cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tohew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tohews
form: tohewing
form: tohewed
form: tohewn
Etymology: From Middle English tohewen, from Old English tōhēawan (“to hew in pieces, chop up”), from Proto-Germanic *tehawwaną (“to cut to pieces”), equivalent to to- + hew. Cognate with Old Frisian tehawa, Middle Low German tohouwen, Dutch tehouwen, German zerhauen (“to chop up, hack”).
Senses: glosses: To cut or hack heavily; cut to pieces, chop up.
tolash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tolashes
form: tolashing
form: tolashed
form: tolashed
Etymology: From Middle English tolasshen, equivalent to to- + lash.
Senses: glosses: To scourge severely.
tolug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tolugs
form: tolugging
form: tolugged
form: tolugged
Etymology: From Middle English toluggen, tologgen, equivalent to to- + lug.
Senses: glosses: To pull about.
tomling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tomlings
Etymology: From tom + -ling.
Senses: glosses: A male kitten.
snowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snower
to-name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: to-names
form: tee-name
form: toname
form: tuename
form: towname
Etymology: From Middle English toname, tonome, from Old English tōnama (“surname”), equivalent to to- + name. Cognate with West Frisian tanamme, Dutch toenaam, Middle Low German toname, German Zuname, Danish tilnavn, Swedish tillnamn.
Senses: glosses: A name added to another name; surname.
glosses: A name in addition to the forename and surname of an individual.
Synonyms: byname
champeen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: champeens
Etymology: A corruption of champion.
Senses: examples: text: "He could whip a dozen Cyclone Dicks in the same evening with his eyes shut."
"He's the next champeen," admitted the first speaker.
ref: 1912, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 19, in The Prince and Betty:
text: "You're right, me lad, I was the best fightin' man, the greatest champeen as ever was."
ref: 1917, Jeffrey Farnol, chapter 24, in The Definite Object:
text: "I'd take a li'l' bet that New York ain't lookin' for no champeen ropers or bronco-busters," said Stace.
ref: 1920, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 1, in The Big-Town Round-Up:
text: In this corner, the operatic heavyweight from Modena, Italy, Luciano Pavarotti! And in this corner, that Iberian emoter, champeen tenor Placido Domingo!
ref: 1991 August 12, “Entertainment: Will Tyson Do The Encores?”, in Time:
text: So, there he goes, riding off into the golden sunset of history. Lance Armstrong, champeen of the cycling world.
ref: 2005 July 24, Paul Oerjuerge, “Armstrong untouchable to the end”, in The Sun, San Bernardino, USA, retrieved 18 Oct 2010:
glosses: A champion.
inversus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin inversus.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The inverted part of a composition.
Laiche
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Laiches
Etymology: Borrowed from Swiss German Laiche.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
similor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French, from Latin similus (“similar”) + French or (“gold”).
Senses: glosses: An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling brass, but of a golden color.
Derived terms: similored
nobody's perfect
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: 1958, Some Like It Hot, film by Billy Wilder, starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, and Marilyn Monroe.
When Jerry (Jack Lemmon) disguised as "Daphne" tries to fend off Osgood Fielding's insistent proposals of marriage with one excuse after another with no success, he finally yanks off his wig wig and shouts, "I'm a man!" to which Osgood amiably replies, Well, nobody's perfect.
text: Hypocrisy, particularly in sexual matters, is excused on the grounds that hey, nobody's perfect, and at least folks back then felt bad enough to lie.
ref: 1995, New York Magazine Vol. 28, No. 5, 30 January 1995, The de-moralization of society (Book Review)
text: 2000, Madonna, Nobody's Perfect
I feel so sad. What I did wasn't right. I feel so bad and I must say to you: Sorry, but nobody's perfect. Nobody's perfect. What did you expect? I'm doing my best
glosses: Used when someone's mistakes or flaws are acknowledged, to remind that everyone else makes mistakes and has flaws.
Synonyms: we all make mistakes
you never know
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: At this point, I doubt that they'll meet their deadline, but you never know — stranger things have happened.
text: 8 October 2010, Colin Jackson for BBC Sport, 'Magic can happen between Turner and Sharman'
They are only running times in the 13.20s, but next year he could run 13.25 and you never know, he may end up running 13.1 quite easily
glosses: Used to speculate about a possibility; especially, a slight one.
Related terms: what do you know
who knows
so they say
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: so they said
form: so they have said
Senses: examples: text: As people move to the suburbs, bank branches follow, so they say.
text: A: Are they seriously planning to build a new bank branch on that corner? B: So they say.
synonyms: as the saying goes
as they say[sentence adverb]] usage>
glosses: Apparently, according to others.
Related terms: if you say so
they say
you know what they say
as the saying goes
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: you know what they say
text: The neighborhood, to our ears, seemed haunted by approaching footsteps; and what between the dead body of the captain on the parlor floor, and the thought of that detestable blind beggar hovering near at hand, and ready to return, there were moments when, as the saying goes, I jumped in my skin for terror.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
synonyms: as they say
so they say
glosses: Used before or after saying an apt proverb, adage, cliché etc.
lesbos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lesbo
penalty unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penalty units
Senses: examples: text: In 1987 the Penalty Units and Other Penalties Act introduced a new scheme for financial penalties. The penalty provisions in a number of Acts containing commonly occurring offences were amended to specify the fine in penalty units rather than a specific sum. The value of a penalty unit is specified in the Penalty Units and Other Penalties Act, s 4, currently at $100. All offences now specify fines in penalty units.
ref: 2002, Kate Warner, Sentencing in Tasmania, page 124:
text: Usually an Act sets a maximum fine or penalty for a particular offence, measured in penalty units, which have a monetary equivalent. For example, under Section 46(2) of the Road Safety Act 1986, ‘a person who fails to stop the vehicle when requested or signalled is guilty of an offence. Penalty: eight penalty units’.
ref: 2008, Jules Aldous, Making and Breaking the Law: VCE Units 3 and 4, page 311:
text: A person must not use a listening device to record a private conversation to which the person is a party. Where an individual breaches this provision, the person may be liable to a fine of 50 penalty units ($5,000). Where the offence is committed by a corporation, the corporation may be liable to a fine of 50 penalty units ($25,000).
ref: 2010, CCH Australia Limited, Australian Master Human Resources Guide 2010, page 1144:
qualifier: criminal law
glosses: An amount of money, used as a basis of a penalty fine, which can be adjusted by the government without the need to pass new legislation.
maqaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maqafs
form: Maqaf
Etymology: Transliteration of Hebrew מַקָּף (maqaf).
Senses: examples: text: The maqaf is available only in some Hebrew keyboard layouts.
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: The Hebrew script hyphen (־)
dustproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dustproof
form: most dustproof
Etymology: From dust + -proof.
Senses: synonyms: dust-tight
glosses: Resistant to dust.
dentproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dentproof
form: most dentproof
Etymology: From dent + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to being dented.
chromoplast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromoplasts
Etymology: From chromo- + -plast.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plastid in which a pigment is synthesized or stored
Derived terms: chromoplastogenesis
coprology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From copro- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: scatology
Derived terms: coprologist
coprologists
coprologic
coprological
coprologically
geranial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: One of the two isomers of citral
Derived terms: isogeranial
Related terms: neral
roundsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roundsmen
Etymology: From rounds + -man.
Senses: glosses: A worker who makes rounds, especially in order to deliver goods.
glosses: A policeman who acts as inspector.
roundsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roundsman
nonettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonette
acoustic shock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acoustic shocks
Senses: examples: text: More than 1,000 people working in call centres across Britain are thought to have suffered the effects of acoustic shock, a little-known hearing condition triggered when people are exposed to a loud and unexpected noise.
ref: 2006 November 19, Jo Revill, “1,000 call centre workers suffer from noise shock”, in The Observer:
glosses: The symptoms that can be caused by unexpected loud sounds (an acoustic incident) received through a telephone headset.
reboantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɹiːbəʊˈæntɪk/
Forms: form: more reboantic
form: most reboantic
Etymology: From Latin reboāns, present participle of reboō (“bellow back; resound”).
Senses: examples: 1980-1984, Dante Alighieri, Allen Mandelbaum (translator), Divine Comedy, Inferno, Canto IX
across the turbid waves , there passed a reboantic fracas
glosses: Reverberating.
in one's tracks
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: to stop dead in one's tracks
text: The sinner of the first half cut in from the left wing, losing his marker to take a gentle pass from Ceri Sweeney and leave Bristol's Craig Morgan frozen in his tracks.
ref: 2006 October 28, Mike Averis, “Bristol's heavy brigade knock back potent Brew for victory”, in The Guardian:
text: After two years on the run from the US authorities the suspected thief known as the Barefoot Bandit has finally been stopped in his tracks.
ref: 2010 July 11, Haroon Siddique, “Barefoot Bandit arrested in the Bahamas”, in The Guardian:
text: Cyclist Anthony Robson found himself stopped in his tracks by this road sign.
ref: 2010 July 12, “Cyclist warns of road sign obstruction”, in The Guardian:
text: Galena turned to look at them, her face alight with the glow the Sword of Lumina provided. Her expression was dangerous. It would have stopped most creatures dead in their tracks, but not the earagos. However, that could have been the fact they had poor vision.
ref: 2015, Erin Elliott, Mira's Last (young adult fantasy), page 35:
text: As he creeps towards the main road, someone, another occupied former human, pokes their head around the corner, then calls to others in the strange language, pointing him out. Wheeler stops in his tracks. In another moment, ten or eleven non-people are advancing on him from the road. Two of them are carrying something with them, a limp, badly broken human— a normal human, Wheeler realises with some shock, like him.
ref: 2019 April 10, qntm, “CASE HATE RED”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 141:
text: Something stopped me dead in my tracks / I was headed for disaster and then I turned back
ref: 2025, “Spike Island”, in More, performed by Pulp:
text: “Sept. 11th stopped all alternative female voices in their tracks, because when people get scared, they get conservative and what does a conservative society loathe? A dangerous woman,” she said.
ref: 2025 June 2, Lizzy Goodman, quoting Shirley Manson, “Shirley Manson, the Unexpected Godmother of Rock”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Suddenly; abruptly, right where one stands.
Related terms: bring up short
romanticness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From romantic + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Mrs Betty […] had the confidence to say, That having heard me often praise the romanticness of the place, she was astonished (her hands and eyes lifted up) that I should set myself against going to a house so much in my taste.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LIII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: The state or quality of being romantic.
for cause
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: with cause
Senses: examples: text: Section 863. Removal of Guardian for Cause.—The court of chancery may remove all guardians, whether appointed by probate tribunals or by the court itself, or by testament, or by the legislature, whenever the guardian abuses his trust, or the interests of the ward require it.
ref: 1889, John Davison Lawson, Rights, Remedies, and Practice, at Law, in Equity, and Under the Codes, volume 2, Bancroft Whitney, page 1556:
text: A common bee will sting and kill another common bee, for cause, but when it is necessary to kill the queen other ways are employed.
ref: c. 1917, Mark Twain, Concerning Tobacco:
text: As a result, Grace said, its directors decided "to request Mr. Bolduc's resignation, but not to seek his termination for cause."
ref: 1995 April 10, John Greenwald et al., “Sex, Lies and W. R. Grace”, in Time:
text: The court noted this August, that an employee can be fired for cause based on incompetence, if he or she consistently fails to meet reasonable standards.
ref: 2009 October 28, “Incompetence is cause for firing”, in Financial Post, Canada, retrieved 19 Oct 2010:
topics: ethics
human-sciences
law
philosophy
sciences
glosses: For a legitimate, specific reason; with justification.
aerobot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aerobots
Etymology: From aero- + -bot.
Senses: glosses: An autonomous flying robot used in the context of unmanned space probes for research within planetary atmospheres.
aerobots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aerobot
May Days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of May Day
with cause
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: topics: ethics
human-sciences
law
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of for cause.
topinch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: topinches
form: topinching
form: topinched
form: topinched
Etymology: Created from to pinch, as if to- (“intensively, severely”) + pinch.
Senses: examples: text: Then let them all encircle him about
 And, fairy-like, to-pinch the unclean knight.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
glosses: To pinch severely.
to-bread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: to-breads
Etymology: From to- + bread.
Senses: examples: text: The number thirteen is also sometimes known as a "baker's dozen," because it was formerly a common practice to give thirteen loaves for twelve, the extra piece being called the in-bread or to-bread.
ref: 2013, Robert Means Lawrence, The Magic Of The Horse-Shoe:
synonyms: in-bread
glosses: An extra loaf added by bakers to every dozen, completing a baker's dozen.
Twihard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwaɪˌhɑːd/
ipa: /ˈtwaɪˌhɑɹd/
Forms: form: Twihards
form: Twi-hard
form: twihard
form: twi-hard
Etymology: Blend of twilight + diehard
Senses: examples: text: Getting "Twihards" who love virtuous vampires to buy the soundtrack is easy — but getting Radiohead fans to plunk down cash for a little bit of the "New Moon" universe will be a coup.
ref: 2009 October 3, Ann Donahue, “'New Moon' Rising”, in Billboard, page 19:
text: Beginning at popular Rialto Beach, share this classic coastline with beachcombers, dog walkers (allowed on-leash to Ellen Creek), and scores of Twihards from across the country.
ref: 2011, Craig Romano, Backpacking Washington: Overnight and Multiday Routes, The Mountaineers Books, published 2011, →ISBN, page 38:
text: 'Not me, I'm an out and out Twihard, loved the vampires in Twilight – still do, always will – so I know what it's like when people take the mickey. My brothers drew huge fangs and devil tails on all my posters of Robert Pattinson.'
ref: 2014, Samantha Tonge, From Paris, With Love, Carina, published 2014, →ISBN:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: An avid fan of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight book series or the related films.
Synonyms: word: fanpire
word: Twifan
word: Twilighter
word: Twitard
Hyponyms: Twimom
Twihards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Twihard
outness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outnesses
Etymology: * out + -ness.
** (philosophy): Possibly coined by George Berkeley for his 1709 Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision
** (sexuality): Popularised by Lynne Pearlman in her 1989 thesis Theorizing Lesbian Oppression and the Politics of Outness in the Case of Waterman v. National Life Assurance.
Senses: examples: text: The forces which work in and upon organic life know nothing of outness and inness. They shine through the materials which they build up and mould, as light shines through the clearest glass.
ref: 1888, The Twentieth Century, volume 23, page 156:
glosses: The quality of being out, or outside.
examples: text: From what we have shewn it is a manifest Consequence, that the Ideas of Space, Outness, and things placed at a distance are not strictly speaking, the Object of Sight.
ref: 1709, George Berkeley, Towards a New Theory of Vision:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The collective of things that are distinct from the observer.
examples: text: Distance means degree of outness of one thing from another; but it presupposes outness as a fact and a conception.
ref: 2008, John Veitch, Hamilton:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: word: otherness
word: externality
word: outwardness
glosses: The property of being distinct.
examples: text: If I use my own name to publish pieces which use homosexual themes, this decision forces a certain amount of "outness" upon those who associate with me.
ref: 1985 April 13, Charles Henry Fuller, “Learning to Draw my Name”, in Gay Community News, page 9:
text: Couples who are discrepant on outness may have conflict around such issues as where to live (e.g. in an obvious gay neighbourhood), whether to bring a partner to work-related social events, and how to introduce their partner to family members.
ref: 2008, Debra A. Hope, Contemporary Perspectives on Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identities:
glosses: The extent to which someone, particularly a gay person, is open about their sexuality.
Related terms: inside-outness
Betts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bett
Betts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bettses
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Bettes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Betteses
Etymology: Variant of Betts.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
back against the wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backs against the wall
Senses: glosses: Synonym of back to the wall.
synonyms: word: back to the wall
sleptwalk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: slept + walk
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sleepwalk
sleepswalk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sleepwalk
sleptwalked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: slept + walked
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sleepwalk
sleepswalks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sleepwalk
no pun intended
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: The air was thick with cat calls (no pun intended),
But not even a muscle in her neck did twitch as she sauntered up into
The heart of the alleyway.
She knew what she wanted.
She was lookin' for that stud bull, she was looking for that he cat.
And that was me.
Tommy the Cat is my name and I say unto thee...
ref: 1991, “Tommy the Cat”, performed by Primus:
glosses: Used to acknowledge that what one has just said, or what one is about to say, could be viewed as an unintended pun or double entendre. The term is likewise used sarcastically to emphasise an intended pun.
wikipedia: Boeing 747
Related terms: pardon the pun
pun intended
kissing disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the kissing disease
Etymology: So called because it may be transmitted through kissing.
Senses: examples: text: It was in a college, West Point, that infectious mononucleosis won a romantic reputation. . . . Investigators at a girls' school also found post-vacation peaks, and mono became known as the "kissing disease".
ref: 1961 February, “What in the world is Mononucleosis?”, in Kiplinger Magazine, retrieved 19 Oct 2010, page 30:
glosses: Mononucleosis.
dysmetria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dysmetrias
Etymology: 1910-1915. Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek δυσμετρία (dusmetría), from δυσ- (dus-) + μέτρον (métron) + -ία (-ía).
Senses: glosses: An inability to control or to limit muscular movement.
Hyponyms: hypermetria
hypometria
germ-plasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of germ plasm.
cribles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crible
ale posts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ale post
tearings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tearing
snacktime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snacktimes
Etymology: From snack + time.
Senses: examples: text: America is already enjoying a swicier summer thanks to new PLANTERS® Sweet & Spicy Dry Roasted Peanuts - but swicy doesn't have to end with snacktime.
ref: 2022 August 10, “The Makers of PLANTERS® Peanuts Team Up With Oliver Tree To Give Fans a Sweet & Spicy Mullet Makeover”, in Hormel Foods:
glosses: A time when a snack is eaten.
snacktimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snacktime
coffeetime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coffeetimes
Etymology: From coffee + time.
Senses: examples: text: And, as our time together grew in tension and abrasiveness, as our endless morning coffeetimes and afternoon shopping trips became harder to endure-
ref: 1975, Janet Gotkin, Paul Gotkin, Too much anger, too many tears: a personal triumph over psychiatry, Crown Publishers, →ISBN, page 159:
glosses: A time when coffee is drunk.
decons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decon
decons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decon
poussettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poussette
antiholdup
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + hold-up.
Senses: examples: text: German bank officials in Darmstadt are transferring money in a new antiholdup bank van that carries a vat of dye in the top.
ref: 1972 February, Popular Mechanics, volume 137, number 2, page 20:
topics: criminology
human-sciences
law
sciences
glosses: Serving as a deterrent against gunpoint robbery.
springwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: springwoods
Etymology: From spring + wood.
Senses: glosses: The wood in a tree's growth ring formed earlier in the growing season, when growth is more rapid, thus composed of wider elements and usually lighter in colour.
Synonyms: earlywood
Related terms: summerwood
latewood
summerwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From summer + wood.
Senses: glosses: The wood in a tree's growth ring formed later in the growing season, when growth is less rapid.
Synonyms: latewood
Related terms: earlywood
springwood
orks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ork
draw dead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: draws dead
form: drawing dead
form: drew dead
form: drawn dead
Senses: examples: text: Player A has Q8. Player B has J10. Table: J2J8. Player A made a pair, but he is drawing dead.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: To play a drawing hand that is inevitably going to lose, no matter what the remaining community cards are.
Coordinate terms: draw live
draw thin
community card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: community cards
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
synonyms: shared card
window card
antonyms: hole card
glosses: Any of the cards which appear on the board and can be a part of any player's hand.
community cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of community card
hole cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hole card
nonrecessed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + recessed.
Senses: examples: text: Recessed wheels are less subject to damage than nonrecessed wheels.
ref: 2006, Judith Gilford, The Packing Book: Secrets of the Carry-on Traveler, page 34:
glosses: Not recessed.
thermal imaging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Thermal imaging cameras give drones the ability to operate by day or night. [...] On this occasion, using a normal visual camera plus a thermal imaging one, we used a drone to 'sweep' the track, looking for any trespassers that were immediately apparent.
ref: 2022 February 9, Tom Allett, “The BTP's eyes and ears in the air”, in RAIL, number 950, pages 50, 51:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Synonym of thermography.
synonyms: word: thermography
ladderless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ladder + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The roof was low but she could not clamber up on it ladderless, hauling the long shakes and the nails, the hammer.
ref: 2005, Molly Gloss, The Jump-Off Creek, page 50:
glosses: Without a ladder.
nonorderable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + orderable.
Senses: glosses: Not capable of being ordered (placed into sequence).
unorderable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + orderable.
Senses: glosses: Not capable of being ordered (placed into sequence).
back walls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back wall
front walls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of front wall
interset
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + set.
Senses: examples: text: Thereafter, each set of parties can be treated as a single party for purposes of analyzing interset movements...
ref: 1985, Hubert M. Blalock, Causal models in the social sciences, page 197:
glosses: Between sets.
interset
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: intersets
form: intersetting
form: interset
form: interset
Etymology: From inter- + set.
Senses: glosses: To set between or among.
Fornicalia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Fornacalia (“Roman baking festival”).
Fornicalia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Presumably a phonetic reversal of California, chosen to resemble fornication and to end with -alia (a common word ending found sometimes in geographical names, like Sedalia, perhaps also chosen because it ends genitalia and causes Fornicalia to match that word in meter and rhyme).
Senses: glosses: California (a state of the United States).
chivalries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chivalry
tee-name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tee-names
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of to-name.
antipatent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antipatent
form: most antipatent
Etymology: From anti- + patent.
Senses: glosses: Opposing patents (legal claims to inventions) or the nature of current patent law.
pseudocoding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + coding.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The expression of an algorithm in pseudocode.
codestream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: codestreams
Etymology: From code + stream.
Senses: examples: text: The codestream obtained after compression of an image with JPEG 2000 is scalable in nature, meaning that it can be decoded in a number of ways.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A stream of code.
codestreams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of codestream
supercatalysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supercatalyst
all on a sudden
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of all of a sudden.
attributive adjectives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attributive adjective
Barbary macaque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Barbary macaques
Senses: glosses: Macaca sylvanus, an Old World monkey found in Gibraltar and the Atlas Mountains in Algeria and Morocco.
Synonyms: Barbary ape
magot
Barbary macaques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Barbary macaque
yestergay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yestergays
Etymology: Blend of yesterday + gay.
Senses: glosses: A former gay male who is now in a heterosexual relationship.
Coordinate terms: hasbian
nonpowdered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + powdered.
Senses: glosses: Not powdered.
unpowdered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + powdered.
Senses: glosses: Not powdered.
rubber check
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubber checks
form: rubber cheque
Etymology: From the metaphor of a bounced check.
Senses: examples: text: A rubber check for seven hundred and fifty dollars that bounced seven hundred and fifty feet.
ref: 1967 December 7, Henry Irving, “The Phony Police Racket”, in Dragnet, spoken by Salvador Cabo:
glosses: A check that is rejected by the bank against which it is drawn for insufficient funds.
Synonyms: sense: check rejected by drawee bank
word: bad check
rubber cheque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubber cheques
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rubber check.
bounced check
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bounced checks
form: bounced cheque
Senses: glosses: A check that has been rejected by the bank against which it is drawn for insufficient funds.
Synonyms: bad check
rubber check
Hyponyms: hot check
Related terms: NSF
buzzlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more buzzlike
form: most buzzlike
Etymology: From buzz + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a buzz (humming sound).
compassless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From compass + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a compass for navigation.
nonmasturbatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + masturbatory.
Senses: glosses: Not masturbatory.
nonfoliate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + foliate.
Senses: glosses: Not foliate.
toquake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: toquakes
form: toquaking
form: toquaked
form: toquaked
Etymology: From Middle English toquaken, equivalent to to- + quake.
Senses: glosses: To quake or tremble exceedingly.
toquash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: toquashes
form: toquashing
form: toquashed
form: toquashed
Etymology: From Middle English toquasshen, equivalent to to- + quash.
Senses: glosses: To beat or crush to pieces.
toreave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: toreaves
form: toreaving
form: toreft
form: toreft
form: toreaved
form: toreaved
Etymology: From Middle English toreven, equivalent to to- + reave.
Senses: glosses: To take away or remove completely.
exampling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of example
cover crops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cover crop
torely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more torely
form: most torely
Etymology: From Middle English torely, torly; equivalent to tore + -ly. More at tore.
Senses: glosses: With difficulty; hardly; stoutly; firmly.
torend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: torends
form: torending
form: torent
form: torent
Etymology: From Middle English torenden; equivalent to to- + rend.
Senses: glosses: To tear apart, rend to pieces; tear up.
Related terms: berend
torfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torfere
Etymology: From Middle English torfer, torfere, torfayr, a borrowing from Old Norse torfǽra (“a difficult road or passage”) whence the Icelandic torfæra (“an obstacle; a difficult drive, a difficult route”) and torfær (“of a path: difficult to negotiate”), torfǽrr (“hard to pass”, adjective), from tor- (“hard, difficult”) + fara (“to go, pass”). More at tore, fare.
Senses: glosses: Difficulty, trouble.
torfere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of torfer ("difficulty, trouble").
torfel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: torfels
form: torfelling
form: torfelled
form: torfelled
form: torfle
Etymology: Origin obscure. Perhaps a variant of terfle or a variant of Middle English torfer (“hardship, harm, injury”). More at torfer.
Senses: glosses: To fall; decine; pass away; die.
Related terms: terfle
torive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: torives
form: toriving
form: torift
form: torift
form: torived
form: torived
Etymology: From Middle English toriven, equivalent to to- + rive.
Senses: glosses: To rive in pieces; rend.
ichthyologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ichthyology + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or belonging to ichthyology or ichthyic.
glosses: The ichthyological attributes or characteristics (of an area), the fishes (of a region) as the objects of scientific study.
torob
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: torobs
form: torobbing
form: torobbed
form: torobbed
Etymology: From Middle English torobben, equivalent to to- + rob.
Senses: glosses: To steal completely; take away entirely.
toyear
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: to-year
Etymology: From Middle English toyere; equivalent to to- + year.
Senses: examples: text: Betty hath brought more Goods into our Lock to-year than any five of the Gang […].
ref: 1728, John Gay, The Beggar's Opera, I.2:
glosses: This year, in this year; during the year.
to-year
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of toyear.
mulattress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mjuːˈlatɹɪs/
Forms: form: mulattresses
form: mulatress
Etymology: From French mulâtresse, feminine of mulâtre.
Senses: examples: text: I believe his final choice was determined less by personal preference than by compassion: it was a beautiful but modest-looking mulattress who stood in the background, protruding a pair of superb pear-shaped breasts, with her hands clasped behind her head and eyes raised soulfully to the ceiling.
ref: 1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York, published 2007, page 70:
glosses: A female mulatto, a mulatta; a woman with one black and one white parent.
mulatresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mulatress
forefixed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From forefix, equivalent to fore- + fix + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forefix
forefixed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more forefixed
form: most forefixed
Etymology: From forefix, equivalent to fore- + fix + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The genius of Puritanism, with all its forefixed concatenation of misdeeds and punishments, had served me out properly.
ref: 1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York, published 2007, page 71:
glosses: Fixed in advance; predetermined.
yaku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɑː.kuː/
rhymes: -ɑːkuː
Forms: form: yaku
form: yakus
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 役 (yaku).
Senses: examples: text: There are certain combinations of hands called “Yaku,” which, if held by a player, either among his tricks or in his hand, entitle him to certain payments from the other players.
ref: 1892, Rossetsu Uchiyama, The Game of "Hana-awase": Japanese Cards, page 10:
text: It's a lot of fun for me as I'm just getting to know all the combinations (of three cards each) for yaku, which means the other fellow must subtract 50 from his score.
ref: 2006, Israel A. S. Yost, “On the Border” (chapter 11), in Combat Chaplain: The Personal Story of the WWII Chaplain of the Japanese American 100th Battalion, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 215:
text: Yakus determine whether you can make a mahjong.
ref: 2012, Jelte Rep, “Chapter 5: Japan”, in Jelte Rep, transl., Great Mahjong Book: History, Lore, and Play, Tuttle Publishing, →ISBN, page 112:
text: I'm still learning all the yaku though!
ref: 2015, Ritz Kobayashi, “Encounter” (chapter 1), in anonymous translator, Saki, volume 1, Yen Press, →ISBN, page 9:
text: Of course, since the hand is open, it doesn't earn the 1-han yaku for a true Pinfu hand.
ref: 2015, Scott D. Miller, “Hand Pattern Overview”, in Riichi Mahjong: The Ultimate Guide to the Japanese Game Taking the World by Storm, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 104:
text: The wisteria ribbon is used in two yaku sets. This is allowed because a player may use the same card to score from more than one yaku category.
ref: 2017, Jason Johnson & Antonietta Fazio-Johnson, “Matching Flowers” (chapter 5), in Hanafuda Games: Hanami Edition, IndianWolf Studios LLC, →ISBN, page 29:
text: The particular hanafuda game they're playing here is called Koi-Koi, and Banba just called the name of the game to keep going for another yaku card combination beyond whatever yaku she already formed.
ref: 2017, Akiko Higashimura, “Translation Notes”, in anonymous translator, Princess Jellyfish 6, Kodansha Comics, →ISBN, page 349:
text: To earn a high score and therefore complete yaku with a high rate, we expect that inputting features regarding these yaku into the networks will improve average scores.
ref: 2018, Koya Ihara, Shohei Kato, “Neuro-Evolutionary Approach to Multi-objective Optimization in One-Player Mahjong”, in Advances in Network-Based Information Systems, Springer International Publishing, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 501:
text: If the player did not keep the winning tile apart from the rest of the hand (if other players cannot see which was the winning tile), the lowest yaku and fu which can be calculated from that hand are applied.
ref: 2020 February 26, KML Competition Rules, Korean Mahjong League, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2025, 2.5.2 Mahjong on Self-Draw (tsumo):
topics: board-games
games
mahjong
glosses: A condition that scores points when met, usually in the form of a specific combination of tiles or cards.
wikipedia: Japanese mahjong
Synonyms: topics: mahjong
board-games
games
word: pattern
alt: hanafuda
word: meld
allicient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪʃənt
Forms: form: more allicient
form: most allicient
Etymology: From Latin alliciens, present participle of allicere (“to allure”); ad + lacere (“to entice”).
Senses: glosses: That attracts; attractive.
Related terms: alliciency
allice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈa.lɪs/
Forms: form: allices
form: allis
Etymology: Variant of alose.
Senses: examples: text: Both species of this fish resemble an overgrown herring: of these the allice is the largest, being often met with of as much as two feet in length[…]
ref: 1843, William Hughes, Fish, how to choose and how to dress, page 105:
glosses: A fish, the allis shad (Alosa alosa).
cadavera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin cadāvera.
Senses: examples: text: Caryatides from cadavera, [page] 22 […] [page 22] Before proceeding to the operation in question, the cadavera are submitted to the following treatment. […] A cadaver, after being treated in this manner, is deposited [?] the interior of a mould, which is filled with the following mixture, […]
ref: 1881 July 2, The British Medical Journal, pages iv and 22:
text: The custom inaugurated with the opening of the Hospital, of making autopsies in all cases in which the cadavera are not claimed for burial by friends or relatives, and in which it is believed the interest of general medicine or knowledge of the treatment of this important class can be advanced, has been kept up.
ref: 1887, Third Annual Report of the Managers and Superintendent of the North Texas Hospital for the Insane at Terrell; For the Year ending October 31, 1887, Austin, Tex.: State Printing Office, page 6:
text: Such “cadaver” paintings were Swiatetski’s speciality. He painted large cadavera, small cadavera, and some of medium size. […] There are defects in the perspective of the dissecting room, but the “cadavera” are masterly.
ref: 1901, Henryk Sienkiewicz, translated by S. C. de Soissons, Tales from Sienkiewicz, pages 17 and 57:
text: The morbid anatomy of over a hundred birds dead of intestinal coccidiosis and autopsied by us can be summarized as follows: The cadavera are very much emaciated and anemic.
ref: 1913, American Veterinary Review, page 498:
text: A 6-foot length is desirable, but we find that with our routine measure of keeping the feet at right angles to the legs when the cadavera are embalmed, there is no difficulty in getting the cover to fit over all ordinary subjects. […] Certainly the appearance of covered tables is much more agreeable than that of tables on which the outlines of the cadavera are plainly suggested under the folds of the dark-colored waterproof covering.
ref: 1914, The Anatomical Record, pages 441–442:
text: The second part (Myology) contains 55 plates and some of the cadavera are drawn in poses that would certainly have excited the interest and enthusiasm of Vesalius himself. […] Cadavera seemed almost as rare as in the Renaissance, when the learned Rondelet, noted for his gentleness and piety, in beginning his anatomical course at Montpellier, was compelled on account of the scarcity of anatomical material to dissect the body of one of his own children (see Ciba Symposia, April, 1940).
ref: 1941, Ciba Symposia, pages 849 and 852:
glosses: plural of cadaver
feer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more feer
form: most feer
Etymology: From Middle English fere, from Old English fēre (“able to go, fit for service”). More at fear.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fear (“able, capable”).
feer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feers
Etymology: From Middle English fere, from Old English ġefēra.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fere (“companion, friend, mate”).
Derived terms: playfeer
feer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: feers
form: feering
form: feered
form: feered
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: To mark (a field) with furrows before ploughing.
Related terms: feering
anceps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈænsɛps/
Forms: form: ancipites
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin anceps (literally “double-headed”).
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
qualifier: Greek and Latin meter
glosses: A syllable that can be either short or long.
Derived terms: acardiacus anceps
acardius anceps
ancipites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anceps
recomposer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recomposers
Etymology: From recompose + -er.
Senses: examples: text: To say the recomposers of the book of Amos may not meaningfully do so is to imply that we may not.
ref: 2002, M. Daniel Carroll R., Amos: The Prophet and His Oracles, page 20:
glosses: One who recomposes.
Rayleigh scattering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rayleigh scatterings
Etymology: Named after the British physicist Lord Rayleigh (1842–1919).
Senses: examples: text: Sky gazers in India and in other parts of the world will be able to witness a blood moon on September 7 during a total lunar eclipse. The moon will take on a dark red-copper hue. This is the result of a physical effect called Rayleigh scattering. During a total lunar eclipse, the earth comes between the sun and the moon, blocking direct sunlight from striking the lunar surface. However, not all sunlight is blocked. Only the bluer light is filtered out; the redder light is scattered by the earth's atmosphere, giving the moon its striking colour. This phenomenon is called Rayleigh scattering. The British Nobel laureate John William Strutt (Lord Rayleigh) explained the phenomenon in the 19th century.
ref: 2025 September 6, Priyali Prakash, “Why is a blood moon called so? Sky gazers in India will see a blood moon on September 7 during a total lunar eclipse”, in The Hindu:
glosses: The elastic scattering of light or other electromagnetic radiation by particles much smaller than the wavelength of the light.
wikipedia: Lord Rayleigh
animadvertor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: animadvertors
Senses: examples: text: IT was ever my Deſire and Care, if it were poſſible, not to fall under the Pen of the Animadvertor;[…].
ref: 1659, Thomas Fuller, “Why the Author desired and hoped never to come under the Pen of the Animadvertor in a Controversal Difference”, in The Appeal of Iniured Innocence: unto the Religious Learned and Ingenuous Reader. In a Controversie Betwixt the Animadvertor Dr. Peter Heylyn and the Author Thomas Fuller., London: […] W. Godbid, […], part I, page 2:
text: While I hold myself ready to substantiate every charge I have made against Highland depopulating proprietors, be it known that I will pay no attention to anonymous animadvertors; I must know my man.
ref: 1857, Donald McLeod, Donald McLeod’s Gloomy Memories in the Highlands of Scotland: Versus Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Sunny Memories in (England) a Foreign Land: or a Faithful Picture of the Extirpation of the Celtic Race from the Highlands of Scotland, Toronto: […] the Author, by Thompson & Co., […], page 211:
text: Cleveland’s animadvertors took the blazon seriously, sacrificing humour to analysis and thus losing the debate:[…].
ref: 1996, Joad Raymond, “Paper Bullets: Newsbooks, Pamphlets, and Print Culture”, in The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641–1649, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 223:
glosses: One who animadverts.
neuroleptic malignant syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A life-threatening neurological disorder, exhibiting muscle rigidity, fever, delirium, etc., most often caused by an adverse reaction to neuroleptic or antipsychotic drugs.
Synonyms: NMS
gopherspace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Gopher + space.
Senses: examples: text: How do you figure out where in gopherspace a particular kind of resource might be hiding?
ref: 1995, David F. W. Robison, Jonathan Kochmer, The Internet passport: NorthWestNet's guide to our world online, page 301:
text: This chapter explains how to set up shop and do business in Gopherspace.
ref: 1995, David Angell, Brent D. Heslop, The Internet business companion: growing your business in the electronic age, page 123:
text: Gopherspace is like a huge electronic library that needs a workable indexing and catalogue system.
ref: 1998, Jimin He, Internet resources for engineers, page 41:
glosses: The world of information available via the Gopher protocol.