cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
convictive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more convictive
form: most convictive
Senses: examples: text: […]Arguments but such as are so convictive, that a mans Understanding shall be forced to confesse that it is impossible to be otherwise then I have concluded.
ref: 1653, Henry More, An Antidote against Atheisme, or An Appeal to the Natural Faculties of the Minde of Man, whether There Be Not a God, London: […] Roger Daniel, […], →OCLC:
text: But yet more distinctly consider, why doth he here represent himself under this character, “He that liveth and was dead,” but that he might put us in mind of that most convictive argument of his love, his submitting to die for us
ref: c. 1700, John Howe, The Redeemer's Dominion over the Invisible World:
text: He made quite other; while that moon he made
To shine there, at the first love’s covenant,
Shines still, convictive as a marriage-ring
Before adulterous eyes
ref: 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “(please specify either |book=1 to 9 or the page)”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC:
glosses: convincing
Related terms: convictively
convictiveness
tidifes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tidife
sweepingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sweeping + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The sweepingness of the reforms was altogether unexpected.
glosses: The quality of being sweeping; broadness of scope.
wheelchair lift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheelchair lifts
Senses: glosses: A machine, typically consisting of a mobile platform, used to transport a wheelchair or other mobility device, up or down stairs or across some other barrier to wheeled vehicles.
rotten apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rotten apples
Senses: glosses: A bad person, especially one who has a corrupting influence on others: a bad apple.
Derived terms: there's a rotten apple in every barrel
soap dish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soap dishes
form: soapdish
Senses: glosses: A dish-like container to hold a bar of soap, often mounted to the wall of a bathroom.
morning draught
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morning draughts
Senses: examples: text: Rose and drank a good morning draught there with Mr. Sheply, which occasioned my thinking upon the happy life that I live now, had I nothing to care for but myself.
ref: 1660 April 14, Samuel Pepys, Diary:
glosses: An alcoholic drink taken as breakfast, or early in the morning.
Synonyms: morning pint
morning draughts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morning draught
birdlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birdlet
nacres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nacre
pinnothere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinnotheres
form: pinnotere
Etymology: From Latin pīnotērēs, from Ancient Greek πινοτήρης (pinotḗrēs).
Senses: examples: text: The shell-fish called a Nacre, liveth even so with the Pinnotere, which is a little creature like unto a Crabfish, and as his porter or usher waits upon him, attending the opening of the Nacre[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: A small crab of the genus Pinnotheres, which live symbiotically in the shells of certain molluscs.
Synonyms: pea crab
pinnotheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinnothere
pea crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pea crabs
Senses: glosses: A crab of the genus Pinnotheres.
Synonyms: pinnothere
pea crabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pea crab
ill-favouredness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪlˈfeɪvədnɪs/
ipa: /ɪlˈfeɪvɚdnɪs/
Forms: form: ill-favoredness
Etymology: From ill-favoured + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Those of Mexico […] so love to have great dugs, that they strive to have their children sucke over their shoulders. So would we set forth ilfavordnesse [translating laideur].
ref: , II.12
glosses: The quality of being ill-favoured; ugliness.
ill-favoured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ill-favoured
form: most ill-favoured
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ill-favored.
Derived terms: ill-favouredness
lousy evil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: if Heraclitus and Pherecydes could have changed their wisdome with health, and by that meanes, the one to have rid himselfe of the dropsie, and the other of the lowsie-evill [translating maladie pediculaire], which so sore tormented them, they would surely have done it[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: The seed bruised mixed with honey, and applied, or made up with wax, takes away the marks and black and blue spots of bruises, or the like, the roughness or scabbiness of the skin, as also the leprosy, and lousy evil.
ref: 1652, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician, London, published 1816:
glosses: Phthiriasis.
counterpeize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of counterpoise.
Joe Blakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Joe Blake
Joe Blakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I've had enough, mate. A bloody man is starting to get the Joe Blakes and the dry retches and if a man keeps this up I'm sure to finish in the rat house with the DTs at this rate.
ref: 1998, Keith B. Saunders, Myall Road, page 91:
glosses: The shakes; delirium tremens.
Joe Blake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Joe Blakes
form: joe blake
Senses: examples: text: ‘[…]Snakes kill. Nobody fools around with Joe Blakes, girlie. Bloke who fools around with snakes is a flamin′ idiot.’
ref: 1998, Bryce Courtenay, Jessica, unnumbered page:
text: There was Bill, holding the biggest flamin′ snake I have ever seen.[…]And away he trundles, with his Joe Blake wrapped around himself.
ref: 2007, Archie Gerzee, WOW! Tales of a Larrikin Adventurer, page 68:
text: “I really don′t think ...” Jim laughs, “I really don′t think the Russian knew the Joe Blake was in there when he passed you the pannikin at Kelly′s Bore. And then, when you drank from it —”
ref: 2007, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, page 7:
glosses: A snake.
Related terms: english: the shakes
translation: the shakes
word: Joe Blakes
joe blakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of joe blake
joe blakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Joe Blakes (“the shakes”).
misacknowledge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪsəkˈnɒlɪdʒ/
Forms: form: misacknowledges
form: misacknowledging
form: misacknowledged
form: misacknowledged
Etymology: From mis- + acknowledge.
Senses: examples: text: I saw him at Ferrara, in so pitteous a plight[…]; misacknowledging [translating mesconnoissant] both himselfe and his labours, which unwitting to him, and even to his face, have been published both uncorrected and maimed.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: How many do I ordinarily see that mis-acknowledge poverty; how many that wish for death or that pass it without any alarm or affliction?
ref: 1901, Robert S Littell, The Living Age, volume CCXXVIII:
glosses: To fail to acknowledge; to acknowledge wrongly.
misacknowledging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misacknowledge
unsensibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unsensible + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Crantor had great reason to withstand the unsensiblenesse [translating indolence] of Epicurus, if it were so deeply rooted, that the approaching and birth of evils might gainsay it.
ref: , II.12
glosses: Insensibility; lack of feeling.
airlinese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɛɹlaɪˈniz/
Etymology: From airline + -ese.
Senses: glosses: The jargon used by airline companies.
rollaboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rollaboards
form: roll-aboard
Etymology: From roll + aboard.
Senses: examples: text: Convinced overhead bins will bust open, rollaboards will rain down like enemy fire and oxygen masks will drop, I clutch the armrests and begin to sweat like Roy Jones Jr. in the 12th round of a prizefight.
ref: 2005, Indianapolis Monthly, page 284:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A wheeled suitcase that is carry-on luggage.
rollaboard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: roll-aboard
Etymology: From roll + aboard.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: (of luggage) having wheels for use as carry-on luggage
rollaboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rollaboard
hamstringer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hamstringers
Etymology: From hamstring + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who hamstrings.
hamstringers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hamstringer
lightfield camera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lightfield cameras
Senses: glosses: A plenoptic camera: one that uses a microlens array to capture four-dimensional information about the light rays in a scene, allowing for later refocusing etc.
coenestopathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cenesthopathic
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a localized distortion of awareness of one's own body.
oneiroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oneiro- + -oid, from Ancient Greek ὄνειρος (óneiros) (oneiros, "dream").
Senses: examples: text: Oneiroid state is described as narrowing of consciousness together with multiple scenic hallucinations. Such a state may occur in schizophrenia, but may also be observed in patients under excessive care and dependent upon others.
ref: a. 2005, Krishan Vij, Textbook of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, page 406:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Characterized by a dream-like or nightmare-like state, often as part of schizophrenia.
Cotard's syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after French neurologist Jules Cotard.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: A rare mental disorder in which the patient believes he or she is dead (figuratively or literally), does not exist, or has lost parts of the body.
Synonyms: Cotard delusion
Cotard delusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps the most bizarre of all is Cotard delusion, in which the sufferer believes he is dead and cannot be convinced otherwise.
ref: 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 81:
glosses: Cotard's syndrome.
vesiculobullous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vesiculo- + bullous.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Characterized by the formation of vesicles or bullae.
vesiculitides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vesiculitis
vesiculations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vesiculation
jotun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjəʊtʊn/
ipa: /ˈjoʊtʊn/
ipa: /ˈjoʊtən/
ipa: /ˈjɔːtʊn/
Forms: form: jotuns
form: jötnar
form: Jotun
form: jötun
form: Jötun
form: jotunn
form: Jotunn
form: jötunn
form: Jötunn
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old Norse jǫtunn, from Proto-Germanic *etunaz (“giant”). Doublet of ettin.
Senses: examples: text: Some with disdain his reasons heard, / While others wisht the cause deferr'd. / Then Ormur spake, in speech of scorn, / Ormur, the friend of Asbiorn, / Who, daring singly to engage, / A jotun, proved his fatal rage.
ref: 1831, Walter Savage Landor, “Gunlaug”, in Gebir, Count Julian, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, 64, New Bond Street, →OCLC, page 279:
text: When Christianity became the religion of the people the trolls gradually assumed something of the role formerly played by the more powerful Jotuns.
ref: 1908, The Elementary School Teacher, volume 8, Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, →OCLC, page 214:
text: When Odin was still young – before he had hanged himself on Yggdrasil and drunk from the Well of Wisdom – his eyes had fallen on a jotun named Loki.
ref: 1967, Ingri D'Aulaire; Edgar Parin D'aulaire, “Loki, the God of the Jotun Race”, in Norse Gods and Giants, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, ISBN 978-0-385-04908-5; republished as D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths, New York, N.Y.: New York Review of Books, 2005, ISBN 978-1-59017-125-7, page 42
text: The world in which the æsir and jötnar play out their struggle has its own set of place-names but is essentially recognizable as Scandinavia. There are rivers, mountains, forests, oceans, storms, cold weather, fierce winters, eagles, ravens, salmon, and snakes.
ref: 2001, John Lindow, “The Historical Background”, in Handbook of Norse Mythology (Handbooks of World Mythology), Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 2:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A member of a race of giants who usually stand in opposition to the Æsir and especially to Thor.
wikipedia: Arthur Rackham
Der Ring des Nibelungen
Fafnir
Freyja
Richard Wagner
Related terms: Jötunheimr
jotuns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jotun
Jotun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jotuns
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of jotun.
Jotuns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jotun
Jotunn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jotunns
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of jotunn.
Jötunn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jötunns
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of jötunn.
Jötunns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jötunn
Jotunns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jotunn
jotunn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jotunns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jotun.
jötun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jötuns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jotun.
Related terms: Jötunheimr
Jötun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jötuns
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of jötun.
Related terms: Jötunheimr
ommochrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ommochromes
Senses: glosses: Any of several visual pigments, occurring in the eyes of crustaceans and insects, that are responsible for the eye's colour
Related terms: ommatin
ommin
periorificial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + orificial.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Around the orifices of the body.
orificial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪʃəl
Etymology: From orifice + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: Orificial atherosclerotic lesions are much less likely to respond to balloon dilation alone because they are essentially composed of aortic plaque, which cannot be effectively cracked and remodeled in a durable manner by a balloon alone.
ref: 2007, Courtney M. Townsend, Sabiston Textbook of Surgery:
text: The orificial invasion is compensated for not only by clitoral excitation but also by the early elaboration of an identificatory and introjective link with the seductive and intrusive object constituted by the mother(insofar as she also relays the father's desire).
ref: 2013, Jerome A. Winer, The Annual of Psychoanalysis, volume 32:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the orifices of the body.
Derived terms: periorificial
suborificial
Related terms: orifice
Brandt syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: First described by Brandt (a Swedish dermatologist) in 1936.
Senses: glosses: acrodermatitis enteropathica
hypoferremia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypoferraemia
Etymology: From hypo- + ferro- + -emia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: iron deficiency in the blood.
Related terms: hypoferremic
sideropenia
hypoferraemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hypoferremia.
sideropenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sideropenias
form: sideropaenia
Etymology: From sidero- + -penia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of iron deficiency.
synonyms: word: iron deficiency
Derived terms: sideropenic
sideropenias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sideropenia
coenesthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cenesthesis
form: coenaesthesis
form: cœnæsthesis
form: cœnesthesis
Etymology: From coen- + -esthesis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Common sensation or general sensibility, as distinguished from the special sensations which are located in, or ascribed to, separate organs, such as the eye and ear; general perception of one's own body.
Related terms: coenesthetic
billholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: billholders
Etymology: From bill + holder.
Senses: glosses: Someone who holds a bill or acceptance.
examples: text: The ordinary pocket-wallet is designed to receive bank-bills only when they are folded several times upon themselves […] I also intend to limit my claim to a bill-holder that is constructed of an outside back and inside lining […]
ref: 1876, Specifications and Drawings of Patents Issued from the U.S. Patent Office:
glosses: A device by means of which bills, etc., are held.
billholders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of billholder
sopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soppers
Etymology: From sop + -er.
Senses: examples: 19th century, Thomas Hood, Ode to St. Swithin
The very Dryads are not dry, but soppers, / And from the Houses' eaves / Tumble eaves-droppers.
glosses: Someone who sops.
soppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sopper
diterebene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + terebene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: colophene
catholical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more catholical
form: most catholical
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of catholic.
orchitides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orchitis
arango
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈɹæŋɡəʊ/
Forms: form: arangos
form: arangoes
form: rango
Etymology: Rango is the earlier form, attested from 1644. From Malagasy rango (“long and thin”).
Senses: examples: text: There we purchased two sheep, one for two strings of arangoes, for the other I gave a note upon Mr. Walker for a bar of salt.
ref: 1794, James Watt, Journal of James Watt: Expedition to Timbo Capital of the Fula Empire in 1794:
glosses: A rough carnelian bead, formerly used in Africa as currency when buying slaves for the slave trade.
arangoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arango
rangoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rango
rangily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rangily
form: most rangily
Etymology: From rangy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The crowds saw her first as she warmed up for her qualifying heat in the 100 meters. She was almost six feet tall, flat chested, long necked, and appeared rather rangily relaxed as she crouched for the start.
ref: 1971, Richard D. Mandell, The Nazi Olympics, page 214:
glosses: In a rangy manner.
araneomorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: araneomorphs
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the Araneomorphae, a suborder of spiders whose fangs cross with a pinching action.
Derived terms: araneomorph funnel-web spider
araneomorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of araneomorph
booklung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: booklungs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of book lung.
booklungs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of booklung
multiaxis
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + axis.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to more than one axis.
diaxial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + axial.
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to two axes; biaxial.
glosses: Referring to a situation in which two substituents on a cyclohexane ring are both in axial position
Derived terms: diaxially
pseudodiaxial
diaxially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From diaxial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a diaxial fashion; along two axes.
wortlore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wort-lore
Etymology: From wort + lore.
Senses: examples: text: They will come up each year from between the Rhododendrons, and will send their sweet subtle odour through the open windows into the house. And as I write I am told of a recipe showing how, in the Wortlore of old, the firm white petals were esteemed of use.
ref: 2012, Henry A. Bright, A Year in a Lancashire Garden - Page 6:
text: This may often have been the case in many instances of horse whispering tricks, but the interview with former race-horse trainer, Paul Harriss, for Alphard magazine reveals that there is more to the true whisperer than mere tricks and wortlore: [...]
ref: 2013, Suzanne Ruthven, Melusine Draco, Shaman Pathways - Black Horse, White Horse:
glosses: The traditional knowledge of the medicinal and nutritional use of plants, herbs, and worts.
Related terms: herblore
botany
dechunk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dechunks
form: dechunking
form: dechunked
form: dechunked
Etymology: From de- + chunk.
Senses: glosses: To unpack or break apart from a chunk.
dechunking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dechunk
dechunks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dechunk
dechunked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dechunk
superstitionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superstitionless
form: most superstitionless
Etymology: From superstition + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without superstition; unsuperstitious.
shark-jumping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From shark + jumping, from jump the shark.
Senses: examples: text: Christian Lander (2008), Stuff White People Like, →ISBN, page 171: “But if you must declare a shark-jumping moment, the best bet is to say that the show jumped between the two “Who Shot Mr. Burns?” episodes.”
text: To me this dinner, with its tasting notes and the rest, seemed like the dernier cri in shark-jumping foodie bullshit.
ref: 2012 April 20, Oliver Thring, “Me and my spoon”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), The Guardian:
glosses: Becoming unbelievable or disappointing due to plot developments.
catlore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cat + lore.
Senses: examples: text: If catlore is scarce in the above genres, it develops prominence in the realm of superstition and belief.
ref: 1973, Arkansas State University, Mid-South folklore: Volumes 1-5:
text: These two images in catlore — the watchful cat and the cat emblem of the transit from life to death — merge in the cat clues appearing in mystery novels.
ref: 1978, The Armchair Detective: Volume 11:
glosses: folklore relating to cats
doglore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dog + lore.
Senses: examples: text: One touch of doglore makes the whole world kin.
ref: 1928, Scribner's magazine: Volume 84:
text: The main cliches of doglore are well represented. There is a singing dog; a nervous postie ("some of the blokes who do this route call it death row"); a disgusted terrace-house dweller weary of the sight and odour of dog crap on her nature strip […]
ref: 1990, The Bulletin: Volumes 5743-5750:
glosses: folklore relating to dogs
perianthia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perianthium
perianthium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perianthia
Etymology: From New Latin perianthium, from peri- + Ancient Greek ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”) + -ium. Doublet of perianth.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The perianth.
glist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glisten.
Senses: examples: text: Phosphate ore, mineral salt, graphite, glist, barites, abrasive
ref: 2018, Tianming Gao, Vasilii Erokhin, Xiuhua Zhang, Handbook of Research on International Collaboration, Economic Development, and Sustainability in the Arctic, page 168:
glosses: glimmer; mica
pavage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pavages
Etymology: Compare French pavage.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paviage.
politicoethical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more politicoethical
form: most politicoethical
Etymology: From politico- + ethical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to politics and ethics.
Bakerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Baker + -ian, named after Henry Baker, its original sponsor in 1775.
Senses: glosses: Applied to prize lectures by fellows of the Royal Society on natural history or experimental philosophy.
Berlusconian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Berlusconian
form: most Berlusconian
Etymology: From Berlusconi + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Silvio Berlusconi (1936–2023), Italian politician and businessman.
Related terms: Berlusconism
Bhabhan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bhabhan
form: most Bhabhan
Etymology: From Bhabha + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Homi K. Bhabha (born 1949), postcolonial theorist.
ommochromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ommochrome
Bloomian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bloomian
form: most Bloomian
Etymology: From Bloom + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Harold Bloom (1930–2019), American literary critic and editor.
presuppositionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more presuppositionally
form: most presuppositionally
Etymology: From presuppositional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a presuppositional manner or context.
presuppositionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From presuppositional + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being presuppositional.
presuppositionalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From presuppositional + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: It is sometimes supposed that extensional propositions—in particular Russellian propositions, which are adopted in some neo-Millian views about proper names—are incompatible with intensionalism and presuppositionalism.
ref: 2004, Jerrold J. Katz, Sense, Reference, and Philosophy, page 115:
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: A school of Christian apologetics that presumes Christian faith is the only basis for rational thought.
Related terms: presuppositionalist
performativity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: performativities
Etymology: From performative + -ity.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The capacity of language and expressive actions to perform a type of being.
examples: text: Keeping both American theater and its double within the sight lines, I would like to look at MPD as a pathology in which both both performativity and social performance are outstripped by a mise-en-scène that veers past the merely performative and dangerously close to theater itself, threatening to erase the differences in its very misappearance.
ref: 2002, Anthony Kubiak, Agitated States: Performance in the American Theater of Cruelty, →ISBN:
glosses: The quality of being performative.
Synonyms: performatism
performativism
performativities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of performativity
Post-Zionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postzionism
form: Postzionism
Etymology: From post- + Zionism.
Senses: glosses: The doctrine that Zionism fulfilled its ideological mission with the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, and that Zionist ideology should therefore be considered at an end.
Canaanism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Canaan + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A cultural and ideological movement of the early 20th century, claiming that much of the Middle East had been a Hebrew-speaking civilization in antiquity, and hoping to create a Hebrew nation embracing both Arabs and Jews.
Related terms: Canaanite
psittacids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psittacid
psittacid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psittacids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the family Psittacidae of African and neotropical parrots
Post-Zionist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Post-Zionist
form: most Post-Zionist
form: postzionist
form: Postzionist
Etymology: From post- + Zionist.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Post-Zionism.
Post-Zionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Post-Zionists
form: postzionist
form: Postzionist
Etymology: From post- + Zionist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of Post-Zionism.
Laclauian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Laclauian
form: most Laclauian
Etymology: From Laclau + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Ernesto Laclau, Argentinian political theorist.
lacklusterness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lacklustreness
Etymology: From lackluster + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being lackluster.
lacklustreness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lacklustre + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lacklusterness.
Caputoan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Caputoan
form: most Caputoan
Etymology: From Caputo + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to John D. Caputo (born 1940), philosopher and theologian.
Cavellian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Cavellian
form: most Cavellian
Etymology: From Cavell + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Stanley Cavell (1926–2018), American philosopher.
poshoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In conversation with Spencer Matthews, posh star of the poshoes’ reality TV show Made In Chelsea [...]
ref: 2012, Caitlin Moran, “Celebrity Watch, April 20”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), The Times:
glosses: plural of posho
Cohenian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Cohenian
form: most Cohenian
Etymology: From Cohen + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Hermann Cohen (1842–1918), German-Jewish philosopher, one of the founders of the Marburg School of Neo-Kantianism.
psittaciform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Belonging or relating to the order Psittaciformes of parrots and some other birds.
Cixousian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Cixousian
form: most Cixousian
Etymology: From Cixous + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Worsham understands that Junker needs to validate Cixousian theory through composition pedagogy in order for her, like other compositionists, to find it to be a useful theory.
ref: 1997, Sidney I. Dobrin, Constructing Knowledges:
text: The Cixousian sentence is manipulated from back to front by its intrinsic infinity: the sentence is no longer a logical unit, a synthetic entity, a pause in the concept, but a stream with no banks or external constraints[…]
ref: 2005, Lee A. Jacobus, Regina Barreca, Hélène Cixous: Critical Impressions, page 81:
glosses: Of or relating to Hélène Cixous (born 1937), French feminist writer, philosopher, and literary critic.
Cornellians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cornellian
nonpoaching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + poaching.
Senses: examples: text: […] deliberate collusive monopsonies, or "shut-in" devices, including nonpoaching agreements […]
ref: 1973, William H. Hutt, The strike-threat system, page 112:
text: Nonpoaching covenants, preventing the employee from seeking to hire other employees, need to be limited to specific categories of senior employees whose departure would damage the business […]
ref: 2006, Philip M. Berkowitz, Thomas Müller-Bonanni, International labor and employment law, page 190:
glosses: Forbidding the poaching of employees by another company.
stormfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stormful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being stormful.
stormfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stormfully
form: most stormfully
Etymology: From stormful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a stormful manner.
stormingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stormingly
form: most stormingly
Etymology: From storming + -ly.
Senses: examples: a stormingly bad temper
glosses: So as to storm; with rage and passion.
xenofree
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: xeno-free
Etymology: From xeno- + -free.
Senses: examples: text: xenofree cryopreservation methods
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Without the use of material taken from other organisms.
Related terms: axenic
xenobiotic
gnotobiotic
kidfluence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of kid + influence.
Senses: examples: text: Game makers found they didn't have to appeal to parents as buyers as they could activate the pressure of "kidfluence."
ref: 2002, Stephen Kline, Greig de Peuter, “Ghosts in the Machine: Postmodern Childhood, Video Gaming, and Advertising”, in Daniel Thomas Cook, editor, Symbolic Childhood, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 266:
topics: business
marketing
glosses: The influence that children exert, both directly and indirectly, on the consumer decisions made by their parents.
Related terms: pester power
strongylid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more strongylid
form: most strongylid
Senses: examples: text: strongylid worms
glosses: Alternative form of strongyloid.
strongylid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strongylids
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of strongyloid.
strongylids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strongylid
Trisagion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Trisagia
form: Trisagions
Etymology: From Medieval Latin trisagion, from Byzantine Greek τρισάγιον (triságion), from τρίς (trís, “thrice”) + ἅγιον (hágion, “holy”).
Senses: examples: text: With these sure graces, while busy tongues are crying out for a drop of cold water, mutes may be in happiness, and sing the Trisagion in heaven.
ref: 1716, Thomas Browne, edited by Samuel Johnson, Christian Morals, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, published 1756, Part I, p. 24:
topics: Christianity
glosses: A liturgical prayer that runs “Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal, have mercy on us” in English, typically sung before certain scriptural readings at Eucharistic liturgies in Eastern Christianity, and during the Good Friday service in the Roman Rite.
examples: text: The holy praise, the prayer dealing with holiness par excellence, would be an inept designation in view of the use of the Trisagion in the liturgy.
ref: 1909, David de Sola Pool, “Appendix A”, in The Kaddish: Inaugural Dissertation, W. Drugulin in Leipzig, pages 100–101:
glosses: The kedushah prayer, or Isaiah 6:3 specifically.
Synonyms: Tersanctus
Sanctus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: sanctus
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin sānctus (“holy”), the opening word of the prayer in that language. The prayer is taken from Isaiah 6:3 and Matthew 21:9. Doublet of saint.
Senses: glosses: A prayer in Christian liturgy, beginning “Holy, holy, holy …” and typically said or sung as a hymn shortly before the anaphora.
Derived terms: black sanctus
teathe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: teathes
form: teathing
form: teathed
form: teathed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tath.
teathe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teathes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tath.
teathes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teathe
teathing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of teathe
teathed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of teathe
pseudogothic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudogothic
form: most pseudogothic
Etymology: From pseudo- + Gothic.
Senses: examples: text: Obviously, the style of romantic pseudogothic architecture was not invented by Isabel - the building at Puławy was preceded by several similar creations abroad and in Poland.
ref: 1980, Marek Rostworowski, The National Museum in Cracow, the Czartoryski Collection:
text: Even a regular reader of the most dreadful pseudogothic periodicals must have felt a frisson of horror.
ref: 1997, Jan Bondeson, A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities, page 97:
text: The pseudogothic trappings that disfigure the first two cantos of Childe Harold are absent in Childe Harold III and IV, which we may discuss here as a unit even though the last canto was completed two years later in Italy.
ref: 2004, Harold Bloom, English Romantic Poetry, page 295:
topics: architecture
literature
media
publishing
glosses: sham-Gothic
pseudogamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + -gamous.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting, pseudogamy.
exoplasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exoplasms
Etymology: From exo- + -plasm.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of ectoplasm.
exoplasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exoplasm
crénelé
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: crenelee
form: crenely
form: crenellé
form: crenellee
form: crenelly
Etymology: From French crénelé.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Embattled.
Parthenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek παρθένος (parthénos, “virgin”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Spartan Partheniae, or sons of unmarried women.
Parthenic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek παρθένος (parthénos, “virgin”).
Senses: glosses: A sea at the east end of the Mediterranean.
ichneumonidan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ichneumonidae + -an
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the Ichneumonidae, or ichneumon wasps.
ichneumonidan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ichneumonidans
Etymology: Ichneumonidae + -an
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the Ichneumonidae.
ichneumonidans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ichneumonidan
hulch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hulches
Etymology: From Middle English *hulch, from Old English hylċ, related to Old English holc (“hollow, cavity”). Compare holk, hunch.
Senses: glosses: A hunch, hump (on the back).
glosses: A hook or nook.
Derived terms: english: pell-mell, confusedly
translation: pell-mell, confusedly
word: hulch and stulch
Related terms: by hulch and stulch
hulches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hulch
santonic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid, C₁₅H₂₀O₄, distinct from santoninic acid, obtained from santonin.
Related terms: photosantonic acid
photosantonic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + santonic acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid, C₁₅H₂₂O₅, produced by long exposure to sunlight of santonin in acetic acid solution.
woodlore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wood + lore.
Senses: examples: text: The man who understands woodlore identifies with nature because he participates instead of intrudes, and this is the reason why a true hunter has a better appreciation of wildlife and conservation[…]
ref: 1972, Field and Stream, volume 77, number 3, page 28:
text: A bit of shaping and fine tuning and you have what you need to make fire. A bow- drill. Peeling the loose bark from a dead vine as Ray Meers had shown me on one of his woodlore courses the previous year, […]
ref: 2005, Andrew Lindsay, The Washing Machine Man's Travels - Page 53:
glosses: Skills relating to living in a woodland environment; woodcraft.
breadman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breadmen
Etymology: From bread + -man.
Senses: glosses: A man who delivers bread.
breadmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breadman
capillary bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capillary beds
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Any of many reticulated network of capillaries that supply blood to the organs inside the body.
Fregoli delusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fregoli delusions
Etymology: Named after the Italian actor Leopoldo Fregoli, who was renowned for his ability to make quick changes of appearance during his stage act.
Senses: glosses: The often paranoid delusion that different people are in fact a single person who changes appearance or is in disguise. It may be related to a brain lesion.
wikipedia: Leopoldo Fregoli
Synonyms: delusion of doubles
Fregoli syndrome
Fregoli syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Fregoli delusion
pressback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pressbacks
Etymology: From press + back.
Senses: glosses: A wooden chair of the Victorian period, having a pattern pressed into the crest rail and/or splat by means of a steam press.
pressbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pressback
flyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fly + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The charismatic 29-year-old Harlemite is the premier gladiator in a subterranean realm where the quest for flyness is the prime directive.
ref: 1999, Vibe, volume 7, numbers 1-2:
text: The fly personae in these films influenced a wave of black contemporary youth who resurrected flyness and its continuum in hip-hop culture.
ref: 2004, Cheryl Lynette Keyes, Rap music and street consciousness, page 194:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: The quality of being sharp or smart in appearance.
Harlemite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Harlemites
Etymology: From Harlem + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: A kind-lipped Harlemite who smelled heavily of Dial soap and Listerine.
ref: 2021, Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl, Bloomsbury, page 102:
glosses: An inhabitant of Harlem, Manhattan, USA.
Harlemites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Harlemite
flyingfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flyingfish
plasma accelerations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plasma acceleration
interstitial fluid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interstitial fluids
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: A solution found in tissue spaces that inundates and moistens cells in multicellular animals.
underattendance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + attendance.
Senses: examples: text: […] any honest student of conditions in rural churches is confronted by staggering and depressing statistics of overchurching and underattendance in some sections, and of entire lack of attendance due to no churching at all in others.
ref: 1925, Charles Josiah Galpin, Empty Churches: The Rural-urban Dilemma, page 7:
text: The underattendance of boys at high schools was a cause of regular lament by all, including girl students who were left without escorts after school social functions.
ref: 2002, Jane H. Hunter, How Young Ladies Became Girls, page 198:
glosses: Attendance too infrequently, or by too few.
overcuriously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊvəˈkjʊəɹɪəsli/
Forms: form: more overcuriously
form: most overcuriously
Etymology: From overcurious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: And Plato deemes it to be a vice of impiety, over-curiously to enquire after God, after the world, and after the first causes of things.
ref: , II.12
glosses: With too much curiosity; in an overcurious manner.
calorifiant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more calorifiant
form: most calorifiant
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of calorifacient.
sciaenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin sciaena (“a kind of sea fish, perhaps a kind of grayling or ombre: Thymallus thymallus”), from Ancient Greek σκίαινα (skíaina, “a sea fish, probably either Sciaena umbra or Umbrina cirrosa”), + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the Sciaenidae, a family of marine fishes.
sciaenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sciaenoids
Etymology: Latin sciaena (“a kind of sea fish, perhaps a kind of grayling or ombre: Thymallus thymallus”), from Ancient Greek σκίαινα (skíaina, “a sea fish, probably either Sciaena umbra or Umbrina cirrosa”), + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the Sciaenidae, a family of marine fishes.
sciaenoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sciaenoid
bilection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bilections
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of bolection.
bilections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bilection
Barzunian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Barzunian
form: most Barzunian
Etymology: From Barzun + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Jacques Barzun (1907–2012), French-born American historian and philosopher.
Feyerabendian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Feyerabendian
form: most Feyerabendian
Etymology: From Feyerabend + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Paul Feyerabend (1924–1994), Austrian-born philosopher of science.
Schumacherian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Schumacherian
form: most Schumacherian
Etymology: From Schumacher + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to E. F. Schumacher (1911–1977), influential economist and statistician.
Adornoan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Adornoan
form: most Adornoan
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Adornoian.
Adornoian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Adornoian
form: most Adornoian
form: Adornoan
Etymology: From Adorno + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969), German sociologist, philosopher, and musicologist known for his critical theory of society.
scream one's head off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: screams one's head off
form: screaming one's head off
form: screamed one's head off
form: screamed one's head off
Senses: glosses: To scream out to one's full capacity.
dossil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dossils
Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French dosil (“spigot”), from Late Latin ducīculus, diminutive from Latin dux (“guide”). See duct, duke.
Senses: examples: text: This new treaty being settled, and a dossil of lint with a snip of plaister applied to our adventurer's wound, he parted from the brother of his dear Emilia […].
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A small roll or plug used to stop a sore, wound, etc.; a pledget.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A roll of cloth for wiping off the face of a copperplate, leaving the ink in the engraved lines.
dossils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dossil