cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
panniers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pannier
superorganism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superorganisms
form: super organism
Etymology: From super- + organism.
Senses: examples: text: A superorganism is an ensemble of living and non-living matter, which acts as a single self-regulating system. […] Gaia is the largest and most complex superorganism we know.
ref: 1991, James Lovelock, Healing Gaia, New York: Harmony Books, →ISBN, page 64:
text: To grasp why Metaman—our strange amalgam of concrete, humans, computer chips, and various plants and animals—is a superorganism rather than merely an elaborate “social grouping” of humans, look at another, far simpler grouping of organisms—a termite colony.
ref: 1993, Gregory Stock, Metaman: the Merging of Humans and Machines Into a Global Superorganism, New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 43:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A social colony of individuals who, through division of labour, effective communication and self-organization, form a highly connected community that functions as if it were a single organism.
division of labour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: division of labor
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The separation of work into different categories or tasks, each category or task being carried out by different groups of workers.
Derived terms: sexual division of labour
complection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: complections
Senses: examples: text: c. 1534, Desiderius Eramus, An epystell of ye famous doctor Erasmus of Roterdam, Thomas Godfray (London), p. 46,
What nedeth it here to reherse divers diseases and sicknesses / ye weaknesse of olde men and yonge chyldren / povertie / & the certayn peculyar nature & complection of bodies.
text: All be ye not of one complecction / That cauſeth all day ſuch deuiſion.
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “The Knight’s Tale, as it was Written by Geffrey Chaucer”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 598:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of complexion.
Derived terms: complectional
president-elect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌpɹɛzɪdənt ɪˈlɛkt/
Forms: form: presidents-elect
Etymology: From president + -elect.
Senses: examples: text: If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President-elect shall have died, the Vice President-elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President-elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President-elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President-elect nor a Vice President-elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified. (1932, Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Section 3)
text: Late on the evening of the 3d of March Congress rose, but in point of fact, the change of Executive power was not made until the President elect took the oath of Office.
ref: 1828, [James Fenimore Cooper], “To the Professor Jansen, &c. &c.”, in Notions of the Americans: Picked Up by a Travelling Bachelor. In Two Volumes, volume II, Philadelphia, Pa.: Carey, Lea & Carey, […], →OCLC, page 199:
text: The Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (later to be referred as AFRC) government handed over the reins of government to the president elect of the Third Republic Dr. Hilla Limann, thus ending seven and a half years of military rule.
ref: 1992, Tapan Prasad Biswal, Ghana: Political and Constitutional Developments, page 166:
text: Four in five white evangelicals who cast a vote last week did so for president-elect Trump, who repeatedly encouraged violence at his rallies and bragged that being a celebrity meant no one would stop him from grabbing women “by the pussy”.
ref: 2016 November 16, Sam Thielman, The Guardian:
text: In the first decade after bitcoin’s creation in 2009, the financial planning world was reluctant to consider crypto assets as a serious option for most individual investors. But in the past few years, education about crypto assets has been made more available to professionals. For example, the Financial Planning Association now offers three continuing education courses on crypto, according to FPA president-elect Paul Brahim.
ref: 2024 November 19, Jeanne Sahadi, “Bitcoin has smashed records. Should you invest?”, in CNN Business:
qualifier: sum of parts
glosses: A person who has been elected to a presidency but has not yet been inducted into office.
bye-law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bye-laws
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bylaw.
romping good
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The fans had a romping good fight after the game.
text: Emma's bridge club had a romping good laugh about the champagne cork lodging in Betty's hair.
glosses: Thoroughly successful or satisfying.
out of nowhere
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: It had been no easy matter when he first drifted in mysteriously out of nowhere to their little mountain cottage.
ref: 1906, Jack London, Brown Wolf:
text: Mr Pickering's 'Hi!' came out of nowhere and hit him like a torpedo.
ref: 1916, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 12, in Uneasy Money:
text: The opening goal came out of nowhere and, buoyed, it was a lovely sequence of crisp passes that culminated in Steven Whittaker playing in Nathan Redmond to double the lead.
ref: 2015 May 25, Daniel Taylor, “Norwich reach Premier League after early blitz sees off Middlesbrough”, in The Guardian (London):
glosses: In an unexpected or inexplicable manner of arrival or occurrence.
unquantifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + quantifiable.
Senses: examples: text: The value of being loved is unquantifiable.
glosses: Incapable of being quantified or precisely defined mathematically.
unquantifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unquantifiables
Etymology: From un- + quantifiable.
Senses: glosses: Something that cannot be quantified.
prisoners of war
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prisoner of war
vigintile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vigintiles
Etymology: From Latin viginti (“twenty”) + -ilis (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Any of the values in a series that divides the distribution of individuals in that series into twenty groups of equal frequency.
glosses: Any one of the twenty groups so divided.
Hypernyms: quantile
Coordinate terms: median (2-quantile)
tercile
tertile
quartile
quintile
sextile
septile
octile
decile
hexadecile
ventile
vigintile
centile
percentile (100)
millile (1000)
one-piece
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A one-piece metal hammer with an applied rubbery handgrip is nonetheless one integral piece, because the head, shaft, handle, and butt are cast in a single mold and/or forged as one seamless unit.
text: A man's one-piece swimsuit can be as small as a jock strap, whereas a woman's one-piece swimsuit covers both the genitalia and the breasts.
text: The two-axle bogies, of Metro-Vick swing-link type, are of one-piece cast-steel construction with box-section side frames and headstocks.
ref: 1960 December, “The first hundred 25 kV a.c. electric locomotives for B.R.”, in Train Illustrated, page 728:
glosses: Composed of a single integral unit or so appearing.
Coordinate terms: two-piece
one-piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one-pieces
Senses: glosses: A one-piece article of clothing, especially a swimsuit.
Coordinate terms: two-piece
Related terms: sense: swimsuit
word: monokini
word: three-piece suit
TIA
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of thanks in advance.
TIA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TIAs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of transient ischemic attack.
TIA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Telecommunications Industry Association.
glosses: Initialism of Total Information Awareness.
glosses: Initialism of This Is Africa: a business publication.
tail fin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tail fins
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tailfin.
impositive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impositives
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A kind of causative that describes the patient being put into a certain position.
unsee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unsees
form: unseeing
form: unsaw
form: unseen
Etymology: From un- + see. Compare Middle English unseen, unsen (“to fail to see, be unable to see”).
Senses: examples: text: We have shown the world, and it cannot be unseen, it cannot be unknown, it cannot be forgotten, that Christianity cannot be defended on any ground where Infidelity can get an inch of fair play against it.
ref: 1829, Robert Taylor, “Infidel Mission.—Fifteenth Bulletin”, in The Lion, volume IV, number 10, page 304:
text: I have only seen the performance once; and I would not unsee it again if I could; but none the less I am a broken man after it.
ref: 1897 March 20, George Bernard Shaw, "Shakespeare in Manchester", printed in 1906, Dramatic Opinions and Essays with an Apology by Bernard Shaw, Volume 2, Brentano's (1922), page 215
text: once you’ve seen this you bear always the burden of its sight. And, as Laura says, you can’t unsee it.
ref: 1969, Joseph McElroy, Hind's Kidnap, page 180:
text: Once you saw the face of a god in those jumbled blacks and whites, it was everybody out of the pool—you could never unsee it.
ref: 1977, Stephen King, The Shining:
text: Once one has “seen” the well-known gestalt psychology drawing of the young woman in a fur coat, she cannot be “unseen” after one notices the alternative, an old crone
ref: 1991, E. Roy Weintraub, Stabilizing Dynamics, page 94:
glosses: To undo the act of seeing something; to erase the memory of having seen something, or otherwise reverse the effect of having seen something.
raw_tags: in the negative
Coordinate terms: unhear
Derived terms: what has been seen cannot be unseen
Inuvik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: “I spent a few days there.”
“In Inuvik? Why?”
“I liked it there,” David said. “I was there in the winter and the northern lights were beautiful. The sun never came up, but I liked living by moonlight.”
ref: 2010, Emily St. John Mandel, The Singer’s Gun, Picador (2015), page 205:
glosses: A town in the Northwest Territories, Canada.
acoustography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From acousto- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: An ultrasonic testing method, an imaging process that employs a sensor to convert ultrasound into an image in near real-time, analogous to an X-ray.
ventouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ventouses
form: ventose
Etymology: Possibly continuing Middle English ventouse, ventuse, ventose, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman ventuse; or perhaps a reborrowing directly from French ventouse, or both.
Senses: examples: text: [I]t commeth at length to fall upon the fleſh which the ventoſe ſticketh faſt unto, and by heating and inchafing, it expreſſeth the humor that is within, into the ventoſe or cupping veſſel.
ref: 1603, Plutarch, “Platoniqve Questions”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, question 6, page 1022:
glosses: A cupping glass.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A suction cup-like device used on a baby's head to assist in difficult childbirths.
ventouse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ventouses
form: ventousing
form: ventoused
form: ventoused
Etymology: Possibly continuing Middle English ventouse, ventuse, ventose, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman ventuse; or perhaps a reborrowing directly from French ventouse, or both.
Senses: glosses: To cup; to use a cupping glass.
param
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: params
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
synonyms: parm
glosses: Abbreviation of parameter.
param
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From paracyanamide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: dicyandiamide
fiz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fizzes
form: fizzing
form: fizzed
form: fizzed
Senses: examples: text: “Why, do you know Margaret, I never hear the gallant captain talk, but I think of those small stone bottles one sees by the road-side, in the little green barrows on hot, dusty day. Fiz, fiz, fiz they go, and only seem to be watching an opportunity to fly out in the face of that luckless wight who should be bold enough to cut their restraining wire.”
ref: 1844, Eliza Peake, Honour!:
glosses: Obsolete form of fizz.
fiz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fizzes
Senses: examples: text: When the contents of the papers are dissolved in separate portions of water and the two solutions are then mixed, there results a “fizzy” mixture which is not hard to take. The “fiz” is due to the carbon dioxide (the chief substance desired).
ref: 1930, American Journal of Pharmacy, volume 102, page 26:
glosses: Obsolete form of fizz.
make book
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes book
form: making book
form: made book
form: made book
Senses: examples: text: In the American League, front-running Cleveland was an odds-on favorite with the men who make book on baseball.
ref: 1954 August 30, “Into the Stretch”, in Time:
glosses: To gamble, either by placing or taking bets.
examples: text: "Oh, you can make book that she didn't start no love-making. She ain't the kind to curl up in a man's ear and whisper."
ref: 1909, Rex Ellingwood Beach, chapter 25, in The Silver Horde:
glosses: To be very confident.
crown flower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crown flowers
Senses: glosses: A large shrub, Calotropis gigantea, growing up to 4 meters tall, with clusters of waxy flowers that are either white or lavender in color.
Seljukian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛlˈd͡ʒukiən/
ipa: /sɛld͡ʒʌkiən/
rhymes: -ukiən
rhymes: -ʌkiən
Forms: form: Saljuqian
form: Saljūqian
form: Seljuckian
form: Seljoukian
form: Seljookian
Etymology: From Seljuk + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Romanus at once took the field against the Seljukian hordes, who were now devastating Cappadocia with fiendish cruelty, and had just captured Caesarea and plundered the shrine of St. Basil.
ref: 1921, T.F. Tout, The Empire and the Papacy, 918-1273, page 107:
text: This was the time when the Seljukian Empire in West Asia was dissolved by Mongol invasions, thus causing the out-migration of Seljukian artisans and craftsmen, many of whom found refuge in India under the Khiljis...
ref: 2018, Piyush Tiwari & al., Delhi's Changing Built Environment, §4.7
glosses: Synonym of Seljuk, of or related to Seljuk, his dynasty, their empire, or their period of rule.
synonyms: word: Seljuk
word: of or related to Seljuk
word: his dynasty
word: their empire
word: or their period of rule
Derived terms: Seljukian Empire
Seljukian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛlˈd͡ʒukiən/
ipa: /sɛld͡ʒʌkiən/
rhymes: -ukiən
rhymes: -ʌkiən
Forms: form: Seljukians
form: Saljuqian
form: Saljūqian
form: Seljuckian
form: Seljoukian
form: Seljookian
Etymology: From Seljuk + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Zingis came down upon the Seljukians, and Timour came down upon the Ottomans.
ref: 1908, John Henry Newman, Historical Sketches, volume I, page 76:
text: Living a nomadic life under the leadership of Suleyman Shah, Kai tribe was involved in many battled with Mongol on one hand and Turkmens on the other hand, and at the same time, it had disagreements with Seljukians and suffered famine, drought, and diseases.
ref: 2019 January, Türker Elitaş et al., “Reading Turkey's New Vision Based Real Policies through an Identity and Their Presentation in Series as a Soft Power...”, in Journal of Social Sciences, volume 8, number 1, page 54:
glosses: Synonym of Seljuk, a member of the Seljuk dynasty or person of their empire.
synonyms: word: Seljuk
extra: a member of the Seljuk dynasty or person of their empire
sight glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sight glasses
Senses: glosses: water gauge
write up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: writes up
form: writing up
form: wrote up
form: written up
Senses: examples: text: I can't write up in the attic; it's too cold there in the winter and too hot there in the summer.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see write, up.
examples: text: The supervisor wrote up the personnel report about him.
synonyms: write down
record
transcribe
glosses: To produce by writing.
examples: text: His supervisor wrote him up after their last argument.
text: See also: cite
synonyms: write down
glosses: To document officially the faults, offenses, or wrongdoing of.
examples: text: The paper wrote up the team's prospects.
text: See also: talk up
antonyms: write down
glosses: To write about positively; to praise in writing.
topics: accounting
business
finance
antonyms: write down
devalue
glosses: To make an upward adjustment in the value of an asset.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: To annotate a stamp album page with details about the stamp, such as die used or colour variety.
writeup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: writeups
Etymology: Deverbal from write up.
Senses: examples: text: I will be the first to concede that my writeups for the fourth season of The Simpsons have so far been suspiciously devoid of criticism.
ref: 2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2012:
text: The Zurich group has shared a preliminary writeup of its findings.
ref: 2025 April 28, Kate Travis, “Experiment using AI-generated posts on Reddit draws fire for ethics concerns”, in Retraction Watch:
glosses: Alternative spelling of write-up.
gemmology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gemology
Etymology: from Latin gemma (“gem”) + -logy (“science”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the branch of mineralogy that studies mineral gems and petrified gemstones
Derived terms: gemmological
gemmologist
mark down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: marks down
form: marking down
form: marked down
form: marked down
Senses: glosses: To reduce the price of.
glosses: To write a memorandum about.
examples: text: The writing is good, but I had to mark you down for failing to cite references.
glosses: To subtract marks or points from, for an error.
glosses: To write down.
examples: text: They could not take what he'd become / and mark him down as free, / and so they trapped him with his dream / and nailed him to a tree.
ref: 2012, Bill Comeau, “The Hymn of Hope”, in The Tao of Pokey, page 9:
glosses: To draw a conclusion about something; to consider something to be a certain way. (Typically used with as.)
sew up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sews up
form: sewing up
form: sewed up
form: sewn up
Senses: examples: text: Amongst the Narrinyeri in South Australia men of the Snake clan sometimes catch snakes, pull out their teeth or sew up their mouths, and keep them as pets.
ref: 1887, James George Frazer, Totemism, page 14:
glosses: To seal by sewing.
examples: text: Threatening to veto the Berkshire offer suggests the fund doesn't have the financing sewn up and is stalling for time.
ref: 2017 August 17, Lauren Silva Laughlin, “In Battle Over Texas Utility, Elliott Is Grasping at Straws”, in New York Times, retrieved 25 Aug 2018:
glosses: To bring a matter to a full conclusion that deals with all outstanding issues or other concerns.
Related terms: sewed up
sew-ups
light into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lights into
form: lighting into
form: lit into
form: lit into
form: lighted into
form: lighted into
Etymology: Phrasal verb from light (“to get down, drop, come”, verb) + into (“against”, preposition).
Senses: examples: text: [H]e lit into that horse with his whip.
ref: 1885, Mark Twain, chapter 22, in Huckleberry Finn:
text: [S]he lit into everybody else in the church and gave them a fearful raking down, calling them right out by name and telling them how they all had behaved, and casting up all the quarrels and scandals of the past ten years.
ref: 1915, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 11, in Anne of the Island:
text: "Father grabbed the two guns and told me to light into the other man. I jumped on him and started choking him."
ref: 1935 April 25, “U.S. Judge and Wife Killed by Bandits”, in Montreal Gazette, retrieved 16 Jan 2010:
text: He speaks with more passion than ever, lighting into George W. Bush for fumbling the economy.
ref: 2003 January 13, Diane Roberts, “Graham would make Florida proud”, in St. Petersburg Times, retrieved 16 Jan 2010:
glosses: To set upon or attack.
Synonyms: sense: attack physically
word: assail
sense: attack physically
word: assault
sense: attack physically
word: lace into
sense: attack physically
word: lam into
sense: attack physically
word: rip into
sense: attack physically
word: tear into
sense: attack verbally
word: criticize
sense: attack verbally
word: dress down
sense: attack verbally
word: excoriate
sense: attack verbally
word: lace into
sense: attack verbally
word: lam into
sense: attack verbally
word: rebuke
sense: attack verbally
word: reprimand
sense: attack verbally
word: rip into
sense: attack verbally
word: scold
sense: attack verbally
word: tear into
bastard wing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bastard wings
Senses: glosses: A tuft of feathers borne by the bony thumb-like structure in a bird's wing; alula.
Vice-President-elect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Vice-Presidents-elect
Etymology: From Vice-President + -elect.
Senses: glosses: The person elected Vice-President of the United States between the time of the election victory on or after Election Day to installation in office usually on Inauguration Day.
-elect
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From elect.
Senses: examples: text: Senator-elect Li will be sworn in next month.
glosses: Used after a title to indicate that the person has been elected to hold the title, but has not yet officially taken it.
fresh country eggs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fresh country egg
Senses: glosses: A common way to describe ordinary chicken eggs on a breakfast menu, especially in expensive restaurants and hotels.
examples: text: It is difficult to see how a user of eggs could afford to pay such prices when fresh country eggs are being sold by farmers to country grocers at this moment for prices ranging above and below 20 cents a dozen in trade.
ref: 1914, United States. Dept. of Agriculture, Farmers' bulletin, numbers 601-625, page 17:
text: Every Saturday a farmer came to our door selling fresh country eggs from his big round basket covered with straw.
ref: 2006, Frank J. Kennedy, A Corner Boy Remembers: Growing Up in St. John's, page 8:
text: He started shipping about half a case of fresh country eggs to my parents every week or two.
ref: 2008, Bill Rieckhoff, The God Who Discovered Me: A Spiritual Journey, page 8:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fresh, country, eggs.
President-elect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Presidents-elect
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of president-elect.
at sight
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: payable at sight
to shoot a person at sight
glosses: As soon as seen, or presented to sight.
Synonyms: on sight
Vice-President
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Vice-Presidents
Senses: examples: text: Section. 4. The president, vice-president and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
ref: 1787 September 12, Committee of Style and Arrangement, Constitution of the United States (Draft), Philadelphia:
text: It was settled, as long ago as the first Congress, at the instance of Madison, then in the Senate, and by the deciding vote of John Adams, then Vice-President, that even where the advice and consent of the Senate was necessary to the appointment of an officer, the President had the absolute power to remove him without consulting the Senate.
ref: 1916, William Howard Taft, Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers, New York: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 56:
text: At the January 16 meeting of the Railway Club, Mr. Charles E. Lee, Vice-President, read a paper entitled "Class Distinction," in which he traced the very gradual development (at any rate, with main-line railways) of provision for lower-class passengers; the reduction in discrimination; and the preponderating position of the third class today.
ref: 1943 May and June, “Notes and News: The Railway Club”, in Railway Magazine, page 176:
text: In April, 1975, people in the Republic of China were in deep mourning over the death of their beloved national leader, President Chiang Kai-shek. In a deliberate move to downgrade Sino-American relations, Washington at first decided to send Earl Butz, Secretary of Agriculture, to attend the Gimo's funeral, but later changed its mind and sent Vice-President Nelson Rockefeller.
ref: 1983, James C. H. Shen, “Beginnings of Endings”, in Robert Myers, editor, The U.S. & Free China: How the U.S. Sold Out Its Ally, Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books Ltd., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 12:
glosses: Alternative form of Vice President.
Election Day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Election Days
form: election day
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The day on which a general election is designated to be held.
examples: text: Voters returned nearly 64 million mail-in ballots before Election Day, a pandemic-driven record that is certain to make for a more complicated vote count this year but could also reshape American elections for years to come.
ref: 2020 November 3, Stephanie Saul, Danny Hakim, “As Counting Begins, a Flood of Mail Ballots Complicates Vote Tallies”, in New York Times:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The day on which general elections are held in the United States, usually the Tuesday following the first Monday in November.
topics: government
politics
glosses: The day on which general elections are held in the Philippines, usually on the second Monday of May.
Synonyms: polling day
Inauguration Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: President Trump listens to a lot of voices, and he will think it over, and then he’ll make a decision. And clearly, the tech broligarchs have, because of their ability to get in there, and I consider the Inauguration Day like they’re on display, like on the deck of the battleship Missouri.
ref: 2025 January 31, Ross Douthat, quoting Steve Bannon, “Steve Bannon on ‘Broligarchs’ vs. Populism”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 01 Feb 2025:
glosses: The day on which a President and a Vice-President of the United States takes office, now on January 20 after a Presidential election, before 1936 on March 4.
gazabo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəˈzeɪbəʊ/
Forms: form: gazabos
form: gazaboes
Etymology: Possibly from Spanish gazapo (“sly fellow”).
Senses: glosses: guy, fellow
fantasmagoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fantasmagorias
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phantasmagoria.
sploshing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sploshings
Etymology: In sense “wet and messy fetish”, coined or popularized by 1989 British magazine Splosh!
Senses: glosses: A splosh, or the sounds of a splosh.
examples: text: Each one is based around a genuine fetish: sploshing, clown fetishism, mermaid fetishism (there are numerous erotic mermaid performers), furryism, hybristophilia (arousal from having sex with a convicted criminal), […]
ref: 2021, Emily Dubberley, Fantasy Sex:
glosses: Synonym of wet and messy fetishism.
synonyms: word: wet and messy fetishism
sploshing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: In sense “wet and messy fetish”, coined or popularized by 1989 British magazine Splosh!
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of splosh
gloop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡluːp/
rhymes: -uːp
Forms: form: gloops
Etymology: Onomatopoeic; similar to glop or goop.
Senses: examples: text: And when it comes to mochi, the Japanese rice dough, much of its appeal can be attributed to a glorious bounce or a gelatinous squish or a comforting kind of gloop.
ref: 2016 June 27, Tejal Rao, “Making Mochi, a Japanese Treat That’s All About Texture”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Mr. Stink smiled, before letting the last sludge of his volcanic gloop slip down his throat.
ref: 2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Any gooey, viscous substance.
Synonyms: glop
goo
goop
slime
slop
Derived terms: gloopy
gloop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡluːp/
rhymes: -uːp
Forms: form: gloops
form: glooping
form: glooped
form: glooped
Etymology: Onomatopoeic; similar to glop or goop.
Senses: glosses: To flow like goo or goop, to move in a slushy way.
glosses: To cover someone in gloop or goo.
forgetter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forgetters
Etymology: From forget + -er.
Senses: glosses: one who forgets, fails to remember something
will-o'-wisp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪl ə ˈwɪsp/
Forms: form: will-o'-wisps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of will o' the wisp.
smoochy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: smoochier
form: smoochiest
Etymology: From smooch + -y.
Senses: examples: text: We had a long smoochy kiss.
text: At last something interesting. MTV — the twenty-four hour mirror channel. The Cat gazed lovingly at his reflected image, while smoochy music piped softly through the speakers.
ref: 1989, Grant Naylor, Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers:
glosses: Excessively romantic.
Derived terms: smoochy-woochy
spoofer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spoofers
Etymology: From spoof + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who spoofs.
examples: text: an IP address spoofer
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer program that falsifies something.
from on high
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Through the tender mercy of our God, whereby the day-spring from on high hath visited vs,
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 1:78:
text: Can we whose souls are lighted
With Wisdom from on high,
Can we to men benighted
The lamp of life deny?
ref: 1819, Reginald Heber, The Missionary Hymn:
text: He reached down from on high and took hold of me; he drew me out of deep waters.
ref: 1984, New International Version (Bible translation), Psalms 18:16
glosses: From Heaven, from above.
examples: text: For the rest, that the Manchester Insurrection could yet discern no radiance of Heaven on any side of its horizon; but feared that all lights, of the O’Connor or other sorts, hitherto kindled, where but deceptive fish-oil transparencies, or bog will-o’-wisp lights, and no dayspring from on high: for this also we will honour the poor Manchester Insurrection, and augur well of it.
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “chapter 3 (Manchester Insurrection)”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book I (Proem):
text: The whole point of America is that we are all supposed to be our own masters, never viewing anyone as being by birth or situation inherently better or more capable than ourselves, and so the notion of relying upon some nebulous class of investment bankers to “channel opportunity” from on high strikes me as being un-American.
ref: 2010 January 27, Matt Taibbi, “Populism: Just Like Racism!”, in True/Slant, archived from the original on 19 Jan 2013:
glosses: From people with power or authority.
jugal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin jugum (“yoke”).
Senses: glosses: Relating to a yoke or marriage.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the jugal bone.
Derived terms: bijugal
epijugal
lachrymojugal
maxillojugal
nasojugal
quadratojugal
quadrijugal
jugal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jugals
Etymology: From Latin jugum (“yoke”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A bone found in the skull of most reptiles, amphibians and birds; the equivalent of a malar in mammals.
Derived terms: retrojugal
subjugal
subjugal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + jugal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Below the jugal bone or zygomatic bone.
unfrugal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + frugal.
Senses: glosses: Not frugal.
quadratojugal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quadrato- + jugal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the quadrate and jugal bones.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the quadratojugal bone.
Related terms: quadratojugular
quadratojugal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadratojugals
Etymology: From quadrato- + jugal.
Senses: examples: example
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A small jaw bone found in the skull of most reptiles, amphibians and birds.
nucha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnjuːkə/
ipa: /ˈn(j)ukə/
Forms: form: nuchae
form: nuke
Etymology: From Middle English nucha, nuche, nuca, nuka, nuke (“spinal cord”), borrowed from Medieval Latin nucha (“spinal cord; nape of the neck”). Doublet of nuque.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The spinal cord.
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: The back of the neck, the nape; of an animal: the back of the head or the portion of the body behind the head.
Derived terms: nuchal
nuchal ligament
nychthemera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nychthemerons
Senses: glosses: plural of nychthemeron
vomiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vomiters
Etymology: From vomit + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who vomits.
glosses: Chlorophyllum molybdites, a poisonous mushroom.
nychthemerons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nychthemera
Senses: glosses: plural of nychthemeron
nycthemeron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nycthemera
form: nycthemerons
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nychthemeron.
minshuku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minshukus
form: minshuku
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 民宿.
Senses: glosses: A type of hotel found in Japan, a cheaper version of a ryokan.
pengulu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pengulus
form: pangulu
form: penghulu
Senses: glosses: A leader of a colonial-style village or tribe, in some islands of Indonesia.
framily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: framilies
Etymology: Blend of friend + family
Senses: examples: text: Often, these groups would include at least one gay character who would be depicted sympathetically, if usually as desexualised. Movies focused specifically on gay/queer framilies produced.
ref: 2007, Glyn Davis, Queer as folk, page 60:
glosses: A group of friends who are close like a family.
plip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪp
Forms: form: plips
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: He heard the plips of rain on the roof.
glosses: A light sound or action like liquid hitting a surface.
plip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪp
Forms: form: plips
form: plipping
form: plipped
form: plipped
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: To make the sound of liquid hitting a hard surface.
plip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪp
Forms: form: plips
form: plipping
form: plipped
form: plipped
Etymology: From Plip (“remote control locking device”), perhaps influenced by onomatopoeia.
Senses: examples: text: 2004, Jenny Colgan, Isla Dewar, Muriel Gray, et al. (contributors), Scottish Girls About Town, page 69,
[…] was unloading bags from the boot of a tiny, shiny, black Ka thing which she then plipped shut with an electronic key.
text: I point it out to my companion, but he's already moving ahead of me, aiming the remote at the Porsche and plipping it open.
ref: 2009, Matt Beaumont, Staying Alive, unnumbered page:
text: He plipped the locks on the pool car, stuck the keys in his pocket and flexed his aching left hand.
ref: 2011, Stuart MacBride, Shatter the Bones, unnumbered page:
glosses: To lock or unlock using a remote control locking device.
Related terms: plipper
plop
show globe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: show globes
Senses: glosses: A glass vessel containing coloured liquid, formerly (from the 17th century) displayed outside pharmacies.
unclip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unclips
form: unclipping
form: unclipped
form: unclipped
Etymology: From un- + clip.
Senses: glosses: To release something by removing a clip.
climbing wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: climbing walls
Senses: topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An artificial wall used for the sport of climbing
berborite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: berborites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A colorless trigonal or hexagonal mineral, with chemical formula Be₂(BO₃)(OH,F)·(H₂O).
berryite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: berryites
Etymology: Named for Leonard Gascoigne Berry, an American mineralogist, + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A blue-gray opaque mineral, with chemical formula Pb₃(Ag,Cu)₅Bi₇S₁₆.
alleygating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From alley + gating.
Senses: examples: text: Alleygating has been shown to work. A number of criminal or anti-social acts can be curtailed or eliminated if security gates are installed.
glosses: The erection of lockable gates at the ends of alleys and passages.
berthierite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: berthierites
Etymology: Named for Pierre Berthier, a French chemist, + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A steel-gray opaque mineral, with chemical formula FeSb₂S₄.
wikipedia: Pierre Berthier
lockable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lock + -able.
Senses: examples: text: A desk for personal use with a file drawer that can be locked or a separate lockable file are ^([sic]) also a necessity.
ref: 1987, Henry P Coppolillo, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy of Children:
text: Because we would be away from the car for an hour or more and because the carrier, though zippable, was not lockable and, in any event, was slashable, we put all the suitcases, etc., in the car with us while we drove downtown from the motel.
ref: 2015, Paul Gabler, Slices of a Life:
antonyms: unlockable
glosses: Capable of being locked.
Derived terms: lockability
lockably
nonlockable
bepurple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)pəl
Forms: form: bepurples
form: bepurpling
form: bepurpled
form: bepurpled
Etymology: From be- + purple.
Senses: glosses: To tinge or dye with a purple color.
bequeathable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bequeath + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being bequeathed.
Derived terms: unbequeathable
bequeathment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bequeathments
Etymology: From bequeath + -ment.
Senses: synonyms: bequeathal
glosses: The act of bequeathing, or the state of being bequeathed; a bequest.
bequethen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of bequeath
backtick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæk.tɪk/
rhymes: -æktɪk
Forms: form: backticks
Etymology: From back + tick.
Senses: examples: text: The backtick acts like the double-quote operator.
ref: 2000, Lincoln D Stein, Network Programming with Perl:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The symbol `, resembling a reversed quotation mark.
Synonyms: backquote
Derived terms: backticked
Related terms: grave accent
bequoth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of bequeath
backquote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backquotes
Etymology: From back + quote.
Senses: examples: text: The form that follows the backquote is not evaluated, except for certain items.
ref: 1988, Wendy L Milner, Common Lisp: A Tutorial:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The symbol `, resembling a reversed quotation mark.
Synonyms: backtick
Related terms: grave accent
backquote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backquotes
form: backquoting
form: backquoted
form: backquoted
Etymology: From back + quote.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To enclose (text) in backquotes.
backticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backtick
bleepiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of bleepy: most bleepy
bleepier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of bleepy: more bleepy
bergylt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bergylts
Senses: synonyms: hemdurgan
Norway haddock
ocean perch
redfish
rosefish
glosses: A rose fish (Sebastes norvegicus), an edible red fish of the North Atlantic.
glosses: A Ballan wrasse (Labrus bergylta), a fish of the North Atlantic.
bernacle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bernacles
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of barnacle.
raw_tags: of horses
berthage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: berthages
Etymology: From berth + -age.
Senses: glosses: A place for mooring vessels in a dock or harbor.
Synonyms: berth
unlockable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒkəbəl
Etymology: From un- + lockable.
Senses: examples: text: The facilities at Harvard Law School included lockable and unlockable carrels and lockable rooms. The lockable carrels and rooms were limited in number and were assigned to students by priority based on age.
ref: 1980, Commerce Clearing House, Tax court memorandum decisions: Volume 38:
text: Casters can be swivel, rigid, lockable, or unlockable.
ref: 2003, David E. Mulcahy, John Dieltz, Order fulfillment and across the dock concepts, design operations handbook, page 172:
glosses: Not capable of being locked.
Derived terms: unlockability
unlockable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒkəbəl
Etymology: From unlock + -able.
Senses: examples: text: This unlockable demo allows customers to use the full-featured product free for seven days.
ref: 1998, Brent D Heslop, David A Holzgang, HTML Publishing on the Internet:
glosses: Capable of being unlocked.
unlockable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒkəbəl
Forms: form: unlockables
Etymology: From unlock + -able.
Senses: examples: text: But usually when people refer to the metagame, they mean things such as unlockables or customizable features.
ref: 2012, Keith Burgun, Game Design Theory: A New Philosophy for Understanding Games, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 98:
topics: video-games
glosses: An initially hidden feature that is made available to reward the player for some achievement.
benben stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benben stones
Etymology: From Egyptian bnbn (“Benben, the first mound or stone to arise from the primordial waters at the creation of the world”)—compare bnbnt (“pyramidion”)—and stone.
Senses: examples: text: Out of the benben stone, on its substructure representing the primeval hill, developed the religious symbol which we know as the obelisk.
ref: 1991, H W F Saggs, Civilization Before Greece and Rome:
text: According to beliefs, the pyramidion on its apex represents the benben stone, an ancient object that was thought to receive the first rays of the rising sun.
ref: 2001, Martin Isler, Sticks, Stones, and Shadows: Building the Egyptian Pyramids:
glosses: A sacred stone found in solar temples in ancient Egypt.
wikipedia: Benben
therewhile
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From there + while.
Senses: glosses: At that time; at the same time
theorical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɪə.ɹɪ.kəl/
ipa: /ˈθi.ə.ɹɪ.kəl/
Etymology: From Middle English theorycall, from Latin theōricus + -al. By surface analysis, theory + -ical.
Senses: glosses: theoretical
theorically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From theoric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: theoretically
undividable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + dividable.
Senses: glosses: not dividable
Synonyms: indivisible
undivorceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + divorceable.
Senses: examples: text: In spite of the shamefaced end of their affair, the three years with him—well, near him; he was mightily undivorceable—were wonderful.
ref: 2003, Toni Morrison, Love, Vintage (2016), page 83:
glosses: Not divorceable; unable to divorce.
glosses: Inseparable; that cannot be separated.
divorceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: divorcible
Etymology: From divorce + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to divorce.
glosses: That can be divorced (separated, e.g. conceptually); separable.
Derived terms: undivorceable
unembarrassedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unembarrassedly
form: most unembarrassedly
Etymology: From unembarrassed + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unembarrassed manner; not embarrassedly.
unembraceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unembracable
Etymology: From un- + embraceable.
Senses: glosses: Not embraceable; not able to be embraced.
ballin'
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Pronunciation spelling of balling. From basketballing, from basketball (referring to the high pay of professional basketballers).
Senses: examples: text: Now this niggah home and gettin' it, rockin the new tinted-out Q45, new kicks and throwbacks every day, draped in jewels. The niggah was ballin'.
ref: 2007, Edd McNair, Turning Point:
text: My niggas is ballin' / You niggas is hatin' / Cameras everywhere I go.
ref: 2011, Meek Mill [Robert Williams], “I'm Me”, in Dreamchasers:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Having an ostentatiously wealthy lifestyle.
Related terms: ball
baller
balling
ballin' the jack
b-ball
unfillable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English unfillable; equivalent to un- + fillable.
Senses: examples: text: What was I supposed to do for the rest of my life? The rest of the afternoon alone seemed unfillable.
ref: 1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, Vintage (2019), page 37:
glosses: Not fillable; not able to be filled.
unfillable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From unfill + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be unfilled.
fillable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fill + -able.
Senses: glosses: able to be filled
Derived terms: fillability
unfillable
unfist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unfists
form: unfisting
form: unfisted
form: unfisted
Etymology: From un- + fist.
Senses: glosses: To unclench (one's fist)