cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bungling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bunglings
Etymology: From the verb bungle.
Senses: examples: text: Your bungling nearly cost us our jobs.
glosses: An act of incompetence or ineptitude.
bungling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From the verb bungle.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bungle
manfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more manfully
form: most manfully
Etymology: From Middle English manfully; equivalent to manful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] Apollyon wounded him in his head, his hand and foot; this made Chriſtian give a little back: Apollyon therefore followed his work amain, and Chriſtian again took courage, and reſiſted as manfully as he could.
ref: 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC, page 72:
text: She manfully struggled on, however - womanfully would perhaps be a stronger and more appropriate word. She had to calculate not only how to play her own hand correctly, but she had to calculate on her partner's probable errors.
ref: 1859, Anthony Trollope, The Bertrams, page 264:
text: One (ant) struggled manfully by with a dead spider five times as big as itself in its arms.
ref: 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC:
text: "Whilst he was sawing the beam, however, a fire broke out among the debris around him, and though he persevered most manfully, and continued until he was himself badly scorched, it was impossible for him to save Beale, who probably died from suffocation."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
text: YOUR SON WAS SERIOUSLY WOUNDED WHEN SHOT DOWN IN HANOI BUT HAS MADE FINE RECOVERY AND NOW, ACCORDING THIS GROUP, LOOKS "QUITE WELL." HE HAS BEEN EVERYTHING YOU WANT YOUR SON TO BE AND HAS STOOD UP MANFULLY AGAINST ALL EFFORTS TO PERSUADE HIM TO UTTER TRAITOROUS STATEMENTS.
ref: 1999, John McCain, Faith of My Fathers, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 285:
glosses: In a manful manner; with the characteristics considered typical of a man, such as strength, courage, and determination.
manful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: manfuller
form: manfullest
Etymology: From Middle English manful, manfull, equivalent to man + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: If Cousin wasn’t trying so hard to be manful, he’d be crying.
ref: 1988, Bapsi Sidhwa, Ice-Candy Man, Daunt Books (2016), page 245:
glosses: Showing the characteristics considered typical of a man; macho or manly.
glosses: Courageous; noble; high-minded.
Derived terms: manfully
manfulness
unmanful
Related terms: mainful
beechnut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːt͡ʃˌnʌt/
Forms: form: beechnuts
form: beech nut
Etymology: From beech + nut.
Senses: glosses: The small, triangular, edible nut of the beech tree.
Synonyms: beech mast
bentwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛntwʊd/
Forms: form: bentwoods
Etymology: From bent + wood.
Senses: examples: text: About this time [Michael] Thonet received his first major public commission from the famous Cafe Daum in Vienna. From this point on, the bentwood chair would be known by many as the Cafe Chair[…]. The back is made of four layers of twisted mahogany laminates, while the front legs appear to be bent from solid stock with turned capitals, which act as shoulders for the tenon of the leg into the seat. The seat frames are made of five layers of mahogany, as they were in the Schwarzenburg chairs. Because of its lightness, durability and accommodating design, the bentwood chair was perfectly suited for public places.
ref: 1985, “Michael Thonet”, in Fine Woodworking on Bending Wood: 35 Articles Selected by the Editors of Fine Woodworking Magazine, Newtown, Ct.: Taunton Press, →ISBN, page 56:
text: Bentwood furniture is made by bending and nailing long, straight, fresh branches or suckers of trees around a frame. Unlike most stick work, bentwood furniture is carefully planned before it is made.
ref: 1992, Daniel Mack, “Contemporary Styles of Rustic Furniture”, in Making Rustic Furniture, New York, N.Y.: Lark Books, →ISBN, page 42:
topics: arts
business
carpentry
construction
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
woodworking
glosses: Lengths of wood that have been made pliable by heating with steam and then bent into the appropriate shape (to make furniture, ships' hulls, etc.).
examples: text: The two basic types of fishhooks are almost equally represented within the site, with composite fishhooks exhibiting only a slightly higher relative frequency than that of bentwoods.
ref: 1980, Dale R. Croes, Eric Blinman, editors, Hoko River: A 2500 Year Old Fishing Camp on the Northwest Coast of North America (Reports of Investigations (Washington State University. Laboratory of Anthropology); 58), Pullman, Wash.: Laboratory of Anthropology, Washington State University, →OCLC, page 141:
text: She started walking over to the trestle table and, about ten years later, sat down on one of the thirty-three bentwoods.
ref: 1985, “‘Do I Love You? How Do You Mean?’”, in The New Yorker, volume 61, number 6, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, page 45:
text: Catherine Holt of Cobweb (a store known for great antiques at tiny prices) has assembled a kind of United Nations of kitchen and dining room chairs. She has turn-of-the-century cafe bentwoods from Spain, Austria, and Czechoslovakia; vintage teak sidechairs from Java; provincial rush-seated chairs from France; and painted bentwoods from Buenos Aires, along with contemporary lattice-backs from Morocco and chairs with stamped seats from Egypt.
ref: 1997 March 31, Corky Pollan, “Best bets: The best of all possible things to buy, see, and do in the best of all possible cities”, in New York, volume 30, number 12, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, LLC, →ISSN, page 56:
glosses: An object, especially a piece of furniture, made from bentwood.
bibliographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bibliographers
Etymology: From bibliography + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who compiles bibliographies, or who studies bibliography.
Synonyms: bibliographist
Derived terms: biobibliographer
bibliographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bibliography
bibliographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bibliographick
Etymology: From bibliography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to bibliography.
Derived terms: bibliographic coupling
bibliographic database
nonbibliographic
Related terms: bibliogram
bibliometrics
bibliographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I enquired for the rooms of the librarian. Nobody seemed to be quite sure of his name, or upon whom the bibliographical mantle had descended.
ref: 1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 38:
glosses: bibliographic
Derived terms: bibliographically
bibliographical note
biobibliographical
bibliographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bibliographical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Concerning bibliography.
chanteur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɒnˈtɜː/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Forms: form: chanteurs
Etymology: Borrowed from French chanteur (“male singer”).
Senses: examples: text: Pyramid Records, he says, has just relesased ^([sic]) D.C. Larue's The Tea Dance. Larue is gay-dom's latest chanteur with no hints about it.
ref: 1976 December 18, David Holland, “Dear Santa...”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 25, page 16:
coordinate_terms: chanteuse
glosses: A male singer; often specifically a popular or cabaret singer.
work to rule
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: works to rule
form: working to rule
form: worked to rule
form: worked to rule
form: work to rules
form: work-to-rule
Senses: glosses: To work slowly by strictly following all work rules, usually in a work-to-rule job action, as part of unionized labor protest.
work to rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: work to rules
form: work to rules
form: work-to-rule
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of work-to-rule.
work-to-rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: work-to-rules
form: work to rule
Etymology: Deverbal from work to rule.
Senses: glosses: A labor protest in which employees do only the minimum work required by the rules of a workplace, following safety or other regulations to the letter in order to cause a slowdown.
work-to-rule
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: work to rule
Etymology: Deverbal from work to rule.
Senses: examples: text: Disgruntled by chronic staff shortages, doctors threatened a “work-to-rule” action at the East London Hospital Complex by the end of this week.
ref: 2008 June 11, “EL doctors threaten ‘work to rule’ action”, in Dispatch Online, South Africa, retrieved 26 Jun 2008:
glosses: Of or pertaining to such a protest.
clàrsach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clàrsachs
Senses: examples: text: Thrice, with the same result, his hand / Upon the chords he laid— / He turned the keys, but harsher sound / The trembling clàrsach made: / In honor of the mother, then, / A planxty he composed, / And perfect was the harmony / Until the strain was closed.
ref: 1854, William H[owe] C[uyler] Hosmer, “Carolan’s Prophecy”, in The Poetical Works of William H. C. Hosmer, volumes II ([…]), New York, N.Y.: Redfield, […], page 338:
text: In the sea-loch now known as that of Tarbert of Loch Fyne, but in the old far-off days named the Haven of the Foray, there was once a grianân, a sunbower, of so great a loveliness, that throughout all lands of the Gael the strings of the singing men’s clàrsachs ceaselessly stirred to it, as at a breath of the beauty of all beauty.
ref: 1899, Fiona Macleod [pseudonym; William Sharp], “Ulad of the Dreams”, in The Dominion of Dreams, 5th edition, Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co. […], section III, chapter section I, page 275:
text: Repairs of the highest quality are still very much part of their business but to this they have now added the sale of musical instruments including their own clàrsachs, for which the orders are pouring in from the U.S.A. and many places in Europe.
ref: 1972, The Strad, page 281:
text: My harp, my clàrsach, my fiddle, my stringed instruments wherever I go: when I was young, a little girl, your coming would cheer my spirits, you’d get a kiss without having to ask, and I feel now you have a right to one.
ref: 2020, Dorothy Brown, “From ‘A Song to Alasdair Mac Colla’”, in Peter MacKay, Jo MacDonald, editors, 100 Dàn as Fheàrr Leinn / 100 Favourite Gaelic Poems, Luath Press, published 2023, →ISBN:
text: A minstrel was ushered in with his clàrsach by one of the servers and given a chair. The man sat down and started to pluck the strings to the melodious sounds of “Sir Patrick Spens.”
ref: 2022, Roma Cordon, Bewitching a Highlander, CamCat Publishing, LLC, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of clarsach.
beechnuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beechnut
outsides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪdz
Senses: glosses: plural of outside
outshined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outshine
a stitch in time saves nine
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: From the practice of mending a small tear in cloth when first noticed ("in time"), before it becomes a larger one requiring more stitches.
Senses: glosses: A little effort expended sooner to fix a small problem prevents it from becoming a larger problem requiring more effort to fix later.
Related terms: never put off until tomorrow what you can do today
there's no time like the present
prevention is better than cure
an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
misfires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misfire
misfires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misfire
misfiring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪəɹɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misfire
misfiring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: misfirings
Senses: examples: text: He has written a book that not only contributes to our understanding of the elusive magic of music but also illuminates the strange workings, and misfirings, of the human mind.
ref: 2007 November 20, Michiko Kakutani, “Power to Soothe the Savage Breast and Animate the Hemispheres”, in New York Times:
glosses: The situation where something misfires.
misfired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misfire
barium arsenate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The barium salt of arsenic acid, Ba₃(AsO₄)₂, formed as a precipitate when removing arsenic from water supplies.
French inhale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: French inhales
Senses: glosses: The act of expelling cigarette smoke from the mouth and simultaneously inhaling it through the nose.
Synonyms: Irish waterfall
French inhale
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: French inhales
form: French inhaling
form: French inhaled
form: French inhaled
Senses: glosses: To exhale smoke from a cigarette, or any oral smoking device, through the mouth while simultaneously inhaling it through the nose.
French inhales
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of French inhale
French inhaling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of French inhale
French inhaled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of French inhale
pianofortes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pianoforte
rabbitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rabbiting
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rabbit
rabbitted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rabbited
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rabbit
saddleback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saddlebacks
Etymology: From saddle + back.
Senses: glosses: A saddle-shaped ridge forming a shallow pass between two peaks.
glosses: A roof in the same shape, having a gable at each end.
topics: architecture
glosses: A coping that is thicker in the middle than at the edges.
glosses: Any of various creatures having a saddle-shaped marking on the back.
glosses: A breed of pig which is black with a pink saddle-shaped marking.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An anticline.
glosses: A great black-backed gull.
examples: text: The young bird had the plumage of the saddleback, not the even chestnut of the jackbird, although its plumage was rather duller than that of the adult.
ref: 1959, Robert Adams Wilson, Bird Islands of New Zealand, page 67:
glosses: A passerine bird of the genus Philesturnus.
glosses: A variety of domestic goose.
glosses: A raccoon oyster.
glosses: A harp seal.
glosses: A larva of the bombycid moth.
Derived terms: saddleback caterpillar
saddleback clownfish
saddleback crow
saddleback gull
saddleback gunnel
saddlebackite
saddleback jackal
saddleback pig
saddleback seal
saddleback shrew
saddleback tamarin
saddleback toad
Wessex Saddleback
saddleback
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From saddle + back.
Senses: glosses: saddle-backed
saddleback
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From saddle + back.
Senses: glosses: saddle-backed
saddleback
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: saddlebacks
form: saddlebacking
form: saddlebacked
form: saddlebacked
Etymology: From Saddleback Church of Lake Forest, California. Coined in a contest held by columnist Dan Savage, in response to its support for California Proposition 8.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:saddleback.
glosses: To engage in anal sex with the intention of preserving one's virginity. (chiefly by Christian teenagers)
Hypernyms: poophole loophole
buttfuck
take it up the ass
take it up the arse
Kemetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Kemet + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to ancient Egypt's religion, culture, or language, whether Ancient Egyptian or the modern Coptic language and its dialects.
Related terms: Kemetism
hammer-ons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hammer-on
megapenny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛ.ɡəˌpɛ.ni/
rhymes: -ɛni
Forms: form: megapennies
Etymology: From mega- + penny.
Senses: examples: text: Or megapenny ($10,000) and nanoacre (for measuring chip sizes).
ref: 1997, Gene Wirchenko, Re: New IEC proposal: 1 kibibyte = 1024 bytes, alt.folklore.computers (January 10, 1997)
text: If I could, there would probably be dozens of large software corporations banging on my door, offering 20 megapennies a year, company cars, ...
ref: 2005, 'holatuwol', Forum post, forums.kingdomofloathing.com (February 19, 2005)
text: In addition, [the computer] should not cost more than one “Megapenny” ($10,000 at the time).
ref: 2020, Philippe Darche, Microprocessor 1:
glosses: A million cents. ($10,000)
examples: text: A megapenny for your thoughts, please.
ref: 1992, 'Stinger51', IE vs. NS (philosophy question), phpbuilder.com (October 11, 2002)
text: Not a penny, but megapennies!!! ....
ref: 1998, Greg Bennett and David C. Cox, Top Ten Harris Lies, "Harrisment" (February 1998)
text: ... without resorting to shelling out megapennies.
ref: 2004, 'holatuwol', Re: What is causing this phenomena?, "MoonRomance" (June 10, 2004)
text: And any billionaire who's worried about losing that megapenny really ought to take up a hobby, like maybe horse riding.
ref: 2005, Phil Hampton, re: Billionaire’s Money Question, Dilbert Blog (December 20, 2005)
text: No. 7: .... Settle out of court for many, many megapennies.
ref: 2006, mbhunter, Ten unconventional uses for the penny, Mighty Bargain Hunter (August 20, 2006)
glosses: An indefinite amount of money, implied to be large.
marine biology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The branch of biology dealing with organisms that live in the sea.
bethroth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of betroth.
pimpmobile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pimpmobiles
Etymology: Originated 1970–75 as an Americanism; pimp + -mobile.
Senses: examples: text: “Enough of this crap! I'm catching the next pimpmobile out of here, but before I go, I have one thing to say. Bite my shiny... Metal... ” “Stop! You can't say the next word.” “Up yours, chump. I said it 906 times before lunch.” “Bend, if you say the "A" word you'll blow this whole planet straight to the "H" word.”
ref: 2000 November 26, Eric Horsted, “War Is the H-Word” (19:09 from the start), in Futurama, season 2, episode 17, spoken by Bender (John DiMaggio):
glosses: An extravagantly large or ornate automobile, presumably suitable for a pimp.
pimpmobiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pimpmobile
nut ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nut balls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nutball.
saddle-backed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a saddle-backed fever, with two peaks where symptoms are most pronounced
glosses: Shaped or curved like a saddle.
glosses: Having a saddle-shaped marking; saddleback.
saddle-backed
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: with a saddle, rather than bare-backed
raw_tags: of riding a horse
bare-backed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bareback
form: barebacked
Senses: glosses: Without a saddle
examples: text: Before I could answer, a ravishing creature in one of those long, bare-backed gowns which I’d gathered from advertisements were the modern woman’s evening dress, strolled past our table.
ref: 1949, Monica Baldwin, chapter 10, in I Leap over the Wall: A Return to the World after Twenty-Eight Years in a Convent, London: Hamish Hamilton, section 2, page 244:
text: At the edge of the woods stood an Indian in worn buckskins and heavy furs; with him were what looked like two white men bundled up against the cold, and all three were staring at a bearded, bare-backed man who was tied to a small maple tree, the skin on his back already branded with sticky red welts.
ref: 1982, June Lund Shiplett, chapter 18, in Thunder in the Wind (Tides of Passion), New York, N.Y.: Signet, New American Library, published January 1983, →ISBN, page 340:
text: There, among the punk sophisticates and bow-ties and shiny shoes and bare-backed women, was Mum, wearing a blue and white dress, blue hat and brown sandals.
ref: 1990, Hanif Kureishi, chapter 15, in The Buddha of Suburbia, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 228:
glosses: With a bare back
Derived terms: bare-backedness
bare-backed
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: bareback
form: barebacked
Senses: glosses: Without a saddle
avatarhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From avatar + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state of being an avatar.
Bartlett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑː(ɹ)tlət/
Etymology: The pear was named by Enoch Bartlett of Dorchester, Massachusetts, after himself.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name from a pet form of Bartholomew.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village mostly in Cook County and DuPage County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Fremont County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Labette County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Shannon County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village, the county seat of Wheeler County, Nebraska.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town and census-designated place therein, in Carroll County, New Hampshire.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Wesley Township, Washington County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Shelby County, Tennessee.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Bell County and Williamson County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Isle of Wight County, Virginia.
Derived terms: Bartlett daisy
Bartlett
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑː(ɹ)tlət/
Forms: form: Bartletts
Etymology: The pear was named by Enoch Bartlett of Dorchester, Massachusetts, after himself.
Senses: examples: text: The first bite into those Bartletts was intoxicating. The juice met your teeth with a gush.
ref: 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 15, in Klee Wyck:
glosses: A kind of English pear.
stick one's oar in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sticks one's oar in
form: sticking one's oar in
form: stuck one's oar in
form: stuck one's oar in
Senses: examples: text: I don't want her coming and sticking her oar in – she doesn't know anything about our financials.
text: He feels he must be [there] today. Not to stick his oar in, you understand, but to offer moral support.
ref: 2005 August 24, Daily Mail:
glosses: To meddle; to stick one's nose into (something)
Synonyms: interfere
meddle
poke one's nose in
put in an oar
put in one's oar
put one's oar in
sporter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
Forms: form: sporters
Etymology: From sport + -er.
Senses: examples: text: But today, the mustache cannot shake its ties to the sexy-yet-buffoonish machismo of the mid-1970s, epitomized by Burt Reynolds, Sam Elliott and the Village People, 'stache sporters all.
ref: 2009 January 8, David Colman, “Inching Its Way Back Onto the Lip”, in New York Times:
glosses: Someone who sports something.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A firearm suitable for sporting use.
examples: text: Charles Lack-wit will have it given out, he is retired into the country, only for the reputation of being thought a man of fashion, when all the while his retirement is to be incessantly hurried with the violence of a madman after a pack of yelping hounds; or brutally murdering whole months of delicious time in noisy laughter, wine, and ribaldry, with Sir Jolly Timberscull, 'Squire Humdrum, and the rest of the club of gentlemen sporters.
ref: 1780, The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer:
glosses: One who takes part in sport or games.
examples: text: We have, however, good reason to suspect the Legislature will soon adopt means of rewarding the ingenuity of these indirect sporters with human life.
ref: 1823, The Monthly Gazette of Health, page 557:
glosses: One who sports or plays with something; a trifler.
fontanelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fontanelle
condenser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛnsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: condensers
Etymology: From condense + -er.
Senses: qualifier: process engineering
glosses: A device designed to condense a gas into a liquid, either as part of a still, steam engine, refrigerator or similar machine.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A capacitor.
raw_tags: in compound terms
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A lens (or combination of lenses) designed to gather light and focus it onto a specimen or part of a mechanism.
glosses: A dental instrument used to pack filling into a cavity in a tooth.
Derived terms: Abbe condenser
condenser mic
condenser microphone
Liebig condenser
reflux condenser
siphon condenser
spray condenser
steam condenser
straight condenser
ultracondenser
Related terms: sense: device to achieve phase change
word: degasifier
sense: device to achieve phase change
word: liquefier
eupsychian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eupsychian
form: most eupsychian
Etymology: Coined by Abraham Maslow, American psychologist, from eu- + psyche + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Having or moving toward a superior mind or soul
wikipedia: Abraham Maslow
bedlamite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedlamites
Etymology: From bedlam + -ite, in reference to the Hospital of Saint Mary of Bethlehem, a former London institution for the insane.
Senses: examples: text: [S]he cursed him with the bitterest imprecations, and raved like a Bedlamite at the door, which she attempted to burst open.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: Upon coming to the edge of the outer surf, the man at the stern of our boat, steering with a long oar, began to stamp his feet and roar like a bedlamite […] .
ref: 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 91
text: Bradly stood listening to the old woman's squalling, resenting its note of febrile violence; its bedlamite insolence of old age.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 195:
glosses: A lunatic.
womb envy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The alleged unconscious desire of a man to possess a womb.
Related terms: penis envy
vagina envy
vagina envy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The theoretic counterpart to penis envy; the alleged unconscious desire of a man to possess a vagina.
Related terms: penis envy
womb envy
feverfew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feverfews
Etymology: From Middle English feverfu, feverfeu, feverfugie, modified by folk etymology from either Old French fevrefue or Old English feferfuge, both from Latin febrifugia, from febris (“fever”) + fugō (“I drive away”). Doublet of febrifuge.
Senses: glosses: A European aromatic perennial herb, Tanacetum parthenium (or Chrysanthemum parthenium or Pyrethrum parthenium), having daisy-like flowers; valued as a traditional medicine, especially for headaches.
Synonyms: bachelor's buttons
grow cold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grows cold
form: growing cold
form: grew cold
form: grown cold
Senses: examples: text: Men grow cold as girls grow old / And we all lose our charms in the end.
ref: 1949, Jule Styne, Leo Robin, “Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend”:
glosses: To wane; to lose interest or enthusiasm for something or someone; to become disenchanted or to fall out of love with someone.
bidirectionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˌbaɪdɪˈɹɛkʃənəli/
Etymology: From bidirectional + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The whole of the South Shields branch passed to the Tyne & Wear Metro in 1984 under the Tyneside Metropolitan Rail Act 1973, apart from a short section that was divided into two bi-directionally signalled lines (although interconnected by a series of loops that allow Metro trains to pass each other).
ref: 2023 November 29, Richard Foster, “Tyne & Wear Metro goes with the flow”, in RAIL, number 997, page 32:
glosses: In opposite directions.
delusion of grandeur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delusions of grandeur
Senses: glosses: The false belief that one is important or powerful, accompanying certain mental disorders.
examples: text: [A]s Han Solo, always the voice of reason in the series, says, “I'm out of it for a little while, and everyone gets delusions of grandeur.”
ref: 2004, Tom Shone, Blockbuster: How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Summer, page 285:
glosses: Conceitedness or overconfidence.
Synonyms: megalomania
bifocal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + focal.
Senses: examples: text: His hair is black and well greased, with individual strands of gray, and he wears wire-rimmed bifocals with a subtle brownish tint.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 183:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having two focal lengths.
glosses: Divided into two parts, one of which corrects for distance vision and the other for near vision.
raw_tags: of a correcting lens
Derived terms: bifocality
Related terms: bifocals
trifocal
biggish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more biggish
form: most biggish
Etymology: From big + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat big.
Derived terms: biggishness
biographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more biographic
form: most biographic
Senses: glosses: biographical
Derived terms: autobiographic
osteobiographic
psychobiographic
biographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From biographical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In the form of a biography.
birdbath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birdbaths
form: bird bath
Etymology: From bird + bath.
Senses: glosses: A shallow basin, sometimes ornamental, filled with water for wild birds to drink from or in which to bathe.
glosses: Random, inconsequential amounts of residual water on a roof membrane.
examples: text: Hardly an hour had gone by, barely time to drink a cold sarsaparilla and take a birdbath in a bowl of water, but Kincaid had gotten into more trouble, Angie reflected.
ref: 1987, Joyce Brandon, The Lady and the Lawman, →ISBN:
text: “And if a person happens not to be on the block at shower time?” Ty pinched the bridge of his nose.“It’s birdbath time,” Ralph pointed at the sink before remembering Ty was blind.
ref: 2019, Ricky Douglas, Room Without a View, →ISBN:
text: There was nowhere for us to wash and to prepare ourselves for work and school, so I decided to drive to a nearby gas station. We took a quick birdbath, washed our faces, and brushed our teeth.
ref: 2020, Natasha Cato, The Pain from Her Womb, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: bitch bath
word: whore's bath
glosses: A light or superficial wash of the body, using a sink or similar.
iritis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iritides
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An inflammation of the iris.
Related terms: iritic
uveitis
bird bath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bird baths
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of birdbath.
biyearly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + yearly.
Senses: glosses: Occurring every two years; biennial.
examples: text: At the end of the month when Ayah conducts her biyearly search for nits on our heads, she discovers we have each sprung one white hair!
ref: 1988, Bapsi Sidhwa, Ice-Candy Man, Daunt Books (2016), page 185:
glosses: Occurring twice per year; biannual.
biyearly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bi- + yearly.
Senses: glosses: Every two years; biennially
glosses: Twice per year; biannually
bloodcurdling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bloodcurdling
form: most bloodcurdling
form: blood-curdling
Senses: examples: text: Out of nowhere, in the middle of the night, came a bloodcurdling scream.
text: Yet the old-time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as “historical” in the children’s library; for the time has come for a series of newer “wonder tales” in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and bloodcurdling incident devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale.
ref: 1900 April, L[yman] Frank Baum, “Introduction”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., published 17 May 1900, →OCLC:
synonyms: blood-chilling
glosses: Causing great horror or terror.
Derived terms: bloodcurdlingly
abscisic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæbˈsɪz.ɪk ˈæ.sɪd/
ipa: /ˌæbˈsɪs.ɪk ˈæ.sɪd/
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: dormin
glosses: A terpenoid best known as a plant hormone that inhibits seed germination and was once thought to be important in abscission.
plant hormone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plant hormones
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of many substances, produced by plants, that control or regulate their germination, growth, metabolism etc.
Synonyms: phytohormone
Muggles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Muggle
celestite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: celestites
Etymology: From Latin caelestis (“celestial, heavenly”), because of the usual blue shade, + -ite.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of celestine.
acanthite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkæn.θaɪt/
ipa: /əˈkæn.θaɪt/
ipa: /ˈæk.ənˌθaɪt/
rhymes: -ænθaɪt
Etymology: Named in 1855, from Ancient Greek ἄκανθα (ákantha, “thorn”) + -ite, because of the crystal shapes.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral form of silver sulfide, Ag₂S, that is a major ore of silver, that forms slender prisms.
far and away
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Their coffee is far and away the best in town.
glosses: By a large degree or margin; greatly (used before comparative and superlative adjectives).
Synonyms: by far § Synonyms
Related terms: faraway
for shame
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Using that kind of language in mixed company, Mike? For shame!
glosses: You should be ashamed of yourself!
Synonyms: shame on you
flatworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flatworms
Etymology: From flat + worm, a calque of translingual Platyhelminthes.
Senses: synonyms: platyhelminth
glosses: Any of very many parasitic or free-living worms, of the phylum Platyhelminthes, having a flattened body with no skeleton or body cavity.
orpine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːp(ʌ)ɪn/
Forms: form: orpines
form: orpin
Etymology: From Old French orpin, Old French orpiment, from Latin auripigmentum (“orpiment”), from aurum (“gold”) + pigmentum (“pigment”).
Senses: examples: text: Common Orpine rises up with diverse round, brittle stalks, thick set with fat and fleshy leaves without any order, and little or nothing dented about the edges; of a pale green colour.
ref: 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 207:
text: A plant of orpine was often set by a young girl on her window sill on Midsummer Eve.
ref: 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 268:
glosses: Any of several temperate succulent plants of the family Crassulaceae, that have clusters of purple flowers, especially Hylotelephium telephium.
glosses: A yellow pigment of various degrees of intensity, sometimes approaching red.
Synonyms: sense: Hylotelephium telephium
word: harping Johnny
sense: Hylotelephium telephium
word: livelong
sense: Hylotelephium telephium
word: orphan John
Related terms: orpiment
acoustooptics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˌkuːstəʊˈɒptɪks/
Etymology: From acousto- + optics.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The science that studies the diffraction of light by ultrasonic sound.
WaPo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɑpoʊ/
Forms: form: WaPo
form: the WaPo
Senses: examples: text: It's quite impressive that the WaPo editorial board has come out with both barrels against <b₂> their own journalists <c₂>. (Black 2016)
ref: 2017, Scott A. Eldridge II, Online Journalism from the Periphery: Interloper Media and the Journalistic Field, Routledge, →ISBN:
topics: journalism
media
newspapers
glosses: Syllabic abbreviation of Washington Post, a newspaper from the United States.
Related terms: HuffPo
voodoo economics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by George H. W. Bush during the 1980 Republican primaries.
Senses: examples: text: Riot shields, voodoo economics / It's just business, cattle prods and the I.M.F / I trust I can rely on your vote
ref: 1997, “Electioneering”, in OK Computer, performed by Radiohead:
glosses: Supply-side economics, particularly in reference to policies based on the Laffer curve.
microlending
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + lending.
Senses: topics: banking
business
glosses: Lending of small amounts of money per loan as part of a microcredit program.
Related terms: microloan
microcredit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪkɹoʊˌkɹɛdɪt/
Forms: form: microcredits
Etymology: From micro- + credit.
Senses: topics: banking
business
glosses: The practice of making very small loans, especially to poor people to promote self-employment; microlending.
topics: banking
business
glosses: A microloan.
haram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈɹɑːm/
rhymes: -ɑːm
Forms: form: harams
form: haraam
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic حَرَام (ḥarām). Doublet of herem.
Senses: examples: text: In case of necessity it is permissible to change one's madhhab or to do a few things according to another madhhab. It is haram to cheat in order to omit a fard or commit a haram.
ref: 2003, M. Sıddık Gümüş, Advice For The Muslim, page 258:
text: In Arabic, haram is the noun derived from the verb hrm, the opposite of what it allowed.
ref: 2012, Manal Hamzeh, Pedagogies of Deveiling: Muslim Girls and the Hijab Discourse, page 82:
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A sin.
haram
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈɹɑːm/
rhymes: -ɑːm
Forms: form: haraam
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic حَرَام (ḥarām). Doublet of herem.
Senses: examples: text: I can’t speak about sex with my friends in Arabic. The words are too heavy and culturally loaded. It all sounds haram (sinful).
ref: 2005, Anoushiravan Ehteshami, Globalization and Geopolitics in the Middle East: Old Games, New Rules, Taylor & Francis e-Library, →ISBN, page 135:
text: […] collateral assets must not be debt, cash or prohibited as haram (sinful activity) and must not be associated in any way with unethical or exploitative operations or with speculation and uncertainty (gharar) […]
ref: 2007, Andreas Jobst, The Economics of Islamic Finance and Securitization:
text: A year ago, the Party didn't even exist; some Salafi preachers had deemed democracy haram—forbidden under Islamic law.
ref: 2012 April 30, Wendell Steavenson, “Radicals Rising”, in The New Yorker:
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: nonhalal
antonyms: halal
glosses: Forbidden by Islam: unlawful, sinful.
Derived terms: Boko Haram
harami
haramization
haramize
haramness
haram police
nonharam
Related terms: assur
self-employed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + employed.
Senses: examples: text: Police said Ko Sasaki, of no fixed address and who claims to be self-employed, took two packs of condoms, worth about 2,000 yen, and tried to leave the store without paying for them.
ref: 2023, Japan Today, 85-year-old man arrested for stealing condoms from convenience store:
glosses: Working for oneself, rather than for an employer.
Related terms: self-employment
eensy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːn(t)si/
Forms: form: more eensy
form: most eensy
Etymology: Shortened from eensy-weensy.
Senses: examples: text: I was there for a reason and there I had agreed to stay. Blooming heck. “What if we want popcorn? We can't eat popcorn in your bed,” I told him, sounding maybe an eensy bit desperate.
ref: 2011, Kristen Ashley, Rock Chick Regret:
glosses: Very small.
pop-science
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: popular science
popular science
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The priests who were, as I have said, the early students and inquirers, had worked out this astronomical side, and in that way were able to fix dates and to frame for the benefit of the populace myths and legends, which were in a certain sense explanations of the order of Nature, and a kind of "popular science."
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning, page 36:
glosses: An interpretation of science intended for a general audience, rather than for other scientists or students.
examples: text: It was published in a popular science magazine.
text: During the 19th century the need to make science more accessible to the public resulted in the emergence of a new type of written genre, the popular science article.
ref: 2016, Begoña Bellés-Fortuño, “Popular Science Articles vs. Scientific Articles: a Tool for Medical Education”, in Pilar Ordóñez-López, Nuria Edo-Marzá, editors, Medical Discourse in Professional, Academic and Popular Settings, Bristol: Multilingual Matters, →ISBN, pages 55–78:
glosses: Of, or having to do with science, but aimed at ordinary people as opposed to scientists; intended for general consumption.
Synonyms: word: popular scientific
word: pop-sci
word: pop. science
word: pop science
word: popscience
duct-tape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duct-tapes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of duct tape.
duct-tape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: duct-tapes
form: duct-taping
form: duct-taped
form: duct-taped
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of duct tape.
ectasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛktəsɪs/
Forms: form: ectases
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔκτασις (éktasis).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The dilation or distention of a hollow or tubular part of the body, typically due to disease or injury.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
prosody
sciences
glosses: The lengthening of a syllable from short to long.
Synonyms: ectasia
Derived terms: angiectasis
bronchiectasis
dystelectasis
lymphadenectasis
sialectasis
telangiectasis
Related terms: atelectasis
perseveration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˌsɛvəˈɹeɪʃən/
ipa: /pɚˌsɛvəˈɹeɪʃən/
Forms: form: perseverations
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: An uncontrollable repetition of a particular response, such as a word, phrase, or gesture, despite the absence or cessation of a stimulus, usually caused by a brain injury or other organic disorder.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The tendency to continue or repeat an act or activity after the cessation of the original stimulus.
glosses: The act or an instance of persevering; perseverance.
examples: text: Being subjected to this mantra once more re-evokes the perseveration we routinely suffer in the moral ambiguity characterising our supposedly post-politics milieu.
ref: 2006 February 1, Mark Furlong, “Just keep walking: shame has become passe, a victim of a culture that views it as an impediment to achieving one's own ends. But at what cost to how we treat others. (The ‘Me’ Revolution)”, in Arena Magazine:
text: Perseveration with demonstrably false arguments. This is illustrated for creationism by the ability to construct an Index to Creationist Claims which describes the plethora of such false arguments, rebutted over and over in the scientific literature but persisted in by creationists.
ref: 2009 September 23, Richard B. Hoppe, “Science, Non-Science, and Pseudoscience”, in pandasthumb.org:
glosses: An argument by repetition; a mantra.
Related terms: perseverance
perseverate
pretentiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈtɛnʃəsliː/
ipa: /pɹəˈtɛnʃəsliː/
ipa: /pɹɪˈtɛnʃəsliː/
ipa: /pɹiːˈtɛnʃəsliː/
Forms: form: more pretentiously
form: most pretentiously
Etymology: From pretentious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner with unwarranted claim to importance or distinction.
examples: text: Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy—[…]—distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its flavor.
ref: 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy), page 373, column 2:
glosses: Ostentatiously; in a manner intended to impress others.
glosses: In a manner demanding of skill or daring.
Related terms: pretentious
pretentiousness
diddled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of diddle