cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bowwow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bowwows
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bow-wow.
bowwow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bowwows
form: bowwowing
form: bowwowed
form: bowwowed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bow-wow.
goofiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goofinesses
Etymology: From goofy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being goofy.
glosses: Goofy behaviour.
glosses: The result or product of being goofy.
braiding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪdɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪdɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English breydynge; equivalent to braid + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of braid
braiding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪdɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪdɪŋ
Forms: form: braidings
Etymology: From Middle English breydynge; equivalent to braid + -ing.
Senses: glosses: A braided trimming used as decoration on clothes or curtains.
brander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: branders
Etymology: From brand + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who brands.
glosses: An implement used to brand something; a branding iron.
brander
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: branders
form: brandering
form: brandered
form: brandered
Senses: glosses: To cook (meat, etc.) on a gridiron.
brand-name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brand-names
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of brand name.
bratty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹæti/
ipa: [ˈbɹæɾi]
rhymes: -æti
Forms: form: brattier
form: more bratty
form: brattiest
form: most bratty
Etymology: From brat + -y.
Senses: examples: text: When Laura tells Bart that she can teach him to dance, Bart and Laura are suddenly transformed into Astaire and Rogers in a black-and-white fantasy sequence before Bart’s reverie is abruptly ended when Laura reverts back to bratty tomboy form and gives him a wedgie.
ref: 2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: Characteristic of a brat; unruly and impolite.
examples: text: Critics are increasingly examining their prejudice towards media that has been derided for its femininity, girlishness and brattiness – perhaps most notably, Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, a film that is now praised for the bratty qualities it was derided for in 2006. Indeed, online music magazine Pitchfork "rescored" Charli's EP Vroom Vroom from a 4.5 upon its release in 2016 to a 7.8 in 2021.
ref: 2024 June 26, Lillian Hingley, “Brat by Charli XCX is a work of contemporary imagist poetry – and a reclamation of 'bratty' women's art”, in The Conversation, archived from the original on 25 Jul 2024:
text: I'm revisiting all my favorite Y2K trends, including slogan tees, trucker hats, wedge flip-flops, and barbed wire tramp stamps. Diesel and Miaou are two brands that feel particularly bratty to me, and I'm dreaming about this strawberry latex halter specifically.
ref: 2024 July 25, Meg Donohue, Dale Chong, “Same Same But Different: We're Feeling Bratty This Summer”, in Elle, archived from the original on 27 Aug 2024:
text: Tennis champion Naomi Osaka is back in the U.S. Open for the first time in two years, and she’s off to a spectacular start. Not only did she win her first-round match against No. 10 seed Jelena Ostapenko early on Thursday, but she stepped onto the court into one of the best (and brattiest) outfits we’ve seen in the past few years.
ref: 2024 August 27, Brooke LaMantia, “Naomi Osaka Is Having a Brat U.S. Open”, in The Cut, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2024:
glosses: Characteristic of a brat (the qualities possessed by a confident and assertive woman).
Derived terms: brattily
brattiness
unbratty
bratty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹæti/
ipa: [ˈbɹæɾi]
rhymes: -æti
Forms: form: bratties
Senses: glosses: A cake of dried cow dung, used for fuel.
patt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Cont in patt until work measures 10cm (4in). Break off B and join in C.
ref: 2008, Claire Compton, Sue Whiting, The Knitting and Crochet Bible, page 305:
topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Abbreviation of pattern.
brazer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brazers
Etymology: From braze + -er.
Senses: glosses: An instrument used in brazing.
Related terms: brazier
brazing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of braze
brazing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brazings
Senses: glosses: A method of joining metals by using heat and a filler
glosses: An object made by this process.
Related terms: soldering
breakeven
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breakevens
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of break-even.
breakeven
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of break-even.
breakeven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The three laws [of thermodynamics] have been humorously restated as (1) You can't win. (2) You can't even breakeven. (3) You can't get out of the game.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 94:
glosses: Alternative spelling of break even.
breakneck
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪkˌnɛk/
ipa: [ˈbɹ(ʷ)eɪ̯kˌnɛk]
ipa: /ˈbɹæɪkˌnek/
ipa: [ˈbɹ(ʷ)æɪ̯kˌnek]
Forms: form: more breakneck
form: most breakneck
Etymology: From break + neck.
Senses: examples: text: breakneck pace
text: He came running around the corner at a breakneck pace and couldn't stop in time to avoid hitting the fruit stand.
text: The line to Dunières conists of a series of breakneck descents almost invariably ended by a violent curve and followed immediately by a panting climb, on which the engine barked thunderously but failed unhappily to maintain its booked speed of 13 m.p.h.
ref: 1961 November, H. G. Ellison, P. G. Barlow, “Journey through France: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 668:
text: The use of machine learning in this field is hardly new, but the breakneck pace at which it is improving is worrying, Lund says: “With the advent of ChatGPT, the future is bleak.”
ref: 2023 June 27, Clea Skopeliti, “‘The future is bleak’: how AI concerns are shaping graduate’s career choices”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Dangerously fast; hell-for-leather.
breakneck
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪkˌnɛk/
ipa: [ˈbɹ(ʷ)eɪ̯kˌnɛk]
ipa: /ˈbɹæɪkˌnek/
ipa: [ˈbɹ(ʷ)æɪ̯kˌnek]
Etymology: From break + neck.
Senses: examples: text: I ran breakneck another hundred yards.
ref: 2009, Carlos Reid, Stalking the Warden, page 165:
glosses: Dangerously fast.
breakneck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪkˌnɛk/
ipa: [ˈbɹ(ʷ)eɪ̯kˌnɛk]
ipa: /ˈbɹæɪkˌnek/
ipa: [ˈbɹ(ʷ)æɪ̯kˌnek]
Forms: form: breaknecks
Etymology: From break + neck.
Senses: glosses: A fall that breaks the neck.
glosses: A dangerous steep place from which one could fall and be injured.
breakup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪk.ʌp/
rhymes: -eɪkʌp
Forms: form: breakups
form: break up
form: break-up
Etymology: Deverbal from break up.
Senses: examples: text: Several factors led to speculation that the accident might have been caused by a bomb or missile strike, including heightened safety and security concerns because of the 1996 Olympics then being held in the United States, the fact that TWA flight 800 was an international flight, and the sudden and catastrophic nature of the in-flight breakup.
ref: 2000 August 23, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.12 Wreckage Recovery and Documentation Information”, in Aircraft Accident Report: In-flight Breakup Over the Atlantic Ocean, Trans World Airlines Flight 800, Boeing 747-131, N93119, Near East Moriches, New York, July 17, 1996, archived from the original on 11 Jul 2022, page 65:
glosses: The act of breaking up; disintegration or division.
examples: text: "Eventually, I just pieced it together, figuring your butting heads could probably be explained by a break up. Years of anime shipping trained me for this."
ref: 2018 November 21, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 1101 - Rose:
glosses: The termination of a friendship or a romantic relationship.
glosses: A loss of emotional control; a breakdown.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
seasons
time
weather
qualifier: Alaska and northern Canada
glosses: The time of year during which winter ice covering bodies of water disintegrates; more generally, spring.
Synonyms: sense: act of breaking up
word: rupture
sense: act of breaking up
word: split
sense: act of breaking up
word: split-up
sense: termination of a friendship or a romantic relationship
word: falling out
Derived terms: postbreakup
third-act breakup
Related terms: breakdown
breakoff
breast-fed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of breast-feed
breast-fed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That has been suckled at its mother's breast
Related terms: bottle-fed
breathalyze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breathalyzes
form: breathalyzing
form: breathalyzed
form: breathalyzed
form: breathalyse
Etymology: Back-formation from breathalyzer.
Senses: glosses: To estimate the alcohol content of a person's blood by using a breathalyzer
briber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bribers
Etymology: From bribe + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who bribes
bridgeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bridgeable
form: most bridgeable
form: bridgable
Etymology: From bridge + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be spanned by, or as if by, a bridge.
glosses: Possible to reconcile.
bridgework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bridgeworks
Etymology: From bridge + -work.
Senses: examples: text: Just think. If you were some big shot like a casting director or something, I'd be staring into your bridgework, saying, 'Yes, Mr. Smearkase; no, Mr. Smearkase; not really, Mr. Smearkase. Oh! Mr. Smearkase, that's my knee!'
ref: 1941, Sullivan's Travels:
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A partial denture that is anchored to existing teeth.
examples: text: Of these Stable Creek bridge, 16 miles from Westport, with ten 40 ft. spans and one 20 ft. span, set on a curve of 20 ch. radius, has been completed, and forms part of 2,290 ft. of bridgework now in position on the new route, which is expected to be in service early in 1941.
ref: 1940 October, “Notes and News: New Zealand Developments”, in Railway Magazine, page 566:
text: British Railways have plans to build a loop from the down side of the station to burrow under the Ipswich main line and enable down through trains to reach the Clacton line without having to cross the path of up Ipswich trains at Colchester Junction, but the Essex County Council has objected to the scheme on the grounds that the bridgework involved would interfere with its road improvement plans.
ref: 1959 April, B. Perren, “The Essex Coast Branches of the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 188:
glosses: The construction or repair of bridges.
glosses: The component parts of a bridge.
brigandage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪ.ɡən.dɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: brigandages
Etymology: From French brigandage.
Senses: glosses: The lifestyle of a brigand.
examples: text: The Honan authorities do not appear to have been successful in maintaining order and suppressing brigandage. Amongst the innumerable acts of lawlessness reported, one of the most daring occurred in the early part of December when a band of 500 mounted robbers attacked the district city of Hsi-hua Hsien, and after looting the town departed unmolested, taking with them some of the leading inhabitants for whose release they demanded a ransom.
ref: 1914 April [1912], “Summary by Sir S. Head of General State of Affairs in the Provinces of China for last quarter of 1912”, in Further Correspondence Respecting the Affairs of China., London, →OCLC, page 9:
glosses: The criminal acts of brigands.
Synonyms: brigandry
Related terms: highway robbery
pillage
plunder
brightener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brighteners
Etymology: From brighten + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Country air in the fields, or in gardens, when breathed at proper hours, is an excellent bracer of the nerves, and a sure brightener of the complexion.
ref: 1830, The Mirror of the Graces: Or, The English Lady's Costume, page 27:
text: Chirol's own advice was simple: get the Russian agreement signed. March, month of change, brightener of days and moods, brought that action notably closer.
ref: 2006, Linda Fritzinger, Diplomat Without Portfolio: Valentine Chirol, His Life and "The Times":
glosses: One who or that which brightens.
glosses: A chemical agent that absorbs ultraviolet and violet light and re-emits blue light by fluorescence, used to make fabric or paper look whiter.
topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any substance added to an electrolytic bath to yield a brighter electroplated surface.
bright-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bright-eyed
form: most bright-eyed
Etymology: From Middle English bryht yhed, equivalent to bright + eyed.
Senses: glosses: eager and alert
Derived terms: bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
Related terms: sharp-eyed
clear-eyed
steely-eyed
brimless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From brim + -less.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: (sometimes synonymous) rimless, lipless, ledgeless
glosses: Having no brim.
Derived terms: brimlessness
Related terms: brimful
brindle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brindles
Etymology: Back-formation from brindled, a variant of brinded (“streaked, spotted”), apparently reanalyzed as brindle + -ed. Attested from the late seventeenth century.
Senses: glosses: A streaky colouration in animals.
examples: text: I snatch at the puppy closest to me, the brindle, which is limp in my hand, and shove it down my shirt.
ref: 2011, Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones, Bloomsbury (2017), page 235:
glosses: An animal so coloured.
Derived terms: Treeing Tennessee Brindle
brindle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brindle
form: most brindle
Etymology: Back-formation from brindled, a variant of brinded (“streaked, spotted”), apparently reanalyzed as brindle + -ed. Attested from the late seventeenth century.
Senses: examples: text: It is brindle. Stripes of black and brown ride its ribs like a zebra’s.
ref: 2011, Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones, Bloomsbury (2017), page 18:
glosses: Having such a colouration; brindled.
Synonyms: english: in cats
translation: in cats
word: tabby
Derived terms: shit-brindle
brindle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brindles
form: brindling
form: brindled
form: brindled
Etymology: Back-formation from brindled, a variant of brinded (“streaked, spotted”), apparently reanalyzed as brindle + -ed. Attested from the late seventeenth century.
Senses: examples: text: Sorely too as I laboured and toiled, the reward of toil would not come ; already my back began to curve, and my hair to brindle itself with gray, yet I saw no luck before me.
ref: 1841, The Metropolitan - Volume 30, page 226:
text: It is the perfect opposition of dark and light that brindles the tiger with gold flame and dark flame.
ref: 1925, D.H. Lawrence, Reflections on the Death of Porcupine and Other Essays:
text: The darkest areas (the points) may brindle or become bleached by brilliant sunlight, especially in chocolate and white points.
ref: 1993, Peter Warner, Perfect Cats, page 78:
glosses: To form streaks of a different color.
bringer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪŋɚ/
rhymes: -ɪŋə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bringers
Etymology: From bring + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news / Hath but a losing office.
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: And he that was over the house, and he that was over the city, the elders also, and the bringers up of the children, sent to Jehu, saying, We are thy servants, and will do all that thou shalt bid us; we will not make any king: do thou that which is good in thine eyes.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Kings 10:5:
glosses: A person or a thing which brings something.
examples: text: Hancox's recruitment would have gone something like this. In Conventry, where he may have been selling food or livestock at the town's market, he would have been intrigued by the recruiting party, especially the 'bringer', usually a sergeant, no doubt a tall man in scarlet with gold stripes on his sleeve.
ref: 2021, M[eirion] J[ames] Trow, The Charge of the Heavy Brigade: Scarlett's 300 in the Crimea, Barnsley, South Yorkshire; Philadelphia, P.A.: Pen & Sword Military, unnumbered page:
glosses: Someone who supplies or identifies potential recruits for the military in exchange for payment.
Derived terms: bringer-out
brogan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brogans
Etymology: An alteration of brogue. Most dictionaries give the source as Irish *brógán (from bróg (“shoe”) + -án (diminutive suffix)) or its Scottish Gaelic equivalent, but no such word can be confirmed to exist in either language (apart from the given name Brógán, the source of the surname Brogan).
Senses: examples: text: The wind gusted through, shivering me, so that my waterlogged brogans were like ice against my feet.
ref: 2019, Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer, Penguin Books (2020), page 65:
glosses: A heavy working shoe; a brogue.
brokenly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more brokenly
form: most brokenly
Etymology: From broken + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: —Something I said,
But faint and brokenly of former days,
When in the paths of science and of hope,
We walk'd, twin-hearted.—Then there came a peal
Of vacant laughter from those bloated lips,
And the swoll'n hand with trembling haste was stretch'd
For friendship's grasp.
ref: 1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, Intemperence, page 155:
text: It split and melted and splayed its contents brokenly.
ref: 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 125:
glosses: In a broken manner.
examples: text: It was a long time before he could steady his nerves to answer my questions, and then he answered perplexingly and brokenly.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 83:
text: Upon which, you slink out, bathed in shame and confusion, and Upjohn thanks me brokenly and says if there is anything he can do for me, I have only to name it.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVI, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
qualifier: Of speech
glosses: with gaps between words so that normal flow or fluency is affected, as due to emotion; disjointedly.
bronc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒŋk
Forms: form: broncs
Senses: examples: text: Yet, some broncs will be rebels for a lifetime. A lifetime for a horse is usually under thirty years.
ref: 1983, Candace Tillis Philp, Howard Schroeder, Rodeo horses, page 27:
glosses: A bronco.
bronchitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bronchitic
form: most bronchitic
Etymology: From bronchitis + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to bronchitis.
Derived terms: bronchitically
nonbronchitic
bronchitic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bronchitics
Etymology: From bronchitis + -ic.
Senses: glosses: A person who has bronchitis.
Kristina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A modern Scandinavian spelling variant of Christina
Senses: examples: text: "Kristina Castleberry," she told him. "That's Kristina with a K, and Castleberry just like it sounds."
ref: 1991, Julie Kistler, Christmas in Toyland, Harlequin Books, published 1991, →ISBN, page 62:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Christina.
glosses: A transliteration of the Bulgarian, Macedonian, or Russian female given name Кристи́на (Kristína)
broncobuster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broncobusters
form: bronco buster
form: bronco-buster
Etymology: From bronco + buster.
Senses: glosses: A person who breaks horses so that they can be ridden with a saddle.
brooder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹuːdə/
ipa: /ˈbɹudɚ/
rhymes: -uːdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: brooders
Etymology: From brood + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who broods.
glosses: A heated box used for chicks or premature babies.
Synonyms: sense: heated box used for chicks or premature babies
word: incubator
Derived terms: mouthbrooder
broodingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more broodingly
form: most broodingly
Etymology: From brooding + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But he was broodingly unable to see even the most ivied tower as anything but a pile of stones till, inexplicably, the miracle of recovered hope and courage transformed him.
ref: 1951, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 4, in World so Wide […], New York, N.Y.: Random House, →OCLC, page 35:
glosses: In a brooding manner.
brooklet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brooklets
Etymology: From brook + -let.
Senses: examples: text: Vast forests have disappeared from mountain spurs and ridges;[…] rivers famous in history and song have shrunk to humble brooklets; […]
ref: 1874, George P. Marsh, The Earth as Modified by Human Action:
text: There was a very light off-shore wind and scarcely any breakers, so that the approach to the shore was continued without finding bottom; yet though we were already quite close, we saw no indication of any indention in the coast from which even a tiny brooklet might issue, and certainly no mouth of a large river such as this must necessarily be to freshen the ocean even two hundred yards from shore.
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
glosses: A little brook.
brothers-in-law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brother-in-law
jin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jins
Senses: examples: text: Each grasped a musket in one hand and searched for his hijab with the other, for each carried several of these amulets, and that in demand this night was the one written against the jin, for certainly none but a jin could have done this thing.
ref: 1928, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 21, in Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle, page 281:
glosses: Alternative spelling of jinn.
jin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jins
form: jin
Etymology: From Japanese 神 (jin).
Senses: glosses: A portion of dead wood on a branch or at the top of the trunk of a bonsai tree, whether formed naturally or deliberately to suggest age and hardship.
browbeaten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From brow + beaten.
Senses: glosses: past participle of browbeat
browbeaten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more browbeaten
form: most browbeaten
Etymology: From brow + beaten.
Senses: glosses: intimidated or subjugated
brown-bagger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brown-baggers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of brownbagger.
brownbagger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brownbaggers
form: brown-bagger
Etymology: From brown bag + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who brings their own lunch to work.
glosses: Synonym of butterface.
synonyms: word: butterface
Related terms: brown-bag
lings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ling
brown-nose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brown-noses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of brownnose.
brown-nose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brown-noses
form: brown-nosing
form: brown-nosed
form: brown-nosed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of brownnose.
brownnose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brownnoses
Etymology: From brown + nose; scatological.
Senses: examples: text: A workmate reported the matter, "which is why the worker threatened to beat up the latter," calling him a "brownnose" and threatening to "wipe the floor with him."
ref: 1997, Ulrich Herbert, Hitler's foreign workers: enforced foreign labor in Germany under the Third Reich, Cambridge University Press, page 126:
text: 'I know, he's a natural brownnose. I guess he does have some talents.'
ref: 2007, Felicity Young, An Easeful Death, Fremantle Press, page 13:
text: You don't have to be such a brownnose, at least not to me.
ref: 2010, Joseph Morse, Gods of Ruin: A Political Thriller,, page 46:
glosses: One who sucks up; a bootlicker, ass-kisser, sycophant.
Synonyms: brown noser
brownnose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brownnoses
form: brownnosing
form: brownnosed
form: brownnosed
Etymology: From brown + nose; scatological.
Senses: glosses: To flatter someone (especially a superior) in an obsequious manner, and to support their every opinion.
Related terms: brownnoser
brown noser
brown-noser
bucksaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bucksaws
Etymology: From buck + saw.
Senses: glosses: A saw in a metal frame, used to cut lengths of wood.
buckskins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: trousers and other clothing made from buckskin
budgetary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌd͡ʒ.ɪ.tə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈbʌd͡ʒ.ɪ.tɹi/
ipa: /ˈbʌd͡ʒ.əˌtɛɹ.i/
Etymology: From budget + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: Japan's revolutionary New Tokaido Line, the 310-mile, 150 m.p.h. route between Tokyo and Osaka that is due to open for passenger traffic in October, has run into the same kind of budgetary trouble that held up our own LMR electrification, though the Japanese Government, unlike our own, has apparently gritted its teeth and allowed the project to go ahead to planned completion.
ref: 1964 July, “Tokaido line trouble”, in Modern Railways, page 52:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a budget.
Derived terms: prebudgetary
budgetarily
extrabudgetary
nonbudgetary
buffered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more buffered
form: most buffered
Senses: examples: text: a buffered video stream
text: a buffered railway siding
glosses: Using a buffer.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Dissolved in a buffer solution.
Derived terms: bufferedness
multibuffered
nonbuffered
unbuffered
buffered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of buffer
buffer solution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buffer solutions
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A solution, containing a buffer, that maintains a relatively constant pH
buffoonish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more buffoonish
form: most buffoonish
Etymology: From buffoon + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Sisi once joked that he was a spy, drawing laughter from the rest because Segun with his habitual look of buffoonish imbecility, his mouth constantly hanging open, hands flailing, does not look smart enough to be a spy.
ref: 2009, Chika Unigwe, On Black Sisters’ Street, Vintage (2010), pages 107-108:
glosses: Characteristic of a buffoon.
Derived terms: buffoonishly
bulgy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bulgier
form: bulgiest
form: bulgey
Etymology: From bulge + -y.
Senses: examples: text: 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
I took Mama Tips to State St Animal Hosp. cuz her right eye was so swollen, plus I'd run out of medication. So I told the vet I'd like him to try & do something bout the one bulgy eye.
text: She decides that she desperately needs a new pair of jeans. She has a pair, but they make her look bulgy.
ref: 1979 December 22, Andrea Loewenstein, “Home for the Holidays”, in Gay Community News, volume 2, number 22, page 10:
glosses: Having one or more bulges; bulging
Derived terms: bulgily
bulginess
annexational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more annexational
form: most annexational
Etymology: From annexation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to annexation
bull's-eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bull's-eyes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bullseye.
bummed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌmd/
rhymes: -ʌmd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bum
bummed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌmd/
rhymes: -ʌmd
Forms: form: more bummed
form: most bummed
Senses: examples: text: I'm really bummed that we didn't get a company dinner this summer.
glosses: Synonym of bummed out.
synonyms: word: bummed out
Baltic herring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Baltic herrings
Senses: glosses: A subspecies of Atlantic herring, (Clupea harengus membras), living in the Baltic Sea, smaller than Atlantic herring, with leaner flesh.
bunchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bunchier
form: more bunchy
form: bunchiest
form: most bunchy
Etymology: From Middle English bunchy, bonchy, equivalent to bunch + -y.
Senses: glosses: Having, or growing in bunches.
Derived terms: bunchily
bunchiness
bunchy top
buncombe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: (1926) "There's a lot of sort of sentimental buncombe talked the Silver King": "The Theatre in Australia (Sydney)". The Triad : a journal devoted to literary, pictorial, musical and dramatic art. 11 (10): 58. 1 August 1926.
glosses: Alternative spelling of bunkum.
bunkhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbʌŋkˌhaʊs/
Forms: form: bunkhouses
form: bunk house
Etymology: From bunk + house.
Senses: examples: text: The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks ; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]
ref: 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 6, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
glosses: A building providing sleeping quarters for workers or guests, especially in a rural setting.
burbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burb
bureaucratize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bjʊəˈɹɒkɹətʌɪz/
Forms: form: bureaucratizes
form: bureaucratizing
form: bureaucratized
form: bureaucratized
form: bureaucratise
Etymology: From French bureaucratiser or bureaucrat, bureaucracy + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Measures aiming to centralize and bureaucratize the state's central finances […] were also introduced, bringing greater economy and rationality to the Treasury.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 432:
glosses: To bring under the control of a bureaucracy; to make bureaucratic.
Derived terms: bureaucratization
debureaucratize
burled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of burl
burnable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more burnable
form: most burnable
Etymology: From burn + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be burned; combustible
Derived terms: nonburnable
unburnable
burnable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burnables
Etymology: From burn + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The lower chamber consumes the burnables. The upper chamber consumes gases, smoke, and odor.
ref: 1968, Clean Air News, volume 2, page 14:
glosses: Anything that can be burned.
burrower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burrowers
Etymology: From burrow + -er.
Senses: glosses: One that burrows.
glosses: An animal that lives in an underground hole that it has made itself.
Derived terms: longfin burrower
busgirl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: busgirls
Etymology: From bus + girl.
Senses: glosses: A female busser; one who clears plates from and cleans tables; one who buses.
Related terms: busser
bush-league
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bush-league
form: most bush-league
form: bush league
Senses: glosses: Minor-league; second-rate.
bushmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bushmasters
Etymology: Related to Dutch bosmeester.
Senses: glosses: A venomous pit viper, Lachesis muta, from tropical America.
Derived terms: Central American bushmaster
Atlantic herring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Atlantic herrings
form: Atlantic herring
Senses: glosses: Clupea harengus, an abundant species of herring and an important food fish living in the North Atlantic.
butternut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butternuts
Etymology: From butter + nut.
Senses: synonyms: white walnut
glosses: A North American walnut tree, Juglans cinerea.
glosses: The wood or bark of this walnut tree.
glosses: The nut of this walnut tree.
glosses: A dye made from the fruit of this walnut tree.
glosses: The souari nut.
examples: text: He made a delicious butternut soup.
qualifier: informal outside South Africa
glosses: Butternut squash.
Derived terms: butternut pumpkin
butternut squash
dairyman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dairymen
Etymology: From dairy + -man.
Senses: hypernyms: dairyer
coordinate_terms: dairymaid
dairywoman
milkmaid
glosses: A man who works in a dairy, as:
Synonym of dairy farmer.
synonyms: word: dairy farmer
hypernyms: dairyer
coordinate_terms: dairymaid
dairywoman
milkmaid
glosses: A man who works in a dairy, as:
A food processing technician working on pasteurization, bottling, cheesemaking, or other tasks.
synonyms: milkman
glosses: A man who delivers dairy products.
Related terms: dairy cattle
dairy cow
dairy farm
dairy farming
dairying
dairy product
cattleman
cowman
herdsman
dairywoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dairywomen
Etymology: From dairy + -woman.
Senses: glosses: A woman who works in a dairy, or who delivers dairy products.
Related terms: dairymaid
milkmaid
dairymen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dairyman
dairywomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dairywoman
milkmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milkman
milkwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milkwoman
milkwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milkwomen
Etymology: From milk + -woman.
Senses: synonyms: milklady
hypernyms: dairywoman
;
milkie
milko
coordinate_terms: milkman
glosses: A woman who delivers milk to households and sometimes businesses early in the morning.
2-4-4-2
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 2-4-4-2s
Senses: glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a Mallet-type locomotive with two leading wheels on a leading truck, two sets of four driving wheels, and two trailing wheels on a trailing truck.
2-6-6-2
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 2-6-6-2s
Senses: glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a Mallet-type locomotive with two leading wheels on a leading truck, two sets of six driving wheels, and two trailing wheels on a trailing truck.
2-8-8-2
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 2-8-8-2s
Senses: examples: text: The leading engine was one of the Class Y6 2-8-8-2 compound articulateds, […] The stack noise of one of these great brutes slogging up a grade was quite unforgettable.
ref: 1961 July 24, J. Geoffrey Todd, “Impressions of railroading in the United States: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 419:
glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a Mallet-type locomotive with two leading wheels on a leading truck, two sets of eight driving wheels, and two trailing wheels on a trailing truck.
2-10-10-2
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 2-10-10-2s
Senses: glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a Mallet-type locomotive with two leading wheels on a leading truck, two sets of ten driving wheels, and two trailing wheels on a trailing truck.
0-8-8-0
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 0-8-8-0s
Senses: glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a Mallet-type locomotive with no leading truck, two sets of eight driving wheels, and no trailing truck.
Related terms: Angus
0-6-6-0
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 0-6-6-0s
Senses: glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a Mallet-type locomotive with no leading truck, two sets of six driving wheels, and no trailing truck.
masonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mason + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to stonemasons or masonry.
glosses: Of or pertaining to freemasonry.
Derived terms: antimasonic
masonically
despairingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From despairing + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being despairing.
desperateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From desperate + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being desperate.
despisableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From despisable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being despisable.
despisedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From despised + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being despised.
despisingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From despising + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being despising.
despitefulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From despiteful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being despiteful.
despoticalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From despotical + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being despotical.
destituteness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From destitute + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being destitute.
destructiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From destructive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Would Helen’s face-seductiveness have wrought as much destructiveness,
Would Antony have followed Cleopatra like a lamb,
Unless those ladies’ vanities for snaring male humanities
Had been associated with a quantum suff. of glam.?
ref: 1939 July 19, The Bulletin, Sydney, page 14, column 1:
glosses: The state or quality of being destructive.
Derived terms: nondestructiveness
self-destructiveness
desultoriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desultorinesses
Etymology: From desultory + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being desultory.
detachableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From detachable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being detachable.
detachedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From detached + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being detached.
determinateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: determinatenesses
Etymology: From determinate + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: […] his determinateness and his power, seemed to make allies unnecessary; […]
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XIV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 272:
text: It cannot be expected that our classifications should vie in accuracy and determinateness with those of natural science.
ref: 1833, Thomas Keightley, Fairy Mythology, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 20:
text: The pale, inscrutable determinateness, and flinchless intrepidity of Pierre, now began to domineer upon them; for any social unusualness or greatness is sometimes most impressive in the retrospect.
ref: 1852 July, Herman Melville, “Book XXIV. Lucy at the Apostles’.”, in Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, section IV, page 445:
text: Douglas Gale […] made me rethink the question of the determinateness of the price level.
ref: 1982, Frank Hahn, Monetary and Inflation, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, page xi:
synonyms: determinacy
glosses: The quality or state of being determinate.
determinativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From determinative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being determinative.
determinedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From determined + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being determined.
detestableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From detestable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being detestable.
devilishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devilishnesses
Etymology: From devilish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being devilish.
chalcanthite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kælˈkæn.θaɪt/
ipa: [kʰæɫ(l)ˈkʰæn.θʌɪt̚]
ipa: [~θɒ͡ɪt̚]
ipa: [kæwˈkæn.θɒ͡ɪʔ]
ipa: /kælˈkæn.θaɪt/
ipa: [kʰæɫˈkʰɛ͡ən.θʌɪt̚]
ipa: [~ˈkʰe͡ən~]
Forms: form: chalcanthites
Etymology: From chalcanthum (“flowers of copper”) + -ite, from Ancient Greek χάλκανθον (khálkanthon).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral form of copper sulfate, CuSO₄.
Synonyms: bluestone
devoutness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devoutnesses
Etymology: From devout + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being devout; religiosity.
dewiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dewy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being dewy.
dexterousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dexterous + -ness.
Senses: hypernyms: grace
gracefulness
glosses: The state or quality of being dexterous.
diabolicalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From diabolical + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being diabolical.
dictatorialness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dictatorial + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being dictatorial.
Synonyms: dictatoriality
differentness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: differentnesses
Etymology: From different + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Only recently […] have biographies incorporated an analysis of an individual's sexuality, not in some vulgar Freudian sense, but as helping to explain someone's internal sense of differentness or specialness — or, as I suspect in Lowenstein's case, aloneness — that becomes a springboard for a special life.
ref: 1985 August 24, Gordon Gottlieb, “CIA-Baiting a Liberal Closet Queen”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 7, page 14:
glosses: The state or quality of being different.
glosses: The result or product of being different.
chalcopyrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkæl.kəˈpaɪˌɹaɪt/
Forms: form: chalcopyrites
Etymology: From chalco- (“copper, ore”) + pyrite. Named by Johann Friedrich Henckel 1725.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellow mineral that is a mixed sulfide of copper and iron, with the chemical formula CuFeS₂.
Synonyms: copper pyrites
difficileness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From difficile + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being difficile.
difficultness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From difficult + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being difficult.
diffidentness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From diffident + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being diffident.
somatoform disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: somatoform disorders
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A psychiatric disorder in which physical symptoms are experienced, but for which no apparent physical cause can be found
Synonyms: somatic symptom disorder
somatoform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From somato- + -form.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Having no physical or organic cause
Derived terms: multisomatoform
somatoform disorder
Related terms: psychosomatic
hypochondriasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypochondriases
Etymology: From New Latin; by surface analysis, hypochondr(ium) + -iasis. See also hypochondria, hypochondrium, and Wikipedia at hypochondriasis § Etymology.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: hypochondria
text: Most individuals who previously would have been diagnosed with hypochondriasis in DSM-IV [1994] (preoccupation with having a serious disease based on the individual’s misinterpretation of bodily symptoms) are now classified as having somatic symptom disorder; however, in one-third of cases, the diagnosis of illness anxiety disorder applies instead.
ref: 2022, American Psychiatric Association, DSM-5-TR: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision, American Psychiatric Association, →ISBN, page 1463:
topics: medicine
sciences
hypernyms: somatoform disorder#Noun
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disorder#Noun
disease#Noun
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condition#Noun
glosses: A mental disorder (in some classifications of such disorders, including ICD-11) that is characterized by excessive fear of or preoccupation with a serious illness, despite medical testing and reassurance to the contrary.
wikipedia: DSM-5#DSM-5-TR
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
ICD-11
hypochondriasis#Etymology
illness anxiety disorder
somatic symptom disorder
Related terms: hyperchondria
hypochondria
hypochondriac
hypochondriacal
hypochondrium
perfector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perfectors
Etymology: From perfect + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who perfects.
perfectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perfector
dallier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dalliers
Etymology: From dally + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who dallies; a procrastinator.
dalliers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dallier
dallies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dally
dallies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dally
dallying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dally
dallying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dallyings
Senses: examples: text: Nevertheless, you must know (if I am to speak honestly to you) that I do not repent me those dallyings in enchanted fields.
ref: 1902, J. M. Barrie, The Little White Bird:
glosses: dalliance
dallied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dally
procrastinator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: procrastinators
Etymology: From procrastinate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Live a procrastinator, likely die a procrastinator.
glosses: One who procrastinates; one who delays working on things.
Related terms: procrastination
procrastinators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of procrastinator
procrastinates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of procrastinate
procrastinating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of procrastinate
traversal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traversals
Etymology: From traverse + -al.
Senses: examples: text: His traversal of the mountains allowed him a view from the peak.
text: The Stephenson Locomotive Society (North Western Area) and the Manchester Locomotive Society are co-operating in running a special corridor train, to be worked by an 0-6-0 locomotive of the former Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, on Saturday, May 12, over a route which includes visits to four historic stations, ascent of the 1 in 27 Werneth Incline, and traversal of lines normally closed to passenger traffic.
ref: 1956 April, “Notes and News: Rail Tour of "Old Manchester"”, in Railway Magazine, page 273:
glosses: The act of traversing; a crossing.
glosses: The product or result of traversing.
glosses: The act of following a path or route.
Derived terms: directory traversal
path traversal