cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
repitches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repitch
repitched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repitch
percenters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of percenter
whalesongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whalesong
spadger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spadgers
Etymology: Originally British dialect (1850s), from spadge (fronted variant of northern dialect spag) + -er. The northern dialect term spag is a derhoticised form of Scots spurg (“sparrow”), from spur (from Old Norse spǫrr (“sparrow”), suffixless cognate of Old English spearwa) + diminutive suffix -ock, with loss of vowel and voicing of -k to -g after r.
Senses: examples: text: Genuine cockney ‘spadgers’ have appeared at Bulli. The little hoppers are spreading rapidly all over the colony.
ref: 1884 September 24, The Newcastle Morning Herald, Newcastle, NSW, page 3, column 7:
text: The broadcasting blokes are twittering away like spadgers over there.
ref: 1961, Margery Allingham, Three cases for Mr. Campion, page 82:
text: 'If you think spadgers is easy,' the father said, 'go get yourself a jenny wren. Jenny wrens is 'alf the size of spadgers and they never sit still for one second. Get yourself a jenny wren before you start shootin' yer mouth off about 'ow clever you is.'
ref: 1977, Roald Dahl, The Swan:
glosses: A sparrow.
examples: text: He laughs and says, “My, you sure talk brash, for such a little spadger.”
ref: 1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug:
glosses: A boy.
spadgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ædʒəz
Senses: glosses: plural of spadger
spazzer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spazzers
Etymology: From spastic. See -er.
Senses: examples: text: None of the staff thought it was much fun, but the spazzers cheered up no end.
ref: 1991, Terry Johnson, Imagine drowning, page 19:
text: A PC isn't a console you spazzer gaylord
ref: 2003, mrgoat, “Which is the best console overall”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet):
text: "You accusing my mum of breeding a load of spazzers?"
ref: 2008, Patt Scott, Police Surgeon: Lethal Deception, page 5:
glosses: A mentally retarded person.
Related terms: spack
spacker
spaz
spazz
spazzers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spazzer
decarbonization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːkɑːbənaɪˈzeɪʃən/
Forms: form: decarbonizations
form: decarbonisation
Etymology: From decarbonize + -ation or de- + carbonization.
Senses: examples: text: But we spend over $5 trillion globally on fossil fuel subsidies and these would be freed up for this task of decarbonization if we forgo fossil fuel. So cost doesn’t have to be the big issue we think it is.
ref: 2020 September 7, James Conca, “Managers Of $40 Trillion Make Plans To Decarbonize The World”, in Forbes:
synonyms: decarburization[iron]] or steel>
decarbonation
coordinate_terms: recarbonization
glosses: The act or process of decarbonizing.
coordinate_terms: decarbonation
reoxygenation
glosses: The process of arterialization of the blood by oxygenation and the removal of carbon dioxide in the lungs.
decarbonizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decarbonization
deoptimize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deoptimizes
form: deoptimizing
form: deoptimized
form: deoptimized
Etymology: From de- + optimize.
Senses: glosses: To make less than optimal.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To reverse a previous optimization, typically when the assumptions that made it valid prove to be incorrect.
Related terms: deoptimization
deoptimizer
deoptimizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deoptimize
deoptimizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deoptimize
deoptimization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deoptimizations
Etymology: From deoptimize + -ation, de- + optimization?
Senses: glosses: The act or process of deoptimizing.
deoptimizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deoptimization
decompilations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decompilation
rematerialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rematerializes
form: rematerializing
form: rematerialized
form: rematerialized
Etymology: From re- + materialize.
Senses: examples: text: The spaceship was rematerializing around all of us.
ref: 1995, Margaret Simpson, Strange Orbit, page 68:
glosses: To reappear in material form, having previously dematerialized.
examples: text: "So, I'll need you to look at the nth field targeting so when the object dematerializes from here, we can rematerialize it there."
ref: 2016, A.K. Brown, Jumpstart (Champagne Universe Series: Book 1), page 15:
glosses: To make material again; to restore physical form to.
Related terms: dematerialize
dematerialization
materialize
materialization
rematerialization
rematerializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rematerialize
rematerializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rematerialize
rematerialized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rematerialize
rematerialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rematerializations
form: rematerialisation
Etymology: From rematerialize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of rematerializing.
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A compiler optimization that saves time by recomputing a value instead of loading it from memory.
rematerializations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rematerialization
fuel poverty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The inability of a household to keep adequately warm at a reasonable cost.
Related terms: fuel-poor
fuel-poor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fuel-poor
form: most fuel-poor
Senses: glosses: Unable to keep one's dwelling adequately warm at a reasonable cost.
Related terms: fuel poverty
clockworklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clockworklike
form: most clockworklike
Etymology: From clockwork + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Particularly prose writers have found it possible to set up a disciplined routine enabling them to work with clockworklike punctuality and regularity.
ref: 1980, Carl Abraham Daniel Fehrman, Poetic Creation, page 138:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of clockwork; with mechanical regularity.
gavver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gavvers
Etymology: From Romani [Term?].
Senses: examples: text: "Yeah, the gavvers were after Dad for a bunch of stuff he'd done years ago — fake license plates, stolen cars, that dodgy Range Rover deal he had going..."
ref: 2007, Kevin Brooks, The Road of the Dead, page 177:
text: The gavver in the car had really rattled him.
ref: 2009, Kate Wild, Fight Game, Book 1, page 28:
glosses: A member of the police.
Synonyms: cop
rozzer
gavvers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gavver
clockworky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clockworky
form: most clockworky
Etymology: From clockwork + -y.
Senses: examples: text: ...its innards hummed and buzzed, clicked and purred, whizzed and clacked and whirred, and made other annoying clockworky noises...
ref: 1988, Lin Carter, Callipygia, page 122:
text: He had cleared it of springs, tubes, coils and clockworky bits for the occasion.
ref: 2006, Howard Whitehouse, Bill Slavin, The Strictest School in the World, page 150:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of clockwork.
pinpointable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pinpoint + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being pinpointed (located precisely).
Derived terms: unpinpointable
keynoted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of keynote
keynoting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of keynote
noninfrastructural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + infrastructural.
Senses: glosses: Not infrastructural.
intercollege
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + college.
Senses: glosses: Between colleges.
Synonyms: intercollegiate
interterritorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + territorial.
Senses: glosses: Between territories.
Derived terms: interterritorially
interterritorially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From interterritorial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Between territories.
intertaxonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + taxonic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of intertaxon.
carpal tunnel syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: form of repetitive strain injury caused by compression of the median nerve travelling through the carpal tunnel.
Synonyms: CTS
median nerve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: median nerves
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A nerve in the upper limb in humans and other animals, formed from parts of the medial and lateral cords of the brachial plexus, and compression of which in the carpal tunnel of the wrist causes carpal tunnel syndrome.
median nerves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of median nerve
multiparter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiparters
Etymology: From multipart + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Another multiparter involved Lassie being trapped on a truck and having to find her way hundreds of miles to the Martin farm.
ref: 1993, Ace Collins, Lassie: A Dog's Life: The First Fifty Years, page 147:
glosses: A work, such as an article or television broadcast, in multiple parts published sequentially.
multiparters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multiparter
carpal tunnel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carpal tunnels
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: carpal canal
glosses: A fibro-osseous passageway on the palmar side of the wrist that connects the distal forearm to the middle compartment of the deep plane of the palm.
examples: text: He played that rhythm game so much he got carpal tunnel.
glosses: Clipping of carpal tunnel syndrome.
Derived terms: carpal tunnel syndrome
carpal tunnels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carpal tunnel
carpal canal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carpal canals
Senses: glosses: carpal tunnel
carpal canals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carpal canal
overcrowdedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more overcrowdedly
form: most overcrowdedly
Etymology: From overcrowded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Yet some may feel that Strindberg became rather overcrowdedly multitudinous.
ref: 1962, Frank Laurence Lucas, The drama of Ibsen and Strindberg, page 308:
glosses: In an overcrowded manner.
enticingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From enticing + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Not until our girl-children cease from playing with dolls and from looking at their own enticingness in mirrors, will woman ever be otherwise than what she has always been: first, the mother, second, the mate of man.
ref: 1915, Jack London, The Little Lady of the Big House, page 24:
glosses: The quality of being enticing.
Synonyms: allure
undercrowded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From under- + crowded.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undercrowd
undercrowded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undercrowded
form: most undercrowded
Etymology: From under- + crowded.
Senses: examples: text: Both the overcrowded American city and the undercrowded suburb are artificial communities, their cohesiveness destroyed to a large extent by the automobile.
ref: 1973, “Vehicle for Revolution”, in Harper's magazine, volume 247, page 77:
glosses: Without a sufficiently large crowd; underpopulated or underattended.
frenziedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From frenzied + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being frenzied.
ideogrammatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ideogrammatically
form: most ideogrammatically
Etymology: From ideogrammatic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of, or by means of, ideograms.
libertyless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more libertyless
form: most libertyless
Etymology: From liberty + -less.
Senses: examples: text: […] the suppression of private enterprise and the gradual drift towards a libertyless industrial feudalism.
ref: 1943, W.H. Hutt, Plan for Reconstruction:
glosses: Without liberty.
Synonyms: freedomless
unfree
skillo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more skillo
form: most skillo
Etymology: From skill + -o.
Senses: examples: text: Dan Dare's back, and what a completely skillo follow-up to the original.
ref: 1988, Dan Dare II (video game review in Your Sinclair issue 27, March 1988)
text: Win A Mountain. Ooops, sorry, that should read win a Mountain Bike - gosh wow a brilliant skillo give away if ever there was.
ref: 1990 January, “Competitions”, in Sinclair User, number 94:
text: Anyway, I love the Jet Set Radio soundtrack (as well as the game) and in particular the tracks by Guitar Vader. So after a bunch of web browsing I found Guitar Vader are selling their skillo album 'Die Happy' on Mp3.com*^([sic]).
ref: 2001, Tinman, “Lazy and stupid : Help me do my shopping”, in alt.digitiser (Usenet):
glosses: great, excellent
skillions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skillion
scramblingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more scramblingly
form: most scramblingly
Etymology: From scrambling + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: His leap brought him scramblingly down on all fours, out of the truck's way, but on the wrong side of the thoroughfare.
ref: 1919, Albert Payson Terhune, Lad: A Dog:
glosses: With a scrambling motion.
mindlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mindlike
form: most mindlike
Etymology: From mind + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a mind; capable of thought etc.
face like a bag of spanners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faces like bags of spanners
Senses: examples: text: Everyone is used to it now, David and Victoria Beckham are the King and Queen of the tabloids and every half-decent footballer is a star and a pin-up, even if he's got a face like a bag of spanners.
ref: 2006, Robbie Fowler, David Maddock, Fowler: My Autobiography, page 105:
text: More wrinkles than a tortoise, face like a bag of spanners.
ref: 2009, Ron Clooney, A Measure of Wheat for a Penny, page 275:
glosses: A very ugly face.
aerobiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aerobiologists
Etymology: From aero- + biologist.
Senses: glosses: A biologist specializing in aerobiology.
aerobiologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aerobiologist
ideogrammatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ideogrammatic
form: most ideogrammatic
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to ideograms.
Derived terms: ideogrammatically
castewise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From caste + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In terms of caste.
castewise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From caste + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In terms of caste.
castest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of cast
glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of cast
interesters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interester
clawingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more clawingly
form: most clawingly
Etymology: From clawing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He held one gigantic hand in front of her eyes so she could see it and smell it, then rammed it clawingly down her dress front.
ref: 1970, Alice Walker, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, page 100:
text: It was May now and summer was on the ascent, the nights were warm but not yet clawingly humid and the constant South Dakota breeze was strangely absent tonight.
ref: 2004, Jennifer Marshall, The Christie Legacy, page 288:
glosses: With a clawing motion; with a sharp, raking grip.
prosecutive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prosecutive
form: most prosecutive
Etymology: From prosecute + -ive.
Senses: examples: 1993, United States Department of Justice, Report to the Deputy Attorney General on the Events at Waco, Texas
Following the ATF raid, the prosecutive focus shifted to-building cases against any Branch Davidians who were responsible for killing and wounding ATF agents, or attempting to do so, during the two shootouts on February 28.
topics: law
glosses: Of or pertaining to prosecution.
Related terms: prosecutive case
scratchingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more scratchingly
form: most scratchingly
Etymology: From scratching + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a scratching motion or action.
nonprosecutive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + prosecutive.
Senses: glosses: Not prosecutive.
information warfare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: And in each case, they spoke about how the old tools of information warfare—radio channels, television shows, leaflets, letters—have now been joined by digital tools that make it more powerful.
ref: 2018, Carl Miller, chapter 6, in The Death of the Gods […] , William Heinemann, →ISBN:
glosses: The use and management of information in pursuit of an advantage over an opponent, such as propaganda, disinformation, and gathering assurances that one's own information is accurate.
Synonyms: infowar
sky parlor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sky parlors
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sky parlour.
sky parlour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sky parlours
form: sky parlor
Senses: glosses: A garret.
sky parlours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sky parlour
sky parlors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sky parlor
saladless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From salad + -less.
Senses: examples: text: In the early years of this century most Americans did not question the meaty, starchy, saladless national diet.
ref: 1993, Helen Nearing, Loving and Leaving the Good Life, page 26:
glosses: Without salad.
prosecutive case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prosecutive cases
Senses: examples: text: They are not compared in the usual sense of the word, but the comparative and superlative are sometimes expressed by using the ablative or prosecutive case, sometimes by using specific participles, and sometimes by adding a diminutive or argumentative, as the case may be.
ref: 1971, Anthropological Institute of Great Britain, The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 24, Ireland:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A special form of the prolative case used to describe movement along a surface or way.
impartment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impartments
Etymology: From impart + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: It [the ghost of Hamlet’s father] beckons you to go away with it,
As if it some impartment did desire
To you alone.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
text: 1673, Nathaniel Wanley, The Wonders of the Little World, London: T. Basset et al., Book 4, Chapter 22 “Of the Ignorance of the Ancients, and others,” p. 401,
It is not therefore the design of this Chapter to uncover the nakedness of our Fathers, so as to expose it to the petulancy of any, but rather to congratulate those further accessions of light and improvements in knowledge, which these latter Ages have attained unto, and to celebrate the wisdom and goodness of the great Creator, who hath not been so liberal in his impartments to our Progenitours, but that he hath reserved something wherewith to gratifie the modest inquiries, and industrious researches of after-times.
text: […] no slaveholding reader has any right to expect the impartment of such information.
ref: 1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 21, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York; Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC, part I (Life as a Slave), page 322:
text: In proportion to an actor’s knowledge of human nature and human experience,—knowledge that he has assimilated through observation, thought, and suffering,—is the value of his artistic impartment to the world.
ref: 1910, William Winter, chapter 1, in Life and Art of Richard Mansfield, volume I, New York: Moffat, Yard & Co, page 25:
text: A psychiatrist has been held liable for consequent damages following the impartment of his diagnosis or of confidential information gained during treatment to third parties.
ref: 1973, Donald J. Dawidoff, chapter 3, in The Malpractice of Psychiatrists, Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, pages 33–34:
glosses: The act of imparting something, or the thing imparted; disclosure.
unsearched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + searched.
Senses: glosses: Not having been searched.
terrorless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more terrorless
form: most terrorless
Etymology: From terror + -less.
Senses: examples: text: How calm and sweet the victories of life, / How terrorless the triumph of the grave!
ref: 1813, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Canto VI”, in Queen Mab; […], London: […] P. B. Shelley, […], →OCLC, page 76:
glosses: Not causing terror; unfrightening.
crusht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crush
dasht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dash
eatathon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eatathons
Etymology: From eat + -athon.
Senses: glosses: A charity event in which participants eat as much as possible.
examples: text: So I gave myself a week's reprieve and started another eatathon.
ref: 1982, Barbara Zara, Erin McHugh, I left my fat behind, page 14:
text: Our recommendation is to tote the excess home in a doggie bag so you can indulge in the dessert, the Queen of Sheba, an eatathon consisting of a rich chocolate base, mounds of whipped cream, and a guilt complex.
ref: 1983 March, Texas Monthly, volume 11, number 3, page 49:
text: Typically, Americans eat a very substantial portion of the day's calories at the evening meal, and then continue an evening "eatathon" in front of the tube.
ref: 1992, Sue Gebo, What's left to eat?, page 151:
glosses: A large feast or pigout.
fuckathon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuckathons
Etymology: From fuck + -athon.
Senses: examples: text: College was sort of fun. I had a friend named Sue who had a Fuckathon with her boyfriend.
 Q. A Fuckathon?
A. They fucked each other until one of them gave out. Sue gave out first, I think.
ref: 1973, Tamsin Fitzgerald, Tamsin, Doubleday, page 122:
text: "Now, you can lie all you want, but you can't deny all those fuckathons made us a baby, sugar. A baby you didn't want."
ref: 1996, JoAnn Ross, Southern Comforts, page 303:
text: Three days a month became a nonstop fuckathon. He'd had these visions of himself as an oil derrick made of flesh, pumping endlessly and joylessly away.
ref: 2009, Marcus Sakey, Good People:
glosses: A prolonged period of sexual intercourse.
fuckathons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuckathon
hikeathon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hikeathons
Etymology: From hike + -athon.
Senses: glosses: A charity event in which participants go hiking.
hikeathons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hikeathon
salle d'armes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salles d'armes
Etymology: From French salle d'armes.
Senses: examples: text: To the fencing masters and the thousands of amateurs frequenting the salles d'armes of Paris, Saint-Georges personified the art of fencing...
ref: 2006, Gabriel Banat, The Chevalier de Saint-Georges: virtuoso of the sword and the bow:
glosses: A hall or room used for fencing.
Synonyms: salle
trouser department
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the trouser department
Senses: examples: text: From what Mel had said about Garth's attributes in the trouser department, he'd keep falling over his own equipment.
ref: 1991, Maeve Haran, Having It All:
text: Rose wondered if there was something wrong with him in the trouser department. There was a thing her father used to say about boys pulling their foreskin back or it wouldn't work properly when the time came.
ref: 1997, Alina Reyes, David Watson, Behind Closed Doors:
text: The Hummersexual is a man so devoid of attractiveness, and so lacking in the trouser department that he only has a chance of getting laid by getting behind the wheel of the biggest, most ridiculously oversized and overpriced passenger vehicle money can buy
ref: 2009, Kate Copstick, Jamie Maclean, Sex and the Recession:
text: And I know the location of a treasure so splendid that just breathing its name in your ear will bring tears of joy to your eyes and a definite bulge in the trouser department.
ref: 2010, Simon R. Green, The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny:
glosses: A man's penis, or its attributes.
berryish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more berryish
form: most berryish
Etymology: From berry + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The red, mostly merlot but with dollops of cabernet sauvignon and cabernet franc, is berryish, beefy, concentrated and soft.
ref: 2009 August 23, Howard G. Goldberg, “The Nautical Spirit”, in New York Times:
glosses: Tasting like berries (especially in describing wine).
glosses: Otherwise berrylike.
spittal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spittals
Senses: glosses: lands the revenues of which supported a hospital or the site of a hospital
glosses: a house or place of refuge for the sick, especially one for patients with contagious diseases
glosses: a shelter built along roads in 16th and 17th century Scotland as a shelter from wolf attacks
spittals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spittal
ingraves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ingrave
gazoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gazoon
miny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /maɪni/
Forms: form: more miny
form: most miny
Etymology: From mine + -y.
Senses: glosses: Of or resembling a mine.
glosses: Rich in mines.
miny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /maɪni/
/mɪni/
/maɪni/
Forms: form: more miny
form: most miny
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of many, representing African-American Vernacular English.
Related terms: eeny, meeny, miny, moe
pearler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pearlers
Etymology: From pearl + -er.
Senses: glosses: A pearl diver.
glosses: A boat used in pearl fishing.
glosses: A machine for pearling grain.
pearler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pearlers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of purler (“something extremely good”).
pearlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pearler
belabouredly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more belabouredly
form: most belabouredly
Etymology: From belaboured + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a belaboured fashion.
belaboredly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more belaboredly
form: most belaboredly
Etymology: From belabored + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of belabouredly.
quoter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: quoters
Etymology: From quote + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Irenaeus is described by Dr. Tregelles 'as a close and careful quoter in general from the New Testament' [Endnote 49:2].
ref: 1876, William Sanday, The Gospels in the Second Century:
text: Every man is, according to Mr. Hunt, a dull potato-eating blockhead--of no greater value to God or man than any ox or dray-horse--who is not an admirer of Voltaire's romans, a worshipper of Lord Holland and Mr. Haydon and a quoter of John Buncle and Chaucer's Flower and Leaf.
ref: 1914, R. Brimley Johnson, editor, Famous Reviews:
text: Even before he began attending services at Harmony Community Baptist--just a few doors down South Millard from the house where he and Eula lived for decades--he'd been a "very good quoter of the Bible," Eula says, and in short order he became a deacon.
ref: 2005 November 18, David Whiteis, “A Proper Good-bye”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Someone who quotes.
quiverful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quiverfuls
form: quiversful
Etymology: From quiver + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: In the presence of the two delegations the mediating Governor had taken an arrow and shown them with what ease it could be broken; then how impossible he found it to break a quiverful of arrows, thus demonstrating the strength in union.
ref: 1904, Charles Egbert Craddock, The Frontiersmen:
text: Long-hafted, slender, bone-barbed throwing-spears lay along the gunwale of the canoe, while a quiverful of arrows hung on each man's back.
ref: 1911, Jack London, Adventure:
glosses: The amount held by a quiver
examples: text: The farm of Sheridan Lawrence, exhibiting its wide-stretching wheat-fields, some heads of which counted seventy-one kernels, with its patches of one-pound potatoes, twelve-foot sunflowers, and its quiverful of happy, tow-headed children, gives as sweet a picture of Canadian thrift and happiness as one would wish to see.
ref: 1909, Agnes Deans Cameron, The New North:
glosses: A large amount.
Related terms: Quiverfull
unpierced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pierced.
Senses: examples: text: There was not one of these left standing unpierced by bullets.
ref: 1885, Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete:
text: When he was rushed back to the hospital two weeks ago the Sun-Times referred to the unpierced "veil of secrecy" that has surrounded him since his stroke in March.
ref: 2006 June 23, Michael Miner, “There Oughta Be a Law; Small Victories”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: not pierced
quiverfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quiverful
quiversful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quiverful
quoters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quoter
heartwarmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heartwarmers
Senses: examples: text: As much as that, though, getting into the competition would be a way for him to change the channel from a story that suddenly switched from a heartwarmer to a heartbreaker.
ref: 2009 October 7, Larry Dorman, “Amid Setbacks, Norman Focuses on Presidents Cup”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of heart-warmer.
heartwarmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heartwarmer
crackows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crackow
turkies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turkie
examples: text: ...another man passes the same period, and then the learned doctor sends an elaborate essay to a society, stating that the last ten years of his life have been devoted to a laborious comparison of geese and turkies, which has produced in his mind the conviction that the goose is a calumniated bird, the turkey being infinitely more stupid.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 314:
glosses: plural of turkey
clerklings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clerkling
nonopposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + opposition.
Senses: examples: text: As we discussed earlier in this chapter, moving critical stakeholders to a position of nonopposition is often the best outcome that can be obtained.
ref: 1997, Carol J. Forrest, Renee Hix Mays, The practical guide to environmental community relations, page 232:
text: The adjudicator must recalendar a case where the parties file a joint motion to recalendar or where the nonmoving party “affirmatively indicates” a nonopposition, unless they articulate “unusual, clearly identified, and supported reasons” for denying the motion.
ref: 2025 July 24, Kate Mahoney and Merle Kahn, “RESPONDING TO DHS MOTIONS TO RECALENDAR”, in Immigrant Legal Resource Center, archived from the original on 25 Sep 2025, page 2:
glosses: Absence of opposition.
supercontrolled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supercontrolled
form: most supercontrolled
Etymology: From super- + controlled.
Senses: glosses: Subject to a very high degree of control.
undisposed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + disposed.
Senses: examples: text: When Wedderburn left him Edward felt undisposed to go back to Mrs. Kavanagh's, and he wandered on past the Public Gardens with their really beautiful trees into the San Salvador.
ref: 1952, Laurence Meynell, Danger Round the Corner:
glosses: Not disposed; uninclined.
glosses: Not sold, allocated, or otherwise arranged.
unforgetful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + forgetful.
Senses: glosses: not forgetful
Synonyms: elephantlike
tenacious
memorious
Derived terms: unforgetfully
noncreditor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noncreditors
Etymology: From non- + creditor.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a creditor.
noncreditors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noncreditor
noncredited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + credited.
Senses: glosses: Not credited.
unhomely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhomely
form: most unhomely
Etymology: From un- + homely.
Senses: examples: text: In the dim unhomely light
 Of the early morningtide,
He took the triple key
 And he laid it by his side.
ref: 1898, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Passing (poem):
glosses: not homely
nondemarcated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + demarcated.
Senses: glosses: Not demarcated.
nonopposing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + opposing.
Senses: examples: text: Mock equilibration involved grinding nonopposing and nonsupporting tooth surfaces and was used as a control treatment with four patients.
ref: 1985, Reid J. Daitzman, Diagnosis and intervention in behavior therapy and behavioral medicine, Volume 2, page 62:
text: Ten nonopposing and noncoplanar beams coming from various incident directions converge on the demarcated tumor target.
ref: 2010, Harvey I. Pass, David P. Carbone, David H. Johnson, Principles and Practice of Lung Cancer, page 68:
glosses: Not opposing.
tone of voice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tones of voice
Senses: examples: text: Something in John's tone of voice was coming back to haunt me, and at that moment I realized I'd been had.
ref: 2011, Hartley Pool, Stranger in Taiwan:
synonyms: intonation
tone
glosses: The quality, manner, or way someone speaks.
unrandom
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrandom
form: most unrandom
Etymology: From un- + random.
Senses: examples: text: Death was distributed with an entirely unrandom hand in the war; it was exacted by bombs that, if pointed at you, gave you little chance of a chance at all.
ref: 1991, Fred Inglis, The cruel peace: everyday life in the Cold War, page 304:
glosses: Not random.
randomizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From randomize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being randomized.
murras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of murra
homogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌhoʊmoʊˈd͡ʒɛnəsɪs/
Etymology: From homo- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
antonyms: heterogenesis
glosses: A method of reproduction in which the parents and offspring are alike.
Derived terms: word: homogenetic
Related terms: homogeneous
homogeneousness
homogenous
homogeny
rerandomize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rerandomizes
form: rerandomizing
form: rerandomized
form: rerandomized
Etymology: From re- + randomize.
Senses: glosses: To randomize again or anew.
Related terms: rerandomizable
rerandomization
rerandomized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rerandomize
rerandomizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rerandomize
rerandomizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rerandomize
rerankings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reranking
rerandomization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rerandomizations
Etymology: From re- + randomization.
Senses: glosses: Randomization again or anew.
Related terms: rerandomize
rerandomizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rerandomization
semiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌsimaɪˈɒləd͡ʒɪst/
/ˌsɛmaɪˈɒləd͡ʒɪst/
Forms: form: semiologists
form: semeiologist
Etymology: From semiology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who practices or studies semiology.
semiologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semiologist
cuntlicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuntlickers
Etymology: From cunt + licker.
Senses: examples: text: You are nothing, just a paid cuntlicker.
ref: 1992, William Gill, Sugar and Spice, page 57:
text: "Hormone heifers . . . dykes . . . pussy-sniffing cuntlickers." "Hormone heifers," Rudy chuckled. "That's one I never heard before." The boy had a way with words, Rudy reflected, but he saw no real humor in Wayne Ed's words.
ref: 1995, Adrian C. Louis, Skins:
synonyms: cunnilinguist
qualifier: very uncommon
glosses: One who gives cunnilingus.
examples: text: 'You miserable little cuntlicker,' he said. 'You take that back!' Don Bueno shouted at him, tightening his fists.
ref: 1984, Zulfikar Ghose, Don Bueno, page 29:
glosses: A contemptible person.
cuntlickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuntlicker
boxless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From box + -less.
Senses: examples: a boxless manufacturing mould
glosses: Without a box.
Derived terms: boxlessness
packman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: packmen
Etymology: From pack + -man.
Senses: examples: text: Wildeve was standing with his back to the fireplace smoking a cigar; and the promoter of the raffle, a packman from a distant town, was expatiating upon the value of the fabric as material for a summer dress.
ref: 1912, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native:
text: L Beneath love's heavy weight my falt'ring soul Plods, like the packman, o'er life's dusty road.
ref: 1900, Various, Japanese Literature:
text: Magneezhy was in an awful case; if he had been already shot, he could not have looked more clay and corpse-like; so I took up a douce earnest confabulation, while the stramash was drawing to a bloody conclusion, with Mr Harry Molasses, the fourth in the spree, who was standing behind Bloatsheet with a large mahogany box under his arm, something in shape like that of a licensed packman, ganging about from house to house, through the country-side, selling toys and trinkets; or niffering plaited ear-rings, and suchlike, with young lasses, for old silver coins or cracked teaspoons.
ref: 1828, David Macbeth Moir, The Life of Mansie Wauch:
glosses: Someone who travels with a pack, especially a travelling salesman.
Synonyms: peddler
pedlar
packmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of packman
pabulums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pabulum
cunnilinguist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cunnilinguists
Etymology: From cunnilingus + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: He is sexually perverted, a cunnilinguist, with a fetish for the odor of women's sweat and vaginal secretions.
ref: 1958, Joseph Paul De River, Crime and the sexual psychopath:
text: ...a film strip of six frames depicting lesbian love scenes including a cunnilinguist in action and female masturbation with another's hand and a vibrator, and two frames, one depicting a woman mouthing the penis of a horse, and the second poising the same for entrance into her vagina
ref: 1975, United States Supreme Court reports: Volume 41:
text: It's impossible to be a good lover of women without being a skilled and ardent cunnilinguist. Whatever your excuses or hesitations when it comes to putting your face between a woman's legs, now's the time to get over them.
ref: 2006, Nina Hartley, Ira S. Levine, Nina Hartley's Guide to Total Sex:
glosses: One who performs cunnilingus.
Synonyms: word: carpet muncher
word: cunnilinctor
word: cuntlicker
word: muff diver
word: clitsucker
word: pussylicker
Related terms: cunning linguist
muffdiver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muffdivers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of muff diver.
cunnilinguistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkʌn.ɪ.lɪŋˈɡwɪs.tɪk/
ipa: /ˌkʌn.ə.lɪŋˈɡwɪs.tɪk/
Etymology: Blend of cunnilingus + linguistic
Senses: glosses: Cunnilingual, relating to cunnilingus.
cunnilinctor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cunnilinctors
Etymology: From Latin cunnilinctor (“cunt-licker”).
Senses: examples: text: What confuses the matter even more is the common and vociferous distaste among homosexual men for women and for their vulvar odor, which makes it hard to understand how homosexuals could become professional cunnilinctors.
ref: 2006, Deborah Cameron, Don Kulick, The language and sexuality reader:
glosses: Someone who performs cunnilingus.
Synonyms: cunnilinguist
it ain't over 'til the fat lady sings
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: it ain't over till the fat lady sings
form: it ain't over until the fat lady sings
form: it isn't over 'til the fat lady sings
form: it isn't over till the fat lady sings
form: it isn't over until the fat lady sings
form: it's not over 'til the fat lady sings
form: it's not over till the fat lady sings
form: it's not over until the fat lady sings
Etymology: First appeared in 1976 in a Dallas Morning News article dated March 10, 1976. Popularized by sports coach Dick Motta in 1978. Generally understood to be in reference to opera sopranos, who were typically heavyset.
Senses: synonyms: it ain't over till it's over
glosses: There are more developments yet to come; one should not presume to know the outcome of an event which is still in progress.
wikipedia: Dallas Morning News
Dick Motta
Dr Stephen Juan
The Register
Related terms: don't count your chickens before they're hatched
vrykolakas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek βρυκόλακας (vrykólakas).
Senses: topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
glosses: In Greek folklore, a harmful undead creature that eats flesh, somewhat like a vampire or zombie.
Synonyms: vorvolaka
proletarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: prō'lĭtâʹrĭənĭzəm
ipa: /ˌpɹəʊlɪˈtɛəɹɪənɪzəm/
enpr: prō'lĭtâʹrēənĭzəm
ipa: /ˌpɹoʊlɪˈtɛɹi.ənɪzəm/
Forms: form: proletarianisms
Etymology: From proletarian + -ism; compare proletarism.
Senses: glosses: The political character and practice of the proletariat; advocacy or advancement of the proletariat’s interests.
glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being a proletarian.
examples: text: The scatological proletarianisms of Don Jonz reflect poorly on your heretofore high level of editorial standards.
ref: 1973, Flying, volume 92, page 8:
text: There is a fine dividing line between the everyday sensationalism of popular and tabloid journalism and the parodies in such publications as the British satirical magazine Private Eye, which uses proletarianisms in such headlines as The Royals, dontcha lovem!
ref: 1992, Thomas Burns McArthur, editor, The Oxford Companion to the English language, page 553:
text: Sadly, even the ‘genteel’ proletarianisms of Polly and his class are nowadays only normally heard among citizens over the age of fifty. In a few years that richly nuanced dialect will be as dead as Sanskrit.
ref: 2005, John Sutherland, biographical note to H. G. Wells’ The History of Mr Polly (Penguin Classics)
glosses: A proletarian word or turn of phrase; a vulgarism.
glosses: Proletarians regarded as a class; the proletariat.
Derived terms: proletarianise
proletarianised
proletarianising
nit-picking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nitpicking.
disenroll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disenrolls
form: disenrolling
form: disenrolled
form: disenrolled
form: disenrol
Etymology: From dis- + enroll.
Senses: examples: text: And in some cases, students who haven't taken a prereq are actually disenrolled from the course that requires it.
ref: 2011, Constance Courtney Staley, Steve Staley, FOCUS on College and Career Success, page 12:
text: But the simpler and more humane option would be to keep the continuous coverage we adopted during the pandemic and disenroll people only if I.R.S. and other data sources demonstrate sustained higher income or insurance from another job.
ref: 2023 October 25, Danielle Ofri, “It Shouldn’t Be This Easy to Lose Your Health Insurance”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To cancel enrolment of; to remove from a list.
examples: text: But only in recent years, experts say, have they begun routinely disenrolling Indians deemed inauthentic members of a group.
ref: 2011 December 12, James Dao, “In California, Indian Tribes With Casino Money Cast Off Members”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To eject (a member) from a tribe.
Related terms: disenrollment
disenrolls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disenroll
disenrolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disenroll
disenrolled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disenroll
disenrol
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disenrols
form: disenrolling
form: disenrolled
form: disenrolled
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of disenroll.
disenrols
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disenrol
minimarathon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minimarathons
Etymology: From mini- + marathon.
Senses: glosses: A running event, like a marathon but somewhat shorter.
minimarathons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minimarathon
minisode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minisodes
Etymology: Blend of mini- + episode
Senses: examples: text: Fit and minisodes are among examples of a trend that is gaining favor on Madison Avenue to reprise “Think small,” which was created almost five decades ago for Volkswagen by the old Doyle Dane Bernbach agency.
ref: 2007 June 15, Stuart Elliott, “MySpace Mini-Episodes, Courtesy of Honda”, in New York Times:
glosses: A very short episode of a television programme.
minisodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minisode