cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sphecid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The coloring indicates it’s a female. The males are smaller and mostly black. And you might not have been able to tell, but the sphecid wasps have a very narrow, threadlike waist.
ref: 2016 September 8, Joan Morris, “What’s been stealing my stuffing?”, in The Mercury News:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Sphecidae family of wasps.
sphecid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sphecids
Senses: glosses: A wasp in the Sphecidae family.
spiff up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spiffs up
form: spiffing up
form: spiffed up
form: spiffed up
Senses: examples: text: He was all spiffed up, this chap, decked out in a spotless white shirt and a bow tie.
ref: 2008, Preeta Samarasan, Evening is the Whole Day, Fourth Estate, page 22:
glosses: To decorate or otherwise make more attractive.
stipendiaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stipendiary
York ham
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: York hams
Etymology: Traditionally produced in York, England.
Senses: glosses: A mild cured ham that has a delicate pink meat; traditionally served with a Madeira sauce
aetites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːˈtaɪtiːz/
ipa: /iˈtaɪdiz/
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman aetite, aetites, Middle French aetite, and their source, Latin (lapis) āetītēs (“eagle (stone)”), from Hellenistic Ancient Greek ἀετίτης (λίθος) (aetítēs (líthos), “eagle (stone)”), from ἀετός (aetós, “eagle”).
Senses: examples: text: On such analogous reasoning it is not difficult to see why the aetites stone, with another rattling inside it, should have been thought helpful to a pregnant woman.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 184:
glosses: An eaglestone.
rugins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rugin
sprug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sprugs
Senses: glosses: house sparrow
sprug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sprugs
form: sprugging
form: sprugged
form: sprugged
Etymology: Compare dialectal English sprug up (“dress neatly”), sprag (“prop”, verb)/sprag (“lively”, adjective).
Senses: glosses: To smarten (make smart).
sprugged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sprug
sprugging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sprug
sprugs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sprug
pentacra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pentacron
pentacron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentacra
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πέντε (pénte, “five”) + ἄκρον (ákron, “summit”).
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A solid with five summits (vertices), such as a square pyramid
ostraciser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ostracisers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ostracizer.
depiece
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈpiːs/
Forms: form: depieces
form: depiecing
form: depieced
form: depieced
Etymology: From de- + piece.
Senses: examples: text: Mind, being an action of the Infinite, depieces as well as aggregates ad infinitum.
ref: 1920, Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Lotus Press, published 2000, page 180:
text: An ornate set of symbolically retaliatory tortures [...] proceeded with quasi-liturgical exactitude, climaxing in the efforts of four champing horses to pull Damiens's limbs out from his body (in a gruesome twist, his body stubbornly refused to be depieced, and had to be further chopped and battered by public executioner Sanson).
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 231:
glosses: To remove pieces from; to take apart, disassemble.
depieces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of depiece
depieced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of depiece
anti-monarchism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + monarchism.
Senses: examples: text: Designed by the Parlement, the grisly mise-en-scène, which horrified many philosophes, was intended to wipe the Parlement's slate clean of any putative stain of anti-monarchism.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 231:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The fact or principles of being opposed to monarchism; opposition to monarchy.
-pants
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Extracted from fancypants.
Senses: examples: text: [book title]
ref: 1986, Babette Cole, Princess Smartypants, Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN:
text: We used to call her Miss Bossy Pants when she was a kid.
ref: 1999, Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach: A Novel, Abacus, (cited from Houghton Mifflin/Mariner Books, 2002), p. 91
text: You had to pull one of your stupid disappearing tricks because you were being a pouty-pants.
ref: 2005, Lauren Myracle, Rhyme with Witches, Amulet Books, →ISBN, page 21:
text: Gee, maybe her name should be "Princess Demandy Pants".
ref: 2012, April 21, Meghan McCarthy, "A Canterlot Wedding - Part 1" [television episode], My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
text: bossypants, fancypants, smarty pants, greedy-pants, pouty pants
text: Diplomats sharing the draft with each other said they were puzzled by the logic undergirding it. One U.S. diplomat described the draft to POLITICO as “bonkers crazypants.”
ref: 2025 April 20, Felicia Schwartz, Nahal Toosi, Robbie Gramer, “‘Bonkers crazypants’: American diplomats shaken by reports of possible cuts”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Used with adjectives ending in -y to form nicknames based on a negative quality of a person.
collatitious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin collātītius, later form of collātīcius (“brought together, raised by contribution”). See collation.
Senses: examples: text: The Greeks and Romans[…]had certain entertainments which they called collatitious feasts, where every guest that was invited contributed his share to the repast.
ref: 1806 October, Thomas Moore, “Pic-Nics”, in The Universal Magazine, volume 6, page 314:
glosses: Characterised by the contributions of many people.
examples: text: nor was there any morbid alteration in the collatitious organs.
ref: 1848, The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 38:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the digestive system and other associated organs, such as the liver and pancreas.
revanchisme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French revanchisme.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of revanchism.
inserve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inserves
form: inserving
form: inserved
form: inserved
Etymology: From Latin inservire, from in- (“in”) + servire (“to serve”).
Senses: glosses: To be of use to an end; to serve.
inserved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inserve
inserves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inserve
inserving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inserve
replevisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Old French replevisable.
Senses: examples: text: delivery to inquire of sheriffs and others , that have let out of prison by replevying persons not replevisable
ref: 1736, Matthew Hale, Historia Placitorum Coronæ:
glosses: Alternative form of repleviable.
out-general
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: out-generals
form: out-generaling
form: out-generalling
form: out-generaled
form: out-generaled
form: out-generalled
form: out-generalled
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of outgeneral.
out-generaled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of out-general
patavinities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patavinity
patavinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patavinities
Etymology: From Latin patavinitas, from Patavium (now Padua), where Livy was born. Compare French patavinité.
Senses: examples: text: Livy, the Roman historian was often accused of patavinity.
glosses: The use of local or provincial words from Patavium
Related terms: Paduanism
OTM
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of out of the money.
raw_tags: of options
OTM
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: especially Hispanic
glosses: Initialism of other than Mexican.
raw_tags: of immigrants
out of the money
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: It's two bucks out of the money now, but it still has three weeks until expiration.
topics: business
finance
qualifier: securities
glosses: Of an option, yielding a loss if exercised.
antonyms: in the money
glosses: Failing to achieve a sufficiently high ranking in a contest to earn money (for oneself, or for those who have placed a bet).
Synonyms: OTM
physical therapists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of physical therapist
alizari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alizaris
Etymology: From French alizari (“madder root (commercial name)”), from Greek αλιζάρι (alizári, “madder”), from Ottoman Turkish آلاجهری (ala cehri).
Senses: examples: text: the able Holland merchants dispersed it in all the markets of Europe , after they had mixed it with the alizaris of Levant
ref: 1849, United States. Dept. of Agriculture, Annual Reports of the Department of Agriculture:
glosses: The madder of the Levant; wild madder (Rubia peregrina).
Derived terms: alizarin
protagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protagons
Etymology: From proto- + Ancient Greek ἀγών (agṓn, “a contest”). See protagonist. So called because it was the first definitely ascertained principle of the brain.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A nitrogenous phosphorized principle found in brain tissue. By decomposition it yields neurine, fatty acids, and other bodies.
protagons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protagon
single-acting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: double-acting
glosses: Having simplicity of action; especially acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only.
muscoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muscoids
Etymology: Latin musca (“fly”)
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any fly in the superfamily Muscoidea.
glosses: Any fly in the section Schizophora.
muscoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more muscoid
form: most muscoid
Etymology: muscus (“moss”) + -oid
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Resembling moss.
muscoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muscoid
snuggies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snuggie
snuggies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Bring your snuggies when visiting Yellowstone Country in any season. Just because it's July doesn't mean you can leave your longjohns, sweatshirts and windbreakers at home.
ref: 2000, Genevieve Rowles, Adventure Guide to Montana:
text: Not because of her totally fleshless legs, but because she was wearing red snuggies when it was actually pretty hot weather. Lina partly lowered the snuggies and extracted a quart of Spur.
ref: 1971, Robert Deane Pharr, S.R.O:
text: Hilda said, "Wait, you don't mind, I want to pick up a few pairs of snuggies, it's getting miserably cold, I won't have to come back ..."
ref: 1960, Ann Abelson, The little conquerors:
glosses: A type of tight-fitting knitted thermal underwear.
snuggie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snuggies
Etymology: From snug + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A wedgie.
examples: text: The night ended with my mom bringing over a snuggie that she had made out of the breast cancer ribbon fabric.
ref: 2010, Sharon S. Hart, Becoming Part of the Ribbon:
glosses: Alternative form of Snuggie.
Snuggie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Snuggies
form: snuggie
Etymology: From snug + -ie, a trade name.
Senses: glosses: A sleeved blanket worn as an item of clothing.
atomic wedgie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atomic wedgies
Senses: examples: text: "...Brent just loves antagonizing his sister but he knows better than to mess with me after that atomic wedgie I gave him once,” Tanner said with a grin.
“Yeah he was pulling his underwear out of his butt crack for at least a month,” Joshua said as he and Tanner giggled uncontrollably.
ref: 2011, E. H. Allen, The Divine Miracle: Dakota Evans and the Legend of the Great Blue Giant: Book One:
text: He shut his brother up with the simple expedient of giving him an atomic wedgie, Mandalor-family style.
 “You son of a bitch! I think you just ruptured a testicle,” Dom howled.
“I thought you'd given up balls for Lent,” Leandro said
ref: 2007, Sarah Mayberry, Hot For Him:
glosses: A prank in which a person's underpants are pulled up sharply from behind up over the head, or higher, in order to wedge the clothing uncomfortably between the person's buttocks.
melvin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melvins
Etymology: Used in the 1990s American TV show Salute Your Shorts and 1991 film Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey. Earlier origin unknown.
Senses: glosses: A wedgie performed from in front of the victim.
wikipedia: Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey
Salute Your Shorts
Triple Goddess
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: Wicca
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The trinity of the Goddess.
Related terms: Horned God
melvins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melvin
bitchwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bitch + work.
Senses: glosses: Undesirable and demeaning work.
unvitrescible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unvitrescible
form: most unvitrescible
Etymology: From un- + vitrescible.
Senses: glosses: Not vitrescible.
fat lot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: You're replacing a dead battery with another dead one! Fat lot of good that'll do you!
text: "No, sir, nor to me. I am poor, but I have never ill-used my gift." "A fat lot of use the gift is, then!" said the visitor, rising from his chair.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
text: "Well, there's your friend Silent Simon, and all the police—" / "A fat lot of good they are!" said Ned.
ref: 1919, J. Storer Clouston, chapter 18, in Simon:
text: "I never asked you to get that drug," he said.
"Not in so many words," she said.
"What do you mean by that?"
"Well, a fat lot of fun we were going to have without it."
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
text: They can't launder fast enough, so what do you do with it? Where do you put it? You hide it in somebody else's place; somebody who han't got a clue what's going on and couldn't do a fat lot about it if they did.
ref: 2023, Sally Wainwright, 26:09 from the start, in Happy Valley, season 3, episode 2, spoken by Catherine Cawood (Sarah Lancashire):
glosses: Little or nothing.
raw_tags: with "of ..."
Related terms: fat chance
Firmin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Firminus, name of early Christian saints, derivative of firmus (“firm”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Latin.
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Related terms: Firman
Furman
Aubert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Bon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒn/
ipa: /bɑn/
Forms: form: Bön
Etymology: Borrowed from Tibetan བོན (bon).
Senses: synonyms: Bonism
glosses: An indigenous Tibetan religion, in many ways akin to Tibetan Buddhism.
Related terms: Bon Wier
Guilbert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Guilberts
Etymology: Borrowed from French Guilbert.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Derived terms: Fitzsimmons-Guilbert syndrome
Constant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Latin, feminine equivalent Constance.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A populated place in Saint George parish, Barbados.
Related terms: Benjamin Constant
Jacot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jacots
Etymology: Borrowed from French Jacot, a pet form of the personal name Jacques.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Laud
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Washington Township, Whitley County, Indiana, United States.
Mathurin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mathurins
Etymology: Named after the founder.
Senses: examples: text: A deputation came to the Hotel de Ville from the district of the Mathurins, where the people had assembled, appointed a president and other officers, and begun to make a list of the citizens who were able to bear arms.
ref: 1850, George Long, France and Its Revolutions: A Pictorial History, 1789-1848, page 29:
glosses: A member of the Trinitarian order.
triple goddesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: While triple goddesses can be found in many cultures (Celtic, Roman, Greek, Hindu, and Mesopotamian, for example), the classification of the triplicity into a maiden-mother-crone format is distinctly modern.
ref: 2008, Michelle Skye, Goddess Afoot!: Practicing Magic With Celtic & Norse Goddesses, Llewellyn Publications (2008), page 250 (footnote)
glosses: plural of triple goddess
pièce d'occasion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pièces d'occasion
Etymology: Borrowed from French pièce d'occasion.
Senses: examples: text: Terence Rattigan’s brittle bitter-sweet comedy The Sleeping Prince (written as a pièce d’occasion for Queen Elizabeth’s coronation) centres on the romance between an American actress (Marilyn Monroe) and a lecherous Balkan guest at the 1911 coronation of George V.
ref: 1999 March 28, Phillip French, The Guardian:
text: In 1756, arch-Jansenist publicist Le Paige produced, under cover of anonymity, a pièce d'occasion, the Lettres sur les lits de justice, which argued, on the basis of impressive antiquarian research, that the ceremony was in fact heir to ancient Frankish assemblies [...].
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 246:
glosses: An artistic composition written for a particular occasion.
pièces d'occasion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pièce d'occasion
laxist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaksɪst/
Forms: form: laxists
Etymology: From lax + -ist.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: Someone promoting lax views or relaxed interpretations of something.
laxist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaksɪst/
Forms: form: more laxist
form: most laxist
Etymology: From lax + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The Jesuits, it was charged, championed a laxist theology which encouraged rather than deterred sin [...].
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 248:
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: Promoting a lax view or interpretation of something.
clawed frogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clawed frog
hell-raiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hell-raisers
Senses: examples: text: Many of the gay liberation movement's most significant organizers and hell-raisers from Stonewall on have come from non-privileged backgrounds and have identified as members of other oppressed groups in addition to the gay community.
ref: 1988 April 9, Laurie Sherman, Pam Mitchell, “Examining Class Issues at GCN and in the Lesbian/Gay Community”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
text: This newfound infatuation renders Bart uncharacteristically vulnerable. He suddenly has something to care about beyond causing trouble and makes a dramatic transformation from hell-raiser to gentleman about town.
ref: 2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: Alternative form of hellraiser.
chemical agents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemical agent
chemical affinities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemical affinity
gentleman about town
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gentlemen about town
Senses: examples: text: This newfound infatuation renders Bart uncharacteristically vulnerable. He suddenly has something to care about beyond causing trouble and makes a dramatic transformation from hell-raiser to gentleman about town.
ref: 2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: Alternative form of man about town.
bubble pipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bubble pipes
Senses: examples: text: In a desperate attempt to impress Laura, Bart begins bathing and sashaying about in a smoking jacket while sucking thoughtfully on a bubble pipe as part of his new pint-sized Hef persona.
ref: 2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: A toy in the shape of a tobacco pipe, used to blow bubbles.
Related terms: bubble wand
bubble blower
crush-worthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crush-worthy
form: most crush-worthy
Senses: examples: text: The animators, writers and Gilbert do a fantastic job of making Laura an eminently crush-worthy figure of adolescent yearning but the episode doles out scenes of her and Bart together sparingly.
ref: 2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: Alternative form of crushworthy.
crushworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crushworthy
form: most crushworthy
Etymology: From crush + -worthy.
Senses: synonyms: fanciable
glosses: Suitable for a crush (infatuation): attractive.
raw_tags: of a person
crank call
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crank calls
Senses: examples: text: Bart is predictably devastated, but the plot thread wraps itself up all too neatly when Bart gets Laura to see through Jimbo’s bad-boy façade by framing Jimbo for one of his own habitual crank calls to Moe.
ref: 2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: A prank call.
Derived terms: crank caller
Related terms: nuisance call
CCDev
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Initialism of Commercial Crew Development.
C3PO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Initialism of Commercial Crew and Cargo Program Office.
crank caller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crank callers
Senses: glosses: Someone who makes a crank call.
pacotille
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pacotilles
Etymology: French pacotille (“junk”)
Senses: glosses: Something of little or no value exchanged for something valuable, originally goods exchanged for slaves.
BPD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The four overlapping concepts of borderline were as follows : (1) A residual model […] (2) An affective disorder model, which considered BPD as an affective spectrum illness displaying prominent[…]
ref: 2001 July 23, Howard S. Friedman, The Disorders: Specialty Articles from the Encyclopedia of Mental Health, Gulf Professional Publishing, →ISBN, page 109:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of borderline personality disorder.
BPD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Baltimore Police Department.
examples: text: “In a four-year span, the BPD targeted Blacks for roughly 129,600 encounters – 63.3% of 204,739 – that did not result in arrest,” the report said.
ref: 2014 October 9, Marina Carver, “Study finds Boston police target African-Americans disproportionately”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of Boston Police Department.
ruralpolitan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ruralpolitans
Etymology: Blend of rural + metropolitan.
Senses: examples: text: These "ruralpolitans" are willing to invest beaucoup bucks to pay for equipment to reap and sow organic vegetables; raise niche crops, such as herbs, grass-fed beef or organic pork; shear sheep or llamas for wool production; or harvest grapes for wine.
ref: 2007 March 25, Diane Wedner, “On a rural route”, in Los Angeles Times:
glosses: An urbanite who moves to the countryside, especially to start an agricultural venture.
ruralpolitans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ruralpolitan
pirot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pirots
Etymology: Introduced by British philosopher Paul Grice, who took the word from Rudolf Carnap's example sentence "Pirots karulize elatically".
Senses: examples: text: Suppose we are genitors — demigods — designing living creatures, creatures Grice calls pirots. To design a type of pirot is to specify a diagram and table for that type (plus evaluative procedures, if any).
ref: 1988, Richard E. Grandy, Richard Warner, Philosophical Grounds of Rationality, page 31:
text: Pirots are much like ourselves, and inhabit a world of obbles very much like our own world.
ref: 2005, S. Chapman, Paul Grice: Philosopher and Linguist, page 123:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A notional living being used in discussing certain aspects of the philosophy of language.
wikipedia: Paul Grice
Rudolf Carnap
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requel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: requels
Etymology: Patterned after sequel using re- (“again, anew”).
Senses: examples: text: "We want the character to look different, feel different, sound different. The back story of the character's different, the origin of the story is expanded upon in ways that the first movie didn't hint at, at all. […] It's pretty much a reboot, only with the same actor, which makes it: a requel. Or a seboot."
ref: 2011 March 21, “Ghost Rider 2 is 'very different'”, in Belfast Telegraph:
glosses: A movie which revisits the subject matter of an earlier film but is not a remake or a linear continuation of its plot (i.e. a sequel or prequel).
Related terms: interquel
midquel
prequel
sequel
threequel
requels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of requel
soul brother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soul brothers
Senses: glosses: A fellow African American man
Related terms: soul sister
chakacha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A traditional Swahili style of music and dance.
chair lift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chair lifts
Senses: examples: text: A drive to exploit the Highlands as a winter sports area, with all the necessary auxiliaries, such as chair lifts in the Cairngorms, shows increasing promise, [...].
ref: 1962 September, G. Freeman Allen, “The New Look in Scotland's Northern Division—1”, in Modern Railways, page 163:
glosses: Alternative form of chairlift.
chalk and talk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: education
glosses: The traditional method of teaching, consisting mainly of speaking and writing on a chalkboard.
Related terms: chalk talk
chalkpit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chalkpits
form: chalk pit
Etymology: From chalk + pit.
Senses: glosses: A quarry where chalk is found.
chamiso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chamisos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish chamizo, from Galician chamizo.
Senses: glosses: An evergreen shrub, Atriplex canescens, found in the southwestern United States.
glosses: An evergreen shrub native to California, Adenostoma fasciculatum.
Synonyms: chamise
chamomilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chamomillas
Senses: glosses: camomile
changkol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: changkols
Etymology: From Malay cangkul, from Proto-Malayic *caŋkul.
Senses: glosses: A type of hoe.
channelise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: channelises
form: channelising
form: channelised
form: channelised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of channelize.
chanoyu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 茶の湯 (ちゃのゆ, cha no yu).
Senses: glosses: A traditional Japanese tea ceremony in which matcha is prepared and presented.
chaulmoogra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chaulmoogras
form: chaulmugra
Etymology: From Bengali চালমুগরা (calmugra).
Senses: glosses: A tree found in Southeast Asia, Hydnocarpus wightianus, which yields an oil that was formerly used as a treatment for leprosy.
Derived terms: chaulmoogra oil
chaulmoograte
chaulmoogric
chaulmoogric acid
checkerbloom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: checkerblooms
Etymology: From checker + bloom.
Senses: synonyms: checkermallow
prairie mallow
sidalcea
glosses: Any of the flowering plants in the genus Sidalcea.
checksheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: checksheets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of check sheet.
chemotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to chemotrophism.
Related terms: chemotroph
chemotrophically
chemotrophy
chemotrophically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From chemotrophic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: in a chemotropic way
chicken salad air
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
snowboarding
sports
glosses: A trick in which the boarder reaches the trailing hand back between the legs and grabs the heel edge of the board between the feet.
cargoship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cargoships
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cargo ship.
cargoships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cargoship
lampshading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lampshade + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Finally she took a job decorating lampshades. Lampshading, as she called it, left her drained and without impetus or inspiration to draw, which always made her unhappy.
ref: 1993, Audur H. Winnan, Wanda Gág: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints, Smithsonian Institution Press, →ISBN, page 8:
glosses: The practice of decorating lampshades.
lampshading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From lampshade + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lampshade
high life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He enjoyed the high life after winning the lottery.
glosses: An extravagant lifestyle.
glosses: A privileged way of life associated with the upper classes.
Related terms: high-living
access roads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of access road
abb.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of abbess.
glosses: Abbreviation of abbey.
glosses: Abbreviation of abbot.
compound interval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compound intervals
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An interval that is greater than an octave.
compound intervals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compound interval
pacotilles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pacotille
Epicurean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛpɪkjʊəˈɹiːən/
ipa: /ˌɛpɪkjʊˈɹiːən/
ipa: /ˌɛpɪˈkjʊɹiən/
Forms: form: more Epicurean
form: most Epicurean
Etymology: From Old French Epicurien, from Latin Epicureus, from Ancient Greek Ἐπικούρειος (Epikoúreios, “Epicurean”), from Ἐπίκουρος (Epíkouros, “Epicurus”) + -ειος (-eios, “-ey: forming adjectives”).
Senses: hypernyms: word: devoted
word: excessive
glosses: Of or relating to Epicurus or Epicureanism, his philosophy.
Epicurean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛpɪkjʊəˈɹiːən/
ipa: /ˌɛpɪkjʊˈɹiːən/
ipa: /ˌɛpɪˈkjʊɹiən/
Forms: form: Epicureans
Etymology: From Old French Epicurien, from Latin Epicureus, from Ancient Greek Ἐπικούρειος (Epikoúreios, “Epicurean”), from Ἐπίκουρος (Epíkouros, “Epicurus”) + -ειος (-eios, “-ey: forming adjectives”).
Senses: hypernyms: word: person
word: wanton
glosses: a follower of Epicurus and Epicureanism
Epicureans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Epicurean
Abbassid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Abbassids
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of Abbasid.
Abbasside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Abbassides
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Abbasid.
Abbasside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Abbasid.
chocolate milk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: of Canada
ipa: /ˌt͡ʃɑklɪtˈmɪɫk/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑklɪtmɪɫk/
Forms: form: chocolate milks
Senses: examples: text: Historically, it would appear that the Certain-Thyson Milk Company of Miami, Florida, began the manufacture and distribution of chocolate milk in bottles during the late fall of 1919.
ref: 1940, International Association of Milk Sanitarians, Journal of Milk Technology, volumes 3-4, page 74:
glosses: A sweetened cocoa-flavored drink, typically created by mixing chocolate syrup or chocolate powder with milk, and typically served cold.
Related terms: banana milk
coffee milk
strawberry milk
chocolate milks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chocolate milk
bicycle lanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bicycle lane
abducent nerve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈdus.ənt nɚv/
ipa: /æbˈdjus.ənt nɚv/
Forms: form: abducent nerves
form: abducens
Etymology: * From Latin abducō (“to lead away”)
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of abducens nerve.
abducents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abducent
patronnes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patronne
chamise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chamises
form: chamisal
Etymology: From Spanish chamiza.
Senses: glosses: An evergreen shrub native to California, Adenostoma fasciculatum in the botanical family Rosaceae
Synonyms: greasewood
keepability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From keep + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality or degree of being keepable, especially the extent to which food can be preserved.
Greek yogurt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Greek yogurts
form: Greek yoghurt
Etymology: So called due to its association with Greece, due to this type of yogurt being eaten by people from the Levantine region and Greece, and later it being mainly exported from Greece to the various parts of the English-speaking world by brands like Fage. Attested since at least 1968.
Senses: synonyms: strained yogurt
labneh
yoghurt cheese
hypernyms: word: plain yogurt
word: regular yogurt
word: natural yogurt
word: dahi
english: any [[yogurt]] that bar [[possible]] [[fruit]]s has minimal [[addition]]s in particular of [[sugar]] or other [[sweetener]]s: normal [[yogurt]]; the same as Greek yogurt minus the step of straining
translation: any [[yogurt]] that bar [[possible]] [[fruit]]s has minimal [[addition]]s in particular of [[sugar]] or other [[sweetener]]s: normal [[yogurt]]; the same as Greek yogurt minus the step of straining
glosses: A form of yogurt that has been strained to remove the whey, resulting in lower fat content and higher protein content.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Greek, yogurt.
Related terms: Mediterranean diet
antiphospholipid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + phospholipid.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Counteracting phospholipids; applied to Hughes syndrome
Derived terms: catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome
antiphospholipid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiphospholipids
Etymology: From anti- + phospholipid.
Senses: glosses: Any antiphospholipid antibody
Hughes syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the rheumatologist Graham R. V. Hughes.
Senses: glosses: An autoimmune, hypercoagulable state caused by antibodies against cell-membrane phospholipids, leading to blood clots and pregnancy complications.
Related terms: antiphospholipid
have Van Gogh's ear for music
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has Van Gogh's ear for music
form: having Van Gogh's ear for music
form: had Van Gogh's ear for music
form: had Van Gogh's ear for music
Etymology: Van Gogh (a painter, not a musician) is famed for cutting off his own ear. The phrase is attributed to Billy Wilder.
Senses: examples: text: After listening to Cliff Osmond, a huge, 225-pound actor, rehearse a song he was to sing as part of his role in Kiss Me, Stupid, Billy observed, not unkindly, "You have Van Gogh's ear for music."
ref: 1970, Tom Wood, The bright side of Billy Wilder, primarily:
text: […] some inebriated idiot belting out a karaoke number thinking that he or she is perfectly in tune and the rest of the audience is somehow captivated by the performance — most of them have Van Gogh's ear for music.
ref: 2006, Stephen Murray, Darin Jewell, Dirty Laundry, page 2:
text: Brian had Van Gogh's ear for music. When Clint told him that he said, 'Hey, that's great, thanks Clint,' like it was a compliment.
ref: 2011, Joseph O'Connor, Cowboys and Indians, page 148:
glosses: To be tone-deaf.
wikipedia: Billy Wilder
Van Gogh
REME
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
borosulfate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: borosulfates
Etymology: From boro- + sulfate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The anion B(SO₄)₄⁵⁻
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt containing this anion
arterolane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From arte- (“artemisinin-related compound”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A novel antimalarial drug that contains both an adamantyl and an ozonide group.
scybala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σκύβαλα (skúbala), plural of σκύβαλον (skúbalon).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: a hardened mass of feces
atrop-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: examples: text: En route to abyssomicin C, we prepared and characterized its stable conformational isomer atrop-abyssomicin C...
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: atropisomer
altimetrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From altimetric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of altimetry.
borosulfates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of borosulfate
borosulphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: borosulphates
Etymology: From boro- + sulphate.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of borosulfate.
corrivalries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corrivalry
corrivalry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corrivalries
form: corivalry
Senses: synonyms: corrivality
corrivalship
glosses: A joint or mutual rivalry.
do-little
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: do-littles
Senses: examples: text: Great talkers are commonly do-littles.
ref: 1655, John Richardson, Choice Observations and Explanations of the Old Testament […] :
glosses: One who performs little though professing much.
Related terms: do-nothing
do-littles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of do-little
spirifer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spirifers
Etymology: From Latin spira (“a coil”) + fero (“I bear”).
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Any of numerous species of fossil brachiopods of the genera †Spirifer and †Delthyris and allied genera in order †Spiriferida, in which the long calcareous supports of the arms form a large spiral, or helix, on each side.
Related terms: spiriferine
spiriferous
spirifers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spirifer
sea canaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea canary
sea canary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea canaries
Etymology: So called from the whistling sound which it makes.
Senses: glosses: The beluga.
triverbial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + Latin verbum (“a word”).
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or designating, certain days allowed to the praetor for hearing causes, when he might speak the three characteristic words of his office: "do, dico, addico".
Related terms: dies fasti
triverbal
triverbal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + verbal.
Senses: examples: a triverbal phrase
glosses: of three words
Related terms: triverbial
trivalently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From trivalent + -ly.
Senses: examples: a trivalently cross-linked structure
glosses: in a trivalent manner; with a valence of three
sermoning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sermonings
Etymology: From Middle English sermonynge; equivalent to sermon + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: now have things been so reformed with a witness, or rather a vengeance, that Sermoning carries all afore it, bears all down to little or nothing.
ref: 1674, Matthew Scrivener, A Course of Divinity, page 395:
text: What need these assiduous pryaers, these frequent sermonings, these importune communicatings?
ref: 1808, Joseph Hall, Sermons, page 603:
text: You needn't tell me, 'cause I know all about it without any sermoning.
ref: 1879, Anthony Trollope, John Caldigate:
text: Or so said the bishops, whose self-righteous interolerance of any beliefs, save their own, made me doubt the sincerity in all their philanthropic sermonings to others.
ref: 2011, John P. Galassie ·, When Dark Gods Descend, page 46:
glosses: The act of discoursing; instruction; preaching.
sermoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sermon
sermonings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sermoning
pelfish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pelfish
form: most pelfish
Etymology: From pelf + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Wherefore, that I may the sooner vnbroyde ye pelfish trash
ref: 1582, Richard Stanihurst, The First Foure Bookes of Virgil his Aeneis:
glosses: Of the nature of pelf: undignified, trashy.
circumgestation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin circumgestare (“to carry around”), from circum + gestare (“to carry”).
Senses: examples: 1664-1667, Jeremy Taylor, Dissuasive from Popery
circumgestation of the eucharist to be adored
qualifier: religious
glosses: The act or process of carrying about.
proterogynous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From protero- + -gyny + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: protogynous.
suppositional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supposition + -al.
Senses: examples: text: suppositional judgment
text: suppositional question
text: suppositional argument
text: Men and angels indeed have also a certain knowledge of them : but it is not absolute , but only suppositional
ref: a. 1717 (date written), Robert South, “(please specify the sermon number)”, in Five Additional Volumes of Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions. […], volume (please specify |volume=VII to XI), London: […] Charles Bathurst, […], published 1744, →OCLC:
synonyms: suppositious
glosses: Relating to, or based on, supposition; hypothetical; conjectural.
suppositionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more suppositionally
form: most suppositionally
Etymology: From suppositional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a suppositional manner; by means of, or in the context of, supposition.
attemperly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more attemperly
form: most attemperly
Etymology: From attemper + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Notheles he shall sytte thareyn, to his body be moyst of the bathe, and water be cast on hym ofte sithes attemperly, and all so sone as he wille.
ref: 1898, “Of ordinance of stuynge”, in Robert Steele, editor, Three Prose Versions of the Secreta Secretorum, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, page 83:
text: Wherefore she did them to eat thus attemperly.
ref: 1899, William Morris, transl., The History of Over Sea, Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, page 45:
glosses: temperately
Related terms: attemperament
attemperance
attemperate
satyrion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: satyrions
Etymology: Latin, from Ancient Greek σατύριον (satúrion, “a kind of orchid”) from Σάτυρος (Sáturos, “a Satyr”).
Senses: examples: text: Chestnuts, soaked in muscadel, then boiled, along with satyrion, pistachio nuts, pine kernels, cubebs, cinnamon, rocket seed and sugar. Compounded together, these ingredient form a stimulating electuary.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 60:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of various kinds of orchids.
satyrions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of satyrion
cephalophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cephalophore
toxodon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toxodons
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: "Finally, I will assuredly give some account of the toxodon, the giant ten-foot guinea pig, with projecting chisel teeth, which we killed as it drank in the grey of the morning by the side of the lake."
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘Our Eyes have seen Great Wonders’”, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 277:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A gigantic extinct herbivorous mammal from South America, having teeth bent like a bow. It is the type of the order Toxodonta.
toxodons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toxodon
demivolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demivolts
Etymology: Compare French demi-volte.
Senses: glosses: A half vault; one of the seven artificial motions of a horse, in which he raises his forelegs in a particular manner.
demivolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demivolt
acetylenecarboxylic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: propiolic acid
calambour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See calambac.
Senses: glosses: A species of agalloch (unknown which species) found in the Philippines.
Nethinim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nethinims
form: Nethinim
Etymology: From Hebrew נָתִינ (natín, “given; granted; a slave of the temple”).
Senses: glosses: A servant of the priests and Levites in the menial services about the tabernacle and temple.