cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
rolling stops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rolling stop
sibred
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪbɹəd/
Forms: form: sibrit
form: sibbrit
form: sibberidge
form: siberet
form: sibrets
form: sibright
Etymology: From Middle English sibrede, sibreden, from Old English sibbrǣden (“affinity, relationship”); equivalent to sib + -red.
Senses: glosses: Relationship; kindred.
glosses: Marriage banns.
Related terms: gossipred
opinatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more opinatively
form: most opinatively
Etymology: From opinative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an opinative manner.
applicatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From applicative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an applicative manner.
gossipred
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɒsɪpɹəd/
Etymology: From Middle English gossiprede, gossybrede, godsibrede, from Old English godsibbrǣden (“sponsorial obligations”), equivalent to gossip + -red.
Senses: examples: text: The following are the principal provisions of this statute : — That intermarriages with the natives, or any connexion with them in the way of fostering or gossipred, should be considered and punished as high treason: […]
ref: 1837, Thomas Moore, The history of Ireland:
text: But perhaps the most singular illustration of the tendency of kinship to extend itself artificially under the empire of primitive ideas is to be found in certain Slavonic forms of gossipred or spiritual relationship.
ref: 1883, Sir Henry Sumner Maine, Dissertations on early law and custom:
text: Indeed gossipred became a powerful link of friendship between families; and to make its influence wider, noble or wealthy families often had for each child several sponsors of both sexes […]
ref: 1886, Bernard O'Reilly, The cause of Ireland pleaded before the civilized world:
glosses: Relationship by baptismal rites; spiritual affinity or parentage; sponsorship.
glosses: Idle talk; gossip.
Related terms: sibred
aegophony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aegophonies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of egophony.
safety call
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safety calls
Senses: examples: text: When it reaches those times during your meeting, no matter how well things are going, make your safety-call to let them know you're doing ok.
ref: 2003 April 24, Naia, “Dear Dom: Scared Off-line”, in Bondage.com, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2011:
text: We chit chat some small talk and I make my safety call.
ref: 2006 August 10, Belle, “My first call”, in Belle's Blog, retrieved 15 Nov 2011:
text: Kvam said Lozinski failed to make her "safety call" to say she was OK after meeting Chichester that day.
ref: 2007 February 2, Robin Smith, “Families Battle For Custody Of Dog”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 07 Aug 2008:
text: He was her safety call, something she was supposed to have done over an hour ago.
ref: 2008, Lena Matthews, chapter 5, in Head over Heels: A Cinderella Story, →ISBN, page 47:
text: A good safety call is one in which your contact person has as much information as possible.
ref: 2010, Kim Olver, Secrets of Happy Couples: Loving Yourself, Your Partner and Your Life, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC HQ801.O48 2010, page 22:
qualifier: dating
glosses: A prescheduled phone call to another person who knows where one is and who one was going out with. A missed check-in (or using a pre-arranged code phrase for danger) signals one's contact person to call for help.
topics: ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A type of called shot where a shooting player does not have to continue their turn after pocketing one or more of their balls.
Synonyms: sense: phone call
word: safecall
relove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈlʌv/
Forms: form: reloves
form: reloving
form: reloved
form: reloved
Etymology: From re- + love.
Senses: examples: text: To own for him so familiar and levelling an affection as love, much more to expect to be reloved by him, were not the least saucy presumption man could he guilty of, did not his own commandments make it a duty.
ref: 1648 August 16 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Robert Boyle, Some Motives and Incentives to the Love of God. […] [Seraphick Love], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], published 1659, →OCLC:
english: Seraphick Love
translation: Seraphick Love
text: He therefore that begins to love, doth thereby render the person beloved his debtor, and acquires a just right to be beloved by him again, though he should have no other pretence to or interest in his affections; especially if he be one who is much our superior in all endearing perfections and accomplishments; because this must needs render his love more valuable, and consequently augment our obligation to relove him.
ref: 1826, John Scott, The Works of the Learned and Reverend John Scott:
glosses: To love in return.
reloved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of relove
reloves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of relove
reloving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of relove
depressedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From depressed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being depressed.
urohaematin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of urohematin.
glikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glike
karatas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Bromelia karatas, a West Indian plant of the pineapple family.
tum-tum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tum-tums
form: tum tum
form: tumtum
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps onomatopoeia (of hooves or footfalls); compare tuk-tuk. Perhaps from tandem.
Senses: examples: text: An optimistic old man was our driver; he needed all his optimism too, for his tum-tum was one of the most rickety I've seen , and his little pony very tiny. The balance of this vehicle was most important; we had to sit in certain definite positions ...
ref: 1914, Alice Maud Pennell, Pennell of the Afghan Frontier: The Life of Theodore Leighton Pennell, M.D., B. SC., F.R.C.S. Kaisar-i-Hind Medal for Public Service in India, page 414:
text: His fellow assistant, Dr Panna Lal, was in ecstasies at the prospect, and was urgent that they should attend it together in his new tum-tum.
ref: 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 49:
glosses: A dog cart; a rickshaw; a kind of vehicle.
tum-tum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tum tum
form: tumtum
Etymology: Borrowed fom Twi Akan tumtum (“mashed green bananas”). Compare Sranan Tongo tonton (“mashed plantain dumpling”).
Senses: glosses: A dish made in the West Indies by beating boiled plantain in a wooden mortar until it is soft.
tum-tum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tum-tums
form: tum tum
form: tumtum
Etymology: Reduplication of tum, a shortened form of tummy.
Senses: examples: text: Can't eat - my tum-tum's hurting.
text: Take a little food and stir in some GASTRIC JUICE, which is made fresh daily by the 35 million glands that line your tum-tum.
ref: 2000, Joy Masoff, Oh, Yuck!: The Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty, Workman Publishing, published 2000, →ISBN, page 188:
glosses: Stomach.
examples: text: The dog likes having its tum-tum rubbed.
text: The Internet is full of sites where you can buy everything you need to make a plaster mold of your tum-tum.
ref: 2011, Joanne Kimes, Leslie Young, Pregnancy Sucks: What to Do When Your Miracle Makes You Miserable, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 172:
glosses: Abdomen.
breastfast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breastfasts
Etymology: From breast + fast.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A large rope to fasten the midship part of a ship to a wharf or to another vessel.
breastfasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breastfast
mizmaze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mizmazes
Senses: examples: text: In the perplexing mizmaze of the modern residence, in the undue attention to the multiplex mysteries of the modern wardrobe, in the multiform engagements of the modern individual, the family is losing its identity.
ref: 1898 February 24, Kate Kingsley Ide, “The Primary Social Settlement”, in Popular Science Monthly:
text: So the young man took the end of the silken string in his left hand, and his gold-hiked sword, ready drawn from its scabbard, in the other, and trod boldly into the inscrutable labyrinth. How this labyrinth was built is more than I can tell you, but so cunningly contrived a mizmaze was never seen in the world, before nor since. There can be nothing else so intricate, unless it were the brain of a man like Dædalus, who planned it, or the heart of any ordinary man
ref: 1918, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Tanglewood tales, The Minotaur:
glosses: A maze or labyrinth.
examples: text: "Not a bit of it," responded our friend. "They come along so fast that I was all in a mizmaze trying to keep track on 'em.[…]"
ref: 1922, Mazo de la Roche, Explorers of the Dawn, Chapter 7:
glosses: A state of bewilderment.
mizmazes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mizmaze
aphakial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aphakia + -al.
Senses: examples: text: aphakial eyes
topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to or exhibiting aphakia; aphakic.
conterminable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From con- + terminable?
Senses: examples: c. 1638-1639, Henry Wotton, letter to Edmund Bacon
Love and life are not conterminable.
glosses: Having the same ends; terminating at the same time or place.
pussy-boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pussy-boys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pussyboy.
pussy-boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pussy-boy
typhomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See typhus and mania.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A form of delirium common among sufferers of typhoid fever.
kyanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See cyanite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Aniline.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A base obtained from coal tar.
besaint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: besaints
form: besainting
form: besainted
form: besainted
Etymology: From be- + saint.
Senses: synonyms: canonize
glosses: To make a saint of.
besainted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of besaint
besainting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of besaint
besaints
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of besaint
erasion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erasions
Etymology: From Latin ērādō (“to erase, to scrape”) + -siō, equivalent to erase + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: If erasions are found in a text occuring verbatim in another author who continues the material erased, then without a doubt that first author in the particular instance is not original.
ref: 1949, Franciscan Studies - Volume 9, page 105:
text: […] followed by the low level driving energy to said heating means for effecting the erasion of the data recorded on the thermal recording media;
ref: 1998, Yoshinori Koshida, Shusaku Tanabe, Satoshi Murakami, “5852463: Thermal Recording Apparatus and Erasing Method of a Record Therefor”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, page 3547:
text: The erasion of symbol pixels after recognition is, correspondingly, separated into two cases.
ref: 2006, F. Su, J. Song, S. Cai, “A Vectorization System for Architecture Engineering Drawings”, in Wenyin Liu, Josep Lladós, editor, Graphics Recognition, page 16:
glosses: The act of erasing; a rubbing out or obliteration; erasure.
examples: text: A very considerable time must elapse before an operation can assert that a case of excision or erasion of the knee is thoroughly successful.
ref: 1888, A. Marmaduke Shield, “Erasion of the Knee Joint”, in Annals of Surgery, volume 7, page 117:
text: The method of erasion—scraping off the epidermis until the papillary layer of the skin is laid bare—is now most requently used in this country.
ref: 1894, George Henry Rohe, Text-book of hygiene, page 341:
text: If caseation has taken place it should be treated as elsewhere, by means of incision and erasion; the skin being sutured and the wound kept aseptic when possible.
ref: 1910, Edred Moss Corner, Operations of general practice:
text: Mr. Wright advocates erasion in children in preference to excision on the grounds that there is less interference with the growth of the limb, and mobility may be preserved.
ref: 1912, Alfred Herbert Tubby, Deformities, Including Diseases of the Bones and Joints, page 305:
glosses: The surgical removal of tissue by scraping.
erasions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of erasion
farcing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farcings
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A stuffing; forcemeat.
glosses: Alternative form of farsing (“the insertion of vernacular paraphrases into a Latin liturgy”).
farcing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of farce
episternums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of episternum
episterna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of episternum
festerment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: festerments
Etymology: From fester + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: those misadventures and pettier miseries of life , which , if not so alleviated , would keep us in a state of continual festerment
ref: 1834, Thomas Chalmers, On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God:
synonyms: fester#Noun
glosses: A festering.
festerments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of festerment
goltschut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goltschuts
Senses: glosses: A small gold or silver ingot, formerly used as money in some parts of Asia.
goltschuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goltschut
typhos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of typhus.
unoil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unoils
form: unoiling
form: unoiled
form: unoiled
Etymology: From un- + oil.
Senses: glosses: To remove the oil (any sort) from.
unoiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unoil
unoils
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unoil
subatom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subatoms
Etymology: From sub- + atom.
Senses: glosses: Any particle that is smaller than an atom; a subatomic particle.
subatoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subatom
reliquidate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reliquidates
form: reliquidating
form: reliquidated
form: reliquidated
Etymology: From re- + liquidate.
Senses: glosses: To liquidate again.
reliquidated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reliquidate
reliquidates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reliquidate
reliquidating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reliquidate
whimmy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈʍɪmi/
/ˈwɪmi/
Forms: form: more whimmy
form: most whimmy
Etymology: From whim + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The study of Rabbinical literature either finds a man whimmy or makes him so.
ref: 1827, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Oxley:
glosses: Full of whims; whimsical.
reliquidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reliquidations
Etymology: From re- + liquidation.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent liquidation.
reliquidations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reliquidation
hecdecane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of hexadecane.
bibracteate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + bracteate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having two bracts.
numskulled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more numskulled
form: most numskulled
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of numbskulled.
indesirable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indesirable
form: most indesirable
Etymology: From in- + desirable.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of undesirable.
phalloidins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phalloidin
amanitine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amanitines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of amanitin.
amanitines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amanitine
knittle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knittles
Etymology: From knit.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of nettles.
knittles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knittle
disquisitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disquisitive
form: most disquisitive
Senses: synonyms: disquisitionary
glosses: Relating to disquisition; fond of discussion or investigation; inquisitive.
Derived terms: disquisitively
reperuse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːpəˈɹuːz/
Forms: form: reperuses
form: reperusing
form: reperused
form: reperused
Etymology: From re- + peruse.
Senses: examples: text: I dare not reperuse what I have written, I must deposit it.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LXIV”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
text: ‘Reperuse now that portion of this argument which has reference to the identification of the corpse by Beauvais.’
ref: 1843, Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt:
glosses: To peruse again.
reperused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reperuse
reperuses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reperuse
reperusing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reperuse
virmilion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of vermilion.
filcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filchers
Etymology: From filch + -er.
Senses: examples: text: But to return — Poor Paddy had a wife,
 The very plague and torment of his soul,
The harbinger of battle and of strife,
 And, what was worse, the filcher of his bowl ;
ref: 1820 August, Daniel O'Rourke, “An Epic Poem, in Six Cantos”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 7, number 41, page 35:
text: Well, she sneaks around the world from Kiev to Carolina / She's a sticky-fingered filcher from Berlin down to Belize
ref: 1991, “Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?”, Sean Altman, David Yazbek (music), performed by Rockapella:
glosses: One who filches; a thief.
filchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filcher
overcatching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overcatch
overcaught
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overcatch
beerhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beerhouses
form: beer-house
form: beer house
Etymology: From Middle English beerhouse, from Old English *bēorhūs, from Proto-West Germanic *beuʀahūs (“beerhouse”), equivalent to beer + house.
Senses: glosses: A tavern or restaurant in which the primary drink served is beer.
Synonyms: alehouse
Coordinate terms: winehouse
beerhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beerhouse
harborous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more harborous
form: most harborous
Etymology: From harbour + -ous.
Senses: glosses: hospitable
pilgrimize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pilgrimizes
form: pilgrimizing
form: pilgrimized
form: pilgrimized
Etymology: From pilgrim + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Fellow Onion, I'll bear thy charges, and thou wilt but pilgrimize it along with me to the land of Utopia
ref: c. 1597, Ben. Jonson, A Pleasant Comedy, Called: The Case is Alterd. […], London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Bartholomew Sutton, and William Barrenger, […], published 1609, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: substantial clothing to use in rough pilgrimizing in the Holy Land
ref: 1869, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims’ Progress; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company. […], →OCLC:
glosses: To wander as a pilgrim; to go on a pilgrimage.
pilgrimized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pilgrimize
pilgrimizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pilgrimize
pilgrimizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pilgrimize
prowdly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more prowdly
form: most prowdly
Etymology: From prowd + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of proudly.
prosyllogistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + syllogistic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a prosyllogism
episyllogistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an episyllogism.
prosyllogism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prosyllogisms
Etymology: From pro- + syllogism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A syllogism that is preliminary or logically essential to another syllogism.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The conclusion of such a syllogism, which becomes a premise of the following syllogism.
prosyllogisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prosyllogism
lovefully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lovefully
form: most lovefully
Etymology: From loveful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a loveful manner.
lipic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈlɪpɪk/
Etymology: Compare lipid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, or derived from, fat.
Derived terms: lipic acid
elocutive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Preaching in it's elocutive part[…]
ref: 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
glosses: Pertaining to elocution.
prowd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: prowder
form: prowdest
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of proud.
metasomatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From metasomatic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of metasomatism.
moonwake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From moon + wake.
Senses: examples: text: I was long puzzled to know why this moonwake always followed as I walked […]
ref: 1901, Daniel A. Goodsell, Nature and Character at Granite Bay:
text: And they grew and brightened and gathered; and whiles together they ran. Like the moonwake over the waters […]
ref: 1922, William Morris, The Story of Sigurd the Volsung:
text: Mariners sometimes call the moving path of light leading to the moon the moonwake, because it looks like the white wash of a ship's wake.
ref: 2006, The Atlantic: Word Fugitives:
glosses: The reflection of moonlight on a body of water.
Synonyms: moonglade
monadiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more monadiform
form: most monadiform
Etymology: From monad + -iform.
Senses: examples: text: monadiform germs
text: monadiform Protozoa
text: monadiform young
text: monadiform zooids
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the form of a monad; resembling a monad in having one or more filaments of vibratile protoplasm.
ennobler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ennoblers
Etymology: From ennoble + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who ennobles.
ennoblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ennobler
orchotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orchotomy
orchotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orchotomies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὄρχις (órkhis, “testicle”) + -tomy.
Senses: glosses: The surgical removal of a testicle; castration.
thatness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈðætnəs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: thatnesses
Etymology: From that + -ness.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The quality or characteristic of being that (something referred to).
Related terms: thisness
thoseness
hand bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand bridges
Senses: topics: ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: a player's front hand formed to position their cue while making a shot
days of wine and roses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the poem Vitae Summa Brevis (1896) by Ernest Dowson.
Senses: glosses: A bygone era of innocence and simplicity, especially youth.
Synonyms: halcyon days
harmost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harmosts
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἁρμοστής (harmostḗs). See harmony.
Senses: qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: A governor or ruler appointed by the Spartans in the cities they subjugated.
harmosts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harmost
fassaite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fassaites
Etymology: From Fassa + -ite, after a valley in the Tyrol.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A variety of augite
Related terms: fassaitic
fassaites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fassaite
monospherical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + spherical.
Senses: examples: text: monospherical prosthesis
text: monospherical total shoulder replacement
glosses: Consisting of a single sphere.
handcuff artist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handcuff artists
Senses: glosses: An escape artist who specializes in escaping handcuffs.
topics: gambling
games
glosses: A person who only bets when they are sure of a victory.
Synonyms: topics: gambling
games
word: locksmith
Hypernyms: escape artist
vowelism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vowel + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The use of vowels.
botchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more botchy
form: most botchy
Etymology: From botch + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Read over again my letter to the Lord Chancellor, and my last letter to yourself, and if they do not satisfy you that I am right in looking forward to a more substantial ecclesiastical reform, and in not promoting this botchy business, you must forgive me if I never say another word to you on the subject.
ref: 1814, Richard Watson, Anecdotes of the life of Richard Watson, Bishop of Landaff:
synonyms: botched
sloppy
glosses: Full of botches or mistakes; poorly done.
Derived terms: botchily
botchiness
overelegant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overelegant
form: most overelegant
Etymology: From over- + elegant.
Senses: glosses: Excessively elegant.
Derived terms: overelegantly
overelegance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + elegance.
Senses: glosses: Excessive elegance.
programmist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: programmists
Etymology: From programme + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: But these first theorists and programmists of communism, who conceived their programmes after the fashion of an economic enterprise, a hygienic reform, or an educational institution[…]
ref: 1953, Benedetto Croce, History of Europe in the nineteenth century:
text: In Quebec in 1875 he was ultramontane, programmist, out-Veuilloting Veuillot, swearing by Mgr. Bourget and Mgr. Lafleche[…]
ref: 1965, Oscar Douglas Skelton, David Morice Leigh Farr, Life and letters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, volume 2:
synonyms: programmatist
glosses: One who supports a programme or schedule, especially politically.
examples: text: the leit-motif, that much-vaunted invention of programmists
ref: 1916, Daniel Gregory Mason, The Art of Music: The Opera:
text: Yet all the while I find myself seriously distrusting the psychological validity of the current classification of composers into absolutists and programmists or impressionists.
ref: 1999, Edward Sapir, Regna Darnell, Culture, page 901:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: programmatist
glosses: A composer of program music.
programmists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of programmist
gunsmithy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gunsmithies
Etymology: From gun + smithy.
Senses: glosses: A gunsmith's shop.
gunsmithies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gunsmithy
imbodied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of imbody
imbodies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of imbody
imbody
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: imbodies
form: imbodying
form: imbodied
form: imbodied
Etymology: See embody.
Senses: examples: text: such imbody'd force
ref: 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: Archaic form of embody.
Derived terms: reimbody
unimbodied
imbodying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of imbody
flexanimous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flexanimous
form: most flexanimous
Senses: examples: a flexanimous orator
glosses: Having the power to change somebody's mind.
beamily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more beamily
form: most beamily
Etymology: From beamy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: a bright halo, shining beamily
ref: c. 1814, John Keats, To Byron:
glosses: In a beaming manner.
bribeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bribe + -less.
Senses: examples: c. 1603?, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Walter Raleigh's Pilgrimage
From thence to heaven's bribeless hall.
glosses: Incapable of being bribed, or without bribes.
dilettanteism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dilettanteisms
Etymology: From dilettante + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Dilettanteism presupposes art as botchwork does handicraft; and the Dilettante holds the same relation to the artist that the botcher does to the craftsman.
ref: 1874, The Quarterly Review, volume 137, page 388:
glosses: Alternative form of dilettantism.
dilettanteisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dilettanteism
nectarial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɛkˈtɛəɹi.əl/
ipa: /nɛkˈtɛɹi.əl/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəl
Senses: examples: text: nectarial cells
text: nectarial gland
text: nectarial tissue
glosses: Of or pertaining to the nectary of a plant.
aldermanity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From alderman + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: How would certain topics, as aldermanity, cuckoldry, have sounded to a Terentian auditory, though Terence himself had been alive to translate them? Senator urbanus, with Curruca to boot for a synonime, would but faintly have done the business.
ref: 1833, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “[Popular Fallacies.] VIII. That Verbal Allusions Are Not Wit, Because They Will Not Bear a Translation.”, in The Last Essays of Elia. […], London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 239:
synonyms: aldermancy
glosses: The condition of being an alderman.
subzonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + zonal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a subzone.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated under a zone, or zona; applied to a membrane between the zona radiata and the umbilical vesicle in the mammal embryo.
enticer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enticers
Etymology: From entice + -er.
Senses: examples: text: a comely grace, courtesies, gentle salutations, cringes, a mincing gait, a decent and an affected pace, are most powerful enticers
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
glosses: One who entices or allures.
enticers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enticer
fickly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fickly
form: most fickly
Etymology: From fickle + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Up, and away goes Alce, our cooke-mayde, a good servant, whom we loved and did well by her, and she an excellent servant, but would not bear being told of any faulte in the fewest and kindest words and would go away of her owne accord, after having given her mistresse warning fickly for a quarter of a yeare together.
ref: 1666 March 30, Samuel Pepys, Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, volume 5, Dodd, Mead & Company, published 1885, pages 345–346:
glosses: In a fickle manner.
anisostemonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aniso- + Ancient Greek στήμων (stḗmōn, “warp”) + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having unequal stamens.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having stamens different in number from the petals.
contravener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contraveners
Etymology: From contravene + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who contravenes.
contraveners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contravener
somethin'
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Informal spelling of something.
Karan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name of North American usage, variant of Karen.
Karan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Sanskrit कर्ण (karṇa, “Karna”). Doublet of Karna.
Senses: examples: text: Sharmishta Roy, who did the sets of K3G, has this to say about Johar: “Karan cannot handle dirt, he cannot deal with grime, he went to Chandni Chowk and almost fainted.”
ref: 2007, Ranjani Mazumdar, Bombay Cinema: An Archive of the City, University of Minnesota Press, page 227:
glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit, of Indian usage.
sufferage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sufferages
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of suffrage.
slipage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of slippage.
glaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: glaunces
form: glauncing
form: glaunced
form: glaunced
form: glaunst
form: glaunst
Senses: examples: text: A has a little gald me I confeſſe: / And as the Ieſt did glaunce avvaie from me, […]
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 228, column 1:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of glance.
glaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glaunces
Senses: examples: text: [W]hen Marcus Philoſophus came in, Sylenus vvas grauelled, and out of countenance, not knovving vvhere to carpe at him, ſaue at the laſt, he gaue a glaunce at his patience tovvards his vvife.
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, “The First Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC, folio 35, verso:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of glance.
glaunc'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: When as the tread of ſtranger feet ſhe heard,
Eftſoons her eyes ſhe thitherwards enhaunc’d,
Which as the glitterand ſun‐beam bright appear’d,
And quicker than the quivering levin glaunc’d,
And ſtrait toward them with light ſtep advaunc’d;
Her holden‐tendrill’d locks down from her head
Hung looſely, wav’ring as to them bechaunc’d,
She never them confin’d in tye or brede,
But they mos t comely ſeem’d, whan moſt diſhevelled.
ref: 1790, Hugh Downman, Poems, second edition, page 224:
glosses: simple past and past participle of glaunce
be a man
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: is a man
form: being a man
form: was a man
form: been a man
Senses: glosses: To put up with something or take responsibility for it; to deal with something, such as pain or misfortune, without complaining.
Synonyms: deal with it
grin and bear it
lump it
man up
push through it
suck it up
take it like a man
enhaunc'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enhaunc'd
form: most enhaunc'd
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of enhanced.
enhaunc'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enhaunce
commaundment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commaundments
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of commandment.
understaund
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: understaunds
form: understaunding
form: understaunded
form: understaunded
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of understand.
commaunds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commaund
commaunds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of commaund
pussygirl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pussygirls
Etymology: From pussy + girl.
Senses: examples: text: One of her adventures has her as a "Pussygirl" in a Sexyboy Club.
ref: 1966, Daughters of Bilitis, The Ladder, volumes 11-12:
text: The "heroine" is said to have seduced her father at the age of 13, to have been an MP, a spy, a " pussygirl " and countless other things.
ref: 1968, The illustrated London news, volume 252, numbers 6714-6726:
text: […] her becoming a Pussygirl at a Sexyboy club, her career as a spy and the other fatalities she achieved... "too amusing?"
ref: 1968, “The Kirkus service, Volume 36, Issues 1-12”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: Pussygirl won't always come when I need her She's no tease, she's just no machine. "Com'on, come on!" I beg, tense and intense, working hard for some pussy, girl.
ref: 1992, Miriam DeCosta-Willis, Reginald Martin, Roseann P. Bell, Erotique noire, →ISBN, page 130:
text: Katie is the newest Pussygirl and she is anxious to know what her responsibilities will be. In her squeaky little girl voice she asks for instructions, but all he wants right now is to have her juicy pussy on his face.
ref: 2002, rogrtipe, “VHS Review- PUSSYMAN'S HOLLYWOOD HARLOTS #2”, in rec.arts.movies.erotica (Usenet):
glosses: A (term of endearment for a) female submissive sex partner; a prostitute; a seductress.
Related terms: pussyboy
pussyman
pussygirls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pussygirl
ignoraunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ignoraunt
form: most ignoraunt
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of ignorant.
Derived terms: ignorauntly
ignorauntly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ignorauntly
form: most ignorauntly
Etymology: From ignoraunt + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of ignorantly.
beaglepuss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beaglepusses
Etymology: From Franco-American Novelty Company's brand name "Beagle Puss Disguise Kit", apparently from beagle + puss (“face”).
Senses: examples: text: Vonnegut did not write the book, and the photo on the book jacket of Trout looked suspiciously like Farmer, wearing Boss Mule work gloves, beagle puss and mustache, sunglasses, mufflers, etc.
ref: 1990, Howard Waldrop, Night of the Cooters: More Neat Stories, Kansas City: Ursus Imprints, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, LCC PS3573.A4228 N54 1990, page 60:
text: The punchline: a bewildered Ung wearing a beaglepuss and trying to type with a rubber chicken […]
ref: 2004 September 13, George Jones, Maximum PC 2005 Buyer's Guide, Indianapolis: Que, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 23:
text: Julian Assange personally reads every document to be published, types it up and formats it on his laptop while wearing a beaglepuss.
ref: 2010 August 22, JDog, “The Greatest Rube Goldberg Machine: How WikiLeaks Documents Reach Julian Assange”, in Writing Rendezvous, retrieved 15 Nov 2011:
glosses: A novelty pair of horn-rimmed glasses with attached eyebrows, plastic nose, and bushy mustache, caricaturing Groucho Marx.
Synonyms: Groucho glasses
heteroglossia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hetero- + -glossia.
Senses: examples: text: A superficial impression of Asia may be of disorder, whereas this condition is in fact the immediate historicity that speaks for an undertheorised heteroglossia.
ref: 2017, Francis Chia-Hui Lin, Architectural Theorisations and Phenomena in Asia, page 194:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The coexistence of distinct linguistic varieties, styles of discourse, or points of view within a single language, as in a literary work.
Related terms: heteroglossic
Groucho glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Groucho from Groucho Marx + glasses
Senses: examples: text: Joe handed Groucho glasses to each of them and then indicated the guns.
ref: 2000, Chloe Green, Going Out in Style, New York: Warner, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, LCC PS3557.R363 G65 2000, page 58:
text: I felt like I was going down on a pair of Groucho glasses.
ref: 2004 May, Gus Mattox, “Fuzz Down Below”, in Out, →ISSN, page 93:
text: Dan Menaker handed me a pair of Groucho glasses as I entered the room.
ref: 2006 October 17, Joe Klein, “Afterword”, in Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics, Trade Paperback edition, Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, LCC PS3550.A1 P75 2006, page 378:
text: And there on the wall with trick sunglasses you can use to look behind you, Groucho glasses, and the glasses with the eyeballs on springs was something very, very creepy.
ref: 2011, David Anderegg, Nerds: How Dorks, Dweebs, Techies, and Trekkies Can Save America and Why They Might Be Our Last Hope, New York: Penguin, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 21:
glosses: A novelty pair of horn-rimmed glasses with attached eyebrows, plastic nose, and bushy mustache, caricaturing Groucho Marx.
Synonyms: beaglepuss
cruize
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cruizes
Senses: examples: text: It would be the greatest pleasure to him to have her there to the last moment before he sailed, and perhaps find her there still when he came in, from his first cruize!
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VI, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 132:
glosses: Obsolete form of cruise.
cruize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cruizes
form: cruizing
form: cruized
form: cruized
Senses: examples: text: I should not wonder if you had your orders to-morrow; but you cannot sail with this wind, if you are to cruize to the westward; […]
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 150:
glosses: Obsolete form of cruise.
Derived terms: cruizer
typicall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more typicall
form: most typicall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of typical.
hindraunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hindraunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of hindrance.
matcht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of match
marcht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of march
plesauntly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more plesauntly
form: most plesauntly
Etymology: From plesaunt + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pleasantly.
pleasaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pleasaunter
form: pleasauntest
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pleasant.
Derived terms: pleasauntly
shockt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shockt
form: most shockt
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of shocked.
shockt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shock
heterobiography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: heterobiographies
Etymology: From hetero- + biography.
Senses: glosses: biography written by another person, as opposed to an autobiography
Hypernyms: biography
aunswerable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aunswerable
form: most aunswerable
Etymology: From aunswer + -able.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of answerable.
Derived terms: unaunswerable
unaunswerable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unaunswerable
form: most unaunswerable
Etymology: From un- + aunswerable.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of unanswerable.
dje
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: djes
Etymology: Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian ђе.
Senses: glosses: The name of the Cyrillic script letter Ђ / ђ.
hypopharynx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æɹɪŋks
Forms: form: hypopharynges
form: hypopharynxes
Etymology: From hypo- + pharynx.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: bottom part of the pharynx, the part of the throat that connects to the esophagus
Synonyms: laryngopharynx
Derived terms: hypopharyngeal
orohypopharynx
bitchboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪt͡ʃˌbɔɪ/
Forms: form: bitchboys
Etymology: From bitch + boy.
Senses: examples: text: 2004, Best gay erotica, snippet
...set of anal beads in a twelve-mile radius of Christopher Street and shove them all up your ass while you whine and whine and whine like the beefy blond bitchboy of my dreams, but then I think about actually having to do that.
text: I love being a bitchboy bottom when a top can seduce me properly.
topics: LGBT
glosses: A bottom, usually a younger, submissive male.
examples: text: “Yo, bitchboy!” a kid, conveniently hidden in the line, shouts down. “You goin' or not?!”
ref: 2008, Wayne Johnson, White Heat: The Extreme Skiing Life, page 269:
glosses: A coward, especially a younger man.
Synonyms: sense: submissive young gay man
word: bottom bitch
sense: submissive young gay man
word: pussyboy
sense: submissive young gay man
word: twink
sense: cowardly young man
word: wuss
bitchboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bitchboy
hyponasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + -nasty.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: an upward bending of leaves or other plant parts, caused by increased growth on their lower surface
Related terms: hyponastic
hypozoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + -zoic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: older than the lowest rocks which contain organic remains
hypocrystalline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + crystalline.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: having both glass and crystalline components
raw_tags: of igneous rocks
maihem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maihems
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mayhem (“maiming or causing bodily harm”).
raw_tags: used chiefly before 1900
public comments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of public comment
mud wrestler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mud wrestlers
Etymology: From mud + wrestler.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mudwrestler.