cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unintellectualized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + intellectualized.
Senses: glosses: Not intellectualized.
doomist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doomists
Etymology: From doom + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: doomsayer
doomster
glosses: A person with a gloomy, pessimistic attitude about the future.
doomist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more doomist
form: most doomist
Etymology: From doom + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The doomist argument largely relies on an unsubstantiated premise around “unstoppable tipping point-like responses” and a “runaway greenhouse effect”, says Michael E Mann, a distinguished professor of atmospheric science at Pennsylvania State University.
ref: 2020 September 21, Alexandra Villarreal, “Meet the doomers: why some young US voters have given up hope on climate”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Gloomy, pessimistic about the future.
Related terms: doomer
doomism
doomists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doomist
gouge bit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gouge bits
Senses: glosses: A bit used for boring (making holes) shaped like a gouge.
sacha inchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Quechua sacha (“tree, forest, wild”) + inchi (“peanut”).
Senses: glosses: Plukenetia volubilis, a euphorbiaceous perennial plant endemic to the Amazon rainforest in Peru.
marasmus senilis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin [Term?].
Senses: examples: text: Five died from tuberculosis, 2 of pneumonia, 2 of carcinoma, and 1 each of marasmus senilis, hepatic cirrhosis, and pyelonephritis.
ref: 1901, “An Epitome Of Current Medical Literature”, in The British Medical Journal 1:
glosses: progressive atrophy of the aged
pod auger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pod augers
Senses: synonyms: pod bit
glosses: An auger, usually tapered, with a channel, usually with sharp edges, running up the shaft.
pod bit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pod bits
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pod auger.
synonyms: word: pod auger
androcracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of androcracy
salary packaging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: salary sacrifice
glosses: The inclusion of employee benefits in a remuneration package in exchange for giving up part of the monetary salary.
womanistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more womanistic
form: most womanistic
Etymology: From woman + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to womanism.
caterwaulings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caterwauling
post hanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: post hangers
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A bearing for a revolving shaft, adapted to be fastened to a post.
xantheine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of xanthein.
dental formula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dental formulas
form: dental formulae
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
dentistry
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: A brief notation used by zoologists to denote the number and type of teeth of a mammal.
screaming meemies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of screaming meemie
screaming meemies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the screaming meemies
Senses: glosses: A state of anxiety; the jitters.
lay an anchor to the windward
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lays an anchor to the windward
form: laying an anchor to the windward
form: laid an anchor to the windward
form: laid an anchor to the windward
Senses: synonyms: cast an anchor to the windward
put an anchor to the windward
glosses: To adopt precautionary or anticipatory measures for potential future success or security.
Related terms: just in case
scrumdiddlyumptious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌskrʌm.dɪd.lɪˈʌm(p).ʃəs/
ipa: /ˌskrʌm.dɪd.l̩ɪˈʌm(p).ʃəs/
ipa: /ˌskrəm.dɪd.liˈəm(p).ʃəs/
ipa: /ˌskrəm.dɪd.l̩iˈəm(p).ʃəs/
Forms: form: more scrumdiddlyumptious
form: most scrumdiddlyumptious
form: scrum-diddly-umptious
form: scrumdiliumptious
form: scrumpdillyicious
Etymology: Coined by British author Roald Dahl.
Senses: glosses: Scrumptious; delicious.
wikipedia: Roald Dahl
scrum-diddly-umptious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scrum-diddly-umptious
form: most scrum-diddly-umptious
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scrumdiddlyumptious.
freeholding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freeholdings
Etymology: From free + holding.
Senses: glosses: property held in freehold
freeholdings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freeholding
like mad
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: We poked a stick into the hornets' nest and ran like mad.
text: They neuer linne to scrape our goodes / till all our wealth be gone. / Which if we chaunce to sée, / excuses then are had: / But so we sée not when ’tis done, / they will denie like mad / They neuer toke away / one iote but was their owne:
ref: 1567, “The .vj. Egloge”, in George Turberville, transl., The Eglogs of the Poet B. Mantuan Carmelitan, London:
text: The Devils fell upon the Damn’d; and the Damn’d fell upon the Devils, without knowing One from t’other: and all running helter-skelter, to and again, like Mad; for in fine, it was no other then a general Revolt.
ref: 1667, “The Seventh Vision of Hell Reform’d”, in Roger L’Estrange, transl., The Visions of Dom Francisco de Quevedo Villegas, London: H. Herringman, page 258:
text: There were divers Antick Figures, some with Caps and Bells, one dress’d like a Punch; several Harlequins, and other ludicrous Forms, that jump’d and ran about like mad; and seem’d as if they would have it thought, that all their Wit lay in their Heels.
ref: 1741, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XVII”, in Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: […] C[harles] Rivington, […]; and J. Osborn, […], →OCLC, page 118:
text: When Bildad was a chief-mate, to have his drab-coloured eye intently looking at you, made you feel completely nervous, till you could clutch something—a hammer or a marling-spike, and go to work like mad, at something or other, never mind what.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter 16”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: All the universities are sending in long petitions to restrict their production. Otherwise, they say, mankind will become extinct through lack of fertility. But the R. U. R. shareholders, of course, won't hear of it. All the governments, on the other hand, are clamoring for an increase in production, to raise the standards of their armies. And all the manufacturers in the world are ordering Robots like mad.
ref: c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 2:
text: I’d laughed. He’d laughed. Mine lasted the longest. During it, I thought it was going to change into a cry. But it didn’t. My eyes blinked like mad but then it was okay.
ref: 1993, Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, Penguin, page 210:
glosses: Like a mad person; in a furious or deranged manner; to a great or excessive degree; with great enthusiasm.
Synonyms: like crazy
unattraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unattractions
Etymology: From un- + attraction.
Senses: glosses: The quality of not being attracted to somebody or something.
glosses: The quality of not being attractive.
glosses: An event, location, or business that has a tendency to bore or disinterest others.
dredgings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dredging
dredging box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dredging boxes
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A dredger (container with a perforated lid used for scattering sugar or flour).
examples: text: To render the fuzes of mortar shell more certain of taking fire, meal powder was sprinkled over them, after the shell had been placed in the mortar, from a dredging box.
ref: 2013, Francis A. Lord, Civil War Collector's Encyclopedia:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A copper box with a perforated lid, used for sprinkling meal powder over shell fuses.
dredging boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dredging box
taut hand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taut hands
Senses: examples: text: "[…]I'm no Tartar nor a slavedriver. But I am a taut hand, and a taut ship where every man jack works clearly for me, our ship, his mates, and our Fleet is a happy ship.[…]"
ref: 1993, Dewey Lambdin, The Gun Ketch:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An officer who is severe in discipline.
examples: text: "Twas the first time I did that part of the duty in command, and I felt, in the circumstances, I was in for carrying it out with a taut hand."
ref: 1879, George Cupples, The Green Hand: Adventures of a Naval Lieutenant:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: strict discipline.
taut hands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taut hand
paperchases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paperchase
hare and hounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A paperchase game.
hare kangaroo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hare kangaroos
Senses: synonyms: eastern hare-wallaby
glosses: A small species of kangaroo (Lagorchestes leporides), resembling the hare in size and colour.
out of question
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Alas, Malvolio, this is not my writing,
Though, I confess, much like the character
But out of question, ’tis Maria's hand.
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: And out of question the cherfull help that may be in mariage toward sanctity of life, is the purest and so the noblest end of that contract […]
ref: 1644, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, book I, page 17:
text: 1772, Richard Hurd, letter addressed to Edward Gibbon dated 29 August, 1772, in Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, London: A. Strahan et al., p. 462,
[…] the lustre of his hero’s fame, and the real power, which, out of question, he reserved to himself, would make us forget or overlook Cyaxares.
glosses: Unquestionably, without question, certainly.
examples: text: Of King Vaphres and Necho it is out of question, that neither of them was the great King Sesostris.
ref: 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], chapter 2, in The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, §. 6, page 242:
text: So when [Jesus] came walking upon the Sea to his Disciples, and they were so frighted that they cried out, believing that they had seen a Spirit; it must be out of Question that there were such things, and that they, the Disciples, had heard of them […]
ref: 1727, Daniel Defoe, chapter 8, in An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions, London, page 130:
glosses: Unquestionable, beyond question, certain.
of a certain
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: certainly
Related terms: of a certain age
hit off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hits off
form: hitting off
form: hit off
form: hit off
Senses: examples: text: I hit off and drove a beauty 230 metres down the middle[.]
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 124:
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To play the first shot off the fairway.
examples: text: to hit off a speaker
text: c. 1652-1654, Dorothy Osborne, letter to William Temple
Have we not here some local squires hit off to the life?
glosses: To describe with quick characteristic strokes.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To give; to hand over.
Related terms: hit it off
put to the blush
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts to the blush
form: putting to the blush
form: put to the blush
form: put to the blush
Senses: examples: text: I am glad he is gon, a put me to the blush
When a did aske me of ritch Somerfields death.
ref: 1611, Lording Barry, Ram-Alley: or Merrie-Trickes, London: Robert Wilson, act II, scene 1:
text: I remember I was once put very much to the Blush, being at a Friend’s House, and by him requir’d to salute the Ladies, I kiss’d the Chamber-Jade in to the bargain, for she was as well dress’d as the best.
ref: 1725, Daniel Defoe, “Every-body’s Business, Is No-body’s Business: or, Private Abuses, Publick Grievances”, in et al., London: T. Warner, page 15:
text: The tempting prospect of putting to the blush people who stand at the head of affairs—that supreme and piquant enjoyment of those who writhe under the heel of the same—had alone animated them, so far as he could see;
ref: 1886, Thomas Hardy, chapter 42, in The Mayor of Casterbridge:
text: His politeness to Blanquette would have put to the blush any young man at the Bon Marché or the Louvre.
ref: 1906, William John Locke, chapter 7, in The Belovéd Vagabond, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, page 91:
text: Like some misborn, deformed, and monstrous kid
Who puts his family to the blush,
Whose presence in a cellar must be hid
And his existence in a hush!
ref: 1952, “Confession”, in Roy Campbell, transl., Poems of Baudelaire: A translation of Les Fleurs du mal, London: The Harvill Press, page 58:
glosses: To cause to blush with shame; to put to shame.
Related terms: spare someone's blushes
theta function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theta functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any of a group of special functions of several complex variables, important in many areas, including the theories of abelian varieties and moduli spaces, and of quadratic forms.
Derived terms: Jacobi theta function
Ramanujan theta function
theta functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of theta function
loblollying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of loblolly
nutritarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nutritarian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The practice of following a nutritarian diet.
carpal angle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carpal angles
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The angle at the last joint of the folded wing of a bird.
carpal angles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carpal angle
veneer moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: veneer moths
Etymology: So called because the mottled colors resemble those of veneering.
Senses: glosses: Any of various species of moth.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Prionapteryx nebulifera
word: clouded veneer moth
word: certain others
veneer moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veneer moth
rubbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rubble
rubbles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rubble
draw a straight furrow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: draws a straight furrow
form: drawing a straight furrow
form: drew a straight furrow
form: drawn a straight furrow
Senses: examples: text: None could n't quicker pitch a ton
Nor dror a furrer straighter
ref: 1848, [James Russell Lowell], “(please specify the page)”, in Homer Wilbur [pseudonym], editor, Melibœus-Hipponax. The Biglow Papers, […], Cambridge, Mass.: George Nichols, →OCLC:
glosses: To live correctly or ethically, without deviating from the right line of duty.
rebounding lock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rebounding locks
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A lock in which the hammer rebounds to halfcock after striking the cap or primer.
rebounding locks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rebounding lock
anatases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anatase
brookites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brookite
upright bass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upright basses
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A double bass. (lowest-pitched of instruments of violin family)
Derived terms: upright bassist
orbital index
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orbital indexes
form: orbital indices
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: OI
glosses: In the skull, the ratio of the vertical height to the transverse width of the orbit, which is taken as the standard, equal to 100.
string bass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: string basses
Senses: glosses: Synonym of double bass (“lowest-pitched of instruments of violin family”).
synonyms: word: double bass
extra: lowest-pitched of instruments of violin family
Derived terms: string bassist
doghouse bass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doghouse basses
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A double bass (lowest-pitched of instruments of violin family).
Derived terms: doghouse bassist
stand-up bass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stand-up basses
Senses: glosses: Synonym of double bass (“lowest-pitched instrument of violin family”).
synonyms: word: double bass
extra: lowest-pitched instrument of violin family
Derived terms: stand-up bassist
bass violin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bass violins
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: double bass (lowest-pitched of instruments of violin family)
Derived terms: bass violinist
bass fiddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bass fiddles
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A double bass (lowest-pitched of instruments of violin family).
Derived terms: play someone like a bass fiddle
bull fiddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bull fiddles
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A double bass (lowest-pitched of instruments of violin family).
Derived terms: bull fiddler
slab lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slab line
tomb bat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tomb bats
Etymology: Presumably so-called as some were found inhabiting in tombs.
Senses: glosses: Any of various species of Old World bats of the genus Taphozous
Derived terms: taxonomic: Taphozous melanopogon
word: black-bearded tomb bat
taxonomic: Taphozous perforatus
word: Egyptian tomb bat
taxonomic: Taphozous hamiltoni
word: Hamilton's tomb bat
taxonomic: Taphozous hildegardeae
word: Hildegarde's tomb bat
taxonomic: Taphozous achates
word: Indonesian tomb bat
taxonomic: Taphozous longimanus
word: long-winged tomb bat
taxonomic: Taphozous mauritianus
word: Mauritian tomb bat
taxonomic: Taphozous nudiventris
word: naked-rumped tomb bat
taxonomic: Taphozous theobaldi
word: Theobald's tomb bat
tomb bats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tomb bat
moa-nalo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moa-nalos
Senses: examples: text: All of the raptors would have exploited rails, young ibises, and perhaps young moa-nalos, although the eagle was the only one capable of taking adult ibises or moa-nalos.
ref: 1994, Storrs L. Olson, Helen F. James, “Descriptions of Thirty-Two New Species of Birds from the Hawaiian Islands: Part I. Non-Passeriforms”, in E. Alison Kay, editor, A Natural History of the Hawaiian Islands: Selected Readings II, page 451:
text: 1996, Amoco Oil Company, Sixth North American Paleontological Convention: Abstracts of Papers, page 194,
We obtained a collection of coprolites from Thambetochen chauliodous, one of four species of flightless Hawaiian waterfowl known collectively as moa-nalos.
text: Moa-nalos did not occur on Hawaii, which was occupied by another herbivore, the Giant Hawaiian Goose.
ref: 2006, Guy A. Baldassarre, Eric G. Bolen, Waterfowl Ecology and Management, 2nd edition, page 41:
text: The moa-nalos are a clade of ducks known from subfossils on the main Hawaiian islands.
ref: 2012, Michael Heads, Molecular Panbiogeography of the Tropics, page 328:
glosses: Any of several extinct aberrant, goose-like ducks that lived on some islands of Hawaii from the late Pleistocene until sometime before 1778.
Derived terms: alt: Chelychelynechen quassus
word: turtle-jawed moa-nalo
alt: Ptaiochen pau
word: small-billed moa-nalo
alt: Thambetochen xanion
word: O'ahu moa-nalo
alt: Thambetochen chauliodous
word: Maui Nui large-billed moa-nalo
moa-nalos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moa-nalo
bale of dice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bales of dice
Senses: examples: text: I will allow you to sweat privately, and tear six or seven score pair of cards, be the damnation of some dozen or twenty bale of dice, and forswear play a thousand times in an hour; but not swear.
ref: 1609, Thomas Dekker, the Gull's Hornbook:
glosses: A pair of dice.
bales of dice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bale of dice
splining machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splining machines
Senses: glosses: A machine tool for cutting grooves, key seats, or slots; a slotting machine.
splining machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splining machine
feezed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of feeze
feezing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -iːzɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of feeze
heulandites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heulandite
heulanditic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heulanditic
form: most heulanditic
Etymology: From heulandite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to heulandite.
pistolcraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pistol + craft.
Senses: glosses: Skill in using a pistol.
nesonym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nesonyms
Senses: examples: text: The earliest known nesonym south of Australia is Van Diemen's Land, which Abel Tasman (1603—1659) immortalized on discovery in 1642 to honour the then Governor General of the Dutch East Indies; in 1856, however, the island was renamed Tasmania ostensibly to honour Tasman himself but actually to remove the 'demon' connotation that hung over this former penal colony.
ref: 2013, Steven Roger Fischer, Islands: From Atlantis to Zanzibar, page 284:
glosses: A toponym of an island.
nivometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin niveus + -metric
Senses: glosses: Relating to the measurement of snowfall.
Nove
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: nōv
ipa: /nəʊv/
Etymology: Clipping of Russian Новако́вский (Novakóvskij).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Russian
Alexander Nove (né Алекса́ндр Я́ковлевич Новако́вский [Aleksandr Yakovlevich Novakovsky]; 1915–1994), non-Marxist socialist, Professor of Economics at the University of Glasgow, and noted authority on Russian and Soviet economic history; father of Perry Richard Nove and Charles Alexis Nove
glosses: A surname from Russian
Perry Richard Nove (born before 1951), Commissioner of the City of London Police 1998–2002; son of Alexander Nove and half-brother of Charles Alexis Nove
glosses: A surname from Russian
Charles Alexis Nove (born 1960), British radio broadcaster; son of Alexander Nove and half-brother of Perry Richard Nove
Nove
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: nōv
ipa: /nəʊv/
enpr: nōʹvā
ipa: /ˈnəʊveɪ/
enpr: nōv
ipa: /nəʊv/
Etymology: From Italian Nove.
Senses: glosses: A small town and comune of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy.
Related terms: sense: twin towns of the Italian town and comune
word: Carlos Barbosa
sense: twin towns of the Italian town and comune
word: Langhirano
sense: twin towns of the Italian town and comune
word: Montelupo Fiorentino
sense: twin towns of the Italian town and comune
word: Welkenraedt
ornithonym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ornithonyms
Etymology: From ornitho- + -onym.
Senses: examples: text: The selection of which ornithonyms to include in a dictionary is dependent on the type of dictionary.
ref: 2016, James Lambert, “Ornithonymy and Lexicographical Selection Criteria”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 30, number 1, pages 39–62:
glosses: The common name of a (species of) bird.
Derived terms: ornithonymy
horographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From horography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to horography
hayday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of heyday.
paleonym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleonyms
Etymology: From paleo- + -onym.
Senses: glosses: An ancient toponym that is now obsolete
photolith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: photolithography
unheroized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + heroized.
Senses: glosses: Not heroized.
nonstutterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonstutterers
Etymology: From non- + stutterer.
Senses: glosses: One who does not stutter.
nonstutterers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonstutterer
nonstuttering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + stuttering.
Senses: glosses: Who does not stutter.
reverifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From reverify + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being reverified.
retestable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From retest + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being retested.
reverified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reverify
reverifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reverify
reverifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reverify
patrionymic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of patronymic.
patrionymic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of patronymic.
umbrellaing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of umbrella
positivize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: positivizes
form: positivizing
form: positivized
form: positivized
Etymology: From positive + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make positive, or to emphasize a positive aspect
Related terms: positivization
oculometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oculo- + -metric.
Senses: examples: text: These general requirements constrain the oculometric method to an optical observation of the area within and around the pupil.
ref: 1966, John Merchant, "Oculometry", Optical Engineering, vol. 4, no. 2, (Google search result)
text: The first reports of the employment of image-based techniques for oculometric measurement, involving photographic and cinematographic recording of the eye for pupillometric analysis (Machemer, 1933; Lowenstein & Friedman, 1942), were published over sixty years ago.
ref: 1997, M. Fetter et al., editors, Three-dimensional Kinematics of the Eye, Head and Limb Movements, →ISBN, page 429:
text: Here we assessed whether oculometric measures such as gaze position, blink frequency and pupil size were correlated with the occurrence and time course of self-reported mind-wandering episodes.
ref: 2014 February 11, Romain Grandchamp with Claire Braboszcz and Arnaud Delorme, “Oculometric variations during mind wandering”, in Frontiers in Psychology, volume 5, number 31, →DOI, abstract:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to oculometry; measured using an oculometer
Related terms: oculometrics
cube farm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cube farms
Senses: glosses: A large group of cubicles, or a building, campus, or area abundant in them.
cube farms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cube farm
Hellenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hellenoids
Etymology: From Helleno- + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Someone of Hellenic genetic background.
moaning Minnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moaning Minnie
Hellenoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hellenoid
Cooter Brown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cootie Brown
Senses: examples: text: “Yes, sir,” said Private Barton, “it looks like trouble has got a tail-holt on us with a downhill drag. I sometimes feel like going and gittin’ drunk as Cooter Brown”.
ref: 1941 November 16, Harold Martin, “Dreams and Dust”, in The Atlanta Constitution, page 9:
text: I’m talkin’ about Admiral Porter, General Quimby, and Ulysses S-hole-fukkin Grant hissef, and he was drunker’n Cooter Brown a large part of the time.
ref: 2008, John Pritchard, The Yazoo Blues, →ISBN, page 54:
text: In order to avoid military draft, Cooter Brown started drinking excessively every day until the war ended. […] According to this version of the story, the phrase originated from those days, as Cooter Brown’s continuous state of intoxication became legendary.
ref: 2018 April 26, Nikola Budanovic, “The Origin of the Phrase ‘Drunk as Cooter Brown’ Dates Back from the American Civil War and Refers to a Heavy Drinker Who Escaped Being Drafted Due to His Continuous Intoxication”, in War History Online:
glosses: An archetypal drunkard.
archetypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more archetypic
form: most archetypic
Senses: glosses: archetypical
split the sheets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: splits the sheets
form: splitting the sheets
form: split the sheets
form: split the sheets
Senses: glosses: To divorce.
racings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of racing
sunderings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sundering
metaphilosophically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From metaphilosophical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of metaphilosophy.
spreadings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spreading
leakings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈliːkɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of leaking
anchorings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anchoring
mopings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moping
supposings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supposing
skippings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skipping
tuttings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tutting
K-drama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: K-dramas
form: K-Drama
form: Kdrama
form: KDrama
Etymology: From K- (“Korean”) + drama.
Senses: glosses: Dramatic television series produced in South Korea.
examples: text: I binged the third season of an insipid K-drama whose plot I could, and did, predict aloud as I brushed the cat’s increasingly matted fur.
ref: 2023, C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey, Hutchinson Heinemann, page 71:
glosses: An individual television series of this genre.
Synonyms: word: Koreanovela
Coordinate terms: sense: television dramas
word: J-dorama
sense: television dramas
word: J-drama
sense: television dramas
word: telenovela
sense: another country dramas
word: C-drama
sense: another country dramas
word: J-drama
sense: Korean-language entertainment
word: K-film
sense: Korean-language entertainment
word: K-horror
sense: Korean-language entertainment
word: K-pop
sense: Korean-language entertainment
word: manhwa
K-dramas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of K-drama
blisterings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blistering
physickings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of physicking
pseudosexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + sexual.
Senses: examples: text: Preovulatory animals, expressing female-like pseudosexual behavior, are characterized by an elevated concentration of E and a moderate concentration of progesterone (P) […]
ref: 1987, Florence Haseltine, Michael E. McClure, Ellen H. Goldberg, Genetic markers of sex differentiation, page 18:
glosses: Apparently but not actually sexual.
blister packs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blister pack
nonovulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + ovulatory.
Senses: glosses: Not ovulatory.
slobberings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slobbering
languishings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of languishing
salvagings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salvaging
covetings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coveting
prizeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: prize + -eth
Senses: examples: text: In the meantime, by the light of this discourse, we clearly see why God so highly prizeth zealous covetings and desires in men after spiritual things […]
ref: 1867, John Goodwin, Pleroma to Pneumatikon:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prize
prizest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: prize + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of prize
depositings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of depositing
japie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: japies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yarpie.
japies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of japie
clonings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cloning
peekings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːkɪŋz/
homophone: peakings
Senses: glosses: plural of peeking
drowsings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɹaʊzɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of drowsing
mullings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mulling
campaignings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of campaigning
taxings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taxing
containings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of containing
enamellings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enamelling
enamelings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enameling
mehndi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mehndis
form: mendi
form: mendy
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani मेहंदी (mehandī) / مہندی (mihandī), from Sanskrit मेन्धिका (mendhikā). First attested in the 19th century.
Senses: glosses: A henna plant (Lawsonia inermis).
examples: text: The first lot to be put up was a tin of sugar biscuits and a jar of ‘mendy’, a pomade of native origin for dyeing the hair black.
ref: 1973, JG Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur:
text: She was thirteen, a young bride whose small palms had been stained burgundy with mehndi for a man she knew nothing about, not even his name.
ref: 2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 53:
glosses: The preparation of this plant used for dyeing.
synonyms: henna tattoo
glosses: A temporary skin decoration made with henna.
examples: text: Then came the Mehndi ceremony – where henna is painted on the bride's hands and feet, and the bride and groom's family try to outdo each other in singing and dancing.
ref: 2010 April 20, Homa Khaleeli, “Simon Cowell's four weddings – overdoing it?”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2025:
glosses: The practice of applying such decoration, typically as part of a bride or groom's preparations for a wedding.
balloonings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /bəˈluːnɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of ballooning
recedings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of receding
worshippings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of worshipping
shroudings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shrouding
gunnings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gunning
battings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbætɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of batting
headshakings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headshaking
dietings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dieting
raggings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ragging
uncloseted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + closeted.
Senses: examples: text: Instead, they [the gay yuppies] seek to eliminate the very "undesirable" elements — the drag queens and hustlers — that they owe much of their privilege to lead relatively uncloseted lives to.
ref: 1984 December 22, Ingrid Sell, “Changing Boston”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 23, page 4:
glosses: Not closeted.
stickings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sticking
gaddishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gaddish + -ness.
Senses: examples: 1693-1694, Robert Leighton, A Practical Commentary on the First Epistle of St. Peter
Elders, be such in grave and pious carriage, whatsoever be your years; for young men may be so, and, possibly, gray hairs may have nothing under them but gaddishness and folly many years old, habituated and inveterate ungodliness!
glosses: Quality of being gaddish.
gaddings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gadding
simmerings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of simmering
electrodermatomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrodermatome
Essenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Essene + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the Essenes.
pecky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛki
Forms: form: more pecky
form: peckier
form: most pecky
form: peckiest
Etymology: From peck + -y.
Senses: examples: text: pecky rice
glosses: Discoloured by fungus growth or insects.
examples: text: a very pecky hen
glosses: Inclined to peck.
Derived terms: peckiness
pecky cypress
parboiler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parboilers
Etymology: From parboil + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person or machine that parboils.
parboilers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parboiler
parboilings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parboiling
grinnings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grinning
answerings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of answering
zygomatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From zygomatic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: With respect to the zygoma.
faultfindings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faultfinding
smartings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smarting
wormings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of worming
scrunchings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrunching
repurposings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repurposing
profferings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proffering
receiverless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From receiver + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The pay phone on the corner has been vandalized, and its metal cord hangs limply down, receiverless.
ref: 1998, David R. Karp, Community Justice: An Emerging Field, page 50:
glosses: Without a receiver.
receivings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of receiving
chuggings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃʌɡɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of chugging
spawnings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spawning
lispings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lisping
bawlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bawling
performings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of performing
preservings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preserving
prospectings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prospecting
bandyings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bandying
quill bit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quill bits
Senses: glosses: A bit for boring, resembling half of a reed split lengthways and having its end sharpened like a gouge.
smoking cars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smoking car
spikings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spiking
bloodings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blooding
antispiral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + spiral.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a theorem stating that no stable spiral modes of oscillation exist, in general, in a gaseous galaxy.
uncalming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncalming
form: most uncalming
Etymology: From un- + calming.
Senses: glosses: Not calming.
uncalmable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncalmable
form: most uncalmable
Etymology: From un- + calm + -able.
Senses: antonyms: calmable
glosses: That cannot be calmed.
bettings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɛtɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of betting
fleeings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fleeing
rampagings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rampaging
endearings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endearing
jag bolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jag bolts
Senses: glosses: A bolt with a nicked or barbed shank which resists retraction, as when leaded into stone.
sponging house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sponging houses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sponging-house.
sponging houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sponging house
stayings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of staying
muzzlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muzzling
in-app
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: in + app
Senses: examples: text: in-app purchases
text: In-app updates also only work for Release configuration builds, not Debug builds.
ref: 2018, Jim Bennett, Xamarin in Action […] , Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Done or featured in an application.
scrapeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: scrapable
Etymology: From scrape + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being scraped.
scrapable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scrapeable.
WinRT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Windows Runtime.
lessonings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lessoning
bridgings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɪd͡ʒɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of bridging
plightings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plighting
Highland fling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Highland flings
Senses: examples: text: When Dandy Dinmont, after executing two or three caprioles, and cutting the Highland-fling, by way of ridicule of his wife's anxiety, at last deigned to sit down, and commit his round, black, shaggy bullet of a head to her inspection.
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter 3, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: She had never danced a step in her life, but that experienced girl capering with circus grace in the Highland fling would, she knew, be as nothing to her given such inspiriting music.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 185:
text: The artichokes bounded up and down
On top of the pumpkins' heads,
And the cabbage was dancing the highland fling
All over the onion beds.
ref: 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 156:
glosses: A solo dance of the Scottish Highlands.
Blissymbol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Blissymbols
Etymology: Blend of Bliss + symbol
Senses: examples: text: Blissymbols have been used to help people with severe speech problems to communicate effectively.
ref: 2014, Allan Paivio, Mind and Its Evolution: A Dual Coding Theoretical Approach, Psychology Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Any of the ideographs in the Blissymbols language.
unbores
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unbore
canterings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cantering
Persoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Persoid
form: most Persoid
Senses: glosses: Similar in style to that of the ancient Persians.
outengineer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outengineers
form: outengineering
form: outengineered
form: outengineered
Etymology: From out- + engineer.
Senses: examples: text: We have outengineered the competition with this great new product.
glosses: To surpass in engineering.
outengineers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outengineer
outengineered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outengineer
outengineering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outengineer
unboreable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unboreable
form: most unboreable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unborable.
unborable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unborable
form: most unborable
form: unboreable
Etymology: From un- + borable.
Senses: examples: text: You can talk to him all night about anything: he's quite unborable.
text: To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.
ref: 2011, David Foster Wallace, The Pale King, page 440:
glosses: Impossible to bore, or cause to lose interest.
examples: text: […] rocks having an asbestos-like structure are almost unborable, the time amounting to several hours per ft.
ref: 1908, Charles George Warnford Lock, Miners' Pocket-book, page 216:
glosses: Impossible to bore or drill into.
subsidings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subsiding
rewaters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rewater
werejackal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: werejackals
Etymology: From were- + jackal.
Senses: topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A shapeshifter who can assume the shape of a jackal.
werejackals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of werejackal
frownings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɹaʊnɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of frowning