cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Mid-Autumn Festival
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mid-Autumn Festivals
Etymology: A calque of Chinese 中秋節 /中秋节 (Zhōngqiūjié).
Senses: glosses: A harvest festival celebrated by ethnic Chinese and Vietnamese people, held on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar (between early September and early October).
glosses: The East Asian festivals originating, inspired, or co-opted from the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival.
Synonyms: sense: Vietnamese
word: Moon Festival
sense: Chinese festival
word: Zhongqiu
sense: Chinese festival
word: Zhongqiu Festival
sense: Chinese festival
word: Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival
sense: Chinese festival
word: Chinese Moon Festival
sense: Chinese festival
word: Chinese Thanksgiving
sense: Chinese festival
word: Chinese Harvest Festival
sense: Japanese festival
word: Tsukimi
sense: Japanese festival
word: Tsukimi Festival
sense: Japanese festival
word: Otsukimi
sense: Japanese festival
word: Otsukimi Festival
sense: Japanese festival
word: Japanese Mid-Autumn Festival
sense: Japanese festival
word: Japanese Moon Festival
sense: Japanese festival
word: Japanese Thanksgiving
sense: Japanese festival
word: Japanese Harvest Festival
sense: Korean festival
word: Chuseok
sense: Korean festival
word: Chuseok Festival
sense: Korean festival
word: Hangawi
sense: Korean festival
word: Hangawi Festival
sense: Korean festival
word: Korean Mid-Autumn Festival
sense: Korean festival
word: Korean Thanksgiving
sense: Korean festival
word: Korean Harvest Festival
sense: Vietnamese festival
word: Tet Trung Thu
sense: Vietnamese festival
word: Vietnamese Mid-Autumn Festival
sense: Vietnamese festival
word: Vietnamese Moon Festival
sense: Vietnamese festival
word: Vietnamese Thanksgiving
sense: Vietnamese festival
word: Vietnamese Harvest Festival
Related terms: mooncake
with pleasure
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /wəð ˈpleʒ.ə/
ipa: /wɪð ˈplɛʒ.ə/
ipa: /wɪθ ˈplɛʒ.ɚ/
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: (as a reply or otherwise adverbially) gladly, happily
text: A: Would you be willing to take a business trip to Toronto next month? B: With pleasure! I love Toronto.
text: She accepted the offer with pleasure.
coordinate_terms: word: certainly
english: as a reply
translation: as a reply
word: ;
word: don't mind if I do
glosses: Willingly; without argument.
Related terms: my pleasure
the pleasure is all mine
UNDG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of United Nations Development Group.
tumefacient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Producing swelling or tumescence; making tumescent; tumefying.
precedenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of precedent
hylas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyla
ericas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of erica
impapyrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪmˌpəˈpaɪˌɹeɪtəd/
/ɪmˈpæpɚˌeɪtəd/
Etymology: From im- + papyrus + -ated.
Senses: glosses: Written or recorded on or as if on papyrus.
coun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Entered service of Leg. Coun. of U. C. May, 1822. Appointed Clerk Asst. to Leg. Coun. in 1841—Master in Chancery in 1851.
ref: 1866, “Appendix to Report of the Minister of Agriculture and Statistics: The Blue Book; or, Statement of the Public Service of Canada for the year 1864”, in Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, volume 26, page 7:
text: Ind., Goshen—Elkhart Co. Coun. approved road building program requiring $347,200 bond issue for hard surf. roads.
ref: 1922 July 1, in A. Precott Folwell (editor), Public Works, Volume 53, Number 1, page 13
text: And we work full-time with the Brit. Coun.?
ref: 2003, John Le Carré, Absolute Friends, Little, Brown and Company (2004), page 176
glosses: Abbreviation of council.
mazing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of maze
mazed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of maze
mazed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mazed
form: most mazed
Senses: examples: text: This ſtraunge vnwelcome and vnhappie newes,
Of theſe vnnaturall Rebels and vniust,
That threaten wracke vnto this wretched Land,
Aye me affrights my womans mazed minde,
Burdens my heart, and interrupts my ſleepe, […]
ref: 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:
glosses: Amazed, astonished, bewildered.
Derived terms: mazedly
mazedness
DIMM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DIMMs
Senses: topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of dual in-line memory module.
Coordinate terms: RIMM
SIMM
z-axes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of z-axis
marble cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marble cakes
Etymology: From marble + cake, named for its resemblance to the stone marble.
Senses: glosses: A cake with two or more colors of ingredients which give a marble pattern to its interior.
Derived terms: marble cake federalism
marble cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marble cake
animu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈænɪmu/
Etymology: Humorous alteration of anime, with -u probably based on a stereotypical Japanese accent or wasei-eigo, emphasizing the added /ɯ/ vowel which frequently occurs on Japanese borrowings from English words that phonetically end in a consonant (such as チーズ (chīzu) from cheese (/⁠t͡ʃiːz⁠/); a few of these are reborrowed into English and commonly used in anime fandoms, such as waifu), but of course misapplied in this case.
Senses: examples: text: These two links should not be anywhere near one another, thx. One is the personal site of an egomaniacal faggot who thinks he suddenly owns the images he scans from animu magazines and refers to himself in the third person, and the other is a cultural bridge between Japan and the United States, based on the exchange of image macros, catchphrases, and underage hentai.
ref: 2003 November 15, Saber [username], “Re: [FAQ] FAQ for alt.games.final-fantasy.hentai (v4.1)”, in alt.games.final-fantasy.hentai (Usenet):
text: 2. "Triplettes of Bellville" is _not_ for the Disney or Animu fanboys.
ref: 2004 February 4, Doodles [username], “Re: Worst animated feature. Ever.”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet):
text: but it's so much easier/more appealing to watch japanese drama/animu/films/pR0n these days.
ref: 2008 October 10, monkie [username], “Re: i don't know if i mentioned it...”, in alt.digitiser.snakes (Usenet):
glosses: Anime.
wikipedia: wasei-eigo
Coordinate terms: topics: manga
comics
literature
publishing
media
word: mango
champfreins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of champfrein
Esperantio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Esperantujo.
Esperantujo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Esperantio
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Esperanto Esperantujo (from Esperanto + -ujo (“country”)).
Senses: glosses: A notional land of Esperanto speakers.
glosses: The entire community of Esperantists (Esperanto speakers)
misconstruation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪskənˈstɹuːeɪʃən/
Forms: form: misconstruations
Etymology: From misconstrue + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: A fairly close scrutiny has failed to find material errors. (We did note the undoubted substitution of the term “carbon monoxide” for “carbon tetrachloride” in the reference to Boveri on page 275, but the context would prevent misconstruations here.)
ref: 1934 September, Emery R[oe] Hayhurst, “Industrial Toxicology—By Alice Hamilton, M.D. […]”, in American Journal of Public Health and The Nation’s Health, volume 24, number 9, Albany, N.Y.; New York, N.Y.: American Public Health Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, Books and Reports section, page 993, column 2:
text: 1978, Since they acted as ‘the eyes and ears of the Sultan, no laxity was permitted to them and a slight delay or misconstruation of information was treated as a contempt of Royalty and meted with death’ - Meera Singh, Medieval History of India, Vikas Publishing House.
synonyms: misconstrual
misconstruance
misconstruction
glosses: The act or process of misconstruing.
Related terms: construation
ditty bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ditty bag
cross one's arms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crosses one's arms
form: crossing one's arms
form: crossed one's arms
form: crossed one's arms
Senses: examples: text: Crossing your arms during an argument will most likely be interpreted as a sign of anger or defensiveness.
synonyms: fold one's arms
glosses: To link one's arms together across one's chest.
Related terms: cross-armed
cross one's legs
cross-legged
mawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: môn
ipa: /mɔːn/
rhymes: -ɔːn
Forms: form: mawns
Senses: examples: text: An apple-mill and press had been erected on the spot, to which some men were bringing fruit from divers points in mawn-baskets, while others were grinding them, and others wringing down the pomace, whose sweet juice gushed forth into tubs and pails.
ref: 1887, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders, Harper & Brothers, page 173:
glosses: A maund; a basket or hamper.
examples: text: None of the natives who had come in the boat would touch the body, or even go near it, saying, the mawn would come; that is literally, ‘the spirit of the deceased would seize them’.
ref: 2006, Watkin Tench, A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson, University of Adelaide, archived from the original on 10 Oct 2010, page 7:
glosses: A ghost.
mawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: môn
ipa: /mɔːn/
rhymes: -ɔːn
Etymology: Welsh mawn
Senses: examples: text: […] there lived, high up the breast of one of the loftiest mountains, in a hut among the black mawn-pits, - the world of human haunts in soundless depth below, above her only the cloud, the crag, the kite, - a melancholy woman[…]
ref: 1837, The Tale Book: 1st Series, page 59:
text: […] mawn pits on a distant part of the Common. It is a bad mawn harvest this year in consequence of the wet summer and what with the dear coal and bread and meat and the diseased potatoes, I don't know what the poor people will do.
ref: 2013 April 18 [1870-79], William Plomer, Kilvert's Diary 1870-1879 - Selections from the Diary of the REV. Francis Kilvert, Read Books Ltd, →ISBN:
text: […] the wastes made impassable by crevasses; the mawn-pits that could swallow a man and his mount before either was aware of them.
ref: 1932, Francis Brett Young, The House Under the Water: Volume 1, page 103:
text: There are some extensive mawn pits near this village, from whence the inhabitants procure their chief fuel: it is cut up and harvested in the summer, and with a little wood makes a very good fire.
ref: 2005, Mark Willett, An Excursion from the Source of the Wye, page 56:
text: […] throughout the mawn pools and larger bogs of Radnorshire but the largest numbers in Wales are found in the old county of […]
ref: 2010, Roger Lovegrove, Iolo Williams, Graham Williams, Birds in Wales, page 83:
glosses: Peat.
mawns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mawn
mawning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔːnɪŋ
Forms: form: mawnings
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of morning, representing non-rhotic English.
where do you live
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Used to ask where the person lives.
Related terms: I live in Melbourne
china marker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: china markers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of china pencil.
synonyms: word: china pencil
Hydro Marker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hydro Markers
Senses: glosses: A hardened wax pencil, similar to a china pencil, but water-soluble so as to be erasable with a damp cloth.
neuroplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + -plasty.
Senses: glosses: Any surgery to repair nerve tissue.
Norwegian forest cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Norwegian forest cats
Senses: glosses: A domestic cat breed noted for its above average size, long, water-repellent fur and woolly undercoat.
seifs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seif
Gallicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡælɪsɪzəm/
Forms: form: Gallicisms
form: gallicism
Etymology: Borrowed from French gallicisme.
Senses: glosses: A loanword borrowed from French.
glosses: Behaviour characteristic of the French people.
holoblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holoblasts
Etymology: From holo- + -blast.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An ovum composed entirely of germinal matter.
Derived terms: holoblastic
affectioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əˈfɛkʃn̩d/
Forms: form: more affectioned
form: most affectioned
Etymology: From affection + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: But some man wil saye againe, that is more affectioned to Philosophie, than eyther to the lawe of Moses eyther to Christian fayth:[…].
ref: 1563, John Man, transl., Common places of Christian Religion, gathered by Wolfgangus Musculus, for the use of suche as desire the knowledge of Godly truthe, translated out of Latine into Englishe, London, folio 117v:
text: I am, your affectioned freind and servant, Subscribitur, Pet. Wedderburn.
ref: 1663 October 20, P. Hume Brown, editor, The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland (3rd), volume 1, Edinburgh: H.M. General Register House, published 1908, page 452:
text: Besides the gratitude which every American owes [France], as our sole ally during the war of independence, I am additionally affectioned by the friendships I contracted there by the good dispositions I witnessed, and by the courtesies I received.
ref: 1818 December 13, “Letter from Thomas Jefferson to M. de Neuville”, in Thomas Jefferson Randolph, editor, Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, volume 4, Charlottesville: F. Carr, published 1829, letter 146, pages 311–312:
text: Kindly affectioned and unselfish to the bitter end, did the dying saurian once again lift up his crocodilly voice, now faint and tinny with the hollowness of dissolution, and cry, “Avaunt, good Saracen, avaunt! Bide further afield, lest peradventure, in the tantrums of death, I cleave thy skull with my scaly tail. But, oh! for the love of Him that made us both, speak no more so despitefully of crocodile tears”—and he wept aloud.
ref: 1896 July, J. Lawson, “The Kindly Crocodile”, in The Gentleman’s Magazine, volume CCLXXXI, number 1987, London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 58:
glosses: Feeling a certain affection (for); disposed.
glosses: Affected, pompous.
glosses: Obstinate, willful.
glosses: Zealous, earnest.
Derived terms: unaffectioned
affectioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈfɛkʃn̩d/
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of affection
ass kisser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ass kissers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ass-kisser.
ass licker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ass lickers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ass-licker.
arse licker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arse lickers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ass-licker.
arty-crafty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more arty-crafty
form: most arty-crafty
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of artsy-craftsy.
hand-made
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The village was once well known for its paper-milling, founded by Huguenot immigrants in 1648, which produced high-quality hand-made paper until 1952.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 178, about Eynsford:
glosses: Alternative form of handmade.
hand-made
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand-mades
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of handmade.
hand made
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of handmade.
rouleaux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rouleau
publicity hound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: publicity hounds
form: publicity-hound
Senses: examples: text: The truth about Pastor Straton is that he is perhaps the country's most persistent publicity hound. He has an insatiable appetite for newspaper notice.
ref: 1928 August 28, Frank R. Kent, “The Great Game Of Politics”, in Baltimore Sun, page 1:
text: "He's a publicity hound," Jake said. "Gets a hard-on watching himself on TV."
ref: 1995, Harlan Coben, Deal Breaker, →ISBN, page 258:
text: Durrani continues to receive awards and recognition overseas for her courage, although within her own country she is branded an opportunist and publicity-hound.
ref: 2001 August 20, Hannah Bloch, “The Evil That Men Do”, in Time:
glosses: A person who constantly seeks public attention, especially through coverage in the broadcast media or news media.
publicity-hound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: publicity-hounds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of publicity hound.
grayhound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grayhounds
Etymology: From gray + hound, in the mistaken belief that greyhound derives from grey, the colour.
Senses: glosses: Uncommon spelling of greyhound.
entise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: entises
form: entising
form: entised
form: entised
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of entice.
gazelle in the garden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Possibly from an Arabic word that means both beard and garden.
Senses: examples: text: The other ubiquitous anecdote, told by Harvard undergraduates who enjoyed poking gentle fun at the stately and aged Mrs. Fields, describes Annie saying "There's a gazelle in the garden" when she noticed food in her husband's beard at the dinner table.
ref: 1990, Judith Roman, Annie Adams Fields: the spirit of Charles Street, page 12:
text: If he got a crumb lodged in his beard, she would say, "Jamie, dear, there is a gazelle in the garden," which amused his friends and became a household expression in our family.
ref: 1922, Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow, Random memories, page 35:
text: At one of their literary dinners, should a crumb get caught in the luxuriant Fields beard — "There's a gazelle in the garden, Jamie," his wife would say.
ref: 1956, Louise Hall Tharp, page 254
synonyms: gazelle on the lawn
glosses: Used during a meal to alert a family member or friend that they have a crumb on their face.
gazelle on the lawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Jerry Hart leaned over to whisper in Carey's ear:
"Why don't someone tell Washburn there's a gazelle on the lawn?" he said.
Carey turned a puzzled look at him.
"That crumb he's got there on his lip! We call it a 'gazelle on the lawn' out home. Some one ought to put him wise; it may grow there."
ref: 1916, Charles Gilman Norris, The Amateur, page 63:
glosses: Synonym of gazelle in the garden.
synonyms: word: gazelle in the garden
kōan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kōans
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of koan.
kōans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kōan
hissier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of hissy: more hissy
hissiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of hissy: most hissy
hissies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɪsiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of hissy
glosses: plural of hissie
tale bearer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tale bearers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of talebearer.
tale-bearer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tale-bearers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of talebearer.
tale-bearers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tale-bearer
tale bearers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tale bearer
marz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑɹz/
Forms: form: marzes
form: marzer
Etymology: From Armenian մարզ (marz). Doublet of march.
Senses: glosses: A first-level administrative entity in Armenia; usually translated as region in English.
cradle snatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cradle snatchers
Etymology: Refers to the idea of snatching someone from a cradle, i.e. they are very young.
Senses: glosses: A person who prefers to date people significantly younger than themselves.
Synonyms: cradle robber
Hyponyms: word: cougar
word: manther
word: korephile
Related terms: lecher
pedophile
sugar daddy
cradle snatchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cradle snatcher
WCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of WC
nontowered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + towered.
Senses: glosses: Not equipped with a control tower.
raw_tags: of an airport
cartages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cartage
nonisothermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + isothermic.
Senses: glosses: Not isothermic.
nonpenicillin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + penicillin.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to penicillin.
stablekeeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stablekeepers
form: stablekeep
form: stable-keep
form: stable keep
form: stable-keeper
form: stable keeper
Etymology: From stable + keeper.
Senses: glosses: The person who maintains a stable where animals are kept.
Synonyms: stabler
Hyponyms: groom
stable attendant
stableboy
stablegirl
stablehand
stablemaid
stableman
stablekeepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stablekeeper
stableboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stableboy
goatproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more goatproof
form: most goatproof
Etymology: From goat + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: Shortly before the completion of the goatproof fence I was the victim of a severe illness.
ref: 1955, May Neatherlin, House of the rancher, page 119:
text: Keep grain rations in a goatproof place. Covered garbage cans work well if the lids are secured with tie-downs.
ref: 1975, Sheryll Patterson Herdt, Nitty gritty foodbook: a compendium of basic foods for earthy people, page 194:
glosses: Resistant to goats.
mailout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mailouts
Etymology: From mail + out.
Senses: glosses: An informational or promotional document sent by post, typically to multiple recipients.
Hyponyms: mailshot
mailouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mailout
TV tuner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TV tuners
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A hardware component that allows a computer to receive television signals.
moneron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monerons
form: monera
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of moneran.
ecbolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Producing abortion of a fetus or accelerating childbirth, oxytocic.
ecbolic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecbolics
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An agent that produces abortion of a fetus or hastens delivery of the same.
ecbolics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecbolic
dements
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dement
washed in the blood
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Whose sins have been forgiven due to the death of Jesus.
uncarpentered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + carpentered.
Senses: examples: text: It was […] not unusual for these shelves, which had to be improvised at short order, to be uncarpentered constructs variously and ingeniously propped, tied, glued and hanging off stone walls whose last dignity was to refuse to be screwed.
ref: 2019, Niall Williams, This is Happiness, Bloomsbury (2020), page 319:
glosses: Not carpentered.
professionalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of professionalism
nonbusy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + busy.
Senses: glosses: Not busy.
alabastron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alabastrons
form: alabastra
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀλάβαστρον (alábastron).
Senses: examples: text: The discovery, in an early deposit near the Northern Bath, in company with the serpentine vases described above, of the lid of an alabastron with the cartouche of the Hyksos king Khyan.
ref: 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 67:
glosses: A kind of ancient pottery vase used for holding oils, and originally made from alabaster.
sub-optimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sub-optimal
form: most sub-optimal
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of suboptimal.
envenime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: envenimes
form: enveniming
form: envenimed
form: envenimed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of envenom.
fakon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fā'kən
ipa: /ˈfeɪkn̩/
rhymes: -eɪkən
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of facon.
celli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Now, against the Beethoven rhythm and the antiphonal outcry (E), the 'celli intone a spacious and somber melody whose beginning is shown at F.
ref: 1968, Donald N. Ferguson, Masterworks of the Orchestral Repertoire: A Guide for Listeners, page 349:
text: The dynamics of the celli have to be extended to the basses, for it would not make sense to have the basses operating under their last dynamics mark, of the previous bar, which is ppp.
ref: 1971, Richard Korn, Orchestral accents, page 119:
text: The balance of strings in these two orchestras emphasized the lowest tessitura; Charles Burney criticized the Italians for having more double basses than celli and for playing the instrument "... so coarsely that it produced a sound no more musical than the stroke of a hammer."
ref: 1988, Elliott W. Galkin, A history of orchestral conducting: in theory and practice, page 38:
glosses: plural of cello
po-po
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpoʊˈpoʊ/
Forms: form: po-pos
Etymology: From Chinese; see po po.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of po po (“mother-in-law; grandmother”).
nmu
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: A: hey
B: 'sup?
A: nmu
glosses: Initialism of not (or nothing) much, you?.
Related terms: 'sup
nm
hbu
hbu
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: HBU
Senses: examples: text: what's up? — i'm about to go to bed, hbu?
glosses: Initialism of how 'bout you?.
Related terms: nmu
otoko no ko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: otoko no kos
form: otoko no ko
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of otokonoko.
deffer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛfə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: comparative form of def: more def
deff
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more deff
form: most deff
Senses: glosses: definitely
has it going on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of have it going on
having it going on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of have it going on
had it going on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of have it going on
giant roundworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giant roundworms
Senses: glosses: A species of roundworm, Ascaris lumbricoides, the largest and most common parasitic worm in humans, causing ascariasis.
caniphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The dog scare seems to occupy a large share of public attention just at present, and many are suffering from a very mild form of—shall it be styled "lyssaphobia"? or perhaps the mongrel expression "caniphobia" would fit better.
ref: 1887, The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, page 163:
text: "I can invent a word for your mental condition," said Haraka. "You're suffering from caniphobia."
ref: 1957, Eric Frank Russell, “Into Your Tent I'll Creep”, in Analog Science Fact, Science Fiction, volume 60, page 63:
glosses: An irrational fear or hatred of dogs or other canines; cynophobia.
lap belt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lap belts
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A seat belt that passes over the hips and does not itself provide restraint to the upper body (although it may be part of a larger system another component of which does provide upper-body restraint).
unsemantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsemantic
form: most unsemantic
Etymology: From un- + semantic.
Senses: examples: text: For one, even as her peers want to turn the unsemantic event of death into a meaningful story, she draws them into death.
ref: 1992, Elisabeth Bronfen, Over her dead body: death, femininity and the aesthetic, page 427:
glosses: Not semantic.
incurrable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From incur + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be incurred.
cutworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cutwork
adpositionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From adpositional + -ly.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In an adpositional manner.
avifaunae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of avifauna
avifaunal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From avifauna + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to avifauna.
skimboarder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skimboarders
Etymology: From skimboard + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who takes part in the sport of skimboarding.
skimboarders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skimboarder
wolfskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wolfskins
Etymology: From wolf + skin.
Senses: glosses: The skin of a wolf.
wolfskins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wolfskin
horseskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horseskins
Etymology: From horse + skin.
Senses: examples: text: The dried horseskin was made of brown Canton flannel and was held in place by being thrown over a horizontal stick.
ref: 1930, John Merrill, Martha Fleming, Play-making and plays: the dramatic impulse and its educative use in the elementary and secondary school, MacMillan, page 98:
text: But we cannot wear these horseskin boots in the rain and snow. We need regular leather top-boots. Moreover, our clothing is very much the worse for wear. We must provide ourselves with new outfits.
ref: 1945, Petr K. Ignatov, Partisans of the Kuban, Hutchinson & Co., page 148:
text: They made these fancy coverings from buckskins, horseskins, and cornhusks.
ref: 2000, Allison Lassieur, The Nez Perce Tribe, page 13:
glosses: The skin of a horse, or leather made therefrom.
horseskins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horseskin
nonconfused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + confused.
Senses: examples: text: Only 9% of the confused clients went home, whereas 60% of the nonconfused clients went home.
ref: 1997, Joyce M. Black, Esther Matassarin-Jacobs, Joan Luckmann, Medical-surgical nursing: clinical management for continuity of care, Volume 1, page 764:
glosses: Not confused.
nonincurred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + incurred.
Senses: glosses: Not having been incurred.
foot-in-mouth disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʊɾ.ɪnˌmaʊθ dəzˈiz/
ipa: /- dɪzˈiz/
ipa: [ˈɸʊɾ-]
Etymology: Humorous conflation of foot-and-mouth disease and put one's foot in one's mouth.
Senses: examples: text: They attempt to straddle all issues and, consequently, when a slip occurs, the result is foot-in-mouth disease.
ref: 2000, Marvin Rubinstein, Net-wit.com:
text: Maybe you suffer from foot-in-mouth disease, too, at least occasionally. If so, then I expect you've also learned about the remedy.
ref: 2004, Craig Jutila, 2-Minute Encouragers for Teachers, page 48:
glosses: A tendency to make remarks that are embarrassingly wrong or inappropriate.
resyllabification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹiːsɪˌlæbɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: resyllabifications
Etymology: From re- + syllabification.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: The process or result of resyllabifying.
resyllabifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resyllabification
resyllabify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resyllabifies
form: resyllabifying
form: resyllabified
form: resyllabified
Etymology: From re- + syllabify.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To divide into syllables in a new, different way.
Related terms: resyllabification
resyllabifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resyllabify
resyllabifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resyllabify
resyllabified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resyllabify
clubless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From club + -less.
Senses: examples: text: In no instance is the mere membership of a club a guarantee that a man will obtain social advantages from which his clubless friends are exempt.
ref: 1871, Tinsley's magazine, Volume 8, page 572:
text: Clubless golf is played without clubs.
ref: 2007, Ben Trovato, The Ben Trovato (mis)Guide to Golf, page 222:
glosses: Without a club (in various senses).
magico-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmadʒɪkəʊ/
Etymology: Combining form of Latin magicus (“magic”).
Senses: examples: text: panaceas, martial amulets, unguentum armarium, balsams, strange extracts, elixirs, and such-like magico-magnetical cures.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 4:
glosses: magic, magical.
collegiates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collegiate
versicolour
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin versicolor.
Senses: examples: text: neat gardens, full of exotic, versicolour, diversely varied, sweet-smelling flowers, and plants in all kinds […].
ref: , II.2.4
glosses: Having changing or varied colours.
angeling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of angel
angeled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of angel
apogées
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apogée
hoff
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: "'W'y, chuck 'er, ye blighter!' says I. "'But 'ow farst must Hi count four?' he asks agin, lookin' worrit; 's'pose she goes hoff in me 'and?' he says.
ref: 1918, Credo Harris, Where the Souls of Men are Calling:
text: "I believe in fair play, but I darsn't keep my eyes hoff of 'em sleepy-lookin' tops, when their flippers is anywheres near their knives, you know."
ref: 1880, John Habberton, Romance of California Life:
text: "'An hungrateful fool, marry an' turn me hoff; ugh, ugh! fix 'im, hany 'ow.'
ref: 1877, Charles W. Hall, Adrift in the Ice-Fields:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of off.
bose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəʊs/
ipa: /boʊs/
rhymes: -əʊs
Forms: form: boses
form: bosing
form: bosed
form: bosed
Senses: examples: text: This criticism applies also to bosing in which the ground is thumped with a heavy rammer; over filled-in pits, tombs, […] Bosing is successful where the top-soil is thin and firm, with an unstratified rock such as chalk beneath.
ref: 1974, Martin Jim Aitken, Physics and archaeology:
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: To strike the ground with an object in order to determine, from the resulting sounds, what lies underground.
Related terms: boser
in route
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈɹut/
/ɪnˈɹaʊt/
/n̩ˈɹut/
Etymology: Calque of French en route.
Senses: examples: text: As soon as the Varda transmission stopped, I grabbed the mic. "602- Okanogan... I'm in route to the Varda location from my office. Be advised Varda number four is City Center Motors. Request back up."
ref: 2001, Michael James Jaquish, Tales of a Country Cop in Africa, page 64:
text: "In fact, my dear, you didn't know, until now, you were on this weird gigantic space ship, with so many others in route to the same place on the same mission," he laughed.
ref: 2002, Luwillis Gibson, The Witch's Brew, page 268:
text: The southern route passed south, down the Wasatch Front, to Cedar City, Utah, where it joined the Old Spanish Trail and passed through Mountain Meadows in route to Los Angeles.
ref: 2010, Hyrum M. Smith, Eli Hawkins: Last Survivor of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, page 238:
glosses: Alternative form of en route.
termless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtɝmlɪs/
Forms: form: more termless
form: most termless
Etymology: From term + -less.
Senses: examples: text: termless joys
ref: 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
text: In a few hours I shall be one of a nameless horde plodding the snowy solitudes of Russia, under the lash, and bound for that land of mystery and misery and termless oblivion, Siberia!
ref: 1900, Mark Twain, The man that corrupted Hadleyburg, and other essays and stories, page 187:
glosses: Not terminating; having no end, limit, or boundary
examples: text: termless skin
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “A Louers Complaint”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
glosses: inexpressible; indescribable
Synonyms: sense: not terminating
word: unending
word: endless
word: continuous
sense: inexpressible
word: indicible
word: ineffable
word: indescribable
hanging participles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hanging participle
grille guard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grille guards
form: grill guard
Senses: glosses: A metal frame attached to the bumper of a vehicle in order to protect the grille.
lap belts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lap belt
Afghanistanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Afghanistanisms
Etymology: From Afghanistan + -ism. The first recorded use is by Jenkin Lloyd Jones, editor of the Tulsa Tribune, in 1948; see quotation below.
Senses: examples: text: I don't wish to belabor this subject of Afghanistanism, this business of taking forthright stands on elections in Costa Rica, while the uncollected local garbage reeks beneath the editor's window.
ref: 1948, Jenkin Lloyd Jones, “Editorial Page Panel”, in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, American Society of Newspaper Editors, page 73:
glosses: The practice of concentrating on problems in distant parts of the world while ignoring controversial local issues.
wikipedia: Tulsa Tribune
Timiskaming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Temiskaming
Etymology: From the Temiscaming people's spoken language. Alternate spellings from the 1700s: Temiscaming, Timiscaming, Temiscamin, Temescaming.
Senses: examples: text: The Temiscaming live between Lake Temiscaming and Lake Abitibi in Northeastern Ontario.
glosses: A tribe of North American Indians.
Timiskaming
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Temiskaming
Etymology: From the Temiscaming people's spoken language. Alternate spellings from the 1700s: Temiscaming, Timiscaming, Temiscamin, Temescaming.
Senses: glosses: The lake near which the Timiskaming First Nation lives.
synonyms: Timiskaming District
glosses: A district of Ontario, Canada.
Kentucky windage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kentucky windages
Etymology: Derived from marksmen using the Kentucky rifle.
Senses: synonyms: Tennessee windage
hypernyms: windage#Noun
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adjustment#Noun
correction#Noun
coordinate_terms: Arkansas elevation
glosses: An adjustment made by a shooter to correct for wind (or motion of the target) by aiming at a point horizontal to the target's position in the sight rather than by adjusting the sight to compensate.
Related terms: Kentucky rifle
Arkansas elevation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Arkansas elevations
Senses: hypernyms: elevation#Noun
<
adjustment#Noun
correction#Noun
coordinate_terms: Kentucky windage
Tennessee windage
glosses: A shooter's adjustment by aiming higher than the target's position in the sight to allow for the bullet's drop during travel rather than adjusting the sight.
Related terms: Arkansas toothpick
Kentucky rifle
Pennsylvania rifle
Tennessee rifle
rugula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rugulas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rugelach.
glosses: arugula
benets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of benet
açaí
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: açaís
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of acai.
memoried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛməɹiːd/
ipa: /ˈmɛməɹɪd/
Forms: form: more memoried
form: most memoried
Etymology: From memory + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Recently, such price-reduction strategies have been replaced by a stable pricing system for our much more powerful, large-memoried machines of today.
ref: 1992, The Journal of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan, page 105:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having a memory (of a given kind).
examples: text: And yet I never look on midnight sky, / But I behold thine eyes' well memoried light [...].
ref: 1818, John Keats, To—:
glosses: Memorized, committed to memory.
Derived terms: unmemoried
spiritings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spiriting
theocratical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θiːəʊˈkɹætɪkəl/
ipa: /ˌθi.əˈkɹæ.tɪ.kəl/
rhymes: -ætɪkəl
Forms: form: theocraticals
Etymology: From theocratic + -al.
Senses: glosses: A member or supporter of a theocracy; a theocrat.
theocratical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /θiːəʊˈkɹætɪkəl/
ipa: /ˌθi.əˈkɹæ.tɪ.kəl/
rhymes: -ætɪkəl
Forms: form: more theocratical
form: most theocratical
Etymology: From theocratic + -al.
Senses: glosses: Theocratic.
Derived terms: theocratically
theocraticals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of theocratical
disharmonize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈhɑɹ.mənˌaɪz/
ipa: /dɪsˈhɑː.mən.aɪz/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)mənaɪz
Forms: form: disharmonizes
form: disharmonizing
form: disharmonized
form: disharmonized
Etymology: * dis- + harmonize.
Senses: glosses: To cause disorder.
glosses: To make the cause of disorder.
Related terms: disharmony
disharmonization
disharmonious
disharmoniously
osteonectin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteonectins
Etymology: From osteo- (“bone”) + nectin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein that binds to hydroxyapatite to facilitate the mineralisation of collagen in bones.
sequestrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsiːkwəstɹeɪtə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: sequestrators
Etymology: From sequester + -ator.
Senses: examples: text: […] I am fallen into the hands of Publicans and Sequeſtrators, and they have taken all from me, vvhat novv? let me look about me. They have left me the Sun and the Moon, Fire and vvater, a loving vvife, and many friends to pity me, and ſome to relieve me, […]
ref: 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, “Of Christian Sobriety”, in The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC, section VI (Of Contentedness in All Estates and Accidents), page 140:
glosses: One who sequesters.
Synonyms: segregationist
Related terms: word: sequestrable
word: sequestered
word: sequestrate
word: sequestration
word: sequester
sequestrators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sequestrator
rodential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rodential
form: most rodential
Etymology: From rodent + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: The physical anatomy of different rodents shows variation along a shared rodential pattern[…]
ref: 1990 May, Kent C. Berridge, “Comparative Fine Structure of Action: Rules of Form and Sequence in the Grooming Patterns of Six Rodent Species”, in Behavior, volume 113, number 1/2:
text: Where do differences in rodential mothering style come from?
ref: 2023, Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:
synonyms: rodentian
hyponyms: murine
glosses: Characteristic of a rodent.
santons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of santon
untumultuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌntəˈmʌltjuːəs/
Forms: form: more untumultuous
form: most untumultuous
Etymology: From un- + tumultuous.
Senses: examples: text: the wide sea did weave / An untumultuous fringe of silver foam / Along the flat brown sand.
ref: 1818, John Keats, To J. H. Reynolds, Esq.:
synonyms: word: imperturbable
word: serene
word: calm
word: collected
word: composed
word: cool-headed
word: equable
word: equanimous
word: equanimitable
word: even-keeled
word: even-minded
word: even-tempered
word: imperturbable
word: laid-back
word: level-headed
word: mellow
word: pacate
word: pacific
word: peaceable
word: peaceful
word: phlegmatic
word: placid
word: quiescent
word: quiet
word: relaxed
word: roolie
word: sedate
word: serene
word: still
word: tranquil
word: unexcited
word: unfazed
word: unflappable
word: unflustered
word: unperturbable
word: unruffable
word: unruffled
word: untumultuous
glosses: Not tumultuous; calm, placid.
AB-yogurt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AB-yogurts
Senses: glosses: Yogurt that contains Lactobacillus acidophilus and bifidobacterium.
unsequestered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnsəˈkwɛstɚd/
Forms: form: more unsequestered
form: most unsequestered
Etymology: From un- + sequestered.
Senses: glosses: That has not been separated.
Related terms: sequester
Adioukrou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Adjukru
form: Adyoukrou
form: Adyukru
form: Ajukru
Senses: glosses: A language spoken in the south of the Ivory Coast, chiefly in the subprefecture of Dabou.
Related terms: adj ⁠
cant hook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cant hooks
Senses: synonyms: cant-dog
glosses: A traditional logging tool consisting of a wooden lever handle with a movable metal hook at one end, used for handling and moving logs.
Related terms: peavy
cant hooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cant hook
broadaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of broadaxe
Penney's
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: JCPenney, an American department store.
bandon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English baundon, from Old French bandon. See abandon for more.
Senses: glosses: Disposal; control; licence.