cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Mass card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mass cards
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A religious card that states that a Catholic Mass has been said in honour of a dead person, or as a request for special favours such as improved health or success in a worldly endeavour.
go-go
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: 1964, US, partly from Whisky a Go Go, an influential American nightclub (in turn from French à gogo (“abundant”)), partly by reduplication of go, from 1962 slang the go (“the rage, fashionable”), from sense the go (“in motion”) as in on the go.
Compare to French yéyé (yeah-yeah), of contemporary coinage.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A style of funk music from the 1970s.
go-go
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: 1964, US, partly from Whisky a Go Go, an influential American nightclub (in turn from French à gogo (“abundant”)), partly by reduplication of go, from 1962 slang the go (“the rage, fashionable”), from sense the go (“in motion”) as in on the go.
Compare to French yéyé (yeah-yeah), of contemporary coinage.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to this style of music.
glosses: Of or relating to the style of music played at discotheques.
glosses: Fast and lively.
go-go
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: go-gos
form: go-going
form: go-goed
form: go-goed
Etymology: 1964, US, partly from Whisky a Go Go, an influential American nightclub (in turn from French à gogo (“abundant”)), partly by reduplication of go, from 1962 slang the go (“the rage, fashionable”), from sense the go (“in motion”) as in on the go.
Compare to French yéyé (yeah-yeah), of contemporary coinage.
Senses: examples: text: Then he looked at me with all earnestness and said to me, "Miss, Laura, would you go-go for me?"
ref: 2002 September 20, 47:24 from the start, in The Whistleblower Who Changed History (podcast), spoken by Laura Palmer, published 2023 via WNYC, archived from the original on 29 Jun 2023:
glosses: To dance to this style of music, with the aim to entertain
Derived terms: go-go boot
go-go fund
go-go girl
go-go juice
go-go dancer
Related terms: à gogo
month's mind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: months' minds
form: month mind
Etymology: From Middle English monethes mynde under influence from Medieval Latin dies mensis (“day of the month”) and Old English ġemynd, whose principal sense was "memory".
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A requiem mass or other commemoration of a deceased person held one month after burial.
Synonyms: trental
month's end
Related terms: year's mind
twelvemonth's mind
Favre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɑvɹə/
other: /fɑɹv/
Etymology: From French Favre.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Milos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈmiːloʊs/
Forms: form: Melos
Etymology: From Greek Μήλος (Mílos).
Senses: glosses: An island of the Cyclades, Greece.
Derived terms: Miliot
Milos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈmiːloʊs/
Etymology: From Slavic.
Senses: glosses: A male given name of Slavic origin
Milos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈmiːloʊs/
Forms: form: Miloses
Etymology: Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Miloš.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Serbo-Croatian.
Milos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈmiːloʊs/
Etymology: From Milo + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of Milo
leptospirosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leptospiroses
Etymology: From Leptospira + -osis.
Senses: glosses: An acute, infectious, febrile disease of both humans and animals, caused by spirochetes of the genus Leptospira.
Synonyms: sense: disease
word: Weil’s disease
sense: disease
word: canicola fever
sense: disease
word: canefield fever
sense: disease
word: nanukayami fever
sense: disease
word: 7-day fever
sense: disease
word: rat catcher's yellows
sense: disease
word: Fort Bragg fever
sense: disease
word: black jaundice
sense: disease
word: pretibial fever
Derived terms: neuroleptospirosis
Ratner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ratners
Etymology: A Yiddish occupational surname from rat, council.
Senses: glosses: A surname
Derived terms: Ratner moment
Related terms: Radner
Radnor
Riley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪ.li/
rhymes: -aɪli
homophone: wryly
homophone: wrylie
Forms: form: Rileys
Etymology: * From Ryley in Lancashire, from Old English ryge (“rye”) + leah (“clearing, meadow”). Equivalent to rye + -ley (“lea”).
* A variant of Reilly, from Irish Ó Raghallaigh (see O'Reilly).
Senses: examples: text: Ibarra also deprived Riley of oxygen long enough to cause wounds and “intended to kill her,” Ross said.
ref: 2024 November 20, Eric Levenson, Rebekah Riess and Holly Yan, “November 20, 2024 - Judge sentences Laken Riley’s murderer to life in prison”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A surname.
A surname from Irish of Irish origin, variant of Reilly.
glosses: A surname.
An English habitational surname from Old English, from Ryley in Lancashire (see Etymology above).
examples: text: Riley Barnes, nominated to serve as assistant secretary of State for democracy, human rights and labor, revealed his dangerous proclivities to Kaine in his opening statement when he said that “all men are created equal because our rights come from God, our creator; not from our laws, not from our governments.”
ref: 2025 September 6, Jonathan Turley, “Tim Kaine’s Constitutional blasphemy”, in The Hill:
glosses: A unisex given name.
A male given name transferred from the surname, of 19th century and later usage.
examples: text: Near the end of Sasquatch Sunset, the gloriously weird feature from David and Nathan Zellner, Riley Keough wordlessly conveys a slowly creeping moment of profound existential despair that crushes your heart with its bleakness.
ref: 2024 June 16, Wendy Ide, “Sasquatch Sunset review – brilliant bigfoot oddity is unexpectedly moving”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A unisex given name.
A female given name from surname, of 1990s and later usage.
glosses: A placename
A town in Riley Township, Vigo County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: A placename
A town in Center Township, Hancock County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: A placename
A number of townships in the United States, listed under Riley Township.
glosses: A placename
A crater in Niobe Planitia, Venus.
glosses: A placename
Ellipsis of Riley County.
glosses: A placename
Ellipsis of Riley Creek.
glosses: A manufacturer of British motorcars (1907-1969) named after William Riley Jr.
Derived terms: Bannayan-Riley-Ruvalcaba syndrome
County of Riley
Fort Riley
life of Riley
Riley County
Riley Creek
Riley-Day syndrome
Riley Green
Riley Park
Riley Township
Township of Riley
Zola
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
glosses: A female given name created from Zoë or from the surname.
glosses: Émile Zola, French writer
Fulcher
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Folker
form: Fullagar
Etymology: From a medieval English given name of Germanic origin, cognate to modern German Volker.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name, most common in East Anglia.
glam rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Although David Bowie is perhaps glam rock’s best-known star today, it was his friend, Marc Bolan – they met in their late teens in Soho – who sparked the movement.
ref: 2020 June 22, Joobin Bekhrad, “Glitter and curls: Marc Bolan and the birth of glam rock style”, in The Guardian:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: glam
glitter rock
glosses: A style of English rock music from the early 1970s, distinguished by the glamorous, glittery costumes of its performers and its bouncy beat and lyrics.
Hypernyms: rock
Derived terms: glam rocker
loafer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊfə/
ipa: /ˈloʊfɚ/
rhymes: -əʊfə(ɹ)
Forms: form: loafers
Etymology: Perhaps short for landloafer, possibly a partial translation of German Landläufer (compare dialectal German loofen (“to run”), and English landlouper); or more likely connected to Middle English love, loove, loffinge, looffinge (“a remnant, the rest, that which remains or lingers”), from Old English lāf (“remainder, residue, what is left”) (more at lave), which is akin to Scots lave (“the rest, remainder”), Old English lǣfan (“to let remain, leave behind”) (more at leave).
Senses: examples: text: The garden was bounded by a three-foot brick wall with a fringe of wood rails upon the top, and against this wall was leaning a stalwart police constable, surrounded by a small knot of loafers, who craned their necks and strained their eyes in the vain hope of catching some glimpse of the proceedings within.
ref: 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, page 39:
text: Along this unequal way, where loafers sat on whittled benches, lounged in doorways, leaned against porch props, Dan Gustin went pegging in his high-heeled boots like a mule in a Mexican chain hobble, holding a straight course for the hotel, past the doors of temptation.
ref: 1923, George Washington Ogden, “Chapter 2”, in The Baron of Diamond Tail:
glosses: An idle person.
examples: text: Someone must explain to Sunak about the time bomb ticking beneath his £1,000 loafers.
ref: 2023 May 31, Nigel Harris, “Comment: GBR now! We have no Plan B”, in RAIL, number 984, page 3:
glosses: A shoe with no laces, resembling a moccasin.
Synonyms: sense: idle person
word: bum
sense: idle person
word: bumpkin
sense: idle person
word: footler
sense: idle person
word: idler
sense: idle person
word: lout
sense: idle person
word: yob
sense: idle person
word: yobbo
sense: footwear
word: penny loafer
Derived terms: loaferdom
loaferish
loafer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊfə/
ipa: /ˈloʊfɚ/
rhymes: -əʊfə(ɹ)
Forms: form: loafers
form: loafering
form: loafered
form: loafered
Etymology: Perhaps short for landloafer, possibly a partial translation of German Landläufer (compare dialectal German loofen (“to run”), and English landlouper); or more likely connected to Middle English love, loove, loffinge, looffinge (“a remnant, the rest, that which remains or lingers”), from Old English lāf (“remainder, residue, what is left”) (more at lave), which is akin to Scots lave (“the rest, remainder”), Old English lǣfan (“to let remain, leave behind”) (more at leave).
Senses: glosses: To loaf around; to be idle.
loafer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊfə/
ipa: /ˈloʊfɚ/
rhymes: -əʊfə(ɹ)
Forms: form: loafers
Etymology: Named due to having a loaf in several of its stages.
Senses: topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A particular orthogonal spaceship in Conway's Game of Life that moves at a speed of c/7, and the smallest such example.
loafer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊfə/
ipa: /ˈloʊfɚ/
rhymes: -əʊfə(ɹ)
Forms: form: loafers
form: lobo
form: lobo wolf
form: lofer
form: lover
form: loper
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish lobo (“wolf”), reinterpreted as or conflated with loafer (“idler”); compare the alternative forms which reflect other re-interpretations and conflations. Doublet of lupus and wolf.
Senses: examples: text: The great menace to livestock, other than the continual battle with cold, [...] was the gray wolf. [...] The big loafers came in from everywhere.
ref: 1964, Ike Blasingame, Dakota Cowboy: My Life in the Old Days, page 72:
text: Cowboys had killed “loafers” at five hundred yards away with rifles. [...] Lucille was not like most cowhands and she sets out to capture the "loafer" with her lariat.
ref: 2010, Cynthia K. Rhodes, Lucille Mulhall: An Athlete of Her Time, →ISBN:
text: By the 1890s loafers had become such a problem that some newly organized counties, as well as certain cattle outfits, paid bounties for their scalps. For a cowboy making a dollar or so a day, wolf-hunting could be lucrative.
ref: 2016, Patrick Dearen, A Cowboy of the Pecos, page 128:
glosses: A wolf, especially a grey or timber wolf.
glam rocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glam rockers
Senses: examples: text: Lady Gaga has announced two UK dates – when she will be supported by glam rockers the Darkness – as part of her world tour.
ref: 2012 April 10, “Lady Gaga announces two UK dates as part of Born This Way Ball tour”, in the Guardian:
glosses: A musician who performs glam rock.
glosses: A follower of this type of music.
glosses: A song in this style.
glitter rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Glitter rock isn't associated with a specific musical style as much as a period of time, roughly between 1972 and 1975 when it reached a glorious apex in the cult film The Rocky Horror Picture Show (featuring the debut of Meat Loaf).
ref: 1992, Ted Greenwald, Rock and Roll, Mallard Press, →ISBN:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Glam rock, a music style popular in the early 1970s.
Hypernyms: rock
Morrison
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒɹɪsən/
ipa: /ˈmɔɹɪsən/
Forms: form: Murison
Etymology: From the given name Maurice or Morris + -son.
Senses: glosses: A Scottish surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Jefferson County, Colorado.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Whiteside County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A small city in Grundy County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Aitkin County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A small city in Gasconade County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Noble County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Warren County, Tennessee.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town and unincorporated community therein, in Brown County, Wisconsin.
Derived terms: Morrison County
Morrison Formation
Morrison Hill
morrisoni
glitz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlɪts/
rhymes: -ɪts
Forms: form: glitzes
Etymology: Back-formation from glitzy, in turn from German glitzern (“glint”). Cognate with Old Norse glitra, glita (“glitter”) and Gothic 𐌲𐌻𐌹𐍄𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌾𐌰𐌽 (glitmunjan, “glisten”).
Senses: examples: text: The glitz of the award ceremony was obvious.
glosses: Garish, brilliant showiness.
Derived terms: glitz and glamour
glitzkrieg
Related terms: glitzy
presymptomatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + symptomatic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: relating to the early stages of a disease, before all symptoms have developed and when therefore accurate diagnosis is not possible.
Synonyms: prepatent
pre-symptomatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + symptomatic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of presymptomatic.
spirochete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspaɪ.ɹəˌkit/
Forms: form: spirochetes
form: spirochaete
Etymology: From translingual Spirochaeta.
Senses: glosses: Any of several coiled bacteria of the order Spirochaetales, most of which are pathogenic to both humans and other animals.
Derived terms: fusospirochete
spirochetemia
spirochaete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spirochaetes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of spirochete.
lethal dose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lethal doses
form: LD
Senses: examples: text: A lethal dose 50 will cause the death of 50% of a sample of test animals.
glosses: The dose of a substance or of radiation likely to cause death (sometimes suffixed with a number).
Related terms: LD50
lethal gene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lethal genes
Senses: glosses: Any gene that brings about the death of an organism carrying it; usually the result of a mutation.
kwerekwere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amakwerekwere
form: kwiri-kwiri
Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Foreigners who came to the townships could not speak the local languages. One theory on the origin of this term is that their own languages sounded like kwirikwirikwiri to the locals. A more plausible theory is that this term was a corruption of the word "korekore". The Korekore are a sub-group of the Shona people in neighboring Zimbabwe.
Senses: examples: text: We came here just like every other nation. Just like Indians, Asians, Europeans. But we are the only people they call ‘kwerekwere’. They call the blacks ‘kwerekwere’, they don’t call the whites ‘kwerekwere’.
ref: 2000, Nigerian man, interviewed by Zaa Nkweta for Carte Blanche, “Fighting a stereotype”
text: If they see you are foreigner, you are “kwerekwere”. [They] give the name for all foreigners, “kwerekwere”.
ref: 2003, a refugee in Cape Town named Hélène, quoted in “Living with prejudice - xenophobia and race”
text: the township residents involved in the attacks invaded the homes and businesses owned by 'amakwerekwere' and stole their money and other property.
ref: 2006 Weekend Argus May 13/14 2006 p.1
glosses: A foreign visitor to a township.
annatto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: annattos
form: anato
form: anatto
form: annotto
form: arnatta
form: arnotta
form: arnotto
Etymology: From a Cariban language.
Senses: glosses: A tropical American evergreen shrub, Bixa orellana; the lipstick tree; the fruit of the tree.
glosses: The seed of this tree used as a colouring or in Latin American cooking, containing bixin.
glosses: A fugitive orange-red dye obtained from this seed and fruit pulp through maceration and fermentation, used as textile dye and skin dye, containing bixin.
Synonyms: sense: shrub
word: achiote
sense: shrub
word: lipstick tree
sense: shrub
word: roucou
sense: seed
word: achiote
sense: dye
word: achiote
sense: dye
word: anatto
sense: dye
word: E160b when used as a food colouring
Related terms: anatto
Latin American
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Latin Americans
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Latin America, or of such descent.
Latin American
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Latin America, its people, or its culture.
Derived terms: Latin Americanist
Latin American studies
flying coffin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flying coffins
Etymology: So called because of the risk of death to those inside.
Senses: glosses: An aircraft with an unacceptably high accident rate.
spoilt for choice
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spoilt for choice
form: most spoilt for choice
Senses: glosses: Having such a selection of good choices that deciding which one to pick is difficult.
Related terms: candy store problem
stick 'em up
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: stick ’em up
Senses: glosses: A command stereotypically given by robbers, particularly when pointing a gun: Put your hands in the air! Surrender!
Synonyms: reach for the sky
hands up!
Related terms: your money or your life
instinctively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈstɪŋktɪvli/
Forms: form: more instinctively
form: most instinctively
Etymology: From instinctive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Fish instinctively know how to swim; most humans don't.
text: She loved him so passionately, and he was so godlike in her eyes; and being, though untrained, instinctively refined, her nature cried for his tutelary guidance.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 26:
text: 'I am, perhaps, overgreedy, but I sense a good cook instinctively.'
ref: 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 9, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 270:
text: While Conservative and Labour MPs instinctively had deep political differences, they were united in the cold view that at the end of the 1950s, Britain's railways were friendless and almost finished.
ref: 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 50:
glosses: Innately; by instinct; without being taught.
Synonyms: instinctually
sapphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæ.fɪzm̩/
Forms: form: sapphisms
Etymology: From Sappho (“a poet of the isle of Lesbos (612 B.C.E. - 570 B.C.E.)”) + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Its odd that yᵉ Roman Women did not borrow that horrible Vice from Greece—it has a Greek name now & is called Sapphism, but I never did hear of it in Italy where the Ladies are today exactly what Juvenal described them in his Time—neither better nor worse as I can find.
ref: 1795 December 9, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Thraliana:
glosses: Lesbianism; female homosexuality.
wikipedia: Sappho
Synonyms: lesbianism
Derived terms: sapphist
innately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more innately
form: most innately
Etymology: From innate + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Fish innately know how to swim, they don't go to school to learn it.
glosses: In an innate manner, referring to a property that is possessed merely by its nature.
hurled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɜːld/
ipa: /hɜɹld/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ld
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hurl
spanking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspæŋkɪŋ/
Etymology: From spank (“to move energetically”) + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle of spank
spanking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspæŋkɪŋ/
Etymology: From spank (“to move energetically”) + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: a spanking pace
text: 'I'd like nothing better this minute,' said Mr Browne stoutly, 'than a rattling fine walk in the country or a fast drive with a good spanking goer between the shafts.'
ref: 1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “The Dead”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 257:
text: On both the Gothland and the Öland Railway, a spanking railcar provides an alternative to riding in the wayward, steam-driven mixed train, but the latter is the proper conveyance for a real railway lover, even over the flat, limestone plains which form much of the Baltic island scenery.
ref: 1939 July, “Overseas Railways: Baltic Island Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 51:
glosses: Fast and energetic.
examples: a spanking breeze
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Brisk and fresh.
Synonyms: striking
spanking
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspæŋkɪŋ/
Etymology: From spank (“to move energetically”) + -ing.
Senses: examples: brand spanking new
a spanking good time
spanking clean
spanking white
glosses: An intensifier.
raw_tags: with “new”
Derived terms: spankingly
spanking new
spanking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspæŋkɪŋ/
Etymology: From spank (“to punish by swatting”) + -ing (participial suffix) and -ing (gerundial suffix).
Senses: glosses: present participle of spank
spanking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspæŋkɪŋ/
Forms: form: spankings
Etymology: From spank (“to punish by swatting”) + -ing (participial suffix) and -ing (gerundial suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Domestic spanking is often endured over the knee (or lap), formal spanking rather applied over a contraption such as a trestle or A-frame, with or without constraints.
glosses: A form of physical punishment in which a beating is applied to the buttocks.
examples: text: Some people think spankings of any sort constitute child abuse.
ref: 2001, John Rosemond, John Rosemond's New Parent Power!:
glosses: An incident of such punishment, or such physical act in a non-punitive context, such as a birthday spanking.
wading
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪdɪŋ
Etymology: From wade + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The pool is too small for doing laps: it’s only a wading pool.
glosses: Appropriate to wade in.
examples: text: Flamingos are wading birds.
glosses: Usually of a bird: which wades.
Derived terms: wading bird
wading pool
wading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪdɪŋ
Forms: form: wadings
Etymology: From wade + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: [I]n ten minutes more the sun was up, and blazing so fiercely, that we were glad to cool ourselves in fancy, by talking over salmon-fishings in Scotland and New Brunswick, and wadings in icy streams beneath the black pine-woods.
ref: 1871, Charles Kingsley, “The High Woods”, in At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies. […], volume I, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 232:
text: Bradly tapped the ashes from his pipe, signifying a leisured interlude over. "Time to get a move on," he said, and began to unlace his boots for wading.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 139:
glosses: gerund of wade: the act of one who wades.
wading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -eɪdɪŋ
Etymology: From wade + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wade
genki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genki
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese げんき (“energetic, peppy”).
Senses: topics: anime
broadcasting
comics
film
literature
manga
media
publishing
television
glosses: A playful, hyperactive girl.
genki
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more genki
form: most genki
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese げんき (“energetic, peppy”).
Senses: examples: text: I was really struck by how many of the bishoujo cliches it managed to bring up. We already have the older sister, younger sister, childhood friend, and exotic transfer student. We have a genki girl, a ditzy girl, a hime-sama, and a meido.
ref: 2006 October 13, Abraham Evangelista, “Re: Crescent Love - dull new anime”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):
text: Akira, the genki red head, is accosted by Kyouko, a predatory blond girl in her high school.
ref: 2009 July 7, Dave Baranyi, “Aoi Hana - Blue Flowers for a Blue Girl”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):
topics: anime
broadcasting
comics
film
literature
manga
media
publishing
television
qualifier: typically of a girl
glosses: Playful and hyperactive.
feyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪnəs
Forms: form: feynesses
Etymology: From fey + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being fey.
topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
synonyms: swarth
glosses: A ghost resembling a living person, seeing which is an omen of that person's death.
chimney-money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 17 May 1664 House of Lords Journal, Vol II 1660-1666, pp 619-626.
"In the next Place, we reviewed the Act for Chimney-money, which we intended a great Branch of Your Majesty's Revenue, although by some Mistakes it is fallen short: And, in Hopes Your Majesty may improve that Receipt, we have prepared a Bill for the collecting that Duty by such Officers as Your Majesty and Your Successors shall from Time to Time think fit to appoint." - http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.
glosses: A tax formerly paid on all chimneys in England.
chimney-duty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A tax formerly paid on all chimneys in England.
Related terms: chimney money
jawbreaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jawbreakers
form: jaw-breaker
form: jaw breaker
Etymology: Compound of jaw + breaker.
Senses: examples: text: If somebody microwaves a large jawbreaker and nibbles on the outside, a crack can cause molten candy to burst out and cause painful burns. Exploding jawbreakers have been documented on television news and in police reports.
ref: 2005, Keith Zimmerman, MythBusters: The Explosive Truth Behind 30 of the Most Perplexing Urban Legends of All Time, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
synonyms: gobstopper
glosses: A large, extremely hard, boiled candy, typically spherical.
examples: text: The word “callipygous” is something of a jawbreaker.
synonyms: mouthful
jaw-twister
glosses: A long, hard-to-pronounce word.
examples: text: Bendoff went pluckily forward, but only to receive a jawbreaker from Couper's left, […]
ref: 1987, James Clarke, Like it was: The Star, 100 Years in Johannesburg, page 9:
topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A hard blow to the side of the face.
Related terms: word: crackjaw
word: niggerball
kick with the other foot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kicks with the other foot
form: kicking with the other foot
form: kicked with the other foot
form: kicked with the other foot
Etymology: Supposedly from differences in the design of farming implements between the Catholic and Protestant communities.
Senses: examples: text: They would have married in a church, but he kicks with the other foot.
glosses: To belong to a different religion.
kicks with the other foot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kick with the other foot
chimney money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chimney-money.
simulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of simulate
simulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Invented in imitation of a particular thing or of a specific condition; artificial.
Derived terms: simulated annealing
structured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more structured
form: most structured
Etymology: From structure + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Over the centuries the movement of clans and tribes of people has provided the kind of crop that would emerge if a blind god had sprinkled seeds at random on a field - a vast array of diverse patterns, usually not even interlocking or decussated, but crossed and intersected by every kind of structured diversity.
ref: 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 137:
text: Dr. Jessie Voigts, a homeschooler and founder of Wandering Educators, a global community of educators sharing travel experiences, said it doesn’t matter if this time is structured or unstructured, so long as the kids get outside.
ref: 2020 March 16, Matt Villano, “How ‘regular school’ parents can homeschool their kids”, in CNN:
glosses: Having structure; organized.
Derived terms: heterostructured
macrostructured
mesostructured
microstructured
multistructured
nanostructured
nonstructured
overstructured
prestructured
quasistructured
semistructured
structured analysis
structured ASIC
structured cabling
structured content
structured criticality
structured data
structured design
structured finance
structured interviewing
structuredness
structured packing
structured product
structured programming
Structured Query Language
structured sale
structured settlement
structured shirt
structured storage
structured text
structured wiring
unstructured
well-structured
structured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From structure + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: He structured the loan with a twenty-year term.
glosses: simple past and past participle of structure
dun dun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dun duns
form: dundun
form: dunun
form: doundoun
form: jun-jun
form: djun-djun
Etymology: From Yoruba dùndún.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A double-headed African bass drum.
-cephalous
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: head
Related terms: -cephaly
-cephaly
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: -ɛfəli
Etymology: From French -céphalie, German -zephalie, or Latin -cephalia, from Ancient Greek κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”) and a suffix: French -ie, German -ie, or Latin -ia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: head
Derived terms: anencephaly
Related terms: -cephalous
-chory
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /ˌkɔɹiː/
Etymology: From -chore + -y.
Senses: glosses: Method of plant or seed dispersal.
-chrome
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: having a specified colour
glosses: various pigments
adrenochrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adrenochromes
Etymology: From adreno- + -chrome.
Senses: examples: text: Investigation of the chemical constitution showed that it has the properties of N-methyl-2:3-dihydro-3-hydroxyindole-5:6-quinone. The shorter name adrenochrome is proposed for this substance. […] Adrenochrome is a very unstable substance: it is completely destroyed in 4 min. by 1% hydrochloric acid, and in 40 sec. by 1% ammonia.
ref: 1937, David Ezra Green, “Adrenaline and Adrenochrome”, in The Biochemical Journal, volume 31, number 4, page 596:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An oxidation product of adrenaline or epinephrine; its semicarbazone is used as a drug to reduce bleeding.
examples: text: “[…]He's one of these Satanism freaks. He offered me human blood—said it would make me higher than I'd ever been in my life,” he laughed. “I thought he was kidding, so I told him I'd just as soon have an ounce or so of pure adrenochrome—or maybe just a fresh adrenalin gland to chew on.”
ref: 1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, New York: Popular Library, →ISBN, page 132:
text: It also revives old slurs, but instead of openly accusing Jews of drinking the blood of gentile children, various euphemisms are employed: “Coastal elites,” “Hollywood,” and “George Soros” are now said to be harvesting a chemical called adrenochrome to prolong their life spans.
ref: 2020 September 30, Helen Lewis, “The Joke’s on Us”, in The Atlantic:
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A fictional drug obtained from human adrenal glands.
carbazone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbazones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of organic nitrogen compounds derived from the parent compound HN=N-CO-NH-NH₂
Derived terms: semicarbazone
thiocarbazone
semicarbazone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semicarbazones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The reaction product of an aldehyde or ketone with semicarbazide; they have the general formula R₁R₂C=N-NH-CO-NH₂
semicarbazide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semicarbazides
Etymology: From semi- + carbazide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class or organic nitrogen compounds derived from the parent compound NH₂-NH-CO-NH₂; they react with aldehydes and ketones to form semicarbazones.
'cos
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Forms: form: cos
form: coz
Senses: examples: text: “I thought he was supposed to turn up. ’Cos of destiny.”
ref: 1989, Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, page 98:
text: Should five per cent appear too small, / Be thankful I don't take it all, / 'Cos I'm the Taxman, / Yeah, I'm the Taxman.
ref: 1991, Alan Aldridge, The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics, lyrics of Taxman by The Beatles, page 69:
glosses: Informal spelling of 'cause (“because”).
'cos
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more 'cos
form: most 'cos
form: cos
form: coz
Senses: glosses: Informal spelling of 'cause (“because”).
Tiffany
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈtɪfəni/
Etymology: From Old French Tifinie, Tiphanie, from Latin Theophania (“Epiphany”), from Ancient Greek θεο- (theo-, “god”) (combining form of θεός (theós, “god”)) + φαίνω (phaínō, “I shine, appear”). Doublet of theophany.
The given name (from circa 12th century) was usually given to girls born at Epiphany. The surname (from late 13th century) is a dialectal variant of the surname Tiffin, which derives from the given name variant Tiffania.
In modern times, the given name has been (re)popularized by the surname borne by Charles Lewis Tiffany, founder of jewelry company Tiffany & Co.
Senses: glosses: A northern English surname.
examples: text: "That's her real name, you know. I mean, a lot of girls working the topless joints, they take exotic, sexy names...well, Tiffany Carter, for example...but that was the name Tracy was born with."
ref: 1985, Ed McBain, Snow White and Rose Red, page 130:
text: Tiffany Henyard’s tumultuous tenure as mayor of south suburban Dolton is coming to an end, and voters were very clear about ousting her.
ref: 2025 February 25, Gabriel Castillo, Jenna Barnes, Ben Bradley, Michael Johnson, Erik Runge, “Defeated in Dolton: Trustee Jason House beats incumbent Mayor Tiffany Henyard by landslide in primary”, in WGN-TV, archived from the original on 27 Feb 2025:
glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname.
Tiffany
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɪfəni/
Etymology: From Old French Tifinie, Tiphanie, from Latin Theophania (“Epiphany”), from Ancient Greek θεο- (theo-, “god”) (combining form of θεός (theós, “god”)) + φαίνω (phaínō, “I shine, appear”). Doublet of theophany.
The given name (from circa 12th century) was usually given to girls born at Epiphany. The surname (from late 13th century) is a dialectal variant of the surname Tiffin, which derives from the given name variant Tiffania.
In modern times, the given name has been (re)popularized by the surname borne by Charles Lewis Tiffany, founder of jewelry company Tiffany & Co.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Tiffany glass.
Derived terms: poor man's Tiffany
four-letter word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: four-letter words
Etymology: From the frequency of the most common swear words being composed of or spelt with four letters.
Senses: examples: text: Good authors, too, who once knew better words / Now only use four-letter words
ref: 1934, Cole Porter, “Anything Goes”, in Anything Goes:
text: Words can make you pay and pay / Four-letter words I cannot say
ref: 1981, “Wordy Rappinghood”, performed by Tom Tom Club:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A reference to any of several of the strongest English swear words that are also four letters long, especially those composing the so-called seven dirty words.
examples: text: People say that you were born lazy / because you think that work is four-letter word
ref: 1968, “Work Is a Four-Letter Word”, performed by Cilla Black:
text: To me, coming from you, 'Friend' is a four letter word
ref: 1996, “Friend Is a Four-Letter Word”, in Fashion Nugget, performed by Cake:
text: “Tech” is not yet a four-letter word, but it could soon become one.
ref: 2018 January 20, Eve Smith, “The techlash against Amazon, Facebook and Google—and what they can do”, in The Economist:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A swear word or any words considered to be taboo in a given scenario (regardless of length of word).
kyrie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪəɹ.ɪˌeɪ/
Forms: form: kyries
Etymology: From Ecclesiastical Latin Kyrie, contraction of the Ancient Greek phrase Κύριε ἐλέησον (Kúrie eléēson, “Lord, have mercy”), from Ancient Greek Κύριε (Kúrie), vocative form of Κύριος (Kúrios, “Lord”), from κῦρος (kûros, “supremacy, authority”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱēw-, *ḱewh₁- (“to swell, spread out, be strong, prevail”).
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A short prayer or petition including the phrase kyrie eleison, meaning “Lord, have mercy”.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A setting of the traditional kyrie text to music for a Mass.
Related terms: kyriarchy
Kyriale
verdancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verdancies
Senses: synonyms: verdure
glosses: The state of being verdant.
zek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: zeks
Etymology: From Russian зэ́к (zɛ́k), probably representing a pronunciation of з/к (z/k), Soviet abbreviation of заключённый каналоармеец (zaključónnyj kanaloarmejec, “prisoner member of the [White Sea–Baltic] Canal army”).
Senses: examples: text: Every prisoner who recants is a potential influence on other zeks to do likewise.
ref: 1988, Natan Sharansky, translated by Stefani Hoffman, Fear No Evil, page 235:
text: There are the zeks, the survivors of the gulags, some honest about their experiences, others still deluded or traumatised decades later.
ref: 2004 February 8, Jason Burke, The Observer:
glosses: A prisoner at a Russian prison, especially (historical) at a Soviet labour camp.
xerotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more xerotic
form: most xerotic
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: dry
Related terms: xerosis
xerosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xeroses
Etymology: From xero- + -osis.
Senses: examples: text: Xerosis is a consequence of the skin's loss of natural moisturizing factors and loss of moisture from the stratum corneum and intercellular matrix (Hill, 2008).
ref: 2015, Ruth Bryant, Denise Nix, Acute and Chronic Wounds: Current Management Concepts, page 271:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Dryness.
Related terms: xerotic
dryness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹaɪ.nəs/
rhymes: -aɪnəs
Forms: form: drynesses
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English dryenesse, drynesse; equivalent to dry + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Khorana added that this is especially true of cleansers that feature surfactants like sodium lauryl sulfate, as this class of ingredients can cause “dryness, irritation and eczema.”
ref: 2023 December 6, Jessica DeFino, “Too Many Products Can Stress Out Your Skin. Here’s How to Scale Back.”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A lack of moisture.
glosses: The degree to which something is dry.
predominantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈdɒmɪnəntli/
Forms: form: more predominantly
form: most predominantly
Etymology: From predominant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The membership is predominantly elderly, as 90% are over age 60.
text: Both groups are predominantly confined to areas with warm to tropical climates[…]
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 3:
text: The first phase of our pilot study found that the signage on the campus grounds was well regulated by the institution and was predominantly English.
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 5:
text: “With the food packages that we drop off, we are adding messages in the local dialect of Xhosa, because this is predominately for the Xhosa areas,” Kolisi said.
ref: 2020 April 28, Christina Macfarlane, “‘There is nothing worse than hunger,’ says South Africa hero Siya Kolisi of helping townships during lockdown”, in CNN:
glosses: In a predominant manner. Most commonly or frequently by a large margin.
Synonyms: primarily
principally
mostly
usually
Maoriland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaʊɹilənd/
ipa: /ˈmaʊɹiˌlænd/
Etymology: From Maori + -land.
Senses: examples: 1900, Henry Lawson A Daughter of Maoriland (title of a story)
glosses: Nickname for New Zealand: an island country in Polynesia.
Derived terms: Maorilander
tacet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪ.sɪt/
ipa: /ˈtæ.sɪt/
note: Italianate
ipa: /ˈtɑːtʃɛt/
ipa: /ˈtɑːkɛt/
rhymes: -æsɪt
homophone: tacit
homophone: tasset
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin tacet (“it is silent”), third-person singular present active indicative form of taceō (“I am silent”). Doublet of tacit.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An instruction indicating silence on the part of the performers of a piece.
howling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaʊlɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊlɪŋ
Forms: form: howlings
Etymology: From Middle English howlynge, howelynge, equivalent to howl + -ing (gerund suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The howling of wolves is haunting at night.
glosses: The act of producing howls.
howling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaʊlɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊlɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English howlinge, howlynge, equivalent to howl + -ing (present participle ending).
Senses: examples: text: "They have turned a great old English institution into a shameful clip-joint. It's a shuddering, howling tragedy."
ref: 2009 February 19, Gareth Lewis, Southern Daily Echo:
glosses: present participle and gerund of howl
howling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaʊlɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊlɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English howlinge, howlynge, equivalent to howl + -ing (present participle ending).
Senses: examples: text: A few minutes later a howling mob was at the door.
ref: 1888, William Fraser Rae, A Modern Brigand:
text: We have already seen in Chapter I how man stepped upwards from the level of a howling brute to the higher level of an articulate being, and thence to the still higher level of a singing creature.
ref: 1916, Charles Villiers Stanford, Cecil Forsyth, A History of Music, page 202:
text: It consisted of marching on to College green or St Stephen's green on a day when there was a howling gale and the wind was blowing about us –I am sure hon. Members today are familiar with this –to utter a few, well-chosen platitudes.
ref: 1989, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)., page 189:
glosses: That howls.
examples: text: Ah! the death of the poor, the empty entrails, howling hunger, the animal appetite that leads one with chattering teeth to fill one's stomach with beastly refuse in this great Paris, so bright and golden!
ref: 1877, Émile Zola, L'Assommoir:
text: Some agency must control the allocation of frequencies or all our airways would be a howling chaos: but there is no rational justification for the kind of regulation that the Federal Communications Commission proposes for our industry.
ref: 1966, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Regulation of Commuity Antenna Television, page 272:
text: A pervasive sense of optimism led settlers in southern New Zealand to transform their properites from a 'howling wilderness' to a humanised rural landscape.
ref: 2013, Peter Holland, A Home in the Howling Wilderness:
glosses: That causes one to howl or feel like howling; deeply distressing.
examples: text: Those were days that I had success, for I could see it, and feel it, and taste it, and my patrons caught the contagion and we had a howling success .
ref: 1900, “Superstition and Success in the Practise of Medicin. A Breezy Chapter From a Young Contemporary”, in The Medical World, volume 18, page 446:
text: Boy, what a howling triumph if we should find our way out of here and go walking into Stark House by night !
ref: 2022, Percy Keese Fitzhugh, The Doom of Stark House:
text: The majority of your audience comes to your tale with one hopeful expectation: Tell me a howling good story.
ref: 2023, Wulf Moon, How to Write a Howling Good Story, page 1:
text: a howling success
glosses: Used as an intensifier
Derived terms: howlingly
howls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /haʊlz/
rhymes: -aʊlz
Senses: glosses: plural of howl
howls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /haʊlz/
rhymes: -aʊlz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of howl
wheeled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wēld
ipa: /wiːld/
rhymes: -iːld
homophone: Weald
homophone: weald
homophone: wealed
homophone: wield (wine–whine merger)
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wheel
wheeled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: wēld
ipa: /wiːld/
rhymes: -iːld
homophone: Weald
homophone: weald
homophone: wealed
homophone: wield (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: more wheeled
form: most wheeled
Senses: examples: a wheeled vehicle
glosses: Having wheels; on wheels.
examples: a three-wheeled car
an iron-wheeled chariot
glosses: Having the specified number or type of wheels.
Hyponyms: two-wheeled
three-wheeled
four-wheeled
six-wheeled
Coordinate terms: word: rollered