cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
laughtersome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more laughtersome
form: most laughtersome
Etymology: From laughter + -some.
Senses: examples: text: They are a low, laughtersome company.
ref: 1904, Thomas William Hodgson Crosland, The Lord of Creation:
text: Considered from this point of view, we say Punch is a really amusing and laughtersome publication.
ref: 1908, The Academy, volume 75:
text: There also is mad Becky Wells, the laughtersome comedian who molested Mrs. Crewe and Miss Burney by dogging their footsteps round a picture gallery, …
ref: 1909, Walter Sydney Sichel, Georgiana Spencer Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire, Sheridan
text: With her soul of attitudes, she must have felt herself in a double mood — heroic under strain, and laughtersome at care.
ref: 1910, Walter Sydney Sichel, Memoirs of Emma, Lady Hamilton:
text: Its laughtersome shrills / Knowing ahead soul is what God deals [...]
ref: 2016, Dr. Subhas Sarker, Jesus Christ - Eight Part Neoverse Epic:
glosses: Characterised or marked by laughter
Related terms: laughsome
unsecurable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsecurable
form: most unsecurable
Etymology: From un- + securable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be secured.
securables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of securable
aso oke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asoke
Etymology: From Yoruba aṣọ òkè.
Senses: examples: text: He wrapped my arm in aso oke cloth.
ref: 2019, Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Hamish Hamilton, page 86:
glosses: A type of handwoven textile used for clothing by the Yoruba people of Nigeria.
kente cloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This was never more true than when members of the House of Representatives took a knee amid the marble walls of Emancipation Hall to introduce the Justice in Policing Act of 2020 wearing matching kente cloth stoles provided by the Congressional Black Caucus.
ref: 2020 June 16, Vanessa Friedman, “The Dress Codes of the Uprising”, in New York Times:
glosses: Synonym of kente.
synonyms: word: kente
Bremainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Bremainers
Etymology: From Bremain + -er.
Senses: examples: ref: 2016 August 2, Hayley Kirton, “Bremainer and Brexiteer team up to bolster British businesses”, in City A.M.:
text: The only question I am hearing wherever I go at the moment – apart from, ‘Have you been sacked from Top Gear yet for only getting nine million viewers a week?’ – is, are you a Brexiteer or a Bremainer? Are you in or out?
ref: 2016 June 11, Chris Evans, “BMW’s new mini monster is here. Get set for some... M-azing pace!”, in The Daily Mail:
topics: government
politics
synonyms: Remainer
antonyms: Brexiteer
Brexiter
glosses: Someone in favour of Britain remaining within the European Union.
Related terms: Bremain
Bremoaner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bremoaners
Etymology: Blend of Britain + remain + moaner.
Senses: glosses: Someone who complains about or rejects the result of the 2016 referendum in which Britain voted to leave the European Union.
coldsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coldsome
form: most coldsome
Etymology: From cold + -some.
Senses: examples: text: 'Ere 's me, look 'ee, trimming them borders, Sergeant, so 'appy-'earted as any bird, and all at once I falls to coldsome, quakesome shivers, my 'eart jumps into my jaws, my knees knocks an' trembles horrorsome-like, an' I sweats — "
ref: 2010, Jeffery Farnol, F. Vaux Wilson, Our Admirable Betty:
text: The dirt felt coldsome and damp.
ref: 2013, Robert Newton Peck, Arly:
glosses: Characterised or marked by cold or coldness
dampsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dampsome
form: most dampsome
Etymology: From damp + -some.
Senses: glosses: Characterised or marked by dampness
quakesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quakesome
form: most quakesome
Etymology: From quake + -some.
Senses: examples: text: At street corners after dark in the West End, and up courts in the City, may be heard the hoarse cornet à piston, the quakesome flute, and eke the twanging harp, in trinity of dissonance; [...]
ref: 1883, Clement Scott, Bernard Edward Joseph Capes, Charles Eglington, The Theatre - Volume 11:
text: 'Ere 's me, look 'ee, trimming them borders, Sergeant, so 'appy-'earted as any bird, and all at once I falls to coldsome, quakesome shivers, my 'eart jumps into my jaws, my knees knocks an' trembles horrorsome-like, an' I sweats — "
ref: 2010, Jeffery Farnol, F. Vaux Wilson, Our Admirable Betty:
glosses: Characterised or marked by quaking
have over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has over
form: having over
form: had over
form: had over
Senses: examples: text: I had Tom over yesterday, and we chatted about this and that.
glosses: To host (a visiting guest) at one's house.
Related terms: have something over someone
whole-footed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: whole footed
Etymology: From Middle English hole-foted, equivalent to whole + footed.
Senses: glosses: web-footed
glosses: heavy-footed
glosses: Not cloven; single-toed
raw_tags: of hoofed beasts
glosses: unreserved; frank; free; easy; at ease; intimate
Related terms: cloven-footed
whoreman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whoremen
Etymology: From Middle English horeman, equivalent to whore + man. Compare Danish horkarl (“whoremonger”), Swedish horkarl (“whoremaster; fornicator”).
Senses: glosses: An adulterer
examples: text: Charlie Leamus, one of the boys l'd fooled with, told me Pierson was really a whoreman and would be peddling the girls in the wagon after dark, out at Jackson's Hollow, a mile or so out of town.
ref: 2012, James Carlos Blake, The Pistoleer:
glosses: A pimp
Synonyms: sense: pimp
word: whoremaster
sense: pimp
word: pander
sense: pimp
word: pimp
Related terms: manwhore
whore's-bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whore's-birds
form: whore's bird
Senses: glosses: A term of abuse; a debauchee
whoresome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more whoresome
form: most whoresome
Etymology: From whore + -some.
Senses: examples: text: [...] I had forgotten about Pepito with all that flesh around — and shouted for somebody called Mireya, a name which has remained in my ears as very whoresome.
ref: 2005, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Suzanne Jill Levine, Infante's Inferno:
text: [...] of the welcome and preparation in the Name of Our Lady of the Night most gracious, to pure lewd and whoresome Lady BABALON.
ref: 2005, John Carter, Sex and Rockets:
text: “You lying whoresome bastard!”
ref: 2008, Dianne Castell, Hot and Bothered:
text: “Eves, on the scale from wholesome to whoresome, you're practically Amish.” I glared.
ref: 2013, Kresley Cole, Poison Princess:
text: “Now,” he cried, “what does it feel like to know you're the son of this whoresome monk and the village harlot?” I watched Bruno's face. It was as white as the marble face of the jeweled Madonna. He did not speak.
ref: 2013, Philippa Carr, The Miracle at St. Bruno's:
text: But the vast population coexists in synthesis and even synergy. No more slaves, piles and ponds of horse- (and corpses of those worked to death) . . .nor even forced-windshield-washings . . . and Times Square, once whoresome, is not wholly wholesome!!
ref: 2013?, Appleton Schneider, Blog Jam
text: There ain't a woman alive who ain't carrying a desert in her, who ain't been made to feel she's got to keep it tucked away like a badland or whoresome wilderness. & this owl perched upon the saguaro's nettled shoulder ain't an omen, but a sister.
ref: 2015, Mark Todd, Western Weird:
glosses: Marked by whores, whorishness, or whoredom; characteristically whorelike
n2
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: 5'8" 135 lbs. gdlk coll. ed, indep but shy at bars, n2 music/audio, quiet nights, j/o ect. ^([sic])
ref: 1985 April 20, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 13:
text: U can only change u n2 a better, a greater, and a wiser you!
ref: 2023, Michailah Belle, Vision of Inspiration, Union City, N.J.: Writers Republic L.L.C., →ISBN, page 21:
glosses: Initialism of into.
whoreless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more whoreless
form: most whoreless
Etymology: From whore + -less.
Senses: examples: text: “It's me, your ex-whore, you punk, whoreless, motherfucking nigga!”
ref: 2012, James Robinson, Gospel of the Game:
glosses: Lacking, or devoid of whores; without whores
cluttersome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cluttersome
form: most cluttersome
Etymology: From clutter + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Endless repetition of the term "lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals” would be cluttersome.
ref: 1996, Mark Hertzog, The Lavender Vote:
text: [...] anything up to ten papyri may have to be cited for a given reading – this has become too cluttersome.
ref: 2001, Martin L. West, Studies in the Text and Transmission of the Iliad:
text: That would only be a cluttersome distraction; instead, visual feedback is limited to indicating which couplers are active.
ref: 2014, Jonathan Follett, Designing for Emerging Technologies:
text: Of course it's entirely up to you, he said. If you wish to leave your affairs in rotten mishmashy cluttersome disarray . . .
ref: 2014, Donald Barthelme, The Dead Father:
glosses: Characterised or marked by clutter.
Synonyms: word: clutterous
broilsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more broilsome
form: most broilsome
form: broil-some
Etymology: From broil + -some.
Senses: examples: text: We think of broilsome Norman lords — and so they were — but in their broilsomeness and insecurity they sought, and even abided by, tenure decisions lent legitimacy by the elevation to the inheritance of one of a finite number of 'rightful' heirs.
ref: 1981, Reginald Allen Brown, Proceedings of the Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies: 1980. III:
text: If a man was broil-some, he was likely to go whole-hog about it, utilizing tire irons and stones and teeth.
ref: 2016, John Graves, Hard Scrabble:
glosses: Marked by broiling or brawling; contentious; rowdy
Derived terms: broilsomeness
roilsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more roilsome
form: most roilsome
Etymology: From roil + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Something of a maverick in New York's roilsome politics, Harris had sought the position, one that did not rank highly in political circles.
ref: 2000, Eileen F. Lebow, The Bright Boys:
text: I mention all this about Teddy so as to suggest what I sensed to be the really roilsome nature of the struggle he was caught in at this moment, this day when I had walked with him to my office.
ref: 2001, William Guy, Gravity's Revolt:
text: Before I venture into these roilsome waters, let me be very clear: I prefer that people not kill trout.. . ever.
ref: 2002, Peter Kaminsky, The Fly Fisherman's Guide to the Meaning of Life:
text: This Gulf the radio reports so roilsome.
ref: 2002, Billy Bob Hill, Texas in Poetry 2:
text: The knights returned after nightfall, their voices stilled. Yet one told us that never had the water been so deep, never so roilsome.
ref: 2006, Pamela Kaufman, The Prince of Poison:
text: Subsequent encounters with other patrons suggest that the combination of ambiance and food in the Cafe had a profound effect. "There shall gelatinous be our fate under the roilsome seas, and we shall take to it blissfully," one individual said.
ref: 2007, Cat Rambo, Jeff VanderMeer, The Surgeon's Tale:
text: Of course the actual consequences of a mass diet at the end of Universe (1) would be remarkable and better subject for serious calculations instead of dead reckoning through dark and roilsome mysts of topical speculation.
ref: 2013, Mr. Garrison Gibson, Fossil Fueled Federal Deficits:
text: The atmosphere was roilsome and occluded. As the crust cooled and the solar system sorted itself out into major and minor planets and moon with plenty of debris chemical recombination occurred.
ref: 2016, Garrison Clifford Gibson, God, Cosmology and Nothingness:
glosses: Marked by roiling or agitation; turbid
jinglesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jinglesome
form: most jinglesome
Etymology: From jingle + -some.
Senses: examples: text: "Thank your dear mother and Rufus for their letters. I hope for Minnie a neck without a crick, and a lot without a crook, if one may be so jinglesome.
ref: 1862, Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown, Memoir. Lectures and addresses:
text: [...] having rowed and portaged a score of pestilential leagues upstream from the disemboguement of El Rio Echt to discover a mine so deeply posh with all things gay, gaudy, and jinglesome in the pocket that the very rumor of it, much less its actuality, launched a merchant navee, a flotilla of sharp-toothed frigates and an extortion industry - and this was only chanticleer's crow at the dawning, before even he learned to peck sugar from the palm of the Barbadoes.
ref: 2013, Eric Darton, Certain Amazing Adventures of Mr. Hoel:
glosses: Characteristic of a jingle or marked by jingling
clattersome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clattersome
form: most clattersome
Etymology: From clatter + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Through congested streets she scurried, taking notice of neither mettlesome horses nor startled pedestrians, oblivious to the clattersome danger of iron hoofs and wheels.
ref: 2010, Maggie MacKeever, Dulcie Bligh:
text: [...] and if the dead in their still and snowbound village glare with longing at this clattersome train, it's because in every season the breath of eros sparks the best and most dangerous weather.
ref: 2011, Kathie Bergquist, Windy City Queer:
text: Our valley w d be overrun with London Dublin travellers who will not stop here to view the beauties that are here but will race through on fast and clattersome horses and chaises.
ref: 2014, Doris Grumbach, The Ladies:
glosses: Marked by clattering
SPECI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SPECIs
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
climatology
engineering
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The aviation special weather report; a specially encoded weather observation report.
Coordinate terms: METAR
detoxifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more detoxifiable
form: most detoxifiable
Etymology: From detoxify + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The very property of toxic metals that makes them so hazardous to organisms also makes them detoxifiable by humus in soil.
ref: 2010, Robert Curley, New Thinking about Pollution:
glosses: That can be detoxified.
prosecutably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more prosecutably
form: most prosecutably
Senses: examples: text: Fortunately, this kind of thinking will soon migrate from being passively stupid to being prosecutably malfeasant.
ref: 2006, Stuart Robbins, Lessons in Grid Computing: The System Is a Mirror:
glosses: In a prosecutable manner.
Fisker
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fiskers
Etymology: From North Germanic (Scandinavian) Fisker. Doublet of Fisher.
Senses: glosses: A surname from the North Germanic languages.
Coordinate terms: english: equivalent surname of English language origin
translation: equivalent surname of English language origin
word: Fisher
Pecheur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pecheurs
Etymology: From French Pecheur.
Senses: glosses: A surname. of French origin
Coordinate terms: english: equivalent surname of English language origin
translation: equivalent surname of English language origin
word: Fisher
ticket collector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ticket collectors
Senses: examples: text: This left Crewe on time, but was stopped at Stafford, after which we discovered we were being diverted from the Trent Valley main line to the Birmingham line. The ticket collector then appeared and informed passengers that there had been a derailment at Shilton and that we might expect to be 45min late on arrival.
ref: 1963 December, “News and Comment: The West Coast main line today”, in Modern Railways, page 368:
glosses: A person who checks that passengers on a train etc have a valid ticket, and marks or clips it so that it cannot be used again.
Synonyms: word: conductor
word: ticket inspector
four color theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the four color theorem
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A theorem stating that given any separation of a plane into contiguous regions, producing a figure called a map, no more than four colors are required to color the regions so that no two adjacent regions have the same color (adjacent being defined as two regions sharing a boundary, not counting corners, in which three or more regions share a boundary).
Related terms: four color problem
Vaikuntha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit वैकुण्ठ (vaikuṇṭhá).
Senses: glosses: The Supreme abode or the celestial home of Vishnu.
Goldbach's conjecture
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: “Goldbach’s conjecture, I finally remember it,” he says, as I’m standing to go. “And I want to make sure I tell you. It’s important: For every even number n>2, there exist two prime numbers p_1 and p_2 such that we can write: p_1 + p_2 = n…”
ref: 2022, Iain Reid, We Spread, Scribner, pages 255-256:
topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: A conjecture stating that every even integer greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two primes.
Related terms: Goldbach number
Goldbach partition
shroudie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʃɹaʊdi/
Forms: form: shroudies
Etymology: From shroud + -ie.
Senses: qualifier: slightly derogatory
glosses: Someone who believes in the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin.
Related terms: sindonologist
NRVO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Initialism of named return value optimization.
blister cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blister cells
Senses: topics: hematology
medicine
sciences
glosses: red blood cell containing a peripherally located vacuole, a precursor of bite cells; often seen with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency.
ROS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Initialism of Russian Orbital Segment, the part of the International Space Station that was contributed by Russia, or using ROSCOSMOS/Mir specification-based modules.
Coordinate terms: sense: Russian Orbital Segment
word: USOS
ROS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ROS
form: ROSs
Senses: examples: text: O₂^(•−) and OH^• are highly unstable (half-life at the level of microseconds and nanoseconds, respectively) and cannot cross membrane, while H₂O₂, though not a free radical but a ROS, is relatively stable (half-life around 1 ms) (Møller et al. 2007) and can cross membranes through aquaporins.
ref: 2015, Rup Kumar Kar, “ROS Signaling: Relevance with Site of Production and Metabolism of ROS”, in Dharmendra K. Gupta, José M. Palma, Francisco J. Corpas, editors, Reactive Oxygen Species and Oxidative Damage in Plants Under Stress, Springer, →ISBN, page 117:
text: Either way, a set of antioxidants worked to reduce the levels of ROS, and the [fruit] flies could live to the ripe old age of 40 days… if not a teensy bit longer! But most importantly, this demonstrated that the death from lack of sleep was not only correlated with the production of ROS, but caused by it.
ref: 2024 November 11, Stephanie Caty, 10:29 from the start, in How Not Sleeping Actually Kills You, spoken by Stefan Chin, SciShow, via YouTube:
glosses: Abbreviation of reactive oxygen species.
glosses: Abbreviation of Robot Operating System, a robotic middleware.
synonyms: JWROS
glosses: Initialism of rights of survivorship.
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: Initialism of run of station.
Coordinate terms: sense: reactive oxygen species
word: free radical
sense: reactive oxygen species
word: RNS
Camarina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kamarina.
coincidence theorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊ̯ˈɪnsɪdəns ˌθɪ.əɹɪst/
ipa: /koʊ̯ˈɪnsədəns ˌθiː.əɹɪst/
Forms: form: coincidence theorists
Etymology: From coincidence + theorist.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps they are spoiled for choice: at all events a temperate belief in ‘coincidence theory’ has become almost mandatory in respectable circles. And the commonest thing said: by vulgar coincidence theorists in reply to vulgar conspiracy theorists is: ‘There is no smoking gun.’
ref: 1993, Christopher Hitchens, “Where Were You Standing?”, in For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports, London: Verso, published 1994, →ISBN, page 11:
glosses: Someone who rejects the claims of conspiracy theories, believing that any observations or occurrences are just coincidences.
Related terms: coincidence theory
coincidence theorists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coincidence theorist
hollow earther
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hollow earthers
Etymology: From hollow + earth + -er.
Senses: examples: 2001, F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, Macintyre's Improbable Bestiary, Wildside Press, 24.
Beware the Hollow-Earther! Beware the troglodytes / They make their homes in catacombs, and prowl on moonless nights . . .
glosses: Someone who believes the Earth is hollow.
hollow earthers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hollow earther
Zeitoun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Zayton.
Zaitun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Zayton.
Zaytun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Zayton.
Zaytoun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Zayton.
Zeytoun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Zayton.
klepton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɛptɒn/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɛptɒn
Forms: form: kleptons
form: klepta
form: kl.
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κλέπτ(ης) (klépt(ēs), “thief”) + -on, after taxon.
Senses: examples: text: Most kleptons are female, and some don’t use the genes of the male at all, merely deploying his sperm to stimulate the egg into development without fertilising it.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 157:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A species that requires input from another biological taxon (normally from a species which is closely related to the kleptonic species) to complete its reproductive cycle.
Derived terms: gynoklepton
kleptogenesis
kleptonic
synklepton
tychoklepton
zygoklepton
Zayton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zeitoun
form: Zaitun
form: Zaytun
form: Zaytoun
form: Zeytoun
Etymology: From Arabic زَيْتُون (zaytūn, “olive”), derived from Quanzhou's former Chinese nickname 刺桐城 (Cìtóngchéng, “Tung Tree City”), after the trees which had been extensively planted there in the 10th century by Liu Congxiao.
Senses: glosses: A major but poorly known medieval port of Fujian in China, variously intending Quanzhou and Zhangzhou in different sources.
sk.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of synklepton.
paparazze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pă'pə-răʹtsā
ipa: /ˌpæ.pəˈɹæ.tseɪ/
enpr: pă'pə-răʹtsā
ipa: /ˌpɑ.pəˈɹɑ.tseɪ/
Etymology: From Italian paparazze.
Senses: examples: text: Stunningly attractive law student ANTONIA SCHERER and her girlfriend JUDY are earning vacation money as Paparazze for a slimy gossip columnist named WALZ.
ref: 2025 January 10 (last accessed), “Antonia - Zwischen Liebe und Macht (TV Series 2001– )”, in Internet Movie Database (episode guide), Amazon.com, Inc., archived from the original on 25 Apr 2021, summary:
glosses: plural of paparazza
Heinz body
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Heinz bodies
Etymology: Named after Robert Heinz (1865–1924), a German physician who in 1890 described these inclusions in hemolytic anemias.
Senses: topics: hematology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A supravitally-stainable, small, round inclusion within red blood cells composed of denatured hemoglobin.
wikipedia: Robert Heinz
Synonyms: Heinz-Ehrlich body
welcome back
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: WeBa
form: weba
Senses: glosses: Said to someone coming back to somewhere they have been before.
Related terms: welcome
welcome home
hello
welcome home
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Said to someone coming back to their own home.
Related terms: hello
welcome
welcome back
bird feeders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bird feeder
woodhewer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodhewers
Etymology: From wood + hewer.
Senses: examples: text: A loud series of descending whistles from the dark shadows was an ivory-billed woodhewer; and an explosive song in the undergrowth, a gray-breasted wood wren.
ref: 1955, Roger Tory Peterson, James Fisher, Wild America, →ISBN:
text: In the two American families of tyrant-birds and woodhewers, neither of which are songsters, there is in some of the closely-related species a remarkable family resemblance in their voices.
ref: 2011, William Henry Hudson, Birds and Man, →ISBN, page 22:
text: If they differed, then the woodhewer feature was not a climbing adaptation. Difficulties with this method are illustrated by examination of the toe arrangement in the two groups, anisodactyl in the woodhewers and zygodactyl in the woodpeckers, but both are clearly adapted for climbing on vertical surfaces (Bock and de W. Miller, 1959).
ref: 2013, Max Hecht, Major Patterns in Vertebrate Evolution, →ISBN, page 60:
glosses: Any of various passerines of subfamily Dendrocolaptinae, found in South America and Central America having a curved bill, stiff tail feathers, and which feed like woodpeckers; a woodcreeper.
examples: text: The tree talked like a bird whose feathered weight Nested in him; and he with twisted tongue Could swear like the woodhewer whose dark face Was bright with sweat as he raised up and swung His naked arms with awkwardness and grace.
ref: 1982, Horatio Colony, “The Natural Ear”, in Collected Works of Horatio Colony - Volume 1, page 576:
text: Construction-related occupations include blockmakers, potmakers, carpenters, woodhewers, masons, builders and hardware store owners; these activities are all carried out by men.
ref: 2005, Meine Pieter van Dijk, Roberta Rabellotti, Enterprise Clusters and Networks in Developing Countries, →ISBN:
text: Additional rations were also given to others at the point when the larder was made: to all the kitchen servants, one from the bakehouse, one from the brewhouse, two gardeners and the woodhewer – and one imagines they too must have been involved in some way in the preparations of the day.
ref: 2016, C. M. Woolgar, The Culture of Food in England, 1200-1500, →ISBN, page 157:
text: Then, when he had been told all, at first he could not refrain himself and good wishes flowed from his lips as honey from the honey-comb; and he was indeed a right merry sight as, in the joy of his heart, he clapped his arms together across his breast, as a woodhewer may, to warm his hands in winter.
ref: 2016, Georg Ebers, Margery (Gred): A Tale of Old Nuremberg, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of wood-hewer.
woodhewers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woodhewer
wood-hewer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wood-hewers
form: woodhewer
form: wood hewer
Etymology: From wood + hewer.
Senses: examples: text: But the present task was hateful to him; for any big-armed yokel, or common wood-hewer, might have done as much as he could do, and perhaps more, at it, and could have taken the same wage over it.
ref: 1925, Sir Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Springhaven: A Tale of the Great War, →ISBN:
text: One of the officers thought it unavoidable that troops would abandon the “uniformity of the clean, smart, soldier, and substitute, in his stead, the [look of the] slovenly, undisciplined wood-hewer, sand-digger, and hod-carrier.”
ref: 2011, David A. Clary, George Washington's First War: His Early Military Adventures, →ISBN, page 130:
text: "I must hasten," he said. “Old Peter Cobb, a wood-hewer, is dying.”
ref: 2014, Anya Seton, Green Darkness, →ISBN:
text: My stomach was hooked by an admixture of bewilderment and elation as I jogged, walked, ran, and sometimes ran, walked and jogged till I reached Biodun's house, my senior at school— breathing heavily like a wood-hewer.
ref: 2016, Yemi D. Prince, The Birth of a Child in a Fishing Boat, →ISBN, page 63:
glosses: One who earns a living by splitting wood.
wood-hewers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wood-hewer
wood hewer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wood hewers
Senses: examples: text: You are aware that Hillel the Elder was a wood hewer and he used to study under Shemaiah and Avtalyon, and he was poor in the extreme of poverty.
ref: 1972, Moses Maimonides, Isadore Twersky, A Maimonides Reader, →ISBN, page 398:
text: Jacob's claim to fame is dubious, not like his father Adam's, the wood hewer par excellence.
ref: 2014, Patricia Moore, Restored To Life, →ISBN, page 161:
text: His head had been split with a wood hewer's axe.
ref: 2015, Peri Elizabeth Scott, His Rebel Countess, →ISBN, page 47:
glosses: Alternative form of wood-hewer.
wood hewers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wood hewer
formayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of formay
formroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: formrooms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of form room.
formrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of formroom
form room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: form rooms
form: formroom
form: form-room
Senses: examples: text: One morning, maybe three weeks after my last grapple with Penny, Thomson came roaring into our form room. ‘Oi, Fleming, you spastic. Guess who I knobbed last night?’
ref: 1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 17:
glosses: Synonym of homeroom.
synonyms: word: homeroom
form rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of form room
red lynx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red lynxes
Senses: glosses: A bobcat (Lynx rufus).
work around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: works around
form: working around
form: worked around
form: worked around
form: work round
Senses: examples: text: He works around the corner in the fish shop.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see work, around.
examples: text: If we can't fix this problem, we'll just have to work around it.
glosses: To bypass or circumvent (a problem or obstacle).
defuzzify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: defuzzifies
form: defuzzifying
form: defuzzified
form: defuzzified
Etymology: From de- + fuzzify.
Senses: examples: text: In practice we usually defuzzify the output waveform B to a single numerical value y j in Y by computing the fuzzy centroid of B with respect to the output universe of discourse Y.
ref: 2007, W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy, Florentin Smarandache, K. Ilanthenral, W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy, Florentin Smarandache, K. Ilanthenral, Elementary Fuzzy Matrix Theory and Fuzzy Models for Social Scientists:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To subject to defuzzification.
Related terms: defuzzifier
defuzzifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of defuzzify
defuzzifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of defuzzify
crewe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crewes
Senses: glosses: A group of people, especially in Louisiana, who support a Mardi Gras float in parades, as well as other charity work.
auto-shuffle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoshuffle
Etymology: From auto- + shuffle.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A feature that automatically randomly reorders something, such as tracks in a playlist or the cards held in a game.
autoshuffle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of auto-shuffle.
sidewardly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sidewardly
form: most sidewardly
Etymology: From sideward + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In violent temper he throws it sidewardly at the broken window.
ref: 2010, Joshua Heeg, Dracol Draco: The Horror Within:
glosses: In a sideward direction.
Related terms: backwardly
downwardly
forwardly
upwardly
frizzantes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frizzante
sgroppinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sgroppino
defuzzified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of defuzzify
chummo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chummos
Etymology: From chum + -o.
Senses: glosses: chum; friend
Related terms: mucko-chummo
chummos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chummo
lipidograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lipidogram
flameable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flameable
form: most flameable
Etymology: From flame + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Is advertising web hosting a flameable offence in this new group?
ref: 2000 April 25, Ken Hobbs, “Web hosting...a flameable offence?”, in macromedia.fireworks (Usenet):
glosses: Capable of, or suitable for, being flamed.
electromanipulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electromanipulations
Etymology: From electro- + manipulation.
Senses: glosses: The manipulation of materials by means of electric fields, as in nanotechnology where mechanical manipulation is impractical.
electromanipulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electromanipulation
floatsome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See flotsam.
Senses: examples: text: Flotsam is “floatsome,” cargo or wreckage found floating on the surface of the ocean or goods seen to float up from the hull of a wrecked ship.
ref: 2010, Bill Casselman, Where a Dobdob Meets a Dikdik:
glosses: Alternative form of flotsam.
floatsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more floatsome
form: most floatsome
Etymology: From float + -some.
Senses: examples: text: The President that we have in King's place, is just a figurehead without power, the so called minister is floatsome and he (a few exceptions) waits for crumbs to fall from the party leadership. He has no permanency of tenure in government.
ref: 2002, D.V. Gundappa, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: Currents and awesome wind with floatsome foam and dreg clinging dog paddle through mountainous seas toward safety of shore.
ref: 2012, Garrison Clifford Gibson, Temporal Cross Currents:
glosses: Characterised or marked by floating; (by extension) temporary; transitory
Mcrit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Many high performance aircraft are equipped with a Machmeter for monitoring Mcrit. The Machmeter is essentially an airspeed instrument that is calibrated in relation to Mach on the dial.
ref: 2012, Aviation Maintenance Technician Handbook-Airframe Volume 2, FAA:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The minimum Mach number at which the airflow over some part of an aircraft reaches the speed of sound.
jungle primary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jungle primaries
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A primary election in which all candidates run against each other, regardless of political affiliation, with a possible runoff if no candidate wins an absolute majority.
Related terms: jungle ballot
jungle primaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jungle primary
Edwards curve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Edwards curves
Etymology: Studied by Harold Edwards in 2007.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any of a family of elliptic curves with applications in cryptography.
Derived terms: twisted Edwards curve
Edwards curves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Edwards curve
nucleofugic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nucleofugic
form: most nucleofugic
Etymology: From nucleofuge + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The species that reacts with the nucleophile is not the substrate but the aryl radical deriving from its anion radical by cleavage of the nucleofugic group.
ref: 1991, Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry, volume 26, page 2:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a nucleofuge
Synonyms: nucleofugal
storyworld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storyworlds
Etymology: From story + world.
Senses: examples: text: [W]hile many male characters might be openly sexist to female characters within the storyworld, tropers expect that this explicit sexism does not align with the moral attitudes of the show’s creators.
ref: 2024, Doria Killian, “Defective Detective Meets Sassy Secretary, Plot Ensues: Babylon Berlin, TV Tropes, and Pop Narratology”, in Hester Baer, Jill Suzanne Smith, editors, Babylon Berlin, German Visual Spectacle, and Global Media Culture (Visual Cultures and German Contexts), London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, →ISBN, part 1 (Babylon Berlin, Global Media, and Fan Culture), pages 52–53:
glosses: The fictional world described by a narrative.
storyworlds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of storyworld
tallsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tallsome
form: most tallsome
Etymology: From tall + -some.
Senses: examples: text: If you were yellow, 'stead of white, / And lived in far Hankow, / Had sat for weeks above the flood / Upon tallsome bough; [...]
ref: 1931, The Auckland Star:
text: The little man stood up on Chert's shoulder and doffed his ratskin hat before making a small bow. “Beetledown the Bowman, I hight, tallsome lady. [...]”
ref: 2006, Tad Williams, Shadowmarch:
text: Someone in the present instance (not to make comparison with those tallsome dudes, you understand) so far out of the loop he doesn't even know what the loop is, nor cares to; [...]
ref: 2012, M. Olson, Syzygy:
glosses: Marked, or characterised by tallness
shortsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shortsome
form: most shortsome
Etymology: From short + -some. For sense development from short to amusing, compare merry.
Senses: examples: text: […] and when the weather confined me within doors, my pencil and my violin made the time "unco shortsome."
ref: 1827, Thomas Dibdin, The Reminiscences of Thomas Dibdin:
text: There's seven maries in your bower, / There's seven o them and three, / And I'll send them to good greenwood, / For flowers to shortsome thee.
ref: 1886, F. J. Child, The Brown Robin:
text: 'Twould be a dreary, lonely spring at Carlyle without shortsome Jane to add color to her days.
ref: 2009, Liz Curtis Higgs, Fair Is the Rose:
glosses: Marked, or characterised by shortness; (by extension) (of time) amusing; enjoyable
AALS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Association of American Law Schools.
rilesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rilesome
form: most rilesome
Etymology: From rile + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Away from the immediate heat of our relationship—like when she's at school—I think to myself that I might even enjoy the wild energy her rilesome nature brings to my life if it weren't so evident that so much of the time the pain she causes me is anything but inadvertent.
ref: 2010, Lauren Kessler, My Teenage Werewolf:
text: Wide-grained and with hard knots of stubbornness, rilesome and quick to judge and long to hold a grudge. And in the turbulent time to come, I learned to love her for even the magnificence of her shortcomings.
ref: 2016, Ivan Doig, Heart Earth: A Memoir, page 86:
glosses: Easily aggravated; tending to get riled up.
examples: text: I can run that remark of Alec's through my ears a dozen times now and find no particular reason for it to be rilesome.
ref: 2013, Ivan Doig, English Creek:
text: Les bonnes temps, Andy. Laissez les bonnes temps rouler encore. And I sure as shit wouldn't do anything rilesome about Senator Boone and his indiscreet love life.
ref: 2015, Michael Kilian, Bad Girl Blues:
glosses: Tending to stir or move from a state of order; roilsome.
squonking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of squonk
squonked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of squonk
tunesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tunesome
form: most tunesome
Etymology: From tune + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Roland called, looking across the street at what a large false-fronted sign proclaimed to be the Good Beds Hotel. "Hello, the town!" No answer but the bells, the tunesome insects, and that odd wooden clunking.
ref: 2001, Robert Silverberg, Legends: Stories By The Masters of Modern Fantasy:
text: Though pleased to make acquaintance of those tunesome brothers, they were infinitely more enamoured of its second billing, their Holy Father, Bo Diddley, whom they welcomed with the awe of Israelites; [...]
ref: 2015, Simon Goddard, Rollaresque:
text: There ain't no reason why the devil should own all the han'some faces 'n' tunesome laughs, 't I know of.
ref: 2016, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Kate Douglas Wiggin:
glosses: Marked, or characterised by tunes; melodic; musical; singing
hellsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hellsome
form: most hellsome
form: hell-some
Etymology: From hell + -some.
Senses: examples: text: At last he said, " As I'm the darned idiot that's going to sottle on these two hellsome ranches to please you, and as you're the gaudy spark wot's clarin' west to hide your sorrer in the busy hants of men, I guess the actual cause of your pal's death ain't no funeral o' mine.
ref: 1903, William Reginald Hodder, The Doubling of Joseph Brereton:
text: Ab'nisha, the leader of the hellsome pack, knew this bindi.
ref: 2014, Armani Mondragón, Evolving:
glosses: Marked by hell or hellishness
hellsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hellsome
form: most hellsome
form: hell-some
Etymology: From hell + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Like an awful alligator / Breathing fire and screeching hell-some, / With a pack of hounds.
ref: 2015, Charles Godfrey Leland, Songs of the Sea and Lays of the Land:
glosses: In a hellsome manner; hellishly
Cope's rule
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after American paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope. The rule was never actually stated by Cope, though he did tend to hypothesize about the occurrence of linear evolutionary trends.
Senses: glosses: A rule stating that population lineages tend to increase in body size over evolutionary time.
Cope
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Washington County, Colorado, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: A town in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, United States.
Derived terms: Cope's rule
Cafuir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
ABAJ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of American Bar Association Journal.
greedsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more greedsome
form: most greedsome
Etymology: From greed + -some.
Senses: examples: text: The ant believes what you tell him; the greedsome anteater thrives upon this credulity.
ref: 1916, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Old Judge Priest:
text: This is not to say that the larch are gluttons, greedsome water scavengers totally out of control.
ref: 2013, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Tim Folger, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013:
glosses: Characterised or marked by greed; avaricious
GSL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GSLs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of guaranteed student loan.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of glucosinolate.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of glycosphingolipid.
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Initialism of goniosynechialysis.
topics: business
forestry
glosses: Initialism of growing stock level.
GSL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Gorilla Sign Language.
glosses: Initialism of Ghanaian Sign Language.
glosses: Initialism of Greek Sign Language.
glosses: Initialism of Great Salt Lake.
topics: computer-software
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of GNU Scientific Library.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of General Service List.
glosses: Initialism of Georgia State Line, a nineteenth century militia in the United States.
raggies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raggie
pondersome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pondersome
form: most pondersome
form: ponder-some
Etymology: From ponder + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Yet The Cry is not a pondersome, dull collection of critical views.
ref: 1990, Mary Anne Schofield, Masking and Unmasking the Female Mind:
text: I'm too sober to be drunk, too sober to be anything but in a funk. The safety net no longer protects. My anger no longer projects. The trite questions are difficult and pondersome.
ref: 2014, i.P. audAx, Relapse and Rescuers:
text: They were adventurous tales, quirky and funny, but always pondersome.
ref: 2014, Catherine Hoffmann, His Real Life:
glosses: Marked by pondering or musing; thought-provoking; pensive; puzzling
Synonyms: sense: thought-provoking
word: intriguing
goniosynechialysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goniosynechialysises
Etymology: From gonio- + synechia + -lysis.
Senses: examples: text: Here, I'd like to share some of what we've learned about the surgical management of PAS, and the indications and use of goniosynechialysis to help patients who have developed this problem.
ref: 2014 June 24, Robert Ritch, “Goniosynechialysis: Beyond angle opening”, in Review of Ophthalmology, volume 21, number 6, page 70:
text: Objective: To compare the clinical effects between the two goniosynechialysises combined with phacoemulsification and to seek a more reliable and effective way to treat the chronic angle-closure glaucoma with cataract.
ref: 2008 December 10, Ji-Lin Tan, Li-Li Gong, Xiang-Ge He, Hong-Mei Li, Xiao-Hong Deng, “两种房角分离术联合白内障超声乳化治疗慢性闭角型青光眼的疗效比较 [Comparison of the clinical effect between two goniosynechialysises combining phacoemulsification for chronic angle-closure glaucoma]”, in Chinese Journal of Practical Ophthalmology, volume 26, number 12, English abstract:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A surgical treatment for glaucoma by stripping peripheral anterior synechiae from the cornea.
Synonyms: GSL