cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unmetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + metric.
Senses: examples: text: […] one who uses those [coins] of France, which are unmetric and under the condemnation of the men of science not only of the United States and England but of France and the entire continent.
ref: 1870, The Congressional Globe, page 283:
text: Monsieur Hospitalier also remarked that (in France) it was customary to employ, in certain computations, unmetric units which complicate the work.
ref: 1897, American Chamber of Commerce in France, Bulletin (issues 3-43, page 13)
glosses: Not according to the metric system.
Related terms: unmetrical
unlocally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unlocally
form: most unlocally
Etymology: From unlocal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Not locally.
unpaining
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpaining
form: most unpaining
Etymology: From un- + paining.
Senses: glosses: Not causing pain.
unpremeditate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of unpremeditated.
stove fitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stove fitters
Related terms: gas fitter
heating engineer
unperseverance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + perseverance.
Senses: glosses: Lack of perseverance; failure to persevere.
Big Woods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of French Grand Bois
Senses: glosses: A kind of temperate hardwood forest ecoregion found in western Wisconsin and south-central Minnesota.
PAFACA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Abbreviation of Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act.
Devon Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large island in Baffin Bay, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada.
unpromptly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unpromptly
form: most unpromptly
Etymology: From unprompt + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: No matter how promptly or unpromptly we enact the budget, you simply cannot get those three sets of numbers working simultaneously, and the deficit is quite sensitive now to some of those numbers. So you cannot have it all three ways at once.
ref: 1989, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, The Budget Deficit, page 478:
glosses: Without promptness; after a delay.
unprobity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of improbity.
unprospective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + prospective.
Senses: glosses: Not prospective.
unritual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unritual
form: most unritual
Etymology: From un- + ritual.
Senses: examples: text: Simple, unritual, spiritual worship belongs to an advanced stage of thought and character […]
ref: 1867, The Madison Avenue Lectures, page 305:
glosses: Not ritual.
shit paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shit + paper.
Senses: glosses: Toilet paper.
Related terms: shit ticket
unriched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + riched.
Senses: examples: text: […] the enriched quarter would yield five bushels more than the unriched […]
ref: 1871, Annual Report of the American Institute, of the City of New York, page 341:
glosses: Not enriched.
unstoved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + stoved.
Senses: glosses: Not stoved.
Great River Road
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Great River Road
Senses: glosses: A collection of state and local roads that follow the course of the Mississippi River through ten states of the United States: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
Gezira
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island in the Nile, in central Cairo, Egypt.
Stanley Pool
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the British explorer and journalist Sir Henry Morton Stanley, who mapped this area.
Senses: glosses: Former name of Pool Malebo
Pool Malebo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Stanley Pool
glosses: A lake-like widening in the lower reaches of the Congo River.
Massanutten
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A mountain of the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians.
glosses: A census-designated place in Rockingham County, Virginia, United States, built around a ski resort.
Nittany apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nittany apples
Senses: glosses: A hybrid cultivar of Golden Delicious and York Imperial apples.
Point Reyes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A prominent landform, including a peninsula, on the Pacific coast of Marin County in Northern California.
Headless Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named in reference to a series of unsolved historical deaths in the park, involving decapitation.
Senses: glosses: The Nahanni National Park Reserve in the Dehcho Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada.
vernacular dialect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vernacular dialects
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
social-science
sociolinguistics
sociology
glosses: Synonym of nonstandard dialect.
synonyms: word: nonstandard dialect
vernacular dialects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vernacular dialect
Fafo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Fafos
form: Fafoing
form: Fafoed
form: Fafoed
Senses: examples: text: The potential trade war could be the most far-reaching exercise in Fafo of Trump’s second term.
ref: 2025 January 27, David Charter, “Fafo diplomacy: How Colombia found out Trump meant business”, in The Times, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2025:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of FAFO.
vote-shames
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vote-shame
vote-shaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vote-shame
vote-shamed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vote-shame
ad homs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ad hom
weathergami
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weathergamis
Etymology: Blend of weather + origami, modeled after scorigami.
Senses: examples: text: To show real-world examples of weathergami charts, several examples were prepared for locations with different climate types (Table 1).
ref: 2023 October 1, Jonathan D. W. Kahl, “Weathergami”, in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, volume 104, number 10, →DOI:
text: If we just plopped down a dot for every observation we’d end up with an undifferentiated black blob, so the weathergami technique visualizes frequency of temperature pairs: we divide the chart area into a fine hexagonal grid, and then color each hexagon according to how many daily observations fall within it.
ref: 2023 November 9, Christopher Ingram, ““Weathergami” charts paint new portrait of Minnesota climate”, in Minnesota Reformer:
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A combination of high and low temperatures that has never occurred before.
weathergamis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weathergami
jpegging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jpeg
jpeging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jpeg
jpeged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jpeg
jpeg'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jpeg
Tandia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Muksin specifically mentioned 11 extinct indigenous languages, such as Tandia and Mawes in West Papua and Papua, along with Kajeli, Piru, Moksela, Palumata, Ternateno, Hukumina, Hoti, Serua, and Nila in different areas of Maluku.
ref: 2024 March 8, Antara, “11 Indigenous Languages Declared Extinct: Education Ministry”, in Jakarta Globe:
glosses: An Austronesian language spoken in West Papua, now declared extinct.
Mawes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Muksin specifically mentioned 11 extinct indigenous languages, such as Tandia and Mawes in West Papua and Papua, along with Kajeli, Piru, Moksela, Palumata, Ternateno, Hukumina, Hoti, Serua, and Nila in different areas of Maluku.
ref: 2024 March 8, Antara, “11 Indigenous Languages Declared Extinct: Education Ministry”, in Jakarta Globe:
glosses: A language spoken in Papua, now declared extinct.
unspreads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unspread
unspreading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unspread
snarkasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of snark + sarcasm
Senses: examples: text: ‘You gotta do something for me.’ ‘Newsflash,’ said Stone, looking from side to side, snarkasm flooding his tone.
ref: 1994, Amy Auden, Wow!, Mainstream, →ISBN, page 210:
text: “Glenn, why on Earth would you redecorate this masterpiece? I love it!” “You do?” [laughing] “No! I was using my patented brand of snark-asm.” “Oh!”
ref: 2009 August 20, Michael D. Eisner, Alex Berger, Eric Fogel, “Pimp My RV” (7:13 from the start), in Glenn Martin, DDS, season 1, episode 3, spoken by Bobby Panache (Alan Tudyk):
text: Brit-wit, in fact, could be seen as the precursor to the communicative style valorized on these beratement panels and on fan/rating communities, namely snark or snarkasm. Snark, a hybrid of “snide” and “remark," is a biting, casual verbal attack. Its subtle insult comprises a tone that acts as a weapon to cut its target down to size.
ref: 2010 October 19, Michael Kackman, Marnie Binfield, Matthew Thomas Payne, Allison Perlman, Bryan Sebok, Flow TV: Television in the Age of Media Convergence, Routledge, →ISBN, page 65:
text: Caleb replied: “<Snarkasm On> Yes, but consider: When they do the Wikipedia download, they had to take a snapshot of the site contents. At any given time, especially Saturday evenings when college students have been drinking, some of those pages are being vandalized. So just consider that the Idi Amin Wikipedia bio page we get on DVD might say, ‘General Idi A. Meany, Notorious Egg Sucker, President of Bananaland...’ <Snarkasm Off>”
ref: 2014 September 30, James Wesley, Rawles, “10 Downloads”, in Expatriates: A Novel of the Coming Global Collapse, Penguin, →ISBN, page 54:
text: sneercasm or snarkasm or scarcasm = sarcasm, depending on how deeply it cuts . . .
ref: 2023 August 1, Joseph Heywood, “Part IV Limpyspeak/Yooperspeak (Spokenabulary)”, in Limpy's Adult Lexicon: Raw, Politically Incorrect, Improper & Unexpurgated As Overheard & Noodled, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 176:
glosses: Snarky sarcasm.
meiotherm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meiotherms
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A plant inhabiting cool temperate regions.
meiotherms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meiotherm
meiotaxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The suppression of entire whorls.
bizfluencer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bizfluencers
Etymology: Blend of business + influencer
Senses: examples: text: In this book, we are talking about your personal brand specifically to promote your business. It isn't about becoming an influencer, bizfluencer or 'famous', it's about becoming known as an expert and an extension of your business or the company you work for.
ref: 2021 September 6, Lucy Werner, Hadrien Chatelet, Brand Yourself: A no-nonsense brand toolkit for small businesses, Practical Inspiration Publishing, →ISBN:
text: “If you look in your tote bags, you'll see I've brought you bizfluencer samples of my company's new youth serum, Lazaru.”
ref: 2023 July 27, Ava Tramer, “B.I.T.C.H.” (8:33 from the start), in Harley Quinn, season 4, episode 2:
glosses: An entrepreneur who uses online influence to promote their business and build their brand.
bizfluencers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bizfluencer
paramyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + amyl.
Senses: glosses: paramylon
in buckets
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: synonyms: by the bucketful
in droves
in spades
glosses: In large quantities.
blondsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blondster
shidiot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iət
Forms: form: shidiots
form: shitiot
Etymology: Blend of shit + idiot.
Senses: examples: text: Uncle Nash knows he's an idiot But he doesn't give a shidiot.
ref: 2000 September 1, Fred Chappell, Family Gathering: Poems, illustrated edition, LSU Press, →ISBN, page 18:
text: “I'm glad that shitiot is banned. I didn't like the way he treated you, or any other woman for that matter."
ref: 2023 July 24, Jenna Jacob, “Chapter Five”, in UNRAVEL ME: A Steamy Emotional Enemies To Lovers Dark Secrets Romance (Club Genesis – Chicago, Book 7), Jenna Jacob, →ISBN:
text: Entre vous Sir Horriblious, Esquire. "I WANT IT ALL!" he cash on demands. Accordingly.... The shidiot whacks the floor and is down for the count. Zlip & fall attorney ready to take your call.
ref: 2023 December 20, TC Chelsey, My Sister's a Witch (So What Am I?), Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: A shitty idiot.
shidiots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shidiot
shitiot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shitiots
Senses: examples: text: “I'm glad that shitiot is banned. I didn't like the way he treated you, or any other woman for that matter."
ref: 2023 July 24, Jenna Jacob, “Chapter Five”, in UNRAVEL ME: A Steamy Emotional Enemies To Lovers Dark Secrets Romance (Club Genesis – Chicago, Book 7), Jenna Jacob, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of shidiot.
shitiots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shitiot
superdecompound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superdecompound
form: most superdecompound
Etymology: From super- + decompound.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of supradecompound.
synonyms: word: supradecompound
symbion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: symbions
Senses: examples: text: It is argued, therefore, that the specificity of L. icteroides in yellow fever has not been proved, and that its presence in cases of yellow fever is explained on the hypothesis that it is merely a symbion, though it may have some part to play in the induction of the hæmorrhagic phase of the disease.
ref: 1925, Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, volumes 44-45, page 152:
glosses: Archaic form of symbiont.
symbions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of symbion
parthenogamete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parthenogametes
Etymology: partheno- + gamete
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A gamete that develops without pairing.
parthenogametes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parthenogamete
occupational cancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: occupational cancers
Senses: topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
glosses: Any cancer occurring as a result of work or occupational activity.
Hypernyms: occupational disease
occupational hazard
Hyponyms: mule spinners' cancer
chimney sweep's cancer
Related terms: occupational health and safety
phytochemy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of phytochemistry.
synonyms: word: phytochemistry
Barcău
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Barcău.
Senses: glosses: A river in Sălaj County, Romania.
Șimian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Șimian.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Mehedinți County, Romania.
HTHL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of horizontal takeoff and horizontal landing.
golden lace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A species of flowering plant native to Asia (Patrinia scabiosifolia).
CVHs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CVH
scutels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scutel
sclerotiet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sclerotiets
Senses: glosses: A small sclerotium.
sclerotiets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sclerotiet
conducting shelf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conducting shelves
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A ledge within the ascidium of the Albany pitcher plant.
vernacular variety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vernacular varieties
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nonstandard variety.
synonyms: word: nonstandard variety
national-type school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: national-type schools
Etymology: Calque of Malay sekolah jenis kebangsaan
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Synonym of vernacular school.
synonyms: word: vernacular school
show don't tell
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of show, don't tell.
green-books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green-book
galumpkis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of golabki.
golabkis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of golabki.
golombki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of golabki.
golompki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of golabki.
golumpkies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of golabki.
gwumpki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of golabki.
vernacular varieties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vernacular variety
mixed-case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mixed case.
throws away the key
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of throw away the key
throwing away the key
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of throw away the key
threw away the key
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of throw away the key
thrown away the key
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of throw away the key
tree-top
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tree-tops
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
coordinate_terms: cherry-bomb
glosses: In the four square ball game, a very powerful, high-impact shot where the ball is slammed down with great force, making it difficult for the opponent to retrieve and stay in the game.
tree-tops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tree-top
nose count
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nose counts
Senses: examples: text: Again, we can afford the nose count - because, where we have to, we can undo its results.
ref: 1935, Max Radin, Alexander Marsden Kidd (editors), Legal Essays in Tribute to Orrin Kip McMurray, page 313:
text: Getting back to the question, in all fairness to you and to everyone concerned, because there is a matter of money involved in this thing, although your statement was that it was not sufficient, that is, a simple nose count and a housing census, would that have some importance, however?
ref: 1962, United States, Congress, House, Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, Subcommittee on Census and Statistics, Mid-Decade Census, page 15:
text: The power of polling, both on nose counts and in depth, was never more vividly demonstrated than in the 1968 New Hampshire primary campaign.
ref: 1968, William Safire, The New Language of Politics - An Anecdotal Dictionary of Catchwords, Slogans, and Political Usage, page 108:
glosses: Synonym of headcount.
synonyms: word: headcount
nose counts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nose count
supra-axillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of supraaxillary.
noseweight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noseweights
form: nose weight
Etymology: From nose + weight.
Senses: examples: text: If a block is used, it will be necessary to drill seven or eight ¼-in. holes down from the top, almost right through, which can later be filled with lead shot for noseweight.
ref: 1970, Vic Ernest Smeed (illustrator), The Pegasus Book of Model Making, page 109:
text: Michelle's simple device has been designed to weigh caravans with a noseweight of 45-110kgs.
ref: 1999, Institute of Materials (Great Britain) (publisher), Materials World, The Journal of the Institute of Materials, volume 7, page 671:
text: As well as possibly increasing noseweight to an intolerable level, all that weight bearing down on the towball will compress the car's rear suspension and compromise its handling.
ref: 2010, Rob McCabe, Make the Most of Your Caravan: Teach Yourself:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: The vertical downward force that a trailer or caravan exerts on the tow vehicle's towball.
nose weight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nose weights
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of noseweight.
noseweights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noseweight
nose weights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nose weight
suprafoliaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: supra- + foliaceous
Senses: examples: text: […] racemes axillary, suprafoliaceous; ovarium glabrous.
ref: 1834, George Don, A General System of Gardening and Botany, page 837:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Inserted into the stem above the leaf or petiole.
sogaed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of soga
sogaing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of soga
North District
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the 18 districts of Hong Kong, China.
Outes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of A Coruña, Galicia, Spain.
Rairiz de Veiga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Ourense, Galicia, Spain.
Ramkan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A district of Qeshm County, Hormozgan Province, Iran.
Shahla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Tiruchi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Tiruchirappalli (a district of Tamil Nadu, India).
Tomaszów Lubelski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Tomaszów Lubelski.
Senses: glosses: A town in Lublin Voivodeship, Poland.
archigonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to archegony.
bitypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of two types, especially (biology) two widely separated species within a genus.
chorization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of chorisis.
synonyms: word: chorisis
desmidian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: Allied to the Desmidieae.
turbofanned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From turbofan + -ed.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having a turbofan.
esfand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian اسفند.
Senses: glosses: The seeds of wild rue.
syntaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:syntax.
glosses: plural of syntax
mystai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:mystes.
glosses: plural of mystes
superscrumptious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + scrumptious.
Senses: examples: text: "Hertha's very upset," Miss Masters was saying, her eyes fastened on the wall above Deborah's head where a livid yellow poster advertised Blood's superscrumptious meat patties and tomato sauce.
ref: 1964, McHugh, Arona, 1924-1996, A banner with a strange device, a novel, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, page 415:
text: As for the superscrumptious dishes featured from Walt, I’m not sure the average kitchen virgin could pull them off, however, I plan to at least try one of them.
ref: 2008, Reinhardt, Susan, 1961-, Dishing with the kitchen virgin, page 88:
text: Even a dog who is not eating due to stress can often be tempted with superscrumptious offerings.
ref: 2010, Pat Miller, “Delicious Treats and Delightful Rewards”, in The Power of Positive Dog Training:
glosses: Extremely scrumptious.
pseudotree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudotrees
Etymology: From pseudo- + tree.
Senses: glosses: A connected pseudoforest.
pseudotrees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudotree
cheilodromous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of craspedodromous.
synonyms: word: craspedodromous
Saroukos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The statement did not specify the location of that trip, but provided further details of her romantic life, stating that Saroukos and her husband spent eight days together before she returned to Australia on Dec. 21.
ref: 2025 May 30, Riley Cedar, “Soldier’s wife deported to Australia after detainment in Hawaii”, in Military Times, archived from the original on 01 Jun 2025:
glosses: A surname.
little red dot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: little red dots
Etymology: From little + red + dot. From only being visible beyond the red end of the visible spectrum, being a small and unresolved dot in imaging.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: LRD
glosses: A type of galaxy found in the distant early universe, appearing as a background small dot in deep surveys in infrared astronomy.
paravalvar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + valvar.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of paravalvular.
synonyms: word: paravalvular
Silicon Valleys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Silicon Valley
phytoblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytoblasts
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A cell in its first stage of development.
phytoblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phytoblast
polydelphous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of polyadelphous.
chondriokinesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χόνδρος (khóndros, “grain”) + -kinesis, from κίνησις (kínēsis, “movement”).
Etymology note
chondrio- is probably a clipping of mitochondrion.
Senses: examples: text: In by far the majority of animals it seems tolerably clear that the process of chondriokinesis or distribution of the mitochondria (or chondriosomes) between the daughter-cells is haphazard, and not in any way comparable to the process of karyokinesis.
ref: 1853, Quarterly journal of microscopical science, page 35:
text: These phenomena emphasize the conclusion of Bowen (1920) that chondriokinesis and dictyokinesis involve a relation between the cytoplasmic formed bodies and the division-centers that means more than a merely fortuitous association.
ref: 1925, The American Naturalist November-December 1925: Vol 59 Iss 665, University of Chicago, acting through its Press, page 492:
text: Such behavior of mitochondria is so typical that it has been described in the earlier literature as chondriokinesis.
ref: 1972, Bajer, Andrew S, Spindle dynamics and chromosome movements, New York; London: Academic Press, page 86:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Reproduction of mitochondria and their distribution in mitosis and meiosis.
pyrokinetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pyrokinetic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: All the while Fritz was yelping and rolling on the ground, Rio stood watching smoke billow from his own arm; burning a pyrokinetically Enhanced man wasn't going to work.
ref: 2011, Carlton N. Brock III, Enhanced, iUniverse, page 11:
text: After footage broke of a zombie pyrokinetically burning a bus full of survivors in Beijing before a horde fed on them, most people knew it was the apocalypse.
ref: 2013, Steven Mix, Goodbye from the Edge of Never, page 18:
text: "This is our fire training grounds," she motioned our surroundings. "Everything here can be pyrokinetically set on fire for training purposes, both for supersoldiers and firefighting training.
ref: 2024, Parker LaVitte, The Lightning War: Grounding Unit, page 221:
glosses: In a pyrokinetic manner
Jewtopia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Jew + utopia.
Senses: examples: text: I always thought Jewtopia was New York and Hollywood?
ref: 2004 April 30, dust2dust, “OT: Iraqi name change”, in alt.support.shyness (Usenet):
text: and look, all people are scum. there aint no saints in this world. morality is a matter of which side are you on. are you on the side of good ole US of A or commie leftwing jewtopia? for all their personal shittiness, huac bastards were patriotic americans. in contrast, hollywood ten were not only personal scum but political scum. they were lowlife skunks in personal life and in political life. huac guys were skunks only in personal life. in political life, they were patriots.
ref: 2007 October 30, snide sneering Leftwing Jew Soderbergh is making a Che Guevara movie to turn hispanics against USA and white folks's, “Re: "Hollwood Ten" on TCM”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet):
text: If ever that happens, it'll be on the way to Jewtopia for me.
ref: 2010 June 29, Sammy Noe, “GOTCHA!”, in leining (Usenet):
text: As for the MEANING of their money ... dunno if it's done anything more for them than it did forthe non-Jewish rich cliques before them. They spend most of their time trying not to be screwed by competitors and enemies - in this case mostly other Jews - and holy Jewtopia is still a shitty slice of desert surrounded by people who hate them to death for the past 60-odd years.
ref: 2013 November 26, Mr. B1ack, “Angola Bans Islam, Destroys Mosques”, in alt.politics (Usenet):
glosses: A Jewish utopia.
Hyper/J
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From hyper + J (“the first letter of Java”).
Senses: qualifier: Java programming language
glosses: A framework for Java development that facilitates multi-dimensional separation of concerns, allowing a developer to decompose and organize software components based on multiple, arbitrary criteria (concerns) simultaneously, even after the software is implemented.
show and share
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of show and tell.
synonyms: word: show and tell
Utopias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Utopia
IFP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The ANC has accused the IFP of bussing in voters from other wards to vote during the recent Newcastle Municipality by-election won by the IFP.
ref: 2024 March 14, Clive Ndou, “ANC set to open case against ‘ghost IFP voters’”, in The Witness:
text: The IFP, with almost 4% of the vote, could be such a kingmaker.
ref: 2024 May 30, Sarah Dean and David McKenzie, “First results in South Africa’s election suggest it is heading for biggest political shift since apartheid”, in CNN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Inkatha Freedom Party.
blacktopia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Blacktopia
Etymology: Blend of black + utopia.
Senses: examples: text: And you changing all that in one stroke of you juju lever overnight some night when the moon bes covered over and you bringing in Blacktopia?
ref: 1974, Earl Conrad, Club, page 199:
text: However, there are still whitopias - and a new blacktopia in Georgia is currently being planned by nineteen Black families looking for a place to be safe doing things their way.
ref: 2021, Alex Bonham, Play and the City - How to Create Places and Spaces To Help Us Thrive:
text: In doing so, the group managed to activate a kind of creative “Blacktopia,” or an unofficial communal space where unknown Black talent finally caught a break in the industry.
ref: 2025, Artel Great, The Black Pack - Comedy, Race, and Resistance:
coordinate_terms: whitetopia
glosses: A black utopia.
Thabo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Bantu.
Senses: examples: text: This scenario would hark back to the post-apartheid era when South Africa operated under a GNU to oversee the new constitution, led by Mandela as president and FW de Klerk and Thabo Mbeki as deputy presidents, between April 1994 and February 1997.
ref: 2024 May 30, Sarah Dean and David McKenzie, “First results in South Africa’s election suggest it is heading for biggest political shift since apartheid”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name.
SLSN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SLSNs
form: SLSNe
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
hypernyms: SN
glosses: Abbreviation of superluminous supernova.
Derived terms: SLSN-I
SLSN-Ib
SLSN-II
leatherbug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leatherbugs
Derived terms: Dalman's leatherbug
in capital letters
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Of someone or something, emphasizing notability, significance, or exemplary status.
Trocadéro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood of Paris, France, named after the Battle of Trocadero in Spain.
pocketting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pockettings
Senses: examples: text: Phew, you rave now: / But if you have not periſhed all your reaſon, / Know I will uſe my freedome; you (forſooth) / For change of freſh apparell, and the pocketting / Of ſome well looking Duccats, were contented, / Paſſinglie pleas’d, yes marry were you (marke it) / To expoſe me to the danger now you raile at.
ref: c. 1635–1636 (date written), Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], The Fancies, Chast and Noble: […], London: […] E[lizabeth] P[urslowe] for Henry Seile, […], published 1638, →OCLC, Act IIII, page 51:
text: A newyeares gift, or a preſent. Alſo things giuen to gueſts, to be caried awaie with them at banquettings: pockettings.
ref: 1587, Thomas Thomasius, “Apŏphŏrēta”, in Dictionarium Linguæ Latinæ et Anglicanæ, […], 2nd edition (1589), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Ex officina Iohannis Legatt, celeberrimæ Academiæ Typographi. […], →OCLC, signature E, verso, column 1:
text: Harvey’s tiny vellum-bound volume of selections from Demosthenes was one of his favourites, and he evidently carried it with him frequently, for in the margin of sig. C2ʳ he writes of it, ‘One of my pockettings, and familiar spirits’.
ref: 1979, Virginia F. Stern, “Oratory and eloquent written expression”, in Gabriel Harvey: His Life, Marginalia and Library, Oxford, Oxfordshire: At the Clarendon Press, →ISBN, part II (Marginalia), chapter 2 (Typical kinds of marginalia), pages 148–149:
glosses: Alternative spelling of pocketing.
pocketting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pocket
pocketted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pocket
pockettings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pocketting
Lake Lugano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Italian Lago di Lugano and the city of Lugano.
Senses: glosses: An international glacial lake in Ticino canton, Switzerland, and Lombardy, Italy.
constructurally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more constructurally
form: most constructurally
Etymology: From constructural + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The extreme flatness of the ogee renders the arm a tie to the back, and this is, constructurally considered, a most desirable feature, for it unites the fore legs and seat of the chair so securely with the back that it would be impossible to disturb the position of either, and lends most valuable aid in giving security to the entire work.
ref: 1862 October 18, “The International Exhibition. British Furniture. No. IV.—Chairs.”, in The Illustrated London News, volume XLI, number 1170, London: […] George C[argill] Leighton […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 426, column 1:
text: Two illustrations are given of the Entrance Hall at Althorp, where the Woottons are hung constructurally.
ref: 1922, Walter Shaw Sparrow, “John Wootton, 1678 (?)–1765”, in British Sporting Artists from Barlow to Herring, London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited; New York N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, section I, footnote 1, page 89:
text: We find that the construction has three distinct planes that are all symmetrical and perpendicular to one another; the horizontal equatorial plane and two vertical planes intersect each other on the north-south polar axis perpendicularly to one another, which perpendicularity is constructurally inherent.
ref: 1975, R[ichard] Buckminster Fuller with E[dmund] J[arratt] Applewhite, “Operational Mathematics”, in Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.; London: Collier Macmillan Publishers, →ISBN, section 835.10, page 463:
synonyms: constructionally
glosses: In a constructural manner.
calmability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From calm + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: Calmability, capacity for pacification by the mother’s devices, is part of the baby’s capacity to evoke care from a care-giver by actively contributing to the care-giver’s emotional state—making mother feel good, competent, and fulfilled, as opposed to feeling rejected by her own baby, incompetent, and helpless to give the baby the care he demands and needs (42).
ref: 1981, Ronald Levy, “Mother-Infant Relations in the Feeding Situation”, in Emanuel Lebenthal, editor, Textbook of Gastroenterology and Nutrition in Infancy, volumes 1 (Gastrointestinal Development and Perinatal Nutrition), New York, N.Y.: Raven Press, →ISBN, page 635, column 2:
text: In some cases you would shelter in place and in some cases you would evacuate. And if you think that through ahead of time and talk with your family about it, practice it in your schools, workplaces, et cetera, there's going to be a lot more calmability to tune in, get the instructions and follow them.
ref: 2004 September 22, Patricia McGinnis, quotee, “U.S. Representative John Shadegg (R-AZ) Holds Hearing on Emergency Warning Systems”, in Political Transcript Wire, Lanham, Md., →OCLC:
text: It is well-known—from personal experience by shelter workers and more recently by scientific studies—that the behavior of an animal plays a prominent role in that animal’s chances of being adopted. Favored traits include friendliness, spending more time at the front of the enclosure, calmability, controllability, and trainability (McCobb et al., 2005).
ref: 2013, Franklin D. McMillan, “Quality of Life, Stress, and Emotional Pain in Shelter Animals”, in Lila Miller, Stephen Zawistowski, editors, Shelter Medicine for Veterinarians and Staff, 2nd edition, Ames, Ia.: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, section 2 (Husbandry), page 83, column 1:
glosses: The quality of being calmable.
hard knock
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hard knocker
form: hard knockest
Senses: glosses: Experiencing a lot of difficulties, hardships, or tough situations in life.
raw_tags: of a person
Derived terms: school of hard knocks
Bad Ischl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A spa town in Gmunden district, Upper Austria, Austria.
whom am I kidding
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of who am I kidding.
kluggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: kluggier
form: kluggiest
Etymology: From kluge + -y.
Senses: examples: text: We all thought of these possibilities as our ship—a great kluggy old thing, with streets of room compared with Lancer—plunged on through murky dust clouds, hot star-forming regions, the lot—hammering inward hard and swift, like an old dog heading home at last.
ref: 1995 September, Gregory Benford, “The Place of Angry Gods”, in Sailing Bright Eternity (The Galactic Center Novels; 6), New York, N.Y.: Spectra, →ISBN, page 17:
text: More elegant. As if smarter, better, faster, cheaper, and smaller weren’t enough, the twenty-first century customer also demands an increasingly elegant product or service. No more “kluggy'” approaches.
ref: 1999, Richard W. Oliver, “Marketing in the Global Village”, in The Shape of Things to Come: Seven Imperatives for Winning in the New World of Business, New York, N.Y.: BusinessWeek Books, →ISBN, part 2 (The Shape of Things Today), page 91:
text: In the most dramatic computer demonstration of the 1960s, some would say the most dramatic ever, at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in 1968 in San Francisco, [Douglas] Englebart^([sic]) assembled all his gear on the stage. The tangle of equipment required to carry all this off might be characterized as kluggy, but the reader must appreciate the state of the early time-shared computers and displays he had to work with.
ref: 2003, Richard W. Pew, “Introduction: Evolution of Human–Computer Interaction: From Memex to Bluetooth and Beyond”, in Julie A[nne] Jacko, Andrew Sears, editors, The Human–Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies and Emerging Applications (Human Factors and Ergonomics), Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, →ISBN, page 5, column 1:
text: The suggestion seems to be far kluggier than my suggested patch since it relies on a user elisp routine passing executing a system call to return a path every time a gnutls connection is requested.
ref: 2013 November 11, em...@kosowsky.org, “bug#15648: 24.2.50; gnutls SSL connection to IMAP server causes emacs to crash completely”, in gnu.emacs.bug (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Jun 2025:
glosses: Alternative form of kludgy.
kluggier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of kluggy: more kluggy
kluggiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of kluggy: most kluggy
peshgi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani पेशगी (peśgī) / پیشْگی (peśgī, “advance”).
Senses: examples: text: By drawing on an analysis of the football-stitching and bangle-making industries it disputes the notion that the presence of peshgi inevitably leads to a relationship of debt bondage between employer and workers.
ref: 2010, Ali Khan, “Peshgi Without Bondage: Reconsidering the Links between Debt and Bonded Labour”, in Cultural Dynamics, volume 22, number 3:
text: The bonded labour system uses ‘peshgi’, a vernacular for an advance, to bind those in destitution to a life of servitude through a seemingly voluntary contract.
ref: 2017, Syed Abbas Ahsan, “Bonded Labour in Pakistan – Impact, Challenges and Role of Government”, in Social Science Research Network, page ii:
text: Peshgi is a system where the employer pays the prospective labourer a loan, which obliges the labourer to work for the employer for a period of time until the loan peshgi is repaid.
ref: 2019, Dr Fraser Murray, Samanthi Theminimulle, Nida Mustaq, Shehryar Fazli, Modern Slavery in Pakistan: Final Report, page 8:
glosses: A form of debt bondage where an advance loan by the employer is to be repaid by bonded labour
gamesave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gamesaves
Senses: examples: text: You can even use Max Drive™ to move gamesaves from your PlayStation®2 Memory Card onto any PC's hard drive.
ref: 2003, Datel, “Save the World!”, in The Ultimate Gamers Codebook […], Roseville, Calif.: Prima Games, →ISBN:
text: Load Game: Here you can load old gamesaves when you have already played and have saved your progress. In order to help you keep an overview the gamesaves are stamped with the date and time.
ref: 2006, Destrax Entertainment, Cinema Empire (manual), [Wiesbaden]: Comport Interactive, →OCLC:
text: Wii 1GB Trans•Mem gives you 1GB of data storage for gamesaves, music, pictures, downloads and more.
ref: 2007, “Trans•Mem”, in The Ultimate Nintendo Wii Gaming Guide, volume 1, [Newton Abbot, Devon]: Papercut, →ISBN, page 237, column 3:
glosses: Alternative form of game save.
gamesaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gamesave
Snyderbro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Snyderbros
form: Snyder bro
Etymology: From (Zack) Snyder + bro.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fan of the Snyderverse, especially an overly obsessive one.
wikipedia: Zack Snyder
infraordo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infraordines
Etymology: From infra- + ordo.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: The taxonomic rank below subordo and above superfamily; infraorder.
national-type schools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of national-type school
national secondary school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: national secondary schools
Etymology: Calque of Malay sekolah menengah kebangsaan
Senses: topics: education
coordinate_terms: national school
glosses: A government-funded or government-aided institution that provides secondary education using the Malay language as the primary medium of instruction.
national secondary schools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of national secondary school
is the case
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of be the case
Ainsworth Hot Springs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Renamed from Ainsworth in 1963, and originally named in 1883 by George Ainsworth, the founder.
Senses: glosses: A community and resort in the Regional District of Central Kootenay, British Columbia, Canada.
Unutopia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of unutopia.
untopia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unutopia.
Gaysian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gaysians
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of gaysian.
Gaysians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gaysian
gates of horn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gate of horn
gates of ivory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gate of ivory
Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Official name of Saint Kitts and Nevis: an island country in the Caribbean.
garbarator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garbarators
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of garburator.
garberator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garberators
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of garburator.
Garberator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of garburator.
dry lease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dry leases
Etymology: From wet + lease. The origin is uncertain, but it is widely believed that the term dry refers to the exclusion of fuel in the lease agreement.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: wet lease
glosses: A leasing agreement where an aircraft is provided without any additional services like crew, maintenance, or insurance.
dry leases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dry lease
Balian Israel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Israel (“former name of a barangay of Imelda, Zamboanga Sibugay, Philippines”).
synonyms: word: Israel
extra: former name of a barangay of Imelda, Zamboanga Sibugay, Philippines