cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
besideness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beside + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Clearly, matching is a necessary condition for besideness in a category, since if two qualia of a category fail to match there is still an M-path joining them and consequently one or more qualia lying between them.
ref: 1977, Nelson Goodman, The Structure of Appearance:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The quality of being beside.
beneathness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beneath + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being beneath.
conculcated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of conculcate
conculcating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of conculcate
conculcates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of conculcate
sea orange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea oranges
Senses: glosses: A large American holothurian (Psolus fabricii) with a bright orange convex body covered with finely granulated scales.
sea oranges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea orange
Christendoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Christendom
couchant and levant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Old French? See couchant.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Rising up and lying down; said of animals, indicating that they have been long enough on land, not belonging to their owner, to lie down at night and rise up to feed by day.
stygial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stygial
form: most stygial
Senses: examples: text: By the Stigiall flode,
And the stremes wode
Of Cochitos bottumles well; […]
ref: 1523, John Skelton, A ryght delectable tratyse upon a goodly Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 349, lines 1327–1329:
glosses: Stygian
selenitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more selenitic
form: most selenitic
Etymology: From selenite + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to selenite; resembling or containing selenite.
selenitical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more selenitical
form: most selenitical
Etymology: From selenite + -ical.
Senses: glosses: selenitic
airglows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airglow
homothermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: warm-blooded
Synonyms: homothermous
homothermous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: warm-blooded
Synonyms: homothermic
staith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /steɪθ/
rhymes: -eɪθ
Forms: form: staiths
form: stathe
form: staithe
Etymology: From Old Norse stǫð, from Proto-Germanic *staþwō.
Senses: examples: text: From staith to staith.
glosses: A shore or a riverbank.
examples: text: The high banks of the rivers of North East England have led to the shipment of coal from staiths by the simple process of shooting it down gravity spouts from bottom-door wagons.
ref: 1945 January and February, T. F. Cameron, “Dock Working”, in Railway Magazine, page 10:
text: The coal staiths of the North-East coast—for example at Blyth (Northumberland) and at Dunston-on-Tyne—are impressive installations. The staiths are in fact jetties or piers built up to a high level above the rivers. Loaded wagons are propelled on to them and the contents are then quickly discharged through chutes down to the waiting colliers below.
ref: 1959 May, R. A. Savill, “The coal traffic of the North Eastern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 273:
text: […] gravity had earlier been harnessed to provide part of the pull for trains of coal wagons heading for staiths for loading on schooners […]
ref: 1995, James E. Vance, The North American Railroad: Its Origin, Evolution, and Geography, Johns Hopkins University Press:
glosses: A landing place; an elevated staging upon a wharf for discharging coal, etc., as from railway cars into vessels.
Synonyms: stathe
Derived terms: staithman
staiths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of staith
pulmonated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: pulmonate
millrynd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millrynds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of millrind.
millrynds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of millrynd
patrials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patrial
milted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of milt
Derived terms: unmilted
sea geese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea goose
sea goose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea geese
form: seagoose
Etymology: From sea + goose.
Senses: glosses: A phalarope.
glosses: A dolphin.
dulcorating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dulcorate
dulcorated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dulcorate
ingravidating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ingravidate
ingravidated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ingravidate
subcylindric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + cylindric.
Senses: glosses: Imperfectly cylindrical; only approximately cylindrical.
subcylindrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + cylindrical.
Senses: glosses: Imperfectly cylindrical; only approximately cylindrical.
airward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more airward
form: most airward
Etymology: From air + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Toward the air; upward.
airwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more airwards
form: most airwards
Etymology: From air + -wards.
Senses: glosses: Toward the air; upward.
plentifullest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: We have hitherto handled the particulars which yield best, and easiest, and plentifullest nourishment; and now we will speak of the best means of conveying and converting the nourishment.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: superlative form of plentiful: most plentiful
pianinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pianino
ullamaliztli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Classical Nahuatl ōllamaliztli. See also ulama.
Senses: glosses: The ball game tlachtli.
Xibalban
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Xibalban
form: most Xibalban
Etymology: From Xibalba + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Xibalba.
Xibalban
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Xibalbans
Etymology: From Xibalba + -an.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of Xibalba.
ballcourt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballcourts
form: ball court
Etymology: From ball + court.
Senses: glosses: a general place (e.g. a paved yard) used to play ball games
glosses: A large masonry structure of a type used in Mesoamerica to play the Mesoamerican ballgame.
ballcourts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballcourt
Xibalbans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Xibalban
Xibalba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ʃiˈbɑːlbə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Xibalbá, from Mayan.
Senses: glosses: The underworld in Mayan mythology.
Derived terms: Xibalban
phycocyanine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phycocyanines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phycocyanin.
phycocyanines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phycocyanine
strawed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From straw + -ed.
Senses: examples: a short-strawed variety of rice
glosses: Having a particular kind of straw.
examples: text: Strawed yards provide cattle with free access to an area with deep, soft bedding, but there are no individual beds.
ref: 2010, C. J. C. Phillips, Principles of Cattle Production, page 103:
glosses: Covered with straw.
pasigraphical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pasigraphical
form: most pasigraphical
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to pasigraphy.
pasigraphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pasigraphic
form: most pasigraphic
Etymology: From pasigraphy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to pasigraphy.
pleuritical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pleuritical
form: most pleuritical
Senses: examples: text: One is sick of the pleuritical stitches of envy; one of the contracting cramp of covetousness; another of the atrophy of unproficiency.
ref: 1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or afflicted with pleurisy.
sanitationless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sanitation + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking sanitation facilities.
spraints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spraint
labiatiflorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more labiatiflorous
form: most labiatiflorous
Senses: examples: text: The corollas of the ray are distinctly bilabiate, but anthers and style differ so much from all the labiatiflorous genera grouped together in the Tribe Mutisieae that the authors of the Genera Plantarum have judged best to join our genus with the Tribe Asteroideae, in which, if the shape of the corolla be disregarded, it finds a proper place next to Grindelia among the Homochromeae.
ref: 1888, William Hillebrand, Flora of the Hawaiian Islands:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having labiate flowers (as the snapdragon).
Yids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Yid
words of one syllable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I am at present engaged in preparing a vest-pocket edition of the philosophical works of Schopenhauer in words of one syllable.
ref: 1894, John Kendrick Bangs, “A Midnight Visitor”, in The Water Ghost and Others:
text: So I explained in words of one syllable that I went there to pick edelweiss from the fire escapes.
ref: 1914, Samuel Hopkins Adams, chapter 24, in The Clarion:
text: Felix propounded the story of the arrest, so far as might be, in words of one syllable.
ref: 1915, John Galsworthy, chapter 22, in The Freelands:
text: The President used "words of one syllable" to convey his insistence that Poland be "free and independent".
ref: 1972 December 27, Alden Whitman, “Obituary: Harry S. Truman, Decisive President”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 Sep 2012:
text: Or, in words of one syllable, it's Cirque's sex show.
ref: 2003 November 19, Richard Corliss, “That Old Feeling: The Show at the Casino”, in Time:
qualifier: usually preceded by in
glosses: Simple, clear, straightforward language; blunt language.
in words of one syllable
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I am at present engaged in preparing a vest-pocket edition of the philosophical works of Schopenhauer in words of one syllable.
ref: 1894, John Kendrick Bangs, “A Midnight Visitor”, in The Water Ghost and Others:
text: So I explained in words of one syllable that I went there to pick edelweiss from the fire escapes.
ref: 1914, Samuel Hopkins Adams, chapter 24, in The Clarion:
text: Felix propounded the story of the arrest, so far as might be, in words of one syllable.
ref: 1915, John Galsworthy, chapter 22, in The Freelands:
text: The President used "words of one syllable" to convey his insistence that Poland be "free and independent".
ref: 1972 December 27, Alden Whitman, “Obituary: Harry S. Truman, Decisive President”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 Sep 2012:
text: Or, in words of one syllable, it's Cirque's sex show.
ref: 2003 November 19, Richard Corliss, “That Old Feeling: The Show at the Casino”, in Time:
glosses: In simple, clear, straightforward language; in blunt language.
Related terms: in no uncertain terms
Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A proposed common ancestor to the group of Malayo-Sumbawan languages.
lieutenant-colonelcy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛfˌtɛnəntˈkəːnəlsi/
Forms: form: lieutenant-colonelcies
Etymology: From lieutenant-colonel + -cy.
Senses: examples: text: Three years later, at the outbreak of the Revolution, he accepted a lieutenant-colonelcy in ‘La Légion Américaine’, a newly formed all-black unit led by the dashing swordsman and virtuoso violinist Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-George.
ref: 2012, Jonathan Keates, “Mon Père, ce héros”, in Literary Review, section 402:
glosses: The position of lieutenant-colonel.
lieutenant-colonel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lieutenant-colonels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lieutenant colonel.
Derived terms: lieutenant-colonelcy
full body scanner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: full body scanners
form: full-body scanner
Senses: glosses: A device used in some airports and train stations that creates an image of a person's naked body through their clothing to look for hidden objects without physically removing their clothes or making physical contact.
orgiasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orgiast
sleepings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sleeping
perserverance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of perseverance.
rudies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rudie
Beringia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈɹɪnd͡ʒiə/
Etymology: From Bering + -ia, coined by the Swedish botanist Eric Hultén in 1937.
Senses: examples: text: Note that, while not in Alaska, one site from the adjacent Yukon Territory has been included as well; it, too, would have been within easter Beringia during the last glaciation.
ref: 2006, Michael R. Bever, “Too Little, Too Late? The Radiocarbon Chronology of Alaska and the Peopling of the New World”, in American Antiquity:
glosses: The Bering land bridge, a geographical phenomenon roughly 1,000 miles (1,600 km) wide (north to south) at its greatest extent, which joined present-day Alaska and eastern Siberia at various times during the Pleistocene ice ages; the land bridge previously occupying what is now the Bering Strait.
glosses: All the land between the Lena river in Russia and the Mackenzie river in Canada
Derived terms: Beringian
Related terms: Beringland
Bering
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from the surname of Vitus Bering, a Danish-born navigator in the service of the Russian Navy, known for his two explorations of the north-eastern coast of the Asian continent and from there the western coast on the North American continent.
Senses: glosses: An element of various place names in the geographical region between the northeastern extreme of Russia and the U.S. state of Alaska.
wikipedia: Vitus Bering
Derived terms: Bering Sea
Bering Strait
Bering Time
Beringia
pisher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪʃɚ/
ipa: /ˈpɪʃə/
Forms: form: pishers
Etymology: From Yiddish פּישער (pisher, “pisser”), from פּישן (pishn, “to urinate”).
Senses: glosses: Somebody who is inept at a task or new to a job.
glosses: A young child, usually male.
Bozrah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Botsra
form: Botzrah
Senses: glosses: An ancient biblical city in southern modern-day Jordan, the capital of Edom.
Botsra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bozrah.
Botzrah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bozrah.
subselection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subselections
Etymology: From sub- + selection.
Senses: glosses: A selection making up part of a larger selection.
subselect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subselects
form: subselecting
form: subselected
form: subselected
Etymology: From sub- + select.
Senses: examples: text: The ready-made title block shapes are actually groups. When you click a title block, the entire group is selected; then, you can click an individual shape to subselect it.
ref: 2009, Mark H. Walker, Nanette Eaton, Microsoft® Office Visio® 2003 Inside Out:
glosses: To select (part of a larger selection).
subselect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subselects
Etymology: From sub- + select.
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A select query inside another select query.
subselections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subselection
subselecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subselect
subselects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subselect
subselected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of subselect
rococos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rococo
speeling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of speel
speeled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of speel
schav
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shchav
form: shtshav
form: shav
Etymology: From Yiddish שטשאַוו (shtshav), from Polish szczaw.
Senses: examples: text: I stopped at the B and H Dairy for a good knish. That was the only place left that didn't microwave. Tears ran down my cheeks dripping into a glass of cold schav with sour cream.
ref: 1984, Sarah Schulman, The Sophie Horowitz Story:
glosses: A kind of borscht made with sorrel (or occasionally lemongrass).
glosses: Synonym of sorrel (plant).
synonyms: word: sorrel
extra: plant
Eartha Kitt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Rhyming slang, using the name of Eartha Kitt (1927–2008), American singer and actress.
Senses: examples: text: > why do men whistle while on the loo?
so they know which end to wipe after they have had an eartha kitt!!!
ref: 2003 May 23, Pussy=^..^=Galore & Goat-Boy [username], “Re: why?”, in freeserve.chat (Usenet):
text: NuLab will give an Eartha Kitt for as long as it is politically expedient to do so, and not a moment longer.
ref: 2005 March 13, Mad Mac [username], “Re: Borders rail innk may be going ahead”, in uk.railway (Usenet):
text: Possession is nine-tenths of the law, he thought, as he settled down for what Stan referred to as an Eartha Kitt. He could hear the others arguing outside as to who would be next in the toilet.
ref: 2006, Dave Cox, Gone for a Burton, Matador, →ISBN, page 121:
text: Those of us with much invested in a Marsh victory in Australia will note with concern that he is already suffering from the internal complications for which the world's most important in-the-raw celebrity challenge is famous. Or, as Marsh put it: "I haven't had an Eartha Kitt for seven days."
ref: 2007 November 15, Giles Smith, “Thumbs down as Rodney Marsh gets sinking feeling in the jungle”, in The Times, UK:
text: He will be, possibly, the first contestant to be evicted - the ninth loser? - before he has even managed to have had, in his own words, 'an Eartha Kitt'.
ref: 2007 November 18, Will Buckley, “Marsh has a gas in the jungle but leaves the lady blank”, in The Guardian:
text: […] I'm now on a saving-water economy drive, generally helped by taking an Eartha Kitt at work.
ref: 2009, Alan Smithie, Sperm, Wonderful Sperm!, AuthorHouse UK Ltd., →ISBN, page 204:
text: Apologies if this makes Tian Tian and Yang Guang choke on today's portion of deep-fried bamboo with salt 'n' sauce, but surely I'm not the only one who couldn't give an Eartha Kitt about Edinburgh Zoo's latest exhibits?
ref: 2011 December 7, Tam Cowan, “Sorry folks, but I don't give a shoot about those pandas”, in Daily Record, Scotland:
qualifier: English and Lowland Scottish rhyming slang
glosses: Shit.
wikipedia: Eartha Kitt
sourgrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sourgrasses
Etymology: From sour + grass.
Senses: glosses: Sorrel
of genus Oxalis.
glosses: Sorrel
of species Rumex acetosella
glosses: A crabgrass of species Digitaria insularis
Related terms: lemongrass
schmutzy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more schmutzy
form: most schmutzy
form: shmutzy
Etymology: From schmutz + -y.
Senses: glosses: messy; dirty; covered with schmutz
shmutzy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shmutzy
form: most shmutzy
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of schmutzy.
fleishig
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fleischig.
fleishig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fleishigs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fleischig.
kodaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kodak
kodaked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kodak
pottying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of potty
pottied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of potty
spillikins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Spillikins
form: spellicans
Senses: glosses: plural of spillikin
spillikins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Spillikins
form: spellicans
Senses: examples: text: Spillikins is a game of skill.
text: Charlie loves playing spillikins.
text: Our little visitor has just left us [...].–Half her time here was spent at Spillikins; which I consider as a very valuable part of our Household furniture, & as not the least important Benefaction– from the family of Knight to that of Austen.
ref: 1807, Jane Austen, Letters (1796-1817), letter to her sister Cassandra, February 8, 1807:
text: But she was much too impatient to be good at spillikins, moving them too fast, not wheedling them out by delicate degrees. (page 109)
After the news of Bunty’s father, Emily became increasingly quiet and withdrawn. [...] Her homework done, she sat playing endless solitary games – of patience or spillikins or draughts. (page 158)
ref: 1969, Penelope Farmer, Charlotte Sometimes, London: Vintage Books, published 2013, →ISBN:
text: Spillikins is played the same way that early versions of Jack Straw and the American “pick up sticks” are.
ref: 2013 August 16, Laura Boyle, “Spillikins”, in Jane Austen .co.uk, retrieved 27 May 2015:
glosses: A game in which players attempt to remove flat, carved sticks of ivory or wood (the individual spillikins of meaning 1) from a scattered pile without disturbing any stick other than the one currently being removed.
Hypernyms: pick-up sticks
game of skill
tabletop game
presbytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more presbytic
form: most presbytic
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of presbyopic.
sivvens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sibbens.
emporetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more emporetic
form: most emporetic
Etymology: Latin emporeticus.
Senses: examples: text: The best sorts [of paper] were thirteen; the hieratic eleven; the Fannian paper ten; the amphitheatric nine; the emporetic six inches
ref: 1844, Wilhelm Adolf Becker, Gallus: Or, Roman Scenes of the Time of Augustus:
glosses: Relating to an emporium, or to merchandise.
Mahumetanism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mahumetan + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Mohammedanism.
Mahumetan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mahumetans
Etymology: From Mahumet + -an.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Mohammedan.
Mahumetans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mahumetan
sea titling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea titlings
Senses: glosses: A bird, the rock pipit.
Borscht Belt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Borscht Belt
form: Borsht Belt
form: borscht belt
Senses: synonyms: Borscht Circuit
Jewish Alps
Yiddish Alps
glosses: An area in upstate New York, in the Catskills, in which there were once many Jewish camps and resorts.
Borscht Belt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Borsht Belt
form: borscht belt
Senses: topics: comedy
entertainment
lifestyle
glosses: A style of comedy which originated in resort nightclubs of this region, noted for its use of self-deprecation, wordplay, and Yiddish vocabulary.
Borscht Belt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Borsht Belt
form: borscht belt
Senses: examples: text: Allen plays Alvy Singer, a Jewish comedian whose jokes are more Borscht Belt than sly urban wit.
ref: 2007, Steven H. Scheuer, Alida Brill-Scheuer, Pocket Guide to Collecting Movies on DVD:
text: 2012, March 2. Matt Soergel, "'Hedwig', 'Shortbus' filmmaker brings film, commentary to Five Points", Jacksonville.com.
With my buddies, it's going to be very borscht belt, very shtick heavy.
topics: comedy
entertainment
lifestyle
glosses: Of a style of this comedy.
pencillate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pencillate
form: most pencillate
Etymology: From pencil + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: pencillate cell
text: pencillate nucleus
glosses: Shaped like a pencil.
Synonyms: pencillated
twen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twens
Senses: examples: text: Europeans have more success with generational outreach, but they start with younger age groups and provide a greater variety of all-youth activities. Rather than giving up hope, the YCN redirected its focus from teens to twens, particularly ...
ref: 2003, James Woycke, Au Naturel: The History of Nudism in Canada, FCN, →ISBN, page 262:
text: This exhibition shows how contemporary art confronts the various life worlds of teens, twens, and postadolescent thirty-somethings whose experience of youth culture often extends into their family lives and careers.
ref: 2006, Liz Linden, The Best Surprise is No Surprise:
text: […] records could, according to the article, only be explained by the fact that since 1958 the tape recorder has become available to those circles, which are the prime consumers of pop songs, i.e. the teens and twens.
ref: 2008, Historical Social Research, volume 33, number 3, page 313:
text: Proof can be found in the empirical study “Jugend 2008” by Andreas Feige an[d] Carsten Gennerich. The majority of more than 8000 teens and twens interviewed about their evaluation of concrete life situations gave priority to the satisfaction of a ...
ref: 2012, Gert Pickel, Kornelia Sammet, Transformations of Religiosity: Religion and Religiosity in Eastern Europe 1989-2010, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 23:
glosses: A twentysomething.
heartleaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heartleaf
pinnage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare pinfold.
Senses: glosses: poundage of cattle
pinnage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinnages
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of pinnace.
prospectives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prospective
sinew-shrunk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sinew-shrunk
form: most sinew-shrunk
Senses: glosses: Having shrunk sinews under the belly, caused by overfatigue.
raw_tags: of a horse
surmisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surmiser
tue-iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tue-irons
form: tueiron
Senses: glosses: A tuyere.
tue-irons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tue-iron
glosses: A pair of blacksmiths' tongs.
pandura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʊəɹə
Forms: form: panduras
Etymology: From Late Latin pandura, from Ancient Greek πανδοῦρα (pandoûra), a Pre-Greek/substrate loan. Doublet of mandola.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An Ancient Greek stringed instrument, a kind of lute with three strings that were stopped with a fingerboard to alter the tone, and with either a mandolin- or banjo-like shape.
panduras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pandura
pergamenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pergamenous
form: most pergamenous
Senses: glosses: pergamentaceous; resembling parchment
chining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chine
leging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lege
pronunciators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pronunciator
seminific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛm.ɪˈnɪf.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Etymology: From Latin [Term?].
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Forming or producing semen; seminiferous.
zipliner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zipliners
form: zip-liner
form: zip liner
Etymology: From zipline + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who takes part in ziplining
sea apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea apples
Senses: glosses: A round, colourful sea cucumber of the genera Paracucumaria and Paracolochirus, found primarily in Indo-Pacific waters.
examples: text: Sea-apple: Manicaria Pluketielii.
ref: 1864, August Grisebach, Flora of the British West Indian Islands:
glosses: The fruit of a West Indian palm (Manicaria plukenetii ⇒ ) Manicaria saccifera, often found floating in the sea.
glosses: A troolie palm; any of species Syzygium grande of trees, that can reach 30 m, found along the coastal mountains of Southeast Asia or its fruit.
sea apples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea apple
zipliners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zipliner
ziplined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of zipline
zip-liner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zip-liners
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zipliner.
zip-liners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zip-liner
zip liner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zip liners
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zipliner.
scheelin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: tungsten
pedicules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedicule
Niagara grape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Niagara grapes
Etymology: Named after the area where they were first grown.
Senses: glosses: A large, juicy, sweet-smelling, green North American grape which has a pleasant, foxy flavour; a variety of Vitis labrusca which is eaten and used in the production of wines, jams, and white grape juice, but which is a poor shipping grape.
Niagara grapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Niagara grape
saltiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saltier
significants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of significant
logwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of logwood
campeachy wood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: campeachy woods
form: campeche wood
Etymology: First exported from Campeche in Yucatan.
Senses: glosses: logwood, bloodwood (Haematoxylum campechianum)
wikipedia: Campeche
Synonyms: blackwood
bloodwood tree
bluewood
campeachy tree
campeche logwood
Jamaica wood
logwood tree
incompleatness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of incompleteness.
compleatness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From compleat + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of completeness.
aroynt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: aroynts
form: aroynting
form: aroynted
form: aroynted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aroint.
aroynted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of aroynt
aroynting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aroynt
aroynts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of aroynt
lunated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lunated
form: most lunated
Senses: glosses: lunate; crescent-shaped
nagualism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nagual + -ism.
Senses: qualifier: Mesoamerican mythology
glosses: Alternative form of nahualism.
nahual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəˈwɑːl/
Forms: form: nahuals
form: nagual
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish nahual, from Classical Nahuatl nāhualli (“sorcerer, spirit, animal form a person may take”).
Senses: examples: text: She has a nahual for every day of the week.
text: ¿Quién quería tener un perro así? ... ¿Doble animal, nahual, de quién?
ref: 2021, Pedro Mairal, chapter 6, in The Woman from Uruguay, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 73:
english: Who would want a dog like that? ... Double animal, nagual—whose?
translation: Who would want a dog like that? ... Double animal, nagual—whose?
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topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An animal form which a person may take.
examples: text: They suspected that the man was a nahual.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
qualifier: Mesoamerican mythology
glosses: A person who is able to take an animal form.
Derived terms: nahualism
Related terms: narnauk
skinwalker
spirit animal
tonal
nahuals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nahual
nagual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /nəˈɡwɑːl/
Forms: form: naguals
form: naguales
Senses: examples: text: If a cross of lime is painted on the bottom of a metate it becomes "too heavy" for a nagual to carry.
ref: 1986, John M. Ingham, Mary, Michael, and Lucifer: Folk Catholicism in Central Mexico, page 119:
text: ¿Quién quería tener un perro así? ... ¿Doble animal, nahual, de quién?
ref: 2021, Pedro Mairal, chapter 6, in The Woman from Uruguay, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 73:
qualifier: Mesoamerican mythology
glosses: Alternative form of nahual.
Derived terms: nagualism
naguals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nagual
wantokism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɑntɒkɪzəm/
Etymology: From wantok + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The capture of a provincial bureaucracy by an ethnic elite and the practice of wantokism have had at least other grave repercussions for national unity and nation-building.
ref: 1988, James Cook University of North Queensland Committee of South-East Asian Studies, Kabar Seberang, numbers 19-20, page 35:
text: Many of these demands derive, RSL^([Ramu Sugar Limited]) believes, from the negative aspects of Papua New Guinean custom. These include wantokism, jealousy, exorbitant landowner-claims, and a handout mentality.
ref: 2004, Frederick Errington, Deborah Gewertz, Yali's Question: Sugar, Culture, and History, page 197:
text: He thus had a broad view and no ‘tribal′ loyalties, with the accompanying baggage of wantokism and its inherent obligations.
ref: 2007, Ronald James May, Conflict and Resource Development in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, page 102:
text: 2009, Sarah Dix, Emmanuel Pok, Combating Corruption in Traditional Societies: Papua New Guinea, Robert I. Rotberg, Corruption, Global Security, and World Order, page 249,
Of course, wantokism, as it has been illustrated thus far, is not different from informal networks elsewhere in the world.[…]Traditionally, wantokism was rooted in custom, guided by natural laws, and informally enforced by the village.
glosses: The Melanesian cultural practice of relying on one's wantoks for any need, and of sharing the fruits of one's personal success with one's wantoks.
rose diamond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rose diamonds
Senses: glosses: A diamond entirely covered with facets on the surface, and flat below, distinguished from a brilliant.
rose diamonds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rose diamond
catachrestical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more catachrestical
form: most catachrestical
Senses: examples: text: Catachrestical and improper way of speaking.
ref: 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] James Flesher, for Richard Royston […], →OCLC:
glosses: catachrestic
Synonyms: catachrestic
malapropian
malapropic
malapropistic
WiFier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪ.faɪə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: WiFiers
Etymology: From Wi-Fi + -er.
Senses: examples: text: "Many public WiFiers are salespeople or other professionals on the move who just can't bring themselves to stop working during lunch. So they choose to lunch at a place that also has a connection so they can keep browsing/emailing/whatever while they are shoving that club sandwich down their throats. […]
ref: 2003 July 25, Oliver Burkeman, “Stuff the office - let's all go to the beach”, in The Guardian:
text: Nintendo is *really* determined to annoy non-WiFiers. Anyone who WiFied over the President's Holiday weekend received a Top Hat in the mail from Tortimer. Thanks for all the advance warning, Nintendo.
ref: 2006 March 2, thom_b, “*SPRING* has *SPRUNG* [end of WW M3]”, in alt.games.video.nintendo.animal-crossing (Usenet):
text: DTV encrypts their signal, they take active measures to prevent theft. WiFiers can do the same.
ref: 2006 October 3, Jerry Osage, “Re: WIFI---is it LEGAL to use an open signal?”, in rec.outdoors.rv-travel (Usenet):
text: David Lowery complains that single WiFiers won't vacate tables at his favorite coffee shop so other diners can sit down.
ref: 2007 February 15, letter to the editor, Austin American-Statesman:
glosses: A user of a Wi-Fi network, particularly a public one.
WiFiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of WiFier
penetrancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penetrancy
penetrancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penetrancies
Etymology: From penetrant + -cy.
Senses: examples: the penetrancy of subtile effluvia
glosses: The quality or state of being penetrant; penetrance.
ascomycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An ethyl analogue of tacrolimus with strong immunosuppressant properties.
immunomycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + -mycin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: ascomycin
dentolegal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dento- + legal.
Senses: examples: text: Endodontic mishaps sometimes have dentolegal consequences. These can be minimized or avoided by providing patients with adequate information prior to the endodontic procedure.
ref: 2002, John Ide Ingle, Leif K. Bakland, Endodontics, page 770:
glosses: Relating to the legal aspects of dentistry.
beauvericin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beauvericins
Etymology: Beauveria + -in
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enniatin depsipeptide with antibiotic and insecticidal effects, isolated from the fungus Beauveria bassiana.
nonactins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonactin
enniatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enniatins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of organic compounds found in Fusarium fungi, appearing in nature as mixtures of cyclic depsipeptides.
enniatins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enniatin
brefeldin A
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Eupenicillium brefeldianum (a fungus in which it is found) + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A lactone antibiotic produced by fungal organisms such as Eupenicillium brefeldianum, inhibiting transport of proteins from ER to Golgi and inducing retrograde protein transport from the Golgi apparatus to the endoplasmic reticulum.
mimosine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Mimosa + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A toxic alkaloid, β-3-hydroxy-4 pyridone amino acid, found in Mimosa and related plants.
Synonyms: leucenol
leucenol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: mimosine
pardaxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pardaxins
Etymology: Pardachirus + -in
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A peptide produced by the Red Sea sole, used as a shark repellent.
pardaxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pardaxin
paxilline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From translingual paxilli + -ine.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A potassium channel blocker; a toxic, tremorgenic indole alkaloid produced by Penicillium paxilli.
tremorgenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tremorgenic
form: most tremorgenic
form: tremorogenic
Etymology: From tremor + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Causing tremors.
penicillic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular mycotoxin.
tremortin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A fungal neurotoxin found on ryegrass.
Synonyms: penitrem A
sterigmatocystin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sterigmatocystins
Senses: examples: text: Sterigmatocystin appears on the crusts of mouldy cheese.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A dermatoxin found in the fungus genus Aspergillus.
Derived terms: demethylsterigmatocystin
methylsterigmatocystin
dermatoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dermatoxins
Etymology: From derma- + toxin.
Senses: glosses: Any toxic chemical that damages the skin and/or mucous membranes, often leading to necrosis.
dermatoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dermatoxin
dermatoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dermatoxic
form: most dermatoxic
Etymology: From derma- + toxic.
Senses: glosses: Having the nature of a dermatoxin; damaging to the skin.
triacsin C
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A potent vasodilator and inhibitor of long fatty acyl CoA synthetase.
vanabin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vanabins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of vanadium-binding metalloproteins, found almost exclusively in the blood cells or vanadocytes of some ascidians and tunicates.
vanabins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vanabin
wott
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wotts
form: wotting
form: wotted
form: wotted
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: wott
form: wott
form: wotted
form: wott
form: wottest
form: wotted
form: wottedst
form: wotts
form: wotteth
form: wotted
form: wott
form: wotted
form: wott
form: wotted
form: wott
form: -
form: wotting
form: wotted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wot (“to know”)
wott
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Amharic ወጥ (wäṭ).
Senses: related: word: wat
glosses: A hearty Ethiopian or Eritrean stew.
ascidiacean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ascidiaceans
Etymology: From Ascidiacea + -an.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the class Ascidiacea of sea squirts.
ascidiaceans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ascidiacean
phlebobranch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phlebobranchs
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the Phlebobranchia.
phlebobranchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phlebobranch
aplousobranch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aplousobranchs
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the Aplousobranchia.
stolidobranch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stolidobranchs
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the Stolidobranchia.
aplousobranchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aplousobranch
stolidobranchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stolidobranch
brevianamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brevianamides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of indole alkaloids produced as secondary metabolites of fungi in the genus Penicillium and Aspergillus, and structurally similar to paraherquamides.
brevianamides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brevianamide
enjera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enjeras
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of injera.
rhaphe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhaphes
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of raphe.
rhaphes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhaphe
confectures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of confecture
cippuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cippus
hayland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haylands
Etymology: From hay + land.
Senses: glosses: Grassland whose grass is cut for hay.
haylands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hayland
saprophagan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saprophagans
Etymology: From saprophage + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Natural and sown haylands also differ in the trophic structure of the animal population, with phytophagans and saprophagans about evenly divided in sown legumes and saprophagans dominating in natural grass.
ref: 1981, “Soviet geography: Volume 22”, in American Geographical Society of New York:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: a detritivore
Related terms: saprophage
saprophagous
saprophagy
saprophagans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saprophagan
city center
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: city centers
form: city centre
Senses: examples: text: In an effort to tackle mounting greenhouse gas emissions, the city of Hamburg, Germany, has decided to ban all cars from the city center by 2034.
ref: 2014 January 21, Benjamin Preston, “Automobiles: Wheelies”, in New York Times, retrieved 19 Feb 2014:
synonyms: word: downtown
word: central business district
coordinate_terms: inner city
glosses: The central business and shopping area of a city.
Related terms: town centre
town center