cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
telementation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See tele-, mental, + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The transmission of ideas from one mind to another, as through the use of language.
Derived terms: telementational
mercury switches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mercury switch
begathers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of begather
begathering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of begather
begathered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of begather
orat. obliq.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of oratio obliqua.
Christo-Muslim
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Christo- + Muslim.
Senses: examples: text: Ibn Kathir actually speaks here about a "Christo-Muslim" group ...
ref: 1999, Uri Rubin, Between Bible, Qurʻān:
text: When they started jeering at him again, it was not so much at his northernsouthern claims, but at his supposed Christo-Muslim identity.
ref: 2010, Uwem Akpan, Say You're One of Them:
text: There are no contemporary evidences available to support such stories current among the Muslims that the Christo-Muslim polemics had become the fashion of the day as early.
ref: 1983 Saral Chatterji, Essays in Celebration of the CISRS Silver Jubilee - Page 133
synonyms: Christo-Islamic
Chrislamic
hypernyms: Abrahamic
Judeo-Islamo-Christian
Judeo-Christian-Islamic
coordinate_terms: Judeo-Christian
glosses: Encompassing the Abrahamic religions of Christianity and Islam; across Islam and Christianity.
pernambuco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Pernambuco is a coastal wood which grows in maintained stands in Brazil.
ref: 2000, James Beament, The Violin Explained: Components, Mechanism, and Sound, page 159:
glosses: The wood of Paubrasilia echinata.
multi-pronged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a multi-pronged attack
glosses: Alternative form of multipronged.
Ogema
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A tiny city in Becker County, Minnesota.
glosses: A small town and census-designated place in Price County, Wisconsin.
Rouleau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rouleaus
form: Rulo
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
glosses: A placename
A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A placename
An island of Mistassini Lake, Nord-du-Québec, Quebec, Canada; in full, Ile Rouleau.
Lexus lane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lexus lanes
Etymology: Lexus (a brand of luxury automobile) + lane
Senses: examples: text: There are many obvious reasons why this would be problematic, ranging from the inadequacy of existing local roads and mass transit to handle diverted travelers to the probability that a "high-occupancy toll" lane would become an elitist "Lexus lane" barrelling people to the Hamptons in record time.
ref: 2006 May 21, “Uncrowding the Lane”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: As for the Lexus lane charge, UCLA transportation guru Brian Taylor argued that toll lanes aren't a bad deal for low-income people.
ref: 2012 November 17, Steve Lopez, “Doing the math on 'Lexus lanes'”, in Los Angeles Times, →ISSN:
text: Critics say the sudden reliance on so-called “Lexus lanes” sells out public infrastructure to a foreign, for-profit company with unlimited tolling authority.
ref: 2014 February 21, Nicholas Sakelaris, “Taking a toll: Life in the "Lexus lane"”, in Dallas Business Journal:
glosses: A toll-charging express lane on a public highway.
Lexus lanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lexus lane
Plenty
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A town in Tasmania, Australia.
glosses: A town in Victoria, Australia.
zipper machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zipper machines
Etymology: Seen from above, the machine's action might resemble that of a zip fastener.
Senses: glosses: A heavy vehicle used to transfer concrete lane dividers on a roadway.
Synonyms: barrier transfer machine
moeblob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moeblobs
Etymology: From moe + blob.
Senses: examples: text: What really bugs me is that they changed Yotsuba's speech pattern. I don't want my favorite manga character to sound like a moeblob.
ref: 2009 September 14, José Manuel García-Patos, “Re: Yotsuba”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):
text: I think it should have been qualified as "people who like K-on _because it has schoolgirls_". I liked K-on for the funny and slice-of-life parts. It was no Azumanga Daioh, but it had moeblobs AND writing.
ref: 2010 January 16, Megane, “Re: 2ch and the 2 types of otaku”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):
text: A young girl is growing up in the town of Muhlenberg, somewhere in Germany (looks like it is based on Rothenburg from the end titles), but she is growing up without her parents. Her father never really gets a mention but it seems that her mother, a talented pianist, was killed a few years before the opening of this story and, as a result, Saga is now living with her grandmother. She is, however, NOT a moeblob.
ref: 2010 March 27, Chika, “Review - A Little Snow Fairy Sugar”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):
topics: fiction
lifestyle
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A moe character with a generic design and no defining personality traits.
Duneverse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From dune + -verse.
Senses: examples: text: I got the impression it was more how the major powers in the Duneverse exerted power than a power source in itself (hence why Mohiam didn't mention it in her little talk).
ref: 2003 January 25, Michael Bruner, “Re: CHOAM”, in alt.fan.dune (Usenet):
text: And all the Fans of Dune (the Novel) I know in real life have always agreed with me that the mini-series was much better than the movie in portaying^([sic]) the Duneverse.
ref: 2003 November 12, Thirsty Viking [username], “Re: Dune Slave -- Life of the Party -- Spoilers”, in alt.tv.angel (Usenet):
text: Given that all other current-day religions have turned into something unrecognizable in the Duneverse, it does seem a bit odd to have a "Rabbi" running around. But I haven't read the later Frank Herbert books, so it's possible he explained it there.
ref: 2006 April 22, Andrew Wheeler, “Re: Hunters of Dune - everybody is back from the dead, links to Earth?”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The fictional universe which serves as the setting for the Dune novels.
brohoof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brohooves
Etymology: From bro + hoof, by analogy with brofist.
Senses: examples: text: R.S. wears the gear to signal that he’s into ponies, he says. When he’s on campus, he’ll meet other fans and maybe even receive “a random brohoof on the street,” he says. (A brohoof is like a fist bump. A fist bump is like . . . oh, forget it.)
ref: 2012 April 6, Melody Wilson, “D.C. ‘bronies’ feel the love and friendship of ‘My Little Pony’”, in The Washington Post:
text: While other people look on with confused and strange looks, bronies are free to talk about a great show and brohoof all day long (A brohoof is a fist pump between bronies and/or pegasistahs).
ref: 2012, David C. Benson, "It's Okay to be a Brony", The Clock (Plymouth State University), Volume 57, Issue 20, Volume 57, 27 April 2012, page 11
text: My Little Pony is redefining manhood and that deserves a brohoof.
ref: 2014 March 19, Hugh Johnson, “Of bronies and men: Rethinking manliness”, in The Denver Post:
qualifier: My Little Pony fandom slang
glosses: A fist bump shared between fellow bronies to represent pony hooves.
brohoof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brohoofs
form: brohoofing
form: brohoofed
form: brohoofed
Etymology: From bro + hoof, by analogy with brofist.
Senses: examples: text: While other people look on with confused and strange looks, bronies are free to talk about a great show and brohoof all day long (A brohoof is a fist pump between bronies and/or pegasistahs).
ref: 2012, David C. Benson, "It's Okay to be a Brony", The Clock (Plymouth State University), Volume 57, Issue 20, Volume 57, 27 April 2012, page 11
text: The bronies brohoof, similar to a high five.
ref: 2012 October 3, HVAC [username], “Re: Bronies”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):
text: Holtz is ready to get the club up and running next semester and she said she hopes more bronies will come and “brohoof,” the bronie handshake, with other students who love MLP.
ref: 2013, Ryan Howe, "My Little Bronie", The Ball State Daily News (Ball State University), Volume 93, Issue 46, 7 November 2013, page 3
qualifier: My Little Pony fandom slang
glosses: To fist bump a fellow brony.
slow street
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slow streets
Senses: glosses: A street on which the traffic has been slowed down, often limited to 30 km/h or less, using traffic signs or physical barriers like traffic islands, speed bumps, or plantings.
living street
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: living streets
Senses: synonyms: home zone
complete street
shared zone
woonerf
glosses: A street designed primarily in the interests of pedestrians and cyclists, while motor vehicles are allowed to use it with caution.
Related terms: slow street
honor in the breach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: honors in the breach
form: honoring in the breach
form: honored in the breach
form: honored in the breach
form: honour in the breach
Senses: examples: text: Hamlet: Ay, marry, is't:
But to my mind, though I am native here
And to the manner born, it is a custom
More honour'd in the breach than the observance.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
text: Many religious precepts are honoured in the breach.
ref: 2014 February 21, “Not poles apart”, in The Economist:
glosses: To demonstrate (a rule, law, or policy) by breaking or breaching it.
Related terms: exception that proves the rule
wojak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wojaks
Senses: examples: text: Arguably the most potent version of that meme merges the heatmaps with a multipurpose version of the IQ bell curve, populated with three “wojaks” on the stupid, middlebrow, and supersmart bits of that curve.
The liberal heatmap is paired with the figure in the meaty middle of the graph, while the conservative one fits with the narrower extremes of the IQ spectrum.
ref: 2025 March 3, Frank Jacobs and Stephen Johnson, “The story behind the internet’s most viral (and misunderstood) political meme”, in Big Think, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2025:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Wojak.
quranimal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quranimals
Senses: examples: 2009 JMD, re: 911 truth vs glenn beck lawsuit going forward Group: alt.terrorism.world-trade-center
glenn beck was not clear enough. they are just plain nut cases and all of them should be locked up. anyone can file a lawsuit.- hide quoted text - - show quoted text - quranimals need to be kept within an enclosure
2010 Al Nakba, Re: Israeli woman has consensual sex, finds out he's Arab, then cries rape Group: soc.culture.palestine
"That's not called rape, I didn't rape her in the forest and throw her away naked. She agreed to everything that happened." The woman should be charged with having sex with quranimals.
glosses: Alternative form of koranimal.
quranimals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quranimal
muslimonazi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muslimonazis
Etymology: From Muslim + -o- + Nazi.
Senses: examples: 1994, Mike Steiner, Re: The Fundies are at it again! Group: rec.org.mensa
As opposed to Judeonazis, muslimonazis, or the feared femanazis =;>) I used the term "Christonazi" specifically because of Limbo's use of "feminazi."
2003 Tokugawa, Re: MSNBC: Sen McGovern states that Ariel Sharon is an "Extremist", "Sharon government is ... Group: soc.culture.usa
Such pathetic people these ZioNazi's are. Hamas evolved from cells of the Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Egypt in 1928.. you're a pathetic muslimonazi.
glosses: Someone with Islamonazi views
muslimonazis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muslimonazi
senior school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: senior schools
Senses: examples: text: The plaque is dedicated to Sir Henry Fowler (1870-1938), locomotive engineer and Chief Mechanical Engineer at both the Midland (from 1909) and LMS (from 1925). He was born and raised in the town, and attended the same senior school (Prince Henry's) as I did.
ref: 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Evesham (1870)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 59:
topics: education
glosses: A secondary school
Related terms: comprehensive
grammar school
junior school
middle school
primary school
secondary modern
secondary school
senior schools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of senior school
lesdar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛzdɑɹ/
Forms: form: lesdars
Etymology: From les (“lesbian”) + -dar.
Senses: examples: text: That's because you don't have highly-developed lesdar.
ref: 1997 May 2, Melinda Shore, “Re: ER (was Re: The Episode)”, in soc.motss (Usenet):
text: Lizz Winstead sets off my lesdar, incidentally; anybody know if she is lesbian, or bi?
ref: 2001 January 31, Michael S Pettersen, “Re: Queer as NYTimes beefcake (was Re: Lily Tomlin)”, in soc.motss (Usenet):
text: I was surprised how as some my gaydar and lesdar were pulsating as I walked the streets.
ref: 2014, Daniel Witthaus, Beyond Priscilla: One Gay Man, One Gay Truck, One Big Idea, Port Campbell Press, published 2014, →ISBN:
glosses: The supposed ability to detect whether or not a person is lesbian by observing that person.
Synonyms: dykedar
Hypernyms: gaydar
queerdar
queerdar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwiɹdɑɹ/
Etymology: From queer + -dar.
Senses: examples: text: maybe she's bi? she sure tingles my queerdar in a big way.
ref: 1993 October 6, Peggy Boucher Murphy, “Re: Paula Poundstone?”, in soc.motss (Usenet):
text: During that march, my queerdar was on full throttle. I saw HRC equality and rainbow stickers all over the place.
ref: 2004, Rick Hoffman, account of the March for Women's Lives, Memorandum from the Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians, Number 46, Summer 2004, page 3
text: Are there such things as 'gaydar' or 'queerdar'? That is to say, do some individuals possess an uncanny ability to recognise someone or something as gay or queer and to acknowledge it publicly, […]
ref: 2009, Jason Edwards, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Routledge, →ISBN, page 46:
glosses: The supposed ability to detect whether or not a person is queer by observing that person.
Hyponyms: sense: ability to detect if someone is bisexual
word: bidar
sense: ability to detect if someone is bisexual
word: BiFi
sense: ability to detect if someone is gay
word: gaydar
sense: ability to detect if a woman is a lesbian
word: dykedar
sense: ability to detect if a woman is a lesbian
word: lesdar
sense: ability to detect if someone is trans
word: transdar
Allah akbar
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Allahu akbar.
muslimtard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muslimtards
Etymology: From Muslim + -tard.
Senses: examples: 2005 the revd, Re: ##Revd O\|/n3D!!!!!!!! -> Re: 9/11 for Dummies [snip] Group: soc.culture.israel
Now what about "poly syllable", jewlover? especially this one, muslimtard
2005, Dr Flonkenstein, Re: Ye PiRats Masons attack 9/11-truth prof Group: alt.conspiracy
I don't follow any "leader", muslimtard.
2005, Dr Flonkenstein, Re: Taking religion as amusement and play Group: alt.conspiracy
Look, the muslimtard is making a mommy lame!
synonyms: muzzie
Islamotard
glosses: Muslim
muslimtards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muslimtard
sentry post
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sentry posts
Senses: glosses: A location where a sentry is officially stationed.
rhinolalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹaɪnoʊˈleɪliə/
Forms: form: rhinolalias
Etymology: From rhino- + -lalia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: a nasal quality of speech from some disease or defect of the nasal passages
Synonyms: rhinophonia
Hyponyms: rhinolalia aperta
rhinolalia clausa
mini-break
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mini-breaks
Etymology: From mini- + break (“game won against the server”).
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
coordinate_terms: mini-hold
glosses: In a tiebreak, a point won against the server when ahead.
oligolalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑlɪɡoʊˈleɪliə/
ipa: /əˌlɪɡəˈleɪliə/
Etymology: From oligo- + -lalia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: a condition in which a person says, or writes, fewer words than might normally be expected, given his/her personality, education, and the specific circumstances
agitolalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæd͡ʒɪtoʊˈleɪliə/
Etymology: From Latin agitō (“I put something in motion, drive, impel”) + -lalia.
Senses: examples: text: Anxiety group characterised by palpitation, excessive micturation, vertigo, shortness of breath, gastro-intestinal disturbances, trembling, agitolalia, etc.
ref: 1962, Proceedings of the Indian Science Congress, page 521:
text: When he finally began to speak, his agitolalia, or habit of rapid utterance, was more pronounced.
ref: 1982 -, Jon Ewbank Manchip White, Death by Dreaming, →ISBN, page 106:
text: Her oral behaviour may be denoted as a word salad, automatic speaking, logorrhoea, or cluttered and excessively rapid speech with sounds omitted, distorted as in agitiolalia.
ref: 1984, István Anhalt, Alternative voices: essays on contemporary vocal and choral composition, page 37:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: agitophasia
agitophasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæd͡ʒɪtoʊˈfeɪʒə/
Etymology: From Latin agitō (“I put something in motion, drive, impel”) + -phasia.
Senses: examples: text: Thousands of persons suffer from agitophasia in some degree. This, in fact, is the most common of speech defect.
ref: 1920, “Good News for Stutterers and Other Defectives in Speech”, in American Magazine, volume 90, page 177:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A condition characterized by abnormally rapid speech in which words, sounds, or syllables are unconsciously omitted, slurred, or distorted.
Synonyms: agitolalia
Related terms: agitographia
rhinolalia aperta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: a disorder that causes abnormal resonance in a human's voice due to increased airflow through the nose during speech
Hypernyms: rhinolalia
Related terms: rhinolalia clausa
rhinolalia clausa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: abnormal speech attributable to nasal or nasopharyngeal obstruction
Hypernyms: rhinolalia
Related terms: rhinolalia aperta
idom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idoms
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of immediate dominator.
read in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reads in
form: reading in
form: read in
form: read in
Senses: examples: text: The computer reads in a program file from disk and executes the contents.
glosses: To accept as input.
examples: text: ― What is this?
 ― I can tell you what this isn't. This isn't me reading you in, Bernard.
glosses: To allow access to classified information.
topics: law
glosses: To judicially insert an official legal interpretation into a statute
Related terms: read oneself in
Nazareite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nazareites
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Nazareite.
glosses: Alternative spelling of Nazarite.
Nazareites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nazareite
patriarchist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patriarchists
Etymology: From patriarch + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of masculinism or patriarchy
patriarchists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patriarchist
Nasirean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Nasir (proper name) + -ean.
Senses: glosses: Designating the 1232 work of ethics, Akhlaq-i Nāṣirī (Nasirean Ethics), by the Persian polymath Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (1201–1274).
Nasirean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nasireans
Etymology: From Nasir (proper name) + -ean.
Senses: examples: text: According to the transmitted narrative of his birth John was a Nasirean for life, as was every member of the Essenic order.
ref: 1894, Ernest de Bunsen, “John the Baptist an Essene”, in The Masonic Review, volume 82, page 158:
glosses: A follower or adherent of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī.
Belcarra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish baile na cora, meaning "town of the confluence".
Senses: glosses: A village in Ireland.
glosses: A village in British Columbia, Canada.
Zeballos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A village in British Columbia, Canada.
Whistler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Whistlers
form: Wissler
form: Whiseller
form: Whisler
Etymology: Continuing the Middle English Wistler, Wyzelere, an occupational surname from the Old English hwistlere (“piper”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A placename:
A resort town in the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, British Columbia, Canada.
glosses: A placename:
A mountain in British Columbia, Canada; in full, Whistler Mountain.
glosses: A placename:
A neighbourhood of Prichard, Mobile County, Alabama, United States, named after George Washington Whistler.
Derived terms: Mount Whistler
Whistler-Blackcomb
Whistler-Blackcomb-Creekside
Whistler-Creekside
Whistler Mountain
Whistler Resort Community
Whistler Village
familyist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: familyists
Etymology: From family + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of familyism
familyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfæməliɪzm/
Etymology: From family + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The study or promotion of familial relations.
familyists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of familyist
Oliver Springs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Richard Oliver, who had become the town's first postmaster in 1826.
Senses: glosses: A town in Tennessee.
Orme
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːm/
ipa: /ɔɹm/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)m
Etymology: From the Old Norse personal name Ormr.
Senses: examples: text: Sir Edmund Orme never blushed, and I could see that he had no capacity for embarrassment.
ref: 1891, Henry James, Sir Edmund Orme:
glosses: A surname from Old Norse.
glosses: A town in Tennessee.
Related terms: Great Orme
Unicoi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈju.nɪ.kɔɪ/
Etymology: From Cherokee ᎤᏁᎬ (unegv, “white”) + a placename suffix. Doublet of Unakas.
Senses: glosses: A town in Unicoi County, Tennessee.
glosses: A mountain range in the southern Appalachians, the Unicois.
Atoka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Atoka County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A town in Tennessee.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Virginia.
Derived terms: Atoka County
Rives
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A placename
One of two communes in France.
glosses: A placename
A village in Missouri, United States.
glosses: A placename
A town in Tennessee, United States.
Rives
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rive
Baraga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A village in Baraga County, Michigan.
Derived terms: Baraga County
Capac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Michigan.
Jonesville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Jones + -ville.
Senses: glosses: A town in Louisiana.
glosses: A city in Michigan.
glosses: A town in North Carolina; named for Hardy Jones, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War.
glosses: A town, the county seat of Lee County, Virginia.
glosses: A city in South Carolina.
glosses: A town in Indiana; named for founder Benjamin Jones.
glosses: A hamlet in New York; named for John Jones, the town's first debt collector.
glosses: An unincorporated community in California.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Florida.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Texas.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Vermont.
Winooski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Vermont.
glosses: A ghost town in Wisconsin.
Vergennes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Illinois.
glosses: A city in Vermont.
halywercfolk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English hāliġ (“holy”) + weorc (“work”) + folc (“folk”).
Senses: examples: text: For such persons within the bishopric of Durham as held their lands by the service of defending the corpse of St Cuthbert were called Halywercfolk, and claimed the privilege of not being forced to go out of the bishopric either by the King or Bishop.
ref: 1874, Thomas Blount, William Carew Hazlitt, Tenures of Land & Customs of Manors, page 429:
topics: law
head_nr: 1
glosses: In Old English law, tenants who held land by the service of repairing or defending a church or monument, whereby they were exempted from feudal and military services.
UOL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of University of Lahore.
befinger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: befingers
form: befingering
form: befingered
form: befingered
Etymology: From be- (“about, all over”) + finger.
Senses: examples: text: Unfortunately, lack of scientific training on the part of medical attendants who probe and befinger wounds without proper antiseptic precautions is met with too often.
ref: 1901, Proceedings of The... Annual Meeting of the Association of Military Surgeons ...
glosses: To finger all over.
unintelligences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unintelligence
behand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: behands
form: behanding
form: behanded
form: behanded
Etymology: From be- (“off, away”) + hand, modelled after behead.
Senses: examples: text: Notice the bronze hands over the fireplace. A person sentenced to be "behanded" might by law commute the punishment by paying a certain sum, and presenting a bronze hand marked with the name, crime, etc.
ref: 1909, Theodore L. Flood, The Chautauquan - Volumes 53-54 - Page 55:
text: The pit burial in a Cahokia mound of four beheaded and behanded men "could easily be personifications of the four beheaded, sacred ears of corn in a similar ritual" (Brose and Greber 1979, 264).
ref: 2004, Susan C. Power, Early Art of the Southeastern Indians:
glosses: To remove the hand or hands from; cut off one's hand or hands.
bestagger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bestaggers
form: bestaggering
form: bestaggered
form: bestaggered
Etymology: From be- + stagger.
Senses: examples: text: Like a vampire it is rapidly sucking, through our young men, the very financial life blood from this nation, in so much that it bestaggers all efforts to totalize its direful influence.
ref: 1899, Edward A. Tabor, Danger Signals for New Century Manhood - Page 117:
text: Stout Chapman, thou that with thy rumbling lines Canst shake the spheres, and thou, whose painted Muse To curd and cowslips for a fee inclines: What, silent and bestaggered both?
ref: 1913, George Bartram, England's Garland - Page 34:
text: But the supreme horror comes from the Mitch of Timothy Carhart, who seems to bestride — or bestagger — a stage for the first time.
ref: 1992 April 27, New York Magazine, page 83:
glosses: To stagger about; cause (one) to stagger.
undread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + dread.
Senses: examples: text: It was somehow the opposite of mass dread; it was mass undread.
ref: 2012, Stephen Hunter, Soft Target:
glosses: Lack or want of dread; dreadlessness.
unfear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + fear.
Senses: examples: text: It would have been easy now to run on home and beat him there but she did not. She let some seconds go by in which her unfear of him—if unfear it was—would proclaim itself, then turned, with her parasol and basket. “what is it,” she said.
ref: 2009, John Hough, Seen the Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Gettysburg, page 163:
glosses: Absence of fear; fearlessness.
Enosburgh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Vermont.
CPT1A
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of CPT1A gene (an enzyme-encoding gene, the enzyme of which processes long fatty acids).
both-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: both handed
Etymology: From both + handed.
Senses: examples: text: “I'm ambidextrous,” she replied. “Both-handed. Dad says it's rare.”
ref: 2014, Sherwood Smith, Rachel Manija Brown, Stranger, →ISBN:
glosses: Skilled or able to use either hand, with unspecified degrees of equalness; ambidextrous.
examples: text: [Morimori, looking for a pair of scissors in the desk] Shinzuki Morimori Shinzuki: Yes, that is right. This is asymmetric one, so it is both-handed.
ref: 2006, Mamoru Kaneko, Game Theory and Mutual Misunderstanding: Scientific Dialogues in Five Acts, →ISBN, page 210:
glosses: Denoting either right-handed or left-handed; either-handed.
examples: text: He stood a bit far of the gloom of the lobby, but short of the dazzle of the stairs, and he clenched his briefcase at his chest in a tense and both-handed, reptilian grip, as if whatever he had in it must be guarded at all costs.
ref: 2013, Adrian Van Young, The Man Who Noticed Everything, →ISBN:
glosses: For use with both hands or using both hands.
examples: text: The principle of being “both-handed” or “talk for talk and fight for fight” suggests the necessity to combine soft means with tough ones and to struggle while seeking cooperation.
ref: 2013, Jae Ho Chung, China's Crisis Management, →ISBN:
glosses: Involving two sides or approaches
Derived terms: both-handedly
both-handedness
both-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: both handed
Etymology: From both + handed.
Senses: examples: text: Then the brown-haired detective charged around the corner firing both-handed, skimming two off Stephen's vest, while Stephen himself danced one round off the detective's and they fell backward simultaneously.
ref: 1998, Jeffery Deaver, The Coffin Dancer:
glosses: With both hands
examples: text: Our second front will, in fact, comprise both the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts of Europe, and we can push either right-handed, left-handed, or both-handed as our resources and circumstances permit.
ref: 2010, Allan R. Millett, Williamson Murray, Military Effectiveness - Volume 3, →ISBN, page 104:
glosses: Involving two sides or approaches
Related terms: left-handed
right-handed
either-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From either + handed.
Senses: examples: text: There certainly is, amongst mankind, a vast weight of opinion against my position that man is, by nature, as either-handed as an ape, and that custom should follow nature.
ref: 1879, Browne's Phonographic Monthly, volume 4, page 231:
glosses: Able to use either (right or left) hand, often equally well; ambidextrous.
Derived terms: either-handedness
Related terms: both-handed
reshrink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reshrinks
form: reshrinking
form: reshrank
form: reshrunk
Etymology: From re- + shrink.
Senses: glosses: To shrink again.
unshrink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unshrinks
form: unshrinking
form: unshrank
form: unshrunk
Etymology: From un- + shrink.
Senses: glosses: To restore (something shrunken) to its original size.
reshrunk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of reshrink
reshrinking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reshrink
reshrank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of reshrink
reshrinks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reshrink
unshrinks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unshrink
unshrank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of unshrink
liberum veto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish liberum veto.
Senses: topics: government
law
politics
glosses: A parliamentary rule in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, allowing any dissenting member of the legislature to force an immediate end to the current session and nullify any legislation that had already been passed.
examples: text: The US, Russia, UK, France, and China have liberum veto power in the UN Security Council, allowing them to shield themselves and their allies from UN oversight.
glosses: Any system in which a single dissenting member can unilaterally block an action.
Root effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Root effects
Etymology: Named after its discoverer, R. W. Root.
Senses: glosses: A physiological phenomenon in fish hemoglobin, whereby an increased proton or carbon dioxide concentration (lower pH) lowers hemoglobin's affinity and carrying capacity for oxygen.
Related terms: Bohr effect
Root
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rouet
form: Rout
form: Roots
form: Roote
form: Rootes
Senses: examples: text: In July this year, Mrs. Betty Root, who is in charge of the reading centre at Reading University's Institute of Education, reported 'that there are now more backward readers than ever, in spite of the large number of teaching methods now available'.
ref: 1969, The Critical Survey, volume 4, page 3:
glosses: An English surname from Middle English from a byname from Middle English rote (“glad”).
glosses: An English surname originating as an occupation for a rote (medieval guitar)-player.
glosses: A habitational surname from Dutch for someone living near a retting place (Dutch root, from roten (“to ret”)).
glosses: A town in Lucerne canton, Switzerland.
glosses: A township in Adams County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: A town in Montgomery County, New York, United States; named for lawyer and politician Erastus Root.
glosses: A river in Minnesota, United States; named as a translation of its native Dakota name.
glosses: A river in Wisconsin, United States.
Derived terms: Root effect
Rootstown
yam yam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yam yams
Etymology: From the local use of "yow am" (or "yow'm") instead of "you are".
Senses: examples: text: "What's 'er say?" 'Er said: "Am yow a Yam Yam?", Ah said "Ar bab, I am!".
ref: 2019, “Am Yow A Yam Yam”performed by Johnny Cole:
glosses: A person who speaks the Black Country dialect.
glosses: The dialect spoken in the Black Country.
yam yam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps from yam or yum yum.
Senses: examples: text: You may have seen it during the never-ending repeats of Seinfeld. Elaine has a bagel or two for breakfast, takes a drug test for work, and the next day finds out she tested positive for opium - “You know, white lotus. Yam-yam. Shanghai Sally,” her boss, Mr. Peterman, tells her.
ref: 2007 May 15, Anahad O'Connor, Never Shower in a Thunderstorm: Surprising Facts and Misleading Myths About Our Health and the World We Live In, page 70:
text: In the episode with Robert Duvall, Buz revealed that in the past he had his own problems with the White Horse, the Brown Sugar, the old Yam Yam, which seemed like a really cool thing to me.
ref: 2010, Alexei Sayle, Stalin Ate My Homework:
glosses: Heroin.
yam yams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yam yam
Holyworkfolk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See halywercfolk.
Senses: examples: text: More curious still is the position of certain tenants of the bishopric who called themselves Holyworkfolk, who claimed that their only duty was to pray
ref: 1877, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, Art, and Finance, volume 44, page 525:
text: This they naturally considered an indignity, and made a party against on the ground that were Holyworkfolk and held their lands for the defence of the body of St. Cuthbert, and not at the bishop's pleasure
ref: 1878, Thomas Duffus Hardy, “Preface”, in Registrum Palatinum Dunelmense: The Register of Richard de Kellawe, Lord Palatine and Bishop of Durham, page viii:
text: Record made before justices in eyre by elder men of the Holyworkfolk (Durham) and Northumberland of a sworn inquest held in the time of King Henry I concerning fishery rights in the Tyne
ref: 1991, R. C. van Caenegem, English Lawsuits from William I to Richard I: Henry II and Richard I, page 437:
head_nr: 1
qualifier: medieval English law
glosses: Tenants who held land by the service of repairing or defending a church or monument and were therefore exempt from feudal and military duties; specifically, the caretakers of the body of St Cuthbert.
lovedeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: loved'th
Senses: qualifier: pseudo-archaic
glosses: alternative third-person singular past of love
loved'th
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lovedeth.
lovedest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: loved'st
form: lovedst
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of love
loved'st
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lovedst.
Muslimofascist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Muslimofascists
Etymology: From Muslim + -o- + fascist.
Senses: examples: text: 2005 Frappe Boy, Re: SEANILE'S UGLY MUTANT Offspring Group: soc.culture.greek
A Turkish Muslimofascist concerned about Anti-Semitism?
text: As long as Muslimofascists roam Europe,Jews wont be safe
ref: 2006, Dana Weiss, Talkbacks Prague Jews prepare for Sukkot under heavy:
text: 2008 mm, Re: radlibs lie by saying there is a dumbing of america! Group: alt.california
finaly you radlibs are learning something u did not kno before because liberals are all muslimofascists and stuff
glosses: Islamofascist
Muslimofascist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Muslimofascist
form: most Muslimofascist
Etymology: From Muslim + -o- + fascist.
Senses: glosses: Islamofascist
sanding paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sandpaper.
Related terms: sanding sheet
Muslimofascists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Muslimofascist
hyperband
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + band.
Senses: glosses: wideband to an extreme degree, comprising at least an order of magnitude difference between the bottom and top frequency
Related terms: band
baseband
broadband
narrowband
ultrawideband
wideband
hyperband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + band.
Senses: glosses: a transmission band used in cable television in Europe
Related terms: superband
midband
band I
band II
band III
band IV
band V
UHF
VHF
FM
AM
OTA
TV-B
CATV
wytche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wytches
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of witch.
pseudohomologue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudohomologues
Etymology: From pseudo- + homologue.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pseudohomolog.
pseudohomologues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudohomologue
peonine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paeonine.
aurine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated form of aurin.
unspawned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + spawned.
Senses: glosses: Not having been spawned.
unsacrificed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + sacrificed.
Senses: glosses: Not having been sacrificed.
unsacrificial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsacrificial
form: most unsacrificial
Etymology: From un- + sacrificial.
Senses: glosses: Not sacrificial.
counterraid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterraids
Etymology: From counter- + raid.
Senses: examples: text: England was a confusion of warring camps, where families and towns and countrysides were split into hating factions; everywhere there was treason and countertreason, and raid and counterraid.
ref: 2010, John Dos Passos, The Ground We Stand on: The History of a Political Creed, page 99:
glosses: A raid carried out in response to another raid.
counterraid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: counterraids
form: counterraiding
form: counterraided
form: counterraided
Etymology: From counter- + raid.
Senses: glosses: To carry out a counterraid.
counterraids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterraid
pseudomuslim
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudomuslim
form: most pseudomuslim
Etymology: From pseudo- + Muslim.
Senses: glosses: Rare form of pseudo-Muslim.
pseudomuslim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudomuslims
Etymology: From pseudo- + Muslim.
Senses: examples: 2002 Laszlok, Re: Again and again, the Left sides with tyrants Group: soc.culture.magyar
Or a typical pseudomuslim, whom in the next posting declaires, that he never-ever gets personal, because it is against Allahs will? And then you also swear to Mohammeds Beard, that you never said all this, you have been maliciously misscitated, you have been misunderstanded
1996, Grigori Khaskin, Could Mr. Doganer be a doenmeh? (Re: Turkiye is and will remain a secular country Re: Turkey ... Group: soc.culture.iraq
Then he told me a sad story about one of the false messiah who finished as a pseudomuslim overthere. The guy was not sure about Ataturk. BUT!!! When we came to the origine of my interest and ultimately to Mr. Doganer, he told me, that "Doganer" sound 100% JEWISH to his ears.
2005 Dave Oldridge, Re: Free books with evidence against evolution Group: talk.origins
MY copy of the Qu'ran says that this would be a serious sin (to lie against God by imputing deception to Him)! Does this mean that Yahya is a pseudomuslim?
glosses: Rare form of pseudo-Muslim.
pseudomuslims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudomuslim
Hammett acidity function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hammett acidity functions
Etymology: Proposed by the physical organic chemist Louis Plack Hammett.
Senses: glosses: A measure of acidity used for very concentrated solutions of strong acids, including superacids.
Hammett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Crawford County, Georgia, United States, named after the Hammett brothers.
Derived terms: Hammett acidity function
Hammettian
unflocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + flocked.
Senses: glosses: Not flocked.
unflocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + flocked, from flock (“tufts of wool, lock of hair”).
Senses: glosses: Having straight, flat ends (not bushy; of bristles).
Synonyms: unflagged
Lardnerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lardnerian
form: most Lardnerian
Etymology: From Lardner + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Ring Lardner (1885–1933), American sports columnist and short-story writer best known for his satirical takes on the sports world, marriage, and the theatre.
rustable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rustable
form: most rustable
Etymology: From rust + -able.
Senses: glosses: Susceptible to rust.
unrustable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrustable
form: most unrustable
Etymology: From un- + rustable.
Senses: glosses: Not susceptible to rust.
unbookable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + bookable.
Senses: glosses: Not bookable.
unrusty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrusty
form: most unrusty
Etymology: From un- + rusty.
Senses: glosses: Not rusty.
unrusting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + rusting.
Senses: glosses: That does not rust.
conspiratorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From conspirator + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The role or status of conspirator.
scoldee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scoldees
Etymology: From scold + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who receives a scolding.
scoldees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scoldee
karateman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karatemen
Etymology: From karate + -man.
Senses: examples: text: A good, tough street fighter, he insisted, could always beat a karateman, especially an Asian, because Asians were smaller, thinner, and just basically couldn't stand up to a big, tough, American street brawler.
ref: 1992, John Corcoran, The Martial Arts Companion: Culture, History, and Enlightenment:
text: He recalls going to a cinema in New Canada, south of Johannesburg, some years ago to see karateman Jackie Chan in action. He'd become fascinated by the Japanese martial arts, and Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan were his heroes.
ref: 1998, Drum: A Magazine of Africa for Africa:
hypernyms: karateka
glosses: A male practitioner of karate.
karatemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of karateman
vidtape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vidtapes
Senses: examples: 1989, Ron Goulart (ghostwriting as William Shatner), TekWar
She was standing in the center of their living room, wearing the same pale green fakesilk dress she'd had on in the vidtape. She looked fine now, though, not weary or ill.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: videotape
vidtapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vidtape
videorecorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: videorecorders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of video recorder.
videorecorders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of videorecorder
coup de tat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of coup d'état.
underreactor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnd.əɹ.ɹiˈæk.tɚ/
ipa: /ˌʌndəɹiˈæktə/
rhymes: -æktə(ɹ)
Forms: form: underreactors
Etymology: From underreact + -or.
Senses: examples: text: The overreactor develops poor focus while the underreactor has trouble developing empathy. Either pattern will affect how others interact with that person, and thus will affect the neurochemical profile.
ref: 2005, Katherine M. Ramsland, Inside the Minds of Mass Murderers: Why They Kill:
glosses: One who underreacts.
underreactors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underreactor
pretransfer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + transfer.
Senses: glosses: Before a transfer.
prewelfare
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + welfare.
Senses: glosses: Before the introduction of the welfare system.
postwelfare
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + welfare.
Senses: glosses: After the introduction of the welfare system.
incomeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From income + -less.
Senses: examples: text: an incomeless household
glosses: Without an income.
Derived terms: incomelessness
Basqueness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Basque + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being Basque.
Iberianness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Iberian + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being Iberian.