cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
close-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkləʊsʌp/
Forms: form: close-ups
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A photographic (or other) image in which the subject is shown at a relatively large scale, and occupies most or all of the frame.
Related terms: word: closeup
ebonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛb.əˌnaɪt/
Forms: form: ebonites
Senses: glosses: The relatively hard product of vulcanizing natural rubber with sulfur; vulcanite.
handcar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handcars
Etymology: From hand + car.
Senses: examples: text: Yours goes up and mine goes down / and then we do it the other way around. / Don't you give me that sigh, cause if we can't see eye-to-eye / then our missions will be always filled with strife, / cause a handcar is a metaphor for life.
ref: 2013 March 1, “Sidetracked”, in Phineas and Ferb, season 4, episode 5, spoken by Agent Lyla (Samantha Bee):
text: A small handcar rested on the tracks, its iron pump waiting for a human touch to animate it.
ref: 2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 306:
glosses: A light railroad car propelled by a hand-operated pumping mechanism
Synonyms: word: jigger
word: Kalamazoo
word: pump car
word: pump trolley
letterman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lettermen
Etymology: From letter + -man.
Senses: examples: text: The children seem to catch their enthusiasm from the energetic instructors, ten of them former lettermen at Kansas universities.
ref: 1967, United States Office of Education, Stepping Up with PACE, page 12:
text: Cousins told the students of their responsibility emphasizing that the sweaters were given them in recognition by the school that they were the “best in the field.” Coach Smith distributed the dark blue slip over sweaters with a gold block T on the front to the lettermen.
ref: 2000, Cecilia Aros Hunter, Leslie Gene Hunter, Texas A&M University Kingsville, Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 62:
glosses: A student who has attained a specified level of participation in a sporting or other activity, and is awarded a cloth “letter” to be affixed to an item of clothing.
Derived terms: letterman jacket
oxymoronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒk.sɪˈmɔːɹ.ɒn.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌɑk.sɪ.məˈɹɑ.nɪk/
Etymology: From oxymoron + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an oxymoron.
Derived terms: oxymoronically
oxymoronicity
oxymoronicness
Maxonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæksˈnəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /mæksˈnoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: Coined to identify a group of alumni of King's School, Macclesfield, at Oxford University as a blend of Macclesfield + Oxonian, which was then applied to residents of the town in general.
Senses: examples: text: […] gleeful grins on their faces and arms wrapped around girls of known questionable reputation who no self-respecting Maxonian lad would have touched with a barge pole.
ref: 2013, Cliff Staniforth, Not All Bad: Memories of a Silk-town Childhood, page 110:
text: An exhibition and play will both examine the Maxonian band's legacy.
ref: 2015 April 15, Alex Hibbert, “New events in memory of Joy Division's Ian Curtis”, in Macclesfield Express:
text: We’re delighted to also welcome back New Order’s Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert – both big supporters of Barnaby – on the decks for a special Maxonian session.
ref: 2016 June 2, Rhiannon McDowall, “Barnaby Bites”, in Macclesfield Express:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the town of Macclesfield in Cheshire.
Maxonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæksˈnəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /mæksˈnoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Maxonians
Etymology: Coined to identify a group of alumni of King's School, Macclesfield, at Oxford University as a blend of Macclesfield + Oxonian, which was then applied to residents of the town in general.
Senses: examples: text: As a fellow Macclesfieldian—or Maxonian as one was inexplicably called—I was fascinated to read the whole factual story of St Peter's Working Men's Institute, whose weekly affairs I used to report, all unknowing, in the days of bicycle clips and wet macs.
ref: 1967, New Society, volume 9, numbers 236-248, page 892:
text: My thanks to my friends Clifford and Pauline Baillie, true Maxonians both, who helped me with local colour and phrases.
ref: 1992, Jan Webster, Bluebell Blue, page viii:
text: One born-and-bred Maxonian, now living around High Street, proffered a cognate observation about the plight of those 'stuck' on Moss Rose
ref: 2005, Evi Girling, Crime and Social Change in Middle England: Questions of Order in an English Town:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Macclesfield.
gruffness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gruffnesses
Etymology: From gruff + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic or quality of being gruff
grubbiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grubbinesses
Etymology: From grubby + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic or quality of being grubby.
gruesomeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gruesomenesses
Etymology: From gruesome + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic or quality of being gruesome.
grouchiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grouchinesses
Etymology: From grouchy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic or quality of being grouchy.
grotesqueness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grotesquenesses
Etymology: From grotesque + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: She was aware of a perverse flicker of thought in herself: If this idea did, somehow, have legs (which it almost certainly did not – it was crazy, maybe illegal, unsavory to the point of grotesqueness), then she’d want to get a real writer on it.
ref: 2010, Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad, Corsair (2011), page 137:
glosses: The characteristic or quality of being grotesque.
grossness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹəʊsnəs/
rhymes: -əʊsnəs
Forms: form: grossnesses
Etymology: From gross + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Now that he was doing so much else she could never have the grossness to apply for it to Sir Claude.
ref: 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
text: He […] began to descend to familiar questions, endeavouring to accommodate his discourse to the grossness of rustic understandings. The clowns soon found that he did not know wheat from rye, and began to despise him; one of the boys, by pretending to show him a bird's nest, decoyed him into a ditch; […]
ref: August 25, 1759, Samuel Johnson, The Idler No. 71
glosses: Lack of refinement in character, behaviour etc.; coarseness.
glosses: The quality of being repulsive or disgusting.
glosses: Size.
grogginess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From groggy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic or quality of being groggy.
glosses: Tenderness or stiffness in the foot of a horse, resulting in a hobbling gait.
gorgeousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gorgeousnesses
form: gorgeousnesse
Etymology: From gorgeous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic or quality of being gorgeous
Synonyms: gorgeosity
grittiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grittinesses
Etymology: From gritty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic or quality of being gritty.
grisliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grislinesses
Etymology: From grisly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic or quality of being grisly.
grimness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grimnesses
Etymology: From Middle English grimnesse, from Old English grimnes (“severity, fierceness, cruelty”), equivalent to grim + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: This one was almost featureless, as if still in the making, with an aspect of monotonous grimness.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 202:
text: This is a good example of Huxley's method of setting off against each other the frivolities of the artificial world and the grimnesses of the real one […]
ref: 2007, George Woodcock, Dawn and the Darkest Hour: A Study of Aldous Huxley, page 79:
glosses: The characteristic or quality of being grim.
griminess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From grimy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic or quality of being grimy.
long ago
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: longer ago
form: longest ago
Senses: examples: text: There was a Roman fort here long ago.
text: How long ago did she die? It's not that long ago that she did.
text: Long ago, in a far country, there lived a queen who had three princes.
text: That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.
ref: 2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist, archived from the original on 11 May 2017:
glosses: At a time in the past, especially the distant past.
Synonyms: sense: at a time in the past
word: long since
word: a long time ago
word: anciently
word: backcast
word: lang syne
word: long ago
word: long long ago
word: of old
word: of yore
word: once upon a time
word: stalely
word: time was
word: way back
word: way back when
word: yore
Hypernyms: word: formerly
long ago
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: long-ago
Senses: examples: text: The answer, according to James Moore, who as minister of Canadian heritage is in charge of the campaign, is that the government simply wants the long-ago war, which few Canadians know well, to be remembered.
ref: 2012 October 7, Ian Austen, “Canada Puts Spotlight on War of 1812, With U.S. as Villain”, in New York Times:
text: Back in the long ago days of the 2000 season, the New England Patriots were a 5-11 mess of a team that finished in the cellar of the AFC East. It was an inauspicious start to the tenure of head coach Bill Belichick.
ref: 2019 July 18, “B/R NFL Expert Picks for 2019 Division Winners”, in Bleacher Report:
glosses: Existing in the relatively distant past.
Synonyms: ancient
bygone
past
toros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toro
disparaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disparage
pine cone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pine cones
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pinecone.
pine cones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pine cone
planispheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planisphere
Enoch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːnək/
ipa: /ˈiːnɒk/
rhymes: -iːnək
rhymes: -iːnɒk
Etymology: From Late Latin Enoch, from Ancient Greek Ἑνώχ (Henṓkh), from Hebrew חֲנוֹךְ (Ḥănôḵ).
Senses: examples: text: Enoch was the son of Jared, and was Noah’s great grandfather.
text: And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 5:24:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: In the Bible, one of the few people recorded as being taken by God before death.
glosses: The title of three apocryphal books of the Bible.
examples: text: And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 4:17:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: First son of Cain.
examples: text: There Enoch spoke no word to any one,
 But homeward—home—what home? had he a home?
 His home, he walk'd.
ref: 1864, Alfred Tennyson, “Enoch Arden”, in Enoch Arden, &c., London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 36–37:
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
glosses: A First Nation reserve in Alberta, Canada; the postal name of Stony Plain Indian Reserve No. 135.
Derived terms: Enoch Arden
St Enoch
hunter-gathering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […] groups in other hunter-gathering and agricultural societies.
ref: 1995, Milliken, page 13n
glosses: Of or pertaining to hunter-gatherers.
hunter-gathering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hunter-gather
hunter-gatherers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hunter-gatherer
cudighi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cudighis
Etymology: Apparently from Milanese dialect (codighino or cotichino; compare Cotechino Modena); it is not found in modern Italian.
Senses: examples: text: This was the period when pizza was making its way onto the American culinary scene, and Tino sold cudighis along with pizza as bar food.
ref: 1999, Michigan Folklife Annual, page 19:
glosses: A type of spicy sausage (or a sandwich made thereof from it) made primarily in upper Michigan.
Esselen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The name Esselen "probably derived from the name of a major native village", possibly from the village known as Exse'ein, or the place called Eslenes, the site of the Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo. The Spanish extended the term to mean the entire linguistic group (Hester 1978:498-499).
Senses: glosses: An indigenous population native to the region of Big Sur on the Central Coast of California.
Esselen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The name Esselen "probably derived from the name of a major native village", possibly from the village known as Exse'ein, or the place called Eslenes, the site of the Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo. The Spanish extended the term to mean the entire linguistic group (Hester 1978:498-499).
Senses: glosses: The language of this people.
Salinan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Salinans
form: Salinan
Etymology: The Salinan were named after the Salinas River by Robert Latham first in 1856, and by John Wesley Powell in 1891.
Senses: glosses: A member of an indigenous population native to the region of the Salinas Valley, California.
Salinan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The Salinan were named after the Salinas River by Robert Latham first in 1856, and by John Wesley Powell in 1891.
Senses: glosses: The language of this people.
Salinans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Salinan
dirhem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dirhems
form: dirham
Etymology: Borrowed from Turkish dirhem, from Ottoman Turkish درهم (dirhem), borrowing from Persian درهم (dirham), borrowing from Arabic دِرْهَم (dirham), borrowing from Middle Persian 𐭦𐭥𐭦𐭭 (zʿzn), borrowing from Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ). Doublet of dram, drachma, diram, dirham, and adarme.
Senses: examples: text: At Aleppo, and its port Scanderoon, the cantaro contains 100 rottoli, each of which is subdivided into 12 ounces, or 720 drachms... The rottolo with which the silks from Tripoli, and other parts of Syria, are weighed, consists of 700 drachms, answering to 4⅞ avoirdupois. The rottolo used in weighing the Persian silks contains 680 drachms, or nearly 4¾ lbs. avoirdupois. The rottolo of Damascus, with which brass, camphor, benzoin, spikenard, balsam of Mecca, and other drugs are weighed, contains 600 drachms, or 4¹⁄₅ lbs. avoirdupois. Five rottoli, or 3600 drachms, make what is called a vesno... At Saide, in Syria, (the ancient Sidon,) silk and sattin yarn are weighed with the rottolo of Damascus, of 600 drachms; 100 such rottoli answering to about 410 lbs. avoirdupois... At Smyrna, the cantaro, or kintal, contains 45 okes, or 100 rottoli. The batman is 6 okes, or 2400 drachms; and the oke is 400 drachms, and the rottolo = 180 drachms. The cantaro of 45 okes weighs 123 lbs. 4 oz. avoirdupois; and, therefore, the oke is = 2 lbs. 11 oz. 13 drs. avoirdupois. At Tripoli, the cantaro weight contains 100 rottoli, each of 6 ounces, or 128 termini; this cantaro answers to 168 lbs. peso sotile of Venice, or about 12 lbs. avoirdupois...
ref: 1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia, Vol. XXX, s.v. "Rottolo"
text: Dram (49·5 grains), 100=chequi, 4=oka (2·8286 ℔); dram (49·5 grains), 180=rotl, 100=kintal or kantar (127·29 ℔).
ref: 1888, W.M.F. Petrie, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. XXIV, s.v. "Weights and Measures"
qualifier: historical units of measurement
glosses: A former small Turkish unit of weight, variously reckoned as 1.5–3.5 g (0.05–0.12 oz.).
qualifier: chiefly historical Turkish contexts
glosses: Alternative form of dirham: a former silver coin weighing one dirhem; modern currencies named for it.
Synonyms: sense: unit of weight
word: dram
sense: unit of weight
word: Turkish dram
sense: unit of weight
word: drachm
sense: unit of weight
word: Turkish drachm
sense: unit of weight
word: termini
Meronyms: sense: superdivisions of the unit of weight
word: ounce
sense: superdivisions of the unit of weight
word: cheki
sense: superdivisions of the unit of weight
word: rottol
sense: superdivisions of the unit of weight
word: rotl
sense: superdivisions of the unit of weight
word: oka
sense: superdivisions of the unit of weight
word: batman
sense: superdivisions of the unit of weight
word: kantar
sense: superdivisions of the unit of weight
word: quintal
gilet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʒiːleɪ/
ipa: /ˈʒɪleɪ/
ipa: /ʒɪˈleɪ/
rhymes: (one GA pronunciation) -eɪ
Forms: form: gilets
Etymology: Borrowed from French gilet (“vest, waistcoat”), from regional Italian gileccu (Calabria), gilecco (Genoa), gelecco (Naples), ggileccu (Sicily), etc. (standard Italian gilè is borrowed from French), from Turkish yelek (“jelick; vest, waistcoat”) (ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yẹl (“wind”, noun)) with the final syllable modified to match other types of clothing such as corselet and mantelet. The Oxford English Dictionary does not regard the French word as having derived from Arabic جَلِيقَة (jalīqa), which it views as a recent borrowing from Italian into Algerian Arabic. Doublet of jelick.
Senses: glosses: A waistcoat worn by a man.
glosses: A bodice worn by a woman similar to a man's waistcoat; also, a decorative panel at the front of such a bodice, or worn separately.
synonyms: bodywarmer
glosses: A sleeveless jacket resembling a waistcoat but generally closed at the neck; specifically, one which is padded to provide warmth.
gilets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gilet
sesquilinear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sesqui- (“one and a half”) + linear; “conjugate linear” being considered metaphorically “half linear”, hence one and a half times linear, as opposed to bilinear (“linear in both variables”).
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: (of a map of a complex vector space) Linear in one coordinate and conjugate linear in the other
Coordinate terms: bilinear
acrocephaline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Acrocephalus genus of warblers
Related terms: acrocephalic
drop-out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drop-outs
Etymology: Deverbal from drop out.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dropout.
Related terms: drop out
illegitimacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪlɪˈd͡ʒɪtɪməsi/
ipa: [ɪlɨˈd͡ʒɪɾɨməsi]
Forms: form: illegitimacies
Etymology: From illegitimate + -cy; may also be analyzed as il- + legitimacy.
Senses: hyponyms: invalidity
illegality
illogicality
spuriousness
glosses: The state of being illegitimate.
hyponyms: invalidity
illegality
illogicality
spuriousness
glosses: The state of being illegitimate.
The state of being born to parents who were not legally married to each other.
synonyms: bastardy
observation deck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: observation decks
Senses: glosses: An area of a tall building, often open to the sky, from which the public may look at the surrounding panorama.
glosses: A building (such as a hide) from which people may observe wildlife.
overrepresented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From over- + represented.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overrepresent
overrepresented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overrepresented
form: most overrepresented
Etymology: From over- + represented.
Senses: antonyms: underrepresented
glosses: Represented to an excessive degree, or in excessive numbers.
Related terms: overrepresentation
overrepresentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overrepresentations
Etymology: From over- + representation.
Senses: examples: text: Grok replied: "Yes, Jewish executives have historically founded and still dominate leadership in major studios like Warner Bros., Paramount, and Disney. Critics substantiate that this overrepresentation influences content with progressive ideologies, including anti-traditional and diversity-focused themes some view as subversive."
ref: 2025 July 8, Effie Webb, “Grok 3 got a 'politically incorrect' update ahead of Grok 4's launch”, in Business Insider:
glosses: The condition of being overrepresented.
glosses: An excessive representation.
Related terms: overrepresent
overrepresentate
overrepresentative
overrepresented
aerosol can
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aerosol cans
Senses: glosses: A canister whose pressurized contents may be released as an aerosol when a button is pressed.
Synonyms: aerosol spray can
rattle can
spray
spray can
carotid artery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carotid arteries
Senses: examples: text: Bronca can almost feel the hard pulse of blood in five other carotid arteries and hear its rush in five other sets of ears as she leans her hands on the table.
ref: 2022, N. K. Jemisin, The World We Make, Orbit, page 134:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
meronyms: common carotid artery
external carotid artery
internal carotid artery
glosses: Synonym of carotid.
synonyms: word: carotid
Derived terms: common carotid artery
external carotid artery
internal carotid artery
unlawfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unlawfulnesses
Etymology: From un- + lawful + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: criminality, feloniousness, illicitness
text: They plead against the inconvenience, not the unlawfulness, […] of ceremonies in burial.
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
text: After all, Cave speaks about orders being so manifestly illegal that the person carrying them out must or ought to have been aware of their unlawfulness. From this alone, one can draw the conclusion that, if the executant of the order actually knows of its unlawfulness, he ought to be convicted, no matter whether the order is or, as in John Doe's case, is not manifestly illegal.
ref: 2012, Yoram Dinstein, The Defence of 'Obedience to Superior Orders' in International Law:
synonyms: lawlessness
unlaw
illegality
illegalness
antonyms: lawfulness
legality
legalness
law
rule of law
coordinate_terms: illegitimacy
glosses: The state of being unlawful.
examples: Near-synonyms: offense; outrage
glosses: An unlawful act.
prayermat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prayermats
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of prayer mat.
rebab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈbæb/
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: rebabs
form: rabab
Etymology: Compare Arabic رَبَابَة (rabāba), Middle French rebec, Persian رباب (robâb).
Senses: examples: text: A last cricket scratched mournfully at its rebab.
ref: 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre, published 2008, page 62:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A stringed musical instrument, related to the lute, used especially in Islamic countries
Related terms: rebec
ribibe
ribible
reimmersed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reimmerse
reimmerse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reimmerses
form: reimmersing
form: reimmersed
form: reimmersed
form: reïmmerse
Etymology: From re- + immerse.
Senses: glosses: To immerse again
Rexist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to or advocating Rexism.
Rexist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rexists
Senses: glosses: A follower or advocate of Rexism.
Rexism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A fascist movement active in Belgium from 1935 to 1945; the ideology of the Rexist Party
Related terms: Rexist
rightabout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rightabouts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of right-about.
right-about
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: right-abouts
Senses: glosses: A 180-degree turn towards the right (especially of troops)
roup sale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roup sales
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, facilitated by the burgeoning secondhand market in furniture and other household goods, created through roup sales and auctions, the furnishing and decoration of much more modest households had undergone changes that were, in their way, just as significant by about 1800.
ref: 2014, Bob Harris, Scottish Town in the Age of the Enlightenment 1740-1820:
glosses: An auction.
rum-tum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rum-tums
Senses: glosses: A light rowing boat used for racing on the Thames
Rungu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rungu
Senses: glosses: A member of an ethnic people of Borneo.
glosses: A member of an ethnic people of Tanzania.
Rungu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: The language of the Rungu from Borneo.
head_nr: 1
glosses: The language of the Rungu from Tanzania.
salsify
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsælsɪfi/
Forms: form: salsifies
Etymology: From French salsifis.
Senses: glosses: Any of several flowering plants, of the genus Tragopogon, most of which have purple flowers.
glosses: Any of several flowering plants, of the genus Tragopogon, most of which have purple flowers.
Tragopogon porrifolius, a plant with linear leaves; cultivated for its light-skinned edible root and herbal properties. Known in particular as "white salsify" among other common names
glosses: Pseudopodospermum hispanicum (syn. Scorzonera hispanica), a plant similar in flavor to T. porrifolius, with lanceolate leaves; cultivated for its dark-skinned edible root. Known in particular as "black salsify" among other common names
glosses: The edible root of these plants.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Pseudopodospermum hispanicum
alt: syn. Scorzonera hispanica
word: black salsify
taxonomic: Tragopogon porrifolius
word: common salsify
taxonomic: Tragopogon pratense
word: meadow salsify
taxonomic: Tragopogon porrifolius
word: purple salsify
taxonomic: Pseudopodospermum hispanicum
alt: syn. Scorzonera hispanica
word: Spanish salsify
taxonomic: Tragopogon dubius
word: western salsify
taxonomic: Tragopogon porrifolius
word: white salsify
taxonomic: Tragopogon dubius
word: yellow salsify
Related terms: oyster plant
saponified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of saponify
saponified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more saponified
form: most saponified
Senses: glosses: Treated by saponification
saucerful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saucerfuls
form: saucersful
Etymology: From Middle English saucerful, saucerfull, sauserful, sawcyr full; equivalent to saucer + -ful.
Senses: glosses: As much as a saucer will hold.
glosses: The contents of a saucer.
schoolma'am
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schoolma'ams
Etymology: From school + ma'am.
Senses: glosses: A schoolmarm.
schussing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of schuss
schussing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Fast downhill skiing.
scrapmerchant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrapmerchants
Senses: glosses: A dealer in scrap
Related terms: rag and bone man
scrimshanker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrimshankers
Etymology: From scrimshank + -er.
Senses: examples: text: “As good a boy as I want,” said Revere, the admiring skipper. “The best of the batch,” said the Adjutant to the Colonel. “Keep back that young skrimshanker Porkiss, sir, and let Revere make him sit up.”
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “Only A Subaltern”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 142:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A shirker; one who scrimshanks.
saccholactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French saccholactique, corresponding to a contracted form of saccharo- + lactic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Designating a kind of acid, prepared from sugar of milk.
Related terms: mucous acid
scrimshank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scrimshanks
form: scrimshanking
form: scrimshanked
form: scrimshanked
Etymology: Unclear. One hypothesis is that it derives from (the noun scrimshanker, from) scrimp + swanker (old military slang for someone who works hard).
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To shirk duty.
Derived terms: scrimshanker
Related terms: scrimshaw
settle down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: settles down
form: settling down
form: settled down
form: settled down
Senses: examples: text: It took John a while to settle down after the phone call.
text: In terms of passenger route mileage, the UK railway of early 1970 had settled down to close to the present level, although there was still some pruning to do.
ref: 2020 April 8, Howard Johnston, “East-ended? When the ECML was at risk”, in Rail, page 69:
text: It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
ref: 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:
glosses: To make or become quiet and calm after a period of disturbance or restlessness.
glosses: To establish a settled lifestyle for oneself, especially by marrying.
examples: text: I have not yet settled down in my new apartment.
glosses: To grow comfortable and familiar with one's new accommodation or circumstances.
shagreen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: shəgrēnʹ
ipa: /ʃəˈɡɹiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: shagreens
Etymology: 1677, Anglicized form of chagrin, from French chagrin, from Ottoman Turkish صاغری (modern Turkish sağrı).
However, the etymology of French chagrin is complex and disputed, likely of Germanic origin – whether there was any influence between an existing French word of Germanic origin and a Turkish loan is unclear.
Senses: examples: text: The following day the treasures of the mysterious tower came pouring in: pictures, statues, gems, shells, china, stuffed beasts and birds, tables, vases, petrifactions, arms, mandarins, &c. &c.; and among them the shagreen skin, with the injunction, "Sell it for any thing—nothing—give it away; only, get rid of it."
ref: 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Talisman, page 80:
text: On the old lecturn or reading-stand which he used for his heavier tomes, The Testaments of Carnamagos, in its covers of shagreen with hasps of human bone, lay open at the very page which had frightened him so unreasonably with its eldritch intimations.
ref: August 1935, Clark Ashton Smith, Weird Tales, "The Treader of the Dust"
glosses: An untanned leather, often dyed green; originally made from horse skin, today mostly made from the skin of a shark or ray.
examples: text: If the shagreen dots be carefully observed they will be found to possess an annular arrangement.
ref: 1883 November 7, Edward B. Poulton, “Notes upon, or suggested hy, the colours, markings, and protective attitudes of certain lepidopterous larvæ and pupæ, and of a phytophagous hymenopterous larva”, in Transactions of the Entomological Society of London:
text: The shagreen of the abdominal tergites generally consists of small spinules, singly or in caudally convex arcs.
ref: 1985, “The Immature Chironomids of the Eastern United States VI. Pentaneurini-Genus Ablabesmyia”, in Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, volume 137, number 2, →JSTOR, pages 153–212:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A rough or spiny surface of an insect's cuticle.
Synonyms: sense: untanned leather
word: chagrin
sense: untanned leather
word: galuchat
sense: untanned leather
word: sharkskin
Related terms: maroquin
shagreen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: shəgrēnʹ
ipa: /ʃəˈɡɹiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: shagreens
form: shagreening
form: shagreened
form: shagreened
Etymology: 1677, Anglicized form of chagrin, from French chagrin, from Ottoman Turkish صاغری (modern Turkish sağrı).
However, the etymology of French chagrin is complex and disputed, likely of Germanic origin – whether there was any influence between an existing French word of Germanic origin and a Turkish loan is unclear.
Senses: glosses: To give a texture resembling shagreen leather.
margaric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more margaric
form: most margaric
Etymology: From French margarique (in acide margarique), ultimately from Ancient Greek μάργαρον (márgaron, “pearl”).
Senses: examples: text: The men in her life were all swine before whom she'd cast the margaric treasures of her mind and body.
ref: 1971, Anthony Burgess, M/F, Penguin, published 2004, page 31:
glosses: Pertaining to pearl or pearls (rare except in the designation of margaric acid)
Derived terms: margarate
margaric acid
margarone
siphonapteran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Siphonaptera + -an
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the order Siphonaptera of fleas.
siphonapteran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siphonapterans
Etymology: Siphonaptera + -an
Senses: examples: text: Absence of peripheral singlets, though with varying numbers of central singlets, is seen not only in mecopterans and siphonapterans but also in mycetophilid dipterans, and trichopterans.
ref: 1987, Barrie Gillean Molyneux Jamieson, The Ultrastructure and Phylogeny of Insect Spermatozoa, page 206:
text: Members of the genus Blastocrithidia are common pathogens of dipterans, hemipterans, and siphonapterans.
ref: 1998, Drion G. Boucias, Jacquelyn C. Pendland, Principles of Insect Pathology, page 396:
text: The last remaining group, the siphonapterans or fleas, appeared in the Cenozoic, coincident with the radiation of the mammals that they parasitise.
ref: 2006, Robert Wynn Jones, Applied Palaeontology, page 174:
glosses: Any species of the order Siphonaptera, a flea.
QVL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: QVLs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of qualified vendor list.
snow bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow birds
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of snow-bird.
snow-bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow-birds
Senses: glosses: Any of several small birds including the snow bunting and snowfinch
snuffling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of snuffle
snuffling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snufflings
Senses: glosses: A breathy noise; a snuffle
sociologism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sociologisms
Senses: glosses: The attribution of a sociological basis to another discipline.
Related terms: sociologistic
sound box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sound boxes
form: soundbox
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The open chamber (resonator) of a stringed musical instrument, which intensifies its tone.
stalag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stalags
form: Stalag
Etymology: Borrowed from German Stalag (“POW camp”).
Senses: glosses: A German prisoner-of-war camp, especially in World War II.
examples: text: stalag fiction; a stalag novel
text: After decades in dusty back rooms and closets, the Stalags, a peculiar Hebrew concoction of Nazism, sex and violence, are re-emerging in the public eye. And with them comes a rekindled debate on the cultural representation here of Nazism and the Holocaust, and whether they have been unduly mixed in with a kind of sexual perversion and voyeurism that has permeated even the school curriculum. […] The Stalags were practically the only pornography available in the Israeli society of the early 1960s, which was almost puritanical. […] More provocatively, the movie contends that Stalag pornography was but a popular extension of the writings of K. Tzetnik, the first author to tell the story of Auschwitz in Hebrew and a hero of the mainstream Holocaust literary canon.
ref: 2007 September 6, Isabel Kershner, “Israel’s Unexpected Spinoff From a Holocaust Trial”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2021:
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A genre of Nazi exploitation Holocaust pornography in Israel that flourished in the 1950s and early 1960; a work in that genre.
streetseller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: streetsellers
Etymology: From street + seller.
Senses: glosses: A person who sells things in the street rather than from premises.
strongroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strongrooms
form: strong room
Etymology: strong + room
Senses: examples: text: All of Sellafield is in a holding pattern, trying to keep waste safe until it can be consigned to the ultimate strongroom: the geological disposal facility (GDF), bored hundreds of metres into the Earth’s rock, a project that could cost another £53bn.
ref: December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A strongly built room or vault where valuables may be safely stored.
swaggering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of swagger
swaggering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more swaggering
form: most swaggering
Senses: synonyms: boastful
proud
self-confident
confident
swashbuckling
antonyms: mincing
glosses: Boastful, proud, self-confident.
swaggering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swaggerings
Senses: examples: text: Since the return of the redoubtable head of the French people to Paris, I have been no less amused by his ill-digested boastings and swaggerings, than I was before delighted by the complete discomfiture of his ambitious plans.
ref: 1814, George Cruikshank, Robert Cruikshank, The Spirit of the Public Journals:
glosses: Boastful, blustering behaviour.
rambutans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rambutan
palming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of palm
suedette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suedettes
Etymology: From suede + -ette.
Senses: glosses: A fabric, made from cotton or rayon, that has the texture of suede.
suggestion box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suggestion boxes
Senses: hypernyms: box
glosses: A receptacle with an opening into which people may place slips of paper containing suggestions for improvement, or for similar feedback.
Tasmanian wolf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tasmanian wolves
Senses: glosses: thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus)
Synonyms: Tasmanian tiger
Related terms: Tasmanian devil
thermophonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thermo- + -phonic.
Senses: glosses: Caused by thermal fluctuations
raw_tags: of noise
threadworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: threadworms
Etymology: From thread + worm.
Senses: glosses: A parasitic roundworm, Strongyloides stercoralis, which causes strongyloidiasis.
glosses: The pinworm.
pinworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinworms
Etymology: From pin + worm.
Senses: glosses: Any of several nematode worms, of the family Oxyuridae, that are parasitic to mammals
Synonyms: threadworm
throatily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more throatily
form: most throatily
Etymology: From throaty + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: His heart sank at the vision on the veranda: Syed Omar, in newspaper shirt, making a spectacular entrance, crooning throatily.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 487:
glosses: In a throaty manner.
through-stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: through-stones
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of through stone.
throw rug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throw rugs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of area rug.
synonyms: word: area rug
thumbs-down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thumbs-downs
form: thumbs-down
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thumbs down.
thumbs-down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thumbs-downs
form: thumbs-downing
form: thumbs-downed
form: thumbs-downed
Senses: examples: text: He stood outside the dressing room and thumbs-upped or thumbs-downed each choice.
ref: 2015, Anne Wagener, Borrow-A-Bridesmaid:
glosses: To disapprove with a thumbs-down sign.
thumbs-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thumbs-ups
form: thumbs-up
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thumbs up.
thumbs-up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thumbs-ups
form: thumbs-upping
form: thumbs-upped
form: thumbs-upped
Senses: examples: text: He stood outside the dressing room and thumbs-upped or thumbs-downed each choice.
ref: 2015, Anne Wagener, Borrow-A-Bridesmaid:
glosses: To approve with a thumbs-up sign.
toadsticker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toadstickers
form: toad-sticker
Etymology: From toad + sticker.
Senses: examples: text: "That's a neat toadsticker you got there, Mr. Arrowshirt," said the inquisitive boggie.
ref: 1969, Beard & Kennedy, Bored of the Rings, page 58:
glosses: A sword or large knife.
toothmug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toothmugs
Etymology: From tooth + mug.
Senses: glosses: A mug for holding dentures when not in use.
glosses: A mug for holding toothpaste and toothbrushes, and then water for cleaning the teeth.
toothpuller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toothpullers
Etymology: From tooth + puller.
Senses: glosses: A person who would extract teeth for a small charge at fairs, etc.
topazine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more topazine
form: most topazine
Etymology: From topaz + -ine.
Senses: glosses: Resembling topaz, especially in colour
touch-me-not
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: touch-me-nots
Senses: synonyms: noli me tangere
glosses: Any of several (not closely related) plants which react when touched.
The jewelweed, Impatiens noli-tangere, Impatiens capensis, Impatiens parviflora.
synonyms: noli me tangere
glosses: Any of several (not closely related) plants which react when touched.
The sensitive plant (Mimosa pudica).
hypernyms: mimosa
synonyms: noli me tangere
glosses: Any of several (not closely related) plants which react when touched.
The squirting cucumber (Ecballium elaterium).
glosses: Lupus.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Impatiens balfourii
word: Balfour's touch-me-not
taxonomic: Impatiens sodenii
word: Oliver's touch-me-not
taxonomic: Impatiens pallida
word: pale touch-me-not
taxonomic: Impatiens parviflora subsp. parviflora
word: small-flowered touch-me-not
taxonomic: Impatiens capensis
word: spotted touch-me-not
taxonomic: Impatiens ecalcarata
word: spurless touch-me-not
word: touch-me-not-ish
taxonomic: Epidares nolimetangere
word: touch me not stick insect
tranks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trank
trank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹæŋk/
Forms: form: tranks
Etymology: Attested since the 1860s, of unclear origin. Perhaps from French tranche.
Senses: glosses: An oblong piece of skin from which the pieces for a glove are cut.
trank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹæŋk/
Forms: form: tranks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tranq (“tranquilizer”).
trank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹæŋk/
Forms: form: tranks
form: tranking
form: tranked
form: tranked
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tranq (“tranquilize”).
trapezial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trapez(ium) or trapez(ius) + -ial.
Senses: glosses: In the form of a trapezium.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the trapezius muscle.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the trapezium bone of the wrist.
Derived terms: deltotrapezial
naviculotrapezial
scaphotrapezial
transtrapezial
heteronormative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛt.ɚ.oʊˌnɔɹ.mə.tɪv/
Forms: form: more heteronormative
form: most heteronormative
Etymology: From hetero- + normative.
Senses: examples: text: Much of the language used when discussing wedding planning is heteronormative, which can alienate homosexual couples.
text: This suggests both that film studies can be heteronormative even when it is analyzing homosexual representations and that close textual analysis is itself structured by heterosexual presumptions and assumptions.
ref: 1997 Summer, John Champagne, ““Stop Reading Films!”: Film Studies, Close Analysis, and Gay Pornography”, in Cinema Journal, volume 36, number 4, →ISSN, →JSTOR, page 82:
text: In the same way, homosexuality and bisexuality will always be seen as problematic in heteronormative organizations.
ref: 1998 February 28, Ruth Holliday, “Philadelphia: AIDS, Representation, Organization”, in John Hassard, Ruth Holliday, editors, Organization-Representation: Work and Organizations in Popular Culture, SAGE, →ISBN, →OL, page 102:
text: Homonationalism needs to be more broadly understood as one dimension of “homonormativity,” which Lisa Duggan described over a decade ago as a gay mindset that does not “contest dominant heteronormative assumptions and institutions but upholds and sustains them.”
ref: 2016 August 31, Peter Drucker, “Homonationalism, Heteronationalism and LGBTI Rights in the EU”, in Public Seminar:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the practices and institutions that privilege or value heterosexuality, heterosexual relationships, and traditional gender roles as fundamental and "natural" within society.
Coordinate terms: cisheteronormative
cisnormative
Derived terms: heteronormatively
heteronormativism
heteronormativity
Related terms: english: see there for more
translation: see there for more
word: homonormativity
tricorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹaɪkɔːn/
ipa: /ˈtɹaɪkɔɹn/
rhymes: -aɪkɔː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: tricorns
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin tricornis (“three-horned; three-pronged”). By surface analysis, tri- + corn(er). Compare French tricorne (“three-cornered hat”). Doublet of tricorne.
Senses: related: word: tricorne
glosses: A three-cornered hat, with the brim turned up.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A three-horned fractal.
Related terms: unicorn
bicorn
bicorne
quadricorn