cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
takes up with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take up with
taking up with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take up with
took up with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take up with
taken up with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take up with
Tonquinese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Therefore in hopes to defray ſome of the Charges he muſt be at, he bought a Sloop, loaded it with ſeveral ſorts of Goods, wherewith the Tinquineſe uſually trade to the neighbouring Iſlands, and putting fourteen Men on board, whereof three were of the Country, he appointed me Maſter of the Sloop, and gave me power to traffick for two Months, while he tranſacted his Affairs at Tonquin.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Sets out on His Third Voyage; is taken by Pyrates. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan), pages 3–4:
glosses: Obsolete form of Tonkinese.
Tonquin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Therefore in hopes to defray ſome of the Charges he muſt be at, he bought a Sloop, loaded it with ſeveral ſorts of Goods, wherewith the Tinquineſe uſually trade to the neighbouring Iſlands, and putting fourteen Men on board, whereof three were of the Country, he appointed me Maſter of the Sloop, and gave me power to traffick for two Months, while he tranſacted his Affairs at Tonquin.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Sets out on His Third Voyage; is taken by Pyrates. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan), pages 3–4:
glosses: Obsolete form of Tonkin.
Low Dutch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Low-Dutch
Senses: examples: text: There were ſeveral of his Prieſts and Lawyers preſent, (as I conjectured by their habits) who were commanded to addreſs themſelves to me, and I ſpoke to them in as many Languages as I had the leaſt ſmattering of, which were High and Low Dutch, Latin, French, Spaniſh, Italian, and Lingua Franca; but all to no purpoſe.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Emperor of Lilliput, Attended by Several of the Nobility, Come to See the Author in His Confinement. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), page 30:
text: The German is again sub-divided into South German or Gothic, Middle German, and Low German, or Low Dutch. … The Low Dutch is spoken by the people of Lower Saxony, Friesland, Holland, and Belgium.
ref: 1815, in: The British Review, and London Critical Journal. Vol. VI, London, p. 476ff., here p. 510
text: The Teutonic family is divided into three great branches: the High-Dutch, the Low-Dutch, and the Scandinavian; [...] To the Low-Dutch, who dwelt mostly in the low countries near the mouths of the rivers flowing into the German Ocean, belong many of the North Germans, the Frisians, Hollanders, and our own English forefathers. [...] From the mouth of the Rhine to the mouth of the Oder the whole coast was inhabited by Low-Dutch folk, Saxons, and Frisians, who all contributed to the hosts which set out to win the fair lands of Britain.
ref: 1877, Ella S. Armitage, The Childhood of the English Nation or the Beginnings of English History, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., page 8f.:
text: At Hamburg, too, High-Dutch is the fashionable language; but I know that, a generation back, people of the highest position and education spoke Low-Dutch in their own houses, though of course they could also speak High-Dutch when it was wanted.
ref: 1879, Edward A. Freeman, The Origin of the English Nation (Harper's Half-Hour Series), New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, page 42:
text: Low Dutch means both Low Frankish (or Netherlandish) and Low Saxon (or “Low German”).
ref: 1991, Sarah Grey Thomason, Terrence Kaufman, Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford: University of California Press, page 321:
glosses: Low German.
Synonyms: Low German
Netherdutch
Meronyms: Low Franconian
Low Frankish
Low Saxon
Low Dutch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Low-Dutch
Senses: examples: text: It was only towards the East, where Germany bordered on the Slavonic nations, that the Empire had much chance of extending itself. The Wends, the Slavonic people along the south coast of the Baltic, in Mecklenburg and Pomerania and the other lands beyond the Elbe, gradually became Christians and were joined on to Germany, and the Low-Dutch language gradually displaced the Slavonic.
ref: 1876 (new. ed.; 1st ed. 1872), Edward A. Freeman, Freeman's Historical Course for Schools: General Sketch of History. Adapted for American Students, new edition, New York: Henry Holt and Company, page 162:
text: The Teutonic family is divided into three great branches: the High-Dutch, the Low-Dutch, and the Scandinavian; [...] To the Low-Dutch, who dwelt mostly in the low countries near the mouths of the rivers flowing into the German Ocean, belong many of the North Germans, the Frisians, Hollanders, and our own English forefathers. [...] From the mouth of the Rhine to the mouth of the Oder the whole coast was inhabited by Low-Dutch folk, Saxons, and Frisians, who all contributed to the hosts which set out to win the fair lands of Britain.
ref: 1877, Ella S. Armitage, The Childhood of the English Nation or the Beginnings of English History, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., page 8f.:
glosses: Low German.
High-Dutch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of High Dutch.
Harbourne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in South Hams district, Devon, England, which changes its name to Bow Creek, at the hamlet of Bow where it becomes tidal.
code position
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: code positions
Senses: examples: text: The ISO 8859 character codes use the obvious encoding: each code position is represented as one octet.
ref: 2006, Jukka K. Korpela, Unicode Explained, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 126:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of code point.
synonyms: word: code point
code positions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of code position
scrophulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scrophulous
form: most scrophulous
Senses: examples: text: It is allowed, that Senates and great Councils are often troubled with redundant, ebullient, and other peccant Humours, with many Diſeaſes of the Head and more of the Heart; with ſtrong Convulſions, with grievous Contractions of the Nerves and Sinews in both Hands, but eſpecially the Right; with Spleen, Flatus, Vertigos and Deliriums; with Scrophulous Tumors full of fœtid purulent Matter; with ſower frothy Ructations, with Canine Appetites and Crudeneſs of Digeſtion, beſides many others needleſs to mention.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “A Further Account of the Academy. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan), page 82:
glosses: Archaic form of scrofulous.
Kingston on Soar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Rushcliffe borough, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK5027).
crack-brained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crack-brained
form: most crack-brained
Senses: examples: text: I could plainly diſcover from whence one Family derives a long Chin; why a ſecond hath abounded with Knaves for two Generations, and Fools for two more; why a third happened to be crack-brained, and a fourth to be Sharpers.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “A Further Account of Glubbdubdrib. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan), page 108:
glosses: Alternative form of crackbrained.
wumpi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wumpus
detrectation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: detrectations
Etymology: From Latin dētrectātiō.
Senses: examples: text: The Church is the mother of us all, the less important those things are which (in the power of a parent) she injoynes, the more hateful is the detrectation of our observance; you remember the question of[…]
ref: 1660, Joseph Hall, The Shaking of the Olive-tree: The Remaining Works of that Incomparable Prelate Joseph Hall, page 308:
text: This, if it be the offence of him who should have been guardian, coincides with wrongful detrectation of guardianship: if it be the offence of a third person, it involves in it interception of guardianship, which, provided the[…]
ref: 1789, Jeremy Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation: Printed in the Year 1780, and Now First Published:
glosses: Drawing back; refusal; withdrawal.
Related terms: detrect
detrectations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of detrectation
crazy-pated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crazy-pated
form: most crazy-pated
Etymology: Compound of crazy + pated (“having a particular type of head”).
Senses: examples: text: The Truth is, the Scheme itſelf ſeems rather to be chimerical Plan of ſome crazy-pated Politicians, than a ſolid Project of any Men of Senſe, or in their Wits.
ref: 1722 November 21, J. Hungerford, quotee, “The Trial of Chistopher Layer […]”, in A Collection Of the moſt Remarkable Trials of Persons […], London: […] T. Read, […], published 1735, page 88:
text: Old James is driving Turkeys o'er the green, / Our crazy-pated dairy-maid juſt now / Is ſcribbling o'er theſe ſenſeleſs lines to you.
ref: 1789 November, Janet Little, “An Epistle to a Lady”, in The Poetical Works of Janet Little, the Scotch Milkmaid, Air [Ayr, Scotland]: John & Peter Wilson, published 1792, page 128:
text: Mrs. Wright, the wax modeller (a crazy pated genius) modelled his head, as ſhe informed me, and carried it to him under her pettycoats, in order to favor his eſcape, by the uſe of it; a thing certainly (as he was circumſtanced) not impracticable.
ref: 1790, "ON", “Anecdote of Doctor Dodd”, in Memoirs and Anecdotes of Philip Thicknesse, Dublin: […] Graisberry and Campbell, […], page 140:
text: This wild and absurd story is in some measure redeemed by some traits in the character of Clara, whose firmness, plain good sense and frank affection are placed in agreeable contrast with the wild imagination, fanciful apprehensions, and extravagant affection of her crazy-pated admirer.
ref: 1827, The Foreign Quarterly Review, London: Treuttel and Würtz […], page 97:
text: At nine years of age, we find her battling with a governess, who unable to discern the light, bright tints in her character, pronounces her entirely bad; a stubborn, self-willed, crazy-pated creature, to whom it was impossible to impart a rational idea; and the poor girl like many an unfortunate, misunderstood child of genius, remains unteachable, untaught.
ref: 1848, Susanna Moodie, “Rachel Wilde, or, Trifles from the Burthen of a Life”, in Voyages: Short Narratives of Susanna Moodie, Ottawa, Paris: University of Ottawa Press, published 1991, →ISBN, page 136:
text: Having the brain cracked or crazy, crazy-pated, impaired in intellect.
ref: 1893, “Crack-brained”, in James A. H. Murray et al., editors, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [Oxford English Dictionary], volume II, London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1124:
text: As for that dear crazy-pated girl's dream, that it resulted from some indiscreet utterance of Mr. Snaith—what an idea! A breach of confidence by the Lord Chancellor!
ref: 1917, William De Morgan, chapter XII, in The Old Madhouse, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, published 1919, page 173:
text: "Oh, James, I'm so glad you're back. I've ill news for you about Alasdair. He and his crazy-pated cronies have raided Campbell lands yet again and driven another hundred fat cattle into Glencoe byres."
ref: 1973, Donald McGhie, The Red Hand of the Macdonalds, London: Robert Hale & Company, →ISBN, page 77:
glosses: Having lost one's wits; crazy, gone mad.
back-stairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of backstairs.
'RA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The 'RA [IRA] have become old men...
ref: 2018, Charles I. Armstrong, David Herbert, Jan Erik Mustad, The Legacy of the Good Friday Agreement:
text: The 'RA couldn't move in Ardoyne without the Fianna.
ref: 2019, Joe Duffy, Freya McClements, Children of the Troubles, page 322:
text: Ah sure the 'RA disguise you.
ref: 2002, Tim Pat Coogan, The IRA, page xvii:
glosses: Alternative form of RA (republican army; IRA).
'Ra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: She says, 'It was all Ooo Ah, Up the 'Ra, and the place went ballistic.'
ref: 2017, Malachi O'Doherty, Gerry Adams: An Unauthorised Life:
text: As one volunteer put it: 'When you join the 'Ra, you're told straight up, you'll either spend a lot of time in jail or you'll die.'
ref: 2021, Ian Cobain, Anatomy of a Killing:
text: I'll just tell the 'Ra boys to back off because Harry McCoy's decided his pal Faulds is innocent.
ref: 2021, Alan Parks, The April Dead:
text: The fucking 'Ra told me, matter of fact.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 248:
glosses: Alternative form of RA (republican army; IRA).
closemouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: closemouths
Senses: examples: text: Davie turned at the landing and saw the three figures at the closemouth.
ref: 2013, Douglas Skelton, Blood City:
text: Mrs McLeish was on duty at the closemouth when Cathy came down the stairs that Saturday, en route to meet Jean.
ref: 2016, Emma Blair, The Blackbird's Tale:
text: When she came back she found the outer door of the closemouth open, and when she ascended the stair she found, standing at the door of her house, her neighbour, Mr. Adams.
ref: 2022, William Roughead, The Trial of Oscar Slater:
glosses: The vestibule of a house.
closemouths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of closemouth
huckling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of huckle
huckled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of huckle
soapdodging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more soapdodging
form: most soapdodging
Senses: examples: text: I ran through the crowd, but one sneaky soapdodging cunt stuck a leg oot and I lost my balance and fell and was huckled.
ref: 2009, Irvine Welsh, Marabou Stork Nightmares, page 135:
text: She is Catholic – that's implicit from her maiden name of Fitzpatrick (p.33) and explicit in Renton's reflection at Billy's funeral that his mother is from 'ayesur papish bastards' and his father from 'soapdodging Orange cunts'.
ref: 2020, Tim Bell, Choose Life. Choose Leith.:
text: Ya Fenian cunt. Ya shiftless fucking soapdodging Taig.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 289:
glosses: Alternative form of soap-dodging.
soap-dodging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more soap-dodging
form: most soap-dodging
Senses: examples: text: Bloody cyclists! String the lot of them up, the inconsiderate bastards. Sweaty too, no doubt, the soap-dodging free-wheelers.
ref: 2011, Julian Cole, Felicity's Gate, page 89:
text: Cynical, and just a little soap-dodging, bless them.
ref: 2014, Rebecca Chance, Bad Brides:
text: The Criminal Justice and Public Order bill was opposed by many involved in what had become known as the 'crusty' subculture of the free festival/free party crossover, which the NME jokingly defined as Travellers, urban squatters and 'soap-dodging, army surplus, 16-hole, dreadlocked, folk-punk devils' (NME, 1993).
ref: 2018, Chris Anderton, Music Festivals in the UK:
glosses: Dirty.
Holzhauser
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Holzhausers
Etymology: From German Holzhauser.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German, variant of Holshouser
Related terms: Holshouser
Holzhauer
Castle bob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Castle bobs
Etymology: Named for Irene Castle (1893–1969), American dancer and actress, who popularised it.
Senses: examples: text: Gretchen was from Texas, blue-eyed, and her blond hair was cut like Caresse's, in a Castle bob, short, with bangs.
ref: 1976, Geoffrey Wolff, Black Sun, New York Review of Books, published 2003, page 156:
glosses: A women's hairstyle of the 1920s, with the hair cut to medium-short length with a fringe at the front.
hyalinize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hyalinizes
form: hyalinizing
form: hyalinized
form: hyalinized
form: hyalinise
Etymology: From hyalin(e) + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Tumor growth often outstrips blood supply, causing the tumor to hyalinize. The hyaline tissue may then liquefy and calcify.
ref: 2005, Rae Langford, June D. Thompson, Mosby's Handbook of Diseases (page 683)
glosses: To make or become hyaline.
Related terms: hyalinization
o̱
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An orthographic ⟨o⟩ with a diacritic that marks it as being the STRUT vowel, as in the word "son".
lodge house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lodge houses
Senses: examples: text: There were a few small outbuildings and stabling next to the lodge house.
ref: 2017, Helen Maskew, On The House:
text: By 1856, a masonic lodge house had been built.
ref: 2018, Lisa Hellman, This House Is Not a Home, page 107:
text: She could see the roof of the little lodge house, but where was the door in?
ref: 2019, Sue Lawrence, Down to the Sea:
text: Thorne lived in the old family home while Bear had taken the lodge house for his own place.
ref: 2021, Genevieve Turner, Cowboy, Take Me Home, page 214:
glosses: Alternative form of lodgehouse.
lodge houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lodge house
lodge-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lodge-houses
Senses: examples: text: The burial board for the district of A., purchased twenty acres of land for a cemetery, on which they erected two chapesl, a lodge-house, and a dead house, &c.
ref: 1868 April 4, “Practical Points”, in Justice of the Peace and Local Government Review, page 222:
text: This was the first lodge-house in America.
ref: 1884, The Albany Hand-book, page 87:
text: The house was a rambling, Arts and Crafts villa with a lodge-house by the gateposts of its gravelled drive.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 304:
glosses: Alternative form of lodgehouse.
lodge-houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lodge-house
plate meals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plate meal
outer measures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outer measure
fern cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fern cakes
Senses: examples: text: The last fern cake, and you hid it, you deceitful girl!
ref: 1978, Mary Burg Whitcomb, Tee-Bo in the Great Hort Hunt, page 68:
text: So both of us were satisfied when she whispered "Wid ye like my pie" and sometimes it stretched to a fern cake or an eiffel tower as well.
ref: 1998, Robert L. Aitken, Not Many Noble: A Story of the Lanarkshire Coalfield, page 210:
text: McCoy was in a booth with a pot of tea and a fern cake in front of him, that day's Tribune open on the table.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 378:
glosses: A Scottish confection consisting of a small round iced cake with a chocolate fern traced on top.
fern cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fern cake
pinabete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Guatemalan fir.
synonyms: word: Guatemalan fir
gapsite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gapsites
Etymology: From gap + site.
Senses: examples: text: On a gapsite between two crumbling tenements a bonfire was blazing and lethal-looking kids galloped around it.
ref: 2015, Jeff Torrington, Swing Hammer Swing!, page 197:
text: There were gapsites and half-demolished tenements but it was clear, after fifteen minutes of wandering around and climbing tenement stairs and craning out of landing windows, that the door-to-door team had successfully canvassed all of the buildings with a view of the warehouse.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 382:
text: Some students were spray-painting a gapsite wall with Basquiat-inspired graffiti while others were tearing across the concrete on skateboards.
ref: 2022, Louise Welsh, The Second Cut:
glosses: The location where a building has been torn down or demolished.
gapsites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gapsite
charcoalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: charcoalises
form: charcoalising
form: charcoalised
form: charcoalised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of charcoalize.
charcoalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of charcoalise
charcoalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of charcoalise
charcoalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of charcoalise
charcoalised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more charcoalised
form: most charcoalised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of charcoalized.
herepath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [hɛɹə pʰɑːθ]
Forms: form: herepaths
form: harepath
form: hereweg
form: hereway
Etymology: From Old English here (“host, army”), and Middle English path, peth, from Old English pæþ (“path, track”).
Senses: glosses: A wide Anglo-Saxon military road connecting burhs
examples: text: We walked along the herepath to Avebury.
glosses: The remains of an ancient path or way
obstruse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈstɹuːs/
ipa: /əbˈstɹus/
ipa: /ɑb-/
rhymes: -uːs
Forms: form: obstruser
form: more obstruse
form: obstrusest
form: most obstruse
Etymology: An alteration of abstruse.
Senses: examples: text: And what great advances and mighty progress are daily made in finding out obstruse secrets […]
ref: 1775, “The Tutor”, in A Present for a Son, London, page 82:
text: It is very clear that some readily understood method of acquiring the ability to use the mother tongue correctly, to supplant the present obstruse, hard to understand method, is eagerly sought by many[…]
ref: 1877, S. S. Saul, The English Language: Suggestions for Its Correct and Fluent Use Without Technical Grammar, San Leandro, California, page 8:
text: It has its obstruse philosophical appeal for the thinker, as was noticed in its metaphysical system[…]
ref: 1992 [1950], Martin Luther King Jr., “The Chief Characteristics and Doctrines of Mahayana Buddhism”, in The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Vol. I, University of California Press, page 326:
glosses: Abstruse.
Derived terms: obstrusive
obstruser
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of obstruse: more obstruse
Floridiana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Florida + -iana.
Senses: glosses: Artifacts relating to the state of Florida in the United States.
Hawaiiana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /həˌwaɪ.iˈɑnə/
Etymology: From Hawaii + -ana.
Senses: examples: text: Thai films even started integrating Hawaiiana itself, like in the very popular musical comedy Paradise Island (1969) starring Sombat Metanee.
ref: 2018 April 13, Apipar Norapoompipat, “Hip in a Hawaiian”, in Bangkok Post, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2025:
glosses: Artifacts relating to the state of Hawaii in the United States.
obstrusest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of obstruse: most obstruse
Fort Ancient
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the Fort Ancient archeological site in Ohio (which is, however, now thought to have been built by Ohio Hopewellian people and only later occupied by the Fort Ancient culture).
Senses: glosses: A Native American culture that flourished from c. 1000–1750 CE and predominantly inhabited land near the Ohio River valley in the areas of modern-day southern Ohio, northern Kentucky, southeastern Indiana, and western West Virginia.
interlockably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From interlockable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to be able to interlock.
lockably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From lockable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to be able to lock in position.
smell foxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smell fox
doer-upper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doer-uppers
Senses: examples: text: A doer-upper in just about every aspect... that he didn't mind. Its dimensions were vast, including a room at the back just big enough for a workshop, and the accommodation upstairs was perfect for him to live in, […]
ref: 2023, Paul Cude, Forged in Fire, Cursed by Cold, page 394:
glosses: Alternative form of doer-upperer.
doer-uppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doer-upper
frog galvanoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frog galvanoscopes
Senses: glosses: A galvanoscope made from a skinned frog's leg with electrical connections to a nerve.
frog galvanoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frog galvanoscope
siscons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of siscon
ready as I'll ever be
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Quite ready; prepared for something.
Foundation Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A designated date for the celebration of the founding of a nation, state, or military unit.
Florisbad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A provincial heritage site in Brandfort in the Free State province of South Africa, known for the Florisbad Skull that was discovered in 1932.
SAHRA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of South African Heritage Resources Agency.
PHRA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PHRAs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of provincial heritage resources authority.
PHRAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PHRA
supertermite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supertermites
Etymology: From super- + termite.
Senses: examples: text: […] but she ultimately decided that the opportunity to work with supertermites was more important than the politics.
ref: 2007, Glenn Taylor, Biogas!, page 34:
glosses: The Formosan termite (Coptotermes formosanus).
supertermites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supertermite
Formosan termite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Formosan termites
Senses: synonyms: word: supertermite
glosses: The termite Coptotermes formosanus, local to China and introduced elsewhere, and known for its large colonies that can consume wood at a rapid rate.
Formosan termites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Formosan termite
Trollingers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Trollinger
Trollingers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Trollinger
Frankenthal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Frankenthals
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Trollinger (“German grape variety”).
synonyms: word: Trollinger
extra: German grape variety
Frankenthals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Frankenthal
Franklin's grouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Canachites canadensis franklinii, a spruce grouse subspecies found in the Northwest Territories, British Columbia, and Alberta.
Franklin grouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Franklin's grouse.
Fmk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fmks
form: Fmk
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Finnish mark (“currency”).
Fmks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fmk
Francoprovençal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Franco-Provençal.
Four Hundred
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Four Hundred
Etymology: (US): Attributed to Ward McAllister.
Senses: qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: A short-lived oligarchy that replaced the democratic government of ancient Athens following the Athenian coup of 411 BCE.
glosses: A list of the people in New York fashionable society during the Gilded Age.
Frenchily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Frenchily
form: most Frenchily
Etymology: From Frenchy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: French grenadiers stood as sentinels, the old gentlemen town councillors had put on new faces, and donned their Sunday coats and looked at each other Frenchily, and said "Bon jour!"
ref: 1882, Heinrich Heine, Heinrich Heine's Pictures of Travel, page 181:
text: Frenchily dark and Frenchily sleek, he bowed himself almost double.
ref: c. 1930, Walter de la Mare, The Orgy:
glosses: In an exaggeratedly French manner.
Frenchiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of Frenchy: most Frenchy
Frenchier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of Frenchy: more Frenchy
Le Sagian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Le Sagian
form: most Le Sagian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Georges-Louis Le Sage (1724–1803), Genevan physicist known for his theory of gravitation, invention of an electric telegraph, and anticipation of the kinetic theory of gases.
mediobrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: For darkening any print area larger than a spot, mediobrome is the best friend of the bungling tyro with ten thumbs!
ref: 1949, PSA Journal, volume 15, page 604:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A variant of the bromoil process.
bromoils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bromoil
Frito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fritos
Etymology: From Spanish frito (“fried”).
Senses: examples: text: She picked up a Frito and pointed it at him. “Are you ever serious?”
“Not if I can help it.”
She stared at the Frito then licked it.
ref: 2015, Kylie Gilmore, An Ambitious Engagement:
glosses: A corn chip of the Fritos brand.
Derived terms: Frito pie
Fritos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Frito
Frise aileron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Frise ailerons
Etymology: Developed by Leslie George Frise (1897–1979) of the Bristol Aeroplane Company.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A kind of aileron that pivots on an offset hinge when pressure is applied to the control wheel or control stick, so as to project the leading edge of the aileron into the airflow and generate drag.
Frise ailerons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Frise aileron
dechristianizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dechristianizers
Etymology: From dechristianize + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who dechristianizes.
dechristianizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dechristianizer
palindromics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palindromic
autistic psychopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Hans Asperger.
Senses: examples: text: Autistic psychopathy (Asperger's syndrome) is a relatively static character disorder, unlike infantile autism which is a developing psychotic process.
ref: 1973, William M. Easson, Lane A. Gerber, Marvin E. Gottlieb, Psychiatry Continuing Education Review, page 54:
glosses: Synonym of Asperger's syndrome.
synonyms: word: Asperger's syndrome
wikipedia: Hans Asperger
shorba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃoɹ.ba/
rhymes: -ba
Forms: form: shorbas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chorba.
chorba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃoɹ.ba/
rhymes: -ba
Forms: form: chorbas
form: shorba
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish چوربا (çorba) and/or Classical Persian شورْبَا (šōrbā) or شورْبَاه (šōrbāh).
Senses: glosses: stews or rich soups found in national cuisines across the Middle East, Maghreb, Iran, Turkey, Southeast Europe, Central Asia, East Africa and South Asia
Related terms: word: şorba
roman: sorpa
word: сорпа
roman: şorpo
word: шорпо
roman: šorva
word: շորվա
word: شوربا
roman: Chagatai
word: شوربا
english: Ottoman Turkish
translation: Ottoman Turkish
word: چوربا
roman: śorbā
word: शोरबा
frisbee golf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of disc golf.
synonyms: word: disc golf
flying disc golf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of disc golf.
synonyms: word: disc golf
flying discs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flying disc
Fuerth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Fürth (“German city”).
Gbari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Gbagyi.
synonyms: word: Gbagyi
Gbagyi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Gbari
glosses: An ethnic group found predominantly in central Nigeria.
DSes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DS
Ganges shark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ganges sharks
Senses: glosses: Glyphis gangeticus, a species of requiem shark found in the Ganges River and Brahmaputra River of India and Bangladesh.
Ganges sharks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ganges shark
Georgina River disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Georgina poisoning
glosses: Fluoroacetate poisoning in cattle or sheep, caused by consumption of the plant Acacia georginae.
Georgina poisoning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Georgina River disease.
synonyms: word: Georgina River disease
Georgina gidgee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The plant Acacia georginae.
Ghashghai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Qashqai.
Ghashghai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Qashqai.
Gashgai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Qashqai.
Gashgai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Qashqai.
Ghurkhas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ghurkha
Gibbs-Helmholtz equation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Gibbs-Helmholtz equation
Etymology: Named after Hermann von Helmholtz (who introduced it in an 1882 paper) and Josiah Willard Gibbs.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
glosses: An equation for calculating changes in the Gibbs free energy of a system as a function of temperature: ((∂(G/T))/(∂T))ₚ=-H/(T²), where H is the enthalpy, T the absolute temperature and G the Gibbs free energy of the system, all at constant pressure p.
Ghon's complex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ghon's complexes
form: Ghon complex
Etymology: Named after Austrian pathologist Anton Ghon.
Senses: glosses: A kind of lesion in the lung caused by tuberculosis, consisting of a Ghon focus along with pulmonary lymphadenopathy within a nearby pulmonary lymph node, and retaining viable bacteria that may trigger secondary tuberculosis in later life.
Related terms: Ranke's complex
Ghon complex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ghon complexes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ghon's complex.
Ranke complex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ranke complexes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ranke's complex.
Ranke complexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ranke complex
Ghon complexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ghon complex
Ranke's complex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ranke's complexes
form: Ranke complex
Etymology: Named after German pulmonologist Karl Ernst Ranke.
Senses: glosses: An evolution of Ghon's complex, resulting from further healing and calcification of the lesion.
Kagan's reagent
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Henri B. Kagan.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Samarium(II) iodide when used as a solution for organic synthesis.
Glastonbury thorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Glastonbury thorns
Senses: glosses: A kind of hawthorn, Crataegus monogyna 'Biflora', found in and around Glastonbury, Somerset, England.
Glastonbury thorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Glastonbury thorn
Glastonbury chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Glastonbury chairs
Etymology: Possibly based on a chair made for Richard Whiting, the last Abbot of Glastonbury.
Senses: glosses: A kind of wooden chair, usually of oak, with crossing legs and sloped back.
Glastonbury chairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Glastonbury chair
Gloucs.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Gloucestershire.
GMW
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Global Money Week.
glyptals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glyptal
Gold Democrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gold Democrats
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A member or supporter of the National Democratic Party (United States).
Gold Democrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gold Democrat
Good Friday grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A flowering rush of species Luzula campestris.
GPH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GPHs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of guanidinopropionase.
glosses: Abbreviation of glycophorin.
GPHs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of GPH
GPase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GPases
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of guanidinopropionase.
GPases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of GPase
GTW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of gross train weight.
glosses: Initialism of gross trailer weight.
Guiano-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: examples: text: the Guiano-Brazilian subregion
glosses: Guiana
Gurwitsch ray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gurwitsch rays
Senses: glosses: A supposed ultraweak biophotonic ray emitted from living tissue, believed by the Russian embryologist Alexander Gurwitsch to promote mitosis.
Gurwitsch rays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gurwitsch ray
Guzerats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Guzerat
Guzerati
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Gujarati.
Guzarati
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Gujarati.
unidiomaticness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unidiomatic + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: There is throughout the matter of numerous misprints and linguistic unidiomaticness (including the misuse of the English definite article, e.g., pages 69, 70, 91.)
ref: 1971, Roy Temple House, editor, Books Abroad, volume 45, University of Oklahoma, →ISSN:
text: Interestingly enough, the author of these lines took the great E. Lane to task for the unidiomaticness of his translation of the Thousand and One Nights (1839).
ref: 2015, Ronak Husni, Daniel L. Newman, Arabic-English-Arabic-English Translation: Issues and Strategies, →ISBN:
text: Some of this stylistic unidiomaticness could be fairly easily eliminated. Thus, the first TT sentence 'If a person has a debt that covers his entire wealth, there is no obligation of zakát on him' might be recast more idiomatically as 'No-one whose debts are greater than their wealth is obligated to pay zakát.'
ref: 2016, James Dickins, Sándor Hervey, Ian Higgins, Thinking Arabic Translation: A Course in Translation Method: Arabic to English, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of unidiomaticity.
synonyms: word: unidiomaticity
Harghita
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Romanian Harghita, from Hungarian Hargita.
Senses: synonyms: Harghita Mountains
glosses: A volcanic mountain range in central Romania, part of the Eastern Carpathians.
examples: text: Romanians are in the majority in the region, but not in certain pockets – such as the county of Harghita, where Hungarians make up 85 percent of the population. […] In M[i]ercurea-Ciuc, capital of Harghita, Hungarians in June demonstrated outside the police station, demanding that the Romanian word for the police be replaced by the Hungarian word.
ref: 1990 November 12, Celestine Bohlen, “Ethnic Rivalries Revive in East Europe”, in The New York Times, section A, page 1:
glosses: A county in central Romania.
Marijampolė
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Lithuanian Marijampolė.
Senses: glosses: A city in Marijampolė County, Lithuania.
Birštonas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Lithuanian Birštonas.
Senses: glosses: A city in Lithuania.
Hampshires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hampshire
Hamprace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of Hampshire + landrace
Senses: glosses: A pig that is a cross-breed between the Hampshire and a landrace.
Hammer projection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hammer projections
Etymology: Described by Ernst Hammer in 1892.
Senses: topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: A certain map projection intended to reduce distortion in the regions of the outer meridians, where it is extreme in the Mollweide projection.
Hammer projections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hammer projection
US-ASCII
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From US (“United States”) + ASCII.
Senses: examples: text: Here, we see that the source encoding has fallen back to US-ASCII because none was explicitly set.
ref: 2009, Gregory T. Brown, Ruby Best Practices, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 189:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of ASCII, especially to differentiate it from 8-bit extended ASCII.
synonyms: word: ASCII
extra: especially to differentiate it from 8-bit extended ASCII
Recent
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: As classifier for a geological epoch coinciding with human presence (“Recent era”) introduced by by Charles Lyell in 1833.
Senses: examples: text: He [Charles Lyell] ignored Quaternary, a term he never accepted. The Recent addressed the age “tenanted by man,” which at the time barely extended beyond the chronicles of the Bible.
ref: 2012, Lydia Pyne, Stephen J. Pyne, The Last Lost World, Penguin, →ISBN:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The Holocene.
Recent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: As classifier for a geological epoch coinciding with human presence (“Recent era”) introduced by by Charles Lyell in 1833.
Senses: topics: astronomy
geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of the Holocene, particularly pre-21st century.
Hallwachs effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hallwachs effects
Etymology: After German physicist Wilhelm Hallwachs.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of photoelectric effect.
synonyms: word: photoelectric effect
wikipedia: Wilhelm Hallwachs
hall church
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hall churches
Senses: glosses: A church with a nave and aisles of approximately equal height, often united under a single immense roof.
hall churches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hall church
handie-talkie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handie-talkies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of walkie-talkie (“portable bidirectional radio transceiver”).
synonyms: word: walkie-talkie
extra: portable bidirectional radio transceiver
handie-talkies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handie-talkie
hardinggrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Harding grass.
Harding grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hardinggrass
Senses: glosses: The grass Phalaris aquatica.
Hispaniola pine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hispaniola pines
form: Hispaniolan pine
Senses: glosses: Pinus occidentalis, a pine tree endemic to the island of Hispaniola.
Hispaniolan pine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hispaniolan pines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hispaniola pine.
Hispaniola pines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hispaniola pine
Hispaniolan pines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hispaniolan pine
BSTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BST
Day-Stout-Warren algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Day-Stout-Warren algorithm
Etymology: Designed by Quentin F. Stout and Bette Warren in a 1986 paper, based on work done by Colin Day in 1976.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A method for efficiently balancing a binary search tree.
DSW
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Day-Stout-Warren algorithm.
glosses: Initialism of Deep South Wrestling.
DSW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DSWs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of duststorm warning.
qualifier: professional title
glosses: Initialism of doctor of social work.
DSWs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DSW
umami bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: umami bombs
Senses: glosses: A food or meal with a strong umami flavor.
umami bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of umami bomb
Hardy-Weinberg model
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hardy-Weinberg models
Senses: glosses: The genetic model arising from the Hardy-Weinberg principle.
Hardy-Weinberg models
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hardy-Weinberg model
bends dexter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bend dexter
Ramanujan-Hardy number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ramanujan-Hardy numbers
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of taxicab number.
synonyms: word: taxicab number
Related terms: Hardy-Ramanujan number
Ramanujan-Hardy numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ramanujan-Hardy number
Appell-Lerch sum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Appell-Lerch sums
Etymology: First studied by Paul Émile Appell and Mathias Lerch.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A generalization of Lambert series with the form
Lambert series
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lambert series
Etymology: Named for Johann Heinrich Lambert.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A series taking the form S(q)=∑ₙ₌₁ ᪲a_n(qⁿ)/(1-qⁿ).
wikipedia: Johann Heinrich Lambert