cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
misrelating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misrelate
ruiniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹuːˈɪnəˌfɔːm/
ipa: /ɹuˈɪnəˌfɔɹm/
Forms: form: more ruiniform
form: most ruiniform
Etymology: From ruin + -iform.
Senses: examples: text: ruiniform karst
text: ruiniform landscape
text: ruiniform relief
text: ruiniform sandstone
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having the appearance of ruins, or of the ruins of buildings.
haematozoa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haematozoon
glosses: plural of haematozoan
haematozoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haematozoa
form: haematozoan
form: hæmatozoon
form: hematozoon
Etymology: From haemato- + -zoon.
Senses: synonyms: blood parasite
glosses: Any parasite in the class Aconoidasida (formerly subclass Haematozoa) inhabiting the blood.
hematozoa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hematozoon
hematozoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hematozoa
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of haematozoon.
intrastaminal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + staminal.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Located within the stamen whorl of a flower.
extrastaminal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + staminal.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Located outside the stamen whorl of a flower.
ballader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balladers
Etymology: From ballad + -er.
Senses: synonyms: balladmonger
balladist
glosses: A writer of ballads.
balladers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballader
footmanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From footman + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: As the precious ‘lad’ grew older, and divers indoor potentates died off, the housekeeper had power to push her nephew on to pageship, footmanship, and divers other similar crafts, even to the final post of butler […]
ref: 1844, Martin Farquhar Tupper, chapter 23, in The Crock of Gold, London: Richard Bentley, page 187:
text: […] a rich-liveried footman was lounging in an easy chair, with his heels as high as his head […] and from this comfortable position he budged not an inch at the importunate summons […]. “What!” cried the primitive and provincial serving man, “don’t you answer the drawing-room bell?” “Not unless they persewere,” was the cool response of his footmanship.
ref: 1854, Grace Greenwood, Haps and Mishaps of a Tour in Europe, Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, page 51:
text: […] I think […] you’d better change your work for something out of doors, where I won’t trouble you so much. Can you do anything else but footmanship?
ref: 1909, Gelett Burgess, Lady Méchante, Cambridge University Press, Book IV, Chapter Eight, p. 378:
text: They too were ranged in order of rank: four chamberlains, four Hussars, four Chasseurs, and four butlers—these were the degrees within the hierarchy of footmanship.
ref: 1949, Lajos Zilahy, translated by John Pauker, The Dukays, New York: Prentice-Hall, Part Three, Chapter 5, p. 177:
glosses: The post or position of footman; the skill or art of a footman.
examples: text: Both twaine of them doe straine themselues and lay on footemanship,
Who may best runne with all his force the tother to outstrip,
ref: 1567, Arthur Golding, transl., The XV Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, entytuled Metamorphosis, Book 1:
text: […] your Foales by scoping & galloping thereon, shall be brought to such nimblenesse, strength, and true footemanship, that they shall not only haue a most excellent braue trotte, but also during theyr lyues […] they shalbe frée from that foule vice of stumbling.
ref: 1593, Gervase Markham, chapter 1, in A Discource of Horsmanshippe, London: Richard Smith:
text: I’ll raise a kennel of hounds, shall hunt him so,
As all his footmanship shall scarce prevail
To keep his carcase from their bloody fangs.
ref: 1616, Christopher Marlowe, edited by Israel Gollancz, Doctor Faustus, London: J.M. Dent, published 1897, Scene 12, p. 61:
text: And yet for All That, says the Fox, I have Baffled more of ’em with My Wiles and my Shifts, then ever You did with your Footmanship.
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[The Fables of Abstemius, &c.] Fab[le] Fable 325. A Fox and a Hare. (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC, page 284:
text: The People in [Worcestershire] have been more particularly famous than any other for good Footmanship; and there have been, and still are among them, some of the fleetest Runners in England […]
ref: 1727, Daniel Defoe, A tour thro’ the whole island of Great Britain, London: J. Osborn, et al, published 1742, Letter 7, p. 351:
glosses: The skill or ability to run (of humans or animals).
allochroic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From allo- + -chroic.
Senses: examples: text: allochroic membrane
text: allochroic particles
glosses: Of changeable colour.
dicarbonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + carbonic.
Senses: examples: text: Oxalic acid is a dicarbonic acid.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing two carbon residues, or two carboxyl radicals.
gibbousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gibbous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being gibbous.
copland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Perhaps from obsolete cop (“summit, hilltop”) + land.
Senses: examples: text: For th'surface of a soyle, a Copland, Copland cry , Till to your shouts the Hills with Ecchoes all reply.
ref: 1622, Michael Drayton, A Chorographicall Description of All the Tracts, Rivers, Mountains, Forests, and other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britain, page 64:
glosses: A piece of ground terminating in a point or acute angle.
copland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cop (“police officer”) + land.
Senses: examples: text: When that thirteen alarm sounded, everything in copland stopped, all focus was on the radio for the coordinates.
ref: 2007, Randy Jurgensen, Robert Cea, Circle of Six: The True Story of New York's Most Notorious Cop Killer and the Cop who Risked Everything to Catch Him.:
text: Last he'd heard, Aoki was in line for a jump to Homicide, the Holy Grail in copland.
ref: 2010, C.B. Forrest, Slow Recoil:
text: The other had a face that Rodney Glass would never forget. Not since they'd been nose to nose in that interview room in copland.
ref: 2012, James Patterson, Kill Alex Cross, page 462:
glosses: The world of police officers and police activity.
IBU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IBUs
Senses: examples: text: On a tour of the cavernous and gleaming BrewDog plant in Ellon, just north of Aberdeen, Dickie happily batted around terminology – IBU, ABV, pH, haze, present gravity, headspace oxygen – with PhD-level microbiologists working in the lab.
ref: 2016 March 24, Jon Henley, “The aggressive, outrageous, infuriating (and ingenious) rise of BrewDog”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: beer
beverages
food
lifestyle
glosses: Initialism of International Bitterness Unit: a measure of the bitterness of beer.
inelaborate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inelaborate
form: most inelaborate
Etymology: First attested in 1650; from in- + elaborate, from Latin ēlabōrātus.
Senses: synonyms: unelaborate
glosses: Not elaborate; crude; unfinished.
recompact
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recompacts
form: recompacting
form: recompacted
form: recompacted
Etymology: From re- + compact.
Senses: examples: text: Recompact my scattered body.
ref: 1633, John Donne, A Valediction: Of My Name:
glosses: To compact again.
recompacted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recompact
recompacting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recompact
recompacts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recompact
Wilsonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪlˈsəʊnɪ.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: From Wilson + -ian.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Of or relating to US politician Woodrow Wilson or his policies.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Of or relating to British politician Harold Wilson or his policies.
examples: the Wilsonian idea of the outsider
glosses: Of or relating to English writer Colin Wilson (1931–2013).
Related terms: Wilsonianism
Wilsonianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wilsonism
Etymology: From Wilsonian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: An approach to foreign policy typical of US president Woodrow Wilson, characterized by the spread of capitalist democracy and an emphasis on openness, conflict resolution, and the self-determination of peoples.
glosses: The policies of Harold Wilson, British statesman.
wheatrick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheatricks
Etymology: From wheat + rick.
Senses: glosses: haystack
vibrissal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vibrissa + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to vibrissae
Derived terms: intervibrissal
volvation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A defence mechanism, in some animals, in which they roll themselves up in a ball.
Related terms: revolve
inconvenients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inconvenient
conversationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conversationisms
Etymology: From conversation + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A word or phrase used in conversation, generally of informal nature; a colloquialism.
conversationisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conversationism
multiflorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multiflorous
form: most multiflorous
Etymology: From Latin multiflorus, from multus (“much, many”) + flos, floris (“flower”). Compare French multiflore.
Senses: examples: text: multiflorous peduncle
text: multiflorous spikelet
text: multiflorous stem
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having many flowers.
deoxidate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deoxidates
form: deoxidating
form: deoxidated
form: deoxidated
Etymology: From de- + oxidate.
Senses: glosses: To deoxidize.
deoxidated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deoxidate
deoxidates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deoxidate
deoxidating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deoxidate
customable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From custom + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Old and customable sins, which are growne strong and habituall
ref: 1629, Thomas Taylor, The Practice of Repentance:
glosses: customary
glosses: Subject to the payment of customs; dutiable.
Derived terms: customableness
customably
uncustomable
imaginous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more imaginous
form: most imaginous
Etymology: From imagine + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: I oft haue heard there is a kind of cure
To fright a lingring Feuer from a man
By an imaginous feare
ref: 1606, George Chapman, Monsieur D'Olive:
glosses: imaginative
phrenics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phreno- + -ics.
Senses: glosses: The branch of science that relates to the mind; mental philosophy.
examples: text: One sees plainly, that while old rabbits, after removal of the influence of the phrenics, can still reach from ½ to 8/9 of the normal quantity of air used, in young animals the proportion stands so that they only respire from ¼ to 1/6 in one minute; and thus they satisfy their need of air so unsatisfactorily that they soon die.
ref: 1888, Max Marckwald, The Movements of respiration, page 20:
text: If the phrenics are both cut, the diaphragm is paralyzed; if a single one, that side only remains passive.
ref: 1907, William Rice Ballou, A Compend of Equine Anatomy and Physiology, page 180:
glosses: The phrenic nerves; the nerves that control the diaphragm.
astrolatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From astro- + -latry.
Senses: glosses: The worship of the stars.
Derived terms: astrolatrous
Related terms: astrolater
astrolatric
illeviable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more illeviable
form: most illeviable
Etymology: From il- + leviable.
Senses: examples: text: He [Edward I of England] rectified and ſet in Order the Method of collecting his Revenue in the Exchequer, and removed obſolete and illeviable Parts thereof out of Charge; […]
ref: 1713, [Matthew Hale], “Concerning the Progress of the Laws of England after the Time of King William I. until the Time of King Edward II.”, in The History of the Common Law of England: […], [London]: […] J[ohn] Nutt, assignee of Edw[ard] Sayer Esq; for J. Walthoe, […], →OCLC, page 163:
glosses: Not leviable; incapable of being collected or imposed.
rehypothecate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rehypothecates
form: rehypothecating
form: rehypothecated
form: rehypothecated
Etymology: From re- + hypothecate.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: To pledge hypothecated client-owned securities in a margin account to secure a bank loan; usually used for mortgages.
Derived terms: rehypothecable
rehypothecatable
rehypothecation
rehypothecator
doblones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doblon
gaspacho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 2015, Howard Belton, A History of the World in Five Menus
Gaspacho is a perfect dish for a hot summer's day, and it is even more perfect if you are eating it in beautiful Andalusia.
glosses: Alternative form of gazpacho.
damp down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: damps down
form: damping down
form: damped down
form: damped down
Senses: glosses: to reduce the intensity of (a fire)
examples: text: Two years after England’s World Cup victory, Stiles was at Wembley again to help Manchester United become the first English team to win the European Cup final. Again Eusébio was one of his opponents, playing for Benfica, and again Stiles was detailed to keep him quiet. Although he was not as comprehensively successful in damping down his man the second time around, he still did a perfectly satisfactory job – and United won 4-1.
ref: 2020 October 30, Brian Glanville, “Nobby Stiles obituary”, in The Guardian:
glosses: to reduce the intensity of (an emotion or problem)
this means war
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: this is war
Senses: examples: text: Of course, you know this means war!
ref: 1935, A Night at the Opera, spoken by Otis B. Driftwood (Groucho Marx):
text: Of course, you know that this means war!
ref: 1938, 6:20 from the start, in Porky's Hare Hunt, spoken by Rabbit (Mel Blanc):
text: This means war. This means war.
ref: 2024 February 26, Smii7Yplus, 21:26 from the start, in Worms Moments that End in Disaster, spoken by SMii7Y:
glosses: An avowal of anger towards someone, suggesting revenge is now sought.
always a bridesmaid, never a bride
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: always the bridesmaid, never the bride
Etymology: Title of an English music-hall song (1917) by Charles Collins. Later used in an advertisement in the US for Listerine mouthwash (implying that the use of mouthwash could improve a woman's chances of marriage).
Senses: examples: text: Sword Dancer seemed destined to be always a bridesmaid, never a bride, after losing the Kentucky derby by a nose to Tomy Lee and finishing second, beaten four lengths, to Royal Orbit in the Preakness.
ref: 1959 June 15, “After Belmont Mishap: Sore but Chipper is Eddie Arcaro”, in The Spokesman-Review, retrieved 10 Apr 2013, page 10:
text: "[…]But he was always a bridesmaid, never a bride. He 'assisted.' He wrote pamphlets. He even ghosted biographies for some of the biggies. But he never really got his career off the rocks until Sally died. So he wrote romances for the money."
ref: 1997, Jaqueline Girdner, A Cry for Self Help, page 137:
text: […]upon Musawi's assassination he was promoted over the head of Sheikh Naim Qassem, to this day Hezbollah's deputy secretary-general—always a bridesmaid, never a bride.
ref: 2010, Michael Young, The Ghosts of Martyrs Square: An Eyewitness Account of Lebanon's Life Struggle, page 101:
glosses: Said of a person who has potential that is never fulfilled.
glosses: Said of a woman who has (presumedly) acted as bridesmaid at weddings but has not yet married.
Related terms: Susan Lucci
unbitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + bitable.
Senses: glosses: impossible to bite.
uppest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From up + -est.
Senses: examples: text: Brine is known always to be weakest at the uppest part […]
ref: 1814, Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, Transactions of the Society of Arts, volume 32, page 205:
glosses: uppermost
away goal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: away goals
Senses: examples: text: In some sporting competitions, the number of away goals is taken into account when deciding the winner.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A goal scored in an away game.
Derived terms: away goals rule
for one's life
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Basel continued to defend for their lives while occasionally threatening on the break.
ref: 2011 December 7, David Ornstein, “FC Basel 2 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Desperately
examples: text: No backup plan / And I can't sing for my life
ref: 2025, Fraxiom, “now 2”, performed by Food House:
glosses: Whatsoever, at all
raw_tags: in the negative
reverse pass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reverse passes
Senses: examples: text: That seemed to inject life into United, and Rooney was denied by goalkeeper Yann Sommer from a Giggs reverse pass before seeing a penalty shout turned down.
ref: 2011 December 7, David Ornstein, “FC Basel 2 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A pass in which the player runs in the opposite direction to where he passed.
go into one's shell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes into one's shell
form: going into one's shell
form: went into one's shell
form: gone into one's shell
Etymology: From turtles, who go into their shells to protect themselves.
Senses: examples: text: Instead of gathering the ball, De Gea poked it away with his foot and Streller was able to place a powerful half-volley into the net.
United went into their shells and it was not until the 29th minute that they mustered a response - one from which they should have equalised.
ref: 2011 December 7, David Ornstein, “FC Basel 2 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To act defensively.
back post
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back posts
Senses: examples: text: United responded with a Nani cross that Markus Steinhofer volleyed on to his own bar but then came the decisive blow, Frei ghosting in behind Smalling at the back post to head home Shaqiri's cross.
ref: 2011 December 7, David Ornstein, “FC Basel 2 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: far post
group stage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: group stages
Senses: examples: text: Their ambition of qualifying from the group stage was helped by Bayern coach Jupp Heynckes' decision to relegate many of his key players to the bench, having already won the group. Goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, Philipp Lahm, Mario Gomez, Franck Ribery and Thomas Mueller all watched from the sidelines.
ref: 2011 December 7, Phil McNulty, “Man City 2 - 0 Bayern Munich”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: a stage of a tournament where teams in the same group play each other, typically followed by a knockout stage, to which the best team(s) of each group advance
bulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bulins
Senses: glosses: A land snail of the family Enidae.
MRIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MRI
work blue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: works blue
form: working blue
form: worked blue
form: worked blue
Senses: examples: text: The comedian was well known for working blue, so she seemed like an odd choice for the boy's eighth birthday party.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
glosses: To perform bawdy, profane or pornographic material.
working blue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of work blue
works blue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of work blue
worked blue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of work blue
frape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹeɪp/
rhymes: -eɪp
Forms: form: frapes
Etymology: Compare frap.
Senses: examples: text: Then, by their own Corrupted Whimſies led,Where the Frape meet, and common Ills are bred;
There hear the Church, from whence they came, Lampoon’d,
ref: 1698, Edward Ward, Ecclesia and Factio:
glosses: A crowd, a mob.
frape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹeɪp/
rhymes: -eɪp
Forms: form: frapes
Etymology: Blend of Facebook + rape
Senses: glosses: An act of using another person's Facebook account to post derogatory messages.
frape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹeɪp/
rhymes: -eɪp
Forms: form: frapes
form: fraping
form: fraped
form: fraped
Etymology: Blend of Facebook + rape
Senses: glosses: To hijack, and meddle with, someone's Facebook account while it is unattended.
Derived terms: frapist
gravedines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gravedo
frapist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frapists
Etymology: From frape + -ist, modelled on rapist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who frapes.
wontly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: wontlier
form: more wontly
form: wontliest
form: most wontly
Etymology: From wont + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But third persons, merely for the purpose of laying a wager, shall not thus wontly expose others to ridicule, and libel them under the form of an action.
ref: 1807, Samuel Comyn, A treatise of the law relative to contracts and agreements not under Seal:
text: That words were vain which would reveal His workings of amaze and zeal; But, when again his breast the tone Assumed which wontly seemed its own, […]
ref: 1929, George (vicar of Huttoft) Bryan, The dying Christian, a poem:
text: […] rights violations against the Governor, Adjutant General of the National Guard, guard officials and enlisted members, and the university president for "intentionally, recklessly, willfully and wontly" causing the students' death.
ref: 1974, Kansas Bar Association, The Journal of the Kansas Bar Association:
glosses: Usually; customarily; habitually.
orang-outang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orang-outangs
Senses: glosses: Dated form of orangutan.
vigintiviri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vigintivir
xystum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xysta
Senses: glosses: A xystus.
xystos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xystoi
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of xystus.
orang-outangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orang-outang
iconique
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more iconique
form: most iconique
Etymology: From French iconique.
Senses: examples: text: Junglepussy, who once created an iconique album, lovingly titled Pregnant With Success (that's right, girl!), is in a new movie with Regina Hall, and it looks very important, and judging by the 100% fresh rating so far on Rotten Tomatoes, bound to be successful.
ref: 2018 June 28, Michael Love Michael, “Regina Hall, Junglepussy, and AJ Michalka Shine in 'Support the Girls' Trailer”, in Paper, archived from the original on 01 Dec 2023:
text: Viewers are in for an iconique line-up of performers at this year's AMAs! Are you ready?
ref: 2019 November 20, Pamela Avila, “How to Watch the 2019 American Music Awards on TV and Online”, in E! News, archived from the original on 22 Nov 2019:
text: In Season 5’s iconique episode “Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy”, Lisa struggles to get the attention of adults because, you know, she’s eight.
ref: 2020 May 6, Amelia Tait, “Definitive Proof That the Simpson Children Have Aged”, in Vice, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2025:
text: The SKIMS founder took to her Instagram Stories to share snaps from the concert, including one photo of Hilton taking selfies next to a giant pink Motorola Razr flip phone with a sparkling screen, with Kardashian calling the Simple Life star an "iconique queen."
ref: 2024 October 25, Sarah Tate, “Kim Kardashian Reveals Which 'Iconique Queen' She Is 'Obsessed With'”, in iHeart, archived from the original on 26 Oct 2024:
text: “If you’re not familiar with @bazlenka - you’re welcome. He’s every gay man’s favourite AFL player (he’s also the only AFL player gay men know),” Act added in her caption while also ticking Smith’s “Iconique Mullet. Moustache. Bulldogs kit” off her list.
ref: 2024 October 28, Christine Estera, “Courtney Act kicks off Halloween dressed as AFL star Bailey Smith”, in Geelong Advertiser:
glosses: Rare spelling of iconic.
adjurant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: From time to time a waiter entered with ice and fruit and dumped them in a bowl; from a suit case under the table Gene drew fresh bottles and decanted them into the bowl; then, proprietorial, adjurant, sweating, he resumed his harsh monologue, mopping his face on his sleeve.
ref: 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, published 1985, page 168:
glosses: adjuring
diabolise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: diabolises
form: diabolising
form: diabolised
form: diabolised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of diabolize.
diabolises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of diabolise
more Catholic than the Pope
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Adhering more stringently to Roman Catholic practices and doctrine than is required by church doctrine.
examples: text: The recently liberated European states east of the Oder-Neisse line, seeking not only entry into NATO but membership in the Union club as well, had to be more circumspect, more “European” so to speak, more Catholic than the pope
ref: 2005, Jan S. Prybyla, The American Way of Peace: An Interpretation:
text: It has been asserted that Blair, far from seeking to slow Bush's rush to war, urged him to be tough, in an attempt to be 'more Catholic than the Pope'.
ref: 2008, Robert Harvey, The World Crisis: The Way Forward After Iraq, page 23:
text: Strict disciples of history as a science may scorn the intuitive process, but that attitude comes from being more Catholic than the Pope.
ref: 2011, Barbara W. Tuchman, Practicing History: Selected Essays, page 59:
glosses: Adhering more stringently to any norm more strictly than is required by the arbiters of the norm.
Related terms: holier-than-thou
outpope the Pope
outpope the Pope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outpopes the Pope
form: outpoping the Pope
form: outpoped the Pope
form: outpoped the Pope
Senses: examples: text: But because the pope has not yet stated his position on the use of condoms, the Philippine bishops have actually even ‘outpoped’ the pope.
ref: 2012, George J. Leonard, The Asian Pacific American Heritage: A Companion to Literature and Arts, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: To act as a more authentic member of a group than one who is actually a member of the group.
Related terms: more Catholic than the Pope
vajazzles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vajazzle
vajazzles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vajazzle
Chancy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ænsi
Senses: glosses: An English surname from Old French.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
Clancy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklænsi/
Forms: form: Clancys
form: Clancey
form: Glancey
form: Glancy
Etymology: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Mac Fhlannchaidh (“descendant of a person named Red Warrior”), from flann (“blood-red”).
Senses: glosses: An English surname from Irish.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
aggravatedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more aggravatedly
form: most aggravatedly
Etymology: From aggravated + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an aggravated manner.
perendinates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of perendinate
perendinating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of perendinate
perendinated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of perendinate
nosers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noser
DCAPBTLS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of DCAP-BTLS.
NREMT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NREMTs
Senses: topics: emergency-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of national registry emergency medical technician.
EMT-B
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EMT-Bs
Senses: topics: emergency-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: A basic level emergency medical technician that has passed national registry examination; trained less extensively than the advanced emergency medical technician or paramedic (EMT-P) level
Related terms: english: Highest level of emergency medical technician in the United States
translation: Highest level of emergency medical technician in the United States
word: EMT-P
word: also called paramedic
english: An intermediate level emergency medical technician in the United States.
translation: An intermediate level emergency medical technician in the United States.
word: EMT-I
AEMT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AEMTs
Etymology: Initialism of advanced EMT.
Senses: topics: emergency-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: An advanced EMT with extra specialized training and certification with some of the practices and capacities usually afforded only to a paramedic such as EKG and IV.
AEMTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of AEMT
sclerophyllous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sclero- + -phyllous.
Senses: examples: text: The hipparionine horses arose in North America during the Middle Miocene and differed significantly from Anchitherium and other similar equids in the development of very high-crowned cheek teeth as a response to the more sclerophyllous, harder vegetation.
ref: 2007, Winfried Henke, Handbook of Paleoanthropology:
glosses: Relating to sclerophylls.
Tyrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪɹiən
Forms: form: more Tyrian
form: most Tyrian
Etymology: From Tyre + -ian.
Senses: glosses: From or relating to Tyre, Lebanon.
examples: text: Still had she gazed; but 'midst the tide
Two angel forms were seen to glide,
The Genii of the stream;
Their scaly armour's Tyrian hue
Thro' richest purple to the view
Betrayed a golden gleam.
ref: 1747, Thomas Gray, Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes:
text: It was no longer torture-torn and hateful, as I had seen it when she was cursing her dead rival by the leaping flames, no longer icily terrible as in the judgment-hall, no longer rich, and sombre, and splendid, like a Tyrian cloth, as in the dwellings of the dead.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: I was wondering at these hanging gardens amid the forest of pink and white marble, red sardonyx, blue-gray, and cream, and black bricks, and green and yellow and tyrian tiles, when the sight of a lansquenet guarding the entrance to a casern reminded me of the promise I had made the officer of the peltasts the night before.
ref: 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XVI, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 151:
glosses: Having a purple colour produced by the dye Tyrian purple.
Derived terms: Tyrian purple
Tyrian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪɹiən
Forms: form: Tyrians
Etymology: From Tyre + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Person from Tyre.
Tyrians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tyrian
emergency medical technician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emergency medical technicians
form: EMT
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: paramedic (sometimes broadly synonymous)
related: word: EMT
hypernyms: technician#Noun
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coordinate_terms: EMR
qualifier: emergency medical services
glosses: An ambulance worker who works in patient stabilization and emergency transport. In some services, an EMT is a trainee who is not a paramedic; in other services, a paramedic is a senior-level EMT, sometimes called an EMT-P in contrast with an EMT-I, etc.
Related terms: EMS
emergency medical services
prehospital
emergency medical technicians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emergency medical technician
milkcrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milkcrates
form: milk crate
Etymology: From milk + crate.
Senses: examples: text: After closing the window and tossing the milkcrate into the weeds, he returned to Garvy who was pissed off for being left in the alley for so long.
ref: 1998, Jervey Tervalon, Jervey Tervalon, Living for the city, link:
glosses: A cubic box originally made of wood but now usually of plastic, used to carry dairy products and for storage or presentation in markets.
Related terms: banana box
egg crate
soap box
milkcrates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milkcrate
milk crates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milk crate
milk crate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milk crates
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of milkcrate.
sexual appetite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexual appetites
Senses: glosses: One's desire to engage in sexual practices.
Synonyms: word: libido
word: horniness
sexual appetites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sexual appetite
towtruck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: towtrucks
form: tow truck
form: tow-truck
Etymology: From tow + truck.
Senses: examples: text: This section does not prevent a person who does not hold a towtruck certificate from driving or operating a towtruck...
ref: 1976, South Australia, Acts of the Parliament of South Australia, link:
glosses: Alternative form of tow truck.
towtrucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of towtruck
tow-truck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tow-trucks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tow truck.
tow-trucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tow-truck
Viña
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Viña del Mar: a city in Chile.
Norte de Santander
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish Norte de Santander, literally "north of Santander".
Senses: glosses: A mountainous department, in the north-east of Colombia, whose capital is Cúcuta.
fire fighting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Of particular note were two self-propelled fire-fighting vehicles, adapted from Drewry railcars, enabling a rapid response to a fire anywhere on the extensive site.
ref: 2022 January 12, Chris Hegg, “The secret railway in the woods”, in RAIL, number 948, page 37:
glosses: Alternative form of firefighting.
BDC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: ballistics
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: Initialism of bullet drop compensation.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: TDC
glosses: Initialism of bottom dead centre/bottom dead center.
BDC
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of backing diagonally to the center.
Related terms: sense: backing diagonally to the center
word: BDW
sense: backing diagonally to the center
word: DC
sense: backing diagonally to the center
word: DW
sense: backing diagonally to the center
word: FDC
sense: backing diagonally to the center
word: FDW
ammoniacum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English armoniacum, from Latin ammōniacum, armōniacum.
Senses: synonyms: gum ammoniac
glosses: A gum-resin exuded from the several perennial herbs in the genus Ferula of the umbel family (Apiaceae).
speech balloon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speech balloons
Senses: glosses: Synonym of speech bubble.
synonyms: word: speech bubble
speech balloons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speech balloon
inexpected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inexpected
form: most inexpected
Etymology: From in- + expected.
Senses: examples: text: […] had not God's inexpected champion, by divine instinct, taken up the monster, and vanquished him; leaving all but his head to bedung that earth, which had lately shaken at his terror.
ref: 1649, Bishop Hall, Resolutions and Decisions of Diverse Practical Cases of Conscience:
glosses: Obsolete form of unexpected.
Derived terms: inexpectedly
inexpectedness
lavation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /leɪˈveɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: lavations
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lavatio, lavationem; compare Old French lavation. Doublet of lotion.
Senses: glosses: washing or cleansing.
Derived terms: translavation
lavations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lavation
tonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtəʊnəs/
Forms: form: more tonous
form: most tonous
Etymology: From tone + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Having a strong tone or sound; sonorous
tressured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɛʃə(ɹ)d/
Etymology: From tressure + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: These instances, to say nothing of the tressured lion of the Scottish kings, are enough to show the complete acceptance of heraldry in Scotland at that time.
ref: 1914, John Horne Stevenson, Heraldry in Scotland, page 24:
text: When at sunrise the tressured lion was hoisted before the Lord-Lieutenant's pavilion, it was greeted by a salute of trumpets, and such a salute it was, in 1645, that first warned Argyll that Montrose, the King's Lieutenant,[…]
ref: 1956, Sir Thomas Innes of Learney, Scots Heraldry: A Practical Handbook on the Historical Principles and Modern Application of the Art and Science, Genealogical Publishing Com, →ISBN, page 216:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Provided with or bound with a tressure; arranged in the form of a tressure.
diligency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diligencies
Etymology: From Latin dīligentia.
Senses: examples: text: A little generous prudence , a little forbearance of one another , and some grain of charity might win all these diligencies to join and unite into one general and brotherly search after truth
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC:
glosses: diligence; carefulness
tridented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹaɪˈdɛntɪd/
Etymology: From Latin tridēns + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Trineus beholding a ſhape of ſuch ſtrangeneſſe, making the ſigne of the Croſſe on his breaſt, and aduauncing his Shield for his defence, ſtoode to defend what this deformed Monſter durſt doe: who lifting vppe his tridented forke, ſtrooke it quite thorow his Shielde, and the blowe falſing along his pouldrone, wounded him a little in the arme.
ref: 1602, A[nthony] M[unday], transl., The Third and Last Part of Palmerin of England. Enterlaced with the Loues and Fortunes of Many Gallant Knights and Ladies: A Historie Full of Most Choise and Sweet Varietie. […], London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for VVilliam Leake, […], folio 154, verso:
text: Euen ſo the Mariners perceiuing all
Their labour ſpent, and the effect but ſmall,
And of neceſſity that all muſt dye,
If Ionah leaue not their ſociety,
They tooke vp Ionas, and with one accord,
And common ayde, threw Ionas ouer boord;
Whereat grim Neptune wip’t his fomy mouth,
Held his tridented Mace vpon the South;
The windes were whiſt, the billowes daunc’t no more,
The ſtorme allay’d, the heau’ns left off to rore,
The waues (obedient to their beheaſt)
Gaue ready paſſage, and their rage ſurceaſt:
The ſkie grew cleare, and now the glorious light
Begins to put the gloomy clouds to flight:
Thus all on ſuddaine was the Sea tranquill,
The heau’ns were quiet, and the Waues were ſtill.
ref: 1620, Fra[ncis] Quarles, A Feast for VVormes. Set Forth in a Poeme of the History of Ionah., London: […] Felix Kyngston, for Richard Moore, […]:
synonyms: tridental
tridentate
glosses: Having three prongs.
tridented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹaɪˈdɛntɪd/
ipa: /ˈtɹaɪdəntɪd/
ipa: /tɹaɪˈdɛntɪd/
Etymology: From trident + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: MOuntaines ſhall mooue, the Sun his circling courſe
Shall ſtop; Tridented Neptune ſhall diuorce
Th’embracing floods, from their beloued Iles,
Ere Heauen forgets his ſeruant, and recoiles
From his eternall vow: […]
ref: 1625, Fra[ncis] Quarles, Sions Elegies. Wept by Ieremie the Prophet, and Periphras’d by Fra. Quarles., London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Thomas Dewe, […]:
text: […]where the tridented Rhadamanthus—(Yama with Brahams, also tridentiferous?) with his three-headed dog Cerberus […] receives them into those unsunned dominions.
ref: 1834, Edward Moor, “Fragments—Fourth. Descriptive Account of the Plates in This Volume.”, in Oriental Fragments, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 462:
text: Finally there were gods allotted to the sixteen regions of the sky, mapped on the bronze liver used for divination purposes, found at Piacenza. Some of these are equated with Greek deities, about others little is known. Tinia, Uni and Menrva of course appear and also Nethuns, the tridented sea god equated with Poseidon.
ref: 1963, H[offman] R[eynolds] Hays, In the Beginnings: Early Man and His Gods, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →LCCN, page 182:
text: A friend of hers, she told me, had taken Freddie to the seaside for the afternoon – Freddie had always been fascinated by the sea, and would sit on the shingle for hours gazing out with rapt attention over this strange, unknowable, shifting element, as if he had once seen something rising out of it, a sea monster, or a tridented god, and was patiently waiting for it to appear again.
ref: 1997, John Banville, The Untouchable, Picador, →ISBN, page 237:
synonyms: tridentiferous
glosses: Bearing a trident.
unmonotonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmonotonous
form: most unmonotonous
Etymology: From un- + monotonous.
Senses: glosses: Not monotonous.
tomia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tomium
tomium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtoʊmiəm/
Forms: form: tomia
Etymology: From New Latin tomium, from Ancient Greek τομός (tomós, “sharp”) + -ium. See -tome.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The cutting edge of the bill of a bird.
euphonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: euphonisms
Etymology: Ancient Greek [Term?]
Senses: glosses: An agreeable combination of sounds; euphony.
euphonisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of euphonism
monogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + -genous.
Senses: examples: text: monogenous, or asexual, reproduction
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to monogenesis.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having a single differential coefficient considered as a rule of generation.
Derived terms: monogenous group
monogenous module
tripetaloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + petaloid.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the form or appearance of three petals.
Related terms: tripetalous
arachnoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From arachnoid + -al.
Senses: examples: text: arachnoidal layer
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the arachnoid mater; arachnoid.
Derived terms: subarachnoidal
frustrately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more frustrately
form: most frustrately
Etymology: From frustrate + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Great Tuscane dames, as she their towns past by, / Wisht her their daughter-in-law, but frustrately.
ref: 1632, John Vicars, The XII Aeneids of Virgil:
glosses: in vain
incorrodible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incorrodible
form: most incorrodible
Etymology: From in- + corrodible.
Senses: synonyms: uncorrodable
glosses: Incapable of being corroded or eaten away.
monocarpellary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + carpellary.
Senses: examples: text: The fruits of the pea, cherry, and almond are monocarpellary.
text: monocarpellary fruit
text: monocarpellary ovary
text: monocarpellary gynoecium
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Consisting of a single carpel.
citiless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Oh home, oh country, ne'er may I
Through long hard years of poverty,
That bitterest of all distress,
Live on an alien citiless:
ref: 1868, Augusta Webster (transl.), The Medea of Euripides, page 42, lines 643–646
glosses: Alternative form of cityless.
ethiops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aethiops.
fortilage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɔː(ɹ)tilidʒ/
Forms: form: fortilages
Etymology: Variant (influenced by -age) of fortalice, borrowed from Latin fortalitia. Doublet of fortress.
Senses: examples: text: Yet was the fence thereof but weake and thin ;
Nought feard theyr force that fortilage to win
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A little fort; a blockhouse.
fortilages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fortilage
gemmaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gemmaceous
form: most gemmaceous
Senses: examples: text: gemmaceous anemone
glosses: Relating to, or containing, gemmae.
leafet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leafets
Etymology: From leaf + -et.
Senses: examples: January 9 1853, Henry David Thoreau, diary
Pulling up the Johnswort on the face of the cliff, I am surprised to see the signs of unceasing growth about the roots, fresh shoots two inches long, white with red leafets, and all the radical part quite green. The leaves of the crowfoot also are quite green, and carry me forward to spring.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: leaflet
glosses: A small leaf
leafets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leafet
balanceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more balanceable
form: most balanceable
Etymology: From balance + -able.
Senses: examples: text: balanceable graph
text: balanceable numbers
text: balanceable weights
glosses: Capable of being balanced.
Derived terms: nonbalanceable
unbalanceable