cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
semispeaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semispeakers
form: semi-speaker
Etymology: From semi- + speaker.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A person with limited understanding of a particular language.
semispeakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semispeaker
semisphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semispheres
Etymology: From semi- + sphere.
Senses: glosses: hemisphere
semispheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semisphere
rattle through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rattles through
form: rattling through
form: rattled through
form: rattled through
Senses: examples: text: The children rattled through their prayers and hopped into bed.
glosses: To do something extremely quickly and perfunctorily.
coverbal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + verbal.
Senses: examples: coverbal gesture
glosses: Accompanying speech.
crack through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cracks through
form: cracking through
form: cracked through
form: cracked through
Senses: glosses: To penetrate
glosses: To overcome, get by
hextet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hextets
Senses: examples: text: Each of the eight blocks in an IPv6 network address is a hextet.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A group of 16 bits, or four nibbles.
Synonyms: hexadectet
quibble
Related terms: octet
hext
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English hexte, from Old English hīehst (“highest”), superlative of Old English hēah (“high”); compare also hēxt, an alternative form of hīehst. Compare next and nigh.
Senses: examples: When bale is hext, boot is next.
glosses: Highest.
emblazonry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emblazonries
Etymology: From emblazon + -ry.
Senses: glosses: Something emblazoned; a heraldic pattern.
credit where credit's due
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: give credit where credit is due
Senses: glosses: Used to justly praise someone for their achievement or contribution.
emblazonries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emblazonry
Rap
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: He makes good sense. However, I must comment on "CSO prices rough diamonds to its sightholders based on the Rap List." It does not. It doesn't use the list.
ref: 1996, Jewelers' Circular/Keystone, volume 167, numbers 4-6, page 38:
text: Soon after the Diamond Certificate came into being, Mr Martin Rapaport edited and published a regular weekly paper based on these official certificates. […] The Rap price is usually way off sometimes by as much as 30% or more.
ref: 2017, Herman Neuman, Secrets of Diamonds:
glosses: The Rapaport Diamond Report, the diamond industry standard for the pricing of diamonds.
Jurruru
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chooraroo
form: Choororoo
form: Churoro
form: Djuroro
form: Djururo
form: Djurruru
form: Dyururu
form: Jururu
form: Thuraru
form: Tjororo
form: Tjuroro
form: Tjururo
form: Tjururu
Senses: glosses: An extinct Australian Aboriginal language formerly spoken in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
campstool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: campstools
Etymology: From camp + stool.
Senses: glosses: A portable folding stool.
campstools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of campstool
uncommercially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uncommercially
form: most uncommercially
Etymology: From uncommercial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an uncommercial manner or context.
pravities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pravity
lay the pipe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lays the pipe
form: laying the pipe
form: laid the pipe
form: laid the pipe
Senses: glosses: To have penetrative sex.
Synonyms: hide the sausage
lay pipe
have sex
copulate
praunce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: praunces
form: prauncing
form: praunced
form: praunced
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of prance.
praunces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of praunce
prauncing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of praunce
praunced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of praunce
unmilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + milled.
Senses: glosses: Not milled.
millable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mill + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being milled (shaped or polished by machine).
Derived terms: nonmillable
unmillable
millahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of millah
millability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mill + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: Leica decided to develop a different font due to its better millability
ref: 2024 November 24, Arun Venkatesan, quoting Achim Heine, “Leica’s engraved fonts”, in Blog:
glosses: The quality or degree of being millable.
vould
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From would.
Senses: examples: text: "Vy midout you de movement vould crumble like a mummy in de air; be not such a fool-man.
ref: 1914, I. Zangwill, Children of the Ghetto:
text: Hurriedly came the answer: "Mine frent, you surely vould not refuse me two per zent discount on a strictly cash transaction like dis?"
ref: 1916, Peggy Edmund, Harold W. Williams, compilers, Toaster's Handbook:
text: Head Cook: Of a truth, madame, I vould not have done so, madame, but my scullions have all gone, and I had none to guard ze Christmas pie to-night!
ref: 1897, Alice Maude Kellogg, Christmas Entertainments:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of would.
franions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of franion
vouchsafer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vouchsafers
Etymology: From vouchsafe + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who vouchsafes.
vouchsafers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vouchsafer
veather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of weather.
wineshop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wineshops
form: wine-shop
form: wine shop
Etymology: From wine + shop.
Senses: examples: text: “The Garden of Silver Breezes was not a garden at all but a huge wineshop, much too large to be called a shop really, atop a hill centered on the Calpene, the westernmost of Tanchico’s three peninsulas below the Great Circle."
ref: 1992, Robert Jordan, “Chapter 38: Hidden Faces”, in The Shadow Rising (The Wheel of Time; 4), London: Orbit Books, published 2021, →ISBN, page 607:
glosses: A shop selling wine.
glosses: A liquor store.
beershop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beershops
Etymology: From beer + shop.
Senses: glosses: A shop selling beer.
beershops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beershop
wineshops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wineshop
vife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] I said you didn't like them ere strong liquors, but if he warn't particular, I was sure you would pledge him in a glass of juniper, for I had always made you, since we had been man and vife^([sic]), take a drop afore you went to market, to keep cold out.
ref: 1834, Young Hearts: A Novel by a Recluse. With a Preface by Miss Jane Porter, page 106:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of wife.
shvitzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shvitz
shvitzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shvitz
shvitzing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shvitz
schvitz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schvitzes
Senses: examples: text: “Hey, hey, Jimmy Brogan. Thanks for meeting me.” “Welcome to the schvitz, kid. The most comfortable place on Earth. It's like crawling back into your mother.” “Is that something people wanna do?”
ref: 2013 November 12, Gabe Liedman, “Old School” (15:48 from the start), in Brooklyn Nine-Nine, season 1, episode 8, spoken by Jimmy Brogan (Stacy Keach):
glosses: Alternative spelling of shvitz.
schvitz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: schvitzes
form: schvitzing
form: schvitzed
form: schvitzed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shvitz.
schvitzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schvitz
schvitzing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of schvitz
schvitzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of schvitz
aleshop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aleshops
Etymology: From ale + shop.
Senses: glosses: A shop where ale can be bought.
aleshops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aleshop
cakeshop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪk.ʃɒp/
enpr: kākʹshäp
ipa: /ˈkeɪk.ʃɑp/
Forms: form: cakeshops
Etymology: From cake + shop.
Senses: examples: text: As he did not wish their last interview to be troubled by the influence of their ruined confessional they met in a little cakeshop near the Parkgate.
ref: 1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “A Painful Case”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 136:
text: The girl and the young man’s first wife, accepting the male’s infidelity without scenes or recriminations, finally agree to start a cakeshop in another basement and leave the young man to his newest mistress.
ref: 1962, James Gindin, Postwar British Fiction: New Accents and Attitudes, University of California Press, page 75:
text: …disquieted by the discovery that on the very spot where she expected to find a small familiar cakeshop, a large bookstore now stands instead.
ref: 2009, Dani Cavallaro, Anime and the Visual Novel: Narrative Structure, Design and Play at the Crossroads of Animation and Computer Games, McFarland & Company,, →ISBN, page 87:
glosses: Alternative form of cake shop.
cakeshops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cakeshop
chopshop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chopshops
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chop shop.
fuckshop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuckshops
Etymology: From fuck + shop.
Senses: glosses: A brothel.
unbuyable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + buyable.
Senses: antonyms: buyable
purchasable
;
unsalable
unsellable
glosses: Impossible to buy; that one cannot buy.
Derived terms: unbuyability
Related terms: invaluable
money can't buy happiness
my kingdom for a horse
out of reach
priceless
unaffordable
unattainable
unavailable
unobtainable
unpriceable
fuckshops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuckshop
homowhore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homowhores
Etymology: From homo- + whore.
Senses: examples: text: They don’t celebrate the light of the world, they flaunt the objects of perverse lust, catamites and homowhores, brawnhawkers.
ref: 1993, Jonathan Meades, Pompey, Vintage, published 1994, page 282:
text: You're best buddies with a homo-whore and I just saw you in here letting Lightsburg's favorite old fag buy you dinner.
ref: 2009, John Barnes, Tales of the Madman Underground, unnumbered page:
text: Others pay homowhores and prostitutes - infected sex equals higher HIV prevalence
ref: 2009, Pinki Virani, Deaf Heaven, page 90:
glosses: A promiscuous gay man or male same-sex prostitute.
Hypernyms: promiscuous man
homowhores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homowhore
cockserver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockservers
Etymology: From cock + server.
Senses: glosses: fellator, someone who performs fellatio.
cumhungry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cumhungry
form: most cumhungry
Etymology: From cum + hungry.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cumthirsty.
synonyms: word: cumthirsty
cumthirsty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cumthirsty
form: most cumthirsty
form: cum-thirsty
Etymology: From cum + thirsty.
Senses: glosses: sexually excited, willing to take in sperm
Related terms: cumhungry
cumsoaked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cumsoaked
form: most cumsoaked
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cum-soaked.
aftah
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Etymology: From after.
Senses: examples: text: "Dey uster have a song 'bout de Mockers roun' de cabins, an' a dance went wid it, 'cause it was a berry long song; but aftah dat Sambo done change it some when he uster sing it."
ref: 1897, Mabel Osgood Wright, Elliott Coues, Citizen Bird:
text: "If I send a saddle-hoss to yo' do' on day aftah to-morrhow evening at fo' o'clock, will you rhide out with me for-h about a hour-h and a half--just for a little pleasu'e?"
ref: 1899, George Washington Cable, The Grandissimes:
text: "There's a woman aftah my own heart, suh," murmured Anstey.
ref: 1911, H. Irving Hancock, Dick Prescott's Second Year at West Point:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of after.
asswhore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asswhores
Etymology: From ass + whore.
Senses: glosses: A prostitute who is willing to do anal sex.
nonprogram
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nonprogramme
Etymology: From non- + program.
Senses: examples: text: The group that received high-quality early education on average outperformed the nonprogram group on various intellectual and language tests during their early childhood years, on school achievement tests between ages nine and fourteen, and on literacy tests at ages nineteen and twenty-seven.
ref: 2008, Shirley Sagawa, Deborah Jospin, Jonathan M. Tisch, The charismatic organization, page 91:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to a program (set of structured activities).
nonprogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonprograms
form: nonprogramme
Etymology: From non- + program.
Senses: glosses: That which is not a program.
fan death
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of death supposedly caused by staying overnight in a closed room in which an electric fan is operating.
Blue Planet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Blue Planet
form: blue planet
Senses: synonyms: Third Planet
glosses: The planet Earth.
Related terms: Red Planet
packs heat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pack heat
WPCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of WPC
dukkha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdʊkə/
Forms: form: dukkhas
Etymology: Transliteration of Pali dukkha.
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The three main types of pain, suffering, or stress: physical and mental, impermanence, and conditioned states. One of the three marks of existence.
wikipedia: dukkha
tongue map
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tongue maps
Senses: synonyms: taste map
glosses: A schematic map of the human tongue, labelling which parts are (supposedly) receptive to different tastes.
scanning electron microscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: microscopy using a scanning electron microscope
fissipede
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fissipedes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fissiped.
fissiped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: fissipede
Etymology: From Latin fissiped-, fissipēs.
Senses: glosses: Having the toes separated from each other.
glosses: Relating to the former suborder Fissipedia.
fissiped
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fissipeds
form: fissipede
Etymology: From Latin fissiped-, fissipēs.
Senses: glosses: An animal that has the toes separated from each other.
glosses: Any mammal in the former suborder Fissipedia.
flautino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flautinos
form: flautini
Etymology: From Italian flautino.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Any of several high-pitched woodwind instruments, including the zufolo, sopranino recorder, and piccolo.
deflectometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deflectometers
Etymology: From deflect + -o- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An instrument that measures the deflection of structures when loads are applied.
Related terms: deflectometry
Floriano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Florianos
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese and Spanish Floriano.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
plowings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plowing
pineyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pineyards
Etymology: From pine + yard.
Senses: glosses: A coniferous forest ecoregion in the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands, dominated by Bahamian pine.
pineyards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pineyard
generalizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: generalizers
Etymology: From generalize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, generalizes.
generalizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of generalizer
woolhat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woolhats
Etymology: From wool + hat.
Senses: examples: text: From his "brass throat" poured such harangues of class hatred that his woolhat followers howled down opposing speakers and hurled clods at them.
ref: 1939, Shields McIlwaine, The southern poor-white from Lubberland to Tobacco Road:
text: We're woolhats, red necks, white trash, crackers, the scum of the earth, the filth under their feet.
ref: 1964, K. B. Gilden, Hurry sundown: Volume 1:
text: While it is easy for the sophisticates of today to assume the objection to racial integration came only from uneducated woolhats...
ref: 2002, Will D. Campbell, The Stem of Jesse: The Costs of Community at a 1960's Southern School:
glosses: A yokel or redneck.
filemask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filemasks
Etymology: From file + mask.
Senses: examples: text: Specify a filemask of *.BMP to match bitmap image files.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A text pattern that matches certain filenames.
filemasks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filemask
ploughest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: plough + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of plough
ripener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ripeners
Etymology: From ripen + -er.
Senses: glosses: Any chemical compound used to promote ripening.
examples: text: a fast ripener
glosses: Something that ripens.
ripeners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ripener
ripenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ripeness
ripenings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ripening
woolhats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woolhat
Caldwell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːldwɛl/
Forms: form: Caldwells
form: Caudwell
form: Cauldwell
Etymology: From Old English cald (“cold”) + wielle (“well, spring”).
Senses: glosses: A locality in Cardston County, Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A small village in Cauldwell parish, South Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK2517).
glosses: A village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Richmondshire district (OS grid ref NZ1613).
glosses: A village in New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A town in New South Wales.
glosses: A town in Liberia.
glosses: A community in New Brunswick, Canada.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in St. Francis County, Arkansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Fresno County, California.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Canyon County, Idaho.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Sumner County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A borough in Essex County, New Jersey.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Orange County, North Carolina.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village, the county seat of Noble County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Burleson County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Racine County, Wisconsin.
examples: text: But today they’re Darrell and Devante Caldwell, co-defendants in royal blue prison garb. Along with six others, the Caldwells are alleged to have botched a hit on the rapper RJ, leaving one alleged Inglewood Family Bloods member, Davion Gregory, dead and two other people injured.
ref: 2019 February 5, Torii MacAdams, “The New Generation of LA Rap Is Changing Everything”, in VICE:
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Caldwell County
Caldwell Parish
Caldwell Peak
Mount Caldwell
fluosilicate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluosilicates
Etymology: From fluo- + silicate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The anion SiF₆²⁻ derived from fluosilicic acid; any salt containing this anion
Hypernyms: english: structurally
translation: structurally
word: silicate
fluvioglacial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fluvio- + glacial.
Senses: examples: text: As previously discussed, the fluvioglacial environment is characterized by a wide fluctuation of discharge and, consequently, of transport capacity.
ref: December 7, 2012, Mateo Gutierrez, Geomorphology, CRC Press, page 538:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing a stream formed from glacial meltwater
flautini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flautino
impletion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpliːʃən/
Forms: form: impletions
Etymology: From Late Latin implētiō (past participle of Latin impleō (“I fill up”) + -iō); see also implement.
Senses: examples: text: Irregular metamorphoses of flowers are extremely common, and usually consist either of an actual muliplication of petals, or of the transformation of stamens and pistils into petals ; the effect of these chages being the formation of double flowers, the impletion of which appears to take place in different ways in different plants.
ref: 1842, W. Jardine, P. J. Selby, George Johnston, Charles C. Babington, J. H. Balfour, Richard Taylor, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, volume 10:
text: The greater the impletion of the artery during systole, the longer is the interval between the primary expansion and the acme of distension, and the bolder the curve which indicates it.
ref: 1867, The Medical Times and Gazette, volume 1:
glosses: An act of filling; the state of being full.
glosses: A substance which fills, a filling.
Derived terms: judicial impletion
semipinacol rearrangement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semipinacol rearrangements
form: semi-pinacol rearrangement
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A rearrangement involving a carbocation with a hydroxy group adjacent to the electron-deficient centre.
Related terms: pinacol rearrangement
Henmania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Henman + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: Unfortunately the only cure for severe Henmania is for Tim Henman to actually win Wimbledon.
ref: 2003, Tony Chacon, “Explaining HENMANIA”, in rec.sport.tennis (Usenet):
text: Although it is tough to get tickets to witness Henmania, taste the famous strawberries and cream and see the greatest players in the world, it is not impossible and it does not have to cost an arm and a leg.
ref: 2004, Sportseye, Sports Ticket, page 380:
text: Britain's current top player is Tim Henman, who's the cause of another disease - Henmania.
ref: 2005, David Else, Oliver Berry, Great Britain, page 58:
glosses: Enthusiasm for the British tennis player Tim Henman.
pinacol rearrangement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinacol rearrangements
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A class of rearrangement reaction in which a 1,2-diol is converted into a ketone; especially the case of the conversion of pinacol into pinacolone
Derived terms: semipinacol rearrangement
weddingy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more weddingy
form: most weddingy
Etymology: From wedding + -y.
Senses: examples: text: So the next day, when I was married, I wore some marigolds against my white dress. Some folks thought 'twas an awful queer thing to do. They said roses would have been much more weddingy […]
ref: 1917, Mary Ellen Chase, Virginia of Elk Creek Valley:
text: After one exceptionally weddingy June, while my father was in Toronto restocking the store, our long-awaited ship sailed close enough for Mother to drag it to shore single-handed.
ref: 2003, Catherine McColl, Happy As the Grass Was Green, page 367:
text: I throw out the nasty ferny stuff, much too weddingy.
ref: 2005, Ann Kelley, The Burying Beetle, page 9:
glosses: Of or pertaining to weddings.
Synonyms: weddingish
weddinglike
dwellinghouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dwellinghouses
form: dwelling house
form: dwelling-house
Etymology: From dwelling + house.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A house intended as a residential building (and not, for example, as a place of business).
dwellinghouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dwelling houses
form: dwelling-houses
Senses: glosses: plural of dwellinghouse
dead white European male
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead white European males
Senses: synonyms: word: DWEM
glosses: Any of various white male historical figures in art and culture seen to represent racism, sexism, etc. ingrained into Western education, in particular its canon.
Related terms: dead white male
dead white man
male, pale and stale
dead white European males
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dead white European male
impletions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impletion
muppetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From muppet + -ry.
Senses: glosses: The behaviour of a muppet; foolish incompetence.
nethead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: netheads
form: Nethead
Etymology: From net + -head.
Senses: examples: ref: 1995, Jessie Cameron Herz, Surfing on the Internet: a nethead's adventure on-line:
text: This is, after all, a gathering of a typical fraternity of netheads, those Internet-obsessed students who every night fill the large computer labs sprinkled throughout campus.
ref: 1998, Kimberly S. Young, Caught in the net, page 175:
glosses: An obsessive Internet user.
glosses: A supporter of the Internet and its flexibility and technical underpinnings, contrasted with Bellhead (a supporter of traditional centralized telecommunications networks).
netheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nethead
cyberfreak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberfreaks
Etymology: From cyber- + freak.
Senses: examples: text: In truth, those who take chat seriously, as a means of meeting other like minds and sharing mutual interests, can suss out who's a cyberfreak and who isn't.
ref: 1998, Matt Goldberg, Tripod's Tools for Life:
text: Probably some twisted little cyberfreak getting his anonymous fifteen minutes.
ref: 2003, P. J. Tracy, Monkeewrench:
text: She phoned a couple of friends only to establish that their machines were unaffected. “Wow, Ghita, maybe you've picked up one of these crazy viruses from the Philippines or wherever those cyberfreaks hang out!"
ref: 2005, John le Carré, The Constant Gardener, page 335:
text: Her daughter threatened to publish our emails in a memoir. How she got them is a mystery. She's one of those cyberfreaks.
ref: 2007, Henry Hart, Background Radiation, page 86:
glosses: An obsessive Internet user.
cyberfreaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberfreak
grece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greces
Etymology: From Middle English grece (“staircase”), from Old French grez, greis et al., plural of gre (“gree”) taken as a collective singular.
Senses: glosses: A flight of stairs.
examples: text: Sir said they a merueyllous aduentur / that may not be broughte vnto none ende / but by hym that passeth of bounte and of knyhthode al them of the round table / I wold sayd Galahad that ye wold lede me ther to / Gladly sayd they / and soo ledde hym tyl a caue / and he went doune vpon gresys / and cam nyghe the tombe
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xviij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII:
glosses: Steps, stairs.
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: amber grece
asswhores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asswhore
palatoglossal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpal.ət.ə(ʊ)ˈɡlɒs.l̩/
ipa: /pəˌleɪ.təʊˈɡlɒs.l̩/
ipa: /ˌpæl.ət.oʊˈɡlɑs.l̩/
ipa: /ˌpæl.ət.oʊˈɡlɔs.l̩/
rhymes: -ɒsəl
Etymology: From palato- (“relating to the palate”) + glossal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: glossopalatine
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or involving the palate and the tongue; (specifically) of or pertaining to the palatoglossus.
Derived terms: palatoglossal arch
palatoglossal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpal.ət.ə(ʊ)ˈɡlɒs.l̩/
ipa: /pəˌleɪ.təʊˈɡlɒs.l̩/
ipa: /ˌpæl.ət.oʊˈɡlɑs.l̩/
ipa: /ˌpæl.ət.oʊˈɡlɔs.l̩/
rhymes: -ɒsəl
Forms: form: palatoglossals
Etymology: From palato- (“relating to the palate”) + glossal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of palatoglossus.
glossopalatinus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: palatoglossus
palatoglossus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpal.ət.ə(ʊ)ˈɡlɒs.əs/
ipa: /pəˌleɪ.tə(ʊ)ˈɡlɒs.əs/
ipa: /ˌpæl.ət.oʊˈɡlɑs.əs/
ipa: /ˌpæl.ət.oʊˈɡlɔs.əs/
rhymes: -ɒsəs
rhymes: -ɔːsəs
Forms: form: palatoglossi
form: palatoglossal
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin palātoglōssus, clipping of mūsculus palātoglōssus (“palatoglossal muscle”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: glossopalatinus
glosses: A small fleshy muscle, narrower in the middle than at either end, that arises from the soft palate on each side, contributes to the structure of the palatoglossal arch of the fauces, and is inserted into the side and dorsum of the tongue; it serves to raise the back of the tongue and constrict the fauces.
glossopalatine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡlɒsəʊˈpælətaɪn/
ipa: /ˌɡlɒsəʊˈpælətɪn/
rhymes: -ælətaɪn
rhymes: -ælətɪn
Etymology: From glosso- + palatine.
Senses: glosses: palatoglossal
Derived terms: glossopalatine nerve
Daedalus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːdələs/
ipa: /ˈdɛdələs/
ipa: /ˈdeɪdələs/
Etymology: From Latin Daedalus, from Ancient Greek Δαίδαλος (Daídalos).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Greek mythological figure who crafted the waxen wings of Icarus.
glosses: Project Daedalus: a scheme for an interstellar probe that would use fusion rockets.
Related terms: daedaloid
twelvescore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From twelve + score.
Senses: glosses: Two hundred and forty.
nonfantasy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + fantasy.
Senses: examples: text: Clearly, any nonfantasy fiction that was written for children between 1820 and 1860 revealed the social moral views of the day, implicitly or explicitly.
ref: 2005, Vicki Anderson, The dime novel in children's literature:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to fantasy.
farmability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From farm + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality or degree of being farmable; suitability for farming.
Paracelsianism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Paracelsian + -ism.
Senses: synonyms: Paracelsism
glosses: A medical movement of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe, based on the theories and therapies of Paracelsus.
Paracelsian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Paracelsian
form: most Paracelsian
Senses: synonyms: Paracelsan
glosses: Of or pertaining to Paracelsus
Paracelsian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Paracelsians
Senses: glosses: A proponent of Paracelsianism
Derived terms: Paracelsianism
Paracelsians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Paracelsian
whewellite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhjuːəlaɪt/
Forms: form: whewellites
Etymology: Named after English naturalist William Whewell (1794–1866), + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral, hydrated calcium oxalate.
whewellites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whewellite
whettings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whetting
benexate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A drug used to treat gastric acid disorders.
drachmai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek δρᾰχμαί (drăkhmaí).
Senses: glosses: plural of drachma
chlorargyrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chloroargyrite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The mineral form of silver chloride.
kunjoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kanjoos
form: kanjus
Senses: examples: text: Must have no desire to work
Must not mind husband being a kunjoos
Does not mind cooking, cleaning, and having a smile on her face always
ref: 1995, Simul Parikh, “Marriage Info...”, in rec.music.indian.misc (Usenet):
text: "Sala you are a kunjoos," he says. "Don't be mean. After I am going to be your brother-in-law." "Don't be presumptuous," I say.
ref: 2005, Manzur Murshed, Broken Milestones, page 433:
text: You really are kunjoos!" Sumati complained, her Ludhiana background asserting itself in the accent she gave the Hindi word for miser.
ref: 2007, Vivek Iyer, Whiskey's Secret, page 50:
glosses: A miser.
mazey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mazey
form: most mazey
Senses: examples: a mazey laberynth of small veines and arteries
glosses: Obsolete form of mazy.
masuyite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Masuy + -ite, after Belgian geologist Gustave Masuy (1905–1945).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A uranium/lead oxide mineral.
laberynth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laberynths
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of labyrinth.
nixy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nixies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nixie (“female water-elf”).
mazut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mazuts
Etymology: From Russian мазу́т (mazút).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrochemistry
petrology
physical-sciences
related: word: mazout
hypernyms: fuel oil
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oil#Noun
fuel#Noun
glosses: A grade of heavy fuel oil used in industry and also sometimes used in lieu of home heating oil.
mazuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mazut
leylandiis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leylandii
moneyspinning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of money-spinning.
money-spinning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more money-spinning
form: most money-spinning
form: moneyspinning
Senses: glosses: Serving to generate a continuous income.
Related terms: moneyspinner
money-spinner
primeurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of primeur
kudzus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kudzu
glaucodot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A cobalt iron arsenic sulfide mineral; with formula (Co,Fe)AsS.
bekanamycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From be- (“letter B”) + kanamycin.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A particular aminoglycoside antibiotic.
Synonyms: kanamycin B
bendazac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From benzyl + indazol + -ac (“acetic acid”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: bendazolic acid
bendazolic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug used for joint and muscular pain.
Synonyms: bendazac
bondabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bondability
bendability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bendabilities
Etymology: From bend + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality or degree of being bendable.
bendabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bendability
formability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: formabilities
Etymology: From form + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality or degree of being formable.
Derived terms: thermoformability
formabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of formability
benzoctamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A drug with sedative and anxiolytic properties.
butriptyline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A tricyclic antidepressant drug, the isobutyl side chain homologue of amitriptyline.
bunazosin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An alpha 1 antagonist drug developed to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH).
butaxamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butoxamine
Senses: glosses: A β2-selective beta blocker used in certain experimental situations but not clinically.
butoxamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of butaxamine.
beloxepin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -oxepin (“tricyclic compound”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A particular analgesic drug.
lymecycline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlaɪ.məˈsaɪˌklin/
Etymology: From ly(sino)me(thyl) + -cycline (“tetracycline derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A tetracycline broad-spectrum antibiotic, unique amongst tetracyclines in being absorbed by an active transport process across the intestinal wall.
lypressin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of lysine + vasopressin
Senses: glosses: The synthetic hormone lysine vasopressin (LVP) that is a form of the naturally occurring antidiuretic hormone (vasopressin) found in pigs.
hearth tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hearth taxes
Senses: synonyms: fumage
hearth money
hearth-penny
glosses: Any of several taxes levied in medieval Europe based on the number of hearths (fireplaces) in a property or community.
hepadnavirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hepadnaviruses
Etymology: hepatic DNA virus
Senses: glosses: Any member of the virus family Hepadnaviridae, capable of causing liver infections in humans and animals.
hepadnaviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hepadnavirus
gandoura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡanˈdʊəɹə/
Forms: form: gandouras
form: gandurah
Etymology: From Algerian Arabic, from Arabic قَنْدُورَة (qandūra).
Senses: glosses: A type of long robe or gown worn in North Africa.
gandouras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gandoura
lofendazam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From (ch)lo(ro)- + phen(yl) + d(i)az(ep)am.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A benzodiazepine derivative with sedative and anxiolytic effects.
Derived terms: arfendazam
arfendazam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of (c)arboxylate + lofendazam.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A benzodiazepine derivative with sedative and anxiolytic effects.
foreweigh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foreweighs
form: foreweighing
form: foreweighed
form: foreweighed
Etymology: From fore- + weigh.
Senses: glosses: To estimate in advance; to count the cost of beforehand.
foreweep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foreweeps
form: foreweeping
form: forewept
form: forewept
Etymology: From fore- + weep.
Senses: glosses: To weep before; usher in with weeping.
forirk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forirks
form: forirking
form: forirked
form: forirked
Etymology: From Middle English *forirken, forhirken, equivalent to for- + irk.
Senses: glosses: To irk; weary.
glosses: To become weary.
forwaste
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forwastes
form: forwasting
form: forwasted
form: forwasted
form: forewaste
Etymology: From for- + waste.
Senses: examples: text: Yet shortly he renounst the vassallage
Of Rome againe , who hether hastly sent
Vespasian , that with great spoile and rage
Forwasted all
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To waste; waste completely; lay waste to; desolate.
glosses: To use up; exhaust; render emaciated or feeble; spend wastefully.
forewaste
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forewastes
form: forewasting
form: forewasted
form: forewasted
Etymology: From fore- + waste.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of forwaste.
Kemetism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Kemet + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Neopagan revivals of Ancient Egyptian religions.
Related terms: Kemetic
Kemetist
flair bartending
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The practice of bartenders entertaining guests, clientele or audiences with the juggling of bar tools (e.g. cocktail shakers) and liquor bottles in tricky, dazzling ways.
Synonyms: flairtending
Related terms: flair bartender
flair bartender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flair bartenders
Senses: glosses: A bartender who practices flair bartending.
flair bartenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flair bartender
hold serve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holds serve
form: holding serve
form: held serve
form: held serve
Senses: examples: text: This meant Nadal needed to hold serve to force his opponent to earn the win. An unforced error took Rosol to 30-15 and two points away from glory, but a net cord in Nadal's favour and the men were level in the game.
ref: 2012 June 28, Jamie Jackson, “Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal”, in the Guardian:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: To win a game when one is serving.
Murraymania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Murray + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: As for the stuff going on around her - we have Murraymania here in the UK, but it must pale into significance with what she has to carry.
ref: 2005, topspin, “Is Sania Mirza the real deal?”, in rec.sport.tennis (Usenet):
glosses: Enthusiasm for the British tennis player Andy Murray.
Chinkiang vinegar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinkiang vinegar
Etymology: From Chinese 鎮江 /镇江 (Zhènjiāng)香醋 or 鎮江 /镇江 (Zhènjiāng)醋, using the old romanization Chinkiang instead of the modern romanization Zhènjiāng.
Senses: examples: text: Chinese black vinegar is made by fermenting a mixture of rice, wheat, and millet or sorghum. It has a smoky, somewhat sweet flavor when compared to regular white distilled vinegar, which is more tart and lighter in body. A popular black vinegar is Chinkiang vinegar, produced in Eastern China near Shanghai.
ref: 1999, Martin Yan, Martin Yan's invitation to Chinese Cooking, Singapore: Bay Books, →ISBN, page 229:
text: If you can't find it, substitute with a quarter of the amount each of red wine vinegar and balsamic vinegar (4 tablespoons of Chinkiang vinegar thus equates to 1 tablespoon each of red wine vinegar and balsamic vinegar).
ref: 2020, Pippa Middlehurst, Dumplings and Noodles, Hardie Grant Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: An aromatic rice-based black vinegar produced in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China.
governors general
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of governor general
wikiality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ælɪti
Forms: form: wikialities
form: Wikiality
Etymology: Blend of Wikipedia + reality, coined by American comedian and writer Stephen Colbert on 31 July 2006 on his show The Colbert Report.
Senses: examples: text: A group of undergraduates and alumni combated the backlash of "wikiality" and put their own spin on the facts about Cornell in an article about the University on the Web site Wikipedia.
ref: 2006 September 20, Felicia Daniels, “Wikipedia selects Cornell U. page as 'Featured Article'”, in University Wire:
ref: 2007 January 21, Kevin Garcia, “Wikiality is not reality”, in The Brownsville Herald:
text: Yet, this is the wikiality("truth based on consensus rather than fact") of the world, I'm sorry, of America, today
ref: 2007 January 5, Matt Martin, “Are we best we can be?”, in The Lantern:
text: Most important, here, Colbert calls attention to the Bush administration's cooption of wikiality: its continuous campaign to manipulate public perception.
ref: 2009, Jonathan Gray, Jeffrey P. Jones, Ethan Thompson, Satire TV: politics and comedy in the post-network era, NYU Press, →ISBN:
text: Back in 2006, comedian Stephen Colbert did a bit about Wikipedia, saying it was the harbinger of a distorted form of reality called “Wikiality” […] Fast forward to 2025 and it seems that Wikipedia might be the antidote to “alternative facts”, with lessons not just for the web, but for society more broadly.
ref: [2025 October 27, David Shariatmadari, “‘People thought I was a communist doing this as a non-profit’: is Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales the last decent tech baron?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The supposed reality described by Wikipedia articles, whose content is established by majority consensus.
wikipedia: The Colbert Report
Related terms: truthiness
forwelk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forwelks
form: forwelking
form: forwelked
form: forwelked
Etymology: From Middle English forwelken, equivalent to for- + welk. Compare Dutch verwelken (“to wither, wilt”), German verwelken (“to fade, wilt, shrivel away”). More at for-, welk.
Senses: glosses: To wither; decay; fade.
forwither
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forwithers
form: forwithering
form: forwithered
form: forwithered
Etymology: From for- + wither.
Senses: glosses: To wither away; shrivel.
forwound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forwounds
form: forwounding
form: forwounded
form: forwounded
Etymology: From Middle English forwounden, forwunden, from Old English forwundian (“to wound”), from Proto-West Germanic *frawundōn (“to wound, injure”), equivalent to for- + wound. Cognate with Dutch verwonden (“to injure, hurt, wound, gore”), German Low German verwunden, verwunnen (“to forwound”), German verwunden (“to wound, injure”).
Senses: examples: text: And Arthur was forwounded with a broad spear of slaughter; fifteen cruel wounds had he, in the least one might thrust two gloves.
ref: 1894, Sir Mungo William MacCallum, Tennyson's Idylls of the King and Arthurian story from the XVIth century:
glosses: To wound or injure severely.