cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
batmobile
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: batmobiles
form: batmobiling
form: batmobiled
form: batmobiled
form: Batmobile
Etymology: From the Batmobile driven by superhero Batman in the eponymous media franchise, from bat + -mobile. The second verb sense references the retractable shielding featured on the vehicle in the 1989 film.
Senses: examples: text: We knew they were coming to children's records. It was only a matter of time before Bruce Wain^([sic]) and Dick Grayson would come Batmobiling off the turntable.
ref: 1966 July 10, George A. Woods, “Pow! Zowie! Zap! It's Batman”, in The New York Times:
text: Batman and Robin, the dynamic duo, come batmobiling right out of the old comic strip into a toy gift set for youngsters.
ref: 1975 December, Maureen Smith, “Tinkertoys and Teddybears and Other Old Favorites”, in McCall's, page 9:
text: To be sure, DC Comics' Caped Crusader wasn't Batmobiling off the newsstands in the psychedelic '60s; […]
ref: 2000 June 16, Ken Tucker, “Caped Fears”, in Entertainment Weekly:
glosses: To move or proceed as if in the Batmobile
examples: text: Genericans live on fast food bought with $20 bills (Yuppie food coupons) taken out of automatic teller machines.
They tend to be young men and women prone to batmobiling, defined as "putting up protective emotional shields just as a relationship enters an intimate vulnerable stage," like the steel plates that cloak Batman's car.
ref: 1997 June 8, James Coates, “Generica, Semisweet Land Of Jitterati”, in Chicago Tribune:
text: Baby's antennae stood straight up. She tried to read him but Jake was too quick for her. He was batmobiling. His deflector screens had shot up—he was an emotional escape vehicle, complete with tinted windows. Bullet-proof, bomb-proof, utterly impenetrable.
ref: 1998, Linda Jaivin, Rock 'n' Roll Babes from Outer Space, page 243:
text: Meredith (Gillian Anderson) is a frosty, uptight theatre director being romanced by an architect (John Stewart), but she is, as we say in the 90s, batmobiling - her defences are up.
ref: 1999 August 6, Peter Bradshaw, “Sex in the windy city”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To put up an emotional or intellectual shield, especially to protect oneself from something that makes one uncomfortable.
batmobiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of batmobile
batmobiles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of batmobile
batmobiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of batmobile
Batmobile
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Batmobiles
form: Batmobiling
form: Batmobiled
form: Batmobiled
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of batmobile.
Batmobiles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Batmobile
Batmobiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Batmobile
Batmobiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Batmobile
bark beetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bark beetle
baroque pearls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baroque pearl
bicycle clips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bicycle clip
bicycle racks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bicycle rack
bike racks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bike rack
bicycle stands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bicycle stand
blue sharks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue shark
boatbills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boatbill
ganzfeld experiments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ganzfeld experiment
Bronsted-Lowry bases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bronsted-Lowry base
ninety-sixths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ninety-sixth
Karakul
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A lake in Tajikistan.
glosses: A lake in Akto, Kizilsu, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Christmas seals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Christmas seal
reccies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reccy
reccies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reccy
crab canons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crab canon
CADAM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of computer-augmented design and manufacturing.
subsistances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subsistance
monoseme
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Thus, in the early period of PIE lexical units having conglomerate monoseme internal forms with “existential” (motional), “spatial”, and “temporal” meanings began to polarize.
ref: 1984, Sándor Rot, “Inherent Variability and Linguistic Interference of Anglo-Old-Scandinavian and Anglo-Norman French Language Contacts in the Formation of Grammatical Innovations in Late Old English and Middle English”, in N. F. Blake, C. Jones, editors, English Historical Linguistics: Studies in Development, page 76:
text: The insensibility towards a semantic structure adaptation goes so far that the (also imperfective) monoseme synonym jijam of grem in the meaning ‘to go’ is disappearing nowadays.
ref: 2003, Walter Breu, “Bilingualism and linguistic interference in the Slavic-Romance contact area of Molise (Southern Italy)”, in Regine Eckardt et al., editors, Words in Time: Diachronic Semantics from Different Points of View, →ISBN, page 359, n. 10:
text: The Dutch word ‘loods’, as a person, is monoseme and can only mean ‘a pilot in shipping’, and certainly not ‘airplane pilot’ or any other type of guide.
ref: 2007, Jan Hoogland, “Lexical Gaps in Arabic: Evidence from Dictionaries”, in Everhard Ditters, Harald Motzki, editors, Approaches to Arabic Linguistics, →ISBN, page 467:
glosses: Monosemic.
cowen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cowens
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of cowan (“one uninitiated in the secrets of Freemasonry”).
blancmanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blancmangers
Senses: glosses: A sort of fricassee with white sauce, variously made of capon, fish, etc.; blancmange.
blancmangers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blancmanger
gavelock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gavelocks
Etymology: From Middle English gavelock, from Old English gafeluc (“spear, javelin”), from gafol (“fork”) + -uc (diminutive suffix). Compare Old Norse gaflak, Icelandic gaflok, Old French gavelot, glavelot, French javelot, Irish gabhal (“fork”), Welsh gaflach (“fork, dart”). More at gaff, gaffle and javelin.
Senses: glosses: A spear or dart.
glosses: An iron crowbar.
gavelocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gavelock
heelbone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heelbones
Etymology: From heel + bone.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The bone of the heel; the calcaneus.
heelbones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heelbone
ambreate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ambreates
Etymology: From ambreic acid + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt of ambreic acid.
ambreates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ambreate
stillion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stillions
Etymology: See stilling.
Senses: glosses: A stand or rack, especially for casks or vats in a brewery, or less commonly for pottery while drying.
stillions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stillion
referendaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of referendary
referendary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: referendaries
Etymology: From Latin referendarius, from Latin referendus (“to be referred”), gerundive of referre. Compare French référendaire. See refer.
Senses: examples: text: let him choose well his referendaries , for else he may be led by the nose
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Suitors”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: One to whose decision a cause is referred; a referee.
examples: text: In the writs of Merovingian kings , the king normally signed his name first , and his referendary followed
ref: 1941, The Cambridge Historical Journal:
text: referendaries were involved in the presentation of petitions to the king
ref: 1992, P. S. Barnwell, Emperor, Prefects & Kings: The Roman West:
glosses: An officer who delivered the royal answer to petitions.
glosses: An officer of state charged with the duty of procuring and dispatching diplomas and decrees.
sewel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sewels
form: shewel
Etymology: From Early Middle English sheueles (“scarecrow”) [and other forms]; probably from Old English *scīewels, from sċīen (“to be frightened or startled; to recoil in fear”) (from Proto-West Germanic *skiuhijan (“to dread; to avoid, shun”), from Proto-Germanic *skeuhaz (“frightened; bashful, coy, shy, timid; cautious, reserved”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ-, *skūbʰ- (“to drive, move forward, push”) or *(s)kewH- (“to cover; to hide”)) + -els (suffix forming masculine nouns). Doublet of shy.
Cognates
* Middle English asheuelen, asheulen (verb)
* Middle Low German schūwelse
* Middle High German schiusel, schusel (modern German Scheusal (“beast; monster”))
* Old High German sciuhen (Middle High German schiuhen, schiuwen, German scheuen (“to scare”))
Senses: examples: text: Their sewels are made by tying a tassel of birch rind , formed like the wing of a paper kite , to the small end of a slight stick , about six feet in length. These sticks are pricked into the ground about ten or a dozen yards apart
ref: 1768, John Cartwright, Remarks on the Situation of the Aborigines of Newfoundland …:
glosses: A scarecrow, generally made of feathers tied to a string, hung up to prevent deer from breaking into a place.
sewels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sewel
tortulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tortulous
form: most tortulous
Senses: glosses: Swelling out at intervals like a knotted cord; gnarly or tortuous.
fulgency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fulgencies
Etymology: See fulgent.
Senses: examples: text: Besides, that from its fulgency it appears like flame.
ref: 1787, Tobias George Smollett, The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, volume 63:
text: Still but a shadow of his fulgency, His splendour shaded in that shrine of light;
ref: 1825, Joseph Belcher, Poetical Sketches of Biblical Subjects:
text: Let the fulgency of the integrity of American constitutional interpretation remain undiminished and untarnished.
ref: 1937, Law Notes, volume 41:
glosses: brightness; splendour; glitter; effulgence
hepatocystic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hepato- + cystic.
Senses: examples: the hepatocystic ducts
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the liver and gall bladder.
Derived terms: hepatocystic triangle
hypochondriacally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hypochondriacally
form: most hypochondriacally
Etymology: From hypochondriacal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a hypochondriacal manner.
anglemeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anglemeters
Etymology: From angle + meter.
Senses: glosses: An inclinometer (especially in geology, for measuring the dip of strata
anglemeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anglemeter
archtraitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archtraitors
Etymology: From arch- + traitor.
Senses: examples: text: […] that caitiffe Cardinall, and English Arch-traitor, from his Cannon of corrupt conceipt dischargeth two seditious Libels against his Souereign:
ref: 1589, James Lea, The Birth, Purpose, and Mortall Wound of the Romish Holie League, London: Thomas Cadman:
text: 1754, Isaac Watts, Remnants of Time, Employed in Prose and Verse, in The Posthumous Works of the Late Reverend Dr. Isaac Watts, London: T. and T. Longman et al., p. 276,
He [Jesus] led Satan the Arch-Traitor bound at his Chariot Wheels […]
text: Myself, arch-traitor to myself;
My hollowest friend, my deadliest foe,
My clog whatever road I go.
ref: 1875, Christina Rossetti, “Who Shall Deliver Me?”, in The Goblin Market, The Prince’s Progress and Other Poems, London: Macmillan, page 264:
text: In the furious battle over the 1906 Pure Food Law, he [Henry J. Heinz] was a hero to reformers and, to many of his fellow food processors, an archtraitor.
ref: 1973, Robert C. Alberts, The Good Provider: H. J. Heinz and his 57 Varieties, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Preface, p. x:
glosses: A chief or transcendent traitor.
archtraitors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archtraitor
baptistical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more baptistical
form: most baptistical
Senses: glosses: Dated form of baptismal.
saintism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From saint + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The character or quality of saints.
examples: text: canting puritanism and saintism
ref: 1691, [Anthony Wood], Athenæ Oxonienses. An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops who have had Their Education in the Most Ancient and Famous University of Oxford from the Fifteenth Year of King Henry the Seventh, Dom. 1500, to the End of the Year 1690. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Tho[mas] Bennet […]:
glosses: Hypocritical pretence of holiness; sanctimoniousness.
rondle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɒndəl/
Forms: form: rondles
Etymology: Compare rondel.
Senses: glosses: A rondeau.
glosses: A round mass, plate, or disk, especially the crust or scale that forms upon the surface of molten metal in the crucible.
glosses: A round or rung; a step of a ladder.
rondles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rondle
ischuretic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ischury + -etic.
Senses: glosses: Relieving urinary retention
ischuretic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ischuretics
Etymology: From ischury + -etic.
Senses: glosses: Any medicine that relieves rinary retention
ischuretics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ischuretic
impliable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more impliable
form: most impliable
Etymology: From im- + pliable.
Senses: glosses: not pliable; inflexible; unyielding
impliable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From imply + -able.
Senses: examples: text: impliable criteria
synonyms: implicable
glosses: Capable of being implied.
proseminaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proseminary
proseminary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proseminaries
Etymology: From pro- + seminary?
Senses: examples: text: It was then just founded as a proseminary for St. John's college Oxford
ref: 1774-1781, Thomas Warton, History of English Poetry:
glosses: A seminary that prepares pupils for a higher institution.
discontentive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌdɪskənˈtɛntɪv/
Forms: form: more discontentive
form: most discontentive
Etymology: From discontent + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Pride is ever discontentive: it both occasions more than any, and makes more than it doth occasion
ref: 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
glosses: Relating or tending toward discontent.
befriendment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: befriendments
Etymology: From befriend + -ment.
Senses: synonyms: befriending
glosses: The act of befriending; the act of making friends.
befriendments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of befriendment
gallein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galleins
Etymology: From pyrogallol and phthalein.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A red crystalline dyestuff obtained by heating pyrogallic acid and phthalic acid together.
orthometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ortho- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: The art or practice of constructing verses correctly or harmoniously; the rules of correct poetry.
terebratuliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more terebratuliform
form: most terebratuliform
Etymology: From terebratula + -iform.
Senses: examples: text: terebratuliform loop
text: terebratuliform shell
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having the general form of a terebratula shell.
thermomagnetism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thermo- + magnetism.
Senses: glosses: Magnetism affected or caused by the action of heat.
glosses: The relation of heat to magnetism.
whirlicote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whirlicotes
Senses: examples: text: Of old time coaches were not known in this Iland, but chariots, or whirlicotes.
ref: 1598, John Stow, A Survey of London:
glosses: A kind of large open coach or chariot.
whirlicotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whirlicote
spumescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spumescent
form: most spumescent
Etymology: From Latin spumescens, p.pr. of spumescere (“to grow foamy”).
Senses: examples: text: The snowfall had changed again, the flakes larger now and less insistent; they had a buoyant and spumescent quality.
ref: 1957, John Bell Clayton, The Strangers Were There: Selected Stories, Macmillan, page 79:
text: His eyes burned black with the intensity of their gaze over the hidden ravine below; over the thin, white waterfall, spumescent, blown into mist.
ref: 1993, Hjalmar Thesen, The Way Back: A Novel, →ISBN, page 146:
text: Then she screamed as a jet of spumescent gore slopped across the front of the paralysed fabric.
ref: 2008, Peter F. Hamilton, The Reality Dysfunction, →ISBN:
glosses: Resembling froth or foam; foaming.
Synonyms: fizzy
foamy
frothy
effervescent
Related terms: spumante
spumescence
Barnumize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Barnumizes
form: Barnumizing
form: Barnumized
form: Barnumized
form: Barnumise
form: barnumize
Etymology: From the surname of P. T. Barnum, a 19th century American showman who co-founded the Barnum & Bailey Circus, + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: There is nothing unusual at first appearance of this man who Barnumized the Classics and shook them and modern stage production into a new vitality.
ref: 1922 September 3, “Reinhardt at Salzburg”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To enliven something, especially a spectacle or attraction.
examples: text: Kushner expects his boxers to make nasty remarks, scripted or otherwise, to Barnumize their sport in the manner of Bob Luce's version of wrestling promising gore for the paying fools.
ref: 1983 March 19, John Husar, “Collins, LaPaglia save fight for ring”, in Chicago Tribune:
glosses: To dumb down, cheapen, or vulgarize something, especially to create entertainment that appeals to coarse or unsophisticated tastes.
examples: text: They went to work deliberately to Barnumize their prospective candidate. No prima donna was ever more thoroughly exploited by her Hebrew impresario. The papers swarmed with anecdotes, incidents, sayings. Nothing was too unimportant, and the new commander-in-chief pulled on his boots by telegram from Maine to California, and picked his teeth by special dispatch from the Associated Press.
ref: 1864, James Russell Lowell, “General McClellan's Report”, in Political Essays, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, published 1890:
glosses: To promote with bombast, exaggeration, or outright falsehood; to hype or sensationalize.
examples: text: Looking in retrospect over his career, old P. T. Barnum was equally frank, but he had a way of making people unaware of the fact that they were being buncoed while the buncoing was going on. And the Barnumizing operation of extracting money from the curious will be more successful today if it is made less palapably^([sic]) painful.
ref: 1927 October 19, “Barnum Had Tact, Regardless”, in The Southeast Missourian:
glosses: To obtain money through fraudulent or deceitful means; to swindle or con.
examples: text: The psychiatrists are getting beyond their depth when they begin computing feminine unhappiness. So when we read that some professor finds 98 per cent of us drooping with sorrow, I think we may safely charge him with Barnumizing.
ref: 1935 August 23, Mrs. Walter Ferguson, “Being Unhappy”, in The Pittsburgh Press:
glosses: To spread inaccurate or false information.
examples: text: Mangin turned himself into an eccentric figure, and Barnumized the business of selling pencils.
"He attracted attention," says Mr. Dreier, "by driving about the streets in an ornamented carriage drawn by two bay horses.
"With the help of a servant he changed his clothes in plain sight, substituting a medieval costume for his business suit. […]
ref: 1926 March 19, Glenn Frank, “On Pretending to Die”, in Youngstown Vindicator:
glosses: To seek or attract attention, especially through ostentation.
Related terms: Barnumization
coenobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /siːˈnəʊ.bɪ.ə/
ipa: /siˈnoʊ.bi.ə/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Late Latin coenobia.
Senses: glosses: plural of coenobium
barnumize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: barnumizes
form: barnumizing
form: barnumized
form: barnumized
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Barnumize.
pain d'épice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French pain d'épice.
Senses: examples: text: The texture of pain d’épice comes as rather a shock to those brought up on sticky, moist gingerbreads.
ref: 1996, Sue Lawrence, “Pain d’Épice”, in On Baking, London: Kyle Cathie, published 1998, →ISBN, “Cakes Which Keep” section, page 94:
text: To finish, creamy fromage blanc mousse with delicate mango jelly and intense passion-fruit sorbet, or an elaborately crafted ‘taste of rhubarb’ platter featuring, among other things, a granita, a bavarois-style cream, a mint-infused rhubarb and melon drink and dainty triangles of pain d’épice.
ref: 2003, “Pennyhill Park, Latymer Restaurant”, in Andrew Turvil, editor, The Good Food Guide 2004, London: Which?, →ISBN, “England” section, page 233:
text: Cut six ½-inch-thick slices of pain d’épice, and butter them on both sides.
ref: 2005, Suzanne Goin, “Toasted Pain d’Épice with Kumquat Marmalade Butter”, in Sunday Suppers at Lucques, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, “Winter” section, Menu 28, page 333:
glosses: Alternative form of pain d'épices.
colossea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colosseum
vegges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of veg
vegging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of veg
vegged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of veg
beforemaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beforemath
beforemath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beforemaths
Etymology: From before + math (“a mowing”), by analogy with aftermath.
Senses: examples: text: In the dismal beforemath of Tuesday morning's NPIWP meeting — the concentrated essence of dentists' waiting rooms, with a tinge of what condemned men might have felt before the drop — Tappen was brooding on deadlines.
ref: 1984, David Langford, The Leaky Establishment, Cosmos Books, published 2003, →ISBN, page 46:
glosses: What precedes or produces a particular outcome; events that have yet to occur, or are in the process of occurring.
Synonyms: foremath
Related terms: aftermath
reproductive system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The system of organs within an organism which work together for the purpose of reproduction.
erecter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erecters
Etymology: From erect + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of erector (“someone or something that raises or builds”).
erecters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of erecter
farantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more farantly
form: most farantly
Etymology: From farrand + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I wish her no harm, with her blushes of brass;
But she may have six twins in three years,
And corrupt every farantly neighbour she has,
Setting them and their wives by the ears.
ref: 1876, Ebenezer Elliott, “The Gipsy (XIV)”, in Edwin Elliott, editor, The Poetical Works of Ebenezer Elliott, volume 2, page 329:
text: [in strong Lancashire-dialect pronunciation spelling]
“‘An' if hoo doesno' come for that,
There's lots on Bowman's Lea
As farrantly an' good as hoo,
Ut would be preawd o' thee.”
ref: 1893, Benjamin Brierley, “Johnny an' Peggy”, in Spring Blossoms and Autumn Leaves, page 79:
text: [in strong Lancashire-dialect pronunciation spelling]
Aw wur theer t' other neet, an' aw thowt to misel'
God bless her! hoo's farantly lookin'!
ref: 1894, Samuel Laycock, “Mi Gronny”, in Warblin's Fro' an Owd Songster:
english: I was there the other night, and I thought to myself,
God bless her! She's farantly looking.
translation: I was there the other night, and I thought to myself,
God bless her! She's farantly looking.
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glosses: Good-looking; respectable.
farantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more farantly
form: most farantly
Etymology: From farrand + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I remember hearing my mother say that her cousin, John Fell, married a young body fro' Egremont; and she had no way o' her ain, and never got into theirs, so there was nothing done farantly.
ref: 1821, N.A., The Life of a Boy:
text: The lancinations maugre all my epulotic appliances sphacelated — interrosseal and cervical inturgescence induced angina, followed by lethality; I contumulated him farantly in a litten .
ref: 1870, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant in the East, page 38:
text: But the Bishop, that courteous man of God, saluted the young man, right farantly […]
ref: 1924, G. B. Stuart, “The Deacon's Window”, in The English Review, volume 39, page 717:
glosses: In a respectable manner.
agrace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: agraces
form: agracing
form: agraced
form: agraced
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aggrace.
agraced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of agrace
agracing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of agrace
expenseful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more expenseful
form: most expenseful
Etymology: From expense + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: expenseful magnificency
ref: 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC:
glosses: Full of expense; costly; chargeable.
Related terms: expensefully
expensefulness
subdeaneries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subdeanery
subdeanery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subdeaneries
Etymology: From sub- + deanery or subdean + -ery.
Senses: glosses: The office, jurisdiction, or rank of a subdean.
impastation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impastations
Etymology: Borrowed from French impastation. See impaste and impasto.
Senses: glosses: The act of making into paste.
examples: text: His impastations, which even reach the skies, spoiled more than one of his paintings.
ref: 1910, Léonce Bénédite, Great Painters of the XIXth Century and Their Paintings, page 66:
glosses: That which is formed into a paste or mixture; specifically, a combination of different substances by means of cements.
impastations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impastation
eyr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of air.
sinewish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sinewish
form: most sinewish
Etymology: From sinew + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: his bodie hairie, as also not fleshie but sinewish and strong compact
ref: 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:
glosses: sinewy
pressive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: more pressive
form: most pressive
Etymology: From press + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: pressive need
text: pressive pain
glosses: pressing; urgent
examples: text: pressive taxation
text: The more unwillingness they saw in Christ to give his answer, the more pressive and importunate they were to draw it from him
ref: 1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:
glosses: oppressive
alish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈeɪl.ɪʃ/
Forms: form: more alish
form: most alish
Etymology: From ale + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: an alish taste
synonyms: alelike
aley
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of ale.
florimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: florimers
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of floramour.
florimers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of florimer
begathon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: begathons
Etymology: From beg + -athon.
Senses: examples: text: Within a half an hour, the phones throughout the governor's mansion pealed, as if public television begathon night.
ref: 2002, Dan McFadden, Cheechako, Writers Press Club, →ISBN, page 12:
glosses: A fundraising drive that actively solicits donations, especially one to support a public television or radio station.
begathons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of begathon
senologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: senologists
Etymology: From senology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: physician whose speciality is senology
bikelash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bikelashes
form: bike-lash
Etymology: Blend of bike + backlash.
Senses: examples: text: There's a feeling among many drivers that cyclists, either by their ignorance of the law or by their blatant disregard for it, are asking for trouble. […] In one sense, the so-called bikelash has little to do with transportation modes.
ref: 2011 February 16, Thomas Vanderbilt, “Rage Against Your Machine”, in Outside:
text: I bicycled in for Bike to Work Day last week, and I saw no bikelash on such a pleasant day. But the Seattle Weekly's Nina Shapiro emailed me that the day before, she watched as a "beefy guy" driving a Buick got out, pushed a bicyclist against a wall and then picked up the bike and heaved it at him.
ref: 2011 May 21, Danny Westneat, “Getting a handle on latest 'bikelash'”, in Seattle Times:
text: All are on the frontlines of what's been called the "bikelash", brave fighters willing to stand firm against the growing popularity of cycling across north America.
ref: 2013 April 11, Oliver Burkeman, “Pedalling myths: the anti-bike lobby is flat out of plausible arguments”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Negative or hostile reaction to cyclists, especially from motorists or law enforcement.
senology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From seno- + -logy.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: mastology
glosses: The branch of pathology that deals with disorders of the breast.
Related terms: senologist
bikelashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bikelash
bike-lash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bike-lashes
Senses: examples: text: Britain’s army of cyclists are facing a bike-lash because of their increasingly illegal and aggressive behaviour, according to new research.
ref: 2007 October 19, Emma Wall, “New Motorists Being Driven Round The Bend”, in Daily Star:
glosses: Alternative form of bikelash.
bike-lashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bike-lash
Senussi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Senussis
form: Senussi
form: Sanusi
form: Sanussi
form: Sanusiya
form: Sanusiyya
form: Senusi
form: Senusiya
form: Senusiyya
Senses: glosses: A member of a particular North African Muslim sect.
Related terms: Senussian
Senussian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Senussi + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Senussi
friendlihead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English frendlyhed, equivalent to friendly + -head. Cognate with Dutch vriendelijkheid (“friendliness”), Old Danish fryntlighed (“friendliness”).
Senses: glosses: Friendliness; friendship.
Related terms: friendlihood
coach box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coach boxes
Senses: glosses: The coachman's seat (on a horse-drawn vehicle)
serpentaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɜː.pənˈtɛəɹi.ə/
ipa: /ˌsɝ.pənˈtɛɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin [Term?].
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The fibrous aromatic root of the Virginia snakeroot (Aristolochia serpentaria).
frighty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: frightier
form: more frighty
form: frightiest
form: most frighty
Etymology: from Middle English frighti, frighty, friȝti, equivalent to fright + -y.
Senses: glosses: Afraid.
Derived terms: frightily
blandiose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blandiose
form: most blandiose
Etymology: Blend of bland + grandiose.
Senses: examples: text: The opening act, Restless Heart, presented a 45-minute set of synthesizer-glossed corn-pop that managed to be schlocky, grandstanding and dull all at once. The five-piece band drew appreciative whoops despite a lackluster performance made up mostly of blandiose romantic ballads in the tradition of such denizens of the pop dustbin as Firefall.
ref: 1989 September 9, Marty Hughley, “Judds give stellar performance”, in The Oregonian:
glosses: Simultaneously dull and overblown; striving to be impressive, but turning out bland or unoriginal.
Sesto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Short for Sesto San Giovanni
bleachorexia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of bleach + anorexia.
Senses: examples: text: People who want teeth whiter than nature intended, reaching repeatedly for the peroxide, suffer from "bleachorexia," a word coined by the American Dental Association.
ref: 2009 September 24, Deirdre Kelly, “Price choppers: Get pearly whites for 99 bucks”, in The Globe and Mail:
glosses: An unhealthy obsession with whitening one's teeth.
coinings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɔɪnɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of coining
Girona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɪˈɹoʊnə/
Etymology: From Catalan Girona.
Senses: glosses: A city in northeastern Catalonia, Spain.
glosses: A province of Catalonia, Spain.
blizzaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blizzasters
Etymology: Blend of blizzard + disaster.
Senses: examples: text: Because of a last-minute double-booking with a rescheduled debate sponsored by the Chicago Defender (who had canceled their previous engagement due to the blizzaster earlier in the month), all of the candidates scrambled in their attempts to make both events, with Emanuel, Braun and del Valle ultimately doing so.
ref: 2011 February 16, Joseph Erbentraut, “Race for mayor, the gay vote: mayoral mania wrap-up”, in GoPride.com:
glosses: A usually severe snowstorm or series of snowstorms.
Synonyms: Snowmageddon
snowpocalypse
frine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: frines
form: frining
form: frined
form: frined
Etymology: Of North Germanic origin, akin to Swedish dialectal fryna (“to wrinkle up one's nose, make a wry face”), Norwegian frøyna (“to wrinkle up one's nose, make a wry face”). Perhaps related to frown.
Senses: glosses: To grumble, whine, or whimper; fret; show discontent; murmur; complain.
illicia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of illicium
illimitableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From illimitable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being illimitable; absence of limits.
man-tigers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of man-tiger
isopropylamides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isopropylamide
satrapesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of satrapess
goat rodeos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goat rodeo
memorial parks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of memorial park
robustifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of robustify
robustifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of robustify
robustified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of robustify
himatia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of himation
himations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of himation
Qallunaaqs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Qallunaaq
octacosanols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of octacosanol
mass-produces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mass-produce
mass-producing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mass-produce
yakity-yaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yakity-yak
yakity-yaks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of yakity-yak
yakity-yakking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of yakity-yak
yakity-yakked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of yakity-yak
surplusages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surplusage
State of Israel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the State of Israel
Senses: glosses: Official name of Israel: a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East.
frequency modulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frequency modulation
cardiotoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cardiotoxin
5 o'clock traffic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Rush hour traffic.
PIPA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Participatory impact pathways analysis, a project management approach.
PIPA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Personal Information Protection Act, part of Canadian privacy law.
glosses: Initialism of Phoenix Islands Protected Area, a marine protected area located in the Republic of Kiribati.
glosses: Initialism of Program on International Policy Attitudes, an American research institution.
glosses: Initialism of PROTECT IP Act, a proposed American law.
nonsignalling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + signalling.
Senses: glosses: Not signalling.
syscall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syscalls
Etymology: Clipped compound of system call.
Senses: examples: text: At an assembly code level, when a process wants to make a syscall, it will load the syscall number into the EAX register[…]
ref: 2009, Jatinder N. D. Gupta, Sushil K. Sharma, Handbook of research on information security and assurance:
text: In addition, the relatively slow scalar CPU of the SX-9 and high cost of context switches (interrupts, syscalls) due to the huge context that needs to be stored away (like vector registers) contribute their part to the very poor UDP performance.
ref: 2010, Michael Resch, Katharina Benkert, Xin Wang, High Performance Computing on Vector Systems 2010, page 57:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A software request for a service from the operating system kernel.
syscalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syscall
nonice
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + ice.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to ice.
nonimmersed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + immersed.
Senses: glosses: Not immersed.
nonimmersion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + immersion.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to immersion.
wrongish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From wrong + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat wrong.
Grimm's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for Jacob Grimm (1785–1863), German author, linguist and folklorist.
Senses: glosses: A sound change that affected the Proto-Indo-European stop consonants in the development of Proto-Germanic, causing devoicing or change into a fricative.
glosses: The description of this sound change (as originally formulated by Jacob Grimm), which establishes a set of regular correspondences between early Germanic stops and fricatives, and the consonants of Proto-Indo-European and most other Indo-European languages.
squint-a-pipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squint-a-pipes
Senses: glosses: One who squints; a person with defective vision.
nosegear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nose gear
Etymology: From nose + gear.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An undercarriage or landing gear located underneath the nose of an aircraft.
Coordinate terms: body gear
main gear
wing gear
Related terms: nosewheel
blogebrity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blogebrities
Etymology: Blend of blog + celebrity.
Senses: examples: text: It's been quite a turnaround for Hilton, who said that before becoming a blogebrity he had been in a deep depression and last year filed for bankruptcy and was fired from a job at a celebrity weekly magazine.
ref: 2006 November 6, “Perez Hilton says he's an 'outsider'”, in USA Today:
glosses: A well-known or popular blogger.
examples: text: Given that there are more than 80 million blogs out there, according to the Web-tracking site Technorati, with roughly 15.5 million of them active, "blogebrity" is quite a bizarre phenomenon anyway.
ref: 2008, “Introduction”, in Sarah Boxer, editor, Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks from the Wild Web, Vintage Books, →ISBN, page xii:
glosses: The state or phenomenon of fame achieved through blogging.
Shaftesburyan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Shaftesburyan
form: most Shaftesburyan
Etymology: From Shaftesbury + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Earl of Shaftesbury.
petauristid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petauristids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the genus Petaurista, including some flying squirrels.
petauristids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petauristid
phalangerid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phalangerids
Senses: examples: text: Orbital orientation in the slow-moving phalangerid Phalanger maculatus is more primate-like than in other phalangerids, including Pseudocheirus lemuroides, one of the most acrobatic of arboreal marsupials.
ref: 1972, Matt Cartmill, “4: Arboreal Adaptations and the Origin of Order Primates”, in Russell Tuttle, editor, The Functional and Evolutionary Biology of Primates, published 2009, page 112:
text: One of these species, Phalanger gymnotis (ground cuscus), is reported to be the most frugivorous of the eight New Guinean phalangerid species, and is perhaps the most frugivorous of all phalangerids.
ref: 1999, Ian D. Hume, Marsupial Nutrition, page 202:
text: Phalangerids are predominantly herbivorous, and some prefer leaves, whereas others eat more fruit, flowers, or grasses.
ref: 2010, Peter S. Ungar, Mammal Teeth: Origin, Evolution, and Diversity, page 139:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the nocturnal marsupials of family Phalangeridae, which includes cuscuses and brushtail possums.
Related terms: Phalangeridae
phalangerids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phalangerid
anticritical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticritical
form: most anticritical
Etymology: From anti- + critical.
Senses: examples: text: In a recent conversation with a distinguished critic who chairs a comparative literature program and directs an undergraduate humanities program, I rediscovered an all-too-common anticritical dimension to so-called American pluralism.
ref: 1992, Paul A. Bové, In the wake of theory, page 27:
glosses: Opposing critics or criticism.
blogebrities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blogebrity
anticriminal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticriminal
form: most anticriminal
Etymology: From anti- + criminal.
Senses: glosses: Opposing or countering criminals.
anticriticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anticriticisms
Etymology: From anti- + criticism.
Senses: examples: text: Let me recommend a general Anticriticism, a universal medicine or panacea, to put a stop to all anonymous reviewing, whether it praises the bad or blames the good:
ref: 1891, Arthur Schopenhauer, The Art of Literature: A Series of Essays, page 100:
text: A facile resignation, a crude anti-intellectualism and anticriticism is in the air. It can be frankly and grossly Philistine; it can be a blithe defense of amateurism, impressionism, enthusiasm; it can be the skepticism and historical relativism […]
ref: 1971, The Centennial Review:
text: The anticriticism movement began to take shape even before the worldwide political and military upheavals of the mid-1990s. Earlier in that decade, both management and labor had argued for the abolition of performance reviews. […]
ref: 1988, Deborah Bright, Criticism in Your Life, Master Media Publishing Corporation
glosses: Opposition to critical examination and review.
examples: text: So-called anticriticism clauses or gag rules should be prohibited as a condition of plan participation.
ref: 1996, Stanley B. Jones, Marion Ein Lewin, Improving the medicare market: adding choice and protections, page 100:
glosses: Opposition to criticism or criticizing.
5 o'clock shadow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 5 o'clock shadows
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of five o'clock shadow.
deicings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deicing
electrothermally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From electrothermal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: by electrothermal means
naggin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naggins
Etymology: A variant of noggin.
Senses: examples: a naggin of whisky
glosses: A small measure of spirits; alternative form of noggin.
naggins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naggin
raions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raion