cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
disponibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disponibilities
Etymology: Formed like disponible + -ity / -ibility, probably modelled on French disponibilité.
Senses: glosses: Availability.
Derived terms: biodisponibility
Salzkammergut
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed into English from German, literally meaning "Estate of the Salt Chamber" and deriving from the Imperial Salt Chamber, the authority charged with running the precious salt mines of the Habsburg Monarchy.
Senses: glosses: A resort area of lakes and mountains in Austria, stretching from the City of Salzburg eastwards along the Austrian Alpine Foreland and the Northern Limestone Alps to the peaks of the Dachstein Mountains.
Hurler syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hurler's syndrome
Etymology: Named after Gertrud Hurler, a German pediatrician and a medical practitioner.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A genetic disorder that results in the buildup of glycosaminoglycans due to a deficiency of alpha-L iduronidase.
wikipedia: Gertrud Hurler
Synonyms: Hurler's disease
mucopolysaccharidosis type I
Related terms: gargoylism
Hurler's syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hurler syndrome.
Hurler's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Hurler syndrome
mucopolysaccharidosis type I
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Hurler syndrome
make fast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes fast
form: making fast
form: made fast
form: made fast
Senses: examples: text: I pulled back, made fast again to the jetty, and then went to sleep at last.
ref: 1898, Joseph Conrad, Youth:
text: It is a well-known fact that an immense proportion of boat accidents would never happen if people held the sheet in their hands instead of making it fast; and yet, unless it be some martinet of a professional mariner or some landsman with shattered nerves, every one of God's creatures makes it fast.
ref: 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
glosses: To tie reliably.
Hurler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Hurler.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Hurler syndrome
Hurler-Scheie syndrome
Downes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Camp Downes
stemhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stemheads
form: stem-head
Etymology: From stem + head.
Senses: examples: text: [...] and a man, all in a heap in the bows of the boat, slept with both arms embracing the stem-head and with his cheek laid on the gunwale.
ref: 1898, Joseph Conrad, Youth:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The top and foremost end of a stem on a marine vessel.
Mormon Church
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Mormon Church
Senses: glosses: A major sub-group in Mormonism.
ectromelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ectromelias
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A congenital defect resulting in the lack of one or more of the limbs.
ectromelias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ectromelia
tabasco peppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tabasco pepper
good graces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: [H]e had insinuated himself into the good graces of an ancient and rich burgomaster, and, by his handsome person and graceful manners, captivated the affections of his only child.
ref: 1831, Sir Walter Scott, My Aunt Margaret's Mirror:
text: [T]he twins' charm of manner and easy and polished bearing made speedy conquest of the family's good graces.
ref: 1897, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “[Pudd’nhead Wilson] Chapter 6”, in The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson: And the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 77:
text: David had, in the space of an hour, captured Mrs. Williamson's heart, wormed himself into the good graces of Timothy, and become hail-fellow-well-met with old Robert.
ref: 1910, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 16, in Kilmeny of the Orchard:
text: That has prompted leaders of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association to threaten to withhold support for the Mayor's re-election bid. "He's not in our good graces now," said Louis Matarazzo, the P.B.A. president. "We're not endorsing anyone now."
ref: 1996 February 6, Clifford Krauss, “New York's Thin, Angry Blue Line”, in New York Times, retrieved 26 Dec 2012:
text: Joe Lieberman has never been shy about speaking his mind […], leaving his fate as chairman of the Homeland Security Committee and member of the Democratic caucus to depend on the good graces of Senate Democrats.
ref: 2008 November 18, Jay Newton-Small, “Why the Democrats — and Obama — Forgave Lieberman”, in Time, archived from the original on 01 Jan 2013:
text: Agreeing to remove a controversial ingredient is a way to get in the administration’s good graces and can be a good business move—even if your foods are largely still unhealthy.
ref: 2025 July 18, Nicholas Florko, “Make Coca-Cola Great Again”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Favorable regard; personal approval; kindly treatment.
Synonyms: good books
Tigriña
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Tigrinya.
Tigrinia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Tigrinya.
Tigrinian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tigrinya.
Tigrinyan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tigrinya.
whitret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whitrets
form: futret
form: whitterick
form: whittret
Etymology: Apparently from white + rat.
Senses: examples: text: We maun off like whittrets before the whole clanjamfray be doun upon us.
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: But even so he was gey slow to get on with the courting and just hung around Kirsty like a futret round a trap with a bit of meat in it, not sure if the meat was worth the risk […].
ref: 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 21:
glosses: A weasel or stoat.
plouter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plouters
form: ploutering
form: ploutered
form: ploutered
form: pleiter
form: plotter
form: plowter
Etymology: Probably from *plout + -er.
Senses: examples: text: As I did not want to plowter about any more in the drizzle and the dark, I put my waterproof over the muzzle of one gun, and made a sort of wigwam with two or three rammers that I found, and lay along the tail of another gun, wondering where Vixen had got to, and where I might be.
ref: 1894 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Servants of the Queen”, in The Jungle Book, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published June 1894, →OCLC, page 187:
glosses: To splash around in something wet; to dabble.
examples: text: He's left th' yate ut t' full swing, and miss's pony has trodden dahn two rigs uh corn, un plottered through, raight o'er intuh t' meadow!
ref: 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter IX, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume I, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC, page 187:
text: [O]f course he prefers plottering about the house [...]
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 18: Penelope]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 703:
text: So one night after they had all had supper in the kitchen and old Sinclair had gone pleitering out to the byres, old Mistress Sinclair had up and nodded to Kirsty […].
ref: 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 21:
text: There's certainly a small boat that people plouter about in.
ref: 1986, Michael Innes, Appleby & Ospreys:
glosses: To potter.
plouter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plouters
form: pleiter
form: plotter
form: plowter
Etymology: Probably from *plout + -er.
Senses: glosses: The act of ploutering, or splashing about.
twopenny-halfpenny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌtʌp(ə)ni ˈheɪp(ə)ni/
Forms: form: two-penny-half-penny
form: twopenny-ha'penny
Senses: examples: text: Good heavens! and I was going to take charge of a two-penny-half-penny river-steamboat with a penny whistle attached!
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:
text: Poor devil, he's gone to the dogs altogether. He's got some twopenny-halfpenny job in the medical at Alexandria—sanitary officer or something like that. I'm told he lives with an ugly old Greek woman and has half a dozen scrofulous kids.
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter L, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC, page 264:
glosses: Petty, insignificant.
sholtie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sholties
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sheltie.
Jaina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jainas
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Jain (“follower of the Jainism religion”).
synonyms: word: Jain
extra: follower of the Jainism religion
all-seeing eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: all-seeing eyes
Senses: glosses: The Eye of Providence, a symbol of an eye usually enclosed in a triangle, representing the eye of God.
glosses: The omniscient God.
Related terms: all eyes
all eyes and ears
all-seeing
all-knowing
all-seeingness
omnividence
omnivident
seeing-eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Miniature horses are mainly used as seeing-eye animals, to pull wheelchairs and the like, and sometimes as a support for a person with Parkinson's.
ref: 2016, Rachel Smith, John Davidson, Service Animals For Kids, page 6:
glosses: Assisting with vision.
Derived terms: seeing-eye dog
Upson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Upson County
one-star
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Four minutes later Walcott, who until then had been redundant as a lone striker owing to one-star service, was given his first decent pass of the game and duly took his chance to outshine the Senegalese, springing a poorly conceived offside trap to collect Lukas Podolski's ball and stroke a low 15-yard shot past Tim Krul and into the far corner.
ref: 2012 December 29, Paul Doyle, “Arsenal's Theo Walcott hits hat-trick in thrilling victory over Newcastle”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Of low quality.
Related terms: five-star
Heartbreak Hotel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Title of a 1956 song by Elvis Presley, inspired by a newspaper article about a lonely man who jumped from a hotel window.
Senses: glosses: The condition of heartbreak resulting from a failed romance.
wikipedia: Elvis Presley
Venkata
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit वेङ्कट (veṅkaṭa).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.
Related terms: Venkat
Venkateswara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit वेङ्कटेश्वर (veṅkaṭeśvara).
Senses: glosses: The lord of seven hills, abode of Tirumala.
glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.
sofky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səfki/
Etymology: Possibly from a Muskogean language.
Senses: examples: text: There was another pot in the fireplace too, a big one, a two-gallon pot, and it was filled with a mess that looked like hominy. Rooster tasted it with a spoon and said it was an Indian dish called sofky.
ref: 1968, Charles Portis, True Grit:
glosses: A soup or stew made of hominy, cornmeal and bits of meat.
Vijaya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit विजय (vijaya).
Senses: glosses: One of the two demigod gatekeepers (Dvarapala) of the abode of Vishnu, known as Vaikuntha.
glosses: Name of the Arjuna in Mahabharata.
glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.
Vijaya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit विजय (vijaya).
Senses: glosses: Name of Hindu goddess Parvati.
glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.
Vijaya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit विजय (vijaya).
Senses: glosses: The twenty-seventh year of the 60 year cycle of the Tamil calendar.
MSAE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Member of the Society of Automotive Engineers.
FRSA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
elementary charge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elementary charges
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The electric charge on a single proton or electron
chemical symbol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemical symbols
Senses: glosses: The 1- to 3-letter international code for a chemical element. It is the same in all languages. Thus, gold always has the chemical symbol "Au", regardless of what people call it in their language.
glosses: a similar symbol used to denote a different chemical entity, such as an isotope (e.g. D = deuterium, though "²H" is more correct), a radical (e.g. Ph [or Φ] = phenyl), an unknown (e.g. M = a metal, or X = a halogen), etc.
Asu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Abewa
glosses: A Nupoid language spoken in Nigeria (ISO code "aum").
synonyms: Chasu
glosses: Pare, a Bantu language spoken in Tanzania (ISO code "asa").
Chasu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Pare.
Senses: glosses: A Bantu language spoken in Northern Tanzania by people living in the Pare Mountains.
Synonyms: Asu
Pare
Related terms: asu
Asu
ASU
legginged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛɡɪŋd/
rhymes: -ɪŋd
Forms: form: leggined
Etymology: From legging + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing leggings.
Synonyms: belegginged
porchettas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porchetta
Supermarionation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of super + marionette + animation, coined by Gerry Anderson, possibly in imitation of Dynamation, Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion technique.
Senses: glosses: A puppetry technique used in the 1960s, involving motorized marionettes suspended and controlled by thin wires.
wikipedia: Gerry Anderson
Related terms: supermarionette
swatched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of swatch
swatching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of swatch
Swazilander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Swazilanders
Etymology: From Swaziland + -er.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Swaziland.
Hypernyms: sub-Saharan
African
Swazilanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Swazilander
stablehand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsteɪbəlˌhænd/
Forms: form: stablehands
form: stable hand
form: stable-hand
Etymology: From stable + hand.
Senses: glosses: A person who works in a stable.
Synonyms: word: groom
word: stableboy
word: stableman
fonduing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fondue
stablehands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stablehand
word ladder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: word ladders
Senses: glosses: A kind of puzzle in which one word must be transformed into another specified word of the same length by changing one letter at a time, each step yielding a valid intermediate word, as in lead → load → goad → gold.
examples: text: But his real genius lay in the devising of many entirely new types of crossword, some of which have found enthusiastic imitators . 'Printer's Devilry', 'Playfair', and 'Word-Ladder' , for instance, were his invention
ref: 1954, The Listener:
text: In the word ladder each rung is a six-letter word which has five letters in common with each of its neighbours (e.g. DISTIL, LISTED, STRIDE, EDITOR, etc). The rungs to be entered in the diagram are not clued but must be deduced from the other rungs which are
ref: 1990 10, Listener and BBC Television Review:
text: Some of Morph's politically themed crosswords stick out: the puzzle where BLAIR changed to BROWN word-ladder-style in the grid via BLAIN/BRAIN/BRAWN and the one featuring various items claimed on expenses by MPs: DUCK ISLAND and so on.
ref: 2012 August 17, Alan Connor, “Crossword blog: meet the setter - Micawber/Morph”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
qualifier: crosswording
glosses: A type of cryptic crossword clue in which the each word in the clue defines a single term each varying by a single letter, and all the terms together form a word ladder between the first half of the solution and the second half.
Synonyms: doublet
laddergram
Related terms: word golf
word ladders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of word ladder
laddergram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laddergrams
Etymology: From ladder + -gram.
Senses: glosses: A word ladder puzzle.
laddergrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laddergram
ladderings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laddering
fonduer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fonduers
Etymology: From fondue + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Fondue's transformation from yesterday's fad to the latest craze has been relatively recent. As a result, many of your guests may be first-time fonduers.
ref: 2004, Rhonda Lauret Parkinson, The Everything Fondue Cookbook: 300 Creative Ideas for Any Occasion, page 3:
glosses: One who fondues.
fonduers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fonduer
high noons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of high noon
rebiopsied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rebiopsy
autonymically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From autonymic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an autonymic manner; in the manner of an autonym; indigenously.
autonymic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Being, pertaining to, or as an autonym.
Derived terms: autonymically
Related terms: autonymous
autonymy
Wythoffian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Wythoffian
form: most Wythoffian
Etymology: From Wythoff + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Willem Abraham Wythoff (1865–1939), Dutch mathematician.
rat-tail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rat-tails
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rattail.
Derived terms: at rattail § Derived terms
Zeckendorf's theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Belgian mathematician Edouard Zeckendorf.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A theorem stating that every positive integer can be represented uniquely as the sum of one or more distinct Fibonacci numbers in such a way that the sum does not include any two consecutive Fibonacci numbers.
wikipedia: Edouard Zeckendorf
attachment disorders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attachment disorder
pseudocodeword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudocodewords
Etymology: From pseudo- + codeword.
Senses: examples: text: We examine the structure of pseudocodewords in Tanner graphs and derive lower bounds of pseudocodeword weights.
ref: 2004, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, page 67:
text: Other notions of pseudocodeword-like structures such as stopping sets are also known to coincide with these polytope vertices.
ref: 2008, Ming-Yang Kao, Encyclopedia of Algorithms, page 481:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The result obtained when a decoder fails to converge on a codeword, but instead converges on some other code structure.
pseudocodewords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudocodeword
Daphnians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Daphnian
incredibley
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of incredibly.
town center
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: town centers
Senses: glosses: US spelling of town centre.
statutory authority
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: statutory authorities
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A body set up by law which is authorised to enforce legislation on behalf of the relevant country or state.
topics: law
glosses: Legislation authorizing the existence and activity of a government agency.
topics: law
glosses: The powers assigned to a government agency by legislation.
hermaphroditically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hermaphroditic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: For nature hates that any principle should breed, so to speak, hermaphroditically, but will give to each an help meet for it which shall cross it and be the undoing of it; as in the case of descent with modification, of which the essence would appear to be that every offspring should resemble its parents, and yet, at the same time, that no offspring should resemble its parents.
ref: 1878, Samuel Butler, Life and Habit, Ballantyne, Hanson and Co., pages 28–29:
text: In normal sexual reproduction, whether performed by separate sexes or hermaphroditically, the two functions are generally combined in a pair.
ref: 1979, Adriano Zanetti, The World of Insects, Abbeville Press, page 86:
text: This cleft sentence in turn cleaves narrative genre: Baré's story, formerly an account of loyal masculine servitude, now proceeds as a feminine sentimental narrative, yet one in which she figures, hermaphroditically, as both distressed female and the masculine hero who rescues her.
ref: 2004, Vanessa Smith, “Costume Changes: Passing at Sea and on the Beach”, in Bernhard Klein, Gesa Mackenthun, editors, Sea Changes: Historicizing the Ocean, Routledge, →ISBN, page 40:
glosses: In a hermaphroditic manner.
Related terms: hermaphrodite
hermaphroditic
hermaphroditical
hermaphroditism
hotelless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hotel + -less.
Senses: glosses: lacking a hotel
Jayasri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit [Term?], from जय (jaya) + श्री (śrī).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.
Jayantha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit जयन्त (jayanta).
Senses: glosses: The son of Indra.
glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.
waz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wazz (“act of urination”).
Related terms: waz up
Snow Queen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Snow Queen
Etymology: A literal translation into English from the original Danish Sneedronningen, from snee (“snow”, an older spelling of sne) + dronning (“queen”) + -en (suffixed definite article) from a fairy tale first published in 1845 by Hans Christian Andersen, based on the struggle between good and evil as experienced by a little boy and girl, Kai and Gerda.
Senses: examples: text: The fur and the cap, which were made entirely of snow, fell off, and he saw a lady, tall and white, it was the Snow Queen.
ref: 1872 [1845], H. P. Paull, transl., The Snow Queen, translation of Sneedronningen by Hans Christian Andersen (in Danish):
text: Daphne wanted to tell her that a Snow Queen can know nothing of love, only of destruction, but she remained silent, just looked away.
ref: 2009, Justine Picardie, Daphne, A&C Black, →ISBN:
text: Tom announces that he doesn't believe in such a thing as a Snow Queen.
ref: 2011, Jack Zipes, The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films, Routledge, →ISBN, page 271:
glosses: A female fairy tale character with magical power over snow and ice.
wikipedia: Hans Christian Andersen
The +
Related terms: ice queen
Jersey Dutch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A lect or set of dialects, derived from Dutch, spoken in New Jersey from the late 17th century until the early 20th century, various dialects of which were more creolized (with English and Lenape) than others.
Druidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Druidic
form: most Druidic
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Druidism.
choirboyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more choirboyish
form: most choirboyish
Etymology: From choirboy + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: It was a sweet, choirboyish face, despite the full brown mustache, much younger looking than thirty.
ref: 1988, Daniel Curzon, Curzon in Love:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a choirboy.
colipases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colipase
chondroitinases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chondroitinase
chondroitinsulphatase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chondroitinsulfatase.
enteropathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enteropathy
extremital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extremity + -al?
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the extremities.
fishetarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɪʃ.əˈtɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌfɪ.ʃəˈtɛ.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: fishetarians
Etymology: Blend of fish + vegetarian
Senses: examples: text: 'Okay, we can't do monkfish for the fishetarians because it's not kosher, and the koshers won't eat red meat either, so cod will do for them[…]
ref: 2005, Michael Bywater, Lost Worlds, page 39:
text: Uncle Murray is on a very strict heart healthy diet. Katherine may be a fishetarian — she has some sort of ulcer-thing I think, because I know that eating much in the way of tomatoes is a no-no for her.
ref: 2006, Hana Schank, A More Perfect Union, page 82:
glosses: A pescetarian; one who eats no meat other than fish.
fishetarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fishetarian
discharge tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discharge tubes
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
hypernyms: tube
coordinate_terms: cathode ray tube
vacuum tube
glosses: Any device in which a flow of electrons (or ions) through a gas acts as a source of light.
Janani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit जननी (jananī, literally “mother”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit.
biassedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From biassed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of biasedness.
unbiassedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unbiassed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unbiasedness.
biasedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From biased + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being biased; partiality; bias.
klismaphiliac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: klismaphiliacs
Senses: glosses: A person with klismaphilia (sexual arousal from enemas).
Synonyms: klismaphile
klismaphiliacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of klismaphiliac
codesets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of codeset
teares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teare
biomanufacturers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biomanufacturer
abdicatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abdicative
backshots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of backshot
backshots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backshot
foreshots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foreshot
freezeframed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of freezeframe
freezeframing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of freezeframe
brisque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brisques
Etymology: Borrowed from French brisque.
Senses: glosses: In the card game bezique, an ace or ten won in a trick.
brisques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brisque
ruffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ruffers
Etymology: From ruff + -er.
Senses: topics: bridge
games
glosses: One who ruffs.
ruffer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of ruff: more ruff
ruffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ruffers
Senses: examples: text: Examination led to the concluson that he had an irreducible omental hernia, as it interfered with his ability to follow his trade, that of an iron ruffer.
ref: 1914, Medical Art and Indianapolis Medical Journal, volume 17, page 6:
glosses: Alternative form of rougher (“worker who shapes something”).
ruffers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ruffer
rebidder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rebidders
Etymology: From re- + bidder.
Senses: glosses: One who rebids.
rebidders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rebidder
finessable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From finesse + -able.
Senses: topics: bridge
games
glosses: That can be finessed.
y.o.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: y.o.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of year(s) old; also yo, y/o.
hoofmark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoofmarks
form: hoof-mark
Etymology: From hoof + mark.
Senses: examples: text: […] he looked for tracks / On the ridge where he had seen the riders cantering, / And not a bush was broken, not a hoof-mark / Scarred the sear grass.
ref: 1924, Robinson Jeffers, “Tamar”, in The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, Random House, published 1937, page 38:
text: Little half moons clustered underneath her cheekbones, like faint hoofmarks.
ref: 1992, Toni Morrison, Jazz, Vintage, published 2004, page 130:
glosses: The imprint made by a hoof; a hoofprint.
hoofmarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoofmark
microcircuitries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microcircuitry
Weaverian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Weaverian
form: most Weaverian
Etymology: From Weaver + -ian.
Senses: examples: Weaverian rhetoric
glosses: Of or relating to Richard M. Weaver (1910–1963), American scholar.
eigenmodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eigen- + modal.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to eigenmode.
eigenmasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eigenmass
couthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more couthy
form: most couthy
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of couthie.
swack
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /swæk/
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: swacker
form: swackest
Etymology: From Middle English swac (“weak”), possibly borrowed via Scots swack, ultimately from Old English *swæc (found in derivative swæcehēow (“weakmindedness, nonsense”)), from Proto-West Germanic *swak (“weak”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian swäk, West Frisian swak, Dutch zwak, German Low German swack, German schwach, Norwegian Bokmål svak.
Senses: examples: text: Matthew advanced to the foot of the stairs and whistled. The signal had been expected, for presently he was joined by a swack youth of about eighteen years, who carried a couple of long salmon-spears.
ref: 1881, Charles Gibbon, For Lack of Gold, page 307:
text: A swack, healthy lass, with plump bust, arms, and legs (the last then evident), laughing lips, eyes over which the dark hair strayed—a guileless face, full of light and love.
ref: 1897, George A. Mackay, Where the Heather Grows, page 161:
text: it came the turn of a brave young childe with a red head and the swackest legs you ever saw, […] and as soon as he began the drill you saw he'd carry off the prize.
ref: 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 37:
text: He made a run for shelter, and he was a swack enough lad them days for all his weight of years.
ref: 1949, William Chambers, Robert Chambers, Chambers's Journal, page 707:
text: He was a swack billy-boy, with the same high color as the landlord, and the same tight spaniel curls.
ref: 1953, Edward Ballard Garside, The Man from Brazil, page 162:
glosses: Lithe; nimble.
Synonyms: gracile
svelte
willowy
slender and Thesaurus:flexible
swack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /swæk/
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: swacks
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: examples: text: She gave me a swack of books.
text: They run a Navajo Trading Store along with five hundred cows and a swack of bad horses.
ref: 1930, Lee Sage, Harvey Fergusson, The Last Rustler: The Autobiography of Lee Sage, page 89:
text: Littleburg is one of the more challenging scenarios on your SC3K CD. You begin with only 9,125 inhabitants, only $1,071 in the bank, and a swack of services that'll choke your pocketbook if you even think of expanding.
ref: 1999, Daniel A. Tauber, Brenda Kienan, SimCity 3000: Unofficial Strategies and Secrets:
glosses: A large number or amount of something.
swack
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /swæk/
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: more swack
form: most swack
Etymology: Considered dialect by Wright, but now widespread. Scottish National Dictionary proposes an origin in Old Scots (Middle English) swak ("to throw violently"). Compare Scots swak, swack (“to throw with violent force, dash", also "a hard blow or whack”). Compare also Middle Dutch swacken (“to shake, wave”).
Senses: examples: text: Pulling away, Brennan felt his shin swack against Glass's shin, but Glass kept moving.
ref: 1987, Joseph Monninger, Second Season, page 179:
text: Seems to me to be suffin' funny about this 'ere job, doubt but yer an artful young dorg,” and the next moment one of his heavy boots come swack up agin the seat of my trousers.
ref: 2009, George Baldry, Lilias Rider Haggard, The Rabbit Skin Cap, page 129:
text: A second baseball bat swack against the window and I saw a spider web of cracks with a dense opaque nucleus.
ref: 2011, Richard Farnsworth, Gift of the Bouda:
glosses: With a swack, to the point of touching.
swack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /swæk/
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: swacks
Senses: examples: text: Jake explained it to her: “A swack started it, at the last show one night in Hoquiam,” he said. “I just happened to notice it, and so after that I've planted a couple of stagehands in the audience for Hen-Tooth's act every show, to start it again.
ref: 1938, Michael Foster, To Remember at Midnight, page 107:
text: They look drunk—like a swack holding onto a lamp post.
ref: 1955, Michael Cunningham, The Bishop Finds a Way, page 156:
text: I'm looking for a guy — been a swack up and down this coast for twenty years — he scrammed with a bundle of my loot.
ref: 1963, Duncan Thorp, Thanks, Yer Honor: A Novel, page 153:
glosses: A bum or petty thief.
LBA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LBAs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of logical block addressing.
examples: text: The IDE driver is responsible for sending correct LBAs so as to reference the desired file.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of logical block address.
spoiler alert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spoiler alerts
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see spoiler, alert: a warning that plot elements in a drama will be exposed.
spoiler alert
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Spoiler alert: The main character, Mark, succumbs to an illness at the end.
glosses: An indication, placed in a text, that the plot of a drama is about to be exposed.
examples: text: Spoiler alert, these measures have not proved to be very helpful at mitigating the effects of this crisis.
text: At this point, an appropriately impressed Jimmy Fallon asks if her [Millie Bobby Brown's] ear for accents extends beyond Miley Cyrus sitcoms, and—SPOILER ALERT—it definitely does.
ref: 2022 May 15, Kayleigh Roberts, “Millie Bobby Brown Does a Spot-On Anna Delvey Impression That You *Must* Hear”, in Cosmopolitan:
text: As we approach the midpoint of the year, it is timely to offer a scorecard on the ministerial achievements towards these aims. And - spoiler alert - it does not make happy reading for the Government.
ref: 2023 June 14, Christian Wolmar, “Ministerial report makes depressing reading for the railway”, in RAIL, number 985, page 44:
glosses: Indicates that the speaker is about to reveal something unanticipated or unpleasant.
Synonyms: spoiler ahead
Einang stone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Einang stone
Etymology: The stone is located on the farm of Einang.
Senses: glosses: A runestone, located within the Gardberg site near Fagernes, Norway, which bears an Elder Futhark Runic inscription in Proto-Norse that has been dated to the 4th century.
ogham
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oghams
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ogham.
ogham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ogham.
oghamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: ogamic
Etymology: From Ogham + -ic.
Senses: glosses: In, of, or pertaining to Ogham.
ogamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ogam + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oghamic.
Ferner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Nechtan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: in dialects without the lock–loch merger
ipa: /nɛx.tæn/
note: in dialects without the lock–loch merger
ipa: /nɛx.tɑn/
note: in dialects with the lock–loch merger
ipa: /nɛk.tæn/
note: in dialects with the lock–loch merger
ipa: /nɛk.tɑn/
Etymology: Ultimately from the Pictish ᚅᚓᚆᚆᚈᚑᚅᚅ (nehhtonn).
Senses: examples: text: One of the Druids took him to see Nechtan, as one of Nechtan’s roles was to check newcomers’ suitability for entrance to the College.
ref: 2007, William Clinkenbeard, Writers at Bay: A Collection of Short Stories, →ISBN, page 183:
glosses: A male given name from Pictish.
om nom
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of om nom nom.
om nom nom
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: omnomnom
form: om nom
form: om nom nom nom
form: nom nom
form: nom nom nom
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, attested in 2004, variant of num-num. Originally from the sound Cookie Monster on Sesame Street makes when he eats (from late 1960s and early 1970s), though this was canonically
“un num num num num”, with a ‘u’. Popularized since 2007 in Internet use, particularly in meme-based images, especially lolcats and other image macros. See nom for details.
Senses: synonyms: yum
glosses: The sound made while relishing food.
om nom nom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: om nom noms
form: omnomnom
form: om nom
form: om nom nom nom
form: nom nom
form: nom nom nom
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, attested in 2004, variant of num-num. Originally from the sound Cookie Monster on Sesame Street makes when he eats (from late 1960s and early 1970s), though this was canonically
“un num num num num”, with a ‘u’. Popularized since 2007 in Internet use, particularly in meme-based images, especially lolcats and other image macros. See nom for details.
Senses: examples: text: Activities include: / Music and Dancing / Speeches / An attempt to bring Tory and WBM to the East Coast / Balloons / Om nom noms / […]
ref: 05/04/2008, SenatorXenu, “Anonymous to hold rally in US Capitol July 19th 2008.”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):
text: > "Guys, I want you to go out there tonight and not give the slightest
> thought about defense. None. I want you to see if you can score six
> goals, no matter how many the other guys get. You do that, and we all
> have dinners at Minneapolis' best steak house on me." […]
I like it. Motivate with some OM NOM NOM
ref: 2009 March 9, Mr. T, “Re: Giving line-juggling another shot”, in alt.sports.hockey.nhl.sj-sharks (Usenet):
text: 2012, Ava Anastasia, "There's nothing wrong with some OM NOM NOM", Scope (Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia), Issue 14, Week 7, Semester 121, page 11 (used in title only)
glosses: Tasty food.
om nom nom nom
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of om nom nom.
suicide cables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suicide cable
American winterberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Ilex verticillata, a species of holly native to eastern North America in the United States and southeast Canada, from Newfoundland west to Ontario and Minnesota, and south to Alabama.
Synonyms: sense: Ilex verticillata
word: black alder
sense: Ilex verticillata
word: black alder winterberry
sense: Ilex verticillata
word: brook alder
sense: Ilex verticillata
word: common winterberry
sense: Ilex verticillata
word: coralberry
sense: Ilex verticillata
word: deciduous holly
sense: Ilex verticillata
word: deciduous winterberry
sense: Ilex verticillata
word: false alder
sense: Ilex verticillata
word: fever bush
sense: Ilex verticillata
word: inkberry
sense: Ilex verticillata
word: Michigan holly
sense: Ilex verticillata
word: possumhaw
sense: Ilex verticillata
word: striped alder
sense: Ilex verticillata
word: swamp holly
sense: Ilex verticillata
word: Virginian winterberry
sense: Ilex verticillata
word: white alder
sense: Ilex verticillata
word: winterberry
sense: Ilex verticillata
word: winterberry holly
brook alder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brook alders
Senses: glosses: American winterberry, Ilex verticillata.
deciduous holly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: American winterberry, Ilex verticillata.
deciduous winterberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: American winterberry, Ilex verticillata.
false alder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: American winterberry, Ilex verticillata.
fever bush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: American winterberry, Ilex verticillata.
Michigan holly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: American winterberry, Ilex verticillata.
possumhaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From possum + haw.
Senses: glosses: deciduous holly, Ilex decidua.
glosses: Viburnum nudum
striped alder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: American winterberry, Ilex verticillata.
swamp holly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: American winterberry, Ilex verticillata.
Virginian winterberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: American winterberry, Ilex verticillata.
white alder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white alders
Senses: glosses: American winterberry (Ilex verticillata).
glosses: Grey alder (Alnus incana).
glosses: A common alder of western North America, Alnus rhombifolia.
parietal bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parietal bone
winterberry holly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: American winterberry, Ilex verticillata.
frontal bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frontal bone
scaphoid bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scaphoid bone
navicular bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of navicular bone
semilunar bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semilunar bone
lunate bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lunate bone
hamate bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hamate bone
cuboid bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuboid bone
good books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "[…] [D]o you like him?'" / "Not at all, just now: his name is entirely blotted from my good books." / "What is the matter? What has he done?" / "My uncle and he disagree on politics," interposed the low voice of Caroline.
ref: 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Fieldhead”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, pages 299–300:
text: [U]nfortunately, I was out of her good books, and had orders not to speak to her.
ref: 1870, Charles Reade, chapter 6, in Put Yourself in His Place:
text: [H]e has a cold way of looking at me which makes me think I am not in his good books.
ref: 1876, Anthony Trollope, chapter 2, in The Prime Minister:
text: Neil Smith, the president and general manager, said Momesso "was not in our good books" with no goals, no assists and frequent benchings for lethargic play.
ref: 1996 November 14, Joe Lapointe, “Rangers Go Quiet Into a Bad Night”, in New York Times, retrieved 01 Jan 2013:
text: "Tell them we've paid extra to apologize for the inconvenience, eh? You'll be in their good books right off."
ref: 2002, Mil Millington, Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About: A Novel, →ISBN:
glosses: Favorable regard; personal approval; kindly treatment.
Synonyms: good graces
Related terms: Good Book
Your Holiness
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: An honorific or title used to refer to a high-ranking religious leader, such as the Pope.
Related terms: Her Holiness
His Holiness
Her Britannic Majesty
His Britannic Majesty
Your Britannic Majesty
Their Britannic Majesties
Her Excellency
His Excellency
Your Excellency
Their Excellencies
Her Highness
His Highness
Your Highness
Their Highnesses
Their Holinesses
Her Imperial Highness
His Imperial Highness
Your Imperial Highness
Their Imperial Highnesses
Her Imperial Majesty
His Imperial Majesty
Your Imperial Majesty
Their Imperial Majesties
Her Maj
His Maj
Your Maj
Her Majesty
His Majesty
Your Majesty
Their Majesties
Her Royal Highness
His Royal Highness
Your Royal Highness
Their Royal Highnesses
Her Royal Majesty
His Royal Majesty
Your Royal Majesty
Their Royal Majesties
Her Serene Highness
His Serene Highness
Your Serene Highness
Their Serene Highnesses
Daurian jackdaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Daurian jackdaws
Etymology: Daurian refers to the region of Transbaikal or Dauria located in southeastern Siberia to the east of lake Baikal. See also the etymology section of jackdaw.
Senses: glosses: An Asian bird of the crow family (Coloeus dauuricus) closely related to the western jackdaw (Coloeus monedula).
clairt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clairts
form: clairting
form: clairted
form: clairted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of clart.
cleck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛk
Forms: form: clecks
form: clecking
form: clecked
form: clecked
Etymology: From Scots cleck, from Old Norse klekja.
Senses: examples: text: Poor he might be, but the creature wasn't yet clecked that might put on its airs with him, John Guthrie.
ref: 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 46:
glosses: To hatch (a bird); (colloquial) to give birth to (a person).
Nagaraju
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Naga Raju
Etymology: From Sanskrit नाग (nāgá) + राजन् (rājan).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.
Narasimha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit नरसिंह (narasiṃha, literally “man-lion”).
Senses: glosses: The fourth avatara of the Hindu god Vishnu.
glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit.
imbriferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more imbriferous
form: most imbriferous
Etymology: From Latin imbrifer (“rain-bearing”) + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Rainy; rain-causing; relating to rain.