cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
atomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atomy
laplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more laplike
form: most laplike
Etymology: From lap + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Long may each zone its wealth profusely pour / Upon her laplike, peace-protected shore!
ref: 1861, Alfred Austin, Thomas George Cooper, The Season: A Satire:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a lap.
demountable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more demountable
form: most demountable
Etymology: From demount + -able.
Senses: synonyms: dismantlable
dismantleable
glosses: Able to be removed from its mount; designed to be dismantled.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Designed to be removed from the read mechanism.
raw_tags: of a hard drive
Related terms: detachable
demountable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demountables
Etymology: From demount + -able.
Senses: examples: text: A whole row of demountables has been abandoned, the window bagged with bright orange plastic.
ref: 1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 4
text: She opened the door and looked out into the broad passageway between the wings of the demountable.
ref: 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 31:
glosses: A temporary and portable building, especially a portable classroom in a school.
timewaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timewasters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of time-waster.
timewasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timewaster
timewasting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more timewasting
form: most timewasting
Etymology: From time + wasting.
Senses: glosses: Being a waste of time; fruitless, unproductive.
timewasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From time + wasting.
Senses: examples: text: It is designed to help you reduce timewasting, enhance decision making, and bring real benefits to your organisation.
ref: 2002, Robert Burns, Making Meetings Happen:
glosses: The wasting of time; idleness or procrastination.
queenlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more queenlike
form: most queenlike
Etymology: From queen + -like.
Senses: synonyms: queenly
reginal
antonyms: unqueenlike
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a queen (female monarch); regal, majestic.
examples: text: Although the laying workers functioned in a queenlike manner, they were unable to suppress ovarian development as effectively as the queen.
ref: 1991, Kenneth G Ross, Robert W Matthews, The social biology of wasps:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a queen (reproductive female animal).
haylage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈheɪlɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: haylages
Etymology: Blend of hay + silage. Coined in 1949 to distinguish this type of fodder from earlier types of grass silage with higher moisture percentages.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
hypernyms: silage
coordinate_terms: cornlage
oatlage
ryelage
soilage
wheatlage
glosses: A type of silage with a high dry-matter content, made from the same grasses or legumes from which hay is made (such as alfalfa, timothy, and others) but not dried as much as hay nor as little as direct-chop/green-chop silage (before being ensiled).
dodecaphonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dodecaphonist
haylages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haylage
adjunctively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From adjunctive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an adjunctive way.
conjunctively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From conjunctive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a conjunctive way.
unbooted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + booted.
Senses: glosses: Not wearing boots.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Not having been booted.
unapplied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + applied.
Senses: glosses: That has not been applied.
unapplied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + applied.
Senses: glosses: past participle of unapply
ensile
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɛn.saɪ(ə)l/
Forms: form: ensiles
form: ensiling
form: ensiled
form: ensiled
Etymology: From French ensiler.
Senses: glosses: To preserve (forage) in a silo.
Derived terms: ensilable
scalarize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scalarizes
form: scalarizing
form: scalarized
form: scalarized
Etymology: From scalar + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make scalar; to form a scalar value from, for example, a vector
Derived terms: scalarization
scalarizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scalarize
scalarizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scalarise
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scalarize
scalarized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scalarize
scalarization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scalarizations
Etymology: From scalarize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of scalarizing.
scalarizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scalarization
brimonidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A drug used to treat open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension.
ciderless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cider + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without cider.
cyder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyders
Senses: examples: text: In order to avoid a great deal of trouble, and to perform the work more effectually, by diveſting the new made Cyder of what pummice and other impurities remain; after straining it through a hair ſieve, on its coming from the Wring, or Preſs, it is neceſſary to be provided with a large open vat, keeve, or clive, which will contain a whole pounding, or making of Cyder[…]
ref: 1753, Hugh Stafford, A treatise on cyder-making, with a catalogue of cyder-apples of character, in Herefordshire and Devonshire. To which is prefixed, A dissertation on cyder and cyder-fruit, page 48:
glosses: Archaic spelling of cider.
cyders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyder
bozon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bozons
Etymology: Blend of bozo + boson
Senses: examples: text: Chain book sellers are, by and large, bogon and bozon emitters like nothing you've ever seen.
ref: 1996, John Novak, “Re: TOR is Fucking with Us All”, in rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan (Usenet):
text: One bozon is the exact amount of stupidity and lack of scientific knowledge needed to confuse joules with watts.
ref: 2000, Jeffrey Yu, “[Fanfic] Flame Wars!!!”, in alt.startrek.vs.starwars (Usenet):
text: Riling people to the point of stupidity is a poor litmus test of their decency, no matter how red and blue their faces get. The result of these trolls seems only to show that the collision of large egos results in the ejection of energetic bozons.
ref: 2000, Dirt First!, “Re: Thanks for all the fish, but I'm vegetarian”, in comp.lang.perl.misc (Usenet):
text: There might be a superhigh concentration of bozons which will create a Stupid Hole and suck them all in.
ref: 2001, "Kurt[MCoPS]", Re: [ot] Aiiieee! - The Four Horseman return! (on newsgroup rec.games.miniatures.warhammer)
glosses: A notional particle of stupidity.
Related terms: bogon
fountainlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fountainlike
form: most fountainlike
Etymology: From fountain + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a fountain.
mountainlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mountainlike
form: most mountainlike
Etymology: From mountain + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a mountain.
Synonyms: mountainous
mountainously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mountainously
form: most mountainously
Etymology: From mountainous + -ly. Coined by Michael Drayton in 1612.
Senses: examples: text: Besides her fruitfull earth, her mightie breadth and length,
Doth Chiltern fitly match: which mountainously hie,
And beeing very long, so likewise shee doth lie;
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 15 p. 3:
glosses: In a mountainous manner.
breezelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From breezeless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being breezeless.
breezeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From breeze + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Hanging from these shapeless structures and a few broken poles stuck in the dirt, torn skins, hides, and patches of leather sagged in the breezeless air.
ref: 2017, Hernan Diaz, In the Distance, Daunt Books (2018), page 105:
glosses: Without a breeze.
Synonyms: still
windless
zephyrless
Derived terms: breezelessness
zephyrless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zephyr + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a zephyr.
Synonyms: breezeless
still
windless
zephyrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɛfəɹəs/
Forms: form: more zephyrous
form: most zephyrous
Etymology: From zephyr + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Hither no winds, but zephyrous breaths repair,
Soft, as the sighs of love sick virgins are!
ref: 1753, Aaron Hill, “Augusta’s Complaint to her Thames”, in The Works of the Late Aaron Hill, esq., 2nd edition, London, published 1754, page 345:
text: 1800, Frederick Howard, Earl of Carlisle, The Stepmother, London: R.H. Evans, Act V, Scene 1, p. 75,
The last night’s tempest was a zephyrous gale,
To the rough storm that tears his frame to atoms:
text: And the blossom as scarlet as blood, the single, the starry, the strong,
Is the Alpine love that is nurtured in clefts of the toiler’s life,—
The love that is sought not in languor nor chanted in zephyrous song,
But held in the heart of the storm when the soul has been wed to a wife.
ref: 1909, Jessie Mackay, “The Garden of Art”, in Land of the Morning, Christchurch: Whitcombe & Tombs, p:
text: He used to be impatient of poems about budding flowers and zephyrous breezes.
ref: 2002, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 14, in Youth, Vintage, published 2003, page 117:
glosses: Like a zephyr; (of a wind) soft, gentle, refreshing.
examples: text: It was March now, the mild March of an early spring. There came new days, zephyrous and sweet.
ref: 1915, Henry Sydnor Harrison, chapter 22, in Angela’s Business, Boston: Houghton Mifflin:
text: Green-hatted doormen awaken the eve
in statuary-niched yellow lobbies—
zephyrous canyons brightlit, gray stone Empire State
too small to be God
lords it over sweet Macy’s & Seafood City
by junkie Grant Hotel—
ref: 1966, Allen Ginsberg, “Bayonne Entering N.Y.C.”, in Collected Poems, 1947-1997, Harper Collins:
glosses: Breezy; blown by a breeze.
examples: 1895, “Feminine Affairs” in To-Day (magazine edited by Jerome K. Jerome), Volume 9, Number 111, 21 December, 1895, p. 200,
That there will be flying machines before very long seems more than likely, and what deliciously zephyrous and diaphanous costumes will not the milliners devise for airy recreations in the near future!
glosses: Light, fine, soft. (of a fabric, garment, etc.)
Synonyms: zephyrean
zephyrian
subduable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From subdue + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be subdued; domitable.
unsubduable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + subduable.
Senses: examples: text: Some unsubduable word was on Pierre’s lip, but a sudden voice from out the veil bade him be silent.
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
glosses: That cannot be subdued; indomitable.
earcon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪə̯.kɒn/
ipa: /ˈɪəɹˌkɑn/
Forms: form: earcons
Etymology: Blend of ear + icon
Senses: topics: broadcasting
computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A brief, distinctive sound used to represent a specific item or event.
Derived terms: earconic
Related terms: lyricon
musicon
earcons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earcon
specieswide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From species + -wide.
Senses: glosses: Throughout a species.
specieswide
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From species + -wide.
Senses: glosses: Throughout a species.
saintdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saintdoms
Etymology: From saint + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: I will not cease to grasp the hope I hold / Of saintdom, and to clamour, mourn and sob, / Battering the gates of heaven with storms of prayer, / Have mercy, Lord, and take away my sin.
ref: 1833 (date written), Alfred Tennyson, “St. Simeon Stylites”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 53:
glosses: Synonym of sainthood.
synonyms: word: sainthood
Ysabelle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Ysabel.
saintdoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saintdom
babooshka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babooshkas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of babushka.
baboushka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baboushkas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of babushka.
baboushkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baboushka
babooshkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of babooshka
baboonlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more baboonlike
form: most baboonlike
Etymology: From baboon + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a baboon.
Synonyms: baboonish
axelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more axelike
form: most axelike
Etymology: From axe + -like.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of axlike.
throneless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From throne + -less.
Senses: examples: text: I wrung the promise of that bill from His Majesty whilst he was still a throneless wanderer.
ref: 1923, Rafael Sabatini, chapter 3, in Fortune's Fool:
text: 2003, Edward Slingerland, Confucius Analects, with selections from traditional commentaries, Indianapolis: Hackett, p. 230,
In later myth, Confucius is often referred to as the "throneless ruler," the idea being that, if only he had been given a position of authority, he would have re-established the universal peace and order of the early Zhou.
glosses: Without a throne.
unthrone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unthrones
form: unthroning
form: unthroned
form: unthroned
Etymology: From un- + throne.
Senses: glosses: To dethrone.
unthrones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unthrone
unthroning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unthrone
unthroned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unthrone
dethroner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dethroners
Etymology: From dethrone + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who dethrones.
deposer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deposers
Etymology: From depose + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who deposes.
deposers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deposer
monostratal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + stratal.
Senses: examples: text: […]a difference of 18 in favor of the monostratal version. To date this model has yet to see any extensive degree of application, but it seems that there[…]
ref: 1972, David G. Lockwood, Introduction to Stratificational Linguistics, →ISBN, page 232:
text: First, it is a monostratal model that does not require transduction. Hence it enjoys the full restrictiveness of finite state automata over transducers.
ref: 2009, William D. Lewis with Simin Karimi and Heidi Harley, Time and again: Theoretical perspectives on formal linguistics in honor of D. Terrence Langendoen, →ISBN, page 220:
glosses: composed of or organized as a single stratum.
undragonlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undragonlike
form: most undragonlike
Etymology: From un- + dragonlike.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, I notice that the students especially laugh when the dragon says he wants to be loved, perhaps because his behavior is noticeably undragonlike, particularly when he begins to sob.
ref: 2006, Cynthia A. McDaniel, Critical literacy: a way of thinking, a way of life, page 174:
glosses: Not dragonlike.
yoghurtlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more yoghurtlike
form: most yoghurtlike
Etymology: From yoghurt + -like.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yogurtlike.
yogurtlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more yogurtlike
form: most yogurtlike
form: yoghurtlike
Etymology: From yogurt + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling yogurt or some aspect of it.
Synonyms: yogurty
yoghurty
none of someone's business
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He asked what I was talking to Sam about. I told him it was none of his business.
glosses: A matter (especially a private or personal one) that someone is not entitled to be involved in or informed about.
Derived terms: nunya
Related terms: what's it to you
it's none of your business
mind your own business
dethroners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dethroner
reshuffler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reshufflers
Etymology: From reshuffle + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, reshuffles.
Synonyms: rearranger
reorderer
reshufflers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reshuffler
rearranger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rearrangers
Etymology: From rearrange + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, rearranges.
Synonyms: reorderer
reshuffler
reorderer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reorderers
Etymology: From reorder + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, reorders.
Synonyms: rearranger
reshuffler
rearrangers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rearranger
reorderers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reorderer
reorderings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reordering
unarranged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + arranged.
Senses: examples: text: If a customer's overdraft remains within its limit, it is known as an arranged overdraft and if it exceeds this amount, the overdraft is known as an unarranged overdraft.
ref: 2017, Jane King, Mary Carey, Personal Finance, page 58:
synonyms: off the cuff
spontaneously
unorchestrated
glosses: Not arranged.
unrearranged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + rearranged.
Senses: glosses: Not rearranged.
saintess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saintesses
Etymology: From Middle English seintesse. By surface analysis, saint + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female saint.
saintesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saintess
doesnae
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of doesna.
unthanked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + thanked.
Senses: glosses: Not having been thanked.
unthanked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unthank
unthankfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English unthankfullnes, equivalent to unthankful + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: This lokyng about of Jeſus, was a geſture of hym that courteouſly requyred a confeſſion of the benefite receiued. He woulde not vtter her by name, leſte he ſhoulde haue ſemed to haue hit her in the teethe, wyth the good turne he dyd her. The woman, of a womanlye ſhamefaſteneſſe, and not of any vnthankfullneſſe, helde her peace.
ref: 1549 February 10 (Gregorian calendar; indicated as 1548), Erasmus, “The Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Gospell of Sainct Marke. The .v. Chapter.”, in Thomas Key [i.e., Thomas Caius], transl., The First Tome or Volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testamente, London: […] Edwarde Whitchurche, →OCLC, folios xxxix, recto – xxxix, verso:
synonyms: thanklessness
unthank
glosses: The condition or state of being unthankful; ingratitude.
unthankfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unthankfully
form: most unthankfully
Etymology: From Middle English unthankefully, equivalent to unthankful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unthankful way; ungratefully.
scraggily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more scraggily
form: most scraggily
Etymology: From scraggy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a scraggy way.
scragginess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scraggy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: He wore the scragginess of an unshaven face like a lost man in pursuit of some safe harbor.
ref: 2004, Norman R. Beaupré, Marginal Enemies, →ISBN, page 59:
glosses: Roughness; irregularity; jaggedness.
examples: text: [I]f Marian's girlish slimness showed faint, prophetic signs of degenerating into scragginess, George was still far too deeply in love to heed such evil and irreverent prophecies.
ref: 1900, Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler, “A Wrong Altar”, in Cupid's Garden:
text: There is not the least look of scragginess about her, just extreme slenderness, a small-boned creature of perhaps five foot four or five.
ref: 1922, Elinor Glyn, chapter 21, in Man and Maid:
glosses: Leanness or thinness, especially as tending toward haggardness; scrawniness.
Related terms: scraggy
scraggily
straggliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From straggly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being straggly.
clickiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From clicky + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being clicky.
unrescuable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + rescuable.
Senses: glosses: Not rescuable.
Synonyms: unsavable
unreprovable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unreprovable
form: most unreprovable
Etymology: From un- + reprovable.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unreproveable.
saintish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more saintish
form: most saintish
Etymology: From saint + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Suggestive of a saint; saintlike.
Derived terms: saintishly
megamouths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megamouth
Przewalski's horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pʒɛˈvɑːlskiz ˈhɔː(ɹ)s/
Forms: form: Przewalski's horses
form: Prejevalsky's horse
form: Prjevalsky's horse
form: Przhevalski's horse
form: Przhevalsky's horse
Etymology: Named after Nikolai Przhevalsky (1839–1888), Russian geographer and explorer of Polish origin. Compare the taxonomic name Equus ferus przewalskii.
Senses: examples: text: Gray wolves, red foxes, raccoon dogs, lynx and boars all reside in the exclusion zone, as do endangered Przewalski’s horses, which were introduced to the area about two decades ago.
ref: 2022 April 13, Emily Anthes, “A ‘Silent Victim’: How Nature Becomes a Casualty of War”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: Asian wild horse
Dzungarian horse
Mongolian wild horse
takhi
takh
taki
glosses: A rare, endangered horse, Equus ferus przewalskii, native to the steppes of Central Asia.
wikipedia: Przewalski's horse
bigfin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From big + fin.
Senses: glosses: Used to describe various creatures with large fins.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Lycodes cortezianus
word: bigfin eelpout
taxonomic: Sepioteuthis lessoniana
word: bigfin reef squid
taxonomic: Magnapinna spp.
word: bigfin squid
prehensilely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From prehensile + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a prehensile way.
carriagelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more carriagelike
form: most carriagelike
Etymology: From carriage + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a carriage (vehicle).
typewriterlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more typewriterlike
form: most typewriterlike
Etymology: From typewriter + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a typewriter.
Synonyms: typewritery
saintless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more saintless
form: most saintless
Etymology: From saint + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking a patron saint.
drop bear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹɒp bɛə/
ipa: /dɹɔp bɛː(ɹ)/
ipa: /dɹɑp bɛɚ/
Forms: form: drop bears
form: drop-bear
form: dropbear
Senses: examples: text: You don't know what drop bears are? Fair dink, don't they teach you blokes anything? Fancy sending a bloke to a place like this and not telling him about drop bears.
ref: 1995, John Marsden, The Third Day, the Frost (TCPA Tomorrow Series; 3), Sydney: Pan Macmillan; republished as A Killing Frost, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, 1999, page 15
text: ‘Drop-bears? Who’s been feedin’ you a line about drop-bears?’ / ‘What do you mean?’ / ‘There’s no such thing as drop-bears! Someone must’ve seen you coming, mate!’
ref: 1998, Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent (Discworld; 22), London: Doubleday; republished London: Corgi, 2013, page 219
text: They cling high in the branches and drop at the first sign of life below. You're walking along and thump, there's a drop bear covering your head. Their claws are so long they usually need surgical removal. It's quite a business, carting drop bear victims to hospital with drop bear attached. It'd be easier to shoot the drop bear but they're heavily protected. If it's a choice between an American vet or an Aussie drop bear, the drop bear wins every time.
ref: 2012, Marion Lennox, Taming the Brooding Cattleman (Sweet Romance), Chatswood, N.S.W.: Harlequin Mills & Boon, →ISBN:
text: The creature withdrew its fangs and hopped out of the way of Aaron's flailing arms, ran down the path to the nearest tree, and scurried up it. […] "There are a few of those around. Dropbears. […] They're quite cuddly and fun loving … if you're not edible."
ref: 2014 September, Lisa McMann, “Aaron Hatches a Plan”, in Island of Legends (The Unwanteds), New York, N.Y.: Aladdin Paperbacks, →ISBN:
qualifier: kenning
glosses: A fictional Australian marsupial in the form of a large, carnivorous koala said to fall upon its prey from treetops.
Anacreontic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Anacreontic
form: most Anacreontic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anacreontic.
Anacreontic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Anacreontics
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anacreontic.
mutex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmjuːtɛks/
Forms: form: mutexes
Etymology: Contraction of mutually exclusive or mutual exclusion.
Senses: examples: text: The ability to set a maximum waiting time provides another reason why in some circumstances, you might prefer to use a mutex rather than a lock statement.
ref: 2004, Mark Schmidt, Simon Robinson, Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003, Sams Publishing, →ISBN, page 632:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: An object in a program that serves as a lock, used to negotiate mutual exclusion among threads.
Derived terms: futex
mutex
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmjuːtɛks/
Forms: form: mutexes
form: mutexing
form: mutexed
form: mutexed
Etymology: Contraction of mutually exclusive or mutual exclusion.
Senses: examples: text: Or you can have a single pipe that is mutexed so each thread can only write to the pipe exclusively. Alternatively, you can have each thread put the finished fd in a globally mutexed list.
ref: 2002, Steve Connet, “Re: best way to interrupt a select() call in a (POSIX) thread?”, in comp.programming.threads (Usenet):
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To apply a mutex to.
mutexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mutex
mutexes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mutex
waheela
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waheelas
Senses: glosses: A wolflike cryptid reported from Nahanni Valley in the Northwest Territories of Canada.
jackalope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒækəloʊp/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒækələʊp/
Forms: form: jackalopes
Etymology: Blend of jackrabbit + antelope
Senses: examples: text: Most jackalopes are furry and a foot or two tall; many are only heads, mounted on wood plaques; there are some six-footers, covered with fur…
ref: 1993, Jane Stern, Michael Stern, Way out west:
topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
publishing
sciences
glosses: A folkloric animal, a supposed cross between a jackrabbit and an antelope, goat, or deer, usually portrayed as a rabbit with antlers.
Synonyms: antelabbit
stagbunny
jackalopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jackalope
gazeka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gazekas
Etymology: Coined by its inventor, the English comic actor George Graves (1876-1949), who introduced it as a bit of by-play in the musical The Little Michus at Daly's Theatre, London, in 1905.
Senses: glosses: A fictional cryptid said to have been seen on Papua New Guinea in the early twentieth century, resembling a tapir or giant sloth.
gazeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gaze + -less.
Senses: examples: text: I searched for form and land
For years and years I roamed
I gazed a gazeless stare.
ref: 1970, David Bowie, “The Man Who Sold the World”:
glosses: Blind, unseeing.
Derived terms: gazelessness
agogwe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agogwes
Etymology: From Kuria agogwe.
Senses: examples: text: They were, he said, agogwe, the little furry men whom one does not see […]
ref: 1984, Janet Bord, Colin Bord, The evidence for Bigfoot and other man-beasts:
glosses: A supposed small human-like biped reported from the forests of East Africa, said to have long rust-coloured woolly hair and yellowish-red skin.
finfolk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fin + folk.
Senses: glosses: Sorcerous shapeshifters of the sea in Orkney folklore.
finfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finfish
chipekwe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chipekwe
Senses: examples: text: The native said the chipekwe had a smooth, dark body and a single white horn...
ref: 1959, Lawrence George Green, These wonders to behold:
glosses: A rhinoceroslike creature of Central African legend.
Synonyms: emela-ntouka
irizima
rhinoceroslike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rhinoceroslike
form: most rhinoceroslike
Etymology: From rhinoceros + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a rhinoceros.
Synonyms: rhinolike
rhinocerots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhinocerot
unreachably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unreachably
form: most unreachably
Etymology: From unreachab(le) + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Largely through black-and-white rehearsal stills of Barbagallo, Davis and Kaminsky, shot at The Brick in Brooklyn, it captures what theater feels like — the everyday incantation of it, and how unreachably far away that seems now.
ref: 2021 January 25, Laura Collins-Hughes, “When Theatermakers Long for the Stage, Playfully”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Nov 2022:
text: If Freud's reading here — his progress on the "royal road to ... the unconscious" — is halted, and he finds himself unable to advance further along the way, this point of blockage is at the same time a point of branching -out or divergence: a point from which, says Freud, the thoughts of the dream discandy and disperse unreachably "in every direction into the intricate network of our world of thought" .
ref: 2017, Steven Vine, “Introduction: Literature in Psychoanalysis”, in Steven Vine, editor, Literature in Psychoanalysis, page 13:
antonyms: reachably
glosses: In an unreachable way.
Related terms: unattainably
unattainably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unattainably
form: most unattainably
Etymology: From unattainable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […]而后者则由于挤压的结果，不断向上翘起，从而形成了号称“地球之巅”的珠穆朗玛峰和一系列海拔七、八千米高耸入云的山峰。
ref: 1977 May 6 [1976], Liao Wei-hua [廖卫华], “Fossil Coral Offers Mute Testimony to Shifting of Earth's Axis [珊瑚化石和地球赤道的变迁]”, in Translations on People's Republic of China, number 380, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from K'o-hsueh Shih-yen, No 12, 1976, p 23, column 1 [科学实验], translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, Scientific and Technological, page 26:
english: 科学实验
translation: 科学实验
glosses: In an unattainable way.
Synonyms: unreachably
stainability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stainabilities
Etymology: From stainable + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being stainable.
stainabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stainability
unstainable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + stainable.
Senses: glosses: Not stainable.
devil bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devil birds
Senses: examples: text: Residents of Sri Lanka, an island nation off the southern coast of India, describe a devil bird — also known as ulama — that is seldom seen but often heard at night, when it utters an eerie cry like that of “a boy in torture, whose screams are stopped by being strangled.“
ref: 2009, Michael Newton, Hidden Animals: A Field Guide to Batsquatch, Chupacabra, and Other Elusive Creatures:
glosses: An avian cryptid of Sri Lanka, said to emit human-sounding shrieks that portend death; possibly the spot-bellied eagle owl (Bubo nipalensis) or Ceylon highland nightjar (Caprimulgus indicus).
Synonyms: ulama
devil birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of devil bird
grassily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more grassily
form: most grassily
Etymology: From grassy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a grassy way.
sauceless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sauceless
form: most sauceless
Etymology: From sauce + -less.
Senses: synonyms: unsauced#Adjective
antonyms: sauced#Adjective
coordinate_terms: gravyless
glosses: Without sauce (condiment for food).
synonyms: bland#Adjective
insipid#Adjective
spiceless#Adjective
antonyms: saucy#Adjective
glosses: Without sauce (vitality; capability); uninteresting.
ketchupless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ketchup + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Terry knows what he's doing: the price is right, and these freshly grilled burgers are thin but great, in the ketchupless Austin style.
ref: 2006, Robin Goldstein, Rebecca Markovits, Alexis Herschkowitsch, The Fearless Critic Austin Restaurant Guide, page 321:
glosses: Without ketchup.
Hypernyms: sauceless
argopelter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: argopelters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of agropelter.
unpickled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pickled.
Senses: glosses: Not pickled (preserved).
dictionarylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dictionarylike
form: most dictionarylike
Etymology: From dictionary + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a dictionary.
unsleepingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From unsleeping + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without sleeping; vigilantly.
whangdoodle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwæŋ.duː.dl̩/
note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /ˈhwæŋ.duː.dl̩/
Forms: form: whangdoodles
form: whang-doodle
Etymology: Of American origin circa 1856. Popularized by appearing in a sermon parody attributed to William P. Brannan as "Where the lion roareth and the whangdoodle mourneth for her first-born," published in The Harp of a Thousand Strings: Or, Laughter for a Lifetime (1858).
Senses: examples: text: "I'm n-n-not a tor-tor-tortoise," stuttered the curious creature, "I'm a wha-wha-whang-whang-doodle."
"A whangdoodle! What's that?"
ref: 1901, Charles M. Snyder, Runaway Robinson, page 53:
text: Bob gave the man fair warning. Told him if he ever prowled around his home again he'd better come a–fogging; the man took a chance and now he's where the woodbine twineth and the whangdoodle mourneth for its mate.
ref: 1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter II, in The Understanding Heart:
text: In the Big Rock Candy Mountains lies a happy hobo land where the boxcars are all empty, where there are cigaret trees and rock-and-rye springs and the whangdoodle sings.
ref: 1960 August 22, “Yarns and Whoppers and Practical Jokes”, in Life, 49 (8): 56:
glosses: A whimsical monster in folklore and children's fiction; a bugbear.
examples: text: For a man who can listen for an hour to Mr. White, the whining, nasal, Whangdoodle preacher, and then sit down and write, without shedding melancholy from his pen as water slides from a duck's back, is more than mortal.
ref: 1862, Mark Twain, Mark Twain's letters: 1853-1866, Volume 1 (published 1987), page 171
text: […]and I want you to conflumux everything got up by Mrs. Davis or Miss Lane, or any other of these political whangdoodles.
ref: 1867, John Ballou Newbrough, The fall of Fort Sumter, or, Love and war in 1860-61, page 131:
text: "Now, Ben, you're a lawyer. You don't give a whang-doodle about anything mechanical."
ref: 1928 (Mar.), Martin Bunn, "When You Buy a Car", Popular Science 112 (3): 138
glosses: Term of disparagement
examples: text: It is sometimes agreed in advance that after a hand of certain rank, such as Four of a Kind or a Full House, is shown, a Whangdoodle or Jackpot must be played[…]
ref: 1940, Clement Wood, Gloria Goddard, The Complete Book of Games, page 296:
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A ruling in which the opening stake limits are doubled for the next play after the appearance of a very good hand.
Synonyms: sense: whimsical monster
word: bogeyman
sense: whimsical monster
word: bugbear
sense: whimsical monster
word: gremlin
Hypernyms: sense: whimsical monster
word: monster
Coordinate terms: topics: poker
card-games
word: jackpot
whangdoodles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whangdoodle
batutut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: John MacKinnon, studying orangutan ecology in the Malaysian state of Sabah, found footprints of the batutut […]
ref: 1988, Jeffrey A McNeely, Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, Soul of the tiger:
text: […] the batutut was described as a type of ghost, a shy nocturnal creature about four feet tall, which walks upright like a man and has a long black mane.
ref: 2007, Jeff Meldrum, Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science:
text: From the guide's description, however, the batutut seems more aggressive […]
ref: 2009, Gregory Forth, Images of the Wildman in Southeast Asia:
glosses: A folkloric hairy hominid said to inhabit wilderness areas of Vietnam, Laos, and northern Borneo.
folklorically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more folklorically
form: most folklorically
Etymology: From folkloric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a folkloric way.
batzens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of batzen
refreshable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From refresh + -able.
Senses: topics: business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: That can be refreshed (updated).
Derived terms: refreshable display
address bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: address bars
Senses: examples: text: This trick is quite practical; since almost everyone keeps the address bar visible, being able to search from it doesn't add any gunk to your browser window […]
ref: 2006, Sarah Milstein, J. D. Biersdorfer, Matthew MacDonald, Google: the missing manual:
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A bar in a web browser that displays the address (uniform resource identifier) of the page or resource being displayed.
Hyponyms: omnibox
address bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of address bar
milk bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milk bar
unformedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unformedly
form: most unformedly
Etymology: From unformed + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unformed way.
Synonyms: inchoately
inchoately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inchoately
form: most inchoately
Etymology: From inchoate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an inchoate way.
Synonyms: unformedly
unforthcomingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unforthcomingly
form: most unforthcomingly
Etymology: From unforthcoming + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He looked slyly at the Scotland Yard man and probed him, "You know who tbey think did it, don't you?" "Yes," said Inspector Hughes unforthcomingly.
ref: 1965, Vivian Collin Brooks, At One Fell Swoop, page 169:
text: Burns replies politely but unforthcomingly about this poem; he uses his allegedly untutored social manners to excuse his lack of response.
ref: 1995, Moira Ferguson, Eighteenth-Century Women Poets: Nation, Class, and Gender, page 96:
text: Passing the army camp we were spoken to by men hanging about there, but when we only grunted in answer unforthcomingly, they paid no further attention to us.
ref: 2013, Nigel Tranter, Cable From Kabul:
glosses: In an unforthcoming way.
muntjak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muntjaks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of muntjac.
muntjaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muntjak
axhandle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axhandles
form: axehandle
Etymology: From ax + handle.
Senses: glosses: The handle of an ax.
Derived terms: axhandle hound
axhandles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of axhandle
axehandle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axehandles
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of axhandle.
Derived terms: axehandle hound
axehandles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of axehandle
joint snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: joint snakes
Senses: examples: text: The farmer, however, knowing the habits of joint snakes, had hidden one of the middle pieces in his pocket.
ref: 1941, Arkansas: a guide to the state:
text: Nat knew, though he had never seen one, that there were such things as joint snakes and hoop snakes.
ref: 1988, Harold Sinclair, American Years:
text: You take them joint snakes, now. That's not one of God's works. You hit one, he breaks into pieces, layin' on the ground like a broken icicle...
ref: 2007, Gil Adamson, The Outlander:
glosses: A mythical creature of the southern United States, a snake that can reassemble itself when broken or cut into pieces.
Related terms: hoop snake
broomlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more broomlike
form: most broomlike
Etymology: From broom + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a broom.
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of the plant called broom.
saintology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saintologies
Etymology: From saint + -ology.
Senses: glosses: hagiology
saintologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saintology
unblue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + blue.
Senses: examples: text: […] a god in an unblue sky.
ref: 1992, Susan Burmeister-Brown, Linda Davies, editors, Glimmer Train Stories:
text: Soon an associational chain reaction occurs that stains blue all that has remained unblue...
ref: 1997, University of Arizona Dept. of English, Sonora Review:
text: A philosopher, busily sorting the world into the blue and the unblue, tells us that some ink is blue. We look at the ink one way, and it looks blue.
ref: 2000, Charles Travis, Unshadowed thought: representation in thought and language:
text: Mind you, if they fly in downstairs, they are quite happy to settle for unblue mangoes.
ref: 2007, Barbara Blackman, Bryony Cosgrove, Judith Wright, Portrait of a friendship:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Not blue.
unblue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unblues
form: unblueing
form: unbluing
form: unblued
form: unblued
Etymology: From un- + blue.
Senses: examples: text: Blue at some distances unblues, […]
ref: 2006, Honor Moore, Red Shoes: Poems, →ISBN, page 26:
text: The boy was very hurt in the throat and his face was only now unbluing.
ref: 2007, Barry Hannah, Yonder Stands Your Orphan, →ISBN, page 18:
glosses: To cease being blue.
examples: text: […] to clothe bodies surprised by bullets, to unblue hands frozen in ditches, […]
ref: 1987, Indiana Review, number 10, page 24:
text: They look like iced teeth where a storm unblues them.
ref: 2010, Ron Dakron, Newt, →ISBN, page 26:
glosses: To cause (something) to cease being blue; to make (something) not blue.
joint snakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of joint snake
hidebehind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hidebehinds
Etymology: From hide + behind.
Senses: examples: text: The Hidebehind is never found in the open. He always conceals himself behind a tree trunk.
ref: 1939, Henry Harrington Tryon, Fearsome critters:
text: She meets sirens and sea serpents and hidebehinds, wicked kings and repulsive recluses, capitalist magicians and seven-league boots and magic pomegranates.
ref: 1984, John Wood Campbell, editor, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact:
glosses: A creature in United States folklore that may be glimpsed but never seen clearly.
hidebehinds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hidebehind
tissuey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tissuey
form: most tissuey
Etymology: From tissue + -y.
Senses: glosses: Tissuelike.
tissuelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tissuelike
form: most tissuelike
Etymology: From tissue + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling tissue or some aspect of it.
Synonyms: tissuey
dynamize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dynamizes
form: dynamizing
form: dynamized
form: dynamized
form: dynamise
Senses: examples: text: About 20 years of active struggle to regain economic and linguistic control away from the English speaking minority has politicized and dynamized Quebec culture.
ref: 1984 February 4, M. S., “Celles qui aiment: The Lesbians of Montreal”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 14:
glosses: To make dynamic.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: To render effective.
Derived terms: redynamize
dynamizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dynamize
dynamizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dynamize
dynamized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dynamize
code-behind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A technique in object-oriented programming in which the visual and back-end source code are stored in separate files, allowing designers and programmers to work independently. Code-behind is a technique used in Microsoft programming platforms, including ASP.NET and XAML, where the practice is facilitated by separating the visual and code aspects through the use of partial classes.