cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
same-minded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more same-minded
form: most same-minded
Etymology: From same + minded. Compare like-minded.
Senses: examples: text: Now, finally, all, same-minded, sympathetic, fraternally friendly, compassionate, lowly-minded, not giving back a base thing for a base thing or reviling for reviling but contrariwise, continuing to bless, because for this you were [...]
ref: 1945, Richard Charles, Henry Lenski, Interpretation of I and II Epistles of Peter:
text: [...] a minded creature, but we recognize each other as same-minded and as persons who have access to their minds from a first-person perspective.
ref: 2006, Karsten R. Stueber, Rediscovering empathy:
glosses: Having or being of the same mind or mindset; similar in thought or thinking.
glosses: In agreement; harmonious.
Derived terms: same-mindedness
same-minded
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more same-minded
form: most same-minded
Etymology: From same + minded. Compare like-minded.
Senses: examples: text: Paul thus asks the single-minded and integer ones to walk same-minded, uttering hereby his confidence that the Lord makes this unity possible, no matter what different opinions the brethren may have.
ref: 2006, Lucie Bardiau-Huys, The Kingdom in the Republic:
glosses: With the same mind or mindset; in an agreeable or harmonious way.
suckboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suckboys
Etymology: From suck + boy.
Senses: examples: text: Lawson, use that one-eye to scour my brain like a cheese grater – regale me with tales of your literary output over the years and I shall forever be your biggest suckboy.
ref: 2005, Mike Philbin, The Life and Death of Hertzan Chimera, page 82:
glosses: An obsequious man; a male yesman or suckup.
suck-boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suck-boy
suckboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suckboy
cumsicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cumsicles
Etymology: From cum + -sicle.
Senses: examples: text: Should I decide if and when you should cum, You will ejaculate into an ice cube tray to be frozen for your "cumsicle treats" for future calls.
ref: 2004 May 24, Cassandra, “Teasing and Denial with Cassandra...I'll take you to the edge and keep you there”, in alt.sex.phone.ads (Usenet):
text: Our intern Harlan here jerked off into an ice tray for a week to make 12 cumsicles, so he knows the answer to that.
ref: 2007 June, “Jizz Pops”, in Vice, volume 5, number 6, page 36:
text: Because these days I'm masturbating to frozen cumsicles, felching fanatics and fisting fuckers.
ref: 2010 May/June, “The Sword: Gay. Sex. Life.”, in JustUsBoys, volume 6, number 3, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2010, page 34:
text: I want to jerk you off into a popsicle mould, I wanna freeze that cumsicle and I’m gonna deep throat it. [makes gagging sounds]
ref: 2011 June 16, Siobhan M. Ramos, quoting DogiojoeXZ, “Know Your Role.”: Categorising Insults and Harassment Received by Female Gamers on Xbox Live (master's thesis), Cork, Ireland: National University of Ireland, published 2014, retrieved 14 Feb 2022, page 108:
glosses: Semen frozen for consumption as food or lube.
cumsicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cumsicle
reaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reafs
Senses: examples: text: A large number of vessels continued to be wrecked, and a vast amount of property is lost on the Florida reafs.
ref: 1834 August 2, Niles' Register, page 384:
text: The largest ships may pass between the outer reafs and the Black rocks.
ref: 1891, H. A. Moriarty, Islands in the Southern Indian Ocean, Westward of Longitude 80° east, including Madagascar, page 124:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of reef.
birdhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bird + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being a bird.
pressure gauge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pressure gauges
form: pressure gage
Senses: glosses: An apparatus used to measure pressure in a tyre, pressurised tank, boiler etc.
Synonyms: manometer
mer-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɜː/
ipa: /ˈmɝ/
homophone: murr
homophone: murre
homophone: myrrh (all fern–fir–fur merger)
homophone: mare (fair–fur merger)
Etymology: From Middle English mere-, from Old English mere-, from Proto-Germanic *mari-, from Proto-Germanic *mari (“sea”). More at mere.
Senses: examples: mercow, mermaid, merman, merswine, mersnake
glosses: sea; marine; applied to beings that are fully or partly sea-creatures.
mer-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɜː/
ipa: /ˈmɝ/
homophone: murr
homophone: murre
homophone: myrrh (all fern–fir–fur merger)
homophone: mare (fair–fur merger)
Etymology: Extracted from merman, mermaid.
Senses: examples: merlady, merfolk, merwife, mermonster
topics: fantasy
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or associated with the realm of mermaids and mermen.
mer-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɜː/
ipa: /ˈmɝ/
homophone: murr
homophone: murre
homophone: myrrh (all fern–fir–fur merger)
homophone: mare (fair–fur merger)
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mero- (“part, partial”) used before a vowel
prestigiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prestigiations
Etymology: From Latin praestigiare (“to deceive by juggling tricks”), from praestigae. See prestige.
Senses: glosses: legerdemain; prestidigitation (deception, or juggling)
prestigiations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prestigiation
fibroscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fibroscopes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fibrescope.
Derived terms: nasofibroscope
timoneer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: timoneers
Etymology: French timonier, from timon (“a helm”), from Latin temo, temonis (“a pole”).
Senses: glosses: A helmsman.
timoneers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timoneer
item set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: item sets
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: A set of production rules which have an identical sequence of symbols between the right arrow (→) and the dot (•).
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A group of related items.
mermin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English mereminne, from Old English meremennen, meremenin (“siren”), equivalent to mer- + man. Cognate with Middle Dutch merminne, Middle Low German merminne, Middle High German mereminne, merminne (“mermaid”). More at merman.
Senses: glosses: A mermaid or merman.
Related terms: merfolk
merlady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merladies
Etymology: From mer- + lady.
Senses: glosses: A mermaid.
Synonyms: mergirl
mermaid
mermaiden
merwoman
merwife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merwives
Etymology: From Old English merewīf (“water witch, mermaid”), from Proto-West Germanic *mariwīb, from Proto-Germanic *mariwībą (“mermaid, siren”). By surface analysis, mer- + wife. Cognate with Old High German meriwīb.
Senses: glosses: A mermaid.
concorporation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concorporations
Etymology: From Latin concorporatio.
Senses: examples: text: eternally One with our God, by true and strong unitie Concorporation with the Mundane sprite
ref: 1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul, so Farre Forth as It is Demonstrable from the Knowledge of Nature and the Light of Reason, London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for William Morden […], →OCLC:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: union of things or entities in one mass or body
concorporations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concorporation
markhoor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: markhoors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of markhor.
markhoors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of markhoor
melicotoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melicotoons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of melocoton.
melicotoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melicotoon
merbaby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merbabies
Etymology: From mer- + baby.
Senses: examples: text: "She should have stayed in the ocean where she belonged. She could have married some nice young merman and had some cute little merbabies and lived a long, happy life—"
ref: 1997, Elizabeth Lane, The Tycoon and the Townie, Harlequin, →ISBN:
text: There were mermaids with gold chains around slinky long tails, swimming along with little merchildren. One had a merbaby on her back, the tiniest little pink tail sticking out from under its sling.
ref: 2003, Liz Kessler, The Tail of Emily Windsnap, Scholastic, →ISBN, page 57:
text: But Anna held the merbaby tight and carried her towards the sea.
ref: 2009, Penny Kendal, Merbaby, Evans Brothers Limited, →ISBN, page 35:
glosses: A baby mermaid or merman.
Hypernyms: merchild
merkid
subreptitious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subreptitious
form: most subreptitious
Etymology: Latin subreptitius. See surreptitious.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of surreptitious.
Related terms: subreptitiously
perdifoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perdifoils
Etymology: Derived from Latin perdere (“to lose”) + folium (“leaf”).
Senses: examples: text: [M]any of the perdifoils of cold climates, when transplanted to warmer climates, become evergreens.
ref: 1803, Benjamin Smith Barton, Elements of Botany:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
antonyms: evergreen
glosses: Any deciduous plant.
perdifoils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perdifoil
merbabies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merbaby
cittern-head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cittern-heads
form: citternhead
Etymology: So called because the handle of a cittern usually ended with a carved head.
Senses: examples: text: Shall brainless cittern-heads, each jobbernoul, / Pocket the very genius of thy soul?
ref: 1599, W. Kinsayder or Theriomastix [pseudonyms; John Marston], The Scourge of Villanie. […], London: […] I[ames] R[oberts], →OCLC; republished as G[eorge] B[agshawe] Harrison, editor, The Scourge of Villanie (The Bodley Head Quartos; 13), London: John Lane, The Bodley Head […]; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Company, 1925, →OCLC:
glosses: A blockhead; a dunce.
cittern-heads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cittern-head
merhusband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merhusbands
Etymology: From mer- + husband. Compare merwife.
Senses: examples: text: A human female starts to long for all her friends and relations ashore, and eventually forsakes her merhusband. A mermaid begins to yearn for the wild freedom of life among the waves, and finds it is very difficult to adjust to the dry [...]
ref: 1987, Michael F. Page, Robert R. Ingpen, Encyclopedia of things that never were: creatures, places, and people:
glosses: A merman, especially one who is married; a merman taken as a husband.
catchweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catchweeds
Etymology: From catch + weed?
Senses: synonyms: catchweed bedstraw
cleavers
clivers
robin-run-the-hedge
goosegrass
sticky willy
glosses: A plant, cleavers (Galium aparine)
catchweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catchweed
mercreature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mercreatures
form: mer-creature
Etymology: From mer- + creature.
Senses: examples: text: But there was one among them who looked different, a mercreature with arms that glowed like pearl and a purple tail, flying higher than the others, almost as if she would lake wing.
ref: 2007, Amanda Hemingway, The Poisoned Crown:
glosses: A creature of the sea, especially one which is mythical.
pressure gauges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pressure gauge
merbeast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merbeasts
Etymology: From mer- + beast.
Senses: examples: text: Prince Mador straddled a merbeast behind.
ref: 2003, J. Robert King, Lancelot Du Lethe:
glosses: A beast of the sea, especially one which is mythical; a mercreature.
mermonster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mermonsters
Etymology: From mer- + monster.
Senses: examples: text: It concerned a mermaid, a mermonster, and a giant turtle in a hokey love story and a murky plot.
ref: 1980, Richard Meyers, The World of Fantasy Films:
qualifier: mythical
glosses: A monster of the sea; a sea-monster.
piewipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piewipes
Etymology: Imitative of its note.
Senses: glosses: A bird, the lapwing or peewit.
piewipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piewipe
chemolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to chemolysis.
Derived terms: thermochemolytic
chemolyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemolysis
chemolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kiːˈmɒlɪsɪs/
rhymes: -ɒlɪsɪs
Forms: form: chemolyses
Etymology: From chemo- + -lysis.
Senses: examples: text: By continuing the study of chemolysis we shall probably be able to learn more about the changes of the muscles in disease, as well as about the ingredients of flesh extracts which are at present unknown.
ref: 1872, J. L. W. Thudichum, A Manual of Chemical Physiology, page 40:
text: Likewise, the use of chemolysis for stone dissolution has declined dramatically. Although its indications have diminished, chemolysis should not be discounted as a useless technique from the past .
ref: 2007, Russell M. Freid, Arthur D. Smith, “Chemolysis of Urinary Calculi”, in Arthur D. Smith, editor, Smith's Textbook of Endourology, page 149:
text: This section gives an elaborative view over the difference between the products obtained by combined chemolysis with respect to mechanical recycling and conventional chemolysis of PU foam.
ref: 2018, Sabu Thomas, Ajay Vasudeo Rane, Krishnan Kanny, Recycling of Polyurethane Foams, page 94:
glosses: The decomposition of organic substance into more simple bodies, by the use of chemical agents.
Derived terms: thermochemolysis
Related terms: chemolytic
merqueen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merqueens
Etymology: From mer- + queen.
Senses: examples: text: Have you ever met any from the sea clan Merqueen and Saxon merman […]
ref: 2006, Lunar-k, Angels, Fairies, Mermaids & Warriors:
text: Then Brigit followed singing: The merqueen picks the dolphin, The merqueen picks the dolphin, High, ho, the dario, The merqueen picks the dolphin.
ref: 2009, Clark Smith, Patricia Clark Smith, Baiting Hollow: A Time of Enchantment:
glosses: A mermaid, especially one who is a queen.
wiltable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From wilt + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of wilting.
mermonsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mermonster
love glove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: love gloves
Etymology: Chosen for the rhyme.
Senses: examples: text: She seemed like she should be accompanied by one of those miniature dogs with a bow in its hair and a heart rate of 1,000 beats per minute and should carry one of those little rhinestone purses that couldn't possibly hold more than a lipstick and a love glove.
ref: 1995 June, Paula Poundstone, “Republican field guide”, in Mother Jones:
synonyms: word: condom
word: cum catcher
word: rubber
glosses: A condom.
Related terms: no glove, no love
theriodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theriodonts
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Any of the Theriodontia, a major group of therapsids which appeared during the Middle Permian.
theriodonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of theriodont
merkingdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merkingdoms
Etymology: From mer- + kingdom.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, Eric fulfills his role as heroic rescuer by saving the woman he loves and the merkingdom from danger, and thus a relationship is constructed between a strong, invulnerable heroic protector and weak, vulnerable victims (Ariel and the kingdom).
ref: 2011, Justin Charlebois, Gender and the Construction of Hegemonic and Oppositional Femininities, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 98:
text: Merpeople came from all over the merkingdom to visit and study.
ref: 2012, Debbie Dadey, Whale of a Tale, Aladdin, →ISBN, page 24:
text: Marrying Sabyn to get control of a merkingdom that had obviously decided it didn't want me as a ruler was not an acceptable thing to do.
ref: 2013, Tracy Deebs, Tempest Revealed, Walker Books for Young Readers, →ISBN:
topics: fantasy
glosses: A kingdom of merfolk.
love gloves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of love glove
merworld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mer- + world.
Senses: examples: text: "I consider myself a reasonable merman," Triton thundered, "but contact between the merworld and the human world is strictly forbidden. Why did you disobey me and rescue that human?"
ref: 1996, Disney's Treasury of Children's Classics: From the Fox and the Hound to the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Disney Press, →ISBN, page 85:
text: Oliver hadn't written any stories about the merworld, but knowing him there were probably at least a couple pages of notes about the place somewhere in his notebook.
ref: 2010, Frédérick S. Parker, Finding the Kingdom of the Centaurs, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 171:
text: Reflecting a slightly modified version of the hero narrative, Eric rescues Ariel from Ursula and concomitantly saves the merworld from a diabolical female in lieu of a male villain.
ref: 2011, Justin Charlebois, Gender and the Construction of Hegemonic and Oppositional Femininities, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 98:
topics: fantasy
glosses: The undersea world of merfolk.
augmented sixth chord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: augmented sixth chords
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a chord that contains a lowered submediant scale degree and a raised subdominant scale degree
augmented sixth chords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of augmented sixth chord
Italian augmented sixth chord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Italian augmented sixth chords
Senses: examples: text: C Italian augmented sixth chord:
1
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a chord with the tonic, lowered submediant, and raised subdominant scale degrees
Coordinate terms: German augmented sixth chord
French augmented sixth chord
Italian augmented sixth chords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Italian augmented sixth chord
merhorse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merhorses
Etymology: From mer- + horse.
Senses: examples: text: […] super-otter, merhorse (a kind of sea horse), marine saurian and father-of-all-the-turtles.
ref: 1988, DeWitt Wallace, Lila Bell Acheson Wallace, The Reader's digest:
text: But there seems enough evidence to suggest that the merhorse may possibly be a distinct and genuine species. The creature is described as […] but there was no reappearance. A local expert was of the opinion that it was a 'real sea-horse'.
ref: 1998, Nigel Suckling, Bob Eggleton, The book of sea monsters:
glosses: A seahorse.
glosses: A mythical sea monster with a horse-like head, mane, and large eyes.
German augmented sixth chord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: German augmented sixth chords
Senses: examples: text: C German augmented sixth chord:
1
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a chord with the tonic, lowered submediant, lowered mediant, and raised subdominant scale degrees
Coordinate terms: French augmented sixth chord
Italian augmented sixth chord
German augmented sixth chords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of German augmented sixth chord
French augmented sixth chord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: French augmented sixth chords
Senses: examples: text: C French augmented sixth chord:
1
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a chord with the tonic, supertonic, lowered submediant, and raised subdominant scale degrees
Coordinate terms: German augmented sixth chord
Italian augmented sixth chord
French augmented sixth chords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of French augmented sixth chord
merking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merkings
Etymology: From mer- + king.
Senses: examples: text: The merking's castle stood in the very deepest spot. The palace walls were made of coral. The roof was oyster shells. And the windows stood open to let the fish swim in and out.
ref: 2002, Sarah Hines Stephen, Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid: And Other Stories:
glosses: A mermaid king; the king of the merfolk.
merknight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merknights
Etymology: From mer- + knight.
Senses: examples: text: […] while merknights in full armour give their own demonstration of fishy combat tactics.
ref: 1967, Bridget Ann Henisch, Medieval Armchair Travels, Carnation Press (1967), page 38
text: However, it is the scilla's cousin the "merknight" (Fig. 107) who most closely resembles the curious armored fish men that Bosch portrays.
ref: 1981, Laurinda S. Dixon, Alchemical Imagery in Bosch's Garden of Delights, UMI Research Press, →ISBN, page 44:
text: It is etched and gilded overall, the themes of the decoration including, on the leg defences, the labours of Hercules, and on the upper half a merknight and mermaid, supplemented with elephants and castles, and various putti and animals.
ref: 2009, Graeme Rimer, Thom Richardson, J.P.D. Cooper, editors, Henry VIII: Arms and the Man, 1509-2009, Royal Armouries, →ISBN, page 151:
topics: fantasy
glosses: A merperson knight.
merguard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merguards
Etymology: From mer- + guard.
Senses: examples: text: He and his merguard surrounded her before she could say a word. "What kind of Conch Queen of Doom are you?" he griped, angrily jabbing at Sabrina with his trident.
ref: 1999, Bobbi J. G. Weiss, David Cody Weiss, Age of Aquariums, Archway Paperback, →ISBN, page 133:
text: Two muscular merguards twisted my arms behind my back and tangled my legs in seaweed.
ref: 2009, Delia Sherman, The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen, Viking, →ISBN:
text: Mer-guards flanked the front opening to the palace.
ref: 2011, L-J Baker, Promises, Promises, Lethe Press, →ISBN, page 148:
topics: fantasy
glosses: A merperson guard.
jimmy cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jimmy caps
Senses: examples: text: Giuliana: Oh please, fine, when we did it that night without a jimmy cap...
ref: 2010, Giuliana Rancic, Bill Rancic, I Do, Now What?: Secrets, Stories, and Advice from a Madly-in-Love Couple, Ballatine Books, →ISBN, page 132:
synonyms: word: condom
word: cum catcher
word: rubber
glosses: A condom.
jimmy caps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jimmy cap
mermother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mermothers
Etymology: From mer- + mother.
Senses: examples: text: "I shall never see my merfather or my mermother any more, or the mermaids, or the fish-king, or the merry dolphins, or-r-r-r " —
"Never mind!" cried Elfie, crying too, and she put her arms around the sad little mermaid's neck.
ref: 1882, E. L. P, Elfie Under the Sea and Other Stories, Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., page 21:
text: Suddenly a lovely sound filled the air. Ariel turned toward it. Nefazia was sitting on the rock, singing. Her song was low and sweet, like a mermother crooning to her baby.
ref: 1993, Suzanne Weyn, Nefazia Visits the Palace, The Trumpet Club, →ISBN, page 43:
text: A mermother pushed an infant merbaby along the street in an old stroller. Soon Sabrina and the merman reached an enormous palace, nearly five stories high.
ref: 2007, Michael Buckley, Peter Ferguson, The Problem Child:
topics: fantasy
glosses: A mother mermaid.
Coordinate terms: merfather
Othman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Othmans
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Ottoman.
Othman
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Ottoman.
Othmans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Othman
merfather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merfathers
Etymology: From mer- + father.
Senses: examples: text: "I shall never see my merfather or my mermother any more, or the mermaids, or the fish-king, or the merry dolphins, or-r-r-r " —
"Never mind!" cried Elfie, crying too, and she put her arms around the sad little mermaid's neck.
ref: 1882, E. L. P, Elfie Under the Sea and Other Stories, Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., page 21:
text: "Danya, you think if you believe in your merfather and Ayralon, it's like rejecting your parents. Especially your stepfather. Is that true?"
ref: 2004, Vicki Blum, The Mermaid Secret, Scholastic, →ISBN, page 63:
text: Two eighth-graders (Emma Roberts and JoJo) befriend a mermaid (Sara Paxton) who has three days to prove to her merfather that love exists.
ref: 2006 March 3, Roger Ebert, “'Aquamarine'”, in Orange County Register:
topics: fantasy
glosses: A father merman.
Coordinate terms: mermother
annotinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin annotinus, from annus (“year”).
Senses: examples: text: annotinous branches
text: annotinous shoots
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A year old, or having yearly growths.
cookee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cookees
Etymology: From cook + -ee (diminutive suffix). Sense of "cook's helper" may be a blend of cook + rookie, or cook + trainee, etc.
Senses: examples: text: I approve altogether, my cousin beloved, of your sending your goods to the waggon on Saturday, and cookee by the coach on Tuesday. She will be here perhaps by four in the afternoon, at the latest by five, and will have quite time enough to find out all the cupboards and shelves in her department before you arrive.
ref: 1836, William Cowper, Robert Southey, The Works of William Cowper, Esq - Volume 5, page 335:
text: Being heartily tired of this kind of fare, he applied to the cook : 'Cookee,' says Thomas, 'is it the standing rule of this family to keep their servants on nothing but bread and cheese?' 'What!' says the cook, 'do you grumble?' 'No, no, by no means, cookee,' replied Thomas, being fearful of forfeiting the money.
ref: 1845, The general reciter:
text: Cookee did not wish to entertain her illustrious friend in a vulgar way, though he was so hungry he could have taken his meal off kitchen stuff in a dog kennel.
ref: 1857, J.G.M. Rutherford, The Adventures and Intrigues of Charles the Second, Duck of Buckingham, and The Earl of Rochester:
glosses: A female cook.
examples: text: After about an hour and a half he broke out of the trees into a clearing, and in the clearing was a logging camp, and sitting on a block of wood in front of the cook-shack was a bald-headed cookee peeling potatoes.
ref: 1999, Robert E. Pike, Tall Trees, Tough Men, →ISBN, page 135:
text: The day for the cook and his cookee started about 3 o'clock in the morning or half past, when they would prepare the spread required to get a lumberman going: buckwheat pancakes (begun the night before with sour-dough starter and made on a girddle that covered the whole top of an eight-lid stove), oatmeal, hash, potatoes, fried salt port, beans, blackstrap molasses, fried cakes, and lots of black coffee sweetened with brown sugar.
ref: 2013, Harva Hachten, Terese Allen, The Flavor of Wisconsin: An Informal History of Food and Eating in the Badger State, →ISBN:
text: The cook's assistant, who was called the cookee, made a roaring fire in the stove. As soon as the fire was going strong, the cookee woke up the teamsters.
ref: 2015, John Zimm, John Nelligan: Wisconsin Lumberjack:
glosses: A cook's helper, especially in a logging camp.
cookees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cookee
strumousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From strumous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being strumous; scrofulousness.
dammara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dammaras
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of damar.
dammaras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dammara
merland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From mer- + land.
Senses: examples: text: "I know what you would say and I know what I should answer, dear Ulfin, if you were only a commoner of Merland. ... and I am a Mermaid, […]"
ref: 2004, Edith Nesbit, Wet Magic:
text: […] or she could bolt and hurry back to the shore, hoping that two wolphins might return to haul her tired body back to Merland off Oregon.
ref: 2010, Judith Gilman, Mermaids of the Siuslaw:
glosses: A mythical land of mermaids and merfolk.
johnny bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: johnny bags
Senses: examples: text: Should he get johnny bags from his big brother's room?
ref: 2011, Alison Irvine, This Road Is Red, Luath Press, →ISBN, page 114:
glosses: A condom.
johnny bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of johnny bag
cordelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cordelle
predicrotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + dicrotic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Being, or relating to, the pulse wave sometimes seen in a pulse curve or sphygmogram, between the apex of the curve and the dicrotic wave.
adlocution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adlocutions
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of allocution.
adlocutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adlocution
apprecihate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈpɹiː.ʃi.heɪt/
/əˈpɹiː.si.heɪt/
/əˈpɹɪʃ.i.heɪt/
Forms: form: apprecihates
form: apprecihating
form: apprecihated
form: apprecihated
Etymology: Blend of appreciate + hate
Senses: glosses: To dislike, to resent.
Synonyms: resent
beflood
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: befloods
form: beflooding
form: beflooded
form: beflooded
Etymology: From be- + flood.
Senses: examples: text: Why, to suit his hypothesis of pulsion and suction, must, a water-spout be confined to the ocean, like a squirt to the pond, and only upon a rare occasion be raised up or lifted about to splash and beflood the neighbouring shores?
ref: 1783, The gentleman's magazine, and historical chronicle:
text: What waves of tears beflood her face! What dolours rend her aching heart!
ref: 1856, Catholic Church, Martin Wilson Foye, Romish rites, offices, and legends:
text: Otherwise, I liked the paper immensely, and if you really enjoy reading James I merely marvel without exhortation. But the "Feminine Nuisance" is quite a different couple of sandals. ... I beflood it with an approval [...]
ref: 1962, James Branch Cabell, Padraic Colum, Margaret Freeman Cabell, Between friends: letters of James Branch Cabell and others:
glosses: To flood around or about; flood all over; inundate.
psilopaedic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ψιλοπαιδικός (psilopaidikós).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Having down on the dorsal side only.
raw_tags: of bird chicks
Related terms: ptilopaedic
beflutter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beflutters
form: befluttering
form: befluttered
form: befluttered
Etymology: From be- + flutter.
Senses: glosses: To flutter around or about.
examples: text: “Yes, my Lady,” answered the abigail; “only your Ladyship has quite befluttered me; I'm not drist to appear before your Ladyship.”
ref: 1835, The new British Novelist
text: But I hate to leave you in rusty black, poring over these musty folios, and making all those dreadful rounds, squares, and triangles — those necromancing hideous figures, for hours together, while I am befluttering myself, [...]
ref: 1836, Anne Marsh-Caldwell, Tales of the woods and fields:
text: I wish it may be any of their fortunes when between forty and forty-five they have been foolish enough to beflutter their spirits and senses with notions of second boyhood, [...]
ref: 1841, Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances), Cecil, a peer: a sequel to Cecil, or, The adventures of a coxcomb:
glosses: To cause to flutter; fluster.
besend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: besends
form: besending
form: besent
form: besent
Etymology: From Middle English besenden, bisenden, from Old English besendan (“to send (to), send across, let go”), equivalent to be- + send. Cognate with Dutch bezenden (“to besend”), German besenden (“to subpoena, summon”).
Senses: glosses: To send over or across; send to; send a message to.
Melita
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Malta.
synonyms: word: Malta
the party is over
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: The party's over / But I've landed on my feet / And I'm standing here on this corner / Where there used to be a street
ref: 2014, Leonard Cohen, “A Street”, in Popular Problems:
text: But surely he’d walk it, standing as a revolutionary independent. “Well, my ambitions go way, way, way beyond that. I’m not asking for an invitation to the party – I’m saying the party’s over.”
ref: 2014 October 11, Simon Hattenstone, “Russell Brand: ‘I want to address the alienation and despair’”, in The Guardian:
glosses: An irresponsible or carefree period has ended; it is time to be serious or take responsibility.
mainprise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mainprises
form: mainprize
Etymology: From Middle English meynprise, maynprise, from Anglo-Norman mainprise.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take sureties, called mainpernors, for the prisoner's appearance, and to let him go at large.
topics: law
glosses: Deliverance of a prisoner on security for his appearance at a day.
Related terms: mainpernor
mainprise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mainprises
form: mainprising
form: mainprised
form: mainprised
form: mainprize
Etymology: From Middle English meynprise, maynprise, from Anglo-Norman mainprise.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: To allow (a prisoner) to go at large, on his finding sureties, or mainpernors, for his appearance on a given day.
Related terms: hostageship
mainprised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mainprise
mainprises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mainprise
mainprising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mainprise
Caledonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Caledonian
prenomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prenomens
form: prenomina
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of praenomen.
prenomina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prenomen
Neapolitan chord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Neapolitan chords
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A major chord with the lowered supertonic scale degree as the root, denoted by ♭II in Roman numeral notation.
Neapolitan chords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Neapolitan chord
parquetage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French parquetage.
Senses: glosses: parquetry
disedified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disedify
disedifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disedify
disedify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disedifies
form: disedifying
form: disedified
form: disedified
Etymology: From dis- + edify.
Senses: glosses: To fail in edifying
glosses: to injure or scandalize.
disedifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disedify
paradisic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌpæɹəˈdɪzɪk/
Forms: form: more paradisic
form: most paradisic
Etymology: From paradise + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Hence we inherit such a life as this, / Dead of itself to paradisic bliss.
ref: a. 1763, John Byrom, On the Ground of True and False Religion:
glosses: paradisiacal
greenfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greenfishes
form: greenfish
Etymology: From green + fish.
Senses: glosses: Certain of the fish called bluefish.
glosses: Certain of the fish called bluefish.
Especially, Pomatomus saltatrix.
glosses: Pollock (Pollachius spp., esp. Pollachius pollachius).
glosses: Girella spp., esp. Girella nigricans.
glosses: Thalassoma ascensionis et al.
greenfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greenfish
outtaken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of outtake
berend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: berends
form: berending
form: berent
form: berent
Etymology: From Middle English *berenden, from Old English berendan (“to peel, take off husk”); equivalent to be- + rend.
Senses: examples: text: Then red with ire, her tresses she berent; And weeping hid the beauty of her face:
ref: 1904, Elizabethan sonnets
glosses: To rend or tear severely; tear badly; rip all over.
Related terms: torend
nunhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nunhoods
Etymology: From nun + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: "She's Jewish," Harry muttered. "Nunhood is out of the question."
ref: 2005, Judith Arnold, The Fixer Upper, Mira, →ISBN, page 337:
glosses: The status or condition of being a nun.
examples: text: She entered the nunhood after her husband's death and became a well-respected tutor of high-ranking noblemen and noblewomen.
ref: 2007, William E. Deal, Handbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 43:
glosses: Nuns as a group.
downgyved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From down (“from a higher position to a lower one”) + gyved (“to shackle, fetter, chain”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of down-gyved.
contrastivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From contrastive + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being contrastive.
disertly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disertly
form: most disertly
Etymology: From disert + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Which Contract and Marriage are related in the Act of Parliament aforesaid, where it is disertly called a former Marriage, and the King had a childe by her
ref: 1647, George Buck et al., The History of the Life and Reigne of Richard the Third:
glosses: expressly; clearly; eloquently
fareworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fareworthy
form: most fareworthy
Etymology: From Middle English *farwurthe, *farewurthe, from Old English *færwyrþe, færewyrþe (“having a right to depart, able to go”), equivalent to fare (“departure”) + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: It constantly happened that the manumitted serf,' said my Talking Friend, 'found his way under the old tree, my father, and he was free and færewyrd — that is to say, free and fareworthy, or with the right to go where he would — [...]
ref: 1886, John Wood Warter, Richard Garnett, An old Shropshire oak:
text: Thus the service-tenant may be legally 'fareworthy' but if he decides to leave the hacienda, a word from the proprietor will ensure his forced return by the police.
ref: 1968, Claudio Véliz, Latin America and the Caribbean: a handbook:
glosses: Having the right to go as one pleases; free to go; capable of leaving (a place); able to depart (at one's will); unrestrained.
convulsionaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of convulsionary
convulsionary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: convulsionaries
Etymology: From convulsion + -ary.
Senses: glosses: A convulsionist.
convulsionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more convulsionary
form: most convulsionary
Etymology: From convulsion + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: convulsionary meeting
text: convulsionary performance
text: Convulsionary struggles.
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: Pertaining to convulsion; convulsive.
prayer shawl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prayer shawls
Senses: glosses: A tallit.
Related terms: word: tallis
word: tallit
alt: טַלִּית קָטָן
word: tallit katan
word: tzitzit
Serkland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowing from Old Norse. The second element is clearly land (“land”). The first may be related to Saracen (compare Ancient Greek Σαρακηνός (Sarakēnós), showing the /k/) or may be serkr (“sark, gown”) in reference to the clothing worn by the people of the region.
Senses: examples: text: He died in Serkland.
glosses: The Abbasid caliphate.
raw_tags: in translations of Norse sagas and runestones
mamarazzi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mă'mə-răʹtsē
ipa: /ˌmæ.məˈɹæ.tsi/
enpr: mä'mə-räʹtsē
ipa: /ˌmɑ.məˈɹɑ.tsi/
Forms: form: mamarazzi
Etymology: Blend of mama + paparazzi, interpreting the papa- part of paparazzi as papa (“father, daddy”).
Senses: glosses: A female paparazzo.
glosses: A mother who takes many photographs of her child.
Synonyms: sense: female paparazzo
word: paparazza
metatemplate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mĕʹtətĕmplāt
ipa: /ˈmɛtətɛmpleɪt/
Forms: form: metatemplates
form: meta-template
Etymology: First attested hyphenated in 1977 and first attested unhyphenated in 1994; formed as meta- + template.
Senses: examples: text: To index the knowledge base PAR employs meta-templates and super-sets in a corresponding manner.
ref: 1977, 5th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence – 1977 IJCAI-77, International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, →ISBN, page 210, →ISBN:
text: The template–copy relationship might sometimes involve more levels. A general living-kind-categorization metatemplate could project, not directly concepts, but other, more specific templates for different domains of living kinds.
ref: 1994, Dan Sperber, “The modularity of thought and the epidemiology of representations” in Mapping the Mind: Domain Specificity in Cognition and Culture (Cambridge University Press, eds. Lawrence A. Hirschfeld and Susan A. Gelman, page 48
glosses: A template which forms the basis for other templates.
Related terms: Help:Metatemplating
reëdit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reëdits
form: reëditing
form: reëdited
form: reëdited
Senses: examples: text: The profound works of an earlier period have been reëdited (Art de vérifier les Dates, by Allais, and Art de vérifier les Dates depuis l’Année 1770 jusqu’à nos Jours, by Courcelles, 1821), and accompanied by numerous works on French history.
ref: 1831, “French Literature”, in Francis Lieber, editor, Encyclopædia Americana, volume 5, page 271:
text: Also in a future reëditing of the Commonplace-book (in full), together with a good selection of sentences and bright sayings from his works, we venture to request the omission of his poetry.
ref: 1864, “Review of Miscellaneous Remains from the Commonplace-Book of Richard Whately, D.D., late Archbishop of Dublin, edited by Miss E. J. Whately”, in Littell’s Living Age, volume 83, page 527:
text: B. Snell, Hermes, Einzelsehr, 5 (1937), 1–68, reëdits the text.
ref: 1952, Roger Ambrose Pack, The Greek and Latin Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt, University of Michigan Press, page 24:
text: The framework of S.’s study, I repeat, encouraged him to reëdit Ry, also to reprint Voigt’s 1898 ed. of Adalbert’s Homily, and to provide a most convenient four-part — Types C, A, Ct, and B2 — redaction of the 11th-c. Latin prose Vita (106–153).
ref: 1970, Yakov Malkiel, editor, Romance Philology, volume 24, University of California Press, page 130:
glosses: Alternative spelling of re-edit.
suggestio falsi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suggestiones falsi
Etymology: Latin: suggestiō (“suggestion”) + falsī (“of a falsehood”, genitive singular form of falsum, “an untruth”, “falsehood”) = “a suggestion of an untruth” ≈ “suggestion of deceit”.
Senses: glosses: A misrepresentation of the truth brought about by implying a falsehood to be true; a lie of implication. Compare suppressio veri.
fixage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: These facts clearly dissipate all doubt of the inception of the easement by written instrument, its existence since then and the definitive fixage of the northerly and southerly points between which it generally ran.
ref: 1958, Reports of Selected Cases Decided in Courts of the State of New York Other Than the Court of Appeals and the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court: Miscellaneous Reports:
glosses: The act of fixing or determining.
fixatif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fixatifs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fixative.
unheediness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unheedy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: And if you chance to be a looser, your owne friends are readier to accuse your improvidence and unhedinesse than to moane you, and excuse your ignorance and carelesenesse concerning the offices belonging to your profession.
ref: , II.15
glosses: Heedlessness.
fibroscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fibroscope
fibroscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fibroscopy
fixatifs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fixatif
pandership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pander + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Nothing so much empoisoneth princes as flattery […] nor any enticement so fit, nor pandership so ordinary to corrupt the chastity of women, then to feed and entertaine them with their praises.
ref: , II.16
glosses: The work of a pander; pimping.
time added on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Incredibly, all three of Chelsea's goals in the tie were scored in time added on, while Barcelona enjoyed 72% of possession in both legs.
ref: 2012 April 24, Phil Dawkes, “Barcelona 2-2 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Stoppage time.
overgood
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From over- + good.
Senses: examples: text: There is another kind of glory, which is an over-good opinion we conceive of our worth.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: "Simon," said Aylward, "the light is not overgood and the place is cramped for sword-play, but if you will step out into the open I will teach you whether my master is a true soldier or not."
ref: 1906, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel:
glosses: Too good; excessively good.
dimication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌdɪmɪˈkeɪʃən/
Forms: form: dimications
Etymology: From Latin dimicatio, from dimicare (“to fight”).
Senses: examples: text: wash off the memory of these our unbrotherly dimications
ref: 1651, Joseph Hall, The Epistle […] :
glosses: A fight, battle or contest.
dimications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dimication