cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
rootable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rootable
form: most rootable
Etymology: From root + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Also values and policies seem to be implicit or rootable in such facts.
ref: 2004, John Haldane, Faithful Reason: Essays Catholic and Philosophical, page 261:
glosses: That can be rooted.
synonyms: fuckable
screwable
glosses: Sexually attractive.
examples: text: a rootable device
qualifier: computer security
glosses: On which one can gain root (administrator) access.
mimicable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mimicable
form: most mimicable
Etymology: From mimic + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being mimicked.
tuckable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tuckable
form: most tuckable
Etymology: From tuck + -able.
Senses: examples: text: A carton comprising a front wall having thereon a flap forming an inner under end closure member, said wall and inner member having therein a tear-out tuckable flap to provide a pouring aperture, […]
ref: 1939, The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights:
glosses: Capable of being tucked.
tickable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtɪkəbəl/
Etymology: From tick + -able.
Senses: examples: tickable boxes in a questionnaire
glosses: That can be ticked; capable of being marked with a tick or check mark.
topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Of a bird, located so that it may be travelled to and viewed.
examples: text: On landing the dark forms of the jungle fowl could be seen scattering across the airfield, but we were moving too fast for me to get a tickable view.
ref: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 109:
topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Of an observation, good enough to ensure correct identification and therefore allow the bird to be added to a list of observed birds.
examples: text: A tick is an event that occurs for every N low-level tickable statements executed by the parser within the declare block.
ref: 2017, Branko Ajzele, Mastering PHP 7, page 143:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Of a program instruction: counted for the purpose of generating periodic signals every few instructions.
hijackable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hijack + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being hijacked.
Derived terms: unhijackable
seizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: seisable
Etymology: From seize + -able.
Senses: examples: text: In addition, this legislation […] expanded the scope of seizable assets to include all property involved in drug law violations […]
ref: 1999, Katherine Beckett, Making Crime Pay, page 130:
glosses: Capable of being seized.
humpable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more humpable
form: most humpable
Etymology: From hump + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be humped; sexually attractive.
Derived terms: humpability
Related terms: doable
fuckable
rootable
screwable
digable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of diggable.
epiphænomenon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epiphænomena
Etymology: From epi- + phænomenon.
Senses: examples: text: EPIPHÆNOMENA, […] Signs in Diſeaſes which appear afterwards.
ref: [1721, N[athan] Bailey, “EPIPHÆNOMENA”, in An Universal Etymological English Dictionary: […], London: […] E. Bell, J. Darby, […], →OCLC, column 2:
text: In all cases, the presence of bile in the blood is a mere epiphænomenon, and therefore demands no special attention.
ref: 1845 April, Samuel G. White, “Clinical Lectures and Reports. Philadelphia Hospital. Saturday, January 4, 1845. Clinic of Professor [Robley] Dunglison.”, in Robert M. Huston, editor, The Medical Examiner, and Record of Medical Science, volume I (New Series; volume VIII overall), number IV, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lindsay & Blakiston, […], →OCLC, page 210:
text: In amenorrhœa, epistaxis is by no means unfrequent; and often relieves the anomalous symptoms, especially those referable to the encephalon, which are the results of the irregular hyperæmia thus induced. The same may be said of it as an epiphænomenon in febrile affections—inflammatory and adynamic,—of which conditions it is often an important symptom.
ref: 1848, Robley Dunglison, “Diseases of the Nose”, in The Practice of Medicine: A Treatise on Special Pathology and Therapeutics. […], 3rd edition, volume II, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, →OCLC, book VII (Diseases of the Organs of the Senses), page 352:
text: If a lady patient comes to your office and complains of severe backache, weight in the rectum, and a general bearing down, as she will call it, and has leucorrhœa with dysmenorrhœa, nervous disturbances, lame and difficult locomotion, menorrhagia, dyspareunia, pelvic neuralgia, epigastric depression, gastric derangement, uterine colic or tenesmus, sterility and many other symptoms that are epiphænomena of their own, do not, I beg of you, sit up very late, looking for the indicated remedy, for most likely you have a perfect case of retroversion, which is producing all of these annoying symptoms, by creating congestion of the uterine body, obstructing the cervical canal, and causing pressure on the rectum, congestion of the ovaries, and reflex nervous manifestations.
ref: 1882 June, Phil Porter, “Stenosis of the Cervix Uteri”, in E. A. Lodge, Sen’r, editor, The American Observer Medical Monthly: […], volume IX (New Series; volume XIX overall), Detroit, Mich.: E. A. Lodge, Sen’r, […], →OCLC, page 280:
text: According to this hypothesis, mind is a ‘collateral product’ of the physical, an ‘epiphænomenon’ accompanying, but never causally affecting, the physical series of phænomena.
ref: 1900 April, “Art. VIII.—Ward’s ‘Naturalism and Agnosticism.’ Naturalism and Agnosticism. The Gifford Lectures Delivered before the University of Aberdeen in the Years 1896–1989. By James Ward, […]. 2 vols. (London, 1899.) [book review]”, in The Church Quarterly Review, volume L, number XCIX, London: Spottiswoode & Co., →OCLC, page 133:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of epiphenomenon.
Frankie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈfɹæŋ.ki/
Forms: form: Frankies
form: Franky
Senses: examples: text: Before arriving in Miami, he was known by his real name of Frankie King. Not Frank but Frankie; his mother had named him after the singer Frankie Laine.
ref: 1991, Carl Hiaasen, Native Tongue, Knopf, →ISBN, page 62:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Frank, Francisco, Francis or Franklin.
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Frances or Francesca.
glosses: A diminutive of the surname Frankenstein, used as a given name for a similar monster or mad scientist.
electrises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of electrise
mittel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From German Mittel (“14-point type”).
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
qualifier: German contexts
glosses: Synonym of English.
synonyms: word: English
læsions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I shall not, therefore, presume to obtrude an opinion, either upon the cause of symptoms, or of morbid læsions, unsupported by the evidence of anatomical demonstration.
ref: 1815, Alexander Denmark, Observations on the Mediterranean Fever in Medico‐Chirurgical Transactions (Woodfall), volume VI, page 315
glosses: plural of læsion
œnophorum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: œnophora
Etymology: From œno- + -phor + -um, from Ancient Greek οἰνόφορον (oinóphoron), related to οἶνος (oînos, “wine”).
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:œnophorum.
glosses: A vessel (such as a jug or basket) for holding or transporting wine or wine bottles.
day after day
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Day after day they added entries.
text: The images we see day after day numb us.
text: Throughout October the campaign in Korea made excellent progress. Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, was taken on October 19, and day after day MacArthur's forces were on the march.
ref: 1956, Harry S. Truman, chapter 24, in Memoirs of Harry S. Truman: Years of Trial And Hope, volume II, Doubleday & Company, →OCLC, page 371:
text: Day after day it reappears
 Night after night my heartbeat shows the fear
 Ghosts appear and fade away
ref: 1983, Men At Work, “Overkill”, in Cargo:
text: Fine, I will. And YOU can start washing your OWN clothes, and fixing your OWN meals, and picking up your OWN toys, and making your OWN bed, and cleaning up your OWN messes, day after day after DAY!
ref: 1989 July 11, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic strip):
glosses: For an indefinite number of days.
Coordinate terms: year after year
hour after hour
month after month
minute after minute
night after night
second after second
Related terms: dayslong § Related terms
lapsus linguæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lapsus linguæ
Senses: examples: text: In view of the only too obvious and universally acknowledged fact that a man’s general trend of conversation, like his deeds, expresses his character, it is amusing to see with what incredulity persons will often receive the statement that the finer details of speech and action (such as ‘slips of the tongue’ and the previously mentioned ‘slips of the pen’) are significant as well. A man once even argued with me that the manner of a handshake possessed no significance. And lapsus linguæ are often accounted one of the pet absurdities of the Freudians.
ref: 1915, Edwin B[issell] Holt, “The Doctrine of the ‘Wish’”, in The Freudian Wish and Its Place in Ethics, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, pages 35–36:
text: Years afterwards I had the honor of meeting the great admiral and to my astonishment and confusion he asked me if I had ever procured that set of lapsus linguæ for my sister.
ref: 1917, James Morris Morgan, chapter II, in Recollections of a Rebel Reefer, Houghton Mifflin Company, page 18:
glosses: Archaic spelling of lapsus linguae.
vivâ voce
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of viva voce.
vivâ voce
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of viva voce.
vivâ voce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of viva voce.
die on the vine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dies on the vine
form: dying on the vine
form: died on the vine
form: died on the vine
Senses: examples: text: His ambitious plan to build a flying car died on the vine.
glosses: To fail at an early stage or never come to fruition, typically due to neglect, infeasibility, or lack of resources.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see die, on, the, vine.
Synonyms: wither on the vine
Related terms: dead on the vine
dies on the vine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of die on the vine
dying on the vine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of die on the vine
died on the vine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of die on the vine
Yaghoubian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yaghoubians
form: Yaghoubyan
form: Yaghubian
form: Yaghubyan
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian Յաղուբյան (Yaġubyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Yacoubian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yacoubians
form: Yacoubyan
form: Yagoubyan
form: Yakoubian
form: Yagoubian
form: Yakoubyan
form: Yakubian
form: Yagubian
form: Yakubyan
form: Yagubyan
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian Յակուբյան (Yakubyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
orchidopexy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orchidopexies
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Alternative form of orchiopexy.
orchidopexies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orchidopexy
orchiopexy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orchiopexies
form: orchidopexy
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin orchis + -pexy, from Ancient Greek ὄρχις (órkhis, “testicle”) + πῆξις (pêxis, “fixing”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A procedure for fixation of a testis, often to move an undescended testicle into the scrotum and keep it there.
orchiopexies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orchiopexy
dysæsthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dysæsthesiæ
Etymology: From dys- + -æsthesia.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of dysesthesia.
dysæsthesiæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: dys- + æsthesiæ
Senses: glosses: plural of dysæsthesia
Synonyms: dysaesthesias
dysæsthesias
dysesthesias
waterbottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterbottles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of water bottle.
landable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more landable
form: most landable
Etymology: From land + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being landed.
examples: text: The pilot looked for a landable lake as the plane began to plummet.
glosses: Suitable for landing upon.
Derived terms: unlandable
sewable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sewable
form: most sewable
Etymology: From sew + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being sewed.
sowable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sowable
form: most sowable
Etymology: From sow + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being sowed.
dedovshchina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɪdəvˈʃːinə/
/-dəf-/
Etymology: From Russian дедовщи́на (dedovščína), literally “reign of old-timers”.
Senses: synonyms: grandfatherism
glosses: Hazing, the informal system of subjection and physical or sexual abuse of new junior conscripts, formerly in the Soviet Armed Forces and contemporarily in the Russian, Ukrainian, etc. armed forces.
Related terms: ded
petukh
pehlivan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pehlivans
Senses: glosses: A Turkish wrestler in the sport of yağlı güreş (Turkish oil wrestling).
kispet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kispets
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kisbet.
& al.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Dated form of et al..
puck palace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puck palaces
Senses: examples: text: It was easily the most spirited battle of speed and brawn offered in the Detroit puck palace this winter.
ref: 1936 December 21, Vern DeGeer, “Wings Beat Bruins 4-3”, in Windsor Daily Star, Canada, retrieved 11 May 2011, page 3:
text: However, a new puck palace in the Manitoba capital could eventually have a connection with Calgary hockey.
ref: 1954 March 20, Gorde Hunter, “The Neutral Zone”, in Calgary Herald, Canada, retrieved 11 May 2011, page 34:
text: To see the utilitarian hockey center transformed into a puck palace similar to the Minnesota Wild's home ice should bring chills to even the most staid fans.
ref: 2008 July 6, Randy Krebs, “SCSU's plan deserves much praise”, in St. Cloud Times, USA, retrieved 11 May 2011, page B6:
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: An arena containing a rink and spectator seating for playing and viewing ice hockey, especially one which is considered to be well-equipped and state-of-the-art.
are you deaf
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see are, you, deaf.
glosses: A rhetorical question asked to confront a nondeaf interlocutor who has failed to hear something.
double-clicked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of double-click
double-clicking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of double-click
Want
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A personification of want.
bescatter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bescatters
form: bescattering
form: bescattered
form: bescattered
Etymology: From be- + scatter.
Senses: glosses: To scatter over.
besour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: besours
form: besouring
form: besoured
form: besoured
Etymology: From be- + sour.
Senses: glosses: To make sour.
besmut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: besmuts
form: besmutting
form: besmutted
form: besmutted
Etymology: From be- + smut. Compare Old English besmittian (“to pollute, defile”).
Senses: glosses: To blacken with smut; foul with soot.
besoil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: besoils
form: besoiling
form: besoiled
form: besoiled
Etymology: From Middle English bisoilen, bisuilen, equivalent to be- + soil.
Senses: glosses: To cover with or as with soil; stain; sully.
besnuff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: besnuffs
form: besnuffing
form: besnuffed
form: besnuffed
Etymology: From be- + snuff.
Senses: glosses: To befoul with snuff.
besmutch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: besmutches
form: besmutching
form: besmutched
form: besmutched
Etymology: From be- + smutch.
Senses: glosses: To besmirch.
skimble-skamble
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɪmb(ə)lˌskæmb(ə)l/
Forms: form: skimble-scamble
Etymology: Reduplication of scamble (“to move about pushing and jostling, struggle for place or possession, scramble; to mangle”). The term was popularized by William Shakespeare’s use of it in the play Henry IV, Part 1 (c. 1597): see the quotation.
Senses: examples: text: [S]ometime he angers me / With telling me of the Mouldwarp and the Ant, / Of the dreamer Merlin and his prophecies, / And of a Dragon and a finles fiſh, / A clipwingd Griffin and a molten rauen, / A couching Leon and a ramping Cat, / And ſuch a deale of skimble ſcamble ſtuffe / As puts me from my faith.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fourth; […], quarto edition, London: […] P[eter] S[hort] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1598, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: [Y]ou should hae made a' things plain and positive to Katherine. Such skimble-skamble, yea and nay kind o' ways willna do wi' women.
ref: 1886, Amelia E. Barr, “The Beginning of Strife”, in The Bow of Orange Ribbon: A Romance of New York, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, →OCLC, page 62:
text: Some of this exuberant, large-scale movie is charming and inventive, and some of it is pitifully trashy, in the style of Ken Russell's skimble-skamble burlesques of [Pyotr Ilyich] Tchaikovsky, [Gustav] Mahler, and [Franz] Liszt.
ref: 1984 September 24, David Denby, “Movies: Mozartmania [review of Amadeus]”, in New York, volume 17, number 38, New York, N.Y.: News Group Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 93, column 1:
text: He spoke some skimble-skamble stuff and I asked a couple of questions, and then I had to laugh.
ref: 2008, John Mogan, “Born, Born Again, and Reborn”, in The Book of Sacha and Sacha’s Animals, Victoria, B.C.: Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 191:
synonyms: word: absurd
word: cockamamie
word: cockeyed
word: farcical
word: foolish
word: full of it
word: irrational
word: preposterous
word: inconsistent
word: incongruous
word: laughable
word: ludicrous
word: nonsensical
word: ridiculous
word: skimble-skamble
word: unreasonable
glosses: Confused, chaotic, disorderly, senseless.
skimble-skamble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɪmb(ə)lˌskæmb(ə)l/
Etymology: Reduplication of scamble (“to move about pushing and jostling, struggle for place or possession, scramble; to mangle”). The term was popularized by William Shakespeare’s use of it in the play Henry IV, Part 1 (c. 1597): see the quotation.
Senses: examples: text: Did you read his skimble-skamble about * * being at the head of his own profession, in the eyes of those who followed it?
ref: 1818 June 1, Lord Byron, Thomas Moore, “Letter CCCXVII. To Mr Moore.”, in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: […], volume II, Paris: Published by A[nthony] and W[illiam] Galignani, […], published 1830, →OCLC, page 287, column 1:
text: None of the questions directed at Chavalit [Yongchaiyudh] were serious enough to make him think before he delivered his beat-around-the-bush response. He put the nation in deep shame – again – with his unenlightened skimble-skamble.
ref: 1997 September 4, Sopon Onkgara, “One man, one draft, lots of gibberish”, in The Nation, Bangkok: Nation Pub. Group, →OCLC, page A4, column 3:
synonyms: word: absurdity
word: all my eye
word: all my eye and Betty Martin
word: applesauce
word: bafflegab
word: balderdash
word: balls
word: baloney
word: banana oil
word: Bandini
word: baragouin
word: batcrap
word: batshit
word: bilgewater
word: blah
word: blather
word: blatherskite
word: bobbins
word: bollocks
word: bosh
word: BS
word: bull
word: bullcrap
word: bulldust
word: bull feathers
word: bullshit
word: bullspeak
word: bunk
word: bunkum
word: bushwah
word: clamjamfrey
word: claptrap
word: cobblers
word: codswallop
word: crap
word: crock
word: crock of shit
word: double Dutch
word: double talk
word: doublespeak
word: dribble
word: drivel
word: eyewash
word: fiddle-faddle
word: flapdoodle
word: flim-flam
word: flizz
word: flummery
word: folderol
word: foolishness
word: footle
word: framis
word: fuckery
word: fuckry
word: fudge
word: galimatias
word: garbage
word: garble
word: gibber
word: gibberish
word: gobbledygook
word: gossip
word: Greek
word: guff
word: gup
word: hoax
word: hocus-pocus
word: hogwash
word: hokum
word: hooey
word: horsefeathers
word: horse hockey
word: horse piss
word: horse puckey
word: horseshit
word: humbug
word: Irish bull
word: jabber
word: jargon
word: jibber-jabber
word: jimjam
word: jive
word: junk
word: lallation
word: macaroni
word: malarkey
word: manure
word: meaninglessness
word: moonshine
word: mumbo jumbo
word: nertz
word: nonsense
word: pie in the sky
word: piffle
word: pigswill
word: poppycock
word: prattle
word: put-on
word: rhubarb
word: rhubarb rhubarb
word: rigmarole
word: rot
word: rubbish
word: ruse
word: santorum
word: shit
word: shite
word: skimble-skamble
word: squit
word: stuff
word: stuff and nonsense
word: tommy-rot
word: tosh
word: tush
word: trash
word: tripe
word: twaddle
word: wass
word: whiff-whaff
word: word salad
glosses: Gibberish, mumbo-jumbo, nonsense.
bespend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bespends
form: bespending
form: bespent
form: bespent
Etymology: From be- (“on, over, about”) + spend.
Senses: examples: text: Do those who bring into the world two or three brats with ugly noses to take their place,— do these help mankind more than the missionaries who oversee all men according to their power, what they do, how they bespend their lives, what, contrary to their duty, they neglect?”
ref: 1910, Frederick William Bussell, Marcus Aurelius and the Later Stoics - Page 297:
text: Over their sleep, convalescent of old woes, The native, barren grandeur of the wind, Schooled of the granite, salt, and sea, bespends A roaming testimony to their thoughts While tons of heavy waves oppress cold rocks.
ref: 1932, California Poets: An Anthology of 244 Contemporaries - Page 606
glosses: To expend; bestow; employ.
bespit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bespits
form: bespitting
form: bespat
form: bespit
form: bespitten
form: bespit
form: bespat
form: bespitted
Etymology: From Middle English bispitten, equivalent to be- + spit. Compare bespet.
Senses: synonyms: beslobber
bespawl
bespittle
glosses: To spit upon (someone or something); to soil with spittle.
ancome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ancomes
form: income
form: oncome
form: uncome
Etymology: From Middle English onkome (“a swelling”), from earlier oncome, oncume (“an unexpected evil”), from Middle English ancomen, oncumen, from Old English oncumen, past participle of ancuman (“to arrive, come upon, happen”); equivalent to on- + come. Cognate with Dutch aankomen (“to arrive, to gain weight”), German ankommen (“to arrive”), Swedish ankomma (“to arrive”).
Senses: glosses: A small inflammatory swelling, arising suddenly.
nut up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nʌt ʌp/
Forms: form: nuts up
form: nutting up
form: nutted up
form: nutted up
Etymology: From nut + up (influenced by expressions like "man up" or "shut up"; "nut" refers to testicles, symbolically implying being more manly).
Senses: glosses: To show courage and hide one's apprehension.
Synonyms: man up
endure
put up with
take lying down
Related terms: shut up
nut up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nʌt ʌp/
Forms: form: nuts up
form: nutting up
form: nutted up
form: nutted up
Etymology: From nut + up, apparently related to go nuts and do one's nut.
Senses: examples: text: And what if some shit went wrong? Pimp was known to get crazy over minor shit. I didn't know if I could trust him to pull off a job like this without nutting up in the middle of the mix.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 103:
glosses: To lose one's temper, go nuts.
infuscate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: infuscates
form: infuscating
form: infuscated
form: infuscated
Etymology: The verb is first attested in 1650, the adjective in 1826; borrowed from Latin īnfuscātus, perfect passive participle of īnfuscō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from in- (“in”) + fuscō (“to make dark”), from fuscus (“dark”).
Senses: glosses: To darken; to make black or obscure.
infuscate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more infuscate
form: most infuscate
Etymology: The verb is first attested in 1650, the adjective in 1826; borrowed from Latin īnfuscātus, perfect passive participle of īnfuscō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from in- (“in”) + fuscō (“to make dark”), from fuscus (“dark”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Clouded with dark shades of brown or black.
ingravescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Etymology: From Latin ingravēscent.
Senses: examples: text: ingravescent apoplexy
text: Cerebral hemorrhage, ingravescent in character, was diagnosticated and preparations were at once made for ligaturing the right common carotid.
ref: 1890, Transactions of the American Neurological Association, page 76:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Increasing in severity.
mobilome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mobilomes
Etymology: From mobile + -ome.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The entirety of the mobile (transposable) elements of a genome.
Derived terms: metamobilome
Mohammedism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mahometism
form: Mahumatism
form: Muhammadism
form: Mahomedism
form: Mahommedism
form: Mohamedism
form: Muhammedism
form: Mohametism
form: Muhamedism
form: Mahommetism
Etymology: From Mohammed + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The religion introduced by Muhammad: Islam.
Synonyms: word: Mohammedanism
Related terms: word: Mohammedist
word: Mohammedan
Mohammedanism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mahometanism
form: Muhammadanism
form: Mahomedanism
form: Mahommedanism
form: Muhammedanism
form: Mohamedanism
form: Mohametanism
form: Muhamedanism
form: Mohammetanism
form: Mahommetanism
Etymology: From the earlier form Mahometanism; equivalent to Muhammadan + -ism; compare Muhammadism, coined in the 17th century after French mahométisme.
Senses: examples: text: In a general estimate of Mohammedanism it should not be forgotten what Islam has done for the cause of humanity and more particularly the share it had in the development of science and art in Europe. Broadly speaking, the Mohammedans may be said to have been the teachers of barbarous Europe from the ninth to the thirteenth century. It is from the days of the Abbasside rulers that the real renaissance of the Greek spirit and Greek culture is to be dated.
ref: 1905, “Mohammedanism”, in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Company:
qualifier: now largely obsolete and offensive
glosses: The religion introduced by Muhammad: Islam.
Synonyms: word: Mohammedism
Related terms: word: Mohammedan
word: Mohammedian
word: Mohammedanist
mammilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪlə
Forms: form: mammillae
Etymology: From Latin mammilla, diminutive of mamma (“breast”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The nipple.
glosses: A nipple-like object.
Derived terms: mammillation
mammilliform
mammilloid
mammillae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mammilla
bow-tie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bow-ties
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bowtie.
parotis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parotides
Senses: glosses: The parotid gland.
parotides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parotis
deformalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfɔːməlaɪz/
Forms: form: deformalizes
form: deformalizing
form: deformalized
form: deformalized
form: deformalise
Etymology: From de- + formalize.
Senses: examples: text: Gradually introduce small changes to deformalize and humanize Board meetings, while retaining the positive aspects of established customs. Try lightening things up via team-building activities.
ref: 2009, Eli Mina, One hundred and one boardroom problems and how to solve them, page 96:
glosses: To make informal.
Synonyms: informalize
Related terms: deformalization
deformalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deformalize
deformalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deformalize
deformalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deformalize
informalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: informalizes
form: informalizing
form: informalized
form: informalized
Etymology: From informal + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make informal.
Synonyms: deformalize
Related terms: informalization
informalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of informalize
informalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of informalize
informalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of informalize
existable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exist + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Philosophy is the science of the possible as existable. In other words, by the reason of the fact Wolff means a purely conceptualistic explanation in terms of essences and possibilities.
ref: 1960, College of Philosophy and Letters, St. Louis University, The Modern schoolman: Volumes 38-39:
glosses: Capable of existing; feasible.
Derived terms: coexistable
Related terms: existability
sacrolumbalis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A muscle that is inserted, by flattened tendons, into the inferior borders of the angles of the lower six to nine ribs.
Anglo-Celtic Isles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The British—Irish Council is a current constitutional innovation of great significance to pan-Celticism, a potential shift of the geopolitical centre of gravity of the Anglo-Celtic isles for the first time since the establishment of the Irish Republic.
ref: 2002, David Harvey, Celtic geographies: old culture, new times, page 241:
glosses: the British Isles.
specillum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: specilla
Etymology: From Latin specillum.
Senses: glosses: A surgical probe.
glosses: A lens or eyeglass.
specilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of specillum
Mopsy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mopsys
form: Mopsyes
form: Mopsies
Etymology: From mop + -sy. From mopsy, from mop. Compare moppet.
Senses: glosses: A nickname for a person with a mop of hair.
glosses: A given name for a pet animal; stereotypically a shaggy animal looking somewhat like a mop head; frequently a shaggy dog.
Coordinate terms: sense: stereotypical names for pet animals
word: Felix
sense: stereotypical names for pet animals
word: Flopsy
sense: stereotypical names for pet animals
word: Peanut
sense: stereotypical names for pet animals
word: Rover
sense: stereotypical names for pet animals
word: Spot
sense: stereotypical names for pet animals
word: Tiger
sternutator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sternutators
Senses: glosses: Any chemical agent that causes sneezing.
natural languages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of natural language
superfuse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: superfuses
form: superfusing
form: superfused
form: superfused
Etymology: See super- and compare infuse.
Senses: examples: text: pouring first a very cold liquor into a glass, and super-fusing on it another, to appearance cold and cleare liquor also
ref: 1685 December 23 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for December 13 1685]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC:
glosses: To pour (something) over or on something else.
Related terms: superfusion
pull a train
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls a train
form: pulling a train
form: pulled a train
form: pulled a train
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, train.
glosses: To have sex with a line of people, one after the other.
Coordinate terms: run a train
tip drill
Related terms: ride the cock carousel
advanced train control system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A system of railroad equipment designed to ensure safety by monitoring locations of trains and locomotives, providing analysis and reporting, and automation of track warrants and similar orders.
bidaily
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- (“twice”) + daily.
Senses: examples: text: … the European Dermatology Forum consensus group has recently published guidelines favoring the use of topical calcineurin inhibitors as a first-line option for face and neck on a bidaily [twice-daily] basis …
ref: 2016 June 24, Khaled Ezzedine, Nanette Silverberg, “A Practical Approach to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Vitiligo in Children”, in Pediatrics, volume 138, number 1, →DOI, page e20154126:
glosses: Occurring twice in a day.
bidaily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bi- (“twice”) + daily.
Senses: glosses: Twice in a day.
thioglycolate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thioglycolates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of thioglycolic acid.
thioglycolates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thioglycolate
mercaptoacetic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: thioglycolic acid
mercaptoalkyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mercaptoalkyl
pedohebephilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pedo- (“child”) + hebephilia.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
sexology
sexuality
glosses: Primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent and pubescent children by an adult.
wikipedia: DSM-IV
Derived terms: pedohebephile
pedohebephilic disorder
pedohebephilic type
pedohebephilic
hebe-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἥβη (hḗbē, “youth”).
Senses: glosses: relating to youth
Derived terms: hebephile
hebephilia
hebephrenia
hebephrenic
Related terms: pedohebephile
pedohebephilia
pedohebephile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedohebephiles
Etymology: From pedo- (“child”) + hebephile.
Senses: glosses: A person with pedohebephilia.
pedohebephilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pedohebephilic
form: most pedohebephilic
Senses: glosses: Of, related to, or having pedohebephilia.
raw_tags: in psychiatry
Derived terms: pedohebephilic disorder
pedohebephilic type
pedohebephilic disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: pedohebephilia
ephebophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ephebophilia + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Hebephilic offenders (those who prefer adolescent girls) and ephebophilic offenders (those with a homosexual preference for adolescent boys) exhibit characteristics which parallel those of the pedophile.
ref: 1980 Sexual Abuse of Children: Selected Readings page 30 (in chapter 7: "The Nature and Treatment of Male Sex Offenders" by Ronald M. Costell, M.D.)
text: It is difficult to categorize juveniles who commit sex crimes against other children. Within this group there are hebephilic offenders who prefer adolescent females, ephebophilic offenders with a homosexual preference, and still others who appears generally pedophilic (Costell, 1980, p. 30).
ref: 1987, Working with Violent Families: A Guide for Clinical and Legal Practitioners, page 187:
text: Costell (1980) describes similar characteristics in hebephilic offenders (preferring adolescent girls) and ephebophilic offenders (preferring adolescent boys).
ref: 1989 at Risk: The Other Side of Child Sexual Abuse - Page 61
glosses: Pertaining to ephebophilia or an ephebophile (a preference or preferrer of adolescent boys)
Related terms: word: ephebic
english: paired adjective referring to preference for adolescent girls
translation: paired adjective referring to preference for adolescent girls
word: hebephilic
eggbound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of egg-bound.
pulling a train
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pull a train
pulled a train
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pull a train
pulls a train
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pull a train
stœchiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stechiology
form: stoechiology
form: stoichiology
Etymology: From Ancient Greek στοιχεῖον (stoikheîon, “element”) in combination with -λογία (-logía, “-logy, branch of study, to speak”).
Senses: glosses: Scientific study of bodily elements.
glosses: Treatise of physiological elements.
oncomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oncome.
subpœnæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subpœna (alternative form of subpoenae)
earthstar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earthstars
Etymology: From earth + star.
Senses: glosses: A type of puffball mushroom, of genus Geastrum, whose surface splits open in a star-shaped form.
shepherdly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shepherdly
form: most shepherdly
Etymology: From shepherd + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: And with a shepherdly reward wytsaue ye hym to fauour.
ref: 1559, Thomas Phayer, Newe Boke De Presidentes:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.
examples: text: A Sunday school teacher, for example, may and should exercise shepherdly concern for members of his or her class.
ref: 1998, Robert L. Thomas, Understanding spiritual gifts, page 196:
glosses: Taking care of a group or flock, as a shepherd does.
Synonyms: shepherdlike
palæanthropology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Some of the great mountains (the summits of which would seem to reach here and there to 10,000 feet) contained immense caves, the exploration of which might yield important results in palæontology and palæanthropology.
ref: 1909, H. H. Johnston, Nature, Macmillan and Co., №. 2088, Volume LXXXII, page 10:
glosses: Obsolete typography of palaeanthropology.
dextrously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dextrously
form: most dextrously
Etymology: From dextrous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Another day he exercised the battel-axe, which he so dextrously wielded, both in the nimble, strong and smooth management of that weapon, and that in all the feats practiseable by it, that he passed Knight of Armes in the field, and at all Essayes.
ref: 1653, Francis Rabelais [i.e., François Rabelais], translated by [Thomas Urquhart, Peter Anthony Motteux], “How Gargantua was instructed by Ponocrates, and in such sort disciplinated, that he lost not one hour of the Day”, in The Works of Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick: Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds, and Sayings of Gargantua, and His Sonne Pantagruel. […], London: […] [Thomas Ratcliffe and Edward Mottershead] for Richard Baddeley, […], →OCLC; republished in volume I, London: […] Navarre Society […], [1948], →OCLC, 1st book, page 70:
glosses: Alternative form of dexterously.
dextrousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dextrous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dexterousness.
dextroses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dextrose
subcategorizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subcategorize
subcategorization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subcategorizations
form: subcategorisation
Etymology: From sub- + categorization.
Senses: glosses: Placing something into a subcategory.
examples: text: It seems a simple enough matter to extract a general principle of subcategorisation out of (81), along the lines of:
 (82) SUBCATEGORISATION PRINCIPLE
 (82) Any lexical item of category X will be subcategorised with respect
 (82) to the range of idiosyncratic Complements (i.e. sister constituents)
 (82) which it permits within the (minimal) X-bar containing it
 The subcategorisation frame for X will simply be an unordered list of the sets of categories which X permits as its Complements: we assume that the relative ordering of X and its Complements will be determined by independent principles (e.g. the HEAD FIRST PRINCIPLE).
ref: 1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 7, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 365:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The practice of specifying what types of complements a word may take when that word acts as the head of a phrase of a certain category; this specification restricts the wordʼs category, making it smaller, hence a “subcategory” of the wordʼs category.
subcategorizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subcategorization
asploded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of asplode
asplodes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of asplode
asploding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of asplode
tucuxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tucuxi
aggadic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aggadic
form: most aggadic
form: Aggadic
form: Hagadic
form: Haggadic
form: haggadic
Etymology: From Aggadah + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: According to the simple meaning, these verses warn against forgetting the Torah and against idol worship, but our Sages wove them into an Aggadic passage which deals with physical danger in order to say: Jews must protect their physical health.
ref: 2024, David Golinkin, “Is Body Piercing Permitted According To Jewish Law”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page 193:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Aggadah.
nonexegetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + exegetical.
Senses: glosses: Not exegetical.
Aggadah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡɑːdə/
Forms: form: Aggadahs
form: Aggadah
form: Aggadot
form: Aggadoth
form: Haggadah
form: Haggada
Etymology: From Aramaic אַגָּדְתָא (ʾaggāḏ'ṯā, “tale, lore”), from Hebrew הֲגָדָה (haggāḏā).
Senses: examples: text: They termed them also..Agada in the Chaldee, or..Hagada in the Hebrew form, which are rendered in Philo, by the Greek ...
ref: 1725, Edward Chandler, Anthony Collins, “Of the Allegorick or other Methods of citing Scripture, used by the Writers of the New Testament.”, in A defence of Christianity from the prophecies of the Old Testament: wherein are considered all the objections against this kind of proof : advanced in a late discourse of the grounds and reasons of the Christian religion, London: James Knapton, page 344:
glosses: A homiletic and non-legalistic exegetical text in the classical rabbinic literature of Judaism, particularly as recorded in the Talmud and Midrash. A parable that demonstrates a point of the Law in the Talmud.
examples: text: The story of the delivery of Israel from Egyptian bondage is read in Hebrew by the chief of the house from a book called the agada, which is interwoven with hymns of praise and thanksgiving, and it also contains some legendary chapters entirely figurative in their sense and composition.
ref: 1881, Americus Featherman, “Orthodox Jews of the East and Talmud Jews of Poland”, in Social history of the races of mankind, volume 5, London: Trübner & Co., page 158:
glosses: Obsolete form of Haggadah (“the text recited at Seder”).
Related terms: aggadic
Aggadic
Aggadic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Aggadic
form: most Aggadic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aggadic.
hawky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hawky
form: most hawky
Etymology: From hawk + -y.
Senses: examples: text: He was a tall man with very powerful-looking shoulders, but his flesh seemed to sag thinly over his big frame; his face was thin, too, over a hawky nose and receding chin and gray hair.
ref: 1953, Mignon Good Eberhart, The unknown quantity:
text: He had a hawky face with a high colour and eyes like slits of blue crystal, set in a web of fine lines. They were hard but not unkind.
ref: 1963, D'Arcy Niland, The shiralee:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a hawk.
Synonyms: hawklike
Derived terms: hawkiness
Haggadah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: Ashkenazi
ipa: /həˈɡɑːdə/
note: Ashkenazi
ipa: /həˈɡʌdə/
ipa: /hɑːɡɑːˈdɑː/
ipa: /hɑːɡəˈdɑː/
Forms: form: Haggadahs
form: Haggadot
form: Haggadoth
form: Aggadah
form: Haggada
Etymology: From Hebrew הַגָּדָה (hagadá).
Senses: glosses: The text which is recited at Seder during the first and second nights of Passover, focused on the freeing of Israel from Egyptian bondage as described in the Book of Exodus.
glosses: Alternative form of Aggadah; Talmudic parable
Related terms: Haggadist
kaibosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kibosh.
nimono
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 煮物.
Senses: glosses: Any of various stewed dishes in Japanese cuisine.
kaiaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kaiak
infocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more infocratic
form: most infocratic
Etymology: From info- + -cratic.
Senses: glosses: Being or pertaining to an infocracy.
padfolio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: padfolios
Etymology: Blend of pad + portfolio
Senses: glosses: A portable case that opens in the manner of a book to reveal a notepad.
padfolios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of padfolio
bookwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: book-wise
Etymology: From book + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: [S]he strode to the middle of the room the paper held and folded book-wise in her hands.
ref: 1878, Bret Harte, “The Man on the Beach”, in Drift From Two Shores:
text: Unknown to the audience, the left fingers have tilted the two red top cards open bookwise […]
ref: 1977, Theodore Annemann, Annemann's Card Magic, page 22:
synonyms: book-ways
glosses: In the manner of a book.