cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unbaffleable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbaffleable
form: most unbaffleable
Senses: examples: text: I am the Major Le - Caron of the literary world, and am unbaffleable. One evening I spied my victim at his club; I knew him, he did not know me. When he reads this he will know me, and, as he is an irascible man, he will probably swear
ref: 1894, “Henry Lazarus”, in Good Reading about Many Books Mostly by Their Authors, Unwin, page 138:
text: Half-a-dozen stories of the unbaffleable ‘ investigator ’ make up this second series, and highly entertaining they are.
ref: 1895, “Ishmael Lones”, in Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature, Volume 63, volume 63, page 80i:
text: "Was that one of the letters that always made you cry at Sta. Margherita?" enquired Jessica, with her unbaffleable persistency.
ref: 1910, Rhoda Broughton, The Devil and the Deep Sea, Macmillan, page 247:
text: The sea wind, with its feet wet with the surges of the unbaffleable sea, with its voice which has caught music from hearing the waves sing on the shores of all the earth, with its loneliness unfathomable for sadness […]
ref: 1924, William Alfred Quayle, Out-of-doors with Jesus, Abingdon Press, page 78:
text: Back in 1942-43, we had a computer that was unbaffleable and jeep transportable. It was what you might call a “ neural computer." In a matter of seconds it could zip through complex problems of supply and demand that would have blown the fuses of today's electronic marvels. And it didn't just rattle off paper solutions. It gifted the gab and master-minded the machinations that materialized them.
ref: 1962 June 24, Lt. Col. Forrest K. Kleinman, United States Army Combat Forces Journal, Volume 12, volume 12, Association of the United States Army, page 53:
text: Most of Ms. Brooks' characters are poor, but the poems do not describe material poverty. They describe spiritual richness that exists despite such poverty. A woman cooking dinner looks at the squirrel in her yard, envying its "silver skill . . . thinking it a mountain and a star, unbaffleable; with sentient twitch and scurry."
ref: 1994 May 4, Diane Scharper, “Perhaps Our Greatest Living Poet”, in Baltimore Sun, archived from the original on 20 Jun 2021:
text: That even baffled the normally unbaffleable crew at Fox & Friends, who did their best to contextualize and explain Trump’s comments, even briefly pinning it on Obama, naturally.
ref: 2019 November 27, Elliot Hannon, “Donald Trump Is Now Saying that Democrats Want to “Change the Name Thanksgiving””, in The Slatest, The Slate Group, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2022:
glosses: Unable to be baffled.
Belgian fence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Belgian fences
Senses: glosses: An espaliered tree in a diamond grid shape.
ToR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Transcript of Records.
examples: text: What I am seeing is governance committees (and therefore, whole Boards) being exposed to risk through the ‘cut n paste’ development of their ToR.
ref: 2024 August 24, David Hammond, “Chief executive performance committees”, in LG: New Zealand Local Government, volume 61, →ISSN, page 32:
synonyms: TOR
TofR
glosses: Initialism of Terms of Reference.
storm-chaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storm-chasers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of storm chaser.
stormchaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stormchasers
Etymology: From storm + chaser.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of storm chaser.
stormhunter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stormhunters
form: storm-hunter
form: storm hunter
Etymology: From storm + hunter.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of storm chaser.
synonyms: word: storm chaser
storm-hunter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storm-hunters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stormhunter.
storm hunter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storm hunters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stormhunter.
bacteriochlorophyllic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bacteriochlorophyllic
form: most bacteriochlorophyllic
Etymology: From bacteriochlorophyll + -ic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, resembling or derived from bacteriochlorophyll
Armenicum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An iodine based antiseptic drug from Armenia invented to cure HIV.
demethoxyyangonin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of desmethoxyyangonin.
hydroxy yohimbine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroxy-yohimbine
form: hydroxyyohimbine
Senses: glosses: A hydroxy derivative of yohimbine, with potential mood-boosting properties.
hydroxy-yohimbine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hydroxy yohimbine.
hydroxyyohimbine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hydroxy yohimbine.
red gurnard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red gurnards
Senses: glosses: Chelidonichthys cuculus, a ray-finned fish belonging to the family Triglidae.
Madurism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: support for Nicolás Maduro (1962–), Venezuelan president since 2013
blobsquatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blobsquatches
Etymology: Blend of blob + sasquatch.
Senses: glosses: A humanlike but unfocused and unclear blob in photographs or videos purporting to display a sasquatch.
taphon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taphons
Etymology: Borrowed from Thai ตะโพน (dtà-poon).
Senses: glosses: A type of double-headed barrel drum used in Thailand.
tbilat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tbilats
Senses: glosses: A type of drum from Morocco that resembles bongos.
breeze off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breezes off
form: breezing off
form: breezed off
form: breezed off
Senses: glosses: To leave, depart
breezes off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of breeze off
breezing off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of breeze off
breezed off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of breeze off
survay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: survays
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of survey.
survay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: survays
form: survaying
form: survayed
form: survayed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of survey.
carboxyyessotoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A carboxy derivative of yessotoxin.
farnesylcyclohexenone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farnesylcyclohexenones
Senses: glosses: A farnesyl derivative of cyclohexenone.
methylcyclohexenone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methylcyclohexenones
Senses: glosses: Any methyl derivative of cyclohexenone.
Pingjang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The whole Iſland is divided into eight Provinces or Counties : The middlemoſt, and accounted the firſt, bears the name of Kinki, wherein is ſituated the chief City of Pingiang, the Court of the Kings.
ref: [1669 [1665], John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, translation of original in Dutch, →OCLC, page 293:
text: The four Northern Territories bordering next to Tartary, he had already miſerably ruin'd, when the King of Corea rais'd an Army to oppoſe the Tartars (who then design'd to Beſiege the Metropolis Pingjang) chuſing a convenient place for Ambuſcade , to ſurpriſe them in their March , and , as deſign'd , ſuddenly ſallied out upon them, ſuſpecting there no Oppoſition;[…]
ref: 1670, Arnoldus Montanus, translated by John Ogilby, Atlas Japannensis: Being Remarkable Addresses by Way of Embassy ... from the East-India Company ... to the Emperor of Japan, page 184:
text: WIthin stands the Idol Toranga, who had formerly been a great Hunter in Corca, and commonly dwelt in the Metropolis Pingjang; some Centuries before the Chinesy King Hiaovus, subdu'd and brought under his subjection half the Island Corea, which had never before tasted the cruelty of the Tartars, nor heard of the Spoils of Sandaracha, with which the Japanners and Chineses furnish their Houses:[…]
ref: 1671, Arnoldus Montanus, translated by John Ogilby, “A Memorable Embassy to the Emperor of Japan”, in Remarkable Addresses by Way of Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Emperor of Japan. […], London: […] [T]he Author, […], page 131:
text: All the Peninſula is divided into eight Provinces ; that which lies in the middle is called Kinki, where the famous Town Pingjang, the King's ordinary Reſidence is; beſides which, there are ſeveral Towns and Cities very well peopled, whoſe Inhabitants have the ſame Cuſtoms and Religion the Chineſe have, for they keep their dead Bodies in fine Coffins for three Years together, during which time they render it as much reſpect and civility ,” as if he that it 64, to were ſtill living, and at the end of the three years they bury them.
ref: 1701, “CORéE, or COREA”, in The Great Historical, Geographical, Genealogical and Poetical Dictionary; Being a Curious Miscellany of Sacred and Prophane History ... Collected from the Best Historians, Chronologers and Lexicographers ... But More Especially Out of Lewis Morery, D.D. His Eighth Edition Corrected and Enlarged by Monsieur Le Clerc, volume 1, page https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-great-historical-ge_morri-louis_1701_1/page/n434/:
text: A.D.
[668] (Dec.) Eastern Garrison was established in Pingjang (平壤) in Korea.
ref: 1947, The China Annual, Shanghai: The Asia Statistics Co, →OCLC, page 47:
glosses: Alternative form of Pingrang (Pyongyang).
meta-awareness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + awareness.
Senses: glosses: The awareness of one's awareness.
metaawareness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta + awareness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of meta-awareness.
Helgeland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian Helgeland.
Senses: glosses: A district of Nordland, Norway.
Hugolatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French hugolâtrie, equivalent to Hugo + -latry.
Senses: examples: text: The principal took small heed of his pupils; imported teachers from Paris, and shut himself up in his closet reading Petrus Borel, the “Lycanthrope,” Gautier and Barbara, de Merval and Lamartine, but above all, Victor Hugo. From these studies the schoolmaster would sally forth into his school-rooms, and instruct his boys in the religion, the fanaticism of Hugolatry.
ref: 1885 July, “A Forgotten Pamphleteer”, in Tinsleys’ Magazine, volume 37, London: Tinsley Brothers, page 84:
glosses: The fervent admiration of the works and literary theories of French writer Victor Hugo (1802–1885).
Related terms: Hugolater
Hugophile
have a time of it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has a time of it
form: having a time of it
form: had a time of it
form: had a time of it
Senses: synonyms: have a time
glosses: To undergo a painful or difficult experience.
Related terms: have an easy time of it
have a thin time of it
co-party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-parties
Senses: glosses: A party who is on the same side as another party.
die-die
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪ(˦)ˈdaɪ(˦)/
Etymology: Reduplication of die and a calque of Malay mati-matian (“desperately; with all one's might”), itself a reduplication of mati (“to die”).
Senses: examples: text: When we’ve something to say […] we will die-die find the most compelling way to say it to our intended audience.
ref: 2004 December 12, Colin Goh, The Sunday Times, Singapore, page L14:
text: [O]nly about 100 [hawker] stalls got his highest ranking of “die, die must try”.
ref: 2006 August 13, Teo Pau Lin, The Sunday Times, Singapore, page L24:
text: My dad’s reluctance to seek medical care isn’t unique. In fact, only a third of older adults here have a regular family doctor, which leads to delayed diagnoses and missed opportunities to catch serious conditions early.
ref: 2024 October 18, Andre Frois, “Why Elderly Parents ‘Die Die’ Won’t See the Doctor”, in ricemedia.co, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2024:
glosses: No matter what, absolutely, even if one dies trying; emphasizes urgency, necessity or commitment.
die die
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of die-die.
talks cock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of talk cock
talking cock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of talk cock
talked cock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of talk cock
takesies-backsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪksiz ˈbæksiz/
Forms: form: takesies backsies
form: takesie-backsies
form: takesie backsies
Etymology: From take back + -sies.
Senses: examples: text: “If I win, I get to decide who you go out with next. And it can be anybody, you can't dispute or refuse, no takesies backsies.”
“Takesies backsies? What are you, twelve?” I said. “And what about if I win?”
ref: 2017, Sarah Dessen, Once and for All, New York, NY: Viking, →ISBN, page 164:
text: It sounds like dystopian fiction that biotech companies could play takesie-backsies with patients' implants […] but the reality is we've already crossed into that world.
ref: 2023 June 1, Noor Al-Sibai, “Doctors Remove Woman’s Brain Implant Against Her Will”, in Neoscope, archived from the original on 01 Jun 2023:
glosses: Synonym of backsie (“the act of taking back or going back on a statement, promise, or agreement”).
synonyms: word: backsie
extra: the act of taking back or going back on a statement, promise, or agreement
Tonkineses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tonkinese
abortion vaccine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abortion vaccines
Senses: examples: text: These results harmonize with those secured by the writers some years ago in heifers vaccinated by these two different methods in that abortion vaccine is not effective unless administered in relatively large doses, and subcutaneously rather than intravenously.
ref: 1922, Frederick Brown Hadley, An Experimental Study of Infectious Abortion in Swine, page 29:
text: The results of earlier experiments indicated that when abortion vaccine was administered to unbred stock the living abortion germs which it contained did not long remain active within the animal.
ref: 1933, Manley Alexander Raymond Kelley, Corncribs for the Corn Belt, p. 13
text: Ideally sheep should not be vaccinated with a live enzootic abortion vaccine within 4 weeks of toxoplasmosis vaccination, although in practice it is acceptable to administer both products on different sides of the neck at the same time.
ref: 2009, Neil Sargison, Sheep Flock Health: A Planned Approach, page 56:
glosses: A vaccine which prevents certain diseases known to cause spontaneous abortion in livestock.
abortion vaccines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abortion vaccine
hydroxyvalerate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroxyvalerates
Senses: glosses: Any hydroxy derivative of valerate.
polyhydroxyvalerate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyhydroxyvalerates
Senses: glosses: A biodegradable polymer used in bioplastics.
Xinping
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shǐnʹpǐngʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新平 (Xīnpíng).
Senses: glosses: An Yi and Dai autonomous county in Yuxi, Yunnan, China.
school-room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: school-rooms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of schoolroom.
Finbar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Finbars
form: Finbarr
form: Finbarre
form: Finnbar
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish Fionnbharr.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Irish.
Related terms: Barry
hero shrew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hero shrews
Senses: synonyms: armored shrew
glosses: A shrew of species Scutisorex somereni.
Xinqing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shǐnʹchǐngʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新青.
Senses: glosses: A former district of Yichun, Heilongjiang, China.
close one's ears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: closes one's ears
form: closing one's ears
form: closed one's ears
form: closed one's ears
Senses: examples: text: to state the case still more strongly, the nation has a right to such practical wisdom as can be elicited only by the free comparison and discussion of opposing and divergent theories and measures; and the legislators who represent a bare majority have no right to close their ears and minds to the most ample and forceful presentation of the views and arguments of the minority.
ref: 1865, Thomas Hare, The Election of Representatives, Parliamentary and Municipal, page 65:
text: He closed his ears to applauding voices of the multitude, when those voices were to him the melody of time.
ref: 1910 May, Margaret Preston Lynnbrook, “Doctor Bestor's Atonement”, in The New England Magazine, volume 42, number 3, page 312:
text: In her writing, Teresa figuratively associates her deafness with her entering the convent: God closed her ears to human voices, cloistering her hearing ('las claustras de mis orejas') and enclosing her in a community of suffering ('el convento de las dolençias').
ref: 1997, Catherine Davies, Jane Whetnall, Hers Ancient and Modern: Women's Writing in Spain and Brazil, page 13:
text: Then I heard a beautiful melody from heaven that revived my wounded heart with its purity, but I closed my ears and said, 'Oh, my soul, the cry of the abyss is thy lot, do not be greedy for heavenly songs.'
ref: 2009, Kahlil Gibran, Spirits Rebellious, page 13:
glosses: Not to listen.
tricking out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trick out
unwieldedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unwieldedly
form: most unwieldedly
Senses: examples: text: One of their happiest conceits was to improvise, by the aid of an umbrella and a travelling-shawl, a huge elephant, who unwieldedly perambulated up and down the narrow aisles of the cars amid the shouts of the admiring travellers.
ref: 1874 June 25, “The Annual Excursion of the Massachusetts Press Association”, in The Boston Commonwealth, 4 July 1874, page 1, column 4:
text: The unwieldedly Democratic majority has resulted in "bloc" government rather than party government.
ref: 1934 June 23, “Radio Censorship”, in The Scranton Times-Tribune, number 150, page 6, column 3:
text: The co-op would not need to unwieldedly cover three separate projects, and 100 per cent participation could be assured.
ref: 1977 December 6, “Leaders of tenants pushing for co-op”, in The Central New Jersey Home News, page 18, column 2:
text: The unwieldedly-titled Sid Meier's Civilization IV Mobile, Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon Mobile and Sid Meier's Pirates! are all due out in 2008; we're betting they lose Sid's name by the time they make it to space-limited operator portals, mind.
ref: 2007 May 23, Stuart Dredge, “Railroad Tycoon goes mobile”, in Pocket Gamer, archived from the original on 25 Jun 2023:
synonyms: unwieldily
glosses: In an unwieldy manner.
Cobra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Boris Johnson was accused on Saturday of being “missing in action” after failing to attend a Cobra meeting to discuss the national heatwave emergency following predictions that thousands could die in the coming days.
ref: 2022 July 16, Mark Townsend, James Tapper, “Johnson skips emergency Cobra meeting as experts warn thousands may die in UK heatwave”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
text: In the UK, a Cobra security meeting was called and in Estonia, which neighbours Russia, the prime minister, Kaja Kallas, said there was strengthened security on the border.
ref: 2023 June 24, Pjotr Sauer, Andrew Roth, “Putin accuses Wagner chief of treason and vows to ‘neutralise’ uprising”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of COBRA.
glosses: A male given name.
stacker crane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstækə kɹeɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: stacker cranes
Senses: examples: text: There is a variety of designs of stacker crane. In the design from which they probably get their name, the vertical mast hangs from the carriage of an overhead crane. The gantry and carriage of the crane permit two - directional[…]
ref: 2020 September 11, Joseph Talavage, Flexible Manufacturing Systems in Practice: Design: Analysis and Simulation, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 128:
glosses: An overhead rail-guided crane system that employs a load handling mechanism distinct from a hoist
Farker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Farkers
Etymology: From Fark + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The Farkers who submit the stories also provide witty commentary.
ref: 2007, PC Mag (volume 26, numbers 21-22, page 89)
text: Farkers didn't invent the phrase, which dates back to a 1996 student newspaper […]
ref: 2011, Cole Stryker, Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web:
glosses: A user of the community website Fark.
Farkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Farker
ribuck
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ribuck
form: most ribuck
Senses: examples: text: I come from the south and my name is Field, / And when my shears are properly steeled / It's a hundred or more I have very often peeled / And of course I'm a ribuck shearer.
ref: 1986, William Neville Scott, Complete Book of Australian Folk Lore, page 190:
glosses: Alternative form of ryebuck.
rice Christian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rice Christians
Senses: glosses: A person who has formally converted to Christianity for material benefits rather than for religious reasons.
Related terms: rice bag
rice Christians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rice Christian
rice tenrec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rice tenrecs
Senses: glosses: Either of the two species in the Malagasy genus Oryzorictes.
Derived terms: four-toed rice tenrec
mole-like rice tenrec
rice tenrecs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rice tenrec
ridability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rideability.
rietbok
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rietboks
Etymology: From Afrikaans rietbok.
Senses: synonyms: common reedbuck
southern reedbuck
glosses: The antelope Redunca arundinum.
rietboks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rietbok
fisherman buster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fisherman busters
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: A variation of the brainbuster in which the wrestler hooks the opponent's leg to lift them off the ground, and then performs a fisherman's suplex.
fisherman busters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fisherman buster
atts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of att
Artin ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Artin rings
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An Artinian ring.
Artin rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Artin ring
aurox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auroxes
form: auroxen
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of aurochs.
auroxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aurox
steak au poivres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steaks au poivre
Senses: glosses: plural of steak au poivre
autecologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to autecology.
steaks au poivre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steak au poivre
autocinesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of autokinesis.
autointoxicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autointoxicates
form: autointoxicating
form: autointoxicated
form: autointoxicated
Etymology: From auto- + intoxicate.
Senses: glosses: To cause to undergo autointoxication.
autointoxicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of autointoxicate
autointoxicates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of autointoxicate
autointoxicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of autointoxicate
autogeosynclinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to an autogeosyncline.
parageosynclinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a parageosyncline.
miogeosynclines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miogeosyncline
automechanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: automechanisms
Etymology: From auto- + mechanism.
Senses: glosses: An automatic mechanism.
automechanisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of automechanism
autopistol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autopistols
Etymology: From auto- + pistol.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: An automatic pistol.
autopistols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autopistol
subalternities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subalternity
autumn Adonis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autumn Adonises
Senses: glosses: Autumn pheasant's eye (Adonis annua).
auwai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hawaiian ʻauwai.
Senses: glosses: An irrigation ditch.
avant-corps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avant-corps
Etymology: From French avant-corps.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A part of a building, such as a porch or pavilion, that juts out from the corps de logis, often taller than other parts of the building.
avalanche lily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avalanche lilies
Senses: glosses: The flowering plant Erythronium grandiflorum.
glosses: The flowering plant Erythronium montanum.
avalanche lilies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of avalanche lily
semi-major axes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semi-major axis
azurity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From azure + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: All that was really visibly certain was the gleaming azurity of Airsing's eyes—everything else blurred in comparison.
ref: 2010, Taylor J. Beisler, A Krintary Në Clemèntiós: The Clash of Worlds, page 297:
glosses: The quality of being azure in color.
baal-ha-bos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baal-ha-basim
form: baal-ha-batim
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of balebos.
fernily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fernily
form: most fernily
Etymology: Equivalent to ferny + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I was pleased once again to be in a beautiful Eastern deciduous forest, not as fernily voluptuous as an Oregon rain forest, but more diverse in many ways and more likely to host salamanders.
ref: 2012, Murr Brewster, Trousering Your Weasel, page 191:
glosses: In a ferny manner.
baby primrose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby primroses
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fairy primrose.
synonyms: word: fairy primrose
baby primroses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baby primrose
babasco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: They dam the stream with a wattle fencing and then throw the mashed babasco in above this fish weir. The fish frequently jump out of the water, gasping as though they were being strangled, and the Indians secure those distressed fish […]
ref: 1915, Thomas Whiffen, The North-West Amazons:
text: Some of the tribes of the upper Amazon used a poison obtained from the roots of babasco.
ref: 1939, John William Page, From Hunter to Husbandman (page 29)
glosses: Alternative form of barbasco.
baby eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If I had any doubts that all my effort would be worth it, the vibe between Susie and Adam in the week after their dinner makes everything clear: from making baby eyes over breakfast to sneaking quick kisses as they pass each other […]
ref: 2010, Abby McDonald, Boys, Bears, and a Serious Pair of Hiking Boots, page 152:
glosses: Synonym of doe eyes.
synonyms: word: doe eyes
baby broccoli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of broccolini.
synonyms: word: broccolini
backaching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From back + aching.
Senses: examples: text: Then the rest of us had to crawl on hands and knees slowly towards the tree picking up the things. It was dull and backaching.
ref: 1957, Charles Anscomb, Submariner, page 160:
text: Hedging, as I was learning, is not just skilled work but also cold, rugged, muddy, and backaching.
ref: 1993, National Geographic (volume 84? 184? page 110)
glosses: Causing a pain in one's back.
back-and-forthing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The situation where something figuratively oscillates back and forth.
closes one's ears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of close one's ears
backdoor trots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Diarrhea.
closing one's ears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of close one's ears
closed one's ears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of close one's ears
back draft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back drafts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of backdraft.
back draught
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back draughts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of backdraft.
back draughts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back draught
back drafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back draft
Morrisburg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the surname Morris + -burg.
Senses: glosses: A community in South Dundas municipality, eastern Ontario, Canada, named after James Morris.
glosses: A ghost town in Guthrie County, Iowa, United States, named after Jonathan J. Morris.
backs against the wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back against the wall
back talk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of backtalk.
turkey bacons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turkey bacon
bacteriacide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bacteriacides
Etymology: From bacteria + -cide.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bactericide.
bacteriacides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bacteriacide
bacteriacidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bacteriacidal
form: most bacteriacidal
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bactericidal.
badchan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: badchans
form: badchanim
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of badchen.
badchanim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of badchan
badchans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of badchan
badhans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of badhan
South Dundas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, eastern Ontario, Canada.
Related terms: North Dundas
badchen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: badchens
form: badchan
form: badhan
form: badkhan
form: badkhen
form: badkhn
form: badkhon
Senses: glosses: A kind of Ashkenazic professional wedding entertainer, poet, and master of ceremonies originating in Eastern Europe.
badchens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of badchen
badkhan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: badkhans
form: badkhanim
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of badchen.
badkhen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: badkhens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of badchen.
badkhn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: badkhns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of badchen.
badkhns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of badkhn
badkhanim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of badkhan
badkhans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of badkhan
badkhens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of badkhen
badkhon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: badkhons
form: badkhonim
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of badchen.
badkhonim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of badkhon
badkhons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of badkhon
globulol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An organic compound found in eucalyptus oil.
baffle painting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Paintwork used as camouflage.
bag lunch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bag lunches
Senses: synonyms: word: bag nasty
topics: military
war
government
politics
glosses: A packed lunch supplied in a bag.
bag lunches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bag lunch
bagtikans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bagtikan
eticness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From etic + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: However, there are differences in etic descriptions reflecting degrees of eticness, as it were.
ref: 1963, John Chapman Crawford, “Totontepec Mixe Phonotagmemics”, in Linguistic series, Summer Institute of Linguistics, volume 8, number 8, University of Oklahoma, →ISSN, page 17:
text: This is true even when the inquiry deals with phenomena that have been initially emically defined (though the degree of emicness or eticness will have to be qualified).
ref: 1990, Jean-Jacques Nattiez, Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music (Princeton Paperbacks), Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 62:
text: Linguistically this is achieved through many instances of directly involving the readers via the easily digestible form of a personal narrative (elliptical and coordinate structures, emphatic and emotive lexical items, eticness of text, rhetorical questions and frequent switch between declarative, interrogative and imperative structures.
ref: 1997, Juliane House, Translation Quality Assessment: A Model Revisited (Tübinger Beiträge zur Linguistik), Gunter Narr Verlag, →ISBN, page 135:
synonyms: eticity
glosses: The state or degree of being etic.
Coordinate terms: emicness
emicness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From emic + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Then there is the factor of frequency — not the sole factor for arriving at load determinations, but one factor nevertheless. Immense for French 'word'-final stress, it is fairly low for English /h/ or /ŋ/ yet high for either of those units in comparison with the frequency of /ž/. Again, emicness is not the decisive issue.
ref: 1970, R.S. Meyerstein, edited by C.H. Van Schooneveld, Functional Load: Descriptive Limitations, Alternatives of Assessment, and Extensions of Application (Janua Linguarum (Series Minor)), volume 99, Mouton, page 52:
text: Quine (in Shahan and Merrill 1977¹⁸¹, and see III, above) in dealing with 'observation sentences' (e.g. in pointing at things) is touching implicitly on the emicness of insider viewpoints, when he says that 'The main thing to settle, in the way of fixing objects, is their individuation: we have to fix standards of sameness and difference.' For tagmemics, emic sameness is relative to the insider viewpoint.
ref: 1985, Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States, edited by Robert A. Hall Jr, The Eleventh LACUS Forum, 1984 (1975-78: Congress series), Hornbeam Press, page 43:
text: This is true even when the inquiry deals with phenomena that have been initially emically defined (though the degree of emicness or eticness will have to be qualified).
ref: 1990, Jean-Jacques Nattiez, Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music (Princeton Paperbacks), Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 62:
synonyms: emicity
glosses: The state or degree of being emic.
Coordinate terms: eticness
emicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of emicness.
synonyms: word: emicness
eticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of eticness.
synonyms: word: eticness
baked-apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baked-apples
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bakeapple (“the cloudberry”).
liquefiability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being liquefiable.
half-bakedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From half-baked + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being half-baked.
love pocket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: love pockets
Senses: examples: text: Lynn squeezed her buttocks as she wiggled and gyrated, absorbing Chris's warm tongue in her love pocket.
ref: 2015, Cindy Love, Unofficial School Business:
glosses: The vagina.
love pockets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of love pocket
bajonado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of jolthead porgy.
synonyms: word: jolthead porgy
jolthead porgy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jolthead porgies
Senses: synonyms: bajonado
glosses: The fish Calamus bajonado.
jolthead porgies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jolthead porgy
baking chocolate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baking chocolates
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of baker's chocolate.
baking chocolates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baking chocolate
ped day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ped days
Etymology: Short for pedagogical day.
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Synonym of INSET day.
synonyms: word: INSET day
ped days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ped day
claspless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From clasp + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a clasp.
Berthier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
glosses: Former name of Berthierville, Quebec, Canada, renamed in 1942.
ballhoot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ballhoots
form: ballhooting
form: ballhooted
form: ballhooted
Senses: glosses: To roll logs down a slope as part of a logging operation.
ballhooter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballhooters
Senses: glosses: One who ballhoots.
ballhooted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ballhoot
ballhoots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ballhoot
ballhooting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ballhoot
ballhooters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballhooter
muskadine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muskadines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of muscadine.
muskadines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muskadine
ball-peen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ball-peens
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of ball-peen hammer.
ball-peens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ball-peen
complextro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kɒmˈplɛk.stɹəʊ/
Etymology: Blend of complex + electro [2010], coined by American DJ Porter Robinson.
Senses: glosses: A subgenre of electro house electronic dance music with intricate glitchy basslines and chiptune effects.
wikipedia: Porter Robinson
ballroom dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballroom dances
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ballroom dancing.
synonyms: word: ballroom dancing
glosses: Any of the dance styles in ballroom dancing.
ballroom dances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballroom dance
compliance companies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compliance company
at pace
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: at speed
balsam poplar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balsam poplars
Senses: glosses: The tree Populus balsamifera.
balsam poplars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balsam poplar
balsam willow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balsam willows
Senses: glosses: The flowering shrub Salix pyrifolia.
balsam willows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balsam willow
bamboo vine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bamboo vines
Senses: glosses: Vines of the eastern United States of genus Smilax:
Saw greenbrier (Smilax bona-nox).
glosses: Vines of the eastern United States of genus Smilax:
Laurel-leaf greenbrier, blaspheme vine (Smilax laurifolia).
glosses: Vines of the eastern United States of genus Smilax:
China smilax, false chinaroot (Smilax pseudochina).
bamboo vines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bamboo vine
banana freckle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A disease of bananas, characterized by yellowing of the tissue and formation of small dark brown spots on the leaves and fruit, caused by the fungus Guignardia musae (teleomorph) or Phyllosticta musarum (anamorph).
banana melon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banana melons
Senses: glosses: An heirloom melon in the genus Cucumis, having an elongated, pointed shape, yellow rind, salmon-colored flesh, and strong banana-like scent.
banana melons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banana melon
bankmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bankman
bankskuta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bankskutas
Senses: glosses: A large yawl-rigged Swedish fishing vessel with scoop-shaped bow and concave floor.
bankskutas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bankskuta
bankrupt worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bankrupt worms
Etymology: So called from the risk of bankruptcy to cattlemen whose herds become infected.
Senses: glosses: A parasitic roundworm of the genus Trichostrongylus.
bankrupt worms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bankrupt worm
baranduki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Burunduki.
baralime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of baralyme.
bansalaguin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bansalague.
dotted decimals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dotted decimal
barajillo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The plant Desmodium nicaraguense.
barbuled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From barbule + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a barbule or barbules.
barbulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barbulations
Senses: glosses: An arrangement of barbules.
barbulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barbulation
Barffs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Barff
Barffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Barff
Barffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Barff
Bower-Barff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Bower-Barffs
form: Bower-Barffing
form: Bower-Barffed
form: Bower-Barffed
Senses: examples: text: It will no doubt be obvious that the cost of oxidizing by the Bower or Barff process — or, to use a more abbreviated expression, Bower-Barffing — varies considerably; for example, one thousand small articles may be treated at the same time, and in the same cubical space, that might be occupied by a single large article; […]
ref: 1883, Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers:
synonyms: Barff
glosses: To subject (metal) to the Bower-Barff process for reducing corrosion.
Bower-Barffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Bower-Barff
Bower-Barffs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Bower-Barff
Bower-Barffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Bower-Barff
black trumpet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black trumpets
Senses: glosses: Synonym of horn of plenty (“a type of mushroom”).
synonyms: word: horn of plenty
extra: a type of mushroom
black trumpets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black trumpet
especiality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being especial.
sweetliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: superlative form of sweetly: most sweetly
DXs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of DX
DXed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of DX
barnyard golf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The game of horseshoes.
barnyard grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of barnyardgrass.
barn red
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barn reds
Senses: glosses: A reddish-brown color like that with which barns are traditionally painted.
barn reds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barn red
baronduki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Burunduki.
barracks bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barracks bags
Senses: glosses: A soldier's duffel bag, or similar type of bag, used to carry belongings and equipment.
barracks bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barracks bag
barrier cream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barrier creams
Senses: synonyms: diaper cream
nappy cream
glosses: A topical formulation used on a person's skin as a physical barrier between the skin and contaminants.
barrier creams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barrier cream
barunduki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Burunduki.
Barukhzy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The Afghan Hound.
Mogum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mogoum
Senses: glosses: An Afroasiatic language spoken in south central Chad.
Mogoum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mogum.
baseball hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baseball hats
Senses: glosses: Synonym of baseball cap.
synonyms: word: baseball cap
baseball hats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baseball hat
Gumuz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gumaz
Senses: glosses: An ethnic group inhabiting parts of western Ethiopia and Sudan.
Derived terms: Benishangul-Gumuz