cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
astink
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + stink.
Senses: examples: text: The earth between and beyond the lines
Ravaged and sown with steel
And churned with blood
And astink with decaying men,
ref: 1920, F. S. Flint, “Hats”, in Ira Dilworth, editor, Twentieth Century Verse: An Anthology, Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, published 1945, page 162:
text: And the doctor’s Jezebel come running from her lustful bed, still astink with sin and fear.
ref: 1932, William Faulkner, chapter 16, in Light in August, New York: Random House:
text: […] the Rector ordered that his room should be cleaned and all the poisons he kept there taken away. Six weeks later it was all astink again.
ref: 1950, Louis De Wohl, The Quiet Light, Philadelphia: Lippincott, Book 3, Chapter 15, p. 239:
text: Their fish camp down the Yukon can be discouraging, too—a dirty, fetid, lightless cabin astink in aging salmon.
ref: 1977, John McPhee, Coming into the Country, New York: Bantam, Book 3, p. 386:
text: Penny […] emptied her chamber pot on the rutting pairs. Astink and horrified, the girls complained,
ref: 2006, Ben Ehrenreich, chapter 2, in The Suitors,, New York: Counterpoint, page 13:
glosses: Stinking.
Pengelly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A hamlet near Delabole, north Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX0783).
forcepstail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forcepstails
Etymology: From forceps + tail.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A member of Diplura (two-pronged bristletails) in the families Evalljapygidae, Parajapygidae, and especially Japygidae.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A member of dragonflies in the genera Phyllocycla (lesser forcepstails) and Aphylla (greater forcepgenus|stails).
forcepstails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forcepstail
Delabole
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in north Cornwall, England, previously in St Teath parish (OS grid ref SX0784).
natsci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈnætski/
Forms: form: natscis
Senses: qualifier: Cambridge University slang
glosses: A natural scientist.
Related terms: mathmo
natscis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of natsci
gittish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gittish
form: most gittish
Etymology: From git + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Prince George is shy and just pretends to be bluff and crass and unbelievably thick and gittish, whilst deep down he is a soft little marshmallowy, pigletty type of creature.
ref: 1987, Blackadder (TV series), "Amy and Amiability" (series 3, episode 5)
text: Anna sighed. 'Jackson was a git. As usual.'
'Uneasy lies the head that wears a throne. Specifically gittish, or just generally?'
ref: 2010, Kate Long, The Daughter Game, page 5:
text: He'd done it to escape the bitter, miserable git of a man he'd become. […] Problem was, his home self could still be pretty gittish, and if he went to these awards everyone might see that.
ref: 2020, Anna Stuart, Four Minutes to Save a Life:
glosses: Like a git; jerkish; obnoxious.
knee tickler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knee ticklers
Senses: glosses: A decorative dangling ornament attached to the hem of a miniskirt.
knee ticklers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knee tickler
feedism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From feed + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of feederism (“paraphilia involving overfeeding or overeating”).
synonyms: word: feederism
extra: paraphilia involving overfeeding or overeating
St Teath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Associated with Saint Tetha.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in north Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX0680).
wikipedia: Tetha
checkup from the neck up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: checkups from the neck up
Etymology: Chosen for the rhyme.
Senses: glosses: The analysis of one's own thoughts or beliefs with a view to reforming oneself.
checkups from the neck up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of checkup from the neck up
orotactile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oro- + tactile.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: That has to do with the sense of touch in mouth.
Jie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒjɛ/
rhymes: -ɛ
Forms: form: Chieh
Etymology: Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 羯 (Jié), from Middle Chinese 羯 (kjot), itself borrowed from Jie.
Senses: synonyms: Kjet
glosses: An ancient tribe of northern China, who were regarded as one of the Five Barbarians by the Han people.
Jie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒjɛ/
rhymes: -ɛ
Forms: form: Chieh
Etymology: Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 羯 (Jié), from Middle Chinese 羯 (kjot), itself borrowed from Jie.
Senses: synonyms: Kjet
glosses: The language spoken by the Jie people, attested only in a fragment in the Book of Jin.
Hiu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Hiw.
Pui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Pui.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Hunedoara County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Pui, Hunedoara County, Romania.
Jiu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Jiu.
Senses: glosses: A river in Romania.
endfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endfeet
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of end-foot.
unimmaculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unimmaculate
form: most unimmaculate
Etymology: From un- + immaculate.
Senses: glosses: Not immaculate.
incontinentia pigmenti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: IP
glosses: A rare genetic disorder with skin abnormalities and various other problems.
lines of Blaschko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: line of Blaschko
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Blaschko's lines.
synonyms: word: Blaschko's lines
CHILD syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Initialism, to spell the word child. The acronym was introduced in 1980.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Congenital hemidysplasia with ichthyosiform erythroderma and limb defects.
black and burst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: An analogue composite video signal with a black picture, used as a reference signal to synchronise timings.
puberulently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more puberulently
form: most puberulently
Etymology: From puberulent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a puberulent manner.
puberulence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being puberulent.
doubletime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From double + time.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
qualifier: molecular biology
glosses: A gene in Drosophila melanogaster that produces the DBT protein kinase, used to control circadian rhythm.
Derived terms: dbt abbreviation
DBT protein product
dbtS a mutant allele that shortens the circadian rhythm
dbtL a mutant allele that lengthens the circadian rhythm
dbtP a mutant allele that eliminates the circadian rhythm and kills the larva
doubletime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: doubletimes
form: doubletiming
form: doubletimed
form: doubletimed
Etymology: From double + time.
Senses: examples: text: "Doubletime up to the ville and souvenir me one cute orphan, man, but be sure you get a dirty one, a really skuzzy one."
ref: 1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 57:
glosses: Alternative form of double-time.
rotoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rotoid + -al.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having the form of a rotoid
rasta hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rasta hats
Senses: examples: text: Some are more popular than others - woolly rasta hats are high on the list, as are little floppy khaki ones.
ref: 1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 61:
synonyms: rastacap
glosses: A loose knitted hat, typically in bright colours, often the colours of the Jamaican flag, designed to hold in dreadlocks.
rasta hats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rasta hat
toe-crushing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A failure of a brick wall in which the bricks at one lower end crack and crumble.
toe-crushing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more toe-crushing
form: most toe-crushing
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: That crushes the toe or toes.
Of a delivery: directed at the feet of the facing batsman.
examples: text: Nasty unpolished toe-crushing boots are equally acceptable, but don't let anyone see you wearing neat woolly knee-socks.
ref: 1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 62:
glosses: That crushes the toe or toes.
Of footwear: that does not have enough room for the toes.
Related terms: toe-crusher
trackshoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trackshoes
form: track shoe
form: track-shoe
Etymology: From track + shoe.
Senses: examples: text: Old track-shoes also denote the correct worthy degree of suffering.
ref: 1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 62:
glosses: A shoe designed to be worn when running or exercising at an exercise track.
trackshoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trackshoe
exercise track
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exercise tracks
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A track having a soft springy rubber surface and lane markings, designed for exercising and running races.
glosses: A track for exercising animals, especially racehorses.
glosses: A recording of music to exercise to.
exercise tracks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exercise track
barefaced liar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barefaced liars
Senses: glosses: A person who tells blatant and obvious lies.
Hargreave
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Hargreaves
Holwill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Allanach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Barnshaw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Totton and Eling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish with a town council in New Forest district, Hampshire, England.
son jarocho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A style of folk music from the Mexican state of Veracruz.
son montuno
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A style of son cubano music with complex horn arrangements.
son cubano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A genre of music and dance that originated in the highlands of eastern Cuba in the late 19th century, and blends Spanish and African elements.
forced errors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forced error
ginwright
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ginwrights
Etymology: From gin + wright.
Senses: glosses: A manufacturer of cotton gins.
ginwrights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ginwright
veto pen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: veto pens
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The ability to sign a veto; vetoing power.
Last Judgement
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Last Judgement
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Last Judgment.
veto pens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veto pen
widow's cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A cap worn as a sign of mourning by a woman after the death of her husband.
ethynylbenzenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ethynylbenzene
ETNOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ETNO
ETSOIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ETSOI
ETTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ETT
eucasins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eucasin
euchromatizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of euchromatization
eudesmanolides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eudesmanolide
eudromaeosaurians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eudromaeosaurian
screwgate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screwgates
Etymology: From screw + gate.
Senses: topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A kind of carabiner that is fastened by means of a screw thread.
Eulerian circuits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eulerian circuit
Eulerian trails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eulerian trail
screwgates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of screwgate
Euroclones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Euroclone
Eling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːlɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Hampstead Norreys parish, West Berkshire district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU5275).
glosses: A suburban village in Totton and Eling parish, New Forest district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU3612).
gingermint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ginger mint
Etymology: From ginger + mint.
Senses: glosses: The mint hybrid Mentha × gracilis.
unluckly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unluckly
form: most unluckly
Senses: examples: text: This Order was formed, at a very grand ball; / And amongst the old Legends 'tis found, / That the Countess of Salisbury's garter unloosed, / And, unluckly, fell to the ground.
ref: 1857, Mrs. E. Wood, A Metrical History of England for Young People, page 54:
glosses: Obsolete form of unluckily.
qualie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qualies
Senses: examples: text: It appears, also, that when the qualie, or cauldron, is new, the extract prepared in it becomes very dark, and is sold only as a second quality at Rhio, and is almost unsaleable in the Java market: […]
ref: 1834, George Bennett, Wanderings in New South Wales, Batavia, Pedir Coast, Singapore ..., volume 2, page 190:
text: The leaves are plucked from the prunings, and boiled in a qualie, or cauldron (made of bark, with an iron bottom); after being boiled twice and rinsed, they are used as a manure for the pepper vine.
ref: 1857, Jonathan Pereira, The Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, page 153:
glosses: A cauldron.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Alternative form of quali.
qualies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qualie
glosses: plural of quali
glosses: plural of qualy
heel turns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heel turn
stratarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stratarchies
Etymology: From stratum + -archy.
Senses: glosses: An organization having a number of different strata within which power and influence are distributed.
stratarchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stratarchy
Ginsu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɪnsuː/
Forms: form: Ginsus
Etymology: Marketing coinage, intended to evoke the idea of Japanese samurai swords.
Senses: examples: text: The yearning a man feels when he watches the Food Network springs from the same well of forbidden fantasies that led to Michael Douglas' fiasco-fling with a Ginsu-wielding Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction, except that now there's a 180-degree twist.
ref: 2006, Details, volume 25, number 1, page 174:
glosses: A kind of sharp kitchen knife.
Ginsus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ginsu
arroded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more arroded
form: most arroded
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Subjected to arrosion; wasted away under pressure.
temporosphenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From temporo- + sphenoid.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the temporal and sphenoid bones
film studies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An academic discipline that deals with various theoretical, historical, and critical approaches to films and the cinema.
Fine Gaeler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fine Gaelers
Etymology: From Fine Gael + -er.
Senses: glosses: A member or supporter of the Fine Gael political party.
Fine Gaelers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fine Gaeler
shopability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shoppability.
shoppability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shopability
Etymology: From shop + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: I am happy to say the factor that turned the tide at L'eggs and Sara Lee headquarters in Winston-Salem and Chicago was the improved shoppability afforded by the new package design.
ref: 1992, Michael Wahl, In Store Marketing: A New Dimension in the Share Wars:
glosses: The quality or degree of being shoppable.
Sundanese script
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: writing system used for Sundanese language, derived from Old Sundanese script
viewing cone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viewing cones
Senses: glosses: The more or less conical region of space from which an observer can see a given display without distortion.
viewing cones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of viewing cone
viewplanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of viewplane
double-head
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: double-heads
form: double-heading
form: double-headed
form: double-headed
Senses: examples: text: For an excursion organised by the publishers of this journal to Eastleigh and Ashford on April 5, Class T9 4-4-0 No. 30117 and E1 4-4-0 No. 31019 were provided to double-head a special from Charing Cross to Ashford via Maidstone East.
ref: 1961 June, “Motive Power Miscellany: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 380:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: To haul a train with two locomotives at the head end.
Related terms: word: double-header
word: double-heading
double-heads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of double-head
Cockell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Withnall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Gwilt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
want to know
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wants to know
form: wanting to know
form: wanted to know
form: wanted to know
Senses: examples: text: 1970, John Fogerty (Creedence Clearwater Revival), "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?"
I want to know, have you ever seen the rain / Comin' down on a sunny day?
text: "What do you see?" Thayet wanted to know.
ref: 1988, Tamora Pierce, Lioness Rampant,, page 114:
glosses: To ask (used as a dialogue marker or introductory statement).
Fage
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Lecky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɛki
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Leckie
Bryen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Dawsholm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood in Glasgow, Scotland, which includes Dawsholm Park (OS grid ref NS5569).
anchovette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anchovy + -ette; probably coined as a brand name, but compare French anchovette (“Engraulis ringens, a species of anchovy found off the coasts of Chile and Peru”), from Spanish anchoveta.
Senses: examples: text: Lunch was eaten at about 1.15 p.m., the food consisting of anchovette paste, bread and butter, tea, and, in one case, treacle.
ref: 1925, Report of the Director-General of Public Health, New South Wales for the Year 1925, Sydney, published 1927, page 184:
text: She did just think about her home sometimes, eating her anchovette sandwich, for instance, in the half-hour she took off for lunch.
ref: 1955, Patrick White, chapter 16, in The Tree of Man, New York: Viking, page 258:
text: Breakfast was lighter in this English household. […] Elizabeth and I had toast and anchovette—anchovy paste.
ref: 1986, Carolyn Meyer, chapter 7, in Voices of South Africa,, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, page 126:
glosses: A paste made from anchovies, used as a spread.
Darroch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
unuxorious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unuxorious
form: most unuxorious
Etymology: From un- + uxorious.
Senses: glosses: Not uxorious.
plant pots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plant pot
unimpulsively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unimpulsively
form: most unimpulsively
Etymology: From unimpulsive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unimpulsive manner.
unimpugnability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unimpugnable.
unerratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unerratic
form: most unerratic
Etymology: From un- + erratic.
Senses: glosses: Not erratic.
EverCrack
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: An allusion to the addictiveness of crack cocaine.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: The massively multiplayer online role-playing game EverQuest.
Related terms: plastic crack
World of Warcrack
Warcrack
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of warcraft + crack, in allusion to the addictiveness of crack cocaine.
Senses: topics: video-games
synonyms: World of Warcrack
glosses: The massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft.
Related terms: EverCrack
plastic crack
war chiefs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of war chief
Homersfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (St Mary South Elmham otherwise Homersfield) in East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England, across the River Waveney from Norfolk (OS grid ref TM2885).
word wrapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of word wrap
word wraps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of word wrap
word wrapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of word wrap
uxory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] Mrs. Johnson was sighing softly, partly in recollection of the dear departed who had sent home that sofa in a spasm of uxory, and partly in anticipation of replacing him with another.
ref: 1878, Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours, volume 23, page 246:
glosses: Synonym of uxoriousness.
synonyms: word: uxoriousness
television studies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: coordinate_terms: film studies
glosses: An academic discipline that deals with various theoretical, historical, and critical approaches to television.
world maps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of world map
alfilerillo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spanish alfilerillo.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of alfilaria.
glosses: Machaonia woodburyana, a plant in the family Rubiaceae.
yard of clay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yards of clay
Senses: examples: text: […] he failed repeatedly until he took over his famous house in Haymarket, where for many years, surrounded by such admirers as Byron, Tom Moore and Hazlitt, he smoked his yard of clay, drained his glass of 'daffy', and […]
ref: 1954, Denzil Batchelor, Big Fight: The Story of World Championship Boxing, page 44:
glosses: A long pipe for smoking; a churchwarden pipe.
yards of clay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yard of clay
Yarmouth capon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yarmouth capons
Senses: glosses: A bloater, or red herring.
Yarmouth capons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Yarmouth capon
Parson Trulliber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Parson Trullibers
Etymology: After the character of the same name in Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews (1742).
Senses: glosses: A rude, vulgar country clergyman, devoted to agricultural pursuits.
Parson Trullibers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Parson Trulliber
Abiezerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Abiezerites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Abiezrite.
Abiezerites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Abiezerite
Muckley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A hamlet in Acton Round parish, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO6495).
Abiezer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew אֲבִיעֶזֶר, literally "my father is help".
Senses: glosses: Various characters from the Bible:
The prince of the tribe of Dan at the time of the Exodus (Numbers 1:12).
glosses: Various characters from the Bible:
The second of the three sons of Hammoleketh, the sister of Gilead (Numbers 26:30), from whose family Gideon sprang.
synonyms: Jeezer
glosses: Various characters from the Bible:
One of King David's thirty warriors (2 Samuel 23:27; 1 Chronicles 27:12), a Benjamite from Anathoth.
Derived terms: Abiezrite
add to the list
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: adds to the list
form: adding to the list
form: added to the list
form: added to the list
Senses: examples: text: Sabinus has been added to the list.
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: To geld (a horse).
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see add, list.
examples: text: She’s a persuasive partner. She understands what communities need because she listens to the people who live there. She drives impact. They can now add "Lifetime Achievement Award winner" to the list.
ref: 2014 April 11, “Brice honored for pioneering progress in Phoenix”, in LISC:
glosses: To consider as an additional example to an expansive list.
Warde
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
jomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jomers
Senses: examples: text: […] going about the county half-naked, but having good clothes, perhaps sent forward to the lodging-house by his jomer (girl); this is very often a profitable trade; the shallow-cove of course selling all the clothes he does not need himself.
ref: 1859, Snowden's Magistrates Assistant, page 87:
glosses: A sweetheart, or favourite girl.
jomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jomer
Fotherby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF3191).
castration anxiety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: castration anxieties
Senses: examples: text: If we wonder now how easily men are threatened by women, and how the slightest expression of feminine power can generate castration anxieties in even a big man, then perhaps we would do well to think back on the origins of agriculture.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 133:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The literal or metaphorical fear of emasculation; associated with the early psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud.
Related terms: vagina dentata
castration anxieties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of castration anxiety
cow's grease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Large companies of them often passed to Burlington from their camping ground a little west of us, and would stop for something to eat, asking first for doughnuts and cow's grease (butter).
ref: 1911, Truman Orville Douglass, The Pilgrims of Iowa, page 26:
glosses: Alternative form of cow grease (“butter”).
thonked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of thonk
thonking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of thonk
thonks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of thonk
caught a crab
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of catch a crab
catching a crab
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of catch a crab
Chinese mitten crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinese mitten crabs
Senses: synonyms: Shanghai hairy crab
glosses: Eriocheir sinensis, a medium-sized burrowing crab with furry claws, native to parts of Asia.
Shanghai hairy crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shanghai hairy crabs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Chinese mitten crab.
synonyms: word: Chinese mitten crab
Chinese mitten crabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chinese mitten crab
Shanghai hairy crabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shanghai hairy crab
Christmas Island red crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Christmas Island red crabs
Senses: glosses: Gecarcoidea natalis, a land crab endemic to Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the Indian Ocean.
Christmas Island red crabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Christmas Island red crab
trewage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trewages
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of truage.
trewages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trewage
gallanty show
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gallanty shows
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of galanty show.
gallanty shows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gallanty show
galores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galore
exhiliration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exhilirations
Senses: examples: text: The usual routine of confections and pastry follows, after which a galore of fruits of all kinds, with a chassè of excellent Mocha, the immediate servitude of which, after good dining, is, I think, universally acknowledged to be a great exhiliration.
ref: 1857, Journal of Australasia, volume 2, page 38:
glosses: Obsolete form of exhilaration.
exhilirate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: exhilirates
form: exhilirating
form: exhilirated
form: exhilirated
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of exhilarate.
exhilirations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exhiliration
exhilirated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exhilirate
exhilirates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of exhilirate
exhilirating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of exhilirate
plays up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of play up
playing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of play up
played up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of play up
cepstrograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cepstrogram
gander month
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gander months
Senses: glosses: One of the later months of a pregnancy, when the pregnant woman cannot engage in sexual intercourse and her partner might be expected to seek it elsewhere.
Related terms: gandermooner
gander months
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gander month
redemption arc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redemption arcs
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
synonyms: redemptive arc
glosses: A story arc wherein an immoral character redeems themselves and makes right for their wrongdoings (or wherein readers perceive them as having done so).
examples: text: But Mr. Depp’s victory — which a lawyer for Ms. Heard said she would appeal — may seem attractive to accused litigants who are desperately seeking a similar redemption arc, said Andrew Miltenberg, a lawyer whose firm regularly defends people accused of sexual misconduct.
ref: 2022 June 2, Julia Jacobs, “Johnny Depp’s Win in Court Could Embolden Others, Lawyers Say”, in The New York Times:
text: Nobody really knows how Karius will fare on Sunday. He has not played a senior professional game for two years. Nobody knows where his head is at, what battle scars still remain, how he will fare in the cauldron of a cup final with Marcus Rashford bearing down on his goal. The redemption arc is a seductive narrative, and many neutrals will wish him well.
ref: 2023 February 24, Jonathan Liew, “Loris Karius knows only too well how one game can change a career”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: redemptive arc
glosses: A series of actions or events by which a person makes right for their past failures, errors, or wrongdoings.
soft tack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Synonym of soft tommy (“bread”).
synonyms: word: soft tommy
extra: bread
rumbumptious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rumbumptious
form: most rumbumptious
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rumbustious.
rumbustical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rumbustical
form: most rumbustical
Senses: glosses: Synonym of rumbustious.
synonyms: word: rumbustious
rumbunctiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rumbunctiously
form: most rumbunctiously
Etymology: From rumbunctious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a rumbunctious manner.
nonconsultative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + consultative.
Senses: glosses: Not consultative.
Rumian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Rumian
form: most Rumian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Persian poet and mystic Rumi (Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī).
jerry-rigs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jerry-rig
jerry-rigging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jerry-rig
rumping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rump
runs in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of run in
ran in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of run in
benegroing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of benegro
benegroes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of benegro
efters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of efter
ziff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ziffs
Senses: examples: text: The building style can be described as Stalinist Ceremonial at its most relaxed. That is, the external visual impression is as if some comedian had memorialised the moral fixities of Sir Henry Bolte and decorated the result with the late lamented Joe Stalin's ziff.
ref: 1973, Max Harris, The Angry Eye, Sydney, N.S.W.: Pergamon Press, →ISBN, page 116:
glosses: A beard.
examples: text: Now he wanted to use electric heat, and electricity was found wanting, and he couldn't understand the difference. Surely if a thing would do all that he had made it do, it should be able to boil water—it was hard to think that "stuff" which some old "ziff" had discovered over a hundred years ago was still better for some jobs than electricity.
ref: 1936 February, “Certain Things for Certain Jobs”, in American Gas Association Monthly, volume XVIII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: American Gas Association, →OCLC, page 61; republished from Australian Gas News, n.d.:
glosses: A beard.
Someone with a beard, especially an old man.
ziff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ziffs
Senses: examples: text: […] Y was a Yoxter that eat caper sauce; / Z was a Ziff who was flashed on the horse.
ref: 1846, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, page 60:
glosses: A juvenile thief.
ziffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ziff
yaffling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of yaffle
yaffled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of yaffle
unquaint
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unquaint
form: most unquaint
Etymology: From un- + quaint.
Senses: glosses: Not quaint.
UPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of UP
moskeneer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: moskeneers
form: moskeneering
form: moskeneered
form: moskeneered
Senses: glosses: To pawn (an article) for more than it is worth, in order to make a profit.
moskeneered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of moskeneer
moskeneers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of moskeneer
moskeneering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of moskeneer
drown the miller
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drowns the miller
form: drowning the miller
form: drowned the miller
form: drowned the miller
Etymology: Originally drown the miller's thumb, meaning to go over the specified mark.
Senses: examples: text: […] I tell my Bowl Friends, that our ministers have spoilt the punch. Sometimes they give us too much spirit, as when they display a vigour beyond the law; and sometimes, as we say, they drown the Miller, and make sad insipid stuff of it; again they sting our throats with acid; but it is not once in a century that we have cause to complain of an excess of sugar.
ref: 1821, The Economist, page 241:
glosses: To put too much water in something; overdilute.
German Sheprador
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: German Shepradors
Senses: examples: text: The Ryans had several dogs, including a German Sheprador who had to be separated from the others because of her aggressive nature.
ref: 2017, Jon Hochschartner, The Animals' Freedom Fighter, Jefferson: McFarland & Co., →ISBN, page 147:
glosses: A cross between a German Shepherd and a Labrador.
Synonyms: Sheprador
Sheprador
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shepradors
form: sheprador
Senses: glosses: Clipping of German Sheprador.
hungry rice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: So called by Europeans because it was mistakenly believed to be a famine food in West Africa.
Senses: examples: text: During the French colonial occupation of Mali and Senegal in the late 1800s, Europeans dubbed fonio “hungry rice”, believing it to be an inferior famine food. […]
ref: [2023 July 6, Maria C. Hunt, “Could an ancient, climate-friendly crop be the future of beer?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The cereal Digitaria exilis or white fonio.
aromatic rice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aromatic rices
Senses: glosses: Any of various medium- to long-grained rices with a nutty aroma and taste.
aromatic rices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aromatic rice
lectinologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌlɛktɪˈnɒləd͡ʒɪst/
Forms: form: lectinologists
Etymology: From lectinology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies lectinology.
lectinological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌlɛktɪnəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkəl/
Etymology: From lectinology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to lectinology.
lectinologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lectinologist
stand Sam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stands Sam
form: standing Sam
form: stood Sam
form: stood Sam
Etymology: A reference to Uncle Sam, imagined as paying for supplies for the US military.
Senses: examples: text: If you care to stroll into the Argyll Rooms about eleven, I'll stand sam for a bottle to celebrate.
ref: 1959, John Dickson Carr, Scandal at High Chimneys, page 9:
glosses: To pay for refreshment or drink; to treat somebody to something.
Melton Mowbrays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Melton Mowbray
neoshamanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neo- + shamanic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to neoshamanism.
petemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peteman
astigmatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more astigmatically
form: most astigmatically
Etymology: From astigmatic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: astigmatically corrected lenses; an astigmatically neutral incision
text: […] it [the Impressionist movement] set clear-sighted students practising optical distortion, so as to see things myopically and astigmatically;
ref: 1895, George Bernard Shaw, The Sanity of Art, New York: B.R. Tucker, published 1908, page 29:
text: His eyes no sooner focused on the time of trains for Oxford than the letters (white) upon their background (black) had leap-frogged astigmatically across his retina, leaving him in dizzied indecision.
ref: 1988, Colin Dexter, chapter 32, in The Riddle of the Third Mile, New York: Bantam, page 180:
glosses: In an astigmatic manner; through or in relation to astigmatism.
pinkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinker
pinkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: When working with a woven fabric, use pinking shears for trimming because pinkers automatically notch the seam allowance for you, making the seam allowance easier to work with (see Chapter 6 for more information on notching seams).
ref: 2010, Jan Saunders Maresh, Sewing For Dummies, page 202:
glosses: Synonym of pinking shears.
synonyms: word: pinking shears
unlanguorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unlanguorous
form: most unlanguorous
Etymology: From un- + languorous.
Senses: glosses: Not languorous.
lanceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lance + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The boil was still there and still lanceable.
ref: 2013, John Butman, Breaking Out, page 120:
glosses: Able to be lanced.
handicappings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handicapping
handseller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handsellers
Etymology: From hand + seller.
Senses: examples: text: And I have no hesitation in saying, “we three”—viz., Aaron Jessell, William Green, and Friday, were a match for any six handsellers then on the road, masters or men.
ref: 1876, William Green, Charles Hindley, The Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack, page 109:
glosses: A cheapjack, or itinerant seller.
handsellers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handseller
handstraps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handstrap
hand straps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hand strap
Gelhardt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gelhardts
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Mighten
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
driz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: One old lady used to give 3s. for three yards of driz, and it was well enough understood, without no words, that a pint of brandy was part of them three yards.
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, London labour and the London poor, page 387:
glosses: Lace.
Jeacock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒeɪˌkɒk/
Forms: form: Jeacocks
Senses: glosses: A surname.
half-rocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the idea of a person not being rocked enough in the cradle as an infant.
Senses: glosses: half-witted
ICPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ICP
Alsatian wolf dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Alsatian wolf dogs
Senses: glosses: German Shepherd
chrony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chronies
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of crony.
chronies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chrony
chronozonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊnəl
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a chronozone.
go a cropper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes a cropper
form: going a cropper
form: went a cropper
form: gone a cropper
Senses: examples: text: I went a cropper on the turf, as a good many better men than myself have gone before.
ref: 1894, Ernest Glanville, A Fair Colonist, page 218:
glosses: Synonym of come a cropper.
synonyms: word: come a cropper
duckes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ducke
geocosmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geo- + cosmic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the Earth and the cosmos.
geocorrections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geocorrection
adjecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of adject
coplaintiff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coplaintiffs
Etymology: From co- + plaintiff.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Any of several plaintiffs bringing the same charge.
coplaintiffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coplaintiff
marry the gunner's daughter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: marries the gunner's daughter
form: marrying the gunner's daughter
form: married the gunner's daughter
form: married the gunner's daughter
Senses: glosses: Synonym of kiss the gunner's daughter.
synonyms: word: kiss the gunner's daughter
half-and-halfs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half-and-half
half and halfs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half and half
anti-alcoholic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anti-alcoholic
form: most anti-alcoholic
form: antialcoholic
Etymology: From anti- + alcoholic.
Senses: glosses: temperance, against the excessive consumption of alcohol
Related terms: alcohol
alcoholic
antialcohol
alderpersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alderperson
fishmongresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fishmongress