cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
parabiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + -biotic.
Senses: examples: text: We examined the fate of blood-borne HSCs using genetically marked parabiotic mice, which are surgically conjoined and share a common circulation.
ref: 2001 November 30, Douglas E. Wright et al., “Physiological Migration of Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells”, in Science, volume 294, number 5548, →DOI, pages 1933–1936:
glosses: relating to parabiosis
paradisial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paradisial
form: most paradisial
Etymology: From paradise + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: The grounds around the castle, paradisial in their own natural beauty under this heavenly blue sky of June, were adorned with all that art and taste and wealth could bring to enhance their attractions in honor of the occasion.
ref: 1876, E.D.E.N. Southworth, The Lost Lady of Lone:
text: Nor far they steppèd when on culm'inant height / where stretcht a gem-enamel'd mead they stood; / Smaragd and Ruby-strewn, so rich the sight / presumed 'twas Paradisial floor they trod.
ref: 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume II, page 389:
text: And there the Turk, who holds thee with dog's teeth And makes of thee a valley of sad tears, O paradisial land of old Ionia; And here, our Mother Greece, Dream-weaver of unending laurel-wreaths Beside her Cretan helmsman and her king!
ref: 1919, Aristides E. Phoutrides, Life Immovable:
text: An underground legend in the States for decades, multi-instrumentalist Christian Vander's unwieldy ensemble (composed during its heyday of a rotating cast of European rock and jazz players, with Vander and his wife, Stella, the only constants) is probably best known for its early-70s cycle of mind-bogglingly overwrought concept albums, which revolved around space travel between a degenerate, miserable near-future Earth and a paradisial planet called Kobaia and the earthlings' inability to accept the Kobaians' message of peace and spiritual enlightenment.
ref: 1999 May 28, Monica Kendrick, “Magma”, in Chicago Reader:
text: But "Firdous e Bareen," an instrumental track, provides a clue about the flavor of mysticism in play--it shares its name with the paradisial garden reputedly maintained by Hassan ibn as-Sabbah, an 11th-century missionary of the esoteric Nizari sect of Shia Islam, for the indoctrination of his Hashshashins.
ref: 2006 October 27, Philip Montoro, “Heretical Metal”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: paradisiacal
Épernay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in Marne department, Grand Est, France.
halaqa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halaqas
form: halaqah
Etymology: From Arabic حَلْقَة (ḥalqa).
Senses: glosses: A religious gathering to study Islam and the Qur'an.
vay-cay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vay-cays
form: vaycay
form: vaykay
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of vacay.
hexameron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛkˈsæ.mə.rɔn/
ipa: /hɛkˈsæ.mə.rən/
Forms: form: hexamerons
form: Hexameron
form: hexæmeron
form: hexaëmeron
form: hexaemeron
form: hexahemeron
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἑξαήμερον (hexaḗmeron, “six-day”).
Senses: examples: text: He drew melancholy comparisons from Nature: men were compared to wandering clouds that dissolve into nothing, to wavering shadows, and shipwrecked beings, etc. His homilies on the Hexameron, too, shew thought of Nature.
ref: 1905, Alfred Biese, The Development of the Feeling for Nature In the Middle Ages and Modern Times, page 34:
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The six days in which God created the world according to the biblical creation story.
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The narrative in the Book of Genesis describing the events of the hexameron.
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: A treatise or sermon concerning the biblical creation story.
Hypernyms: cosmogony
Related terms: Decameron
technopole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technopoles
Senses: glosses: Synonym of technopolis.
synonyms: word: technopolis
case-dependent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of case dependent.
YKB
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of you know ball.
apodictism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /apəʊˈdɪktɪzm/
ipa: /apəʊˈdaɪktɪzm/
Forms: form: apodictisms
form: apodeictism
Etymology: From apodict(ic) + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: It is my conviction that the evident stiffness and apodictism of the definitions cited was already predetermined.
ref: 1976, Z. Bauman, Socialism, page 50:
text: His sincerity, bordering on naïvete, may explain his inability to approach people…and even a certain apodictism.
ref: 1979, Le Théâtre en Pologne, XXI:vii-xii, page 22:
text: Dogmatic apodictism is essentially characteristic of faith.
ref: 1989, G. Florovsky, translated by R.S. Haugh, Ecumenism I, page 74:
text: When it comes to writers like Prlichev, there can and should be room in both the Greek and Bulgarian, and Macedonian literary history. Naturally, not in the same way and not with the equal apodictism in determining their national attribution.
ref: 1999, The Macedonian Times, LI-LXII, page 136/1:
text: In spite of the apodeictism of these statements, Foucault never articulates a fully coherent position on sexual repression.
ref: 2002, C.O. Schrag, edited by M.J. Matuštík and W.L. McBride, Calvin O. Schrag and the Task of Philosophy after Postmodernity, page 71:
glosses: Apodictic character, tendency, or pretension.
examples: text: That phytogeography of today is a “confused hodgepodge of theory and half-baked notions”…is yet another example of Croizat’s apodictisms.
ref: 1954, H.J. Lam, “Antarctica: The Cradle of Angiosperms?”, in Vegetatio, IV, № 6, page 431:
glosses: An apodictic assertion or pronouncement; a strong, unwarranted claim.
Nath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈneɪθ/
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Nathaniel or Nathan.
Nath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈneɪθ/
Senses: glosses: A surname of Indian origin.
finger fucking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of finger fuck
Tofino
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈfiːnoʊ/
Senses: examples: text: “She picked up and moved to Tofino fifteen years ago.”
ref: 2014, Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven, Picador (2022), page 88:
text: Bus stop signs at all 36 B.C. Transit stops in Tofino, Ucluelet, Long Beach, hitaću, Esowista and Ty-histanis now include both English and Nuu-chah-nulth wording.
ref: 2025 March 9, “Indigenous language now included on Ucluelet bus stop signs — a first for B.C. Transit”, in CBC News:
glosses: A settlement on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
Derived terms: tofitian
Tofitian
Tofitian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Tofitian
form: most Tofitian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Tofino.
Tofitian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tofitians
Senses: glosses: A native or resident of Tofino.
winninger
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From winning + -er. Compare winningest.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of winning: more winning
winninger
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From winning + -er. Compare winningest.
Senses: examples: text: "Apparition is then of a monster-task in a policy carving new fashions, The winninger course than the rule of force, and the springs lured to run in a stream; [...]"
ref: 1895, John Mackinnon Robertson, G. Astor Singer, The University magazine and free review:
text: I ask it : for the question ariseth of itself to my mind because of the crass facts of my predicament; yet my heart knoweth it, Lord God, to be the grumble of an ingrate: for a hidden thing is, that is winninger than wife, or child, or the shining of any light, [...]
ref: 1948, Matthew Phipps Shiel, The best short stories of M. P. Shiel:
text: Denver Winninger Than Some, Losinger Than Most
ref: 2007, Jason Bane, 5280, The Denver Magazine:
glosses: More winning; more attractive or successful; (sports) having more wins.
Related terms: win
winner
winning
winningest
flick-ons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flick-on
rush hours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rush hour
door-frame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: door-frames
Senses: examples: text: The owner should require the architect to furnish details of the trim (by which is meant the wood finish, window-frames, door-frames, wash- or base-boards, panels under windows, wainscoting, etc.) promptly,—in fact, simultaneously with the plans and other specifications,—in order that the builder may have no excuse for not having all of the trim kiln-dried in time for finishing the building.
ref: 1897, Francis C[ruger] Moore, “The Comforts of Home”, in How to Build a Home: The House Practical; Being Suggestions as to Safety from Fire, Safety to Health, Comfort, Convenience, Durability, and Economy, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday & McClure Co., →OCLC, pages 60–61:
glosses: Alternative form of doorframe.
door frame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔː ˌfɹeɪm/
ipa: /ˈdɔɹ ˌfɹeɪm/
Forms: form: door frames
form: door-frame
form: doorframe
Senses: glosses: The frame into which a door is fitted.
door-frames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of door-frame
door frames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔː ˌfɹeɪmz/
ipa: /ˈdɔɹ ˌfɹeɪmz/
Senses: glosses: plural of door frame
temporisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: temporisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of temporization.
Joppa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἰόππη (Ióppē), from Hebrew יָפוֹ (Yafo).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Jaffa.
glosses: A small settlement in Hayle parish, south-west Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW5636).
glosses: A coastal suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland (OS grid ref NT3173).
glosses: A hamlet near Coylton, South Ayrshire council area, Scotland (grid ref NS4019).
glosses: A hamlet in Llanrhystyd community, Ceredigion, Wales (grid ref SN5666).
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place and unincorporated community in Cullman County and Marshall County, Alabama.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Massac County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Hendricks County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Adair County, Kentucky.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A former colonial town and current planning region in Harford County, Maryland.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Grainger County, Tennessee.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Burnet County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Braxton County, West Virginia.
Soros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsɔɹoʊs/
/ˈsɔɹəs/
Forms: form: Soroses
Etymology: From Hungarian Soros, from Hungarian soros.
Senses: examples: text: George Soros remains a favorite target of conservative conspiracy theorists, seeing his corrupting influence behind every liberal movement and within every nook and cranny.
ref: 2020 November 18, Brian Lowry, “‘Soros’ looks at the life and activism of the right’s favorite bogeyman”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A surname.
More specifically George Soros, financier.
Derived terms: Sorosian
!Kung
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʊŋ/
note: non-naturalized pronunciation
ipa: /ǃkʊŋ/
Senses: examples: text: One of [the few hunter-gatherer cultures that remain] is the !Kung of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana, Africa (the exclamation point in !Kung represents one of four clicking sounds in their language).
ref: 1979, Daniel Goleman, Consciousness, the Brain, States of Awareness, and Alternate Realities, Ardent Media, →ISBN, page 166:
text: For example, the !Kung* Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana have an explanation for the Milky Way, which at their latitude is often overhead.
[…]
*The exclamation point is a click, made by touching the tongue against the inside of the incisors, and simultaneously pronouncing the K.
ref: 1980, Carl Sagan, “The Backbone of Night”, in Cosmos, first edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 172:
text: The exclamation point in !Kung is pronounced as a click and is characteristic of Khoisan languages.
ref: 2000, Carl N. McDaniel, John M. Gowdy, Paradise for Sale: A Parable of Nature, page 78:
glosses: Alternative form of ǃKung.
this too shall pass away
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of this too shall pass.
Anchises
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /æŋˈkaɪ.siːz/
Etymology: Ancient Greek Ἀγχίσης (Ankhísēs), via Latin Anchises.
Senses: glosses: A mythical Trojan elder in the Iliad and the Aeneid, father of Aeneas.
Delon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Delons
form: deLon
form: DeLon
form: de Lon
form: De Lon
Etymology: De- + Lon
Senses: qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: A male given name.
Delon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Delons
Etymology: From French Delon
Senses: glosses: A surname from French
Deli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Delis
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Mount Deli
gastric angle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastric angles
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An angular portion of the stomach between the lesser curvature and the pylorus.
Synonyms: angulus
gastric angles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gastric angle
rheopecty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rheopexy.
South Cackalacky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: South Carolina.
roundrect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roundrects
Etymology: Blend of rounded + rectangle. In 1981, a function for quickly creating rounded rectangles was added to the Apple program LisaGraf (later renamed QuickDraw) created by Bill Atkinson at the request of Steve Jobs, with the program referring to this shape as the "RoundRect."
Senses: examples: text: The iPhone is, officially, King of Design: when even Intel is mirroring your new roundrect bezels, you have won that particular game.
ref: 2007 September 21, Rob Beschizza, “Intel Touts Toys of Future At Conference”, in Wired:
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A rectangle with rounded corners.
roundrects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roundrect
-pexy
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πῆξις (pêxis).
Senses: glosses: Fixing (in place), fastening.
Related terms: plication
an aspect of many surgical operations named with this suffix
deep-fat-fried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deep-fat-fried
form: most deep-fat-fried
Senses: glosses: Deep-fried.
Southern-fried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Southern-fried
form: most Southern-fried
form: Southern fried
form: southern-fried
Etymology: Because the particular style of frying is seen as characteristic of the Southern United States.
Senses: glosses: Coated in flour, egg, and breadcrumbs and then deep-fried.
glosses: Characteristic of the South of the United States; authentically Southern.
southern belle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: southern belles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Southern belle.
southern belles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of southern belle
cazh
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæʒ/
rhymes: -æʒ
Forms: form: more cazh
form: most cazh
form: cajj
form: cas
form: cas'
form: caszh
form: caz
form: kasj
form: kazh
Senses: glosses: Casual, laid-back; casually pleasant.
three day sickness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of three-day sickness.
RVSP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: NASA
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Initialism of Rover Sequencing and Visualization Program, a tool that helps engineers plan the Curiosity rover's drives, modeling pebbles and bumps in the terrain.
deader than a doornail
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dead as a doornail.
RCC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RCCs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of red cell concentrate.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of renal cell carcinoma.
glosses: Initialism of roller compacted concrete.
glosses: Abbreviation of reinforced carbon-carbon composite.
RCCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RCC
ChemCam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: NASA
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Abbreviation of Chemistry and Camera, an instrument onboard the Curiosity rover.
tifs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tif
agemate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agemates
Senses: examples: text: Twins are in an unusual situation: they have an agemate to play with from Day One.
ref: 2009, Judith Rich Harris, The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do, Free Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 147:
glosses: Alternative form of age-mate.
agemates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agemate
titanesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more titanesque
form: most titanesque
Senses: glosses: Titanic, Herculean
titularise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: titularises
form: titularising
form: titularised
form: titularised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of titularize.
titularises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of titularise
aliya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aliyas
form: aliyot
form: aliyoth
form: aliyos
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of aliyah.
aliyas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aliya
umrah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: umrahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of 'umra.
fairy lights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairy light
Senses: examples: text: Through the trees ahead came odd strains from the dance band in the Casino, and now I could see many twinkling fairy lights and detect moving figures.
ref: 1930, Sax Rohmer, The Day the World Ended, published 1969, page i. 13:
text: I managed to put quite a lot of small baubles on the top of the tree that way and helped drape the long string of fairy lights around it, […]
ref: 2010, Trisha Ashley, Twelve Days of Christmas, HarperCollins, →ISBN:
text: A constant, slightly defocused, dinner party with relaxed glamorous friends, carrying on just outside the kitchen door, under the fairy lights.
ref: 2023 September 23, Tim Hayward, “Not so easy does it”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 19:
glosses: Small electric lights on a strand which are used decoratively, especially on Christmas trees.
Synonyms: Christmas lights
halaqah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halaqahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of halaqa.
agoraphobiacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agoraphobiac
modal adverb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: modal adverbs
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An adverb that qualifies a predicate with respect to way in which it is true.
Related terms: hedge
modality
Five Books of Moses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Five Books of Moses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Books of Moses.
sonhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sonhoods
Etymology: From son + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: Clearly, the present results are only a first step toward a more scholarly understanding of the nature of sonhood and the role of son within the family dynamic.
ref: 2006, Kory Floyd, Mark T. Morman, Widening the family circle:
glosses: The state, condition, or quality of being a son; sonship.
sonhoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sonhood
deep drawing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deep drawings
Senses: glosses: A sheet metal forming process in which a sheet metal blank is radially drawn into a forming die by the mechanical action of a punch.
temporisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of temporisation
praya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prayas
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese praya, obsolete form of praia (“beach”). Doublet of playa and plage.
Senses: examples: text: Elsewhere on the Island, facilities for the transport of goods were limited to landing piers and prayas for junks and lighters.
ref: 1973, Tzu-nang Chiu, The Port of Hong Kong: A Survey of its Development, page 24:
glosses: A promenade or drive located beside the seashore in Hong Kong.
half-god
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-gods
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of halfgod.
sedecimarticulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin sedecim + articulate.
Senses: examples: text: Mycetophila. Meig. Antennæ porrect, cylindrical, sedecimarticulate.
ref: 1856, William Clark, transl., Handbook of Zoology, volume 1, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, translation of original by Jan van der Hoeven, page 342:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having sixteen joints.
liked to
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Variant of like to or would have liked to.
like to
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: [laɪk.tə]
ipa: [laːk.tə]
Etymology: Re-analysis of like (to) (an adjective meaning "likely") as an adverb. (Forms like liked to and would have liked to are from re-analysis as a verb.)
Senses: examples: text: And the wall facing the hall was almost all glass. It looked more like a store display window than a room. Rob didn't know about all this until a week later when she was back on her ward; but when she told him, he like to died.
ref: 1995, Elizabeth Kytle, The Voices of Robby Wilde, page 204:
glosses: nearly; almost
Synonyms: would have liked to
duodecimarticulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin duodecim + articulate.
Senses: examples: text: Cordila. Meig., Latr. Antennæ duodecimarticulate, compressed, clavate.
ref: 1856, William Clark, transl., Handbook of Zoology, volume 1, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, translation of original by Jan van der Hoeven, page 342:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having twelve joints.
quadriarticulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quadri- + articulate.
Senses: examples: text: Palps incurved, quadriarticulate.
ref: 1856, William Clark, transl., Handbook of Zoology, volume 1, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, translation of original by Jan van der Hoeven, page 342:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having four joints.
undecimarticulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin undecim + articulate.
Senses: examples: text: Antennæ undecimarticulate, perfoliate.
ref: 1856, William Clark, transl., Handbook of Zoology, volume 1, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, translation of original by Jan van der Hoeven, page 341:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having eleven joints.
halfdead
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: half dead
form: half-dead
Etymology: From Middle English halfdede, from Old English healfdēad (“half-dead”), from Proto-Germanic *halbadaudaz (“halfdead”), equivalent to half- + dead. Cognate with West Frisian healdea (“halfdead”), Dutch halfdood (“halfdead”), German Low German halvdood (“halfdead”), German halbtot (“halfdead”), Swedish halvdöd (“halfdead”).
Senses: examples: text: But even after he was beyond the danger zone, he still felt halfdead.
ref: 1999, Patti Massman, Susan Rosser, A Matter of Betrayal:
text: Until the day King Nax had seized him and shattered his legs—not broken them, but shattered them, eight men taking turns with a mallet—and then sent him home, halfdead, to his wife, Aliss, in the northern Dells.
ref: 2009, Kristin Cashore, Fire:
text: Some may be halfdead physically; they need people to visit them in the hospital or in their homes. But there are many more who are halfdead in other ways.
ref: 2010, Wayne Gordon, Who Is My Neighbor?:
text: [...] from a vantage point of security, the lawyer is taught to ask the question from the vantage point of one lying halfdead by the side of the road.
ref: 2010, Robert A Gagnon, The Bible and Homosexual Practice:
glosses: Halfway dead; only partially alive.
moonnaut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moonnauts
Etymology: From moon + -naut.
Senses: examples: text: An outstanding lineup of big-name speakers from the profession (and maybe a "Moonnaut").
ref: 1969, The Quill, Volume 57, Society of Professional Journalists, page 38:
text: Has anybody remarked that Moonnaut Armstrong wasn't really the first?
ref: 1969, Harvard Bulletin: Volume 72, Digitized edition, Harvard Bulletin, published 2009, page 9:
text: The National Air Space Museum in Washington acquired Raquel Forner's "The Return of the Moonnaut", chosen because of the artist's originality in vizualizing man's conquests in the outer space.
ref: 1975, Galería Wildenstein, Art in the Argentine, Digitized edition, published 2008:
text: Thats about as good as Your Moon Colony of 1000 Moonnauts in 8 Years!!
ref: 2012 March 3, comment, “Gingrich: Interior Sec Salazar Should Be Replaced Along with Energy Sec Chu”, in Free Republic, retrieved 2012-08-12:
glosses: Someone trained to live and work on a moon; an explorer of a moon
Related terms: lunanaut
lunarnaut
freshman fifteen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freshman 15
Etymology: From freshman + fifteen.
Senses: examples: text: I gained the dreaded "freshman fifteen," whereas Ophi became unnaturally thin from eating too little.
ref: 1997, Tali Edut, with Dyann Logwood and Ophira Edut, “HUES Magazine: The Making of a Movement”, in Leslie Heywood, Jennifer Drake, editors, Third Wave Agenda: Being Feminist, Doing Feminism, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 85:
text: Having gained the regulation freshman fifteen meant that my skirt that day fit.
ref: 1999 August 4, Alice Sebold, Lucky, New York: Scribner, →ISBN, →OL, page 37:
text: The freshman fifteen is the stuff of urban legend — a horror story that wreaks havoc on the psyches of high school seniors everywhere, for fear that it too might touch their lives, leaving them crying in the Sears dressing room shopping for pants two sizes larger.
ref: 2012 August 9, Tiana Kupinski, “Getting mean on the Freshman 15”, Sun Belt Collegiate, in Explorer:
glosses: The amount of body weight (thought to be 15 pounds) gained by a student during their first year of college.
Synonyms: word: fresher five
word: fresher spread
bodies of water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of body of water
soups up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of soup up
souping up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of soup up
souping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of soup
souping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The dietary practice of eating mainly soup, for example in order to lose weight.
Related terms: juicing
CDI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CDIs
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Initialism of capacitor discharge ignition.
examples: text: Moreover, the CDI concept rationalizes the application structure by making the wiring points of one class with others explicit.
ref: 2022, Giuseppe Bonocore, Arunee Singhchawla, Hands-On Software Architecture with Java, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 185:
topics: architecture
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of context(s) and dependency injection.
examples: text: […] CDI should be placed on preemptive contact precautions pending the Clostridioides difficile test results. Patients with CDI should be admitted to a private room with a dedicated toilet to decrease transmission to other patients.
ref: 2021 June 3, M. Nedim. N. Ince, Gastrointestinal Infections, An Issue of Gastroenterology Clinics of North America, E-Book, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 333:
text: The highest incidence of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) among hospitalized patients is reported in the Northeast and during spring months; highest CDI mortality rates are reported in the Midwest and during winter (2001 to 2010).
ref: 2022 March 17, Stephen Berger, MD et al., Clostridioides Difficile Colitis: Global Status: 2022 edition, GIDEON Informatics Inc, →ISBN, page 70:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Clostridioides difficile infection.
examples: text: Lauren turned to him and said, “I grew up on Army bases, so I know what CDI means. Chicks Dig It. The average male thinks things that go boom have a higher CDI than the hard work of diplomacy.”
ref: 2013, Anne Calhoun, Uncommon Pleasure, Heat, →ISBN:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Ellipsis of CDI factor.
Taprobana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Taprobane
form: Trapobana
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin Tāprobana, from Ancient Greek Ταπροβάνη (Taprobánē).
Senses: glosses: Sri Lanka.
electrofunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + funk.
Senses: glosses: Any of various genres of electronic dance music influenced by funk.
hophornbeam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hophornbeams
form: hop-hornbeam
Etymology: From hop + hornbeam (“hard wood”).
Senses: glosses: Any species of the genus Ostrya, with exceptionally dense wood and hop-like fruit.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Ostrya multinervis
word: Central Chinese hop-hornbeam
word: Chisos hophornbeam
taxonomic: Ostrya chisosensis
word: Big Bend hophornbeam
word: eastern hophornbeam
word: American hophornbeam
word: Central American hophornbeam
taxonomic: Ostrya virginiana
word: ironwood
word: European hophornbeam
taxonomic: Ostrya carpinifolia
word: common hop-hornbeam
taxonomic: Ostrya japonica
word: Japanese hop-hornbeam
word: Knowlton hophornbeam
word: western hophornbeam
taxonomic: Ostrya knowltonii
word: wolf hophornbeam
taxonomic: Ostrya yunnanensis
word: Yunnan hop-hornbeam
taxonomic: Ostrya rehderiana
word: Zhejiang hop-hornbeam
snap fastener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snap fasteners
Senses: glosses: a pair of male/female interlocking disks used to fasten a piece of clothing in place of buttons
Synonyms: word: popper
word: snap button
word: press stud
word: press fastener
word: pop fastener
word: tich button
epixylous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epi- + xyl- + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Some moulds prefer to live on bread, but others are epixylous.
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to, growing on, or living on the surface of wood.
codgy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: codgier
form: codgiest
Etymology: From codger + -y.
Senses: examples: text: My voice and the rising voices of millions of other Americans who share this view represent more than the codgy old attempt of one generation to steal the fun of another.
ref: 1995, Bob Dole, speech in Los Angeles, California on 31 May 1995 (transcript from The American Presidency Project)
glosses: Old in age or mentality; hoary; stodgy.
luge-ing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of luge
codgier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: During the questions and answers, Ivan calmly, slickly explained away his change of heart by saying, "This young man is very persuasive," that an old codger like himself needed fresh ideas to keep himself from getting codgier.
ref: 1990, Carolyn Fireside, Forbidden Games, Dell Books, published 1991, →ISBN, page 294:
glosses: comparative form of codgy: more codgy
codgiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The band is, after all, one of the most engaging live acts around, able to transcend power failures, perform in locker rooms and the backseats of cabs, share recipes and impress even the codgiest of codgers, Lou Reed.
ref: 2008 June 2, Sara Miller, “Okkervil River announces tour, details of The Stand Ins”, in Paste:
glosses: superlative form of codgy: most codgy
from stem to stern
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: My father, as nurse said, did never fear, / But cried ‘Good seaman!’ to the sailors […] / Never was waves nor wind more violent; / And from the ladder-tackle washes off / A canvas-climber. ‘Ha!’ says one, ‘wilt out?’ / And with a dropping industry they skip / From stem to stern.
ref: c. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: […] [William White and Thomas Creede] for Henry Gosson, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: The very name of a Sioux became a watchword of terror. Not an elk, a wolf, or any other animal, could appear on the hills, but the boats resounded with exclamations from stem to stern, "voila les Sioux!" "voila les Sioux!" (there are the Sioux! there are the Sioux!)
ref: 1836 October, Washington Irving, chapter XVI, in Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. […], volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: [Henry Charles] Carey, [Isaac] Lea, & Blanchard, →OCLC, page 192:
text: From stem to stern, the [U.S.S.] Enterprise measures 1,040 ft.—roughly the height of the 102-story Empire State Building.
ref: 1961 December 1, “Armed Forces: The Mightiest Ever”, in Time:
text: The captain ordered an immediate and thorough search of the entire ship from stem to stern—no nook or cranny was to be overlooked.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 106:
text: [T]he Monterey was ablaze from stem to stern as Lieutenant Ford stood near the helm, awaiting his orders.
ref: 2006 December 28, Robert Drury, Tom Clavin, “How Lieutenant Ford Saved His Ship”, in New York Times, retrieved 23 Aug 2012:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Over the full length of a ship or boat, from the front end of the vessel to the back end.
examples: text: [T]he horse was the vainer brute of the two; he was far worse beflounced, bebonneted, and bemantled, than any fair lady. . . . [T]his poor animal from stem to stern was swamped in finery.
ref: 1861, Charles Reade, chapter 58, in The Cloister and the Hearth:
text: Michigan's Mackinac Island, the Lake Huron resort where automobiles are barred, was sprayed from stem to stern with DDT.
ref: 1945 August 27, “Science: War on Insects”, in Time:
text: Weighing in at four pounds, the lobster was rubbery and tasteless from stem to stern.
ref: 2005 Oct. 12, Marian Burros, "Take My Steak. Please." (restaurant review), New York Times (retrieved 23 Aug. 2012)
glosses: From front to back; from one end to the other end.
fetterbush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fetterbushes
Senses: glosses: Any of several heathlike shrubs, especially in species:
Leucothoe spp., especially
glosses: Any of several heathlike shrubs, especially in species:
Leucothoe spp., especially
Leucothoe fontanesiana
glosses: Any of several heathlike shrubs, especially in species:
Pieris floribunda (mountain fetterbush)
glosses: Any of several heathlike shrubs, especially in species:
Lyonia lucida (shiny lyonia)
Synonyms: sense: Lyonia lucida
word: fetterbush lyonia
sense: Lyonia lucida
word: hurrahbush
sense: Lyonia lucida
word: staggerbush
fetterbushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fetterbush
vacationship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈkeɪʃ(ə)n.ʃɪp/
Forms: form: vacationships
Etymology: Blend of vacation + relationship
Senses: examples: text: And Kinsella, acknowledging how much she gets out of Mehan's doting over her in person and from afar, concedes she's in a "vacationship".
ref: 2007, Tom Levinson, "Lives in limbo", Chicago Tribune
text: I'm not looking for a vacationship.
ref: 2007, "Spy Something or Get Out", season 2 episode 7 of Little Mosque on the Prairie, CBC
text: The vacationship one-night-stand is one of the best and easiest of all.
ref: 2009, Tristan Coopersmith, Todd Johnso, Menu Dating, →ISBN, page 108:
text: The vacationship, however, is a different story.
ref: 2010, Dunja Nedic, "love out loud: the vacationship", LipMag
glosses: a sexual relationship formed during the course of a vacation which has no attachments, and after the vacation has ended, ceases to exist.
Related terms: one-night stand
vacationships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vacationship
Calot's triangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Calot's triangles
Etymology: Named after Jean-François Calot.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An anatomic space bordered by the common hepatic duct, the cystic duct and base of the liver. It is used to identify the cystic artery.
wikipedia: Jean-François Calot
Synonyms: hepatobiliary triangle
hepatocystic triangle
cystohepatic triangle
Related terms: Budde's triangle
Calot's triangles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Calot's triangle
ruffle someone's feathers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ruffles someone's feathers
form: ruffling someone's feathers
form: ruffled someone's feathers
form: ruffled someone's feathers
Senses: examples: text: Sutton and David Templeton both had efforts just off target as Hearts' tactics of high-tempo, pressing football ruffled the English side's feathers.
ref: 2012 August 23, Alasdair Lamont, “Hearts 0-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: word: get someone's dander up
word: raise someone's hackles
word: aggravate
word: annoy
word: rankle
word: ruffle
word: sting
word: antagonize
word: bother
word: disgruntle
word: botherate
word: bug
word: get
word: grate
word: burn up
word: bedevil
word: cheese off
word: devil
word: exasperate
word: frustrate
word: get up
word: grotch
word: hack off
word: hassle
word: irk
word: irritate
word: jazz
word: molest
word: mommick
word: nark
word: nerve
word: pee off
word: peeve
word: persecute
word: pique
word: piss off
word: provoke
word: rile
word: rile up
word: roil
word: storm
word: test someone's patience
word: tick off
word: trouble
word: try one's patience
word: vex
word: wind up
word: Idioms:
word: boil someone's piss
word: chap someone's hide
word: get on someone's nerves
word: get on someone's tits
word: get on someone's wick
word: get someone's back up
word: get someone's dander up
word: get someone's goat
word: get someone's Irish up
word: get someone's nanny
word: get someone's nanny-goat
word: get under one's goat
word: get under someone's skin
word: give someone the shits
word: grind one's gears
word: harsh one's mellow
word: put someone's back up
word: raise someone's hackles
word: rub someone the wrong way
word: rub up the wrong way
word: ruffle someone's feathers
word: tee off
word: torque off
glosses: To unease, cause discomfort to someone.
Related terms: ruffle some feathers
rustle someone's jimmies
that way inclined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Interested in that; having such a tendency.
glosses: Gay, homosexual.
determinators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of determinator
spinal disc herniation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spinal disc herniations
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A medical condition affecting the spine, in which a tear in the outer, fibrous ring of an intervertebral disc allows the soft, central portion to bulge out beyond the damaged outer rings.
Synonyms: english: slip
translation: slip
word: slipped disc. This term is misleading and is not medically accurate as the spinal discs are firmly attached between the vertebrae and cannot out of place.
solidarise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: solidarises
form: solidarising
form: solidarised
form: solidarised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of solidarize.
solidarises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of solidarise
white-beaked dolphin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white-beaked dolphins
Senses: glosses: A marine mammal belonging to the species Lagenorhynchus albirostris.
white-beaked dolphins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white-beaked dolphin
schoolies weeks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schoolies week
schoolies week
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schoolies weeks
form: schoolies' week
form: Schoolies Week
Etymology: From schoolie + week. The festival originated from informal parties held at beach houses on the Gold Coast in Queensland, around 1975-78.
Senses: examples: text: Under official management schoolies week emerges almost as another kind of Gold Coast theme park; a place to go ‘wild’ safely.
ref: 1999, Colin Symes, Daphne Meadmore, The Extra-Ordinary School: Parergonality & Pedagogy, page 203:
text: Traditionally there are separate Schoolies Weeks for Queensland and New South Wales/Victorian Year 12s on the Gold Coast, so that at each one, students party with their peers.
ref: 2008, Simon Hudson, Tourism and Hospitality Marketing: A Global Perspective, page 70:
text: In her opinion piece published in The Bugle on April 7 this year, Michele Bailey enthusiastically discusses the growing trend of alternative activities to the traditional schoolies week in Queensland, namely working with charitable missions in Australia and developing countries.
ref: 2010, Elizabeth Tulloh, Melanie Napthine, Robert Beardwood, English in Year 11, page 202:
text: Blurred focuses on characters travelling to the annual end of secondary school rite of passage in Australia, Schoolies Week on the Gold Coast, in this local variant of the teen pic.
ref: 2011, Ben Goldsmith, Tom O'Regan, Susan Ward, Local Hollywood: Global Film Production and the Gold Coast, page 200:
text: In other words, it′s the approach of that great Australian contribution to Western civilisation: schoolies week.
ref: 2012, Peter Ruehl, Men Are Stupid, Women Are Crazy, page 91:
glosses: A festival during which finishing high school students celebrate the end of their studies, and associated freedom.
tractlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tractlets
Etymology: From tract + -let.
Senses: examples: text: We could write a tractlet on foods, and if we did we would call it "Don't," for the first sentence in it would be, "Don't change the food if you can help it."
ref: 1912, Amy Wilson-Carmichael, Lotus Buds, Morgan and Scott Ld, page 239:
glosses: A pamphlet or brochure.
examples: text: In a fenced-off tractlet was the cow family.
ref: 1907, Lionel Josaphare, The Man Who Wanted A Bungalow, W. B. Van Cott, page 12:
glosses: A small tract of land.
tractlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tractlet
démêlés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of démêlé
bullier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bulliers
Etymology: From bully + -er (agent noun suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Neither of us has very much to lose, but a bully — especially a bullier of women — must be a coward
ref: 1913, Ralph Stock, Marama: a tale of the South Pacific, page 138:
text: she looked upon Miss Ollier as a bullier of brothers, as a house-tyrant
ref: 1931, Elizabeth ^([sic]), Father:
text: I knew him from previous cases as a heckler, a bullier of witnesses.
ref: 1946, The Atlantic, volume 178:
text: 'Suppose Master he no stop here. You hear me talk. Now go shoot pigeon?' I snarled. As I walked away I heard him murmur, 'Yes, sir Missus.' I did not like myself. I was a fishwife and a bullier of natives, I told myself in disgust.
ref: 1957, Joan Gerstad, The jungle was our home:
text: Anson was a fierce and overbearing "coacher" and a bullier of umpires and opponents.
ref: 1961, Robert Smith, Baseball in America:
text: Bulliers frequently cause others to feel socially isolated and excluded through verbal, nonverbal, and physical harassment.
ref: 1992, David H. Demo, Ritch C. Savin-Williams, “Self-Concept Stability and Change during Adolescence”, in Richard P. Lipka, Thomas M. Brinthaupt, editors, Self-Perspectives Across the Life Span, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 126:
text: And that was that: Greg labelled as a dubious character, a bullier of young kids.
ref: 2004, Linda Newbery, The Shell House, page 131:
text: […] how cautious one must be when attempting to set limits on bulliers, and how it is sometimes better to be a bit bullied and feel temporarily depressed than to […]
ref: 2007, Martin Kantor, Lifting the Weight: Understanding Depression in Men, Its Causes and Solutions, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 179:
text: Even so, [Fiorello] La Guardia is commonly known as a bullier of bullies, a power-slinging crime fighter.
ref: 2010, Ethan Mordden, The Guest List: How Manhattan Defined American Sophistication—from the Algonquin Round Table to Truman Capote’s Ball, Macmillan, unnumbered digital page
text: they can be devastating teasers and bulliers
ref: 2011, Jeffrey Kluger, The Sibling Effect:
glosses: One who bullies.
bullier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bully + -er (comparative suffix).
Senses: glosses: comparative form of bully: more bully
dobie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dobies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dhobi (“laundryman or washerman”).
bulliers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bullier
American pie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more American pie
form: most American pie
Etymology: Apparently shortened from the simile American as apple pie.
Senses: examples: text: The prostitute's dream is the most upward mobile, middle class, American pie dream of all.
ref: 1976, Francine Hardaway, Creative Rhetoric, page 14:
glosses: Having the attributes associated uniquely or primarily with Americans.
copsa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copsa ˢᵃ
Senses: qualifier: Biblical studies
glosses: Manuscripts of the Bible in the Coptic Sahidic dialect.
fortear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fortears
form: fortearing
form: fortore
form: fortorn
Etymology: From Middle English forteren, possibly from Old English *forteran, from Proto-West Germanic *frateran (“to tear up”). By surface analysis, for- (“up, completely”) + tear. Cognate with Dutch verteren (“to devour”), German Low German vertehren (“to consume”), German verzehren (“to consume”).
Senses: examples: text: A German hussar, a veteran in the wars of Germany, appeared at the door of Congress, in Philadelphia, in his uniform and on horseback, with a fortorn cap upon his head, [...]
ref: 1842, Royal Ralph Hinman, A Historical Collection from Official Records, Files, &c., of the Part Sustained by Connecticut, During the War of the Revolution: With an Appendix, Containing Important Letters, Depositions, &c., Written During the War, page 43:
text: It was as if an earthquake rent, And made fortorn The households horn Of peace on earth, [...]
ref: 1882, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
glosses: To tear up; tear to pieces.