cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
spermophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Did he have his hands all over her in such a way that it permanently affected the way Terri thought about certain subjects, specifically pregnancy? Was he the bastard responsible for her spermophobia?
ref: 1987, Michael Zagst, The Sanity Matinee, Donald I. Fine, page 165:
glosses: The fear of semen.
glosses: Synonym of germophobia.
synonyms: word: germophobia
pygophilous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pygophilous
form: most pygophilous
Senses: glosses: Sexually attracted to the buttocks.
thighplate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thighplates
Senses: glosses: An armour piece covering the thigh.
-people
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: plural of -person
comrad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of comrade.
drugome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drugomes
Etymology: From drug + -ome.
Senses: glosses: All the drugs in an individual or system
epimerisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epimerisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of epimerization.
macrobial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to macrobacteria
nanoaerobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nano- + aerobic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Living in environments having nanomolar concentrations of oxygen
Synonyms: microaerobic
Related terms: nanoaerobe
nanaerobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to nanaerobes
nanaerobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of nanoaerobic.
glosses: Misspelling of nonaerobic.
galeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Setae on the apex of the galea are in four well-separated rows. In addition, the galeal setae are modified to subspatulate or platelike structures.
ref: 1984, Quentin Wheeler, Meredith Blackwell, editors, Fungus-Insect Relationships: Perspectives in Ecology and Evolution:
glosses: Relating to a galea.
examples: text: Resection of the frontalis muscle can result in a contour defect and should be avoided when harvesting a galeal flap.
ref: 1999, Robert F Keating, An Atlas of Orbitocranial Surgery, page 40:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the galea aponeurosis.
Derived terms: subgaleal
subgaleal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + galeal.
Senses: examples: text: Proceeding anteriorly, the temporalis muscles are left intact; however, a subgaleal approach may be taken in a plane that is readily separable.
ref: 2012, The Orbit, An Issue of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, page 582:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Beneath the galea aponeurosis.
metaparable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaparables
Etymology: From meta- + parable.
Senses: glosses: A parable about parables.
metaparables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metaparable
xenosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xenospheres
Etymology: From xeno- + sphere.
Senses: glosses: A spheroid culture from a xenograft.
examples: text: There is good evidence that with burning oil sprays the larger droplets may crack to carbon, sometimes forming xenospheres which pass through the flame front.
ref: 1970, Alfred Gordon Gaydon, Flames; their structure, radiation and temperature, page 204:
text: In the region of the spray cone rather large vaporizing or burning oil droplets up to 100 rim, or their residuals like xenospheres, will be found.
ref: 1988, Ronald J. Adrian, Laser Anemometry in Fluid Mechanics III:
glosses: A particulate remnant of carbon released in the combustion of oil or coal.
xenospheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xenosphere
cable-knit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cable knit.
videosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: videospheres
Etymology: From video- + -sphere.
Senses: glosses: The age of video media, succeeding the logosphere and graphosphere.
videospheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of videosphere
logosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logospheres
Etymology: From logo- + -sphere.
Senses: glosses: The age of writing, preceding the graphosphere or age of print.
logospheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of logosphere
day at the beach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: days at the beach
Senses: examples: text: If she could do that, snowshoeing down a mountain pass seemed like a day at the beach in comparison.
ref: 2013, Cindy Myers, The Mountain Between Us:
text: "This battle will make the last one look like a day at the beach."
ref: 2014, Matthew Duncan, The Warrior's Stone, page 242:
glosses: An easy and pleasant task or situation.
raw_tags: in the negative
Synonyms: picnic
walk in the park
Related terms: beach day
line officer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: line officers
Senses: glosses: A commissioned officer who exercises general command authority and is eligible for operational command positions.
line officers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of line officer
thunker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌŋkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: thunkers
Etymology: From thunk + -er.
Senses: examples: text: And 32-bit Windows applications require the bundled MetaWare Applications Development Kit (ADK), a 32-to-16 bit Windows thunker similar to but predating the Microsoft Win32s system.
ref: 1995, Personal Computer Magazine, volume 14, numbers 7-8, page 222:
text: There were no 32-bit scanner drivers or TWAIN modules, none were forthcoming from Microsoft […] Then along came the TWAIN_32 standard of the universal thunker.
ref: 1996, Deke McClelland, Robert Phillips, Photoshop 3 for Windows 95 Bible, page 721:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A software mechanism that thunks.
thunkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thunker
Six Sigma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A reference to the fraction of a normal curve that lies within six standard deviations of the mean, used to represent a defect rate.
Senses: topics: business
glosses: A set of techniques and tools for process improvement.
Related terms: statistically significant
buxotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more buxotic
form: most buxotic
Senses: glosses: Synonym of busty.
synonyms: word: busty
Related terms: buxom
telephonographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the telephonograph.
annullings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of annulling
some few
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: glosses: An inconsiderable number.
knuckle-tat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knuckle-tats
form: knuck-tat
Etymology: Short for knuckle tattoo.
Senses: glosses: A tattoo on one's finger(s) just above or below the knuckle
vitreosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vitreosities
Senses: glosses: The quality or degree of being vitreous.
vitreosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vitreosity
rhynchophoran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Rhynchophora + -an
Senses: glosses: Belonging to the Rhynchophora.
rhynchophorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Rhynchophorus + -ous
Senses: glosses: Belonging to genus Rhynchophorus.
E-road
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: E-roads
Etymology: From E (“for Europe”) + road.
Senses: glosses: A main road or motorway in Europe which is allocated an E-number. Many of these roads cross international borders.
Synonyms: Euroroute
Afro comb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Afro combs
Senses: glosses: Afro pick
Afro combs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Afro comb
rhizoflagellate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rhizo- + flagellate.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Rhizoflagellata.
E-roads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of E-road
antiautistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiautistic
form: most antiautistic
form: anti-autistic
Etymology: From anti- + autistic.
Senses: examples: text: If I'd been diagnosed ten years ago, I'd definitely have been frightened to tell anyone, because I've internalized as much antiautistic stigma as the next person.
ref: 2018, Mike Jung, “I Hate To Interrupt This Conversation About Mental Illness, But Guess What–I'm Autistic”, in Kelly Jensen, editor, (Don't) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health, page 33:
text: I'm also genuinely dismayed that the connection between anti-vaccine conspiracy theories and anti-autistic prejudice is still an issue and that people are still suffering needlessly as a result of it.
ref: 2020, Sarah Kurchak, I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder, unnumbered page:
text: This book mentions childhood neglect and anti-autistic ableism.
ref: 2021, Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown, unnumbered page:
glosses: Exhibiting, characteristic of, or relating to antipathy toward and/or discrimination against autistic people.
examples: text: […] whereas for withdrawn, chronic schizophrenics who cut themselves off from the outside world he will tend to select a preparation having an anti-autistic effect.
ref: 1983, Rene Spiegel, Pyschopharmacology: An Introduction, page 5:
text: At higher doses, it is antiautistic, disinhibiting and resocializing, all effects useful in treating chronic psychoses.
ref: 1989, Harry Schwartz, Breakthrough: The Discovery of Modern Medicines at Janssen, page 78:
text: Those preparations prescribed in particularly small doses act not only anti-psychotic but also antiautistic.
ref: 1992, B. Luban-Plozza, W. Pöldinger, F. Kröger, Psychosomatic Disorders in General Practice, page 212:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
pharmacology
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: Tending to reduce lethargy or withdrawn emotional states.
raw_tags: of a drug
examples: text: In one case, for instance, we felt that we could detect three antiautistic features in the mother.
ref: 1961 November, Mary A. Sarvis, Blanche Garcia, “Etiological Variables in Autism”, in Psychiatry, volume 24, number 4, page 309:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: Countering autism or autistic behaviour.
examples: text: Talking is anti-autistic and anti-self-digestive, and is an exercise that establishes mutuality, intimacy—feelings of mutual support—bonding, regardless of what is said.
ref: 1990, Theodore Isaac Rubin, Anti-Semitism: A Disease of the Mind, page 75:
text: The anti-hermetic and anti-autistic aspects of the DJ culture removes the self-tormenting aspects of their journeys within.
ref: 1998, Ulf Poschardt, DJ-Culture, page 299:
text: But in this sensitised state, a sort of antiautistic state, the world, especially the interpersonal world, could feel dangerously sharp, explosive, toxic, choking.
ref: 2012, Andrew Relph, Not Drowning, Reading, unnumbered page:
glosses: Aware of, interested in, or engaging with other people or the world.
antidelusional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + delusional.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Countering delusions.
peasoup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peasoups
Senses: examples: text: […] and to maintain a relatively superior, paternalistic position from which French Canadians are for the most part regarded as 'peasoups' or 'Pepsis,' as fellow citizens requiring benevolent supervision […]
ref: 1993, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, volume 20, page 276:
glosses: Alternative form of pea soup.
Derived terms: peasoup fog
peasoups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peasoup
metapneustic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: Having the respiratory apparatus in the anus.
versificatrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin versificātrīx. By surface analysis, versificator + -trix.
Senses: glosses: A female poet.
foramen magnum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foramina magna
Etymology: From Latin forāmen magnum (“big hole”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The large foramen, or hole, in the occipital bone for the passage of the medulla oblongata and its membranes.
foramina magna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foramen magnum
Euroroute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Euroroutes
Etymology: From Euro- + route.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of E-road.
synonyms: word: E-road
Euroroutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Euroroute
inby
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of inbye.
outby
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of outbye.
tonishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tonishly
form: most tonishly
Etymology: From tonish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a tonish manner.
suspectedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From suspected + -ly.
Senses: examples: a suspectedly malignant tumour
glosses: In a way that is suspected.
perquisitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perquisitors
Senses: glosses: The first purchaser of an estate.
perquisitors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perquisitor
equanimously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more equanimously
form: most equanimously
Etymology: From equanimous + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: equanimitably
glosses: In an equanimous manner.
wheel-clamp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wheel-clamps
form: wheel-clamping
form: wheel-clamped
form: wheel-clamped
Senses: glosses: To immobilize (a vehicle) with a wheel clamp.
wheel-clamps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wheel-clamp
wheel-clamping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wheel-clamp
wheel-clamped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wheel-clamp
rhombiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rhombiform
form: most rhombiform
Etymology: From rhombi- + -form.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: In the shape of a rhombus.
philanthrocapitalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more philanthrocapitalistic
form: most philanthrocapitalistic
Senses: glosses: Relating to philanthrocapitalism.
pendragonship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pendragon + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: He had left his cousin Medrawd, who, by his father's side, was of Caledonian blood, his regent in Britain and his representative in the pendragonship.
ref: 1857, Beale Poste, Britannia Antiqua: Or, Ancient Britain Brought Within the Limits of Authentic History:
glosses: The role or status of pendragon.
orxata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orxatas
Senses: examples: text: When we sat to eat steak burritos with orxatas, I was irritated by the only other diners alongside us, a gang of four late-middle-aged white female laughter geeks from Texas.
ref: 2016, Lancelot Larsen, Sons of America, volume 1:
glosses: Alternative form of horchata.
out-and-outer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: out-and-outers
Etymology: From out and out + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I am the Wackford Squeers as is therein named, sir. I am the man as is guaranteed, by unimpeachable references, to be a ^([sic]) out-and-outer in morals and uprightness of principle.
ref: 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby:
text: You're a prime gloak, an out-and-outer, to get as far as you did before they grabbed you.
ref: 1956, Frank Clune, Martin Cash: The Last of the Tasmanian Bushrangers, page 149:
glosses: A first-rate fellow.
out-and-outers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of out-and-outer
nibbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nib
ehevi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hebrew אֶהֱוִ״י (ehevi).
Senses: glosses: The four Hebrew letters that can serve as vowels: alef, he, vav, and yodh.
gastrophilism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gastro- + -philism.
Senses: glosses: The love of good food.
gastrophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæs.tɹəʊˌfaɪl/
ipa: /ˈɡæs.tɹoʊˌfaɪl/
Forms: form: gastrophiles
Etymology: From gastro- + -phile.
Senses: glosses: One who loves good food.
Derived terms: gastrophilism
gastrophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gastrophile
gastrophilite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastrophilites
Etymology: From gastro- + -philite.
Senses: glosses: One who loves good food.
gastrophilist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastrophilists
Etymology: From gastro- + -philist.
Senses: glosses: One who loves good food.
gastrophilists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gastrophilist
gastrophilites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gastrophilite
mislikeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mis- + likeness.
Senses: glosses: A misleading resemblance.
bookplated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bookplate
bookplating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bookplate
UBI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Stronge suggests a daily routine for post-work citizens that would include a provocative degree of state involvement: “You get your UBI payment from the government. Then you get a form from your local council telling you about things going on in your area: a five-a-side football tournament, say, or community activism – Big Society stuff, almost.”
ref: 2018 January 19, Andy Beckett, “Post-work: the radical idea of a world without jobs”, in The Guardian:
text: Right-wing supporters of UBI, such as the Adam Smith Institute, will try to use it as a justification for further dismantling of the welfare state and for individualising society’s problems.
ref: 2018 January 19, Kyle Lewis, Will Stronge, “A right-wing think tank is now supporting Universal Basic Income – but they’ve missed the point”, in The Independent:
glosses: Initialism of universal basic income.
UBI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Union Bank of India.
glosses: Initialism of United Bank of India.
poeticky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more poeticky
form: most poeticky
Etymology: From poetic + -y.
Senses: glosses: poetic
droopage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: droopages
Etymology: From droop + -age.
Senses: glosses: A condition caused by drooping
insectiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more insectiform
form: most insectiform
Etymology: From insect + -iform.
Senses: examples: text: The body it wears is insectiform, a fly—no, a wasp, crawling out of a fossilized nest somewhere near the bottom of the crust.
ref: 2024, Vajra Chandrasekera, Rakesfall, Solaris (2025), page 305:
glosses: Resembling an insect.
Calabar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Calabari
form: Calbari
form: Callabar
form: Kalabar
form: Kalabari
Senses: glosses: The largest city and state capital of Cross River State, Nigeria.
fistula-in-ano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fistula in ano
Senses: glosses: Anal fistula.
misliver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mislivers
Etymology: From Middle English myslyver, equivalent to mislive + -er.
Senses: examples: text: And as the huſbande ys heed over his wife: even ſo hath he commaundmente to rule hyr appetites and is damned yf he ſofre hyr to be an whore ãd a miſſe lyver / oꝛ ſubmit hymſelfe to hyr and make hir his heed.
ref: 1528 October 12 (Gregorian calendar), William Tyndale, “A Compendious Rehersall of That Which Goeth Before”, in The Obediẽce of a Christen Man […], [Antwerp]: [Johannes Hoochstraten], →OCLC, folio Cliij, recto:
text: Yet the bishops who responded to the Commons' Supplication, while acutely sensitive in general to any assault on 'the laws of the church for repression of sin and reformation of 'mislivers', hardly seem to have appreciated the potential effects of this particular line of attack, blandly observing that 'a better provision cannot be devised than is already devised by the clergy, in our opinion.
ref: 2017, Martin Ingram, Carnal Knowledge: Regulating Sex in England, 1470–1600, page 275:
glosses: One who leads an evil or sinful life.
mislivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misliver
Xinzhou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shĭnʹjōʹ
Forms: form: Hsin-chou
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 忻州 (Xīnzhōu).
Senses: examples: text: Like many gay Chinese growing up at the turn of the millennium, Duan Shuai began his long, deliberate process of coming out online. After school, he would visit the newly opened internet cafe in his hometown, Xinzhou, a small city in Shanxi Province bounded by a veil of mountains.[…]
 When Duan opens up the app anywhere in the country, be it in Beijing’s bustling commercial district Sanlitun or back in Xinzhou, he’ll find an endless scroll of users: cosmopolitan yuppies dressed in drag, rural blue-collar workers with faceless profiles.
ref: 2020 March 5, Yi-Ling Liu, “How a Dating App Helped a Generation of Chinese Come Out of the Closet”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2020, Feature:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Shanxi, China.
Xinzhou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shĭnʹjōʹ
Forms: form: Hsin-chou
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 信州 (Xìnzhōu).
Senses: examples: text: The vague wording of the Xinzhou district government’s statement Saturday, which said workers had “decontaminated” the animal though there was no indication it had been infected with the coronavirus, helped fuel the outcry.
The pet’s owner or owners could not be reached for comment. According to an account on the Twitter-like platform Weibo that first shared the video, the owners had been sent to hotel quarantine along with other residents of their neighborhood in the city of Shangrao, in Jiangxi Province.
ref: 2021 November 14, Austin Ramzy, “A video of decontamination workers clubbing a pet corgi stirs anger in China.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Nov 2021, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A district of Shangrao, Jiangxi, China.
Xinzhou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shĭnʹjōʹ
Forms: form: Sinchow
form: Hsin-chou
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 新洲 (Xīnzhōu).
Senses: glosses: A district of Wuhan, Hubei, China.
VHRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VHR
salami slicing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈlɑːmi ˈslaɪsɪŋ/
ipa: /səˈlɑmi ˈslaɪsɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪsɪŋ
Etymology: From the way a deli will slice salami or similar meat in small slices in order to fill a sandwich at lowest cost.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of salami slice (alternative form of salami-slicing)
Related terms: smurfing
saddle feather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saddle feathers
Senses: glosses: Any of the long slender feathers on the rear part of a rooster.
balconic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbælkənɪk/
Etymology: From balcony + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: A good architecture reflecting the traditions of the city, adequate parking space for vehicles, […] the mechanics of comfortable seating on optimum row spaces and seating norms, optimum floor rake for good visibility, locations of the hall, limitations of balconic projections, etc.
ref: 1975, Bulletin of the Institution of Engineers (India): A Supplement, Journal of the Institution of Engineers (India), volume 25, Calcutta: Institution of Engineers (India), →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11:
text: Cleopatra, finally escaped from her balconic encounter with Clausewitz, suddenly appeared in the doorway of the Media Room, quite a dish in her lime-green satin stretch gown, her glowing, deep bronze skin accentuated by the golden snake emblem jewellery she wore.
ref: 1994, Shere Hite, The Divine Comedy of Ariadne and Jupiter: The Amazing and Spectacular Adventures of Ariadne and Her Dog Jupiter in Heaven and on Earth, London; Chester Springs, Pa.: Peter Owen, →ISBN, page 112:
text: Balconic solitude is a world-wide / awareness. Build your balcony to view / deep-angled perspectives.
ref: 2000, Y[usuf] P[eter] L. Bladen-Pryor, “Balconic Solitude”, in Millefleurs: The Essence of a Thousand Flowers: A Collection of a Thousand Sonnets Composed between 1944 and 1999, Çanakkale, Turkey: Peace Caravanserai Press, →ISBN, sonnet 942, page 325:
text: [I]t is, not unsurprisingly, the balcony that features as the defining marker of a Romeo and Juliet adaptation. […] Thus, in Sud Side Stori, the fact that the white Toni/Romeo occupies the balconic space in a seedy Palermo side street, and looks down at the black Romea/Juliet, crystallizes the film's parodic manipulation of gender and performance expectations along the axes of race.
ref: 2013, Mark Thornton Burnett, “Romeo and Juliet”, in Shakespeare and World Cinema, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, part III (Plays), page 213:
glosses: Of or pertaining to balconies.
Synonyms: english: one sense
translation: one sense
word: balconylike
Related terms: balconette
balconette bra
balcony
balcony bra
bromelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːliə
Forms: form: bromelias
Senses: examples: text: The road from the harbour to Trinidad de Cuba is bordered by hedges of bromelias enclosing fields and plantations; and among the bromelias are seen many plants of Erythrìna Crísta gálli, and a small fan-palm[…]
ref: 1842, The Gardener’s Magazine, and Register of Rural and Domestic Improvement, volume VIII, London, page 285:
text: Mexico is also the home of the beautiful flowering Echeveriæ, and of many bromelias, among which the Ananassa sativa is not the least important, and many liliaceous trees (Dasylirion and Yucca)[…]groups of many thousand palm trees are frequently to be seen; and among their stems, draped with bromelias, orchids, aroids, and other plants, the travellers like to select a place to pitch their tent, choosing by preference the Attalea spectabilis and Maximiliana princeps.
ref: 1881, J. Minshull, transl., Land, Sea and Sky, or, Wonders of Life and Nature. A Description of the Physical Geography and Organic Life of the Earth., London: Ward, Lock, & Co., translation of original by Dr. Herman, J. Klein, and Dr. Thomé, pages 701 and 751:
text: […]in general it may be said that the moderately wet and wet forest area above 2,200 feet is without standing water except in the bromelias.[…]It is clear that the bromelias must be considered a minor habitat for the groups under consideration. The Bromeliaciae are in general an important habitat in the wet forest above 4,500 feet.
ref: 1922, Alexander G[rant] Ruthven, The Amphibians and Reptiles of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, pages 42–43:
text: A chapter is devoted to the special cultivation methods of some ornamentals (e.g. Bonsai, Bromelias, Cactuses, Orchideas), as well as to the arrangement of inner spaces, hobby greenhouses and indoor glass cabinets, and to indoor plant protection.
ref: 1989, Acta Agronomica Hungarica, page 182:
glosses: Synonym of bromeliad.
synonyms: word: bromeliad
headscissors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: While he was distracted, the Puma ran the length of the ring, leapt into the air and locked both legs around Diablo's neck, taking him down to the mat with a spectacular flying headscissors.
ref: 2002, Greg F. Gifune, Night Work, →ISBN:
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: A hold in which a wrestler wraps his or her legs around either side of the opponent's head, crossing them under the opponent's chin, and squeezing.
alfiz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish alfiz, from Andalusian Arabic الحِيْز (alḥíz), from Arabic حَيِّز (ḥayyiz).
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: In Mozarabic architecture, moulding which encloses the outward side of an arch.
floripondio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floripondios
Senses: glosses: The flowering plant Brugmansia arborea.
diework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From die + -work.
Senses: examples: text: The above two pieces are almost identical; the diework is the same and they were undoubtedly struck from different parts of the same die.
ref: 1934, Howland Wood, The Gampola Larin Hoard, page 70:
glosses: Ornamentation of a metal surface by impressions with a die.
pantagogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pantagogues
Senses: glosses: A medicine once believed capable of purging away all morbid humours.
pantagogues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pantagogue
wrenning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wren + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The old custom of stoning a wren to death on St Stephen's Day.
phyllitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phyllitic
form: most phyllitic
Etymology: From phyllite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to phyllite.
chilam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chilams
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chillum (“marijuana pipe”).
chilams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chilam
food artist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: food artists
Senses: examples: text: Now instead of pictures of the product usually enhanced by food artists, the consumer can actually see what they are buying. The product speaks for itself as it is very appealing and appetizing.
ref: 2007, Milling & Baking News, volume 86, numbers 21-26, page 45:
glosses: A person employed to arrange food in an attractive presentation to be photographed for use on packaging etc.
food artists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of food artist
usefullest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: But, Socrates, I have heard Gorgias say that rhetoric is the greatest and usefullest of arts ; and I should not like to quarrel either with him or you.
ref: 1871, Plato, quoting Protarchus, translated by Benjamin Jowett, The Dialogues of Plato, volume 3, Clarendon Press, page 152:
glosses: superlative form of useful: most useful
pamphletry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pamphlet + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: Evers' six volumes of popular-magazine pamphletry constitute a sustained outburst of hate.
ref: 1911 October 24, The Lutheran Quarterly, volume 41, page 590:
text: It was thus no accident, for example, that public discourse and pamphletry of the time from both sides of the independence conflict could appropriate single multivocal religious images for diametrically opposed ends.
ref: 2007, Christon I. Archer, The Birth of Modern Mexico, 1780-1824, page 56:
glosses: Pamphlets generally.
baron of beef
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barons of beef
Senses: glosses: A joint consisting of two sirloins left uncut at the backbone.
barons of beef
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baron of beef
hypogastrocele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypogastroceles
Etymology: From hypo- + gastro- + -cele.
Senses: examples: text: I found an ovarian tumor of the left hypogastrium, resembling a large hypogastrocele.
ref: 1851, The New England Botanic, Medical and Surgical Journal:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A hernia through the walls of the lower belly.
hypogastroceles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypogastrocele
on the rob
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: He tries to plug himself in the mains with his knob,
And when he's fully recharged he goes out on the rob.
ref: 2004, Goldie Lookin Chain (band), Half Man Half Machine (song)
synonyms: on the nick
glosses: Engaged in theft.
cornubianite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cornubianites
Etymology: From Cornubian + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: Thus Dr. Boase (1) proposed the terms cornubianite and proteolite for certain varieties of rock occurring near the junctions of the sedimentary rocks and the granite.
ref: 1888, Jethro Justinian Harms Teall, British Petrography: With Special Reference to the Igneous Rocks:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A dark-blue laminated rock found in Cornwall with granite.
cornubianites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cornubianite
Cornubian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Cornubian
form: most Cornubian
Senses: glosses: Cornish or something of or relating to Cornwall.
glosses: Of or relating to Cornubia.
Derived terms: cornubianite
securite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A high explosive in the form of a yellowish powder.
ramskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ramskins
Etymology: From ram + skin.
Senses: glosses: The skin of a ram.
ramskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ramskins
Etymology: Probably related to ramekin.
Senses: glosses: A cake made of dough mixed with grated cheese.
ramskins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ramskin
exceptiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From exceptious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being exceptious.
Bahuvrihi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bahuvrihis
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of bahuvrihi.
Roturua
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Rotorua.
Rotorua
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Roturua
Etymology: From Maori Rotorua.
Senses: examples: text: New Zealanders call Rotorua Roto Vegas but that's pushing it a bit - Roto Blackpool maybe.
ref: 2002 May 27, Lynn Barber, “Just the spot... for jumping off a cliff”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 09 Sep 2014:
text: Not everyone in Rotorua is happy with the name Rotovegas (sometimes Roto-Vegas).
ref: 2009 August 17, Peter Calder, “Fat Dog Cafe, Rotorua”, in NZ Herald, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2025:
glosses: A city, the capital of Rotorua Lakes district, Bay of Plenty, North Island, New Zealand, on the southern shores of Lake Rotorua.
glosses: A lake in Rotorua district, Bay of Plenty, North Island, New Zealand; in full, Lake Rotorua.
glosses: A district of the Bay of Plenty region, New Zealand; in full, Rotorua Lakes. Seat: Rotorua.
glosses: A lake in Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand; in full, Lake Rotorua.
Derived terms: Lake Rotorua
Rotorua District
Rotorua Lake
Rotorua Lakes
Rotorua Lakes District
Teresita
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish Teresita, from Teresa + -ita.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Spanish.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Missouri, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Oklahoma, United States.
Related terms: Santa Teresita
Teresa
Tess
Tessie
Tessy
Theresa
Headington stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A limestone from the Headington Quarry area of Oxford, England, historically much used in building.
dicasterial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a dicastery.
Derived terms: interdicasterial
funspirational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more funspirational
form: most funspirational
Etymology: Blend of fun + inspirational
Senses: glosses: Both fun and inspirational.
platycephalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: platycephalic
Mexican pewter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An alloy of aluminium, copper, and silica.
idiogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From idio- + -genesis.
Senses: glosses: Genesis from no evident cause.
Synonyms: topics: pathology
medicine
sciences
word: idiopathy
Related terms: autogenous
idiogenetic
idiogenic
idiogenous
unmiffed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmiffed
form: most unmiffed
Etymology: From un- + miffed.
Senses: glosses: Not miffed.
strub
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strubs
form: strubbing
form: strubbed
form: strubbed
Etymology: Origin obscure. Perhaps from Middle English strupen, a variant of strepen (“to strip, rob, plunder”), from Old English *strȳpan (attested in Old English bestrȳpan (“to strip, rob, spoil, bereave”), whence English bestrip). More at strip.
Senses: examples: text: "[…] I mind a year ago, when I found a gladdy's nest and strubbed it, he catched me blowing the eggs to put along with others for a necklace for Jonathan French's sister, and, if he could have done it, he'd have given me a proper hiding."
ref: 1920, Eden Phillpotts, The Thief of Virtue, page 172:
glosses: To rob, plunder; clear out completely; to strip.
strubbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of strub
strubs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of strub
strubbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of strub
heat apoplexy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: sunstroke
stutter edit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stutter edits
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An audio manipulation in which fragments of sound are repeated at rhythmic intervals, used for example in trance music.
stutter edits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stutter edit
French parsley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Called French parsley by Europeans, chervil is a symbol of new life for them, because of its resemblance to myrrh given to baby Jesus.
ref: [2006, Susheela Raghavan, Handbook of Spices, Seasonings, and Flavorings, 2nd edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 84:
text: Is it any wonder that a synonym for chervil is French parsley?
ref: [2009, Thomas DeBaggio, Arthur O. Tucker, The Encyclopedia of Herbs […] , Timber Press, →ISBN, page 154:
glosses: garden chervil (Anthriscus cerefolium)
glosses: curly parsley (Petroselinum crispum)
examples: text: […]the best to grow for flavour is the flat-leafed French variety. […] Curled parsley, which Ken abhors, is slightly hardier and is likely to crop longer before flowering than French parsley. Plants grow to 20cm high for curly and 30cm for French.
ref: 2020, Ken Cox, Caroline Beaton, Fruit and Vegetables for Scotland: What to Grow and How to Grow It, Birlinn Ltd, →ISBN:
glosses: flat-leafed parsley, more commonly Italian parsley (Petroselinum crispum var. neapolitanum)
Related terms: Chinese parsley
Italian parsley
coffinmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coffinmakers
Etymology: From coffin + maker.
Senses: glosses: A manufacturer of coffins.
coffinmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coffinmaker
fly belt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fly belts
Senses: examples: text: For centuries human activities within the fly belt were limited because of the dreaded trypanosome infections.
ref: 2007, Ethne Barnes, Diseases and Human Evolution, page 117:
glosses: A region where tsetse flies are to be found.
fly belts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fly belt
hyperbatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hyperbatic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a hyperbatic manner.
abstinencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abstinency
CHIRLA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chirla
Senses: examples: text: “You can’t win California without reaching out to Latinos, so from the get-go there was an effort to connect with Latinos and Latino leaders to emphasize how important the recall was,” said Angelica Salas, the head of CHIRLA Action Fund, an immigrant rights organization that has been working against recalling Newsom.
ref: 2021 September 3, Dan Merica and Kyung Lah, “Latino voters could be key to Gavin Newsom keeping his job”, in CNN:
text: There were dozens of other painfully practical questions when hundreds of people gathered last Tuesday night, at the end of Trump’s first full day of his second term, for a “know your rights” forum CHIRLA sponsored at the office of United Teachers Los Angeles, the LA teachers’ union.
ref: 2025 January 28, Ronald Brownstein, “As Trump launches his enforcement offensive, immigrant advocates are mobilizing too”, in CNN, archived from the original on 14 Jul 2025:
glosses: Acronym of Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles.
clarifyings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clarifying
foreparent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreparents
Etymology: From fore- + parent.
Senses: examples: text: Our foreparents were born in Africa / And we are born in Jamaica / But every day some people a talk / Like they are born in Africa / [...] / And all my brothers who were born inna England / Your foreparents were born in Africa / And all my sisters who were born inna England / Your foreparents were born in Africa
ref: 1977, “Roots Natty Congo”, Johnny Clarke (lyrics):
synonyms: forebear
glosses: a forefather or foremother (used as a gender-neutral equivalent)
Related terms: forefather
foremother
goldentail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goldentails
Etymology: From golden + tail.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of blue-throated goldentail.
glosses: Ellipsis of goldentail moray.
goldentail moray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goldentail morays
Senses: synonyms: conger moray
glosses: A species of moray eel found in the western Atlantic, Gymnothorax miliaris.
conger moray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conger morays
Senses: synonyms: goldentail moray
glosses: A species of moray eel found in the western Atlantic, Gymnothorax miliaris.
Festschrift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Festschriften
Senses: examples: text: So many people of so many different kinds have been influenced by [Burrhus Frederic] Skinner's work and writings; who should be invited to contribute to a Festschrift volume?
ref: 1970, P[eter] B. Dews, “Preface”, in P. B. Dews, editor, Festschrift for B. F. Skinner (Century Psychology series), New York, N.Y.: Appleton-Century-Crofts, →ISBN, page x; republished New York, N.Y.: Irvington Publishers, 1977, →ISBN, page x:
text: At the present time a scholar of religion who lectures, reads papers and publishes will inevitably find his various products dispersed over a number of periodicals, Festschriften and other volumes, mostly published in different countries and often in different languages.
ref: 1981, “General Editor’s Preface”, in Wilfred Cantwell Smith, On Understanding Islam: Selected Studies (Religion and Reason; 19), The Hague: Mouton Publishers, →ISBN, page v:
text: Now that I have the privilege of publishing these remarks in Lauri Carlson's Festschrift, I want, by way of conclusion, to briefly address an issue he brought up in his contribution [...] to my Festschrift.
ref: 2012, Fred Karlsson, “Is there a Crisis in Generative Linguistics?”, in Diana Santos, Krister Lindén, Wanjiku Ng’ang’a, editors, Shall We Play the Festschrift Game?: Essays on the Occasion of Lauri Carlson’s 60th Birthday, Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, →DOI, →ISBN, page 4:
text: Traditional Festschrifts (or Festschriften) are designed by students and colleagues in honour of a person (usually soon to be or a retiree) they know. This action is very noble. However, Michael Taffart observes in "Gardens or Graveyards of a scholarship?" that the most common failings of Festschriften are lack of "themes, insufficient evidence of strong editorial hands and uneven quality throughout the collection."
ref: 2014, G. M. T. Emezue, Inge Kosch, Maurice Kangel, “Introduction”, in G. M. T. Emezue, Inge Kosch, Maurice Kangel, editors, Justice and Human Dignity in Africa: Collection of Essays in Honour of Professor Austin Chukwu, [s.l.]: HPC Books, →ISBN, page 11:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of festschrift.
sponditious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sponditious
form: most sponditious
Etymology: Popularised by the English comedian Lenny Henry with his Delbert Wilkins character.
Senses: examples: text: All round, a totally sponditious game.
ref: 1988, Tony Dillon, "Nightshade" (video game review) in Sinclair User (issue 70, page 91)
glosses: great, excellent
wikipedia: Lenny Henry
paddleful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paddlefuls
form: paddlesful
Etymology: From paddle + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: He flicked a paddleful of water at me.
glosses: The amount that can be held on, or displaced by, a paddle.
paddlefuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paddleful
rebel flag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rebel flags
Senses: examples: text: In fact, the rebel flag is so prolific in the revival some musicians intentionally avoid using it not because of racially charged meanings but to affirm their own uniqueness and individuality as southern rockers.
ref: 2017, Jason Eastman, The Southern Rock Revival: The Old South in a New World, page 190:
synonyms: Dixie flag
glosses: The Confederate battle flag
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rebel, flag.
Related terms: Confederate flag
Dixie flag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dixie flags
Senses: synonyms: rebel flag
glosses: The Confederate battle flag.
inerasably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inerasably
form: most inerasably
Senses: examples: text: He is an inerasably talented man and a deserved living cinema icon.
ref: 2014, Ron Perlman, Easy Street (the Hard Way): A Memoir, page 9:
glosses: In an inerasable manner.
Synonyms: uneraseably
rawap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rawaps
Etymology: From Uyghur راۋاپ (rawap).
Senses: glosses: a fretless plucked long-necked lute used in Uyghur traditional music
rawaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rawap
similys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of simily
allegorys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allegory
traditionals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of traditional
Mantovanian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mantovanian
form: most Mantovanian
Etymology: From Mantovani + -an.
Senses: glosses: Relating to or characteristic of Annunzio Paolo Mantovani (1905–1980), Anglo-Italian conductor and composer of light orchestral music.
turakoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turakoos
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of turaco.
turakoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turakoo
recreativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From recreative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being recreative.
dipnoous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having both lungs and gills.
Clumber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklʌmbə/
ipa: /ˈklʌmbɚ/
rhymes: -ʌmbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Clumbers
Senses: glosses: A Clumber spaniel.
Clumbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Clumber
penthemim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penthemims
Senses: glosses: Synonym of penthemimeris.
synonyms: word: penthemimeris