cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unfitly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unfitly
form: most unfitly
Etymology: From unfit + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: These two sorts of essences, I suppose, may not unfitly be termed, the one the REAL, the other NOMINAL ESSENCE. 16.
ref: 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume II.:
text: And in reference to this harmonious interplay of all the human faculties and sensibilities, I may not unfitly apply to Shakespeare's workmanship these choice lines from Wordsworth: "Brisk Youth appeared, the Morn of youth, With freaks of graceful folly,-- Life's temperate Noon, her sober Eve, Her Night not melancholy; Past, present, future, all appeared, In harmony united, Like guests that meet, and some from far, By cordial love invited."
ref: 1872, H. N. Hudson, Shakespeare= His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I.:
text: He had said he would, but had dawdled skillfully and was still unfitly in bare feet and the shabby garments of a weekday.
ref: 1921, Harry Leon Wilson, The Wrong Twin:
glosses: In an unfit manner; unsuitably, inappropriately, not fitly.
collateral science
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collateral sciences
Senses: glosses: A science of importance in medicine but not part of medicine, especially physics, chemistry and botany, and sometimes also including anatomy and physiology.
glosses: A science bearing a similar relationship to some other field.
collateral sciences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collateral science
fan service
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As fan service goes, "KRP:AI" pretty much nails it without forgetting what made it popular in its own right.
ref: 2006 Roanoke Times, "Video-game review: 'Karaoke Revolution Presents: American Idol'", January 23, 2007
text: President Donald Trump’s presidential memorandum ordering an investigation of Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and his use of the autopen […] is also nonsensical fan service, amplifying addled MAGA conspiracy theories that contend, with a straight face, that Biden was really a robotic clone.
ref: 2025 June 7, Paul Rosenzweig, “The Biden Investigation Is a Path to Even Greater Lawlessness”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Alternative form of fanservice.
Derived terms: fan-servicey
cool kids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cool kid
memory foam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: memory foams
Etymology: So called because it "remembers", or keeps, the shape of something pressed against it.
Senses: synonyms: temper foam
glosses: Foam consisting of polyurethane and other chemicals used in the manufacturing of pillows, mattresses, laptop sleeves, etc, which reacts to body heat and molds to the shape of the body.
Wamba-Wamba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Wemba-Wemba, a group of indigenous Australians, found in north-western Victoria and south-western New South Wales.
Wamba-Wamba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Their language.
ashake
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈʃeɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: more ashake
form: most ashake
Etymology: From a- + shake.
Senses: examples: text: "Dunkery Beacon," whispered John, so close into my ear, that I felt his lips and teeth ashake; "dursn't fire it now except to show the Doones way home again, since the naight as they went up and throwed the watchmen atop of it.
ref: 1869, R. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone:
text: Then you'll buy her dear,' cried my lady, ashake with rage. '
ref: 1898, Stanley John Weyman, The Castle Inn:
text: AT THE WINDOW THE pine-trees bend to listen to the autumn wind as it mutters Something which sets the black poplars ashake with hysterical laughter; While slowly the house of day is closing its eastern shutters.
ref: 1916, D. H. Lawrence, Amores:
glosses: shaking, aquiver
inke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inkes
Senses: examples: text: Whoſe corage when the feend perceiud to ſhrinke, / She poured forth out of her helliſh ſinke / Her fruitfull curſed ſpawne of ſerpents ſmall, / Deformed monſters, fowle, and blacke as inke, / Which ſwarming all about his legs did crall, / And him encombred ſore, but could not hurt at all.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 22, page 9:
text: So it was, that the most of these aboue named goosequil braccahadocheos were meere cowards and crauens, and durst not so much as throw a penfull of inke into the enimies face, if proofe were made, wherefore on the experience of their pusellanimitie I thought to raise the foundation of my roguerie.
ref: 1594, Thomas Nash, The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton:
text: While I was waiting for him in the Matted Gallery, a young man was most finely working in Indian inke the great picture of the King and Queen sitting [Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France], by Van Dyke [Anthony van Dyck]; and did it very finely.
ref: 1667 May 6 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “April 26th, 1667”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume VI, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1895, →OCLC, page 285:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of ink.
Morning Star
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: In reference to Mary, mother of Jesus, cf. Star of the Sea.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: Evening Star
text: As we now know, the Evening Star is the Morning Star.
text: Who said that every wish would be heard and answered / When wished on the morning star? / Somebody thought of that, and someone believed it / And look what it's done so far.
ref: 1979, Paul Williams, Kenneth Ascher, “The Rainbow Connection”, in The Muppet Movie, Henson Associates and ITC Entertainment:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of morning star (“Venus, as seen in the eastern sky around dawn”).
topics: Christianity
glosses: Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus, especially in Catholic contexts.
synonyms: word: Mary
extra: especially in Catholic contexts
word: mother of Jesus
extra: especially in Catholic contexts
examples: text: I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you a this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star.
ref: 1978, Bible (New International Version), Revelation 22:16
topics: Christianity
glosses: Synonym of Jesus.
synonyms: word: Jesus
glosses: The title of any of several newspapers.
ink bottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ink bottles
form: inkbottle
Senses: glosses: A bottle of ink, especially one which a pen may be dipped into; inkwell.
inkbottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inkbottles
Senses: examples: text: It's a precious dark set of offices, and in the room where I sit, there's a high fender, and an iron safe, and some cards about ships that are going to sail, and an almanack, and some desks and stools, and an inkbottle, and some books, and some boxes, and a lot of cobwebs, and in one of 'em, just over my head, a shrivelled-up blue-bottle that looks as if it had hung there ever so long.
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, “In Which Some More First Appearances Are Made on the Stage of These Adventures”, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 27:
text: "Ay, but a notary out of work, with his ink[-]bottle dry," said another bystander, very much out at elbows.
ref: 1862 July – 1863 August, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “The Shipwrecked Stranger”, in Romola. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1863, →OCLC, book I, page 32:
text: In the middle stood the two philanthropists they were in search of, freely bedaubed with tallow, one employed in boxing a boy's ears, the other in saving a huge inkbottle whereon some enterprising spirit had just laid hands by way of varying the rebel ammunition.
ref: 1888, Mrs. Humphry Ward, Robert Elsmere:
glosses: Alternative spelling of ink bottle.
preferrable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pɹəˈfɜːɹəbəl/
Forms: form: more preferrable
form: most preferrable
Senses: examples: text: This Cape Merick seems preferrable for commerce, either as a factory, to trade with the Moors, or as a place of protection for the traders, and the fishery.
ref: 1818, J. B. Henry Savigny, Alexander Correard, Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal in 1816:
text: Sardines and tinned salmon were luxuries we could not afford, but fresh fish and game were better, and, even when salted, were preferrable to a continuous diet of beef.
ref: 1901, Louis Becke, "Five-Head" Creek; and Fish Drugging In The Pacific:
glosses: Alternative form of preferable.
prosodical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prosodical
form: most prosodical
Senses: examples: text: Some of these exhibit variations from the modern text, but being written by not very highly educated persons, they seldom or never present any various readings that it would be desirable to adopt, and indeed contain now and then prosodical errors.
ref: 1884, L. W. Yaggy, Museum of Antiquity:
text: Thirdly, the prosodical character of the song is roughly indicated by a combination of letters and numerals.
ref: 1911, Hubert G. Shearin, A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs:
text: The greater part of the Breviary Hymns are composed according to the rules of prosody, and their form is lyric, the popular form of Latin song, which preceded in Italy the prosodical system borrowed from the Greeks, and used by the classic pagan poets.
ref: 1920, Rev. E. J. Quigley, The Divine Office:
glosses: Alternative form of prosodic.
questor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: questors
Senses: examples: text: In this review of Brutus's army, who was under the command of gallant men, not braver officers than true patriots, he tells us, "that Sextus, the questor, was paymaster, secretary at war, and commissary general; and that the sacred discipline of the Romans required the closest connexion, like that of father and son, to subsist between the general of an army and his questor.
ref: 1742, Samuel Johnson, The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 6:
text: I quitted the National Assembly, where a questor to succeed General Negrier, who was killed in June, was being nominated, and went to M. de Chateaubriand's house, No. 110, Rue du Bac. I was received by M. de Preuille, son-in-law of his nephew.
ref: 1815, Victor Hugo, The Memoirs of Victor Hugo:
text: Antony had occupied the high offices of questor and tribune, the first calling for literary ability, the second for skill as an orator.
ref: 1916, Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7:
glosses: Alternative spelling of quaestor.
unapostolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈʌnæpəˈstɒlɪk/
Forms: form: more unapostolic
form: most unapostolic
Etymology: From un- + apostolic.
Senses: examples: text: Yet I had not an easy conscience, nor can I now defend my compromise; for I believe that my repugnance to Infant Baptism was really intense, and my conviction that it is unapostolic as strong then as now.
ref: 1874, Francis William Newman, Phases of Faith:
text: The priority of the so-called gospel of Matthew, the Pauline purpose of "Luke," the second in date of our gospels, the derivative and second-hand character of "Mark," and the unapostolic origin of the fourth gospel, are points which may for the future be regarded as wellnigh established by circumstantial evidence.
ref: 1876, John Fiske, The Unseen World and Other Essays:
text: [7] Here, with an air of prophet-like boldness and infallibility, we have once again an announcement of the inadequacy of the Reformation, the formal and external character of prevailing types of religion, and the unapostolic nature of the existing churches.
ref: 1914, Rufus M. Jones, Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries:
topics: Christianity
glosses: Not apostolic; unconnected to the apostles or contrary to their teachings.
Magic Cube
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Rubik's Cube
Galant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of galant.
Classical period
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: the musical period of time following the Baroque period and preceding the Romantic period, spanning c.1750-c.1820.
Romantic period
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: the musical period of time following the Classical period falling between about 1820 and the start of the twentieth century.
Synonyms: Romanticism
Romantic era
Korf's algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Devised by Richard Korf in 1997.
Senses: topics: Rubik's-Cube
games
glosses: An algorithm for solving the Rubik's Cube by iterative deepening.
Kociemba's algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Devised in 1992 by Herbert Kociemba.
Senses: topics: Rubik's-Cube
games
glosses: An algorithm for solving the Rubik's Cube, an improvement on Thistlethwaite's algorithm.
Thistlethwaite's algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After its developer Morwen Thistlethwaite.
Senses: topics: Rubik's-Cube
games
glosses: An algorithm for solving the Rubik's Cube by dividing the possible cube positions into groups.
wikipedia: Morwen Thistlethwaite
Rubik's cubist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rubik's cubists
Etymology: From Rubik's Cube + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A player of Rubik's cube.
Rubik's cubists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rubik's cubist
forebelief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forebeliefs
Etymology: From fore- + belief.
Senses: glosses: A previous belief.
glosses: Divine foreknowledge.
glosses: Belief or faith in something prior to its manifestation.
Related terms: forebelieve
forebemoaned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more forebemoaned
form: most forebemoaned
form: fore-bemoaned
Etymology: From fore- + bemoaned.
Senses: examples: Heavily from woe to woe tell o'er / The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan. ― Shakespeare.
glosses: Bemoaned in previous or former times.
fore-bemoaned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fore-bemoaned
form: most fore-bemoaned
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of forebemoaned.
postwork
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + work.
Senses: examples: postwork education
glosses: After work.
postwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From post- + work.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
glosses: Postproduction, work on filmed material after principal photography, as to improve image quality or synchronize sound.
qualifier: digital imagery
glosses: Work on images after work in the field or set or after non-digital phases of image creation.
doll's house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doll's houses
form: dolls' house
form: dollshouse
form: dollhouse
Senses: examples: text: Adam Stockhausen's doll's-house production design is eye-wateringly precise, the black-and-white images of the city's ancient buildings (shot in Angouleme) deserve their own coffee table book
ref: 2021 July 12, Nicholas Barber, “The French Dispatch: Four stars for Wes Anderson's latest”, in BBC:
synonyms: playhouse
hypernyms: house
glosses: A miniature house used by children as a toy for recreating domestic settings.
examples: text: A slightly incongruous note is struck by the National Westminster Bank beside the Vine [pub], a tiny dolls' house of a building, about the size of a garden shed, in herringbone-patterned brick.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 202, about Goudhurst, Kent:
glosses: A small, cramped, dwelling-place.
Related terms: doll's pram
doll's houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doll's house
disboscation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dis- (“removal”) French bosquet (“grove”) + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Deforestation for the purpose of creating cleared arable land for farming.
Related terms: deforestation
jack o'lanterns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jack o' lanterns
Senses: glosses: plural of jack o'lantern
ACRR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ACRRs
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: adjacent-channel rejection ratio; the resulting measurement of comparing signal strength with a similar signal on another frequency if they are on adjacent channels.
Related terms: ACLR
acro dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acro dances
Senses: topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A style of dance that combines elements of ballet technique with acrobatic skills of precision.
baker's chocolates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baker's chocolate
acritude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acritudes
Senses: glosses: acridity; pungency combined with heat.
bound form
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bound forms
Etymology: bound + form
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: a unit of language that can only be used as part of a word, not as a word on its own (such as the English suffix -ly).
Synonyms: bound morpheme
Related terms: affix
prefix
suffix
infix
depth-first search
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: depth-first searches
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
synonyms: DFS
coordinate_terms: breadth-first search
glosses: An algorithm for traversing a tree or graph where one starts at the root and explores as far as possible along each branch before backtracking.
pot stirrer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pot stirrers
Senses: synonyms: word: agitator
word: bad boy
word: bad news
word: bear
word: bhoy
word: blackguard
word: booger
word: boot boy
word: bovver boy
word: brat
word: brawler
word: breedbate
word: buffoon
word: bugger
word: bully
word: charva
word: cutup
word: devil
word: elf
word: enfant terrible
word: firebrand
word: gadfly
word: hell-raiser
word: hood
word: hoodlum
word: hool
word: hoolie
word: hooligan
word: hothead
word: imp
word: inciter
word: initiator
word: instigator
word: jackanapes
word: joker
word: jokester
word: kindle-coal
word: kindle-fire
word: knave
word: lout
word: makebate
word: minx
word: mischief
word: mischief-maker
word: miscreant
word: ne'er-do-well
word: pixie
word: pot stirrer
word: practical joker
word: prankster
word: puck
word: rabble rouser
word: rakeshame
word: rantipole
word: rapscallion
word: rascal
word: rogue
word: roly-poly
word: rowdy
word: ruffian
word: scamp
word: scapegrace
word: scoundrel
word: shit disturber
word: shitmonger
word: shit-stirrer
word: tearaway
word: thug
word: titivil
word: tough
word: troublemaker
word: undesirable
word: vandal
word: wag
word: wagpastie
word: wrangler
word: yob
word: yobbo
glosses: One who causes unrest; one who stirs the pot.
return to form
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: returns to form
Senses: examples: text: This album marks a return to form for the band which has not had a successful hit since 1995.
glosses: A return to a former state of success or brilliance.
return to form
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: returns to form
form: returning to form
form: returned to form
form: returned to form
Senses: examples: text: The band returned to form in 2002 with a new, catchy number-one song.
glosses: To go back to a better, original state.
freeze out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: freezes out
form: freezing out
form: froze out
form: frozen out
Senses: examples: text: The first step in freezing out competitors is to create a superior product.
text: After finding out her horrible secret, the son froze his mother out of his life.
text: R. F. Foster
It is sometimes a long time before a player who is frozen out can get into a game again.
text: What, no hellos? These guys are totally freezing us out.
ref: 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Glitzville:
text: His appointment too was the result of a political bargain that froze out the young, reformist Move Forward party, which had won the most seats and votes in last year's general election. It was a stunning victory that raised hopes for a fresh start for Thailand but Move Forward was blocked from forming the government by the military-appointed senate.
ref: 2024 August 14, “Thai court dismisses PM for violating constitution”, in bbc.com:
glosses: To snub or ice out; to forcibly remove or exclude.
Related terms: frostiness
frosty
ice out
opera singer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opera singers
Senses: glosses: Someone who sings opera professionally.
admynistre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: admynistres
form: admynistring
form: admynistred
form: admynistred
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of administer.
subverse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subverses
form: subversing
form: subversed
form: subversed
Etymology: From Latin subversus, past participle of subvertere. See subvert.
Senses: examples: text: But a usurping ape, with guile suborned, / Had all subversed
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To subvert.
subverse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subverses
Etymology: sub- + -verse
Senses: examples: text: You must be picking up olfactory emanations from a subverse destined to be your neighbor.
ref: 2011, Adam Douglas, The Square Root of Negative Forty-Two, page 108:
text: They had taken on a subverse being and come out on top, and although they did not name what had killed them, it must have been a cosmic being of supreme power.
ref: 2023, Adair Hart, The Final Evolution: Book 15 of The Evaran Chronicles:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A kind of alternative universe.
velamentum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌviːləˈmɛntəm/
Forms: form: velamenta
Etymology: From Latin vēlāmentum.
Senses: glosses: A velamen or membrane.
velamenta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of velamentum
velamina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of velamen
Lost Wages
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Las Vegas. The city is famously the home of many casinos, where people may lose their wages: see lost, wages.
Senses: glosses: Las Vegas (a city in Nevada).
antisymmetrised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of antisymmetrized.
hypointensity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypointensities
Etymology: From hypo- + intensity.
Senses: glosses: A less than normal intensity (for example, as seen in magnetic resonance imaging).
isentropes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isentrope
isentrope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isentropes
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A surface of constant potential temperature
examples: text: In order to avoid confusion with the earth's surface we may refer to an isentropic surface as an isentrope. The motion of air can best be resolved into motion along the isentrope which requires no heat, and motion across the isentrope which requires the supply or loss of heat by radiation otherwise.
ref: 2015, Napier Shaw, Manual of Meteorology, page 263:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An isentropic state or system
magnetoactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more magnetoactive
form: most magnetoactive
Etymology: From magneto- + active.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Showing any of several forms of magnetic activity
Sam Spade
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The fictional private detective created by Dashiell Hammett who was protagonist of The Maltese Falcon.
Sam Spade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sam Spades
Senses: examples: text: Congratulations on the detective work — a real Sam Spade job.
ref: 1970, Edmund Fuller, Flight, page 98:
text: "To do a real Sam Spade, phone a bar near the resort. The ski bum who answers the phone will tell it as he sees it
ref: 1977, “Psst... Wanna Find Some Snow”, in Ski, number October:
text: First we tried to hire a private detective […]. Next we tried amateurs, two college students out to make their fortune as modern-day Sam Spades. They had obviously watched too much noir TV […]
ref: 2006, Betsy Burton, The King's English: Adventures of an Independent Bookseller, page 64:
text: I reckon like I'm some kind of Sam Spade here. I've put to one side the main plot and concentrated instead on the key character, following him to get some idea of his comings and goings
ref: 2018, Steve Wilson, chapter 8, in Spoilt for Choice:
glosses: A private detective.
magnonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From magnon + -ics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the study of magnons
Derived terms: optomagnonics
Related terms: magnonic
semimagnetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + magnetic.
Senses: glosses: Partially magnetic
supertori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supertorus
supertorus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔːɹəs
Forms: form: supertori
Etymology: From super- + torus.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: supertoroid
supertoroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supertoroids
Etymology: From super- + toroid.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any of several surfaces related mathematically to a torus
sicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪkəl/
/ˈsaɪkəl/
Forms: form: sicles
Etymology: French, from Latin siclus, from Hebrew.
Senses: examples: text: The holy mother brought five sicles and a pair of turtledoves to redeem the Lamb of God.
ref: 1678, Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […], London: […] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R[ichard] Royston, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A shekel.
glosses: Obsolete spelling of sickle.
bhajan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bhajans
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi भजन (bhajan).
Senses: examples: text: "No, there was never a school," said the child; "but the patwaris bibi lets us come to her of a morning, and teaches us bhajans and our letters, and when we learn well she sometimes gives us fruit."
ref: c. 1885, A.L.O.E, The Wondrous Sickle:
text: Did I detenct Father's deep and rumbling baritone in the chorus which accompanied my wife's first bhajan of the evening?
ref: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 396:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of Indian devotional song.
bhajans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bhajan
liefsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more liefsome
form: most liefsome
form: leefsome
form: leesome
Etymology: From Middle English lefsum, leofsum, probably from Old English *lēofsum, equivalent to lief + -some. Compare Old High German liobsam (“liefsome”), German liebsam.
Senses: examples: text: The manner in which he treated my dog did not seem very liefsome to me.
text: So forth I go apace to see that liefsome sight, And with a kiss, methinks I say, 'Welcome, my lord, my knight; …'
ref: 1854, Henry Howard Surrey (Earl of), Thomas Sackville Dorset (Earl of), Robert Bell, Poetical works of Henry Howard, earl of Surrey
glosses: Agreeable; pleasing; delightful.
Related terms: lief
Millard Fillmore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Millard Fillmores
Etymology: A reference to the 13th president of the United States, often considered the most insignificant of the presidents.
Senses: examples: text: If President Ford wins the nomination, but loses the election by a huge margin, he will be the Millard Fillmore of 1976
ref: 1976 August 14, “Republicans Or Whigs?”, in Times-News:
text: It will likely go down as the Millard Fillmore of the bunch -- unremarkable and quickly forgettable.
ref: 1997 April 18, “`Murder at 1600': Anatomy of a Dud”, in The Salt Lake Tribune:
text: It is sort of the Millard Fillmore of national events. Although established in 1959, it has been condemned to national anonymity
ref: 2007 September 20, “SPEND 'SIMPSONS' TIME READING CONSTITUTION”, in Arizona Republic:
glosses: A little-known, unremarkable or insignificant political figure.
wikipedia: Millard Fillmore
goes pear-shaped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go pear-shaped
going pear-shaped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go pear-shaped
went pear-shaped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go pear-shaped
gone pear-shaped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go pear-shaped
leesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leesome
form: most leesome
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of liefsome.
leveful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leveful
form: most leveful
form: leeful
form: leful
Etymology: From Middle English leveful, equivalent to leave (“permission”) + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Allowable; permissible; lawful.
Related terms: leave
rabi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹabi/
Forms: form: rabis
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani ربیع (rabī) / रबी (rabī),
from Persian ربیع (rabi'), from Arabic رَبِيع (rabīʕ, “spring”).
Senses: glosses: Spring.
examples: text: ...I made out that he would be here before the rabi harvest is ripe; the corn is green enough yet, but I thought that after work I would come over here to meet him.
ref: c. 1885, A.L.O.E, The Wondrous Sickle:
text: The monsoon had failed at the beginning but picked up very well later, so the rabi crop would be just fine and the wars they mentioned had taken place a year and a half ago.
ref: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 120:
glosses: The spring harvest.
Related terms: kharif
-yer
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English -iere, probably from -ien (infinitival suffix) + -ere (agent noun); i.e. nouns in -ere built on verbs in -ien; possibly reinforced by Old French -ier once -ie- became a rising diphthong. More at -ier, -er.
Senses: examples: text: law + -yer → lawyer (AmE /ˈlɔɪər/)
text: saw + -yer → sawyer /ˈsɔːjər/
glosses: Agent suffix, equivalent to -er, appended to some nouns (especially those ending in the letter "w" or "v").
bunniah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bunniahs
form: bunia
form: bunnia
Etymology: From Hindi बनिया (baniyā).
Senses: glosses: banker; moneylender
glosses: merchant; petty trader
Mickey Mantle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mickey Mantles
Etymology: After the highly-regarded American baseball player Mickey Charles Mantle (1931–1995).
Senses: examples: text: Meggi O'Day, the Mickey Mantle of the poultry world, has added another championship to her list of titles. The little Leghorn hen laid another egg....
ref: 1957 September 20, “Egged On: Meggi Lays Claim To Another Title”, in Park City Daily News:
text: It isn't easy to explain why Danny Blancheflower, the Mickey Mantle of English soccer 15 years ago, says, "Your country is a great frontier town and you have great big attitudes toward things
ref: 1974 October, Boys' Life, volume 64, number 10, page 9:
text: This does not mean that the 1940 Buick was the Mickey Mantle of automobiles, but it was an all-star
ref: 1979, Bill Neville, Real steel: an investor's and philosopher's guide to the American automobile, page 22:
text: "The engineers that were put to work on this are ... the Willie Mayses and the Mickey Mantles of the engineering profession. They are devoted, intelligent, honest engineers."
ref: 1990, Emily Couric, The Trial Lawyers: The Nation's Top Litigators Tell How They Win, page 163:
text: "Damn Yankees" isn't the Mickey Mantle of musical comedies
ref: 1998 February 23, Kristina Dorsey, “'Damn Yankees' Not A Homer, But A Solid Hit”, in The Day:
text: Says James Swanson, chief investment strategist at MFS Investment Management: "They are the Mickey Mantles of the investing world." Harvard Management has achieved this with a formula that bears little resemblance to that of the average
ref: 2004, Business week, numbers 3914-3922:
text: Nearly all the answers were entertainers or athletes, the Mickey Mantles of your generation - until Sept. 11, 2001
ref: 2005, R. Simmons, Real Life Lessons for Teens:
text: ... the Mickey Mantle of soups, then avgolemono, if you'll humor me, is the Eddie Murray of soups
ref: 2005, David Ansel, The soup peddler's slow & difficult soups: recipes & reveries, page 148:
text: And that combination of Hair and efficiency really helped him [Johnny Unitas] become one of football's first television stars, kind of the Mickey Mantle of professional football.
ref: 2007, Christopher Russo with Allen St. John and Matthew Shepatin, The Mad Dog Hall of Fame, page 137:
glosses: A popular hero and champion in a field.
Casey Stengel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Casey Stengels
Etymology: After the baseball player and manager Casey Stengel, known for his turns of phrase.
Senses: examples: text: Laz Barrera was such a colorful character that Sports Illustrated dubbed him “the Casey Stengel of the racetracks”—a nod to the engaging way he would hold court like the old Yankee manager beloved for his rambling monologues.
ref: 2014, Linda Carroll, David Rosner, Duel for the Crown: Affirmed, Alydar, and Racing's Greatest Rivalry:
text: "We're willing to talk to the president, but the president is looking to us with a deaf ear," said the Casey Stengel of finance, Dan Rostenkowski
ref: 1987 October 22, “WALL STREET, NATION LOOKING FOR REASSURANCE”, in Richmond Times-Dispatch:
glosses: A person who has a colourful turn of phrase or who engages in rambling monologues.
wikipedia: Casey Stengel
lovyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lovyers
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of lover.
lovyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lovyer.
status bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of status bar
loveling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lovelings
Etymology: From love + -ling. Compare West Frisian leaveling (“darling”), Dutch lieveling (“darling, sweetheart”), Afrikaans liefling (“darling”), German Liebling (“darling”); perhaps calqued, inspired, or reinforced by the term.
Senses: glosses: A beloved little one; darling; a beloved or lovable thing.
re-restitution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: re-restitutions
form: rerestitution
Etymology: From re- + restitution.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An order returning property lost by a previous legal proceeding.
reconvocation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reconvocations
Etymology: From re- + convocation.
Senses: glosses: The act, or an act, of convocating again.
reconvocations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reconvocation
go to shit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes to shit
form: going to shit
form: went to shit
form: gone to shit
Senses: examples: text: All his hard work went to shit when the company filed for bankruptcy.
glosses: To completely fail; to have no result.
examples: text: This city has gone to shit ever since he became mayor.
glosses: To become much worse.
Synonyms: sense: fail
word: die in the ass
sense: fail
word: everything one touches turns to shit
sense: fail
word: go to ratshit
sense: fail
word: come to nought
sense: fail
english: not vulgar
translation: not vulgar
word: come to nothing
sense: deteriorate
word: go downhill
sense: deteriorate
word: go to pot
sense: deteriorate
english: not vulgar
translation: not vulgar
word: go to the dogs
hurlyburlies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hurlyburly
Štokavian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Stokavian.
armillae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of armilla
armillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of armilla
Mantle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
push-through
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: push-throughs
Senses: examples: text: Twas hard to believe a whale that big could get herself into the pond. Certainly, there was no water for her in the pushthrough, and even the south gut never had no more'n two fathom and a half since ever I see it. But there she was, and looking twice as big as life.
ref: 1985, Farley Mowat, A Whale for the Killing, page 84:
glosses: A narrow passageway through.
examples: text: Greener's ‘push through’ invention works well with very small bores.
glosses: A device for cleaning a rifle bore.
push-through
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The push-through tab on canned drink was first sold in 1973.
glosses: That is pushed through; especially designating something that is operated by being pushed through (something else).
Chicheŵa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Chichewa.
melodeum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: They had borrowed a melodeum—a sick one; and when everything was ready, a young woman set^([sic]) down and worked it, and it was pretty skreeky and colicky, and everybody joined in and sung, and Peter was the only one that had a good thing, according to my notion.
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXVII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 272:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A small keyboard organ.
Related terms: melodeon
Oscar bait
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "O'Toole and Hepburn are memorable and matchless. You'll never see better performances. These are both Oscar bait outings.
ref: 1968 December 16, New York Magazine, volume 1, number 37, →ISSN, page 5:
text: Director Steven Soderbergh's Traffic was more typical Oscar bait, but the high-minded three-hour film about the drug trade along the US/ Mexican border was also inconsistent, and Soderbergh's fondness for mixing in grainy film stock and jerky handheld cameras didn't figure to endear him to older Academy voters.
ref: 2005, Steve Pond, The Big Show: High Times and Dirty Dealings Backstage at the Academy Awards, page 261:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A film or films perceived to have been produced at least partially in order to be nominated for, and hopefully win, an Academy Award.
Derived terms: Oscar-baity
æquidistance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: æquidistances
Senses: examples: text: The Antœci are alſo oppoſite, but vary neither in Meridian nor æquidistance from the Horizon...
ref: 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique:
glosses: Obsolete form of equidistance.
æquidistances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of æquidistance
coxcombical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coxcombical
form: most coxcombical
Etymology: From coxcomb + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: The majority of these idlers were impudent-looking braggarts, who, with jaunty air and coxcombical show of superiority, endeavoured to enforce their own opinions, and to silence those of every one else.
ref: 1857, John Benwell, An Englishman's Travels in America:
text: Marlow is a coxcombical prig, that is the truth on't; and if a man will expose himself, why, he must even take what follows.
ref: 1903, William Godwin, Caleb Williams:
text: Of Wordsworth's demeanour and physical presence, De Quincey's account, silly, coxcombical, and vulgar, is the worst; Carlyle's, as might be expected from his magical gift of portraiture, is the best.
ref: 1907, John Morley, Studies in Literature:
synonyms: word: buckish
word: dandyish
word: beauish
word: buckish
word: coxcombical
word: dandiacal
word: dandified
word: dandy
word: dandyish
word: dandyistic
word: dudish
word: foppish
word: foppy
word: Jemmy-Jessamy
word: lily-handed
word: macaronic
word: swellish
word: Woosterian
glosses: Like, or in the style of, a coxcomb.
Derived terms: coxcombicality
coxcombically
weaker sex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the weaker sex
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see weaker, sex.
examples: text: For a man raised since birth to be strong, resolute, spare with words, and never to bow to the weepings and handwringings of the weaker sex, he had poured out his heart in that letter.
ref: 2013, Peter McAra, A World Apart, page 14:
text: "There's always a reason behind a lie. People can be very good at lying. Women can be especially good at it because they're the weaker sex and we, that's what the books say, and we want to protect them and not have anyone take advantage of them. At least I do," Farese said during closing statements Wednesday.
ref: 2017 April 22, “Attorney in Tennessee Rape Trial Says Women are Good Liars Because ‘They’re the Weaker Sex’”, in KTLA5:
glosses: Women; the female gender.
Related terms: fair sex
weaker vessel
coxcombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coxcomb
Æthiopian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Æthiopian
form: most Æthiopian
Senses: examples: text: Cush was undoubtedly reverenced as the solar Azur, but he was superseded by his youngest son; who was the Æthiopian prince Phaethon, and did not even acknowledge the old Merops, king of the Cushim, to be his father.
ref: 1829, Algernon Herbert, Nimrod, page 408:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of Ethiopian.
Æthiopian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Æthiopians
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Ethiopian.
ahull
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /əˈhʌl/
Etymology: From a- + hull.
Senses: examples: text: […] for four dayes and nights, not daring to beare any ſaile, but lay ahull […]
ref: 1638, Sir Thomas Herbert, Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: at the hull of a ship
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Having the sails furled and the helm lashed alee, as during a storm.
concomitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: concomitates
form: concomitating
form: concomitated
form: concomitated
Etymology: French concomitant
Senses: examples: text: […] spouting part of the briny Ocean in wantonnesse out of their oylie pipes bored by nature atop their prodigious ſhoulders, like ſo many floating Ilands concomitating us.
ref: 1638, Sir Thomas Herbert, Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique:
text: This simple spectation of the lungs is differenced from that which concomitates a pleurisy.
ref: 1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:
glosses: To accompany; to be somehow connected with.
concomitates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of concomitate
concomitating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of concomitate
concomitated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of concomitate
T perm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: T perms
Etymology: The wrong pieces form a T. "Perm" means permutation.
Senses: topics: Rubik's-Cube
games
glosses: A PLL case (i.e. a case where the cubies of the last layer all have the last-side colour facing the last side) where a pair of opposite edge cubies and a pair of corner cubies that lie on either side of one of the wrong edges both need to be swapped.
T perms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of T perm
etages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of etage
Bibendum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The symbol of the Michelin tyre company
Synonyms: Michelin man
bubus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bubu
cherubin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cherubins
form: cherubin
Senses: examples: text: Patience, thou young and rose-lipp'd Cherubin.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 71:
text: This fell whore of thine, / Hath in her more deſtruction then thy Sword, / For all her Cherubin looke.
ref: c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 91, column 1:
text: For ſome colour of ſetting vp their idols in Churches to bee worſhiped, they full ſimply alledge the Cherubins that were ſet vp in the temple which Solomon built, which M. [William] Bishop ſaith were the images of Angels, and that they did repreſent the Angels wee will not deny, but of what ſhape they were, no man ſaith Joſephus, can cõiecture or affirme any thing.
ref: 1611, Robert Abbot, “Of Images”, in The Second Part of the Defence of the Reformed Catholicke. […], London: Impensis Thomæ Adams, →OCLC, page 1164:
text: O Daughter of the Roſe, [...] / Whoſe Face is Paradiſe, but fenc'd from Sin: / For God in either Eye has plac'd a Cherubin.
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “To Her Grace the Dutchess of Ormond”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of cherub.
cherubin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of cherubim (plural of cherub).
contact details
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Information on how to contact a person or entity, typically including a telephone number, address etc.
cowyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cowyards
Etymology: From cow + yard.
Senses: examples: text: On entering the palace we were shown into a cowyard without a tree in it, or any shade; and no one was allowed to sell us food until a present of friendship was paid, after which the hongo would be discussed.
ref: 1864, John Hanning Speke, The Discovery of the Source of the Nile:
text: Behind a cowyard of shattered stone pavement and cracked mud stood the farm itself, and around it extended the fields belonging thereto.
ref: 1898, Eden Phillpotts, Children of the Mist:
text: There were no pigeons in the pigeon-house, and nothing but jack-daws; and so, after she had burned the beam, and the door-frame and the floor, she ran into the cowyard, through the small field, and fainted behind several pitchers of yeast.
ref: 1912, Walter W. Skeat, English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day:
hypernyms: yard#Noun
<
enclosure#Noun
<
area#Noun
;
place#Noun
coordinate_terms: word: pigyard
english: yards for livestock
translation: yards for livestock
word: swineyard
word: sheepyard
word: henyard
word: horse-yard
word: ;
english: places for cows
translation: places for cows
word: paddock
word: pasture
word: ;
word: byre
word: cowshed
word: cowhouse
word: cowbarn
glosses: An enclosure for cows close by the farm buildings.
Related terms: barnyard
news anchors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of news anchor