cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
uncolonized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + colonized.
Senses: glosses: Not colonized
uncolonized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncolonize
zigzagger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zigzaggers
Etymology: From zigzag + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Join the pieces with overlapping seams and finish off by stitching with the zigzagger attachment.
ref: 1942, The Chemistry leaflet:
text: If a woman had the finest conventional sewing machine with all the attachments ever made, she could not do one tenth of the work that can be done on a modern zigzagger.
ref: 1954, Kiplinger's Personal Finance:
glosses: An attachment for a sewing machine allowing for zigzag stitches.
examples: text: That is what has long worried many people about Nixon: they saw him as the political man, the born trimmer, the zigzagger and flipflopper, the constantly moving target
ref: 2005, Before the fall: an inside view of the pre-Watergate White House:
text: As a self-avowed 'zigzagger' who works back and forth between historical particularities and sociological categories,
ref: 2006, John A. Hall, Ralph Schroeder, An anatomy of power: the social theory of Michael Mann:
text: In the view of Greenberg and his colleagues, Clinton […] was a zigzagger who tailored his views to suit voters.
ref: 2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties, Twelve Books:
glosses: Someone who zigzags; a person who makes rapid changes of direction, especially (figuratively) in opinion, policy etc.
Takahashi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 高梁 (Takahashi).
Senses: glosses: A city in Okayama Prefecture.
Takahashi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Takahashis
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 高橋 (Takahashi).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
uncrown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncrowns
form: uncrowning
form: uncrowned
form: uncrowned
Etymology: From Middle English uncoroun, uncroun, uncrowne; equivalent to un- + crown.
Senses: examples: text: Tell him from me that he hath done me wrong,
And therefore I’ll uncrown him ere’t be long.
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
text: […] this poor fool clung to Lear after he had given away his crown, and by his witty sayings would keep up his good humour, though he could not refrain sometimes from jeering at his master for his imprudence in uncrowning himself, and giving all away to his daughters;
ref: 1807, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, “King Lear”, in Tales from Shakespeare, London: Thomas Hodgkins, page 199:
text: 1860, Walt Whitman, “Chants Democratic, 2” Stanza 19, in Leaves of Grass, Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, p. 136,
I see the clear sunsets of the martyrs,
I see from the scaffolds the descending ghosts,
Ghosts of dead lords, uncrowned ladies, impeached ministers, rejected kings,
Rivals, traitors, poisoners, disgraced chieftains, and the rest.
text: And in the reign of this king was it shown, how though God may choose a king and set him on a throne, […] yet a people is also of God, a part of God, and they may uncrown him, destroy him and cast him forth if he act unkingly.
ref: 1902, Charles Robert Ashbee, Masque of the Edwards of England, page 7:
synonyms: decrown
depose
dethrone
discrown
disenthrone
unking
unthrone
glosses: To deprive of the monarchy or other authority or status.
examples: text: When rigid Cold in Ice hath all things bound,
And Forrests of their Summers pride uncrown’d.
ref: 1648, Seneca the Younger, translated by Edward Sherburne, Medea a Tragedie, London: Humphrey Moseley, act IV, scene 1, page 39:
text: How many mountains did the waves uncrown,
Bouncing against them like a batt’ring Ram!
ref: 1655, Luís de Camões, translated by Richard Fanshawe, The Lusiad, London: Humphrey Moseley, Canto 6, Stanza 79, p. 132:
text: Greedy of Spoils, th’ Italians strip the dead
Of his rich Armour; and uncrown his Head.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Twelfth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 591, lines 448-449:
text: Go then, with Speed your laurel’d heads uncrown,
And leave the silly Farce you have begun.
ref: 1717, Samuel Croxall, transl., Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. Translated by the most eminent hands, London: Jacob Tonson, Book 6, p. 184:
glosses: To remove a crown from (often figuratively).
Related terms: uncrowned
Planck particle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Planck particles
Etymology: Named after Max Planck.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A hypothetical particle having physical quantities on the Planck scale, most importantly being one Planck mass in mass.
Synonyms: planckon
underconsumption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʌmpʃən
Etymology: From under- + consumption.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Insufficient consumption (for financial stability).
examples: text: For anyone who has not come across it, underconsumption core is when people make use of what they already own and avoid buying in to new trends, with an aim to have a sustainable mindset. This may involve purchasing second-hand clothes, repurposing clothes you already have, or finishing a mascara before buying a new one.
ref: 2024 December 29, Cathrine V. Jansson-Boyd, “Underconsumption Core: Just Another Fad?”, in Psychology Today:
glosses: An anticonsumerist lifestyle trend based around reuse and not purchasing unnecessary goods.
Derived terms: underconsumption core
Related terms: underconsume
zigsaw puzzle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zigsaw puzzles
Senses: examples: text: As for example, the young participants may be supplied with small wooden blocks or zigsaw puzzles to construct a particular scene displayed in the museum […]
ref: 1984, Dilip Kumar Ray, Museum and physically handicapped in India, Darbari Udjog, page 59:
text: Hinduism is a zigsaw puzzle in that it contains every philosophy and most religions and outlooks, practices and observances, innumerable gods one fighting the other.
ref: 1990, Ravindra Kumar, Problem of communalism in India:
text: BB Patnaik sat with a zigsaw puzzle of the map of India meant for the kindergarten. He had separated the states and put them in four piles.
ref: 1999, B.K.Tripathy, Baba Bugi:
glosses: Alternative form of jigsaw puzzle.
love apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: love apples
form: love-apple
form: loveapple
Etymology: Calque of Italian pomo d'oro (“tomato”, literally “golden apple”), confusing d’oro (“golden”) with d’amore (“love”), or from French pomme d'amour, equivalent to love + apple.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tomato.
synonyms: word: tomato
Related terms: apple of love
Planck area
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Planck areas
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The square of the Planck length, thought to be the quantum of area. Symbol is A'''_P.
Related terms: Planck unit
Planck epoch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
cosmology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The period immediately after the Big Bang, typically viewed at around one Planck time, whereby all forces were unified.
Synonyms: Planck era
underframe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underframes
Etymology: From under- + frame.
Senses: examples: text: The main fuel tank is slung from the underframe midway between the two bogies, and its capacity of 420 gal. supplies both the main engine and the train heating boiler.
ref: 1950 November, “Mixed-Traffic Diesel-Electric Locomotives for Ireland”, in Railway Magazine, page 781:
text: Nos. 5300/1, which were finished in January, are the Southern's first "4-EPB" units to the standard B.R. design on 63 ft. 5 in. underframes, as against the S.R. 62 ft.; [...].
ref: 1960 March, “Talking of Trains: S.R. multiple-unit news”, in Trains Illustrated, page 125:
text: The Liner train wagon is a simple underframe on bogies, with coned location points that engage recesses in the container bases.
ref: 1964 April, G. Freeman Allen, “The BRB shows traders the Liner train prototypes”, in Modern Railways, page 265:
glosses: The supporting structure of a piece of furniture, a vehicle, etc.
Planck speed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The velocity equal to one Planck length per Planck time; equal to the speed of light. Symbol is v_P or c.
Planck era
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Planck epoch.
synonyms: word: Planck epoch
supputation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supputations
Senses: examples: text: The Romans, that erected a Temple to Fortune, acknowledged therein, though in a blinder way, somewhat of Divinity; for in a wise supputation all things begin and end in the Almighty.
ref: 1643, Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici:
glosses: A calculation or computation; the act of calculating or computing; reckoning
glosses: A method or system of calculating or reckoning.
glosses: Estimation; estimate; considered opinion.
glosses: A pruning or cutting of trees.
Synonyms: sense: the act of calculating or computing
word: calculus
word: ciphering
word: calculation
unhang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unhangs
form: unhanging
form: unhung
form: unhung
Etymology: From un- + hang.
Senses: glosses: To take down something (such as a picture) from a hanging position
unhang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unhangs
form: unhanging
form: unhanged
form: unhanged
Etymology: From un- + hang.
Senses: examples: text: There is a clear line of distinction in this matter. An equity judge could not unhang a man who had been wrongfully hanged; but he could set aside a precedent which was manifestly contrary to law and justice.
ref: 1839, The Christian Observer, volume 38, page 585:
text: But, having hung him, you cannot unhang him. With all your liability to err, you dare to take a step, which, if wrong at all, is infinitely so, because irretrievable.
ref: 1844, The Western Law Journal, volume 2, page 272:
glosses: Hypothetically, to undo the execution of (a person) by hanging.
petro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petros
Senses: glosses: A Venezuelan cryptocurrency launched in 2018, supposed to be backed by the country's oil and mineral reserves. Symbol: ₽.
Yasmin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Jasmine, often representing a transliteration of the corresponding Arabic and Persian names.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Arabic.
protoactinium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated form of protactinium.
unhasp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unhasps
form: unhasping
form: unhasped
form: unhasped
Etymology: From un- + hasp.
Senses: glosses: To unfasten
Yasmine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Jasmine, often representing a transliteration of the corresponding Arabic and Persian names.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Arabic.
Yasmina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Jasmine, often representing a transliteration of the corresponding Arabic and Persian names.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Arabic.
lyme
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lymes
form: lyming
form: lymed
form: lymed
Senses: examples: text: But everyday,^([sic]) while all of this was going on, there'd be some lyming (hanging out)—and this is how the spirit of the music was absorbed, how apprentices both learned and caught on.
ref: 2006, Colin Channer, Iron Balloons: Hit Fiction from Jamaica's Calabash Writer's Workshop, page 19:
text: […] in Carlton's living room one Saturday evening, spending a few hours lyming over rum and, of all things, codfish dumplings, another thing Carlton loved, even in the evening […]
ref: 2008, Thomas Glave, The Torturer's Wife, page 229:
text: Guests were directed to the cocktail area where they lymed and enjoyed finger food with a choice of sorrel or fruit punch.
ref: 2008 December 21, “Glitz, glamour and party!”, in Jamaica Gleaner:
text: Barnes, who organised the day's activities which involved several fathers and their children lyming at DaCosta Farms and Adventures, was very adamant that it is important for fathers to bond with their kids while they are still young.
ref: 2018 June 17, “Auto Bonding - Fathers Use Automotives To Build Relationships With Their Children”, in Jamaica Gleaner:
glosses: to hang out (to spend time doing nothing in particular)
Related terms: lyme grass
unheedful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unheedful
form: most unheedful
Etymology: From un- + heedful.
Senses: glosses: Not paying attention
tiple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtiː.pleɪ/
Forms: form: tiples
Etymology: From Spanish tiple.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Any of several kinds of small, plucked stringed-instrument of the guitar family, used in the traditional musics of Spain and various Latin American nations.
wikipedia: Colombian tiple
supputate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: supputates
form: supputating
form: supputated
form: supputated
Senses: examples: text: He supputated, and found that everything considered 'twas much dearer.
ref: 1680, John Aubrey, Letters Written by Eminent Persons, III, 490:
glosses: To calculate; to compute; to reckon; to suppute.
unheeding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːdɪŋ
Forms: form: more unheeding
form: most unheeding
Etymology: From un- + heeding.
Senses: glosses: Showing disregard
unitarist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Unitarianism
unnecessaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unnecessary + -s.
Senses: examples: text: […] for they had a mayor there, among other unnecessaries […]
ref: 1876, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, page 51:
glosses: unnecessary or inessential things
cloddy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cloddier
form: cloddiest
Etymology: From clod + -y.
Senses: glosses: Characterized by the presence of clods
raw_tags: of soil or earth
Derived terms: cloddily
cloddiness
Llewelyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈwɛlɪn/
ipa: /luːˈɛlɪn/
ipa: /ɬəˈwɛlɪn/
Forms: form: Llewellyn
Etymology: From Welsh Llywelyn.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Welsh.
glosses: A surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic].
Llewellyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈwɛlɪn/
ipa: /luˈɛlɪn/
note: approximating Welsh
ipa: /ɬə-
ipa: hlə-
ipa: klə-/
Forms: form: Lewelling
form: Llewelyn
form: Flewellen
Etymology: From Welsh Llywelyn.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Welsh.
glosses: A surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic].
unsounded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsounded
form: most unsounded
Etymology: From un- + sounded.
Senses: glosses: unfathomed
unsoured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + soured.
Senses: glosses: Not soured.
unsoured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unsour
untwine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈtwʌɪn/
Forms: form: untwines
form: untwining
form: untwined
form: untwined
Etymology: From un- + twine.
Senses: examples: text: The rope must be then untwined and the middle of each strand laid across the top and stitched down along the pencil line, half the length falling on one side, half on the other.
ref: 1902, Lina Beard, Adelia B. Beard, chapter 24, in What a Girl Can Make and Do: New Ideas for Work and Play, New York: Scribner, page 284:
glosses: To untwist the strands of (something entwined).
examples: text: Woe to the revolutionist who is not himself a creature of the revolution! If he anticipate, he is lost; for it requires, what no individual can supply, a long and powerful counter-sympathy in a nation to untwine the ties of custom which bind a people to the established and the old.
ref: 1860, William Hamilton, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic, London: William Blackwood, Volume 1, Lecture 5, p. 88:
text: She then untwined the snake from her body, and held it by the tail high above her.
ref: 1864, George Macdonald, “The Light Princess”, in The Light Princess and Other Stories, London: Chatto & Windus, published 1891, page 74:
text: She stood her ground until he reached her and flung both arms around her neck, dragging her to the floor. She later said the police had to untwine him before he could be taken to the ambulance.
ref: 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 26, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971:
glosses: To free (one thing that is entwined with another), disentangle, extricate.
examples: text: As the tangled mass of men untwined, following the blast of the whistle, Sage heard Stone calling in his ear […]
ref: 1912, Morgan Scott, chapter 14, in The Great Oakdale Mystery, New York: Hurst, page 155:
text: The zebra of their legs twined and untwined together on the bed.
ref: 2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 29, in Small Island, London: Review, page 301:
glosses: To become untwisted or disentangled.
vaporable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vaporable
form: most vaporable
Etymology: From vapor + -able.
Senses: glosses: vaporizable
vaporizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vaporizable
form: most vaporizable
form: vapourizable
form: vaporisable
form: vapourisable
Etymology: From vaporize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being vaporized.
varifocal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vari- + focal.
Senses: glosses: Having a variable focal length, with focus that changes in synchronization.
Derived terms: varifocal lens
varifocals
gravitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gravity + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The satellite has a gravitic attraction to the planet.
text: A gravitic system relates to systems involving the use of or resistance to gravity.
text: [E]very iota of its gravitic power.
ref: 1982, John Cleve, Spaceways #7: The Manhuntress, page xviii. 194:
glosses: Of or pertaining to gravity.
Synonyms: english: except in certain compounds
translation: except in certain compounds
word: gravitational
Derived terms: antigravitic
contragravitic
electrogravitic
gravitically
magnetogravitic
magnetogravitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From magneto- + gravitic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of or pertaining to a hypothetical combined force or the combined effects of gravity and magnetism.
Synonyms: gravitomagnetic
vesicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vesicates
form: vesicating
form: vesicated
form: vesicated
Senses: glosses: To blister; to raise blisters on.
Related terms: vesication
vesicatory
eyren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English eyren, alteration of earlier eyre (“eggs”), from Old English ǣġru (“eggs”), plural of ǣġ (“egg”), equivalent to ey + -ren. Compare Dutch eieren (“eggs”), German Eier (“eggs”).
Senses: glosses: plural of ey (“egg”)
vinery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vineries
Etymology: From vine + -ery.
Senses: glosses: A vineyard.
glosses: A structure, usually enclosed with glass, for rearing and protecting vines; a grapery.
washdown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: washdowns
Etymology: Deverbal from wash down.
Senses: glosses: A thorough washing from top to bottom.
Related terms: patdown
waspie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒspi/
homophone: waspi
Forms: form: waspies
Etymology: From wasp + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A women's waist cincher or small corset, worn as underwear or over other clothes.
Related terms: waspy
waterbrash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of water brash.
waterplane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterplanes
form: water plane
Etymology: From water + plane.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The horizontal cross section of a vessel on a level with the waterline.
Derived terms: waterplane coefficient
wheelsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheelsmen
Etymology: From wheel + -s- + man.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: helmsman
examples: text: All else lies subordinate to those wild moments of excitement in which, quite possibly, he'll match his skill as a wheelsman against the cops.
ref: 1988, Dwight V. Swain, Joye R. Swain, Film Scriptwriting: A Practical Manual, page 103:
glosses: Alternative form of wheelman (“getaway driver”).
wholescale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It needs a wholescale change through all practices, and not just an individual approach, to be effective.
ref: 2020, Louise Dalingwater, The NHS and Contemporary Health Challenges From a Multilevel Perspective, page 204:
glosses: Misconstruction of wholesale.
wholism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wholisms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of holism.
whoomph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whoomphs
Senses: examples: text: I waded in near the rocks and lit the fuse - and whoomph!
ref: 1983, The Fisherman Who Laughed, page 67:
text: WHOOMPH! The pressure in the carriage changes rapidly. Chances are, you only know a tunnel is upon you once you're actually inside it - they're experienced from within and rarely observed from the outside.
ref: 2020 August 26, Tim Dunn, “Great railway bores of our time!”, in Rail, page 42:
glosses: Alternative form of whoomp.
whoomph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: whoomphs
form: whoomphing
form: whoomphed
form: whoomphed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whoomp.
winterbourne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪntəbɔːn/
ipa: /ˈwɪntɚˌboɹn/
ipa: [-ɾɚ-]
ipa: /ˈwɪntɚˌbɝn/
ipa: [ˈwɪ̃.ɾɚˌbɝːn]
Forms: form: winterbournes
Etymology: From winter + bourne (“seasonal brook or stream”), partly also from the placenames Winterborne, Winterbourne, which are derived from Old English winterburna (“stream that is full in winter”), from winter (from Proto-Germanic *wintruz, further etymology uncertain) + burna (“stream”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- (“to boil; to brew”)). The Old English word appears to have survived only in placenames.
Senses: examples: text: [F]rom the graveyard itself burst up one of those noble springs known as winter-bournes in the chalk ranges, which, awakened in autumn from the abysses to which it had shrunk during the summer's drought, was hurrying down upon its six months' course, a broad sheet of oily silver, over a temporary channel of smooth green sward.
ref: 1848, [Charles Kingsley], “The Philosophy of Fox-hunting”, in Yeast: A Problem. […], London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], published 1851, →OCLC, pages 14–15:
text: The stream is a winterbourne - it flows only in winter or other periods of high rainfall and is usually dry in summer.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 334, about Rockbourne:
glosses: A stream that only flows in winter or after wet weather, particularly in an area rich in limestone.
Related terms: word: eylebourn
word: nailbourne
dogshank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogshanks
Etymology: From dog + shank.
Senses: glosses: An inferior variant of the sheepshank knot, which is useful for shortening a rope or taking up slack.
Coordinate terms: catshank
sheepshank
winterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winterers
Etymology: From winter + -er.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any person or animal (but especially a bird) that visits or resides in a specified location during the winter
wooable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wooable
form: most wooable
Etymology: From woo + -able.
Senses: glosses: Susceptible to wooing
woodfern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodferns
Etymology: From wood + fern.
Senses: glosses: Any of several evergreen ferns, of the family Dryopteridaceae, especially genus Dryopteris, that have dark green, leathery fronds.
woodgrouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodgrouses
form: woodgrouse
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wood grouse.
clouty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aʊti
Senses: examples: text: but on a day I conceived a glorious idea, or it was put into my head by my mother, then desirous of making progress with her new clouty hearth-rug.
ref: 1896, James Matthew Barrie, Margaret Ogilvy:
glosses: cotton
scouty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aʊti
Forms: form: more scouty
form: most scouty
Etymology: From scout + -y.
Senses: glosses: resembling a scout
glosses: suitable for scouts
trouty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aʊti
Forms: form: troutier
form: troutiest
Etymology: From trout + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The grass improved, they saw wild-flowers and flax, and when the water of the creek took his fancy as looking trouty, Wilford Woodruff got out the artificial flies he had brought from his last mission in England and tried a little
ref: 1856, Knickerbocker:
text: c. 1926 Rudyard Kipling - "Alnaschar and the Oxen" from the collection Debits and Credits
At the gate beside the river where the trouty shallows brawl, I know the pride that Lobengula felt
text: The stream was clear and shallow but it did not look trouty.
ref: 1929, Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises:
glosses: Containing trout.
examples: text: Except in extremely hot weather, I have found that trout packed in this manner reach Boston in very fine order, and have quite a trouty taste and appearance; […]
ref: 1881, Charles Woodbury Stevens, Fly-fishing in Maine Lakes: Or, Camp-life in the Wilderness, page 70:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of trout.
Jesusy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Jesusy
form: most Jesusy
Etymology: From Jesus + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I was feeling very warm and Jesusy before buzzing for him to be brought in and, standing behind the desk, I looked at him now with love. He looked back at me as though he believed he could see into my soul, his large black eyes glimmering with apparent amusement.
ref: 1971, George Cockcroft aka Luke Rhinehart, The Dice Man:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of Jesus.
lowcut
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lowcut
form: most lowcut
form: low-cut
Etymology: From low + cut.
Senses: examples: text: The lowcut bodice enveloped her rounded shoulders with a smoothness born of art. Its edging of lace, wrought by the loom of her dextrous fingers, adorned in modesty the superb contour of her neck and bust.
ref: 1972, George Banghart Henry Swayze, Yarb and Cretine: or, Rising from bonds:
text: 1996, Rosalyn Drexler - Art does (not!) exist
She was wearing a very lowcut blouse, so low cut that her red nipples surrounded by a large brownish halo were revealed to me.
text: They were attractive women who frequently wore lowcut gowns as part of their image as television "glamour girls." For years, such beautiful women had appeared on TV wearing mildly suggestive costumes, usually in background roles on "sophisticated" nightclub formats.
ref: 2003, Harry Castleman, Walter J. Podrazik, Watching TV: six decades of American television:
text: A guy washing his car dropped the hose when he saw her in her lowcut jeans and halter top. She was definitely smoking today. However, sex was not on her mind.
ref: 2003, Reggie Chesterfield, Black Bra and Pantie:
glosses: Of clothing: having a low cut, i.e. revealing more skin than usual.
rakehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rake + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: Could I convert virgins to nymphomania? Masturbators to rakehood? Faithful wives to adulteresses? Seducers to ascetics? Very doubtful. But possible.
ref: 1971, George Cockcroft aka Luke Rhinehart, The Dice Man:
glosses: immoral behaviour
posish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈzɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɪʃ
Forms: form: posishes
Etymology: Abbreviation of position.
Senses: examples: text: He put on the remaining pair of gloves, and took a pugilistic "posish" that alarmed me.
text: "Colonel, the Rebs are making it so hot out yonder, I can't hold my ‘posish’."
text: The enemy was in a splendid ‘posish’ on a high hill commanding the country.
text: At what seemed to be a lull in the action, Joe concluded to climb the ladder to the roof to survey the battlefield. “I'm going up to see the posish (position),” he announced to Jim Bainter.
text: My favorite posish is doggystyle.
text: And feeling that it would do no harm to get his views on the Kipper situation, I unfolded the tale. “So you see the posish,” I concluded.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIV, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
qualifier: often military slang or sexual slang
glosses: Clipping of position.
posishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: So many photographs were taken that Whitman complained to Traubel of the number, claiming it was “hell's times in all sorts of posishes [sic].”
glosses: plural of posish
disorganizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disorganize
Bacon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪ.kən/
Etymology: * As an English and French surname, from the noun bacon.
* Also as an English, French, and Norman surname, from the Germanic personal name *Bahho, from Proto-Germanic *bēganą (“to fight”).
Senses: examples: text: The bill, which lawmakers approved in a 211-206 vote, now moves to the Republican-led Senate for consideration. One Republican, Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska, voted with Democrats Thursday against the measure.
ref: 2025 May 8, Veronica Stracqualursi and Sarah Ferris, “House passes GOP-led bill to rename Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Orange County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Moniteau County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Vernon County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Coshocton County, Ohio.
glosses: A village in Lagunes District, Ivory Coast.
Derived terms: Bacon County
Baconian
Bacon number
sugardaddie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugardaddies
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:sugardaddie.
glosses: Alternative spelling of sugar daddy.
owndoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of owndom
highcut
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more highcut
form: most highcut
Etymology: From high + cut.
Senses: glosses: Of clothing: having a high cut.
surreality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ælɪti
Forms: form: surrealities
Etymology: From surreal + -ity. Compare French surréalité.
Senses: examples: text: The surreality of the crash scene dawned upon him only when he saw a holy figure in the smoke.
text: And when he goes to greet his mother the surreality of it all stares him in the face: in two years she's turned into a little old lady.
ref: 2008, Preeta Samarasan, Evening is the Whole Day, Fourth Estate, page 227:
glosses: The state of being incongruous or surreal.
examples: text: The surrealities of life are the paradoxes thereof.
glosses: That which is surreal; a surreal entity, event or other fact.
Related terms: surrealia
surrealism
surrealize
surrealty
incongruity
hang-dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hang-dogs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hang dog.
unintermitting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unintermitting
form: most unintermitting
Etymology: From un- + intermitting.
Senses: glosses: Not intermitting: constant, unceasing, unremitting, without interruption.
hot check
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot checks
Etymology: From sense hot (“illegal, stolen”) – compare hot property (“stolen goods”).
Senses: examples: text: And you don’t go writing hot checks down in Mississippi,
ref: 1978, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, “There Ain’t No Good Chain Gang”, in I Would Like to See You Again, Columbia Records:
glosses: A check with non-sufficient funds (not enough money in the bank to back it up), written fraudulently.
Hypernyms: sense: check with insufficient funds, written fraudulently
word: bad check
sense: check with insufficient funds, written fraudulently
word: bounced check
sense: check with insufficient funds, written fraudulently
word: rubber check
Related terms: hot property
woodish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more woodish
form: most woodish
Etymology: From wood + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Being like wood, pertaining to wood; woody.
examples: text: The countrey wondering at such an Hermite; His friends perswaded one Seignior Theadora Polaloga, Rider to Henry Earle of Lincolne, an excellent Horse-man, and a noble Italian Gentleman, to insinuate into his wooddish acquaintances […]
ref: 1630, John Smith, True Travels, Kupperman, published 1988, page 36:
glosses: Characteristic of woods or woodland.
etheromaniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪniæk
Forms: form: etheromaniacs
Etymology: From ether + -o- + -maniac.
Senses: examples: text: You can clearly see that a dancer etheromaniac, when she is high, has a different conception of space – it is much more expansive than usual.
ref: 1971, Paul Van Ostaijen, Patriotism, Inc and Other Tales, Univ of Massachusetts Press, page 137:
text: In another case an etheromaniac earl committed extravagances which, from a moral point of view, classified him among mental deficients.
ref: 1998, Louis Lewin, Phantastica: a classic survey on the use and abuse of mind-altering plants, Inner Traditions / Bear & Company, page 169:
glosses: A person addicted to ether intoxication
Related terms: etheromania
etheromaniacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of etheromaniac
etheromania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ether + -o- + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: It accounts for the etheromania in certain countries in Ireland over a hundred years ago, the large-scale sniffing of shoemakers’ glue in the prison in Monterrey, Mexico, and for many other epidemics of intoxicant abuse by a large portion of the exposed population.
ref: 1985, Sidney Cohen, The substance abuse problems, volume 2, Routledge, page 181:
text: It is not considered as becoming in the female sex to consume large quantities of concentrated alcohol habitually, and for this reason women contribute a large contingent to etheromania.
ref: 1998, Louis Lewin, Phantastica: a classic survey on the use and abuse of mind-altering plants, Inner Traditions / Bear & Company, page 167:
glosses: An addiction to ether intoxication.
Related terms: etheromaniac
insinuendo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insinuendos
form: insinuendoes
Etymology: Blend of insinuation + innuendo
Senses: examples: text: Truly a man may wish, “O that mine enemy would let me write his Preface! Could I not damn with faint praise and stab with sharp insinuendo?” – to use the labor-saving and much-needed word thoughtlessly invented by the sable legislator of South Carolina.
ref: 1888, Brander Matthews, Pen and Ink; Papers on Subjects of More Or Less Importance,, page 57:
text: It’s sort of an insinuendo, as Matt King says, that your mind could stand a good deal of improving and not hurt it any.
ref: 1918, Eugene Wood, “Missed It - The Big Idea”, in Boys' Life, Boy Scouts of America, Inc., page 30:
text: "I don't have it," says Leon. "It was done away with because of the negative insinuendo."
ref: 1964, Milton Rokeach, The three Christs of Ypsilanti: a psychological study, Knopf, page 131:
text: The most quoted malamanteau is George W. Bush’s “I misunderestimated”. Others that have evoked smirks have been “miscommunicado” (from “miscommunicate” and “incommunicado”), “insinuendo” (from “innuendo” and “insinuation”), and “squirmish” (“squirm” and “skirmish”).
ref: 2017 December 4, Roslyn Petelin, “The horror and pleasure of misused words: from mispronunciation to malapropisms”, in The Conversation, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2024:
glosses: insinuation containing innuendo
halter top
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halter tops
Senses: examples: text: A guy washing his car dropped the hose when he saw her in her lowcut jeans and halter top. She was definitely smoking today. However, sex was not on her mind.
ref: 2003, Reggie Chesterfield, Black Bra and Pantie:
text: Tommy Hilfiger's silver metallic halter top worn over bikini
ref: 2004, Ebony, volume 59, number 9, page 154:
text: this full-coverage halter top has thick straps to prevent sags
ref: 2008 May, Women's Health, page 141:
glosses: A style of sleeveless top with a single strap around the back of the neck (a halterneck).
Synonyms: halter
Hyponyms: english: Chinese form
translation: Chinese form
word: dudou
english: Vietnamese form
translation: Vietnamese form
word: yem
ragstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ragstones
Etymology: From rag + stone.
Senses: examples: text: Frant and Etchingham [station buildings] are more flamboyantly gothic and are built of ragstone.
ref: 1957 August 24, H. P. White, “The Tonbridge-Hastings Line and its Traffic”, in Railway Magazine, page 529:
glosses: Stone that is quarried in thin pieces.
ragstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ragstone
grassbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grassbirds
Etymology: From grass + bird.
Senses: glosses: Any of various warblers, many formerly in genus Megalurus.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Schoenicola striatus
alt: syns. Chaetornis striata, Megalurus striatus
word: bristled grassbird
taxonomic: Schoenicola platyurus
word: broad-tailed grassbird
taxonomic: Sphenoeacus afer
word: Cape grassbird
taxonomic: Graminicola striatus
word: Chinese grassbird
alt: Catriscus brevirostris, syn. Schoenicola brevirostris
word: fan-tailed grassbird
alt: Poodytes albolimbatus, syn. Megalurus albolimbatus
word: Fly River grassbird
taxonomic: Graminicola bengalensis
word: Indian grassbird
alt: Poodytes gramineus, syn. Megalurus gramineus
word: little grassbird
taxonomic: Bradypterus seebohmi
alt: syn. Dromaeocercus seebohmi
word: Madagascan grassbird
word: grey emutail)
alt: Helopsaltes pryeri, syn. Megalurus pryeri
word: marsh grassbird
alt: Cincloramphus mariae, syn. Megalurulus mariei
word: New Caledonia grassbird
alt: Cincloramphus macrurus, syn. Megalurus macrurus
word: Papuan grassbird
taxonomic: Graminicola bengalensis
word: rufous-rumped grassbird
taxonomic: Megalurus palustris
word: striated grassbird
alt: Cincloramphus timoriensis, syn. Megalurus timoriensis
word: tawny grassbird
grassbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grassbird
telecomputer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telecomputers
Etymology: From tele- + computer.
Senses: examples: text: If Adler has his way, the telecomputer will become an inescapable part of the life of every American. He envisions political campaigns waged with his machines[…]
ref: 1980 January 1, Texas Monthly, volume 8, number 1, page 64:
text: Like the rulers of radio in 1950, all the entrenched interests are declaring that the new technology of the telecomputer is unlikely to have an impact for a decade or two.
ref: 1990, George F. Gilder, Life After Television, pages 36–37:
text: For Gilder, the new piece of furniture that will free Joe Briefcase from passive dependence on his furniture will be “the telecomputer, a personal computer adapted for video processing and connected by fiberoptic threads to other telecomputers around the world.”
ref: 1997 [1990], David Foster Wallace, quoting George Gilder, “E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN:
text: Great talent is available to conceive and design self-education telecomputer programs: expert programmers, technicians, movie and television directors[…]
ref: 1999, Melville Campbell Branch, The planning imperative and human behavior:
glosses: A proposed device combining the functions of a computer and a television, telegraph, telephone, teleporter or telecommunicator.
glosses: A computer that can be controlled remotely; a telecomputing system.
Synonyms: teleputer
telecomputers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telecomputer
insinuendos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insinuendoes
Senses: examples: text: There’s many a good tune played on an old fiddle. I hate his nasty insinuendos.
ref: 1873–1884 (date written), Samuel Butler, chapter LXI, in R[ichard] A[lexander] Streatfeild, editor, The Way of All Flesh, London: Grant Richards, published 1903, →OCLC, page 278:
text: "I don't like those insinuendos. Tell me when I had an accident! Name one!"
ref: 2006, Edna Buchanan, Shadows, Simon & Schuster, page 174:
glosses: plural of insinuendo
negators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of negator
insinuendoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insinuendos
Senses: examples: text: "None of your insinuendoes, sah, if you please; and allow me to say that you would be putrified with amazement, sah, if you were to see de [sic] way we do thing at our house, sah."
ref: 1894, Charles Carleton Coffin, Dan of Millbrook: A story of American life, Estes and Lauriat, page 100:
text: One paranoid patient's expression expression for statements of this kind was 'insinuendoes.'
ref: 1962, Ronald David Laing, The self and others: further studies in sanity and madness, Tavistock Publications, page 154:
glosses: plural of insinuendo
CRTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CRT
halter tops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halter top
harmonizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more harmonizable
form: most harmonizable
Etymology: From harmonize + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be harmonized
nanofluidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nano- + fluidic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to nanofluids or nanofluidics
pfaffians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pfaffian
polylogarithmically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From polylogarithmic + -ally.
Senses: examples: The number of solutions to the Erdős–Straus equation increases polylogarithmically as n tends to infinity.
glosses: In a polylogarithmic manner.
glosses: By using polylogarithms.
pulsationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌlˈseɪʃənəli/
ipa: /pʌlˈseɪʃnəli/
ipa: /pʌlˈseɪʃənli/
ipa: /pʌlˈseɪʃənəli/
ipa: /pʌlˈseɪʃnəli/
ipa: /pʌlˈseɪʃənli/
rhymes: -eɪʃənəli
Etymology: From pulsational + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a pulsational manner
selfexcitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of selfexcitation
selfexcitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selfexcitations
Etymology: From self- + excitation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of self-excitation.
self-excitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-excitations
Etymology: From self- + excitation.
Senses: glosses: The feedback of the output of a generator
stellarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stellarities
Etymology: From stellar + -ity.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A parameter (between 0.0 and 1.0), generated by a neural network, that seeks to characterize how stellar an observed astronomical object is.
subcube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subcubes
Etymology: From sub- + cube.
Senses: examples: text: A similar idea as above is applied to the volume meshing – the initial cube is split and independent instances of the volume meshing algorithm are run on the subcubes.
ref: 2012, Miloslav Feistauer, Vit Dolejší, Peter Knobloch, Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications: Proceedings, page 429:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A portion of a cube.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A subset of a cube (data structure).
supermodules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supermodule
supermodule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supermodules
Etymology: From super- + module.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A particular module over a superring or superalgebra
uncompressible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncompressible
form: most uncompressible
Etymology: From un- + compressible.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of incompressible.
unconstraining
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconstraining
form: most unconstraining
Etymology: From un- + constraining.
Senses: glosses: That does not constrain
underfilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underfill
underfilling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underfillings
Etymology: From under- + filling.
Senses: glosses: The underneath structure of a building.
upgradeability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of upgradability.
actinodin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actinodins
Etymology: See actino- (“ray”).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of proteins that are essential structural components of fin rays and fin folds of zebrafish.
actinodins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of actinodin
anticardiolipin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anti-cardiolipin
Etymology: From anti- + cardiolipin.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Directed against cardiolipin
relaxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relaxins
Etymology: From relax + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A peptide hormone of the insulin superfamily.
asserter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asserters
Etymology: From assert + -er.
Senses: examples: 1839 Oliver Beale Peirce: "The grammar of the English Language.
What is a Principal asserter?
It is one which, of itself, conveys the idea of the existence, action, or influence of some person or thing denoted by the word on which it depends for sense; as I am; I love; William writes; George studies.
What is an Auxiliary asserter?
It is one which, of itself, does not convey the idea of existence, action, or influence of the subject of remark; but is joined to a principal to vary its meaning, and forms, with the principal, but one asserter; as, I shall love. William has written. George will study.
2015 Sanford C. Goldberg: Assertion. Pub. OUP
All of this, taken together, appears to capture a sense in which the asserter represents herself as being epistemically authoritative regarding the proposition asserted
glosses: Alternative form of assertor.
asserters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asserter
assertations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assertation
ricepaper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rice paper.
antichromatin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anti-chromatin
Etymology: From anti- + chromatin.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Directed against chromatin
tanktop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tanktops
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tank top.
tanktops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tanktop