cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pregame
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pregames
form: pregaming
form: pregamed
form: pregamed
form: pre-game
Etymology: From pre- + game.
Senses: examples: text: In some cases, pregaming is a precursor to the “real” drinking that will take place later that night at house parties or bars, but sometimes students pregame in order to get drunk before heading out to social activities[…]
ref: 2013, Karen G. Weiss, Party School: Crime, Campus, and Community, UPNE, →ISBN, page 57:
text: After pregaming, Julia heads to the Kappa Alpha party, where she discovers an unopened bottle of vodka in the basement.
ref: 2019, Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers, page 195:
synonyms: preload
pre-drink
glosses: To consume alcohol prior to an event.
prejudgment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prejudgments
form: prejudgement
Etymology: From pre- + judgment.
Senses: glosses: A judgment made before the evidence has been presented, a prejudice.
prejudgement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prejudgements
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of prejudgment.
prekindergarten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + kindergarten.
Senses: glosses: Before kindergarten, or not yet old enough to attend it.
prekindergarten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prekindergartens
Etymology: From pre- + kindergarten.
Senses: examples: text: Kate Yourke does not have the heart to tell her daughter Coral she was rejected from the prekindergarten program at Public School 132 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where her sister goes, even though siblings were supposed to get priority. […] This year, Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein has streamlined and centralized the dizzying array of admission procedures for the city’s prekindergartens and middle schools.
ref: 2008 June 6, Jennifer Medina, “Parents Find Frustration With Process at Schools”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 11 Feb 2021:
glosses: The first formal academic learning environment for children, before kindergarten.
Related terms: pre-K
buffer lass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buffer lasses
Etymology: See buff (“to polish”).
Senses: glosses: A young woman employed at a factory cleaning and polishing cutlery.
gold bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gold bugs
form: goldbug
Senses: examples: text: The swing in equities scared him so much that he became a gold bug for a while.
text: Still, crypto has been effectively marketed: It manages both to seem futuristic and to appeal to old-style goldbug fears that the government will inflate away your savings, and huge past gains have drawn in investors worried about missing out.
ref: 2022 January 28, Paul Krugman, “How Crypto Became the New Subprime”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: business
finance
glosses: A person with a particularly great enthusiasm for investing in gold (the metal).
examples: text: The swing in inflation scared him so much that he became a gold bug for a while.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A person who is opposed to fiat currency and supports a return to the gold standard.
examples: text: If you see the decorating style in his living room, you'll know that he's a gold bug.
glosses: A person who collects gold items.
examples: text: bitten by the gold bug
text: He was bitten by the gold bug a long time ago, and some of the venom is still in his veins.
glosses: A particularly great enthusiasm for gold — whether as an investment, a hoard, a collectible, or otherwise — portrayed figuratively as an arthropod that bites people and infects them, causing a mental illness.
Related terms: golden beetle
gold fever
gold rush
textual harassment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of textual + sexual harassment. The term textual harassment is from Mary Jacobus, 'Is There a Woman in This Text?' New Literary History 14 (Fall 1982): 117-41."
Senses: examples: text: She places the textual harassment experienced by all women writers at her own disposal as evidence of her grace, and hence her authority.
ref: 1991, Karma Lochrie, Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh, page 113:
text: Moneypenny reminding Bond of his responsibilities and limitations curtails the textual harassment of the character.
ref: 2002, Tara Brabazon, Ladies Who Lunge: Celebrating Difficult Women, page 104:
glosses: Sexual harassment in writing.
examples: text: Iraneus contrasts the unity and integrity of these writings with the distorted, contextless citations of the Gnostics. He describes the code of textual harassment that allows these heretics to chip away at the Scriptures, […].
ref: 1991, Jan Gorak, The Making of the Modern Canon: Genesis and Crisis of a Literary Idea, page 24:
text: The process is one of systematic misconstruction, a kind of textual harassment.
ref: 1998, Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Is There a Meaning in This Text?: The Bible, the Reader, and the Morality of, page 149:
text: So the deconstructionist practises what has been called textual harassment or oppositional reading, reading with the aim of unmasking internal contradictions or inconsistencies in the text.
ref: 2002, Peter Barry, Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory, page 72:
glosses: Aggressive, distorting literary or textual criticism.
coordinate_terms: sexting
textual intercourse
glosses: Sexual harassment by means of explicit text messages.
torque steer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: The pull of a front-wheel drive car's steering to one side (i.e. away from straight ahead) when accelerating. This is an undesirable phenomenon and arises from the driveline components that take the engine's power to the two wheels.
motorised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of motorized (“equipped with a motor”).
motorised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of motorise
text messaging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The sending and receiving of written messages on mobile phones, or the technical system which allows or includes such a feature.
text messaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of text message
Derived terms: texting
shortboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shortboards
Etymology: From short + board. Such a board is short in comparison to a longboard and the boards which preceded the shortboard historically.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: A type of surfboard which is about 6 to 7 feet long (boards are always measured in feet, even in metric countries), and with a tapered pointy nose.
Related terms: thruster
funboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: funboards
Etymology: From fun + board.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: A type of surfboard which is roughly in between a shortboard and a mini-mal. A funboard is a little longer than a shortboard and with wider and somewhat rounded nose and tail, making it easier to paddle but still having most of the performance of a shortboard.
Derived terms: funboarder
funboarding
mini-mal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mini-mals
Etymology: From mini- + mal.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: A type of surfboard which is similar in shape to a mal (i.e. a malibu, or longboard) but shorter, being perhaps 7 to 8 feet where a mal is about 9 feet (surfboards are always measured in feet, even in metric countries).
gut barging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A somewhat comical sport in which two fat men try to push each other off a mat using their bellies.
weak declension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weak declensions
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The declension pattern of a weak noun.
gougers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡaʊd͡ʒ.əz/
ipa: /ˈɡaʊd͡ʒ.ɚz/
Senses: glosses: plural of gouger
saecula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saeculum
transmuting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of transmute
tabernas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taberna
superposed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of superpose
superposed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superimposed
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: That grows vertically above another part
superimposed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of superimpose
superimposed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A polygon was superimposed on the inferred fault network.
glosses: Positioned on or above something else, especially in layers; superposed
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: layered or stratified
Hypernyms: imposed
reas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rea
premedical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + medical.
Senses: glosses: Describing activities prior to, or in preparation for, a study of medicine.
Synonyms: pre-med
premed
prepackage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prepackages
form: prepackaging
form: prepackaged
form: prepackaged
Etymology: From pre- + package.
Senses: glosses: To enclose in packaging prior to sale.
reos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reo
sthg
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Forms: form: sth
form: smth
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of something.
solere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soleres
Senses: examples: text: The cup-bearer shrugged his shoulders in displeasure. "I thought to have lodged him in the solere chamber," said he; "but since he is so unsocial to Christians, e'en let him take the next stall to Isaac the Jew's.— [...]"
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter VII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 101:
glosses: Alternative form of soler (“loft”).
solei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soleus
loganberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loganberry
Kentuckian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɛnˈtʌkiən/
ipa: /kɛnˈtəkiən/
rhymes: -ʌkiən
Etymology: From Kentucky + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the US state of Kentucky.
Kentuckian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɛnˈtʌkiən/
ipa: /kɛnˈtəkiən/
rhymes: -ʌkiən
Forms: form: Kentuckians
Etymology: From Kentucky + -an.
Senses: examples: text: During the Civil War, many Kentuckians found themselves fighting their own family members.
glosses: A native or resident of the state of Kentucky in the United States of America.
Hypernyms: American
equestrians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equestrian
PKA
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Forms: form: P.K.A.
form: p/k/a
Senses: glosses: Initialism of professionally known as.
glosses: Initialism of previously known as.
Synonyms: FKA
Related terms: AKA
counterargument
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterarguments
Etymology: From counter- + argument.
Senses: examples: text: One argument is that "the virus has changed everything" and that people will work from home and travel much less, easing capacity pressures.
But there is a counter argument whereby we may all discover that, longer-term, many jobs cannot after all be effectively carried out from home indefinitely.
ref: 2020 May 20, David Thrower, Ian Wray, “Revisiting the plan for developing the North's rail network”, in Rail, page 40:
glosses: An argument that is opposed to another argument.
Hypernyms: argument
Hyponyms: countercounterargument
Related terms: counterargue
counterargumentation
counterargumentative
counterexample
counterproposal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterproposals
form: counter-proposal
Etymology: From counter- + proposal.
Senses: glosses: A proposal made as an alternative to another, earlier proposal.
Synonyms: counterproposition
Derived terms: countercounterproposal
counterproposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterpropositions
Etymology: From counter- + proposition.
Senses: glosses: A proposal made as an alternative to another, earlier proposition.
Synonyms: counterproposal
counterblow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterblows
Etymology: From counter- + blow.
Senses: glosses: A blow delivered in reply to a previous blow by somebody else, such as an opponent in a boxing match.
Synonyms: afterstroke
counterpunch
return blow
retaliatory blow
counterpunch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterpunches
form: counter-punch
Etymology: From counter- + punch.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: counterattack, counterstrike
synonyms: counterblow#Noun
glosses: A punch delivered in response to a previous punch by somebody else, such as an opponent in a boxing match: a return blow, a retaliatory blow.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A punch used in the cutting of other punches, often used to create the negative space in or around a glyph.
Related terms: left hook
counterpunch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: counterpunches
form: counterpunching
form: counterpunched
form: counterpunched
form: counter-punch
Etymology: From counter- + punch.
Senses: topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: To deliver a punch designed to exploit an opponent's momentary defensive weakness caused by a punch thrown by the opponent.
examples: text: She stands just a little over 5-foot-6, but her two-handed ground strokes off both wings, inspired by the four-time Australian Open champion Monica Seles, allow her to create sharp angles and counterpunching power.
ref: 2009 January 25, Christopher Clarey, “Top-Seeded Jankovic Falls Without a Fight”, in New York Times:
glosses: To deliver a competitive response to an opponent designed to exploit a weakness created by the opponent's offensive efforts.
Derived terms: counterpuncher
Related terms: punch up
punch upward
ranunculuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ranunculus
ranunculi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ranunculus
gouges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡaʊd͡ʒəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of gouge
gouges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɡaʊd͡ʒəz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gouge
welsh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛlʃ/
rhymes: -ɛlʃ
homophone: Welsh
Forms: form: welshes
form: welshing
form: welshed
form: welshed
form: welch
form: Welsh
Etymology: Sometimes suggested to derive from disparaging stereotypes of the Welsh (“people from Wales”), though firm evidence of this derivation is lacking. Compare gyp (“swindle”) (probably from gypsy (“Roma”)), and jew (“defraud”), from Jew.
Senses: glosses: To cheat or swindle someone, often by not paying a debt, especially a gambling debt.
examples: text: "He can weasel out if^([sic]) it." Ibanez massaged her knuckles. "He can say Couch welshed on a deal, and didn't show, and that's why Karen got got. It isn't conclusive. I have another thing I can lay on him, but even the two combined won't do. We need a third smoking gun if we're really gonna smoke this son of a bitch."
ref: 2023 September 28, HarryBlank, “Hooking Up”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 25 May 2024:
glosses: To go back on one's word.
Derived terms: welsh-comb
Related terms: gyp
jew down
welsh
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛlʃ/
rhymes: -ɛlʃ
homophone: Welsh
Forms: form: more welsh
form: most welsh
form: welch
form: Welsh
Etymology: From Old English welise (“foreign”)
Senses: glosses: Foreign.
Derived terms: english: walnut
translation: walnut
word: welshnut
word: Welsh onion
counterforce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterforces
Etymology: From counter- + force.
Senses: glosses: A force that opposes another force.
counterforce
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From counter- + force.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
antonyms: countervalue
glosses: Targeting an opponent's military assets, such as missile silos, rather than other valuable assets such as cities and civilian populations.
Derived terms: controlled counterforce war
awright
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of alright.
preregister
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preregisters
form: preregistering
form: preregistered
form: preregistered
Etymology: From pre- + register.
Senses: glosses: To register for something (especially for a course of education) prior to its start.
glosses: To register or enroll (a person, especially a student) prior to the start of something.
qualifier: methodology
glosses: To register (a study design and its planned statistical analysis) before the study by reporting (them) in the scientific literature via a registered report.
Related terms: preregistration
preregistration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preregistrations
Etymology: From pre- + registration.
Senses: examples: text: There is no charge for participation but pre-registration is necessary since space is limited.
ref: 1980 December 13, “Develop Your Career”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 21, page 2:
glosses: An early registration, before the normal or traditional time, as with early online check-in at hotels.
glosses: Registration (of a study design) before a clinical trial (or any other type of scientific experiment) begins, for methodologic and thus epistemologic rigor.
preregistration
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + registration.
Senses: examples: a preregistration check
glosses: Before registration.
qualifier: In attributive position
glosses: Pertaining to preregistration (of scientific trials or other experiments).
raw_tags: as noun adjunct
Related terms: preregister
probational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more probational
form: most probational
Etymology: From probation + -al.
Senses: glosses: probationary
probationary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more probationary
form: most probationary
Etymology: From probation + -ary.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or subject to probation
Derived terms: probationary period
probationarily
probationary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: probationaries
Etymology: From probation + -ary.
Senses: glosses: An employee who is still in their probationary period.
producible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From produce + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Able to be produced
Related terms: producibility
constructible
creable
profaneness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: profanenesses
form: prophaneness
Etymology: From profane + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: the […] heathenishness and profaneness of most playbooks
ref: 1644, William Prynne, A Breviate of the Life of William Laud:
glosses: The quality of being profane; profanity.
handlebody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handlebodies
Etymology: From handle + body.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: A top-dimensional submanifold of Euclidean space comprising a ball with handles attached to it along its boundary.
Synonyms: cube with handles
tuplets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tuplet
top-dimensional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From top + dimensional.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: Having the same dimension as the ambient topological space.
cube with handles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cubes with handles
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: A three-dimensional handlebody.
submanifold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: submanifolds
Etymology: From sub- + manifold.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: A manifold which is a subset of another, so that the inclusion function is an embedding or, sometimes, an immersion.
onychology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From onycho- + -logy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: the study of fingernails and toenails
delubra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delubrum
piecewise linear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From piecewise (adverb) + linear.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Equal to a sum of finitely many linear functions, each defined on a convex polytope: said of functions between vector spaces
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: Having a defining atlas such that there is a piecewise linear homeomorphism between any pair of intersecting atlas charts: said of manifolds
Synonyms: PL
kickboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kickboard
kick-board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kick-boards
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kickboard.
small-talk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He took Miss Lynes to supper; he outshone himself in vacuitous small-talk during the whole time that the meal lasted; he held undisputed possession of her during that hour especially dear to flirtation, between the time when supper ended and the departure of the guests.
ref: 1864 October, [Annie Edwards], “The Ordeal of Wives. A Story of London Life.”, in London Society. An Illustrated Magazine of Light and Amusing Literature for the Hours of Relaxation., volume VI, number XXXV, London: Office, […], chapter XXXVII (Diamonds Win), page 374, column 1:
text: Mr Casaubon seemed even unconscious that trivialities existed, and never handed round that small-talk of heavy men which is as acceptable as stale bride-cake brought forth with an odour of cupboard.
ref: 1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter III, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I, page 48:
text: Agreement even seemed to cheer him up, and from there our discussion began to take on a more relaxed and customary shape and to gravitate towards our usual oxymorous small-talk on large topics.
ref: 1984, Amanda Prantera, Strange Loop, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton, Inc., →ISBN, page 75:
glosses: Alternative spelling of small talk.
harasser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harassers
Etymology: From harass + -er.
Senses: examples: text: All the eyes focus on the harasser. However, the person affected, the harassee, is often left behind. The harassee is most often a second thought. Employers may say “don’t forget about the harassee”, or “we must check on the how the harassee is doing”, but that is insufficient.
ref: 2017 May 24, Ronald A. Pink, “#WorkLawWednesday: Why Does the Harassee Always Pay the Price?”, in Pink Larkin:
text: Ordinary people have already been face-swapped into videos for humorous or prank purposes and there is no reason to believe that abusers, harassers, stalkers, and blackmailers will not soon be face-swapping victims into compromising video as part of their arsenal.
ref: 2018 April, Larry Zimmerman, “Cheap and Easily Manipulated Video”, in The Journal of the Kansas Bar Association, Topeka, Kan.: Kansas Bar Association, →ISSN, page 21:
glosses: One who harasses.
Derived terms: cyberharasser
harassers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harasser
hilliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hilly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being hilly or having hills.
highhandedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Their highhandedness extends to such extraordinary actions as the Tennessee House’s expulsion of two Democratic lawmakers last month and the Montana House’s recent silencing of a transgender Democrat.
ref: 2023 May 4, Frank Bruni, “Republicans Are Running Wild in My State”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of high-handedness.
highhanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more highhanded
form: most highhanded
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of high-handed.
headwaiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headwaiters
Etymology: From head + waiter.
Senses: synonyms: maître d'
maître d'hôtel
glosses: A waiter who has a supervisory position over the other wait staff; chief waiter.
headwaiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headwaiter
Gompertzian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: For Benjamin Gompertz, English mathematician, + -ian.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having the form of, or some characteristics of the form of, a Gompertz curve.
wikipedia: Benjamin Gompertz
Gompertz curve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gompertz curves
Etymology: For Benjamin Gompertz, English mathematician
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any of a family of curves, describing demographic growth, that increase exponentially at first before reaching a plateau.
Related terms: Gompertzian
professorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: professorships
Etymology: From professor + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: And as regards histories of art, they are quite valueless to you unless you are seeking the ostentatious oblivion of an art professorship.
ref: 1883, Oscar Wilde, “Lecture to Art Students”, in Essays and Lectures:
text: She earned a professorship at Los Angeles City College, and taught theatre there for two years.
ref: 2022, Claire Chwalek, No Rest for a Heartbreaker, →ISBN:
topics: education
glosses: The office of a professor.
Synonyms: professorate
Related terms: chair
profoundness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: profoundnesses
Etymology: From Middle English profoundnesse, equivalent to profound + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being profound; profundity
profuseness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹoʊˈfjus.nəs/
Forms: form: profusenesses
Etymology: From profuse + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being profuse; profusion
progressiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From progressive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being progressive
Synonyms: progressivity
prolixly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more prolixly
form: most prolixly
Etymology: From prolix + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a prolix manner
prosaically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more prosaically
form: most prosaically
Etymology: From prosaic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a prosaic manner; straightforwardly.
protectiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈtɛktɪvnəs/
ipa: /pɹoʊˈtɛktɪvnəs/
Etymology: From protective + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being protective.
Derived terms: atheroprotectiveness
gastroprotectiveness
overprotectiveness
vindictive protectiveness
provocativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From provocative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being provocative; provocative behaviour.
pulpiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulpinesses
Etymology: From pulpy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being pulpy.
pulpy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pulpier
form: pulpiest
Etymology: From pulp + -y.
Senses: examples: text: the pulpy texture of overripe fruit
glosses: Having the characteristics of pulp.
examples: text: a pulpy TV thriller
text: In a sly bit of casting, Tony Goldwyn — a star of the pulpy TV series “Scandal” — shows up as one of the leaders of the Christmas Adventurers Club..
ref: 2025 September 25, Manohla Dargis, “‘One Battle After Another’ Review: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Rallying Cry”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2025:
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: Having the characteristics of pulp fiction; thus, having a garish focus on sex and violence.
Synonyms: word: curdy
word: grumous
word: mushlike
word: mushy
word: paplike
word: pappy
word: pobby
word: porridgelike
word: puddingish
word: puddinglike
word: puddingy
word: pulplike
word: pulpous
word: pulpy
word: pultaceous
Hypernyms: word: moist
word: semisolid
word: shapeless
word: soft
word: thick
Hyponyms: word: baccate
Derived terms: pulpily
pulpiness
pulpy kidney
Related terms: word: coagulated
word: congealed
puniness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From puny + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being puny
pureness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʊə(ɹ)nəs
Forms: form: purenesses
Etymology: From pure + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being pure; purity
pushiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pushy + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: pushingness
cockiness
forwardness
glosses: The quality of being pushy; being aggressively ambitious, overly assertive.
synonyms: moxie
vigor
glosses: Being bold or determined.
provoker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: provokers
Etymology: From Middle English provoker, equivalent to provoke + -er.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: (sometimes synonymous) provocateur, provocant, provocator; (other) troublemaker, agitator, inciter, gadfly, button pusher, goader, iconoclast, shit-stirrer, shit disturber, shitmonger
glosses: A person who provokes.
purchasable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more purchasable
form: most purchasable
Etymology: From purchase + -able.
Senses: examples: text: For years the Kama Sutra was only available to sailors and tourists coming back from Bombay, or purchasable in Paris stalls along the Seine as a dirty book.
ref: 1969, Allen V. Ross, Vice in Bombay, London: Tallis Press, page 88:
glosses: Able to be purchased; available for purchase.
glosses: Affordable.
putout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: putouts
Etymology: Deverbal from put out.
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A play in which a batter is retired.
examples: text: Jones recorded 15 putouts in the first half of the season.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The statistic of the number of outs a defensive player directly caused.
Related terms: put out
polyphenotypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + phenotypic.
Senses: examples: someone from an insular society has not been exposed to a polyphenotypic population
glosses: Of or pertaining to a poly- varied population.
Related terms: phenotypic
phenotype
poly-
heelless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From heel + -less.
Senses: examples: a heelless shoe with a flat sole
glosses: Without a heel.
Derived terms: heellessness
heathenish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heathenish
form: most heathenish
Etymology: From heathen + -ish. Compare with Old English hǣþenisc.
Senses: examples: text: […] ‘Tobit and his dog baith are altogether heathenish and apocryphal, and none but a prelatist or a papist would draw them into question. I doubt I hae been mista'en in you, friend.’
ref: 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], chapter XXXVI, in Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
text: The opposite wall of this entry was hung all over with a heathenish array of monstrous clubs and spears.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 3, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: Let it not be lawful to use wicked observations of the calends, and to keep the gentiles' holy-days, nor to deck houses with bays or green boughs; for all this is an heathenish observation.
ref: 1852, John Whitgift, “Of the Communion Book. Tract IX. The General Faults Examined wherewith the Public Service is Charged by T[homas] C[artwright]”, in John Ayre, editor, The Works of John Whitgift, D.D., […] The Second Portion, Containing the Defence of the Answer to the Admonition against the Reply of Thomas Cartwright: Tractates VII–X (Publications of the Parker Society; no. 48), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Printed at the University Press, →OCLC, page 447:
synonyms: heathenly
heathenous
glosses: Resembling a heathen.
Derived terms: heathenishly
heathenishness
Related terms: heathenistic
heavenwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From heaven + -wards.
Senses: examples: text: Nabby Adams had nearly fallen, but six feet eight inches of integrity had reared itself heavenwards just in time.
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 127:
text: 'Aaah!' they sigh, as the silvery Space Shuttle races heavenwards on top of a towering pillar of flame.
ref: 1985, Joan Morrison, chapter 5, in Share House Blues, Boolarong Publications, page 62:
glosses: Upwards, in the direction of the sky or heavens.
helmeted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: helmetted
Etymology: From helmet + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having or wearing a helmet, or having the appearance of wearing a helmet.
Synonyms: behelmeted
Derived terms: helmeted friarbird
helmeted guineafowl
horn-helmeted
nonhelmeted
unhelmeted
helmeted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: helmetted
Etymology: From helmet + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of helmet
head-to-head
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌhɛd tu ˈhɛd/
/ˌhɛd tə ˈhɛd/
Forms: form: more head-to-head
form: most head-to-head
form: head to head
Senses: examples: text: For years, Southwest sought to avoid head-to-head competition with big, traditional airlines.
ref: 2006 July 11, Dan Reed, “At 35, Southwest's strategy gets more complicated”, in USA Today:
text: Fat Bear Week, which started in 2014, is an annual competition where brown bears from Alaska's Katmai National Park face off in head-to-head matchups -- similar to a March Madness bracket -- with people around the world voting for who they believe is the fattest of the bunch, the National Park Service said in a press release.
ref: 2025 October 1, Megan Forrester, “2025 Fat Bear Week winner announced: See who was named 'beefiest bruin'”, in ABC News:
glosses: Direct, one-to-one.
head-to-head
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˌhɛd tu ˈhɛd/
/ˌhɛd tə ˈhɛd/
Forms: form: head to head
Senses: glosses: Facing one another.
glosses: Directly, one-to-one.
Synonyms: tête-à-tête
Coordinate terms: arm-in-arm
back-to-back
cheek-by-jowl
cheek-to-cheek
ear-to-ear
elbow-to-elbow
end-to-end
eye-to-eye
face-to-face
hand-to-hand
mouth-to-mouth
nose-to-nose
shoulder-to-shoulder
side-by-side
toe-to-toe
hider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪdə/
ipa: /ˈhɑɪdɚ/
Forms: form: hiders
Etymology: From hide + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Bobgoblin is actually hiding in the pillows. Told you Bobgoblin is an outstanding hider.
ref: "Ted the Bed" (episode), Wallykazam! (TV series)
glosses: One who hides oneself or a thing.
Derived terms: pot hider
hiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hider
discommode
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪskəˈməʊd/
ipa: /ˌdɪskəˈmoʊd/
rhymes: -əʊd
Forms: form: discommodes
form: discommoding
form: discommoded
form: discommoded
Senses: glosses: To cause inconvenience to (someone).
Synonyms: word: discommodate
word: incommode
word: inconvenience
Related terms: discommodious
commode
iconothecas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iconotheca
bufos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bufo
incipit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnsɪpɪt/
Forms: form: incipits
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin incipit (“it begins”).
Senses: antonyms: explicit
glosses: The first few words of a text, especially its first line.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The first few bars of a piece of music.
Birgitte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Danish Birgitte and Norwegian Birgitte.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Danish or Norwegian, equivalent to English Bridget.
Birgit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Chadic language spoken in southeastern Chad.
pay-offs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pay-off
Britt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city in Iowa.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Minnesota.
glosses: A female given name.
Gitte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Danish Gitte.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Birgitte, from Danish.
bersagliere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌbɛɹ.səlˈjɛɹ.eɪ/
/-sɑl-/
/-sæl-/
/-ˈlɛɹ-/
/-i/
Forms: form: bersaglieri
Etymology: From Italian bersagliere.
Senses: examples: text: We passed a long column of loaded mules, the drivers walking along beside the mules wearing red fezzes. They were bersaglieri.
ref: 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 50:
text: A small detachment of bersaglieri, which rashly went to see what was going on, was then wiped out by a force of armed peasants.
ref: 2011, David Gilmour, The Pursuit of Italy, Penguin, published 2012, page 244:
glosses: A marksman or rifleman in certain Italian regiments.
yellowcake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellowcakes
form: yellow cake
Etymology: From yellow + cake, from its colour and texture.
Senses: synonyms: urania
glosses: A concentrated form of uranium ore containing a mixture of oxides.
partigiani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of partigiano
bersaglieri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌbɛɹ.səlˈjɛɹ.i/
/-sɑl-/
/-sæl-/
/-ˈlɛɹ-/
Senses: glosses: plural of bersagliere
all-fire
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: If you were not in such an all-fire hurry to get out of there, you would not have forgotten your purse.
glosses: Extreme or intense in degree.
all-fire
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: If she's so all-fire lonely, why doesn't she ever leave her dorm room and actually meet people?
glosses: To an intense degree.
Greta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German and Swedish Greta, a contraction of Margareta.
Senses: examples: text: Herb and Greta poured through “name” books and the only name they could agree on was “Rosalie.” Greta told Herb that she didn't want her daughter's name to end in a “lie,” and so they named her Rosalee.
ref: 2015, Janice Dickson, Herbert Peppard: The Eternal Man, FriesenPress, →ISBN:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Derived terms: Greta Thunbergian
Greta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old Norse grjót + a.
Senses: examples: text: After we have crossed the Glenderamackin stream, which drains the northern slopes of Saddleback, and the latter has united with the St. John's Beck to form the Greta, however, we see ahead the miniature canyon the Greta has hollowed out for itself, and into the depth of which the train now descends.
ref: 1961 October, 'Voyageur', “The Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 601:
glosses: A river in Cumbria, England, which joins the Derwent at Keswick.
glosses: A river in County Durham, England, which joins the Tees, and which was originally in the North Riding of Yorkshire.
glosses: A river in North Yorkshire and Lancashire, England, which joins the Lune.
glosses: A minor river in north Canterbury, New Zealand, which flows into the Hurunui River, and named after one of the North Yorkshire rivers.
glosses: Two places in Australia thought to be named after the Cumbrian river:
A small town in the Hunter Region of New South Wales.
glosses: Two places in Australia thought to be named after the Cumbrian river:
A locality in the Rural City of Wangaratta, Victoria.
Derived terms: english: bridge and hamlet
translation: bridge and hamlet
word: Greta Bridge
cuddies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuddy
penisy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more penisy
form: most penisy
Etymology: From penis + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I wanted to scream, but that little penisy-looking thing at the entrance to my throat locked and no sound came out.
ref: 2001, Gale Zoe Garnett, Visible Amazement, →ISBN, page 68:
text: There are a lot of men after Steve. Buck Rogerss Gil Gerard, [...] and those moody kids in swimming suits with the wet, penisy' Flipper gliding between their legs.
ref: 2001, Mike Albo, Hornito: My Lie Life, →ISBN:
text: She kissed him swiftly on the lips, a waft of penisy breath filling his nostrils, and still he couldn't see her face.
ref: 2007, William Sutcliffe, Whatever Makes You Happy, →ISBN, page 201:
text: What if a raccoon with rabies jumped out and clawed me, or possums, which were so disgusting, with those penisy hairless white tails.
ref: 2010, Anne Lamott, Imperfect Birds, →ISBN, page 136:
glosses: Penislike; resembling a penis.
kephalomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Kephalomancy. Divination by the crackling of a donkey's head when burnt.
ref: 1973, K. Ellis, Prediction and Prophecy iii:
glosses: Alternative spelling of cephalomancy.
daemonomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of demonomancy.
go-carts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of go-cart
enoptromancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enoptomancy
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔνοπτρον (énoptron, “mirror”) + -mancy.
Senses: examples: text: enoptromancy...Divination with a mirror.
ref: 1908, Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dict.:
text: enoptromancy a form of divination involving a mirror and its reflections.
ref: 1986 Urdang (ed.) -Ologies & -Isms (3rd ed.)
glosses: Divination by means of a mirror or other reflective surfaces.
Synonyms: catoptromancy
crystallomancy
scrying
entomomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From entomo- + -mancy.
Senses: examples: 1983 Complete Bk Predictions
Entomomancy Predicting from the appearance and behavior of insects.
glosses: Divination by the behaviour and appearance of insects. A form of augury.
felidomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From felid + -o- + -mancy.
Senses: examples: text: FELIDOMANCY: Divination involving the behavior or actions of a cat, ranging from changes in weather to unexpected visitors, or other occurrences. Dating from the Middle Ages, many of these have survived as popular superstitions.
ref: [1973, Walter B. Gibson, Litzka R. Gibson, The Complete Illustrated Book of Divination and Prophecy, London: Souvenir Press, published 1987, →ISBN, page 317:
glosses: Divination by interpreting the appearance and behaviour of cats.
Synonyms: ailuromancy
gastromancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastronomancy
Etymology: From gastro- + -mancy.
Senses: examples: 1693 Urquhart translating Rabelais Gargantua & Pantagruel iii. xxv.
By Gastromancy, which kind of ventral Fatiloquency was for a long time together used in Ferrara by Lady Giacoma Rodogina, the Eugastrimythian Prophetess.
glosses: Divination by interpreting the sounds and signs of the belly.
examples: text: 1610 Vives in J. Healey Saint Augustine of the Citie of God
Diuination generally was done by diuers means..Hydromancy..done either in a glasse bottle full of water, wherein a Childe must looke, (and this is called, Gastromancy of the glasses belly)...
text: The methods [of scrying] varied according to the nature of the shiny object used and the medium employed... Sometimes the term gastromancy ('divination by the belly') was used, because the vessel filled with water was called gastra 'belly-shaped vessel'.
ref: 1985, G. Luck Arcana Mundi, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Divination by noting magical visions in large-bellied glasses, sometimes described as a technique where a child is placed in front of a glass filled with water, the images in the glass then interpreted. Similar to crystallomancy.
Related terms: gastromancer
ranis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rani
gyromancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyromancies
Etymology: From gyro- + -mancy.
Senses: glosses: Divination where people walk on a circle of letters until dizzy; the letters they fall on are significant. Similar to Dervishing.
glosses: Divination by whirling a coin on a circle of letters.
Dhagat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dhagats
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi धगट (dhagaṭ).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hindi.
takes care
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take care
taking care
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take care
taken care
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take care
took care
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take care
appraising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɹeɪzɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪzɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of appraise
appraising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɹeɪzɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪzɪŋ
Forms: form: appraisings
Senses: qualifier: Scots law
glosses: Alternative form of apprising.
honorer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honorers
form: honourer
Etymology: From honor + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who honors.
Related terms: honorary
honorers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honorer
heaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hiːvz/
rhymes: -iːvz
Senses: glosses: plural of heave
heaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hiːvz/
rhymes: -iːvz
Senses: examples: text: I have the dry heaves, I rather just throw up and get it over with.
glosses: A period of retching.
glosses: A disease of horses characterized by coughing and difficult breathing; broken wind.
Related terms: dry heaves
heaves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hiːvz/
rhymes: -iːvz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of heave
homesteader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhəʊmstɛdə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈhoʊmstɛdɚ/
Forms: form: homesteaders
Etymology: From homestead + -er.
Senses: examples: text: In my rambles I continually came upon homesteaders striving to drain the valleys and raise grass for their cattle, while simultaneously the beavers were working to maintain high water.
ref: 1926, Joe Mills, chapter 7, in A Mountain Boyhood:
text: A drag queen may not comfortably fit the stereotypical homesteader mold. In the 19th century, homesteaders were Western pioneers who built new lives from necessity; on TikTok, the most popular homesteaders are often parents with young families or those with a lifelong connection to the practice, which often include so-called “tradwives,” or women who play a stereotypically gendered role in their family.
ref: 2025 March 30, Scottie Andrew, “Queer and trans homesteaders are conquering the social media frontier”, in CNN:
glosses: A pioneer who goes and settles on a homestead.
homesteaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homesteader
ergosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ergospheres
Etymology: From ergo- + -sphere. Coined by Remo Ruffini and John Archibald Wheeler in 1971 in reference to the fact that it is theoretically possible to extract energy from the region.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A region outside the event horizon of a rotating black hole in which space and time are distorted by shear forces.
wikipedia: John Archibald Wheeler
Remo Ruffini
Derived terms: ergospheric