cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
treachersome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more treachersome
form: most treachersome
Etymology: From treacher + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Tom was now holding forth hotly upon the "onparalleled [sic] rascality and treachersome villainousness" of the Opposition in the Ontario Legislature. Elizabeth, her eyes alight, ran swiftly past the gate towards her father.
ref: 1910, Mary Esther Miller MacGregor, Lizbeth of the Dale:
text: I do wish you'd come away, Princey ! ” said the little girl anxiously. “I b'lieve he's one of those treachersome dogs that you never know what they mean ― There!
ref: 1919, Ruth Belmore Endicott, Carolyn of the Sunny Heart:
text: Ko-kosh was treachersome but I could outwit his kind. I kept a close watch. He stole back my knife but I got it again. I wanted a gun. I couldn't come south without I had a gun and I couldn't hunt my food. We went north on the Lake of the Hurons.
ref: 1992, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, M. E. Bradford, The Great Meadow:
text: Kid Curry dismounted. “Stay put whilst I shed some light on the subject. The clay footing around here is sort of treachersome when it's this wet. [...]”
ref: 2012, Lou Cameron, Stringer and the Wild Bunch:
glosses: Characterised or marked by treachery; treacherous
dangersome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: note: rhotic
enpr: dān'jərsəm
ipa: /ˈdeɪndʒəɹsəm/
note: rhotic
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈdeɪndʒəsəm/
rhymes: -eɪndʒə(ɹ)səm
Forms: form: more dangersome
form: most dangersome
Etymology: From danger + -some.
Senses: examples: text: All that was familiar and trustworthy was back there, where the sun was sinking. To the east lay the unimaginable, the dangerous, and the wearisome; and a feeling of timidity came over his bold heart: this water world was dangersome.
ref: 2008, Hamlin Garland, Her Mountain Lover:
text: “I'm just sayin' she's more dangersome than you think.” Han's head came up in surprise.
ref: 2011, Cinda Williams Chima, The Gray Wolf Throne:
text: I'll trust you, sir; but my work is dangersome, and please God I should get killed, will you do the same for Martha and little Nan?
ref: 2012, Hesba Stretton, Fern's Hollow:
text: Going after him now, with the train slowed down and everyone standing up to get off, would be a dangersome waste of time.
ref: 2012, Lou Cameron, Stringer and the Hanging Judge:
text: “Fuck. Was. That?” “P-Prolly j-jus' a wolf” stuttered Zeth, before remembering the animal may be demonic, before further remembering even without possession wolves were dangersome.
ref: 2012, Khalid Patel, Hollow Shotguns:
text: “Just plain vile. I felt I should have been fighting, not doing road work. I ain't no logger. And dangersome, too, that work was. I seen one man from the 16th nigh chop his foot off when he mis-swung his axe. Couple others got killed when them big pines fell on them.
ref: 2015, Johnny Boggs, South by Southwest: A Western Story:
text: “Roots. Bark. Horror. This sounds dangersome,” said Desdemona Cork as she helped herself to a pork rib. “I like it not and will have no part of it.”
ref: 2016, Karen Cushman, Grayling's Song:
glosses: Characterised or marked by danger; dangerous.
perilsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more perilsome
form: most perilsome
Etymology: From peril + -some.
Senses: examples: text: In which regard it was considered of by the common table of the cupbearers what a perilsome thing it was to let any stranger or out-dweller approach so near the precincts of the prince as the great chamber without examining what he was and giving him his pass.
ref: 1998, Paul Salzman, An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction:
text: It did not need the Scourers or the Mohocks to make going abroad a perilsome affair.
ref: 2014, Pat Rogers, Grub Street (Routledge Revivals): Studies in a Subculture:
glosses: Characterised or marked by peril; perilous
vilesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vilesome
form: most vilesome
Etymology: From vile + -some.
Senses: examples: text: [...] took in the vilesome space of a day.
ref: 2002, Bruce Olds, Bucking the Tiger:
text: Yes please, I'd like some milk, some eggs, and ...oh, I don't know, how about the most dangerous and vilesome monster on the face of the earth!
ref: 2009, Sam Bowring, The Zoo of Magical and Mythological Creatures:
text: Suddenly a vilesome white tome appears floating in the air in front of Lazarus' face.
ref: 2012, Lonesome Wyatt, The Terrible Tale of Edgar Switchblade:
glosses: Characterised or marked by vileness
martyrsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more martyrsome
form: most martyrsome
Etymology: From martyr + -some.
Senses: examples: text: These saints, by the way, do not always preserve after death the mild and martyrsome dispositions that characterized them during life.
ref: 1903, George Horton, In Argolis:
text: It was surely a martyrsome situation.
ref: 1903, Arthur Wellington Brayley, Arthur Wilson Tarbell, Joe Mitchell Chapple, National Magazine - Volume 19 - Page 648:
text: Often through colors of trust & this very old spring in its martyrsome silence [...]
ref: 2014, M. Flores Jr., Collected Poems:
glosses: Pertaining to, or characteristic of a martyr
faintsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more faintsome
form: most faintsome
Etymology: From faint + -some.
Senses: examples: text: And that is faintsome work.
ref: 2001, Thomas Boston, Complete Works of Thomas Boston, Volume 06:
glosses: Characterised by fainting or faintness
harriedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From harried + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being harried
harrisome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more harrisome
form: most harrisome
Etymology: From harry + -some.
Senses: examples: text: He never had to fight in a foreign war, but what he had to deal with in the turf fights with Spanish people and with Blacks proved every bit as harrisome as Iwo Jima and Guadalcanal.
ref: 2014, Howard Gordon, Cry Heaven, Cry Hell:
text: It was, H. L. Mencken opined, “the stupidest and most harrisome ever heard of ... a convention of country postmasters, federal marshals and receivers in bankruptcy. [...]”
ref: 2015, Axel Madsen, Gloria and Joe:
glosses: Characterised or marked by harrying or harriedness
antimyotonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + myotonic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: That counters myotonia
bioelement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioelements
Etymology: From bio- + element.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any chemical element that is found naturally in living organisms
bioelements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioelement
rudesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rudesome
form: most rudesome
Etymology: From rude + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Here! throw your lip over that, an' you'll apologize for being so rudesome.
ref: 1902, Forbes Heermans, Jess of the Bar Z Ranch:
text: Let rudesome outsiders deride and denounce me, / What care I when I with my friends can commune, [...]
ref: 1907, The Publishers Weekly, volume 72, page 1941:
glosses: Characterised or marked by rudeness
cachetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of cachectic.
politesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more politesome
form: most politesome
Etymology: From polite + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Ralph Broadcast, don't you be always worrying and taunting about the child's learning ; it costs you nothing. Mr. Templeton, heaven bless him ! pays for it ; aud I'm sure George grows quite politesome and mannerly.
ref: 1827, George Daniel, Cumberland's British Theatre:
glosses: Characterised or marked by politeness.
politesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more politesome
form: most politesome
Etymology: From polite + -some.
Senses: examples: text: See you got fresh comp'ny, she said politesome, but there was a furyin' dingo bitch in her eyes. […] They bartered fair an' never spoke knuckly like savages at Honokaa, but politesome speakin' it draws a line b'tween you what says, I respect you well 'nuff but you an' I ain't kin, so don't you step over this line, yay?"
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, page 259:
glosses: In a politesome manner; politely.
calpainopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calpainopathies
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A form of muscular dystrophy of the muscles of the shoulder and pelvic girdle
dysimmune
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dys- + immune.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Characterised by dysfunction of the immune system
Related terms: dysimmunity
travelsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more travelsome
form: most travelsome
Etymology: From travel + -some.
Senses: examples: text: The book was published in 1901 in London, and is now (such are the vagaries of our travelsome scholarship) kept under lock and key in the Deering Library of Northwestern University.
ref: 1988, Erich Heller, The Importance of Nietzsche:
text: The Caribou is a travelsome beast, always in a hurry, going against the wind.
ref: 2010, Ernest Thompson Seton, The Arctic Prairies:
glosses: Characterised or marked by travelling
dystrophinopathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Related to dystrophinopathy
silver bromide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the silver salt of hydrobromic acid, AgBr, sometimes used in photographic papers
photographic paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photographic papers
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: paper or card coated with a light-sensitive emulsion, typically containing silver salts
glosses: Any paper able to absorb large amounts of ink, intended to be fed through a printer.
Synonyms: photo paper
photographic papers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photographic paper
ergoreflex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ergoreflexes
Etymology: From ergo- + reflex.
Senses: examples: text: As exercise proceeds, the working muscle signals to the brain, and generates a ventilatory response. In patients with heart failure, this 'ergoreflex' is much greater than normal.
ref: 2005, Margaret Turner-Warwick, Living Medicine: Recollections and Reflections:
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The response, characterised by increase in ventilation, to increased exercise.
ergoreflexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ergoreflex
short sleeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short sleepers
form: short-sleeper
Senses: examples: text: The demonstration that the short sleeper phenotype can be reverted in these lines by transposon jumping indicates that a single gene is likely to be involved.
ref: 2004, Pierre-Hervé Luppi, Sleep: Circuits and Functions, →ISBN, page 158:
text: As previously mentioned, short sleep has been linked to reduced life expectancy. This relationship probably has its source mainly in short total sleep time patterns resulting from medical and/or other sleep pathologies and not in short sleep itself, as represented by the short sleeper.
ref: 2005, Stephen H. Sheldon, Richard Ferber, Meir H. Kryger, Principles and Practice of Pediatric Sleep Medicine, →ISBN, page 147:
text: Both are fairly normal in the sense that the short sleeper is not a 'shortened' sleeper who used to sleep for longer and then decided to restrict him- or herself, nor does the longer sleeper have a sleep disorder.
ref: 2006, Jim Horne, Sleepfaring: A Journey Through the Science of Sleep, →ISBN, page 174:
glosses: A person who consistently requires substantially less sleep every day than the customary amount for most people of the same age and developmental level.
fibrohistiocytoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fibrohistiocytomas
Etymology: From fibro- + histiocytoma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A fibrous form of histiocytoma
short sleepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of short sleeper
fibrohistiocytomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fibrohistiocytoma
glycogenin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycogenins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme that initiates the conversion of glucose to glycogen
short-sleeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short-sleepers
Senses: examples: text: We compared the coping strategies of 39 short-sleepers and 33 longer-sleepers to the stresses associated with the October 17, 1989 San Francisco Bay Area earthquake using their responses to the eight scales of the Ways of Coping Questionnaire.
ref: 1991 April, Robert A Hicks, Catherine M Marical, Patricia A Conti, “Coping with a major stressor: differences between habitual short- and longer-sleepers”, in Perceptual and motor skills, volume 72, number 2:
text: An insomniac should be differentiated from a short-sleeper, who needs less than 6 hours of sleep per night and has no symptoms or dysfunction.
ref: 2006, Ahuja Niraj, A Short Textbook of Psychiatry, →ISBN, page 150:
text: Habitual short-sleepers did not experience changes in taste perception, activity, or dietary intake following sleep alteration.
ref: 2016 September, Shannon L Smith, Mary-Jon Ludy, Robin M Tucker, “Changes in taste preference and steps taken after sleep curtailment”, in Physiology & Behavior, volume 163:
glosses: Alternative form of short sleeper.
glycogenins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glycogenin
short-sleepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of short-sleeper
glycogenoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glycogenosis
hepatocardiomuscular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʌskjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From hepato- + cardiomuscular.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
hypernyms: hepatocardiac
cardiohepatic
glosses: Relating to, or affecting the liver and the muscles of the heart.
cardiomuscular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʌskjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From cardio- + muscular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
physiology
sciences
synonyms: myocardial
coordinate_terms: cardiovascular
glosses: Relating to, or affecting the muscles of the heart.
Derived terms: hepatocardiomuscular
hexarelin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of examorelin.
synonyms: word: examorelin
examorelin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hexa- + -morelin (“growth hormone release–stimulating peptide”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A particular synthetic hexapeptide.
Synonyms: hexarelin
homovanillic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homo- (“extra methylene group”) + vanillic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to homovanillic acid or its derivatives
intrasarcoplasmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + sarcoplasmic.
Senses: glosses: Within the sarcoplasm
Elymi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A native tribe of Sicily that resided in western Sicily.
Derived terms: Elymian
interdialectally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From inter- + dialectally.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Between dialects.
intradialectally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intra- + dialectally.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Within a single dialect.
interdevours
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of interdevour
interdevouring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of interdevour
interdevoured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of interdevour
agitatour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agitatours
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of agitator.
awefull
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more awefull
form: most awefull
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of awful.
agitatours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agitatour
haku lei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haku leis
Senses: glosses: A lei (Hawaiian flower garland) worn on the head.
haku leis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haku lei
multiprofessional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + professional.
Senses: glosses: Relating to multiple professions.
Derived terms: multiprofessionally
multiprofessional
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiprofessionals
Etymology: From multi- + professional.
Senses: examples: text: The biprofessionals, for example, those who combine law and accounting, are often quite useful to their organizations and have great occupational mobility. Just as many of you are now biprofessionals, some will become multiprofessionals.
ref: 1978, Lewis R. Benton, Management for the future, page viii:
glosses: A person working in multiple professions.
mycogenomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From myco- + genomics.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The genomics of fungi
myoimaging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From myo- + imaging.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The imaging of myopathies
myopathologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myo- + pathologic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Relating to myopathies
myosclerosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myoscleroses
Etymology: From myo- + sclerosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: sclerosis of muscle tissue, especially myositis coupled with hyperplasia of the interstitial connective tissue
neuropaediatrician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuropaediatricians
Etymology: From neuro- + paediatrician.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neuropediatrician.
neuropediatrician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuropediatricians
Etymology: From neuro- + pediatrician.
Senses: hypernyms: neurologist
pediatrician
;
physician
doctor
glosses: A pediatrician whose speciality is neuropediatrics.
neuropediatricians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuropediatrician
neuropaediatricians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuropaediatrician
nonambulant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + ambulant.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nonambulatory.
synonyms: word: nonambulatory
nondystrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + dystrophic.
Senses: glosses: Not dystrophic
berliner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: berliners
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Berliner (“filled pastry”).
Van Diemonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Van Diemonians
Etymology: From Van Diemen + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Vandemonian.
Van Diemonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Van Diemen + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Vandemonian.
paramyotonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paramyotonias
Etymology: From para- (“paradoxical”) + myotonia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A form of myotonia that worsens with exercise
paraspinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of paraspinal.
synonyms: word: paraspinal
plicometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From plico- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: The estimation of body mass by measurement of subcutaneous adipose tissue
Related terms: plicometer
plicometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plicometers
Etymology: From plico- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An instrument used in plicometry
polymicrogyric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to polymicrogyria
pseudomyotonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + myotonic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to pseudomyotonia
pseudomyotonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudomyotonias
Etymology: From pseudo- + myotonia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An abnormally slow contraction and relaxation of muscles in response to mechanical or electrical stimulation but, unlike myotonia, it is silent on electromyography.
Derived terms: pseudomyotonic
reumatological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of rheumatological.
sarcoglycanopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarcoglycanopathies
Etymology: From sarcoglycan + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any of a group of diseases characterised by genetic mutation of sarcoglycans
sarcoglycanopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarcoglycanopathy
selenopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selenopathies
Etymology: From seleno- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A form of muscular dystrophy related to a selenoprotein
selenopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of selenopathy
titinopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: titinopathies
Etymology: From titin + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A form of muscular dystrophy associated with defects in the TTN gene
titinopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of titinopathy
quatsch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From German Quatsch. Attested in English from the beginning of the 20th century.
Senses: examples: text: “Quatsch,” said Onkel Heinrich.
“My dear,” protested Tante Else, forced at last to notice these comments.
“I say it is quatsch,” said Onkel Heinrich with a volcanic vehemence startling in one so trim.
ref: 1907, Elizabeth Von Arnim, Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons:
text: QUATSCH: “Israel is facing a threat to its existence more serious than the five defensive wars it has fought against Arab aggressors.”―Syndicated columnist Cal Thomas, Washington Times, March 19, 1997. […] WATCH: Of five major wars between Israel and its neighbors since 1948, three clearly were initiated by Israel.
ref: 1998 January-February, Richard H. Curtiss, “Quatsch Watch: Mythinformation Observed”, in Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, page 53:
glosses: Nonsense, rubbish, foolish speech or writing.
raw_tags: in German-language contexts
frame problem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frame problems
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The problem of finding an adequate collection of axioms making up a viable description of the world for a robot or artificial intelligence.
frame problems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frame problem
freedom kissing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of freedom kiss
freedom kissed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of freedom kiss
NORM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Radon in homes is one occurrence of NORM which may give rise to concern and action to control it, by ventilation.
ref: 2016, World Nuclear Association, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Initialism of naturally occurring radioactive materials.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of nonmobile older rural male.
discerptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discerptor
curiously recurring template pattern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ætə(ɹ)n
Forms: form: curiously recurring template patterns
Etymology: Title of a 1995 article which describes this idiom.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: An idiom in which a class X derives from a class template instantiation using X itself as template argument.
Synonyms: CRTP
curiously recurring template patterns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curiously recurring template pattern
energon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛnəɹd͡ʒɒn/
Forms: form: energons
Etymology: From energy + -on.
Senses: examples: text: At the natural next step the man is not there either, but has been replaced by his constituent electrons and, I suppose, some vitons, energons, and one personalitron.
ref: 1938, Quarterly Review: A Journal of University Perspectives:
text: But if almost all energy of a material photon is contained within the copulons between its energons rather than in the energons themselves, this means that it loses its structure: the energons are barely still anything more than hollow sacks […]
ref: 2007, Niels Vandamme, Tempest - the Transition, page 153:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A proposed form of energetic particle.
energons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of energon
tosspieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tosspiece
snap elections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snap election
desynchronotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Exhibiting or relating to desynchronosis, or jet lag.
sotto voci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sotto voce
Endless September
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Thanks, Eugene, I was beginning to hallucinate that the Endless September was finally winding down, I appreciate you setting me straight. And for extending such a nice welcome to a Pro new to the Net, we really appreciate it.
ref: 1994 March 23, Mo Shu Glenn, “Thanks from Hero”, in rec.arts.comics.misc (Usenet):
glosses: Synonym of Eternal September.
synonyms: word: Eternal September
hobbycraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hobbycrafts
Etymology: From hobby + craft.
Senses: glosses: handicraft produced as a hobby
hobbycrafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hobbycraft
Trevethin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Pontypool in Torfaen, Wales.
me-tooer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: me-tooers
Etymology: From me too + -er.
Senses: glosses: A follower or imitator; one who does or says the same as somebody else.
Related terms: me-tooism
me-tooers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of me-tooer
freaksome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more freaksome
form: most freaksome
Etymology: From freak + -some.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, to be completely honest, I'm kind of worried about him. Anyway, what's coming up here is basically totally freaksome, and I was thinking just to skip it and save you the hassle, but since we're here you may as well deal with it. I have to.
ref: 2008, Will Davis, My Side of the Story:
text: “[...] Gods damn you freaksome bastard, someone asked me to check!”
ref: 2012, Thea Harrison, Oracle's Moon:
text: That is positively freaksome, gotta say.
ref: 2013, Greg Fox, Coming Clean:
glosses: Characteristic or typical of a freak
white girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: white lady
word: benzoylmethylecgonine
word: blow
word: Bolivian marching powder
word: booger sugar
word: boots
word: California corn flakes
word: charlie
word: ching
word: coke
word: corinne
word: crystals
word: flake
word: girl
word: hard white
word: marching powder
word: nose candy
word: nose powder
word: party powder
word: powder
word: rock
word: rocks
word: slim
word: sniff
word: snow
word: snuff
word: toot
word: wash
word: white
word: white girl
word: white lady
word: yay
word: yayo
word: yola
glosses: cocaine
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see white, girl.
Related terms: missing white girl syndrome
missing white girl syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of missing white woman syndrome.
synonyms: word: missing white woman syndrome
bustlesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bustlesome
form: most bustlesome
Etymology: From bustle + -some.
Senses: examples: text: After a brief but bustlesome trial of my powers as a backgammoner, I took a back row, and she told people round about what she thought of me.
ref: 1880, Judy, Or the London Serio-comic Journal:
glosses: Characterised or marked by bustling; full of activity
rumplesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rumplesome
form: most rumplesome
Etymology: From rumple + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Dash, how rumplesome and fond of kissing you are.
ref: 1844, Oxberry's Budget of Plays
text: His night's rest was rumplesome, [...]
ref: 1899, George Ford, Postle Farm:
glosses: Characterised or marked by rumpling; tousled; disturbed
mahu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mahus
form: mahu
Etymology: From Hawaiian māhū.
Senses: glosses: A person of the third gender, having traditional spiritual and social roles in the cultures of Hawaii and Tahiti.
glosses: A gay person; homosexual.
ski patroller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ski patrollers
Etymology: From ski patrol + -er.
Senses: examples: text: As a ski patroller, your duties may include watching out for avalanches, maintaining trails, and keeping track of weather data. Unfortunately, the biggest part of a ski patrollers' job is to take care of injuries that occur on the slopes.
ref: 2006, Alecia T. Devantier, Carol A. Turkington, Extraordinary Jobs for Adventurers, →ISBN, page 108:
text: On one particular run we decided to head back to the original area we found, Geoff set off and at that point Jarv noticed a ski patroller about to get off the chairlift and warned Burf and me to wait.
ref: 2011, Robert Oliver, In the white room - chasing Hokkaido powder, →ISBN, page 78:
text: The camera angle changed as the videographer slid closer across the slope until the ski patroller trying to calm Ali was filling the frame.
ref: 2013, Blue Griffiths, Radiance: In the Business of Miracles, →ISBN:
glosses: A person who works as a member of a ski patrol.
ski patrollers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ski patroller
ski patrol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ski patrols
Senses: examples: text: There are six ski patrol stations at Heavenly Ski Resort.
ref: 1996, Lake Tahoe Basin, Heavenly Ski Resort Master Plan, Environmental Impact Report:
text: I tapped the man on the shoulder and said, "Excuse me, but I understand you're the one to see about working on the ski patrol."
ref: 2001 December, Ben Bolt, “White-Cross Karma”, in Ski, volume 66, number 4, page 50:
text: He organized the first ski patrol at Beech Mountain when Tom Brigham lured him from Hound Ears. Beginning with 12 patrollers recruited from Appalachian Ski Mountain and Houn Ears, the ski patrol grew to over 100 members.
ref: 2009, Beech Mountain Historical Society, Beech Mountain, →ISBN, page 50:
glosses: An organization that provides first aid, rescue, and (in some cases) maintenance services for snow sports areas.
ski patrols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ski patrol
adultish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæd.ʌltɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈæd.əltɪʃ/
ipa: /əˈdʌltɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈæd.əltɪʃ/
Forms: form: more adultish
form: most adultish
Etymology: From adult + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Her first adultish memory is of a piercing desire, a hunger for her mother, father, and brother that is tinged with fear.
ref: 2003, John Faunce, Lucrezia Borgia, →ISBN:
glosses: Of or suitable for an adult.
Synonyms: sense: of or suitable for an adult
word: mature
word: mature
Related terms: adultlike
purba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purbas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phurba.
wobblesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wobblesome
form: most wobblesome
Etymology: From wobble + -some.
Senses: examples: text: We might think this balances the rotation-causing effect of the solar wind, even if done in an alternating and wobblesome way.
ref: 2015, Ian Niall Rankin, A New Look at the Solar System:
glosses: Characterised or marked by wobbling
Snowdenista
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Snowdenistas
Etymology: From Edward Snowden + -ista.
Senses: examples: text: (see title)
ref: 2014 January 29, Edward Lucas, “Taking on the Snowdenistas”, in The Wall Street Journal:
text: She explains that the bars and restaurants she hangs out in are frequented by other members of Berlin’s burgeoning community of privacy and civil liberties activists—“Snowdenistas,” they’ve been called—including American filmmaker Laura Poitras, whose documentary about Snowden, Citizenfour, is a strong contender for an Academy Award.
ref: 2015 February 19, Sara Corbett, “How a Snowdenista Kept the NSA Leaker Hidden in a Moscow Airport”, in Vogue:
text: He said they talk in an online chat room. A bunch of kindred spirits apparently. Snowdenistas one and all.
ref: 2016, Stella Rimington, Breaking Cover, →ISBN:
glosses: A supporter of Edward Snowden.
Snowdenistas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Snowdenista
doublesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more doublesome
form: most doublesome
Etymology: From double + -some.
Senses: examples: text: To cranking the engine, as though it had wrought / This doublesome, / Troublesome, / Automobubblesome [...]
ref: 1913, John Bonner, George William Curtis, Henry Mills Alden, Harper's Weekly - Volume 58:
text: He's always in trouble, This doublesome bubble, For eating his pie with a spoon.
ref: 1969, Gifford W. Wingate, Lion Who Wouldn't:
text: Difference and ambiguity permeate the film and the motif of the ‘doublesome’ pods is replicated on a number of levels : production, consumption, generic structures and screenplay.
ref: 2006, Stephen Butler, A million little differences:
glosses: Characterised or marked by being double; dual
fiddlesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fiddlesome
form: most fiddlesome
Etymology: From fiddle + -some.
Senses: glosses: Characterised or marked by fiddling
fidgetsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fidgetsome
form: most fidgetsome
Etymology: From fidget + -some.
Senses: examples: text: He could only hope that taffy blonde with the vanilla ice-cream hide and chocolate eyes was as bored and fidgetsome back in that private compartment.
ref: 2001, Tabor Evans, Longarm 270: Longarm and the Lady Bandit:
text: A mob of humans and cactacae; khepri, their scarab heads fidgetsome; vodyanoi in the canals that linked to the city, crewing openbottomed barges; rarer races.
ref: 2004, China Miéville, Iron Council:
glosses: Characterised or marked by fidgetting
rabblesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rabblesome
form: most rabblesome
Etymology: From rabble + -some.
Senses: examples: text: The little shack on the harbour was a very different place this Saturday luncheon time, thronged with people: a long queue of men and women snaking out of the door and coiling around the side, and on the bollards and lobster pots and the harbour wall itself there were gangs of little boys and girls, rabblesome families and courting couples all intent on the fragrant contents of the newspaper nests they held open in their laps.
ref: 2013, Catriona McPherson, Dandy Gilver and a Bothersome Number of Corpses:
glosses: Characteristic or typical of (a) rabble
on the other side of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: The discussion will be continued on the other side of the commercial break.
glosses: After.
examples: text: She was on the other side of 70 and had had a hard life.
glosses: Older than (a specified age).
examples: text: The village is on the other side of the river.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, the, other, side, of.
gurglesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gurglesome
form: most gurglesome
Etymology: From gurgle + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Miss Georgia Cayvan was far less gurglesome than usual, and her work as Louis: was artistic throughout.
ref: 1891, Epoch, volume 9, page 90:
text: She was in one of her naughty, gurglesome moods, and bounced on her chair and waved her hands about in her funniest way.
ref: 2000, Rebecca West, Bonnie Kime Scott, Selected Letters of Rebecca West:
text: As I lay in my single bed that night, unable to sleep as the feast and my intestines fought a particularly gurglesome war, the end of the journey seemed a long, long way away.
ref: 2009, Mark Radcliffe, Thank You for the Days:
glosses: Characterised or marked by gurgling
ajaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ajaws
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ahau.
quaq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Freezing also produces quaq, the Arctic's favorite protein dish made by freezing raw protein and eating it when partially defrosted.
ref: 2007, Richard Hosking, Eggs in Cookery: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium of Food and Cookery 2006:
text: We ate that quaq — frozen fish — all winter, raw and dipped in seal oil.
ref: 2008, Seth Kantner, Shopping for Porcupine: A Life in Arctic Alaska:
text: Some people in Arctic regions eat frozen meat called quaq. Common varieties of quaq include caribou, seal, fish, and musk ox.
ref: 2015, Alicia Z. Klepeis, The World's Strangest Foods:
glosses: Frozen meat or eggs, eaten partially thawed.
ajaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ajaw
ahaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ahau
bowged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bowge
bowging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bowge
bowges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bowge
Westchesterite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Westchesterites
Etymology: From Westchester + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: If you happened to be a Westchesterite without a boat, you could still sail to the fair aboard a cruiser out of Mamaroneck.
ref: 2004, Marilyn E. Weigold, The Long Island Sound: A History of Its People, Places, and Environment:
glosses: A person from Westchester County, New York, United States.
Westchesterites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Westchesterite
Manchesterite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Manchesterites
Etymology: From Manchester + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of Manchesterism.
Manchesterites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Manchesterite
Manchesterism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Manchester + -ism.
Senses: synonyms: Manchesterdom
glosses: A sociopolitical and economic movement of the 19th century that originated in Manchester, England, and argued that free trade would lead to a more equitable society, making essential products available to all.
Related terms: Manchesterist
Manchesterite
Patricia tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Patricia trees
form: Patricia trie
form: PATRICIA tree
Etymology: Coined by Donald R. Morrison in 1968, as an acronym of practical algorithm to retrieve information coded in alphanumeric, designed to spell out the name Patricia.
Senses: examples: text: A Patricia tree stores keys in its internal nodes, while would-be leaf pointers point to internal node.
ref: 1994, Saumyendra Sengupta, Carl P. Korobkin, C++: Object-Oriented Data Structures, Springer, →ISBN, page 505:
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A radix tree with radix of 2, meaning that each bit of the key is compared individually and each node is a two-way branch.
Derived terms: Merkle-Patricia tree
Patricia trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Patricia tree
radix tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iː
Forms: form: radix trees
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A space-optimized trie data structure in which each node that is the only child is merged with its parent.
Hyponyms: Patricia tree
radix trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radix tree
plasticrete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From plastic + -crete.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A durable construction material.
permissive-action links
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of permissive-action link
permissive-action link
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: permissive-action links
Senses: glosses: A security device to prevent unauthorized arming or detonation of a nuclear weapon.
Synonyms: PAL
Related terms: stronglink
weaklink
stronglink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stronglinks
Etymology: From strong + link.
Senses: glosses: Part of a permissive-action link that ensures resilience to accidental activation of the weapon through physical damage, such as a ruggedized component, or munitions designed not to be circumvented by fire, vibration, etc.
Coordinate terms: weaklink
stronglinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stronglink
weaklink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weaklinks
Etymology: From weak + link.
Senses: glosses: Part of a permissive-action link that is deliberately designed to fail before the safety device in the event of damage, ensuring that the weapon is not accidentally activated.
Coordinate terms: stronglink
weaklinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weaklink
chattersome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chattersome
form: most chattersome
Etymology: From chatter + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Aside from weekends - when the resort is packed with city folk - the place is very tranquil, and your most likely disturbance is going to be from the chattersome parrots in the ceibo trees.
ref: 2000, Danny Aeberhard, Andrew Benson, The Rough Guide to Argentina, Rough Guides:
text: '[...] Not your own name, understand, if ye wish not to give it to any old dame like me, who means ye well but admits being chattersome in her dotage, but some name to address ye properly and with respect.'
ref: 2015, Poul Anderson, Three Hearts and Three Lions:
glosses: Characterised by chatter or chattering
tefs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tef
tinfree
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tin + -free.
Senses: examples: text: The same steel substrate used for tinplate may instead be coated with a layer of hydrated chromium oxide and chromium metal via electrodeposition, when it is known as tinfree steel.
ref: 2012, E. M. Willhoft, Aseptic Processing and Packaging of Particulate Foods, page 44:
glosses: Not containing tin metal.
Haratin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Haratin
form: Haratins
form: Haratine
form: Harratin
Etymology: From Arabic حَرَاطِين (ḥarāṭīn).
Senses: glosses: A member of a group of dark-skinned African people in Maghreb and Western part of Sahara (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya), who often form a distinct social class.
Synonyms: Shwashin
Chouachin
encomial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more encomial
form: most encomial
Senses: glosses: Being or relating to encomium; full of praise.
holy show
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holy shows
Etymology: Compared by the English Dialect Dictionary to the phrase holy bizen, holy byzont; see bizen.
Senses: examples: text: […] here am I now, in the flower o' my days, […] in this old box pitched up on top of a hill, and shaking to every blast o' wind like a straw upon the waters […] disgracen himself an' all belongen to him. There'll be a holy show med of us with the Wran-boys.
ref: 1827, [Gerald Griffin], chapter 1, in The Half Sir (Tales of the Munster Festivals; 1), London: Saunders and Otley, →OCLC, page 229:
glosses: A shameful spectacle; a scene.
holy shows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holy show
gangsome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gangsomes
Etymology: From gang + -some.
Senses: examples: text: After he retired, he played five days a week with his "gangsome."
ref: 2008, J. Mark Fox, Real Life Moments: A Dad's Devotional:
text: Our wagering gangsomes roamed the course for around twelve years.
ref: 2014, Dan Jenkins, His Ownself: A Semi-Memoir:
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A large organised pool of golfers made up of multiple smaller groups or foursomes; a group of golfers larger than a fivesome playing together
matambala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tambala
gangsomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gangsome
cuntzilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪlə
Forms: form: cuntzillas
form: Cuntzilla
Etymology: From cunt + -zilla. Compare bitchzilla.
Senses: examples: text: “It's my corner, you thieving whore-bitch.” “You don't own the sidewalk, Cuntzilla.”
ref: 2013, J. D. Robb, Thankless in Death:
text: [...] Lawrence of Labia, the promised land, chacha, the shrine, bitch ditch, yoni, grandest canyon, happy valley, wandwaxer, Hairy Potter, jaws of life, Pandora's box, Cuntzilla, mystical fold.
ref: 2013, Emma L. E. Rees, The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History:
text: “Agreed,” said Van, “so, what we ought to do is; spend the next few hours resting up then, come morning, Cuntzilla here does her thing with the work schedule and we get the fuck out of dodge.
ref: 2016, J. A. Causer, A Slacker's Road Map of the UNIVERSE - VOL. 1:
text: “No shit, Cuntzilla. Did they close The Marketplace early because of the weather?”
ref: 2016, Michelle Pace, Crazy Love:
glosses: A severely disagreeable or aggressive woman.