cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
megaohm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megaohms
form: mega-ohm
form: megohm
Etymology: From mega- + ohm.
Senses: topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of resistance equal to 10⁶ ohms. Symbol: MΩ
gigaohm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gigaohms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of giga-ohm.
teraohm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teraohms
Etymology: From tera- + ohm.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tera-ohm.
Akeanon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Aklanon.
Atzera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Adzera.
Azera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Adzera.
Atsera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Adzera.
Awabagal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Awabakal.
Awabagal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Awabakal.
snowmobiling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From snowmobile + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The use of a snowmobile for amusement.
Synonyms: skidooing
Skidooing
Derived terms: snowmoboating
hypotonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌɪpə(ʊ)ˈtɒnɪk/
ipa: /haɪpəˈtɑnɪk/
ipa: /haɪpoʊˈtɑnɪk/
Forms: form: more hypotonic
form: most hypotonic
Etymology: From hypo- + tonic.
Senses: glosses: Having a lower osmotic pressure than another.
raw_tags: of a solution
examples: text: But always he went the full length, crying until he was completely exhausted, worn out, hypotonic.
ref: 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1053:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Showing less than normal tension in the muscles or muscle tissue.
Derived terms: hypotonically
hypotonicity
Related terms: isotonic
cauliflower cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A British dish of boiled cauliflower served with a cheese sauce.
blue cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: blo͞o chēzʹ
ipa: /blu ˈtʃiz/
ipa: /bluː ˈtʃiːz/
rhymes: -iːz
Forms: form: blue cheeses
form: bleu cheese
Senses: glosses: A kind of cheese made with bluish mold in it.
glosses: Ellipsis of blue cheese dressing
bluey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbluː.i/
rhymes: -uːi
Forms: form: bluier
form: bluiest
Etymology: From blue + -y.
Senses: glosses: Having a colour similar to blue.
Synonyms: blueish
bluey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbluː.i/
rhymes: -uːi
Forms: form: blueys
Etymology: From blue + -y.
Senses: glosses: The metal lead.
examples: text: Then we had to wring our blueys which were rotting in the swags, /And we saw the sugar leaking through the bottoms of the bags […]
ref: 1896, Henry Lawson, In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses:
glosses: A bushman's blanket.
examples: text: ‘Doc’ […] shouldered his bluey and whistled up his lame fox-terrier before formally wishing them all well.
ref: 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 318:
glosses: A collection of clothes and other belongings rolled up into a bundle for carrying; a swag.
glosses: A blue cattle dog, especially a blue heeler.
glosses: A blue singlet, especially one from the Bonds clothing label.
glosses: A bluebottle.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A disposable underpad.
glosses: A blue film.
glosses: A person with ginger hair.
glosses: An online troll who uses the blue check verification system on Twitter.
examples: text: He confessed: "You'd have to do a 'bluey' with her. It's one of those situations you think, 'I'm not risking it'. With really good-looking girls, the pressure's on."
ref: 2010 December 19, Daniel Sperling, “Cardle 'too nervous' to sleep with Rihanna”, in Digital Spy:
glosses: Synonym of blue pill (“pill of Viagra”).
synonyms: word: blue pill
extra: pill of Viagra
blueish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blueish
form: most blueish
Etymology: From Middle English blewissh, blewisch, equivalent to blue + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The carpet is a light grey and blueish criss-cross.
ref: 2019 October 23, Pip Dunn, “The next king of Scotland”, in Rail, page 51:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bluish.
blondish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blondish
form: most blondish
Etymology: From blond + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat blond in colour.
examples: text: I had a blondish moment earlier: I accidentally locked my keys inside my hotel room.
glosses: Similar to a stereotypical dumb blonde.
blinder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblaɪndə/
ipa: /ˈblaɪndɚ/
rhymes: -aɪndə(ɹ)
Etymology: From blind + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Ye who arrogate to yourselves that ye see more, or at least are not so blind as others; in your unbelieving conduct, allow me to say, ye are blinder than others; ye are even blinder than the most ignorant and illiterate.
ref: 1830, William Pashley, The Voice of Reason in Defence of the Christian Faith:
glosses: comparative form of blind: more blind
blinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblaɪndə/
ipa: /ˈblaɪndɚ/
rhymes: -aɪndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: blinders
Etymology: From blind + -er.
Senses: examples: text: As it was, innocence was his blinder.
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 15, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
text: I, I, got a new girlfriend / She feels like he's on top / And I don't feel no remorse / And you can't see past my blinders
ref: 2016 February 5, Wesley Schultz and Jeremy Fraites, “Ophelia”, in Cleopatra, performed by The Lumineers:
glosses: Something that blinds.
glosses: A bag or cloth put over the head of a difficult horse while it is being handled or mounted.
examples: text: From both sides of his head a blackness swiftly grew like blinders on a horse and darkly narrowed his field of vision.
ref: 1969, Kenzaburō Ōe, chapter 5, in John Nathan, transl., A Personal Matter, New York: Grove Press, page 84:
text: Orientalism itself, furthermore, was an exclusively male province; like so many professional guilds during the modern period, it viewed itself and its subject matter with sexist blinders.
ref: 1978, Edward Said, Orientalism, New York: Vinatage, published 2003, Chapter 3, Part I, p. 207:
glosses: A screen attached to a horse's bridle preventing it from being able to see things to its side.
examples: text: He played a blinder this afternoon on the cricket ground.
text: And we asked the blue winger, who in our game / had played what they call a blinder, to help out
ref: 1992, Glyn Maxwell, “Out of the Rain”, in Boys at Twilight: Poems 1990 to 1995, New York: Houghton Mifflin, published 2000, page 91:
glosses: An exceptional performance.
examples: text: If a man goes out on a blinder, he might be charged with being drunk and incapable and therefore have a criminal record, although he is an honourable man.
ref: 1985 May 2, John Maxton, Hansard:
glosses: A bout of heavy drinking; a bender.
examples: text: When the 'blinders' are switched off, and the audience's eyes given time to re-adjust, the new scene is in place […]
ref: 1992, The Lighting Journal, page 9:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A bright light used to blind the audience temporarily during a scene change.
Synonyms: sense: horse's blindfold
word: blinker
sense: horse's blindfold
word: winker
sense: exceptional performance
word: cracker
Derived terms: peaky blinder
blinder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblaɪndə/
ipa: /ˈblaɪndɚ/
rhymes: -aɪndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: blinders
form: blindering
form: blindered
form: blindered
Etymology: From blind + -er.
Senses: glosses: To fit (a horse) with blinders.
examples: text: […] We climb in hopes / Of such seeing up the leaf-shuttered escarpments, / Blindered by green, under a green-grained sky
ref: 1958, Sylvia Plath, “Above the Oxbow”, in The Collected Poems, New York: Harper & Row, page 88:
text: They think they're being focussed when they're really just blindering their eyes, as a farmer would a plough horse, to ways of getting to their goal faster.
ref: 1986, Tessa Albert Warschaw, Rich is Better: How Women Can Bridge the Gap Between Wanting and Having It All — Financially, Emotionally, Professionally, Penguin, page 248:
glosses: To obstruct the vision of.
blackmailer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackmailers
Etymology: From blackmail + -er.
Senses: examples: text: This sex blackmailer and dryhanded public virgin was lunching secretly each week with the East Coast spokesman for organized crime, Frank Costello, in N.Y. Central Park's Tavern on the Green (according to the Time magazine obituary).
ref: 1981, Geoffrey Rips, Anne Janowitz, Nancy Joyce Peters, The Campaign against the underground press, page 33:
text: Ordinary people have already been face-swapped into videos for humorous or prank purposes and there is no reason to believe that abusers, harassers, stalkers, and blackmailers will not soon be face-swapping victims into compromising video as part of their arsenal.
ref: 2018 April, Larry Zimmerman, “Cheap and Easily Manipulated Video”, in The Journal of the Kansas Bar Association, Topeka, Kan.: Kansas Bar Association, →ISSN, page 21:
glosses: Someone who blackmails.
blossomy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈblɒsəmi/
/ˈblɒsmi/
Forms: form: blossomier
form: more blossomy
form: blossomiest
form: most blossomy
Etymology: Equivalent to blossom + -y; possibly from Middle English blosmy (from Old English blōstmig).
Senses: glosses: Similar to blossom.
blow-dry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blow-dries
form: blow-drying
form: blow-dried
form: blow-dried
form: blow dry
form: blowdry
Senses: glosses: To dry with a hair dryer.
Derived terms: blowdryer
blow-dryer
blow-dry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blow-dries
form: blow-drys
form: blow dry
form: blowdry
Senses: examples: text: She went to the hairdresser's for a haircut, shampooing and a blow-dry.
text: After we had our hair cut, we had to wait a few minutes for blow-drys.
ref: 2014, Sheila Agnew, chapter 14, in Evie Brooks in Central Park Showdown, Dublin: The O’Brien Press, →ISBN, page 93:
glosses: An instance of blow-drying.
examples: text: A lot of hairdressers don’t consider what the client looks like. There’s no point doing something big and fabulous like a huge blow-dry if she hasn’t even got a hairdryer at home; she can never recreate it.
ref: 2011 June, Olivia Wakefield, quoting Ian Carmichael, “Cut Above the Rest”, in Lorraine Crighton-Smith, editor, SW, number 264, London: Archant Life, →OCLC, “London Lifestyle Awards 2011” supplement:
text: She rests her blow-dry against his belly as Ollie stands there helplessly.
ref: 2012, Polly Williams, The Angel at No. 33, London: Headline Review, →ISBN, page 151:
text: Within minutes they had annexed a couple suits, and were soon halfway down a bottle of champagne, laughing and tossing their blow-dries and generally acting like they were absolutely thrilled to be in precisely that stuffy bar with its lame DJ and lamer floating candles in ice troughs, with precisely those fascinatingly witty men, while their luckier colleagues were doing bad Russian coke on the Riviera.
ref: 2016, L. S. Hilton [pseudonym; Lisa Hilton], chapter 19, in Maestra, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 197:
glosses: A blow-dried hairdo.
bookmobile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bookmobiles
Etymology: From book + -mobile.
Senses: synonyms: bookbus
glosses: A mobile library; especially, a large van designed to transport a portion of some library's collection.
Derived terms: boatmobile
boozy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbuːzi/
rhymes: -uːzi
Forms: form: boozier
form: booziest
Etymology: From booze + -y.
Senses: glosses: Intoxicated by alcohol.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: Dirty Davy had brought with him his chief clerk, who was a facetious personage, and boozy, and on the confidential footing of a common rascality with his master, who, after the fashion of Harry V. in his nonage, condescended in his frolics and his cups to men of low estate […]
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
glosses: Inclined to consume a significant amount of alcohol.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: We all had hangovers after a boozy weekend in town.
text: Once the concert was over I settled back into my boozy routine, wine at home with my family, cognac in my studio when I was composing.
ref: 2012, Pete Townshend, Who I Am, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 245:
glosses: Involving a large consumption of alcohol.
raw_tags: of an event
examples: text: For dessert, the hosts treated us to a helping of boozy apple pie.
text: You embodied that good done-in mama who gives and gives like a fountain of boozy chicken soup to a rat race of men.
ref: 1971, Marge Piercy, “Burying Blues for Janis”, in To Be Of Use:
text: Now both sitting, we shoveled into the whorls of the boozy ice cream peach orchard, sweet, tart and cold, filling while it offered the same medicinal stomach coating as a shot glass of Pepto Bismal, only much more to my taste.
ref: 2005, Frank A. Defilippo, Hooked, page 187:
text: Sweetened crème fraîche ties the compote together with the slightly bitter, boozy caramel sauce.
ref: 2012, Martha Holmberg, Crepes: 50 Savory and Sweet Recipes, page 116:
glosses: Containing or cooked with alcohol.
raw_tags: of food
Synonyms: sense: intoxicated by alcohol
word: drunk
sense: inclined to consume alcohol
word: drunk
sense: inclined to consume alcohol
word: sottish
sense: containing alcohol
word: alcoholic
Derived terms: boozily
booziness
Suzi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Susie
form: Susy
form: Suzie
form: Suzy
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of Susan and of related female given names.
brambly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bramblier
form: brambliest
Etymology: From bramble + -y.
Senses: glosses: Covered in brambles
examples: December 2004, "500 Greatest Songs of All Time - Bob Dylan, 'Blowin' in the Wind'", in The Rolling Stone
everyone knew the song belonged to the burning-eyed young man who ruled New York's folk scene, and whose recording of it — just his brambly voice and fleet-fingered acoustic-guitar playing — was definitive
glosses: Rough; harsh or grating.
tooler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toolers
Etymology: From tool + -er.
Senses: glosses: A stonemason's chisel.
glosses: One who tools leather.
glosses: A criminal who defrauds a fruit machine and steals the money inside.
examples: text: Pickpockets took to housebreaking and housebreakers joined gangs of street thieves; cracksmen's mistresses were often toolers and shoplifters.
ref: 1970, Kellow Chesney, The Anti-society: An Account of the Victorian Underworld, page 168:
text: A tooler was the most elite of the pickpockets, a planner and plotter, a boy with brains, daring and courage. At any one time Ikey hoped for four toolers in the making and two fully blown and working at the top of their trade.
ref: 2010, Bryce Courtenay, The Potato Factory, volume 1, page 103:
glosses: A pickpocket.
toolers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tooler
monthlong
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From month + -long.
Senses: examples: text: In early December, as rainwaters had started the monthlong process of flooding mines and washing out rail lines, workers lined up before 1 p.m. at an easy-to-miss storefront depot in Mackay.
ref: 2011 January 12, Joel Kirkland, “Australia's Record Rains Squeeze World Coal Supplies as Scientists Study Climate Pattern”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 15 Sep 2025:
text: The 1.2-meter-diameter (4-foot-diameter) telescope has set off on a monthlong journey to its orbital destination of the sun-Earth Lagrange point L2, which is nearly 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) away from Earth and also home to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Euclid will keep pace with Earth as our planet orbits the sun.
ref: 2021 December 24, Don Lincoln, “The telescope that will replace Hubble will launch on Christmas. Here’s why it matters”, in CNN:
glosses: Which lasts a month, or approximately so.
weeklong
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: week-long
Etymology: From week + -long.
Senses: examples: text: One of those daughters, Jordyn Wilson Peppin, runs the Purely Woman School of Grace, a weeklong program where “ladies” can learn a godly path to “etiquette, grace and hosting.”
ref: 2012 July 21, Mark Oppenheimer, “‘Purity Balls’ Get Attention, but Might Not Be All They Claim”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2020:
text: They felt confident that the weeklong artillery bombardment of the German lines had weakened the enemy and that they would encounter little resistance once the "big push" began.
ref: 2022, Lindsey Fitzharris, The Facemaker, page 105:
glosses: Lasting for (approximately) one week.
Related terms: daylong
dayslong
monthlong
monthslong
weekslong
majestically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more majestically
form: most majestically
Etymology: From majestic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: When the right-away was given, Driver Gibson would give a sonorous blast on Cardean's deep-toned hooter, and amid a flurry of swirling steam the train would move majestically out, with nearly half the city of Carlisle—or so it would appear—as onlookers on the platform.
ref: 1945 May and June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 152:
glosses: In a majestic manner.
multi-purpose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + purpose.
Senses: examples: text: In 2019, Balfour Beatty was awarded a five-year, £65 million contract to maintain and operate Network Rail's fleet of multi-purpose vehicles (MPVs) to perform this task across Network Rail's Southern, Central and Anglia routes.
ref: 2021 September 22, “National Rail Awards 2021: MPV Seasonal Treatment”, in RAIL, number 940, page 48:
glosses: Alternative form of multipurpose.
daylong
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From day + -long.
Senses: examples: text: The Hang En tour involves a difficult daylong trek over limestone mountain paths and along riverbeds to the remote indigenous village of Ban Doong.
ref: 2014 October 31, David W. Lloyd, “Deep in Vietnam, Exploring a Colossal Cave”, in The New York Times:
coordinate_terms: dayslong
glosses: Which lasts a day, or approximately so.
daylong
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From day + -long.
Senses: examples: text: I feel myself to be a man disgraced, walking nightlong and daylong beyond the Paling of a Garden lush with fountains and flowers, waiting In vain for the....
ref: 1988, Takēs Papatsōnēs, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: ...silent house with its bare rooms and bone-white walls on which the southern windows cast slanted plaques of light that slide, daylong, towards the...
ref: 1986, J. R. Salamanca, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Throughout the day.
Related terms: dayslong § Related terms
nightlong
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English *nihtlong, from Old English nihtlang (“lasting through the night, night-long, a night in length”), equivalent to night + -long.
Senses: glosses: Lasting a night (i.e. the duration of one night); lasting all night.
nightlong
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Middle English nihtlonge, nihtlonges, from Old English nihtlanges (“for the night”), equivalent to night + -long.
Senses: glosses: Through the night.
melodramatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more melodramatically
form: most melodramatically
Etymology: From melodramatic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a melodramatic manner.
misanthropically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more misanthropically
form: most misanthropically
Etymology: From misanthropic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a misanthropic manner.
monogamously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more monogamously
form: most monogamously
Etymology: From monogamous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Their closest living relatives, deer mice, dwell in forests instead of open spaces, she learned, and they live promiscuously instead of monogamously.
ref: 2017 April 19, Carl Zimmer, “Why Are Some Mice (and People) Monogamous? A Study Points to Genes”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In a monogamous manner.
undersexed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undersexed
form: most undersexed
Etymology: From under- + sexed.
Senses: glosses: Lacking sufficient sexual desire or activity; sexually unfulfilled; sexually frustrated.
unfulfilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfulfilled
form: most unfulfilled
Etymology: From un- + fulfilled.
Senses: examples: text: Drag this neurotic to hysterics, leave him balked and unfulfilled;
holding inside, outwardly patient 'til the time he'll call it.
ref: 1998, Eve 6, “How Much Longer”, in Eve 6:
glosses: Lacking fulfillment; marked by a feeling of failure to achieve goals or desires.
glosses: Not yet provided as promised, particularly with respect to a contract or an order for a supply of something.
deferments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deferment
deferment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfɜːmənt/
ipa: /dɪˈfɚ.mənt/
Forms: form: deferments
Etymology: From defer + -ment.
Senses: glosses: An act or instance of deferring or putting off.
glosses: Officially sanctioned postponement of compulsory military service.
Synonyms: sense: act of deferring
word: deferral
word: delay
word: adjournment
word: deferment
word: demurral
word: procrastination
word: prolongation
word: protraction
Hyponyms: word: dithering
Related terms: word: delay
word: procrastinate
word: wait
groundlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more groundlessly
form: most groundlessly
Etymology: From groundless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Shame, disappointment, and discomfiture gnawed at his heart; a constant apprehension of being overtaken, or met—for he was groundlessly afraid even of travellers, who came towards him by the way he was going—oppressed him heavily.
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: For example, the organization has groundlessly denounced Elon Musk, a powerful libertarian voice, as an antisemite in a baldfaced effort to drain his social network, X, of advertising revenue. Yet, when now-Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) came to the defense of his uncle for antisemitic remarks he made in the ’90s, the organization refused to condemn him.
ref: 2024 February 16, Mike Howell, “Partnership With ADL Compromises FBI’s Integrity and Fairness”, in The Daily Signal:
glosses: In a groundless manner; without justification.
alpha geeks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alpha geek
alpha waves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alpha wave
adverbial clauses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adverbial clause
boarding parties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boarding party
chief executive officers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chief executive officer
hourlong
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hour + -long.
Senses: examples: text: The band’s hourlong set inspired arcs of flying bodies; before it was another excellent performance by a sludgy and curious punk band with another unpublishable name, this one from Allentown, Pa.
ref: 2009 January 22, Ben Ratliff, “Chords of Fame? These Bands Never Heard of Them”, in New York Times:
glosses: Which lasts an hour, or approximately so.
glosses: Of or relating to an hourlong period of time.
Related terms: half-hourlong
hourslong
half-hourlong
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From half-hour + -long.
Senses: glosses: which lasts half an hour, or approximately so.
Related terms: hour-long
roofward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From roof + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: As I opened the champagne bottle, the cork was propelled roofward.
glosses: Toward the roof.
in heaven's name
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: in Heaven's name
Senses: examples: text: What in heaven's name are you doing?
text: Who in heaven's name told you to do that?
text: Where in heaven's name are my darn shoes?
text: In heaven’s name, get your hair out of his face! I pushed my hair behind my ears.
ref: 2017 March, Jacky Dahlhaus, “Freedom”, in Raising a Vampire (Suckers; 2), 2nd edition, Folla Fiction Publishing, →ISBN, page 256:
glosses: An intensifier, chiefly used with questions.
Synonyms: in the name of heaven
the dickens
señores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of señor
acrimonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acrimony
alacrities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alacrity
tattoo artist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tattoo artists
Etymology: From tattoo + artist.
Senses: glosses: A person who draws tattoos on others.
Synonyms: tattooer
tattooist
tattoo artists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tattoo artist
thieve out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thieves out
form: thieving out
form: thieved out
form: thieved out
Senses: examples: text: But Kezia thieved out at the back.
ref: 1922 Katherine Mansfield, The Doll's House (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 354-355)
glosses: to walk out of a place stealthily
bellicosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: non-merged vowel
ipa: /ˌbɛlɪˈkɒsɪti/
note: merged vowel
ipa: /ˌbɛlɪˈkɒsəti/
Forms: form: bellicosities
Etymology: From bellicose + -osity.
Senses: examples: text: The timing is intriguing too. Before this news North Korea was all bellicosity and bluster.
ref: 29 February 2012, Aidan Foster-Carter, BBC News North Korea: The denuclearisation dance resumeshttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17213948
glosses: The characteristic of being bellicose.
Synonyms: martiality
bellicosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bellicosity
utility man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: utility men
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Alternative form of utilityman.
glosses: An actor of one of the least important parts in a play.
couveuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: couveuses
Etymology: From French couveuse.
Senses: glosses: An incubator for sickly infants, especially those born prematurely.
hair-tidy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hair-tidies
Senses: examples: 1918 : The fireplace was choked up with rubbish. She poked among it but found nothing except a hair-tidy with a heart painted on it that belonged to the servant girl. - Katherine Mansfield, Prelude (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 81)
glosses: A dish used by women in the past to store the hair that fell while combing, and use it later for a bun, etc.
Tigrigna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Italian tigrigna, from Tigrinya ትግርኛ (təgrəña).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Tigrinya.
stay-button
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stay-buttons
Senses: examples: text: In the servant girl's room there was a stay-button stuck in a crack of the floor, and in another crack some beads and a long needle.
ref: 1918, Katherine Mansfield, Prelude (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 82)
glosses: A button on a corset.
Hypernyms: button
interpositive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interpositives
form: IP
Etymology: From inter- + positive.
Senses: glosses: A specialized type of negative film stock that is part of the intermediate process that goes from an original negative to a release element (most common in the motion picture film post-production process). The material used is itself the same as in an internegative. The differences is that an IP has a positive image on it, while an IN has a negative image.
Makua
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A group of Bantu languages spoken in Mozambique and neighboring regions.
glosses: Alternative spelling of Makhuwa.
billable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bill + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being billed for.
Derived terms: nonbillable
unbillable
billable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: billables
Etymology: From bill + -able.
Senses: examples: text: […] time spent building and encoding a Web site and similar billables should be calculated as services and so noted in all contracts and invoice terms.
ref: 2008, Tad Crawford, AIGA Professional Practices in Graphic Design:
glosses: Something that is billed for.
wore rose colored glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wear rose colored glasses
wore rose-colored glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wear rose-colored glasses
look through rose-colored glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looks through rose-colored glasses
form: looking through rose-colored glasses
form: looked through rose-colored glasses
form: looked through rose-colored glasses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wear rose-colored glasses.
wearing rose-colored glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wear rose-colored glasses
wears rose-colored glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wear rose-colored glasses
Makhuwa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Makua
Senses: glosses: A Bantu language spoken by about 2.5 million people in Mozambique and neighboring regions.
Synonyms: topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Emakua
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Makhuwa-Makhuwana
Related terms: Makhuwa-Meetto
Makhuwa-Shirima
Wiktionary’s coverage of Makhuwa terms
vmw ⁠
birdfeed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birdfeeds
Etymology: From bird + feed.
Senses: glosses: Food intended for birds, often a mixture of various seeds.
shellshocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shell-shocked.
shellshock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shell shock.
pallidness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pallid + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being pallid.
Synonyms: pallidity
bucktoothed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bucktoothed
form: most bucktoothed
Etymology: From buck + toothed.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having buckteeth.
Gáe Bolga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Gae Bulg.
Gáe Bolg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Gae Bulg.
Gáe Bulga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Gae Bulg.
Gáe Bulg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Gae Bulg.
Mjollnir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmjɔlnɪɹ/
ipa: /ˈmjɒlnɪə/
Forms: form: Mjöllnir
form: Mjollner
form: Mjolnir
form: Mjölnir
form: Mjølnir
form: Mjolner
form: Mjölner
form: Mjølner
Etymology: Borrowed from Old Norse Mjǫllnir, likely from Proto-Norse *ᛗᛖᛚᛞᚢᚾᛃᚨᛉ (*meldunjaʀ), from Proto-Germanic *meldunjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *meldʰ-n- (“lightning”). Compare Old Norse mjuln (“fire”), Welsh mellt, Slovene mółnja, Russian мо́лния (mólnija).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The hammer of the Norse god Thor.
Mjølner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Mjollnir.
Mjollner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Mjollnir.
Mjölnir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Mjollnir.
Mjöllnir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Mjollnir.
Mjölner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Mjollnir.
Mjølnir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Mjollnir.
Mjolner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Mjollnir.
Makhuwa-Meetto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Bantu language spoken by more than one million people in Mozambique and Tanzania.
Synonyms: topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Meetto
Related terms: Makhuwa
Makhuwa-Shirima
Wiktionary’s coverage of Makhuwa-Meetto terms
mgh ⁠
Makhuwa-Shirima
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Bantu language spoken by half a million people in Mozambique.
Synonyms: topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Eshirima
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Shirima
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: West Makua
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Xirima
Related terms: Makhuwa
Makhuwa-Meetto
Wiktionary’s coverage of Makhuwa-Shirima terms
vmk ⁠
nebulously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛb.jʊ.ləs.li/
Forms: form: more nebulously
form: most nebulously
Etymology: From nebulous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The vapour drifted nebulously into the hall.
glosses: In a manner like that of a cloud or haze.
glosses: As if viewed through a cloud or haze.
examples: text: He waved his hand nebulously in the direction he intended to go.
text: 'I see, nebulously as yet, a certain explanation that would cover the facts as we know them.'
ref: 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 3, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 218:
glosses: Vaguely, without clear purpose or specific intention.
Related terms: nebulosity
nebulous
nebulousness
nebulousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nebulous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Though Pierre profoundly shuddered at that impenetrable yet blackly significant nebulousness, which the wild story of Isabel threw around the early life of his father; yet […]
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
glosses: The characteristic of being nebulous.
tampons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tampon
tampons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of tampon
backburning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backburn
bail bondsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bail bondsmen
Senses: glosses: A person who provides bail bonds, and takes responsibility for the court appearances of the persons to whom such bonds are issued.
Related terms: bounty hunter
CSIS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiː.sɪs/
rhymes: -iːsɪs
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
glosses: Acronym of Center for Strategic and International Studies.
glosses: Acronym of Centre for Strategic and International Studies.
bail bondsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bail bondsman
bondsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bondsman
bail bonds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bail bond
court appearance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: court appearances
Senses: glosses: An event in which a person who has been charged with a crime or named as a party to a lawsuit appears in court, either in person or through an attorney.
court appearances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of court appearance
captivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of captivity
ethicist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛθɪsɪst/
Forms: form: ethicists
Etymology: From ethics + -ist, changing /ks/ to /θ/ for ease of pronunciation and dropping the -s.
Senses: glosses: A person, especially a philosopher, who studies ethics (principles governing right and wrong conduct).
glosses: A person who advocates a particular set of principles governing right and wrong conduct.
Derived terms: neuroethicist
virtue ethicist
Related terms: ethics
bioethicist
even as we speak
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: By the way, Sam Gumple, the town beau, hates Ned Holland with a deadly hatred, which logically proves him jealous; and, even as we speak, behold the cause!
ref: 1872 April 1, Julian Hawthorne, “The Mullenville Mystery”, in Scribner’s Monthly, volume 3, number 6, page 687:
text: At 11 p.m. the man checking names at the door of the Village Vanguard, the New York City jazz club where Miles played, where Monk played, says Jesus hasn’t arrived but his plane “is touching down even as we speak.”
ref: 1998 June 22, Christopher Farley et al., “Viva La Musica Cubana!”, in Time:
text: “There is no doubt in my mind that the introduction of bag searches—even though it’s random, even though it’s not 100 percent—dramatically improves the security posture of this huge, sprawling subway system, which I believe is a top-tier target of Al Qaeda right now, even as we speak,” said the police official, Michael A. Sheehan.
ref: 2005 November 2, Sewell Chan, “Testimony Completed in Suit Over Searches in Subways”, in New York Times, retrieved 22 Jul 2009:
glosses: Right at the moment, right now, contemporaneously.
carcinogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carcinogen
decologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of decalogies.
anticlimaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anticlimax
deconstructions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deconstruction
ballast tanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballast tank
shmutz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of schmutz.
prolixities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prolixity
acidize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: acidizes
form: acidizing
form: acidized
form: acidized
form: acidise
Etymology: From acid + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To impregnate with acid; acidify.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
qualifier: oil industry
glosses: To treat (a limestone or sandstone formation) with HCl or HF to enlarge void spaces in it.
Derived terms: acidizer
Related terms: acidify
acidizable
acidization
acid
acidic
faunistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fauna + -istic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to the distribution of animals
Derived terms: faunistically
ichthyofaunistic
phone booth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phone booths
form: phonebooth
Senses: glosses: A telephone booth.
phonebooth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phonebooths
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phone booth.
hare scramble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hare scrambles
Senses: glosses: A motorcycle or quad race though wooded or natural terrain.
Related terms: enduro
perimysial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Surrounding a muscle or muscles. Often used to characterize patterns of inflammation found in myopathic disease. Endomysial and perimysial patterns of inflammation are in contrast to perivascular inflammation which surrounds blood vessels.
pity guest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pity guests
Senses: examples: text: In fact, I think I'm a pity guest myself, just there because I was part of what Nola Morgan Design considered their team.
ref: 2012, Judi McCoy, Fashion Faux Paw: A Dog Walker Mystery:
glosses: A person who is invited to a party or other function not because their presence is desired but because inviting them seems necessary.
seed tick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seed ticks
Senses: glosses: A small, immature tick larva.
synalepha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synalephas
form: synalœpha
form: synaloepha
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek συναλοιφή (sunaloiphḗ, “a coalescing, confluence”) (< Ancient Greek συν- (sun-) + ἀλοιφή (aloiphḗ)).
Senses: glosses: The suppression of a vowel at the end of word when it is followed by another word beginning with a vowel.
glosses: The melding into a single syllable of two vowels from two different syllables.
questionability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From question + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The state of being questionable.
statistical analysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: statistical analyses
Senses: glosses: The process of examining data to draw conclusions or insights, and determine cause-and-effect patterns between events; for example determining the safety and efficacy of new drugs by drawing out a probability as to whether the fact that a patient got better (or worse) was due to the drug or some other (perhaps random) factor.
articulated bus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: articulated buses
Etymology: From articulated + bus.
Senses: synonyms: accordion bus
banana bus
bendy bus
glosses: A bus fitted with a joint, which is covered by an accordion-shaped weatherproofing, to increase its manoeuvrability.
Related terms: bi-articulated bus
manoeuvrability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manoeuvrabilities
Etymology: From manoeuvre + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: Articulated buses were invented to improve the manoeuvrability of long buses capable of carrying a large number of passengers.
text: She became disrespectfully referred to locally as the "Crab" on account of her extraordinary manoeuvrability.
ref: 1956 February, R. C. Riley, “The Lymington Railway and Isle of Wight Ferry”, in Railway Magazine, page 82:
glosses: The quality of being manoeuvrable; ability to be manoeuvred.
examples: text: My manoeuvrability is limited. I don't have many options left.
text: The prohibit[ed] zone cuts across the isthmus about 200 yards north of the runway; the pilot's manoeuvrability, approaching from the has been reduced by about half. The ban was announced 01 April 12, days before the Anglo-Spanish talks on ...
ref: 1967, The Illustrated London News:
text: The desire to break away from this, to develop Zambia's economic character and increase Lusaka's manoeuvrability, thus became a guiding light of Zambian foreign policy (Anglin and Shaw, 1979; Shaw, 1976; Burdette, 1984) and has been termed 'the politics of disengagement' (Tordoff, 1977).
ref: 2007, Ian Taylor, China and Africa: Engagement and Compromise:
text: This might be due to the nature of the work done, to the motivation to work or to the total burden that women in the lower socioeconomic group bear in comparison with those who are better off and have greater 'manoeuvrability'.
ref: 2012, P.A. van Keep, R.B. Greenblatt, M. Albeaux-Fernet, Consensus on Menopause Research:
text: Some hated him for his attitude while others, including Shirmin, fancied his manoeuvrability and stark mannerism.
ref: 2017, Kamlesh Choudhary, Vertical and the Organic:
glosses: Ability to manoeuvre; ability to carry out a manoeuvre or strategic plan.
Derived terms: supermanoeuvrability
unmanoeuvrability
section sign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: section signs
Senses: synonyms: silcrow
glosses: The symbol §, used to refer to a particular section of a document, such as a legal code.
cirro-cumulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cirro-cumuli
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cirrocumulus.
limpwristed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more limpwristed
form: most limpwristed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of limp-wristed.
warehousing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warehousings
Etymology: From warehouse + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: 1864, Oregon. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives
[…] at San Francisco it is warehoused and reshipped to Liverpool, or other foreign market; and in exchange for this wheat, comes back the merchandise which has to pass through all these shipments, reshipments, warehousings, handlings, &c.
text: Warehousing was vital in a time when storms, poor harvests and wars made supplies unreliable.
ref: 1999, Geert Mak, translated by Philipp Blom, Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City, Vintage, published 2001, page 90:
qualifier: logistics
glosses: The act of storing goods in a warehouse.
Derived terms: data warehousing
voice-directed warehousing
warehousing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From warehouse + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of warehouse
panderer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panderers
Etymology: From pander + -er.
Senses: examples: As a politician he was a well known panderer to the lowest of public opinions.
glosses: One who panders.
Tiberian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪɹiən
Forms: form: more Tiberian
form: most Tiberian
Etymology: From Tiberias, Tiberius, or Tiber + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Tiberias or the Sea of Tiberias.
glosses: Of or relating to Tiberius.
glosses: Of or relating to the Tiber.
Synonyms: sense: relating to the Tiber
word: Tiberine
illicitness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From illicit + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: All of that — the appeal, the access, the illicitness of cigarettes — was by design.
ref: 2019 March 8, Jeneen Interlandi, “Vaping Is Big Tobacco’s Bait and Switch”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The characteristic of being illicit.
ethicists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ethicist
hold that thought
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holds that thought
form: holding that thought
form: held that thought
form: held that thought
Senses: examples: "...and then..." / "John, hold that thought. I need to take this call."
glosses: To pause in a conversation for an interruption.
Synonyms: park that thought
free fall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of freefall.
toothpicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toothpick
mealymouthed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: If Britain goes down the plug hole, we can't blame three "loadsamoney" bankers, but did they need to be quite so gung-ho about it, and so mealymouthed with their apologies.
ref: 2009 January 24, Simon Hattenstone, “Sir Fred, just say sorry”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of mealy-mouthed.
Chinta Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A valley carved by the Chenab River, located in the Doda district of the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
cassations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cassation
industrial-strength
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more industrial-strength
form: most industrial-strength
Senses: glosses: Having a level of potency, concentration, or durability suitable for industrial tasks, as opposed to merely household tasks.