cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
make free with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes free with
form: making free with
form: made free with
form: made free with
Senses: examples: text: 1817, The Trial Between Mark Browne, Esq. and Martin Jos. Blake, Esq. for Adultery, London: John Fairburn, https://books.google.ca/books?id=kC1DAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Mr. Browne […] protested he had never made free with any woman but his wife, since his marriage.
text: Although the theoretical strictures of Neoclassicism in Europe during the later seventeenth century and the eighteenth century banned generic mixtures, they were not too faithfully adhered to. There was always a folk theater that made free with the rules […]
ref: 1993, Virgil Nemoianu, Romantic Irony, Biedermeier Tragicomedy, edited by Gerald Gillespie, Romantic Drama, Amsterdam: John Benjamins:
glosses: To take advantage of (someone); to treat (someone) with too much familiarity, take liberties with (someone or something)
examples: text: She was seated, as she observed, on her own brother's hearth, and had been Jane Featherstone five-and-twenty years before she had been Jane Waule, which entitled her to speak when her own brother's name had been made free with by those who had no right to it.
ref: 1871, George Eliot, chapter 12, in Middlemarch:
text: Oscar was […] reluctant to let a Poundamore make free with a Shillingsworth disgrace.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VII, in Capricornia, page 113:
glosses: To exploit (something), use freely, use to one's own advantage
examples: text: 1767, Isaac Bickerstaffe, Love in a Village, Act I, Scene II, https://books.google.ca/books?id=ZdZZAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
[…] I left my father's house unknown to any one, having made free with a coat and jacket of our gardener's which fitted me, by way of disguise: […]
text: Pat, and one of the Danes, who was as much addicted to tippling as himself, being unfortunately together upon watch, they made free with the spirits, and fell asleep through drunkenness.
ref: 1821, Sholto Percy, Reuben Percy, The Percy Anecdotes, London: T.Boys, Ludgate Hill, page 125:
glosses: To take (something) freely, help oneself to
Related terms: make free of
Montreal melon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Montreal melons
form: Montréal melon
Etymology: From being a melon originating from the environs of Montreal (Quebec, Canada).
Senses: glosses: a type of muskmelon originating from Montreal
Synonyms: Montreal nutmeg melon
Montréal nutmeg melon
owneress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: owneresses
Etymology: From owner + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: The good Doctor, who had but once since Madame de Malguet's establishment at the château entered the doors of that forbidden mansion, for the purpose of paying his respects to its owneress […]
ref: 1848, Henry Whitelock Torrens, Madame de Malguet: A Tale of 1820, volume 2, page 284:
glosses: A female owner.
pouding chômeur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poudings chômeur
Etymology: Borrowed from French pouding chômeur.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pudding chomeur.
pudding chomeur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pouding chômeur
form: pudding chômeur
form: pouding chomeur
form: chômeur pudding
form: chomeur pudding
Etymology: Borrowed from French pouding chômeur.
Senses: glosses: A type of pudding originating from Montreal, Quebec, Canada during the Great Depression. A dessert made by covering cake batter or stale bread with maple syrup, which then settles to the bottom after baking.
kill with kindness
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kills with kindness
form: killing with kindness
form: killed with kindness
form: killed with kindness
Senses: examples: text: After all these years of experience I know that some customers just act bad. You know, like bratty kids. I try to kill them with kindness, I yes them to death. Sometimes it will work and they will give me respect. Other times it doesn't.
ref: 2002, Mary Lizabeth Gatta, Juggling Food and Feelings: Emotional Balance in the Workplace, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 64:
glosses: To pacify somebody by remaining goodhearted.
santilmo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: santilmos
Etymology: From Cebuano santilmo.
Senses: topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
glosses: A floating flame or fire ball, similar to a will o' the wisp, that stalk or chase people at night, believed to be the ignited blood of a person who met a tragic death.
companioness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: companionesses
Etymology: From companion + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female companion.
member organisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: member organisations
form: member organization
Etymology: From member + organisation.
Senses: glosses: organisation connected to an umbrella organisation
Related terms: english: organisation that one can subscribe and pay contribution to
translation: organisation that one can subscribe and pay contribution to
word: membership organisation
16th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: 16ᵗʰ
Senses: examples: text: In 16th and 17th century Britain, for example, women’s alopecia was sometimes interpreted as retribution for sins, including adultery.
ref: 2024 March 31, Glen Jankowski, “Alopecia in art history: The many ways women’s hair loss has been interpreted”, in CNN:
glosses: Abbreviation of sixteenth.
unimpressedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unimpressed + -ness. Attested since the 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: The very reception of impression at all, indeed, denotes the Unlikeness to a previous state of unimpressedness.
ref: 1860, Sara Sophia Hennell, Thoughts in aid of faith:
glosses: A lack of impression; the state of being unimpressed.
Synonyms: word: unimpression
unimpression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unimpressions
Etymology: From un- + impression. Attested since the 19th century.
Senses: glosses: A lack of impression; the state of being unimpressed.
Synonyms: word: unimpressedness
17th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: 17ᵗʰ
Senses: examples: text: In 16th and 17th century Britain, for example, women’s alopecia was sometimes interpreted as retribution for sins, including adultery.
ref: 2024 March 31, Glen Jankowski, “Alopecia in art history: The many ways women’s hair loss has been interpreted”, in CNN:
glosses: Abbreviation of seventeenth.
18th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: 18ᵗʰ
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of eighteenth.
Western-Asian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Western Asian.
19th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: 19ᵗʰ
Senses: examples: text: The eugenics mania that swept the country in the late 19th and early 20th centuries led to forced sterilizations and the passage of laws in 27 states designed to limit the numbers of those considered genetically unfit: immigrants, Jews, African-Americans, the mentally ill and those deemed “morally delinquent.”
ref: 2018 October 16, John Blake, “When Americans tried to breed a better race: How a genetic fitness ‘crusade’ marches on”, in CNN:
glosses: Abbreviation of nineteenth.
telegeodynamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tele- + geodynamic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to telegeodynamics.
telegeodynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tele- + geodynamics.
Senses: glosses: An electromechanical Earth-resonance concept for underground seismic exploration, proposed by Nikola Tesla.
companionesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of companioness
teleidoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teleidoscopes
Etymology: Blend of tele- + kaleidoscope
Senses: glosses: A kind of kaleidoscope with a lens and an open view, capable of forming kaleidoscopic patterns from objects outside the instrument, rather than from items installed as part of it.
teleidoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teleidoscope
owneresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of owneress
unimpressions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unimpression
unimpressionability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + impressionability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of not being impressionable.
unimpressionableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unimpressionable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of not being impressionable.
unimpressionably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unimpressionably
form: most unimpressionably
Etymology: From unimpressionable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unimpressionable manner.
20th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtwɛn.ti.əθ/
Forms: form: 20ᵗʰ
Senses: examples: text: For much of the 20th century, the image of Mexico popularized abroad through film, music, art and literature was, more accurately, a portrayal of Jalisco state and especially its capital, Guadalajara.
ref: 2023 November 17, Michael Snyder, “A Guide to Guadalajara, Mexico’s City of Makers”, in The New York Times Style Magazine, archived from the original on 17 Nov 2023:
glosses: Abbreviation of twentieth.
22nd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: 22d
Senses: examples: text: As of April 26, the US ranked 22nd in the number of tests performed per capita, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
ref: 2020 May 12, Holly Yan, “Trump says the US leads the world in testing. But it’s far behind in testing per capita, studies show”, in CNN:
glosses: Abbreviation of twenty-second.
daughter isotopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daughter isotope
sufficed to say
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -eɪ
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of suffice (it) to say.
sooler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: soolers
Etymology: From sool + -er.
Senses: examples: text: According to the doctors (except one) giving evidence in the Mable inquiry, every person who possesses rooted prejudices, whether founded on basic facts or not, is a paranoic. On this medical ruling 'The Mirror' herewith submits a list of paranoics: […] Every sooler who convinced himself the war was for democracy […]
ref: 1921 February 6, The Sunday Mirror, Perth, WA:
text: Then a war-monger, or Sooler, as such people were called in the locality, made his voice heard in the land.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VIII, in Capricornia, page 120:
text: The Monash vignette is but a small part of Roberts’ rich account of Murdoch’s role in the war as chief propagandist for Prime Minister Billy Hughes, chief “sooler-on” in the recruitment and conscription campaigns, chief race patriot and otherwise tireless climber.
ref: 2015, Peter Cochrane, Book review: Before Rupert - Keith Murdoch and the Birth of a Dynasty, theconversation.com, November 12, 2015, http://theconversation.com/book-review-before-rupert-keith-murdoch-and-the-birth-of-a-dynasty-49491
glosses: Agitator, inciter; hawk (sense 2), warmonger
ozone shield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ozone shields
Senses: glosses: The ozone layer; a region of the stratosphere containing a relatively high concentration of ozone.
ozone holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ozone hole
sapraemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sapraemias
form: sapræmia
Etymology: From sapro- + -aemia.
Senses: examples: text: These substances are absorbed into the circulation, and produce the typical symptoms associated with sapraemia.
ref: 1805, Sir Anthony Alfred Bowlby, Surgical Pathology and Morbid Anatomy, page 74:
text: The stem is used for bilious conditions; ash for discharges and wounds, sapraemia in Malaya; infusion of straw for dysentery, gout, and rheumatism.
ref: 1993, James A. Duke, CRC Handbook of Alternative Cash Crops, →ISBN, page 342:
text: As Jellett's textbook instructed them, sapraemia resulted from 'poisons' formed 'during the putrefaction or decomposition of dead animal matter', in this case blood clots or parts of the placenta left behind in the uterus.
ref: 2007, Mavis Kirkham, Exploring the Dirty Side of Women's Health, →ISBN, page 32:
glosses: blood poisoning caused by the ingestion/absorption of toxins of putrefactive bacteria.
sapraemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːmɪk
Forms: form: sapremic
form: sapræmic
Etymology: From sapraemia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or having, sapraemia.
unciferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From New Latin uncifer + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: [Fig.] 19. Unciferous ovipositor. Locusta
ref: 1826, William Kirby, William Spence, “Explanation of the Plates”, in An Introduction to Entomology, page 728:
text: (Unciferous branches used for infantile convulsions, high fever, headache, hypertension, blurred vision, dizziness. Leaf paste of Uncaria macrophylla mixed with the rhizome of Eleusine indica applied externally in bone fracture.)
ref: 2012, Umberto Quattrocchi, CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology (5 Volume Set), CRC Press, page 3839:
text: these two species are misplaced and display characteristics typical of the widespread gnaphosid genus Micaria Westring, 1851: procurved posterior eye row with the median eyes elongate and shiny; the presence of iridescent scales (unciferous squamose setae)
ref: 2013, CR Haddad, R Bosmans, “Synonymy of the North African spider genus Castanilla Caporiacco, 1936 with Micaria Westring, 1851 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae)”, in Zootaxa:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Bearing a hook or hook-like structure.
soolers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sooler
chloroformyl-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: molecule containing a chloroformyl group which consists of a formyl group (-CO-H, also called aldehyde), in which the hydrogen is substituted by a chlorine atom (-CO-Cl). Also called acyl chloride.
antisnag
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + snag.
Senses: glosses: Preventing an item from snagging on something else.
chloroformyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chloro- + formyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A formyl group (-CO-H, also called aldehyde), in which the hydrogen is substituted by a chlorine atom (-CO-Cl).
Related terms: chloroformyl-
cocliques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coclique
fewnomial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fewnomials
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polynomial with few monomials.
fewnomials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fewnomial
ringoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ringoids
Etymology: From ring + -oid.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A ring-like algebraic structure.
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A small preadditive category (so named because a ring can be viewed as a preadditive category with a single object).
ringoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ringoid
softwarization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From software + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: Network softwarization and network function virtualization have been introduced to tackle these problems.
ref: 2016, Sevil Dräxler, Manuel Peuster, Holger Karl, Michael Bredel, Johannes Lessmann, Thomas Soenen, Wouter Tavernier, Sharon Mendel-Brin, George Xilouris, “SONATA: Service Programming and Orchestration for Virtualized Software Networks”, in arXiv:
glosses: The use of a software solution, rather than traditional hardware, to solve a problem.
intermode
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + mode.
Senses: examples: text: The model assumes that the number of interacting modes is finite and effects of the mode overlapping coefficient on the strength of the intermode interaction can be taken into account through dependence of the coupling coefficient on the mode characteristics.
ref: 2016, George P. Miroshnichenko, Alexei D. Kiselev, Alexander I. Trifanov, Artur V. Gleim, “Algebraic approach to electro-optic modulation of light: Exactly solvable multimode quantum model”, in arXiv:
glosses: Between modes.
loadability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loadabilities
Etymology: From load + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: Merchandise in small consignments, or of poor loadability, or handled in small terminals where costs are high, produces a deficit on direct costs of some £40-50m and an overall loss of £70-80m.
ref: 1962 August, “British Railways in 1961—a working loss of £87 million”, in Modern Railways, page 90:
text: First the relation of the machine speed and size and then mechanical, electrical and magnetic loadabilities are studied to find out the performance limits of different machine types.
ref: 2013, Juha Pyrhonen, Design of Rotating Electrical Machines, page 331:
text: Case studies explore the effect of different levels of DR on performance, loadability and voltage stability of the Australian National Electricity Market in 2020 with the increased penetration of RESs.
ref: 2016, Hesamoddin Marzooghi, Shariq Riaz, Gregor Verbic, Archie C. Chapman, David J. Hill, “Generic Demand Modelling Considering the Impact of Price-Responsive Users for Future Grid Scenarios”, in arXiv:
glosses: The quality or degree of being loadable.
Related terms: reloadability
loadabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loadability
anticommute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: anticommutes
form: anticommuting
form: anticommuted
form: anticommuted
Etymology: From anti- + commute.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To operate anticommutatively.
anticommutes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of anticommute
anticommuted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of anticommute
nonlimerent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + limerent.
Senses: glosses: Not limerent.
techni-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Described using the technicolor model.
Derived terms: technibaryon
technidilaton
technigluon
technihadron
technilepton
technipion
techniquark
Gutland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Luxembourgish gut (“good”) + Land (“land”). Calqued in French as bon pays.
Senses: glosses: A region in southern Luxembourg.
nonadjective
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonadjectives
Etymology: From non- + adjective.
Senses: glosses: A word that is not an adjective.
nonadjectives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonadjective
nonobedient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + obedient.
Senses: glosses: Not obedient.
masculinizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more masculinizable
form: most masculinizable
Etymology: From masculinize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being masculinized.
minirace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miniraces
Etymology: From mini- + race.
Senses: examples: text: Teichman, who planned to head to Citi Field to work Game 5 of the World Series on Sunday night shortly after finishing, has raced nine times and become used to a day that is full of miniraces.
ref: 2015 November 1, Seth Berkman, “Getting to the Start on Time: The Race Before the Race”, in New York Times:
glosses: A short race (contest of speed).
miniraces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minirace
marjaiya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic مَرْجِعِيَّة (marjiʕiyya)
Senses: examples: text: The role of the marjaiya is to be the protector of the rights of society.
ref: 2015 November 1, Tim Arango, “In Bid to Counter Iran, Ayatollah in Iraq May End Up Emulating It”, in New York Times:
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The supreme religious body of ayatollahs in Shi'ism.
Aglianico
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aglianicos
Etymology: From Italian aglianico.
Senses: glosses: An Italian wine made with a black grape variety from Basilicata and Campania.
Aglianicos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aglianico
swaggerlicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪʃəs
Forms: form: more swaggerlicious
form: most swaggerlicious
form: swagalicious
Etymology: From swagger + -licious.
Senses: examples: text: It was billed as a blockbuster matchup between the Saints’ adjective-inducing offense and a Jets defense described as “swaggerlicious.”
ref: 2009 October 5, Greg Bishop, “Saints Make Sanchez Look Like Rookie”, in New York Times:
text: Swaggerlicious. That's the word that comes to mind to describe this dark-skinned cutie-pie standing in front of me with the gold fronts in his mouth, pierced ears, and an arm covered in intricately designed tattoos trying to get his rap on.
ref: 2014, Amir Abrams, Caught Up, page 1:
text: He had on a swaggerlicious top, some LaBron^([sic]) James sneakers on and a back pack. He spoke like a man, looked like a boy and was smooth like a thug, just what Carmen needed.
ref: 2014, David Rector, Living In Atlanta, page 107:
qualifier: chiefly African-American Vernacular
glosses: Attractively bold and arrogant.
cellbound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cell + bound.
Senses: examples: text: Hardly a typical biopic, “Bronson” more or less takes place inside the head of its cellbound antihero (played by Tom Hardy), who also serves as the story’s narrator, appearing on a spotlighted stage as a sinister M.C. in burlesque makeup.
ref: 2009 October 4, Dennis Lim, “Looking at an Inmate, Seeing an Artist”, in New York Times:
glosses: Confined to a prison cell.
outpedant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outpedants
form: outpedanting
form: outpedanted
form: outpedanted
Etymology: From out- + pedant.
Senses: examples: text: So I say outpedant the pedants, and allow yourself to gluttonously revel in the linguistic improprieties of yore as you familiarize yourself with the nearly unique enormity of the gloriously mistaken heritage that our literature is comprised of.
ref: 2009 October 4, Ammon Shea, “Error-Proof”, in New York Times:
glosses: To surpass in pedantry.
outpedanted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outpedant
outpedants
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outpedant
outpedanting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outpedant
midwrithe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + writhe.
Senses: examples: text: And here is La Savona in midwrithe, during her signature Scheherazade routine.
ref: 2009 October 2, Dan Barry, “Burlesque Days Again for the Feather Boa Crowd”, in New York Times:
glosses: A point in time during a writhing motion.
triacetone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + acetone.
Senses: examples: text: At the detention hearing, Mr. Neff reiterated that Mr. Zazi had e-mailed himself bomb-making instructions and had been shopping for the components to make the explosives, triacetone triperoxide, or TATP, from beauty supply stores.
ref: 2009 September 26, William K. Rashbaum, “Terror Suspect Is Transferred to New York for Trial”, in New York Times:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Three acetone substituents in another compound.
Derived terms: triacetone triperoxide
karajishi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karajishi
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 唐獅子.
Senses: examples: text: Titled “Picture of Fate: I Am but a Fisherman Who Angles in the Darkness of His Mind,” the Murakami is dominated by the exotic karajishi, or “China-lion,” who guards the threshold of Japanese Buddhist temples and is a frequent subject of Chinese and Japanese artists.
ref: 2009 September 25, Roberta Smith, “In Chelsea, a Chapter in Abstract Art and Some Long Verse”, in New York Times:
glosses: A guardian lion figure found in Chinese and Japanese art.
paldao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: On modular pieces for homes and offices Rohde combined exotic woods like paldao and East Indian laurel with experimental manmade materials including Fabrikoid faux leather and Mira-Lith sandy washable paint.
ref: 2009 September 25, Eve M. Kahn, “Televisions With a Proud History”, in New York Times:
glosses: The wood of Dracontomelon dao, the Pacific walnut.
yum yum
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: -ʌm
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yum.
mesonoxian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meso- (“middle”) + Latin nox (“night”) + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: A tumble would have had serious consequences. It had been unforgivable recklessness, but also tremendously sexy. YouTube found the graphic documentation of my mesonoxian madness too explicit but it was present on a few other video sites […]
ref: 2014, Malcolm James Thomson, TheodoraLand:
text: Glancing at the gold clock on the mantelpiece I see that it is already midnight, the most potent time of night for Lazarus witches, so that all our most important events are timed to start to coincide with the mesonoxian hour.
ref: 2014, Paula Brackston, The Midnight Witch:
text: Mesonoxian wanderer, bathed in moonlit shadows […]
ref: 2015, Dena M. Ferrari, Charmed Times Three, page 110:
glosses: midnight
Related terms: equinox
meso-
overbattered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overbattered
form: most overbattered
Etymology: From over- + battered.
Senses: examples: text: The squid-ink foam and yuzu kosho aioli may get along well with a fried oyster sitting on a drum of rice rolled in nori, but the oyster was so overbattered and overcooked I couldn’t tell.
ref: 2015 October 27, Pete Wells, “O Ya Riffs on Sushi and Sashimi in Kips Bay”, in New York Times:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Coated in too much batter.
baklawah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: AS a young student at the multinational Aramco school in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Fadi Jaber, a son of Palestinian refugees, always preferred his American classmates’ cupcakes, brownies and chocolate chip cookies to his mother’s pastries: knafah, qatayef and baklawah.
ref: 2009 September 23, Anna Louie Sussman, “Yes, We Speak Cupcake”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2022:
glosses: Alternative form of baklava.
katayef
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of qatayef.
qatayef
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: katayef
Etymology: From dialectal Arabic قَطَايِف (qaṭāyif), from قَطَائِف (qaṭāʔif).
Senses: examples: text: AS a young student at the multinational Aramco school in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Fadi Jaber, a son of Palestinian refugees, always preferred his American classmates’ cupcakes, brownies and chocolate chip cookies to his mother’s pastries: knafah, qatayef and baklawah.
ref: 2009 September 23, Anna Louie Sussman, “Yes, We Speak Cupcake”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2022:
glosses: Sweet dumplings filled with cream or nuts, traditionally served in Arab communities during Ramadan.
Related terms: kataifi
Cakchiquel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kaqchikel.
Caqchikel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kaqchikel.
tempoed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tempo + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: We danced a slow-tempoed waltz.
glosses: Having a specified tempo.
dogtagged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Fom dog tag + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Tagged with a dog tag.
uncombable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncombable
form: most uncombable
Etymology: From un- + combable.
Senses: glosses: Not combable.
Derived terms: uncombable hair syndrome
Snowshoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Snowshoe
Waffle House Index
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Waffle House Index
Etymology: Coined by FEMA administrator Craig Fugate in May 2011, following the 2011 Joplin tornado.
Senses: glosses: An informal metric used to determine the impact of a storm in terms of disaster recovery, based on whether local Waffle House restaurants are open and serving a full menu.
cryosauna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryosaunas
Etymology: From cryo- + sauna.
Senses: glosses: A device used in cryotherapy to lower the patient's skin temperature rapidly.
cryosaunas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryosauna
cutwith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cutwiths
Senses: glosses: The cross-bar or similar fastening at the end of the beam of a plough or harrow to which the gear of the draught animals is attached.
destructivism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From destructive + -ism.
Senses: glosses: An art movement that involves destroying objects in front of spectators.
Related terms: destructivist
destructivist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: destructivists
Etymology: From destructive + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A representative of destructive principles, as in biblical criticism.
glosses: An artist involved in destructivism.
destructivists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of destructivist
dipivoxil
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + pivoxil.
Senses: examples: text: I joined Gilead Sciences in 1990, and by 1999 we were in the final stage of about five or six years of work in creating the drug adefovir dipivoxil to treat H.I.V. The drug wasn’t approved by the F.D.A. for H.I.V. because the data showed evidence of kidney toxicity.
ref: 2009 October 11, Amy Zipkin, “On the Discovery Trail”, in New York Times:
glosses: Applied to a diester pivoxil prodrug of adefovir.
Derived terms: adefovir dipivoxil
mavenry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From maven + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: May the memories of his mavenry live on.
ref: 2009 October 11, Ben Zimmer, “The Maven, Nevermore”, in New York Times:
glosses: expertise
sashimied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sashimi + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: I could only assume that the tuna, before being sashimied, enjoyed a massage and that the fennel had signed consent forms to be crushed into ice cream.
ref: 2009 October 11, Anand Giridharadas, “Boycotts Minus the Pain”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of food: prepared as sashimi.
yieldco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yieldcos
Senses: examples: text: It also said it would pursue a more limited strategy with its yieldco.
ref: 2015 October 11, Diane Cardwell, “Renewable Energy Financing Hits a Snag”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of yield co.
yieldcos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yieldco
yield co
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yield cos
form: yieldco
Senses: glosses: A company formed to own operating assets that produce a predictable cash flow, primarily through long-term contracts.
txted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of txt
txting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of txt
txts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of txt
txts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of txt
txtspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of textspeak.
ne'ery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Univerbation of ne'er + a.
Senses: examples: text: "The worst of all, ma'am; the worst of all! It'll just kill t' squire! There's ne'ery doubt in the world about that. It'll be the very death of t' old man."
ref: 2008, Anthony Trollope, The Small House at Allington:
glosses: Not any at all; absolutely no
Related terms: nary
margheritas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of margherita
lightwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I confess I am not fully aware of all the technicalities, but to what extent then is reprocessed fuel capable of being reused in lightwater reactors, compared to being reused in breeder reactors?
ref: 1978, United States Congress House Committee on Science and Technology Subcommittee on the Environment and the Atmosphere, Environmental Implications of the New Energy Plan:
text: To renew the nuclear option, then, it is necessary to reexamine lightwater reactor technology. This clearly leads to a priority effort to define advanced lightwater reactor systems.
ref: 1986, Fusion Advisory Panel (U.S.), United States Congress House Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Energy Research and Production, Fiscal Year 1987 Department of Energy Authorization, page 248:
text: If the U.S. had helped us acquire a lightwater capability [following the Gallucci-Kang talks in 1993], even if from a third country, we could have avoided the current problem, and we would have reached a point of greater confidence, and we would now enjoy improved relations.
ref: 2010, Richard Rhodes, The Twilight of the Bombs, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of light water.
Water in its standard form.
examples: text: An aqueous film-forming foam consisting of water and a special detergent, lightwater overspreads Class B fires -- those fed by petroleum -- and smothers them instantly.
ref: 1974 September, Mort Schultz, “Fire on the Flight Deck!”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 142, number 3:
text: The new FFE vehicle system can quickly detect fire and automatically activate lightwater foam to provide fail safe protection for both the vehicle, machinery and the operators.
ref: 1983, Mine and Quarry Mechanisation, page 110:
text: The City of Mountlake Terrace Fire Department has lightwater and foam capabilities and there are adequate fire hydrants along Interstate 5 and 220th Street S.W. to handle most emergencies.
ref: 1983, Environmental Impact Statement: I-5 Ramp Construction at 220th St Interchange:
glosses: Alternative form of light water.
Fire-fighting foam.
light-water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Still, there were hints that other delegations were willing to consider language that would allow North Korea eventually to have some sort of peaceful-use nuclear programme -- if not light-water reactors -- if it rejoined international nuclear non-proliferation treaties and allowed international inspectors in.
ref: 2013, Ian Jeffries, North Korea: A Guide to Economic and Political Developments, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of light water.
Normal water, as opposed to heavy water.
examples: text: Also, once you use light-water on a fuel fire, it's nearly impossible to get it to re-light for subsequent firefighters.
ref: 2016, Maggie Holeman, Woman in the Locker Room: An Alaskan Woman's Journey for Change, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of light water.
Fire fighting foam.
after all is said and done
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: After all's said and done
One and one still is one
When we cry, when we laugh
I am half, you are half
ref: 1996, Robert Miles, “One and One”, performed by Maria Nayler:
glosses: Alternative form of when all is said and done.
preinitialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preinitializes
form: preinitializing
form: preinitialized
form: preinitialized
Etymology: From pre- + initialize.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To preprepare (a data structure, etc.) so that it is ready to be initialized.
preinitialized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preinitialize
preinitializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preinitialize
preinitializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preinitialize
preinitialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + initialization.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A phase prior to initialization, when something is preinitialized.
chernukha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Russian черну́ха (černúxa), from чёрный (čórnyj, “black”).
Senses: examples: text: Though the USA came in for severe criticism, it was admitted that at least the Americans had perfected a form for the horror film. The Russians were unsure of genres. One speaker made the helpful observation that we should distinguish between home-grown 'chernukha' and foreign 'chernukha'.
ref: 1998, Rusistika, The Association:
text: It should be emphasized that, although Petrushevskaia's subject matter is weighty, serious, often horrific, her texts abundant in image of loss, death, and difficult love, and her awareness of social problems acute, her style is the factor that raises her work above other practitioners of 'chernukha'.
ref: 2000, Sally Dalton-Brown, Voices from the Void: The Genres of Liudmila Petrushevskaia:
text: Purveyors of screen chernukha, caught up in the late- and post-Soviet 'pathos of pure negation', threw out several perfectly useful babies with the Bolshevik-tainted bathwater, including: (1) narrative coherency, rejected by virtue of its association with Soviet film and perhaps also because it smacked of teleology […]
ref: 2008, S. Hutchings, Russia and its Other(s) on Film: Screening Intercultural Dialogue:
text: There are welcome flashes of humor throughout, particularly the dark, sardonic strain that Russians call chernukha. Watching his hapless father speak about his passion project — a homemade space capsule to be used in the event of a nuclear war — Alexei remarks that “his cheeks remained red with excitement and dermatitis.”
ref: 2015 October 23, Alex Halberstadt, “‘The Tsar of Love and Techno,’ by Anthony Marra”, in New York Times:
glosses: A gloomy genre of Russian horror.
inhibitively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inhibitively
form: most inhibitively
Etymology: From inhibitive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: During college Gross had shed some of her innate reserve, but ‘‘I still was just inhibitively shy,’’ she said.
ref: 2015 October 21, Susan Burton, “Terry Gross and the Art of Opening Up”, in New York Times:
glosses: So as to inhibit.
alderwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alderwoods
Etymology: From alder + wood.
Senses: examples: text: Geltsdale Forsest is an extensive tract of mountain, forming the south-east portion of Castle Carrock parish, and is a royal forest leased by the Earl of Carlisle. Part of it abounds in birch and alderwoods, and gives rise to the river Gelt, which flows northwards.
ref: 1860, William Whellan, The History and Topography of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland:
text: In consequence, when the ground-level in spite of all does in time rise above the water-level, instead of an alderwood one encounters meadow associations belonging to the order Molinietalia.
ref: 2013, Władysław Szafer, The Vegetation of Poland:
text: Not all stand types have an alderwood equivalent. For example, Quercus petraea and Fagus rarely grow with alder, so the alderwood equivalents of stand types 6A and 6C are the same as those of 6B and 6D, and there are no alderwood equivalents of been woodland.
ref: 2013, G. F. Peterken, Woodland Conservation and Management:
glosses: A wood largely populated with alder trees.
examples: text: Fig. 12. Is a piece of Alder-wood the breadth whereof is about the bigness of the bristle of a Hog, to the naked Eye.
ref: 1683 June 10, “An Abstract of a Letter from Mr. Anthony Leewenhoeck of Delft to Mr. R. H. concerning the appearances of several Woods and their Vessels as observed in a Microscope.”, in Philosophical Transactions, volume 13, number 148, page 197:
text: The said bishop Ofbaldiston cut and sold all the alder wood upon the demesne at Rose, with large quantities of oak and ash, to the value of many hundred pounds.
ref: 1777, Joseph Nicolson, The history and antiquities of the counties of Westmorland and Cumberland, volume 2:
text: For nankeen, to the gall-liquor must be added a decoction of tea of alderwood, walnut, poplar, or mahogany; after which nitro-muriate of tin is to be added
ref: 1798 October 24, “Mr. Frith's, for a new method of dying permanent colours on linen, woollen, silk, &c.”, in Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register, volume 6:
text: There he build a giant trap over the water out of a huge cedar trunk split for part of its length and propped open with an alderwood pole.
ref: 2000, Tim Thompson, Puget Sound: Sea Between the Mountains:
glosses: The wood from an alder tree.
alderwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alderwood
banias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bania
outtie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outties
Etymology: From out + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: But as the scandal erupted, Ms Hanson denied ever knowing the man and said the pictures, which feature reclining, lingerie and a distinctive "outtie" belly button, were not of her.
ref: 2009 March 20, By Will Temple, “Pauline Hanson nude picture scandal tangles web”, in Herald Sun:
glosses: Alternative form of outie.
outtie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: outie
Etymology: From out + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: I'm outtie, see ya.
text: I got nothing to lose / Two twos, I'm outtie
ref: 2020 March 27, “ROOF” (track 9), in Before Love Came to Kill Us, performed by Jessie Reyez:
glosses: Out, gone.
outties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outtie
reinswoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reinswomen
Etymology: From reins + woman.
Senses: examples: text: He said it had taken the suspension of champion reinswoman Kerryn Manning for drivers to get the message.
ref: 2009 March 23, Fines likely, “Jockeys may face demerit system over whip rules”, in Herald Sun:
glosses: A female jockey, especially in harness racing.
examples: text: Elizabeth in her younger days was a fine reinswoman, delighted to drive her father's horses, and was fearless […]
ref: 1938, Sesquicentennial History of the Town of Greene, Androscoggin County, Maine:
glosses: A skilful female driver of horses.
reinswomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reinswoman
fly-wire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fly-wires
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flywire.
acoustica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Coordinate term: electronica
text: Beth Orton has latched her acoustica onto the Chemical Brothers electronica with surprising results.
ref: 1998, SPIN, volume 14, number 9, page 124:
text: Disillusioned with lyrics, Scullin and his sonic soulmates have made an album that massages the temples with repetitive swathes of airy acoustica.
ref: 2009 August 20, “Rock City rocks the Kes Band”, in Herald Sun:
glosses: acoustic music
laninamivir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -amivir (“neuraminidase inhibitor”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A neuraminidase inhibitor used to treat influenza.
bagload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bagloads
Etymology: From bag + load.
Senses: examples: text: If you're a big souvenir fan, you can cart home bagloads of fridge magnets, Acropolis-shaped bottle openers, marble chess sets, red metal wine carafes and komboloi (worry beads), all at a fraction of the summertime going rate.
ref: 2009 January 22, Daryl O'Dowd, “The glories of Greece”, in Toronto Star, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2012:
glosses: A large amount.
bagloads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bagload
suckas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sucka
swamp cancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "But you can't ride a horse."
"I can ride old Walleye."
"But he's got the swamp-cancer. He's dying, Daddy. He's nearly dead."
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VIII, in Capricornia, page 129:
text: The horses—"brumbies," in Australian—stand hock-deep in water and develop swamp cancer: tumorlike, pustulant growths on their legs and bellies and noses.
ref: 2010, Verlyn Klinkenborg, “The Vanishing Point”, in The Best American Series: 20 Short Stories and Essays, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2012, page 115:
glosses: Synonym of pythiosis.
synonyms: word: pythiosis
disinformational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From disinformation + -al.
Senses: examples: text: This is a thinly disguised disinformational argument for union capitulation to the globalization agenda of the multinational corporations, whose objective is to rule the world by co-opting or disempowering elected governments – and unions.
ref: 2009 January 13, “Union gains are shared by all Canadians”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Relating to disinformation.
envirospeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From enviro- + -speak.
Senses: examples: text: The government is dubbing the two-for-one approach a "cap and trade" system to give the effort a green glow, a move Samuelson criticized as inappropriate "envirospeak."
ref: 2009 February 3, Tanya Talaga, “Red-tape cuts raise fears”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Synonym of ecospeak.
synonyms: word: ecospeak
Chiemgauers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chiemgauer
Chiemgauer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chiemgauers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Chiemgauer, named after the Chiemgau region.
Senses: glosses: A regional currency used in Prien am Chiemsee, Bavaria, Germany, pegged to the euro and intended to promote local commerce and non-profits.
gotchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It's well after midnight when the party breaks up and I return to my hotel. As I drift off to sleep there's a gentle tapping at my door. I stagger over in my gotchies and open up.
ref: 2019, Michael Mitchell, Final Fire: A Memoir:
glosses: underpants
colour-proud
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more colour-proud
form: most colour-proud
form: colour proud
form: color-proud
form: color proud
Senses: examples: text: To the Frenchman, of course, black and white are both alike. He is not so colour-proud as we are. And an Algerian negro is a fully-fledged French citizen.
ref: 1924, Cherry Kearton, The Shifting Sands of Algeria, London: Arrowsmith:
text: Lace had at the back of his mind a desire to go combo. He had had it ever since he came in contact with the comely lubras of the district. But at first it had been kept in check by what he called his Sense of Decency. Not that he was a prude. Apparently he was only colour-proud.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VIII, in Capricornia, page 132:
text: 2007, Lena Crabbe in Sally Morgan, Tjalaminu Mia and Blaze Kwaymullina (eds), Speaking from the Heart: Stories of Life, Family and Country, North Fremantle, WA: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, p. 36, https://books.google.ca/books?id=izfgb7WGC7oC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
His parents were colour proud and they didn't want him knocking around with Nyungars […]
glosses: Favouring people of one's own skin colour over others; racist, racially prejudiced.
colour proud
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more colour proud
form: most colour proud
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of colour-proud.