cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
on-campus
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Engaging in an activity by a faculty member or a student of an educational institution on the campus.
sallowy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsælɵwi/
Forms: form: more sallowy
form: most sallowy
Etymology: From Middle English *salowy, from Old English salowiġ, saluwiġ (“dark-coloured, yellowish”), equivalent to sallow + -y.
Senses: examples: text: He ^([sic]) skin was a sallowy yellow shade and her hair had been dyed black for a film.
ref: 2016, Mary S. Lovell, The Riviera Set:
glosses: Of a sallow tinge; yellowish.
sallowy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsælɵwi/
Forms: form: more sallowy
form: most sallowy
Etymology: From sallow (“goat willow”) + -y.
Senses: examples: 1859-85, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King
He dreamed; but Arthur with a hundred spears / Rode far, till o'er the illimitable reed, / And many a glancing plash and sallowy isle
glosses: Having many sallows.
Sally Lunn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsali ˈlʌn/
Forms: form: Sally Lunns
form: Sally Lunn bun
Etymology: Probably from the name of a 17th-century English baker.
Senses: examples: text: I had the misfortune to lose a beloved brother in the prime of life, who dropt down dead as he was playing on the fiddle at Sir Robert Throgmorten's, after drinking a large quantity of Bath Waters, and eating a hearty breakfast of spungy hot rolls, or Sally Luns.
ref: 1780, Philip Thicknesse, The Valetudinarian's Bath Guide:
text: A slice of Sally Lunn, still warm from its swaddling of serviette, is more to her liking.
ref: 2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 131:
glosses: A type of teacake or sweetened bun, leavened with yeast.
he who smelt it dealt it
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: whoever smelt it dealt it
form: you smelt it, you dealt it
Senses: qualifier: originally
glosses: A person who calls attention to or complains about a flatus is likely trying to pretend it wasn't their own.
glosses: A person calling attention to or complaining about a given problem may in fact be the source of the problem.
Synonyms: he who denied it supplied it
Coordinate terms: he who said the rhyme did the crime
Related terms: cut the cheese
protest too much
whoever smelt it dealt it
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of he who smelt it dealt it.
fore-and-aft-rigged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: having its main sails rigged onto spars or stays parallel to the keel
raw_tags: of a ship
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: rigged in this manner
raw_tags: of a sail
Related terms: gaff-rigged
gold standards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gold standard
nomos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nomoi
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νόμος (nómos). Doublet of nome.
Senses: glosses: The body of law, especially that governing human behaviour.
glosses: A territorial division of ancient Egypt; a nome.
knock-on effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knock-on effect
piss-prophet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piss-prophets
Etymology: From piss + prophet.
Senses: glosses: One who diagnosed diseases by inspecting the patient's urine.
minority council
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minority councils
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: a civic governing coalition whereby the Mayor's political allies in city council hold a minority of the seats; a form of minority government . As a Mayor may be directly elected, the allied councillors need not hold a plurality of the seats, the opposition alliance on council may contain a majority of the seats on council.
Related terms: majority council
city council
councillor
mechanized infantry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mechanized infantries
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Infantry which uses infantry fighting vehicles (types of tanks) in combination with regular infantry tactics.
Related terms: heavy infantry
light infantry
marine infantry
mechanized cavalry
motorized infantry
mounted infantry
mounted infantry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mounted infantries
Senses: glosses: Infantry transported on mounts (e.g. horses) but fighting on foot.
Related terms: heavy infantry
light infantry
marine infantry
mechanized infantry
marine infantry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marine infantries
Senses: examples: text: The UK and US marine corps were originally their marine infantry
glosses: An infantry corps which is trained or assigned to fight on or after transport by navy ships.
Related terms: mariner
heavy infantry
light infantry
mechanized infantry
mounted infantry
hurrying up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hurry up
hurried up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hurry up
cat-witted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cat-witted
form: most cat-witted
Etymology: From cat + witted.
Senses: glosses: spiteful, obstinate, and small-minded.
hurries up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hurry up
look through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looks through
form: looking through
form: looked through
form: looked through
Senses: examples: text: He looked through the binoculars at the bird.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look, through.
examples: text: I looked through the magazine, but it didn't seem very interesting.
text: Airport security looked through her purse and confiscated her nail scissors.
glosses: To take a view of the contents of; search in, either with the eyes or by hand.
examples: text: I got a small ring to make; when I brought back the finished trinket to him he stared at me with his sparkling eyes, as if he would look through my very soul, and then said: 'Thou art a clever expert fellow […]
ref: 1829, Richard Holcraft, Tales of Humour and Romance: Selected from Popular German Writers:
text: But a man should have serious consideration enough to look through this deception.
ref: 1832, The Christian Offering, page 205:
text: The village women were bad enough, but this man looked through me, past all the walls I had built to protect myself from pain. I do not think I could have hidden anything from him, even with a lifetime's practice of hiding what I felt.
ref: 2012, Mary Young, Through Love's Eyes, page 3:
glosses: To penetrate with the understanding; to see through.
examples: text: I tried to get Michele's attention at the party, but she looked right through me!
glosses: To appear or pretend not to see something or someone who is clearly visible.
raw_tags: with "right"
Related terms: go through
read through
through
cystinosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cystine + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: Abderhalden-Kaufmann-Lignac syndrome
glosses: A disorder caused by abnormal metabolism of cystine.
radix complements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radix complement
whatzit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whatzits
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of whatsit.
whatzits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whatzit
Clementi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kləˈmɛnti/
note: usual pronunciation in Singapore
ipa: /ˈklɛmənti/
Etymology: Named after Governor of Singapore Cecil Clementi.
Senses: glosses: A town in Singapore.
wikipedia: Governor of Singapore
bazars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bazar
varment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: varments
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of varmint.
wies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
homophone: wise
homophone: whys
Senses: examples: text: These names […] may form regular plurals; thus, Aes, Bees, Cees, Dees, Ees, Effs, Gees, Aitches, Ies, Jays, Kays, Ells, Ems, Ens, Oes, Pees, Kues, Ars, Esses, Tees, Ues, Vees, Double-ues, Exes, Wies, Zees.
ref: 1856, Goold Brown, The First Lines of English Grammar, page 10:
glosses: plural of wy
totalers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of totaler
totallers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of totaller
aftertax
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of after-tax.
jordens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jorden
malaco-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μαλακός (malakós, “soft”), the word that French mollusque (“mollusk”), originally from Latin mollis (“soft”) was meant to be a calque of.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Forms terms relating to molluscs.
examples: text: malacoid
translation: soft-bodied
english: soft-bodied
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topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Soft.
traffic boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traffic boys
Senses: glosses: A young male crossing guard.
traffic boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of traffic boy
crossing guard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crossing guards
Senses: glosses: A person who directs vehicular traffic so that pedestrians, especially students, may cross the right of way.
Related terms: lollipop man
lollipop lady
school crossing attendant
crossing guards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crossing guard
gwyniad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡwɪniːɑːɹd/
Forms: form: gwyniads
Etymology: From Welsh gwyniad, from gwyn (“white”).
Senses: glosses: A freshwater fish of species Coregonus pennantii, native to Bala Lake in Gwynedd.
gwyniads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gwyniad
right backs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of right back
left backs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of left back
lechs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lech
centre-backs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centre-back
went on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go on
mêlées
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mêlée
centraliser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centralisers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of centralizer.
glozing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -əʊzɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gloze
glozing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊzɪŋ
Forms: form: glozings
Senses: examples: text: […] hypocrisy will at length be unmasked, their glozings will be in time discovered […]
ref: 1840, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge:
glosses: The act of one who glozes; flattery; deceit.
glozed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gloze
ornée
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ornée
form: most ornée
Senses: examples: text: For Mr. Rosedale did Laura wear vestal white, when every one else was à la Zamiel, and a cottage bonnet—a cottage ornée, to be sure—when every other head was in a hat.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 38:
glosses: Alternative form of orné.
normaliser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: normalisers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of normalizer.
public limited company
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: public limited companies
form: PLC
Senses: hypernyms: joint-stock company
glosses: A publicly traded limited liability company in the United Kingdom and some other jurisdictions.
public limited companies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of public limited company
agrégés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agrégé
formée
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: formé
form: formy
Senses: examples: text: Crest, two lances or, in saltier, headed ar. pennons hanging to them of the first, each charged with a cross formée gu.
ref: 1830, Thomas Robson (engraver.), The British herald, or Cabinet of armorial bearings of the nobility & gentry of Great Britain & Ireland:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Synonym of patté.
synonyms: word: patté
zoomasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoomass
normatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of normative
warung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɑ.ɹʊŋ/
Forms: form: warungs
form: waroeng
form: warong
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay warung.
Senses: examples: text: Daud Yusof who runs one of the four warungs in the kampung said his business has been affectred because of the flies and claimed his earnings from selling nasi berlauk has dropped by 40 percent.
ref: 1995 June 9, “Fly menace hits village stalls and homes”, in New Straits Times, page 6:
text: Walking allows us to know precisely what kind and where to put convenient and comfort shelters like public toilets, benchs, kiosks, warungs and wakafs.
ref: 2007, Mohamad Tajuddin Haji Mohamad Rasdi, Housing Crisis: Back to a Humanistic Agenda, Penerbit Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, →ISBN, page 63:
text: And of Mozaic Restaurant, an absolutely trumped-up Wine Spectator/Grandes Tables du Monde affair where tabs can run up to $100 or more that served food far less interesting and tasty than the $1.50 plates of nasi campur at the local restaurants called warungs.
ref: 2009 March 22, John Bowe, “How Green Is My Bali”, in New York Times:
glosses: A type of small family-owned business — often a casual, usually outdoor restaurant (in both countries) or convenience store (in Indonesia).
Tjernobyl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Danish Tjernobyl or Swedish Tjernobyl.
Senses: examples: text: OK, living in the reinder belt of Scandinavia, the weapon tests hasn't poisoned us that much and the plutonium hasn't been that much of a problem, but jee, you shure has dug you head into the ground like a ostridge. Have you never heard of a fishy place called Tjernobyl. That bastard is still giving people here cancer. Since we have less of the shit called Strontium 90 ( not as poisones as plutonium, but shure as deadly), they every year sends a lot of cancerous children from the area around Tjernobyl to us for a "clean" summer holiday.
ref: 1997 July 14, Lars Magnusson, “Global Worries (was: global warming)”, in talk.environment (Usenet), retrieved 03 Jun 2022:
text: How many new things have we found (virus or bacteria doesn't matter) and still more are coming, AIDS? do you belive^([sic]) it has been there always? do you remember Tjernobyl? nothing to do with virus or bacteria, but what happened? I would say humans stupidity (money again) give them some not so hightech equipment that doesn't work 100% and then let some ppl that don't know what it is use it.
ref: 1998 July 6, Mare, “Unmentioned abuse”, in alt.talk.bestiality (Usenet), retrieved 03 Jun 2022:
text: I have a couple of questions regarding evoultionary pace, ionizing radiation and Tjernobyl. I'd be very grateful if anyone would take the time to answer these questions.
ref: 2003 May 9, Torbjörn Svensson Diaz, “Evolutionar Leap in the Tjernobyl Area”, in sci.bio.evolution (Usenet), retrieved 03 Jun 2022:
qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: Chernobyl (a city in Ukraine).
hermitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hermitic
form: most hermitic
Etymology: From hermit + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or typical of a hermit.
Derived terms: word: hermitical
word: hermitically
Related terms: hermetic
hermetically
multispecialty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + specialty.
Senses: examples: text: I asked that question of Dr. David Ludwig, director of the Optimal Weight for Life Program at Children’s Hospital Boston, a multispecialty program for the care of overweight children.
ref: 2009 July 21, Perri Klass, M.D., “When Weight Is the Issue, Doctors Struggle Too”, in New York Times:
glosses: Exhibiting or possessing multiple specialties (especially medical specialties)
bio-unavailable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: biounavailable
Etymology: From bio- + unavailable.
Senses: glosses: Not bioavailable.
cheaters never prosper
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cheats never prosper.
synonyms: word: cheats never prosper
snap of a finger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: With her seductive ways, she could have him within the snap of a finger.
glosses: A minimum of effort.
object manipulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Juggling is a form of object manipulation.
glosses: The performing art of manipulating one or more objects, principally using one's body.
Hyponyms: juggling
diabolo
keepie-uppie
undefendable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undefendable
form: most undefendable
Etymology: From un- + defendable.
Senses: glosses: Not capable of being defended
Related terms: indefensible
tic douloureux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɪk duːləˈɹuː/
ipa: /-ˈɹø/
ipa: /ˌtɪk dɒləˈɹuː/
Etymology: From French, literally, “painful tic”.
Senses: glosses: Trigeminal neuralgia.
oil stoves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oil stove
oil fields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oil field
discrepantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more discrepantly
form: most discrepantly
Etymology: From discrepant + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a conflicting or discordant manner.
aureation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aureations
Etymology: From aureate + -ion, from Latin aureatus (“decorated with gold”).
Senses: glosses: The enhancement of the seriousness of a topic by the use of elaborate circumlocutions or polysyllabic or Latinate words for it.
Related terms: aureate
apothecary's Latin
graecismus
deductive inference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deductive inferences
Senses: glosses: inference in which the conclusion is of no greater generality than the premises
glosses: inference in which the conclusion is just as certain as the premises
biscriptal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + scriptal.
Senses: glosses: having the ability to read or write two scripts
glosses: written in two different scripts
Related terms: bialphabetic
bilingual
triscriptal
quadriscriptal
husos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of huso
three-way
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: The sense referring to a serving of Cincinnati chili was coined in the 1920s by Tom and John Kiradjieff, Slavic-Macedonian immigrants to Cincinnati, for their Empress Chili chain. Doublet of trivia.
Senses: examples: text: a three-way valve
text: Three-aspect colour-light signal with three-way junction indicator, Bow Junction, Eastern Region
ref: 1951 April, “British Railway Signalling since 1925”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 229, photo caption:
glosses: Relating to three different directions.
Derived terms: three-way girl
three-way stop
three-way switch
three-way
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: three-ways
form: threeway
Etymology: The sense referring to a serving of Cincinnati chili was coined in the 1920s by Tom and John Kiradjieff, Slavic-Macedonian immigrants to Cincinnati, for their Empress Chili chain. Doublet of trivia.
Senses: examples: text: A guy Julian and you had a three-way with millions of years ago. I used to watch you guys screw through the keyhole sometimes.
ref: 1992, Dennis Cooper, Frisk, page 117:
text: I had a three-way with two other women in my class.
ref: 1995, Deborah Abbott, Ellen Farmer, From Wedded Wife to Lesbian Life: Stories of Transformation, page 263:
text: Is a three-way with a 21-year-old a bad idea for Richard's birthday?
ref: 2002 February 3, Allan Heinberg, “A ‘Vogue’ Idea”, in Sex and the City, season 4, episode 17, spoken by Samantha:
text: But how many men will actually admit to having had a three-way with another man and one woman?
ref: 2007, Lainie Speiser, Threesomes: For Couples Who Want to Know More, page 22:
text: Supermodel Jenny Shimizu provides mechanic tips (and hints at a previous three-way with Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista).
ref: 2024 February 13, Wendy Syfret, “Hi Octane: Sofia Coppola’s starry 90s series feels like a gen X fever dream”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: threesome
ménage à trois
glosses: Sexual activity involving three individuals.
glosses: A serving of Cincinnati chili with spaghetti and cheese.
glosses: Synonym of three-card monte.
synonyms: word: three-card monte
Hyponyms: FFM
MMF
Coordinate terms: four-way
five-way
six-way
three-ways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of three-way
mastocarcinoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mastocarcinomas
Etymology: From masto- + carcinoma.
Senses: topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
glosses: A carcinoma of the breast.
toat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /təʊt/
Forms: form: toats
form: toating
form: toated
form: toated
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tote.
toat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /təʊt/
Forms: form: toats
Senses: glosses: The handle of a joiner's plane.
infare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnfɛə/
Forms: form: infares
form: infair
Etymology: From Middle English infer (“entrance”), from Old English infær (“ingress, entrance, ingang”), from Proto-Germanic *in + *farą (“a going”), corresponding to in- + fare. Related to Old English infaru (“inroad, incursion, invasion”). Compare German einführen (“to introduce”).
Senses: examples: text: At our next meeting we set the day for our wedding; and I went to my father's, and made arrangements for an infair, and returned to ask her parents for her.
ref: 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska, published 1987, page 64:
text: He stretched his arms above his head and drew a long sigh of pleasurable reminiscence. “We hed a right sorter sociable evenin'. I'll be bound they air all over yander at the infair now.”
ref: 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 11:
text: The older women spread the viands for the "infare," as the wedding dinner was called, upon the table, and we stood about it to eat amid shouts and laughter and an exchange of wit as good natured as it was horrifying to bridal ears.
ref: 1910, Corra Harria, A Circuit Rider's Wife, Digitized edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2007:
text: Maybe I had better explain that infare meant the bride's going home--to her new house, … Wherever held, it was an occasion of keen and jealous rivalry--those in charge being doubly bent on making the faring in more splendid than the wedding feast.
ref: 1913, Martha McCulloch Williams, Dishes & Beverages of the Old South, Digitized edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009:
text: Again Laney interrupted her husband. "My mother said they even had infare dinners the next day after the wedding. The infare dinners were just for the families of the bride and groom, and the bride had a special dress for that occasion that she called her infare dress. The friends of both parties were there at the big feast on the wedding day, but not at the infare dinner."
ref: 1941, Slave Narratives, Volume IV, Digitized edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2006:
text: Today, most weddings are followed by some sort of celebration, although not by infares, shivarees, or any similar institution.
ref: 1995, W. K. McNeil, Ozark Country:
text: She'd show me her doll, and talk about play-parties she'd been to, infares and dances.
ref: 2000, Robert Morgan, The Mountains Won't Remember Us and Other Stories:
text: The musterings, auctions, infares, feuds, and frolics are here, the holdup, the war whoop, eagle oratory, revival shouts, hard work and hard times, and every aspect of pioneer morality from the bashful lover at the bean pot to the camp-meeting baby.
ref: 2007, Ted Olson, Kathy H. Olson, James Still:
text: In the past, drinking had been a thing for parties, or infares as they called them locally, or something before dinner to whet one's taste.
ref: 2011, Howard Fast, The American:
glosses: A party or other celebration held to mark someone's entrance into a new home, especially the arrival of a bride at her new home; a wedding reception.
infair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infairs
Senses: examples: text: At our next meeting we set the day for our wedding; and I went to my father's, and made arrangements for an infair, and returned to ask her parents for her.
ref: 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska, published 1987, page 64:
text: He stretched his arms above his head and drew a long sigh of pleasurable reminiscence. “We hed a right sorter sociable evenin'. I'll be bound they air all over yander at the infair now.”
ref: 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 11:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of infare.
infares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infare
wrathy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒθi/
Forms: form: wrathier
form: wrathiest
Etymology: From wrath + -y.
Senses: examples: text: When I got there, the old lady appeared to be mighty wrathy; and when I broached the subject, she looked at me as savage as a meat axe.
ref: 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska, published 1987, page 64:
text: Sometimes the wrathy owner of the missing horses undertook to recover them himself.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 307:
text: There is a sin that is my favorite. It's one I indulge in several times a day. I kinda like — I really kinda like — wrath. And I am feeling wrathy today.
ref: 2012, PZ Myers, Reason Rally speech, 24 Mar 2012
glosses: Feeling wrath; very angry, furious.
trigeminal neuralgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A neuropathic disorder of one or both of trigeminal nerves leading to intense pain in parts of the face.
Synonyms: face ague
tic douloureux
prosopalgia
suicide disease
infairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infair
toats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of toat
toating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of toat
toated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of toat
wrathier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of wrathy: more wrathy
wrathiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of wrathy: most wrathy
ring the changes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rings the changes
form: ringing the changes
form: rang the changes
form: rung the changes
Senses: glosses: To make patterned sound sequences on bells, starting and ending on the same tone.
glosses: To run through all possible variations.
glosses: To enliven by varying combinations.
qualifier: 19th century and earlier
glosses: To pass counterfeit money.
glosses: To trick a shopkeeper into giving too much change.
glosses: To take advantage of a change in order to make money.
Synonyms: sense: to vary combinations
word: mix and match
Derived terms: ringer
mix and match
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mixes and matches
form: mixing and matching
form: mixed and matched
form: mixed and matched
Senses: examples: text: She became very good at mixing and matching skirts, blouses, and accessories to extend her fashion budget.
glosses: To vary elements to make compatible combinations.
Synonyms: sense: to vary combinations
word: ring the changes
Derived terms: word: mix-and-match
melomane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melomanes
Etymology: From French mélomane, from mélo- + -mane; equivalent to melo- + -mane.
Senses: examples: text: Monsieur de Rochetaillée was a melomane. He thought of nothing, cared for nothing but music. It was the passion of his life; he could not live without music and musicians.
ref: 1868, [Henrietta Camilla] Jenkin, Two French Marriages, volume I, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, page 12:
text: But what was even more important to Monet’s eventual success in devising landscape images that attracted music-modeled appreciation like Silvestre’s is the fact that the melomanes among the younger painters of the 1860s had not produced anything like a consistent painting practice modeled on music.
ref: 2000, Kermit Swiler Champa, “Painted Responses to Music: The Landscapes of Corot and Monet”, in Marsha L. Morton, Peter L. Schmunk, editors, The Arts Entwined: Music and Painting in the Nineteenth Century, Garland Publishing, Inc., Taylor & Francis Group, →ISBN, page 114:
text: But music in Tarantino is also part of a larger sonic obsession that stresses the acoustic impact of dialogue, noise, atmosphere, and effects—Tarantino is an audio[-]mane as much as a melomane.
ref: 2012, Lisa Coulthard, “The Attraction of Repetition: Tarantino’s Sonic Style”, in James Eugene Wierzbicki, editor, Music, Sound and Filmmakers: Sonic Style in Cinema (Routledge Music and Screen Media Series), Routledge, →ISBN, page 166:
glosses: Synonym of melomaniac.
synonyms: word: melomaniac
meno-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: men-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μείς, μηνός (meís, mēnós, “month”).
Senses: glosses: month
glosses: menstruation
Meno
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Menos
Etymology: Unexplained.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
mesocolon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊlən
-əʊlɒn
Forms: form: mesocolons
form: mesocola
Etymology: From meso- + colon.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The part of the mesentery that attaches the colon to the abdominal wall.
Related terms: mesocolonic
mesonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meson + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to mesons
Derived terms: nonmesonic
photomesonic
mesothorium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesothoriums
Etymology: From meso- + thorium. Probably so-called because these two isotopes (²²⁸Ra and ²²⁸Ac) are, in the decay chain, intermediate between normal thorium (²³²Th) and radiothorium (²²⁸Th).
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Certain members of the decay chain of thorium, mainly isotopes of radium and actinium
mesotron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛs.əˌtɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈmɛs.əˌtɹɑn/
Forms: form: mesotrons
Etymology: From meso- + -tron. Coined by American physicists Carl Anderson and by Seth Neddermeyer in 1938 in a letter to Nature titled "Mesotron (Intermediate Particle) as a Name for the New Particles of Intermediate Mass".
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: meson
wikipedia: Nature (journal)
ease up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eases up
form: easing up
form: eased up
form: eased up
Senses: examples: text: I suggest that you ease up a bit at work. You're getting stressed out.
text: You should ease up on your son. You're putting too much pressure on him.
glosses: To become more relaxed or less demanding.
examples: text: He came hurtling round the corner, but quickly eased up when he saw Jane standing there.
text: As we swung through Hatfield in just over six hours from Edinburgh, the day was all but won, and Tappin eased up completely.
ref: 1956 December 24, W. J. Alcock, “On the Footplate of the "Elizabethan"”, in Railway Magazine, page 821:
glosses: To reduce one's speed.
marisma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /məˈɹɪsmə/
Forms: form: marismas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish marisma. Ultimately distantly related to marsh.
Senses: examples: text: Mallard [...], in the marisma, nest in precisely similar situations, but their eggs number twelve or fourteen. Elsewhere their nests (being among bush or reedbeds) are less easily seen.
ref: 1910, Abel Chapman, Walter John Buck, Unexplored Spain, page 409:
text: ... waters of the marisma. Whilst photographing the latter Mr. Read was fortunate enough to get a good view of the famous wild camels of the marisma galloping away in the distance, the herd numbering some sixteen or eighteen head.
ref: 1919, The Ibis, page 163:
text: 6. Grasslands, bordering the marismas but usually separated from them by a belt of rushes Juncus spp. 7. The Carex-Scirpus zone of the marismas, flooded for part of the year by fresh water carried largely by the Madre de las Marismas, which flows parallel[…]
ref: 1980, Erik Carp, Directory of Wetlands of International Importance in the Western Palearctic, IUCN, →ISBN, page 359:
glosses: A tidal or saltwater marsh.
marismas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marisma
backreference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backreferences
form: back-reference
Etymology: From back + reference.
Senses: examples: text: The third part of the regular expression, \1, is the backreference and tells ColdFusion to refer back to the first subexpression[…]
ref: 2003, Rob Brooks-Bilson, Programming ColdFusion MX:
text: Path traversal occurs when directory backreferences are used in a path to gain access to the parent folder of a subfolder.
ref: 2005, Ivan Ristic, Apache security:
qualifier: regular expressions
glosses: An item in a regular expression equivalent to the text matched by an earlier pattern in the expression.
backreference
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backreferences
form: backreferencing
form: backreferenced
form: backreferenced
form: back-reference
Etymology: From back + reference.
Senses: examples: text: By wrapping it in parentheses, the attributes can be reused by backreferencing this part of the pattern[…]
ref: 2009, Larry Ullman, Ruby: Visual QuickStart Guide, page 237:
text: It doesn't change what the part matches, so /\d+/ and /(\d+)/ will still match as many digits as possible, but in the latter case they will be remembered in a special variable to be backreferenced later.
ref: 2012, Tom Christiansen, brian d foy^([sic]), Larry Wall, Programming Perl, page 46:
qualifier: regular expressions
glosses: To access (the text matched by an earlier pattern in a regular expression).
backreferences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backreference
nanotechnologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nanotechnological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a nanotechnological manner or context.
Derived terms: bionanotechnologically
nanotechnological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nano- + technological.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or by means of nanotechnology.
Derived terms: bionanotechnological
nanotechnologically
touchpanel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: touchpanels
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of touch panel.
touch panel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: touch panels
form: touchpanel
Senses: glosses: A touch screen.
touchpanels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of touchpanel
modchip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: modchips
Etymology: From mod + chip.
Senses: examples: text: Installing a new hard drive would require a modchip that can reprogram or bypass the hard drive lock.
ref: 2003, Andrew Huang, Hacking the Xbox: an introduction to reverse engineering:
text: The goal of this hack is to install a modchip into your Xbox.
ref: 2004, Joe Grand, Frank Thornton, Albert Yarusso, Game console hacking: have fun while voiding your warranty:
text: Sony argued that the access code reader was a 'technological protection measure' and that the 'modchip' was a 'circumvention device'.
ref: 2006, Dennis Campbell, The Internet: Laws and Regulatory Regimes:
glosses: A computer chip or similar hardware device used to modify the behaviour of a games console.
modchips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of modchip
kopis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kopides
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κοπίς (kopís).
Senses: glosses: A short forward curved sword in Ancient Greece used primarily as a cutting tool, but also for combat.
Related terms: falcata
kukri
crackhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crackhouses
Etymology: From crack + house.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crack house.
gr.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of graphic.
raw_tags: in bibliographies
glosses: Abbreviation of grain.
Related terms: e. gr.
gr. wt.
six and two threes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: They would fob us off with that and once more make it six and two threes.
ref: 1962, Christopher John Brennan, Prose:
text: I said, "Well, it's six and two threes. I get three pound off you here, and I have to work all week for £5 and I get me stamps off, whatever.
ref: 1982, Dennis Marsden, Workless: an exploration of the social contract between society and the worker:
text: I'll leave it up to you whether you wish to include it; in other words, it's six and two threes.
ref: 2006, J J Dewey, Eternal Words: The Immortal Series:
glosses: Two equivalent choices or situations.
Synonyms: six of one, half a dozen of the other
forted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fort
forted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːtɪd/
Forms: form: more forted
form: most forted
Senses: examples: text: The fort was built right in the middle of a large old field, and in it the people had been forted so long and so quietly, that they didn't apprehend any danger at all, and had, therefore, become quite careless.
ref: 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska, published 1987, page 104:
glosses: Ensconced in or protected by a fort.
when the cat's away
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: An ellipsis (anapodoton) of when the cat's away, the mice will play.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of when the cat's away, the mice will play.
tantes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tante
cross-fosters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cross-foster
cross-fostered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cross-foster
cross-fostering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: the technique of removing eggs from the nest of one species of bird, to be incubated in the nest of another. Usually done to aid the recovery of endangered species.
cross-fostering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cross-foster
grand rounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A tour of inspection by a general officer or commander, visiting all the guards in the officer's command.
topics: education
medicine
sciences
glosses: A series of lectures whose subject matter is a particular patient or similar case or a formal hospital meeting at which physicians discuss interesting medical cases.
byo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: byos
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of bayou.
endes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ende
paddling pools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paddling pool
idiot boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of idiot box
brutalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brutalists
Etymology: From brutal + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone that follows brutalism.
Related terms: brutalism
brutalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brutalist
vibist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vibists
Etymology: From vibe + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A vibraphone player; someone that plays the vibraphone.
vibists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vibist
Viet.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of Vietnam.
topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of Vietnamese.
view-point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: view-points
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of viewpoint.
view-points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of view-point
abortus fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɔɹ.təs ˈfiv.ɚ/
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A kind of brucellosis, Brucella abortus, and the only one endemic to North America.
icebox cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: icebox cakes
Senses: glosses: A dessert consisting of whipped cream and stacked chocolate wafers, refrigerated to form a sliceable log.
Synonyms: word: zebra cake
sliceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From slice + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being sliced.
monitorless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From monitor + -less.
Senses: examples: text: By providing a monitorless configuration, we allow end-users and VARs more product and price flexibility for matching their hardware to applications...
ref: 1989 January 2, InfoWorld, volume 11, number 1:
text: Remember typewriters, those clattering, monitorless contraptions that were all the rage not so very long ago?
ref: 2006, Deke McClelland, Adobe InDesign CS2 one-on-one:
glosses: Without a monitor (computer display unit).
nonparameterized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + parameterized.
Senses: glosses: Not parameterized.
nonstreaming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + streaming.
Senses: examples: a nonstreaming audio technology
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Not transmitted by streaming.
nonsigmoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + sigmoidal.
Senses: glosses: Not sigmoidal.
precinct committeeman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precinct committeemen
Senses: glosses: A person elected or appointed in State Counties to represent a local ward, precinct, or township.
nonmigratable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + migratable.
Senses: glosses: Not migratable.
nonupgraded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + upgraded.
Senses: glosses: Not having been upgraded.
Synonyms: unupgraded
unupgraded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + upgraded.
Senses: glosses: nonupgraded
nonaudio
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + audio.
Senses: glosses: Not audio.
nonvideo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + video.
Senses: glosses: Not in or relating to video format.
nonaccomplishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonaccomplishments
Etymology: From non- + accomplishment.
Senses: glosses: Something that does not achieve the intended goal.
Synonyms: nonachievement
nonachievement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonachievements
Etymology: From non- + achievement.
Senses: glosses: Something that does not achieve the intended goal.
Synonyms: nonaccomplishment
brutalitarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brutalitarian
crispant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crispants
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A F0 generation mutant generated by CRISPR/Cas9-directed genome editing.
nonachiever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonachievers
Etymology: From non- + achiever.
Senses: glosses: Someone who does not get good grades in education.
glosses: Someone who does not progress or move forward; someone who lacks motivation.
nonachievers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonachiever
non-ablative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonablative.
LTNS
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: ref: 2006, Bonita, “Popping in to say hello, LTNS”, in alt.support.diabetes (Usenet):
glosses: Initialism of long time no see.
nonadditivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonadditivities
Etymology: From non- + additivity.
Senses: glosses: Without the state or quality of additivity.
lithoautotroph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithoautotrophs
Etymology: From litho- + autotroph.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A microbe that takes energy from reduced compounds of minerals.
Derived terms: chemolithoautotroph
nonadditivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonadditivity
lithoautotrophs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lithoautotroph
hoppets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoppet
unconstructively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unconstructively
form: most unconstructively
Etymology: From unconstructive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unhelpful manner; in an unconstructive manner.
nonmusically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nonmusical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a nonmusical manner.
minisaga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minisagas
Etymology: From mini- + saga.
Senses: examples: text: In the concluding pages of this minisaga (Herodotus 1. 90-91), Croesus sends to inquire of the priestess of Apollo why the oracle had misled him.
ref: 1999, Mark P O Morford, Robert J Lenardon, Classical Mythology:
text: The Isaac minisaga closes with a parting look at Esau's efforts to ingratiate himself with his parents.
ref: 2001, Wayne Sibley Towner, Genesis:
glosses: A short saga.
minisagas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minisaga
precinct committeemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of precinct committeeman
miniepic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miniepics
Etymology: From mini- + epic.
Senses: glosses: A short work that resembles an epic in all but length.
miniepics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miniepic
nondefendant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nondefendants
Etymology: From non- + defendant.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a defendant.
nondefendants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nondefendant
spadeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spade + -less.
Senses: examples: text: He of the spare spade, would not lend it to the man who had none, because he had a large garden which he wanted the spadeless man to help to dig […]
ref: 1839, Nicholas Patrick Wiseman, The Dublin review:
glosses: Without a spade.
squawkily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more squawkily
form: most squawkily
Etymology: From squawky + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a squawky manner.
squawkiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From squawky + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being squawky.
spiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spile
spiling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spilings
Senses: glosses: A spile; a post or girder.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The edge-curve of a plank or of a strake in a vessel's hull.
spiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spile
jehadist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jehadists
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jihadist.