cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nutso
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnʌ.t͡soʊ/
ipa: /ˈnʌt.soʊ/
Forms: form: more nutso
form: most nutso
form: nutzo
Etymology: From nuts + -o.
Senses: examples: text: "You wanted a report, so here's a full report: crazy, nutso, raisins short of a fruitcake, rubber walls, screaming-mad basket-cases."
ref: 2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN:
text: "It's a bit scary if you have a difficult boss, and it's out-and-out frightening if you have a completely nutso, maladjusted, irrational, or disturbed boss."
ref: 2000, Robert Bacal, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Dealing With Difficult Employees:
text: "I was wondering if you had any crazy nutso guy stalking you, or something."
ref: 2005, G. R. Kirby, Sow the Storm:
glosses: Crazy, insane.
examples: text: How being taught to not cut corners, even in a nutso emergency room shift, meant I checked all regions in Mary below the waist and didn't just tell her I thought it was probably gas.
ref: 2005, Phyllis Hollenbeck, Sacred Trust: The Ten Rules of Life, Death, and Medicine, →ISBN, page 40:
text: I put my hand to my chest—my heart was going nutso.
ref: 2010, Alison Seay, Your Mom's a Vampire!, page 1:
text: A nutso relationship is no joke, and no baby should be exposed to that.
ref: 2013, Tracy Moore, Oops! How to Rock the Mother of All Surprises, →ISBN, page 114:
text: In 1969, one of the wire spoolers goes nutso, breaks off its mooring, the wire lashing about like a horse's tail trying to chase away a fly.
ref: 2013, Chuck Wendig, Unclean Spirits, →ISBN:
glosses: Fraught or out of control.
examples: text: Even the most nutso fisherman would think twice about going out on the lake today.
ref: 2001, Kathryn North, Proud Mari, →ISBN, page 7:
text: I'm nutso about AnnRice, R.L. Stine, Dean Koontz.
ref: 2002, Pamela Hayes, The Lie, →ISBN:
text: My dad wants to send heirloom tomato seeds there. He's nutso about tomatoes.
ref: 2011, Laird Foster, The Lux Proofs, →ISBN, page 287:
text: Don't get scared when Dani goes nutso over decorations— it's normal and then they change back.
ref: 2013, Cindi Madsen, Falling For Her Fiance (Entangled Bliss), →ISBN:
glosses: Obsessed; overly enthusiastic.
examples: text: Forget the mechanical, materlial, solid model of communication, bring in the invisible but very real web rings. Internet, hacking and so on; puerile conversations of chat pages, insane obsessions with nutso things.
ref: 2000, Finola Moorhead, Darkness More Visible, →ISBN, page 133:
text: Trust me, we both can find fringe fanatics to prove the other side is nutso. So let's stop with this stereotypical silliness.
ref: 2008, Becky Garrison, The New Atheist Crusaders and Their Unholy Grail, →ISBN, page 55:
text: This is a nutso project they've taken on, but it's their nutso project, not ours.
ref: 2009, Sally John, Gary Smalley, A Time to Surrender, →ISBN, page 30:
text: She made us go through this nutso warrior ceremony.
ref: 2010, John O'Keefe, The Spread, →ISBN, page 253:
glosses: Ridiculous; unbelievable or silly.
nutso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnʌ.t͡soʊ/
ipa: /ˈnʌt.soʊ/
Forms: form: nutsos
form: nutzo
Etymology: From nuts + -o.
Senses: examples: text: You know, some computer nerd rapist killer nutso builds a fantasy around her, crashes a party whereshe's supposed to be, she laughs himoff, says she'd rather be fuckin' her girlfriends than a pimply little freak--
ref: 2001, John Sandford, Easy Prey, →ISBN:
text: Sadly, at the end of his life, Luther became somewhat of a nutso.
ref: 2012, A. J. Swoboda, Messy: God Likes It That Way, →ISBN, page 143:
text: Why give even one minute to this head-meddling nutso?
ref: 2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, →ISBN, page 417:
glosses: A crazy person; a crackpot or lunatic.
examples: text: I wrote a letter to the Guild Newsletter apologizing for having disrupted the show, pleading temporary nutso.
ref: 2012, Harlan Ellison, An Edge in My Voice, →ISBN:
text: I knew she was a crazy bitch, but this is a whole new level of nutso.
ref: 2014, S.P. Durnin, Keep Your Crowbar Handy, →ISBN:
glosses: Craziness; insanity.
nutso
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnʌ.t͡soʊ/
ipa: /ˈnʌt.soʊ/
Forms: form: more nutso
form: most nutso
form: nutzo
Etymology: From nuts + -o.
Senses: examples: text: I'm completely, utterly, nutso in love with that man!
ref: 2012, Susan Donovan, He Loves Lucy, →ISBN:
glosses: Madly; extremely or obsessively.
examples: text: I'm working at the ink-jet machine running a job...then I hear a weird noise I but I can't really tell what it is over the sound of the machine right.. .then I think I hear a whimper...all of a sudden my step mom bursts out from her office all nutso saying..."where is your father, where is your father"
ref: 2006, Michael Amore, Loosely Based On Last Thursday, →ISBN, page 102:
text: In there was Captain Ed Cutler, whom every man and woman in Maggie's old command had once seen run nutso in Valhalla.
ref: 2014, Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett, The Long Mars, →ISBN:
glosses: In a crazy manner.
tenderloin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenderloins
Etymology: From tender + loin.
Senses: glosses: The tenderest part of a loin of meat, especially of pork or beef.
glosses: A district of a city where corruption is common, often because the district is devoted to questionable businesses (peep shows, etc) which are easy for police to blackmail and extort.
Synonyms: topics: meat
meats
food
lifestyle
word: striploin
topics: meat
meats
food
lifestyle
word: fillet
topics: meat
meats
food
lifestyle
english: beef
translation: beef
word: eye fillet
sense: neighborhood
word: red-light district
Hyponyms: english: beef
translation: beef
word: filet mignon
Derived terms: tenderloin steak
floodwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floodwaters
form: flood water
Etymology: From flood + water.
Senses: examples: text: European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.
ref: 2013 January 24, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2013, page 59:
text: South Yorkshire 2019: The track at Conisbrough is deluged by floodwater. Lines were shut and services were disrupted across Yorkshire and the East Midlands.
ref: 2020 July 29, Andrew Roden, “ORR demands more action on weather resistance”, in Rail, page 21, photo caption:
glosses: The water of a flood.
floodwaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The waters of a flood
floorboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floorboards
form: floor-board
Etymology: From floor + board.
Senses: examples: text: There was a rat that lived under our duplex. […] It went in and out through a broken floorboard in the porch, and into our kitchens, but we didn’t believe in killing it.
ref: 1976, Vance Bourjaily, “All Quiet on the Middlewestern Front”, in Now Playing at Canterbury, New York, N.Y.: The Dial Press, →ISBN, page 364:
glosses: Any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor.
examples: text: The officers said they found two rifles in the car, one on the front floorboard of the vehicle and another on the rear floorboard.
ref: 1999, Ernesto B. Vigil, The Crusade for Justice: Chicano Militancy and the Government's War on Dissent, page 212:
glosses: The floor of a car.
Derived terms: word: floorboarding
floorboard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: floorboards
form: floorboarding
form: floorboarded
form: floorboarded
form: floor-board
Etymology: From floor + board.
Senses: examples: text: I floorboarded the gas pedal and cut over sharply to the right, threatening the Cadillac's fenders and its driver's life.
ref: 1953, Ross Macdonald, Gone Girl:
glosses: To sink the gas pedal into the floorboard of the car, in order to bring the car to the highest possible speed.
floor-length
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That reaches to the floor.
raw_tags: of clothing
floorwalker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floorwalkers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of floor-walker.
magic mushrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magic mushroom
flossy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: flossier
form: flossiest
Etymology: From floss + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling floss.
examples: text: When a flossy girl comes along the street granting alike to the interested and the uninterested a sight of several inches of white stockings above her high boots, one's mind harks back to dear old Mother Goose, and the woman who went to market her eggs for to sell.
ref: 1917, The Judge, volume 72:
text: The latest example of 30's camp-nostalgia opened last week at the Colonial for a three-week run; it is a big, flossy, stylish revival of Good News (vintage 1927), with Alice Faye, John Payne, and would you believe Stubby Kaye?
ref: 1973 December 29, Jonathan Cross, “The Fag In The Fifth Row”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 28, page 4:
text: I am a go-getter, stay fresh and looking flossy
Haters out here can’t stop me, throw blows like Ronda Rousey
ref: 2015, “Automatic Bizz” (track 9, 0:23–0:30 from the start), in Beto Lokz (lyrics), Automatic Bizz:
glosses: Extravagantly showy; flashy
Derived terms: floozie
flossily
flossiness
flossy pork
unflossy
Flossy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name, diminutive of Florence.
out-of-the-box
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Cal Nathan, owner of the New York Fun Factory, an event planner in Hicksville, N.Y. (nyfunfactory.com), said that he, too, has witnessed an uptick in the number of couples using out-of-the-box gimmicks like stilt walkers, celebrity look-alikes, photo booths and minicasinos to make their weddings stand out.
ref: 2007 December 16, Marcelle S. Fischler, “First the Wedding, Then the Real Show and Razzle-Dazzle Begins”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2018:
text: While SharePoint can offer users more than just a collaboration tool or a content repository and offers several out-of-the-box features, there are still some improvements that could make the difference in terms of user adoption.
ref: 2014, “SharePoint 2013 out-of-the-box features”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name) (HTML), TechTarget, archived from the original on 21 Oct 2014:
glosses: Alternative form of out of the box (especially in attributive use)
off the shelf
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: After the war, the invaluable experience gained with mass production of the TP engines saw Davey Paxman in a favourable position to supply such units almost "off the shelf", a facility found to be of great value by oil companies engaged in well-drilling; [...].
ref: 1964 May, R. K. Evans, “The Ventura—Paxman's high-speed engine”, in Modern Railways, page 328:
text: Stadler Project Manager Matthias Hammerle explained: "These trains for the Liverpool City Region are not 'off the shelf' but have been tailored to a very specific brief."
ref: 2019 October 23, Rail, page 28:
glosses: Alternative form of off-the-shelf.
one percenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one percenters
Senses: examples: text: So what’s cool about it? Nothing that I can see, as dealers talk up their goods to one percenters at every booth.
ref: 2023 October 11, Jonathan Jones, “Frieze London art fair review – a graveyard of creativity for tasteless one percenters”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative form of one-percenter.
aggrandise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: aggrandises
form: aggrandising
form: aggrandised
form: aggrandised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of aggrandize.
Derived terms: aggrandisement
buzzkill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌzkɪl/
Forms: form: buzzkills
Etymology: From buzz (“feeling of energy or excitement”) + kill.
Senses: glosses: Something that or someone who spoils an otherwise enjoyable event.
glosses: A person who attends a social event and occupies their time with unsociable activities.
Synonyms: sense: something or someone who spoils an enjoyable event
word: dampener
word: killjoy
word: wet blanket
word: party-pooper
word: spoilsport
multi-coloured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of multi-colored.
Ariane
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Arianes
Etymology: From French Ariane, from Ancient Greek Ἀριάδνη (Ariádnē).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek or French.
Related terms: Ariadne
Ariana
Arianna
Arianne
Ariarne
paranomasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of paronomasia.
outmaneuver
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outmaneuvers
form: outmaneuvering
form: outmaneuvered
form: outmaneuvered
Etymology: From out- + maneuver.
Senses: examples: text: Her banter with Cruise comes with wily amusement. She’s not intimidated by him; in fact, she matches him beat for beat and when the action moves to that long car chase scene she actually outmaneuvers him.
ref: 2023 July 5, Murtada Elfadl, “Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One review: Tom Cruise runs, jumps, and delivers again”, in AV Club:
glosses: American standard spelling of outmanoeuvre.
Tir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Persian تیر (tir).
Senses: glosses: The fourth solar month of the Persian calendar.
Tir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Old Armenian Տիր (Tir), which is related to the Persian month name.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A scribe/writer god, in Hellenistic times identified with the Greek Apollo.
potter's fields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potter's field
hypolimnion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypolimnia
Etymology: From hypo- + -limnion.
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: The perpetually cold layer of water that lies beneath the thermocline of a thermally stratified lake.
Derived terms: hypolimnetic
hypolimnial
hypolimnic
bitch magnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitch magnets
Senses: examples: text: The figure of speech finds full expression in the description of how to pick up women: Tie a rope around the leg of a bitch magnet and throw him out a car window while cruising slowly through a crowded area.
ref: 2005, Reinhold Aman, Maledicta, volume 10, page 92:
text: Brad Land recounts that his fraternity pledged a former model from New York, despite the fact that he was a Yankee, because the brothers felt he would be a "bitch magnet," drawing attractive women to the fraternity.
ref: 2009, Nicholas L. Syrett, The Company He Keeps: A History of White College Fraternities:
text: The man was a bitch magnet and looking like Steve Stunning didn't hurt either.
ref: 2012, John Howard, Rock My World:
glosses: A man who continually meets and attracts women.
Related terms: babe magnet
chick magnet
fanny magnet
man magnet
pussy magnet
720
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 720s
Senses: examples: text: He did a 720 off the halfpipe.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The act of spinning 720 degrees in the air, doing two complete turns.
Coordinate terms: english: 6 turns
translation: 6 turns
word: 2160
english: 5-1/2 turns
translation: 5-1/2 turns
word: 1980
english: 5 turns
translation: 5 turns
word: 1800
english: 4-1/2 turns
translation: 4-1/2 turns
word: 1620
english: 4 turns
translation: 4 turns
word: 1440
english: 3-1/2 turns
translation: 3-1/2 turns
word: 1260
english: 3 turns
translation: 3 turns
word: 1080
english: 2-1/2 turns
translation: 2-1/2 turns
word: 900
english: 1-1/2 turns
translation: 1-1/2 turns
word: 540
english: 1 turn
translation: 1 turn
word: 360
english: 1/2 turn
translation: 1/2 turn
word: 180
body lotion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: body lotions
Senses: glosses: A cleansing lotion designed for the body, to help keep the skin smooth
whiggish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more whiggish
form: most whiggish
form: Whiggish
Etymology: From Whig + -ish.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Characteristic of a Whig; liberal.
examples: text: Near-synonym: presentist
text: Finally, whiggish narratives, strewn with heroes, only hinder understanding of how the world works.
ref: 2012 October 3, Rebekah Higgitt, “Why whiggish won't do”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Abilafia’s article is a classic example of an old-fashioned “Whiggish” narrative. It claims a uniquely moderate and progressive advance toward the development of British institutions, traced continuously from Magna Carta and isolated from the rages and radicalism of the Continent.
ref: 2015 May 15, Rebekah Higgitt, “Beware Eurosceptic versions of history and science”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Because this whiggish view depends on the expectation of progress, liberal politicians are more suspectible to it than their conservative brethren.
ref: 2015 December 21, David A. Graham, “The Wrong Side of 'the Right Side of History'”, in The Atlantic:
text: Of course, the reason we know all this—the reason the episode keeps turning up in Whiggish histories of technology—is that Plato wrote it down.
ref: 2025 October 26, Kwame Anthony Appiah, “The Age of De-Skilling”, in The Atlantic:
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Characterized by a belief in inevitable progress, and tending to evaluate the past by the standards of the present; see Whig history.
Derived terms: whiggishness
laugh like a drain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: laughs like a drain
form: laughing like a drain
form: laughed like a drain
form: laughed like a drain
Senses: examples: text: Charles laughs like a drain and empties his champagne glass. “How about some fruit juice and muesli, pumpkin?”
ref: 2007, William Brandt, The Book of the Film of the Story of My Life:
qualifier: simile
glosses: To laugh with a loud, coarse sound
inadmissibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪnədmɪsəˈbɪləti/
Forms: form: inadmissibilities
form: inadmissability
Etymology: From in- + admissibility or inadmissible + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state of being inadmissible.
glosses: Something inadmissible.
inapplicability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inapplicabilities
Etymology: From French inapplicabilité.
Senses: glosses: The state of being inapplicable.
examples: text: Such contracts will also fill in the inapplicabilities to debit transfers.
glosses: Something inapplicable.
flouter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flouters
Etymology: From flout + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who flouts.
flowered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flowered
form: most flowered
Senses: glosses: That has produced flowers.
raw_tags: of a plant
examples: text: No person was allowed to enter the sanctuary of the Mistress at Lycosura in Arcadia clad in black, purple, or flowered vestments.
ref: 1912, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 46:
glosses: Covered or decorated with flowers, or images of flowers.
Derived terms: counterflowered
few-flowered sedge
flowered silver
multiflowered
narcissus-flowered anemone
one-flowered wintergreen
small-flowered tonella
unflowered
uniflowered
yellow-flowered water hyssop
flowered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flower
fluidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fluːˈɪd.ə.ti/
ipa: /fluːˈɪd.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /fluˈɪd.ə.ti/
ipa: [fluˈɪɾ.ə.ti]
ipa: [fluˈɪɾ.ə.ɾi]
ipa: /flʉːˈɪd.ə.ti/
ipa: [fluːˈɪɾ.ə.ti]
ipa: [fluːˈɪɾ.ə.ɾi]
rhymes: -ɪdəti
Forms: form: fluidities
Etymology: From French fluidité.
Senses: glosses: The state of being fluid rather than viscous
glosses: A measure of the extent to which something is fluid. The reciprocal of its viscosity.
examples: text: In addition to all this, the fluidity of the steam itself was much increased by high superheat, usually achieved by means of the Houlet superheater.
ref: 1944 November and December, Lord Monkswell, “The French Four-Cylinder Compound Engine”, in Railway Magazine, page 326:
text: Either side of Rooney's fluffed chance, it was a tale of Ukrainian domination as they attacked England down both flanks and showed the greater fluidity of the teams.
ref: 2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: The quality of being fluid or free-flowing
Derived terms: ferrofluidity
gender fluidity
genderfluidity
hyperfluidity
microfluidity
semifluidity
superfluidity
fluted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From flute + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flute
fluting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flutings
Senses: examples: text: Flutings also adorn the short architraves each side of the fanlight, and the abacus of the pilaster columns which is carried across a supplementary lintel in front of the lintel proper, the latter being several inches to the rear because of the deeply recessed arrangement of the door.
ref: 1920, Frank Cousins, Phil M. Riley, The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company:
topics: architecture
qualifier: sculpture
glosses: A decoration consisting of parallel, normally vertical, flutes (grooves) incised into the surface.
glosses: The act of making such grooves.
glosses: A flute-like sound.
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: A fluted pleat; a small, rounded or pressed pleat used as trimming on a garment.
glosses: The erosional process by which a well-jointed coarse-grained rock, such as granite or gneiss, surface develops a set of flutes.
fluting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Making a sound like a flute.
fluting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flute
fluttery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflʌtəɹi/
Forms: form: more fluttery
form: most fluttery
Etymology: From flutter + -y.
Senses: glosses: That flutters; fluttering
flyable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflaɪəbəl/
rhymes: -aɪəbəl
Forms: form: more flyable
form: most flyable
Etymology: From fly + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be flown; airworthy.
raw_tags: of aircraft
glosses: Passable by flight.
raw_tags: of a route or distance
Synonyms: airworthy
skyworthy
Derived terms: flyability
flyblown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflaɪˌbləʊn/
ipa: /ˈflaɪˌbloʊn/
Forms: form: more flyblown
form: most flyblown
form: fly-blown
Senses: examples: text: Him that thou magnifiest with all these titles
Stinking and fly-blown lies here at our feet.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii]:
glosses: contaminated with flyblows
glosses: tainted
glosses: sordid, squalid
Related terms: blowfly
flyblow
flyblow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flyblows
Etymology: From fly + blow.
Senses: glosses: An egg laid by a fly in animal flesh; a maggot hatched from such an egg.
Hypernyms: maggot
Related terms: word: blowfly
word: flyblown
flyblow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flyblows
form: flyblowing
form: flyblew
form: flyblown
Etymology: From fly + blow.
Senses: glosses: To deposit eggs upon, as a blowfly does on flesh; to cause to be maggoty.
examples: text: I am unwilling to believe that he designs to play tricks, and to flyblow my words, to make others distaste them.
ref: 1676, Edward Stillingfleet, A Defence of the Discourse Concerning the Idolatry Practised in the Church of Rome:
glosses: To taint or contaminate.
flycatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flycatchers
Etymology: From fly + catcher.
Senses: glosses: Any of many kinds of birds of the family Muscicapidae, of Africa, Europe, and Asia, that catch insects in flight; an Old World flycatcher.
glosses: Any of many kinds of similar birds of various families, such as Tyrannidae (the New World flycatchers of the Americas), Tityridae, Stenostiridae, Monarchidae, Petroicidae, etc.
Derived terms: Acadian flycatcher
ash-throated flycatcher
Asian brown flycatcher
Atlas flycatcher
Atlas pied flycatcher
black-billed flycatcher
black-capped flycatcher
black-tailed flycatcher
blue-and-white flycatcher
blue flycatcher
blue-throated flycatcher
boat-billed flycatcher
broad-billed flycatcher
brown-breasted flycatcher
brown-crested flycatcher
canary-flycatcher
collared flycatcher
dark-sided flycatcher
dull blue flycatcher
dusky-capped flycatcher
European pied flycatcher
European spotted flycatcher
fairy flycatcher
ferruginous flycatcher
flycatcher-shrike
green-backed flycatcher
grey-capped flycatcher
grey-streaked flycatcher
Hainan blue flycatcher
indigo flycatcher
Kashmir flycatcher
leaden flycatcher
least flycatcher
lemon-bellied flycatcher
little pied flycatcher
mangrove blue flycatcher
mariqua flycatcher
monarch flycatcher
mugimaki flycatcher
narcissus flycatcher
New World flycatcher
Nilgiri flycatcher
Old World flycatcher
olive-sided flycatcher
pale blue flycatcher
paperbark flycatcher
paradise flycatcher
piratic flycatcher
puffback flycatcher
red-breasted flycatcher
restless flycatcher
royal flycatcher
ruddy-tailed flycatcher
rufous-gorgeted flycatcher
rusty-tailed flycatcher
satin flycatcher
scissor-tailed flycatcher
semi-collared flycatcher
shining flycatcher
shrike-flycatcher
silky-flycatcher
snowy-browed flycatcher
social flycatcher
spotted flycatcher
streaked flycatcher
taiga flycatcher
tit-flycatcher
tody-flycatcher
Traill's flycatcher
true flycatcher
tufted flycatcher
tyrant flycatcher
ultramarine flycatcher
verditer flycatcher
vermilion flycatcher
white-tailed blue flycatcher
yellow-bellied flycatcher
yellow flycatcher
yellowish flycatcher
yellow-olive flycatcher
yellow-rumped flycatcher
fly-fishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Thus one dear old character in the millwright's shop would do anything for a pupil or premium, who was prepared to disuss fly-fishing.
ref: 1944 September and October, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 283:
glosses: Alternative spelling of fly fishing.
WD-40
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Trademark; an abbreviation of "Water Displacement, 40th formula" or "40th attempt" used by Norm Larson of the Rocket Chemical Company of California, the oil's developer.
Senses: glosses: A penetrating oil used as a universal solvent, a lubricant and to protect electric circuits from moisture.
glosses: Anything or anyone that has many different uses.
flypaper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflaɪˌpeɪpɚ/
Forms: form: flypapers
Etymology: From fly + paper.
Senses: glosses: A strip of paper coated with a sticky, often poisonous, substance that catches and kills flies that land on it.
Synonyms: fly ribbon
Derived terms: flypaper strip
flypaper theory
flypaper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflaɪˌpeɪpɚ/
Forms: form: flypapers
form: flypapering
form: flypapered
form: flypapered
Etymology: From fly + paper.
Senses: examples: text: He gets flypapered by a task that should be turned over to a subordinate.
ref: 1967, Auren Uris, Keeping young in business, page 134:
text: Cover painting that flypapered the eyes were very important to G-8 sales, and Frederick Blakeslee's mixing of fantasy with the realistic texture of machines had a hypnotic effect on impressionable coin-holders.
ref: 1970, Cross & Cockade Journal - Volume 11, page 373:
text: In 'The Vertical Ladder," a hapless adolescent is flypapered fast in perpetuity, a mean little speck, on the mast of implacability.
ref: 1996, Gilbert Alter-Gilbert, Life and Limb: Selected Tales of Peril, Predicament, and Dire Distress, page 20:
text: Hysterical parties on her dorm floor concussed the hallways with music and produced a semi-permanent layer of trodden chips flypapered onto the carpet by spilled beer.
ref: 2010, The Malahat Review - Issues 170-173, page 20:
glosses: To cause something to become stuck with, or as if with, flypaper.
offensive zone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: offensive zones
Senses: topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: The ice between the opposing team's blue line and their end board.
Synonyms: attacking zone
defensive zone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defensive zones
Senses: topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: The ice between a team's own blue line and its end board.
Synonyms: defending zone
horny goat weed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of Chinese 淫羊藿 (yínyánghuò)
Senses: glosses: An Asian herb, of the genus Epimedium, used in traditional Chinese medicine for erectile dysfunction
divulgation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdaɪvʌlˈɡeɪʃən/
Forms: form: divulgations
Etymology: From Latin dīvulgātiō (“wide publication”). Compare French divulgation. By surface analysis, di- + vulgation.
Senses: examples: text: Secrecy hath no less use than divulgation.
ref: 1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:
text: In Calvià the demoasidetion of 16 hotels built in the early 1970s and the new planning strategies have given visibiasidety to a possible reuse of edified areas often showing relevant impacts, in Rimini the project tried to put into action a process of divulgation on sustainable tourism themes.
ref: 2007, Peter M. Burns, Marina Novelli, Tourism and Politics:
glosses: The act of divulging or publishing; publication.
glosses: The disclosure or revelation of a secret.
glosses: The communication of technology or science to the general public, public awareness of science.
Related terms: divulge
main group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: main groups
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: In the periodic table of the elements, any of the eight groups (columns) of elements in the s and p blocks.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The same, plus the elements of group 12.
Coordinate terms: actinide
lanthanide
transition element
Derived terms: main group element
main group element
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: main group elements
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any chemical element from the main group.
supercision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of several forms of incision of the foreskin practised as an initiation ceremony in parts of Polynesia and the Philippines.
Related terms: supercise
gonk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɒŋk/
ipa: /ɡɑŋk/
ipa: /ɡɔŋk/
rhymes: -ɒŋk
Forms: form: gonks
form: gonking
form: gonked
form: gonked
Etymology: A proprietary name of arbitrary formation.
Senses: examples: text: You're gonking me!
glosses: To lie; to tell an untruth
Related terms: gonk out
free to air
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: free-to-air
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
radio
television
glosses: Transmitted without encryption.
raw_tags: of a broadcast
free-to-air
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of free to air.
goggly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more goggly
form: most goggly
Etymology: From goggle + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling goggles, used mostly in relation to eyes.
bandito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banditos
form: banditto
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian bandito. Doublet of bandit.
Senses: examples: text: But I was at an age when a stinking twist of additive-soaked tobacco wrapped in brown paper could transform me into a kind of pale, stubble-free Irish bandito.
ref: 1994 March 18, Patrick Griffin, “Let's Ban Smoking Outright”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Gene Savoy, an amateur archaeologist whose success in finding some 40 Incan and pre-Incan ruins in Peru was matched by a flair for self-promotion that drew on his tales of peril in the jungle, his bandito mustache and Stetson hat, and a retinue of would-be explorers who paid to accompany him, died on Sept. 11 at his home in Reno, Nev. He was 80.
ref: 2007 September 19, Douglas Martin, “Gene Savoy, Flamboyant Explorer of Ruins, Dies at 80”, in New York Times:
glosses: A bandit, particularly of the type associated with Mexico.
Related terms: banditti
peachick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peachicks
Etymology: From pea + chick.
Senses: glosses: A baby peafowl.
asse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æs/
rhymes: -æs
Forms: form: asses
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of ass.
asse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æs/
rhymes: -æs
Forms: form: asses
Etymology: Perhaps from Afrikaans asse (“ashes”), because the fur at the top of the Cape fox's body looks like ash.
Senses: examples: text: and the little Asse Fox (Canis chama).
ref: 1906, Praagh, L. V, The Transvaal and its mines : the encyclopedic history of the Transvaal:
text: South of the Zambezi the group reappears in the shape of the asse-fox or fennec, (V. cama), a dark-coloured species, with a black tip to the long, bushy tail and reddish-brown ears.
ref: 1910, Encyclopædia Britannica 1911 ed. Vol. 10, page 769:
text: Foxes involved include the long-eared Asse Fox or Cape Fox (Vulpes chania) and the bat-eared fox
ref: 1973, West, Geoffrey P. (Geoffrey Philip), Rabies in animals & man, New York, Arco, →ISBN, →OCLC:
synonyms: asse fox
glosses: A Cape fox (Vulpes chama).
fibrillin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fibrillins
Etymology: From fibril + -in.
Senses: examples: text: Skin ageing, mostly caused by the effects of sun, he explained, is a result of damage between the epidermis and the dermis caused when a protein called fibrillin disappears.
ref: 2007 May 3, The Guardian, page 3:
glosses: A glycoprotein present in human skin, necessary for forming the elastic fibres in connective tissue.
Derived terms: fibrillinogenesis
microfibrillin
turns back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of turn back
turning back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of turn back
turned back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of turn back
glosses: past participle of turn back
justifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: justifiers
Etymology: From justify + -er.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: One who, or that which, justifies some belief or action.
examples: text: God, essentially considered, in the person of the Father, is especially the justifier, in respect of judiciary power and authority.
ref: 1867, The Evangelical Repository and United Presbyterian Review, page 483:
glosses: One who pardons and absolves from guilt and punishment.
examples: text: When the operator starts typing the third line, the justifier goes to work on the second.
ref: 1955, Book Production, volumes 61-62, page 43:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
typography
glosses: A machine, program or algorithm that justifies text by aligning it.
Derived terms: self-justifier
ouverture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ouvertures
Etymology: Borrowed from French ouverture.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Uncommon form of overture.
gummy bears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gummy bear
gummy bear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gummy bears
form: Gummy Bear
form: gummi bear
Etymology: Calque of German Gummibär
Senses: glosses: A confectionery made of gelatin in the miniature shape of a toy bear
Synonyms: sense: gummy, gummy candy, gummy sweet,
word: confectionery made of gelatin
Coordinate terms: gummy worm
gummy worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gummy worms
form: Gummy Worm
Senses: glosses: A confectionery made of gelatin and often, but not always, in the shape of a toy worm, and somewhat softer than a gummy bear.
Synonyms: sense: gummy, gummy bear, gummy candy, gummy sweet
word: confectionery made of gelatin
Bundy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌn.di/
rhymes: -ʌndi
Forms: form: Bundys
form: Bundies
Senses: glosses: A surname from Middle English.
Derived terms: Bundy pipe
Bundy tube
Bundy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌn.di/
rhymes: -ʌndi
Forms: form: bundy
Etymology: From Bundaberg + -y (“diminutive suffix”).
Senses: examples: text: “You are coming out to Gayndah?”
“Yes; when I′m trailing the lungfish.”
“Hope I′ll see you there. Here′s Bundy. Good-bye.”
ref: 1947, Charles Barrett, The Sunlit Land: Wanderings in Queensland, page 170:
text: Bundaberg, a provincial city famous for its rum, had been Ted′s last seat in the State Parliament before his retirement. Ted rang me. ‘Will you do me a favour in Bundy?’ he asked. ‘Of course, what is it?’ I replied. ‘Tell them I am still diluting the milk.’
ref: 1985, Sir James Killen, Killen: Inside Australian Politics, page 24:
text: There is a seaside town not far away from Bundy.
ref: 2010, Raymond D. Clements, Aussie Rogue, page 211:
glosses: Diminutive of Bundaberg, a coastal city of Queensland.
examples: text: Graeme looked sulkily into his grog cabinet at the hole where his Laphroig^([sic]) should have been. Couldn′t have flogged the bloody Grouse, or the Bundy, nah it had to be the friggen good stuff. Little bastard.[…]Madden's big blunt copper′s hand grabbed the Bundy. He sat and poured a heavy dose. Thieving little bastard.
ref: 1999, Melissa Lucashenko, Hard Yards, page 80:
text: It was bloody hard work and bloody hot, so we drank gallons of bloody beer and bloody Bundaberg, in the good old bloody Queensland tradition. Enough, maybe, to wash away any bloody asbestos dust. Bloody Bundy with a bloody beer chaser, as we sweated and cursed and wondered why we were there.
ref: 2005, John Williams, The Fortunate Life of a Vindicatrix Boy, page 37:
text: He has also brought more Bundy and cola cans, and offers these to the women as he and his mates go about the men′s business of fixing the mechanical issues that stand in the way of the bight′s other men′s business - leering at strippers.
ref: 2009, Claire Halliday, Do You Want Sex With That?, unnumbered page:
text: “Fucking Bundy. Does it every time.”
“Well, if you′ve been drinking that shit I′ve got no sympathy for you. Get up and I′ll give you a lift home. In the back.”
ref: 2011, Jacqueline George, Falling Into Queensland, page 95:
glosses: Abbreviation of Bundaberg rum.
Synonyms: sense: Bundy rum
word: Bundaberg rum
trophic level
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trophic levels
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A particular position occupied by a group of organisms in a food chain.
amalgams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amalgam
trophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɒfɪk/
ipa: /ˈtɹəʊfɪk/
ipa: /ˈtɹɑfɪk/
ipa: /ˈtɹoʊfɪk/
rhymes: -ɒfɪk
rhymes: -əʊfɪk
Forms: form: trophical
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τροφικός (trophikós, “pertaining to food or nourishment”), from τροφή (trophḗ, “food”).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to nutrition.
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing the relationships between the feeding habits of organisms in a food chain.
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to growth.
Derived terms: autotrophic
eutrophic
heterotrophic
trophical
trophically
trophic cascade
trophic cascade theory
trophic cell
trophic ecology
trophic egg
trophic hormone
trophicity
trophic level
trophic transfer
trophic ulcer
Related terms: atrophic
atrophy
-trophic
tropic
tropical
zoledronic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌzoʊ.ləˌdɹɑn.ɪk ˈæs.ɪd/
rhymes: -æsɪd
Etymology: From (imida)zole + -dronic (“calcium metabolism regulator”) acid.
Senses: glosses: A bisphosphonate drug, (1-hydroxy-2-imidazol-1-yl-1-phosphono-ethyl)phosphonic acid, marketed under the trade names of Zometa and Aclasta, used to prevent bone fractures and to treat hypercalcemia.
Coordinate terms: english: coordinate as a base versus an acid, but synonymous in the practical sense that the conjugate base and conjugate acid coexist in solution
translation: coordinate as a base versus an acid, but synonymous in the practical sense that the conjugate base and conjugate acid coexist in solution
word: zoledronate
zoledronate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zoʊˈlɛ.dɹəˌneɪt/
Etymology: From zoledronic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: The conjugate base, or any salt or ester, of zoledronic acid. Used as a medication to inhibit bone loss in disorders of bone metabolism.
Hypernyms: bisphosphonate
diphosphonate
Coordinate terms: english: coordinate as an acid versus a base, but synonymous in the practical sense that the conjugate base and conjugate acid coexist in solution
translation: coordinate as an acid versus a base, but synonymous in the practical sense that the conjugate base and conjugate acid coexist in solution
word: zoledronic acid
bisphosphonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bisphosphonates
Etymology: From bis- + phosphonate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of organic compounds having two phosphate groups attached to a single carbon atom.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of several pharmaceuticals having this structure; they are inhibitors of bone resorption, used to treat several diseases including Paget's disease and osteoporosis.
Synonyms: diphosphonate
Hyponyms: alendronate
alendronic acid
clodronate
clodronic acid
ibandronate
ibandronic acid
medronate
medronic acid
neridronate
neridronic acid
olpadronate
olpadronic acid
pamidronate
pamidronic acid
risedronate
risedronic acid
tiludronate
tiludronic acid
zoledronate
zoledronic acid
Derived terms: topics: medicine
sciences
word: bisphossy jaw
topics: medicine
sciences
word: bisphosphonate osteochemonecrosis
Related terms: topics: chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: phossy jaw
euthanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of euthanize
sheet metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheet metals
form: sheet-metal
Etymology: From sheet + metal.
Senses: examples: text: Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a sheet metal worker and father of three, was deported last month after the Trump administration admitted to an “administrative error.”
ref: 2025 April 8, Hanna Park, “A timeline of the legal battle over the mistaken deportation of a Maryland father to El Salvador”, in CNN:
glosses: Metal worked into a thin, flat sheet, used widely as construction material and raw material for a multitude of industrial products. It is thicker than foil and thinner than plate.
hypercalcemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypercalcemias
form: hypercalcaemia
Etymology: From hyper- + calcemia or hyper- + calc- + -emia.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The presence of an unusually high concentration of calcium in the blood.
Hypernyms: dyscalcemia
Derived terms: hypercalcemic
hypercalcaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypercalcaemias
Etymology: From hyper- + calcaemia.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hypercalcemia.
euthanised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of euthanise
ultime
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French ultime.
Senses: examples: text: the true and ultime operations of Heat
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
text: Nothing was wanting now to the perfecting of this League, but the ultime and compleating act, the solemn confirmation by Oath.
ref: 1654, Hamon L'Estrange, The Reign of King Charles:
glosses: Ultimate; final.
Related terms: raie ultime
lunghi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lunghis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lungi (“cloth worn around the waist”).
emissive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more emissive
form: most emissive
Etymology: From Latin ēmissus, past participle of ēmittō, + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: ’Tis dumb Amaze, and liſtening Terror all; / When, to the quicker Eye, the livid Glance / Appears, far South, emiſſive thro’ the Cloud; […]
ref: 1727, James Thomson, Summer. A Poem, […] J[ohn] Millan, […], →OCLC, page 62:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or having the capacity to emit radiation, matter, or sound; emitting.
Derived terms: emissivity
isoemissive
nonemissive
photoemissive
perdendo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Italian perdendo.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Losing strength or momentum.
turnups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turnup
shows up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of show up
showing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of show up
showed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of show up
teetotalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From teetotal + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Abstinence from the consumption of alcohol.
Synonyms: temperance
teetotalling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of teetotaling.
viveur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viveurs
Etymology: From French viveur.
Senses: examples: "Walter Moyne was an extraordinary man, colossally rich, well-meaning, intelligent, scrupulous, yet a viveur ... he collected yachts, fish, monkeys and women." from Chips, the diaries of Sir Henry Channon. Edited by Robert Rhodes James. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London, 1967.
glosses: Someone who lives well.