cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
autocolonial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + colonial.
Senses: examples: text: It tends to reject the monologue of either autocolonial, assimilationist, English-only verse or the monologue of nationalist Spanish-only verse.
ref: 1994, Alfred Arteaga, An Other Tongue:
text: Psychologically, he symbolizes the problem of adolescence that strives to express and define itself in an adult world that discourages originality; politically, he refuses to be appropriated by dominant autocolonial discourse […]
ref: 2005, Ann González, Sí Pero No, page 64:
text: Its modern conception as a boundary separating the cultivated from the wild is a palimpsest; below this persists the remaindered reality of a porous zone that challenges colonial or autocolonial demarcation.
ref: 2013, Anat Pick, Guinevere Narraway, Screening Nature: Cinema beyond the Human, page 94:
text: In part, Siam avoided external rule by proffering and employing autocolonial practices to demonstrate its siwilai (civilized) status (Winichakul 1994, 2000, 2010).
ref: 2019, Catherine G. Valentine, Mary Nell Trautner, Joan Z. Spade, The Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns, and Possibilities:
glosses: Involving only the culture of a colonizing force; reflecting complete assimilation.
autocolonial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From autocolony + -al.
Senses: examples: text: This may be because the formation of autocolonies within the mother cell wall is a considerable advance over the condition of free-lying spherical cells, and because along with the development of this autocolonial habit there has gone almost necessarily an axial differentiation of the individual cells.
ref: 1914, Gilbert Morgan Smith, The Organization of the Colony in Certain Four-celled Coenobic Algae, page 1175:
text: Single-chambered globular forms with attachment scars, in the Late Ordovician Maysville Group of Kentucky, are most likely referrable to Sorosphaera tricella Moreman, 1930 inasmuch as such specimens occur with autocolonial specimens of S. tricella.
ref: 1981, James Elvin Conkin, Barbara M. Conkin, Early Mississippian (Kinderhookian) Smaller Foraminifera from the McCraney Limestone of Missouri and Illinois, page 12:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to an autocolony.
Stankovics
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Stankovic
Naypyitaw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Naypyidaw.
Stoltman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stoltmans
Etymology: Variant of German Stoltmann.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Snarski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Snarskis
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Snarski.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Snarskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Snarski
Stoltmans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Stoltman
dark tourist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dark tourists
Senses: examples: text: Dark tourists have been drawn to San Fernando in the Philippines, where every Good Friday people volunteer to be nailed to a cross.
ref: 2022 October 28, Maria Cramer, “Beaches? Cruises? ‘Dark’ Tourists Prefer the Gloomy and Macabre”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: One who takes part in dark tourism.
dark tourists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dark tourist
Sabree
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sabrees
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Rupnow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rupnows
Etymology: Borrowed from German Rupnow.
Senses: examples: text: Proceeding by way of the deck to the roof of the garage, the visitor finds "Table of Dreams," by Ronald Street, and "XYZ Axis VI," by Michiko Rupnow.
ref: 1991 August 25, Vivien Raynor, “ART; Silence Reigns in a Sculpture Garden With an Air of Mystery”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A surname from German.
Rupnows
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rupnow
Sunray
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Stephens County, Oklahoma, United States. Synonym: Beckett.
glosses: A city in Moore County, Texas, United States, named after the Sunray Oil Company (later Sunoco).
Sabrees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sabree
Rowson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹəʊ.sən/
ipa: /ˈɹoʊ.sən/
ipa: /ˈɹaʊ.sən/
rhymes: -əʊsən
Forms: form: Rowsons
Etymology: Patronymic from Rowe + -son.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
rabbies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rabbi
Rostad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rostads
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian Røstad.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Norwegian.
Rostads
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rostad
Rowsons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rowson
jocks off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jock off
jocked off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jock off
jocking off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jock off
Shorr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shorrs
Etymology: Variant of Shor.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Schmitter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schmitters
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schmitter.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: schmitterite
ragee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ragi (“finger millet”).
Schmitters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Schmitter
Shorrs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Shorr
Kennedys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kennedy
Staveleys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Staveley
ragtags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ragtag
McKeller
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McKellers
Etymology: Variant of McKellar.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Schauses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Schaus
McKellers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McKeller
ragini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raginis
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The feminine counterpart of a raga in Indian music.
raginis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ragini
theame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theames
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of theme.
corsetière
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corsetières
Senses: examples: text: The woman had been in a hospital and upon her recovery was advised that she should wear a corset, whereupon a corsetière was sent for and she was fitted in the hospital.
ref: 1921, United States Economist, and Dry Goods Reporter, volume 75, page 16, column 2:
text: It was whispered that he was thinking of importing a corsetière. Imagine—a corsetière!
ref: 1924, Grace King, La Dame de Sainte Hermine, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, page 265:
text: A corsetière in a department store, who has made a study of corset requirements for many years, has been amazed at the general slowness to consider the figure seriously.
ref: 1926, Ladies’ Home Journal, volume 43, page 70:
text: In 1900 Mme Gaches-Sarraute, of Paris, a corsetière who had studied medicine, designed a new corset to remedy this.
ref: 1954, Norah Waugh, Corsets and Crinolines, London: B. T. Batsford Ltd, page 85:
text: A lady reporter sent to interview her (she had since become a corsetière and proud of her figure) was satisfied as to the truth of the story, and convinced the editor accordingly.
ref: 2004, David Kunzle, Fashion and Fetishism: Corsets, Tight-Lacing and Other Forms of Body-Sculpture, Stroud, Glos: The History Press, published 2013, →ISBN:
text: In 1900, Madame Inez Gâches-Sarraute, a corsetière who also had a degree in medicine, invented the “straight-front” or “hygienic” corset.
ref: 2009, Christine Bayles Kortsch, “Fashioning Women: The Victorian Corset”, in Dress Culture in Late Victorian Women's Fiction: Literacy, Textiles, and Activism, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2016, →ISBN, page 69:
text: She set herself up as a corsetière, making and selling stays and corsets from her shop in Tacket Street.
ref: 2014, Rachel Field, The Ipswich Book of Days, Stroud, Glos: The History Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of corsetiere.
theames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of theame
raggery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If they're of a proper cut, just the boys for the ladies, we rig them out in raggery, shell out the needful, get the marriage articles drawn out […]
ref: 1830, John Gideon Millingen, Adventures of an Irish Gentleman, page 261:
text: It was clothed in majestic raggery.
ref: 1888, The Archivist, volumes 1-5:
glosses: Rags; ragged clothing.
Related terms: tag-raggery
tamid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew תָמִיד (“always, regularly”).
Senses: examples: text: The tamid offering is to be financed by all the people, not merely by the leaders or by the rich.
ref: 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 930:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The twice-daily sacrifice of two male lambs by the priesthood.
Charles de Gaulle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: I flew into Charles de Gaulle when I visited Paris.
glosses: Ellipsis of Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport.
takkanah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɑkəˈnɑː/
ipa: /tɑkɑˈnɑː/
note: Ashkenazi
ipa: /tʌˈkɔnə/
Forms: form: takkanot
form: takanah
form: takannah
form: taqqanah
form: takkannah
form: takone
form: takoneh
form: takkoneh
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew תַּקָּנָה.
Senses: examples: text: According to a takkanah (enactment) of the chief rabbinate of Palestine in 1943, in Israel daughters inherit on an equal footing with sons.
ref: 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 926:
text: As time went on, various Jewish communities enacted various takkanot regarding whether Bar Mitzvah boys could read from the Torah and regarding whether the Aliyah of a Bar Mitzvah boy takes precedence over the Aliyah of a bridegroom or the father of a newborn child.
ref: 2021, David Golinkin, “What is the Origin and History of the Bar Mitzvah Ceremony”, in Anat Helman, editor, No Small Matter Features of Jewish Childhood:
glosses: A law created by the rabbis not derived from Biblical commandments.
ranpike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ranpikes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rampike.
ranpikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ranpike
ramular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a ramulus.
Powderhorn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Gunnison County, Colorado, United States.
glosses: A community in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
Massachussetts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Massachusetts.
ratheripe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ratheripes
Senses: glosses: A variety of apple that ripens early.
ratheripes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ratheripe
raying rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raying room
reaedify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reaedifies
form: reaedifying
form: reaedified
form: reaedified
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of reedify.
reaedified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reaedify
reaedifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reaedify
reaedifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reaedify
rebutment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rebutments
Etymology: From rebut + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: That that statement of Mr. Furness is wholly and totally untrue, and I think that my votes afterwards are the best rebutments of the statement he has entered into.
ref: 1868, Metropolitan Board of Works (London, England), Minutes of Proceedings of the Metropolitan Board of Works (page 279)
glosses: rebuttal
rebutments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rebutment
rediscountable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rediscount + -able.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Able to be rediscounted.
rednecked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From red + necked.
Senses: glosses: Used to describe various creatures with red necks.
Derived terms: rednecked cane borer
rednecked grebe
rednecked phalarope
rednecked peanutworm
rednecked wallaby
snow-eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of snow goggles.
synonyms: word: snow goggles
snow goggles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: snow-eyes
glosses: Traditional eyewear used to prevent snow blindness, often formed of a piece of driftwood or bone into which one or two horizontal slits have been carved
Cloughfold
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in Rossendale borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD8222).
reeched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reech
reeching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reech
regicidally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From regicidal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a regicidal manner.
remanencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remanency
Kernighan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kernighans
Etymology: Variant of Kernaghan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Derived terms: K&R
Kernighan-Lin algorithm
Lin-Kernighan heuristic
Neech
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Neeches
Senses: glosses: A surname.
reblaze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reblazes
form: reblazing
form: reblazed
form: reblazed
Etymology: From re- + blaze.
Senses: glosses: To blaze again or anew.
reblazed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reblaze
reblazes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reblaze
reblazing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reblaze
reblendings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reblending
rekern
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rekerns
form: rekerning
form: rekerned
form: rekerned
Etymology: From re- + kern.
Senses: examples: text: Illustrator tends to treat a line of text as an object, so changing a word at the end of a line can often result in a great deal of hand-manipulation to rekern the type or move a word onto the next line.
ref: 1996, Bruce Page, Diana Holm, Web Publishing with Adobe Acrobat and PDF, page 227:
text: Here the original drawing is shown in grey and the infilled tracing in black. The lettering can be further refined and, unlike ink-based artwork, can be rekerned without being redrawn.
ref: 2011, Andrew Haslam, Lettering: A Reference Manual of Techniques:
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: To kern again.
rekerns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rekern
rekerned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rekern
rekerning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rekern
nonvarietal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + varietal.
Senses: glosses: Not varietal.
renforst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of renforce
renforced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of renforce
renforcing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of renforce
West Grey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Grey County, Ontario, Canada.
remueur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remueurs
Etymology: From French [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A worker who turns wine bottles to facilitate remuage.
remueurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remueur
reshone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reshine
airport system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airport systems
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A collection of airports, heliports or other aviation facilities that serve a particular location.
responsers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of responser
airport systems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airport system
retracker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retrackers
Senses: examples: text: These retracking functions cover a much wider range of possible waveform shapes than the Brown model. A few studies concluded that the ICE1 retracker performs with sufficient accuracy over inland waters […]
ref: 2015, Jeffrey T. Freymueller, Laura Sánchez, International Symposium on Earth and Environmental Sciences for Future Generations: Proceedings of the IAG General Assembly, Prague, Czech Republic, June 22-July 2, 2015, page 352:
glosses: An algorithm for retracking.
retrackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retracker
rhaphis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhaphides
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of raphide.
Nässjö
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality in the county of Jönköping, Sweden.
rhodanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rhodanizes
form: rhodanizing
form: rhodanized
form: rhodanized
Senses: examples: text: Department stores are offering to Rhodanize the family silver for a nominal fee. This means applying a thin coating of rhodium electrolytically, which prevents tarnishing.
ref: 1935 February 9, “New products”, in Business Week, number 284, New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, page 29:
glosses: To coat (silverware) with a thin rhodium layer to prevent tarnishing.
rhodanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rhodanize
rhodanizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rhodanize
rhodanizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rhodanize
rifty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rifty
form: most rifty
Etymology: From rift + -y.
Senses: examples: text: If the stone is very rifty the axe will work best on the quarry bed; because in the axe working on the quarry face, where the stone is solid, it will show a smooth service, but in the rifty places it will show roughness and the defect in the stone.
ref: 1862, United States. Court of Claims, Reports from the Court of Claims, page 597:
glosses: Full of rifts or fissures.
koala fuckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of koala fucker
roaching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of roach
unroached
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + roached.
Senses: glosses: Not roached.
roary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more roary
form: most roary
Etymology: From roar + -y.
Senses: examples: text: “What are you doing on my island?” the lion shouted in a roary kind of voice.
ref: 2019, Manon Massari, Lucy's Dreams, page 15:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a roaring sound.
roarless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From roar + -less.
Senses: examples: text: It is not surprising, therefore, that most children choose the flying monkey in preference to the roarless lion as their theme for imaginative story writing.
ref: 1967, Ellis Paul Torrance, Understanding the Fourth Grade Slump in Creative Thinking, page 69:
glosses: Without a roar.
AAG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AAGs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of assistant adjutant general.
AAH
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of aquatic ape hypothesis.
AAJ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AAJs
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of atlantoaxial joint.
AAN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AANs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Australian Approved Name.
AAQ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AAQs
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of acceptance and action questionnaire.
Ayutthaya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Thai อยุธยา (à-yút-tá-yaa), derived from Sanskrit अयोध्या (ayodhyā, “Ayodhya, the unconquerable citadel”).
Senses: glosses: Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya (the capital of Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Province, Thailand).
glosses: the Kingdom of Ayutthaya, one of the precursor states of the Kingdom of Thailand.
AAX
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Isoprenylation is followed by cleavage of the AAX amino acid residues and, in some cases, by additional proteolytic cuts.
ref: 2013, Edward E Pryor Jr, Peter S Horanyi, Kathleen M Clark, Nadia Fedoriw, Sara M Connelly, Mary Koszelak-Rosenblum, Guangyu Zhu, Michael G Malkowski, Michael C Wiener, Mark E Dumont, “Structure of the integral membrane protein CAAX protease Ste24p”, in Holden Thorp, editor, Science, volume 339, number 6127, American Association for the Advancement of Science, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 1600–1604:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An amino acid that includes a side chain X.
examples: text: AAX is the only plug-in format supported in Pro Tools 11 and later. AAX plug-ins are not currently supported in any other (non-Avid) DAW,
ref: 2020, Zac Changnon, Audio Production Basics with Reason Software, page 41:
glosses: A plug-in format available for some DAWs.
AAY
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of American aster yellows.
AAZ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of arc attachment zone.
equidifference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equidifferences
Etymology: From equi- + difference.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An equal difference.
Related terms: equidifferent
equidifferences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equidifference
rockabying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rockabye
rolamite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹəʊləˌmaɪt/
Forms: form: rolamites
Senses: examples: text: 1969, National Heart Institute (U.S.), Artificial Heart Program Conference
This unit is made up of a rotary torque motor, a rolamite to linear translation mechanism and a metal bellows as a fluid pump.
text: Thus, many such things as virtually frictionless bearings, switches, valves, etc. can be constructed from rolamites.
ref: 1973, Eldon A. Byrd, How Things Work, page 74:
glosses: A simple machine consisting of a stressed metal band and counter-rotating rollers within an enclosure, used in low-friction bearings etc.
rolamites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rolamite
ABY
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Initialism of Archbishop of York.
Romeldale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Romeldales
Senses: hyponyms: CVM
glosses: A breed of domestic sheep native to the United States, produced by crossing Romney rams and Rambouillet ewes.
Romeldales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Romeldale
CVM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CVMs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of California variegated mutant (“a rare subtype of Romeldale sheep having unusual coloration”).
CVMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CVM
rookish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rookish
form: most rookish
Etymology: From rook + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: In black taffeta she gazes rigidly at the camera with a rookish head-tilt.
ref: 2022, William Atkins, Exiles: Three Island Journeys:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a rook (bird).
bascart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bă′-skärt
ipa: /ˈbæskɑɹt/
Forms: form: bascarts
Etymology: Blend of basket + cart
Senses: glosses: A shopping cart or trolley.
rosebowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rosebowls
Etymology: From rose + bowl.
Senses: examples: text: Her blood had also splashed across the breakfast room to the left of the stairs: onto a rosebowl, the children's encyclopaedia that lay on the piano, the pictures and portraits.
ref: 2018, Laura Thompson, A Different Class of Murder: The Story of Lord Lucan:
text: As such pets are of invaluable help to children, and they should never be discouraged from having some sort of pet—be it a goldfish in a rosebowl, or a baby panda in the backyard, depending of course on your means and the facilities available.
ref: 1982, J. Maurus, A Woman's Guide to a Happy Home, page 81:
glosses: An often ornamental transparent bowl for the display of flowers.
rosebowls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rosebowl
rosying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rosy
rownds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rownd
rownds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rownd
rownded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rownd
rownding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rownd
3LOD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of three lines of defence, a risk management model.
sherms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sherm
ACJ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ACJs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of acromioclavicular joint.
rubace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rubasse (“form of quartz”).
ruboffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ruboff
rub-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rub-offs
Etymology: Deverbal from rub off.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ruboff.
rub-offs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rub-off
runflat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: However, the near future should bring runflat tire technology to the aftermarket.
ref: Dennis Parks, How to Build a Hot Rod Model A Ford (page 35)
glosses: Alternative form of run-flat.
runflat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: runflats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of run-flat.
ACN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of acrylonitrile.
glosses: Archaeological Computing Newsletter
ACR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ACRs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: PCR
glosses: Initialism of albumin/creatinine ratio.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of automatic circuit recloser.
ACR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: climate change
glosses: Initialism of American Carbon Registry.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Initialism of A Certain Ratio.
glosses: Initialism of Alien Certificate of Registration.
'aqida
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 'aqa'id
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic عَقِيدَة (ʕaqīda).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Religious views.
archiestrogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archiestrogen
archiestrogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archiestrogens
Etymology: From archi- + estrogen.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A naturally occurring estrogen mimic.
leccinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: referring to a group of fungi that includes Leccinellum, Leccinum, Spongiforma, and Retiboletus griseus.
xuanhuan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʃ(j)ɑːnˈhwɑːn/
/ˈʃ(j)ɛnˈhwɑːn/
Etymology: From Chinese 玄幻 with pinyin xuánhuàn.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: A genre of fiction that mixes Chinese folklore with modern elements.
N-methylleucine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From N- + methyl + leucine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound derived from leucine by adding a methyl group to its nitrogen atom.
N-methylvaline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From N- + methyl + valine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound derived from valine by adding a methyl group to its nitrogen atom.
N-methylphenylalanine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From N- + methyl + phenylalanine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound derived from phenylalanine by adding a methyl group to its nitrogen atom.
flipperlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flipperling
snubbiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From snubby + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being snubby.
snuffiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of snuffy: most snuffy
snuffier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of snuffy: more snuffy
snuffily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more snuffily
form: most snuffily
Etymology: From snuffy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a snuffy manner.
solfeges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solfege
somatisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of somatism
sonnetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sonnet
sonnetted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sonnet
sopranini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sopranino
wokelings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wokeling
sovrans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sovran
gothlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gothling
sowsse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sowsses
form: sowssing
form: sowssed
form: sowssed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of souse.
sowsse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sowsses
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of souse.
sowssed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sowsse
sowsses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sowsse
sowsses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sowsse
sowssing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sowsse
Goslings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gosling
spadillio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: Obsolete form of spadille.
spanglets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spanglet
paradoxlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paradoxling
jackyards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jackyard
sphaeres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sphaere
horselet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horselets
Etymology: From horse + -let.
Senses: examples: text: As for the Entrails of Hogs, and eſpecially the Horſelet, which Publius Syrus preferred before all Meats, I find them to be ſtopping, and of bad Nouriſhment;
ref: 1746, Thomas Moffett, corrected and enlarged by Christopher Bennet, Health’s Improvement: or, Rules Comprizing and Discovering the Nature, Method and Manner of Preparing All Sorts of Foods Used in This Nation, London: […] T. Osborne, page 151:
text: The crowd of merry-makers who left the Palace tired and happy after pantomime and tea, contained a few pale young journalists, as tired and not less happy, who had neither witnessed the adventures of Robinson Crusoe, nor tasted the delights of the Camera Obscura, who had bought no sweets and put no pennies into automatic machines, who had neither been weighed, nor tested their strength, nor run races with mechanical horselets, but who had the proud satisfaction of knowing that they had done something towards enriching the Post Office and ruining their employer.
ref: 1888 January 29, The Reflector, volume I, number 5, London: James Stephen, page 91:
text: They say most any guy can lead a horse to water, yes, indeed; but then, you bet, it takes some gink to make his horselets take the drink.
ref: 1914, The Inland Printer, page 224:
text: An ancient landslide had trapped them in a side canyon, went the story, and they evolved into tiny horselets.
ref: 2003, Boatman’s Quarterly Review:
glosses: A young or little horse; foal; pony.
Synonyms: horseling
horselets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horselet
jeliya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Bambara jeliya (literally “being a jeli; 'jeli-ness'”).
Senses: examples: text: In the absence of Bamana music on the scene in Bamako, some foreign scholars even concluded that all jeliya, the music of the Mande jeliw, is essentially heptatonic.
ref: 2013, Lucy Durán, “POYI! Bamana jeli music, Mali and the blues”, in Journal of African Cultural Studies, volume 9, number 25, Routledge, →DOI, →JSTOR, page 231:
glosses: The traditional music of the jeli (or griot) caste of the Mande people.
ARR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ARRs
Senses: examples: text: Every quarter, subscription businesses look at how much their ARR has grown, using the following formula: […]
ref: 2018, Tien Tzuo, Gabe Weisert, Subscribed […] , Penguin, →ISBN:
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of annual recurring revenue.
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of accounting rate of return.
Castagnoli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Castagnolis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Castagnoli.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
jelis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Among jelis, there are three distinct performance activities: speech (kuma), song (dònkili), and instrument playing (Mn: fòli; Md: kosiri).
ref: 2000, Eric Charry, Mande Music: Traditional and Modern Music of the Maninka and Mandinka of Western Africa, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 7:
glosses: plural of jeli
Kernighans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kernighan
Staveley-in-Cartmel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: See Staveley.
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD3786).
Related terms: Cartmel
Staveley
Neeches
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Neech
Hesketh Bank
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: See Hesketh.
Senses: glosses: A village in Hesketh with Becconsall parish, West Lancashire district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4423).
Related terms: Hesketh
Hesketh with Becconsall
Hesketh with Becconsall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in West Lancashire district, Lancashire, England, which includes these two villages.
Related terms: Becconsall
Hesketh Bank
Heskeths
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hesketh
cowturd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cowturds
Etymology: From Middle English cowis-tord, cow torde, kowe tordes pl; equivalent to cow + turd.
Senses: examples: text: The Cheuyn is also a warie fish to take, and very fearefull: In March he will byte at the redde worme at the ground, for commonly he will byte at the ground, and somewhat déeepe at all times of the yeare, in Aprill, the cadyce or ditch canker, and the canker that bréedeth in the barke of a trée, and the worme that bréeedeth betwéene the barke and the Oke trée: also the red worme, and the young frogge his legges and féete cut off, also the stone Cadyce flye, and the bobbe worme vnder the cowturd, likewise the redde snaile:[…]
ref: 1590, L.[eonard] M.[ascall], A Booke of Fishing with Hooke and Line, […] W. Satchell and Co., published 1884, page 6:
text: That the juice of a few Cowturds, mixt with a sham of Steel-dust, and steept in a new-vamp’d Well, that in all likelyhood was an old House of Office;
ref: 1684, An Exclamation from Tunbridge and Epsom Against the Newfound Wells at Islington, London: […] J. How:
text: Matt told him to open his mouth and close his eyes, and he’d give him a big surprise. And just as he was about to try and jam the cowturd in, Thomas clamped down on his hand like a dog that hadn’t eaten in about a week and started gnawing it for all he was worth.[…]Then he had to open his mouth to get him a big breath. And the old cowturd went right in there.[…]But I’d be lying if I said I didn't enjoy watching Thomas eat the cowturd, too. But part of me also hated watching Thomas eat the cowturd. Because I knew that it could very easily have been me eating the cowturd.
ref: 1988, Larry Brown, Dirty Work, published 1989, →ISBN, pages 31, 32, and 39–40:
glosses: A piece of solid cow feces.
Hypernyms: cowdung
cowturds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cowturd
crappuccino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crappuccinos
Etymology: Blend of crap + cappuccino
Senses: examples: text: He drained the lukewarm dregs of his railway station crappuccino, and watched Womble concocting his morning glass of Fangocur, a revolting volcanic clay mix said to combat halitosis
ref: 2014, Garry Bushell, Face Down:
text: “We don't have crappuccinos here. Just real coffee. For people who like coffee.”
ref: 2018, Stacie Ramey, The Secrets We Bury:
glosses: A very bad cappuccino
cappuccinolike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cappuccinolike
form: most cappuccinolike
Etymology: From cappuccino + -like.
Senses: examples: text: While the frothy cappuccinolike foam washed over me , I plunged my hands into the slippery sand and lost myself in a fantasy of sharing this place with the first scrawny man on earth
ref: 1995, Condé Nast's Traveler, volume 30:
glosses: Similar to cappuccino
Dikranian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dikranians
Etymology: Variant of Tigranyan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Farsakian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Farsakians
Etymology: From Armenian Ֆարսակյան (Farsakyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Farsakians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Farsakian
Dikranians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dikranian
yarble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɑː(ɹ)bəl/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)bəl
Forms: form: yarbles
Etymology: Back-formation from yarbles, coined for the novel A Clockwork Orange in 1962.
Senses: examples: text: Of course, Wisden still possesses authority, but under Engel's feisty tenure it has become anti-establishment with a yarble-kicking hyphen.
ref: 2012 December 10, Derek Pringle, “Sir Donald compiles the perfect century”, in The Independent, London:
text: The sassy lady finishes her rant and is replaced by a yarble-less eunuch who warbles about all the things he's gonna do for you girl cos you're his number one, yeah baby.
ref: 2012 December 10, ZootAlmighty, “Commercial radio makes me cross”, in Stuff, Wellington, New Zealand: Stuff:
glosses: A testicle.
pollstress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pollster + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: Not everyone who replies to a pretty pollstress cares enough to join an association or to write a letter to his congressman.
ref: 1955, Raymond Augustine Bauer, What Foreign Trade Policy Does American Business Want?, Cambridge, Mass.: Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, page 7:
text: A May Poll survey conducted by pollstress May Hemm found only one store owner in downtown Great Bend who didn’t give a coffee brake^([sic]) at any time during the day, (said it was too hard to work out).
ref: 1955 March 6, Bob Burns, “'Got Time for a Cup?' Nearly EveryBody Does”, in Great Bend Daily Tribune, 79th year, number 177, Great Bend, Kan., page 3, column 2:
text: I saw the opinion poll as a means of encouraging the shopkeepers of Sawston, so I gave the propaganda answer, which rather flummoxed the pollstress since her form made no provision for such an eccentric answer.
ref: 1993 December 6, Christopher South, “Why I’m in two minds about opinion polls”, in Cambridge Evening News, page 14:
text: […]introduced, in fairness to Tony Snow): Fox News’ Tony Snow; pollstress Kellyanne Fitzpatrick;
ref: 1998, The Hotline:
text: A self-described “pollstress” who includes [Donald] Trump’s running mate, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, as a former client, Ms. [Kellyanne] Conway leveraged her status to help sell herself as an expert on marketing candidates to women.
ref: 2016 August 19, “Conway Brings Conservative Experience”, in The Wall Street Journal:
glosses: Female equivalent of pollster.
Oberstaufen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Oberallgäu district, Bavaria, Germany.
ADI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ADIs
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: Initialism of area of dominant influence.
XopR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: bacteriology
biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A toxic protein secreted by Xanthomonas that damages plants
ADX
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of administrative maximum; supermax.
XopN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: bacteriology
biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A toxic protein secreted by Xanthomonas that damages plants by damaging their immune response
as oppose to
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of as opposed to.
Castagnolis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Castagnoli
FSRH
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare.
roti john
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A kind of omelette sandwich popular in parts of Asia.
let the cobbler stick to his last
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cobbler, keep to your last.
synonyms: word: cobbler
word: keep to your last
Von Seggern
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Von Seggerns
Etymology: Borrowed from German Von Seggern.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Von Seggerns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Von Seggern
Schepers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Scheper
Varignon's theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after French mathematician Pierre Varignon.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A statement in Euclidean geometry that deals with the construction of a particular parallelogram (the Varignon parallelogram) from an arbitrary quadrilateral.
topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A theorem stating that the torque of a resultant of two concurrent forces about any point is equal to the algebraic sum of the torques of its components about the same point.
Van Loan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Van Loans
Etymology: Variant of Dutch van Loon.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
Tropeano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tropeanos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Tropeano.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Tropeanos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tropeano
Van Loans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Van Loan
Zervas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zervases
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek Ζέρβας (Zérvas).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Greek.
Zyskowski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zyskowskis
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Zyskowski.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Zyskowskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Zyskowski
Zervases
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Zervas
Zeron
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zerons
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Zerón; this surname is predominantly found in Honduras.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Zaring
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zarings
Etymology: Variant of German Zähring.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Zarings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Zaring
Zerons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Zeron
chundole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chundoles
Senses: glosses: A kind of large palanquin.
chundoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chundole
Ivanovism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Slavic neopagan new religious movement based on the teachings of the Russian mystic Porfiry Ivanov (1898–1983), who elaborated his doctrines by drawing upon Russian folklore.
Related terms: Rodnovery
Stoke Rochford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish (served by Stoke Rochford and Easton Parish Council) in South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SK9127).
Yelder
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yelders
Etymology: Probably a variant of Elder.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Allgyer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Allgyers
Etymology: Variant of German Allgeier.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Allgyers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Allgyer
Yelders
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Yelder
Ahamed
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ahameds
Etymology: Variant of Ahmad.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Arabic.
Belsito
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Belsitos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Belsito.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Belsitos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Belsito
Ahameds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ahamed
McCranie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McCranies
Etymology: Variant spelling of McCraney.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Christoffersens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Christoffersen