cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
antigovernmental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antigovernmental
form: most antigovernmental
Etymology: From anti- + governmental.
Senses: glosses: Opposing a government.
Lumumbist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lumumbists
Etymology: From Lumumba + -ist.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A supporter of Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961), the first prime minister of Congo after its independence in 1960 from Belgium.
Lumumbists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lumumbist
pull one's pud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls one's pud
form: pulling one's pud
form: pulled one's pud
form: pulled one's pud
Senses: examples: text: Why wouldn't he even answer the door? Was he in there pulling his pud or something?
glosses: To masturbate.
raw_tags: of a male
examples: text: Quit pulling your pud and get back to work!
text: “Jerry's right, of course. I staked my entire reputation on being a man of science. A man to create life from dead tissue. And what did I do? I let a couple of setbacks shake my confidence, and spent the last 50 years pulling my pud.”
ref: 2024 October 21, Paul Simms, “The Return of Jerry” (15:34 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 6, episode 1, spoken by Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry):
glosses: Synonym of dick around.
synonyms: word: dick around
Egypto-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: Ægypto-
Senses: examples: Egypto-Coptic grammar
glosses: Egypt
Sahelo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: examples: the Sahelo-Sudanian region
glosses: Sahel
Sahelians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sahelian
basaliomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basalioma
basaliomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basalioma
saccharinates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saccharinate
glossinid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glossinids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the family Glossinidae, including the tsetse fly.
glossinids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glossinid
cyberauction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberauctions
Etymology: From cyber- + auction.
Senses: glosses: An auction that takes place between remote bidders by means of a computer network.
Synonyms: e-auction
cyberauctions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberauction
feudally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more feudally
form: most feudally
Etymology: From feudal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a feudal manner.
lightfastness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lightfastnesses
Etymology: From lightfast + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or degree of being lightfast.
Hypernyms: sunfastness
Related terms: colorfastness
nonfading
unfadeable
auralike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more auralike
form: most auralike
Etymology: From aura + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an aura.
enticeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enticeable
form: most enticeable
Etymology: From entice + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being enticed.
Ubangian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ubangi + -an, after the Ubangi River.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a language family centred on the Central African Republic, including Sango.
Ubangian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ubangi + -an, after the Ubangi River.
Senses: glosses: The Ubangian language family.
Sangho
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sango.
powertop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powertops
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of power top.
powerbottom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powerbottoms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of power bottom.
powertops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of powertop
powerbottoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of powerbottom
Apollyonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Apollyonic
form: most Apollyonic
Etymology: From Apollyon + -ic.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Of or pertaining to Apollyon.
Addisonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌædɪˈsəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌædɪˈsoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Addisonian
form: most Addisonian
form: addisonian
Etymology: From Addison + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: What goes down with them and with the public is a bit of sensational realism told in terse newspaper English. Literary English,—Addisonian English,—is a mistake.
ref: 1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan: or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, published 1896, →OCLC, page 10:
glosses: Of or relating to Joseph Addison (1672–1719), English writer and politician.
examples: Addisonian crisis
Addisonian pernicious anaemia
glosses: Of or relating to Addison's disease
Derived terms: Addisonianism
gimp suit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gimp suits
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bondage suit.
synonyms: word: bondage suit
whuss
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: "We got a meetin'," Cooly reminded me.
 "Yeah." I guess I must have grimaced at the thought.
 "Whuss the problem?" Spade asked.
 "Nuthin'," I lied. "I'm sleepy."
ref: 1970, Gil Scott-Heron, The Vulture, New York, N.Y.; Cleveland, O.H.: World Publishing Company, page 112:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of what's, representing African-American Vernacular English.
whuss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 1993, Kevin Walter Johnson, Kevin Walter Johnson, Why Is God Looking for Friends?
"You whuss! ... I thought Blake was the only girlyman on the team. I guess there are two."
glosses: Misspelling of wuss.
preseasonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + seasonal.
Senses: examples: preseasonal treatment of hay fever
glosses: Before the start of a season.
bondage suit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bondage suits
Senses: glosses: A close-fitting garment with attachments used for bondage
whusses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whuss
cheese box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheese boxes
Etymology: (phreaking device): The device could originally be fitted into a wooden box intended for cheese. Compare blue box.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cheesebox (“container for cheese”).
examples: text: Then the bookie leaves the site of the phone and stations himself blocks away in another room with a phone attached to a similar cheese box.
ref: 1967, William Surface, Inside Internal Revenue:
text: The cheese box bridges two separate telephone lines. It is often used by bookmakers and bettors to place free calls for accepting or placing bets.
ref: 1978, Bell telephone magazine, volumes 57-58:
text: There are files circulating about the modem/phreak world regarding a device known as a cheese box.
ref: 2009, Emmanuel Goldstein, The Best of 2600, Collector's Edition: A Hacker Odyssey, page 40:
glosses: A device formerly used by phreakers to convert a home telephone line into a payphone.
cyberreality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberrealities
Etymology: From cyber- + reality.
Senses: examples: text: There is an irony lost to most who associate the new world of cyberreality with unmitigated independence and freedom[…]
ref: 1998, Melanie Keen, Frequencies: investigations into culture, history and technology:
text: In view of such topics, the suspicion does not seem far-fetched that cyberrealities leave us with much the same problems we already had in other forms of reality, especially with problems of class, race, gender, sex and crime.
ref: 2005, Klaus Benesch, Kerstin Schmidt, Space in America: theory, history, culture, page 86:
glosses: A reality created in cyberspace.
cyberrealities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberreality
histrionic personality disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: histrionic personality disorders
Senses: examples: Patients with histrionic personality disorder are sometimes accused of being attention whores.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A personality disorder characterized largely by exaggerated emotions, and inappropriate attention-seeking and seductive behavior typically caused by undue amounts of trauma and related stress during childhood.
Synonyms: word: HPD
Related terms: borderline personality disorder
antisocial personality disorder
narcissistic personality disorder
preseasonally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From preseasonal + -ly.
Senses: examples: hay fever treated preseasonally
glosses: Before a season.
coseasonally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From coseasonal + -ly.
Senses: examples: hay fever treated coseasonally
glosses: During a season.
coseasonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + seasonal.
Senses: examples: text: coseasonal treatment of hay fever
glosses: During a season.
Derived terms: coseasonally
curates' eggs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curate's egg
agonothetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From agonothetes + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an agonothetes.
gastrotrichs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gastrotrich
Baudrillardian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Baudrillardian
form: most Baudrillardian
Etymology: From Baudrillard + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007), French sociologist and philosopher.
characterizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: characterizers
Etymology: From characterize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who characterizes.
characterizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of characterizer
telereality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tele- + reality.
Senses: examples: text: The "real" world unfolds in the swarming dots of a twenty-five inch screen in trinitronic telereality.
ref: 1987, Telos, Volume 20, Number 73, Washington University, page 61
text: This suprasensory reminiscence, this journey of the soul through places, bodies and successive lives, this fantasy ubiquity, has nothing to do with the ubiquity that is ours through the networks, through telepresence and telereality.
ref: 2005, Jean Baudrillard, The Intelligence of Evil, or the Lucidity Pact, page 207:
glosses: The supposed reality conveyed by television.
E-tool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: E-tools
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An entrenching tool.
E-tools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of E-tool
notothenioid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the perciform suborder Notothenioidei, the Antarctic icefish
notothenioid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: notothenioids
Senses: glosses: Any fish of the suborder Notothenioidei
Derived terms: cryonotothenioid
plunderfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plunderfishes
form: plunderfish
Etymology: From plunder + fish?
Senses: glosses: Any of various Antarctic fish of the family Artedidraconidae.
plunderfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plunderfish
plinthed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From plinth + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a plinth.
shpilkes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish שפּילקעס (shpilkes, “needles”), ultimately from a Slavic term such as Polish szpilka, which comes from Italian spilla, from Late Latin spīnula (“little thorn”).
Senses: examples: text: This job interview tomorrow gives me shpilkes.
glosses: A state of impatience, agitation, and/or anxiety.
Synonyms: sense: state of agitation
word: on pins and needles
Related terms: ants in one's pants
on tenterhooks
sestertia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sestertium
simillima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of simillimum
simillimum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: simillima
Etymology: From Latin simillimum.
Senses: topics: homeopathy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A remedy selected because it causes symptoms similar to those that the practitioner wishes to treat.
glanc'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of glance
apprais'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of appraise
whisper'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of whisper
explain'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of explain
admonisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of admonish
abolisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of abolished; simple past and past participle of abolish.
accomplisht
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more accomplisht
form: most accomplisht
Senses: examples: text: Daughter of God and Man, accompliſht Eve,
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, line 660:
glosses: Obsolete form of accomplished.
Derived terms: unaccomplisht
accomplisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of accomplish
abasht
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more abasht
form: most abasht
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of abashed.
Derived terms: unabasht
abasht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abash
brusht
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brusht
form: most brusht
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of brushed.
brusht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brush
ambusht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ambush
anguisht
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anguisht
form: most anguisht
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of anguished.
anguisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of anguish
astonisht
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more astonisht
form: most astonisht
Etymology: From astonish + -t.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of astonished.
astonisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From astonish + -t.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of astonish
blemisht
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blemisht
form: most blemisht
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of blemished.
Derived terms: unblemisht
blemisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blemish
blusht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blush
brandisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brandish
burnisht
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more burnisht
form: most burnisht
Etymology: From burnish + -t.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of burnished.
burnisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From burnish + -t.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of burnish
cherisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cherish
contradistinguisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of contradistinguish
perisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of perish
demolisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of demolish
disestablisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disestablish
disrelisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disrelish
distinguisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of distinguish
embellisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of embellish
empoverisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of empoverish
enravisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enravish
extinguisht
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extinguisht
form: most extinguisht
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of extinguished.
extinguisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of extinguish
famisht
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more famisht
form: most famisht
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of famished.
famisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of famish
flasht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flash
flusht
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flusht
form: most flusht
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of flushed.
flusht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flush
frusht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of frush
furbisht
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more furbisht
form: most furbisht
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of furbished.
furbisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of furbish
furnisht
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of furnished.
furnisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of furnish
garnisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of garnish
gnasht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gnash
impoverisht
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more impoverisht
form: most impoverisht
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of impoverished.
impoverisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of impoverish
immesht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of immesh
languisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of languish
lavisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: lavish + -t
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lavish
practis'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of practise
minisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of minish
nourisht
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nourisht
form: most nourisht
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of nourished.
nourisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nourish
polisht
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polisht
form: most polisht
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of polished.
Derived terms: unpolisht
polisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of polish
pusht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of push
publisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of publish
ravisht
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ravisht
form: most ravisht
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of ravished.
ravisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ravish
reestablisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reestablish
refresht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of refresh
replenisht
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more replenisht
form: most replenisht
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of replenished.
replenisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of replenish
relisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: relish + -t
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of relish
slasht
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of slashed.
slasht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slash
skirmisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of skirmish
smasht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of smash
splasht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of splash
stablisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stablish
tarnisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tarnish
approacht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of approach
vanquisht
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of vanquished.
vanquisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vanquish
vanisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vanish
varnisht
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more varnisht
form: most varnisht
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of varnished.
varnisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of varnish
yelpt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of yelp
stomack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stomacks
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of stomach.
stomack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stomacks
form: stomacking
form: stomacked
form: stomacked
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of stomach.
shouts-out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shout-out
suppos'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of supposed.
suppos'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of suppose
cathartick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cathartick
form: most cathartick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of cathartic.
cathartick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catharticks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of cathartic.
spightful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spightful
form: most spightful
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of spiteful.
race cars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of race car
forgivest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: forgive + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of forgive
hard shoulders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hard shoulder
drinck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drincks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of drink.
drinck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drincks
form: drincking
form: dranck
form: drunck
form: dranck
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of drink.
bowelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bowel
bowelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bowel
bowelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: To the bowelled cavern darting deep.
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
glosses: Having bowels; hollow.
pinacoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinacoid
brongniardite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brongniartite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A lead-silver sulfantimonide with 26.2% silver, some of which is apparently diaphorite and some canfieldite.
brongniartite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of brongniardite.
Adak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Naval Air Facility Adak: a former military base in the Aleutian Islands Alaska, United States, formerly the westernmost major military base in the United States.
synonyms: word: Kuluk Bay
word: Khulukh Bay
word: Kuluk
word: Khulukh
word: Kuluk Bay
extra: A harbor in Adak, Andreanof Islands, Aleutians West Census, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States; the westernmost harbor capable of sustaining aircraft carrier operations in the United States; upon which the military base is situated
glosses: Synonym of Kuluk Bay; A harbor in Adak, Andreanof Islands, Aleutians West Census, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States; the westernmost harbor capable of sustaining aircraft carrier operations in the United States; upon which the military base is situated.
glosses: A city and community in Adak Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States; the westernmost community with a city charter in the United States; the southernmost city in Alaska; situated next to the former military base; formerly, Adak Station.
glosses: An island of the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States; in full, Adak Island.
glosses: Ellipsis of America/Adak, the Adak timezone, one of three extant time zones used in Alaska.
Derived terms: Adak Base
Adak Island
Adak Station
Island of Adak
Related terms: Attu
Kiska
power dissipation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: power (“electric power”) + dissipation (“loss of energy (usually as heat) from a dynamic system”)
Senses: examples: text: Central processing unit power dissipation is a central concern in computer architecture.
glosses: The process in which an electric or electronic device produces heat (or other waste energy) as an unwanted byproduct of its primary action.
attacht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of attach
Derived terms: unattacht
avoucht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of avouch
soleret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solerets
Senses: examples: text: The solerets are wide-toed, […]; the wings of the elbow and knee-kops small. The inner bends of the elbow joints are furnished with a pliable protection of numerous very narrow plates.
ref: 1917, Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, Proceedings, page 134:
glosses: A metal shoe made from plates of armor.
a-schwa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: a-schwas
Senses: examples: text: Fact is that non-low vowels before /R/ are lowered or form falling diphthongs with an a-schwa, which apparently calls for a spreading analysis.
ref: 2003, John R. Rennison, Friedrich Neubarth, An x-bar theory of Government Phonology: Living on the Edge, 28 Papers in Honour of Jonathan Kaye, Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 128:
text: Similar to German, the a'''-schwa plural suffix may combine with Umlaut, and Umlaut can also be the only plural marker (i.e. "combine with zero").
ref: a. 2008, Dorit Ravid, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Bracha Nir-Sagiv, Katharina Korecky-Kröll, Agnita Souman, Katja Rehfeldt, Sabine Laaha, Johannes Bertl, Hans Basbøll and Steven Gillis, "Core morphology in child directed speech: Crosslinguistic corpus analyses of noun plurals", in: Corpora in Language Acquisition Research: History, methods, perspectives (Trends in Language Acquisition Research 6), edited by Heike Behrens, 2008, John Benjamins, Amsterdam & Philadelphia, page 35
coordinate_terms: schwa
schwar
schwi
schwu
glosses: The vowel [ɐ], which lies between [a] and [ə] (true schwa).
this-worldly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more this-worldly
form: most this-worldly
Etymology: From this world + -ly; analogous to other-worldly.
Senses: examples: text: The guests were always this-worldly, and often profane.
ref: 1883, Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi:
text: Changing attitudes to death and Hell mark a growth of this-worldly concerns in a large part of contemporary Christianity.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 1014:
glosses: Pertaining to or concerned with material human existence, as opposed to spiritual or religious matters.
Derived terms: this-worldliness
eelskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eelskins
Etymology: From eel + skin (hagfish are very eel-like, and are sometimes called slime eels).
Senses: examples: text: She paid for three eelskins.
text: He had an eelskin wallet.
text: Wear an eelskin around your waist to keep off rheumatism. Some say they had rather have the rheumatism.
ref: 1896, Clifton Johnson, “Medicinal”, in What They Say in New England (non-fiction), Boston, Massachusetts, United States: Lee and Shepard Publishers, page 77:
glosses: the skin of a hagfish
eelskins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eelskin
beaverskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beaverskins
Etymology: From beaver + skin.
Senses: examples: text: The hunter gave the merchant twenty beaverskins for a gun.
text: The soldier wore a beaverskin hat.
glosses: The pelt of a beaver.
beaverskins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beaverskin
fishskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fishskins
Senses: examples: text: His tent was not beautiful and covered with soft skins. It was made of fishskins and full of holes so that wind and snow blew in. Her bed was not made of soft bearskins, but of hard walrus hide.
ref: 1991, Joseph Bruchac, Native American Stories, from Keepers of the Earth, Fulcrum Publishing, Golden, →ISBN, page 67:
glosses: Alternative form of fish skin.
Derived terms: fishskin disease
fishskins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fishskin
strigilis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin strigilis.
Senses: glosses: An organ for cleaning the antennae on the first tarsal joint of a bee's foreleg.
birdskins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birdskin
birdskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birdskins
Etymology: From bird + skin.
Senses: examples: text: Upon reaching stage 36, in the operation of making a birdskin, cut through the left side of the body from the vent to the neck, taking care not to disturb the internal organs. Force the edges of the opening apart, and, pressing the intestines gently to one side, look for the sexual organs, which will be found on the walls of the small of the back to the left of the backbone.
ref: 1895, Frank M. Chapman, Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America, New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 28:
text: The individual birdskins, with or without their cotton wrapping, are rolled in cylinders of paper and packed tightly enough to prevent any displacement during transportation.
ref: 1940, James Paul Chapin, The preparation of birds for study: Instructions for the proper preparation of bird skins and skeletons for study and future mounting, American Museum of Natural History, page 43:
glosses: the skin of a bird, detached from that bird, especially as prepared during study of the bird or for display
batskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: batskins
Etymology: From bat + skin.
Senses: examples: text: She said presently, in a normal tone, "You never saw such a nasty mess of roots and chicken eyes and dried blood and batskins and skulls of toads as Muh kept."
ref: 1990, Belinda Hurmence, A Girl Called Boy, New York: Clarion Books, page 137:
text: A handful of weapons sat beside a batskin mattress filled with dried grasses.
ref: 2008, Jim C. Hines, Goblin War, New York: Daw Books:
text: Manuclo's baby was said to have smiled his first undoubted smile at her; Manuelo's mother-in-law gave her a charm against rheumatism: a pleasing confection of batskins, jaguar claws and human teeth.
ref: 2007, Eva Ibbotson, A Company of Swans, Speak, page 318:
glosses: The hide of a bat.
batskins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of batskin
gooseskins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gooseskin
gooseskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gooseskins
Etymology: From goose + skin.
Senses: glosses: The skin of a goose, especially the removable skin of a the goose form of a narnauk who transforms back into a goose by putting the skin back on.
glosses: A kind of thin soft leather.
narnauk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narnauks
Etymology: Allegedly, this word is of Tsimshian origin.
Senses: glosses: A supernatural being which can transform into an animal and back into human form by putting on and taking off an animal skin it has.
raw_tags: in the mythology of the First Nations of Canada
Related terms: nahual
skinwalker
narnauks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of narnauk
toadskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toadskins
Etymology: From toad + skin.
Senses: examples: text: It was as though she wore a mask made from toadskins. Her clothes were crocodile skin the color of old tobacco, and she carried a staff of twisted driftwood.
ref: 2010, Jim C. Hines, Red Hood's Revenge:
text: The Chinese use a preparation derived from toadskins, which they call senso, as a remedy for several sicknesses.
glosses: the skin of a toad, or leather made therefrom
toadskins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toadskin
frogskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frogskins
Etymology: From frog + skin.
Senses: examples: text: She pulled a frogskin wallet out of her purse.
glosses: The skin of a frog, or leather made from it.
examples: text: You can buy the individual parts for a few frogskins, or the whole setup for fifty.
text: Give a few frogskins to charity.
glosses: A greenback, a United States dollar.
frogskins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frogskin
lizardskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lizardskins
Etymology: From lizard + skin.
Senses: examples: text: He placed the dried lizardskin on the table.
text: She wore a lizardskin coat and lizardskin boots.
glosses: The skin of a lizard, or leather made from it.
lizardskins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lizardskin
suffragant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suffragants
Senses: glosses: suffragan
wormskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wormskins
Etymology: From worm + skin.
Senses: examples: text: They wore wormskin boots.
glosses: the skin of a worm, or leather made therefrom, especially in fiction where worms are large creatures and have correspondingly large skins
wormskins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wormskin
suffragent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suffragents
Etymology: From suffrage + -ent, after suffragette.
Senses: examples: text: The “suffragent” comes in for his share of criticism. The “Hospital” states: “We cannot view with satisfaction the adherence of certain individuals of the opposite sex whose function seems to be that of ‘complemental male,’ as among the crustacea.[…]”
ref: 1908 December 21, “Home Office Scores. Suffragette Leaders’ Unexpected Release.”, in Manchester Evening News, number 12,405, Manchester, →OCLC, page 7, column 6:
text: “Are there any suffragents among fowls or birds?” asked Mr. [Ross] Agnew. / “What are they?” Mr. Robinson inquired. / “Male birds that do the chores about the house, the cooking and all that.” / “Oh, yes,” replied Mr. Robinson. “The male robin is a suffragent. Mrs. Robin makes him help out in the hatching very frequently, and instead of sporting around on the lawns the old man has to cover the eggs and keep them warm while Mrs. Robin attends meetings.” Whereupon another vote was taken on the suffragist question and the women lost again.
ref: 1911 July 23, “Cresskill Studies of the Jersey Hen; Mr. [Louis H.] Robinson Opines That She Has Something of the Nature of Women After All. […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2025, page 4, column 3:
text: Was their participation as “suffragents” lost in recall because of the fullness of the subsequent twenty, thirty, forty, or fifty years in most of their lives? Or was the downplaying deliberate, a postchivalrous response to obscure their role in the great women’s epic, as good allies should; that certainly has been the effect. It would be consistent with the League’s performance throughout the period of its existence that the men preferred to stay in the historical shadows.
ref: 2017, Brooke Kroeger, “A Coda: ‘The Least Tribute We Can Pay Them’: 1918–1920”, in The Suffragents: How Women Used Men to Get the Vote, Albany, N.Y.: Exelsior Editions, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 244:
text: Other suffragists (like Susan B. Anthony and Alva Vanderbilt Belmont) and “suffragents” helped make the referendum a reality here. Ms. [Elaine] Weiss called New York “the linchpin” that put our country on the path to pass the 19th Amendment in 1920, granting women across the United States the right to vote.
ref: 2017 November 6, Alexandra S. Levine, “New York Today: A Century of Women Voting”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Nov 2017:
hypernyms: suffragist
coordinate_terms: suffragette
glosses: A male supporter of women’s right to vote in the early 20th century.
suffrager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suffragers
Etymology: From suffrage + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who campaigns for the right to vote.
suffragator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suffragators
Etymology: From Latin suffrāgātor (“voter”).
Senses: synonyms: voter
glosses: Someone who votes.
dragonskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dragonskins
Etymology: From dragon + skin.
Senses: examples: text: They carried dragonskin shields and wore matching dragonskin boots.
topics: fantasy
glosses: The skin of a dragon, or leather made from it.
dragonskins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dragonskin
catskins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catskin
catskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catskins
Etymology: From cat + skin.
Senses: examples: text: In the fable, the maiden had to find a catskin coat, a coat made of catskins.
glosses: the skin of a cat, or leather made therefrom
dogskins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dogskin
puts down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of put down
putting down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of put down
cassette tape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cassette tapes
Senses: glosses: A magnetic tape in a cassette, used to record and play audio or video.
Synonyms: word: compact cassette
sense: audio cassette or (most often) simply
word: cassette
cassette tapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cassette tape
backroom staff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Meronym: backroom boy
text: Wenger's wild celebrations with his players and backroom staff told the story - and made it eight wins in Arsenal's last nine games.
ref: 2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: The members of staff who work out of public view, such as the coaching team in a sports club.
tap-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tap-ins
Senses: examples: text: For all their frailty at the back, Arsenal possessed genuine menace in attack and they carved through Chelsea with ease to restore parity nine minutes before half-time. Aaron Ramsey's pass was perfection and Gervinho took the unselfish option to set up Van Persie for a tap-in.
ref: 2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport:
text: TfGM [Transport for Greater Manchester] has said its aim of simplifying fares to a tap-in tap-out system, which would have a daily and weekly cap and be integrated with trains and buses, would be "subject to agreement with government in the approach to national fare reform".
ref: 2025 February 5, David Stubbings, “Network News: Three-phase plan for Bee Network integration”, in RAIL, number 1028, page 19:
glosses: Alternative form of tap in.
flying coffins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flying coffin
scuffball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scuffballs
Etymology: From scuff + ball.
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: emery ball
glosses: An illegal pitch where the baseball has been altered using sandpaper or a similar tool to modify its spin.
scuffballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scuffball
fashion'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fashion'd
form: most fashion'd
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of fashion.
fashion'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fashion
crocky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒki
Forms: form: more crocky
form: most crocky
Etymology: From crock + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Things are shoved into it sooty and steaming to get them out of the way, and it soon gets damp and crocky beyond all hope of purification.
ref: 1875, Eugene Gardner, Homes And How To Make Them:
text: "I'll wash him right after dinner, and that will keep him out of mischief for a while," she thought, as the young engineer unsuspiciously proceeded to ornament his already crocky countenance with squash, cranberry sauce, and gravy, till he looked more like a Fiji chief in full war-paint than a Christian boy.
ref: 1880, Louisa May Alcott, Jack and Jill:
text: But I'm crocky already; My feet, 'ow they slither and slip!
ref: 1958, Robert W. Service, Rhymes of a Red Cross Man:
glosses: smutty, muddy
daid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: "I c-can't he'p myse'f," stammered Celia; "you say such frightful things to me—you tell me that they happen in my own house—in her own room—How can I be calm? How can I believe such things of—of Constance Berkley—of yo' daid mother——"
ref: 1910, Robert W. Chambers, Ailsa Paige:
text: "I wish I wuz daid. 'Tain' nothin' but wuk, wuk from mawnin' tell night."
ref: 1916, Peggy Edmund, Harold W. Williams, compilers, Toaster's Handbook:
text: "Why, he's daid!" he exclaimed, poking the lion with the muzzle of his gun.
ref: 1919, Henry Herbert Knibbs, The Ridin' Kid from Powder River:
text: Ah, Mistah 'Possum, we got you at las'—
 Need n't play daid, laying dah on de groun';
Fros' an' de 'simmons has made you grow fas',—
 Won't he be fine when he's roasted up brown!
ref: 1922, Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar:
text: In de mawnin' w'en he go to milk de cow, sho'nuf dey wuz a hawg a-lyin' on its side, daid.
ref: 1929, Carl Henry Grabo, The Cat in Grandfather's House:
glosses: Nonstandard spelling of dead.
dentated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Another variety is often red, with a black breast and single dentated comb.
ref: 1859-1861, Mrs. Isabella Beeton, The Book of Household Management:
text: IONIC ORDER, an order of Grecian architecture, characterised by the volute of its capital in the form of a ram's horn, and in which the cornice is dentated, the shaft fluted, and the entablature plain or embellished.
ref: 1907, Edited by Rev. James Wood, The Nuttall Encyclopaedia:
glosses: dentate
Derived terms: quinquedentated
subdentated
deluder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deluders
Etymology: From delude + -er.
Senses: examples: text: But I am one who wish that Time, the great deluder, were not so over-masterful.
ref: 1887, Mabel Collins, Light On The Path and Through the Gates of Gold:
text: I saw her no longer as the deluder of Aunt Jane, but as herself the deluded.
ref: 1919, Camilla Kenyon, Spanish Doubloons:
text: Or is it that from being a deluder of others he has become at last his own dupe as he is, if report belie him not, his own and his only enjoyer?
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
glosses: Someone who deludes
deluders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deluder
clean bowls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of clean bowl
clean bowling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clean bowl
clean bowled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of clean bowl
evidents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] it was alleged by Balvaird, that the said Balmains ought not to have the quantity of the evidents and writs contained and expressed in his libel to his probation, because the Laird of Balvaird intromitted with the evidents bona fide […]
ref: 1804, Scotland. Court of Session, William Maxwell Morison, The Decisions of the Court of Session (page 14746)
glosses: Obsolete form of evidence.
dolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of doll
doggrel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Your wit burlesque may one step higher climb, And in his sphere may judge all doggrel rhyme: All proves, and moves, and loves, and honours too; All that appears high sense, and scarce is low.
ref: 1808, Edited by Walter Scott, The Works of John Dryden, Vol. II:
text: I have not the vanity to think myself a poet; and I have a horror of seeing mere doggrel rhymes--such as the following-- "Mighty toil I've borne for years thirty, I have revived Persia by this Pursi."
ref: 1874, Mir Amman of Dihli, Bagh O Bahar, Or Tales of the Four Darweshes:
glosses: Archaic form of doggerel.
doggrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doggrels
Senses: examples: text: To Latinise a pun, we must seek a pun in Latin, that will answer to it; as, to give an idea of the double endings in Hudibras, we must have recourse to a similar practice in the old monkish doggrel.
ref: 1833, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “[Popular Fallacies.] VIII. That Verbal Allusions Are Not Wit, Because They Will Not Bear a Translation.”, in The Last Essays of Elia. […], London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 239:
text: The uncouth doggrel, recited in a lilting sort of measure, the peculiar and various pleasures of a canter upon a pine rail.
ref: 1890, William Gilmore Simms, Guy Rivers= A Tale of Georgia:
glosses: Archaic form of doggerel.