cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cut swathes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts swathes
form: cutting swathes
form: cut swathes
form: cut swathes
Senses: examples: text: Those were all landmark moments to cherish. Just as appealing was the manner in which Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Milner cut swathes down either flank, albeit through flustered full-backs who had looked poorly positioned and horribly jittery from the start.
ref: 2012 September 7, Dominic Fifield, “England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Synonym of cut a wide swath.
synonyms: word: cut a wide swath
hydrophyllium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”) + φύλλιον (phúllion), diminutive of φύλλον (phúllon, “leaf”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the flat, leaf-like, protective zooids covering other zooids of certain Siphonophorae.
alcoholometrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alcoholometrical
form: most alcoholometrical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of alcoholometric.
alcoholmeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alcoholmeters
Etymology: From alcohol + -meter.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of alcoholometer.
alcoholmeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alcoholmeter
from the off
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: [Finn] Russell created his side’s three first-half tries, ruffling a defence known for its composure, and dictated the match from the off.
ref: 2018 February 24, Paul Rees, “Finn Russell masterminds historic Scotland victory over England”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2018:
text: The papacy has for centuries brought with it a place on the world stage. Francis, who from the off gave the impression of being a man in a hurry, was determined to use that platform to push a bottom-up agenda for the world.
ref: 2025 April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: from the word go
glosses: From the beginning.
coronels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coronel
hypersociable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + sociable.
Senses: glosses: Very sociable
Related terms: hypersociability
Williams syndrome
ampullate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ampullate
form: most ampullate
Etymology: From Latin ampullatus. Equivalent to ampulla + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Having an ampulla; flask-shaped; bellied.
Synonyms: ampullated
ampullate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ampullates
Etymology: From ampulla + -ate (noun-forming suffix)
Senses: glosses: The spigot of a spinneret in some spiders
ampullated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ampullated
form: most ampullated
Etymology: From ampullate + -d.
Senses: glosses: ampullate
reostats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reostat
tutelaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tutelary
raguled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: ragguled
Etymology: Compare French raguer (“to chafe, fret, rub”), or English rag.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Raguly.
ragguled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of raguled.
potichomanie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potichomanies
Etymology: French
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of potichomania.
potichomanies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potichomanie
rilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rill
rilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rill
Nashean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Nashean
form: most Nashean
Etymology: From Nashe + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Thomas Nashe (1567–1601?), English Elizabethan pamphleteer, playwright, poet and satirist.
negroize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: negroizes
form: negroizing
form: negroized
form: negroized
Etymology: From negro + -ize.
Senses: synonyms: negrify
negrofy
coordinate_terms: blackify
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blackwash#Verb
glosses: To make negro; to convert or adapt to the ways or norms of black people.
Related terms: negrification
negrofication
negroization
negroization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: By surface analysis, negro + -ization, or, by surface analysis, negroize + -ation.
Senses: synonyms: negrification
negrofication
glosses: The act or process of negroizing.
Related terms: negrify
negrofy
negroized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of negroize
negroizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of negroize
negroizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of negroize
bucket sort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bucket sorts
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A sorting algorithm that partitions an array into a number of buckets (groups of elements) which are then individually sorted, either recursively or using some other algorithm.
bucketsort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bucketsorts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bucket sort.
bucketsorts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bucketsort
burhel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burhels
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of bharal.
burhels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burhel
burrhel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burrhels
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of bharal.
burrhels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burrhel
carunculated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more carunculated
form: most carunculated
Senses: examples: text: The carrier (pigeon), more especially the male bird, is also remarkable from the wonderful development of the carunculated skin about the head...
ref: 1859, Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species:
glosses: Alternative form of carunculate.
carunculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more carunculate
form: most carunculate
form: carunculated
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a caruncle or caruncles; caruncular.
dowelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dowel
dowelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dowellings
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A dowel.
examples: text: One soon learned, however, that it was no easy thing to make wood do exactly as one required it. It looked quite easy in the masterly hands of the experienced pattern-maker, but the mysteries of dowelling and mortice and tenon were not uncovered in a week or two.
ref: 1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 341:
glosses: The use of dowels in manufacture.
dowelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dowel
Derived terms: undowelled
stupefactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stupefactive
form: most stupefactive
Etymology: Compare French stupéfactif.
Senses: examples: text: Opium and laudanum, which is a preparation of opium, are both stimulating and stupefactive.
ref: 1841, Benjamin Parsons, The wine question settled, page 7:
glosses: Inducing stupor; making drowsy; stupefacient.
kepo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kepo
form: most kepo
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kaypoh.
kepo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kepos
form: kepoes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kaypoh.
kepo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kepos
form: kepoing
form: kepoed
form: kepoed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kaypoh.
interhaemal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: interhemal
Etymology: From inter- + haemal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Between the haemal arches or haemal spines.
morphewed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more morphewed
form: most morphewed
Etymology: From morphew + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Even the pox is afraid to touch thy morphewed carcase.’
ref: 1985, John Fowles, A Maggot:
glosses: Marked with morphews, or blisters.
Biddery ware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of bidriware.
gedd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gedds
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ged (“The European pike”).
gedds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gedd
moredom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From more + -dom; sometimes viewed as a blend of more + boredom.
Senses: examples: text: These people are dedicated to the pursuit of prosperity," he said later, "and the price of prosperity is often moredom. Moredom is the cousin of boredom. [...]"
ref: 1956, Leonard Mosley, Castlerosse:
text: Mmmmm. so i started a live journal our of boredom, and then deleted it out of boredom, and now im undeleting it out of even more moredom.
ref: 2006, Talkin shit about a pretty sunset - shmorgesboard of mindchanges, the-mandrew.livejournal.com/1045.html
text: "I never suffer from boredom, and in fact, if I suffer from anything, it's from moredom! I never have enough time to do all the things I want to do!"
ref: 2009, Danny Bloom, zippy1300.blogspot.com:
text: I wish you Boredom. Rather, Moredom.
ref: 2009, FUTURES Antiques, futuresantiques.com/boredom:
text: Make The Most Of The Moment And Avoid Moredom!
ref: 2011, 5 minutes inspiration from @actorbrianwhite
glosses: The quality, state, or condition of having more (to do); excessiveness.
volcaniclastics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of volcaniclastic
pyroclastics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyroclastic
watap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wataps
form: watape
form: wattape
Etymology: From Ojibwe wadab (“spruce root”).
Senses: glosses: The root of the spruce, and sometimes also of the pine, split lengthwise into strips and used in the construction of baskets and canoes.
wejack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wejacks
Etymology: From Cree ocêk, otchek (“fisher”) or Ojibwe ojiig (“fisher, marten”). Doublet of woodchuck and woodshock.
Senses: glosses: A fisher, Pekania pennanti, syn. Martes pennanti.
wejacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wejack
voiceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From voice + -able.
Senses: examples: a voiceable initial, voiceable vowels and consonants
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Able to be voiced.
Synonyms: utterable
vocable
positionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: positionalities
Etymology: From positional + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being positional.
examples: text: In the post-civil rights era, some white men have adopted a marginalized positionality in an effort to reclaim the tacit social privileges of being white, heterosexual and male.
ref: 2007, Sean Brayton, “MTV's Jackass: Transgression, Abjection and the Economy of White Masculinity”, in Journal of Gender Studies, volume 16, page 58:
text: Many of my liberal friends and acquaintances now seem to believe that being a good person means constantly reminding Black people that you are aware of their Blackness. Difference, no longer to be politely ignored, is insisted upon at all times under the guise of acknowledging “positionality.”
ref: 2023 August 14, Tyler Austin Harper, “I’m a Black Professor. You Don’t Need to Bring That Up.”, in The Atlantic:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The social context one inhabits that shapes and defines a person's identity and perspective.
Derived terms: superpositionality
positionalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of positionality
whiskey jack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whiskey jacks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whisky jack (gray jay, Canada jay).
whiskeyjack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whiskeyjacks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whisky jack (gray jay, Canada jay).
whisky-jack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whisky-jacks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whisky jack (gray jay, Canada jay).
whiskyjack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whiskyjacks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whisky jack (gray jay, Canada jay).
whiskyjacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whiskyjack
whisky-jacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whisky-jack
whiskeyjacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whiskeyjack
whiskey jacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whiskey jack
taffeties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taffety
taffety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtæfəti/
Forms: form: taffeties
Senses: examples: text: Fancy a tall and fine figure in a green taffety dress, set off with rose-coloured ribands, both colours well suited to her fair hair and skin;...
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 256–257:
glosses: Dated form of taffeta.
Derived terms: taffety tart
asinego
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asinegos
form: assinegoes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of assinico.
plantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: plantlier
form: more plantly
form: plantliest
form: most plantly
Etymology: From plant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The setting was remote but the road to her house was well traveled; she grew, imported, and blended a rich array of exotic teas and herbs and her skill with these plantly products was such that she never lacked for appreciative customers.
ref: 2000, John Kissinger, Where Angels Fear:
text: Out of all the conversion rocks, only two of them require an added potion to make the effects stick—the pebble of plantly conversion and the pebble of godly conversion.
ref: 2009, Adam Osterweil, The Lost Treasure of Talus Scree:
text: Beauty and endurance both rank high among the plantly virtues, and it is a rare individual that has them both.
ref: 2010, Tom Fischer, The Gardener's Color Palette:
glosses: Of or pertaining to plants; botanical.
plantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: plantlier
form: more plantly
form: plantliest
form: most plantly
Etymology: From plant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: [...] of new mind-powers which burst through its old fears and dislikes with a new creativeness and make forms which will be challenging and educative — something human, and finally divine, not merely plantly beautiful, and animally beautiful.
ref: 1976, Ernest Wood, The Seven Rays:
glosses: In a plant-like manner.
bro hug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bro hugs
Senses: examples: text: Rich...if you got out behind that computer terminal and went out to the meets I don't think they would pound the shit out of you. They would probably give you one of those big bro hugs and tell you your^([sic]) a funny guy.
ref: 2000 September 6, Waro, “Re: Vermort-5”, in rec.motorcycles.harley (Usenet), retrieved 23 Mar 2016, message-ID <srbshva2ljn176@corp.supernews.com>:
text: Before I can say Usher's name, the crowd catches sight of him coming out on stage behind me. The place goes bananas. Usher gives me a sideways bro hug.
ref: 2010, Justin Bieber, Justin Bieber: First Step 2 Forever, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 131:
text: Two seconds later, the two guys were in one of those slap-on-the-back bro hugs.
ref: 2013, Heather Burch, Avenger, Zondervan, →ISBN:
text: We weave our way around the mezzanine to the DJ booth, and Jonathan gives Big Pete a bro hug: two sharp claps on the back, then break.
ref: 2014, Lisa Desrochers, A Little Too Hot, HarperCollins, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of bro-hug.
plowpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plowpoints
form: ploughpoint
Etymology: From plow + point.
Senses: examples: text: Shannon watched him as he took the reins and started the team forward, slowly, quietly. There was no yelling. They were horsemen, these men of Ganado. The great Percherons moved ponderously forward. The plow point bit deep into the earth, but the huge beasts walked on as if dragging an empty wagon.
ref: 1922, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Girl from Hollywood, Chapter 16:
glosses: A detachable plowshare (cutting blade) at the extreme front end of the plow body.
plowpoints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plowpoint
ploughpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ploughpoints
Etymology: From plough + point.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of plowpoint.
ploughpoints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ploughpoint
breaks bread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of break bread
breaking bread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of break bread
broke bread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of break bread
cantrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cantraps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cantrip.
cantraip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cantraips
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cantrip.
cantraps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cantrap
cantraips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cantraip
connotationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -eɪʃənəli
Etymology: From connotational + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: connotatively
antonyms: denotationally
denotatively
glosses: In terms of connotation.
diversionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diversionless
form: most diversionless
Etymology: From diversion + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without diversion or diversions.
wickup
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: An onomatopoeic representation of the chirp of certain species of flickers.
Related terms: wickopy
nundinary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin nundinarius.
Senses: glosses: nundinal
bedeswoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedeswomen
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beadswoman.
bedeswomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedeswoman
beadswoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beadswomen
form: bedeswoman
form: bedewoman
Etymology: See beadsman
Senses: glosses: A female beadsman.
beadswomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beadswoman
conchylaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conchylaceous
form: most conchylaceous
form: conchyliaceous
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to shells; resembling a shell.
conchyliaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conchyliaceous
form: most conchyliaceous
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of conchylaceous.
neckings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of necking
rear-horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rear-horses
Etymology: Because it rears up when disturbed.
Senses: glosses: A mantis (Mantodea spp.), especially the Carolina mantis (Stagmomantis carolina)
rear-horses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rear-horse
infernals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infernal
Vukovar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in eastern Croatia.
geist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡaɪst/
rhymes: -aɪst
Forms: form: geists
Etymology: From German Geist (“spirit, ghost, mind”). Doublet of ghost.
Senses: examples: text: The geists eat and drink, but only as geists — not as spirits. ' We have dined,' they say ' sumptuously.' A vapour- ... If dead men tell no tales, their geists will tell them, if they find opportunity.
ref: 1877, The spiritual magazine:
text: Koerg was not slow to recognize a geist; his knees shook, and he dared not utter a word.
ref: 1881, M.T.W., Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories, reprint edition, Project Gutenberg, published 2005:
text: [...] it makes no difference whether these figures were real, corporeal beings or not, since each one, in terms of Freud's (auto) aesthetic, is a spirit, a geist, a complex function of Freud's worldview.
ref: 1996, Stephen Barker, Excavations and Their Objects:
glosses: A ghost, an apparition.
examples: text: The population that today explodes on a stagnant society with a catastrophic echo, is the geist of the times that shock our great nation into a new sense of her grandeur.
ref: 1974, V. Jagannatha Panicker, Crucifixion of the Unborn: Underpopulated India, Digitized edition, Sivaji Publications, published 2008, page 54:
text: However, the geist of the times following the World War was the "normalcy" of Warren G. Harding.
ref: 1976, Colorado lawyer - Volume 5 (Law), Colorado Bar Association, page 1640:
text: [...] a term badly applied, as the method is neither a historicism (the belief that each era or period has a geist, principle of identity, or a definable sense of destiny) nor new.
ref: 1995, Donald Pizer, The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism:
text: ... particular 'culture areas' of the world are dominated by their own peculiar geist or 'cultural soul' ...
ref: 2009 October 13, Adam Curtis, Lee Ravitz (comment), “Kabul: City Number One - Part 3”, in BBC:
glosses: Spirit (of a group, age, era, etc).
Related terms: poltergeist
zeitgeist
wickopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wicopy.
geists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geist
hoarwithy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoar-withy
Etymology: From hoar + withy.
Senses: glosses: A wayfaring-tree (Viburnum lantana).
wayfaring-tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wayfaring-trees
form: wayfaring tree
Etymology: Coined c. 1597 by John Gerard, English herbalist. The plant is common along waysides in hedgerows, as might be passed by wayfarers.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: hoarwithy
mealy-tree
triptoe
glosses: A much-branched European shrub of large size (Viburnum lantana), with dense cymes of small white flowers, the foliage and young shoots thickly covered with soft mealy down.
wikipedia: John Gerard
tzompantli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tzompantlis
Etymology: Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl tzompantli.
Senses: synonyms: skull rack
glosses: an Aztec ceremonial rack of skulls
tzompantlis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tzompantli
whiskey dick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Objective: There's no objective; you just roll the dice and drink. There's also no winning or losing, unless you consider drinking a lot winning, in which case you'll be the gold medalist of a lifetime. (Note: Gold medals do not prevent whiskey dick.)
ref: 2008, Alex Bash, The Imbible: Drinking Games for Times You'll Never Remember with Friends You'll Never Forget, St. Martin's Press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 37:
text: However, if he ups the ante to three or more servings of alcohol, he not only puts his heart at risk, but he puts himself at risk of getting whiskey dick and not being able to perform in the sack.
ref: 2011, Jordan LaRousse, Samantha Sade, Penis Genius: The Best Tips and Tricks for Working His Stick, Quiver, published 2011, →ISBN, page 156:
text: “These are two shots. You don't have to drink the whole thing at a time.”
“Good call. I don't want to get whiskey dick.”
ref: 2011, Trina M. Lee, Stay Beautiful, Ellora's Cave, published 2011, →ISBN, page 32:
glosses: Impotence caused by heavy drinking.
Related terms: beer dick
brewer's droop
coke dick
crystal dick
dope dick
pilly willy
Litvak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Litvaks
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish litwak.
Senses: examples: text: A small man, sunburned as a gypsy, in a torn blouse, with a jet-black beard and enormous flashing eyes, was expostulating in a hoarse voice with a peppery Litvak accent, gesticulating violently and flinging his head from side to side.
ref: 1950, Isaac Bashevis Singer, chapter 4, in A. H. Gross et al., transl., The Family Moskat, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 60:
text: The rabbi under the silk wedding canopy, held up by split triangular poles of quartered eucalyptus exuding an aromatic sap, is ill at ease but ready for business. He’s a middle-aged Litvak, a stocky man in mud-spotted trousers that drip over dried muddy heels.
ref: 1971, Bernard Malamud, The Tenants:
text: Kibbutz Kinneret’s famed teigelach, the honey-drenched cookies beloved by Litvaks, were parceled up in a Red Cross package, intended to reach one of its members who had fallen into Syrian captivity during the 1973 Yom Kippur war. What better way to guarantee that he would know the food came from home?
ref: 2013 April 16, Jonathan Cummings, “Digging Deep Into the Collective Kitchens of Israel”, in The Forward:
glosses: A Lithuanian Jew, or an Ashkenazi Jew from the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
Litvak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish litwak.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Litvaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Litvak
shatting on one's uppers
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From variant of shitting + uppers.
Senses: examples: text: ‘She has to blow and she's shatting on her uppers. She figures the peeper can get her some dough.’
ref: 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 188:
glosses: Completely out of money; broke.
meeching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: miching
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:meeching.
glosses: sneaking, sneaky
meeching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: miching
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of meech
meech
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: meeches
form: meeching
form: meeched
form: meeched
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mitch.
Derived terms: meecher
Related terms: meeching
miching
mocuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mocucks
form: mocock
Etymology: From an Algonquian language, probably Ojibwe makak (“semi-rigid container, birch bark basket, box”).
Senses: examples: text: The Huron of Canada expanded the use of mocucks from cookery to the warming of squash seed over a fire […]
ref: 2004, Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Encyclopedia of Kitchen History, page 660:
glosses: A box-like container made from birch-bark, especially one in which sugar is stored.
Related terms: macock
wild rice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wild rices
Senses: glosses: Rice of any of four species of grasses which form the genus Zizania, which have edible grains and edible stems.
glosses: Edible grain (edible rice) harvested from these grasses.
glosses: Rice of species Oryza rufipogon
Hyponyms: sense: Zizania spp.
word: annual wild rice
sense: Zizania spp.
word: Canadian wild rice
sense: Zizania spp.
word: Indian rice
sense: Zizania spp.
taxonomic: Zizania aquatica
word: water oats
sense: Zizania spp.
taxonomic: Zizania latifolia
word: Manchurian wild rice
sense: Zizania spp.
taxonomic: Zizania palustris
word: northern wild rice
sense: Zizania spp.
taxonomic: Zizania texana
word: Texas wild rice
naches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɑx.əs/
Forms: form: nachas
form: nakhes
Etymology: From Yiddish נחת (nakhes), from Hebrew נַחַת (nákhat, “contentment”).
Senses: examples: text: Fun of the nachas variety is most often attributed to the fun you get from your kids and grandkids, and sometimes even your spouse and parents and friends.
ref: 2013, Bernard De Koven, A Playful Path, page 200:
antonyms: schadenfreude
glosses: A feeling of contentment at another person's successes.
Related terms: confelicity
moonack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moonacks
Etymology: Borrowed from Unami munhake, from a root meaning "to dig".
Senses: qualifier: Maryland
glosses: A woodchuck.
examples: text: With close-shut eyes she listened to the steps of the devils and moonacks as they gradually went away from the house.
ref: 1898, Alice Morse Earle, In old Narragansett: romances and realities, page 74:
qualifier: Maryland
glosses: A frightful mythical forest creature.
schmegeggies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schmegeggy
whistle-pig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whistle-pigs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whistle pig.
land-beaver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: land-beavers
Senses: glosses: A woodchuck.
agacerie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agaceries
Etymology: Borrowed from French agacerie.
Senses: examples: text: The Duchess of Fitz-Fulke, who loved "tracasserie," Began to treat him with some small "agacerie."
ref: 1824, Byron, Don Juan:
text: How can any man be well," replied the Count, holding his hand in such a position, as to make the performance of this little agacerie as difficult as possible ; " how can any man be well, overwhelmed by sorrow and disgrace as I am?
ref: 1833, Frances Milton Trollope, The abbess: a romance - Volume 2, page 122:
text: She was merry, witty, and even learned; and her manners were enticing and full of agacerie.
ref: 1861, Martha Walker Freer, History of the reign of Henry IV, King of France and Navarre, page 59:
glosses: Coquetry; flirtatiousness.
brocha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brochos
Etymology: From the Ashkenazic pronunciation, as represented in Yiddish ברכה (brokhe).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of berakhah.
square-free
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From square + -free.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of squarefree.
mignonnettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mignonnette
complaisances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of complaisance
chain-of-responsibility pattern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chain-of-responsibility patterns
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A behavioural design pattern that consists of a source of command objects and a series of processing objects.
chain-of-responsibility patterns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chain-of-responsibility pattern
madames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of madame
agaceries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agacerie
NVI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NVIs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Initialism of non-virtual interface.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: Initialism of (a stamp with) no value indicated.
non-virtual interface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-virtual interfaces
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: An interface that controls how methods in a base class are overridden.
Synonyms: NVI
Related terms: non-virtual interface pattern
template method
Salter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * As an English surname, from the noun salter. Sometimes confused with Souter; also compare Saltman.
* Also as an English surname, from Middle English sautreour (“player of psaltery”). Compare Rutter.
* As a German surname, northern variant of Salzer.
* As a French surname, Americanized from Salois.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as an occupation.
Fordham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈfɔː(ɹ)d(h)əm/
Etymology: From Old English ford + either hām (“homestead”) or hamm (“promontory”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A village and civil parish in East Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL6370).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Colchester borough, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL9228).
glosses: A hamlet and civil parish in King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TL6199).
glosses: A neighbourhood in the western Bronx, New York City, New York, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, United States.
glosses: A ghost town in Adams County, Wisconsin, United States.
Monash
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔnæʃ/
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A place in Australia; all are named after John Monash:
A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.
glosses: A place in Australia; all are named after John Monash:
A town in Berri Barmera council area, South Australia.
glosses: A place in Australia; all are named after John Monash:
A local government area in Melbourne, Victoria; in full, the City of Monash.
non-virtual interfaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-virtual interface
pattern language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pattern languages
Senses: topics: architecture
arts
computing
design
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: A structured method of describing good design practices within a field of expertise.
pattern languages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pattern language
guro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Reborrowed from Japanese グロ (guro), from English grotesque.
Senses: examples: text: And maybe the Moravecian dream would be especially exciting for fans of guro manga who want to live out all the fantasies to have sex like the immortal Mai in Waita Uziga's Mai-chan's Daily Life, who stay alive even after being violently mutilated […]
ref: 2009, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep?: Critical Perspectives on Sexuality and Pornography in Science and Social Fiction:
text: The scope of hentai encompasses the entire range of sexual fetishes, including […] Guro, focusing on imaginative gore and mutilation.
ref: 2014, Nicolae Sfetcu, Animation & Cartoons:
hypernyms: gore
glosses: A subgenre of manga and anime focusing on gore and mutilation.
Related terms: ero-guro
gorn
Aquino
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Derived terms: Ninoy Aquino Day
amphibologie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amphibologies
Senses: examples: text: [T]he fallacie of Æquivocation and Amphibologie, […] conclude from the ambiguity of ſome vvord, or the ambiguous ſintaxis of many put together.
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, “Of the Nearer and More Immediate Causes of Popular Errours, both in the Wiser, and Common Sort, Misapprehension, Fallacy, or False Distinction, Credulity, Supinity, Adherence unto Antiquitie, Tradition, and Authoritie”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 13:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of amphibology.
lead someone up the garden path
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliːd ˌsʌmwʌn ˈʌp ðə ˈɡɑːdn̩ pɑːθ/
ipa: /ˈlid ˌsʌmwʌn ˈʌp ðə ˈɡɑɹdən ˌpæθ/
Forms: form: leads someone up the garden path
form: leading someone up the garden path
form: led someone up the garden path
form: led someone up the garden path
Etymology: Probably a reference to the fact that a garden path is often winding instead of direct.
Senses: examples: text: "You're a pair of conspiring females," he growled. "A fine couple of contriving minxes! You've even led my Peterkin up the garden path."
ref: 1969, Erich Kästner, translated by Cyrus Brooks, Lottie and Lisa, New York, N.Y.: Knopf, →OCLC:
synonyms: lead someone down the garden path
lead someone up the garden
glosses: To deceive, hoodwink, mislead, or seduce someone.
Derived terms: garden path sentence
frauding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fraud
belearn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: belearns
form: belearning
form: belearned
form: belearned
form: belearnt
form: belearnt
Etymology: From be- (“about”) + learn.
Senses: examples: text: [...] he shoved the pad under his chief's eyes, "thus it is that I belearn myself all this new-laid English in one time. Listen."
ref: 1925, Albert Payson Terhune, Najib:
text: The main way in which bingo is convenient for all subjects and classes, using bingo cards printed with items related to the specific theme, rather than numbers than usual. For example, in a math class, the cards are printed with math problems in a class of English language with words that students must learn to read, and foreign language classroom, in the words of Spanish or French vocabulary that Students are required to belearn.
ref: 2010, Educational Bingo Cards, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: To learn about; study; educate; teach.
begive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: begives
form: begiving
form: begave
form: begiven
Etymology: From be- (“out, over, across”) + give. Compare Dutch begeven (“to give up, forsake”), German begeben (“to issue, endow”), Danish begive (“to go”), Swedish begiva (“to proceed, start for, go”).
Senses: examples: text: How am I begiving? To whom do I begive and why? What is the quality of my begiving? How willing am I to begive? How much? To what extent?
ref: 2004, Communion:
text: Maria was forever to begive her begivings to the loathsome imposter who’s^([sic]) waddling skulk had haunted her. Thus life nourishes death and as the witch died so did she.
ref: 2010, Chris Worth, “Chapter Six: Voodoo Bile”, in Captain Jeans and the Quest for Keith, storywrite.com:
text: Return to the original beautiful dream world, this is the season to begive you a perfect attempt.
ref: 2012, aprylne, Pour le patient: aprylne's blog: Lets Talk About Handbags:
glosses: To give out; give of oneself; issue; endow; administer; transfer.
Derived terms: begiving
Related terms: begift
galloot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galloots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of galoot.
begiving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From begive + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: I have give my age in to many people, but I don't know how they have been turn in to the order of yours, as the begiving.
ref: 1992, Rita B. Dandridge, Black women's blues: a literary anthology, 1934-1988:
text: Maria was forever to begive her begivings to the loathsome imposter who’s waddling skulk had haunted her. Thus life nourishes death and as the witch died so did she.
ref: 2010, Chris Worth, Captain Jeans and the Quest for Keith, storywrite.com
glosses: The act or process of begiving or giving out; issuing.
begiving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From begive + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of begive
Kanienkehaka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Mohawk Kanienʼkehá꞉kaʼ, the autonym (name for themselves).
Senses: examples: text: Tribal names are less contentious, though the word “tribe” itself is used principally in the United States. The Mohawk people, or Kanienkehaka (Kanien'kehá:ka), meaning “people of the flint,” are properly understood as the easternmost of the Six Nations […]
ref: 2011, Harry Swain, Oka: A Political Crisis and Its Legacy, page xii:
glosses: The Mohawk people.
Kanienkehaka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mohawk Kanienʼkehá꞉kaʼ, the autonym (name for themselves).
Senses: glosses: The Mohawk language.
battens down the hatches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of batten down the hatches
battening down the hatches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of batten down the hatches
battened down the hatches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of batten down the hatches
thalassocraties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thalassocraty
chilaquiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌt͡ʃi.ləˈki.leɪs/
Etymology: From Spanish chilaquiles, from Classical Nahuatl chīlātl.
Senses: glosses: A traditional Mexican dish of fried tortilla chips topped with salsa.
Synonyms: Mexican lasagna
ghosten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ghosten
form: most ghosten
Etymology: From ghost + -en (“resembling”).
Senses: examples: text: And the cold chill of an adder touch Sit with a leaden sway. And the ghosten spell-bound dogs, And the coasten hell-hound dogs, Glooms the coming of the day.
ref: 1862, Gordon Winant Hewes, Ballads of the war:
text: Time Chimes its swallows from the ghosten brass Under the trembling mirrors, a heart Groined with gloom and iron sighs Winter and summer laid four tones apart Moans the bell in your empty thighs.
ref: 1969, Stephen Spender, Irving Kristol, Congress for Cultural Freedom, Encounter:
glosses: Of, belonging to, or pertaining to ghosts; ghostly; spiritual.
ghosten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ghostens
form: ghostening
form: ghostened
form: ghostened
Etymology: From ghost + -en (“to become like”).
Senses: examples: text: So looks the last month's pilgrimage, So the last hill, Down the moon-ghostened road there walks.
ref: 1911, John Freeman, Fifty poems:
text: All must look magical in the silence of the stars, when the moon ghostens in the trees, and owls float noiselessly about or pass the time of night in their long melopy, from hollybush to old Scotch fir, their cries reechoing from the turrets of the house and sounding on the lake.
ref: 1912, Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, Charity:
text: at ACA florida i was doing a "shadow session", but then i was shy to do it with philippe; did not wanted to "ghosten" him.
ref: 2006, ACA Windart Residency 2003
glosses: To make like a ghost; behave or appear as a ghost; make ghostly.
mountain fir clubmoss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Clubmoss of species Huperzia appalachiana.
Synonyms: sense: mountain firmoss
word: Huperzi appalachiana
twote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Later a note of regret enters Knight’s correspondence. “Oh God, I only twote it bcs boyf had gone for a wee, and actually volume of hate for her is making me now feel bad […]”
ref: 2012 August 6, “Fleet St’s finest in the mother of all fallouts”, in The Evening Standard:
text: “Offence not intended - I meant contribution to health improvement thru sharing non PID [patient identifiable data],” he twote.
ref: 2013 August 29, “End Game”, “Kelsey Uncut: Tweet 'n' delete”, in Health Service Journal:
glosses: alternative simple past of tweet.
examples: text: Courtney Love, aka the original Charlie Sheen, hasn’t Twote a Tweet since January when Twitter shut down her account because she’d turned it into a vile poop-chute of hate.
ref: 2011 March 4, Curtis Cartier, “Courtney Love, aka the original Charlie Sheen, hasn’t Twote a Tweet since”, in Seattle Weekly:
glosses: alternative past participle of tweet.
wokas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /woʊkəs/
Forms: form: wocus
form: wokus
form: wocas
Etymology: From the Klamath-Modoc word for the plant's seeds, wokas.
Senses: glosses: A large yellow water lily (Nuphar polysepala) found in the northwestern United States.
glosses: seeds of this water lily, eaten by the Klamath and others.
Synonyms: sense: Nuphar polysepala
word: Rocky Mountain spatterdock
wokus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wokas.
wocas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wokas.
wocus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /woʊ kəs/
Forms: form: wokas
form: wokus
form: wocas
Etymology: From the Klamath-Modoc word for the plant's seeds, wocus.
Senses: glosses: A large yellow water lily (Nuphar polysepala) found in the northwestern United States.
glosses: The seeds of this water lily, eaten by the Klamath and others.
Synonyms: sense: Nuphar polysepala
word: Rocky Mountain spatterdock
twoten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Increased recognition of the self catalyzes the oddly-popular phenomenon of Twitter, wherein the user “tweets” about needlessly trivial instances of banal minutiae pertaining only to he who has twoten (pardon the equally-irritating neologism).
ref: 2009, Entry 5: Possible First Paragraphs for Paper 1 - W109SS, www.nicktingle.net/.../entry-5-possible-first-paragraphs-for-paper-1.html
text: Thus I Have Twoten.
ref: 2012, Head Shots, www.ryanpollack.com/2012/06/head-shots/
glosses: alternative past participle of tweet.
shining firmoss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of species Huperzia lucidula of firmoss.
Synonyms: Lycopodium lucidulum
shining fir clubmoss
shining clubmoss
bring the house down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brings the house down
form: bringing the house down
form: brought the house down
form: brought the house down
Senses: examples: text: He sits back in anticipation of bringing the house down, but there’s merely silence. Until pretty much everyone chimes in with: ‘So, Horner’s syndrome then?’
ref: 2017, Adam Kay, This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor, London: Picador, →ISBN, page 9:
glosses: Alternative form of bring down the house.
aguachile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spanish aguachile.
Senses: glosses: A Mexican dish of shrimp submerged in liquid seasoned with chili peppers, lime juice, etc.
bigger than life
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of larger than life.
synonyms: word: larger than life
bigger-than-life
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of larger than life.
hickery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hickeries
Senses: qualifier: dated outside dialects
glosses: Alternative spelling of hickory.
pokickery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pokickeries
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of hickory.
rub shoulders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rubs shoulders
form: rubbing shoulders
form: rubbed shoulders
form: rubbed shoulders
Senses: examples: text: All classes rub shoulders on the greasy benches.
ref: 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 1, in Memories and Portraits:
text: In this establishment, as everybody knows, on occasions when the crush is great, the animals rub shoulders freely with the spectators.
ref: 1894, Henry James, chapter 6, in The Death of the Lion:
text: [N]ow and then the two dress themselves roughly, like common men, and go out into the city to see what it's like to rub shoulders with the rest of the world.
ref: 1915, Frances Hodgson Burnett, chapter 24, in The Lost Prince:
text: It pays to network and rub shoulders virtually with potential customers on the Web.
ref: 2010 March 10, Lori Ioannou, “Use Social Media to Build Your Brand”, in Time:
glosses: To associate closely; to socialize or mingle.
raw_tags: followed by with
Synonyms: rub elbows