cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nosie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nosies
form: nosey
form: nosy
Etymology: From nose + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Oh! how his little nosie / Is wet with morning dew, / From yonder garden posey / Of pansy blossoms blue.
ref: 1888 September 29, Ernest E. Leigh, “Fido vs. Baby”, in Saturday Night, volume 1, number 44, Toronto, Ont., page 6, column 5:
text: You are my little honey Rosie, / Though freckled be your little nosie.
ref: 1908, Alexander R[obert] Fordyce, Elenore or, Love’s Conquest: A Rambling Serio-Comic Play-Novel, Newark, N.J.: […] Brant & Borden, act III, page 112:
text: Say, every time that little Jane daubed some whitewash on her little nosie, she gave that grandstand the squints.
ref: 1921 November, Fannie Hurst, “The Vertical City”, in Cosmopolitan, volume LXXI, number 5, page 37, column 2:
text: I think I will do as much for my friends as almost anyone you can find, but I won’t wipe their little nosies, take them to the little room where one goes all alone, or kiss them lovingly before [they go to bed(?)]
ref: 1925 early February (?), Thomas Wolfe, edited by Elizabeth Nowell, The Letters of Thomas Wolfe, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1956, →LCCN, page 82:
text: “And we don’t like little kiddywinks poking their little nosies in, disturbing us.”
ref: 1999, Caroline Repchuk, Claire Keene, Geoff Cowan, Kat Wootton, Candy Wallace, Spooky Stories, Parragon, published 2000, →ISBN:
text: Look how dry their poor little nosies are.
ref: 2004, Eric Garcia, Cassandra French’s Finishing School for Boys, ReganBooks, →ISBN, page 55:
glosses: A nose.
gangreen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gangreens
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of gangrene.
gangreen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gangreens
form: gangreening
form: gangreened
form: gangreened
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of gangrene.
gangreened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gangreen
gangreens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gangreen
gangreens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gangreen
gangreening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gangreen
instillings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of instilling
uninstilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + instilled.
Senses: glosses: Not instilled.
instigatress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: instigatresses
Etymology: From instigator + -ess.
Senses: synonyms: instigatrix
glosses: A female instigator.
instigatresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of instigatress
Guyu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɡuːjuː/
Etymology: From Mandarin 穀雨／谷雨 (Gǔyǔ), literally "grain rain".
Senses: glosses: The 6th solar term in East Asian calendars.
O face
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: O faces
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of o-face.
O faces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of O face
adenopolyposis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adenopolyposes
Etymology: From adeno- + polyposis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: adenomatous polyposis
allochthonously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In an allochthonous manner
allocreadiid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allocreadiids
Senses: glosses: Any trematode of the family Allocreadiidae
allocreadiids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allocreadiid
allofeeding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From allo- + feeding.
Senses: glosses: The feeding of one individual by another, typically among birds
allophonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of allophanate.
laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: laughs on the wrong side of one's mouth
form: laughing on the wrong side of one's mouth
form: laughed on the wrong side of one's mouth
form: laughed on the wrong side of one's mouth
Senses: glosses: Synonym of laugh on the other side of one's face.
synonyms: word: laugh on the other side of one's face
anisognathously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From anisognathous + -ly.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: In an anisognathous manner
anisognathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being anisognathous
anthophily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From antho- + -phily.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being anthophilous
antiandrogenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + androgenicity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being antiandrogenic
anticoincident
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + coincident.
Senses: glosses: Relating to anticoincidence
apovitellenin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apovitellenins
Etymology: From apo- + vitellenin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of avian lipoproteins
archaeome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archaeomes
Etymology: From archaea + -ome.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: All the archaea (or their descendants) in an organism
archaeomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archaeome
churn drill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: churn drills
Senses: synonyms: jumper
glosses: A drill worked by hand, not struck with a hammer.
aromotase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of aromatase.
churn drills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of churn drill
arthrobactin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular dihydroxamate siderophore related to citric acid
arylomycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arylomycins
Senses: glosses: Any of a particular class of antibiotics
ascoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ascoids
Senses: glosses: Any yeast of the family Ascoideaceae
Related terms: ascoidal
ascoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ascoid
assymetrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of asymmetrical.
attacins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attacin
attractivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attractivity
aurachin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aurachins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of antibiotics that are quinolinone derivatives
aurachins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aurachin
thowless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thowless
form: most thowless
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thewless.
autosample
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autosamples
form: autosampling
form: autosampled
form: autosampled
Etymology: From auto- + sample.
Senses: glosses: To sample automatically, typically by means of an autosampler
autosampled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of autosample
autosampled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: sampled automatically
autosampling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of autosample
autosampling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: automatic sampling
axoplasmal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of axoplasmic.
Buttigieg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbutədʒədʒ/
ipa: /ˈbutədʒʌdʒ/
ipa: /ˈbuːtɪdʒɪdʒ/
ipa: /ˈbuːtɪdʒədʒ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Maltese Buttiġieġ, see there for more.
Senses: examples: text: Buttigieg also speaks the language of the tech industry, from “data-driven” to “disruption”. Matt Hartman, a partner at Betaworks Ventures, appreciated how Buttigieg brought that data-driven mindset to municipal matters, such as the South Bend sewer system.
ref: 2019 July 30, Julia Carrie Wong, “Young, Ivy League and data-driven: why venture capitalists love Pete Buttigieg”, in The Guardian:
text: Pete Buttigieg, the U.S. transportation secretary, said that the rerouting would affect the national supply chain.
ref: 2024 March 26, Neal E. Boudette, “Automakers Are Rerouting Car Shipments Away From Baltimore”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A surname from Maltese [in turn originating as an occupation].
Park Royal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑːk ɹɔɪəl/
Senses: glosses: A mixed industrial and residential area of London in borough of Brent and borough of Ealing, Greater London.
Alycia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A rare spelling variant of Alicia.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages.
barbiturase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barbiturases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A barbiturate amidohydrolase
barotactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From baro- + -tactic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to barotaxis
basitarsomere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basitarsomeres
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of basotarsomere.
bathyphotometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bathyphotometers
Etymology: From bathy- + photometer.
Senses: glosses: A photometer designed to operate in deep water
bathyphotometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bathyphotometer
beflubutamid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A herbicide N-benzyl-2-(α,α,α,4-tetrafluoro-m-tolyloxy)butyramide
benzylpiperidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzylpiperidines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any benzyl derivative of piperidine
benzylpiperidines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benzylpiperidine
betacyanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a betacyanin
betulonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: betulonates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of betulonic acid
betulonic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular triterpenoid carboxylic acid related to betulinic acid
Related terms: betulonate
bioallethrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An ectoparasiticide related to allethrin
biodiagnosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biodiagnoses
Etymology: From bio- + diagnosis.
Senses: glosses: biochemical diagnosis
bromeliculous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That feeds on bromeliads
bromeligen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bromeligenous.
buprenorfine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of buprenorphine.
offensive and defensive alliance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: and defensive alliances
Synonyms: alliance offensive and defensive
league offensive and defensive
protective and defensive alliance
alliance for offense and defense
protection and defense alliance
protection and defiance federation
Knightsbridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnaɪts.bɹɪd͡ʒ/
Etymology: From Old English cniht (“young man”) (later interpreted as "knight") + brycg (“bridge”).
Senses: glosses: An urban area and named street to the south of Hyde Park, London (OS grid ref TQ2679).
glosses: A hamlet in Elmstone Hardwicke parish, Tewkesbury borough, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SO8926).
wellhead cost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wellhead costs
Senses: glosses: The cost of extracting oil from an oil well, excluding later factors such as tax and transportation.
wellhead costs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wellhead cost
campneoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: campneosides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of phenyl-propanoid glycosides present in Campsis chinensis
campneosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of campneoside
candlebark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candlebarks
Senses: examples: text: In the Nariel Valley there are immense and lovely candlebarks rising singly from the rich paddocks where the dairy cattle graze.
ref: 1950, Elyne Mitchell, Australian Treescapes: A Photographic Study:
text: Candlebark is best seen just south of the end of Jerrabomberra Avenue on its western side.
ref: 1968, Lindsay Dixon Pryor, Trees in Canberra, Incorporating a New Section on Woody Shrubs:
text: Shafts of sunlight poured through the tall ferns and candlebark trees that lined King Parrot Creek, along which they drove until the road opened into a beautiful green valley at Flowerdale.
ref: 2006, Alan Pilkington, Four of Diamonds: An Australian's Journey, page 195:
glosses: The eucalypt tree Eucalyptus rubida.
candlebarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of candlebark
cardiostimulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cardio- + stimulatory.
Senses: glosses: That stimulates the action of the heart
Related terms: cardiostimulator
carlactone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The lactone 3-methyl-5-{[(1Z,3E)-2-methyl-4-(2,6,6-trimethylcyclohex-1-en-1-yl)buta-1,3-dien-1-yl]oxy}furan-2(5H)-one that is a plant hormone
catecholoxidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catecholoxidases
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of catechol oxidase.
catecholoxidases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catecholoxidase
cellulosomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study of cellulosomes
Related terms: cellulosomic
cephalopodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to cephalopods
chemogradient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemogradients
Etymology: From chemo- + gradient.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A gradient in the concentration of a chemical compound
chemogradients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemogradient
chondroinducible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chondro- + inducible.
Senses: glosses: Able to undergo chondroinduction
Thamesmead
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛmzmiːd/
Etymology: From Thames + mead.
Senses: glosses: A large housing estate by the Thames in the borough of Bexley and borough of Greenwich, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ4780).
storyful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more storyful
form: most storyful
form: storiful
Etymology: From story + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: All that sort of thing is very storyful, of course, but it does not concern this account.
ref: 1923, Paradise of the Pacific, volumes 36-37, page 23:
text: […] But let us for an instant or two flit back to the storyful dawn of Greenwich Village.
ref: 1923, Robert Cortes Holliday, In the Neighborhood of Murray Hill, page 94:
text: So it will be seen again, as always, that if he now works with stone in this sense, using the new power which the machine has given him over it, he will gain a spiritual integrity and physical health to compensate him for the losses of the storyful beauties of that period, […]
ref: 1975, Frank Lloyd Wright, Andrew Devane, Frederick Albert Gutheim, In the Cause of Architecture:
text: The Purple Polly Gimbo and other storiful rhymes.
ref: 1977, Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series, page 2773:
glosses: Characteristic of a story; storylike
examples: text: Toledo, the venerable, the storyful, is bowed with the weight of centuries.
ref: 1921, The Mentor-world Traveler, volume 9, page 29:
text: The excitements of a pair of knickers, muddied on the storyful pavement, set his mind on murderous trackings.
ref: 1993, Lukáš Tomin, Ashtrays, page 29:
glosses: Abounding in stories; legendary
storyful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storiful
Etymology: From story + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Then, Frederic Oren Bartlett has a storyful of very genuine human sentiment in “The Owl Car”; […]
ref: 1908, Success Magazine and the National Post, volume 11, page 541:
text: As it is, a few comic moments intrude on a storyful of cliches.
ref: 1969, The New York Times Film Reviews, page 60:
text: Each is a storyful of stories.
ref: 2000, Border Crossings, volume 19, page 81:
glosses: A complete account or rendering
Erith
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːɹɪθ/
Senses: glosses: A riverside town in the borough of Bexley, Greater London.
polester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polesters
Etymology: From pole + -ster.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: Diminutive of polesitter.
Belvedere
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛlvədɪəɹ/
Etymology: From Italian bel vedere (“beautiful view”).
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in the borough of Bexley, Greater London, England, historically in Kent (OS grid ref TQ4978).
glosses: A western suburb of Bathgate, West Lothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9669).
glosses: A small city in Marin County, California, United States.
glosses: A populated place in Jefferson County, Ohio.
glosses: A census-designated place in Aiken County, South Carolina.
glosses: A settlement on Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands.
glosses: A locality in Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Edmonton, Alberta.
glosses: A locality in northern Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Montevideo, Uruguay.
glosses: A suburb of Harare, Zimbabwe.
Derived terms: Belvo
Belvedere
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛlvədɪəɹ/
Forms: form: Belvederes
form: Belvedering
form: Belvedered
form: Belvedered
Etymology: A reference to an urban legend about the 1980s sitcom Mr. Belvedere, in which filming was allegedly delayed after the actor playing Mr. Belvedere injured himself by sitting on his testicles.
Senses: examples: text: Great, and after that you can clean my pants up coz I just Mr. Belvedered myself. Google it.
ref: 2008, Caleb Meurer, “Red October Sky”, in American Dad:
text: Lutz? Is that even possible? I mean, I was there when he Belvedered. God, Abby, you can't be that desperate for male attention.
ref: 2011, Ron Weiner, “TGS Hates Women”, in 30 Rock, spoken by Liz Lemon (Tina Fey):
text: The rumor has two endings... that he yelled so loudly that the light above the table in the room shook or that he was carried out on a stretcher. 'Aaargh! I just Belvedered myself!'
ref: 2025 February 13, S.E. Shephard, “Getting to the Bottom of the Funniest SNL-Related Story Ever Told”, in on3:
glosses: To sit painfully on one's testicles.
cistanbuloside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A phenylethanoid glycoside present in the plant Cistanche deserticola
Baye
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bayes
Senses: glosses: A surname.
cistancinenside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A phenylethanoid glycoside present in plants of genus Cistanche.
cistanoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cistanosides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A phenylethanoid glycoside present in plants of genus Cistanche.
coadherence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From co- + adherence.
Senses: glosses: mutual adherence
collagenoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collagenomas
form: collagenomata
Etymology: From collagen + -oma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A nevus typically containing collagen
concavate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: concavates
form: concavating
form: concavated
form: concavated
Senses: glosses: To make concave
Related terms: concavation
confirmationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -eɪʃənəli
Senses: glosses: In a confirmational manner
corpeptin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corpeptins
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of lipodepsipeptides present in Pseudomonas corrugata
corpeptins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corpeptin
cytolethality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyto- + lethality.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being cytolethal
Crayford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹeɪfəd/
Etymology: From Old English Creċġanford, Creċġan ford, Creċċan ford, equivalent to Cray (River) + ford.
Senses: glosses: A town in the borough of Bexley, on the edge of Greater London (OS grid ref TQ5174).
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Crayford focuser
blisk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blisks
Etymology: From bladed + disk.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An aircraft turbine engine rotor that has integral blades.
blisks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blisk
susumber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: susumbers
form: susumba
form: sosumba
Etymology: Perhaps related to Ewe súsruba and/or sū́sùmɛ, sū́sumɛ (an aromatic soup-plant, sometimes identified as Solanum torvum or another Solanum) or Twi Akan nsúsŭaa (a kind of pot-herb; related to ǹsú (“water”)?) + mma, mbá (“offspring, young (plants, etc)”).
Senses: examples: text: The reaction of all these was alkaline from ammonia. The stomach contained a good many susumber berries, which were readily recognised by their seeds accompanying them. The mucous coat of the stomach was in its natural condition.
ref: 1868, Edinburgh Medical Journal, page 400:
text: [...], several cases are recorded by Dr. Manners, of Jamaica, W.I., of poisoning by the susumber berries, of which one proved fatal, and several others recovered, probably in consequence of the early evacuation of the stomach ...
ref: 1881, George Bacon Wood, Franklin Bache, The Dispensatory of the United States of America, page 383:
text: A small thorny bush, susumber grows in Jamaica both wild and in cultivation. It is also known as "gully bean" because of its typical sites of growth. It bears in abundance a bitter berry about one centimetre in diameter ...
ref: 2008, B. W. Higman, Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture, University of West Indies Press:
text: Five family members in New York City suffered gastrointestinal distress, dizziness, slurred speech, cranial nerve deficits, and ataxia the next morning after consumption of an evening meal containing susumber berries.
ref: 2013, T. K. Lim, Edible Medicinal And Non-Medicinal Plants: Volume 6, Fruits, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 438:
glosses: Solanum torvum, a bushy, spiny perennial plant: a wild eggplant.
examples: text: Salt Fish and Susumbers
Soak and boil the salt fish. While boiling add some young susumber berries to the fish and boil till tender. Flake and pepper the fish. Mix in seasoning and the susumbers. Serve with melted butter poured over.
ref: 1957, The Farmer's Food Manual: A Recipe Book for the West Indies, page 222:
text: These Susumbers are frequently offered for sale in the public markets, at various times of the year.
ref: 1974, Alex D. Hawkes, Wild Flowers of Jamaica, HarperCollins, page 12:
ref: 2008, B. W. Higman, Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture, University of West Indies Press, page 328:
text: There are all sorts of exotic fruits and vegetables — tamarinds, rose apples, soursops, ortaniques, jackfruit, callaloo, yampies, tannias, susumbers. Try Bombay mango in coconut cream for dessert.
... curried saltfish, saltfish and susumbers (described in chapter 5), shredded saltfish (fried in lard with scallion, tomatoes and pepper) and saltfish patties ...
ref: 1974, Pan Am's world guide: the encyclopedia of travel, →ISBN, page 927:
text: Susumber (Gully Beans)
- 2 cups susumbers
- 3 cups water
[…]
ref: 2012, Enid Clarke Watson, Enid's Homestyle Authentic Jamaican Cuisine, →ISBN, page 91:
glosses: The edible, though sometimes poisonous, fruit (berry / bean) of this plant.
Synonyms: wild eggplant
susumba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Suddenly, as they cleared the last house at the end of the street, Henry stopped, cocked his head inquisitively, and pointed towards the stream and the susumba tree under which we had left the wagon.
ref: 1962, John Hearne, Land of the Living, page 45:
text: "You could help me collect the susumba, berries or no. Would you like to?"
ref: 1998, Andrew Salkey, In the border country and other stories, Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications, →ISBN, page 231:
glosses: Alternative form of susumber.
susumbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of susumber
playgan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playgans
Etymology: Blend of play + pagan
Senses: glosses: A person whose interest in paganism is shallow and lacking seriousness.
playgans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of playgan
martials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Martials
Senses: glosses: plural of martial
sosumba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Sosumba. Solanum torvum Sw. For diarrhoea grate and boil the root. For a cold make a tea of the leaves. (White) The fruit makes a favorite breakfast dish cooked with codfish in place of akee fruit.
ref: 1922, Publications of the Folk-Lore Foundation, page 27:
text: Salt cod cooked with the fruit of the Ackee or with its substitute, the Sosumba berry, is a favorite breakfast dish even upon the tables of the whites.
ref: 1927, Martha Warren Beckwith, Notes on Jamaican Ethnobotany:
text: My friends would come from de States and say, 'Dey don't work sciences abroad.' But in Haiti dey use dis ting called sosumba to work science. And in Jamaica we eat sosumba! Dey call it gully beans. It grows out on a tree, ...
ref: 2006, Debbie Smoker, Adventures of Coconut Woman, →ISBN, page 119:
glosses: Alternative form of susumber.
gully bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gully beans
Etymology: So called because the bushes grow wild, especially in gullies, and the bean-like fruits are used to season certain foods.
Senses: examples: text: Preserves here featured a number of products in brine, namely gully beans, corn, carrot and breadfruit. Other exhibits here included pineapple, cucumber, pickle, castor oil, banana, vinegar, pepper pot soup in bottles.
ref: 1977, Farmer:
text: They go up into the hills to pick gully beans, up into deep green spicy woods with the sun hot in dappled patches on the men's glistening backs, with strange birds screeching and goats neighing loudly in the afternoon air.
ref: 2008, Jane Covernton, Cutlass Time, →ISBN, page 187:
text: “Steam fish, bananas, dumplings, gully beans and okra.” “You cooked that kind of food on a Sunday? Was I so fast asleep that you couldn't wake me up and ask me what I wanted? Gully beans, what's that?” “Susumber, it's good to cook with ...”
ref: 2016, Austin Mitchell, Uptown Lovers, →ISBN:
glosses: A fruit of a wild eggplant or susumber plant (Solanum torvum).
gully beans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gully bean
Green Street Green
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹiːn stɹiːt ɡɹiːn/
Etymology: In Greater London, first recorded as La Grenestrete c1290 (a green or grassy hamlet), compare with Middle English grene + strete. The 2nd green (meaning village green) was added by 1819.
Senses: glosses: A village in the borough of Bromley, on the outskirts of Greater London, historically in Kent (OS grid ref TQ4563).
glosses: A hamlet in Darenth parish, Dartford borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ5870).
Related terms: Green Street
wild eggplant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wild eggplants
Senses: examples: text: It feeds normally on the so called wild eggplant, Solanum torvum, and it is on this plant that it is able to survive during the intervals between crops, [...]
ref: 1917, R. T. Cotton, “The eggplant Lace-Bug in Porto Rico”, in Economic Entomology: Pamphlets, page 23:
text: the characteristic Verticillium fungus of eggplants being obtained from the following: Bonny Best tomato (Lycopersicum esculentum Mill.), [...] Solanum carolinense L., S. rostratum Dunal., S. integrifolium Poir., S. torvum (wild eggplant from Porto Rico), S. eleagnifolium Cav., S. marginatum Linn., and S. pyraconthum Jacq.
ref: 1918, I. C. Jagger, V. B. Stewart, “Some Verticillium Diseases”, in Phytopathology, page 18:
text: Incidentally, it might be well also to destroy all wild eggplants, Solanum torvum, near commercial plantings, for numerous other insect pests, as well as the lacewing bug, occur on both hosts.
ref: 1933, George Norton Wolcott, An Economic Entomology of the West Indies:
text: […]
2 cups coconut milk
1/4 cup small to medium-size prawns, shelled
Salt
1 cup wild eggplant (terung pipit or Solanum torvum)
2 red chillies
1/2 cup grated coconut, roasted
[…]
ref: 2009, Coconut recipes from around the world, Bioversity International, →ISBN, page 225:
text: A wild eggplant (Solanum torvum) derived StoVe1 gene resulted in enhanced resistance to Verticillium dahliae infection (Liu et al., 2012).
ref: 2016, Muhammad Sarwar Khan, Iqrar Ahmad Khan, Debmalya Barh, Applied Molecular Biotechnology: The Next Generation of Genetic Engineering, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 70:
glosses: A turkey berry bush (Solanum torvum), or its edible fruit.
examples: text: From China, eggplant may have migrated to Japan, where it was one of the five most important vegetables. Another hypothesis holds that the people of India were the first to eat eggplant. Indians may have gathered wild eggplant around the time of Christ. Having originated in India, according to this hypothesis, eggplant migrated to China and then to Arabia in the fourth century CE.
ref: 2013, Christopher Martin Cumo, Encyclopedia of Cultivated Plants: From Acacia to Zinnia [3 volumes]: From Acacia to Zinnia, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 387:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wild, eggplant. (Wild/undomesticated Solanum melongena.)
Synonyms: gully bean
turkey berry
susumber
pea eggplant
terung pipit
wild eggplants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wild eggplant
burgraf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burgrafs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of burgrave.
burgrafs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burgraf
pea eggplant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pea eggplants
Senses: examples: text: The pea eggplants impart a delicious bitterness to the relish. Occasionally these eggplants are grilled before being added, altering their taste and making them wonderfully nutty.
ref: 2002, David Thompson, Thai Food, Random House Digital, Inc., →ISBN, page 195:
text: Fruits of the pea eggplant are mostly collected from the wild. In cultivation some care is required, [...] but pea eggplant is a very sturdy crop that grows without much care.
ref: 2004, G. J. H. Grubben, Vegetables, PROTA, →ISBN, page 503:
glosses: A wild eggplant, of species Solanum torvum, or its fruit (susumber or turkey berries).
pea eggplants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pea eggplant
coastguard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coastguards
Etymology: From coast + guard.
Senses: examples: text: More than 40,000 would-be migrants to Europe have been intercepted at sea since Italy began paying and equipping the Libyan coastguard to do so in 2017.
ref: 2020 February 13, Roland Oliphant, “'I have lost four years of my life': the desperate migrants stuck in squalid Libyan camps”, in The Telegraph, archived from the original on 08 Jul 2025:
glosses: Alternative spelling of coast guard.
Derived terms: coastguarding
coastguardman
coastguardsman
coastguardswoman
chair organ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chair organs
Etymology: By corruption from choir organ.
Senses: glosses: choir organ
chair organs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chair organ
boss button
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boss buttons
Senses: glosses: Synonym of boss key.
synonyms: word: boss key
boss buttons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boss button
Biggin Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪɡɪn hɪl/
Senses: glosses: A built-up area and airport in the borough of Bromley, on the edge of Greater London; originally in Kent.
wikipedia: London + Airport
Big Three
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -iː
Forms: form: the Big Three
form: big three
Senses: synonyms: Grand Alliance
qualifier: World War II
glosses: The World War II military alliance consisting of the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
synonyms: Grand Alliance
qualifier: World War II
glosses: The World War II military alliance consisting of the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
The leaders of that alliance: Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill.
glosses: Any group of three major or largest corporations in a given industry, especially when such a small group has oligopoly or near-oligopoly; as:
The three major traditional commercial broadcast television networks in the United States: CBS (the Columbia Broadcasting System), NBC (the National Broadcasting Company), and ABC (the American Broadcasting Company)
glosses: Any group of three major or largest corporations in a given industry, especially when such a small group has oligopoly or near-oligopoly; as:
During the mid- to late twentieth century, the three biggest automaker corporations in North America: General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler.
glosses: Any group of three major or largest corporations in a given industry, especially when such a small group has oligopoly or near-oligopoly; as:
A trio of three major management consultancies: McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group, and Bain & Company.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: China, Japan, and Korea, three major Asian economies.
examples: text: The Squat, Deadlift, and Bench Press are widely accepted to be the ‘Big Three’ powerlifting exercises by strength and conditioning experts.
ref: 2021 July 9, Sakdirat Kaewunruen, Junhui Huang, Jordan Haslam, “Insights into noise and vibration stemming from the gym’s heavy lifting”, in Sport Sciences for Health, volume 18, →DOI, pages 277–286:
topics: exercise
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The deadlift, squat and benchpress.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, and Rafael Nadal, each considered to be among the greatest tennis players of all time.
Coordinate terms: Big One
big one
big two
Big Four
big five
big six
big eight
Related terms: Big Business
big business
Holy Trinity
holy trinity
univs.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of univ.
blackmarkets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blackmarket
superfascist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superfascist
form: most superfascist
Etymology: From super- + fascist.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to superfascism.
superfascist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superfascists
Etymology: From super- + fascist.
Senses: glosses: An advocate for superfascism.
examples: text: Evola then declared that he was not a Fascist but a ‘superfascist’. It is unclear whether this meant that Evola was placing himself above or beyond Fascism.
ref: 2016 November 2, Elisabetta Cassina Wolff, “Evola's interpretation of fascism and moral responsibility”, in Patterns of Prejudice, volume 50, numbers 4–5, Informa Uk Limited, →DOI, →ISSN, page 491:
glosses: A person who is above or beyond fascism.
para-fascism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpæɹəˈfæʃɪz(ə)m/
ipa: /ˌpɛɹəˈfæʃˌɪzəm/
Forms: form: parafascism
form: para-Fascism
Etymology: From para- (prefix meaning ‘alongside, beside’) + fascism.
Senses: examples: text: Portugal, Austria, Greece, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, the Baltic States, all provide examples of this Ersatz fascism, or what might be termed 'para-fascism'.
ref: 1996, Gunter Berghaus, Günter Berghaus, Fascism and Theatre: Comparative Studies on the Aesthetics and Politics of Performance in Europe, 1925-1945, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 19:
text: It is perhaps too early to say how Spanish para-fascism differed from (national-) Catholicism in its treatment of the foreign.
ref: 2010 October 27, C. Rundle, K. Sturge, Translation Under Fascism, Springer, →ISBN, page 113:
topics: fascism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
synonyms: pseudo-fascism
semi-fascism
glosses: A social order giving off impressions of being dynamically fascist and populist, but trying to abstain from its most radical practices.
Derived terms: para-fascist
wks.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wk.
Coulsdon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkuːlzdən/
Senses: glosses: A town mainly in the borough of Croydon, on the edge of Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2959).
Related terms: Old Coulsdon
Revisionist Maximalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Revisionist maximalism
Senses: topics: fascism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: A short-lived Jewish fascist movement.
Catford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkætfəd/
Forms: form: Catfords
Senses: examples: text: ‘My grandma lived in Catford. I spent a lot of time there growing up.’
ref: 2021, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water, Viking, page 40:
glosses: A suburban town in the borough of Lewisham, Greater London, England.
glosses: A habitational surname.
corynexochid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corynexochids
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Any trilobite of the order Corynexochida.
lumpenintelligentsia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lumpen-intelligentsia
Senses: glosses: The lowest stratum of the intelligentsia, sometimes associated with informal education.
FASD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FASDs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.
Related terms: FAS
battleworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From battle + works.
Senses: examples: text: Hearst had his little fingers on Mrs Tovey's ample waist, on what felt through the silk like an ironclad's battleworks.
ref: 1961, William Sansom, The last hours of Sandra Lee, page 195:
text: The horizon of heaven is felt as a metal battleworks deflecting the arrows of prayer that are sent to soar as pleas for some castle-master's help for forgiveness: My prayer must meet a brazen heaven And fail and scatter all away.
ref: 1996, David Anthony Downes, Hopkins' achieved self, page 156:
text: "I know what's inside the battleworks," she said. "The biggest, harshest weapons in existence, I know. ..."
ref: 2014, Robert Reed, The Memory of Sky, →ISBN:
glosses: Protective infrastructure erected to protect weapons and soldiers during battle.
permafree
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From perma- + free.
Senses: glosses: free of charge in perpetuity (as opposed to being free as part of a temporary giveaway)
wood dirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The refuse or debris produced from cutting or dressing timber.
pitchpipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pitchpipe
Mexican bush sage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mexican bush sages
Senses: glosses: A shrubby sage native to central and eastern Mexico, Salvia leucantha, grown in subtropical, dry climates for its ornamental flower stems covered in bright blue or purple velvety hairs, and for its relative drought tolerance.
Mexican bush sages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mexican bush sage
seatposts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seatpost
white sage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white sages
Senses: synonyms: bee sage
Californian white sage
sacred sage
glosses: Salvia apiana, a sage native to southern California and neighboring Baja California west of the desert, an important nectar source for sage honey.
white sages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white sage
orthogonals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthogonal
Belainsky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Belainsky, from Polish Bielański.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.; Synonym of Belansky.
decortification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of decortication.
dematomyositis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of dermatomyositis.
Belansky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Polish Bielański.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Related terms: Belainsky
Beland
dememorisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dememorisation
deprotonization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deprotonizations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deprotonation.
deprotonize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deprotonizes
form: deprotonizing
form: deprotonized
form: deprotonized
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deprotonate.
deprotonized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deprotonize
dexedrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dexedrines
form: Dexedrine
Etymology: Brand name.
Senses: examples: text: I drank gin-and-hot-water to blunt the pain and took Dexedrine to blunt the gin and wrote the piece.
ref: 1968, Joan Didion, “A preface”, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem:
text: […]—and then all soaring on—what?—acid, peyote, morning-glory seeds, which were very hell to choke down, billions of bilious seeds mulching out into sodden dandelions in your belly, bloated—but soaring!—or IT-290, or dexedrine, benzedrine, methedrine— Speed!—or speed and grass—[…]
ref: 1968, Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Bantam, published 1997, →ISBN, page 53:
text: Later I learned that the pills were Dexedrine, which Elvis had first discovered in the Army. A sergeant had given several men pills to help them stay awake while on guard duty.
ref: 1985, Priscilla Presley, Sandra Harmon, Elvis and Me, Putnam, →ISBN, page 52:
glosses: A brand name for dextroamphetamine.
Derived terms: dexy
Filles du Roy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: King's Daughters
form: Filles du Roi
Etymology: From Middle French Filles du Roy.
Senses: examples: text: Considered from our own historical vantage-point, the lot of the Filles du Roy certainly seems to have been less than enviable.
ref: 1971, The cultural tradition of Canadian women: the historical background:
text: The Filles du roy were sent out from France to assure that the men would stay on the land.
ref: 1981 Spring-Summer, Louise H. Forsyth, “The radical transformation of the mother-daughter relationship in some women writers of Quebec”, in Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, volume 6, number 1/2:
text: According to him, the role of women as mothers, particularly as a result of the "Filles du Roy" influx in the late 1660s and of exogamous marriages, provides the main explanation for the phenomenon.
ref: 1991, The Canadian Modern Language Review - Volume 48, page 349:
text: This rereading of history involves few male characters; Marie Rollet (wife of Louis Hébert and, with him, founder of the first French family in New France), the "Filles du Roy" (young women, mostly poor or orphaned, sent by the king of France by boatloads to marry the settlers in the new colony), the chambermaids who worked for the wealthy families of the Grande-Allée — in other words, the mothers and daughters of the past — are at the forefront of Flora's quest.
ref: 2001, Janis L. Pallister, The Art and Genius of Anne Hébert: Essays on Her Works, →ISBN, page 92:
glosses: A non-religious program composed of orphaned girls of France shipped to New France to populate French North America with Frenchmen, by providing wives to the bachelor colonial French traders.
dihalomethane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dihalomethanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound of general formula CH₂X₂ (where X = a halogen), such as methylene chloride
dihalomethanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dihalomethane
Filles du Roi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Filles du Roi.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Filles du Roy.
diprenylate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: diprenylates
form: diprenylating
form: diprenylated
form: diprenylated
Etymology: From di- + prenylate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: To modify by the addition of two isoprenyl groups
diprenylated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of diprenylate
disseminability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being disseminable
King's Daughters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From king + daughter.
From Calque of French Filles du Roi and Calque of Middle French Filles du Roy.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Filles du Roy.
synonyms: word: Filles du Roy
ditaurate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ditaurates
Etymology: From di- + taurate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound that contains two taurate groups or ions
dorsoanteriorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dorsoanteriorizes
form: dorsoanteriorizing
form: dorsoanteriorized
form: dorsoanteriorized
Etymology: From dorso- + anteriorize.
Senses: glosses: To convert or move to a dorsoanterior form or position
dorsoanteriorized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dorsoanteriorize
dorsorostrally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From dorso- + rostrally.
Senses: glosses: In a dorsorostral manner or direction
dorvelleid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of dorvilleid.
downturning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of downturn