cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
paperwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paperwomen
Etymology: From paper + -woman.
Senses: glosses: A woman who delivers newspapers
Related terms: paperboy
papergirl
paperman
mailwoman
postwoman
sheetsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheetsmen
Etymology: From sheet + -s- + -man.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: someone who controls the trim of the sails.
leverman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: levermen
Etymology: From lever + -man.
Senses: glosses: Someone employed to operate a lever.
buttonman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buttonmen
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of button man.
shipman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shipmen
form: ship-man
Etymology: From Middle English schipman, from Old English scipmann (“shipman, mariner, sailor, rower; one who goes on trading voyages; pirate”). Cognate with Icelandic skipmaður, skipamaður (“shipman”). Equivalent to ship + -man. Compare English boatman.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sailor.
synonyms: word: sailor
glosses: The master of a ship; shiplord.
glosses: A labourer on a ship.
Related terms: midshipman
shipmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shipman
levermen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leverman
buttonmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buttonman
nonpsychopathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nonpsychopathic
form: most nonpsychopathic
Etymology: From non- + psychopathic.
Senses: glosses: Not psychopathic.
Maat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ma'at
form: Maʽat
Etymology: Borrowed from Egyptian mꜣꜥt, U2:mAa-a:t-H6-B1
Senses: glosses: An Ancient Egyptian goddess, the personification of truth, order, and righteousness, symbolized by a feather.
Reeb components
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Reeb component
stet dockets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stet docket
begoggled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: be-goggled
Etymology: From be- + goggle + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing goggles.
Synonyms: goggled
Related terms: bespectacled
JNOVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of JNOV
ladler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ladlers
Etymology: From ladle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] by the time I was twelve I was my mother’s little helper—the filler of pies, the ladler of jelly, the person to whom Mother snapped, ‘Hurry up, I’ll need to put the tops on those pies.’
ref: 2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 23, in Small Island, London: Review, page 240:
glosses: One who ladles.
glosses: Someone who transports molten metal in a ladle.
ungoggled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + goggled.
Senses: glosses: Not wearing goggles.
unshirted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + shirted.
Senses: glosses: Not wearing a shirt; shirtless
Derived terms: raise unshirted hell
pump-faked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pump-fake
pump-fakes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pump-fake
pump-fakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pump-fake
pump-faking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pump-fake
raise unshirted hell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: raises unshirted hell
form: raising unshirted hell
form: raised unshirted hell
form: raised unshirted hell
Senses: glosses: A superlative form of raise hell
shirted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From shirt + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Maury rocked his chair onto its back legs, rubbed his shirted stomach, grinned.
ref: 1988 July 8, Muriel and Maury Schmidt, “Sunday Afternoon in a Motel Room With Derrick”, in Chicago Reader:
text: You walked towards my path but you just brushed right past
And into the arms of that fucking white shirted man.
ref: 2004, The Streets, Fit But You Know It:
glosses: Wearing a shirt
Related terms: bowling-shirted
dress-shirted
hairshirted
T-shirted
Unificationism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From unification + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The Unification Church religious movement.
Synonyms: Unification Movement
Related terms: Unificationist
Unificationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Unificationists
Etymology: From unification + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Unification Church religious movement.
glosses: Alternative form of unificationist (a specific unification movement)
Synonyms: sense: Unification Church
word: Moonie
Related terms: Unificationism
Unificationist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Unificationist
form: most Unificationist
Etymology: From unification + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the Unification Church
glosses: Alternative form of unificationist (a specific unification movement)
Unificationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Unificationist
congestor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: congestors
Etymology: From congest + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Almost without exception the criticism of tall buildings as the principal congestors of streets and sidewalks is based on guess rather than on actual facts.
ref: 1931, George B. Ford, Building Height, Bulk, and Form:
glosses: That which congests.
congestors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of congestor
fingernailed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fingernail + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: a dirty-fingernailed hustler
text: “Are you aware, by the way, that Santoul is quite well known in the entertainment world? His filmworks are playing in quite a few theaters in Likat—” “I want his balls!” Karine screamed, making two upraised cups of her talon-fingernailed hands.
ref: 1990 April 24, James Luceno, chapter 17, in Illegal Alien, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey, →ISBN, part 4 (Downside Up), pages 220–221:
glosses: Having fingernails (often of a specified kind).
fluoridator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluoridators
Etymology: From fluoridate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, fluoridates.
fluoridators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluoridator
naily
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more naily
form: most naily
Etymology: From nail + -y.
Senses: glosses: full of nails (the fastener)
examples: text: As his black, naily fingers dug loose the scaly pig's skin, wandering tears came to the bo'sun 's eyes.
ref: 1970, Arthur Mason, The cook and the captain bold:
glosses: having long or overly protruding nails (fingernails or toenails)
freet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /fɹiːt/
Forms: form: freets
form: fret
form: freit
Etymology: From Middle English frete (“superstition”), from Old Norse frétt (“news, intelligence, inquiry, inquiry about the future”), from Proto-Germanic *frihtiz (“news, report, message, question, prophecy”), related to Icelandic frétt (“news”), Icelandic frétta (“to review”), Danish and Norwegian fritte (“to question, interrogate”), English frain (“to question”). More at frain.
Senses: examples: text: If the old “freet” be true “ that those who fall when at the handspake aneath the corpse, will soon be the corpse themsell," there would soon be a good few corspes; for at these "druken" concerns, the bearers are falling some of them every now and then.
ref: 1824, John Mactaggart, The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, page 263:
glosses: A superstitious notion or belief with respect to any action or event as a good or a bad omen; a superstition.
examples: text: Oh, sister Ellen, sister sweet, Come with me to the hill I pray, And I will prove that blessed freet!
ref: 1903, Samual Ferguson, The Fairy Well of Lagnanay:
glosses: A superstitious rite, observance, wont, or practice.
glosses: A charm.
Derived terms: freety
Standard Habbie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Standard Habbies
Etymology: After the poet Habbie Simpson (1550-1620).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
glosses: A Scottish verse form with six-line stanzas rhyming AAABAB, with tetrameter A lines and dimeter B lines.
Synonyms: Burns stanza
beshirted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + shirt + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Furnished with or wearing a shirt; shirted
Burns stanza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Burns stanzas
Etymology: After the poet Robert Burns (1759-1796).
Senses: glosses: The type of stanza used in Standard Habbie verse.
zygopterans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zygopteran
beskirt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beskirts
form: beskirting
form: beskirted
form: beskirted
Etymology: From be- + skirt.
Senses: examples: text: Pitrodie's woods beskirt the feet Of heath-clad Ben-na-chie, And through their shade the breezes fleet, And hum from tree to tree.
ref: 1892, J.Y. Mather, Poems:
glosses: To border; lie on the outskirts of.
beskirted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From be- + skirt + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beskirt
beskirted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + skirt + -ed.
Senses: synonyms: skirted
glosses: Wearing a skirt.
zygomorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: bilateral symmetry in flowers
Related terms: zygomorphic
nairas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naira
nailings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nailing
behat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: behats
form: behatting
form: behatted
form: behatted
Etymology: From be- + hat.
Senses: glosses: To place a hat upon (someone's head).
unhatted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + hatted.
Senses: examples: text: Gentlemen must enter the gallery unhatted, and remain so until they depart.
ref: 1902, Charles Eugene Banks, George Cram Cook, Marshall Everett, Beautiful Homes and Social Customs of America, page 240:
glosses: Not wearing a hat; hatless.
examples: text: However, the translation of Razor programs is such that matching hatted and unhatted action particles can only be found on different sides of a parallel composition operator […]
ref: 2001, Eike Best, Raymond Devillers, Maciej Koutny, Petri net algebra, page 339:
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Written without a circumflex ('^').
besocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + sock + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing socks, or a sock.
unsociably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unsociably
form: most unsociably
Etymology: From unsociable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unsociable manner.
bescarved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Wearing a scarf
Synonyms: scarved
scarved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Wearing a scarf.
Synonyms: bescarved
scarfed
scarved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scarve
unscarved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + scarved.
Senses: examples: text: By then it was a matter of commitment for women not to wear the headscarf. Walking down a street unscarved meant dealing with a chorus of boys […]
ref: 1997, Joel Beinin, Joe Stork, Political Islam: essays from Middle East report, page 199:
glosses: Not wearing a scarf; scarfless.
bescarfed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + scarf + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing a scarf.
Synonyms: bescarved
scarved
fretten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fretten
form: most fretten
Etymology: From Middle English freten, from Old English freten, ġefreten (“eaten”), past participle of Old English fretan (“to devour, eat up, consume, break, eat into”). More at fret.
Senses: examples: pock-fretten (“marked with the smallpox”)
glosses: Marked.
fretten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English freten, from Old English freten, ġefreten (“eaten”), past participle of Old English fretan (“to devour, eat up, consume, break, eat into”). More at fret.
Senses: glosses: alternative past participle of fret
beshorted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + short + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing shorts.
beknickered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + knicker + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing knickers.
pantieless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pantyless
Senses: examples: text: The film sparked controversy among feminists who largely objected to the (allegedly surreptitious) filming of a pantieless Stone as she crosses and uncrosses her legs during a police interrogation scene.
ref: 2002, Yoram Allon, Del Cullen, Hannah Patterson, Contemporary North American film directors: a Wallflower critical guide:
glosses: Not wearing panties.
quadcore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quad- + core.
Senses: examples: text: The system runs on the PC with Fedora Linux operating system, 2.5 GHz quadcore processor and 4 GB of memory and is able to process 10 video frames per second in real time […]
ref: 2010, George A. Tsihrintzis, Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services, page 18:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Composed of four cores.
raw_tags: of a microprocessor
quad bikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quad bike
bethonged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + thong + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing a thong (the underwear).
thongless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thong + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a thong or strap.
becollared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + collar + -ed.
Senses: glosses: wearing a collar, or describing a shirt with a collar
glosses: wearing a shirt, and thus of an upper class
teeshirted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From teeshirt + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing a T-shirt.
teeshirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teeshirts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of T-shirt.
suncapped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sun + capped.
Senses: glosses: Having the cap (of a mountain, hill etc.) lit by the sun.
suncapped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From suncap + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing a suncap.
suncap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suncaps
Etymology: From sun + cap.
Senses: glosses: sunhat
suitless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From suit + -less.
Senses: glosses: Not wearing a suit.
Yahuwah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Vocalization of the Hebrew Tetragrammaton (יהוה) peculiar to some Jewish, Christian and Islamic religious movements.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Yahweh.
interdisciplinarities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interdisciplinarity
chinquapin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪnkəpɪn/
Forms: form: chinquapins
form: chinkapin
form: chincapin
Etymology: Like its cognate / alternative form chinkapin, chinquapin is an alteration of chechinquamin / chincomen (the form found in early records), from an Algonquian language (sometimes said specifically to be from Powhatan). The final element is *mini (“berry, fruit”). Hewitt suggested that the first element was a word meaning "large, great" cognate to xinkw- (“big, large, great”).
Senses: glosses: Any of certain species of tree in the chestnut genus Castanea:
Allegheny chinkapin (Castanea pumila)
glosses: Any of certain species of tree in the chestnut genus Castanea:
Ozark chinkapin (Castanea ozarkensis)
glosses: Any of certain species of tree in the chestnut genus Castanea:
Chinese chinkapin (Castanea henryi)
glosses: Any in the genus Castanopsis of trees.
glosses: Any in the genus Chrysolepis of trees and shrubs.
synonyms: chinkapin oak
glosses: Quercus muehlenbergii, a tree whose leaves resemble those of chestnut-genus chinquapins.
glosses: A water chinquapin, an aquatic plant of species Nelumbo lutea, American lotus.
synonyms: shellcracker
Georgia bream
cherry gill
chinkapin
improved bream
rouge ear sunfish
sun perch
glosses: A redear sunfish, a freshwater fish of the southeastern US (Lepomis microlophus).
Derived terms: word: chinquapin oak
taxonomic: Chrysolepis chrysophylla
word: giant chinquapin
taxonomic: Chrysolepis chrysophylla
word: golden chinquapin
taxonomic: Nelumbo lutea
word: water chinquapin
taxonomic: Chrysolepis chrysophylla
word: western chinquapin
teeshirts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teeshirt
cadelle beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cadelle beetles
Senses: glosses: A beetle, known as a common pest in storehouses and granaries throughout the world, Tenebroides mauritanicus.
Related terms: bargeman
high side
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high sides
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: a type of motorcycle crash where the motorcycle tire loses, then rapidly regains traction, thus throwing the rider violently up, over, and off the motorcycle as the motorcycle spins off on its own trajectory.
Related terms: high-side
highsider
low side
racebike
glond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: awlwort
glosses: cowherb
Sardinians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sardinian
hwacha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hwachas
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 화차(火車) (hwacha).
Senses: examples: text: After lighting a common fuse, the hwacha fired as many as a hundred arrows, all of which landed in a precise spot.
ref: 2010, Myung Oak Kim, Sam Jaffe, The New Korea: An Inside Look at South Korea's Economic Rise, page 149:
text: This improvement allowed as many as one hundred sinkijons to be mounted on the hwacha, boosting the overall firepower and mobility of the rocket.
ref: 2004, George M. Siouris, Missile guidance and control systems, Springer, page 1:
glosses: A mid-16th-century Korean weapon that launched a barrage of rockets or arrows at enemies using gunpowder.
Synonyms: fire cart
hwachas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hwacha
goat ropes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goat rope
black garden ant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black garden ants
Senses: synonyms: black ant
coordinate_terms: fire ant
red ant
white ant
glosses: A small (3 mm to 5 mm) species of ant common in Europe, Lasius niger.
-ibly
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Forms: form: -ably
Etymology: Euphonic blend of -ible + -ly, due to difficulty of pronouncing *-iblely. Compare same sound change in unrelated feebly, nimbly, and nobly.
Senses: examples: audible → audibly
glosses: Used to form adverbs corresponding to adjectives that end in -ible.
academic bulimia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The founder, Chad Woodburn, is a good friend of mine, a man of high personal character and scholarship who believes in real learning, not just regurgitation of memorized material. (Which he refers to as academic bulimia.)
ref: 1999 April 2, Trn0, “Re: I am thinking about taking some theology classes”, in christnet.theology (Usenet):
glosses: An approach to test-taking in which information is memorized shortly before the test and then quickly forgotten afterwards.
savings accounts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of savings account
bowtied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bowtie + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing a bowtie.
becuffed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + cuffed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing a shirt with cuffs.
glosses: Wearing handcuffs.
bebuttoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + button + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing clothes, or an item of clothing, with many buttons.
unknickered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + knickered.
Senses: glosses: Not wearing knickers.
bestockinged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + stockinged.
Senses: glosses: Wearing stockings or a stocking; stockinged.
beslippered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + slippered.
Senses: glosses: Wearing slippers; slippered.
beslippered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From beslipper + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beslipper
besandaled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + sandal + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing sandals.
besandalled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + sandalled.
Senses: glosses: Wearing sandals.
skiless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ski + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without skis, or a ski.
bebelted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + belted.
Senses: glosses: Wearing a belt.
tuxed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tux + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing a tuxedo.
Synonyms: betuxed
betuxedoed
tuxedoed
begown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: begowns
form: begowning
form: begowned
form: begowned
Etymology: From be- + gown.
Senses: glosses: to gown, dress in a gown
becaped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + caped.
Senses: glosses: Wearing a cape; caped.
bemittened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + mitten + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing mittens, or a mitten; mittened.
bebleed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bebleeds
form: bebleeding
form: bebled
form: bebled
Etymology: From Middle English bebleden, equivalent to be- + bleed. Cognate with German beblüten.
Senses: examples: text: And soo they souped lyghtely and wente to bedde with grete ioye and plesaunce / and soo in his ragyng he took no kepe of his grene wound that kynge Marke had gyuen hym / And soo syr Tristram bebled both the ouer shete and the nether & pelowes / and hede shete
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter XIV, in Le Morte Darthur, book VIII:
glosses: To cover or stain with blood; make bloody.
Synonyms: bebloody
beblind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beblinds
form: beblinding
form: beblinded
form: beblinded
Etymology: From be- + blind.
Senses: glosses: To blind (cause to be blind); make completely blind.
beblister
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beblisters
form: beblistering
form: beblistered
form: beblistered
Etymology: From be- + blister.
Senses: glosses: To blister (cause to be blistered); blister badly; cover with blisters.
rebana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rebanas
Senses: synonyms: terbangan
glosses: A type of tambourine used in Southeast Asia.
bebloody
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bebloodies
form: bebloodying
form: bebloodied
form: bebloodied
Etymology: From Middle English biblodegien, alteration of *ȝeblodegien (“to make bloody”), from Old English ġeblōdgian, blōdgian (“to be bloodthirsty, make bloody, cover with blood”), equivalent to be- + bloody. Compare bebleed.
Senses: glosses: To make bloody.
cheeke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheekes
Senses: examples: a. 1631, John Donne (1572–1631), "Negative Love"
I never stoop'd so low, as they
Which on an eye, cheeke, lip, can prey
glosses: Obsolete spelling of cheek.
becall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: becalls
form: becalling
form: becalled
form: becalled
Etymology: From Middle English bicallen, bikallen, equivalent to be- + call.
Senses: examples: text: 1741, Conny Keyber (pseudonym; attributed to Henry Fielding), An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews, edited by Sheridan W. Baker, Jr., Berkeley: University of California Press, 1953, Letter 6, p. 27,
I no sooner see him, but I scream out to Mrs. Jervis, she feigns likewise but just to come to herself; we both begin, she to becall, and I to bescratch very liberally.
text: You must not becall me for laughing when you spoke; you mistook when you thought I laughed at you as a foolish man.
ref: 1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, Book 1, Chapter 9:
glosses: To accuse.
glosses: To call upon; call forth; challenge.
glosses: To call; summon.
glosses: To call names; insult.
becarve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)v
Forms: form: becarves
form: becarving
form: becarved
form: becorve
form: becarved
form: becorve
form: becorven
Etymology: From Middle English bekerven, bikeorven, from Old English beċeorfan (“to becarve, cut off, separate, cut or pare away, deprive a person of something by cutting, amputate, behead”), equivalent to be- + carve. Cognate with Old Frisian bikerva (“to amputate”).
Senses: glosses: To cut off.
qualifier: land
glosses: To cut up; cut open; open up.
glosses: To cut; carve or cut up; cut in pieces; carve.
becharm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)m
Forms: form: becharms
form: becharming
form: becharmed
form: becharmed
Etymology: From Middle English becharmen, bicharmen, equivalent to be- (“on, upon”) + charm.
Senses: examples: text: Ahab knew that the whale had sounded; but intending to be near him at the next rising, he held on his way a little sideways from the vessel; the becharmed crew maintaining the profoundest silence, as the head-bent waves hammered and hammered against the opposing bow.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, chapter 135, in Moby-Dick:
glosses: To charm; fascinate; hold by a charm or spell.
Derived terms: becharming
bechignoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + chignon + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing one's hair in a chignon.
beclad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English bycladde; equivalent to be- + clad.
Senses: glosses: Clothed about; clad.
Synonyms: dressed
raimented
clothed
beclawed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From beclaw.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beclaw
beclawed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + clawed.
Senses: glosses: Having claws.
becover
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: becovers
form: becovering
form: becovered
form: becovered
Etymology: From be- + cover.
Senses: glosses: To recover; get back.
glosses: To cover over; put a cover over; cover.
becripple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: becripples
form: becrippling
form: becrippled
form: becrippled
Etymology: From be- + cripple.
Senses: glosses: To make cripple; make lame.
becurl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: becurls
form: becurling
form: becurled
form: becurled
Etymology: From be- + curl.
Senses: examples: text: […] all bedressed, becurled and befeathered […]
ref: 1909, Bengal, Past & Present: Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society, page 472:
glosses: To cover or deck out with curls.
glosses: To curl; make curly.
bedamn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bedamns
form: bedamning
form: bedamned
form: bedamned
Etymology: From be- + damn.
Senses: examples: text: "[...] You choose to do them anyway, and bedamn any opinion to the contrary."
ref: 2006, Johanna Lindsey, Joining:
glosses: To damn or curse roundly or with iteration and emphasis; damn all over.
bedangle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bedangles
form: bedangling
form: bedangled
form: bedangled
Etymology: From be- + dangle.
Senses: glosses: to dangle
glosses: to adorn with dangly ornaments.
bedde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beddes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of bed.
chesnut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chesnuts
Senses: examples: text: This I know by my own experience, having compared the produce of two pieces of land of equal area and quality, one sowed with wheat, and the other planted with chesnut trees.
ref: 1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind, page 195:
text: An owl cried among the silent Spanish chesnuts on the slope outside.
ref: 1908, Perceval Landon, Thurnley Abbey:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of chestnut.
beinge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beinges
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of being.
beinge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of being; present participle of be.
esteeme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: esteemes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of esteem.
esteeme
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: esteemes
form: esteeming
form: esteemed
form: esteemed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of esteem.
thanne
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of than.
thanne
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of than.
befal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: befals
form: befaling
form: befel
form: befalen
Senses: examples: text: Another misfortune which befel poor Sophia was the company of Lord Fellamar, whom she met at the opera, and who attended her to the drum.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
text: […] they parted, with a very earnest assurance on her side of her unceasing good wishes for his happiness in every change of situation that might befal him; […]
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume III, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 84:
text: He promised to communicate with me, when anything befel him; and he slung his bag about him, took his hat and stick, and bade us both “Good bye!”
ref: 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, “The Beginning of a Long Journey”, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 334:
text: I only hoped that whatever was to befal me might soon be over, for the tension of nerve was growing more than I could bear.
ref: 1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman:
glosses: Obsolete form of befall.
founde
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of found; simple past and past participle of find.
varry
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of very.
captaine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: captaines
Senses: examples: text: Their captaine there they cruelly found kild.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 21:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of captain.
aftre
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of after.
walke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: walkes
form: walking
form: walked
form: walked
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of walk.
cleane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cleane
form: most cleane
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of clean.
cleane
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of clean.
goode
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Hee communeth moche wythe mee as to ye difficoltye of fyndinge priestes to do the mynistrie , and forasmoche as I came into theese parttes onlie ye whiles my verye goode friende Father Cornelius colde arrange matters wyth hys superiors beyonde seas, I am nothing lothes to betake me, at hys returne, to do ye beheste of Maister Tregiaun, who willeth that I sholde worke in the spirytualle vineyarde, at the house of one Syr Huberte Tracie, a near kinsmanne of hys, abydinge within smalle distaunce of hys seate in Cornewayle.
ref: 15?? (quoted in 1841), Elizabeth I, Merrye Englaunde: or, the Goldene daies of goode Queene Besse, page 33:
text: And this succour, such as it was , was so longe sewid for, and delayed er it cowde be obteynidde, that all occasions to do eny goode yn that mater wer well nere loste therby.
ref: 1562 (quoted in 1741), Patrick Forbes, A Full View of the Public Transactions in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth:
text: On the contrarie because in his Funeral he confesseth that Josephus alloweth of the merit of goode workes; therefore the first obseruation in his Downefal, in which he most falselie gathereth out of him, that he grauteth, both S. Chrisostom and the rest of the fathers, to affirme goode workes not to be meritorious of eternal, by a strange downefal, brake the necke, and is so interred in his Funderal that no memory thereof is left.
ref: 1607, Philip Woodward, The Dolefull Knell, of Thomas Bell, page 190:
text: It is thought goode that MALLARDS be bought oonelie for my Lords owne Meas So they be goode Ande 2 bought for ij d. a pece.
ref: 1770, Henry Algernon Percy Northumberland (5th Earl of), Thomas Percy, The Regulations and Establishment of the Household of Henry Algernon Percy, page 183:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of good.
ryght
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of right.
burne
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of burn.
pooty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pooties
Etymology: Possibly a shortening of poontang.
Senses: examples: text: Things started to go wrong between the angel and me after Cindy Hacklight showed me her pooty in seventh grade. Cindy had made a sort of cottage industry of showing her pooty to anyone—girl or boy—who would give her five dollars, a large sum back then, before high-school inflation.
ref: 2006 March 26, Chris Adrian, “A Better Angel”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jul 2023:
text: What everybody doesn't know is the hot pulsating goodies Helen Reddy's got to offer up. Cum here woman, do your duty; drop them drawers and gimme some pooty!
ref: 2003, Helen Reddy, “Long Hard Climb”, in John Morthland, editor, Mainlines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader, New York, N.Y.: Anchor Books, →ISBN, page 81:
synonyms: word: axe wound
word: badly packed kebab
word: bearded clam
word: beaver
word: beef curtains
word: burger
word: chocha
word: clam
word: cooch
word: coochie
word: coochy
word: cookie
word: coot
word: cooter
word: crack
word: cunny
word: cunt
word: fanny
word: foo-foo
word: front bottom
word: fur burger
word: fur pie
word: gash
word: gee
word: girl penis
word: hair pie
word: ham sandwich
word: honey hole
word: it
word: kebab
word: kitty
word: ladybits
word: minge
word: minnie
word: moocha
word: mooshoo
word: mott
word: muff
word: muffin
word: na-na
word: nonny
word: nooky
word: noonie
word: old hat
word: pee flap
word: pee-pee
word: pink
word: poontang
word: prat
word: pudendum muliebre
word: punani
word: pussy
word: quaint
word: quiff
word: quim
word: roast beef
word: scut
word: slit
word: slot
word: snatch
word: treasures
word: tuppence
word: twat
word: twinkle
word: vadge
word: vagina
word: vajay
word: va-jay-jay
word: vulva
word: wee-wee
glosses: The female genitalia; the vulva or vagina.
pooty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pootier
form: pootiest
Etymology: Representing a dialectal or colloquial pronunciation of pretty. Compare purty. The adverb is derived from the adjective.
Senses: examples: 1857, The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 1, No.1, Sally Parson's Duty
"Bless your pooty little figger-head, Sally! I don't know as 'tis, but suthin' nigh about as bad is a-comin...
glosses: Pretty.
pooty
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Representing a dialectal or colloquial pronunciation of pretty. Compare purty. The adverb is derived from the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: "Well, you see, it 'uz dis way. Ole missus — dat's Miss Watson — she pecks on me all de time, en treats me pooty rough, but she awluz said she wouldn' sell me down to Orleans.
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VIII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Pretty (somewhat, fairly).
pooty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pooties
Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly from pooty (“pretty”), although that term is attested slightly later.
Senses: examples: text: Do 'e remember that nest then? and the pooty shells I collected for you, and all our playings?
ref: 1980, Gillian Nelson, Charity's Child, London: W. H. Allen, →ISBN, page 45:
synonyms: grove snail
glosses: Cepaea nemoralis, one of the most common species of land snail in Europe, with a dark brown lip to its shell.
goodnesse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goodnesses
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of goodness.
nuffin
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: Heny Hankovitch, con guítar, / did a short Zen pray, / on his tatami in a relaxed lotos / fixin his mind on nuffin, rose-blue breasts, / and gave his parnel one French kiss;
ref: 1964, John Berryman, chapter 31, in 77 Dream Songs, New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, page 35:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of nothing.
Derived terms: dindu nuffin
nuffink
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: “Mon Dieu, is that me?” breathed Inès. / “You bet it is, dearie,” chuckled Stella. “And I’ll tell you somefink for nuffink. When the Hon. Viscount Benjie sees you tonight, dearie, ’is little wee willie winkie is going to get as ’ard as a bit of Brighton rock. He’ll be N-S-I-T tonight, I betcha.” / “What does that mean?” / “Not Safe In Texas, dearie,” sniggered Stella.
ref: 1990, Joan Collins, Love & Desire & Hate, New York, N.Y.: Linden Press/Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 75:
text: “You’re wastin’ your time with dat nonsense. You and dat little beast will amount to nuffink. Ya ’ear me? Nuffink!”
ref: 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of nothing.
beddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛdi
Forms: form: beddies
Etymology: From bed + -y.
Senses: examples: text: On to the back page, and Walter is walking the fields after school, clutching his teddy: 'I've made up another poem. Perhaps I'll be poet laureate one day!': Oh, sweet and cuddly darling Teddy, You keep me cosy in my beddy.
ref: 1989, Martin Barker, Comics: ideology, power, and the critics, page 87:
glosses: bed
Related terms: beddy-bye
beddy-byes
check-call
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: check-calls
form: check-calling
form: check-called
form: check-called
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: To check and then call a bet by another player in the same betting round.
check-call
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: check-calls
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A call made by a player who checked previously in the same betting round.
check-calls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of check-call
check-calls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of check-call
check-calling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of check-call
check-called
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of check-call
bedeafen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bĭdĕʹfn
ipa: /bɪˈdɛfn̩/
Forms: form: bedeafens
form: bedeafening
form: bedeafened
form: bedeafened
Etymology: From be- + deafen.
Senses: glosses: To deafen.
noncompetes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noncompete
bedful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedfuls
form: bedsful
Etymology: From bed + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: He and Bob in one low bed and Tom and Joe in the other—one bedful used to be jealous of the other bedful if it had more snow on its blue-and-white coverlet in the morning.
ref: 1926, The Outlook - Volume 144, page 335:
text: In a bedful of petunias, a hollow groan.
ref: 1950, Time - Volume 56, page 82:
text: "It looked like a bedful of the plant, I acknowledge." "A bedful: yes, sir, six bedfuls! "
ref: 1967, John William De Forest, James Bascom Durham, The Complete Short Stories of John William De Forest:
text: Were you to have possessed the merest smattering of knowledge about this primary and basic economic tenet you would not have thrown over two bedsful of perfectly good French marigolds and gone over to intensive radish farming!
ref: 1994, Michael Palin, The Weekend, page 4:
text: Jack would wake me up in the middle of the night and tell me to go in there and look at the baby asleep in a bedful of dogs.
ref: 1997, Kaye Gibbons, A Virtuous Woman: A Novel:
glosses: The amount that can fit in a bed.
examples: text: Nothing but an opium dream could transform the bare walls and the dirty cotton curtains into an Oriental palace with silken drapes and bedfuls of lovely daughters of the East.
ref: 1948, Collier's: Incorporating Features of the American Magazine, page 133:
text: I recently heard in reference to a newly married couple: “Them two'll make pert near a bedful.”
ref: 2009, Ted Olson, Anthony P. Cavender, A Tennessee Folklore Sampler:
text: On the plus side, being back in Stepney meant well-rounded platefuls of his wife's cooking and a well-rounded bedful of his well-rounded wife.
ref: 2012, John Lawton, Second Violin:
glosses: A sexual encounter.
bedip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bedips
form: bedipping
form: bedipped
form: bedipped
Etymology: From Middle English bidippen, from Old English bedyppan, equivalent to be- + dip.
Senses: glosses: to dip, submerge
bedirty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bedirties
form: bedirtying
form: bedirtied
form: bedirtied
Etymology: From be- + dirty.
Senses: glosses: to dirty, soil; make dirty.
beedom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bee + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The state or essence of being a bee.
Synonyms: beehood
beehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bee + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state or essence of being a bee.
Synonyms: beedom
waspdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wasp + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The state or essence of being a wasp.
Synonyms: wasphood
wasphood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wasp + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state or essence of being a wasp.
Synonyms: waspdom
antdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ant + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: [...] you could say he's left antdom by being so expanded and perhaps that's true although perhaps just as accurately he's actually achieved true antdom for the first time in his life [...]
ref: 2009, Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, Shaking the Quicksilver Pool:
glosses: The realm or world of ants; ants collectively.
examples: text: [...] you could say he's left antdom by being so expanded and perhaps that's true although perhaps just as accurately he's actually achieved true antdom for the first time in his life [...]
ref: 2009, Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, Shaking the Quicksilver Pool:
glosses: The state or essence of an ant.
Synonyms: anthood
anthood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ant + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state or essence of being an ant.
Synonyms: antdom
grasshopperdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From grasshopper + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The state or essence of being a grasshopper.
Synonyms: grasshopperhood
dogdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dog + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: What the first dogs had, like the last wolves, was what I call dogginess. Dogginess is the essence of dogdom writ large. Clearly the first dogs had dogginess, or we would not recognize them as related to modern dogs, but they certainly were not dogs as we know them now.
ref: 2021, Pat Shipman, Our Oldest Companions: The Story of the First Dogs, page 29:
glosses: The state or essence of being a dog.
Synonyms: doghood
catdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cat + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The state or essence of being a cat.
Synonyms: cathood
rabbitdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rabbit + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The state or essence of being a rabbit.
Synonyms: rabbithood
lifestream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lifestreams
Etymology: From life + stream.
Senses: examples: text: These planetary chakras, also called retreats, are places where the rays of cosmic energies are focused on Earth to sustain the evolving lifestreams.
ref: 1977 January, Yoga Journal, number 12, page 11:
text: Only the spiritual path with all its experiences and lessons leads to balancing it. His current incarnation is a part of his lifestream, and he has to pass the individual way of his lifestream's development through many incarnations.
ref: 2004, Roza Riaikkenen, Margarita Riaikkenen, The Laws of Life, page 239:
text: The student must be aware of his lifestream and field of vital energy.
ref: 2007, Michael Bertiaux, The Voudon Gnostic Workbook: Expanded Edition, page 198:
glosses: According to certain New Age beliefs, a stream of life force associated with an individual being.
examples: text: These tools include blogs, message boards, podcasts, micro blogs, lifestreams, bookmarks, networks, communities, wikis, and vlogs.
ref: 2010, John P. Girard, JoAnn L. Girard, Social Knowledge, page 35:
glosses: A time-ordered stream of documents that functions as a diary of one's electronic life.
Related terms: lifestreaming
lifestreams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lifestream
rabbithood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rabbit + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state or essence of being a rabbit.
Synonyms: rabbitdom
mousedom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mouse + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The state or essence of being a mouse.
Synonyms: mousehood
mousehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mouse + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state or essence of being a mouse.
Synonyms: mousedom
elephantdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From elephant + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The state or essence of being an elephant.
Synonyms: elephanthood
elephanthood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From elephant + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state or essence of being an elephant.
Synonyms: elephantdom
provos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of provo
treedom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tree + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The state or essence of being a tree.
Synonyms: treehood
treehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tree + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state or essence of being a tree.
Synonyms: treedom
snakedom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From snake + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: African vipers are hazardous to pin and hold by the head, as experienced herpetologists will attest, because they have the longest fangs in snakedom.
ref: 2006, Delfi Messinger, Grains of Golden Sand: Adventures in War-Torn Africa, page 31:
glosses: The state or essence of being a snake.
Synonyms: snakehood
Related terms: reptiledom
snakehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From snake + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state or essence of being a snake.
Synonyms: snakedom
monkeydom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From monkey + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: She was not an exception to that general rule which governs monkeydom, which is to suspect every one of doing wrong except itself.
ref: 2010, R. L. Garner, The Speech of Monkeys, page 37:
glosses: The state or essence of being a monkey.
Synonyms: monkeyhood
monkeyhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From monkey + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state or essence of being a monkey.
Synonyms: monkeydom
wankerdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wanker + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The state or essence of being a wanker (idiotic person).
jerkdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From jerk + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The state or essence of being a jerk.
Synonyms: jerkhood