cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unisectarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unisectarian
form: most unisectarian
Etymology: From uni- + sectarian.
Senses: examples: text: A unisectarian and elastic terminology by means of which it is possible to equate the mental processes of people apparently diverse owing to the constraint imposed upon them by the peculiarities of their literary expression.
ref: 1969, R. G. Torrens, The Golden Dawn: The Inner Teachings, publ. Samuel Weiser, →ISBN, page 71:
text: It is democratically constituted and unisectarian.
ref: 1983, Nonformal Education and National Development: A Critical Assessment of Policy, Research, and Practice, Ed. John C. Bock and George John Papagiannis, publ. Praeger, →ISBN, page 277:
text: With regard to the socio-religious beliefs and values of the Gorkhas it is clear that they were not monotheistic or unisectarian.
ref: 1992, Tanka Bahadur Subba, Ethnicity, State, and Development: A Case Study of the Gorkhaland Movement in Darjeeling, Har-Anand Publications, pg. 55
glosses: Composed of one sect.
banja
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banjas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of banya.
folkish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more folkish
form: most folkish
Etymology: From folk + -ish. (Compare Old English folcisc, and German völkisch.)
Senses: glosses: Popular; referring to the culture of ordinary people.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: In the style of folk music.
topics: lifestyle
paganism
religion
glosses: Practicing a form of Heathenry that is traditional.
topics: lifestyle
paganism
religion
glosses: Practicing far-right and racist forms of Heathenry that are hostile towards minorities, Christians, and Jewish people; and also supporting Nazi influences.
raw_tags: in white supremacy and Nazism
Synonyms: word: folky
word: traditional
roman: related to far-right or racist neopagan groups
word: neo-völkisch
Derived terms: folkishly
folkishness
Related terms: folksiness
folksy
goaltending
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From goal + tending.
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A violation which occurs when a player interferes with the movement of the ball that is on its downward path toward the basket or on or within the rim of the basket, or after the ball touched the backboard.
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: The activity of a goaltender.
Synonyms: goalkeeping
netminding
goaltending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From goal + tending.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of goaltend
emancipatrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛˌmænsɪˈpeɪtɹɪsiːz/
ipa: /ɪˌmænsɪˈpeɪtɹɪsiːz/
Etymology: emancipat(e) + -trices, feminine agent plural noun suffix
Senses: glosses: plural of emancipatrix
goaltend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goaltends
form: goaltending
form: goaltended
form: goaltended
Etymology: From goal + tend.
Senses: examples: text: Amazingly, of Fly's first eight shots two are blocked, three go in, and three are goaltended.
ref: 2004, Rick Teland, Heaven is a Playground, →ISBN, page 108:
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To engage in goaltending, interference with the ball on its downward path to the basket
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: To act as a goaltender, to tend goal, to mind the nets.
Synonyms: tend goal
goalie
goalkeep
netmind
Related terms: goaltender
goaltending
tend goal
folkishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more folkishly
form: most folkishly
Etymology: From folkish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a folkish manner.
goaltended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of goaltend
goaltends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of goaltend
persecutrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: persecutrices
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin persecūtrīx. By surface analysis, persecute + -trix.
Senses: examples: text: ...and Madame de la Perriere — cruel to me when I was a little thing, a child, at her school, is my persecutrix still.
ref: 1868, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, A Lost Name:
text: She is the grand-daughter of poor Caroline Matilda, and he the grandson of her persecutrix, the Dowager Queen.
ref: 1861, Ellis Cornelia Knight, Autobiography of Miss Cornelia Knight:
synonyms: persecutress
glosses: A female persecutor.
persecutrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of persecutrix
fingerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From finger + -less.
Senses: examples: text: born with a fingerless hand
glosses: Without fingers.
Without fingers owing to either a birth defect or amputation.
raw_tags: of hands
examples: text: fingerless gloves
text: And while his signature starched collar and fingerless gloves are yet to make an appearance, his looks are already topped off with another of his soon-to-be trademarks: a pair of dark aviator sunglasses.
ref: 2024 June 3, Caitlin Chatterton, “‘Becoming Karl Lagerfeld:’ A flattering sketch of a controversial designer”, in CNN:
glosses: Without fingers.
With holes, such that the fingers are not covered.
raw_tags: of gloves
Derived terms: fingerlessness
Related terms: toeless
elderflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elderflowers
Etymology: From elder + flower.
Senses: examples: text: Ethel was yet bathing her eyes with elderflowers, preparatory to going, when her departure was again delayed by another visitor.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Disclosure”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 303:
glosses: The blossom of the elderberry, often specifically the European species Sambucus nigra
Derived terms: elderflower cordial
elderflowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elderflower
Zooey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈzoʊ.i/
Senses: examples: text: As Montana lawmakers entered the critical final days of their legislative session on Thursday, one of the state’s only transgender lawmakers, Zooey Zephyr, was left exiled from the House chamber, monitoring the debate and casting votes on a laptop as she sat on a hallway bench near a bustling snack stand.
ref: 2023 April 27, Jim Robbins, Mike Baker, Jacey Fortin, “A Transgender Lawmaker Is Exiled as Montana G.O.P. Flexes New Power”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 30 Apr 2023:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Zoë.
surtouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surtout
re-examines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of re-examine
re-examining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of re-examine
re-examined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of re-examine
feminisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feminisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of feminization.
Derived terms: refeminisation
superfeminisation
Gazan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑːzən/
enpr: gä'zən
ipa: /ˈɡæzən/
Forms: form: Gazans
form: Gazaean
Etymology: From Gaza + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Many Gazans scorn Fatah as corrupt and incompetent, and they dislike Hamas's overzealousness and repression.
ref: 2009 January 8, Nicholas D. Kristof, “The Gaza Boomerang”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Gaza (Gaza City or the Gaza Strip in general).
Gazan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑːzən/
enpr: gä'zən
ipa: /ˈɡæzən/
Forms: form: Gazaean
Etymology: From Gaza + -an.
Senses: examples: text: He expressed outrage at the massacres of Jews by Hamas, as he should have, but he has struggled to be equally clear about valuing Gazan lives.
ref: 2023 October 21, Nicholas D. Kristof, “We Must Not Kill Gazan Children to Try to Protect Israel’s Children”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Of or from Gaza.
Gazans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gazan
airforces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airforce
avengeresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of avengeress
ecumenist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ecumenist
form: most ecumenist
form: œcumenist
Etymology: From ecumenism + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: His philosophy is basically ecumenist.
glosses: Supporting, or in accord with, ecumenism
ecumenist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecumenists
form: œcumenist
Etymology: From ecumenism + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Our pastor is something of an ecumenist.
glosses: A person who espouses ecumenism
ecumenists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecumenist
axiomatizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of axiomatize
axiomatizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of axiomatize
axiomatized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of axiomatize
cardiomyopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cardiomyopathy
cauteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cautery
swooshes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swoosh
swooshes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of swoosh
censing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cense
censed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cense
swooshing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of swoosh
defragging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of defrag
Arvanitika
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑːvəˈnɪtɪkə/
rhymes: -ɪtɪkə
Forms: form: Arvanítika
form: Arvanitikà
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek αρβανίτικα (arvanítika), a dialectal variant of αλβανικά (alvaniká, “Albanian”) related to Byzantine Greek Ἀρβανίτης (Arbanítēs).
Borrowed from the albanian word and self-designation Arbër, rhotic variant of Arbën.
Senses: synonyms: Arvanitic
Arvanitika Albanian
glosses: An archaic form of the Albanian language spoken by a linguistic minority in Greece.
Related terms: Arbëresh
Arvanite
diareses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diaresis
drippier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of drippy: more drippy
drippiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of drippy: most drippy
4rum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 4rums
Senses: examples: text: Does anyone know what happened over at the ShopTalkForums?
All the posts on the Type 4rum is^([sic]) gone!!
ref: 2002 May 20, BergRace, “Posts on the Type 4rum gone??”, in rec.autos.makers.vw.aircooled (Usenet), archived from the original on 11 Feb 2009:
glosses: Abbreviation of forum.
educes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of educe
ermining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ermine
ermined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From ermine + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ermine
ermined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ermine + -ed.
Senses: examples: an ermined judge
glosses: Dressed in ermine.
examples: text: [...] one of them being, Argent, within a bordure gules, the cross, crown of thorns, scourges and nails: the field of the other is ermined gules, with the pillar of the flagellation, the spear and reed.
ref: 1851, Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Memoirs Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of Norfolk and the City of Norwich, page 201:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Having an ermine tincture in a colour other than black and white.
Derived terms: unermined
famishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of famish
famishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of famish
ferrymen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ferryman
filmographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filmography
Arbëresh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑːbəˈɹɛʃ/
rhymes: -ɛʃ
Forms: form: Arberesh
form: Arbresh
Etymology: Borrowed from Albanian arbëresh, a rhotic variant of arbënesh (“Albanian”), from Arbën (“Albanian”) + -esh (ablative suffix).
Senses: synonyms: Arbëreshë Albanian
glosses: The form of the Albanian language spoken by the Arbëreshë people in southern Italy.
Related terms: Arvanitika
fingerbreadths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fingerbreadth
fleams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fleam
flitters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɪtɚz/
rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flitter
flitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɪtɚz/
rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: plural of flitter
flittering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flitter
flittering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flitterings
Senses: examples: text: It is in this solitude, a syllable,
Out of these gawky flitterings,
Intones its single emptiness,
The savagest hollow of winter-sound.
ref: 1947, Wallace Stevens, “No Possum, No Sop, No Taters”, in Transport to Summer:
glosses: The motion of something that flitters.
flittered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flitter
fortnightlies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fortnightly
fraenula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frenula
form: frenulums
Senses: glosses: plural of fraenulum
frenula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frenulums
Senses: glosses: plural of frenulum
frenulums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frenula
Senses: glosses: plural of frenulum
gasifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gasify
ghettoizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ghettoize
ghettoizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ghettoize
ghettoized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ghettoize
hierocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hierocracy
tassled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of tasseled.
beau sabreur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəʊ saˈbɹəː/
Forms: form: beaux sabreurs
Etymology: Borrowed from French beau (“handsome”) sabreur (“swordsman”), originally applied as a nickname of Napoleon's brother-in-law Joachim Murat (1767-1815) (see Scott quotation).
Senses: examples: text: At the last fatal moment he behaved with the courage to be expected from Le beau sabreur, placed on his breast a picture of his wife, refused to have his eyes bandaged, or to use a seat, and received six balls in his head, and fell without a groan.
ref: 1817, anonymous author, The Edinburgh Annual Register for 1815, page 198:
text: Murat met his fate as became le beau sabreur. He fastened his wife's picture on his breast, refused to have his eyes bandaged, or to use a seat, received six balls through his heart, and met the death he had braved with impunity in the thick of many conflicts, and sought in vain in many others.
ref: 1827, Sir Walter Scott, The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, page 703:
text: Resembling Murat in personal enterprise and fearlessness, he also resembled that prince of beaux sabreurs in carrying his love of dress into the very field of battle.
ref: 1886 November, Thomas Carlyle, “Field-Marshal Viscount Combermere”, in Fraser's Magazine, volume LXXIV, number CCCCXLIII, page 572:
text: No longer was she that beau sabreur of suffrage brandishing her sword—for the sheath had outlived the sword as doubtless ... the body had outlived the soul.
Contextual note: In the source, "she" is frequently described with masculine (technically neutral) language ("She was a man of the world.")
ref: 1965, Marguerite Young, Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, Scribner, page 466:
text: Kneller's portrait shows a handsome, even slightly effeminate young man, arrogant, perhaps petulant, but for many, the ideal beau sabreur.
ref: 2009, John Sadler, Glencoe, Amberley, published 2009, page 66:
glosses: A gallant warrior; a handsome or dashing adventurer.
wikipedia: Joachim Murat
Related terms: belle sabreuse
itsier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of itsy: more itsy
itsiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of itsy: most itsy
janitresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of janitress
ultracrisp
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultracrisp
form: most ultracrisp
Etymology: From ultra- + crisp.
Senses: examples: text: Sterling Hayden leads a superb cast, but Stanley Kubrick's ultracrisp filmmaking is the real star.
ref: 2005 April 4, David Sterritt, “An offer Hollywood can't refuse”, in Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: Extremely crisp
Related terms: ultracrispy
turbinado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turbinados
form: turbinadoes
Etymology: From Spanish turbinado (literally “churned”).
Senses: examples: text: Turbinado is usually made by squeezing the juice out of crushed sugar cane, then spinning what's left after evaporation through a huge centrifuge.
ref: 2006, Harley Pasternak, Myatt Murphy, The 5 Factor Diet, →ISBN, page 70:
glosses: A type of sugar made from the extract of sugar cane
laryngectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laryngectomy
leniencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leniency
ultraraces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ultrarace
ultrarace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultraraces
Etymology: From ultra- + race.
Senses: examples: text: With humidity approaching 100 percent almost every year, Larry and Penny Thompson Memorial Park is not an easy place in which to endure an ultrarace.
ref: 1998 August 10, “The Long Haul: 50-Mile Run Tests Limits”, in Miami Herald, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2016, retrieved 25 Dec 2008, page 1D:
text: Usually, tragedy strikes an ultrarace on a runner-by-runner basis. […] Many ultraraces do not include much nourishment from organizers.
ref: 2021 May 25, Matthew Futterman, “‘I Am So Freaked Out. I Can’t Even Get My Mind Around It.’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2021:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A race which is longer than a marathon.
underdogism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underdoggism
Etymology: From underdog + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: That creed, as it emerges from a study of the sacred oxen, is underdogism, which may be called egalitarianism or the yearning to level; […]
ref: 1980, Lester O'Shea, Tampering with the Machinery, →ISBN, page 131:
glosses: Tenacious support for the underdog, or disadvantaged party
pufferies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puffery
lentiviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lentivirus
unexplainably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unexplainably
form: most unexplainably
Etymology: From unexplainable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The body and mind are unexplainably connected.
text: His salary is unexplainably high.
glosses: In a way or to an extent that cannot be explained.
Synonyms: english: inexplicably; unexplainably; the word is much more frequent than
translation: inexplicably; unexplainably; the word is much more frequent than
word: inexplicably
rumbustiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rumbustiously
form: most rumbustiously
Etymology: From rumbustious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I hate to fault a play that so rumbustiously turns over so many brilliant ideas.
ref: 2008 December 19, Caroline Ash, “To Make Aire Dance”, in Science:
glosses: In a boisterous or unruly manner
Related terms: rumbustiousness
reproductively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From reproductive + -ly.
Senses: examples: a reproductively isolated population
glosses: In terms of, or by means of, reproduction
amateur night
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amateur nights
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: amateur hour
glosses: A session in a club, theatre etc. in which amateurs perform, rather than professionals.
Related terms: open mic
compositionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From compositional + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The two minerals are compositionally distinct.
text: Several of the larger works in the exhibit are composed of multiple prints arranged with a space between the edges to gie the overall appearance of panes in a window or a grid. This is more effective in some cases than others. The largest piece in the show "Wet Weather" (uttilizing 16 separate prints pieced closely together) is weak compositionally and seems to have been done hurriedly and with less resolve than some of the other big works such as "Night Rehearsal" which is a wonderfully animated interplay of form, light, and shadow.
ref: 1987 April 25, Tom Grabosky, “What Is a "Gay Artist"?”, in Gay Community News, page 6:
text: The central painting, depicting Circe's palace, is compositionally and stylistically different than the rest of the frieze.
ref: 2009, Umberto Pappalardo, The Splendor of Roman Wall Painting, page 91:
text: Compositionally there is no great distinction between cell wall and cell surface, both are relatively transparent compounds, but both parts of the cell are of high significance in Biology due to their central role in cell functioning.
ref: 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Position vectors, homologous chromosomes and gamma rays: Promoting disciplinary literacy through Secondary Phrase Lists”, in English for Specific Purposes, →DOI, page 8:
glosses: With regard to composition.
examples: text: In particular, its meaning will normally also be retrieved from storage rather than computed compositionally, from the constituents.
ref: 2004, Östen Dahl, The Growth and Maintenance of Linguistic Complexity, →ISBN, page 180:
glosses: By means of composition.
Derived terms: subcompositionally
multicourse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + course.
Senses: examples: text: a multicourse dinner
text: The bold, straightforward cheesiness of a good mac’n’cheese, the simple, eat-with-your-hands casualness of burgers and fried chicken are still part of our gastronomic makeup, even when we are sitting down to an elegant multicourse dégustation.
ref: 2011, Kit Wohl, “Introduction”, in The James Beard Foundation’s Best of the Best: A 25ᵗʰ Anniversary Celebration of America’s Outstanding Chefs, San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, →ISBN, section “A Uniquely American Cuisine”, page 11, column 1:
glosses: Having multiple courses.
foxtails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foxtail
granddaddies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of granddaddy
oohing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ooh
oohing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oohings
Senses: examples: the oohings and aahings of the crowd
glosses: An ooh sound.
skeered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more skeered
form: most skeered
Senses: examples: text: ‘Datʼs what makes me skeered.’
ref: 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Virago Press (2018), page 16:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of scared.
skeered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: ‘De noise uh de owls skeered me.’
ref: 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Virago Press (2018), page 22:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of scared.
posadas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of posada
bluesman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bluesmen
Etymology: From blues + man.
Senses: examples: text: But creepily enough, from '30s delta bluesman Robert Johnson's beating-until-satisfied "Me and Devil Blues" to Jackie Gleason's 1954 "One Of These Days — Pow!" to Dion's face-slapping 1962 "Little Diane" to Lou Reed exclaiming "you better hit her" in "There She Goes Again" to the Intruders chasing girls and beating 'em up in their 1968 beach-soul hit "Cowboys to Girls" to the "wifebeating has been around for 10,000 years" headline fronting Guns N' Roses Lies, those in favor seem more prevalent.
ref: 1997, Chuck Eddy, The Accidental Evolution of Rock'n'roll, page 22:
glosses: a male blues musician
Related terms: blueswoman
jazzman
bluesmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bluesman
jerrycans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jerrycan
fetishize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fetishizes
form: fetishizing
form: fetishized
form: fetishized
form: fetichise
form: fetichize
form: fetishise
Etymology: From fetish + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Our society has fetishized personal wealth.
text: John's unteachers ignore the letter of their target text, while fetishizing the letter of their own.
ref: 1998, Catherine Brown, Contrary Things: Exegesis, Dialectic, and the Poetics of Didacticism, page 48:
text: London, the only actor who feels like she’s playing a real character and not a public-service announcement, reacts realistically to scenarios where Shelley fetishizes her Blackness, but it’s all for naught.
ref: 2023 January 27, Odie Henderson, “Bungle fever”, in The Boston Globe, volume 303, number 27, page G4, column 2:
text: “Asian women on-screen, especially in America and Hollywood, have been so sexualized and fetishized for the benefit of other people’s stories or jokes,” Ashley says. “And we’re like, ‘We’re gonna go balls to the wall, further than anyone’s gone with Asian women.’”
ref: 2023 June 15, Kat Moon, “Ashley Park’s Main Character Energy From ‘Joy Ride’ Is Here To Stay: ‘I’m Treating Myself Like A Lead Now’”, in Women's Health:
glosses: To make the subject of (often sexual) obsession.
examples: text: Isou and Lemaitre further introduced scriptural systems (metagraphics, or postwriting, and hypergraphy, respectively) that fetishize the graphic as irreducible to vocalization.
ref: 2001, Steve McCaffery, Prior to Meaning: The Protosemantic and Poetics, page 171:
glosses: To make into a fetish, or magical object.
Derived terms: fetishizable
fetishization
fetishizer
nonfetishized
unfetishized
fetishise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fetishises
form: fetishising
form: fetishised
form: fetishised
Etymology: From fetish + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: "First it argues that becoming with the outside does not fetishise minoritarians, such as woman or animal."
ref: 2011, Frida Beckman, editor, Deleuze and Sex:
text: In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra–wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
ref: 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19:
text: We’d have more time to campaign for a new working culture that respects love, family and friendship instead of fetishising “hard work”. And most importantly of all we could build an economy that enables people to flourish, instead of one that is entirely fixated on growth.
ref: 2016 October 26, Anna Coote, “The fetishisation of work is making us miserable. Let’s learn to live again”, in The Guardian:
text: Instead, we so often say “yes” to favours, requests and unrealistic parenting expectations because we fear being accused of being rude, mean or – shock horror – selfish (one of the worst things you can call a woman in our culture that fetishises female self-sacrifice).
ref: 2021 September 5, Grace Jennings-Edquist, “In a society that fetishises female self-sacrifice, saying ‘no’ saved me”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of fetishize.
fetishizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fetishize
fetishized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fetishize
fetishizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fetishize
fetishizing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fetishizings
Senses: glosses: The act or process by which something is fetishized.
fetishises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fetishise
fetishising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fetishise
fetishised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fetishise
signee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: signees
Etymology: From sign + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: Our team has landed some great signees in this draft.
glosses: One who signs a contract, especially in athletic contexts
Related terms: signer
signatory
outrebounded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outrebound
pointedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pointednesses
Etymology: From pointed + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The pointedness of her criticism was impossible to miss.
glosses: The quality of being pointed
Synonyms: pointiness
sharpness
spikiness
Related terms: point
pointed
pointedly
pointy
outrebound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outrebounds
form: outrebounding
form: outrebounded
form: outrebounded
Etymology: From out- + rebound.
Senses: examples: text: We outrebounded the other team, but our offense wasn't good enough.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To get more rebounds than
bisectarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bisectarian
form: most bisectarian
form: bi-sectarian
Etymology: From bi- + sectarian.
Senses: examples: text: The Northern Ireland Labor Party, bisectarian and from 1945 committed to partition, has been an exception to the opposition's typical character.
ref: 1972, Northern Ireland: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, Second Session, February 28 and 29 and March 1, 1972, publ. United States Congress, House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Europe, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., pg. 546
text: The bisectarian prism tended not only to relegate to irrelevance the concerns and interests of the other sects, but also to cause the Sunni and Maronite leaders only too aware of one another, tended by the same token to be exclusivist and somehow to abolish from view the existence of other sects, Christian and Muslim alike.
ref: 1991, Leila Tarazi Fawaz, Fida Nasrallah, and Nadim Shehadi, State and Society in Lebanon, publ. Centre for Lebanese Studies, Tufts University, →ISBN, page 31:
text: With U.S. forces drawing down and a bisectarian government emerging in Baghdad, the "mainstream" rejectionists have lost their rationale.
ref: 2006, Bing West, "What Lies Ahead" in "Handing Off a War, Dispatches From Iraq," Slate, May 25, 2006
glosses: Pertaining to sectarianism regarding exactly two sects.
outrebounds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outrebound
outrebounding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outrebound
proseccos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prosecco, an alternative capitalization of Prosecco.
bayfront
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪˌfɹʌnt/
Etymology: From bay + front.
Senses: examples: text: She ushered us into her spacious bayfront office.
glosses: Adjoining or fronting on a bay.
bayfront
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪˌfɹʌnt/
Forms: form: bayfronts
Etymology: From bay + front.
Senses: examples: text: Now that most of the cities and counties bordering on the bay have formulated plans for their bayfronts, it is time to study the relationships among these many schemes, considering whether there are conflicts, duplications, opportunities overlooked, and needs unmet.
ref: 1963, Mel Scott, The Future of San Francisco Bay, page 88:
glosses: The strip of land running along the shore of a bay
Related terms: beachfront
lakefront
oceanfront
riverfront
bellinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bellini, an alternative capitalization of Bellini.
cartoonish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cartoonish
form: most cartoonish
Etymology: From cartoon + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: She was grinning a big, cartoonish grin.
text: Since first tossing its cartoonish, good-time cock-rock to the masses in the early ’00s, The Darkness has always fallen back on this defense: The band is a joke, but hey, it’s a good joke. With Hot Cakes—the group’s third album, and first since reforming last year—the laughter has died. In its place is the sad wheeze of the last surviving party balloon slowly, listlessly deflating.
ref: 2012 August 21, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, in The Onion AV Club:
synonyms: cartoonesque
cartoony
glosses: Exaggerated or caricatured, in the manner of a cartoon
Derived terms: cartoonishly
cartoonishness
bayfronts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bayfront
bellini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bellinis
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Bellini.
cyberdefense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberdefenses
form: cyberdefence
Etymology: From cyber- + defense.
Senses: examples: text: Bombshelter would ultimately become the first line of cyberdefense for the US military and its NATO allies.
ref: 1999 July 24, Frank Vizard, “War.com”, in Popular Science, →ISSN:
text: That was driven home late last year, when a malicious software program thought to have been unleashed by a criminal gang in Eastern Europe suddenly appeared after easily sidestepping the world’s best cyberdefenses.
ref: 2009 February 15, John Markoff, “Do We Need a New Internet?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Defense against internet attack.
Coordinate terms: cybersafety
cybersecurity
multisectarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multisectarian
form: most multisectarian
form: multi-sectarian
Etymology: From multi- + sectarian.
Senses: examples: text: … and that from God springs the laws of morality (a simpler and better term than "religion" in these multisectarian days, when the term too often means a splitting of straws over the veriest trifles)
ref: 1972, Northern Ireland: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, Second Session, February 28 and 29 and March 1, 1972, publ. United States Congress, House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Europe, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., pg. 546
text: The political sequel to Separatism is the neutral state presiding over a multisectarian society.
ref: 1944, Ralph Barton Perry, Puritanism and Democracy, Vanguard Press, page 346:
text: Hundreds of Palestinians have been forced to leave — 10 percent of Bethlehem's Christian population has emigrated in the past few years alone, which has affected the multisectarian social fabric of the city where Christ was born.
ref: 2008, Saree Makdisi, Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 196:
glosses: Composed of multiple sects; pertaining to sectarianism regarding multiple sects.
cosmogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosmograms
Etymology: From cosmo- + -gram.
Senses: glosses: A flat geometric figure depicting a cosmology
Hyponyms: mandala
schema
Related terms: cosmography
porchetta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /poɹˈkɛtə/
Forms: form: porchettas
Etymology: An unadapted borrowing from Italian porchetta.
Senses: glosses: A savory and moist boneless pork roast, part of Italian cuisine.
postbailout
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + bailout.
Senses: examples: text: This concern with the public goods aspect of shipping led it to explicitly design the industry's postbailout structure.
ref: 1987, Danny Leipziger, Korea: Managing the Industrial Transition, →ISBN, page 141:
glosses: Following a bailout, especially a government bailout of private business
nonplayoff
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + playoff.
Senses: examples: text: The team played well in nonplayoff games.
text: Fitzsimmons guided the young Kings to a record this season - the best mark among nonplayoff teams.
ref: 1983 April 20, “Attendance woes bother Kansas City coach”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Not included in a given sport's playoffs
revelers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reveler, the US spelling of reveller.
ruffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ruff
shearling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shearlings
Etymology: From Middle English scherling; equivalent to shear + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: They are rarely fattened when shearlings, the usual period being after they have lost their second fleece, and are wethers.
ref: 1853, David Low, On the Domesticated Animals of the British Isles, page 97:
glosses: A sheep that has been shorn for the first time
examples: text: Her coat was lined with shearling.
glosses: A sheepskin or lambskin that has gone through a limited shearing process so that the fibers are of uniform depth
Coordinate terms: roughy
clippy
wether
hog
deductibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˌdʌktəˈbɪlɪti/
ipa: /dɪˌdʊktəˈbɪlɪti/
Forms: form: deductibilities
Etymology: From deductible + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: There is no doubt about the deductibility of these expenses.
text: In several months you’re likely to have a clearer picture on how your state intends to treat your forgiven PPP loan and the deductibility of your business expenses not just for tax year 2020 but also tax year 2021.
ref: 2021 February 23, Jeanne Sahadi, “So you got a PPP loan? Here’s what that means for your state taxes”, in CNN Business:
glosses: The ability to be deducted, such as from one's taxes
Derived terms: nondeductibility
feistiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From feisty + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: They didn't think she had the feistiness the part required.
ref: 2006, Michael G. Fitzgerald, Boyd Magers, Ladies of the Western:
text: The feistiness off the pitch translated on to it too - referee Kateryna Monzul awarded two early yellow cards for innocuous fouls by England, and the crowd were frustrated for much of the first half when decisions didn't go their way.
ref: 2022 July 31, Emma Sanders, “England 2-1 Germany”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: The quality or state of being feisty
shearlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shearling
deductibilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deductibility
superbeings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superbeing
forgottenness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From forgotten + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Abandonment of being is the ground of the forgottenness of being.
ref: 1938, Parvis Evad, Kenneth Maly, “Echo”, in Contributions to Philosophy: From Enowning, translation of original by Martin Heidegger, published 1999, →ISBN, page 80:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The quality or state of being forgotten
Related terms: forgetfulness
traditional owner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traditional owners
Senses: examples: text: The Aboriginal Land Rights (NT) Act 1976 (ALRA) has provided an avenue for Indigenous people in the Northern Territory to come to a court and give evidence to a Commonwealth appointed judge, known as the Land Commissioner, as to why he should ‘find them’ the traditional owners of certain tracts of Crown land.
ref: 2005, John Bradley, Kathryn Seton, “2: Self-determination or ‘Deep Colonising’: Laind Claims, Colonial Authority and Indigenous Representation”, in Barbara Hocking, editor, Unfinished Constitutional Business?: Rethinking Indigenous Self-Determination, page 34:
text: 2006, Dermot Smyth, Case Study 20.9: Garig Gunak Barlu National Park, Australia, Michael Lockwood, Graeme Worboys, Ashish Kothari, Managing Protected Areas: A Global Guide, page 539,
During the 1950s, all of the remaining Aboriginal traditional owners were removed to a government settlement on nearby Croker Island. In 1981, the establishment of Gurig National Park was agreed to by the Northern Territory government and the Aboriginal traditional owners in order to resolve a pending land claim under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act of the Northrn Territory. Rather than proceed with the claim, the traditional owners consented to the establishment of the national park in return to regaining title to their native lands.
text: The decision of one senior traditional owner to stand outside the negotiation process militated against an even more favourable outcome.
ref: 2009, Richard Greggory Johnson, A Twenty-First Century Approach to Teaching Social Justice, page 225:
glosses: A descendant of the tribe or ethnic group that occupied a particular region before European settlement, especially when that occupation is recognised by Australian law.
superbeing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈs(j)uːpəˈbiːɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsupɚˈbiɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsupɚˈbiŋ/
Forms: form: superbeings
Etymology: From super- + being.
Senses: examples: text: The detective’s appeal to the Spaniard probably lay in the fact that, like Don Juan, he was a superbeing. This is doubtless, too, the explanation of his attraction for the rest of humanity; but the interesting feature of his Spanish vogue is that in fiction and in drama he was elaborated, if not improved, upon.
ref: 1931, The Modern Language Forum 1931-06: Volume 16 Issue 3, Modern and Classical Language Association, page 90:
text: When they undertook to describe in words the ineffable nature of the supreme reality, Erigena called it the superbeing which is the being of all things; Anselm, that than which nothing greater can be thought; Abelard, a trinity of power, wisdom, and goodness; Bernard, the bridegroom of the soul; Isaac, that which exists through, of, and in itself.
ref: 1951, George Bosworth Burch, Early Medieval Philosophy, King's Crown Press, page 122:
text: Possibly such events were exceptional, but the activities of shamans among the masses of the people in early medieval times probably owe the little attention they have received to the failure of documentation. What we get in the best literature is an emphasis on the refined offshoots of shamans—the transcendent superbeings (hsien) of Taoism.
ref: 1973, Edward H. Schafer, The Divine Woman: Dragon Ladies and Rain Maidens in T'ang Literature, North Point Press, →ISBN, page 14:
text: Until the 1960s and 1970s when movie stars, comic-book superbeings, and other mythic figures threatened to crowd out more accessible models of behavior and understanding, the lawyer-hero and the writer-hero occupied an important place in the spectrum of postmartial heroism.
ref: 1979, George Bosworth Burch, Harvard Guide to Contemporary American Writing, Belknap Press of Harvard, →ISBN, page 141:
text: It traces the growth of homo gestalt with the uniting of six lovely outcasts of society who have psi powers and come together as a hive mind, thus creating a gestalt super-being.
ref: 2005, Michael Ashley, Transformations: The History of the Science Fiction Magazine 1950 to 1970, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, page 133:
glosses: A human being or other entity with certain abilities and other attributes that beyond those of a normal or real being of the same kind.
Hyponyms: angel
archangel
deity
demigod
demon
divinity
god
hero
mage
magician
mystic
sorcerer
superhero
superhuman
supervillain
warlock
witch
wizard
mune
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Formed under the implication that the word immune was formed in modern English with the prefix im- and another word. The word immune was actually formed from a prefix in Latin immūnis (“exempt from public service”), from in- (“not”) + mūnus (“service”).
Senses: examples: text: You know, of course, that the writer of the book is immune to shame—that only the peddler of said book is mune—and, I must say that the most shameful person or persons involved are those that condone—such as Mr. Rexroth[…]
ref: 2003, Gregory Corso, An Accidental Autobiography: The Selected Letters of Gregory Corso, New Directions Publishing, →ISBN, page 44:
text: Mac: But no matter what she does, they don't mind. It's like they're immune. Bloo: Well, we'll just have to make them mune by any means necessary.
ref: 2005, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, "Duchess of Wails" (season 3, episode 5)
text: My immune system is so fucked it's now a mune system.
ref: 2012 December 24, Stephen Brocklehurst, Lifeaholic, New Generation Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: Not immune; subject or vulnerable to (something).
blowout coils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blowout coil
superbright
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superbright
form: most superbright
Etymology: From super- + bright.
Senses: examples: text: Modern traffic lights use superbright LEDs.
glosses: Extremely luminous
Derived terms: superbrightness
unbilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + billed.
Senses: examples: an unbilled invoice
topics: business
glosses: Not yet having been billed
examples: text: Thanks to the rain, the electrical setup is life-threatening, so the unbilled Melanie takes the stage with her acoustic guitar: Close to It All and Momma Momma are truly intense.
ref: 2019 August 15, Bob Stanley, “'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs”, in The Guardian:
glosses: not on the billing at a festival
insignis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of insignis pine.
synonyms: word: insignis pine
underruff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underruffs
form: underruffing
form: underruffed
form: underruffed
Etymology: From under- + ruff.
Senses: examples: text: And so, at trick five, when South ruffed a diamond with the board's queen of clubs, East, having a discard to make, found a gorgeous one— he underruffed with seven of trumps!
ref: 1973, Fred L. Karpin, The Art of Card Reading at Bridge, →ISBN, page 149:
topics: bridge
games
glosses: To ruff with a trump lower than the trump already played by one's opponent
underruff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underruffs
Etymology: From under- + ruff.
Senses: glosses: An act of underruffing
Related terms: ruff
overruff
underruffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underruff
underruffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underruff
underruffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underruff