cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dementiae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin dēmentiae, plural of dēmentia.
Senses: examples: text: It is not just that what has been served up in our two opera houses has been either inertly routine or strangely misguided, but that this should be accepted as the norm by both public and press that induces all manner of dementiae.
ref: 1973 December 29, The Spectator, page 849, column 4:
text: Approximately 20% of all dementiae can be reversed if they are correctly diagnosed and treated.
ref: 1986, The Compendium of Continuing Education in Dentistry, page 508, column 1:
text: Or, second, are these imitation responses related to the oral reflex observed in the development of certain senile dementiae?[…]If such an analogy made sense, this would mean that neonatal imitation might be a reflex similar to the grasping reflex or to the cardinal points, reflexes which disappear in the first six months of life and, in some cases, reappear in senile dementiae.
ref: 1990, Claude-Alain Hauert, “Developmental Psychology: A Brief Inventory of Fixtures”, in Developmental Psychology: Cognitive, Perceptuo-Motor and Neuropsychological Perspectives (Advances in Psychology; 64), North-Holland, pages 421–422:
text: The increasing aging of the population determines a constant growth of the dementiae until becoming a real epidemic.
ref: 1993, Recent Advances in Aging Science, page 723:
text: Dementiae can arise from such things as depression, drug reactions and nutritional deficiencies as well as from brain disease.
ref: 1998 November, Judy Dothard Simmons, “Alzheimer’s Disease News Mixed: Prevention, cure still elusive but treatment picture improves”, in The New Crisis: The Magazine of Opportunities and Ideas, page 33, column 1:
text: “Hello?” she said. I tried to gauge by the tone of her voice and the look in her eyes the stage of her mind’s undoing, but she was not my mother, and no two dementiae sing the same tune.
ref: 2005, Rafi Zabor, I, Wabenzi: A Souvenir, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pages 91–92:
glosses: plural of dementia
frobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frob
frobs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of frob
frobbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of frob
frobbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of frob
Mazola parties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mazola party
demigrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈdɛmɪɡɹeɪt/
Forms: form: demigrates
form: demigrating
form: demigrated
form: demigrated
Etymology: First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin dēmīgrātus, perfect passive participle of dēmīgrō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, de- + migrate.
Senses: examples: text: I demigrate into one of these so well architected minsters
ref: 1653, W. Heath Robinson, The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais:
glosses: To emigrate.
demigrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈdɛmɪɡɹeɪt/
/ˌdiːmaɪˈɡɹeɪt/
/ˈdɛmɪɡɹeɪt/
Forms: form: demigrates
form: demigrating
form: demigrated
form: demigrated
Etymology: From de- + migrate.
Senses: examples: text: The reason is that it is more cost effective to debug and troubleshoot the new environment than to demigrate and lose all the data transactions completed under the new technology.
ref: 2002, Charles V. Breakfield, Roxanne E. Burkey, Managing Systems Migrations and Upgrades, page 196:
glosses: To cancel or return from migration (of e.g. a computer system).
denegate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: denegates
form: denegating
form: denegated
form: denegated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dēnegātus, perfect passive participle of dēnegō (“to deny”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from dē- + negō (“to say no”). Doublet of deny.
Senses: glosses: To deny, refuse or contradict.
Related terms: denegation
growe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: growes
form: growing
form: grewe
form: growne
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of grow.
growes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of growe
Related terms: word: grows
growne
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of growe
Related terms: word: grown
overservice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overservices
form: overservicing
form: overserviced
form: overserviced
Etymology: From over- + service.
Senses: examples: text: She underprices to make the sale, gives away product, provides extended warranty services at no charge, and personally overservices her accounts.
ref: 2004, William T. Brooks, Sales Techniques, page 41:
glosses: To provide with excessive service.
overservice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + service.
Senses: glosses: Act of overserving, especially serving alcohol to some who is intoxicated.
Related terms: overserve
overservices
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overservice
overserviced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overservice
overservicing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overservice
mischarge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈtʃɑː(ɹ)dʒ/
ipa: /ˈmɪstʃɑː(ɹ)dʒ/
Forms: form: mischarges
form: mischarging
form: mischarged
form: mischarged
Etymology: From mis- + charge.
Senses: topics: business
finance
law
glosses: To charge wrongly.
mischarge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈtʃɑː(ɹ)dʒ/
ipa: /ˈmɪstʃɑː(ɹ)dʒ/
Forms: form: mischarges
Etymology: From mis- + charge.
Senses: glosses: A mistake in charging, as in an account.
ungiving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungiving
form: most ungiving
Etymology: From un- + giving.
Senses: examples: text: And yet it was clear, even as he was nearly drowning there in the North Atlantic, that in the other place there would be no objects whatsoever: that this miserable orange flotation device through which he’d stuck his arm, this fundamentally inscrutable and ungiving fabric-clad hunk of foam, would be a GOD in the objectless world of death toward which he was headed, would be the SUPREME I-AM-WHAT-I-AM in that universe of unbeing.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: Not giving; ungenerous.
syght
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syghts
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of sight.
mischarges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mischarge
deos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deo
syghts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syght
concentratedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more concentratedly
form: most concentratedly
Etymology: From concentrated + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This current is then released, concentratedly, thru a narrow aperture formed by the dropping of a carefully restricted portion of the middle of the tongue tip.
ref: 1929, Richard Carman Borden, Alvin Clayton Busse, Speech correction:
glosses: In a concentrated way
mischarging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mischarge
mischarging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mischargings
Senses: glosses: An instance of charging the wrong amount of money.
mischarged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mischarge
unroyal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unroyal
form: most unroyal
Etymology: From un- + royal.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, not content with calumniating the Sovereign's mind by supposing it filled with such unroyal notions
ref: 1811, Thomas C. Hansard, Parliamentary debates […] Volume 18:
glosses: Not royal; in particular, not appropriate for a royal.
unregal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unregal
form: most unregal
Etymology: From un- + regal.
Senses: glosses: Not regal; particularly, not appropriate for a royal.
Synonyms: unroyal
PME
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of professional military education.
small business
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: small businesses
Senses: topics: business
economics
sciences
glosses: A privately-owned and operated business with relatively small turnover and staff numbers, typically seen as constituting part of a specific commercial or economic sector.
Derived terms: Small Business Saturday
WOSB
small businesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of small business
depopulant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: depopulants
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dēpopulāns.
Senses: glosses: Something that depopulates.
Related terms: depopulate
bullet hell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bullet hells
form: bullet-hell
Senses: examples: text: Mars Matrix is a bullet hell game that is pretty well designed.
ref: 2003, Billy Bissette, “SAY IT AIN'T SO!!!”, in rec.games.video.sega (Usenet):
text: A few of the game cabinets are connected to flat-screen TVs so bystanders can stop and ogle. Grimy VCRs are hooked up to bullet-hell shooting games...
ref: 2008, Brian Ashcraft, Jean Snow, Arcade Mania: The Turbo-charged World of Japan's Game Centers:
text: The camera is a convenient nonviolent replacement for a gun, a principle perhaps taken most literally by Shoot the Bullet (2005), a bullet hell game in which you clear bullets by photographing them.
ref: 2019 February 25, Jordan Erica Webber, “Point and shoot: what's next for photography in video games?”, in The Guardian:
topics: video-games
glosses: A genre of two-dimensional shoot 'em up in which the playfield is almost filled with a barrage of enemy bullets.
Liturgical Armenian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Old Armenian (language). The language is still used in some contexts by the Armenian Church, e.g. in some prayers and in monumental inscriptions.
slumberland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslʌm.bəˌlænd/
ipa: /ˈslʌm.bɚˌlænd/
Etymology: From slumber + -land.
Senses: examples: text: Julia therefore sank back into slumberland, and forgot all about her friend's dream, but not so Beth. The fear of what she dreamed haunted her...
ref: 1903, Dorothy C. Paine, A Little Florida Lady:
glosses: An imaginary place inhabited by those who are asleep; (by extension) the state of slumber.
Related terms: dreamland
filmland
movieland
storyland
energy sources
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of energy source
randon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: a mortall bow and arrowes […] with which he shot at randon[…]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 48:
glosses: Obsolete form of random.
randon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of random.
dagesh lene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dagesh lenes
Etymology: From dagesh + Latin lēne (“soft, weak”).
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A small dot put in the middle of a consonant in Hebrew. It originally had the effect of transforming a fricative sound into a stop.
Related terms: dagesh
dagesh forte
dagesh forte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dagesh fortes
Etymology: From dagesh + Latin forte (“strong”).
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A form of dagesh which originally indicated gemination of its consonant sound.
Related terms: dagesh
dagesh lene
desistor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desistors
Etymology: From desist + -or.
Senses: examples: text: "Where an offender has indicated that they wish to take the decision to become a desistor, they will require support to prevent their falling back due to, for example, work or social circumstances, peers, and visceral factors."
ref: 2013, Chris Fox, Kevin Albertson, Kevin Wong, Justice Reinvestment: Can the Criminal Justice System Deliver More for Less?:
glosses: One who desists, who stops or has stopped doing something.
Lord Muck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An appellation given to a man who behaves in a perceived aristocratic manner.
Related terms: Lady Muck
Lady Muck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An appellation given to a woman who behaves in a perceived aristocratic manner.
Related terms: Lord Muck
commitment-phobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commitment-phobe
Mosco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Moscos
Etymology: * As an Italian and Spanish surname, from Italian Mosco, from the noun mosca (“fly”).
* As a Greek surname, Americanized variant of Moskos.
Senses: glosses: A surname
Mosco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: According to the police regulation, Moſco is partitioned into twenty chief diviſions, denominated from the principal ſtreets they ſeverally comprehend, e. gr. the Boſmanſkoi, the Verſkoi, &c.
ref: 1800, W[illiam] Tooke, “Sketch of Mosco”, in History of Russia, from the Foundation of the Monarchy by Rurik, to the Accession of Catharine the Second, volume II, London: […] A. Strahan, […], for T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], pages 367–368:
glosses: Obsolete form of Moscow.
bagsied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bagsy
bagsying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bagsy
palatopharyngeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpal.ət.əʊ.fəˈɹɪn.d͡ʒi.əl/
ipa: /ˌpal.ət.əʊ.fəˈɹɪn.ʒi.əl/
ipa: /pəˌleɪ.tə(ʊ).fəˈɹɪn.d͡ʒi.əl/
ipa: /pəˌleɪ.tə(ʊ).fəˈɹɪn.ʒi.əl/
ipa: /ˌpæl.ət.oʊˌfæɹ.ənˈd͡ʒi.əl/
ipa: /ˌpæl.ət.oʊ.fəˈɹɪn.d͡ʒi.əl/
rhymes: -ɪndʒiəl
rhymes: -ɪnʒiəl
rhymes: -iːəl
Etymology: From New Latin palātopharyngeus + -al, from palātum (“the palate”) + pharyngeus (“of or relating to the pharynx”), equivalent to palato- + pharyngeal. Doublet of palatopharyngeus.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or involving the palate and the pharynx.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the palatopharyngeus.
Derived terms: palatopharyngeal arch
palatopharyngeal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpal.ət.əʊ.fəˈɹɪn.d͡ʒi.əl/
ipa: /ˌpal.ət.əʊ.fəˈɹɪn.ʒi.əl/
ipa: /pəˌleɪ.tə(ʊ).fəˈɹɪn.d͡ʒi.əl/
ipa: /pəˌleɪ.tə(ʊ).fəˈɹɪn.ʒi.əl/
ipa: /ˌpæl.ət.oʊˌfæɹ.ənˈd͡ʒi.əl/
ipa: /ˌpæl.ət.oʊ.fəˈɹɪn.d͡ʒi.əl/
rhymes: -ɪndʒiəl
rhymes: -ɪnʒiəl
rhymes: -iːəl
Forms: form: palatopharyngeals
Etymology: From New Latin palātopharyngeus + -al, from palātum (“the palate”) + pharyngeus (“of or relating to the pharynx”), equivalent to palato- + pharyngeal. Doublet of palatopharyngeus.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Obsolete form of palatopharyngeus.
billy-can
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: billy-cans
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of billycan.
billy-cans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of billy-can
LtoR
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: LtoR: Phil, Bill, and Phil.
glosses: Alternative form of LTR (left to right)
Related terms: RtoL
TtoB
BtoT
plucking posts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plucking post
get off on the wrong foot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets off on the wrong foot
form: getting off on the wrong foot
form: got off on the wrong foot
form: got off on the wrong foot
form: gotten off on the wrong foot
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of start off on the wrong foot.
desecate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: desecates
form: desecating
form: desecated
form: desecated
Etymology: First attested in 1623; borrowed from Medieval Latin dēsecātus, a variant of dēsectus, the perfect passive participle of dēsecō (“to cut off”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: So far as it has gone, it probably is the most pure and desecated public good which has ever been conferred on mankind.
ref: 1798, Edmund Burke, The Beauties of the Late Right Hon. Edmund Burke, volume 2:
text: Now, as we have already remarked, it is the province of the eclectic philosophy to search out the central truth of each system and desecate it from the mass of commingled truth and error.
ref: 1841, The Methodist Quarterly Review, volume 23, page 348:
glosses: To cut, as with a scythe; to mow.
desecate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: desecates
form: desecating
form: desecated
form: desecated
Senses: examples: text: […] and which new element will, by a sort of elective attraction, secrete and desecate from ore and alloy, all the truth that either has.
ref: 1831 December 24, “Cousin's Philosophy”, in American Quarterly Review, volume 20, page 294:
text: Dry, searching, desecating, and cutting, this assassin breath of death pierces through flesh and bone to the marrow; hence the careful way in which the natives cover their months, the women with handkerchiefs, the men by muming themselves up in their cloaks, embozandos en las capas.
ref: 1847, John Murray, A Hand-book for Travellers in Spain, page 403:
text: It is well known that the high temperature of sandy deserts, neven produces fever; that the fiery blast of the Harmattan which desecates the fluids, and withers the whole aspect of nature, puts an immediate end to fever, and that on the coast of Africa, after the rainy seasons, they welcome this blast, as with it the recovery of invalids commences.
ref: 1857, Edward H. Barton, The Cause and Prevention of Yellow Fever at New Orleans and Other Cities in America:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of desiccate.
phone in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: phones in
form: phoning in
form: phoned in
form: phoned in
Senses: examples: text: Please give us the courtesy of showing up instead of phoning in.
text: Please give us the courtesy of delivering it in person instead of phoning it in.
synonyms: call in
glosses: To deliver a message by telephone when etiquette demands the effort and respect conveyed by communication in person.
examples: text: We've got Brian phoning in from Phoenix. Brian, you're on the air.
synonyms: call in
glosses: To make a telephone call to a broadcasting station, especially to participate in a program being aired.
examples: text: phone it in
text: He thought he could phone in the scheduling process, but it takes sharp negotiations around here.
text: He thought he could phone it in. [pronoun antecedent: the scheduling process]
text: We're sick of Alice's attitude. She's been phoning it in ever since Bob left. [pronoun antecedent: notional: either "her job" or undefined]
text: But here was someone who could have been paid regally for just phoning it in for another year or two willing instead to throw that all away
ref: 1998 January 12, “It's All About Timing”, in TIME:
text: his new show with Julia Child -- "Julia and Jacques Cooking At Home" on WMPT Channel 22 -- is a clever marketing stroke, but at times both of these veteran teachers seem to be phoning it in.
ref: 2000 April 26, Candy Sagon, “All Talk, No Cooking”, in Washington Post:
text: And I think our campaign put a lot more on the line, frankly, to try to solve that problem than Senator Obama, who tried to phone it in.
ref: 2008 October 6, “Getting Offensive; How Will Voters Respond?”, in ABC GMA:
coordinate_terms: word: half-ass#Verb
word: shortchange#Verb
word: underdo#Verb
word: ;
word: cut corners
word: skimp#Verb
word: slack off
glosses: To fulfill a responsibility with a minimum effort rather than the appropriate level of effort.
glosses: To make an unseemly, timid performance; to be restrained and timid when bold action is called for.
Derived terms: word: phone-in
word: phone-in
detester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: detesters
Etymology: From detest + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I exclaimed, with sparkling eyes and a rapturous accent, "you are not profligate; are a stranger to the manners of this house, and a detester of these manners?
ref: 1889, Charles Brockden Brown, Arthur Mervyn:
text: In a short time a jealous feud sprang up between the loving friends Rinaldo and Orlando; and Angelica, torn with conflicting emotions, from her dread on her father's account as well as her own, and her aversion to every knight but her detester, was at one time compelled to apply to Orlando for assistance, and at another, being afraid that he would have the better of Rinaldo in combat, to send him away on a perilous adventure elsewhere, with a promise of accepting his love should he succeed.
ref: 1846, Leigh Hunt, Stories from the Italian Poets= With Lives of the Writers, Vol. 2:
text: We give the fact as it occurs in Bannatyne's Journal, only premising that the Journalist held his master's opinions, both with respect to the Earl of Cassilis as an opposer of the king's party, and as being a detester of the practice of granting church revenues to titulars, instead of their being devoted to pious uses, such as the support of the clergy, expense of schools, and the relief of the national poor.
ref: 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
glosses: Someone who detests, a hater.
detracter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: detracters
Senses: examples: text: Other detracters and malicious writers.
ref: 1579, Thomas North, Plutarch's Lives:
glosses: Alternative form of detractor.
dextro
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Dextrorotatory.
second lieutenants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of second lieutenant
Lisbonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪz.bə.naɪt/
Forms: form: Lisbonites
Etymology: From Lisbon + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: And the Lisbonites did not more disbelieve in, and dream less of their coming ruin, than Cecil did his, […]
ref: 1867, Ouida [pseudonym; Maria Louise Ramé], “After a Richmond Dinner”, in Under Two Flags: A Story of the Household and the Desert. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 131:
text: The only true Lisbonite in our family is my sister, Tacha, who was born in 1992.
ref: 2006, Marco de Andrade, Em casa: a Portuguese family's favourite recipes, page 32:
synonyms: Lisboner
glosses: A person from Lisbon, Portugal.
Lisbonites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lisbonite
hyacinthine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnθɪn
-ɪnθaɪn
-ɪnθiːn
Forms: form: more hyacinthine
form: most hyacinthine
Etymology: From Latin hyacinthinus, from Ancient Greek ὑακίνθινος (huakínthinos), from ὑάκινθος (huákinthos); corresponding to hyacinth + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: His fair large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks / Round from his parted forelock manly hung / Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad:
ref: 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_(1674)/Book_IV), Book IV, lines 300-303:
text: […] the nicest young man that ever was, — daintily gloved, patently booted, oilily curled, snowily wristbanded, with a lovely cambric (prima facie) handkerchief bound about his hyacinthine locks and polished hat.
ref: 1871, Gail Hamilton, Gala-days, page 191:
text: The beautiful boy has flowing or richly textured hyacinthine hair, the only luxuriance in this chastity.
ref: 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
glosses: Of the colour of a hyacinth (either the gem or the flower); reddish-gold (chiefly with reference to hair).
glosses: Curling like the petals of the hyacinth.
glosses: Beautiful, like the mythological Hyacinthus.
Related terms: hyacinth
jacinth
bbs
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of BBS (be back soon).
bbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bb
visaged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From visage + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: For your own ladies and pale-visaged maids
ref: 2002, Rhona Silverbush, Sami Plotkin, Speak the speech!: Shakespeare's monologues illuminated:
glosses: Having a certain type of face.
raw_tags: used in combination
Derived terms: long-visaged
evangelistary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evangelistaries
form: Evangelistary
Senses: examples: text: The Exultet in sources related to southern Italy, in addition to its transmission in twenty-six rolls, is found in twenty-seven other manuscripts: eighteen missals, two evangelistaries, two pontificals, two rituals, two graduals, and one processional.
ref: 1996, Thomas Forrest Kelly, The exultet in Southern Italy, page 194:
topics: Christianity
glosses: A book containing selections from the Gospels, read during worship services.
Synonyms: Book of the Gospels
Evangeliar
Evangeliarium
evangelary
evangeliary
Evangelistarion
fractiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fractile
beach volleyballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beach volleyball
Rorschach tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rorschach test
persistent genital arousal disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PGAD
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A spontaneous, persistent, and uncontrollable genital arousal, with or without orgasm or genital engorgement, unrelated to any feelings of sexual desire.
Synonyms: persistent sexual arousal syndrome
PSAS
restless genital syndrome
muliebral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /mjuːlɪˈiːbɹəl/
Forms: form: more muliebral
form: most muliebral
Etymology: From Latin muliebris (“womanly”) + -al.
Senses: glosses: Womanly, feminine, relating to or in the manner of an adult woman.
Related terms: muliebrile
muliebrity
aphoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Barrenness, female sterility.
spannelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spannel
erd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɜːd/
ipa: /ɝd/
ipa: /ɛɾd/
Etymology: A variant of earth.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of earth.
Derived terms: erd shrew
Related terms: erdvark
erd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɜːd/
ipa: /ɝd/
ipa: /ɛɾd/
Etymology: A clipping of erd shrew.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The common European shrew (Sorex vulgaris); the shrewmouse or erd shrew.
dead links
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dead link
deadlinking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deadlink
deadlinked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deadlink
LLB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LLBs
form: LL.B
form: Ll.B.
Etymology: From Latin legum (LL) + baccalaureus.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Bachelor of Laws.
LLB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LLBs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of lemon, lime and bitters (type of cocktail)
reem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːm/
ipa: /ɹɪˈɛm/
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: reems
Etymology: From Biblical Hebrew רְאֵם (r'em).
Senses: glosses: A large horned animal in ancient Hebrew literature, variously identified with the wild ox or aurochs (Bos primigenius), the Arabian oryx, or a mythical creature (compare unicorn).
reem
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːm/
ipa: /ɹɪˈɛm/
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: reems
form: reeming
form: reemed
form: reemed
Etymology: Compare ream (“to make a hole in”).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To open (the seams of a vessel's planking) for the purpose of calking them.
reem
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːm/
ipa: /ɹɪˈɛm/
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: reemer
form: more reem
form: reemest
form: most reem
Etymology: Of unclear origins, popularised by Joey Essex. Possibly derived from cream or ream.
Senses: examples: text: The cast of The Only Way Is Essex have tried every fake tan in the universe and insist this is best before a reem night out.
ref: 2011 June 13, Julie McCaffrey, “Forget a suntan, fake it, safely bake or soothe it”, in The Mirror:
text: Imagine a totally reem Hogwarts where Harry Potter looks like he should be in a Wham! video while Hermione's always on her pink BlackBerry and trying to catch Ron's attention by rolling up her skirt higher and higher.
ref: 2012, Becci Fox, Confessions of an Essex Girl: A Smart, Sexy and Scandalously Funny Expose, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:
text: Room service: The reemest way to get food! […] The party royal is the most reem though because he goes to Vegas.
ref: 2014, Joey Essex, Being Reem, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: cool, excellent; desirable; sexy.
excerpta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of excerptum
evulse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈvʌls/
ipa: /iːˈvʌls/
ipa: /ɪˈvʌls/
Forms: form: evulses
form: evulsing
form: evulsed
form: evulsed
Senses: glosses: To pull out forcibly.
Related terms: evulsion
tumble down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tumbles down
form: tumbling down
form: tumbled down
form: tumbled down
Senses: examples: text: After its tournament dreams came tumbling down in shocking fashion last March, the Harvard men’s hockey team has high hopes of improving upon the disappointing up-and-down 2008-09 season and making it back to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2006.
ref: 2009 November 10, Scott A. Sherman, “Offense To Spark Harvard Comeback”, in The Harvard Crimson:
glosses: To topple, collapse.
Derived terms: word: tumbledown
Twinkie defences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Twinkie defence
flatted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flat
intexticated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intexticated
form: most intexticated
Etymology: Blend of intoxicated + text.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Sweeney almost paid a price for, as the saying goes, driving while “intexticated.” About a year ago, he said, he almost got into a collision as he was text-messaging while driving.
ref: 2008 March 16, Dave Caldwell, “With Text-Messaging Ban While Driving, Legislators Play Gizmo Catch-Up”, in The New York Times:
text: What about driving while intexticated?
ref: 2009 February 25, The Citizen, “Re: {OP-ED} The punishment for DUI is way too harsh”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):
glosses: Distracted by text messaging; said of someone driving poorly for this reason.
cobelligerent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cobelligerents
Etymology: From co- + belligerent.
Senses: glosses: Country that wages war against a common enemy, without the countries on the same side having a formal treaty of military alliance.
cobelligerent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + belligerent.
Senses: glosses: Carrying on war in conjunction with another power.
loadsa
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Contraction of loads of.
Senses: examples: text: "Loadsa money for loadsa goodies," he chuckled.
ref: 2003, Michael Wordsmiff, James Baggit and the Storyteller's Ring, →ISBN:
glosses: Lots of; much.
Derived terms: loadsamoney
Vyomesh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit [Term?]. Derived from two independent words vyom (space, universe) and esh (god, master). The combined meaning indicates Mahavishnu or Shiva.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit used in Hindu communities.
dyschromatopsia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dys- + chromatopsia.
Senses: glosses: dichromatism
molecular assembler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molecular assemblers
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A device that, given an object and sufficient atoms of the required elements, would reproduce exact copies.
Synonyms: cornucopia machine
nanofactory
poete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poetes
form: poëte
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of poet.
poetes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poete
speer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: speers
form: speering
form: speered
form: speered
form: spear
form: sper
form: spere
form: speir
form: spire
form: spyrr
Etymology: From Middle English spuren, from Old English spyrian, from Proto-Germanic *spurjaną. Cognate with German spüren, Danish spørge, Norwegian Bokmål spørre, Swedish spörja.
Senses: examples: text: Afore lang days, I hope to see him here, / About his milkness and his cows to speer.
ref: 1778, Alexander Ross, Helenore: Or, The Fortunate Shepherdess, page 87:
text: "A town ca'd Glasgow!" echoed Andrew Fairservice. "Glasgow's a ceety, man.—And is't the way to Glasgow ye were speering if I ken'd?[…]"
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], Rob Roy. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
glosses: to ask, to inquire
outbuy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /aʊtˈbaɪ/
Forms: form: outbuys
form: outbuying
form: outbought
form: outbought
Etymology: From out- + buy.
Senses: glosses: To spend more money than (someone) buying goods.
glosses: To outbid (someone) for something.
glosses: To reach a better purchase bargain than (someone).
outbuys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outbuy
outbuying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outbuy
outbought
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outbuy
nizzles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nizzle
complexer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: complexers
Etymology: From complex (verb) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: any solid urea not converted to adduct sinks to the bottom of the oil phase and may be recycled to the complexer, either as oil slurry or urea solution after extraction with alcohol.
ref: 2018, Recent Developments in Separation Science: Volume 2, page 35:
text: For the combination with the cyanide-free complexer B, thiosulfate was selected.
ref: 2022, Christian N. Madu, Handbook of Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing, page 236:
glosses: A chemical substance that is used for complexing.
complexer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From complex (adjective) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Let us turn to another aspect of Ovid's narration that demands the audience's active participation and that leads to a complexer and richer understanding of discourse and time.
ref: 1999, Stephen M. Wheeler, A Discourse of Wonders:
glosses: comparative form of complex: more complex
octopussies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of octopussy
maximae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maxima
maximas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maximæ
Senses: glosses: plural of maxima
papyros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “Perhaps, Sir,” said the poor fellow, “you will accept of a papyros?” “Not I!” said the officer. “I want none of your—Eh? What?” continued he, casting his eye upon the papyros.
ref: 1858, John Gadsby, A Trip to Sebastopol, Out and Home, by Way of Vienna, the Danube, Odessa, Constantinople, and Athens. Together with Some Account of Russia and the Russians, […], 2nd edition, London: Gadsby, […], page 51:
text: He paid so regularly, was so content with his meals, and so careful of his clothes; never had any noisy parties; only now and then a visitor, as quiet and retiring as himself, would call in to drink a glass of tea and smoke a papyros of an evening with her “golden” lodger.
ref: 1868, H. C. Romanoff, Sketches of the Rites and Customs of the Greco-Russian Church, London; Oxford, Oxon; Cambridge, Cambs.: Rivingtons, page 183:
text: The reason of this is that in Russia every body smokes, and provision is made accordingly. Save the church, no place is here sacred from the weed. The papyros is no respector of domestic sanctities. […] The silver or gold papyros case is much more indispensable than a fan to a lady mixing in society. To be without cigars is to be careless of one’s reputation. For a guest, lady or gentleman, to decline a papyros, is one of the most serious social offences that can be committed.
ref: 1882, “Notes and Queries”, in David W[endel] Yandell, Theophilus Parvin, editors, The American Practitioner: A Monthly Journal of Medicine and Surgery, volume XXVI, Louisville, Ky.: John P. Morton and Company; Indianapolis, Ind.: Cathcart & Cleland, pages 377–378:
glosses: Alternative form of papirosa.
co-belligerent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-belligerents
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cobelligerent.
LSMT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It is within a patient's rights to refuse any treatment if they have capacity, even LSMT.
glosses: Initialism of life-sustaining/saving medical treatment.
trig points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trig point
without further adieu
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of without further ado.
Spanish Sahara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The territory of Western Sahara
Spanish omelette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Spanish omelettes
form: Spanish omelet
Senses: synonyms: tortilla
glosses: A molded omelette made with the addition of fried potatoes and often onions.
Spanish omelettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Spanish omelette
Akutagawa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Japanese 芥川 (あくたがわ, Akutagawa).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
battell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battells
form: battelles
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of battle.
Related terms: battells
battells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of battell
battells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of battels (“fees charged by an Oxford college for accommodation and living expenses”).
battelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of battell
doab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdoʊ.ɑːb/
Forms: form: doabs
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian دوآب (do-âb) and Hindi दोआब (doāb), properly meaning "two waters".
Senses: examples: text: the doab between the Ganges and the Yamuna
text: Bobby pressed his forehead against the rain-splashed windowpane as the train lumbered across the sodden Doab, and prayed for the health of the Tyneside Tail Twisters.
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “Only A Subaltern”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 145:
text: Known as the northern black polished (NBP), it first appears after 500 BC, rapidly supersedes the earlier styles (PGW, BRW) in Bihar and UP, an eventually extends across the Doab and deep into Panjab, east to Bengal and south to Maharashtra.
ref: 2010, John Keay, India: A History
glosses: A tongue or tract of land included between two rivers, especially that between the Ganges and the Yamuna
doabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doab
buy into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: buys into
form: buying into
form: bought into
form: bought into
Etymology: buy + into
Senses: examples: text: I don't buy into all this propaganda.
synonyms: fall for
hypernyms: buy it
glosses: To believe (something, especially something implausible); to accept (a craze, fad, or notion) as valid.
examples: text: We bought into a local electrical firm.
topics: business
finance
glosses: To buy stocks or shares of (a business).
buy up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: buys up
form: buying up
form: bought up
form: bought up
Etymology: From buy + up.
Senses: examples: text: The marshland was bought up by a housing company.
glosses: To buy the whole of; to purchase the entire stock of something.
examples: text: According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.
ref: 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
glosses: To buy whatever is available of something.
examples: text: Sir Leicester Dedlock, Baronet, it's for you to consider whether or not to buy this up. I should recommend, on the whole, it's being bought up myself; and I think it may be bought pretty cheap.
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: To buy off; to pay in blackmail money or similar.
dew points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dew point
nonscrotal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + scrotal.
Senses: examples: text: The putative advantage of Androderm is that it can result in direct absorption of testosterone across nonscrotal skin.
ref: 2000, Lucretia Van den Berg, Endocrinology of aging, page 142:
text: Male maturity is evident from descent of the testes; adult males are scrotal year-round, whereas subadult males are partially or nonscrotal.
ref: 2008, Melissa A. Hillegass et al., “The influence of sex and sociality on parasite loads in an African ground squirrel”, in Behavioral Ecology, volume 19, number 5, →DOI, pages 1006–1011:
glosses: Not scrotal.
bring-and-buy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bring-and-buys
Etymology: bring + and + buy
Senses: examples: text: There was a bring-and-buy on in the village green.
glosses: A small-scale sale where people bring items to sell and buy others' items. The money raised usually goes towards charity.
Synonyms: bring-and-buy sale
bretwalda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bretwaldas
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English bretwalda.
Senses: glosses: A title given to some of the rulers of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms from the 5th century onwards who had achieved overlordship of some or all of the other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.
dijudicant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dijudicants
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dijudicans, present participle of dijudico (“I dijudicate”).
Senses: examples: text: This also must be said, that he did not blame the use of Aristotle in the Universities among the junior Students, but did altogether disapprove the streightness and sfloath of elder dijudicants, from whom a more generous temper might be expected
ref: 1691, [Anthony Wood], Athenæ Oxonienses. An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops who have had Their Education in the Most Ancient and Famous University of Oxford from the Fifteenth Year of King Henry the Seventh, Dom. 1500, to the End of the Year 1690. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Tho[mas] Bennet […]:
glosses: One who dijudicates.
dijudicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dijudicates
form: dijudicating
form: dijudicated
form: dijudicated
Etymology: From Latin dijudico (“I dijudicate”); di- (a combining form of dis-) + judico (“I judge”).
Senses: examples: text: The Church of Rome, when ſhe commends unto us the Authority of the Church in dijudicating of Scriptures , ſeems only to ſpeak of her ſelf
ref: 1659, John Hales, “Confession of the Trinity”, in Golden Remains of the Ever Memorable Mr. John Hales:
glosses: To make a judicial decision; to decide; to determine.
dogis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dogi
futa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: futas
Senses: glosses: Clipping of futanari.
futas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of futa
hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A paraneoplastic condition characterised by clubbing and periostitis of the long bones of the arms and legs
Amors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Amor
vareniki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: varenik
Etymology: From Russian варе́ники (varéniki).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of varenyky.
borachio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bŏʹrăchō
enpr: bŏʹrăchĭō
ipa: /bɒˈɹæt͡ʃəʊ/
ipa: /bɒˈɹæt͡ʃɪəʊ/
enpr: bôʹrächō
enpr: bôʹrächiō
ipa: /bɔˈɹɑt͡ʃoʊ/
ipa: /bɔˈɹɑt͡ʃioʊ/
Forms: form: borachios
Etymology: From Spanish borracho (“drunkard, wine bottle”), from Latin burrus (“red, flushed”), from Ancient Greek πυρρός (purrhós, “tawny, red”).
Senses: examples: text: Offence? As I'm a Perſon, I'm aſhamed of you—Fogh! how you ſtink of Wine! Dee think my Niece will ever endure ſuch a Borachio! you'r an abſolute Borachio.
ref: 1700, [William] Congreve, The Way of the World, a Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act IV, scene x, page 62:
synonyms: word: alco
word: alcoholic
word: alkie
word: bacchanal
word: bacchant
word: barfly
word: bibber
word: booze artist
word: boozehound
word: boozer
word: borachio
word: bouser
word: carouser
word: cupster
word: dipso
word: dipsomaniac
word: drinker
word: drunk
word: drunkard
word: fuddlecap
word: fuddler
word: grog artist
word: guzzler
word: inebriate
word: juicehead
word: lick-wimble
word: lush
word: lusher
word: maltworm
word: pisshead
word: pisspot
word: plonko
word: reel-pot
word: rinse-pitcher
word: rumpot
word: shicker
word: slubberdegullion
word: soak
word: soaker
word: sot
word: souse
word: sponge
word: squeeze-grape
word: sucker
word: suck-pint
word: swill-belly
word: swill-bowl
word: swill-flagon
word: swill-pot
word: swill-tub
word: swillking
word: tippler
word: toper
word: tosspot
word: tun
word: winebibber
word: winesop
word: wino
glosses: A drunkard.
examples: text: Meer. Yes, / But by my way of dressing, you must know, sir, / And med'cining the leather to a height / Of improved ware, like your borachio / Of Spain, sir, I can fetch nine thousand for't
ref: 1631, Ben Jonson, The Devil is an Ass, act II scene I:
glosses: A bottle for wine made of pigskin.
SACD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SACDs
Etymology: Super Audio + CD
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Super Audio CD, an optical disc, similar to a DVD, typically one holding a commercially-recorded music album.
Related terms: CD
DVD
DVD-Audio
audio DVD
HDCD
CD-Audio
CDDA
neon signs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neon sign