cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
causators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of causator
entheal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more entheal
form: most entheal
form: enthean
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔνθεος (éntheos, “full of (a/the) god, inspired”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + θεός (theós, “god”), + -al.
Senses: glosses: Divinely inspired; wrought up to enthusiasm.
Synonyms: entheastic
slapdashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of slapdash
slapdashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slapdash
slapdashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slapdash
slapdashed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […] it was slapdashed; the voices were feeble as if all the boys and men were in the grip of the influenza fiend (which was probably the case); the violins tore recklessly and relentlessly through the music […]
ref: 1900, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art:
glosses: slapdash
Derived terms: slapdashedly
enthean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enthean
form: most enthean
Senses: glosses: entheal
slighten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈslaɪ.tən/
Forms: form: slightens
form: slightening
form: slightened
form: slightened
Etymology: From slight + -en. Related to German schlichten (“to smoothen”). More at slight.
Senses: examples: text: His smile slightened as if he knew they talked of him.
ref: 2004, D. L. Larson, Memories Trail, page 459:
text: With tissue I softened my rouge, slightened my lipstick; studying my redesigns in my green compact's mirror I marveled, seeing yet another strange face.
ref: 2007, Jack Womack, Elvissey:
glosses: To make or become slight; make or become less pronounced, less noticeable, or less obvious.
examples: text: […] as God forbid that anyone should hint a slightening word of what our sons and brothers are doing just now, and doing for us!
ref: 1920, Arthur Quiller-Couch, On the Art of Reading:
text: They may take ill or feel slightened for not having been approached directly.
ref: 1997, Rajendra Kumar Sharma, Sociological Methods and Techniques, page 257:
text: It is an odious wisdom to blaspheme, / Much more to slighten, or deny their powers
ref: 1603 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Seianus His Fall, London: […] G[eorge] Elld, for Thomas Thorpe, published 1605, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: To slight.
examples: text: to slighten the sheets out
glosses: To level out, smooth, or flatten.
kowtower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kowtowers
Etymology: From kowtow + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who kowtows; a sycophant.
kowtowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kowtower
kowtowings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kowtowing
pachycephalid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pachycephalids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the Pachycephalidae.
pachycephalids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pachycephalid
depoetize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: depoetizes
form: depoetizing
form: depoetized
form: depoetized
Etymology: From de- + poetize.
Senses: glosses: To remove the poetic character from
Millians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Millian
miscreance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miscreances
form: miscreancy
Etymology: From Middle English myscreaunce, miscreaunce, from Old French mescreänce.
Senses: examples: text: my advice is , not to use any curiosities at the laying and binding your Children , unless there be some miscreance, or other unshapedness about them
ref: 1658, Felix Wuertz, The Surgeons Guid:
glosses: The quality of being miscreant; adherence to a false religion; false faith.
miscreances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miscreance
miscreancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miscreancies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of miscreance.
miscreancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miscreancy
discifloral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹəl
-ɒɹəl
Forms: form: disciflorous
Etymology: See disk and floral.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Bearing the stamens on a discoid outgrowth of the receptacle.
Related terms: calycifloral
Mpreg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of mpreg.
Baroko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Baroco
Etymology: From a mediaeval mnemonic chant.
Senses: examples: text: The moods Baroko and Bokardo do not admit of reduction to the first figure, by any fair use of the phrase[…]
ref: 1847, Augustus De Morgan, Formal logic: or, The Calculus of inference, necessary and probable, page 132:
text: But this Conclusion is false, consequently the Minor Premise of the first Syllogism, Baroko, its contradictory, is true.
ref: 1870, William Dexter Wilson, An elementary treatise on logic, page 129:
text: The foregoing list of moods in the imperfect Figures II and III does not contain Baroko or Bokardo.
ref: 2005, Charles Gray Shaw, Logic in Theory and Practice, page 161:
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A form or mode of syllogism in which the first proposition is a universal affirmative and the other two are particular negative.
Related terms: Bokardo
lissomeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lissomness
Etymology: From lissome + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being lissom.
lissomness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lissom + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lissomeness.
lissomely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lissomely
form: most lissomely
Etymology: From lissome + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a lissome manner; with supple grace.
interest-free
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From interest + -free.
Senses: examples: text: The government is offering interest-free loans for the purchase of energy-efficient appliances.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Not charging interest; not subject to interest payments.
efendee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: efendees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of effendi.
efendees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of efendee
palmita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palmitas
Etymology: From Spanish palmita, diminutive of palma (“palm”).
Senses: examples: text: A house was soon observed at a distance among the palmitas, to which Francisco and the Indian directed their way, under a pretext of reconnoitering the premises, while the party were charged to remain near a conspicuous tree[…]
ref: 1818, Alexander Gillespie, Gleanings and remarks, page 221:
text: I wrote my journal, and grubbed up what I supposed to be a palmita-root with my navaja (clasp-knife).
ref: 1856, George John Cayley, The bridle roads of Spain, page 99:
glosses: The European fan palm, a dwarf palm in the genus Chamaerops.
palmitas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palmita
amphilogies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amphilogy
amphilogy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amphilogies
Etymology: From amphi- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: An ambiguous utterance
Synonyms: amphilogism
MPreg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of mpreg.
chirren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪɹ.ən/
rhymes: -ɪɹən
Forms: form: chil'ren
form: chilren
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of children (plural of chile (“child”)), representing Southern US and African-American Vernacular English
Related terms: chillun
chilren
unconfided
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + confided.
Senses: glosses: Not having been confided.
unconfiding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconfiding
form: most unconfiding
Etymology: From un- + confiding.
Senses: examples: text: It was the merits of Sir Howard to which her attention was continually being attracted. Whence came it then that she still remained unconfiding and mistrustful of him?
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter I, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 5:
glosses: Not inclined to share confidences; taciturn.
JMM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: Java programming language
glosses: Initialism of Java memory model.
hand fan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand fans
Senses: glosses: A hand-held device designed to be waved back and forth in order to induce airflow for the purpose of cooling the user.
Synonyms: fan
hand fans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hand fan
folderal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of folderol.
presension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin praesēnsiō. See presentient.
Senses: glosses: a previous perception; a premonition
slicingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more slicingly
form: most slicingly
Etymology: From slicing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The golfer swung his club slicingly through the air.
glosses: So as to slice; with a slicing motion.
incrementalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incrementality
incrementor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incrementors
Etymology: From increment + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Following each execution of the body, the incrementor expressions are evaluated to give them a chance to update variables[…]
ref: 2005, Pat Niemeyer, Jonathan Knudsen, Learning Java, page 95:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: That which increments; a computer programming instruction that increments a value.
Related terms: incrementer
incrementors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incrementor
catch the bus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: catches the bus
form: catching the bus
form: caught the bus
form: caught the bus
Etymology: Originated on the alt.suicide.holiday Internet newsgroup in the 1990s.
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see catch, the, bus.
examples: text: I have the tools for catching the bus, just not the nerve. Soft suicide I can do. Take some pills, no problem. But never do I succeed that way.
ref: 2000, (unknown), “catching the bus tonight..... I hope.....”, in alt.suicide.holiday (Usenet):
text: If anyone's curious, here's a song my band recorded (totally raw... it never made it out of the studio). A friend of mine caught the bus, and this was my way of saying "Peace."
ref: 2004, everwestward, “Is suicide contagious? (was Re: Favorite Songs)”, in alt.suicide.holiday (Usenet):
text: Anyway at the end of my day, I decided to give him a call because the worse thing that would happen is that I would have to catch the bus.
ref: 2010, Michael F. Clark, Life By Suicide, page 116:
text: this wasn't the first time he spoke of suicide--this was a suicide chat room after all […]
00sexboy00: tonights^([sic]) the night to catch the bus john! u been crying u pussy? ur slanty eyes are all red!
john squeezed them shut and nodded.
gabe wanted to reach a hand through the monitor to comfort his friend. but all he could do was type.
ref: 2011, Jake Vander Ark, Lighthouse Nights:
glosses: To kill oneself deliberately; to commit suicide.
lich-wake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lich-wakes
form: lichwake
form: lich wake
form: lyke-wake
form: lykewake
form: likewake
form: likewalk
form: lykewalk
Senses: examples: text: In some parts of Scotland is still kept up the custon of Lyke-wake (Lich-wake), or watching beside the dead body before its burial.
ref: 1871, Walter Field, Stones of the temple, or, Lessons from the fabric and furniture of the church:
text: Funeral rites in the house (lich wakes) should be avoided out of regard for the health of the members of the family.
ref: 1913, The Journal of State Medicine:
text: The custom of the "lich-wake," corresponding largely with the surviving Irish custom of waking the dead, had not then died out in Scotland, and in Monifieth was frequently practised.
ref: 2016, Arthur Morrison, The Shadows Around Us:
glosses: The wake, or watching, held over a corpse before burial.
Synonyms: late-wake
lich-wakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lich-wake
unfogged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfogged
form: most unfogged
Etymology: From un- + fogged.
Senses: examples: the unfogged surface of the mirror before I breathed on it
glosses: Not fogged.
unfogged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + fogged.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unfog
unbefogged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbefogged
form: most unbefogged
Etymology: From un- + befogged.
Senses: glosses: Not befogged or deluded; having a clear mind or understanding.
late-wake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: late-wakes
Etymology: Corruption of lich-wake?
Senses: glosses: lich-wake
late-wakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of late-wake
underfong
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underfongs
form: underfonging
form: underfonged
form: underfonged
Etymology: From Middle English underfongen, underfangen, from Old English underfōn (“to receive, undertake, accept”), from Proto-West Germanic *underfą̄han (“to receive, undertake”). Cognate with Dutch ondervangen, German unterfangen.
Senses: examples: text: Thou..that by trecheree Didst underfong my lasse, to wexe so light.
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:
text: And some by sleight he eke doth underfong.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: They haue towres upon them sixteene: mounts underfonging & enflancking them.
ref: 1599, T. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe:
text: For, time will underfong us; and our voice Woll woxen weake; […]
ref: 1614, J. Davies in W. Browne, Shepheards Pipe:
glosses: To seduce, entrap; surround, overcome.
Related terms: fang
fangle
underfo
underfonged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underfong
underfonging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underfong
beefeater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beefeaters
Etymology: From beef + eater.
Senses: glosses: An African bird of the genus Buphagus, which feeds on the larvae of botflies hatched under the skin of oxen, antelopes, etc.
examples: 1676 (Licensed). William Wycherley, The Plain Dealer (play); reprinted in: 1981. Holland, Peter (ed.), The Plays of William Wycherley, London: Cambridge University Press, Plays by Renaissance and Restoration Dramatiats series. I.i.342-351, p. 366.
[H]ere you see a bishop bowing low to a gaudy atheist, a judge to a doorkeeper, a great lord to a fishmonger or a scrivener with a jack-chain about his neck, a lawyer to a sergeant-at-arms, a velvet physician to a threadbare chemist and a supple gentleman usher to a surely beefeater, and so tread round in a preposterous huddle of ceremony to each other whilst they can hardly hold their solemn false countenances.
glosses: One who eats beef; a large, plump person; a well-fed servant.
examples: text: It was assumed that the queen, as was her custom, would take the middle path, where the crowd was densest. No velvet rope was needed to contain it. No beefeaters needed pikes to hold the unruly back. Brixton aside, the rule of civility in England still holds.
ref: 1981 August 3, Marie Brenner, “The Wedding of the Century”, in New York Magazine, page 30:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Beefeater.
glosses: A kind of hat worn by women resembling the headwear of a Beefeater (Yeoman Warder).
beefeaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beefeater
kalanda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kalandas
Senses: glosses: An ancient unit of weight in Ceylon.
kalandas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kalanda
Bokardo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bocardo
Etymology: From a mediaeval mnemonic chant.
Senses: examples: text: The moods Baroko and Bokardo do not admit of reduction to the first figure, by any fair use of the phrase[…]
ref: 1847, Augustus De Morgan, Formal logic: or, The Calculus of inference, necessary and probable, page 132:
text: Bokardo is converted in a similar manner, only that in this case we substitute the contradictory of the conclusion for the major premiss[…]
ref: 1870, H. Coleman, Notes on logic, page 81:
text: The foregoing list of moods in the imperfect Figures II and III does not contain Baroko or Bokardo.
ref: 2005, Charles Gray Shaw, Logic in Theory and Practice, page 161:
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A form or mode of syllogism in which the first and third propositions are particular negatives and the second a universal affirmative.
Related terms: Baroko
pot-walloper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pot-wallopers
Etymology: Alteration of potwaller, after wallop.
Senses: examples: text: In the dozen “pot walloper” boroughs, inhabitant households not on poor relief could vote.
ref: 1968, Carl B. Cone, The English Jacobins, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 33:
glosses: A potwaller.
glosses: One who cleans pots; a scullion.
pot-wallopers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pot-walloper
coconut water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coconut waters
Senses: glosses: A clear liquid found inside immature coconuts, which suspends the endosperm during the nuclear stage of development. It is a popular drink in tropical regions.
Related terms: word: buko juice
word: coconut cream
word: coconut milk
exacerbators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exacerbator
sea nettle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea nettles
form: sea-nettle
Etymology: Because of its sting. See nettle (“stinging plant”). Similar construction as Norwegian Nynorsk mannete.
Senses: glosses: A jellyfish of the genus Chrysaora.
glosses: Any jellyfish
sea nettles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea nettle
thrave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thraves
form: thraving
form: thraved
form: thraved
Etymology: From Middle English thraven, from Old English þrafian (“to press; urge; compel; rebuke; argue; contend”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrabōn, from Proto-Germanic *þrabōną (“to press; drive”), from Proto-Indo-European *trep- (“to scamper; trample; quake; tread”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian troawje, droawje (“to trot”), West Frisian drave (“to trot”), Dutch draven (“to lope; trot”), German traben (“to trot”), Swedish trava (“to trot”), Icelandic þrefa (“to wrangle; dispute”).
Senses: glosses: To urge; compel; importune.
Related terms: thraft
thrave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thraves
form: threave
form: threve
Etymology: From Middle English thrave, threve, thrafe, from Old Norse þrefi (“a bunch or handful of sheaves”), related to Old Norse þrifa (“to grasp”). Cognate with Swedish trave, Danish trave.
Senses: glosses: A sheaf; a handful.
examples: text: A daimen icker in a thrave / 'S a sma' request;
ref: 1785, Robert Burns, To a Mouse:
glosses: Twenty-four (or in some places, twelve) sheaves of wheat; a shock, or stook.
examples: text: c. 16th century, Lansdowne manuscript
The worst of a thrave.
text: He sends forth thraves of ballads to the sale.
ref: 1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC:
glosses: Two dozen, or similar indefinite number; a bunch; a throng.
thraves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thrave
disgressions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disgression
emacity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin emacitas.
Senses: examples: text: …in some measure I descend to the fashion of the shop-keepers, who to scrue up the buyer to the higher price, will tell them no better can be had for mony, ’tis the choicest ware in England, and if any can match it, he shall have it for nought. ¶ So in matter of this literatorie chaffer, I…went on in my laudatives, to procure the greater longing, that an ardent desire might stir up an emacity, to the furtherance of my proposed end.
ref: 1653, Thomas Urquhart, Logopandecteision, quoted in The Works of Sir Thomas Urquhart, published 1834, page 332:
text: By which means he had contracted such an habitual emacity, as Pliny calls it (or propensity to purchase every thing that we see) especially if it strikes our fancy, under the idea of being cheap or a great bargain, that after he had accomplished his purpose, for which he attended those repositories of damaged furniture, he still persevered in purchasing what he did not want; and at a sale by hand, I saw the reverend Dr. ascend, "ab inferis", from the infernal regions of the kitchen and the scullery, with a basting ladle in one hand, and a gridiron in the other; so that in short, after his wife* died and he returned to reside in collage, his house was found full from the cellar to the garret, with empty barrels, chairs and tables; beds and chests of drawers, enough to furnish one of the largest lodging houses in Bath.
ref: 1805, Richard Graves, The triflers. To which is added, The rout, also The farmer's son, →OL, page 37:
text: He laughed at people who contracted habits of ‘emacity’ and found they must accumulate, and yet he confessed that he himself had a desire to collect pictures and for that purpose often attended auctions in Bath, where, in proportion to its extent, he thought there were more sales than in London.
ref: 1945, Marjorie Williams, Lady Luxborough Goes to Bath, B. Blackwell, published 1946, →LCCN, →OL, page 46:
text: But they had not as yet entirely resisted the energetic sellers’ ubiquitously busy hawking, having bought with a surrender to emacity disciplined in spite of excellent purchasing power and no worrisome creditors at their heels, two or more little inessential gauds and bouquet garni from one and the other boutiques and kiosks….
ref: 2009, William Penn, Love in the Time of Flowers, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, →OL, page 161:
glosses: Desire or fondness for buying
weatherdeck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weatherdecks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of weather deck.
einheriar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of einherjar.
spectrophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spectro- + -phobia.
Senses: synonyms: catoptrophobia
glosses: A morbid fear of mirrors.
glosses: A morbid fear of ghosts or specters.
Related terms: eisoptrophobia
messdeck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: messdecks
form: mess deck
Etymology: From mess + deck.
Senses: glosses: The mess on board a ship.
bobby pin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bobby pins
form: bobbypin
Etymology: From bob haircut, which the bobby pin was designed to keep under control.
Senses: examples: text: [H]e still didn't like looking down the drain. The brass cross-hatch inside that was supposed to catch things like clots of hair or dropped bobby-pins had disappeared years ago, and so there was only a dark hole rimmed by a circle of tarnished steel.
ref: 1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger:
glosses: A type of double-pronged hairpin.
Synonyms: hairgrip
kirby grip
gut rot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A stomachache.
glosses: Synonym of rotgut (“a type of alcoholic drink”).
synonyms: word: rotgut
extra: a type of alcoholic drink
Related terms: brain rot
windbaggery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From windbag + -ery.
Senses: glosses: The behaviour of a windbag; excessive or pompous speech; blather.
sewerages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sewerage
sewages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sewage
zoomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzuːmiz/
Etymology: From zoom + -ies.
Senses: glosses: plural of zoomie
zoomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzuːmiz/
Etymology: From zoom + -ies.
Senses: examples: text: I wouldn't go back there unless you want to get some zoomies!
text: How many zoomies did you get today?
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Nontechnical units of radiation, such as are present in a compartment containing or near nuclear weapons or a nuclear reactor, or are picked up on a dosimeter.
examples: text: No racing madly about for these pretty kitties, although all cats, particularly kittens, get the “zoomies” […]
ref: 2005, Eve Adamson, Adopting a Pet For Dummies, page 148:
text: There was never a more affectionate dog, or one who looked sillier having the zoomies.
ref: 2011, Jolanta Benal, The Dog Trainer's Complete Guide to a Happy, Well-Behaved Pet:
text: Dere is more space in de libing woom for zoomies though and wese wike dat a lot. Wese lub zoomies!
ref: 2015, Heidi Dietrich, Mornink Meetink Minuteys By Stellaluna The Cat:
synonyms: FRAP
frenetic random activity period
glosses: A period of frenzied running in a pet cat or dog.
Paiutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Paiute
tartarum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: tartar
hop-o'-my-thumb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hop-o'-my-thumbs
Etymology: From the idea that such a person could hop over somebody's thumb; in common use in the 16th century.
Senses: examples: text: 1830, Uncredited (John Poole), The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Part 1: Original Papers, page 81,
As to changing them for a pack of your little hop-o'-my-thumbs, no bigger than the one you lent me t'other night — ! suppose I should ask you to let me have the mare you rode to cover o'Thursday — and a clever mare she is, […] .
text: "In the first place,” answered Hobbleday, somewhat tartly, “I suppose our Daubson, who painted the famous grenadier in Yawkins's skittle-ground, knew very well what he was about: he wasn't going to paint hop-o'-my-thumbs that might be mistaken for drummer-boys.[…]"
ref: 1837, “Opening of the Theatre-Royal, Little Pedlington”, in Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, page 422:
text: "[…]And who are these little hop-o'-my-thumbs?” as Arun and Is jumped down from the cart.
ref: 1995, Joan Aiken, Cold Shoulder Road, published 2010, unnumbered page:
glosses: A very small person or creature.
Related terms: lilliputian
Thumbelina
Tom Thumb
hop-o'-my-thumbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hop-o'-my-thumb
paragraphical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paragraphic.
Derived terms: paragraphically
paragraphically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From paragraphic + -ally or paragraphical + -ly.
Senses: examples: items paragraphically noted
glosses: In paragraphs; divided into paragraphs.
pintail comb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pintail combs
Senses: examples: text: The Old Bailey heard that the pintail comb had been taken out of Julie's red weave hair before being used as a lethal weapon in the attack in Battersea, south London, in May last year.
ref: 2012 August 28, “Girl gets 10 years for comb murder”, in Belfast Telegraph:
glosses: A comb with a long, pointed handle for curling or styling the hair.
azym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azyms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of azyme (“unleavened bread”).
solania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: solanine
subtender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subtenders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sub tender.
sub tender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sub tenders
Senses: glosses: A submarine tender.
Damascus steel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Damascus steels
form: Damask steel
form: damascus steel
Senses: glosses: A kind of steel used in swordmaking from about 300 BC to 1700 AD, characterized by distinctive patterns of banding and mottling reminiscent of flowing water.
glosses: A modern composite steel made of distinctive portionings of different steels in patterns, resembling that of ancient Damascus steel
glosses: Any pattern-welded steel
Related terms: kuft
Damascus steels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Damascus steel
sprew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɹuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: sprue
Etymology: Compare Dutch sprouw, spruw, whence English sprue.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: thrush
liquitab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liquitabs
Etymology: From liquid tab. Formerly a trademark in the United States, registered in 1966.
Senses: examples: text: The Bold 2in1 range now includes a liquitab.
ref: 2005, William Reed Ltd, Convenience store:
text: It is used as the coating in liquitabs, which contain liquid washing detergent, and in soluble laundry bags to hold soiled hospital laundry.
ref: 2012, George Facer, Edexcel A2 Chemistry Student Unit Guide (New Edition):
text: A group of doctors, who have treated five toddlers in the past 18 months, said the liquitabs were a 'significant public health issue' and maufacturers^([sic]) needed to take urgent action to improve packaging.
ref: 2012 September 6, Rebecca Smith, “Parents warned over toddlers swallowing laundry liquitabs”, in The Daily Telegraph:
glosses: A capsule containing detergent for use in washing machines or dishwashers.
liquitabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liquitab
ringer equivalence number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ringer equivalence numbers
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: A number denoting the electrical load of a telephone ringer circuit on a particular line.
Synonyms: REN
godlore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From god + lore (“learning, study of”). Compare German Gotteslehre, Danish gudelære.
Senses: examples: text: All these have apparently nothing to do with northern mythology, as was first supposed. The whole find has now reached the Danish National Museum, and we see that these pieces belong to the godlore of the Gallic peoples.
ref: 1892, The Phrenological journal and science of health, volumes 94-95, page 231:
text: During the latter half of the Chou Period and the succeeding epoch of Imperialism we can observe the progress of this pluralistic godlore...Freedom of conscience leading even to seemingly anarchic individualism is the characteristic of the Far East; it has given birth to an incalculably varied godlore and saintlore.
ref: 2004, Benoy Kumar Sarkar, Wu Ting Fang, Chinese Religion Though Hindu Eyes:
glosses: The study or knowledge of God or gods; theology; divinity; mythology; religion.
hypervolume
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypervolumes
Etymology: From hyper- + volume.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A volume in more than three dimensions.
hypervolumes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypervolume
photoinductions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photoinduction
photoreleasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of photorelease
intertown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + town.
Senses: glosses: Between towns.
ballistocardiogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballistocardiograms
Etymology: From ballisto- + cardiogram.
Senses: glosses: The visual output that a ballistocardiograph produces.
Related terms: ballistocardiac
ballistocardiograph
ballistocardiography
ballistocardiographic
ballistocardiograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballistocardiographs
Etymology: From ballisto- + cardiograph.
Senses: glosses: An instrument which measures ballistic forces on the heart, producing a graphical representation of repetitive motions of the human body arising from the sudden ejection of blood into the great vessels with each heartbeat.
Related terms: ballistocardiogram
ballistocardiography
ballistocardiographic
glumelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glumelles
form: glumella
Etymology: Borrowed from French glumelle, diminutive of glume.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: lodicule
glosses: One of the inner chaffy scales of the flowers or spikelets of grasses.
glumelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glumelle
glumella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glumellas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of glumelle.
ballistospore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballistospores
Etymology: From ballisto- + spore.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
synonyms: ballistoconidium
glosses: A spore that is ejected or shot off.
Related terms: ballistosporic
glumellas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glumella
pellucidities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pellucidity
ballistocardiography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From ballisto- + cardiography.
Senses: glosses: The science of the preparation and diagnostic interpretation of ballistocardiograms.
Related terms: ballistocardiograph
ballistocardiogram
ballistocardiographic
iridosmine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iridosmines
Etymology: From iridium, osmium, and -ine.
Senses: glosses: A native compound of iridium and osmium.
Synonyms: iridosmium
Derived terms: rutheniridosmine
Related terms: osmiridium
iridosmines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iridosmine
iridosmium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: iridosmine
lagophthalmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: lagophthalmos
lagophthalmos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lagophthalmia
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A condition in which the eye doesn't fully shut during sleep.
decennoval
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin decennovālis, from decemnovem (“nineteen”) + -ālis (“-al”).
Senses: glosses: Of or related to the number nineteen.
examples: text: decennoval cycle
glosses: Of or related to a nineteen-year period.
Synonyms: undevicesimal
dosology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dose + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: As it is a single study and also the treatment protocol was different from that recommended by the dosology of the approved drugs, it is unclear how the drug would compare with the recommended dosology.
ref: 2016, Carsten H. Meyer, Sandeep Saxena, SriniVas R Sadda, Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography in Macular Diseases:
glosses: posology; the study of dosages of drugs
Derived terms: dosological
have someone's blood on one's head
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has someone's blood on one's head
form: having someone's blood on one's head
form: had someone's blood on one's head
form: had someone's blood on one's head
Senses: glosses: To be responsible for someone's death, pain, or misfortune.
experientiality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: experientialities
Etymology: From experiential + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being experiential.
dolichocephalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dolichocephalous
form: most dolichocephalous
Senses: glosses: dolichocephalic
microcephalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + -cephalous.
Senses: examples: text: "Such terms as 'Microcephalous idiot!' or 'Simian survival!' when applied by a world-renowned Professor to an opponent, illustrate the lengths to which such disputants may permit themselves to go."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: microcephalic
doohinky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of doohickey.
asphaltum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asphaltums
Senses: examples: text: These minerals are intimately incorporated with all asphaltum, pissasphalt and petroleum.
ref: 1893, Scientific American: Supplement, volume XXXVI, Petroleum and Asphalt in California, page 14739:
glosses: Archaic form of asphalt.
microbion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microbions
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós, “small”) + βίος (bíos, “life”).
Senses: examples: text: I am very well aware that lately mention has been made of particular microbions.
ref: 1879 June 24, The Chicago Medical Journal and Examine, volume 38, page 624:
text: M. Pasteur was announced as prepared not only to expound his previously published investigations concerning the modification and protective inoculation of disease-poisons, but to disclose new examples of modification of such points by the oxygen of the air, and to prove that we have really reached a general method for the moddification of certain poisons, whose application has only to be varied according to the physiological characteristics of the various microbions.
ref: 1883 January 18, The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, page 64:
glosses: A microbe.
microbions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microbion
abrest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Eleven hundred superb young fellows, marching four abrest, with bayonets fixed …
ref: 1885, John McElroy, The Red Acorn, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2010:
text: … was designed to provide you with the information you need to keep abrest of current opportunities …
ref: 1994 February 28, “Networking Careers On-line”, in Network World, volume 11, number 9, IDG, →ISSN, page 56:
text: This day saw an appearance of a spacious harbour abrest the Ship, haul'd our wind …
ref: 1998, Bernard DeVoto, quoting Boit, 1792, The Course of Empire, Reprint edition, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN:
text: He read the words scribbled under the star: "Stand abrest qurtsbolder bring in line with hill … "
ref: 2006, Helen Lee, Where in the World?: Stories from Everywhere, Review and Herald Pub Assoc, →ISBN, page 316:
text: Keeping abrest of technological developments requires a careful assessment …
ref: 2007, Nirali Prakashan, Corporate Planning and Strategic Human Resources Management, 1st edition, →ISBN, page 3.8:
glosses: Alternative spelling of abreast.
face-to-faces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of face-to-face
art unions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of art union
happen on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: happens on
form: happening on
form: happened on
form: happened on
Senses: examples: Yesterday I happened on the solution while we were seeing a movie on the couch; such things just happen along, by sheer happenstance.
glosses: to find by chance
Synonyms: word: chance upon
word: come across
word: stumble upon
english: on
translation: on
word: alight
mangakas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mangaka
quatting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quat
fair-spoken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fair-spoken
form: most fair-spoken
Senses: glosses: frank, friendly, suave
satyress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: satyresses
Etymology: From satyr + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female satyr
Synonyms: fauness
munya
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more munya
form: most munya
Senses: glosses: Good.
glosses: Delicious.
glosses: Sexually attractive.
unsubstant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsubstant
form: most unsubstant
Etymology: From un- + substant.
Senses: examples: text: Pursuing ever with insatiate thirst / And aspiration, some unsubstant aim.
ref: 1850, Walter Richard Cassels, Eidolon, or, The course of a soul: and other poems:
text: What was precise was now enormous, unsubstant, diaphanous, for he had seen her.
ref: 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:
glosses: insubstantial
high-holder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high-holders
Senses: glosses: A kind of small woodpecker; the flicker.
high-holders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of high-holder
high-hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high-holes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of high-holder.
high-holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of high-hole
indisposing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of indispose
astunned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more astunned
form: most astunned
Etymology: See astony, stun.
Senses: examples: text: Breathless and astunn'd.
ref: 1735, William Somerville, The Chace:
glosses: stunned
pantomimically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pantomimically
form: most pantomimically
Etymology: From pantomimic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a pantomimic manner.
buckbean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buckbeans
form: buck-bean
Etymology: Corruption of bogbean.
Senses: synonyms: bogbean
bog-bean
bog bean
marsh trefoil
glosses: A plant of species Menyanthes trifoliata, with racemes of white or reddish flowers and intensely bitter leaves, sometimes used in medicine.
buckbeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buckbean
klipdas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: klipdasses
form: klipdachs
form: klipdassie
Etymology: From Dutch klipdas.
Senses: glosses: A small mammal (Hyrax capensis), found in South Africa, that closely resembles the daman.
Synonyms: rock rabbit
corporated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of corporate
corporating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of corporate
reedmace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reedmaces
form: reed-mace
Etymology: From reed + mace.
Senses: glosses: A water plant, the cattail.
reedmaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reedmace
nodous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈnəʊdəs/
Forms: form: more nodous
form: most nodous
Senses: examples: text: [T]his [the ring finger of the hand] is ſeldom or laſt of all affected with the Gout, and when that becometh nodous, men continue not long after.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, “Of the Ring-finger”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 4th book, page 157:
glosses: Nodose; knotty.
Derived terms: binodous
adytums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adytum
spectatress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spectatresses
Etymology: From spectator + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: At the end of the two dances, Lord Ernolf again attempted to engage her for his son, but she now excused herself from dancing any more, and sat quietly as a spectatress till the rest of the company gave over.
ref: 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, III.v.1:
text: Mad. de S. was a spectatress of the whole scene in the interior of the palace
ref: 1818, The Edinburgh Review, volume 30, page 296:
glosses: A female spectator.
Synonyms: spectatrix
spectatresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spectatress
sanbenito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sanbenitos
Etymology: From Spanish sambenito, from its resemblance in shape to the garment of the order of Saint Benedict (San Benito in Spanish).
Senses: glosses: A sackcloth coat worn by penitents on being reconciled to the church.
glosses: A garment or cap, or sometimes both, painted with flames, figures, etc., and worn by those who had been examined by the Inquisition and were brought forth for the auto da fe.
sanbenitos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sanbenito
recitativoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recitativo
recitativos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recitativo
Mostra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Venice Film Festival
douzepere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: douzeperes
Senses: examples: text: The Frenche kyng that ſucceded his father at the kalendes of Aprill, the .xxv. day of July, cometh to Rains to be crowned. […] After reſorte to the churche thoſe that are called the Douzeperes of Fraunce, which are twelue in nomber. The Byſhop of Rains, Landune, Langres, Beauuois, Noion and Challon, Than the kyng of Nauarre, the Dukes of Uandome, Guiſe, Niuerne, Mompenſer, and Inmalle. Theſe repreſented the Dukes of Burgundie, Normandie and Guienne, moreouer the Erles of Tolouſe, Flaunders and Champaine. Of the Byſhoppes were choſen two, Langres and Beauuois, alſo two Cardinalles, to go fetche the kyng to the church, […]
ref: 1560, [Johannes Sleidanus], “The Nyntenth Booke of Sleidanes Commentaryes, Concerning the State of Religion, and the Common Weale, during the Reigne of the Empyre of Charles the Fyfte”, in Ihon Daus [i.e., John Daus], transl., A Famovse Cronicle of Oure Time, Called Sleidanes Commentaries, Concerning the State of Religion and Common Wealth, during the Raigne of the Emperour Charles the Fift, […], London: […] Ihon Daye, for Abraham Veale, and Nicholas England. […], →OCLC, folio ccxcij, verso:
text: Ferumbras, despising Oliver's youthful appearance, tries to frighten him[…]; asks him to describe Charles [i.e., Charlemagne] and the douzeperes[…]; and enquires his name[…]. Oliver declaring himself to be a poor knight, Ferumbras derides him, and bids him return and send Roland, or another of the douzeperes[…].
ref: 1879, “Sketch of the Story of ‘Sir Ferumbras’”, in Sidney J[ohn Hervon] Herrtage, editor, Sir Ferumbras. Edited from the Unique Paper Ms. about 1380 A.D. in the Bodleian Library (Ashmole Ms. 33) (The English Charlemagne Romances; part I; Extra Series; XXXIV), London: Published for the Early English Text Society, by Trübner & Co., […], →OCLC, page xxix:
text: Cortine, Corteyne, or Cortayn was the name given to the sword of Ogier, one of the celebrated Douzeperes of Charlemagne.
ref: 1883, [Robert Hunter], “*cūr-têin, *cūr-tā′-na”, in The Encyclopædic Dictionary: A New and Original Work of Reference to All the Words in the English Language, […], volume II, part II, London; Paris: Cassell, Petter, Galpin, & Co. […], →OCLC, page 625, column 1:
text: Cousin to the conqueror [King Arthur], as he knows well, / Known by official record as knight of his chamber / And acknowledged the mightiest king of all the Round Table. / I [Gawain] am the douzepere and duke he dubbed with his hands / In due ceremony one day before all his dear lords.
ref: 1973 September, John Gardner, “The Alliterative Morte Arthure”, in The Alliterative Morte Arthure, The Owl and the Nightingale and Five Other Middle English Poems in a Modernized Version […] (Arcturus Books; AB116), Carbondale; Edwardsville, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press; London; Amsterdam: Feffer & Simons, →ISBN, page 70, lines 2639–2643:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of douzeper.