cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pavior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paviors
form: paviour
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman paviour, from pavier (“to pave”).
Senses: examples: text: [T]he Contract with the Pipe-water Pavior was, as he recollects, to keep the Pavement in Repair for ſix Weeks; […]
ref: 1778 April 3, “Appendix. Report from the Committee on the State of the Pavements, &c. in the Streets of Dublin”, in The Journals of the House of Commons, of the Kingdom of Ireland, […], volume XX, Dublin: Printed by Abraham Bradley and Abraham Bradley King, […], published 1782, →OCLC, page 539:
text: A "mooner," fond of staring into shop windows, or watching the labourers pulling up the pavement to inspect the gas-pipes, or listening stolidly to the dull "pech" of the paviour's rammer on the flags.
ref: 1853, Charles Dickens, Household Words, volume 6, page 387:
glosses: A person who lays paving slabs.
glosses: A brick or slab used for paving.
glosses: A machine that is used to tamp down paving slabs.
wait'll
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Contraction of wait till.
pronominal verbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pronominal verb
anæsthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anæsthesias
form: anæsthesiæ
Etymology: From an- + -æsthesia.
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of anaesthesia.
anæsthesiæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Those anæsthesiæ produced by local disturbances in the circulation—pseudo‐neuromas, disease of the bones, compression from neighboring tumors, idiopathic neuritis—are susceptible of treatment as regards their cause.
ref: 1872, author uncertain, Journal of Psychological Medicine, page 332:
glosses: plural of anæsthesia
by degrees
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: She came to us snappish and suspicious, but when she found what sort of place ours was, it all went off by degrees; […]
ref: [1877], Anna Sewell, “Earlshall”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part II, page 102:
text: By degrees the libraries which were unendowed fell behind the age, and were consequently neglected.
ref: 1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 36:
glosses: In gradual steps; bit by bit.
Synonyms: in order
step by step
sequentially
sex bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sex bomb
abortuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abortus
abrachias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abrachia
magic user
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmædʒɪk ˌjuːzə/
ipa: /ˈmædʒɪk ˌjuzɚ/
Forms: form: magic users
form: magic-user
Etymology: magic + user, popularized in D&D.
Senses: topics: fantasy
glosses: One who uses (or has skill with) magic.
Synonyms: conjurer
mage
magician
sorcerer
warlock
witch
wizard
eachwhere
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: each where
Etymology: From each + where.
Senses: examples: text: The mountains eachwhere shook, the rivers turned their streams.
ref: 1591, Lodowick Bryskett, Astrophel:
glosses: Everywhere.
Rambo knife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rambo knives
form: rambo knife
Etymology: Named after John Rambo, a fictional Vietnam War veteran and protagonist of the film series Rambo.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of survival knife.
synonyms: word: survival knife
wikipedia: en:John Rambo
en:Rambo (film series)
Rambo knives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rambo knife
grand duchesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grand duchess
dry-nurses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dry-nurse
abuilding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɪl.dɪŋ/
ipa: /əˈbɪl.dɪŋ/
Etymology: From a- (“in, on”) + building (“the act or process of building”).
Senses: examples: text: Heere we made a double floore in the hall where the shippe was abuilding, so that the wild men, being ignorant of our way of building, could not take any notice of our cuningnesse, which proved to our desire.
ref: c. 1658, Pierre-Esprit Radisson, Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson:
text: It [the monastery of St. Lawrence in Escorial] cost eight millions; it was twenty-four years abuilding, and the founder himself saw it furnished and enjoyed it twelve years after, […]
ref: 1913, William Dean Howells, Familiar Spanish Travels:
qualifier: excluding US
glosses: Being built or under construction, as a structure or a vessel.
examples: text: This may signify much; among other things that the courtesan is creeping into social favor—even that a new code of morals is now abuilding, in which she will be the grand exemplar.
ref: a. 1898, William Cowper Brann, Woman's Wickedness:
qualifier: excluding US
glosses: Developing or arising, as a trend or an idea.
abutilons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abutilon
quylthulg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkwɪlθʌlɡ/
Forms: form: quylthulgs
Senses: examples: text: Everything was going fine until I found a long long hallway with two titans trapped behind a quylthulg.
ref: 1999, rocher, “YACD, my rogue again. Advice wanted/needed (LONG)”, in rec.games.roguelike.angband (Usenet):
text: - some monster descriptions corrected, and a few other changes: quylthulgs are no longer evil, as befits an entirely brainless creature which knows nothing except that it must bring help to protect itself.
ref: 2000, Jonathan Ellis, “New version of vanilla-290 "edits" patch released!”, in rec.games.roguelike.angband (Usenet):
text: Find something worth a lot that you can handle, and clone it. Young dragons if you have a SD weapon, various high-level undead (wights, wraiths, lichs, vampires) if you have speed, rotting quylthulgs as a source for those high-level undead, iridescent beetles if you have free action […]
ref: 2002, Eli the Bearded, “Random questions on mid level play”, in rec.games.roguelike.moria (Usenet):
topics: video-games
glosses: In some roguelike games, a type of fictional invisible monster that summons other monsters.
credenda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of credendum
Stallman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈstɔːlmən/
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Saint-Denis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The administrative capital of Réunion region, an overseas territory of France.
glosses: A town and commune in the Seine-Saint-Denis department, Île-de-France, France.
clitoral hoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clitoral hood
Keweenawan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The younger division of the Proterozoic eon as represented by rocks in the Great Lakes region of the United States
ticks off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tick off
ticking off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tick off
Ü
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: U
Etymology: Borrowed from Tibetan དབུས (dbus), which is pronounced like Ü in Lhasa.
Senses: glosses: The east part of Ü-Tsang, centered in Lhasa.
synonyms: Dbus
glosses: The Central Tibetan language, a variety of Tibetan.
Related terms: Ü-Tsang
feelefold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: fēlʹfōld
ipa: /ˈfiːlfoʊld/
Forms: form: more feelefold
form: most feelefold
form: felefold
Etymology: From Middle English felefold, felefolde (“multiple, many; varied, diverse”), from Old English felafeald, felefeald (“manifold, many times over”), equivalent to fele (“many”) + -fold. Compare Dutch veelvoud, German Vielfalt.
Senses: examples: text: feelefold colours
glosses: Manifold; multiple, various; varied, diverse
Synonyms: multiple
numerous
manifold
feelefold
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: fēlʹfōld
ipa: /ˈfiːlfoʊld/
Forms: form: more feelefold
form: most feelefold
form: felefold
Etymology: From Middle English felefold, felefolde (“multiple, many; varied, diverse”), from Old English felafeald, felefeald (“manifold, many times over”), equivalent to fele (“many”) + -fold. Compare Dutch veelvoud, German Vielfalt.
Senses: glosses: Many times over; in many ways; in various ways or places.
Synonyms: frequently
ofttimes
often
Related terms: feel
exstant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The writings which are still exstant shew that the Anglo Saxon church must have had in her own tongue a considerable amount of scriptural instruction.
ref: 1850, Josiah Forshall, Frederic Madden, The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments, in the Earliest English Versions, volume 1, page iii:
glosses: Obsolete form of extant.
aesthetic surgery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aesthetic surgeries
form: esthetic surgery
Senses: examples: text: Still, for those like Betty Ford who feel the need for outer rejuvenation, aesthetic surgery can be a godsend.
ref: 1978 October 23, “Living: The Unveiling of a New Ford”, in Time:
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: cosmetic surgery
vanity surgery
glosses: Surgery which alters the physical appearance of a person, performed not for health reasons but in order to increase one's beauty or physical appeal; cosmetic surgery.
Related terms: plastic surgery
esthetic surgery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: esthetic surgeries
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of aesthetic surgery.
sæptum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sæpta
Senses: examples: text: The sæptum is deflected in a remarkable manner, so as to form a gross deviation to the left.
ref: 1893, Harrison Allen, “Remarks On Congenital Defects of the Face”, in New York Medical Journal, volume 58, page 760:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of septum.
læsion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: læsions
Senses: examples: text: After death the membranes are almost always affected, but the læsion bears no proportion to the violence of the symptoms.
ref: 1837, William Julian Evans, chapter V, in A Clinical Treatise on the Endemic Fevers of the West Indies, page 242:
glosses: Archaic spelling of lesion.
Phœbus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Phoebus.
œcologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more œcologically
form: most œcologically
Senses: examples: text: Œcologically, P. reticulata almost exactly replaces P. brevisetosa beyond the southern limit of the latter, and the superficial resemblance of the two species is very strong.
ref: 1897, Herbert P. Johnson, “A Preliminary account of the Marine Annelids of the Pacific Coast, with Descriptions of New Species”, in The Shipley collection of scientific papers, page 171:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of ecologically.
Granger law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Granger laws
Etymology: See granger; these laws were primarily promoted by a group of farmers known as The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry.
Senses: glosses: Any of various laws passed by western states of the United States after the Civil War, to regulate rates paid for transporting grain.
granger laws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of granger law
Granger laws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Granger law
granger law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: granger laws
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Granger law.
taxonomise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: taxonomises
form: taxonomising
form: taxonomised
form: taxonomised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of taxonomize.
œconomically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more œconomically
form: most œconomically
Senses: examples: text: He uſed ſtill to ride about the country on one of theſe mares—but then he rode her very œconomically ; on the ſoft turf adjoining the road, without putting himſelf to the expence of ſhoes—as he obſerved, “ The turf was ſo pleaſant to a horſe’s foot !” And when any gentleman called to pay him a viſit, and the boy who attended in the ſtables was profuſe enough to put a little hay before his horſe, old Elwes would ſlily ſteal back into the ſtable, and take the hay very carefully away.
ref: 1790, Account of the late Mr. Ledyard ; from “ Proceedings of the Society for promoting the Discovery of the interior parts of Africa, from The Annual Register, Volume XXXIV, Characters, page 23
glosses: Obsolete spelling of economically.
wingèd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈwɪŋ(ɡ)ɪd/
Senses: examples: text: O, speak again, bright angel! For thou art / As glorious to this night, being o'er my head, / As is a wingèd messenger of heaven / Unto the white, upturnèd, wondering eyes
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], lines 26-29:
text: The wingèd seeds, where they lie cold and low, / Each like a corpse within its grave, until / Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow
ref: 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind:
glosses: Alternative spelling of winged.
-èd
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of -ed, indicating that the last syllable is fully enunciated.
parænesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paræneses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of paraenesis.
oneiromancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oneiromancers
Etymology: From oneiro- + -mancer.
Senses: examples: text: The interpreter of dreams, like the ancient oneiromancer, often becomes involved in the dream himself and thus runs the risk of no longer being a true witness (which often happens in the analysis of psychotic patients).
ref: 1987, Salomon Resnik, The Theatre of Dream, page 9:
text: He called in an oneiromancer who explained that the dream signified the birth of a daughter.
ref: 2000, Tae-sŏk Sŏ, Peter H. Lee, Myths of Korea, page 198:
text: 2002, John Joseph Collins, Peter W. Flint (editors), Cameron VanEpps (assistant), The Book of Daniel: Composition and Reception, Volume 1, page 41,
Although a Neo-Assyrian prayer to the sun-god speaks of the oneiromancer (šā^>ilu) explaining a dream to the king,¹⁰ there is no mention of oneiromancers among the court sages, nor does any of their letters deal with the interpretation of royal dreams.
glosses: One who practises oneiromancy.
oneiromancers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oneiromancer
hæmatopœsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In syphilis, not only are those glands affected which are in the chain of the great system of lymphatics, but those which are actively concerned in hæmatopœsis.
ref: 1874, The Medical Examiner, Volume XV, Original Communications, page №342
glosses: Obsolete spelling of hematopoiesis.
tinclad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: tin-clad
Etymology: From tin + clad.
Senses: examples: text: The building had the required tinclad fire doors.
glosses: Clad in tin or tin-coated metal.
tinclad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tinclads
form: tin-clad
Etymology: From tin + clad.
Senses: glosses: A lightly armored river steamer used in the US Civil War.
Related terms: ironclad
cyclopædiæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The style of Dr. Quain is simple, clear, concise ; and he generally avoids that indescribable sort of composition which prevails so much in our medical cyclopædiæ and elementary works, and makes us doubt while we peruse it, whether it is really intended for English.
ref: 1838, Henry James Johnson, James Johnson, “The Medico‐Chirurgical Review and Journal of Medical Science”, in Periscope, volume XXVIII, page 469:
glosses: plural of cyclopædia
cyclopædia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclopædias
form: cyclopædiæ
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of cyclopaedia.
leuchæmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The fact is that leuchæmia is only a special kind of anæmia.
ref: 1891, Charles Hilton Fagge, Philip Henry Pye‐Smith, “Text‐book of the principles and practice of medicine”, in Diseases of the Blood, volume II, page 625:
glosses: Obsolete form of leukemia.
leukhæmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In a brief appendix he details a few cases of leukhæmia, in two of which very notable improvements followed the use of arsenic for a time ; and the examinations of the blood seemed to show that this was due to the arsenic operating harmfully on the white corpuscles.
ref: 1884, Sidney Coupland, “Anæmia and Allied Conditions”, in The Year‐Book of Treatment for 1884, page 84:
glosses: Alternative spelling of leukemia.
final nail in the coffin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: final nails in the coffin
Senses: examples: text: The Slurpie Shack franchise was already considering filing for bankruptcy after five years of poor profits, but a fire that destroyed the flagship restaurant was the final nail in the coffin.
glosses: Something that is ultimately responsible for a previously prospective demise or failure.
Synonyms: last nail in the coffin
Related terms: another nail in one's coffin
final nails in the coffin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of final nail in the coffin
anæsthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anæsthetic
form: most anæsthetic
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of anaesthetic.
anæsthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anæsthetics
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of anaesthetic.
Derived terms: anæsthetician
goes under
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go under
going under
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go under
went under
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go under
gone under
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go under
anæsthetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anæsthetic
copyright symbol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copyright symbols
Senses: glosses: The symbol ©, a circumscribed letter c, indicating that a work is copyrighted.
Derived terms: copyleft symbol
copyright symbols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copyright symbol
copyleft symbol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copyleft symbols
Etymology: copyleft + symbol
Senses: glosses: The symbol 🄯, a horizontally mirrored copyright symbol, denoting copyleft.
copyleft symbols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copyleft symbol
rinded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪndəd/
rhymes: -aɪndəd
Etymology: From rind + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: All the indications are there that the early dairy farmers did make rinded cheese.
ref: 1999, Angela Heuzenroeder, Barossa Food:
glosses: having a rind (hard, tough outer layer)
Synonyms: sense: having a rind
word: skinned
Derived terms: -rinded
rinded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪndəd/
rhymes: -aɪndəd
Etymology: From rind + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rind
collecting society
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collecting societies
Senses: glosses: A body with the authority to license copyrighted works and collect royalties on behalf of its members.
collecting societies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collecting society
accumulated depreciation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accumulated depreciations
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: The sum of past depreciation for an asset that is currently held.
lawyer-readable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lawyer-readable
form: most lawyer-readable
Senses: glosses: Written in a legal style aimed at lawyers.
hikoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhiːkɔɪ/
Forms: form: hikois
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori hīkoi (“ceremonial march”).
Senses: examples: text: Although the coalition was fragile, it was a signal achievement for the Tainui contingent and the main body of the hikoi to arrive at Waitangi on the same day.
ref: 1987, Ranginui Walker, Jacqueline Amoamo, Nga Tau Tohetohe: Years of Anger, page 88:
text: The idea of the hikoi was conceived at the General Synod of the Anglican Church but soon came to involve Christians of all persuasions.
ref: 1999, W. R. Atkin, Katrine Evans, Human Rights and the Common Good: Christian Perspectives, page 148:
text: "There is a proud tradition of hikoi in Aotearoa. We have marched as tangata whenua for our land, for our sovereign rights, for our sacred kai moana, and now we march to honour Papatuanuku and keep her free from GE interference."
ref: 2005, Cathie Dunsford, Ao Toa: Earth Warriors, page 84:
glosses: A protest march, typically involving a long journey.
hikoi
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈhiːkɔɪ/
Forms: form: hikois
form: hikoiing
form: hikoied
form: hikoied
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori hīkoi (“ceremonial march”).
Senses: examples: text: Then in March Ngāti Kahungunu announced that they would hikoi to Wellington with a view to arriving around the time that the Foreshore and Seabed Bill was due to come before Parliament.
ref: 2004, Aroha Harris, Hīkoi: Forty Years of Māori Protest, page 29:
glosses: To participate in a hikoi.
inquirendo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin inquirendo.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An authority to inquire.
Related terms: de lunatico inquirendo
intermediae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin intermedius intermedial.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The middle pair of tail feathers, or middle rectrices.
some rights reserved
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Modelled on all rights reserved.
Senses: examples: 1997, “Perri 6”, Demos, Escaping Poverty: From Safety Nets to Networks of Opportunity, page footer,
This page is covered by the Demos open access licence. Some rights reserved.
glosses: The owner, or other copyright holder, of a work simultaneously reserves a number of copyright-related rights and waives a number of other copyright-related rights.
CC-BY
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of CC BY.
CC-BY-SA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of CC BY-SA.
CC-BY-ND
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of CC BY-ND.
CC-BY-NC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of CC BY-NC.
CC-BY-NC-SA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of CC BY-NC-SA.
CC-BY-NC-ND
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of CC BY-NC-ND.
shoutest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: shout + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of shout
shouteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shout
intimator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intimators
Senses: glosses: One who or that which intimates.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A private university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Synonyms: MIT
MIT License
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: copyright
intellectual-property
law
glosses: A free-software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
GNU GPL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: copyright
intellectual-property
law
synonyms: GPL
glosses: Initialism of GNU General Public License.
LGPL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: copyright
intellectual-property
law
hypernyms: GPL
coordinate_terms: AGPL
FDL
glosses: Initialism of Lesser General Public License.
BSD license
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BSD licenses
Senses: glosses: Any of a family of free software licenses comprising the license of Berkeley Software Distribution and derivative licenses.
BSD licenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BSD license
igg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: iggs
form: igging
form: igged
form: igged
form: ig
form: iggy
Etymology: Clipping of ignore.
Senses: examples: text: 1953, Langston Hughes, ‘Simple Takes a Wife’, in 2002, Donna Sullivan Harper (editor), The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The Early Simple Stories, Volume 7, page 202,
But not knowing my own mind, I made it hard for Mabel, keeping late hours, igging her, and playing Cherie. Then, one day while Mabel was at work, I packed my clothes and left.
text: I mean you can know that the little yalla boys and girls or the med and dent students are “igging” you and be igged and conscious (to the degree you are conscious) of it, […]
ref: 1984, Imamu Amiri Baraka, The autobiography of LeRoi Jones, page 95:
text: I was tryin' to give it back to him, but he doesn't speak to me anymore. I keep trying.. but he keeps iggin' me.
ref: 1995, Clockers, 01:45:00
text: Ig is obsolete. Ig always conveyed an action and an attitude. At one time, to be igged was the worst attitude someone could convey to you without directly speaking to you. It was an insult, a slight. But being igged has lost its weight.
ref: 2003, Marlene Kim Connor, What Is Cool?: Understanding Black Manhood in America, page 14:
glosses: To ignore deliberately.
secondary modern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secondary moderns
Senses: topics: education
glosses: In the UK, from 1944 to the 1970s, a secondary school for children who had failed the eleven plus examination.
Hypernyms: secondary school
nixe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nixes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nixie (“female water-elf”).
weak copyleft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of copyleft where not all derived works inherit the copyleft licence.
strong copyleft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of copyleft where all derived works inherit the copyleft licence.
unhug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unhugs
form: unhugging
form: unhugged
form: unhugged
Etymology: From un- + hug.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:unhug.
glosses: To cease hugging (someone).
Related terms: unhugging
fistmeles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fistmele
like a chicken with its head cut off
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: like a chicken with its head off
form: like a chicken with no head
form: like a headless chicken
form: like a headless chook
Senses: examples: text: His idea of it was that he had been making a fool of himself, running around like a chicken with its head cut off—such was the simile that occurred to him.
ref: c. 1900, Jack London, To Build a Fire:
text: Ken played or essayed to play right field for a while, but he ran around like a chicken with its head off.
ref: 1911, Zane Grey, chapter 9, in The Young Pitcher:
text: I've been running round like a chicken with its head cut off.
ref: 1920, Harold MacGrath, chapter 27, in The Drums Of Jeopardy:
text: Says one Pentagon arms-control expert: "Our setup was actually designed to act in time of general war like a chicken with its head cut off. The brain could be destroyed and the nervous system severed. Then the military muscles would just jerk in uncontrolled spasms."
ref: 1962 December 28, “Nation: New Fail-Safe”, in Time:
text: Rushing around like a chicken with its head cut off would serve no purpose.
ref: 2003, Linda Lael Miller, Shotgun Bride, →ISBN, page 121:
text: Zevala was ablaze, and all the insurgents — as they called themselves — were scurrying about like chickens with their heads cut off. There was talk of an attack. A second invading force. Perhaps the Foundation. Perhaps something worse.
ref: 2023 October 12, HarryBlank, “Fire in the Hole”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 22 May 2024:
glosses: In a frantic, disorganized manner.
Related terms: like a chicken with the pip
run around like a chicken with its head cut off
like a chicken with the pip
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Then Condy promptly got the hiccoughs from drinking his tea too fast, and fretted up and down the room like a chicken with the pip.
ref: 1899, Frank Norris, chapter 4, in Blix:
text: He seemed plumb possessed of gloom, and moped around like a chicken with the pip.
ref: 1907, Stewart Edward White, chapter 15, in Arizona Nights:
text: Then, after two prodigious parting kicks, accurately gauged and delivered, the gambler crossed over to the hotel, leaving the garrulous one to pick himself out of the dust, gasping like a chicken with the pip.
ref: 1914, Peter B. Kyne, chapter 6, in The Long Chance:
glosses: In a weakened, confused, or sickly manner.
Related terms: like a chicken with its head cut off
like a chicken with its head off
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of like a chicken with its head cut off.
like a chicken with no head
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of like a chicken with its head cut off.
Æthiopians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But now the Æthiopians diverted the flood, making cataracts, which they propt with timber, lining them alſo with mud and ſtraw, which the multitude of hands eaſily brought together.
ref: 1753, Heliodorus, Aethiopian Adventures: or, The history of Theagenes and Chariclea, translated from Greek, The Aethiopian History, page 263
glosses: plural of Æthiopian
paranœic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paranœic
form: most paranœic
Senses: examples: text: Any competent alienist could have discovered in five minutes that he was a paranœic and could have predicted that his disease would sooner or later lead to violence, but to what end ?
ref: 1920, Law Notes, volume XXIII, page 42:
glosses: Obsolete form of paranoid.
paranœic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paranœics
Senses: examples: text: The Dangerous Paranœic
ref: 1920, Law Notes, volume XXIII, page 42:
glosses: Obsolete form of paranoiac.
apnœic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more apnœic
form: most apnœic
Senses: examples: text: Both investigators bring forward experimental evidence in support of the view that the apnœic pause is dependent upon alterations in the chemical excitants and not upon an interference with the vagal functions.
ref: 1913, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Physiology, volume VI, page 373:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of apneic.
dyspnœic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Dr. SMITH replied, and then presented the Lungs and Trachea from a boy, aged 9, who was brought into the London Hospital dyspnœic and moribund.
ref: 1897, The British Medical Journal, volume I, page 209:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of dyspneic.
SWCNT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SWCNTs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of single-walled carbon nanotube.
SWCNTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SWCNT
punctuator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: punctuators
Etymology: From punctuate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: He was a sloppy punctuator, often leaving out commas and confusing colons with semicolons.
glosses: One who punctuates, as in writing.
Queen of Hearts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Queens of Hearts
Senses: examples: text: At eighteen she was the Queen of Hearts and conscious of the fact: an exacting, dictatorial, haughty woman...
ref: 1902, Francis Templeman, The Catholic:
text: Extravagantly pretty, with a delicate figure and great dark-blue eyes, cordial, charming and a winning hostess, she was the Queen of Hearts in Weimar...
ref: 1956, Eliza Marian Butler, Byron and Goethe:
glosses: Alternative form of queen of hearts.
radient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more radient
form: most radient
Senses: examples: text: […] yet ſtill continued they gazing, extolling above meaſure the excellency of their faces, and the ſparkling luſter of their radient eyes, calling them (by overſtrain’d hyperboles) Starres, Sunnes, Angels, or indeed any thing that love-ſicke imagination fancieth, till by their continued motion their eyes were denyed the ſight of their faces; […]
ref: 1639, I. S., Clidamas, or The Sicilian Tale, London: […] Thomas Payne, and are to be sold by Iohn Cowper, […], pages 3–4:
text: When, however, the matin loving lark, or ruſſet pinions, floating amid the tiffany clouds, that variegated, in fleecy undulation, the grey-inveſted heavens, hailed with his ſoul-reviving note, the radient countenance of returning morn; […]
ref: 1792, Charlotte Smith, “Letter XII.”, in Desmond. […], volume II, London: […] G[eorge,] G[eorge,] J[ohn] and J[ames] Robinson, […], →OCLC, pages 167–168:
text: We have a Saviour, tell it out among the heathen, that all the nations of the earth may partake of the gift, whoſe radient eye brightens tentively on ſuch a ſubject as this, who are under the domination of the ſenſual affections and appetites; […]
ref: 1795, Uzal Ogden, Antidote to Deism. The Deist Unmasked; […], volume 1, Newark: John Woods, page 50:
glosses: Obsolete form of radiant.
Kolyma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kəlɪˈma/
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Колыма́ f (Kolymá).
Senses: glosses: An area in the far north-eastern region of Russia; location of Stalinist slave labour camps in the 1930s to 1950s.
glosses: A river in the far north-eastern area of Russia.
Related terms: Chukotka
Magadan
gulag
Dalstroy
gynæcological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Amand Kouth must be congratulated on a very good treatise on Gynæcological Therapeutics, treated in a manner as original as can be expected, considering its subject.
ref: 1897, The British Medical Journal, volume I, page 21:
glosses: Dated spelling of gynaecological.
prejudicially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more prejudicially
form: most prejudicially
Etymology: From prejudicial + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In this case, however, the parent's health will chiefly suffer, if she persevere in nursing; this, however, will again act prejudicially to the child.
ref: 1840, Thomas Bull, M.D., The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease.:
text: "But surely that will prejudicially affect the rumor you were going to spread, sire?"
ref: 1628, Alexandre Dumas, Père, Ten Years Later:
glosses: In a prejudicial manner.
leviable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From levy + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Where Customs Duties are, at the Union, leviable on any Goods, Wares, or Merchandises in any Two Provinces, those Goods, Wares, and Merchandises may, from and after the Union, be imported from one of those Provinces into the other of them on Proof of Payment of the Customs Duty leviable thereon in the Province of Exportation, and on Payment of such further Amount (if any) of Customs Duty as is leviable thereon in the Province of Importation.
ref: 1867, anonymous author, The British North America Act, 1867:
text: An additional of two and one-half per cent, a new and temporary duty, called subvencion, appropiated to the payment of the loan made to the king by the Cadiz Board of Trade, and leviable on all kinds of imported goods, and, of course, equal, according to the usual mode of valuation, to about three per cent.
ref: 1916, Fedor Jagor, Tomas de Comyn, Chas. Wilkes, Rudolf Virchow., The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes:
glosses: Able to be levied
Derived terms: illeviable
underplot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underplots
Etymology: From under- + plot.
Senses: examples: text: I have not been able to discover the source of the very curious underplot of The Captives.
ref: 1882-89, A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV:
text: Thus, again to quote Mr. Homer Smith, it has been held that 'In general the pastoral incidents serve as an underplot, utterly foreign in spirit to the main plot.'
ref: 1906, Walter W. Greg, Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama:
glosses: A subplot; a plot that is not the main plot of a story.
glosses: A secret scheme or trick.
underplot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underplots
form: underplotting
form: underplotted
form: underplotted
Etymology: From under- + plot.
Senses: glosses: To form secret schemes or plots.
Derived terms: underplotter
NOI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NOIs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of notice of intent.
examples: text: The patient's NOI is harder to identify because it is entirely symptomatic, as opposed to the MOI, which is obvious.
topics: emergency-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of nature of illness.
NOI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Nation of Islam.
refax
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: refaxes
form: refaxing
form: refaxed
form: refaxed
form: re-fax
Etymology: From re- + fax.
Senses: examples: text: 1991, The Bulletin, Issues 5759-5767, page 8,
Dix reckons he has refaxed 17000 pages in this way over the past eight months.
text: “I'd come home and my fax machine would literally be stacked with counteroffers,” Gene said. “I'd just sign and refax, sign and refax.
ref: 2006, Dolf De Roos, Gene Burns, The Insider's Guide to 52 Homes in 52 Weeks: Acquire Your Real Estate Fortune Now, page 92:
text: The decision to use CNN as a diplomatic channel was critical for the Iraqis; if they had waited for their letter to be faxed and re-faxed through the normal channels […] the news might have reached President Clinton a few minutes too late.
ref: 2008, Michael Soussan, Backstabbing for Beginners: My Crash Course in International Diplomacy, page 162:
glosses: To fax again; to send again by fax machine.
refaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of refax
refaxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of refax
refaxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of refax
pœnalties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […]As also the three aforesaid Comissioners, or each of them shall have power to Administer oathes keepe the peace amongst the Inhabitants and to graunt warrants to bring before them such as shall break the pœnall lawes, the pœnalties whereof exceede not fforty shillings and all offenders whose pœnalty shall exceede the somme aforesaid to binde over to the County Courte or send them to some magisᵗˢ to be provided with according to lawe […]
ref: 1651, Albert Stillman Batchellor, editor, Provincial and State Papers, volume XXIV, page 265:
glosses: plural of pœnalty
STT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of speech to text.
Synonyms: SR
Related terms: TTS
harns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English hernes, from Old English hærnas (“brains”), plural of hærn (“brain”), from Proto-West Germanic *hirʀnī, from Proto-Germanic *hirzniją (“brain”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱérh₂sō (“head”), from *ḱerh₂s- (“head”).
Senses: glosses: Brains.
Related terms: harnpan
observanda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of observandum
observandum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɒbzə(ɹ)ˈvændəm/
Forms: form: observanda
Etymology: From Latin observandum, gerundive of observo.
Senses: examples: text: I already discover, that the issues of my observanda, begin to grow too large for the receipts.
ref: 1704, [Jonathan Swift], A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A thing to be observed.
æqualize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: æqualizes
form: æqualizing
form: æqualized
form: æqualized
Senses: examples: text: Oh no : the land where hungry Fames dwelt,
May no wiſe æqualize this curſed land,
No euen the climat of the torrid zone
ref: 1595, (authorship uncertain), The Lamentable Tragedie of Locrine, the eldest ſon to King Brutus, act IV, third scene, verse 1630
roman: Brings forth more fruit then this accurſed groue.
glosses: Obsolete spelling of equalize.
medusæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: During the four years that elapsed while the manuscript lay unstudied at Harvard, new forms had been discovered along our coast; and Nutting and Hargitt had published their papers upon the hydroids and medusæ of the Woods Hole region.
ref: 1910, Alfred Goldsborough Mayor, Medusae of the World, volume I, page 1:
glosses: plural of medusa
bancor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bancors
Etymology: Coined by John Maynard Keynes in 1940-42, based on French banque (“bank”) and or (“gold”).
Senses: examples: text: Absent significant monetary instability or an injunction for use of bancor for the making of an important set of payments (e.g. payment of taxes), surmounting the barriers to wide acceptance would be a key and perhaps prohibitive challenge.
ref: 2010, IMF, Reserve Accumulation and International Monetary Stability, page 27:
glosses: A hypothetical supranational currency.
wikipedia: John Maynard Keynes
pervestigate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pervestigates
form: pervestigating
form: pervestigated
form: pervestigated
Etymology: From Latin pervestigatus, past participle of pervestigare.
Senses: glosses: To investigate thoroughly.
pluries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈplʊəɹi.iːz/
Forms: form: pluries
Etymology: From Latin plūriēs (“many times, often”), which occurs in the first clause.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A writ issued in the third place, after two former writs have been disregarded.
Derived terms: pluries summons
burst in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bursts in
form: bursting in
form: burst in
form: burst in
form: bursted in
form: bursted in
Senses: examples: text: One of the editors, who had promised not to show any footage of Teresa, didn't keep his promise; and who but the members of the BS Club would take notice of the woman taking a bath in Wanda's circular bathtub as Rolf, who had burst in on her unannounced (“that's the nature of opportunists,” squeaked Teresa, "they always burst in on you unannounced") explained in detail to yet another reporter the difference between a trustworthy hitchhiker and on who was not?
ref: 2009 October 19, Kelly Huddleston, Alone in the Company of Others: A Novel, Open Books, →ISBN:
glosses: to enter suddenly and unexpectedly
practicos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of practico
nance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nances
Etymology: From nancy. As a verb, cf. prance, dance, and mince.
Senses: examples: text: "Fairies, nances, swishes, fags, lezzes — call 'em what you please — should of course be permitted to earn honest livings […]
ref: 1992, Leigh W. Rutledge, The gay decades: from Stonewall to the present:
glosses: Alternative form of nancy (“an effeminate male homosexual”).
nance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nances
form: nancing
form: nanced
form: nanced
Etymology: From nancy. As a verb, cf. prance, dance, and mince.
Senses: examples: nancing around in tight pants
glosses: To move in a prissy or stereotypically effeminate manner.
nance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nances
Etymology: From American Spanish nance, from Classical Nahuatl.
Senses: glosses: A large shrub or small tree of subtropical and tropical areas of the Americas, Byrsonima crassifolia, bearing a small, sweet, yellow fruit.
ascar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ascars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ask (“eft, newt”).
askerd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: askerds
Senses: examples: text: ASKERD, lizard. "Dry lizard," a land lizard. "Watter askerd," a newt.
ref: 1865, William Stott Banks, Wakefield Words, page 4:
glosses: Alternative form of ask (“eft, newt”).
askard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: askards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ask (“eft, newt; lizard”).
peter puffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peter puffers
Etymology: From peter (“penis”) and puff (“to smoke”).
Senses: glosses: A male homosexual.
bald earn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bald earns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bald erne.
bald erne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bald ernes
form: bald earn
Etymology: From bald + erne (“eagle”). More at erne.
Senses: glosses: Bald eagle.
shit packer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shit packers
Senses: glosses: A male homosexual.
promulges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of promulge
promulger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: promulgers
Etymology: From promulge + -er.
Senses: examples: text: For what St. Paul ſays expreſly of Tongues, holds equally true of all other Supernatural Gifts and Powers, indulg'd to the firſt Promulgers of Chriſtianity; they were Signs to thoſe who believ'd not, not to thoſe who believ'd.
ref: 1694 October 31 (Gregorian calendar), Francis Atterbury, “The Miraculous Propagation of the Gospel. A Sermon Preach’d before the Queen at White-hall. October 21. 1694.”, in Fourteen Sermons Preach’d on Several Occasions. […], London: […] E. P. [Edmund Parker?] for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1708, →OCLC, part II, page 132:
glosses: One who promulges or publishes what was before unknown.
quadriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quadri- + -form.
Senses: glosses: Having four forms, parts or aspects
gear shifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gear shift
out of one's face
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Drunk; intoxicated; inebriated.
Related terms: drunk
redemptrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin redēmptrīx. By surface analysis, redemptor + -trix.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
synonyms: redeemeress
redemptress
glosses: A female redeemer.
Derived terms: coredemptrix
wine grapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wine grape
winegrapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of winegrape
Norman windows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Norman window
switch-hitting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: word: bi
word: AC/DC
word: ambisextrous
word: curious
word: flexible
word: Kinsey 3
word: open-minded
word: switch-hitting
word: versatile
glosses: Bisexual.
switch-hitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of switch-hit
Related terms: switch-hitter