cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
doujin game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdoʊ.dʒɪn ɡeɪm/
Forms: form: doujin games
form: dojin game
form: dōjin game
Etymology: Derived from Japanese 同人ゲーム (dōjin gēmu, “doujin game (short for video game)”).
Senses: glosses: A fan-made game which may contain (but not necessarily) copyrighted material from published works, such as from anime, manga, or video games.
Related terms: doujin
doujin circle
doujin event
supercallosal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + callosal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Above the corpus callosum.
supracallosal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + callosal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Above the corpus callosum.
perifibrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The membranous covering of the spicules and fibre of sponges.
power car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power cars
Senses: examples: text: The inner power cars are brake second class compartment coaches; the guard has means of both bell and two-way telephone communication with the driving compartment.
ref: 1960 September, “Inter-city diesel units for the Hull-Liverpool service of the N.E.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 560:
glosses: A vehicle that propels, and commonly also controls, a passenger train or tram, often as the lead vehicle.
glosses: A vehicle equipped with machinery for supplying heat or electrical power to other parts of a train.
power cars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of power car
high-speed rail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A type of rail transport that operates significantly faster than traditional rail traffic, using an integrated system of specialized rolling stock and dedicated tracks.
fluidiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fluid + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a fluid.
rypeck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rypecks
form: repeck
form: ripeck
form: ryepeck
Senses: glosses: A pole used to move a punt while fishing.
rypecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rypeck
reconstructionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Serving to reconstruct.
ripeck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ripecks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rypeck.
repeck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repecks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rypeck.
ripecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ripeck
repecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repeck
saccharite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A fine granular variety of feldspar.
chondrogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to chondrogenesis.
reossification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + ossification.
Senses: glosses: Ossification again or anew.
reossify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reossifies
form: reossifying
form: reossified
form: reossified
Etymology: From re- + ossify.
Senses: glosses: To ossify again.
Related terms: reossification
reossified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reossify
reossifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reossify
reossifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reossify
shadine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shadines
Senses: glosses: A fish, the menhaden or American sardine.
shadines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shadine
rumswizzle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rumswizzles
Senses: glosses: A kind of cloth made in Ireland from pure undyed wool.
rumswizzles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rumswizzle
reconnaissance in force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reconnaissances in force
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: an attack by a (usually small) body of troops in order to gauge the strength of enemy defences (and make local gains if possible)
reconnaissances in force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reconnaissance in force
linny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linnies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of linhay.
linnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linny
shakal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shakals
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of jackal.
shakals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shakal
shybies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shybie
aiery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aieries
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of eyrie.
aiery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aiery
form: most aiery
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of aery.
aieries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aiery
umbrella step
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: umbrella steps
Etymology: From the image of twirling an umbrella.
Senses: examples: text: As the various players are made to laugh and are eliminated in "Statue," it is noticed that one of the last to go is frozen in the position of umbrella step from the game of "Giant Step."
ref: 1971, Eleanor Burke Leacock, The Culture of poverty: a critique, page 104:
text: It was all determined; the steps were measured, and the way was fated. At each rank, the innumerable possibilities— two bunny steps and three baby steps, one scissors step, three giant steps and one umbrella step, a baby step and a scissor step...— these many possible roads were sorted, blocked, organized, and channelled, and only one of the potential itineraries was actually played out
ref: 1988, Michael Jay Katz, Pattern biology and the complex architectures of life, page 159:
text: These instructions played on the "Don't Walk" traffic signal by imploring pedestrians to adopt alternative forms of mobility such as the "umbrella step, stroll, cake walk, sombersault, finger-crawl, squat-jump, pilgrimmage, Phylly dog, etc.)."
ref: 2004, Bradford D. Martin -, The theater is in the street, →ISBN:
text: When we're at home, he handles my bossiness with remarkable compliance. I tell him what he should do, and he does it, unless he doesn't want to. In Provence, however, he finds me overbearing, no doubt due to an excess of togetherness. He experiences me as conducting a nonstop game of “Mother May I,” demanding his obedience to the childish equivalent of giant steps, baby steps, backward steps, and umbrella steps. (Umbrella steps, as you may recall, involve twirling.)
ref: 2017, Mary-Lou Weisman, Playing House in Provence: How Two Americans Became a Little Bit French, →ISBN:
glosses: A type of move in the children's game Giant Steps or Mother May I that involves twirling on one foot while holding one finger on the top of the head.
umbrella steps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of umbrella step
overrack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overracks
form: overracking
form: overracked
form: overracked
Etymology: From over- + rack.
Senses: glosses: To torture beyond bearing.
overracking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overrack
overracks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overrack
morlop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morlops
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A small jasper pebble of a kind found in New South Wales.
morlops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morlop
mormaordom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mormaordoms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mormaerdom.
mormaordoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mormaordom
gibble-gabble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: giffle-gaffle
glosses: Gabble; meaningless talk; nonsense.
saws logs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of saw logs
sawed logs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of saw logs
sawed logs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of saw logs
chunkify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chunkifies
form: chunkifying
form: chunkified
form: chunkified
Etymology: From chunk + -ify.
Senses: glosses: To break or divide into chunks; to segment.
sawn logs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of saw logs
chunkifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chunkify
chunkifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chunkify
chunkified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chunkify
chunkification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chunkifications
Etymology: From chunk + -ification.
Senses: glosses: The process of chunkifying; division into chunks.
bussus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bussu
twincam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twincams
form: twin-cam
Etymology: From twin + cam.
Senses: examples: text: All Giuliettas had a twincam four-cylinder engine with wet liners, plus four- or five-speed gearboxes and an excellent-handling chassis.
ref: 1985, Richard M. Langworth, Graham Robson, Complete Book of Collectible Cars: 1930-1980, →ISBN, page 246:
text: A Ford's sporty Taurus SHO ("Super High Output") made do with "just" a five-speed manual and 3.0 twincam V-6 on its 1989 debut.
ref: 1994, James M. Flammang, Chronicle of the American automobile: over 100 years of auto history, →ISBN:
text: Sidevvays behind the cockpit sat an upsized version of Rover's new K-series passenger-car engine, an advanced all-alloy four with twincams and 16 valves.
ref: 1997, Consumer Guide, 100 greatest sports cars, →ISBN, page 146:
glosses: A type of sports car engine that has two overhead camshafts within the cylinder head, resulting in more horsepower than a standard single cam engine.
twincams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twincam
tee-tees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tee-tee
twin-cams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twin-cam
ittnerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A dark blue or grey mineral, consisting chiefly of silica, alumina, potash, and soda.
hoity-toitiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of hoity-toity: most hoity-toity
hoity-toitier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of hoity-toity: more hoity-toity
stadda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staddas
Senses: examples: text: This comb shaped flat was now gripped in a wooden knee vice or "clam" and the teeth cut by means of a double bladed saw called a "stadda".
ref: 1954, C. M. Mitchell, Yorkshire crafts: a general guide to the craft workshops in the Castle Museum, York:
text: The gaps between the teeth along the body of the comb indicate that the stadda was held at an angle as the bases of the gaps are not square to the width of the comb.
ref: 1970, John Henry Drew, Kenilworth: an historical miscellany, page 31:
glosses: A double-bladed handsaw for cutting the teeth of combs.
staddas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stadda
kephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Dated form of cephalic.
risala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: risalas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ressala.
risalas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of risala
disillusionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disillusionary
form: most disillusionary
Senses: examples: text: With newspapers, radio and television doing so much of our thinking for us, politics or, more particularly, gossip about politicians, is now on everyone's tongue. And what a disillusionary experience it is! These would-be immortals are revealed as frail and vain beings at every utterance.
ref: 1957, Industrial Society, volumes 39-40, page 31:
text: This is related to Moltmann's thought that "The starting point of this socialist revolution lies in the disillusionary experience of the French and capitalist revolutions.
ref: 1970, Herbert Aptheker, The urgency of Marxist-Christian dialogue, page 41:
glosses: Causing disillusion.
kembster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kembsters
form: kempster
Etymology: From Middle English kembestere, kempstare, kemster, equivalent to kemb + -ster.
Senses: examples: text: A married woman who supplemented her family's income by brewing ale or combing wool for yarn would not have been identified in the records as a brewster or kembster.
ref: 2005, Marjorie Keniston McIntosh, Working Women in English Society, 1300-1620, page 15:
glosses: A woman who cleans or combs out wool
kembsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kembster
kempster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kempsters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kembster.
kempsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kempster
konnichiwa
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: konnichi wa
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 今(こん)日(にち)は (konnichi wa).
Senses: glosses: Good day, good afternoon; (loosely) hello.
nosebeard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nosebeards
form: nose-beard
form: nose beard
Etymology: From nose + beard.
Senses: examples: text: I'm not surprised Mike keeps him on the door; who could get any work done with a nose beard hovering around the place? Fecker's beard hair is red too, so from a distance it looks like Manny got himself punched in the face and is fine with blood all over himself.
ref: 2013, Eoin Colfer, Screwed:
text: He was looking full-on at me. An overgrown nosebeard, brown hairs overlapping onto his white chinstrap.
ref: 2017, Benyakir B. Horowitz, Manual Automata, page 118:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Moustache.
woodmarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodmarches
Etymology: From Middle English wodemarch, wudemerch, from Old English wudemerċe, wudumerċe, from wude, wudu (“wood”) + merċe, mereċe (a type of aquatic plant), from Proto-Germanic *marikiz (“waterplant, celery, parsley”).
Senses: examples: text: Let the man who hath ill humours on his neck take halswort and woodmarch and wild chervil and strawberry plants and everthroat, and garclife, and ironhard gathered without use of any iron, and stitchwort, and knee holly and broad bishopwort and brownwort, […]
ref: 1866, Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: An umbelliferous plant, a species of sanicle (Sanicula europaea).
wood-thistle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wood-thistles
form: woodthistle
form: wood thistle
Etymology: From Middle English wodethystyll, wodþistel, from Old English wuduþistel, equivalent to wood + thistle.
Senses: examples: text: Within seconds the whole lot had taken on the appearance of a woodthistle's fluffy seedhead.
ref: 2005, Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell, The Curse of the Gloamglozer, page 62:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of tall thistle (Cirsium altissimus, syn. Carduus altissimus)
synonyms: word: tall thistle
extra: Cirsium altissimus, syn. Carduus altissimus
risberm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: risberms
Senses: glosses: A glacis in jetties to withstand the violence of the sea.
risberms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of risberm
Banban
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Asturias, Cebu, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Bangui, Ilocos Norte, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Bogo, Cebu, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Buenavista, Guimaras, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Donsol, Sorsogon, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Lambunao, Iloilo, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Laua-an, Antique, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Mabinay, Negros Oriental, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Siquijor, Siquijor, Philippines.
subdentate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + dentate.
Senses: glosses: Imperfectly dentate; having indistinct teeth.
recrucifixion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recrucifixions
Etymology: From re- + crucifixion.
Senses: glosses: crucifixion again
recrucify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recrucifies
form: recrucifying
form: recrucified
form: recrucified
Etymology: From re- + crucify.
Senses: glosses: To crucify again.
recrucifixions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recrucifixion
recrucified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recrucify
recrucifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recrucify
recrucifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recrucify
reconvalescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + convalescence.
Senses: glosses: restoration to health
reconvalesce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reconvalesces
form: reconvalescing
form: reconvalesced
form: reconvalesced
Etymology: From re- + convalesce.
Senses: glosses: To convalesce; to recover health and strength.
Related terms: reconvalescence
reconvalesces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reconvalesce
reconvalescing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reconvalesce
reconvalesced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reconvalesce
waterplant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterplants
Etymology: From water + plant.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: An aquatic plant
waterplant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterplants
Etymology: From water + plant.
Senses: glosses: A facility where water is treated and made safe for consumption
Marcobrunner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Marcobrunners
Senses: glosses: A fine white wine produced in Erbach, near Wiesbaden, Germany.
Marcobrunners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Marcobrunner
Samsam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A mixed language of Thai and Kelantan-Pattani Malay, spoken by those of mixed ancestry.
Junjun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: JunJun
form: Jun-Jun
form: Jun-jun
form: Jhunjhun
form: Jhun-jhun
form: JhunJhun
form: Jhun-Jhun
Etymology: Reduplication of Jun.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Junior
levidrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliːvaɪdɹəʊm/
ipa: /ˈliːvɪdɹəʊm/
ipa: /ˈlivaɪdɹoʊm/
ipa: /ˈlivɪdɹoʊm/
Forms: form: levidromes
Etymology: Coined by Levi Budd, from his name Levi + -drome by analogy with palindrome.
Senses: examples: text: One classmate offered up "part" and "trap" as a levidrome on Friday.
ref: 2017 October 15, Jack Knox, “This Budd’s for you, and he loves a ‘levidrome’”, in Times Colonist, retrieved 28 Jan 2018:
text: She always says to him, ‘You got any good levidromes for me today?’ The other day he said, ‘Yeah, I got stressed and desserts. And drawer and reward.’”
ref: 2017 November 21, Camille Bains, “Six-year-old Victoria boy’s invented word gets support from William Shatner, Patricia Arquette”, in The Star:
text: Since then, the levidrome has been gaining traction around the world. The Budd family has been inundated with pictures of school projects where students find levidromes.
ref: 2018 January 29, “B.C. boy's invented word gaining traction, celebrity endorsements”, in CTV News, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2018:
text: Wherever sequential alphabets gained power, cultures became more transfixed by linear time. Change the order of the letters, and you get a new meaning: canoe is never mistaken for its anagram ocean. Map is not the same as its levidrome Pam.
ref: 2019 January 17, RJ Andrews, Info We Trust: How to Inspire the World with Data, page 53:
glosses: A word with a different definition when the spelling is reversed.
Synonyms: anadrome
heteropalindrome
semordnilap
levidromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of levidrome
Milot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Albanian Milot.
Senses: glosses: A town in northwestern Albania, located just south of the left bank of the river Mat near the Zogu Bridge below the western slope of the Mali e Sukës; it is the seat of its eponymous municipal unit.
glosses: A municipal unit of the municipality of Kurbin in the county of Lezhë, Albania.
glosses: A former municipality in the county of Lezhë, Albania.
Milot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Milots
Etymology: Borrowed from French Milot. This surname is mostly found in Canada.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Dangun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Korean 단군 (dan'gun) (檀君). Compare English Tengri.
Senses: glosses: The legendary founder of Gojoseon.
pukehole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pukeholes
Etymology: From puke + hole.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of shithole (“very dirty or unpleasant place”).
synonyms: word: shithole
extra: very dirty or unpleasant place
Peto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Petos
Etymology: Two main origins:
* English habitational surname of Anglo-Norman origin for someone from Poitou, in France.
* Borrowed from Hungarian Pető, a pet form of the personal name Péter.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
adrees
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of adree
textbook example
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: textbook examples
Senses: glosses: Synonym of textbook case.
synonyms: word: textbook case
beshares
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beshare
bescares
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bescare
bebangs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bebang
sports halls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sports hall
compression release
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Mode of operation of some internal combustion engines that makes them easier to start, but increases fuel consumption
solosexuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin sōlus (“alone”) + sexuality.
Senses: examples: text: Many people treat the terms solosexual and autosexual as synonymous, but this book defines solosexuality is something different. Autosexual is about the person becoming only sexually interested in oneself and having no interest in dating or being sexual with others. In contrast, being solosexual means pleasuring oneself [...]. GayCalgary chatted a bit with author Jason Armstrong to talk more about the world of solosexuality.
ref: 2016 April, “Solosexual: Portrait of a Masturbator”, in GayCalgary Magazine:
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:solosexuality.
glosses: The act, practice, or quality of being sexual with oneself.
Related terms: solosexual
selfcest
solosexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: sō′lō-sĕk′sho͞o-əl
ipa: /ˌsəʊ.ləʊˈsɛk.ʃuː.əl/
ipa: /ˌsoʊ.loʊˈsɛk.ʃu.əl/
rhymes: -ɛkʃuəl
rhymes: -ɛkʃuːəl
Forms: form: more solosexual
form: most solosexual
Etymology: From solo + -sexual, after similar words in -(o)sexual.
Senses: examples: text: There has to be a term for it, but I tended to think of him as solosexual: a self-sufficient sexual entity having no real need for human contact outside of himself.
ref: 2009, J. F. Lewis, ReVamped, →ISBN, page 221:
text: Clintonista theologians talked about Jesus' admonition to “love thy neighbor as thyself.” The head of America's solosexual movement, Harold Litten, asked, “Did Jesus masturbate or did He have nocturnal emissions, wet dreams? Now, if you believe the Bible that Jesus was a human being in every way—it must be one or the other."
ref: 2001, Joe Eszterhas, American Rhapsody, →ISBN, page 189:
text: GC: When you wrote your book about being solosexual, [...]
ref: 2016 April, “Solosexual: Portrait of a Masturbator”, in GayCalgary Magazine:
glosses: Sexual with oneself; masturbatory.
solosexual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sō′lō-sĕk′sho͞o-əl
ipa: /ˌsəʊ.ləʊˈsɛk.ʃuː.əl/
ipa: /ˌsoʊ.loʊˈsɛk.ʃu.əl/
rhymes: -ɛkʃuəl
rhymes: -ɛkʃuːəl
Forms: form: solosexuals
Etymology: From solo + -sexual, after similar words in -(o)sexual.
Senses: examples: text: I had an ill-considered marriage to a woman who had a low sex drive which lasted 12 years; we divorced mainly over our sexual differences. I am a happy solosexual.
ref: 2018 January 26, anonymous author, The Guardian:
glosses: Someone whose sexuality is primarily exercised or expressed alone.
Derived terms: solosexuality
foul-spoken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foul-spoken
form: most foul-spoken
Senses: glosses: foul-mouthed
alt-girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alt-girl
hypochondriast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypochondriasts
Senses: glosses: A hypochondriac.
hypochondriasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypochondriast
as ever
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /æz ˈɛvə/
ipa: /əz ˈɛvɚ/
Etymology: From as and ever.
Senses: examples: text: You're as charming as ever, sweetheart.
text: 1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part I, chapter xiv
Everything was insipid. Every day the old lady asked me whether I liked the food, but what could she do? I was still as shy as ever and dared not ask for more than what was put before me.
glosses: Consistent with past behaviour, as expected; as usual; as always.
haining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hain
haining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hainings
Senses: glosses: A hain or enclosure.
hainings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haining
rhinolithiasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rhinolith + -iasis or rhino- + lithiasis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The presence of calculi in the nasal cavity.
gauffred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: For morning fetes is worn with this dress a small white muslin paletot, without sleeves, split up the back, trimmed with two gauffred frills, edged with Valenciennes, and a narrow puffing, lined with satin ribbon.
ref: 1870, The Ladies' Treasury and Treasury of Literature, page 93:
glosses: Alternative form of gauffered.
cashierless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cashier + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Cashierless parking facilities with automated payment machines were expected to become as common as ATMs. Fully automated, cashierless pay-on-foot systems are widely used and accepted in Europe.
ref: 2012, Anthony P. Chrest, Mary S. Smith, Sam Bhuyan, Parking Structures: Planning, Design, Construction, Maintenance and Repair:
text: While self-checkout machines are often used alongside cashiers, labor unions say that tilting toward fully cashierless operations threatens the French way of life by encouraging American-style consumerism and automation, putting thousands of jobs at risk.
ref: 2019 December 26, Liz Alderman, “Self-Checkout in France Sets Off Battle Over a Day of Rest”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 29 Feb 2020:
glosses: That does not have cashiers.
raw_tags: of a point of sale
gauffring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gauffering.
tacahout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French tacahout m (“tacahout”), from Arabic تَاكُوت (tākūt), an early medieval Berber borrowing.
Senses: examples: text: The skins are powdered on the flesh side with the tacahout, which is previously powdered, and they are then piled in the vat. They are then covered with water and allowed to soak from six to ten days.
ref: 1920, The Leather Manufacturer, volumes 31-32, page 81:
glosses: A small gall formed on the tamarisk, used as a source of gallic acid.
sciaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sciath
maritagium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin marītāgium.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of maritage.
synonyms: word: maritage
vaginulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a vaginula; sheathed.
balm-cricket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balm-crickets
Etymology: From German Baum (“tree”) and cricket.
Senses: glosses: The cicada.
balm-crickets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balm-cricket
pendulet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pendulets
Senses: glosses: A pendant.
pendulets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pendulet
hallel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hallels
Senses: glosses: A hymn of praise chanted during the Passover supper, consisting of Psalms cxiii to cxviii.
Related terms: hallelujah
hallels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hallel
redescent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redescents
Etymology: From re- + descent.
Senses: glosses: The act of descending again.
redescents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redescent
thalamium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thalamia
Senses: glosses: The layer of reproductive cells in the apothecia of lichens.
thalamia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thalamium
Rhomaian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Rhomaian
form: most Rhomaian
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ῥωμαῖος (Rhōmaîos), referring to the autonym used by Grecophone writers in the Eastern Roman (or Byzantine) Empire.
Senses: examples: text: Procopius’s introduction to his Vandal War is a good example of the Roman (or Rhomaian) ethnographical point of view. Even after a century of barbarian rule in Africa or Italy, a Roman intellectual classed kings and elites according to barbarian groupings.
ref: R. Steinacher, ‘Who is the Barbarian? Considerations on the Vandal Royal Title’, in: W. Pohl en G. Heydemann (ed.), Post-Roman Transitions: Christian and Barbarian Identities in the Early Medieval West (Turnhout 2013) 437-485, quote on page 439
topics: historiography
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Eastern Roman (or Byzantine) empire.
Related terms: Romaic
househelp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: househelps
Etymology: From house + help.
Senses: examples: text: If the husband (male) has wanted the househelp to cook for him, he would have married that girl. Secondly, when the househelp cooks for the man (husband), he begins to doubt the capability of the wife to cook.
ref: 2003, Akua Kuenyehia, Women and Law in West Africa, page 18:
glosses: A servant employed to perform household tasks.
househelps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of househelp
erethismic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more erethismic
form: most erethismic
Etymology: From erethism + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or relating to erethism.
galamseyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galamseyers
Senses: examples: text: It is estimated that 'galamseyers' lose up to 70 per cent of their potential take, because of the inefficient methods they use.
ref: 1992, Africa Review, page 96:
glosses: In Ghana, a person who performs illegal gold mining independently of mining companies.
Related terms: galamsey
magslip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magslips
form: mag-slip
form: mag slip
Etymology: From "magnetic slip ring", because these replace electrical slip-rings that rely on direct contact.
Senses: examples: text: Provision should be made as in GL 1 for entry of electrical supplies and for connection of telephone and magslip cables.
ref: 1981, W E K Middleton, Radar Development in Canada, →ISBN, page 130:
text: There are two gyroscopes. One is a vertical keeping gyroscope whose signal goes through two selective transmitter magslips to a follow through magslip which is similarly operated by a rolling velocity gyroscope. The combined selected signal is transmitted to the hunter magslip of the oil motor and pump. The mechanical movement of a gyroscope alters the rotor position of the transmitter magslip and the current flow moves the rotor of the hunter magslip to a corresponding positon (just as transmitter and receiver telemotors).
ref: 2013, Paul Anthony Russell, Leslie Jackson, Thomas D. Morton, Reeds Vol 8 General Engineering Knowledge for Marine Engineers, →ISBN:
text: With a single magslip as the transmitter and another as the receiver, the error of alignment is of the order of 1°.
ref: 2017, A. M. P. Brookes, P. Hammond, Basic Instrumentation for Engineers and Physicists, →ISBN:
glosses: Any of a variety of devices that rely on magnetic slip rings to drive a transmitter and receiver that rotate in unison.
magslips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magslip
mag-slip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mag-slips
Senses: examples: text: The windings of the transmitter of the right- hand mag-slip, as drawn, are connected in parallel to the stator windings of the mag-slip in the left-hand follower unit, which must be of the follow-through transmitter type.
ref: 1957, The Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute - Volume 186, page 223:
text: The clay, as it is extruded from the die, passes over a roller attached to the spindle of a mag-slip transmitter (not shown), coupled electrically to a mag-slip receiver (Q), which rotates in unison with and at the same speed as the transmitter driven only by the clay column.
ref: 1959, Transactions of the British Ceramic Society - Volume 58, page 163:
text: Rotation of the control wheels actuates the total range display counters on the face of the control unit, and the mag-slip transmitters which control the track plotter actuators.
ref: 1968, Shipbuilding and Shipping Record - Volume 111, page 64:
glosses: Alternative form of magslip.
mag-slips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mag-slip
mag slip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mag slips
Senses: examples: text: A graphical record is also made on the strip fed through the recorder, the pen of which is actuated by the mag slip and repeater unit.
ref: 1955, Institution of Production Engineers (Great Britain), Journal - Volume 34, page 313:
text: The sine and cosine converter consists of a double mag slip with two mutually-perpendicular stator windings 1, 2 and rotor winding 3 on an iron core.
ref: 1962, Soviet Inventions Illustrated. Section II: Electrical, page 4:
text: Driven by infinitely variable speed motors-N-S commutator shunt type complete with associated regulators, pilot motors and mag slip clutches so as to synchronise control.
ref: 1969, Indian Trade Journal, page 1236:
glosses: Alternative form of magslip.
galamseyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galamseyer
mag slips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mag slip
indigestive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to indigestion; dyspeptic.
bastard title
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bastard titles
Senses: glosses: An abbreviated book title on an otherwise blank page preceding the main title page.
bastard titles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bastard title
bastard bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bastard bars
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: baton sinister
bastard bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bastard bar
control car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: control cars
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A non-powered railroad car, equipped with a driver's cabin, front lights and other equipment required for a locomotive, allowing a train to be controlled from the rear end without turning a locomotive at the end of the line.
Synonyms: word: cab car
green wood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green woods
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of greenwood.
green woods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green wood
plys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Quality specifications for plywood subfloor material are such that only the outside plys are knot-free.
ref: 1963, Materials Research and Standards, volume 3, page 67:
text: Panels may range in thickness from 1/8" to 11/2", containing as few as three plys or as many as fifteen.
ref: 1962, MotorBoating, volume 109, number 4, page 154:
glosses: plural of ply
gynecratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gynecratic
form: most gynecratic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gynocratic.
Vegetarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɛd͡ʒɪˈtɛɹi.ənɪzəm/
ipa: /vɛd͡ʒɪˈtɛəɹi.ənɪzəm/
Forms: form: Vegetarianisms
Etymology: First English attestation dates to 1848, according to Merriam-Webster. From vegetarian + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: “I must preface this essay by the confession that I am myself a Vegetarian, and that I mean to say all the good I can of the principles of Vegetarianism.”
ref: 1886, Henry Stephens Salt, A Plea for Vegetarianism and Other Essays, page 7:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of vegetarianism.
wikipedia: Merriam-Webster
Vegetarianisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Vegetarianism
Vegetarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɛd͡ʒɪˈtɛɹi.ən/
ipa: /vɛd͡ʒɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌvɛd͡ʒɪˈtɛəɹɪən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: Vegetarians
Etymology: From vegetable + -arian; popularized following 1847 foundation of British Vegetarian Society. (Alternatively, it may derive from vegetus + -arian.)
Senses: examples: text: “I must preface this essay by the confession that I am myself a Vegetarian, and that I mean to say all the good I can of the principles of Vegetarianism.”
ref: 1886, Henry Stephens Salt, A Plea for Vegetarianism and Other Essays, page 7:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of vegetarian.
wikipedia: Vegetarian Society
Vegetarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Vegetarian
offenceful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more offenceful
form: most offenceful
Etymology: From offence + -ful.
Senses: glosses: offensive
Topanga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Gabrielino-Fernandeño Topaa'nga. "Topaa'-" is possibly from Chumash + Tongva suffix -nga meaning ‘place of,’ forming proper nouns.
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in western Los Angeles County, California, United States.
glosses: A female given name.
Derived terms: Topangan
Topangan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Topangan
form: most Topangan
Etymology: From Topanga + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Topanga.
Topangan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Topangans
Etymology: From Topanga + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Topanga.
Topangans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Topangan
experience meeting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: experience meetings
Senses: glosses: A religious meeting where attendees relate their religious experiences.
experience meetings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of experience meeting
slugga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sluggas
Etymology: From Irish slugaid (“a slough”).
Senses: glosses: A deep cavity formed by the action of subterranean streams common in some limestone districts of Ireland.
sluggas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slugga
wrentit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wrentits
Etymology: From wren + tit.
Senses: glosses: A small passerine bird, Chamaea fasciata, found in scrub along the west coast of North America.
wrentits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wrentit
mopses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mops
garden warbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garden warblers
Senses: glosses: Sylvia borin, a plain, but common warbler, Sylvia borin, that breeds in Europe and western Asia, wintering in sub-Saharan Africa.
garden warblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garden warbler
fearthought
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of fear + forethought. Coined by Horace Fletcher as part of New Thought Movement at the turn of the twentieth century.
Senses: examples: text: To assist in the analysis of fear, and in the denunciation of its expressions, I have coined the word fearthought to stand for the unprofitable element of forethought, and have defined the word 'worry' as fearthought in contradistinction to forethought. I have also defined fearthought as the self-imposed or self-permitted suggestion of inferiority, in order to place it where it really belongs, in the category of harmful, unnecessary, and therefore not respectable things.
ref: 1897, Horace Fletcher, Happiness as found in Forethought minus Fearthought (Chicago & New York: Stone), pp. 24–25
text: The “misery-habit,” the “martyr-habit,” engendered by the prevalent “fearthought,” get pungent criticism from the mind-cure writers ...
ref: 1902, William James, “Lectures 4 & 5”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: Excessive and unhealthy apprehensiveness; unnecessary fearfulness.
wikipedia: Horace Fletcher
New Thought
ossom
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ossom
form: most ossom
Senses: glosses: awesome
Dartford warbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dartford warblers
Etymology: Named after Dartford, Kent, England, where the first specimens described were caught.
Senses: glosses: A small warbler, Sylvia undata, native to western Europe and northern Africa.
wikipedia: Dartford
Synonyms: Dartford
furzeling
extortionous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extortionous
form: most extortionous
Etymology: From extortion + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Committing extortion.
Dartford warblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dartford warbler
Berkeleyanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Berkeleianism.
Berkeleianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Berkeleyanism
Etymology: From Berkeleian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Berkeleian beliefs generally.
Berkeleyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Berkeley + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Berkeleianism
it depends
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: As with any builder asked to quote for a house extension, there will be an intake of breath before you're told: "It depends."
ref: 2025 July 9, Mel Holley, “How much should a station cost?”, in RAIL, number 1039, page 25:
glosses: Used to indicate that different situations may produce different results.
parheliacal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to parhelia.
rhizocephalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Rhizocephala + -ous
Senses: glosses: Belonging to the Rhizocephala.
melliphagoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melliphagoids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: A bird of the passerine superfamily Meliphagoidea, a diverse group native to Australia and elsewhere in the South Pacific.
melliphagoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melliphagoid
consistent life ethic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kənˈsɪstənt ˈlaɪf ˈɛθɪk/
Etymology: consistent + life + ethic
Senses: glosses: A cultural, political, and religious right to life belief opposed to abortion, capital punishment, economic injustice, euthanasia or assisted suicide, and war.
Hyponyms: pro-life
Chacha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chachas
Senses: glosses: A surname.
gongylus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gongyli
Senses: glosses: A round deciduous body connected with the reproduction of certain seaweeds.
glosses: A globular body found in the thallus of lichens.
gongyli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gongylus
union cloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: union cloths
Senses: glosses: A fabric with cotton warp and filling of reused wool, usually heavily napped.
union cloths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of union cloth
religionwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From religion + -wise.
Senses: glosses: With respect to, or concerning religion
bluen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bluens
form: bluening
form: bluened
form: bluened
Etymology: From blue + -en.
Senses: examples: text: Here the minutes ticked off, they weaken with the hardly noticeable dawn; I see: the black ink — has bluened; and I know: — […]
ref: 1991, Andrey Bely, The Christened Chinaman, page 95:
synonyms: blue#Verb
glosses: To make or become blue.
bluened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bluen
bluening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bluen
Related terms: blueing
derays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deray
deraying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deray
derayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deray
bluens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bluen