cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Caucasoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Caucasoid
form: most Caucasoid
form: Caucazoid
Etymology: From Caucasian + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: It's also nice to see some non-white skin in these pages since almost all of the skin aimed at the "gay market" is distinctly Caucasoid.
ref: 1990 August 31, Christopher Wittke, “Athletes (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 7, page 16:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Being a member of a human racial classification composed of several peoples inhabiting Europe, North Africa, West Asia, and parts of East Africa, South Asia and Central Asia – as well as their descendants in other world regions.
Caucasoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Caucasoids
form: Caucazoid
Etymology: From Caucasian + -oid.
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A member of this racial classification.
Synonyms: Europid
Europoid
Hyponyms: Caucasian
white
Related terms: Africoid
Capoid
Mongoloid
Negroid
eggplant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛɡ.plænt/
ipa: /-plɑːnt/
Forms: form: eggplants
form: egg-plant
Etymology: From egg + plant, originally applied only to the white-colored, egg-shaped variety.
Senses: examples: text: Some fun meatless recipes include jackfruit sandwiches in place of pulled pork; black bean meatless balls or eggplant and shiitake “meatballs.”
ref: 2020 May 19, Lisa Drayer, “How to eat less meat and more plants”, in CNN:
glosses: The plant Solanum melongena or its edible fruit; an aubergine.
glosses: A dark purple color, like that of the skin of this fruit.
examples: text: Hey. Yeah. And, and your great-great-great-great grandmother fucked a nigger, ho, ho, yeah, and she had a half-nigger kid… now, if that's a fact, tell me, am I lying? 'Cause you, you're part eggplant.
ref: 1993, Quentin Tarantino, True Romance, spoken by Clifford Worley (Dennis Hopper):
text: "Why am I not surprised?" This was the limit. "You know, I'm black enough for his family to yell eggplant-this and nigger-that at me," she said.
ref: 2004, Wendy Coakley-Thompson, Back to Life:
text: What else can he do? But Hopper continues his riff. "Sicilians still carry that nigger gene . . . Your ancestors are niggers. You're part eggplant."
ref: 2006, Jerome Charyn, Raised by wolves: the turbulent art and times of Quentin Tarantino:
glosses: A black person (used mainly by Italian-Americans).
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
snowboarding
sports
glosses: A 180 backside rotated invert in which the front hand is planted on the lip of the halfpipe wall.
Synonyms: sense: the plant or its fruit
word: aubergine
sense: the plant or its fruit
word: brinjal
sense: the plant or its fruit
word: baingan
sense: the plant or its fruit
word: brown jolly
sense: the plant or its fruit
word: baigan
sense: the plant or its fruit
word: bhaigan
sense: the plant or its fruit
word: bangun
sense: the fruit
word: melongene
Derived terms: Eggplant mosaic virus
eggplanty
Ethiopian eggplant
pea eggplant
scarlet eggplant
wild eggplant
Related terms: 🍆
intel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.tɛl/
ipa: /ˈɪnt.ɛl/
ipa: /ˈɪn.tɛl/
Etymology: Clipping of intelligence.
Senses: examples: text: Intel is important in espionage.
text: We have reason to believe one of our people is giving intel to the enemy. Hit an enemy communication center and get us a name.
ref: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Identify the Spy:
text: “The Bynar ship went missing on stardate 58934.9.” “Okay, so your intel is legit, but this still feels like a trick.” “No. I'm a changed computer. Just look at me. Do you see the blue light?” “The light is reassuring.”
ref: 2023 October 12, Edgar Momplaisir, “A Few Badgeys More” (8:50 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 4, episode 7, spoken by Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid):
text: Aaaaaand that’s pretty much everything we know about Zazie and David’s ‘ship, but definitely check back here for any and all intel on the couple. ❤️
ref: 2024 October 30, Gretty Garcia, “Zazie Beetz and David Rysdahl’s Relationship Timeline All in One Place”, in Cosmopolitan:
topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: Intelligence (secret information).
pipe bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pīp′ bŏm′
ipa: /ˈpaɪp ˌbɒm/
note: Received Pronunciation, older
ipa: /ˈpaɪp ˌbɔːm/
ipa: /ˈpʌɪp ˌbɒm/
ipa: /ˈpaɪp ˌbɑm/
ipa: /ˈpʌɪp ˌbɑm/
ipa: /ˈpaɪp ˌbɔm/
ipa: /ˈpaɪp ˌbɑm/
ipa: /ˈpʌip ˌbɔm/
ipa: /ˈpəip ˌbɔm/
ipa: /ˈpɑep ˌbɔm/
ipa: /ˈpajp ˌbɔm/
Forms: form: pipe bombs
form: pipebomb
Senses: hypernyms: bomb
glosses: An improvised explosive device consisting of blasting powder or other explosive material encased in a metal pipe to increase the blast effect.
pipe bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pīp′ bŏm′
ipa: /ˈpaɪp ˌbɒm/
note: Received Pronunciation, older
ipa: /ˈpaɪp ˌbɔːm/
ipa: /ˈpʌɪp ˌbɒm/
ipa: /ˈpaɪp ˌbɑm/
ipa: /ˈpʌɪp ˌbɑm/
ipa: /ˈpaɪp ˌbɔm/
ipa: /ˈpaɪp ˌbɑm/
ipa: /ˈpʌip ˌbɔm/
ipa: /ˈpəip ˌbɔm/
ipa: /ˈpɑep ˌbɔm/
ipa: /ˈpajp ˌbɔm/
Forms: form: pipe bombs
form: pipe bombing
form: pipe bombed
form: pipe bombed
form: pipebomb
Senses: hypernyms: blow up
glosses: To blow up something with a pipe bomb (sense 1).
cluster bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cluster bombs
Senses: examples: text: Bellingcat[…] has reviewed some of the pictures collected by the Guardian, confirmed the presence of tail fins of RBK-500 cluster bombs with PTAB-1M submunitions and cluster rocket, launched by BM-30 Smerch.
ref: 2022 April 21, Lorenzo Tondo, “Russia using cluster bombs to kill Ukrainian civilians, analysis suggests”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: cluster munition
glosses: An explosive munition designed to explode in the air and release a cluster of smaller explosives, thus spreading the blast over a larger area.
Derived terms: cluster F-bomb
dirty bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dirty bombs
Senses: examples: text: Without providing evidence, Shoigu said Ukraine could escalate by using a “dirty bomb” – conventional explosives laced with radioactive material.
ref: 2022 October 24, Peter Beaumont, “Ukraine war heading for ‘uncontrolled escalation’, says Russia”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: radiological dispersal device
RDD
radiological bomb
glosses: A device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material, designed to spread radiation over a wide area.
synonyms: cobalt bomb
salted bomb
antonyms: clean bomb
glosses: A nuclear bomb that spreads radiation over a wide area due to inefficiency or by design.
head and shoulders
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: She was head and shoulders better than any of her rivals.
text: He was head and shoulders above the others in the law firm.
text: Both the New York Central and Pennsylvania systems, which in speed tower head-and-shoulders over other American lines, have added substantially to their high speed mileage between 1939 and 1940, [...].
ref: 1941 March, Mercury, “American Express Train Services in 1940”, in Railway Magazine, page 99:
glosses: To a considerable degree.
examples: text: to drag somebody head and shoulders
text: They bring in every figure and scheme of speech, head and shoulders.
ref: 1711, Henry Felton, Dissertation on Reading the Classics:
glosses: By force; violently.
head and shoulders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A characteristic formation on a technical analysis chart where two lower peaks appear around a central higher peak.
boba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈboʊ.bə/
ipa: /ˈbəʊ.bə/
Forms: form: bobas
Etymology: From Chinese 波霸 (bōbà), from Cantonese 波霸 (bo1 baa3, “tapioca pearls” [literally: “big balls]”), from 波 (bo1) (itself from English ball) and 霸 (baa3, “chief, top”).
Senses: examples: text: She settled on the Chai Frappé Burst, a frozen, blended concoction with whipped cream, boba and cinnamon sugar sprinkles.
ref: 2024 September 16, Priya Krishna, “The Customized Drink Is Out of Control”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: Synonym of tapioca pearl.
synonyms: word: tapioca pearl
examples: text: “I was shocked,” said Leanne Yuen, a longtime boba drinker and a student at the University of California, Irvine. “What am I going to do now?”
ref: 2021 April 16, Kellen Browning, “Another Unlikely Pandemic Shortage: Boba Tea”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: Ellipsis of boba tea.
glosses: A breast, especially that of an adult or adolescent female human.
Synonyms: breasts
Related terms: boba liberal
aubergine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊ.bə.ʒiːn/
ipa: /ˈoʊ.bɚ.ʒin/
enpr: ō'bər-ʒēn
enpr: ô'bər-ʒēn
enpr: ô'bər-d͡ʒēn
note: Indic
ipa: /ɔbə(r).(d)ʒin/
Forms: form: aubergines
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French aubergine, from Catalan albergínia, from Arabic اَلْبَاذِنْجَان (al-bāḏinjān, “the aubergine”), from Classical Persian بَادِنْجَان (bādinjān), from بَاتِنْگَان (bātingān), from Sanskrit वातिङ्गण (vātiṅgaṇa, “the plant that cures the wind”), from Dravidian, ultimately from Proto-Dravidian *waẓVtV. Cognate with Malayalam വഴുതനങ്ങ (vaḻutanaṅṅa), Hindi बैंगन (baiṅgan). Doublet of brinjal.
Senses: glosses: An Asian plant, Solanum melongena, cultivated for its edible purple, green, or white ovoid fruit; eggplant.
glosses: The fruit of this plant, eaten as a vegetable.
glosses: A dark purple colour; eggplant.
Synonyms: the list at eggplant
Derived terms: auberginey
D-Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The D stands for day; compare H-hour.
Senses: glosses: 6 June 1944, the date when the Allies invaded western Europe in World War II.
Coordinate terms: VE Day
VJ Day
X-Day
Y-Day
D-Day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: D-Days
form: D-day
Etymology: The D stands for day; compare H-hour.
Senses: examples: text: A Ukrainian D-day is expected in weeks.
ref: 2023 April 2, Dan Sabbagh, Ed Ram, “Surrounded and outgunned, Ukraine’s tank crews prepare for battle of Bakhmut”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The date of any major event planned for the future.
Synonyms: X-Day
Coordinate terms: H-hour
codetalker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: codetalkers
form: code talker
Etymology: From code + talker.
Senses: glosses: A military communications specialist using codes based on an obscure language.
code talker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: code talkers
Senses: examples: text: As a code talker, Newman was one of a group of Navajos who learned a secret, unbreakable language that was used to send information on tactics, troop movements and orders over the radio and telephone during WWII. […] At Iwo Jima, code talkers passed over 800 error-free messages in a 48-hour period, according to the Congressional law honoring the program.
ref: 2019 January 16, Eric Levenson, “Alfred Newman, one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers, dies at 94”, in CNN:
glosses: Alternative form of codetalker.
leave someone holding the bag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leaves someone holding the bag
form: leaving someone holding the bag
form: left someone holding the bag
form: left someone holding the bag
Etymology: Originated in 18th-century Britain, referring to a person left holding stolen goods while the rest of a criminal gang escapes.
Senses: examples: text: After the accident, he just vanished and left me holding the bag.
glosses: To abandon somebody, leaving him or her holding the responsibility or blame.
glosses: To remove the value from an article or arrangement and leave somebody holding the empty (or valueless) container.
Synonyms: leave someone in the lurch
leave someone holding the baby
leave someone high and dry
Related terms: bagholder
cymbaling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cymballing
Senses: examples: 1886, At a hole in a rotten weir they executed a recitative; where a tributary brook fell over a stone breastwork they trilled cheerily; under an arch they performed a metallic cymballing; and at Durnover Hole they hissed. - Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Castorbridge
healthandage.com
The voices of passing children reverberated like gongs - booming, peeling, cymbaling into switchbacking rollercoasters of sound.
"Manpurse" of vgmix.com
It starts out with grungy-sounding guitar and lots of reverse cymballing. You start to segue in a softer, synthier sound but immediately put the guitar back into focus."
procolharum.com
Mick Grabham's guitar (which contributes some rhythmical chops not found on the record) sounds as though it is going through a Leslie speaker, and Chris Copping appears to be going for a neo-Garth Hudson Lowrey-silver sound at times. BJ eschews the rapid quaver cymballing that he favoured in the play-out on the record. "
glosses: Action of the verb to cymbal; the playing of cymbals.
examples: text: Whereupon, he sat down amid a universal pounding of chest—lids, and cymbaling of tin pans; the few invalids, who, as yet, had not been actively engaged with the rest, now taking part in the applause, creaking their bunk— boards and swinging their hammocks.
ref: 1847, Herman Melville, Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas:
text: As during the telling of the story, Captain Delano had once or twice started at the occasional cymballing of the hatchet-polishers, wondering why such an interruption should be allowed, especially in that part of the ship, and in the ears of an invalid; and moreover, as the hatches had anything but an attractive look, and the handlers of them still less so, it was, therefore, to tell the truth, not without some lurking reluctance, or even shrinking, it may be, that Captain Delano, with apparent complaisance, acquiesced in his host’s invitation."
ref: 1855, Herman Melville, Benito Cereno:
glosses: the crashing together of two things as cymbals
Basque Country
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A cultural region that straddles the border of Spain and France, where the Basque language is traditionally spoken.
glosses: An autonomous community in northern Spain.
Synonyms: País Vasco
apple fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apple flies
Etymology: From apple + fly.
Senses: glosses: Any of several dipterous insects particularly in the families Tephritidae and Drosophilidae whose larvae burrow into apples.
Fata Morgana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɑːtə mɔːˈɡɑːnə/
ipa: /ˌfɑtə mɔɹˈɡɑnə/
rhymes: -ɑːnə
Forms: form: Fata Morganas
form: fata morgana
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian fata Morgana (“Morgan le Fay”), from fata (“fairy”) + Morgana (“Morgan”).
Senses: hypernyms: mirage
glosses: A form of mirage seen just above the horizon, caused by a temperature inversion in the atmosphere, in which multiple upright and inverted images of a distant object appear to be stacked on top of each other in a highly distorted fashion; especially one seen at sea, and particularly in the Strait of Messina.
Related terms: Morgan le Fay
borderline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈboɹ.dɚˌlaɪn/
Forms: form: more borderline
form: most borderline
form: border-line
Etymology: From border + line.
Senses: examples: text: I would rather hire a talented layman than a university graduate with borderline qualifications.
text: It recalls the business case for Scotland's reopening of the Borders Railway to Tweedbank, that British Rail closed in 1969. The review says the business case for this was at best borderline, but goes on to say that the case greatly underestimated passenger demand and that the railway Scotland built has capped its capacity.
ref: 2023 September 6, Philip Haigh, “£30 billion plan to transform the rail network in Ireland”, in RAIL, number 991, page 25:
glosses: Nearly; not clearly on one side or the other of a border or boundary, ambiguous.
examples: text: Your borderline remarks about my aunt’s dress destroyed my evening.
glosses: Of questionable taste or acceptability; approaching bad taste.
examples: text: She clearly has borderline and narcissistic features and she meets the criteria for a rapid cycling bipolar disorder, as well as for a generalized anxiety disorder. She has a severe binge eating disorder and has gained 65 pounds since[…]
ref: 2003 December 8, Leslie Atkinson, Research Scientist at the Psychiatry Research Unit Susan Goldberg, Susan Goldberg, Attachment Issues in Psychopathology and Intervention, Routledge, →ISBN, page 192:
glosses: Exhibiting borderline personality disorder.
Derived terms: borderline case
borderlineness
borderline personality disorder
borderliner
nonborderline
borderline
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈboɹ.dɚˌlaɪn/
Forms: form: border-line
Etymology: From border + line.
Senses: examples: text: He is borderline hypoglycemic and needs to monitor his sugar intake.
text: I expected him to be super boring but he was actually borderline funny!
glosses: Nearly; not entirely but nevertheless to a great extent.
borderline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈboɹ.dɚˌlaɪn/
Forms: form: borderlines
form: border-line
Etymology: From border + line.
Senses: examples: text: She lives on the borderline between reality and madness.
text: Elbow deep inside the borderline
Show me that you love me and that we belong together
Shoulder deep within the borderline
Relax, turn around and take my hand
ref: 1996, “Stinkfist”, performed by Tool:
glosses: A boundary or accepted division; a border.
examples: text: The four overlapping concepts of borderline were as follows : (1) A residual model […] (2) An affective disorder model, which considered BPD as an affective spectrum illness displaying prominent[…]
ref: 2001 July 23, Howard S. Friedman, The Disorders: Specialty Articles from the Encyclopedia of Mental Health, Gulf Professional Publishing, →ISBN, page 109:
text: [...] you should consider it! People with Borderline are especially affected by the unconditional affection parenting a pet can provide.
ref: 2014 December 16, Amber Zufelt, Chasing Butterflies: The Ultimate Guide to Surviving Borderline Personality Disorder, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 40:
text: Subsequent conceptualizations of borderline were based on important contributions from psychoanalysts, […] As a result of its inclusion, appearing as “borderline personality disorder,” the construct gained legitimacy[…]
ref: 2011 November 8, Paula K. Lundberg-Love, Kevin L. Nadal, Michele A. Paludi, Women and Mental Disorders [4 volumes], ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 155:
glosses: Ellipsis of borderline personality disorder.
examples: text: As an example of their affective profile, borderlines are set apart from passive aggressives by having more marked social anxiety […] and greater sensitivity […]
ref: 1995, Eugene E. Levitt, Edward Earl Gotts, The Clinical Application of MMPI Special Scales, page 80:
glosses: A person who has borderline personality disorder.
borderline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈboɹ.dɚˌlaɪn/
Forms: form: borderlines
form: borderlining
form: borderlined
form: borderlined
form: border-line
Etymology: From border + line.
Senses: glosses: To border, or border on; to be physically close or conceptually akin to.
tol
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Eye dialect of tall.
Senses: glosses: Tall.
tol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tols
Etymology: Back slang for lot.
Senses: examples: text: Business topics are discussed in a most peculiar style. One man takes the pipe from his mouth and says, "Bill made a doogheno hit this morning." "Jem," says another, to a man just entering, "you'll stand a top o' reeb?" "On," answers Jem, "I've had a trosseno tol, and have been doing dab."
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, “Habits and Amusements of Costermongers”, in London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1, page 11:
text: "Give me two gen, then, and take the whole bloody tol. I've walked me teef orf afore rouf this mornin', and wot 'ave I got? Two bloody yenneps! I ask yer."
ref: 1978, Rose Ayers, The Street Sparrows:
qualifier: costermongers
glosses: Lot.
Related terms: tol-lol
blue-black
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue-blacks
Senses: glosses: A very dark blue.
glosses: Black with bluish highlights.
blue-black
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blue-black
form: most blue-black
Senses: glosses: Of a very dark blue.
glosses: Black with bluish highlights.
nervous as a cat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Very nervous.
Derived terms: nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
protozoology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study of protozoa.
glosses: The study of protists.
Synonyms: sense: study of protists
word: protistology
Related terms: protozoological
protozoologist
execs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exec
giallo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giallos
form: gialli
Etymology: From Italian giallo.
Senses: glosses: A genre of Italian cinema mixing mystery and thriller with psychological elements.
glosses: A film in this genre.
proprietary eponym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proprietary eponyms
Senses: synonyms: genericized trademark
glosses: A successful brand name or trademark that has come into general use to refer to the generic class of objects rather than the specific brand type, usually without the exclusive rights to said product being lost by the parent company.
Related terms: antonomasia
genericized trademark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genericized trademarks
form: genericised trademark
Senses: topics: business
law
synonyms: proprietary eponym
glosses: A successful brand name or trademark that has come to refer to the generic class of objects rather than the specific brand type, sometimes without continued defensibility of the trademark but usually with continued defensibility.
wikipedia: European Union trade mark
de:Markengesetz
skittling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of skittle
vivace
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Italian.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: At a brisk, lively tempo.
vivace
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Italian.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Played, or to be played, at a brisk, lively tempo.
vivace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vivaces
Etymology: From Italian.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A piece to be played at a brisk, lively tempo.
unalloyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔɪd
Forms: form: more unalloyed
form: most unalloyed
Etymology: From un- + alloyed.
Senses: glosses: Not alloyed; not in mixture with other metals; pure.
raw_tags: of metal
examples: text: unalloyed blessings
text: unalloyed happiness
text: He laded his ship with his purchases, and returned back to the island, where he spent many years in unalloyed happiness, and Aslog's father was soon reconciled to his wealthy son-in-law.
ref: 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 221:
text: This decision should not, however, be misunderstood as an unalloyed victory for students’ constitutional rights of free speech.
ref: 2021 June 24, Justin Driver, “A Cheerleader Lands an F on Snapchat, but a B+ in Court”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Complete and unreserved; pure; unadulterated; not restricted, modified, or qualified by reservations.
dainty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪnti/
rhymes: -eɪnti
Forms: form: dainties
Etymology: From Middle English deynte (as noun), from Old French deintié, from Latin dignitātem. Doublet of dignity.
Senses: examples: text: And she receyued hym with grete Ioye and made hym to sytte doune by her and soo was he sette to soupe with flesshe and many deyntees
And she received him with great joy, and made him to sit down by her, and so was he set to sup with flesh and many dainties.
ref: 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur Book XVI, Chapter vii leaf 337r:
text: […]my case was deplorable enough, yet I had great cause for thankfulness that I was not driven to any extremities for food, but had rather plenty, even to dainties.
ref: 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe:
text: And now a maiden […] ſupplied them, next, / With a reſplendent table, which the chaſte / Directreſs of the ſtores furniſh'd with bread / And dainties, remnants of the laſt regale.
ref: 1791, Homer, “[The Odyssey.] Book I.”, in W[illiam] Cowper, transl., The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume II, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 9, lines 172 and 174–177:
glosses: A delicacy (choice or pleasing food).
glosses: A fancy cookie, pastry, or square, frequently homemade, served at a social event.
glosses: Esteem, honour.
examples: text: I am not eager at forbidden dainties
ref: 1616, Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass:
glosses: An affectionate term of address.
natrium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From New Latin natrium. See natron for more.
Senses: examples: text: 1874 June 19, H. Beins, The Successor of Steam, The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, Volume XXIX.—1874, page 267,
It occurred to us to make an experiment to see what degree the tension of the carbonic acid given off by natrium-bicarbonate would amount to, when heated in a closed space.
text: 1991, S. O'Neill, M. Valdeolmillos, C. Lamont, P. Donoso, D. Eisner, The contribution of natrium-calcium exchange to relaxation in mammalian cardiac muscle, Annals of the New York Academy of Science, Volume 639, pages 444-452, cited in 2002, Christian J. F. Holubarsch, Mechanics and Energetics of the Myocardium, page 165,
text: The highest solute content (more then 1000 mg/L) and value of pH is found in the urban runoff from residential and transport zones, as well as the maximum concentrations of suspended solids, chlorides, natrium and nitrites.
ref: 2006, Alena Aucharova, Valery Khomich, “Urban Runoff - Contamination, Problems of Treatment and Impact on Receiving Water”, in Petr Hlavinek, editor, Integrated Urban Water Resources Management, page 192:
glosses: Synonym of sodium.
synonyms: word: sodium
Derived terms: natrian
natriuresis
natro-
Related terms: natron
kunstleroman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Künstlerroman.
nomination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɑmɪˈneɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌnɒmɪˈneɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: nominations
Etymology: From Middle English nominacion, nomination, from Middle French nominacion and its etymon Latin nōminātiō, from the verb nōminō (“to name; to nominate”). By surface analysis, nominate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: Her nomination for the award came as a pleasant surprise.
text: The committee announced his nomination for the position of president.
text: After the nomination, he was required to accept or decline the offer.
glosses: An act or instance of nominating.
glosses: The result of such a nomination act.
glosses: A device or means by which a person or thing is nominated.
Derived terms: neknomination
nomination borough
nomination game
nonnomination
prenomination
renomination
Related terms: nominate
denomination
hallucinogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhæl.uːˈsɪn.ə.dʒən/
ipa: /həˈluː.sɪ.nə.d͡ʒɛn/
Forms: form: hallucinogens
Etymology: From hallucination + -o- (interconsonantal) + -gen (“producer”).
Senses: glosses: Any substance tending to induce hallucination.
Hyponyms: entheogen
Derived terms: hallucinogenic
hallucinogenlike
hallucinogenre
prosy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹəʊzi/
rhymes: (UK) -əʊzi
Forms: form: prosier
form: prosiest
form: prosey
Etymology: From prose + -y.
Senses: glosses: Unpoetic; dull and unimaginative.
raw_tags: of speech or writing
examples: text: CHARMIAN. He makes you so terribly prosy and serious and learned and philosophical. It is worse than being religious, at our ages.
ref: 1898, George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra:
text: "Well, well, we all get a bit prosy sometimes," said Lord John.
ref: 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: I cannot imagine his pupil regarding him as anything but a prosy old pedant, set over him by his father to keep him out of mischief.
ref: 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.19:
glosses: Behaving in a dull way; boring, tedious.
raw_tags: of a person
Related terms: prose
conducive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈdjuːsɪv/
ipa: /kənˈdusɪv/
ipa: /kənˈdjʉːsɪv/
Forms: form: more conducive
form: most conducive
Etymology: From conduce + -ive, 1640s, from Latin condūcere, patterned after forms like conductive.
Senses: examples: text: A small, dark kitchen is not conducive to elaborate cooking.
text: According to the Roman Pliny the Elder, author of Historia Naturalis, southernwood was conducive to sexual excitement when the plant was placed under the bed.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 227:
text: A. The exterior of the premises and all structures thereon shall be kept free of all nuisances, unsanitary conditions and fire or safety hazards in the public areas and any of the foregoing shall be removed and abated promptly by the owner or manager.
B. Without limiting the generality of Subsection A, the maintenance includes: . . . (3) Keeping the premises free of conditions conducive to infestation by vermin or insects, such as rodent harborages or stagnant water, and other known sources of infestation.
ref: 2016, Jersey City, N.J. Code of Ordinances § 254-43. - Maintenance of exterior of premises:
synonyms: instrumental
helpful
favorable
conducent
antonyms: inconducive
unconducive
glosses: Tending to contribute to, encourage, or bring about some result.
Derived terms: conducively
conduciveness
disconducive
nonconducive
Related terms: conduce
cross purposes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross purpose.
examples: text: "Well," continued Lavinia, "life is just like a comedy, only it does not end so pleasantly; but it has just as many cross purposes. Here I am in love with you, who care only for Miss Churchill; she, again, loves Mr. Courtenaye, and he loves only himself, as far as I can make out."
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Different Views of Life”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 108:
qualifier: plural-noun
glosses: Conflicting, or contrary meanings or ideas, usually arising unintentionally.
tarnish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑːnɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈtɑɹnɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)nɪʃ
Forms: form: tarnishes
Etymology: From Middle English ternysshen, from Old French terniss-, stem of ternir (“to make dim, make wan”), borrowed from Old High German *ternen, tarnen, from Proto-West Germanic *darnijan (“to conceal”). Doublet of dern and darn.
Senses: examples: text: 1918, Hannah Teresa Rowley, Mrs. Helen Louise (Wales) Farrell, Principles of Chemistry Applied to the Household
Precipitated calcium carbonate, a very fine powdery form, is used as a basis for many tooth powders and pastes. As whiting it finds a wide use in cleaning metals of their tarnishes.
text: Limiting the use of silver to special occasions might invite tarnish unless the pieces are carefully protected.
ref: 1987 July 30, Joseph Deitch, “Removing Tarnish From Silverware”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Oxidation or discoloration, especially of a decorative metal exposed to air.
tarnish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑːnɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈtɑɹnɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)nɪʃ
Forms: form: tarnishes
form: tarnishing
form: tarnished
form: tarnished
Etymology: From Middle English ternysshen, from Old French terniss-, stem of ternir (“to make dim, make wan”), borrowed from Old High German *ternen, tarnen, from Proto-West Germanic *darnijan (“to conceal”). Doublet of dern and darn.
Senses: examples: text: Careful storage of silver will prevent it from tarnishing.
glosses: To oxidize or discolor due to oxidation.
examples: text: He is afraid that she will tarnish his reputation if he disagrees with her.
text: I have next shown you the Greeks, and " the wisdom" of their philosophy, often travesting, sometimes tarnishing the Christian religion : […]
ref: 1839, Alexander Kinmont, “Lecture the Eighth; On the Unity in Variety of the Human Race”, in Twelve Lectures on the Natural History of Man, and the Rise and Progress of Philosophy, Cincinnati: U. P. James, page 232:
text: The greed that many players show tarnishes the game.
ref: 1991 April 7, “Players' Greed Tarnishes Game”, in The New York Times:
text: There are normally anti-embarrassment clauses in such arrangements and, from a corporate social responsibility point of view, the upside of standing by a tarnished individual is often outweighed by the downside.
ref: 2022 March 11, David Hytner, “Chelsea are in crisis but there is no will to leave club on their knees”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To compromise, damage, soil, or sully.
examples: text: Till thy freſh Glories, which now ſhine ſo bright, / Grow Stale and Tarniſh with our dayly ſight.
ref: 1681, [John Dryden], Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem. […], 3rd edition, London: […] J[acob] T[onson] and are to be sold by W. Davis […], published 1682, →OCLC, page 7:
glosses: To lose its lustre or attraction; to become dull.
topics: copyright
intellectual-property
law
glosses: To use a sign, image, expression, etc. sufficiently close to a trademarked one that it brings disrepute to it.
sully
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌli/
rhymes: -ʌli
Forms: form: sullies
Etymology: From Middle English sulen, sulien (“to become dirty; to defile, pollute, taint”), from Old English sylian (“to soil, pollute; to sully”), from Proto-West Germanic *sulwōn, *sulwijan (“to make dirty; to sully”), from Proto-Indo-European *sūl- (“thick liquid, muck”), perhaps conflated partially with Old French souillier (“to soil”) (modern French souiller) from the same Germanic source. The word is cognate with Danish søle (“to sully”), West Flemish seulewen (“to sully”) (Middle Dutch soluwen (“to sully”)), German sühlen (“to sully”), Old Saxon sulian (“to sully”), Swedish söla (“to sully”). Also compare Middle English sulpen (“to defile, pollute”), Old English solian (“to soil, become defiled, make or become foul”), and see more at soil.
Senses: examples: text: You laying these ſlight ſallies on my ſonne, / As t'were a thing a little ſoyld with working, […]
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: After all, it must be confessed, that a noble and triumphant merit often breaks through and dissipates these little spots and sullies in its reputation; but if, by a mistaken pursuit after fame, or through human infirmity any false step be made in the more momentous concerns of life, the whole scheme of ambitious designs is broken and disappointed.
ref: 1712 January 4 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “MONDAY, December 24, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 256; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 278:
text: Roses, ere their crimson breast / Throws aside its green moss vest; / Young hearts, or ere toil, or care, / Or gold, has left a sully there.
ref: 1823 August 9, L. E. L., “Original Poetry. Poetical Catalogue of Pictures. Stothard’s Erato.”, in The Literary Gazette, and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c., number 342, London: Printed by B. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street; published for the proprietors, at the Literary Gazette Office, Strand; sold also by Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh; John Cumming, Dublin; and all other booksellers, newsmen, &c., →OCLC, page 507, column 3:
glosses: A blemish.
toots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtuts/
ipa: [ˈtʰuts]
rhymes: -uːts
Senses: glosses: plural of toot
toots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtuts/
ipa: [ˈtʰuts]
rhymes: -uːts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of toot
toots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtuts/
ipa: [ˈtʰuts]
rhymes: -uːts
ipa: /ˈtʊts/
ipa: [ˈtʰʊts]
rhymes: -ʊts
ipa: /ˈtuts/
ipa: [ˈtʰuts]
rhymes: -uːts
Forms: form: toots
Etymology: Shortened from tootsie.
Senses: examples: text: Hey, toots! How you doing?
text: 2012, “Jaboody Dubs” (username), “Loudmouth Leo Dub”, 49 seconds
Yeah, real compelling story, toots. I never heard that one before.
glosses: Babe, sweetie: a term used when addressing a young woman
examples: text: - Boy, Miss Elaina, you know a lot about picnics.
ref: 2012, Angela Santomera, "Daniel's Picnic", Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood Elaina replying to Daniel
roman: - I sure do, toots!
glosses: A gender-neutral term of affection.
sub specie aeterni
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From Latin.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: From the viewpoint of eternity.
mongoloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒŋɡəˌlɔɪd/
ipa: /ˈmɑŋɡəˌlɔɪd/
Forms: form: mongoloids
form: Mongoloid
raw_tags: in the racial sense
form: Mongolioid
raw_tags: in the racial sense
form: gloid
Etymology: From Mongol + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: Both American Indians and Mongoloids have shovel-shaped incisor teeth and, at birth, display the Mongoloid spot — a blue spot above the rump, which fades within a short time; many also have the Mongoloid, or epicanthic, fold of the inner part of the upper eyelid.
ref: 1983, Bertha Pauline Dutton, American Indians of the Southwest, page 3:
text: On the average, he found caucasoids to have the longest heads and mongoloids the roundest; mongoloids the straightest hair and negroids the most tightly curled; caucasoids the narrowest noses and negroids the broadest.
ref: 1991, Floyd James Davis, Who is Black?: One Nation's Definition, page 19:
text: As before, the genetic distance between Caucasoid and Mongoloid is the smallest and that between Negroid and Mongoloid is the largest.
ref: 1997, Masatoshi Nei, Arun K. Roychoudhury, Genetic Relationship and Evolution of Human Races, page 38:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A member of the racial classification of humanity composed of peoples native to North Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Pacific Oceania, the Americas, and parts of Central Asia and South Asia (and sometimes eastern Fennoscandia) – as well as their descendants in other parts of the world.
examples: text: Kirman (1953) drew attention to some physicians' reluctance to offer even ordinary and routine medical care to mongoloids, whose treatment they consider a waste of time.
ref: 1967, W. Wolfensberger, “13: Counseling Parents of the Retarded”, in Alfred A. Baumeister, editor, Ameliorating Mental Disability: Questioning Retardation, published 2009, page 376:
text: It is therefore of interest to examine hospital records of mongoloid children with heart defects in order to find out how frequently operations are performed upon these children.
ref: 1977, Diana Crane, The Sanctity of Social Life: Physicians' Treatment of Critically Ill Patients, page 97:
text: The operation made each feature, itself, look O.K., but her overall looks are still those of a Mongoloid. Her facial expression immediately reveals that she is different. She still has that peculiar look. You can see she has Down's syndrome.
ref: 1994, Meira Weiss, Conditional Love: Parents' Attitudes Toward Handicapped Children, page 102:
glosses: A person with Down syndrome.
glosses: An idiot, a retard; a general term of abuse, due to association with Down syndrome.
Derived terms: sense: idiot, retard
word: mong
sense: idiot, retard
word: mongo
sense: others
word: Proto-Mongoloid
sense: others
word: antimongoloid
sense: others
word: mongoloidism
Related terms: Mongol
Mongolian
mongolism
mongoloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒŋɡəˌlɔɪd/
ipa: /ˈmɑŋɡəˌlɔɪd/
Forms: form: more mongoloid
form: most mongoloid
form: Mongoloid
raw_tags: in the racial sense
form: Mongolioid
raw_tags: in the racial sense
form: gloid
Etymology: From Mongol + -oid.
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Being a member or pertaining to characteristics of this racial classification.
Related terms: Australoid
Caucasoid
negroid
Australoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Australoids
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A historical grouping and racial classification which mainly includes aboriginal Australians but also Andamans, Melanesians, Micronesians, Negritos, New Guineans, and Veddas as well as sometimes Dravidians.
Derived terms: Australo-Melanesian
Proto-Australoid
Related terms: Veddoid
Eurasian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʊˈɹeɪ.ʒən/
ipa: /jəˈɹeɪ.ʒən/
ipa: /jʊˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /jəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
rhymes: -eɪʒən
Forms: form: more Eurasian
form: most Eurasian
form: Euro-Asian
form: Euroasian
Etymology: From Euro- + Asian. Attested since 1844.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the continent of Eurasia, or to both Europe and Asia.
examples: text: They were advertising Japanese whiskeys, Macau casino-resorts, and skin-whitening creams for women. A Eurasian-looking model with black hair and blue eyes delicately stroked her cheek in a paean of self-care.
ref: 2018, Ling Ma, chapter 8, in Severance, →ISBN:
hypernyms: Whasian
glosses: Having mixed European and Asian ancestry.
Synonyms: Eurasiatic
Europasian
Wasian
Derived terms: Eurasian badger
Eurasian bittern
Eurasian blackbird
Eurasian blackcap
Eurasian black vulture
Eurasian bullfinch
Eurasian collared dove
Eurasian coot
Eurasian crag martin
Eurasian dotterel
Eurasian eagle owl
Eurasian Economic Union
Eurasian golden plover
Eurasian goldfinch
Eurasian hobby
Eurasian hoopoe
Eurasianism
Eurasianist
Eurasian jay
Eurasian lynx
Eurasian magpie
Eurasian nightjar
Eurasian nuthatch
Eurasian pygmy owl
Eurasian scops owl
Eurasian siskin
Eurasian sparrowhawk
Eurasian spoonbill
Eurasian stone-curlew
Eurasian teal
Eurasian thick-knee
Eurasian three-toed woodpecker
Eurasian treecreeper
Eurasian tree sparrow
Eurasian Union
Eurasian wigeon
Eurasian woodcock
Eurasian wren
Eurasian wryneck
Transeurasian
Related terms: Eurasiafrican
Eurasian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʊˈɹeɪ.ʒən/
ipa: /jəˈɹeɪ.ʒən/
ipa: /jʊˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /jəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
rhymes: -eɪʒən
Forms: form: Eurasians
form: Euro-Asian
form: Euroasian
Etymology: From Euro- + Asian. Attested since 1844.
Senses: glosses: Any person native to Eurasia, or descended from people native to Eurasia.
hypernyms: Whasian
glosses: A person of mixed European and Asian ancestry.
glosses: A person of European ancestry born in Asia.
Synonyms: Eurasiatic
Europasian
Wasian
Related terms: sense: person of mixed European and Asian ancestry
word: Amerasian
sense: person of mixed European and Asian ancestry
word: hapa
header
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hĕd'ər
ipa: /ˈhɛdɚ/
ipa: /ˈhɛdə/
rhymes: -ɛdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: headers
form: headering
form: headered
form: headered
form: hdr
Etymology: From head + -er.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To strike (a ball) with one's head.
thunderclap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθʌndɚˌklæp/
Forms: form: thunderclaps
Etymology: From thunder + clap.
Senses: examples: text: Thunderclaps that make them quake.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Ile home, and ſtarue, this croſſe, this peeuiſh hap, / Strikes dead my ſpirits like a thunderclap.
ref: 1600 (date written), [John Marston], Iacke Drums Entertainment: Or The Comedie of Pasquill and Katherine. […], London: […] [Thomas Creede] for Richard Oliue [i.e., Oliff], […], published 1601, →OCLC, Act II, signature D2, verso:
text: When suddenly the thunderclap was heard.
ref: 1685, John Dryden, Threnodia Augustalis:
glosses: A sudden, loud thunder caused by a nearby lightning strike; a shock of thunder, as opposed to a reverberating rumble.
glosses: A very loud fart.
examples: text: A 21-Valyrian steel dagger salute to Paddy Considine, who makes his exit from House Of The Dragon this week with a thunderclap of a performance. “The Lord of the Tides” is the swan song for his King Viserys I Targaryen, a well-intentioned but indecisive man who waited until the very last day of his life to flex his royal might.
ref: 2022 October 10, Jenna Scherer, “House Of The Dragon drops its best episode yet”, in AV Club:
glosses: Something that makes a big, dramatic impact.
examples: text: […] the thunderclaps, and advised Cage on their meaning. Cage considered composing new star-map music, in which microphones attached to the throats of the chorus members would make their singing of Joyce's verbal thunderclaps sound like […]
ref: 2012, Kenneth Silverman, Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage, page 292:
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: Synonym of thunder word.
synonyms: word: thunder word
Derived terms: thunderclap headache
Related terms: thunderbolt
thunderous
thunderclap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθʌndɚˌklæp/
Forms: form: thunderclaps
form: thunderclapping
form: thunderclapped
form: thunderclapped
Etymology: From thunder + clap.
Senses: examples: text: It struck just before dark, a massive black geyser of oil and gas that thunderclapped from the well, soaring a hundred feet into the air and then even higher, […]
ref: 2000, Arelo C. Sederberg, Zora, page 309:
text: So many sensations — the feel of his strong fingers gripping her shoulders, his heart thunderclapping in his chest, his legs and hips aligned with hers, as if the two of them had been fashioned out of the same block of clay.
ref: 2003, Kathryn Shay, Against the Odds, page 118:
glosses: To produce a loud burst of sound like a thunderclap.
Related terms: rounce robble hobble
rumble
past anterior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A compound tense used in literary French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian, in function a pluperfect, and in form composed of the conjunction of the simple past tense of an auxiliary verb (avoir, être) with the past participle. Example: Après que la femme et l'homme l'eurent remercié = After the woman and the man had thanked him
Synonyms: past perfect
testicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛsˈtɪkjələ/
ipa: /tɛsˈtɪkjəlɚ/
enpr: /tĕ-stĭk'yə-lər/
enpr: /tĕ-stĭk'yū-lər/
rhymes: -ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Medieval Latin testicularis, from Latin testiculum (“testicle”), diminutive of testis.
Senses: examples: text: Men may also have fertility challenges, especially if their hypogonadism was caused by anabolic steroid use. Anabolic steroids can affect testicular health, including reducing the production of sperm.
ref: 2018 June 25, James Roland, “What is Hypergonadism?”, in Healthline:
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to one or more testicles; of the testicle(s).
Derived terms: extratesticular
hematotesticular
intratesticular
nontesticular
osteotesticular
ovotesticular
paratesticular
peritesticular
post-testicular
pre-testicular
pretesticular
supratesticular
testicular artery
testicular cancer
testicular dysgenesis syndrome
testicular fortitude
testicularity
testicularization
testicularly
testicular torsion
testicular vein
Related terms: testes
testosterone