cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
put the brakes on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts the brakes on
form: putting the brakes on
form: put the brakes on
form: put the brakes on
form: put on the brakes
Senses: examples: text: "[T]he fight I saw that day made the others look like a young ladies' quadrille. . . . [Y]ou could no more separate them two than you could put the brakes on a blame earthquake."
ref: 1903, Frank Norris, “Two Hearts That Beat as One”, in A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West:
text: Having put the brakes on credit expansion by raising interest rates, Humphrey last week decided the time had come to step on the gas.
ref: 1953 July 6, “The Economy: Loosening Up the Pinch”, in Time, retrieved 31 May 2015:
text: A French court on Tuesday put the brakes on the merger of the utilities Gaz de France and Suez.
ref: 2008 January 22, “French court puts brakes on merger of Gaz de France and Suez”, in New York Times, retrieved 31 May 2015:
text: With Jones and Botterman hoovering up penalties at the breakdown, Ward and Maud Muir putting the brakes on France's rolling maul and Cokyane waving off her opposite number after getting the better of a scrum, England were winning plenty of battles.
ref: 2025 September 20, Mike Henson, “Kildunne stars as England see off France to make final”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To stop (an event, action, or process) or to slow it down.
examples: text: "It would have been so easy for him to have the kids rolling on the floor, doubled up with laughter. So he had to put the brakes on at times."
ref: 1989 July, Nancy Griffin, “Poetry Man: Robin Williams and Dead Poets Society”, in Premiere Magazine, retrieved 31 May 2015:
text: “I think it calls on us here in the U.S., naturally, not to stop building nuclear power plants but to put the brakes on right now until we understand the ramifications of what’s happened in Japan,” Senator Joseph I. Lieberman . . . said.
ref: 2011 March 13, John M. Broder, “U.S. Nuclear Industry Faces New Uncertainty”, in New York Times, retrieved 31 May 2015:
glosses: To cease to perform one's current activity or to decrease one's level of activity.
Synonyms: word: rein in
put on the brakes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts on the brakes
form: putting on the brakes
form: put on the brakes
form: put on the brakes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of put the brakes on.
blackenize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blackenizes
form: blackenizing
form: blackenized
form: blackenized
Etymology: From blacken + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To increase the racially black character of.
Related terms: blackenization
black up
blackify
blackenizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blackenize
blackenized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: blackenised
Senses: glosses: Synonym of blacked up.
synonyms: word: blacked up
blackenized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blackenize
reaal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: realen
form: reaals
Etymology: From Dutch reaal, from Spanish real. Doublet of royal.
Senses: glosses: An obsolete currency in Curaçao, equivalent to six stuivers.
altyns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of altyn
denga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dengas
Etymology: From Russian деньга (denʹga).
Senses: glosses: An obsolete unit of currency in Russia equal to half a kopek.
dengas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of denga
naked-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more naked-handed
form: most naked-handed
Etymology: From naked + handed.
Senses: examples: text: But what I like is the excitement of choosing a path carefully, in the fear that the quagmire may reach out and suck me down; to go into the swamp naked-handed and wrest from it treasures that bring me books and clothing, and I like enough of a fight for things that I always remember how I got them.
ref: 2014, Gene Stratton-Porter, A Girl of the Limberlost:
text: "All right," Tug whispered back; "but we must get a stone or a club! 'Twon't do to go at 'em naked-handed."
ref: 1925, Ernest Ingersoll, The Ice Queen, →ISBN:
text: The most ingenious of our own race of people would be puzzled to get into operation any works to answer that purpose, naked-handed as those people were, and in their state of ignorance when alone in this country.
ref: 1890, Peter E. Gumaer, A History of Deerpark in Orange County, N.Y., page 27:
glosses: Lacking tools or weapons.
examples: text: Nay, was it not to be feared, that these continental democrats would prove utterly unproductive to the perfidious island, which had so often cajoled them, for months on months, to deliver them, in the end, naked-handed, to the vengeance of its monarchical and congenial allies?
ref: 1851, The American Whig Review - Volume 7; Volume 13, page 109:
glosses: Defenseless.
Derived terms: naked-handedly
Related terms: bare-handed
vaporwave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈveɪ.pə.weɪv/
ipa: /ˈveɪ.pɚ.weɪv/
Forms: form: vapourwave
form: Vaporwave
Etymology: From vapor(ware) + -wave.
Senses: examples: text: Largely ignored by the mainstream press, vaporwave has instead flourished on websites such as Bandcamp and SoundCloud and on Reddit […] Because vaporwave exists almost entirely outside the sphere of PR and the music industry at large, it has tremendous “underground” appeal. […] Vaporwave is critical of Western culture's preoccupation with the past, but it is not the only art form to call our collective regression into question.
ref: 2016, Grafton Tanner, Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave And The Commodification Of Ghosts, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN, page 7:
text: Vaporwave arose in reaction to huge economic and social forces that are still very much a part of our lives: globalization, runaway consumerism, and manufactured nostalgia chief among them.
ref: 2016 August 18, “How Vaporwave Was Created Then Destroyed by the Internet”, in Esquire:
text: Recess’s website features the charms of vaporwave internet art and Lisa Frank-style nostalgia, while their Instagram account evokes the combined look of “Endless Summer” with “Floridian retiree” and the summer-camp psychedelia that has replaced “Lifestyle Lumberjack” as the default millennial style choice.
ref: 2019 January 8, Kate Carraway, “How to Make a Millennial Feel Cozy in Just One Beverage”, in New York Times:
text: The haunting affect of Vaporwave's ghostly music is clearly seductive to a political moment which revels in dystopia, the golden years of the 90s and the sounds of the 90s: financial boom, pedestalled American Dreams and […]
ref: 2019, Emile Frankel, Hearing the Cloud: Can Music Help Reimagine The Future?, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN:
topics: art
arts
entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of electronic music and visual arts style that emerged in the early 2010s. As a musical genre, it evolved from chillwave and seapunk with influences from lounge music, elevator music, smooth jazz, and 1980s dance-pop. As an aesthetic, it is influenced by 1990s web design and digital art, anime, and cyberpunk.
Related terms: Simpsonwave
Winter War
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Winter War
Etymology: From winter + war; a calque of Finnish talvisota.
Senses: glosses: A war between Finland and the Soviet Union from 1939 to 1940.
naked-handedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more naked-handedly
form: most naked-handedly
Etymology: From naked-handed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Adcock, therefore, fought the dog naked-handedly, and in the great struggle that ensued continually threw the dog to prove that he was master!
ref: 1930, Edward Cecil Ash, The practical dog book, page 62:
text: I know that I am naked-handedly meeting the world's most worshiped god, — Conventionality, — the trouble-maker-in-chief, — who in his almighty sway has successfully prevented more than a zigzag stream of progress...
ref: 1907, Nathaniel Clark Fowler, How to Get and Keep a Job, page 225:
glosses: In a naked-handed manner.
Related terms: bare-handedly
fidepromissor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfaɪdiːpɹəʊˈmɪsɔː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: fidepromissors
Etymology: From Latin fidēprōmissor (“guarantor, surety”), from fidēprōmittō (“make a promise on behalf of another person, stand as guarantor or surety”) + -tor, from fidē (“in faith”) + prōmittō (“promise”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: One who pledges himself as security for another; bail, surety
Bristol whitebeam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bristol whitebeams
Senses: glosses: A species species of whitebeam, native to the Avon Gorge and surrounding area.
Bristol onion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bristol onions
Senses: glosses: A species of onion, Allium sphaerocephalon, found only on the slopes of the Avon Gorge
Synonyms: round-headed leek
Bristol rockcress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bristol rock-cress
form: Bristol rock cress
Senses: glosses: A species of rockcress, Arabis scabra, found originally only in the Avon Gorge.
Bristol brick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of rouge, once manufactured in Bristol, that was used to polish silver cutlery
Bristol diamond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bristol diamonds
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of quartz crystal found within geodes of the Avon Gorge.
Bristol stool chart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bristol stool charts
Etymology: Devised at Bristol Royal Infirmary, England.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A chart (and associated scale) that classifies human faeces, with limited use as a diagnostic aid.
Avon Gorge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A gorge on the river Avon in Bristol, crossed by the Clifton Suspension Bridge
seed cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seed cake
firangis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firangi
Kodak moments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kodak moment
Kiwi bears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kiwi bear
blackenizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blackenize
Flores Men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Flores Man
adrenochromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adrenochrome
J curves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of J curve
Allen curves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Allen curve
American breakfasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of American breakfast
American tigers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of American tiger
traditionalistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more traditionalistically
form: most traditionalistically
Etymology: From traditionalistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a traditionalistic manner.
Related terms: tradition
traditional
traditionalism
traditionalist
traditionally
traditionism
traditionist
traditionistic
Soest
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German and Dutch Soest respectively.
Senses: glosses: A town and rural district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
glosses: A town and municipality of Utrecht, Netherlands.
vocabularic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vocabulary + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Turns, twists, walks, runs, falls, and somersaults, along with many other movements, are the specific vocabularic elements which make up the lexicon of dance.
ref: 2002, Robert Wuthnow, Vocabularies Of Public Life, page 171:
glosses: Of or pertaining to vocabulary.
apiculturists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apiculturist
aripple
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹɪpəl/
rhymes: -ɪpəl
Etymology: From a- + ripple.
Senses: examples: text: They drifted back by the great conservatory and the ornamental water, aripple with ducks and swans, to the gates where his taxi waited.
ref: 1914, H. G. Wells, The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman:
glosses: rippling
ass pounding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ass poundings
form: ass-pounding
Senses: glosses: An instance of brutal violence.
examples: text: my willingness and capacity to withstand both extreme tickling and ass poundings by big-cocked costars have helped create a loyal following[…]
ref: 2004, Greg Wharton, Love Under Foot: An Erotic Celebration of Feet, Dinner with Jesus:
text: “This must be his bald brother. And speaking of brothers”—I leaned down over my board—“I think yours is about to get his ass pounded.”
“Fucking hell, Rett. Maybe an ass pounding is just what he needs.”
ref: 2017, Tess Oliver, Dray: Custom Culture #3:
text: “Fuuuuck, I love a chick who can take a good ass pounding.”
ref: 2022, Jennifer Sucevic, Campus Legend:
glosses: Harsh or violent anal sex.
Mr Plod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mr Plods
form: Mr. Plod
Senses: synonyms: word: 5-O
word: alphabet
word: barney
word: beatsman
word: bizzie
word: bluebottle
word: bluecoat
word: blue heeler
word: blue meanie
word: bobby
word: body snatcher
word: bogey
word: boy in blue
word: bull
word: bullyman
word: buttons
word: centenier
word: charpering omi
word: chazzer
word: cobbler
word: cop
word: copper
word: cozzer
word: cracker
word: crusher
word: crowns
word: dibble
word: fed
word: filth
word: finest
word: finger
word: five-o
word: flatfoot
word: flatty
word: fuzz
word: garda
word: gendarme
word: glowie
word: guardian of the peace
word: harman
word: harman-beck
word: jack
word: jackboot
word: jake
word: John Law
word: John Q. Law
word: Johnny Hopper
word: lawman
word: mee-maw
word: monarch
word: Mr Plod
word: mutton shunter
word: nuthook
word: oinker
word: Officer Friendly
word: Old Bill
word: PC Plod
word: pig
word: piggy
word: peeler
word: plod
word: police
word: police officer
word: policeman
word: policeperson
word: polis
word: po-po
word: raw lobster
word: roller
word: rozzer
word: scufter
word: slop
word: swine
word: statie
word: twelve
word: tyre biter
word: unboiled lobster
word: walloper
word: wooden-top
glosses: A law enforcement officer.
assagais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assagai
assagais
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of assagai
assagaiing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of assagai
assagaied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of assagai
atchoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atchoo
atishoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atishoo
achoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of achoo
f'rexample
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Contraction of for example.
autocorrelative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + correlative.
Senses: glosses: Relating to autocorrelation.
autolysates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autolysate
homoiousia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The doctrine of the homoiousians
banjulele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banjuleles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of banjolele.
banjuleles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banjulele
barasingas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barasinga
nilghau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nilghaus
form: nilghau
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nilgai.
nilghaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nilghau
nilgaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nilgau
non-lemma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-lemmas
form: non-lemmata
form: nonlemma
Etymology: From non- + lemma.
Senses: examples: text: According to Schmauder (1991) they had a narrow range of frequency of occurrence (our nonlemma count yields an average of 68; Francis & Kucera, 1982).
ref: 1991, Lewis P. Shapiro et al., “Verb effects during sentence processing”, in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, volume XVII, № 5, pages 986-987:
text: Prep. … Prenominal adjectives … Non lemmas … Basque multiword … English multiwords … English unknown … Others
11% … 21% … 7% … 5% … 17% … 16% … 21%
ref: 2000, Arantxa Diaz de Ilarraza et al., Building a Lexicon for an English–Basque Machine Translation System from heterogeneous wide coverage dictionaries, § 5.1, page 4, Table 2
text: If the database is to be printed out in the form of a dictionary, non-lemmas can be generated from the items contained in these fields.
ref: 2002, Christian Lehmann, “Structure of a comprehensive presentation of a language”, in Tasaku Tsunoda, editor, Basic Materials in Minority Languages, § 4.3, page 17?:
text: Initialize lemmatizer by providing dictionary file. If unknown, leave as non lemmata not found.
ref: 2010, “cayorodriguez” (username), “Lemmatization module in NLTK” in nltk-dev, Usenet
text: In step 3, non-words or non-lemmas, that are often generated by the guesser modules, are filtered out from the result.
ref: 2012, Maciej Piasecki et al., “Recognition of Polish Derivational Relations Based on Supervised Learning Scheme”, in LREC 2012, § 2.2, page 918/2:
topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Any form of a lexeme that is not its lemma.
ondoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ondoscopes
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An instrument that detects (and visualizes) the presence of high-frequency radiation
ondoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ondoscope
noetick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more noetick
form: most noetick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of noetic.
nudnick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nudnicks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nudnik.
nudnicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nudnick
nylghai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nylghais
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nilghai.
nylghais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nylghai
obelises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of obelise
Aryanne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name, variant of Ariadne.
grislily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more grislily
form: most grislily
Etymology: From grisly + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand no number of readings of Œdipus can diminish the horror of the dénouement; and at the fiftieth performance of Die Götterdämmerung our flesh creeps as grislily at the entrance of Siegfried in the guise of Gunther as it did at first.
ref: 1919, Ernest Newman, A Musical Motley, page 151:
glosses: In a grisly manner.
cidered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cider + -ed.
Senses: examples: a cidered pork stew
glosses: Flavoured with cider.
oligoclases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oligoclase
oliphants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oliphant
ungory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungory
form: most ungory
Etymology: From un- + gory.
Senses: glosses: Not gory.
ungrisly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungrisly
form: most ungrisly
Etymology: From un- + grisly.
Senses: glosses: Not grisly.
unvampiric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unvampiric
form: most unvampiric
Etymology: From un- + vampiric.
Senses: glosses: Not vampiric.
olycook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: olycooks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of olykoek.
olycooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of olycook
ololiuqui
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ololiuhqui.
omnicompetences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of omnicompetence
oncolyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oncolysis
oomiack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oomiacks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of umiak.
oomiacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oomiack
opopanaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opopanax
outcharms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outcharm
outcharmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outcharm
gypcrete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gypcretes
Etymology: Blend of gypsum + concrete.
Senses: glosses: A sedimentary rock, a hardened deposit of gypsum, capable of cementing together with other materials.
Related terms: calcrete
gypcretes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gypcrete
gypcrust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gypcrusts
Etymology: Blend of gypsum + crust.
Senses: qualifier: soil science
glosses: A duricrust composed almost wholly of gypsum.
gypcrusts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gypcrust
peacock ore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After the rainbow iridescence that appears after tarnishing.
Senses: glosses: Bornite.
Synonyms: peacock copper
peacock copper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After the rainbow iridescence that appears after tarnishing.
Senses: examples: text: The ores are of two general types, chalcopyrite or “yellow copper,” with very little bornite or other minerals richer in copper, and those in which the values lie almost wholly in bornite or “peacock copper.”
ref: 1920, Douglas Clermont Livingston, The Copper Deposits of the Seven Devils and Adjacent Districts:
glosses: Bornite.
Synonyms: peacock ore
paleozoologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paleozoologist
desert roses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desert rose
samshu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: samshew
form: samshoe
form: samshoo
form: samsu
Etymology: From Cantonese 三燒 /三烧 (“thrice-burnt”), a former name of 三蒸酒 (sānzhēngjiǔ, “thrice-distilled alcohol”).
Senses: examples: text: It would seem to be a purer ethyl spirit than samshu and other forms, as it does not have the delirient action possessed by many of these, which seem to contain large percentages of methyl spirit.
ref: 2003, Li Shizhen et al., Chinese Medicinal Herbs: A Modern Edition of a Classic Sixteenth-Century Manual:
glosses: A triple-distilled variety of rice-based baijiu.
qualifier: inexact
glosses: Synonym of baijiu.
synonyms: word: baijiu
samshoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of samshu.
caciquismo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of caciquism.
synonyms: word: caciquism
saucepanful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saucepanfuls
form: saucepansful
Etymology: From saucepan + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: But if this method is preferred, after you have drawn off what liquid you can with the syphon without disturbing the sediment at the bottom of the vessel, for this will contain the gold, add three or four saucepansful of boiling water, each saucepanful being added separately, and allowed to cool each time and the water carefully syphoned off;[…]
ref: 1920, George E[dward] Gee, “The Zinc Process”, in Recovering Precious Metals from Waste Liquid Residues: […], London: E. & F. N. Spon, Limited, […]; New York, N.Y.: Spon & Chamberlain, […], page 54:
glosses: Enough to fill a saucepan.
saucepanfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saucepanful
sauerbratens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sauerbraten
savoys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of savoy
Scattergood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
omphalectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: omphalectomies
Etymology: From omphal- + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The excision of the navel.
Synonyms: umbilectomy
omphalitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: omphalites
Etymology: From omphal- + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: inflammation or infection of the umbilicus
secpar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secpars
Senses: examples: text: The mass necessary at 150 secpars to produce the actual crosswise solar component would be 1,420,000 Suns.
ref: 1916 June 17, Scientific American Supplement, volume 81, number 2111, page 387:
glosses: parsec
secpars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secpar
rerestart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: rerestarts
form: rerestarting
form: rerestarted
form: rerestarted
Etymology: From re- + restart.
Senses: glosses: To restart again.
sextupling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sextuple
shaslik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shasliks
Senses: examples: text: Croyd bought three skewers of shaslik, lamb and peppers and tomatoes, richly spiced, dripping, and grilled almost black. He dipped the sticks in a paper cup of yogurt sauce and munched them down.
ref: 1995, Sage Walker, chapter 7, in George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, Melinda M[arilyn] Snodgrass, editors, Black Trump: A Wild Card Mosaic Novel (Wild Cards, 15; Book III of a New Cycle), Riverdale, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN, page 70:
glosses: Alternative spelling of shashlik.
shasliks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shaslik
shiatzu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shiatsu.
shillala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shillalas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shillelagh.
shillalas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shillala
Tyan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: TYAN: My name is Tyan, my lord. KNIGHT: How old are you? TYAN: Fourteen, my lord. KNIGHT: And is it true that you have been in league with the Devil? Tyan nods quietly and looks away.
ref: 1973, Lloyd J. Hubenka, Reloy Garcia, The Design of Drama: An Introduction, page 549:
text: Toward the end of the gathering they announced that they had found a suitable husband, Tyan. From another clan, his family was not rich in deer but had a moderate herd. Tyan himself was well known as a skilled hunter.
ref: 1998, Gail Fondahl, Gaining Ground?: Evenkis, Land and Reform in Southeastern Siberia, page 22:
text: Lord Meteroa, younger brother of the late King Tyan, once but no longer a prince, sat slumped in a chair in Queen Lystra's bedroom.
ref: 2010, Stephen Deas, The King of the Crags:
glosses: A male given name.
shopfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shopful
shunpikers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shunpiker
shwanpans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shwanpan
silaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of silage
silaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of silage
Sinatran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sinatran
form: most Sinatran
Etymology: From Sinatra + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Frank Sinatra (1915–1998), American singer, actor, director, and producer.
skokiaan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Afrikaans
Senses: examples: text: His eyes appeared bloodshot and feverish. Last night's skokiaan.
ref: 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 31:
glosses: A home-brewed alcoholic liquor; moonshine.
skullfucks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of skullfuck
skullfucking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of skullfuck
skullfucked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of skullfuck
skydove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of skydive
sleepsuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sliːp s(j)uːt/
ipa: /slip s(j)ut/
Forms: form: sleepsuits
Etymology: From sleep + suit. Compare sleeping suit.
Senses: glosses: Clothing for sleeping in; pyjamas.
glosses: A warm one-piece garment worn while sleeping, especially by babies or young children.
sleepsuits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sleepsuit
slimnastics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of slim + gymnastics
Senses: examples: text: The more aesthetic want no part of slimnastics but want to express themselves in movement provided by Mime and Movement or Modern Dance classes.
ref: 1952, Sara A. Bruce, “The YWCA in the Nation's Capital”, in Journal of Health, Physical Education, Recreation:
glosses: A form of athletic exercise intended to promote weight loss.
Related terms: slimnastic
bangling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From bangle + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bangle
bangling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bangle + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Sir, cannot all this bangling be easily rectified? Cannot the fee be taken with the schedule? Cannot an hour be named, nnd kept, nearer noon?
ref: 1870, The Lancet:
glosses: Contention; squabbling
bangsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bangster
baklawa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baklawas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of baklava.
baklawas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baklawa
shootee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shootees
Etymology: From shoot + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who is shot; the victim of a shooting.
shootees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shootee
zooplankters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zooplankter
professionalship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From professional + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Many years afterwards I baked a large cake of shortbread as a New Year's surprise to some friends at Huddersfield during my professionalship there.
ref: 1923, Alexander Herd, Clyde Foster, My Golfing Life:
text: I have benefited more greatly by the high standard of professionalship which it furthers.
ref: 1929, National Education Association of the United States, Addresses and Proceedings:
text: Alberuni praises the efficiency and skilled professionalship of the stone-workers in the following words; "In every place to which some particular holiness is ascribed, the Hindu construct ponds intended for ablutions. [...]
ref: 1988, G. Kuppuram, India through the ages: history, art, culture, and religion:
glosses: The condition, status, degree, or office of a professional.
Synonyms: professionalism
professionality
professionalness
sore-thumbish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sore-thumbish
form: most sore-thumbish
Etymology: sore thumb + -ish; after the phrase stick out like a sore thumb.
Senses: examples: text: Many of the serious bits, by contrast, were slow and sore-thumbish, abounding in what the New Yorker used to call cries we doubt ever got cried, like 'that man Robespierre will go far.'
ref: 1989, Plays and Players, number 425, Hansom Books, page 37:
text: In a neighborhood of modest bungalows, tearing down an existing house and shoehorning a multistory, 5,000-square-foot behemoth into the same lot makes the new home stick out in a sore-thumbish way.
ref: 2004, Paul McFedries, Word Spy: The Word Lover’s Guide to Modern Culture, New York, N.Y.: Broadway Books, →ISBN:
text: It looks so what-am-I-doing-here?, / so sore-thumbish, so entirely out of place, / among all these ancient ivy-covered buildings, / that it kind of reminds me of a UFO. / Or of an alien.
ref: 2007, Sonya Sones, “Mom Drives Me over to Harvard Ten Minutes Early”, in What My Girlfriend Doesn’t Know, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 77:
glosses: Distinct in a way that draws negative attention; out of place; conspicuous.
neaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neafs
form: neaves
Senses: examples: text: Sweet knight, I kiss thy neaf.
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], line 181:
text: Give me your neaf, Monsieur Mustardseed.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], line 19:
text: From the evidence, it appeared there was some ill-feeling between the parties, who are cousins, and on the night in question they came to the house and “demanded battle” of the complainant, put their “neafs” through the panes, and behaved themselves in other warlike ways.
ref: 1877 March 16, “North Shields Police Court”, in Shields Daily Gazette and Shipping Telegram, section “Yesterday”, subsection “A Fracas Between Cullercoats Fishermen”, page 3:
glosses: Alternative form of nief (“fist”).
Deistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Deistic
form: most Deistic
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of deistic.
Bright Young Things
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bright Young Thing
Brianchon hexagons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brianchon hexagon
step on the gas
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: steps on the gas
form: stepping on the gas
form: stepped on the gas
form: stepped on the gas
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hit the gas.
synonyms: word: hit the gas
helioform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more helioform
form: most helioform
Etymology: From helio- + -form.
Senses: examples: text: Cruciform and helioform heads occur in cave drawings of otherwise realistic human figures.
ref: 1986, Wyatt MacGaffey, Religion and Society in Central Africa: The BaKongo of Lower Zaire, page 124 (quoted in Grey Gundaker, Signs of Diaspora/Diaspora of Signs: Literacies, Creolization, and Vernacular Practice in African America, Oxford University Press (1998), page 90)
text: Isn't it almost always the eye — the most helioform of all the sense organs, as Derrida says citing Plato?
ref: 2003, Michael Naas, Taking on the Tradition: Jacques Derrida and the Legacies of Deconstruction, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 124:
text: […] (i.e., the respectful but assertive depressed person) would prefer it if the therapist would simply look openly up at the helioform clock […]
ref: 2009, David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: Stories, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN:
glosses: Sun-shaped.
neat-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neat-handed
form: most neat-handed
form: neathanded
Etymology: From neat + handed.
Senses: examples: text: Lastly, you must learn to be diligent to perform whatsoever your Mistress commands you, to be neat in your habit, modest in your carriage, silent when she is angry, willing to please, quick and neat handed about what you have to do.
ref: 1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid, London: T. Passinger, page 63:
text: Hard by a cottage chimney smokes,
From betwixt two aged oaks,
Where Corydon and Thyrsis met,
Are at their savory dinner set
Of herbs and other country messes,
Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses;
ref: 1752, Christopher Smart, “L’Allegro”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: for the author, page 186:
text: […] if I bid you do what you thought wrong, there would be no light-footed running, no neat-handed alacrity, no lively glance and animated complexion.
ref: 1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 20, in Jane Eyre:
text: c. 1928, Rudyard Kipling, article published in The Morning Post, in Andrew Lycett (ed.), Kipling Abroad: Traffics and Discoveries from Burma to Brazil, London: I.B. Tauris, 2010, p. 221,
For one thing, they were racially neat-handed, as those are who deal in strong sunlight with wood, fibres, cane and rattan; and their fight against fever in the past had most practically taught them tidiness.
glosses: Dextrous; having the skill and discipline to do precision work neatly.
Derived terms: neat-handedly
neat-handedness
neathanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neathanded
form: most neathanded
Senses: examples: text: What I noticed was his neathanded way at the table. Most boys that age—that size—they knock things over, trip on their own feet. He didn't.
ref: 1988, Elizabeth Moon, Sheepfarmer's Daughter, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of neat-handed.
neat-handedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neathandedness
Etymology: From neat-handed + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Throughout all these trifling actions the natural grace, delicacy, and prim neat-handedness of the woman still waited mechanically on the most useless and aimless of her occupations of the moment.
ref: 2008, Wilkie Collins, The Dead Secret, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: The quality or state of being neat-handed.
neathandedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neathanded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: She liked, too, the way he got to his seat without disturbing his neighbours, and the neathandedness with which he took off his cap and oilskins and fell to wiping a pair of motor-goggles while his eyes maintained a dark glance, too intense to flash, on the women on the platform.
ref: 2008, Rebecca West, The Judge, →ISBN, page 57:
glosses: Alternative form of neat-handedness.
neat-handedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more neat-handedly
form: most neat-handedly
form: neathandedly
Etymology: From neat-handed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Arios neat-handedly put finishing touches on taping up the unconscious engineer's hands, mouth, and eyelids while Mr. Scott lovingly removed the hatch cover and contemplated the main power-conversion stem of the Savasci's engines.
ref: 2000, Barbara Hambly, Crossroad, →ISBN:
glosses: In a neat-handed manner.
neathandedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more neathandedly
form: most neathandedly
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neat-handedly.
golf carts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of golf cart
golf buggy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golf buggies
Senses: glosses: A golf cart.
golf car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golf cars
Senses: glosses: A golf cart.
golf buggies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of golf buggy
golf cars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of golf car
Gregory's powder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gregory's Powder
form: Gregory Powder
Senses: glosses: A specific formulation of rhubarb powder, formerly used as a laxative.
Synonyms: Gregory's mixture
Gregory's mixture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gregory's Mixture
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Gregory's powder.
synonyms: word: Gregory's powder
Gregory's Mixture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Gregory's mixture.
Gregory's Powder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Gregory's powder.
Gregory Powder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Gregory's powder.
rush in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rushes in
form: rushing in
form: rushed in
form: rushed in
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rush, in.
glosses: To act quickly and without due thought
Related terms: fools rush in where angels fear to tread
draw upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: draws upon
form: drawing upon
form: drew upon
form: drawn upon
Senses: glosses: To appeal to, make a demand of, rely on; to utilize or make use of, as a source.
Synonyms: draw on
ungiectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Etymology: From Latin unguis (“nail, claw, hoof”) + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical removal of a fingernail or toenail.
onychosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: onychoses
Etymology: From onych- + -osis.
Senses: examples: text: Nevertheless pathological changes of the nail-bed play a certain role in the onychoses.
ref: 1920, Jean Darier, A Text-book of Dermatology, page 431:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any disease or disorder of the fingernails or toenails.
gryphosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An abnormal thickness and curvature
Derived terms: arthrogryphosis
onychogryphosis
onychitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: onychitides
Etymology: From onych- + -itis.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of onychia.
synonyms: word: onychia
linseed oils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linseed oil
flaxseed oils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flaxseed oil
conducting wires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conducting wire
electroconvulsive therapies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electroconvulsive therapy
Tris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɪs/
rhymes: -ɪs
homophone: tris
Etymology: Shortened from Tristram or Tristan.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Tristram or Tristan.
Tris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɪs/
rhymes: -ɪs
homophone: tris
Etymology: From Patricia and Beatrice.
Senses: examples: text: “This is Tris Prior. Her brother, Caleb. And their friend Susan Black.” “Prior,” she says. “I know of several Priors, but none of them are named Tris. Beatrice, however..."
ref: 2012, Veronica Roth, Insurgent, eclub40, →ISBN:
text: I said, 'Are you Isabel or Tris?'
ref: 2009, Gregg Hurwitz, We Know, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
english: I'm Tris. Patricia.' She was back to her hair, eyes crammed to the side, snapping off dry split ends and flicking them to the floor.
translation: I'm Tris. Patricia.' She was back to her hair, eyes crammed to the side, snapping off dry split ends and flicking them to the floor.
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glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Patricia or Beatrice.
Tris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɪs/
rhymes: -ɪs
homophone: tris
Senses: glosses: plural of Tri
E.V.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of EV.
Exod
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Exod..
omnidestructive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: omni-destructive
Etymology: From omni- + destructive.
Senses: examples: text: Once there was a limit to man's power to destroy, now he is omnidestructive.
ref: 1901, George Oliver Shields, Recreation, Volume 15, G.O. Shields (Coquina), →ISBN, page 198:
text: Stone, bronze, iron, hawking, and gunpowder were added to man’s power to destroy. But now, with the breech-loader and later improved weapons, man has become omnidestructive.
ref: 1902, Christopher Witmore, Congressional Record June 5-25, 1902: Volume 35, Superintendent of Government Documents, →ISBN, page 6512:
text: To unite this world into a single, invincible, and omnidestructive force is the prime task of our organization, our conspiracy, and our purpose.
ref: 1967, Basil Dmytryshyn, Imperial Russia: A Source Book, 1700-1917, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, page 247:
glosses: All-destroying.
Sikhist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sikhists
Etymology: From Sikh + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Sikh
onomasiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: onomasiologists
Etymology: From onomasiology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A practitioner of onomasiology
monster group
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Monster group.
catalo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cataloes
form: catalo
Etymology: Blend of cattle + buffalo.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cattelo.
cataloes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catalo
zebrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zebrasses
Etymology: Blend of zebra + ass.
Senses: glosses: A zeedonk.
zebrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zebrass
temporaneously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From temporaneous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: A beautiful and philosophical detector of the deviation has for some time been in use in the navy, the invention of Mr Barlow, in which a plate of iron is temporaneously affixed in proximity to the steering compass, so as exactly to double the influence of the ordinary attraction of the ship […]
ref: 1832, The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, page 38:
glosses: temporarily
huarizo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: huarizos
Etymology: From Spanish huarizo.
Senses: synonyms: llapaca
glosses: The hybrid offspring of a male llama and a female alpaca.
huarizos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of huarizo
bundas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bunda
chulengos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chulengo
mispresent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mispresents
form: mispresenting
form: mispresented
form: mispresented
Etymology: From mis- + present.
Senses: examples: text: There is just as much danger in mispresenting a subject as there is in no attempt to present it.
ref: 1915, New York (State). Board of Charities, Annual Report (volume 1, part 1, page 1067)
glosses: To present badly or wrongly.
mispresented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mispresent
mispresents
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mispresent
mispresenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mispresent
ship of the desert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ships of the desert
Senses: glosses: A camel.
ships of the desert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ship of the desert
reusables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reusable
Arabian camel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æməl
Forms: form: Arabian camels
Senses: glosses: The dromedary.
Arabian camels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Arabian camel
dromedary camel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dromedary camels
Senses: glosses: A dromedary.
dromedary camels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dromedary camel
woyote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woyotes
Etymology: Blend of wolf + coyote.
Senses: glosses: A coywolf.
woyotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woyote
spacesynth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From space + synth.
Senses: glosses: A style of synthesizer-based disco music with futuristic themes.