cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
IYSWIM
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of if you see what I mean.
makher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: makhers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of macher.
unflighty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ənˈflaɪti/
rhymes: -aɪti
Forms: form: more unflighty
form: most unflighty
Etymology: From un- + flighty.
Senses: glosses: Not flighty.
toof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teef
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of tooth.
monophrasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monophrases
Etymology: From mono- + Latin phrasis.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Any word carrying a complete sense by itself; not a polylectic term.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A univerbation; a polylectic term merger.
glosses: A laconic response.
Synonyms: word: monolexis
word: monolexia
word: single-wordness
word: univerbation
word: word-amalgamation
word: laconism
Related terms: monophrastic
functor category
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: functor categories
Senses: topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A category whose objects are functors (from some fixed given domain category to some fixed given codomain category) and whose morphisms are natural transformations.
colden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊld(ə)n/
rhymes: -əʊldən
Forms: form: coldens
form: coldening
form: coldened
form: coldened
form: colde
Etymology: From cold + -en. Compare Middle English colden (“to colden”), from Old English cealdian (“to colden”). More at cold.
Senses: examples: text: Even the snowboarding accident that he had last year that left him bedbound for 2 weeks did not seem to colden his passion for this sport.
text: The air had coldened and a light chill wind rose from the river.
ref: 1899, John Buchan, Grey Weather: Moorland Tales of My Own People https://books.google.ru/books?id=6chI6yyZLrYC&pg=PA57&dq=coldened&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwilmZucgK_LAhUE6CwKHVnsAts4ChDoAQg9MAU#v=onepage&q=coldened&f=false
glosses: To grow or make cold.
tax breaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tax break
greater adjutant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greater adjutants
Etymology: A clarifying form of its earlier name adjutant
Senses: glosses: A bird (Leptoptilos dubius) of the stork family native to India and Southeast Asia
Synonyms: argala
Calcutta adjutant
Hypernyms: adjutant
stork
greater adjutants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greater adjutant
30
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: end of message.
Derived terms: -30-
Related terms: DU30
30-gon
militariana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑːnə
Etymology: From military + -ana.
Senses: examples: text: The museum housed a number of muskets, medals, and other militariana.
glosses: Military items, especially collectibles.
cricketana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑːnə
Etymology: From cricket + -ana.
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Items relating to the game of cricket, especially collectibles.
grevilleas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grevillea
hot talk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A talk radio format aimed predominantly at men and dealing with pop culture topics rather than politics.
social entrepreneur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: social entrepreneurs
Senses: glosses: One who draws upon business techniques to find solutions to social problems or effect social change.
Derived terms: social entrepreneurship
Bourdieuan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bourdieuan
form: most Bourdieuan
Etymology: From Bourdieu + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002), sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher, whose work was primarily concerned with the dynamics of power in society.
vaginamony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /vəˈd͡ʒaɪnəməni/
Forms: form: vaginamoney
Etymology: Blend of vagina + alimony
Senses: glosses: Alimony, when paid by a man to a woman. Popularized (and possibly coined) by Tom Leykis ("an annuity paid for past use of a vagina").
securigera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: securigeras
form: securigerae
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Securigera, itself from Latin secūriger (“axebearing, axewielding”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: Any leguminous flowering plant of the genus Securigera, known vernacularly alongside members of the genus Coronilla (from which this genus was separated) as crownvetches.
Related terms: Securigera DC
full houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of full house
iDollators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iDollator
iDollator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iDollators
Etymology: From idolator and doll; capitalisation possibly influenced by i- (“alluding to cutting-edge or fashionable digital devices”).
Senses: examples: text: As one iDollator wrote to the group, "You are truly a family of open-minded people and it's so great to know I'm not alone."
ref: 2005, Jim Winters, “"He treats objects like women, man!"”, in alt.support.shyness (Usenet):
text: It's not surprising, then, that these iDollators don't refer to their dolls as sex toys or masturbatory aides^([sic]), but as “girlfriends.”
ref: 2009, Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth, page 88:
text: On top of it, McMullen talks about the continually growing online community of doll enthusiasts, called “iDollators,” where they meet up in the virtual world on DollForum.com.
ref: 2011, Eva Christina, The Book of Kink: Sex Beyond the Missionary:
text: Davecat is part of a group of people called iDollators or technosexuals who say they are attracted to robots […]
ref: 2013, BurfordTJustice, “group of people called iDollators or technosexuals”, in alt.politics.scorched-earth (Usenet):
text: One of those who prefer the artificial lover to a real one is the self-declared technosexual and iDollator Davecat, who lives with two $6,000 RealDolls, one of which he regards as his wife and the other as his mistress.
ref: 2014, Michael Hauskeller, Sex and the Posthuman Condition:
glosses: One who prefers a love doll over a normal human relationship.
adverbialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adverbialist
th'art
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Contraction of thou art.
glosses: Contraction of tha art.
dog-children
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dog-child
colobines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colobine
wingshooting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wing + shooting.
Senses: topics: hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: The shooting of birds in flight.
Related terms: wingshoot
outboarder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outboarders
Etymology: From outboard + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who uses an outboard motor.
outboarders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outboarder
social entrepreneurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of social entrepreneur
chapata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chapatas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chapatti.
chapatas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chapata
natural isomorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: natural isomorphisms
Senses: topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A natural transformation whose every component is an isomorphism.
identity morphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: identity morphisms
Senses: topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A unique morphism corresponding to each object of a category, which has its domain equal to its codomain, and which composed with any morphism (with which it is composable) gives that same morphism.
size queens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of size queen
identity functor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: identity functors
Senses: topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A functor from a category to itself which maps each object of that category to itself and each morphism of that category to itself.
cryobed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryobeds
Etymology: From cryo- + bed.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A bed-like unit in which a person can be cryogenically preserved.
cryobeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryobed
not likely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: “Look,” George said. “If we get pregnant, I will take the baby and raise him on my own.”
“Not likely!” cried Alice.
ref: 2015, Betty Christian, Alice Wonders: Because There Are Some Things Money Cannot Buy:
glosses: Absolutely not; under no circumstances; no way.
paraverbally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From paraverbal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a paraverbal manner.
paraverbal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + verbal.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to verbal paralanguage.
Derived terms: paraverbally
remasturbated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Yes and no...the *original* and unremasturbated was deleted, but you can get the remasturbated episode, complete without funny lines and dialogue, and with extra animation provided by Legoland Windsor (well, it looks like it is, at least ;-))
ref: 2000 September 29, SmeggerUK, “Re: lying”, in alt.tv.red-dwarf (Usenet):
text: Yeah... and release the originals on DVD... not the remasturbated versions.
ref: 2002 February 11, Mr Flibble 硎熔, “Linda Naylor”, in alt.tv.red-dwarf (Usenet):
text: I just noticed Under My Thumb from the remasturbated Odds & Sods has the main guitar track missing.
ref: 2002 July 25, a well f*cked sailor, “Re: Quad remaster...”, in alt.music.who (Usenet):
text: Seriously now, I couldn't believe how you immediately had to start posting your remasturbated "Uncle Ernie" recordings, pontificate about his "method", tell us that no one today can play instruments anymore and therefore they have to audition behind a screen and all that nonsense.
ref: 2009 May 30, M forever, “Re: Yahoo group for discussing classical recordings”, in rec.music.classical.recordings (Usenet):
glosses: remastered
foundest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: found + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of found
glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of find
toldest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: told + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of tell
Aeolic Greek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Aeolic
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: The dialect group of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly, Boeotia, and Aeolia and on the island of Lesbos, most closely related to Arcadocypriot and contributing some forms to Epic Greek. The language of Sappho and Alcaeus of Mytilene.
Langford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Langfords
Etymology: Two main origins:
* From Old English lang (“long”) + ford (“ford”).
* The village in Nottinghamshire may derived from an Old English personal name *Landa + ford.
Senses: glosses: The name of five villages in England:
A village and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire (OS grid ref TL1840).
glosses: The name of five villages in England:
A village and civil parish in Maldon district, Essex (OS grid ref TL838089).
glosses: The name of five villages in England:
A hamlet in Ickburgh parish, Breckland district, Norfolk (OS grid ref TL8396).
glosses: The name of five villages in England:
A village and civil parish in Newark and Sherwood district, Nottinghamshire (OS grid ref SK8258).
glosses: The name of five villages in England:
A village and civil parish in West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire (OS grid ref SP2402).
glosses: A city in British Columbia, Canada.
glosses: A former rural municipality in Manitoba, Canada, now part of the Municipality of North Cypress-Langford.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Kent County, Maryland.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Rankin County, Mississippi.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A hamlet in Erie County, New York.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town in Marshall County, South Dakota.
examples: text: The Auschwitz Memorial Museum slammed Kyle Langford, Republican candidate for Governor of California, after his antisemitic remarks, calling out his actions as a “profound moral failure.”
ref: 2025 July 27, “California governor candidate calls Auschwitz 'solution for homelessness,' sparks critisism”, in The Jerusalem Post:
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Hanging Langford
Langford Budville
Langford's basilisk
Lower Langford
North Cypress-Langford
Steeple Langford
Arcadocypriot Greek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Arcado-Cypriot Greek
Etymology: From Cypriot, Greek, and from Ancient Greek Ἀρκαδία (Arkadía, “Arcadia”) and Κύπρος (Kúpros, “Cyprus”).
Senses: synonyms: Arcadocypriot
glosses: The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Arcadia and on Cyprus. Not attested in literature, but contributed a few forms to Epic Greek.
Volin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in South Dakota, United States.
chrysochalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chryso- + chalk.
Senses: glosses: A gold-copper alloy, similar to Mannheim gold.
miracle plays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miracle play
Yankton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Yankton County, South Dakota, United States.
Yankton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yanktons
form: Yankton
Senses: glosses: A member of a western branch of the Dakota people.
Related terms: Yanktonai
negative capability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: negative capabilities
Etymology: Coined by John Keats in an 1817 letter.
Senses: examples: text: His poetry helps me understand passion and mortality; his musings on negative capability help me understand how I can love and hate home at the same time. Negative capability, said Keats in an 1817 letter, “is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact & reason" (1818).
ref: 2010, Jeff Mann, Binding the God: Ursine Essays from the Mountain South, →ISBN, page 167:
text: It also, however, contains the potential for negative capability that might help transform genocide into something generative.
ref: 2011, Sidner Larson, Captured in the Middle, →ISBN, page 147:
text: The centerpiece of the chapter is an effort to redeem the promise that I have earlier attributed to the lawyerly virtues—in particular to fidelity and its attendant negative capability—by setting these virtues in a political context.
ref: 2011, Daniel Markovits, A Modern Legal Ethics: Adversary Advocacy in a Democratic Age, →ISBN:
glosses: The capacity of artists to pursue ideals of beauty, perfection and sublimity even when it leads them into intellectual confusion and uncertainty, as opposed to a preference for philosophical certainty over artistic beauty.
wikipedia: John Keats
strong suits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strong suit
begrumpled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more begrumpled
form: most begrumpled
Etymology: From be- + grumpled, from grumple. Related to grumpy.
Senses: glosses: Sour, displeased or offended
navbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: năv'bäks
ipa: /ˈnæv.bɑks/
rhymes: -ævbɑks
Forms: form: navboxes
Etymology: Shortening of navigation and box.
Senses: examples: text: The editor created a navbox containing links related to football.
text: The general architecture allows for such a constraint to be validated from any source which mentions the two entities, including tables, list pages, navboxes, and perhaps wikified newswire articles [5,6].
ref: 2009, Iustin Dornescu, "Semantic QA for Encyclopaedic Questions: EQUAL in GikiCLEF" in Peters, C. et al., Multilingual Information Access Evaluation I: Text Retrieval Experiments, p. 330
text: The page analyzer then extracts existing data in Navboxes.
ref: 2015, Sedigheh Khalatbari, Seyed Mirroshandel, Automatic Construction of Domain Ontology Using Wikipedia and Enhancing it by Google Search Engine, page 252:
text: We introduce a novel dataset capturing the visual position of all links between articles of the English Wikipedia (including also templates, infoboxes/sidebars, and navboxes) based on their fine-grained screen coordinates […]
ref: 2016, D. Dimitrov, P. Singer, F. Lemmerich, “Visual Positions of Links and Clicks on Wikipedia”, in Proceedings of the 25th International Conference Companion on World Wide Web, page 27:
qualifier: wiki jargon
glosses: A navigation box; a template placed on a page, outputting a box containing links to other, related articles.
dead men's shoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -uːz
Senses: examples: text: Folks come in sometimes when I'm lonely and make jest of it, saying that a creaking gate hangs long, and that it's weary waiting for dead men's shoes.
ref: 1897, Joseph Smith Fletcher, God's Failures:
glosses: A position or property that is only attainable by someone else upon the current holder's death.
vino collapso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: An Italian-sounding parody name, from Italian vino + collapse + -o.
Senses: glosses: Cheap but strong wine.
gift matching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The situation where an individual makes a charitable donation and an organization (such as the individual's employer) supplements it with a matching donation.
wastebasket taxa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wastebasket taxon
cifal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cifals
Etymology: From Volapük, ultimately from English chief.
Senses: glosses: The leader of the Volapük artificial language movement, who typically decides on matters of grammar and vocabulary.
cifals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cifal
Roman chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Roman chairs
Senses: glosses: An item of exercise equipment that supports the body during exercise of the lower back and sometimes the gluteal muscles, hamstring, and abdominals.
Roman chairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Roman chair
crayfished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crayfish
crayfishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crayfish
crayfishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: fishing for crayfish
reality checks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reality check
whitefellow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whitefellows
Etymology: From white + fellow.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whitefeller.
whitefellows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whitefellow
mossery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mosseries
Etymology: From moss + -ery.
Senses: glosses: A plantation of mosses.
mosseries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mossery
canting arms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A heraldic bearing in the form of a visual pun.
porterhouse steaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porterhouse steak
standing ribs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of standing rib
honie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of honey.
prime rib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪb
Forms: form: prime ribs
Senses: qualifier: butchery
glosses: A cut of beef consisting of two to seven ribs; one of the nine primal cuts.
prime ribs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prime rib
melodeath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of melodic + death
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: melodic death metal
boil washes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boil wash
Carpathos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Karpathos (“one of the Greek Dodecanese islands”).
Salt March
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A 24-day march in colonial India in 1930 to support the production of salt in seawater, against the British salt monopoly.
ninety-day wonders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ninety-day wonder
Glenham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in South Dakota, United States.
Akaska
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in South Dakota, United States.
Dimock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A town in South Dakota, United States.
adultification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adult + -ification.
Senses: antonyms: infantilization
glosses: The treatment of a non-adult as an adult.
Derived terms: english: back-formed
translation: back-formed
word: adultify
particle-board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: particle-boards
Senses: examples: text: A template is simply the cut-out outline of a board traced onto a permanent material such as cardboard, particle-board, Plexiglas, or masonite.
ref: 2007, Steven Daniel Miller, Surfboard Shaping and Glassing:
glosses: Alternative spelling of particle board.
adultify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: adultifies
form: adultifying
form: adultified
form: adultified
Etymology: From adult + -ify, likely back-formation from adultification.
Senses: examples: text: Neil Postman argued for The Disappearance of Childhood in 1982, maintaining that television prematurely adultifies children by confronting them with crime and violence and other adult topics.
ref: 2014, Anita Wohlmann, Aged Young Adults: Age Readings of Contemporary American Novels and Films:
antonyms: infantilize
glosses: To treat a non-adult like an adult.
Derived terms: adultification
particle-boards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of particle-board
Ortley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A ghost town in Oregon.
glosses: A town in South Dakota.
destinatary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: destinataries
Senses: examples: text: The idea underlying the efficacy of soft law is that the choice of adherence or non-adherence is made solely on the basis of an evaluation of the advantages deriving from compliance to the destinataries of the rule.
ref: 2010, Noah Vardi, The Integration of European Financial Markets: The Regulation of Monetary Obligations:
glosses: A recipient.
destinataries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of destinatary
dryrot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It is also important to know that dryrot is a bigger problem in many areas that termite damage, and a termite inspection generally ignores dryrot.
ref: 2015, H. Skip Thomsen, Affordable Paradise: The Secrets of an Affordable Life in Hawaii:
glosses: Alternative form of dry rot.
wet rot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wetrot
form: wet-rot
Senses: glosses: A soft rot in which the decayed tissues are markedly watery.
examples: text: The planking near the waterline of a ship was most at risk from wet rot but was easily replaced.
ref: 2004, Clive Wilkinson, The British Navy and the State in the Eighteenth Century:
glosses: Decay of timber by fungi that attack wood having high moisture content.
number-theoretic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Relating to number theory
Synonyms: sense: relating to number theory
word: number-theoretical
Derived terms: number-theoretic function
wetrot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The walls were marked with wetrot and dryrot and agerot, and had been stripped bare long ago.
ref: 1983, Steven Barnes, Streetlethal:
glosses: Alternative form of wet rot.
Jeebusite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jeebusites
Etymology: From Jeebus + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A Christian.
Related terms: Jebusite
wet-rot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Figure 2.11 shows the effect of wet-rot damage on end grain.
ref: 2012, Assistant Professor of History Brian Porter, Brian Porter, Carpentry and Joinery 1
glosses: Alternative form of wet rot.
dulcacid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dulcacid
form: most dulcacid
Etymology: From Latin dulcacidus.
Senses: examples: text: ...full of an austere dulcacid Juice, that reminds me of a harsh pear.
ref: 1804, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume II:
glosses: Having a taste that is both sweet and sour.
dry-rot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But, there are a few fungi that transport water to dry wood and cause decay called dry-rot or water-conducting fungi.
ref: 2012, Roger M. Rowell, Handbook of Wood Chemistry and Wood Composites, Second Edition:
glosses: Alternative form of dry rot.
holothuroidean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holothuroideans
Etymology: Holothuroidea + -an
Senses: glosses: A sea cucumber, member of the class Holothuroidea.
holothuroidean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Holothuroidea + -an
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Holothuroidea.
reduplicatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reduplicative
Delmont
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A borough of Pennsylvania, United States.
glosses: A city and town in South Dakota, United States.
guilloché
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guillochés
Etymology: Borrowed from French guilloché.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of guilloche (“pattern”).
glosses: Alternative form of guilloche (“tool”).
Doland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dolands
Etymology: Variant of Dowland or Dolan.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city in Spink County, South Dakota, United States.
Deadwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in the County of Northern Lights, Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A ghost town in British Columbia, Canada.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Butte County, California, United States.
glosses: A ghost town in Placer County, California, United States.
glosses: A ghost town in Siskiyou County, California, United States.
glosses: A ghost town in Trinity County, California, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Tuolumne County, California, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon, United States.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Lawrence County, South Dakota, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Panola County, Texas, United States.
Egan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈiːɡən/
Forms: form: Egans
form: Eagan
form: Eakin
form: Heekin
Etymology: From Irish Ó hAodhagáin, literally, “descendant of Aodhagán”, from Old Irish Áedacán, from Áed + -acán, from áed (“fire”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
glosses: An unknown-gender given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A ghost town in California.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Leaf River Township, Ogle County, Illinois.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A census-designated place in Acadia Parish, Louisiana.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A minor city in Moody County, South Dakota.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Wilson County, Tennessee.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Johnson County, Texas.
Related terms: Keegan
expectee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expectees
Etymology: From expect + -ee.
Senses: examples: 1991, National Association of School Psychologists., School Psychology Review
Second, expecters in the ADHD condition were significantly less likely to attribute good characteristics to their ADHD expectees, both in terms of task performance and social skills.
glosses: One from whom something is expected.
expectees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expectee
blound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblaʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Etymology: Irregularization of blind, by analogy with bind/bound.
Senses: examples: text: Of earlier days, I think, he thought
 Ere Hymen's bonds had bound—
 Before his links were firmly lought—
 When he by blond was blound.
ref: 1912 October 2, George B. Morewood, “A Victim of Irregularity”, in Puck, volume 72, number 1857:
text: Dizzy Dean (1910–1974), quoted by Steven Pinker, in The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language, W. Morrow and Company, New York (1994), p. 140.
The center fielder was all set to catch the ball, but at the last minute his eyes were blound by the sun and he dropped it!
text: The boy was thrould, as he pept through eyes that once had been blound by an explosion.
ref: 1969, Jay Cline, Voices in Literature, Language, and Composition, book 1, p. 109:
glosses: simple past and past participle of blind
Synonyms: blinded
sea-drift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: flotsam
gottle o' geer
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: gottle o'geer
form: gottle of geer
form: gottle of gear
Etymology: Pronunciation spelling of the phrase "bottle of beer" with the labial consonants replaced by velars; labials are the hardest English consonants to produce without visible lip movement.
Senses: examples: text: ‘And a gottle of gear,' said Watson, trying to disguise himself as a dummy.
ref: 1992, Spike Milligan, William McGonagall: Freefall, Michael Joseph, →ISBN, page 109:
text: Buyer beware: if you think this is a history of end-of-pier gottle of geer merchants, think again
ref: 2001 January 13, Brian Boyd, “Not only here for the geer [Review of Dumbstruck - A Cultural History of Ventriloquism]”, in The Irish Times, page 15:
text: On the same bill was a ventriloquist called Arthur Worsley, who had a doll with the catchphrase 'gottle of geer'.
ref: 2016, Pat Stewart, The Girl in the Spotty Dress - Memories From The 1950s and The Photo That Changed My Life, Kings Road Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: Stereotypical phrase spoken by the dummy of an incompetent ventriloquist
offlineable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From offline + -able.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Capable of being used offline to some degree.
Redfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Scottish habitational surname from Old English, from Middle Scots reid (“reed”) + fuyrd (“ford”), later influenced by red + field.
glosses: A neighborhood of Bristol, England.
glosses: A city in Arkansas; named for Little Rock, Mississippi River and Texas Railway president Jared E. Redfield.
glosses: A city in Iowa; named for American politician and Civil War officer James Redfield.
glosses: A city in Kansas; named for an early settler.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Spink County, South Dakota; named for railroad official J. B. Redfield.
glosses: A township in Spink County, South Dakota.
glosses: A census-designated place in Texas.
Mellette
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The city was laid out in 1881, and named in honor of Governor Arthur C. Mellette.
Senses: glosses: A city and town in South Dakota, United States.
Derived terms: Mellette County
Turton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Turtons
Etymology: Habitational surname from a historical area in Lancashire, from Old Norse Þórr (“Thor”) + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A town in Spink County, South Dakota, United States.
Derived terms: North Turton
South Turton
algally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From algal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The clotted, peloidal microfabric of these laminae is characteristic of algally bound carbonate.
ref: 1985, Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, Proceedings - Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, Volumes 106-107:
glosses: In an algal manner.
balbal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæl.bəl/
rhymes: -ælbəl
Forms: form: balbals
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old Turkic 𐰉𐰞𐰉𐰞 (balbal), from a Mongolic language.
Senses: glosses: In pre-Islamic Turkic cultures, a stone laid at the tomb of a warrior which symbolized an enemy they had killed in their lifetime, with the number laid being equal to the number of enemies slain.
main streets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of main street
GUBU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GUBUs
Etymology: An acronym for grotesque, unprecedented, bizarre, unbelievable, all words used by Taoiseach Charles Haughey to describe the discovery of a murderer as a guest in the house of Patrick Connolly, Attorney General of Ireland in 1982.
Senses: examples: text: The problem for the taoiseach is that he is increasingly being called on to defend his administration as the GUBUs loom before it.
ref: 1989, Fortnight:
text: In one handwritten memo, the writer refers to the Garda report in a scathing and sarcastic manner and calls it 'a hysterical attempt to cover up a GUBU'.
ref: 2006, Gerry O'Carroll, The Sheriff: A Detective's Story, Mainstream Publishing Company:
text: The GUBU had been a GUBU alright, no doubt about that, but Mr Haughey was there and the GUBU was taken care of […]
ref: 2013, John Horgan, Great Irish Reportage, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A political scandal.
wikipedia: Patrick Connolly
GUBUs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of GUBU
Komoro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Nagano Prefecture, Japan.
Mvskoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mvskokes
form: Mvskoke
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Muskogee
Mvskoke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Muskogee (“language”)
sarus crane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarus cranes
Etymology: From Hindi सारस (sāras) + crane.
Senses: glosses: A crane (Antigone antigone) native to India, Southeast Asia, and northern Australia.
Synonyms: Burmese crane
sarus cranes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarus crane
scissor-bill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scissor-bills
Senses: examples: text: Aquatic birds of various kinds are very numerous, such as geese, darters (Flotus melanogaster), scissor-bills (Rhynchops nigra), adjutants (Leptoptilos argala), pelicans, cormorants, cranes (Grus antigone, in Burmese gyoja), whimbrels, plovers, and ibises.
ref: 1876, "Burmah" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 552
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Alternative form of scissorbill.
scissor-bills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scissor-bill
black skimmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black skimmers
Senses: glosses: A bird (Rynchops niger) native to the Americas.
black skimmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black skimmer
cousincest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cousin + -cest.
Senses: glosses: Sexual relations between cousins.
degree of comparison
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: degrees of comparison
Senses: examples: text: The degrees of comparison of good are good (positive), better (comparative) and best (superlative).
text: The word red is an adjective, in the dogmatical or positive degree of comparison.
ref: 1820, James Brown, An American Grammar, page 43:
text: There are commonly reckoned three degrees of comparison, namely: the positive, comparative and superlative; though, strictly speaking, there are but two degrees, the positive being merely the state of the adjective itself.
ref: 1833, Joseph Hervey Hull, English Grammar, by Lectures, page 55:
text: Among the degrees of comparison, some have enumerated equality; as when we say, "It is as sweet as honey."
ref: 1851, Goold Brown, edited by Samuel U. Berrian, The Grammar of English Grammars, 10th edition, page 285:
text: The degrees of comparison possible are: positive (big), comparative (bigger), superlative (biggest), and elative (very big).
ref: 2007, Rodney J. Decker, Koine Greek Reader: Selections from the New Testament, Septuagint, and Early Christian Writers, page 205:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A form of an adjective that indicates a different degree of the attribute the adjective denotes; like the positive, comparative and superlative forms.
Synonyms: degree
Coordinate terms: comparative
comparative superlative
elative
positive
relative superlative
superlative
culturism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: culturisms
Etymology: From culture + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The Confucian ethic has been discredited, but no new ethic has taken its place. Women have been emancipated. The ancient culturism of the Middle Kingdom has been transmuted into nationalism, pride of culture providing the stuff for pride of race and nation.
ref: 1946 September 1, John K. Fairbank, “Our Chances in China”, in The Atlantic:
text: Preserve these (if you have the narrator's permission to do so) for research into the interview situation, the narrator's personality, or the verbal culturisms of the narrator and her group.
ref: 1977, Willa K. Baum, Transcribing and Editing Oral History:
text: Just as important is the recognition of those forms of theory, pedagogy and curriculum—vestiges of the 'humanist Victorian missionary'—that continue to visit the sins of culturism on children in classrooms.
ref: 2003, Alex Moore, Teaching Multicultured Students: Culturalism and Anti-culturalism in the ...:
glosses: A trend or tendency to promote one culture over the other cultures.
topics: government
politics
glosses: A right-wing political movement that opposes multiculturalism and promotes Western culture.
Related terms: culturist
multiculturalism
racism
culturisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of culturism
Easter Rabbit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Easter Bunny.
synonyms: word: Easter Bunny
lesing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lese
jujubi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jujubis
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jujube.
jujubis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jujubi
Superior
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Pinal County, Arizona.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A statutory town in Boulder County, Colorado.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Raccoon Township, Parke County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Dickinson County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Chippewa County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township and unincorporated community therein, in Washtenaw County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town, the county seat of Mineral County, Montana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A small city in Nuckolls County, Nebraska.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in McDowell County, West Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, village, and civil town in Wisconsin. The city is the county seat of Douglas County.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Sweetwater County, Wyoming.
glosses: Ellipsis of Lake Superior.
glosses: Ellipsis of Superior Craton.
glosses: Synonym of Superia.
synonyms: word: Superia
neoammonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neoammonites
Etymology: From neo- + ammonite.
Senses: glosses: Any ammonite (Ammonoidea) of the Jurassic period, descended from Psiloceras, the sole surviving ammonite genus of the Triassic–Jurassic extinction event.
overcerebral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛɹɪbɹəl
-iːbɹəl
Forms: form: more overcerebral
form: most overcerebral
Etymology: From over- + cerebral.
Senses: examples: text: As sensitive artists and overcerebral intellectuals, feeling that they were unable to function in the social world — unlike the practical, sober bourgeois.
ref: 1984, Eugene Lunn, Marxism and Modernism: An Historical Study of Lukács, Brecht, Benjamin, and ...:
glosses: Excessively cerebral.
Kilgore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪlɡɔɹ/
Forms: form: Kilgores
Etymology: Variant of Kilgour.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
glosses: A placename
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Clark County, Idaho.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Cherry County, Nebraska.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Carroll County, Ohio.
examples: text: The discovery well at Kilgore, Texas, in October 1930 ignited the largest oil boom in American history, transforming the quiet farming community overnight.
ref: 2010, Kenny Franks, The Texas Republic and the Mormon Kingdom of God:
text: In the 1930s, Kilgore became the epicenter of crude production with over 1,000 derricks crammed into its downtown, including the famed "World's Richest Acre."
ref: 2021 June 15, “East Texas Oil Museum Celebrates Kilgore's Legacy”, in Longview News-Journal:
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
Ellipsis of City of Kilgore, a city in Texas, United States.
Derived terms: Kilgoreite
phonyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phonynesses
Etymology: From phony + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: "Your honesty & forthrightness in all you do and say is greatly appreciated & welcomed in this age of phonyness & half-truths. We love you, Julia!"
ref: 2007, Laura Shapiro, Julia Child:
glosses: Alternative spelling of phoniness.
phonynesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phonyness
unfrankness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unfrank + -ness.
Senses: examples: 2003, Artforum, 2003 - Arts, Book Forum
One's appetite for voyeurism whetted but unsated by this fiesta of unfrankness, one resorts to reading behind the dead people's backs to spice up the dish.
glosses: The quality of being unfrank.
occultive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more occultive
form: most occultive
Etymology: From occult + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: To increase the difficulty there is frequent use made of paradox, hyperbole, the indirect and the allusive method: there is often the subtle reference and occultive meaning.
ref: 1933, Evan Morgan, Tao, the great luminant: essays from Huai nan tzu:
text: ... powerful enough to penetrate through the occultive and deceptive tactics of the Rakshasa magic, and that I (Agastya) should so manage that Rama does not fall a prey to the deception so neatly and powerfully employed by the Rakshasas".
ref: 1977, Govind Sadashiv Ghurye, Indian acculturation: Agastya and Skanda, page 54:
text: Ikwu Ikili involves some occultive processes. In the process, the items are sent through spirit to the owner's home.
ref: 1991, Joseph Chukwu Maduekwe, Umudioka: An Identity of Vital Angles of Ancient Igbo Wisdom, page 83:
glosses: Related to or involving the occult or secret knowledge.
examples: text: After five years' occultive gloom, / Once more the iron lilies bloom, / And we can walk at night / Streets newly washed in light.
ref: 1945, New Statesman: The Week-end Review, page 115:
text: In 1962, British radio astronomer Cyril Hazard used the moon as an occultive shield to discover strong radio emissions traceable to the constellation Virgo.
ref: 2004, K. Lee Lerner, Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, The Gale Encyclopedia of Science: Pheasants-Star, page 3310:
text: The occultive properties of both discourses, ethics and politics, have exerted a dominant and disfiguring influence in Rousseau studies.
ref: 2006, James L. O'Rourke, Sex, Lies, and Autobiography: The Ethics of Confession, page 191:
text: My curiosity over whelm me, trying to explain reason for the occultive act.
ref: 2016, Elaine Bailey, Safe: A Spiritual Journey:
glosses: Tending to obscure or occlude.
data slam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æm
Senses: examples: text: Given this staggering data slam, it is quite possible that the best and most relevant data and information needed to produce the most appropriate knowledge slips by unnoticed.
ref: 2004, Marius Meyer, Eben Botha, Organisation Development and Transformation in South Africa:
glosses: An onslaught of meaningless pieces of data.
abjecture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abjectures
Etymology: From Latin abiectura.
Senses: examples: text: But he had none of the assumed, servile, oriental abjectures that leads man to revile himself as a worthless worm of the dust
ref: 1876, Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, volume 3:
glosses: abjection; forlornness
Mergui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɚˈɡwi/
ipa: /məˈɡwiː/
Senses: glosses: A city in southern Burma; modern Myeik.
warmed over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of warm over
chokoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of choko
chokos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of choko
plain as day
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: word: clear as day
word: plain to see
word: plain as the nose on one's face
word: apparent
word: arrant
word: undoubted
word: glaring
word: bait
word: blatant
word: clear
word: clear as a bell
word: clear as day
word: clear cut
word: crystal clear
word: cut and dried
word: decided
word: elucidate
word: evident
word: eyely
word: intuitive
word: manifest
word: notable
word: noticeable
word: obvious
word: open-and-shut
word: ostensible
word: palpable
word: patent
word: plain
word: plain as a haystack
word: plain as a pikestaff
word: plain as day
word: plain as Dunstable highway
word: plain as porridge
word: plain as print
word: plain as Salisbury
word: plain as the nose on one's face
word: prima facie
word: res ipsa loquitur
word: straightforward
word: undissembled
antonyms: word: clear as mud
word: inevident
word: nonevident
word: muddied
word: muddled
word: non-obvious
word: nonobvious
word: opaque
word: subtle
word: unclear
word: unobvious
word: unevident
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very clear and evident.
Related terms: plain English
plainspoken