cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
expugned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of expugn
expugns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of expugn
multiparities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multiparity
mushroomlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mushroomlike
form: most mushroomlike
form: mushroom-like
Etymology: From mushroom + -like.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: mushroom-shaped, mushroomoid, mushroomy; fungiform
hypernyms: fungoid#Adjective
glosses: Having the form or characteristics of a mushroom.
nematics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nematic
nilsolitons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nilsoliton
nilsoliton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nilsolitons
Etymology: From nil + soliton.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A certain type of left-invariant metric on a nilpotent Lie group.
nonsimple
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + simple.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: word: unsimple
word: complex
word: complexed
word: complicate
word: complicated
word: convoluted
word: Gordian
word: involute
word: intricate
word: involutional
word: involved
word: knotty
word: labyrinthal
word: labyrinthine
word: manifold
glosses: Not simple.
Derived terms: nonsimple curve
photoresistance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photoresistances
Etymology: From photo- + resistance.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: resistance of a material that varies with the amount of incident light
Related terms: photoresistor
polyhedric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: polyedric
Senses: glosses: Polyhedral; many-sided.
ratelessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From rateless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The scheme is decentralized, requiring no co-ordination, and can be operated ratelessly. that is, it can be run indefinitely until successful reception (at which stage that fact is signaled to all nodes, …
ref: 2004, Proceedings of the University of Illinois, volume 42, part 1, page 21
text: Decoding can be done by Gaussian elimination, and the scheme can be operated ratelessly, i.e. it can be run indefinitely until successful reception (at which stage that fact is signaled to other nodes).
ref: 2006, Desmond S. Lun et al., “Network Coding in Wireless Networks”, in Frank H. P. Fitzek, Marcos D. Katz, editors, Cooperation in wireless networks: principles and applications:
text: The derivation relies on the facts that when the source ratelessly broadcasts, the capacities Cs and C1 in the S–D and S–R links, respectively, are approached at the same time, and that when the relay ratelessly transmits toward the destination, the capacity C2 is realized.
ref: 2008 November, "Achievable Rates and Fairness in Rateless Coded Relaying Schemes", in the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, volume 7, issue 11 (ISSN: 1536-1276), pages 4439-4444
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: In a rateless manner; in a manner that employs a rateless code.
refinable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more refinable
form: most refinable
Etymology: From refine + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being refined
selfgravitating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: self-gravitating
Etymology: From self- + gravitating.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing any system influenced by its own gravitational field
semipolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + polar.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Partially polar
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: dative
shtuka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shtukas
Etymology: From Russian шту́ка (štúka, “a single copy; thing”). Doublet of shtick.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A specific generalization of a Drinfel'd module.
shtukas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shtuka
spicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spicular
form: most spicular
Etymology: From spicule + -ar.
Senses: examples: text: Lung cancer, for instance, might start as a spicular nodule in the lung.
ref: 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 158:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or formed from spicules.
subfactor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subfactors
Etymology: From sub- + factor.
Senses: glosses: A particular form of subalgebra
submodular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more submodular
form: most submodular
Etymology: From sub- + modular.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or composed of submodules
summability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: summabilities
Etymology: From sum + -ability.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The condition of being summable.
Derived terms: summability method
supersolutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supersolution
trilepton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trileptons
Etymology: From tri- + lepton.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any particle formed from three leptons
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Used attributively for any system involving three leptons
unsuccessive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Etymology: From un- + successive.
Senses: glosses: Not successive
zonotopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Etymology: From zonotope + -ic.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to or composed of zonotopes.
-iot
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Back-formation of Cypriot, from Ancient Greek Κυπριώτης (Kupriṓtēs, “Cypriot”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to an island or peninsula in Greece or the Hellenic sphere.
proptose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: proptoses
form: proptosing
form: proptosed
form: proptosed
Senses: examples: text: Because of the usual dorsal approach, the lateral and medial rectus muscles are secured by sutures, and with traction, can proptose the globe forward.
ref: 2011, Kirk N. Gelatt, Janice P. Gelatt, Caryn Plummer, Veterinary Ophthalmic Surgery, →ISBN, page 378:
text: When performing forced ductions for possible rectus muscle restriction, proptose the eye to stretch the rectus muscles.
ref: 2013, Kenneth W. Wright, Peter H. Spiegel, Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, →ISBN, page 252:
text: Davies had worn a diaphragm in it for years, which had caused irritation and produced bad nose bleeds; his right eyeball was proptosed (displaced in its socket).
ref: 2018, Anna Rogers, With Them Through Hell, →ISBN, page 217:
topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: To displace (an eye) in its socket; to cause exophthalmus.
Related terms: proptosis
Corfiot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Corfiots
form: Corfiote
Etymology: From Corfu + -iot (after Greek Κυπριώτης (Kypriótis, “Cypriot”)).
Senses: examples: text: His name was Spiridon, he was a charismatic Corfiote, and his exuberance was inexhaustible.
ref: 1994, Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Minerva, published 1995, page 406:
glosses: A person from Corfu.
Corfiot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Corfiote
Etymology: From Corfu + -iot (after Greek Κυπριώτης (Kypriótis, “Cypriot”)).
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or relating to Corfu.
Zwarte Piet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Zwarte Piet.
Senses: glosses: Black Peter
nipa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈniːpə/
ipa: /ˈnaɪpə/
rhymes: -iːpə
rhymes: -aɪpə
Forms: form: nipas
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay nipah.
Senses: glosses: A palm tree of the species Nypa fruticans.
glosses: A liquor made from the sap of nipa palms.
examples: text: It was a fine afternoon for a siesta because it rained in torrents for the rest of the day and the patter of rain on nipa thatch is a soothing sound.
ref: 1914, Helen Herron Taft, “IX. The Wild Men's Country”, in Recollections of Full Years, page 187:
glosses: The leaves of the nipa palm, when used as a material for thatching, basketry or other uses.
nipa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈniːpə/
ipa: /ˈnaɪpə/
rhymes: -iːpə
rhymes: -aɪpə
ipa: /ˈniːpɑ/
rhymes: -iːpɑ
rhymes: -iːpə
ipa: /ˈniːpə/
ipa: /ˈnaɪpə/
rhymes: -iːpə
rhymes: -aɪpə
Etymology: From Cocopa ɲipa.
Senses: examples: text: The perennial saltgrass nipa (Distichlis palmeri, Poaceae) is endemic to northern Gulf of California tidal marshes flooded with hypersaline seawater.
ref: 2012, S.L. Pearlsteina, R.S. Felgera, E.P. Glenna, J. Harringtond, K.A. Al-Ghaneme, S.G. Nelson, “Nipa (Distichlis palmeri): A perennial grain crop for saltwater irrigation”, in Journal of Arid Environments, →DOI, page 60:
text: Once a staple of the Cocopa people, wild populations of nipa have been greatly reduced due to dams and other watershed disruptions.
ref: 2013 April 17, Eric Toensmeier, “Perennial Cereal Grains: A Promise Requiring Patience and Prioritization”, in Perennial Solutions:
synonyms: nipa grass
glosses: Distichlis palmeri, a saltgrass native to the Sonoran Desert of Mexico and the United States, Palmer's grass.
Related terms: nipa hut
Bedlington Terrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bedlington Terriers
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Bedlington terrier.
Parmese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Parmese
form: most Parmese
Etymology: From Parma + -ese.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the city or province of Parma, in Italy.
Derived terms: Parmesan
Irish wolfhound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Irish wolfhounds
Senses: examples: text: The Irish wolfhound is the official mascot of The Irish Guards and The Royal Irish Regiment.
glosses: The largest sighthound and tallest dog on average, bred in Ireland to hunt wolves
superbabe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superbabes
Etymology: From super- + babe.
Senses: examples: text: "This town's stuffed with A-list hardbody superbabes," he confided in me — "Idaho farm girls, preacher's ^([sic]) daughters from Ohio, Alabama college girls — every last cute-assed one of them wants to be an actress.
ref: 2003, Phillip Oppenheim, Maggie to Margaritas:
text: The superbabes would all be after him once they got a look at this thing. Man, she could probably do zero to sixty in five flat.
ref: 2005, Karen Kingsbury, A Time to Embrace: A Story of Hope, Healing, and Abundant Life:
text: The superficial sexual trigger, honed in the forest and out on the savanna, is why men still duck out of chat rooms and keep going back to the superbabes and vixens.
ref: 2007, Michael Gilbert, The Disposable Male: Sex, Love, and Money-Your World Through Darwin's Eyes:
glosses: A highly sexually desirable young woman.
superbabes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superbabe
nonglobular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + globular.
Senses: glosses: Not globular.
run past
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs past
form: running past
form: ran past
form: run past
Senses: examples: text: Let me run that idea past the boss before we spend too much time on it.
synonyms: run by
glosses: To bring an idea or proposal to the attention of (someone) in order to obtain their opinion.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, past.
publishee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: publishees
Etymology: From publish + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: There must also be a corresponding understanding of the meaning of the words by the recipient or publishee.
ref: 1985, Jonathan M Burchell, The law of defamation in South Africa:
glosses: One to whom something is published; a consumer of a publication.
publishees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of publishee
on route
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of en route.
selfslaughter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selfslaughters
Etymology: 1595, self- + slaughter.
Senses: examples: text: As the Greeks gape at women heaped up in selfslaughter, / They hear of Aeneas's flight with the loot.
ref: 1989, Bill Greenwell, “Hector Berlioz: The Trojans”, in E. O. Parrott, editor, How to Be Tremendously Tuned In to Opera, London: Viking, →ISBN, page 13:
glosses: Alternative form of self-slaughter ("suicide").
Related terms: self-slaughtered
self-slaughter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-slaughters
form: selfslaughter
Etymology: 1595, self- + slaughter.
Senses: examples: Against self-slaughter, There is a prohibition so divine, That cravens my weak hand. --Shak., Cymbeline
glosses: The slaughter or slaying of oneself, suicide, especially when portrayed as a sin or crime.
Synonyms: suicide
Related terms: self-slaughtered
manslaughter
self-murder
rotaviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rotavirus
rotaviral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The only well described viral enterocolitis in horses is rotaviral diarrhea in foals.
ref: 2009, Nathaniel A. White, Equine Acute Abdomen, page 359:
glosses: Of or pertaining to rotaviruses.
Derived terms: antirotaviral
he shoots, he scores
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Coined by Canadian hockey broadcaster Foster Hewitt.
Senses: examples: text: He crouched down so that he was eye level with his desk, and pressing a big paper clip against a smaller one, he shot the clip into a paper cup. ¶ "He shoots, he scores!" he said, raising his arms.
ref: 1997, Lorna Landvik, Your Oasis on Flame Lake, →ISBN, page 108:
glosses: Said as someone scores a goal.
glosses: Said as someone accomplishes something.
netters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of netter
netsukes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Some apology, I feel, is due from one who has never been in Japan for venturing to write about netsukes.
ref: 1898, Frank Leslie, Frank Leslie's popular monthly: Volume 45:
text: […] they have gone into the galleries to see the Japanese paintings, lacquered boxes, netsukes, etc.
ref: 1921, The bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Volume 16, Metropolitan Museum of Art:
text: Netsukes were used by the Japanese as bobs or toggles in connection with a cord for suspending a tobacco pouch[…]
ref: 1949, Lillian Smith Albert, Kathryn Schwerke, The Complete Button Book:
text: All the netsukes were there, imprisoned for so long. I had packed them in the empty box of my last new razor […]
ref: 2010, Bernhard Wunderlich, A Science Career Against All Odds:
glosses: plural of netsuke
rabble rousers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rabble rouser
aëronaut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aëronauts
Etymology: From aër- + -o- + -naut.
Senses: examples: text: Some of them managed to stay with the damaged balloon of Lee Scoresby, the Texan aëronaut.
ref: 1997, Philip Pullman, chapter 2, in The Subtle Knife, page 30:
glosses: Dated form of aeronaut.
aëronauts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aëronaut
dealgan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dealgans
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic dealgan (“spindle”).
Senses: glosses: A kind of spindle, around which the cord is rolled as it is made, afterwards being slipped off the end by removing the whorl.
half orphans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half orphan
jot down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jots down
form: jotting down
form: jotted down
form: jotted down
Senses: examples: text: Tell me his number, and I'll jot it down on this scrap of paper.
glosses: to write down hurriedly; to make a note of
controverser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: controversers
Senses: glosses: controverter, one who controverts
equilateral triangles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equilateral triangle
isosceles triangles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isosceles triangle
Lakovian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lakovian
form: most Lakovian
Etymology: From Lakov + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Lakoffian.
dudgeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dudgeon
mankini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mænˈkiː.ni/
rhymes: -iːni
Forms: form: mankinis
Etymology: Blend of man + bikini, equivalent to man + -kini.
Senses: examples: text: Then he spray-tans and parades before a panel of judges in a posing suit, known in the sport as a mankini.
ref: 2012 April 1, Mary Pilon, “Sculptured by Weights and a Strict Vegan Diet”, in The New York Times:
text: A few supporters even wore mankinis of their own in solidarity.
ref: 2024 February 19, Yan Zhuang, “An Olympic Equestrian Rode a Horse in a ‘Mankini.’ Australia Loves Him.”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A kind of sling bikini worn by men.
mankinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mankini
Saqqaq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sɑːkək/
Etymology: From the Greenlandic Saqqaq, a settlement in the Avannaata municipality of western Greenland, near which archaeological excavations discovered remains of the eponymous Saqqaq culture.
Senses: examples: 2010, February 10ᵗʰ: Brian Handwerk, “Face of Ancient Human Drawn From Hair’s DNA: Genome paints picture of man from extinct Greenland culture”, for National Geographic News
The Saqqaq have long presented a puzzle to scientists, according to study co-author Eske Willerslev, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.
glosses: The Paleo-Eskimo people who inhabited west-central Greenland circa 2500–800BC and who formed the Saqqaq culture.
wikipedia: Avannaata
Saqqaq culture
cock ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cock rings
form: cockring
form: cock-ring
Etymology: From cock + ring.
Senses: examples: text: “[…] Conventional tattoos belong firmly among the iconics of the hegemon. It's like wearing your cock ring to meet the pope, and making sure he sees it. Actually, it's worse than that. What are they like?”
ref: 2014, William Gibson, “Death Cookie”, in The Peripheral, G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 6:
topics: lifestyle
sex
sexuality
synonyms: word: penis ring
english: non-vulgar
translation: non-vulgar
glosses: A band, worn around the base of the penis, used to slow down the flow of blood from the penile tissue and hence maintain an erection.
glosses: An enclosure in which a cockfight takes place.
fustilarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fustilarian
cock sock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cock socks
form: cocksock
Senses: examples: text: To Barry Sandler, author of the screenplay, an Obscene Oscar—for peddling the year’s outstanding example of R-rated pornography; with special mention for the scene in which Lombard gives Gable a handknitted cock sock […]
ref: 1976 May, “Movies”, in Playboy, volume 23, number 5, page 22:
text: Costume designer Patrick Antosh explains that the birth of the cock sock came from his work on the film American Psycho. “There was a scene with Christian Bale running around entirely naked covered in blood. He didn’t want to do full frontal nudity, so I developed a spandex pouch that fits over the entire genitalia. […]
ref: 2003, Paul Ruditis, Queer as Folk: The Book, New York: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 106:
text: I was scrolling one afternoon when I saw a post from a guy in Melbourne selling crochet cock socks for $150 each.
ref: 2020 July 13, Felippe Canale, “Meet the Guy in Melbourne Knitting Socks for Cocks”, in Vice:
glosses: A garment designed to cover the penis, either as a novelty item or for the purpose of modesty.
synonyms: word: condom
word: cum catcher
word: rubber
glosses: A condom.
Related terms: wank sock
spluttery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spluttery
form: splutterier
form: most spluttery
form: splutteriest
Etymology: From splutter + -y.
Senses: examples: text: At least a photograph of an Oscar for the splutteriest and most unintelligible performance in an otherwise for the most part excellent production is bequeathed with proper ceremony.
ref: 1956 May 20, George Jean Nathan, “Awards a Few Hocked Oscars”, in Cleveland Plain Dealer, 115th year, number 141, Cleveland, Oh., →ISSN, page 4⁠—⁠E:
text: He sat quite still, listening intently, sometimes spluttering with laughter when I made a specially odd face, sometimes receiving me in preoccupied silence. I went on to Robinson Crusoe and then Robin Hood where I had great fun doing Friar Tuck. I was at my grossest and Sven at his splutteriest when Blanka returned.
ref: 1959, Anthony Glyn, chapter 8, in I Can Take It All, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, published 1960, →LCCN, page 167:
text: And “Old P” had stuck, for the whole of the year that Tony had had her, as her grinding day by day got grindier and her spluttering splutterier.
ref: 1986, H[enry] R[eymond] F[itzwalter] Keating, “Old P”, in Ellery Queen’s Prime Crimes, Secaucus, N.J.: Castle, published 1988, →ISBN, page 352:
text: Her life, ending in the humiliation and agonized numbness of intestinal cancer, had been more than hard; […] never enough money, never a vacation (unless she counted the weekends at Greenwood Lake, in the upstairs room at Murphy’s Inn, the Catskill “resort hotel” with the freshest flypaper, the splutteriest motorboats, the unruliest kids, the unholiest drinking songs); […]
ref: 2000 August 31, Marion Caryl Somers, “April 10. Last Year”, in The Home: A Brief Moment in Time, [Bloomington, Ind.]: 1stBooks, →ISBN, page 67:
text: Another engine fired up, this one more spluttery.
ref: 2007, Keri Arthur, chapter 12, in Embraced by Darkness, London: Piatkus Books, Little, Brown Book Group, →ISBN, page 293:
glosses: Characterised by spluttering.
bespittle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bespittles
form: bespittling
form: bespittled
form: bespittled
Etymology: From be- + spittle.
Senses: synonyms: beslobber
bespawl
glosses: To cover (someone or something) with spit or spittle, especially from speech.
spitty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spitty
form: most spitty
Etymology: From spit + -y.
Senses: glosses: characterised by spitting
glosses: tending to spit frequently
glosses: covered in saliva
Paleo-Eskimo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpeɪlioʊˈɛskɪmoʊ/
Forms: form: Palaeo-Eskimo
form: Palaeoeskimo
form: Paleoeskimo
Etymology: From paleo- (“old, primeval”) + Eskimo. The scholar David J. Meltzer writes that the people are "badly named: there is nothing to indicate they are ancestral Eskimo or spoke an Eskimo language; today's Eskimo refer to them as the Tuniit".
Senses: glosses: The inhabitants and/or native cultures of the North American Arctic region before the rise of the modern Eskimo cultures in the region; the Saqqaq, Independence I and II, and/or Dorset cultures and peoples.
Related terms: Neoeskimo
muck spreaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muck spreader
not happy, Jan
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Made famous by a television advertisement for Sensis's (Telstra's Directories and Advertising division) Yellow Pages product, which was aired in Australia from 2000–2003. See the Wikipedia article.
Senses: examples: text: One young chick is standing on its toes, flapping crazily, squawking a long ‘not-happy-Jan’ cry in penguin-speak.
ref: 2011, Craig Cormick, In Bed with Douglas Mawson: Travels Around Antarctica, unnumbered page:
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:not happy, Jan.
glosses: Used to express displeasure at someone else's incompetence.
honey wagons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honey wagon
retighten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retightens
form: retightening
form: retightened
form: retightened
Etymology: From re- + tighten.
Senses: glosses: to tighten again
spleeny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spleeny
form: most spleeny
Etymology: From spleen + -y.
Senses: glosses: full of spleen; melancholy
glosses: Overly sensitive.
cuntal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cuntal
form: most cuntal
Etymology: From cunt + -al.
Senses: examples: text: He likes the deep crimson of "the inner cuntal area."
ref: 1989, Andrea Dworkin, Pornography: Men Possessing Women, page 213:
text: If anybody else is of the mind to explore your cuntal regions with their digits, make goddamn sure they keep their nails clipped and hands clean too.
ref: 2002, Inga Muscio, Cunt: A Declaration of Independence, page 73:
text: Crude, debased, cleavage, cuntal, anal, oral . . . any kind of sex would do!
ref: 2003, Ray Gordon, Sexual Service, page 105:
text: ... he kissed her moist crack and then he parted her puffy love lips with his thumbs and slipped his tongue inside her honeypot to lap up her cuntal juices.
ref: 2006, Jeff Charles, Ultimate Vibrations, page 92:
glosses: Of or relating to a cunt; vaginal.
stouten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stoutens
form: stoutening
form: stoutened
form: stoutened
Etymology: From stout + -en.
Senses: synonyms: batten
glosses: To make or become stout or stouter; to gain in size or weight; fatten up.
carrosse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carrosses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of carosse (“type of coach”).
agalmatophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the stem of Ancient Greek ἄγαλμα (ágalma, “statue”) + -philia.
Senses: examples: text: The former included research into alcoholism, transsexualism, painting in therapy, agalmatophilia and tattoo removal: the latter the differential effects of single or double carotid endarterectomy.
ref: 1974, New Zealand Medical Journal, volume 79, page 891:
text: The most famous episode of agalmatophilia in the ancient world dates also to the early third century. It is recounted in the treatise Peri Knidou by Posidippus, probably the homonymous epigrammist of Pella, who was interested in works of art and whose activity dates to around 285-265.
ref: 2008, John Petropoulos, Greek Magic: Ancient, Medieval and Modern, page 24:
text: Interestingly, though, agalmatophilia (the erotic love of statues) is a recognized sexual attraction with a history of labeling as deviant (Blanshard 2010: 28–30). […] Perhaps, though, what we behold in agalmatophilia is a love of art gone too far rather than a queer love.
ref: 2016, Elahe Haschemi Yekani, Queer Futures: Reconsidering Ethics, Activism, and the Political:
glosses: A paraphilia characterised by sexual attraction to a statue, doll, mannequin, or similar object.
Hyponyms: pygmalionism
Derived terms: ursusagalmatophilia
Irish wolfhounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Irish wolfhound
logologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From logological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a logological manner
Gunai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌ.naɪ/
Forms: form: Gaanay
form: Ganai
form: Kurnai
form: Kurnay
Senses: glosses: A collection of Indigenous Australian dialects.
cellaret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cellarets
Etymology: From cellar + -et.
Senses: examples: text: I sipped at some rot-gut Lisbon, which with much ceremony he himself took from a cellaret that stood in the corner of the room, the bottle not being half-full.
ref: 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 314
text: The agile old servant opened the cellaret, prepared the tea table, and brought a boiling samovar.
ref: 2007, Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, trans., War and Peace, Vintage Classics, page 349
glosses: A deep, often metal-lined drawer in a sideboard used for storing wines and liquors.
isogonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌɪˈsɒɡənəl/
Etymology: From isogon + -al.
Senses: topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
qualifier: navigation
glosses: Describing lines connecting points on the Earth's surface whose magnetic declination is identical.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having equal angles.
Synonyms: isogonic
Derived terms: isogonally
isogonal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌɪˈsɒɡənəl/
Forms: form: isogonals
Etymology: From isogon + -al.
Senses: topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
qualifier: navigation
glosses: A line connecting points on the Earth's surface whose magnetic declination is identical.
go to Halifax
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes to Halifax
form: going to Halifax
form: went to Halifax
form: gone to Halifax
Etymology: Euphemistic alliteration with go to hell.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of go to hell.
synonyms: word: go to hell
examples: text: […], and after having made a timetable for St. John, they decided to go to Halifax. This was done without the intervention of the Government, in any way, shape or form. It has created the regrettable situation which now exists, […]
ref: 1914, Canada. Parliament. House of Commons, Official Report of Debates, House of Commons, page 592:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, Halifax.
undiscreet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undiscreet
form: most undiscreet
Etymology: From un- + discreet.
Senses: examples: text: Mammon wexing wroth, And why then, said, / Are mortall men so fond and vndiscreet, / So euill thing to seeke vnto their ayd […]?
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: For these causes Plutarch[…]gives a most especial charge to all parents, and many good cautions about bringing up of children, that they be not committed to undiscreet, passionate, bedlam tutors […].
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition I, section 2, member 4, subsection ii:
glosses: Indiscreet.
clears out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of clear out
clearing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clear out
cleared out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of clear out
sabler
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of sable: more sable
earplugging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of earplug
earplugged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of earplug
tattooless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tattoo + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Distinguishable from the dykes in that their bodies are tattooless and for the most part not naked.
ref: 1999, David Nemec, Stonesifer:
glosses: Without tattoos.
earmuffed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From earmuff + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: ...men in earmuffed caps moving baggage carts, piling up carloads of mail as they stopped to beat mittens together...
ref: 1973, Stephen Longstreet, Chicago, 1860-1919:
text: Cheyenne started laughing. Really. She threw back her bunny-earmuffed head and laughed.
ref: 2009, Meg Cabot, Best Friends and Drama Queens:
glosses: Wearing earmuffs.
bespittled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bespittle
retightened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retighten
retightening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retighten
retightening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retightenings
Senses: glosses: The act or process of tightening something again.
retightens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retighten
dentros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dentro
votesheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: votesheets
Etymology: From vote + sheet.
Senses: examples: text: If you have already voted in other diskmags (like Parrot or Imphobia), we will ofcourse^([sic]) accept those votesheets.
ref: 1995, root, “VOTE for DASKMIG”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):
text: Now, when I check my votesheet, I can see that all the votes have been saved, so I don't find this system stupid at all...
ref: 2003, Euphoric, “Minigame voting deadline is today !!!”, in comp.sys.oric (Usenet):
topics: computing
demoscene
engineering
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A form to be filled in by voters to indicate their preference among various choices in various categories.
votesheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of votesheet
nonprocedurally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nonprocedural + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a nonprocedural manner; not by means of a procedure.
megademo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megademos
Etymology: From mega- + demo.
Senses: examples: text: I asked him to look at an Amiga "megademo" I was working on at the time. When he later saw the demo, he was so impressed he hired me on the spot […]
ref: 2003, Ernest Adams, Break into the game industry: how to get a job making video games:
text: Twenty years after the release of the Atari ST, the atari^([sic]) demoscene proudly announces the release of the '20 years' megademo.
ref: 2005, Kevin Savetz, “ST>Atari ST 20 years megademo released”, in comp.sys.atari.announce (Usenet):
topics: computing
demoscene
engineering
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A large, long-running demo (audiovisual presentation), sometimes one that multiloads.
megademos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megademo
rationable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ration + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Stocks fell 60 percent in two months to 35000 tons of rationable meat.
ref: 2002, Kevin Smith, Conflict Over Convoys:
glosses: Suitable for being rationed.
rationable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rationable
form: most rationable
Senses: glosses: Rational, reasonable.
cyberassault
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberassaults
Etymology: From cyber- + assault.
Senses: examples: text: Ping floods as well as new and interesting distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks are still being developed and have been able to disrupt the service of some of the largest Internet service providers around (as was done in the cyberassaults in early 2000 against Buy.com, eBay, CNN, and Amazon.com).
ref: 2002, Christian Barnes, Eric Ouellet, Neal O'Farrell, Hack proofing your wireless network:
text: Kennedy told the man, who she had taken an extreme disliking to, that she had ordered the cyberassault and would continue to bombard his network every day...
ref: 2005, Vince Flynn, Consent to kill:
text: Why did the NISCC believe that these attacks were different from general computer viruses and other cyberassaults that have been launched in the past?
ref: 2007, George Walter Reynolds, Ethics in information technology:
glosses: An attack carried out by means of a computer network.
cyberassaults
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberassault
hackerproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hackerproof
form: most hackerproof
Etymology: From hacker + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: a hackerproof computer system
text: Despite the flames, I've been running another BBS since the fall of the Communitree, with the same rules and standards... and the only messages I've killed so far were ones I posted pertaining to early bugs in the software, as there's more space on this public access Unix system. (Yes, it's on the very system on which I am typing this letter; tried and true, and hacker-proof -- but with shell access (and "vi" as a message editor) for qualified users.)
ref: 1985 January 24, Brandon Allbery, “Re: An Open Letter To Chuq Von Rospatch (is that his real name?)”, in net.news.stargate (Usenet), retrieved 15 Dec 2016, message-ID <565@ncoast.UUCP>:
glosses: Synonym of hackproof.
synonyms: word: hackproof
hackerproof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hackerproofs
form: hackerproofing
form: hackerproofed
form: hackerproofed
Etymology: From hacker + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hackproof.
synonyms: word: hackproof
hackproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hackproof
form: most hackproof
Etymology: From hack + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: Now consider the Hacker Ethic. Authority? HAH! It's all about breaking the rules, isn't it? Authority is the thing to beat. It's the thing to test your technical creativity against and win. Rebellion at the end of the electric outlet. You don't hack in the modern media sense just because it feels so good when you stop. Oh no. You do it because it is to some extent elitist. You are part of the club. You know the jargon. You have the right access codes. Ultimately, it's a way of proving that you are better then^([sic]) The Authority which designed the hack-proof system. And Not Getting Caught. By getting in you become the authority. Yeah I know, it's all because you hate your father and want to sleep with your mother. Dr. Odd should be charging by the hour in LA-LA land (CA). But think about it. It's plausible. It reads well. You're still awake...
ref: 1988 February 2, Dr. Odd, “Cyberhackers”, in alt.cyberpunk (Usenet), retrieved 15 Dec 2016, message-ID <2899@cup.portal.com>:
text: He's going to feel like he got hit by a train. Maybe he'll even have a full-fledged nervous breakdown. Hackproof, he used to call his system.
ref: 2002, Bruce A Shuman, Case studies in library security:
glosses: Secure from hackers; impossible to hack into.
hackproof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hackproofs
form: hackproofing
form: hackproofed
form: hackproofed
Etymology: From hack + -proof.
Senses: glosses: To make (a computer system) secure from hackers.
brideless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bride + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The brideless bridegroom would permit none to interfere with his sorrow. He dug a grave for his Mora, and erected over it the rude tomb they saw […]
ref: 1829, Walter Scott, The Surgeon's Daughter:
text: God almighty recognizes no brideless marriage […]
ref: 1991, Robert R Taylor, Jesus Christ: the hope of the home:
glosses: Without a bride.
Transjordanian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Transjordanian
form: most Transjordanian
form: Trans-Jordanian
Etymology: From Transjordan + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Transjordan.
Transjordanian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Transjordanians
form: Trans-Jordanian
Etymology: From Transjordan + -ian.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of Transjordan.
Transjordanians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Transjordanian
Transjordan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Trans-Jordan
form: Transjordania
form: Trans-Jordania
Etymology: From trans- + Jordan.
Senses: antonyms: Cisjordan
glosses: The region located east of the Jordan River.
glosses: A British protectorate established in 1921 east of the River Jordan, now forming the main part of the kingdom of Jordan.
Derived terms: Transjordanian
Related terms: Palestine
teamaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teamakers
form: tea maker
Etymology: From tea + maker.
Senses: examples: text: What expertise in BASIC is required of waiters, floor cleaners, doormen, and teamakers?
ref: 1989, North Carolina State University, Social science microcomputer review, Volume 7:
glosses: A person who makes tea (the drink).
examples: text: The company's major competitors in teamakers were Cuisinart and T-Fal.
ref: 1999, Arthur A Thompson, Alonzo J Strickland, Strategic management: concepts and cases:
glosses: A machine that prepares tea (the drink).
teamakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teamaker
nonscholar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonscholars
Etymology: From non- + scholar.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a scholar.
nonscholarly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + scholarly.
Senses: glosses: Not scholarly.
nonscholars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonscholar
saddlewise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From saddle + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: "Shall I cut this loin of mutton saddlewise?" said a gentleman carving. "No," said his friend, "cut it bridlewise, for then we may all chance to get a BIT in our mouths."
ref: 1832, Scottish jests and anecdotes:
text: In this case, a single atom regularly seated holds a molecule in position which has no seat, but only sits saddlewise on the iodine atom.
ref: 1896, W Sedgwick, Argon and Newton: a realisation:
text: Instead of a single niche mounted saddlewise in the corner walls and supporting by its vault the side of an octagon, which supported in its turn the circular base of the cupola, a number of honeycomb niches were brought together in such a way as to create a gradual transition between the corner and the dome's circular base.
ref: 2009, Titus Burckhardt, Art of Islam, Language and Meaning: Commemorative Edition:
glosses: In the manner of a saddle.
Related terms: pillionwise
unpumped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pumped.
Senses: glosses: Not pumped.
aquitard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aquitards
Etymology: From aqui- + Latin tardus (“late, slow”).
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A semipermeable layer along an aquifer.
Derived terms: aquitardal
Related terms: caprock
aquitards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aquitard
booter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbuːtɚ/
Forms: form: booters
Etymology: From boot + -er.
Senses: examples: text: JavaOS works with a variety of booters.
ref: 1999, Tom Saulpaugh, Charles A Mirho, Inside the JavaOS operating system:
text: If the firmware cannot locate a booter file, you will see a flashing folder icon with a question mark.
ref: 2009, Kevin M White, Mac OS X Support Essentials v106:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A program or process that boots.
examples: text: To allow full use of the system's limited resources and prevent users from making pirated copies of the game, the first version of Microsoft Flight Simulator was a booter, rather than being run from within DOS.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games
glosses: A game that is launched by booting directly from the floppy disk containing the game program, rather than starting the program from within the computer's standardized operating system.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The floppy disk used to launch a game in such a manner.
examples: ref: 2017, “A Total of 68 booters from Davao Region will vie for slots in the national junior teams as football regional leg kicked off March 3 to 5 at the Fifa Football Training Center in Valencia, Bukidnon City.”, in Sun Star Davao:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A person who plays association football.
examples: text: “Argghh, a booter,” Sally groaned when she sloshed across a puddle too wide to jump.
ref: 1997, Ian Wilson, Sally Wilson, Gold Rush: North to Alaska and the Klondike, page 106:
synonyms: soaker
glosses: The experience of stepping in a deep puddle and having one's foot become completely engulfed in water.
booters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of booter
aquiclude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aquicludes
Etymology: From aqui- + Latin claudere (“to shut”).
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A solid, impermeable area underlying or overlying an aquifer.
Synonyms: aquifuge
Derived terms: aquicludal
aquicludes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aquiclude
aquifuge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aquifuges
Etymology: From aqui- + -fuge.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An aquiclude.
aquifuges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aquifuge
nonphreatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + phreatic.
Senses: glosses: Not phreatic.
thrushlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thrushlike
form: most thrushlike
Etymology: From thrush + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a thrush (the bird).
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of thrush (the fungal infection).
pando
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Clipping of pandemic + -o.
Senses: examples: text: We have crunched Covid-19 to Covid; the specific coronavirus Sars-CoV-2 is mostly now "coronavirus", and has been joined by "the pandemic" (for some in Australia, the "pando"), "'rona" and even "miss Rona".
ref: [2020 August 20, David Shariatmadari, “Pando, Miss Rona and Covid Toe: how the language of a disease develops – shaped by fear and prejudice”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2021:
text: Had a radio job before the pando, now I don't. I went to school for it too. Now I gotta change gears and don't know howwwww
ref: 2021 September 30, u/ThrustersOnFull, “what are some of the professions that are slowly dying ?”, in Reddit, r/AskReddit, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2024:
text: Pre-pando things were really going well. It's such a shame
ref: 2023 May 9, u/Magnus_Veritas, “CTA Hoses Train Cars Down With Fresh Piss”, in Reddit, r/chicago, archived from the original on 09 May 2023:
text: I really hope the next pando is more effective... ¶ I feel like COVID didn't come through on its promise.
ref: 2023 December 4, u/TimothyOilypants, “Out in the wild”, in Reddit, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2024:
glosses: A pandemic (chiefly in reference to the COVID-19 pandemic).
noncalcified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + calcified.
Senses: glosses: Not calcified.
noncalcareous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛəɹi.əs
Etymology: From non- + calcareous.
Senses: glosses: Not calcareous.
waterthrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterthrushes
form: water thrush
Etymology: From water + thrush.
Senses: glosses: Either of two New World warblers, Parkesia motacilla (the Louisiana waterthrush) and Parkesia noveboracensis (the Northern waterthrush).
waterthrushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waterthrush
downclimbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of downclimb
downclimbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of downclimb
downclimbs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of downclimb
thali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thalis
Etymology: From Hindi थाली (thālī, “plate”).
Senses: examples: text: In front of it was a gold thali filled to overflowing with all manner of food, most of it sweets and pastries made from milk and curds.
ref: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 188:
glosses: A round metal platter used to serve food in India.
glosses: A meal served on such a platter, typically comprising a selection of different dishes presented in small bowls.
thali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thalis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thaali.