cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
elevatorful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elevatorfuls
form: elevatorsful
Etymology: From elevator + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: In gathering up the goods of producers the car-load is the common unit, and yet an iron-bound rule in a national statute touching the commerce by rail of 100,000 miles of road, comprehending movements of freight where grain by the elevatorful, coal by the output of a mine, wood by the acre, or sand by the hill, might work inconvenience where the exception would be sanctioned if no monopoly was created against the smaller car-load dealer.
ref: 1884 June 18, Congressional Record: Containing the Proceedings and Debates of the Forty-Eighth Congress, First Session, volume XV, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 5315:
text: They come in elevatorsful, with their children, and their witnesses, and their lawyers.
ref: 1947 August 24, Nadine Mason, “Life’s Errors Go to Court: Divorce Judge’s Day Filled With Others’ Problems”, in Los Angeles Times, volume LXVI, part II (Local News), page 1:
text: Well, what the hell, any passing observer might observe, some elevators are stronger than others. Yet in each instance an elevatorful comes out at one ton.
ref: 1977, Norman Ward, Her Majesty’s Mice, McClelland and Stewart, →ISBN, page 52:
text: The delegates trickled up, beginning about 7 p.m., then came by the handfuls, elevatorfuls and hundreds, finally making it all but impossible to move in the hall.
ref: 1978 May 6, William Scaife, “...And a grand old party was had by all...”, in The Morning Union, volume 115, number 106, Springfield, Mass., page 1, column 3:
text: Forbidden City with its newly installed terrace was sold out last Saturday night-⁠-ten days in advance....The Chinese Skyroom turned customers away be^([sic – meaning by]) the elevatorfuls.
ref: 1985, Tonia Chao, Communicating Through Architecture: San Francisco Chinese Restaurants as Cultural Intersections, 1849-1984, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California, Berkeley, →OCLC, page 130:
glosses: Enough to fill an elevator.
elevatorsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elevatorful
Rovenky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rovenki
Etymology: From Ukrainian Ровеньки́ (Rovenʹký).
Senses: glosses: A city and raion of Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine.
Romny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ukrainian Ромни́ (Romný).
Senses: glosses: A city and raion of Sumy Oblast, Ukraine.
Rudky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rudki
Etymology: From Ukrainian Ру́дки (Rúdky).
Senses: glosses: A city in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.
Sarny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ukrainian Са́рни (Sárny).
Senses: glosses: A city and raion of Rivne Oblast, Ukraine.
Roselia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name, equivalent to English Rosalie.
Tatarbunary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ukrainian Татарбуна́ри (Tatarbunáry).
Senses: glosses: A city in Odesa Oblast, Ukraine.
superlenient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superlenient
form: most superlenient
Etymology: From super- + lenient.
Senses: examples: text: […] to prevent a reversal — and a new trial by a superlenient appellate court.
ref: 1975, Frank Carrington, The Victims, page 148:
text: I've been accused by a few of my relatives of being superlenient with Donna and with my son.
ref: 1983, Paula McGuire, It Won't Happen to Me: Teenagers Talk about Pregnancy, page 148:
glosses: Very lenient.
supermoist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supermoist
form: most supermoist
Etymology: From super- + moist.
Senses: glosses: Very moist.
supermodest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supermodest
form: most supermodest
Etymology: From super- + modest.
Senses: glosses: Very modest.
submystery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: submysteries
Etymology: From sub- + mystery.
Senses: glosses: A mystery making up part of a larger mystery.
submysteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of submystery
Haverah Park
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish (served by Haverah Park with Beckwithshaw Parish Council) in Harrogate borough, North Yorkshire, England.
Kamikwasi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: KamiKwasi
Etymology: Blend of kamikaze + Kwasi Kwarteng.
Senses: examples: text: Kamikwasi Kwarteng and Librium Liz were paralysed with terror. They had waited years for their chance to wreck the economy and now couldn’t bear to deal with the consequences.
ref: 2022 September 28, John Crace, “Labour parties like it’s 1997 as Tories descend further into chaos”, in the Guardian, retrieved 30 Sep 2022:
text: Those spending plans allied with the tax cuts sent sterling plunging to its lowest-ever value against the dollar earlier this week, as critics decried the government's "KamiKwasi" economics.
ref: 2022 September 28, “'KamiKwasi' economics: Baptism of fire for UK's new finance minister Kwarteng”, in The Straits Times, retrieved 30 Sep 2022:
text: You might have thought that the first Truss cabinet row would have been over the tax and spend implications of what has become known as the KamiKwasi budget.
ref: 2022 September 28, David Aaronovitch, “Truss is right: we need migrants to prosper - Comment”, in The Times, retrieved 30 Sep 2022:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Kwasi Kwarteng; used to characterise Kwarteng's term as the Chancellor of the Exchequer as reckless.
wikipedia: Kwasi Kwarteng
KamiKwasi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Alternative spelling of Kamikwasi.
Khmilnyk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Khmelnik
Etymology: From Ukrainian Хмільни́к (Xmilʹnýk).
Senses: glosses: A city and raion of Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine.
Stebnyk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stebnik
Etymology: From Ukrainian Сте́бник (Stébnyk).
Senses: glosses: A city in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.
Staryi Krym
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ukrainian Старий Крим (Staryj Krym).
Senses: glosses: A city in Crimea, in southern Ukraine.
semianatomical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + anatomical.
Senses: examples: a semianatomical diagram
a semianatomical model
glosses: Somewhat or partly anatomical.
semialpine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + alpine.
Senses: examples: a semialpine wilderness area
glosses: Somewhat or partly alpine.
semiarchitectural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + architectural.
Senses: examples: a semiarchitectural sketch
glosses: Somewhat or partly architectural.
semiblunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + blunt.
Senses: examples: a semiblunt needle
glosses: Somewhat or partly blunt.
semibaronial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + baronial.
Senses: examples: a semibaronial farmhouse
glosses: Somewhat or partly baronial.
semicentury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semicenturies
Etymology: From semi- + century.
Senses: glosses: A period of fifty years.
semicenturies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semicentury
semicircumferentor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semicircumferentors
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
surveying
glosses: A graphometer.
Related terms: circumferentor
semicircumferentors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semicircumferentor
semicomplicated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + complicated.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partly complicated.
semidiagrammatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + diagrammatic.
Senses: examples: a semidiagrammatic drawing
glosses: Somewhat or partly diagrammatic.
semidramatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + dramatic.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partly dramatic.
semifrantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + frantic.
Senses: examples: text: My mother took care of my daughter so my husband and I could go on a business trip years ago, and while I was semifrantic the whole time because I had never been away from my baby before, it was a good break for us.
ref: 2004, Barbara Mang, Help Wanted for Busy Moms, page 181:
glosses: Somewhat or partly frantic.
semigelatinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + gelatinous.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partly gelatinous.
sub-inspector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sub-inspectors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of subinspector.
sub-inspectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sub-inspector
semijuridical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + juridical.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partly juridical.
semijudicial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + judicial.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partly judicial.
semimathematical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + mathematical.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partly mathematical.
semimonster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semimonsters
Etymology: From semi- + monster.
Senses: glosses: A somewhat or partly monstrous creature.
semimonsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semimonster
semimonstrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + monstrous.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partly monstrous.
semimucous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + mucous.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partly mucous.
seminasal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + nasal.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partly nasal.
seminiferal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: seminiferous
seminocturnal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + nocturnal.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partly nocturnal.
semiopalescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + opalescent.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partly opalescent.
semiopacity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From semi- + opacity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being semiopaque.
semioriental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + Oriental.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partly Oriental.
semisavagery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From semi- + savagery.
Senses: glosses: A half-savage condition.
Ahom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈhɒm/
Forms: form: Ahoms
form: Ahom
Etymology: Borrowed from Assamese আহোম (ahüm).
Senses: glosses: A member of a Kra-Dai ethnic group in northeastern India.
Ahom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /əˈhɒm/
Etymology: Borrowed from Assamese আহোম (ahüm).
Senses: glosses: The dormant Southwestern Tai language of the Ahoms.
epistaxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more epistaxic
form: most epistaxic
Etymology: From epistaxis + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Upon investigation, such bleeding may be found to be epistaxic rather than esophageal.
glosses: Of or pertaining to epistaxis.
semirotund
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + rotund.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partly rotund.
semisacerdotal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + sacerdotal.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partly sacerdotal.
semipoetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + poetical.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partly poetical.
semipoetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + poetic.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partly poetic.
semisensuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + sensuous.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partly sensuous.
semischolastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + scholastic.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partly scholastic.
semiscenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + scenic.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partly scenic.
semistarved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + starved.
Senses: glosses: Half-starved.
supersuspicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supersuspicious
form: most supersuspicious
Etymology: From super- + suspicious.
Senses: glosses: Very suspicious.
superthorough
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superthorough
form: most superthorough
Etymology: From super- + thorough.
Senses: examples: text: The rollers came out, and Maurice gave her hair a superthorough brushing, the classic 100 strokes and more, from crown right down to the ends.
ref: 1967, Charles Veley, Mademoiselle, CondeÌ Nast Publications, →ISBN, page 258:
text: He’s parodied often for his overwork of masculinity, of adjectives like “good,” “wonderful,” and “clear,” and of short sentences. He’s remembered for superthorough craftsmanship, rewriting again and again, and for his hard-playing lifestyle.
ref: 1977, Charles Veley, Catching Up, Lippincott, →ISBN, page 196:
text: I show her some more of Babe’s signs, giving them exact counts and going over their shape and dynamics carefully because, though our Dutch Treat’s a fairly fast learner, she's superthorough and prefers an orderly presentation of material.
ref: 1988, Paul Taylor, Private Domain: An Autobiography, North Point Press, →ISBN, page 230:
glosses: Very thorough.
tuchunship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tuchunships
Etymology: From tuchun + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The state or business of a tuchun.
tuchunships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tuchunship
superurgent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superurgent
form: most superurgent
Etymology: From super- + urgent.
Senses: examples: text: Label the cubbies from top to bottom in large bold type as follows: superurgent, urgent, non-urgent, hold, file. To qualify for Superurgent status, a paper must require action today or something bad will happen.
ref: 2010, Cindy Glovinsky, Making Peace with Your Office Life, page 195:
glosses: Very urgent.
supervast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supervast
form: most supervast
Etymology: From super- + vast.
Senses: examples: text: His 5-minute improvised demonstration, during which he produced a metal ribbon without a crystal structure from molten steel by supervast cooling (at the rate of 5,000,000 degrees per second), has not been successful this time. The snake-like ribbon that is thinner than a hair has burned to ashes at the end of the experiment, as if it were saying to its creator: This is how inventors' dreams are turned into nothing.
ref: 1985, United States Joint Publications Research Service, East Europe Report: Science & Technology, Machine Intelligence Research Institute, page 3:
text: There is one supervast reservoir of funds which the Union can tap , and share with States , for the pursuit of programmes to meet the basic needs of the poor people, as also to speed up infrastructural development, and thereby contribute substantially to the promotion of good governance.
ref: 2001, Jayanta Kumar Ray, India, in Search of Good Governance, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies and K.P. Bagchi & Company, →ISBN, page 37:
text: Because, when you consider all the particles in the room, there are exponentially vastly more states they can occupy if the temperature is really 22° C—which makes any particular state all the more improbable.” But no matter which exact 22° C state your room occupies, you can make the same prediction (for the supervast majority of these states) that your thermometer will end up showing 22° C, and so you are not sensitive to the exact initial conditions. You do not need to specify an exact position of all the air molecules in the room, so that is not counted against the probability of your explanation.
ref: 2015, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Rationality: From AI to Zombies, Machine Intelligence Research Institute, →ISBN, page 1120:
glosses: Very vast.
supervigorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supervigorous
form: most supervigorous
Etymology: From super- + vigorous.
Senses: glosses: Very vigorous.
jarbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jarbirds
Senses: glosses: A bird of family Sittidae; a nuthatch.
jarbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jarbird
jalkar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jalkars
Senses: glosses: A kind of tenure involving fishing rights.
jalkars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jalkar
jaypie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jaypies
Senses: examples: text: The magpie and jaypie inhabit the woods, and commit depredations on gardens.
ref: 1813, Great Britain. Board of Agriculture, Agricultural Surveys: Angus (1813) (page 460)
text: Loud screams the jaypie as he sounds retreat, / And turtles hurry from their latent seat: […]
ref: 1838, J. Hazel, The British Farmer; or, Sketches [in verse] of a country life, page 42:
glosses: The jay (bird).
jaypies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jaypie
Jakaltek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jacaltec
form: Jacalteca
form: Jacalteco
form: Jakalteko
Senses: glosses: A Mayan language of Guatemala.
Jakalteko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Jakaltek.
Jacaltec
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Jakaltek.
Jacalteco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Jakaltek.
Jakun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An ethnic group of the Malay Peninsula in Malaysia.
Jakun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Their Austronesian language.
jemmily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more jemmily
form: most jemmily
Etymology: From jemmy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a jemmy manner; neatly, elegantly.
jubilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Celebration.
BookToks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BookTok
juxtatropical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From juxta- + tropical.
Senses: glosses: Near the tropics.
jerryism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Substantial and honest workmanship has given way before the advance of jerryism and shams […]
ref: 1882, The British Architect, page 126:
text: There has been many a "big" contractor who has been as guilty of jerryism as the smaller operator […]
ref: 1938, Engineering and Contract Record, volume 51, number 1, page 30:
glosses: The practice of jerry-building.
Related terms: Tom and Jerryism
jaspopal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: jasper opal
Jucuna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Yucuna.
Yucuna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An Arawakan language spoken in several communities along the Mirití-Paraná River in Colombia.
hand-raise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hand-raises
form: hand-raising
form: hand-raised
form: hand-raised
Senses: glosses: For a person to rear (an animal), rather than have it reared naturally by its mother.
glosses: To shape the pastry of (a pie) by hand, rather than having it molded by a machine.
Related terms: hand-carry
hand carry
handcarry
hand-deliver
hand deliver
hand-feed
handfeed
hand-knit
hand knit
handknit
handmake
hand-pick
handpick
hand-wash
hand wash
hand-raised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hand-raise
hand-raises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hand-raise
hand-raising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hand-raise
blearness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blear + -ness.
Senses: examples: blearness of vision
glosses: The quality of being blear.
headwaitress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headwaitresses
Senses: examples: text: But Porterfield commented to the headwaitress, Lily, a handsome, much-loved ornament of the club, that “there’s something wrong with the old man today. Or maybe not exactly wrong, but there’s something up with him.”
ref: 1965, Ian Fleming, chapter 3, in The Man with the Golden Gun:
glosses: Female equivalent of headwaiter.
headwaitresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headwaitress
haw-hawed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of haw-haw
haw-hawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of haw-haw
doubledealing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In their doubledealing way, even from a friend and ally, they would want more sugar for fewer goods.
ref: 1965, Ian Fleming, chapter 9, in The Man with the Golden Gun:
glosses: Alternative spelling of double-dealing.
land-grab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: land-grabs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of landgrab.
gekkos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gekko
gekkoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gekko
pliss
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: “I have not found this. Excuse pliss.” With a Germanic bob of the head, Mr. Hendriks moved decisively away from Bond and went up to Scaramanga, who was still lounging in solitary splendour at the bar.
ref: 1965, Ian Fleming, chapter 8, in The Man with the Golden Gun:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of please, representing primarily German or Slavic accented English.
Barlavington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish (served by Sutton and Barlavington Parish Council) in Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU9716).
decaffeined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The conductor arrived at the same time as the Pullman attendant. Bond ordered Old Fashioneds, and stipulated Old Granddad Bourbon, chicken sandwiches, and decaffeined Sanka coffee so that their sleep would not be spoilt.
ref: 1954, Ian Fleming, chapter 10, in Live and Let Die:
glosses: Uncommon form of decaffeinated.
Argarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Argarian
form: most Argarian
Etymology: From El Argar + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Argaric.
synonyms: word: Argaric
preparacrista
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preparacristas
Etymology: From pre- + para- + crista.
Senses: examples: text: The metaconule is smaller than the protocone. The preparacrista extends mesially, linking to the parastyle.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), A new specimen of a small dichobunoid artiodactyl from the Eocene Pondaung Formation, Myanmar:
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A crista directed anteriorly from the vicinity of the paracone apex, confluent with the precingulum.
Related terms: postparacrista
lizzie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lizzies
Senses: examples: text: He got close to Bond and said earnestly, ‘Mister, if that's your doll, you better watch her. Pussy gets the girls she wants. She consumes them in bunches—like grapes, if you follow me.’ Mr Midnight sighed wearily. ‘Cheesus how they bore me, the lizzies! […]’
ref: 1959, Ian Fleming, chapter 19, in Goldfinger:
glosses: Alternative form of lezzie (“lesbian”).
lizzies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lizzie
quadrilabial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quadrilabial
form: most quadrilabial
Etymology: From quadri- + labial, modelled on bilabial.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Articulated with two pairs of lips (i.e. involving mouth-to-mouth contact between two people).
North Leverton with Habblesthorpe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Bassetlaw district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK7882).
Related terms: South Leverton
hash-trap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hash-traps
form: hashtrap
form: hash trap
Senses: examples: text: Sluggsy said indifferently, ‘You’ll be wised up come morning. Meanwhiles, howsabout shuttin’ that dumb little hashtrap of yours? All this yak is bending my ear. I want some action.
ref: 1962, Ian Fleming, chapter 9, in The Spy Who Loved Me:
glosses: The mouth.
hash-traps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hash-trap
make landfall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes landfall
form: making landfall
form: made landfall
form: made landfall
form: make land
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: (of a storm) To reach land.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: (of a ship) To arrive on shore, or sight the shore.
superbine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From translingual (Gloriosa) superba + -ine, from Latin superbus (“superb”).
Senses: examples: text: Gloriosa superba: spectacularly beautiful climbing lily. Roots, stalks, leaves contain an acrid narcotic, superbine, as well as colchicine and choline. Three grains of colchicine are fatal. Hawaii.
ref: 1964, Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice:
text: Other publications report the presence of a toxic compound, superbine, which is experimentally lethal to a cat in a dose as small as 0.01 g (0.00036 oz).
ref: 1996, David W. Nellis, Poisonous Plants and Animals of Florida and the Caribbean, Pineapple Press Inc, →ISBN, page 207:
glosses: A toxic alkaloid found in Gloriosa superba.
lampoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lampoils
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lamp-oil.
lampoils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lampoil
by crums
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of by crumbs.
bamboo palm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bamboo palms
Senses: glosses: A West African palm tree, Raphia vinifera.
glosses: A Central American palm tree, Chamaedorea seifrizii.
masterplanned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of masterplan
aleatorically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more aleatorically
form: most aleatorically
Etymology: From aleatoric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an aleatoric manner.
postfascists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postfascist
redactor-in-chief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redactors-in-chief
form: redactor in chief
Etymology: Borrowed from French rédacteur en chef.
Senses: examples: text: As every necrolover noticed, neither redactor of the Necroletter had had the time to do anything necrophiliac recently. So we're looking for redactors for it, and / or new redactors-in-chief for the Giovanni, Harbinger of Souls, Samedi and Nagaraja newsletters.
ref: 2004 November 11, Orpheus, “Throwing the Necro Gauntlet”, in rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad (Usenet), retrieved 2022-09-31:
qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: An editor-in-chief.
redactors-in-chief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redactor-in-chief
chillth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪlθ/
Forms: form: chilth
Etymology: From chill + -th (abstract nominal suffix).
Senses: examples: text: During the past season in London, I note that umbrage was taken by the English smartees at the “chilth” with which they were treated by the American women of title who have rigorously excluded them from their entertainments.
ref: 1904, Broadway Weekly, volume 2, page 15:
text: But there is cold and cold. The Salisbury Plains type is of the "and cold" variety! It steals in through the tent flaps with a "chilth” that damply clings.
ref: 1917, Ralph W. Bell, Canada in War-paint, page 12:
text: […] and bring cheer and chillth to your parched guests. Lawn lollers as well as the strenuous tennis crowd react favorably to the clink of ice against glass, especially when they don't have to bestir themselves in the attainment thereof.
ref: 1939, Mademoiselle, volume 9, page 46:
text: This coat is lined with black nutria, to ward off the chillth. Then comes Canadian beaver dyed bright gold, in a coat with wide horizontal bands and pockets at the side front.
ref: 1960, The New Yorker - Volume 36, Part 4, page 148:
qualifier: literal or figurative
glosses: Chilliness, especially of the atmosphere; cold.
Derived terms: chilthy
chilth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chillth.
motor truck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motor trucks
form: motortruck
Etymology: From motor + truck.
Senses: glosses: A truck (motor vehicle with design tuned for carrying cargo).
Hypernyms: motor vehicle
Coordinate terms: alt: motorcar
word: motor car
alt: motorcoach, motorbus
word: motor coach
alt: motorscooter
word: motor scooter
nympho-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: /ˈnɪmfoʊ-/
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form, from Ancient Greek νύμφη (númphē, “bride, young woman, adolescent girl”).
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: nympha, nymphae (labia minora).
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: adolescent girl or young woman.
Coordinate terms: hebe-
Derived terms: nympho
motor trucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motor truck
duoden-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: See duodeno- § Etymology.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of duodeno- (before a vowel)
embolo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: /ˈɛmboʊloʊ-/
/ˈɛmbəloʊ-/
Forms: form: embol-
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form, from embolus.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: embolus; embolic; embolism.
wikipedia: classical compound
international scientific vocabulary
Coordinate terms: thrombo-
embol-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: See embolo- § Etymology.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of embolo- (before a vowel)
fortnith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːtnɪθ/
ipa: /ˈfɒtnɪθ/
Forms: form: fortniths
form: fortneth
form: fotneth
form: fotnith
Etymology: A collateral form of fortnight with the dialectal change of /xt/ to /θ/ (probably via an intermediate /θt/); compare Doric Scots dother (“daughter”), mith (“might”), and obsolete noth (“nothing”).
Note that drouth (“drought”) is not an example of this change; it instead retains the dental fricative of Old English drugaþ.
Senses: examples: text: […]to Anne Mercer, my daughter, the some of xiiij li., according to an agrement between her husband and me, to be paid within one fortnith of the death of my wiffe.
ref: 1631 January 2, John Hutchinson, The Will of John Hutchinson, Knaresborough; republished in Wills & Administrations from the Knaresborough Court Rolls […] (Publications of the Surtees Society; 110), volume II, Durham: Andrews & Co., 1905, page 119:
text: […] & palmson fare which is kept the thursday before palme sunday all in the towne, & this fare setts all the fortnith fares for the year Round.
ref: a. 1731, William Storr, Book of Remarkes, page 23; republished as “The Book of Remarks of William Storr, of Scalm Park, 1678-1731”, in W. Consitt Boulter, editor, The Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Journal, volume 7, London: The Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1882, page 53:
text: To dark is still used in Swaledale (Yorkshire) in the sense of to lie hid, as, 'Te rattens [rats] mun ha bin darkin whel nu [till now]; we hannot heerd tem tis last fortnith'.
ref: 1873, Richard Morris, Walter William Skeat, “Glossarial Index”, in Specimens of Early English, volumes II: From Robert of Gloucester to Gower, A.D. 1298—A.D. 1393, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 490:
glosses: Alternative form of fortnight.
haircutted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From haircut + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: There was the Indian Scalp Burn. This was done by placing the palm flat against the newly haircutted back of another kid’s neck and pushing up against the grain.
ref: 1957, Robert Paul Smith, “Where Did You Go?” “Out.” “What Did You Do?” “Nothing.”, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, published 1959, page 114:
text: She glanced back in a feminine way at Frank Nelsen, a tall, lean guy of nineteen, butch-haircutted and snub featured.
ref: 1961, Raymond Z. Gallun, The Planet Strappers, Pyramid Books, page 5:
text: It opens in Paris and we see a feminine Jean Seberg, not the boy-haircutted androgyne Preminger turned her into for Saint Joan and the new-wave “boys” subsequently exploited.
ref: 1963 October, Ellen Fitzpatrick, “In the French Style”, in Films in Review, volume XIV, number 8, page 496:
text: And if this is so, did my neatly haircutted self have in common with today’s shaggy hairs, not individual bravery, but herd conformity?
ref: 1972, Nathan Perlmutter, A Bias of Reflections: Confessions of an Incipient Old Jew, New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, →ISBN, page 106:
text: I’m being more than reasonable, you savagely haircutted man.
ref: 1991, Geoffrey McSkimming, Cairo Jim & Doris in Search of Martenarten: A Tale of Archaeology, Adventure and Astonishment, Starlight, Hodder Headline Australia, published 1994, →ISBN, page 75:
text: Jean falls in something like love with Alice in this moment, her heart stung by how game Alice is trying to be through her wet-eyed, skinny, lousy-haircutted misery.
ref: 1997 spring, Carol Anshaw, “Elvis Has Left the Building”, in Story, volume 45, number 2, F&W Publications, Inc., page 53:
text: New York’s reigning imps of metrosex gloom came through with the goods on Antics (Matador), last year’s best glossy-stock pick-up manual for asymmetrical-haircutted misanthropes seeking to penetrate the MySpace circles of suicidal librarians.
ref: 2005 March 4, “In love and death”, in The Phoenix, volume XXXIV, number 8, section “Music & Clubs”, page 5:
text: There we were, a bunch of brand new, wide-eyed 18 year old, Army haircutted, nervous recruits not knowing what the hell to do except to go to the show or to the library.
ref: 2010, Charles G. Pefinis, How We Won the War: or, Ya Gotta Be Kiddin’! You Got Away with That?!, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 4:
text: To prove that, we’ve hidden two of the awesomest non-drinkers in the world in this picture – rock’s hardest loudmouth Henry Rollins and Canada’s best-haircutted bloody nice bloke, Cancer Bats’ Liam Cormier.
ref: 2010 December, “Where Am Them?: Lager Krauts: Check Out This Big Ol’ Mess of Pissed-Up Germans – and See If You Can Spot the Two Non-Boozers in There”, in Front, number 148, page 42:
text: I was thirteen, short, underweight, flat-chested, spindly-legged, disaster-permed and haircutted, and my face was growing around my nose.
ref: 2017, Marianne Leone, Ma Speaks Up and a First-Generation Daughter Talks Back, Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, →ISBN, page 82:
glosses: Having a (specified kind of) haircut.
haircutted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From haircut + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of haircut
fortniths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fortnith
fortneth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fortneths
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fortnith.
fotneth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fotneths
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fortnith.
fotnith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fotniths
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fortnith.
fortneths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fortneth
fotneths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fotneth
fotniths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fotnith
sailor hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sailor hats
Senses: examples: text: We did not even possess "two coats apiece" - our ordinary costume being waterproof monkey jackets, sailor hats with puggarees twined round them, and some simple white muslin or fresh cotton dresses.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 25:
glosses: A straw hat with wide brim, formerly worn by sailors and a common fashion item in the 19th century.
sailor hats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sailor hat
non-German
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + German.
Senses: antonyms: German
glosses: Not German.
non-German
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-Germans
Etymology: From non- + German.
Senses: antonyms: German
glosses: One who is not a German.
non-Germanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + Germanic.
Senses: antonyms: Germanic
glosses: Not Germanic.
buzz-cutted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: buzzcutted
Etymology: From buzz cut + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Right, from top: demonstrating hilarious, Donald Trump-style “Who invited her?” finger gesture to introduce date Susan Mercandetti to Suzy at a fundraiser at the Metropolitan Opera; striking out with an unidentified buzz-cutted woman at superexciting party in honor of Ted Koppel; […]
ref: 1988 November, Spy, page 146:
text: I know it’s hard to believe when you look at me now, with my buzz cut and all (we are a strange pair, me and Carol—a butch with long hair and a buzz-cutted femme), but that’s the way I was.
ref: 1990, Lesléa Newman, Secrets, Norwich, Vt.: New Victoria Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 8:
text: “My head feels like a velvet jacket.” – Actor JIMMY WORKMAN, who plays buzz-cutted Pugsley in “Addams Family Values.”
ref: 1993 November 19, The News Journal, 115th year, number 226, Wilmington, Del., section “Your Next 55 Hours Weekend Entertainment Guide”, page 13:
text: A buzz-cutted musclehead wearing a^([sic]) If You Can’t Run With The Big Dogs, Stay On The Porch T-Shirt lets out a shrill whistle of endorsement.
ref: 1994 September/October, JW, “Poetry In Motion”, in National Lampoon, page 23:
glosses: Having a buzz cut.
buzzcutted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From buzzcut + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Now we’re going to get a law where beered up, buzzcutted cops from provincial holes like Voronezh and from the Podmoskoviye are going to have to walk into places like Luch, look at the sloe-eyed teenyboppers in London rave gear grinding away to monotonous techno music, and make the expert determination, on sight, as to their sobriety.
ref: 2000, Mark Ames, Matt Taibbi, quoting “Guilty: The War on Fun” by Peter Garrett, The eXile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in the New Russia, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, →ISBN, page 122:
text: It is quiet in the daytime but kicks off at night, its courtyards hiding dubious bars such as Łódź Kaliska, a hangout organized by the conceptual artists of the same name, decked out with ‘ironic’ photographs of the artists surrounded by large breasted women, in tableaux inspired by the great European paintings, its mirrored dancefloor with buzzcutted men and tall women dancing to dubious pop.
ref: 2018, Owen Hatherley, Trans-Europe Express: Tours of a Lost Continent, Penguin Books, published 2019, →ISBN:
text: In his late sixties, he is buzzcutted and goateed, and as German as one can be.
ref: 2020, Alexander Rose, Empires of the Sky: Zeppelins, Airplanes, and Two Men’s Epic Duel to Rule the World, Random House, page xvii:
glosses: Alternative form of buzz-cutted.
bell, book and candle
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: I am afraid Jim Crow was a hardened sinner, and, alas! we had no one on board duly qualified to do for him with "bell, book and candle" what had been done ages before to his ancestor at Rheims.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 36:
glosses: An expression denoting excommunication by anathema according to a rite of the Latin Church.
Beef Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːf ˈaɪ̯.lənd/
rhymes: -aɪlənd
Etymology: Potentially named after the practice of smoking beef to create provisions for long sea voyages on the island.
Senses: glosses: An island of the British Virgin Islands.
Bellamy Cay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛl.ə.mi ˈkiː/
rhymes: -iː
Etymology: The island is named after the infamous English pirate captain Samuel Bellamy (around 1689 - 1717).
Senses: glosses: An island of the British Virgin Islands.
wikipedia: Samuel Bellamy
crew-cutted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: crewcutted
Etymology: From crew cut + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: 1964, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Those boys are just freckle-faced crew-cutted creeps and big loud show-offs.
text: Nicklaus’s 72-hole score was 279, nine strokes under par and, incidentally, seven better than his winning total here in 1963 when he was a beefy, crew-cutted 23-year-old (but eight strokes worse than his course-record 271 in 1965).
ref: 1987, Frederick C. Klein, On Sports, Chicago, Ill.: Bonus Books, →ISBN, page 98:
text: This shrine seems to be to an entirely different person, one who is crew-cutted and uniformed, who clutches his football helmet in an old picture in which he crouches, number 16, with the Princeton junior varsity football team of 1968.
ref: 1991 April, Ann Hood, “The Avalon Ballroom”, in Seventeen, page 178:
text: Their novel hairstyles also drew notice, especially in a crew-cutted and Brylcreemed America.
ref: 2009, Robert Rodriguez, The Beatles: Fifty Fabulous Years, Facts That Matter, Inc., →ISBN, page 32:
glosses: Having a crew cut.
crewcutted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From crewcut + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The spectacle of a bunch of crewcutted, gumchewing teenagers lording it over the natives in the streets of Saigon is a lesson in how not to conduct foreign relations.
ref: 1965, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 89ᵗʰ Congress, First Session, volume 111, part 4, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, page 4557:
text: Then in comes Sabby in a U.S. Army uniform, sad, idealistic, crewcutted now, but dream-minded, […]
ref: 1968, Jack Kerouac, Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935–46, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons; Capricorn Books, published 1978, →ISBN, page 163:
text: I shared popcorn with a crewcutted youth in an ROTC uniform who was overwhelmed by the simple act of sharing, and I overheard two GIs arguing with every well-dressed straight youth, on behalf of the Yippees, telling the straight that these kids with long hair really knew where it was at.
ref: 1968 April 15, Martin Jezer, “Yip!”, in WIN, volume IV, number 7, page 8:
glosses: Alternative form of crew-cutted.
camp oven
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camp ovens
Senses: examples: text: Our bread was baked for us by one of the Government cooks, and the scones and cakes which we consumed so ravenously were baked by my mother in a camp oven. This primitive but useful oven requires very little description. It is a round iron vessel, standing on three legs and covered with a dome-shaped tightly-fitting lid. Fire is placed above and below, and I know no more satisfactory mode of baking bread or cake.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 55:
glosses: A large sturdy cast-iron pot used for cooking in a camp fire.
camp ovens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camp oven
Buck Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌk ˈaɪ̯.lənd/
rhymes: -aɪlənd
Etymology: The islands are named for the presence of buckwood (“Guaiacum sp.”).
Senses: glosses: An island of the British Virgin Islands.
glosses: An island of the United States Virgin Islands near Saint Croix.
glosses: An island of the United States Virgin Islands near Saint Thomas.
knocks on the head
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of knock on the head
knocked on the head
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of knock on the head
knocking on the head
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of knock on the head
gumchewing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gum + chewing.
Senses: examples: text: Other valuable allies are Sammy, the foxy publicity man, and his ladylove, the slangy, gumchewing stenographer, who, in a mix-up with the boss, is equal to tackling the latter’s snobbish wife single-handed.
ref: 1911, “Madam the Boss; By Robert J. Sherman; Price, 35 Cents”, in Mary Wolcott Green, The Women Who Did: A Dramatic Entertainment for Women Historical and Patriotic, Chicago, Ill.: T. S. Denison & Company:
text: The spectacle of a bunch of crewcutted, gumchewing teenagers lording it over the natives in the streets of Saigon is a lesson in how not to conduct foreign relations.
ref: 1965, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 89ᵗʰ Congress, First Session, volume 111, part 4, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, page 4557:
text: Later we drive slowly away from the mine in Ron Statler’s car, past the gumchewing trooper who leans down to star into the car suspiciously as we go by.
ref: 1972 July–August, Tom Bethell, “Consolidation Coal: the corporate killer”, in The Miner’s Voice, volume 2, number 12:
glosses: Chewing gum.
gumchewing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gum + chewing.
Senses: examples: text: Hunk gave him a fleeting glance and went back to his gumchewing.
ref: 1947, Joe Archibald, Rebel Halfback, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Westminster Press, page 132:
text: Among such rules he included one against gumchewing.[…]She was aware that gumchewing was frowned upon at the company, but had not been warned that it would lead to a suspension from work.
ref: 1967 March, “Secret Memorandum”, in Unemployment Insurance Review, volume 4, number 3, page 15:
text: Chronic gumchewing is similar to toothgrinding. It causes unusual pressure on the bones supporting the large molars.
ref: 1970, Ben C[urt] Gmur, John T. Fodor, L. H. Glass, Joseph J. Langan, Making Health Decisions, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., page 101:
glosses: The chewing of gum.
drag-queenese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From drag queen + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: With quick shifts in and out of dialect, Rameau is able to speak French in an African-American accent, switch into East Village English, and then suddenly drawl some of the best drag-queenese heard this side of Union […]
ref: 1994, Theater Week, volume 8, page 38:
text: When such events befell him, Dooni would simply disappear for a few days, returning to tell his friends he had been “on location, filming a movie,” Los Angeles drag-queenese for doing jail time.
ref: 2006, Joshua Gamson, The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco, New York, NY: Picador, →ISBN, page 31:
text: Pleasant wedding chitchat. I turned to tell Shona that “hunty” was drag-queenese for friend or comrade, but she'd already scurried off.
ref: 2021, Traci Andrighetti, Valpolicella Violet (Franki Amato Mystery; 7), Limoncello Press, →ISBN, page unknown:
glosses: The jargon used by drag queens.
Laukant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Laukants
Senses: glosses: A surname.
clocked up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of clock up
treat-to-target
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: word: T2T
glosses: A treatment strategy, chiefly used in rheumatology, that defines a measurable treatment target (such as clinical remission or low disease activity) and involves tight control and treatment adjustments until the chosen target is achieved.