cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
big one
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big ones
form: big 'un
Senses: examples: text: Wood agreed. ‘This is it.’
‘The big one,’ said Fred Weasley.
‘The one we’ve all been waiting for,’ said George.
‘We know Oliver’s speech by heart,’ Fred told Harry.
ref: 1997 June 26, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], chapter XI, in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter; 1), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: Something important; (with 'the') the most important one, (especially sports) the big game, the big play.
examples: text: “Little Caesar stopped by. You guessed it. Edward G. Robinson himself, and paid four big ones for the seated figure. […]”
ref: 1988, Arthur Allen Cohen, Acts of Theft, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 166:
text: He smiled faintly and dropped 100 big ones down on the bar.
ref: 2002 September 23, Hunter S. Thompson, “Dr. Thompson Is Back from Beirut”, reprinted in Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness: Modern History from the Sports Desk, Simon and Schuster (2004), page 144
text: You could spend the five big ones and the client could get downsized to a Jiffy Lube janitor the next week.
ref: 2002, George Avgerakis, Desktop Video Studio Bible: Producing Video, DVD, and Websites for Profit, McGraw-Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 364:
glosses: One hundred or one thousand dollars.
examples: text: The visitors won't know the difference because […] after they’ve dropped five hundred big ones at the factory outlet stores, an extra dollar will seem like the bargain of the century.
ref: 2007, Sam Venable, Someday I May Find Honest Work: A Newspaper Humorist's Life, University of Tennessee Press, →ISBN, page 157:
text: I spent seventy-five big ones to have my computer crash.
ref: 2007, Wilson Marsh, Ouiji (novella), in Six After Midnight, Steel Moon Publishing, page 78
text: “[…] I paid 150,000 big ones for her to kill herself in front of the biggest wigs in Hollywood? […]”
ref: 2008, Daniel Edward Craig, Murder at Hotel Cinema, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN, page 101:
glosses: A dollar.
Coordinate terms: big two
Big Three
Big Four
big five
big six
big eight
big one
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the big one
form: big 'un
Senses: examples: text: to bite the big one, buy the big one
translation: to die
english: to die
glosses: Death.
manuscript paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manuscript papers
Senses: glosses: paper with blank printed staves for writing music
Synonyms: music paper
staff paper
big ones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: dollars.
Confederation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: In Canada, the federal union of provinces and territories which formed Canada, beginning with New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Quebec, and later including all the others.
glosses: In Canada, the federal union of provinces and territories which formed Canada, beginning with New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Quebec, and later including all the others.
In Canada, the date of Confederation; 1 July 1867.
glosses: In Newfoundland, the political union of Newfoundland with Canada.
glosses: In Newfoundland, the political union of Newfoundland with Canada.
In Newfoundland, the date of Confederation; 31 March 1949.
Derived terms: Confederation Day
Confederation poets
Related terms: Confederate
confederationist
side-saddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: side-saddles
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sidesaddle.
Derived terms: side-saddle flower
side-saddle
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sidesaddle.
play structure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: play structures
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of playstructure.
slapdown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slapdowns
form: slap down
form: slap-down
Etymology: From slap + down.
Senses: examples: text: Jens Spahn, a senior legislator for the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU), said rarely had a government been given such a comprehensive slapdown.
ref: 2023 October 8, “German state elections: voters turn to the right in rebuke to Scholz’s coalition”, in The Guardian, sourced from Reuters, →ISSN:
text: The truth panic had the unwelcome side-effect of emboldening those it sought to oppose. “Fake” was one of Trump’s favourite slap-downs, especially to news outlets that reported unwelcome facts about him and his associates. A booming Maga media further amplified the president’s lies and denials.
ref: 2025 October 2, William Davies, “A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0”, in The Guardian:
glosses: An instance of slapping down, especially a humiliation or rejection.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The period after the initial impact of an object with a surface through the subsequent impact of the object on that surface, as an aircraft landing or a container falling.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
seismology
glosses: The impact of a layer of earth falling after having been lifted by an explosion or an earthquake or similar large-scale disturbance.
water brash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From water + brash.
Senses: examples: text: Pyrosis is, in a minor degree, a very common attendant on various forms of dyspepsia; but in some instances it is itself so urgent and distressing, presenting itself as so prominent a feature of gastric malady, that it throws most of the other well-known symptoms into the shade, so as to claim the painful attention of the sufferer and the special observation of the practitioner. Hence it has acquired a distinct place in Nosology; and hence it is, that in common parlance it is distinguished by the term water-brash or water-qualm.
ref: 1841 April, Thomas West, M.D., A Treatise on Pyrosis Idiopathica Or Water Brash, London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →PMID, archived from the original on 26 May 2015, page 1:
text: PYROSIS. This disease is more frequently called water brash and sometimes heart burn. It is characterized by the raising of a hot acrid fluid into the throat, causing a sensation of burning from the stomach upward, even to the mouth. It is a very frequent attendant upon many forms of dyspepsia[…]
ref: 1849, Frederick Hollick, M.D., The Matron's Manual Of Midwifery, New York: T. W. Strong:
text: Hypersalivation with heartburn, commonly referred to as waterbrash, may be a protective response to gastroesophageal reflux.
ref: 1986 June, James F. Helm, M.D., “Esophageal Acid Clearance”, in Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, volume 8, Supplement 1, New York: Raven Press, Inc., →DOI, →PMID, page 5:
text: “water brash” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN; reproduced on TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2025, retrieved 2024-10-25: “Regurgitation of watery acid from the stomach.”.
synonyms: pyrosis
water qualm
glosses: Excessive salivation coupled with varying degrees of regurgitation into the esophagus, resulting in upper gastrointestinal symptoms such as heartburn (as the regurgitated stomach contents are typically acidic).
glosses: Heartburn.
Related terms: acid reflux
reimbursal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reimbursals
Etymology: From reimburse + -al.
Senses: examples: text: For in the case of health and safety regulations, at least, there is the principle that the beneficiary has no right to refuse reimbursal of expenditures...
ref: 1981, Sten Ebbesen, Commentators and commentaries on Aristotle's Sophistici elenchi:
text: Reimbursal of the newest products receives the most scrutiny.
ref: 1991, V Moses, Ronald E Cape, Biotechnology, the science and the business:
glosses: Reimbursement.
Christmas list
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Christmas lists
Etymology: Christmas + list
Senses: examples: text: The number one item on my Christmas list was a way out of my marriage. The way I looked at it, this wasn't quite the same thing as a divorce.
ref: 2002, Natalie Cole, Digby Diehl, Angel on My Shoulder:
text: A handbag was way out of my league and so was a silver necklace that I wouldn't even put on my Christmas list, since no one in my family could afford it.
ref: 2006, Lori Avocato, Deep Sea Dead:
hypernyms: wish list
glosses: A written list of items one wants to receive as presents for Christmas.
examples: text: If you have been on my Christmas list for a while, you are aware that both Momma and Daddy have not been well for the past three years.
ref: 2002, Linda Scott DeRosier, Creeker: A Woman's Journey:
text: What a great idea for the many friends and neighbors on your Christmas list!
ref: 2003, Karmen Quinney, Greeting cards for the first time:
antonyms: naughty list
glosses: A written list of people one is going to send Christmas cards, round robin letters, or presents to at Christmastime.
Related terms: friends list
strokable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more strokable
form: most strokable
Etymology: From stroke + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Even the beasts wore rich chains about their necks. Yet nobody’s eyes were on them or the children. The living and strokable gold of Aslan’s mane outshone them all.
ref: 1951, C. S. Lewis, chapter 15, in Prince Caspian, Collins, published 1998:
text: She was relieved that she had no worries about being less attractive or sexual than the actresses in the X-rated videotape: these women had gross measurements and obvious implants (as well as their own share of slight asymmetries, she noted), as well as dyed, bleached, and badly damaged hair that didn’t look touchable or strokable at all.
ref: 1999, David Foster Wallace, “Adult World (I)”, in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Little, Brown & Co., page 65:
glosses: Suitable for stroking.
Synonyms: pettable
informationless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From information + -less.
Senses: examples: text: And what is an informationless word in one language can be very useful in another language or context...
ref: 1998, Roger Hersch, Jacques André, Heather Brown, Electronic publishing, artistic imaging, and digital typography:
text: ...compress the data into more manageable chunks (eg, using signal-to-noise eigenmodes to get rid of informationless noisy components of the map).
ref: 2004, Robert G Crittenden, Neil Turok, Structure formation in the Universe:
text: A good example of an informationless key is a UUID (essentially a random 128 bit value, guaranteed to be unique) which is typically displayed as hex string.
ref: 2008, Marc Brevoort, Growing Better Software:
glosses: Devoid of information; meaningless.
Derived terms: informationlessness
androsphinx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈændɹəsˌfɪŋks/
Forms: form: androsphinxes
form: androsphinges
form: andro-sphinx
Etymology: From andro- + sphinx.
Senses: glosses: A sphinx with the head of a man.
Coordinate terms: gynosphinx
Related terms: criosphinx
hieracosphinx
pit viper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pit vipers
form: pitviper
Senses: glosses: Any of various venomous snakes, of the subfamily Crotalinae, found in Asia and the Americas, with a deep pit or fossa on either side of the head that enables them to detect prey by infrared.
Synonyms: crotalid
pit adder
Derived terms: green pit viper
lowlands hump-nosed pit viper
rat-tailed pit viper
shore pit viper
Tonkin pit viper
Related terms: crotaline
androsphinxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of androsphinx
pantied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From panty + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Finally the dancer in question turned her back to the audience, lifted her grass skirt over her head for a quick view of her pantied posterior […]
ref: 1983, Nancy Milford, Zelda: a Biography:
text: Deliberately settling atop his groin, she pressed her cotton-pantied crotch against him and wiggled.
ref: 1991, Deborah Smith, Miracle:
text: With the jeans part way down and the upper slopes of her white-pantied bottom exposed, Penny gasped as Mark's knuckles grazed her bare stomach.
ref: 2006, Rod Waleman, The Stepdaughters:
text: […] black-satin, sophisticated woman-of-the-world, or a demure, white-pantied, schoolgirl virgin.
ref: 2007, Shirley Conran, Lace:
text: I would rather he was a brown-pantied little fascist Brownie than a Cub Scout but better neither than either.
ref: 2008, Chris Adrian, A Better Angel:
synonyms: bepantied
glosses: Dressed in panties.
Derived terms: unpantied
hard disc drive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hard disc drives
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hard disk drive.
knickered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From knicker + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing knickerbockers.
glosses: Wearing knickers; pantied.
Derived terms: unknickered
knickerbocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See knickerbockers.
Senses: examples: text: ...with a rudimentary beard to set it off, a dirty shirt, a rifle, a coat over my arm, and half a grouse in my knickerbocker pocket.
ref: 1892, The Twentieth Century:
text: His knickerbocker days are gone,
His last long stockings laid away:
My baby has his trousers on, —
My boy becomes a man to-day.
ref: 1905, Daniel Leavens Cady, Stray Breaths of North East Song:
glosses: Of or relating to knickerbockers.
raw_tags: as a modifier
glosses: A linsey-woolsey fabric with a rough knotted surface on the right side, formerly used for women's dresses.
Derived terms: knickerbockered
knickerbocker glory
includible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From include + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Suitable or available for inclusion.
Synonyms: english: historically less common than includible
translation: historically less common than includible
word: includable
alt: several orders of magnitude rarer than includible
word: inclusible
Derived terms: unincludible
call names
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calls names
form: calling names
form: called names
form: called names
Senses: examples: text: [A]s [US president Donald Trump] turns up the pressure – calling the Fed chair [Jerome Powell] names and questioning his acumen – he’s ignited a firestorm in legal and financial circles.
ref: 2025 April 21, Laurent Belsie, “Markets falter as Trump attacks Fed’s independence – and its chair”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: To use abusive or insulting language, engage in name-calling.
Related terms: call someone every name in the book
call someone everything but a child of God
effusiometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: effusiometers
Etymology: From effusion + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A device that measures the rate of effusion of a gas.
effusiometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of effusiometer
sea shanties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea shanty
sea chanty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea chanties
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sea shanty.
tigerfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tigerfishes
form: tigerfish
Etymology: From tiger + fish.
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of species of fish with stripes on their bodies, otherwise fearsome appearance, or aggressive predatory behavior, including, among others:
Any fish in the genus Hydrocynus of characins.
glosses: Any of a number of species of fish with stripes on their bodies, otherwise fearsome appearance, or aggressive predatory behavior, including, among others:
A cichlid of species Rhamphochromis longiceps, native to the Lake Malawi basin.
glosses: Any of a number of species of fish with stripes on their bodies, otherwise fearsome appearance, or aggressive predatory behavior, including, among others:
The jarbua terapon and related species in the family Terapontidae.
qualifier: Asia
glosses: Any of a number of species of fish with stripes on their bodies, otherwise fearsome appearance, or aggressive predatory behavior, including, among others:
Any fish in the percoid genus Datnioides.
glosses: Any of a number of species of fish with stripes on their bodies, otherwise fearsome appearance, or aggressive predatory behavior, including, among others:
Any barracuda.
glosses: Any of a number of species of fish with stripes on their bodies, otherwise fearsome appearance, or aggressive predatory behavior, including, among others:
Any of the family Pimelodidae of catfishes.
glosses: Any of a number of species of fish with stripes on their bodies, otherwise fearsome appearance, or aggressive predatory behavior, including, among others:
Any of the species Hoplias malabaricus and related characins in the family Erythrinidae.
glosses: Any of a number of species of fish with stripes on their bodies, otherwise fearsome appearance, or aggressive predatory behavior, including, among others:
Any of the genus Pterois of east Asian lionfishes.
glosses: A sea cucumber of the Indian Ocean (Bohadschia atra).
Derived terms: elongate tigerfish
baclava
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑːvə
Forms: form: baclavas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of baklava.
fan bases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fan base
slapdowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slapdown
toeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From toe + -less.
Senses: examples: text: born with a toeless foot
glosses: Without toes.
Without toes owing to either a birth defect or amputation.
raw_tags: of feet
examples: text: toeless socks
glosses: Without toes.
Synonym of open-toed.
synonyms: word: open-toed
raw_tags: of footwear
Derived terms: toelessness
Related terms: fingerless
thumbless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thumb + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without thumbs.
Derived terms: thumbless wave
haemophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From haemo- + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hemophobia.
speakerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From speaker + -less.
Senses: examples: text: ...for myth is a speakerless instance of language. It is a system that always speaks itself...
ref: 1984, Dudley Andrew, Concepts in film theory:
text: ...this manipulation is motivated, intentional, the result of agency, and this agency cannot be ascribed to speakerless sentences in and of themselves.
ref: 1996, Monika Fludernik, Towards a 'natural' Narratology:
glosses: Without a speaker (narrator).
examples: text: One distraught party chairman from Brazil, Maryland, faced with the prospect of a speakerless rally, prayed, "FOR GOD'S SAKE SEND US INGERSOLL,"...
ref: 1978, Allan Peskin, Garfield: a biography:
text: How to Conduct a Speakerless Banquet.
ref: 2005, Harold W Donahue, The Toastmaster's Manual:
glosses: Without a speaker (orator).
examples: a speakerless audio system
glosses: Without speakers (audio equipment).
skaz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Russian сказ (skaz, “tale”).
Senses: examples: text: […] however, Banfield goes on to posit that first person narrative comes in two shapes, one of which is speakerless while the other corresponds with skaz […]
ref: 1993, Monika Fludernik, The fictions of language and the languages of fiction:
text: She argues that the chief means of indicating the distance between the two levels in grotesque-ironic skaz is 'linguistic discrediting' […]
ref: 2000, Jeremy Hicks, Mikhail Zoshchenko and the poetics of skaz:
glosses: A literary technique wherein characters are mainly identified by the linguistic specificities of their speech.
you're never too old to learn
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: synonyms: it's never too late to mend
antonyms: you can't teach an old dog new tricks
glosses: It is possible to learn new things, at any age; one should follow one's desires and dreams.
Related terms: word: live and learn
english: lifelong learning
translation: lifelong learning
word: LLL
word: you learn something new every day
word: better late than never
study buddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: study buddies
Senses: glosses: A schoolmate with whom schoolwork is completed, often somebody one sits next to in a classroom.
Cowie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Gaelic colldha (“hazel”).
Senses: glosses: Any of several places in Scotland
glosses: A Scottish habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic.
styrax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: styraxes
Etymology: Borrowed from the taxonomic name Styrax. Doublet of storax.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of storax (“tree”).
glosses: Alternative form of storax (“resin”).
styraxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of styrax
snowbell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnoʊˌbɛl/
Forms: form: snowbells
Etymology: From snow + bell.
Senses: glosses: Any member of the genus Soldanella of flowering plants native to European mountains, typically with a basal rosette of simple, orbicular leaves and white to violet flowers.
glosses: Certain styraxes.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Styrax grandifolius
word: bigleaf snowbell
taxonomic: Styrax officinalis
word: drug snowbell
taxonomic: Styrax japonica
word: Japanese snowbell
taxonomic: Styrax texana
word: Texas snowbell
snowbells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snowbell
gastrojejunostomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastrojejunostomies
Etymology: From gastro- + jejunostomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A form of anastomosis in which a connection is made between the stomach and the jejunum
gastrotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastrotomies
Etymology: From gastro- + -tomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Any form of incision into the stomach
Derived terms: esophagogastrostomy
genethics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of genetics + ethics
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The ethics of genetics
genioglossus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd͡ʒiː.ni.ə(ʊ)ˈɡlɒs.əs/
ipa: /d͡ʒɪˌnʌɪ.əˈɡlɒs.əs/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒi.ni.oʊˈɡlɑs.əs/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒi.ni.oʊˈɡlɔs.əs/
rhymes: -ɒsəs
rhymes: -ɔːsəs
Forms: form: genioglossi
form: geniohyoglossus
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin genīoglōssus, clipping of musculus genīoglōssus (“genioglossal muscle”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A flat, fan-shaped muscle that originates from the superior mental spine and inserts onto the undersurface of the tongue and onto the hyoid bone, acting mainly to extend, protrude or depress the tongue.
haemodynamically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: hemodynamically
Etymology: From haemodynamic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: With regard to haemodynamics
haemolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haemolyses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hemolysis.
Derived terms: hyperhaemolysis
Related terms: haemolytic
haemoptysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haemoptyses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hemoptysis.
hemiplegic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hemi- + -plegic.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, hemiplegic patients are hemiplegic in deglutitory movements also and are ready to misswallow.
ref: 1981, Muscular Dystrophy Abstracts - Volume 25, page 46:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or afflicted with hemiplegia
Derived terms: nonhemiplegic
posthemiplegic
prehemiplegic
hemiplegic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemiplegics
Etymology: From hemi- + -plegic.
Senses: glosses: One who has hemiplegia.
hypersomnolence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + somnolence.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Excessive sleepiness
Related terms: hypersomnolent
mediocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmiː.dɪˈɒk.ɹə.si/
ipa: /ˌmi.diˈɑ.kɹə.si/
rhymes: -ɒkɹəsi
Forms: form: mediocracies
Etymology: Blend of mediocre + -cracy
Senses: glosses: A social hierarchy in which the mediocre prevails.
Related terms: dumb down
idiocracy
mediocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mediocracy
snortles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of snortle
snortling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of snortle
snortled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of snortle
hypodensity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypodensities
Etymology: From hypo- + density.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An area of an X-ray image that is less dense than normal, or than the surrounding areas
hypodensities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypodensity
hyperdensities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperdensity
mediacracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mediacracies
Etymology: From media + -cracy.
Senses: glosses: Rule by the media; a situation in which the media dominates or controls the populace.
Derived terms: mediacrat
mediacracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mediacracy
mediacrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mediacrats
Etymology: From media + -crat.
Senses: examples: text: Kalb was indeed rewarded for his deeds by Graham Allison, who named this mediacrat director of the JFK School's new mass media center.
ref: 1989, John Trumpbour, How Harvard rules: reason in the service of empire:
text: Perhaps a student or an intellectual or a mediacrat, this fair-haired boy seems devoted to an adoring soulmate...
ref: 1997, Dan Hofstadter, The Love Affair as a Work of Art:
text: The propaganda victory achieved by the Kremlin and the mediacrats was to be Pyrrhic.
ref: 2002, Boris Kagarlitsky, Russia under Yeltsin and Putin: neo-liberal autocracy:
glosses: A member of the mediacracy.
mediacrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mediacrat
gastrotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gastrotomy
gastrojejunostomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gastrojejunostomy
genioglossi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd͡ʒi.ni.oʊˈɡlɑˌsaɪ/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒi.ni.oʊˈɡlɔˌsaɪ/
Senses: glosses: plural of genioglossus
fecally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: fæcally
form: faecally
Etymology: From fecal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The water was fecally contaminated.
glosses: In a fecal way.
faecally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From faecal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fecally.
knuckleheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more knuckleheaded
form: most knuckleheaded
Etymology: From knuckle + headed.
Senses: examples: text: It’s not exactly a Pixar-level examination of complicated family dynamics, and the movie still has plenty of knuckled-headed, Sandler-style boys-will-be-dumbasses shtick: Children everywhere will surely thrill to the sub-subplot about Frank catching hell about his gambling problem from his wife, Eunice (Fran Drescher)!
ref: 2018 July 10, Jesse Hassenger, “Improbably but amusingly, Hotel Transylvania 3 notches a series best”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 09 Jul 2018:
glosses: Stupid or inept, like a knucklehead.
Derived terms: knuckleheadedness
midsession
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + session.
Senses: examples: text: There was a midsession break for lunch.
glosses: During a session.
midsession
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mid- + session.
Senses: examples: text: The court was interrupted midsession.
glosses: During a session.
docufiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: docufictions
form: docu-fiction
Etymology: Blend of documentary + fiction.
Senses: examples: text: The Novel as Document: The "Docufiction" of Norman Mailer, Jay Cantor, and Jack Kerouac
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO SAY that a novel-a work of fiction is based on the life of a real person, on events that really happened in the world […]
ref: 1988, Welch D. Everman, Who Says This?: The Authority of the Author, the Discourse, and the Reader, SIU Press, →ISBN, page 3:
text: Although not a new phenomenon as such, the genre of the docufiction film has grown spectacularly since the global and digital turns in the 1990s. Retrospectively attributed to the practices of such diverse filmmakers as Robert Flaherty, Jean Rouch, or Abbas Kiarostami, the genre, as the name suggests, applies to hybrid films that cross the traditional division of films between fiction and documentary. […] The docufiction genre generally, and Werner Herzog's recent films in particular, form crystals of a special kind.
ref: 2019, Jeroen Gerrits, chapter 4, in Cinematic Skepticism: Across Digital and Global Turns, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 73:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
coordinate_terms: docudrama
glosses: A cinematographic combination of documentary and fiction.
Related terms: docufictional
fictional documentary
faction
white English bulldogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white English bulldog
pawang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pawangs
Etymology: From Malay pawang.
Senses: examples: text: The "Pawang" also inflicts death from a distance, by burning the cordiform top of a newly opened bunch of bananas on the tree.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 176:
glosses: A Malay shaman.
bunky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bunkies
Etymology: From bunk + -y.
Senses: examples: text: My bunky and I had the idea to sleep on deck that night, even though we knew the Navy boys would chase us below and they did, at 22:00 hours.
ref: 2010, Richard B. Holmsten, Ready to Fire, page 33:
glosses: Alternative form of bunkie (“bunkmate”).
wolven
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wolven
form: most wolven
Etymology: From Middle English wolven, *wilven, *wulven, perhaps continuing Old English wylfen (“wolfish”), from Proto-West Germanic *wulfīn (“wolfish”), equivalent to wolf + -en. Piecewise doublet of lupine.
Senses: examples: text: But the shepherd does protect the sheep from the wolf: therefore, few fall to feed the wolven cubs, the remaining sheep living long to rear more lambs and provide us with wool.
ref: 2004, Marilyn Mattie Brahen, Claiming Her:
text: Not a very wolven gesture, but somehow apropos.
ref: 2009, Kate Douglas, Wolf Tales VIII:
text: “What I mean is, this marking you and hiding you away, it's very wolven. [...]"
ref: 2011, Gill McKnight, Indigo Moon:
glosses: Of or pertaining to wolves; wolflike; wolfish.
wolven
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wolvens
form: wolven
Etymology: From Middle English wolven, *wilven, *wulven, perhaps continuing Old English wylfen (“wolfish”), from Proto-West Germanic *wulfīn (“wolfish”), equivalent to wolf + -en. Piecewise doublet of lupine.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:wolven.
topics: fantasy
glosses: A wolflike being; one who is wolflike in appearance or character.
turns over a new leaf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of turn over a new leaf
turning over a new leaf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of turn over a new leaf
turned over a new leaf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of turn over a new leaf
darbepoetin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɑrbəˈpɔɪtɨn/
Etymology: Related to epoetin.
Senses: glosses: A synthetic form of erythropoietin, used to treat anemia.
essentialisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of essentialism
shoutout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoutouts
Etymology: Deverbal from shout out.
Senses: examples: text: “Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits” at the International Center of Photography is a praise song in pictures, a shoutout to history.
ref: 2007 May 11, Holland Cotter, “The Glittering A-List of Black History”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of shout-out.
shoutouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoutout
kibbutznik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kibbutznikim
form: kibbutzniks
form: kibbutzniki
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew קִיבּוּצְנִיק (kibútsnik), from קִיבּוּץ (kibútz, “kibbutz”) + ־נִיק (nik, “-er”). By surface analysis, kibbutz + -nik.
Senses: examples: text: The kibbutzniki of Gesher yearn for the old days, before 1967, when they exchanged pleasantries with the Arab farmers across the river. “We could talk to them then,” Mrs. [Edna] Solodar said thoughtfully.
ref: 1972, Georgie Anne Geyer, “The Occupied Territories”, in The New 100 Years War: The Arab-Israeli Conflict […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 273:
text: They have found it necessary to employ outside labour—a fundamental departure from the ideology of the movement, for which my host’s kibbutz was regularly berated by the central organisation by which it was affiliated. […] There is a movement the other way, too—some of the young kibbutzniki go into town to work each day.
ref: 1969 September 14, Michael Frayn, “Little Israel”, in The Observer, number 9,296, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, Review section, page 25, column 5:
text: But he [Saul Bellow] also foresees with horror that the Arab States will get rapidly more powerful, that even if the next ‘round’ is once again ‘won’ by Israel, the one after that, or the one after that, will be the fatal last round which will lead to the annihilation of that fine and lovable country; of all those civilised and charming intellectuals; those hard-working kibbutzniki; […]
ref: 1976 November 21, Philip Toynbee, “Ill at ease in Zion”, in The Observer, number 9,668, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, Review section, page 30, column 8:
text: Which tasks will Israeli society set for the young kibbutzniki? Exhaustion after heavy physical efforts, growing “pragmatism”, de-ideologization of the entire society, the deep crisis of classical socialism – both reformist and revolutionary, disappointment with the Soviet Union and other factors may cause an ideological vacuum, a lack of ideals and utopias.
ref: 1980, Theodor Bergmann, “The kibbutz in the continuum of forms of cooperation”, in Klaus Bartölke, Theodor Bergmann, Ludwig Liegle, editors, Integrated Cooperatives in the Industrial Society: The Example of the Kibbutz (Publications of the European Society for Rural Sociology; 2), Assen, Drenthe: Van Gorcum, →ISBN, page 35:
text: When a banker and a developer arrive to find that the commune has not been evacuated, the spirit of resistance is awakened in the old kibbutzniks.
ref: 2009 January 16, Susan Walker, “When the kibbutz goes kaput”, in Toronto Star:
synonyms: kibbutzer
glosses: A member of a kibbutz.
kibbutzniks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kibbutznik
imbecilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imbecility
trapline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traplines
Etymology: From trap + line.
Senses: examples: text: On the eve of her 83rd birthday, Laura Flood looks forward to teaching her granddaughter Angel Larkman the finer points of running a trapline or hunting moose in the Temiskaming bush.
ref: 2009 February 28, Tracey Tyler, “Appeal ruling a setback in Indian status battle”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: A series or line of traps.
traplines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trapline
bowerbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowerbird
jeepney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒiːpni/
Forms: form: jeepneys
Etymology: Uncertain, but likely a blend of jeep + jitney (“minibus, gypsy cab, shared cab”), from their origin in US Army surplus jeeps after World War II.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of shared taxi, especially one with flamboyant decoration and usually heavily crowded.
synonyms: word: shared taxi
extra: especially one with flamboyant decoration and usually heavily crowded
Derived terms: owner-type jeepney
public utility jeepney
jeepneys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jeepney
keytar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: keytars
Etymology: Blend of keyboard + guitar.
Senses: examples: text: Not only did we get to watch them jump around doing metal faces and scissor kicks while playing matching keytars in a fog of smoke, but afterward, when we went back to their studio to shoot them some more, the band started casually jamming out, singing beautiful country folk songs and making songs up on the spot in perfect four-part harmony.
ref: 2011 August 11, Amy Kellner, “Auto-Tuned Gregory Brothers Serenade The Times”, in The New York Times:
text: He had titled his most recent album “Future Shock,” and he looked the part, with a keytar slung over a black leather jacket and a reflective silver shirt.
ref: 2016 February 8, Nate Chinen, “Two Turntables and a Keytar: The Night Herbie Hancock Rocked the Grammys”, in The New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A relatively lightweight keyboard or synthesizer supported by a strap around the neck and shoulders, as a guitar is supported by a guitar strap.
Derived terms: keytarist
keytars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keytar
multigender
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + gender.
Senses: examples: text: “Multicultural teams today are like the multigender teams of yesterday,” said Ilene H. Lang, the president of Catalyst, a research and advisory organization that aims to expand opportunities for women at work.
ref: 2007 April 22, Kelley Holland, “How Diversity Makes a Team Click”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, more than one gender.
Related terms: polygender
omnigender
pangender
mushaira
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mushairas
Etymology: From Urdu مشاعره (mušā’ira).
Senses: glosses: A poetic symposium in North India and Pakistan at which poets gather to perform their works, traditionally ghazals.
mushairas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mushaira
expeditors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expeditor
detrita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: My earth science teacher in high school explained that Jamaica Avenue was situated on the geological terminal moraine, whereupon the glaciers of millions of years past deposited their detrita.
ref: 2007 April 22, New York Times:
glosses: plural of detritus
unaffectionate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unaffectionate
form: most unaffectionate
Etymology: From un- + affectionate.
Senses: examples: text: She was the granddaughter of the German Jewish banking magnate Jacob H. Schiff and was raised by a distant, unaffectionate mother so filled with assimilationist anxiety that she refused to let her daughter attend the debutante balls of other Jewish girls.
ref: 2007 April 22, Jennifer Senior, “Tabloid Queen”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not affectionate; dispassionate.
Derived terms: unaffectionately
unaffectionately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unaffectionately
form: most unaffectionately
Etymology: From unaffectionate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unaffectionate way.
ungently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ungently
form: most ungently
Etymology: From ungentle + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an ungentle way; roughly.
unvivid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unvivid
form: most unvivid
Etymology: From un- + vivid.
Senses: examples: text: And Nissenson describes momentous events in timid, unvivid terms, when they should reveal something about Schiff’s inner life.
ref: 2007 April 22, Jennifer Senior, “Tabloid Queen”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not vivid.
kaganate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaganates
Etymology: From kagan + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, the concrete charge of it).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of khaganate.
kaganates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kaganate
loserdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From loser + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: The "principled loserdom" mentality leads to what another Claremonster, Michael Anton, referred to in a famous 2016 essay as the "Washington Generals"—the exhibition basketball team known for once losing 2,495 games in a row.
ref: 2022 April 21, Josh Hammer, “Against 'Principled Loserdom'”, in Newsweek:
glosses: The state or condition of being a loser.
glosses: The world or sphere of losers.
oropharynx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æɹɪŋks
Forms: form: oropharynxes
form: oropharynges
form: oro-pharynx
Etymology: From oro- + pharynx.
Senses: examples: text: He snaked the flexible endoscope into the patient’s nose, through the oropharynx and then down his throat.
ref: 2007 May 6, Lisa Sanders, M.D., “A Nervous Case”, in New York Times:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The oral part of the pharynx, reaching from the uvula to the level of the hyoid bone.
Synonyms: mesopharynx
oropharynxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oropharynx
oropharynges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oropharynx
paunchiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From paunchy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: That’s because the noun, by virtue of its use as a hyphenated compound adjective in middle-age spread, creates nail-nibbling self-doubt amid visions of muffin-top midriffs and the realization that paunchiness precludes raunchiness.
ref: 2007 May 6, William Safire, “Halfway Humanity”, in New York Times:
glosses: The state or condition of being paunchy.
cardiotoxicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardiotoxicities
Etymology: From cardiotoxic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being cardiotoxic.
cardiotoxicities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cardiotoxicity
ponderingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ponderingly
form: most ponderingly
Etymology: From pondering + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a pondering way; with deep thought.
Synonyms: musingly
untrapped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + trapped.
Senses: examples: text: Did my lover want to share her private space with me on a full-time basis? She had made much of her need to feel untrapped and free.
ref: 1976 August 7, Patricia Jean, “It Pays to Advertise”, in Gay Community News, page 10:
glosses: Not trapped.
kitchen table software
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kitchen-table software
Senses: examples: text: So much for kitchen-table software being small potatoes.
ref: 1986, Personal computer, Software Communications, page 91:
text: However, the need to evaluate software before buying is no less important than in the days of the kitchen-table software developer.
ref: 1987, Jimmy D. Lindsey, Computers and exceptional individuals, →ISBN, page 54:
text: More and more vendors, from IBM to "kitchen table" software authors, seem to be heading in this direction.
ref: 2003 January 8, Robin Miller, “The business of making Linux easier to use”, in linux.com, retrieved 08 May 2009:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Especially in the early years of personal computers, a set of computer programs developed by an entrepreneurial advanced amateur or self-employed professional computer programmer in his or her own home; software developed by a small business using the services of such programmers.
Hypernyms: software
kitchen-table software
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kitchen table software.
software house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: software houses
Senses: examples: text: When Imagine Software went bankrupt some of the talent from the company formed a new software house, Psygnosis.
ref: 2013, Matt Fox, The Video Games Guide:
glosses: A company that produces software.
work song
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: work songs
Senses: glosses: A song, sung during work, with a rhythm that helps to coordinate activities.
kibeis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kibei
work songs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of work song
eversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eversions
Senses: examples: text: Somewhere along the line, he managed to complete a kind of psychic eversion, a kind of total transformation of internal affairs.
ref: 1986, Harald William Fawkner, The ecstatic world of John Cowper Powys, page 76:
text: When it comes to vacuum bubble eversion, a vacuum bubble also passes through asymmetrical stages in the eversion process
ref: 1999, Kip K. Sewell, The cosmic sphere, page 125:
glosses: An act of turning inside out.
examples: text: If there is no eversion of the lips, there may be no symptoms present.
ref: 1894, Charles Bingham Penrose with Albert Ernest Truby and William Alexander Newman Dorland, Syllabus of the Lectures on Gynecology, page 44:
glosses: The state of being turned inside out.
examples: text: The remaining sprains are eversion injuries, in which the foot turns out and the ankle turns in.
ref: 1989 September 14, “HEALTH; Personal Health”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The condition of being turned outward.
Related terms: evert
steambath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steambaths
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of steam bath.
steambaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steambath
hypogastric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + gastric.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the hypogastrium.
Derived terms: hypogastric nerve
iliohypogastric
hypoperfusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypoperfusions
Etymology: From hypo- + perfusion.
Senses: glosses: Decreased perfusion, especially of blood through an organ
Coordinate terms: ischemia
Derived terms: hypoperfusional
Related terms: hypoperfusive
immunohistology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + histology.
Senses: topics: biology
histology
immunology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The application of the techniques of immunology to histology
Related terms: immunohistological
inframesenteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From infra- + mesenteric.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Beneath the mesentery
pachymeninx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pachymeninges
Etymology: From pachy- + meninx.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of dura mater.
synonyms: word: dura mater
pachymeninges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pachymeninx
infundibulopelvic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From infundibulo- + pelvic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the infundibulum and the pelvis.
Derived terms: infundibulopelvic colpopexy
infundibulopelvic dysgenesis
infundibulopelvic ligament
infundibulopelvic stenosis
intersurvey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: inter-survey
Etymology: From inter- + survey.
Senses: glosses: Between surveys
jejeunostomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jejeunostomies
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Alternative spelling of jejunostomy.
jejeunum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jejeuna
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of jejunum.
salarying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of salary