cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
posttax
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + tax.
Senses: examples: text: Without a reasonable theoretical description of consumption – and without the data needed to carefully deal with aggregation biases – all that we are left with to guide the specification of an empirical model is our preexisting intuition that real consumer spending likely depends on real posttax income, and possibly real wealth.
ref: 2024, Jeremy B. Rudd, A Practical Guide to Macroeconomics, page 52:
glosses: After tax.
tonlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɔn.lɛt/
Forms: form: tonlets
form: tonnelet
Etymology: From Middle English tonlet, Old French tonnelet (French tonnelet (“high breeches; keg”)).
Senses: examples: text: Accordingly, the Greenwich armoury hurriedly prepared a somewhat more conventional suit of foot combat armour made from existing pieces but incorporating newly made symmetrical pauldrons and a tonlet.
ref: 2014, Glenn Richardson, The Field of Cloth of Gold, Yale University Press, →ISBN:
text: On some the buttocks and groin are also fully encased in steel; while, on others, these same parts are protected by a tonlet, a deep steel skirt that widens downward to facilitate leg movement (see cat. 37).
ref: 2019, Pierre Terjanian, Andrea Bayer, et al., The Last Knight: The Art, Armor, and Ambition of Maximilian I, Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, page 96:
coordinate_terms: base
lamboys
glosses: A long armoured skirt, designed for combat on foot.
examples: text: Soon after this the six or eight "tonlets" grow fewer, being continued on the lower edge by the so-called tuilles, small plates strapped to the tonlets and swinging with the movement of the legs.
ref: 1926, Hugh Chisholm, James Louis Garvin, The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature & General Information. 13th Ed., Being Volumes One to Twenty-eight of the Latest Standard Edition with the Three New Volumes Covering Recent Years and the Index Volume, page 588:
text: The steel tonlets are rigid, not overlapping and movable.
ref: 2013, Wolfgang Bruhn, Max Tilke, A Pictorial History of Costume From Ancient Times to the Nineteenth Century: With Over 1900 Illustrated Costumes, Including 1000 in Full Color, Courier Corporation, →ISBN:
text: His legs and thighs were similarly covered in plate, his loins by a mail apron over which was a short skirt of horizontal, overlapping plate 'tonlets'. His torso was protected by breast and back plates, the former reinforced […]
ref: 2014, Desmond Seward, Richard III: England's Black Legend, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: One of the plates which make up such a skirt.
tonlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tonlet
overcoy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overcoy
form: most overcoy
Etymology: From over- + coy.
Senses: glosses: Excessively coy.
overeagerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more overeagerly
form: most overeagerly
Etymology: From Middle English overegreli, ouer egirly, equivalent to overeager + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an overeager manner.
overcritically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more overcritically
form: most overcritically
Etymology: From overcritical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an overcritical manner.
postdepression
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + depression.
Senses: glosses: After an economic depression.
postdevaluation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + devaluation.
Senses: glosses: After a financial devaluation.
sepmag
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Clipping of separate magnetic (“from the magnetic tape used for recording”).
Senses: examples: text: At the appropriate distances (28, 26 and 20 frames) ahead of the JOIN PICTURE HERE line there are rows of squares, circles and triangles which indicate the correct splicing points for 16-mm sepmag, 16-mm sepopt and […]
ref: 1968, D. J. Corbett, Motion Picture and Television Film, page 64:
text: Sound for these two telecines is reproduced from conventional sepmag tape machines.
ref: 1970, BBC Engineering, numbers 81-88, page 13:
topics: broadcasting
media
television
synonyms: double-headed
coordinate_terms: commag
comopt
sepopt
glosses: Having a separately magnetically recorded soundtrack running concurrently with the film footage.
presleep
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + sleep.
Senses: glosses: Before a period of sleep.
proudful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more proudful
form: most proudful
Etymology: From Middle English proudful, proudvol, equivalent to proud + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Full of pride; excessively proud.
Derived terms: proudfully
proudfulness
taihoa
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori taihoa (“wait; do not hurry”).
Senses: examples: text: He found in office that the taihoa policy was not the creation of his predecessor, but was imposed by the fundamental conditions of the problem to which every Native Minister has to address himself.
ref: 1970, James A. Clifton, Applied anthropology: readings in the uses of the science of man:
text: The main aim of the Liberal government had always been pakeha land settlement, even through the taihoa period.
ref: 2004, Richard S. Hill, State authority, indigenous autonomy, page 101:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Slow and cautious; gradual.
spewy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈspjuː(w)i/
Forms: form: more spewy
form: most spewy
Etymology: From spew + -y.
Senses: glosses: Feeling like vomiting; nauseous.
examples: text: Between two ridges of raised ground and on the falling slope occur spewy springs issuing from the higher ground above, and soaking down the hollow, widening and gathering moisture till the water issues in a small rill at the bottom[…]
ref: 1886, Journal of horticulture and practical gardening: Volume 12:
text: The ground in places is spewy and boggy from the wet.
ref: 1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary On The Plains, page 78:
glosses: Moist; marshy; emitting water.
Synonyms: sense: moist
word: damp
word: humid
word: sodden
word: wet
sense: marshy
word: boggy
word: swampy
word: uliginous
word: marshy
subcurative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + curative.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Insufficient to effect a cure.
sobful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sobful
form: most sobful
Etymology: From sob + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Full of sobs; tearful, weeping.
sazzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saz
scalpless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From scalp + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a scalp.
succahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of succah
tediousome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tediousome
form: most tediousome
Etymology: From tedious + -some.
Senses: examples: text: "It was an unco pleasant show," said the good-natured Mrs. Blower, "only it was a pity it was sae tediousome; and there was surely an awfu' waste of gauze and muslin."
ref: 1823, Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well:
text: Thus equipped we took our departure for Lake la Pluie, where we arrived on the second of October after a tediousome and disagreable passage[…]
ref: 1975, Glyndwr Williams, Hudson's Bay miscellany, 1670-1870:
glosses: Characterised or marked by tediousness; wearisome.
tediousnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tediousness
tediums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tedium
profamily
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more profamily
form: most profamily
form: pro-family
Etymology: From pro- + family.
Senses: glosses: In favour of the traditional social construct of the family.
Coordinate terms: family values
traditional family
syndyasmian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek συνδυασμός (sunduasmós, “combination of two, copulation”), from συν- (sun-) + δυάς (duás).
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the state of pairing together sexually; said of animals during periods of procreation and while rearing their offspring.
examples: text: Two forms of the family had appeared before the syndiasmian, and created two great systems of consanguinity, or rather two distinct forms of the same system, but this third family neither produced a new system nor sensibly modified the old. The syndiasmian family continued for an unknown period of time enveloped in a system of consanguinity, false, in the main, to existing relationships, and which it had no power to break. This was reserved for monogamy, the coming power, able to dissolve the fabric.
ref: 1906, Philip Rappaport, Looking Forward, page 33:
text: We should note that matriarchy is easily explained as the almost inevitable successor of syndiasmian marriage or, more generally, of polyandry.
ref: 2010, Gabriel Tarde, Terry N. Clark, Gabriel Tarde On Communication and Social Influence, page 128:
text: Under these influences arose the Syndiasmian, or third general type of the family, based upon the marriage of single pairs, often temporary and without exclusive cohabitation.
ref: 2020, George Elliott Howard, A History of Matrimonial Institutions: Volume 1, page 51:
glosses: Pertaining to a family structure in which couples pair off (sometimes only temporarily for the rearing of children), but do not practice exclusive cohabitation, instead living with others in a communal household.
Vehmique
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Vehmic.
Vehmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Fehmic
form: Vehmique
Etymology: From Vehm + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Vehm, a Westphalian tribunal system during the Middle Ages.
vowless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vow + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a vow; not having taken a vow.
taxpaid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tax + paid.
Senses: glosses: On which tax has been paid.
squeg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: squegs
form: squegging
form: squegged
form: squegged
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To undergo squegging.
squegs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of squeg
squegged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of squeg
squelcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squelchers
Etymology: From squelch + -er.
Senses: examples: text: CELLULITE — the dimpled, uneven skin that mars the backsides and thighs of women everywhere — is a scourge to bikini-wearers and a squelcher of lights-on romps in bed.
ref: 2009 June 25, Catherine Saint Louis, “Treating Cellulite? It’s Still There”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who, or that which, squelches.
squelchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squelcher
postdrug
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + drug.
Senses: glosses: After a drug is administered.
predrug
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + drug.
Senses: glosses: Before a drug is administered.
poculiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒkjʊlɪfɔːm/
ipa: /ˈpɑkjəlɪfɔɹm/
Forms: form: more poculiform
form: most poculiform
Etymology: Latin poculum (“cup”) + -form; compare French poculiforme.
Senses: examples: text: Poculiform (poculiforme) cylindrically cup-shaped, with the base hemispherical, and but slightly, or not at all, spreading or recurved at the mouth.
ref: 1809, William Martin, Outlines of an Attempt to Establish a Knowledge of Extraneous Fossils on Scientific Principles: In Two Parts, Macclesfield, Cheshire: Printed by J. Wilson; sold by the author, Buxton; J. White, Fleet-Street, and Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, London, →OCLC, page 128:
text: JASMINUM bracteatum […] Calyx pubescent; tube poculiform, subnervose; segments setaceous, erect, as long as the tube.
ref: 1830, Jonathan Stokes, Botanical Commentaries, volume 1, London: Simpkin and Marshall; Treuttel & Würtz, →OCLC, pages 13–14:
text: A subdivision of the genus Narcissus, including N. capax and N. reflexus, in which the segments of the perianth are semi-reflexed, and the coronet poculiform, about equalling the perianth segments.
ref: 1866, Thomas Moore, “ASSARACUS”, in John Lindley, Thomas Moore, editors, The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with which is Incorporated a Glossary of Botanical Terms, volume 1, London: Longmans, Green & Co., →OCLC, page 104:
text: [S]ubgenital plate of male poculiform, narrowly rounded at apex as seen from dorsum […]
ref: 1961 July 21, James A. G. Rehn with David C. Eades, “The Genus Opshomala of Serville, 1831 (Orthoptera; Acrididae; Cyrtacanthacridinae)”, in Notulae Naturae of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, number 345, page 5:
text: Poculiforms Known since the nineteenth century, poculiform snowdrops derive their name from the Latin poculus ('little cup'), and were named by the Revd. Henry Harpur-Crew (1828–1883). The inner segments are elongated so that all six flower segments are generally equal in length, forming a rounded, bowl-shaped flower.
ref: 2013, Freda Cox, “Hybrids, Cultivars, Varieties and Forms”, in Gardener's Guide to Snowdrops, New York, N.Y.: Crowood, →ISBN:
text: 'The Bride' [a snowdrop variety], found in the early Seventies at Foxcote Farm near Cheltenham, was his first discovery. It's a poculiform (cup-shaped) G. elwesii with six pure white petals of the same length. Like many poculiforms […] it's not a strong grower.
ref: 2015 February 7, Val Bourne, “The quiet man of the world of snowdrops”, in The Daily Telegraph (London), page G8:
glosses: Having the shape of a goblet or drinking cup.
Related terms: poculum
poculiform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒkjʊlɪfɔːm/
ipa: /ˈpɑkjəlɪfɔɹm/
Forms: form: poculiforms
Etymology: Latin poculum (“cup”) + -form; compare French poculiforme.
Senses: examples: text: Poculiforms Known since the nineteenth century, poculiform snowdrops derive their name from the Latin poculus ('little cup'), and were named by the Revd. Henry Harpur-Crew (1828–1883). The inner segments are elongated so that all six flower segments are generally equal in length, forming a rounded, bowl-shaped flower.
ref: 2013, Freda Cox, “Hybrids, Cultivars, Varieties and Forms”, in Gardener's Guide to Snowdrops, New York, N.Y.: Crowood, →ISBN:
text: 'The Bride' [a snowdrop variety], found in the early Seventies at Foxcote Farm near Cheltenham, was his first discovery. It's a poculiform (cup-shaped) G. elwesii with six pure white petals of the same length. Like many poculiforms […] it's not a strong grower.
ref: 2015 February 7, Val Bourne, “The quiet man of the world of snowdrops”, in The Daily Telegraph (London), page G8:
glosses: A variety of snowdrop with petals of the same length.
reccying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reccy
reccied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reccy
preovulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + ovulatory.
Senses: examples: text: Preovulatory animals, expressing female-like pseudosexual behavior, are characterized by an elevated concentration of E and a moderate concentration of progesterone (P) […]
ref: 1987, Florence Haseltine, Michael E. McClure, Ellen H. Goldberg, Genetic markers of sex differentiation, page 18:
glosses: Prior to ovulation.
prepueblo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + pueblo.
Senses: glosses: Prior to communities based around a pueblo.
rewin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rewins
form: rewinning
form: rewon
form: rewon
Etymology: From re- + win.
Senses: glosses: To win again or anew, to win back.
rewinning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rewin
rewins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rewin
rewon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ʌn
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rewin
semiraw
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + raw.
Senses: examples: semiraw effluent
glosses: Partly raw; not yet fully processed.
torrentuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more torrentuous
form: most torrentuous
Senses: glosses: torrential
throughother
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more throughother
form: most throughother
Etymology: Probably from Irish. However, it has parallels in both Goidelic (e.g. Irish trína chéile) and Germanic (e.g. Scots throuither, German durcheinander).
Senses: glosses: untidy
straphang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: straphangs
form: straphanging
form: straphung
form: straphung
form: strap-hang
Etymology: From strap + hang.
Senses: examples: text: Instead of having people coming from the outskirts, straphanging in omnibuses and trains, working in the centre under congested conditions in badly lit, insanitary buildings[…]
ref: 1932, Great Britain, Parliamentary debates: Official report: Volume 269:
text: Unheeding the conductor's warning glare, Mr. Devine straphung, smiling, his lips forming soundless phrases as though he enjoyed a delightful, inaudible conversation.
ref: 1957, Brian Moore, The Feast of Lupercal:
text: He straphung for five stops, pressed on three sides by a young Rastafarian wearing a green-suede pillbox hat, an elderly, tiny Chinese couple, and a coffee-coloured nurse who was literally asleep on her feet.
ref: 1989, Thomas Boyle, Only the dead know Brooklyn:
text: It will take a long time for these commuters to come back. And clearly, from all the evidence we have so far, not many will be 'straphanging' five days per week. Indeed, straphanging itself may be a thing of the past.
ref: 2021 January 27, Christian Wolmar, “Investment, not cuts, is how to generate a big 'return to rail'”, in RAIL, issue 923, page 46:
glosses: To ride public transport while standing and holding onto a strap.
Related terms: straphanger
straphangs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of straphang
straphanging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of straphang
straphung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of straphang
postfracture
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + fracture.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: After a bone fracture.
postvagotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + vagotomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: After a vagotomy.
postgastrectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + gastrectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: After a gastrectomy.
queen regnant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: queens regnant
form: queen regnante
Senses: glosses: A female monarch who reigns in her own right, in contrast to a queen consort, who is the wife of a reigning monarch.
Synonyms: woman king
Coordinate terms: king regnant
queen consort
queen regent
Related terms: queen consort
empress regnant
king consort
prince consort
queen dowager
consort
dowager
Postmaster General
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Postmaster Generals
form: Postmasters General
form: postmaster general
Senses: glosses: A postmaster responsible for an entire mail distribution organization (usually sponsored by a national government).
minister-president
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ministers-president
Etymology: From minister + president.
Senses: glosses: The head of government in a number of European countries or subnational governments, in which a parliamentary or semi-presidential system of government prevails, who presides over the council of ministers.
Synonyms: prime minister
premier
chief minister
first minister
Related terms: head of government
Princess Royal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Princesses Royal
Etymology: A calque translation of French princesse royale, hence the unusual order of adjective following noun.
Senses: glosses: A style customarily (but not automatically) awarded by a British monarch to his or her eldest daughter.
procurator fiscal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: procurators fiscal
Senses: examples: text: There was word of the procurator fiscal taking note of his doings, and troth, if they had continued long he must have fled the country.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
text: For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year.
ref: 2004 April 15, “Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer”, in The Scotsman:
text: For other notifications that do not meet the investigative threshold, RAIB may respond by writing a letter to the industry and issuing a press statement, taking no further action, or in the event of a fatality writing a letter to the coroner or the procurator fiscal (in Scotland) containing a summary of evidence.
ref: 2021 December 29, Paul Stephen, “Rail's accident investigators”, in RAIL, number 947, page 32:
glosses: A local coroner and public prosecutor in Scotland.
monetary units
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monetary unit
witticist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪ.tɪ.sɪst/
Forms: form: witticists
Etymology: Derived from witticism, with + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who frequently uses witticisms.
Synonyms: word: wit
sense: as an insult
word: wisecracker
Related terms: witticism
copyfighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of copyfight
stamps out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stamp out
stamping out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stamp out
stamped out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stamp out
sarissophoros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarissophoroi
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σαρισσοφόρος (sarissophóros, “sarissa-bearer”).
Senses: glosses: A light cavalry unit in Ancient Greece that held a long spear for charging and was equipped with several javelins for harassing the enemy.
Related terms: sarissa
sarissophoroi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarissophoros
prodromos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prodromoi
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πρόδρομος (pródromos, “forerunner”).
Senses: glosses: a skirmisher cavalry unit used in an Ancient Greek army for scouting ahead of the main force
Related terms: sarissophoros
prodromoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prodromos
osmunda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osmundas
Etymology: From Medieval Latin osmunda (“royal fern”). Compare osmund.
Senses: examples: text: The fair Osmunda seeks the silent dell, / The ivy canopy, and dripping cell […].
ref: 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 11:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A fern of the genus Osmunda, especially the royal fern, Osmunda regalis.
interdependentness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From interdependent + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being interdependent.
Synonyms: interdependence
windspeeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of windspeed
midflame
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + flame.
Senses: examples: text: Wind was measured at midflame height where values might be expected to be somewhat lower than standard 20-foot, open anemometer heights.
ref: 1968, U.S.D.A. Forest Service research note PNW:
glosses: At half the height of a flame.
cambro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cambros
Etymology: From a trademark of the Cambro Manufacturing Company.
Senses: examples: text: At seven o'clock, on schedule, one of Chef James's staff arrived with the portable insulated containers known to caterers as Cambros.
ref: 2000, Christopher Allen, Kimberly Allen, A Butler's Life: Scenes from the Other Side of the Silver Salver, page 192:
text: During transportation and set-up, a holding oven, or cambro, is usually required to keep food hot. These are used to keep dinner rolls, roasts, turkeys, chicken breasts and all other hot food at the right temperature[…]
ref: 2003, Sony Bode, Successful catering, page 64:
text: You'll find a multitude of uses for these—cooking a chicken stew to baking cookies, transporting individual appetizers and using as shelves in cambros.
ref: 2006, Lora Arduser, Douglas Robert Brown, The professional caterer's handbook, page 532:
text: Pickles rushed me into the manager's office, my hand still stuffed in a cambro of tomato goo.
ref: 2008, Maura Knight, Feed, page 88:
glosses: An insulated container for keeping food or drink hot.
cambros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cambro
cambrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cambric
asudden
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: 1941, Gilbert Murray (translating Sophocles), The Antigone
Then, all asudden, up a great wind blew,
A lifted scourge, an anguish of the air.
glosses: of a sudden; suddenly
antigenerative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antigenerative
form: most antigenerative
Etymology: From anti- + generative.
Senses: examples: text: If the seed packets (and the absence of seeds in them) begin to suggest the generative sterility-in-mass-production, the incapacity of those in a female workforce to conceive, the antigenerative quality of this work becomes still more apparent when we consider in greater detail the paper that the mill produces.
ref: 1997, Michael Newbury, Figuring authorship in antebellum America, page 64:
text: Her desire is a desire to die, and the dark tomb is described as her bridal chamber. She is placed at the end of generations: an antigenerative force, childless, perverted, an incestuous offspring.
ref: 2010, Fanny Söderbäck, Feminist Readings of Antigone, page 76:
glosses: Opposing generation or procreation.
antigenemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From antigenemia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or pertaining to antigenemia.
antigenaemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antigenemic.
flirtini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flirtinis
Etymology: Blend of flirt + martini
Senses: examples: text: […]a hot spot for beautiful people who come to drink flirtinis and choose from a dizzying array of seafood dishes.
ref: 2004, Samantha Cook, Greg Ward, Tim Perry, Rough guide to USA, page 112:
text: The Flying Frog and the Frog Bar and Deli upstairs mix all manner of funky drinks—the Flirtini with raspberry vodka, the Dirty Cajun with pepper vodka and olive juice, the Gingertini blending vanilla vodka and fresh ginger syrup, and a mimosa made from the juice of the lychee fruit. Kirti says the martinis made with lychee juice have a "rosy nose."
ref: 2007, Fred W. Sauceman, chapter XXXIX, in The Place Setting, Second Serving: Timeless Tastes of the Mountain South, from Bright Hope to Frog L, illustrated edition, Mercer University Press, →ISBN, page 130:
text: flirtini Serves 1: 1 ounce (30ml) vodka 0.35 ounce (10 ml) apricot liqueur 0.35 ounce (10ml) cranberry juice 0.35 (10ml) pineapple juice Ice cubes Champagne 1 strawberry, for garnish Place the vodka, apricot liqueur, cranberry juice, pineapple juice, and ice cubes in a shaker and shake well. Strain the cocktail into a martini glass and top off with champagne. Garnish with the strawberry.
ref: 2008, Nina Dreyer Hensley, Jim Hensley, Paul Lowe, edited by Jim Hensley, Paul Lowe, Slurp: Drinks and Light Fare, All Day, All Night, illustrated edition, Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN, page 140:
glosses: A cocktail of vodka, champagne and pineapple juice.
flirtinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flirtini
acushlas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acushla
ostensorio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ostensorios
Etymology: Italian
Senses: glosses: A monstrance.
convexoplane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From convex + -o- + plane.
Senses: glosses: planoconvex
interpsychic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + psychic.
Senses: examples: text: In contrast, for individuals with an interpsychic focus, suicidality is often related to interpersonal struggles[…]
ref: 2009, Ellen T. Kahn-Greene, Chronic vs. acute suicidal risk, page 19:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Between psyches.
Related terms: intrapsychic
juncaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more juncaceous
form: most juncaceous
Etymology: Juncaceae + -ous
Senses: glosses: rushy; rushlike
metavanadates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metavanadate
metatungstates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metatungstate
metavanadic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + vanadic acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A vanadic acid analogous to metaphosphoric acid.
lighttight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lighttight
form: most lighttight
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of light-tight.
ouija
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ouijas
Senses: examples: text: Mediums — tipping tables — ouijas — all that sort of thing.
ref: 2005, Stephen Vincent Benet, The Beginning of Wisdom, page 268:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Ouija.
ouijas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ouija
galvanisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galvanism
dilettantisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dilettantism
kelpy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kelpies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kelpie (shapeshifting spirit).
sneaksby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sneaksbies
Senses: examples: text: 16??, Isaac Barrow
[…] such a superstitious fop, such a conscientious simpleton, such a bashful sneaksby […]
text: I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion: I am no proud man, d'ye see, and when the liquor is offered me I whip it off, that they may not take me for a churl or a sneaksby, or think I don't understand myself nor good manners[…]
ref: 1880, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Peter Anthony Motteux, The history of Don Quixote of la Mancha:
text: "You are such a sneaksby, Lacey. You know how irritating Mama finds him, and yet you write to him secretly. Mama will not be pleased with you."
ref: 1996, Mona K. Gedney, A Lady of Quality:
glosses: A paltry person; a sneak.
sneaksbies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sneaksby
prevue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prevues
form: prevuing
form: prevued
form: prevued
Etymology: Borrowed from French prevue (literally “preview”).
Senses: examples: text: The new mechanical horse ride did capacity business, and spot's new cocktail lounge was prevued to enthusiastic reception.
ref: 1951 May 19, Billboard, page 60:
glosses: Alternative form of preview.
prevue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prevues
Etymology: Borrowed from French prevue (literally “preview”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of preview.
prevued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prevue
prevuing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prevue
pulpless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pulp + -less.
Senses: examples: text: In determining when to extract a pulpless tooth, it is necessary to take into consideration many factors.
ref: 1940, Sterling Vernon Mead, Diseases of the mouth:
glosses: Without pulp.
perhydroisoquinolines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perhydroisoquinoline
Stack
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
subabdominal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + abdominal.
Senses: examples: text: The larva has now two serratures, or spines, on the cephalothorax; the legs are the same as in the second stage, but the subabdominal fins are more developed, and the tail has acquired two leaflets on each side[…]
ref: 1839, John Timbs, The year-book of facts in science and art, page 187:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Beneath the abdomen.
sheeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheeter
rebukable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rebukable
form: most rebukable
Etymology: From rebuke + -able.
Senses: glosses: Deserving a rebuke; shameful.
daffodowndillies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daffodowndilly
skyman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skymen
Etymology: From sky + man.
Senses: glosses: A male aviator.
skymen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skyman
unrebukable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrebukable
form: most unrebukable
Etymology: From un- + rebukable.
Senses: glosses: Above rebuke; honourable.
Finnhorse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Finnhorses
Etymology: From Finn + horse.
Senses: glosses: A Finnish breed of horse with both riding and draught horse characteristics.
Synonyms: Finnish horse
Finnhorses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Finnhorse
Finnish horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Finnish horses
Senses: glosses: A breed of horse, the Finnhorse.
schizophytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schizophyte
purparties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purparty
pulpous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pulpous
form: most pulpous
Etymology: From pulp + -ous. Cf. also Late Latin pulpōsus.
Senses: examples: text: A method of coating a core in strand form with pulp, which consists in collecting pulpous material from liquid suspension, positioning the core adjacent said material, depositing additional pulpous material on the core[…]
ref: 1927, Official gazette of the United States Patent Office, volume 354:
glosses: pulpy, soft
mitey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪti/
rhymes: -aɪti
homophone: mighty
Etymology: From mite + -y.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to mites.
examples: text: Mr. Robert Farquhar paid the town's people in old mitey meal for his soldiers entertainment, who had continued there a long time.
ref: 1830, John Spalding, The History of the Troubles and Memorable Transactions in Scotland: From 1624 — 1645, page 268:
text: A few specimens transferred from a mitey cheese to an old cheese not mitey, will soon colonize it thoroughly.
ref: 1878, Charles James Stewart Bethune, W. Saunders, E. B. Reed, The Canadian entomologist, volumes 10-12, page 239:
text: Both were inoculated with 1 gm. of very mitey flour placed at the bottom of the bottle.
ref: 1929, The Industrial Chemist, volume 5, page 244:
glosses: Infested with mites.
mitey
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪti/
rhymes: -aɪti
homophone: mighty
Etymology: From mighty.
Senses: examples: text: He ain' got nuttin tall cep'n some mitey good nabors dat come by fer him ever day an' caird him up to lay him down by de back do' er dat air rich man, dat air Mr. Dives.
ref: 1909, Bruce M. Russett, John R. Oneal, Triangulating Peace: Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organizations, volume 10, page 238:
text: "I knowed your great-grandpaw mitey well, son, and your grandpaw and your own daddy.[…]"
ref: 1954, Charles Rice McDowell, The Iron Baby Angel, page 11:
text: They treats us mitey well and wants Amerikens to cum and settle among em.[…]They all talks so mitey funney.
ref: 1974, William Curtis Nunn, Escape from Reconstruction, page 67:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of mighty.
mitey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪti/
rhymes: -aɪti
homophone: mighty
Forms: form: miteys
Etymology: From matey.
Senses: examples: text: Above him a frowsy head looked out and a sleepy voice with a cockney accent said, "Hallo, mitey," and vanished.
ref: 1926, Howard Pease, The Tattooed Man, page 26:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of matey.
adjacents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adjacent
heroicomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heroicomic
form: most heroicomic
Etymology: Blend of heroic + comic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of heroicomical.
heroicomical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heroicomical
form: most heroicomical
form: heroicomic
Etymology: Blend of heroic + comical
Senses: examples: a heroicomical poem
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: Blending heroic and comical elements.
quizzery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quizzeries
Etymology: From quiz + -ery.
Senses: glosses: Mockery; teasing or playing pranks.
quizzeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quizzery
nontemporary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + temporary.
Senses: glosses: Not temporary.
non-temporary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nontemporary.
serveable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of servable.
softgoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From soft + goods.
Senses: glosses: Soft products manufactured from textiles, such as clothes, mats, curtains, and cushions.
Synonyms: soft furnishings
Related terms: hardgoods
semihigh
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + high.
Senses: examples: a semihigh bridge
semihigh speed
glosses: Moderately high.
seldseen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English seldscene, seltsene (“rarely encountered, seldom seen; rare; as adv. seldom, rarely”), from Old English seldsīene, seldsēne (“rare, extraordinary, unfamiliar, uncommon”). Cognate with Old High German seltsāni, Modern German seltsam.
Senses: examples: text: And seldseen costly stones of so great price.
ref: c. 1589–1590 (date written), Christopher Marlo[we], edited by Tho[mas] Heywood, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Iew of Malta. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published 1633, →OCLC, Act I:
text: […] and awakening, saw a serpent like a dragon, a seldseen sight.
ref: 1885, Richard Francis Burton, The Arabian Nights:
glosses: seldom seen, rare, uncommon
misdistribution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misdistributions
Etymology: From mis- + distribution.
Senses: examples: text: misdistribution of trust funds
text: a misdistribution of iron in the body
synonyms: maldistribution
coordinate_terms: misallocation
glosses: Incorrect or unfair distribution.
misdistributions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misdistribution
remercied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remercy
remercying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of remercy
Digiboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Digibox
misdistribute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misdistributes
form: misdistributing
form: misdistributed
form: misdistributed
Etymology: From mis- + distribute.
Senses: examples: text: Like Tanner he is an orator, an outsider, a rebel against the existing political and social order, who believes that society misdistributes wealth horribly.
ref: 1991, John Anthony Bertolini, The playwrighting self of Bernard Shaw, page 44:
text: It misdesigned goods, adversely selected technologies, misallocated and misremunerated factors of production, encouraged work to rule, underproduced, misdistributed outputs and was subject to a myriad of moral hazards.
ref: 2009, Steven Rosefielde, Red Holocaust, page 240:
text: Despite Japan's well deserved reputation for high quality export products, its economic system misallocates factors, under-produces, overworks, misdistributes and mistransfers goods and services.
ref: 2013, Steven Rosefielde, Asian Economic Systems, page 182:
glosses: To distribute incorrectly or unfairly.
Related terms: misdistribution
misdistributing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misdistribute
misdistributes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misdistribute
misdistributed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misdistribute
redist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redists
Etymology: Clipping of redistributable.
Senses: examples: text: There are a handful of allowed ways to update system files (service packs, hotfixes, MS update, redists like MDAC) and people building install packages just need to figure out which redist or SP gets the files updated to the level they think they need.
ref: 2006, Phil Wilson, “Windows File Protection Problem”, in microsoft.public.platformsdk.msi (Usenet):
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A redistributable software component.
redists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redist
Wiener filter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wiener filters
Etymology: After Norbert Wiener.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
glosses: A filter that takes a statistical approach to filtering out noise that has corrupted a signal.
wikipedia: Norbert Wiener
depacketizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: depacketizers
Etymology: From depacketize + -er.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
glosses: A circuit or system that depacketizes.
depacketizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of depacketizer
mattresslike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mattresslike
form: most mattresslike
Etymology: From mattress + -like.
Senses: examples: text: You should be more mattresslike [the speaker, 'Zem', is a mattress]
ref: 1995, Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: a Trilogy in Five Parts, →ISBN, page 347:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a mattress.
mattressy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mattressy
form: most mattressy
Etymology: From mattress + -y.
Senses: examples: text: “You try it Mister, and so help me God I will make sure you spend the rest of your non-adult life bouncing off the mattressy walls of a psych ward.”
ref: 2008, James Slater, Like Phosphorescent Desert Buttons, page 98:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a mattress; large, soft, and yielding.
I want to go to the toilet
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Indicates that the speaker feels the urge to go the toilet.
raygne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raygnes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of rain.
glosses: Obsolete spelling of reign.
raygne
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: raygnes
form: raygning
form: raygned
form: raygned
form: raygn'd
form: raygn'd
Senses: examples: text: Nowe ye are full: nowe ye are made rych. ye raygne as kyngꝭ with out vs: ãd I wold to god ye did raygne / that we myght raygne with you.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians iiij:[8], folio ccxxj, recto:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of reign.
glosses: Obsolete spelling of raign.
attack dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attack dogs
Senses: glosses: Any dog bred, trained or used for the purpose of attacking a target, either on command or on sight; trained either as a specialized form of police dog or a security force dog.
glosses: A dog used in the bloodsport of dogfighting.
examples: text: It was, however, as Charles Darwin's alter ego, an attack dog for the theory of evolution, that Huxley gained his greatest notoriety.
ref: 2001, Mark Jaffe, The Gilded Dinosaur, page 146:
glosses: A person who engages in rhetorical attacks on behalf of another.
examples: text: In the middle of the night, snow falling all around, the Hound digs the family a grave. We didn’t need this episode to know the Hound has changed. Even if we hadn’t seen his relationship with Arya start to work its magic on him, the Hound’s time with the septon who saved him shows how far he’s come from the Lannisters’ attack dog.
ref: 2017 July 16, Brandon Nowalk, “Chickens and dragons come home to roost on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: A person or other entity who fights physically on behalf of another.
Hypernyms: guard dog
police dog
half staff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half staffs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of half-staff.
halfstaff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halfstaffs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of half-staff.
roller dockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roller docker
snap it up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: snaps it up
form: snapping it up
form: snapped it up
form: snapped it up
Senses: examples: text: "Come now, let's snap it up! Faster! Faster! Think fast! Let's go!"
ref: 1928 February 12, Quin R. Ryan, “Inside the Loud Speaker”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, page K10:
text: President hopes to Push Wealth Taxes Through in a Month.
ref: 1935 June 30, "Congress Told to Snap It Up" [headline], Milwaukee Journal, p. 8 (retrieved 29 Aug. 2011)
text: A man behind the counter looks up and yells at me. "Snap it up, Danny. We got a flock of orders waiting."
ref: 1952, Harold Robbins, A Stone for Danny Fisher, published 2007, →ISBN, page 107:
text: The guests have been smiling for two and half hours and are so bored they're discussing their dental appointments. . . and everyone is anxiously facing the kitchen. . . . I summon my best friend, Mayva, who says, "You'd better snap it up."
ref: 1975 September 2, Erma Bombeck, “Only a hostess knows true loneliness”, in Miami News, retrieved 29 Aug 2011, page 1B:
glosses: To hurry, to proceed quickly.
Synonyms: get cracking
get moving
get on with it
hurry up
make it snappy
Related terms: snap up
Somethingism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From something + -ism.
Senses: glosses: an unspecified belief in some higher force.
Synonyms: Ietsism