cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
rhymefest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhymefests
Etymology: From rhyme + -fest.
Senses: examples: text: Take heed when the Counsil take Chuck D's 1996 "No" and deliver a rhymefest called "Yes" — it's a sure sign that four talented volcanoes are about to erupt.
ref: 1997, Vibe, volume 5, number 9, page 50:
text: "Released" via Twitter, this summery, top-down rhymefest is the clear highlight of the first of two EPs to be unveiled on that social-networking phenomenon.
ref: 2009 April 25, John Sakamoto, “The Anti-Hit List”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: A situation involving a great deal of rhyming.
rhymefests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhymefest
toguna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: togunas
Senses: glosses: A public building erected by the Dogon people of Mali, having a low roof to force visitors to sit rather than stand, and used by the village elders to discuss community issues.
Synonyms: palaver hut
togunas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toguna
waferish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more waferish
form: most waferish
Etymology: From wafer + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The sensual delight of biting into the waferish cookies is a feeling to savour.
ref: 2009 April 25, Corey Mintz, “MoRoCo Chocolat a place for ladies who lunch”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a wafer.
stringy floppy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stringy floppies
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An early computer storage medium, a cartridge of looped tape.
Related terms: floppy disk
microdrive
stringy floppies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stringy floppy
prima faciality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The quality of being prima facie.
palaver hut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaver huts
Senses: glosses: Synonym of toguna.
synonyms: word: toguna
palaver huts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palaver hut
landscapity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From landscape + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Each freed faciality trait forms a rhizome with a freed trait of landscapity, picturality, or musicality.
ref: 2011, Katy Masuga, Henry Miller and How He Got That Way:
glosses: The state or quality of being related to or resembling a landscape.
picturality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pictural + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Each freed faciality trait forms a rhizome with a freed trait of landscapity, picturality, or musicality.
ref: 2011, Katy Masuga, Henry Miller and How He Got That Way:
glosses: The state or quality of being related to or resembling a picture.
whadiya
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whaddaya.
whadaya
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whaddaya.
tempranillos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tempranillo
cownose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cownoses
Etymology: From cow + nose.
Senses: examples: text: Housed in the groups events tent, within the Zellers Discovery Zone, the dome-shaped state-of-the art facility features white-spotted bamboo and nurse sharks alongside cownose and southern stingrays.
ref: 2009 May 15, Jason Miller, “Stingrays get company”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Any of various eagle rays of the genus Rhinoptera.
Derived terms: cownose ray
cownoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cownose
cussingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cussingly
form: most cussingly
Etymology: From cussing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Likewise, Bill Milner plays Edward as a brooding young malcontent so cussingly caustic at times that when his smile finally appears, it is like a rainbow after a long, rainy day.
ref: 2009 May 15, Bruce DeMara, “Is Anybody There?: Magic realism”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: While cussing; with the use of profane language.
centrefielder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centrefielders
Etymology: From centrefield + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The centrefielder has just made a spectacular sliding catch.
text: Instead, he said four stray fastballs to Yankees centrefielder Brett Gardner defined his night.
ref: 2009 May 15, Morgan Campbell, “Facing Yankees no walk in the park”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Alternative form of centerfielder.
centrefielders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centrefielder
centrefields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centrefield
rother nail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rother nails
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
shipbuilding
glosses: A nail with a very full head, used for fastening the rudder irons of ships.
rother nails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rother nail
nonstimulant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonstimulants
Etymology: From non- + stimulant.
Senses: examples: text: A starch blocker is a nonstimulant, 100 per cent natural nutritional supplement derived from the white kidney bean.
ref: 2009 May 14, Malena Harbers, Toronto Star:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Any substance that is not a stimulant.
nonstimulants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonstimulant
wedlocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From wedlock + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: That's manipulative, the conventional take on a wife who chose to stay wedlocked to her perma-tanned husband despite his chronically cheesy behaviour, from phone calls to a sex chat line (purportedly for the purpose of opinion polling, a typical Berlusconi stunt) to old-coot flirting with curvaceous TV starlets (some of whom he put forward as candidates in the upcoming European parliamentary elections) to verbal (at minimum) groping of women who usually sex-wagged right back.
ref: 2009 May 11, Rosie DiManno, “No girl power in shaming cheats”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: United in wedlock.
brushful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brushfuls
form: brushesful
Etymology: From brush + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Fougère Royale (Royal Fern) Shaving Cream absorbs brushesful of water and whips up a close, fine-textured, beard-softening lather with the refreshing odor of Royal Fern.
ref: 1927 February 7, “If you are hard to shave: Try this New Way!”, in Time: The Weekly Newsmagazine, volume IX, number 6, page 4:
text: Dip your brush into the paint and transfer two or three brushesful onto the palette.
ref: 1942, Carl Rousseau Havighorst, Simplified Show Card Writing, Butterick Company, page 13:
text: Finally, remembering their patience with the fenced sycamore, I resolved to give the cottonwood trunk a few brushesful every few months just on principle.
ref: 1977, Jack Couffer, Mike Couffer, Canyon Summer, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 61:
text: Legs dangle and pinwheel in the light morning breeze and the head sags over as Dan Bergeron slops a thick, opaque brushful of wheat paste across the chest, pinning it to the ragged brick.
ref: 2009 May 10, Murray Whyte, “Evolution of a street art rebel”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: A sufficient quantity to fill the bristles of a brush.
brushfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brushful
handwasher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handwashers
Etymology: From hand + washer.
Senses: examples: text: He was top handwasher amongst 16 men who washed their hands.
ref: 2009 May 10, Toronto Star:
glosses: A person who washes his or her hands.
glosses: A device for washing the hands.
handwashers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handwasher
unmachinable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + machinable.
Senses: glosses: Not machinable.
wedger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wedgers
Etymology: From wedge + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Look for the wedger in kitchen shops.
ref: 2009 May 6, Susan Sampson, “Thin edge of the wedge”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: A kitchen utensil for cutting fruit and vegetables into wedges.
examples: text: Neither girls nor women should be permitted to be wedgers of clay, and for the same reasons.
ref: 1867, Reports of the Inspectors of Factories to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, page 84:
glosses: A person who wedges clay.
wedgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wedger
unretractable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + retractable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be retracted.
streetproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more streetproof
form: most streetproof
Etymology: From street + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Aware of the dangers that may be encountered while out in the streets, and able to keep oneself safe.
streetproof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: streetproofs
form: streetproofing
form: streetproofed
form: streetproofed
Etymology: From street + -proof.
Senses: glosses: To educate (a person) about dangers that may be encountered in the streets.
streetproofs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of streetproof
streetproofing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of streetproof
intimistes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intimiste
streetproofed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of streetproof
picayunely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more picayunely
form: most picayunely
Etymology: From picayune + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Only under the most picayunely literal interpretation of rules can the thumping Kronwall laid on Havlat in Game 3 of the Western Conference final be considered interference.
ref: 2009 May 24, Rosie DiManno, “`Gutless' hit is still reverberating”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: In a picayune manner.
instantaneous velocities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of instantaneous velocity
supervillainy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + villainy.
Senses: examples: text: Lastly, it's not all high-spirited hijinks for our boy Cole; everywhere, the duties of superheroism/supervillainy call, plainly marked on your map and helpfully coded according to their good/evil value.
ref: 2009 May 23, Darren Zenko, “The good, the bad and the Infamous”, in Toronto Star:
text: In the old days, back when I was getting into the supervillainy game, there was a very clear, very well-established process for letting everyone know who you were and that you were ready to shoot some monuments into space.
ref: 2013, King Oblivion, The Supervillain Field Manual: How to Conquer (Super) Friends and Incinerate People, page 6:
glosses: The evil behaviour of a supervillain.
Cocker
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * As an English surname, from the verb cock (“to fight, wrangle”), itself from the bird. The river in Lancashire is also from the bird.
* Also as an English surname, from the noun cock (sense 3) (“heap of hay”).
* As a German surname, Americanized from Kocher.
* The river in Cumbria is of Brythonic origin, from Proto-Brythonic *kukrā (“the crooked one”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A river in Cumbria, England, which joins the Derwent at Cockermouth.
glosses: A short river in Lancashire, England, which flows into the Lune estuary.
mallrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mallrat
atabaque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɑːtəˈbɑːki/
/ˌætəˈbæki/
Forms: form: atabaques
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese atabaque, from Arabic الطَّبَق (aṭ-ṭabaq, “plate”).
Senses: glosses: A tall Afro-Brazilian hand drum, traditionally having its shell made of jacaranda wood.
atabaques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atabaque
watermain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watermains
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of water main.
watermains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of watermain
cosmetotextile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosmetotextiles
Senses: examples: text: Simply put, the nylon-based material with cosmetic properties, known as cosmetotextiles, blocks harmful UV rays and then transmits coloured light through the material to the skin.
ref: 2009 June 5, “Clothing that saves your skin”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: A textile with cosmetic properties.
cosmetotextiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cosmetotextile
heralder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heralders
Etymology: From herald + -er.
Senses: examples: text: He was a heralder of new beginnings, but only on conditions of reciprocity.
ref: 2009 June 5, “Obama lays out path for peace”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: One who heralds something.
heralders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heralder
newsnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: newsnets
Etymology: From news + net.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A news broadcasting network.
newsnets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of newsnet
mindbender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mindbenders
Etymology: From mind + bender.
Senses: examples: text: The ruched dresses are a mindbender, with taut stretch silk blending into draped folds.
ref: 2009 June 4, Bernadette Morra, “Is Altuzarra fashion's new hope?”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Something that is mind-bending.
mindbenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mindbender
rhymey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: rhymier
form: rhymiest
form: rhymy
Etymology: From rhyme + -y.
Senses: examples: text: You should avoid heavy metal (too angry) and rap (too rhymey).
ref: 2009 June 4, Vinay Menon, “Ladies, some male wisdom about sex”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Characterised by rhyme.
paduka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: padukas
Etymology: From a Sanskrit word, derived from the word for "foot".
Senses: examples: text: These natural-rubber sandals are based on the paduka or toe-knob sandals, a 5,000-year-old Indian shoe design.
ref: 2009 June 3, Derick Chetty, “Flip-flop with modern sole”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Traditional Indian footwear, essentially consisting of a sole with a post and knob engaged between the big toe and second toe.
padukas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paduka
paracycling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: para-cycling
form: para cycling
Etymology: From para- + cycling.
Senses: examples: text: "Hopefully people will see my trike and say, `Hey ... what are you riding?'" said Shelley Gautier, 40, who wants to be the first Canadian woman to compete in paracycling on a trike at the 2012 Paralympics in London, England.
ref: 2009 May 29, Emily Mathieu, “Racing toward 2012 games - on a trike”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: The sport of cycling adapted for people who have various disabilities.
Synonyms: IPC cycling
paralympic cycling
Hypernyms: cycling
Hyponyms: para track cycling
couchful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: couchfuls
Etymology: From couch + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Despite the stereotype of the lone basement-bound nerd, video games are quite a social pursuit; a role-playing or adventure game might be fine for solo play, but a skill/reflex challenge like Punch-Out!! seems a bit empty without a couchful of spectator/competitors cheering/jeering at your side.
ref: 2009 May 30, Darren Zenko, “Old school charm will knock you out”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Enough to fill a couch.
couchfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of couchful
cybercurrency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cybercurrencies
Etymology: From cyber- + currency.
Senses: examples: text: Remember electronic cash, digital dollars or cybercurrency? The conventional wisdom three years ago was that consumers would never use their credit card numbers on the Internet. So in order for electronic commerce to thrive, highly secure digital money schemes were needed.
ref: 1999, Network World, volume 16, number 15, page 47:
text: The emergence of cybercurrency as a future medium of exchange raises a number of new enforcement issues as well as questions of whether reporting requirements would need to be redesigned […]
ref: 2000, Delbert Rounds, International Criminal Justice: Issues in a Global Perspective, page 36:
glosses: Synonym of cryptocurrency.
synonyms: word: cryptocurrency
Related terms: cryptocurrency
cybercash
cybermoney
cyberwallet
digital currency
digital wallet
e-currency
e-money
e-payment
e-wallet
virtual currency
e-currency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-currencies
Etymology: From e- + currency.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of digital currency.
synonyms: word: digital currency
cybercurrencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cybercurrency
e-currencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-currency
drabware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drabwares
Etymology: From drab + -ware.
Senses: examples: text: This particular pitcher is categorized as drabware because of the putty-coloured clay used to make it.
ref: 2009 May 30, John Sewell, “Ranchers will saddle up this table”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: A form of unglazed pottery made from drab-coloured clay.
drabwares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drabware
gaylord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaylords
Etymology: From gay + lord under influence of the name Gaylord, suggested to originate in Jamaican slang.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Gaylord!’ ¶ ‘Bum-chum!’ ¶ ‘Chutney Ferret!’
ref: 2005, S.J. Smith, Joe Public, Virtualbookworm Publishing, →ISBN, page 100:
glosses: Synonym of gay: a homosexual man.
synonyms: word: gay
extra: a homosexual man
examples: text: BINGO: You shouldn't have nicked my beers yer gaylord!
ref: 2007, Summer Scars (film screenplay)
glosses: Term of address to any man or boy.
examples: text: That bloke's got a pink t-shirt on - what a gaylord!
glosses: An effeminate or insufficiently masculine man or boy.
gaylord
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gaylord
form: most gaylord
Etymology: From gay + lord under influence of the name Gaylord, suggested to originate in Jamaican slang.
Senses: examples: Back to gaylord school tomorrow.
glosses: Used to express dislike: lame, uncool, stupid, burdensome, contemptible, generally bad.
gaylord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaylords
Etymology: Genericized trademark from the Gaylord Container Corporation, a manufacturer of packaging materials.
Senses: examples: text: They come sorted according to type, in large cardboard gaylord boxes (you'll see pumpkins in these containers at supermarkets) or shrink-wrapped on a pallet.
ref: 2009 May 30, Ellen Moorhouse, “Where old computers go to die”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: A large carton that fits on a pallet, used for transporting goods.
gaylords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gaylord
psychedelicize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: psychedelicizes
form: psychedelicizing
form: psychedelicized
form: psychedelicized
Etymology: From psychedelic + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Young's sound is becoming markedly psychedelicized by 1968's "I've Been Waiting For You," although I haven't studied the original enough to discern the variations in this alternate mix.
ref: 2009 May 30, Ben Rayner, “Neil Young Archives: One box set. Eight hours. And lots of beer”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: To make psychedelic.
psychedelicized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of psychedelicize
psychedelicizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of psychedelicize
psychedelicizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of psychedelicize
sophisto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sophistos
Etymology: Used in the invented slang in Anthony Burgess's dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange (1962).
Senses: examples: text: In the states, 99 per cent of my critics were socially conservative, right-wing people, who said I had a gay agenda, or that cities couldn't be built by `yuppies, sophistos, trendoids and gays,'" says Richard Florida.
ref: 2009 June 27, Murray Whyte, “Why Richard Florida's honeymoon is over”, in Toronto Star:
synonyms: word: faddist
word: trendite
word: Corinthian
word: faddist
word: fashionable
word: fashionist
word: fashionista
word: hepcat
word: hepster
word: hipster
word: sophisto
word: snappy dresser
word: trendite
word: trendy
word: voguie
word: swell
glosses: A trendy, sophisticated person; a hipster.
wikipedia: Anthony Burgess
sophistos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sophisto
mayorly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mayorly
form: most mayorly
Etymology: From mayor + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This was not what the mayorly ordinance required.
text: He had a mayorly appearance, but he spoke as if his mouth was full of oatmeal mush.
ref: 2011, Robert R. McCammon, Boy's Life:
glosses: That resembles, is appropriate for, or is related to a mayor.
funkified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more funkified
form: most funkified
Senses: examples: text: While a cover of "Papa Was A Rolling Stone" (#63, 1972) and several other increasingly funkified Undisputed Truth 45s cracked the pop and R & B listings, "Faces" proved to be the group's only top 40 showing.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 275:
glosses: Made funky; jazzed up.
unrespectability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + respectability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unrespectable.
smallball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From small + ball.
Senses: examples: text: There was no heroic ending — Toronto's Joey Votto coming up a triple shy of hitting for the cycle, and some brilliantly executed smallball saw to that — as the visitors claimed victory to avoid being swept in the three-game series.
ref: 2009 June 26, Mark Zwolinski, “Blue Jays rally gets wasted”, in Toronto Star:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Alternative spelling of small ball.
stickhandler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stickhandlers
Etymology: From stick + handler.
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
ice-hockey
lacrosse
lifestyle
skating
sports
qualifier: field hockey
glosses: A player who is skilled in stickhandling.
stickhandlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stickhandler
fingerpainter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fingerpainters
Etymology: From finger + painter.
Senses: examples: text: The 45-year-old makes pictures of city street life on his cell phone and is among a group of digital fingerpainters who are using emerging technologies to create art.
ref: 2009 June 25, Isabel Teotonio, “iBrushes with greatness”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: One who fingerpaints.
fingerpainters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fingerpainter
lapacho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A herbal tea made from the inner bark of the tree Handroanthus impetiginosus.
Derived terms: lapachol
lapachone
dub plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dub plates
Senses: examples: text: The sound systems – the mobile reggae discos with their own d.j.s, their "specials" and "dub plates" (specially recorded rhythms owned by the system), their own local followings – are networks of live wires and speakers, sounds and affects.
ref: 1988, Dick Hebdige, “Post-script 1: Vital Strategies”, in Hiding in the Light: On Images and Things (A Comedia Book), London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 1990, →ISBN, section 4 (Postmodernism and “The Other Side”), page 215:
text: Mikey Dread defined the dub plate as "a little pre-release of the thing before it gets to the streets. Back in those days we didn't have CD burners where you could just go and get a copy. You'd have to wait months. So, the dub plate was just taking the same procedure from the mastering room [of the record manufacturing plant] and they just cut this little thing they called an acetate. They cut it right there [in the recording studio]."
ref: 2007, Michael E. Veal, “‘Every Spoil is a Style’: The Evolution of Dub Music in the 1970s”, in Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae (Music/Culture), Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, page 51:
glosses: Alternative form of dubplate.
dub plates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dub plate (alternative form of dubplates)
governorly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more governorly
form: most governorly
Etymology: From governor + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The six-foot Governor did complain that the dummy was shorter than he was — presumably to make O'Rourke look more governorly by comparison.
ref: 1986, The New Yorker, volume 62:
glosses: That resembles, is appropriate for, or is related to a governor.
agrichar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From agri- + char, a US trademark.
Senses: examples: text: I've written before about biochar, or agrichar, or charcoal, or just plain char — it's all pretty much the same.
ref: 2009 June 22, Tyler Hamilton, “Sole option is to adapt, climate author says”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Biochar produced by a slow pyrolysis process.
unrecyclables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unrecyclable
nonrecycler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonrecyclers
Etymology: From non- + recycler.
Senses: glosses: A person who does not recycle his or her refuse.
nonrecyclers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonrecycler
nonrecycling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + recycling.
Senses: glosses: Not carrying out, or not relating to, recycling.
minibatches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minibatch
delever
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: delevers
form: delevering
form: delevered
form: delevered
Etymology: From de- + lever.
Senses: examples: text: Lenders forced the company to delever.
glosses: to reduce leverage, to pay back debts
Derived terms: deleverage
mogote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mogotes
Etymology: From Spanish mogote.
Senses: examples: text: Burkhard and Jeannette invited us on a hike through the surrounding area, through the tobacco fields and past the mogotes, limestone hills that look like they just popped up through the ground, many with flattened plateau tops.
ref: 2009 June 21, Wanda Praamsma, “Dour dad, prickly daughter: Trip together reveals deep bond”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: A generally isolated, steep-sided residual hill, composed of limestone, marble, or dolomite and surrounded by nearly flat alluvial plains.
mogotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mogote
superantiwetting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + antiwetting.
Senses: examples: text: These results can be used as a guide for designing and engineering durable superantiwetting surfaces..
ref: 2016, Yanshen Li, Cunjing Lv, David Quéré, Quanshui Zheng, “Monostable Superantiwettability”, in arXiv:
glosses: highly antiwetting
Related terms: superhydrophobic
plotwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From plot + work.
Senses: examples: text: Folks gobbled this book up because it packed intricate puzzles, propulsive plotwork, clammy paranoia, cheeky irreligiousness and armchair globetrotting into one teasingly easy-to-read brain snack.
ref: 2009 June 20, Geoff Pevere, “The Century So Far: Books”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: The workings of the plot of a literary work.
rarish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rarish
form: most rarish
Senses: examples: text: Both are "wow" wines and terrific with barbecued, slightly charred, rarish beef or lamb.
ref: 2009 June 20, Gord Stimmell, “How to raise dad's spirits on Father's Day”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Alternative form of rareish.
ungaudy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungaudy
form: most ungaudy
Etymology: From un- + gaudy.
Senses: glosses: Not gaudy.
uncolourability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + colourability.
Senses: examples: text: We introduce weak oddness #92;omega#95;#123;#92;textrmw#125;, a new measure of uncolourability of cubic graphs, defined as the least number of odd components in an even factor.
ref: 2016, Robert Lukoťka, Ján Mazák, “Weak oddness as an approximation of oddness and resistance in cubic graphs”, in arXiv:
glosses: British standard spelling of uncolorability.
stayaway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stayaways
Etymology: Deverbal from stay away.
Senses: hypernyms: labor action
industrial action
coordinate_terms: go-slow#Noun
lockout#Noun
slowdown#Noun
strike#Noun
stayout#Noun
walkout#Noun
glosses: A political protest in which participants do not attend their place of work.
glosses: One who avoids or stays away.
examples: text: The stayaways missed a goal feast, as Liverpool's Fernando Torres scored a hat trick in the first 17 minutes.
ref: 2009 June 15, “Empty seats abound at Cup opener”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: One who does not attend something, such as a sports match.
Related terms: no-call-no-show
no-show
stay-away
stayaways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stayaway
bloopy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bloopy
form: most bloopy
Etymology: From bloop + -y.
Senses: examples: text: With an appropriately bloopy soundtrack, this side-scroller is just as punishing as it was back in the day.
ref: 2009 July 4, Raju Mudhar, “My perfect 80s day off”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Characterised by a bloop sound.
rejog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rejogs
form: rejogging
form: rejogged
form: rejogged
Etymology: From re- + jog.
Senses: glosses: To jog (someone's memory) again.
rejogged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rejog
rejogs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rejog
rejogging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rejog
semirealistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From semirealistic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The material properties of the junk in Trash Panic are semirealistically modelled using the Havok physics engine […]
ref: 2009 July 4, Darren Zenko, “Take out the trash, Toronto”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: In a semirealistic manner.
boozeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From booze + -less.
Senses: examples: text: a boozeless party
glosses: Without alcohol.
Derived terms: boozelessness
rainslicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rainslickers
Etymology: From rain + slicker.
Senses: examples: text: The construction worker leaned over and the two men got me onto his back, piggyback style, and that sweet man in the yellow rainslicker took me down the street to my destination.
ref: 2009 July 3, “Kindness, by piggyback”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: A waterproof jacket to be worn in rainy weather.
rainslickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rainslicker
reannouncement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reannouncements
Etymology: From re- + announcement.
Senses: examples: text: There ought to be a Guinness record for the number of times a reannouncement is reannounced.
ref: 2009 July 2, James Travers, “Why Parliament Hill's gong show goes on”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: announcement again
reannouncements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reannouncement
difethialone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Blocks of rodent bait — difethialone — are also being placed in boxes. Dr. David McKeown, the city's medical officer of health, said there is no risk to the public or to family pets because the boxes are in fenced-in areas.
ref: 2009 June 30, “Chemicals sprayed to repel vermin”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: A particular anticoagulant used as a rodenticide.
Norco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Riverside County, California, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, United States.
incrementalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incrementalistic
form: most incrementalistic
Etymology: From incremental + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Or, or related to incrementalism.
unilateralistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unilateralistic
form: most unilateralistic
Etymology: From unilateral + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Of, or related to unilateralism.
right-size
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: right-sizes
form: right-sizing
form: right-sized
form: right-sized
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rightsize.
conapts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conapt
opanci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opanak
anchresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anchress
hispanomedievalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hispano- + medievalist.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the study of medieval Spain.
hispanomedievalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hispanomedievalists
Etymology: From hispano- + medievalist.
Senses: glosses: A scholar who studies medieval Spain.
Related terms: Hispanomedievalism
hispanomedievalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hispanomedievalist
Hispanomedievalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hispano- + medievalism.
Senses: glosses: The study of medieval Spain.
Related terms: hispanomedievalist
enchauntresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enchauntress
enchaunted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enchaunt
enchaunting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enchaunt
enchaunts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enchaunt
enchaunter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enchaunters
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of enchanter.
enchaunters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enchaunter
enchauntment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enchauntments
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of enchantment.
enchauntments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enchauntment
decans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decan
archaizingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more archaizingly
form: most archaizingly
Etymology: From archaizing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to archaize.
underdiscussed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underdiscussed
form: most underdiscussed
Etymology: From under- + discussed.
Senses: examples: text: There's one more symptom of morning sickness that I think is so important and so underdiscussed that I want to give it its own chapter, and that is depression.
ref: 2014, Elizabeth Kaledin, The Morning Sickness Companion:
glosses: That is not discussed enough.
underdiscussed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From under- + discussed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underdiscuss
longed-for
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: How was it for you, having me so close but without our longed-for touch?
ref: 2013, Marina de Nadous, Dry Dock:
glosses: That is longed for.
Related terms: hoped for
underdiscuss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underdiscusses
form: underdiscussing
form: underdiscussed
form: underdiscussed
Etymology: From under- + discuss.
Senses: examples: text: The tendency to portray independent voters as being a desirable constituency may have underdiscussed constitutive effects, especially for citizens who receive most of their political socialization from the media than from partisan families, […]
ref: 2005, Sharon E. Jarvis, The Talk of the Party: Political Labels, Symbolic Capital, and American Life:
glosses: To not discuss enough.
underdiscusses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underdiscuss
underdiscussing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underdiscuss
Cromwell's rule
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named by statistician Dennis Lindley, in reference to Oliver Cromwell, who wrote in 1650: "I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you may be mistaken."
Senses: glosses: A rule stating that the use of prior probabilities of 0 or 1 should be avoided, except when applied to statements that are logically true or false, so as to leave room for the possibility that something very unlikely is in fact the case.
wikipedia: Oliver Cromwell
roastability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From roast + -ability.
Senses: glosses: Suitability for roasting.
therapee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: therapees
Etymology: From therapy + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: Being Erica: Though not perhaps technically a traditional "sitcom," it is a rather unique situation and often very deftly comic, courtesy of Michael Riley and breakout star Erin Karpluk, as a time-travelling therapist and therapee, along with Kathy Laskey and John Boylen as her parents.
ref: 2009 July 5, Rob Salem, “Been there, done that, seen it all? Here are a few surprises”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: One who undergoes therapy; the patient of a therapist.
therapees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of therapee
runtiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of runty: most runty
runtier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of runty: more runty
oversurveillance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + surveillance.
Senses: glosses: An excessive degree of surveillance.
walkoff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: walkoffs
Senses: examples: text: Fifteen minutes after Pat Burrell's 11th-inning walkoff homer off Brandon League handed the Jays a 3-1 loss last night, Jays starting pitcher Marc Rzepczynski pulled on his shirt, oblivious to the cluster of reporters inching closer to his locker.
ref: 2009 July 8, Morgan Campbell, “Jays sunk by Burrell HR”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Alternative form of walk-off.
walkoffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of walkoff
blogification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blog + -ification.
Senses: examples: text: Here's how trade rumours can get started in this era of instant blogification.
ref: 2009 July 8, Richard Griffin, “Don't panic Jays fans, Roy Halladay stays for now”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Conversion into the form of a weblog.
dreampop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Fast becoming a sensation in the blogosphere, the latest persona of Austin-based Alan Palomo (best known from the electropop outfit Vega), this vaguely melancholy, synth-powered bit of dreampop comes off like a cross between MGMT and Todd Rundgren.
ref: 2009 July 18, John Sakamoto, “The Anti-Hit List”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Alternative form of dream pop.
linksy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more linksy
form: most linksy
Etymology: From links + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Ames agrees with the general early assessment of Turnberry, that it's not quite completely linksy, with some forced carries, particularly on the par-3s, and requires particularly straight driving because the rough is up (and usually wet) and 22 new bunkers have been added, many at go-or-no-go distances, to swallow up the timid or at least steer them the long way around.
ref: 2009 July 15, Dave Perkins, “Ames ready to break out”, in Toronto Star:
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Characteristic of a links (golf course situated on dunes near the sea).
bootstep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bootsteps
Etymology: From boot + step.
Senses: examples: text: It feels like every plodding jungle bootstep of Che and his band of rebels is shown, but we never really get to know the man whose face launched a million T-shirts.
ref: 2009 July 14, “DVD REVIEWS”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: A footstep taken while wearing boots.
bootsteps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bootstep
cerinthe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cerinthes
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any member of the genus Cerinthe of vascular plants in the family Boraginaceae.
cerinthes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cerinthe
Kshatriya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kshatriyas
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of kshatriya.
Kshatriyas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kshatriya
thowght
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thowghts
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of thought.
thowghts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thowght
growthless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From growth + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Who were they planning on creaming first in a jobless, growthless recovery?
ref: 2009 July 13, Armine Yalnizyan, “Harper impatient to resume his assault on government”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Devoid of growth.
Derived terms: growthlessness
throater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throaters
Etymology: From throat + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who cuts open the throat and belly of a fish.
Related terms: deep-throater
throaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of throater
deep-throater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deep-throaters
Etymology: From deep-throat + -er.
Senses: examples: text: She was an exquisite deep-throater. I could actually feel the very back of her throat; a mildly strange but not entirely unpleasant sensation which aroused me even more.
ref: 2006, Gerrie Lim, In Lust We Trust: Adventures in Adult Cinema, page 1952:
text: Well, she was a deep-throater, took it all the way in.
ref: 2008, Tennessee Williams, Annette J. Saddik, The Traveling Companion and Other Plays, page 99:
topics: lifestyle
sex
sexuality
glosses: Someone who deep-throats.
examples: text: New York is becoming a frontier town all over again." Now, in the puritanical frontier town in Arizona where I spent a life puzzling out good-and-bad, one was permitted to be a deep-throater, or a phony, or— left unchecked— even a publisher.
ref: 1973, Newsweek - Volume 82, Issues 19-27, page 17:
text: Finally, no fearless deep-throater choked out this story; ROM officials told me as much as they were able to piece together.
ref: 1976, Charles Bruce Sissons, Richard De Brisay, The Canadian Forum - Volume 56, page 11:
text: These are extreme and unorthodox measures and adopted only after a frustrating exchange with one of my normally reliable deep-throaters. The national polls, he told me, are next to useless.
ref: 2001, The Bulletin - Issues 6300-6306:
glosses: An anonymous informant; a Deep Throat.
deep-throaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deep-throater
houseboating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From houseboat + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The sprawling blue lake in B.C.'s North Okanagan region is the houseboating capital of Canada.
ref: 2009 July 25, Jeremy Ferguson, “Whiling away the days on a voyage of discovery”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: The practice of living and/or travelling in a houseboat.
unproveable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unproveable
form: most unproveable
Senses: examples: text: He suspects it was an altogether different virus the second time round (but that's also unproveable).
ref: 2009 July 25, Lynda Hurst, “How scared should we be?”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Alternative form of unprovable.
technorganic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From techno- + organic.
Senses: examples: text: Human — only better, according to Rashid — "smart, reactive, biogenetic, polymorphous, nanomechanical, technorganic and perfectly recyclable."
ref: 2009 July 25, Derick Chetty, “Pretty in Plastic”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Combining technological and organic features.
stereoscopics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Even on my sadly outdated standard-def television, and even with the pronounced right-eye dominance that's generally kept me from fully appreciating 3D effects, the stereoscopics of G-Force come through.
ref: 2009 July 25, Darren Zenko, “When the fur flies - straight at you”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: The use of stereoscopy.
stealthed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stealth
stealthing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From stealth + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stealth
stealthing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stealth + -ing.
Senses: examples: 2012 'Poz' lover lied to fulfill fantasy
However it’s hard to tell the truth from fantasy in the chats, which don’t include Boone talking of killing anyone, defence lawyer Ian Carter put to Lapointe. “During these hundreds of pages as part of that sexual fantasy of chasing, stealthing, pozzing or whatever you want to call it, he never indicates he wants to kill anyone?” Ian Carter asked her. “That’s correct,” said Lapointe, noting Boone does talk about giving people HIV and people dying of the disease.
2017, Stealthing: Man explains why he takes off his condom during sex, The Independent
He doesn’t see stealthing as breaking an agreement made before sex and seems not to care at all about violating the rights of his partner
2017, Stealthing isn’t a ‘sex trend’. It’s sexual assault – and it happened to me, The Guardian
“Stealthing” is the pop culture name to describe a “new sex trend” reported to be “on the rise”. It refers to the act of deliberately removing a condom during sex without your partner’s knowledge or consent.
topics: lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: The practice of removing a condom during sex, without a partner's knowledge or consent.
Related terms: baby trap
spermjacking
thromboid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thromb- + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a thrombus
thromboid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thromboids
Etymology: From thromb- + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of thrombus.
synonyms: word: thrombus
cavernoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cavernomas
form: cavernomata
Etymology: From cavern + -oma.
Senses: glosses: cavernous hemangioma: a vascular tumor with large blood-filled spaces
Related terms: cavernomatosis
cavernomatous
cavernomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cavernoma
cavernomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cavernoma
shakerful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shakerfuls
Etymology: From shaker + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: A flourish of trumpets and a shakerful of stardust to welcome Jeff Irving into the role.
ref: 2009 July 28, Richard Ouzounian, “Robin Hood, stolen from Sherwood Forest”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: A sufficient quantity to fill a shaker.