cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Sawyer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɔɪə(ɹ)
-ɔː.jə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Sawyers
Etymology: * As an English occupational surname, from sawyer (“one who saws”). Senses loaned from various languages include Jewish/German Seger and Sager, Slovene Žagar.
* As a French surname, variant of Seguin.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as an occupation for someone who made a living from sawing wood.
glosses: A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Pratt County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in McCreary County, Kentucky.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Chikaming township, Berrien County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Carlton County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Fillmore County, Nebraska.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A hamlet in the town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Ward County, North Dakota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Choctaw County, Oklahoma.
Derived terms: Sawyer County
racialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: racializations
form: racialisation
Etymology: From racialize + -ation or racial + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of racializing, that is, of treating (a relationship, practice, person or group) in racial terms or of constituting (that person or group) as racial or as a race.
Derived terms: anti-racialization
differential racialization
Related terms: racialize
racial
race
radiclib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiclibs
Etymology: Shortening. The coinage is generally attributed to by US vice president Spiro Agnew. It was used by the Nixon administration to attack the political opposition, implying that the liberals in the Senate were subversive. Several people on Nixon's Enemies List were identified as radiclibs.
Senses: examples: 1970. September 12, H. R. Haldeman, Haldeman's Diary,
Next, a front that sounds like SDS to support the Democratic candidates and praise their liberal records, etc, publicize their 'bad' quotes in guise of praise. Give the senators a 'radiclib' rating.
glosses: A radical liberal.
lesbigay
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ləzˈbaɪ.ɡeɪ/
Forms: form: more lesbigay
form: most lesbigay
Etymology: Blend of lesbian + bisexual + gay
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to lesbian, bisexual, and gay people or the LGB community.
lesbigay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ləzˈbaɪ.ɡeɪ/
Forms: form: lesbigays
Etymology: Blend of lesbian + bisexual + gay
Senses: glosses: A lesbian, bisexual, or gay person.
rat run
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rat runs
Senses: examples: text: This week Wykeham Street in Scarborough was named as the worst rat run in Britain. […] A ‘rat run’ sounds like some sort of charity jog by rodents keen to improve their image, but it is of course a side street that suffers from being heavily used by through-traffic as a short-cut.
ref: 2007, John O'Farrell, I Have A Bream, Black Swan, →ISBN, page 43:
glosses: A small, usually minor road used by a significant amount of traffic as a short cut or to avoid congestion on more major routes.
rat run
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rat runs
form: rat running
form: rat ran
form: rat run
Senses: glosses: To drive through residential streets to avoid congestion on the main roads.
Synonyms: sense: to drive through residential streets to avoid congestion
word: divebomb
RSN
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Initialism of real soon now.
RSN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: Initialism of Republic of Singapore Navy.
bathetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈθɛtɪk/
Forms: form: more bathetic
form: most bathetic
Etymology: From bathos + -etic, based on the form of pathos and pathetic.
Senses: examples: text: The fall is indeed the archetypal bathetic motion, a sudden, surprising downward rush degrading the pretensions of posture and man's bipedal pride.
ref: 1995, Rupert D. V. Glasgow, Madness, Masks, and Laughter: An Essay on Comedy, page 214:
text: To ask what it is that Don Quixote himself believes is to enter the visionary centre of his story. This curious blend of the sublime and the bathetic does not come again until Kafka, another pupil of Cervantes, would compose stories like "The Hunter Gracchus" and "A Country Doctor".
ref: 2003 December 13, Harold Bloom, “The knight in the mirror”, in The Guardian:
text: It is possible that Shillibeer's bathetic end is the reason buses did not become universally known as 'Shillibeers'. Some operators had called their buses Shillibeers.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 20:
glosses: Characterized by or pertaining to bathos.
Derived terms: bathetically
reformulated gasoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reformulated gasolines
Senses: glosses: Gasoline with additives, such as MTBE and ethanol, to help prevent air pollution.
rehypothecation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rehypothecations
Etymology: From rehypothecate + -ion, alternatively re- + hypothecation.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: The pledge of hypothecated client-owned securities in a margin account to secure a bank loan; usually used for mortgages.
Ritesh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from India, common amongst people from India, meaning "god of seasons".
rivet counter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rivet counters
Senses: examples: text: For the rivet-counters, there were 10,036 Lightnings produced, including 113 built by Consolidated-Vultee...
ref: 1979, A.H.S., “P-38 Lightning at war: book review”, in The AOPA Pilot: Voice of General Aviation, page 99:
text: Peter Hodges' survey will certainly be of interest to naval rivet-counters and ship-modellers but, unfortunately, probably to few others.
ref: 1979, Geoffrey Till, “Destroyer Weapons of World War II: book review”, in The Mariner's Mirror, page 377:
glosses: A person who has an obsession with the minutiae of their particular interest, especially in military and technology history. Anyone preoccupied with small distinguishing features between different items.
Related terms: anorak
trainspotter
ropewalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ropewalks
form: rope-walk
Etymology: From rope + walk.
Senses: synonyms: ropery
glosses: A place where rope is made, a rope factory.
glosses: A long straight narrow lane, or a covered pathway, where long strands of material were laid before being twisted into rope.
glosses: Any narrow walkway that has rope handrails.
runout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌnaʊt/
Forms: form: runouts
form: run-out
Etymology: Deverbal from run out.
Senses: examples: text: The landslide had a long runout.
text: The freeway guardrail runout around this object is shorter than recommended.
glosses: Something that has been run out.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The method of getting out (dismissed from play) in which a batsman, in making a run, has not reached the popping crease when a fielder breaks his wicket with the ball.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: A relatively flat portion at the end of a ski run to slow down, or to connect trails.
examples: text: If, as people often say, skiing is like sex, then the run-out that follows a great run—that breezy pole-and-glide along a logging road, stream, or moraine back to the lift, hut, truck, or bar—is the cigarette in bed.
ref: 2011 September 13, Nick Paumgarten, “Ode to Happy Endings: Celebrating the least appreciated aspect of a great run.”, in Skiing, archived from the original on 10 Dec 2011:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: Slowing down at the end of a ski run, skiing on a runout.
glosses: The end portion of the groove of a phonographic record, after the recorded sound.
examples: text: There is a lot of trouble in Petticoat Lane. In fact, the mock auction boys have muscled in to such an extent on the bomb damaged ground that there is a danger that Petticoat Lane may lose its good name by the boys coming in now with the "runouts" to make quick profits and then get out.
ref: 1953 July 10, Hansard:
glosses: A supposed auction employing shill bidders in order to convince legitimate buyers to purchase worthless articles.
examples: text: We determined that inaccuracy was caused by a large amount of tool runout.
topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Deviation of the axis of rotation of a rotating object (especially a milling cutter or workpiece) relative to that object's centerline; the specific amount of deviation.
making waves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of make waves
makes waves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of make waves
made waves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of make waves
strong interaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strong interactions
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The kind of interaction caused by the strong force.
Synonyms: strong nuclear interaction
colour force
color force
colour interaction
color interaction
strong force
strong nuclear force
Related terms: strong bond
strong nuclear bond
trampolines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trampoline
brunoise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹʊˈnwɑːz/
ipa: /bɹuːˈnwɑːz/
ipa: /bɹuˈnwɑz/
rhymes: -ɑːz
Forms: form: brunoises
Etymology: From French brunoise.
Senses: examples: text: Grapefruit sorbet with brunoise of citrus fruits.
ref: 2001, Michael Ruhlman, The Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: Gerard de Luc had been screaming at her in French, something she didn't understand, and Marguerite, who was aiming (or a perfectly uniform brunoise of carrots, put the knife through her second and third fingertips to the tune of fifteen stitches.
ref: 2006, Elin Hilderbrand, The Love Season, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 131:
text: Drain well in a colander. Heat some oil in a pan and sweat the brunoise of vegetables for 5 minutes without letting them colour.
ref: 2007, Gary Hunter, Terry Tinton, Patrick Carey, Stephen Walpole, Professional Chef - Level 2, Cengage Learning EMEA, →ISBN:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A very fine dice. A method of cutting vegetables, usually to the dimensions of 2 mm or less, by julienning and then cutting many times at a 90-degree angle to the julienne.
examples: text: (Brunoise Soup). — A clear gravy soup with finely minced carrots, turnips, leeks, and onions.
ref: 1908, Charles Herman Senn, The Menu Book, page 70:
glosses: A mixture of leeks, celery, carrots and sometimes turnips chopped in this way.
Coordinate terms: sense: mixture of vegetables
english: Cajun cuisine
translation: Cajun cuisine
word: Holy Trinity
brunoise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹʊˈnwɑːz/
ipa: /bɹuːˈnwɑːz/
ipa: /bɹuˈnwɑz/
rhymes: -ɑːz
Forms: form: brunoises
form: brunoising
form: brunoised
form: brunoised
Etymology: From French brunoise.
Senses: glosses: To cut (vegetables) very finely by julienning and then cutting many times at a 90-degree angle to the julienne.
Related terms: english: ginger, garlic, and scallions
translation: ginger, garlic, and scallions
word: GGS
english: onions, celery, and bell peppers, in Cajun cuisine
translation: onions, celery, and bell peppers, in Cajun cuisine
word: Holy Trinity
english: onions, celery, and carrots
translation: onions, celery, and carrots
word: mirepoix
calm wind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calm winds
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Wind that is slower than 3 knots.
ideologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒdʒɪk
Senses: examples: text: One midrash, perhaps influenced by later Israelite encounters with Esau's biologic and ideologic descendants.
ref: 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 199:
glosses: ideological
Related terms: ideological
ideologically
ideology
Wotan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Wotan. Doublet of Woden and Odin.
Senses: examples: text: Wotan, finding that there is no escape, turns for help and advice to Loge, the God of Evil, the spirit of flickering, treacherous fire, the master of cunning and deceit; and he introduces to gods and giants the lust for gold.
ref: 1894, William James Henderson, Preludes and Studies: Musical Themes of the Day, page 17:
text: In Anglo-Saxon mythology, kings were descended from Wotan, or Odin, the high god of the Teutonic pantheon.
ref: 2012, Ian Bradley, God Save the Queen: The Spiritual Heart of the Monarchy, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 70:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Odin, especially in his continental Germanic form.
Derived terms: Wotanism
Wotanist
polysulfide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polysulfides
form: polysulphide
Etymology: From poly- + sulfide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound of general formula RSₙR having a chain of more than two sulfur atoms; any derivative of a polysulfane.
Derived terms: hydropolysulfide
sodium polysulfide
sodium polysulphide
spitchcock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɪt͡ʃkɒk/
ipa: /ˈspɪt͡ʃˌkɑk/
Forms: form: spitchcocks
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English spiche-coke (“eel split lengthwise and broiled”). The further etymology is uncertain; the following possibilities have been suggested:
* From Middle English *speche, *spiche (“to split”) + cock, coken (“to allow (something) to cook; to cook”) (from cok (“person who cooks food, cook”), from Old English cōc (“a cook”)).
* From spik (“animal fat, especially lard”) (from Old English spiċ (“bacon; lard”)), spik, spike (“large nail; pointed stud”) (possibly from Old Norse spík, spíkr (“nail”)), or spit, spite (“rod for cooking meat, spit; pointed object”) (from Old English spitu, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“sharp point; stick”)) + cok (“male of the common domestic fowl, cock, rooster”) (from Old English coc, cocc).
The verb is probably derived from the noun.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A method of cooking an eel (or occasionally some other fish) by splitting it along the back, cutting it into pieces, and broiling or frying it.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: An eel (or other fish) prepared in this way.
Derived terms: word: spatchcock
spitchcock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɪt͡ʃkɒk/
ipa: /ˈspɪt͡ʃˌkɑk/
Forms: form: spitchcocks
form: spitchcocking
form: spitchcocked
form: spitchcocked
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English spiche-coke (“eel split lengthwise and broiled”). The further etymology is uncertain; the following possibilities have been suggested:
* From Middle English *speche, *spiche (“to split”) + cock, coken (“to allow (something) to cook; to cook”) (from cok (“person who cooks food, cook”), from Old English cōc (“a cook”)).
* From spik (“animal fat, especially lard”) (from Old English spiċ (“bacon; lard”)), spik, spike (“large nail; pointed stud”) (possibly from Old Norse spík, spíkr (“nail”)), or spit, spite (“rod for cooking meat, spit; pointed object”) (from Old English spitu, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“sharp point; stick”)) + cok (“male of the common domestic fowl, cock, rooster”) (from Old English coc, cocc).
The verb is probably derived from the noun.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To cook (an eel, or occasionally some other fish) by splitting it along the back, cutting it into pieces, and broiling or frying it.
polysulphide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polysulphides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of polysulfide.
prostaglandin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɒstəˈɡlændɪn/
Forms: form: prostaglandins
Etymology: From German Prostaglandin. Equivalent to prosta(te) + gland + -in. So called because it was originally believed to be secreted by the prostate.
Senses: examples: text: This enzyme generates an inflammatory mediator known as prostaglandin, which triggers pain and other aspects of inflammation.
ref: 2001, Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 51:
text: Indeed, it’s possible to create the full storm of cold symptoms with no cold virus at all, but only a potent cocktail of the so-called inflammatory mediators that the body makes itself[,] among them, cytokines, kinins, prostaglandins and interleukins, powerful little chemical messengers that cause the blood vessels in the nose to dilate and leak, stimulate the secretion of mucus, activate sneeze and cough reflexes and set off pain in our nerve fibers.
ref: 2010 October 4, Jennifer Ackerman, “How Not to Fight Colds”, in The New York Times:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of naturally occurring lipids derived from the C₂₀ acid prostanoic acid; they have a number of physiological functions and may be considered to be hormones.
prostanoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: a C₂₀ fatty acid, containing a cyclopentane ring, that is the basis of the prostaglandins
sunshine agenda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunshine agendas
Senses: glosses: A public agenda.
topics: government
law
glosses: An agenda on which an item has been placed for which the decision-making body will not entertain discussion or commentary.
topics: government
law
glosses: A public agenda on which an item for decision has been placed for which the decision-making body will not entertain commentary, discussion or influence during a certain defined time-frame prior to the decision, in order to give the body "a period of repose" in which to make decisions.
drifting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɪftɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪftɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: The drifting seaweed went wherever the currents carried it.
glosses: Moving aimlessly or at the mercy of external forces.
examples: text: [Lionel] Johnson was stern by nature, strong by intellect, and always, I think, deliberately picked his company, but [Ernest] Dowson seemed gentle, affectionate, drifting.
ref: 1922, W[illiam] B[utler] Yeats, chapter VIII, in The Trembling of the Veil, London: Privately printed for subscribers only by T[homas] Werner Laurie, Ltd., →OCLC, book IV (The Tragic Generation), page 187:
text: There is nothing more expressive of a barbarous and stupid lack of culture than the half-unconscious attitude so many of us slip into, of taking for granted, when we see weak, neurotic, helpless, drifting, unhappy people, that it is by reason of some special merit in us or by reason of some especial favour towards us that the gods have given us an advantage over such persons.
ref: 1930, John Cowper Powys, chapter X, in The Meaning of Culture:
glosses: Without direction, focus, or goal.
Derived terms: driftingly
driftingness
drifting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɪftɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪftɪŋ
Forms: form: driftings
Senses: examples: text: True, there had been some heavy falls of snow and some of the roads had become blocked, while north of Inverness there was drifting that held up traffic here and there, but things were no worse than are expected in January.
ref: 1960 March, “The January blizzard in the North-East of Scotland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 137:
text: Still, she did not regret him, for nothing Ernest could have given her would have equalled the delight of those romantic driftings on the lake with Eden.
ref: 2009, Mazo de la Roche, Whiteoak Heritage, page 204:
glosses: The act by which something drifts.
examples: text: [W]ith hollow eyes / Many all day in dazzling river stood, / To take the rich-ored driftings of the flood.
ref: 1820, John Keats, “Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil. A Story from Boccaccio.”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, stanza XIV, page 56:
glosses: That which drifts.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: A driving technique where the driver intentionally oversteers, causing loss of traction in the rear wheels, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner.
drifting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɪftɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪftɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of drift
Japanification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Japonification
Etymology: From Japan + -ification.
Senses: synonyms: Japanization
glosses: The process of making or becoming Japanese.
topics: economics
sciences
synonyms: Japanization
glosses: Persistent stagnation and deflation.
Related terms: Japonism
Japonisme
lost decade
zombie economy
jazz mag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jazz mags
Etymology: From jazz + mag, from the otherwise largely obsolete senses of jazz meaning "semen" or "sexual activity" — possibly via a euphemistic alteration of jizz.
Senses: synonyms: bongo mag
glosses: A pornographic magazine.
jitty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jitties
Senses: examples: text: You could still see some of the cobbles of the jitty mouth, where it had run behind the terrace down on Andrew's Road, but it was pretty much all gone.
ref: 2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, published 2016, page 97:
glosses: Alternative spelling of gitty (“type of passageway”).
Synonyms: alley
compressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /kəmˈpɹɛsɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of compress
joganosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ojibwe zhaaganaash/ᔖᑲᓈᐦᔑᐝ (“white person”).
Senses: synonyms: word: ang moh
word: Angrez
word: balanda
word: béké
word: bule
word: Caucasian
word: cracker
word: cumskin
word: farang
word: firangi
word: gringo
word: gora
word: gussuk
word: gweilo
word: haole
word: honky
word: hoogie
word: hoojah
word: ice monkey
word: ivory
word: joganosh
word: kabloona
word: laowai
word: leucoderm
word: mayo
word: mayonnaise face
word: melanin-challenged
word: migaloo
word: mlungu
word: mzungu
word: ofay
word: oyinbo
word: paddy
word: Pakeha
word: paleface
word: pigskin
word: pinky
word: roundeye
word: saltine
raw_tags: for cracker
word: snow bunny
word: toubab
word: umlungu
word: vazaha
word: white
word: white bread
word: white devil
word: whiteface
word: white man
word: whitey
word: wigger
word: wonderbread
word: Yankee
qualifier: among the Ojibwe
glosses: White people or (more recently) any non-native people.
juice monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: juice monkeys
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A steroid or testosterone abuser.
junkware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From junk + -ware.
Senses: examples: text: Most personal computers come bundled with junkware from the manufacturer.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any malicious or unwanted software.
Canadian football
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A game similar to American football played on a field of 110 yards long and 65 yards wide (with two 20 yard-long endzones) in which two teams of 12 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.
Synonyms: word: football
Hypernyms: english: all types of football
translation: all types of football
word: football
topics: American-football
football
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
American-football
football
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: gridiron football
english: rare term for the above sport
translation: rare term for the above sport
word: North American football
english: from Canadian football originating as Canadian rugby
translation: from Canadian football originating as Canadian rugby
word: rugby
Coordinate terms: word: Canadian Football League
word: American football
topics: soccer
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: association football
word: rugby football
luxuriously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more luxuriously
form: most luxuriously
Etymology: From luxurious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner that involves luxury; in an expensive or indulgent manner.
lyings-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lying-in
luxuriousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: luxuriousnesses
Etymology: From luxurious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The luxuriousness of the spa was present even in the expensive paper fittingly used for the bill.
synonyms: luxury
luxe
glosses: The state or property of being luxurious, of being expensive or indulgently pleasant.
loyalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loyalisms
Etymology: From loyal + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: And still there is about him a hint of the ingenu; a Tiggerish quality of enthusiasm for the [Tony] Blair vision that has nothing to do with fawning loyalism.
ref: 1996, New Statesman, volume 125, London: New Statesman Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 25, column 2:
text: In December, the province made it optional for elected officials to swear an oath of allegiance to the king. But Quebec was once also a bastion of loyalism to the monarchy, one with a 200-year history of staunch attachment to the crown, said Damien-Claude Bélanger, a history professor at the University of Ottawa who is writing a book on the subject.
ref: 2023 May 6, Vjosa Isai, “Canadians greet the coronation with a muted response.”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The property of being a loyalist.
Related terms: loyalist
low-lying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈləʊˈlaɪ.ɪŋ/
Forms: form: lowlying
Senses: examples: text: Coastal defences were breached at many places from the Humber right round to the outskirts of London, and the inundation of low-lying lands caused damage on a scale unequalled within living memory.
ref: 1953 May, “British Railways and the January Floods”, in Railway Magazine, page 301:
text: The route passes over low-lying land, the only item of note being the Cerebos salt works at Greatham, where one may catch a glimpse of the smart black diesel locomotive emblazoned with the firm's name writ large.
ref: 1959 August, K. Hoole, “The Middlesbrough — Newcastle route of the N.E.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 359:
text: West of Keswick a short descent at 1 in 122 brings the train down to the low-lying and marshy ground between Derwentwater and Bassenthwaite Lake and to the crossing of the Derwent - the outfall from Derwentwater, [...].
ref: 1961 October, Voyageur, “The Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 601:
text: Increasingly, low-lying coastal cities in the United States are experiencing what’s known as sunny-day flooding, when all it takes is a high tide to send water gushing into the streets.
ref: 2020 April, Elizabeth Kolbert, “Why we won't avoid a climate catastrophehttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/04/why-we-wont-avoid-a-climate-catastrophe-feature/”, in National Geographic:
text: No trees have grown on the windswept Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean for tens of thousands of years — just shrubs and other low-lying vegetation. That’s why a recent arboreal discovery nearly 20 feet (6 meters) beneath the ground caught researchers’ attention.
ref: 2024 September 27, Katie Hunt, “Scientists discover hidden ancient forest on treeless island”, in CNN:
glosses: Lower than nearby areas.
examples: text: low-lying islands
topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: Located or situated below or near a sea level.
glosses: Of a person, lying low; concealed; hidden.
Hypernyms: lying
low-keyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: His low-keyed sales technique worked more often than high-pressure tactics, and won him many repeat customers.
text: The conversation was totally civilized and low keyed. There was no throwing up of hands in horror. There was no throwing up.
ref: 1980 April 12, Nancy Walker, “Parents and Friends of Gays”, in Gay Community News, page 12:
glosses: Relaxed, unstressful, not pressured.
underwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underwoods
Etymology: From under- + wood.
Senses: examples: text: 1670, John Evelyn, Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber, London, Chapter 3, Of the Oak, pp. 16-17,
What improvement the stirring of the ground about the roots of Oaks is to the Trees I have already hinted; and yet in Copses where they stand warm, and so thickn’d with the under wood, as this culture cannot be practis’d, they prove in time to be goodly Trees.
text: […] the Country near the Sea-side, and some few Miles further is full of short Under-wood, and thorny Shrubs, which tore our Cloaths to Rags […]
ref: 1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, page 30:
text: ‘Accordingly I hid myself in some thick underwood, determining to devote the ensuing hours to reflection on my situation.’
ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:
text: But tenants may cut underwood, and take wood sufficient to repair the pales, hedges, and fences, and what is called by law plough-bote, fire-bote, and other house-bote.
ref: 1825, Laws relating to landlords, tenants, and lodgers - Volume 7, page 17:
text: In cutting coppices the usual plan is to leave what is termed plashers where the underwoods are thin and require new wood; a far better plan is to plant young stuff, which is not only cheaper but makes much better underwoods.
ref: 1860, S. G. Finney, Hints to Landlords, Tenants, and Labourers, page 33:
glosses: Underbrush, undergrowth.
Related terms: underwooded
long-faced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: longfaced
Etymology: From long face + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: He was long-faced so we knew she'd turned down his proposal.
text: "[…] So many people find the world a dreary residence," Mr. Calverley sighed, "that it is really a pity some one of these long-faced stolidities cannot die now instead of me. For I have found life wonderful throughout."
ref: 1916, James Branch Cabell, The Certain Hour:
glosses: Displaying sadness.
examples: text: The majority did not give forth very flattering portraits of him, certainly; nor were they by any means unanimous in their reflections; as some made him very long-faced, others very broad-faced, some tolerably well-looking, others vastly ill-looking, according to their several manners of reflecting: […]
ref: 1846, Charles Dickens, The Battle of Life:
text: “Aha!” he cried. “So he has found the extra coffee-cup. That is good. He has more intelligence than would appear, this long-faced Monsieur Lawrence of yours!”
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 145:
glosses: Having a long face.
lordly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɔː(ɹ)dli/
Forms: form: lordlier
form: lordliest
form: Lordly
Etymology: From Middle English lordly, lordlich, from Old English hlāfordlīċ (“lordly; heroic; noble”), equivalent to lord + -ly.
The adverb is from Middle English lordly, lordely, lordliche.
Senses: examples: text: 1891, Sir Edwin Arnold, The Light of the World: Or, The Great Consummation, Book I — “Mary Magdalene”, Funk & Wagnalls, page 56,
[…] / And Herod's painted pinnaces, ablaze / With lamps, and brazen shields and spangled slaves, / Came and went lordly at Tiberias; / […]
text: Look at man, then, walking lordly amidst the gigantic flora and fauna of long ago; and see if seven, eight, nine hundred years do not sit serenely on his mighty brow.
ref: 1925, Claude Kean, Stock Charges Against the Bible, published 2003, page 61:
glosses: In the manner of a lord. Showing command or nobility.
actors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of actor
quarrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quarrel
quarrels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of quarrel
gophers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gopher
colouring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colourings
Senses: examples: text: The seven hampers for four boys and three girls were personalised to each patient, including overnight hotel stays, colouring books and self care items.
ref: 2024 December 23, “Cancer survivor makes hampers for young patients”, in BBC:
text: In 2008, British health ministers agreed to phase out six artificial food colourings by 2009, while the European Union bans some colourings and requires warning labels on others.
ref: 2025 April 22, Madeline Halpert, “Kennedy announces ban on artificial dyes in food and drinks”, in BBC:
glosses: Alternative spelling of coloring.
Derived terms: overcolouring
pseudocolouring
colouring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more colouring
form: most colouring
Senses: examples: text: He soon exhausted pleasure, and then reasoned upon it: he soon exhausted it, because he wanted that colouring enthusiasm which creates more than half of what it enjoys;...
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 168:
glosses: Of something that provides colour.
colouring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of colour
Zachariah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Zechariah.
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew, variant of Zachary or Zechariah.
underbrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌndɚˌbɹʌʃ/
Forms: form: underbrushes
Etymology: From under- + brush.
Senses: examples: text: How quick the eye and hand to catch him [the ruffed grouse] when he rises from the underbrush and is out of sight in the wood before the untrained sportsman stops him with what is little more than a snapshot, so instantaneously must all be done!
ref: 1892, Stanley Waterloo, A Man and a Woman:
glosses: The small trees and other plants that clutter the floor of a forest.
Synonyms: underbush
undergrowth
understory
underbrush
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌndɚˌbɹʌʃ/
Forms: form: underbrushes
form: underbrushing
form: underbrushed
form: underbrushed
Etymology: From under- + brush.
Senses: glosses: To clear (an area) of underbrush.
glosses: To work among the underbrush.
launch game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: launch games
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A video game that has been made available to consumers simultaneously with its respective video game console.
Synonyms: launch title
killer game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: killer games
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: An electronic game that has compelled many to buy a particular video game console or upgrade their computer hardware simply to play it.
Hypernyms: killer application
Qanungo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Punjabi ਕ਼ਾਨੂੰਗੋ (qānūṅgo) / قانُونگو (qānūngo), Urdu قَانُون گو (qānūn go) / Hindi क़ानूनगो (qānūngo), Sindhi قانُون گو / क़ानूंगो / 𑊺𑋩𑋠𑋑𑋤𑋟𑊼𑋧 (qānūṅgo), Gujarati કાનૂગો (kānūgo), Marwari कानूंगौ (kānūṅgau) / 𑅕𑅧𑅒𑅧𑅗𑅒 (knungu), Maithili कानूनगो (kānūnᵊgō) / 𑒏𑒰𑒢𑒴𑒢𑒑𑒼 (kānūnagō), Odia କାନୁନ୍ଗୋ (kānungo), Bengali কানুনগো (kanungō), Assamese কাননগো (kanongü), from Classical Persian قانونگو (qānūn-go). This designation was used in South Asia for hereditary registrar of landed property in a subdivision of a district, meaning “an expounder of law”.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
horseshoe crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horseshoe crabs
Etymology: From horseshoe + crab, referencing this animal's horseshoe-like shape.
Senses: synonyms: xiphosuran
glosses: Any extinct or extant chelicerate in the order Xiphosura, actually more related to arachnids than true crabs.
synonyms: xiphosuran
king crab
glosses: Any extinct or extant chelicerate in the order Xiphosura, actually more related to arachnids than true crabs.
Any extant xiphosuran in the family Limulidae.
misconfigure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misconfigures
form: misconfiguring
form: misconfigured
form: misconfigured
Etymology: From mis- + configure.
Senses: glosses: To configure something incorrectly or suboptimally.
Underwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌndə(ɹ)ˌwʊd/
rhymes: -ʊd
Forms: form: Underwoods
Etymology: The name is from England or Scotland, and from Middle English.
The surname is sometimes habitational, used by someone who lived in any of several places of the same name. Otherwise it is topographic, referring to someone who lived near a wood.
The common noun comes from the name of the manufacturer, after John T. Underwood, one of its founders.
Senses: glosses: A typewriter made by the Underwood Typewriter Company.
Underwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌndə(ɹ)ˌwʊd/
rhymes: -ʊd
Etymology: The name is from England or Scotland, and from Middle English.
The surname is sometimes habitational, used by someone who lived in any of several places of the same name. Otherwise it is topographic, referring to someone who lived near a wood.
The common noun comes from the name of the manufacturer, after John T. Underwood, one of its founders.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Middle English.
glosses: A suburb of Plympton, City of Plymouth, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX5356).
glosses: A village in Selston parish, Ashfield district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK4750).
glosses: A settlement in Bishton community, City of Newport, Wales (OS grid ref ST3889).
glosses: A hamlet in Hook community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9812).
glosses: A community in the city of Markham, Rural Municipality of York, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A village in Kincardine municipality, Bruce County, Ontario.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Monroe township, Clark County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Norwalk Township, Pottawattamie County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Otter Tail County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Redwood County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A hamlet in the town of North Hudson, Essex County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in McLean County, North Dakota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Skamania County, Washington.
glosses: A suburb of the City of Logan, south-east Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A rural locality in the City of Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
Derived terms: Grafton Underwood
Grendon Underwood
Underwood's septa
Weston Underwood
Wotton Underwood
chelicerate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /kɪˈlɪsəˌɹeɪt/
Forms: form: more chelicerate
form: most chelicerate
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Chelicerata subphylum of arachnids, horseshoe crabs, etc.
chelicerate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kɪˈlɪsəˌɹeɪt/
Forms: form: chelicerates
Senses: glosses: Any member of the Chelicerata.
Derived terms: euchelicerate
inefficacious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪʃəs
Forms: form: more inefficacious
form: most inefficacious
Etymology: From in- + efficacious.
Senses: glosses: Incapable of having the intended consequence.
glosses: Not effective.
Synonyms: ineffective
Derived terms: inefficaciously
inefficaciousness
poobah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpuːbɑː/
Forms: form: poobahs
form: pooh bah
form: pooh-bah
form: poo bah
form: poo-bah
form: Poo-Bah
form: Pooh-Bah
Etymology: From Pooh-Bah, a comic character in the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta The Mikado (1885), formed as pooh + bah, both expressing contempt. The character of W. S. Gilbert's libretto is preceded by the character Pish-Tush-Pooh-Bah (described as “haughty”) in “King Borriah Bungalee Boo” (1866), one of the Bab Ballads, with pish and tush being two other terms of contempt.
Senses: glosses: A person who holds multiple offices or positions of power at the same time.
examples: text: ‘I said pooh-pooh,’ Duxmann Pooh Bah said.
ref: 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 112:
glosses: A leader or other important person.
glosses: A pompous, self-important person.
Derived terms: grand poobah
Related terms: dual mandate
nabob
tycoon
gridiron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɪdaɪən/
Forms: form: gridirons
Etymology: From Middle English gridirne, gredirne, gredyron, gredeyron, grydern, grydyryne, girdirin, girderen, variants of Middle English gredire, gredyre, itself an alteration of Middle English gridel (“griddle”). The ending was assimilated to iron, as if from grid + iron, whence grid was later derived.
Senses: examples: text: I know, there have been found seely boores, who have rather endure to have their feet broiled upon a Greedyron, their fingers ends crusht and wrung with the lock of a Pistoll, their eyes all bloody to be thrust out of their heads with wringing and wresting of a cord about their foreheads, before they would so much as be ransomed.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 32, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: An instrument of torture on which people were secured before being burned by fire.
glosses: An iron rack or grate used for broiling meat and fish over coals.
Derived terms: gridiron football
gridiron pendulum
gridiron valve
gridironer
on the gridiron
Related terms: iron
grid
gridiron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɪdaɪən/
Forms: form: gridirons
Etymology: From resembling the shape of a gridiron (a square rectilinear grid).
Senses: examples: text: Just north of Farringdon station, and to the east of Ray Street, there is a wide cutting bounded by another of those brick walls nicely calculated to be just too high for you to see over. So prop your bike against it, and stand on the down-pointing pedal crank. You are looking at the Ray Street Gridiron, a spectacular bridge in a cutting that carries the Metropolitan, the supposed Underground, over the Widened Lines (now Thameslink).
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 55:
glosses: Any object resembling the rack or grate.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An openwork frame on which vessels are placed for examination, cleaning, and repairs.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A raised framework from which lighting is suspended.
examples: text: They were quite close to him now, and crouching low, like tacklers on a gridiron. One of them raised his hand and lowered it, as though counting off seconds—one—two—three!
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 104:
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The field on which American football is played.
examples: text: 1995 October 3, Peter O′Shea, Sports: Out on the field, The Advocate, page 54,
He represented Australia in this year′s rugby tour of England and is as well-known in Australia as any top gridiron player is in the United States.
text: So Jackie′s name became known far and wide as an exceptional gridiron player.
ref: 2001, Langston Hughes, Dolan Hubbard, Jackie Robinson: First Negro in Big League Baseball: 1919—: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 12: Works for Children and Young Adults, page 106:
text: 2009, Deborah Healey, Sport and the Law, reference note, UNSW Press, page 271,
119 Yasser (1985) cites the famous US example of gridiron player Dick Butkus of the Chicago Bears.
glosses: American and Canadian football, particularly when used to distinguish from other codes of football.
Synonyms: sense: playing field for American football
word: football field
topics: football
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sense: Canadian and American
word: North American football
topics: football
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sense: Canadian and American
word: gridiron football
topics: football
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sense: Canadian and American
word: football
topics: football
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: American football
Derived terms: griddy
gridiron
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɪdaɪən/
Forms: form: gridirons
form: gridironing
form: gridironed
form: gridironed
Etymology: From resembling the shape of a gridiron (a square rectilinear grid).
Senses: examples: text: This basin of Szechuan (literally "Four Streams," but which, reading the character idiographically, I should be inclined to render as "Gridironed by Streams"), […]
ref: 1901, Archibald John Little, Mount Omi and Beyond: A Record of Travel on the Thibetan Border, Cambridge University Press, published 2010, Conclusion, p. 242:
text: Another logical method is that of gridironing the field by a series of straight paths that are parallel to each other.
ref: 1923, Maximilian P.E. Groszmann, A Parent's Manual: Child Problems, Mental and Moral, New York: Century, page 74:
text: When Billy saw the culprit's naked back under the scourge gridironed with red welts, and worse […] Billy was horrified.
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 8, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
text: His white back, gridironed with scars, was as soft as a baby's.
ref: 1949, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 42, in The God-Seeker, New York: Popular Library, page 227:
text: Railways spanned the continent and gridironed the states.
ref: 2012, Janet Wallach, chapter 8, in The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age, New York: Anchor Books, published 2013, page 111:
glosses: To mark or cover with lines; to crisscross.
glosses: To purchase land so that the remaining adjacent sections are smaller than the minimum area purchasable as freehold, thus excluding potential freeholders.
chrestomathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɛˈstɒməθi/
Forms: form: chrestomathies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χρηστομάθεια (khrēstomátheia, “useful for learning”).
Senses: examples: text: EC Bridgman's Chinese Chrestomathy in the Canton Dialect (1841)
glosses: A collection of written passages, used to learn an unfamiliar language.
examples: text: A Mencken Chrestomathy (1982)
glosses: A collection of choice passages from an author or authors.
Derived terms: chrestomathic
Related terms: anthology