cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
goldenness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goldennesses
Etymology: From golden + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: There is uncommon breadth and mass about it, with a richness of colouring, a sort of brown and glossy goldenness, which is common in the works of the artist.
ref: 1832, Allan Cunningham, The lives of the most eminent British painters and sculptors, volume 1:
text: The dim gray goldenness of the leaves above them seems to grow more ardent in color as they rise against the clear but not too intense blue of the sky.
ref: 1873 September 24, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 32, page 378:
text: Aslan's goldenness in this book is a different kind of goldenness from the one we find in The Voyage of the 'Dawn Treader.' There it was Solar; here it is, paradoxically, Lunar—the good upper half of the Lunar nature.
ref: 2008, Michael Ward, Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis:
glosses: The quality of being golden.
Coordinate terms: goldishness
Aunt Sally
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Apparently after My Old Aunt Sally, the title of a blackface minstrel song written by Dan Emmett in 1843.
Senses: examples: text: There were some swings, and a hooting-tooting blaring merry-go-round, and a shooting-gallery and Aunt Sallies.
ref: 1905 [1902], Edith Nesbit, chapter VIII, in Five Children and It, New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, page 220:
text: Mrs. Morel did not like the wakes. There were two sets of horses, one going by steam, one pulled round by a pony; three organs were grinding, and there came odd cracks of pistol-shots, fearful screeching of the cocoanut man's rattle, shouts of the Aunt Sally man, screeches from the peep-show lady.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter I, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: A traditional game in which balls are thrown to break the pipe in the mouth of a figurine resembling an old woman.
examples: text: But the novel is something more than a national institution; it has become the recognized channel of communication between the crank and his victims; it is the shooting gallery through which we fire our messages at that dear old Aunt Sally, the British Public.
ref: 1912 November 24, W. B. Maxwell, “The Future of the Novel”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: He is helpless, an Aunt Sally, a figure from a cartoon, a missionary in cassock and topi waiting with clasped hands and upcast eyes while the savages jaw away in their own lingo preparatory to plunging him into their boiling cauldron.
ref: 1999, J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace, Vintage, page 95:
text: IN FOUR years as India's prime minister, Manmohan Singh has come to resemble a bearded and turbaned Aunt Sally.
ref: 2008 June 26, “Manmohan Singh’s burning ambition”, in The Economist, →ISSN:
text: The finance minister, a true Aunt Sally figure, was dispatched to Moscow in search of backing.
ref: 2013 March 23, Kyran Fitzgerald, “Stakes couldn’t be higher”, in Irish Examiner:
glosses: A figure drawing criticism or ridicule, especially when prejudiced or unwarranted.
aukward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aukward
form: most aukward
Senses: examples: text: […] he ought, by no Means to be an aukward clumſey Fellow, ſuch a Creature would turn the Lady's Stomach in a Morning, when they go their Rounds, to tumble Silks they have no mind to buy.
ref: 1747, R. Campbell, The London Tradesman, page 197:
text: Beſides there is an aukward kind of baſhfulneſs inherent in an old collegian, which makes him ſhudder even at the ſight of a petticoat, and often condems him, during life, to an irkſome ſtate of cælibacy.
ref: 1750, “The Female Student”, The Student, or, The Oxford and Cambridge monthly miscellany, page 188:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of awkward.
Derived terms: aukwardly
aukwardness
aurichalceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aurichalceous
form: most aurichalceous
Senses: glosses: Having the colour of brass.
augitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more augitic
form: most augitic
Etymology: From augite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Containing augite.
audiphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: audiphones
Senses: glosses: an instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve and enables the deaf to hear more or less distinctly.
Synonyms: dentiphone
audiphones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of audiphone
atmospherology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From atmosphere + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The study of a planetary atmosphere.
atiptoe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtɪptəʊ/
ipa: /əˈtɪptoʊ/
Forms: form: a-tiptoe
Etymology: From a- (prefix meaning ‘at; in; on’, used to show a condition, manner, or state) + tiptoe.
Senses: examples: text: [S]he swept back with her hand the hem of her dress, and showed one little foot atiptoe behind the heel of the other.
ref: 1885, A[deline] D[utton] T[rain] Whitney, “Along the Riverside”, in Bonnyborough […], volume II, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 31:
synonyms: tiptoe
tiptoeing
glosses: On tiptoe; moving or standing on the tips of one's toes.
examples: text: O could I meete andrea, now my blouds a tiptoe. / This hand and ſword ſhould melt him: / Valliant Don Pedro.
ref: 1605, The First Part of Ieronimo. […], London: […] Thomas Pauyer, […], →OCLC:
text: The Counteſs of Light-airs has taken an unaccountable fancy to ſome coxcomb as worthleſs as herſelf. This is ſpread about, and the curioſity of all the coquettes is a tiptoe, to know whether a woman, who paſſes for a knowing one, is in the right to have made ſuch a choice.
ref: 1753, “FASHION”, in The Dictionary of Love. […], London: […] R[alph] Griffiths, […], →OCLC:
text: […] I once ſaw a corpulent general-officer ſtart ſuddenly, as if he had ſeen ſomething preternatural. […] While all the ſpectators were a tiptoe to obſerve the iſſue of this phenomenon, he arrived at the ranks, and in great wrath, which probably had been augmented by the heat acquired in his courſe, he pulled off one of the ſoldier's hats, which it ſeems had not been properly cocked, and adjuſted it to his mind.
ref: 1779, [John Moore], “Letter LIX”, in A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany: With Anecdotes Relating to Some Eminent Characters. […], volume II, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, pages 93–94:
glosses: In a state of anticipation; keenly awaiting.
tailour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tailours
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of tailor.
donour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: donours
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of donor.
terrour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terrours
Senses: examples: text: One sign of despair is the peremptory contempt of the condition which is the ground of hope; the going on not only in terrours and amazement of conscience, but also boldly, hopingly, and confidently in wilful habits of sin.
ref: 1644, Henry Hammond, Practical Catechism:
glosses: Obsolete form of terror.
superiour
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superiour
form: most superiour
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of superior.
superiour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superiours
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of superior.
inferiour
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inferiour
form: most inferiour
Senses: examples: text: The roof being formed, or topped-up to a sufficient height, with any inferiour sort of hay, the thatcher and his yelmer go to work.
ref: 1841, Jefferys Taylor, The Farm, page 149:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of inferior.
Derived terms: inferiourly
inferiour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inferiours
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of inferior.
aquapuncture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aqua- + puncture.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The subcutaneous injection of water, once thought to relieve pain.
electropuncture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + puncture.
Senses: glosses: The use of subcutaneous electric shock to stimulate the muscles.
laserpuncture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From laser + puncture.
Senses: glosses: A pseudoscientific therapy, based on acupuncture, in which lasers are shone at acupoints.
aquarellists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aquarellist
arabesqued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more arabesqued
form: most arabesqued
Etymology: From arabesque + -ed.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: Patterned with arabesques.
abhour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: abhours
form: abhouring
form: abhoured
form: abhoured
Senses: examples: text: The art of your adversarie, deir Sister, is subtill; in that he wald cause you abhour that, and hait it whairin standis onlie salvatioun and lyfe.
ref: 1553, John Knox quoted in The Works of John Knox, volume 3, page 348
glosses: Obsolete form of abhor.
apronful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apronfuls
form: apronsful
Etymology: From apron + -ful.
Senses: glosses: as much as an apron will hold
apronfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apronful
apronsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apronful
censour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: censours
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of censor.
censour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: censours
form: censouring
form: censoured
form: censoured
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of censor.
tremour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tremours
Senses: examples: text: […] a letter was delivered to Marianne, which she eagerly caught from the servant, and, turning of a death-like paleness, instantly ran out of the room. Elinor, who saw as plainly by this, as if she had seen the direction, that it must come from Willoughby, felt immediately such a sickness at heart as made her hardly able to hold up her head, and sat in such a general tremour as made her fear it impossible to escape Mrs. Jennings’s notice.
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 101–102:
glosses: Obsolete form of tremor.
tremour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tremours
form: tremouring
form: tremoured
form: tremoured
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of tremor.
apartnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apartness
ancestour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ancestours
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of ancestor.
break it down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breaks it down
form: breaking it down
form: broke it down
form: broken it down
Senses: examples: text: […] Renee Victor breaking it down on the dance floor beneath a hanging decoration that looked like a bunch of enormous joints.
ref: 2006, “The Hollywood reporter, Volume 395”, in Hollywood Reporter Inc., page 16:
text: Actually, the stain wasn't even very noticeable while we were breaking it down on the dance floor.
ref: 2010, Christine Mills, Mahler Mills Christy Mahler Mills, No Regrets, iUniverse, p. 119
glosses: To dance, especially in a hip hop style.
warriour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warriours
Senses: examples: text: And Warriours clad in goary Arms, all rage,
And ruſhing out of Hell, with hideous cry,
About the blood buſtling they go and turn,
Which not a little frighted me. […]
ref: 1675, Tho. Hobbes of Malmsbury, transl., Homer's Odysses, London: W. Crook, Lib. XI, page 128:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of warrior.
monitour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monitours
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of monitor.
candle in the wind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candles in the wind
Senses: examples: text: A woman of flame, they had called her. The flame had flickered and died like a candle in the wind--in the restless trade-wind blowing from the Koolau Range.
ref: 1929, Earl Derr Biggers, chapter VII, in The Black Camel, Bobbs-Merrill:
text: The South Koreans have indeed accomplished an economic miracle in the past three decades but their economy is 'a candle in the wind' […]
ref: 1990, Muthiah Alagappa, Institute of Strategic and International Studies (Malaysia), Building confidence, resolving conflicts: proceedings of the Second Asia-Pacific Roundtable, Kuala Lumpur, July 1-4, 1988, Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia, p. 14
text: ... tyranny in Cameroon today is a candle in the wind. Its days, it is hoped, are numbered ...
ref: 1999, Royal African Society, African affairs, Volume 98, Published for the Royal African Society by the Oxford University Press, p. 114
text: There are a good number of people who feel that the girl child's life in India is a 'candle' in the wind which flickers for a moment to be extinguished for ever.
ref: 2004, K.D. Gangrade, Moral Lessons From Gandhi S Autobiography And Other Essays, Concept Publishing Company, page 178:
text: Sometimes around here, it seems like hope is a candle in the wind.
ref: 2007, Pacific indigenous dialogue: on faith, peace, reconciliation and good governance, Alafua Campus,Continuing and Community Education Programme, University of the South Pacific, p. 192
text: Ethiopia is a candle in the wind, the winds of war and fate […]
ref: 2010, Phillip Dibble, The Fundamental Things, AuthorHouse, page 91:
glosses: A fragile or vulnerable thing, likely to be put in jeopardy.
anchour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anchours
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of anchor.
anchour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: anchours
form: anchouring
form: anchoured
form: anchoured
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of anchor.
liquour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liquours
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of liquor.
liquour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: liquours
form: liquouring
form: liquoured
form: liquoured
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of liquor.
pastour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pastours
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pastor.
pastour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pastours
form: pastouring
form: pastoured
form: pastoured
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of pastor.
traitour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traitours
Senses: examples: text: My Lord of Hereford here whom you call King, / Is a foule traitour to proud Herefords King, / And if you crowne him let me propheſie, / The bloud of Engliſh ſhall manure the ground, / And future ages groane for this foule act, [...]
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedie of King Richard the Second. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Simmes for Androw Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of traitor.
traitourous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more traitourous
form: most traitourous
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of traitorous.
manour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manours
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of manor.
ambassadour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ambassadours
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of ambassador.
break the Sabbath
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breaks the Sabbath
form: breaking the Sabbath
form: broke the Sabbath
form: broken the Sabbath
Senses: examples: Matthew 12:5 Or have you not read in the Law, that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and are innocent? (New American Standard Bible, ©1995)
glosses: To violate (the holiness or sanctity of) the Sabbath (by not keeping it holy).
Related terms: Sabbath-breaker
Sabbath-breaking
Sabbath-keeper
Sabbath-keeping
Sabbath observance
Sabbath observer
mayour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mayours
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mayor.
survivour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: survivours
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of survivor.
pompador
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pompadors
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard spelling of pompadour.
pompador
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pompadors
form: pompadoring
form: pompadored
form: pompadored
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard spelling of pompadour.
Eubœan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: But Themistoklês doubtless was only tempted to do, and enabled to do, by means of the Eubœan money, that which he would have wished, and had probably tried, to accomplish, without the money—to bring on a naval engagement at Artemisium.
ref: 1849, George Grote, chapter XL, in History of Greece, volume V, John Murray, page 131:
glosses: Obsolete form of Euboean.
Eubœan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eubœans
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Euboean.
throw a bone to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: throws a bone to
form: throwing a bone to
form: threw a bone to
form: thrown a bone to
form: throw someone a bone
form: toss a bone to
Etymology: An allusion to the act of throwing a bone as food to a hungry dog.
Senses: examples: text: There was considerable uneasiness in the bosoms of others of the Directors. […] [T]hey knew that Lord Alfred had sold shares, and had received the profit. […] And if there was so much cause to fear Lord Alfred that it was necessary to throw him a bone, why should not they also make themselves feared?
ref: 1875, Anthony Trollope, chapter 22, in The Way We Live Now, London: Chapman and Hall, […]:
text: The union […] "regretted that the President thought it necessary to throw a bone to the anti-labor bloc" by saying the act would prevent strikes.
ref: 1944 January 14, “ILWU Votes for FR Plan”, in Berkeley Daily Gazette, retrieved 11 Jul 2011, page 1:
text: Throwing a bone to the banks, it will allow a 4% increase in overseas loans next year.
ref: 1965 December 10, “U.S. Business: New Dam for the Dollar Drain”, in Time, archived from the original on 05 Jan 2012:
text: The Dallas Cowboys yesterday gave a starting job to Alexander Wright, in effect throwing him a bone.
ref: 1991 June 18, “Cowboys reward Wright with early starting position”, in Fort Worth Star-Telegram, retrieved 11 Jul 2011, page S1:
text: Can you remind me what I pay you people for? Honestly, throw me a bone here. What do we have?
ref: 1997, Mike Myers, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, spoken by Dr. Evil (Mike Myers):
text: And he did it on the day the Senate threw a bone to President Bush's evangelical base by voting on a Constitutional amendment declaring that only a union of a man and a woman constitutes marriage.
ref: 2006 June 16, Joseph Berger, “Acknowledging the Gay Part of Gay Marriage”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To provide support or assistance to, especially in one particular way or to a limited extent; to make a concession to.
throw someone a bone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: throws someone a bone
form: throwing someone a bone
form: threw someone a bone
form: thrown someone a bone
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of throw a bone to.
toss a bone to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tosses a bone to
form: tossing a bone to
form: tossed a bone to
form: tossed a bone to
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of throw a bone to.
toss someone a bone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tosses someone a bone
form: tossing someone a bone
form: tossed someone a bone
form: tossed someone a bone
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of throw a bone to.
throw in the sponge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: throws in the sponge
form: throwing in the sponge
form: threw in the sponge
form: thrown in the sponge
Senses: glosses: Synonym of throw up the sponge.
synonyms: word: throw up the sponge
overstay one's welcome
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overstays one's welcome
form: overstaying one's welcome
form: overstayed one's welcome
form: overstayed one's welcome
Senses: glosses: Synonym of wear out one's welcome.
synonyms: word: wear out one's welcome
widow maker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: widow makers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of widow-maker.
you can't take it with you
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: "The clause which—at my death—makes you sole owner of the whole concession. You see—the odds were scarcely even, were they? It wasn't likely anything would happen to you!" . . .
"What's it matter to you now?" Trent said, with unintentional brutality. "You can't take it with you."
ref: 1900, E. Phillips Oppenheim, chapter 6, in A Millionaire of Yesterday:
text: Dealers also quietly bought gold fillings from morticians, proving that you can't take it with you.
ref: 1980 January 14, “Business: The Great Sell-Off”, in Time:
text: You can't take it with you, of course, but your intended heirs may not be able to take it with them, either, if you do not explicitly state through a will who is supposed to get what.
ref: 2007 August 3, Conrad de Aenlle, “All the right (and wrong) moves”, in New York Times, retrieved 11 Jul 2011:
glosses: It is not possible to take one's material wealth or possessions to whatever world may await one after death.
Eubœans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eubœan
arboriculturist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arboriculturists
Etymology: From arboriculture + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who practices arboriculture; a tree surgeon.
Synonyms: arborist
tree surgeon
tree surgeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tree surgeons
Senses: glosses: A person who practises arboriculture; an arborist or arboriculturist
coæqual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of coequal.
Yukio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese ゆきお (Yukio).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
Jesolo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A seaside resort town and comune on the coast of the Adriatic Sea in the Veneto region, Italy, north of Venice.
AFF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AFFs
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
parachuting
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of accelerated freefall.
AFF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Initialism of A Fine Frenzy.
oathbreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oath + breaking.
Senses: glosses: The violation of an oath; perjury.
Related terms: oathbreaker
oysterling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oysterlings
Etymology: From oyster + -ling.
Senses: glosses: A young oyster.
oysterlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oysterling
oxysalt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxysalts
Etymology: From oxy- + salt.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt of an oxyacid.
oxysalts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxysalt
oxyselenides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxyselenide
oxysulfides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxysulfide
oxysulphide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxysulphides
Etymology: From oxy- + sulphide.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oxysulfide.
oxysulphides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxysulphide
oxymels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxymel
heparinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heparinoids
Etymology: From heparin + -oid.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of glycosaminoglycans derived from heparin
heparinoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heparinoid
oxiodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oxo- + iodic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, or designating, certain compounds of iodine and oxygen.
oxacid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxacids
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of oxyacid.
oxacids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxacid
Paulie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Paul + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Paul.
sfumatos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sfumato
ouvarovite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of uvarovite.
outvying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outvie
outvies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outvie
outvied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outvie
outwaited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outwait
outwaiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outwait
outwaits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outwait
outsails
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outsail
outsailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outsail
outsailed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outsail
oakling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oaklings
Etymology: From oak + -ling.
Senses: glosses: A small or young oak tree.
oaklings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oakling
oarfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oarfish
obduracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obduracy
dunderpates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dunderpate
dunderpated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dunderpated
form: most dunderpated
Etymology: From dunder + pated.
Senses: glosses: dunderheaded; foolish
duckmeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From duck + meat.
* (duckweed): Because it is eaten by ducks.
Senses: examples: text: But what about all those plucked bodies? Why, with the duvet boom, has the price of duckmeat not fallen to rock bottom, dipped below scrag and coley? Why do the kids not queue at chippies for ten pennorth of duck and a bag of beaks for the cat?
ref: 1979, Alan Coren, “A Little Touch of Harry in the Night”, in The Rhinestone as Big as the Ritz, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 158:
text: The menu grand-mère features all kinds of down-to-earth local dishes that a Périgourdine grandmother might be expected to turn out—such as canard Lucullus as an hors d’oeuvre, a thick slice of various bits of duckmeat, pressed in a roll, and filled with an intriguing variety of textures and flavours.
ref: 1996, Dana Facaros, Michael Pauls, “King Truffle”, in Lazy Days Out in the Dordogne and the Lot (Cadogan Gourmet Guides), London: Cadogan Books, →ISBN, page 174:
text: ‘It got flies in it?’ Werth picks up the neat circular slice of duckmeat, waves it around, flap flap flap. / ‘Currants. Dried blackcurrants.’
ref: 2012, Chuck Wendig, “Charcuterie”, in Robin D. Laws, editor, The New Hero, volume 1 (Every Age Needs Its Heroes), London: Stone Skin Press, →ISBN, page 199:
synonyms: duck
duckflesh
glosses: The flesh of a duck.
glosses: Synonym of duckweed.
synonyms: word: duckweed
Stad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian Stad.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Vestland, Norway.
Deel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Deels
Etymology: * As a north German surname, Borrowed from North German Deel.
* Also as a north German surname, variant of Diehl, Diel.
* As an English surname, variant of Deal, itself a variant of Dale and also named after Deal in Kent.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Buchanan County, Virginia, United States.
glosses: A river mainly in County Limerick, Ireland, which flows into the Shannon estuary; in full, the River Deel.
udarniks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of udarnik
uddered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From udder + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The fields between / Are dewy-fresh, brows'd by deep-udder'd kine, […]
ref: 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 21:
glosses: Having (a particular kind of) udders.
udderlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more udderlike
form: most udderlike
Etymology: From udder + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of udders.
Ugrian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ugrians
Etymology: From Old Russian Ugre, which means "Hungarians", of Turkic origin.
Senses: glosses: A member of the race of ancestors of the present Hungarians.
Related terms: Finno-Ugrian
Ob-Ugrian
Ugric
Ugrians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ugrian
Fiels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fiel
Klingonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Klingonists
Etymology: From Klingon + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: If a controversy breaks out among scholars about the dating of the Great Vowel Shift, or among Klingonists about the correct translation of 'loaves and fishes', the effect on most people's lives is negligible.
ref: 1995, Deborah Cameron, Verbal hygiene, page 223:
glosses: A specialist or speaker of the Klingon language.
Coordinate terms: Esperantist
Idist
Lojbanist
Tokiponist
Volapükist
Klingonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Klingonist
ultrared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ultra- + red.
Senses: glosses: infrared
examples: text: With her chest thrust forward, her head held high, and an ultrared smile painted on her lips, she advanced toward Jeanne with outstretched hands […]
ref: 1986, Fanny Deschamps, The King's Garden, page 180:
text: She’s abandoned her ultrared lipstick and nail polish and her turned-up collars and has taken up moderate pinks and going on diets, and grooming.
ref: 1988, Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye:
text: […] an ultrared pigment that lacks mercury and sulfur.
ref: 2000, Anita Albus, The Art of Arts: Rediscovering Painting, page 318:
glosses: Of a very intense shade of red.
ultrared
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultrareds
Etymology: From ultra- + red.
Senses: glosses: infrared
Una boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Una boats
Etymology: Una was the name of the first such boat taken to England.
Senses: examples: text: I was at first cautioned against Una boats, for I was told that they had an unpleasant tendency to turn upside down.
ref: 1868, J. Bacon Dashwood, The Thames to the Solent by canal and sea:
glosses: A catboat.
Related terms: Una rig
Una boats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Una boat
Dashwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dashwoods
Etymology: A variant of Ashwood, with fused French preposition de (“of”).
Senses: examples: text: Little had Mrs. Dashwood or her daughters imagined when they first came into Devonshire, that so many engagements would arise to occupy their time as shortly presented themselves, or that they should have such frequent invitations and such constant visitors as to leave them little leisure for serious employment.
ref: 1811, Jane Austen, chapter 11, in Sense and Sensibility:
glosses: A surname.
mediævalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mediævalists
Senses: examples: text: It was in his application of it that he was too much a mediævalist, and I think perhaps he forced the “quaint” side of Mediæval art too much on the attention.
ref: 1898, J. D. Crace, Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, volume V, page 270:
glosses: Alternative form of medievalist.
unau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /juːˈnɔː/
/uːˈnaʊ/
Forms: form: unaus
Etymology: From Brazilian Portuguese, from Tupian.
Senses: examples: text: The unau, or two-toed sloth, has no tail, and only two nails on the fore feet. The ai, or three-toed sloth, has a short tail, and three nails on every foot. The nose of the unau, is likewise much longer, the forehead higher, and the ears longer than those of the ai.
ref: 1834, Augustus Addison Gould, editor, A System of Natural History, page 264:
glosses: Linnaeus's two-toed sloth, Choloepus didactylus, a two-toed sloth native to South America.
mediævalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mediævalist
unbelts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unbelt
unbelting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unbelt
unbeseeming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unbeseem
unbeseeming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbeseeming
form: most unbeseeming
Senses: examples: text: they are so cholerick and tetty, that no man may speak with them, and break many times into violent passions, oaths, imprecations, and unbeseeming speeches
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
glosses: unbecoming; not seemly
unbeseems
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unbeseem
unbeseemed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unbeseem
unbounden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of unbind
unbless
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unblesses
form: unblessing
form: unblessed
form: unblessed
Etymology: From un- + bless.
Senses: glosses: To deprive of blessings; to make wretched.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To convert (a previously blessed object) back to a simple reference.
unblessing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unbless
unblessing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unblessings
Senses: examples: text: He never counts his unblessings, as any man should, never faces them; for the purveyors of integration propaganda all around him have warned him that he must count only his blessings.
ref: 1972, Konrad Kellen, The Coming Age of Woman Power, page 37:
text: Henry Snow sat in the pastor's study of the First Church of the Everlasting Saints, counting his unblessings.
ref: 2006, Donald Sevener, First Church of the Everlasting Aints, →ISBN, page 4:
text: I don't want unblessings, and neither should you.
ref: 2018, Julie Maloney, A Matter of Chance: A Novel, →ISBN, page 119:
glosses: Something that makes one's life worse.
unblesses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unbless
unconquerability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + conquerability.
Senses: synonyms: inconquerability
glosses: The state or quality of being unconquerable.
undrew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of undraw
undrawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undraw
undraws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undraw
unearnt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + earnt.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unearned.
unexact
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unexact
form: most unexact
form: inexact
Etymology: From un- + exact.
Senses: examples: text: Descending under the earth, is a translation most of all unexact and illiteral.
ref: 1765, Benjamin Dawson, Illustration of Texts, concerning the Logos:
glosses: Not exact.
unexactness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unexact + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of inexactness.
Af
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æf/
rhymes: -æf
Forms: form: Afs
Etymology: Clipping of African
Senses: examples: text: Actually, they say, they get on quite well with the Afs. Just have a look around the country: no hostile glares or haughtiness when whites and blacks pass in the streets, none of the riots or strikes […]
ref: 1978, The Bridge, volumes 3-4, page 15:
text: […] the collapse of the white myths about the country: that it was a free society, that the “Afs” were happy and contented, that white culture was firmly rooted in a stable population, […]
ref: 2010, Roger Marston, Own Goals, page iv:
glosses: A native African (not white-skinned) in Rhodesia.
iframe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iframes
Etymology: From the name of the HTML element, short for inline frame.
Senses: examples: text: This enabled developers to forego framesets altogether and simply place invisible iframes (through the use of CSS) on a page to enable client-server communication.
ref: 2006, Nicholas C. Zakas, Jeremy McPeak, Joe Fawcett, Professional Ajax, page 4:
text: Although you can use standard JavaScript and AJAX in sandboxed iframe pages to your heart's content, the Facebook Platform places restrictions over the amount of scripting capabilities you can add to the more tightly integrated FBML pages.
ref: 2011, Richard Wagner, Building Facebook Applications For Dummies:
glosses: A section of a web page that can act as the container for a second separate page or resource.
iframes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iframe
deen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic دِين (dīn).
Senses: examples: 2014, CHANEL, Purple Ink Presents Savage Sisters by Chanel, iUniverse →ISBN
Sterling was Muslim, and although he wasn't on his deen, Shanice and Shakira felt that he should have had a Janazah.
2016, Skepta, Shutdown, on Konnichiwa
You say you're Muslim, you say you're Rasta / Say you don't eat pork, don't eat pussy / Liar, you're just an actor / Blud, you're not on your deen
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: religion; religiosity; the way of life of a pious Muslim
unfreshness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unfresh + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: We can keep the unfreshness of our eggs to ourselves, but not so the unfreshness of our jokes.
ref: 1897, John St. Loe Strachey, From grave to gay:
glosses: The quality of not being fresh.
unglueing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unglue
unhandsomer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of unhandsome: more unhandsome
greater argentine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greater argentines
Senses: glosses: A northern Atlantic fish, herring-smelt (Argentina silus, syn. Salmo silus)
Synonyms: sense: northern Atlantic fish
word: Atlantic argentine
sense: northern Atlantic fish
word: great silver smelt
sense: northern Atlantic fish
word: herring smelt
uniaxal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + axal.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of uniaxial.
unideaed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + idea + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Johnson scolded him for ‘leaving his social friends, to go and sit with a set of wretched un-idea'd girls.’
ref: 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 177:
glosses: Having no ideas; senseless; frivolous.
unipeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uniped
unjoins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unjoin
unjoining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unjoin
unkinging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unking
unkinged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unking
unkinking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unkink
unkinked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unkink
unkinked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not kinked.
unkinks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unkink
narrow house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narrow houses
Senses: examples: text: Yet if some voice that man could trust / Should murmur from the narrow house: / The cheeks drop in; the body bows; / Man dies: nor is there hope in dust: […]
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 54:
glosses: The grave.
unhanging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unhang
unaustralian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unaustralian
form: most unaustralian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of un-Australian.
unorderly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unorderly
form: most unorderly
Etymology: From un- + orderly.
Senses: glosses: Not orderly; chaotic, disorganized.
Akio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese あきお (Akio).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
unprejudicial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unprejudicial
form: most unprejudicial
Etymology: From un- + prejudicial.
Senses: glosses: Not prejudicial.
unpolitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpolitic
form: most unpolitic
Etymology: From un- + politic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of impolitic.
synonyms: word: impolitic
exchange rates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exchange rate
unsensed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + sensed.
Senses: glosses: Not sensed or felt.
glosses: Lacking a distinct meaning; having no certain signification.
Bam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Bam County, Kerman Province, Iran.
glosses: A county of Kerman Province, Iran.
insisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insister
unsophisticate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unsophisticates
Etymology: From un- + sophisticate.
Senses: examples: text: In The New Yorker 80 years ago, Lou Gehrig was portrayed as an unsophisticate and a mama’s boy once rumored to have gone to the movies with a “red-cheeked German girl who wore a bunch of flowers in her hat.”
ref: 2009 September 11, Richard Sandomir, “The Iron Horse and the New Yorker Profile”, in New York Times:
glosses: An unsophisticated person.
unsophisticate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsophisticate
form: most unsophisticate
Etymology: From un- + sophisticate.
Senses: glosses: unsophisticated
unsophisticates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unsophisticate
unstitches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unstitch
unstitching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unstitch
unstirring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unstirring
form: most unstirring
Etymology: From un- + stirring.
Senses: glosses: Without stirring; quiet and still.
examples: text: While often moving, "The Kevorkian File" is surprisingly unstirring. In the end, calmness prevails.
ref: 1996, Prouty, Variety and Daily Variety Television Reviews, 1993-1994:
glosses: Not stirring or rousing; not inspiring the emotions.
unstirring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unstir
stitchable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stitchable
form: most stitchable
Etymology: From stitch + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being stitched.
untucking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of untuck
untucks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of untuck
unwrinkles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unwrinkle
unwrinkling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unwrinkle
upgives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upgive
upgiving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upgive
upgave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of upgive
upgiven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of upgive
uprushing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uprushing
form: most uprushing
Etymology: From uprush + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: But ever the uprushing wind / Inflates the wings above, / And still the struggling wings / Repel the rushing wind.
ref: 1801, Robert Southey, “The Twelfth Book”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume II, London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC, page 313:
glosses: That uprushes or rushes upward.
uprushing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uprushings
Etymology: From uprush + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: sudden uprushings of air
glosses: gerund of uprush: the action of something that rushes upward.
uprushing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From uprush + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uprush
uprushed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uprush
upswollen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of upswell
uralites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uralite
resiant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resiants
form: resiaunt
Etymology: From Middle English reseaunt, resseaunt, from Anglo-Norman reseant, Middle French resseant etc., from Latin residēns, present participle of resideō. Doublet of resident and rezident.
Senses: examples: text: Another section enacts, that "no subject of this realm that now is, or hereafter shall be, an inhabitant or resiant of this kingdom of England, dominion of Wales, or town of Berwick-upon-Tweed…
ref: 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England (Volume 3):
glosses: A resident.
resiant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more resiant
form: most resiant
form: resiaunt
Etymology: From Middle English reseaunt, resseaunt, from Anglo-Norman reseant, Middle French resseant etc., from Latin residēns, present participle of resideō. Doublet of resident and rezident.
Senses: examples: text: That was to weet the famous Troynovant, / In which her kingdomes throne is chiefly resiant.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Resident.
resiants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resiant
Ikeda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ikedas
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 池田 (Ikeda).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
uranites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uranite
Kazuyoshi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese かずよし (Kazuyoshi).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
ureal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From urea + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to urea.