cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
interservice
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + service.
Senses: examples: text: Interservice rivalry is often blamed for problems in the US military.
text: Interservice coordination in the field has improved due to electronic communications.
glosses: Involving relationships between branches of the armed forces.
examples: text: Mutt had taken it as a matter of course that she had been invited to this interservice conference, and no one thought to gainsay her.
ref: 2000, Dana Stabenow, Midnight Come Again, →ISBN, page 258:
glosses: Concerning interactions between multiple services.
mother's milk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English moderis mylke, equivalent to mother + -'s + milk.
Senses: glosses: Breast milk; milk produced by a human or animal mother for her offspring to nurse.
multiuser
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: multi-user
Etymology: From multi- + user.
Senses: topics: communications
computing
electrical-engineering
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Of an operating system, etc., having capabilities for serving many users simultaneously.
climatisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: climatisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of climatization.
cow milk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cowmilk.
faddists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faddist
sweetwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweetwaters
Etymology: From sweet + water.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sweet water (“fresh water”).
glosses: A variety of white grape, better known as Chasselas.
glosses: Water that still contains sucrose after filtration by a sugar cane refinery, usually one of the main by-products of a sugar cane refining process.
topics: economics
sciences
synonyms: freshwater
glosses: neoclassical, in reference to U.S. macroeconomics and economics departments around the Great Lakes.
non-military service
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non-military + service.
Senses: synonyms: alternative service
civilian service
glosses: Service in a nonmilitary organization, instead of service in the military; service performed by a conscientious objector.
you've got to crack a few eggs to make an omelette
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: Narrator: Bob is dead, they shot him in the head!
Tyler Durden: You wanna make an omelet, you gotta break some eggs.
ref: 1999, Chuck Palahniuk, Jim Uhls, Fight Club:
glosses: Alternative form of you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.
avantgardist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avantgardists
Etymology: From avant-garde + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of avant-gardist.
playtested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of playtest
playtest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: playtests
form: playtesting
form: playtested
form: playtested
Etymology: From play + test.
Senses: examples: text: CPH3 had been playtested too long, and they’d added so many new elements that the game was extraordinarily buggy.
ref: 2022, Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Vintage (2023), page 321:
glosses: To test a newly developed game by playing it or having it played.
playtest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playtests
Etymology: From play + test.
Senses: examples: text: We've fixed the first round of problems and it's time for another playtest.
glosses: A session of testing a newly developed game by playing it or having it played.
interneurons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: inter- + neuron
Senses: glosses: plural of interneuron
armouring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: armoring
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of armour
armouring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armourings
form: armoring
Senses: glosses: Armour or shielding.
crotchless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From crotch + -less.
Senses: examples: text: crotchless panties
glosses: Lacking coverage over the area of the crotch.
la-de-da
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Newberry was one of the most la-de-da colleges in the United States
ref: 1997, Nobody's Baby but Mine, Susan Elizabeth Philips, page 9:
glosses: Alternative spelling of lah-di-dah.
la de da
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of la-de-da.
bandleader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bandleaders
form: band leader
Etymology: From band + leader.
Senses: examples: text: Before Brooklyn became the World Historical Hipster Hub, there were the Hepsters of Harlem. And well before there was an Urban Dictionary for every last nuance of non-standard English, the bandleader and amateur linguist Cab Calloway cataloged some of the unique speech of the 1930s and ’40s in his Hepster’s Dictionary.
ref: 2010 July 9, J. David Goodman, “Of Local History and Hepcats”, in New York Times City Room:
text: By and large back then, bassists weren’t bandleaders; Mingus was an anomaly.
ref: 2024 May 1, Marcus J. Moore, “5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Bass”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: conductor
glosses: A musician who conducts or leads a band of musicians.
freedom to roam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Forestry Commission generally operated a freedom to roam policy whereby public access was not constrained except where young trees had been planted.
ref: 1998, Andrew Light, Jonathan M. Smith, Philosophy and Geography II: The Production of Public Space, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 179:
synonyms: everyman's right
right to roam
glosses: The general public's right to access public or privately owned land for their own recreation or exercise.
everyman's right
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: freedom to roam
right to roam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile, Scotland shows us a successful alternative to restrictive English laws, with a national “right to roam” – despite nearly 60% of its land being privately owned.
ref: 2023 January 17, Sophie Pavelle, “The Dartmoor wild camping ban further limits our right to roam. It must be fought”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Synonym of freedom to roam.
synonyms: word: freedom to roam
counterbattery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: counter-battery
Etymology: From counter- + battery.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Directed against opposing artillery.
finos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfiːnəʊz/
Senses: glosses: plural of fino
finos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfiːnəʊz/
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese.
Senses: examples: text: the custom in Spain, and adopted here with our Merino wool, to divide or sort the fleece […]into rafinos, finos, and terceros ; or superfine, fine, and fubs
ref: 1807, “Lord Somerville”, in Public Characters:
glosses: Second-best wool from Merino sheep.
parkland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parklands
Etymology: From park + land.
Senses: glosses: Land suitable for use as a park.
glosses: A landscape characterized by a mixture of treed groves and open grasslands, akin to a Eurasian forest steppe.
green energies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green energy
workboat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: workboats
Etymology: From work + boat.
Senses: glosses: A boat used for purposes other than recreation, passenger transport, or combat.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Senses: topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Alternative form of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
stakeholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stakehole
imidazolines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imidazoline
impact energies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impact energy
stakehole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stakeholes
Etymology: From stake + hole.
Senses: glosses: A hole made when a stake is driven into the ground.
glosses: A hole prepared for rapid insertion of a stake.
usage share
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: usage shares
Senses: glosses: market share
pit prop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pit props
Senses: examples: text: Whereas Germany at the outbreak of war was the greatest purchaser of Swedish iron ore, Great Britain was by far the greatest buyer of Swedish wood products. German submarines, however, have taken deadly toll of Scandinavian ships laden with pit-props bound for England.
ref: 1915 December 2, D. Thomas Curtin, “Sweden's Rôle in the Great War”, in The World's Work, volume XXXI:
text: Some centres specialise in timber, and those conveniently situated to the coalfields deal with large quantities of pit props.
ref: 1945 January and February, T. F. Cameron, “Dock Working”, in Railway Magazine, page 9:
glosses: A wooden beam used as a support within a mineshaft or tunnel.
Synonyms: mine prop
Høgnorsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɜːɡnɔːsk/
ipa: /ˈhɔɪnɔːsk/
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian høgnorsk (“High Norwegian”).
Senses: glosses: conservative, unofficial and little used variety of the Norwegian language form Nynorsk that resists the attempted merger with Bokmål
stupidness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stupidnesses
Etymology: From stupid + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being stupid.
examples: text: Don't let the boss hear you talking stupidness about his son, if you want to keep your job.
ref: 2012, Gillian Royes, The Man Who Turned Both Cheeks, page 31:
glosses: The result or product of being stupid.
Synonyms: sense: the quality of being stupid
word: stupidity
stupidnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stupidness
stupidities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stupidity
fatuities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fatuity
sillinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silliness
frivolousnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: 1901, "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare", William Shakespeare, p. 186.
… and thus the play appropriately ends when on either side the levities and frivolousnesses that had drawn out to ten years' length the desultory and …
text: … parenthesis saying that in view of his great services they must overlook frivolousnesses and weaknesses which solid reflections would in time overcome.
ref: 1961, "The Scandalous Regent", Warren Hamilton Lewis, p. 48
glosses: plural of frivolousness
head-shrinker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head-shrinkers
form: headshrinker
Etymology: Originally US, probably by reference to slang terms like “swelled head” for someone with delusions of grandeur; a psychiatrist would remove such delusions, thus figuratively shrinking the patient's swelled head.
Senses: synonyms: headshrink
shrink
trick cyclist
glosses: A psychiatrist or psychotherapist; a shrink.
glosses: One who shrinks heads, as previously done by some Amazon tribes.
frivolities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frivolity
inappropriatenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inappropriateness
unsuitabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unsuitability
suitablenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suitableness
adaptednesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The theory of natural selections holds, after all, only for adaptations, states of being adapted, adaptednesses; and these are means-end relations.
ref: 1992, "Interactions: The Biological Context of Social Systems", Niles Eldredge, Marjorie Glicksman Grene, Marjorie Grene, p. 46
text: He creates those sympathies and suitablenesses of nature that are the foundation of all true friendship, and by his providence brings persons so affected …
ref: 1876, "Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay", Samuel Austin Allibone, p. 252
text: We must travel voiturier, which among many conveniences and suitablenesses has its plagues for an impatient spirit.
ref: 1915, "Emma Darwin, a Century of Family Letters, 1792-1896", Henrietta Emma Darwin Litchfield, p. 239
glosses: plural of adaptedness
fitnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fitness
accommodatedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From accommodated + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: To sum up, the chief qualities of Father Lucas's book are its sincerity, its quiet humour, its accommodatedness. He lays bare his own mind […]
ref: 1908, The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Browne and Nolan, page 447:
text: Langland is, I think, optimistically insisting on the accommodatedness even of the fallen world of sin and suffering to the spiritual aspirations of man.
ref: 1988, "Nature and Salvation in Piers Plowman", Hugh White, p. 60
text: This sets the limit to its accommodatedness. The Principle of Relativity can be extremely helpful here.
ref: 2003, "Reformed Theology: Identity and Ecumenicity", Wallace M. Alston, p. 168
glosses: The quality of being accommodated.
agreeablenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agreeableness
synonymia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synonymiae
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin synōnymia, from Ancient Greek συνωνυμία (sunōnumía). Doublet of synonymy.
Senses: examples: text: At its simplest (sometimes called synonymia simplex), it takes the form of synonymous words arranged in doublets, […] .
ref: 2007, Sylvia Adamson, "Synonymia, or in other words", in Anderson, et al., Renaissance figures of speech, page 29
glosses: The use of two or more synonyms together to amplify or explain a given subject or term. A kind of repetition that adds force.
Synonyms: synonymy
Hyponyms: parelcon
kindnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kindness
glosses: plural of kindnesse
truth values
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of truth value
swamp wallaby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swamp wallabies
Senses: synonyms: black wallaby
glosses: A wallaby (Wallabia bicolor), known for its strong odor.
Obama
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊˈbɑ.mə/
ipa: /əʊˈbɑː.mə/
Forms: form: Obamas
Etymology: A corruption of the Luo by-name Mobam (“born with a crooked back”), itself from Luo obam (“to lean or bend”).
Senses: glosses: An African surname from Luo.
examples: text: (The Browns gave the Obamas an ornate penholder made from the timber of a Victorian antislave ship.)
ref: 2009 April 3, Helene Cooper, “Obama’s Star Turn at Summit Gets Mixed Results”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2022:
text: From his studies of these thinkers and activists, Mr. Obama took what he called the “Niebuhrian” lesson that we can have “a cleareyed view of the world and the realities of cruelty and sin and greed and violence, and yet, still maintain a sense of hope and possibility, as an act of will and leap of faith.”
ref: 2020 December 8, Michiko Kakutani, “Obama, the Best-Selling Author, on Reading, Writing and Radical Empathy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 17 Feb 2021:
glosses: An African surname from Luo.
Barack Obama, 44th president of the United States (2009–2017).
synonyms: word: Barry the Fairy
word: Bathhouse Barry
Derived terms: BHO
Bushbama
Joebama
Mike Obama
Nobama
Obamabot
Obamacan
ObamaCare
Obamacon
Obamacrat
Obama-esque
Obamagate
Obamageddon
Obamaism
Obamaite
Obamaitis
Obamaland
Obamamania
Obaman
Obamanation
Obamania
Obamanomics
Obama phone
Obama-rama
Obamatard
Obamaton
Obamaworld
Obamite
Obamna
Obamunism
Obamunist
Obiden
Obomber
Obongo
Obozo
Obummer
Ohomo
Onigger
Obama
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊˈbɑ.mə/
ipa: /əʊˈbɑː.mə/
Forms: form: Obamas
Etymology: Transliteration of Japanese 小浜.
Senses: glosses: A city in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. See Wikipedia:Obama, Fukui.
glosses: A Japanese surname.
glosses: A samurai clan of feudal Japan.
McCain
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McCains
Etymology: From the Irish variant of McKean.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Derived terms: McCainiac
planespotter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planespotters
Etymology: From plane + spotter.
Senses: glosses: Someone interested in planespotting.
Related terms: planespotting
trainspotter
737
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 737s
Senses: examples: text: He boasted about how quickly the company had brought the 737 Max to market — and praised the Federal Aviation Administration’s “streamlined” certification process.
ref: 2019 April 3, Chris Isidore, “Boeing boasted about streamlined approval for the 737 Max. Now it’s cleaning up the mess”, in CNN:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A Boeing airplane model, number seven thirty-seven, sold to airlines for passenger or cargo transportation.
chimerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chimerisms
Etymology: From chimera + -ism.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The property of being a genetic chimera.
Derived terms: macrochimerism
microchimerism
Tuvan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtuːvən/
Forms: form: more Tuvan
form: most Tuvan
form: Tyvan
Etymology: From Tuva + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Tuva or its people or culture.
Synonyms: Tuvinian
Tuvan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtuːvən/
Forms: form: Tuvans
form: Tyvan
Etymology: From Tuva + -an.
Senses: glosses: Someone from Tuva.
Tuvan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈtuːvən/
Forms: form: Tyvan
Etymology: From Tuva + -an.
Senses: glosses: A Turkic language spoken around the area of Tuva.
unwire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unwires
form: unwiring
form: unwired
form: unwired
Etymology: From un- + wire.
Senses: glosses: To undo the wiring of.
unsweeten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unsweetens
form: unsweetening
form: unsweetened
form: unsweetened
Etymology: From un- + sweeten.
Senses: glosses: To remove or lower the sweetness of.
untether
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: untethers
form: untethering
form: untethered
form: untethered
Etymology: From un- + tether.
Senses: glosses: To undo by removing a tether.
unthread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unthreads
form: unthreading
form: unthreaded
form: unthreaded
Etymology: From un- + thread.
Senses: examples: text: Its eyes, though wild, were still all dewy bright / With love, and kept all phantom fear aloof / From the poor girl by magic of their light, / The while it did unthread the horrid woof / Of the late darken'd time,— […]
ref: 1820, John Keats, “Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil. A Story from Boccaccio.”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, stanza XXXVII, page 67:
text: "Good and evil! good and evil!" thought he; "ye are mingled inextricably in the web of our being; and who may unthread the darker yarn?"
ref: 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Talisman, page 62:
glosses: To draw or remove a thread from.
glosses: To loosen the connections of.
glosses: To make one's way through.
untighten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: untightens
form: untightening
form: untightened
form: untightened
Etymology: From un- + tighten.
Senses: glosses: To loosen; to make something less tight.
untoasted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + toasted.
Senses: glosses: Not toasted
untreatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + treatable.
Senses: glosses: Not treatable; impossible to treat.
Derived terms: untreatability
untreatably
untreatable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: untreatables
Etymology: From un- + treatable.
Senses: glosses: A person with a condition that cannot be treated.
untwistable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + twistable.
Senses: glosses: Impossible to twist; not twistable.
untwistable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From untwist + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be untwisted.
unveined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + veined.
Senses: synonyms: veinless#Adjective
glosses: Not veined; not having veins.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
synonyms: veinless#Adjective
glosses: Not veined; not having veins.
Not having a geological vein.
unventilated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + ventilated.
Senses: examples: text: [...] but in the damp conditions prevailing the driver sensibly was unwilling to attempt the climb up through Combe Down tunnel without help, for fear of slipping to a standstill in the unventilated bore, [...].
ref: 1960 March, “Motive Power Miscellany: Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 184:
glosses: Not ventilated, lacking ventilation.
uzzard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uzzards
Senses: glosses: The letter z.
Synonyms: izzard
dignifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dignify
dignifying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dignifying
form: most dignifying
Senses: examples: text: Let it be remembered that whilst memory travelled over more than four thousand years of the history of man, it could not light upon an age more dignifying to human nature than the present.
ref: 1838, T. F. Thomas, Familiar Lectures, on the doctrine of the Trinity, and other subjects, page 50:
text: Besides the irresistible contagion of his merriment, the flashes of wit, the tenderness of his sentiment, the wild laughter of his satiric scorn of cant, and priestcraft, and self-righteousness, the ardor of his patriotism, the gayety of his social songs, there is a tone in his graver writing which breathes over the hearts of his countrymen, and of all the world, the highest and most dignifying feeling that ever hallowed the heart of man.
ref: 1847, William Howitt, Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, page 387:
text: Asking for such an honorable favor, for such a noble need, is very dignifying.
ref: 2021, Daniel Darling, Ministers of Reconciliation:
glosses: Conveying or conducive to a sense of dignity.
Derived terms: undignifying
dignifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dignify
detentions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of detention
multifaith
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: multi-faith
Etymology: From multi- + faith.
Senses: glosses: Relating to or believing in more than one faith.
Related terms: interfaith
on the cuff
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The newspapers were jammed with ads inviting customers to buy on the cuff. Philadelphians could get a $269 television set for $5 down and $4 a week.
ref: 1948 August 16, “On the Cuff”, in Time:
glosses: On credit, with payment to be made later.
Synonyms: on one's tab
Related terms: off the cuff
subnector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subnectors
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: a functor which takes as input one or more sentences and outputs a term.
coochie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkuːt͡ʃi/
rhymes: -uːtʃi
Forms: form: coochies
Etymology: Possibly a clipping of hootchy-kootchy. Alternatively, possibly from cunt with influence from American slang term cookie (“vulva”). References to coochee dance (with various spellings) are attested from the end of the 19th century. The sense of “vagina or vulva” is attested from the early 20th century.
Senses: examples: text: LITTLE EGYPT IN COOCHEE COOCHEE DANCE. A vision of gauze, lace and spangles, performing the famous danse-du-ventre
ref: 1899 January 24, “New Films for ‘Screen’ Machines”, in The Phonoscope, page 15:
glosses: The hootchy-kootchy, a type of erotic dance.
examples: text: She’s the red hot mama from Bahama with the red hot cootchie-coo!
You get sweet infection in the deep hot section,
When that gal looks at you!
ref: 1937, Cab Calloway, “My Gal Mezzanine”:
glosses: The vagina or vulva.
examples: text: That fat sum bitch don’t even get coochie, yet he trust to tell me what to do with mine? Please.
ref: 1999, Timmothy McCann, Until, page 134:
glosses: Sex with a woman.
Derived terms: coochie cutters
Related terms: coochy coo
frame of mind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frames of mind
Senses: examples: text: [A] Tumultuary and distracted frame of Mind, not knowing which way to take, to be amongst the kinds of this passion of Feare.
ref: 1640, Edward Reynolds, A Treatise of the Passions and Facvlties of the Soule of Man, page 284:
text: Some time ago I was on the footplate of an engine fresh from the shops after overhaul, and the combined efforts of driver and fireman were needed to open and close the regulator. Needless to say, the men were not in a very happy frame of mind."
ref: 1951 September, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 623:
text: Graham (James Spader): Because I don't think it's a choice that you'd make in a normal frame of mind. / Ann (Andie MacDowell): And what would you know about a normal frame of mind?
ref: 1989, Steven Soderbergh, Sex, Lies, and Videotape:
text: Fabio Capello insisted Rooney was in the right frame of mind to play in stormy Podgorica despite his father's arrest on Thursday in a probe into alleged betting irregularities, but his flash of temper - when he kicked out at Miodrag Dzudovic - suggested otherwise.
ref: 2011, Phil McNulty, “Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England”, in BBC Sport:
text: He was '70s in spirit, '90s in his frame of mind.
ref: 2019, “The Next Best American Record”, in Norman Fucking Rockwell!, performed by Lana Del Rey:
synonyms: mindframe
glosses: Alternative form of state of mind.
verifiableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From verifiable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being verifiable.
Synonyms: verifiability
unverifiability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + verifiability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unverifiable.
Synonyms: unverifiableness
unverifiableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unverifiable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unverifiable.
Synonyms: unverifiability
Banksian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Banksian
form: most Banksian
Etymology: From Banks + -ian.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to Joseph Banks, English botanist and naturalist.
examples: text: Naturally it's compulsive Banksian reading, with lashings of gore, squalor, poison, torture and philosophy.
ref: 2003, David Langford, Up Through an Empty House of Stars, page 214:
text: […]the recurring motif of war and its symbolic Banksian appendage, the figure of the castle[…]
ref: 2007, Ian Brown, The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature, page 255:
text: And it is in the character and story of Abel that this element of Banksian self-parody shows itself most clearly […]
ref: Books in Scotland (issues 63-68, page 4)
glosses: Of or pertaining to Iain Banks (born 1954) or his writings, most notably a utopian style of science fiction.
Derived terms: Banksian pine
Banksian rose
coochy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coochies
form: coochie
Etymology: From cooch + -y.
Possibly the Dutch word "kutje" (vagina) is taken over in the English language and pronounced as coochy
Senses: glosses: Vagina or vulva.
Related terms: word: hootchie-cootchie
english: not etymologically related
translation: not etymologically related
word: coochy coo
sibilance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sibilances
Senses: examples: text: The Pet Shop Boys are yet another synth-pop duo, albeit one that is not quite out of the closet. […] In past interviews, however, they [the Pet Shop Boys] have referred to their sound as "specifically gay disco," and their lyrics have that certain queenly something that lead singer Neil Tennant sings with an adorable sibilance.
ref: 1990 December 23, Christopher Wittke, “Pop Goes 1990”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 23, page 9:
text: The following exercises help combat sibilance, plosives, lazy tongue, and mouth problems.
ref: 2000, Elaine A. Clark, There's Money Where Your Mouth Is: An Insider's Guide to a Career in Voice-Overs, Second Edition, Back Stage Books, →ISBN, page 24:
text: A string of words beginning with ‘s’ will cause sibilance.
ref: 2006, Barbara Alysen, Electronic Reporter: Broadcast Journalism in Australia, Second Edition, University of New south Wales Press, →ISBN, page 118:
text: Work to control the sibilance of your s sounds.
ref: 2009, Jean Ann Wright, M. J. Lallo, Voice-Over for Animation, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 28:
text: Most often sending the vocal through a de-esser will either eliminate the sibilance or greatly reduce its sound.
ref: 2012, Michael Zager, Music Production: For Producers, Composers, Arrangers, and Students, Second Edition, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 277:
glosses: The quality of being sibilant: a hissing quality.
ethify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ethifies
form: ethifying
form: ethified
form: ethified
Etymology: From ethical + -ify.
Senses: glosses: To make or cause to become (more) ethical.
glosses: To become ethical.
Derived terms: ethifiable
ethification
ethifier
ethification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethifications
Etymology: From ethical. See -ation.
Senses: glosses: The action of ethifying.
ethifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ethify
acute sedge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A sedge species, Carex acuta (in Carex subg. Carex).
Synonyms: sense: species Carex acuta
word: slender tufted-sedge
sense: species Carex acuta
word: slim sedge
common sedge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common sedges
Senses: glosses: A sedge species, Carex nigra (in Carex subg. Carex).
Synonyms: sense: Carex nigra
word: black sedge
sense: Carex nigra
word: smooth black sedge
sand sedge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sand sedges
Senses: glosses: A species of sedge (Carex arenaria).
silvery sedge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A sedge species, Carex canescens.
white vitriol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: zinc sulfate
string sedge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A sedge of species Carex chordorrhiza.
Synonyms: creeping sedge
star sedge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: star sedges
Senses: glosses: A sedge species, Carex echinata.
Synonyms: little prickly sedge
rare spring-sedge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rare spring-sedges
Senses: glosses: A sedge species, Carex ericetorum (in Carex subg. Carex).
glaucous sedge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glaucous sedges
Senses: glosses: A sedge species, Carex flacca (in Carex subg. Carex).
Synonyms: blue sedge
carnation-grass
slender sedge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slender sedges
Senses: glosses: A sedge species, Carex lasiocarpa (in Carex subg. Carex).
Synonyms: woollyfruit sedge
mud sedge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mud sedges
Senses: glosses: A sedge of species Carex limosa.
Synonyms: shore sedge
few-flowered sedge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: few-flowered sedges
Senses: glosses: A sedge species, Carex pauciflora.
bottle sedge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottle sedges
Senses: glosses: A sedge species, Carex rostrata.
mis-spelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mis-spellings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of misspelling.
mis-spelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mis-spell.
Mordvinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Mordvinia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Mordvinia (Mordovia).
Synonyms: Mordovian
Mordvin
Mordvinian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mordvinians
Etymology: From Mordvinia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Someone from Mordvinia (Mordovia).
Synonyms: Mordovian
Mordvin
stagiaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /stɑːʒiˈɛə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: stagiaires
Etymology: Borrowed from French stagiaire (“trainee, intern”).
Senses: qualifier: cycle racing
glosses: An amateur rider who is taken in by a professional team during the season.
examples: text: Sydney, played by Ayo Edebiri, is the enterprising stagiaire who quickly turned her internship into a serious job. [image caption]
ref: 2023 June 23, Tejal Rao, “‘The Bear’ Finds Optimism in the Dysfunctional World of Hospitality”, in The New York Times:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A cook or chef who works as an unpaid intern in a restaurant.
Related terms: stage
Barça
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑɹsə/
ipa: /ˈbɑːsə/
Forms: form: Barca
Etymology: Shortened form of Futbol Club Barcelona, keeping the Catalan spelling rules. Since this football team is a symbol of the city of Barcelona, this word has been associated with the whole city, although it's wrong to use Barça to refer to the city itself; instead, one would use Barna.
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Clipping of Futbol Club Barcelona.
wikipedia: FC Barcelona
Buryatian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Buryatia + -an.
Senses: glosses: From, of, or pertaining to, Buryatia.
Synonyms: Buryat
Buryatian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Buryatians
Etymology: From Buryatia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Someone from Buryatia.
Buryat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Buriat
Senses: glosses: From, of, or pertaining to, Buryatia.
Synonyms: Buryatian
Buryat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Buryats
form: Buriat
Senses: examples: text: We met the President of the Republic, Salomon M. Ivanov, who is a native Buryat.
ref: 1948, Henry A. Wallace, Andrew Jacob Steiger, Soviet Asia Mission, →OCLC, →OL, page 54:
glosses: A member of the Mongolic ethnic group native to Buryatia.
Synonyms: sense: Someone from Buryatia
word: Buryatian
Buryat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Buriat
Senses: glosses: A Mongolic language spoken around Buryatia.
Buriat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Buryat
Senses: glosses: From, of, or pertaining to, Buryatia
Synonyms: Buryatian
Buriat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Buriats
form: Buryat
Senses: glosses: Someone from Buryatia.
glosses: A Mongolic language spoken around Buryatia
Synonyms: sense: Person
word: Buryatian
Buriatia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Buryatia: a republic and federal subject in southeast Russia.
Bashkortostani
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Bashkortostan + -i.
Senses: synonyms: Bashkir
glosses: Of, from or relating to the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia.
Bashkortostani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bashkortostanis
Etymology: From Bashkortostan + -i.
Senses: synonyms: Bashkir
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia.
Kareli
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Karelian
Kareli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Karelis
Senses: glosses: Karelian; someone from Karelia.
Udmurtian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Udmurtia + -ian.
Senses: glosses: From, of, or pertaining to, Udmurtia.
Synonyms: Udmurt
Udmurtian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Udmurtians
Etymology: From Udmurtia + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Someone from Udmurtia.
Synonyms: Udmurt
Khakasia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Khakassia.
Khakasiya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Khakassia.
Khakassiya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Khakassia.
Khakass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Khakasses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Khakas.
Chechneya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Chechnya.
Chechnia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Chechnya.
Chechniya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Chechnya.
Grozny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian Гро́зный (Gróznyj), from гро́зный (gróznyj, “menacing, formidable, severe, cruel”).
Senses: glosses: The regional capital and largest city in Chechnya, Russia.
Maykop
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /maɪˈkɒp/
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian Майко́п (Majkóp).
Senses: glosses: The capital and largest city of Adygea, Russia.
Related terms: Adygea
Ufa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈ(j)uːfə
ʊˈfɑː/
Etymology: From Russian Уфа́ (Ufá).
Senses: glosses: The capital and largest city of Bashkortostan, Russia.
glosses: A river in Bashkortostan, Russia.
Ulan-Ude
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Ула̀н-Удэ́ (Ulàn-Udɛ́), from Buryat Ulaan-Yde (created in 1934; later since 1939 in Cyrillic as Улаан-Үдэ).
Senses: glosses: The capital city of the Republic of Buryatia, Russia.
wikipedia: Buryat language#Writing systems
Related terms: Ulaanbaatar
Ulan Hot
Makhachkala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The capital and largest city of Daghestan, Russia.
Magas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the regional capital of Ingushetia, Russia.
Magas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Maga
Elista
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian Элиста́ f inan (Elistá), which is from Written Oirat ᡄᠯᡄᠰᡉᡐᡉ (elesütü, “sandy; Elista”, ornative adjective and proper noun).
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Kalmykia, Russia.
Related terms: Kalmykia
Saransk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Mordovia, Russia
Related terms: Mordovia
Yakutsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Яку́тск (Jakútsk).
Senses: glosses: The capital city of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia
Related terms: Sakha
Yakutia
Kyzyl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The U.S. Geological Survey said the epicenter of the quake was some 90 kilometers (60 miles) east of the Russian city of Kyzyl in the Tuva region of Siberia. It struck around 0617 GMT at an estimated depth of 11.7 km.
It was the second strong quake to rock the region in two months. In December, coal mining operations in Russia's largest coal producing region, the Kuzbass, were suspended when a 6.9 magnitude quake hit near Kyzyl.
Residents in Kyzyl's city centre gathered outside as the local emergencies ministry warned of potential aftershocks, the state RIA news agency reported.
ref: 2012 February 26, Alissa de Carbonnel, “Magnitude 6.8 quake hits Siberia near Mongolia border”, in Rosalind Russell, editor, Reuters, Environment:
glosses: The capital city of Tuva, Russia
Related terms: alt: Тува Tuvá
word: Tuva
alt: Тыва Tyvá
word: Tyva
Izhevsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Иже́вск (Ižévsk).
Senses: synonyms: word: Ustinov
glosses: A city, the capital of Udmurtia, Russia.
Abakan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑ.bəˈkɑn/
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Khakassia, Russia.
glosses: A river in Khakassia, Russia.
Synonyms: topics: city
cities
region
location
sense: former names
word: Ust-Abakanskoye
Cheboksary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌt͡ʃɛbɒkˈsæɹiː/
Senses: glosses: The capital and largest city of Chuvashia, Russia.
Chechenia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Chechnya: A republic and federal subject of Russia, in the northern Caucasus
South Ossetia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A disputed geographic region and de-facto independent but largely unrecognized country in the South Caucasus on the border of Europe and Asia, which considers itself an independent state called the Republic of South Ossetia; considered part of Georgia's territory by the Georgian government and the vast majority of the international community. Capital: Tskhinvali.
Derived terms: South Ossetian
Related terms: North Ossetia
SADR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, a partially recognised state in North Africa.
funnyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of funniness.
ridiculousnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ridiculousness
foolishnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foolishness
comicness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From comic + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being comical; comicalness.
inacceptable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inacceptable
form: most inacceptable
Etymology: From in- + acceptable.
Senses: examples: text: And there is ſuch an antipathy betwixt our nature and Purgations, that the very ſmell of them is inacceptable; […]
ref: 1657, Joannes Renodæus [i.e., Jean de Renou], translated by Richard Tomlinson, “Of the faculties of Medicaments, and how many sorts there be accordingly”, in A Medicinal Dispensatory, Containing the Whole Body of Physick: […], London: […] Jo[hn] Streater and Ja[mes] Cottrel, book I ([…]), page 10:
glosses: Unacceptable.
Synonyms: word: unacceptable
inacceptability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The property of being inacceptable.
predial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːdiəl
Forms: form: more predial
form: most predial
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of praedial.
predial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːdiəl
Forms: form: predials
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of praedial.
predial
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -iːdiəl
Forms: form: predials
form: predialing
form: predialling
form: predialed
form: predialed
form: predialled
form: predialled
Etymology: From pre- + dial.
Senses: examples: a predialled telephone number
glosses: To dial in advance.
alerter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
Forms: form: alerters
Senses: glosses: One who or that which alerts.
alerter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: comparative form of alert: more alert
agression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: ref: 1994 August 10, Brian Kholdi, “Natural Agression.”, in rec.martial-arts (Usenet):
ref: 1999 April 4, NewsReader, “American shits, stop the agression against Yugoslavia!”, in soc.culture.usa (Usenet):
ref: 2002 February 8, TK, “Violence and agression”, in alt.support.depression.manic (Usenet):
glosses: Misspelling of aggression.
poet laureate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poets laureate
form: poet laureates
Senses: glosses: A poet officially appointed by a government, often expected to compose poems for state occasions and other government events.
glosses: One who received an honorable degree in grammar, including poetry and rhetoric, at the English universities; so called as being presented with a wreath of laurel.
glosses: Formerly, an officer of the king's household, whose business was to compose an ode annually for the king's birthday, and other suitable occasions; now, a poet officially distinguished by such honorary title, the office being a sinecure.
rebeller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rebellers
Etymology: From Middle English rebelloure; equivalent to rebel + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who rebels; a rebel.
excitant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more excitant
form: most excitant
Senses: glosses: exciting; stimulating
excitant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excitants
Senses: examples: text: Ovid, the amatory poet, describes a professional dancing-girl, whose subtle bodily movements are such an excitant as to provoke, in an ascetic such as the ancient Hippolytus, a priapean condition.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 85:
glosses: Something that excites or stimulates; a stimulant.
excitants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of excitant
TED spread
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Initially, the TED spread was the difference between the interest rate for the three month U.S. Treasuries contract and three month Eurodollars contract as represented by the London Inter Bank Offered Rate. So "TED" came from the initialism of "T-Bill" and "ED"—the ticker symbol for the Eurodollar futures contract. Since the Chicago Mercantile Exchange dropped the T-bill futures, the TED spread has had the current definition.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: The difference in yields between inter-bank and U.S. Government loans.
disequilibrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disequilibrates
form: disequilibrating
form: disequilibrated
form: disequilibrated
Etymology: From dis- + equilibrate.
Senses: glosses: To bring out of a state of equilibrium; to unbalance.
ethyl acetate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethylacetate
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The ethyl ester of acetic acid; CH₃COOCH₂CH₃
Synonyms: ethyl ethanoate
ethyl ester
acetic ester
EtOAc
EA
osselet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osselets
Etymology: French
Senses: glosses: A little bone.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: cuttlebone
glosses: The internal bone, or shell, of a cuttlefish.
examples: text: Such maladies as osteoarthritis of various joints (spavin in the hocks, ringbone in the pasterns, osselets in the fetlocks, navicular disease in the heels of the forefeet) are very common, as is chronic lower back soreness (coldback) in the lumbar, sacral, and thoracic regions.
ref: 1992, Barbara T. Engel, Margaret L. Galloway, Therapeutic Riding Programs:
glosses: A hard substance growing on the inside of a horse's knee.