cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
multiproblematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + problematic.
Senses: glosses: Problematic in multiple ways.
Related terms: multiproblem
facilizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of facilize
facilizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of facilize
facilized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of facilize
facilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: facilizations
Etymology: From facile + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act of facilizing; the act of making something easy.
facilizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of facilization
room-temperature IQ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: room-temperature IQs
form: room temperature IQ
form: room temperature I.Q.
form: room-temperature I.Q.
Etymology: A room-temperature IQ would be around 20 (Celsius) or 68 (Fahrenheit), both well below the average IQ of 100.
Senses: synonyms: IQ of room temperature
glosses: A below average IQ.
examples: text: It's the proverbial two-way street; treat a guide like he has more than a room-temperature IQ, and he'll do likewise.
ref: 1990 June, Jim Bashline, “An Honorable Profession”, in Field & Stream:
text: “The guy's got a room-temperature IQ. He dropped out of grade school. To him, DNA is probably just three letters.”
ref: 2000, Maggie Price, On Dangerous Ground, Silhouette Books, →ISBN:
text: “Sara? I need you to call Home Depot, see if you can get someone on the phone with at least a room-temperature IQ . . .”
ref: 2011, Gregg Loomis, The Coptic Secret, Dorchester Publishing, →ISBN, page 51:
glosses: A dull or unintelligent mind.
Related terms: low-IQ
room-temperature IQs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of room-temperature IQ
arselings
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of arseling.
arseling
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: arselings
form: arselong
Etymology: From Middle English *arsling, from Old English earsling (“backwards, on the back”), equivalent to arse + -ling. Cognate with Dutch aarzeling, aarzelings, German ärschling, ärschlings.
Senses: glosses: Backwards.
arselong
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: arseling
form: arselings
Etymology: Alteration (after headlong) of arseling, from Middle English *arsling, from Old English earsling (“backwards, on the back”), equivalent to arse + -ling. Cognate with Dutch aarzeling, aarzelings, German ärschling, ärschlings.
Senses: examples: text: Heave they did, all unopposed, and tumbled arselong when the bar came about. Even as they rolled and cursed, the whistling petered; [...]
ref: 1981, John Barth, Giles goat-boy:
glosses: Backwards; on one's arse.
between-times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of between-time
room temperature IQ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: room temperature IQs
Senses: examples: text: Lurking at the bottom, driving the whole godforsaken thing, is the possibility that the room temperature IQ that informs every groove of Neurotica may very well be the real thing.
ref: 1987 July, John Leland, “Spins”, in Spin:
text: “There used to be a Sergeant Henkels in Central Cell Room,” Pekach volunteered. “If it's the same guy, he has a room temperature IQ.”
ref: 1993, W. E. B. Griffin, The Assassin, Jove Books, →ISBN:
text: Anyone with a room temperature IQ and a computer could buy and sell stocks in a frenzy of greed, buy a stock and sell it a few minutes later, buy it again and sell it again as the stock gained a point or lost a point.
ref: 2001, Robert Lichello, How to Make $1,000,000 in the Stock Market Automatically, Signet, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of room-temperature IQ.
room temperature IQs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of room temperature IQ
hawkling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hawklings
Etymology: From hawk + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: The young nestlings of hawks; these hawklings being untrained, and good for little in falconry.
ref: 1851, Agnes Strickland, Elizabeth Strickland, Lives of the queens of England:
text: The day's tragedies had begun; the east was warm with color, and streamers of light were woven through the clouds; but I thought that, somewhere near me, the mocker's' mate was sitting on her nest, and that somewhere, further away, there were young hawklings who, also, have a right to life.
ref: 1913, The Oriole - Volumes 1-4 - Page 18
text: It was a bird, a small hawkling. A baby. And as she watched, it began to stretch its wet, feeble wings.
ref: 2009, Nancy Werlin, Locked Inside:
glosses: A small, young, or immature hawk.
hawklings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hawkling
room temperature I.Q.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: room temperature I.Q.s
Senses: examples: text: […] She was perfectly safe; Mitzi says he's got room temperature I.Q., but Peyton didn't know that.”
ref: 1999, Anne George, Murder Shoots the Bull, Avon Books, →ISBN, page 241:
text: Logical folks for good reason like to joke about room temperature I.Q. juries, but this hot coffee case is truly incredible.
ref: 2006, Michael Patrick Murray, Passion, Prose and Poetry, AuthorHouse, published 2007, →ISBN:
text: “Yeah, they were a real cute bunch of rednecks, that's for sure. Soak a room temperature I.Q. in alcohol and that's what you get. […]
ref: 2011, Jamie Sutliff, Yah-Ko, eBookIt.com, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of room-temperature IQ.
vultureling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vulturelings
Etymology: From vulture + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Next morning at breakfast the supposed vultureling is found to be subdued and silent, […]
ref: 1892, Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine, volume 151, page 735:
text: […] Vamos, vultureling and eaglet," broke in the Maestro. "We have enough measured now for a while, and to-morrow you can bait your hooks for the Big Fish. Ay !
ref: 1911, Charles Fletcher Lummis, The gold fish of Gran Chimú:
text: "[…] But Periaswamy Iyer was no easy quarry for a vultureling".
ref: 1964, Indian Writers in Conference: Proceedings, page 142:
glosses: A small, young, or immature vulture.
calfling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calflings
Etymology: From calf + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Nick observes the whale both with her calfling, and with Marty, but he does not communicate with her.
ref: 1995, Canadian children's literature - Issue 77, Volume 21 - Issue 80, Volume 21 - Page 13
text: It was beautiful—the silver moon shone on the calfling while Dark- Eye licked her and I rubbed her with grass, and everything was shiny.
ref: 2000, Donna Fletcher Crow, Glastonbury: The Novel of Christian England - Page 537:
text: His enemy. And if the man had hated his family before, this was going to make things worse. She looked over. Caught his gaze and smiled. 'It tastes lovely.' Hellfire and brimstone, he'd been staring like some besotted calfling.
ref: 2012, Ann Lethbridge, The Laird's Forbidden Lady - Page 136:
glosses: A small, young, or miniature calf.
calflings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calfling
toadling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toadlings
Etymology: From toad + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: After the young ones have acquired their perfect shape, they appear to leave the water, and frequently the roads and paths are so covered with minute but well-formed toadlings, that it is impossible to put your foot down without crushing some [...]
ref: 1878, Charles St. John, Sketches of the wild sports & natural history of the Highlands:
text: A glob of pea green toadling spit splattered against my upraised arm, burning like holy hell.
ref: 2010, Marilee Brothers, Moon Spun:
glosses: A young, immature, or miniature toad.
toadlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toadling
crabling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crablings
Etymology: From crab + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: The juvenile members of most of our seaside communities are much given to crab-fishing, and may be seen from early morn to evening late, dangling their legs over some convenient rock, sea-wall, or landing-steps, and with a piece of twine to which a dainty morsel of fish offal has been tied, doing their best to induce some greedy young crabling to grasp it with his nippers, [...]
ref: 1867, William Barry Lord, Crab, shrimp, and lobster lore:
text: This was, after all, the easiest kind of life a simple-minded crabling such as he could hope to achieve, and so Galoo's words did well to play upon his fears. the sea-swindler went on to say, giving the crabling a slight push to go.
ref: 2009, R. Y. Gheith, The Complete Isaac Trilogy:
glosses: A small, young, or baby crab.
crablings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crabling
shrimpling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shrimplings
Etymology: From shrimp + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: […] not very unlike a black pin in length and obesity — the gauze-bottomed trays containing the adult shrimp are simply 'shaken over the water,' and innumerable semi-microscopic shrimplings are promptly extruded and drop into the fry-tank […]
ref: 1903, Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell, Fishing:
text: Their own sky is but a ceiling ringed with painted nymphs, and could I drop one of those shrimplings overboard, just as a great ray is passing, its breadth that of two gentlemen's cloaks, […]
ref: 1989, Brendan Galvin, Wampanoag Traveler:
text: He filled the ponds with water, then dumped in thousands of shrimplings (purchased from hatcheries outside the state) and called the operation Desert Sweet Shrimp.
ref: 2005, Sam Lowe, You Know You're in Arizona When--::
glosses: A young or miniature shrimp.
shrimplings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shrimpling
lobsterling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lobsterlings
Etymology: From lobster + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: In the first few days of the fourth stage the lobsterlings are good swimmers — this is their "redeeming vice" — but the swimming is strong and bears no comparison to the aimless drifting movement characteristic of larval stages.
ref: 1910, Albert Davis Mead, A method of lobster culture:
text: The approach of the molt seems to start the lobsterling on its course to the bottom; accordingly when this is delayed until after the fourth stage, it probably does not often occur until the approach of the succeeding molt.
ref: 1911, Francis Hobart Herrick, Natural history of the American lobster:
glosses: A young or miniature lobster.
lobsterlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lobsterling
sharkling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sharklings
Etymology: From shark + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: A sharkling is more easily disposed of, for his teeth will set him free, though the hook be attached to the stoutest gimp, and as he fights madly he is pretty certain in a few moments to have severed the gut.
ref: 1888, William Senior, Near and far: an angler's sketches of home sport and colonial life - Page 258:
text: Now for many days she has no rest at all With the solicitude of the mother hen for her chicks she watches over that group of sharklings, shepherded by the pilot whom they are rapidly outgrowing, sheltered in her bosom and fed, yes fed, though often the mother feels as if vultures were tearing at her liver.
ref: 1904, Ellery Sedgwick, Leslie's Monthly Magazine - Volume 58 - Page 604:
text: Gary muttered, for he had seen what trailed the big gray shark almost like a part of her — six sharklings that followed her every movement with perfect precision.
ref: 1970 Feb, Boys' Life, page 64:
text: Least I'm not as schizo as hybrid Tina was— that sharkling did one rough mutation.
ref: 1997, Ron Dakron, Hammers:
glosses: A small, young, or immature shark.
sharklings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sharkling
nicelings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of niceling
poetling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poetlings
Etymology: From poet + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Knowles goes farthest astray, however, in making selections from contemporary poetlings, to whom he allots oue third of his volume.
ref: 1898, William Roscoe Thayer, Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, William Richards Castle, The Harvard graduates' magazine - Volume 6 - Page 446:
text: The poetlings around him were timid, crude, experimental, but Sackville writes like a young and inexperienced master perhaps, yet always like a master.
ref: 1907, Edmund Gosse, A short history of modern English literature - Page 78:
text: "No dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you terrible year," Whitman wrote in "Eighteen Sixty-One," Not you as some pale poetling seated at a desk lisping cadenzas piano, But as a strong man erect, clothed in blue clothes, [...]
ref: 1998, Ken Emerson, Doo-Dah!: Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture - Page 269:
text: Poetlings - a new word to you? It was for me until written down on paper! I can't even brag about inventing it, for it just appeared. The word seems "natural' - created as a docent juggled two fertile thoughts converging, like children in her groups [...]
ref: 2007, Douglas C. Vest, Churchianity Lite - Page 33:
glosses: A young, immature, inexperienced, petty, or insignificant poet.
poetlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poetling
lizardling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lizardlings
Etymology: From lizard + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Of reptiles there was a broken skull of some lizard, long since dead, and the eggshell of a lizardling which had hatched and gone forth upon his mission into the jungle.
ref: 1916, The Atlantic monthly, volume 117, page 45:
text: [...] a little nest of dirty white rubber-shelled eggs, and recognized them for the treasure of Mrs. Sceloporus occidentalis, she left them there to complete their six-weeks period of incubation, and to turn into inch-long lizardlings.
ref: 1928, Nature magazine, volumes 11-12, page 47:
text: Lizardlings thus hatch out and wander off on their own without parental contact or the opportunities for learning that such contact provides.
ref: 1988, New York Zoological Society, Animal kingdom - Volume 91 - Page 10:
glosses: A small, young, or immature lizard.
lizardlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lizardling
newtling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: newtlings
Etymology: From newt + -ling.
Senses: glosses: A young or miniature newt; eft.
sparrowling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sparrowlings
Etymology: From sparrow + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: The poor sparrowling struggled bravely, but every attempt ended in failure [...]
ref: 1885, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 55, page 491:
text: Here was a saintsend of young girls and a bucket of boisterous boys as full of life as sparrowlings in summer[.]
ref: 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 89:
text: “Hallo,” Rossamünd said softly, “has the Sparrowling sent you?” The sparrow chirruped loudly. Was that a reply? The tiny bird chirped again and shot away, Rossamünd losing sight of it in the thick foliage.
ref: 2010, D.M. Cornish, The Foundling's Tale, Part Two:
glosses: A small, young, or immature sparrow.
sparrowlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sparrowling
holluschick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holluschickie
Etymology: See holluschickie.
Senses: glosses: A "bachelor seal"; a holluschickie.
attagen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attagens
form: attagas
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin attagēn.
Senses: glosses: A grey partridge (Perdix perdix) of Eurasia.
glosses: A Pallas's sandgrouse (Syrrhaptes paradoxus) of Central Asia and occurring as a vagrant in Europe.
attagens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attagen
stavesacres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stavesacre
ciliotoxicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being ciliotoxic.
ciliotoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ciliotoxic
form: most ciliotoxic
Etymology: From cilio- + toxic.
Senses: glosses: toxic to the cilia in the lungs
Related terms: ciliotoxicity
ciliotoxin
triboulets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triboulet
baa-lambs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baa-lamb
dime piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dime pieces
form: dimepiece
Etymology: Suggesting a score of 10/10 on the informal scale of beauty, since a dime is worth 10 cents. Possibly in imitation of timepiece.
Senses: examples: text: You're not a dime piece, you're a diva
ref: 2004, “Girl Like U”performed by Snoop Dogg ft. Nelly:
text: Carmiesha "Lil' Muddah" Vernoy had been with me since back in the day. She was more than a dime piece. She was drop-dead gorgeous and had the best pussy in the world.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 21:
text: "Don't act like we didn't kick it something fierce back in the day." Drew smiled. "My homies knew what I was working with back then," he said. "It ain't too often a brotha lucks up on a bona-fide dimepiece like you, Lachez."
ref: 2012, Tucker, Pat, Daddy's Maybe, Largo, M.D.: Strebor Books, →ISBN, page 188:
text: So tell me sugafoot. Why is a dimepiece like you single?
ref: 2014, Keisha Ervin, Cashmere Mafia, →ISBN, page 137:
synonyms: word: dime
word: ten
word: angel
word: babe
word: beauty
word: belle
word: betty
word: bit of crumpet
word: bomb
word: bombshell
word: cookie
word: cupcake
word: cutie
word: dimber mort
word: doll
word: enchantress
word: femme fatale
word: fox
word: goddess
word: golden girl
word: HB
word: hottie
word: houri
word: jelly
word: knockout
word: looker
word: lovely
word: odalisque
word: peng ting
word: piece of crumpet
word: pretty
word: stoater
word: stunner
word: stunna
word: tchotchke
raw_tags: in Jewish contexts
word: ten
word: vixen
glosses: A beautiful woman.
qere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qeres
Etymology: Borrowed from Aramaic קְרֵי (qərê).
Senses: glosses: In the liturgical use of the Tanakh, a spoken reading that diverges from the written word (the ketiv); an indication of such a reading.
Derived terms: qere perpetuum
single-lens reflex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: single lens reflex
Etymology: From single + lens (contrasted with a twin-lens reflex camera, TLR), and reflex (“reflection”), the principle by which the image path is diverted.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: Denoting or relating to a type of camera which allows the photographer to view the subject through the same lens that will be used to take a photograph, usually by incorporating a moving mirror and prism.
single-lens reflex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: single-lens reflexes
form: single lens reflex
Etymology: From single + lens (contrasted with a twin-lens reflex camera, TLR), and reflex (“reflection”), the principle by which the image path is diverted.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
synonyms: SLR
glosses: Clipping of single-lens reflex camera.
Coordinate terms: digital single-lens reflex
digital single-lens reflex camera
DSLR
P&S
point and shoot
point-and-shoot
point-and-shoot camera
point and shoot camera
PS
rangefinder
rangefinder camera
RF
single-lens reflex camera
SLR
ZLR
zoom-lens reflex
Derived terms: digital single-lens reflex
gable end
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gable ends
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: The side of a building which is topped by a gable
BIMBO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BIMBOs
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Initialism of buy-in management buyout.
need-fires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of need-fire
isocheimenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: isocheimal
isochimenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French isochimène, from iso- + Ancient Greek χειμαίνω (kheimaínō, “to be wintry”), from χεῖμα (kheîma, “winter”).
Senses: glosses: isocheimal
isochimenal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isochimenals
head_nr: 1
Etymology: From French isochimène, from iso- + Ancient Greek χειμαίνω (kheimaínō, “to be wintry”), from χεῖμα (kheîma, “winter”).
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: An isocheim.
kobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kob
sing-sing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sing-sings
Senses: examples: text: The negroes believe that its presence has a sanitary effect upon their cattle; and hardly a flock is seen without having one or two sing-sings along with it.
ref: 1867, Mayne Reid, Quadrupeds: what they are and where found, page 141:
text: […] the N'samma Antelope, which appears to be the native name in Uganda for the Kobus sing-sing.
ref: 1867, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, page 7:
glosses: A kind of antelope; the kob.
sing-sing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sing-sings
form: singsing
Etymology: Borrowed from Tok Pisin singsing.
Senses: glosses: An annual gathering of tribes or villages in Papua New Guinea in order to share dance, music, and culture.
sing-sings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sing-sing
glosers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gloser
straw in the wind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: straws in the wind
Senses: examples: text: There were little hints then that I did not take, little straws in the wind that I did not see, little incidents the gravity of which I did not realize.
ref: 1913 August, Jack London, chapter XXIX, in John Barleycorn, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, pages 263–264:
text: […] and the decision of the United States Supreme Court virtually commanding the Florida Supreme Court to reverse its ruling banning Negroes from playing on a city-owned golf course in Miami are straws in the wind showing that segregation is becoming more and more unworkable.
ref: 1950 November, “Segregation Blunted”, in The Crisis, page 647:
text: Although no word has ever really emerged of what the Queen has really thought of her prime ministers, there has always been a sense that she did not get on terribly well with Thatcher. Some of this is doubtless wishful thinking, but there were sufficient straws in the wind to give it some credence, such as the story that the prime minister asked what the sovereign intended to wear to an event so as to avoid a clash, only to be told frostily that Her Majesty did not pay any attention to what other people wore.
ref: 2022 September 8, Stephen Bates, “Queen Elizabeth II obituary”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A premonitory sign.
Geez
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ge'ez.
dovelings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doveling
Riegels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Riegel
lambling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lamblings
Etymology: From lamb + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: I have seen the lamblings skipping / In sunshine and in mist; […]
ref: 1843, Punch Or The London Charivari - Volume 5 - Page 83
text: These woolly lamblings were immensely affected by his exhortations, and when he gave out the hymn, there was such a negro chorus about the house as might be heard across the Potomac — such a chorus as would never have been heard […]
ref: 1905, William Makepeace Thackeray, The works of William Makepeace Thackeray:
text: These two pivots of the Great Wheel, blended, had brought men, women and children in their thousands, to kill some miserable lambling . . . on the temple steps in stonement for their sins […]
ref: 2007, Hugh B. Urban, Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics and Power in the Study of Religion - Page 115:
text: So tell me, lamblings, what's gonna keep a big bad supernatural predator from munching down on you succulent little morsels?” he asked, thoroughly creeping me out.
ref: 2015, John Conroe, College Arcane, page 74:
glosses: A young or little lamb.
Synonyms: lambkin
lamblings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lambling
lordlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lordling
budling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: budlings
Etymology: From bud + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: When, with the entire population of 389 trees, budling size was correlated with total five-year yield of fruit per tree in the eight-year-old orchard, the coefficient was +0.517 ± 0.025; and with variants removed this was reduced to - 0.233 ± 0.034.
ref: 1946, Herbert John Webber, Leon Dexter Batchelor, The Citrus Industry:
text: "Seeing the new budling reminds me life goes on, that's all. ... Not even Temat should have to listen to him maundering on so, let alone the budling-keeper, whose biggest responsibility was making sure his charges did not kill one another [...]"
ref: 2011, Harry Turtledove, A World of Difference:
glosses: A small, young, or immature bud.
budlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of budling
GALEX
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Acronym of Galaxy Evolution Explorer, a spacecraft of NASA.
liefling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lieflings
Etymology: Equivalent to lief + -ling (compare darling = dear + -ling), perhaps from or modelled after Afrikaans liefling (“darling”), German Liebling (“darling”). Compare also loveling.
Senses: examples: text: 'Really, liefling?' she says. Tell me what happened.'
ref: 1998, Leon Schuster, Leon Schuster's Lekker, Thick South African Joke Book - Page 271:
text: "Listen, liefling, this has got nothing to do with them," he said. I shook my head. " It's not that, Riaan... it's Peter.
ref: 2001, Charl Fregona, The waiting place:
text: There was another word she called him sometimes; it had a funny sound to it, liefling. In truth she knew well that it meant 'darling'. She casually told him it meant 'dreamer'. He would remember those magical, special words, always.
ref: 2006, Michelle Bowers, Outstanding Justice:
text: Ma gives a long-suffering sigh. It's all my fault. You're paranoid, Stella. No—YOU'RE paranoid! Stop! Simon's cracking, broken voice rises up above the fray. Johannes is whispering into Marietjie's ear, My liefling.
ref: 2007, Anne Landsman, The Rowing Lesson:
text: She simply dropped her face onto his chest and hugged him tight. Is this feeling running through my body, the feeling of . . . true love? “Kom, my liefling, we should hike first up the mountain—where we can talk.”
ref: 2012, Kenn Joubert, The Early Years:
glosses: One held as lief or dear; a darling.
heartling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heartlings
Etymology: From heart + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: HOME IN THE STORM HEART, find in my heart, home — The wild rain is on the roof, Heart, heart, my heartling, come, For the bright stars stand aloof, And the night is smashed and torn And the wind howls down the wall, […]
ref: 1909, James Oppenheim, Monday morning:
text: Kissing the top of her head, he whispered tenderly, “We are well-matched, heartling. Do you not agree?” “Heartling. I like that.”
ref: 2010, Sandra Hill, The Reluctant Viking:
text: 'Now, heartling,' Aeryl began, 'I will be harvesting in the upper meadows each day. You are welcome to join me.
ref: 2020, J Victoria Michael, Songbird:
glosses: A term of endearment, similar to darling.
Talossan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Talossans
Etymology: From Talossa + -an.
Senses: examples: text: In the angry fallout that followed, nearly all the original Talossans washed their hands. 25 years was enough. The website was taken down, the people left. After 25 years, Talossa died.
ref: 2005, Robert Ben Madison, Ár Päts: The Classic History of the Kingdom of Talossa 1979-2005, 3 edition, Preßeu Støtanneu, archived from the original on 09 Jan 2025, page 2:
glosses: A member of the micronation Talossa.
Talossan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Talossa + -an.
Senses: examples: text: This gave me the opportunity to draw maps and flags, and even to design my own Talossan language.
ref: 2005, Robert Ben Madison, Ár Päts: The Classic History of the Kingdom of Talossa 1979-2005, 3 edition, Preßeu Støtanneu, archived from the original on 09 Jan 2025, page 2:
hypernyms: micronational language
glosses: A constructed language created in 1980 by Robert Ben Madison for the micronation of Talossa.
Talossan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Talossa + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Talossa.
Talossans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Talossan
Talossa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Talossan Talossa, from Finnish talossa (“inside the house”).
Senses: examples: text: But Talossa was an amazing ride for 25 years. Talossa was a micronation, a self-proclaimed “sovereign, independent state” located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 1979 till its collapse in 2005.
ref: 2005, Robert Ben Madison, Ár Päts: The Classic History of the Kingdom of Talossa 1979-2005, 3 edition, Preßeu Støtanneu, archived from the original on 09 Jan 2025, page 2:
text: Delafontaine says most new micronations, like the Kingdom of Talossa, exist primarily online.
ref: 2014 November 18, Jordan Teicher, “The World's Tiniest Countries and the Eccentrics Who Rule Them”, in Wired, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2015:
glosses: The Kingdom of Talossa, one of the oldest micronations still in existence.
Derived terms: Talossan
ladyling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ladylings
Etymology: From lady + -ling. Compare lordling.
Senses: examples: text: I now found what was the stimulus proper to excite and arouse fashionable people, such as lordlings and ladylings, for of both had I specimens, was a row of card-tables, to which, after swallowing a cup of tea, [...]
ref: 1803, John Bristed, The adviser:
text: All the rest of the place is detestable. But none of these once favourite receptacles have been blest by violent overflows — at least, of visiters — this year. No ; — my lord and my lady, and my lordling and my ladyling, all go abroad: [...]
ref: 1833, New monthly magazine, volume 38, page 346:
text: I bid them dance, I bid them sing, For the limpid glance Of my ladyling; For the gift to the Spring of a dewier Spring, For God's good grace of this ladyling!
ref: 1904, Mosher's magazine
glosses: A young, petite, or unimportant lady.
ladylings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ladyling
treeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: treelings
Etymology: From tree + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: The following table shows for the school year 1922-23 the number of schools with nurseries, the number of treelings and plantlings distributed by school nurseries, the number of treelings and plantlings set out by pupils at their homes, [...]
ref: 1924, Philippines. Bureau of Education, Annual report of the Director of Education - Page 48:
text: When Nahton finally knelt beside one of the potted treelings and wrapped his fingers around the scaled trunk, he sent his thoughts through telink, connecting with the worldforest, searching through a million thought-lines.
ref: 2003, Kevin J. Anderson, A Forest of Stars:
glosses: A young, small, or miniature tree.
treelings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treeling
plantling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plantlings
Etymology: From plant + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, the scheme described above is cost effective, with small numbers of high-cost plantlings being used to produce very large numbers of lower cost stecklings . An alternative is to use 100 percent plantlings.
ref: 1992, M.R. Ahuja, Micropropagation of Woody Plants:
glosses: A small, young, or miniature plant.
plantlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plantling
plumbocalcite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From plumbo- + calcite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of calcite that contains some lead carbonate.
houselings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of houseling
weirdling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weirdlings
Etymology: From weird + -ling. Compare oddling.
Senses: examples: text: It was a dusky grey haze — a weirdling, impossible, unreal haze like no sky anyone anywhere had ever seen or will ever see: it was a sky made from grey mother of pearl and stale brackish water.
ref: 2000, Alan Rodgers, Pandora:
text: The real trick was getting it out of the water before a weirdling homed in; now and then someone would pull up a half-eaten channelmouth a weirdling had devoured while it was on the line.
ref: 2002, Allen Steele, Coyote:
text: “And these weirdlings, who are they?” she asked, with as much of a sneer as her trembling lips allowed.
ref: 2002, Ray Aldridge, Pharaoh Contract:
text: The oddballs of Hopscotch here become true weirdlings.
ref: 2006, Gregory Rabassa, If This Be Treason:
text: Oh, yes, there was certainly magick in those times, though perhaps today, in our "enlightened" age, we would find different names for such as wizards, lamias, weirdlings and warlocks.
ref: 2007, Brian Lumley, The House of Cthulhu:
glosses: Someone or something which is odd, weird, strange, or unusual; oddball; weirdie; weirdo.
Synonyms: bizarro
kook
odd duck
strangeling
strange person
weirdling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more weirdling
form: most weirdling
Etymology: From weird + -ling. Compare oddling.
Senses: glosses: Strange.
Synonyms: bizarre
odd
weird
strange
weirdlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weirdling
oddling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oddlings
Etymology: From odd + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: One of the most influential acts of servanthood my parents displayed would be to invite strangers, or what I would call "oddlings," to our house for a meal or to stay for a while. And these oddlings were people who were the most down and out — the broken, the depressed, the dirty, the lonely, the lost — and they all seemed to enter our house under a cloud of hopelessness.
ref: 2007, Michelle Borquez, God Crazy:
glosses: One who is odd or eccentric; an oddball.
Synonyms: strangeling
weirdling
oddlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oddling
examples: text: I tell'd 'em t' oddlings on 't.
glosses: The particulars, as leading to a certain outcome.
manilio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /məˈnɪljəʊ/
Forms: form: manilios
Senses: examples: text: chained with manilio and armolets of ſilver, braſſ, ivory, and the like
ref: 1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of manilla (“type of armlet”).
manilios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manilio
prian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pryan.
dumbling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dumblings
Etymology: From dumb + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Gaignebet does not find savage irony in the punchlines about poor protagonists who are such dumblings they do not know that penises do not grow back.
ref: 1999, Marina Warner, Monsters of Our Own Making:
text: The self-described "dumbling" plowed through Les Miserables, perhaps identifying with the persecuted Jean Valjean, but each time he closed the book, there were the mug, the bucket, the chamber pot, the bars.
ref: 2007, Bruce Watson, Sacco and Vanzetti:
text: Karl Jung referred to the “dumbling” in us And finally, at last the old fool showed up (A long time in coming) Always there, of course, where you couldn't find him (Where he hid all his life) Waiting patiently for the final act to [...]
ref: 2009, S. R. Palumbo, Time of Our Time:
glosses: One who is unintelligent, dumb, or stupid; a dummy; idiot.
dumblings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dumbling
porcellaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more porcellaneous
form: most porcellaneous
form: porcelaneous
Senses: examples: text: porcellaneous shell
text: porcellaneous rock
glosses: Of or relating to porcelain; resembling porcelain.
examples: text: porcellaneous content
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a smooth, compact shell without pores; said of certain Foraminifera.
Synonyms: porcelainous
rhatanies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhatany
rhatany
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhatanies
form: ratany
form: rattany
Etymology: Spanish ratania
Senses: glosses: Root of Krameria, previously used in medicine and to colour port (wine).
glosses: Any in genus Krameria of plants.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Krameria argentea
word: Brazilian rhatany
taxonomic: Krameria triandra
word: knotty rhatany
taxonomic: Krameria erecta
word: littleleaf rhatany
taxonomic: Krameria ramosissima
word: manystem rhatany
word: para rhatany
taxonomic: Krameria argentea
word: Para rhatany
taxonomic: Krameria triandra
word: Peruvian rhatany
taxonomic: Krameria ixina
word: savanilla rhatany
taxonomic: Krameria lanceolata
word: trailing krameria
taxonomic: Krameria grayi
word: white rhatany
sardoin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sardoins
Etymology: Compare French sardoine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: sard; carnelian
sardoins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sardoin
sheelies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheely
sheely
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheelies
Senses: qualifier: Northumberland
glosses: A shilfa, or chaffinch.
oldling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oldlings
Etymology: From old + -ling. Compare youngling.
Senses: examples: text: For the oldlings like the younglings, And they cannot say them "nay," And the oldlings and the younglings Keep God's full-grown man away […]
ref: 1907, Reports of the boards - Issue 105 - Page 90
text: Each day Zork sent an email to his oldlings to tell them what he was doing and to let them know that he was safe and well.
ref: 2006, R.I.C. Publications, Teaching comprehension strategies - Page 76:
glosses: One who is old or advanced in years; elder.
Synonyms: olding
oldlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oldling
sus laws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sus law
smartling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smartlings
Etymology: From smart + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: And smartlings think it witty to blaspheme [...]
ref: 1773, The Gentleman's magazine, volume 3, page 262:
text: And Smartlings think it Wit to play the Fool, [...]
ref: 1738, Stephen Duck, Poems on several occasions:
text: The serious illness of Archbishop Corrigan of the New York Catholic diocese, has led a lot of newspaper smartlings to predict, with apparent mournfulness, that he might recover but for his "advanced age."
ref: 1902, James Hoyt, Seen & heard by Megargee - Volume 2, Part 2 - Page 565:
text: He determined that he would not hold up his honest admiration of his friend for the amusement of these smartlings.
ref: 1903, William Rheem Lighton, The ultimate moment:
glosses: One who is smart, shrewd, or clever; a smart-aleck.
smartlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smartling
bishoping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bishop
bishoped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bishop
scholied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scholy
scholy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scholies
Senses: examples: text: He therefore which made us to live hath also taught us to pray , to the end that speaking unto the Father in the Son's own prescript form without scholy or gloss of ours, we may be sure that we utter nothing which God will either disallow or deny.
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: A scholium.
scholy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scholies
form: scholying
form: scholied
form: scholied
Senses: examples: 16th century, Richard Hooker
The preacher should want a text, whereupon to scholy.
[…] his words therefore must be thus scholied […]
glosses: To write scholia; to annotate.
excambie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: excambies
form: excambying
form: excambied
form: excambied
Senses: glosses: To excamb.
excambying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of excambie
excambied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of excambie
excamb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: excambs
form: excambing
form: excambed
form: excambed
form: excambie
Senses: examples: text: excamb a part used recently for burial in return for an addition to the kirkyard
qualifier: Scots law
glosses: To exchange (during transfers of land).
Related terms: excambion
excambium
excambed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of excamb
excambing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of excamb
excambs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of excamb
irredentistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irredentistic
form: most irredentistic
Senses: glosses: irredentist
coarctating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coarctate
coarctates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coarctate
coarct
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coarcts
form: coarcting
form: coarcted
form: coarcted
Senses: examples: text: a coarcted aorta
text: All the other thetes, coarcted into the tacky little claves belonging to their synthetic phyles, […]
ref: 1995, Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age […] , New York: Bantam Spectra, →ISBN, page 30:
glosses: To coarctate.
coarcted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coarct
coarctated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coarctate
coarcting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coarct
coarcts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coarct
haemafibrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemafibrite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: synadelphite
hemafibrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haemafibrite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: synadelphite
pannary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Gluten is so essential an ingredient in bread that the pannary fermentation cannot go on without it
ref: 1828, John Claudius Loudon, An Encyclopaedia of Plants:
glosses: Alternative form of panary.
decachords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decachord
minute-jack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minute-jacks
Senses: glosses: A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks; Jack o' the clock.
examples: text: Cap-and-knee slaves, vapours, and minute-jacks!
ref: c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi]:
glosses: A timeserver; an inconstant person.
minute-jacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minute-jack
badling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: badlings
Etymology: Perhaps an alteration of paddling.
Senses: glosses: A brood, group, or flock of ducks.
rudeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rudelings
Etymology: From rude + -ling (literally “little rude one”).
Senses: examples: text: "Rather young and quite as troublesome as the fashionables of their kind; they dodged me like shadows, followed me like lapdogs of Charles's breed; and courted me like rudelings. [...]"
ref: 1833, The Olio, or, Museum of entertainment, volume 11, page 242:
text: On the earth's broad back Basks the brood of the giants: — Riesenheim, that is their home — Fasolt and Fafner The rudeling princes, Envied the Niblung's power; The wondrous hoard, They won for themselves, And wrested with it the ring.
ref: 1877, Richard Wagner, Siegfried:
text: What cared the rudelings of Tammany Hall? They quaffed their cider, sang their songs, told lying stories of adventures by flood and field, and at last attracted the wary eye of Aaron Burr.
ref: 1906, Times magazine, volume 1, numbers 1-4, page 107:
glosses: One who is rude.
rudelings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rudeling
strongling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stronglings
Etymology: From strong + -ling. Compare weakling.
Senses: examples: text: The mother was wise: better one strongling than two weaklings.
ref: 1905, Sir Humphry Davy, John Davy, The collected works of Sir Humphry Davy:
text: But now you're saying-and I'm sure you're right about that-I'm not a 'strongling' for acting strongly any more than I was a weakling for acting weakly.
ref: 1996, Albert Ellis, Better, Deeper, and More Enduring Brief Therapy:
text: I humbly hope of the Almighty that I may satisfy all which is in thy heart, O my lord; for that Allah is with the weakling the more to astounding the strongling^([sic]).
ref: 2008, Richard F. Burton, Arabian Nights:
glosses: One who is strong.
stronglings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strongling
swineling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swinelings
Etymology: From swine + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: He did so, filling his pipe and paying for a second tankard, which now came in, gazing amiably the while upon the interesting swineling, behind which, on the bench by my side, he presently conveyed himself.
ref: 1848, Charles Whitehead, Smiles and tears, or The romance of life - Volume 1 - Page 83:
text: Most pig raisers will want to remove the tips of their piglets' eight needle teeth on the same day the "swinelings" receive the iron supplements.
ref: 1980, Randy Kidd, http://www.motherearthnews.com/sustainable-farming/how-to-breed-pigs-zmaz80jazraw.aspx?page=3#axzz2KdORSpS4
glosses: A small, young, or immature swine; pigling.
Carballo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Galician Carballo.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Galician.