyu Li, introduction to The South China Sea: Paleoceanography and Sedimentology, Springer, →OCLC, page 1
text: As part of the trio of Chinese team members who in 1960 reached the summit of Mount Everest – or “Zhumulangma”, as the characters insist it’s called because it’s “our mountain” – assault team leader Fang Wuzhou (Wu Jing) and photographer Qu Songlin (Zhang Yi) have nevertheless lived in deep regret since. The reason? They’ve brought “shame” to their country for failing to provide photographic evidence to make it a legitimate feat in the eyes of the world.
ref: 2019 October 1, Edmund Lee, “The Climbers film review: Wu Jing, Zhang Ziyi in patriotic mountaineering drama”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Oct 2019, Entertainment:
glosses: Synonym of Mount Everest: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
synonyms: word: Mount Everest
extra: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name
wikipedia: Encyclopædia Britannica
l33tspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of leetspeak.
obtruncate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: obtruncates
form: obtruncating
form: obtruncated
form: obtruncated
Etymology: From Latin obtruncatus, past participle of obtruncare.
Senses: examples: text: obtruncated petals
text: Rustic chairs and benches are scattered about, some of them ponderously fashioned out of the stumps of obtruncated trees, and others more artfully made with intertwining branches, or perhaps an imitation of such frail handiwork in iron.
ref: 1863, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Chapter 1, Consular Experiences”, in Our Old Home:
glosses: To truncate or lop off.
Derived terms: obtruncation
pansified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pansified
form: most pansified
Etymology: From pansy + -fy + -ed.
Senses: synonyms: word: effete
word: flashy
word: overrefined
word: bedizened
word: blatant
word: blingish
word: brash
word: catchpenny
word: chichi
word: chintzy
word: crass
word: crude
word: flashy
word: flaunting
word: florid
word: flossy
word: froufrou
word: garish
word: gauche
word: gaudy
word: gay
word: glaring
word: gross
word: gussied up
word: hideous
word: kitschy
word: loud
word: meretricious
word: obtrusive
word: ostentatious
word: pizazzy
word: pretentious
word: ritzy
word: raffish
word: showy
word: snazzy
word: splendiferous
word: tacky
word: tasteless
word: tawdry
word: tinselly
word: too much
word: unbecoming
word: untasteful
word: vain
word: whorish
word: zesty
word: affected
word: effete
word: fey
word: recherché
word: hoity-toity
word: overrefined
word: pansified
word: precious
word: pretentious
word: smug
word: stagy
word: stilted
word: theatrical
word: Woosterian
glosses: Overly adorned; affected.
synonyms: effeminated
feminized
gayed up
girlified
glosses: Made effeminate or homosexual.
Derived terms: pansification
integrant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɪntɪɡɹənt/
Etymology: From Middle French intégrant, from Latin integrans.
Senses: examples: text: All these are integrant parts of the republic.
ref: 1795–1797, Edmund Burke, “(please specify |letter=1 to 4)”, in [Letters on a Regicide Peace], London: [Rivington]:
glosses: That is part of a whole; integral
integrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɪntɪɡɹənt/
Forms: form: integrants
Etymology: From Middle French intégrant, from Latin integrans.
Senses: glosses: Something that is part of a whole; an element or component
Derived terms: cointegrant
finew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɪnjuː/
Etymology: From Middle English *fine, from Old English fyne (“moisture, mold, mildew”), from Proto-Germanic *funiz, *fun- (“moisture, mold”), from Proto-Indo-European *poni-o- (“mud, slush, morass”). Related to Middle Low German vunsch, Middle Dutch vunsc (“musty”), Old English fenn (“swamp, bog”). More at fen.
Senses: glosses: moldiness
Related terms: fenowed
vinew
vinnewed
vinewed
fenowed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfɛnoʊd/
Forms: form: more fenowed
form: most fenowed
Etymology: From Middle English yvyned, past participle of Middle English vynye (“to be mouldy”), from Old English fynegian (“to become mouldy”), from fyniġ (“mouldy, musty”). Akin to Old English fyne (“moisture, mildew”).
Senses: glosses: Decayed; mouldy.
examples: text: In a word, it [Scripture] is a Panary of holeſome foode, againſt fenowed traditions; […]
ref: 1611, [Miles Smith], “The Translators to the Reader”, in The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Corrupted.
Related terms: finew
vinnewed
vinewed
vinnewed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈvɪnjuːd/
Forms: form: more vinnewed
form: most vinnewed
form: vinewed
Etymology: From Middle English yvyned (past participle of vynyen, *vinewen, *fenowen (“to be mouldy”)), from Old English ġefinegod, *ġefynegod, past participle of Old English fynegian (“to become mouldy”), from fyniġ (“mouldy, musty”), equivalent to finew + -ed. Doublet of fenowed. Related to Old English fyne (“moisture, mold, mildew”). More at finew.
Senses: glosses: mouldy
glosses: musty
Derived terms: vinnewedness
Related terms: vinney
vinnowy
fenowed
finew
fen
fenny
accurize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: accurizes
form: accurizing
form: accurized
form: accurized
form: accurise
Etymology: From accurate + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To improve the accuracy of (a gun).
clearcutting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clearcuttings
Etymology: From clear + cutting.
Senses: synonyms: clearfelling
glosses: A forestry practice in which most or all trees in a harvest area are cut down.
Related terms: word: clear cut
word: clearcut
pachangas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pachanga
ingeminate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdʒɛm.ɪ.neɪt/
ipa: /ɪnˈdʒɛm.ɪ.nət/
Forms: form: ingeminates
form: ingeminating
form: ingeminated
form: ingeminated
Etymology: Borrowed from the participle stem of Latin ingeminō (“repeat, reiterate”).
Senses: examples: text: we found a black pavillion; in it three old Arabians; who, out of their Alcoran ingeminated a dolefull requiem to their Brothers carcasse, over which they sat […]
ref: 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, section II:
glosses: To say (a statement, word etc.) two or more times; to reiterate, to emphasize through repetition.
Related terms: ingemination
ingeminate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdʒɛm.ɪ.neɪt/
ipa: /ɪnˈdʒɛm.ɪ.nət/
Forms: form: more ingeminate
form: most ingeminate
Etymology: Borrowed from the participle stem of Latin ingeminō (“repeat, reiterate”).
Senses: examples: text: It is an ingeminate expression of our labours . And that supposes us to have faculties capable of improvement
ref: 1642, Jeremy Taylor, The Sacred Order and Offices of Episcopacy or Episcopacy Asserted against the Arians and Acephali New and Old:
glosses: redoubled
glosses: reiterated
punch bowl waterfalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of punch bowl waterfall
plunge waterfall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plunge waterfalls
Senses: glosses: A punch bowl waterfall.
plunge waterfalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plunge waterfall
palpator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: palpators
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin palpātor.
Senses: glosses: Someone who palpates.
glosses: A device for palpating.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of a family of clavicorn beetles, including those which have very long maxillary palpi.
opts in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of opt in
opting in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of opt in
opted in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of opt in
opt-outs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opt-out
grammatical case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grammatical cases
Senses: examples: The grammatical cases nominative and accusative are used for subject resp. direct object in many languages, including Latin.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A mode of inflection of a word dependent on its use, especially the syntactic function in a phrase.
Synonyms: word: grammatical case
word: case
Hyponyms: see: Thesaurus:grammatical case
synonymification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synonymifications
Etymology: From synonym + -ification.
Senses: examples: Specifically, the senior author, after much close study and a long period of familiarization, used judgments to accomplish three qualitative (semantic) tasks: (1) identification: in which institutionally relevant words were culled from the text andmarked for analysis; (2) stemming: in which different forms of the same word (singular vs. pluralforms, conjugational differences in verb forms, etc.) were reduced to common word stems; (3) synonymification: in which words that are used more or less interchangeably, were collapsed together into one common linguistic category. ( John W. Mohr and Brooke Neely, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Modeling Foucault : dualities of power in institutional fields)
glosses: The collapsing together of more or less synonymous words into one common linguistic category.
non-suicidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + suicidal.
Senses: examples: text: Alexandre: "You cannot sort their problems. It's not your job or within your gift, and we want to hand them to their support. Your role is to have a short conversation to make them feel non-suicidal, to get them to a safe place from where they can be given further help.
ref: 2021 June 16, Paul Stephen, “How your actions can save a life...”, in RAIL, number 933, page 57:
glosses: Alternative form of nonsuicidal.
RED
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Acronym of reverse electrodialysis.
Related terms: PRO
RED
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: on government documents
glosses: red (hair color).
PRO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PROs
Etymology: Initialism.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of pressure retarded osmosis.
examples: text: In the bivariate analysis carried out by subgroups, we did not find statistically significant differences (p < 0.05) between bionaïve or bioexperienced patients, patients with BMI < 30 or BMI > 30 in relation to the efficacy variables (PASI and BSA) and analyzed PROs (VAS pruritus and DLQI).
ref: 2022 August 30, Ricardo Ruiz-Villaverde, Lourdes Rodriguez Fernandez-Freire, Pilar Font-Ugalde, Manuel Galan-Gutierrez, “Tildrakizumab: Efficacy, Safety and Survival in Mid-Term (52 Weeks) in Three Tertiary Hospitals in Andalucia (Spain)”, in Journal of Clinical Medicine, volume 11, number 17, →DOI, page 5:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of patient-reported outcome.
Related terms: RED
PRO
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Etymology: From the term pronoun.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
syntax
glosses: A theoretical phonologically null pronoun
Coordinate terms: english: little pro
translation: little pro
word: pro ()
reverse electrodialysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The salinity gradient energy retrieved from the difference in the salt concentration between seawater and river water.
Synonyms: RED
Related terms: pressure retarded osmosis
pressure retarded osmosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pressure-retarded osmosis.
quadrumane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɒdɹʊmeɪn/
Forms: form: quadrumanes
Etymology: From French quadrumane, from Late Latin quadrumanus.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: An animal having four hands and feet with opposable digits, specifically a member of the now obsolete order of mammals Quadrumana, comprising all non-human primates; a primate.
quadrumane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɒdɹʊmeɪn/
Forms: form: more quadrumane
form: most quadrumane
Etymology: From French quadrumane, from Late Latin quadrumanus.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Pertaining to such an animal; quadrumanous; loosely, "ape-like".
lightninging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lightning
lightninged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lightning
firebolted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of firebolt
firebolting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of firebolt
leucoxenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leucoxenic
form: most leucoxenic
Etymology: From leucoxene + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to leucoxene.
leucoxenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leucoxene
iotization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iotisation
Etymology: From iotize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of iotizing.
iotisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of iotization.
iotacisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iotacism
inadeptly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inadeptly
form: most inadeptly
Etymology: From inadept + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an inadept manner.
inadeptness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inadept + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being inadept.
incurability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From incurable + -ity.
Senses: synonyms: incurableness
glosses: The quality or state of being incurable; not being able to be cured.
incurableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From incurable + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: incurability
glosses: The state or condition of being incurable.
ileally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ileal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an ileal manner; of, into, or by means of the ileum.
Related terms: intraileally
intraileal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + ileal.
Senses: glosses: Into the ileum.
raw_tags: of an injection
Derived terms: intraileally
intraileally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intraileal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Into the ileum.
raw_tags: of an injection
hypercreativity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + creativity.
Senses: glosses: Extreme creativity; the state or condition of being hypercreative.
hypercorrectly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hypercorrectly
form: most hypercorrectly
Etymology: From hypercorrect + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a hypercorrect manner.
hypercorrectness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyper-correctness
Etymology: From hypercorrect + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being hypercorrect.
shovelers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoveler
suck cock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sucks cock
form: sucking cock
form: sucked cock
form: sucked cock
Senses: synonyms: suck dick
glosses: To perform fellatio.
glosses: To be of poor quality.
glosses: To be placed in a situation of utter humiliation or defeat.
Related terms: cocksuck
suck someone's cock
suck my cock
suck donkey cock
smoke someone's pole
does Macy's tell Gimbel's
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: Does Macy's tell Gimbel's
Etymology: Macy's and Gimbels (without the apostrophe) were popular department stores located within two blocks of one another in Midtown Manhattan in New York City; the latter store is now defunct.
Senses: examples: text: The "Does Macy's tell Gimbel's?" gag has been a standard one in New York for many years. It was somewhat shattered last night at the Copacabana, when two young couples were seated at a ringside table and conversed at great length...."Well, Macy's may not tell Gimbel's," said one of the young men, "But Bloomingdale's does."
ref: 1941 January 21, The Washington Post, page 22:
text: In other words the older circuit will give the Johnny-come-lately as little help and comfort as it can. After all, does Macy's tell Gimbel's?
ref: 1946 January 11, The New York Times, page 24:
text: ...As a lesson in merchandising, not only store products, but good-will, this "Miracle on 34th Street" is a dandy. Does Macy's tell Gimbel's? It should!
ref: 1947 June 5, The New York Times, page 32:
text: Col. Hogan (to Col. Klink) Does Macy tell Gimbel?
ref: 1966 January 7, Hogan's Heroes:
glosses: A rhetorical question with the implied answer being that competitors do not share business secrets with one another.
wikipedia: Gimbels
Macy's
Idahos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Idaho
yabbuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yabbut
skewerlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more skewerlike
form: most skewerlike
Etymology: From skewer + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The long, skewerlike dagger flashed and fell. The dealer struggled like a hen, striking his temple on the shelf, and then tumbled on the floor in a heap.
ref: 1885, Robert Louis Stevenson, Markheim:
glosses: Like a skewer; long, thin, and sharp.
nonneurotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + neurotic.
Senses: glosses: Not neurotic.
nonneurotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonneurotics
Etymology: From non- + neurotic.
Senses: glosses: One who is not neurotic.
nonneurotics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonneurotic
Mouseketeer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mouseketeers
Etymology: Blend of mouse + musketeer, from the Mickey Mouse ears worn by the performers.
Senses: examples: text: Yes, I became one of those confused children in the school cafeteria who failed to identify with one of the Mouseketeers; one of those who flubbed in food fights because I had not sufficiently studied my friends' mentors […]
ref: 1982 August, Deirdre English, “We oughta be in pictures”, in Mother Jones Magazine, volume 7, number 7:
text: And that cartel's got a network that makes the CIA look like Mouseketeers.
ref: 1989, M J Adamson, April When They Woo:
text: The research for that really disturbed me because so many of the Mouseketeers were living lives of quiet desperation. They hadn't profited emotionally, or financially, or professionally.
ref: 2004, Robert William Kubey, Creating television:
glosses: Any of the child or teenage performers featured in the American television variety show The Mickey Mouse Club.
Mouseketeers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mouseketeer
bulblike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bulblike
form: most bulblike
Etymology: From bulb + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a bulb.
bulbousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bulbous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being bulbous.
Synonyms: bulbosity
bulbosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bulbosity
bulbously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bulbously
form: most bulbously
Etymology: From bulbous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a bulbous manner.
Rashomon effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rashomon effects
Etymology: From Japanese 羅生門 (rashōmon), after Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon (1950), in which a crime witnessed by four individuals is described in four mutually contradictory ways.
Senses: examples: text: And, in accordance with the "Rashomon effect," depending on who is doing the telling, the reported effect of computerization in the same agency may differ widely.
ref: 1993, Marcos Leiderman, Technology in People Services: Research, Theory, and Applications:
ref: 2017 July 19, Lisa Provence, “Rashomon effect: Police chief defends tear gas; activists allege police brutalityhttp://www.c-ville.com/rashomon-effect-police-chief-defends-tear-gas-activists-allege-police-brutality”, in c-ville.com, retrieved 17 Feb 2018:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The effect of the subjectivity of perception on recollection, by which observers of an event are able to produce substantially different but equally plausible accounts of it.
wikipedia: Akira Kurosawa
nozzleman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nozzlemen
Etymology: From nozzle + -man.
Senses: glosses: A man responsible for controlling a nozzle, as when spraying concrete or in firefighting.
nozzlemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nozzleman
nozzled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nozzle + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: a two-nozzled lamp
glosses: Fitted with a nozzle.
Derived terms: multinozzled
unnozzled
nonerect
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + erect.
Senses: examples: text: The retractor penis muscle assists return of the penis to its nonerect position.
ref: 2009, William O. Reece, Functional Anatomy and Physiology of Domestic Animals, page 443:
glosses: Not erect.
nonerectile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + erectile.
Senses: glosses: Not erectile.
backpropagates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of backpropagate
backpropagated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of backpropagate
nonfirefighting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + firefighting.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to firefighting.
nonfirefighter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonfirefighters
Etymology: From non- + firefighter.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a firefighter.
nonfirefighters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonfirefighter
nondehydrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + dehydrated.
Senses: glosses: Not dehydrated.
nonrehydrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + rehydrated.
Senses: glosses: Not rehydrated.
nonheavy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + heavy.
Senses: examples: text: nonheavy metals
text: Thus, the positive output effect of Taiwan's proposed goods liberalization on the nonheavy manufacturing sector stems from the shift in relative industrial protection toward the nonheavy manufacturing sector.
ref: 2007, Takatoshi Ito, Anne O. Krueger, Trade in Services in the Asia-Pacific Region:
text: Specifically, store personnel displayed microinequities—they smiled less, they spoke fewer words, and they were more rude and less friendly with heavy (versus nonheavy) individuals.
ref: 2013, C. Nathan DeWall, The Oxford Handbook of Social Exclusion, page 58:
text: Among the nonheavy drinkers also, those who were depressed had a more difficult time stopping drinking once they had begun.
ref: 2014, Arthur Alterman, Substance Abuse and Psychopathology, page 24:
glosses: Not heavy.
nonmarrying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + marrying.
Senses: glosses: Not getting married.
nonmarriageable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + marriageable.
Senses: glosses: unmarriageable
sumplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sumplike
form: most sumplike
Etymology: From sump + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a sump.
nonparenthetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + parenthetical.
Senses: glosses: Not parenthetical.
haymakings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haymaking
greaseproofed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of greaseproof
greaseproofing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of greaseproof
greaseproofs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of greaseproof
upbeatness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From upbeat + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being upbeat.
nondesirable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + desirable.
Senses: glosses: undesirable
nondesired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + desired.
Senses: glosses: undesired
nonshameful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + shameful.
Senses: synonyms: unshameful
glosses: Not shameful.
quadrumanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadrumane
nonwitness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonwitnesses
Etymology: From non- + witness.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a witness.
nontruthful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + truthful.
Senses: glosses: Not truthful.
nonwitnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonwitness
nonsparking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + sparking.
Senses: examples: a nonsparking power tool
glosses: That does not give off sparks.
parkable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)kəbəl
Etymology: From park + -able.
Senses: examples: text: My small car is parkable in the tightest of spots.
glosses: Capable of being parked.
Derived terms: unparkable
Related terms: parkability
hydrotherapies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrotherapy
hammocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hammock + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: One humid afternoon a visitor did arrive to disturb Rottcodd as he lay deeply hammocked, for his siesta was broken sharply by a rattling of the door handle […]
ref: 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:
glosses: Ensconced in a hammock.
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Scheduled between two other programmes, by hammocking.
hammocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From hammock + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hammock
oboli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obolus
Tomek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tomeks
Etymology: Borrowed from Czech Tomek.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech.
kinesiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinesiologists
Etymology: From kinesiology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who practises kinesiology.
kinesiologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kinesiologist
Shyla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A 20th-century coinage, possibly inspired by Sheila.
Senses: examples: text: - - - the malignant ache I felt every time Shyla's name was mentioned. The word Shyla itself became a land mine. That sweet-sounding word was merciless and I could not bear to hear it.
ref: 1995, Pat Conroy, Beach Music, Bantam Books, published 1996, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage.
ingeminates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ingeminate
ingeminating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ingeminate
ingeminated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ingeminate
Kalispel-Pend d'Oreille
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Montana Salish, a Salishan language spoken in parts of Washington and Montana.
Related terms: Pend Oreille County
mule deer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mule deer
Senses: glosses: A species of deer (Odocoileus hemionus) found in western North America.
omikron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: omikrons
form: omikra
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Koine Greek ὂ μῑκρόν (ò mīkrón, “little o”).
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps among later additions is the name Ergotimos on (b) col.3, 1.58. In this name the omikra are taller as compared with other omikra in the list of names, but the other letters are of the same height. I am therefore not wholly convinced that we really have a later addition. It is the last name in col.3 and we cannot tell what made the engraver incise the omikra taller.
ref: 1983, Christoph W[alter] Clairmont, Patrios Nomos: Public Burial in Athens during the Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C.: The Archaeological, Epigraphic-Literary and Historical Evidence (BAR International Series; 161(ii)), part ii, Oxford, Oxfordshire: B.A.R., →ISBN, page 312:
text: [W]hat follows I would explain as an unsuccessful attempt at spelling the verbal form καμομένου with the first omikron clumsily written in the gap at the top of Powell’s character 45 with the upper curve following the scratch. […] As will be seen form Powell’s copy there are other examples of awkward omikra, e.g. characters 37 and 39.
ref: 1991, J[ohn] Pinsent, Helena Hurt, editors, Liverpool Classical Monthly, volume 16, Liverpool, Merseyside, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4:
text: [U]pper l. dolphin swims anti-clockwise, necklace-pendant is vase, there are two omikra in legend and signature beneath truncation is ΦΡΥΓΙΛΛ/ΟΣ.
ref: 1995 April 3, Greek & Roman Coins (Auction; 8), Zurich: Numismatica Ars Classica, →OCLC, page 24:
glosses: Alternative form of omicron.
Jarosław
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Jarosław.
Senses: glosses: A town in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland.
nondiscriminating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + discriminating.
Senses: glosses: Not discriminating.
nondiscerning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + discerning.
Senses: glosses: Not discerning.
wallless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From wall + -less.
Senses: examples: text: With a handful of soldiers, how could he defend the wallless city?
ref: 1932, Robert Ervin Howard, “The Sowers of Thunder”, in Oriental Storiesʷⁱᵏⁱˢᵒᵘʳᶜᵉ:
text: The authors are inclined, however, to the view that the tapetal contributions are used exclusively for the construction of the capsule, and are not involved in the "wallless tetrad" effect.
ref: 1961, Canadian Journal of Genetics and Cytology, volumes 3-4, page 181:
glosses: Alternative spelling of wall-less.
patroniser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patronisers
Etymology: From patronise + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of patronizer.
patronisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patroniser
glamour photography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A form of photography involving the taking of pictures of models which are intended to be erotic without being pornographic.
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: Photography intended to glamorize the subject.
Related terms: glamour model
pinup
enqueueing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enqueuing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enqueue
queueless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From queue + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a queue (line of people or things waiting).
glosses: Without a queue (the hairstyle).
nonmedicalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + medicalized.
Senses: glosses: unmedicalized
soynut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soynuts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of soy nut.
soynuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soynut
soyfoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soyfood
soy nut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soy nuts
form: soynut
Senses: glosses: A nut substitute made from a soybean soaked in water, drained, and then baked or roasted.
table saws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of table saw
glovemaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlʌvˌmeɪkə/
ipa: /ˈɡlʌvˌmeɪkɚ/
Forms: form: glovemakers
Etymology: From glove + maker.
Senses: glosses: A maker of gloves; a glover.
glovemakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glovemaker
butterless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From butter + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without butter.
Derived terms: butterlessness
buttermilks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buttermilk
buttermilky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more buttermilky
form: most buttermilky
Etymology: From buttermilk + -y.
Senses: examples: text: This high-necked one with the full sleeves would look well with the skirt, and the buttermilky colour matches the brown and cream nicely.
ref: 2008, June Davies, The Dog Star, Long Preston, North Yorkshire: Dales Large Print Books, published 2009, →ISBN, page 80:
synonyms: buttermilklike
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of buttermilk.
examples: text: In yet another bowl, combine the bananas and buttermilk. Alternately add the floury salty mixture and the buttermilky banana mash to the first eggy sugary mixture.
ref: 1998 October 15, “Cooker’s corner: Home Ec for Hop kids”, in The Johns Hopkins News-Letter, volume CIII, number 7, [Baltimore, Md.]: [T]he students of The Johns Hopkins University, →OCLC, page 31:
text: The light, buttermilky waffles might be even better—especially when ordered with bacon crumbles.
ref: 2001, Sharron Wood, Chow! San Francisco Bay Area: 300 Affordable Places for Great Meals & Good Deals, Seattle, Wash.: Sasquatch Books, →ISBN, page 75:
text: And the dip, a buttermilky sauce made with feta from Bennington’s Maplebrook Farm, was a worthy accompaniment to crisp sticks of carrot and jicama — a hydrating, south-of-the-border vegetable and fine stand-in for celery.
ref: 2014 July 9–16, Hannah Palmer Egan, “VerMexican: Taste Test: Mi Casa Kitchen & Bar, Stowe”, in Seven Days, volume 19, number 45, Burlington, Vt.: Da Capo Publishing Inc., →OCLC, page 46:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
synonyms: buttermilked
glosses: Prepared with buttermilk.
unpatronizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpatronizing
form: most unpatronizing
form: unpatronising
Etymology: From un- + patronizing.
Senses: glosses: Not patronizing.
Derived terms: unpatronizingly
unpatronizingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unpatronizingly
form: most unpatronizingly
form: unpatronisingly
Etymology: From unpatronizing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unpatronizing manner.
unpatronising
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpatronising
form: most unpatronising
Etymology: From un- + patronising.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unpatronizing.
unpatronisingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unpatronisingly
form: most unpatronisingly
Etymology: From unpatronising + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unpatronizingly.
yarny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more yarny
form: most yarny
Etymology: From yarn + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling yarn; coarse, ropelike.
yarnlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more yarnlike
form: most yarnlike
Etymology: From yarn + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling yarn; coarse, ropelike.
Synonyms: yarny
retrofashion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retrofashions
Etymology: From retro- + fashion.
Senses: glosses: Any fashion characterized by clothes associated with a previous era.
retrofashions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retrofashion
bullet bra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bullet bras
Senses: glosses: A full-support bra with cups in the shape of a paraboloid of revolution with its axis perpendicular to the breast, invented in the 1940s and popular into the 1960s.
threepences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of threepence
tenpence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenpences
Etymology: From ten + pence.
Senses: glosses: A coin worth ten old pence.
synonyms: florin
cutter
glosses: A coin worth ten new pence.
glosses: The value of ten old pence.
Derived terms: tenpence to the shilling
Related terms: twopence
tuppence
threepence
fourpence
fivepence
sixpence
eightpence
tenpences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenpence
exceeder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exceeders
Etymology: From exceed + -er.
Senses: examples: an exceeder of limits
glosses: One who, or that which, exceeds.
exceeders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exceeder
imagelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more imagelike
form: most imagelike
Etymology: From image + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an image.
nonvomiting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + vomiting.
Senses: examples: text: The latter results support the idea that conditioned-taste aversion to radiation observed in nonvomiting species can serve as a model for radiation-induced nausea...
ref: 1991, John Kucharczyk, David J Stewart, Alan D Miller, Nausea and vomiting: recent research and clinical advances:
glosses: That does not vomit.
mobile home
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mobile homes
Senses: synonyms: word: double-wide
word: house trailer
word: trailer home
word: trailer
word: manufactured home
glosses: A prefabricated home built in a factory, rather than on site, and then taken to the place where it will be occupied.
Related terms: trailer
typoese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From typo + -ese.
Senses: glosses: A supposed language characterized by typos (typographical errors).
Synonyms: typonese
haillike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more haillike
form: most haillike
Etymology: From hail + -like.
Senses: examples: text: It was a gusty, rainy day, and the rolling white and grey clouds and the lines of haillike lances rode down the sky like a charge.
ref: 1908, Eric Parker, Highways and byways in Surrey:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of hail (the weather phenomenon).
lancelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lancelike
form: most lancelike
Etymology: From lance + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a lance.
scarablike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scarablike
form: most scarablike
Etymology: From scarab + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a scarab beetle.
nonapathetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + apathetic.
Senses: glosses: Not apathetic.
scaringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more scaringly
form: most scaringly
Etymology: From scaring + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner that scares; frighteningly.