cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
noy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
Forms: form: noys
form: noying
form: noyed
form: noyed
form: noie
Etymology: From Middle English noyen, partly an aphetic form of anoyen and partly from Anglo-Norman noier, nuier.
Senses: examples: text: Take heed to false harlots, and more, ye wot what. / If noise ye heare, / Looke all be cleare: / Least drabs doe noie thee, / And theeues destroie thee.
ref: 1878, Thomas Tusser, “74. A Digression.”, in Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie. […], London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Trübner & Co., […], →OCLC; republished as W[illiam] Payne, Sidney J[ohn Hervon] Herrtage, editors, Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie. […], London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Trübner & Co., […], 1878, →OCLC, stanza 4, page 166:
text: and all that noyd his heauie spright
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 24:
glosses: To annoy; to harm or injure.
Derived terms: noisome
noyment
noyous
noy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
Etymology: From Middle English noy, partly an aphetic form of anoy and partly from Anglo-Norman nui.
Senses: glosses: Annoyance.
impugnment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impugnments
Etymology: From impugn + -ment.
Senses: examples: October 1863, Connop Thirlwall, a charge
the rest to mark a limit which must be kept sacred from direct impugnment
glosses: The act of impugning, or the state of being impugned.
tonnish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tonnish
form: most tonnish
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tonish.
coinhere
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: coinheres
form: coinhering
form: coinhered
form: coinhered
Etymology: From co- + inhere.
Senses: examples: text: Our knowledge of mind and matter, as substances, is merely relative; they are known to us only in their qualities; and we can justify the postulation of two different substances, exclusively on the supposition of the incompatibility of the double series of phænomena to coinhere in one.
ref: 1859, William Hamilton, “Lecture XXIII. The Presentative Faculty.—I. Perception,—Was Reid a Natural Realist?”, in H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, editors, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 78:
glosses: To inhere or exist together, as in one substance or as part of one another.
coinhered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coinhere
coinheres
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coinhere
coinhering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coinhere
pursual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pə(ɹ)ˈsjuːəl/
/pə(ɹ)ˈsuːəl/
Forms: form: pursuals
Etymology: From pursue + -al.
Senses: glosses: pursuit (act of pursuing).
pursuals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pursual
cerealin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cereal + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A nitrogenous substance closely resembling diastase, obtained from bran, and possessing the power of converting starch into dextrin, sugar, and lactic acid.
wikipedia: Henry Watts (chemist)
gooseries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goosery
goosery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gooseries
Etymology: From goose + -ery.
Senses: synonyms: goosehouse
glosses: A place for keeping geese.
examples: text: the finical gooſery of your neat Sermon-actor.
ref: 1642 April, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 193:
glosses: The characteristics or actions of a goose; silliness.
busket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbʌskɪt/
Forms: form: buskets
Etymology: See bosket, bouquet.
Senses: glosses: A small bush.
examples: text: Youngthes folke now flocken in every where,
To gather May-buskets and smelling brere
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Maye. Ægloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A sprig or bouquet.
glosses: Part of a garden devoted to shrubs.
buskets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of busket
Argoan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Argoan
form: most Argoan
Etymology: From Argo + -an.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the mythical ship Argo.
grandevity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡɹænˈdɛvɪti/
Etymology: From Latin grandaevitas, from grandaevus, grandis (“great”) + aevus (“age”).
Senses: examples: text: the grandevity of the world
ref: 1620, Francis Bacon, Novum Organum:
text: Would one think that Reverend Mr. Baxter, whom Dr. More for his Function and Grandevity sake handles so respectfully […]
ref: 1683, "The Annotatour" [Henry More], “Annotations upon the Discourse of Truth”, in Two Choice and Useful Treatises:
glosses: Great age; long life, longevity.
Related terms: grandevous
ascidiozooid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ascidiozooids
Etymology: Blend of ascidium + zooid
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the individual members of a compound ascidian.
ascidiozooids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ascidiozooid
pentapodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pentapody
pentapody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentapodies
Etymology: From penta- + -pody, from Ancient Greek πέντε (pénte, “five”) and πούς, ποδός (poús, podós, “foot”).
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A measure, verse, or series consisting of five feet.
Coordinate terms: monopody
dipody
tripody
tetrapody
hexapody
heptapody
octapody
pipelayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pipelayers
Etymology: From pipe + layer.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: pipefitter (not always differentiated in practice)
glosses: One who lays conducting pipes in the ground, for water, gas, etc.
topics: government
politics
glosses: A politician who works in secret.
Related terms: bricklayer
bricklaying
lay pipe
pipelaying
pipelayers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pipelayer
gameplayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gameplayers
Etymology: From game + player.
Senses: synonyms: gamer
glosses: One who plays a game or games.
Related terms: gameplay
gameplayers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gameplayer
gamesplayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gamesplayers
Etymology: From games + player.
Senses: glosses: One who plays a game or games.
gamesplayers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gamesplayer
joypoppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of joypopper
thilk
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /ðɪlk/
rhymes: -ɪlk
Forms: form: thylke
form: thick
form: thuck
form: thik
Etymology: From Middle English thilke, equivalent to a blend of the + ilk.
Senses: examples: text: I loue thilke laſſe, (alas why do I loue:) / And am forlorne, (alas why am I lorne:) / Shee deignes not my good will, but doth reproue, / And of my rurall muſick holdeth ſcorne.
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Ianuarie. Aegloga Prima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC, folio 2, recto:
glosses: That same; this; that.
adornation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adornations
Etymology: From adorn + -ation.
Senses: glosses: adornment
inmacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inmate + -cy.
Senses: examples: text: When invited to the house of another friend , could he villainously make use of his inmacy to seduce the partner of that friend's bosom?
ref: November 3, 1802, James Somervell, Letter to John R. Eaton, page 43:
text: A great many of our inmates, Mr. Wells, have come to the Château de Schaerbeck as invalids, but before a month of their inmacy—if I may use a favourite expression of Mrs. B. — has expired, they have invariably trod the plancher in all the erect majesty of perfect health and strength.
ref: 1853, Dudley Costello, “Our Boarding-House in Brussels”, in The New Monthly Magazine, volume 97, page 31:
text: These provisions of law reduced payments to inmates of soldiers' homes are something new in pension legislation and are bound to entail considerable difficulty and much extra work in complying with them, due in large part to the frequent changes made by pensioners from one home to another, and the evident inability to have knowledge as to the status of pensioners in connection with their inmacy in homes from month to month under the monthly payment system of pensions.
ref: 1926, United States. Dept. of the Interior, Report of the Department of the Interior, page 10:
text: The short average length of stay would indicate to what extent the almshouse is used as a temporary shelter, and that the permanent inmates form a minority in the almshouse population. The periods of continuous inmacy are somewhat longer for females.
ref: 1927, Pennsylvania. Dept. of Welfare, Bulletin, page 23:
text: At the Census on 30th June, 1955, there were 900 male and 9 female patients in State Mental Institutions. The table hereunder sets out the period of inmacy of the male patients:
ref: 1956, Australia. Parliament, The Records of the Proceedings and the Printed Papers:
glosses: The state of being an inmate.
misdisposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misdispositions
Etymology: From mis- + disposition.
Senses: examples: text: If there were any colour to hide the blemishes of this misdisposition, it should be this crimson dye.
ref: 1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:
glosses: Erroneous disposal or application.
sperm blossom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sperm blossoms
form: sperm-blossom
Senses: examples: text: Did I see Daddy Average towing his sperm blossoms to the game? Of course not. I saw no kids at all.
ref: 2000 December 15th, melcocha, rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc, “Re: Whoo-hoo!” (see the original message)
text: The fugitive pute was not carrying the fool’s sperm-blossom.
ref: 2007, Kurt Andersen, Heyday, page 455:
text: You mean I’m watching your sperm blossoms because you’re training to be a stripper?!
ref: 2008 March 20th, Felicia Day, The Guild I:viii: “Tipping Point”, 1:47–1:50
glosses: A child; one’s offspring.
Synonyms: crotch fruit
sperm-blossom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sperm-blossoms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sperm blossom.
sperm-blossoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sperm-blossom (an alternative form of sperm blossom).
sperm blossoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sperm blossom
anaptychi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anaptychus
anaptychus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anaptychi
Etymology: From New Latin anaptychus, from Ancient Greek ἀνάπτυχος (anáptukhos, “unfolding”), from ἀναπτύσσω (anaptússō, “to unfold”).
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: One of a pair of shelly plates found in some cephalopods, such as the ammonites. They are now considered to have been parts of the jaw.
radiatiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From radiate + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Having the appearance of being radiate.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the marginal florets enlarged and radiating but not ligulate, as in the capitula or heads of the cornflower
exosseous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ex- + osseous.
Senses: examples: text: snails, a soft and exosseous animal
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
qualifier: literal or figurative
glosses: boneless
honeybag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honeybags
Etymology: From honey + bag.
Senses: examples: text: good monsieur, get your weapons in your hand, and kill me a red-hipped humble-bee on the top of a thistle; and, good monsieur, bring me the honey-bag
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
synonyms: crop
honey stomach
honey sack
honey sac
glosses: A pouch in a honey bee where it stores honey for later regurgitation and storage; a bee's crop.
honeybags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honeybag
bobbinwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bobbin + work.
Senses: glosses: Something made by weaving with bobbins.
prizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prizable
form: most prizable
form: priseable
form: prizeable
Etymology: From prize + -able.
Senses: examples: text: prudence is more prizeable in love
ref: 1850, Henry Taylor, The Virgin Widow:
glosses: Fit to be prized or treasured; valuable.
Derived terms: unprizable
psychagogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychagogues
Etymology: Ancient Greek, psycho- + -agogue
Senses: glosses: A necromancer.
psychagogues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychagogue
glyptics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare French glyptique. See glyph and glyptic.
Senses: synonyms: glyptic art
glosses: The art of engraving on precious stones.
predecay
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + decay.
Senses: glosses: Prior to decay (of e.g. a radioactive particle).
methene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of methyl + ethylene
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: methylene
Derived terms: methenyl
bursiculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bursiculate
form: most bursiculate
Etymology: See burse.
Senses: examples: text: bursiculate retinaculum
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: bursiform
chequeredness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chequered + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being chequered.
crotonylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crotonylenes
Etymology: Blend of crotonic + acetylene
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: dimethylacetylene
but-2-yne
glosses: A colourless, volatile, pungent liquid, C₄H₆. It is produced artificially.
crotonylenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crotonylene
suspensible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Capable of being suspended or held from sinking.
Derived terms: suspensibility
ecoculturally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ecoculturally
form: most ecoculturally
Etymology: From ecocultural + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an ecocultural manner or context.
metalbumin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + albumin?
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: pseudomucin
glosses: A form of albumin found in ascitic and certain serous fluids, and sometimes regarded as a mixture of albumin and mucin.
dephlegmate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dephlegmates
form: dephlegmating
form: dephlegmated
form: dephlegmated
Etymology: See dephlegm.
Senses: topics: alchemy
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
pseudoscience
glosses: To deprive of superabundant water, as by evaporation or distillation; to clear of aqueous matter; to rectify; used of spirits and acids.
Derived terms: dephlegmator
undephlegmated
Related terms: dephlegmation
dephlegmated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dephlegmate
dephlegmates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dephlegmate
dephlegmating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dephlegmate
attitudinarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌætɪˌtjuːdɪˈnɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /-ˌt͡ʃuːdɪˈ-/
ipa: /ˌætɪˌtudəˈnɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: attitudinarians
Etymology: From attitude + -in- + -arian.
Senses: synonyms: attitudinizer
glosses: One who attitudinizes; one who postures or behaves in a stilted and pretentious manner.
Derived terms: attitudinarianism
attitudinarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attitudinarian
pericranial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + cranial.
Senses: examples: text: pericranial muscle
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the pericranium.
Derived terms: pericranial flap
Related terms: postcranial
precranial
ethnarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕthʹ-närk'
ipa: /ˈɛθˌnɑːɹk/
other: /ˈɛθˌnɑːɹk/
other: /ˈɛθˌnɑːk/
rhymes: -ɛθnɑː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: ethnarchs
Etymology: From Middle French ethnarque, and its sources, New Latin ethnarcha, Koine Greek ἐθνάρχης (ethnárkhēs, “ruler of a tribe or nation, title of a Jewish official”), from Ancient Greek ἔθνος (éthnos, “nation”).
Senses: examples: text: In the course of the struggle with the unfortunate ethnarch, the nobles had found it expedient to attach themselves to Rome.
ref: 1880, Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ:
glosses: The governor of a Jewish province under the Roman Empire.
examples: text: In fact, from a worldly perspective, sages were petty clerks, employees of the ethnarch of their ethnic group. The ethnarch may have treated sages with […]
ref: 1984, Jacob Neusner, Our Sages, God, and Israel: An Anthology of The Talmud of the Land of Israel, SP Books, →ISBN, page 120:
text: The Archbishop became the ethnarch, the leader of the ethnic group. It was his responsibility to administer the territories where his people lived, to collect taxes and to regulate matters relating to marriage, divorce, dowry and inheritance.
ref: 2001, Anna Jarstad, Changing the Game: Consociational Theory and Ethnic Quotas in Cyprus and New Zealand, Uppsala Universitet:
text: By the seventeenth century the archbishop became recognized as the ethnarch (ethnic political leader) of the Greek Cypriot community.
ref: 2013, John Coakley, Pathways from Ethnic Conflict: Institutional Redesign in Divided Societies, Routledge, →ISBN, page 135:
text: But the Ethnarch, by tradition and long-established practice that had begun under the Ottomans, was more than a spiritual leader. He was expected to act as the spokesman, defender and protector of his flock.
ref: 2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Country, Penguin, published 2020, page 310:
glosses: A leader of an ethnic community, especially a Jewish or (in the Ottoman Empire) Eastern Orthodox leader having political as well as spiritual authority.
ethnarchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ethnarch
inflesh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: infleshes
form: infleshing
form: infleshed
form: infleshed
Etymology: From in- + flesh.
Senses: glosses: To give fleshly form; to incarnate.
Related terms: enflesh
infleshed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inflesh
infleshes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inflesh
infleshing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inflesh
Greencloth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: green cloth
form: greencloth
Etymology: From green + cloth, from the tablecloth of green baize that covered the table at which its members sat.
Senses: glosses: A board or court of justice formerly held in the counting-house of the British sovereign's household, composed of the Lord Steward and his officers, and having cognizance of matters of justice in the household, with power to correct offenders and keep the peace within the vicinity of the palace.
leuconic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of leuco- + croconic
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A complex organic acid, obtained as a yellowish-white gum by the oxidation of croconic acid.
glosses: Cyclopentanepentone.
superterrene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + terrene: compare Latin superterrenus.
Senses: examples: text: superterrene burials
text: superterrene houses
synonyms: aboveground
superterranean
glosses: Above ground; above ground level.
obomegoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more obomegoid
form: most obomegoid
Etymology: From ob- + omegoid.
Senses: examples: text: obomegoid markings on a bird
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Obversely omegoid.
spherics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sphere + -ics.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The geometry and trigonometry of the surface of a sphere.
spherics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sferics.
moltable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more moltable
form: most moltable
Etymology: From molt + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of assuming a molten state; meltable; fusible.
inceptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inceptors
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin inceptor.
Senses: glosses: A beginner; one in the rudiments.
examples: text: And in the year 1576. Febr. 23. Mr. Hookers Grace was given him for Inceptor of Arts, Doctor Herbert Weſtphaling, a man of note for Learning, being then Vice-chancellour [of the University of Oxford].
ref: 1670, Izaak Walton, “The Life of Mr. Rich[ard] Hooker, the Author of Those Learned Books of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity”, in The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert. […], volume III, London: […] Tho[mas] Newcomb for Rich[ard] Marriott, […], →OCLC, pages 21–22:
glosses: One who is on the point of taking a Master of Arts degree at an English university.
inceptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inceptor
sheetings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheeting
pet hates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pet hate
territorialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: territorializes
form: territorializing
form: territorialized
form: territorialized
form: territorialise
Etymology: From territorial + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To enlarge by extension of territory.
examples: text: The landscapes of group identity — the ethnoscapes — around the world are no longer familiar anthropological objects, insofar as groups are no longer tightly territorialized, spatially bounded, historically unselfconscious, or culturally homogeneous.
ref: 1991, Arjun Appadurai, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: To reduce to the condition of a territory.
territorialized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of territorialize
territorializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of territorialize
territorializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of territorialize
annexers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of annexer
disadventures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disadventure
disadventurous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disadventurous
form: most disadventurous
Etymology: From disadventure + -ous. Compare Portuguese desaventurado and Spanish desventurado.
Senses: examples: text: when he according did repaire, / An hard mishap and disaventrous case / Him chaunst […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Unfortunate; calamitous.
PRRS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, a disease causing reproductive failure in breeding pigs and respiratory tract illness in young pigs.
PRRSV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus, a virus that causes a disease of pigs called porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS).
tressy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɛsi/
Forms: form: more tressy
form: most tressy
Etymology: From tress + -y.
Senses: examples: text: With tressy wreathings borne upon the air
ref: 1836, Joanna Baillie, The Martyr:
glosses: Abounding in tresses.
bilaciniate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + laciniate.
Senses: examples: text: bilaciniate lemma
text: bilaciniate palea
text: bilaciniate wings
glosses: Doubly fringed.
imbark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: imbarks
form: imbarking
form: imbarked
form: imbarked
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of embark.
Derived terms: reimbark
imbarked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of imbark
imbarking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of imbark
imbarks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of imbark
Mannheim gold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Mannheim in Germany, where much of it was made.
Senses: glosses: A kind of brass, containing around 80% copper and 20% zinc, made in imitation of gold.
zincless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zinc + -less.
Senses: examples: a zincless lead glaze
glosses: Without zinc.
copperless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From copper + -less.
Senses: examples: a copperless superconductor
a copperless penny
glosses: Without copper metal.
hatchboat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hatchboats
Etymology: From hatch + boat.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A type of fishing boat found mostly in southern England in the 19th century, whose deck consisted of many movable hatches.
hatchboats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hatchboat
homogangliate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homo- + gangliate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having the ganglia of the nervous system symmetrically arranged, as in certain invertebrates.
orbituary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It would be impossible, while the sun or electric body remained unaltered, and these planets retained their primary condition, that their axillary and orbituary motions, and distances from the centre, should ever change through an endless succession of ages.
ref: 1828, American Medical Recorder, volumes 13-14, page 328:
text: In an engine, the combination of an expansion-chamber and piston therefor, means supporting said chamber and piston for orbituary movement[…]
ref: 1907, Official gazette of the United States Patent Office:
glosses: orbital
reptatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: reptant
reptatorial
glosses: Crawling, creeping.
Related terms: reptile
cockaleekie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cock-a-leekie.
TGE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of transmissible gastroenteritis.
Micmacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Micmac
Mikmak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mikmaks
form: Mikmak
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mi'kmaq.
PRCV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of porcine respiratory coronavirus.
bishoplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bishoplike
form: most bishoplike
Etymology: From bishop + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Peter did excel the other Apostles in bishoplike authority
ref: 1580, William Fulke, Stapleton's Fortress Overthrown:
glosses: Resembling, or pertaining to a bishop.
pursership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purserships
Etymology: From purser + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The rank or office of purser.
purserships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pursership
incoordinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incoordinate
form: most incoordinate
Etymology: From in- + coordinate.
Senses: glosses: Not coordinate.
Basquish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Basquish
form: most Basquish
Etymology: From Basque + -ish. Compare German Baskisch.
Senses: examples: text: their words were Basquish or Cantabrian
ref: c. 1683 (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in [Thomas Tenison], editor, Certain Miscellany Tracts, London: […] Charles Mearn, […], published 1683, →OCLC:
glosses: Basque
pinchfist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinchfists
Etymology: From pinch + fist.
Senses: glosses: A miser.
Related terms: pinchpenny
penny pincher
pinchfists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinchfist
APP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: APPs
Senses: examples: text: World Cup to live on APP in China
China's Central Television, jointly with the digital firm of Ali Cloud, Tuesday released the unique APP product that is authorized to broadcast the World Cup live. Besides TV and web, APP on mobile devices has become the 3rd platform to watch the tournament live.
ref: 2014, “World Cup to live on APP in China”, in Xinhua, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2014:
text: The Dalai Lama launches free APP
ref: 2017, Renée Salmonsen, “The Dalai Lama launches free APP”, in Taiwan News:
text: China to foster 300,000 industrial Internet APPs by 2020, ministry
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has recently released a plan to foster 300,000 industrial Internet APPs for specific industries and specific scenarios by 2020, meeting key demands in the key links of the manufacturing industry, including R&D and design, manufacturing, operations, maintenance and operations management.
ref: 2018, “China to foster 300,000 industrial Internet APPs by 2020, ministry”, in Xinhua:
glosses: Alternative form of app.
APP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: APPs
Etymology: Abbreviation.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
immunology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of acute-phase protein.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of amyloid precursor protein.
glosses: Initialism of ammonium polyphosphate.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of authorized push payment.
helpsheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helpsheets
Etymology: From help + sheet.
Senses: topics: education
glosses: A sheet of paper, or (by extension) a digital document, with advice and suggestions related to schoolwork or learning.
Related terms: cheatsheet
helpsheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helpsheet
mentes reae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: First attested in 1932; from the Latin mentēs (“minds”, the nominative plural form of mēns, “mind”) + reae (the feminine nominative plural form of reus, “guilty”).
Senses: examples: text: “The old conception of mens rea,” says Professor Sayer, “must be discarded, and in its place must be substituted the new conception of mentes reae.”
ref: 1932, Annual Survey of English Law (The London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) Department of Law), page 312
glosses: plural of mens rea
Related terms: actus rei
actus rei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: First attested in 1970; from the Latin āctūs (“acts”, the nominative plural form of āctus, “act”) + reī (the masculine nominative plural form of reus, “guilty”).
Senses: examples: text: They are as it were, the actus rei of matrimonial guilt.
ref: 1970, Pacific Law Journal (published by the students of the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law), volume 1, page 194
glosses: plural of actus reus
Related terms: mentes reae
Bushlips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bushlips
form: Bushlip
form: bushlip
Etymology: From Bush + lips, alludes to pledge "Read my lips: no new taxes" by then-U.S. President George H. W. Bush.
Senses: examples: text: "As one of our colleagues recently put it, this Republican pledge of no new taxes is pure Bushlips," Senate Finance Committee Chairman Lloyd Bentsen (Tex.), said in the toughest language he has used to attack the administration's fiscal policy. "It's Bushlips when the president says 'No new taxes' and sends a budget requiring the Finance Committee to raise $20 billion in new revenues: $15 billion in taxes and $5 billion in user fees."
ref: 1990 March 24, Paul Taylor, “Democratic Leaders Talk Tough on Taxes;President's Promise Not to Impose New Levies Is 'Pure Bushlips,' Sen. Bentsen Declares”, in The Washington Post^(http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/72577580.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Mar+24%2C+1990&author=Paul+Taylor&pub=The+Washington+Post+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&edition=&startpage=a.06&desc=Democratic+Leaders+Talk+Tough+on+Taxes%3BPresident%27s+Promise+Not+to+Impose+New+Levies+Is+%60Pure+Bushlips%2C%27+Sen.+Bentsen+Declares), →ISSN, page A6:
text: I'm trying to avoid doing the 'Bushlips' stuff (about blocking tax increases). By saying it's not part of our thinking and planning, I'm obviously not saying it won't occur at all.
ref: 1990 September 18, Associated Press, quoting Booth Gardner, “Gardner Hoping For No New Taxes”, in The Spokesman-Review, page B1:
text: Bushlips!
ref: 1999 May 20, Bucky, “Re: Ballot box whores (Was:Take away all guns NOW)”, in alt.current-events.clinton (Usenet), message-ID <7i1s5g$s8g$1@garnet.mint.net>:
text: Anything short of that is just a lot of Bushlips.
ref: 2002 March 4, The Angry Liberal, “Social Security Reform, Part I: Bush is Lost in Des Moines”, in BuzzFlash.com, archived from the original on 30 Jul 2012:
topics: government
politics
glosses: insincere political rhetoric
wikipedia: George H. W. Bush
Read my lips: no new taxes
Related terms: bullshit
celebriphilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From celebrity + -philia.
Senses: glosses: An unusually intense or pathological desire to be romantically and/or sexually involved with a celebrity.
inaccrochable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inaccrochable
form: most inaccrochable
Etymology: Literally "unhangable", from French accrocher (“to hang”).
Senses: glosses: Unable to be hung (or sold), especially because of sexual content.
raw_tags: of a painting
glosses: Unable to be published, especially because of sexual content.
raw_tags: of a book
celetoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: celetoids
Etymology: From celebrity + -oid, coined by Chris Rojek.
Senses: examples: text: A celetoid is only allowed so much time in the spotlight. Of course, just when you think your life as a celetoid has passed, you end up writing an article about your experience six years later, or you sing a song for a friend at a wedding.
ref: 2010 January 29, Richie Wilcox, “My Life as a Celetoid: Reflections on Canadian Idol”, in Canadian Theatre Review:
glosses: A person who is famous for a brief time; a short-lived celebrity.
celetoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of celetoid
beshit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪt
Forms: form: beshits
form: beshitting
form: beshit
form: beshit
form: beshat
form: beshat
form: beshite
Etymology: From Middle English bishiten, bischiten, from Old English besċītan (“to befoul”). By surface analysis, be- + shit.
Senses: examples: text: He looked like one that had beshit the roast.
ref: 1562, John Heywood, The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood, page 89:
text: ...So Ditton and Whiston may both be bepissed on
And Whiston and Ditton may both be beshit on.
Sing Ditton beshit on, and Whiston bepissed on.
Sing Ditton and Whiston, and Whiston and Ditton,
Beshit and bepissed on, bepissed on and beshit on.
ref: 1714, Ode, to Music. On the Longitude, Jonathan Swift:
text: Your heart muſt needs be grip'd and full of ſtitches,
 And you may well thro' fear beſhit your breeches.
ref: 1760, Thomas Brown, “Advice to Dr. Oates”, in Works Serious and Comical in Prose and Verse, page 243:
text: He will beshit himself in a public place.
ref: 2010, Howard Jacobson, The Making of Henry, →ISBN, page 12:
glosses: To soil with excrement; to defecate on (something).
examples: text: Man has an inexhaustible ability to beshit his environment, with politicians well in the lead.
ref: 2003, Jim Harrison, Off to the Side:
glosses: To soil; to spoil; to defile.
Coordinate terms: bepiss
chickenability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chicken + -ability.
Senses: topics: business
marketing
glosses: The quality of convenience and wide palatability in a consumer food product.
pushing it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of push it
civilogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: civilogues
Etymology: Blend of civil + dialogue. By surface analysis, civil + -logue. Coined by Jeffrey Weiss of the American political news website Politics Daily.
Senses: examples: text: President Obama is to be commended for insisting on greater “civilogue” in this country in his State of the Union address.
ref: 2011 January 27, Erica Brown, “Calculations of the Spirit”, in Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly:
glosses: A civil discussion, especially one in which participants avoid insults, hostility, and negative characterizations of those with whom they disagree.
civilogues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of civilogue
DPT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DPTs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Doctor of Physical Therapy.
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: Initialism of Doctor of Practical Theology.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of DPT vaccine.
A vaccine for diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of DPT vaccine.
A vaccine for diphtheria, polio, and tetanus.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of deep pressure therapy.
silvanas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silvana
attentivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From attentive + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: This confidence was soon dispersed among those of the “unstable” group, for their attentivity and confidence as well as satisfaction induced by a nearly successful performance, were soon broken down when slight failures chanced to enter into their learning. Elation over small successes and discouragement over slight failures is a characteristic practically always found among these psychopathic children.
ref: 1929, The Journal of Applied Psychology, American Psychological Association, XIII, page 232:
glosses: The quality of being attentive; attentiveness.
bacillaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of bacilli in the bloodstream
coasterware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From coaster + -ware, from the jocular notion that the disc containing the software is more useful as a drink coaster.
Senses: examples: text: From start to finish, it is a poorly conceived, ill-executed, and time-wasting piece of coasterware designed to suck money away from both fans of the much-lauded series and unsuspecting newcomers.
ref: 2003 November 1, “Europa Universalis: Crown of the North”, in Computer Gaming World:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: word: cheeseware
word: crapware
word: crudware
word: shitware
glosses: Exceptionally low-quality software.
bacillin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Bacillus + -in
Senses: glosses: An antibiotic, produced by Bacillus subtilis, that is active against many types of bacterium.
Derived terms: mycobacillin
bacillomyxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An antibiotic, produced by Bacillus subtilis, that is active against some pathogenic fungi
kawarimi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 変わり身.
Senses: examples: text: Kawarimi; ancient Ninja art of misdirection. All you need is something some idiot can mistake you for... and some idiot.
ref: 2000, Static, "They're Playing My Song", Static Shock
glosses: An ancient ninja art revolving around misdirection and the split-second timing of a switch between a 'body' and a location, or between two or more bodies. A technique utilized by ninja in ancient Japan, involving the ninja and anything that can be mistaken for them, such as a dummy or a mannequin.
chromatype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromatypes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chromotype.
chromatypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chromatype
tersulphuret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tersulphurets
Etymology: From ter- + sulphuret.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A trisulfide.
tersulphurets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tersulphuret
scrimpness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scrimp + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being scrimp.
resultset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resultsets
form: result set
Etymology: From result + set.
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A set, often of tabulated data, that is the result of the querying of a database or a similar act.
resultsets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resultset
actinolitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more actinolitic
form: most actinolitic
Etymology: From actinolite + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: containing, or resembling, actinolite.
metadiscoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meta- + discoidal.
Senses: examples: text: metadiscoidal placenta
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Discoidal by derivation; applied especially to the placenta of humans and apes, supposed to have been derived from a diffused placenta.
wholegrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wholegrains
form: whole grain
form: whole-grain
Etymology: From whole + grain.
Senses: examples: text: Best sources lean red meat, poultry, fish, dark green, leafy vegetables and wholegrain cereals.
ref: 2009 January 25, By Joanna Hall, “Teen tips for healthy eating”, in Herald Sun:
glosses: A cereal grain that contains cereal germ, endosperm, and bran, in contrast to refined grains, which retain only the endosperm.
Derived terms: wholegrain bread
Related terms: word: wholemeal
word: whole-wheat
warlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warling
water-cures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water-cure
D.P.T.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: D.P.T.s
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of DPT.
Teague
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Irish first name Tadhg. Cognate with English taig (“A Catholic”). Compare Mick and Paddy.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Irish.
glosses: A surname from Irish.
glosses: A city in Freestone County, Texas, United States.
Teague
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Teagues
Etymology: From the Irish first name Tadhg. Cognate with English taig (“A Catholic”). Compare Mick and Paddy.
Senses: examples: text: Let not poor Teg and Shone / Vender from der houses, / Lest dey be quite undone / In der very Trouses
ref: 1661, “A New Medley”, in Ebsworth, Joseph Woodfall, editor, Merry Drollery Compleat, reprint edition, Boston, Lincolnshire: Robert Roberts, published 1875, page 335:
text: With Shinkin-ap-Morgan, with Blue-cap, or Teague, / We into no Covenant enter, nor League.
ref: c. 1660–1663, “A Begger I'll Be”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris, published 1896, page 29:
text: He is not so nice as his Superiors, whom nothing will go down with, under right Nantz or Rum; he shall gulp ye down the rankest Stinkibus with as good a Gusto, as a Teague does Usquenaugh, and not be a Doit the worse for it.
ref: 1706, Edward Ward, The Wooden World Dissected, 3rd edition, London: M. Cooper, published 1744, page 70:
text: Sempronious, in the second act, comes back once more in the same morning to the governor's hall, to carry on the conspiracy with Syphax against the governor, his country, and his family; which is so stupid, that it is below the wisdom of the O—'s, the Mac's, and the Teague's; even Eustace Cummins himself would never have gone to Justice-hall to have conspired against the government.
ref: 1779, Samuel Johnson, “Addison”, in Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, volume 1, Charlestown: Samuel Etheridge Jr, published 1810, page 411:
glosses: An Irishman.
Derived terms: Teagueland
Teagues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Teague
Bovey coal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Found at Bovey Tracey, Devon, England.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A kind of brown lignite.
wikipedia: Bovey Tracey
ligninases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ligninase
thiocarbonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thio- + carbonic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a carbonic radical in which one or more atoms of oxygen have been replaced by sulfur
wholegrains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wholegrain
ways to go
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of way to go
examples: text: There's still a ways to go before we get there.
glosses: A long distance to travel or a significant amount of work left to be done.
wezons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wezon
swangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swang
swangs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of swang
wind ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wind up
wivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wiver
Penobscot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Penobscots
form: Penobscot
Etymology: From Penobscot Pawanobskewi.
Senses: glosses: One of a sovereign people indigenous to what is now Maritime Canada and the northeastern United States, particularly Maine.