cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
importee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: importees
Etymology: From import + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: The Kikuyu, including Chief Koinange himself, were importees. The tribe came from the neighbourhood of the Tana River in the distant past, the movement being along the course of that river to the district of Fort Hall.
ref: 1933, Kenya Land Commission Evidence, volume 1, page 615:
text: However, it is unsafe in general for a module to be typechecked given only the public interfaces of its importees.
ref: 2003, Rachid Guerraoui, ECOOP '99 - Object-Oriented Programming: 13th European Conference:
glosses: Someone or something that is imported, or brought in from outside.
importees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of importee
gougee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gougees
Etymology: From gouge + -ee.
Senses: glosses: A victim of price gouging.
gougees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gougee
gaggee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaggees
Etymology: From gag + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: But he didn't explore why the NHS spends public money on gagging clauses in the first place. It is because the gaggees threatened to blow the whistle on the system, exposing the system conditions that produce the terrible consequences.
ref: 2014, John Seddon, Whitehall Effect:
glosses: One who is gagged, or restricted from speaking.
gaggees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gaggee
flingee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flingees
Etymology: From fling + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: He never thought of her as temporary or a flingee.
ref: 2008, Wendy Etherington, Hot Pursuit, page 241:
text: Jay was trying to track down the flingees. Denise had never married, nor had she taken another long-term lover after Dennis's birth, though she had been seen in fashionable places with a variety of leading men.
ref: 2011, Sheila Simonson, Larkspur:
text: Brendy pointed out to me that a fling is different from an affair. 'A fling is definitely not serious—it's meant to be temporary and the flingees remain good friends afterwards.'
ref: 2013, Aorewa McLeod, Who Was That Woman Anyway?:
glosses: A person with whom one has a fling, or casual romance.
flingees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flingee
dispossessee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dispossessees
Etymology: From dispossess + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who is dispossessed.
dispossessees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dispossessee
dislocatee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dislocatees
Etymology: From dislocate + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who is dislocated; a displaced person.
dislocatees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dislocatee
directee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: directees
Etymology: From direct + -ee.
Senses: glosses: A person who undergoes spiritual direction.
directees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of directee
dilutee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dilutees
Etymology: From dilute + -ee.
Senses: glosses: An unskilled worker brought in to replace a skilled one, for example during wartime.
dilutees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dilutee
deliveree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deliverees
Etymology: From deliver + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: Precisely because few newspaper delivery workers have ever been in a position to impose on their deliverees the costs of insuring themselves against work-related injuries, […]
ref: 1995, Loyola Poverty Law Journal, volume 1, page 63:
glosses: The person to whom something is delivered.
deliverees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deliveree
jokee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jokees
Etymology: From joke + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: We doubt not that most of our readers have acted like ourselves, on former anniversaries of a similar kind, in the double capacities of jokers and jokees, and have been alternately the victims as well as the victimisers; […]
ref: 1853, The Dublin University Magazine, volume 41, page 403:
text: Plus, jokers don't, as a rule, shoot at the jokees.
ref: 2014, Becky Bartness, How to Die and Live to Tell About It:
glosses: The person who is the subject of a joke.
jokees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jokee
laughee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laughees
Etymology: From laugh + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: Adonis always laughed in a peculiar way, most insulting to the person ridiculed, but in this instance the laughees were absent.
ref: 1827, Henry Colburn, editor, Hyde Nugent: a tale of fashionable life:
text: Whatever made fun for one party called the attention of the other, and no sooner would their eyes be off from their own course than they would bump against a rock, and the tables were turned; the laughers became the laughees.
ref: 1875, David W. Cartwright, Natural History of Western Wild Animals and Guide for Hunters, Trappers, and Sportsmen:
glosses: One who is laughed at.
laughees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laughee
lecturee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lecturees
Etymology: From lecture + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: Great, therefore, must have been the delight of the Lecturees at the Royal Institution, and inexpressible will be the satisfaction of as much of posterity as may read Mr. Montgomery's pages, at learning that they were written by […]
ref: 1833, The British Critic and Quarterly Theological Review, page 69:
text: They and the instructor bat the subject around informally — with the result that meetings last longer and do more real good because the men are allowed a larger part in them than merely being lecturees.
ref: 1946, Power Wagon, volumes 76-77, page 18:
glosses: One who listens to a lecture.
lecturees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lecturee
reprisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From reprise + -able.
Senses: glosses: Liable to be compensated for something that was taken.
examples: reprisable lands
glosses: Subject to reprise (yearly deductions and duties).
letteree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: letterees
Etymology: From letter + -ee.
Senses: glosses: A person who was restored to his estate by letters of Charles II of England.
letterees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of letteree
luggee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: luggees
form: luggi
Senses: glosses: An Indian unit of length used in land measure, approximately 9 feet 5 inches but varying by region.
luggees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of luggee
luggi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: luggis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of luggee (“unit of length”).
luggis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of luggi
luggaged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more luggaged
form: most luggaged
Etymology: From luggage + -ed.
Senses: glosses: laden with luggage
mandatee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mandatees
Etymology: From mandate + -ee.
Senses: glosses: A person appointed to some office by mandate.
mandatees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mandatee
mergee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mergees
Etymology: From merge + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: This language, I believe, creates a definite hurdle for prospective small business mergees.
ref: 1958, American Bar Association, Section of Antitrust Law, volume 13, page 89:
text: We are working on a process whereby Hucomms could reproduce by pairs or more of individuals with an affinity for each other who could decide on a mind merger, producing a new individual from the minds of the mergees.
ref: 2013, Jan Fawcett, Living Forever, page 156:
glosses: One who or that which undergoes a merge.
mergees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mergee
mesmerizee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesmerizees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mesmerisee.
mesmerizees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesmerizee
objectee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: objectees
Etymology: From object + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: What made this case out of the ordinary was the principal who was new to the school and his consequent ignorance of who were objectors and who were the objectees. He was told to exclude all Aboriginal children and he did, […]
ref: 1989, Documents in the History of Aboriginal Education in New South Wales, page 128:
glosses: A person whom somebody else objects to.
objectees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of objectee
ordainee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ordainees
Etymology: From ordain + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who is ordained.
ordinee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ordinees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ordainee.
ordainees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ordainee
ordinees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ordinee
plannee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plannees
Etymology: From plan + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: Yet the success of any and all plans depends significantly on the cooperation and consent of the plannees; the downfall of many plans can be traced to the resistance and creative avoidance schemes of reluctant or unwilling plannees.
ref: 2005, Marguerite Mendell, Reclaiming Democracy, page 15:
text: You can plan until the cows come home, but what you really need is the collaboration and the consent of the plannee. The neglect of plannees is an outgrowth of the type of technological thinking that regards every issue as a production problem.
ref: 2006, Ursula Franklin, Michelle Swenarchuk, The Ursula Franklin Reader: Pacifism as a Map:
glosses: A person for whom plans are made.
plannees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plannee
pluckee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pluckees
Etymology: From pluck + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: Of course, once the law was enforced there had to be twice as many people missing an eye, one for each plucker and one (of course) for each pluckee.
ref: 2006, Phil Wells, Try the Veal, page 63:
text: It was always easier being the plucker than being the pluckee.
ref: 2015, Emmett R. Dixon, Big Red Rocks, Little Red Devils: A Moab Story, page 41:
glosses: One who is plucked, or from whom something is plucked.
pluckees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pluckee
preceptee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preceptees
Senses: glosses: One who undergoes instruction or supervision by a preceptor.
preceptees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preceptee
preceptorially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more preceptorially
form: most preceptorially
Etymology: From preceptorial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a preceptorial manner.
preferee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preferees
Etymology: From prefer + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who is preferred.
preferees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preferee
unretiree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unretirees
Senses: glosses: One who leaves retirement and returns to work.
Related terms: retiree
unretire
unretirees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unretiree
sweatee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweatees
Etymology: From sweat + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: If the piecework system had not existed there never would have been any sweatees. The men who are sweaters, I am sorry to say, are men who formerly belonged to our union.
ref: 1894, New York (State) Bureau of Mediation and Arbitration, Annual Report (volumes 7-8, page 158)
coordinate_terms: sweater
glosses: A subcontractor doing piece work in the tailoring trade.
sweatees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweatee
Artigues
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Artigues.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Ariège department, Occitania, France.
glosses: A village and commune of Aude department, Occitania, France.
glosses: A village and commune of Hautes-Pyrénées department, Occitania, France.
glosses: A village and commune of Var department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
Artigat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Ariège department, Occitania, France.
overtalented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overtalented
form: most overtalented
Etymology: From over- + talented.
Senses: glosses: Having excessive talent.
socialisee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: socialisees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of socializee.
socialisees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of socialisee
revisee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revisees
Etymology: From revise + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: The person you are revising (the revisee) is a colleague at your own rank, or another freelance.
ref: 2014, Brian Mossop, Revising and Editing for Translators, page 192:
glosses: One whose work undergoes revision.
revisees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revisee
purgee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purgees
Etymology: From purge + -ee.
Senses: glosses: The victim of a purge.
purgees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purgee
sayee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sayees
Etymology: From say + -ee.
Senses: glosses: The person to whom something is said; the addressee of spoken words.
sayees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sayee
retardee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retardees
Etymology: From retard + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: There is still a large waiting list here at the hospital for Negro mental retardees to enter this institution. If we were to completely erase this waiting list, we would need approximately 400 more beds for the care of Negro mental retardees.
ref: 1961, Mississippi Department Reports, volume 2, page 42:
text: Mental retardation specialists were beginning to realize that trained paraprofessionals were needed to provide adequate care to mental retardees.
ref: 1975, United States. National Advisory Council on Extension and Continuing Education, Program Evaluation, Title 1 of the Higher Education Act, page 76:
glosses: A person with an intellectual disability.
retardees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retardee
Rogart
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Sutherland, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NC7303).
interessee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interessees
Senses: examples: text: The case of an agent or factor , acting subject matter , is a self - account interessee in the sale of a particular article , or set of and a trust-account interessee , may be styled articles
ref: 1843, Jeremy Bentham, Principles of Judicial Procedure:
glosses: A person possessing a legal interest in something.
interessees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interessee
signalee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: signalees
Etymology: From signal + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: Simple, economically rare emblems with messages, such as “I am fit, strong and morally good” were unable to evolve because a naive, untested acceptance of socially motivated information would be highly risky for signalees, since the interests of signaler and signalee are not identical.
ref: 2013, Eckart Voland, Karl Grammer, Evolutionary Aesthetics, page 253:
glosses: The person toward whom a signal is directed.
signalees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of signalee
Gulbenkian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɡʊlˈbɛŋkiən/
Etymology: From Armenian Գյուլբենկյան (Gyulbenkyan), Կյուլպենկյան (Kyulpenkyan).
Senses: examples: text: Calouste Gulbenkian
glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Ullapool
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Ross and Cromarty, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NH1294).
steppe murrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: rinderpest
imposterous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more imposterous
form: most imposterous
Etymology: From impostor + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Twice have I seen her with thee , twice my thoughts Were prompted by mine eye to hold thy strictness False and imposterous
ref: 1606, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Woman-Hater”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: fraudulent; pretending to be someone else
Absheron
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Abseron
form: Apsheron
Senses: glosses: The Absheron Peninsula.
glosses: A district of Azerbaijan.
newsvan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: newsvans
Etymology: From news + van.
Senses: glosses: A van operated by a press company, transporting reporters and photographers to the scene of an event so that they can report on it.
newsvans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of newsvan
bigah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bigahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bigha.
bigahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bigah
table tent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: table tents
Senses: examples: text: The table tents in the restaurant listed today's specials.
glosses: A sign made from card etc. folded into a triangular shape so that it can stand upright on a table.
table tents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of table tent
red plague
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the red plague
Senses: glosses: smallpox
speckled monster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the speckled monster
Senses: glosses: Smallpox.
tough titty said the kitty
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Chosen for the rhyme. The image is of a kitten suckling at the mother cat's teat, hence the references to milk in the extended variants. First use appears c. 1974. See citation below.
Senses: examples: text: Marv's conversation usually dealt in wise cliches like "Tough titty said the kitty, but the milk's already sour.
ref: 1974, Journal of Canadian Fiction, Volume 3, page 39:
glosses: Synonym of tough titty (“hard luck; too bad”).
synonyms: word: tough titty
extra: hard luck; too bad
Somali Coast Protectorate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A territory lying between the Italian Colony of Eritrea and British Somaliland, administered by a governor with a privy council since 1888, now an unrecognized state.
riverdance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riverdances
Etymology: From river + dance, originally the trademarked name of an interval performance act during the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest.
Senses: glosses: A theatrical show based on traditional Irish music and dance.
riverdance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: riverdances
form: riverdancing
form: riverdanced
form: riverdanced
Etymology: From river + dance, originally the trademarked name of an interval performance act during the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest.
Senses: examples: text: And in a burst of Celtic drums and fiddles, a bosomy colleen with a jaunty green hat and suit jacket riverdanced onto the stage, clogging with a surprising degree of expertise, barely restrained breasts jiggling.
ref: 2014, Jeff Abbott, Cut and Run:
glosses: To perform this style of dance.
riverdances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riverdance
riverdances
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of riverdance
riverdanced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of riverdance
riverdancing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of riverdance
river dunes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of river dune
boarding axe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boarding axes
form: boarding ax
Senses: glosses: An axe with a spike opposite the cutting edge, used for smashing locks, cutting ropes, etc. during naval warfare.
boarding axes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boarding axe
glosses: plural of boarding ax
antiboarding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + boarding.
Senses: glosses: Designed to repel attackers attempting to board a vessel.
bung eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bung eyes
Senses: glosses: An infected eye.
bung eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bung eye
Zorba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: An arbitrary code name defined by the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI).
Senses: glosses: A form of nonferrous scrap metal consisting mainly of aluminum, especially that which is left behind after an automobile is shredded and the iron and steel is removed.
wikipedia: Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries
autoshredder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoshredders
Senses: glosses: A machine that destroys cars, turning them into scrap metal and other waste.
autoshredders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autoshredder
cumene process
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: So called because cumene (isopropyl benzene) is the intermediate material during this process.
Senses: synonyms: Hock process
glosses: An industrial process for synthesizing phenol and acetone from benzene and propylene.
Hock process
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Invented (independently, but not for the first time) by Heinrich Hock in 1944.
Senses: glosses: cumene process
Related terms: Hock rearrangement
rapeugee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rapeugees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rapefugee.
rapeugees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rapeugee
boarding ax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boarding axes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of boarding axe.
elm yellows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A disease of elm trees, caused by phytoplasmas infecting the phloem, and eventually causing the crown to turn yellow from lack of nutrients.
Arras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈæɹəs/
Senses: glosses: A city, the capital of Pas-de-Calais department, Hauts-de-France, France, the historic centre of the Artois region
CNL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CNLs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of controlled natural language.
CNLs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CNL
Kilrush
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal town in County Clare, Ireland (Irish grid ref Q 9955).
Kilkee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small coastal town in County Clare, Ireland (Irish grid ref Q 8860).
Corofin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Corrofin
Senses: glosses: A village in County Clare, Ireland.
glosses: A village in County Galway, Ireland.
Monasterevin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in County Kildare, Ireland (Irish grid ref N 6310).
Dundalk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town, the county town of County Louth, Ireland.
glosses: A village in Southgate township, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A census-designated place and unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States.
Mullingar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmʌlɪnˈɡɑː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Etymology: From Irish Muileann gCearr (literally “crooked mill”).
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish, the county town of County Westmeath, Ireland.
glosses: A hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Meeting Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A locality, a suburb of Kalgoorlie in the Goldfields-Esperance region, Western Australia.
Derived terms: Mullingar heifer
Greystones
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal town in County Wicklow, Ireland (Irish grid ref O 2912).
intubators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intubator
Warrenpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small port town in County Down, Northern Ireland (Irish grid ref J 1418).
Aberfoyle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Of the miserable Highland clachan, to which Sir Walter Scott brought Bailie Nicol Jarvie and Frank Osbaldistone for their meeting with the redoubtable Rob Roy, little or nothing remains, and Aberfoyle is now a bright and clean holiday resort, standing on historic ground, where the Highlands and Lowlands meet.
ref: 1951 September, M. D. Greville, “From Glasgow to Aberfoyle”, in Railway Magazine, page 580:
glosses: A village in Stirling council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NN5201).
glosses: A community in Puslinch, Ontario, Canada; a suburb of Guelph.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Hunt County, Texas, United States.
Finnieston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An inner city area of Glasgow, City of Glasgow, Scotland (OS grid ref NS5765).
Rose Grove
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in Burnley, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD8132).
zealoter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zealoters
Senses: examples: text: Wheupon you shall eftsoons require him, as he will show himself zealoter of our ancient fraternal amity, that he will, without further protract and dilation of time, observe and fulfil his whole promise in sending these instructions;
ref: 1848, Letters of the kings of England:
text: Even stoutest parliamentary “zealoters” must yield to utter weariness of body.
ref: 1867, Macmillan's Magazine - Volume 16, page 143:
text: The Knights who desire to take their oath have long and painful duties to fulfil, obstacles to vanquish, errors to combat, adversaries to overcome, and eternal war to sustain against ignorance and vice; they allude to the persecutions reserved for the zealoter of justice, truth, virtue and the enemies of wickedness.
ref: 1908, Historic Magazine and Notes and Queries - Volume 26, page 297:
text: Under their garments they hide a little dagger (called sica by Romans), and killed their rivals. . . They called themselves zealots, as they were “zealoters” . . . Their victims were mainly the brave and the nobles, the first being them full of fear and the second because of envy: they believed their only safety was the elimination of all the important people.
ref: 2019, Donatella Marazziti, Stephen M. Stahl, Evil, Terrorism & Psychiatry, page 2:
glosses: One who is full of zeal and commitment.
Related terms: zealot
zealoters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zealoter
zip gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zip guns
Senses: examples: text: As pertaining to my idea of zip guns, we didn't use the old type of zip gun any more because they were too dangerous. That was just a pipe and a piece of wood and nail and rubber band.
ref: 1968, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Riots, Civil and Criminal Disorders:
text: The simplest zip gun seen by the author was a metal tube in which a .22 Magnum cartridge was inserted. It was fired by striking the protruding base of the cartridge with a hammer.
ref: 1998, Vincent J.M. DiMaio, Gunshot Wounds, page 282:
text: During the interview, Flaco whips out a zip gun he's hidden beneath his testicles during the pat-down search prior to transfer to GID, and presents it to Detective Rydell.
ref: 2005, Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts:
text: . “Oh, so we got annuduh tough guy here,” he said, pulling out a gun from his leather jacket. It looked like a real gun, but who knew, maybe it was zip gun.
ref: 2012, Arnold Silveri, Turning the Corner on Life, page 59:
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A crude homemade weapon that fires a projectile.
Synonyms: slam gun
zip gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zip guns
Etymology: From being a gas stream emitter shaped like a gun.
Senses: topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An EVA astronaut space maneuvering propulsion unit, a handheld gas jet device, connected to a reservoir.
Coordinate terms: english: astronaut maneuvering unit
translation: astronaut maneuvering unit
word: AMU
word: jet belt
word: jet pack
word: jet shoe
english: manned maneuvering unit
translation: manned maneuvering unit
word: MMU
word: rocket belt
word: rocket pack
word: SAFER
zip guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zip gun
zodiograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zodiographs
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ζῴδιον (zōídion, “little animal”) + γράφω (gráphō, “to write”).
Senses: examples: text: That these kinds of elaborate zodiographs were not used to any extent, as far as we know, in the developmental stages of any writing system is due, we suspect, to the sub fades operation of a kind of "efficiency principle."
ref: 1994, William G. Boltz, The Origin and Early Development of the Chinese Writing System:
text: The process of shifting from a pictograph to a zodoiograph is the process of acquiring a pronunciation. This process we call "phoneticization," and it is at this point that pictographs, or any other kind of graphs, turn into writing.
ref: 1999, Michael Loewe, Edward L. Shaughnessy, The Cambridge History of Ancient China:
text: Short of pointing to the corresponding khipu cartouche, an ideograph for “corn-planting month,” say, would have to be named to be spoken of, and all that is required to produce a zodiograph is for the spoken word to stick to the conventional graphic representation.
ref: 2012, Feng Li, David Prager Branner, Writing and Literacy in Early China, page 27:
glosses: A pictograph or ideogram that is used as the standard representation of a specific word.
zodiographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zodiograph
zodiographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zodiographers
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ζῴδιον (zōídion) (diminutive of ζῶον (zôon, “animal”)) + γράφω (gráphō, “to write”) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Notwithstanding upon enquiry we find no mention hereof in Ancient Zodiographers, and such as have particularly discoursed upon Animals, as Aristotle, Elian, Pliny, Solinus and many more; who seldom forget proprieties of such a nature,and have been very punctual in less considerable Records.
ref: 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Or, Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents, page 285:
text: I’m sure even the zodiographers can be wrong – chanted Éfhelìnye.
ref: 1988, James W. McCleary, Puey and the Princess:
text: Being a zodiographer herself, she enjoyed seeing how her grandfather and his generation had meticulously recorded every new species they could find and how they had made names for themselves in the process.
ref: 2017, Penny Luker, The Mermaid - Short stories for adults, page 127:
glosses: One who writes about the description and behavior of animal.
Related terms: writer
zodiographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zodiographer
Saxonish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Saxonish
form: most Saxonish
Senses: examples: text: Thus, the Germans of the South, a small and compact body, coming mainly, as they do, from the centre and South, or less Saxonish and more Latinised sections of the Tuton country, are hardly to be classed with the intensely Saxonish hordes who pass in the North under the generic, odium-charged, name of Dutchmen, and who at home were, as those they have left behind them are—the Yankees of Europe.
ref: 1863 November & December, Dr. Stuart, “The Anglo-Saxon Mania”, in The Southern Literary Messenger, volume 37, number 11 & 12, page 681:
text: A decent fellow, although somewhat Saxonish, as the name indicates.
ref: 1979, Karl Marx, Saul Kussiel Padover, The letters of Karl Marx, page 226:
text: Rhia looked at Granna, and Granna looked harder at Mam, squinting her eyes. “Well, what sort of a Saxonish half-brained warning is that to be giving, Aigneis?”
ref: 2007, Vicki Grove, Rhiannon:
glosses: Pertaining to or characteristic of the Saxons.
Saxonish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: For Caire in British & Cestre in Saxonish are one thing, & doo signifie in English a fort, towre, or castell.
ref: 1808, “Edward the Sixt. (1549)”, in Raphael Holinshed, editor, Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland - Volume 3, page 928:
text: And as for all authors of Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Spanish, British, Saxonish, Welsh, English, or Scottish, touchin in any wise the understanding of our antiquities, he had so fully read and applied them that they were in a manner graffed in him as of nature.
ref: 1874, Montagu Burrows, Worthies of All Souls:
text: We must learn Saxonish.
ref: 1986, David Rudkin, The Saxon Shore, page 25:
glosses: Saxon; the language of the ancient Saxons.
transparify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹæn(t)sˈpæɹɪfaɪ/
Forms: form: transparifies
form: transparifying
form: transparified
form: transparified
Senses: examples: text: To make a color transparent: Choose Edit⇒Transparify from the menu options.
ref: 2010, David A. Crowder, Building a Web Site For Dummies, page 100:
glosses: To make a content transparent.
Epiphaneia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Epiphania.
alms-deed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alms-deeds
Senses: examples: text: Murder is thy alms-deed; petitioner for blood thou ne'er putt'st back.
ref: 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3:
text: Let us put in the same scale the second excellence of alms-deeds, which is, that as it brings men to a nearer resemblance with God, so it renders them dear to him, and familiar with his divine majesty, because like to him:
ref: 1775, Luis (de Granada), An Exhortation to Alms-deeds, page 84:
text: A certain King once made proclamation to the people of his realm saying, "If any of you give alms of aught, I will verily and assuredly cut off his hand;" wherefore all the people abstained from alms-deed, and none could give anything to any one.
ref: 1885, Sir Richard F. Burton (trans), Arabian Nights, in 16 volumes: Volume IV:
glosses: Alternative form of almsdeed.
alms-deeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alms-deed
Duolu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 多魯 /多鲁 (Duōlǔ).
Senses: examples: text: An outbreak of viral hepatitis occurred in Duolu Township, Luopu County, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, between August 1986 and May 1987.
ref: 1988 March 22 [1987 December], Wang Mingyi, “Investigation of Outbreak of Epidemic Non-A, Non-B Heaptitis in Duolu Township, Luopu County, Xinjiang Autonomous Region”, in Science & Technology, China, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page 25, column 1:
text: In September 1986, in Duolu Township, which is in Hetan^([sic]) Prefecture's Luopu County in Southern Xinjiang, people began to contract the communicable non-Type A-non-Type B enteric hepatitis. The disease spread to some of the rural areas in Hetan^([sic]), Kashi, and Kizilsu.
ref: 1988 April 7 [1988 March 30], “Spread of Non-Type A-Non-Type B Hepatitis in Southern Xinjiang Now Under Control”, in Daily Report: China, number 67, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Urumqi/Beijing ZHONGGUO XINWEN SHE, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, Regional Affairs, page 54, column 2:
text: At present, the harvest of more than 200,000 mu of wheat is under way in Luopu County, Hotan Prefecture, northwest China’s Xinjiang. Farmers are busy reaping wheat to ensure every grain is transported into granary. Photo taken on June 7, 2022 shows a volunteer helps villagers reap wheat at Bashiyangduma Village, Duolu Township in Luopu County, Hotan Prefecture, northwest China’s Xinjiang.
ref: 2022 June 10, “Wheat harvest is under way in Luopu County, NW China’s Xinjiang”, in Song Duer, editor, Tianshannet (Xinjiang News), archived from the original on 14 Jun 2022:
glosses: Synonym of Dol: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
synonyms: word: Dol
extra: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name
alopecian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alopecian
form: most alopecian
Etymology: From alopecia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: He'd landed on top; Caull had struck his alopecian skull on the pole from which the national banner rose.
ref: 1986, J. N. Williamson, John Maclay, Wards of Armageddon, page 375:
text: His comparative youth skilfully disguised, Graham-Hall had the advantage over Tear in a grey head of hair which made sense of his barber's-shop visits and also eliminated the novelist's physical resemblance — publicised by the December opera cover — to Michael Chance's alopecian Apollo.
ref: 1990, George Henry Hubert Lascelles Earl of Harewood, Opera - Volume 41, Issues 1-6, pages 226–227:
text: This, we know, is peculiar to alopecian syphilis, as well as other diseases of syphilis, also of psoriasis.
ref: 1997, J. Henry Allen, Diseases and Therapeutics of the Skin, page 134:
glosses: Suffering from or associated with hair loss.
alopecian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alopecians
Etymology: From alopecia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Most partners take their cue from how the alopecian handles the problem. One older woman commented: "If you work on believing that you are still attractive and lovable, and expect him to think so too, he will usually rise to the occasion!
ref: 1992, Sheila Jacobs, The big fall: living with hair loss, page 146:
text: Go to a support group. It gets easier knowing you are not alone. I don't intend to get over it, but I do intend to deal with it and support other alopecians.
ref: 2008, United States. Dept. of Health and Human Services. Office on Women's Health, The healthy woman: a complete guide for all ages, page 314:
text: To save on hairnets in his delicatessen, Santa hires only alopecians from the Appalachians.
ref: 2017, Jeramy Dodds, Drakkar Noir:
glosses: One who suffers from alopecia.
alopecians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alopecian
aloose
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From a- + loose.
Senses: examples: text: The reason she got to him quicker than I did is because Mooring did not turn me aloose as quick as Cox turned her aloose.
ref: 1922, John Preston White, The Texas Criminal Reports:
text: There's nothing but young girls live over there, work around the . . . Capitol buildings, State buildings . . . they were screaming that they had called the police, to turn me aloose. He turned my left hand aloose and started — he dropped it down on my leg.
ref: 1968, North Carolina reports - Volume 273, page 511:
text: Dey wuz constant a-gwine on data a-way, en ef I wa'n't gittin' so mighty weak-kneed in de membunce I'd bust aloose yer en I'd fair wake you up wid de gwines on er dem ar creeturs.
ref: 1974, Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus; Tales, page 167:
text: It took the undertaker and that big old strappin' teenage boy of his quite a while to pull him aloose.
ref: 2006, Mary Monroe, God Don't Like Ugly:
glosses: Free from restraints.
preatherosclerotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + atherosclerotic.
Senses: glosses: Prior to the onset of atherosclerosis
colloform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more colloform
form: most colloform
Etymology: Apparently from collo(id) + -form.
Senses: examples: text: Often complex textural patterns of more than one colloform mineral phase might co-exist.
ref: 1982, S. S. Augustithis, Atlas of the sphaeroidal textures and structures and their genetic significance:
text: As mentioned, the transition of colloform to crystalline structures is achieved mainly by the reversibility of gel to sol and possibly from sol to a solution phase out of which crystallization can take place.
ref: 2010, Stylianos Augustithis, Atlas of the Textural Patterns of Ore Minerals and Metallogenic Processes:
text: The colloform ores, developed primarily in the open spaces of breccias and fractures, are inferred to be younger than disseminated ores on the basis of the following textural relationships […]
ref: 2012, Kula Misra, Understanding Mineral Deposits, page 106:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having a rounded, finely banded texture formed by rhythmic precipitation.
Mapocho River
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A significant river running from the foothills of the Andes Mountains through Santiago, Chile and eventually to the Pacific Ocean as the Maipo River which it merges into at Pudahuel.
Quilicura
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish: Quilicura, from Mapudungun: Kilikura.
Senses: glosses: A city of over 200,000 residents in northwestern Santiago Region
Andes Mountains
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Andes Mountains
Etymology: Compound of Andes + Mountains, Andes from Spanish Andes, perhaps from Quechua andi (“high crest”).
Senses: hypernyms: cordillera
holonyms: American Cordillera
glosses: One of the world's major mountain ranges stretching along the western end of South America from Colombia to the southern tip of Chile.
Andean Mountains
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Andes Mountains
Maipo River
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Maipo River
Senses: glosses: A significant river in Chile flowing from the Andes Mountains through San José de Maipo and Santiago onto the Pacific Ocean at San Antonio.
signal check
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: signal checks
Senses: examples: text: Of the failures to do so on the 23 other occasions, six only were attributed to the performance of the locomotives and the remainder to signal checks and permanent way cautions, particularly in the week following a parcels train derailment at Northallerton.
ref: 1961 April, G. Freeman Allen, “The planning and execution of the new Leeds-Manchester service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 204:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: An instance where a train must stop at a red signal, or slow down before passing a signal displaying a yellow aspect.
signal checks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of signal check
Lollobrigidian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lollobrigidian
form: most Lollobrigidian
Etymology: From Lollobrigida + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The mammary glands are Lollobrigidian, the legendary sword of justice is strategically placed to please the pure of heart, and the most substantial garment worn by the lady is the traditional blindfold.
ref: 1965, J.W. Enrlich, A Life in my Hands, page 69:
glosses: Of or relating to Gina Lollobrigida (1927–2023), Italian actress and sex symbol.
demasker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demaskers
Etymology: From demask + -er.
Senses: glosses: An unmasker.
demaskers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demasker
cow college
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cow colleges
Senses: examples: text: He thought he had read someplace (perhaps in one of his classes at the University of Maine at Farmington, a cow college from which he had graduated with absolutely no honors at all) that a severe shock to the nervous system sometimes had that very effect […]
ref: 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
glosses: An agricultural university or college.
Synonyms: Moo U
Silo Tech
cow colleges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cow college
snory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: snorier
form: snoriest
Etymology: From snore + -y.
Senses: examples: text: He was still singing in a low, snory voice ten minutes later, when he finally dozed off.
ref: 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a snore.
examples: text: If you think chemistry is the snoriest of the sciences, think again! Chemists have all sorts of fantastic jobs - from mixing up potent potions and cure-all drugs, to finding new elements.
ref: 2000, Clare Oliver, Mind-boggling Science:
glosses: Boring, as if to put one to sleep.
snorier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of snory: more snory
snoriest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of snory: most snory
permer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: permers
Etymology: From perm + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who perms hair.
reperm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reperms
form: reperming
form: repermed
form: repermed
Etymology: From re- + perm.
Senses: glosses: To perm (the hair) again.
permers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of permer
repermed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reperm
reperms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reperm
reperming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reperm
partal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The work of a patwari, maintaining records relating to agricultural land.
Cleckheaton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /klɛkˈ(h)iːtən/
Senses: glosses: A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SD1825).
Derived terms: Cleckhuddersfax
druks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of druk
Patricroft
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An urban area of Eccles, City of Salford, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ7698).
Paddison
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
simulatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of simulative
similatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of similative
similarization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: similarizations
Senses: glosses: The process or result of similarizing.
similarizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of similarization
dayouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [daˈjːuːθ]
ipa: [dæˈjːuːθ]
rhymes: -uːθ
Forms: form: dayouths
form: dayooth
form: dayyuth
form: dayyooth
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Arabic دَيُّوث (dayyūṯ).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: A man who is apathetic or permissive with regard to unchaste behaviour by his wife or female relatives.
Grateley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Test Valley district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU2741).
colonizee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colonizees
form: colonisee
Etymology: From colonize + -ee.
Senses: glosses: A victim of colonization.
regular element
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regular elements
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An element of a ring that is not a zero divisor.