cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
jinky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪŋki/
rhymes: -ɪŋki
Forms: form: jinkier
form: jinkiest
Etymology: From jink + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Trap the long ball to the wing on the run, carry it down the touch-line at speed, passing the half-back with a body-swerve, take the ball almost to the corner flag, then cut inside the fullback with a jinky one-two, and place the ball […]
ref: 1988, Michael King, One of the boys?: changing views of masculinity in New Zealand, page 100:
text: The 2nd is a jinky little 345 yards, and is anything but simple. A large eucalyptus tree on the right, 100 yards out, shuts off half of the target area from the tee. A big bunker on the left at 220 yards tightens it even further, […]
ref: 1990, Bob Ferrier, The world atlas of golf courses, page 76:
text: He's also quite jinky off his feet. He steps through tackles and offloads there are no frills. He brings other players into the game.
ref: 1999, Irish Independent, Bell rings warning over Leslie:
text: Coming out second best then, he then tried a jinky dribble from right to left, only to find McCann standing in his way again.
ref: 2006, “Tevez must sharpen up before axe needs to fall”, in Telegraph:
text: 2007 John O'Groat Journal - Millbank Man o' Steel event brings season to a close
Darren was the smallest on the pitch he is certainly not fazed by the bigger lads and his jinky runs regularly stretched the opposition to the limit
text: Unfortunately it was my faster, jinkier pals who could get past the security guards and I'd always end up getting stopped.
ref: 2009, “Rugby: Victory would be perfect birthday gift”, in Scotsman:
glosses: Mazy, windy, zigzagging in its motion.
Related terms: juke
hinky
zigzaggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more zigzaggy
form: most zigzaggy
Etymology: From zigzag + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Oh, he had a cutlass / That swung at his thigh / And he had a parrot named / Pepperkin Pye / And a zigzaggy scar / At the end of his eye / Had Pirate Don Durk of Dowdee
ref: 1923, Mildred Plew Meigs, The Pirate Don Durk of Dowdee:
glosses: Resembling or consisting of one or more zigzags.
ziggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ziggy
form: most ziggy
Etymology: From zig + -y.
Senses: glosses: zigzaggy
ciggie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ciggies
Etymology: From cig + -ie.
Senses: glosses: cigarette
niggy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: niggies
form: niggie
Etymology: From nigger + -y; compare nig.
Senses: examples: text: Joe cotton, dig corn, / Den we feed de niggies, / An oh, lord Moses, / What a liscious time for niggas.
ref: 1928, Newman Ivey White, American Negro Folk-Songs, page 443:
text: "Whites don't like us because they think we're niggies. And blacks don't like us because they think we're whiteys. We don't fit anywhere. That's why we've gone off alone, created a totally separate thing."
ref: 1976, New York, volume 9, number 47, page 102:
text: Such songs as "What a Niggy Know" and "Black Bastards and Bitches" gather force as they go along, making subtle and sometimes funny comments on everyday stuff […]
ref: 1994, SPIN, volume 10, number 3, page 96:
text: Bomb will make a niggy go delirious like Eddie Murphy
ref: 1995, “I Got 5 on It”, in Operation Stackola, performed by Luniz:
synonyms: word: BIPOC
word: BME
word: colored
word: colored person
word: minority
raw_tags: in white majority countries
word: nonwhite
word: person of color
glosses: A nigger (black person).
crinky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪŋki/
rhymes: -ɪŋki
Forms: form: more crinky
form: most crinky
Senses: examples: text: […] cotton, wool or silk fabric, of various weight, having a crinky surface, formed by using alternately right hand and left hand twist yarns, in the filling.
ref: 1929, Silk Association of America. Broad Silk Division, Cost accounting for broad silk weavers: a manual, page 207:
glosses: crinkly
shrinker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shrinkers
Etymology: From shrink + -er.
Senses: examples: text: It's been an everyday sight on the East Coast Main Line since it started testing in 1977... but no longer. They may have been marketed as the 'Journey shrinker' upon their arrival on the route, but time has caught up with the 'InterCity 125s'.
ref: 2019 December 18, Richard Clinnick, “Traction transition: HST to Azuma”, in Rail, page 32:
glosses: Something that makes something else shrink.
glosses: A psychiatrist; a head-shrinker.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A sock-like article used to compress a stump remaining after amputation.
examples: text: His peculiar character of shrinker from everything and every one, always retreating into his shell of contemptuous opposition as a snail into his shell, led, perhaps, to his rejection of ordinary phraseology, the simple mode of expression used by the million.
ref: 1881, Aston Leigh, chapter 4, in The Story of Philosophy, London: Trübner & Co., page 27:
text: Mr. Druggist, are you a shrinker? Hold a minute now — before getting excited. A late dictionary defines a shrinker in a general sense as one who recoils, or draws back fearfully from something dreaded.
ref: 1923, The Pharmaceutical era:
glosses: One who shrinks or recoils.
examples: text: Sometimes I think that humanity is divided into two classes, the Shrinkers and the non-Shrinkers. If you are a Shrinker, you are able to diminish yourself at will, and to slip into the kingdom of Lilliput, not in the role of Gulliver,
ref: 1956, Beverley Nichols, Sunlight on the Lawn, page 73:
text: These can be called the Blaster (aggressive), the Shrinker (overly passive), or the Me (effective).
ref: 1996, Maurice J. Elias with Steven E. Tobias, Social problem solving: interventions in the schools, page 49:
text: Are you a wishful shrinker? If you haven't dieted because you just plain like good food […]
ref: 1959 April 26, “Dieter or Wishful Shrinker?”, in Los Angeles Times:
glosses: Something that itself shrinks.
Derived terms: boner-shrinker
head-shrinker
tinner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tinners
Etymology: From tin + -er.
Senses: glosses: A tinsmith.
examples: text: The stannary courts of Devonshire and Cornwall, for the administration of justice among the tinners therein, are also courts of record.
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
glosses: A worker in a tin mine.
examples: text: The country-people say that the "tinner," that is the "dishwasher" or water-wagtail, is scarcer than it was before the blizzard, which must have caused the death of tens of thousands of birds. They call it the tinner, because it builds its nest in the mouth of the old mine-shafts.
ref: 2022, John Coulson Tregarthen, Wild Life at the Land's End:
glosses: The pied wagtail.
Derived terms: tinner snips
zincsmith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zincsmiths
Etymology: From zinc + smith.
Senses: glosses: A person who makes things with zinc
unwrinkle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unwrinkles
form: unwrinkling
form: unwrinkled
form: unwrinkled
Etymology: From un- + wrinkle.
Senses: examples: text: He and she sat side by side like two wax people while the waiter stretched across to unwrinkle the tablecloth and straighten the knives.
ref: 1935, Elizabeth Bowen, The House in Paris, New York: Vintage, published 1957, Part Two, p. 140:
text: The job was done before Silver could unwrinkle the grimace on his face.
ref: 2000, Gary Soto, Nickel and Dime, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, Part 2, p. 85:
glosses: To remove wrinkles from.
examples: text: His head protruded out of his torn collar much as the head of the tortoise protrudes from its shell, the throat unwrinkling, the eyes like beads, or pips of jet.
ref: 1959, Mervyn Peake, chapter 66, in Titus Alone, New York: Ballantine, published 1968, page 179:
text: In a rain barrel, water
unwrinkles to glass;
a lime tree’s daughter
there studies her face.
ref: 1987, Derek Walcott, “Cul de Sac Valley”, in The Arkansas Testament, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 11:
text: Emma went through the closet and removed the black gabardine jacket she had hung up to unwrinkle.
ref: 1996, Charles Mathes, chapter 15, in The Girl Who Remembered Snow, New York: St. Martin’s Press, page 212:
glosses: To stop being wrinkly; to become flat or smooth.
Synonyms: sense: remove wrinkles from
word: flatten out
sense: remove wrinkles from
word: smooth
sprinkly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sprinkly
form: most sprinkly
Etymology: From sprinkle + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The rain had tapered off to a sprinkly drizzle, Portland's most prevalent weather condition.
ref: 2007, Bill Cameron, Lost Dog:
glosses: Light, tending to sprinkle or fall down softly.
raw_tags: of precipitation
examples: text: Humbert's first epiphanic vision of Lolita, for example, is rendered in aquatic, dripping, sprinkly slow motion.
ref: 2007, Barton Palmer, Twentieth Century American Fiction on Screen:
glosses: Characterised by sprinkles or sprinkling.
examples: text: I had rather a sprinkly seat in the bow, but, as we bobbed up and down, I had a good backward look at the town, which, with the ascent of mud in the foreground, looked almost set on a hill.
ref: 1851, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Hurry-Graphs Or, Sketches of Scenery, Celebrities and Society, Taken from Life:
glosses: Subject to being sprinkled on.
examples: text: Mary Richmond, general secretary of the Baltimore Organization Society, was disturbed because "under the name of settlement, the old-fashioned mission, distributing a cheap and sprinkly sort of charity, can do more harm than under the right name."
ref: 1967, Allen Freeman Davis, Spearheads for reform: the social settlements and the progressive movement:
glosses: Haphazardly and incompletely distributed.
examples: text: I have it planned exactly what you look like--very satisfactorily--until I reach the top of your head, and then I AM stuck. I can't decide whether you have white hair or black hair or sort of sprinkly grey hair or maybe none at all.
ref: 1912, Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs:
glosses: Resembling having been sprinkled with something.
examples: text: When they are cool, ice them in pretty pastel colours and decorate with interesting sprinkly things. These might include hundreds-and-thousands, sugar flowers, the tops of iced gems (bite the biscuit off first), crystallised violets...
ref: 2005, Catherine Fox, Bridget Gillespie, Extreme Anglicanism: A Liturgical Guide to the Sporting Year:
text: Christmas cookies and lemonade I made it safe and sound to my godmother's house in time to frost cookies and dip them in those little sprinkly things...
ref: 2006, Barbara Kelly, Moose Mug at High Noon:
glosses: Resembling sprinkles.
on serve
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The fourth set between Gabashvili and Melzer is still on serve, the Russian leading 4-3, but the Austrian holding a two sets to one lead.
ref: 2010, Caroline Cheese, BBC website:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: With each player or pairing having won the same number of games as they have served.
spaghetti junction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spaghetti junctions
Senses: hyponyms: spaghetti bowl
glosses: A complicated interchange with many intertwining roads.
glosses: Any complicated intertwining of paths, whether physical or metaphorical.
protocetid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protocetids
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of extinct cetaceans, of the family †Protocetidae, from the Eocene period
Cimmerians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cimmerian
cimmerianize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cimmerianizes
form: cimmerianizing
form: cimmerianized
form: cimmerianized
Etymology: From cimmerian + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: O who perswades my willing errorie,
Into this Cymerianized night?
ref: 1600, Cyril Tourneur, The Transformed Metamorphosis:
glosses: to make totally dark
cimmerianizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cimmerianize
cimmerianized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cimmerianize
cimmerianizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cimmerianize
cimmerianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cimmerian + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: 1824, Blackwood's magazine, Volume 16, Letters of Timothy Tickler, Esp. No. XVIII.
It is sufficient to have given all who understand anything about such matters, a glimpse of the awful cimmerianism of the philologer and classical critic of the Edinburgh Review.
text: I earnestly recommend to those who are sensible of their own culpable deficiencies in these branches of information, or rather indeed I should say, of common education, to remain no longer in their present Cimmerianism.
ref: 1855, William Maginn, Miscellaneous Writings of the Late Dr. Maginn, Volume 2, The Odoherty papers:
glosses: mental darkness; ignorance.
augmentable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From augment + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being augmented or increased.
glosses: Capable of increasing.
Derived terms: unaugmentable
unguiculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unguiculate
form: most unguiculate
Etymology: From Latin unguis (“nail, claw, hoof”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having nails or claws, as distinguished from hoofs.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a claw or narrow base, like the petal in some flowers.
unguiculate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unguiculates
Etymology: From Latin unguis (“nail, claw, hoof”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the Unguiculata.
Related terms: ungulate
unguligrade
if so be
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: synonyms: if it be so
glosses: If; if it happens (that); supposing that.
Related terms: be it so
so be it
if so
guest-friendly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more guest-friendly
form: most guest-friendly
form: guestfriendly
Etymology: Compound of guest + friendly. Compare German gastfreundlich.
Senses: glosses: Friendly to guests, hospitable; welcoming.
Related terms: guestfriendship
guestfriendliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guest-friendliness
Etymology: From a compound of guest + friendliness, or a derivative of guestfriendly.
Senses: examples: text: Guestfriendliness to callers Is your surest thief of time They're so much at holmes when with you They don't dream of gugging heim.
ref: 1931, James Joyce, “To Mrs Herbert Gorman Who Complained That Her Visitors Kept Late Hours”, in The Complete Poetry of James Joyce, published 2016:
glosses: hospitality
guestfriendship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guestfriendships
Senses: examples: text: Penélopê formally extends her personal hospitality to the stranger, thereby creating that special relationship of guestfriendship which involves each party in making the other's interests his or her own.
ref: 1993, Ralph J. Hexter, Robert Fitzgerald, A guide to the Odyssey:
text: We saw this in the renewed pledge of guestfriendship between Diomedes and Glaukos, the one's father having been a xeinos philos to the other's.
ref: 2005, Margo Kitts, Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society:
text: Prince Tarquinius entered the house as a guest, but since he did not follow the rules of guestfriendship, his presence marks a violent entry even before he has violated the hostess.
ref: 2011, Daniela Carpi, Bioethics and Biolaw through Literature - Page 354:
text: Peder Hansen Resen (1625-1688), [wrote that] besides being "barbarians," immigrants, and hostile to Christians, the Greenlanders were also "our true brothers in Adam" who enjoyed the kingdom's guestfriendship by inhabiting Danish territory.
ref: 2021 November 23, Pamela Stern, The Inuit World, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of guest-friendship.
intermediatrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intermediatrices
Etymology: From inter- + mediatrix.
Senses: glosses: A female intermediator.
Coordinate terms: intermediator
malgre
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of maugre.
blorp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blorps
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: "Lesser artists might have been satisfied with, say, a 'blorp.' Or with a 'squoph.' Not Disney's noise trust. They said it must be 'voomp.' Their only trouble was that 'voomp' wasn't among the hundreds of crazy sounds they have catalogued."
ref: 1941 March, “Voomp Clank Bomp: Name Your Noise and the Movies' Sound Makers Will Give It To You”, in Popular Science, page 106:
text: "The center of the pond made a sound like, 'blorp, blorp,' and began once again to boil and bubble as if it had never ceased."
ref: 2007, Judith Merkle Riley, The Water Devil: A Margaret of Ashbury Novel, Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 141:
text: "He and Catherine stood at the foot of Mount Pele. It was glowing a brilliant crimson from the cone, the wax-based lava releasing the occasional blorp of heated air."
ref: 2009, Donn Cortez, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: The Killing Jar, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 223:
glosses: A sound suggesting a splash of or into a volume of semiliquid material.
blorp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blorps
form: blorping
form: blorped
form: blorped
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: "She would sooner have touched what blorped out of a stuck drainpipe."
ref: 1997, Michael Flynn, Firestar, Tor Science Fiction, →ISBN, page 330:
text: "Down below, this batter was blorping out onto pans covered with waxed paper."
ref: 2005, Steve Almond, Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America, Harvest Books, →ISBN, page 134:
text: "If I could clone myself, this was one of the times I would have worked the phones, to make the most of the Blessed Chocolate Virgin, and if I had felt more comfortable in my de facto role as head of the business at that time, I might have tried to get going with a fast production of a Limited-Edition Zip's Blessed Chocolate Virgin, using the Little Sammies production line, with a molded figure replicating that holy object sent by God to Zip's Candies, here on Earth, in New Haven, Connecticut, at the edge of the Quinnipiac River, to blorp out of that striping nozzle onto the Tigermelt belt."
ref: 2009, Katharine Weber, True Confections, Random House, Inc., →ISBN, page 44:
glosses: To move or be deposited with a blorp.
prebatch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prebatches
form: prebatching
form: prebatched
form: prebatched
Etymology: From pre- + batch.
Senses: examples: text: Scott was going on holiday so he prebatched the EFTs for me to process.
glosses: To batch in advance.
rectilineal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rectilineal
form: most rectilineal
Etymology: From recti- + lineal.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rectilinear.
Derived terms: word: near-rectilineal
alt: NRHO
word: near-rectilineal halo orbit
alt: NRO
word: near-rectilineal orbit
word: rectilineality
word: rectilineally
word: rectilineal orbit
troposmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: troposmias
Etymology: From tropo- + -osmia.
Senses: glosses: Parosmia.
troposmias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of troposmia
phantosmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phantosmias
Etymology: * Blend of phantom (from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma)) and Ancient Greek ὀσμή (osmḗ, “smell”).
Senses: examples: text: In addition, phantosmias or, in essence, olfactory hallucinations have been described in association with seizure activity, psychiatric illness, and Alzheimer's Disease.
ref: 1997, Allen M. Seiden, Taste and Smell Disorders, page 5:
text: Most often, phantosmias occur after trauma or URTI and consist of unpleasant odors occurring without being elicited through environmental odor sources.
ref: 2005, B. N. Landis, T. Hummel, J.-S. Lacroix, “Basic and Clinical Aspects of Olfaction”, in Nejat Akalan, Concezio Di Cuore Rocco, Vinko V. Dolenc, Rudolf Fahlbusch, J. Lobo Antunes, Marc Sindou, Nicolas De Tribolet, Cees A.F. Tulleken, editors, Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery, volume 30, page 86:
text: Patients with phantosmia thought to be related to abnormal olfactory signal processing will often confirm a unilateral presentation to the distorted smell when asked.
ref: 2009, Eric H. Holbrook, “10: Clinical Assessment and Management of Olfactory Disorders”, in Fred J. Stucker, Chris de Souza, Guy S. Kenyon, Timothy S. Lian, Wolfgang Draf, Bernhard Schick, editors, Rhinology and Facial Plastic Surgery, page 116:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A form of parosmia involving olfactory hallucinations in which the perceived smell is triggered apparently without cause rather than by another smell.
Related terms: anosmia
cacosmia
dysosmia
euosmia
hyperosmia
hyposmia
parosmia
troposmia
phantosmias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phantosmia
slouchingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more slouchingly
form: most slouchingly
Etymology: From slouching + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a slouching posture or motion.
matsuris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matsuri
old sweat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: old sweats
form: old-sweat
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An experienced soldier.
examples: text: A lifelong buddy of mine, this Herring, linked to me by what are called imperishable memories. Years ago, when striplings, he and I had done a stretch together at Malvern House, Bramley-on-Sea, the preparatory school conducted by that prince of stinkers, Aubrey Upjohn MA, and had frequently stood side by side in the Upjohn study awaiting the receipt of six of the juiciest from a cane of the type that biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder, as the fellow said. So we were, you might say, rather like a couple of old sweats who had fought shoulder to shoulder on Crispin's Day, if I've got the name right.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter I, in Jeeves in the Offing:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A veteran soldier or war veteran.
glosses: Someone experienced in his or her field.
old sweats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of old sweat
old-sweat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: old-sweats
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of old sweat.
old-sweats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of old-sweat
Taimyr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Taymyr
Senses: glosses: A large peninsula in the Russian North that forms the northernmost part of mainland Eurasia and Asia in Krasnoyarsk kray, Russia.
Yamal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Ultimately from Tundra Nenets Я мал (Ya mal°), meaning "Land's end".
Senses: glosses: A large peninsula in northern Russia.
Related terms: Yamalia
Nenets
asymtope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Facilitation of discrimination learning by the addition of relevant cues within a given stimulus dimension such as the dimension of shape may be limited by the information processing capacity of the organism with performance reaching an early asymtope and then decreasing with added cues (Rappaport, 1957; Attneave, 1960; Miller, 1956; and French, 1953).
ref: 1962: Harvey B. Black, Improving the Programming of Complex Pictorial Materials: Discrimination Learning as Affected by Prior Exposure to and Relevance of Components of the Figural Discriminanda; Final Report, page 15 (Indiana University, School of Education, Audio Visual Center)
glosses: Misspelling of asymptote.
word association
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: word associations
Senses: glosses: An activity in which the participant is presented with a word and asked to state the first word they can think of, often used as a game or, in psychoanalysis, a tool for analysing aspects of the unconscious.
sight in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sights in
form: sighting in
form: sighted in
form: sighted in
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: To align the sights of a firearm.
bibl.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of biblical.
bibl.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bibls.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of bibliography.
the 'G'
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Gee
Senses: examples: text: When Ted Hopkins wrote his eulogy to the ‘G’ for The Herald Sun, 1 April 1995, he described it as a place where stories are created and legends made, a place of epic footy and mega-concerts that contribute richly to every Melburnian’s general sense of well-being.
ref: 1999, Jenny Zimmer, Joanna Capon, Caroline Field, Anthony Pryor: sculpture & drawings, 1974-1991, Palgrave Macmillan Australia, page 201:
text: The multigenerational families throughout Australia file off to the footy (again the word football seemed too difficult to say so the word was shortened; the Melbourne Cricket Ground was reduced to the MCG but that was shortened to the “G” – the next permutation will probably be just the sound “gah”) every Saturday afternoon be it Aussie Rules or Rugby.
ref: 2001, Jay Newman, Biblical religion and family values: a problem in the philosophy of culture, Greenwood Publishing Group, page 101:
text: And 52 years after Carlton’s failed bid, home games will be shared between the ‘G’ and the Dome.
ref: 2005, Garrie Hutchinson, Best Australian Sports Writing 2004, Black Inc., pxii:
text: It’s one of the great sporting venues, and for many Australians the ‘G’ is hallowed ground.
ref: 2008, Donna Wheeler, Lonely Planet Melbourne and Victoria City Guide, Lonely Planet, page 67:
glosses: The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), situated in Melbourne, Australia
culture war
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: culture wars
Etymology: Calque of German Kulturkampf.
Senses: glosses: A political struggle for control over cultural institutions.
examples: text: Little wonder, then, that stories about the “culture wars” have been burning up the pages of newspapers, magazines, and intellectual journals for the past few years: There’s so much more to fight about these days.
ref: 1999, Nick Gillespie, “All Culture, All the Time”, in Reason:
text: Bush’s other accomplishments in office include […] prolonging the life of the severely brain-damaged Terri Schiavo in a cynical bid to burnish his culture wars résumé.
ref: 2015, Chris Lehmann, “The Candidates”, in London Review of Books, volume 37, number 12:
text: I am thirteen years old. The internet has arrived and I have learned with some relief that there is, at least for now, a condition called Gender Identity Disorder. I do not know that in the next decade there will be waged culture wars over what is the best thing to call me — nor that they will happen on this very internet.
ref: 2016 March 11, Jennifer Coates, “I Am A Transwoman. I Am In The Closet. I Am Not Coming Out.”, in Medium:
text: This false premise of video game industry collusion spiraled into an online culture war, ensnaring female gaming critics like Anita Sarkeesian and other designers like Brianna Wu who would suffer months of relentless abuse on and offline.
ref: 2019 August 15, Charlie Warzel, “How an Online Mob Created a Playbook for a Culture War”, in New York Times:
text: Conservatives need to recognise that elections are won on economics and public services rather than culture wars, Michael Gove has said in what will be seen as a rebuke to Suella Braverman.
ref: 2023 May 16, Peter Walker, quoting Michael Gove, “Michael Gove says Tories will not win election with culture wars”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Ignoring the fact that there was a big swing anyway, and that the Tory majority went down to fewer than 500 votes, the Conservatives now seem to be basing their entire election strategy for the forthcoming General Election on breaking the former consensus on net zero and turning the environment debate into one big culture war.
ref: 2023 October 18, Christian Wolmar, “The back of a fag packet used for unworkable rail plans”, in RAIL, number 994, page 44:
glosses: Conflict between different ideological groups, especially political conflict for cultural dominance between liberals and conservatives in the United States.
Related terms: culture warrior
unguinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unguinal
form: most unguinal
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to a biological nail or to the nails; resembling a nail; ungual.
Derived terms: subunguinal
Related terms: unguis
afflate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: afflates
form: afflating
form: afflated
form: afflated
Etymology: From Latin afflātus, perfect passive participle of afflō (“to blow or breathe on or towards”).
Senses: examples: text: There was[…]a “spirit of courage” breathed into his [sc. Luther's] being, of which the heroism of this world knows nothing. Nor may we question that the same afflating influence could have wrought an equal boldness in creatures whose constitutional timidity was excessive and effeminate.
ref: 1853, George Cubitt, The Life of Martin Luther, page 323:
glosses: To fill, especially with divine inspiration.
guidette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡwiˈdɛt/
Forms: form: guidettes
form: Guidette
Etymology: From guido + -ette.
Senses: glosses: An Italian-American female; an American female of Italian descent.
Coordinate terms: guido
Guidette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Guidettes
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of guidette.
spectromagnetograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spectromagnetographs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An instrument that measures the vectors and velocities of the magnetic fields on the surface of the sun.
uncollapsible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + collapsible.
Senses: examples: text: She carried six boats, an unusually large number for a craft of her size; two were surf-boats, I found on inspection; two were uncollapsible lifeboats; one was an ordinary ship's gig, while the other was a small steam launch of excellent build and workmanship.
ref: 1897, Guy Boothby, chapter 3, in The Beautiful White Devil:
text: The dining-table, uncollapsible and highly varnished, the piano, the chesterfield, stuffed chairs and a few sofas made a foundation on which to heap lesser articles.
ref: 1944, Emily Carr, “The House of All Sorts”, in Furniture:
text: Alvin’s wheelchair went into the trunk, though as it was the old unwieldy uncollapsible type, the lid of the trunk had to be tied shut with heavy twine to accommodate it.
ref: 2004, Philip Roth, chapter 4, in The Plot Against America, Houghton Mifflin, page 130:
glosses: Not collapsible.
undry'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A tree of stateliest growth, and yet undry'd,
Green from the wood; of height and bulk so vast
ref: a. 1744, Alexander Pope, translator, Homer, the Odyssey, book 9, lines 381–382, 1767 Donaldson edition, page 144 http://google.com/books?id=-IETAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA144&dq=undry
glosses: Obsolete spelling of undried.
browserless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From browser + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Exchanging information via documents formatted in XML is a fundamental part of the browserless Web.
ref: 2001 January, Network World, volume 18, number 5, page 100:
text: Web services build on the success of the Web and allow operational, or browserless, exchanges between organizations.
ref: 2006, Setrag Khoshafian, Service Oriented Enterprises:
text: There were no technical or business justifications for not offering browserless versions of Windows or allowing OEMs to uninstall the browser.
ref: 2007, William Hepburn Page, John E. Lopatka, The Microsoft case: antitrust, high technology, and consumer welfare:
glosses: Without a web browser.
undry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪ
Etymology: From un- + dry.
Senses: examples: text: If paint is applied and is undry when evening comes, the frosty air of night may destroy the gloss and make the surface paint very unsightly.
ref: 1920, A. Ashmun Kelly, The Expert Paint Mixer, page 145:
text: His clothes were only a little damp, despite the undry weather.
ref: 2005, Eric Puchner, “Essay #3: Leda and the Swan”, in Music Through the Floor, Scribner, published 2007, →ISBN, page 43:
glosses: Not dry.
undry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪ
Etymology: From un- + dry.
Senses: examples: text: As we continued to "undry the throat" with a Cognac de guerre, Claudine suddenly interrupted.
ref: 1947, George Bijur, "Chicken Demi-Deuil", reprinted in, 2004, Ruth Reichl, editor, Remembrance of Things Paris: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet, 2005 edition, page 21 http://google.com/books?id=rCQQ2ZSijUkC&pg=PA21&dq=undry
text: to give you even more bad news, you may need fat in your diet to undry your hair. your body produces oil to moisturize your hair. it needs fat to manufacture these( fatty acid deficiencies in animals produce a dry, rough haircoat) .
ref: 1997 March 27, "young lion" <anon-12967@anon.twwells.com>, "re:hair and nails", message-ID <5hems8$2be@twwells.com>, alt.support.eating-disord, Usenet http://google.com/group/alt.support.eating-disord/msg/077282b1c2badbfa
glosses: To cause (something) to be not dry.
Related terms: word: undried
word: undry'd
teambuilding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From team + building.
Senses: examples: text: The Accounts department climbed a mountain together as a teambuilding exercise.
topics: business
glosses: Activities designed to improve the performance of a team.
wikipedia: Team building
antichild
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antichild
form: most antichild
Etymology: From anti- + child.
Senses: examples: text: An antichild pedagogical milieu in which antichild sentiments are prevalent and where the child experiences his situation in the family and community as being such that he cannot be accommodated.
ref: 1993, Johann Le Roux, The Black child in crisis: a socio-educational perspective, Volume 2:
glosses: Opposing children.
upsettingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From upsetting + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: And the Utrechters, after they were whisked round their beautiful Singel, and even through the noble bosky alley of the Maliebaan, were only restrained from an intolerable upsettingness by the gibes of the Hagenaars at the old horse-express, now departed, which survived for a time to ply a raucous and tortuous course around their Dom.
ref: 1911, D[avid] S[torrar] Meldrum, “Shades of the Rapenburg”, in Home Life in Holland, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., page 303:
glosses: The quality of being upsetting.
upsetter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upsetters
Etymology: From upset + -er.
Senses: examples: text: And so were all Christians in Pliny's time, insane like others, and called not long after, followers of madness, upsetters of men, vicious innovators […]
ref: , Part 1
glosses: One who upsets (something); a disrupter.
glosses: A person or device that turns something upside down.
topics: arts
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A kind of forging machine that moves horizontally.
Derived terms: upsetterman
upsetters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upsetter
Pfaffian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfæfɪən/
Forms: form: Pfaffians
form: pfaffian
Etymology: From Pfaff + -ian, after Johann Friedrich Pfaff.
Senses: examples: text: If A is a skew symmetric matrix then det A is the square of a polynomial in the entries of A. This polynomial is known as the Pfaffian of A, and we denote it by Sym(pf A).
ref: 1993, Chris Godsil, “Pfaffians”, in Algebraic Combinatorics, page 113:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The determinant of a skew-symmetric matrix, capable of being written as the square of a polynomial in the matrix entries.
Pfaffian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfæfɪən/
Forms: form: Pfaffians
form: pfaffian
Etymology: After Charles Ignatious Pfaff, the founder of the restaurant.
Senses: examples: text: Charles E. Hurd, assistant editor of the Boston Transcript, has published in the Commercial Bulletin an academic account of the literary Bohemia of New York at the time the Pfaffians flourished and Ada Clare, Whitman's friend, reigned as its queen.
ref: 1897 March 24, The Conservator:
text: While the publication became noted for its conservatism, the Pfaffians, inspired by the writings of Henri Murger and visits to Parisian bohemian quarters, avowedly dismissed the restraints of convention and pursued a freewheeling personal lifestyle.
ref: 1999, Ronald Lora, The Conservative Press in Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-century America, page 140:
text: SHORTLY AFTER THE PFAFFIANS announced their version of la vie bohème in the Saturday Press, the mythos of Bohemia traveled to San Francisco.
ref: 2009, Joanna Levin, Bohemia in America, 1858–1920, page 70:
glosses: A member of a circle of artists that met at Pfaff's, a restaurant on Broadway.
Pfaffians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pfaffian
retrodictive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪktɪv
Forms: form: more retrodictive
form: most retrodictive
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to retrodiction.
nematicon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nematicons
Etymology: Coined in 2003 by G. Assanto.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A spatial optical soliton in a nematic liquid crystal.
unfateful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfateful
form: most unfateful
Etymology: From un- + fateful.
Senses: glosses: Not fateful.
nonsoporific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + soporific.
Senses: glosses: Not soporific.
drillstock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drillstocks
Etymology: From drill + stock.
Senses: glosses: The part of a drill that holds the shank of the bit.
drillstocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drillstock
drimanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drimane
foodgrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foodgrains
form: food grain
Etymology: From food + grain.
Senses: glosses: cereal (grain grown as human food)
pinolenic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A polyunsaturated fatty acid, (5Z,9Z,12Z)-octadeca-5,9,12-trienoic acid, found mainly in pine nuts.
nontimed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + timed.
Senses: glosses: Not timed.
historiated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more historiated
form: most historiated
Senses: examples: text: It is difficult to imagine that Bernard of Clairvaux was gullible enough to accept dozens of historiated windows, grisaille fields of griffins, mosaic pavements, carved acanthus capitals, inhabited vine columns, and golden altarware on the strength of the justifications offered by a single window, one tympanum, and Suger's libelli
ref: 1994 March, R Ousterhout, “Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture, an Annotated Bibliography and Historiography by W. Eugene Kleinbauer”, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, volume 53, number 1:
text: In Norwich Cathedral there are over 1000 stone roof bosses. Of these about 700 are historiated, that is they either tell a story in themselves or are part of a story told in a sequence of bosses.
ref: 1996, Ian Atherton, Norwich Cathedral: Church, City, and Diocese, 1096-1996, page 363:
text: The linkage of northern and southern Christian concerns is evident in the oldest surviving great golden and gemmed altar frontal with historiated narratives in Sant'Ambrogio in Milan, commissioned between 824 and 859 in an area fairly recently absorbed into Carolingian control (Fig. 28).
ref: 2011, Ian Levy, Gary Macy, Kristen Van Ausdall, A Companion to the Eucharist in the Middle Ages, page 251:
text: The splendid pictorial collection of nearly two thousand miniatures illuminating the historiated codices of the Cantigas de Santa Maria provides the most reliable evidence for the study of Castilian society in the second half othe thirteenth century.
ref: 2015, Carlos Andrés González-Paz, Women and Pilgrimage in Medieval Galicia, page 145:
glosses: Adorned with decorative pictures that tell a story.
nontime
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + time.
Senses: examples: text: While the other nontime uses may have an unwanted effect of forcing more detail into the Project Schedule than would otherwise be included […]
ref: 2007, Murray B. Woolf, Faster Construction Projects with CPM Scheduling:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to time.
nontime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + time.
Senses: examples: text: […] how perception, taking sensation into consciousness, can take place in the nontime of the Now.
ref: 1999, Eva T. H. Brann, What, then, is time?:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: That which is not time.
foodgrains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foodgrain
subacromial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subacromial
form: most subacromial
Etymology: From sub- + acromial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
antonyms: supraacromial
coordinate_terms: acromial
glosses: Below the acromion.
nutsedge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nutsedges
Etymology: From nut + sedge.
Senses: glosses: Any of certain species of invasive perennial sedge, of the genus Cyperus, that have edible, nutlike tubers.
Synonyms: nutgrass
Derived terms: taxonomic: Cyperus strigosus
word: false nutsedge
taxonomic: Cyperus esculentus
word: purple nutsedge
taxonomic: Cyperus esculentus
word: yellow nutsedge
nonoutlet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + outlet.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to the thoracic outlet.
nutsedges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nutsedge
tellable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tellable
form: most tellable
Etymology: From Middle English tellabyll; equivalent to tell + -able.
Senses: glosses: That may be told
nutshelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nutshell
nutshelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nutshell
unbacked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbacked
form: most unbacked
Etymology: From un- + backed.
Senses: examples: text: an unbacked bench
glosses: Having no back.
examples: text: The warlike Wench amongst the Greekes doth stand
Vnbackt by Troy, left of her Damsels all,
The battery of a thousand swords she bides,
Till her yron plates are hew’d off from her sides.
ref: 1609, Thomas Heywood, Troia Britanica: or, Great Britaines Troy, London: W. Iaggard, Canto 14, stanza 103, p. 381:
text: The simple statement, unbacked by any proof but the weight of Ralph’s new authority, brought light and happiness.
ref: 1954, William Golding, Lord of the Flies:
text: This was an intellectual decision, unbacked by moral energy.
ref: 1962, Doris Lessing, “Free Women: 2”, in The Golden Notebook, New York: Bantam, published 1979, page 306:
synonyms: unsupported
glosses: Not supported or backed up (by someone or something).
examples: text: an unbacked racehorse
text: a largely unbacked fundraising project
glosses: Having no (or few) backers.
examples: text: […] like unback’d colts, they prick’d their ears,
Advanced their eyelids, lifted up their noses
As they smelt music:
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: […] a well wayed horse will safely convay thee to thy journeys end, when an unbackt Filly may by chance give thee a fall:
ref: 1646, John Suckling, Fragmenta Aurea, London: Humphrey Moseley, page 71:
text: […] whoever has seen a fine arabian war-horse, unback’d and at liberty, and in a wanton trot, cannot but remember what a large waving line his rising, and at the same time pressing forward, cuts through the air;
ref: 1753, William Hogarth, chapter 17, in The Analysis of Beauty, London: for the author, page 140:
text: 1823, Mary Shelley, Valperga, London: G. and W.B. Whittaker, Volume 2, Chapter 10, p. 237,
[…] having visited his charger which was to be led unbacked to the field, he mounted a black palfrey;
text: Shakbolt must have had apoplexy at the thought of his ramping war-horses answering to that description. He used to buy unbacked devils, and tame them by starvation.
ref: 1890, Rudyard Kipling, “The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney”, in Mine Own People, New York: Manhattan Press, page 176:
synonyms: unbroken
glosses: Of an animal: never having been ridden or not accustomed to being ridden; not (currently) being ridden.
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: (of a plate) Not having an antihalation backing.
Related terms: unback
unbackable
filmwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From film + -wise.
Senses: glosses: Into a film, rather than in drops (dropwise).
raw_tags: of condensation
filmwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From film + -wise.
Senses: glosses: Into a film, rather than in drops (dropwise).
raw_tags: of condensation
boxwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From box + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: ...lying on his side enclosed by stones that had been placed boxwise round him, and surrounded by his burial-offerings of jugs and bowls.
ref: 1958, Lady Margaret Collingridge Wheeler, Walls of Jericho:
text: First, it should appear to be a part of the site and not a foreign element set up boxwise on edge to the utter humiliation of every natural thing in sight.
ref: 1992?, Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1894-1931
glosses: In the form of a box.
nightshift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nightshifts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of night shift.
nightshifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nightshift
veratrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: veratrines
form: veratrin
form: veratrina
Senses: glosses: A poisonous mixture of alkaloids (veratridines) obtained from the seeds of the sabadilla plant (Schoenocaulon officinale).
Derived terms: protoveratrine
veratrinize
Related terms: veratridine
veratrize
veratrum