cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
punkette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: punkettes
Etymology: From punk + -ette.
Senses: glosses: A female member of the punk subculture.
dumb-show
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dumb-shows
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dumb show.
moisturisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moisturiser
moisturizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moisturizer
monologs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monolog
monologs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of monolog
monologued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of monologue
monologuing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of monologue
mercerise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mercerises
form: mercerising
form: mercerised
form: mercerised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of mercerize.
mercerises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mercerise
mercerising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mercerise
mercerised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mercerise
tonged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tong
calls off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of call off
calls in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of call in
calls up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of call up
caps off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cap off
carries out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of carry out
casts away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cast away
subject complement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subject complements
Etymology: From subject + complement.
Senses: examples: In the sentence "That is a flying car!", 'that' is the subject and 'flying car' is the subject complement.
In the sentence "That house seems haunted!", 'that house' is the subject and 'haunted' is the subject complement (in this case an adjective).
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A complement which is coupled to a subject.
Related terms: object complement
clausal complement
predicative
calling in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of call in
calling off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of call off
calling up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of call up
capping off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cap off
carrying out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.
ref: 2013 June 7, Ed Pilkington, “‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 6:
glosses: present participle and gerund of carry out
casting away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cast away
called in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of call in
called up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of call up
called off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of call off
capped off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cap off
carried out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of carry out
harp shackle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harp shackles
Senses: glosses: a shackle shaped so that the opening is smaller than the circumference of the loop.
Synonyms: harp closure
call ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of call up
caves in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cave in
caving in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cave in
caved in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cave in
chalks up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chalk up
harp closures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harp closure
chalking up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chalk up
chalked up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chalk up
checks in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of check in
checked in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of check in
checks out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of check out
checking out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of check out
checked out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of check out
zooms in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of zoom in
zooming in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of zoom in
zoomed in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: zoomed-in
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of zoom in
zooms out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of zoom out
zooming out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of zoom out
zoomed out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: zoomed-out
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of zoom out
object complement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: object complements
Etymology: From object + complement.
Senses: examples: In the sentence "Venezuela declared herself independent of Spain first", 'herself' is the object and 'independent of Spain' is the complement.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A complement which is coupled to an object.
Related terms: subject complement
clausal complement
predicative
harp closure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harp closures
Senses: glosses: harp shackle
looses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loose
looses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of loose
looses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of loses.
Mittelschmerz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: ... pain can sometimes be quite severe and may be mistaken for the onset of acute appendicitis, but it generally lasts only a few hours, sometimes accompanied by slight bleeding. Many women do not experience Mittelschmerz, and its causes ...
ref: 1993, Irene M. Franck, David M. Brownstone, The Women's Desk Reference, Viking Adult, page 448:
text: For example, if you experience Mittelschmerz during your mucus patch, it might be a sign you are very close to ovulation. There's another benefit to knowing about Mittelschmerz. If you experience this as a pain in conjunction with other signs of ...
ref: 1996, John F. Kippley, Sheila Kippley, The Art of Natural Family Planning, Couple to Couple League, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of mittelschmerz.
mythoplasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mythoplasms
Etymology: From mytho- +Ancient Greek πλάσμα (plásma).
Senses: glosses: the subject of a myth; the material covered in a given myth.
quoteworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quoteworthy
form: most quoteworthy
Etymology: From quote + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: The Earl of Lauderdale's speech is especially quoteworthy in the light of the horrors that he had just heard.
ref: 1964, Lawrence Wright, Home Fires Burning: The History of Domestic Heating and Cooking, page 110:
text: Furthermore, whilst we would have been pleased to have been able to give you some quoteworthy examples of men cruelly dominating the choice of video movie rentals, these simply did not appear in the diaries either.
ref: 1999, David Gauntlett, Annette Hill, TV Living: Television, Culture and Everyday Life, page 158:
text: Do not forget quoteworthy comments from stakeholders in the process.
ref: 2004, Kenneth L. Rosenauer, Storycrafting: A Process Approach to Writing News, page 229:
glosses: Worthy of being quoted; quotable.
Duna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Düna.
Senses: glosses: The Daugava (a river in eastern Europe).
Synonyms: Daugava
yamstick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yamsticks
form: yam-stick
form: yam stick
Etymology: From yam + stick.
Senses: examples: text: She thrust her yamstick into the hard ground to reach the prized tuber.
glosses: A rod-shaped implement used by the aboriginal people of Australia to dig yam and as a combat weapon.
Usonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /juːˈsoʊni.ənz/
Senses: examples: text: A St. Louis professor endeavors to invent a new name for the United States, a cabalistic affair, USONA, composed of the initial letters of the words United States of North America ; the people he would designate as Usonians.
ref: 1898, “The Flaming Sword”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), vol. 13 no. 33, page 9:
text: One wonders if many Usonians would be willing to accept the possibility that former US policies had anything to do with such a development […]
ref: 1992, Dilnawaz Ahmed Siddiqui, Abbass F. Alkhafaji, The Gulf War, page 55:
glosses: plural of Usonian
Synonyms: US Americans
medical student
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medical students
Senses: examples: text: If our criterion for extra remuneration is enduring greater personal sacrifice than others, then logic requires that we compare the medical student's discomfort to whatever levels of discomfort others are experiencing who work while the medical student is in school.
ref: 2003, Michael Albert, Parecon: Life After Capitalism, page 32:
glosses: A student enrolled at a medical school, who is training to become a physician.
Synonyms: student doctor
perilune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perilunes
Etymology: From peri- + Latin lūna (“moon”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The point of an elliptical lunar orbit where the distance between the satellite and the Moon is at its minimum.
Synonyms: pericynthion
periselene
Related terms: periapsis
Usonianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Usonian + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: That Ulibarri sees the Ecuadorean Indian as too burdened by a tradition of dehumanizing servitude is perhaps more revealing of his deep-seated Usonianism than of the Indians' real character.
ref: 1995, Bruce-Novoa, “Through the Eye of the Condor: The Limitless Horizons of Literary Space”, in María Duke dos Santos, Patricia De la Fuente, editors, Sabine R. Ulibarrí, page 98:
glosses: A custom, idea, or practice peculiar to the United States.
examples: text: Already in the early process of developing a Usonian nationalist ideology, or Usonianism, […]
ref: 2003, José F. Buscaglia-Salgado, Undoing Empire: Race and Nation in the Mulatto Caribbean, page 22:
glosses: A preference for the US and the ideas it represents.
examples: text: Broadacres was the ultimate landscape combining the best of the cities and the country, organicism, decentralization and usonianism.
ref: 1979, American Society for Environmental History, Environmental Review, page 21:
text: "Usonianism," an architectural style that articulated Frank Lloyd Wright's social and economic principles of "usonian democracy," […]
ref: 2002, April 15, “Frank Lloyd Wright's "Usonianism" Will Be Explored in Talk Sponsored by UB Art History Department”, in NewsCenter, State University of New York at Buffalo:
text: Architect Frank Lloyd Wright pioneered Usonianism as the path to affordable modern residential architecture.
ref: ca 2008, Colorado Historical Society, Nomination of the Nelson House to the Colorado State Register of Historic Properties:
glosses: The philosophical ideal of Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian architecture.
Synonyms: sense: custom peculiar to the USA
word: Americanism
hissy fits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hissy fit
trifurcate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin trifurcus, from tri- (“three”) + furca (“fork”).
Senses: glosses: Forked, with three tines or points.
trifurcate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: trifurcates
form: trifurcating
form: trifurcated
form: trifurcated
Etymology: From Latin trifurcus, from tri- (“three”) + furca (“fork”).
Senses: examples: text: 2. Branches of the insular part; the MCA may usually bifurcate (78%), trifurcate (Russo, 2011) or quadfurcate (10%) here.
ref: 2022 August 11, Seyho Cem YUCETAS, “THE ANTERIOR ARTERIAL CIRCULATION OF THE BRAIN”, in HEALTH & SCIENCE 2022-II, volume II, Efe Akademi Yayınları, →ISBN, page 12:
glosses: To divide or fork into three channels or branches.
Related terms: bifurcate
trifurcation
quadfurcated
laicistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more laicistic
form: most laicistic
Etymology: From laic + -istic or laicist + -ic.
Senses: glosses: secular, laic
french window
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: french windows
Senses: examples: text: Light filtered in through the blinds of the french windows. It made tremulous stripes along the scrubbed pine floor.
ref: 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 12, in Crime out of Mind:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of French window.
window shopping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of window-shopping.
shop window
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shop windows
form: shopwindow
Etymology: From Middle English shop window, shop wyndowe, equivalent to shop + window.
Senses: examples: text: The passenger carriage was recognised as one of the "shop windows" of the railways and thus an essential element in the important work of achieving a greatly improved public image.
ref: 1963 March, Brian Haresnape, “New B.R. carriages to compete for the long-distance passenger”, in Modern Railways, page 165:
text: The enthusiasm with which the private industry has treated the high speed rail concept can do the Corporation some good, and maybe even encourage the completion of the originally proposed electrification from New Haven to Boston. It will then have a high speed 'shop window', comparable with any in the world.
ref: 1985, Rodger Bradley, Amtrak: The US National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Blandford Press, page 168:
synonyms: display case
display window
store window
window
glosses: A large window at the front of a shop, behind which items for sale are displayed.
Synonyms: show window
Related terms: window-shopping
Zgierz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Zgierz.
Senses: glosses: A city and county of Lodz Voivodeship, Poland.
punkster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: punksters
Etymology: From punk + -ster, with connections to youngster.
Senses: glosses: Someone, especially a young person, associated with the punk subculture or a performer of punk-influenced music.
Related terms: bluester
funkster
rocker
punkling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: punklings
Etymology: From punk + -ling.
Senses: glosses: A young strumpet
glosses: Someone young associated with the punk movement or music.
Related terms: punkster
ska punk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ska punks
form: ska-punk
Senses: examples: text: Thus, ska punk managed to revitalize punk through the popularization of a more unusual genre.
ref: 2019, Kevin L. Ferguson, Pop Goes the Decade: The Nineties, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 126:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A style of music combining ska and punk rock popular in the 1990s.
glosses: Someone associated with, or fond of, this style of music.
purrer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purrers
Etymology: From purr + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that purrs.
pushball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pushballs
Etymology: From push + ball.
Senses: glosses: A team game where players attempt to push a large inflatable lightweight ball into the opponent's goal.
glosses: The large ball used for this game.
pustuliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pustuliform
form: most pustuliform
Etymology: From pustule + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Having the shape of a pustule
firk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɜː(ɹ)k/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: firks
form: firking
form: firked
form: firked
form: ferk
Etymology: From Middle English firken, ferken (“to proceed, hasten”), from Old English fercian (“to bring, assist, support, carry, conduct, convey, proceed”), from Proto-West Germanic *farikōn, frequentative of Proto-Germanic *faraną (“to travel, fare”). Akin to Old English faran (“to fare, go”), English fare; if so, equivalent to fare + -k. Cognate with Old High German fuora (“benefit, sustenance, support”), Swabian fergen, ferken (“to bring, dispatch”).
Senses: glosses: To carry away or about; carry; move.
examples: text: I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret him.
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
glosses: To drive away.
glosses: To rouse; raise up.
examples: text: A wench is a rare bait, with which a man / No sooner's taken but he straight firks mad.
ref: 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: To move quickly; go off or fly out suddenly; turn out.
firk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɜː(ɹ)k/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: firks
form: ferk
Etymology: From Middle English firken, ferken (“to proceed, hasten”), from Old English fercian (“to bring, assist, support, carry, conduct, convey, proceed”), from Proto-West Germanic *farikōn, frequentative of Proto-Germanic *faraną (“to travel, fare”). Akin to Old English faran (“to fare, go”), English fare; if so, equivalent to fare + -k. Cognate with Old High German fuora (“benefit, sustenance, support”), Swabian fergen, ferken (“to bring, dispatch”).
Senses: glosses: A stroke; lash.
firk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɜː(ɹ)k/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: firks
form: ferk
Etymology: Probably an alteration of freak.
Senses: glosses: A freak; trick; quirk.
Derived terms: firkery
flabellation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flabellations
Etymology: From Latin flabella (“fan”) + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act of keeping cool by use of a fan or fan-like instrument.
flexagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flexagons
Etymology: Blend of flex + hexagon
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A flat model made from folded strips of paper that can be folded, or flexed, to reveal a number of hidden faces.
Derived terms: hexaflexagon
hexahexaflexagon
tetraflexagon
teraelectronvolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teraelectronvolts
Etymology: From tera- + electronvolt.
Senses: glosses: 10 ¹² electronvolts, abbreviated as TeV.
electronvolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electronvolt
rynt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪnt/
rhymes: -aɪnt
Forms: form: roynt
form: runt
Etymology: Likely from a corruption of "rowan tree", a phrase which would have been chanted in order to drive off witches, since the tree was believed to be a ward against evil.
Senses: examples: text: Rynt thee.
glosses: stand off; move away (said by milkmaids to their cows after milking them)
Related terms: aroint
runte
arunt
zinc finger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zinc fingers
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A structure characterized by the coordination of one or more zinc ions, found in some proteins, that typically binds to specific sequences of DNA and regulates genes.
graph state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graph states
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of a class of multipartite entangled quantum states that can be interpreted using the mathematics of graph theory
bowl-out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bowl-outs
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A series of deliveries at an unguarded wicket at the end of a non-first-class cricket match, used to decide the winner of a drawn match.
Synonyms: bowl-off
Related terms: super over
multipartite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + partite.
Senses: glosses: Divided into multiple parts
glosses: Involving multiple nations; multilateral
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing a system of three or more quantum states
topics: government
politics
synonyms: multiparty
glosses: Involving several different political parties.
Derived terms: multipartiteness
cluster state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cluster states
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of a subset of graph states that can be fitted to a regular cubic lattice
negative pressure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: negative pressures
Senses: glosses: Pressure that is less than normal atmospheric pressure
glosses: The tension in a liquid that is thermodynamically metastable with respect to the vapour phase; especially that in the xylem of vascular plants that allows transpiration to great heights
bowl-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bowl-offs
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: bowl-out
sightsee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sightsees
form: sightseeing
form: sightsaw
form: sightseen
form: sight-see
Etymology: Back-formation from sightseeing.
Senses: examples: text: The German team liked each other, ate, drank, sightsaw, sunbathed and worked their horses together. All were firmly rooting for Ludwig. A German victory was all that mattered.
ref: 1985, Jilly Cooper, Riders:
text: It was their first time on the Continent and they sight-saw for a week in Paris […].
ref: 2013, A Scott Berg, Wilson, Berkley, published 2014, page 142:
glosses: To go sightseeing; to visit places of interest in a city, town or geographical area.
exogeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From exo- + -geny.
Senses: glosses: Influence by external forces.
glosses: Growth on the outside or near the surface.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A division of woody plants whose stem is formed by successive accretions to the outside of the wood under the bark
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A phase in the life cycle of a hair follicle in which a hair exits the follicle.
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Exogamy.
nocturnality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nocturnalities
Etymology: From nocturnal + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition or habit of being active at night.
LHC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LHCs
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of light-harvesting complex.
LHC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
coordinate_terms: FCC
glosses: Initialism of Large Hadron Collider.
mentorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mentorships
Etymology: From mentor + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: The mentorships were plenty, starting with Brian Derdall, a sort of rain-man genius in Engineering, along with T-man the technology guru, new hire peers Alex and Joel, and my new senior co-workers Ivan, Robert, and a sort of management mentor John.
ref: 2013, Mike Doiron, Thread of Life: An Adoption Story, →ISBN, page 74:
text: In some mentorship programs, the mentees get a say in whom they will be paired with. A mentee may be drawn to make certain connections based on a sense of their professional influence.
ref: 2022 November 29, Kwame Anthony Appiah, “Must I Mentor a White Law Student When I Requested a Black Mentee?”, in The New York Times Magazine:
glosses: The role or state of being a mentor.
Derived terms: e-mentorship
Usona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːˈsoʊnə/
Forms: form: USONA
Etymology: An acronym of the United States of North America, a 19th-century name for the United States of America, variously attributed to "a St. Louis professor" or "a Canadian, James P. Murray of Toronto".
Senses: examples: text: Usona (U. S. of A.), a land that looked like a lost land to us two years ago, was our biggest buyer, says a local expert.
ref: 1899 August 3, “German letter (Chemnitz, July 15, 1899)”, in American Wool and Cotton Reporter, volume 13, page 924 [24]:
text: Everything of value recording during recent years by British pharmacists has been incorporated in the monographs, and it is interesting to notice how freely the pages of our own only commentary on the British Pharmacopœia—'Pharmacopedia,' to wit—have been drawn upon for information. But this was only to be expected, since our brethren in Usona are nothing if not careful and judicious compilers. Much original work has doubtless been done by American pharmacists engaged in the production of the new national medicine-book, but the volume is, nevertheless, best described as an excellent compilation.
ref: 1905 July 15, “The New U.S. Pharmacopœia”, in The Pharmaceutical Journal, London, page 70:
glosses: The United States of America.
Derived terms: Usonan
Usonia
Usonian
proximity mine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proximity mines
Senses: topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A mine with a proximity fuse.
Related terms: proxy mine
earpieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earpiece
eccentrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eccentrical
form: most eccentrical
Senses: glosses: eccentric
electrocauterization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: electrocauterizations
Etymology: From electro- + cauterization.
Senses: glosses: the act of electrocauterizing
electrocauterize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: electrocauterizes
form: electrocauterizing
form: electrocauterized
form: electrocauterized
Etymology: From electro- + cauterize.
Senses: glosses: To cauterize with electricity (a surgical technique).
Related terms: electrocauterization
electrocauterizer
non-player characters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-player character
electrocauterizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of electrocauterize
electrocauterizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of electrocauterize
unproblematical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unproblematical
form: most unproblematical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unproblematic.
electrocauterized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of electrocauterize
electrocauterizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrocauterization
electrocauteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrocautery
ellipsometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ellipse + -o- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: An optical technique for investigating the dielectric properties of thin films, especially those used in fabricating semiconductors
Derived terms: ellipsometric
embellisher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embellishers
Etymology: From embellish + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who embellishes.
glosses: A machine or device used to embellish.
topics: comics
literature
media
publishing
glosses: Synonym of inker.
synonyms: word: inker
Derived terms: rimbellisher
embellishers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embellisher
eloquency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eloquencies
Etymology: From Latin ēloquentia. Doublet of eloquence, via Old French.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of eloquence.
synonyms: word: eloquence
elliptical galaxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elliptical galaxies
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A type of galaxy with an approximately ellipsoidal shape and a smooth, nearly featureless image.
Synonyms: ElG
E
Derived terms: giant elliptical galaxy
gE
dwarf elliptical galaxy
dE
DEG
Related terms: lenticular galaxy
dwarf spheroidal galaxy
elliptical galaxies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elliptical galaxy
pycrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pykrete.
embrangles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of embrangle
embrangling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of embrangle
embrangled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of embrangle
brangling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brangle
brangling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: branglings
Senses: examples: text: […] she doth not set Businesse back by unquiet branglings, and findefaulting Quarrells […]
ref: 1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English:
glosses: A quarrel, a tiff.
brangled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brangle
extraordinariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extraordinarinesses
Etymology: From extraordinary + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property or state of being extraordinary.
Synonyms: abnormality
atypicality
weirdness
strangeness
apostrophizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of apostrophize
Stymphalides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin Stymphālides, from Ancient Greek Στυμφαλίδες ὄρνιθες (Stumphalídes órnithes, “birds of Stymphalus”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: In Greek mythology, a flock of metallic man-eating birds that haunted Lake Stymphalis in Arkadia. They were slain by Herakles as part of his sixth Labour, who took advantage of their sensitive sense of hearing.
Related terms: Stymphalian bird
unattentive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unattentive
form: most unattentive
Etymology: From un- + attentive.
Senses: glosses: Not attentive.
discuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discus
particle beam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: particle beams
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A beam of atoms, ions or subatomic particles that has been accelerated by some device and collimated by magnets and/or electrostatic lenses
Derived terms: particle beam weapon
video arcade game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: video arcade games
Senses: glosses: An arcade game that is a video game (and not, for example, a mechanical device).
boofy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊfi/
Forms: form: boofier
form: boofiest
Etymology: From bouffant + -y.
Senses: examples: text: My hair was so boofy this morning it took 10 minutes of brushing to get it looking decent.
text: He appeared in person much as he did on television – big, boofy even when well groomed – like a version of Ginger Meggs grown up and gone into politics.
ref: 2004, Margaret Simons, Latham's World: The New Politics of the Outsiders, page 38:
text: Steve trotted onto the field: a young footballer with a boofy, 1980s haircut.
ref: 2005, John Harms, The Pearl: Steve Renouf's Story, page 81:
text: I'm smiling, my tie is askew, and I'm sporting a boofy big hairdo, like all the other kids in my class.
ref: 2010, James Dack, Stephen Dack, Larry Writer, Sunshine and Shadow: A Brothers' Story, unnumbered page:
glosses: Of hair, puffy, or having extra volume, not necessarily desired; having such hair; see bouffant.
Related terms: boof
boofy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊfi/
Forms: form: boofier
form: boofiest
Etymology: Apparently from first element of boofhead + -y. First recorded in the 1990s.
Senses: examples: text: Dave, the big boofy builder, finally solved the mouse problem the big boofy bloke way: by crushing it unceremoniously under his boot.
text: My friend Sharn has a friend in her late 50s who is very keen to maintain sexual relations with her husband, a big boofy bloke, a mechanic by trade.
ref: 2006, Judy Hardy-Holden, Love in the Afternoon, page 58:
text: Suddenly the carriage was full of boofy schoolboys all excitedly chesting and punching each other and stretching their limbs as they tried to sit still.
ref: 2011, Dave Graney, 1001 Australian Nights: A Memoir, page 116:
text: She likes Doug Wright, believes behind the hard facade lives a warm, boofy bloke not unlike her Dave.
ref: 2011, John Sullivan, Firebug, page 72:
glosses: Brawny, overtly masculine and rather dim-witted.
Related terms: boofhead
vestigia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vestigium
vestigium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vestigia
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin vestīgium. Doublet of vestige.
Senses: glosses: A vestige.
BIG suit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BIG suits
form: BIG
form: B.I.G.
form: B.I.G. suit
Etymology: BIG (“Biological Isolation Garment”) + suit
Senses: glosses: An airtight full-body suit intended to protect wearer from biologically hazardous persons, serums, materials, or lifeforms.
BIG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BIGs
Senses: glosses: A biological insulation garment; an air-tight, full-body suit intended to prevent the spread of contaminants.
Synonyms: BIG suit
BIG
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Abbreviation of business is a game.
Related terms: english: business is war
translation: business is war
word: BIW
english: business is business
translation: business is business
word: BIB
brokeback
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From break + back; first used for "hunchback" in Carson McCullers' 1943 novella The Ballad of the Sad Café.
Senses: examples: text: Damn those brokeback tramps making a mess of our city.
glosses: Hunchbacked.
examples: text: The brokeback bridges in the hills sadden me: this place used to be beautiful.
text: There will be underground rivers, vast and wide, and huge cavernous killing zones with mist-wreathed stalagmite islands and waterfalls thundering into the subterranean depths — and stepping-stones and brokeback bridges to traverse under ...
ref: 2007, Charles Stross, Halting State, →ISBN, page 134:
text: As he drove Webb looked out at the brokeback houses, the ancient cars rusting in dirt driveways. At the ruined furniture in the weeds and ruptured refrigerators and stoves lying on their sides in the front yards. Disgraceful how they lived ...
ref: 2014, James W. Hall, The Big Finish: A Thorn Novel, →ISBN:
glosses: Broken; derelict.
brokeback
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Brokeback
Etymology: From the title of Annie Proulx's 1997 short story "Brokeback Mountain"; popularised by the 2005 film of the same name.
Senses: examples: text: I don't really think Frodo and Sam were gay, even if a couple of the scenes seemed a little brokeback to me.
text: You see, your words ain't worth no money, I ain't spoke back, bitch
All of you niggas hang together on some Brokeback shit
ref: 2023, “Talk'n That Shit!”, in Michael, performed by Killer Mike:
glosses: Homoerotic; homosexual, gay.
Derived terms: brokeback marriage
Rybnik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland.
Płock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Polish Płock.
Senses: glosses: A city in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland.
Derived terms: Płock County
costage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒstid͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɒstidʒ
Forms: form: costages
Senses: glosses: price
Opole
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Oppeln
Senses: glosses: A city in southern Poland in Silesia.
Elbląg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɛlblɔŋk/
Forms: form: Elblag
form: Elbing
Senses: glosses: A city in Poland.
Gorzów Wielkopolski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gorzow Wielkopolski
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Gorzów Wielkopolski.
Senses: glosses: One of two capitals of Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland.
Wałbrzych
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland.
Brokeback
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of brokeback in the homosexual sense.
Włocławek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in northern Poland.
Zielona Góra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Zielona Góra.
Senses: glosses: A city in western Poland.
coetus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Pulsatilla. — Cutting pain in the uterus; uterus sensitive to the touch during examination or coetus.
ref: 1907, Progress, VII, page 70:
text: Coetus without co-existence is demonic. What are you, you man and woman who are about to enter into sexual relations?
ref: ante''' 1968, Karl Barth quoted in: Elizabeth Achtemeier’s The Committed Marriage (1976), page 160
glosses: Rare spelling of coitus.
sacer vates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sacri vates
form: sacervates
Etymology: From Latin sacer vātēs (“sacred poet”).
Senses: examples: text: To these attributes of the sacer vates we can add the religious radicalism that prevented both men from making a profession of their vocation.
ref: 1970, Michael Hamburger, Contraries: Studies in German Literature:
glosses: A divine or sacred poet, or a poet regarded as such.
USO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: USOs
Etymology: Initialism.
Senses: coordinate_terms: UFO
UAP
glosses: Unidentified submerged object or unidentified submarine object.
USO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Initialism.
Senses: examples: text: HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO SUPPORT THE TROOPS IF I CAN’T REGALE THEM WITH TALES OF WHOREPUNCHING AND SKULLFUCKING? THREE WORDS: INDIETITS USO SHOW
ref: 2007, Jeph Jacques, Indietits: SUPPORT OUR TROOPS:
glosses: United Service Organizations
toto caelo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtəʊtəʊˈsiːləʊ/
Forms: form: toto cælo
Etymology: From Latin tōto (“whole, all”) + caelō (“heaven”), literally “by the whole [extent] of heaven”.
Senses: examples: text: All which three, viz. Things as they are in themselves knowable; Actions as they depend on us, in order to Happiness; and the right use of Signs in order to Knowledge, being toto cælo different, they seemed to me to be the three great Provinces of the intellectual World, wholly separate and distinct one from another.
ref: 1689, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, London: Thomas Basset, Book 4, Chapter 20, p. 362:
text: The Ingævones, according to Pliny’s own account, were the Chauci, &c. who were all on the west, not the east, so that he errs toto cælo.
ref: 1789, John Pinkerton, An Enquiry into the History of Scotland Preceding the Reign of Malcolm III. or the Year 1056, London: George Nicol, Volume 2, Appendix, p. 204:
text: […] where local agents differed toto cælo in capacity and character, where the personnel was continually changing, the outcome was necessarily varied.
ref: 1903, W. E. B. Du Bois, chapter 2, in The Souls of Black Folk, Chicago: McClurg, page 31:
topics: law
glosses: By diametrical opposition, as far apart as possible.
kidney ore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kidney ores
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Hematite in a reniform habit.
provocator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: provocators
Etymology: Partly borrowed from Middle French provocateur and its etymon Latin prōvocātor, and partly from provocate + -or. Doublet of provocateur.
Senses: synonyms: provocant
provocateur
glosses: One who engages in provocation.
Related terms: provoke
deadborn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: dead-born
Etymology: From dead + born.
Senses: examples: text: Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press, without reaching such distinction, as even to excite a murmur among the zealots.
ref: 1777, David Hume, “My Own Life”, in Essays Moral, Political, Literary:
text: Only a mother and deadborn child ever buried in the one coffin.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 6: Hades]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Stillborn.
dead-born
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of deadborn.
stroppier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of stroppy: more stroppy
stroppiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of stroppy: most stroppy
skiddier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of skiddy: more skiddy
skiddiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of skiddy: most skiddy
slummier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of slummy: more slummy
slummiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of slummy: most slummy
smuttier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of smutty: more smutty
smuttiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of smutty: most smutty
snakier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of snaky: more snaky
snakiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of snaky: most snaky
snarlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of snarly: more snarly
snarliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of snarly: most snarly
stretchier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of stretchy: more stretchy
stretchiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of stretchy: most stretchy
unrulier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of unruly: more unruly
unruliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of unruly: most unruly
unwarier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of unwary: more unwary
unwariest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of unwary: most unwary
hangman's nooses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hangman's noose
ramps up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ramp up
reads out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of read out
gandy dancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gandy dancers
form: gandy-dancer
Etymology: Uncertain; see Wikipedia for various speculative etymologies.
Senses: examples: text: Gandy dancer—A section hand or track laborer.
ref: 1929, Vernon W. Saul, “The Vocabulary of Bums”, in American Speech, volume 4, number 5, page 340:
text: The oddest gandy-dancer on the railroads in Manitoba during the summer of 1926 was a 6-ft. 4-in. American medical student named Ben Spock.
ref: 1959 May 18, “Bush Teachers”, in Time, retrieved 14 Sep 2008:
text: In railroad slang, a gandy dancer is a track worker, one who lays or maintains track.
ref: 1981 May 3, Edward C. Burks, “Amtrak Changes on Schedule”, in New York Times, retrieved 11 Jun 2014:
glosses: A railway laborer, especially a member of a crew which carries rails and affixes them to ties.
Related terms: gandy dance
gandy dancing
reckons for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reckon for
reckons upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reckon upon
reckons on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reckon on
gandy-dancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gandy-dancers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gandy dancer.
reading out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of read out
reckoning for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reckon for
reckoning on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reckon on
reckoning upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reckon upon
reckoned for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reckon for
reckoned on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reckon on
reckoned upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reckon upon
ramping up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ramp up
ramped up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ramp up
rings in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ring in
ringing in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ring in