cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Hamburg steak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hamburg steaks
form: hamburg steak
form: hamburg-steak
Senses: examples: text: There is, for example, the hamburg-steak, of which the alliaceousness can seduce all but saints and the worst of dyspeptics.
ref: 1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 175:
synonyms: hamburger steak
burger steak
glosses: Hamburger patty.
ice pops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ice pop
Gedaged
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An Austronesian language spoken around Astrolabe Bay in Papua New Guinea.
orchises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orchis
micropropagations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micropropagation
dimorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dimorph
bumbo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʌmbəʊ
Forms: form: bombo
form: bumboo
Etymology: Perhaps from Italian (baby-talk) bombo (“drink”), of imitative origin.
Senses: glosses: A drink made from rum, water, sugar, and nutmeg.
bumboo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bumbo.
pestilently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pestilently
form: most pestilently
Etymology: From pestilent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a pestilent manner.
pestilentially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pestilentially
form: most pestilentially
Etymology: From pestilential + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: For a conclusion, I shal only point you to some few more spots which appeare here and there in the body of the Gangrene, which plainly shew the very vitals & inward parts of it to be pestilentially infected;
ref: 1646, John Goodwin, Cretensis: or A Briefe Answer to an Ulcerous Treatise, London: Henry Overton, page 47:
text: […] folly and prejudice have spread themselves so pestilentially among all ranks and denominations; that any person, who now would endeavour to benefit his country from a praiseworthy principle of integrity […] the patriot would be hooted at for a madman,
ref: 1763, George Alexander Stevens, “Interlude between the Acts”, in The Dramatic History of Master Edward, London: T. Waller, page 107:
text: 1917, M. K. Gandhi, “Third Class in Indian Railways,” communication to the press on 25 September, 1917, Bhadarkali-Lahore: Gandhi Publications League, 1917, p. 5,
There was a pipe in it [the water closet] but no water, and I say without fear of challenge that it was pestilentially dirty.
glosses: In a pestilential manner; with pestilence.
nondominative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + dominative.
Senses: glosses: Not dominative.
dominative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dominative
form: most dominative
Etymology: From dominate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: A sustained dominative pattern was consistently disliked by pupils, reduced their ability to recall, later on, the material studied, and produced disruptive anxiety as indicated by galvanic skin response and changes in the heartbeat rates.
ref: 1969, Lois N. Nelson, The nature of teaching: a collection of readings:
glosses: Exhibiting or pertaining to domination.
Derived terms: nondominative
nonasbestos
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + asbestos.
Senses: glosses: Not asbestos.
metaracism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + racism.
Senses: glosses: A form of racism that asserts that the perceived differences between races are not primarily biological but cultural.
Derived terms: metaracist
metaregressions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metaregression
fluelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fluelike
form: most fluelike
Etymology: From flue + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a flue.
bushers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of busher
relucts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reluct
relucting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reluct
relucted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reluct
vomitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vomition
spittest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: spit + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of spit
emboguing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of embogue
embogued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of embogue
embogues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of embogue
spittings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spitting
vomitings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vomiting
hamburg steak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hamburg steaks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hamburg steak.
asbestoslike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more asbestoslike
form: most asbestoslike
Etymology: From asbestos + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The lesions of psoriasis are usually characteristic, consisting of sharply outlined dull red patches of varying size, with thickening of the skin, and a heavy rough scale which is silvery or asbestoslike in colour.
ref: 1963, Harry S Ashmore, Encyclopædia Britannica: a new survey of universal knowledge: Volume 18:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of asbestos.
exemplifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exemplifiers
Etymology: From exemplify + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, exemplifies.
exemplifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exemplifier
clitoridectomize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clitoridectomizes
form: clitoridectomizing
form: clitoridectomized
form: clitoridectomized
Etymology: From clitoridectomy + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To perform a surgical clitoridectomy upon; to remove the clitoris of.
clitoridectomizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clitoridectomize
clitoridectomized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of clitoridectomize
minework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mine + work.
Senses: glosses: The work carried out in a mine.
Synonyms: mineworking
mining
photoguide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photoguides
Etymology: From photo- + guide.
Senses: glosses: A book serving as a guide to a topic and illustrated with photographs.
photoguides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photoguide
Baby Bell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Baby Bells
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Any of the Regional Bell Operating Companies resulting from the division of AT&T Corporation into a number of smaller companies in the 1980s as part of an antitrust agreement.
Related terms: Baby Blue
Babyflot
Ma Bell
RBOC
heal up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: heals up
form: healing up
form: healed up
form: healed up
Senses: examples: text: That wound should heal up in a day or two.
glosses: To heal.
raw_tags: of an injury
examples: text: Find a safe place where you can heal up before returning to the scene of combat.
topics: video-games
glosses: To heal one's character.
ICOM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of International Council of Museums.
predominants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of predominant
angledozer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæŋɡəlˌdoʊzɚ/
ipa: /ˈæŋɡəlˌdəʊzə/
Forms: form: angledozers
Etymology: Blend of angle + bulldozer
Senses: glosses: A kind of bulldozer whose blade can be tilted at an angle
angledozers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angledozer
unicorn root
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unicorn roots
Senses: glosses: A flowering plant of the genus Aletris.
Synonyms: colicroot
hand-hold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hand-holds
form: hand-holding
form: hand-held
form: hand-held
form: handhold
Senses: examples: text: You can hand-hold many professional cameras, but using a tripod may be a better idea.
glosses: To hold in the hand.
examples: text: I'm sick of having to hand-hold every new person we hire. Why can't we train them first?
synonyms: babysit
glosses: To watch or attend unnecessarily closely (as if holding a child's hand to lead it along).
hand-hold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand-holds
form: handhold
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of handhold.
holding back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hold back
dictatress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dictatresses
Etymology: From dictator + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: […] two things he promised her, and performed for her, which were tokens of a mercilesse heart, the balefull death of his son, and the chaunge of the state, in such sort that Aurelia Orestilla should be the Dictatresse of Rome.
ref: 1601, William Fulbecke, An Historicall Collection of the Continuall Factions, Tumults, and Massacres of the Romans and Italians, London: William Ponsonby, Book 1, Page 86:
text: What Athens was in science, Rome in power, / What Tyre appeared in her meridian hour, / ’Tis thine at once, fair Albion, to have been, / Earth’s chief dictatress, ocean’s mighty queen:
ref: 1809, Lord Byron, English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers, London: James Cawthorn, page 54:
text: 1821, John Quincy Adams, address delivered on 4 July, 1821, cited in Antony Jay (ed.), The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. 4,
America […] well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own […] she would involve herself beyond the power of extraction, in all the wars of interest and intrigue […] which assume the colours and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force […] She might become dictatress of the world.
text: 1980, William L. Andrews, The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt, cited in Thomas Votteler (ed.), Short Story Criticism, Farmington Hills, MI: Cengage Gale, Volume 7, 1991, p. 29,
Wellington’s first wife does not belong among the overstuffed dictatresses of the white folks’ kitchen.
text: “How about going for the Oscars? With a comedy. Or a drama. Or a tragicomedy. Let us make a new hybrid, for example, The Great African Dictatress.”
ref: 2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, chapter 12, in This Mournable Body, Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press:
glosses: A female dictator; a dictatorial state personified as female.
Synonyms: dictatrix
dictatresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dictatress
Johnsonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɒnˈsəʊnɪ.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Johnsonian
form: most Johnsonian
Etymology: From Johnson + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: With my idea of the rector derived from a picture in the dining-parlour, stiff and stately […]—it was strange to read these letters. They were full of eager, passionate ardour; short homely sentences, right fresh from the heart (very different from the grand Latinised, Johnsonian style of the printed sermon preached before some judge at assize time).
ref: 1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 5, in Cranford:
text: Literary Bengali of prose, during the greater part of the 19th century, was thus a doubly artificial language ; and, with its forms belonging to Middle Bengali, and its vocabulary highly Sanskritised, it could only be compared to a ‘ Modern English ’ with a Chaucerian grammar and a super-Johnsonian vocabulary, if such a thing could be conceived.
ref: 1926, Suniti Kumar Chatterji, The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language, page 134:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the English writer and lexicographer Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), or characteristic of his style.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Of or pertaining to Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973), American politician and president of the United States from 1963 to 1969.
examples: text: To stop no-deal, MPs must adopt some Johnsonian ruthlessness and be ready to bring down the prime minister and put someone else, probably Jeremy Corbyn, in his place.
ref: 2019 August 29, “The Guardian view on Johnson v parliament: an unelective dictatorship”, in The Guardian:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Of or pertaining to Boris Johnson (born 1964), English politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022.
Synonyms: sense: of or pertaining to Boris Johnson
word: Borisian
Johnsonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɒnˈsəʊnɪ.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Johnsonians
Etymology: From Johnson + -ian.
Senses: glosses: An enthusiast of the works of Samuel Johnson.
glosses: A supporter of Boris Johnson.
gnotobiotically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From gnotobiotic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of, or by means of, gnotobiotics.
holds back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hold back
held back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hold back
banana kick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banana kicks
Etymology: From the curved shape of the fruit.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A kick that causes a spin to make the ball bend away from the player's body.
banana kicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banana kick
goldband lily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goldband lilies
Senses: glosses: Lilium auratum, a lily native to Japan, white with gold radial markings.
Malaitan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Malaitan
form: most Malaitan
Etymology: From Malaita + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Malaita.
Malaitan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Malaitans
Etymology: From Malaita + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Malaita.
Malaitan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Malaita + -an.
Senses: glosses: Any of a family of related languages spoken on Malaita.
Malaitans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Malaitan
Malaita
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The largest island of the Malaita Province in the Solomon Islands.
Related terms: Malaitan
homefield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homefields
form: home field
form: home-field
Etymology: From home + field.
Senses: examples: text: The high road went winding about through the Framley paddocks, shrubberies, and wood-skirted home fields, for a mile and a half[.]
ref: 1861, Anthony Trollope, chapter 2, in Framley Parsonage, London: Smith, Elder & Co.:
glosses: A field adjacent to its owner's home.
Related terms: home field advantage
fougerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fougèrite
Etymology: From Fougères + -ite, after a commune in France where it was found.
Senses: examples: text: Typical fougèrite crystals are small enough to become embedded in protocell membranes, which turns these crystals into natural channels, transporting and concentrating a chemical called pyrophosphate within these membranes.
ref: 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 233:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A trigonal clay mineral that is chemically and structurally related to green rust.
nonhydric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + hydric.
Senses: glosses: Not hydric.
homefields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homefield
homecourts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homecourt
promlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more promlike
form: most promlike
Etymology: From prom + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Fathers escort their daughters to these promlike balls, where at some point — between the dancing, food, and entertainment (largely involving little girls doing ballet around big wooden crosses) — the girls recite a pledge vowing to be chaste until marriage...
ref: 2009, Jessica Valenti, The purity myth, page 65:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a prom.
narcocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narcocracies
Etymology: From narco- + -cracy.
Senses: glosses: A state that thrives on or tolerates the export of illegal drugs.
Related terms: narcocratic
narcocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of narcocracy
nongoodness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + goodness.
Senses: examples: text: An immediate question can be asked: from the point of view of a binary nature, what is the ratio of goodness to nongoodness in our shared nature?
ref: 2002, Alan Kam-leung Chan, Mencius: contexts and interpretations, page 27:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The quality of not being good.
nonarbitrariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + arbitrariness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of not being arbitrary.
Laing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /leɪŋ/
ipa: /læŋ/
ipa: /ˈlaʔ.iŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: Laings
Etymology: The Philippine pronunciation is influenced by Tagalog laing.
Senses: glosses: A Scottish surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States.
Derived terms: Laingian
so-soish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From so-so + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: […] being one of very great merit and beauty, which, to say the truth, is more than we dare affirm of any of those we here notice, for they strike us as being of a very so-soish character.
ref: 1840, William Laxton, The Civil engineer and architect's journal: Volume 3, page 188:
glosses: Thoroughly unimpressive; mediocre.
orfe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːf/
rhymes: -ɔːf
Forms: form: orfes
Etymology: 19th century. Borrowed from German orfe, orf, possibly from French orphe or Old High German orvo, from Latin orphus (“gilt-head bream”), from Ancient Greek ὀρφώς (orphṓs, “sea perch”).
May be related to Old English eorp, earp (“dark, dusky”), Old High German erpf (“brown”), Old Norse jarpr (“brown”), and Ancient Greek ὀρφνός (orphnós, “dark”).
Senses: glosses: A fish, the ide, Leuciscus idus.
orfes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orfe
rusma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A powerful depilatory fluid made from quicklime and sulphite of arsenic boiled in an alkaline solution.
eyebar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eyebars
Etymology: From eye + bar.
Senses: topics: business
construction
engineering
manufacturing
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A straight bar, usually of metal, with a hole or "eye" at each end to allow it to be fixed to other components.
eyebars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eyebar
Reichenbachian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Reichenbachian
form: most Reichenbachian
Etymology: From Reichenbach + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Carl Reichenbach (1788-1869), German chemist and philosopher who posited the existence of an odic force.
superleague
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superleagues
Etymology: From super- + league.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A major professional sporting league, often with a strong commercial bias.
Synonyms: major league
elite league
superleagues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superleague
cashspiel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cashspiels
Etymology: From cash + spiel.
Senses: examples: text: “If you look back 20 years ago, we were all playing in the Canadians and high-level cashspiels,” Shantz, 51, said Friday.
ref: 2012 March 16, Monte Stewart, “Shantz takes on foes from yesteryear in quest for elusive national crown”, in Global News:
coordinate_terms: carspiel
glosses: A competitive tournament played for money in the sport of curling.
cashspiels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cashspiel
Prem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Prem
Senses: examples: text: Palace are back in the Prem - but for how long?
ref: 1997, Peterjon Cresswell, Simon Evans, Dan Goldstein, European football: a fans' handbook:
text: Linked us, now she don't wanna link them man again / Your ex plays in the Prem but you never see him taking a pen
ref: 2016 February 14, Joseph Adenuga, Darren Dixon, Tariq Devega, “Ladies Hit Squad” (track 6), in Konnichiwa, performed by Skepta ft. D Double E and ASAP Nast, Boy Better Know:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The Premier League.
Wittgensteinians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wittgensteinian
nonsignificance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + significance.
Senses: glosses: Absence of significance or meaning.
backcard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backcards
Etymology: From back + card.
Senses: examples: text: Some collectors are interested in the backcards as well as the toys themselves.
glosses: The piece of card used as backing for the clear plastic bubble that contains a packaged toy.
backcards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backcard
fiercenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fierceness
Goebbelsian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Goebbelsian
form: most Goebbelsian
Etymology: From Goebbels + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) or his way of doing propaganda, German politician associated with Nazi atrocities under Adolf Hitler.
playsong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playsongs
Etymology: From play + song.
Senses: glosses: A children's song involving play activities such as clapping or dancing.
playsongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of playsong
urineless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From urine + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without urine.
nonurine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + urine.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to urine.
fanziner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fanziners
Etymology: From fanzine + -er.
Senses: examples: text: This is illustrated by the authorial activities of Star Trek fanziners, who construct communities and articulate new gender identities by literally re-writing their favorite television series characters.
ref: 1994, Martha Woodmansee, Peter Jaszi, The construction of authorship, page 119:
glosses: One who publishes or contributes to a fanzine.
fanziners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fanziner
ziner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ziners
Etymology: From zine + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Most ziners start out with First Class, if only because they don't know about the alternatives. The second option is Second Class mail.
ref: 1992, Mike Gunderloy, Cari Goldberg Janice, The world of zines: a guide to the independent magazine revolution:
glosses: One who publishes or contributes to a zine.
Synonyms: word: zinester
ziners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ziner
spirit duplicator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spirit duplicators
Senses: examples: text: The advantage of using old-fashioned spirit duplicators and mimeograph machines is in the cost per page, which is typically less than a penny, as against 2 or 3 cents per copy from a laser printer.
ref: 1992 August 2, Peter H. Lewis, “Low-Tech Renewal”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: media
printing
publishing
synonyms: word: ditto machine
glosses: An early document copier using alcohol-based solvents.
Related terms: hectograph
spirit master
fizzless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fizz + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without fizz.
bread maker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bread makers
form: breadmaker
form: bread-maker
Senses: synonyms: bread machine
hypernyms: machine
glosses: A household appliance which makes dough from raw ingredients and in most cases can also bake it into bread.
examples: text: He was a bread maker and a fishmonger.
ref: 2015, John J. Thompson, Jesus, Bread, and Chocolate: Crafting a Handmade Faith in a Mass-Market World, Zondervan, →ISBN:
text: He was being trained to make wedding cakes and sugar sculptures although, at heart, he was a bread maker.
ref: 2015 June 16, “Bistro Le Relais dishes feature layers of flavor”, in Courier Journal:
text: Not to be left out, bread maker extraordinaire Eric Kayser of Maison Kayser will provide extraordinary breads to complement each cheese.
ref: 2017 February 2, Monte Mathews, “Eat Your Way Through European Cheeses At Paris' Second Cheese Day”, in The Daily Meal, archived from the original on 30 Sep 2022:
text: But now a furious row has risen, as bread makers stand accused of changing the recipe rulebook into a “cheats’ charter”.
ref: 2023 February 4, Ewan Somerville, Will Bolton, “Bakers in furious row over proper way to make a sourdough”, in The Daily Telegraph, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2023:
hypernyms: baker#Noun
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person#Noun
glosses: One who makes bread; a baker of bread, either non-vocationally or vocationally.
bread machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bread machines
Senses: synonyms: bread maker
hypernyms: machine
glosses: A household appliance which makes dough from raw ingredients, for use in making bread, pizza, and other baked goods; such a machine usually also can bake the dough into bread.
smeggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more smeggy
form: most smeggy
Etymology: From smeg + -y.
Senses: examples: text: We'd been cooped up in a smeggy coach all the way from Leeds. No one told me how far it was to the south coast. And England's supposed to be small. It took us ages. Any road, we finally arrived, got parked and made for the chip shop.
ref: 2005, David Gill, Doolally, page 19:
glosses: Bad, foul, inferior.
soy milk maker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soy milk makers
Etymology: Compound of soy milk + maker.
Senses: glosses: A kitchen appliance that cooks soy milk from raw soy beans.
Bodo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bodos
form: Bodo
Senses: glosses: One of an Indian minority ethnic group, early settlers of Assam.
Bodo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Tibeto-Burman language of the Bodo.
Bodo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A possibly extinct Bantu/Lebonya language of the Central African Republic.
Bodo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bodos
Etymology: * As a Hungarian suranme, Bodó, from the old name Bod or from a Slavic name meaning "to inspire" (see Buda).
* As a Polish and Slovak surname Boďo, from the old Slavic name Ostrobod, from Proto-Slavic *ostrъ (“sharp”) + *bosti (“to sting, stab”).
* As a German surname, from the noun Bodo (“messenger”). This is also found in parts of France and Italy.
* As a French surname, variant of Bodeau (from Old French boel (“gut, intestine”), from Late Latin botellus) and Thibodeau.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hungarian.
Bodos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bodo
radfems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radfem
brekker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brekkers
form: brekkers
Etymology: From breakfast + -er.
Senses: examples: text: We'll go up there directly after brekker, and have another wish.
ref: 1902, Edith Nesbit, Five Children and It:
synonyms: brekkie
glosses: Breakfast.
brekkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: And even if Humpty shell fall frumpty times as awkward again in the beardsboosoloom of all our grand remonstrancers there’ll be iggs for the brekkers come to mournhim, sunny side up with care.
ref: 1939, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake:
glosses: Alternative form of brekker.
rice cooker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rice cookers
Senses: synonyms: rice steamer
glosses: A kitchen appliance which is designed to cook rice, through either boiling or steaming it. It may also be used as a steam cooker for other foods.
Coordinate terms: pressure cooker
slow cooker
steamer
overheld
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overhold
overholding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overhold
overadvertise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overadvertises
form: overadvertising
form: overadvertised
form: overadvertised
Etymology: From over- + advertise.
Senses: glosses: To advertise excessively.
Synonyms: overhype
Related terms: overadvertisement
overholds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overhold
overholds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overhold
overadvertises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overadvertise
overadvertising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overadvertise
overadvertised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overadvertise
nookery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nookeries
Etymology: From nook + -ery.
Senses: glosses: a secure and cozy spot
nookeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nookery
Buffy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌfi/
rhymes: -ʌfi
Etymology: A pet form of Elizabeth (cf. Bethy), based on a child's unsuccessful attempts to pronounce the name. Popularized by the Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchise.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.
wikipedia: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Derived terms: Buffyverse
Buffyholic
eavesdroppingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From eavesdropping + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "When you get us a car," she said, at the same time sticking a dollar and change into the beggar's cup that was our only passage into the eavesdroppingly perfect world of the cabbie.
ref: 1980, Jasper Evian, Father daughter:
glosses: So as to eavesdrop.
dollarless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dollar + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking money; poor.
Baby Bells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Baby Bell
sociogeographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From sociogeographical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In sociogeographical terms or context.
Cassini oval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cassini ovals
Etymology: Named after the astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini, who studied them in 1680.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
synonyms: Cassini ellipse
cassinoid
oval of Cassini
glosses: A plane curve defined as the set (or locus) of points in the plane such that the product of the distances to two fixed points is constant (related to an ellipse, for which the sum of the distances is constant).
wikipedia: Giovanni Domenico Cassini
Cassini ovals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cassini oval
videocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more videocentric
form: most videocentric
Etymology: From video- + -centric.
Senses: examples: text: Other aspects of this film are interesting, however, for example, the videocentric world view of Ricky, the neighbor boy with a terrorizing military father. Using a video camera, Ricky films everything he sees...
ref: 2003, Patricia Pisters, The matrix of visual culture: working with Deleuze in film theory, page 1:
glosses: Based on the medium of video.
Deleuzian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Deleuzian
form: most Deleuzian
form: Deleuzean
Etymology: From Deleuze + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: I believe that these works will continue to revolve about us in enigmatic resonance with those of Klossowski, another major and excessive sign, and perhaps one day, this century will be known as Deleuzian.
ref: 1980, Michael Foucault, Language, counter-memory, practice: selected essays and interviews, Cornell University Press, page 165:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995), French philosopher.
Related terms: Deleuzoguattarian
Deleuzean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Deleuzean
form: most Deleuzean
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Deleuzian.
ferric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hypothetical acid, with chemical formula H₂FeO₄, known only as its salts.
Related terms: ferrate
counterinformation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From counter- + information.
Senses: glosses: Information (especially in espionage or propaganda) disseminated as a response and opposition to other information.
Derived terms: counterinformational
counterpropaganda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From counter- + propaganda.
Senses: glosses: Propaganda disseminated as a response and opposition to other propaganda.
Hyponyms: counterinformation
cobwebbery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cobwebberies
Etymology: From cobweb + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: When, across the hundredfold poor scepticisms, trivialisms and constitutional cobwebberies of Dryasdust, you catch any glimpse of a William the Conqueror, a Tancred of Hauteville or suchlike, — do you not discern veritably some rude outline of a true God-made King […]?
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, (please specify |book=I or IV, or the page):
text: Much of the cobwebbery of superstition, ancient and modern, is readily brushed away by this confident and sure hand; but there are other facts, facts of Christian consciousness, which do not, from our standpoint, disappear so readily.
ref: 1878, The Literary World, volume 9, page 43:
glosses: A mass of cobwebs; anything that obscures the vision or is elaborate yet flimsy.
cobwebberies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cobwebbery
crossgender
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cross- + gender.
Senses: examples: text: The lack of a crossgender peer group is a gaping reality for most female-to-males.
ref: 1980, Louis Sullivan, Information for the Female-to-male:
synonyms: transgender
glosses: Across multiple genders; taking, or pertaining to, the traditional role of the opposite gender.
gender theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: gender studies
choppings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chopping
hypovolaemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + volaemic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hypovolemic.
cutdown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cutdowns
Etymology: Deverbal from cut down.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: An emergency medical procedure in which the vein is exposed and a cannula is inserted into it.
glosses: A customized scooter with parts of the bodywork removed or cut away.
cutdowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cutdown
antiinsect
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + insect.
Senses: glosses: Opposing or countering insects.
antimammalian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + mammalian.
Senses: glosses: Opposing or countering mammals.
antiavian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + avian.
Senses: glosses: Opposing or countering birds.
antidrought
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + drought.
Senses: glosses: Opposing or countering drought.
feminist studies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: women's studies
sheatfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheatfish
siluroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siluroids
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of silurid.
siluroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of siluroid
westings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of westing
southings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of southing
trackerball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trackerballs
Etymology: From tracker + ball.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of trackball.
trackerballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trackerball
rollerball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rollerballs
Etymology: From roller + ball.
Senses: examples: text: The office is full of rumpled clothes and bad haircuts; it’s an operation at which rollerball pens fall outside the budget limit (Bics for everyone!)
ref: 2009 August 30, Laurie Winer, “Keeping Score”, in New York Times:
glosses: A kind of ballpoint pen with a spherical nib that uses water-based liquid or gelled ink.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A trackball.
rollerballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rollerball
hydroblading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydro- + blading; coined by ice-skating coach Uschi Keszler.
Senses: glosses: A figure-skating move in which a skater glides on a deep edge with the body stretched in a very low position, almost horizontal to the ice.
wikipedia: Uschi Keszler
Tabby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Diminutive + -y.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Tabitha.
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Tabetha.
Derived terms: Tabby's Star
satisfiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of satisfier
satisfyingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From satisfying + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being satisfying.
fursuited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fursuit + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Dressed in a fursuit.
fursuited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From fursuit + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fursuit
snowdogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snowdog
snobbisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snobbism
snow cones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snow cone
freeze pop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freeze pops
Senses: glosses: A frozen snack consisting of flavored ice or juice in a tube.
Synonyms: word: cool pop
word: freezie
english: UK (especially Scotland)
translation: UK (especially Scotland)
word: ice pole
word: icy pole
word: ice pop
word: ice candy
word: Mr Freeze
word: tiptop
freeze pops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freeze pop
freezeframe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freezeframes
Senses: examples: text: Boyle revives some of the stylistic tics which found themselves being ripped off by geezer-gangster Britflicks back in the day, but now the freezeframes are briefer, sharper; the movie itself refers back to the original with variant flashback versions of famous scenes, but also Super 8-type images of the boys’ poignant boyhood in primary school.
ref: 2017 January 19, Peter Bradshaw, “T2 Trainspotting review – choose a sequel that doesn't disappoint”, in the Guardian:
glosses: Alternative spelling of freeze frame.
freezeframe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: freezeframes
form: freezeframing
form: freezeframed
form: freezeframed
Senses: examples: text: The show rewards culturally savvy fans with elite "in-jokes," not to mention textual messages that can only be seen by freezeframing individual scenes on a VCR.
ref: 2008, Brian L. Ott, The Small Screen, page 82:
glosses: Alternative spelling of freeze-frame.
freezeframes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freezeframe
freezeouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freezeout
pull the reins in on something
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls the reins in on something
form: pulling the reins in on something
form: pulled the reins in on something
form: pulled the reins in on something
Etymology: Metaphor, referring to the control of a horse.
Senses: examples: text: 1989 July 24, Compnies still backing the efforts of net managers, editorial in Network World, page 28,
It's anyone's guess whether Union Carbide Industrial Gases will ever pull the reins in on network projects in the face of slow business.
text: The tendency will be to take smaller steps when your legs cross and larger steps when your legs uncross. Pull the reins in on the uncross and extend assertively on the cross over.
ref: 2006, Chris Previc, The Student's Guide to Marching, page 115:
text: In theory, high unemployment should temper inflation, as consumers pull the reins in on spending and prices come down.
ref: 2009, Steve McKee, When Growth Stalls: How it Happens, Why You're Stuck, and What to Do about it, page 102:
glosses: To restrict, curtail, curb; to slow down or reduce.
Related terms: pull the reins in on someone
pull the reins in on someone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls the reins in on someone
form: pulling the reins in on someone
form: pulled the reins in on someone
form: pulled the reins in on someone
Senses: examples: text: 1966, Mike Nesmith, Different Drum, 1967, Linda Ronstadt (vocalist), The Stone Poneys, Different Drum (single),
Yes and I ain't sayin' you ain't pretty, / All I'm sayin's I'm not ready / For any person, place or thing / To try and pull the reins in on me.
text: Now, given Milligan's deliberately annoying escapades, Caul was perfectly willing and able to pull the reins in on Billy (and Milligan freely agrees with this), but he was never given the chance.
ref: 1996, Larry Michelson, William J. Ray, Handbook of Dissociation: Theoretical, Empirical, and Clinical Perspectives, page 605:
text: Later on you will still have to pull the reins in on yourself, from time to time.
ref: 2006, Albert Rayl, B to B CANDLE MAKING - Beginners to Business, page 12:
glosses: To restrict, curtail, curb.
Related terms: pull the reins in on something
neuropreservation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + preservation.
Senses: glosses: The preservation of a brain in the hope of future resuscitation.
glosses: The preservation of neural function after trauma.
Related terms: neuropreservative
pharaonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pharaonically
form: most pharaonically
Etymology: From pharaonic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The entranceway to Tomb 19 had been cut in ancient times through a rock spur, with a gently downward-sloping ramp and vertical sides approaching a square door that had three decorated jambs. In many ways it resembles a modern single-car garage, but with a high ceiling and pharaonically painted walls.
ref: 2010, Donald P Ryan, Beneath the sands of Egypt: adventures of an unconventional archaeologist, page 16:
glosses: In a pharaonic fashion (especially of female circumcision by infibulation).
hornwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hornworks
Etymology: From horn + work.
Senses: glosses: A type of fortification consisting of a pair of demi-bastions with a curtain wall connecting them and with two long sides directed upon the faces of the bastions, or ravelins of the inner fortifications, so as to be defended by them.
Related terms: crownwork
hornworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hornwork
crownwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crownworks
Etymology: From crown + work.
Senses: glosses: A type of fortification, like a hornwork, but consisting of a full bastion with the walls on either side ending in half-bastions from which longer flank walls run back towards the main fortress.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: The addition of a crown.
crownworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crownwork
pseudohistorian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudohistorians
Etymology: From pseudo- + historian.
Senses: examples: text: An even more absurd assertion gained some popularity in Serbia, where a number of pseudohistorians proposed that the Serbs are the oldest nation in the world and their language “the mother of all other languages”.
ref: 2016, Antonino de Francesco, In Search of Pre-Classical Antiquity:
glosses: A would-be historian who deals in pseudohistory.
pseudohistorians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudohistorian
plain work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plainwork
Etymology: From plain + work.
Senses: examples: text: If you would fit your self to serve a Gentle woman only, (either in City or Country) you must not only learn how to dress, wash and starch very well, all manner of Tiffanies, Lawns, Points and Laces, and to mend the same, but you must learn to work all sorts of Needle work and plain work […]
ref: 1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid, London: T. Passinger, page 62:
text: Sally was put Apprentice to a Sempstress in Duke's-Place near Aldgate, to learn Plain-Work, &c.
ref: 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, section I:
text: She procured plain work; she plaited straw and by various means contrived to earn a pittance scarcely sufficient to support life.
ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:
glosses: Basic, non-ornamental work; specifically (now (historical)) simple needlework.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
glosses: Smooth stonework without decoration or ornamentation.