cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tu-whit tu-whoo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tuwhit tuwhoo.
pudibund
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈpjuːdɪbʌnd/
Forms: form: more pudibund
form: most pudibund
Etymology: From Latin pudibundus, from pudeō (“make ashamed, be ashamed”).
Senses: examples: text: Involuntarily Lucette bent her head and frail spine, then she lay back on the outer half of Ada’s pillow in a martyr’s pudibund swoon, her locks spreading their orange blaze against the black velvet of the padded headboard.
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 8, in Ada, or, Ardor: A Family Chronicle, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, →OCLC, page 329:
glosses: Shy, bashful; prudish.
rebribe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈbɹʌɪb/
Forms: form: rebribes
form: rebribing
form: rebribed
form: rebribed
Etymology: From re- + bribe.
Senses: examples: text: That same day (February 3, 1893) Van rebribed the already gorged janitor to have him answer all questions [...] with a brief assertion of utter ignorance.
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 338:
glosses: To bribe again.
rebribes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rebribe
rebribing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rebribe
rebribed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rebribe
lmao
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of LMAO.
lmao
Language: English
Part of speech: particle
Senses: glosses: Neutralises the tone of a message; denotes that a message is light-hearted or casual.
inofficial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inofficial
form: most inofficial
Etymology: From in- + official. Compare Latin inofficiālis, French inofficiel, German inoffiziell.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of unofficial.
synonyms: word: unofficial
Derived terms: inofficially
hæmorrhagic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Upon careful examination of an arterial branch within whose range a hæmorrhagic infarction has formed, we find in it a clot by which its calibre is more or less obstructed.
ref: 1878, Felix von Niemeyer, George H. Humphreys, Charles E. Hackley, A Text‐Book of Practical Medicine, 7th edition, volume I, D. Appleton and Company, § III, Chapter VII, page 154:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of hemorrhagic.
Derived terms: anti-hæmorrhagic
anti-hæmorrhagic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anti-hæmorrhagic
form: most anti-hæmorrhagic
Etymology: From anti- + hæmorrhagic.
Senses: examples: text: He suggested whether the anti‐hæmorrhagic properties of some of our common astringent drugs may not depend upon the gallic acid as much or more than upon the tannin which they contain, or upon the tannin becoming changed into gallic acid within the body.
ref: 1843, Doctor Graham, Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal, Henry Renshaw, Volume VI, №. 147, page 335:
glosses: Obsolete form of antihemorrhagic.
synæsthete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synæsthetes
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of synaesthete.
anaesthete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anaesthetes
Etymology: From an- + aesthete.
Senses: glosses: One who is afflicted with anesthesia.
anæsthete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anæsthetes
Etymology: From an- + æsthete.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of anaesthete.
moxidectin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A parasiticide derived from nemadectin, used to prevent and control heartworm and intestinal worms in animals.
nonsurplus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + surplus.
Senses: glosses: Not surplus.
B.O.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: B.O.s
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of BO.
evil laughs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of evil laugh
chimelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chimelike
form: most chimelike
Etymology: From chime + -like.
Senses: examples: text: He is perhaps best known for his sounding sculptures, metal sculptures with masses of rods or wires that make chimelike sounds when touched or moved by the wind.
ref: 2007 November 30, Wendy Moonan, “From City to City, 20th-Century Art and Furniture”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a chime.
floorwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From floor + work.
Senses: examples: text: The innocence with which Amos J. Machanic Jr. performs the highly controlled floorwork of his solo I Wanna Be Ready is particularly touching, as is the objectivity with which the dancers present the big knockout ensembles.
ref: 2007 November 30, Alastair Macaulay, “Resurrecting a Firebird and Transcending a Choreographer in a Single Bound”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any part of dance or aerobics performed close to the floor.
foldup
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Deverbal from fold up.
Senses: examples: text: A storage wall supports a desk, two drawers, two shelves, a bookcase, a reading light, a foldup table and the bed frame.
ref: 2007 November 30, Wendy Moonan, “From City to City, 20th-Century Art and Furniture”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of fold-up.
foldup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foldups
Etymology: Deverbal from fold up.
Senses: examples: text: A card table, three foldups, the bulging single bed, and an ice chest served as furniture.
ref: 2002, Gary Paul Nabhan, The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in O'Odham Country, page 30:
text: Judy was attracted to Mesa Flats Resort primarily because of the ballroom, which could be converted into a performance venue with stage and lighting. Granted the chairs were fold-ups, the stage was small with only one dressing room, […]
ref: 2015, George T. Lindsey, Mesa Flats Resort Predators and Politics, page 56:
glosses: Alternative form of fold-up.
stagescape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stagescapes
Etymology: From stage + -scape.
Senses: examples: text: Its austere aesthetic (a bluish-gray backdrop and vaporous lighting, a few chairs, an overturned bicycle, a ships mast center stage) and slow, stylized pace are often reminiscent of a Robert Wilson stagescape.
ref: 2007 November 30, Roslyn Sulcas, “A Seascape Dotted by Chaotic Bursts”, in New York Times:
glosses: A visual scene created on stage by means of set, props, etc.
stagescapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stagescape
tenontosaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenontosaurs
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus †Tenontosaurus of ornithopod dinosaurs.
tenontosaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenontosaur
uncheerful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈtʃɪəfəl/
Forms: form: more uncheerful
form: most uncheerful
Etymology: From un- + cheerful.
Senses: examples: text: But by the change of her unchearefull looke, / They might perceive she was not well in plight […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: For now, though, Paramore gets by on good cheer, even during seemingly uncheerful songs.
ref: 2007 November 30, “Familiar With Emo, Intimate With Upbeat”, in New York Times:
synonyms: word: cheerless
word: despondent
word: uncheery
word: cheerless
word: comfortless
word: bleak
word: dark
word: depressing
word: desolate
word: dire
word: disconsolate
word: dismal
word: doleful
word: dolesome
word: drear
word: drearisome
word: dreary
word: dreich
word: forlorn
word: gayless
word: gray
word: gloomsome
word: gloomy
word: grim
word: joyless
word: lack-laughter
word: lugubrious
word: melancholy
word: mirthless
word: miserable
word: no joke
word: saturnine
word: solemn
word: somber
word: sombre
word: spiritless
word: sullen
word: sunless
word: uncheerful
word: uncheery
word: unhappy
word: unmerry
word: wintry
word: woeful
word: atrabiliary
word: atrabilious
word: blitheless
word: dispirited
word: blue
word: bummed out
word: chapfallen
word: cheerless
word: chopfallen
word: crestfallen
word: cut up
word: damp
word: dejected
word: depressed
word: despondent
word: disgruntled
word: disconsolate
word: disheartened
word: dismal
word: doleful
word: dolesome
word: down
word: down in the dumps
word: down in the mouth
word: downcast
word: downhearted
word: downsome
word: dull
word: elegiac
word: elegious
word: forlorn
word: gloomy
word: glum
word: grief-stricken
word: grieving
word: heavy-hearted
word: heartsore
word: heartsick
word: inconsolable
word: infelicitous
word: jawfallen
word: joyless
word: lachrymose
word: lamentful
word: low
word: low-spirited
word: lugubrious
word: lumpish
word: melancholic
word: melancholy
word: miserable
word: moody
word: mopey
word: morose
word: mournful
word: passionate
word: plaintive
word: querulous
word: sad
word: saddened
word: saturnine
word: shattered
word: solemn
word: sombre
word: sorrowful
word: sorrow-ridden
word: sorrowsome
word: spiritless
word: sullen
word: threnetic
word: threnetical
word: triste
word: tristful
word: uncheerful
word: uncheery
word: unconsolable
word: unhappy
word: unlively
word: wistful
word: woe
word: woebegone
word: woeful
word: wretched
glosses: Not cheerful.
Derived terms: uncheerfully
uncheerfulness
uncheerfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uncheerfully
form: most uncheerfully
Etymology: From uncheerful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner that is not cheerful.
unstill
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unstill
form: most unstill
Etymology: From un- + still.
Senses: synonyms: word: dynamic
word: mobile
word: afoot
word: animate
word: astir
word: cursory
word: dynamic
word: in motion
word: mobile
word: moving
word: on the move
word: on the wing
word: under sail
word: unstill
glosses: Not still; changing or in motion.
videotaper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: videotapers
Etymology: From videotape + -er.
Senses: examples: text: His arrest was made possible in part after a $5,000 night-vision system to detect digital-camera lenses was installed in the Guzzo Lacordaire multiplex cinema, described as a target of illegal videotapers. Mr. Hache faces a fine or up to two years in prison if found guilty of recording a movie without a theaters permission and a fine or up to five years in prison if convicted of recording for commercial gain.
ref: 2007 November 30, “Arts, Briefly”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who videotapes.
videotapers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of videotaper
anticollusion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + collusion.
Senses: examples: text: The F.C.C.'s anticollusion rules will prevent participants from discussing their strategy after bidding begins.
ref: 2007 December 1, Brad Stone, “Google to Join Spectrum Auction”, in New York Times:
glosses: Preventing or countering collusion.
belllike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more belllike
form: most belllike
form: bell-like
Etymology: From bell + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Usually the pulse is established by a piano, which holds down the beat with a belllike tone.
ref: 2007 December 1, Allan Kozinn, “That Same Old Beat, With Brand-New Choices”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 17 Jan 2018:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a bell.
Related terms: bell-shaped
bellmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bell + making.
Senses: glosses: The manufacture of bells.
Related terms: bellmaker
classload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: classloads
Etymology: From class + load.
Senses: examples: text: Some say this is another example of how little academics matter in major college sports, but others see the light classload as a reward for a job well done and as a way for a player to concentrate on the team.
ref: 2007 December 1, Pete Thamel, “When Football Moves to the Head of the Class”, in New York Times:
glosses: The amount of work allocated to students taking a class.
Related terms: courseload
classloads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of classload
neopopulism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neo-populism
Etymology: From neo- + populism.
Senses: examples: text: President Chávez has been buying and selling against this idea, continuing to practice the kind of neopopulism that will reach its limit only when the country receives what economists call an external shock.
ref: 2007 December 1, RAÚL ISAÍAS BADUEL, “Why I Parted Ways With Chávez”, in New York Times:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A cultural and political movement, mainly in Latin American countries, distinct from twentieth-century populism in radically combining classically opposed left-wing and right-wing attitudes and using electronic media as a means of dissemination.
Related terms: neopopulist
nonmayoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + mayoral.
Senses: glosses: Not mayoral.
nonrepeat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + repeat.
Senses: examples: text: IFC's role and contribution is estimated to be better with repeat than nonrepeat clients. There has been much debate about the appropriate mix of IFC operations between repeat and nonrepeat clients.
ref: 2008, Dan Crabtree, Independent evaluation of IFC's development results 2008, page 33:
glosses: Not a repeat.
repayability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From repay + -ability.
Senses: examples: the repayability of loans
glosses: The quality of being repayable.
repaver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repavers
Etymology: From repave + -er.
Senses: glosses: A machine for repaving.
repavers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repaver
vocalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vocal + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I like what I'm seeing, in terms of the vocalness of certain people on our team, starting to hold people accountable and their teammates accountable.
ref: 2007 December 1, Howard Beck, “Leadership Seems to Be Lacking From the Knicks Top Performers”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being vocal; outspokenness.
endnoted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endnote + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Denied access to the man himself, he interviews legions of Nicholson's friends, acquaintances and family members; analyzes his movies; and pieces together a detailed, heavily endnoted narrative about the man he calls the Gatsby of Mulholland Drive.
ref: 2007 December 2, “Hollywood Chronicle”, in New York Times:
glosses: Annotated with endnotes.
endmembers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: end members
form: end-members
Senses: glosses: plural of endmember.
hyperdramatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperdramatic
form: most hyperdramatic
Etymology: From hyper- + dramatic.
Senses: examples: text: That's somehow fitting, and so is Rudahl's madly anarchic, hyperdramatic visual approach.
ref: 2007 December 2, “Comics”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very highly dramatic.
hyperdimensionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + dimensional + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being hyperdimensional.
konking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of konk
konked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of konk
megadealer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megadealers
Etymology: From mega- + dealer.
Senses: examples: text: Unlike today's megadealers with their constant poachings of high-profile artists whose careers were fostered by smaller galleries — and unlike today's collectors, whose feeding frenzy is driven by fashion and an eye for the auctions — Sonnabend was a kind of incubator, said the photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto, who has shown with the gallery since the 1970s.
ref: 2009 February 26, Leslie Camhi, “The Seer”, in New York Times:
glosses: A major, large-scale dealer.
megadealers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megadealer
minibattle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minibattles
Etymology: From mini- + battle.
Senses: examples: text: Full Circle will perform on Wednesday, and Rokafella has served as the library's liaison, giving breaking workshops at the Bronx Library Center. Mr. Martin said he hoped some of her students would participate in a relaxed minibattle as part of the evening.
ref: 2007 December 2, Claudia La Rocco, “B-Boys of the Bronx, Dancing in the Street”, in New York Times:
glosses: A minor battle.
minibattles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minibattle
minibubble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minibubbles
Etymology: From mini- + bubble.
Senses: examples: text: "I think this is a minibubble reflecting hysterical buying by speculators, who are fearful that we will embark on some sort of adventure in Iran and destabilize oil sources in the region," Mr. Metz said.
ref: 2007 December 2, J. Alex Tarquinio, “From the Heights of $100 Oil, Most Stocks Look Vulnerable”, in New York Times:
topics: business
finance
glosses: A minor bubble.
minibubbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minibubble
overelaborate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overelaborate
form: most overelaborate
Etymology: From over- + elaborate.
Senses: glosses: Excessively elaborate.
Synonyms: overcomplicated
Derived terms: overelaborately
overelaborateness
overelaborate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overelaborates
form: overelaborating
form: overelaborated
form: overelaborated
Etymology: From over- + elaborate.
Senses: glosses: To elaborate excessively; to go into too much detail.
Related terms: overelaboration
belabour
explicate
overembellishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overembellishments
Etymology: From over- + embellishment.
Senses: glosses: Excessive embellishment.
Related terms: overembellish
overembellishments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overembellishment
parrotlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more parrotlike
form: most parrotlike
Etymology: From parrot + -like.
Senses: examples: text: A jarring parrotlike voice assaulted me from the racks of leggings.
ref: 2007 December 2, Kelly Valen, “My Sorority Pledge? I Swore Off Sisterhood”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a parrot.
patination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patinations
Etymology: From patina + -ation?
Senses: examples: text: Modern Art Foundry: Sculpture retouching, casting, finishing and patination.
ref: 2009 February 26, Madhu Puri, “The Full Picture”, in New York Times:
qualifier: sculpture
glosses: The application of a patina.
patinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patination
unpatinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + patinated.
Senses: glosses: Without a patina.
philhellenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more philhellenic
form: most philhellenic
form: philohellenic
Etymology: From phil- + Hellenic.
Senses: examples: text: These ancient treasures, together with historic photographs of the major excavations, aerial panoramas of splendid sites, old watercolors and lithographs, and 19th-century architectural renderings, are enough to leave a deep impression on anyone with a drop of philhellenic blood.
ref: 2007 December 2, “The Greeks”, in New York Times:
glosses: Loving Greece or Greek culture.
examples: text: In France, where philhellenic sentiment reached a peak at this time, the government was secretly building warships for the Egyptian fleet and even sent French officers as advisors to accompany them when they went into service in 1827.
ref: 2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 101:
glosses: Specifically, supportive of Greek national independence.
pulsingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pulsingly
form: most pulsingly
Etymology: From pulsing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She seems pulsingly alive in a way that the grand, marmoreal singers sometimes did not.
ref: 2007 December 2, Charles Mcgrath, “A New Kind of Diva”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a way that pulses.
raunchfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raunchfests
Etymology: From raunch + -fest.
Senses: examples: text: At that point Mr. Weitz's résumé consisted mostly of his having written and directed, with his brother Paul, the comedy About a Boy, based on the Nick Hornby novel, and that great raunchfest American Pie.
ref: 2007 December 2, Charles Mcgrath, “Unholy Production With a Fairy-Tale Ending”, in New York Times:
glosses: A very raunchy event, film, etc.
raunchfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raunchfest
semiglobalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From semi- + globalization.
Senses: examples: text: To create value, businesses must embrace semiglobalization.
ref: 2007 December 2, Stephen Kotkin, “The World as an Imperfect Globe”, in New York Times:
glosses: Partial globalization.
semiplausible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + plausible.
Senses: examples: text: No one walks that way, and yet those feet are such a perfect comic approximation of the idea of walking that they've entered our subconscious as a kind of semiplausible reality.
ref: 2007 December 2, Stephanie Zacharek, “Mad”, in New York Times:
glosses: Somewhat plausible.
skyscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skyscape
neo-populism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neopopulism.
skyspace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skyspaces
Etymology: From sky + space.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: An architectural design in which a room has a large hole in its ceiling, open to the sky.
skyspaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skyspace
superprecise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superprecise
form: most superprecise
Etymology: From super- + precise.
Senses: examples: text: If you can stand to see Monet's nine-square-foot horizontal canvas shoehorned into a two-square-inch vertical screen (and in the end, I decided I could), you'll have the pleasure of communing with a superprecise version of the masterpiece at your leisure, no suggested donation required.
ref: 2007 December 2, Virginia Heffernan, “Masterpiece Home Theater”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extremely precise.
thwap
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: THE COMPLETELY MAD DON MARTIN, a two-volume honker that includes every drawing Martin ever published in the magazine, answers the question with a definitive thwap: Martin's cartoons are still weird.
ref: 2007 December 2, Stephanie Zacharek, “Mad”, in New York Times:
glosses: The sound of a heavy smack.
thwap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thwaps
form: thwapping
form: thwapped
form: thwapped
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: Reflectors in the road thwapped beneath the tires, setting a regular, almost reassuring pace.
ref: 2004, Anthony Doerr, About Grace, page 241:
glosses: To make, or cause to make, a heavy smacking sound.
ultracharming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultracharming
form: most ultracharming
Etymology: From ultra- + charming.
Senses: examples: text: An ultracharming picture book presented as a kind of comic how-to manual to a baby brother, full of love, self-importance and well-meaning scorn ("You talk, but no one knows what you're saying").
ref: 2007 December 2, “Notable Children's Books of 2007”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very charming; delightful.
uncontrollability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uncontrolability
Senses: examples: text: These are the images that demonstrate the force — the mesmerizing uncontrollability that is at the heart of weather's primal draw, and that holds the power to make weather fanatics out of even those of us whose first instinct is to run.
ref: 2007 December 2, “Weather”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being uncontrollable.
undecylic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: undecanoic acid
Related terms: undecylate
willet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: willets
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, from the bird's cry ("pill-will-willet").
Senses: glosses: Tringa semipalmata (or formerly Catoptrophorus semipalmatus), a large shorebird in the family Scolopacidae.
Derived terms: Carolina willet
willets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of willet
kerokan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Whatever injuries the women may have suffered, the lawyers said, were self-inflicted in the practice of a traditional Indonesian folk cure known as kerokan.
ref: 2007 December 3, Paul Vitello, “From Stand in Long Island Slavery Case, a Snapshot of a Hidden U.S. Problem”, in New York Times:
glosses: A sometimes injurious traditional Indonesian folk cure wherein a coin or ladle is drawn across the back in order to draw wind or bad spirits from the body.
paintest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: paint + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of paint
painteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: paints
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of paint
joinest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: join + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of join
pork barrelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pork-barrelling.
let fly
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lets fly
form: letting fly
form: let fly
form: let fly
Senses: examples: text: One evening when it was barely even dusk a sentry let fly at me from a distance of twenty yards; but he missed me by a yard—goodness knows how many times the Spanish standard of marksmanship has saved my life.
ref: 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter III, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
text: Norwich were back on level terms through an equally stunning finish by Morison in the 53rd minute, the former Millwall player letting fly from the edge of the area after being teed-up by Leon Barnett.
ref: 2011 October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport:
text: This time there was an English element as Ainsley Maitland-Niles let fly with cross-shot that fizzed to Nicolas Tagliafico at the far post.
ref: 2025 April 17, Simon Stone, “Manchester United 5-4 Olympique Lyonnais”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To strike or release a projectile with great force.
examples: text: She was furious and let fly at him with a string of obscenities.
text: Rosemary peeled off Sloane Square, Hartnell, decorations-will-be-worn, fog primroses, crumpets by the fire, and let fly vulgarly at Vythilingam.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 498:
text: Jammed onto a narrow, steep sidewalk, police barricades all around, we march with placards, drums, and angry spirit: "The Moral Majority, cops and Klan. Work together hand in hand." — helmeted tac squad on horses, Hondas, facing us on Powell Street, itching to wield their billy clubs, waiting for any excuse to let fly.
ref: 1984 August 11, Merle Woo, “Revolutionary Optimism—The Order of the Day”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 5, page 5:
glosses: To unleash an angry outburst.
veeringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more veeringly
form: most veeringly
Etymology: From veering + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a veering motion.
windingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more windingly
form: most windingly
Etymology: From winding + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The river flows windingly between the hills.
glosses: With a winding motion or pattern.
put in motion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts in motion
form: putting in motion
form: put in motion
form: put in motion
Senses: glosses: Synonym of set in motion.
synonyms: word: set in motion
propelment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: propelments
Etymology: From propel + -ment.
Senses: glosses: Propulsion, the act of propelling.
glosses: A mechanism that propels something.
lose ground
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: loses ground
form: losing ground
form: lost ground
form: lost ground
Senses: examples: text: He lost ground in his career due to his illness.
text: They are losing ground to foreign competitors every year.
text: The pre-match mantra from the Scotland camp may have been of it not being a “must win” game but that fooled no-one, Poland’s win in Georgia earlier last night simply crystallised how vital it was for the Scots not to lose any more ground at this stage of an intensely competitive campaign.
ref: 2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman:
antonyms: gain ground
glosses: To suffer loss or disadvantage; to experience a setback.
Related terms: give ground
gain ground
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gains ground
form: gaining ground
form: gained ground
form: gained ground
Etymology: Metaphor, suggesting e.g. military acquisition of territory.
Senses: examples: text: No matter how hard I try, I don't seem to be gaining ground.
text: Team Red has gained ground on Team Blue since October.
synonyms: gain momentum
gain traction
pick up
antonyms: give ground
lose ground
glosses: To make progress or obtain advantage; to gain traction.
Related terms: put facts on the ground
propelments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of propelment
branch off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: branches off
form: branching off
form: branched off
form: branched off
Senses: glosses: To diverge into two or more separate paths.
raw_tags: of a path or route
glosses: To separate from a main path or route.
glosses: To divert from the main topic of conversation.
raw_tags: of a conversation
Synonyms: fork off
fork off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forks off
form: forking off
form: forked off
form: forked off
Senses: glosses: to diverge into two or more separate paths.
Synonyms: branch off
fork off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forks off
form: forking off
form: forked off
form: forked off
Senses: glosses: Euphemistic form of fuck off.
fly off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flies off
form: flying off
form: flew off
form: flown off
Senses: glosses: To flee rapidly; to run away.
glosses: To be spurred into ranting, shouting or otherwise agitated speaking.
Related terms: fly off at a tangent
fly off the handle
file off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: files off
form: filing off
form: filed off
form: filed off
Senses: glosses: To remove using a file (the tool).
glosses: To depart in single file.
good morrow
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡʊd ˈmɒɹəʊ/
Forms: form: good-morrow
form: goodmorrow
Etymology: From Middle English good morow, good morwe.
Senses: examples: text: Creſ[ſida]. Good morrow vncle Pandarus.
 Pan[darus]. Good morrow cozen Creſſid: what doe you talke of? good morrow, Alexander: how doe you cozen? when were you at Ilium?
ref: c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: Good Morrow, Neighbour; good Morrow, Neighbour Cloggit; How do's all at your Houſe this Morning?
ref: 1705, [John Vanbrugh], The Confederacy. A Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 1:
text: "Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow," quoth Robin, "thou seemest happy this merry morn."
ref: 1883, Howard Pyle, chapter V, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC:
glosses: Good morning.
good morrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡʊd ˈmɒɹəʊ/
Forms: form: good morrows
form: good-morrow
form: goodmorrow
Etymology: From Middle English good morow, good morwe.
Senses: glosses: A greeting consisting of the interjection.
examples: text: Among the plants and shrubs that I saw, and could form any knowledge of, were the sisban, or large thorny sensitive plant, sometimes called the good-morrow, these are abundant among the underwoods.
ref: 1797, Joseph Hawkins of New York, A history of a voyage to the coast of Africa: and travels into the interior of that country, [A book https://www.jstor.org/stable/3172055] questioned to be a hoax, first Edition in Philadelphia page 133 and two editions in Troy by Luther Pratt page 133:
glosses: Riverhemp, sesban.
kitty-cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kitty-cat
lighten someone's purse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lightens someone's purse
form: lightening someone's purse
form: lightened someone's purse
form: lightened someone's purse
Senses: examples: text: For when Robin Hood caught a baron or a squire, or a fat abbot or bishop, he brought them to the greenwood tree and feasted them before he lightened their purses.
ref: 1883, Howard Pyle, chapter V, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC:
glosses: to take money from someone.
show one's face
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shows one's face
form: showing one's face
form: showed one's face
form: shown one's face
form: showed one's face
Senses: examples: text: But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.
ref: 1883, Howard Pyle, chapter V, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC:
glosses: To appear publicly.
sociogeographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From socio- + geographical.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to society and geography.
take command
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes command
form: taking command
form: took command
form: taken command
Senses: examples: text: Fabio Capello's out of sorts side looked to be heading for a damaging defeat and a heavy blow to their hopes of reaching Poland and Ukraine next summer as Switzerland deservedly took command.
ref: 2011 June 4, Phil McNulty, “England 2 - 2 Switzerland”, in BBC:
glosses: Synonym of take control, especially in situations involving a role with formal command over a group of people.
synonyms: word: take control
extra: especially in situations involving a role with formal command over a group of people
rising star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rising stars
Senses: examples: text: Defeat would have been harsh on the Swiss, predictably well-organised under the masterly direction of veteran coach Ottmar Hitzfeld, and in midfield man Xherdan Shaqiri they have one of Europe's rising stars.
ref: 2011 June 4, Phil McNulty, “England 2 - 2 Switzerland”, in BBC:
glosses: An emerging talent.
Related terms: up-and-comer
Samsø
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Samso
form: Samsoe
Etymology: Borrowed from Danish Samsø.
Senses: glosses: An island of Denmark, lying within the Kattegat.
subsidiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subsidisers
Etymology: From subsidise + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of subsidizer.
subsidisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subsidiser
mewses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mews
mewlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mewling
unassumingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unassuming + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unassuming.
gin palace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gin palaces
Senses: glosses: A tavern that serves gin.
gin palaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gin palace
zero option
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A 1980s plan whereby all Soviet and American nuclear weapons would be mutually withdrawn from Europe.
Derived terms: double zero option
zero-zero option
Related terms: mutual assured destruction
hardtacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hardtack
hardstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hardstone
gynaeceum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gynaeceums
form: gynaecea
form: gynæceum
form: gyneceum
Etymology: From Latin gynaecēum, gynaecīum, from Ancient Greek γυναικεῖον (gunaikeîon), from γυνή (gunḗ, “woman”). By surface analysis, gynaec- + -eum.
Senses: examples: text: A master, however this may be, was very jealous of the inmates of his gyneceum, and he permitted no one to enter the place, which was protected as a sanctuary in the legislation of the Barbarians.
ref: 1926, PL Jacob, History of Prostitution, page 249:
text: It was agreeable to see men, after days in this gyneceum, bringing the place to life, to see waiters speeding to their command.
ref: 1984, Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac, Penguin, published 2016, page 61:
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: The women's quarters in a household; (hence, loosely) any building or area for women.
glosses: An establishment in Rome where female workers made clothing and furniture for royalty.
examples: text: The androecium functions by providing the pollen-grains which are necessary to bring about fertilisation of the ovules in the gynaeceum.
ref: 1929, Arthur Henry Reginald Buller, Practical Botany, page 205:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A gynoecium.
Synonyms: sense: women's quarters
word: gynaeconitis
catapulter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catapulters
Etymology: From catapult + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Then he loaded one of the lattice-shrouded cannonballs into the trebuchet’s sling, pulled out a lighter, and, as Genghis Khan’s catapulters would have done 800 years previously, lit the wooden kindling inside it and fired.
ref: 2009, Matthew Reilly, The Five Greatest Warriors, Simon and Schuster, published 2010, →ISBN, page 118:
glosses: One who uses a catapult.
roomth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʊmθ/
ipa: /ɹuːmθ/
rhymes: -ʊmθ
rhymes: -uːmθ
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English rymthe, from Old English rȳmþ (“roominess, spaciousness”) (compare Old English rȳmet (“room, space”)), from Proto-West Germanic *rūmiþu (“roominess”), from Proto-West Germanic *rūm (“roomy, spacious”), equivalent to room (“wide, spacious, roomy”) + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Dutch ruimte (“room, space”), German Low German Rüümte (“room, space”), German Räumte (“cargo capacity of a ship”), Swedish rymd (“space”).
Senses: examples: text: But Rydoll, young'st, and least, and for the others pride / Not finding fitting roomth upon the rising side
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion:
glosses: Room; sufficient space for a person or thing to occupy; place.
glosses: Roominess; spaciousness.
Derived terms: roomthsome
roomthy
noctuids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noctuid
noctules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noctule
tanbarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tanbark
femality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: femalities
Senses: glosses: femaleness
femalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of femality
alebench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alebenches
form: ale bench
form: ale-bench
Etymology: From ale + bench.
Senses: examples: text: VVhen the vulgar ſort / Sit on their Ale-bench, vvith their cups and kannes, / Matters of ſtate be not their common talke, / Nor pure religion by their lips prophande.
ref: 1600, [Michael Drayton, Richard Hathwaye, Anthony Munday, Robert Wilson], The First Part of the True and Honorable Historie, of the Life of Sir John Old-castle, the Good Lord Cobham. […], London: […] [V[alentine] S[immes]] for Thomas Pauier, […], →OCLC, signature B, recto:
text: This man is for any company, and for any talk: as he talketh now with you, so will he talk when he is on the alebench ; and the more drink he hath in his crown, the more of these things he hath in his mouth.
ref: 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC:
text: The real facts would have been sufficient to excite uneasiness and indignation : but the real facts were lost amidst a. crowd of wild rumours which flew without ceasing from coffeehouse to coffeehouse and from alebench to alebench, and became more wonderful and terrible at every stage of the progress.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 302:
text: He, with others more (sitting upon their alebench and greatly abusing themselves at one Mother Larkinge's house), took upon him and was called by the name of Mr. Parson, another taking upon him and was called by the name of churchwarden, another by the name of a sworn man, another by the name of the honest men of the parish, and another by the name of an apparitor whose name was Thomas England; thus sitting, abusing themselves like drunken sots.
ref: 1973, F. G. Emmison, Elizabethan Life: Morals and the Church Courts, page 70:
glosses: A bench at the front of an alehouse or inn where drinkers can sit.
alebenches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alebench
quercitannic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Quercus (“oak genus”) + tannic acid
Senses: glosses: One of the two forms of tannic acid, found in oak bark and leaves.
Related terms: gallotannic acid
gallotannic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gallotannic acids
Senses: glosses: One of the two forms of tannic acid, found in oak galls.
Related terms: quercitannic acid
kyrielle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɪɹiˈɛl/
Forms: form: kyrielles
Etymology: Borrowed from French kyrielle.
Senses: glosses: A long rigmarole.
examples: text: "I said 'pantoum,' sir—besides which, gentlemen, we have the triolet, the kyrielle, the virelai, the vilanelle——"
ref: 1918, Jeffery Farnol, Our Admirable Betty:
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A form of French verse written in rhyming couplets or quatrains, sometimes with a religious theme.
kyrielles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kyrielle
carcoat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carcoats
form: car-coat
form: car coat
Etymology: From car + coat.
Senses: glosses: A short coat to be worn in a car.
Related terms: motoring dress
carcoats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carcoat
card counters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of card counter
yottajoule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːl
Forms: form: yottajoules
Etymology: From yotta- + joule.
Senses: examples: text: One yottajoule is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules or one trillion trillion joules. When we talk about dieting we talk about kilojoules, which is one thousand joules.
ref: 2010, Sean Gallacher, Trillion Dollar Prophet:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: One septillion (10²⁴) joules.
gigaampere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gigaamperes
Etymology: From giga- + ampere.
Senses: topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of current equal to 10⁹ amperes. Symbol: GA
millihenry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millihenrys
form: millihenries
Etymology: From milli- + henry.
Senses: glosses: A unit of measure, one thousandth of a henry.
Titianesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /tɪʃəˈnɛsk/
Forms: form: more Titianesque
form: most Titianesque
Etymology: From Titian + -esque.
Senses: synonyms: Titianic
glosses: Suggesting the style of the painter Titian, with luminous colours and bold brushwork.
zeptojoule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zeptojoules
Etymology: From zepto- + joule.
Senses: examples: text: When a bundle with a drag coefficient of 200 nN · sec · m⁻¹ (Howard and Hudspeth, 1988) produced a 25 nm, triangle-wave twitch 5 msec in total duration (Fig. 12A), the energy dissipated against viscous drag was ~100 zJ (a zeptojoule is 10⁻²¹ J).
ref: 1996 September 15, Michael E. Benser, Robert E. Marquis, A. J. Hudspeth, “Rapid, Active Hair Bundle Movements in Hair Cells from the Bullfrog's Sacculus”, in The Journal of Neuroscience, 16(18), p. 5638:
text: The associated work is
W = 38.5 nm² × (10⁻⁹m/nm)² 35 pN/μm
(10⁻¹² N/pN) (μm/10⁻⁶ m) = 1.35 × 10⁻²¹ J
or about one zeptojoule.
ref: 2012, Christopher R. Jacobs, Hayden Huang, Ronald Y. Kwon, Introduction to Cell Mechanics and Mechanobiology, page 327:
text: However, with zeptojoule scale switching energies and novel functionality, the BiSFET could add a substantial amount of road!
ref: 2015, Tsu-Jae King Liu, Kelin Kuhn, CMOS and Beyond, page 204:
topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of energy equal to 10⁻²¹ joules. Symbol: zJ
Derived terms: word: zJ
kaempferols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kaempferol
myricetins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myricetin
quercetins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quercetin
Hepburnian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hepburnian
form: most Hepburnian
Etymology: From Hepburn + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to James Curtis Hepburn or his system of romanization of the Japanese language.
hepatoxicities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hepatoxicity
hepcidins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hepcidin