cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
glassen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɑːsən/
ipa: /ˈɡlæsən/
rhymes: -ɑːsən
rhymes: -æsən
Forms: form: more glassen
form: most glassen
Etymology: From Middle English glassen, glasen, from Old English glæsen (“made of glass”), from Proto-West Germanic *glasīn (“made of glass; glazen”). Equivalent to glass + -en (adjective suffix). Doublet of glazen.
Senses: examples: text: From the castle calls Ileana, Refrain (Looking) through the glassen windows, (Looking) through the glassen windows: […]
ref: 2012, B. Suchoff, Bela Bartok, Rumanian Folk Music:
text: But I had a glassen vessel, of a narrow neck, weighing 1354 grains: […]
ref: 2013, Allen G. Debus, The Chemical Philosophy:
glosses: Made of or consisting of glass.
examples: text: 1640 (first published), Ben Jonson, An Epistle to a friend to persuade him to join the wars
And pursues the dice with glassen eyes.
text: Abreast of the players, he jumped down, seized one of the taws - it was a glassen alley - knuckled down, fired kibby at the clayers in the ring, and was back in his seat before you could cry "Jack Robinson".
ref: 2004, John Coulson Tregarthen, John Penrose: A Romance of the Land's End:
glosses: Resembling glass; glassy; glazed.
Synonyms: sense: made of glass
word: glazen
glassen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɑːsən/
ipa: /ˈɡlæsən/
rhymes: -ɑːsən
rhymes: -æsən
Forms: form: glassens
form: glassening
form: glassened
form: glassened
Etymology: From glass + -en (verbal suffix).
Senses: glosses: To coat or cover (e.g. pottery, etc.) with glaze; make glassy.
Synonyms: word: glaze
glassens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of glassen
greven
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡɹivən/
/ɡɹeɪvən/
Etymology: From the same root as greaves, graves (“residue left after rendering animal fat”) and gribenes (“chicken cracklings and onions”). Compare older dialectal northern (Low) German forms like greven and greeven.
Senses: examples: text: a plate of chopped liver with schmaltz and chopped onion and chopped radish and greven (cracklings from rendered chicken fat)
ref: 1974, Calvin Trillin, “Mao and Me”, in Alice, let's eat:
glosses: Cracklings from rendered chicken fat.
MMT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MMTs
Senses: topics: automotive
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
transport
vehicles
synonyms: methylcyclopentadienyl manganese tricarbonyl
MCMT
glosses: Abbreviation of methylcyclopentadienyl manganese tricarbonyl: an octane number boosting additive to unleaded gasoline to replace TEL as an anti-knock component.
glosses: Initialism of million metric ton(s).
MMT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Modern Monetary Theory.
methylcyclopentadienyl manganese tricarbonyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: automotive
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
transport
vehicles
glosses: (CH₃C₅H₄)Mn(CO)₃ ; an octane number boosting additive to unleaded gasoline to replace tetra-ethyl lead as an anti-knock component
Synonyms: word: MMT
word: MCMT
Related terms: methyl
cyclo-
penta-
di-
-ene
-yl
manganese
tri-
carbon
methylcyclopentadiene
carbonyl
cyclopentadiene
cyclopentadienyl
tetra-ethyl lead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of tetraethyl lead.
anti-knock
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He started testing fuels for their anti-knock qualities, using a single-cylinder test engine and expressing resistance to knocking by an H.U.C.R. (highest useful compression ratio) figure.
ref: 1951 October 26, FLIGHT and Aircraft Engineer, London, page 540, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of antiknock.
kissars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kissar
mogas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mogases
form: mogasses
Etymology: Blend of motorcar + gasoline
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Automotive gasoline suitable for use in some piston-engined gasoline powered aircraft.
Synonyms: autogas
Coordinate terms: avgas
Related terms: jet fuel
diesel fuel
diesel
rocket fuel
autogas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autogases
form: autogasses
Etymology: Blend of automotive + gas
Senses: examples: text: Cylinder cracks are nothing new, however, and there is no reason to expect autogas-burning engines to have a higher incidence of head cracking than avgas-users.
ref: 1988, Kas Thomas, Fuel and oil systems: basic and advanced light plane maintenance:
text: In the area of autogas volatility, a Reid vapor pressure of 9.0 to 15 is very common, compared to the vapor pressure of avgas, which is 5.5 to 7.
ref: 1994, Michael J. Kroes with Thomas W. Wild, Aircraft powerplants:
text: Autogas can be obtained for a fraction of the cost of avgas, but its use is not without controversy.
ref: 2006, The AOPA pilot: voice of general aviation, volume 49, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Automotive gasoline suitable for use in piston-engined gasoline-powered aircraft.
Synonyms: topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: mogas
Coordinate terms: topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: avgas
Related terms: jet fuel
diesel fuel
rocket fuel
autogas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autogases
form: autogasses
Etymology: Blend of automotive + gas (originally a trade name "Autogas", but now a common noun)
Senses: examples: text: Petrol ... 20.3% more than autogas ... The results conclusively demonstrate the carbon benefits of autogas vehicles
ref: 2005, Cars of the Future: Seventeenth Report of Session 2003-04 (British House of Commons):
text: Autogas powers more than 10 million vehicles in over 54 countries worldwide .... In terms of air-borne emissions of the principal regulated noxious gases, autogas is among the lowest emitters of all ...
ref: 2006, Class of 2006: industry report cards on environment and social responsibility (United Nations Environment Programme. Division of Technology, Industry, and Economics ):
text: Autogas is the common name for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) when it is used as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles.
ref: 2009, Frederic P Miller with Agnes F Vandome and John McBrewster, Autogas:
glosses: Synonym of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).
synonyms: word: liquefied petroleum gas
extra: LPG
opiners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opiner
minuters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minuter
hypercool
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypercool
form: most hypercool
Etymology: From hyper- + cool.
Senses: glosses: Very cool (trendy, fashionable, pleasing, etc.)
oustiti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oustitis
Etymology: French
Senses: glosses: A marmoset.
glosses: A tool for opening a locked door by turning an inner key from the outside.
ekranoplan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ekranoplans
form: ekranoplane
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian экранопла́н (ekranoplán), itself derived from экра́н (ekrán, “screen”) as used in экранный эффе́кт (ekrannyj effékt, “ground effect”), from French écran, + the root of French planer (“to glide, to hover”).
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
transport
glosses: a ground-effect vehicle
ekranoplane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ekranoplanes
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
transport
glosses: Alternative spelling of ekranoplan.
WIG
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
transport
glosses: Initialism of wing-in-ground.
Synonyms: wing-in-ground-effect
wing in ground-effect
wing-in-ground effect
wing in surface effect
WISE
wing-in-surface-effect
wing in surface-effect
wing-in-surface effect
Derived terms: WIG ship
WIG plane
WIG airplane
WIG aeroplane
WIG aircraft
WISE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WISEs
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
transport
glosses: Acronym of wing-in-surface effect.
Synonyms: wing-in-surface-effect
wing in surface-effect
wing-in-surface effect
wing in surface effect
Derived terms: WISE ship
WISE plane
WISE airplane
WISE aeroplane
WISE aircraft
WISE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Acronym of Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (“a NASA infrared-wavelength astronomical space telescope that performed an all-sky astronomical survey with images in 3-22 μm wavelength bands”).
toluidide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toluidides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of organic amides in which one of the hydrogen atoms of the amino group of a toluidine is replaced by an acyl group
on one's knees
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: For god’s love do not turn away—if you have knowledge. We suppli­ants implore you on our knees.
ref: 1928, W[illiam] B[utler] Yeats, Sophocles’ King Oedipus: A Version of the Modern Stage, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: Kneeling, begging or as if begging.
examples: text: Hungry Berbatov then converted a Giggs cross for his third before Nani slotted a fifth with Birmingham on their knees.
ref: 2011 January 22, “Man Utd 5 - 0 Birmingham”, in BBC:
text: The accepted view is that at the end of hostilities in 1945, the railways were on their knees.
ref: 2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 38:
text: “We will not live on our knees, and you shouldn’t either,” he said.
ref: 2025 September 27, James B. Comey, quotee, “Inside the Trump Administration’s Push to Prosecute James Comey”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: On the verge of collapse; at the mercy of someone.
heavy-footed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heavy-footed
form: most heavy-footed
Senses: examples: text: Nani's 76th-minute goal summed up Birmingham's state of mind as he skipped across the screen of their heavy-footed defence to slam a powerful goal past Foster from 15 yards into the corner of the net.
ref: 2011 January 22, “Man Utd 5 - 0 Birmingham”, in BBC:
glosses: Slow-moving.
heavy-footed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of heavy-foot
every inch
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Wigan looked every inch a side languishing in the relegation zone and there was never any indication they would arrest a run that had seen them lose all of their previous eight Premier League matches at Arsenal.
ref: 2011 January 22, Ian Hughes, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Wigan”, in BBC:
text: It hopes for an order for the Bakerloo Line, where trains dating from 1972 still ply the route, looking every inch their 50 years.
ref: 2025 January 8, Philip Haigh, “Will all of the UK train assembly lines survive?”, in RAIL, number 1026, page 51:
glosses: Totally, completely.
examples: text: He knows every inch of the road.
text: The latter two required a long track walk from Whitechapel (after services ended and power was switched off), alongside TfL staff who know every inch of this historic stretch of line.
ref: 2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, page 49:
glosses: The whole (of something).
there's more where that came from
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Thank you for donating all of these blankets to the orphanage. ― There's more where that came from!
text: “Take that” was the punctuation of a hero's fist or bullet. “Had enough yet, Big Shot? There's more where that came from.”
ref: 1992, Confrontation, numbers 48-50, page 38:
glosses: A greater number of similar things can be provided in the future.
inch-perfect
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inch-perfect
form: most inch-perfect
Senses: examples: text: When the second goal came, it was a belter - Fabregas launching an inch-perfect ball over the top for Van Persie to volley in without breaking stride.
ref: 2011 January 22, Ian Hughes, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Wigan”, in BBC:
glosses: Perfectly measured.
break stride
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breaks stride
form: breaking stride
form: broke stride
form: broken stride
Senses: examples: text: Ain't nothin' gonna break my stride / Nobody gonna slow me down / Oh no, I got to keep on moving
ref: 1983, Matthew Wilder, Greg Prestopino, “Break My Stride”, in I Don't Speak the Language:
text: When the second goal came, it was a belter - Fabregas launching an inch-perfect ball over the top for Van Persie to volley in without breaking stride.
ref: 2011 January 22, Ian Hughes, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Wigan”, in BBC:
text: “So many wars here,” says Luo Xin, my walking partner and a brilliant writer and professor of history from Peking University.
I ask Luo to name them.
Not breaking stride, he ticks off the wars between the Three Kingdoms more than 2,200 years ago. And then the Han-Xiongnu war of the second century B.C. And Liu Bobo’s later campaigns against the Qin empire. And the Tang versus Northern Song dynasty. And the Ming frontier wars. More recently, there was the Chinese civil war and the war against Japanese aggression. The Yellow River’s silted waters sucked away casualties from them all.
ref: 2023 November 8, Paul Salopek, “River Blues”, in National Geographic:
glosses: To cease walking or running at the same gait, especially with the result of interrupting one's forward momentum.
tick down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ticks down
form: ticking down
form: ticked down
form: ticked down
Senses: examples: text: City, predictably, subjected Villa to a sustained spell of pressure as the clock ticked down - and the home team hada [sic] double escape with eight minutes left. De Jong's shot was unwittingly deflected on to his own post by Clark and then Dzeko headed Johnson's cross wide at the far post when he should have restored equality.
ref: 2011 January 22, Phil McNulty, “Aston Villa 1 - 0 Man City”, in BBC:
glosses: To count the time down to zero.
raw_tags: of a clock or other timer
sirops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sirop
oxens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But I had ter drive my steers more'n I wanted to on the way — I kep' a yoke o' oxens, an' tuck 'em 'long. I dunno how I'd a got back ef I hadn't a had them. I had ter drive the oxens mostly, an' I rode one mule an' led tother 'un, an' my oldest boy druv the waggin.
ref: 1890, Willia Eleazer Barton, Life in the Hills of Kentucky, page 96:
text: I sign ded paper an' tak' t'ree honder dollar now, an' I'm not mak' some claim bimeby again on de Gouvernement for ma oxens.
ref: 1899, The Canadian Magazine, volume 12, page 324:
glosses: plural of ox
oxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English oxes, alternative plural of oxe; equivalent to ox + -es.
Senses: glosses: plural of ox
pauser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pausers
Etymology: From pause + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who pauses.
pausers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pauser
stams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stam
lagoena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lagoenae
Etymology: From Latin lagoena.
Senses: glosses: A Roman flagon: a narrow-necked vessel with a handle and a flat base, often used for wine; a decanter, jug (made by the Romans of various materials, including glass). In Ancient Rome, wine was shipped in large vessels like the amphorae, while lesser vessels such as these lagoenae were kept at home and filled from them.
tomtes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tomte
lagoenae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lagoena
Menera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Meneras
Etymology: Borrowed from Catalan Menera, a habitational surname.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Catalan.
Montferrer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Montferrer.
Senses: glosses: Montferrer (a village and commune of Pyrénées-Orientales department, Occitania, France, formerly in the Vallespir district of Northern Catalonia).
ångströms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ångström
latibula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈtɪbjʊlə/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin latibula.
Senses: glosses: plural of latibulum
Arles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Arles.
Senses: glosses: A city in Bouches-du-Rhône department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
Derived terms: Arlesian
monilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monilias
form: moniliae
Senses: examples: text: Thrush, a monilia infection of the inside of the mouth, is common.
ref: 1997, Horst D. Weinberg, The Pediatrician's New Baby Owner's Manual:
glosses: Any fungus of the genus Monilinia.
Derived terms: monilial
moniliasis
Formentera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Ultimately from Latin frūmentārium (“granary”).
Senses: glosses: An island and municipality of the Balearic Islands, Spain, south of Ibiza.
Menorca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Minorca: An island of the Balearic Islands, Spain, east of Mallorca
Derived terms: Menorcan
Perceval
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Percival.
Senses: glosses: A surname
cinnamon rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cinnamon roll
SOTU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SOTUs
Senses: examples: text: He intends to use the SOTU message as nothing more that another Hollywood stunt similar to the pep rally he had on the WH lawn after the impeachment vote.
ref: 1999 January 14, Al Shurgalla <keyp...@pacific.net.sg>, “Re: Will Congress Applaud At Clinton's State Of Union Address?”, in alt.conspiracy, alt.impeach.clinton, alt.politics.clinton (Usenet), message-ID <14>:
text: Bush won't be stressing those particular points as he hits the pre-SOTU stump circuit, but the "if it's good enough for 2006 it's good enough for now"
ref: 2003 January 10, “Person of the Week: George W. Bush”, in TIME:
text: Issue of civil discourse will "certainly play a role" in SOTU.
ref: 2011 January 13, “Gibbs Briefs”, in TIME:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The annual State of the Union address of the President of the United States.
wikipedia: State of the Union
soft X-rays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soft X-ray
spissated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spissated
form: most spissated
Senses: glosses: Inspissated, thickened by inspissation.
Real
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Real Madrid, a football club from Madrid.
Derived terms: english: from a surname
translation: from a surname
word: Real County
benighter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benighters
Etymology: From benight + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who benights or keeps others in darkness.
benegro
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /bɪˈniːɡɹəʊ/
Forms: form: benegroes
form: benegroing
form: benegroed
form: benegroed
Etymology: From be- + negro.
Senses: examples: text: when the tangible darkness that benegroed the horizon of Ægypt
ref: 1650, Jean Baptiste van Helmont, Walter Charleton, A Ternary of Paradoxes:
glosses: To render dark; blacken.
beneaped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beneaped
form: most beneaped
Etymology: From be- + neaped.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Neaped.
bendsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bendsome
form: most bendsome
Etymology: From bend + -some.
Senses: examples: text: After all why should not our movement be a cause of their change of shape according to definite laws just as well as our squeezing them with our fingers if they chance to be made of some bendsome material ?
ref: 1914, Charlie Dunbar Broad, Perception, physics, and reality:
synonyms: lithy
qualifier: archaic or puristic
glosses: Marked by bending or flexibility; flexible; pliable.
Belgian Congo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Belgian Congo
Senses: glosses: A former Belgian colony in Central Africa, existing from 1908 to 1960, when it became the modern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Bering Strait
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bering Straits
Senses: glosses: A strait between Chukotka, Russia and Alaska, United States, linking the Arctic Ocean to the Bering Sea.
bendways
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bendways
form: most bendways
Senses: glosses: Bendwise.
Mozambique Channel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A strait in the Indian Ocean between Madagascar and Mozambique
Korea Strait
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Korea Strait
Senses: glosses: A strait between Korea and Japan, connecting the East China Sea with the Sea of Japan.
Synonyms: Tsushima Strait
Busan Strait
Jamaica Channel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A strait between Jamaica and Hispaniola, in the Caribbean Sea.
Deluge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Deluge
Senses: qualifier: Abrahamic religion
glosses: The flood taking place in the story of Noah found in the Bible (Genesis) and Qur'an.
Related terms: antediluvian
Nares Strait
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A strait between Ellesmere Island (Canada) and Greenland, connecting the Lincoln Sea in the Arctic Ocean with Baffin Bay.
Luzon Strait
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A strait between Taiwan and Luzon, connecting the South China Sea with the Philippine Sea.
Torres Strait
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈtɒɹɪs ˈstɹeɪt/
Etymology: Named after Spanish explorer Luís Vaz de Torres.
Senses: glosses: A strait between Australia and New Guinea, connecting the Coral Sea with the Arafura Sea.
Derived terms: Torres Strait Creole
Torres Strait Islands
Torres Strait pigeon
bemist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bemists
form: bemisting
form: bemisted
form: bemisted
Etymology: From be- + mist.
Senses: examples: text: For destroying Gypsy Moth caterpillars in the forests of Yugoslavia, the method of bemisting from the aeroplane with DDT preparations has been applied so far... In the first place, among other defects, the residual effect of the poison in bemisting is very short [...]
ref: 1959, International Agricultural Aviation Centre, European Agricultural Aviation Centre, The Hague, Agricultural aviation: Volumes 1-6:
text: There are usually some within the visible church, who, being bemisted with error, do not come up to give thorough assent unto all divine truths...
ref: 2001, James Ferguson, Exposition of Paul's Epistles:
glosses: To cover or envelop with mist, or as with mist.
Strait of Malacca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Straits of Malacca
Senses: glosses: A strait between the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
bemourn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bemourns
form: bemourning
form: bemourned
form: bemourned
Etymology: From Middle English bemornen, from Old English bemurnan (“to mourn, bewail, deplore, be sorry for, care for, take heed for”), equivalent to be- (“over, about”) + mourn. Cognate with Old Saxon bimornian (“to bemourn”).
Senses: examples: text: From the neighbouring settlements and valleys an immense concourse of people collected to bemourn the death of the arii, the Chiefly ladies bleeding themselves more as a matter of form than from grief or real sentiment, […]
ref: 1974, Douglas L. Oliver, Ancient Tahitian Society:
glosses: To weep or mourn over.
Strait of Hormuz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Straits of Hormuz
Senses: glosses: A strait connecting the Gulf of Oman to the Persian Gulf.
stressy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsi
Forms: form: stressier
form: stressiest
Etymology: From stress + -y.
Senses: examples: text: That was one reason the Amsterdam show was so stressy. We'd been put on notice by the Board. Their nostrils strained for even a whiff of gay porn.
ref: 2007, Damien Wilkins, For Everyone Concerned: And Other Stories, page 28:
glosses: stressful
examples: 2009, Cathy Cassidy (quoting a letter), Letters To Cathy
My dad's job is under threat and he is so stressy these days it's a nightmare being anywhere near him. He yells a lot and he's so unfair!
glosses: stressed; irritable
striddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: striddles
form: striddling
form: striddled
form: striddled
Etymology: Frequentative of Middle English striden (whence modern English stride), from Old English strīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *strīdan, from Proto-Germanic *strīdaną. Equivalent to stride + -le (frequentative suffix).
Senses: examples: text: I'm going along like a lame duck striddling a gutter.
ref: 1890, George Manville Fenn, Cormorant Crag:
glosses: To straddle.
sifus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sifu
Elbrus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The word is a metathesis of Alborz, which is from Persian البرز (alborz), from Middle Persian hlbwlc (Harborz), ultimately derived from Proto-Iranian *Harā Bṛzatī, a legendary mountain in Iranian mythology (compare Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬭𐬁⸱𐬠𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬰𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬍 (harā.bər^əzaⁱtī)). *Bṛzatī is the feminine form of the adjective *br̥jáns (“high”), the reconstructed ancestor of modern Northern Kurdish berz (“high, tall”) and modern Persian برز (borz, “high, tall”). Harā may be interpreted as "watch" or "guard", from a Proto-Indo-European root *ser- (“protect”).
Senses: glosses: An inactive volcano located in the western Caucasus mountain range, in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia, Russia, near the border of Georgia. Elbrus's highest peak is the highest mountain in Europe, and in Russia.
fohawks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fohawk
wop wops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 1997 July 17, Sir Michael Hardie Boys, speech as Governor-General,
Just because we live out in the global wop wops, geographically-speaking - both derivation and historical usage are given on page 923, by the way - or perhaps because we do live more than a thousand kilometres from our nearest English-speaking neighbours who, too, have evolved their own form of the tongue - we have developed our own ways of describing things, talking together, sharing our observations and views.
glosses: Alternative form of wop-wops.
limber as a dishrag
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Extremely limber or flexible
Synonyms: flexible
weight lifting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 1974, Arnold Schwarzenegger, in Charles Gaines & George Butler, Pumping Iron, page 21.
Then I started weight lifting through the other sports and I enjoyed it the most […] but I found out I was too tall. So I quit that and went into bodybuilding.
glosses: Alternative form of weightlifting.
beadleship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beadle + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: He was degraded in their eyes; he had lost caste and station before the very paupers; he had fallen from all the height and pomp of beadleship to the lowest depth of the most snubbed hen-peckery.
ref: 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “In Which the Reader, if He or She Resort to the Fifth Chapter of This Second Book Will Perceive a Contrast Not Uncommon in Matrimonial Cases”, in Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 297:
glosses: The office of a beadle.
beadledom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beadledoms
Etymology: From beadle + -dom.
Senses: glosses: Beadles collectively, and their characteristics as a class.
glosses: Stupid or senseless officiousness.
tenderometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenderometers
Etymology: From tender + -o- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A device that measures the tenderness of a substance such as farm produce.
hokie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hokier
form: hokiest
Senses: examples: text: I never saw such a hokie band uniform.
text: It can make people feel happy; it can make them feel sad; it can even make you squirm with the embarrassment of falling for it, it's so hokie and corny sometimes, but at least it makes you feel something.
ref: 2004, Janet Nichols Lynch, Where Words Leave Off Music Begins:
glosses: Alternative spelling of hokey.
Humpty-Dumptyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Humpty Dumptyism.
oustitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oustiti
king tide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: king tides
Etymology: From king (“something preeminent”) + tide.
Senses: examples: 1994, Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea, International Organizations and the Law of the Sea: Documentary Yearbook, 1992, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, page 373,
As an illustration of our vulnerability, in 1990 and again in 1991, the largest king tides of the year in the Marshall Islands almost inundated Majuro′s urban area.
2008, David Corlett, Stormy Weather: The Challenge of Climate Change and Displacement, UNSW Press, page 8,
The unprecedented 2006 king tide was alarming.
2008, Bob Shepherd, Circuit, Pan MacMillan, UK, unnumbered page,
He told me that due to the interaction of certain moon phases with the broken coastline and offlying islands in that region, once every four years for four days they experience what are known as ‘king tides’. These tides can rise twenty feet above normal tide levels. The king tide phenomenon was not recorded in the tide tables or charts, so I had no way of knowing they existed when planning the exercise.
2010, Margaret Somerville, Tony Perkins, Singing the Coast, Aboriginal Studies Press, page 91,
Other fish, prawns and crabs come into the Lake on the king tides and swim up to the warm backwaters to breed.
glosses: An unusually high spring tide that occurs during full moon in the summer and winter months (when the earth is at perihelion and the earth, moon and sun are aligned).
Hypernyms: spring tide
king tides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of king tide
perforans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perforantes
Etymology: From Latin perforans.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The long flexor muscle of the toes, or the deep flexor muscle of the fingers.
perforantes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perforans
theomatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The numerological study of the Greek and Hebrew text of the Christian Bible, based upon gematria and isopsephy, claimed to demonstrate the direct intervention of God in the writing of scripture.
piaculum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piacula
Etymology: From Latin piāculum. Doublet of piacle.
Senses: glosses: An expiatory sacrifice.
glosses: The victim in such a sacrifice.
glosses: An act requiring expiation.
Related terms: piacular
piacula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piaculum
mani-pedi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mani-pedis
Etymology: From mani (“manicure”) + pedi (“pedicure”).
Senses: examples: text: That is brilliant, Clover! I’m buying you a month of mani-pedis for this!
ref: 2006 March 16, Nicole Demerse, “Alex Gets Schooled”, in Totally Spies!: Undercover, season 4, episode 5, spoken by Samantha “Sam” (Jennifer Hale), Marathon Media, via Teletoon:
glosses: A combined manicure and pedicure.
space tourism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Don't pack your bags yet. But serious people in the aerospace and travel industry are taking the idea of space tourism seriously. Pundits predict that the first space tourists could be in orbit by 2005.
ref: 1997 July 18, Roger Collis, “Space Tourism:Ready for Liftoff?”, in International Herald Tribune, →ISSN:
glosses: Space travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes.
examples: text: All of the space tourism has suffered because of a lack of interest in the space program.
ref: 1994 July 18, Debbi Land, quotee, “On the Space Nostalgia Frontier in Florida”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Sightseeing and travel to sites related to the space program.
Synonyms: astrotourism
Derived terms: space tourist
etherise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: etherises
form: etherising
form: etherised
form: etherised
Etymology: From ether + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of etherize.
etherises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of etherise
etherising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of etherise
etherised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of etherise
unaddressable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + addressable.
Senses: glosses: Not addressable.
propinquent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pɹəˈpɪŋkwənt/
Forms: form: more propinquent
form: most propinquent
Etymology: Latin
Senses: examples: text: the place of propinquent death
ref: 1937, Charles Williams, Descent into Hell:
glosses: nearby; close at hand
Related terms: propinquity
propinquate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: propinquates
form: propinquating
form: propinquated
form: propinquated
Senses: glosses: To approach (to or towards); to come near.
Topsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɒpsi/
Etymology: After a character in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), who, asked about God, says "I s'pect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me." The sense of excessive out-of-control growth is a misunderstanding.
Senses: examples: text: They employ a symbolism which grew like Topsy and has little consistency […]
ref: 1945, Vannevar Bush, As We May Think:
text: Are you implying that it just grew—a Topsy?
ref: 1973, J Ryder, Trevayne:
text: The town grows like Topsy after the railway age begins. The fortifications are now quite useless since the city has outgrown them.
ref: 1996, John H. Macdonald, The free world, page 25:
text: Topsy-like, the Encyclopédie just grew and grew.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 171:
text: The paper grew like Topsy. Within two years, we rented the place next door, knocked a door through the brick wall, redid the front to look like a real newspaper office instead of a bunch of fly-by-nighters […]
ref: 2006, Jock Lauterer, Community journalism: relentlessly local:
text: Why has National Strategies been allowed to grow like Topsy in some respects, and at the same time become even more complex, making it difficult for teachers to take in the amount of guidance that they receive?
ref: 2009, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Children, Schools and Families Committee, National curriculum: Oral and written evidence (page 232)
glosses: Something or someone who figuratively grows without control or intention.
wikipedia: Uncle Tom's Cabin
Related terms: topsy-turvy
tumblebug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tumblebugs
Etymology: From tumble + bug.
Senses: glosses: A dung beetle.
tumblebugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tumblebug
dungball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dungballs
Etymology: From dung + ball.
Senses: glosses: A ball of dung.
dungballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dungball
provincewide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From province + -wide.
Senses: examples: text: Although data on state farms in recent years are sketchy, their general situation and problems appear to be essentially the same as they were in the 1950s and the 1960s. At a provincewide symposium of state-owned agricultural and animal husbandry enterprises, convened in Chouchih, Shensi Province, in May 1975, the participants were told that although the proportion of the enterprises in the entire rural economy was "still not great," they occupied an important position in China's socialist agriculture.
ref: 1976, Leslie T. C. Kuo, Agriculture in the People's Republic of China: Structural Changes and Technical Transformation, Praeger Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 50:
text: One mocks Quebec stereotypes from a peculiar provincial law that sets June 30 as the expiration date for most residential leases (and thus transforms July 1 into a chaotic, provincewide moving day) to a Quebec City so cold that an actor must consume a bottle of Pepsi as if it were a Popsicle.
ref: 2009 July 31, Ian Austen, “In a Quebecer’s Heart, Pepsi Occupies a Special Place”, in New York Times:
glosses: throughout a province
distelfink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɪstəlfɪŋk/
Forms: form: distelfinks
Etymology: From Pennsylvania German distelfink, homologous to High German Distelfink (“thistle finch”), the European goldfinch.
Senses: glosses: A stylized goldfinch in Pennsylvania Dutch folk art, representing happiness and good fortune.
distelfinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of distelfink
tandem gait
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tandem gaits
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A manner of walking by placing the heel of the forward foot touching the toes of the back foot, sometimes used in the clinical diagnosis of certain disorders.
prosaism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɹəʊˈzeɪ.ɪzəm/
/ˈpɹəʊ.zeɪ.ɪzəm/
Forms: form: prosaisms
Etymology: From Old French prosaïsme.
Senses: examples: text: Euge! Heinrichi. O, the sublime bathos of thy prosaism — the muddy eddy of thy logic! Thou art the only man to understand a poet!
ref: 1821, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Heinrichs:
glosses: A manner, quality, expression, style, phrase or word that is prosaic.
Synonyms: banality
quiche lorraine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quiche lorraines
form: quiches lorraines
form: quiche Lorraine
Etymology: From French quiche lorraine, using the feminine of lorrain (“from Lorraine”).
Senses: glosses: A type of quiche, originally from the area of Lorraine in France, made with cheese and bacon.
gardenful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gardenfuls
form: gardensful
Etymology: From garden + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Cindy Buck got her start as a gardener when a friend gave her and her husband, Rob, a whole gardenful of divided perennials as a wedding present.
ref: 2001, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Cindy Buck, Chicken soup for the gardener's soul, page 361:
glosses: An amount sufficient to fill a garden.
gardenfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gardenful
gardensful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gardenful
repetitio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin repetītiō. Doublet of repetition.
Senses: glosses: Anaphora.
glosses: Epanalepsis.
tauromachic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tauromachy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: of or relating to bullfighting
nongeometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nongeometric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a nongeometrical manner or context.
Zionisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zionism
Zionization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zionisation
Etymology: From Zion + -ization.
Senses: antonyms: dezionization
glosses: The act or process of Zionizing.
Related terms: Zion
Zionism
socies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of socie
sociate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəʊsieɪt/
ipa: /ˈsəʊʃieɪt/
ipa: /ˈsəʊsiət/
ipa: /ˈsəʊʃiət/
Forms: form: sociates
form: sociating
form: sociated
form: sociated
Etymology: From Latin sociatus.
Senses: examples: c. 1862-1867, Leonard Shelford, The Law of Joint Stock Companies
[…] grant to any sociated for company or body of persons associated together […]
glosses: To associate.
sociate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəʊsieɪt/
ipa: /ˈsəʊʃieɪt/
ipa: /ˈsəʊsiət/
ipa: /ˈsəʊʃiət/
Forms: form: sociates
Etymology: From Latin sociatus.
Senses: examples: text: As for you, Dr. Reynolds, and your sociates.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: An associate.
sociate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəʊsieɪt/
ipa: /ˈsəʊʃieɪt/
ipa: /ˈsəʊsiət/
ipa: /ˈsəʊʃiət/
Etymology: From Latin sociatus.
Senses: glosses: associated
sex-plus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sex plus
Senses: examples: text: She brought a sex-plus case against her employer for hiring older men but refusing to hire older women.
text: Her theory was a “sex plus” discrimination claim, alleging that the company did not promote fat women.
ref: 2008, Anna Rutherford, Fat rights: dilemmas of difference and personhood, page 163:
text: […] the latter can perhaps be protected either by including the employee's private life among the grounds of prohibited discrimination, or under the ground of sex, as a sex-plus situation.
ref: 2010, Roger Blanpain, Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations in Industrialized Market Economies:
topics: law
glosses: Having as factors a person's gender and some other factor related to that gender.
raw_tags: of a discrimination case
Related terms: plus factor
sex plus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sex-plus.
labmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labmates
Etymology: From lab + mate.
Senses: glosses: A colleague working in the same laboratory.
labmates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of labmate
conscientization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒnʃəntaɪˈzeɪʃən/
Etymology: From Portuguese conscientização.
Senses: examples: text: Conscientization includes exchanges of ideas, debates, discussions, and working with students and not on them. Freire fashions conscientization as a process that results from confrontation with the world; it also entails constant research as well as invention and reinvention.
ref: 1994, John L. Elias, Paulo Freire: Pedagogue of Liberation, Krieger Publishing Company, page 123:
topics: education
human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A social concept, grounded in Marxist critical theory, that focuses on achieving an in-depth understanding of the world, allowing for the perception and exposure of social and political contradictions.
Synonyms: critical consciousness
Related terms: conscientize
conscionably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more conscionably
form: most conscionably
Etymology: From conscionable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a conscionable manner.
chumpier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: chŭmʹpiər
ipa: /ˈtʃʌmpi.ə/
enpr: chŭmʹpiər
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃʌmpiɚ/
Senses: examples: text: “Pretty smart chap, that,” muttered the Wise Man as he sauntered off.
“Positive, chump; comparative chumpier; superlative, chumpiest: that’s my definition of him,” concluded the Fool as he resumed his favorite pastime, that of making faces at the cigar dealer’s wooden Indian.
ref: 1908, Iowa Reformatory at Anamosa, The Reformatory Press, volume 11, page 6139:
text: The former was an elegant gentleman, not far removed from the present-day type; but the latter obviously bore the ‘bull’ quarterings on his escutcheon, for he was a decidedly cobby little dog, broad chest and a shorter, chumpier head…
ref: 1976, Evelyn L. Silvernail, The New Complete Fox Terrier (Smooth and Wire), 3rd edition, Howell Book House, →ISBN, page 15, →ISBN:
text: Anne E. Wilson and Michael Ross have shown how the self-justifying biases of memory help us move psychologically, in their words, from “chump to champ.” We distance ourselves from our earlier “chumpier” incarnations if doing so allows us to feel better about how much we have grown, learned, and matured, but, like Haber, we feel close to earlier selves we thought were champs. Either way, we can’t lose.
ref: 2007, Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson, Mistakes Were Made (but not by me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts (1st edition, Harcourt Books, page 252, endnote 3:13
glosses: comparative form of chumpy: more chumpy
chumpiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: chŭmʹpiĭst
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃʌmpiɪst/
Senses: examples: text: “Pretty smart chap, that,” muttered the Wise Man as he sauntered off.
“Positive, chump; comparative chumpier; superlative, chumpiest: that’s my definition of him,” concluded the Fool as he resumed his favorite pastime, that of making faces at the cigar dealer’s wooden Indian.
ref: 1908, Iowa Reformatory at Anamosa, The Reformatory Press, volume 11, page 6139:
text: However, Damon pushed away his doubts, later describing his view of the experience: “We were the two chumpiest kids in the world — Ben’s thinking he’s the biggest star in the world, and he’s going, ‘This is Matt, he’s an actor, too!’ and I’m kinda too cool to talk. And they said, ‘Oh, yeah, we’ll represent Matt too.’”
ref: 2001 September 1, Christina M. Girod, People in the News: Matt Damon, Lucent Books, →ISBN, page 22, →ISBN:
text: [The Coen brothers] pull out the ripest, most iconic lines: When Thornton’s Ed Crane says to himself, “How could I have been so stupid?,” he’s intoning the lament of all noir chumps. But Crane, who looks like Bogart in High Sierra, is a monotonous blank, which is what even the chumpiest noir guys never were.
ref: 2001 November 5th, New York (New York Magazine Co.), volume 34, “Skin Deep”, page 71
glosses: superlative form of chumpy: most chumpy
redrawer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redrawers
Etymology: From redraw + -er.
Senses: glosses: A company that redraws steel.
coordinate_terms: inker
penciler
colorist
colorer
translator
censor
glosses: A person who redraws previously published drawings, to adjust drawn figures, details, or change text.
redrawers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redrawer
redressability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From redress + -ability.
Senses: examples: 2021, SCOTUS, FLORIDA v. GEORGIA
The Court disagreed with the Special Master’s analysis of the threshold question of redressability, and remanded for the Special Master to make definitive findings and recommendations on several issues, including: whether Florida had proved any serious injury caused by Georgia; the extent to which reducing Georgia’s water consumption would increase Apalachicola River flows; and the extent to which any increased Apalachicola flows would redress Florida’s injuries.
glosses: The quality of being redressable.
kefiran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The clear or pale yellow polysaccharide gel exuded by dairy kefir or water kefir grains.
Bajaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bajau