cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bulldog gravy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Now, Emma stood in front of the hot coal stove in Clayton's kitchen, stirring water, lard, and flour in a cast[-]iron skillet with a battered wooden spoon—her first attempt at making bulldog gravy.
ref: 2015, Ellen Marie Wiseman, Coal River, →ISBN:
glosses: A Depression-era foodstuff associated with American coal miners, consisting of a mixture of water, flour, and grease, often eaten with beans.
Related terms: bull gravy
suprasegmental
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsuːp.ɹə.sɛɡˈmɛn.təl/
Forms: form: suprasegmentals
Etymology: From supra- + segmental.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: An effect on speech, such as length, stress, tone, and phonation type, that extends over more than one segment of sounds.
suprasegmental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsuːp.ɹə.sɛɡˈmɛn.təl/
Etymology: From supra- + segmental.
Senses: examples: text: There are two kinds of phonemes in Chinese: segmental phonemes, which may be thought of as sequential sounds, and suprasegmental phonemes or tones, which in a sense are added to the syllable as a whole.
ref: 1984, John DeFrancis, The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy (nonfiction), University of Hawaii Press, page 42:
glosses: Of or relating to a suprasegmental.
glosses: More than a segment.
suprasegmentals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suprasegmental
HE-double-toothpicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The word "hell" spelled out, referring to the fact that a lowercase "l" resembles a toothpick.
Senses: examples: text: Yet you try it out and the gimpy ones will scream H-E double toothpicks about Social Security in their golden years, which I want to tell them I need some security right now or I'm not going to have any golden years.
ref: 1982, Peter W. Davis, Hometown:
text: Rural Mormons like my friend do not use the "H word" lightly. They say "HE double toothpicks" rather than pronounce the word out loud.
ref: 1999, Chip Ward, Canaries on the Rim: Living Downwind in the West:
text: When they do, all kinds of h-e-double-toothpicks can ensue—including a mac that freezes during the startup process.
ref: 2002, Christopher Breen, Mac 911:
glosses: Hell.
Related terms: HE-double-hockey-sticks
osculum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oscula
Etymology: From Latin ōsculum (“little mouth”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A small opening or orifice.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the suckers on the head of a tapeworm.
examples: text: I left them in that condition, and at 7 o'clock examined them again, when I found them still quiescent; but one of the two large groups of oscula and the new one were entirely closed, while the other osculum at the largest end of the sponge had opened to the extent of about one-third of its diameter, and the membrane presented the appearance of a series of lines or corrugations radiating from the centre to the circumference.
ref: 1857, J. S. Bowerbank, “On the Vital Powers of the Spongiadæ”, in Report of the 26th Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, John Murray, page 444:
text: Waste water was expelled through a single osculum at about 8.5 cm per second – more than eight thousand times as fast as it circulated in the chambers and 85 times as fast as it entered the sponge in the first place.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 29:
text: 2012, Sally P. Lees, April Hill, The Physiology and Molecular Biology of Sponge Tissues, Mikel A. Becerro, Maria J. Uriz, Manuel Maldonado, Xavier Turon (editors), Michael Lesser (series editor), Advances in Marine Biology 62: Advances in Sponge Science, Elsevier (Academic Press), page 30,
Oscula are also thought to arise initially from a single porocyte (Weissenfels, 1980), but how they coordinate with other porocytes to form a larger osculum is still unclear.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The main opening in a sponge from which water is expelled.
Derived terms: osculum infame
mycotic aneurysm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mycotic aneurysms
Etymology: Mildly confusingly, named for mushroom-shaped instances, not for fungal pathogens as the term seems to suggest etymonically; for more, see Wikipedia at mycotic aneurysm § History.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An aneurysm in which an infectious agent, usually bacteria, grows through the wall of a blood vessel. It leads to an irreversible dilatation of an artery due to destruction of the vessel wall by infection.
wikipedia: mycotic aneurysm#History
mycotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: fungal
fungous
antonyms: nonmycotic
nonfungal
coordinate_terms: antimycotic
antifungal
glosses: Of or relating to a fungus.
antonyms: nonmycotic
nonfungal
coordinate_terms: antimycotic
antifungal
glosses: Of or relating to mycosis.
coordinate_terms: fungoid
glosses: Infectious; especially, infectious and resembling a mushroom.
raw_tags: of aneurysms
Derived terms: embolomycotic
keratomycotic
mycotic aneurysm
onychomycotic
otomycotic
premycotic
pseudomycotic
clostridium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clostridia
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of several mostly anaerobic gram-positive bacteria, of the genus Clostridium, that are present in the soil and in the intestines of humans and animals and are capable of forming spores
Derived terms: clostridiosis
discluding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disclude
damnedest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: damndest
Etymology: From damned + -est.
Senses: examples: text: "And the damnedest thing happened. I was dreaming, but in my dream I was dreaming. It was the damnedest thing, really."
ref: 1900, Phillip Gardner, Someone to Crawl Back to, page 107:
glosses: superlative form of damned: most damned; surprising, remarkable, amazing.
Related terms: I'll be damned
damnedest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: damndest
Etymology: From damned + -est.
Senses: examples: text: "Fancy was doing her damnedest to pull her own oar and the boys were tripping all over themselves to treat her like a lady."
ref: 1991, Cathy Cash Spellman, Paint the Wind, page 148:
glosses: One's best effort.
Derived terms: do one's damnedest
damnedest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: damndest
Etymology: From damned + -est.
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of damn
Related terms: darnedest
undemocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undemocratic
form: most undemocratic
Etymology: From un- + democratic.
Senses: examples: text: The undemocratic reality of the capitalist workplace leaves its complex, multilayered impacts on all who collaborate there, part-time and full-time.
ref: 2024 March 8, Richard D Wolff, “The undemocratic reality of US capitalism”, in Asia Times:
glosses: Not democratic.
undisguised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undisguised
form: most undisguised
Etymology: From un- + disguised.
Senses: examples: text: The Major-General has already been made aware of the fact, that a large number of ill-disposed persons have, for some days, been openly organizing, drilling, and equipping themselves, with the undisguised object of attacking her Majesty's troops, and, if possible, subverting the Government.
ref: 1854, John Wellesley Thomas, Capt. J. W. Thomas report to Headquarters following Eureka rebellion:
text: 1885, Edward Dutton Cook, Anderson, John Henry, article in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 1: Abbadie - Anne,
The bal masqué was ‘a scene of undisguised indecency, drunkenness, and vice.’
text: 1890s, Xenophon, Henry Graham Dakyns (translator), Hellenica, Book 4, Chapter 5,
So when they perceived the approach of Agesilaus, the Argives and their friends left the offerings as they lay, including the preparations for the breakfast, and retired with undisguised alarm into the city by the Cenchrean road.
glosses: Not disguised, plainly visible.
undiscriminating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undiscriminating
form: most undiscriminating
Etymology: From un- + discriminating.
Senses: glosses: Not discriminating
undigested
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undigested
form: most undigested
Etymology: From un- + digested.
Senses: glosses: Not digested
undetectable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undetectable
form: most undetectable
Etymology: From un- + detectable.
Senses: examples: text: In these days of “rolled” gold, electro-plate, and undetectable pearls, it is curious that almost the only honest Ersatz material known to the goldsmith's art should be utterly forgotten.
ref: 1923, Arthur Michael Samuel, “Pinchbeck”, in The Mancroft Essays, page 164:
text: A trial of scar may be justified in a woman with a previous cesarean section who is currently on HAART, has an undetectable virus and spontaneously goes into labor.
ref: 2012, Jyoti Dhar, “A Guide to the Clinical Care of Pregnant Women with HIV”, in Mamatha M Lala, Rashid H Merchant, editors, Principles of Perinatal and Pediatric HIV/AIDS, Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd, →ISBN, page 317:
text: “OK, so for a few weeks I've been working on a bit of a side project. I give you the Red Kriegtober.” “Um--” “Or the Red Octkrieger. I can't decide. It's a narco sub for transporting cocaine. It's totally undetectable by the Coast Guard. Thoughts?”
ref: 2014 March 24, Adam Reed, “On the Carpet” (17:49 from the start), in Archer, season 5, episode 9, spoken by Dr. Algernop Krieger (Lucky Yates):
text: Some forms of data poisoning are undetectable. Attackers can insert adversarial noise into the training data, altering the training data in a way that is hidden to human observers.
ref: 2023, Paul Scharre, Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN:
glosses: Unable to be detected; not detectable.
Synonyms: indetectable
Related terms: english: see a related note
translation: see a related note
word: undetected
word: untraceable
undissolved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undissolved
form: most undissolved
Etymology: From un- + dissolved.
Senses: glosses: Not dissolved
undomesticated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undomesticated
form: most undomesticated
Etymology: From un- + domesticated.
Senses: glosses: Not domesticated
undramatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undramatic
form: most undramatic
Etymology: From un- + dramatic.
Senses: glosses: Not dramatic; lacking in dramatic action.
undrinkable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undrinkable
form: most undrinkable
Etymology: From un- + drinkable.
Senses: glosses: Not drinkable.
Synonyms: impotable
Coordinate terms: inedible
undrinkable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undrinkables
Etymology: From un- + drinkable.
Senses: examples: text: […] but there was a peculiar aroma about that Oxo that no ox had ever provided, unless he were stalled in a chemist's shop, and it was not long before this ruse was discovered and another liquid thereby added to the undrinkables of life.
ref: 1938, The National Review, volume 110, page 514:
text: Popping down a cork coaster, the bartender delivered Alan's next drink and plucked the empties and undrinkables as the music changed.
ref: 2018, Craig Hallam, Old Haunts:
glosses: Anything not suitable for drinking.
undrivable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undrivable
form: most undrivable
Etymology: From un- + drivable.
Senses: glosses: Not drivable
undried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undried
form: most undried
form: undry'd
Etymology: From un- + dried.
Senses: glosses: Not dried.
Synonyms: drenched
moist
wet
Related terms: undry
undriven
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undriven
form: most undriven
Etymology: From un- + driven.
Senses: glosses: Not driven.
undropped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + dropped.
Senses: glosses: Not dropped.
undropped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undrop
undistilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undistilled
form: most undistilled
Etymology: From un- + distilled.
Senses: glosses: Not distilled
undissolvable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undissolvable
form: most undissolvable
Etymology: From un- + dissolvable.
Senses: synonyms: indissoluble
insoluble
antonyms: dissolvable
dissoluble
soluble
glosses: Not dissolvable.
Related terms: solvable
unsolvable
undistinct
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undistinct
form: most undistinct
Etymology: From un- + distinct.
Senses: glosses: Not distinct
undistinctive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undistinctive
form: most undistinctive
Etymology: From un- + distinctive.
Senses: glosses: Not distinctive
Synonyms: indistinctive
undistracted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undistracted
form: most undistracted
Etymology: From un- + distracted.
Senses: examples: text: Ant. Say wherefore dost thou crave with such desire
The clearness of an undistracted mind?
ref: 1906, Sophocles, “Oedipus at Colonos”, in Lewis Campbell, transl., Sophocles, the Seven Plays in English verse, page 304:
glosses: Not distracted
undisturbing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undisturbing
form: most undisturbing
Etymology: From un- + disturbing.
Senses: glosses: Not disturbing
undiverted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undiverted
form: most undiverted
Etymology: From un- + diverted.
Senses: glosses: Not diverted
undoable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈduː.ə.bəl/
Forms: form: more undoable
form: most undoable
Etymology: From un- + doable.
Senses: glosses: Not doable; impossible to do.
undoable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈduː.ə.bəl/
Forms: form: undoables
Etymology: From un- + doable.
Senses: glosses: Something that cannot be done; an impossible or impractical task.
undoable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈduː.ə.bəl/
Forms: form: more undoable
form: most undoable
Etymology: From undo + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Many new functions and commands are undoable and a maximum of 30 commands are undoable and redoable.
ref: 2003, Suzanne Sayegh Thomas, Using QuarkXPress 6.0, page 87:
glosses: Possible to undo; reversible.
undrawn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of undraw
undrawn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undrawn
form: most undrawn
Etymology: From un- + drawn.
Senses: examples: text: With my back to the main-mast, I parried the first blow with my undrawn weapon. The blade of the second was lifted to strike me, when his comrade perceived my defensive state, and struck it aside.
ref: 1808, Charles Lucas, The Abissinian Reformer; Or, The Bible and Sabre: A Novel:
text: This communication between the tank and pump is controlled by a float valve in the tanks and a cock in the pipe, while a poppet valve prevents the undrawn liquor going into the waste tank.
ref: 1900, Patents for Inventions: Abridgments of Specifications, page 75:
text: Here the curtains were undrawn and they could see the lights twinkling out in the windows of the other houses.
ref: 1923, Elizabeth Bowen, “The Shadowy Third”, in Encounters, page 153:
text: The point of these distinctions is that the imagining of disease has much in common with imagining pictures, especially undrawn pictures in the mind.
ref: 2003, G. Rousseau, M. Gill, D. Haycock, Framing and Imagining Disease in Cultural History, page 6:
glosses: Not drawn (in various senses).
undrilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undrilled
form: most undrilled
Etymology: From un- + drilled.
Senses: glosses: Not drilled
skirting board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skirting boards
Senses: examples: text: But these little tunnels, emerging into the open at Finchley Road (reached in 1879) were the start of something big. By the early twentieth century it would be possible to think of them as two mouseholes in the skirting board of a wall separating two great ballrooms.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 51:
topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
synonyms: baseboard
skirtboard
qualifier: interior decoration
glosses: A panel, normally made of wood, between the floor and the interior wall of a structure, or placed in a position that is subject to repeated knocks.
undug
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + dug.
Senses: glosses: Not dug
undusted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undusted
form: most undusted
Etymology: From un- + dusted.
Senses: glosses: Not dusted.
undusted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undust
uneager
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌˈniːɡə/
Forms: form: more uneager
form: most uneager
Etymology: From un- + eager.
Senses: examples: text: She saw the young Corinthian Lycius / Charioting foremost in the envious race, / Like a young Jove with calm uneager face, / And fell into a swooning love of him.
ref: 1819, John Keats, “Lamia”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, part I, pages 15–16:
text: His voice was unexcited, uneager.
ref: 1931, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 7, in The Glass Key, New York: Vintage, published 1972, page 142:
text: The sound of running water came from the bathroom. I listened with my hand on the doorknob, uneager to catch Simone Delage in the act of clipping her toenails.
ref: 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 300:
glosses: Not eager.
unearned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unearnt
Etymology: From un- + earned.
Senses: glosses: Not earned.
Derived terms: unearned income
unearned increment
uneatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uneatable
form: most uneatable
Etymology: From un- + eatable.
Senses: synonyms: inedible
unedible
glosses: Not eatable; not fit for eating.
unelected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unelected
form: most unelected
Etymology: From un- + elected.
Senses: examples: text: “We need elections that we can trust, that we can believe in,” GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said Tuesday at a campaign event in Mason City, Iowa. “That means yes, unelected judges are not going to decide willy-nilly across the state who ends up on a ballot and who doesn’t.”
ref: 2023 December 20, Marshall Cohen, “Fact check: Are Colorado Supreme Court justices ‘unelected,’ as GOP has claimed?”, in CNN:
glosses: Not elected.
Derived terms: unelectedly
unelectedness
unelected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unelect
unelegant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unelegant
form: most unelegant
form: inelegant
Etymology: From un- + elegant.
Senses: examples: text: It has two ẛmall quadrangles, the ẛtructure of which is ancient, and not very regular, but yet not unelegant.
ref: 1808, John Pinkerton, A general collection of the best and most interesting voyages and travels in all parts of the world:
text: Suyin had tardily, but accurately, realized that night life in this urbane company was bound to be more exciting than a cinema date with two sincere, but unelegant, factory workers.
ref: 1981, Janet W. Salaff, Working daughters of Hong Kong: filial piety or power in the family?:
text: I could not help looking at Mrs. M. when this unelegant creature was mentioned.
ref: 2005, Beverley Nichols, Bryan Connon, Down the garden path:
glosses: Not elegant
unefficacious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unefficacious
form: most unefficacious
Etymology: From un- + efficacious.
Senses: glosses: Not efficacious.
uneloquent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uneloquent
form: most uneloquent
Etymology: From un- + eloquent.
Senses: glosses: Not eloquent
Synonyms: ineloquent
unenjoyable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unenjoyable
form: most unenjoyable
Etymology: From un- + enjoyable.
Senses: glosses: Not enjoyable
unenlightening
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unenlightening
form: most unenlightening
Etymology: From un- + enlightening.
Senses: glosses: Not enlightening
unenslaved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + enslaved.
Senses: glosses: Not enslaved.
unenslaved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unenslave
unblocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + blocked.
Senses: examples: text: The difference between the two classifications has always been intended to cover unblocked and untrimmed hat bodies, such as panamas, bangkoks, and leghorns, and other hats which are woven by the natives in South American and oriental countries where they are produced.
ref: 1918, Schedules M and N, free list, customs administration and income tax; subject index, page 1515:
glosses: Not blocked (in various senses).
unblocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From unblock + -ed.
Senses: glosses: past participle of unblock
unentered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unentred
Etymology: From un- + entered.
Senses: glosses: Not entered.
topics: transport
glosses: For which no documentation has been filed at the port being entered.
raw_tags: of goods
unentreated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unentreated
form: most unentreated
Etymology: From un- + entreated.
Senses: glosses: Not entreated
unescorted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + escorted.
Senses: examples: text: All is well until Treorchy, where the platform is swamped by teenagers who have been attending an event. Around four dozen unescorted 12 to 16 year-olds swarm aboard and begin to run riot through the train. Their behaviour is appalling and the presence of CCTV no deterrent.
ref: 2024 November 13, Paul Bigland, “Much to admire... but pockets of neglect”, in RAIL, number 1022, page 48:
glosses: Not escorted; without an escort.
unexcavated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unexcavated
form: most unexcavated
Etymology: From un- + excavated.
Senses: glosses: Not excavated.
excavated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of excavate
unexciting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unexciting
form: most unexciting
Etymology: From un- + exciting.
Senses: examples: text: Plain and unexciting, perhaps, but they are solid, well cooked, appetising and filling, and moreover cheap.
ref: 1964 April, “Letters: London stations—a consumers' guide”, in Modern Railways, page 274:
text: B. Wooster: Of all the places on this great planet of ours, West Neck, Long Island, has chosen to be the most unexciting. The last time anything remotely interesting happened here was in 1842, when a tree fell over. They still talk about it in the village.
ref: 1992 April 5, “The Full House”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 3, Episode 2:
glosses: Not exciting.
unexclusive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unexclusive
form: most unexclusive
Etymology: From un- + exclusive.
Senses: glosses: Not exclusive
unexhibited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unexhibited
form: most unexhibited
Etymology: From un- + exhibited.
Senses: glosses: Not exhibited.
unexistent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + existent.
Senses: glosses: Not existent
Synonyms: nonexistent
mutability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmjuːtəˈbɪlɪti/
ipa: /ˌmjutəˈbɪlɪti/
ipa: [ˌmjuɾəˈbɪləɾi]
Forms: form: mutabilities
Etymology: From Middle English mutabilite, from Old French mutabilite, from Latin mutabilitas; equivalent to mutable + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: He did indeed account somewhat unfairly for this sudden change; for besides some hard and unjust surmises concerning female fickleness and mutability, he began to suspect that he owed this want of civility to his want of horses […]
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
text: There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature.
ref: 1819 November 10, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “The Mutability of Literature”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number IV, New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC, page 23:
glosses: The quality or state of being mutable.
Derived terms: hypermutability
paramutability
exister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: existers
Etymology: From exist + -er.
Senses: examples: text: We existers are never either ready to hand or present at hand, because our ontological constitution, Existenz, is utterly different from theirs […]
ref: 1992, Graeme Nicholson, Illustrations of being: drawing upon Heidegger and upon metaphysics:
text: It is good that existers enjoy their pleasures. It is also good that pains are avoided.
ref: 2006, David Benatar, Better never to have been: the harm of coming into existence:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: One who exists.
2-6-6-6
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 2-6-6-6s
Senses: glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, an articulated locomotive with two leading wheels on a leading truck, two sets of six driving wheels, and six trailing wheels on a trailing truck. This arrangement was used only on the C&O which called it the Allegheny and the Virginian, which named it the Blue Ridge.
2-6-6-4
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 2-6-6-4s
Senses: glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a Mallet-type locomotive with two leading wheels on a leading truck, two sets of six driving wheels, and four trailing wheels on a trailing truck.
2-6-6-0
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 2-6-6-0s
Senses: glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a Mallet-type locomotive with two leading wheels on a leading truck, two sets of six driving wheels, and no trailing wheels.
biffy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪ.fi/
rhymes: -ɪfi
Forms: form: biffies
Etymology: Uncertain etymology, but perhaps an alteration of privy: p gaining voicing to become b, and v losing voicing to become f. Attested since 1935 (see first quotation).
Senses: glosses: A toilet.
examples: text: By a clever staggering of seats in each story, this model may be used either as a two-family biffie, or in place of the conventional set of two, without danger to either user.
[…]
Constructed to withstand hard usage, this biffy is a three-holer on a nine-hole chassis and combines the utmost in sanitation […]
ref: 1935, William Royal Greer, Gems of American Architecture:
glosses: An outhouse.
pageantry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæd͡ʒəntɹi/
Forms: form: pageantries
Etymology: From pageant + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: pomp and pageantry
text: That you aptly will suppose / What pageantry, what feats, what shows, / What minstrelsy, and pretty din, / The regent made in Mytilene / To greet the king.
ref: c. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: […] [William White and Thomas Creede] for Henry Gosson, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
text: The world seemed decked for some holiday or prouder pageantry, with silken streamers flying, ...
ref: 1849, Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers:
text: Anfield had been the usual portable pageantry of flags and banners and songs before kick-off. With the sky still blue above the away end the Barcelona fans stood and watched and took pictures and joined in the pre-match round of You’ll Never Walk Alone.
ref: 2019 May 8, Barney Ronay, The Guardian:
text: But Harry, in his civilian suit, was also a reminder of the schism between the traditional and the modern in the royal family that can’t be drowned out by pageantry.
ref: 2023 May 6, James Poniewozik, “Charles III Was Crowned King. But Can He Ever Be the Star?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A pageant; a colourful show or display, as in a pageant.
pamphleteer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpæmfləˈtɪɹ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pamphleteers
Etymology: From pamphlet + -eer.
Senses: examples: text: The Commons are very slow in bringing in their Bill to limit the press, and the pamphleteers make good use of their time; for there come out three or four every day.
ref: 1710 September 13 – 1713 June 17 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Jonathan Swift, “[Dr. Swift’s Journal to Stella.] Letter XLIII.”, in Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], new edition, volume XV, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1801, →OCLC:
text: but Charles Reade, an artist, a scholar, a man with a true sense of beauty, raging and roaring over the abuses of contemporary life like a common pamphleteer or a sensational journalist, is really a sight for the angels to weep over.
ref: 1891, Oscar Wilde, Intentions:
text: "It's kind of unfortunate that it depends on spectacular violence by somebody, or whoever it is, to get it into print," said that man, John Zerzan, a leading pamphleteer and self-described anarchist and technophobe who has become a guru of sorts for anti-technology leftists.
ref: 1995 May 7, Kenneth B. Noble, “Prominent Anarchist Finds Unsought Ally in Serial Bomber”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A writer, publisher, or distributer of pamphlets, a second-rate journalist.
pamphleteer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpæmfləˈtɪɹ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pamphleteers
form: pamphleteering
form: pamphleteered
form: pamphleteered
Etymology: From pamphlet + -eer.
Senses: glosses: To publish and distribute pamphlets as a form of propaganda.
parapsychology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɛɹəˌsaɪˈkɑlədʒi/
Forms: form: parapsychologies
Etymology: From para- (“above, beyond; abnormal”) + psychology.
Senses: glosses: The study of alleged paranormal phenomena; psychic or occult phenomena, such as telepathy and ghosts.
Related terms: metaphysics
paranormal
pardoner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑɹdənə/
Forms: form: pardoners
Etymology: From pardon + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who pardons.
examples: text: […] old men, cheated by their wives and daughters, pillaged by their sons, and imposed on by their domestics, a braggadocia captain, a knavish pardoner or quaestionary, a country bumpkin and a wanton city dame.
ref: 1820, Sir Walter Scott, The Abbot:
text: 1917, Catholic Encyclopedia, "Collections" http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04104b.htm
These grants of Indulgence were often entrusted to preachers of note ("Pardoners") who carried them from town to town, collecting money and using their eloquence to recommend the good work in question and to enhance the spiritual privileges attached to it.
glosses: In medieval Catholicism, a person licensed to grant papal pardons or indulgences.
shoe polishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoe polish
polishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polish
polishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of polish
Hogtown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Toronto.
glosses: Chicago, Illinois.
singularities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of singularity
preoccupations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preoccupation
centeredness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centredness
Etymology: From centered + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being centered.
examples: text: Third World feminist discussions of the history of women-centeredness and female bonding in Third World communities.
ref: 1983 August 6, Margaret Cerullo, Marla Erlien, “Dutch Gays, Lesbians Resist 'Family and State'”, in Gay Community News, page 3:
glosses: The state of being centered on the thing specified.
Related terms: self-centeredness
offscreen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: off-screen
Etymology: From off + screen.
Senses: examples: text: In addition to racking up what looks like a substantial offscreen body count, the movie at one point offers an eight-second introduction for a sleazy used-car salesman character for the sole purpose of justifying Tripp and Creech laying waste to his inventory.
ref: 2017 January 12, Jesse Hassenger, “A literal monster truck is far from the stupidest thing about Monster Trucks”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: Existing or happening outside the frame of the cinema or television screen
offscreen
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: off-screen
Etymology: From off + screen.
Senses: glosses: Outside the frame of the cinema or television screen
offscreen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: offscreens
form: offscreening
form: offscreened
form: offscreened
form: off-screen
Etymology: From off + screen.
Senses: examples: text: Yeah, I also hate her. I hope she gets offscreened in the third act low-key.
glosses: To kill a character offscreen.
Related terms: offstage
4-6-6-2
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 4-6-6-2s
Senses: glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a Mallet-type locomotive with four leading wheels on a leading truck, two sets of six driving wheels, and two trailing wheels on a trailing truck.
4-6-6-4
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 4-6-6-4s
Senses: glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, an articulated locomotive with four leading wheels on a leading truck, two sets of six driving wheels, and four trailing wheels on a trailing truck.
2-8-8-0
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 2-8-8-0s
Senses: glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a Mallet-type locomotive with two leading wheels on a leading truck, two sets of eight driving wheels, and no trailing wheels.
2-6-8-0
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 2-6-8-0s
Senses: glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a Mallet-type locomotive with two leading wheels on a leading truck, a set of six driving wheels followed by another set of eight driving wheels, and no trailing wheels.
2-8-8-4
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 2-8-8-4s
Senses: glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a Mallet-type locomotive with two leading wheels on a leading truck, two sets of eight driving wheels, and four trailing wheels on a trailing truck.
Synonyms: Yellowstone
4-8-8-2
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 4-8-8-2s
Senses: glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a Mallet-type locomotive with four leading wheels on a leading truck, two sets of eight driving wheels, and two trailing wheels on a trailing truck.
4-8-8-4
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 4-8-8-4s
Senses: glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a Mallet-type locomotive with four leading wheels on a leading truck, two sets of eight driving wheels, and four trailing wheels on a trailing truck.
unappealingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unappealingly
form: most unappealingly
Etymology: From unappealing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unappealing manner.
opined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of opine
unexamined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unexamined
form: most unexamined
Etymology: From un- + examined.
Senses: examples: text: If, as Socrates said, "The unexamined life is not worth living," then we should also consider a corollary to this axiom about life in school: "The unexamined lesson is not worth learning!"
ref: 1996, Joseph S. Renzulli, Building a Bridge Between Gifted Education and Total School Improvement:
glosses: That which has not been examined
classist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæsɪst/
Forms: form: more classist
form: most classist
Etymology: From class + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Please and thank you were not in her vocabulary, and she would sometimes say things that were “Not racist,” Neff said, “but classist.” (“What are you bitches, broke?” Anna asked her and another hotel employee.)
ref: 2018 May 28, Jessica Pressler, “Maybe She Had So Much Money She Just Lost Track of It”, in New York Magazine:
glosses: Of or pertaining to classism.
Synonyms: stratified
classist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæsɪst/
Forms: form: classists
Etymology: From class + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An advocate of classism.
hysterosalpingography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: hysterosalpingographies
Etymology: From hystero- + salpingo- + -graphy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An X-ray examination of the uterus and oviducts following injection of a radiopaque substance.
Derived terms: hysterosalpingographic
Related terms: hysterosalpingogram
hysterosalpingogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hysterosalpingograms
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An X-ray image taken during hysterosalpingography.
hysteroscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hysteroscopies
Etymology: From hystero- + -scopy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The examination of the uterus using a hysteroscope.
Derived terms: posthysteroscopy
hysteroscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hysteroscopes
Etymology: From hystero- + -scope.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An instrument designed to allow visual examination of the uterus.
Related terms: hysteroscopy
unaccountably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unaccountably
form: most unaccountably
Etymology: From unaccountable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: After all that hard work, he unaccountably failed to take out the patent.
text: The jury was unaccountably slow to reach a verdict. He was clearly innocent.
text: The number 392, very unaccountably, was never filled, and two of the sets of parts never appear to have been assembled at all, and were presumably kept as spares.
ref: 1944 May and June, “Notes and News: Maunsell Moguls in Ireland”, in Railway Magazine, page 186:
glosses: Not able to be explained logically. Without being accountable, or reasonable.
unacceptably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unacceptably
form: most unacceptably
Etymology: From unacceptable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The levels of lead in marine hull paints are still unacceptably high.
text: Your comments are unacceptably provocative.
text: Network Rail has started an 18-month recovery plan from "unacceptably poor" performance on its Western route between London Paddington and Reading.
ref: 2024 March 6, Paul Clifton, “Network News: NR launches Reading-Paddington recovery operation”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 6:
glosses: Not within the limits of what is generally considered to be acceptable.
unaccredited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + accredited.
Senses: glosses: Not accredited; lacking accreditation.
tribrach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹaɪbɹæk/
ipa: /ˈtɹɪbɹæk/
ipa: /ˈtɹʌɪbɹak/
ipa: /ˈtɹɪbɹak/
Forms: form: tribrachs
form: tribracchus
form: tribrack
form: tribrachus
form: tribrachys
form: tribrac
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
From the Latin tribrachys, from the Ancient Greek τρῐ́βρᾰχῠς (trĭ́brăkhŭs), from τρῐ- (trĭ-, “tri-”) + βρᾰχῠ́ς (brăkhŭ́s, “short”). Compare the French tribraque.
Senses: examples: text: For your foote tribracchus of all three short, ye haue very few trissillables.
ref: 1589, George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie, book ii, chapter xiii (Arb.), page 133
text: We may vse a Spondee or Iambick and sometime a Tribrack or Dactile.
ref: 1602, Thomas Campion, chapter IV, in Observations in the Art of English Poesie, page 11:
text: Tribrachus or Tribrachys, (Gr[eek]) a Foot in Greek and Latin Verſe, conſiſting of three ſhort Syllables; as Pŏpŭlŭs.
ref: [1706, Edward Phillips, compiler, J[ohn] K[ersey the younger], “Tribrachus or Tribrachys”, in The New World of Words: Or, Universal English Dictionary. […], 6th edition, London: […] J. Phillips, […]; N. Rhodes, […]; and J. Taylor, […], →OCLC, column 1:
text: Of all the resolved feet, the Tribrach in Trochaic verse with its ictus on the first syllable ⏑́⏑⏑ is most readily recognised by the ear as equivalent to the Trochee.
ref: 1827, the Rev’d Canon James Tate, An Introduction to the Principal Greek Tragic and Comic Metres in Scansion, Structure, and Ictus (second edition, 1829), chapter xi: “The Ictus of the long Trochaic of Tragedy”, §5 (page 23)
text: If the range of pure tribrachic measure, or of tribrachs intermingled with trochees, appears much wider in our song-books than in volumes of poetry written to be read.
ref: 1866, John Stuart Blackie, Homer and the Iliad, volume I, page 401:
text: The plain tribrach is frequent in every one’s reading.
ref: 1885, Thomas Dwight Goodell, “Quantity in English Verse”, in Transactions of the American Philological Association, XVI, page 88:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
glosses: A metrical foot consisting of three short syllables.
Derived terms: tribrachic
tribrach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹaɪbɹæk/
ipa: /ˈtɹɪbɹæk/
ipa: /ˈtɹʌɪbɹak/
ipa: /ˈtɹɪbɹak/
Forms: form: tribrachs
Etymology: English tri- + Ancient Greek βρᾰχῑ́ων (brăkhī́ōn, “arm”)
Senses: examples: text: An optical plummet, built into either the tribrach or alidade of total station instruments, permits accurate centering over a point.
ref: (surveying) A circular platform on three legs, each having levelling screws, used to connect a theodolite to a tripod. 2006, Paul R. Wolf, Charles D. Ghilani, chapter 8, in Elementary Surveying, 11th edition, page 193
glosses: A figure or object having three arms or branches.
examples: text: In a recent examination of the registers of the Ryde Philosophical Society, Mr. Martin has found, as I have been informed through Mr. Westropp’s kindness, the entry, that the flint tribrach was presented to the collection by the late Dr. Martin in 1853, with other objects from Ventnor, and as having been obtained on the shore at that place.
ref: 1873, Albert Way, “Notes on an Unique Implement of Flint, Found, as Stated, in the Isle of Wight”, in The Archæological Journal, XXX, page 31:
text: A singular instrument chipped out of flint, like three celts conjoined…, so as to form a sort of tribrach.
ref: 1897, Sir John Evans, chapter IV, in The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain, revised second edition, page 78:
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A figure or object having three arms or branches.
A tribrachial prehistoric flint implement.
Derived terms: tribrachial
tentativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tentativenesses
Etymology: From tentative + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: There are also some delightful love scenes between Jean and Esther. Russ does an excellent job of capturing the blend of excitement, tentativeness and panic present in the culmination of something so lusted after and so feared.
ref: 1982 February 6, Judy Stern, “Striking Out”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 28, page 9:
glosses: The characteristic of being tentative.
tenaciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /təˈneɪʃəsnəs/
Etymology: From tenacious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being tenacious; tenacity.
Synonyms: tenacity
Related terms: tenacious
tenaciously
reviled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of revile
chemiosmosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemiosmoses
Etymology: From chemi- + osmosis.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any chemical reaction that occurs through an intervening semipermeable membrane, especially through a membrane in a biological cell
Synonyms: chemosmosis
chemosmosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chemo- + osmosis.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chemiosmosis.
means of transport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: means of transport
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of means of transportation.
mode of transport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: modes of transport
Senses: examples: text: And you do have to ask: biplanes? Really? The choice of such an antiquated vehicle suggests that the film-makers had ticked off every other mode of transport in the course of the franchise's three-decade run, and so biplanes were pretty much all they had left.
ref: 2025 May 14, Nicholas Barber, “'A miserable, apocalyptic tract': Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning could be 'the feel-bad film of the summer”, in BBC:
glosses: Any form of vehicle or system used to transport people or goods.
Related terms: means of transport
means of transportation
heelies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of heel + wheelie. Heelys, the original, are a branded version.
Senses: glosses: Trainers with one or more wheels fitted to the heel, allowing the wearer to walk normally then skate by shifting the weight to the rear.
edger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: edgers
Etymology: From edge + -er.
Senses: glosses: A tool that is used to trim the edges of a lawn.
glosses: A woodworking tool for straightening the edges of wood and cutting it into boards.
glosses: One who practises the sexual technique of edging.
Derived terms: edgerman
Edgerton
Related terms: feather edger
straight-edger
edgeways
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From edge + -ways.
Senses: glosses: With the edge facing in the direction of movement.
glosses: With the edge uppermost.
Synonyms: edgewise
Derived terms: get a word in edgeways
edgeways
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From edge + -ways.
Senses: examples: an edgeways motion
glosses: With the edge facing in the direction of movement.
glosses: With the edge uppermost.
edgeways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of edgeway
edgewise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛdʒwaɪz/
ipa: /ˈɛd͡ʒwaɪz/
Forms: form: more edgewise
form: most edgewise
Etymology: From edge + -wise. Compare English edgeling (“edgeways”) and edgelong.
Senses: examples: text: By placing the sword edgewise, the weaver keeps the countershed open, in order to shoot through the shuttle.
ref: 2013 November 11, Claus-Dieter Brauns, “Food and Clothing”, in Mru: Hill People on the Border of Bangladesh, Basel: Birkhäuser, page 131:
glosses: Edgeways.
examples: text: Once his boss got started, Jim just couldn’t get a word in edgewise.
synonyms: edgeways
glosses: As if by an edge.
Derived terms: get a word in edgewise
edgewise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛdʒwaɪz/
ipa: /ˈɛd͡ʒwaɪz/
Etymology: From edge + -wise. Compare English edgeling (“edgeways”) and edgelong.
Senses: glosses: Edgeways.
edgily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more edgily
form: most edgily
Etymology: From edgy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an edgy manner
effervescently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more effervescently
form: most effervescently
Etymology: From effervescent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an effervescent manner
effeminately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more effeminately
form: most effeminately
Etymology: From effeminate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an effeminate manner.