cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
imbittered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of imbitter
imbittering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of imbitter
interfused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of interfuse
black coals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black coal
handicraftsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handicraftsman
genius loci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gĕʹnĭo͝os' lōʹki
enpr: jēʹnyəs lōʹkī
enpr: jēʹnyəs lōʹsī
ipa: /ˈɡɛnɪˌʊs ˈloʊki/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒinjəs ˈloʊkaɪ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒinjəs ˈloʊsaɪ/
enpr: gĕʹnĭo͝os' lōʹki
enpr: jēʹnyəs lōʹkī
enpr: jēʹnyəs lōʹsī
ipa: /ˈɡɛnɪˌʊs ˈləʊki/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒinjəs ˈləʊkaɪ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒinjəs ˈləʊsaɪ/
Forms: form: genii loci
form: genii locorum
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin genius loci (“tutelary deity of a/the place”), from the singular genitive form of locus (“place”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The minor deity or spirit watching over a particular place.
glosses: The spirit or atmosphere of a place, especially conceived as a source of artistic inspiration.
Synonyms: sense: inspirational atmosphere
word: geist
sense: inspirational atmosphere
word: muse
sense: inspirational atmosphere
word: ambience
Hypernyms: tutelary deity and Thesaurus:spirit
Hyponyms: english: overseeing multiple places
translation: overseeing multiple places
word: genius locorum
Related terms: english: overseeing a person
translation: overseeing a person
word: genius hominis
english: overseeing a family
translation: overseeing a family
word: genius familiae
genii locorum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of genius loci
glosses: plural of genius locorum
Luci
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: rhymes: -uːsi
Etymology: A modern nonstandard spelling of Lucy, from Lucia, from the Latin feminine form of the Latin praenomen Lucius, from lux "light".
Senses: examples: text: "Have you named your new doll?" "I shall call her Luci," Violet said. "Luci." "Why do you spell it like that?" "I didn't spell it, Mama. It's the way Luci spells her name."
ref: 2004, Arelo C. Sederberg, Dead Night on the Beat: and Other Stories, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 98:
glosses: A female given name from Latin.
overtreatments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overtreatment
heathy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: heathier
form: heathiest
Etymology: From heath + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The country consists of elevated sandy downs covered with heathy bushes and a few small banksia trees, it being only on the alluvial flats of the river that there is any grass or good soil.
ref: 1884, A C, F T Gregory, Journals of Australian Explorations:
text: Here make ground for a meadow; there, for a garden and grove, making it smooth and fine for small daisies and violets and beds of heathy bryanthus, spicing it well with crystals, garnet feldspar, and zircon."
ref: 1894, John Muir, The Mountains of California:
glosses: Resembling heath.
examples: text: The hills here, and indeed all the heathy grounds in general, abound with the sweet-smelling plant which the Highlanders call gaul, and (I think) with dwarf juniper in many places.
ref: 1786, Boswell, Life Of Johnson, Volume 5:
text: The country about Nuncombe Putney is perhaps as pretty as any in England. It is beyond the river Teign, between that and Dartmoor, and is so lovely in all its variations of rivers, rivulets, broken ground, hills and dales, old broken, battered, time-worn timber, green knolls, rich pastures, and heathy common, that the wonder is that English lovers of scenery know so little of it.
ref: 1869 May, Anthony Trollope, “The Clock House at Nuncombe Putney”, in He Knew He Was Right, volume I, London: Strahan and Company, […], →OCLC, page 113:
text: On a day in early spring two girls walked slowly about a heathy tangle in a quiet area of Sydney[.]
ref: 1948, Alec H. Chisholm, Bird Wonders of Australia, page 95:
glosses: Abounding in heath.
heathier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of heathy: more heathy
heathiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of heathy: most heathy
genius locorum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: jēʹnĭəs lŏkôʹrəm
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒiːnɪəs lɒˈkɔːɹəm/
ipa: /ˈɡenius loˈkoːɹum/
ipa: [ˈɡenius loˈkoːɹũ]
Forms: form: genii locorum
Etymology: A borrowing of Latin genius locorum (“tutelary spirit of the places”), employing the genitive plural of locus (“place”).
Senses: glosses: A single spirit or minor deity (genius) which watches over several places, rather than only one.
Coordinate terms: genius loci
shox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Shock absorbers.
graveled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gravel
graveled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The soldiers admitted that while they had the money to lay gravel on a particular road, they lacked the funds to pave it, even though all agreed that graveled roads offered easy concealment for IEDs.
ref: 2006 May 5, Harold Henderson, “Snips”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Covered with gravel.
examples: text: "The fracture is your making; the pin--" Here Miss Dolly interrupted; to tell the truth I was not sorry, for I was fairly graveled for the meaning of the pin.
ref: 1894, Anthony Hope, Dolly Dialogues:
text: 'Oh, yes,' says Jan. Pond was graveled; didn't know just what to do.
ref: 1919, Christopher Darlington Morley, Mince Pie:
glosses: Perplexed, puzzled, baffled; troubled, annoyed.
Derived terms: ungraveled
headmost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From head + -most.
Senses: examples: text: The headmost was a ship, and the other, a brig.
ref: 1836, Richard Henry Dana, Two Years Before the Mast:
text: The headmost hounds soon burst out of the coppice, followed by three or four riders with reckless haste, regardless of the broken and difficult nature of the ground. "
ref: 1859, Sir Walter Scott, “Rob Roy”, in Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds., editor, The World's Greatest Books, Vol VIII:
text: We were now the headmost line of battle ship and gaining fast upon the enemy; but the main part of our fleet seemed rather to drop from them.
ref: 1914, Ernest Scott, The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders:
glosses: Closest to the front of a group or pack
graveling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gravelings
Etymology: Variant of gravelling.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gravelling.
graveling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From gravel + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gravel
window treatment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: window treatments
Senses: qualifier: interior decoration
glosses: A set of decorations for a window, often including curtains or blinds.
hieroglyphical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hieroglyphical
form: most hieroglyphical
Etymology: From hieroglyph + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: [M]ay we not say that Teufeldröckh's Biography, allowing it even, as suspected, only a hieroglyphical truth, exhibits a man, as it were preappointed for Clothes-Philosophy?
ref: 1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Pause”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, page 141:
text: Indisputable historical facts, recorded in this invaluable book, were treated by them as hieroglyphical symbols of chemical processes: and the fundamental truths of the christian religion were applied, in a wanton and blasphemous manner, to the purposes of making gold, and distilling the elixir of life.
ref: 1835, An Oxonian, Thaumaturgia:
text: It is an hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world, and of the creatures of God.
ref: 1874, Charles Kingsley, All Saints’ Day and Other Sermons:
text: Pages no better than blanks to common minds, to his, hieroglyphical of wisest secrets.
ref: 1844, John Wilson (Scottish writer), The Genius, and Character of Burns:
text: a hieroglyphical scrawl.'
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: Related to or resembling hieroglyphs; hieroglyphic.
Derived terms: hieroglyphically
honestest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: To kill the honestest Man in Spain, if I be well paid.
ref: 1682, Aphra Behn, “The False Count; or, A New Way to Play an Old Game”, in The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. III:
text: protesting that he thought him one of the honestest fellows in the country, and extremely well qualified for the place of gamekeeper
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
text: I have read diligently what books and documents about them I could come at;--with the honestest wish to admire, to love and worship them like Heroes; but I am sorry to say, if the real truth must be told, with very indifferent success!
ref: 1840, Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship:
text: '[…] old-fashioned things are so much the honestest.'
ref: 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers:
glosses: superlative form of honest: most honest
honied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more honied
form: most honied
Senses: examples: text: It must be buttered, or honied, or toasted, or soaked in milk, or dipped in gravy.
ref: 1836, William A. Alcott, The Young Mother:
text: One of the pair Is a woman fair, With parted, smiling lips; For her each hour A honied flower, And she the bee that sips.
ref: 1913, John L. Stoddard, Poems:
text: From the same lips the honied phrases fall That still are bitter from cascades of gall.
ref: 1903, Ambrose Bierce, Shapes of Clay:
glosses: Alternative spelling of honeyed.
hootings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhuːtɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of hooting
hould
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: houlds
form: houlding
form: held
form: held
form: houlden
Senses: examples: text: Of all Infirmityes belonginge to us I hould those woorst that will not lett a man Rest in his bedd a-nights.
ref: 1624, Thomas Heywood, “The Captives”, in A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV.:
text: Och! he's a roarer, sure enough; and then for the tusks you mintion, I didn't see 'em, with my eyes; but the crathure has a mouth that might hould a basket-full."
ref: 1871, James Fenimore Cooper, Wyandotte:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of hold.
hym
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: This yere the kyng toke the Ile of Cipre; and the prynce of the same ile he lete folowe hym in sylver cheynes.
ref: c. 1500, anonymous author, A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483:
text: If in thys p[ro]myst throng of future ill There may be found a way to anye good Of brave Orlando the great palladyne, My constant industry shall tyer the day And outwatche night but I will fynde it for hym; And yf to doe hym good-- Enter La Fue.
ref: c. 1660, Unknown, “The Distracted Emperor”, in A Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. III:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of him.
Vasconist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvæskənɪst/
Forms: form: Vasconists
Etymology: From Vascon + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: In general, Vasconists seem to be less optimistic about a genetic link, at whatever time-depth, between Basque and Iberian than Iberianists.
ref: 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 16:
glosses: a linguist or philologist specializing in the Basque language.
Vasconists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Vasconist
indiscriminating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + discriminating.
Senses: examples: text: He had played the part of Lord Bountiful ungrudgingly and with indiscriminating liberality.
ref: 1842, Edgcumbe Staley, The Tragedies of the Medici:
text: I have heard two reasons suggested for this indiscriminating application of punishment to the innocent and to the culpable.
ref: 1892, George Saintsbury, Political Pamphlets:
text: Socialism, which is curiously confounded by the indiscriminating with Anarchism, is its exact opposite.
ref: 1905, Stratton D. Brooks, Composition-Rhetoric:
glosses: indiscriminate
Derived terms: indiscriminatingly
imprudences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imprudence
indiarubber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indiarubbers
Senses: examples: text: It cannot harm you, if you take, as beetle-hunters do, an indiarubber sheet to lie on; and it will certainly benefit science.
ref: a. 1875, Charles Kingsley, Scientific Essays and Lectures:
text: The eyebrows were of worsted and indiarubber knitted together.
ref: 1898, Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll:
text: I tried exercises with an indiarubber expander; but I wasnt strong enough: instead of my expanding it, it crumpled me up.
ref: 1910, George Bernard Shaw, Misalliance:
glosses: Alternative form of india rubber.
Furzes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Furze
poisonwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poisonwoods
Etymology: From poison + wood.
Senses: glosses: Metopium toxiferum, a species of tree found in the American neotropics known for producing the irritant urushiol.
Synonyms: sense: Metopium toxiferum
word: Florida poisontree
sense: Metopium toxiferum
word: hog gum
kookish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kookish
form: most kookish
Etymology: From kook + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Like a kook; eccentric.
Derived terms: kookishness
kookishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kookish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being kookish; eccentricity, weirdness.
kookery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kookeries
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of kukri.
kookery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kook + -ery.
Senses: synonyms: kookdom
kookiness
kookishness
glosses: The state or quality of being a kook.
kookeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kookery
nutjobbery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nutjob + -ery.
Senses: glosses: The behaviour of a nutjob; lunacy or idiocy.
emeraldlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more emeraldlike
form: most emeraldlike
Etymology: From emerald + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling an emerald; intensely green in colour.
Landmarkism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From landmark + -ism, after a passage in Proverbs 22:28: "Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set."
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: An ecclesiology whereby non-Baptist churches are considered illegitimate.
Related terms: Landmarker
Landmarkist
steelwares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steelware
steelpans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steelpan
Talibaptist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Talibaptists
Etymology: Blend of Taliban + Baptist, from the hardline tactics of the former group and the traditionalism of the latter.
Senses: glosses: A fundamentalist Christian.
Related terms: Y'all Qaeda
Talibaptists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Talibaptist
Talibanizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Talibanize
Unihan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From uni- + Han.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
typography
glosses: A character set, a subset of Unicode, that attempts to unify the regional and historical variants of Han characters by treating them as different glyphs representing the same grapheme.
unignorably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unignorable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unignorable manner.
cauda equina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caudae equinae
Etymology: From Latin cauda equina (literally “horse's tail”), from its appearance like a horsetail.
Senses: examples: text: The cauda equina normally begins at the level of the L1/2 disc space, distal to the conus medullaris.
ref: 2004, Walter George Bradley, Neurology in Clinical Practice: The neurological disorders, Volume 2, page 1158:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A bundle of nerve roots at the base of the spinal column
Synonyms: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
word: horsetail
Derived terms: english: CES
translation: CES
word: cauda equina syndrome
flipperlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flipperlike
form: most flipperlike
Etymology: From flipper + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a flipper (appendage in marine mammals).
dybs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dyb
last posts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of last post
nonterminally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nonterminal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a nonterminal manner.
PSG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PSGs
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of phrase structure grammar.
topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of programmable sound generator.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of pregnancy-specific beta-1-glycoprotein 1, a protein that in humans is encoded by the PSG1 gene.
PSG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: PSG has won the Ligue 1 title seven times since QSI took control of the club in 2011.
ref: 2020 June 24, George Ramsay, “How billionaire owners changed European football”, in CNN:
text: The outlook for PSG is arguably as bleak as it has ever been since the state-backed Qatar Sports Investment (QSI) purchased the club in 2011.
ref: 2023 June 17, Matias Grez, “Kylian Mbappé: What next for French superstar as questions over his PSG future rumble on?”, in CNN:
text: A spokesperson for Qatar Sports Investment (QSI), the Qatari-government operated organization that owns PSG, confirmed to CNN that it has been “approached with regards to a basketball franchise in Paris in relation to which we have expressed an interest.”
ref: 2025 March 27, Matias Grez, “NBA and FIBA in talks with European soccer teams over new basketball league”, in CNN:
text: France’s interior minister, Bruno Retailleau, posted on social media on Saturday after the game: “True PSG fans are getting excited about their team’s magnificent performance. Meanwhile, barbarians have taken to the streets of Paris to commit crimes and provoke law enforcement […].”
ref: 2025 June 1, Ben Quinn, quoting Bruno Retailleau, “Two people die and hundreds arrested in France after PSG Champions League victory”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
hypernyms: word: FC
alt: football club
glosses: Initialism of Paris Saint-Germain Football Club, a French football club from Paris; from French PSG.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Presidential Security Group.
contra-octaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contra-octave
skullduggeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skullduggery
skullduggerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more skullduggerous
form: most skullduggerous
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of skulduggerous.
skulduggerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /skʌlˈdʌɡəɹəs/
ipa: /ˌskʌlˈdʌɡəɹəs/
ipa: /ˌskəlˈdəɡ-/
Forms: form: more skulduggerous
form: most skulduggerous
form: skullduggerous
Etymology: From skulduggery + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: You feel slimy and skulduggerous. You feel nervous that they'll return unexpectedly and catch you at something nefarious, even if the someone is in jail.
ref: 2010 [1997], Stephen Greenleaf, Past Tense, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 47:
text: A number of skulduggerous means were used, including hoarding its rival's banknotes.
ref: 2015, Ian Fraser, Shredded: Inside RBS: The Bank that Broke Britain, Birlinn, →ISBN:
text: In their hopes of overthrowing an unjust society, many of these groups held to romantic models of secret conspiratorial organisations. This skulduggerous, dashing lineage was reflected in the elusive, allusive poetry of some of their names: the Society of the Families; the Society of Seasons; the Leage of the Proscribed.
ref: 2022, China Miéville, chapter 2, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:
glosses: Involving skulduggery; tricky, underhand.
plusquamperfect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin plusquamperfectum (“more than perfect”), from plus (“more”) + quam (“than”) + perfectum, neuter singular of perfectus (“achieved; finished; perfected”).
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: pluperfect
rice rats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rice rat
partitively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From partitive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a partitive manner.
flaneurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flaneur
oidia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oidium
derivates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of derivate
derivationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more derivationally
form: most derivationally
Etymology: From derivational + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a derivational manner.
glosses: With respect to derivation.
Derived terms: transderivationally
derisorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more derisorily
form: most derisorily
Etymology: From derisory + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a derisory manner.
guard stations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guard station
nonanedioic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: azelaic acid
puckeringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more puckeringly
form: most puckeringly
Etymology: From puckering + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a puckering manner; in a way that causes puckering (especially of the mouth, as some sour foodstuffs do).
Derived terms: mouth-puckeringly
quizlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quizlike
form: most quizlike
Etymology: From quiz + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a quiz (question challenge).
unrighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + righted.
Senses: examples: text: Wrongs should not be allowed to go unrighted.
glosses: Not righted.
teethlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more teethlike
form: most teethlike
Etymology: From teeth + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling teeth; toothlike.
nonmonastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + monastic.
Senses: glosses: Not monastic.
Pac-Man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pac-Men
form: Pac Man
Etymology: From the popular arcade game Pac-Man (1980) and its player character, a circle with a snapping mouth gobbling dots in a maze. The original Japanese title of Puck Man (パックマン) was derived from パクパク (pakupaku, “gobble gobble”) (onomatopoeic) and マン (man), from English man; the title was changed for the North American release to mitigate vandalism (Puck → fuck).
Senses: examples: text: "Medicaid is becoming the Pac-Man of state government, eating up every dollar," remarked one official.
ref: 1992, Kenneth Janda, Jeffrey M Berry, Jerry Goldman, The challenge of democracy: government in America:
text: Chlorine acts like a Pac-Man of the high atmosphere, gobbling one ozone molecule after another and then being regenerated to gobble again.
ref: 1995, Bruce Piasecki, Corporate environmental strategy: the avalanche of change since Bhopal:
text: The ironic deconstruction of all meaningful discourse, including normative discourse, says Gergen, "is like a Pac-Man of social pattern, gobbling all that stands in its path."
ref: 1995, J Richard Middleton, Brian J Walsh, Truth is stranger than it used to be: biblical faith in a postmodern age:
text: Like the Pac-Man of garbage, Browning-Ferris Industries (BFI) is gobbling up smaller waste disposal firms — 113 in 1994 alone — as that industry becomes increasingly consolidated.
ref: 1995, Patrick J Spain, James R Talbot, Hoover's Handbook of American Companies 1996:
glosses: Anything that consumes indiscriminately.
wikipedia: Pac-Man
Related terms: Pac-Man effect
Pacman frog
Pac-Man illusion
pacaranas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pacarana
pacas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paca
unsavouriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unsavoury + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unsavoriness.
unsavoriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unsavouriness
Etymology: From unsavory + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being unsavory.
garbagelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more garbagelike
form: most garbagelike
Etymology: From garbage + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling garbage.
trashlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trashlike
form: most trashlike
Etymology: From trash + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling trash.
garbaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of garbage
millipascal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millipascals
Etymology: From milli- + pascal.
Senses: glosses: A unit equal to one thousandth of a pascal (symbol mPa).
millipascals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of millipascal
nonnegotiables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonnegotiable
superdiplomat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superdiplomats
Etymology: From super- + diplomat.
Senses: glosses: A very skilled or successful diplomat (government representative).
superdiplomats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superdiplomat
supermacho
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supermacho
form: most supermacho
Etymology: From super- + macho.
Senses: glosses: Particularly macho.
youth hostels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of youth hostel
superliner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superliners
Etymology: From super- + liner.
Senses: glosses: An ocean liner or cruise liner of over 10,000 gross tons.
gay blades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gay blade
superliners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superliner
allegro non troppo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Italian allegro (“fast”) + non (“not”) + troppo (“too much”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Fast, but not too fast.
superlinearity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superlinearities
Etymology: From super- + linearity.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The state or condition of being superlinear.
superlinearities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superlinearity
electric blanket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electric blankets
Senses: hypernyms: blanket#Noun
;
warmer#Noun
coordinate_terms: heating pad
glosses: A blanket with an integrated electrical heating device.
superreligious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superreligious
form: most superreligious
Etymology: From super- + religious.
Senses: glosses: Extremely religious.
ethnoreligiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ethnoreligiously
form: most ethnoreligiously
Etymology: From ethnoreligious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an ethnoreligious manner or context.
supergene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supergenes
Etymology: From super- + gene.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A group of neighbouring genes on a chromosome that are inherited together because of close genetic linkage and are functionally related in an evolutionary sense.
Related terms: supergenome
supergene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + gene.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: leached and then deposited by descending waters
raw_tags: of a mineral
supergenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supergene
superinfections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superinfection
superindexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superindex
superindices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superindex
exercise books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exercise book
comitatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From comitative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a comitative manner.
electric blankets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electric blanket
eshes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of esh
indecorum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indecorums
Etymology: From Latin indecōrum, neuter substantive of indecōrus.
Senses: examples: text: “But in this matter it is you who are to lead. You must set the example,—If others have blunder’d, it is your place to put them right, and shew them what true delicacy is.—In all points of decorum, your conduct must be law to the rest of the party.” This picture of her consequence had some effect, for no one loved better to lead than Maria;—and with far more good humour she answered, “I am much obliged to you, Edmund;—you mean very well, I am sure—but I still think you see things too strongly; and I really cannot undertake to harangue all the rest upon a subject of this kind.—There would be the greatest indecorum I think.”
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 293:
text: I hope your eyes are better, but if you must spare them, there is nothing in my pages which a Lady may not read aloud without indecorum, which is more than can be said of Shakspeare.
ref: 1823, Charles Lamb, “Letter 305”, in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Vol. 6):
text: This will be done decently and in good order--our training will admit of no indecorum.
ref: 1917, Douglas Fairbanks, Laugh and Live:
text: Not only were its central personages the patterns of propriety, but no breath of scandal, no shadow of indecorum, might approach its utmost boundaries.
ref: 1921, Lytton Strachey, Queen Victoria:
glosses: Indecorous behavior, or the state of being indecorous
ingathering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: And, across the gleaming beaches, lo! the mighty flow and fall Of the great ingathering waters thundering under Wamberal!
ref: 1882, Henry Kendall, The Poems of Henry Kendall:
glosses: present participle and gerund of ingather
ingathering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ingatherings
Senses: examples: text: From that day and hour it was clear that there was not to be so successful an ingathering after all.
ref: 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge:
text: The peasant obtained also the seed, but this he was obliged to return to the state after the ingathering of the harvest.
ref: 1920, Emile Joseph Dillon, The Inside Story Of The Peace Conference:
text: Not until the ingathering are we talking about Eden.
ref: 1994 July 1, Adam Langer, “The Last Days of the House of David”, in Chicago Reader:
text: ... infuses a rich ingathering of information and analysis with the narrative power of a McMurtry, ...
ref: 2012 January 3, Ralph Benko, “Daniel Yergin's The Quest”, in Forbes:
glosses: The gathering in of a literal or metaphorical harvest
inclemencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inclemency
inconsequently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inconsequently
form: most inconsequently
Etymology: From inconsequent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: My thoughts turned, inconsequently, out of their channel of bitterness, to fresh, desperate questionings.
ref: 1907, William Hope Hodgson, The House on the Borderland:
text: 'Have a burnt almond,' said Captain Willis inconsequently, as though it would help her to understand.
ref: 1912, Ada Leverson, Tenterhooks:
text: Columbus smiled at the compliment and snapped inconsequently at a fly.
ref: 1921, Ethel M. Dell, The Obstacle Race:
glosses: In an inconsequential way, or a way that suggests a lack of consequence
yana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɑː.nə/
Forms: form: yanas
Etymology: Transliteration of Sanskrit यान (yāna, “vehicle”).
Senses: examples: text: The Tibetan word for yana is thekpa, which means "that which lifts you up." Anything that lifts you up and takes you to your destination is a yana.
ref: 2013, Chögyam Trungpa, chapter 1, in Judith L. Lief, editor, The Bodhisattva Path of Wisdom and Compassion, volume 2:
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Any of the vehicles of Buddhist or Tantric practice.
Related terms: Hinayana
Mahayana
Vajrayana
ingraft
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ingrafts
form: ingrafting
form: ingrafted
form: ingrafted
form: ingraff
Senses: examples: text: "Why, everything about the colonel seems so seated, so ingrafted in his nature, so--so very self-satisfied, that I am afraid it would be a difficult task to take the first step in amendment--to convince him of its necessity?
ref: 1852, James Fenimore Cooper, Precaution:
text: The dialogue was ingrafted on the chorus, and naturally partook of its character.
ref: 1902, John Lord, Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIII:
text: In fact, all physical weakness, if ingrafted in either parent, is transmitted from parents to offspring[…].
ref: 1920, B. G. Jefferis, J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health:
glosses: Alternative spelling of engraft.
Derived terms: ingrafter
uningrafted
ingatherings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ingathering
hog gums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hog gum
gold general
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gold generals
Etymology: Calque of Japanese 金将 (kinshō).
Senses: topics: board-games
games
shogi
glosses: A piece in shogi that can move one step forward, back, sideways or diagonally forward.
Related terms: silver general
gold generals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gold general
silver general
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silver generals
Etymology: Calque of Japanese 銀将 (ginshō).
Senses: topics: board-games
games
shogi
glosses: A piece in shogi that can move one step in any diagonal direction or straight forward.
Related terms: gold general
silver generals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silver general
backward inductions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backward induction
foul balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foul ball
fair balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fair ball
compound microscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compound microscope
simple microscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of simple microscope
gre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gres
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of gree.
olam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: olams
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ollamh
Related terms: beit olam
tikkun olam
storm cellars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of storm cellar
pepper shakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pepper shaker
pepper mills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pepper mill
diencephalons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diencephalon
diencephala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diencephalon
pallia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pallium
oil palm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oil palms
Senses: examples: text: We […] could see a chain of islands in the distance ahead of us: the tall oil palm trees were like flags waving us in.
ref: 2010, Helon Habila, Oil on Water, AudioGO (2011), page 79:
glosses: A plant of species Elaeis guineensis, principal source of palm oil and palm kernel oil.
glosses: Any species of palm which can usefully produce palm oil.
Synonyms: sense: Elaeis guineensis
word: African oil palm
sense: Elaeis guineensis
word: macaw fat
Hyponyms: sense: any palm that produces palm oil
english: American oil palm
translation: American oil palm
word: Elaeis oleifera
sense: any palm that produces palm oil
english: maripa palm
translation: maripa palm
word: Attalea maripa
sense: any palm that produces palm oil
english: coconut palm
translation: coconut palm
word: Cocos nucifera
oil palms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oil palm
oily bitterling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oily bitterlings
Senses: glosses: A temperate freshwater fish, Tanakia limbata, of the family Cyprinidae, that is found in central and southwestern Japan.
oily bitterlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oily bitterling
walking canes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of walking cane
physiopathologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From physiopathological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a physiopathological manner
wasband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wasbands
Etymology: Blend of was + husband.
Senses: examples: text: After reading here about the guy who calls his wife’s ex her ‘wasband,’ Rosemary Wolohan confides that she refers to her two exes as ‘hasbeends.’
ref: 1990, Herb Caen, “Plenty of Monday”, The San Francisco Chronicle, March 12, 1990
text: The bride’s aunt dances with her ex-husband — he’s called a ‘wasband’ — on the hay-strewn ‘dance floor’ in front of the barn.
ref: 1996, Abigail Trafford, “Will You Still Catch Me When I’m Sixty-Four?”, The Washington Post, September 10, 1996
text: El Camino Real Elementary School librarian Cindy Mirallegro wants to put a word in the dictionary. She thought it was her own word when she and her friend were talking and she invented it, but it turns out a search of the Internet showed that several other people have used it before. But, that doesn't matter to College Park resident Mirallegro, she still wants to get it listed in Webster's dictionary.
ref: 2002, Peggy Goetz, “Has anyone seen her wasband? School librarian wants to get a word in the dictionary”, The Orange County Register, May 9, 2002
text: "Has anyone seen her wasband?" said the headline in the Irvine World News. It wasn't a typo. The story referred to librarian Cindy Mirallegro's campaign to win acceptance for "wasband" as a word meaning ex-husband. " 'Ex' just sounds so harsh," said Mirallegro, who has a wasband herself. She sent the Irvine article to Merriam-Webster, which said the word could find "its way into our dictionaries" if "you and other proponents of the word continue to use it in speech and correspondence." Mirallegro said she and her friends are keeping an eye out for "wasband" mentions -- it dates back at least as far as a 1990 Herb Caen column.
ref: 2002, Steve Harvey, “Woman Campaigns for Another Term of Endearment for a Former Spouse”, Los Angeles Times, December 12, 2002
text: "Wasband" didn't make it this year into Webster's New World College Dictionary update. That was the official word this week from Mike Agnes, Wiley Publishing's dictionary editor who oversees all new editions and updates of the dictionary.
ref: 2005, Peggy Goetz, “BEYOND THE BEIGE Wasband didn't make it And, what's up with wedgie?”, The Orange County Register, August 18, 2005
glosses: An ex-husband, a former husband.
Synonyms: english: more commonly
translation: more commonly
word: ex-husband
objectless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From object + -less.
Senses: examples: text: You cannot imagine, dearest, how dreary is this idle objectless life to me; with nothing to employ me--not even correspondence.
ref: 1843, Various, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - April 1843:
text: You assume, I think quite gratuitously, that God condemns the major part of His children to objectless future suffering.
ref: 1893, Annie Besant, Annie Besant:
text: For the moment it was a blind, objectless passion, directed against nothing and no one in particular.
ref: 1910, Basil King, The Wild Olive:
glosses: Without a purpose.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Without a grammatical object.
Derived terms: objectlessly
objectlessness
afrobeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Afrobeat
Etymology: From Afro- + beat.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Music that combines West African musical styles (such as traditional Yoruba music and highlife) with American funk, jazz, and soul influences, with a focus on chanted vocals, complex intersecting rhythms, and percussion.
Related terms: sense: not to be confused with
word: Afrobeats
foundrymen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foundryman
foundryman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foundrymen
Etymology: From foundry + -man.
Senses: glosses: A man who works in a foundry
spivvery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɪvəɹi/
Forms: form: spivveries
form: spivery
Etymology: From spiv + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: The Government decided the issues in accordance with the best principles, he said: "The weak first; and the strong next." Mr. Churchill preferred a free-for-all, but what was Toryism except organised Spivvery?
ref: 1948 July 4, “Mr Bevan's bitter attack on Tories”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Rome is also a city of spivvery, a city which had a black market before black markets were invented.
ref: 1956, Kenneth Wolstenholme, Sports Special, page 39:
text: With fascism defeated and Great Britain back on form, it is an optimistic start, but in spite of Mr Attlee’s government promising all the best things for Britain, the country has descended into spivvery, which forces the good men of 1087 [a motor gun boat; see The Ship That Died of Shame] into trafficking drugs and becoming criminals.
ref: 2013, Edward Page, A 1950s Childhood, Amberley, →ISBN, page 70:
text: Slater Walker became synonymous, after the 1973 crash, with City spivvery and the kind of risk-taking excess from which the next generation failed to learn.
ref: 2015 November 28, Martin Vander Weyer, “Never too late to investigate HBOS”, in The Spectator, page 36:
text: This is spivvery for which you and I pay billions extra just to get minimal services—it can also lead to a financial fragility at the heart of the firms on which Britain now relies.
ref: 2018 April 23, Aditya Chakrabortty, “Some call it outsourcing. I call it spivvery”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Behaviour characteristic of a spiv; crookery, petty crime.
spivveries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spivvery
spivery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiveries
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of spivvery.
hangulization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hangeulization
form: hangulisation
Etymology: From hangul + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: Hangulization should be restricted to customer related documents.
ref: 1983, Business Korea, page 40:
glosses: The transliteration of non-Korean words into the hangul alphabet.
spiveries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spivery
supertax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supertaxes
Etymology: From super- + tax.
Senses: glosses: An additional tax on something that has already been taxed.
glosses: A higher rate of an existing tax.
multifidi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multifidus
supertaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supertax
manna gums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manna gum
American sweetgums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of American sweetgum
dragon trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dragon tree
Tasmanian blue gums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tasmanian blue gum
balsam firs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balsam fir
ẽ
Language: English
Part of speech: character
Senses: examples: thẽ — them
repẽt — repent
glosses: The letter e with a tilde, replacing the sequence en or em.
enlivener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enliveners
Etymology: From enliven + -er.
Senses: glosses: That which enlivens.
enliveningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more enliveningly
form: most enliveningly
Etymology: From enlivening + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an enlivening way.
enliveners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enlivener
window treatments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of window treatment
block letters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of block letter
e-Business
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-Businesses
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of e-business.
e-Businesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-Business
seatbelted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From seatbelt + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing a seatbelt.
unseatbelted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + seatbelted.
Senses: examples: text: The crowd of 5000 watched as William Willard's unseatbelted body flew out of the plane as if he had jumped, arcing up, then down, and falling past the plane.
ref: 2002, Joyce Duncan, Ahead of their time: a biographical dictionary of risk-taking women, page 259:
glosses: Not wearing a seatbelt.
Synonyms: seatbeltless
seatbeltless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From seatbelt + -less.
Senses: glosses: Not wearing a seatbelt; unseatbelted.
glosses: Not equipped with seatbelts.
fuckless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fuck + -less.
Senses: examples: text: What would an UPTIGHT FUCKLESS PRIG like you know about eros, anyway?
ref: 1991, Michael Warner, “Introduction: Fear of a Queer Planet”, in Social Text, number 29, →ISSN, →JSTOR, page 5:
text: ...I tell you, instead let's pretend we're two new copper-coloured coins thrown on the world at random by the US Mint and let's have just about that much to do with one another now or in a future which is to be fuckless between us as furniture.
ref: 1995, William H. Gass, The Tunnel, →ISBN, →OL:
text: Now her being never needed to voice a moan, for her ears heard a born-again voice, the voice of Minnie Humphrey-that-was, as jumpin' and jivin' it skewered the glory trapped here despite her fuckless life.
ref: 1999, Christopher Nolan, The Banyan Tree, →ISBN, →OL, ch. 63:
text: You've fucked standing up in an elevator in Lisbon, and once in her mother's bathroom while her poor fuckless father practiced his yodeling in the backyard, bombed on Southern Comfort.
ref: 2001, Rick DeMarinis, A Clod of Wayward Marl, Dennis McMillan, →ISBN, →OL, page 217:
glosses: Devoid of sexual intercourse.
fuckmates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuckmate