cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
the rough side of one's tongue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But let them, if they plague thee long,
Once feel the rough side of thy tongue:
ref: 1797, Thomas Bridges, A Burlesque Translation of Homer, 4th edition, London: G.G. and J. Robinson, Book 6, p. 354:
text: 1876, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Charles of Orleans,” Chapter 4, in Familiar Studies of Men and Books, 1882,
[…] Louis was then in no humour to hear Charles’s texts and Latin sentiments; he had his back to the wall, the future of France was at stake; and if all the old men in the world had crossed his path, they would have had the rough side of his tongue like Charles of Orleans.
text: […] let us not be moved by the rough side of a shepherd lass’s tongue.
ref: 1924, George Bernard Shaw, Saint Joan, New York: Dodd, Mead, published 1946, Scene 6, p. 110:
text: “[…] It’s going to add to my difficulties to take any girl on the trip. If you pile too much on me the flight may be a failure, and we’ll all be sorry then.”
“She gave you a bit of the rough side of her tongue, I suppose?”
ref: 1940, Nevil Shute, chapter 3, in An Old Captivity, New York: William Morrow:
synonyms: piece of one's mind
rebuke
reprimand
telling off
tongue-lashing
glosses: Angry words, harsh criticism.
brown-bagged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brown-bag
brown-bags
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brown-bag
brown-bagging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brown-bag
panretinally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From panretinal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Affecting or relating to the entire retina.
upsuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upsucks
form: upsucking
form: upsucked
form: upsucked
Etymology: From up- + suck.
Senses: glosses: To suck upward.
upsuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From up- + suck.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A hypothesized peristaltic action during the female orgasm that helps to retain sperm.
upsucked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upsuck
upsucking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upsuck
upsucks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upsuck
hamstering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hamster
hamstered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hamster
hamstered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hamstered
form: most hamstered
Senses: examples: text: Yacub swayed slightly.
“He's fucking hamstered! A good Muslim, you cunt.”
They were also drunk, clutching cans of beer.
ref: 2014, Kate Pullinger, Landing Gear, page 207:
glosses: Drunk.
vine and fig-tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vines and fig-trees
Senses: glosses: One's own land, where one can live peacefully and sustain oneself.
vines and fig-trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vine and fig-tree
Chachis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chachi
Cayapa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cayapas
Senses: glosses: A member of the Chachi ethnic group of Ecuador.
New Rome
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From new + Rome.
* (Istanbul): Latin Nova Roma and Ancient Greek Νέα Ῥώμη (Néa Rhṓmē)
Senses: glosses: A placename
Synonym of Constantinople (“Byzantium”) (Istanbul)
synonyms: word: Constantinople
extra: (“Byzantium”) (Istanbul)
glosses: A placename
Several cities in the United States of America
Synonyms: word: Second Rome
Cayapas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cayapa
chemophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemophobes
Etymology: From chemo- + -phobe.
Senses: glosses: One who has an irrational fear of chemicals.
Related terms: chemophobia
chemophobic
chemophobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemophobe
Big Willy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Willis Tower in Chicago, Illinois.
semideep
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + deep.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat deep.
clear-swept
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Poplars swayed and tossed with a roaring swish; dead leaves sprang aloft, and whirled into space; and all the clear-swept heaven seemed to thrill with sound like a great harp.
ref: 1895, Kenneth Graham, The Golden Age, London, page 8:
glosses: Perfectly clear; free of any extraneous matter.
tromboned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trombone
tromboning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trombone
hedge-breaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Might she not, being perhaps accustomed to Hedge-breaking her self, be able to inform her, that there were no Sticks to be had at Cromer?
ref: 1712, The Case of the Hertfordshire Witchcraft Consider'd, London, page 13:
text: But the holiday was for all, the rapture of awakening Nature for all, the various outdoor joys of puddles and sun and hedge-breaking for all.
ref: 1895, Kenneth Graham, The Golden Age, London, page 8:
glosses: The crime of cutting and taking away branches of a hedge.
maletolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maletolts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of maletote.
maletolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maletolt
maletote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæl.təʊt/
ipa: /ˈmæl.toʊt/
Forms: form: maletotes
form: maletolt
form: maltolte
form: maltolt
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English maltode, from Anglo-Norman maltolt (“unjust tax”), from Medieval Latin malatolta, from mala (“evil”) + tolta (“tax”), the latter from tollīta (“raised”), used in Medieval Latin as past participle of Classical Latin tollō.
Senses: examples: text: Immediately hereupon, even this very yeere, was this complained of in Parliament, and a Petition exibited by the Lords and Cõmons, that it might be enacted, that this Maletolt or Imposition, because it was taken without assent of Parliament, might be taken away, and that a Law might be made, that no such charge might be laid, but by assent of Parliament: […]
ref: 1641, William Hakewil[l], The Libertie of the Subject: Against the Pretended Power of Impositions […], page 54:
text: The occurrence of a Maltolte in history is of necessity limited to a somewhat brief period.
ref: 1885, Hubert Hall, A History of the Custom-Revenue in England […], volume 2, page 170:
text: The king certainly acted illegally in some way or other, for the Parliament of 1339 declared that he was levying a maletote which it had never sanctioned.
ref: 1918, Frederic Richard Barnes, “The Taxation of Wool, 1327–1348”, in George Unwin, editor, Finance and Trade Under Edward III, page 143:
text: […] Scots soon learned that the maltolte on wool exports and later the new custom on alien merchants were to apply exactly in their country as in England; […]
ref: 2000, R. R. Davies, The First English Empire: Power and Identities in the British Isles, 1093–1343, →ISBN, page 28:
text: A heavy (‘New’) custom or maletolt (5 marks per last of leather, 3 marks per sack of wool or 300 wool fells) was levied and the goods were then consigned to a staple at Dordrecht.
ref: 2008 [1996], “Staple”, in Charles Arnold-Baker, edited by Henry von Blumenthal, The Companion to British History, 3rd edition, →ISBN, page 1178:
glosses: An arbitrary tax; in particular, a levy imposed by the English monarch on a certain good beyond ordinary customs duties.
maletotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maletote
metatile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metatiles
Etymology: From meta- + tile.
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of supertile.
synonyms: word: supertile
metatiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metatile
diabetological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to diabetology
Plexicushion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Brand name.
Senses: glosses: An acrylic-based hardcourt tennis surface.
dichocephalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: double-headed
dicondylic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + condylic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having two condyles
dilutometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of dilatometry.
diphyid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diphyids
Senses: glosses: Any siphonophore of the family Diphyidae
diphyids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diphyid
diplocynodontid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diplocynodontids
Senses: glosses: Any extinct crocodilian of the subfamily Diplocynodontinae
diplocynodontids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diplocynodontid
doswelliid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doswelliids
Senses: glosses: Any extinct archosauriform of the family †Doswelliidae
doswelliids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doswelliid
dyscophine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dyscophines
Senses: glosses: Any tomato frog of the subfamily Dyscophinae
dyscophines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dyscophine
tomato frog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tomato frogs
Etymology: Compound of tomato + frog.
Senses: glosses: An orange to red frog of the genus Dyscophus.
tomato frogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tomato frog
ecodeme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecodemes
Etymology: From eco- + deme.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A population of organisms that occupy a particular ecological niche
ecodemes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecodeme
ecoendoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of echoendoscopy.
ectocochleate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ecto- + cochleate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having an external shell
raw_tags: of cephalopods
electroinject
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: electroinjects
form: electroinjecting
form: electroinjected
form: electroinjected
Etymology: From electro- + inject.
Senses: glosses: To transfect by means of electroinjection
electroinjected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of electroinject
electroinjected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: transfected by means of electroinjection
endogalacturonase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endogalacturonases
Etymology: From endo- + galacturonase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of polygalacturonase that breaks the carbohydrate in the middle
Related terms: exogalacturonase
entocristids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entocristid
entricitabine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of emtricitabine.
epiallopregnanolone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From epi- + allopregnanolone.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of isopregnanolone.
synonyms: word: isopregnanolone
isopregnanolone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iso- + pregnanolone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The epimer of allopregnanolone 3β-hydroxy-5α-pregnan-20-one
epoxyallylic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: That contains both an epoxy and an allylic group
equiluminescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From equi- + luminescent.
Senses: glosses: equally luminescent
erotophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erotophilias
Etymology: From eroto- + -philia.
Senses: glosses: An unusual interest in sex
Related terms: erotophilic
erotophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eroto- + -philic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to erotophilia
eukariotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of eukaryotic.
eumenophorine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eumenophorines
Senses: glosses: Any tarantula spider of the subfamily Eumenophorinae
eumenophorines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eumenophorine
eutherocephalian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eutherocephalians
Senses: glosses: Any extinct therapsid of the clade †Eutherocephalia
eutherocephalians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eutherocephalian
excitotoxically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In an excitotoxic manner
exineless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exine + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking an exine
exoglycosidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exo- + glycosidic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to an exoglycosidase
exotoxicant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exotoxicants
Etymology: From exo- + toxicant.
Senses: glosses: An exotoxic toxicant
exotoxicants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exotoxicant
Menzerath's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Paul Menzerath.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A rule according to which the increase of a linguistic construct results in a decrease of its constituents, and vice versa: for example, the more clauses appear in a sentence, the shorter those clauses are.
have the pleasure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has the pleasure
form: having the pleasure
form: had the pleasure
form: had the pleasure
Senses: examples: text: Might I have the pleasure of introducing you to Master Lerris. In addition to being probably the best woodcrafter in Kyphros, he is also the gray wizard who defeated the Hydlenese white wizard […]
ref: 2010, L. E. Modesitt, Jr., The Death of Chaos:
text: "You may be seated. Ms. Silver, nice to see you again," he nods to Rachel. "Mr. Stone, I don't believe I've had the pleasure. Welcome to my courtroom."
ref: 2014, Mary Smith, Shattering the Ice, page 198:
text: From inside came the first strains of a waltz. Her body swayed in motion to the music. “May I have the pleasure?” he asked, knowing full well that she might refuse.
ref: 2015, Patricia Potter, Dancing with a Rogue:
glosses: Used as a polite formula to ask for a person's name, or to request that they join one in a dance, etc.
party pasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: party pasties
Senses: glosses: A small, bite-sized pasty.
drop-downs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drop-down
exsheath
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: exsheaths
form: exsheathing
form: exsheathed
form: exsheathed
Etymology: From ex- + sheath.
Senses: glosses: To remove from a sheath
Related terms: exsheathment
exsheathed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exsheath
extraspecific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + specific.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a different species
extraspecifically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From extra- + specifically.
Senses: glosses: In an extraspecific manner
pituital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pituital
form: most pituital
Senses: glosses: pituitous
panegyricon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panegyricons
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: In the Greek Orthodox Church, a collection of sermons for festivals.
Related terms: panegyric
panegyricons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panegyricon
Peter's pence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English Petres peny; the money was collected on 1 August, the feast day of St. Peter ad Vincula.
Senses: glosses: The alms-fee.
hattis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hatti
ratchet coupling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ratchet couplings
Senses: glosses: A device for uncoupling machinery in the event of a sudden stoppage.
ratchet couplings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ratchet coupling
antisuffragism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-suffragism
Etymology: From anti- + suffrage + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Opposition to the suffragette movement for women's voting rights.
fluffery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flufferies
Etymology: From fluff + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: The Valley, as it has always been known in Virginia, became the site of a relatively democratic society based on a small-farm economy, with few slaves and little aristocratic fluffery.
ref: 1964, James Reichley, States in Crisis: Politics in Ten American States, 1950-1962, page 5:
text: The room is small, the walls smothered with fluffy pink and blue towels, the floor ankle deep with more pink fluffery. The air is perfumed, the sink is spotless, bathtub shiny. The toilet paper is pale baby blue.
ref: 1969, Robert Hunter, Erebus, page 179:
glosses: Anything lightweight and overly ornamental or superfluous; fluff; froth.
flufferies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluffery
scuft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skʌft/
rhymes: -ʌft
Forms: form: scufts
Etymology: Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skuftą, similar to German Schopf (“tuft”).
Senses: glosses: scruff; nape of the neck
scufts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scuft
powder mine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪn
Forms: form: powder mines
Senses: glosses: An excavation filled with gunpowder for blasting rocks, etc.
powder mines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of powder mine
de-ess
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: de-esses
form: de-essing
form: de-essed
form: de-essed
Etymology: From de- + ess (“letter S”).
Senses: glosses: to reduce the loudness of sibilants in an audio recording
Derived terms: de-esser
shift about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shifts about
form: shifting about
form: shifted about
form: shifted about
Senses: glosses: To vacillate.
glosses: To turn round entirely to the opposite point.
mulukhiyyah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mulukhiyah.
tread on someone's toes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: treads on someone's toes
form: treading on someone's toes
form: trod on someone's toes
form: trod on someone's toes
form: tread on someone's toes
form: tread on someone's toes
form: trodden on someone's toes
form: trodden on someone's toes
Senses: synonyms: step on someone's toes
glosses: To offend someone.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tread, toes.
Sabbath school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sabbath schools
Senses: glosses: A meeting for religious education, like a Sunday school, but held on the Sabbath day.
Sabbath schools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sabbath school
prince's plume
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prince's plumes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of prince's feather.
synonyms: word: prince's feather
glosses: Any plant of the genus Stanleya.
remonce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /rɪˈmɒns/
Etymology: Borrowed from Danish remonce, of uncertain origin.
Senses: examples: text: Once the dough has been rolled and chilled, it is finally shaped into pretzel forms (called kringle), as well as braids, squares, triangles, fans, combs, swirls, pinwheels, horns, crescents, and wreaths, and filled with remonce, the stupefyingly rich […]
ref: 2002, Denmark: The Guide for All Budgets, Completely Updated, with Many Maps and Travel Tips, Fodor's Travel Publications, →ISBN:
text: Tebirkes are delicious poppy seed covered Danish pastries, a little like pain au chocolat in appearance, but with buttery almond remonce inside instead of chocolate.
ref: 2012, Signe Johansen, Scandilicious Baking, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: A pastry filling or topping made from butter creamed with sugar and often including marcipan or some form of almonds.
theopaschitism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of theopaschism.
semi-desert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semi-deserts
Etymology: From semi- + desert.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of semidesert.
semi-deserts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semi-desert
Susan Lucci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌsuːzən ˈluːt͡ʃi/
Forms: form: Susan Luccis
Etymology: After the American television actress Susan Lucci, who was nominated for an Emmy Award eighteen times before she finally won one.
Senses: examples: text: I'm more likely to end up a Susan Lucci of the race world: deserving and tenacious, but waiting for years before I can claim a victory.
ref: 2001, Kay Allenbaugh, Chocolate For a Teen's Heart (page 151)
glosses: Someone who continuously competes but (seemingly) never wins the competition.
wikipedia: Susan Lucci
Related terms: always a bridesmaid, never a bride
New Jerusalem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 21:2:
text: When she sang in the kirk, folk have told me that they had a foretaste of the musick of the New Jerusalem, and when she came in by the village of Caulds old men stottered to their doors to look at her.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: Ezekiel's prophetic vision of a city centred on the rebuilt Holy Temple, the Third Temple, to be established in Jerusalem, which would be the capital of the Messianic Kingdom, the meeting place of the twelve tribes of Israel, during the Messianic era.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Ventura County, California, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Logan County, Ohio, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Derived terms: New Jerusalem Church
New Jerusalemite
rattlesnake grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Briza maxima, a species of grass.
Synonyms: sense: Briza maxima
word: big quaking grass
sense: Briza maxima
word: great quaking grass
sense: Briza maxima
word: greater quaking-grass
sense: Briza maxima
word: large quaking grass
sense: Briza maxima
word: blowfly grass
sense: Briza maxima
word: shelly grass
sense: Briza maxima
word: rattle grass
sense: Briza maxima
word: shell grass
mozing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The raising of nap on cloth, as in a gig-mill.
rustic-work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Cut stone facing where the joints are rusticated; a stone where the face is cut to a rough or jagged surface in imitation of nature.
glosses: Summerhouses or furniture for summerhouses or for outdoor use made of rough limbs of trees.
stuntish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stuntish
form: most stuntish
Senses: synonyms: stunty
glosses: obstinate; sullen
stunty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stunty
form: most stunty
Senses: examples: text: […] yet not all equally prosperous; for a stunty, thorny nature preferring those that the cherry is always the most thriving upon are the freest clean growers.
ref: 1797, Thomas Mawe, John Abercrombie, The Universal Gardener and Botanist: … Second Edition:
text: I never put my axe into a stunty tree, or one that hasn't a good, fresh-looking bark; for trees have disorders just like creaters; and where's the policy of taking a tree that's sickly, any more than you'd choose a foundered horse to ride post, or ...
ref: 1852 (or 1825?), The Pioneers, or the Sources of the Susquehanna … by J. F. Cooper, page 198
text: Did I tell you there was a tree grew up in the centre of the alley—a stunty, short-boughed tree, ...
ref: 2019, George Manville Fenn, Begumbagh: A Tale of the Indian Mutiny, Good Press:
glosses: Stunted, tending to stunt or be stunted.
synonyms: stuntish
glosses: Obstinate; sullen.
common thread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛd
Forms: form: common threads
Senses: examples: text: What is the common thread in these three stories?
text: A common thread links the social world of barbershop with the neighbouring social worlds of jazz and classical music as these were sketched in the first chapter. The common thread is the general musical lifestyle shared by the musicians who […]
ref: 1996, Robert A. Stebbins, The Barbershop Singer: Inside the Social World of a Musical Hobby, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 100:
text: My experiences in education, network consulting, service provider support, and certification have shown me that there is a common thread that frustrates people in all of these arenas. That common thread is documentation.
ref: 2001, William R. Parkhurst, Cisco BGP-4 Command and Configuration Handbook, Cisco Press, →ISBN:
text: It is not difficult to see that in this preoccupation with middle-class identity, there is a common thread to all the narratives I discussed. This common thread has to do with the attempts by the Victorian writers to dramatize finance capitalism at […]
ref: 2004, Borislav Knezevic, Figures of Finance Capitalism: Writing, Class and Capital in Mid-Victorian Narratives, Routledge, →ISBN, page 152:
synonyms: leitmotif
throughline
golden thread
common denominator
glosses: A recurring characteristic or theme present in different events or areas.
Chimpy McHalliburton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Chimpy (“George W. Bush”) + Mc- + Halliburton. Named after oil field service company Halliburton, stemming from accusations that Bush is beholden to Big Oil.
Senses: examples: text: The President shouldn't aughta be running all over trying to police the world. Chimpy McHalliburton is just trying to line his Hitlerlike pockets. This is really all just Clinton's fault anyways.
ref: 2006 March 4, Charles Beauchamp, “Re: For Dinner This Week”, in rec.sport.football.college (Usenet):
text: As already noted, he should be embarrassed to be attempting to argue about these issues when he's so ignorant of them. Guess it's easier to hope that Chimpy McHalliburton chokes to death on a pretzel. That requires no thought, or knowledge at all.
ref: 2007 January 22, Rand Simberg, “Re: Did The Chinese Violate Any Treaties?”, in sci.space.history (Usenet):
text: The thought of President Chimpy McHalliburton having nukes raised my red flag for 8 years.
ref: 2009 September 21, Sharky, “GOP's Ahmadinejad”, in alt.politics.republicans (Usenet):
text: The notion that Tea Partiers are a bunch of Timothy McVeigh wannabes and big-money marionettes is almost gospel among the folks who think 9/11 was an inside job and consider calling George W. Bush “Chimpy McHalliburton” the height of political wit.
ref: 2010 October 8, A. Barton Hinkle, “Tea Partiers' Good Intentions Might Not Suffice”, in Richmond Times-Dispatch, volume 160, number 281, Richmond, Va., page A11:
topics: government
politics
glosses: George W. Bush (born 1946), the 43rd president of the United States (2001–2009).
wikipedia: Halliburton
Chimpy McHitlerburton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Chimpy McHalliburton (“George W. Bush”) + Hitler, comparing Bush to German dictator Adolf Hitler.
Senses: examples: text: I agree with you. I'm not sure why Jeff is trying to make it into one, other than his hate of Chimpy McHitlerburton.
ref: 2005 June 27, Matthew Hennig, “Bush League Private Property”, in rec.sport.football.college (Usenet):
text: No, no, no, can't you see? It was Chimpy McHitlerburton's fault! And global warming too!
ref: 2007 August 2, Fester, “Re: A bridge collapses in Minneapolis.”, in us.military.army (Usenet):
text: When George W. Bush suggested Iran’s acquisition of nuclear arms technology might be a catalyst for World War III, progressive-minded people took it as a sign that Chimpy W. McHitlerburton is off his neocon rocker.
ref: 2007 November 2, Jonathan Gurwitz, “Iran, the bomb and World War III”, in Times-News, volume 102, number 306, Twin Falls, ID, page A6:
text: The above tells me that you would rather have faith in the eeevilitude of Chimpy McHitlerBurton than deal with reality.
ref: 2008 December 29, Fred Stone, “Re: OT: Dan Rather $70M Suit To Hit Bush 'Legacy' Hard”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):
topics: government
politics
glosses: George W. Bush (born 1946), the 43rd president of the United States (2001–2009).
wikipedia: Adolf Hitler
anachoresis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anachoreses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀναχώρησις (anakhṓrēsis).
Senses: examples: text: Anachoresis, or anachoretic pulpitis, is, therefore, a pulpitis of systemic origin.
ref: 1963, Pdm practical dental, page 24:
text: The phenomenon of anachoresis has been demonstrated in animal models both to non-dental inflamed tissues and inflamed dental pulps.
ref: 2002, John Ide Ingle, Leif K. Bakland, Endodontics, →ISBN, page 67:
text: It has been claimed that microorganisms can reach the pulp by anachoresis.
ref: 2010, Louis H. Berman, Kenneth M. Hargreaves, Steven R. Cohen, Cohen's Pathways of the Pulp Expert Consult, →ISBN, page 562:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The transportation of foreign bodies via blood or lymph and subsequent collection at a site of inflammation.
examples: text: It's possible to have a contemporary version of (secular) anachoresis.
ref: 2012, Roland Barthes, How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces, →ISBN:
text: In this case though, anachoresis, departure from the world into the desert originally in Egypt and Palestine and later throughout Christendom, was a form of protest against the world, an expression of a radical craving of living in a more existentially authentic way the Christian spiritual values.
ref: 2012, A. Green, V. Viaene, Religious Internationals in the Modern World, →ISBN:
text: In the voice of Antony, for example, Cassian describes anachoresis as leading to a more sublime perfection than is available to those living within a community.
ref: 2013, Steven D. Driver, John Cassian and the Reading of Egyptian Monastic Culture, →ISBN, page 91:
glosses: Retreat from the world into a solitary life.
anachoreses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anachoresis
reed pheasant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reed pheasants
Senses: glosses: bearded tit
reed pheasants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reed pheasant
strunty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more strunty
form: most strunty
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stunty (“sullen”).
struntish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more struntish
form: most struntish
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of struntish (“sullen”).
co-credit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-credits
Etymology: From co- + credit.
Senses: examples: text: Most of the director's credits were co-credits: he rarely directed a film alone.
glosses: A joint credit.
co-credits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of co-credit
freeclimbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of freeclimb
freeclimbs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of freeclimb
freeclimbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freeclimb
projectory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From project + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: […] and to whatever degree the nozzle is closed, the projectory pressure and force of the water is undiminished at the discharge orifice […]
ref: 1876, Specifications and Drawings of Patents Issued from the U.S. Patent Office:
text: […] a pair of parallelly arranged projectory arms […]
ref: 1912, The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights:
glosses: projecting
reablement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + able + -ment; compare disabled.
Senses: glosses: The service of caring for a person after a period of disability or illness, helping them to recover and regain independence.
compressed-air bath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compressed-air baths
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: air bath
glosses: A strong metal chamber in which a patient can sit, and into which air is driven by a steam engine to any required pressure; an obsolete form of physical therapy.
compressed-air baths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compressed-air bath
seedbag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seedbags
Etymology: From seed + bag.
Senses: glosses: A bag for holding seeds.
seedbags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seedbag
sweet horsemint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The common dittany, Cunila origanoides.
treadlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treadling
thread-paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thread-papers
form: threadpaper
Senses: examples: text: [H]e takes the opportunity of sauntering up to my dressing-room, where he plays with the children, picks up my thread-paper, insists upon bringing me new music, and on reading to me some novel or poem, with which he is generally furnished.
ref: 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 219:
text: And you, God bless me, you're only a thread-paper!
ref: 1925, Stanley John Weyman, “XIV Anna Furens”, in Queen's Folly:
glosses: A piece of thin soft paper for wrapping up a skein of thread.
thread-papers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thread-paper
Chief Baron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chief Barons
Senses: glosses: The presiding judge of the English Exchequer of Pleas.
synochoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more synochoid
form: most synochoid
Etymology: From synocha + -oid.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: synochal
on tag
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The prisoner was released on tag.
glosses: Under judicial surveillance by means of an electronic tag worn on the ankle etc.
cursee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cursees
Etymology: From curse + -ee.
Senses: glosses: The victim of a curse.
cursees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cursee
antipitting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + pitting.
Senses: glosses: Acting to prevent the formation of pits.
hive tool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hive tools
Senses: glosses: A flat, hand-held, metal tool with a hook at one end and a scraper at the other, used by beekeepers to open and clean beehives.
hive tools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hive tool
beau-ideal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beau-ideals
Senses: examples: text: To this same level of the beau-ideal the imagination in absence descends as well as rises—and it is by this theory alone I can account for having done injustice to Mrs. Norton's beauty in my remembrance of her.
ref: 1840, The American Miscellany - Volumes 1-2, page 77:
text: It seems but proper, every way, therefore, for us to know, that this king of poets and philosophers was also among the best of men ; that, in his character, modesty and humility kept pace with greatness ; and that he was as much better than the beau-ideals of our intellectual popinjays and dandiprats, as those beau-ideals were prouder than he.
ref: 1848, Henry Norman Hudson, Lectures on Shakespeare - Volume 1, page 41:
text: The latter says—“I felt the future ; I foretold that they would prove themselves the finest things on earth, that they would overturn the false beau-ideal, where nature was nothing, and establish the true beau-ideal of which nature alone is the basis."
ref: 2011, Henry Benjamin Wheatley, Round about Piccadilly and Pall Mall, →ISBN, page 14:
glosses: Alternative form of beau idéal.
beau-ideals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beau-ideal
embodiedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more embodiedly
form: most embodiedly
Senses: examples: text: Then my colleagues Mick and Roger hugged me as they left, and then I was on my bike pedaling home alone. Wholly, embodiedly, acceptingly alone.
ref: 1991, William R. Torbert, The power of balance: transforming self, society, and scientific inquiry, page 189:
text: That property is critically relevant, and emphatically so when it is observed locally and endogenously that particulars were embodiedly made so as the production cohort's concerted doings.
ref: 2002, Harold Garfinkel, Anne Warfield Rawls, Ethnomethodology's Program: Working Out Durkheim's Aphorism, →ISBN:
text: Gorgoepekoos does mean 'swift in hearing and responding', but it means it embodiedly.
ref: 2012, Frederic Will, The Knife in the Stone: Essays in Literary Theory, →ISBN, page 126:
glosses: In an embodied fashion; as an embodiment.
extracurriculum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extracurricula
form: extracurriculums
Etymology: From extra- + curriculum, possibly as a back-formation from extracurricular.
Senses: examples: text: In their extracurriculums the outstanding schools are distinguished by the following practices:
ref: 1933, Francis Trow Spaulding, Orie Isaac Frederick, Leonard V. Koos, The Reorganization of Secondary Education: In Three Parts, page 285:
text: A theme of rugged individualism on the part of college students running their own extracurricula pervades the period before the NCAA was born.
ref: 1990, Ronald A. Smith, Sports and Freedom: The Rise of Big-Time College Athletics, →ISBN, page 134:
text: First there was the era of the church-dominated college with its unity of curriculum and extracurriculum, with its cohesive, self-contained life.
ref: 1997, John Seiler Brubacher, Willis Rudy, Higher Education in Transition, →ISBN:
text: Because the extracurriculum was outside of the official curriculum, it was also outside of the control of faculty and college officials, who often found themselves in serious conflicts with students.
ref: 2011, Barbara J. Bank, Gender and Higher Education, →ISBN, page 267:
synonyms: cocurriculum
glosses: The activities and groups, clubs, and societies that are sponsored or regulated by an educational institution but which are not part of the academic curriculum.
extracurricula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extracurriculum
extracurriculums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extracurriculum
cocurriculum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocurricula
form: cocurriculums
Etymology: From co- + curriculum.
Senses: examples: text: Curriculum and cocurriculum have become more and more integral as high schools have moved forward to the kind of educational program that makes sense to youth and is likely to hold them in school.
ref: 1953, Franklin Royalton Zeran, Life adjustment education in action: a symposium, page 392:
text: There is faith that the issue will yield to the concerted efforts of principled, committed educators — both those responsible for the curricula and those responsible for the cocurricula.
ref: 1996, Frances K. Stage, College Students: The Evolving Nature of Research, →ISBN, page 213:
text: Allowing curriculums, cocurriculums, and services to be determined by political pressure rather than academic need is bad policy, particularly in hard financial times.
ref: 2012, Arthur Levine, Diane R. Dean, Generation on a Tightrope: A Portrait of Today's College Student, →ISBN:
text: This overview does not assume to do justice to all work on CI, but given the limitations that exist in the implementation of such a comprehensive framework, the focus here is on cocurriculum through an alternative but complementary framework.
ref: 2018, Tamara Yakaboski, Brett Perozzi, Internationalizing US Student Affairs Practice, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of extracurriculum.
synonyms: word: extracurriculum
cocurricula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cocurriculum
cocurriculums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cocurriculum
MCUs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MCU
find one's tongue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: finds one's tongue
form: finding one's tongue
form: found one's tongue
form: found one's tongue
Senses: examples: text: HAVGHTY. Is this the silent woman?
CENTAVRE. Nay, shee has found her tongue since shee was married, master TRVE-WIT sayes.
ref: 1609 December (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Epicoene, or The Silent Woman. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act III, scene vi, page 562:
text: Jones, tho’ perhaps, the most astonished of the three, first found his Tongue; and […] he burst into a loud Laughter […]
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter 5, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book V, page 225:
text: But I did not answer at once. I stared incredulous. For an instant I could not believe my eyes. I gave an inarticulate cry. I gripped his arm. I pointed. “Look!” I cried, finding my tongue. “There! Yes! And there!”
ref: 1900 December – 1901 August, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “chapter 8”, in The First Men in the Moon, London: George Newnes, […], published 1901, →OCLC, page 87:
text: Joyce knew things were going badly, but she couldn’t find her tongue to smooth it out. A million dangerous double entendres were sitting at the back of her throat, and, if she opened her mouth even a slit (!), she feared one of them was going to come out.
ref: 2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, page 300:
glosses: To speak after being unable to do so or after remaining silent; to find something to say.
butyrylations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butyrylation
pronoiar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pronoiars
Senses: examples: text: We can say, without any doubt, that Saravares was a pronoiar. But was he a soldier?
ref: 1984, Mark C. Bartusis, The Late Byzantine Soldier: A Social and Administrative Study, Rutgers University, page 485:
text: The pronoiar now had the obligation of military service . . . [his] estate was not the private property of the pronoiar, but was unalienable, and to begin with it was also not heritable.
ref: 1990, Donald W. Treadgold, quoting George Ostrogorsky, History of the Byzantine State, quoted in Freedom: A History, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 113:
text: the pronoiar (land grantee) did not swear an oath of personal loyalty to the strategos, since the emperor remained the legal owner of the land.
ref: 2009, Madeleine Pelner Cosman, Linda Gale Jones, chapter 1, in Handbook to Life in the Medieval World, 3-Volume Set, Volumes 1-3, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 53:
glosses: One who is granted a pronoia.
pronoiars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pronoiar
TOCFL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Initialism.
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Initialism of Test of Chinese as a Foreign Language, standardized test of Standard Mandarin Chinese proficiency for non-native speakers.
elbow sleeve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elbow sleeves
Senses: examples: text: She was a fresh, pretty woman, clad always in white with elbow sleeves.
ref: 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening:
glosses: A sleeve on an item of clothing that reaches only to the elbow.
elbow sleeves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elbow sleeve
floridean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌflɔɹɪˈdiən/
ipa: /ˌflɒɹɪˈdiːən/
Senses: synonyms: florideous
glosses: Relating to, or characteristic of, red algae of the subclass Florideae.
Derived terms: floridean starch
floridean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌflɔɹɪˈdiən/
ipa: /ˌflɒɹɪˈdiːən/
Forms: form: florideans
Senses: glosses: Any of these algae.
formanilide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The anilide of formic acid C₆H₅-NH-CHO
forskaliid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forskaliids
Senses: glosses: Any siphonophore of the family Forskaliidae
forskaliids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forskaliid
fungipod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fungipods
Senses: glosses: The pseudopod of a fungal dendritic cell
fungipods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fungipod
furanoepoxides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of furanoepoxide
galactopoesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of galactopoiesis.
gamithromycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + (er)ythromycin.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A macrolide antibiotic used to treat bovine respiratory disease.
ginglymoideal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ginglymoid.
glauconiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Composed of glauconite
glauconitization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glauconite + -ization.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Conversion to glauconite
gliotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glio- + -trophic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to gliotrophy
glucobiose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glucobioses
Etymology: From gluco- + biose.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any biose containing a glucose group
Related terms: glucotriose
glucobioses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glucobiose
glucotriose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glucotrioses
Etymology: From gluco- + triose.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any triose containing a glucose group
Related terms: glucobiose
glucotrioses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glucotriose
gonodendron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gonodendrons
form: gonodendra
Etymology: From gono- + Ancient Greek δένδρον (déndron, “tree”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A branchlike structure, in hydrozoa, that bears gonophores.
guanidinyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A univalent radical derived from guanidine
Derived terms: guanidinylated
haematocompatibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of haemocompatibility.
harmomegathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to harmomegathy