cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cramming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crammings
Senses: examples: text: In some parts of the house were all the comforts of elbowings, shufflings, crammings and squeezings, and on the outside all the racket that was possible of screaming women, and wrangling coachmen […]
ref: 1838, John Sanderson, Sketches of Paris: in familiar letters to his friends:
glosses: The act by which something is crammed, or stuffed full.
examples: text: And, what with innumerable numbers of stiff and stiffer and stiffest competitions and examinations and crammings and general papers bristling at all angles, […]
ref: 1885, Journal of Education, volume 7, page 391:
glosses: An intensive course of hard study, as for an examination.
Related terms: word: Bulimielernen
carats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carat
schemed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scheme
remodelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of remodel
remodelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remodellings
Senses: examples: text: In the nature of things, much railway capital expenditure on stations and depots was in the immediate vicinity, if not in the heart, of towns, and extensions or remodellings, apart from being extremely costly, may be entirely negatived by the impossibility of securing the necessary land.
ref: 1945 March and April, T. F. Cameron, “New Works Procedure”, in Railway Magazine, page 71:
text: This principle was therefore incorporated in a large-scale resignalling scheme that has involved: remodelling of the layout to suit the use of only six running lines across the Clyde, [...]
ref: 1961 March, “The new Glasgow Central signalbox”, in Trains Illustrated, page 177:
text: Liverpool Street's 1985-92 remodelling by the British Rail Architects' Department (under project lead Nick Derbyshire) had carefully followed original 1870s detailing, with the concourse designed to allow natural light to spill into the station.
ref: 2025 February 5, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Railway Heritage saved in 2024”, in RAIL, number 1028, page 53:
glosses: Alternative form of remodeling.
redheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redhead
ranchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rancher
popsicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of popsicle
plugging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈplʌɡɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plug
plugging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈplʌɡɪŋ/
Forms: form: pluggings
Senses: glosses: The act of stopping with a plug.
glosses: The material of which a plug or stopper is made.
examples: text: We tried a few different pluggings.
glosses: An arrangement of plugs.
glosses: The insertion of an object, usually a sex toy, into the anus or vagina.
pleaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pleasers
Etymology: From Middle English plesere, equivalent to please + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something which pleases.
Derived terms: crowdpleaser
crowd-pleaser
people pleaser
timepleaser
time-pleaser
okayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of okay
mowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mower
munchkins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of munchkin
mixup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mixups
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mix-up.
masterminded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mastermind
lurks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lurk
lobbying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The referee seemed well placed to award the goal, but video evidence suggested the protests were well founded and the incident only strengthens the case of those lobbying for technology to assist officials.
ref: 2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in BBC:
glosses: present participle and gerund of lobby
lobbying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lobbyings
Senses: examples: text: They showed a new and encouraging Parliamentary appreciation that it is time our national transport problems were examined expertly and without doctrinaire prejudice of any sort—or too much attention to the lobbying of some powerful special interests.
ref: 1961 January, “Talking of Trains: Marples out of step”, in Trains Illustrated, page 1:
text: Although Sylvia had been present with her mother at the various lobbyings of parliament in 1905 she had not attempted, in the midst of her studies, to build up any support for WSPU policy in London.
ref: 2003, Elizabeth Crawford, Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866-1928:
glosses: The act of one who lobbies.
limousines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of limousine
exenterate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzɛntəɹeɪt/
Forms: form: exenterates
form: exenterating
form: exenterated
form: exenterated
Senses: glosses: To disembowel; to eviscerate.
Synonyms: eviscerate
homeboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homeboy
eviscerated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of eviscerate
deadbeats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deadbeat
shank-weary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shank-weary
form: most shank-weary
Senses: glosses: weary-legged.
roadblocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of roadblock
roadblocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of roadblock
cattitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of cat + attitude.
Senses: examples: text: It took a lot of Rosie and Ernie to forgive their "bad cattitude" kitty.
ref: 2011, M. R. Wells, Connie Fleishauer, & Dottie Adams, The Cat Lover's Devotional, Harvest House Publishers, →ISBN, page 64:
text: Rani, the cat, was a different ball game. She liked to keep her distance, had considerable cattitude, and preferred to live in a world of her own. She loved (and lived) her name – the queen, the royal one.
ref: 2013, Rohini Singh, Free Fall: The Journey Home, Hay House Publishers, →ISBN:
text: He adjusted to domesticated life remarkably well, retaining his regal feral “cattitude.”
ref: 2014, Kathleen M. Downey, Legendary Locals of Newburyport, Legendary Locals, →ISBN, page 18:
glosses: The attitude of a cat.
see a man about a horse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sees a man about a horse
form: seeing a man about a horse
form: saw a man about a horse
form: seen a man about a horse
Etymology: A variant of see a man about a dog, from the implied context of seeing someone about a bet on a horse race.
Senses: examples: text: I'll be back in two shakes of a lamb's tail. I've just got to visit the ladies' room to see a man about a horse.
glosses: Used in place of a real explanation when excusing oneself for a short period of time, particularly to use a toilet.
Synonyms: sense: all senses
word: a man
sense: all senses
word: a man about a dog
sense: use the toilet
word: a man about the plumbing
word: use the toilet
word: urinate
word: and Thesaurus:defecate
dyke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪk/
rhymes: -aɪk
Forms: form: dykes
form: dyking
form: dyked
form: dyked
form: dike
Etymology: A variant of dike, from Northern Middle English dik and dike (“ditch”), from Old Norse díki (“ditch”). Influenced by Middle Dutch dijc (“ditch; dam”) and Middle Low German dīk (“dam”). See also
ditch.
Senses: examples: text: He finds out, soon enough for his weal and his bane, that he is stronger than Nature: and right tyrannously and irreverently he lords it over her, clearing, delving, dyking, building, without fear or shame.
ref: 1866, C[harles] Kingsley, “Prelude. Of the Fens.”, in Hereward the Wake, “Last of the English.” […], volume I, London; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 4:
glosses: To dig, particularly to create a ditch.
glosses: To surround with a ditch, to entrench.
glosses: To surround with a low dirt or stone wall.
glosses: To raise a protective earthwork against a sea or river.
glosses: To scour a watercourse.
glosses: To steep [fibers] within a watercourse.
dyke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪk/
rhymes: -aɪk
Forms: form: dykes
form: dike
Etymology: Uncertain. Attested since the 1940s (in Berrey and Van den Bark’s 1942 American Thesaurus of Slang) or 30s. Semantic development from dyke (“ditch”) has been proposed, and some sources from the 1890s are said to record dyke as slang for "vulva" and hedge of the dyke as slang for "pubic hair", but Green's Dictionary of Slang says this is not found in connection to lesbianism and Dictionary.com considers a connection unlikely.
Bull dyke / bulldike is attested earlier, in reference to women since at least the 1920s (the 29 July 1892 Decatur Daily Review in Illinois mentions a woman who "won the affections of Harvey Neal, alias 'Bulldyke'", whose gender is unclear); compare dike (“noun: well-dressed man; verb: be well dressed”)), bulldyker, and bulldyking, which are all attested earlier than bare dyke, e.g. in Parke's 1906 Human Sexuality, in the speech of Philadelphians, and backcountry black Americans. Compare bulldagger, attested since around the same time and used especially by black women.
Other linguists suggested that bull dyke(r) referred to strong black women who dug dikes, or derived from bull + dick, perhaps in reference to black men. It has also been suggested dyke is a shortening of morphodyke, from morphodite, from hermaphrodite, but the derivation may go in the other direction instead, with morphodyke being a blend of morphodite with the already-extant word dyke.
Senses: glosses: A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior.
glosses: A non-heterosexual woman.
Synonyms: female homosexual
Derived terms: bi-dyke
big dyke energy
boydyke
bull dyke
busy as a dyke in a hardware store
designer dyke
diesel dyke
dykedar
dykedom
dykehood
dykeling
dyke out
dykephobia
dykery
dyke tyke
dykey
dykish
dykon
kike dyke
leatherdyke
troglodyke
tryke
transsphenoidal adenomectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transsphenoidal adenomectomies
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A surgical procedure for the removal of a tumor in Cushing's syndrome
polygraphist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polygraphists
Etymology: From polygraph + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person skilled in the operation of a polygraph (lie detector)
Synonyms: polygrapher
polygrapher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polygraphers
Etymology: From polygraph + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person skilled in the operation of a polygraph.
Synonyms: polygraphist
felo de se
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin felō (“felon”) dē (“of”) sē (“himself”).
Senses: examples: text: [H]ow came the King by a povver vvhich the People are afraid to truſt and alvvays obliged to check? Such a povver could not be the gift of a vviſe People, neither can any povver vvhich needs checking be from God: yet the proviſion vvhich the conſtitution makes, ſuppoſes ſuch a povver to exiſt. But the proviſion is unequal to the taſk, the means either cannot, or vvill not accompliſh the end, and the vvhole affair is a Felo de ſe: […]
ref: 1775–1776 (date written), [Thomas Paine], “Of the Origin and Design of Government in General, with Concise Remarks on the English Constitution”, in Common Sense; […], Philadelphia, Pa.: […] R[obert] Bell, […], published 10 January 1776, →OCLC, page 10:
text: [T]ho' I made ſome occaſional attempts at felo de ſe; but as I did not find thoſe raſh actions anſvver, I left off killing myſelf very ſoon.
ref: 1781, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic: Or A Tragedy Rehearsed […], London: […] T[homas] Becket, […], →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, page 38:
text: The Varlet was not an ill-favoured knave; / A good deal like a Vulture in the face / With a hook nose and a Hawk’s eye which gave / A smart & sharper-looking sort of grace / To his whole aspect, which though rather grave / Was by no means so ugly as his case, / But that indeed was hopeless as can be— / Quite a poetic felony “de se.”—
ref: [1822 October 15, Quevedo Redivivus [pseudonym; Lord Byron], “The Vision of Judgment”, in The Liberal. Verse and Prose from the South, 2nd edition, volume I, number I, London: […] John Hunt, […], published 1823, →OCLC, stanza XCIV:
synonyms: suicide
glosses: A crime committed against oneself, in particular suicide.
billionaires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of billionaire
badgered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more badgered
form: most badgered
Senses: glosses: annoyed; upset
Derived terms: unbadgered
badgered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of badger
backstreet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more backstreet
form: most backstreet
form: back-street
Etymology: From back + street.
Senses: examples: text: The agency was given to some deserving politician who, as he knew nothing at all about Indians and spoke no language except traces of back-street American, would not be prejudiced in Indian affairs and interfere with the highly informed traders.
ref: 1949, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 18, in The God-Seeker, New York: Popular Library, page 94:
text: She's been living in her uptown world / I bet she's never had a backstreet guy / I bet her momma never told her why
ref: 1983, “Uptown Girl”, in Billy Joel (music), An Innocent Man:
text: They made these things for almost nothing, cutting them out of remnants they scrambled for in backstreet fabric outlets.
ref: 1989, Carol Shields, “Times of Sickness and Health”, in The Collected Stories, Random House Canada, published 2004, page 349:
glosses: Associated with neighborhoods on back streets, often in older neighborhoods, with poorer residents.
examples: text: The results of self-induced and backstreet abortions come to our hospitals for the damage to be put right.
ref: 1965 June 15, Renée Short, Hansard:
glosses: Done in poor and unsanitary conditions, secretly and illegally; back-alley.
backstreet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backstreets
form: back-street
Etymology: From back + street.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of back street.
westerns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of western
victimless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From victim + -less.
Senses: examples: text: He said that prostitution, drug trafficking, and gambling were victimless crimes.
text: They have got fairly liberal laws on victimless crimes, but the Los Angeles police are still busy entrapping homosexualists because the police chief in Los Angeles is very antifag.
ref: 1983, Michael Denneny, Charles Ortleb, Thomas Steele, The Christopher Street reader, page 297:
glosses: Without a victim.
Derived terms: victimless crime
victimlessness
unfolds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unfold
soulmates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soulmate
shushing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shush
shushing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shushings
Senses: examples: text: All except little Johnny, who fussed and fidgeted with a typical three-year-old's impatience at such things, mindless of his mother's quiet shushings.
ref: 2011, Janet Dailey, American Dreams, page 143:
glosses: The act of making a shush sound to silence somebody.
shifter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪftə(ɹ)
Forms: form: shifters
Etymology: From shift + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, shifts or changes.
examples: text: The cigarette is analogous to what linguists call a shifter, like the word I ; this device for expressing the irreducible particularity of my innermost self is universally available to every speaker and is thus the least particular thing in the world. The smoker manipulates the cigarette, like the word I, to tell stories to him/herself about him/herself — or to an other.
ref: 1995, Richard Klein, “Introduction”, in Cigarettes are sublime, Paperback edition, Durham: Duke University Press, published 1993, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 9:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word whose meaning changes depending on the situation, as by deixis.
examples: text: 'Twas ſuch a ſhifter, that if truth were known, / Death was half glad when he had got him down;
ref: 1646 (indicated as 1645), John Milton, “On the Univerſity Carrier […] ”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], →OCLC, page 28:
glosses: Someone who plays tricks; a trickster.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, soaking, and shifting the salt provisions.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A control device (usually a lever or button) for shifting gears in a gearbox, or an arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.
topics: business
engineering
manufacturing
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
textiles
glosses: A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A component used by the rider to control the gearing mechanisms and select the desired gear ratio, usually connected to the derailleur by a mechanical actuation cable.
glosses: A spanner with an adjustable jaw size.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A person employed to repair the horseways and other passages, and keep them unobstructed.
glosses: A switcher or shunter: a railroad locomotive used for shunting.
topics: fantasy
human-sciences
literature
media
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
publishing
science-fiction
sciences
synonyms: word: changeling
word: shape-shifter
word: shapeshifter
word: shifter
glosses: A shape-shifter; a person or other being capable of changing their physical form, especially a lycanthrope.
glosses: A shiftworker.
qualifier: spirituality
glosses: Ellipsis of reality shifter.
Derived terms: barrel shifter
column shifter
left-handed smoke shifter
paddle shifter
phase shifter
quick shifter
scene-shifter
shapeshifter
shifter cart
video shifter
Related terms: stickshift
schmoozing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of schmooze
glosses: present participle and gerund of schmooz
schmoozing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schmoozings
Senses: examples: text: Betwixt oozings and schmoozings with various agents from rival agencies, another fandango gets under way, over and above the daily schedule of my warlockery.
ref: 1996, Richard E. Grant, With Nails:
glosses: The act of one who schmoozes.
straight forward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more straight forward
form: most straight forward
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of straightforward.
straight-forward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more straight-forward
form: most straight-forward
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of straightforward.
reopening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reopenings
form: re-opening
Senses: examples: text: Grove: After many years of unproductive discussion, the reopening of the London-Bristol line station to serve the nearby town of Wantage is back on the agenda.
ref: 2018, Rail, issue 857, July 18-July 31, Regional News
glosses: the act of opening something again
reopening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-opening
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reopen
qualms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qualm
paratroopers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paratrooper
newborns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of newborn
moonbeams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moonbeam
manicures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manicure
manicures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of manicure
lilacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lilac
lifeboats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lifeboat
lawyered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lawyer
-ata
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: Used to form formal plurals of certain Greek-derived words ending '-a', such as thema/themata, stigma/stigmata, schema/schemata.
lambchop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæm.tʃɒp/
ipa: /ˈlæm.t͡ʃɑp/
Forms: form: lambchops
Etymology: From lamb + chop.
Senses: glosses: A chop or rib of lamb.
glosses: A term of endearment.
jailed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒeɪld/
rhymes: -eɪld
Senses: synonyms: incarcerated
glosses: simple past and past participle of jail
impounded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of impound
seaborn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sea born
form: sea-born
Etymology: From sea + born.
Senses: glosses: Born on or in the sea.
-ete
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: IUPAC Commission of Nomenclature for Heterocyclic Compounds (1957)
Senses: glosses: Indicating an unsaturated 4-ring heterocyclic compound with nitrogen
rebooking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rebook
rebooking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rebookings
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent booking.
rebook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rebooks
form: rebooking
form: rebooked
form: rebooked
Etymology: From re- + book.
Senses: examples: text: The fare for this sightseeing tour of London is about 1s., but it is necessary to rebook at least once, as through tickets are not issued for the round trip.
ref: 1950 July, J. G. Gibbons, “Sightseeing on the Inner Circle”, in Railway Magazine, page 485:
glosses: To book again.
reframe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reframes
form: reframing
form: reframed
form: reframed
form: re-frame
Etymology: From re- + frame.
Senses: examples: text: The woman in the shop was reframing a painting.
glosses: To mount in a frame again.
examples: text: The military reframed tedium as duty.
glosses: To redescribe, from a different perspective; to relabel.
glosses: To change the angle and perspective of (video footage captured beforehand), as by a 360-degree camera.
reframe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reframes
form: re-frame
Etymology: From re- + frame.
Senses: examples: text: A counselor's reframe of the term “protecting” to “enabling” suggests a different function with respect to the individual's behavior.
ref: 2014, Arthur J. Clark, Empathy in Counseling and Psychotherapy:
glosses: An instance of reframing.
redescribe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: redescribes
form: redescribing
form: redescribed
form: redescribed
Etymology: From re- + describe.
Senses: examples: text: To fail to narrativize one's own life, to fail to redescribe oneself, Rorty suggests, is to fail to be fully human.
ref: 2012, Richard A. Gilmore, Doing Philosophy at the Movies, page 9:
glosses: To describe again.
Synonyms: redefine
restate
respecify
recoupment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recoupments
Etymology: From recoup + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: The doctrine of recoupment is of recent growth, hardly preceding in its origin the beginning of the present century.
ref: 1879, John Neilson Taylor, A Treatise on the American Law of Landlord and Tenant, page 321:
glosses: A recovery of what had been lost; reimbursement.
topics: law
glosses: A reduction of the plaintiff's damages by keeping out a part.
Related terms: recoup
self-deprivation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-deprivations
Etymology: From self- + deprivation.
Senses: examples: text: Dieting is self-deprivation.
glosses: A deprivation at one's own initiative.
jumped-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jumped-up
form: most jumped-up
Senses: examples: 2007, Nov 27. Scott Murray, writing in Guardian Unlimited: "Stuttgart 3-2 Rangers"
We're doomed if this wee jumped-up monkey gets Gordon Smith's blessing.
glosses: Thinking or acting as if one is superior, as by pretending to be of a higher class or having greater authority than is the case.
examples: text: 1895, Punch, or the London Charivari, 24 August, 1895, "'Arry on Harry", https://books.google.ca/books?id=S5kwAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22jumped-up+cheap+Coventry%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s
You jumped-up, cheap, Coventry bagman, / silk-sampling, no doubt, is your biz
text: Well, you can have all my share of democracy. Between you and me, Gert, it's mainly a name for a lot of jumped-up ignoramuses who have no idea of how little they do know.
ref: 1919, J.C. Snaith, chapter XXXIV, in The Undefeated, pages 233–234:
text: […] the faithful service he gave was pearl cast before mean, gutless, brainless, up-jumped swine […]
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter II, in Capricornia, page 27:
text: […] I'm damned if I'm going to be harried and put off my stroke by the ridiculous self-importance of a jumped-up pastry-cook.
ref: 1982, Tom Stoppard, On the Razzle:
text: "My good wife flatters them, to call them knights. They’re upjumped sellswords, with not a thimble of chivalry to be found amongst the four of them."
ref: 2005, George R. R. Martin, A Feast for Crows:
text: The man was an upjumped peasant with delusions of his own importance.
ref: 2014, Brian Stavely, The Emperor's Blades:
synonyms: upstart
glosses: Having risen from a lowly station or an inferior position, often with a conceited or arrogant attitude.
Synonyms: word: upjumped
-ii
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: note: variously
ipa: /aɪ/
ipa: /i.aɪ/
ipa: /iː/
Etymology: From rebracketing of plural forms like radii (plural of radius), borrowed from Latin. Latin forms the nominative plural of second-declension nouns by replacing -us with -ī, which results in plural forms that end in -iī for nouns with singulars ending in -ius. Some English speakers occasionally extend -ii to form nonstandard plural forms of English nouns that end simply with the letters -us or with other letter sequences with a similar pronunciation (such as -is /ɪs/).
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of -i.
examples: text: Elvis + -ii → Elvii
penis + -ii → penii
virus + -ii → virii
walrus + -ii → walrii
fetus + -ii → fetii
stewardess + -ii → stewardii
Airbus + -ii → Airbii
ref: Examples
glosses: Used to form nonstandard, uncommon, often humorous alternative plural forms of nouns that end in -us, -is or a similar sound.
perturbations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perturbation
TY
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TYs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of transition year.
TY
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: related: word: ty
synonyms: ta#Interjection
thx#Interjection
glosses: Initialism of thank you.
Related terms: NTY
nty
monobrowed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From monobrow + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The monobrowed girl was frequently teased at school for her unusual appearance.
glosses: Having a monobrow.
jump about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jumps about
form: jumping about
form: jumped about
form: jumped about
Senses: examples: text: The frog jumped about in the bucket.
text: The children are jumping about with excitement as Christmas approaches.
glosses: To move erratically by jumping.
glosses: To move from side to side, or fidget annoyingly, usually as a result of being nervous.
Synonyms: jump around
jump around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jumps around
form: jumping around
form: jumped around
form: jumped around
Senses: examples: text: He was jumping around with excitement.
glosses: To move erratically by jumping.
glosses: To move from side to side, or fidget e.g. with nervousness.
Synonyms: sense: both senses
word: jump about
sense: both senses
word: bounce around
from side to side
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Moving or turning back and forth.
jump at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jumps at
form: jumping at
form: jumped at
form: jumped at
Senses: examples: text: I jumped at the position as soon as it was offered.
glosses: To accept something enthusiastically. Usually an opportunity, or chance, or job etc.
jump down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jumps down
form: jumping down
form: jumped down
form: jumped down
Senses: examples: text: I jumped down the small flight of stairs.
glosses: To leave an elevated position to a lower position by one jump.
jump off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jumps off
form: jumping off
form: jumped off
form: jumped off
Senses: examples: text: The cat jumped off the table.
glosses: To move from an elevated place by one jump.
topics: equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
glosses: To participate in the final round of an equestrian showjumping event.
examples: text: The fight jumped off in my own neighborhood.
synonyms: go down
glosses: To happen; to occur.
Derived terms: word: if someone told you to jump off a bridge, would you do it
word: jumping-off point
word: jumpoff
showjumping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of show jumping.
that is to say
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Calque of French c'est-à-dire.
Senses: examples: text: One of the best things about works of music is that they are repeatable, that is to say that one can listen to the same work over and over without becoming tired of it.
synonyms: word: that is
word: i.e.
word: better put
word: i.e.
word: in other words
word: put differently
word: that is
word: that is to say
word: to put it another way
word: what this means is
glosses: In other words. Used to introduce a clarification, simplification, or explanation
polyalgorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyalgorithms
Etymology: From poly- + algorithm.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A set of algorithms together with rules for choosing when to use each one.
polyalkylimide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyalkylimides
Etymology: From poly- + alkylimide.
Senses: glosses: A commercial polyimide used as a gel in reconstructive surgery.
polyalphabetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + alphabetic.
Senses: glosses: Describing a substitution cipher in which plaintext letters in different positions are enciphered using different substitution alphabets.
Derived terms: polyalphabetically
polyander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyanders
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the class Polyandria.
polynandrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polynandrian
form: most polynandrian
Senses: glosses: polyandrous
Derived terms: polyandrianism
polyandrianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From polyandrian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: polyandry
polyandrion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyandria
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek πολυάνδριον (poluándrion).
Senses: glosses: A mass grave or communal tomb.
polyandrious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polyandrious
form: most polyandrious
Senses: glosses: polyandrous
polyandrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: polyandry
polyandrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyandrists
Senses: glosses: Someone who practices polyandry
polyandrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyandrums
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πολυάνδριον (poluándrion).
Senses: glosses: A tomb
glosses: A polyandrion
polyangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyangles
Etymology: From poly- + angle.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: polygon
polyangular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + angular.
Senses: glosses: Having many angles; polygonal
polyanth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyanths
Senses: glosses: polyanthus
polyantha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyanthas
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of several hybrids of Rosa multiflora that have clusters of small flowers; a polyantha rose; Rosa polyantha.
Synonyms: Rosa multiflora var. multiflora
polyanthea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyantheas
Senses: glosses: An anthology of extracts (mostly quotations) from literature.
Related terms: anthology
polyanthous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polyanthous
form: most polyanthous
Etymology: From poly- + -anthous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having many flowers, particularly if within the same involucre.
polyarchal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polyarchal
form: most polyarchal
Senses: glosses: polyarchical
polyarchical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polyarchical
form: most polyarchical
Senses: glosses: Synonym of polyarchic.
synonyms: word: polyarchic
polyarchic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polyarchic
form: most polyarchic
Etymology: From polyarchy + -ic.
Senses: synonyms: polyarchical
glosses: Of or pertaining to a polyarchy.
polyarchism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From polyarchy + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The practice of polyarchy
polyargite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyargites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: muscovite
polyargyrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyargyrites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A black mineral that is a sulfide of antimony and silver
thanke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thankes
form: thanking
form: thanked
form: thanked
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of thank.
aske
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: askes
form: asking
form: asked
form: asked
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of ask.
clocke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clockes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of clock.
sweare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sweares
form: swearing
form: swore
form: sworne
Senses: examples: text: Now negligent of sports I lye,
And now as other Fawkners use,
I spring a mistresse, sweare, write, sigh and weepe:
And the game kill'd, or lost, goe talk, and sleepe.
ref: 1633, John Donne, Loves Diet:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of swear.
arrowy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛɹoʊi/
Forms: form: more arrowy
form: most arrowy
Etymology: From arrow + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Now the Storm begins to lovver, / (Haſte, the loom of Hell prepare,) / Iron-ſleet of arrovvy ſhovver / Hurtles in the darken'd air.
ref: 1761 (date written), [Thomas] Gray, “Ode VIII. The Fatal Sisters. From the Norse Tongue.”, in The Poems of Mr. Gray. […], York, Yorkshire: […] A[nn] Ward; and sold by J[ames] Dodsley, […]; and J[ohn] Todd, […], published 1775, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 44:
glosses: Consisting of arrows.
examples: text: I saw him in his boat, which shot across the waters with an arrowy swiftness, and was soon lost amidst the waves.
ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter III, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume III, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, page 49:
glosses: Formed or moving like, or in any respect resembling, an arrow; for example, slender, straight, or swift.
Derived terms: arrowily
fellas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fella
Cupertino effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named for the fact that some older computer spellcheckers did not include the form cooperation and would automatically replace it not with co-operation, but with Cupertino, a name of a city in northern California and headquarters of Apple Inc.
Senses: examples: text: Although computer dictionaries have improved, the Cupertino effect still creates havoc.
ref: 2015, Arhlene A. Flowers, Global Writing for Public Relations, Routledge, →ISBN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
qualifier: originally
glosses: The replacement, by a spell checker, of words that are real (such as proper nouns or alternate spellings), but missing from its internal dictionary, with words that are starkly incorrect in context.
glosses: The failure of spell checkers to replace incorrectly spelled words with the actually intended words, resulting in miscorrections.
Derived terms: Cupertino
black lead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black leads
form: blacklead
form: black-lead
Etymology: In the sense of lead, calque of Latin plumbum nigrum (“lead”, literally “black lead”).
Senses: antonyms: white lead
glosses: The metal lead.
glosses: Graphite, especially as used in pencils.
glosses: A graphite pencil.
examples: text: She always washed without soap: there were no hearth-stones nor black-lead dust for the stoves; nor a cake of whitening for the kitchen-grate […].
ref: 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 271:
glosses: A type of polish made from graphite, used for kitchen cleaning and blackening grates.
runneth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From run + -eth.
Senses: examples: text: God it must be a faff having to get nigh-on naked every time your bladder runneth over, and imagine how much worse it must be if you only have a 20-second break to run off stage to the loo.
ref: 2007 November 27, Hadley Freeman, “Miaow!”, in The Guardian:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of run
abhorreth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: abhor + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abhor
aboundeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;[…]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Thessalonians 1:3:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abound
answerest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: answer + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of answer
ascendeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: ascend + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ascend
askest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: ask + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of ask
believest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: believe + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of believe
encouraged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more encouraged
form: most encouraged
Senses: examples: text: The results for item 1 indicate that in 1994-5 employees in the public sector were more encouraged to participate in management than those in the non-public sector and the impact of the ownership type is significant.
ref: 2004, Cherrie Jiuhua Zhu, Human Resource Management in China:
text: You would certainly feel more encouraged and willing to make efforts for humans if they looked at you with joy and gratitude and encouraged you with positive words.
ref: 2004, Andris K Tebecis, Is The Future In Our Hands-My Experiences With Sukyo Mahikari, page 312:
text: Participants felt more enjoyment from the media feedback when they felt more encouraged, more competent, more autonomy, and that the information was accurate.
ref: 2021, Ryan Rogers, Media Feedback: Our Lives in Loops, page 31:
glosses: Having been given hope or encouragement.
Derived terms: unencouraged
encouraged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of encourage
bringest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bring'st
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of bring
spellcheck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spellchecks
form: spell check
form: spell-check
Etymology: Back-formation from spellchecker.
Senses: examples: text: You'd better run another spellcheck now that you've written that extra chapter.
glosses: The act of spellchecking.
examples: text: My wordprocessor is supposed to have a spellcheck, but I don't know how to use it.
text: "We want to make sure our children know how to spell in English." They will if they learn the Reading Reform way, Mrs. Goldberg told them. "I've been teaching this method for 18 years," she said. And never once used a spelling aid? "Well," she said, "I am a recent user of 'spellcheck.' I thought I might make some typos on the computer and spellcheck would pick that up. So I started using it. Then the other day I found I made a serious error, and it hadn't been picked up. I had come to rely on spellcheck!"
ref: 1995 April 9, Diane Ketcham, “About Long Island; ‘If You Can’t Spell You Look Stupid’”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 May 2015:
glosses: A spellchecker.
spellcheck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spellchecks
form: spellchecking
form: spellchecked
form: spellchecked
form: spell check
form: spell-check
Etymology: Back-formation from spellchecker.
Senses: glosses: To check that words in written text are properly spelled.
glosses: To run a spellchecker on (a document).
blesseth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: bless + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bless
goddamned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: goddamn
form: god damn
form: God damn
form: godsdamn
Senses: glosses: Damned by God.
examples: text: Where's the goddamned cartridge?
synonyms: word: gosh darned
glosses: Used as an intensifier expressing anger.
Derived terms: goddamned well
Related terms: godforsaken
burneth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: burn + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of burn
boasteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: boast + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of boast
bursteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: burst + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of burst
buildeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: build + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of build
changeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Daniel 2:21:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of change
coateth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: coat + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coat
carrieth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: carry + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of carry
choketh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: choke + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of choke
consumeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: consume + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of consume
cheweth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: chew + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chew
cutteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: cut + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cut
diggeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: dig + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dig
creepeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: creep + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of creep
fleeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: flee + -eth
Senses: examples: text: He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
ref: Job 14:2
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flee
flash-bang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flash-bangs
form: flash bang
form: flashbang
Etymology: From flash + bang. From the bright flash of light and loud bang (a concussive shockwave of sound) generated by this device.
Senses: examples: text: As evening begins here in Washington, police are firing tear gas, deploying flash-bangs to disperse peaceful protests near the White House.
ref: 2020 June 1, 0:16–0:24 from the start, in Death of George Floyd drives protests across the U.S. — and beyond, Judy Woodruff (actor), PBS NewsHour:
glosses: A hand grenade that produces a very bright flash and a loud explosion, but no shrapnel and minimal explosive force, to disorient the target.
Synonyms: flash grenade
stun grenade
concussion grenade
Related terms: thunderflash
faggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæɡi/
Forms: form: faggier
form: faggiest
Etymology: From fag + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Nat Hanmer was sitting on the floor beside him, and his warm thigh was pressed against his own. There was something charmingly faggy about Nat tonight. He nodded and smiled into Nick's eyes as he was talking.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 3, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
glosses: Effeminate; homosexual; gay.
Derived terms: faggily
fagginess
dressings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dressing
dills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪlz/
rhymes: -ɪlz
Senses: glosses: plural of dill
tomosynthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tomosyntheses
Etymology: From tomo- + synthesis.
Senses: examples: text: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) in 2011. Given how effectively DBT detects cancer, it may eventually become the new gold standard in breast imaging.
ref: 2022 October 4, “Tomosynthesis”, in Cleveland Clinic, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2025:
glosses: The creation of a 3D image of part of the body by digital processing of multiple X-rays.
Derived terms: tomosynthetic
tomosynthetically
Related terms: computed tomography
CT
tomography
naggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæɡiː/
Forms: form: naggier
form: naggiest
Etymology: From nag + -y.
Senses: glosses: Prone to nag, irritable.